The Insurgents
Ep. 294: What A Weekend ft. Dave Anthony
But I would already have a commercial made that's just like, here's all the Republicans saying you should. I mean, JD Vance, right? He just said, they should have a they should have had the second he announced Vance, drop that ad of him saying, yeah, I think a lot of people need to be killed. Like, there's so many quotes, you could literally run a five minute ad of Republicans saying, let's kill people. And they should have been doing it immediately. And they're just like, we should probably not say anything. You know, like, they're the they're the reason for the the crazy violent atmosphere. The pausing of like campaigning and fundraising got flack. And I understand why they did that. It's just it's just kind of standard in all of these moments, no matter what it is, you take a day or two, you see it often like, oh, let's put a pause on all of our comms. I don't know if it's the best idea going into the RNC. And I don't know if they needed to go to such great lengths, like pulling mobile billboards doesn't make a difference. But why do that? Why? What does it really matter? If it lends credence to the rights argument that democratic rhetoric caused this when like you're saying the answer should have been no, here's what caused this. What's more concerning about this isn't that they pause their communications and stop campaigning for a minute. It's that you see these quotes emerging from senior house Democrats saying, like, basically, we're just going to resign ourselves to a second. It's the middle of fucking July and they're throwing in the towel. Like, I just I can't believe the towel last year, like, I mean, they know what they have as a candidate, like, they just stopped. Everyone knew what was happening last year. No, I mean, of course, a lot of people at home are surprised. But anybody who watches politics knows that fucking Biden was in terrible trouble mentally. They they've been giving up for a while. They've designed themselves that this is going to be a shit show. And this just kind of like made them go, okay, see, we're right. Yeah, just walk away, which is like, you can't sit around yelling it's fascism coming. It's fascism coming. We have to stop fascists and then be like, well, we tried, but that's a great photo. Yeah, well, like all the momentum to maybe replace Biden, which was really picking up steam. Now you have all these Democrats being like, well, now in this difficult moment, like maybe in the sake of unity, we should all be pulling back on that. We should rally behind. It's like, well, more, more so, okay, more so switch them now because you would take back the narrative, you take it right back, switch them, take it back. Thanks for checking out the insurgents. What you just heard was a free preview. To get access to the rest of this episode, head on over to insurgents pod.com, where you can subscribe for as little as five bucks a month. Your support goes a long way to keeping the show going. And I said, thank you. You get an extra episode every week, insurgents pod.com to learn more. [Music]