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Chapter 1: What chaos is currently impacting the U.S. political landscape?
Mike Nellis, you're talking. We're live. Mike Nellis and Donovan. Mike, I haven't seen you in a while. We have not done a show. What's going on? Are you avoiding me?
What's happening? No, you canceled the last two weeks, my friend, but I think you've been a little busy. When does the merch go up? I half expected you to show up with a mugshot t-shirt at this moment.
No, because, you know, there are people who have been asking me. Seriously, I've had people call and say, can we make some Free Don Lemon or whatever merch? I'm like, no. I'm not doing that.
This is serious. I did a podcast yesterday with these young guys in Michigan, and they were complaining about what happened to you. And one of the guys was like, I hate this administration so much for making me say things like Free Don Lemon. It's fucking insane. Yeah.
Chapter 2: How did Don Lemon's recent arrest influence public perception?
They're not fans of mine, but they want me free? I don't think it had anything to do with you. It just was like the fact that you have to say free Don Lemon in any context just sounds so insane. Did you see, I mean, you were in the slammer when it happened. Did you see the press release that Amnesty International sent out on your behalf? No. What happened?
So, I mean, you were, whatever was happening to you on Friday, and they released a statement demanding that President Donald Trump release Don Lemon. And I tweeted this. I was like, go back in time 10 years and explain the sentence, Amnesty International demands the release of Don Lemon to President Donald Trump, and no one would believe you. But that's how insane what happened to you is.
It is a crazy world that we live in, right? What did you think? What did I, so I, I woke up, uh, I woke up at like 5am and was like getting through my work. And I think it was with like six 30 that it rolled in or something. And I just, I was pissed. I was worried about you, but like, I knew you were tough. So like, I wasn't worried about it.
I know the case is bullshit, but I, they, they came after you because you're, you're growing like a weed and you're speaking out. And so I, I got mad. I mean, I spent basically that entire morning rage tweeting all morning about it. And I did a bunch of TV hits. They kept introducing me as Don Lemon's friend. And I was like, well, I don't know if we're friends yet. Like that's a, you know,
Chapter 3: What are the implications of nationalizing U.S. elections?
It's a stretch. We just have a Substack show together. But I felt bad. I felt bad, but not for you. Like I felt bad for them because like I knew you were going to make the most of this and you'd be fine.
Have you been on with these crazy conservatives that are like trying to make this into something that it's not?
Yeah, I did. I did two Newsmax hits about it. And I did News Nation over the weekend. And they're like, Don Lemon stormed into a church and disrupted people's faith. And he's destroying our religious sanctum. You know, all the sanctimonious bullshit. It was very silly. It's very silly stuff. I mean, it's a waste of time. They should be going after actual criminals.
Unfortunately, they have to look inside the White House first.
That was a good one. I needed a laugh. So thank you. Do you think that they deep down they know this?
Yeah. Yeah. I think they will abuse the power of the federal government to go after anybody that they think is a threat to them. So it isn't so much that you did anything wrong, which you didn't, you were just reporting.
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Chapter 4: How are MAGA supporters reacting to Donald Trump?
It was that they were like, wow, Don Lemon's got 1.3 million followers on YouTube and he's causing us problems and let's get him scared and let's try to bleed him of some legal money and it's going to backfire in their face. I saw you gained like 600,000 new followers across platforms in the last three, four days. So like it's blown up in their face.
You were on, were you on Kimmel two nights ago, right? On Kimmel two nights ago.
I think it's actually more than that, but I'm not counting that, but I think, you know, I have people who do that. Of course, you know, my representatives are like, you know, they send me the stats or they tell me, and I was just like, they said, Dom, we know that's not what it's about for you, but just so you know. And I think it's like a million over all platforms or something like that.
All they've done is elevate you more. Like there's more people that are gonna listen to you and believe in you and get behind you now. And that's why it was a really stupid thing for them to do.
That's all well and good. But for me, it's more than that. It's about, it's not really about me. It's about the First Amendment and it's about freedom of the press because they're, don't you think they're trying to chill journalists and they've managed to neuter the mainstream corporate media. And now, you know, it's us folks who are out here
unfiltered and unvarnished who are, who are close to the ground, who are bringing folks the real information and they want to control it. And, you know, it's not going through gatekeepers and that's a little bit, not a little bit, it's a lot concerning to them.
Yeah, I think the way they wield power is they want everybody to be scared. They want you to be scared to report on something. They want me to be scared to share my opinion. They want somebody that's going to go out and protest to be worried that they're going to get shot three times in the back like Alex Preddy did. So I think that's what it is. It's about creating a culture of fear.
And the way these guys win is if they silence somebody like you or getting people to not show up to ICE protests. So I think it's the same use of power across the board. And They're able to do that for this sort of corporate billionaire elite class because all they care about is money. But the rest of us don't care about money.
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Chapter 5: What role does freedom of the press play in today's political climate?
We actually care about this damn country and what they're doing to it.
Yeah. So when we were coming on, you were just yapping, yapping. You were talking. Hey, you said I was in the slammer. So, you know, at least I could say that.
Well, I think you need one person in your life that's making light of it. Just at least.
Yeah. Well, I mean, Kimmel did actually Kimmel was pretty serious, but he cracked some jokes. But I mean, Kimmel is Kimmel is actually a pretty good journalist. I mean, he does. I know he's a comedian. I know he's a talk show host, but he did his homework and he was actually pretty good. I was impressed.
I thought it was a great interview. I was glad that you did it.
Thank you. So you were saying that, which I did not know about because I've been sitting here in the camera talking to, I've got, you know, I've spoken today to Raphael Warnock. I spoke with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez yesterday. I spoke today also with Senator Mark Kelly. Later I'm speaking with Senator Elizabeth Warren.
And so I've had some great guests who come on to, you know, talk about and to reconfirm the importance of our First Amendment. And I'm happy about that. So I say that to say, watch the show. on all platforms because you'll get to see all those folks, but also because I haven't, I haven't been able to engage in the news as much as I would like to. And you said the vice president gave an interview.
Yeah. And then he taught, we need to discuss us.
Yeah.
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Chapter 6: How are Democratic strategies evolving in response to current events?
Well, I just, I just saw it beforehand. I forget who it was with, but it might've been with the daily news. Um,
But the reporter who did the interview asked him if he's willing to apologize to Alex Preddy's family because Vance has called Preddy a domestic terrorist and an assassin and suggested that Preddy left his house the day that he was murdered, intending to create harm to ICE agents, which is a lie, based solely on the fact that he had a legal firearm and a concealed carry license.
And Vance said no. He's like, no, I'm not going to apologize because I believe that that individual left his house that day planning to disrupt law enforcement investigations, planning to hurt ICE agents. And I mean, he's a miserable piece of shit and I dislike him greatly. And he has no class that he can't even admit that what he said was wrong.
Are you surprised at all? I am every day. I'm not. I don't know if I'm surprised every day. I'm taken aback. by the level of heartlessness that this administration exudes and some of the things that come out of their mouths. And I wonder how any human being who is, who claim to be God-fearing or Constitution-believing, all of those, how those things can come out of their mouth.
People who are supposed to have empathy, no empathy. no sort of caring, none of it. How does that even come out of his mouth or anybody's mouth or Pam Bondi or any of the, you know, Kristi Noem or any of the people who are in this administration?
Yeah, well, they're fake Christians. They're fake constitutionalists. Like everything that they claim to believe in is circumstantial. And I think what happened to you is actually the perfect example of that because they spent the last,
three, four days, really the last two weeks since the incident of the church, arguing that you're not a journalist, which has been your profession for, you know, 20, 30 plus years. But they'll argue that Jack Probstack, the Pizzagate guy, is a journalist. They can go ask questions at the White House press briefing, which is ridiculous.
So I think to me, it's... Or the kid who was, who went to Minnesota.
Yeah, Nick Shirley. Yeah.
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Chapter 7: What are the potential consequences of Trump's alarming rhetoric?
They want the right to free speech for them, but not us. The Second Amendment for them, but not us. And I think that that's completely screwed up. And what they do is they wrap themselves in the flag. They wrap themselves in their faith. They wrap themselves in this bullshit perception about...
family values and my people, the Democrats, run away from that stuff because we get scared when we own all that stuff far more than they do. And I think for guys like Vance, Vance doesn't believe in anything.
He won't defend his wife when she's facing racist attacks from his own party, won't defend the Constitution when his own boss is trampling on it, claiming we should nationalize elections and have the Republican Party take them over in blue states. We need to talk about that, by the way.
Yeah, we do. Go on. Yeah, go on.
Yeah.
No, it's just I mean, this is just a group of people that don't believe in anything. It's a party fueled by petty grievance and greed. And say what you will about the Democrats. They imperfect. But at least we believe in trying to help people. And I just it's as simple as that to me.
I think that is that is a thing that you have said that we both agree on that that we can find some common ground on is that and I've been saying this since the election. I. Look, I don't agree with everything Democrats do. I'm not a Democrat. I'm not a Republican. But I do believe that the Democratic Party is the only party that's fighting for democracy right now.
And for the people, I don't believe that they're doing such a great job at it. It can be improved, but at least they're trying. And so, you know, I'm on the side of people who believe in democracy, who believe in the Constitution, who believe in the Bill of Rights. And Republicans are just not there right now.
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Chapter 8: How can Democrats capitalize on the evolving political landscape?
They are not. They claim that, as you said, freedom of speech is for them. And not for us, meaning the rest of the people who don't believe like them.
Yep. I get asked this all the time, especially after the election, I got asked this is like, you know, why are you a Democrat? And I always say it's, Democratic Party is the only party that gives a shit about whether or not you have a good paying job, whether you could buy a house, whether you could try your dignity, whether our democracy functions.
And like, they're not particularly good at it at the moment. I think they have been good at it in the past, like when Obama was president, but it's the only party that cares. And there's just, there's no empathy. There's no compassion. Everything in the Republican Party is, greed and it's centered around one man. And I don't know if you saw this. I think this came out Friday afternoon.
It was a new piece from the New Yorker that Trump has made $4.5 billion in the last year off of the presidency. $4.5 billion. And the average American's living paycheck to paycheck. If they get sick, they're going to go broke. And he promised to fix all of that. He promised to make everything less expensive. He promised that we were going to have less chaos. Everything was going to be better.
And it's not. It's a disaster. And now you've got multiple polls coming out saying that people preferred it when Biden was president, which is People were really pissed when Biden left office. So for them to be reminiscing about Joe Biden so soon is kind of crazy to me.
I said it. I said, look, the metrics of the economy, all good right now under Joe Biden because the economy was in the shitter because let's not forget because of Donald Trump's terrible handling of COVID. And then Joe Biden had to dig us out of that, just like Barack Obama had to dig us out of what? George W. Bush's economy. Remember, we had the mortgage crisis and all that shit.
I don't know if you remember the economy for you should you know, this was off a cliff. They had like emergency meetings about what they were going to do because they thought that America was going to default on everything. Do you remember that? And then who was the who was the Fed chair there or the advisor? What's this curly haired guy for Obama? I forget his name. His name escapes me.
You know who I'm talking about, right? Yeah, I know who you're talking about. Had to come in and rescue the economy and they did it. And then, okay, fine. After that, here comes, after two terms of Barack Obama and our economy was going great, mortgage rates were low. And then we get Trump and then it goes into the shitter. Yep. Right. Yep.
And then, and it's a, well, it wouldn't have was because of COVID. Yeah. Okay. But you didn't take COVID seriously. You were telling people it was like the flu. It was going to go away. Don't take the vaccine. And you threw Barack Obama's playbook. right? For emergency playbook or protocol for a pandemic, you threw it out the window. You're like, this is bullshit.
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