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in the next election cycle. Apparently they are. They're going
back to their roots and blaming for their loss in
the last election cycle, blaming messaging. They always blame the messaging. Always.
We just didn't do a good job of getting our
message out. That's not it. I take it back. Actually, no,
that's it. That's totally it. You guys just keep doing
just keep doing that. Holy smokes. So, in case you
hadn't noticed, over the weekend, the Democrats sought to elect
their party leadership for the DNC, the Democrat National Committee,
and the guy that was in charge, Jamie Harrison. He
was a failed candidate down in South Carolina and he
was the head of the DNC, and well, the results
speak for itself, and so he's out and they've got
a new guy, Ken Martin. Ken Martin. He is the
chairman of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party, which is
like to the left of the Democrat Party. They like
the Democrats were not socialist enough, and then they went
out and created this DFL part already like decades ago.
These guys are leftists. It's the Democrat Party basically, like
that's the party up in Minnesota. The Democrat Party is
the DFL. It's like a fusion of left and further left.
And they picked that guy to be their chairman. Oh,
it's going to get fun. And a lot of attention
has been paid to one of the I think they
I think they elected Oh was it eighty two vice
chairs or something like that. They they no, it's like three.
They have a bunch of vice chairs as well. And
one of the people that they named as the vice
chair is this proponent of abolishing ice defunding The police
designated the designating the NR as a terrorist organization. And
I don't know what this tweet is. If this election
is a matchup between Taylor Swift and Ted nugent. I
think it's safe to say I've seen enough Biden wins
the twenty four election, so very politically adept as well.
And this individual's name is David Hogg. David Hogg the
kid who was a student at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas
School when that maniac who was known to authorities went
in and shot the place up, murdered a bunch of
his classmates, and David Hogg, who was not at the
school at the time, showed up with a video camera
and then somehow got turned into a school shooting victim
or survivor, i should say, even though he wasn't there
at the anyway. So then he parlayed that along with member,
there were two other people. There was a girl and
another guy, and they became like the three of them
became like the you know, March for Our Lives leaders,
one of whom the dude. The other dude not David Hogg,
the non hog. That guy like he went out and
in an effort to educate himself about guns, he actually
went out and went to a range and got some
instruction and learned about guns. And then he was like
yeah this, like I'm out. He abandoned it. So I
don't know what happened to the girl. Last I heard
she was she was like non binary or something. And
then like, I think she went to the LGBTQ plus
two I A s L. I think she went that route.
And David Hogg he he maintained you know, figurehead status
at the March for our Lives and like, I don't.
I don't make fun of people's appearances. They really, you know, people.
A lot of times people don't have any you know,
control over some of this stuff. But for the love
of me, like, just you know, eat some eat some bread. Dude,
you look like a Q tip. The guy he's got
no body fat or muscle mass. He looks like an
X ray of a skeleton. You know. It's I don't
think it's healthy. I don't think it's healthy anyway. Yeah,
so he's uh, he was a defund the police kid
and uh. And so now he's going to be helping
the Democrats get their messages out to the youth because
he's twenty eight and so he can speak to the youth.
He's he's on the same vibe he pictures himself. According
to one of his old tweets, that he pictures himself
as the fun uncle that will, you know, sit and
hang out with you and talk with you about all
sorts of stuff. And because he's not having any kids
of his own, he says, by by choice, because you know,
climate change and so uh, he'll just be the fun uncle,
a teach your kid how to skateboard, you know whatever.
So he's going to be the he's going to be
the bridge to the youth vote, which I think that
the defund the police messaging probably didn't. I don't think
that went I don't think that went well for you
guys as Democrats, but apparently they're gonna keep some of
them around. This is from the Independent Journal Review, but
it's actually Daily Caller News Foundation article talking about a
historic November loss that Democrats suffered and it plunged them
into an identity crisis. I was actually we had friends
over from out of town this weekend, and one of
them was saying like that he doesn't know like who's
in charge of the Democrats now, Like who is the person?
He's very frustrated. He was, you know, left of center,
and he was saying it like a frustration that he
has is that there isn't somebody there that is like
leading the the Democrat movement? And I said, yeah, it's
a real problem. The best you got right now was
Chuck Schumer, And I just like, I feel sorry for
you guys. If that's your guy, you're relying on Chuck
Schumer to be the one that motivates people around a cause, yikes,
guy can't even grill a cheeseburger anyway. Democrats have split
over the reasons behind their loss with voters. They don't
know why, they don't know why they are not doing
well with voters. In a recent report, The New York
Times revealed that after more than fifty interviews with Democrats
the party This is the New York Times, they found
the party is divided on how to mount a successful
defense to Trump's policies and still doesn't know what its
platform should actually be about. DNC members gather Saturday to
finalize their selection of the new DNC chairman, and they
chose Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Farmer Labor Party chairman Ken Martin.
In an interview with The New York Times after his win,
Martin stated that the issue was not the policies themselves,
but rather a messaging and brand problem. Quote, the policies
that we support and the message that we have is
not wrong. It is a messaging problem and a brand problem.
Those voters are not connecting our policies with their lives. So,
in other words, you're stupid. Say you just don't understand
all the good stuff we do for you, all the
stuff we have done for you, our policies are for you.
Why won't you understand it. This is what they're going with,
the policies we support, and the message we have is
not wrong. I find it interesting he says, the message
is not wrong, but it's the messaging, so it's not
even your message. So the things that you're saying is
not wrong. You're totally right on how you're saying. What
your policies are, what you stand for, what you believe in,
what you've done, what you're going to do. All of
that message is perfect. The problem is that when people
hear it, they don't realize it's perfect. This is Oh
my goodness. I completely agree with him. I completely agree
he should continue down this path. All right. If you're
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I the Daily Caller News Foundation reporting on the Democrat
National Convention that occurred? Or yeah, the Democrat National Committee
that occurred where they elected their leadership and they named
a guy named Ken Martin as the new DNC chair.
He has served as the DFL chairman the Democratic Farmer
Labor Party out of Minnesota, the DFL chair for several terms,
and said after his win that he would conduct a
post election review focusing mainly on tactics and messaging, which again,
it's not the problem. While he did not define, by
the way, when he says that voters are not connecting
Democrat policies with their lives and so that's a messaging problem, see,
I would submit that voters are in fact connecting policies
with their lives, and that is the actual problem. That's
the actual problem is that they are doing that and
Democrats are in which is like that is the first
stage of grief. You know, they're working through it. November
was not that long ago. Martin said that it would
conduct a post election review focusing mainly on tactics and messaging.
While he did not define the parameters of the review.
The one issue Martin will avoid is questioning whether Biden
should have run for reelection. That is off the table.
We are not going to take a look at whether
Joe should have or should not have, and whether everybody
that knew he was incognitive decline should have or should
not have. We're not going to look at any of
our culpability in any of that. We're not going to
talk about it. We're not probably not even going to
talk about Kamala harrison't going to talk about the coup
that put her in place. We are not going to
talk about any of that. It's just about branding more
key chains, bumper stickers. That's what we need to do. Yeah,
get that messaging out there. Oh, maybe they'll go on
to more podcasts like Call Her Daddy and such. Right,
Martin sentiments mirror those of Democratic Senator Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer. This is the best they've got for a
party leader right now, who said in a January fifth
interview on NBC, all too often we talk about the
mechanics of the legislation and the details of the legislation,
and we really didn't show the kind of empathy and
concern to average or show enough of it to average
working families who didn't realize how much we had done
and how much we care for them. Yeah. See, they
got wrapped up in the details of pow' that's what
happened when they were calling everybody Nazis. See, that's like
that was them focusing too much on policy and the
mechanics of the legislation. Yeah, they were very interested in
explaining to us how these votes moved through committees and caucuses,
and they were too tactical. We got into the weeds
on policy too much. They like, surely, surely you don't
believe this. You cannot possibly believe this is the case. No,
you saw the electoral wipeout that you saw because people
disagreed with the way you were governing. They don't like
what you were offering. We knew very well what you
were offering because we got to see it for the
last four years that your party pushed for four years
going back actually longer than that. People got burnt out
on you. They did not want what you were selling.
They knew what you were selling, and they don't want
any more of it. They don't. It's not that they
didn't hear how much you care about them. They want
you to stop caring about them and just leave us alone.
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the Democrats' annual meeting where they or not. Well. I
guess it's an annual meeting, but this is the one
where they elected their new leader, and they picked a
guy from the leftist Democrat Farmer Labor Party out of Minnesota,
and Chuck Schumer, who is kind of been the de
facto leader of the Democrat Party, Mike con dolences telling
the New York Times, we're not going to go after
every single issue. Schumer had already been pressured by half
a dozen Democrat governors to be more aggressive and challenging
the president's policies. So he's talking about how they're going
to fight back against Trump, because that's what the Democrats
are telling us. How do we fight back against Trump?
How we fight back against Trump? That's what they're all
focused on. And so Schumer had said, we're not going
to go after every single issue, but he's being pressured
by Democrat governors half a dozen of them, a whole
half a dozen, So six six governors out of like
twenty to thirty governors across the country. I don't even
know how many Democrat governors there are now, but six
of them saying you need to be more aggressive. And
so now I got to wonder, is Chuck Schumer, a
short timer. Heading into the polls, voters held chief concerns
over the administration's unbridled illegal immigration, the economy, and rampant inflation. No, no, no, no,
it's the messaging people, It's not these issues. It's the
messaging that Democrats failed at. See. Immigration was fine. By
the way, have you noticed all the things that the
Trump administration is able to do without new laws passed?
I mean talk about laying bare the lie? Wow? Right,
we were told that you couldn't do immigration enforcement the
kind of like the kind of which we're seeing right now.
You couldn't do that unless Congress passed some new law,
and then Donald Trump made some phone calls and stopped everybody.
We had a bipartisan deal in all of that crap.
When it turns out you actually did have the power
to do this stuff. You just didn't want to, right.
Failure is a choice here, it has been. Democrat Texas
Representative Jasmine Crockett told The New York Times that the
Democrat Party has quote no coherent message, saying that everything
that underlines Trump, I don't know what everything that underlines Trump?
You mean, like everything he does is rooted in I
think is what she's trying to say. There everything that
underlines Trump is white supremacy and hate. This is a
perfect example of the Democrats problem. That is your coherent message, Democrats,
that is your message. That's been your message. It hasn't changed.
It's been that for eight years. We are all aware
of what your message is. And while it may have
felt good for a while and it may have gotten
you some wins in the short term, it's not built
to last. It burns itself out. Also, it's not terribly believable.
We've been through four years of Trump and people then
went through four years of you, and they said, bring
back Trump. Yeah, we want that guy back. And so
you calling him white supremacy and hate and all of that,
and like that's the root of all things Trump. It's
not believable, and it alienates. It alienates the very people
that you're trying to persuade that you're not insane. And
when you keep saying the same thing you've been saying
for eight years and people have come to believe you
are insane, they're not going to be disabused of that
opinion when you keep saying the same thing. Social justice
and climate change have not been top priorities for voters,
with a majority in twenty twenty two stating that they
did not believe systemic racism exists. In an October Center
Squarre's Voter's Voice poll conducted by Noble Predictive Insights, fifty
nine percent of voters supported a federal ban on sex
change procedures, including puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgeries from minors.
Y nine percent support a federal ban on those things
for kids, despite Democrats advocating for kids to have access
to that stuff, like, it's not your messaging, it's you.
It's you, right. I don't like I'm trying to be
helpful here, you know me? I am a giver. Over
at the Wall Street Journal, Molly Ball had an article
all the candidates could agree that the situation facing the
party is dire. The Democratic brand is in the toilet,
with a recent Wall Street Journal poll showing sixty percent
of Americans view the Democrats unfavorably set sixty percent thirty
six percent say it favorably. Democrats lost ground with nearly
every demographic group last November, including minorities, women, low income voters,
and those without college degrees. Twenty big cities This is
a quote from former congressional candidate Adam Frish. All right,
Adam Frish, he said, twenty big cities, Aspen and Martha's Vineyard.
That's what's left of the Democratic Party. And I'm not
exactly sure those twenty big cities are getting the best
version of the Democratic Party, so said Frish, who lives
in Aspen. He lives in one of the places he
just named. And he ran against Lauren Bobert, and he lost,
but he overperformed the top of the ticket, but he
still fell short in that race, and Democrats passed him over.
He ran in a red rural district in Colorado, overperformed,
barely lost, and Democrats are like, oh no, not you
get in a ticke a seat. We want the socialist
from Minnesota to lead us. Yet, as the would be
leaders bickered over party mechanic, the very pathologies that many
critics argue have alienated Democrats from the American heartland were
on full display. A party captive to leftist activists, obsessed
with divisive litmus tests, out of touch with regular people's concerns,
and in thrall to a patronizing identity politics that alienates
many of the very minorities it is meant to attract.
Nor did anyone dare to argue that the prior administration's
failures might have contributed to voters sour view of Democrats,
that Biden dragged the party down, or that Harris was
a mediocre candidate. The party's outgoing chairman, Jamie Harrison, has
been giving interviews standing by his view that Biden should
not have dropped out of the presidential race. That's what
the current dance leader says, that Biden would have won.
He shouldn't have dropped out. I guess his would be
successors had nothing but praise for Biden's tenure. The party's
leaders were vowing to turn the page, but it is
clear many things have yet to change. That's from the
Wall Street Journal. The new chairman of the DNC, Ken Martin, said,
this is a new Democratic Party. We're taking the gloves off.
Wait did you put them on at some point? Did
I miss that? I was unaware that you actually put
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what we have been seeing for the last eight years
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our new president is trampling out the vintage where the
grapes of wrath are stored appropriately, since the Democrats are
almost as mad about him deporting their illegal alien serfs
as they were about us freeing their slaves. That's he says,
we have gotten inside of their UDA loop. You know,
an UDA loop is observe, orient decide, act right, observe
orient It's like get oriented, like look around, observe what's
going on, look around, get oriented, and then decide what
to do and then act on it. Ooda loop okay,
And Trump is all up in there. He is disrupting
their ooda loop. And he asks a question later on
this piece, who's in charge of the Democrats right now?
Who's the boss, the kingpin, the shot caller? Who is it?
Is it? Shuma? He said, they have no leader, and
that means they have no agenda. They have no coordinated
response because they have nobody at the front of their
symphony conducting. Trump is hitting them so fast and furious
with so many things that so many people want, they
don't know what to react to. And by the time
they decide on something like oh, Elon lifted his arm,
he must love Hitler, Trump is already driving a stake
through the heart of one of their other beloved Kami
initiatives like us aid right, hearing a lot about that
the last couple of last day or so, Democrats have
a real problem because Trump is doing what he promised
to do. There are no surprises here. I said this
last week, I said, when when limited government conservative types
say that they want to reduce the federal government, they
want to cut federal spending, they want to cut federal
government programs. When conservatives have said this, and I'm not
talking about you know, conservative elected officials Republican elected officials,
because they all say that too, but do they actually
do it? Not so much, right, But when you talk
to the actual voters, people who are not in elected office,
but a lot of the people that work really hard
and give their money to get those people into the
elected offices, that's what they want. And so when those
people the base the party fail full right limited government types,
when we see this stuff happening and he's he's ripping
apart USAI d and the left is freaking out and
the GOP quote unquote establishment types are freaking out, we
have no problem with it at all because that's what
we wanted and we thought you wanted that too. Because
when we said we wanted it and you were like,
oh I concur, do you concur? Oh I concur? Okay,
well then we all concur and then you got in
there and you didn't do anything. Oh and by the way,
this whole idea that USAI D. He can't. Trump can't
rip that thing apart because he didn't have that power
as president. Yeah, that thing was created by a president. Okay,
an executive order created that thing. That The more I
learn about usai D, the more it becomes very apparent
that it is a money laundering operation. This is what
people were talking about with regard to the deep state.
Money is extracted from taxpayers, It is then funneled through
USAID and it goes to these NGOs, non governmental organizations,
these nonprofits and the and all you got to do
is throw the word democracy in the name of your
nonprofit and you too can get millions of dollars in
funding from USAID as long as you're fighting Trump. And
it creates this sort of green room, a waiting room,
if you will, for the next Democrat administration. So all
these people go to work in the NGOs, they live
off of taxpayer funds, don't really do a whole lot,
but you know, preserve democracy. And then as soon as
the Democrat wins the White House, then they all just
pick up and move woo, and they're right in. It's
like a plug and play operation. And Trump is ripping
that out root and branch. They're trying to jin up
out rage, Schlickter says, and nobody cares. Trump is doing
the things he said he would do, the things we
elected him to do. It's hard to get people upset
at a politician for doing what he prompt That's another
part of their problem here. Trump said he was going
to do this, He's doing this, and you're like, I
can't believe he's doing this. I can like, that's what
he said he was going to do. Schlichter says. It's
amusing that when the left spins itself up about the
things he does, they end up publicizing how Trump is
actually keeping his word. We keep being told he's being
too aggressive, too mean, and he's a bully. Okay, what
else you got do They imagine Donald Trump is going
to stop because his success is esthetically displeasing to people
who literally want to see him walked up forever or dead. No,
that's not going to happen. What's going to happen. Trump's
going to keep going. He's going to keep driving on.
And there are plenty of spineless Republicans in the House
and the Senate who are getting nervous at the prospect
of not failing Oh my gosh, this is success? Is
this what it looks like? Success is outside their comfort zone,
but Paine Schlichter says, is an outstanding teacher. By the way,
Quinnipiac University poll finds that Americans are about evenly split
on their views of the Republican Party forty three favorable
forty five unfavorable. Negative views of the Democrat Party, they
are twenty six points underwater fifty seven percent unfavorable. That
is catastrophic for the Democrat Party. It is also unprecedented.
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