Trumpism, Wokesters, and the Enemy of My Enemy

0:00So Trump just confused Greenland for Iceland several times at the World Economic Forum in Davos today. I don't know that they'd be there for us. They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. I mean, our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland's already cost us a lot of money. When I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy, right, last time. Very smart man said he's our daddy. It's an irreverent news talk and opinion brand of satire. Newsweek Radio, I'm Jesse Edwards. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. It's a saying that's often misattributed to Sun Tzu in The Art of War.

0:42Nobody knows who exactly said it first, but the statement represents both the answer to a lot of the problems that we're facing right now, while at the same time, kind of being to blame for many of the problems we face also. On one hand, the problem with The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend is that it doesn't build alliances. It eliminates standards. It teaches you to forgive things that you normally wouldn't tolerate. to excuse behavior you normally would condemn, to slowly lower your moral bar just enough to win the next battle. On the other hand, we are in desperate need of a strong and honest form of liberalism to combat Trumpism.

1:21But instead, we have an emasculated, aloof, and woke form of liberalism that couldn't fight its way out of a wet paper bag if human existence depended on it. And if you don't like the term woke, just use politically correct as a substitute, because it's the same thing and there is nothing new under the sun. Shut up about the sun! I'll admit that California Governor Gavin Newsom is somewhat of an exception. I wouldn't call him as emasculated as a Chuck Schumer or an Adam Schiff, but at least he doesn't seem to project any sort of toxic masculinity either. And if you don't like the term toxic masculinity, just use the term asshole because it's the same thing and there is nothing new under the sun.

1:59Shut up about the sun! Donald Trump immediately comes to mind though, Which is why it feels like I'm going to be pressured yet again into choosing the lesser of two evils to lead the supposedly free world by choosing whomever his opposition ends up being. And it sure seems like Gavin Newsom is going to be the guy barring any major scandals in California between now and then. I'm actually okay with it. You know, Gavin Newsom is acting like he's anti-woke right now. He sits down with the far right. I mean, he even sat down with Michael Savage on his podcast, which I thought was quite charming, to be honest.

2:29But I know deep down that Gavin Newsom is a bonafide wokester. the kind who believe in anointing spaces with land acknowledgements, and endless DEI seminars where they teach you that white people are secretly racist and they don't even know it. So prioritizing trans kids in sports without regard to the impact on the entire culture, not just the extreme left in America. Despite all of that toxic wokeism that I know is the foundational structure of everything that Gavin Newsom represents, I would still rather have that guy in the White House than anything that has come within a thousand yards of this Trump administration.

3:01That is not an easy thing to say out loud as a self-identifying libertarian conservative. But the enemy of my enemy is my friend, tactically speaking in this case whether I like to admit it or not. This is also a case of better the devil you know than the devil you don't. Because none of us really know who Donald Trump is or what he's about to do next. He's unreadable because he's impulsive. He's unpredictable because there's no consistency in his logic. He's all over the place because he's not incredibly bright. and nobody around him has the courage or ability to step in and say, no, Mr. President, you're full of shit and you cannot invade Greenland.

3:37I mean, our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. You can't just kidnap world leaders under the false pretense of drug enforcement just to turn around and take their oil. I mean, you can do it. You did do it. You're not supposed to. You can't just send an occupying military force into Minneapolis just because they don't approve of your thug life approach to immigration enforcement. You can't just sit on the Epstein files claiming the entire thing is a hoax while admitting at the same time that you had underage girls working for you at Mar-a-Lago that Jeffrey Epstein was stealing from you.

4:09And you gotta think, you know, we could just wake up one of these mornings without the internet for a month or two. Because that's all it would really take for somebody like Trump to turn the entire country into a prison camp overnight. Military checkpoints at every freeway. Standing in long lines for government cheese and bread just to feed your family. It's terrifying to think about the logistics behind just how easy it would be for somebody like Trump or a foreign adversary to send us back to the Stone Age at the flip of a switch. Just one reason out of a thousand that a few of us are getting a little nervous about baby Huey with his hand anywhere near the levers of fate that have direct impact on our livelihoods.

4:44Trump is a dangerous person on every conceivable level. The most dangerous that any of us have faced on a collective level since springtime for you know who. Yeah, keep your eyes out for a hero to reveal themselves on the ride any day now. I still have a sneaking suspicion that J.D. Vance or somebody else within Trump's close circle is about to break sooner than later. While my gut says that ideally it would happen before the midterm elections later this year, in order to signal to conservatives that there is a way out of this awkward and embarrassing situation with Trump, I'm guessing they might be considering on just how best to move that up a little bit.

5:19You know, with all this talk about invading Greenland and his capture of Maduro and the Epstein problem and the ICE problem and the growing loss of fellow Republican support problem, the House of Cards is already starting to collapse just a year into his second term. And make no mistake about this. While people like J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio are all wearing smiles and licking Trump's boots on command right now, the second they get the nod, they're going to turn on Trump like a bunch of wolverines. They'll do it with manners, of course. Maintain that smile, say it's good for Republicans and for the Republic.

5:50It's even better for Trump, after all, you know? Because now he can spend more time with his family and focus on his health. Yes, obviously, I'm fantasizing a little bit here. Because Trump would never go for that, and anybody who tries it would be immediately ejected from his inner circle, right? Well, the interesting thing to me is that the president can't fire the vice president. And I promise you, J.D. Vance knows this better than anybody else on the planet right now. So if the one in a billion chance that this message somehow makes it to J.D. Vance, do us a favor, J.D., and make your move.

6:24Because the enemy of my enemy is my friend, unfortunately. And better the devil we do know than the devil we don't. And I would gladly take you on as the lesser of two evils, just so I can go on to make fun of your couch-humping, bootlicking and slimy politician nature for a living that's it for today and until we can do it again it's newsweek radio i'm jesse edwards catch you next time bye and we say bye bye radio is a member of the trust project they called me daddy right last time very smart man said he's our daddy