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VIDEO: Meet The Press Broadcast (Full) July 10 — Sec. Raimondo, Gov. Hogan, Rep. Murphy, Kara Swisher Jul 10, 2022 NBC News
CHUCK TODD: Welcome back. Now, to the Republicans. So, Rich, there was a scandal plague, an embarrassing leader of the Conservative Party in the U.K. And there was finally the "enough is enough" moment, and they got rid of Boris. You know, arguably Mitch McConnell had a moment where he could've done the same thing the way the U.K. does, essentially the vote of no confidence. "We're dumping our leader. He can never be leader again." This American conservative party hasn't done it. Why?
RICH LOWRY: Well, one, it's a different system. .... And at the end of the day, the issue is Trump has a significant hold on Republican voters. And critics of Trump, enemies of Trump who want him to go away just need to constantly remind themselves the people they need to convince, the sitting Republicans who voted for him twice, they like him.They're entertained by him. They're grateful for many things that he did. They hate the media. And they think Trump is often attacked unfairly. So from my perspective, the person who's likely to win over those voters from Trump eventually is someone Trump critics probably hate as well, someone like Ron DeSantis, rather than a Liz Cheney....
HALLIE JACKSON: .....I do think that if you look at 2024, I think that Mike Pence is clearly going to run. I do not think, as much as Mike Pence wants to have a hold on the sort of MAGA members of the Republican Party, he does not. I think that that's a question mark. I think evangelical Republicans he can make the case to. I think the more broad appeal is going to be elusive for him.
CHUCK TODD: Well, let's get to your book, Mr. Leibovich. Because in many ways, if you read your book, “Thank You for Your Servitude” here, you get the explanation for why what happened in the U.K. isn't yet happening here. And I want to start with this excerpt, because I think it gets at the core of actually the Republicans not understanding Trump. And the censors, be careful. "If you're a Republican in Washington--" and this is, an outgoing Republican member of Congress said this to you. "If you're a Republican in Washington, the idea is basically to make yourselves as much of a D-head as possible in order to get attention and impress the biggest D-head of all, the guy sitting in the White House." Finish the anecdote for me, because just what--
MARK LEIBOVICH: I'm not going to finish the D-head for you.
CHUCK TODD: No. But he would not put his name on this quote. Explain to me what he told you.
MARK LEIBOVICH: .....You see the gap between 1) what Republicans will say publicly and privately play out again and again and again. And look, it's not like there's not a tradition of Republicans pushing back on the leadership of their party in America. I mean, the private view of Republicans towards this president is extremely harsh. It's extremely mocking. And look, politicians are always going to say different things in public and private before different audiences. I've never seen a gap wider than this.
DANIELLA GIBBS LEGER: Apparently not. I mean, that literally is the problem. And, I mean, I think you're right. Like, Republicans have to figure out what's more important to them. Is it the immediacy to power? Or do they care about their legacy? Do they care about what history books are going to write about them? As I say this I'm like, "Of course they don't care," because they've shown over and over again it's more important for them to win the next election than to, like, I don't know, maybe stand up for our democracy.
MARK LEIBOVICH: They're all addicted. Look, I mean, there are any number of psychological reasons why people do certain things, you know, and make decisions like this. I mean, it's funny, Rich and I were in the green room before when Governor Hogan said, "Well, Republicans need to sort of figure out what they need to do." And it's like, it's been seven years. I mean, based on the precedent of recent history, the Republican m.o. in dealing with Donald Trump is fecklessness. And in doing this book, I learned this over and over and over again. And I don't think the revolution is going to be led by Lindsey Graham, or Kevin McCarthy, or Mitch McConnell. And, look, they've had the chance to do it over and over and over again. If he can survive January 6th, and for a few days it looked like he wasn't, and be where is today--
CHUCK TODD: Well, this brings me to this. If he runs, will somebody explain to me how he accepts losing?
RICH LOWRY: Yeah, that's a big--
HALLIE JACKSON: You know the answer to that question.
RICH LOWRY: That's a big conundrum. Look, I think there's probably maybe a 15% chance he doesn't run. But very likely he's in.
CHUCK TODD: It seems like all these people--
HALLIE JACKSON: I was going to say--
(OVERTALK)
CHUCK TODD:
The only answer is--
( THE ONLY ANSWER IS DEATH )*
CHUCK TODD:
--(UNINTEL).
( THE ONLY ANSWER IS DEATH )*
MARK LEIBOVICH: The only plan we have-- this is another former Republican congressman that said, "Look, we have no plan for this except sitting around hoping he dies." And, again, this quote--
CHUCK TODD: Astonishing.
DANIELLA GIBBS LEGER: This is so depressing--
MARK LEIBOVICH: It's all so depressing..... But no, I mean, these conversations happen over and over again. And what's cast it in such sharp relief, and over the last few months is you see what's happening in England, you see what's happening on the January 6th commission. The courage that actually does happen in conservative circles is cast in such sharp relief with the punitive leadership of the Republican Party....
https://youtu.be/NhkhVEu2Eiw?t=2460
TRANSCRIPT ( Meet the Press - July 10, 2022) :
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-july-10-2022-n1296939
*( I added back in the actual dialogue from the video segment into the transcript display above. NBC News attempted to redact what Chuck Todd said in the officially released transcript. Similar to what just happened with Joe Biden and his teleprompter "End The Quote. Repeat The Line" scandal)
VIDEO: ‘So much worse than we thought’: GOP pollster on potential political violence in America Jul 1, 2022 CNN
Republican pollster Neil Newhouse and former Obama pollster Joel Benenson speak with CNN’s John King about a poll they conducted that showed more than a quarter of Americans think it may be necessary to take up arms against the government and that most Americans think their government is corrupt and rigged against them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HE44i1eNV8
VIDEO: Are Democrats calling for violence after Supreme Court ruling on abortion? Jun 25, 2022
'The Big Saturday Show' panelists react to protests across the United States after the Supreme Court's decision on abortion and weigh in on 'misinformation' surrounding the ruling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZRoT_p7a8Q
VIDEO: Pro-Abortion Radicals Offer 'Bounties' on Supreme Court Justice 'Sightings' Jul 11, 2022
Abortion rights supporters marched outside the White House Saturday, demanding more action from the president.
https://youtu.be/IEkGfkHAw28?t=80
MEDIA OPTICS: Man Comes Home Without Beer, Woman Stabs Him With Ceramic Squirrel: Deputies
South Carolina authorities say a 44-year-old woman angry at a man for returning home without beer on Christmas beat and stabbed him with a ceramic squirrel.
...The Charleston County Sheriff's office says in a report that deputies found a man covered with blood when they arrived at Helen Williams' North Charleston home early Wednesday. She told investigators the man fell and cut himself, but couldn't explain why her hands and clothes were also bloody....
Deputies say the man said Williams was so angry when he returned without beer because stores were closed on Christmas Eve that she grabbed a ceramic squirrel, beat him in the head, then stabbed him in the shoulder and chest....Williams was in jail Friday and charged with criminal domestic violence. It wasn't known if she had a lawyer....
Associated Press March 1, 2018 at 4:08 pm
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/man-comes-home-without-beer-woman-stabs-him-with-ceramic-squirrel-deputies/2015609/?amp
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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. - Mahatma Gandhi
Chuck Todd from NBC News Meet The Press and Mark Leibovich speak the quiet part out loud.
- The Democratic Party and the Biden Administration have self inflicted so many failures and scandals that they will likely lose the upcoming Mid Terms badly and probably the 2024 general election, including POTUS. Given that FedSoc assembly line Conservative Catholics are the majority on SCOTUS, this situation is unacceptable to the tone deaf elitist Liberal Limousine establishment wing of Team Blue
- Donald Trump is too popular. He embodies much of the rage of the every day working class who feel abandoned by wealthy disconnected liberal professional politicians who do not make their lives better and offer no hope for the future of their children. The failures of the current Biden Administration, and the widespread distrust of "state media" where the propaganda is failing with the masses, have inexplicably made The Big Cheeto into a legitimate POTUS 2024 contender despite all his vast number of scandals and failures. And that Cocaine Mitch and Kevin McCarthy won't lift a finger to stop it.
- It's "alleged" that the majority of the GOP despises Trump but still falls in line because they are "addicted" and weak and part of the deeper anti-democratic pathology of all Republicans in America. But that they secretly wish he was dead.
- Team Blue has tried for 7 full years to put Trump down politically. Two impeachments with a proxy for a "Third Impeachment" with the J6 Hearings. Plus a constant barrage from the MSM. Clinton cooking the Russia influence accusations. And on and on and on. And The Big Cheeto won't go down, he won't accept losing and he's managed to survive literally everything thrown at him. The establishment Democrats are essentially at wits end here.
Finally Chuck Todd just gets to point at 46:18 and 46:20 in the episode - THE ONLY ANSWER IS DEATH
While such a statement might be seen a different way in another time in our modern political history, it's happening in the current backdrop of the enabled rioting, looting and burning of 2020 and the pure hunt for Conservative SCOTUS via threats, bounties and attempted assassinations and the intentional public policies that have turned Big Blue Cities into total criminal chaos.
My assessment? The Democratic Party is not a monolith. There are many liberal elected officials who don't want violence and don't support violence. However the actual power base of the current Team Blue, the core of the establishment Democrats plus the "state media" propaganda arm of the current activist complicit MSM, makes it very very clear. They are normalizing the conditions under which assassinating Conservative and Republican political enemies becomes socially acceptable and baked into the general apathy of simply beating down the entire population with massive inflation and government overreach.
The real answer is applying democratic processes. The real answer is the application of more democracy at work. Go win elections. Win lots of them. Win so many that you have the majorities you want and need to get your people into office, to pass the legislation you want, and to appoint judges who will uphold those laws. But you can only do that if you make the lives of everyday working class people and their children better. You also need to deliver on your promises to people who voted for you in the past. But the power base of Team Blue is beholden to their corporate overlord donor base too much to do that.
So why bother with "more democracy" that helps the rank and file American citizens who need it the most?
Maybe it's easier, as Chuck Todd skirts around the issue as thinly as possible, to just push that DEATH IS THE ONLY ANSWER.
If you can't bring down your opponent after 7 years of non stop attack, I guess many on the hard radical left want it to come down to this. Can Meet The Press be any dirtier here? They are literally trying to sell if and when the killings happen, that it's going to be the machinations of quietly seething passive aggressive freedom hating loser Republicans in office that pulled the trigger. There are things you don't do in traditional media optics, and Chuck Todd just broke all the old rules. Whatever people think of Donald Trump as a politician, he's still an American citizen. There's a difference between defending the core principle of what it means to protect all American citizens and to separate that from how many people feel about a 4th rate failed reality TV star trolling grifter. You can't go on national TV and keep egging on this kind of violent rhetoric. That Chuck Todd will be privately celebrated for saying this, defying all basic media ethics in tow, is a red flag of what's to come. And for those who want to bring up J6, the real answer is still more democracy. Go win so many elections that you could choke an elephant and make sure Trump never sees political office again.
In the very near future, political violence will be widespread. The activist complicit MSM will attempt to normalize it. They will inch forward step by step. They want you to agree with them that the best Band Aid to their preferrred incompetent candidates and failed idiotic policy is to just start picking people off. They will want you to soak in the blood with them and cheer them on as patriots.
Think about how far some have to go to recoil away from the basic concepts of liberty from our Founders along with the principles of those like Gandhi and MLK Jr. And what's the new normal? If you can't beat your opponents with more democracy, then it's clearly time for violence, threats and outright slaughter.
We will all see more political assassinations in the near future than we've ever seen before in America's entire recorded history.
Is this the kind of world that we want our children to inherit?
If you choose to normalize these kind of threats, this kind of rhetoric, this kind of incitement, this kind of violence, then you've already given your answer.
CHUCK TODD: Welcome back. Now, to the Republicans. So, Rich, there was a scandal plague, an embarrassing leader of the Conservative Party in the U.K. And there was finally the "enough is enough" moment, and they got rid of Boris. You know, arguably Mitch McConnell had a moment where he could've done the same thing the way the U.K. does, essentially the vote of no confidence. "We're dumping our leader. He can never be leader again." This American conservative party hasn't done it. Why?
RICH LOWRY: Well, one, it's a different system. .... And at the end of the day, the issue is Trump has a significant hold on Republican voters. And critics of Trump, enemies of Trump who want him to go away just need to constantly remind themselves the people they need to convince, the sitting Republicans who voted for him twice, they like him.They're entertained by him. They're grateful for many things that he did. They hate the media. And they think Trump is often attacked unfairly. So from my perspective, the person who's likely to win over those voters from Trump eventually is someone Trump critics probably hate as well, someone like Ron DeSantis, rather than a Liz Cheney....
HALLIE JACKSON: .....I do think that if you look at 2024, I think that Mike Pence is clearly going to run. I do not think, as much as Mike Pence wants to have a hold on the sort of MAGA members of the Republican Party, he does not. I think that that's a question mark. I think evangelical Republicans he can make the case to. I think the more broad appeal is going to be elusive for him.
CHUCK TODD: Well, let's get to your book, Mr. Leibovich. Because in many ways, if you read your book, “Thank You for Your Servitude” here, you get the explanation for why what happened in the U.K. isn't yet happening here. And I want to start with this excerpt, because I think it gets at the core of actually the Republicans not understanding Trump. And the censors, be careful. "If you're a Republican in Washington--" and this is, an outgoing Republican member of Congress said this to you. "If you're a Republican in Washington, the idea is basically to make yourselves as much of a D-head as possible in order to get attention and impress the biggest D-head of all, the guy sitting in the White House." Finish the anecdote for me, because just what--
MARK LEIBOVICH: I'm not going to finish the D-head for you.
CHUCK TODD: No. But he would not put his name on this quote. Explain to me what he told you.
MARK LEIBOVICH: .....You see the gap between 1) what Republicans will say publicly and privately play out again and again and again. And look, it's not like there's not a tradition of Republicans pushing back on the leadership of their party in America. I mean, the private view of Republicans towards this president is extremely harsh. It's extremely mocking. And look, politicians are always going to say different things in public and private before different audiences. I've never seen a gap wider than this.
DANIELLA GIBBS LEGER: Apparently not. I mean, that literally is the problem. And, I mean, I think you're right. Like, Republicans have to figure out what's more important to them. Is it the immediacy to power? Or do they care about their legacy? Do they care about what history books are going to write about them? As I say this I'm like, "Of course they don't care," because they've shown over and over again it's more important for them to win the next election than to, like, I don't know, maybe stand up for our democracy.
MARK LEIBOVICH: They're all addicted. Look, I mean, there are any number of psychological reasons why people do certain things, you know, and make decisions like this. I mean, it's funny, Rich and I were in the green room before when Governor Hogan said, "Well, Republicans need to sort of figure out what they need to do." And it's like, it's been seven years. I mean, based on the precedent of recent history, the Republican m.o. in dealing with Donald Trump is fecklessness. And in doing this book, I learned this over and over and over again. And I don't think the revolution is going to be led by Lindsey Graham, or Kevin McCarthy, or Mitch McConnell. And, look, they've had the chance to do it over and over and over again. If he can survive January 6th, and for a few days it looked like he wasn't, and be where is today--
CHUCK TODD: Well, this brings me to this. If he runs, will somebody explain to me how he accepts losing?
RICH LOWRY: Yeah, that's a big--
HALLIE JACKSON: You know the answer to that question.
RICH LOWRY: That's a big conundrum. Look, I think there's probably maybe a 15% chance he doesn't run. But very likely he's in.
CHUCK TODD: It seems like all these people--
HALLIE JACKSON: I was going to say--
(OVERTALK)
CHUCK TODD:
The only answer is--
( THE ONLY ANSWER IS DEATH )*
CHUCK TODD:
--(UNINTEL).
( THE ONLY ANSWER IS DEATH )*
MARK LEIBOVICH: The only plan we have-- this is another former Republican congressman that said, "Look, we have no plan for this except sitting around hoping he dies." And, again, this quote--
CHUCK TODD: Astonishing.
DANIELLA GIBBS LEGER: This is so depressing--
MARK LEIBOVICH: It's all so depressing..... But no, I mean, these conversations happen over and over again. And what's cast it in such sharp relief, and over the last few months is you see what's happening in England, you see what's happening on the January 6th commission. The courage that actually does happen in conservative circles is cast in such sharp relief with the punitive leadership of the Republican Party....
https://youtu.be/NhkhVEu2Eiw?t=2460
TRANSCRIPT ( Meet the Press - July 10, 2022) :
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-july-10-2022-n1296939
*( I added back in the actual dialogue from the video segment into the transcript display above. NBC News attempted to redact what Chuck Todd said in the officially released transcript. Similar to what just happened with Joe Biden and his teleprompter "End The Quote. Repeat The Line" scandal)
VIDEO: ‘So much worse than we thought’: GOP pollster on potential political violence in America Jul 1, 2022 CNN
Republican pollster Neil Newhouse and former Obama pollster Joel Benenson speak with CNN’s John King about a poll they conducted that showed more than a quarter of Americans think it may be necessary to take up arms against the government and that most Americans think their government is corrupt and rigged against them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HE44i1eNV8
VIDEO: Are Democrats calling for violence after Supreme Court ruling on abortion? Jun 25, 2022
'The Big Saturday Show' panelists react to protests across the United States after the Supreme Court's decision on abortion and weigh in on 'misinformation' surrounding the ruling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZRoT_p7a8Q
VIDEO: Pro-Abortion Radicals Offer 'Bounties' on Supreme Court Justice 'Sightings' Jul 11, 2022
Abortion rights supporters marched outside the White House Saturday, demanding more action from the president.
https://youtu.be/IEkGfkHAw28?t=80
MEDIA OPTICS: Man Comes Home Without Beer, Woman Stabs Him With Ceramic Squirrel: Deputies
South Carolina authorities say a 44-year-old woman angry at a man for returning home without beer on Christmas beat and stabbed him with a ceramic squirrel.
...The Charleston County Sheriff's office says in a report that deputies found a man covered with blood when they arrived at Helen Williams' North Charleston home early Wednesday. She told investigators the man fell and cut himself, but couldn't explain why her hands and clothes were also bloody....
Deputies say the man said Williams was so angry when he returned without beer because stores were closed on Christmas Eve that she grabbed a ceramic squirrel, beat him in the head, then stabbed him in the shoulder and chest....Williams was in jail Friday and charged with criminal domestic violence. It wasn't known if she had a lawyer....
Associated Press March 1, 2018 at 4:08 pm
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/man-comes-home-without-beer-woman-stabs-him-with-ceramic-squirrel-deputies/2015609/?amp
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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. - Mahatma Gandhi
Chuck Todd from NBC News Meet The Press and Mark Leibovich speak the quiet part out loud.
- The Democratic Party and the Biden Administration have self inflicted so many failures and scandals that they will likely lose the upcoming Mid Terms badly and probably the 2024 general election, including POTUS. Given that FedSoc assembly line Conservative Catholics are the majority on SCOTUS, this situation is unacceptable to the tone deaf elitist Liberal Limousine establishment wing of Team Blue
- Donald Trump is too popular. He embodies much of the rage of the every day working class who feel abandoned by wealthy disconnected liberal professional politicians who do not make their lives better and offer no hope for the future of their children. The failures of the current Biden Administration, and the widespread distrust of "state media" where the propaganda is failing with the masses, have inexplicably made The Big Cheeto into a legitimate POTUS 2024 contender despite all his vast number of scandals and failures. And that Cocaine Mitch and Kevin McCarthy won't lift a finger to stop it.
- It's "alleged" that the majority of the GOP despises Trump but still falls in line because they are "addicted" and weak and part of the deeper anti-democratic pathology of all Republicans in America. But that they secretly wish he was dead.
- Team Blue has tried for 7 full years to put Trump down politically. Two impeachments with a proxy for a "Third Impeachment" with the J6 Hearings. Plus a constant barrage from the MSM. Clinton cooking the Russia influence accusations. And on and on and on. And The Big Cheeto won't go down, he won't accept losing and he's managed to survive literally everything thrown at him. The establishment Democrats are essentially at wits end here.
Finally Chuck Todd just gets to point at 46:18 and 46:20 in the episode - THE ONLY ANSWER IS DEATH
While such a statement might be seen a different way in another time in our modern political history, it's happening in the current backdrop of the enabled rioting, looting and burning of 2020 and the pure hunt for Conservative SCOTUS via threats, bounties and attempted assassinations and the intentional public policies that have turned Big Blue Cities into total criminal chaos.
My assessment? The Democratic Party is not a monolith. There are many liberal elected officials who don't want violence and don't support violence. However the actual power base of the current Team Blue, the core of the establishment Democrats plus the "state media" propaganda arm of the current activist complicit MSM, makes it very very clear. They are normalizing the conditions under which assassinating Conservative and Republican political enemies becomes socially acceptable and baked into the general apathy of simply beating down the entire population with massive inflation and government overreach.
The real answer is applying democratic processes. The real answer is the application of more democracy at work. Go win elections. Win lots of them. Win so many that you have the majorities you want and need to get your people into office, to pass the legislation you want, and to appoint judges who will uphold those laws. But you can only do that if you make the lives of everyday working class people and their children better. You also need to deliver on your promises to people who voted for you in the past. But the power base of Team Blue is beholden to their corporate overlord donor base too much to do that.
So why bother with "more democracy" that helps the rank and file American citizens who need it the most?
Maybe it's easier, as Chuck Todd skirts around the issue as thinly as possible, to just push that DEATH IS THE ONLY ANSWER.
If you can't bring down your opponent after 7 years of non stop attack, I guess many on the hard radical left want it to come down to this. Can Meet The Press be any dirtier here? They are literally trying to sell if and when the killings happen, that it's going to be the machinations of quietly seething passive aggressive freedom hating loser Republicans in office that pulled the trigger. There are things you don't do in traditional media optics, and Chuck Todd just broke all the old rules. Whatever people think of Donald Trump as a politician, he's still an American citizen. There's a difference between defending the core principle of what it means to protect all American citizens and to separate that from how many people feel about a 4th rate failed reality TV star trolling grifter. You can't go on national TV and keep egging on this kind of violent rhetoric. That Chuck Todd will be privately celebrated for saying this, defying all basic media ethics in tow, is a red flag of what's to come. And for those who want to bring up J6, the real answer is still more democracy. Go win so many elections that you could choke an elephant and make sure Trump never sees political office again.
In the very near future, political violence will be widespread. The activist complicit MSM will attempt to normalize it. They will inch forward step by step. They want you to agree with them that the best Band Aid to their preferrred incompetent candidates and failed idiotic policy is to just start picking people off. They will want you to soak in the blood with them and cheer them on as patriots.
Think about how far some have to go to recoil away from the basic concepts of liberty from our Founders along with the principles of those like Gandhi and MLK Jr. And what's the new normal? If you can't beat your opponents with more democracy, then it's clearly time for violence, threats and outright slaughter.
We will all see more political assassinations in the near future than we've ever seen before in America's entire recorded history.
Is this the kind of world that we want our children to inherit?
If you choose to normalize these kind of threats, this kind of rhetoric, this kind of incitement, this kind of violence, then you've already given your answer.
