KEVIN ROBERTS (HERITAGE FOUNDATION PRESIDENT): In spite of all this nonsense from the left, we are going to win. We’re in the process of taking this country back. No one in the audience should be despairing.

No one should be discouraged. We ought to be really encouraged by what happened yesterday. And in spite of all of the injustice, which, of course, friends and audience of this show, of our friend Steve know, we are going to prevail.

Number two, to the point of the clips and, of course, your preview of the fact that I am an early American historian and love the Constitution. That Supreme Court ruling yesterday on immunity is vital, and it’s vital for a lot of reasons. But I would go to Federalist No. 70.

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    The Heritage Foundation is a terrorist organization and an existential threat to the United States that must be destroyed.

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        Are going to, you say?

        Already happened, friend.

        Or did you forget what a shitshow Trump’s first term was?

        People literally died because of him.

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          This would be more widespread and far worse.

          Conservatives have poisoned the soapbox with propaganda and outright lies.

          They’ve diluted the ballot box with electoral politics and various tactics of disenfranchisement.

          They’ve completely corrupted the jury box with unqualified ideologues.

          How does America survive this without resorting to the last box? All because a group of assholes who have more than they could ever need want even more than that.

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    you guys are going to have to vote like your lives depends on it, coz it probably does. at what point does this become civil war? it feels like you guys are in a death spiral, and the only way out of it is to literally take out the other side. honestly if the rest of the world has to come over there and bash your heads together we’ll be properly pissed good luck We’re all going to need Trump to lose signed, The World

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        Yeah right.

        The only super power in the world “in need of external help.”

        We dug ourselves into this hellhole, we must get ourselves out of it

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        Yeah no. No one is going to intervene on your private continent where there’s three guns per person. And unless those countries fancy getting friendlier with China, they’ll just hold their noses when they deal with Trump. Like they did 2016 to 2020.

        You’ve got the means already; get your guns, beans, and gasoline. And if you care about American democracy, and these chuckle-fucks try to kill it, then you’re going to have to fight for it

        Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that, but good luck.

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        We’ll get “help” after we lose WWIII and West America is controlled by China and East America is controlled by the EU.

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      And instead of gracefully resigning due to his obvious mental decline and nominating someone else at the convention, Biden has decided he’ll take us all down with him.

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              Of course not, not with reductionist logic like that. If you watch his 2020 debate and 2024 debate the difference is very clear. Day and Night.

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              Yeah, and we defeated Medicare.

              People aren’t going to vote for this. The country is fucked if they don’t replace him at the Convention.

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          And he proved himself capable in 2020. At this age that assumption does not carry forward and the debate performance in 2024 is disqualifying in many people’s eyes.

          He’s no longer the best chance to beat Trump.

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    You know if there were ever a group of people that deserved to fully understand what it means to be firebombed it’s the fucking heritage foundation.

    The federalist society is right there with them.

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          They for sure belong but I think they are mostly powered by the other think tanks mentioned

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            Its an incestuous relationship between them, they feed into eachother. If it wasnt for PragerU and similar propagandistic groups the upper think tanks would be a lot weaker in influence, then once they have more power they immediately dump it into the propagandists who can spread their influence farther

            Im personally in the if you wipe out the propaganda arms ya will have an infinitely easier time, Fox, OAN, PragerU, and talk radio as a whole not to mention Youtubers are basically the only thing maintaining the on the ground elements of the Right wing. They fet bored easily and would probably just do boring normal crap if you stripped away the propaganda, hell they may get happier in some cases a car parts store in my area changed out fox news on the TV in favor of a super playlist of youtube videos going over old weird cars like Yugos and Polskis. This has limited the rightwing grousing in there.

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              100% agree with you, only contention I would make is that none of those propaganda outlets would exist without the societies that preceded them by a few decades. But from a dismantling their power perspective you are quite on point about destroying their implements of radicalization

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                Yeah I dont care about the predecessor groups since in most ways the gsme has changed since then. Theyre still dangerous but well its easier to fight a bobcat after youve dealt with the mountain lion.

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        Not in the slightest.

        They and the federalist society are the ones pushing the absolutely disgusting changes the Republican party is trying to make. They give the “short list” of judges for Republicans presidents to choose from. They are fully responsible for the shit we’re about to go through now that their project is almost complete.

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        Everything that’s been tried up to the extreme has had no effect, so, it’s time to escalate. You can’t beat cheaters and liars and thieves and murderers by playing by the rules and being nice and polite. If the Democrats don’t do something, democracy is gone in November and it won’t be coming back to the USA.

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    How come the people who say they need automatic weapons to defend themselves from their government at the same time cheer for giving their government absolute power?

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    They’re Christofascist Nazis. They need to be dissolved. Either in an alkaline or acidic solution, whichever is cheapest.

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    I finally understand what ‘make America great again’ means. The America they are trying to return us to is the one where we had a king.

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    Subby should have included the whole quote that Media Matters truncated.

    “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.

    Translation, let us turn this country into the Republic of Gilead or we will kill you.

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      This is the same logic Nazis used. The narrative was that Jews forced their hand by refusing to comply with their demands.

      Make no mistake, this is a promise of bloodshed. They just want to sound like they want peace and that they’ll have to kill to get it.

      Kill them first.

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    An Unelected Organization run by Billionaires in the shadows applauding a Republican Court’s ruling is the EXACT PROOF that DEMOCRATS are the DEEP STATE!

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    Look at his words a little deeper, and you’ll pick up the thinly veiled message. He’s not saying anything that a rapist has not said to a victim before, during, and after the act. What he said was “as bloodless as the left will allow”.Said another way, “Don’t resist our brazen coup attempt and you will not be harmed. Everything is going to be okay. Don’t resist, don’t struggle, don’t fight. Just let it happen. You want this, I can tell.”

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    If these people aren’t already on a counter-terrorist watch list, they should be.