WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:07.440 Well, whiskey, come and take my pain, the honeys, my ry. 2 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:08.480 Oh whiskey. 3 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:12.199 Don't why think alone when you can drink it all 4 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:16.399 in with Ricochet's Three Whiskey Happy Hour, Join your bartenders, 5 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:22.120 Steve Hayward, John You, and the international Woman of Mystery, Lucretia. 6 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:28.320 Where they lapped it up it David, Ain't you easy 7 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:31.160 on the should chaps gotta give me? 8 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:35.320 Welcome everyone to this really super special edition of the 9 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:38.119 Three Whiskey Happy Hour, because we are on at least 10 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:43.119 two different continents. Steve is in an undisclosed location in Palermo. 11 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:50.759 John is cursing United Airlines because his flight to Naples 12 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:53.119 yesterday was canceled and they won't get him out for 13 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:55.600 another month or so or something like that. 14 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:59.600 Right, John, this is the worst travel disruption I've ever 15 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:03.039 had where I was on a tarmac for eleven hours, 16 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:07.680 eleven hours and then they canceled the flight and I 17 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:10.400 couldn't get another flight out for two more days. The 18 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:12.680 writers people should write in have you ever had a 19 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:16.640 worse travel disruption? Eleven hours and then they canceled the 20 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:18.879 flight and you can't get out for two days later? 21 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:21.879 I thought the regulations now they couldn't hold you on 22 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:23.959 a plane longer than five hours or something. 23 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:26.480 You know what, They brought us back after five hours 24 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:27.840 and then send us back out again. 25 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:30.079 Oh god, unbelievable. 26 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:34.280 Yeah, so the regulatory state wins again. 27 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:37.079 Oh man, that's just awful. 28 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:39.400 But anyway, that meant, that meant I got the pleasure 29 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:43.280 of being in Newark train station at five am. You 30 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:47.239 meet the most culture people in the New York New 31 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:50.120 York train station at five am, and made it to 32 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:52.560 my mom's house in Philadelphia. And I've got to spend 33 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:53.680 two more days with my mom. 34 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:57.280 So that's nice to tell your mother that we said. 35 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:02.239 Hello, she's your big fan, is you know? In the 36 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:06.920 amongst the eighty year old set, Lucretia has the biggest 37 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:07.519 fan base. 38 00:02:09.159 --> 00:02:10.360 Oh, they go over. 39 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:13.599 They discussed what Lucretia's wearing, how she comes up with 40 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:17.800 her beau malls. They love Lucretia here at my mom's 41 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:18.759 retirement home. 42 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:22.560 I do, I do think I have to bring back 43 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:25.400 this was a proud moment of my life when you 44 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:28.000 I believe it was your mom who said that she 45 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:31.120 expected to me me to be some haggardly looking old 46 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:33.680 woman or something like that, and was surprised to find 47 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:39.159 out that I wasn't exactly that. I remember something that 48 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:40.080 was very sweet of. 49 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:43.400 Her, because you hit the standards of beauty of the 50 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:44.360 nineteen fifties. 51 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:49.400 You know, I'm not even going to take that as 52 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:52.000 an insult, John, because when I look around at the 53 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:55.360 way some young people, well, i'll just leave that one alone. 54 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:58.800 No Lukism today, Well we're probably gonna have Latonism. I 55 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:00.560 hate to say it, but we're going to get started. 56 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:05.039 Because because Steve's got jet lag and a scratchy voice, 57 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:07.680 I decided that what I wanted to talk about today 58 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:11.800 was a sort of big picture or what does Steve 59 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:14.639 called it, a field view or something like that, of 60 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.800 the current state of our political parties. And the current 61 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:22.520 state of our political parties is, oh, it's all messed up, 62 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:25.719 because for how long has it been now that the 63 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:29.080 Democrats have been in lockstep about everything? You know, and 64 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:32.639 even when something that doesn't make any sense, like moving 65 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:37.560 from you know, radical feminism to this idea that men 66 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:41.080 should be able to compete in women sports and you know, 67 00:03:41.319 --> 00:03:44.120 a woman. I'm not a biologist. I can't tell you 68 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:46.879 what a woman is, and all of that nonsense they'll 69 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:49.439 they'll embrace it because the leftist moves like one of 70 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:52.639 those bee swarms that you know, moves from place to 71 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:57.479 place altogether. Except now, the Democrats, and I'm going to 72 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:00.680 get you guys' thoughts on this and the with the 73 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:06.400 d MC autopsy are are splitting apart. They're they're you know, 74 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:09.080 they're blaming each other. They're pointing fingers at each other. 75 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:11.800 There's the far left, it doesn't know what to do 76 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:14.280 with the middle, that doesn't know what to do with 77 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:17.759 the right, the far left, the center left, and they 78 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:20.120 will compare that to what's going on in the Republican Party. 79 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:22.800 But first, which one of you fellows would like to 80 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:24.560 talk about the d n C autopsy. 81 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:29.240 Well, I'll start first, as see if my voice holds 82 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:30.720 out here for an opening comment. 83 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:32.879 First of all, it reads. 84 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:37.120 Like a rejected script for a money python sketch. The 85 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:39.519 voters have said, you have sold us a dead parrot, 86 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:42.319 and the DNC is saying, no, no, it's just resting. 87 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:43.360 There's no problem here. 88 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:46.079 The parent's alive, right, I mean, the substance of it 89 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:47.800 is so weak, and you can go down the list 90 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:48.959 of things, and we really can. 91 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:52.399 But my favorite aspect of it was. It's rejection. 92 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:55.720 Remember they release the report because they thought under pressure, 93 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:59.079 so will put it out. But the DNC chairman, what's 94 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:01.319 his name, Ken Martin, Rod Martin, whatever, his name is, 95 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:05.040 Ken Martin, he he rejected the findings because he said 96 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:09.639 they couldn't be verified, like there's no data for it. 97 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:13.279 This reminds me, in other words, the problems. 98 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:16.319 Of academic political science, and you know, like the political 99 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:20.360 science John at Berkeley who say you can't study what 100 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:24.720 you can't measure. They don't even use survey numbers showing 101 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:27.600 if they did take what data you could bring the 102 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:29.800 bear on this, which would be surveys of American people 103 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:33.079 saying that, oh yeah, we don't want men and women's sports. 104 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:35.199 It's so called eighty twenty issues of Democrats are on 105 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:37.079 the wrong side of There would be some data, but 106 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:40.759 the author completely avoids it. But finally, I think these 107 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:43.279 autopsies by parties when they lose an election that they 108 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:43.720 thought they. 109 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:44.800 Were going to win are stupid. 110 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:50.199 You remember the RNC had their autopsy in twenty thirteen 111 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:53.240 after Romney lost and they called. 112 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:53.879 It the autopsy. 113 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:56.160 Then I think it's just the media calling this new 114 00:05:56.199 --> 00:05:58.639 report in autopsy because that's now the way we talk 115 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:02.879 about these postal reports. But the autopsy in twenty thirteen, 116 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:06.920 you remember, said, well, gosh, Republicans are just too mean 117 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:10.759 to Hispanics, and you know, we need to have comprehensive 118 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:13.480 immigration reform to make a country more welcoming. 119 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:15.000 And that was blown up two. 120 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:18.720 Years later by guess who, right, who discovered that it 121 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:23.319 was popular to enforce immigration law, and whose mean comments 122 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:26.639 about Hispanics seemed not to have a backlatch except with 123 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:30.079 wealthy white liberals. Turned out, a lot of Hispanics who 124 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:32.079 lived here for a long time thought it was just fine, 125 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:35.319 and they kind of agreed with it. So anyway, I'm 126 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:38.600 just sitting back, popping popcorn and enjoying watching the Democrats 127 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.160 cut each other up with what's in this report which 128 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:46.079 avoids all the key? Oh, it's just one candidate. Harris 129 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:47.600 didn't attack Trump enough? 130 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:50.160 Really, I mean, what are they going to do? I 131 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:52.240 mean they're gonna call him super duper hitler. 132 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:55.399 I mean what they did everything somebody said except call 133 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:58.000 out the the legate to drop nuclear weapons on. 134 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:03.399 Him, And Harris wasn't Kamalamadingong wasn't supported enough except for 135 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:07.800 the two point two eight billion they spent getting or elected. John, 136 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:10.079 do you have thoughts on this? 137 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:13.680 I didn't. First of all, I want to make clear 138 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:16.439 that this is being taped with all three of us simultaneously, 139 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:20.399 and Steve's not going to record something later to respond 140 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:22.879 to all my insults him that he couldn't respond to 141 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:27.959 last week that was dirty pool. That was dirty pool, 142 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:31.439 on my dirty pool, that was dirty pool square. I 143 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:34.000 hope that I insulted you was because you couldn't respond. 144 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:40.759 So I had two thoughts. One is I haven't read 145 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:43.319 the report, but I take it it barely discussed Biden. 146 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:46.920 And you would have thought one major factor in the 147 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:51.199 loss was a terrible performance under Joe Biden, who promised 148 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:56.360 to a return to normalcy and conventional politics after Trump 149 00:07:56.720 --> 00:08:01.600 and then weaponized the legal system against Trump. And you know, 150 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:04.319 you look at how did when did Trump start making 151 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:08.759 a recovery and winning, you know, your recovery towards winning 152 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:12.720 the primary. It's when the mar A Lago searched occurred, 153 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:17.000 and when the Biden Justice Department started persecuting Trump for 154 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:20.399 the first time in American history any form or president's 155 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:23.519 been prosecuted, not to mention searched. So that's one. But 156 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:25.839 the second one I want to ask you guys what 157 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:30.079 you think about this idea, which is it also seemed 158 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:34.120 to underscore to me why the Democrypocratic Party is failing, 159 00:08:34.679 --> 00:08:39.759 because the whole report still sounds to me like an 160 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:43.559 affirmation and certainly not a rejection of identity politics and 161 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:46.559 right if it just sounds like, oh, I mean, they 162 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:49.679 they And the problem with identity politics is if you 163 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:53.519 base everything identity, then you don't really have a political theory. 164 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:57.600 You don't really have positions that make sense from issue 165 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:00.919 to issue. And so that the leads me to thinking 166 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:04.120 that's why the Democrat Party is still held in lower 167 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:07.000 regard now than the Republican Party, even though the Publican 168 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:10.080 parties have got all these problems. The polling shows people 169 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:12.240 to think little of the Democratic part because it doesn't 170 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:17.200 stand for any values. It just stands for appearance, you know, 171 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:21.480 racial appearance, gender appearance. But that's not a political theory, 172 00:09:21.919 --> 00:09:25.320 that's right, that's that's actually just the lowest form of politics, 173 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:27.519 just like vote for me because I look like you. 174 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:31.480 Yeah, that's a nice way to put it, I think, John, 175 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:35.080 Actually it's I think it's much more. I think it's 176 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:41.519 I think it's much more insidious than that that they 177 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:44.039 First of all, it is all anti Trump, and it 178 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:46.840 wouldn't matter. You said it last week, whether it's Steve 179 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:49.279 cut it or not, I don't remember, but you. 180 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:52.639 Said, of course he got it, he sliced and diced 181 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:55.600 that last episode. I couldn't believe it. I was listening 182 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:57.440 to it. I was like, what was I on this episode? 183 00:09:57.480 --> 00:09:59.720 I don't even remember that. I don't remember taping this. 184 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:04.720 You said that Trump. I think you said Trump could 185 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:07.840 cure cancer, Trump could do just about anything good, and 186 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:10.879 the Democrats would oppose. I mean that comes out absolutely 187 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:13.480 clearly in the autopsy. That's all we're going to be about. 188 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:16.519 We didn't do it enough last time. Whatever we do 189 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:18.759 this time, it's going to be anti Trump. And they're 190 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:22.240 counting on I think. I think they're absolutely counting on 191 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:25.120 the fact that that gas prices are going to remain high, 192 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:29.279 still lower, still lower than they were during the Biden administration. 193 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:33.279 Let's get that absolutely clear. But you know, the Democrats 194 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:35.440 are harping on it. You even have people on the 195 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:39.879 right harping on it. Oh, you know, we're we're the 196 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:42.919 economy's going to improve just as soon as we surrender 197 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:45.799 in the Iranian war. There are two or three articles 198 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:48.399 like that this morning that I saw. So so the 199 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:50.759 Democrats have nothing, as you put it, they have nothing 200 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:54.519 other than what is a woman? I don't know. I'm 201 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:58.960 not a biologist. Women need to be accepting of men 202 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:02.320 and men's sports and men, by the way, you men 203 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:07.960 need to stop refusing to date transgenders. 204 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:11.840 By the way, did you I don't know if for 205 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:15.320 showing the video this podcast, but Steve's truly and Palermo 206 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:18.440 because he just has pretty women walking back and forth 207 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:19.000 and back. 208 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:19.600 Of this podcast. 209 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:21.279 Did you see I did? 210 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:21.960 Did you see? 211 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:23.399 Did Steve? 212 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:24.120 Steve? 213 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:26.720 What happens in Italy when you're there? That's only happened 214 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:27.639 when you were in Vegas? 215 00:11:29.399 --> 00:11:36.679 Look just tell her what John just said? Really you here? Okay? 216 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:40.759 I mean I know that runs is safe for children, 217 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:41.919 but is it safe for Steve? 218 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:46.559 Were you all outnumbered when they discussed that or something? 219 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:49.759 John ed this episode again? 220 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:54.279 Okay? Back wait, so back to because Steve has dinner 221 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:56.960 reservations at a swanky restaurant, so we have to keep 222 00:11:56.960 --> 00:11:58.720 this short. And I promised in my would, which means 223 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:01.519 I don't have to stop for ad right, Steve. But 224 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:04.720 at the same time I do want to discuss the 225 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:11.679 juxtaposition of the Democrats disarray can't even sort of seem 226 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:15.000 to the affordability seems to be something that would appeal 227 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:17.559 the voters, but they can't even sort of coal uce 228 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:21.080 around that. On the other hand, despite what John said, 229 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:23.960 is true that the Republicans are in a bit of 230 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:27.320 a bit of disarray, and you know, everybody says they're 231 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:29.879 likely to lose the House, maybe even the Senate, although 232 00:12:29.919 --> 00:12:32.279 you keep hearing these little things pop up, maybe not, 233 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:36.240 maybe not between the redistricting and so on. Anyway, Trump 234 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:40.440 had had a good week the last week maybe two. 235 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:44.559 He you know, we saw Kennedy go not John Kennedy, 236 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:50.720 thank god. What's the other Kennedy Cassidy. That's right, Bill Cassidy, Yeah, 237 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:55.399 the doctor Bill Cassidy. We saw Thomas Massey go down 238 00:12:55.840 --> 00:13:02.120 because and and primarily because his voters are pro Trump voters, 239 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:06.279 and Massey just made it, for whatever reason, his his 240 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:09.320 goal in life to oppose Trump every way he could. 241 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:16.039 And then of course the Indiana legislature legislators who wouldn't redistrict, 242 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:20.120 you know, so Trump has got this iron grip hold 243 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:25.440 on the Republican Party drives It drives everyone crazy. You know, 244 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:28.000 they can't stand the fact that he's winning. But is 245 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:30.879 the Republican Party united under Trump? 246 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:34.159 Let me say something, Steve. I'm sure will not will 247 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:37.320 not agree with this, but I worry that Trump is 248 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:40.799 driving the party too far to the right to do 249 00:13:40.919 --> 00:13:44.480 well in the general elections. And it's because of an 250 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:47.600 example you didn't mention, which was his endorsement of Ken 251 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:53.120 Paxton over John Cornyan, which I think is could be 252 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:56.360 a political disaster. You know, we've all spent a lot 253 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:00.919 of time in Austin this last semester, and it seemed 254 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:04.639 to me Cornyan would easily have won the and he 255 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:07.679 votes with Trump, I think over ninety five percent of 256 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:11.200 the time. And instead Trump endorsed a guy who was 257 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:14.279 about to be indicted for insider trading by the Justice 258 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:19.080 Department and was impeached by the Texas House and came 259 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:21.480 within a few votes of the Senate from being removed 260 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:25.759 from office as Attorney General because of his various uh 261 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:28.720 what is it? What did he call the biblical shenanigans? 262 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:31.360 I don't know what the right thing? What the phrase 263 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:33.919 he used? It is divorced papers I mean, this is 264 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:37.559 a deeply flawed Kennedy. What is the point of right, 265 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:40.519 I mean, I get that it's like a more pro 266 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:45.679 mega endorsement, but Paxton is not a good candidate to win. 267 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:48.799 The Republican is going to have to spend one hundred 268 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:52.080 million dollars to keep that seat in Texas, which you 269 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:55.679 could have used instead beat the Nazi in Maine or 270 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:58.399 a lot of or win the seat in against the 271 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:01.679 young unqualified guy in Georgia. Ausof There's so many seats 272 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:03.759 that are in play where that amount of money could 273 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:05.120 make a big difference, and now we're going to have 274 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:07.480 to spend it defending a seat in time. So I 275 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:10.919 get that Trump is trying to control the party more, 276 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:13.960 but it's I don't think it was necessary, and it 277 00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:16.840 might be harming the long term prospects of the party 278 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:20.519 for the midterms and for the general elections and the midterms. 279 00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:21.799 Well. 280 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:25.639 So, first of all, Paxton's problems are not ideological, they're ethical. 281 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:28.639 I think that's true, And yeah, I think it's possibly 282 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:29.000 might live. 283 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:31.320 But I do think that the thing to do here 284 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:34.720 is to take a long term view, right. I think 285 00:15:34.759 --> 00:15:37.480 it's a mistake just to judge the conditions of things, 286 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:39.799 by the prospects of this election, which which may well 287 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:43.000 be tough for Republicans. But I think something very significance 288 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:45.879 happened here in the last couple of weeks. Trump has 289 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:50.679 succeeded where Franklin Roosevelt failed. You remember, Roosevelt in nineteen 290 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:53.559 thirty eight tried to purge the Democratic Party very directly, 291 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:57.320 very openly, of all the conservative Democrats opposed a new deal, 292 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:00.279 and he got his head added to him. All the 293 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:03.679 candidates he opposed with one exception, and he never. 294 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:04.159 Did that again. 295 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:06.600 And then the other thing to keep in mind is 296 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:09.519 something that Michael Barrown pointed out years ago, which was, 297 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:16.600 you know, everyone always likes to say, gosh, what comes 298 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:17.320 after Trump? 299 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:17.639 Right? 300 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:19.879 You know, people who have tried to run like Trump 301 00:16:20.120 --> 00:16:23.039 have a mixed record at best. And I think that's 302 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:24.879 the wrong way of thinking about it, because the same 303 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:27.159 thing was said about Franklin Roosevelt was God, you know, 304 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:29.440 Harry Truman is no great successor to him, and there's 305 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:32.240 no more Roosevelt than a round. But Michael Barron points 306 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:35.559 out that Roosevelt did, in the long run, succeed in 307 00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:39.279 changing the Democratic Party into a fully liberal party. And 308 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:41.480 that's why Barne says the high tide of the New 309 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:44.759 Deal coalition was in the late nineteen fifties, and he's 310 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:47.120 got all the usual Michael Barone type evidence for that. 311 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:50.759 And I think that's what you're seeing here by ousting 312 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:55.000 all those stors the state senators in Indiana, by defeating Massey, who, 313 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:58.559 by the way, I mean, he does seem to, among 314 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:03.919 other problems, have that that libertarian tendency to become increasingly 315 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:09.039 vocally anti Israel and anti Semitic, and that's one reason 316 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:12.240 I'm glad he lost. In any case, I actually think 317 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:15.720 that Trump is transforming to Republican Party in ways that 318 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:16.799 will outlast him. 319 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:19.759 And so I think, oh. 320 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:23.200 And then last point, this election may go badly, but 321 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:25.680 I think you guys have seen the numbers. When the 322 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:29.240 next census is done, you're going to have something like 323 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:32.839 ten or twelve House seats, an electoral vote shift from 324 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:35.880 blue states to red states. It's going to mean it's 325 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:38.720 that much harder for Democrats to win the presidency even 326 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:41.720 with these close elections we've been having, and almost impossible 327 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:44.759 to win the House of Representatives. So the long term 328 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:47.799 prospects for the party are actually really good, and so 329 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:49.640 this is just going to be a tough year. And 330 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:51.720 I think you take your lumps when. 331 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:52.279 You have to take them. 332 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:57.680 Can I offer quickly an alternative view back to Paxton 333 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:01.079 for a moment. I am not as convinced as you 334 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:04.680 guys that Paxton will lose. Remember I said it before 335 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:08.839 on this podcast that Cornyn Cornyn had to spend a 336 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:13.279 fortune a fortune in order to beat him by what 337 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:16.440 a percentage point? I forget it was very, very close 338 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:22.240 between Cornyn and Paxston number one. And I'm not as 339 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:24.160 convinced as you guys that it's going to be that 340 00:18:24.279 --> 00:18:25.799 bad of a year. I do think a lot of 341 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:29.200 it's going to depend upon whether Trump can get some 342 00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:31.960 kind of resolution to the Iran war, get the economy 343 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:35.599 back on track. We've got some time to go, and 344 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:38.920 if he has all of these better in his view 345 00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:42.319 or probably my view as well, Republican candidates. You know, 346 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:46.680 you're the only John out of the famous Johns that 347 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:50.359 I actually like. I told you guys, John Thune, John Burrazzo, 348 00:18:50.599 --> 00:18:55.240 John John Cornyan. Ugh, I hate them all, but anyway, 349 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:59.200 but I'm trying not to let my personal feelings obscure 350 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:01.920 the analysis. I'm coming Acro. I think I think Paxton 351 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:04.640 has a very good chance of winning. If you've got 352 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:06.720 a choice between voting for the guy who thinks that 353 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:11.720 there are six genders and that God is binary non binary, 354 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:16.119 and is a vegetarian in Texas or a vegan in texts. 355 00:19:16.160 --> 00:19:19.519 Come on, there's no way in Austin. I promise to you. 356 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:23.640 Tallerico will win Austin. But there are other parts of Texas. 357 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:26.319 That being said, back to what you were saying about 358 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:29.279 his ethical problems, which brings me to what my next 359 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:34.920 discussion was going to be. We've got some some crazy 360 00:19:35.839 --> 00:19:38.559 things going on in elections. Let's start with Mayine because 361 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:44.880 you mentioned Maine. So this guy, Graham Platner, Nazi excuse me, sorry, 362 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:51.480 family show, masturbates and porta potties because the smell it 363 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:52.319 excites him. 364 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:54.880 I think has missed this news. 365 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:55.839 I hope. 366 00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:57.880 So I'm sorry. I don't mean you want to know 367 00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:00.599 what you're talking about. I know it's too I don't 368 00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:01.799 want to hear it. I don't want to know. 369 00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:05.079 The guy's just a pig, there's no way around it. 370 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:09.319 He's just I mean, all of his Instagram postings, you know, 371 00:20:09.359 --> 00:20:12.519 it's all been erased, but the Internet's forever. He's just 372 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:18.440 a vile human being. And there was an article, a 373 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:21.880 puff piece about him in Time magazine this morning. I 374 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:24.079 have to talk about this because I've owned three labs 375 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:26.319 in my life. So she tries to make it sound 376 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:29.680 like he's such a tough guy because his black labrador 377 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:35.079 tries to take a wrapped breakfast sandwich off the table, 378 00:20:35.559 --> 00:20:40.160 and supposedly Platner sticks his hand in the dog's mouth 379 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:42.160 to take it out, so you can't have that, you know, 380 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:46.039 lots of profanity. You can't have that. It's it's not 381 00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:50.400 great for you. And then supposedly Platner keeps talking all 382 00:20:50.440 --> 00:20:54.319 the time while his hand is bleeding. There is no 383 00:20:54.799 --> 00:20:57.839 way on earth that there is any truth to that story. 384 00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:01.119 I'm sorry, no either, that the guy is such a 385 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:03.960 horrible person that he's turned his black labs into something 386 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:07.079 like Biden's German shepherds, because I could stick my hand 387 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:09.359 in the mouth of my German shepherd if he had 388 00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:11.640 something in his mouth he shouldn't have, and I would 389 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:14.240 not even get so much as a scratch. And you 390 00:21:14.359 --> 00:21:17.559 a lab no way anyway, sir. Sorry, that just made 391 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:20.039 me so angry when I read it. It got me 392 00:21:20.079 --> 00:21:23.200 off on the wrong foot to start this morning. Back 393 00:21:23.240 --> 00:21:26.960 to Platner, though he's a terrible candidate, but he pushed 394 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:31.000 Janet Mills, who is, in fact, you know, the sort 395 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:35.720 of quintessential establishment democrat, out of the race. I know, 396 00:21:35.880 --> 00:21:40.880 Vermont's a crazy place and they're all whatever, same difference, 397 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:45.319 same difference, But that's what I meant. So there's that. 398 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:50.119 So the ethical problems of Ken Paxton compared to the 399 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:56.720 genuine personality problems and character problems of Platiner don't even 400 00:21:56.759 --> 00:21:59.759 come close if you ask me number one. Then we 401 00:21:59.839 --> 00:22:05.799