IHIP News - The Working Class Gets DESTROYED While MAGA Rage-Baits

Episode Date: November 25, 2024

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He is going to be the director of counter intelligence. It is baffling to me how these people are placed in positions of power. And I'm thinking, is this a fuck you from Donald Trump to the American people? Is it a loyalty test or does he just not give a shit? Well, I mean, number one, I'm zero percent surprised at any of this because I think we have all of these shiny objects that are placed out there to evoke, you know, a response where we're aghast. This is who Trump hangs around. These are the people that surround him at Mar-a-Lago. I saw recently, while a video clip, when he was watching Kamala Harris's DNC speech, I always imagined when he

was tweeting that he was alone and that nobody was saying, don't put that out. That sounds crazy. Much to my surprise, it's a room full of about 12 people. Everybody is cool as a cucumber, completely calm. And he's like, oh, that's crazy. Why don't you type that? Yeah. Caps lock. Yeah.

Okay. Put that out. And all of these people over here, all of the crazy stuff that he's doing and nobody says stop. And so as Donald Trump, it's not a fuck you to the American people because he doesn't give a shit about the American people. It is a fuck you to the institutions. It is a play for these dictators that he so wants to curry favor for. And that's what we have to keep our eye on. We can sit and talk about Sebastian Gorka being morally bankrupt, but look who appointed

him. Right. So it's like, you know, trickle down incompetence. But what is the end game? Who benefits from this? Oh, I don't know. It's probably Vladimir Putin. That is where our attention and our focus needs to be. He pushed a reporter and he said, fuck you. Does this surprise anybody? Donald Trump campaigned, you know, saying the fake news, the press, he talks about the press getting shot at. So this is, this doesn't surprise me in the least bit. This seems like the exact type of person that he would be around. This seems like the exact type of person that all of the people that go to his rallies, they all seem to like this type of cruelty and violence. And he's also, Mr. AR-15 puts videos of himself shooting shit all the time.

So I bet you're 100% right. So I wanted to talk about our very favorite Marjorie Taylor Greene. And Marjorie Taylor Greene is a dipshit in the highest order. Everybody knows that. Anything she says, you automatically have to take the opposite view because she is such a moron. But I thought these particular comments about DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, were worth showing because I find them so funny. That's how I'll be separating things on the oversight subcommittee on Doge. We'll be

looking at everything from government-funded media programs like NPR that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda. We'll be going into grant programs that fund things like sex apps in Malaysia, toilets in Africa, all kinds of programs that don't help the American people. I want to talk to the people at the Pentagon and ask them why they can't find billions of dollars every single year and why they fail their audit. But not just that, Maria, I'd like to talk to the governors of sanctuary states and the mayors of sanctuary cities and have them come before our committee and explain why they deserve federal dollars if they're going to harbor illegal criminal aliens in their states and their cities. We're going to look in every single aspect. And we don't care about people's feelings. We're going to be searching

for the facts. And we're going to be verifying if this is worth spending the American people's hard-earned tax dollars on. So she's worried about sex apps in Malaysia, toilets in Africa. She wants to be on the committee overseeing this Doge committee, which tells me it's a fucking train wreck to start if she's even going to be on it. But I just look at this and I think people are watching Fox News and they're like, Marjorie Taylor Greene. Oh, yeah, she's got it all figured out. Jewish space lasers, you know, toilets in Africa, sex apps in Malaysia. I mean, these are not serious people. And combining her with Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk and Marjorie Taylor Greene, that to me just seems like a train wreck ready to happen. I think the larger question here is we can always play these

clips of crazy Trumpers saying crazy things. But what is her purpose in saying all of these things? Because it speaks to a certain audience and they like it. She gets reelected. She gets appointed to stuff. She always gets news time, air time. So she's talking about all this crazy shit that riles up the base. They like that. What is the Democratic response to this? Shock and awe? Because I'm not shocked. I'm not awed. Nothing this woman says surprises me. I think the appropriate response to this is, why is she talking about all of this stuff? Because they have zero solutions for the working class. They lie to you. They use your religion and they scare the shit out of you 24 seven and get you mad at

people within the United States so that they can continue to not raise your wages. Why did, why did you feel inflation more? Because everybody else's salary has gone up. I benefit from Donald Trump tax breaks, but working class doesn't benefit from that. I had more money in my pocket, so I didn't feel inflation as much. Why aren't we talking about that? So Republicans saying crazy shit, they're going to continue to say this. We have to come in and fill the vacuum of why these people are so susceptible to hearing this, because this is all they're hearing.

When you get to when the Democrats come out, it's this nuanced conversation and you have all these highly educated people. And then you get to Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump and they speak at a fifth grade level. People have studied this. And so I, whatever she says, I really don't give a shit because this is not a smart person. There's zero solution for anything that she just offered there. All that is, is red meat to a very angry base that has always gotten passed over. My question to the people in Marjorie Taylor Greene's district is why is it OK for the politicians that you elect to never go advocate for higher wages?

Why are they more concerned about scaring you and using your religion against you instead of saying, wait a minute, Jesus was not for the consolidation of wealth, yet this political party always favors the most wealthy and screws over all of the working class people that contribute to that person's wealth. Think about it like this. And one day, who do you think works harder? I mean, like physically harder, Jeff Bezos or the Amazon delivery driver in Arizona in August. I would guess the Amazon delivery driver. Or the factory workers. And so all of this is just a shiny object to get everybody to take their eye off the ball. And in the meantime, there's been a massive shift of working class voters to the Republican Party because they have riled them

up because they're mad. Working class people are mad. What does the Republican Party offer you right now? The MAGA party, they offer you anger to bite your fear and what you're mad at into. What do the Democrats offer you? Nuance. You know, yeah, people can commit crimes, but we're not going to do jack shit about it. This passivity. And they don't market their programs that actually help people. She wants to talk about sanctuary cities. She wants to talk about blue cities. Let's talk about your piece of shit town and how much revenue is there. Let's talk about the quality of education. Let's talk about the quality of education. Let's talk about the quality of life. It's, this is the biggest ruse. And, and, and I think we all trap

into falling for this when what we have to shift to is what are the solutions that she's actually offering for the people in her district? None, none. I just wanted to, and that's a perfect segue for this next clip that I saw that I found really interesting. We're always, I'm always confounded because trans, the trans population is less than 1% in the United States. Yet there's tens of millions of dollars in ads by the Republicans talking about the evils of trans people. And it's red meat for the base, just like you were talking about with Marjorie Taylor Greene. But this explanation by Sarah McBride, I thought was very pointed on why the Republicans are so furious and continue to pile on trans people. I think we are all united that attempts to attack a vulnerable community are not only mean-spirited, but really an attempt to misdirect. Because every single time we hear

the incoming administration or Republicans in Congress talk about any vulnerable group in this country, we have to be clear that it is an attempt to distract. It is an attempt to distract from what they are actually doing. Every single time, every single time we hear them say the word trans, look what they're doing with their right hand. Look at what they're doing to pick the pocket of American workers, to fleece seniors by privatizing Social Security and Medicare. Look what they're doing undermining workers.

And here's also what we have to be clear about, because I think the last week has been a prime example of this. Every bit of time and energy that is used to divert the attention of the federal government to go after trans people is time and energy that is not focused on addressing the cost of living. I think she is amazing. I do too. And I hate very much that trans people have become what people on the right, they have to have an enemy. It's immigrants and trans people and they all have to consolidate behind this enemy. I appreciate how logical her argument is. I fear that this type of messaging for the Democratic Party is not working. And what we need to be saying is something more robust, is something with more meat on the bones. You want to pick on me?

Pick on me. But you know who hurts the most by picking on me? The working class people. That who hurts the most. Nancy Mace is a complete nut. She's running around like a nut. And I wish that there was just a little bit more meat on the bone. Because this, you hear Marjorie Taylor Greene, it's like, oh my God, she's a nut. You hear Sarah McBride make this wonderful argument. And it's kind of like, because we live in ADD culture. We live in the smartphone culture. We are going to have to, she's going to need to get out there and say, screw you. How dare you? All of you people that say you're Christians. And then you judge me. You don't know what it's

like to be me. You don't know what it's like to have an entire government bully you. Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, bully you. And this is your advertisement for your faith. This is your advertisement for the America you want to live in. Defend yourself vociferously. That shit is not going to fly. I respect her and I appreciate her, but this is exactly why we lost. Exactly. They get some, grow some fangs, get some claws, go out there and call them out for being assholes, call them out for bullying, defend the working class, tell the working class you are getting lied to all the time. Every single day they use their religion. They scare you about immigrants.

Nobody is directly and angrily saying this to them because what I think the middle class did is they're mad. You go through these rural towns, they're depressing. My husband's from Hugo, Oklahoma, a town of 5,000 people. I remember the first time I went there, my jaw hit the floor at how these people lived. It is unbelievably different than the way people live in cities. And they're mad. They're furious. There's no culture. So they do.

They cling on to guns and religion, and they're never able to get ahead. And so they get sold all these wedge issues. Why are people in rural Oklahoma worried about what restroom somebody uses? It's because it's been pitched to them because nobody says, shouldn't you be mad about all of these shareholder boards? Because they're the ones fleecing you. And the U.S. government, all they do is just cater to them for the stock market. And so I appreciate her.

And I think what's happening with the trans community is horrific. I do not think that is a commensurate response to the way Nancy Mace is behaving. They act crazy. And we respond with this muted intellectual conversation and it fails miserably. Kind of like you were saying last week, it's integrity politics versus fuck you politics and the Democrats need to start playing fuck you politics. I agree. Yeah.

I agree with everything she said and I wish that we had a more civilized political discourse. We don't. That we do not have that any longer. And when Kamala Harris first came out and started calling everybody weird, it worked. And all over Twitter, all over my social media was, yay, Democrats can bully conservatives now. They were excited about it because it's like, fuck you guys for doing all this shit. And so we're gonna have to amp up because morally we're on the right side of history, but fight for it. Show some passion because I really like Sarah McBride and I hate, I detest the way she's being treated. But defend yourself. Show some claws.

Get some fangs. Come on. They are dehumanizing you, demoralizing you. And that's your response? It's not enough. And I'm not, I like her. I wish that that were the political discourse. We're kind of past that.

And if somebody was talking about me like that, I would be a lot more uptight about it than that. Yeah, you're probably right. That's what's going to have to happen. All right. We'll see you guys later. It's so entertaining to have the vape. So good.