Guest, Dem Strategist Terrance Woodbury: “I want to talk a little bit more about the double haters.
This new term of voters that doesn't like Biden or Trump. Well, in fact, I think that these double haters are a little bit broader than that. They are just cynics that don't like Democrats, Republicans, they don't like politicians, they don't like vaccines.
These are all the same folks. The double hater is the same as the vaccine hesitant. They don't like 5G, they don't trust any of this shit.
Well, for that voter, Cornel, who doesn't know Cornel West yet, he is going to speak a lot of their language. He's going to criticize Joe Biden's position in Palestine. He's going to criticize the two-party system.”

fuckin hell

Woodbury: “this is from a focus group of a voter who said to me, my hood didn't get any better under Obama. It didn't get any worse under Trump.
So what does Biden have to do with me? That's the cynicism that Republicans and Trump are trying to lean into. And that's what we have to combat with the progress that has actually improved their lives.”

Vietor: “And it's understandable cynicism, right? Because presidents have a lot of power, but they don't have unlimited power. Sometimes there's broader economic forces that impact your ability to improve the lives of the people you're working for.”

Wait, i thought biden had the best record on the economy ever?? What’s up with that?

Jon Favreau: “So far in 2024, 90 percent, 90 percent of the Biden campaign's television ads have focused on abortion.
And the most aired ad is one in which Trump takes credit for killing Roe and Biden promises to pass a federal guarantee to protect the right to choose.”

When did Biden make that promise again? We’re putting the whole campaign on our belief that americans think it’s good when you fail to deliver on one of your more prominent campaign promises.

JF: “How much political risks do you think this TikTok ban creates for Biden?”
Alyssa Mastramonaco, guest: “I don't think it's that much risk because it's weirdly the issue that's like United Democrats and Republicans. So I don't think it's great for Biden, but I do think that that gives him some cover.”

Hmm, dems and republicans sure do agree on Tiktok, what’s that other thing that’s going on that they agree on that americans in general absolutely despise? I’m sure it’s nothing important

Jon Lovett: “Anonymous sources said that Attorney General Merrick Garland will formally recommend moving marijuana from the Schedule I drug to a Schedule III drug that puts it alongside testosterone and Tylenol.”

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about?

(he means tylenol + codeine obv)

“I was walking into Jazz Fest last week and there was some young progressives, kind of multi-hair colored look at me and maybe think maybe I could be somebody that could win over on the issue of gay rights. I don't know. I guess I wasn't dressed gay enough that day.
And so we signed this petition to help support the gay agenda. And I was like, whoa, my old instincts came back out. And I was like, wait a minute, there's no gay agenda.”

Tim Miller, gay republican guest.

“But if there are rules and laws against that kind of protest, and if you've been warned about breaking those laws, then part of civil disobedience is accepting the penalty for that. I mean, that's what Dr. King said, right? He said that you should accept the penalty and you should do so civilly, not uncivilly, right?
That was sort of the foundation of his belief in the civil rights movement. And of course, the civil rights activists were not treated civilly, but certainly they acted civilly. Look, I don't think that means that cops should fucking fire rubber bullets at you or tase you or beat the shit out of you, but that's a whole separate problem.”

I’m not sure that really is a separate problem, Dan. (also i don’t think that’s really an accurate framing on King and the civil rights movement)

“And I know they're trying to work on a deal right now, but he[Biden] has not used all the leverage that he has to try to end this war. So I think when that happens, and hopefully it does happen soon, that's when we'll start to see the protest actually go away.”

Dan Pfeiffer thinks Genocide Joe is gonna start really putting the screws to Benny from Cheltenham any day now. What an absolute fucking goober

“And our friends at FiveThirtyEight now finally have the averages, the polling averages for states, just so everyone knows. They have North Carolina at 6.6, so Trump's up by 6.6.
Georgia, he's up by 6. Nevada, he's up by 5. And then Arizona's 3, Wisconsin's 3, Pennsylvania's 2.
And Michigan is actually the closest now. And yet Trump's only up by a point and a half there. So tight race, tight race.”

hmm noticing a trend here that would probably be pretty alarming for a certain sitting president, but i’m not the polls geneous

the Noem soundbite is actually unbelievable

Interviewer: “At the end of the book, you say the very first thing you would do if you got to the White House that was different from Joe Biden, is you'd make sure Joe Biden's dog was nowhere on the grounds, commanders say hello to cricket. Are you doing this to try to look tough? Do you still think that you have a shot at being a VP?”
Kristi Noem: “Well, number one, Joe Biden's dog has attacked 24 secret service people. So how many people is enough people to be attacked and dangerously hurt before you make a decision on a dog and what to do with it? That's the question that the president should be held accountable to.”
I:“You're saying he should be shot?”
KN:“That's what the president should be accountable to, which is, what is the number?”

Tommy Vietor: “They let Trump ignore its policies on COVID testing and masking, which nearly infected President Biden.
And if people watch that video now, it will just throw you off because Trump looks unwell.”
Jen Psaki: “He looks unwell and also Melania just strolls in with the kids. They're all unmasked. Melania tested positive five days later.”
TV:” So like they could have killed the current president in the United States before he was elected.”

someone get trump on that h5n1 raw milk before the next debate

“I think the ICC needs to call balls and strikes. And if they see someone they think has committed war crimes, they should prosecute that person. But I think what you're hearing from the administration is concerned that at a time when they're seeing fractures within the governing coalition in Israel and hope that would create political pressure on Netanyahu, that this ICC process might actually bring the coalition back together and put some wind in Netanyahu's back politically.”

This is a conclusion you could only come to by ignoring what the administration has actually said. They have, for weeks now, said that the ICC has no jurisdiction in clear deference to the Israeli regime

“What is her [Martha Alito] 4chan username?”

I would make fun of them for not knowing how 4chan works but knowing how 4chan works is a clear moral failing so you get a pass there

“So really, this may amount to essentially a messaging effort by the Biden administration to show voters that he is concerned about immigration, that he's willing to shift his own policy views to address those concerns that he's hearing from voters.”

oh, this is a thing he can do? ah, only when it’s a run to the right, i see

“And I would account this Russ Vogt guy as among them, who not only have very scary and extreme views, but are willing to do things that are extra-constitutional to fully erode our democracy and push us into a situation where we're more like a country like Hungary, where our courts are packed with right-wing judges, districts are gerrymandered to entrench Republican control, the DOJ is going after the press, they're going after opposition leaders. And we're talking about fundamental changes to the character of America that will be very, very difficult to walk back.”

hey pod save guys, i got some real bad news about the current “character of america” as you’ve framed it in most of this country

“And by the way, democracy or else, look at this book. Look at this beautiful hardcover book.

Here's the deal. I saw that on Amazon. You know who's ahead of us on the list?

I'm like the political humor list, Bill Maher. Come on.

Come on.

We don't want Bill Maher ahead of us. That's ridiculous.”

Your buddy Obama would have to personally waterboard me to get me to admit to this L

“I had a friend tell me who's like very unhappy with Joe Biden and been at protests over Gaza to say like, you know what, you're protesting Joe Biden right now. Voting for Joe Biden gives you the opportunity to keep protesting.”

the protests aren’t because people like to go out and protest genocide, they are against that genocide. If Joe Biden were the first president since Nixon to condemn student protests, would that be fucked up or what? We got NYPD rounding up students, protestors against cop city are facing rico charges for organizing protests. i don’t think the state of protest in america is quite as strong under the Biden administration as they are making it out to be

how’s the pod going? well:

JF: “You're yelling at like four Twitter users.”

JL: “Well, no, I'm not because-“

TV: “He's having a nice conversation.”

“Dean Phillips, you son of a bitch! Fuck you for being right too early!”

I’m pretty sure the pod save boys are joking about saying this to him, but it’s worth remembering that Dean Phillips had horrible policy positions. The only thing he was right about was that biden didn’t have the juice

“this podcast is supported by comedy central’s the daily show…”

i am somewhat fascinated by comedy central buying pod save ad reads

thank you pod save for letting me know that this is a thing that happened

https://youtu.be/1uuyTggFWYc

“This was not a scheduled golf outing, this was what’s called an OTR”

it’s called going golfing. it’s not off-the-record.

“Yeah, it's sort of, if Trump were on a unicycle saying, I'm gonna imprison my enemies, it's still dangerous, even though it's pretty funny that he's on a unicycle.”

Lovett, stay in your fuckin lane. It’d be pretty funny if trump went out at the first vote on survivor