Wrestling Goes Woke Against Trump and ICE, His Admin is in Total Free Fall

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Why are MAGA supporters losing popularity in pro wrestling?

Angie Sullivan 0:04
While the Democrats played patty cake with ICE funding, so I guess that they can satisfy their corporate donors, big prison, big prison industrial complex. In a weird, bizarre twist, MAGA has lost the pro wrestling crowd. Here's a video taken within the last couple of days at a professional wrestling match where everybody in the crowd is shouting, fuck ICE, play the clip.
Unknown 0:36
mjf brody king aew world championship eliminator match a match that the champion wants absolutely no part of now the face and the eyes of the champion okay kylie
Angie Sullivan 1:02
I wanna say, I've said this once, I'll say it again. Everybody else has said it once and said it again. Abolishing ICE is a moderate position in this country. Polling shows that everybody wants, the majority of Americans want ICE to be abolished and zero funding. This movement has zero institutional support because the powers that be, when you get the Venn diagram of political parties, in the Democratic Party, there are two facets of it. There are the corporate Dems and their Venn diagram overlaps with MAGA's a lot. There's so much crossover with the corporate interests. It's really alarming. And then within the Democratic Party, you have the Progressive Caucus, the progressives. The progressives have to fight corporate Dems.
Angie Sullivan 1:52
Bernie Sanders fought corporate Dems and the DNC screwed him and gave the nomination to Hillary Clinton.

What do recent polls say about ICE and its funding?

Angie Sullivan 2:00
Polling showed that Bernie would have beat Trump. A lot of Bernie supporters ended up voting for Trump over Hillary because they liked his economic populist message. This is a moment where Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries need to pack their stuff and step aside and let a progressive person that is for the people first and not for corporate interests first rise and give us some institutional support to defeat these fascists.
Jennifer Welch 2:34
You cited an article a couple of weeks ago about how when you poll, the Democrats approval rating is like under 20%. Yet the projections on the midterms is that the Democrats will win overwhelmingly. And the reality is it's because Trump is so bad, not because Democrats are good. And so I look at these polls and I think, so I think the title of the article is Democrats will win in spite of themselves. This leadership to me, it is so overwhelmingly impotent. They are every bit as impotent as Trump's cabinet in my mind, because they are not doing anything in terms of helping the American people, stopping violence in the streets. They're sitting there, they're doing, oh, well, you know, we'll have a dress code update and they won't wear masks.
Jennifer Welch 3:31
Fuck them. You have to take it all down. You're not gonna make the white supremacists in this organization better. You're not gonna make it better for people that enjoy hurting other people and telling other people, I'm gonna put a gun in your face.

How does the Democratic Party's structure affect its support for ICE abolition?

Jennifer Welch 3:45
I'm gonna erase you. That is not something that you can train out of or dress code out of. This absolutely positively is a disgrace in terms of leadership.
Angie Sullivan 3:57
And I just want to point out that as it pertains to the Democratic Party, the pendulum always swings historically in midterm elections. The progressive argument, my argument is that you see true progressives really win, like Zoran Mamdani and people who are laser focused, like that guy in Texas that recently won, laser focused on affordability. And you see true progressives win. The corporate Dems have... are going to do everything in their power, it seems like, to try to feign resistance. But in actuality, they're handing Trump a Gestapo squad. And they'll say, OK, yeah, we'll follow the rules. And they'll follow the rules for a little bit. And when it comes to Election Day, do you think they're going to be like, oh, we can't do that.
Angie Sullivan 4:45
That's against the law. The convicted felon is the leader of ICE? You think that led the violent insurrection that he's going to go, oh, okay, the law said that you can't wear a mask and we can't be around polling places, so let's not do that? Like, the insanity of the Democratic leadership is so condescending to our intelligence to say that they're going to put all these rules in ICE and then expect us to think the convicted felon president is going to follow the law?

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