How Trump Threw It All Away

[00:00:00] Foreign. [00:00:08] Welcome to Crisis Point. I'm Eric Sammons, your host and editor in chief of Crisis magazine. Before we get started, you know what to do. Please hit that subscribe button. Smash the like button. I. One of the commenters said that you should wait until the end to say smash the like button because maybe you won't like it, but you know you will. You know you'll like it. You're here because you know you'll love whatever I have to say. So go ahead and smash that like button now. And that way the almighty algorithm knows that people like me. They really like me. [00:00:38] Okay, so today I want to talk about the big news of the week, which is obviously the midterm elections that were two days ago. [00:00:45] And there's no other way to put this. It was a shellacking. It was a complete domination. [00:00:52] It was. It was just a blue tsunami. I heard it called the Democrats just. It was so obvious. I mean, there was. The message was sent. Then the Democrats won. They won both the House and the Senate handily. [00:01:06] People were thinking that they would definitely win the House, maybe by a little bit. [00:01:10] They might win the Senate, but just by a little bit. No, they won by lie. Here in Ohio, Amy Acton, who is like a Kamala type political figure. [00:01:19] Even worse, she easily beat a Vivek Ramaswamy, a golden child of the Trump administration. [00:01:27] Sadly, most of the abortion and marriage ballots went the wrong way. There was a couple exceptions there, and it just was. It was. It was awful. I mean, for. If you're a Republican, if you're conservative, it was awful. No matter how you slice it, to see the Democrats win so big, and we're going to get into whose fault it was, why it happened. I do want to say one thing, though, before I get started. [00:01:51] I am not a political junkie. I've never been a political junkie, and I don't think really anybody should be. I don't think it's healthy. I saw a conservative Catholic. I think literally that was. Might have been their handle on X, who just went unhinged against any Catholic who didn't vote Republican. Drop an F bomb saying you're going to hell. [00:02:11] I mean, it was just. It was crazy. And everybody was like, dude, you gotta take a pill, Chill, chill out, go touch grass, something. [00:02:19] And it's true that that's not healthy. That is not healthy. If you are that uptight about an election that's not healthy, you. You should go out and touch grass. You should understand it's not as important as you think it is. [00:02:34] I'm not saying it doesn't have consequences. I'm not saying it's not important at all. [00:02:39] But on the list of priorities, it's not at the top. It's not at the top. And so before we get into kind of political analysis here and talk about it, I just want to make sure everybody knows that just settle down a little bit. And if you kind of feel like this is the end of the republic, the end of the world, and you just want anybody who voted Democrat to go to hell, you need to get a little perspective. May go to confession. [00:03:02] Okay, so what happened exactly as of this morning? This is November 5th, two days after election. [00:03:09] It's right now 4054 to 44 in the Senate for pro for the Democrats. And Alaska and Mississippi are still uncalled as of as when I'm recording this, it might be by the time you see this, a number of states flipped, including my own. Ohio, Kansas, Iowa, Texas. These are all solidly red states. [00:03:34] North Carolina, South Carolina, I'm South Carolina voted for a Democrat for Senate because they trotted out Lindsey Graham's sister who was incompetent, who knew nothing. And they just acted like, okay, let's act like she, she, she'll get it because she's Lindsey Graham's sister. [00:03:52] And so she lost. I mean it was just, it just is the Senate way more than people expected. Even the most optimistic Democrat I don't think would have guessed that this would happen in the House right now. It's going to be around a number of races still haven't been called yet. Around 260 to 170, 175 or something like that. Yeah, around that. 259 to 176. So a net of 134 plus, you know, for the Democrats, they will have control of the House, control this and a very stronghold. It won't be like a barely couple votes. They, they, they, they're going to get whatever they want. Now obviously there's veto power in the executive branch still. [00:04:37] A number of governors flipped. I already mentioned Vivek Ramaswamy lost, Amy Acton and that flipped. There hasn't been a Democrat governor here since I think about 20 years ago. [00:04:47] Texas flipped, which is just amazing. Just wild that Texas flipped. Texas not only had a Senate candidate, Democrat can't win, but also the governor. So you have a governor and a senator now. Democrat from Texas. Texas. Come on, Texas. You're supposed to be like our last stand or our last guard. [00:05:05] Not that I'm even that enthusiastic by Republicans. We're going to talk about that for a second. But, you know, obviously having these Democrats win isn't great. [00:05:13] Abdul Al said in Michigan, who I mentioned in the last podcast, he won in Michigan. He's the first, I believe, Muslim senator, you know, and so he, he won as well. [00:05:25] I already mentioned. Okay. I just want to briefly talk about the Ohio governor's race because I think it was a microcosm. [00:05:31] So Vivek Ramaswamy, everybody knows who that is. I mean, he ran for president in 2024. Exit pretty early. People knew he was running mostly get the name recognition out so he could run for something else, which is what he did. Ran for Ohio governor when he first announced and he first built his war chest, got the, got all the endorsements from Republican Party here from Donald Trump and everything. It looked like he was a shoe in after all. Ohio we vote for. We voted. I think it was. What was it? I have it written down here, I think. [00:05:59] Yeah. Plus, you know, Trump won Ohio by double digits in 2024. And so it's like, okay, Vivek. And then when they, they tried it out. Amy Acton. [00:06:09] Okay, Amy Acton. Just so people who don't might not know who that is. That's our Dr. Fauci here in Ohio. She was our Dr. Fauci. Our current governor, Mike DeWine is a Republican, but he's terrible and he completely bought into the whole Covid nonsense and he tried Amy Acton as his expert and she's terrible. And also she's very much a Kamala like figure when you hear her speak and kind of giggle and kind of looks like she might be under the influence of alcohol or something. I'm not making accusations, just saying it seems like that at least kind of like Kamala. [00:06:38] It's like everybody's like, okay, this is a done deal. I honestly thought there's no way the vape can lose. This is back in 2025. [00:06:45] I thought this was a done deal. But then it just, it didn't happen. [00:06:51] I mean, the reality is it really wasn't. Amy Acton. It was two things. First of all, it was just a tsunami of anti Trump fervor. I mean, there's no question anti Trump fervor took over the voting electorate, caused, you know, so many people to vote Democrat, not vote for the Republican. And I think Vivek obviously was part of that. But I also think it's more than that. I think it's Vivek himself. [00:07:13] There's no question there was a visceral dislike of him among conservatives, among Especially among young conservatives, because he kind of represents what they don't want, which is like the, The Indians coming and taking over, like the mass immigration, changing our culture. [00:07:31] All. You know, his infamous post Vivek had in Christmas of 2024, I think it was where he basically kind of said, americans are lazy and Indians work hard. [00:07:41] And so I didn't think, honestly, when that came out, I didn't think it was a big a deal. I was like, okay, he's. He's got some point. He's actually got point. There are some case that's true. I think he. He's not the person to say that, but, boy, it just politically killed him. And then he got desperate at the end. He's trotting out Amy Acton's mom to, To. To come out against her when we find out that basically Amy Acton's mom stayed with her. Her, Her. Her second husband when her second husband was credibly accused of abusing Amy Acton as a teenager. [00:08:12] And so it's like. And Vivek doubled down, tripled down on that. I mean, honestly, I, I thought what somebody said. I saw somebody say, Vivek was just a terrible candidate. He never could identify with the people. He's from Cincinnati. I mean, he's, he, he grew up not far from where I live. I, I know the high school. I have nephews who went to the same high school he did. Might have even been there. No, they were there a little bit later than he was. [00:08:35] And somebody said they don't think Vivek could tell the difference between Joe Burrow and Pete Rose. And if you're from Cincinnati, you know, Cincinnati, all. You know, that's a huge insult. Joe Burrows, the Bengals quarterback right now, is so good. Pete Rose, of course, most people know who that is. Cincinnati icon. I don't like him, but he's from Cincinnati. But the point is, like, he just didn't never identify. He just looked like a candidate who was like, I'm just. I deserve this because I am me. [00:09:00] And so he just, it just was a microcosm for what happened, you know, in this election, this blue tsunami also. [00:09:10] And by the way, I think Vivek easily wins this election any year before 2020 if the exact same thing happens and he run, you know, same scenario, but it happened in 2016, 2014, whatever. He would have won easily. [00:09:23] Easily. But not in 2026. Not in 2026. Things have changed, and I think Trump is obviously the biggest one. [00:09:30] Also, the various ballot measures across the country weren't very good for Those of us who care about life and marriage and, and, and you know, gender politics like that in Virginia, they, they, they put, it was awful. [00:09:46] It was a shellacking 62 to 38 to put abortion basically in the Constitution, similar to what happened in Ohio a couple years ago. [00:09:53] They passed the, you know, 57, passed the, they stripped one man, one woman language from the state constitution. [00:10:03] I mean, you know, so marriage is, I don't know, between a dog and a person. I don't know. [00:10:07] It was just, it was, it was awful. In Nevada, the abortion amendment, also abortion right up to viability. Second, you know, second of two required votes, 63%. [00:10:17] Now I will say there was a couple good ones. [00:10:20] In Idaho, the proposition to, you know, to take away the near ban on abortion stood. So that's good. [00:10:27] In Missouri, same thing. They, they tried to roll back. [00:10:31] Oh, wait a minute. No, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Missouri was, was bad too. Sorry, I, I read this wrong. [00:10:39] It will roll back a, a amendment from 2024 which is pro abortion, but it failed. [00:10:46] You know, also that banned gender treatments for minors. [00:10:49] Colorado was bad. You know, so basically, other than Idaho, all the abortion, marriage things just, they did not go well. It was, it was not good. [00:11:00] And I think that, you know, honestly, let's be honest, you know, everybody, you know, certain, certain Trump supporters, they want to make it like Trump is like the most pro life president ever. We've heard it. You've heard it, I've heard it. People say it all the time. Well, here's the reality. Trump did appoint the justices who later overturned Roe v. Wade will always be to his credit. Also note, however, Trump himself regrets appointing them. He later said he wishes he had not appointed them because they didn't rule in his way. And a couple other things. [00:11:31] But furthermore, Trump has never done anything to support these state amendments to try to make abortion illegal or oppose those that try and make abortion legal. [00:11:42] In fact, he has supported ones that he has gone the other way, like in Florida and other places after Dobbs, the whole thing goes to the states. So yeah, we got Roe overturned. Great, I'm glad that happened. But then it went to the states and Trump has done nothing to support the pro life movement in the states. Nothing. In fact, he's gone against it. [00:12:04] So I don't know how you can call him the most pro life president ever, even if you only include abortion in the pro life part. He simply, it's simply not the case. Now, what was the reaction to this Sherlocking? I mean, Trump was Saying in his sycophants were saying all the way up to the election, like, you know, I'm going to win, we're going to win all that stuff. [00:12:22] They got destroyed. Trump himself did admit that the Iran war was part of it. [00:12:28] He basically said it was because they caused high fuel prices. [00:12:32] But he also said, I would have done it again. [00:12:34] In other words, he still believes that going to war with Iran, against his own promises during the campaign and years of saying we shouldn't go into these Middle Eastern wars and no new wars, and I'm the guy who stops the wars, he says he would do it again. He basically says, yes, it caused us to lose the election, but it was the right thing to do. [00:12:55] He also wrote, this is historic by the way he posts on Truth Social. Remember what Truth Social is? This is his social media platform. It literally exists only as a place where he posts. There's no purpose to true social ad other than to be a mouthpiece for Trump. [00:13:10] He posted I wasn't on the ballot, and if I was, we would have won in a landslide. [00:13:17] What's interesting, what's fascinating, I think, for the first time ever, is he actually got ratioed. He got ratioed on Truth Social, which just consists of Trump people. He got ratio. When he said that, even the people in True Social, like, okay, I'm not buying what you're selling anymore. [00:13:35] And, you know, he blamed candidates with flaws. He railed on Greg Abbott, the guy running for governor in Texas, you know, and basically, though, he didn't really take any responsibility, which isn't what he does. But what I think was more interesting is what J.D. vance had to say. Now, J.D. vance is a different situation than Trump. Trump can't run again. He's done in two years. He's out, and he has no need to please anybody. Vance, however, by most accounts is planning to run for president in 2028. [00:14:05] I know he said a couple things that may sound like, but that's, that's what all say. [00:14:11] But Vance posted a long post on X where he kind of analyzed what happened. And I, I actually liked it. I thought it was good. He basically, he admitted that they got shellacked. One of the things he said was, leading up to the election, polls were showing that there was a definite thing, you know, against the Republicans, sent them against Republicans. But that often happens. [00:14:33] But what they also saw were that people who voted for Trump were planning to vote again in order to get out the vote. Remember, get out the vote is one of the most important things you can do. It's not just a matter of do you have support, do you have people who are going to go out and vote, actually vote for you physically? [00:14:48] And what happened was, is they, the polls were showing their, their surveys, their research was showing that people, all the Trump supporters in 2024, they were going out to vote. [00:14:57] So what happened? They literally voted for the Democrats. That's what Vance is admitting. It's like all the polls saying, because what was happening is some Republicans going up to election were saying, yeah, I know the polls say that Trump isn't popular, that they're not, you know, that the Democrats are ahead. But look, all our people are going out to vote, so will be fine. Well, all your people did go out to vote Republican Party, but they just didn't vote for you. [00:15:20] They voted for the Democrats in many cases, sometimes for third party. And some of them didn't vote. But the point is, is like, mostly they voted against you. [00:15:30] And so what was the most fascinating thing about Vance's post? He's like, well, why did this happen? And he said he talked to a pollster he, he trusts the most and he really respects. He said basically four reasons came up with. Everybody who voted Democrat, who voted against Trump vote against Republicans. Four reasons. One is they want in the Iran war. [00:15:49] Two is they're concerned about the cost of living and inflation. Three is they want an American, America first agenda. And third is they want to change our relationship with Israel. Well, obviously, as you know, the fourth one is what blew up. Everybody was like, oh my gosh, he mentioned Israel. How dare he? You know, he seemed maybe potentially critical of Israel. [00:16:08] I mean, first of all, he wasn't even saying this is what he thinks or what his views are. He just simply saying this is what the voter said. These four things came up over and over again. They were the main four things. [00:16:19] And here's the thing, okay, I'm only going to do this once. I'm only going to do it once. I know it's a little bit childish, but I will do it one time and I won't keep doing it after this. [00:16:29] I told you so. [00:16:31] I told you so. [00:16:33] I've been saying this for months. I've been saying this for over a year. I think definitely since the Iran war started in February, that this is going to destroy the coalition, that this is going to destroy any chance that the Republicans can continue to govern, that they will win in the midterms. The Iran war, which also entails, by the way, the Iran war incorporates our relationship with Israel. It also incorporates the high cost of living and incorporates the America first agenda. The Iran war literally was the thing. It's. I mean, it's the thing. [00:17:05] If. I am convinced that if Trump had not gone to war with Iran, Republicans would have held on. Definitely the Senate and probably the House as well. They're midterms. I know opposing party always wins, you know, always has some gains. I get that. [00:17:20] But the Iran war, because the Iran war, first of all, people said that was. That was the reason. Second, that caused the gas price to go up, and people need to realize how much that matters. [00:17:30] First of all, just the psychological impact of seeing that gas price every time you go out and seeing it's $4 something when you know it was $2 something. When Trump came into office. [00:17:40] I know there's multiple factors that caused the gas price go up, but the Iran war was the main one. [00:17:44] And of course, higher gas causes higher everything prices, prices on everything, because you need gas to ship things, you need gas to produce things, all that stuff. [00:17:54] So it causes cost war. America first. [00:17:57] There has never been, okay, Trump didn't even try. [00:18:01] He didn't even try to sell the Iran war to the American people. That was what the most shocking thing about it was. He just did it. He made no effort to actually sell it before he decided to bomb Iran. [00:18:16] He just did it. There was never any. The GOP never had a convincing argument as to why the Iran war was really in America's interest. They would just throw out the, oh, if we don't do it, Iran will nuke us. But honestly, nobody believed that because people have. Are smart. There was no reason to believe that. It was obviously not true. We've heard that same line with Iraq 20 years ago. But more importantly, we even were told last June when Trump bombed that place in Iran, the place where the missiles were like, okay, I have wiped out their ability to develop nukes. He literally said that in June, and then in February, he's saying we're two weeks to a bomb. I mean, I've heard that language before. Two weeks till catastrophe, whatever. [00:19:02] Two weeks till the bomb. And frankly, just people didn't believe. [00:19:05] So there was no American interest here. Everybody just thought, okay, we know what's happening here. It's Israel, and that's the fourth thing. Change our relationship with Israel. It's clear Benjamin Netanyahu convinced Donald Trump to go to war with Iran. I mean, it's just obvious. I don't care if you want to call that anti Semitic or what you want to call it to say that it Just is the reality, reality. There is multiple reports reporting on this. It just everything fits when you understand this, that it was Israel that got Trump to bomb Iran and to attack Iran, go to war with Iran with no clear. I mean, I think it's possible Trump believed that Iran was two weeks from a nuke. I mean, maybe he believed Benjamin, who said, who said, who's literally said that for 40 years now? I think 30 years, something like that. [00:19:56] And so all these things really got people just fed up, fed up with the, with Trump in particular and the Republican Party. And look what happened. It was a complete, like I said, a shellacking. And so I give Vance credit for admitting this. It's a politically savvy move to basically just come out and say this. I don't know what that, you know, if Trump likes that, maybe Trump will be mad that he said that. [00:20:20] I mean, I posted about this, I said, you know, it's good for Vance to admit the obvious. That's actually rare among politicians because it is. Most politicians will ignore the obvious. [00:20:31] And so the, the, the reality is Vance is right. The reason that the Democrat, I mean the Republicans got crushed this election was because of Donald Trump and Donald Trump only he is the reason. One man, one man is responsible and only one way. It wasn't Tucker Carlson, it wasn't Nick Fuentes, it wasn't Thomas Massie or Candace Owens or anybody else you want to blame and you can think whatever you want about them. I made it very clear of all those people I've mentioned, Thomas Massey is the only one I don't have a problem with. I got issues with Tucker, I got big issues with Nick Fuentes, I got huge issues with Candace Owens. But the reality is they're not the reason. [00:21:11] And in fact, I'm just going to say it. [00:21:14] You can clip this and you use it in the future. I don't care if you look at who was pundits leading up to election, who was right about almost everything. When it comes to just the political aspect of this, it was Nick Fuentes. [00:21:32] I've made it clear in previous podcasts I don't need to say every single time I say something positive or like, you know, complimentary to Nick Fuentes. I don't have to give a whole litany of the reasons why I don't like him. I think that's silly when we do that. But the reality is he was right in a lot of ways. In a lot of ways more so than all the Republican establishment people who were saying, oh, we're Going to win. Oh, it doesn't really hurt us all. We need to continue. We just need to, you know, be more decisive and bomb Iran even more. All that stuff that they were saying, and you're just an anti semi if you say anything against, you know, against Israel or its influence. [00:22:07] I mean, he was right and so was Tucker in so many ways. And Thomas Massey was definitely right. I don't even know if Candace talks about this stuff anymore. But people like Joe Kent, Dave Smith, those guys were right. I'm sorry, they just were right. And it's been proven they're right. You know who was wrong? [00:22:24] Mark Villaveine, Ben Shapiro, Will Chamberlain, people like that. They were horribly and completely wrong. All the neocon establishment was, was wrong. And Trump, by following them, destroyed his coalition. It's 100%, 100% Trump's fault. I mean, there's no other way to put it. And primarily, the main thing Trump did wrong was the Iran war. I think there's other things he did wrong that weakened the coalition, but that was the thing that destroyed it. And when I say coalition, I want to make sure it's clear what I'm saying here. Remember, okay, Donald Trump won in 2024, decisively. Decisively. He won the popular vote. He won easily the electoral vote, you know, the electoral college. [00:23:09] And he had the highest approval numbers in the history of him being in politics. After his election, he had a mandate. [00:23:20] And what was it? It wasn't the, the people supporting him wasn't just the die hard MAGA guys were people like me. [00:23:28] There were people like Tucker Carlson, people like Thomas Massie, people like Dave Smith, people like that who supported him, people like rfk, people like Joe Rogan, people like Theo Vaughn. [00:23:41] You can think whatever you want about them, but they formed the coalition. It was the getting the independence that really solidified Trump's election victory and his electoral dominance really, in 2024. [00:23:56] And what's happened though, is all the things he's done since about March or April 2025 just, it, it alienated all the independents that had supported him and alienated a lot of people actually who identified as Republicans, because like Vance said, people voted for him, came out and they voted against him in this election vote from 2024. They voted against him in 2026. [00:24:18] And the reality is Trump and in March of 2025 was more popular and more powerful than any Republican president in memory, even more than Ronald Reagan. He had the House, he had the Senate, he had the Supreme Court. [00:24:36] It literally seemed like anything was possible that he could do, I mean, he could just get anything accomplished. Doge want to cut government, you know, down to size. Do it. [00:24:45] RFK wanted, you know, promote and implement the MAHA agenda. Do it. [00:24:53] You know, all the things that we had wanted that he was voted for. It was all possible. It looked like there was no. And the Democrats, remember, this is the other thing. The Democrats were in shambles. They were, I mean, I think their, their approval rating, Democrats in General was like 24%. They were just a joke. I mean, they literally, they had Kamala running after trying to act like Weekend at Bernie's was, was going to happen. [00:25:17] I mean, it just was just. They were in shambles. So people who say, I saw a few kind of, you know, Trump supporters saying yesterday that, oh, you always lose the midterms. [00:25:28] That's not what happened here. You have to recognize it in context. It was not just, it was the fact that Trump was riding high, the Democrats were just in shambles, and yet somehow, less than two years later, the Democrats just sweep, just go crazy. And the Democrats didn't change. That's the thing. All the things people hated about the Democrats two years ago still is true. It's not like all of a sudden they like got religion, thought, oh, we need to actually be better. We need to not be so socialist. We need to be not so woke. We need to be not so trans. The kids, no, they, they can, they doubled down all that stuff, yet they won because people just hated Trump. They turned on Trump completely. And, and remember, Trump is the one who literally said after the Epstein files thing happened in June, when all that happened of 2025, he's like, I don't want your support. [00:26:16] If you are talking about Epstein, I don't want your support. He literally said that. So a lot of people who, it was important, the corruption in government, they did want that overturned. They want, they saw that Trump doesn't care. And then when you see all Trump's like his associates, his family associates with all their shady cryptocurrency deals, I mean, you know me, I'm the big bitcoin guy, not a cryptocurrency guy. All these cryptocurrency, shady deals. This is why I'm not a cryptocurrency guy, by the way. You can't do the things the Trump people did with bitcoin that they did with cryptocurrency. That's why I like bitcoin, because you can't do the shady stuff they did. [00:26:49] But all this corruption and stuff, it just all is you know, is out there and people saw it. And if you don't like what I'm saying, if you're listening to this and you're like, eric, you know, Trump is still the best candidate, you know, we can't be perfect, you know, perfectionist, stuff like that, don't get angry at me. [00:27:06] Don't, don't, like, come to me realize literally millions of people decide this. [00:27:12] I saw people were trying to blame Tucker. I saw people blaming me because I wasn't, like, enthusiastic enough for Trump that I had turned on him. Like, as if I have some type of influence. I might have a minor influence. Like, maybe two people are like, oh, maybe I won't vote for Trump because of Eric Salmons. I, I think that's probably two more than reality. I mean, come on, how many people put it in the comments. If you decide if you're going to vote for Republicans but you decide not to because of me, put it in the comments. [00:27:39] And if we get more than one or two people saying that, I will be shocked. I will be shocked. [00:27:45] I know my influence. [00:27:47] I should say, I know my lack of influence. It's not the fault of people like Tucker Carlson or Dave Smith or people like that for simply saying the emperor has no clothes, because that's what they did. It's the fact that the emperor had no clothes. That's what caused it. And if we try to pretend it's not, that is, I mean, it's lying is what it is. It's lying. [00:28:05] Now, I will say this. [00:28:08] I'm not happy that the Democrats won. I knew they would. [00:28:14] And I do think there's some good can actually come out of it. [00:28:17] I actually, I'm hoping they bogged down government, that they go after Trump and his associates who've done corrupt things. [00:28:28] I, I, I, I'll say it. I hope they, they try to impeach him. Now, I do think I've said this before. I think what they'll, they'll probably try and preach them on stupid stuff, but I think they should try and impeach him on the Iran war. [00:28:40] And I think that's all good. You know why? Because it means the government's doing less. It's gridlock. I want gridlock. [00:28:45] And hopefully the Democrats will get do their normal stupid stuff enough that in 2028 they don't win. I don't want a Democrat to win the presidency in 2028, but I do think there can be some good comes out. That being said, I'm not happy that the Democrats took control they're evil. They're evil to the core. [00:29:04] There's, there's nothing redeeming about the Democrats. [00:29:07] At the same time, here's why I think there's good in it. I hope it sent a message, finally, to stop listening to the neocons. [00:29:18] They will bring disaster every single time. If you follow the political agenda of a Mark Levine or a Ben Shapiro, it is doomed for failure, doom for failure. [00:29:32] And more importantly, what I really hope is the next time a president thinks, hey, maybe I'll start a war in the Middle east for Israel, he'll be like, hold on a second. That didn't work out so well for Trump, did it? Maybe I won't do that. [00:29:50] The, the, the, the Iran war is immoral. It's unjust, it's awful, it's horrendous. It, what it has done in the, the, the, the amount of death and destruction that's happened in Iran and then in proxy in Gaza and other places in Lebanon is a sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance. And so if it was necessary for the Democrats to dominate in this election so that the next time some stupid Republican president listens to the neocons and wants to start a stupid war for stupid Israel getting fired up now, I apologize. Okay, I don't apologize. What am I talking about? I am fired up about this. Well, if that keeps them from happening again, then thank you, thank you for the Democrats winning, then I'll just say it. I mean, I know there's bad things about Democrats winning, but if it stops the next stupid war, then it's a good thing. [00:30:45] Then it's a good thing. [00:30:47] So it's not good, you know, that the Democrats won. I'm not going to claim it is. Like, overall, I know that a lot of bad things will happen, but I'm hopeful, I have to be somewhat hopeful that it does cause a reevaluation within the Republican Party. There's some talk I saw where Brian, Brent Wein. Is it Brett or Brent Weinstein, one of those? I can't remember. He's a pretty big figure. He was talking about taking over the Libertarian Party into a American Liberty Party, I think it's called, or something like that. And there's some people who have been the good people involved with the Libertarian Party, not the woke idiots there who are like, yeah, let's jump on this. Let's try to take over Libertarian Party, be a true third party. They're calling a second party. [00:31:26] The reason they want to take over and not start their own is because The Libertarian Party already has everything in place to kind of be on ballot access, stuff like that in 2020. If you try to start a brand new party, you, you know, way you get on the ballot in a lot of states by 2028, but you could, if you take over the Libertarian Party, I under. And this would be like the Thomas Massey, the Joe Kent type, people with Marjorie Taylor Greene, people like that Tucker. [00:31:52] I don't know, I, I don't know what to think. I think it's better to take over the Republican Party, truly take it over with the American first agenda, with some of the baggage the America first agenda has. I mean, the Nick Fuentes baggage, stuff like that. I don't deny that, but I think it'd be better to do that probably. Although I'm not optimistic of the chances that being successful simply because the, the, the donor class of the Republican Party, I don't think would allow it to happen. People are like, oh yeah, the Republicans themselves, like the voters, they would be for it. I think they probably would. I think they would be for a Thomas Massey type or a Joe Kent. I actually think Joe Kent probably has the best chances because he doesn't have, he's just got a good story and everything. [00:32:34] But I don't think the, the donor class Republican Party would allow that. [00:32:38] So is it better to try to take over the Libertarian Party or take over the Republican Party? Obviously, if you're successful, the better one is the Republican Party because it's got the more votes, I mean, people who just stamp Republican no matter what. But I don't know, I don't claim to know. I just know one thing. If the Republicans trot out someone in 2028 who is just simply the same old, same old, like, refuses to, to stand up to Israel, refuses to condemn the Iran war, they're going to lose. They're gonna lose. [00:33:10] And I think there's a decent chance that anybody associated with Trump, which of course includes Marco Rubio and J.D. vance, are going to have a hard time winning now. Always counted Democrats to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory because they're so incompetent, they might screw it up enough that even that somebody like Vance Rubio could win. But I think, I think the candidate in 2028 for the Republicans has to be somebody who has a record of being against the wars. Against the wars. That's the main thing, honestly, at this point. And so we'll see, we'll see what happens. So again though, my last takeaway is don't let politics Consume you. Don't let politics consume you. If you are literally hoping people go to hell, wishing them to go to hell, or dropping F bombs at them because they didn't vote the way you wanted to, you need to go to confession, you need to touch grass. I mean, that's just the way it is. Yes, you can work in politics. You can try to make political difference. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but just don't, don't make it the only thing, the main thing. Okay, I'm going to wrap it up there. Oh, you might have noticed if you're watching, what is this beside me? Oh, it's my new book, the Catholic Guide to Artificial Intelligence. Preserving the distinction between man and machine. I just got my author copies yesterday. [00:34:20] I haven't got all the people who pre ordered. I haven't gotten your copies yet, but I got a couple copies. And so I'm very excited about this book. I would encourage you to buy it. You can. I'll make sure there's a link in the show notes. Just go to ericsammons.com easiest to buy it and you will get one very shortly. Probably within the next week or two, I would guess. So Artificial intelligence, that's kind of the dominant part of our culture right now. People talking about it. This will help you to understand it. And so I encourage you, buy it. Buy it to people, you know, maybe, you know, somebody who's like not sure about what they think about artificial intelligence. From a Catholic view, this is a great book to give them. It's for anybody. You don't have to be a tech person to understand this. [00:34:56] You know, I, I explain what artificial intelligence is, the history of it all, that you don't have to be a tech person. I do it in a way that anybody can understand. [00:35:04] Okay, I'm going to wrap it up there. Until next time, everybody. God love you. And remember the pod.