It is Wednesday, December third. This is the morning, and there is great news this morning. Maga is falling apart. The evidence of that is perfectly clear from the results of the special election in the seventh District of Tennessee. The Democratic candidate was Tennessee's state representative, Aten Being Now, she fell short in this race by what looks to be four or five points. May get a little bit closer, but this is a district that Donald Trump won by
twenty two points a little over one year ago. The corrupt corporate media that seeks to demonstrate an equilibrium between insanity and patriotism by covering any of this as normal, has beguiled the American people into believing that a great many more of us support this the insanity, than we actually do. Donald Trump's approval numbers are collapsing at a record pace to record low levels. His approval numbers are
at thirty five percent. Now, I predicted the trajectory of this over the course of the year, and he's going to get into the twenties before very much longer. Let's look at some of the scenes from the cabinet meeting yesterday.
I took my physical I got all a's everything. But they said to me, would you like to take a cognitive test? I said, is it hard?
They said yes.
I said, well, I'm a very smart person who is the last president to take No president has ever agreed to take it, because when you get into the mid questions, meaning you know, ten question of a ten, eleven, twelve, twenty, eight, thirty, they get horder and harder.
They are like a sketch from a Saturday Night Live where everybody, including the audience, is on an acid trip. And here we have the slumbering Trump between little Marco.
But this war is going on and the president is trying to end it. Not because listen, we got a million things to focus on in the world as a country, but he's the only leader in the world that can help end it. And that's that's why even as we speak to you now, Steve Woodcoff is in Moscow trying to find a way to end this war, to save lives of eight.
Nine thousand people.
Mister presidents you want to are dying every week.
Let's watch Keet Hagshath.
You didn't see any survivors.
To be clear, after the first run, I did not personally see survivors. But I stand because the thing was on fire. I was exploded in fire or smoke. You can't see anything. You got digital. There's this is called the folk of war. This is what you and the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices are up on Capitol Hill, and you nit pick, and.
You plant fake stories in the Washington Post about kill everybody, phrases on anonymous sources, not based in anything, not based in any truth at all, And then you want to throw up really irresponsible terms about American heroes, about the judgment that they made. I wrote a whole book on this topic because of what politicians and the press does to warfighters.
Not for nothing.
The sign that hangs above the entrance at Quantico, Virginia, where he gave his infamous speech to the generals.
The sign above the entrance to the Marine Corps.
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Head to toe with Christian nationalist totems, vised by a sick pastor who believes women shouldn't vote and that slavery was good for blacks. Pete Hag Seth is incompetent. Pete hag Seth is a moral He lacks restraint, he lacks control, he lacks judgment. But he used to have a different position, at least when it came to war crimes. Here's Pete hag Seth way back when the Internet's a great thing, isn't it.
There are some guys at Levenworth who made really bad choices on the battlefield. And I do think there have to be consequences for abject war crimes. If you're doing something that is just completely unlawful and ruthless, then there is a consequence for that. That's why the military said it won't follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief. There's a standard, there's an ethos, there's a belief that we are above what so many things that our enemies or others would do.
Now, Hakem Jeffries said he's against and impeachment of Pete Hexas on what basis and why. Now, what is clear from Tennessee is that soon the Democratic Party will have a toe hold by virtue of holding a majority in the House of Representatives. Is entirely possible the Democrats will hold a Senate majority that majority cannot be purposeless, and it cannot be meaningless. It must stand for constant confrontation in the name of the right against right and wrong.
And the wrongs of this moment are clear. They involved masked men targeting immigrant populations for abuse, guided by a president engaged in fascistic and dehumanizing rhetoric that is precisely of the nature that Goebbels used.
Steve Witkoff is.
Selling out Ukraine in Moscow because there's opportunity for Trump to enrich himself and corrupt deals. The gateway to World War IREE is through that corruption. The abuses are constant, the lying ever more so, and in this moment there must be a commitment, as it all starts to fall apart, on the part of democratic leaders, that they will use
their power to confront the abuses of power. And so for Hakeem Jeffries, who says, in the middle of a crisis where it's clear the Defense secretary has become a war criminal, that the right approach here is to follow
the example of Merrick Garland to do nothing. The purpose of a democratic majority above all others must be this, the restoration of the coequality of the the Article one branch of government and assertion of power by the Congress to the executive that ceases the lawlessness and the abuses of the executive of the President. So no Hakim Jeffries saying there will be no impeachment of Pete Hegsath is not the right thing to do.
It is the wrong thing, and.
More importantly, it is an abdication of duty, because duty will require not just the impeachment of Pete Hegseath, but the impeachment of Robert Kennedy, the impeachment of the lawless Christino, who has violated court orders and is as corrupt as the day is long. It will mean the impeachment of Pam Bondi, the lawless Attorney General, the agent of Trump who is covering up the Epstein files.
It will mean the impeachment of Cash Ptel.
It will mean that stands must be made on principle for the country. Everybody who cares about the country needs to vote Democratic in November of twenty twenty six.
But every Democrat.
Who wins need not vote for his King Jeffries to be their leader. A do nothing democratic majority may be even worse than a poisonous mega majority because it will be the gateway to the jackboot coming down on all
of us for the last time. A democratic majority must have purpose, It must have meaning, It must have conviction, and it must be ready to act, to conduct oversight, to root out the corruption, to inform the American people of what has happened during the two terrible years when we had no Congress, just a tyrant consolidating power.
The moment when Donald Trump will be.
Put back on his leash is coming fast. The problem is, Haakim Jeffries looks at Donald Trump and he thinks that dog, well, he's an off leash type of guy, and that is just plain dumb. It's time to put the muzzle on these people. And what that means is using power, using subpoenas, using investigative authority to inform the people who are the bosses of those corrupt politicians exactly what it is that they did in our name. That is what this next
election must be about. Aften being took a stand in Tennessee in a district that Donald Trump won by twenty two points, she lost by an inch. The redistricting nonsense is over everywhere. Republicans will be retiring in droves. The path is clear, drowning the tsunami or retire on dry lands, but voter independence.
All of us who are part of the.
Coalition of opposition must demand something. What we want are not laid down schumercrats. What we want are fighting democrats. What we want is something like this. And so I'll close today with the words of Mark Kelly rebuking Donald Trump and rebuking Pete hagsat the way it ought to be done.
He runs around on a stage like he's a twelve year old play an army and it is ridiculous. It is embarrassing, and I can't imagine what our allies think of looking at that guy in this job one of the most important jobs in our country in my view, after the President of the United States, it is the next most important job. He is in the National Command Authority for nuclear weapons. And last night he's putting out on the internet turtles with rocket propelled grenades kill. I mean,
have you seen this? This is the Secretary of Defense. This is not a serious person. He should have been fired after Signal Gate and then every single day after that.
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