Transcript of Do You Remember This? (Ep. 2633)

You lose someone special, a car accident, some fatal disease you didn't anticipate. I mean a genuinely awful tragedy. I strongly encourage you to— it's not a long read at all— to read Viktor Frankl's book, "Man's Search for Meaning," when he describes the conditions in Nazi concentration camps and how they could just tell right away if you were imprisoned in one of these horror factories. You could tell right away the people that weren't going to make it.

They would— they called it— I've described this before, but he calls it in the book like "running into the wire." There was an electrified fence, and some prisoners in these concentration camps would just run into the fire— into the fence— and basically electrocute themselves. But he said you could see it. He said, "They just woke up one day and gave up hope." But there were other people who would talk about, "One day we're going to get out of here. I'm going to see my wife and kids again." In other words, they had hope. They had something to look forward to. And, you know, when you read that book, it's hard to stay depressed about things that, like, happened on Tuesday night.

Because I know, and I'm going to show you right now— because talk is cheap, folks. Bring freaking receipts or STFU, you get the point. Things in politics change quickly. Like, how quickly? Like, real quickly. And for everyone out there talking about, in the Democrat media, "some massive realignment," "a total rebuke of everything MAGA stands for."

Like, what, the 165,000 jobs that just came out today? Three times the anticipated number? I caution you: be really careful. It was but 30 days, even less than that, after Barack Obama won his first term. I'll prove this to you coming up, because I lived through it. It's how I got my start in politics, in the Tea Party, like many of you out there. It was but 30 days before the revolution began. Come on. Oh, no.

But honestly, we can make it even simpler than that. Just hit the big three for now. "Hey, what do we support?" What do we support? "We support a free or fairer tax code if you give us power again on the legislative branch." You know, "We'll move with cleaning up the tax code." "We got to get away from this government-centered healthcare thing the Democrats and Socialists want to push down our throat and letting patients and their doctors control their healthcare and their healthcare decisions." Three, you know, education. I'll lump them into one. "Education in our military. We are all about choice and high-quality education, not woke education.

And we need a strong military in this dangerous national security environment." Just simplify the message. Make a handshake deal. Show people what works. Move with it. Put it down on paper. I don't care what you call it. I mean, they did the whole contract with them. I don't care what you call it. Call it the deal, the handshake. I don't know what the hell you do. But make the message simple. "We overdramatize these things. Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, which shocked the entire world, was built around one simple message: make America great again." That was it. It resonated with a lot of people. How do we know? Because he won.

That's how we know. Folks, and when I use the word "revolution," I want to be clear. I'm not a leftist. I'm not referring in any way to violence. I hope you understand that. So let's just preface this before any of these Media Matters goons or these other leftist lunatics try to mischaracterize what I'm saying. So are we clear on that? Political revolutions— and I mean revolutions— are always right around the corner. No, they're not. Okay. You want to see it? How many of you— what did I title the show? Oh, "You Remember This."

Yes. My title. I sent it over this morning on text to Gyi and Justin. Confirmed? Yes. Thank you. Last night, it's about 10 o'clock. I'm going to sleep. Go to sleep early. And, you know, I'm still, like you, struggling to deal with Tuesday and the extent of the losses, which were pretty profound. And I thought to myself, "I still don't feel as bad as I felt when Barack Obama beat John McCain and won the presidency." That was the worst feeling ever. I could not believe this guy, who was one of the worst presidential candidates and the worst two-term president of our lifetime, had not only won, but had won handily.

I could not believe it. It bothered me so much I left my job on his protection detail to go run for office in a freaking blue state I had no chance of winning. That's how pissed off I was. I nearly went bankrupt. I couldn't even pay my daughter's orthodontic bill. I gave her an orthodontist's bill. Doesn't matter. Forget what I did. Barack Obama got elected. I couldn't believe it. The country— Liberals were celebrating even worse than they are now.

Liberals were out there telling everyone, "There's a national realignment, demographic destiny. There is no way you'll win another election." Folks in the chat, chime in. This is your show, too. Tell me who remembers that? They called it like the Colorado model. Young kids, minorities, young single women. They were all going to vote Democrat for the future. Barack Obama was hopey-changey, whatever crap they were telling you about. Fancy poster. Remember that? They were like, "It's over, Republicans.

Give up. Jump out of the ring. Forget it. You're done." But only 30 days later, after Barack Obama put up his right hand and swore— and you remember? I'm seeing flags in the chat. You guys remember this, right? We were told, "Stay home, Republicans. Barack Obama has crushed the Republican Party." Something happened only 30— you mean 30 months? No. I mean 30 days after he swore in. I thought it was all over. A guy by the name of Rick Santelli, who I believe just retired at CNBC— and CNBC is not a MAGA station.

It wasn't even MAGA. It's not some conservative station. 30 days after Obama— you could put the ChatGPT thing up first, in case you think I'm making this up. A guy by the name of Rick Santelli goes on CNBC, and Obama, in his first 30 days, wanted to do this like you pay off your friends, your neighbor's mortgage plan, like it was this massive income redistribution thing. He was talking about, you know, taking away your healthcare. He's 30 days in office. So I said, "When did Rick Santelli make his Tea Party speech on the CNBC stockroom floor, and how long had Barack Obama been president at that point?"

He delivered his speech on February 19, 2009, from the CME. Barack Obama was inaugurated on January 20th. That means Obama had been president for 30 freaking days. Revolutions happen fast. There were a lot of moments that started the Tea Party, but I think most people would agree this was the match that lit the fuse. I want you to watch this and check this out.

30 days. American flags in the chat. Ladies and gentlemen, go grab a box of Lipton or whatever you need. What'd they say? Give a hoot. Don't pollute when you're a kid. But ceremonially, throw it in a body of water around your house, too. Because we don't need 30 days. It's only been a couple. It was Tuesday night. It's time to start a new Tea Party revolution. Oh, yeah. Light that shot up right there. I'm not giving up my country. I was told to give up when Barack Obama won.

Ah, but, Dan, that was just talk. Nothing really happened. I mean, what happened just 30 days after the Tea Party? Light up that shot. Because I'm not giving up what's behind me, that American flag, and you ain't either. Revolution is right around the corner. Every single time. We have an election in, what, 10 years? No, two. Less than two, because we're already a few days into the next cycle. There is an election in two years.

Where a third of the Senate is up again, the entire House, they just celebrated taking back— Hakeem Jeffries taking his victory lap— and the presidency. It's just less than two years away now. What happened after Rick Santelli's speech? Keep this number in your head. 30 days after we were told it was all over, Barack Obama won. Well, I asked ChatGPT again. "Tell me the extent of the Democrat Party losses in the 2010 midterms." The 2010 midterm election on November 2, 2010, produced sweeping losses for the Democrat Party during President Obama's first term.

You want to see how bad the losses were? You think Tuesday was bad? This was a total, complete wipeout. An ass-kicking of the highest order. The Democrats lost net 63 seats. Six seats in the Senate. Ladies and gentlemen, it's even worse. They lost 700 state legislative seats, six governorships, and 20 chambers flipped to Republican control. It's over.

It's over. I'm going home. It's over. You're going home. I'm not going home. I don't know what you're doing. Republicans increased their House of Representatives number from 179 to 242. Listen to this one. The GOP gain of 63 seats was the largest seat gain in either party since 1938. So I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Give up. Forfeit your country. Get the— you know, like that scene in Logan at the end of the movie, just bury him and put a couple of sticks there and make it— no, no.

We're not doing that. We're not doing any of that. Tuesday nights suck. There's no way around it. I said last night on Laura Ingraham's show, "These guys are classless winners." Al Syed, the guy won his election. You think he'd go out there and go, "Hey, it's time," or whatever, do a little rapprochement. No, he's like, "Ah, screw this guy. JD's got to swear me in," whatever. These guys are losers. They're zeros. Do you actually believe they're going to do anything positive that in two years is going to lead to anything other than a revolution in politics if we can get our party in line, too?

Folks, we voted the Democrats out in a massive tidal wave not seen since 1938. Just two years after Barack Obama's party told us to go home, it was over. And the revolution started less than a month after he swore in and the Tea Party took America back. Now, I want to give you even more hope. Not cope. Hope.

There's a big difference. I just told you what happened. Not my hypothesis about what's going to happen. Not a theory. That happened. I lived it. Many of you lived it, too. The Tea Party revolution was one of the most profound revolutions in American political history. The sweeps, everything that happened there. And by the way, so much— here is a slight positive from the losses. And I mean slight.

We had a lot of dead wood in the Republican Party on the House side, folks. A lot. I would never elect a Democrat. I'd rather dead wood than a socialist. However, there are going to be a lot of fresh faces running in two years. There's going to be a lot of Brandon Gill types. Mikey won out in Wisconsin. Alphonso, you're going to have a lot of younger people in there. You're going to have a lot of new ideas. There's no positives to losing. But sometimes, if you're going to lose, a lot of dead wood is out.

The whole MAGA revolution was born from the Tea Party. I want to give you another positive. Again, we voted Democrats out in a massive wave not seen since 1938. Just two years after Obama's supposed national realignment, we were all supposed to stay home. And we voted them out with, candidly, folks, a not-great prior Republican president in George W. Bush. The contrast, in other words, was not as strong as it's going to be now.

But here's what I mean. I'm explaining this poorly. Forgive me. Let me stop now, because I'm going to— I got to sometimes throw myself under the bus. What is one of the golden rules of politics? Use pictures, snapshots, and sound bites. Snapshots and sound bites. One of the other golden rules in politics we discuss all the time: people aren't reading white papers. They don't have the time for that. You make it quick. Snapshots and sound bites. But paint a contrast. Paint a contrast, okay? Here's what we did. Here's what we're going to do. Here's our handshake with you. Here's the other side. Back then, Barack Obama ran the first time as a moderate, governed as a lunatic, okay?

But he did. He was like with the gay marriage thing and all. He was like up in the air on it and all that stuff. You know, he used to talk about border control. He ran as kind of a moderate. There wasn't even that big of a contrast we could paint. And we still smoked the Democrat Party in those midterms. In a midterm election like had not been seen in almost 100 years. 63 seats. You have a massive contrast going forward now. This number just came out today, folks.

These last two years, this is what I'm getting at. If this economy keeps motoring— because that was the big issue. Don't let anybody mislead you. All these tweets out there. The issue is the economy. Please stop. Everybody knows the biggest issue was the economy. This just came out today, November 6, 2026. Wall Street Journal, "Robust Hiring Defied Expectations in October," with 165,000 new jobs. The number they expected was 59,000.

The economy is not struggling. I'm sorry you've been taught. I even saw in the Wall Street Journal— I read their columns every day. Our politics are a little different. But I saw, like, even Kim Straszil at the end of one of her pieces yesterday. It was like, "The economy is bad." The economy is not bad. I'm not going to forfeit that argument because some left-wing media person told me to say it. Do not minimize ever American struggles on farms and elsewhere. Those are real. And we've got to handshake a deal going forward that we're going to fix that.

We have to. But I'm not forfeiting the economic argument. The media used to tell us under Joe Biden's 9% inflation economy, the economy was great and on fire, and we were all supposed to play that BS line, too? The point I'm making is the contrast is going to be profound. Because Obama ran as kind of a moderate type against a really poor Republican president, George W. Bush, who didn't do a good job.

The Democrats, over the next two years, have taken over the House with a group of crazy socialists who are going to propose Obamacare on steroids in government-run healthcare for everyone in their Medicare for All bill. They're going to propose a massive tax hike, a moratorium on manufacturing all around the country, keeping gas in the ground, no pipeline construction. The contrast at the end of these two years, if Donald Trump can stop that and keep 165,000 jobs a month and 3 to 4 percent GDP, is going to be profound.

It's going to be 10 times worse. You have the opportunity in just two years to be a political revolutionary too. Folks, how many people lived through the Tea Party? Folks, it was not an organized thing. There were just people like you and I who were taxed enough already. And they were pissed. And they went out to town halls and they berated reps and senators.

And they went out and voted. Now, a cautionary tale. And I don't want to mention anyone specifically because it's not productive at this point. What happened to the Tea Party as it fizzled out and later led to what the MAGA movement became? Folks, I lived it. No one's going to lecture me on what happened. It's a grifting class. That sounds familiar, like what's happening now. A grifting class took advantage of it and used it as a fundraising thing to not help the movement, but to help themselves.

There were a lot of good groups who did a lot of good. So that's why I don't want to— I'm going to sit here and list out names. But there were a lot of grifty groups that came along and whatever. Joey Bagadonat's Tea Party thing. Donate here. And all it helped was Joey Bagadonat's. And it got people pissed off. So this isn't a fairy tale with some, you know, the princess gets married at the end and whatever. There were a lot of hiccups, and I acknowledge that. But there were huge successes, too. Under a Democrat president, we got the BCA, the Budget Control Act, before everyone threw it out later, where finally we had gotten a lid on spending with a Democrat president because he had no choice.

He had no choice. Revolutions happen fast. That's not cope with a C. That's hope with an H. And there are receipts in history to back it up. The Democrats just proved it. 2024, people, oh, it's a permanent Republican majority. It's never a permanent anything, even for us. They got their asses kicked by Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

I was there election night with you. Their asses got kicked so hard they still have the black and blue. And they got up and dusted off and came back and kicked our asses in 2026. Revolutions happen fast. It's not cope. It's hope. Folks, even Ronald Reagan, one of the most successful Republican presidents in the history of the United States, Ronald Reagan won 49 freaking states in 1984 and reelection.

49? You mean 39. No, 49. Look it up. The only state Ronald Reagan lost was Minnesota, where Walter Mondale was from. It is one of the largest electoral college popular vote landslides in American history. Well, it was a mandate, right? Reagan, 1984, permanent realignment. No, in 1986, he lost eight Senate seats in the midterm and five House seats. No, he didn't. Look it up. Look it up.

Revolutions happen quick. Now it's time to start our revolution. I don't care what you call it. Tea Party 7.0, MAGA 2.0. I don't care what you call it. The name is totally irrelevant. But you know what's not irrelevant? It has to start bottom up. We don't need anyone in podcast to stand. You don't need me to do it. I'm just a guy with a microphone. I'm just a guy with a microphone who cares about this country. That's why I left office.

You know, I left my job to go run for office myself. That's just a fact. It starts with you. As my friend Ginny Thomas used to say all the time, you know, "You're the leaders we've been waiting for. You don't need me or anyone else. You're the leaders we've been waiting for." All right. Quick break. And you know, I was talking to Paula the other day, and she had mentioned something to me about this company she does business with, and they had stopped— this is not an ad.

This is me talking— that they stopped free returns. And she was like, "Oh, it kind of sucks. I return a lot of stuff." Ladies and gentlemen, a lot of companies are dropping free returns. You got to pay right now to get the stuff back. Free returns are going the way of the woolly mammoth. Where am I going with this? In politics, there were no trade-backs. There were no returns. You picked a bunch of Democrat socialists, and I'm going to show you on the economy, the biggest issue, the economy.

Well, you did vote for that. You did vote. No, I voted on affordability. I warned you and others that the Democrats were rug-pulling you. I'm sorry. I'm not trying to be a jerk. You didn't believe me. But I told you they were rug-pulling you, that they were going to run on the economy, affordability, gas prices. And the second they got in there, they were going to talk about everything but affordability. Here's Premiya Jayapal, an absolute lunatic congresswoman. Here she is giving a deranged speech.

I mean, like sociopathic speech here. This woman may be the head of the immigration subcommittee in the House. She will be one of the top two or three immigration elected officials in the country. So of course she's talking about, "Let's maintain border security, not let terrorists in the country," and all that stuff. Oh, no. No, she's not talking about jailing terrorists. She's talking about jailing ICE agents. And then you hear a guy in the background. Did you guys catch this?

He's like, "Send them to The Hague, the International Criminal Court." And she doesn't even shut him down. Here's Premiya Jayapal talking about affordability, a.k.a., "Let's jail ICE agents and send them to The Hague." Check this out.

And yes, 7th Congressional District, you elected a proud immigrant.

And they're like, "Yeah." Folks, it's not funny. I mean, there's no but, but, but I voted on affordability. I'm sorry. I'm sorry you did that. I'm sorry you did that. Why are you smiling? Because like I told you, cope, it's not a thing for me, but hope is. Revolution's right around the corner, baby. Every single time. And I'm telling you, the Democrats are going to hit the diaper.

Dan, you missed a letter. I know. We're on radio, too, now. I promise. Oh, I got more. But just a quick interlude of sanity. Here's President Trump, who, by the way, has been incredibly measured. Everyone was expecting this catastrophic meltdown. He's like, "They pushed some good stuff. I'll work with them. If not, I'll veto it." Everybody's like, "Where's the meltdown?" The meltdown's on the left. The winners, not the losers. The meltdown's been on the left. Here's President Trump from the Oval yesterday.

Premiya Jayapal wants to jail ICE agents. Not why President Trump's in charge. Remember, we still have the presidency for two more years. Revolutions happen quick. Get ready. Here's President Trump. The new Texas Liberal Communist governor wants to open a border. I'll secure it myself. Check this out.

The contrast is even worse for the Democrats than it was in the Tea Party revolution when the first Obama midterm, we completely eviscerated the Democrats in the House of Representatives and the Senate like we hadn't done in a hundred years. Obama ran as like a semi-moderate. Go look up his speed. Not the second time. The second time he ran as a lunatic. He gets into office and governs like a crazy person. The minute he comes in, he's talking about bailing out, paying your neighbor's mortgage, screwing up your healthcare with the genesis of Obamacare.

People were like, "Wait, what? We didn't vote for that." It's going to be a thousand times worse. These Democrats ran on the economy and affordability. The second they get into office, not even in office yet, they were already rug-pulling you. The contrast with the success of President Trump on the economy, on the border, on crime is going to be so profound. They're going to have a really tough time if they don't dial this nonsense back. Here's John Turner. Look at it. Crazy.

What is that, lady? We don't do. What was that one? Oh, I don't know flags. This is going to be their party. This is going to be their party going forward. John Turner is a constitutional attorney. He is not a MAGA guy. I don't even know if he's a Republican, frankly. I have no idea. He was on Fox the other day, but he's a very moderate voice on a lot of issues. Here's Turner bringing up this exact point. Like, "Hey, they said they were running on this stuff, gas prices and all this other stuff, but that's not the route they're going down."

And it's going to create a really bad contrast for them when they get absolutely nothing done. They said they were going to get done because they're so focused on weaponizing the government and other things. Revolutions happen quick, baby. I'm telling you. Before you take any victory laps, be very cautious. Check this out.

But we're looking at gridlock here. They don't have the votes to move these reforms. And that's the reason they're going to turn to investigations and impeachment.

He could leave office with a 50-plus percent approval, just like crazy Bill Clinton did and others, if he just sticks to a sane, sensible path, which I know he's going to because he's already produced a record of results in the last few years. Republicans have been begging for it for generations. The message was just muddled. Turner said it himself. The economy's not doing poorly. Gas prices are an issue. The economy is not. The numbers don't say that at all.

The message got muddled. But the Democrat message is already muddled. Can't say it enough. Revolutions happen quick. Here's Hillary Clinton, grand dame of the Democrat Liberal lunatics. Hillary Clinton, who cost her husband a massive amount of seats in his first midterm election in 1994, they got destroyed because they were pushing this ridiculous Hillary care. In other words, they were going to steal people's healthcare. Obama stole people's healthcare and lost 63 House seats, a record not broken since 19 freaking 38.

And now the Democrats, who ran on affordability and economy, are running on stealing your healthcare with the new Bernie Sanders care, which is even worse than Hillary care and even worse, worse than Obamacare. So what's Hillary doing? She's out there promoting affordability, getting them back on track. Just kidding. Just kidding. She's talking about jailing Elon Musk. Check this out.

You cannot take the Fifth Amendment because you have no jeopardy. So let him pardon Elon and then let's call him in and figure out what he has to say.

Exactly. No give backs. No free returns, Daddy. Revolutions happen fast. Buckle up. And they happen even faster when you sell out your voters. And there are people, there are a number of Republicans who voted Democrat this time. The numbers are starting to come in. A lot. It wasn't just a few. They did not vote for Democrats to jail Elon Musk. I promise you. I don't need a focus group to tell me that. They did not vote for Premiya Jayapal to head the immigration subcommittee and put heroic ICE agents in jail.

I'll say it for the 20th time. Buckle up. Revolutions happen fast. That's not cope. That's hope. With receipts to back it up. Don't worry. They elected a moderate from Texas in James Talarico, U.S. Senator-elect, soon to be sworn in. Here's Talarico talking about affordability. Just kidding. Here's Talarico talking about amnesty for illegals in Texas, which last time I checked, Justin does have a border with Mexico, correct?

I'm not really good with geo. It's a long one, too. Here's your guy talking about affordability slash just kidding slash amnesty for illegals. Check this out.

No free returns. No backseats. You're stuck with this guy for six years now. An amnesty guy in Texas. I'm going to make a prediction. Talarico, I don't know him personally, but I'm a pretty decent analyst of people. Without meeting him personally, Talarico strikes me as weak. He's a weather vane. He'll just lick his finger and put whatever he sees the political winds blowing. He will get pressured because he thinks he's the next president of the United States, too.

He will be pressured to take a vote on some crazy Democrat bill, probably in a matter of months, on immigration. The second that goes public in Texas that him and this new Liberal governor are going to open the Texas border with Mexico to illegals again, there will be a political revolution in Texas like you haven't seen in a long time. They will not be able to duck it. Here's Talarico again talking about affordability.

Talking about affordability. Nah. Here he is talking about scrapping the filibuster so they can push through crazy Democrat things like banning voter ID and elsewhere. Is that affordability? No, no, it's not. No trade backs. No trade back, Democrats. Watch all these swing voters swing right back when this crazy stuff happens. Check this out.

In the formerly red state of Georgia, there's an agriculture secretary just got elected. At least they're talking about affordability and stuff right now. No, they're not. No, they're not talking about tax cuts for no, no, no, Justin. I know that's what he thinks is in this clip because I said about affordability, right? Here's the Georgia agriculture secretary talking about what basically are racist government policies, like distributing government taxpayer funds based on someone's race. Oh, we're going to give money to black farmers.

Folks, I love black farmers. White farmers, Hispanic farmers. I love farmers. You feed us. We don't give out taxpayer dollars based on racial discrimination. I don't care what your group is. I thought this was about affordability. Oh, no. This is after these people won, too. Just like that. Check this out.

Send ICE agents to The Hague. Let's make racist payments based on racists. Broke Connor put out a tweet. DEI is back. Can you imagine a guy more out of touch? You really believe that's what Americans showed up to the polls to vote for Democrats to bring back DEI? They voted against men and women's sports in liberal states by large margins. You want to talk about misreading the electorate? The contrast. If the Trump administration stays on track on the economy, the border, and crime, three huge issues.

Throw in school choice and the Second Amendment. You got two big ones, too. You got five rock-solid issues there. They stay on track and stay focused while the Democrats lose their minds trying to jail ICE agents, impeach everyone, throw everyone in jail. I'm telling you, the next election in just under two years, it's here now, will not be pretty for them. I don't think they can help themselves. Here's a Fox report on just this. I saw this. Steve Israel wrote this piece in the Wall Street Journal.

Was a Democrat congressman saying, "Oh, you know what? We elected a bunch of moderates around the country and the Democrat Party is going to moderate." He was basically saying, "Steve, listen." I think I met him a couple of times. He's a Democrat, obviously, but I don't buy any of that. The energy and money in the Democrat Party is with the lunatics and they're already telling congressional leadership on the Democrat side that we want votes. We want votes on Medicare for all and all this crazy stuff. I don't think any of that's true. I don't think the Democrat Party is going to moderate.

I think it's going to unmoderate and get crazier. Again, here's the receipts to back it up. They're already making demands, these socialists. They haven't even sworn in yet. Check this out.

He wants to lead those Democrats, all of them. Right now, he doesn't have any competition. However, those far-left members of the party still may not support him. You know why? He's not on board with radical ideas, so he says, as these.

You know, Vince and I have some nice robust debates. We should probably do like a Vince and Dan debate show. You know, listen, we hire people for their minds. This is not a monopoly on ideas. I don't have a monopoly ideas. I'm wrong on something. But we were chatting before about just this overreach and the dumping the filibuster. And we said we were going through the big ones. Like the damage the Democrats are going to do. The Electoral College going away with the National Popular Vote Compact I discussed yesterday. If I had to give it a probability, I give it 20, 25 percent because there are going to be small states that have no interest in that at all.

Nevada, New Hampshire. They don't want California deciding who's the president. You'd never see a presidential candidate in New Hampshire again. But the Democrats are crazy enough that it could happen. One thing I rate at probably better than 50 percent right now is the Democrats dumping the filibuster. They dumped the filibuster. I'm telling you, this is going to be the single most destructive nuclear bomb dropped on Capitol Hill in your lifetime because it will be nothing if they win the presidency in 2028, less than two years.

There will be nothing to stop them from a transformation of America like you've never seen before. The destruction of our economy, voter integrity. So why did you think we should do it before? Because ladies and gentlemen, someone's going to have to take responsibility. There's too much confusion about what they call the Unity Party now. I'll describe what I mean in a second. I want to show you something else to back it up, too. They're going to go crazy and the American voter is not dumb. They'll figure it out. They always do. Hey, I got to tell you about something I started using before a night out.

Like why didn't we get the SAVE Act? Because of the filibuster. And folks, this endless confusion by voters is explained away by the nothing is happening effect. Where people told you, despite evidence compiled about the border, crime, the economy, the things were happening, they didn't sense the change was profound enough. If that's what you want, that's what we should give to people. If you want to see what Democrat governance is going to look like, like I saw in New York City under David Dinkins and Ed Koch, when the city was a freaking killing field, people got tired of it.

And we have this shirt. Remember the old shirt? Is it bad enough yet? It gets bad enough when people see what Democrats are really about. And then eventually they turn it around. Yes, there is a whipsaw effect. That's the point. Folks, the problem is the Democrats get what they want anyway. They got Obamacare. They got open borders. They get what they want anyway. You can't do big things with the filibuster. You can't.

We should have beat them to the punch. They're going to do it anyway. But we can do big things, too. You can have a massive change to the tax code. A massive change to that garbage can Obamacare nonsense and Medicare for all and all this stuff. You can have a massive change going forward. And then you would have to take responsibility. You get the House, you get the Senate, and majorities, you can pass legislation. You have the presidency. There's no excuse then. You can't blame the filibuster anymore. Oh, we didn't do the SAVE Act because of the filibuster.

No, it's not a thing. It's not a thing. They are going to dump it. Don't believe this like, oh, institutionalists are going to save it. They're gone. Joe Manchin's gone. Kyrsten Sinema's gone. They just brought in a bunch of lunatics, Al Syed, and I stand by everything I said last night on Fox. This guy, I believe, is a serious problem for us. Folks, another critical conversation I said we'd have, but we haven't gotten to, is a lot of the nonsense on X.

Yesterday, a big argument erupted on X amongst a lot of people. And I really can't stand the term influencers. I hate it so much. However, having lived through this in areas, I don't mean this to be condescending to anyone, but I don't just have this show. I ran for office. I was an activist. I ran for office in a couple of states. I've been inside the government, outside the government. I've done radio, TV, and digital. And we built a big social media following.

None of that is an accident. The reason we've stayed alive for 15 years and grown this show and this program is because we're able to see around these AstroTurf things. X, Twitter, I love it. I love the free speech direction. But I need you to understand that a lot of what's going on over there, and if you saw it yesterday, you know what I'm talking about. A lot of what was going on over there is paid for. It's not real. I say this because there are way, way too many people falling for AstroTurf campaigns on Twitter where they believe these are real issues voters care about.

They don't. You can ask voters in exit polls like, what did you vote on? You'll be stunned to find out that big things on Twitter are like 50 out of 100 to voters. They care about their wallets. They care about their healthcare. And they care about their kids' school and streets, safe streets. This is not a mystery. I said in the beginning, keep it simple. There are real people on Twitter. But folks, Twitter, X, a lot of it's not real life.

I used to notice this. I would go home, you know, my phone when I had the, when I was working with the Trump administration, my phone, the seventh floor of the FBI building is a skiff, so the phone stays outside. So, you know, if I didn't return your call or something in the last year and we're friends, it's not because I was ignoring you. It's because I'd get out of there at 7 o'clock at night, pick up my phone, there'd be 1,000 missed calls, and I just lost everything. But I would go home and, you know, I go to sleep early, whatever. And I would just pull up X and look at what's going on. And, you know, we would be out there running around the country, going to field offices, and we weren't hearing any of this stuff.

Like, how is this a thing again? Folks, this is how when you fall for this, AstroTurf campaigns, this is how you wind up voting in Democrats in the state of Texas. I played this yesterday on the radio show, but I want to play it again. It's important. This is the incoming House Majority Leader in Texas. I never thought I'd say he's a Democrat, obviously. There's a guy named Gene Wu telling you every single thing I've warned you about over the last 15 years I've been running and doing this show.

I told you that the Democrats are married to DEI and identity politics because their only goal is to put you in a box they determine. Not your own box. Your box is whatever. I'm a dad. I'm a baseball coach. I'm a neighbor. They don't want that. They want you to identify as Black first or Hispanic or a union worker or gay or LGBTQIA2+ so that they can say, listen, the Republicans hate Blacks and you're Black. That's all they want. They don't believe any of this stuff. It's a scam.

Here is Gene Wu, who this guy is going to be taking, he's going to be one of the most powerful Democrats in Texas now, politicians in Texas, talking about exactly what I told you. We just have to make you believe you're oppressed so we're selling you this whole identity politics thing. No, they didn't say that. Listen to yourself. Check this out.

The oppression comes from one place. And I always tell people the day, the Latino, African-American, Asian, and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning because we are the majority in this country now. We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair.

They care about telling you Republicans hate you because you're oppressed. He just said it. This is their whole governing ideology. They just want an election. You think they'd be happy? Oh, these two were happy. Did you see this clip? Folks, I just want to prepare you. This is not easy to watch. Watch these two lunatics. This very popular podcast, Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan. Have you seen this? Here they are in their podcast.

And someone sends in some kind of note on X or elsewhere while they're doing their show that we should, and this is not for kids, but that they should dig up Charlie Kirk and do it again. So you think the response would be of horror. Like that's out of line. We don't talk like that. No. No, that's not the response. It was about affordability or something. Watch this.

All you get is anarchy, death, and destruction. Unfortunately, the other side of the political aisle does not subscribe to that ideology. They think it's funny. Folks, yesterday I saw this video. It's the gunman. I saw this as well. I just want to end on kind of a different note today because listen, the country's got to go on. And ultimately, it's up to you when there's chaos all around you and it's been a chaotic week.

And you've got lunatics talking about jailing ICE, sending Trump to jail, Hegseth to jail, Kash to jail, me to jail, whatever. When the chaos is all around you, it's ultimately up to you. And that was the essence of my, hey, get prepared thing that went viral. I'm honestly not sure why it went viral. I talk about it all the time. I don't get it, but I hope it incentivizes people to get prepared. Fantastic. But one of the things I can't recommend to you enough is to acquire a firearm, acquire appropriate ammunition, and to appropriately train yourself.

It's not good enough to get one. It's your absolute constitutional right, which I will defend to the end of time. But it's your responsibility. It's a difference. Responsibility, you know, keep it secure, number one, but also to learn how to use it. I'm not telling you you've got to be a dev guru guy or you've got to go out there and be Secret Service counter assault team. But you should learn the basics with a firearm, like how to stay out of like a fatal funnel. You can look that up. How to pie off on a doorway or an entrance. These are not really, they're not super complicated.

He doesn't back away at all. He doesn't back away at all. But this just goes the importance, shows the importance of what I was talking about the other day with be prepared. That could have been a whole lot worse. Nobody wants to have to engage in a use of force or a lethal use of force situation. But no one wants to be on the receiving end of one either. Acquire a firearm, whatever you're comfortable with. Learn how to store it. Learn how to use it because these things can break bad fast. And thank you from my audience too.