Trump Booed in Disaster Red State Election; His Event is a Total Failure
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The transcription features a political commentary discussion focusing on recent Republican primary results, particularly in South Carolina and Oklahoma. The hosts begin by mocking Darling Graham’s victory speech, where she critiques opponent Any Andrews’ healthcare plan and glorifies her own hardscrabble upbringing, which included parents working while sick. The hosts interpret this as advocating for death over healthcare, labeling the Republican Party a "death cult" that prioritizes profit over human safety, citing issues like deregulation and pharmaceutical greed.
They argue that Republican candidates, such as Graham and Josh Holly, are equally unqualified and vote identically under MAGA, with success hinging on their ability to deceive. The discussion shifts to Trump’s role in primaries and his plan to make midterms about himself, despite approval ratings around 30%. The hosts predict Trump’s ads will be full of lies and fear-mongering, targeting immigration and cultural issues, while ignoring economic hardships like high grocery and gas prices. They also criticize Trump’s fundraising, including selling White House Christmas ornaments, as a grift, and draw parallels to evangelical scams that exploit working-class supporters.
The hosts blame Democrats for abandoning a 50-state strategy, leading to minority rule and extreme candidates in rural areas. They express frustration with low-information voters who support policies against their interests. Finally, they mock Ted Cruz’s potential 2028 presidential run, citing his widespread unpopularity and hubris, while jokingly endorsing him for entertainment value. Overall, the commentary is critical of Republican tactics, voter behavior, and the state of U.S. politics.
(upbeat music) - Republican voters in South Carolina have shown the entire country. The fair is dumb as the candidate that they voted for. Let's take a little gander in Darling Graham's victory speech. Play the clip. - Gun control, government run healthcare, abortion until the moment of birth, bad idea after bad idea, any Andrews backs them all. I have a different background in vision for our state. I'm a hard worker with a servant's heart. I grew up in the back of a bar in liquor store in one room in Central South Carolina. My parents worked long hard hours to make ends meet. We didn't take vacations. If they were sick, they had to get up and go to work because the doors weren't open, we weren't making money. - I've heard enough, I've heard enough pumps. - Okay, she goes on to say that she's attacking any Andrews because of her healthcare plan. Well, Darling Graham is advocating for people to go to work and then she talks about how her parents died when she was like 10 and 11. She lost her parents, so I'm like, so by that logic, your healthcare plan is just to die. It's so stunning that I couldn't wrap my head around. I listened to it like three times and I'm like, I think she's saying it's better to die than have healthcare. - Well, I believe that that is a Republican policy. I genuinely believe that it is a death cult. The Republican Party, particularly under Donald Trump, but also certainly under other Republicans, their policies lead to death. They unravel safety regulations and say, oh, these are horrible for business. Actually, they're fantastic for keeping businesses in check and keeping Americans safe, keeping our food safe. And then of course, both sides of the political aisle bend over, hand over fist for the medical industrial complex for pharmaceuticals. You know, I think I read somewhere that Americans take 75% more pills than any other country in the world. Why is that? Because it's all for profit. It's all for profit. But I just want to make this point about Darling. I think she is equally as unqualified as every other Republican right now. A lot of people like to make the distinction that Darling has no business running for office. What's the difference in Darling and Josh Holly? Josh Holly was, you know, Ivy's school, Ivy League educated and he can sound a lot smarter than Darling does there. But their votes will be 100% identical. So when it comes to MAGA, it just matters how good at bullshit they are. That's it. That's the only qualification. And here is Darling's opponent, Ralph Norman. And he's booed after mentioning Trump in his concession speech. But, you know, the president got involved. He has that right. That's his prognum. As I told, I never, well, y'all his policies are good. I never. You know, we just had a primary in Oklahoma. And the Trump back candidate won also. So every time there is a vote by the Republican party, it reveals that they even know their polls show Trump. So down like 30% in his approval rating. There are pockets of rural Oklahoma and rural South Carolina that will continue to vote against their own interest. And in my opinion, it's because they think God wants them to and because Trump loves racism as much as they do. And I don't think there's any other way to explain it. That it is these people continue to decide elections. And they are the least interested in policy. They are interested in retribution. - I also think, I agree with everything you say there, but I also think the Democrats abandoning a 50 state strategy is at the beginning of Obama's first term was detrimental to fly over America and helps exacerbate the minority rule that we see in the United States Senate in the Supreme Court. And when you do not have a Democratic party present in South Carolina or in Oklahoma, my experience of living in Oklahoma is then the Republican party becomes so massive. Their only option at that point is they outcrazy each other. And typically the craziest candidate always wins. And that's why I hosted so many fundraisers worked on so many campaigns in Oklahoma. And I came to the conclusion that number one, a lot of the people like the recreational cruelty in the tax breaks and the valuing of money over human lives that the Republican party delivers. A lot of people actually are voting for what Donald Trump does and it's very difficult for people to understand that. But the cruelty that I personally witnessed in this is anecdotal, of course, in the most religious people that I met, it always kind of took my breath away. And I was like, oh, it's not that they're not hearing the right message, they're hearing the message they want to hear and they're voting for it. And so both of those things combined and we have a lot of situations where we have a minority voice that is a low information voter with that's been deeply indoctrinated into a lot of bad stuff. And this is what they want, which is just really depressing. And then we have Trump. He's planning to make the midterms about him. This comes as a surprise to no one, pop this up. Trump told MAGA Inc., an Oval Office meeting to make ads about his own record for midterms. Spots will run alongside campaign-specific ads. We are going to unload the guns on both chambers real soon. And I said, get it up, do it. Do it, run it, run, put this guy front and center all day, every day, do it, do it. Let's run exactly against Donald Trump. But the Democrats sharpen your attacks. In my opinion right now, from the Democratic establishment candidates, the attacks are not nearly sharp enough. I couldn't agree more. And when you look at this, you think this was my first thought was, let's fucking go on this. Trump is at 30% approval ratings. The war is unpopular. His economics tariffs, ranchers are mad, the whole thing. But what's going to happen is all these ads are going to be full of lies, just 100% lies. And going back to these rural low information voters, despite the fact that they can't afford food and gas is too high. And they can't buy their medicine because it's too expensive. They're going to say, well, Trump says the economy's great. And so they're going to believe it. There's going to be a portion of the electorate that just buys all this shit. I am hopeful and optimistic that a larger portion of the electorate looks at this and goes, he's a fucking liar. You're seeing that more and more from triple Trumpers. But it will be interesting. I don't know that they can run that much about his financial stuff, because there are certain things you can't spend. Gas prices, grocery prices, are something that are-- it's very difficult to spend. And that's where you see these clips that come out of these Democratic voters. I've voted for him, but my groceries are 20% more. I bought the same thing every week my whole life. And it's something that's difficult to spend. So what they're going to turn to is racism and fear mongering. That's what it's going to be about. Donald Trump stopped all of the imaginary trans surgeries that kindergartners are having at public schools. And immigrants, the race-- of course, they'll beat up on black people. And I think you're going to see a lot of fear mongering, because that's how he won the 2024 election. I mean, the fear mongering and the Republican side, with an assist from their propaganda news, armed Fox News. And now Trump is having a midterm convention. And of course, this is a total grift. Let's pop this up. From Puck News, the Republican midterm convention is a shit show. The NRCC is charging members $25,000 to $100,000 to attend. There's no itinerary and invites one out late. Some say it's just another grift for a Trump production. Sub say, you know what's interesting about this is Trump has been talking about, you know, because he wants to put his name on the ballot. And this was before his approval ratings got so pathetic. But as reading an article, you know this pack that Trump keeps accepting all these bribes, too? It has over $400 million in it. And it is to spend exactly $0, helping Republican candidates. Well, that changes we move forward, maybe. But in my mind, that's Trump's money. He thinks, that's mine. I'm not spending it on anybody else. And now he's going to grift allegedly wanting to help candidates in the midterms. It is absolutely the biggest grift I've ever heard. I saw an ad online for a White House Christmas tree ornament sold by Whitehouse.gov that has a gift shop. And it was a 250th anniversary commemoration Christmas ornament. And when I saw that, I thought number one, if Biden was selling Christmas
of the White House or Barack Obama was selling Christmas ornaments out of the White House. They'd lose their minds. Okay. So let's just pick that up and set it aside. But then I went to exactly where your head was just in your last statements is this money for these ornaments is not going to the some White House fund or to the American people. I imagine this is just my opinion. I was like, well, who would be getting this? I was like, oh, this might be Melania Melania, you know, I don't give a fuck about the Christmas. And so she probably is getting this money because they see and this is something I don't know if those middle American people will ever see or I kind of think they kind of support it because they have pastors and their churches that rip them off that fleece them. So it's comfortable. That form of financial abuse is something that's familiar and so comfortable for them. They kind of feel like, okay, Donald Trump is super entitled and they feel like in this real toxic, codependent way that it's, well, yeah, of course he's profiting off the presidency. He's a smart businessman. Right. He's the smartest shit for him to be selling these Christmas ornaments. Right. Good on him. And they, it's such a familiar con to these people. I just remember growing up in Oklahoma and these friends would always try to recruit me to go to churches and then I would go to the churches and it was an advertisement for not wanting to go to church because the pastors lived these, you know, insane luxury lifestyles and these working class people are going and throwing all this money into the tithing bowl. And I thought, my God, what a, what a scam this whole thing is. And that's where that's why the Republican Party brilliantly Velcroed themselves to the evangelical movement decades ago, which helped incubate this entire movement. But let's talk about Ted Cruz. He wants to run for president, pop this up. Ted Cruz signals a possible 2028 challenge to JD Vance. I'll certainly be part of the discussion. And I just want to go on the record right now. I'm endorsing Ted Cruz on the Republican side. If for nothing else, it gives you some juicy fodder to hate because he is, I don't know who's more unlikable JD or Ted. I got to go Ted. You think Ted? Yeah, because Ted's just, I've hated Ted longer. You know, I've been more in a monogamous hate relationship with Ted. JD is new, fairly new for me, you know, I mean, it's like a four, you know, like three year thing with me and JD, but Ted and I, we get way back, I've hated on him. I've hated on Ted for a year, for decades, I've hated this motherfucker. And so I have to go Ted Cruz, that's just 100% why I'm endorsing him. I want Ted Cruz front and center. I want his fat ass out there all day, every day lying, I cannot wait to play his ridiculous clips where he's like, Kamala Harris, you're not taking my cheeseburger. I'm just like, Ted, nobody wants your cheeseburger. Ted, we can tell, we can tell that Kamala didn't take your cheeseburger, okay? No, this time between you and your burger. We've seen the Cancun photos, the profile, buddy. Kamala didn't take enough of your cheeseburgers. So I welcome it. What's your take on? Blind Ted. You know what? It's so funny to me. And there's a part of me that is fascinated by the hubris. I mean, he is well aware that the only thing that Democrats and Republicans on the Hill can agree on is the hatred for him. Donald Trump has said it repeatedly. It has been made clear to him in every presidential election. He is not liked. He's not likeable. Yes, he has his little swath in Texas, but he still keeps coming. The arrogance, the hubris, it really interests me to a great degree, isn't this a feature of Republican politicians who don't just kind of have this. They do. But Ted is just saying. Like the inability to feel shame or to be locked in. I think that you kind of have to have that characteristic to run for higher honor. To do it. To do it. Totally. Yeah. Yeah, I totally agree. All right. Like, subscribe. We'll be back later. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The hosts criticize South Carolina Republican candidate Darling Graham’s victory speech, highlighting her anti-healthcare stance and suggesting Republican policies prioritize profit over life.
They argue that Republican candidates, regardless of education or eloquence, vote identically under MAGA, with qualification based on ability to deceive.
Trump’s involvement in primaries and his plan to center midterms on himself, despite low approval ratings, is discussed, along with fears of lying ads and fear-mongering tactics.
The hosts blame Democrats’ abandonment of a 50-state strategy for minority rule and the rise of extreme candidates in rural areas.
They condemn Trump’s fundraising and merchandise sales as grifts, comparing them to evangelical scams, and mock Ted Cruz’s potential 2028 presidential run.
Summary:
The transcription features a political commentary discussion focusing on recent Republican primary results, particularly in South Carolina and Oklahoma. The hosts begin by mocking Darling Graham’s victory speech, where she critiques opponent Any Andrews’ healthcare plan and glorifies her own hardscrabble upbringing, which included parents working while sick. The hosts interpret this as advocating for death over healthcare, labeling the Republican Party a "death cult" that prioritizes profit over human safety, citing issues like deregulation and pharmaceutical greed.
They argue that Republican candidates, such as Graham and Josh Holly, are equally unqualified and vote identically under MAGA, with success hinging on their ability to deceive. The discussion shifts to Trump’s role in primaries and his plan to make midterms about himself, despite approval ratings around 30%. The hosts predict Trump’s ads will be full of lies and fear-mongering, targeting immigration and cultural issues, while ignoring economic hardships like high grocery and gas prices. They also criticize Trump’s fundraising, including selling White House Christmas ornaments, as a grift, and draw parallels to evangelical scams that exploit working-class supporters.
The hosts blame Democrats for abandoning a 50-state strategy, leading to minority rule and extreme candidates in rural areas. They express frustration with low-information voters who support policies against their interests. Finally, they mock Ted Cruz’s potential 2028 presidential run, citing his widespread unpopularity and hubris, while jokingly endorsing him for entertainment value. Overall, the commentary is critical of Republican tactics, voter behavior, and the state of U.S. politics.
FAQs
They criticized her for suggesting that people should go to work even when sick, and for implying that her healthcare plan is essentially to die rather than have government-run healthcare.
They think these voters are influenced by religious beliefs, a desire for retribution, and a preference for Trump's racism, rather than focusing on policy issues.
They believe both are equally unqualified, despite Holly's Ivy League education, because their votes would be 100% identical on policy matters.
They argue the party strategically aligned with evangelicals decades ago, which helped incubate a movement that tolerates financial abuse and con-like behavior.
They expect Trump to run on lies and fear mongering, focusing on racism and imaginary issues, while his approval ratings are low, but rural voters may still believe his claims.
They note the NRCC is charging $25,000 to $100,000 for attendance with no itinerary, and Trump's PAC has over $400 million that he likely won't spend helping candidates.
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