This episode of IHIP News, hosted by Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan, reacts to the latest midterm primary results and the political commentary surrounding them. The hosts respond to clips from Fox News, NBC and other outlets, discussing the South Carolina race that Annie Andrews won, the debate over socialism and capitalism, and why young voters may have supported Democrats.
They also cover the controversy around Abdul El-Sayed's Senate primary win, criticism of Israel and free speech, and religion in politics. Listeners get the hosts' critical views on these topics, presented as their own opinions rather than established facts.
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Welcome to the Maggateers episode. This is a very, very, very important piece to your celebratory menu today. This is a very important item. First up, we have Sean Hannity, literally on the verge of tears over "Darling, kiss my ass. My brother is a bottom gram." Play the clip.
Panel: South Carolina. Again, Sean.
Brutal. I mean, you know, I kind of agree with Trey in the sense that I think Darlene was put in an untenable position. She actually would be better, more South Carolina-focused than her brother, who was very foreign policy-focused. She hadn't buried her brother. She hadn't mourned her brother. And her governor and her president asked her to serve, and she did. It's sad to me. You know, ended tragically.
It's tragic. It's absolutely tragic that a completely unqualified dipshit got her ass handed to her by a very qualified, highly educated American woman named Annie, who took transphobic and ridiculous attacks on her, and she stood her ground. She stood for South Carolinians. She stood for women. She stood for diversity. She stood for everything that you don't have a modicum of courage to stand for. You fatass, Sean Hannity.
You know, here's the thing. Trump picked her. He hand-picked her. He hand-picked Ken Paxton. This is a repudiation of him across the board. And when you look at this, honestly, I was kind of worried that the name would carry her through because her brother was so popular for so long. But Lindsey Graham lost the plot a long, long time ago. And one of the things that I really appreciated about Annie Andrews' speech is she said, "I don't owe anything to big money.
I owe my candidacy and my winning to South Carolinians." And I thought that was powerful. And she wasn't the only one that said that. But these people need to be responsible to their constituents. Not Donald Trump, not Sean Hannity, to the people that put them in office.
And that is the message that MAGA is feeling, that Elon Musk is feeling, that all these billionaire donors are feeling this morning. But also, that is a message that corporate Democrats need to feel. That your seats are not safe if you continue to take money from the same fascist collaborators that fund MAGA. Moving along here, we have Caroline Leavitt blaming the media for MAGA's loss. The media that's been bought up, by the way, by Trump-syco-phant billionaire losers. Like, there is no unbiased corporate media at all anymore.
It is a media of corporations, by corporations, for corporations, full stop. Play the clip.
Unfortunately, I think the American people forgot about the good policy, maybe listened to the lying media on the other side. That is definitely in the back seat of the Democrat Party. And the Democrats don't have policy solutions.
And you know how much money they have.
They got more money in their pockets because of the president's tax cuts that Democrats voted against.
You know, actually, you don't have more money in your pocket.
Right.
Only like a few of his friends do. Go ahead, Pumps.
Donald Trump has more money in his pocket. Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, all those people. Working-class Americans, blue-collar, middle-class people don't. Caroline Leavitt, shut the fuck up. Like, I thought you were staying home with your kids. Do us a favor. Shut up. Because they do know how much money is in their pocket. And the only people that are getting rich and not paying taxes are the top 1%. So enough already. That just tells you where her mind is because she's like, "Well, I have more money in my pocket because I'm married to a billionaire 40 years older than me or a millionaire 40 years older than me."
Good for you. But if you weren't married to a millionaire 40 years older than you and you had to raise two kids on a salary of less than $60,000, let's see how far that takes you.
All right. Next up, we have Will Kain melting down about socialism. Let's play this clip.
I believe that we are entering an era of politics where we have wild populist swings on a four and maybe two-year cycle. You know, this is a midterm, and midterms always go against the party in power. But I think we're entering a very schizophrenic swinging era for our politics, back and forth. And the dangerous thing about that, Brett, is that in this case, we're swinging towards socialism. And if that's where we're headed, that's a hard one to swing back from.
This is all they have is this fearmongering about socialism, which they fundamentally don't understand. The Democrats immediately need to adopt a message that we don't have a capitalist society right now. We live in an oligarchy, period. And you have two political parties that have establishment bases. You have MAGA Party, which is a party full of bigots and a party full of billionaires and billionaire ass-kissers and the preferred form of economics they want for the country is oligarchy. In the Democratic Party, you have the New Dems that broke out, that have been breaking out since Zoran won and so on.
The seeds that Bernie Sanders planted that are growing, who has said that this form of capitalism is not sustainable because it leaves the majority of Americans behind. The establishment Democrats are not capitalists. They are corporatists. And so Democrats need to define this message very clearly. The New Dems, the progressive Dems, like Angie said, Annie Andrews said, "I don't owe anybody. I won this fair and square, and I'm going to work for you." We need to start educating the public that we don't live in a capitalist system right now.
And the Democratic establishment, the people who are jockeying for these leadership positions that have been, you know, in the Senate or the House since the Iron Age, they are corporatists. And so it's super important that we start talking about every capitalist society has a great mixture of socialism in it. And we have to educate the public on this because all they're going to do is sit there and fearmonger with this socialism stuff. When the irony of it is, the majority of the MAGA voters enjoy socialism every day via their veterans benefits or their Medicare or their Medicaid or a visit to the library, roads, bridges, etc.
And next up, we have Harris Faulkner. And she is blaming young people not being educated for Democrats winning. Play the clip.
The other thing that we saw were these Gen Z voters. And we saw this during the primaries. They were coming out for some of that socialism/communism. They were looking for some relief. They're living in a slightly different economy than what we live in in terms of established, God forbid, older people. And it is just what it is, right? So they're, "Am I going to be able to buy a house?" they're thinking. "Who's telling me that I'm going to get this free and get that free?" That spins their heads because they haven't studied socialism.
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This notion that this is what Republicans always do, and it's so insidious, that people who want the government to deliver for them materially, we pay a lot of money in taxes, and in turn, we intend to receive material deliverables back to us. This Republican narrative that Democratic voters want things for free needs to be flipped upside down. The people who get free shit are the corporations. The people who get free shit are the billionaires. And this system fundamentally cannot afford them any longer.
The big, beautiful bill, the big bullshit bill, as Angie Nixon so brilliantly called it, is the biggest power shift, money shift, from working-class Americans to people who absolutely don't need it. Because all of the people at that desk are entitlement enablers. They are entitled, and they themselves want to enable the most greedy, grotesque members of this society. We have to culturally change this, culturally change it, and not reward billionaires that want handouts anymore, and instead reward billionaires and corporations that say, "We're going to do stuff completely differently here."
Our CEO doesn't need to make $400 million a year. That's crazy. That's nuts. So what we're going to do is we're going to he's going to make $25 million a year. It's going to be just fine. And we're going to take the rest of that money, and we're going to distribute it to our employees and benefits and perks. If a company did that, I wouldn't have any problem with them getting a tax loophole. And so we have to culturally change this. And our work begins today, today on this.
No, I completely agree. And when you think about how I'm not don't quote me on the number, but I think it's over 70% of wealth is concentrated in this older group of Americans. Well, no wonder young people are frustrated. More are living with their parents. More can't afford housing. They can't make their paycheck. Their insurance through work is eating up their paychecks. Something has to be done about this. This cannot stand. It is not sustainable.
And to go out every day and work your ass off and not be able to make enough money that you don't need SNAP benefits, those days need to be over. And it should be the employers that are paying the difference, not the worker. And that is something I completely agree with you. When are these corporations going to start paying their employees so that they can have a life outside of working their asses off all the time?
And then moving along, we have Brett Baier. Brett Baier, as I say, Baier. I never watched Brett Baier. Brett Baier caught on a hot mic trying to spin the election results after Abdul El-Sayed won.
Seen so many yard signs out for Abdul El-Sayed as she has ever seen there in that area. Brett and Martha?
Okay. Can we do a spin on the races that oh, I'm sorry, Garrett. I guess we're on TV now.
Can we do a spin? Can we spin this? How can we spin this? What can we tell the idiots that pull up to Fox News every day and want to be lied to, pathologically lied to? What can we do? And here it gets even worse. Here is a hot mic. This is NBC when Kornacki is up at his magic wall. And the decision desk or the people behind the camera hear that Abdul El-Sayed has won.
And I want to play this for you because this is somebody that works for NBC, and this is their reaction that they didn't realize was caught on a hot mic. Play the clip.
In Virginia, Fox is in danger of losing this district. Yes.
Okay. Okay. Okay. I don't know if you're seeing folks. El-Sayed is claiming victory. Rogers has not conceded.
Okay. So you heard that. That person behind there said, you know, that Abdul claimed he won. And you hear the person say, "Oh, God. This is really why Abdul's race was the most important for me." Because there is a group of people within the Democratic Party, within the consulting class, that tell you if you criticize Israel that you're a bigot. And I am sick to death of it. I'm an American. I have the First Amendment.
And I can say whatever the fuck I want to about any country that I want to at any given time. When I criticize Israel, when I criticize their genocide, when I criticize their government and the actions that they take, when I criticize Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, or Smotrich, I get to fucking do that. And you don't get to take that away from me. And this whole fear of people that don't understand the difference between a criticism of a government and they personally take it that somehow I'm criticizing Jewish people, that's about you and your own indoctrination that you need to go deconstruct.
That's not about me. That's about you. Because on the Democratic side, you have people who are exercising their First Amendment that are criticizing Israel. And we get to, just like we get to criticize Russia or Saudi Arabia or Viktor Orbán's Hungary before he was defeated. We get to do that. And then on the right, you actually have real anti-Semites that for some strange reason, Jonathan Greenblatt and Haley Stevens and all these people rush up to endorse all these candidates that have all these little Nazis that work on their staff.
And there's a fundamental difference in this. But they go and saddle up with the Nazi sympathizers because they think, "Oh, they won't care if we kill all these people." So do not sell me this bullshit of politics that I don't get to believe in universal human rights and that I don't get to criticize Israel. That's a you problem, not a me problem. And I am sick of it. And Abdul El-Sayed is a once-in-a-generation candidate. He is an asset to this country.
He is an asset to the United States Senate and could on Michigan. Seven points he won. You rejected all that shit. What an incredible electorate. Michigan should just be beaming with pride because he is just he is going to be just a mammoth in the United States Senate.
Well, and here's the thing. When people say, "I want to criticize who I believe should be criticized, but I want to protect everybody," why is that so scary for Republicans? Because at the core of it, it's white supremacy. It's cruelty. But just back to the Fox News and the Brett Baier, when I saw that, I thought, "Has the Dominion lawsuit taught you nothing? You have to pay almost a billion dollars, and you're still trying to lie? Are you fucking kidding me?"
These people don't learn.
Okay. Just a few more here, perhaps, before we wrap. Here's Laura Loomer reacting to the election results. Pop this up. I hope everyone is learning Arabic until you, Laura, say, "That's right, bitch. Woke Sharia is here in the United States." And here's the fundamental difference. I'm not a fan of any religion. I'm an atheist. I can't stand Islam. I can't stand Christianity. I can't stand Judaism, Greek gods, all of them. No use for any of it. But my experience of an American as an American is as such.
The people who try to impose the religion on me the most are the Christians. The people who try to censor my speech the most in this country are people who are Israel-first Americans. The politicians that are Muslim in the United States of America have been the most attractive to me. And this is something I didn't have on my bingo card 10 years ago as an atheist. You have Zoran Mamdani who goes to pride parades with a trans flag.
You have Abdul El-Sayed who refused, refused to throw trans kids under the bus, refused to do it because he believes in equal rights for everybody. So this is just a completely unbiased take on how a person who has never been indoctrinated into any religion I see from the Christians, they want to control what I do with my body, what I do in my bedroom, all of that stuff. I'm not saying there aren't fundamentalist Muslims. There are.
And it's whacked out. And I'm not down for any of it. I am an equal opportunity critic of religions. Truly. I think they're all batshit. I truly do. But the Muslim politicians that I have seen come to the fold here that have been elected, I've really liked. And again, I did not have that on my bingo card.
I completely agree. And I mean, just leave it to Laura Loomer. Wasn't she the one that said Zoran was going to start teaching Arabic in New York City public schools after he won? It's just the same hateful rhetoric over and over. Shut the fuck up, Laura. Your time is over. She's a policymaker in this White House. Girl, bye. Again.
All right. And then Kristi Noem had the audacity to respond. Larry Kudlow is correct. We were too successful the first year of the Trump administration. They were just too successful, you guys. The delusions of grandeur with these people, it's just I don't know. I think it's a perfect combination of like mental illness plus low IQ. I mean, it has to be because how do you write that? And then we have Ken Paxton supporters crying in prayer circles at his election night party.
Play the clip. So there they are, and they're in prayer circles crying. And it's just pretty interesting that like this is why I'm telling you guys. It's the Christian Taliban. They are the problem. They are the problem. If there becomes a group of fundamentalist Muslims that want to do a bunch of shit like that, I'm going to be the biggest ring leader calling that shit out. And I mean it with everything in me because I want to live in a secular society.
I want religion out of politics. MAGA doesn't.
No.
They don't want that. All right. That's all we have. It's a great day to be an American. Please like and subscribe, and we'll be back later with more news.
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