The MeidasTouch Podcast - Democratic Attack Dogs with Brad Woodhouse

Episode Date: October 29, 2021

On today’s episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast, the brothers have an incredible guest, Brad Woodhouse! Woodhouse is the Executive Director of Protect our Care (leading the fight to protect and strengthen health care for millions of Americans) and also a Senior Advisor for the DNC. During the interview, Brad talks to us about the DNC’s efforts combating the GQP while promoting pro-democracy values. Later on in the interview, Brad discusses why this latest Governor's race in Virginia is so important and why we need to make sure that Terry McAuliffe takes home the victory on November 2. During the remainder of the episode, the brothers discuss the latest MAJOR updates around the Build Back Better bill, Ted Cruz defending the Nazi Salute and Trump seemingly derailing the Youngkin campaign with one press release. If you enjoyed today's episode please be sure to rate, review & subscribe! As always, thank YOU for listening! Support our sponsors: Policygenius -- Start saving money insurance and head to Policygenius.com/MEIDAS to get started right now Feals CBD -- Visit feals.com/MEIDAS to become a member and get 50% automatically taken off your first order with free shipping. Stamps.com -- Go to stamps.com, click on the Microphone at the TOP of the homepage and type in MEIDAS Remember to subscribe to ALL the Meidas Media Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831 Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595 Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599 Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447 Zoomed In: https://pod.link/1580828633 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This will be no different. We have Brad Woodhouse, DNC senior advisor, will be joining the podcast, talking about DNC messaging, a historic day, Brett and Jordy, as it seems that Build Back Better is going to pass, which seems that there was a compromise that was reached. Biden spoke earlier this morning about the compromise and many of the aspects of this bill that are going to be helpful to all Americans, not just to billionaires. How about that? That sounds refreshing. So excited to ask Brad about that and other strategies about how Democrats can be conveying how we are helping the people in winning. But Brett, Jordy, how are you doing today? I'm pissed. Why are you pissed, Jordy?

Why are you pissed? This is the Halloween edition of the episode. We all agreed that we were going to dress up in some great Halloween costumes for the YouTube live folks. And I'm the only one dressed up. You guys are making me look like a fool. A goddamn fool. Well, Jordy, I'm happy you're dressed up.

You're in like a Ted Lasso look. I see that you've signed your dress. Are you Ted Lasso himself? Well, I saw what happened was I saw that Mitt Romney dressed up as Ted Lasso today and just totally ruined that character. So I'm trying to help some PR, some public relations. How dare you, Mitt Romney? Fuck you, Mitt Romney.

Ruin the character of Ted Lasso, one of the most beloved television characters in years. How dare you, Kristen Cinema? I saw somebody, I don't know if anybody saw this. If you didn't see it, don't even look it up. It's horrible. You're going to need eye bleach after to get through this. But Mitt Romney did dress up as Ted Lasso, mustache and all, and did a photo op with Kristen Sinema, I guess to just rub it in our faces that Kristen Sinema and him are working together to destroy our democracy. I don't know what it was about, but somebody had a really funny comment about cinema because cinema was dressed up as the team owner

in Ted Lasso for those who watch the show. And somebody's comment, I forget whose it was, but it was very funny. They basically said, fitting for her to dress up as the person whose character, whose plot line was that they wanted to torpedo their own team and take torpedo their own team. It's so true. It's so true. Wow. That is so spot on. We've got Virginia elections coming up November 2nd. Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate going against Glenn Youngkin, aka

Trumpkin. Lots of developments in Virginia, both in terms of what Midas Touch is actually doing on the ground in Virginia. And I would also say this goes along the lines of what Midas Touch is doing on the ground in Virginia, but how we provoked Trump from Mar-a-Lago to embroil himself back into Virginia politics, making Trump the highlighted issue as we approach November 2nd, highlighting the fact that Trump and Youngkin are no different and voting for Youngkin means you're voting for Trump. So just for all of those who just want the refresher, Midas Touch, we broke our own exclusive that we were doing an ad in Mar-a-Lago beamed directly into Donald Trump's house. The way you do that is you do an ad buy in the West Palm Market in Florida. We bought an ad that called Trump out for being too weak, too chicken and calling out Virginia for not wanting to invite Trump,

despite the Virginia Republicans, despite wanting Trump's endorsement. So we called Trump out. It was indeed effective. The day before we're recording this podcast, yesterday on Wednesday, Donald Trump came out with a statement saying that he was going to be visiting Virginia, Northern Virginia, in fact, he's just going all in. And that Virginia loves him. They're chanting, we love Trump in Arlington, Virginia, an area where he lost by, I think, 80%. It's like when Trump says he's going to win New York and win California. California's rigged. It's rigged. I won California. It's like, shut up. Everybody here hates you, man.

Totally delusional. But then Glenn Youngkin's press team got to work and started leaking to the press immediately that Donald Trump would not be coming there. That's how they communicate, by leaking from their various sides that one says they're coming, the other sides, no, no, no, he's definitely not coming to Virginia. And this is now front and center in the Virginia race as we approach November 2. And you go back to what Hillary Clinton said about Donald Trump, that he's someone who can be baited with the tweet. Think about what dictators and despots like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un could do to him, what Saudi Arabia was able to do to him. You know, when Donald Trump went to Saudi Arabia, you'll recall, and even when he went to India with Modi, they put big billboards of Donald Trump on the path that he would be driving in to play to his ego to get benefits based on, you know, that type of, you know, that type of kind of psychological ops that makes him feel, you know, bigger and

stronger while undermining him at the same while undermining him at the same time. So we took a play out of that toolbook, although it's not exactly a complex psyops. It's more like second grade building blocks to try to to try to provoke Trump. And it worked. And now everybody in Virginia is talking about how Donald Trump will be coming to Virginia. Exactly what they should be talking about. And Brett, maybe discuss some of the other on the ground efforts that Midas Touch is doing in Virginia with our canvassing effort. So other than ruffling the feathers of the Yunkin campaign and causing a rift between Yunkin and Trump and associating Yunkin forever with Trump's stench and having that be the lead story. We are also having canvassers on the ground right now doing the important work of talking to voters, making sure that voters are

registered to vote, making sure that voters are getting to the polls, know where their polling place is, and truly understand the stakes of this election. So we partnered with this incredible group called Commonwealth Forward who is on the ground in Virginia. They're fantastic. And thank you so much to Commonwealth Forward. And together we are going to knock on 50,000 doors in Virginia to get out the vote. These are honestly the campaigns that excite me the most when we get people on the field, on the ground, speaking directly with voters, actually making real change and bringing people to the polls.

This is democracy in action. This is what it's all about. And I'm so thankful for these canvassers. We did a video with these canvassers. I hope you could check it out on our Twitter, on our YouTube, anywhere on social media, you could find it. You want to play it really quickly? Yeah, we could play it.

Let's play. Let's win Virginia. Let's play this video. My name is Cheyenne. I am 19 years old, and I am a junior at Virginia Commonwealth University. I'm Bryce Merriweather. I'm a sophomore mass communications major at Virginia State University. I'm Chad. I'm an organizer and a filmmaker.

I'm here on the ground as a canvas director. Commonwealth Corps is on the ground in eight battleground districts. We're putting all our resources in ensuring we elect these progressive voices to the Virginia General Assembly. I think canvassing is one of the best ways for young people to start getting involved in politics and see that power, and it only grows from there. What I love about canvassing is just that it's the easiest way to really get people educated about the upcoming election. It's sort of a way to break into people's echo chambers. In each shift, if you can just have five meaningful conversations, remember that everyone else will also have five meaningful conversations.

If we recruit, you know, 20, 50 people who do that, we have, you know, 250 people. If we have 200 people who do that, we have a thousand people. It was really different going out talking to different ethnicities and different people who told me, you know, we really appreciate that you're going out door to door doing this, you know, it makes a difference. It gives me a chance to talk to them, kind of see where their issues and concerns are, and give them information that they need.

That one person who I can impact, it always makes a difference for me. Sometimes it's short, sometimes it's long. Either way, you still feel good about it because you're getting that message of having a change in democracy. I want to thank Commonwealth Forward. We're so grateful for the partnership here.

We are just so incredibly thrilled and humbled to have assembled this incredible team of activists on the ground to secure democracy in Virginia. Democracy is on the ballot and each election is becoming the most important election. The work that you're doing on the ground is so crucial, so important. Putting in the hours every day is not only inspiring to us but inspiring to the whole country. So thank you. Let's win this thing. I love that video so much because Brett, what you were saying before we jumped into that one is it is so important that there are people on the ground, door to door, 50,000 doors in 50 days,

talking to voters before the election, actually having human to human contact and talking why it is so important to elect Terry McAuliffe. And of course, that video was a part of a longer discussion we had with these canvassers. We spoke to them yesterday for probably like a half hour, just getting all the updates on the ground. Everybody is super excited, super passionate. There's a lot of energy for Terry McAuliffe on the ground. And we're just so thrilled to be a part of this. And we want to thank everybody also out there for supporting this effort. And if you want to support our canvassers so that we could hit all 50,000 doors, you could chip in at MidasTouch.com slash Virginia to chip in there and support the work of our paid canvassers on the

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You think about it, at the end of the day, government should help people. It shouldn't help billionaires exclusively. And look, can government help billionaires at some point in time? Billionaires do provide jobs. I think they're doing okay. I think they're doing okay. They provide jobs. When Amazon wants to have its headquarters in a certain location, they go around to governments

and say, what can you give me? What tax credits can you give to Amazon? And look, big employers hire people. And I think we should respect that that exists. I don't think we should demean overtly and be anti-billionaires for the sake of being anti-billionaires. But what we should be is anti-greed. And what we should be is for the people at the end of the day. And we should be saying, how can government be fighting just as hard, in fact, significantly harder for most Americans than just the small 1% of 1%? Isn't that what people want? That's what always shocks me, Brett and Jordy, about these debates sometimes. It's like, can't you see GQ peers that all your party wants to do when they get into power? They never helped you. with stupid six packs of him, you know, that looks nothing like him. You're worshiping this cult person

who doesn't give a shit about you, who's done nothing for you. And your healthcare, your Medicaid, your childcare, your education, all of that has been delivered by big D Democrats. And do you know where your money is going? Do you know where your money is going instead of the programs that Ben just mentioned? It's going to the billionaires. They are actually the biggest recipients of government funding out there. I mean, let's take Tesla, for example, because Elon

Musk this weekend was complaining about in tweets saying, oh, well, you always run out of people's money. You always run out of people's money at the end of the day, kind of complaining about taxes on billionaires that Democrats are proposing. Well, Elon Musk, Tesla is made possible due to government grants. Tesla would not exist and would not be having the record stock prices that it is having right now if not for the United States governments and actually President Obama for funding clean energy initiatives like Tesla Motors. Tesla wouldn't exist if not for the United States government.

So it is only right for billionaires like Elon Musk to give back and pay their fair share and that's what Democrats are trying to do and that's what zero Republicans are trying to do. And that's why it's so frustrating when you have people like Manchin and Sinema on our side as well. In Manchin in a state that has zero billionaires and just about 300,000 West Virginians living in poverty. Yet who is Joe Manchin fighting for?

Is he fighting for the West Virginians in poverty? Or is he fighting for the zero billionaires in West Virginia? is he fighting for the zero billionaires in West Virginia? He is fighting for the zero billionaires. Now, I just want to go over quickly, though, what's in this bill. And this is where the compromise seems to be landing. This is what President Biden and Democrats are calling a framework. This has not yet been totally agreed upon. We don't know what the final bill will pass, but the framework is very impressive and it doesn't have everything we want. And you know, I'm pissed as hell at people like Joe Manchin

and Kyrsten Sinema for bringing this down, but let's focus on the positive for a second, because we're gonna be getting universal free pre-K for three and four year olds. We're gonna get limits on childcare costs, care for older Americans and people with disabilities, expanded child tax credits, clean energy tax credits, We're going to get limits on childcare costs, care for older Americans and people with disabilities, expanded child tax credits, clean energy tax credits, investments and incentives to address

clean weather, investments and incentives for clean energy technology. It's actually the biggest investment in clean energy in American history. More clean energy purchases. It's going to extend the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits and extend them to 4 million uninsured people in states that have not expanded Medicaid. And it's going to allow Medicare to cover the cost of hearing. It's going to help housing affordability. It's going to do a one-year extension to earn income tax credit for childless workers. There is a lot of good in this Build Back Better bill. And I think we should be proud of Democrats for pushing forward and working to pass this legislation that will change the lives of millions of people. And so this might not be the most

popular thing to say, but I think this is practical political strategy. Here's what I think we have to do at this moment in time. I think we need to pass this bill as quickly as we can. Once we get a consensus on it, we need to pass it. We need to run on the positive outcomes of this bill as quickly as we can. Once we get a consensus on it, we need to pass it. We need to run on the positive outcomes of this bill, the way Democrats are helping people, and then we need to work to elect more Democrats in 2022 so that we could get in all the extra stuff that we had to cut out of this bill. We can't just abandon all of this progress because we didn't get a few things that we didn't like.

We need to pass this and then we need to elect more Democrats to make people like Manchin, to make people like Sinema irrelevant in this process so we could actually pass the full Build Back Better agenda. But I think we need to take the wins as we have them and own them big and run on them in a big way. Now, let me ask you guys this. Is it definitive? Manchin and Sinema, will they both vote for this? And I know we'll say yes, because we talked about the big compromise that we all reached today, but every step of the way, they've hindered this process. They keep moving the goalposts. I sent you guys a meme earlier. It was the Charlie Brown kicking the football and the Charlie Brown was Democrats and the football was the build back

better and Lucy was Manchin and Sinema. And I mean that because every time we think that we've made the progress that we're going to pass it, it's going to get passed. They find something else. You know, I think though, I think we're at the end stages in this bill. I think we're very close to passing it. I don't think President Biden would have made the showing he made this morning and making his statements if he wasn't pretty confident that we were going to get this across the finish line. And I've also seen comments today from Sinema and from Manchin kind of implying that there is a framework by which they could get around.

Now this is certainly not a done deal and there's going to be a lot of different factions now pushing back. You're going to have the progressive wing of the party who are upset that, rightfully so, that we're not getting paid leave and some other programs, right? You're going to have the, I'm not going to call them moderate because there's nothing moderate to me about not wanting people to get these sorts of programs. But the conservative wing of the Democratic Party in Manchin and Sinema, they're going to have issues wanting that there's too much in the bill. But that's kind of the fact of negotiation, right? That's kind of what we said weeks ago when I kind of said, I think both bills are going to pass. I

think no one's going to be happy at the end of the day about the bills that, remember I said that, no bill, no one's going to be totally happy about the bill that ends up passing, but I think we will get this legislation done. And I stand by that point of view. And I want to talk about this, Brett. You gave that list of things that help American people versus under the Republicans, under Trump's tax bill, multinational corporations owed zero U.S. federal taxes on foreign profits up to a certain threshold. And above that level, they owed the government a tax rate that's just half of what they'd pay domestic profits. And so big corporations pocketed Trump's tax break. And then what they did is they shipped thousands of jobs overseas. There's a great Institute for Policy Studies that I would say everybody go to Google,

the Trump tax reform helped the billionaire class, not the working class. And this article really lays out what the priorities were in the Trump plan, billionaire class enjoying a 6.6% reduction in their top marginal income tax rates, exemptions on private jets. And so that's what they're fighting for. That's their list. And the list that Brett just gave you is a list that is in the interest of American people. And we need to, as Democrats, be able to message that. We need to be able to be proud of this agenda. And we need to make sure that we continue to gain majorities, which is why I'm excited to speak with Brad Woodhouse, DNC senior advisor. We'll bring him on in a moment.

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organization leading the fight to protect and strengthen health care for millions of Americans. He's also the DNC Senior Advisor, kind of known as the Big Attack Dog. How does that feel? Big Attack Dog driving DNC messaging and a senior strategist for Obama campaign from 08 to 2013. Welcome to the show, Brad. Hey, thank you all for having me.

I have been so freaking jealous of Jamie Harrison, the chair of the DNC. He did this. I heard about how much fun he had. I was telling Daniel Wessler over there, you got to get me on this thing. I mean, look, let me tell you something. Being with brothers who agree on politics. I mean, I don't know if you all know who my brother is, but, let me tell you something. Being with brothers who agree on politics. I mean, I don't know if you all know who my brother is, but, you know, he's a he's a Republican and a Republican operative. And so, man, this is awesome. Thank you. Well, let's get into the family there, Brad.

So how does that happen? Both raised. How do you have that divergent, you know, that divergent experience where not just you have differences in opinion, but also, you know, you know, you're leading the Democratic messaging here? Well, I mean, you know, I don't know. My brother has some crazy explanation for how he became a Republican. Oh, you know, government corruption and all that, all this. I don't know. But but, you know, I've just always. So he's a Republican. Yeah. You know, I mean, look, you know, look, I grew up with just the notion that government could help people. That's it. It's not you know, we talk about it in a lot of different ways. And we try to you know, we try to message it. And I do a lot of that. But at the end of the day, government can help people get a lift up when they can't get a complete lift up on their own and help level the playing field. And, you know, that's the thing about, you know, I know we're going to get into this, this announcement today, putting value in work over wealth. work over wealth is just, that's what Democrats

are about. And, and man, I love being the attack dog. I'm, you know, I think as much as an attack dog, I'm a cheerleader because I really do believe that if we, if we cheer what we're doing and what we're accomplishing and what it means to the American people, the attacks on the people standing in the way of 80, 20, 90, 10 propositions. All these things are that popular. And, you know, the attacks kind of take care of themselves. And for those listening, Brad's brother is Dallas Woodhouse, an American political operative based in North Carolina and executive director of the North Carolina Republican

Party from October 2015 through 2019. But here's the thing, Brad, why I think your appearance is better than Jamie's appearance. And you can tell Jamie this. Oh, my God. Don't tell. Oh, my God. Cut it out. So so you are appearing on the Midas Touch podcast on a very historic day on the heels of an announcement from Biden this morning about a compromise on the Build Back America bill, as you said, you know, focusing on workers, focusing on the health of America, focus on building infrastructure for Americans. So what's your reaction to what Biden said this morning and just generally this compromise that was reached? Well, first of all, I just want to talk about President Biden just for a second.

I just want to, you know, think about the sweep of what he is on the verge of accomplishing. First of all, if you just take Build Back Better and we believe, he believes, and I think, you know, the leadership believes that's going to pass. I mean, and the infrastructure bill is going to pass. And this is far ahead of where President Obama was in getting the Affordable Care Act passed at this point in his presidency in 2009. So a lot of people say, well, the process is messy and, you know, it's taking too long. In historic terms, this is not taking too long. And, you know, President Biden is working with much, much narrower majorities than President Obama had. Now, President Obama, on the other hand, had a bunch of Joe Manchins that had different views on things that he wanted to accomplish. But just the sweep of

the American Rescue Plan, what that's done to rescue the economy and create jobs, what the Build Back Better agenda will do to reward work instead of wealth, and then the infrastructure plan, which will just create millions of jobs. And we all know, I mean, you know, America shouldn't be 13th in the world in terms of its infrastructure. And this, President Biden took a really lead role in getting this done, in negotiating this compromise. Look, it's not perfect. Everybody has a piece that they want either plussed up or that they're out of the bill and would like in. One that I've been working on in my role at Protect Our Care is giving Medicare the power to negotiate for lower drug prices. You know, we have a handful

of Democratic members who are more interested in looking out for pharma than they are for patients. But we're not giving up that fight. This bill is still being written. But the sweep of it and what it does for families, what it does for workers, what it does to make the wealthy pay more of their fair share. These are all things that Democrats have talked about for eons. And it's Joe Biden who everyone always under effing estimates getting it done. So how do we message it to the people, though? You know, one of the concerns, right, is that Biden does a great bill like this. The Democrats come together. You know, the Republicans rail against the pieces they don't like. They take credit for Democratic initiatives once they are successful.

Right. Back to their districts. And they say, look, look what we got you. Look what we did for you. How do we not only get this bill passed, which it seems that it's on the road finally to happening? Put that in one category. But I guess with you on this podcast, how do we message it to the people? Like, how do we break it down? This is what you're getting because of what the Democrats and Biden accomplished. Well, look, I think in a few words, it's care, climate and health care. And and that that is kind of encapsulates it. But, you know, we do have to look at this in what we are facing. We had a race in in Virginia for governor, a race in New Jersey for governor. We have the midterms next year. And we need a national frame for what President Biden has accomplished. I think when it's all said and done, the most important thing will be

that we are recovering from or nearly out of the pandemic and that the job creation continues, the economic expansion continues. And all of these things, the American Rescue Plan, Build Back Better and the infrastructure deal are part of the Biden economic agenda. And the economic agenda means different things to different people. For some people, it's, you know, being able to have child care helps your economy. Being able to have health care helps your economy. Being able to have health care helps your economy. It helps the local economy. So the big thing is the Biden economic agenda, in my view. But I think every member, you know, we got to prosecute races in congressional districts and in Senate states. Every member needs to run on the things, one, that they champion, that they care about the most, and the things that work the best on the ground in those in those places.

So I don't think there's a one size fits all for how to sell this. I would say it's the Biden economic agenda for families. I don't know if that's where the White House is going to be. We'll hear more of what their of what their frame is. But that's really what it is. I mean, you know, so I was asked this question on Fox about, you know, there was a poll that said that the social spending plan is not. I said, stop there. Joe Biden is not one time called this social spending plan. No Democrats ever call this a social spending plan. You know, that is a pejorative right off right off the get go. And it's intentionally done that way. And it was leading by, you know, this person asked me this question. If you talk about it more, I think, is the President Biden's economic plan. People care about the economy. You know, the economy is the number one issue right now. That and coronavirus

number one issue in the race for governor of Virginia. So it's an economic plan conceived by Joe Biden, passed by the Democrats that is that is going to help a modern economy and a modern workforce succeed and make the wealthy pay more of their fair share. And Brad, you've always been ahead of your time as well with the messaging. I think back to the Obama administration when Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize, lots of Republicans were criticizing that he got that award. And you famously came out and said, these are, you know, basically do nothing Republicans. They're incredibly radical people. And he even compared their conduct to the Taliban and bin Laden. And you said they identify more with

with terrorists than they do with the United States of America. Back then in 08, lots of people said, oh, shit, Brad's Brad's going there, you know, with the Republican Party, you know, and a lot of Republicans who have now left that party who are now today saying, no, this party is a radical terrorist party back then, you know, we're criticizing you for that. But what's interesting is, is that it's not a new phenomenon with Trump. Trump exacerbated, but you saw it. You saw where it was going back then, and you called it out back then, right? Well, exactly. I mean, you know, Trump accelerated or gave more profile to how radical the Republican Party is. Of course, it culminated

in this, you know, insurrection at the Capitol. But, you know, it was a radical approach to, on that day, what I was talking about was, you know, the Taliban and Osama, you know, it was a radical approach to on that day. What I was talking about was, you know, the Taliban and Osama, you know, had criticized Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. And here, American president receives Nobel Peace Prize and the Republicans are doing the same thing as the Taliban. But I mean, the whole approach to President Obama during that era, questioning questioning where he was born, questioning his citizenship. It was meant to radicalize Republicans against Obama. It was meant to radicalize Republicans, bring up the specter of otherness, bring up the specter of race. And that has continued. I was talking about this on another Fox program this morning. I don't know why I'm on Fox so much, but whatever. I'm going to put up a good fight. I will put up a good fight. You know, they asked me about, you know, you know, critical race theory. That's a big deal in Virginia.

No, it's not. It's it's Trump. It's Trumped up the way Trump Trump Trumped up. You know, Mexicans are racist, rapist and murderers. And then in 2017, as Gillespie was MS-13, they're coming over the border and they're going to invade Virginia. And now it's critical race theory. It is radicalism to to fan the flames of racial animosity, to turn out their vote because they can't talk about child care. They can't talk about health care. They can't talk about climate. They can't talk about any of the other issues that people care about.

So they try to scare the shit out of them to turn their to turn their voters out and to depress our vote. Brad, I watched Fox News the other day. I was just turning through channels in the hotel. It was the first channel that came up when I was in the hotel and they were talking about and I just wanted to watch it for five minutes. And it is an alternative alternative reality of fake news. And they're talking about how this one school district in Virginia is ground zero for critical race theory spreading across the country. They have Jim Jordan talking about this one school board district. Asking Merrick Garland the question, asking Merrick Garland the question, and Merrick Garland's like, I don't live in your echo chamber. I got no fucking clue what y'all are talking about. You're just speaking a gibberish language.

How do you combat that Fox News echo chamber? I mean, you're going on the show. Is that what Democrats need to do? Do we need to be going on Fox more and speaking our point of view? A lot of people say it's a setup? You go on there, but you're good. I mean, you push back against them. But what's your what's your view on that? Well, look, I've always been of the view that there is a role for Democrats to go on there and get our message out there. There there got to be some percentage of persuadable voters watching Fox.

But even still, even if they're not one persuadable voter, it's just malpractice not to get your side out. And I mean, I did that today in service of trying to help Terry McAuliffe and help President Biden on this on this build back on this build back better agenda. It is it is an alternative reality, but it's one, it's one that we live in. So Fox, we can wish Fox would go away. Fox is not, Fox is not going to go away. And we absolutely can't just leave all of the voices to the radicals that would, that would come on there and have literally no defense for the president or for democratic values or for sanity. Right. But it seems like they're just doubling and tripling down on it. Like every time, every single day, it seems like the rhetoric coming from Fox News is just crazier and more

outlandish. And at this point, they're making Infowars look tame. Like, I don't know if you saw this Tucker Carlson video that he came out with last night, but Tucker Carlson is releasing an entire special that is about this alternate reality of the January 6th attack that poses it as a false flag, saying that President Biden is sending Republicans to Guantanamo Bay to kill. Like this is America's most watched news network. So how do we actually deal with that sort of propaganda when people are believing this by the millions? Well, look, you know, there are some people who are never going to persuade. And I don't think we can live in every bit of the Fox of the Fox echo chamber. We have we have to writ large.

We really have to convince people that they're being duped. They're being tricked. They're being duped. They're being tricked. They're being lied to because Republicans are losing power because there's a there's a sentiment among a lot of white people in this country that they are losing out and that that other people are rising up. There's a fear of that. You know, Trump Trump used that fear to get elected. He's used that fear to control control the Republican Party. I think we've got to go like something like critical race theory is, you know, the facts on our facts on our side. I mean, this is a college course. It's not a high school curriculum. It's not being taught anywhere. You know, but what they really want is to whitewash, you know, partly whitewash actual history, slavery, Jim Crow. But what they really want to do is they want to they want to whip people up. They want to have them angry about something. And by the way, critical race theory recedes.

It will be it will be something else. But something that you cannot just let go. Like Tucker Carlson, you know, he's just living in a world beyond anybody's recognition. I hard pressed to believe that it's worth trying to respond to him. But, you know, on on some of these shows where they're giving you a shot, where they're giving you an equal say, I think you just I think you just got to do it. But the best thing we can do, the best thing we can do is deliver for the American people and, you know, and make sure people understand that sure people understand that the Democratic Party is not some radical party. These are mainstream views, policies, and ideas, and they help everybody. They lift all boats. I like when Fox News lists the components of the Build Back Better bill on their TV as if they're horrifying things. And it's like, who's against who's against any of this stuff?

Oh, I know. It's like your radical Biden agenda, you know, child care, health care, climate. And I'm like, thank you, please. You know, we screenshot it. We tweet it. I mean, it's but, you know, they you know, it drives some of their you know, some of their people crazy. I mean, there is a they create a predisposition in people that if a Democrat is for it, then then they they have to be against it. I mean, I think I think Democrats should start supporting Republican policies. And all of a sudden, Republicans would abandon them and attack Democrats. I mean, it's literally it's happened on things like health care. I mean, a lot of the health care that we've done over the years, Republicans supported, you know, to two decades ago.

These are big, bold ideas, though, that the Democratic Party is pushing. These are enormous plans that could change the lives of millions and millions of Americans. But as you mentioned before, you you implied you didn't name names, but you said we have two senators who are maybe in the pocket of big pharma. I'll name some names. We got, you know, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. How do we deal with Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema in a party when the rest of the party, 99 percent of the party, is pushing in one direction and they seem to be a roadblock to progress? Well, I mean, look, one thing clearly we need to do is like more Democrats. I mean, that you that when you have the narrow majorities that we that we have, you know, people can exercise a veto. And there are people who can exercise a veto for what are really the wrong reasons.

And then on the other side, you know, look, you know, there are people disappointed in some of the provisions of the Build Back Better bill that support President Biden, who they could exercise a veto because things are not in there. But they want what is so good about the bill in total, and they want to see it succeed. Those people, I think, are more reasonable. And it's not just the two senators you mentioned. On the drug issue, there are several there are several House members. And I mean, you know, look, you know, and they have different views and they you know, they are heavily influenced, it seems, you know, by by pharma. I would say on the drug issue, I don't think this this battle this battle is over. Chairman in the in the Senate today said that they're not they're not giving up on it. But at the end of the day, what you have to have in the White House is someone who can create the most good out of a difficult situation. And that's what President Biden has done. This plan, if it doesn't have drugs, if it doesn't have paid leave,

that's going to be disappointing. But it is massively transformative. And it's not it's not the size of it. It's not the one point seven five trillion, which is huge and is more than anything's ever been done in these categories. It is the categories. It's child care. It's it's taking care of seniors that they need help helping their home. I mean, that's a burden on families and a burden on families is a burden on the economy. It's this child tax credit, which is going to be extended a year. And I think it'd be hard not to extend it again. I think that's going to be a hard thing for Congress not to do. And it's health care, and it just go on down the list. It is really going to be transformative. What boggles my mind is the sweep, rescue plan build back better and the and the infrastructure plan i mean the total are trillions and trillions of dollars but that's not the most important thing

i mean it is what is happening you know in this country of course republicans have an alternative reality well we have inflation well okay and and this is the one I love on Fox. So they put up gas prices a year ago and gas prices today. And they just say, oh, my God, look at gas prices. Well, you're sitting in their home. The entire market can go anywhere. We were in a recession. We were headed towards a depression. I mean, do you really want a year ago? And so so much progress has been made. The sausage making in Washington has been unfortunate because I think that has, you know, that has distracted people, that's depressed Democrats. That's nearly over now. And we're going to celebrate these victories. And here's the other thing, setting aside what we don't get, we got to celebrate things we didn't

get. Every single Republican in Congress is going to vote against these provisions. Every single one is going to vote against child care, health care, elder care, climate care. And they're going to have to take that into 2022. Good luck with that. Yeah, I think that can't be emphasized enough because I think often we put too much attention on those two Democrats when it's 99% of the Democratic Party is on board with all of this stuff and zero Republicans are yet Republicans never get asked why they don't support any of the things that you just mentioned. Right. And this has been a frustration of ours. And we've, you know, we did a whole action a few weeks ago where we did nothing but focus on on Republicans. They got off scot-free here. I mean, there's just been no Jim Jim Jim's and disarray.

Jim's can't get it done. The Biden agenda is just such low expectations for them. They're just like, oh, it's expected. I know. Well, that's that's exactly right. No one expects Republicans to solve any of these issues. They expect them to pitch, you know, critical race theory and defend the insurrectionists and bow down to Trump. That's the Republican Party of 2021. Low expectations. And I agree with your point that I think at this point, we need to pass the best possible bill that we possibly can. And then we need to work like hell to elect more Democrats so we could get every other provision that we didn't get in this one through. But a lot of that hinges on voting rights,

which is an important issue. And I'd be remiss. I mean, I got Brad Woodhouse on the show if I didn't ask you about a voting rights and B, how do we pass something like voting rights legislation without a carve out to the filibuster? And where do you stand on the filibuster? And what kind of reform can we see there? Well, I mean, look, so I introduced Harry Reid at the press conference where he announced that he was getting rid of the filibuster for judicial nominees below the Supreme Court and for executive appointments. And of course, once Democrats lost the Senate and lost the presidency, Mitch McConnell followed that up with eliminating the filibuster for the Supreme Court, which gave us Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. So I have a history being for filibuster reform, getting rid of the filibuster. You know, President Biden has been, you President Biden has been more reluctant. And I think he's a former

senator. And he has to deal with senators that he's trying to get other legislation through that aren't in favor of getting rid of the filibuster. I think he's spoken recently about the possibility of a carve out for for voting for voting rights. And, you know, but but we had but we don't have the votes for it. We don't have the votes for it right now. This is one thing I do believe, though, that Joe Biden is as interested and as passionate and is working as hard on that issue as any other issue in his presidency. He understands that it's fundamental. It is

fundamental. I mean, you know, I think about what we saw. I was saying this the other day. I think about what we saw on January 6th. And it just it's a culmination of decades of Republican efforts to to steal elections or to suppress votes so they can win elections. And, you know, you know, in my career, it started with them handing out flyers in black neighborhoods saying the election day had been moved to Wednesday. And, you know, and it just followed through.

And that, you know, that was skullduggery. But then it became more official GOP platform. Get rid of early vote. You know, get rid of no absentee mail-in voting. Get rid of souls to the polls. And and, you know, and then and then it, you know, dwarfed itself or expanded itself into what we saw with, you know, with Trump and literally calling secretaries of state and calling the Department of Justice trying to get an overturn in the election that was legitimately decided. So I, you know, look, I'm all for a carve out for voting, for voting rights, not speaking on behalf of the president or the DNC. And I, you know, look, they did cut a, you know, they did cut a deal to get 50 votes in the Senate

for it. And it was Republicans that filibustered it. Again, we need to talk about Republicans. You know, we need to talk about Republicans that don't believe that we should make it convenient, easier, more reliable for people to vote, but only want to, you know, look, they're telling on themselves, right? They got to suppress our votes. They got to suppress our votes because they have a hard time turning out enough on their own. They lost the last election by eight million. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. We always win the popular vote in the House. We have some very undemocratic institutions, the Senate being the Senate, being one of them. You know, but that's reality. The Electoral college being the other. But, you know, that's not enough for them, that the way the system is set up favors them. They want to do other things to suppress votes.

And Joe Biden realizes that he's going to keep fighting like hell for voting rights. Speaking of elections, we have a big race, governor's race in Virginia coming up. Why is it so important that Terry McAuliffe gets the victory and becomes the next governor of Virginia? Well, I mean, it's important for a lot of reasons. I mean, one, it's important for Virginia. First of all, he's got a track record. He was a very successful governor, successful in education, job creation, infrastructure. And in this race, one of the big contrasts is how they would deal with the coronavirus, how they deal with vaccine mandates, how they deal with keeping the economy open, keeping schools open. You know, Youngkin is

much more like Trump, you know, downplay the virus. Don't worry about vaccine mandates. You know, and and McAuliffe wants vaccine mandates where they needed masks and mask mandates where they're where they're needed. And he's following more of a Biden approach to, you know, let's do everything we can. You know, all this other stuff is extremely important. And we've got to walk and chew gum and do all of this at the same time. But we're really not going to move forward as a country until we get the pandemic behind us. So that's a big issue. And I don't think we need another Republican governor like Ron DeSantis or Greg Abbott who want to downplay this virus and don't want to do everything to get it behind us.

So that's usually important. But it's hugely important in the political sense in that it sends a message about where we are politically. And, you know, President Obama said as much in the ad that he that he did for Terry McAuliffe. It was, you know, it's sending a signal about where we are as a society. You know, Glenn Youngkin is a fleece wearing Trump clone. You know, he's tried to hide it because he knows that's the only way that he that he can get elected. But he's pitching critical race theory, just like Trump would pitch rapists and murderers coming across the Mexican border. He's pitching, banning a book of a famous African-American author as another way, as another way to whip up racial anxiety heading into this race. And we just, and we just, you know, we can't have that. That's not the direction that we need the country to go. And by the way, let's not sleep on New Jersey. You know, we always used to talk

about these races together, that they're hugely, you know, hugely important. And I think people think Phil Murphy is going to win. I hope he does. I think something to know about Phil Murphy, if he does win, he's governed and run on a very progressive agenda, a progressive agenda on health care, a progressive agenda on a whole host of issues, immigration taxes. And and, you know, that's going to be a sweet victory, too, if we pull it off and we shouldn't we should put anything in the bank. But Phil Murphy's look strong. And, you know, that's not it's not a normal course there that Democrats get elected to second terms. I mean, some have been run out because of controversy. Governor Corzine lost

his reelection bid. So pretty big deal if Governor Murphy gets reelected in New Jersey. And then going back to Virginia really quickly, I love what you did in Florida with the banners, the boats, everything just hammering home that Trump is too chicken to show up in Virginia. Why is that so important to get that messaging out there that Trump and Trumpkin, as we like to call them, are the same person? Well, look, because I think they are. And I think, you know, you know, Youngkin has said that he valued the endorsement from Trump. He has said that he would vote for Trump again if he was if he was running for president. And I think you see him pushing these buttons of division that are very similar to to Trump and that people need to

know that. I mean, you know, look, I will say this. The guy should get an Academy Award for the act he's put on that he's not like Trump. But it's just it's just an act. I mean, and, you know, he's he's kind of let it out a few times. I mean, like he he praised the rally ahead of time that Trump held for him that Trump wound up phoning into. But, you know, he praised that rally, you know, that rally. They pledged allegiance to a flag that had been at the insurrection. I mean, you know, so, you know, we can't get let him get away with being someone he's not. That's why we did the action in Florida. We thought it was fun to target Trump right on his home turf. It was by land, by sea, by air, you know, plane banner, mobile billboard, boat billboard. I'm a visibility guy, so I totally loved it. I love it, Brad. Brad, I love you coming on this podcast. I really do. I mean, the fact that me,

Brett Jordy, you know, get to talk to you, you know, who's been doing this, you know, your entire career, you know, we picked this up because, you know, we were scared. We, you know, we, we, we were sitting in quarantine and we're like, yeah, we got to do something. And we created this entity, you know, 18 months ago called Midas Touch. And we got this podcast and it's always cool to know that kind of our North Stars pointed in the right direction when we talk to you and we hear the strategy. And so I just want to thank you for what you said at the beginning. Guys, guys, guys, let me let me write back at you what y'all are doing. Y'all are on the cutting edge, man. I mean, what y'all are doing with what you set up in the podcast and what you did

to defeat Trump and win Georgia and, you know, what you do to help get the content out there and promote, you know, the message. It is in effing valuable. I mean, I know the DNC appreciates it. I appreciate it. Progressives appreciate it. We want to make you all as famous as hell because what you're doing is just it's to the good of everything. And thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We appreciate you, Brad. We appreciate you coming on the podcast. Appreciate you sharing your wisdom

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Brad Woodhouse, thank you for joining the Midas Touch podcast. Brett Jordy, Brad said some nice things about Midas Touch there. Not bad. Always good to get some love. I always appreciate the love, but that's what we need. We need to all be united in this fight. I think everybody understands that messaging from across the board is so important here.

We all need to be pushing in the right direction because the board is so important here. And we all need to be pushing in the right direction because the stakes have never been higher. Yeah. Even beyond the love and all of that, which is always great to hear from, uh, from people like Brad, the work that Brad's that he really is an attack dog, man. He, he gets it. You know, I feel like the DNC on Twitter, they get a lot of shit sometimes for what are you guys doing? You guys aren't doing enough. What they did in Florida was fucking awesome. And I encourage everybody to go back and check out the billboards that they were doing down there. And actually we released our Trump video the same day that they were down there just by sheer coincidence. So their messaging has been

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Congrats, Ben. That's big. Nice, big congrats, dude. And the Netflix team. The reviews are great. It focuses on Colin's high school experience. It's a scripted series. Colin kind of serves as a narrative voice that guides viewers through that high school experience.

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Ben looking great. Oh, thank you. Thank you. You know, and it's timely, right? Because, Brett, and this goes back to your tweet, the peaceful protest of Colin compared to the insurrectionists, that juxtaposition has been pointed out. We talked earlier in the podcast about democratic priorities, which are really priorities for democracy. At the same time, you've seen these hearings where Merrick Garland, attorney general, was discussing and describing what these individuals who have these cabinet level positions have to go in front of the Senate and testify during normal periods of time. And usually you use it to explore issues. And the GQP has exclusively used these hearings to really play into their echo chamber of like cultish craziness. And so you literally have a number of things going on.

You have like Ted Cruz, he was promoting giving Nazi symbols, Brett, or giving Nazi gestures. He was cool with that. Let's play the clip. I did a quick count just sitting here. During this hearing, I counted 20 incidents cited. Of the 20, 15 on their face are nonviolent. They involve things like insults. They involve a Nazi salute.

That's one of the examples. My God, a parent did a Nazi salute at a school board because he thought the policies were oppressive. General Garland is doing a Nazi salute at an elected official. Is that protected by the First Amendment? Yes, it is. Okay. I have a lot of problems with Merrick Garland, but fucking poor Merrick Garland here. Take the abuse of these lunatics. And fuck you, Ted Cruz. I want you to show that sort of passion defending democracy. I want you to show that sort of passion defending the Constitution and trying to protect people

and trying to pass policies that better the lives of Americans, not defending fucking Nazi salutes. And Ted Cruz was rightfully called out for that. And his excuse is like all these excuses of these GQ peers when they're called out for using swastikas and doing Nazi salutes. It's, oh, we weren't being Nazis and we weren't condoning the Nazi salute. We were comparing you to Nazis. So all better, all better. Let me just say, if you're, I'll say this as a Jewish person, okay? I'll say this as a Jewish person. If you are doing a Nazi salute, if you are doing a swastika, it is incredibly disrespectful and incredibly offensive and incredibly disgusting. And you have no idea the't do that. Do not do a Nazi salute because you think that having your child wear a mask during a global pandemic is akin to Nazism where fucking

over 6 million Jews were killed and gassed by the Nazis. Stop it. Stop it. And the fact that Ted Cruz was so riled up and so passionate, this is his cause. This is his cause that he's coming to defense to. These Republicans are absolutely just disgusting, bottom of the barrel, Nazi sympathizer, fascist, disgusting human beings. I'm so sick of it. Facts, facts, facts, facts. And that's why too, you see these Instagram, G2 peers wearing yellow stars that are trying to represent that they're stop it. Just fucking stop it. You're a lunatic. You're a fucking lunatic. But this is why, this is why January 6th, when the insurrection happened, there's a video that

does not get enough play brothers. And it's the video of the insurrectionists going through the book, the binder that they found in, in Congress. And one of the kids was shuffling through the papers. They said, I think Ted Cruz would be okay with us doing this. That's the type of shit. Why these people think it's okay to do what they do, Ted Cruz? You enable this bullshit, man. Go fuck yourself. And also, Ben, to the point you were saying before, Ted Cruz, one of the leading crusaders against Collins kneeling, and one of the people, one of the most outspoken voices against that form of peaceful protest, but also one of the most outspoken defenders of people giving the Nazi salute. I think that says everything you need to know about Ted Cruz in case you didn't

know already. Well, a lot of these issues, I would say most of these issues, and we may have talked about it on prior Midas Touch podcasts, or may just be something I talk about, you know, we do so many podcasts now, it's unclear, is that a lot of what the GQP is saying, if not most of it, is really a proxy for white supremacy when you really break it down. At the end of the day, they harbor racism, and it could be for kind of different reasons how they found themselves in that rabbit hole. But at the end of the day, what they're projecting and the contradictions are rooted in a hatred of the other. And when we look at racism and also being against LGBTQ+, also being against women, being against the other and their conflation of genocides,

their conflation of real persecution and comparing that with wearing masks or getting a vaccine is just beyond the pale. Well, it says it all, Ben, though, that any sort of fight for equality is persecution to them, right? And I think you nailed it because literally you could follow every GQP policy back to the promotion of white supremacy, whether it's trying to take away voting rights, whether it's trying to take away programs that help the middle class, that help the poor. Every sort of GQP policy is we say, you know, it's to help billionaires. It's not just billionaires. It's to help, you know, white supremacy.

That's at the end of the day. that is the goal of the Republican Party. And I say there's different routes they take to get down that rabbit hole because the way the GQP energizes some of its base with that imagery and the GQP cult follows it and internalizes these images. And then they are actually doing things that are against their own self-interest, as we described earlier in the podcast. You the trump tax plan great we just made billionaires exponentially richer the person who got three private planes now gets 30 private planes that's what you're fighting for when you're in the trump rally you know when what what was the trump rally recently where they

were literally peeing on each other? They had the P funnels. I want to address, I guess we'll close the pot. I want to close talking about P funnels for a second, because at a Trump rally recently, you get new listeners to come back. Well, this is, this is how I, this is how I tease people to come back to the next podcast. Let me just talk about the P funnel issue right now. Let me address it head on. At the last Trump rally, where was the last Trump rally? I think it was in Iowa. I think it was Iowa, yeah.

You had a number of the kind of Trump vendors, and they were selling marked up P funnels where you would P in the funnel, and I guess the funnel would, you know, divert the pee, you know, and I guess you'd just be able to pee where you're, where you're standing. And so they were selling beer next to the P funnel. The P funnels were marked up to $15 or $20. And so apparently what they were doing at the rally is they would all go and gather. They would take the pee funnels. And because there wasn't any restrooms, there wasn't any porta potties, while they would be listening to the rally, they would take the pee funnels and pee on the floor. And we've seen them. They're kind of compact and they're like all next to each other. Now, there were some people who commented

and said, look, pee funnels are used in hiking. Like that's normal. P funnels are used. And to that, I didn't respond because I don't want to go down that rabbit hole, but I'm just going to address it here on the podcast, on my bigger platform. The P funnels are used for hiking exactly where there should be no bathrooms, not for large gatherings where you're all next to each other, which lasts about two hours where you'd be peeing on each other. I agree. You can use pee funnels for hiking where there's no bathroom in sight for hours and hours on end.

But the fact that you're listening to a cult leader, you're standing in close proximity and you're peeing on each other, that this became a best-selling item is a problem. That's how I ended the show. Do you want to say something else? Yeah, I do. I'd say what you want about Democrats. I am proud as hell to support the party who does not defend giving Nazi salutes and who does not sell pee funnels at their rally and actually treats people with dignity and is trying to give people the dignity of work, the dignity of support, the dignity of life, the dignity of life-saving vaccines, the dignity of childcare, all of this stuff. The differences cannot be more staggering. And that's why we need to stay engaged. That's why we need to stay involved every step of the way because we cannot let these

Nazi saluting, P-funnel wearing, crazy psychopaths take power. Not in Virginia, not in 2022, not in New Jersey. We need to step up. We need to support activists on the ground who are doing the work. We need to get out the message that Democrats are for the people, and we need all of you to stay with us in this fight and help save our democracy. And thank you for doing that. Democrats for the people, not the P funnels. Brett and Jordy, thank you for making my last rant there make sense and connecting it. Tied it all in. With the overall podcast. Want to give a special thanks. I funneled it into the rest. want to give a special thanks to all of our sponsors, Policy Genius, Feels, Stamps.com, all the Midas Mighty. Make sure you go and visit those

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