Senator Chris Murphy

Thank you for having me.

Thank you for having me.

By the way, would you explain what a jag off is?

By the way, would you explain what a jag off is?

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Yeah, I mean listen this whole thing is bullshit I mean, this is this is Ramaswamy and Musk, you know trying to capture government for their own interests Maybe it's just a TV show But it is definitely not an honest attempt to try to trim the fat off of government it is either just PR or it's part of the kleptocracy in which government is just going to be turned into a instrument to enrich them.

Yeah, I mean listen this whole thing is bullshit I mean, this is this is Ramaswamy and Musk, you know trying to capture government for their own interests Maybe it's just a TV show But it is definitely not an honest attempt to try to trim the fat off of government it is either just PR or it's part of the kleptocracy in which government is just going to be turned into a instrument to enrich them.

Maybe they cut some car subsidies, but it definitely won't be the ones that go to Elon Musk. But I do think it is true that our party decided over the course of the 2024 election to become the defenders of democracy. And that made it look like we're the defenders of the existing democracy, which nobody likes. So when I came into politics 20 years ago, federal politics

Maybe they cut some car subsidies, but it definitely won't be the ones that go to Elon Musk. But I do think it is true that our party decided over the course of the 2024 election to become the defenders of democracy. And that made it look like we're the defenders of the existing democracy, which nobody likes. So when I came into politics 20 years ago, federal politics

You know campaign finance reform ethics reform cleaning up government like that was a top three issued for Democrats We talked about it all the time We were really vocal critics of the way the democracy worked and you know by the time that Trump came around that was kind of like six or seven or eight on our list and so we definitely do have to start elevating our assault on the status quo of

You know campaign finance reform ethics reform cleaning up government like that was a top three issued for Democrats We talked about it all the time We were really vocal critics of the way the democracy worked and you know by the time that Trump came around that was kind of like six or seven or eight on our list and so we definitely do have to start elevating our assault on the status quo of

In democracy and arguing for why we want to get billionaire dollars out super PAC money out the revolving door closed Whatever it is. We've got to become we've got to sort of recapture our our roots Which is the government and democracy reform party. I Think we do that and we attack their attempts at reform as bogus and we'll be in much better position right before the election

In democracy and arguing for why we want to get billionaire dollars out super PAC money out the revolving door closed Whatever it is. We've got to become we've got to sort of recapture our our roots Which is the government and democracy reform party. I Think we do that and we attack their attempts at reform as bogus and we'll be in much better position right before the election

Yeah, no, I do not think we have the requisite credibility today. And Joe Biden, for all of his strengths, was not necessarily the right messenger to open up a new populist critique of the way that the neoliberal economy works.

Yeah, no, I do not think we have the requisite credibility today. And Joe Biden, for all of his strengths, was not necessarily the right messenger to open up a new populist critique of the way that the neoliberal economy works.

I think he was very sincere in his belief that we should start breaking up corporate power and breaking up monopolies, but he was not practiced in that rhetoric because that's not what he had spent his life working on. But I think there's a bunch of ways that we can solve for this. I mean, we can change the way we recruit candidates.

I think he was very sincere in his belief that we should start breaking up corporate power and breaking up monopolies, but he was not practiced in that rhetoric because that's not what he had spent his life working on. But I think there's a bunch of ways that we can solve for this. I mean, we can change the way we recruit candidates.

I think I do a pretty good job as a United States senator, but maybe we should not have as many lawyers and maybe we should have more folks who come straight out of working class or union backgrounds running for office at the local and federal level. I think that would help us build credibility as a party.

I think I do a pretty good job as a United States senator, but maybe we should not have as many lawyers and maybe we should have more folks who come straight out of working class or union backgrounds running for office at the local and federal level. I think that would help us build credibility as a party.