“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

“there's going to be a lot of takes already, like, you know, is door knocking and organizing useless and all this kind of, like, I do not regret at all. And we'll still look back fondly on the two days we spent in Arizona and Nevada just this last weekend, even though we are dealing with this horrific result today.

Because talking to all of you that have come out to these events, Pod Save America, everyone else who's volunteered, and like just being with people in person, talking about politics, getting energized, and then knocking on those doors, right?”

the friends we made along the fuckin way, right guys???

“on the UN piece, like the UN relies on the US for about a third of its budget. There's all these component parts to it that matter a lot to people like us.

We do half the funding for the World Food Program. They'll probably pull out of the Paris Climate Accords. UNRWA, which does all the humanitarian relief in Gaza and the surrounding areas for Palestinians, will probably get gutted again.”

excuse me but isn’t the US fully barred by statute from sending money to UNRWA? imagine how bad it could be under trump when we currently give $0. fuckin ghoulish

“I’m gonna take the neoliberal, squishy, centrist position that murder is bad. also denying people lifesaving healthcare because they can’t afford it, bad.[…] hope all the murderers are caught and punished. also hope we pass more laws to make sure that everyone can get the healthcare they need without insurance company putting them through hell, which insurance companies frequently do.”

that’d be a hell of a platform, maybe someone should try to do that