Will Salatin
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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Because I mean, remember, Scott Besson got that job for one reason, which was that he claimed that that all the stock market increases under Joe Biden were because people expected Donald Trump to be president, right? And that was just, so he flattered his way into the job. He's a totally yes man, right? If Elon's goons, I don't know what to call these guys.
They may be not carrying cudgels, but they're, you know, they work for Elon. They come in and they say, we want to access to this stuff. Here, sign this piece of paper. Scott Besant, he's not in that job because he's brave. He's a coward like the rest of them. I mean, the entire party is populated with people who do bad things or people who are too weak to stand up to those who do bad things.
And Besant is one of those. So, of course, he's going to sign that.
Yeah, I don't even know how to distill this. It's amazing to me that There's a plane crash. Donald Trump steps up to a microphone, says without any evidence that this is, he blames DEI, says that the crash is all about being smart. Now, the obvious explanations were offered to Trump. Well, we have a shortage of air traffic controllers. There was technology. There was a question of that.
He dismissed the obvious explanation. He says, no, it's because we don't have smart enough people. And the reason we don't have smart enough people is because of DEI. And then when pressed for a little more detail, he starts talking about a lawsuit on the part of white applicants who didn't get jobs at FAA that they got discriminated against.
So basically, the very clear message is this plane crashed because we hired black and brown people at the FAA. Now, this is bullshit. There's no evidence for it. And statistically, the numbers have changed very little in the last several years.
But if you go into a situation where something bad happened and you say it is the fault of hiring black and brown people, which is the message here, and you have no evidence for that, That is straight up bigotry. And that is the kind of scapegoating that authoritarian fascist regimes do. He didn't say Jews. He didn't even say explicitly that we hired black people and they caused this.
That was his first answer. His first answer was there's this stuff about hiring handicapped people or whatever, disabled people. He switched that and he switched it to white people can't get jobs and that's why we have a shortage, whatever. And then, Tim, it wasn't just Trump. The entire chorus came in. J.D. Vance, Sean Duffy, the new secretary came in.
They all parroted this line about white people not getting... So it's all part and parcel of what you were discussing earlier of like the South Africa thing, the Darren Beatty thing. This is just like revenge of white, anti-Black, anti-Brown racism. And...
It's amazing to me that the reporters and the media coverage of this hasn't been more forceful about, holy cow, the president of the United States is invoking a baseless racial explanation for this terrible thing that happened.
So, Tim, I did watch it, and I want that hour back. Sorry about that. I owe you one. So, I wasn't so much struck by the issues about reaching out to this and that, you know,
group in the rainbow, which obviously in the 2024 campaign hurt them to the extent that voters thought that the Democratic Party, because it cared about transgender people or cared about this or that minority, didn't care about economics. And I don't know how to solve that problem. And I don't want to renounce caring about the issues that affect these groups because they actually matter.
What really struck me from this forum, Tim, was the chaos. I mean, here we have an authoritarian party on the right. And what do we have on the left? We have a party that looked like, from this forum, it was total anarchy. They couldn't get the attendees to behave themselves and just let the forum continue.
you know, it's the old Will Rogers line about how it's, you know, not an organized political party. And Ken Martin himself had, you know, his pitch to the crowd was like, the DNC should not be putting a finger on the scale in primaries. The DNC should not be dictating things.
They asked the candidates, Tim, when one candidate wins the presidential primary, should the DNC become an extension of the presidential campaign, which is normal. That's what happens, right? And like one person raised their hand And they're all looking at each other like because they're afraid. There's like nobody leading the party. Everyone's trying to cater to the audience.
And so if the audience cares about this or that pet issue, that's what happens. You kind of need somebody who will represent what they think the party should stand for, regardless of what the people in the crowd are saying.
Okay. Okay, Tim.
But what do you do about the fact that that's bullshit? What do you do about the fact that the OCD level obsession with non-binary, you know, two of this and one of that and three of that. It's absurd.
Right. Okay. That's all ridiculous, but it's niche, right? It's like this. It's not the essence of the party. But Republicans managed to take that wherever it exists and make it look like that's the essence of the party.
Okay, but you've picked out that procedural vote, that 90 seconds or two minutes of Jamie Harrison. Okay, that's stupid. But like, no, in reality, they did talk about a lot of economic issues. It's just that that doesn't get the attention.
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