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your support. Do you know who Mo Davis is? Maybe
this will be the only time you ever hear his name,
and hopefully it's the last time I ever have to
talk about him again. Mo Davis is a perennial candidate
up in the Mountains. I believe he's originally from I
want to say Shelby, but he's been living in Ashville
for I don't know, probably better part of a decade
at this point. And he was remember he was during
the George W. Bush administration with the Abu Grabe prison
scandal stuff, and he I think that's where he like
he came out against the administration and he was the
darling talking head on MSNBC for years for this stuff.
And he's a believe he's a retired JAG officer, the lawyer,
and anyway, he runs for office and he fails usually,
I mean, he's never won in office, but he runs
for office out there in the mountains, and usually for
Congress he's done. This was his third run at it.
And you may remember the first time he ran. He
was running against Madison Cawthorn, remember him, Madison Cawthorn, who
then lost to Chuck Edwards. Chuck Edwards Words is now
the congressman for the western part of the state. And
Mo Davis ran against Chuck Edwards as well and lost too.
And now he was running again against Chuck Edwards. But
now he has decided to drop out of the race.
I'll explain why. But by way of background, Mo Davis
was running against Cawthorn in twenty twenty. At that point,
I was just doing my podcast. I was working and
living in Nashville, and I was invited to participate in
a debate with those two as a questioner, and so I,
along with two other media types, we drafted questions and
we would throw the questions out. And so when I
went up and I asked the questions, I had done
some research into Mo Davis's Twitter, And by research I
mean I just like read through his and the guy
has like some sort of best I could determine with
some sort of like violence fetish or something, because so
many of his tweets were like fantasizing about in great
detail about harming Trump supporters and Trump, I mean not
explicitly Trump because that would get you the Secret Service
visit and all. But he said, you know, you would
refer to the voters as magats, maggots, right, dehumanizing language,
that sort of stuff, and just real nasty stuff. And
so I read to him at this debate. I read
to him some of his tweets, and I asked him,
how are you expecting to secure these votes? And if
you were to actually win, why would people that you're
describing like this, why would they feel like you are
a representative of them right when you're talking about putting
your heel onto their necks and grinding it down into
the pavement until you hear the snap of bones. That's
what he wrote. And his answer was something like, well,
you're in the media, and so like you know, I
was like a writing for a different audience or something
like that. So in other words, I was like, well,
you know, I've never written anything like that, I've never
said anything like that. I don't speak like that. So
he obviously thought that this was something that the audience
of MSNBC just lapped up, and so he had to
just keep shoveling it. I thought it was disqualifying. I
don't think you should talk about people like that, especially
if you want their votes and you want to represent them, right,
And he lost because Democrats in western North Carolina they
are very weird. Well I mean there aren't Democrats, but
like they're very weird in the sense that they have
this belief that they in Asheville basically can carry the
entire district, like if they can just get themselves a
good candidate into the general election, that they will win.
But the numbers are not there for them. They would
have to jerrymander a district that would you know, start
in Ashville and kind of snake all the way over
to Boon to get like basically get all the university
towns right all the college towns. You would have to
make this sort of like long squiggly district in order
to get enough Democrats because there are a lot of
registered Democrats still in the mountains. But they vote Republican, okay,
and so they have this in their head that somehow
or another, like they can actually win this congressional seat.
We shall say. But Mo Davis threw was name into
the hat again for this congressional district, the eleventh, and
they had a big district dinner over the weekend, and
they had gotten into some trouble the Democrat Party did,
because they had invited only one of the candidates to speak,
and it wasn't Mo Davis. It was because they got
a primary they're doing, and so they invited Jamie Ager
and not any of the other Democrats. And so Mo
Davis went off on social media as he does, and
you know, started saying all these nasty things about everybody
and all the Democrats and all this, and then apparently
they reworked the lineup and they said, fine, we can
have you you know all speak at this dinner, okay,
and on the merits of the of the beef. He's correct,
by the way, like the Democrat Party says that they
don't they don't, you know, pick winners in the primaries.
They don't do endorsements and all that stuff. But if
you're going to do a big dinner like this, and
you're going to give one candidate the stage like that's
you're pretty well endorsing them at that point, right, So
they have the dinner, But before the dinner, apparently Mo
Davis dropped out. In a grievance laced midnight Facebook post,
Democratic congressional candidate Mo Davis dropped out of the race Saturday,
effectively positioning Fairview farmer Jamie Ager as the party's front
runner to take on Republican Representative Chuck Edwards in the
next year's election. Davis's decision came just hours before he
Ager and three lesser known candidates were to address a
Democratic Party fundraiser marking the unofficial kickoff to the primary campaign.
The NC eleven gala had become entangled in an intra
party feud ignited by Moe Davis, who protested that party
leaders were positioning as the favorite by giving him a
keynote speaking spot at the dinner. And look, there is
a reason why it looks like that. It's because that's
what they were doing, right. Yeah, that's why it looks
like they were positioning him favorably, is because they were
positioning him favorably of course they were. Ager is the
CEO of Hickory Nutgap Farms Historic Farm. He comes from
a long line of politicians like this is a dynasty
in the in the mountains there, and that's what Mo
Davis ran up against and then went off on a
ti rate. So I guess no more Democrat runs from Odavis.
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more transparent. Here's a message from Dave in Shelby who
says Shelby definitely does not claim Mo Davis. That's fair.
That is fair. Also, I got a message here from John.
It's a pete mail. I guess somebody stepped on Mo
Davis's campaign's neck until it's snap. That's nice, nicely done, John. Yes,
so Mo Davis, No Mo Mo. He is out. He said,
I'm grateful to everyone who supported my effort to kick
ass for the working class in western North Carolina. Oh sorry,
I forgot to mention this. Also, not only does he
have like some anger management issues and the violence fetish
thing going on on the social media accounts, but he
curses a lot too. He uses cuss words and stuff.
And he was doing this long before this became a
consultant recommendation among all Democrats. He was kind of he's
kind of a trailblazer here, he said, at the end
of the day, you can't overcome the overwhelming weight of
the party's dynasties who have aligned behind the status quo.
Tonight I concede to John Ager. Uh see what he
did there. John Ager is not actually the candidate that
he's running against. Jamie Ager is. John is Jamie's dad.
John was a longtime state representative, and then Eric ran
for the seat and now holds that state legislative seat
in Raleigh. Eric Ager. So this is what he's accusing.
Mo Davis is accusing the Aeger family of basically operating
as a dynasty, a family dynasty. Here and again, there's
a reason why it looks like that. It's because that
is the case, right, That's absolutely the case, he says.
I can can see to John Aeger, referring to the
patriarch of the Aeger family. He cleared the deck to
pass down his state House seat to his son Eric
in twenty twenty two, and he's doing the same for
his son, Jamie in twenty twenty six. Jamie Aeger is
named after his grandfather, James Jamie Clark, who represented the
region in Congress from nineteen eighty seven to nineteen ninety
one and for a decade before that in the state
General Assembly. So you've got Jamie Clark, then John Aeger,
then Eric Aeger and finally Jamie Aeger. Yeah, that's a
dynasty's that's yeah, that's three generations, right. So Moe Davis
is pointing the party, pointing out the party's dynasties. This
is what he's talking about. He said, political office is
a family heirloom that gets handed down like its granddaddy's
pocket watch. Now, part of the problem from Odavis is him.
He's not a very pleasant person, and so there's not
a lot of tears being shed that he has dropped out.
By the way, I'm reading from the Ashville Watchdog Avlwatchdog
dot org and Beth Hampton Jones, interim chair of the
Democrat Party's District eleven organization, told the watchdog that Davis
had very little support within the party. Quote after losing
in the twenty twenty election and burning bridges within the
party with his aggressive style of blame and name calling,
I'm not sure why he thought that he could build
real support for his campaign without the Democratic base. She
said he had alienated many party workers and voters with
an aggressive campaign style. In the days before this fundraiser.
Over the weekend, Davis took direct and personal swipes at
the state Democrat Party chair Anderson Clayton, as well as
campaign strategist Grayson Barnett. He blamed them for pushing Ager's
candidacy despite the party's rule prohibiting party officers from endorsing
individual candidates before primary elections. And what mode Davis said was, quote,
when the head of the state party publicly supports one
candidate and her senior advisor manages that candidate's campaign, it's
game over. Well now, so Breezy Clayton, that's her Twitter handle,
Anderson Clayton, her senior advisor, is running Agger's campaign. Yeah,
I'd say that's that's a pretty clear indication.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The party leadership's ill disguised search for an alternative to
Moe Davis focused early on Jamie Ager as being a
strong competitor against Chuck Edwards, especially in the rural and
conservative counties that have gone heavily for Donald Trump. In
addition to the family's historic ties to the region. Party
activists contended privately that as a successful farmer and entrepreneur,
Ager could win votes beyond the heavily Democrat Buncom County
and the other progressive pockets scattered across the district sixteen counties.
So they went out and got themselves an actual farmer.
Like this is they so need somebody else they have
been They have been chasing the ghost of Heath Schuler
for twenty years now. Heath Shuler, former quarterback local guy,
went to the NFL right and like he represented the
district in Congress until Mark Meadows won the seat and
then it has not been in Democrats hand since because
the voting patterns changed. But man, they need to find
themselves somebody, and they keep thinking they've got someone and
maybe this guy'll do it. Maybe this will be Heath
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for the past year all of the helpful advice that
the consultant class is giving Democrat candidates so as to
improve their electoral prospects. Okay, some of the things that
have been recommended so far, I'm keeping a list more cussin, right,
you got to curse a lot more. Okay. There was
also the push to grow facial hair. I'm not sure
if that was for men and women, but facial hair
was a plus. It kind of conveys the idea that
first off, your chin may be actually bigger than it is.
Maybe not a double chin either, but mainly it's like
it shows virility. I'm a man, I can grow hair
on my face, right, So there was that. There's also
this there was a rash of videos that were shot
from gym's working out, so you got like Eric Swallwell
bench pressing that sort of thing. So they were obviously
they have been advised like this is how you're going
to get the dudes back to voting for you is
you got to have the facial hair, got to be cursing,
and you got to be lifting weights, which actually did
not turn out to be really good advice for Zorron.
Ma'm Danny the Kami you know jeehati adjacent guy running
for mayor of New York. Apparently over the weekend he
was at some campaign, you know, grip and grin kind
of event, and I don't know why they were like
working out. I think they had a bench press there,
and so he got onto the bench and he tried
to bench press like I don't even know. It looked
like maybe one hundred pounds maybe, and he could not
do it. So like that's the downside. That's why you
got to do that sort of thing in a controlled
environment where you can like take all the weights off
of the bell, off of the bar rather and then
you could just lift the bar and then not show
anybody the weights, you know, that kind of thing, or
just do something that you know you can do, like
maybe just get on the treadmill and just jog a
little bit. Anyway, So there's some other advice now that's
being offered up. This came from Politico and their playbook,
that's what it's called playbook, and they advised in a
new memo there is a center left think tank which
kind of sounds like an oxymoron, but okay, it's called
Third Way and it is circulating a list of forty
five words and phrases that they want Democrats to avoid using,
saying that the terms put up a wall between us
and everyday people of all races, religions, and ethnicities, which
that sentence alone is indicative of your problem. Right, You're like, oh,
these words are putting up a wall between us and
these slubs. Man Like, yeah, you're not seeing yourself as
an everyday person. That's the problem right there. The fact
that anyway, so this is what they have come up with. Okay,
it's a set of words that they suggest people just
don't say. I mean, you can still believe all of
this stuff. You can be, you know, a full fledged
member of the moonbat brigade, but you just can't say
this stuff to the quote everyday people, right, makes democrats
sound like they're extreme, makes them sound divisive, elitist, obfuscatory,
enforcers of wokeness. Yes, right, there is a reason why
that's the way democrats sound, perfectly logical explanation, which is
that that's what they are, and that is why people
do not want to be associated with them. In record,
they are hemorrhaging voters. We covered this story the other day.
Last week, the New York Times had all of the
data and of the thirty states that track or that
allow people to sign up with a political party. Twenty
states do not, but thirty states do, along with the
District of Columbia. And in every single one of those states,
Democrats have lost registration and in every one of those
states Republicans have gained. Like, this is an existential threat
now to the Democrats. This I've said it from the
beginning that the wokeism stuff, this critical theory, this Marxism,
it is a cancer and it is right now eating
the Democrat Party. So what are the words thought? You
never ask among the blacklisted terms? Can you say blacklist?
Is that anyway? Privilege violence as in environmental violence, dialoguing,
which I support that too. That's a terrible word, just
say talking, triggering, othering, microaggression, holding space, body shaming, subverting norms,
systems of oppression. I think I saw them open for
leftover salmon actually back in nineteen ninety nevermind cultural appropriation,
don't say it overton window, existential threat to the climate,
the democracy, the economy, whatever, radical transparency, stakeholders, the unhoused,
food insecurity. I don't think they're going to have any
words left. This is literally all they say. You're basically saying, guys,
everything that you say turns people. So you're going to
have to adopt a completely different language than the one
that you have adopted over the last decade. Housing insecurity,
person who immigrated, you can't say that, Well, they're not
going to say illegal alien. So what are they elect
with birthing person or as I like to call them, women,
cis gender not a thing, dead naming, heteronormative patriarchy, LGBTQI
A plus bipoc. You know what BIPOC is. No, it's
not it's not the it's not the cousin of tupocets.
It's not that black Indigenous people of color b I POC.
Don't say allyeship, don't say incarcerated people or involuntary confinement,
he said. The think tank says, we are doing our
best to get Democrats to talk like normal people. Which
that's the problem. You don't talk like normal people because
you're not normal people. This is not like the language
is not some it's not some affectation. Right, these are things.
But you guys adopted these words because you are in
on the ideology. Changing your words is not going to
change the ideology. You are locked in the tendency for
interpersonal victim and mindset. This tiv mindset. We think this
is Matt Bennett uh from the Third Way. He says,
we think language is one of the central problems we
face with normy voters, signaling that we are out of
touch with how they live, think and talk. Once again,
it's always the messaging with the Democrats, like, it's never
the policies. They never believe that the stuff that they
are talking about is the problem. They always think it's like, oh,
our message just hasn't broken through. We haven't figured out
the right slogan to sell this to you on Always
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better returns. So again to recap more cussing. Democrats want
to win. They got to get the young dudes back.
So the way they think they're going to do this,
according to the various stories and the reporting over the
last few months, it's more cussing, lift weights, grow facial hair. Also,
you can get yourself arrested, maybe get shot even that
was one suggestion from a focus group that was done.
I mean get shot by ice while you're protesting an
ice facility. Okay, so something like that, or just get
arrested at an ice facility. Right, and now this from
Third Way, essentially their recommendation is just stop talking, just
stop talking. They have this list of words that Without
these words, I don't know if Democrats are actually even
able to have a conversation. Literally, Yeah, hang on a second.
I had a message here from the Hellion on Twitter
who says, so basically, throw out their entire vocabulary they've
been using for twenty years, right exactly, They're about to
out consult themselves. Yeah. I don't like The root of
this is the ideas that you are promoting. People don't
like them. They don't like them, and then you try
to shame them and guilt them or lie about what
it is you're trying to get done and what is
their reaction. It's the same every time. You just don't
understand what I am saying. This is a good policy,
this is a good idea. I want to go in
this direction. And the only reason that you would disagree
with me is not because you disagree that the policy
or idea or direction is bad. No, it's because I
haven't articulated the proper formation of a sentence to convince
you why it's a good thing. Mark, Sorry, Matt Bennett,
I read the quote a minute ago. We think language
is one of the central problems we face with normy voters.
In other words, normal people. It's not the language you're using,
it's the ideology that leads you to develop this kakamami
language in the first place. You created these words for
a reason. You do it to gain power to hide
the ball. Lenay Ericsson, the senior vice president at Third Way,
said the Democrat party brand is toxic across the country
at this point, with way too many people, enough that
there's no way for us to win a governing majority
without changing that, which sounds pretty bad for them, that
sense that the party brand is so toxic with too
many people, there's no way to win a governing majority.
She says. We were sticking to messages that were so
overly scripted that they basically sounded like nothing. Yeah, that
was the problem. You were too scripted. Right, It's not
that you're paralyzed by fear of offending one of your
coalition groups. Right, how about this what's a woman? Simple question?
You guys couldn't answer it, And it wasn't due to
the scripting. It was because you didn't want to say
there were two sexes, because you didn't want to offend
and anger a part of your moonback brigade base. So
Politico asks, can Democrats really talk their way back to power. Uh,
probably not. Let me jump over and get Tara on. Hello, Tara,
welcome to the program.
Speaker 2: Hey, pee to see you, hear you at this time.
Speaker 1: It's a flashback for me. I used to do afternoons,
so it's kind of reliving the old glories there.
Speaker 2: No, I remember, I've followed you a long time. I
knew you when you were very heavy.
Speaker 1: Oh well that wasn't that long. It's been about four
years though. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But I'm wondering do the Democrats believe themselves?
Speaker 1: Are they just with regard to with regard to this,
like the messaging versus the the ideology.
Speaker 3: I think they're I think they're getting the the paperwork
every day this say this it is and don't veer
from that, and if you don't believe it, screw you.
Speaker 2: We're gonna keep going here. I don't think they believe
in themselves.
Speaker 1: Well, they think. I do believe that they honestly think
that it is just messaging, that it's not the policies.
And so because they everybody keeps saying the same thing, No,
it's there, diluted, they are deluted because they think right, well,
they think that they are and you've got rank and
file people, you got consultants and all of this, and
so it's this way that they just remember, like the
whole point of this kind of analysis is to figure
out a way to get back into power. And they
believe that they are the good people and their ideas
are good, so they deserve to be in power, right,
And so the only reason why anybody would go against
us is if they're being misled or they just don't
unders stand what we are saying. But they're also kind
of cowards and that they won't push back against the
radical elements in their party, and those are the elements
that drive these types of language changes.
Speaker 2: Well, I agree with that, but I also think that
they are having themselves on the back like they do
with their Emmys and granted, like they give themselves awards
and they're like yeah.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, well I got this.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, because yeah, it allows them to not have to
change any of their ideology, any of their ideas, not
have to think well that too, I mean that was
never really on board on the board for them. So Tarah,
good to hear from you. I appreciate the call. Got
to run all right, thank you, Tarah. Yeah, I think
you know so much of this is it's grievance and
if you just tell yourself that you're not breaking through
with your message, then that's not your fault and you
don't have to change any of your policies. You just
have to hire more consultants. So say the consultants. There
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