John Reeves
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1,814 appearances
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first heard Dec 2023
last heard Feb 2025
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be challenged, to challenge yourself on the ideas. And it's like clearly one side doesn't have all the answers and the other side can't be 100% wrong. And it's just like being challenging and living or taking in other kinds of perspectives. I think that's a responsibility because otherwise if you only just cocoon yourself into And it's just it turns into one gigantic circle jerk.
And and that's why it just turns people to just kind of dig in. And it's like, hey, you know, the problem is them. And we. Yes.
Yes.
Sure.
It's possible. But to be honest, that election wasn't turned on, I think, Russian interference. No. What happened in 2016 was Trump – he plugged into like kinds of a – of an energy or, you know, like it was just like kind of looking to make that kind of a connection there.
And it further cemented... I never bought into some of that kind of a stuff. Because if anyone that spent any time on the ground... in one of those states. It's like it's very clear. That wasn't because of some small kinds of tweets and things like whatever. It's undeniable. And also, remember, like he was, you know, the Republican Party was like, hey, this is a joke. And I remember Jeb Bush.
You know, and he he had like 100 or 200 million dollars. And and he just went by. He ticked him off. And and even then people thought he was going to win. But he did. But but remember, though, overall, though, that was 75000 votes. That's a mathematical like, you know, I mean, think of that. One hundred one hundred sixty million votes.
Seventy five thousand spread across three large states, including my own. That transformed American politics and in the world as well. And it just came down to 75,000 voters in those three states. And that's kind of where that's where we're at.
Well, I reference a movie, like Bullworth. I remember that movie. Bullworth. And it was Warren Beatty, and he was a senator. And he kind of had like a breakdown, and he started saying provocative things. He used to get up in front of his audience and kind of like the gaffe of accidentally telling the truth. Yeah. And it was kind of like it was an absurd.
I mean, when I was in grad school, that was like put up as like, well, I mean, people enjoyed that. And now that became a term in politics saying, oh, we affect even President Obama's like, hey, we all want to secretly go full Bullworth, full Bullworth.
But that's what really he channeled in where he would say – it's kind of like he projects kind of like, well, I don't give a fuck and just say all those kinds of a thing. And people have responded to those kinds of things. And a lot of people – that's the bug. But you have to understand that for enough people, that's the feature. And that's kind of what they want.
And whatever that is, it describes – uh a brand that you know it's it's not I don't admire that but you still have to kind of uh marvel at at the level to say crazy kinds of things that that it you I'm oh well I guess maybe we're both old enough to remember when uh George in the George Bush uh Al Gore he is like oh And that moved the polls.
People were like he rolled his eyes at Bush, you know, like things and like, you know, like it used to be much more stayed. And now think of what's been said now and all of the stuff. And and I don't think people aren't paying attention. Some of the whatever the latest outrage is.
I wish I was more handsome. I don't think that's good. No, no, no. I'm honest. I'm honest. I think I'm in touch with what I'm limited. I wasn't blessed with model looks.
Yeah, no, it's that scar face. It's like, you know, word and balls. Yeah, yeah. You know, and you're losing politically if you're telling people to not believe what their eyes are seeing. you know, like these kinds of issues.
And, and it's like, I'm not going to lie or I'm not going to toe a line that if I don't, if I don't believe, if I don't believe in that, that, uh, so, um, but in terms of, of the conversation, um, I, I think it's like, it's, it's all I've got. And, uh, and it's not because I don't care. It's actually, I'm very committed and I really do care, but
But I think people are like I think authenticity, that's the that's the last that's really that's one of the last meaningful currency in this shitty business.
Yeah, well, I mean, honestly, I would like to remind everybody – and it's not like a talking point. It's actually – it's in a fact that voter fraud is incredibly, incredibly rare. It's really hard to get away with that successfully. And in 2020 – At scale, you mean? Yeah, it's not scalable. Yeah, it's like – I mean –
And usually it's kind of local kinds of communities and people that either know that person or it's not. It's never going to be organized in a point where you can pack a box or you can't determine that kind of a thing.
It's just that, you know, after election, election, election, it's just never been, you know, in 2020 out of over millions of votes in 2020 in Pennsylvania, there were five or six votes. And what happened is that they turned out to be the Republicans and they used their deceased, their dead moms, you know, to vote for Trump through that. And that was documented. And they were all caught.
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