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Speaker 1: So I have a pitch.
Speaker 2: I'd like to make a pitch for the Democrats because look,
you know me, I am all about solutions and I
am a giver. So I know Democrats are having some
problems right now. The loss of the voter registration numbers
and such. It really really bad. I went over at
last hour. If you didn't hear it, you can hear
it on the podcast the peapod dot com.
Speaker 1: But I want to help.
Speaker 2: Them, just like they are always interested in helping Republicans,
you know, come back in from the wilderness. Whenever the
Republicans lose a bunch of elections, we always get the
very helpful guidance from media and Democrats. But I repeat
myself about how the Republicans can come back in from
the wilderness what they need to do to be better
and detract more voters and stuff. So here's my pitch,
MAGA Democrat maga, but without actually making America great again
and just stuffed with a bunch of leftist anti American commies.
Speaker 1: How about that?
Speaker 2: Oh, what's that you say? That idea has already been pitched.
Well darn it. Okay, so Axios has the piece here
It is headlined behind the curtain Rising Democratic MAGA movement. Yeah,
so here's the thing. MAGA means, make America great again. Right,
but if you don't like America and you didn't think
it ever was great, it's not going to work because
it's right there in the m A G A.
Speaker 1: That's what that means. And you don't want America.
Speaker 2: If you believe America is the source of all of
the world's problems, then you're not going to want to
empower it. You're wanting to tear down the systemically racist, homophobic, islamophobic,
xenophobic institutions upon which the Western society was built.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but this is this is an idea, and
as I always say, there are no bad ideas under
the cone of creativity. Okay, so if we're just spitballing
out here, we're just throwing stuff up against the wall
seeing what sticks. Let's let's hear the pitch from Jim
Van de High and Mike Allen. Democrats are tortured by
what they should stand for now and heading into the
twenty twenty eight elections, they don't know what to stand for.
I don't believe you, axios. I don't believe you. I
think they do know what to stand for. They just
know that it's not popular. That's why they always say
that their message isn't getting out. It's just the messaging problem.
It's not the actual message. It's not the it's not
the ideology or the policies. It's you know, it's not
their fault for coming up with bad ideas. No, no,
it's their fault because they just haven't been able to
communicate with you, knuckle dragging baskets of deplorables. But Democrats
are tortured by what they should stand for. A number
of current trends suggest a likely answer, their own version
of a populist anti establishment maga like makeover. Yeah, so
here's the problem. And I know some Trump supporters get
mad when I say this, But Donald Trump was a
lifelong Democrat. Donald Trump's not a conservative. Donald Trump is
like a nineteen eighties Democrat. Okay, these are things. The
stuff that he is saying now put him squarely in
the old Democrat party ranks. The fact that you guys
now hate him so much is indicative not of him.
Speaker 1: For anything.
Speaker 2: It's indicative of your slide further away from what y'all
used to believe in and where most Americans actually still are.
So they talk about the four mega trends that are
shaping Democrats' efforts to remake their image and rewrite their agenda.
They talk about the media. So they're like, you know,
the legacy media is fading in its mesmerizing hold over liberals.
So wait a minute, So liberals are mesmerized by the
mainstream media, what does that mean? Does that mean like
you could just tell them anything and they'll believe you,
because that does actually make a lot of sense. Right,
But now you've got this thing called podcasting.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've heard of it. It's a new.
Speaker 2: Thing, and they're like, we need our own Joe Rogan,
you've heard of this laughable line like, you guys used
to have Joe Rogan. You had him and then you
went moon back crazy, and now he doesn't want to.
Speaker 1: Be associated with you guys, because you're like, no, it's.
Speaker 2: Totally fine to have this dude beaten the tar out
of a chick, right, No, can't do that. Don't care
if you put him in a boxing ring or not.
Men and women are different sort of stuff, but they
also talk about ai. They talk about attention, how to
get attention. And that's why Zorn mam Dani right. The
attention economy favors the bold, and he is bold, and
so you want to be like the kami right. And
then the other one, the fourth Megatren, they said, is
mood mood. And here's what they say. You see it
every day. From California Governor Gavin Newsom's foul mouthed declarations
of redistricting wars to Representative Jasmine Crockett mocking her state's
Republican governor Greg Abbott for using a wheelchair. No, okay, okay, Axios,
Hang on a second, Jim Mike, Guys, she didn't mock
him for using a wheelchair. She mocked him because he's paralyzed.
See that's the difference. She like, because that makes it
sound like you're mocking him for using a wheelchair. What's
implied there is that when he otherwise wouldn't need to
write like he's exaggerating or something. He didn't need to
be in the wheelchair, or maybe he's like obese or
something he needs to use a wheelchair. No, no, no,
the man is paralyzed. He's in a wheelchair. He cannot
get out of the wheelchair to walk or anything. It's
not his choice. He's paralyzed. And she called him hot wheels.
That's mocking a man for his disability. But it's different
when Democrats.
Speaker 1: Do that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: So that's why there hasn't been the kind of cancelation
or outrage from Usually the people that have the suicidal empathy.
They apparently don't see Greg Abbott as some sort of
oppressed victim being in a wheelchair. So it's okay because
she's a Democrat. He's a Republican, you know, white guy,
even paralyzed, doesn't matter. He's been so she gets to
say that sort of thing and they hoot and holler
and yuck it up though they think it's hilarious. I
also think it's interesting that they noted Gavin Newsom's cussin,
which I've been noticing as well, among not just Gavin Newsom,
but a great many Democrats who have now adopted the
curse word as some sort of a signal to their
base that I'm fighting. Ooh, I'm gonna fight, fight, fight
for you.
Speaker 1: Look at me.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna use a word that I'm not allowed to say,
but I'm gonna say the word, and that shows I'm
ready to fight. The problem is, these people don't seem
like they've actually ever uttered the word. It just doesn't
flow right, you know. It looks like one of the
It looks like a third grader who just learned a
curse word from like their older cousin at the family reunion,
and they don't really know what it means, and so
they just start dropping it everywhere and it doesn't make
any sense. Like that's the kind of vibe get from
a lot of these Democrats. But they say the Democrats
are tired of looking and feeling like chumps. Well, guys,
there's a reason why you're feeling like that and looking
like that. It's because you are. And that's not Donald
Trump didn't make you a chump. You did that to yourselves.
Y'all have done that to yourselves by taking these positions
and saying the things you say, you know, being soft
on criminals and crime and the like, and being harsh
on people who say something that triggers you or something no.
No Democrats want to brawl politically and verbally, fight fight, fight.
The problem is you need somebody that's believable, authentic. You
might say in the language of the young kids, you
want authentic.
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that'll last a lifetime. Style over substance is the problem
with the Democrat Party. They think that it's all just style.
They think that it's not the substance. They keep telling
themselves that if we just say things better, then people
will vote for us in the ways that they used to,
without recognizing that they have tacked further and further and
further to the left over the last fifteen years, and
people are rejecting it. It's not the way you're saying things.
It's what you're saying. We understand what you're saying. From
the Act CEOs article, Democrats look at the GOPS twenty
twenty four gains and realize they will be left behind
if they don't abruptly change how they communicate. Suddenly everybody's
a brawler and talks about, you know, the dropping of
various vulgarities and such, peppering your speech with it, or
maybe hosting a bunch of fleeing Democrats from Texas. And
then there's this quote from Senator Elissa Slotkin, Democrat from Michigan,
who told The New York Times that her party needs
quote alpha energy like Tim Walls, for example.
Speaker 1: I suspect that's what they mean. Think about that.
Speaker 2: This is the crowd that put Tim Walls in front
of you and said this is the archetypal alpha male
that we think dude should emulate.
Speaker 1: They thought that we heard them, and we disagree. We disagree.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to take my physical pantomime cues from
a guy doing jazz hands.
Speaker 1: Not going to do it. Most dudes are not going
to do it. You can dress them up in all
the camo you want. Not going to do it. Dudes
are raging kami. I don't care.
Speaker 2: Even if he was giving off WWE alpha energy doesn't matter.
Dude's akami not going to follow him. So she says
her party needs alpha energy. Speaking about your gut and
your emotion, she really has her finger on the pulse
of dudes. We love talking about our emotions.
Speaker 1: Love it. Oh my gosh, there's nothing I'm doing jazz
hands right now.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, sign me up as a
Minnesota Vikings cheerleader. Holy cow, I think Democrats have lost that.
Speaker 1: She says.
Speaker 2: We respond to people's pain with a long list of
wonky policies. No, you don't, No, you don't like this,
this idea that Democrats are unable to tap into their
emotion note coming from an awful, affluent white liberal woman. Right,
Oh my gosh, you have no idea how to get
out of this circling of the dream. You have no clue.
This is somebody that actually believes this enough to give
a quote to The New York Times and say this
kind of dumb assery. Democrats have lost the ability to
speak with emotion. And when people tell them their pain,
the Democrats respond with a long list of wonky policies. Yeah,
that's what happens. When they're not screaming that you're a Nazi,
they're Yeah, they're talking about all their policies, right, of course.
The Axios piece concludes with this from Matt Bennett, co
founder of the center left think tank called Third Way,
who said Democrats need combative centrists and said it would
be a huge mistake for the party to overread the
attention that the left is currently getting. Quote, the very
online left are the only ones who actually believe that
kind of politics can flip seats and win the House.
We've got to appeal to the gigantic group of voters
who have left Democrats in the last ten years. Those
people are not looking for socialism, They're looking for fighters,
but only ones who share their values. And Axios concludes
a little thing they called the bottom line. Trump's suit
fits Trump uniquely. Others who try to don it can
wind up looking like clowns, precisely because Donald Trump is very.
Speaker 1: Tall and he's a big guy.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's not a weight joke, although he has put
on some pounds over the years. But like he's he's
a big dude. You put on his suit, you're gonna
you're gonna like a child, right, And this is like
this whole idea that we need to be maga. It's
not even your own idea. And you can't even do
it because what he's talking about in making America great
again are things that the vast majority of Americans agree with,
but you don't, so you can't. You can't be maga.
It's just it's style over substance or lying. It's lying.
You just haven't found the right bumper sticker or slogan
like hope and Change something like that. You just haven't
figured out how to brand your socialism. You just hadn't
figured that out yet. But once we get that focus
group testing just right, then we're gonna come in and
we're gonna drop a bunch of f bombs. We're gonna
give you that Hope and Change slogan, and then we're
gonna win. It's like, you guys didn't just have the
White House for four years. You had the house as well, right,
you had In recent times, you have had the trifecta,
and you have made people's lives worse by the way.
Have you seen the crime stats out of DC the
first time, the first time I think since March of
last year. I want to say I've got the story. Washington,
DC went one week without a murder first time. People
want safe neighborhoods. People don't want open borders, the things
you guys have pushed for most Americans do not want.
And until you change the policies and alienate some of
your left wing moon bat base, you're not going to
find a way out of the wilderness. All right, You
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because great trips deserve even better returns. So here's the piece.
This is from David Marcus at Fox News. As of
yesterday afternoon, the nation's capital has had no murders for
seven days, something that had not been achieved since March
and something that Marcus can find no recent record of
in the summer months. And that's important the summer months
if you're comparing, you know, same time last year, because
summer usually sees a lot more murders because it's hot,
it's sticky, it's the swamp, and people get all agitated
because they're hot and sticky, and then they murder each other.
Speaker 1: I think that's why that happens.
Speaker 2: So no record of a week without murders in Washington, DC.
Last Monday, when a man was tragically gunned down in
Logan Circle. Just hours after the Trump takeover, Congressman Eric Swallwell,
the flatulator fang fan Naylor, took to social media to
say that Trump owns this. Remember that as Trump said,
We're gonna take over the DC Police Department, We're going
to bring law and order back, and then somebody was
murdered and then immediately swallows like this is on you.
Yet no word if the congressman agrees that Trump also
owns all of the lives that haven't been lost in
the week since he actually got troops on the ground.
And it's not just murder. According to the local police union,
robbery down forty six percent over the week, carjackings down
eighty three percent, violent crime down twenty two percent. Turns
out you didn't need more laws, you just needed somebody
to actually enforce them.
Speaker 1: As I keep saying, this is.
Speaker 2: A choice, but Democrats, they raced to be on the
unpopular side of this issue. Oh you're taking over DC,
fascist orange hitler. Right when I saw videos of people
driving around and they're like, I can actually drive through
my town, my hometown of Washington, I can drive through
my neighborhood with my windows down because they aren't able
to do that.
Speaker 1: Haven't been able to do that.
Speaker 2: See, this is why Democrats can't adopt a MAGA movement
as their guide out of the wilderness here, because they
fundamentally disagree with the things most Americans want.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna have to lie.
Speaker 2: You guys are going to have to just rely on
some slick marketing to lie to people and sell them
something that they don't actually want. Noah Rothman at National
Review talking about the democrats depression here. That was in
that Axios article. He talks about Democrats are deploying gratuitous profanity,
an obvious consultant driven contrivance designed to convey authenticity on
the cheap.
Speaker 1: But who is that for?
Speaker 2: Exactly likely the Democrats who are responding to what studies
have determined is the emotional catharsis that profanity provides those
who suffer from stress, anxiety, and depression. Right, This is
why they go out into the woods and scream at
the trees, right or yell at the ocean. They're literally
doing this. They hate Trump. They're so demented they go
out and yell at nature in these primordial yaps. It's
not exactly reckless armchair psychologizing rather to speculate that a
movement currently calling on its elected representatives to literally make
a bullet for their cause is in desperate need of
catharsis right. The Democrats' depression is pronounced, and it is
less transient. In other words, it's embedded. Why well, The
left's general unhappiness relative to their counterparts on the right
has been the subject of psychological study for well over
a decade. Indeed, the General Social Survey has found a
measurable happiness gap between conservatives and liberals for over half
a century. Half a century right, the so called wellness
gap has widened in recent years. Self described progressives and
liberals consistently report higher rates of depression and are more
likely to say they struggle with mental health. These are
persistent phenomena. Last year, New York Times columnist Thomas Edsel
asked Notre Dame scholar Timothy Judge if the left's problem
wasn't its own politics, That a barrage of negative reinforcement
surrounding the illegitimacy of the American founding, the rise of fascism,
the loss of the democracy, the imminence of climatological apocalypse,
so on, and so forth, like maybe these things are
having a deleterious effect on the true believer's mental health,
and Judge said quote, I do share the perspective that
a focus on status hierarchies and institutions that reinforce privilege
contributes to an external locus of control.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: An external locus of control means somebody else is doing
this to you, which is what oppressor oppressed dynamics, power dynamics, Marxism.
It makes people mentally unwell, It makes you anxious, it
makes you sad, it makes you depressed. It makes you
generally not pleasant to be around, which then also makes
you depressed. He observed that a conventionally conservative philosophy, one
that is antithetical to populist excuse making and emphasizes the
exercise of individual agency to improve your lot in life,
that this is less disempowering than the progressive outlook. In
other words, people who take personal responsibility for their own
actions and to make their way and say, if I failed,
it's not because there's some whole system out to get me.
It's because I just didn't do something correctly, and so
I'm going to figure out what I didn't do correctly.
Fix that, and then I will be able to succeed.
Democratic partisans are rather attached, though, to their negative feedback loop.
Rothman says, they are responding to incentives. The politicians are
responding to incentives from their base, the members of which
only want to see their peak mirrored by their representatives.
They don't have time for delayed gratification. They don't want
discretion in picking fights, just fight them all. They don't
want anything reflective of strategic thought here. These voters want
external validation, a change in their environmental conditions that might
might maybe relieve the existential panic that they are wrestling with.
One day, the left may conclude that politics does not
provide the inner piece that they are seeking. But that
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I am all about solutions, here's another pitch for Democrats
looking to make your way out of the wilderness and
become a beloved party political party among Americans. How about this,
Rather than try to have your own Democrat Maga movement,
how about this.
Speaker 1: Love America. Just do that.
Speaker 2: I know it sounds pretty simple, maybe a little bit icky,
you know, maybe go to you know, a July fourth parade.
I know, like I know you know how to go
to parades. You go to different parades, but maybe go
to one that honors and celebrates the nation that you
were born into. That represents the idea that all people
are created equal, that we are endowed by our creator
with inalienable rights. Those are yours, and the government is
simply there to protect them. It doesn't give them to you.
You have those rights. That's the idea, property ownership, liberty,
and the ability to govern ourselves. That's these are very
simple concepts. That's not the same America's perfect. No nation is,
because all nations are made up of people, and no
person is perfect, right, So just start there, Just start
by loving America. And the reason I offer that is
because looking at this polling from Signal, you guys don't
like America very much. That's what you're saying, and that's
a problem if you're trying to get Americans to vote
for you. Ben Dominic at the Spectator dot com has
the This the polling from Signal. It's a survey of
fifteen hundred likely voters, margin of error just two and
a half percent. With the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of America's founding approaching, next year. The majority of Americans
are happy to applaud their country. Sixty three percent say yes,
the birthday of the United States is a moment to celebrate.
Just sixty three percent say the two hundred and fiftieth
birthday of America is worthy to celebrate. Unfortunately for those
who would like such an event to be bipartisan and unifying, which,
by the way, I want that to be. I want
Americans to love America. I want Americans to identify as Americans.
That's a much better way to live in a nation.
And unless you don't believe in the concept of nation states,
which I understand is a pretty new thing in the
course of human development, but this is a good way
to order a society, come up with the principles that
are as we have them, and then unify under that banner.
But the majority is overwhelmed that this sixty three percent
is overwhelmingly driven by Republicans, which this number is actually
kind of surprising too to me. Just eighty nine percent
of America of Republicans. Rather, eighty nine percent of Republicans
say that this two hundred and fiftieth anniversary is a
moment of triumph. On the other side of the aisle.
Only thirty seven percent of Democrats say that there's something
to celebrate, so two thirds say no. Fifty eight percent
of Democrats say no, not much to celebrate or there's
nothing to celebrate. Fifty eight percent of Democrats see this
is what Trump derangement syndrome does to one. Also critical consciousness, right,
that's what this does to your brain. Sixty four percent
of single female Democrats say there isn't anything to celebrate.
Rate after two and a half centuries of America, sixty
four percent say there's nothing to celebrate.
Speaker 1: Nothing.
Speaker 2: What about women's right to vote? Can't you celebrate that
you still have that right to vote? We didn't take
all your rights away under Project twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean.
Speaker 2: This catastrophism, It has broken your brains, Like this is
not normal. America is not the norm in human development. Okay,
the explosion of growth, innovation, wealth, longer life spans, all
of this stuff started with us. Why Because it let loose,
It unleashed the potential of the individual. It allowed liberty
to flurish, and people then came up with all sorts
of ideas that in the past would have been repressed.
Speaker 1: Or they never even would have had time to go,
you know, tinker in the word in the workshop and
try to invent, you know, the next computer or something.
Speaker 2: There's a lot to celebrate. You should celebrate it. You
can't tell me that every single thing in America's history,
everything about the country, is terrible and not worth celebrating.
Speaker 1: You can't say that that's because it's wrong.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess you could say it, and then
we would know that you are anti American. And maybe
that's really at the heart of this is that they've
been trained up in Marxism through their education through K
twelve and into college. They've been radicalized, and so they
believe that America is the source of all evil in
the world, that we are responsible for all of the
problems on the planet. In which case then I would say,
why are you still here, Why would you want to
be a part of that? Why would you still identify that?
My goodness, you believe you can change your own sex
and gender, so why not change your nationality. That's something
that you actually can do. Twenty eight percent of single
female Democrats said they do like the country they live in.
Just twenty eight percent White Democrats are much more pessimistic.
Speaker 1: Than Black Democrats. Is that surprising?
Speaker 2: Overall, fifty eight percent of Americans fifty eight percent say
that after two hundred and fifty years, the United States
remains a force for good in the world. I am
in that fifty eight percent. Thirty six percent disagree. And
once again it breaks along party lines. Eighty six percent
of Republicans say we're a force for good, thirty one
percent of Democrats say we're a force for good. Once again,
white leftists are the drivers of the anti American sentiment.
Hispanic Democrats say America is a force for good thirty
three percent and forty one percent of Black Democrats think that.
Speaker 1: It's the awfuls. All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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