Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan react to Donald Trump's final campaign speech at the reflecting pool, which they call rambling and filled with vandalism claims. They discuss reports that Stephen Miller has been drafting ways for Trump to govern by decree if Democrats win Congress, a plan the hosts see as a sign of weak policy.
The conversation then turns to the Senate primary won by Abdul El-Sayed over Haley Stevens, pro-Israel super PAC spending, and racist posts linked to a former Mike Collins staffer. Listeners hear the hosts' opinions on these politicians and the midterms, presented as their own views rather than established facts.
In this episode Angie Sullivan, Jennifer Welch
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All right. Donald Trump decides that his closing, his closing argument to vote for his party, the MAGA party, will be to demonstrate a dementia-hour show-and-tell at the reflecting pool in his final campaign speech. Let's go ahead and play a clip of this.
It's up by Biden and the Obama administration. They sort of worked. It was a similar group of people that worked. It didn't work. Tremendous algae problems. And you have that picture with the algae? Yeah, let me see that. This was a picture taken when it was just before they closed it down. And this picture, this was in the.
You know, you guys—okay, I've heard enough. This is literally like you go see a grandparent in the nursing home and they're like, you know, and then Dorothy stole my panties the other day, didn't she? You know, and showing all the evidence. This is crazy. And I expect him—I say this all the time, Josh. I say, tomorrow we're going to wake up, he's going to do crazy shit, rants, repeat. So he's predictable. He's predictably a dipshit. The Republicans, like Senator Thune, this should follow him forever, for the rest of his life.
Because if he is rubber-stamping all of this stone-cold sober, unless all of these Republicans have a major drug addiction or some massive mental illness, this is just unacceptable.
Unacceptable. And what about this guy that's handing him the slides? Do you think he thinks to himself, do I really have to fucking get up there and give him the pictures of the algae? Do I really have to do that and show that to the probably 10 people that are there at that press conference? I mean, come on. But your analogy to an assisted living center, I picture that more as if you're playing bingo with a bunch of, like, 90-year-olds at an assisted living center and they're calling the numbers out and you're checking and you're looking up.
And that's exactly what this looks like. No offense to the elderly in the assisted living center. I don't want to get jumped on by them. But seriously, this is our commander in chief. This is the person responsible for our military. Frightening.
It gets worse. So the first hour of this, we made Ryan watch it, right? And I think he's—as of recording, he's still droning on right now. But we had to start recording it. He has not mentioned anything about the election an hour into it. Now he's repeating the lies that it was vandalized. Play this clip.
Opened it quickly and there was great vandalism with slashing. We have pictures of it. We have photographs of it. In fact, I must say, Jesse Waters of Fox did a whole long piece on it and it was sad to watch because the vandals really went to town. A lot of people tried to protect the vandals. But we.
Yeah, the people that protected the vandals were the judges and the jurors that said there's no evidence at all to support a crime. You know, he tried to charge that one individual with vandalizing the pool, the reflective pool, and that was dismissed or he was exonerated. I mean, it's absurd. He just stands up there and drones on and that's his closing speech. I mean, people can't afford to put gas in their car. They can't pay for anything. And the person that's making this closing pitch for the Republican Party is a senile old man with dementia showing photographs of algae to about 10 people in an audience, making up shit as he's showing these pictures.
Do you remember what he called Jeb Bush? Low energy Jeb.
That's right.
Yeah. It's like every accusation is a confession. Sleepy Joe Biden, he's sleepy. But in proving that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, here's Don Jr. giving at a rally at the exact same time as this. Play this clip.
They want to pack the Supreme Court. They want to make Ohio a state.
You know, I mean, this is really bad for Don Jr. I mean, at least Donald's dementia kicked in, you know, in his 70s. I mean, I don't know. Don Jr. is even 50 yet?
I don't think so. And so they want to make Ohio a state. They want to make cocaine illegal for the obvious reasons that he shows, which when you take drugs like this for a long period of time, it causes your brain to go defunct. You know.
Or is he just an idiot whose dad always just kind of, you know, paved the way through? They want to make Ohio a state.
You can be both. You can be just an idiot and a drug addict.
Well, darling, I'm glad you were a smart drug addict.
Well, I've got one of the boxes checked. Sometimes two, maybe. But.
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All right. And then, all right, so that's just, that's the Republican closing argument. And this is really giving 2020 vibes when Joe Biden beat Trump. What happens is this political party governs for just a little bit. It's fun. For some reason, 70-something million people get excited when they're campaigning. Then when they govern, people are like, oh, shit, this is awful. This isn't entertaining. We need boring experts in charge of us. So at the end of his four years, his first term, they rolled out that Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference.
Rudy Giuliani, which was one of my favorite Republican fuck-ups of all time. This is really rivaling that. The reflecting pond and then rolling out Don Jr. who doesn't know that Ohio is a state. And so after people see MAGA policies in action, people can't get away from it quick enough. And Stephen Miller knows all of this. And so he is now plotting as to what comes after the midterm loss. Pop this up. The Daily Beast is reporting that Stephen Miller has spent months devising ways for Trump to pass laws without Congress's approval if Democrats sweep the midterms.
And here's an excerpt from that article. Stephen Miller and senior White House officials are drawing up a plan for Donald Trump to govern by decree if voters hand Congress to Democrats. According to the Telegraph, Miller and senior White House officials have spent months devising ways for Trump to pass laws without Congress's approval if Democrats win control. White House counsel Will Sharf and his team are examining what Mr. Trump can legally do on his own, where he can push the limits of his authority, and how to defend those decisions in court.
An official told Reuters. Meanwhile, federal agencies have already submitted proposals and legal assessments of measures Trump could pursue unilaterally, the Telegraph reported. You know, here's how bad their ideas are. They can't win them on merit. So they have to cheat. They can't have a policy take it to Congress. They can't go by the will of the people. And they want to make Ohio a state.
Yeah. And just the one sentence alone, Trump wants to pass laws without Congress's approval. Now, if you take me back to grade school, you learn that Congress makes the laws, not the president. But we have seen in his administration, by executive order, he's tried to do this, make no mistake. And so this really isn't new news. He did that with the tariffs. He tried to circumvent Congress's power to do that. So he's got—we expect this from him.
All right. And then we have Trump is asked in another interview that dropped this morning. He's asked how he will govern in the minority. Let's play this.
Well, if that happens, I guess I'll become Mr. Vito. I'm not going to let him run. And then at some point, we'll probably make deals. That's what's happened. I mean, this wouldn't be the first time.
Okay. There's some good news in this. Number one, it feels like thus far, and this is election eve, but it feels like our elections have held. And that will yet to be seen by the end of, you know, Tuesday night, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, et cetera. You know, Tucker Carlson saying they're about to nuke Iran. So who knows what all's true? But Stephen Miller is preparing for an incoming Democratic Congress. Donald Trump says, I'll become Mr. Vito. And so this is really a big step that if we were able to maintain our country with these midterms and get the Democrats in there, that we can be one step closer to 28 and getting total Democratic control and fixing all of the loopholes and all of the mess that this maniac and these psychopaths have exposed, that the founders and other people didn't anticipate that people that are this broken and this criminal and this depraved and this debaucherous would be in charge of other people.
So that is somewhat comforting. Yet at the same time, you always say, Josh, on here, we have to all go vote as though we're 30 points behind in every poll.
That's right. And I don't trust him to say anything. So I'm going to agree with you that what he just said and what Stephen Miller previously said, or that was reported, suggests that there would be a willingness for them to accept defeat. But I don't believe that. I'm not going to believe anything about Donald Trump until I see it, period. So you have to assume that they are trying to cheat and steal. They're using the Department of Justice to weaponize this election. So no one can take that for granted. For Trump to say he'd veto this, veto that, we know that he didn't run for the betterment of this country on policy.
You know, we know that he's not going to try to compromise with Democrats to do anything that benefits the country. When do you think the last time is he read 10 or 15 or 20 pages of some boring proposal or some boring bill and then consulted someone to ask what it means and actually learn something to try to pass a piece of legislation that might benefit or help people? Never. Never. He's going to veto anything and everything unless it has to do somehow with he or his family making money.
Otherwise, he's got no interest in policy that will help the American people, period.
All right. And then we have Haley Stevens, the Democrat, as I say, that was handpicked by Chuck Schumer to be a United States Senator, who now we know is MAGA, is, was, for all intents and purposes, this woman is MAGA to me. And proving that she's MAGA, she goes on Scott Jennings podcast today. Play the clip.
I'm more pro-choice union, you know, than anyone, right? I mean, I love these values and I believe in them. I've worked really hard for them. And it is very simple. I do not feel that Dr. El-Sayed is fit to be a U.S. Senator.
Okay. Haley Stevens, fuck you that you say you're pro-choice. Because if you are pro-choice, you wouldn't be voting for and endorsing Mike Rogers, who is rabidly anti-choice, who wants to make it a federal abortion ban. And this is all fun and games for you and your fiancé playing slap and tickle and it's high times and you're getting to go on Scott Jennings podcast and Anderson Cooper just totally exposed what a nut you were last night. But these are people's lives.
And for you to say that you think Abdul El-Sayed is real Israel obsessed, you're the woman who says that you couldn't vote for Abdul El-Sayed because he's critical of Israel. But you, you who aren't even Jewish, say you see Israel in your dreams and that you're a Zionist Democrat. The majority of Americans don't give a flying fuck about Israel. This is not a kitchen table issue for normal Americans. She is the absolute worst.
Kudos to Hassan Pikert and other progressive leftists who exposed and hammered what a fraud she was and how important it was that she not win. And so I'm just so grateful that Abdul El-Sayed beat this woman and she is not heading to the Senate.
I just want to say a couple of petty remarks. Number one, is it just me or is her voice the most irritating to have to listen to? I mean, that's number one. Number two, her being on Scott Jennings podcast, are there two more unlikable people on this planet than those two right there? Could you imagine having to watch?
Yes, there are.
Well, there are. We could add. But those two. And then the third reminder is that Super PACs, all pro-Israel Super PACs, spent approximately $55 million on her primary. Why did they do that? Well, we know why. Because she's now their token prize. She's saying the things they want, that they want her to say. And again, we talked about this on an earlier episode. This is all about money and buying a candidate.
Well, and here's the good news about all of this. This backfired. So the minute she does this, Abdul is able to raise $2.5 million in one day. Pop this up. Prem Thacker of Zotero is reporting that Abdul El-Sayed raised $2.4 million on Sunday, shattering the campaign's single-day fundraising record. The average contribution is $36.74 for more than 65,000 donors per campaign.
29,600 people donated for the first time. And those numbers right there, a Republican can't put up. A Republican cannot put up those numbers. You think Ken Paxton has that many individual donors for him? No, he has one main donor, his pimp, Elon Musk. And then, you know, maybe some other nuts in the MAGA regime. But this shit tells you everything you need to know. There is a very few percentage of people that Israel is important, it's important for them in this country.
Israel is not our country. I don't like what they do. I don't like the way they terrorize Palestinians. I don't like any of it. I'm out on the whole thing. I'm sick to death of Israel being at the center of American politics. And that's why you see this grassroots, you know, reaction to all of this. They're like, we are so sick of this shit.
So think about this. Abdul El-Sayed raised $2.5 million in one day. So in her entire campaign for 2026, by grassroot efforts, by single donors, I think Haley Stevens raised $5.5 million. So he's raised half of that in one day that she was able to raise over the course of the entire primary. And then it goes a little bit deeper. I hope people like Cory Booker, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, I hope they're paying attention to this because they were reluctant to get behind this candidate and then he's got that much support.
So think about that.
And you know who else? They were all hesitant to get behind Zoran Mamdani.
That's right.
And it's the same thing. And the through line here is something breaks in people. You have a Democrat that seems to be for human rights and for Democratic ideals and for liberal democracy. And then they start taking money from this lobby. And then they see what that lobby is doing. The war crimes, snipers shooting little kids, just really depraved shit, right? And then they're broken. And then you see that manifest.
The fact that Cory Booker wasn't and Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer aren't screaming at the top of their lungs about this. Now, they did, all three of them did some tweets in fairness. But this is the same shit they did to Barack Obama. And I remember when he ran. This is the same shit they did. He's not American. Barack Hussein Obama, he hung out with Jeremiah Wright, Sarah Palin, would say, Obama's paling around with terrorists. And Obama's been on the stump with Abdul saying, we know this story.
I've starred in it. I've starred in this before. And so the fact that there are Democrats that are participating in this. Now, Chuck Schumer in his defense, he's on tape telling the Israel lobby, my number one job as the Senate leader is to get as much money for Israel as I possibly can. So we know where he stands. But Cory and Hakeem, it's just, people don't want this. People don't give a shit. And we talk, listener, we come from Oklahoma. I cannot tell you.
People don't give a shit about Israel and they don't want their money spent over there anymore.
That's right. There's something valid in this movement right now amongst the people about all of these people that are pushing this Israel first agenda and the backlash that's associated with that, that people don't understand that. And I think that's also been proven by the fact that, you know, APAC came out recently in October and said they're going to quit giving individual contributions to candidates. Instead, they're going to let all of the money flow to the candidates via their Super PACs where the donors are anonymous.
And that's because these candidates like Schumer, like Booker, they don't want the stigma associated with taking APAC money and they don't want to have to answer for it. And they realize that. That's how unpopular taking APAC money has gotten that they have now changed their practices of giving money to candidates to where all of it can be anonymous because people are tired of this shit. Why are we so up Israel's ass about every single thing we do? People don't understand it and they're hurting and suffering because of it. And it is odd.
It's weird how our allegiance is to this country. We're in this war with this country. And we're in Oklahoma. Nobody gives a shit about people in Israel. I'm sorry. I'm not trying to be offensive, but they want to know how can they put gas in their car? How can they pay their rent? These very basic things that nobody can.
It's such a good point. There are real-time consequences. So while Bibi gets his 40-year-old make-a-wish, you know, I want to bomb Iran and finally, you know, I have an American president that's, you know, easy enough to manipulate to get him to do that. For people in the United States that used to fill their car up with gas and it was $50 to fill it up, now it's $100. And that doesn't mean anything to all the people in Trump's administration. That doesn't mean anything to Cory Booker and to Scott Jennings or to Haley Stevens.
But to the overwhelming majority of Americans, that's debilitating. That's debilitating. And so I just want to close with one final story. Mike Collins continues more exposure that all of these Republican candidates, whether it's Mike Rogers, who now Haley Stevens' ass is crawled up, and APAC, who claims that they, you know, they're all about democracy, they're all crawled up Mike Rogers' ass, who has Nazi sympathizers in his staff. Well, Mike Collins over in Georgia has the same.
Pop this up. Another former Mike Collins staffer has been linked to a social media account that posted, "I'd rather be a white supremacist than a degenerate impoverished minority." Described the civil rights movement as a mistake, called female politicians old hag, bitch, and fat pig. They're probably referring to me. Described Islam as a desert slave religion and used homophobic slurs. This is who they are. This is why J.D. Vance, when they asked him, "Will you condemn the Nazi group chat of the young Republicans?"
He said no. He won't do it.
Yeah. And I would like to know what county Mike Collins and all of his cronies are because I guarantee you the target is sold out of white sheets. I mean, they're all in this thing. They're all KKK-like white supremacist guys. All of them has got five or six that have peeled off. You know, you can kind of explain one or two, one of which is his son-in-law too. But all of these guys are fucking racist. Every single one of them. And they can't run from it. They just are. So I'm not sure how all that white nationalist squares with all of these pro-Israel people.
You know, how does it? Like, are they just not?
I think they just think, okay, these people are depraved enough that they'll support us in doing all the killing because at least we're killing brown people. But what they don't realize, you and I have lived around white Christian racist nationalists forever. I promise you, that destiny is waiting for you as well. So this is going to be a self-inflicted wound. And so actually, in me despising Israel right now, I'm actually trying to help preserve universal human rights because you're not doing yourselves any favor. And American Jews deserve to be safe. And we need to focus on the people we have in this country and promoting universal human rights in this country.
And the Mike Rogers and whatever this guy's name, what was his name?
Mike Collins, APAC.
Mike Collins, Mike Rogers.
Yeah, they should have given this dumb son of a bitch a bunch of money and kind of quieted him and all his KKK cronies down a little bit.
Yeah, it's really bad shit. All right, election eve. I'm nervous.
Go vote, vote, vote, vote.
Go vote, vote, vote. If you're nervous tonight, go read my book, Not Today Fascist. And then tomorrow I'll be broadcasting with Don Lemon on the Don Lemon channel from 6 to 8 Eastern Time. Yeah, so that's all we've got. Like and subscribe. Tell us what you think about these nut jobs in the comment section.
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