Speaker 1: Hey, Michael Steel podcast listeners. Michael Steele here with another
quick take from the Michael Steel Podcast. Check out what's
going on right now? All right, Democrats, stop pissoning your
own soup, get your act together, get your head out
of your ass, and understand the moment you're now confronting. Okay,
so everything you've now come to realize, the dirty secrets out.
Everybody knows Joe Biden is old now, all right, so
help us, help you fix this and move this thing forward.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: And it's been frustrating listening to democrat after democrat Wine
always got to get out, well, get out of the
race and replace him with who at this stage, who
are you going.
Speaker 2: To do with you?
Speaker 1: Where you're gonna go.
Speaker 2: I talk with a very senior Democrat the other day
who said to me, Okay, play this out with me.
Here's what happens. Joe Biden says, I'm out. Then we
scramble around for a month and a half till the convention.
On the first night of the convention, and this person
said to me, all the lunatics come out and they're like,
we're gonna put Jamal Bowman or Bernie Sanders or whoever
on the ticket. All the crazies roll there, crazy out
in front of America. The second night, it's an even
worse cat fight. The third night, it comes down to
Gavin and Kamala, and Gavin wins, and every African American
member walks out of the goddamn auditorium and the election
goes into the fucking gutter. And this is a person
who you would not think is a moderate Democrat. This
is a fairly liberal Democrat who's like our own people
are fucking us, yes, are playing these games, and it's dumb.
And you know, Michael, I said this right after the debate,
and I told people this right after the big We're
gonna have a lot of different approach on how we
do this. My approach and the approach of the organizations
that I'm privileged to be part of at the Lincoln Project.
We are going to continue to cave Donald Trump's head
in with an iron pipe every goddamn day. There's nothing
else we can do. I can't fix the Democratic Party.
I can't. I don't have standing to tell them how
to how to do their little selection. I can't talk
to the Biden White House or the campaign. By law,
I stay out of those things. All I can do
is drive Donald Trump's numbers down. All I can do
is drive Donald Trump crazy. All I can do is
stay in the fight and keep pushing. Because what the
Trump people want everybody is for everybody to freeze the campaign.
On Thursday night, they go, I want to freeze the
campaign and never do again. That's it, and pretended that
there's the end of the campaign. We have one hundred
and twenty plus days to go. We should be spending
every one of these days up in Donald Trump's shit.
We should be we should be pounding away on the
fact that this guy still is a criminal. He is
not getting out of that conviction. He was convicted. He's
a felon. He doesn't get to get out of jail
free card on that one, folks. It happened before he
was president, and the actions are not inside his official
ambit at all. He is going to be Donald Trump
every day. That means he's gonna fuck up. That means
he's gonna get weird. He's gonna say stupid shit. He's
gonna talk about sharks and washing machines and crazy shit,
and we're gonna we're gonna hammer him away every single
minute of this campaign, because there's nothing, there's no better
or higher calling right now than to fight this guy.
The Democratic Party will have to work this out. The
White House has to figure this out. We can't change that.
But what I can do is not be out there
bitching and moaning about it in public to everybody and saying, oh,
it's over, and get in the fight people.
Speaker 1: Thank you, get in the fight. Thing is, Democrats, from
my experience, really don't know how to do that thing
call fighting politically. They they you know, they think they
can beat you with ideas. They think they can beat
you with policy formulations. You and I come from the scrappy,
you know, Middle Earth environment where you know you've got
to crawl up out of the ground, right, That's right.
You've got to create the lane in which to win.
And this race requires that right now. I mean, you know,
Democrats listening to this conversation, Independent voters listening to this conversation, Democracy,
Republicans listening to this conversation, you know, existentially what's happening
right now, you are watching the disintegration of everything your
family came to this country, whether as a slave or free. Right,
we hear from the very beginning to build this idea,
and we're watching in literally one ruling of the Supreme
Court empowering a crazy asshole.
Speaker 2: Yep, with the potential s as.
Speaker 1: Rick said, pick out his enemies, use the justice system,
use the finance markets, the irs, everybody to go after
these individuals, and you, at some point you don't think
that shit turns in on you.
Speaker 2: That is my point, Michael. You did speak to the
right audiences there of democracy. Republicans and Democrats and independents
and independent conservatives are Bannon line, we call it in
the in the Linken Project. But I want to send
a message to our former Republican colleagues who still think
that they're immune all those people around Mitch McConnell, let
me tell you something. When the day comes, Donald Trump
will take his revenge on all of you who criticized him.
That anybody who ever said damn harsh word about him
is going to be on the chopping block. And some
of you people who think you're his loyalist right now,
Someday you will step wrong. Someday you will make a mistake,
Someday you will piss him off. And guess what, all
those magnificent tools that you're cheerleading for right now, yay
Trump posts ultimate power, They'll turn on you. And you
know it always works people. You know what when Saddam
Hussein took power in Iraq, he called all of the
Iraqi leadership and the whole legislature into one big hallway
and they shut the doors. Yep, and some of his
most loyal lieutenants ended up being shot in the head
that day because he wanted to show that he could
do anything to anybody and nobody was ever safe. That
is what Donald Trump will do to these people. They
will never You will never If you're a Republican elected official,
you will never be safe. He can betray anyone. Think
about it, folks. If he can screw a porn star
with his recently pregnant wife and infant son in arms,
believe me, he can fuck you too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes he will, and yes he will. How do
you see say so? Yeah? Steve Bannon going to prison
on Monday, and I just in case y'all missed it,
the TikTok from Rick Wilson with virtually every tweet leading
up to Monday, was just it was Lincoln project goal.
Let's just put it that way. So Rick We've put
out a tweet going I'm going to the grocery store
and you know, I know I got to grab a
bunch of things. Oh and Steve Bannon is going to
prison in three days. You know. It was just one
of these things that sort of was hung out there
as a reminder to the very thing you're just talking about,
is that in this collection of misfit characters that are
now seemingly being repositioned to take control of the government,
you have people who will bring back into this space
and agenda a revenge retribution. Bannon amongst all of them,
when you're out in four or five months, whatever his
sentence is, is going to saddle back up and be
right in that space. How does this play out? Do
you think and what is it? What do you think
happens with some of these players like Gates and Green
and Lauren Baalbert and others as they get repositioned for
I think the point that you just made an assault
on the good people who stood in the way to
prevent bad things from happening.
Speaker 2: Every single one of the people that have grudgingly accepted
Donald Trump over the years, including Mitch McConnell, Mitch McConnell
made a deal with the devil. They decided that they
could build a coalition of Trump's base without the crazy
and so all they had to do was just be
nice to Trump. They couldn't. They never, they never really
understood what the base really is now. But those people
like Matt Gates and Lauren Bobert and Margine Taylor Green
and Paul Gosar, the real fanatics. They will lead the
charge to purge and purify the party. They will lead
the charge to be the ones I'm the most loyal Donald,
I'm the most loyal right now. Will they fall on
the endto they always do, But in the meantime they're
gonna be the ones collecting scalps. Look, McCarthy went down
in part because Trump was insufficient in his love and
watched and enjoyed watching him be tortured. Trump loves to
humiliate people. He loves to make them beg for his
regard and his love and his forgiveness. And he's never
going to forgive any of them.