I've taken this opportunity to get more focused on streamlining my life, figuring out what's most important and how to maintain that in most possible catastrophic situations. It's not just about the election, that just brought this need into sharp focus. I'm in Western NC. Something that struck me in the days following Helene, was that the ones most able to help others, were the ones most grounded and prepared (usually). I was able to leverage some advantages to greatly assist friends and generally help the first responders. That made me really happy. In fact, the election felt almost inconsequential, as I watched communities return. I felt hope underlie my horror at our election losses, while I helped neighbors figure out how to adjust to their new normals. I feel like that's a good direction in general for we lefties. Resistance through assistance. 💙 But also we all need to preach the gospel of Ranked Choice Voting and pushing the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. We HAVE to break the stranglehold of the oligarchs on BOTH sides, or we'll never see the natural diversity and grace that actually DOES make Americans great, reflected in our polity.
I am as well! I was inspired by Vaush's speeches about how this is the time to develop discipline. Fortitude and resiliency are going to make suffering through the mental and physical hardship to come much more manageable. God forbid you get sick or develop a physical or mental health disorder once our health system is even more predatory. Additionally, things are going to be substantially more expensive if literally any of Trump's economic plans are implemented. As such, I'm cutting down on discretionary spending and developing a spending/saving budget with my spouse. Part of that includes swapping from buying packaged foods to whole and frozen foods that I can make ahead of time. When I did that before, I literally brought my weekly grocery bill down to 1/2-1/4 of the price. Also I physically felt much better. Use this time wisely to develop common sense, baseline habits that help maintain physical and mental health! Consistent sleep schedule (sleeping and waking at the same time everyday, even on the weekends), light daily exercise (even just a walk outside), intense exercise a few times a week (resistance training, ideally), eat whole foods as much as you can, cut out red meat entirely (if not all meat), and work on doing things immediately when they need done instead of waiting. All of these things are necessary if we hope to be effective advocates for leftist ideas and policies in the coming dark age.
It wasn't policies that drove voters to Trump. It was perceptions of policies. Almost every time I hear Trump voters talk about what policies of his they like, they describe policies that aren't his actual policies. Likewise, when they talk about Harris's policies that they don't like, they describe policies that aren't her actual policies. We are suffering from a deeply misinformed electorate.
@@bradhombre6912 sorry but that's just not true. The high level of distrust voters have with their institutions is because the said institutions have worked very hard to develop that reputation. Trump is a symptom. The longer you float this sillyness and live in denial. The longer there will be Trump's elected by the people who want to " drain the swamp" aka DC.
Jon Stewart broke it down to simply “Americans felt like the government wasn’t working for them,then they took their hard earned money and gave it to people that didn’t work for it.” I know it’s more complicated than this, but it’s also this simple.
As a veteran, politicizing the military is one of the parts of Project 2025 I’ve feared the most. I fear for my friends that are still serving, and all of the men and women who don’t share the MAGA ideology.
@@ItsNotInTheCards Oh they're not sending the military out against any _foreign_ adversaries. Their mode of operation is _selling out_ America. And her allies. They'll at most use the military to crush opposition _at home._ The people in actual danger from this are living in Ukraine, and Latvia, and Estonia, and Lithuania, and Moldova and such. Slovakia even. And of course Taiwan.
why not?? America had a reality-TV show host for a president and picked him not once but twice. The country elected a clown and will fill his circus tents with the same..
I’m a Jewish voter in Pennsylvania. I voted for Kamala. I also oppose the state of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people and americas continued support of their onslaught. The Jewish vote indeed is not a monolith.
Same. I'm signing up to work with my local congregation's "guest welcome" group - working with refugees, including Palestinians and Lebanese. We're only as good as how we treat the most disadvantaged, among us.
Lots of Jewish ppl where i live against the genocide but they’re drowned out shouts from other hard line jewish ppl. Apparently even jewish ppl can be antisemitic to those ppl.
May your tribe increase! I'm a 72 year old gentile, originally from New York, who has been disgusted by anti-semitism my entire life. I am deeply offended, however, by those who try to call out the moral horror of Israeli behavior in Gaza and the West Bank being labeled as antisemitic. People like Stevens and Frum who refer to "the Hamas wing of the Democratic Party" are among the worst in this regard.
@@irenafarm Treating others well only works among Christians. The other religions have different rules, and will try prosetilyizing you to their religion.
I'm starting to think Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a prominent position is more and more likely as someone who actually cares about public health and the FDA.
The most effective and lasting political slogan: “government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem “. I don’t see Democrats explaining why and how government IS a solution. It’s why we have social security, medicare, unemployment, the idea of a minimum wage, and yes, regulations that cleaned the air and rivers. We need to speak more about income inequality and mean it.
I dunno. I'm coming around to the idea that we really need a reformer. We need to rethink our approach. Getting lofty and then handing out cash doesn't feel like it catches the mood correctly. Enough people who might receive aid don't really want it. Instead - I think we need to have a think about capitalism. Try to cut out the middle men. Some markets are not working correctly - so it's not anti-market or giving people money. Just preventing people from bilking it, and driving the cost on everyone who is trying to do something useful. No one is shedding a tear for a pharmacy benefit manager, or a doctor that pushes pills because they get kick backs from drug makers. I think that plays very well with a strident anti-corruption message. It's anti-establishment somewhat, but not to a pathological degree, and it captures exactly why Trump is bad, and connects that badness to their pain - and the middlemen we would be targeting policy wise will be a wildly unpopular group of leeches on the system. The business world doesn't like these people either - and they see them as an anti-capitalist element.
I'm so sure that Obamas Arab springs made the world a safe place. Im sure general anti patriotic sentiment from the American left hasn't had an effect on recruiting nationwide. But trump is the dangerous one.
As a Norwegian I think the Europeans trust in US in general has eroded away completely, and will not return until the people will elect sane people or reform the democratic structure completely (mirroring more a European model.) As a consequence of this i fear we will be a lot more skeptical about signing new trade deals and in generally look elsewhere for cooperation and partnerships thereby isolating US further and that would expand the divide even more.
You’ll also be forced to consider how to fund your own national defense, either individually or collectively. Social democracy is pretty nice as long as someone else is footing the bill for the really expensive stuff.
And I think the five eyes will become the four eyes. Which countries are going to feel comfortable sharing highly sensitive information with the Trump administration? None.
Funny if you don't know anything about how stupid politics is in Canada and Mexico. We have no place to be looking down on the US. Nor should any German after they destroyed all their own nuclear power, got totally dependent on Russian oil and gas, and now have to bring a shitload of coal power online, totally undoing and reversing all the gains in carbon emission reduction they were bragging about 10 years ago.
When I heard Hegseth had been picked, his name did not ring a bell...but then someone was kind enough to mention that he was the guy who did not wash his hands and I was like "oh...HIM 😱😮"
ROFL 😂 if they thought Fox News host and Rubio were a bad thing, here comes Gaetz. And maybe MTG tomorrow? Laura Looner the day after? Oh my oh my 😅 this is god level trolling by the chief
Posted this but I'll write it here again - I used to use the word kakistocracy a lot with Trump's first administration. Looks like I'll be using it a lot again during the second.
I sympathize with the Arab-Americans and younger voters who declined to vote for Kamala due to the Gaza occupation but it’s wild that ppl thought republicans would be better on that issue. Guess we’ll all learn about choosing the lesser of two evils and whatnot.
They want this to happen because they see the two as no different. Sure Harris and Biden said they would negotiate for peace and don't view the Jewish people as better, but now at least Trump will let Israel destroy the Palestinians quickly. I'm done with that group. They reap what they sow.
I can sympathize with their heartache but their choice was severely myopic and frankly, self-indulgent. There was *far* more than Gaza at stake and their failure to vote for VP Harris will have disastrous results for the country and the world, including Gaza.
@Spooky_Academic If confirmed to a cabinetry position in the second Trump administration, Krispy intends to ban all previously employed jargon and replace it with her own Noemclature. 'Fie on all this wokety-woke nonsense,' screeched Krispy, deafly utilising a technique she'd learnt from reading "The Art Of The Squeal."
It's wild that Gaza supporters voted for Trump instead of Kamala because in their mind Gaza wasn't at war during the Trump presidency and Kamala was just gonna let Israel do whatever. Instead of Trump who will also let Israel do whatever but different because... Reasons?
This is the wrong understanding of the issue. By and large, they didn’t vote for Trump. They voted for stein or they abstained at the top of the ticket. To people for whom Gaza is extremely important, the two parties ran as quite literally the same thing this cycle about Gaza. Just yesterday, Biden reneged on the 30 day timeline he gave the Israeli government to get aid into Gaza. They don’t care and are letting the carnage continue. Functionally, this is no different from Trump. They do not see any significant distinction even with Trump putting huckabee in there, etc. Dems gotta start listening to the voters or they’ll continue to be punished at the ballot box.
Hamtramck, also in Wayne Co., MI, which is majority Muslim, with a large Yemeni population, voted overwhelmingly for Harris. Dearborn is approx 54% Arab or Muslim, mostly Lebanese. Much of the Arab population is too young to vote. A good chunk are foreign born and not yet naturalized and cannot vote. The other 46% of the population is older and of European descent. Polish, Maltese, Ukrainian. There are single digit populations of Black, Latino, and Asian-American voters. My guess would be is that it was certainly not a majority of the Arab Americans who voted for Trump. They likely either voted for Stein or Kamala or, most likely, did not choose a presidential candidate but voted downballot races.
it's not that they voted FOR trump, they just did NOT vote for the establishment that has pretty much stood by and did nothing while Israel went (and is still going) on a rampage killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people, invading a sovereign nation and executing a genocide basically. if your family was tortured and killed violently by a group of people and when you went to ask for help from the police they said we'll looking into it and it's concerning and yet kept giving those people more guns and weapons to keep killing more families... would you support that police department? not a perfect example but just trying to put it into a better analogy
a very politically-active DEM friend who lives in West Bank (married to Palestinian) refused to vote for any DEM. This did not add votes to tRump, but others, with a bit of amnesia, could certainly switch as a "punish the DEMs" act. I tried to say: We have been here before, MULTIPLE times and the result is catastrophic... Aside from the feeling that they need to "punish" Biden/Harris, there are also many cultural problems based in misogyny. Just like the many non-naturalized US citizens who live in deep misogyny, there are plenty of naturalized voters who are also misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ.
@julieglobal ya it would be interesting to get an actual census and see what the be diagram looks like I guess when it comes to fascism I figured people would vote to keep him out knowing he wouldn't be able to run again in his mid 80s and then deal with it
As someone from Wayne County, MI, I think experts are misinterpreting the vote. I believe the "bro-culture" that prevails in Dearborn was far more impactful than the horrors of Gaza. I'm sure Trump gained a handful of voters based on Gaza, and I imagine that explains the Stein vote. Just look at the cars the teens are driving in Dearborn. Girls have mini vans, boys have giant SUVs and sports cars. Wayne County used to be UAW voters, but times have changed.
I maintain that this election was lost because not enough Democratic or left-leaning voters participated; a lot of rhetoric seems to founded on the premise that Trump converted people. I think that’s a misinterpretation. We’ll have to wait for the vote counts and surveys. However, I think the conclusion will ultimately be that the election was (primarily) lost because people are demoralized-from Trump’s chaos, the pandemic, income inequality, and the hollowing out as well as distrust of the government that has only grown since (and mostly because of) Reagan.
Hilarious to hear democrats suddenly start worrying about intelligence agency overreach again now that they aren't in power. You guys are comedy gold. I need to start listening to this podcast more. 😂
Haven’t finished listening but would love for an episode going over what’s happening in Mozambique. Just on the comment you made about addressing other topics.
I lost faith in America since the first Trump term. Even when Biden won the 2020 election I still had no desire to move to the U.S, because Trump's win in 2016 taught me something. Anything can be taken away in a second.
Wait a second… Biden just spent 4 years reorienting the economy AWAY from neoliberalism and now those investments will pay off for people under Trump, who will take credit while also returning us to neoliberalism. People either voted for it literally or by not voting at all so we can’t complain anymore. I’m sorry but that’s our fault. We all have agency here. I’m kind of sick of people complaining but then playing into the problems. Is there pain? Yes! Does it need to be addressed? Yes! But I’ve just lost patience with this constant woe is me from EVERYWHERE… it doesn’t matter what our message is we don’t have the media apparatus to get it out there.
Maybe, if he's doing a Fox Breakfast Show host for SecDef, surely a wise and experienced Pod guy could be next to step up?! Tommy, Ben, throw your hats into the ring for some high-level jobs!! (He probably wouldn't even notice you're Democrats). Lovett for Secretary of Agriculture, so when the Capitol goes up he's the Designated Survivor.
I've been dying for someone to mention it as a notable exception to the trend. What I can tell is that AMLO/Sheimbaum's movement is still seen as the party of change vs the parties of the imperfect institutions of the neoliberal/technocratic era.
No, he did mean Trump has financial interests in _golf_ countries - i.e. those countries where Trump has golf courses. His foreign policy only goes as far as enriching his own real estate in other countries.
I keep thinking I am so out of touch with America (been working abroad for 15 years now only visiting a month or so yearly), but Ben confirmed that Europeans all predicted trump would win. Same w/where I've been working (Morocco now but previously Kurdistan, Turkey, Bahrain, etc.). All these places are full up w/'strongmen', and they all wanted trump to win. Thanks for the pod though guys. I always appreciate PSA, PStW, & The Bulwark.
Love you guys. Thanks for everything 💜 I’ve been hanging out on the anger spectrum: 100-1000 for a week but also months now. My cortisol is out of control. Lots of anger for most pundits - the thoughtless, aggravating know it alls who know nothing. Sick of their post election bs “analysis”
I worked at Treasure Island before trump's partner (in the Tower) bought it and I begged people, locals and tourists, to not spend money in Palazzo but they laughed about that. SMH. Greed and desire fulfillment is all Americans are about.
I don’t know how many times I have to say this: *voters did not vote for Trump due to the economy.* 75 million Americans voted for him in November 2020 when the economy was on its knees. 75 million Americans voted for him in November 2024.
This is exactly where my head is at too. Seemingly, there’s this belief that Trump converted people but I maintain that the more accurate picture is that Democratic and left-leaning voters did not show up like they should have. People are demoralized from Trump’s chaos, the pandemic, wealth inequality, and the hollowing out as well as growing distrust of the government-which was primarily ignited as a result of Reagan’s policies. All the votes still need to be counted and there are surveys which have yet to be completed. When the dust settles, I anticipate the conclusion to be that this election was lost (in large part) as a result of demoralization and disillusionment.
Millions of MAGAs and hardcore republicans vote for him no matter what. He lost some amount of moderate and sane republicans after January 6, but as we've heard he made a lot of gains across the board and the biggest reason for that was the (erroneous) belief that Trump would be better for the economy.
@ There is zero evidence that the those who supported him in 2020 did not do so in 2024. And there is zero evidence it was due to the economy. People may have told pollsters it was the economy but the very same people - if Trump had been president for the last four years - would have voted for him last week. Trump won this November because he retained his support from 2024 and Harris lost a lot of Biden’s voters from 2020. It’s as simple as that.
Sanity is rare quality in the middle east? What kind of half assed psychology is that? As a social worker and sociologist, you should be ashamed. From a psychological point of view, your bias is showing you are definitely overstepping.
Kevin Rudd was Prime Minister before he was Ambassador. He could have kept the posts, if he posted in Mandarin. Because he could have done. Trump can shove his grievance. The world continues to orbit the sun. Love your work ✨💙💯🤟
The news about removing neoliberal military leadership frightens me. This is a swift move to Fascist rule. It’s worse than even I feared, and I was quite convinced that project 2025 would really happen. I didn’t think they’d do that so fast!
I love the conversation about the message we are sending to young people in universities. We also should look at how difficult it can be to help that age group vote. We really need to do better for GOTV on campuses. thanks for the great show.
I've heard other people suggest Tucker for Ambassador to Russia which seems more likely. And I wouldn't be surprised if someone like Aileen Cannon was made AG. It will definitely be someone unqualified who will do whatever Trump wants.
The thought of the breakdown in our democracy scares me somewhat. What scares me more is that we paper over our unworkable system and follow the leaders of our unworkable democracy(both parties) over the cliff
Australian here...we are not shocked, Harris was too good to be true so of course Americans chose the sexual offender with 34 felonies. I so hope our laws against any potential sex offenders being allowed into the country hold strong.
Who? The Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom: longstanding ally, fellow permanent member of the UN Security Council, and nuclear missile equipped submarines operator, da ya mean??
What if, hear me out, it's a strategy to clear out federal employees by self-selecting resignations? Don't have to deal with lawsuits or worse by just removing them outright.
*For anyone who did not support Harris:* You were right. Even in the essentially invincible lameduck session, neither her nor the old man have made any move to stop or even slow down the gen. They should be cutting support from there and surging it to UKR in order to improve their bargaining position in a few weeks.
Democrats: You guys will be screwed in 2 months! Of course, we refuse to do anything about it. Nothing we can do. But we have to fight! How do we fight? Give us your money. Oh shucks we lost again, nothing to do about it. Nothing we can do. Give us your money so we can fight back! Oh shucks we lost the fight again. It's cool though we tried our best, nothing more to be done. Give us your money so we can keep up the fight that we keep losing because we don't actually want to win. If you give us more money we'll keep up the fight! We just have to get through this and things will get better, I mean we could do something about it now.. but we won't. If we did something now that would make us look bad. We have to respect decorum! Even though the other side doesn't care about the rules, fairness, America, or decency.. we have to be decent because we're just better than them! Yup we're so much better. Even if we lose and you all suffer at least we took the high road! Fucking give me a break with this same shit over and over again. I can't believe I ever trusted the Democrats. The party is dead, time for a new one or just give in to fascism because apparently it works.
In reference to David Lammy- as a Brit- he is not well liked. At all. Lammy or Trump. EDIT: We do not claim Piers Morgan... he is a STAIN on the country.
This is exactly why Putin started the war. He sees Ukraine as a demographically and politically Russian area seduced by the west to abandon mother Russia. A crass but refreshingly accurate statement.
Vivek and Musk in the department of efficiency is honestly a great idea - give these people a chance. Even now the left can't stop criticizing and refuse to see any good in anything Trump does.
IMHO Vivek is a con man. He brought a compound from GSK for 5 Million. That's pittance for owning a compound. GSK must have know it was dud and had the data to back it (no drug company sells a promising compound for only 5 million) Vivek then goes and inflates his companies share price for a "promising Alzheimer's drug"... he made his multi millions this way and is clever enough during his falsehoods to sell a big chunk of his share and takes the profit out... And guess what the FDA said it didn't work!! And he walked away with his multimillion dollar fortune. Con man 101.
"all of the intelligence jobs are still open" at 26:08 made me chuckle bc realistically, the 'intelligence jobs' will be the hardest for these folks to fill 🔥
The only upside of the election result is that I feel inclined to continue listening to the Pod, I would have slinked away for 3 and a half years had Harris been victorious.
11:29 That is ABSOLUTELY the point. I was listening to a podcast where the liberal speakers got angry, very very angry, about how people weren't listening to them. They kept telling people that going on Joe Rogan is not the same as having three years working at the Kennedy centre. The thing is the public think the establishment is negative. Establishment endorsements make people LESS likely to vote for them.
Sadly crooked et al are too close to establishment dems. So out of touch. PSA is off my subscription list. Ben and the outside of America views will keep me listening to PSW for a bit longer.
My brother, a misogynistic asshole, claims that the left has changed and is extreme left now. But wtheck does it mean for the party to be “extreme left”? Are we suddenly all hippies?
This is where dems fail they think because your Jew or Latin or black you I have one issue you vote for. Stop it! People are multi faceted stop lumping everyone together! Speak to the issues not to the demos!
1000%. Universal healthcare is good for every demographic , raising minimum wage helps everyone, etc. don’t need to focus group us into little segments and make separate policies for everybody. 50k tax credits for startups run by trans black female to male. No just run on a tax credit for the working class and that covers everybody. Trans people work, black people work, etc.
The "issue" is that a reality TV celebrity who is in deep dementia and also HAPPENS TO BE an asset of Vladimir Putin was reelected to the Presidency. It is worth thinking about that, even though we can't do anything about it. Why are you babbling about Jews and Latins and Blacks?
I heard about China Peru port investment. Any chance to bring up again China's investment strategy for geo-political implications and over the next few years.
Every American has a duty to attempt to interfere in or prevent the implementation of any & all deportation policies including actively intervening during raids or enforcement efforts. Likewise, nearly every state in the union authorizes a citizen's arrest for anyone who has or is suspected of committing a felony, implying every person objecting to the election of a felon to the highest office should at every opportunity attempt to arrest the president-elect.
I am not a lawyer, but vigilantism seems legally indefinsible. On the other hand peaceful protests and _non-violent_ civil disobedience may be called for.
These two cannot analyze their way out of the home bathroom. Democratic party lost last week because of talking heads like the two man here. I am a life long Democratic voter, and I am unsubscribing from this nonsense and reality distortion.
They are wrong. The number of registered voters who didn't vote is going to be much smaller - probably a few million. Of course, there are tens of millions of eligible voters who never register to vote.
Yeah, something to look forward to. Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence and Matt Gaetz as Attorney General. Trump has a macabre sense of humor.
I'm sure jill stein somehow is being rewarded again for her twice helping getting trump in office. Very frustrating to see that woman being such a factor in michigan.
If you put every comedian in a room to come with the world's funniest joke they could not come up with assigning a Fox talking head as defense secretary. And that's just one of the jokes.
Florida is not gone. Obama gave it away and we stopped fighting. For that, we got Donald Trump and about 18 months of a moderate Cuba policy. There was no point in prioritizing Cuba issues when there was no more USSR behind them. Leave the embargo alone and start rebuilding
Let the consequences be the teacher. People will get what they vote for. All those people who said Trump didn’t mean what he said or didn’t care what he did will see when the deportations start and Gaza becomes real estate property for the likes of Kushner and Musk.
Shouldn't you take your grievance up with Biden and Blinken. What they didn't know supporting a Gen was going to loose votes in an election year. Gosh if only they had the power to stop the bombs. ... If they didn't know that, then clearly they are just white dudes in position of power and privilege they clearly didn't earn. BTW Biden was super selfish for thinking his congnaetive decline could be covered up for another 4 years. He should never have run for a second term
I'm committed to staying informed. Thank you both for all you do and know!
Watching this after Geatz was nominated as attorney general. The "punch in the face", came indeed
I need Ben and Tommy to teach some sort of master class on foreign policy that I will happily take.
Wtf?? You think because these guys wrote speeches for Obama that they are masters of foreign policy lol
I've taken this opportunity to get more focused on streamlining my life, figuring out what's most important and how to maintain that in most possible catastrophic situations.
It's not just about the election, that just brought this need into sharp focus. I'm in Western NC.
Something that struck me in the days following Helene, was that the ones most able to help others, were the ones most grounded and prepared (usually). I was able to leverage some advantages to greatly assist friends and generally help the first responders.
That made me really happy.
In fact, the election felt almost inconsequential, as I watched communities return. I felt hope underlie my horror at our election losses, while I helped neighbors figure out how to adjust to their new normals.
I feel like that's a good direction in general for we lefties. Resistance through assistance. 💙
But also we all need to preach the gospel of Ranked Choice Voting and pushing the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. We HAVE to break the stranglehold of the oligarchs on BOTH sides, or we'll never see the natural diversity and grace that actually DOES make Americans great, reflected in our polity.
I am as well! I was inspired by Vaush's speeches about how this is the time to develop discipline. Fortitude and resiliency are going to make suffering through the mental and physical hardship to come much more manageable. God forbid you get sick or develop a physical or mental health disorder once our health system is even more predatory.
Additionally, things are going to be substantially more expensive if literally any of Trump's economic plans are implemented. As such, I'm cutting down on discretionary spending and developing a spending/saving budget with my spouse.
Part of that includes swapping from buying packaged foods to whole and frozen foods that I can make ahead of time. When I did that before, I literally brought my weekly grocery bill down to 1/2-1/4 of the price. Also I physically felt much better.
Use this time wisely to develop common sense, baseline habits that help maintain physical and mental health!
Consistent sleep schedule (sleeping and waking at the same time everyday, even on the weekends),
light daily exercise (even just a walk outside),
intense exercise a few times a week (resistance training, ideally),
eat whole foods as much as you can,
cut out red meat entirely (if not all meat),
and work on doing things immediately when they need done instead of waiting.
All of these things are necessary if we hope to be effective advocates for leftist ideas and policies in the coming dark age.
Beautifully stated. Here from Cary NC.
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I believe it was Mr Rogers who said when things go wrong “look for the helpers”. You have warmed my heart
Ranked choice voting would be a game changer.
It wasn't policies that drove voters to Trump. It was perceptions of policies. Almost every time I hear Trump voters talk about what policies of his they like, they describe policies that aren't his actual policies. Likewise, when they talk about Harris's policies that they don't like, they describe policies that aren't her actual policies. We are suffering from a deeply misinformed electorate.
Wait didn't Obama say in his book the promised land essentially that the electorate knows best?
Exactly. None of these people are talking about propaganda, which the right have mastered
Notice you don’t have any examples
@ America voted against censorship & propaganda
@@bradhombre6912 sorry but that's just not true. The high level of distrust voters have with their institutions is because the said institutions have worked very hard to develop that reputation. Trump is a symptom. The longer you float this sillyness and live in denial. The longer there will be Trump's elected by the people who want to " drain the swamp" aka DC.
Jon Stewart broke it down to simply
“Americans felt like the government wasn’t working for them,then they took their hard earned money and gave it to people that didn’t work for it.”
I know it’s more complicated than this, but it’s also this simple.
Exactly. That's a good starting point as you say.
If the Democratic establishment doesn’t have big, top-down change then we’re in big trouble
Yes, but then you don’t vote for people whose main goal is to not let the government work. THAT IS ON US!
According to Ezra Klein, trump and elon represent the american dream
I know he wasn’t mentioned in this episode since it wasn’t announced yet but having a Fox News host as Sec of Defense is terrifying
As a veteran, politicizing the military is one of the parts of Project 2025 I’ve feared the most. I fear for my friends that are still serving, and all of the men and women who don’t share the MAGA ideology.
@@ItsNotInTheCards Oh they're not sending the military out against any _foreign_ adversaries. Their mode of operation is _selling out_ America. And her allies. They'll at most use the military to crush opposition _at home._
The people in actual danger from this are living in Ukraine, and Latvia, and Estonia, and Lithuania, and Moldova and such. Slovakia even. And of course Taiwan.
Look can't be worse then Blinken and Biden. Allowed a Gen to happen.
why not?? America had a reality-TV show host for a president and picked him not once but twice. The country elected a clown and will fill his circus tents with the same..
the worst one yet. scary as hell
I’m a Jewish voter in Pennsylvania. I voted for Kamala. I also oppose the state of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people and americas continued support of their onslaught.
The Jewish vote indeed is not a monolith.
Same. I'm signing up to work with my local congregation's "guest welcome" group - working with refugees, including Palestinians and Lebanese.
We're only as good as how we treat the most disadvantaged, among us.
Lots of Jewish ppl where i live against the genocide but they’re drowned out shouts from other hard line jewish ppl. Apparently even jewish ppl can be antisemitic to those ppl.
May your tribe increase! I'm a 72 year old gentile, originally from New York, who has been disgusted by anti-semitism my entire life. I am deeply offended, however, by those who try to call out the moral horror of Israeli behavior in Gaza and the West Bank being labeled as antisemitic. People like Stevens and Frum who refer to "the Hamas wing of the Democratic Party" are among the worst in this regard.
@@irenafarm
The Islam religion really likes your attitude. They will like even more your joining Islam and turning your church into a mosque.
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Treating others well only works among Christians. The other religions have different rules, and will try prosetilyizing you to their religion.
Sen. Murphy's point about the narrative of control is well said.
Matt Gaetz....Attorney General?!?! Weekend Fox New Host as Secretary of Defense!?!?...America has fallen.
It's what you get for voting an internet troll for president.
I'm starting to think Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a prominent position is more and more likely as someone who actually cares about public health and the FDA.
At this rate, it's more likely that China will become a democracy than it will be for America to remain one.
The most effective and lasting political slogan: “government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem “. I don’t see Democrats explaining why and how government IS a solution. It’s why we have social security, medicare, unemployment, the idea of a minimum wage, and yes, regulations that cleaned the air and rivers. We need to speak more about income inequality and mean it.
I dunno. I'm coming around to the idea that we really need a reformer. We need to rethink our approach. Getting lofty and then handing out cash doesn't feel like it catches the mood correctly. Enough people who might receive aid don't really want it.
Instead - I think we need to have a think about capitalism. Try to cut out the middle men. Some markets are not working correctly - so it's not anti-market or giving people money. Just preventing people from bilking it, and driving the cost on everyone who is trying to do something useful. No one is shedding a tear for a pharmacy benefit manager, or a doctor that pushes pills because they get kick backs from drug makers.
I think that plays very well with a strident anti-corruption message. It's anti-establishment somewhat, but not to a pathological degree, and it captures exactly why Trump is bad, and connects that badness to their pain - and the middlemen we would be targeting policy wise will be a wildly unpopular group of leeches on the system. The business world doesn't like these people either - and they see them as an anti-capitalist element.
I'm so sure that Obamas Arab springs made the world a safe place. Im sure general anti patriotic sentiment from the American left hasn't had an effect on recruiting nationwide. But trump is the dangerous one.
I have been waiting for this! Need you guys…
As a Norwegian I think the Europeans trust in US in general has eroded away completely, and will not return until the people will elect sane people or reform the democratic structure completely (mirroring more a European model.) As a consequence of this i fear we will be a lot more skeptical about signing new trade deals and in generally look elsewhere for cooperation and partnerships thereby isolating US further and that would expand the divide even more.
You're a wise well educated Norwegian
we do not blame you... we are mostly sick and scared.
You’ll also be forced to consider how to fund your own national defense, either individually or collectively. Social democracy is pretty nice as long as someone else is footing the bill for the really expensive stuff.
Can I join your country? 🇳🇴
And I think the five eyes will become the four eyes. Which countries are going to feel comfortable sharing highly sensitive information with the Trump administration? None.
A joke circulating in Germany: what borders on stupidity? Mexico and Canada.
Funny if you don't know anything about how stupid politics is in Canada and Mexico. We have no place to be looking down on the US. Nor should any German after they destroyed all their own nuclear power, got totally dependent on Russian oil and gas, and now have to bring a shitload of coal power online, totally undoing and reversing all the gains in carbon emission reduction they were bragging about 10 years ago.
What a shame this was recorded before the Pete Hegseth news. I really wanted to hear their take on the dumbest pick for Secretary of Defense.
When I heard Hegseth had been picked, his name did not ring a bell...but then someone was kind enough to mention that he was the guy who did not wash his hands and I was like "oh...HIM 😱😮"
I don’t think you recognized that the diplomat was being diplomatic. He didn’t say that he changed his opinion. He dodged the intent of the question.
I've went through numb and sad and I am now hanging in the angry column too
So glad you guys aren’t exhausted. There’s a better world to build and the only way to get there is to keep eyes open.
ROFL 😂 if they thought Fox News host and Rubio were a bad thing, here comes Gaetz. And maybe MTG tomorrow? Laura Looner the day after? Oh my oh my 😅 this is god level trolling by the chief
Boy I thought last week was bad then the picks started rolling in
Posted this but I'll write it here again - I used to use the word kakistocracy a lot with Trump's first administration. Looks like I'll be using it a lot again during the second.
Matt Gaetz is gonna be AG 😹
After having a daily mental breakdown from 2016 to 2020(1), I'm done taking any of this shit too seriously ✌️
I sympathize with the Arab-Americans and younger voters who declined to vote for Kamala due to the Gaza occupation but it’s wild that ppl thought republicans would be better on that issue. Guess we’ll all learn about choosing the lesser of two evils and whatnot.
This is on DNC. No one else.
No sympathy.
They want this to happen because they see the two as no different. Sure Harris and Biden said they would negotiate for peace and don't view the Jewish people as better, but now at least Trump will let Israel destroy the Palestinians quickly. I'm done with that group. They reap what they sow.
I can sympathize with their heartache but their choice was severely myopic and frankly, self-indulgent. There was *far* more than Gaza at stake and their failure to vote for VP Harris will have disastrous results for the country and the world, including Gaza.
@@Bvi9169 Lol ok
In what universe is Kristi Noem qualified to be part of an American presidential administration?
“They’re not sending their best puppies, they’re sending their chewers, their barkers, and their biters.”
And even then, no Noem please.
@Spooky_Academic If confirmed to a cabinetry position in the second Trump administration, Krispy intends to ban all previously employed jargon and replace it with her own Noemclature.
'Fie on all this wokety-woke nonsense,' screeched Krispy, deafly utilising a technique she'd learnt from reading "The Art Of The Squeal."
It's wild that Gaza supporters voted for Trump instead of Kamala because in their mind Gaza wasn't at war during the Trump presidency and Kamala was just gonna let Israel do whatever.
Instead of Trump who will also let Israel do whatever but different because... Reasons?
This is the wrong understanding of the issue. By and large, they didn’t vote for Trump. They voted for stein or they abstained at the top of the ticket.
To people for whom Gaza is extremely important, the two parties ran as quite literally the same thing this cycle about Gaza. Just yesterday, Biden reneged on the 30 day timeline he gave the Israeli government to get aid into Gaza. They don’t care and are letting the carnage continue. Functionally, this is no different from Trump. They do not see any significant distinction even with Trump putting huckabee in there, etc.
Dems gotta start listening to the voters or they’ll continue to be punished at the ballot box.
Hamtramck, also in Wayne Co., MI, which is majority Muslim, with a large Yemeni population, voted overwhelmingly for Harris. Dearborn is approx 54% Arab or Muslim, mostly Lebanese. Much of the Arab population is too young to vote. A good chunk are foreign born and not yet naturalized and cannot vote. The other 46% of the population is older and of European descent. Polish, Maltese, Ukrainian. There are single digit populations of Black, Latino, and Asian-American voters. My guess would be is that it was certainly not a majority of the Arab Americans who voted for Trump. They likely either voted for Stein or Kamala or, most likely, did not choose a presidential candidate but voted downballot races.
it's not that they voted FOR trump, they just did NOT vote for the establishment that has pretty much stood by and did nothing while Israel went (and is still going) on a rampage killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people, invading a sovereign nation and executing a genocide basically.
if your family was tortured and killed violently by a group of people and when you went to ask for help from the police they said we'll looking into it and it's concerning and yet kept giving those people more guns and weapons to keep killing more families... would you support that police department?
not a perfect example but just trying to put it into a better analogy
a very politically-active DEM friend who lives in West Bank (married to Palestinian) refused to vote for any DEM. This did not add votes to tRump, but others, with a bit of amnesia, could certainly switch as a "punish the DEMs" act. I tried to say: We have been here before, MULTIPLE times and the result is catastrophic... Aside from the feeling that they need to "punish" Biden/Harris, there are also many cultural problems based in misogyny. Just like the many non-naturalized US citizens who live in deep misogyny, there are plenty of naturalized voters who are also misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ.
@julieglobal ya it would be interesting to get an actual census and see what the be diagram looks like
I guess when it comes to fascism I figured people would vote to keep him out knowing he wouldn't be able to run again in his mid 80s and then deal with it
As someone from Wayne County, MI, I think experts are misinterpreting the vote. I believe the "bro-culture" that prevails in Dearborn was far more impactful than the horrors of Gaza. I'm sure Trump gained a handful of voters based on Gaza, and I imagine that explains the Stein vote. Just look at the cars the teens are driving in Dearborn. Girls have mini vans, boys have giant SUVs and sports cars. Wayne County used to be UAW voters, but times have changed.
I maintain that this election was lost because not enough Democratic or left-leaning voters participated; a lot of rhetoric seems to founded on the premise that Trump converted people. I think that’s a misinterpretation.
We’ll have to wait for the vote counts and surveys. However, I think the conclusion will ultimately be that the election was (primarily) lost because people are demoralized-from Trump’s chaos, the pandemic, income inequality, and the hollowing out as well as distrust of the government that has only grown since (and mostly because of) Reagan.
Except perhaps MTG, who seems to be left at the curb...
Does one need a JD to be appointed to SCOTUS
@@JackAShepherd sigh, the Constitution does not require Supreme Court Justices to have a law degree or to be lawyers
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That's an oversight that needs correcting.
Please don't say it out loud, for fear that it gets manifested...MTG would be a nightmare in any position... still a lot of positions left to fill...
You dont have to like chris como. Vut his analysis of what happened is spot on
He is now a shill who needs to make money just like all internet “influencer” profiteers
He's a magat brain!
@johnstallings4049 no he's not MAGA. He's DNC still
Also as if Netanyahu cares about Trumps political career anymore than Bidens.
Hilarious to hear democrats suddenly start worrying about intelligence agency overreach again now that they aren't in power. You guys are comedy gold. I need to start listening to this podcast more. 😂
Haven’t finished listening but would love for an episode going over what’s happening in Mozambique. Just on the comment you made about addressing other topics.
I lost faith in America since the first Trump term. Even when Biden won the 2020 election I still had no desire to move to the U.S, because Trump's win in 2016 taught me something. Anything can be taken away in a second.
Good call. I wouldn't move to the US if I lived in any other even half-way decent country.
i had a bad feeling when dems tried to appeal to the center to much it would back fire like it did in 2004.
I know he's become unpopular but this's exactly why I love Gavin Newsom's messaging -- when it comes to our liberal values, he doesn't go on defense
Wait a second… Biden just spent 4 years reorienting the economy AWAY from neoliberalism and now those investments will pay off for people under Trump, who will take credit while also returning us to neoliberalism. People either voted for it literally or by not voting at all so we can’t complain anymore. I’m sorry but that’s our fault. We all have agency here. I’m kind of sick of people complaining but then playing into the problems. Is there pain? Yes! Does it need to be addressed? Yes! But I’ve just lost patience with this constant woe is me from EVERYWHERE… it doesn’t matter what our message is we don’t have the media apparatus to get it out there.
Maybe, if he's doing a Fox Breakfast Show host for SecDef, surely a wise and experienced Pod guy could be next to step up?!
Tommy, Ben, throw your hats into the ring for some high-level jobs!! (He probably wouldn't even notice you're Democrats). Lovett for Secretary of Agriculture, so when the Capitol goes up he's the Designated Survivor.
Can you check the voting for president in Mexico? Sheinbaum is from the incumbent party and I've read news that she received the most votes ever
I've been dying for someone to mention it as a notable exception to the trend. What I can tell is that AMLO/Sheimbaum's movement is still seen as the party of change vs the parties of the imperfect institutions of the neoliberal/technocratic era.
Oof Gulf countries, not GOLF countries Donald! Would be funny if not so terrifying.
No, he did mean Trump has financial interests in _golf_ countries - i.e. those countries where Trump has golf courses. His foreign policy only goes as far as enriching his own real estate in other countries.
I keep thinking I am so out of touch with America (been working abroad for 15 years now only visiting a month or so yearly), but Ben confirmed that Europeans all predicted trump would win. Same w/where I've been working (Morocco now but previously Kurdistan, Turkey, Bahrain, etc.). All these places are full up w/'strongmen', and they all wanted trump to win. Thanks for the pod though guys. I always appreciate PSA, PStW, & The Bulwark.
I don't think most Europeans wanted Trump to win but they expected it to happen.
did he offer you a second portion of chicken? ahahahahahha, i never seen such great british humour in a long time
Get off Twitter. STOP it. Do Blue Sky. NO money for Elon. Not a dime.
Love you guys. Thanks for everything 💜
I’ve been hanging out on the anger spectrum: 100-1000 for a week but also months now. My cortisol is out of control. Lots of anger for most pundits - the thoughtless, aggravating know it alls who know nothing. Sick of their post election bs “analysis”
If trump pulls US out of NATO.....his voice on Ukraine membership of NATO will.mean.....ZERO
Let’s be real here. These were all Miriam Adelson picks.
I worked at Treasure Island before trump's partner (in the Tower) bought it and I begged people, locals and tourists, to not spend money in Palazzo but they laughed about that. SMH. Greed and desire fulfillment is all Americans are about.
I don’t know how many times I have to say this: *voters did not vote for Trump due to the economy.*
75 million Americans voted for him in November 2020 when the economy was on its knees.
75 million Americans voted for him in November 2024.
This is exactly where my head is at too. Seemingly, there’s this belief that Trump converted people but I maintain that the more accurate picture is that Democratic and left-leaning voters did not show up like they should have.
People are demoralized from Trump’s chaos, the pandemic, wealth inequality, and the hollowing out as well as growing distrust of the government-which was primarily ignited as a result of Reagan’s policies.
All the votes still need to be counted and there are surveys which have yet to be completed. When the dust settles, I anticipate the conclusion to be that this election was lost (in large part) as a result of demoralization and disillusionment.
Millions of MAGAs and hardcore republicans vote for him no matter what. He lost some amount of moderate and sane republicans after January 6, but as we've heard he made a lot of gains across the board and the biggest reason for that was the (erroneous) belief that Trump would be better for the economy.
@ There is zero evidence that the those who supported him in 2020 did not do so in 2024. And there is zero evidence it was due to the economy.
People may have told pollsters it was the economy but the very same people - if Trump had been president for the last four years - would have voted for him last week.
Trump won this November because he retained his support from 2024 and Harris lost a lot of Biden’s voters from 2020.
It’s as simple as that.
Coming from a psychology point of view, Qatar demonstrated sanity, a rare quality in the Middle East and actually the world at this point.
Sanity is rare quality in the middle east? What kind of half assed psychology is that? As a social worker and sociologist, you should be ashamed. From a psychological point of view, your bias is showing you are definitely overstepping.
Psychology was definitely more racist in 1982, but we’ve updated since your degree.
Kevin Rudd was Prime Minister before he was Ambassador. He could have kept the posts, if he posted in Mandarin. Because he could have done. Trump can shove his grievance. The world continues to orbit the sun.
Love your work ✨💙💯🤟
The news about removing neoliberal military leadership frightens me. This is a swift move to Fascist rule. It’s worse than even I feared, and I was quite convinced that project 2025 would really happen. I didn’t think they’d do that so fast!
In that same vein, it really bothers me that Biden invited Trump to the White House to play small-d democrat... Feels like the last days of Weimar 🙃
Yeah cause the current Neo cons in these positions have done great by the military industrial complex and not doo great for the people
I love the conversation about the message we are sending to young people in universities. We also should look at how difficult it can be to help that age group vote. We really need to do better for GOTV on campuses. thanks for the great show.
You give hope, Lads. Really very grateful
Next will be Tucker Carlson for attorney general. This administration is insane!
It's great 🎉😂❤
I've heard other people suggest Tucker for Ambassador to Russia which seems more likely. And I wouldn't be surprised if someone like Aileen Cannon was made AG. It will definitely be someone unqualified who will do whatever Trump wants.
No matter gatez
@@debdiamond9657 great pick. Kicking the woke out. Determined person there.
Matt Gaetz might be as bad.
Unreal
The irony of Tommy Vietor continually referring to people as "Goobers" LOL.
OK boomer!
I'll admit that they ARE terrifying... for the people who just got rolled in the election.
The ADL does not speak for all of us Jews, far from it. Agree with Rhodes on this.
The thought of the breakdown in our democracy scares me somewhat. What scares me more is that we paper over our unworkable system and follow the leaders of our unworkable democracy(both parties) over the cliff
Australian here...we are not shocked, Harris was too good to be true so of course Americans chose the sexual offender with 34 felonies. I so hope our laws against any potential sex offenders being allowed into the country hold strong.
If Vance and Rubio have tweets calling him a NAZI, why does it matter what some guy in Britain said
Who? The Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom: longstanding ally, fellow permanent member of the UN Security Council, and nuclear missile equipped submarines operator, da ya mean??
This is Pod Save The World whose theme is foreign policy and world events.
Thanks ☺️ guys, I appreciate that you can sort this stuff out for me so I can help others understand as well. I am grateful for your support and help.
What if, hear me out, it's a strategy to clear out federal employees by self-selecting resignations? Don't have to deal with lawsuits or worse by just removing them outright.
*For anyone who did not support Harris:* You were right.
Even in the essentially invincible lameduck session, neither her nor the old man have made any move to stop or even slow down the gen.
They should be cutting support from there and surging it to UKR in order to improve their bargaining position in a few weeks.
This does indeed suck. But having you peeps here, consistently, is both helpful and encouraging.
Democrats: You guys will be screwed in 2 months! Of course, we refuse to do anything about it. Nothing we can do. But we have to fight! How do we fight? Give us your money. Oh shucks we lost again, nothing to do about it. Nothing we can do. Give us your money so we can fight back! Oh shucks we lost the fight again. It's cool though we tried our best, nothing more to be done. Give us your money so we can keep up the fight that we keep losing because we don't actually want to win. If you give us more money we'll keep up the fight! We just have to get through this and things will get better, I mean we could do something about it now.. but we won't. If we did something now that would make us look bad. We have to respect decorum! Even though the other side doesn't care about the rules, fairness, America, or decency.. we have to be decent because we're just better than them! Yup we're so much better. Even if we lose and you all suffer at least we took the high road!
Fucking give me a break with this same shit over and over again. I can't believe I ever trusted the Democrats. The party is dead, time for a new one or just give in to fascism because apparently it works.
In reference to David Lammy- as a Brit- he is not well liked. At all. Lammy or Trump. EDIT: We do not claim Piers Morgan... he is a STAIN on the country.
Chris Murphy for President!
Thank you!
Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth last week on Russia's re-invasion [of] Ukraine: _“Putin’s give-me-my-shit-back war”_
This is exactly why Putin started the war. He sees Ukraine as a demographically and politically Russian area seduced by the west to abandon mother Russia. A crass but refreshingly accurate statement.
I used to use the word kakistocracy a lot with Trump's first administration. Looks like I'll be using it a lot again during the second.
this is so much worse.
In a satisfying linguistic coincidence, "kak" means poop in Dutch.
"*Explosive* kakistocracy" in Trump2.0, Shirley?! 😁
@@d.e.7210 Let's hope not - and don't call me Shirley.✈😆🤣😆
@@sophiarose703
"Poop" is Dutch for sh*t.
I'll be here every episode.
Disgusting that people who have spoken out against trump are bowing to him now.
He's the president. 🎉
@ yep.
That's no excuse.@@itsallminor6133
Vivek and Musk in the department of efficiency is honestly a great idea - give these people a chance. Even now the left can't stop criticizing and refuse to see any good in anything Trump does.
You watch too much TV.
IMHO Vivek is a con man. He brought a compound from GSK for 5 Million. That's pittance for owning a compound. GSK must have know it was dud and had the data to back it (no drug company sells a promising compound for only 5 million) Vivek then goes and inflates his companies share price for a "promising Alzheimer's drug"... he made his multi millions this way and is clever enough during his falsehoods to sell a big chunk of his share and takes the profit out... And guess what the FDA said it didn't work!! And he walked away with his multimillion dollar fortune. Con man 101.
Public private partnerships is fascism not Neo liberalism
Tommy! Why did you let Ben go live with that thing on his face??? It's very distracng😂
We are so screwed! Time to leave the U.S. What a disgusting thing that we have to wait this out now.
"all of the intelligence jobs are still open" at 26:08 made me chuckle bc realistically, the 'intelligence jobs' will be the hardest for these folks to fill 🔥
The only upside of the election result is that I feel inclined to continue listening to the Pod, I would have slinked away for 3 and a half years had Harris been victorious.
11:29 That is ABSOLUTELY the point. I was listening to a podcast where the liberal speakers got angry, very very angry, about how people weren't listening to them. They kept telling people that going on Joe Rogan is not the same as having three years working at the Kennedy centre.
The thing is the public think the establishment is negative. Establishment endorsements make people LESS likely to vote for them.
If these people hate the picks you know Trump made the right choices
Sadly crooked et al are too close to establishment dems. So out of touch. PSA is off my subscription list. Ben and the outside of America views will keep me listening to PSW for a bit longer.
Especially Jon F. His analysis with Ezra was classis establishment denial. Both grossly out if touch.
My brother, a misogynistic asshole, claims that the left has changed and is extreme left now. But wtheck does it mean for the party to be “extreme left”? Are we suddenly all hippies?
It means mutilating the genitals of little boys.
This is where dems fail they think because your Jew or Latin or black you I have one issue you vote for. Stop it! People are multi faceted stop lumping everyone together! Speak to the issues not to the demos!
1000%. Universal healthcare is good for every demographic , raising minimum wage helps everyone, etc. don’t need to focus group us into little segments and make separate policies for everybody. 50k tax credits for startups run by trans black female to male. No just run on a tax credit for the working class and that covers everybody. Trans people work, black people work, etc.
The "issue" is that a reality TV celebrity who is in deep dementia and also HAPPENS TO BE an asset of Vladimir Putin was reelected to the Presidency.
It is worth thinking about that, even though we can't do anything about it.
Why are you babbling about Jews and Latins and Blacks?
I heard about China Peru port investment. Any chance to bring up again China's investment strategy for geo-political implications and over the next few years.
I think I like angry Tommy.
Every American has a duty to attempt to interfere in or prevent the implementation of any & all deportation policies including actively intervening during raids or enforcement efforts. Likewise, nearly every state in the union authorizes a citizen's arrest for anyone who has or is suspected of committing a felony, implying every person objecting to the election of a felon to the highest office should at every opportunity attempt to arrest the president-elect.
Great idea. 😂😂😂
Laughs. Enjoy the Trump era in the slammer.
Moron
How will you do it without getting caught?
I am not a lawyer, but vigilantism seems legally indefinsible. On the other hand peaceful protests and _non-violent_ civil disobedience may be called for.
Keep it flying in the name of justice, peace and democracy 💙🇺🇸💪💯!
These two cannot analyze their way out of the home bathroom. Democratic party lost last week because of talking heads like the two man here. I am a life long Democratic voter, and I am unsubscribing from this nonsense and reality distortion.
God help us all
They say 15 million Americans did not vote this election.
The illegals.. 😂🎉
They are wrong. The number of registered voters who didn't vote is going to be much smaller - probably a few million. Of course, there are tens of millions of eligible voters who never register to vote.
@@DennisMoore664 it's more like 20 million democrats didn't vote this time.
Yeah, something to look forward to. Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence and Matt Gaetz as Attorney General. Trump has a macabre sense of humor.
He'll probably fire them all, one at a time, everytime his policy fails and he has a hissy fit.
I'm sure jill stein somehow is being rewarded again for her twice helping getting trump in office. Very frustrating to see that woman being such a factor in michigan.
If you can't win with over a billion dollars. Maybe you don't deserve to.
Strategic timidness of the Democrats cost us dearly.
Trump team is talking about taking over or eliminating the Fed Reserve Board. Trump wanted Powell to resign. He said no.
If you put every comedian in a room to come with the world's funniest joke they could not come up with assigning a Fox talking head as defense secretary. And that's just one of the jokes.
Will a Trump term be sad? Yes. Will a Trump term generate comedy gold? Absolutely
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Only outside the USA. Donald will crush fredom of speech.
Florida is not gone. Obama gave it away and we stopped fighting. For that, we got Donald Trump and about 18 months of a moderate Cuba policy. There was no point in prioritizing Cuba issues when there was no more USSR behind them. Leave the embargo alone and start rebuilding
I am loving his picks
tRump's list of appointees...the Incompetence Brigade
lol, keep misunderestimating them & Trump
New to the Channel, quick question, how long had PSTW been a thing for?
It means a megaton of idiocy, and a whole heap of trouble for the Western World coming down the pipes.
Let the consequences be the teacher. People will get what they vote for. All those people who said Trump didn’t mean what he said or didn’t care what he did will see when the deportations start and Gaza becomes real estate property for the likes of Kushner and Musk.
Shouldn't you take your grievance up with Biden and Blinken. What they didn't know supporting a Gen was going to loose votes in an election year. Gosh if only they had the power to stop the bombs. ... If they didn't know that, then clearly they are just white dudes in position of power and privilege they clearly didn't earn. BTW Biden was super selfish for thinking his congnaetive decline could be covered up for another 4 years. He should never have run for a second term
Chris murphy seems to have a pretty good handle on things.
Which cabinet position you think Aaron Rogers will get?
NYT is reporting trump is nominating Matt Gaetz for Attorney General
A neo liberal is one who trusts markets? What the f? This is this guy's analysis?