Transcript of 🚨 Yikes… WTF Did He Just Do?

Pete Hegseth dodged accountability yesterday because the Democrats sabotaged the motion to move forward with his impeachment. We'll just leave that there. But Pete Hegseth is just an absolute national embarrassment. He is an embarrassment to the military. He is obsessed with testosterone, AKA gender-affirming care, and then he just, in general, acts like an asshole all the time. CNN is reporting the following today on Veterans Day: a U.S. Army Sentinel guarding the tomb of the unknown soldier reprimanded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and a group of his senior advisors Wednesday after some in the group laughed and talked near the solemn memorial following a Veterans Day ceremony.

All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times.

I think that guard speaks for a lot of the soldiers that have to obey orders from this secretary. It's really disgraceful that he can't even get through this. He can't even show up on Veterans Day without being an asshole. I mean, that's where we are.

All right, so yesterday the Democrats fumbled the bag. In their big debut of about to be the party in the majority, they were unable to whip the votes to move forward this motion to advance the impeachment of Pete Hegseth. And pop this up: Kathryn Clark is the Democratic whip in the House, and it is thus her responsibility to ensure members are there to vote.

Yeah, and just call me stupid, but I'm not so sure if you're the whip that you need to be scheduling events when you have a vote that's this important. And the whip is responsible for rallying the troops to make their vote. So, I mean, this is just illogical. And then you find out that it's an event that's allied with APAC. It's really just a pass-through entity for APAC, for pro-Israel money. And all these candidates are there instead of going up and voting to impeach Hegseth.

No, it's maddening. And then when we're treated in such a patronizing way, if we are not just all chips in on supporting Hakeem Jeffries for speaker, it's like the buck stops with him. If he can't whip the votes to impeach a war criminal, what are we doing here? Like, what are we doing? Like, this was a layup.

And all, yeah, and all of these Congress women and men that failed to show up, they all posted on X that they wanted Hegseth impeached. And I think Congresswoman Clark had on her X account that she had supported the impeachment of Hegseth. And then she throws this event and doesn't have the votes there necessary. I mean, it's just crazy. Crazy.

It's just talk is cheap. And it's just this era of politics must end. An incoming House Democrat, Don Leonard, talks about how Democrats are being pressured to vote for Hakeem Jeffries. Play the clip.

Tonight I met with, we'll call them senior members of the Democratic House, who told me in no uncertain terms that the decision as to whether or not I support Jeffries, regardless of his willingness to speak with me and meet the interests of my constituents on a couple of key issues. Number one, getting a constitutional amendment to incidents united.

This is what it's going to take. It's going to take the young blood coming in and exposing this system. We vote for them to go, and then they have these secret votes and the seniority system and this bullshit game that they play once they're in there that doesn't deliver for the American people. And it's going to take incoming young people like that being whistleblowers to the public via social media. That's all it takes to say, this is what I was told and I was threatened. And this is bullshit because I was elected by the people. And then I arrive here and I'm told, you have to play by our rules now.

It's, you get in this position, you get insulated from day-to-day issues. You start to, it seems like their ego gets involved. Everybody's jockeying for these positions on different committees. And all of that, what's lost is the will of the people, which is the people that voted for you, your responsibilities. All of that gets lost in this power grab. And the Democrats, in some ways, are just as bad as Republicans. We're going to have to own that. We're going to have to face that. Hearing this incoming congressman talk makes me realize what a shit show that place is.

I completely agree. Here's AOC responding to Leonard's video. Play the clip.

Just had.

I haven't seen the video, so I can't speak to his individual instance, but I can say that I have seen, you know, in the past when I first got here, a lot of vitriol. And I don't think that going through it that way is productive.

So you're saying Democratic leadership has perhaps threatened you in the past regarding some of your positions?

Oh, people have been very, people were, when I first got here.

Say more.

Oh, brother.

I think I remember.

I got a $3 million primary challenge my first term. People were very, very, very focused on making me a one-term congresswoman.

It's going to take a coup inside the House of Representatives to expose this intimidation, do-nothing Democratic brick wall that they hit all the time. I mean, this is, this needs to be, the light needs to shine onto this. And it's going to take old members that have engaged in this before saying, I agree, we need to do something different. And it takes me back to that clip that we played last week with Jon Stewart. Maybe it was this week, I can't remember. Jon Stewart saying, we have to do bold things.

And hearing her own that, because she basically is owning what he said, that it's true. Then it makes me question her endorsement of Jeffries, okay? Because she wants a certain committee assignment. And so it's just, it's all one big game. That's what it says to me. It's a power grab by all of them, except these incoming congressmen and women that are fresh, that actually want to go serve the will of the people. But hearing her say that and then watching, I think I saw a clip recently of her endorsing Jeffries, it just makes me think this is an orchestrated game and that it's just.

It is.

Yeah, exactly.

I think, I think a lot of people have had to go in and play ball because that's the only thing they can do once they get there to actually try to get some progressive legislation done. So they've had to adapt. But in that process, that's where I think the breakage occurs. Like you start breaking as a human being when you start compromising your morals. And obviously you have to compromise to pass legislation. Of course, that is something that has to be done. But I think when you start compromising your morals, that's where these politicians get broken. And then you get this product that comes out of it that is, you know, just a complete caricature of a stereotype of how we see all politicians.

The only thing I want to add to that is that a lot of this inside the Democratic Party was also prevalent in 2024 with Harris and Biden, that in my opinion, led to Donald Trump being reelected, is that when Biden stepped down in that whole process, you just had people playing, instead of looking at what we're facing, which is a destruction of democracy and saying Democrats unite, do what's best for the party, not the person. We didn't do that. And again, you're starting to see that right now. Put all this aside, Donald Trump is trying to destroy this country. Okay, put all ego, power, all that aside and do what's best for the voters.

He is destroying the country. And then you get, there's this whole thing that exists online and not in the real world. And it is this, the corporate Democrats, they cling onto this centrist thing. We're centrist and we're moderates. And the extremes on both sides are terrible. And then the progressive left flank of the party says the centrists are, you know, corporatists, which I tend to agree with the left flank. And I believe in this election we just had, it was a broad coalition of voters that were pissed off more than anything, madder than hell at what's happening, want deliverables on affordability, want the crime to stop.

This is an election for normie dams. Okay, I'm sorry. It's an election. You do not have this kind of wave of people winning everywhere.

This is an election of normie dims. When I hear clips of Nira, I always hear subtraction. I never hear addition, which I think, oh, okay, I read her Wiki page at some point. It's like, wow, she has an incredible resume. She's worked for all of these people. I'm new to political commentating, but I've always been a political junkie. But I do know that the number one rule is you have to have a politics of addition. You know, you have to add people. For her to say that this, you know, this was just a normie election, you know, all just the normal people came out and voted.

Nothing they really say or do is radical. She deems people that oppose aid to Israel and oppose the genocide as being radical. I just, I just see that as like a baseline human thing that you have to do. Like we have to oppose murdering kids at a minimum. I don't think anything about that is remotely radical. But I think what we're seeing right now in real time is the death of the establishment and they're clinging on and they're very concerned about these spaces that we're in right here, whether it's Hassan Pikert or this space or other independent media spaces, because that means they don't have proximity to power anymore.

Yeah. And I don't know very much about this woman. I think I kind of blame you for me knowing anything about her because since I've been covering politics, I've seen her on X here and there, and it's not very impressive. But people like her, if you believe this new wave of Democrats, that this left pact of the party, if you believe that there's a rise in that, then that threatens her livelihood. I'm going to assume she's one of these corporate pro-Israel Democrats.

I wouldn't know anything about her either, but she, a lot of the people that I really like, she's always fighting with on the internet. And the more I see what she has to say, the more I like the people that I'm following because they just cook her over and over and over again. And I think she acts like she's still in the 90s. And no disrespect, I've evolved politically as well. But to, I think it's patronizing to call people quote, normie dims. I think it's patronizing language to say this was a normie dim victory.

And she makes it about her too, you know, about her positions or her candidates instead of just what's best for the party. I mean, the party had one of the best, I think, election runs since 1974. Like it was unheard of the way they came out and voted and just not to have a positive tick on it and try to slant your narrative about whether or not these are moderates or they're left or progressive or whatever they are. I mean, just to fit your narrative. And I think it's really more or less just to keep her relevant, just for her to stay relevant in the discourse.

So here's, you're right about the, this was at a post-Watergate level turnout. Pop this up. Dave Wasserman over at the Cook Political said with more than 116 million votes counted, dims lead in the National House vote is up to 13.5 points. It's now the largest margin for either party since 1974. 1974 was the conclusion of the Watergate scandal when Richard Nixon resigned August 8th of 1974.

Yeah. And we've got to defeat, well, like you said, the APAC. The people that take APAC.

That's the Haley Stevens.

Yeah. I mean, we're fighting that right now in the House specifically. I think it looks better in the Senate, but that faction of the party and then, you know, hearing what this incoming congressman described is basically being threatened. They're going to come after him. And then AOC confirms that she was primary and someone put $3 million against her with it. This is within your own party. People are doing this to you. So, I mean, it's cut throat. And I think the incoming congressmen and women that are so enthusiastic, they're not used to that.