Well folks, the moment that nobody has been
waiting for is here. The Republican national
convention officially kicks off tonight. And
as had previously been reported, every single
night is going to feature a speech by Donald
Trump, because that's just what Donald Trump
does. He has made this convention all about
himself, but the Republican party went along
with it. You know, they agreed to let him
speak every single night. They agreed that
every single night was going to showcase Donald
Trump. They agreed to let about half of the
speakers, uh, be members of the Trump family
tree. And then they took it a step further.
This was revealed this weekend, uh, through
an internal memo from the Republican party.
They have decided that for 2020, for this
election, they're not going to have a party
platform.
Now, if you remember a couple of weeks ago,
uh, lots of discussion about the democratic
party platform, you know, would they include
Medicare for all? Would they not? They didn't,
uh, would they include, uh, making marijuana
illegal? They didn't, but anyway, there was
no votes. There was discussions. They were
trying to figure out where as a party, they
wanted to go. It wasn't about Biden. It was
about who are we? And what do we stand for?
And according to the memo from the Republican
party to hell, with all that, we're not coming
up with a platform. And instead we are going
to go with whatever Donald Trump says, we
are going to let him,
Um, set the platform.
Now the Democrats, like I mentioned, they
have committees. They vote on these kinds
of things. They have delegates. You have hardcore
neoliberal, third way, centrists who get to
vote alongside democratic socialists. Unfortunately
not enough of the ladder. Uh, the former tends
to rule the day they're in the democratic
party, but the Republicans aren't even willing
to do that. They're just like, Nope, we're
not going to do it. We're not going to have
these discussions. We're not going to come
up with ideas or plans. We're just going to
let the crazy man say what he wants to do.
And then we're going to blindly support it.
Hm
That's where they're at. They have officially
given up as a party. They have said, now we
are the cult of Trump. That's it. That's what
we're doing. We're the cult of Trump. If he
says jump, we will say, yes, jumping is great.
How high do you want us to go? Folks, this,
this is dangerous. This is very dangerous.
We need functioning political parties here
in the United States. We need multiple functioning
political parties. And right now we've got
about 75% of one party that kind of works
some of the time. And that's the Democrats,
the Republicans with this memo, with this
non platform of just being a cult, they've
given up, they've said, we're not functioning
anymore. We are this one, man. This one crazy
guy who's gotten 170,000 Americans killed
in the pandemic. The guy who launched a trade
war and keeps giving up when he has an opportunity
to maybe make some progress with it.
And I think everybody keeps forgetting. We're
still in a frigging trade war. The guy that
just opened up parts of the Arctic for drilling,
even though we don't need it, even though
it's going to pollute and kill, they just
said, it's your show, man, it's you, you do
whatever. So what happens if he loses Republicans,
then what do you do? You don't even know where
you stand now. And I think that's been your
problem for a very long time. I have been
saying for years that the Republican party
hasn't had a good idea. Well, they haven't
had a good idea since the turn of last century,
not 19 hundreds, going into the 2018 hundreds
going into the 19 hundreds. Um, they haven't
had a new idea since 1980, when Ronald Reagan
came on long and, and brought Reaganomics,
you know, trickle down theory of economics,
which is a complete disaster.
Uh, David Stockman, the man who invented this
idea has admitted. It can't work in practice.
It can't work in practice. Not that it doesn't
not that it won't, but that it can't work
in practice. But that was the last new idea
that Republicans had cut taxes for the wealthy
and tell everybody that it's going to benefit
them down there at the bottom, because in
theory, wouldn't it all trickled down. Well,
it doesn't, but that was their last new idea.
Folks. We have seen them for years, since
then, every time they're presented with a
problem, what is their response? Cut taxes?
What was Trump's response to the pandemic?
Cut taxes, Hey, get rid of the payroll tax.
Uh, it's a virus, uh, stop it with some tax
cuts. That was literally their response, environmental
issues. What do we do? Well, we cut taxes
on fossil fossil fuel producers, of course,
Oh no, people can't afford their healthcare.
What do we do? Well, let's cut taxes for CEOs
of healthcare and pharmaceutical companies
and insurance companies, right? That's the
only idea they have. That's the only idea
they've had for a very long time. So now that
they're in charge and they've realized that
the public doesn't buy into their tax cut
mythology anymore, they're stuck. So it makes
perfect sense to be honest, why they would
just straight up hand the party over to Donald
Trump because they collectively haven't had
an idea in 40 years, they've got nothing.
They have absolutely nothing to say, nothing
to add to any conversation, no ideas on how
to effectively govern. And this is their way
of just abdicating responsibility by putting
it all into the cult-like figure and saying,
you know what, Donald, you got it, you got
it from here. You wanted to, to drive this
crazy train. It's all yours. We're stepping
aside. You set the agenda. You tell us where
we're going. We have no idea how to lead.
We don't think you do either, but to hell
with it, if it takes the responsibility off
our shoulders, we will do that.
We can't have, we cannot, absolutely cannot
have a prosperous, properly functioning country.
If we do not have multiple political parties
that actually work. And as I mentioned, we
have a Republican party that has no idea what
they're doing. So they've turned the party
keys over to the madman and we have the Democrats
that are still searching for an identity and
ignoring what the public actually wants. I
mean, their party platform was to literally
ignore all of these popular issues, legalizing
medical marijuana, uh, debt-free uh, college
universal healthcare, things that are overwhelmingly
supported by their own party. And they said,
no, we're not going to do that. We just, we
don't know are going to do. Neither of these
parties is functioning. Then you've got the
other parties. You've got the green party
that continues to put up the craziest of the
crazy candidates. The green party is not crazy.
Their candidates are horrendous though. That's,
what's so terrible about them, the libertarians,
they don't know what they mean. And we've
seen libertarian ism in action, and it's a
disaster. Like that's the dumbest form of
government ever. So what do we do? I, I'm
not saying that because I'm about to give
you an answer. I'm actually asking, that's
not rhetorical. What the hell do we do now?
Somebody smarter than me, please. For the
love of God, come up with an answer to that
question. The future of our country might
very well depend on the answer to that question.
So if you could get back with us quickly on
it, that would be much appreciated.
