This episode of IHIP News reacts to the Democratic gains in the latest election, with hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan and co-host Josh Welch discussing the results. They cover President Trump's public reactions and his claims about polling, the role of Elon Musk's heavy election spending and the possibility of state action in Texas, and the Democratic fight over Senate leadership after Chuck Schumer.
Listeners will hear the panel's arguments about which candidates won, what voters responded to, and why accountability matters. The hosts' statements are opinion and commentary, presented as their own views rather than established facts.
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All right, now this episode, in this beautiful day in America, let's listen to Kankel's Mint Taco Tips. Good old Kanks, badass, dementia boy, little bigot, extraordinaire criminal convicted felon that got his ass handed to him. Everybody, everybody hates Donald Trump unless you're a bigot, and then he's your guy. Here he is calling into Fox News. Enjoy. Play the clip.
And then I read at Fox that I'm not popular. You know, I mean, the Fox polls are terrible. You ought to get yourself a good pollster because your pollster's the worst.
But tonight, actually, the results are pretty close to what the Fox polls show.
Well, I don't know about that. I can just tell you about speaking for myself. And the results with Fox with me were wrong for 12 years. I mean, they've gotten me wrong for 12 years. But I don't care. It doesn't matter. People, you know, people see when you when you look at the pollster recently that admitted they weren't even doing polls and they gave the information to the New York Times and they weren't even a legit it wasn't even a question of legit.
Yeah. I've heard enough. I've heard enough. What a fucking pussy. Seriously, pumps.
Here's the thing. Okay, so a couple things struck me about that. Number one, just the marbles in his mouth continue. And then for him to say, "Fox polls say I'm not very popular," which goes to the point that Natalie Harper's only feeding him how popular he is all day, every day. And then he goes on to attack Fox News. He's, you know, texting hosts while he's in there. This is a man that cannot live in reality. We have somebody with the nuclear codes that is incapable of accepting reality.
And it is time we start talking about the 25th Amendment in earnest. This is very serious, you guys.
Problem with the 25th Amendment is then you get JD Vance.
Right.
And that's something that's a very serious conversation to have. And we'll get to that later in the week. But let's, Josh, let's listen to this clip. And here is Kanks taking zero accountability for his loss because the American electorate, the Supreme Court, and all of the coward chicken-chick coward Republicans have told him, "You don't have to be accountable. You get to be a piece of shit and we're going to co-sign." Play the clip.
Oh, I did people.
Mr. President, you have a final message tonight that you take from tonight and a message to the American people?
Well, I say this. Congratulations to the Democrats. They did a good job. They've been looking for this one for 11 years and they finally got it. But I don't view it as a hit on me. I think we've done a we've had the greatest two years in the history of the presidency in terms of the economy, in terms of all the things that we've done.
Delusional party of one, your table's now available. Delusional party of one, your table's now available. Josh.
And don't even start playing that soft shit with us. Congrats to us. Don't even go there. We're not I mean, let's look at some numbers, though, from NBC's poll. They said that we know that Trump's approval is in the 30s, right? They said 43% said that opposing Trump was the reason for their vote, which is well above what it was in 2018. And then 62 to 63% said that the military action against Iran was the wrong decision. 74% called it crucial or a major factor in their vote.
This isn't just a catastrophe. This is a five-star catastrophe for MAGA, for Trump, for the Republicans. Their message of hate did not resonate. In the last two or three days, I was saying on this podcast that there seems to be something different in the air that's different. And it is different. You're seeing it across the board with the Black voters, with Hispanic voters, with young kids, Latinos. You're seeing it everywhere. You're seeing these numbers.
It was different. What you saw last night, you saw 15 to 20-point gains in some races, which is unbelievable. And Donald Trump, don't come at us with this soft, weak-ass, nice shit congratulating us. Okay, we're going to congratulate you back with subpoenas and indictments. That's going to be your congratulations.
Yeah. And I want the United States to rejoin the ICC, and I want all of these motherfuckers going to the heck. But Elon Musk has set out to kill the woke mind virus, which doesn't exist, which is something he made up because he's an idiot. And it's very important that everybody remember that Elon Musk is a father to 14 children that we know of. One of these children is a beautiful girl named Vivian. Vivian is a trans woman.
Elon Musk says on TV all the time, "The woke mind virus killed my child." He has no relationship with his child. He's a deadbeat dad of the highest order who wants to cheat, rob, steal. And there's a lot of information out there that he was the illegal immigrant that he warns everybody about. So this victory from the Democrats is a repudiation on several things. Number one, on MAGA. Number two, on bigotry. But specifically in the state of Texas, it is a direct repudiation to the almost trillionaire that spent with effortless ease half a billion dollars nationally on all these races.
And he got his ass handed to him in every single one of them. Because we love all the immigrants that come over here and work and contribute. We hate, and I mean H-A-T-E, exclamation point, hate your guts. You represent the worst of humanity. Pop this up. Elon Musk was among the biggest losers of election night. He doled out around 446 million, the most a non-candidate has ever spent on an election.
But his preferred candidates were swamped losing almost everywhere. This is a moment where we have been begging for there to be a solution to Citizens United, and our politicians have not delivered for us on that. And even some of our Democrats take money from duplicitous lobbyists, and they end up being controlled opposition. But this is a moment where the people said, "We will handle Citizens United."
It will be so toxic for a candidate to take money from somebody like Elon Musk or somebody like Miriam Adelson or somebody like Jeff Bezos that it doesn't matter how much money you spend on them. We will know that candidate is a prostitute. All right, listener, have you seen the crazy people on Instagram or TikTok that are watching TV and they take a selfie and they have a white mask with a red light illuminating from the back of it? I am now one of those people.
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When I saw that the state of Texas in every office went to the Democrats, my first thought, they're going to investigate Elon Musks. They are going to get the emails between Abbott and Musk. They are going to prosecute the shit out of Elon Musk. And it could not happen to a more deserving candidate than this man. He has been the source of so much hate, so much cruelty, so much division.
So I say, Texas, accountability for Elon Musk is the number one priority of the new attorney general. Not that they care what I think, but I think that's what the voters want. They are like, "We are tired of it."
Yeah. I want to add, sorry, JD Vance plays this whole, "Where's the gratitude? Where's the gratitude?" These billionaires do this chicken-shit stuff where they're set up in California and they make billions of dollars, and then they try to bully the government there, bully governors there, bully politicians there. If you make me pay taxes, I'm leaving. If you make me do this, I'm leaving. And then they're like, "Oh, no, we have to kowtow to the billionaires." So Elon Musk, titty baby, extraordinaire, deadbeat dad, piece of shit out the wazoo, packs up his toys and moves to Texas.
And he sets up shop. And he thinks he builds a big SpaceX wall around him. And American people said, "Listen up, motherfucker. Assimilate. Assimilate. Understand this. We understand, Elon, that you're an immigrant. And I welcome immigrants, but you've got to assimilate. You've got to assimilate that we, the people, govern this country. You can have a net worth that can choke all the bulls on the globe, but you need to assimilate that the people dictate who wins elections, not your ass."
Josh.
Yeah. And let's not forget that the state of Texas and Pump's is right about this. They have elected a Democratic attorney general that will be the top law enforcement agent for the state of Texas, and that person will be a Democrat. And so if you're Elon Musk, you're thinking, "Oh, shit."
State trouble.
You really are. You really are. Because state attorney generals have a lot of power. And as everyone knows here on this panel, federal pardons don't reach state crimes. And so buckle up, Elon Musk, and lawyer up and get your shit. You might go to Mar-a-Lago, get in the penthouse suite. You and Trump can hole up and do whatever it is the MAGA folks are going to be doing for the next few years.
Big Macs.
Yeah, because this party's over. The Hill country, it's gone for you. So get the fuck out.
All right. And I just want to take a little spin. Little Moses "My" Grinder Johnson. As you know, we have targeted for a long time on this podcast. He is a hypocrite and he is a loser. He is a little pipsqueak. He is a pussy. He is just he's awful. He's absolutely awful. Here he is giving his concession speech last night. Enjoy. Play the clip.
Blue team is about whether we're going to preserve and strengthen the American experiment or we're going to hand our country over to far-left radicals who have captured the Democrat Party. The battle for our country, that battle against this insurgent socialist movement, and the battle to restore American greatness, none of that is over in any way. In fact, I'm going to tell you right now, that fight has just begun for our generation.
It actually didn't just begin. It actually just ended. It actually just ended. Woke is back. The woke mind virus is back. And we are going to make a culture where the shit that you hate, like gay people, which is really weird for a straight alleged heterosexual to be that obsessed with gay people and all your pray the gay away camps. We got a gay senator in New Hampshire, motherfucker. So these mediocre white men with all these skeletons in their closet, but I'll tell you what, we are not stopping.
This is just the beginning of our coalition building and our tent building. But I do want to play for you all this right here. So Sam Cedar and Emma Vigeland over at the Majority Report are pioneers in left-wing independent media. Sam Cedar for 20 years, 20-plus years, has been doing what you all are enjoying right now, which is independent media. And they live-streamed the election results last night.
And go follow the Majority Report. Sam and Emma are very good friends of mine and collaborators of this show. And here is Sam Cedar responding to Chuckle's speech last night. Play the clip.
The fucking give a fucking panic attack. You can give me a fucking heart attack.
The American people reduced the red brick wall to a pile of bricks.
What the fuck are you talking about? What red brick wall? What red brick wall? I consume politics 23 hours a day. And I have done so for 22 years. And I have no fucking idea what you're talking about. What red brick wall?
Check Schumer. First of all, Sam, no notes. It's exactly the way the Democrats feel right now about Chuck Schumer. That is it. And I'm just going to say this, and I want everybody, all of our peers in independent media, Chuck Schumer as Senate Majority Leader is a no. It is a full stop fuck no. He dicked over Angie Nixon, which I will never, as long as I live, ever forgive him. He makes it known that his number one job as a senator is to get money for Israel, which is wildly unpopular.
And so Chuck Schumer, he will still be a senator, but he cannot have any leadership position. The new Dems are here and this bullshit that you all play by with the seniority and this person's been here since the paleoethic era, whatever, blah, blah, blah, so that we get to roll them out. No, no, no, no. Chuck Schumer is a fascist collaborator. He takes money from the same people that have funded this fascist fuckery that we've all had to live in.
He is disqualified. And I concur with my friend Sam Cedar. What the fuck is a red brick wall?
Well, yeah. We said this too. I mean, the Democrats won last night in spite of Chuck Schumer, not because of Chuck Schumer. And so any thought that he's going to be in a leadership position, I mean, look at everything he did in 2024. Look at all the mistakes. You don't get rewarded for that. You don't get rewarded for abandoning candidates in the middle of trying to take over the majority of the Senate and the House. You don't. And so many people are tired of this old guard. The Democratic Party showed up last night. And they didn't show up for that bullshit, to have someone talk about red bricks.
Sam's going, "What the fuck? We didn't." We showed up to have someone who's ready to fight and hold people accountable and bring consequences for their conduct. Not this old guard bullshit being bought by super PACs.
I'll just perhaps here, I want to get your take on this. So here is a new Dem, one of the new Dems that arrived who just took fire from his own party, Democrats. Fired on Abdul Al-Sayyed. People said he wasn't that great of a candidate and all this stuff. He is a once-in-a-generation candidate. He took on so much bigotry. And he said, "I'm going to win this race by seven points." He called a shot. He took it. He won by seven points.
Mike Rogers, who is a bigot, an anti-woman, homophobe, corporate, warhawk, piece of shit, got his ass beat. And here is Abdul trolling Vance and Trump in his victory speech. Play the clip.
I mean, there is this delicious irony in the fact that you're constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January. Donald, look, I know you struggle with my name. So after JD swears me in in January, you can just go on and call me Senator.
Perhaps. I get chills watching it again because it is so good. And here's the thing, just to the Chuck Schumer point, I heard a lot on the mainstream media about he picked really good candidates. He also fucked a lot of really good candidates.
Fuck him.
He picked good candidates. His candidates lost in the primaries. His candidates lost. He didn't pick good candidates. He picked Vindman in Florida. Angie Nixon beat the shit out of Alex Vindman. He picked Haley Stevens, who turns out wasn't a Democrat ever because she goes and votes and endorses a bigot extraordinaire. That is a bullshit narrative. Chuck Schumer, I concur with Josh. We won despite of him.
And look at these old boomers. And to my boomer listeners, I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about the governing class. Donald Trump picked losers, and Chuck Schumer picked losers. They're out of touch. They're out of touch. And the one thing I love about the boomers in this community is they say, "Let the young blood take it. This is their time. Let them make the policy that they're creating families in." And this seniority stuff and this narrative that Chuck Schumer picked winners is just a LIE!
bold print. It's just not true. Chuck Schumer picked losers. Losers. And he picked Alex Vindman, who also dicked over Angie Nixon. Alex Vindman had $7 million left in his war chest, did not give it to her, and she lost by one percentage point. The Republicans didn't beat Angie Nixon. The Democrats neglected her. And I will never forgive Chuck Schumer, Kristen Gillibrand, who is in charge of the DSCC and all of their fundraising, and Alex Vindman for not helping her.
And the absence of a lot of these politicians that were not down campaigning with her and with other candidates, like Cory Booker was very reluctant to endorse Abdul. But there were great leaders who went down and campaigned with Angie Nixon. You had Elizabeth Warren. You had Chris Murphy, Bernie Sanders, of course. And so it is just so important that we call out these lies in corporate media, even liberal corporate media, because we won despite Chuck Schumer and the DSCC.
Well, and I would also say I have been very, very unimpressed with Hakeem Jeffries this morning in response to this race. I think absolutely we have to focus on costs, minimum wage, all of those things, but we have to focus on accountability. People came out and were saying, "This election is about corruption. We need accountability. We can't merit garland this shit." And if Hakeem Jeffries can't do it, girl, bye.
I completely agree. I think it's a very worthy conversation to have that we do not have to accept the foregone conclusion that Jeffries is speaker. If he's playing patty cake with Jared Kushner and he isn't coming out full tilt and he's tepidly endorsed clients that conflict with what his APAC donors want him to do. And that's the through line with all of this is the APAC donors. And the Democratic Party has spoken out and American Jews have spoken out and said, "We stand against Islamophobia and bigotry of all forms."
And so anyway, it's just a great day. It's a great day, but we are all gas.
It's a great day.
All gas, no breaks. All right, that's all we have. Please like and subscribe, and we will be back later with more news.
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