1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,599 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,519 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,199 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to dpeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,120 subscribe button, get every episode for free, write to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,679 smartphone or tablet, and again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,719 --> 00:00:34,320 your support. Alrighty, So Democrats prepared to not learn anything 10 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:40,079 in the next election cycle. Apparently they are. They're going 11 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:43,520 back to their roots and blaming for their loss in 12 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:53,240 the last election cycle, blaming messaging. They always blame the messaging. Always. 13 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:55,840 We just didn't do a good job of getting our 14 00:00:55,880 --> 00:01:01,200 message out. That's not it. I take it back. Actually, no, 15 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:03,119 that's it. That's totally it. You guys just keep doing 16 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:09,319 just keep doing that. Holy smokes. So, in case you 17 00:01:09,359 --> 00:01:14,359 hadn't noticed, over the weekend, the Democrats sought to elect 18 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:19,879 their party leadership for the DNC, the Democrat National Committee, 19 00:01:20,239 --> 00:01:24,519 and the guy that was in charge, Jamie Harrison. He 20 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:29,280 was a failed candidate down in South Carolina and he 21 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:33,799 was the head of the DNC, and well, the results 22 00:01:33,799 --> 00:01:36,959 speak for itself, and so he's out and they've got 23 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:44,840 a new guy, Ken Martin. Ken Martin. He is the 24 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,840 chairman of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party, which is 25 00:01:49,959 --> 00:01:54,480 like to the left of the Democrat Party. They like 26 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,879 the Democrats were not socialist enough, and then they went 27 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:01,640 out and created this DFL part already like decades ago. 28 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:07,599 These guys are leftists. It's the Democrat Party basically, like 29 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:10,280 that's the party up in Minnesota. The Democrat Party is 30 00:02:10,319 --> 00:02:14,719 the DFL. It's like a fusion of left and further left. 31 00:02:16,319 --> 00:02:19,639 And they picked that guy to be their chairman. Oh, 32 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,360 it's going to get fun. And a lot of attention 33 00:02:23,439 --> 00:02:25,560 has been paid to one of the I think they 34 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:31,479 I think they elected Oh was it eighty two vice 35 00:02:31,599 --> 00:02:35,919 chairs or something like that. They they no, it's like three. 36 00:02:36,159 --> 00:02:39,319 They have a bunch of vice chairs as well. And 37 00:02:39,599 --> 00:02:42,840 one of the people that they named as the vice 38 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:49,960 chair is this proponent of abolishing ice defunding The police 39 00:02:50,479 --> 00:03:01,400 designated the designating the NR as a terrorist organization. And 40 00:03:02,159 --> 00:03:04,319 I don't know what this tweet is. If this election 41 00:03:04,479 --> 00:03:07,159 is a matchup between Taylor Swift and Ted nugent. I 42 00:03:07,159 --> 00:03:10,719 think it's safe to say I've seen enough Biden wins 43 00:03:10,759 --> 00:03:15,120 the twenty four election, so very politically adept as well. 44 00:03:15,479 --> 00:03:22,560 And this individual's name is David Hogg. David Hogg the 45 00:03:22,719 --> 00:03:26,560 kid who was a student at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas 46 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:31,759 School when that maniac who was known to authorities went 47 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,919 in and shot the place up, murdered a bunch of 48 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:37,280 his classmates, and David Hogg, who was not at the 49 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,680 school at the time, showed up with a video camera 50 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,360 and then somehow got turned into a school shooting victim 51 00:03:44,639 --> 00:03:47,759 or survivor, i should say, even though he wasn't there 52 00:03:48,039 --> 00:03:52,759 at the anyway. So then he parlayed that along with member, 53 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:54,840 there were two other people. There was a girl and 54 00:03:54,919 --> 00:03:57,680 another guy, and they became like the three of them 55 00:03:57,719 --> 00:04:02,680 became like the you know, March for Our Lives leaders, 56 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:05,840 one of whom the dude. The other dude not David Hogg, 57 00:04:05,919 --> 00:04:09,919 the non hog. That guy like he went out and 58 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,439 in an effort to educate himself about guns, he actually 59 00:04:14,479 --> 00:04:17,240 went out and went to a range and got some 60 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,279 instruction and learned about guns. And then he was like 61 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:24,720 yeah this, like I'm out. He abandoned it. So I 62 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:26,879 don't know what happened to the girl. Last I heard 63 00:04:26,879 --> 00:04:30,000 she was she was like non binary or something. And 64 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:33,439 then like, I think she went to the LGBTQ plus 65 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:35,920 two I A s L. I think she went that route. 66 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:43,000 And David Hogg he he maintained you know, figurehead status 67 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:48,360 at the March for our Lives and like, I don't. 68 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,079 I don't make fun of people's appearances. They really, you know, people. 69 00:04:52,079 --> 00:04:53,839 A lot of times people don't have any you know, 70 00:04:54,759 --> 00:04:57,959 control over some of this stuff. But for the love 71 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:04,319 of me, like, just you know, eat some eat some bread. Dude, 72 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:07,839 you look like a Q tip. The guy he's got 73 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:14,160 no body fat or muscle mass. He looks like an 74 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:18,360 X ray of a skeleton. You know. It's I don't 75 00:05:18,399 --> 00:05:21,600 think it's healthy. I don't think it's healthy anyway. Yeah, 76 00:05:21,639 --> 00:05:24,120 so he's uh, he was a defund the police kid 77 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:27,600 and uh. And so now he's going to be helping 78 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:31,920 the Democrats get their messages out to the youth because 79 00:05:31,959 --> 00:05:35,399 he's twenty eight and so he can speak to the youth. 80 00:05:36,399 --> 00:05:42,160 He's he's on the same vibe he pictures himself. According 81 00:05:42,199 --> 00:05:45,079 to one of his old tweets, that he pictures himself 82 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:48,240 as the fun uncle that will, you know, sit and 83 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:50,079 hang out with you and talk with you about all 84 00:05:50,199 --> 00:05:52,560 sorts of stuff. And because he's not having any kids 85 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,639 of his own, he says, by by choice, because you know, 86 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,959 climate change and so uh, he'll just be the fun uncle, 87 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,759 a teach your kid how to skateboard, you know whatever. 88 00:06:04,319 --> 00:06:06,399 So he's going to be the he's going to be 89 00:06:06,439 --> 00:06:11,199 the bridge to the youth vote, which I think that 90 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:15,879 the defund the police messaging probably didn't. I don't think 91 00:06:15,879 --> 00:06:17,759 that went I don't think that went well for you 92 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:24,240 guys as Democrats, but apparently they're gonna keep some of 93 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:28,879 them around. This is from the Independent Journal Review, but 94 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,839 it's actually Daily Caller News Foundation article talking about a 95 00:06:32,959 --> 00:06:36,279 historic November loss that Democrats suffered and it plunged them 96 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:39,079 into an identity crisis. I was actually we had friends 97 00:06:39,079 --> 00:06:42,600 over from out of town this weekend, and one of 98 00:06:42,639 --> 00:06:45,920 them was saying like that he doesn't know like who's 99 00:06:45,959 --> 00:06:49,000 in charge of the Democrats now, Like who is the person? 100 00:06:49,319 --> 00:06:51,959 He's very frustrated. He was, you know, left of center, 101 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:54,959 and he was saying it like a frustration that he 102 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:58,639 has is that there isn't somebody there that is like 103 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:03,920 leading the the Democrat movement? And I said, yeah, it's 104 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,639 a real problem. The best you got right now was 105 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,879 Chuck Schumer, And I just like, I feel sorry for 106 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:15,399 you guys. If that's your guy, you're relying on Chuck 107 00:07:15,519 --> 00:07:22,079 Schumer to be the one that motivates people around a cause, yikes, 108 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:26,759 guy can't even grill a cheeseburger anyway. Democrats have split 109 00:07:26,839 --> 00:07:31,759 over the reasons behind their loss with voters. They don't 110 00:07:31,839 --> 00:07:35,160 know why, they don't know why they are not doing 111 00:07:35,199 --> 00:07:38,680 well with voters. In a recent report, The New York 112 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:43,319 Times revealed that after more than fifty interviews with Democrats 113 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,040 the party This is the New York Times, they found 114 00:07:46,079 --> 00:07:49,480 the party is divided on how to mount a successful 115 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:53,720 defense to Trump's policies and still doesn't know what its 116 00:07:53,800 --> 00:08:01,360 platform should actually be about. DNC members gather Saturday to 117 00:08:01,519 --> 00:08:06,079 finalize their selection of the new DNC chairman, and they 118 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:11,800 chose Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Farmer Labor Party chairman Ken Martin. 119 00:08:12,839 --> 00:08:15,560 In an interview with The New York Times after his win, 120 00:08:16,199 --> 00:08:21,399 Martin stated that the issue was not the policies themselves, 121 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:30,439 but rather a messaging and brand problem. Quote, the policies 122 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:32,919 that we support and the message that we have is 123 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:38,080 not wrong. It is a messaging problem and a brand problem. 124 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:44,720 Those voters are not connecting our policies with their lives. So, 125 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:50,320 in other words, you're stupid. Say you just don't understand 126 00:08:50,759 --> 00:08:53,679 all the good stuff we do for you, all the 127 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:57,799 stuff we have done for you, our policies are for you. 128 00:08:57,919 --> 00:09:02,639 Why won't you understand it. This is what they're going with, 129 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,960 the policies we support, and the message we have is 130 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,399 not wrong. I find it interesting he says, the message 131 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:14,200 is not wrong, but it's the messaging, so it's not 132 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:17,840 even your message. So the things that you're saying is 133 00:09:17,879 --> 00:09:21,200 not wrong. You're totally right on how you're saying. What 134 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,759 your policies are, what you stand for, what you believe in, 135 00:09:23,799 --> 00:09:25,519 what you've done, what you're going to do. All of 136 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:30,360 that message is perfect. The problem is that when people 137 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:35,679 hear it, they don't realize it's perfect. This is Oh 138 00:09:35,759 --> 00:09:40,759 my goodness. I completely agree with him. I completely agree 139 00:09:40,799 --> 00:09:43,519 he should continue down this path. All right. If you're 140 00:09:43,519 --> 00:09:45,320 listening to this show, you know I try to keep 141 00:09:45,399 --> 00:09:47,080 up with all sorts of current events, and I know 142 00:09:47,159 --> 00:09:49,559 you do too, and you've probably heard me say get 143 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:53,559 your news from multiple sources. 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The blind spot feature shows 154 00:10:25,039 --> 00:10:27,960 you which stories get ignored by the left and the right. 155 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:32,759 See for yourself check dot ground, dot news slash pete. 156 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,519 Subscribe through that link and you'll get fifteen percent off 157 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:38,799 any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited 158 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:42,159 access to every feature. Your subscription then not only helps 159 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:44,960 my podcast, but it also supports ground News as they 160 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,679 make the media landscape more transparent. Alrighty, so where was 161 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:53,679 I the Daily Caller News Foundation reporting on the Democrat 162 00:10:53,759 --> 00:10:58,440 National Convention that occurred? Or yeah, the Democrat National Committee 163 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:05,879 that occurred where they elected their leadership and they named 164 00:11:05,919 --> 00:11:10,440 a guy named Ken Martin as the new DNC chair. 165 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:16,159 He has served as the DFL chairman the Democratic Farmer 166 00:11:16,279 --> 00:11:21,360 Labor Party out of Minnesota, the DFL chair for several terms, 167 00:11:21,759 --> 00:11:24,240 and said after his win that he would conduct a 168 00:11:24,279 --> 00:11:30,960 post election review focusing mainly on tactics and messaging, which again, 169 00:11:31,639 --> 00:11:34,600 it's not the problem. While he did not define, by 170 00:11:34,639 --> 00:11:38,279 the way, when he says that voters are not connecting 171 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:44,759 Democrat policies with their lives and so that's a messaging problem, see, 172 00:11:44,759 --> 00:11:49,799 I would submit that voters are in fact connecting policies 173 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:55,440 with their lives, and that is the actual problem. That's 174 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:58,559 the actual problem is that they are doing that and 175 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:02,759 Democrats are in which is like that is the first 176 00:12:02,759 --> 00:12:06,159 stage of grief. You know, they're working through it. November 177 00:12:06,279 --> 00:12:15,799 was not that long ago. Martin said that it would 178 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:20,159 conduct a post election review focusing mainly on tactics and messaging. 179 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,879 While he did not define the parameters of the review. 180 00:12:23,519 --> 00:12:30,039 The one issue Martin will avoid is questioning whether Biden 181 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:34,799 should have run for reelection. That is off the table. 182 00:12:35,159 --> 00:12:37,519 We are not going to take a look at whether 183 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:41,840 Joe should have or should not have, and whether everybody 184 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:44,919 that knew he was incognitive decline should have or should 185 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:46,279 not have. We're not going to look at any of 186 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:51,639 our culpability in any of that. We're not going to 187 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:53,360 talk about it. We're not probably not even going to 188 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:55,519 talk about Kamala harrison't going to talk about the coup 189 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:57,720 that put her in place. We are not going to 190 00:12:57,799 --> 00:13:04,919 talk about any of that. It's just about branding more 191 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:10,639 key chains, bumper stickers. That's what we need to do. Yeah, 192 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:17,000 get that messaging out there. Oh, maybe they'll go on 193 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:21,360 to more podcasts like Call Her Daddy and such. Right, 194 00:13:22,159 --> 00:13:26,240 Martin sentiments mirror those of Democratic Senator Senate Minority Leader 195 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:30,000 Chuck Schumer. This is the best they've got for a 196 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,799 party leader right now, who said in a January fifth 197 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:37,279 interview on NBC, all too often we talk about the 198 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,320 mechanics of the legislation and the details of the legislation, 199 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:42,879 and we really didn't show the kind of empathy and 200 00:13:43,039 --> 00:13:47,919 concern to average or show enough of it to average 201 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:52,080 working families who didn't realize how much we had done 202 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:58,000 and how much we care for them. Yeah. See, they 203 00:13:58,039 --> 00:14:01,679 got wrapped up in the details of pow' that's what 204 00:14:01,759 --> 00:14:05,159 happened when they were calling everybody Nazis. See, that's like 205 00:14:06,159 --> 00:14:09,519 that was them focusing too much on policy and the 206 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:13,440 mechanics of the legislation. Yeah, they were very interested in 207 00:14:13,519 --> 00:14:19,039 explaining to us how these votes moved through committees and caucuses, 208 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:23,440 and they were too tactical. We got into the weeds 209 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:29,679 on policy too much. They like, surely, surely you don't 210 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:34,840 believe this. You cannot possibly believe this is the case. No, 211 00:14:35,639 --> 00:14:39,159 you saw the electoral wipeout that you saw because people 212 00:14:39,279 --> 00:14:45,080 disagreed with the way you were governing. They don't like 213 00:14:45,159 --> 00:14:48,600 what you were offering. We knew very well what you 214 00:14:48,679 --> 00:14:51,320 were offering because we got to see it for the 215 00:14:51,399 --> 00:14:56,559 last four years that your party pushed for four years 216 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,840 going back actually longer than that. People got burnt out 217 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,759 on you. They did not want what you were selling. 218 00:15:02,919 --> 00:15:04,679 They knew what you were selling, and they don't want 219 00:15:04,679 --> 00:15:09,320 any more of it. They don't. It's not that they 220 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:12,279 didn't hear how much you care about them. They want 221 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:15,639 you to stop caring about them and just leave us alone. 222 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:19,159 All right. I hope you had a happy holiday season, 223 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,720 but tell me if something like this happened at your house. 224 00:15:22,039 --> 00:15:24,600 Your family and friends are gathered around, maybe y'all are 225 00:15:24,639 --> 00:15:28,200 in the living room. You're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing, and 226 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:32,039 then somebody says, hey, Dad, remember those old VHS tapes? 227 00:15:32,159 --> 00:15:34,720 Did you ever get them transferred? And then the room 228 00:15:34,759 --> 00:15:38,559 gets all quiet. 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I 244 00:16:30,399 --> 00:16:31,879 guess it's an annual meeting, but this is the one 245 00:16:31,879 --> 00:16:35,639 where they elected their new leader, and they picked a 246 00:16:35,679 --> 00:16:40,080 guy from the leftist Democrat Farmer Labor Party out of Minnesota, 247 00:16:40,759 --> 00:16:44,320 and Chuck Schumer, who is kind of been the de 248 00:16:44,399 --> 00:16:47,679 facto leader of the Democrat Party, Mike con dolences telling 249 00:16:47,679 --> 00:16:50,480 the New York Times, we're not going to go after 250 00:16:50,559 --> 00:16:53,759 every single issue. Schumer had already been pressured by half 251 00:16:53,799 --> 00:16:56,879 a dozen Democrat governors to be more aggressive and challenging 252 00:16:56,919 --> 00:17:02,039 the president's policies. So he's talking about how they're going 253 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:04,279 to fight back against Trump, because that's what the Democrats 254 00:17:04,279 --> 00:17:06,119 are telling us. How do we fight back against Trump? 255 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:08,200 How we fight back against Trump? That's what they're all 256 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,839 focused on. And so Schumer had said, we're not going 257 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:17,680 to go after every single issue, but he's being pressured 258 00:17:18,519 --> 00:17:21,279 by Democrat governors half a dozen of them, a whole 259 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:26,599 half a dozen, So six six governors out of like 260 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:30,799 twenty to thirty governors across the country. I don't even 261 00:17:30,839 --> 00:17:34,359 know how many Democrat governors there are now, but six 262 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:37,839 of them saying you need to be more aggressive. And 263 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:39,599 so now I got to wonder, is Chuck Schumer, a 264 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:44,319 short timer. Heading into the polls, voters held chief concerns 265 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:51,839 over the administration's unbridled illegal immigration, the economy, and rampant inflation. No, no, no, no, 266 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,880 it's the messaging people, It's not these issues. It's the 267 00:17:55,039 --> 00:18:00,160 messaging that Democrats failed at. See. Immigration was fine. By 268 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:05,400 the way, have you noticed all the things that the 269 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:10,359 Trump administration is able to do without new laws passed? 270 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:15,640 I mean talk about laying bare the lie? Wow? Right, 271 00:18:15,759 --> 00:18:20,400 we were told that you couldn't do immigration enforcement the 272 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:23,680 kind of like the kind of which we're seeing right now. 273 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:28,680 You couldn't do that unless Congress passed some new law, 274 00:18:28,799 --> 00:18:31,359 and then Donald Trump made some phone calls and stopped everybody. 275 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,279 We had a bipartisan deal in all of that crap. 276 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:37,359 When it turns out you actually did have the power 277 00:18:37,519 --> 00:18:40,440 to do this stuff. You just didn't want to, right. 278 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:46,440 Failure is a choice here, it has been. Democrat Texas 279 00:18:46,519 --> 00:18:51,160 Representative Jasmine Crockett told The New York Times that the 280 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:55,720 Democrat Party has quote no coherent message, saying that everything 281 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:02,240 that underlines Trump, I don't know what everything that underlines Trump? 282 00:19:02,319 --> 00:19:05,680 You mean, like everything he does is rooted in I 283 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:07,680 think is what she's trying to say. There everything that 284 00:19:07,799 --> 00:19:14,079 underlines Trump is white supremacy and hate. This is a 285 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:24,359 perfect example of the Democrats problem. That is your coherent message, Democrats, 286 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:28,960 that is your message. That's been your message. It hasn't changed. 287 00:19:29,319 --> 00:19:32,519 It's been that for eight years. We are all aware 288 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,400 of what your message is. And while it may have 289 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,039 felt good for a while and it may have gotten 290 00:19:38,079 --> 00:19:41,960 you some wins in the short term, it's not built 291 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:49,960 to last. It burns itself out. Also, it's not terribly believable. 292 00:19:50,279 --> 00:19:54,160 We've been through four years of Trump and people then 293 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:57,279 went through four years of you, and they said, bring 294 00:19:57,319 --> 00:19:59,759 back Trump. Yeah, we want that guy back. And so 295 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:04,079 you calling him white supremacy and hate and all of that, 296 00:20:04,279 --> 00:20:09,039 and like that's the root of all things Trump. It's 297 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:16,279 not believable, and it alienates. It alienates the very people 298 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:20,400 that you're trying to persuade that you're not insane. And 299 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,359 when you keep saying the same thing you've been saying 300 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,079 for eight years and people have come to believe you 301 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,160 are insane, they're not going to be disabused of that 302 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:33,559 opinion when you keep saying the same thing. Social justice 303 00:20:33,599 --> 00:20:36,799 and climate change have not been top priorities for voters, 304 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,079 with a majority in twenty twenty two stating that they 305 00:20:39,079 --> 00:20:43,160 did not believe systemic racism exists. In an October Center 306 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:48,559 Squarre's Voter's Voice poll conducted by Noble Predictive Insights, fifty 307 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:53,400 nine percent of voters supported a federal ban on sex 308 00:20:53,519 --> 00:20:58,440 change procedures, including puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgeries from minors. 309 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,880 Y nine percent support a federal ban on those things 310 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:07,680 for kids, despite Democrats advocating for kids to have access 311 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:13,200 to that stuff, like, it's not your messaging, it's you. 312 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:18,799 It's you, right. I don't like I'm trying to be 313 00:21:18,839 --> 00:21:22,720 helpful here, you know me? I am a giver. Over 314 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,880 at the Wall Street Journal, Molly Ball had an article 315 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,720 all the candidates could agree that the situation facing the 316 00:21:27,759 --> 00:21:31,559 party is dire. The Democratic brand is in the toilet, 317 00:21:31,799 --> 00:21:34,359 with a recent Wall Street Journal poll showing sixty percent 318 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:39,519 of Americans view the Democrats unfavorably set sixty percent thirty 319 00:21:39,559 --> 00:21:44,279 six percent say it favorably. Democrats lost ground with nearly 320 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:48,960 every demographic group last November, including minorities, women, low income voters, 321 00:21:49,039 --> 00:21:54,079 and those without college degrees. Twenty big cities This is 322 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:59,960 a quote from former congressional candidate Adam Frish. All right, 323 00:22:00,599 --> 00:22:06,160 Adam Frish, he said, twenty big cities, Aspen and Martha's Vineyard. 324 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,799 That's what's left of the Democratic Party. And I'm not 325 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:13,640 exactly sure those twenty big cities are getting the best 326 00:22:13,759 --> 00:22:19,119 version of the Democratic Party, so said Frish, who lives 327 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:25,480 in Aspen. He lives in one of the places he 328 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:31,880 just named. And he ran against Lauren Bobert, and he lost, 329 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,960 but he overperformed the top of the ticket, but he 330 00:22:36,039 --> 00:22:39,279 still fell short in that race, and Democrats passed him over. 331 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:45,880 He ran in a red rural district in Colorado, overperformed, 332 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,799 barely lost, and Democrats are like, oh no, not you 333 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,319 get in a ticke a seat. We want the socialist 334 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:58,079 from Minnesota to lead us. Yet, as the would be 335 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,559 leaders bickered over party mechanic, the very pathologies that many 336 00:23:01,599 --> 00:23:04,960 critics argue have alienated Democrats from the American heartland were 337 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:10,559 on full display. A party captive to leftist activists, obsessed 338 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:15,440 with divisive litmus tests, out of touch with regular people's concerns, 339 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:20,359 and in thrall to a patronizing identity politics that alienates 340 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,720 many of the very minorities it is meant to attract. 341 00:23:23,279 --> 00:23:26,400 Nor did anyone dare to argue that the prior administration's 342 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:30,039 failures might have contributed to voters sour view of Democrats, 343 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,000 that Biden dragged the party down, or that Harris was 344 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:37,799 a mediocre candidate. The party's outgoing chairman, Jamie Harrison, has 345 00:23:37,839 --> 00:23:42,519 been giving interviews standing by his view that Biden should 346 00:23:42,599 --> 00:23:47,559 not have dropped out of the presidential race. That's what 347 00:23:47,799 --> 00:23:50,640 the current dance leader says, that Biden would have won. 348 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,960 He shouldn't have dropped out. I guess his would be 349 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:57,400 successors had nothing but praise for Biden's tenure. The party's 350 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,200 leaders were vowing to turn the page, but it is 351 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,599 clear many things have yet to change. That's from the 352 00:24:03,599 --> 00:24:09,119 Wall Street Journal. The new chairman of the DNC, Ken Martin, said, 353 00:24:09,799 --> 00:24:13,480 this is a new Democratic Party. We're taking the gloves off. 354 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,880 Wait did you put them on at some point? Did 355 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,079 I miss that? I was unaware that you actually put 356 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:23,799 gloves on? Like, now you're gonna fight? Is that like 357 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,519 what we have been seeing for the last eight years 358 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,720 against Trump? That's like, now you're gonna get nasty, Now 359 00:24:30,759 --> 00:24:33,400 you're gonna do it out. We've been holding fire all 360 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:38,880 this time, like just like they hold themselves up as 361 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,640 like so morally superior. Like, guys, you weaponized the whole 362 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:47,400 freaking federal intelligence agencies in community against against Trump and 363 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:53,799 his supporters. We don't believe you. We don't believe that 364 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,440 you occupy this high ground because you don't. Here's a 365 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,359 great idea. How about making an escape to a really 366 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,640 special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 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Kurt schlichterh noted that 391 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:34,240 our new president is trampling out the vintage where the 392 00:26:34,279 --> 00:26:38,160 grapes of wrath are stored appropriately, since the Democrats are 393 00:26:38,279 --> 00:26:44,640 almost as mad about him deporting their illegal alien serfs 394 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:50,759 as they were about us freeing their slaves. That's he says, 395 00:26:51,319 --> 00:26:54,200 we have gotten inside of their UDA loop. You know, 396 00:26:54,319 --> 00:27:03,799 an UDA loop is observe, orient decide, act right, observe 397 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:10,480 orient It's like get oriented, like look around, observe what's 398 00:27:10,519 --> 00:27:14,319 going on, look around, get oriented, and then decide what 399 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,599 to do and then act on it. Ooda loop okay, 400 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,240 And Trump is all up in there. He is disrupting 401 00:27:20,279 --> 00:27:22,759 their ooda loop. And he asks a question later on 402 00:27:22,839 --> 00:27:25,440 this piece, who's in charge of the Democrats right now? 403 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,920 Who's the boss, the kingpin, the shot caller? Who is it? 404 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,680 Is it? Shuma? He said, they have no leader, and 405 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,599 that means they have no agenda. They have no coordinated 406 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,759 response because they have nobody at the front of their 407 00:27:37,759 --> 00:27:41,480 symphony conducting. Trump is hitting them so fast and furious 408 00:27:41,519 --> 00:27:43,880 with so many things that so many people want, they 409 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:45,720 don't know what to react to. And by the time 410 00:27:45,759 --> 00:27:48,599 they decide on something like oh, Elon lifted his arm, 411 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,519 he must love Hitler, Trump is already driving a stake 412 00:27:51,559 --> 00:27:54,200 through the heart of one of their other beloved Kami 413 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:59,759 initiatives like us aid right, hearing a lot about that 414 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:05,119 the last couple of last day or so, Democrats have 415 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,240 a real problem because Trump is doing what he promised 416 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,400 to do. There are no surprises here. I said this 417 00:28:10,599 --> 00:28:15,519 last week, I said, when when limited government conservative types 418 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:19,319 say that they want to reduce the federal government, they 419 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,079 want to cut federal spending, they want to cut federal 420 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:27,119 government programs. When conservatives have said this, and I'm not 421 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:32,079 talking about you know, conservative elected officials Republican elected officials, 422 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,720 because they all say that too, but do they actually 423 00:28:35,759 --> 00:28:39,680 do it? Not so much, right, But when you talk 424 00:28:39,759 --> 00:28:44,079 to the actual voters, people who are not in elected office, 425 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,000 but a lot of the people that work really hard 426 00:28:47,039 --> 00:28:50,240 and give their money to get those people into the 427 00:28:50,279 --> 00:28:57,119 elected offices, that's what they want. And so when those 428 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:03,200 people the base the party fail full right limited government types, 429 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:10,000 when we see this stuff happening and he's he's ripping 430 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,519 apart USAI d and the left is freaking out and 431 00:29:14,599 --> 00:29:18,920 the GOP quote unquote establishment types are freaking out, we 432 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,160 have no problem with it at all because that's what 433 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:24,680 we wanted and we thought you wanted that too. Because 434 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:26,359 when we said we wanted it and you were like, 435 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,359 oh I concur, do you concur? Oh I concur? Okay, 436 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,119 well then we all concur and then you got in 437 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,079 there and you didn't do anything. Oh and by the way, 438 00:29:33,279 --> 00:29:36,359 this whole idea that USAI D. He can't. Trump can't 439 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,079 rip that thing apart because he didn't have that power 440 00:29:39,119 --> 00:29:42,640 as president. Yeah, that thing was created by a president. Okay, 441 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,440 an executive order created that thing. That The more I 442 00:29:46,519 --> 00:29:49,519 learn about usai D, the more it becomes very apparent 443 00:29:49,559 --> 00:29:52,279 that it is a money laundering operation. This is what 444 00:29:52,359 --> 00:29:55,160 people were talking about with regard to the deep state. 445 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:00,000 Money is extracted from taxpayers, It is then funneled through 446 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,640 USAID and it goes to these NGOs, non governmental organizations, 447 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,160 these nonprofits and the and all you got to do 448 00:30:08,559 --> 00:30:11,119 is throw the word democracy in the name of your 449 00:30:11,119 --> 00:30:14,279 nonprofit and you too can get millions of dollars in 450 00:30:14,359 --> 00:30:19,119 funding from USAID as long as you're fighting Trump. And 451 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,160 it creates this sort of green room, a waiting room, 452 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:27,079 if you will, for the next Democrat administration. So all 453 00:30:27,119 --> 00:30:29,799 these people go to work in the NGOs, they live 454 00:30:29,839 --> 00:30:32,680 off of taxpayer funds, don't really do a whole lot, 455 00:30:33,079 --> 00:30:36,119 but you know, preserve democracy. And then as soon as 456 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:40,200 the Democrat wins the White House, then they all just 457 00:30:40,279 --> 00:30:42,160 pick up and move woo, and they're right in. It's 458 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,839 like a plug and play operation. And Trump is ripping 459 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,839 that out root and branch. They're trying to jin up 460 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,680 out rage, Schlickter says, and nobody cares. Trump is doing 461 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,079 the things he said he would do, the things we 462 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,640 elected him to do. It's hard to get people upset 463 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:02,039 at a politician for doing what he prompt That's another 464 00:31:02,079 --> 00:31:04,519 part of their problem here. Trump said he was going 465 00:31:04,599 --> 00:31:07,519 to do this, He's doing this, and you're like, I 466 00:31:07,519 --> 00:31:10,160 can't believe he's doing this. I can like, that's what 467 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,359 he said he was going to do. Schlichter says. It's 468 00:31:13,359 --> 00:31:16,119 amusing that when the left spins itself up about the 469 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,359 things he does, they end up publicizing how Trump is 470 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:25,039 actually keeping his word. We keep being told he's being 471 00:31:25,039 --> 00:31:31,720 too aggressive, too mean, and he's a bully. Okay, what 472 00:31:31,759 --> 00:31:34,960 else you got do They imagine Donald Trump is going 473 00:31:35,039 --> 00:31:39,279 to stop because his success is esthetically displeasing to people 474 00:31:39,319 --> 00:31:43,880 who literally want to see him walked up forever or dead. No, 475 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,559 that's not going to happen. What's going to happen. Trump's 476 00:31:46,559 --> 00:31:49,319 going to keep going. He's going to keep driving on. 477 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,240 And there are plenty of spineless Republicans in the House 478 00:31:53,279 --> 00:31:56,240 and the Senate who are getting nervous at the prospect 479 00:31:56,279 --> 00:32:02,480 of not failing Oh my gosh, this is success? Is 480 00:32:02,519 --> 00:32:06,519 this what it looks like? Success is outside their comfort zone, 481 00:32:06,839 --> 00:32:12,039 but Paine Schlichter says, is an outstanding teacher. By the way, 482 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:16,599 Quinnipiac University poll finds that Americans are about evenly split 483 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,200 on their views of the Republican Party forty three favorable 484 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:23,079 forty five unfavorable. Negative views of the Democrat Party, they 485 00:32:23,119 --> 00:32:28,880 are twenty six points underwater fifty seven percent unfavorable. That 486 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,359 is catastrophic for the Democrat Party. It is also unprecedented. 487 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,279 All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 488 00:32:35,359 --> 00:32:37,359 so much for listening. I could not do the show 489 00:32:37,359 --> 00:32:39,880 without your support and the support of the businesses that 490 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:43,079 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 491 00:32:43,079 --> 00:32:44,759 them too and tell them you heard it here. 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