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Chapter 1: Who is joining the podcast today?
Sunday, everyone. We are here with Congressman Eric Swalwell, and we're going to do some MAGA bashing on this Sunday. So fasten your seatbelt. This is going to be therapeutic, terrifying, and at the end, hopefully a little bit of grit and hope for all of us. Congressman Swalwell, how are you today?
I'm doing all right. It's Sunday morning. You can hear Sunday chaos in my house right now with a seven-year-old, a six-year-old, and a three-year-old who are just in revolt. But yeah, I've got my coffee. I'm loaded for bear, so let's go.
Kylie, put up this tweet yesterday on Twitter. Let's look at this. No, no, no, that's not the one. with Elon Musk. Here we go. Yesterday on Twitter, somebody named Gunter Eagleman tweets, it's time to leave NATO and the UN. Elon Musk retweets with comment, I agree.
Ron Filipkowski says, and there it is, Putin's lifelong dream after years of relentless Russian propaganda now fully embraced by the American president and the world's richest oligarch. And I want to add to Ron's
description of the world's richest oligarch and say american taxpayer-funded billionaire and that's the what what we need to start calling you know elon musk is he is an american funded taxpayer-funded billionaire um are convinced that this is a good plan because europe is an enemy and putin is our friend congressman he's a welfare king he is a welfare queen um this is
We are living in the middle of a historical moment right now. And last year, my husband and I went to Paris to go to the French Open. And while we were at the gate, there were all of these military people there and they had flags and like little drummers. And we were like, what's going on as we're boarding the flight? Well, it was the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
And these men were flying over and they were, you know, very, very elderly. And there was so much respect. The captain came on and he said, we have 10 men that stormed the beaches in Normandy. We are celebrating the 80th anniversary of D-Day. How anti-military and anti-veteran and anti-democratic is what Elon Musk just tweeted?
and it's a complete failure to recognize what that alliance has meant to our country because because he is a welfare king who relies on u.s government dollars to fund his life he doesn't understand the sacrifice that our service member members and our veterans have given and by the way it was after september 11
when we were hit and those towers fell and those cops and firefighters died and we had to hit back to make sure it would never happen again, it was the NATO alliance that stood with us and made sure that something like that would never happen again. So all of the countries that Donald Trump is shitting all over right now, those are the ones that went shoulder to shoulder with us
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Chapter 2: What are the criticisms against Elon Musk and his influence?
I don't think he is. I think that's all smoke and mirrors.
But his... his duty is to his investors when he's in the private sector. And now as he takes all of this money from the federal government, he's just trying to make a fat cat fatter himself. And so, yes, Russia is on the ropes and we had a chance to talk with them and they've, They're stronger than ever. And Putin got everything that he wanted in the first 40 days of the Trump administration.
So let me level set us. What can we do? We are not helpless. So your viewers who have gone to these town halls across the country, that's working. Many of those members who have felt the heat in deep red Georgia and other places across the country, they're already publicly changing their tune about Doge, that's working. There's a Wisconsin Supreme Court race on April 1.
Please help the Wisconsin Democratic Party, WisDems, If we win that seat, we have a chance to get rid of the rigged gerrymandering in a state where you have a Democratic governor, Democratic senator, and Democratic lieutenant governor, yet the congressional delegation is six Republicans, two Democrats.
Those maps could be redrawn in a way that is much more fair for us and could get us two-thirds of the way of the seats that we need to win the House.
in 2026 then my colleagues please stay on them we've got to vote in just a couple days on funding the government to my democratic colleagues i say do not take the bait that we are going to shut down government democrats one republicans own this government musk owns this government entirely and two two They've already shut down the government.
When you get rid of the people who monitor bird flu as egg prices are going up, it's shut down. When you get rid of scientists who track diseases when we have a measles outbreak and people are dying, it's shut down. Air traffic controllers. traffic controllers, planes are crashing, it's shut down. FBI agents as terrorist attacks are being plotted, it's shut down. This thing is shutting down.
So we should not take any bait from the media that we can keep it open. No, they need to fund it and keep it open. And if they need our votes to actually protect and help people, then we should insist that they actually put all of this back in place, especially healthcare, retirement security, public safety. And I wouldn't trust them
longer than 30 days i would not give them a budget for longer than 30 days at a time i just kind of my seven-year-old just ran across the screen here i don't trust him for longer than a couple weeks at a time whenever i strike a deal with him and so i would say here's your money come back to me in 30 days if you keep our deal i'll give you 30 more days and 30 more days and 30 more days because we would be fools if we gave them a nine-month budget and believe that they would actually honor any of it they will they would
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Chapter 3: How does the podcast address U.S. alliances and military history?
Yeah, I think so too. I remember that. And it's important to remember everybody that worked with Trump in the first term left and wrote books about how dangerous he was. And He told people he wanted to have generals like Hitler's generals. Okay. Here's from Rome Dog. At this point, who is the leader of the resistance and who are our generals?
Well, look, I see right now so many people rising to the occasion. We talked about Jasmine Crockett, Robert Garcia in Long Beach. I mean, he is beating back Marjorie Taylor Greene and her bullshit every single day. Jared Moskowitz, Dan Goldman are now on the Judiciary Committee as well. Obviously, Jamie Raskin, every hearing with Jim Jordan.
AOC.
yeah aoc yeah alex uh and bernie went to them that we should follow that model just go talk to people and as i said next week we have the state of the union and then this budget vote watch as hakeem has to unify 215 of us from all over the country his strength has always been his ability and that's that's the job of a leader uh is unity and so yeah i'm looking forward to seeing us really unify as we unified last week
where not a single Democrat gave them a vote to cut $800 billion. Not one of us voted, and it wasn't an easy vote for them. And by the way, also, they're all now, the Republicans are freaking out because they're like, wait, we really did this? Now we have to actually go find the cuts? Like many of them were hoping that they would vote for it, but that it wouldn't pass.
And now that it's passed, they're in this like, oh shit, like we're gonna have to cut
medicaid and medicare aren't we and you think the crowds were big at that protest you just showed or that town hall you just showed 32 of americans rely on medicaid for their health care don't you think they've always been chomping at the bit though to do this i mean they have been chomping at the bit they want to privatize everything privatization is horrible when it comes to public services like this and i feel like the democrats have to have a multi-throng approach and i feel like
When you see what Trump does right now, like he literally does something so insane. And then he has it tweeted and Instagram and they market the presidency at the same time. There was a. Democrats did this week and I put it up yesterday on yesterday's stream and it had like 45 tiny bullet points that you would have to zoom in for. And I think that we need to message this thing constantly.
Trump is Putin's puppet. Big, you know, just very simple things. Trump hates veterans. Yes. We have the data to back it up and just dumb it down.
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