an interesting bean 
“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
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 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
“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
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?
“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.
“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
“Because Janet Mills, she may be a great candidate, but she is just a better version of the Sarah Gideon campaign in 2020.
It's the same thing. It's an establishment Democrat running has made. What if we had an anti-establishment, an outsider, someone with the appeal?”
the dems can’t run someone with appeal, that might be a good idea
Jen Psaki and Lis Smith starting going on about how Kamala got blindsided by republicans making hay on her response to that aclu survey that asked about gender care for inmates. Lis asked why ACLU would even ask the question and Jen advocated for just not answering these questionnaires.
I would like to point out that where Kamala went wrong wasn’t in saying it, it was that she wouldn’t defend her stance. It was settled con law that denying necessary medical care is cruel and unusual punishment. She balked instead and that’s where she fucked it up
“So maybe this cycle of like, bankrupting American farmers and then paying them off will work again. My guess is ultimately these farmers would rather just like run a business and not deal with this shit, but...”
Clearly you’ve never met an american farmer
“It was really interesting talking to Pritzker because I do just, he has a, like a, and I said this to his face, like if you would have told me that this was like one of the richest human beings in America and the richest person in public office, like that would be surprising because that's not how he carries himself. He has a much more, I don't know, like just not what comes to mind. And it was an interesting conversation about how he does come from all this privilege, but that he was shaped by a lot of loss.”
oh fuck off lovett. i don’t give a shit that a billionaire lost his dad in childhood when it comes to electability. I haven’t listened to the interview so i won’t say that pritzker is wielding it this way. i think people who live this life usually manage to balance the personal experience better
“And that we're the party that can most easily, and because of our fundamental values as Democrats, address what I think is coming, which is a wave of unemployment as a result of artificial intelligence.”
Sorry Jay Bob Pritzker, i don’t know that what you think is coming is actually coming, nor do i think the Democrats should be trusted to navigate that scenario
“Jesus Christ, when are these people gonna stand up and do something?”
right there with you tommy
“I think that the image of the Democratic Party is as bad as these polls suggest. I also think that a lot of it's coming from Democrats. A lot of those numbers are coming from Democrats who don't like the party, who are going to vote for Democrats no matter what, and many of them will crawl over glass to vote for Democrats in the midterms, even though they are not happy with the party.”
yeah man we are so fucked when the “opposition” party is hated by their biggest supporters
If i had a podcast about hatelistening to pod save, i would definitely put favreau saying “Qanon was right” on the drops board.
if i ever do this get me help
Bobby Pulido: “I mean, I have friends and family in border patrol. And they felt that they had been, they didn't sign up for necessarily for processing people because that's what it was becoming with the asylum seekers. They're like, I signed up to patrol the border not to be processing people, right?”
They wanted to go ride around on 4 wheelers catching border crossers and were mad that biden made them do paperwork? these friends of yours?
“Like it's a 20 kilowatt laser, which is actually not that much. It's kind of like the low end of the spectrum. I read it was like 350 light bulbs, basically.”
No one has had a 60w incandescent bulb in their house in like 5-10 years man
“Also, the Super Bowl is not a unifying event. It is an opportunity for the NFL to make as much money as humanly possible for a group of billionaire owners. As the United States, we all pick one side or the other, and we watch them concuss each other to death on a field.”
Not even gonna touch how good an allegory for US politics that is, eh?
“Like, when did you start paying attention to politics? And what was your world view like back then?
And sort of how has it evolved?”
“I mean, I've always been politically, I was a big history buff when I was a kid, which in many ways kind of makes you sort of politically aware just because you're doing that. In high school, I was introduced to more critical thought, like Howard Zinn and Chomsky. I, you know, at that point, but I remember reading those things and like being like, yeah, some of this makes sense.
But I also still was very much like a bit of a patriotic young man. So, and I always wanted to join the military. So I had this kind of like weird, like militaristic bent that I really can't explain.
But since I was two, I wanted to be a soldier. It was really after my military service that I began to think much more deeply about it”
this is the guy who said he didn’t know what a totenkopf was until a few months ago. he committed to one very weird lie
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@timmy ah, damn
I must know the name in your back pocket then, even if you have to invent it
@timmy I know not with which I meddle but that's true like 80% of the time anyway
there's always Pod Save Pod Save America
yeah, ploufe helped obama win in 2008 and 2012 (iirc)
but that strategy was shit for everyone but obama. it completely destroyed the democrats as a party that can be at least somewhat competitive everywhere, and was disastrous at the congressional and especially state levels
and he hasn't done shit since then
Mister Softie 
the gripe ibis@whiskeysailor @timmy they don't have to like you, believe in you, or expect anything of you. they just have to vote for you.
that's why they get the big bucks, folks.
meanwhile podsave uk is out there yelling about how uk labour is not actually defeating tories, they are handing reform the win.
i've talked to a lot of normie dems who are tired of the dems promising nothing and accomplishing less. and how do they expect to win votes of independents if there's basically no one on the grassroots promoting the party except as harm reduction?
Tom Magnanimous@timmy the crazy thing is that even if that premise was true, it still doesn't enable the US to just snatch him
guys please be at least a little perturbed that the State dept keeps flipping through a dozen justifications depending on the moment, from elections to 'narco-terrorism' to whatever
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