In short
The episode argues Democrats should “defeat MAGA” by focusing on material issues (affordability, healthcare, childcare, ending money-in-politics) rather than internal “subtraction” like condemning progressives/DSA. It also attacks right-wing media and Republican hypocrisy on racism, Islamophobia, tariffs, data centers, and voter suppression.
Guests
Isaiah Martin, an Instagram/TikTok political commentator known for “MAGA slaying” debates; he appeared on CNN with Abby Phillips and says his viral clip debated a “MAGA thumper.” He runs a nightly TikTok debate livestream (11:45 p.m. ET).
Key claims
Laura Loomer’s racist insults (calling Black candidates “ghetto black bitch”) are real racism, not “manufactured.” Republicans avoid economy talk and instead fixate on streamers like Hasan Piker. Democrats should win via “addition,” not patronizing voters with resolutions targeting DSA. Texas Republicans removed 1.3 million voters from rolls (“dummy mander” gerrymandering). Trump’s Venezuela oil plan is “theft” funded by taxpayers; his data-center stance is anti-public concern.
Notable examples
Laura Loomer tweet; Angie Nixon and Don Lemon podcast; Brandon Herrera/“Mein Kampf” endorsement; Ken Paxton in London; Trump “data centers” comments; AOC Mar-a-Lago data-center joke; voter-roll removals in Texas; Fox News “crazy work” coverage of Abdul El-Sayed.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VODebate on MAGA and Racism
0:00 to 0:23
Isaiah discusses a viral CNN debate about racism in politics.
“Your teen might not share everything with you, but teens share everything with each other.”
Debate on MAGA and Racism
1:16 to 2:08
Isaiah discusses a viral CNN debate about racism in politics.
“I DMed Isaiah, and I was like, will you come on my pod?”
Laura Loomer and Racism Accusations
2:08 to 3:56
Exploring Laura Loomer's controversial comments on Angie Nixon.
“So Jigsaw herself, Laura Loomer, had the audacity to call Katondra Brown Jackson and Angie Nixon a ghetto black bitch.”
Political Discourse and Identity
3:56 to 5:10
Discussing the challenges of political identity and affiliations.
“So all they want to do is talk about Sean Piker.”
Critique of Republican Candidates
5:10 to 7:04
Criticism of Republican candidates and their values amidst scandals.
“So this is a guy that's running in Texas, in deep West Texas.”
Defeating MAGA and Progressive Values
7:04 to 9:02
The necessity of uniting against MAGA while promoting progressivism.
“I mean, they've got a whole crew, whether it's him, whether it's the people they affiliate with, with Laura Loomer, whether it's...”
Defeating MAGA and Progressive Values
9:05 to 9:59
The necessity of uniting against MAGA while promoting progressivism.
“I mean, it's like when these people have raised the cost of everything that we buy, why are we talking about a streamer from Calcari?”
Voter Roll Issues in Texas
10:09 to 12:24
Discussion on voter roll removal and its implications in Texas.
“Because they don't want us talking about the billionaires stealing from us.”
Angie Nixon's Campaign and Communication Skills
12:24 to 14:01
Highlighting Angie Nixon's abilities as a candidate and communicator.
“They're like, oh shit, he's not actually here.”
Conservative Perspectives at Daytona 400
14:01 to 15:32
A discussion on the concerns of conservative Republicans observed at a racing event.
“And I've been getting messages in my inbox.”
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Shifts in Democratic Ideology
15:33 to 17:40
Analyzing the polling trends indicating a shift towards a more liberal Democratic electorate.
“This is fascinating to me because I have experienced this anecdotally with a lot of my friends, and I'm sure you have too.”
The Call for Substantive Policy Change
17:41 to 21:47
Discussion about the need for real policy solutions rather than platitudes from Democratic politicians.
“What do you make of there's an argument among moderate and centrist Democrats right now that the progressives and DSA are trying to take over the party?”
The Call for Substantive Policy Change
21:48 to 22:25
Discussion about the need for real policy solutions rather than platitudes from Democratic politicians.
“Nixon is a little bit further to the left than me, but you know what?”
The Importance of Local Leadership
22:31 to 24:39
A conversation about the effective leadership and community focus of local politicians.
“That provides a social safety net for people that checks the blueberries to make sure they don't kill us.”
Critique of Partisan Politics
24:40 to 28:00
Criticism of the Democratic Party's internal conflicts and the actions of Republican leaders.
“You know, where right now it's like everything's so binary, everything feels so toxic.”
Condemning Extremism in Politics
28:00 to 29:40
Discussing the necessity of condemning racism within political parties.
“I think Josh Gottheimer and all of his friends should go and say, focus on trying to condemn Laura Loomer.”
Politics of Exclusion and Its Consequences
29:40 to 31:30
Analyzing the dangers of exclusionary politics in the context of the MAGA movement.
“And we're never going to defeat fascism with subtraction.”
Trump's Socialist Policies?
31:30 to 37:06
Exploring Trump's actions regarding international oil and perceived socialism.
“the Pentagon a stake in Venezuela's oil riches.”
The Fallout of Islamophobia
37:13 to 40:00
Discussing how Islamophobia persists and how new politicians challenge it.
“Then speaking of crazy, we have Ben Shapiro.”
Republican Party's Economic Lies
40:00 to 42:01
Critiquing the Republican Party's claims about the economy and veterans.
“Say, look, it doesn't matter if I'm Muslim, who I pray to, whatever.”
Analyzing Republican Financial Practices
42:01 to 44:39
Exploring the failures of the Republican Party in managing the economy and their spending habits.
“He asked his former Secretary of Defense if he could shoot protesters in the knee so he could walk across the park in front of the White House to hold up a Bible upside down.”
Critique of Fox News and Political Commentary
44:40 to 46:19
Discussing Fox News' influence on American politics and the absurdities in their commentary.
“They cannot stop talking about how hot Democrats are.”
The Impact of Public Perception on Politicians
46:20 to 47:49
Examining how perceptions of appearance influence political discourse and public opinion.
“He's just, what did she say at the end of that, Kylie?”
Isaiah R. Martin's Live Stream and Engagement
47:50 to 48:35
Introducing Isaiah R. Martin and his live streaming approach to political debate.
“Yeah, so you can find me on all platforms at Isaiah R.”
Transcript
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1:23OK, so you were on CNN this week. That's right. On Abby Phillips show. And this clip is going viral. It's you and politics girl debating a MAGA thumper. Let's play the clip. Yes, go condemn Laura Loomer. So this but but this is all a distraction. This is all a distraction because because from you guys. It is manufacturing racism because Florida is about to have a black governor. Byron. It is protected. Are you serious? That's racism. That's straight up racism. It's not manufactured racism. It's so ignorant to say. All right, unpack this in case people don't know what y 'all are talking about. It's the Florida race.
2:07Yeah. Incredible candidate, Angie Nixon. Right. All right. So tee it up. So Jigsaw herself, Laura Loomer, had the audacity to call Katondra Brown Jackson and Angie Nixon a ghetto black bitch. And so I thought this was pretty absurd, to say the least. but the Republicans on CNN just felt like they needed to defend it. I couldn't understand why they were doing it. And she's so much so this new person, I don't even know what her name is, but she goes, she says, this is manufactured. Well, I don't think it's very manufactured when you say that Katanya Brown Jackson, someone who has more accomplishments in her last name than probably Laura Loomis entire bloodline combined to say that that person is a ghetto black bitch.
2:47think it's pretty crazy i'll say at least okay let's talk about right now for some reason in the midterms everybody's talking about affiliations who hangs out with this person who hangs out with that person and it reminds me uh when obama was running against john mccain and sarah palin would say he likes to pal around with terrorists or they were um uh browbeating obama's uh former pastor pastor right and this started with the republicans who people pal around with well now there's a lot of bipartisan palling around but i from my vantage point laura loomer is i mean she's got a direct shot to donald trump and i haven't seen anybody defend natalie harp whom i refer to as the bunny boiler um except for laura loomer yeah so it's like from my vantage point donald trump is bffs with laura loomer and she is calling a fellow american citizen a woman a black woman who won an impressive primary it's impressive and she's an impressive candidate she called her a ghetto bitch and then that gal is sitting there saying that that's manufactured racism yeah it's crazy you know but it goes about what they were also trying to do which was consistently bring up hassan piker yep it's like i don't know it's almost like every time i'm on tv folks want to talk about hassan piker right and it's because the republicans know they can't talk about the economy They made everything worse, made everything more expensive.
4:15So all they want to do is talk about Sean Piker. They want to try to go and call Angie Nixon names because they can't defend their record. It's absurd. And it seems like when the candidate is somebody who doesn't take corporate PAC money, like Abdul El-Sayed, who is a capitalist, who is not DSA, or Angie Nixon, who is not taking corporate PAC money, but who is DSA. It seems like that is something that triggers this bipartisan, you can't hang out with this person you can't hang out with that person and to me i'm getting very frustrated with some of the uh discourse in the democratic side because i always want the most progressives to win but my god from a red state you're originally from a red state a corporate democrat as much as i don't like him is a million times better than a mega politician every day of the week any day of the week and right now i feel like we are going to win these midterms via addition, not subtraction.
5:14And so I think it's very condescending for democratic establishment to be dismissive of the millions of people who listened to Hassan's stream, the millions of people who voted for Abdul El-Sayed, and the people who voted for Angie Nixon by talking about these, you hung out here, you hung out here, when we have literal white supremacists running the government. Yeah. Literally. I mean, yeah. Brandon Herrera, You heard of that guy? No, tell me. So this is a guy that's running in Texas, in deep West Texas. He literally went on a podcast and he has his own copy of Mein Kampf. Mein Kampf, you know what that got him?
5:51An endorsement from Donald Trump? Of course. An endorsement from Mike Johnson? Where's the media hand-wringing asking people about that affiliation? They don't say anything about it. It's always a one-way street where they always try to come for us when in reality they've got people that are 10 times more extreme than anybody that we have combined. Well, the Speaker of the House, Moses Mike Grinder Johnson is his official name on this podcast. Okay. What did you say? Moses Mike Grinder Johnson. The reason why I call him Moses Mike is there's a video of him saying that God woke him up in the middle of the night and said, hey, little guy, wake up.
6:26The Speaker of the House is saying this. And God told me, you're Moses. And he's like, me? This is crazy town. and then of course the grinder allegations are heard so his official name is moses mike grinder johnson but he likes to talk to us about his faith all the time which is fine whatever but he sure doesn't uh walk the walk he can talk the talk because he just endorsed max miller an alleged child beater and wife beater and yet these people want to lecture us about family values when they support the biggest degenerates that they're running for office. 100%. I mean, they've got a whole crew, whether it's him, whether it's the people they affiliate with, with Laura Loomer, whether it's...
7:15And think about who... This has been for a long time. You got Rush Limbaugh. You had the... Elon Musk. Remember back in the day, Elon Musk? The sick hiles. That's what I'm saying. So it's like, I just refuse to be lectured by any of them. And it's amazing how every time you go on, they try to go on with such moral high ground every single time. Like they don't have a president himself that's a D-Gen. This is probably the first time in America we had a total D-Gen president. I don't think we've ever had someone as much of a D-Gen as this guy. Yeah. It's fascinating to me that they have the ability to feel no shame whatsoever and say, well, you know, you guys are doing XYZ or family values.
7:57And I'm like, the president, the grab him by the pussy, adjudicated rapist talks about wanting to screw his own daughter, was screwing a porn star while Melania is at home breastfeeding. And prior to that, when Melania was pregnant with Barron, he's screwing allegedly a Playboy bunny. And it's just the one thing I think I wish the Democrats would just message whether you want a progressive to win, a DSA to win, a moderate to win, whatever, is we have to defeat MAGA. That's right. This is more collapse. And then we can bicker in our party. And those are good, good policy conversations to have. But we cannot cede ground to right-wing framing when you heard a bunch of the Democrats say, well, we're going to condemn Hassan Piker.
8:45And it's like, why don't we condemn Elon Musk? I agree. Why don't we condemn the people that actually have power, like Stephen Miller and Donald Trump, who murder American citizens and then call them domestic terrorists? Yeah. Like, what are we doing here? I just don't think we should give them an inch. I agree. Fuck them. I agree, Isaiah. I mean, it's like when these people have raised the cost of everything that we buy, why are we talking about a streamer from Calcari? There's the part of me that everyone sees. I'm Howie Mandel, the comedian. Apparently, I know what funny is. Funny, he bought me a house, but I also know what isn't funny, OCD.
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9:59If you think you might be struggling with OCD, go to NOCD.com to book a free 15-minute call. They are here to help. Because they don't want us talking about the billionaires stealing from us. That's right. Or the tariffs. I mean, the fact that they started - Have you gotten your tariff check? I haven't. Did you get your dose check? No, neither one. Oh, wow. They owe us like seven grand. I'm checking in the mail, but I heard they're messing with the mail too. You know what? Damn it. Hey, I wanted to ask you. I saw an article a couple of days ago that 1.3 million people were removed from voter rolls in Texas and they weren't aware of it.
10:37You're from Texas originally. I live in DC now. Do you know anything about that story you can share? I've heard a couple of friends of mine that I've had their registration screwed with, and they've been asking me, they've been texting me, like, what is this? What's going on with this? I'm like, well, I don't live in Texas anymore, but I can get you somebody who can help. But yeah, it's pretty absurd that all these people basically got thrown off these voter rolls. But I mean, it's just another thing about what Republicans are looking to do close to the midterms, especially because they know in South Texas, where they had been winning for quite some time now, you've got big margins of Democrats that are actually winning these seats.
11:08They gerrymandered five congressional seats in Texas, but it looks like they're not even going to win a bunch of them. You know what I heard they're calling it now? What's that? The dummy mander. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it is. Yeah. I mean, you got this guy, Bobby Polito, who's a good friend of mine. He's actually running in South Texas. He was a Tejano singer that's running in like a Trump plus 11 district. He's kicking her ass. He's running against his Republican Congress. I mean, he's kicking the shit out of her. I mean, it's nuts. I mean, you got him. Tallarico is doing pretty good. You know, what's interesting is that the Republicans put forward in Texas the worst group of candidates you could possibly find.
11:43Ken Paxson was impeached by his own party. You know how fucking crazy you got to be to be impeached by Republicans as a Republican in Texas? You got to be nuts. Totally. This is the guy that's been on Texas State taxpayer salary for quite some time. He's walking around in a$41 ,000 watch, talking about in four seasons, polos and all that, talking about affordability when his party is jacking up the cost. It's crazy. Well, and didn't his wife divorce him for biblical reasons? And I saw all this summer he's with his mistress. That's right. In London. In London. You know what's crazy about it? I was in London the week before.
12:15And so I actually remembered where this guy was. So as soon as I saw the video, I was like, he's not in America. He's in London. immediately. And then that's when people started to make the connection. They're like, oh shit, he's not actually here. Because it originally started off as Ken Paxson's on vacation. I think it was during the 4th of July. But then people started to realize, well, he's not just on vacation. He's like out of the country. He's in England. It's nuts. He's in England tapping that ass for family values. Okay. Now let's talk about Angie Nixon, which is what that clip was about.
12:45I think she is an incredible communicator. I think she's an incredible candidate. it. And people are super critical of DSA right now. But I just want to message that they're organizing, they're fighting hard against fascism. And there's nothing that radical about wanting health care for everybody. There's nothing radical about saying we have$40 trillion in debt. And we don't have anything to show for it except for all these billionaires that we can no longer afford. So that's why you see these attacks against Abdul El-Sayed, who is Muslim. He's American, born in Michigan, but to MAGA, they will always see him as another.
13:22And then Angie Nixon, a black woman running in Florida and winning. And she is incredible. But here she is on our friend, Don Lemon's podcast yesterday, talking about this vile tweet that Laura Loomer tweeted at her. Let's play the clip. To good, fully funded public schools. I was told myself I was not going to do Y 'all are not going to see me crying on camera, but this wasn't the first time that something like this happened, right? Like my primary opponent's wife said some really hurtful things in regards to what I wore. And his auntie talked about how I talked. And I'm from the South. I use y 'all a lot.
14:03And I've been getting messages in my inbox. That's really sad. You know, what's interesting is I was actually in Florida this week. I actually spent a lot of time in Florida, but I went actually to the Daytona 400, Coke Zero 400. I saw this on your Instagram. I'm your biggest follower. Well, see, I'm not really a big racing person, but they invited me and they said, come on. And I said, okay, let's give it a go, right? But I also wanted to use it as an opportunity to talk to some folks that are conservative. I was like, sure, let me get out of the Northeast and let's give it a go. And I met a lot of mad Republicans.
14:42Like, they're really pissed. I mean, I'm talking about Republicans that have a lot of money and Republicans that don't have a lot of money. They're mad about the tariffs. They're like, they're sick of paying more. They're mad about the war. They're mad about the flock cameras. They're mad about the absolute insanity with unregulated data centers. They're mad about all that stuff. So when people see Angie Nixon, they're not worried about what kind of label she has behind her name. They're worried about the fact that she's focused on affordability. They're worried about the fact that she actually sees and understands that we cannot have unregulated data centers going up across our country.
15:11It's absurd. And the fact that Republicans, I think, think people are so stupid that they're unwilling to look at their own lives and their own circumstances when this is what they're doing to people, it's a big mistake that they're making. I agree. And so obviously, everybody go to Angie Nixon's website and donate or volunteer time to phone bank. But let's talk about the Democratic electorate. This is fascinating to me because I have experienced this anecdotally with a lot of my friends, and I'm sure you have too. Polling is showing that Democrats are becoming more liberal. Let's play the clip.
15:45Game away here. Democrats who identify as very liberal or conservative. You know, there used to be a lot of conservative Democrats, right? Back in 1999, 26 % of Democrats self-identified as conservative. Just 5 % said that they were very liberal. It was a smidgen, a smidgen, a smidgen. Now that far left has gained considerably in power. Look at this. Now we're talking about a fifth of Democrats. 21 % say they're very liberal. That conservative part of the Democratic Party, adios amigos, could buy just 8%. And when you combine the 21 % who are very liberal with those who say that they're somewhat liberal, We're talking about three in five Democrats who identify as either somewhat liberal or very liberal with the very liberals.
16:25But much. OK, so I say it's almost as if people have realized that running to the center and playing it safe. Gets us nowhere. Fascism and Donald Trump. That's right. I think that people just want common sense. Right. And when you see the folks that are claiming to be in the center of the party, you ask them what solutions are they proposing? They can't really tell you. Like I was watching Gottheimer, right? Centrist, democratic congressman. And he goes, oh, we have this pledge to America. And so I was like, okay, I'm going to have an open mind. I'm going to go and see what he's talking about.
17:01And I go on the website and it says, we want affordable healthcare. Well who the fuck does it? What does that actually mean? It says we want lower prices. What does that mean? We want to fight crime. What does that mean? It is all platitudes. And I think what people are saying is that they just want common sense. They want someone to say, yeah, we do think that everybody should have health care. We should have universal health care. We do think that, yeah, if we've got trillionaires in this country, we should absolutely have universal child care. That's common sense. It should be policies. We absolutely believe that we should have free trade.
17:31We should have tariffs. We should have stuff that's bringing in. That's real substantive policy. And I think that people see what a lot of these guys are selling and they see it's not really substantive at all. What do you make of there's an argument among moderate and centrist Democrats right now that the progressives and DSA are trying to take over the party? And the way I view it is that the corporatists, the corporate Democrats have taken the party away from our most successful, sustained time period as a party, which was that of FDR. Yeah. Where we had a president that deeply regulated capitalism to preserve it, to preserve free markets.
18:13He knew it had to be regulated or that this gap would happen. And he also showed every single day government's supposed to work for you. And oftentimes I get frustrated with Democratic politicians that will say something like this. So, you know, the DSA is not a part of the Democratic Party. And I'm like, well, are you really a part of the Democratic Party when you're taking money from big tech and you're taking money from APAC, which is the same entities that are funding MAGA? Yeah. So are you are you a part of it? Because that kind of seems like bullshit to me. What's your take on, I feel like there's some preservationists in the Democratic Party, their ideas, we just need to go back.
18:54My take, Isaiah, is we can't go back to the way it was. We have to completely reform the Supreme Court, the Electoral College, undo, take down every piece of fucking gold that MFR has put up and have a bonfire all over the place. I feel like we have to go all gas, no brakes. A hundred percent, because if we don't, we're going to lose our country. I mean, point blank. I mean, this money in politics is absolutely absurd. The fact that we have outside groups that are out here spending like this is absurd. Because the thing is, is that if we allow for AIPAC, for other corporate PACs, the NRA, all these different groups that keep on pouring money in our elections without us doing anything about it, the same thing's going to happen.
19:35We can win in 2028. And if we don't have real substantive change, the people are going to go and elect another person that's just as crazy as Donald Trump, if not crazier. So I think absolutely we're going to have to go back to the idea of providing for people. When I look at and I talk to folks, they're not really interested in the labels associated with the party. They just want good policy. Are you going to stand up and fight for me? You know, I had an interesting conversation with a conservative on my live not so long ago. And he told me, you know what? I'm somebody who voted for Donald Trump three times, but I like Zoran Mamdani.
20:07And I said, why is that? He said, because he gets shit done. You go around New York, he's doing a lot to provide for people. He's doing universal child care. He's picking up trash on the streets. He's doing the work that a mayor is supposed to do. He's not concerned about DSA, progressive or whatnot. He cares about substance. And I think that for too long, quite literally over the last probably 20 years or so, we've gotten comfortable in the idea of running on platitudes. And that's not going to get anywhere. I think we need real substantive change. The Affordable Care Act was a good, necessary beginning, I think, to the healthcare conversation in America.
20:39And I think President Obama would say that. Now we need to make sure we can go and build on that with universal healthcare and make sure we get that done. Personally, I'm not even going to lie. I'm a little bit radical in this by saying that I think that we need to get rid of the filibuster, point blank, because if we get a big majority in 2028, I think we've got to ram through our agenda to get real substantive change. I agree with you. And I think you're right about the platitudes. And I think you're right that the reason that a triple Trumper is open to a Zoran Mamdani is a triple Trumper voted under the premise and the lie that Donald Trump pitched that I'm not beholden to anyone, I'm so rich.
21:19That's right. And so they thought, oh, he's going against the system. And that's why they bought into a lot of that. There are actually politicians right now. It's incredible what Zoran, what Angie Nixon, what Abdul El-Sayed have done to take on not only their own party establishment, but also all of the opposition money coming at them and win. And this is a huge, huge indictment on the status quo of both parties. And so I want the Democratic Party to embrace it. And I think it's easy to say, Okay, Ms. Nixon is a little bit further to the left than me, but you know what? She knows how to win. That's right.
21:56And right now, we have to defeat MAGA, and we have to start building a government that serves people. Honey, what are you listening to? Mom! Your teen might not share everything with you, but teens share everything with each other. And certain everyday behaviors, like sharing food, drinks, or kisses, could mean sharing bacteria that can cause meningococcal disease known as meningitis. Although meningitis is uncommon, about one in 10 who develop it will die. Ask your teen's doctor about missing meningitis vaccinations. Learn more at meningitis.com. Vaccination may not protect all recipients. Sponsored by GSK.
22:32That's right. That provides a social safety net for people that checks the blueberries to make sure they don't kill us. And you know what? I think the voting is transactional. You know, I was in D.C. and I was having lunch with a strategist. and she and she said something along the lines of well you know people um they they they're not concerned about what politicians actually say and i said i actually think they are because there's so many people in dc who think that elections are won by like the resumes of a candidate right like they'll say that oh this person might have graduated from west point they might have done this in their life or that, whatever.
23:14And they were like, oh, well, we don't think that the substance actually matters. And I think that's where the establishment has it all wrong. We've got to get back to the point where we're talking about what we can do for people in exchange for their vote. What are we going to do for you personally? I think it's a big thing that we should be asking. I agree. And I can say that as somebody who moved to New York within the last year, like you follow the mayor online and then you see the improvements. There's just a real connectedness that he has injected into this community that he's here working for the people the new yorkers not the billionaires but he's here working for the city to make it better for everyone you just feel this overwhelming sense of inclusivity that he's fighting for the person and the groups of people that everybody deems not worthy of fighting for and that just means something and you know and it's also bigger than like the big ticket things like obviously he's working on universal childcare.
24:07Obviously he's working on taxing the richest folks in New York, but it's also the little things he does well. Like I was here in the city when the Knicks were in the playoffs, right? And I remember him creating that really big watch party when MSG went and shut stuff down, right? Creating third spaces for people to go out and hang out with each other. He's actually providing a service for people to go and drop their kids off for childcare and go and get a date night. Like that's really cool stuff. You know what I mean? So it's providing not only yes, the big ticket things, but also what little things we can also do to make people's lives better.
24:38I think it's why he's so popular. In a sense of community. Yeah. You know, where right now it's like everything's so binary, everything feels so toxic. And he's bringing this like umbrella of inclusivity. Okay. Let's move along to the aforementioned Little Moses Mike Grinder Johnson. He is on the campaign trail. And I say, I like that the Republicans are trotting out Little Moses and J.D. Vance. I enjoy that they're putting them out there like, oh, I've got a great idea. Let's send the Speaker of the House whose testicles sit in the Oval Office desk of Donald Trump all the time because he has all this power.
25:14He does absolutely nothing for it. So they're sending him out on the campaign trail for the midterms. Let's play the clip. This is not a game. I mean, we've said even a few years ago, Republicans and Democrats in Congress are arguing over marginal tax rates and shades of regulation. We are now quite literally locked into a contest to determine whether we're going to keep our republic, to keep the country as it is, or to break this thing down to the foundation and go to an entirely different road and set of principles towards communism. That's the balance.
25:48He looks like a Keebler. He does. He's a little pipsqueen. Yeah, he is. The communist thing is hilarious. But what's interesting is that Mike says it's about keeping the country where it is. Well, who the hell thinks the country is working great the way it is? Oh, I think I have that number. It's 29 to 31%. Yeah, that's right. The worst approval rating in the history of this country. And they're talking about keeping the country the way it is. These people are fucking crazy. They are. They're nuts. I mean, but also like my question to Mike, do you want to keep the tariffs the way it is? Is jacking up inflation?
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26:22Is screwing over the farmers you have? across red states across america do you want to go keep the fact that your president is starting stupid wars because benjamin netanyahu bent him over and told him to does that make sense to you i don't think that makes sense i don't think that makes sense to any american in this country the fact that we are still allowing these people to go and play in our faces it's nuts it's nuts okay now this is also nuts the democrats introduce a resolution condemning the dsa pop this up wait what punch bowl news democratic u.s uh representatives your friend josh gottenheimer who you just mentioned earlier i know he's not saying that hillary shotten uh tom swazi and jared moskowitz introduce house resolution condemning socialism in the dsa my opinion of this isaiah is it is so patronizing to the voters because zoran won and he got millions of votes in New York City.
27:19Not everybody that voted for him as DSA, but those Democrats right there are telling all of these voters who are looking for change, who are looking for real leaders, bold leaders that are building community, delivering materially, not just platitudes that you just beautifully said about Zoran. It's such a dismissive, patronizing thing to do to your electorate. It is also just playing stupid electorally, right? I saw Susan Wild, who was a former member of Congress in a swing seat herself, said how stupid this was to go forward and try to put people to punch left at our own party when you've got the Republicans pushing the most insanely stupid lack of common sense agenda possible.
28:02It doesn't make any sense to me. Here's the deal. I think Josh Gottheimer and all of his friends should go and say, focus on trying to condemn Laura Loomer. Go do that. Go do that. Get Donald Trump to go and condemn Laura Loomer and Steve Bannon and Rush Limbaugh and all the people that they've gone and associated with all over the years. And then maybe we'll have a conversation. But the point is is that I don't even think that we should even remotely come close to condemning some folks inside of our democratic tent while the Republicans have this insanity as well. They have a tent full of literal white supremacists.
28:34I mean, where is the motion at resolution in Congress condemning Elon Musk? Where is that? This is a guy who did two SIG Hiles and then he's chronically online. He acts like he's a victim, first of all. And then it's just white supremacist Nazi shit all day long from this guy. The thing is, is like, look, I'm not DSA and I'm not that. But what I will say is that the DSA is working towards a shared set of objectives. Right. They're working for health care for everybody, universal health care. I agree with universal health care. I think that's common sense. They agree that we should get big money out of politics.
29:15I think that's common sense. I agree that, you know, we shouldn't have people having to pay the cost of rent per kid to put their kid in child care. I think that's common sense. So I'd hell of a lot rather work with someone like that than a stupid Republican that's getting on their knees for Donald Trump to go put new tariffs like drunk text at 2 a.m. I think that's common sense. I completely agree. So, no, my answer to Josh Gottheimer and all these people is to fuck off. I love that. I agree. They do need to fuck off. They absolutely do. And we're never going to defeat fascism with subtraction.
29:45And this whole resolution is subtraction. We need to win with an addition. I mean, serious question. Has Donald Trump ever condemned anybody in his party about anything? Well, I think the ones that he condemned, finally, they sent out to pasture Liz Cheney. We saw what happened to her political career. Senator Flake, we saw what happened to his political career. Mike Pence, he tried to have him killed, allegedly. We saw what happened to his. But the point about Donald Trump is, even, I always say, everybody has to learn the Mike Pence lesson. Here's Mike Pence. Oh, yeah. He's white. He's Christian.
30:20He calls his wife mother. He did everything he was supposed to do. He was such a good, obedient vice president to Donald Trump. He covered for him. He morally debased himself. And they still tried to kill him because he wouldn't cheat on the election. So even white men are not safe in the MAGA movement. If you have a politics that's exclusive of some people, eventually they will come for you. And that's the lesson that all of these people are learning. So let's talk about socialism, communism, which are two totally different things, by the way. Every country has socialism in it, but ours has a lot of it.
31:01Here is Donald Trump embracing more socialist policies. Pop this up, Kylie. Trump spent months declaring Maduro's ouster secured Venezuela's oil for America. when U.S. oil companies resisted investing, his administration devised an extraordinary solution to turn his vision into reality, make the U.S. government itself an investor through the Pentagon. And so the Wall Street Journal is reporting inside Trump's plan to give the Pentagon a stake in Venezuela's oil riches. A couple of things here.
31:39what are we doing when we're going to a country taking their leader right and then taking all of their natural resources it doesn't make much pretty arrogant yeah it's pretty absurd i mean at the end of the day right i'm not a maduro supporter and i don't think very many people are right but the idea that you can go in there and completely steal a nation of their country's riches is pretty absurd to me. And even if you go forward and you look into it, they're really not even doing that. This is really just a security guarantee for United States oil companies to go in there and drill. The point is they don't want to.
32:20American oil companies have not really shown any interest in doing that. So Trump is literally going and saying, hey, you know what, we're going to give you taxpayer funded security and they still don't want to do it. The point is that even In that, his attempt to create a United States effectively state-run oil company is not working because the partners that he's trying to bring in do not even want to partner with him to do it. Yeah, because he's stealing another country's resources and they're playing the long-term game. But I think that a lot of this, if we look to Putin and what he has done with Russia, we can look at where Trump's brain is going.
32:55Well, we need to get a kickback on that. At first, he's talking about the government. That's not going to last very long. And I think if we were to do an audit right now, I think a lot of these kickbacks are going to Trump Inc. or to Donald J. Trump personally, because he thinks and he perceives, as a lot of autocrats and dictators do, the White House is his personally. He thinks those planes are his personally. He thinks that the oil that's coming from Venezuela is his personally. He doesn't feel any sense of nation or obligation to us. He thinks all of this is his. I think that what we should also say is that to those oil companies that he's trying to entice, is that you got to tell 2028 and then we're going to come after you.
33:39Yep. Because if you think that we're going to continue to have United States taxpayer funded security for that type of stealing going on, you've got another thing coming for you. And I think that really democratic contenders in 2028 have to make that abundantly clear. That's how you can really stop this. I don't want my taxpayer dollars going towards funding that kind of theft. No. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever. No. Only thing that's going to come from that are problems. That's right. I mean, okay. And then we have Trump, I'm sorry, we have AOC is asked about Trump coming out in support of data centers.
34:13And she's so good. Play the clip. What do you make of Donald Trump saying that Americans who oppose data centers are backwards and poor? Oh, I mean, how about we put one in Mar-a-Lago? I love that. Let's put a data center up in Mar-a-Lago and we'll see how backwards and poor he is in response to that. Thank you, Congresswoman. I say, Isaiah, that Trump is in his deathbed confession era stage. So, you know, you like you have a grandparent at the nursing home and they're like, Isaiah, you were always my favorite. I hated your little brother. So I'm telling the truth. Right. So we see this bisexuality coming out in him.
34:49You know, he's like, God, he's hot. You're good. Like, and he's always talking about how hot all these men are. And he started to talk about his supporters. Right. yeah he's like an old man in his deathbed confession era and so now he's saying they're backwards and poor he's gotten more sharp in what he really genuinely thinks about them i love the poorly educated one story i'll never forget from january 6th people that were inside the oval because you know they all left and tattled on him and said yeah this guy's a fascist he's in that said that during the insurrection he's watching it on tv and he said i wish my supporters didn't look so trashy.
35:25And here he is calling them backwards and poor. And I have had these professors on historians on the podcast a lot. And historically, these autocrats have utter disdain for their supporters. And him calling backwards and poor, I think he's sharpening what's on his inside because he's, you know, in his mind, he's never leaving the White House. And in his mind, he's never going to be have another election again. I think those things live in his mind. But I think she handles that so well, AOC. I think she does. And I think you're really spot on because it's really true. Even when you walk around the Capitol, the Republican Congress, they hate their voters.
36:04I mean, they all do. They all talk shit about them behind their back. And what's interesting is, you know, I wish they would go put a data center in Mar-a-Lago. I wish they would, but not even just any data center. Make it completely one of the ones that's unregulated. Make it loud as shit. So when he's out there trying to do his little parties, he has a big, loud humming noise. make it to where it's polluting all the water. So when its guests try to go wash their hands, they get all of the brown water on and make it to where they absolutely have to go live with the energy bills going up. Let's see if he wants to go pay that.
36:31The point is, is that the fact that he's going on saying that completely unregulated, that people don't even have a right to be concerned when a company goes and does something that is completely ridiculous, it's crazy to me. Honey, what are you listening to? Mom! Your teen might not share everything with you, but teens share everything with each other. And certain everyday behaviors like sharing food, drinks, or kisses could mean sharing bacteria that can cause meningococcal disease known as meningitis. Although meningitis is uncommon, about one in ten who develop it will die. Ask your teen's doctor about missing meningitis vaccinations.
37:06Learn more at meningitis.com. Vaccination may not protect all recipients. Sponsored by GSK. I completely agree. All right. Then speaking of crazy, we have Ben Shapiro. He's been going through quite a few things and he has responded. I think it's not doing too well. No, it's not. So he's responding to this, this really Islamophobic tweet that Barry Weiss's CBS put out about Abdullah Syed. And he says, well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of his own actions. And as we know, Barry Weiss personally meddled into a tweet and a headline that went out. And this is what a lot of Americans on the right and some in the center left do.
37:57They want to say anybody that is a Muslim is a terrorist, jihadist, hates women, throws gays off buildings. And so much of their propaganda falls apart if a guy named Zoran Mondani comes out and he's like, oh, no, I support trans rights, gay rights, you name it. You've got a kitchen table. I'm here to fight for your issues. So their propaganda starts to unravel. Same with Abdul Al-Sayed, who's not DSA. He's like, look, I'm a capitalist. I'm just a progressive person that doesn't want to be a prostitute like J.D. Vance and be owned by Peter Thiel. I want to work for the people. And so this is really terrifying, the antidote to all of this Islamophobia that has kept us as a country leaning on this crutch of racism and not blaming our problems on the wealth of all of our system that's rigged for a lot of really not that likable white people.
38:56And when you see Abdul and other politicians, the ladies in the squad that are Muslim or Zoran Mamdani, it really dismantles a lot of that propaganda that they've been using in post 9-11. 100 percent, because they know that, frankly, the Republicans do stuff like this because they're too low IQ to talk about the economy. It's true. I mean, that's really what it is. I mean, I was watching Mike Rogers, the guy that's running against Abdul, and he was saying, Abdul, his home is in Egypt. And I was thinking to myself, what kind of fucking crazy stuff is that? You're running for sin. You're not talking about cost living, how you're going to help people with their housing.
39:41You're talking about whether or not some guy's home is in Egypt. It's absurd. But what I am really excited about is that people are seeing through it because folks like Zoran, folks like Abdul are not getting distracted in the games that they play. They're more focused on talking about the economy. And Abdul, I saw him on The Breakfast Club not so long ago, and he was doing a really good job, I think, of deflecting against all of that stuff. Say, look, it doesn't matter if I'm Muslim, who I pray to, whatever. I'm fighting for you to have health care. I just want you to have child care. I just want it to where you can elect somebody without$20 million of money flowing into their pocket.
40:16I think that that's common sense. And I think that if we just keep on with that, all these Republican attacks will look as stupid as they are. I completely agree. And I also think at the same time, people in our spaces, we need to do a lot of work dismantling the decades-long lies that the Republican Party has propagandized on the public. Trickle-down economics. Oh, yeah. We are so good with the economy. Oh, my God. we love love love big heart love the troops all of this is so easily disprovable the republicans drive up with the deficit they lie and start wars they exploit the service members by sending them overseas to wars based on lies on complete lies that line the pockets of the billionaires that are running the military industrial complex and then when they get back home a third of all homeless people in the united states are veterans that's right what have you ever heard a republican can ever say a nice thing about a homeless person?
41:11Absolutely not. Never. They defund veteran services every single chance they get. Yes. Yes. Every single chance they get, they defund veteran services, they defund homes for veterans, they defund the nonprofits that are there to go and serve these people when it's time to go and feed them. They're absolutely defunding them. So what's absurd to me is you've got people on the USS Lincoln eating effectively slop right now because of what's going on. You've got toilets that are running over. You've got all kinds of craziness. The conditions are terrible. And this is what we have our service members going through.
41:38What's absurd to me is that in this country, we have allowed for Republicans, whether it's the lies on the military, whether it's the economy, everything else, they just say things over and over and over again and hope people believe them. And I think we've just got to go and call that stuff up. And I think we need to say stuff like the Republicans hate the troops. They will tell you they don't, but look at their votes. They do. They hate the troops. They voted for a man who said he thought that people that served in World War II were suckers and losers. He asked his former Secretary of Defense if he could shoot protesters in the knee so he could walk across the park in front of the White House to hold up a Bible upside down.
42:16And so I just I really want to keep messaging the Republican Party. They're terrible with the economy. They are terrible. It is a lie that these people are fiscally conservative. They're terrible businessmen. But even for a man that bankrupted a casino. A hundred percent. Even if you look at it, right? When Biden was in office, he approved half the amount of debt than Donald Trump did the first time he was in office. Now Trump said, hey, you know what? Let me go spend some more money. He goes and approves more with this big ripoff bill. I mean, every single where you look, you see the deficit going up because he's got us in this stupid war, a hundred billion dollars that they're spending on war.
42:48You talk about Doge was created. That was a total and complete scam. They're spending 500 million. Did you see Kristi Noem had a$500 million radio campaign that they were using to propagandize people in the United States. It didn't help them very much because it got kicked in elections all across this country over the last two years. So it's just, this is what they spend our money on. They waste our money. They spend it on stupid stuff. They subsidize lifestyles of the richest people on earth. And they think we're too stupid to see it. And I think, like you said, we just got to call it out. They hate our pocketbooks.
43:17That is the Republican platform. They hate our pocketbooks. They want to suck our pocketbooks dry because these billionaires, there is not a bank account big enough that will fix them. That's right. Elon Musk is beyond help. Look at what they do. They're dismissive of philanthropy. They're dismissive of, you know, you have, what's his name, that shark tank guy talking about these people need to quit eating, you know, 15,$20 burritos. Oh, Kevin Allure. Yeah, that guy. It just don't lecture people when you haven't flown commercial in a long time about burritos. Go fuck yourself. Seriously, go fuck yourself.
44:01Okay. Finally, one of the worst things is Fox News. The fact that it has survived after being paid, after having to pay out$1 billion for lying. That's crazy. If you had a business and you were a liar, and then you had to pay out a billion dollars, And logic would tell you, okay, your business is going to shut down. Not Fox News, because there is an appetite in the American electorate, not on our side, but on the other side, where they enjoy being lied and propagandized to. And Fox News has played such an integral role in all of the divisiveness and propping up the oligarchy. But I've noticed lately they're going through some things with all of these DSA and progressive candidates.
44:45They are horny, Isaiah. They cannot stop talking about how hot Democrats are. And so here is Laura Ingram, horny again. This is about the seventh video I played of Laura Ingram horning. They've got to get this woman laid. Here's she talking about Abdul with Lara Trump. Play the clip. But, Laura, I love how El Syed is prancing around in his tight black T-shirt, kind of the Anderson Cooper black T-shirt. I don't know why I have to wear a black T-shirt and you're cool. So, you know, you're fit, Laura. You like to work out, go to the gym. But he seems like he's always in the gym, like he's manspreading when he sits there.
45:27I don't know, but he's trying to be like too cool for school. And he's kind of a small guy, like short guy. It's fine. There's no big deal. He's a good looking guy. But it always feels like an act But with Trump That's who he always has been I mean, I've known him for 30 years Stop, stop It's a criminal false equivalency That is such a criminal False equivalency I did not see that coming Abdul, he's good looking He works out, he works out too much But Donald Trump But with Donald Trump, are you kidding me? Donald Trump has a neck vagina, Laura no wonder she's so goddamn horny she's been looking at trump looking for sexual uh uh to be charged and then she sees abdul and zoran and i mean she's she's pretty hot for aoc too yeah talking about her laura has got to get late laura trump is not fuckable he is unfuckable Someone needs to do Laura's out.
46:28Oh my.
46:32I mean, that is crazy. Did you know that was coming, Ryan? I didn't watch that before. That is crazy. That is a criminal false equivalency. And she was locked in on it too. But with Trump. He's just, what did she say at the end of that, Kylie? Did she say he's just good looking naturally? Does she say that? Yeah, I need it. be like too cool for school and he's a he's kind of a small guy like short guys fine there's no no big deal he's a good looking guy um but it's it always feels like an act but with trump that's just who that's who he always has been i mean that's who he is that's who he is he is not hot he's not a good looking guy objectively unattractive yeah that that was crazy that was Like they're so obsessed with Abdul and he's getting so much air time.
47:30If that's all they're saying about him, this helps him. You know what we say? We call that crazy work. You ever heard of that? No, tell me. That's crazy work. Like when somebody says something nuts, you got to say that's crazy work. That's crazy work. I'll steal that. I'll start using that. You're making me cool. Isaiah, tell my listeners and viewers how they can find you and what you do with your live stream. Yeah, so you can find me on all platforms at Isaiah R. Martin. I do a nightly TikTok debate live where I go and I cook Trumpers. These folks are fucking crazy. 1145 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
48:06People always say, Isaiah, why do you do your live stream so late? Well, that's when the fucking crazy people are at. So you can definitely go forward to see that live. I also go and I post the full streams on YouTube as well pretty much instantaneously afterwards. So if you wake up at six o 'clock in the morning or five o 'clock in the morning and you want to hear some crazy stuff, my lives are on there weeknights, Monday through Friday, 11.45 p.m. You will not regret following me. It's one of my absolute favorite follows. And so thank you. I hope you come back. Absolutely. For sure. Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile.
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