#158 - The Speech: TDS Democrats Cross the Breaking Bad Rubicon

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It is Toddzilla X-Pod. Hi there. Hope you're good. It's episode number 158. Early morning hours of March the 5th of 2025. Happy Wednesday, or whatever day it is that you're listening to this down the road. Hopefully it's a Wednesday. That way it doesn't feel weird, right?

Early morning hours like I said we're just a few hours past dear leaders, dressed to the joint session of Congress don't call it a State of the Union it looked like one, it wasn't another one of those I guess coming up does he do one do we do one in the first year I think so right or is it It's the second year after inauguration. I forget. Apparently Mr. Trump wanted his State of the Union one way or the other. Wow.

I didn't know what to expect from that last night. Especially after the stuff with Zelensky last weekend. Everybody's got their hair on fire saying, World War III is coming. You don't treat an ally that way. Talking about Trump, not Zelensky. So everybody pretty much figured he was going to address that, and he did. Surprised everybody, saying he'd gotten a letter from Volodymyr. Saying he's ready to make peace and come back to the table. Sign that rare mirth minerals deal.

And start the march toward peace. That's what he said. It was a weird address last night. That ended relatively abruptly, didn't it? Just weird. as far as that goes. But the big story, you would think that that would be it right now. The big story, the big takeaway from the speech last night was the behavior of the opposition and the resistance. I forget his name. I have it written down. I'm not going to go find it. The old guy. Now, two minutes into the address, This is Congress, by the way.

Starts yelling and screaming, carry it on. To the point where Mike Johnson had to gavel it down and had the sergeant-at-arms remove him. Waving his cane, this old guy, black dude with long hair. You don't see that very often. A black dude with long hair waving a cane. When's the last time you saw that? Wasn't on a cartoon. Maybe the boondocks. Maybe, It reminds me a little bit of the way that Marjorie Taylor Greene was acting

Was it last year? Remember that? Remember how everybody Was all up and up? Respect the office Respect the president Respect the room And now here, Heh. And that wasn't even the worst part of it. There were so many opportunities. Let me rewind here. I guess it was about three-quarters of the way through. It dawned on me that Trump had completely played them. He set the whole thing up by saying, No matter what I do, I could find a cure

for a disease that's going to wipe out an entire country. I could find a cure for that, and these people are never going to cheer for me. They're never going to root for me. They're never going to be happy with anything I do. That was the setup. Because as the night went on, of course, that's exactly what happened. The Democrats refused to acknowledge anyone that the president or anyone else had brought into Congress as guests. You know how they do that? Both sides do it.

But he had a little kid in there, 12, 13 years old, so not really little. But the kid for most of his life had battled brain cancer. His name's DJ Daniel. Is that right? I hope I got that right. 12, 13 years old, he's got a little policeman's outfit. He's always wanted to go into law enforcement, always has wanted to be a cop. He's battled brain cancer. So Trump brings him in as his guest and says, hey, got a surprise for you.

And sends the new secret service leader, director, up there, and surprises the kid by making him an honorary secret service agent. And he's thrilled to death. He even got a little badge. That's got to be cool, right? Kid that's fought cancer, brain cancer, most of his life. I don't know what his situation is now. I don't know if he's in remission. I don't know if he's still sick, but the kid has gone through hell. wants to be a cop.

Well, Trump brings him in, nod to law enforcement, has his Secret Service guy, give him his badge after Trump makes him an honorary Secret Service member. The kid is thrilled. You can tell. This isn't scripted. This isn't choreographed. If you watched the kid's reaction last night, you know that that was an authentic reaction. He reached out and gave the Secret Service director a hug. Basically, he didn't jump. He was being held, but he latched onto the guy's

neck and was right there in midair. He was thrilled. Trump made that kid's life. And the Democrats, by contrast, sitting on their hands, they could not find it within themselves to stand up and cheer for a kid with brain cancer who's having almost like a make-a-wish moment. They transferred their spite, their hatred for Donald Trump, they turned it into spite for a kid who either has or has had cancer. That's how far the Democrats have fallen. Have you seen Breaking Bad?

The protagonist, the main character, Walter White, everybody knows about him. He's a high school teacher cooking meth originally because he wants to provide for his family. He needs to make enough money to pay the medical bills so they don't go into bankruptcy and to leave something behind for Skylar and Walter Jr. And Holly. That's how it starts. Righteous Intentions. But as the show goes on, something else takes over. Walter? Really?

Starts Breaking Bad. And I think it's in season five, maybe the end of season four, Jesse Pinkman, the other main character in the show, has a girlfriend. Girlfriend has a son. Jesse loves this boy. Through the course of the plot, you find out that Walter had poisoned the little boy to manipulate Jesse. At some point, Walter White crossed the Rubicon from being somebody who's trying to do the right thing by, you know, maybe questionable methods to being an actual bad guy.

When you're sitting on the floor of Congress and you cannot find it within yourself to stand up, give a nice polite round of applause for a little boy, a child, cancer survivor, cancer patient, whatever, having his life made in your house of business, your house of work, the place that you work, the place that represents you.

If you can't do that because you have so much hatred for the man who brought him in, if you're willing to take that out on a child because the child is associated with the target and the subject of your ire, you have crossed the Breaking Bad Rubicon. There's a Nietzsche quote back there. How does it go? It's, be careful fighting monsters lest you become a monster.

What are you becoming, Democrats When you can't even cheer a child A cancer victim child, Because you have so much spite So much hatred For the man who beat your ass In the election last year, And then of course, Rachel Maddow She called it a disgusting politicalization, Whatever the fuck the word is Right It was on her spin cycle show last night Talking about how Just disgusting Oh my god I can't believe they brought that

child in there And politicized that I forget the other woman on that network, I think it was on the Madhouse show, The same thing It's disgusting If he ever becomes a police officer or I hope he never has to endure a January 6th and I hope he never commits suicide if he does. Huh? That's what you took out of that? That's what you had to take out of that? That's the spin that you felt was necessary and appropriate after that moment last night? Where are you? Who are you now?

Who have you become? But Trump, but Trump, but Trump, I can hear it right now. Stop it. Be careful fighting monsters, lest ye become a monster yourself. So you can take all the self-righteousness. Again, I know I'm not talking to any liberals here. I get it. Trying to work out this. I really am. I have to work on who I'm imaging, the image I have in my head of who I'm talking to in this little microphone.

Oh, my God. Who are these people? They can take their self-righteousness And they can shove it right up their ass The moralizing Oh, we love people We're the party that has How much empathy did you have for that child last night? You're sitting at home How much empathy do you think Was coursing through woke veins As they struggled to watch that? How many people could watch it, for one thing? Out of fear of having some sort of an aneurysm How many could actually sit through it?

How many Democrats could actually sit through that without having a vein in their neck burst? But the ones that did, the three dozen or so, how much empathy, how much collective empathy do you think could have been collected, for not only DJ, Lake and Riley's mother and sister, the other people they couldn't even get up to cheer the release of a Russian hostage, just sat there well whatever you did it so it sucks.

The guy that lost his life in Butler, Pennsylvania jumping on his wife and his daughters they were on hand last night now Demercats couldn't be you know, bothered to stand up. Oh, but they had their little signs. They had their little pink outfits on. Just rich as hell, considering they were wearing them a day after every single Democrat voted against a law. Keeping men, keeping boys out of girls' sports. Sure, you support women when

it's easy and all you have to do is put on a pink dress. Empty Symbolism. Everything I saw last night, of course, the Democrats were apoplectic. They were putting their best spin on it. Alyssa Slotkin, she's from Michigan. I used to like her. Then I saw a video of her reading a transgender children's book at some elementary school. Done with you. Put your act on. Oh, I'm a centrist now. I'm done with you. She gave the rebuttal, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

But everything else I saw, they did the snap polling afterwards. Overwhelmingly positive, very happy with what Trump said, somewhat happy, 60 to 70 percent. The usual suspects, 20 to 30 percent. There's that number again, 30 percent. Didn't like it. Always the 30 percent, right? The irredeemables. It was one of the most effective political performances that I, again, that I've ever seen. The optics of the people in the crowd.

Trump played it off beautifully, executed it beautifully, and set the landmines from the outset for the optics of Democrats sitting on their hands like petulant children. Spitefully petulant children. Refusing out of spite, out of hatred. This is the party of love, remember? All I saw last night was a feast of hatred. This was a disastrous night for the Democratic Party. Their approval numbers were in the toilet anyway. The lowest, I think, that they've ever been. 36 percent.

The Democrats have a 36 percent approval rating. Where do you think Trump's is going to be after last night? Where do you think the Democrats are going to be after what's his fuck decides to get up and scream, wavering his cane? This is the party of young people. Do you remember that thing I played for you today? We got to get our young people back with this bat shit. This old bat. Waving his cane. That's the face of the Democratic Party.

That Rashida Tlaib. Yeah, I hate her. You know I hate her, right? I do. I do. I do. I do. And hate. Well, I will after her. Omar looked like she was about ready to cry. Bernie looked disheveled. Looked like he just crawled out of a closet. Nancy looked drunk. She was actually there, Pelosi. It looked like she'd had a few drinks. And the optics of the evening, they had some quick cutaways to Democrats.

I'm thinking of one in particular. I don't remember exactly who they was, but there were about two or three that I remember seeing that looked absolutely horrified by what was happening. The looks on their faces were not confident, happy looks. This wasn't the look of a party or a member of a party who had hope.

The longer that night went on The quick cutaway shots These people looked horrified, These are political veterans They understand the game They understand what's going on They had to understand What they were seeing happening In front of their own eyes And it wasn't good for them, Disastrous. And then on top of that, after, oh, my God, he's appeasing Putin. He's going to give Putin everything he wants. He announces that Zelensky wants to come back and finish this deal.

Wouldn't that be rich? And wouldn't it be rich if by this time next week they had that deal in place and maybe some set of negotiation set up? Then what are they going to do? How are they going to reconcile all the shit that they've said over the last week? What if he ends that war? How are you going to turn this around? You can't get on the side of a child with cancer, brain cancer. You have to twist that around some way to rationalize in your own mind. How do you do this?

Rationalize spitefulness toward a cancer victim, a childhood cancer victim. Because you hate Trump. How do you rationalize that? Well, the same way you're going to rationalize how peace... Democrats have always been. The end war piece. Well, Trump ends the war all of a sudden because they hate Trump. Now ending war is bad? Watching the verbal rhetorical masturbatory gymnastics on this one is going to be a sight to behold.

Just a vile display out of a week, out of six weeks of vile displays. Reprehensible. That's what I saw. Seems like everybody else saw it, too. It's pretty hard to miss it. The Rubicon, the Walter White Rubicon crossed. And somehow, these people still think they can bask. Bask. Immoralizing self-righteousness. It's the moral certitude that I talked about from Elul, the propaganda stuff. This is how you create a fanatic. This is how you create a proselyte and a militant.

It starts with moral certitude. As you see from all of these people, we've been seeing from these people for years, they are convinced that they themselves are on the path to righteousness, so therefore they cannot possibly, be lacking in simple, basic empathy because we're the good guys. We're the empathetic people. This is how we identify. That means we can't possibly, be the ones lacking in simple basic human empathy, reason, rational thinking.

How do you rationally allow yourself to hate, spitefully hate, or at least target a 12-year-old childhood cancer survivor? Because, Trump. That is the definition, in my mind, of Trump derangement syndrome. I have a lot more here, but I'm going to cut this one short. I think this one deserves its own space. Good time to breathe. That'll give me a little time to get the next one together and give it its own space too. Plus, I like these short guys. Nothing wrong with this.

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