The Future of American Democracy

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Quote truck insurance today in as little as eight minutes at progressivecommercial dot com , progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates . All right, Donald Trump's acting crazy again saying inappropriate sexual stuff about his sons this time. He's given a bonka break. Play the clip. I see my two beautiful sons sitting there. I think I'm going to give one to myself, one to them, and we'll have a three , okay ? I'll pick out one of the two . I'll give them the Congressional Medal of Honor for something for their genius at hunting . And I'll get one for taking on Russia, Russia, Russia or something . I'm just so tired of this shit. It's just it's the exact new cycle single day. The president of the United States says something ridiculous, unprecedential, and then he has these weird people around him applauding. It's just like total collapse on display. I can't even laugh at it anymore . Yeah, I have to say the only thing new about this is that he's having a threesome with the sons and not Stormy Daniels and the Playboy playmate. It really is like I I'm like you, I'm used to the crazy it is what it is. The people laughing and thinking this is so cute and funny. I used to think surely part of it was just awkward nervous laughter, but now I think this is that thirty percent of people that are in a cult and they're never coming out . Oh yeah, those people have always been locked in on this stuff. I mean they're locked in. He is able to do all of the stuff. I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and my supporters would still support me. That has always run true. That has always been so present in everything that he does. Moving along, JD Vance, of course, continues his tour showing everyone that he will have no political future after the end of Trump's second term. Play the clip. It's amazing to be here. You know what I'm thinking as I'm coming down the steps is don't fall and bust your ass in front of all of you and in front of all these cameras because they would never let me live that one down. You know , the previous president , I'm trying to be nonpartisan. You ever seen these old cartoons where you've got the angel on the shoulder and the devil on the shoulder? Well, because I'm speaking to all of you are great patriots and service members , I've got the angel on my shoulder saying, JD , don't be partisan. We're going to make this nonpartisan. And then I've got the devil on my shoulder who wants to talk about every time that Joe Biden fell up or down the stairs . And the media didn't care about that, but if I did it one time, if I did it one time, it would be a right, yeah, that's just hilarious JD Vance, hilarious . What's interesting about what JD Vance is doing is publicly on television when he's in front of cameras, he is trying to be this relatable that whole political metric, would you want to go out and have a beer with this person? He's trying so hard to be that person and he is never going to be that person . Simultaneously, he's having all of these dark money dinn ers that are two hundred fifty, three hundred fifty thousand dollars a plate. He recently had one in Silicon Valley raised millions and millions and millions of dollars because this billionaire class is getting more aggrieved. They are entering into a much heightened, much more heightened state of psychosis. You have Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantier that does a stage five meltdown on CNBC yesterday talking about how they just want to tax billionaires to punish us . This we feel so aggrieved. We don't have enough. We need more money. We are going to save the world while they're plundering and destroying the world and killing people and making people less safe . They think JD Vance is their savior and what a fool's errand, the entire billionaire class is that none of them can stand up and it's brought me to the conclusion. I used to hear this a few years ago billionaires shouldn't exist. And I'm going to be very honest with you guys. As a person who was deeply indoctrinated in a capitalistic society, I thought, well, if they earned it, I mean, who am I to say that? It's a free country. I'm now completely in the camp that billionaires shouldn't exist. Something about exploiting people that much breaks you. Something about having a net worth that could choke a bowl while there are so many people in this very wealthy country going bankrupt because they get cancer or not able to afford childcare and they can't get a livable wage. Remember the state of Oklahoma voted no on raising the federal minimum wage . And it's showing me that giving people this much money because here's the deal, Palantier, all of these companies , their corporate welfare. They get government subsidies out the wazoo. So everything that they rail on they receive, and then they rail on the people they're taking from. I completely agree with you about the billionaires and I don't think there's I don't think it's remotely surprising that they're all going building these bunkers. Peter Till escaped Argentina because people are starting to understand they see through politics that helps people like what's happening in New York City, that the government in little by little, we're seeing politicians elected that actually want to help constituents . But here's the thing in on JD Vance. I sit there and I think they want somebody to be relatable. They want somebody that you know, he's a guy's guy. This man insulted the pope . You know, of course he's going after Joe Biden. Everything Joe Biden is Joe Biden's fault. But I look at all these billionaires and I think he 's the one they chose with the Riz . He's the one they collectively agreed is the best person to hang out with. Like what does that tell you about that group of men? They're just all weird. What does it tell you about JD Vance? It's what I've said is he is a prostitute . Like he's willing to go sit down with these guys and say, What do you need me to do? What are my orders? This isn't a person who has this idea that a lot of politicians have, like Zoron has, I'm here to serve. I'm here to serve the people of New York, where he knows he works for the people. JD Vance knows who his bosses are and he is a complete prostitute . However far he has to bend over for the billionaire class , he will do it and then some . And then the corruption in this family is just incredible. The Wall Street Journal , you know, crazy liberal socialist comedy paper, the Wall Street Journal, their editorial board accuses Trump family of cashing in on the presidency, which we've all known, same new cycle, again, just rinse and repeat. It's a new day and new week in America, pop this up. President Donald Trump and his family's finan cial dealings drew sharp criticism from the Wall Street Journal's editorial board on Wednesday with a conservative newspaper accusing the Trumps of cashing in on the presidency in big and sketchy ways. This week, Trump reported two point two billion in income from twenty twenty five. He made one point four billion off of crypto ventures. And what I have to say about this is this to me , everybody knew from Trump one point zero exactly what he was going to do. Every corporate Democrat knew what he was going to do. The problem is the Supreme Court, the Republican Party, Donald Trump and the Democratic establishment. When you all have the same donors, when you're all serving corporate interests , then the people get neglected. The Supreme Court, a lot of people erroneously think that they are in the tank for Trump, and they're not. He's just the president that's allowing them to service the oligarchy. Who else is servicing the oligarchy? JD Vance. Trump is servicing himself. They're like, that's fine. We'll allow him to get away with all this corruption as long as we can still rig the system for big oil, big pharma . You know, now I guess where MAGA is all about cancer, which is a really weird thing with the roundup ruling that, you know, we had they have the Maha wing of the party where it's like , okay, let's get off of all of these chemicals. And then you have the oligarch wing of the party that's like, bring it on, cancer for everybody . And this is a moment where in this history, the electorate is swinging away from establishment, anything status quo, they're swinging away from it, whether you have a D or an R next to your name. There is a huge swing the other way. And I firmly firmly believe that no matter what, when we come back from this , there's no let's get back to the way things were. The way things were incubated this. The way things were incubated a president that can run amuk and make two point two billion dollars unless there is a massive, massive reckoning regulations oversight committee. People in bracelets sent to jail for breaking laws and enriching themselves and stealing from the American public, our country in a few years will go the way of Russia. I completely agree with you. And I think it's totally scary to think when you look at what happened with the economy in England after Brexit and you look at Russia and how that economy , that is where this economy is going. Donald Trump is raiding the treasury, everything, you know, all these pet projects, they are not free. They are being financed by the U. S. government. The deficit, twenty eight percent of the overall deficit of the United States came under Trump. And here's the deal. And I'm reading regime ch theang bedook . The amount of money that we're hearing, like the two point four billion , that is nothing compared to what he is getting in other ways. Okay, and then there's a Washington Post analysis on Trump's focus on his vanity projects, which Pumps just mentioned, pop this up . President Trump mentioned his project, such as his planned White House ballroom renovations to the reflecting pool and restoration of Washington's fountains on four out of every five days in June, a post analysis found. So I mean, obviously this guy is a bullshit artist and he got into the presidency by bullshitting. He doesn't care about inflation . He was a failed businessman in New York. Nobody took him seriously. And then he made he was a reality TV star. Trump one point zero was a disaster. And then we go to Biden. Biden did some really great things as far as showing how government could work again. But the way politics run now, the sport of politics is you have to govern and market at the same time. An eighty year old Trump knows that. He governs and then he markets all this shit to the cult to keep them completely cohesive so he can keep the Republicans in Congress intact . And Joe Biden really screwed us up on this stuff because he should have come in . He should have told his attorney general , full court press, the number one thing on your docket at the top is go all the way , january sixth, all the way . That delay allowed the Supreme Court to get even more radicalized. That that wasn't just immediately when everybody was outraged, even some Trump supporters were outraged by what they saw. It allowed two years of this whitewashing. And of course , this is what Trump learned from Trump one point zero. I wasn't corrupt enough. I didn't have enough corrupt people around me, I didn't take enough, I almost went to prison. I almost went to prison. Jack Smith had me by the rights and the Democrats are such puss boys that I'm able to be back in here again. And this is what he cares about. These projects , you know, talking to men about how hot they are, Three Sam's with the Sun , Natalie Harp. I mean, this is not a serious person. This isn't a great mind . This is a demagogue and a grifter and a thief and a plunderer . This is just American weakness, American incompetence on full display. Nobody gives a shit about these vanity projects. Nobody cares except for him. And then he's surrounded by so many dip shits that they go, oh yeah, build the arch. Oh, the reflecting pool. And all this bullshit lying about people running around with razor blades cutting it up. It's just if the thirty percent believe that shit, believe it and go fuck right on off because this is just a ridiculous , ridiculous set of series of stories that we've had to cover here. And this is allegedly the most powerful country on Earth, the bright shining city on the hill, which now I'm realizing was all bullshit propaganda they tell us while they plunder the hard working , good meaning American public . Yeah, as we roll into the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the United States , I am sickened. I am just like, I cannot believe we are banning books. We are taking rights away from women. The racism in my lifetime, it is the loudest . I'm not saying it's, you know, worse because I think it's always been this bad, but they have just been so emboldened institutions with this DEI stuff, which is just racism on steroids. Like I look at this two hundred fiftieth anniversary and it makes me sad and I'm wondering will, the United States recover? Will it take two hundred and fifty more years for the United States to recover? Because when you look at like you were referring to cancer , no regulations , people are dying. We're the only first world country without health care, but they don't give a fuck about that because poor and sick people shouldn't have a voice in their government anyway. That's who's in charge. And it really is sad . Yeah, but I do want to say it's not going to take two hundred and fifty years to recover if the Democrats come in and govern all gas no breaks. Look at what just happened in Hungary. I mean, you had Viktor Orbon who was every Republican Party has modeled much of what they're doing after Viktor Orbon's Hungary trying to ban books establish no separation of church and state commingling them , marginalizing and scapegoating immigrants, marginalizingcapego es ing LGBTQ plus people . Magar gets in there. He wins a landslide, and that's what has to happen in order because he's going to try to rig this trump. And the people who study fascism tell me , Jason Stanley in particularly, professor Jason Stanley, friend and guest on the show , we have to show out twenty five percent more than we have in any other election. That's what they did in Hungary . It has to be such a movement that can that's too big to rig so that we can give the Democrats a major, major majority. And then where we have establishment Democrats that survived and didn't get kicked out by a progressive . We have to have the progressive caucus go all gas on them, no breaks and move them because one thing about democracy is that people have power. Look at how what happened