Hear what the other side is actually saying.

❝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.

❝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.

❝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.

❝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.

❝No, what gets Donald Trump out of bed in the morning is Donald Trump's interests in enriching himself.

❝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.

❝According to the Justice Department, the case against Alphazon is about, quote, safeguarding our nation's economic strength and national security.

❝I talked to an ex-FBI official and they said, you know, it was actually a pretty impressive example of a private industry company and, you know, the public sector with the FBI working together to do something like this pretty quickly.

❝And, you know, one of the texts they had in the last year said something along the lines of: Saudi needs you more than the U.S.

❝If this tactic works, we're going to regret this collectively as a society, as campaign policy... And when you're exploiting childhood trauma to win an election, that is the low of lows.

❝Look, Donald Trump cares about Donald Trump. And Donald Trump's success can come at the expense of anybody, as long as it comes with Donald Trump's success.

❝But as for what you're talking about, look, it will be a revote of some sort... If Democrats win the Senate this year, do you think eliminating the filibuster is inevitable?

❝I worried whether either party really believes in competition when competition threatens their own supporters. And does anybody want a more functional capitalism or do they all just want government to protect their preferred winners?

❝No, I would say the opposite is if you know that the supply is not very elastic, so it doesn't respond very much on prices, as it is the case if you cannot build, giving subsidy to demand will only increase prices. So that is the terrible idea to subsidize demand.

❝We are, in my view, in a phase of what Gramsci called interregnum, when the old models are dead and the new models have not been born yet.

❝I had an easy opportunity to jump out of the vehicle and save my life. And I super vividly remember thinking, I could never live with myself if I jumped out of this vehicle and they killed my friend Ken. So, you know, we'll come back to that in a minute.

❝It's not an accident. I traced it back to that specific episode that we released on Christmas.

❝And you can go in there and kill the avatars of the kids that were killed in Sandy Hook, Uvdalvey. And they actually put their names above the victims. And they were using SIG firearms.

❝I've never covered one in which so many people feel like this election is the most important, the most fateful, the most consequential election in their country's history.

❝The biggest thing of all, I think, is accountability and responsibility. That's both something that Israelis crave, and it's an implicit rebuke and criticism of Netanyahu.

❝You know, our coalition was on the verge of passing a real meaningful draft law, re-elect us, and we'll do that. But the criticism here is that it's just going to keep going because Netanyahu needs the ultra-Orthodox to preserve his hold on power.

❝He's also an informal ag advisor to Iowa GOP Senate nominee Ashley Hinson. And he told me, Most of the farm country out here is definitely Republican, but I don't think it's going to be for a whole lot longer if it doesn't change.

❝And across the board, everyone that I talk to that is frustrated with Washington right now, and particularly with President Trump and this administration, all the issues that are constantly showing up at the polls, inflation, cost of living, healthcare, whatever, it goes back to broken promises or promises made and not kept across the board. And that's, you know, that's something that both parties have been guilty of.

❝DeLuzio told Politico, quote, If I'm going to do it, I'm doing it to win, and I'm going to win.

❝These elections are about October 7th. They could not be on any other issue. October 7th, whether you support Netanyahu or whether you oppose Netanyahu, October 7th influenced almost personally, almost every Israeli, not to mention every Palestinian in Gaza, not to mention millions of people in the Middle East and million others around the world.

❝But now, Eisencott is running with the mission, and I heard it from him personally. He sees his mission as taking down the government that is responsible for the failure of October 7th. And those are the two heroes of this story.

❝He told the people of Dearborn, vote for me, I will end the war in Gaza.

❝But I just think, you know, it's important to realize that I said Donald Trump was the symptom, not the disease. And now we've lived through another eight years of this. I think people are realizing that we really do need to address the disease.

❝He doesn't try to be the nice guy who, you know, you want to bring back to your house. He’s be your friend. And that's the way he is, and he’s not really making that much effort to change himself.

❝What it would say to me is, again, I'm repeating myself: the public is so desperate for change, they hate the two-party system so badly that they'll do some things that seem to be irrational to people like you and I who are rooted in another century and think like establishment thinkers.

❝And so when I saw that story, I was like, this story is horseshit. And I knew it immediately because I'd literally seen the dude 36 hours before in question.

❝I have thought for months that the problem is going to be OpenAI not being able to go public because then there's a lot of money locked up in there and that they expected to be able to get it out. And if they're not able to get it out, then I think there are very, very significant problems. I think that you are going to look at a discussion of do you nationalize OpenAI?

❝It's going to be a great night for the Dems and anti-incumbents.

❝And there's like, yeah, there's like lines leading from one shape to another shape. And yes, it seems like nonsense, but like according to these human design people, this chart, personalized to you, is the key to really understanding what you should be doing. And these little symbols that are in the columns next to the numbers, are those the different astrological signs? Yes, those, yeah, those represent the planets. Okay, got it.

❝Oh, well, if it were included in my fucking health insurance, maybe that would warm my cockles. It's true. Yes, the practice is better, but dentists are, by and large, scammers. They're like, like, they're fucking, they're worse than like, you know, independent, like back alley kind of like auto garages in terms of how they can gouge you.

❝We're going to finally find out whether like gay people are born that way or not. Our chart says that you were only you only started being gay when you were 16. You're not a real gay. Speaking of gay, why don't you read your next line, Travis?

❝Totally toxic.

❝I was horrified, but I wasn't surprised because it's been clear to me from the very outset that President Trump has been on Russia's side and has been actually doing what he can to harm Ukraine.

❝And one thing is very clear: the Chinese are definitely a force that the Saudis, a power that the Saudis will never strike a strategic alliance with, because the Chinese have decided that in this war, they privilege weakening the United States over the interests of the Arab states...

❝More than a trillion chips are made every year, more than 150 for every person on Earth. And they run everything from our phones and cars to our missiles and the artificial intelligence revolution.

❝We all know that Taiwan is a strong pawn in the geopolitical battle between US and China.

❝What worries me is the high capital costs in this race because chips have gotten so expensive, because AI has gotten so expensive, there's the capital-to-revenue ratio for some of these chip companies and some of these AI companies is just so high that what I worry is that what if this bubble bursts?

❝Why can't we solve problems? And I think a lot of people, and especially when you're talking about red states, that's what they want to hear. That is the antidote to Trump is not more anger in the other direction. It's everyone calm down. We're going to solve some problems together.

❝I've been telling people for a while that, you know, if it turns out that Rob Sand is, you know, having an affair and, you know, kind of a sleaze bag, then I'm quitting this job because he is so convincing in his authenticity, perhaps more than anyone I've ever dealt with on the trail.

❝And this week, we're going to take a look around some of the red states looking where Democrats maybe, just maybe could pull off some upsets. And one of those states is Iowa, which has been one of my obsessions this cycle. We're going to unpack why two Democratic candidates are vastly outperforming Kamala Harris's 2024 performance in the state.

❝But since Labor Day, we saw a surge in the polls for Democrats, which I attribute to two things solidly and one thing speculatively.

❝You know, I think the thing we have mentioned yet, you know, the decision to go to Iran, it's not inexplicable in a literal sense, right? Like fucking like Pete Hegseth is Secretary of Defense or Secretary of War, right?

❝You get talked into going to war with Iran, you get talked into, like, I think he's terrified that if the AI capex boom collapsed, that would stop.

❝And I don't see any scenario where it slows. And in fact, every scenario that I can think of, it intensifies and it has a dramatic effect, even if in the moment it doesn't feel that dramatic. And it's going to hit at such a velocity and it's going to hit at a time where I don't think we're at our very best. We don't have kind of the best and brightest rising into positions of power across business, across media, across government to be able to manage what could be up there with not the Great Depression in terms of poverty or the revolution or civil war in terms of bloodshed, but in terms of the effect it could have on society, I think it could be that dramatic. And it's going to hit when our politics just feel so fragile, right?

❝Like, you can't solve AI, you can't steer AI, you can't protect against a biological threat or a chemical threat, you can't combat a cyber attack if you don't actually have people who are highly, highly competent, who have deep experience and have studied these topics and really understand how to be able to respond to those. And I think, in all likelihood, it might take a national emergency for a real resurgence of this.

❝And I think all of this stuff is going to test us and we've forgotten. Like, we're our generation missed it. We haven't, other than 9/11, maybe the end of the Cold War, and being told to duck under our seat for a nuclear fallout. Like, we've not had that.

❝I don't think the United States is a loser, and a losing mindset makes no sense to me.

❝And not only doing well according to the greater, but proactively reasoning and making aggressive moves towards cheating and fooling and even sabotaging this larger grading process.

❝I'm very scared of a public pause where the AI companies continue making AI progress and continue doing it at whatever lack of operational excellence they're doing it at currently. That would be the worst of all possible worlds.

❝You know, my friend Nate Cohn, who runs the New York Times polls, had this statistic in one of his articles that for Tallarico or Gina Nosa, the governor candidate, to run even with Republicans, they needed to do as well as Hillary Clinton did with Hispanic voters and Kamala Harris did with white voters in Texas.

❝I know that the stakes kind of seem self-evident, like if there's a blue wave, as many forecasters expect, then the next two years of the Trump presidency will presumably look quite different.

❝I would be super surprised if Trump is impeached.

❝The decision by the President of the United States and Republicans in Texas to get behind Ken Paxton as their nominee is the single dumbest mistake Republicans have made in this election among a number of them.

❝But anyone who does any kind of investigation, and you don't necessarily have to go to her website, this stuff travels through voting communities through word of mouth, is going to know that when she says, I support the Second Amendment, that there's an enormous caveat there and that actually she wants to ban entire categories of guns.

❝According to that, by this point, already some $225 million has been spent in independent expenditures on Ken Paxton's bid, which is just a stunning amount of money.

❝Like, it just shows you the mismanagement of television that sitcoms were allowed to go away. It doesn't make sense to me.

❝I mean, it's one of the weirdest times in all of culture. If you take the difference in the culture of the 1950s to the culture of the late 1960s, it's like just an insane shift.

❝The real solution, you know, I'm going to say it and then regret it, but the real solution is a spiritual solution. You have to find something beyond this world.

❝Look, the only thing I'm going to support a solid Republican candidate. Marco's a friend of mine. I can't judge JD because I barely know him. But I'll tell you, Marco Rubio is a great guy, a man of integrity.

❝I'm worried about these few people in the world who are always telling me and us how things are going to be in the future. Mark Zuckerberg, we're all going to be wearing these fucking gloves. No, we're not. And we're all going to be, remember when he was all about, we're all going to be living in this virtual world.

❝I don't get it going to Mars. Like, how bad would we have to rat fuck this planet before it was better than living in a place that has no air, it's 200 degrees below zero? It's just an insanity that we wouldn't put the effort into saving the one place that is the Goldilocks planet.

❝They are an anathema to what we believe as a country and what we stand for. But you have a party that's desperate for power, giving them the pathway in.

❝Christian nationalism is not about Christ. It's not even about Christianity. It is a means to a particular end. And that particular end is about the nation state controlling and having direct say in the things that you do and how you believe.

❝I'm informed by the teachings of Christ. And what is the one thing that Christ taught above all else? Love thy neighbor.

❝He goes, oh, well, you know, back here, we'd get in a lot of trouble. Out there, it's fair game, but it's business back here.

❝You have to love it. You have to love it. You have to love it and want it and not think about the grind to it all.

❝And again, those moments, when they come along, you can't be the one to say that was one of those moments. The world has to tell you that was one of those moments.

❝And that's what I sort of constantly try to be a better person, set a better example for people, be a better leader, help people create value for themselves, show people that you care about them. I mean, all those things are really, really important to me because my goal as a coach was always, how can I help these guys have a better chance to be more successful in life?

❝Consistency, success is consistency in performance. And that's what I wanted our players to think.

❝But when I retired, and I don't know if I ever share this with anybody, I spent 50 years of my life being in a hurry and didn't know it.

❝We talked about that you start believing your own bullshit, right? Like that's one where you're just sort of thinking everything that we're doing is so new.

❝I mean, just to note from the top, when we think about traps that one might fall into, the biggest trap is that you can convince yourself you're doing meaningful, impactful work out in the world, and you have powerful incentives to convince yourself when you're not. And so what does it then mean to build in systems of accountability at the same time you're trying to think imaginatively and capaciously about new ventures?

❝That's just not in any way the world we live in. That the idea that our institutions are reasonably stable and well-functioning is itself problematic.

❝Because what happens now is a politician who is aligned with their voters may be presented with an opportunity for immigration reform or healthcare reform or something that we would all agree was good, and they may bury it. And they may bury it precisely because they don’t want voters to learn that that was possible, because they want to keep voters pessimistic about the overall policy environment and believing, no, no, it really all is about partisan politics, so I better keep voting for the person who’s on my side.

❝And one definition of populism that the profession has adopted recently is this idea of a politician is populist if they run on a platform of us against them. And what the data also shows is that these kind of platforms tend to be successful.

❝But political scientists also get super worked up, like really, really engaged, but also a little bit upset when I presented it because they say, obviously, there are no common interest policies. Have you ever seen a common interest policy? Have you ever seen anything done in Congress? And I thought this was very telling.

❝And in some ways, Maloney in herself and her party represents what I think are the two post-Trump possibilities for the GOP, which is that the best possibility is what Maloney is now, which is somebody that does nationalist cultural war issues at home, because I just think that's baked in, but does not do Trump's crazyness abroad, like closing up to dictators and creating wars with Canada, right?

❝And I think that even if you don't watch CNN or MS Now or read Politico and you don't care about these journalists that are being affected by this ban, you actually should care as an American because this is an attack on the free press.

❝I got a great email, an uplifting email this morning from a listener, Nicole Bassett, who said that, in part because of some rants that I've done on this show, she decided to jump into an R plus 19 state Senate district in Oregon.

❝But also, I just think that if we say we’re doomed, if we say America’s lost, it will be. Like, we’re giving up. And I, whether because I have the enthusiasm of a lesbian softball coach and want to come on, guys, whatever it is, I just, I don’t want to be lost. I think there’s a way out of this.

❝I wrote the book because I think we're on the precipice of a generational opportunity in politics. I think to the extent that we've spent the last 10 years or more by the time Trump is gone, you know, living in this whole new world. And people are kind of, they feel like there's no way out of it. And I think that's wrong. I think there absolutely is a way out of it.

❝Yeah, well, I'm just going to say quickly as a setup matter: what Republicans are doing wrong is trying to destroy American democracy. And what Democrats are trying to do right is protect American democracy, however.

❝I thought to myself, this is a burglary? Burglars don't usually pick a place by condos from the street. They want to get away. They pick something next to the street. They don't want to be seen.

❝Sherry's face is so badly injured that John does not notice the three gunshot wounds in her chest or the bite mark on her arm. He calls 911. Then John takes a hand towel and covers his wife's face.

❝He made it to John on tape that first night. We're going to catch these persons or this person, Karen. You got to have a little faith in me. We're very successful at what we do. Very, very successful.

❝They had the audacity to claim. And they like their butthole. The audacity.

❝I'm a whore for fans. I mean, I don't fuck them. You, but anyway, go ahead.

❝And if you touch it, you're cursed. And friggin' Post Malone. Oh, the Dybbuk box. Yeah.

❝Last thing for you, Steve, with the politics, she was amazing at really just avoiding all of it. She never went down the road of politics. It wasn't something that she wanted to define her as someone who obviously is in that arena for a living.

❝And when you make half the country angry, there goes half your revenue. And her mother was a Democrat, and her father was a Republican.

❝She was kind and she was smart and she was real funny and a little baudy. She was constantly making jokes about herself. She took her business seriously, but she didn't take herself very seriously at times. And she was just a delight.

❝And the Koreans actually adopted Christianity as a reflection of their own indigenous nationalism, right? And that's something that I think is pretty rare. And so the Koreans adopted Christianity in part because they saw it as a vehicle for their own aspirations.

❝He effectively acknowledges the degree to which he kind of has to play act as Messiah because many of the Koreans here are beaten down, they're battered. The Japanese are looking unstoppable.

❝But Pyongyang was so Christian back in the first half of the 20th century. It was known as the 'Jerusalem of the East'. It was so Christian. It was the city where Billy Graham's wife, Ruth Bell Graham, went to high school in the 1930s.

❝Bottom line, posting fake jobs while real people drain their savings is a scam.

❝Prokopiak put it simply, When people are putting the time and effort into applying, there's a reasonable expectation that there is a job out there.

❝We're less than 75 days from the midterm elections. Democrats are desperate to flip the House and Senate.

❝Until then, I leave you with a creed of every good spy and every wise American. They're the words from the Gospel of John, chapter 8, verse 32. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Good day.

❝Even if you're taking two cents out of my pocket to do it, you're taking from me. I oppose that on a matter of freedom.

❝America, we got to get back to doing what's expected of us as free citizens in this democracy. That means being tolerant, being respectful, staying informed, and being engaged.

❝If someone is hungry, you're going to pay for it one way or another. What I'm offering is an opportunity to pay for it where we get ahead of the suffering, and it's cheaper because they eventually contribute.

❝Shame is you telling yourself that you’re not worthy, that you’re never going to be worthy, that the things that you’ve done, you can never be redeemed from.

❝And it was kind of the most refreshing interview that I had seen in politics in a very long time because we’re so used to being gaslit about various things happening.

❝I am opposed to unleashing an actual lunatic who has had to be baker acted and put on site 5150 holds by her own parents who fear her. I’m opposed to that actually being unleashed upon the population.

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❝Essentially, we're navigating homelessness prevention without a map. So this bill shines light on the eviction process by using eviction data from the courts.

❝As someone who responds to fire, the best time to prepare is right now.

❝He was wrongfully convicted at age 16, spent the next 19 years in prison before new evidence demonstrated his conviction was based on false evidence and unreliable identification, leading to the dismissal of all charges.

❝The lawsuit alleges investigators found transactions that included payments to hotels in London and roughly $150,000 in cash transfers to the Cooks and their family members.

❝At least 90,000 lead pipes will remain in the ground, and all the momentum we've built, all the trained workers, all the local contractors, and all the established partnerships evaporates.

❝But I think that Dale Carnegie was really able to tap into something that a lot of people weren't thinking about at the time, almost like a social science about understanding our reactions and how to create lasting, valuable interactions.

❝Because, again, there is no way the state of California is going to elect a pro-Donald Trump governor. It’s just not happening.

❝And we’re finally getting to the point of the race where they need to attack one another. And so that spiced things up a bit and led to some lively exchanges. I think voters that are still looking for information or trying to understand who these candidates really are, you know, got a lot of input last night. They got to see a lot of all the candidates and hopefully helps them with some takeaways now that they have ballots in hand and voting is underway.

❝When you embarrass yourself, the only thing to do is own it, admit it, and laugh about it. Otherwise, you look like a big fat loser.

❝She goes, I'm turning over a new leaf. I don't know if the hoodie will be with her, but she's turning over a new leaf and they want us to be their guides as they take their first step into the world of camping and the outdoors.

❝Okay, my wing in it is, let's face it, it's not an easy time to be a person. Let's just put it in the bottom. The world is burning, friend.

❝And we later learned that more than half of those folks were scammers.

❝So, I mean, after a disaster, people need to be aware that scammers, unfortunately, are going to insert themselves into these situations. They know that people are vulnerable. They're recovering their lives, and there's a lot of money flowing around, whether it's money from the government to help people recover, or whether it's coming from nonprofit organizations and charities.

❝So, scammers will come around and knock on your door saying, if you act right now, we can get your home fixed up. We need a deposit, however, so give us $2,000 and we’ll get you on our list. But then, once they have the hands on the money, they disappear.

❝Everybody talks about it being an affordability crisis. What we have is an availability crisis. We’ve seen housing prices more than double since 2019 when rent caps were established.

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❝This came out Sunday titled, Don't Count Me Out. So this guy wants to play.

❝Nina, this was a true Colorado avalanche. The Minnesota Wild were buried by a flurry of goals. So game one of the second round Stanley Cup playoff series was really video game hockey as Colorado won it over Minnesota 9-6.

❝The 3M Open announced that world number one, Scotty Scheffler, has committed to play in the 2026 3M Open. That tournament takes place July 20th through July 26th at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, northern suburbs. Scheffler is the reigning PGA championship and open championship winner.

❝He did have a couple of good quips, a lot more, yeah, liveliness sort of a pulse than I could say than from the next hour debate, including this at the top. The first thing we have to do is stop Steve Hilton's daddy, who has endorsed him and said, that's what we got to do from becoming the next governor of the state of California. We need someone who's going to fight Donald Trump, not agree with him.

❝So, if the ask is no, we need an actual fundamental restructuring of our tax system in a way to capture the wealth of billionaires who, yeah, can hold this, hold their wealth in stocks, they can borrow against that to fund their lifestyle, never sell, never pay capital gains, you know, pass that on to their heirs or whatever. So, those are two very different outcomes. If this is just about healthcare money, I think this looks very different than if supporters say, no, we're fighting this to the end until we get a restructuring of the tax system.

❝The vast majority of them are just going to be, you know, rubber stamped for what the party is already supporting and already happy about, and they're all patting themselves on the back and doing a victory lamp. But I think that Tom Steyer and Matt Mahan are the only two who are really saying, hey, look, our system’s broken. Let’s try something different.

❝They say, quote, an actual airplane fuselage is not in harmony with the neighborhood.

❝She said, quote, I think it's outrageous and they need to change course. She said, quote, they still have three weeks to change course and she wants to see them do it.

❝Like at that point, it's like, no, no, no, no, I get to tell you what you can do or not. And I just think that's funny.

❝As you've seen, in most of the cases where Republicans have complained about the safety, it's actually been the bad decision by an elected judge in Illinois or no hearing at all because the prosecutor didn't bring it to the judge.

❝And also, considering what the Indiana legislature passed, it's not just tax breaks. It's a straight up giveaway of billions of dollars. They're raising, they want to raise taxes on their own residents to actually fund the construction and operation of that stadium.

❝I think immigration is really the issue of our time in many ways.

❝Lindell has talked about like he has a direct line to the Oval Office, essentially. I think he called Trump one of his best friends at this Waseka event, and he’s worked really hard to kind of make that connection with Trump.

❝You know what's selfish? The dude who dropped 26 bullets in my house.

❝There was a processing period where lawmakers came into the House chambers and remembered their former colleague, the late House Speaker Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated in June of last year.

❝And so it's clear: you're either flying to Oakland or you're flying to San Francisco. And the director of the San Francisco airport said the agreement would provide clarity so that consumers can make quote informed decisions, end of quote, about where to fly. And he pledged.

❝He pledged to, and I quote directly, continue delivering an exceptional travel experience for San Franciscans and visitors alike. Good because a lot of us end up going to the airport with some frequency. But now another change, and we'll see how this one flies, so to speak.

❝Officials in San Francisco filed a lawsuit in April of 2023 after the Port of Oakland, which manages the city's airport, decided to embellish the facility's name for a fleeting period. Planes took off and landed from runways at, quote, San Francisco Bay, Oakland International Airport. Well, the San Francisco people were very upset, and of course, there had to be negotiations, a settlement.