an interesting bean 
it’s a good thing ellen is off the air now, she can’t kill another woman’s presidential campaign https://youtu.be/WkNL_cfVyWU?si=OEWWGPAu8gZdHgdY
“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.
pod save is doing a “trek the vote” event with wilw. shut up wesley et al
“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
Harris underperformed in swing states by 1.5% and in non-swing states by 3%. Pod save boys say that means the campaign’s ad spend had value, but i’d point to a political apathy because harris didn’t make a compelling case for her admin has exactly the same impact. people in swing states will vote harm reduction or whatever horseshit, and people in non-swing states don’t have to sweat that
i’m enjoying their despair. yes more weeping, gnash them teeth
their takeaway is that, despite running a great campaign, with only 100 days to differentiate herself from biden it was simply impossible to make that case. except before the election, when they talked about how she might differentiate herself they said she should just say she’s different but not actually differ anywhere. which is exactly what she did. Imagine remembering what you said a month ago
“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
how do libs consistently say that a ceo has no agency over the actions of the company. that’s literally their whole deal.
“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
jon lovett admits that he doesn’t know what kamala stands for, but that’s not even what i’m mad about this episode. lovett is very wrong about time zones. you cannot leave it up to states fuck off you’re so wrong
i honestly assumed just everyone hates matt yglesias so i was caught off guard when pod save was talking about his newsletter takes on this year’s jan 6th
jon lovett reads kissinger’s last book about ai, i listen to steve albini’s last single about baseball, we are not the same
tv: (regarding the seal super bowl commercial) “it made me a communist on the spot, that was it for capitalism”
welcome to the winning team tommy
i’m 10 minutes in and they’re talking about how it’s not fair that trump went to the superbowl when conservatives got mad that the Obamas went to a broadway show
i just listened to 5-4 talk about the breakdown of rule of law before our eyes and the jarring shift in tone to the pod save boys is really something. they’re now talking about people saying gulf of america is just a distraction. “distraction from what?” they seem to be missing the half dozen unconstitutional and impactful things that are happening before our eyes. libs are on a different planet
the pod save boys don’t seem to realize that a *lot* of cars are manufactured in canada, as well as a bunch of tier 2 suppliers. canada is deeply integrated into the us auto industry, and trump says he can move production back to detroit with the stroke of a pen (he can’t, i’ve seen what that sort of move looks like. wanna build a couple brand new factories in Detroit? it’ll take 5 years before the first car is off the line)
lovett had Leah Litman of Strict Scrutiny on, to talk about what would happen when the supreme court says some trump policies are unconstitutional. really a striking differentiation from 5-4 who clearly believe that the supreme court will act to further their own ideology rather than on the merits in cases like that
i specifically believe that the two forces pulling against one another are conservative justices desire to push forward their ideology, and those same justices desire to make sure that power remains in their hands. if trump challenges the SC they can quickly be rendered irrelevant, or they can render themselves irrelevant immediately by bending to trump from day 1. we probably only have a few months where an SC/executive fight would have republicans in congress support the SC enough to matter.
“I got some more data from echelon on this right before we recorded, […] Elon’s approval is uhh, 45/50. So he is under water”
you’re talking about the guy who hit a seig heil on national television. what the fuck is even going on in this country
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This is like one of those humiliation rituals the q folk always talk about, but from the right. Making the pod save boys do an ad read that sound dangerously close to the 14 words
“his administration thus far has the patina of competency and success that his first did not”
are you watching the same administration? none of his agencies have ever shown any competency this time around, and he staffed them with bottom of the barrel guys. his first admin was full of republicans who thought they could work with him who resigned later because he’s a petulant old man
susan rice, the former ambassador to the un for obama, called the president of el salvadore "trumps butt-boy" on pod save. sincerely what the fuck
pod save is doing an episode about biden’s cancer diagnosis. fascinating angles in this one
I don’t really think the white house covered up a cancer diagnosis, but if they did because grandpa didn’t wanna give up his car keys i’m gonna become the freakin joker
tommy endorsed some sort of reform that allows greater transparency into presidential candidate health. finally, let’s pass the stable genius act
i have said in the past that the worst pod save episodes are live recordings because they get a little too excited in front of a crowd but it gets worse. lovett and two gay republicans, sarah longwell and tim miller, did a show at worldpride and it is painful
this is a fucking psyop. they have michael fanone up there talking about his time undercover doing drug interdiction in gay bars. who let them do a pride event that is majority republican and also includes a cop as a guest.
“Like this is not exactly how history went, but imagine you're a 30 year old in this country, right?
In 2016, you supported Bernie Sanders. The entire establishment supported Hillary Clinton, including the people who worked at the DNC during the primary. In 2020, Bernie, you support Bernie Sanders again.
He is on the cusp of victory. Everyone else drops out and endorses Joe Biden. Everyone goes and vote.
They all go and vote for Joe Biden to get him elected. In part because they believe that Joe Biden will be a one-term president. They are begging someone else to run against them or for Joe Biden to step down.
He doesn't do that. And then here once again, they are inspired by a candidate and people from the Democratic establishment. If you live in New York and you want Brad Lander or someone else, that's fine.”
the pod save boys are mad about the dems lining up to support cuomo, and for once i agree
Oh we got Jen “What do you want us to do, mail everyone tests” Psaki on this episode
Mark Cuban: “You gotta do what Mr. Beast does”
Mark Cuban: “Now we're seeing all this AI video. Why aren't they creating just tons and tons and tons and tons? Of AI video that's all prompt generated.
This stuff makes us laugh, right? I mean, you see the gorilla with Downsy and all this stuff that's... You know what I'm talking about?”
Jon Favreau: “I don't know. Tell me.”
MC: “Oh, you don't? Okay. Because it...
Maybe it's because I look at my son's stuff sometimes, but there's just like... There's stuff that becomes ubiquitous on social media, and that... You've got to use it.”
jesse, what the fuck are you taking about?
oh no, googling that makes it appear that it might be the most dehumanizing ableism on the planet. i haven’t watched because tiktok loginwall but how is mark cuban watching this shit, what is wrong with you man?
“And there is this incredibly dangerous logic here that is just embodied in what Vance says, which is as the president of the United States, we have the authority to declare anyone or anything that we view as a threat to be a terrorist or terrorist organization. And also we, as the president of the United States, have the power to do anything we can to protect America from said terrorist or terrorist organization.”
This is news to you, Dan? You worked for the Obama administration and the same AUMF for the global war on terror is still in effect.
Pod Save had exactly the reaction i expected to kirk’s death. “But i’m a well known political commentator too”
“Maybe I am the naive one, maybe we are still huffing Obama hope fumes, but I do believe that the vast majority of the American people do not want where we are. They hate that we are this divided. And there are certainly political partisans and we are among them, who live in that divide.”
I largely agree that the average american wants a return to brunch, but average people are unable to see a path where organizing, running for office, and voting gets us out of this. And i’m afraid the pod save boys are the ones deluding themselves when we have military deployments in major american cities
Mister Softie 
@timmy I think a majority of Americans want to afford their food, gas and medical bills without wondering what bills to bounce, what to give up but liberal policy will do nothing about this in the end, we live in a neo-liberal world
@timmy I mean Zohran here in NYC is not a communist but the Dem leadership hate him because he wants some at cost grocery store and freeze the rent. That and not support genocide (which most Americans agree with)
@whiskeysailor i will say the pod boys have been lightly positive about mamdani. if i were trying to build political momentum behind the dems like them i would probably have mamdani on the pod, which they haven’t done, but they have said that other dems should learn from his campaign. probably in superficial ways rather than, well, supporting good things. but nonetheless
Mr. Q The Pizza Demon@timmy @whiskeysailor That statement about learning from his campaign reminds me of when Tom Suozzi said that centrists need to find their Mamdani that can connect with the working class and India Walton said that was the stupidest thing thing she heard all day.