Let's bring in Rogers Ackheim now.
So, Roger, when you look at the matchups, the one thing Republicans got to feel good about flipping a seat is in Michigan, where early on Rogers on the first poll against El Saeed is up by four. Are you convinced that that's a race that Republicans should win? There's no question the Republicans should win that, Brian, but All the momentum, all the energy is coming from the Democratic Socialists. And El Saeed is probably the most capable political talent democratic socialists have, regardless of how he identifies. His policies are just that.
And the reason why I think Mike Rogers should win, in addition to the merits and the policies, but the politics alone, is that there's a that poll that you're referencing shows that 27%. I believe of non-DSA Democrats are backing Mike Rogers.
So the more Republicans, And Republican candidates come out and hold these candidates, these Democratic candidates, accountable on where they stand vis-à-vis DSA policies. Whether or not they say they're DSA, whether or not DSA backs them, that will help the Republican candidates. No doubt about it. Keep in mind, he's still campaigning with Hassan Piker. He didn't say he's not.
Hassan Piker should be radioactive, blood in the streets of capitalists. The worst thing that ever happened was the Soviet Union collapsing. U.S. deserved 9-11. You don't say that by mistake.
You say that because you mean it. You don't say it's a dumb statement. No, for some of you, that's abhorrent, but you meant it. You don't say that by mistake. Roger Zakheim would never say that by mistake.
Brian Kilmey would never say that by mistake.
So I don't believe the retraction. But you have Roe Conna, AOC, and of course, El Saeed going on that podcast.
So this guy thinks he's a power broker. Even the Wall Street Journal says Dem say that he's a problem. What do you think with this personality, this streamer? But to me, Piker and L Sader one and the same. And the party leadership Is knows they're being overturned.
I know that the socialists are steamrolling through the party. They're overtaking the infrastructure. I don't look what happened at Wisconsin, for example, right, with how. As an indication that the mainstream or center-left Democrats aren't able to hold this off, I think the more sort of accurate takeaway is that she was really darn close, that it was basically one point away.
So, to me, the momentum of Democratic Socialists. Is kind of pushing through, ripping across the country. Middle America, the place where you would have thought it would have been stopped. Whether you're talking about El Saeed or these other candidates in Minnesota, for example, it's a huge problem. It's liability, I think, ultimately when you get to general elections.
But within the Democratic infrastructure, there's a takeover.
So I want people at home to know that I'm not overstating this guy's radical nature. This is Hassan Piker, Cut 27. Mao Zaydong is a is one of the great leaders of Of this world, the fall of the USSR. Was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century. We must end the American Empire.
America deserved 9-11, dude. I'm saying it. If you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would f. Rick Scott. Yeah, kill them.
Kill those motherfuckers. Murder those motherfuckers in the street. Let the streets... Let the streets soak in their red capitalist bloods. Yep, and if you want to be president, you're going to sit down with that guy?
What do you think, Roger? I mean, he's getting endorsed left and right. I mean, they they they know they can't stop it. And and I'm happy you pointed out The last set of quotes there because the violence, the dark underbelly of democratic socialists is real. I mean, you look at the case, Brian, of Adam Smith.
Democratic congressman. He's the senior Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. And they are attacking his staff. They are bullying him and his team. They are...
Absolutely relentless in the tactics they employ to take over the party infrastructure. Adam Smith is not a car carrying kind of center, you know, left Democrat. This is somebody who's a big Trump critic. But it's not enough for them. And so I think that the emphasis not just on this anti-American set of platforms, anti-constitutional positions, but it's also the tactics they employ, which is really dangerous.
It's just like, where's a true leader? Just say, hey, listen, they shouldn't be in our party. I'm going to work it out. The DNC is out of money. They're buried in debt.
They have to take out a loan on their building in order to support any of these programs. They blew a lot of their money in runoff elections.
So I want you to hear Keem Jeffries, who wants to be speaker on C-SPAN, when asked, got 30. You've got the Democratic Socialists of America, DSA, with several candidates who are on the ballot headed into these midterm elections. Your thoughts on what that energy, how that represents some of the change that you are talking about that's happening in the progressive wing of your party? Yes, so I think we'll see. You know, what happens in terms of what the caucus looks like.
on the other side of the midterm election. Certainly our focus right now is making sure that we win as many seats as we can in November. Here's what I make a statement. That that's a I mean, come on, you didn't tell me Mitch McConnell wouldn't make a statement. You know that he was speaking out.
You know John Boehner was speaking out, how the the Tea Party drove him crazy and the Tea Party just wanted more fiscal responsibility. The Freedom Caucus didn't want to throw out the Constitution in the US Senate. It's not even close, Brian, but here's what you're... Getting from Democratic leadership. They think they could obfuscate this.
They think they could sort of push this in sort of the shades of gray by calling for some big tent. He's got something coming to him. He's going to have a vote in the event that they win the majority in the House. on his speakership and it's going to make speaker mccarthy's Uh, you know, vote looks simple by comparison. He, these are people who are who absolutely do not want him to become Speaker of the House.
And if he thinks he can sort of sidestep it or just, you know, say big, big tent will solve this problem, he's got something coming to him. Yeah, I just want you, some people are speaking out. James Corville, for example, cut 35. I think that these the progressive left, the very tech people, I think they've come up with an AI random stupid idea generator. And I think the stupid idea generator can think of things that humans can't.
Like canceling Thanksgiving or being against interracial dating.
So I'm just waiting to the next stupid idea, AI generator that comes out and spits out of that. It'll probably go through the humanity faculty at the University of Wisconsin for it after it gets put in a candidate's thing. It's crazy.
So if you're a Republican, how do you run against that?
Well, you gotta hold them accountable on each issue. Do you stand for ending blockades, embargoes, and sanctions for Cuba? Iran. That's part of the Democratic Socialist platform. Do you stand against ending the U.S.
war machine and defunding the Department of the War? That is part of their platform. Each and every one, you hold them accountable. I know the vice president is talking about, hey, we got to make sure we put something forward.
Well, I think he's just standing by the policies and the outcomes of the Trump administration. I imagine that's what Republicans want to run on, particularly, we're getting some good news in terms of inflation being held at bay right now, prices getting lower, particularly drug prices. But at the end of the day, we got to hold these Democratic socialists accountable for the very platform that they stand for. Nearly all. Isn't home where we all want to be?
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So JD Vance weighed in on this yesterday, and I want you to get his take on it. I have a little bit of a problem with it, but I want to see if you do. Cut 37. What I would also say is that whilst these things sometimes take a little bit of time, we are already seeing the positive results come from the President's economic policies. We're seeing trillions of dollars of new investment into this country, which means good middle-class jobs for young people, middle-income people all across our country.
We're seeing housing prices finally stabilize. They doubled during the Biden administration. They have finally kind of flatlined during the first year and a half of the Trump administration. We also want to get interest rates down, of course, so that young people can afford a home. We want people to be able to afford the good things about this wonderful country that we all live in.
So he really went on to about socialism, Cut Thirty Eight. My warning to my fellow Republicans, Will, would be: if we don't get this right, don't blame young people for being sympathetic to socialism. We've got to blame ourselves. And I think what is so unique and refreshing about Donald Trump's economic policies is that it's not the same old economic ideas that you would have heard 30, 40 years ago. He's talking about rebuilding our industrial base, rebuilding the heartland, making our streets safer, making it possible for young people to afford to buy a home.
This is how you stop socialism. You don't stop socialism by throwing slogans at people about the free market. As much as I love the free market, you stop socialism by making people's lives better.
So, your thought about his explanation. Yeah, I mean, I like the first part where the vice president said, I mean, talking about how prices are coming down, the policies are working. He didn't reference the big beautiful bill, Reconciliation 1.0, what we did in terms of the tax reform and making those permanent. Those are all things that have driven, I think, the economy to be really strong and able to sustain the fluctuations we see from the war in Iran and elsewhere. The second part's a little confusing to me.
I kind of like what they were 40 years ago with President Reagan. I didn't think they were just simply, you know, statements about freedom, but actually real policies behind it. Those ideas have meaning. I think they're relevant today. You know, he said at the end that certainly he loves freedom, loves a free market.
But those ideas... Actually, it can be fashioned in meaningful ways as a matter of policy impacting everyday American lives and sort of blurs the line between where Republicans are and where socialists and communists want to be in terms of the state controlling the means of the production, the state solving the problems of American people. You and I, Brian, we focus on freedom, individual freedom, individual liberty, creating opportunity for all Americans to thrive. And that's what I would have preferred the vice president talk about. I think Republican candidates should talk about that.
Listen, I don't know how Steve J.D. Vance is in conservative thought. He just recently became a Republican, but I will say this: just fundamentally, I want to create the ability to give people an opportunity to pursue things. to not artificially give them money to necessarily pursue things. I don't think we can create a society for people to live better.
We can create policies to allow them to live better. But ultimately, it's got to come from the individual. And I understand people, just because you work hard, you doesn't mean you're going to be successful. But eventually, you're going to get there somehow, some way. And if there are obstacles in there in society that we could knock out of the way to allow people to reach their goal, to make college more affordable and things of that nature, I'm for it.
But to give people an idea that we're going to be giving them money. To do things when we're forty trillion in debt, I think is wrong, and that's what I'm getting from him.
Well, there is this element of big government Republicans. You know, the new right has that element. Listen, I think the vice president is actually someone who is quite capable at the power of persuasion, of making an argument, of engaging. I think he's right to focus on young people and identify exactly where they're going off the field, right, to see that socialism and government is sort of going to be the answer to your problems. You know, where I come from, I know where you share this with you too, is government is not the solution, Ronald Reagan said.
Government is a problem, and we should create the conditions in our country, in our society, in our economy where people, on the basis of their work, have the opportunity to succeed. I think that's where the vice president lands ultimately. I think it's good that he wants to engage and persuade Americans, but I think he should embrace the ideas of Ronald Reagan, the ideas that economic opportunity and freedom are actually what will advance prosperity for all Americans. I just don't, I don't know how popular this would be, but something in tune of what JFK famously said in his inaugural: it's not what your country can do for you, what you could do for your country. I would love to see a Politician to be successful by saying, I'm going to need you to show grit.
You're going to grind. Nothing's going to be perfect. Things are going to be unfair, but I'm going to need you to grind through it. Find a way to overcome it. You know, whatever the situation is, you know, whether it's being more practical.
The administration is now going to colleges and saying, I don't think we should be financing these degrees. And they're limiting the amount of student loans. that people can get to stay keep them out of trouble because sometimes they want their kids to go to Michigan. Michigan costs $95,000. They're getting zero money.
So they take out a myriad of loans for four years. There's no grades now. No grades. And now they have no grades. It's a freshman year.
So everyone knows they're going to be the weakest individuals to graduate from there.
So there are things that you can do. But ultimately, I just want people to understand this is a land of opportunity, not outcomes. Yeah, 100%. And I think, listen, it's about. What President Reagan referred to often is about unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit.
The opportunity, the freedom to make your life the way you want, that government is, if anything, through our constitution, is going to create that lane of opportunity for you. That's not going to create hurdles, that's not going to limit your ability to grow and succeed. That's a positive vision. You know, some people want to grind, some people don't. The ones who grind will be successful.
The ones who work hard, the ones who have a vision in our country, what's so amazing about it is that if you want to get after it, if you have an idea, if you want to seek an opportunity, we will allow you to get there. And then with AI, it's more possible than ever. And lastly, I'm up against the break, but Elon Musk is going to be the first trillionaire. You know what? He's that much smarter than me.
I mean, he never created something I thought I could do that. I don't even have his vision, but man, if I could work for one of his companies and learn something and maybe split up on my own afterwards, I'm going to go do it.
So when you tell me Thomas Edison was rich and Henry Ford was rich, I go, yeah, of course. Look what they did. I hope Benjamin Franklin was rich in his day too. Look what they did. They're better than me.
I could not have done what they did. And we're all going to benefit fourth. I think that's the other piece of it, right? You know, the trillion dollars that Elon Musk will have, think about how much wealth he's creating for everybody else. And that's where I think the socialists clearly don't adopt that point of view.
Sort of this anti-corporatist view that you see on the far right also doesn't appreciate that. But Elon Musk, because he had the opportunity in this country to succeed, to make that wealth, to make those companies, is now benefiting all Americans, the pension holders, the people in those companies, to the industries that are now being created as a result of his innovation. I'm getting yelled at, but it was a great conversation as usual. November 17th, Rogers Attime's book comes out, Peace Through Strength. You can pre-order it now.
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