Hear what the other side is actually saying.

❝I want to say this as nicely as possible, but unfortunately, if we were to make a tier list of who’s the funniest on this podcast, you’re at the bottom.

❝I just don't. I don't know. I think people are complex and everybody’s just doing their best.

❝No, I know, but he does political humor, and I laugh at it because it’s political humor, but it’s kind of nerdy, autistic shit. You know, I know. And it’s, and it’s, we found out that it does not look good when they clip it and post it on Fox.

❝Yeah, listen, I'm super worried about the Trump alignment with Putin. But up against that, though, what's interesting is the European leadership is involved.

❝But that would then give Vladimir Putin with his buddy Donald Trump in the White House another year and a half of the Trump administration to get back into the G7.

❝We already have a president who would rather be more authoritarian than less, would rather circumvent people's right to vote if he can do, make it difficult for people's right to vote. We might not even know what he is doing with this technology, but I wouldn't be surprised if we saw President Trump try to literally wholesale take over one of the large language models and use it for his own means.

❝And let me say that the small business owner doesn't have time for most any of those things because the small business owner is just trying to make it work. They wake up, they open the store, they, you know, like deal with staffing issues, they deal with customers, you know, with vendors, deal with suppliers.

❝So let's say someone's listening to this and saying DW and Yang are directionally correct that having money stay close to home, people instinctively know if I give it to a shop owner, that's better than if it shoots up to Amazon. Because the shop owner is going to hire the neighbor's kid at the shop.

❝And if I mean, to me, especially now that AI and mega tech are sucking more and more value up out of communities, like to me, this is one of the major answers to what ails us.

❝When George W. Bush left office with an unpopular war and a lousy economy, he was down at 32%. And the reason that it matters so much is not just because George W. Bush was unpopular. The party was so weak in the wake of George W. Bush that it was ripe for, in my opinion, a very dangerous reimagining, but a reimagining nonetheless.

❝The Republican Party is absolutely not my future. There is no person who has supported Trump throughout the Trump era that I would ever trust in American politics.

❝We're going to talk about trans athletes because that is their 70-30 issue where they're on the right side of things.

❝Well, the elephants in the room for a conversation like this is whether we are assuming that we have two sides that are committed to finding a resolution and then honoring it if a deal is struck. Because unless you have people at the negotiating table with that mindset and the actual authority to back it up, you're just witnessing crude political theater.

❝They say and they assess that Iran believes, rightfully so, that the United States has run out of critical weapons like the Patriot interceptors...Iran sees no reason to engage in further negotiations with Trump.

❝I've belatedly come to accept that if I want to have the benefits of living in a democracy...I have to be willing to accept that I'm in a relationship, I'm in this with people with a very broad array of life experiences and opinions about things, many of which I'm going to rather vigorously disagree with, and I have to stay in dialogue with them.

❝I mean, that sound is kind of the sound of screams coming from all across the globe, not just across the country, of people that are just ripping, you know, like, how could this be where we are today? How did this happen?

❝At the same time, we've got a president who tried to light democracy on fire, tried to wreck this country on January.

❝It can't be the, it's not the courts, not those men in robes, the Supreme Court. The only thing that can save us is us, you, all of us.

❝And so Gustavo Dudamel is bringing not only his reputation, but his whole ethos, which is a mixture of joy, celebrity, and honestly a celebration of music and its potential to this orchestra to revitalize it. And in the process, perhaps if he's successful, this will be challenging, but if he's successful, prove that classical music really has a place in pop culture today.

❝And she described her courting of Dudamel as a heat-seeking missile.

❝It's considered the most successful music education system of the modern era, and that's called El Si Stema, which on its surface looks a little bit like a pyramid scheme.

❝And I think that the establishment has not caught up to the fact that, like, even if voters just care about hating Donald Trump, which is an older part of the Democratic Party electorate, they have lost credibility with that core group as well.

❝Like, oh, if once Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition is held to account by the democracy within Israel, they’re going to back off of this whole genocide, ethnic cleansing, and pushing the U.S.

❝First, the widow of an airman who was killed in the Iran war says she's having trouble getting some of the benefits that they should have access to because it has not been officially declared a war.

❝The U.S. government does a military action to change the regime in another country and then later moves in to take control of its natural resources. It just sounds like the imperialist foreign policy of 100-plus years ago.

❝What do you think you would have thought if somebody told you in that moment that 20 years later, in roughly that same spot, it would be the Taliban swooping in as the U.S. evacuated?

❝It's that there's no legal structure around these strikes.

❝Trump is so egomaniacal, he thinks, no, I'm epic. If everyone just embraced how epic I was, I am, then they would win their elections.

❝It's tangible. Reads that tweet, and I'm sitting in the oval and his knuckles turn white. You don't, you also don't know the tweet yet.

❝So with a school choice provision, I went over to the Oval to talk to Trump because I wanted to get him really enthusiastic and engaged in it.

❝But I want to talk about the mail-in ballots because I'm very worried about the 2026 elections and what Trump is going to do to mess with it.

❝And it's designed to fuck up voting, which, as I recall, you know, all citizens, there's this amendment in the Constitution, another constitutional provision that's relevant here, the 15th Amendment, that says that all citizens get the right to vote.

❝I mean, there's corruption in the fact that Trump is corrupt. There's corruption in the attempts to withhold the Epstein files and to cover them up, and the failure to comply with a statute that basically virtually unanimously passed, if not unanimously, passed both houses of Congress.

❝USPS leadership, it appears, has discarded all best practices as they speed the project to be ready for September 1 implementation, raising questions about whether catastrophic failure would be a feature rather than a bug.

❝Postal Service because the president is trying to seal this election because his agenda is so unpopular and he does not care about winning the support of the American people because they think they can just take it. And they are attempting to take this election. That is what is happening here, folks.

❝Don't give up the damn ballots. What happens when a week after election day, before this election has been certified, okay, in the various states, the government decides to go in with signed warrants from a magistrate judge in various places across the country, and they take ballots from an election that has yet to be certified.

❝I mean, America, after 9-11, is just a different country than the America that came before it.

❝You know, we gave up personal liberties as a country and it launched us into these endless shifting kind of forever wars.

❝The Constitution is pretty clear. Congress has the power to declare war.

❝There’s been kind of a lot, he’s been at the center of a lot of the turmoil behind the scenes in the White House…Trump was surprised to hear how many generals and other top officers had been fired, pushed out, or passed over for promotion under Hegseth.

❝taxpayer money going to enrich the children of the president of the United States, right? Again.

❝I fully understand that the black community feels a little bit baited and switched…you see candidates in your churches and barbershops eight weeks out from election day, and then you don't see these candidates or hear from them again until the next time they're on the ballot.

❝It was physically degrading. It was frightening. It was frightening.

❝Start with the fact that it's a joke, quote unquote, that it's a put-on and you're being lied to.

❝Like, everyone should be deported. But the interesting thing about this is: this is, I mean, the first response to this should be: number one, fuck you.

❝One of them, Mary Stacey, 68, a retired accountant, told the New York Post the case is bigger than OJ. It's gone more international, she said. It's the subject matter, postpartum psychosis, and it's more about mental illness. I think it's bigger than OJ, I really do.

❝He went straight to the left's most extreme talking points. I'm thankful that you asked this question and thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country. And I think only understanding the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them. That is not a slip.

❝I think only understanding the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them.

❝Here’s a time when he should be focusing on ending the war in Iran and working to reduce inflation, but he's spending a lot of his time and energy focused on this vanity project, which is immensely unpopular with the public.

❝But the thing for national consumption that a lot of people will pay attention to is that Wisconsin has been radically gerrymandered...a fair redraw of the maps could have an impact on national politics in that it would very probably create several more districts that are likely to elect a Democrat and potentially even several.

❝And of course, with Republicans in control of the Congress, Congress ain't bringing this case.

❝In America, the President of the United States cannot order the government to go after a journalist because the President does not like what that journalist said. You know, again, apologies, broken record. Every day I engage with hundreds of Trump supporters every single day. I call Donald Trump a fascist every single day.

❝If a Democrat running for office can't passionately and forcefully talk about the fascist in the White House as passionately as they talk about the price of beef, then I think we're in a lot of trouble.

❝This good, great, decent country on a daily basis is committing acts of evil under Donald Trump.

❝And there will be a lot of blood in the street. The transition ain't easy, and some people are going to make a fortune, and a lot of people are going to be sort of impoverished in a way that is completely unexpected.

❝I think that over the next years, economic growth, the changes in societies are going to be much more determined by these organizational political economy discussions than by technological discussions.

❝We ought to do better by the people that get left behind. I don't think we shouldn't kill the capital system in the process.

❝President Trump slapping 50% tariffs on 20 Canada impose retaliatory tariffs against the United States today as the two neighbors slide toward an all-out trade war. Escalating trade war with Canada has ruptured a once close and durable alliance.

❝Well, first, I think they want Mark Carney to be pliant. They want them to accept the fact that there are going to be tariffs on Canada and accept their perspective that Canada has been screwing us for a long time, and that's why you deserve some level of tariffs. You know, first and foremost, they need to sit down and respect us as the dominant economy in North America. We're not negotiating from an equal footing here. We're the dominant economy. We support you, and you have to basically do what we say within reason, right?

❝It seems like Canadians are so angry at the U.S., though, that they might be willing to endure some economic pain if it means they can, you know, hold on to their pride and stand up to Trump.

❝I really think at the end of the day, our voters just wanted an end to the culture wars and the political theater. We were known nationwide for all the wrong reasons.

❝So on January 25th last year, a Fox News Weekend co-host named Pete, Pete Hegseth was sworn in as Secretary of Defense January 25th last year.

❝Donald Trump insisted that that case be dropped as a favor to another dictator he likes, as a favor to the authoritarian leader of Turkey.

❝One of the big problems in left politics is that the very people who Democrats and liberals and socialists think should be the most excited about big new government programs meant to help them are often the least excited.

❝There’s a time limit. You can only get it for five years, no matter how many kids you have.

❝The reason that we do not have these kind of universally accessible, simple benefits is anti-black racism, right?

❝Every one of us has something much bigger to unite around, and that is keeping MAGA extremism from bringing the chaos we see in Washington.

❝When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich. Well, today, we're taxing the rich.

❝She will face Democrat Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, a progressive who easily defeated the more moderate Congresswoman Angie Craig in her own primary, 59% to 39.4%.

❝Yeah, yeah, there's lots of lots of growing anxiety around China as like Trump and his associates tried to initiate the third red scare here in the United States. Oh, yeah, they've been going so hard. Like the White House is posting about communism all day.

❝It was like FBI uncovers Al-Qaeda plot to just sit back and enjoy the collapse of the United States. Pretty much. Pretty much.

❝We're just back to fucking McCarthyist instincts. Like a sand castle that you built, like on the wet part of the sand.

❝So Reuters reporting today: the U.S. Army has used up much of its global stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran…

❝That is absolutely clear. That is not speculation. And it’s obvious that Israel drove us into this war.

❝We need the Japanese to continue to finance the massive deficits of the United States government.

❝So we’re building a big, broad coalition, truly a big tenth of people that combines folks from DSA on one side, even if I’m not a socialist, and combines three-time Trump voters, even if I’ve never voted for Donald Trump.

❝He has already said or expressed the aspiration to primary someone who would be his Democratic Senate colleague, at least in theory, Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, wants to put an ogre's head on the pike in the colorful language that he used.

❝I think it's bonkers. I think it's bad. I think it's wrong for all the reasons that Alicia and her column outlined.

❝He said, and this is specifically about the fact that AOC has been a little hesitant or they would probably argue selective in who they're endorsing...AOC cares way too much about her colleagues, and her colleagues are all establishment Democrats.

❝That voted for Trump. And you can have like union leadership that endorses, you know, these endorsements from these unions come for Democrats all the time, but then the rank and file go out and vote Republican.

❝She said, I couldn't pick them. Country wasn't ready for that. If I was a white guy, it was straight, I would have done it, but I wasn't.

❝It is the economy stupid. It is all about the economy. People are furious.

❝The war and the economy are really basically the kind of reverse Midas touch aspects of this Trump administration, because everything he touches that has to do with foreign policy or with the economy really is turning to shit.

❝The best antidote, as I've said before, to feelings of powerlessness is to exercise power, to be an activist, to energize, mobilize, and organize your community, your state, get involved in politics in favor of the candidates who are actually going to move this country in the right direction and against those who are taking it backwards. It is up to all of us.

❝You know, but, God, I mean, at one point in time, do you have to say, well, all these stories, all these experiences that people have, maybe there's something to it, and maybe this closed-mindedness is not benefiting me in any way. Yeah, I mean, there's magic. There's magic in the world.

❝And they say, Mr. President, did you ever sell arms to people who hate us? And he's like, I don't remember. He goes, well, in the future, if you sell arms to people who hate us, jot it down. Make a note of it. He goes, put a post-it on your refrigerator. Today, I sold arms to Iran.

❝So I realized that the oligarchs are starting to make a movie about themselves. It’s got oligarchical cinema. It’s like they produce movies that make themselves look really good.

❝They won't handle the lie. That lie is unfair. And when they're not told the truth, it's unfair that they have to suck up the consequences of that lie.

❝It's like, that's how bad it's gotten that they almost keep you locked out of clean water in this country. Yeah.

❝Wow, the Court of Appeals, it says right here, Prince William Digital Gateway data center project officially dies.

❝Superman's not coming, but who cares? Because if we show up, we don't need Superman.

❝And I feel like when I stepped out into Hinkley, California, I could feel it and I could see it...And I'm not one to back away from anyone trying to tell me what I see I don't see.

❝People who are managing these facilities that are now seeing runoff and toxic runoff and the chemicals involved, there's no regulations. There's no oversight of any way, shape, or form. This is a free-for-all out there.

❝I call myself a Democratic Socialist because I actually believe in this sort of more radical vision of a society without capitalism.

❝We’re anti-capitalist. We want a world beyond capitalism.

❝Isn't the problem just you have to figure out how to raise people's taxes? I think that any welfare state will require greater degrees of taxes that won't just come from taxing billionaires.

❝We’ve kind of gone from strategic failing to strategic flailing at this point.

❝And here it is. Yes, our elections will be free and fair. They will be held on schedule, on time.

❝You know, it's so important to emphasize this point about the hacking of the mind as opposed to the hacking of a voting machine and trying to cast out, as you said, on the sanctity of our election system or to make people feel like their vote doesn't count so they won't go vote.

❝ I mean, it is amazing to know how much damage these communists can do to industries in a state. You can drive people out of California.

❝ But they give the top Democrats tons of money.

❝ So we have the Indians paying off the top Democrats to outlaw the gambling halls.

❝I just want to be able to support a candidate that's America first, us first, and then not Israeli. And I want to support a candidate that's not fueling what's happening over there.

❝There's no doubt whoever the next Democrat is is going to have to talk about reevaluating America's relationship with Israel.

❝So, stop fucking taking money and stop giving money until I don't know something happens to change it.

❝Trump literally walked out and said the words, nobody gives a fuck about housing. Thank you for the ad, Donald.

❝But this week, Donald Trump came and went to war with his caucus in the U.S. Senate. And it was the most foolish, arrogant, insane thing I think he could have possibly done.

❝The realization they're having, this creeping, slow realization that they're having, is that being with Trump now has become political poison.

❝Well, look, I think that we need to, I'm for investing in police. I'm for having public safety. I don't think the answer to crime should be everyone takes justice into their own hands.

❝I mean, the person who doesn't go to college is now going to subsidize the person who's going to make a lot more money because they did go to college. It doesn't seem actually like a progressive thing to do.

❝We pay twice as much for health care as any other industrialized country, and we've got the worst health care outcomes.

❝Suharto's long dictatorship inaugurated with a mass anti-communist genocide.

❝But overall, the control tracer is a failed project because some of the actually it weakened Indonesia economically, it creates an economic crisis, and then most importantly, I think that it creates a room for the leftist, especially inside the military, that this is time, this is the dangerous time. So, who have to move first? And then the last, I think, the Muslims, and then they create a trap for themselves. Then, we have 65, the failed attempted coup inside the army, which then the army blames it to the communists.

❝But then with Kennedy's assassination and Johnson's inauguration, amid the intensification of Confrontasi, Sukarno announces that 1965 would be, quote, the year of living dangerously.

❝You know, if you think about the EPA, for example, do Republicans want the EPA to be more effective at carrying out its legal mandate? Absolutely not.

❝The United States faces a dire threat to its democracy. And the tip of the spear is Donald Trump and a strongman presidency.

❝That was, in my view, the most dangerous decision the Supreme Court has been made, vis-a-vis democracy, in its entire history.

❝I'm just here to tell you that, Drew, dude, you're drinking too much. So you need to do something about this.

❝Yeah, it's a lot of fires and a lot of lower acuity things that probably need to be addressed. So I think a great example is if you work, I don't know, 12, 14 shifts a month, you go in at six in the morning, and it depends on the day.

❝The goal is to treat the sickest people first who are who may die sooner. And that's the point of the ER: is it we don't want you to die today, um, we are hoping to intervene to stop that from happening.

❝I was really excited and looking forward to celebrating my birthday. And I don't know, there's not, I don't want to say there's not much to celebrate, but it's just, it almost feels more inhuman to myself to create this illusion that I can have a normal day or a fun day when every day there's work to do.

❝In a letter to election officials, Newsom says, quote, the longer the voting count takes, the more mis and disinformation spreads.

❝She says her employer gave her a choice. They also told me that if I were to get detained and I couldn't contact my job, it would be considered job abandonment.

❝We are focused on bringing all those students up to grade level so they're ready to succeed the next year. And then one of our large focuses for this summer is making sure our high school students have their credits earned and ready to graduate and walk across that stage and toss that hassle across the front.

❝We're partnering with the Indian Ed Office along with our Office of Black Student Achievement and OLA, our Latin Achievement Program, really targeting specific groups of students and making sure that they're welcomed, have a safe place to work, and be able to maybe have some incentives that could include maybe some very healthy snacks and hopefully even some field trips that'll celebrate all the learning that they have.

❝Our credit recovery, that's for our students that didn't quite pass the core content classes, math, science, reading, social studies, and they have to make those credits up during the summer. We offer a virtual academy, and that's going to be right away in June from June 22nd through 26th.

❝We deserve to be safe from violence. We deserve to not have the fear like my seven-year-old said.

❝Because there's people on the internet that said they were going to come after my family.

❝It's not a safety issue, it's a money issue.

❝Supreme Court put another nail in the coffin of the Voting Rights Act. That's the 1965 law, often called the crown jewel of the civil rights era. The conservative majority essentially eviscerated the remaining parts of the law, guaranteeing fair representation regardless of race.

❝And what he says, therefore, is because of that, we don't want race discrimination cases like this, the Section 2 cases, to interfere with that full-blown politics.

❝And when Justice Jackson, in this most recent order that came from the court allowing Louisiana to move forward, said you are introducing chaos into the system, she's absolutely right.

❝And to get them to agree to stop doing that requires some kind of compromise, right? And currently the Trump administration does not seem interested in compromise.

❝But if you don't like the taste of your meal or if it's not cooked to your liking, that is most likely nothing to do with the server. That is something, a failure that happened in the kitchen.

❝So the whole exercise is flagrantly unconstitutional. And Congress cannot authorize unconstitutional action by abdication.

❝Yeah, so what they have in the bill that's on the Senate floor today is a ban on the sale of assault weapons. So it stops new weapons that aren't already in our community from entering.

❝And this is not going to do anything to stop the criminals who are already ignoring Minnesota's gun laws.

❝Every time I get in the car, I know that NPR News will be there for me with genuine, important news.

❝I think we're witnessing the collapse of the dollar.

❝Well, you know, I think unfortunately, the only thing we’ve heard of substance about affordability is whether or not you keep the gas tax, right? So, it hasn't been, I think, largely addressed.

❝I believe in the gas tax because it is necessary in order for our roads to continue to be built. However, we have this dichotomy of people who can actually afford electric vehicles not paying as much for the tax on our roads as people who are forced into gas-powered cars and actually have to drive further.

❝After protecting them for so long, I wanted to just keep being with them all the time, but I knew that it was just the way of things and the way of love. She had to let them go.

❝Isabel had been working as a paralegal, so she knew the kids were vulnerable while their mother was detained. It was only a matter of time before someone called the state to put them in a shelter. They could be split apart.

❝During the Trump administration's deportation campaign in Chicago last fall, immigration agents took away a mother on the Southwest Side. Her three children were all U.S. citizens. They were left to fend for themselves.

❝And he knows with a scientist's precision and a lover's fury what it means that more than two-thirds of America's historic trail network, much of it right here in California, has quietly disappeared. Not from fire, not from flood, from neglect, from privatization, from a government that made a promise about these lands and then stopped keeping it.

❝Forest Service regularly requests an allocation from Congress above $200 million for their trails program. And every year for about the last 20 years, they have just been allocated a standing, non-increasing budget of 80 million. So one-third or less of what they're looking for.

❝I line it up right along aspects of banning books or banning medical care or any of these other public goods that have made us such a beautiful nation of diverse cultures and voices.

❝And I think that we need to see definitely countries doing more to stop some of these very harmful, clear abuses. We also need to see technology companies being more responsible about stopping the spread of these kind of images when they are created.

❝Initially, President George W.W. Bush at the beginning of the Iraq war, for example, he actually fired his economic advisor, Larry Lindsay, for predicting that the Iraq war might cost $200 billion at the time. And of course, in the end, it will cost $5 trillion or more.

❝There are more, almost twice as many lobbyists in Congress for the weapons manufacturers than there are members of Congress. So, you know, congressional staff members have told me they meet with these lobbyists almost every day.