Back to episode — Episode 2874 CWSA 06/20/25
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id before with a $9.4 billion package he sent to lawmakers, what you could do is have it sit there. The memo could land on Capitol Hill less than 45 days before the new fiscal year is set to begin on October 1st. And then by withholding the cash, see if he can follow all this, by withholding the cash for that full time frame, regardless of the action by Congress, the White House would treat the fu…
← Previous segment →hat's what Joe Biden did. And that's what we should expect from the party. So even Randi Weingarten, the head of the biggest teachers union and one of the biggest Democrat supporters, is completely aware that the party is not even focusing on the main people that they would need to focus on to get back in power, the working class.
And then James Carville who remains entertaining but he is one of the only Democrats who understands what's going on. I have to say as entertaining as he is and provocative as he is he at least understands what's going on. And he said, quote, among other things, he was on a podcast, "Let's face it. Democrats acted like these people didn't exist." He's talking about the working class. They just did. And don't come back and say, he says, "We acted like working class, particularly working class non-college whites, were not part of our too cool for school group." And Carville says there were some real high-end people that kind of bought into that shit. So is he right? I think so, because I do not remember the Democrats really doing anything that would address the working class, but Trump continually did. He was talking about bringing back manufacturing and lowering their taxes and stuff. Even if you don't believe he would do those things, at least he was focusing on it and the working class responded. They moved to him because he was saying the things they wanted him to say.
Meanwhile over on MSNBC was the chief strategist for Mitt Romney. The chief strategist for Mitt Romney. Now that should be a disqualifying job. Like who are we going to get to put on TV? How about the chief strategist for Mitt Romney? That's not much of a resume right there. Anyway, his name is Stuart Stevens. He was on MSNBC. And he said, among other things, that Trump is the most dangerous president since the Civil War. Huh. The most dangerous president since the Civil War. Is Stuart Stevens saying that slavery was good sort of indirectly? Like why would you make the cutoff the Civil War? Because the Civil War seems like that was when Abe Lincoln was trying to end slavery. So was Abe Lincoln the most dangerous president who wasn't Trump? Why in the world would that be where you'd put your stick in the sand and say, "Oh, Trump is the most dangerous since the Civil War." That's a little weird and crazy. So I don't think he's in favor of slavery, but his quote makes it sound like he is. And I guess that's what it takes to become a chief strategist for Mitt Romney. Good job.
Anyway, so here's the summary of what Trump is doing authoritarian-wise. All right. So every day Trump wakes up, at least lately, and he tries to figure out how to minimize the authoritarian regime in Iran and maybe the authoritarian regime in Russia or at least figure out how to deal with them. And while Trump is trying to reduce the impact of authoritarian regimes, the Democrats have decided that Trump himself is the authoritarian regime.
Now how in the world did we get to this place where there's a whole bunch of TDS people who have decided that for all kinds of invisible reasons Trump is an authoritarian? And if you ask somebody in the street, well what did he do that was so authoritarian? Well, he's shipping back the people who are in this country illegally. You mean he's following the existing law but he's doing far less of it than Obama did? So that's the authoritarian thing he's doing? Yes. What else? Well, he's doing a bunch of executive orders. Okay. Didn't every president do executive orders? Yes, but he's doing more of them. Okay. How many of those executive orders are things that the public by a majority doesn't want? And the answer is almost everything he does by executive order is something that a majority of the public wants. Is that authoritarian? Or is that just giving the public what they want, what they're asking for? And then some of the executive orders might be reaching too far and things that a president shouldn't be doing and then they go to court and then the court decides whether he can do it and then he obeys the court. Are there a bunch of examples where Trump is not obeying the court? The only one I could think of is sort of a gray area that had to do with that Maryland dad who was shipped off to the El Salvador jail and even he got shipped back. Now you might not like how that process worked and I can understand that. But is that it? The Maryland dad, the accused MS-13 guy. That's the one authoritarian thing he's doing. That's it.
Yeah. So it's a weird argument that he's authoritarian. I like Trump's response to that where he points out how difficult it is for him as president to get anything done because he's got resistance in his own party. Right now the MAGA people are divided on what to do about Iran. So that's a limitation. And then he's got of course the Democrats are lawfaring him on every single thing. And Congress is useless. He can't really get them to vote for anything. So his argument that if he were a king he could get things done but it's just hard to get anything done in America, it's a pretty good argument. Pretty good.
So the Democrats have tied themselves into thinking that Trump's entire day of fighting authoritarian regimes such as Iran are not really anything. And the real problem is his own authoritarian ways that they can't quite come up with examples of.
Netanyahu talking about Iran said that the Iranian regime may fall, but that's for Iranians to decide. Now that's of course what you want to say in public. He says the primary goal of the war is to remove the nuclear threat. Secondly, to remove the ballistic missile threat. And he said clearly the regime will be destabilized in the process, but it's up to the public in Iran whether they want to change things. I don't think they will. I'm not seeing anything that would suggest that Iran is going to change its government. So I wouldn't hold my breath on that.
Well, General Flynn was on a podcast in which he doesn't
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think this is the time for Trump to attack. Which is notable because he's a general and he knows what he's talking about. But he was on Benny Johnson's podcast and General Flynn said, "No, do not do it, Mr. President. Right now is not the time." Now he's talking about using the bunker busters. He says, "Don't lose focus of why you were elected. You have options." And as General Flynn points out, i…
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