“Whataboutism” and Political Tribalism Are Destroying America
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What about ism and mindless stupidity that’s killing us? Yeah, what about ism? You know, it’s when someone calls something out because we’re divided. know, you call someone calls somebody out on your side, your faction. What about it? What about Biden? What about Trump? What about what about what about what about again? You watch this occur on a regular basis in the hollowed halls of Congress. So
Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary. Well, he took a vacation. He took a vacation paid for by Toyota and Boeing, and they made a video with it with his family about the great American road trip. And again, I don’t know how bad it is. didn’t watch it, but it
look good. Look good. Do you are the transportation, know, the Transportation Department, Transportation Secretary and you know, the people that you are overseeing the companies that you have to oversee are funding this little venture for you. Not saying anything he did was wrong. I just don’t look good. So they decided to ask him about it in Congress and it turned into an like a kindergarten
kindergarten shouting, arguing match. What about you? You get $2 million from pharmaceutical companies. What about that? And was this, this United States of America, again, it’s embarrassing to watch this stuff. It looking more and more like that movie Idiocracy. We just keep getting dumber and dumber and dumber. Same thing, same thing when, know, obvious.
plane as day things that shouldn’t be happening that are happening. Trump’s trades, 3700 trades, know, all of these things perfectly timed before announcements. The slush fund for the January Sixers coupled with the get out of jail free card from the IRS. What do you see by his supporters?
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Yeah, but what about you? You we see you didn’t say anything about when when Biden, know? Yeah, yeah, some of us did. And quite frankly, if. You know, you have half a brain in your skull, the only people you honestly should be listening to are the people that are willing to call out. Both sides.
I’m not on any team. I’ll never not going to join. I’m going to join a donkey. So do you any mind? Much of socialist crackpots at this point. I’m going to join the the elephants. used to be on the elephants. Used to be on the elephants, but I just figured out they’re just full of it. It’s a uniparty and they just lie and make stuff up and they don’t follow through on anything. Why would I join them? Oh, yeah. Conservatives are concerned. Yeah, yeah. Keep spending guys. Give me a break.
No, you should be not aligned with any party. What you should be is be aligned with the truth. And you should be fully comfortable in calling out your own side. And again, make it like a team. If I’m the head coach, I’m a head coach of a team, I’m on that team, but aren’t I going to call out bad play bad, you know, performance and all that stuff don’t want to make the team better.
should be more critical, quite frankly, of your own side than you are of the others. Worry about your own situation rather than theirs. Yeah, it’s funny. Take take me back in time when the first Tea Party and again, it was great because it didn’t allow any politicians and eventually the politicians infected it and ruined the entire thing. But anyway, I was delivering a speech in front of thousands of people and I said, yes, I’m mad at the
Democrats, at least they’re honest. At least they tell you what they’re going to do and they follow through.
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They follow through. Republicans don’t want to stand for quite frankly, it changes every single day. Changes at the whim of the president. The dictator over the party. I never really quite understood that. But anyway, we’re already starting to see it now and this is what my fear is. It’s what about ism.
The overreach when it comes to the Constitution and the rule of law, if you don’t think the other side is gonna do it, they are. We need to rein in the executive branch of government. We need to restore the rule of law. If we don’t do that, what do you think? What do you think President Ayok is going to do? Let’s say she can be president, someone like her.
Influential democratic voices are urging. In order for us to correct the abuses that are happening now, we have to act the same in similar capacities that Trump has given himself. that’s AOC. Elizabeth Warren. Donald Trump has made clear that there are no guardrails on executive power that are effective.
So the idea that the next president somehow doesn’t pick up the tools and use them to execute on the policies that they run on makes no sense. We can’t play that game. Republicans presidents get lots of power and Democratic presidents don’t, which is horse manure, as we all know, but again, it’s coming from Elizabeth Warren. That ton of power. But at some point in time, we don’t want either side to abuse power. And this this vicious
You know, race to the bottom, circle to the bottom. Revenge, all these various different things. Don’t vote for people like that. You know, I thought about it. I pulled it up. It was like the chorus to a Coldplay tune. This is, you know, back in 2009, maybe Death and All His Friends is the name of the song. The chorus goes like this. This is
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No, I don’t want to battle from beginning to end. don’t want a cycle of recycled revenge. I don’t want to follow death and all his friends. No, I don’t want to battle from beginning to end. I don’t want a cycle of recycled revenge. I don’t want to follow death and all of his friends. That’s what we keep doing. And it’s killing us. Killing us as a country killing us as a society ripping this place apart. Watchdog on Wall Street.
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