WEBVTT 1 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:33.679 Carthago. Delenda asked, hello and welcome to Everything's Political. I'm your host, 2 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:38.359 tay A Shoemake. You can find us online at Everything's Political dot substack 3 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:43.960 dot com. The email address for the show remains podcast at Everything's Political dot 4 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:50.320 Org. Shout out to magic Man Joe Strecker, the General Winfield Scott of 5 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:57.880 podcast Producers. General Scott Joe arguably one of the greatest soldiers in US history. 6 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:00.560 And I bring him up because to day, in eighteen forty eight, 7 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:10.200 the criteria set within the Treaty of Hidalgo or sorry, Guadalupe Hidalgo went into 8 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:19.519 effect today on this day and gave America New Mexico, Colorado, California, 9 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:25.239 Utah, and Arizona not as they are today. That was the Gatson purchase, 10 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:30.040 and in turn we gave Mexico fifteen million dollars a few other things in 11 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:38.959 that treaty. And I bring up Winfield Scott because he was instrumental strategically and 12 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:44.680 winning that war. His career spanned from the War of eighteen twelve to the 13 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:48.079 Civil War, if you can believe it. And I love this figure, 14 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:53.519 colossal figure, because he exemplifies the point that we try to make here often, 15 00:01:53.560 --> 00:02:02.480 which is that you cannot experience excellence without experience. I'll just leave that 16 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:09.560 there. So he was an amazing figure, Joe. He learned from the 17 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:15.840 Battle of eighteen twelve, or the War of eighteen twelve rather how effective the 18 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:22.439 British blockade was, their naval blockade. He used that in the Mexican American 19 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:30.000 War and also used it proposed it rather to Lincoln. It was the Anaconda 20 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:38.039 Plan or Operation Anaconda, one of those, so brilliant, right, learned 21 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:43.120 from experience. He did have, from what I read, a healthy opinion 22 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:45.520 of himself. So you guys would differ there, Joe, because you were 23 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:49.560 a very humble man. But hey, if it's earned, it's earned right, 24 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:54.159 all right. So speaking of humility or not, or experience or not. 25 00:02:54.479 --> 00:03:00.240 Wow Ah, someone sent me a piece and a mail and it really 26 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:06.919 was flabbergasting to read. I'm going to try to contain my fervor, but 27 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:12.360 wow. So a couple of things came to mind. We talked a couple 28 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:15.719 of shows ago about living in the ad absurdom. I think rather we are 29 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:22.159 living in the world of logical fallacies, because good Lord, there are logical 30 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:27.400 fallacies all over this piece. I think that's how people communicate nowadays, it 31 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:32.360 seems. But also another paradigm came to mind. Something my grandma used to 32 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:38.120 say. Don't give up what you want most for what you want right now. 33 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:43.400 And if you got your head screwed on right, got your priority straight, 34 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:50.120 you apply that paradigm at whatever crossroads you're standing. Typically it'll be a 35 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:53.879 good decision making tool help you make the right decision. Let me give you 36 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:57.000 an example. Don't give up what you want most for what you want right 37 00:03:57.039 --> 00:04:01.080 now. What I want right now? Okay, not really, but just 38 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:08.479 for argument's sake, I love jeeps, old fashioned army sitting up high stick 39 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:14.840 shift jeep. Right, could I go buy one? Of course I could. 40 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:20.959 It's going to muck up the budget, but I could buy. So 41 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:30.480 what do I want most? I want to be able to control my money 42 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:33.040 right, and that means controlling my impulse by not that I have any But 43 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:39.720 you get the picture. So I could go buy the jeep that's what I 44 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:42.800 want right now. But if I did that, I give up what I 45 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:46.839 want most, which is at least the idea of financial security. I don't 46 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:48.560 know. Money is all. Money is fake? Joe at this point, 47 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:53.839 but you get the picture. Don't give up what you want most for what 48 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:58.800 you want right now. The hard part about that saying, I should say, 49 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:02.879 the fulcrum of that saying is the caveat right. If you've got your 50 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:11.879 head screwed on right, if your priorities are straight, that paradigm will help 51 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:16.040 you as a decision making tool. So that's going through my mind as I'm 52 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:19.759 reading this piece, and it's by a gentleman. His name is Wayne alan 53 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:28.079 Root. I don't know Wayne alan Root, but you'll get to know him 54 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:30.920 a little bit more after this. So he starts out, Yes, it's 55 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:36.759 true. I've been one of the most dedicated, passionate and loyal Trump supporters 56 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:41.240 in the country for eight years now, since before he came down on the 57 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:46.759 escalator in June of twenty fifteen. So I'll admit I'm a bit biased. 58 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:53.199 I'm MAGA America first and Trump forty seven all the way. Okay, that's 59 00:05:53.240 --> 00:06:00.000 great, God bless you have at it. Now he's going to get into 60 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:02.879 it for tat with candidates here, and so I guess I should have also 61 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:11.839 prefaced with you all know that I don't trust any man or woman vying for 62 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:16.279 that much power. Actually vying for any amount of power, I don't care 63 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:20.319 if it's school board, I don't care if it's a dog catcher. If 64 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:26.519 you're vying for power, I am suspect of you. That's just my emma. 65 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:33.959 So don't misconstrue this because I'm going to be fair and some of you 66 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:41.160 aren't going to like it. And I'm going to also say that two things 67 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:46.720 can be true at the same time. Okay, So here we go, 68 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:50.399 And why wouldn't I be Mister Root continues, Trump was the best president in 69 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:56.120 my lifetime. He actually did what he said he was going to do. 70 00:06:56.759 --> 00:07:00.000 Okay, I agree with that to some extent. I would probably have said 71 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:03.639 he tried to do what he said he was going to do, and I 72 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:09.920 gave him credit for that because none of the past presidents on the Republican side 73 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:15.279 half. So it continues. He fought for the middle class. He brought 74 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:19.079 manufacturing back to America. He made energy cheap and plentiful. He cut taxes 75 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:24.240 and regulations. I would say the last one maybe a bit too much during 76 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:29.680 Operation Warp Speed because now big farm it is not accountable for the vaccine injuries 77 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:33.319 and deaths. But I'll continue he created a roaring stock market, He produced 78 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:39.519 the lowest Black and Latino unemployment in history. He produced the greatest middle class 79 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:45.199 income growth in modern history. He won the trade war in China. He 80 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:53.000 made America prosperous again. Okay, I agree with all that to some degree, 81 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:58.079 and God bless him for doing it. The very next statement that mister 82 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:05.199 Root could have written is and then and one fell swoop by handing Fauci the 83 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:11.319 keys to the kingdom. He blew it all to hell, full stop. 84 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:20.839 Everything that was accomplished was blown all to hell. Cut taxes and regulations, 85 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:26.639 blown to hell. You're non essential now. Now everything's more expensive because we 86 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:31.800 got to print more money. Doesn't matter about the energy, doesn't matter about 87 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:37.799 the manufacturing. You're all closed down. Forget the roaring stock market, forget 88 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:43.759 the lowest Black and Latino unemployment history. You're non essential. Okay, We've 89 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:48.679 got to be honest about our candidates or people aren't going to take us seriously. 90 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:52.159 And if people don't take you seriously, you're not going to be able 91 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:56.159 to convince them to vote for your guy. Two things can be true at 92 00:08:56.159 --> 00:09:03.840 the same time. Trump could have done all of this positive Rara, whatever 93 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:09.879 true and he could have lost it all because of the way he held prosecuted 94 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:16.879 the pandemic. Got to be honest about because there are people who want answers, 95 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:20.120 and if Trump is your guy, you're going to have to give an 96 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:26.639 answer other than it's not fair, other than we owe him, which is 97 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:31.559 one of the most dangerous sentiments a voter can have about a man vying for 98 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:35.279 that much power. And I don't care who it is. So did I 99 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:39.080 mention he said what Trump did for the GOP. First, he pulled off 100 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:45.080 the biggest upset in US political history beating Hillary Clinton. Okay, with all 101 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:50.080 due respect, that was more about Hillary Clinton than Donald J. Trump. 102 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:54.399 He got the most votes in twenty twenty ever by a sitting president of any 103 00:09:54.440 --> 00:10:00.399 Republican and added the most new votes to any president in history. We don't 104 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:03.600 need any other GOP presidential candidate in twenty twenty four. We already have one 105 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:07.799 of the greatest presidents of all time for that role, and certainly the greatest 106 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:15.000 Republican ever. Okay, Well, independence don't care about party unless the party 107 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:18.759 is doing what it said it was going to do. The word Republican to 108 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:24.440 me is synonymous with the uniparty, So that holds no weight with me whatsoever. 109 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:28.600 Okay, he says, so now you know I'm a forever Trumper. 110 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:37.080 But interestingly, I'm not anti DeSantis like that is some big revolution. Why 111 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:41.080 is that a big deal? We're going to find out implicitly here as we 112 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:45.399 go on. But two things can be true at the same time. A 113 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:48.639 thinking person can say, all right, Trump's my guy in the primary. 114 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:52.159 But I'll tell you de Santis has done a hell of a job in Florida. 115 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:56.440 I hate to lose him as a governor. And that's the way we 116 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:01.120 need to do this. Trump's not doing that, but that's the way it 117 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:05.440 needs to be done. We can have a robust, knocked down, drag 118 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:09.559 out primary without lying. I know that shocks people in the political world, 119 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:15.639 but it's true none the less. I liked to Santis. Wainwritt says, 120 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:20.200 I think he's the best governor in America. Every day he does something fantastic 121 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:24.919 in Florida. He just passed e Verify. He banned Central Bank digital currency 122 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:28.080 in Florida. He signed a new law demanding Florida public bathrooms be based on 123 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:33.840 biological sex to protect women. He protected innocent children from transgender brainwashing at school. 124 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:37.960 He signed a new law eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion in Florida higher 125 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:43.120 education. And he's taking the battle against transgender Loving Disney to New Heights and 126 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:48.080 he did all that in a week. Are you getting the idea that I 127 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:52.320 really liked to Santis? I do. He's fantastic. He's America's governor. 128 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:56.840 Now here's where it switches. All of that is well and good. But 129 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:01.080 he won't beat Trump. Well, how do you know that? Answers? 130 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:05.120 You don't. He has no chance zero, it's a suicide run. Well, 131 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:11.519 then why are you writing this? Are you writing this to passively blame 132 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:16.399 people for supporting their guy de Santis and the primary, because that's what he's 133 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:20.360 going to do throughout this whole piece. He's going to blame you for supporting 134 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:26.720 De Santis and not Trump, and you made Trump loose. It's brilliant passive 135 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:30.559 aggressive play. So they're trying to clear the field. I get it. 136 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:33.960 And the GOP establishment, if they're not running things on the Trump side, 137 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:39.440 it sure seems like they are, because wow, their handprints are all over 138 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:43.320 this. Clear the field. If you can't clear the field, get as 139 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:50.120 many candidates as you can to run and hope that you slip through the cracks 140 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:56.360 to the win, promise all those other people who don't have a chance cabinet 141 00:12:56.360 --> 00:13:05.639 positions after the win. And another thing is to ignore your biggest threat attack 142 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:13.360 and or ignore Okay, and that just happens in different stages. So this 143 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:20.399 next part I'm going to read is Saul Alinski one oh one, because this 144 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:24.519 came out before De Santis announced, and it's everything Trump is already doing. 145 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:30.159 So I want you to listen carefully because we need to understand this if we're 146 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:37.279 going to have persuasive speech, not just because I want it to be this 147 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:43.159 way. By running against Trump, now he will have to go negative about 148 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:50.240 Trump. Well, Trump's already done that before De Santis even announced. Trump 149 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:56.639 went negative onto Santis after. I'll add De Santis stuck up for him against 150 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:01.039 New York and if he goes next of about Trump, he'll thereby turn off 151 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:05.840 enough Trump supporters to never be the twenty twenty eight nominee. So this is 152 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:11.480 wait your turn, young man. This is if you turn off enough Trump 153 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:13.799 supporters, they won't vote. I got news for you. The twenty five 154 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:20.600 to thirty percent of people who are okay with Trump pulling out a gun and 155 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:26.720 blowing some guy away on Fifth Avenue. That's the ceiling. And the problem 156 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:31.200 is that they will not vote for DeSantis if de Santis is the winner in 157 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:37.360 the primary, and that's establishment GOP. They're acting like the very people they 158 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:43.840 ostensibly hate because the GOP does that as well. Here's our guy. The 159 00:14:43.879 --> 00:14:48.360 grassroot says, okay, here's our guy, and then the GOP says, 160 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:50.440 okay, we destroyed your guy. We poured all our money into our guy. 161 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:54.399 Now vote for our guy, and we usually do because it's better than 162 00:14:54.399 --> 00:15:01.000 a Democrat. But they'll never vote the grassroots way if the shoe were on 163 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:05.080 the other foot, and most of them will tell you that because they would 164 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:11.120 rather lose than have a grassroots favorite in office. You could make that argument 165 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:16.960 that that's why Trump didn't get a lot of things done, because the major 166 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:22.360 hurdles occurred in his own party and people that he appointed by supporting an endorsing 167 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:26.840 Trump. Now, mister Root says he will become the twenty twenty eight president 168 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:31.559 elect and waiting, So which is it he can win or he can't. 169 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:35.679 He's saying he can't win against Trump but he can later on. Well, 170 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:41.840 how about we find out it is that simple de Santis moment in the sun 171 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:46.440 for twenty twenty four has come and gone. Then why are you writing this 172 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:52.200 from the moment Manhattan da Alvin Bragg indited Trump? It became obvious that there 173 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:54.879 was no other choice. Okay, that's a red herring. Good Lord, 174 00:15:56.320 --> 00:16:00.240 that missing link is with Darwin Trump is the only human being on earth who 175 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:03.120 can defeat the deep state and save our nation. Well, how do you 176 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:07.039 know that? I think DeSantis has done a pretty good job in Florida, 177 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:11.679 or even if it were Nicki Halley or Tim Scott. That's why the deep 178 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:15.039 State, the DC Swamp, and virtually the entire US government is out to 179 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:21.200 get Trump. Now here's where we enter the blasphemy, or near it idolatry. 180 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:26.320 We need a miracle, we need God. Trump is that miracle? 181 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:34.399 Trump? Is that gift from God? Really, the man this piece continues 182 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:41.039 is super human, only one of those walk the earth, Wayne, And 183 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:45.320 you're trying to put your guy in his seat, So you may want to 184 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:51.080 get a little introspective there. The deep state can demonize him, frame him 185 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:53.000 and died him, arrest him, maybe even convictim, but they can't stop 186 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:56.360 him. Well, we're going to find out, aren't they, aren't we. 187 00:16:56.639 --> 00:17:02.440 From the moment of Trump's indictment, DeSantis became insignificant, the incredible, 188 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:07.359 disappearing governor. So he loves de Santis. He's America's governor, but now 189 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:11.480 he's mocking him and belittling him, much like Trump does to other people. 190 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:17.200 And I get it, it's a primary. But again, could we get 191 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:21.799 a little bit more mature than fourth grade? So the answer here, DeSantis 192 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:25.720 became insignificant from Trump's that, No, he didn't. He became a big, 193 00:17:25.799 --> 00:17:30.039 bad mofo. He became an alpha because he stood up to New York 194 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:34.160 and said, no, I'm not honoring your indictment. You're not extraditing any 195 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:37.839 of my citizens, including Trump, who, by the way, moved all 196 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:42.039 his operations to Florida, so he must have thought DeSantis did a pretty good 197 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:45.240 job. Or why I moved there, the free estate in the Union. 198 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:51.279 And here's a big, great, big sweeping generalization. No one outside Florida 199 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:56.920 cares what great things to Santas does in Florida anymore? Well that's not true, 200 00:17:57.279 --> 00:18:02.039 you know how I know that, because like America, there are more 201 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:04.480 people trying to get the Florida than get out of Florida. So that's just 202 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:08.839 inaccurate. That's ridiculous. I'm all the way up here in Ohio. I 203 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:12.079 care about what he does. You know why, because we have Lord farquad 204 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:17.359 de Wine, who kept this state locked down for two years with his arbitrary 205 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:22.640 and capricious measures on his little power trip. I want to know where the 206 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:26.119 free states are, who's running them, and if they have a succession plan. 207 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:30.440 And really, if Trump were smart and the people around him weren't a 208 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:36.759 bunch of grifters, that's what he would do. That's what he would say. 209 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:40.680 Ron we can't lose your governor, buddy, Let's work this out. 210 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:45.279 I know, I know, I get it. But my point is people 211 00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:51.119 do care because he's an exemplary governor. As Wayne just admitted, Florida is 212 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:53.519 just a state, though, yeah, a big, badass red state that 213 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:59.240 is well run. De Santis is like the home run King of Triple A. 214 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:03.880 Trump already won the Triple Crap and World Series in the big leagues. 215 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:11.599 So I would remind people that this is exactly the same argument people made against 216 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:18.440 Ronald Reagan in favor of Jimmy Carter. Reagan just runs a state. You 217 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:23.839 gotta vote for Jimmy Carter. How'd that work out for us? You run 218 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:27.200 a state, you know what you can do. Yeah, I get it. 219 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:36.119 The dynamics are different, but it's experience. Nonetheless, so DeSantis runs 220 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:38.640 a state. The piece continues, Trump is needed to defeat the evil deep 221 00:19:38.839 --> 00:19:44.519 state. It's so clear at this point, either or fallacy coming up. 222 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:49.039 It's either Trump or it's the end of America. I got news for you, 223 00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:53.359 Jack. We're there, we are there. But here's the problem. 224 00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:59.480 Oh, this is a useful sales tool, appeal to emotion. The windows 225 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:04.839 closing. Our chances of saving America are shrinking minute by the minute. The 226 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:07.720 only chance to save America is for Trump to win in twenty twenty four, 227 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:10.759 and to do that we need unity. Well, then why are you writing 228 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:14.079 this? Let him hash it out. If your team would stop trying to 229 00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:18.160 destroy the other team, I'm sure we could get through it, at least 230 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:22.519 get through the primary without being all but hurt. Primaries are not for unity. 231 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:25.720 I got news for you, Jack, how long have you been involved? 232 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:29.559 Five minutes? Come on, Unities for the general, whether we like 233 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:33.440 it or not. Scrubbing my hands to the bone after having to vote for 234 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:37.559 some of these people week long showers. But in the primary, although for 235 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:42.960 my guy. So he says, our only chance to save Sorry Joe Rohnde 236 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:47.680 Santas, he says, is a distraction. Now he can't win, but 237 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:51.720 he can divide the party, wound Trump and thereby ensuring Trump loses a general 238 00:20:51.720 --> 00:20:56.400 election. This is complete projection. In fact, I think they are already 239 00:20:56.440 --> 00:21:02.319 covering for their own loss. Trump'st one that went negative. I think he 240 00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:07.599 sees the internals. They're trying to clear the field because DeSantis is a threat. 241 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:11.559 And you know if people again two things can be true at the same 242 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:18.160 time, Nicki Haley, Tim Scott, Rhonda Santis. They could be anyone's 243 00:21:18.440 --> 00:21:22.839 person in the primary, and if their person doesn't win, they can vote 244 00:21:22.839 --> 00:21:30.240 for whomever wins. Why is that unreasonable? The answer is this not unless 245 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:37.200 you're in the fourth grade. So what is the Desantist game plan? Why 246 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:41.319 is he announcing? Now? Is all this about ego and selfishness? Now 247 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:48.640 that's rich? That is rich? Is this about bigger book deals and higher 248 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:51.519 speaking fees? Well, I don't know, Wayne. How about we ask 249 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:56.319 President Trump what he did with the two hundred and fifty million dollars. We 250 00:21:56.400 --> 00:22:00.079 know it wasn't to combat fraud. You know, it wasn't to help any 251 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:07.799 of the January six protesters. So talk about ego and selfishness. What does 252 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:12.720 he mentioned January six people, once one of the most egregious crimes in all 253 00:22:12.759 --> 00:22:18.920 of history, that Americans were put in jail without due process, mentioned it. 254 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:25.400 Check the box because people around him told him, Oh, it's more 255 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:27.680 important to keep your mouth shut so you don't get impeached. Really, that 256 00:22:27.759 --> 00:22:33.880 tells me a lot because those people were there to support you. Or is 257 00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:44.920 there something more sinister at work here? The people funding to Santis hate Trump. 258 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:53.480 Okay, there's another sweeping generalization. They're mostly never Trumpers, DC swamp 259 00:22:53.559 --> 00:22:59.720 rats and deep Staters. They must know if we don't win in twenty twenty 260 00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:04.559 four, if you'll pardon the bad British accent, America is finished. It 261 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:08.799 will be a one party police state run by Big Brother. I got news 262 00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:14.920 for you. We're already there, protected by a weaponized federal government that bans 263 00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:18.319 all dissent and free speech. Yeah, we're pretty much there. Maybe the 264 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:26.720 people funding to santists know all that maybe that's the plan, Joe, divide 265 00:23:26.759 --> 00:23:32.000 the GOP and make sure Trump loses in twenty twenty four. Yeah, my 266 00:23:32.240 --> 00:23:37.559 ninety three year old aunt gives money to de Santis hoping to destroy America. 267 00:23:37.960 --> 00:23:44.119 Really, Wayne, really, maybe sacrificing DeSantis political future is part of that 268 00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:48.839 plan. Yeah. I don't think so. DeSantis is their sacrificial lamb. 269 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:53.960 Now, who's he trying to convince DeSantis that's a joke. Unlike Trump, 270 00:23:55.000 --> 00:24:03.720 DeSantis has extremely quality people around him, even might say things with which he 271 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:10.720 disagrees. Maybe DeSantis ego prevents him from seeing that he's being used by people 272 00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:15.119 who do not have America's best interest in mind. That's rich as well, 273 00:24:17.759 --> 00:24:23.279 given that the deep state, the Republican side of the uniparty, and all 274 00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:27.839 of the people that the grifters around Trump told him to a point, played 275 00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:34.200 him like a stratavarius. I know one thing, mister Root says, there's 276 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:40.440 only one path forward if we want to save the greatest country in the world 277 00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:45.799 again, false dilemma electing Donald J. Trump as the forty seventh President of 278 00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:52.079 the United States. In order to do that, DeSantis must stand down for 279 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:55.720 the good of the GOP and America. Well, what if it's the other 280 00:24:55.720 --> 00:25:00.720 way around. We're so arrogant in this country. We think God is always 281 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:08.920 on our side just because we can flip him the bird for centuries, and 282 00:25:10.039 --> 00:25:15.319 his mercy and loving kindness is just going to endure forever. It because clearly 283 00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:18.720 not a lot of people have read the Bible. We think that God can 284 00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:22.920 only be for our candidate, not for somebody else's cannon. We think only 285 00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:30.440 God can bless America, not curse America, despite our best efforts. So 286 00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:33.519 which is it? How do we know? Well, that's why we have 287 00:25:33.559 --> 00:25:37.119 primaries, one of the reasons. But what if it's the other way around. 288 00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:41.160 What if Jesus Christ shows up at Trump pleasant says, first of all, 289 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:45.920 get out of my seat. No, second of all, you're going 290 00:25:45.960 --> 00:25:51.440 to lose the general, get out, get out of the primary. Would 291 00:25:51.480 --> 00:25:57.039 Trump do it? Of course not, because he thinks he's owed. And 292 00:25:57.160 --> 00:26:06.440 I can't think again of a more perilous mindset of an electorate. Then we 293 00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:12.559 owe a candidate, folks. The only thing we may owe to earthly men, 294 00:26:14.319 --> 00:26:18.240 other than to respect their own rights to life, liberty, and property, 295 00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:22.359 is to soldiers who bleed for this country. What we owe them is 296 00:26:22.359 --> 00:26:30.079 to be Americans worthy of their sacrifice, and that means making sure that we 297 00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:33.960 don't lose the very liberty here that they're told they got to fight for overseas. 298 00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:40.359 And yet, Joe, that's what we've done, isn't it. Look 299 00:26:40.359 --> 00:26:48.480 At the end of the day, the electorate deserves answers, and those issues 300 00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:57.880 are not going to get resolved or addressed unless someone runs from Trump's right now, 301 00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:00.640 If that's Nicki Haley and Tim Scott, I've yet to see it, 302 00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:08.079 but I do know it's Rhonda Santis I don't think that's even debatable. But 303 00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:11.880 two things can be true at the same time. We can still have our 304 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:18.079 favorite, but that doesn't make them perfect. So I would just ask whatever 305 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:26.599 person you're behind, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Rhonda Santist Trump, what 306 00:27:26.759 --> 00:27:33.839 could my candidate have done better? What would I have had them do better 307 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:38.960 over the last five years or whatever? Okay, now, let me compare 308 00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:42.680 that to the person I want to destroy just to get him out of my 309 00:27:42.759 --> 00:27:48.160 way, because that old paradigm kicks in. Be careful what you criticize in 310 00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:55.559 others isn't something you envy or recognize in yourself. So what does that candidate 311 00:27:55.599 --> 00:28:00.200 do well, what does mine do well? What does the other candidate not 312 00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:07.559 do so well? What does my candidate not do so well? And maybe 313 00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:14.680 we can come to this unity about which Wayne writes after the primary, because 314 00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:18.079 I think we can all agree voting for the chair in which you're sitting or 315 00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:22.759 the car in which you're sitting right now will probably be better than voting for 316 00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:27.400 whatever is going to be on the other side, And that'll depend on whether 317 00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:36.519 or not they successfully destroy rfk JR. So it'll be an interesting race. 318 00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:45.000 I just want to prevent this ridiculous communicating through fallacies. It's either either or 319 00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:56.200 straw man sweeping generalizations. It's intellectually lazy, and it's embarrassing. And the 320 00:28:56.319 --> 00:29:00.039 degree to which we play along with that is going to signal to the world 321 00:29:00.599 --> 00:29:07.799 how serious Americans are about getting this country back on track. So whatever candidate 322 00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:15.000 is yours, be real about them, because there is only one king and 323 00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:19.480 only one successful monarchy that will ever take place. Okay, I'll stop there. 324 00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:23.319 Thank you for listening. As always, Thank you to Magic Man, 325 00:29:23.400 --> 00:29:29.759 Joe Strecker, General Winfield Scott of podcast Producers. Until next time, everyone 326 00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:33.680 who will stand at either hand and keep the bridge with me. Thanks for listening,