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Rick Wilson Podcast Episode · The Breakdown · 01/11/2025 · 30m

“Nazism is a 99 to one issue. People will reject it outright. And that's why they're so panicked about the elections. It's why Trump wants to put troops on the ground for the election.”

Rick Wilson Podcast Episode · The Breakdown · 01/11/2025 · 30m

“He has created a world where immigration is less and less of an issue, and the enforcement is more and more of an issue. So I do not see immigration playing the role they want to.”

Or yes for Americans nats-izm. But there is no second i in that word.

Rick Wilson Podcast Episode · The Breakdown · 01/11/2025 · 30m

“I think you could be looking at a 35-seat loss. If these numbers hold up, if the economy does not improve, if you end up with inflation still being the number one issue and being the issue in which Donald Trump is underwater by 32, 33 points, I mean...”

Oh c’mon folks: there is only one i in Nazism.

Say it after me: nahts-izm.

Not nahts-i-izm.

Rick Wilson Podcast Episode · The Breakdown · 01/11/2025 · 30m

“Every gain that he had with Black voters is gone, and it's reversed in the other direction. Black men now have a Trump approval of under 10 per cent.

This is the greatest squandering of a political advantage that I've ever seen in my career. I mean, by far.”

Rick Wilson Podcast Episode · The Breakdown · 01/11/2025 · 30m

“Look at Hispanics. That's a demographic that pulled him over the line in several states and that Republicans are now predicating their 2026 campaigns on. And he is deep underwater with Hispanic voters.”

Rick Wilson Podcast Episode · The Breakdown · 01/11/2025 · 30m

“The fact that he's underwater with men is pretty shocking. Trump has been consistently strong with men his entire political career. That's been one of his foundational demographics. This just goes to show that his economic policy is universally hurting people.”

Rick Wilson Podcast Episode · The Breakdown · 01/11/2025 · 30m

“He's underwater in all the swing states and, if you modelled the 2024 election to the polling today, he would not win.

He would lose to Harris.

He would have gotten blown out. Because let's remember, folks, he only won Texas with 53% of the vote. Texas.”

Rick Wilson Podcast Episode · The Breakdown · 01/11/2025 · 30m

“He has massive disapproval on the economy. That whole mystique that he's a great businessman, it's gone. Shot to bits.

He's underwater in Florida, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina.

States that are going to be in major play next year. All those swing states.”

Texas is a swing state.

Rick Wilson Podcast Episode · The Breakdown · 01/11/2025 · 30m

“Let's remember, folks, he only won Texas with 53% of the vote.

Texas.

He won the election by a point and some change.”

Reducing money in American politics is potentially a really unifying issue.

Why the System’s Rigged—and How to Unrig It - Jeff Clements Podcast Episode · Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci · 01/11/2025 · 28m

“I've talked to Americans across the political spectrum. They come out and they vote for this. Americans really get that our political system is not going to be able to deliver unless we change how it is funded.”

THIS is why people are so disaffected with government and, paradoxically, this frustration helped fuel Trump’s wins—allowing him and his ilk to make it worse.

Why the System’s Rigged—and How to Unrig It - Jeff Clements Podcast Episode · Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci · 01/11/2025 · 28m

“Entrenched incumbents is a real problem. And even good people going into the system who want to do good things in Congress are stymied because we have a structural systemic problem of the power of money to prevent the delivery of what the American people are looking for from our Congress.”

Why the System’s Rigged—and How to Unrig It - Jeff Clements Podcast Episode · Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci · 01/11/2025 · 28m

“Reducing money in politics is now the number one priority, according to Pew Research: Americans ranked it ahead of the economy and terrorism after the 2024 election. Americans understand most people are not represented in the system.”

Budanov as a seated Buddha, with the text ‘БУДДАНОВ’

Jonathan Karl & David Sirota Podcast Episode · Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast · 01/11/2025 · 35m

“Leonard Leo is the conservative activist who packs the Supreme Court over 20, 25 years, Federalist Society guy. Some of the Federalist Society judges once in a while said, hey Trump, you can't do this. Trump freaks out and disavows Leonard Leo, says he's a bad guy.”

Leopards eating faces.

Jonathan Karl & David Sirota Podcast Episode · Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast · 01/11/2025 · 35m

“The thing Trump loves about tariffs is he can do crony capitalism now with other countries’ economies. It forces other countries, and big donor corporations to kiss his ring. In the first term the companies that donated money to Trump were more likely to get exemptions. It's a corruption scheme.”

Jonathan Karl & David Sirota Podcast Episode · Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast · 01/11/2025 · 35m

“Vance’s case is designed to give the court a way to do away with all of the remaining campaign finance limits. This would essentially take Citizens United and put it on steroids at a time that polls tell us the public—across the political spectrum, by the way—the public hates Citizens United.”

Jonathan Karl & David Sirota Podcast Episode · Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast · 01/11/2025 · 35m

“Why is the conservative movement doing it this way? Why do they want to legalise corruption? Why do they want to deregulate the campaign finance system? It’s because if you realise that tax cuts for the wealthy is wildly unpopular among voters, then you have to rig the game.”

There seems to have been some sort of cliff in 2016.

I predict in a few weeks Trump will get bored and start slapping gold on the marble walls in his new White House bathroom.

This cuts to the heart of the heart of why America is where it is today.

So are they suing?? There should be dozens of lawsuits.

Measles outbreak investigation in Utah blocked by patient who refuses to talk The person refused to even tell health officials their address.

The right-wing war against public health means that now a person has refused to cooperate with a case investigation that exists for the sole purpose of minimizing the risk to others.

Really selfish behavior from a suspected measles case in Utah.

“President Donald Trump is using the congressional shutdown to transition the United States to a form of totalitarianism.”

Trump’s callous attempt to starve people to make Democrats submit foiled by the shutdown itself.

“The contemporary RW media has no interest in arguments, leaving only charisma & appeals to identity. You wanted a culture where nobody was ever cancelled, the only sin is being a cuck, where if the media was opposed to someone, that’s all you needed to know & you would defend them. You got it.”