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❝But even after we crush it on November 3rd, we have to be vigilant because I could see some Michigas with Johnson and I could see some assaults on truth, trust, and the rule of law that will make all the rest of this look like it was a spring training.
Misinformation spread❝Donald Trump admitted that he was the one who ordered the DOJ to file a completely frivolous lawsuit to block the certification of the Alaska Senate vote before the vote even takes place.
Election integrity❝And we've got to send that message to the rest of the globe...that we are not the American, this country, it's not over, that we're just beginning, that we're resilient, that we'll be in a process of renewal, that all of us are going to be repairs of the breach, that the best is yet to come, and that the status quo that we all have contempt for does not need to continue after November 3rd. We collectively, we, all of us together, can end Donald Trump's presidency as we know it. And let's prove that point.
Democratic institutions❝And I think that vignette that you're recounting, Sean, typifies what's wrong with our politics right now. You don't see anyone reaching across the aisle. You don't see bipartisanship. You don't see people trying to build for the future. You see people playing to the social media mobs in order to increase their likes and maybe fundraising. And that's the nihilism that has taken over American politics.
Political polarization❝None of the ideas of postmodern liberalism ever produce outcomes, and that's why the left has got to dig in deeper and deeper and make alliances with Islamic radicals that coddle, that fetishize, and DSA types that coddle, fetishize, align themselves with the Nazis of the Middle East and with people who want to tear down the economy.
Political polarization❝But you can’t give up your hate like most liberals hate Donald Trump. You’ve got Hannity derangement syndrome.
Political polarization❝His policies will raise the cost of every gallon of gasoline, number one, raise your utility rates, cause you $20,000 for a Medicare for all plan that takes away private insurance from individuals. It is a disaster.
Consumer protection❝You know, when I go through this radicalized DSA agenda, you know, what do they want to do? They want, as part of it, this, you know, public ownership of most corporations.
Corporate accountability❝I'm calling it the single most important midterm election in our lifetime. And I believe that.
Democratic institutions❝And Kamala Harris, we’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop, and we’re not going to stop supporting them.
Democratic institutions❝So, I think that ideally politicians would start being honest about what is causing this problem.
Political polarization❝But I think that the starting point here is that Republicans are going to have to level with voters, and it would be helpful, to put it mildly, if we aren't pretending that an enormous tax increase on labor in the form of this payroll tax expansion for Social Security should be the starting point for some kind of reform here.
Tax reform❝Here's Justice Kagan speaking at an event this week at Catholic University Law School in Washington, D.C. I think in the gerrymandering case, the court... has kind of blinded itself to the very deleterious effects of their rulings on how the political system works and has created a democracy that does not work as well as it should.
Democratic institutions❝Next year's proposed national budget slashes 43 billion euros from the country's spending. The reason these massive cuts are needed is because the country's debt is ballooning out of control.
Tax reform❝He said that for a big portion of France's debt, they should just basically, quote, throw it in the fire.
Tax reform❝And for their efforts, they were, you know, tossed out of office in no confidence votes by a political opposition that's really, really fragmented.
Democratic institutions❝I think people need to come to terms with the fact that Zionism is the new Nazism.
Political polarization❝The problem is when you're a net negative favorability rating and the person you're running against is winning in the polls and beating you and how people think about them, the only option you have to win, and this is cynical, but it's the reality in politics, is to try to drag the other person down into the gutter with you and make them less liked than even you are.
Political polarization❝Then you have this game of polling, you know, fake polls. It's just like all that disinformation and misinformation. A couple cycles ago, we had the polling environment flooded with partisan polls, mostly Republican-leaning polls, because they wanted to affect the averages.
Misinformation spread❝The problem for the White House and for Trump is when he says things like, vote like I'm on the ballot. You know, he's not technically on the ballot, but when you're saying that to people, that's making the election about him.
Democratic institutions❝I'm sorry, but if you look at images of children in sex acts, you're a child abuser. You're a child sexual abuser, a child sexual abuse pervert.
Criminal justice❝Just also letting you know we've got new evidence today that Ilan Omar has committed immigration fraud. Now Trump is raising a serious question about whether she needs to be kicked out of Congress immediately because at a minimum, it appears she's been using a fake name.
Democratic institutions❝The president has the most effective endorsement in American or international political history. I endorse American candidates, and that's where I'm focused on is the midterm.
Democratic institutions❝But the actual Elon Musk is maybe one of the most important and powerful far-right political organizers and donors in the world.
Political polarization❝So the classic cargo cult, right, is that in these Polynesian islands in World War II, there would be these American supply planes dropping supplies, and the supplies would come and the people would be happy about it. And then once the war was over and the planes weren't flying anymore, the people on these islands would develop these rituals, basically trying to summon the cargo again.
Misinformation spread❝Like, if we can get further confirmation of this charge, then certainly this is the most significant bribery scandal in American history.
Democratic institutions❝Like predators see Trump or they see the reaction to like the Cornell case or whatever, and they feel spoken to and represented when he defends people accused of horrible, horrible crimes.
Political polarization❝But when you have the double whammy of your life has been made much, much, much, much more difficult thanks to the very direct decisions that were made by the president, and him and his entire criminal family and all of the hangers-on around him are just on the take and cashing in in every way they possibly can and then obsessing with things like a gilded ballroom versus I don't know how you're going to be able to afford to put gas in your tank, it becomes pretty galling to people.
Wealth gap❝If you are a white woman that is not a useful object avatar mascot that provides license for racialized hierarchy and protects capital, you will be treated like Amy Acton.
Racial justice❝American taxpayers literally pay for Israeli settlers to murder Christians and Americans and attack them.
Foreign policy❝But in matter of fact, what unites them is their shared hatred for our civilization. That's a powerful force.
Political polarization❝And it creates ready-foot soldiers for anarchy, for unrest, and people who are responsive to the message that European civilization represents a colonial institution, colonial apparatus, and it needs to be burned to the ground.
Cultural identity❝Let's read this: FBI Cyber Division: two critical vulnerabilities have been identified in PHP, a widely used programming language that powers websites and web applications. These vulnerabilities, blah, blah, blah, could allow malicious cyber actors to remotely execute code in PHP core, potentially compromising sensitive data and networks.
National security❝You can't entertain Americans when you actually hate the average American, their values, their belief systems, you know, the country that they love.
Political polarization❝So, when you say that you're all outraged about the dirtiness of politics, about the ugliness of power, you're so full of crap. You are so full of crap, it's coming at your eyeballs.
Political polarization❝The treatment of mental illness, the treatment of involuntary commitment in this country is wildly, I think, incorrect. I think that we have to take a very serious look.
Mental health❝$100, he’ll get you a signed photo. $1,000 gets a meet-and-greet. And for $100,000, she’ll marry you.
Political polarization❝Back in America, Trump, MAGA, and Fox drove them nuts. Then social media convinced them that Europe would cure their anxiety because that's where people were brilliant, sophisticated, and modest, just like them. But it turns out the same problems they thought they'd left behind had followed them like a wet fart trails Jerry Nadler.
Misinformation spread❝So, yesterday, when asked if she married her brother, Ilhan Omar responded, not to my knowledge. But I get it. You know, maybe he married her by accident. After all, this is what you wore on their first date. Could happen to anyone.
Misinformation spread❝I mean, again, the truth is the current president of the United States is actively trying to sabotage another American election.
Election integrity❝So that was since the 1990s that social movements, so the human rights movements, the students, labor unions, critical journalists and lawyers have been mobilizing against what we call the semi-authoritarian regime of Blair's Comparé against impunity, corruption, social inequality. And it was these two decades of mobilization that actually led to the popular uprising of October 14.
National security❝This is not that they, in general, want the military in power, but they see the military coup as an option, as the last means to, let’s say, reset democracy when elected leaders abuse their power.
Democratic institutions❝Well an important point actually for me is that the reference to Sankara is used as a source of legitimacy for Traore and had given rise like some sort of personality cult that I feel is not very helpful as it rather doesn't promote but rather hinders a debate on political strategies and visions, which is something that I think we urgently need.
Democratic institutions❝And if America became 95% Indian, it wouldn't be America anymore, right? This would be gone.
Cultural identity❝I'm very excited about this race because a Democrat has it, has had it for about 10 years, but shouldn't.
Democratic institutions❝It has become very confusing to see why we as pro-lifers who believe that abortion is murder, who understand what a heinous thing it is and what a horrible thing it is for mothers who do it, how much grief, guilt they suffer, why we wouldn’t want to give that child justice. And it is a compassion that has gone too far.
Reproductive rights❝Well, that means that you don't actually consider the child in the womb at the same level that you would consider a newborn or a toddler. Because if thousands of toddlers were being slaughtered every day by their mothers, predominantly, you would not feel, well, let’s take another 10 years and educate the culture before we try to legally stop it. No one would say that. No one would think that.
Reproductive rights❝Legislators will pass what the people that support them tell them to pass. And so because the pro-life organizations have allowed them to pass lesser bills, that's what they're going to do. They're always going to take the path of least resistance.
Reproductive rights❝Well, you know, some people asked me to do it in 2022, late 2022. So this would have been well before he hitched his wagon to Trump. And at the time, I had sort of mixed feelings about him.
Political polarization❝So it's hard for nurses, you know, first responders, plumbers to kind of understand how that works, like how you fail and you get massively rewarded. And so, in a way, it was kind of setting a context for some of what was to come, which was how Elon then kept playing with that economic model in ways that made him the richest person on the planet.
Wealth gap❝They flew through Syria and Iraq and turned around just as they were about to enter Iranian airspace.
Foreign policy❝Nevertheless, it's still important, I think, that these incidents do get attention as long as people keep in mind that this is something that Palestinians who live there face on pretty much a daily basis.
Foreign policy❝Trump told reporters on Monday that he would be thrilled to have this session, but he wants to talk about denuclearization more than he wants to talk about Ukraine.
Foreign policy❝And Jerry Green, when you go down her list of things that she supports, abolishing ICE, opening our borders, defunding the police, boys and girls' sports. I mean, the list goes on and on and on. And you really do have to wonder exactly who Jerry Green really is.
Political polarization❝Elon Musk has done, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say Elon Musk has done more for the city of Memphis over the past two years than Justin Pearson and all these, what is it, the Defecate Memphis crowd, all those folks have done in the history of their organizations. No doubt about it.
Political polarization❝I got 2016 wrong. I believed in the exit polls. Trump voters walked away, refused to participate because they thought that it was against them.
Election integrity❝I believe we're about to do the same thing again. Only this time, the frontier isn't the West, it's space.
Infrastructure investment❝On July 4th, 2076, I believe the 300th birthday of the Declaration of Independence will be celebrated across the solar system, from Earth to hotels in orbit to settlements on the moon and Mars. Thomas Jefferson once spoke of Empire of Liberty. In 2076, it may stretch farther than he ever dreamed.
Cultural identity❝In this book, I propose something I call a Space Tax-Free Profits Act. No taxes on profits made in space for 40 years.
Tax reform❝So, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is one of the crown jewels of the civil rights movement… And over the last 60 years or so, you can see how that has completely transformed the ability of black voters across the South to participate in the political process.
Voting rights❝Over the last few years, there are people, predominantly conservatives, in the South, who feel that the parameters of the Voting Rights Act were too restrictive. That was necessary in the 1960s. It's not necessary today.
Voting rights❝But I say to you all, the Supreme Court did not order Mississippi to draw any new maps. Not one single line.
Judicial independence❝Apparently, the WNBA still can't define what a woman is, but they're absolutely certain they know what a man is. How convenient.
Cultural identity❝During that conversation, Lucas allegedly declaring, This is our last chance at generational wealth. I've got too old to not be greedy.
Wealth gap❝We have a little conflict against Iran, but we're doing very well militarily and financially against Iran...I think we're not negotiating with them. We are going to have something one way or the other that'll happen fairly soon.
Foreign policy❝The number one thing that people say to indicate that they're still appreciative of what Donald Trump is doing is that he has made it clear that there are two genders, that he is keeping biological men out of women's sports. They sort of are still deeply into a lot of the cultural fights, the places where they think that Democrats are weird or overly woke.
Cultural identity❝No, what gets Donald Trump out of bed in the morning is Donald Trump's interests in enriching himself.
Wealth gap❝This is like the easiest question in politics right now, which is Donald Trump made some very specific choices, and they were his choices. And everyone knows they were his choices.
Democratic institutions❝It’s really a matter of good versus evil. It’s a matter of decent versus cruel. It’s a matter of honest versus corrupt.
Political polarization❝He doesn't stand for anything. He's a disgusting creature that only wants to move forward his own agenda, no matter what trail of violence and destruction he kind of leaves behind him.
Political polarization❝After a bizarre and deranged trip yesterday in South Carolina, Donald Trump is in Iowa today, where I'm sure he'll be talking about men's asses. He’ll be making a bunch of weird noises.
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