Jay Weber Show transcript 2-11-25
I believe it was Molly Hemingway -on X- yesterday, who was commenting about how -after the fall election- all of the disgusted and disheartened leftists decided they were going to leave the other social media sites- which were too much of a toxic cesspool for them-
So- they’d leave ‘X’ and ‘Facebook’, etc... And move over to their new ‘act blue’ website. I forget what it’s called...
But Hemmingway was suggesting that that move by many of the left’s most important donors and activists and ‘electees’...that had them retreating even more deeply into their own little bubble...might be part of what’s keeping them from getting the party back on track and appealing to more Americans, again.
I think she’s got a point. After all- just two weekends ago, we saw the DNC members and activists get together to elect new leadership, and it could not have looked more like an SNL skit.
And the net result was electing two white guys to lead the party of ‘identity politics’ again, with one of them being the very young, very ignorant, very off-putting David Hogg....and the other one being the head of the Minnesota ‘farm labor’ party’ which is just code for ‘socialist’....
And it became clear that the democrats have learned-zero lessons- from the drubbing they took last fall.
And I believe they haven’t- primarily because the people atop this party now- don’t want – to learn the lessons of last fall’s race.
Folks, the socialist progressives and radical activist and grievance groups whose members finally have full control of the democrat tent-are in no mood or mindset to – ‘moderate’ or course-correct.
That’s become evident over the last month or so. They’d rather continue to make themselves look foolish and extreme-and try to blame trump for the destruction that Joe Biden and their party did over the last four years-
And try to triple down on all their wokeism and radicalism. You’d like to think that-someone-
Someone-atop that party would be wiser and smarter...but nope.
I would have thought that this might be the time for Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and Dick Durbin and members of the ancient guard of the party might step up and say- okay- let’s admit our foray into socialism and wokeism aren’t working-
But no. They’ve largely stayed silent, because it’s more important for them to cling to their positions of power than to do what’s right for the country...
And so, instead, we are getting the continued claims of Trump being Hitler. We told you democracy would die if trump won...so now...democracy is dying.
And-aside from the deeply, deeply indoctrinated, no one’s buying it. The average American isn’t buying it-because they know that Trump isn’t the radical. Trump is the one restoring democracy- as those who were slowly destroying it- moan and whine.
Trump is doing what the American people voted for-and the evidence of that is in the polling we’ve seen for the last two weeks-
And- in stories like this from the Wall St Journal yesterday: their reporters fanned out and found that even minority voters are loving the things Trump is doing- including dismantling DEI.
The Wall St Journal focused on Trump’s elimination of racial preferences and DEI because -they assumed- they’d hear a lot of push back from minority voters.
I guarantee you the reporters who were given the assignment were sent out to find voters who now regretted voting for Trump.
I guarantee it. I’m a former news director and I know how newsrooms work.
Instead, it sounds like those reporters ran across people who liked what trump was doing so far, much to the surprise of the editors who initially assigned the story.
And so, to their credit, the Wall St Journal at least ‘ran the story’ that they found, instead of trying to rig it or kill it off.
And what I mean by that is-an editor said: why don’t we check to see if minority voters regret voting for trump now that he’s killed off racial quotas in his first two weeks. They’ve got to hate that.
That’s the supposition being made-which is perfectly fine- in the search for stories: we assume we’re going to find some PO’d Trump voters.
But if you’re an honest newsroom- if you find the opposite is true...huh. Okay. That’s unexpected...and in a way it’s even more newsworthy....so...run that story.
You don’t try to rig the results or refuse to run the story because it wasn’t the story you expected-or wanted- to be true.
Here’s another example: the most popular move that Donald Trump has ever made- either during his first term or this term- turns out to be him signing the exec order last week that protected girls and women’s sports.
80 percent of the country agreed with that and was happy to see trump do it: protected our daughter’s and women’s sports. Great.
The ceremony couldn’t have been cuter: will dozens of girls of all sizes- from about six up to 26- huddling around ‘grampa Trump’ as he signed the order.
Hugely popular.
What was the Democrat’s reaction to that?
Open rage. Washington state’s governor called the order ‘cruel’ and ‘dehumanizing’. NPR and numerous media outlets insisted on framing this as trump ‘taking away transgender rights’.
The left wanted to insist this was another move in which Donald Trump was attacking a specific ‘community’ of theirs.
It’s just the latest example of how the democrats are on the absolute-wrong side- of today’s culture wars. Their radical activists and socialist progressives in congress have pushed them into untenable and indefensible positions on all sorts of things related to the culture wars.
The democrats who came before them spent the Obama era forcing racial and gender quotas and preferences into every corner of government and into every government contract and grant ...only to have the democrats of the Biden era come in and overdue it: try to ratchet up the leftist game with forced DEI, critical race theory, and wokeism-
And it has now all come crashing down. Trump has stripped it all right out of government.
Trump is simply undoing some of the radical things that the democrats have done-over decades- to the American people. And we, the people, get it, and appreciate it.
Stephen miller is one of Trump’s top advisors and was on Maria Bartiromo’s show this weekend talking about how trump’s mission here is to get all the leftist ‘infection’ out of our federal government and return control of it to the American people.
Miller is correct, of course, and the democrats and the far left are sounding more and more ridiculous as DOGE goes ‘department by department’ stripping out DEI and looking for fraud and waste.
Yesterday, they were panicking over a doge review of social security....and democrat lawmakers and influencers leapt to scare seniors as they always do now Trump’s going to take away social security-etc.-
Bologna.
No one’s taking your social security away, and anyone who believes that is a dope. Anyway, quite frankly. How many times can the democrats and their accomplices in the media scare you with the same foolish claims....and have you still believed it?
Whether it’s ‘Trump’s going to end gay marriage’...or ‘trump’s going to ban abortion’.... or ‘Trump’s going to take away your social security’...
How many times do the democrats have to scare you with that idiocy before you stop falling for it?
It’s all scary tactics-and you’re a dope if you are buying any of it.
And clearly, based on the most recent polls, most Americans aren’t. The relentless alarmism and gaslighting has even stopped working for these democrats.
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audio version of the segment here > America voted for Donald Trump to restore Democracy