Here's why I think it's gonna happen.
We're gonna be doing this for a long time.
I just came out of a meeting with approximately 80 to 90 people.
I call main street republicans.
We said, if you're not committed to do this to the very end,
go ahead and just leave.
I can hold it against you.
But every single one says we're here until the very end.
We cannot allow 20 people to hold us hostage, act as political terrorists.
We cannot cave into.
He just called republican holdouts political terrorists.
The person you just heard from is representative Don Bacon,
who seems to be a bit of a Kevin McCarthy loyalist because he voted in favor of
Kevin McCarthy becoming the next speaker of the house every single time and
they have voted 10 times already.
But what's incredible is the colorful language that Representative Bacon is
using here.
Maybe he's exhausted by the holdouts.
Maybe he's exhausted by the Maga republicans within the Republican party.
Maybe his Bacon's fried, Junk.
>> [LAUGH] Okay, I'm not the only one making dad jokes around here.
Okay, so listen,
this is a really interesting case because Don Bacon is in the in Nebraska,
but he's in the one Nebraska district that is very, very Purple Kara Eastman
a Justice Democrat almost beat Don Bacon two cycles ago in three cycles ago.
They went head to head and it was by decided by a couple of points each time.
So Don Bacon has a vested interest in appearing moderate.
He doesn't actually vote moderate.
He voted with Trump all the time.
He votes for the rich.
He votes for every extreme policy, but
he works together with conservative democrats to make it seem as if,
only the crazy people wouldn't agree that we should give everything to the rich.
In fact,
the corporate democrat who was running in the primary against Car Eastman.
Once they found that the Kara Eastman was leading in the polls,
he didn't add for Don Bacon to make him look more moderate, okay?
So that the democrats and
the republicans in reality worked together to defeat a progressive.
And so now Don Bacon is the leading guy going,
maybe we should work with democrats.
And at the end of the day, it's all the same policy anyway.
>> Exactly.
Certainly when it comes to bread and butter issues, when it comes
to foreign policy related issues, there are a lot of similarities there.
Now, two days ago, he told a local radio station.
Well, he used similar colorful language to describe the holdouts.
You don't negotiate with terrorists, he said.
It's all been unilateral concessions and they keep moving the goalposts, they keep
putting in new demands and I just think at some point you've got to stand up to that.
Okay, but what does that mean?
You've got to stand up to that?
Like you can't beat them like physically to submission, right?
There hold outs, they refuse to vote for Kevin McCarthy at some point.
The two sides, the two very different sides allegedly need to come together and
agree on someone that they would likely support, look on economic issues.
>> All there is is one giant blob and a couple of progressives who are to fight.
>> Too scared to fight.
>> Let's be honest.
Okay.
Too weak to fight back, okay?
But the giant blob is all the way from justice democrats,
all the way to Matt Gates, all of the democrats,
outside of the progressives, all of the McCarthy wing and
in reality that Matt Gates wing, except for things like the debt ceiling etc.
That they've now gone Rogan, they all agree,
give everything to our donors, everything, everything,
everything that mainstream media agrees, everybody in Washington agrees.
So at the end of the day, it doesn't matter if McCarthy wins and
other Republican wins.
If the democrats vote with McCarthy, the conservative democrats do or not.
So none of the policy is going to change at all.
So let's just have fun.
>> Yeah, this is all just an amusing power struggle.
This one story I think epitomizes every flaw we have in our political system,
right?
The nonsense phony political theater, they engage in, right?
The wheeling and
dealing they engage in depending on whether they're district is purple,
whether their district is red, it's all about, okay, what do I need to do?
What kind of lies do I need to tell and sell in order to get re elected, right?
Because if Don Bacon was in a deeply red district, I guarantee he would not
be on cable news, repeatedly calling republican colleagues terrorists.
>> 100%.
And as usual the media never points out.
Look, this guy's lying too.
He's just lying because of his particular district this way.
So my last one and all the fun here is,
I love it when it's republican on republican crime, just for fun.
Not that it has an effect, but republicans,
they only have a couple of tricks, right?
One is called other side terrorists, no matter what they are, right?
So now they've used it against each other because they don't know anything else.
They're just sad little servants, right?
So they've been given their talking points.
He's like terrorists, Muslims are terrorists.
Arabs are terrorists.
All of our opponents are terrorists.
The Russians are terrorists, and the democrats are terrorists.
And now other republicans are compute, compute, compute, terrorists.
>> Yeah, no, he likes to keep it fresh.
He likes to change it up a little bit.
Representative Don Bacon says he's heard colleagues privately tag
the 19 Republicans who repeatedly voted against McCarthy for speaker.
The Taliban 19 a nickname Matt Gates who, by the way, just nominated Trump for
speaker again for the second time called hurtful and false.
>> Hurtful.
>> Though, he added quote, I too, and prepared for an extended battle.
I will ultimately win.
>> Okay, all right.
And then the last part that I like is the McCarthy wing,
which is actually very, very right wing and
that has used the same kind of tricks against democrats for time immemorial.
Yeah, we're not moving we're not moving on the budget, we're not moving on the debt
ceiling, we're gonna shut the government down, we're gonna do X, Y, Z.
Give me, give me, give me, Schumer and Pelosi pathetically walk over and
give everything that they want and the media celebrates, right?
So now the Gates is using that trick on them.
And he's like, we've given all the unilateral concessions,
playing the role of chuck, Schumer and Nancy Pelosi all of a sudden Don Bacon and
kevin McCarthy, we've given all the unilateral concessions.
Why won't they give in?
You Schmucks that's your trick, because you never meant it in the first place.
They're just using it to gain more attention, more fundraising, etc.
Welcome to your own party.