Amanda Carpenter
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first heard Jan 2025
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There's different roles for different organizations, different people, different sectors of civil society. A lot of this is silly, but yeah, like, should we let this go? But okay, part of maintaining that competitive electoral profile means not waiting until 26 and 28.
My sort of question, which is outside my lane at PD, is where are the platforms that the Democrats, because we only have a two-party system, we only have two options essentially in every ballot, right? What are they doing to foster and cultivate talent in order to be ready for that moment?
And what that should mean is where are the events and things happening where people can have answers to this and say things like, okay, you want to go to Greenland? Like, show me how much it's going to cost. Like, come back and put the burden, the burden of Trump was sort of something I'm thinking about. Like, put the burden back on Trump. He throws all kinds of stuff back out there.
And I was inspired, you know, listening to you speak about this the other day. Say, okay, bring me the proposal. We have out-of-control debt. You can't pass a tax bill. You want to go buy Greenland? You think that's a great idea? But that isn't the ground we necessarily fight on. But I always look back to how did the Tea Party movement... gained such power. It did not happen overnight.
It happened over a long period of time with all these conferences and events where people were constantly testing out messages and giving speeches and testing their appeal, right? And I just don't see that happening. Why can't the Democratic primary for 2028 start to begin right now? We didn't have one last time because we waited, everyone waited to the last minute. What are you waiting for, guys?
Here's how I see it. Protecting the civic space is a duty, you know, as you mentioned, the lawyers and things like that, but protecting that space also means taking it up, right? Like, you can maintain a level playing field, but if you don't have people on it as active participants in the game, what is the point?
And so this is something, you know, I am very delighted to see that Sarah is putting a big, bad, bold goal of getting a million subscribers on the free list for Bulwark, because that's sort of what it's going to take. Like, We all know traditional media is dead, right? Cable news ratings are absolutely dead. in the basement because nobody gets their stuff there.
So go to where the audience is, right? Take up that civic space to communicate with people. And like free media is the media, it's YouTube, it's TikTok, it's all those things. And I don't know why, like, it's just, it's so odd to see that people are still resisting what is so obviously happening. You know, you always find these like consultants and things like that. Well, we need new messengers.
We need new messages. No, like just go have conversations where people are at. Get on YouTube. And I, you know, it's hard to do. And I really commend Bulwark, especially for being so pioneering because it is hard to do and to show up. But a lot more people need to be getting into the free media space now.
And finding ways to, I mean, it's not going to be profitable to be able to pay to give people that information in that way.
Good. Do the work for him.
I mean, isn't it more likely that John Jr. is just scouting out properties for another Trump hotel? Like, isn't that the most probability?
But when it comes to, like, having a political answer to this sort of stuff, I mean, it is – I've got to say, watching – Watching Don Jr. go on this trip to Greenland while California is burning, right? California is burning to a crisp.
And we know that Donald Trump has explored the idea of withholding wildfire funding for previous California wildfires because he didn't think the voters there were sufficiently supportive. What in God's name? Like... This is where I'm talking about, like, why aren't the Democrats starting to campaign?
I don't say campaign now, but can't there be a big event to say, hey, guys, do you think climate change is real now? I mean, I know this is not the exact moment to do that. But someone isn't that like what is staring us in the face? And we don't have any answers, any solutions. Then maybe Don Jr. wants to build a new hotel in Greenland that he can flee to.
What, Elon's going to do to spaceship to Mars when the planet burns down? This kind of seems like obvious stuff. Maybe not right now because it is so horrific. But I am kind of, I am flabbergasted. That, you know, there's split screen coverage of everyone losing their home. And, you know, what's Trump going to do next? Is he going to buy Greenland?
It's just such a jarring thing where, you know, we are living in different realities and we need to fight to have some kind of shared vision of what is going on and what threatens us.
Yeah, I mean, the rush of anticipatory obedience from people, I mean, Elon was obviously first in line to place all his bets on Trump and get the biggest, fattest seat at the Mar-a-Lago table possible. You see that followed with Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and others. And maybe that's just more obvious in a way then we see the other people lining up behind Trump.
Like everyone's offering to get their hand in the till and pay for his inauguration. The ridiculous $15 million defamation suit, the ABC news settled while they're like, you know, laying off people left and right, no longer engaging in the news gathering business. That's all happening. And yeah, that is what you see in countries where you have to essentially be in with the leader and,
and engage in that form of corruption in order to preserve your business interests, right? Like it is in many ways an act of self-preservation. Some people are more eager to do it than others.
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