>> Thank you.
God bless you and God bless America.
>> America.
>> [LAUGH] >> That was Sarah Huckabee Sanders,
the new governor of- >> Nice job and
God bless multinational corporations who we work for.
>> So there was no specificity in that republican response to
Biden State of the Union, except for
one thing which was we're gonna privatize public education and that was it.
>> Yeah. >> Everything else was like weird personal
anecdotes that I'm not sure, I believe ever happened.
>> There's two things in the speech, okay?
First of all, I'm calling this the darkness speech, okay, and
it relates to both parts.
So Biden does a speech where he's like, my Republican friends,
we pass these bills together which isn't even true.
He's giving them credit they didn't deserve.
And said, my God, we're so bipartisan and wonderful.
My Republican friends, right?
She comes out and she's like, Biden is gonna get you all killed, okay?
>> He's not even exaggerated.
Not exaggerated, I wrote down quotes, hold on.
I'm for freedom, he's for government control.
She started his speech with Biden is a failure.
This is always what happens with Democrats, especially behind he like he
reaches out and he's like, do we have a deal to a deal?
And they reached out to go, what?
They slapped him across the face, right?
>> That's the open head, boy.
>> You're gonna do anything about that?
She went on to say, he surrendered to a woke mob.
He's completely hijacked by the radical left and he's for
authoritarianism, and they're robbing you.
And she said, and they're doubling down on crazy.
>> That was my favorite line, okay?
>> Yeah, because you look crazy saying it.
>> It was so absurd that you can't not laughing that.
>> Yeah, President Biden's weakness is jeopardizing national security.
He's unfit to serve as commander in chief.
Those are quotes, okay?
Meanwhile, Biden's like my friends, my Republican friends,
we worked on all of this together.
They're like burn, shut up, right?
He's like please, I'm begging you.
Social Security, Medicare, bro.
Okay, you won't cut it.
I heard that you won't cut it friends again, right?
She's like he's a demon, okay?
So the demon parts not a direct quote.
I'm being fair, okay?
So now the second part of the darkness speeches that she goes to this very
Republican thing, American icon, icona can't-
>> Icono class?
>> No, iconography.
I can't say, iconography.
Thank you.
At least our stage manager can speak English, okay, sorry.
So anyways, so this is very standard in politics, right?
She talks about Christmas morning with the kids and the rappers are stuffed
everywhere and she said, freedom about 28 times in a short speech, right?
Freedom, liberty and we got Christmas presents and we got three kids, okay?
And then I couldn't tell them why, but I had to leave in the darkness.
She talked about the darkness for
like felt like 40% of the speech was really dark.
She's going to see anything, okay?
And I was getting a bane vibe off of it, right?
That's what we're doing play by play.
I was like you think darkness is your ally.
I was born in it raised in it, you're merely adapted.
I can keep going, okay?
So anyway, and then that was all supposed to lead up to.
And then she accidentally said it too,
we went to the most dangerous place on in Iraq where we have our troops.
She's like, we were there for a couple of hours.
This whole gigantic heroic speeches about you landed and didn't tell any,
because you were had depends on.
You were also afraid, right?
And whereas, our troops have been there for years and years and years,
whether it's Iraq Afghanistan, etc., right?
And she's like, we put on our adult diapers in the darkness and we're so
afraid that we'd have to face were all too chicken hawks and we never served.
And Trump has said that people are suckers and losers who served, but
we put on our adult diapers anyway and we went there.
We stayed for a couple of hours.
Maybe not so much, maybe a little shorter, but still, okay?
But it was dark when we arrived, but then they started chanting.
And I was like, gee, I wonder what they're gonna chant.
You were saying, you were shady chanted.
>> But she didn't even say it like that, USA, USA, USA.
>> [LAUGH] >> Okay, did you guys really think
that was a good idea to put in the speech like okay, whatever.
>> And then we went back on the plane, it was dark again.
We checked our depends.
That was also dark, very dark.
>> Look, I'm really, really curious how that played with the Republican base.
You think they loved it?
>> Yeah.
>> Because the whole support like the phone support for
the troops and the focus on militarism and
all that stuff, that is very reminiscent of the Bush era.
>> Yeah.
>> And the Republican voters have really moved away from that for good reason,
because they've seen their sons and
daughters victimized by the forever wars and the Middle East and all of that.
So that's like the one area where I think there's a positive development with
the Republican voters, right?
Where they realize that this whole military industrial complex,
the need to funnel money to defense contractors, they're privy to that now.
So ook, this is the thing with the Republican Party.
Their policies are not popular which is why they lost their
minds when Biden called them out on wanting to cut social security, right?
So what they focus on is culture war stuff.
And for some reason, I don't know, Sarah Huckabee Sanders forgot that it's
2023 not 2002 and decided to jump right back into the militarism stuff.
I don't know if that's gonna play well.
>> So that's part of the iconography that I was alluding to, then you've got
the soldiers and you've got the bravery and you've got the home of the brave.
And then talking about the local communities and the churches and
it paints a picture for you, but none of it is real, right?
So they passed giant defense bills and didn't really
raise the wages of the actual servicemen, right?
So she talks about how they eat Christmas dinner together or whatever, but she
doesn't tell you, I got Lockheed martin $800 billion, but I got you nothing, okay?
Cuz Lockheed Martin and Raytheon pay my bills and you don't,
you're just a random guy we sent out here to die, okay,
and who Trump definitively called suckers and losers.
>> Yeah. >> His own chief of staff said that he,
by the way, he said that.
He said a part of that quote when John Kelly,
his former chief of staff was standing over the grave of his fallen soldier son.
Okay, that man has no heart at all.
And now, they're trying to brag about how their patriotic and
care about the troops total front.
But Ana's right, it's a great point and were the fairest show in America.
So on the one hand, we'll point out Republicans awful on the woke stuff and
the nonsense culture wars.
And so when she was talking about that and the radical left, they ate that up.
That's what I meant. >> Yeah, I agree, yes.
>> They were like, good, good, good.
Give me more, right?
They're so bad.
They're so evil, right?
We're the good guys, right?
Were the same ones, right?
Okay, but when she turned to the Rara military war stuff, she overdid it.
>> Yeah. >> You're right,
to be fair to the Republican voters, they're not who they used to be on that.
And so they're a little tired of getting treated like suckers and losers, as well.
They're a little tired of dying for the war machine, as well.
So that part, I don't think played as well.
So that's a great point.
By the way, you could do a Republican speech and
have some substance and I would not necessarily agree with you.
Uncertainly most of it, but you could do a speech where you go, hey, we, and
she mentioned this like for like half a second, we handed buying a good economy.
Well, look, there's parts of that that's relatively true.
You could point to some good economic numbers under Trump and say, hey,
that passed on to Biden.
So you could have a substance of speech where you make a,
the republican position, right?
She mentioned to defund the police and she can give examples of, well,
you can't really give examples something from the police, cuz they didn't.
But she can give examples of prosecutors or
other progressive actions that they could argue led to more crime.
So she could have chosen to focus on substance instead.
She chose to focus on their evil and they're trying to government control,
and trying to take your freedom away.
Meanwhile, when she's not talking about, they're taking away books in Florida,
empty shelves and libraries, they're banning.
They won't even let you say the word gay in schools.
And they're like, no, it's not the don't say gay bill you guys.
Guys, literally, those teachers can get sued if they too talk about gay parents,
for example.
Cuz they can say, hey, you're promoting that,
cuz you're talking about it in a positive light.
People have to take down pictures of their partners if they were gay, teachers, etc.
So is that freedom?
That's the exact opposite of freedom.
Hey, if you're gay or chance or your whatever,
we were just stuffed back in the closet and don't you dare try to be free, right?
That's the reality of it.
But again, the Republican voters love it when they're more vicious and when they
lie more and pretend to be in favor of things they're not remotely in favor of.
>> Now, the only other thing I wanted to bring up is the area where I
noticed the most specificity from Sarah Huckabee Sanders was on education.
And man, is she chomping at the bit to privatize public education which would be
disastrous.
So she specifically mentioned that teachers would get a nice pay
raise under a privatized system.
Guys, understand what private education means, right?
I mean, there could be, I guess private nonprofit institutions, but
they want private business to get involved in grade school education.
That means that they're gonna be shareholders involved.
That means that might start off looking real appealing with higher pay for
teachers.
But once those shareholders want a higher return on investment,
they will cut the salaries of those teachers.
I guarantee it, cuz that's how the system works.
>> So look, I've read a lot about this.
We've covered on the show, the privatization schemes.
First of all, they do not improve test scores at all.
So that whole we're gonna give your kids a chance.
Second of all, wait, how are you giving them a chance?
They have to pay for school, public school was free.
And now you're saying we will help you with par that cost, but
the rest you're gonna have to pay.
And then those guys are donors and then they'll funnel them some of the money back
to us, and then we'll lie to you again, and we'll go go through the circle.
Meanwhile, you have lost public education.
And if you're poor, middle class, your kids won't have that opportunity anymore.
But don't worry, the rich kids will all be in private schools.
[LAUGH] That's what that proposal is.
So if a Republican is talking, a Republican is lying.
In terms of politics, it is 98% of the time.
So if they tell you they're gonna protect education,
they're coming to gut education.
If they're telling you that they're bringing opportunity,
that means they're looking to cut off your opportunity, so
that only the rich kids have the best options.
If they're talking about freedom,
that means they're in the middle of taking away your freedom, okay?
So that's what that ghoul and goblin Sarah Huckabee Sanders said tonight.
>> Yes and I'm not gonna lie, I'm genuinely afraid that they're
gonna accomplish what they want to accomplish with education.
When they say they're gonna do something,
that's the thing about the Republican Party.
You gotta hand it to them.
They're different from democrats in that when they say they're gonna do,
something sooner or later, they're gonna do it, okay?
And so what's really concerning is that you have corporate Democrats who have
kind of opened the door to privatizing education beginning with the whole
charter school scam that Obama's administration was very much in favor of.
So we'll see what happens, but I am concerned.
I think that's gonna be the next big accomplishment if you want to call it
that by the Republican Party.