The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Jasmine Crockett Talks Trump's Conviction, Democratic Messaging, Marjorie Taylor Greene More

Episode Date: June 10, 2024

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We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. That's right. We have Jasmine Crockett. Welcome. Hey, y'all. Now, Jasmine. First of all, I don't like that this paper says that she's the owner of Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body.

That's the only thing she's ever done in her whole life. What do you mean? It is not the only thing. That's for sure. That's right. Yeah, what do you mean? It is not the only thing. There's a lot to hear. That's for sure. That's right. Yeah, but you know what? I appreciate black Twitter, so let's give it up for black Twitter

because we have every genre of song from country to gospel to trap music. We got it all. In fact, there's a really good blues version as well. But it's amazing when you think about politics. I never thought that I would be in a space where, number one, I would have to clap back on somebody like that, like in a committee. But number two, that people would actually pick it up and start educating people through song.

Educating people. Yeah, they educate them about, you know, MAGA and Marge and all of them. So I appreciate it for what it is. But you're right. I'm so much more than that. And I appreciate that way before B6 came around, like you understood like the fights that I was waging for everyday people. Well, let's break down for people that don't understand what happened that day because we only seen clips. So what happened that day in front of Congress?

So what happened? Break down everything that was going on. Okay. So imagine that y'all skip out on work because that's what the Republicans did. They decided to skip out on work. So we were supposed to have a hearing about our attorney general Merrick Garland, and they basically want to lock him up. But instead, what they did is they came to New York and they sat with Trump and coddled him while he was in trial, trying to make sure he did not get locked up. So they then said, you know what, since we decided we was going to skip work, we're going to do our work at 8 p.m. So we Democrats have been on the Hill all day.

They come back. We go into a hearing so that they could hold them in consent. We get in the hearing and Marjorie Taylor Greene, the gentle lady from Georgia, starts talking about Judge Mershon. And I was like, girl, do you know why we're here? Because like literally like I'm already feeling away because I've been there all day while y'all was playing up in New York. Like go talk in front of those cameras about Judge Mershon. Say what you got to say or whatever, because they were trying to get around the gag order. But I'm like, we here to talk about this.

Say whatever you want to say about the attorney general. And so she then came at me was like, well, do you know why we're here? And she decided she wanted to talk about this. Say whatever you want to say about the attorney general. And so she then came at me and was like, well, do you know why we here? And she decided she wanted to talk about my eyelashes. And I was like, girl, you haven't looked at yourself.

But I didn't get up. I didn't, you know, immediately say anything. I tried to follow the rules. They let that slide, daughter. I was kind of upset about that. That was the thing. They did let it slide

and it was against the rules. So we have this rule talking about like personalities you're not allowed to engage in personalities basically i can't talk noise and why should you make it seem like your eyelashes so long like you got 25 m's or something wait a minute i'm mad that you know the lengths nevertheless he wears them he wears them on the weekend i got four daughters a wife you know what even if i got 50 it don't matter it don't matter like you're doing the most and honestly you only came for me because i'm a black woman because there are white women in fact one of my white female colleagues came up to me and

was like i may need to bleach my hair but i'm not getting rid of my lashes and so she was like you know marge would never say anything to me about my lashes because she does she wears lashes or whatever so i'm just like girl and in my initial retort what I wanted to say is you may still have your husband if you wore some lashes but nevertheless but I but I did not do that I did not do that and AOC jumped in almost immediately and AOC was like yo this is against the rules but Comer decided I'm gonna let it slide and of course it to me is like what we always experience as black women. It's like, you know what? Somebody punch you, but that's OK. You'll be all right, girls. Sit there and take it. But here's the deal. We on the same level and I'm not going to sit there.

And so I wanted to exemplify, number one, if this is how you're going to conduct these hearings, I just want you to know that it's going to be some real smoke coming from our side. Right. And so I did not direct my words to her. I didn't even say her name. You asked a question. Which I asked a question. I asked a parliamentary question. And I did it in a somewhat poetic way.

And so, you know, it ended up immediately taken off. My pastor actually called me while I was in committee. What did the pastor say? Listen, I was like, so for y'all that don't know, my pastor is Freddie Haynes. Freddie. Freddie's fantastic. Yeah, he is. And so I was like, why he calling me?

But it was late at night. So I declined it. And so I was like, I'm in committee. He was like, I know. And I'm like, well, why you calling me? You sent God to voicemail? You sent the pastor to voicemail? The messenger of God.

You sent the messenger to voicemail? I was in committee. I got to do the work of the people. Jesus, Jasmine. All right. And so then he was like, yo, you have to give me a warning before you say. And then he went into the phrase. So I was like, did my team put this on the internet?

Because it literally was while I was still in committee. But I found out that it was going viral almost instantly. And yeah, my pastor hit me up. So when did you write Beach Blonde, Bad Built Butch Body? Like, was that something you had in the cut? I love alliteration. Was that something you had in the cut? Because that was amazing.

It wasn't. So when Comer decided that he was going to rule against me, I literally looked over at her because she sits on the same row as me and from head to toe is what I did row as me and from head to toe he was like is what i did and i was like and i literally from head to toe so my granny used to talk about people being bad built so that was an ode to my granny that was something she used to say the thing i loved about it and you said you said it earlier about how if y'all keep coming at us like this there's gonna be smoke from absolutely this side there should always be smoke from this side because everybody acts like what they do is so normal to the point that it's become normalized.

Yeah. When you did that, it's like finally somebody's, you know, reacting the way they should react to them. Yeah. Yeah. No, you're right. I mean, I think that we've seen the devolution of politics because people aren't pushing back and saying this is not what we do. Right. And it's interesting because once I pushed back, there was all of this like attention on me. Right. It's like, well, you were wrong. I mean, what did Michelle Obama say? It was all this kind of stuff. Right. And it's like, no, like that's, I don't think that that's what the former first lady meant is for me to sit there and just have you talk to me crazy.

And we're on the same level and we're in a business setting. And so I'm like, that's not how I would think that she would want me to act. But nevertheless, I know my district. And how is it I'm going to say that I'm going to fight for you

and I can't fight for myself? So I'm not going to sit here and allow the likes of a Marjorie Taylor Greene to sit there and clown me. But I did try to go through the process, which is something that she ignored. She's always ignored the rules. I at least was trying to follow the rules.

But once they failed, I still never got outside of the rules. But it's about doing what they are trying to do and doing it better and doing it right. And that's exactly what I did. And I think that the Democrats have all the intellect on our side. So we can always do it better and smarter. It's a matter of, are we going to? But do you have the courage? Like you showed courage.

The reason I call a lot of Democrats cowards is because they don't exhibit courage. Yes, you have the intellect. You have the truth. You might even be doing the right thing. But where is the courage to stand up to these, this new type of conservative called MAGA? Yeah. No, I think that's, you know,

I think that there are those traditional Democrats that are really still stuck. They are still stuck in this, you know, if we just lead by example. And it's like, these people ain't following no example. Like the only example they follow is Trump. Right. And that's exactly who Marjorie is like trump goes

out he makes a nickname for everybody calling him out their name calling their wives out their names that kind of stuff so she thought that she was gonna come at me baby you need to keep that on y'all side of the aisle because clearly you ain't never went to school with a black person because you would have known do not talk about a black person like we grew up talking about each other like that's what we do that's easy so exactly it is very easy so uh she learned how did you feel about when you see people pulling up to marjorie green at the airport oh that was that was amazing because that's gonna happen all the time now that was amazing when you saw that video yeah no no no that took me out it was funny because i was laid in bed and the person that sent me the video was actually amanda so amanda seals yeah so she sent

me the video and she's like i'm sure this will make you smile and i was like the only thing i don't like about that though is i don't want them to encourage to do that to y'all because because they're a little they're gonna be different no no no no no but you know what they always are a little different with us i mean i get death threats right like that's not what it should be to me in politics like i've not done anything that should warrant anybody trying to take my life ever. And so, you know, they are the radicals that are always doing, pushing the envelope, so to speak, right? Like, these are the ones that went into the Capitol and trying to tear it apart. So, like, they about that life anyway, right?

Like, you're talking about neo-Nazis. You're talking about the Proud Boys. Like I'm the type of person that they gonna come from my neck no matter what. And so we do have to have heightened security consistently. And when you look at the threats overall against politicians, they have consistently gone up and up and up. The thing that Marjorie should be lucky to have is that black people may play in your face but like legitimately like as far as harming you

they're not going to try to do that like they're not and that black woman was absolutely right because you know Marjorie want to talk like big and bad and comedians just like oh did I hurt your feelings and all of that but she ain't have nothing to say when a black woman came through the airport and was like oh so you ain't like that huh that's right yeah you know with the first lady it's interesting right because the phrase when when they when they go low we go high i feel like that applied to the time yeah that she was in 2024 and probably beyond is a totally different time. It is a different time. But I also want people to evaluate the lens in which she was working from. She was the only black first lady, right? Like this is she's on a level up here.

And what was happening is you had all of these trolls that were online and they were saying all kinds of things. They were calling her all types of animals. They were talking about her appearance. They were doing all the things that racist people do right it's trying to tear her down physically because they could not match her intellectually whatsoever but what does it look like if the first lady is literally lowering herself to respond to somebody that like is hiding behind a keyboard and got five followers like that is literally going low you are lower than her but what we're talking about in this scenario, like which other first ladies were trying to come at her and talk, talk about her.

That's not what that was. But literally, we're on the same level. We have the same space that we occupy. So this isn't about going low to low. But as Simone Sanders says, it's about going toe to toe. Now, what is your thoughts on I know you don't have much time. You got to catch a flight. Donald Trump's conviction. But what's your thoughts on that? And is that going to does that help? Am I allowed to sing? You can say whatever you want to say. Listen, you know, I don't know who I mean. I guess it made it worse since, you know, those broke people decided that they was going to get a last five dollars and donate to him and crash his Web site to the extent that he got a bunch more money just to pay for his appeals process, not to go into the election.

I think that, you know, for a lot of us who have seen him playing in our face and having the audacity to say, I'm going to play in your face and I'm gonna get away with with it, which is what he's always said to us, even before he ever got caught up. I think that it was a good moment for white privilege to recognize that like you can get the smoke too in this country. But I also think that it's a really sad moment in our country because we really are only a two party system. For those that don't know, a third party person ain't going to win presidency, at least not this term, right? Like you're not even going to get on all of the ballots to be able to get like,

there's a lot of reasons like, so they're not going to win. So it's between Joe and it's between Trump. And the fact that we have someone who has 34 felony counts of worth of convictions. And literally there's places, Eric Swalwell just brought this up and committee. He's like, it's the whole worth of convictions. And literally there's places, Eric Swalwell just brought this up in committee. He's like, it's a whole list of countries

you can't even go to. So how are you going to be the leader of the free world and you not even allowed to step foot in certain countries because you're a convicted felon? He can't go to Toronto. He's supposed to. There's a lot. He went through a whole list of like places.

Can't go to Japan. A ton of places. What do they amend to where, I don't know, I want to say in the future, but how do you make it to where that can't happen, where you can't have all of those convictions and still be president? Yeah. That's legislation. I mean, I think that our framers never contemplated that, right? Because he can't be a city councilman.

Right. He can't be a mayor. He can't sit on a school board. He can't do state. He can't be a police officer. But he can't be a mayor he can't sit on a school board he can't do state but he can be the president correct so i i just don't think that our framers really contemplated some of this it's just like we have a bunch of january sixers that are running for congress right now like because the only thing you can run for and have convictions on your record is to get six figures from the federal government that's crazy That is the only thing that you can do.

And, you know, I think that Trump could have an opportunity. I think that he really is, again, playing in our face like, oh, yeah, black people, they gonna feel me because I got convictions too. Bro, it's completely different. Number one. Number two, I think that you could have a real conversation. Like I've worked on ban the box type of legislation that would at least allow people to get an opportunity to get in, do that interview. Like what legislation do you want to pass based upon the experience that you're saying that you have personally?

There is legislation that could help people, especially when we start talking about those that have a record. So many people aren't able to go to college because of their record. They're not able to. Well, they can't get the funding. Let me say that. They aren't able to get certain housing because they have a record. They aren't able to qualify for so many jobs because they have a record.

And we're talking about hourly jobs. So I think that there is a good opportunity, but MAGA isn't really about their life. They're not about critical thinking. They're not about providing solutions for other people. They just don't want their cult leader to have to deal with a life of policies that have forever consistently held black and brown communities down. You know, that narrative that black people, black men in particular, are supporting Trump because

he's a criminal, you know, that came from the right. Like, that wasn't a narrative that started in our communities in any way, shape, the right wing media started that narrative trump started that narrative and now you have a few people adopting it and i don't understand why yeah no i i i absolutely don't believe it um and and maybe for those that have never interacted with us it probably is easy for them to believe or for them to parrot but i talk to real people now will i say that there are some people that are turned off and they're saying I don't want to vote at all I will absolutely say that I run into that where people are like yo I just don't really feel like either

party is doing anything for me so what's the point right I do run into that type of conversation but I don't run into a conversation where people like like, oh yeah, so I'm just going to go out and vote for Trump. Like I see it online a little bit, but I feel like we don't know what's real and what's not because we know that China as well as Russia have consistently tried to interfere with our elections by doing so much online. So I don't know how many of these accounts are real or not, but like I have a majority black district.

When I go home, I'm not dealing with it. They just like, I have a majority black district. When I go home, I'm not dealing with it. They just like, I'm not really sure that I really want to vote that much. And I think people don't understand that. People don't understand when you say, I'm not feeling any of this right now. It doesn't mean, hey, I'm leaving from the Democratic Party to go to vote for Donald Trump. It's like, I'm part of the exhausted majority. I'm tired of it all. But that is a problem though, right? It is a problem. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself and leaning into her

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side, then you allow more people to vote Republican. So I was going to ask. I didn't mean I vote at all. Well, that could be a problem. Yeah, but like when we're talking about a numbers game, like if we decide to stay at home, right? Like I'm headed to Detroit here in a second, right? Like I got to get to Detroit. I got to make sure that I'm talking to people because one of the things I think we run into is like

we want to beat up on people and be like, yo, you got to go vote because people die, which is true, right? Like I feel that. I get it, right? But if you didn't see your mother, your father, your grandparents like marching, like you're not necessarily so connected to that. Right. And it's a matter of informing people like what is voting get me? What do I get out of this? Right. And so I like to tell people like I know that they try to blame the president for everything that's bad in their lives and usually don't really give them credit for anything that's good in their lives. But it's not just the president. Like, you know, the fact is right now, House Democrats are some of the most popular people in politics right now. Like it's looking to the House is looking to the Senate. It takes all of us because the president can't really do much by himself.

He just did an executive order as it relates to the border and immigration. And so now people are like, well, that's too late or that ain't enough. You're right. It takes legislation. And that's what he tried to do. They had legislation that was ready to go that he was going to sign into law, but he can't do it all on his own. And so chances are there will potentially be litigation as it relates to the executive order. But at least the president can say, I tried because Trump is the one that said, hey, Republicans, follow me. I'm your leader. Do not allow this legislation to go forward, even though they had worked collaboratively in the way the government is supposed to work. So I just want to say that, listen, people need to recognize their power

and they need to start showing up and telling people, listen, you work for me because that's what it is. I serve at the pleasure of the people and you need to start telling people what it is that you want and what it is that you need. And when they don't give it to you,

vote them out. Like that's just, it's very simple. But I don't think that people really understand what all we can do. Right. Like they don't understand. Like we talked about SNAP benefits last time I was here. We had a whole like 13 hour markup where the Republicans are like, we're not going to do this. So I made it clear. I was like, you know, that like more of rural America uses SNAP benefits than urban America. So I was like, I do want to be clear that I'm fighting for my constituents, but I'm

also fighting for yours. And so many of these Republicans talked about, well, yeah, I was raised on SNAP. So you forgot or you just don't care? Like, I don't understand what's going on. But like when people are talking about the cost of food being so high, part of that we can control, part of that we can do something about. But we definitely can do something about making sure that we put a few more dollars in your pocket or the child tax credit. Like people got, you know, an extra three hundred dollars a child.

They didn't really know why they were getting that. They didn't know where it came from. But that was this administration that was saying, hey, we're going to give you this child tax credit. It cut African-American child poverty into half. Right. But then the Republicans ended up in control of the House and they like, yeah, so we not about that life. But their constituents in rural America needed it, too. So we did a little compromise of something and there's a little something that's coming down the pipe, but it's not enough. Right. So, like, we have to let people know you actually received extra money. And that was this administration

understanding that it was hard you have to let people know that because you know people are still stuck on the stimulus checks and they still they are still stuck on the stemmies and everybody got arrested for ppp well because jazz we gotta go she got a flight that's true one more question why are you the only person in the democratic party who seems to understand that the language of politics is dead i don't know that i'm the only person uh the Democratic Party who seems to understand that the language of politics is dead? I don't know that I'm the only person. You message very well and you message to where people can understand. Like my little one of my little mentees.

I don't want to say little. She's a grown woman, but she's not quite 30 yet. But she saw you in Georgia last week. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And she literally sent me a video of you talking because you said to the people, you should go out there and support this administration. This administration has done a lot. You know, go. I think you told him, go Google what they've done. You probably don't know what they've done because they've done so much. And she was like, I need Jasmine to tell me, you know, what exactly they did.

But I'm saying I'm saying all that to say they're listening to you and want to hear what you have to say. Yeah. You message very well. I think that, I think it's really my legal training, right? Like I would walk into juries all over. And when you walk in and you're talking to a jury, you're talking to everyday people. That's right. But I have legal principles that I have to translate. And so I had to know like what the law was, but I had to I couldn't talk to you in legalese.

I had to be able to translate for you. So so one of my best friends from law school and in law school, we have this dictionary called the Blacks Law Dictionary. And so when we were in law school, he'd be like, yo, I don't understand what happened in class. I need you to give me the Blacks Law version. And so I'd be like, I don't understand what happened in class I need you to give me the black's law version and so I'd be like so when your cousin pookie like I would so I would so I would break it down right but I think that we do get caught up on the language and and the reality is that most everyday people don't live in our bubble so we have to make sure that we're communicating in a way that they understand and we're're doing the work, but we also need to do some media training. I just talked about that. I'm like, we need everybody to do media training. I haven't had any, but because I have been consistently in front of audiences for years, I think that I know how to maneuver a little bit. But you never know when like the next tornado or whatever is coming through your community and you have to get in front of a camera. And you need to be able to communicate with the people that you serve and make them understand what you're saying in a very digestible and very quick way.

We don't talk in soundbites either. Like Democrats believe in giving you the entire Project 2025 book. They want to give you a full thesis because we do put a lot of thought into stuff. It's why we don't do well on messaging on immigration. Immigration has so many layers and it's so complicated. And we want to tell everybody and it's like, we can't do that. Let's just go ahead and keep it simple. There's nothing simple about immigration. Nothing at all.

But the simple messaging is winning, even if it's not true. And that's the other thing. Republicans will lie. They will lie just to put something out there. And Democrats are trying to prove why they're lying. And it's like, we ain't got time for that. Just slap them down. I'll just listen to people like you said.

I repeated things that I've heard and seen activists in Chicago talking about in regards to, you know, the border. What I've heard and seen people here in New York talking about when it comes to, you know, immigration. So it's like I'm repeating what the people are saying. Yeah. You can't chalk that up as MAGA messaging. No, no, no. You can't. And we have to listen. Like even if people don't understand like why this or that is happening, we have to we can't make people feel uncomfortable with talking to us.

We have to listen to them and say we understand. And then we have to do our best to educate them on what it is that we can and what we can't do, because some people think that we can fix it all and we can't or they think they don't realize that like nothing's getting fixed because the republicans control the house democrats kind of control the senate and then we have the president like it takes an entire team and that's the message that i'm sending everybody is like don't just worry about the top you need to worry about all the way down to the state house right now in the state of texas they're like you know what we want to bring about the death penalty for women that seek abortions they literally want you to choose death or death that is insane so the president of the united states unless he has a democratic house and senate he can't fix what the state of texas is doing so you absolutely have to pay attention

to who also is on the state level that you're voting for. So I just want people, when I said Google, I was trying to make sure that people understand that they also have an obligation. Right? Like we have to do our part. We have to educate. We have to communicate. It costs a lot of money for us to communicate. You got to spend millions and millions of dollars to get on cable TV,

to get on broadcast TV, to get on radio. You have to do a lot to communicate to people, to send mail. You don't have to do as much to do it on social media, but it takes a lot, right? But I also want people to start understanding that they also have an obligation. This is your vote. If I'm out there telling you to vote for me,

I'm not going to tell you the bad stuff about me. I'm going to just sell myself to you, right? But just like when you go buy a car it's like you know what that car is good and this and that and whatever this the car salesman gonna tell you everything amazing that's right but you gotta do your research and you gotta find out where this car lasts and that kind of stuff so i just also want to encourage people to just jump on google and do a little bit of research as well is it true after the b6 comments happened the vice president called you and just laughed and hung up the phone?

Didn't even say hello, just hung up. She did her comment and laughed. She did not call and laugh. But I will tell you that I love our vice president and she is very protective, specifically, in my opinion. I mean, she may be protective of some other people, but of us as black women.

So she does call to check. She will have us come over to her residence and want to sit down and have a very real conversation about our challenges because she also experiences a lot of this. So I feel like we have an amazing sister circle with the vice president because no matter how big she is, she always takes the time. And I'm sitting there like you're you're checking on me, like because I know how they come for her throat. You know, I'm waiting for her to have her own clapbacks because we saw her in those Senate hearings back in the day. You know, that's in her. If you ever sat down with the VP, you know, that's in her. No, the VP, she's she's got it and obviously she was a trial lawyer as well and she's a black woman so like she's got it i i do want

people to understand that when it comes to the vice presidential role it is a supporting cast member and i think that because she is the first of her kind and because we there were people that went out and said i'm voting because they wanted to vote for her i was one of them yeah there were a lot of people that did that so i think that people want more of her than like the actual role allows for or calls for at times right like when i in fact when i was in atlanta one of the things i said i was like most people can't even name five other vice presidents like they can't like they don't know other vice presidents because it's always been a supporting cast member. And I think that unfortunately, just like almost everything in black folks lives and definitely in black women's lives, so much more is expected of us. And I don't want us to do that to her.

I do want us to allow her to be a traditional vice president, which is a supporting cast member. But at the same time, I know that she recognizes that we are all rooting for her, which means that we want to see her. We want to hear from her because there were people that showed up and voted because she was on the ticket. I was one of them. I never said I never said I was voting for President Biden. I said I was voting because of Kamala Harris. I always said that. And I do want to be clear because people talk about like there's no excitement. And I was like, do y'all remember? It was it was Uncle Clyburn. It was it was Congressman Clyburn that basically kind of got things shifted around.

Right. I mean, that was when there was a shift. And so I was like, y'all weren't excited before. Like this was a matter of people showing up and saying, you know what? I got to do the responsible thing. This is the responsible thing for the country. Right. And so now for people to want all this excitement, I was like, y'all weren't excited four years ago. It was about doing the responsible thing. Now, I can't say what's going to happen four years from now but i can say that like when you look at being responsible when you look at the black wealth gap actually uh you know finally starting to close it up a little bit we still are nowhere near where we need to be when you look at the amount of debt that has been relieved from black folks specifically when it comes to student loan

debt when you look at the fact that this president has been on the picket lines and making sure that those in Detroit and any other place where they are manufacturing cars and he is fighting with them to make sure that they get higher wages. When you look at the fact that my granny, she has sugar diabetes, as they used to call it, making sure that people can actually afford their life-saving medications. I can tell you that not everything in this world has been fixed, but I can tell you that there's one team that is fighting every single day to make this world better.

And there's another team that literally wants to delete our humanity and look at us and act as if we are not. My governor pardoned a police officer who was convicted by a jury of his peers for literally killing a Black Lives Matter activist. His name, Governor Greg Abbott, Governor Greg Abbott. And here's the problem. That happened maybe two weeks after the whole dog situation with Kristi Noem. Now, the whole country went crazy about her killing her dog. I keep trying to remind people that this country still values the life of a dog over our lives. And if we continue to put people into office, and that even means some of our skin folk

who definitely are not our kin folk, such as Byron Donalds, who are going to continue to say that, like, I mean, the fact that you sitting around talking about life was better under Jim Crow, like, is this because you don't understand history or literally it's because you married a white woman? And so you think that that whitewash you. I'm not really sure like what it is. But I didn't even be married to a white woman. Correct. Correct.

And it's a joy to call him out. So I'm like, bro, like, what are you talking about? Like, what are you saying? Like, he he just out here. You know, I feel like they give him his talking points and he's like, yes, massa, I got it. And it's not enough. So neither party is perfect. I will agree with that.

So people that take issue with both parties, I completely understand. There is no perfection that actually resides on this earth. But there is a party that at least is striving for a more perfect union, and that's the Democrats. Jasmine, gotta go. I know. People like you give me hope in the future of the Democratic Party. What's the website for the bleach blonde bad built butch body t-shirt? Oh, yes. TheClapBackCollection.com Yes. TheClapBackCollection.com

TheClapBackCollection.com That's right. Get your shirt. Jasmine Crockett, ladies and gentlemen. She got a flight, and I don't know how she gonna get to the airport, but we gotta get her there fast. I'm good. You good? I'm good. Yeah. shirt. Jasmine Crockett, ladies and gentlemen. She got a flight. And I don't know how she's going to get to the airport, but we got to get there fast. You good? I'm good. Yeah. All right.

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