All Hell Breaks Loose at Capitol

The Democrats completely sabotaged the impeachment of Pete Hackseth yesterday. It's unbelievable. The Merrick Garland wing of this party rises up after what we all experienced a week ago, a blue nommy of epic proportions popped this up. These Democrats were recorded as not voting. Had 11 voted no, it would have failed to 11 to 215 and the House would have moved toward a vote on impeachment itself. And here are the 11 people that did not show up to do their job to vote to impeach somebody that appears has committed war crimes who is incompetent, who is launching a Christian nationalist campaign inside our military who is firing people because they're black, firing people because they're women, firing people because they're trans. And we had an opportunity to deliver to the American people after Tuesday in 11 Democrats sabotaged it, Josh. How does this happen? It's like they didn't see the election. How do you not show up and vote? And what happened here, the Republicans, they made a motion to send this resolution to the committee thus forcing the Democrats to have to have a majority of voters willing, needed 7 and 11 people didn't show up. How when you see the atrocities that Pete Hexeth is committing every single day, the discourse in the media and the things that are being disclosed about our military and how unpopular this war is and you have 11 Democrats that don't even show up when you just need 7. I mean, I can't even understand it. I try to understand it. It's like, do we need to reset since last Tuesday because it has been a catastrophe on messaging from the Democrats with Jeffries and Schumer and then this. I mean, a complete reset almost as necessary in my opinion. It's so disheartening. All right. So why did the Democrats miss the vote? There's got to be some really good reasons because this is something, this is their job to show up, fight fascism, fight alleged war criminals like Pete Hexeth. Let's pop this up. Her several members, some of the House Democrats who missed the Hexeth impeachment vote were on their way back from an elect democratic women event at a venue about 1.5 miles down Pennsylvania Avenue but got caught in bumper to bumper traffic jam on Independence Avenue. The road on the House side of the Capitol complex. Nancy Pelosi also released a statement saying she was attending a Veterans Day event. Okay. This stuff just doesn't work in the real world like this is one of the you got a mandate in the House. I mean, they're still worse. The victory is still expanding from some of these states that are taking longer in these close races. We're still gaining seats. And I think this is the buck stops with Jeffrey. If this is a preview as to what it's going to be like when he has the full-blown gavel, I'm out. I do not want to merit Garland Hailey Stevens wing of the Democratic Party sabotaging what I believe is an existential time period in our democracy. And then here's what happens when you have politicians that understand the assignment. Senator elect Abdul-Elsaid was on CNN I believe last night and he was asked about this play the clip. And the things that you think Democrats need to address on day 1, tariffs, the Medicaid cuts, the Iran War, Hegseth. Secretary Hegseth was on the verge of potentially facing an impeachment vote today, but Republican leaders were successful in killing it. Is that something you want to see Democrats revive? You imagine being Pete Hegseth right now. Why are you still in your job? I mean, it's an open question. Just open question, why are you still doing this job? You are really bad at this. You are failing your responsibility. You have mishandled this war. And nobody really actually understands what it is you're about every day. You're talking about fighting a new cultural war, but you're supposed to be waging an actual war that is actually illegal on its own terms. So just resign. Make it easy for everybody instead of in the end getting taken out because that is clearly what's happening. So Pete, just take it from me like you're not going to this. I mean, you're talking directly to Pete Hegseth. What do you say to those 11 Democrats who didn't show up to vote tonight? You should show up and do your job. That's it. That's the simple messaging. This is such a failure of Hawking Jeffery's leadership because the Republicans should own this. And I wake up this morning and the headline is 11 Democrats sabotage the impeachment moving forward of Pete Hegseth the most incompetent testosterone obsessed frat bro baffoon to ever rule over the Department of Defense. Are you kidding me? This is such an outrage. It is an utter outrage show up and do your goddamn job. Just think of the flip. The script was flipped. I mean, just think about that. And this was the Republicans needing every one of their members to show up and vote for something. They would do it. They would do it 100%. I mean, this is such a layup for us. And we can't even do that, right? It's like there's this disconnect between these officials, these elected officials and the voters. And they get up in Washington. It's almost like you see colleagues of mine when they become a judge and they put a robot and they completely change these Congressmen and women that get elected, they get up there in DC, they get in this bubble, they forget the struggles of the American people, but yet they want to celebrate when we come out in mass droves and vote. And they don't get it. They just don't get it. And it's so frustrating. I mean, you read stuff like this. I want to throw my laptop across the room. I'm so mad. I'm so frustrated. It's so incredibly frustrating. And you may remember Josh and listener, Abdullah Sayed faced unprecedented spending against him in the primary and in the general. And the main pack that spent so much money against him was a pack. So our producer here did a little digging and let's look at what do these 11 missing Democrats that sabotaged the impeachment of someone whom I believe to be just a unrepentant war criminal petexeth. What do they all have in common? Pop this up. The 11 House Democrats who missed the vote that killed Thomas Massey's hexeth impeachment resolution have all received significant pro-Israel a pack money in Congress. Just seven of them voting against the referral motion would have flipped the 211 204 result. Hayley Stevens, of course, she was a no-show, is the highest a pack recipient in Congress. So this is the a pack wing of the Democratic Party. This is the Hayley Stevens wing of the Democratic Party. Haqim Jeffries, the buck stops with him. You whip the votes. You whip the votes. We went out in droves and voted too big to rig in minority communities. They were scared to death because the administration was threatening everyone that we're going to have ice at the polls. We're going to have all of these law enforcement at the polls. And everybody went out and did that because we want this war to stop. We want these crimes to stop. And we want Democrats to tell these packs, whether it's big tech, A-pack, big oil, big pharma, whomever, enough. Y'all are fine. You've made enough money. We're done fighting for you. And they just can't do it. This is so unacceptable. It is just unacceptable. It makes me so irate at the Democratic Party. And it makes you think that Haqim didn't want them to show up in vote because obviously he takes a lot of A-pack money and so do these other people. And so he can't rally those people because he's got the same interest as those people not to do it. It questions his leadership. All of these backdoor agreements that are made amongst the congressmen to get certain committee assignments and so forth. They don't want, we don't want him. Like nobody does. There is a petition that was signed where over a million people said we do not want this man to be speaker. And then you see something like this. He fumbles the ball. When this is literally on the one yard line, just show up in vote and you can't even do that. It's why people hate politicians. This is an example of why people do because they support him. They support him. They go vote. They go vote. They do that. They get energetic. They do. And then you win. And then you fuck up like this. It's why people are just irate about politics. And it creates vacuums for a demagogue to then come in and say, I know these politicians have failed you. I know they lied to you. I know they don't listen to you. I'm going to be your savior. Right. And this is creates the psychological soil for what made the electorate prime to elect Trump twice. Do nothing. Democrats think about it like this. If the through line here is a pack money. Netanyahu was in the situation room and convinced Donald Trump to wage war against Iran. And then he went to social media and he said, my 40 year dream, and I'm paraphrasing here, my 40 year dream of attacking Iran is finally coming true. This is something he has had to be in his bonnet and wanted to do. And every other American president has said, no, we're not doing it. There's no upside for us to engage in this. And Donald Trump did it. And so they have a vested interest. Since we know it's in Israel's interest, they want to balkanize Iran and why do they want to balkanize Iran? Because they, Israel is a teeny tiny country with no natural resources. And if they balkanize Iran and get it to break up, then their idea of this greater Israel expansion project is they'll be able to start taking over parts of it and build an empire. And so they're very, very vested in keeping this unconstitutional, in my opinion, illegal, very unpopular war in Iran going. And sadly, the Democrats, the do nothing, Hayley Stevens, Merrick Garland, wing of the Democratic Party is doing their work and not doing the work of the American people. This war is unpopular, even with a lot of mega people, like this was a layup. And Jeffries responds to the Democrats missing the vote, pop this up. I asked Hakim Jeffries about attendance appearing decisive in the Pete Hexeth vote. Eleven Dems did not vote tonight. He told me in reporters, I haven't had a conversation with anyone on the floor team about what may or may not have happened in terms of the Hexeth resolution. But this is not the end of it. This is just the beginning. I'm sorry, but I that's not acceptable to me. He should come out and say, I am going to hold every single one of these members to account. I know that I have an 18% approval rating. I'm not a dumbass. I know that everybody's calling my office and all of my colleagues' offices and doesn't want me to be speaker. And I'm accountable for this. So I'm going to sit down with every single one of them and I will get back to you because I'm madder than a hornet. This is unacceptable. This happened under my watch. Instead of this melee mouth bullshit that everybody is so sick of. Yeah, he's so full of shit like this guy. It's like there's no accountability with him. And you know, maybe he is wanting to grandstand in a couple of months or somebody else on another committee. The Democrats want to bring up a resolution for this and do it. But listen, Pete Hexeth is a national security risk for our country. The more that he's in charge and conducting this war, we talk about the killing of the fishermen on the boats, 221 people. I think it was the bombing of a school in Iran. I mean, we talk about these things and everybody shows this outrage and you can't show up. Just fucking show up the work and vote vote. I mean, this is seriously it just I don't even know what to say other than just be so pissed off and cast for 30 or 45 minutes. I mean, that's all I could do. It's it's just utterly maddening. It's just it is unbelievable how how incompetent and or worse how they are more aligned with the wishes of war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu war criminal who if he were to go to Europe right now, his ass would be arrested and he'd be sent to the hagg that we have Democrats that are more in line with that guy. It's crazy. Then with the American people, are you kidding me? Just change your party to Republican. Let's just stop it. It's just wild and after this election too. I mean, it was a clear mandate on this war hell in popular this war is how do these 11 Democrats that weren't didn't show up to vote? How do they not see that or get that? Okay, so now there is a new change.org petition coming about for Congresswoman Presley and this woman is a force just to give you a preview of how she sounds and her attack accountability line of questioning when she's on the House floor. This was her grilling Russell vote, the architect of project 2025 play the clip sometime on Sunday school. That's a majority. I'm sorry. Did you happen upon a scripture that said, thou shall make their neighbor poorer, hungrier, sicker and less safe? That's actually what you've done. I didn't ask you to speak. This makes no sense. You are as incompetent as you are cruel and callous. Seriously, there are millions of families who have had to deal with an unexpected medical crisis, including yours, I'm sure, because cancer and illness do not discriminate. Okay, so you get the gist. Not only do I want her to be speaker of the House, let's run her in 28. I mean, I'm serious because she, number one, called him out because he is one of these hypocritical duplicitous Christians that weaponizes the faith to rile up the white nationalist evangelical base, which by the way, in this last election, every single demographic moved blue, except for one, white evangelicals moved further towards MAGA. They liked what they're seeing. They like the cruelty. They like the concentration camps. They like seeing people sent to sea caught to be sexually abused and tortured. It's ASMR to these people. And she brilliantly called out what a hypocrite is, uses his faith to weaponize so that he can exact cruelty onto people in the name of God, which is so diabolical and manipulative, but that is at the epicenter of the entire MAGA movement. And that is the type of leadership we deserve. We deserve a leader that is going to tell him you are as cruel as you are incompetent to his face. He tries to interrupt her. She won't have it. I've never seen Hawkeam Jeffries like that. No, and the reason is because he's leveraged. I mean, he tries to speak out of both sides of his mouth every time he gets up and talks, and you can see the fire inside of her when she's asking questions. She didn't care. Like she didn't care. She's going to piss someone off or be unpopular or make someone mad and you can do that. You can act like that. You can fire people with questions after question. If you're not leveraged, if you don't care if you piss the other side off, and it's refreshing to say, I love her. And she's fighting. She can do that with such righteous indignation because she's on the right side of history. She's talking about the sick. She's talking about the poor. She's talking about the marginalized. She's talking about the things that the central character in the book, the Bible, one Jesus Christ advocated for. And she's just on the right side of history. She has the fire. She has the fight. Go to Change.org and let's sign this. We cannot. We cannot have leaders in Congress that allow this fuck up to happen. All right. The Senate is another thing. I'm really proud of what I'm seeing with the Democratic Party in the Senate. Okay. It's like over in the House, we've got preschoolers that are learning to potty train. In the Senate, you're starting to see people that are college graduates. Of course, Bernie Sanders, play the clip for over 30 years. And I like Chuck. Nobody who works harder than Chuck Schumer. But in my view, the time is now for change. And I will not be supporting Chuck to be reelected as the Democratic leader. Perfect, Bernie. That is absolutely perfect because Chuck Schumer is compromised. Chuck Schumer is not the leader we need. He's not the leader we deserve. I will admit he has done some great things. And I'm advocated for a lot of people that I want to advocate for in this moment. Anybody who is who is in the Haley Stevens, Merrick Garland, wing of the Democratic Party, 15 years ago, sure fine. Right now, we need uncompromised fighters who we have to usher out the era of prostitution politics. And that includes Chuck Schumer and that includes Hawkeam Jeffries. Yeah. And we've talked about this. I mean, his time has come and passed. I mean, it's just a new generation. You need new blood. And it's good to see the grownups in the room. The senators recognize that and have a discussion about it and other senators stepping up. And we need some of this to happen in the House seriously because Jeffries, in my opinion, is just as bad as Schumer. And that's his vote by what happened yesterday. I mean, just incompetence. And the only way you can look at Jeffries and what happened yesterday is to say that it has something to do with taking a pack money because he didn't try to get everyone to show up for the vote. He didn't make it mandatory. He didn't talk about this with his. He didn't whip him. No, he got a whip to vote. And then they didn't show up. And they all take a pack money. So what else can you say about it? You know, the war is the most unpopular thing in the country right now. Seriously. And corruption and corruption is in both of those. Yeah. And Jeffries isn't too far behind. You know, if he can't give people to show up and vote. All right. Listen, just want to note that Chris Van Holland is an incredible senator. If you go to our catalog, we had him on a couple weeks ago. And you can see the moral clarity that he speaks about. And he has opened the door now. And so do what you can do online. Go to change.org. Sign these petitions, but also you can just get on social media and put in congresswoman Presley's name and put in Chris Van Holland's name. So these people start trending because this fight, our vote last Tuesday doesn't fix it. It continues because we have some compromised people in our own party that in my opinion are fascist collaborators. And the fascist collaboration has to end. We have this chance to change this. If we have the do nothing, Merrick Garland, Haley Stevens, Democrats leading this thing, not whipping votes, we're sabotaging our entire country. We just cannot have it. All right. 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