Andrew Clavin skewers Trump’s Florida victory speech—vague "great deals" and "winning" rhetoric masking policy voids—while contrasting it with Hillary Clinton’s cautious, Obama-esque framing. Marco Rubio’s farewell speech, a rare principled stand against resentment politics, arrives too late to save Cruz, yet Trump’s momentum thrives on voter bandwagoning despite his lack of substance. Clavin warns Republicans against confirming Garland, calling it a GOP suicide pact, and laments the election’s unpalatable choices—Trump’s chaos or Clinton’s establishment—while urging resistance without delusion. The episode ends with a grim nod to political reality: life goes on, but the stakes couldn’t be higher. [Automatically generated summary]
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All right, so much news.
So much is happening.
Barack Obama just, as I was walking in here, basically, Barack Obama has named his Supreme Court nominee.
And of course, we have all the important numbers, the most important number being that my Trump video is now up around 6 million hits.
I am now, I am now the Rebecca Black of political commentary.
Girl, it's Friday.
I get in the backseat.
I am now the version of that.
I am a virus.
It's like they said, I am a walrus.
I am a virus.
It doesn't sound as good, actually.
I sound better.
I think Trump was actually answering my video last night as he destroyed everybody.
He's tied.
It's so close in Missouri, they may have a recount, but it's not a winner-take-all state anyway.
So they'll divide up.
So Cruz did well there.
He actually, he picked up some guys.
He fell about another hundred delegates behind, it seems like, all told.
But play just the first 30 seconds of my video.
I'm angry, and so I'm voting for Donald Trump.
I'm angry about illegal immigration.
And so I'm voting for Donald Trump because he said he would build a huge wall to keep out just the sort of undocumented workers he hired to clear the ground for Trump Tower in New York City.
And because he said he'd force all the illegals to leave the country and then let them all back in.
And he said he'd limit the number of skilled workers that can come here.
And then he said he wouldn't do that.
And then he secretly told the New York Times he didn't mean any of it.
So I don't really know what the hell he's saying, but I'm angry.
So I'm voting for it.
All right.
So now here's Trump at his victory speech in Florida last night.
One of the broadcasters was saying, is there anger?
And I said to Messier, I was supposed to say, no, there's not.
We love the way things are working.
We love the deal you made with Iran.
It's wonderful.
You give him $150 billion.
We get nothing.
We love all the deals.
The trade deals are wonderful.
You lose $500 billion a year with China.
We lose $58 billion a year in terms of imbalance.
It's a total imbalance.
We don't make good deals anymore.
We don't win anymore.
As a country, we don't win anymore.
And they asked, is there anger from your people?
There seemed to be.
And I said, there is anger.
They're not angry people, but they want to see the country properly run.
They want to see borders.
They want to see good health care.
They want to see things properly taken care of.
They want our military rebuilt.
Our military is in a very bad state.
They want it rebuilt.
Very, very importantly.
And they want the Second Amendment, by the way, protected and protected strongly.
And that's going to happen.
So I hit a nerve.
I hit a nerve.
You can say I had no effect, but you don't throw yourself under a train to stop it.
You just throw yourself under a train to annoy the train.
That's all.
But, you know, that was classic Trump.
I mean, because what he does is he validates your anger.
He tells you what you're angry about.
And you sit there.
I mean, even I sit there listening and going, yeah, yeah, I am angry.
But he doesn't say anything ever about what he's going to do.
It's going to be great.
I'm going to get the greatest people.
Frankly, we're going to make the greatest deals.
We're going to make great deals.
Everything's going to be great.
It is complete.
And people just keep falling for it.
It was like that scene from HUD we played yesterday.
Play that, just that little clip, that little piece of it.
You can talk a man into trusting you and a woman into wanting you.
Then I got it made, ain't I?
That's Trump all over.
I don't know what I'm saying, but they're believing me.
I got it made.
He's having a great time.
And well, I'll get back to what I think is going to happen next, but let's also, we have to listen to Hillary.
Speaking of people who sound like the movies, play the Hillary Cut number seven, cut number seven.
Thank you, Florida.
Thank you, North Carolina.
Thank you, Ohio.
Okay, now.
Can you tell everyone who walks in this building that until Rossi, you are nothing but a haul, Mr. Superintendent?
Yes, I want you to know, sir, that you have a hall in the Rossi, Janice Rossi, do you hear me?
Susan from Goodfellows.
She sounds exactly.
Somebody tweeted that yesterday.
Somebody said they sound exactly alike, and they do.
Imagine the next four years of listening to that voice.
It's going to be like having that woman busing your house every day.
You know, you got a whore in your building.
I was like, thank you, Ohio.
It's awful.
And so now she's running against Trump.
her victory speech.
She won everything.
She just, I think basically Bernie is done, but Bernie doesn't care if he's done because he's not in it to win it.
He's in it to annoy and to be a power broker and to establish basically a socialist wing of the socialist party.
I mean, it's like, how far left can they go before they come back the other side, I guess.
But now she's running against Trump.
So here's the national security part of her speech.
We live in a complex and yes, a dangerous world.
Protecting America's national security can never be an afterthought.
Our commander-in-chief has to be able to defend our country, not embarrass it.
Engage our allies, not alienate them.
Defeat our adversaries, not embolden them.
When we hear a candidate for president call for rounding up 12 million immigrants, banning all Muslims from entering the United States, when he embraces torture, that doesn't make him strong.
It makes him wrong.
You know, when she started that and she said we have to defeat our enemies, not embarrass ourselves or something, engage our allies, not distance them, defeat our enemies, not embolden them.
That's what it was.
Defeat our enemies.
I thought she was running against Obama.
I mean, Obama has left, is going to leave the Middle East in flames.
I mean, he is going to leave the Middle East just a, you know, the only thing that good that has happened there is Putin going in and bombing the best people there to stop the war.
So he's bombing the wrong side and keeping Assad in power, but at least somebody's doing something.
I mean, he has left the Middle East in flames.
So everything she said could have gone against Obama until she started in with the stuff that Trump said.
So now she's running against Trump.
Very, very interesting race.
We'll get back to that in just a minute.
But before that, one more primaries of Game or Game of Thrones.
A little person risks everything on one battle and is destroyed.
So is that Tyron Lannister in the trial by combat scene?
Or was that Marco Rubio?
It's all Game of Thrones.
It's not just me.
So Rubio's gone.
Marco finally, finally, finally got the word.
It was like a Rube Goldbar machine.
You know, those little things like mousetrap, you know, like the word was dropped in here and then this hit that and a ball went up in the air, landed on a lever.
The lever threw him in.
He did a somersault, landed in a pool.
The cage came rattling down on top of Marco Rubio's head.
And it was like, oh, maybe I can't win this anymore.
But first, he had to, you know, people with small egos don't run for president.
So first he had to be utterly humiliated in his own state.
Now, don't listen to people who say, oh, his career is over and all this stuff.
10 minutes from now, as I'm speaking, people are forgetting, you know, what Rubio, yeah, well, he was a handsome little guy.
You know, it was like, they don't know.
People don't know what's going on.
So it's like, it's not going to end his career or anything.
But he did, you know, it was like everybody was telling him.
Everybody was saying to him, you're not going to win.
You're going to be embarrassed.
Now he's embarrassed.
And, you know, did he cost Cruz some states?
He might have.
He might have.
You don't know.
You don't know who people would have voted for if he dropped out.
But he gave his speech and his valedictory farewell speech.
And it was his best speech, of course.
And everybody always says, you know, why do they, they give their best speeches, you know, and their best.
And if he had only been like that the whole time, but it's not true.
It's not true.
A valedictory speech, first of all, valedictory tone is inherently uplifting.
As you're saying, farewell, a president's best, you know, they always quote presidents as they gave their farewell addresses and all this stuff.
Farewell addresses are just inherently uplifting because the guy's looking back.
He can see a whole plane of what's behind him.
He can take it all in and summarize everything that happened.
And he doesn't have anything to lose.
He doesn't have anything to lose, so he can basically speak with malice toward none and say what he has to say.
So let's take a little listen to what Rubio said.
Play number two, where he talks about basically what is happening in the country and basically gives a Parthian, a parting shot to Donald Trump.
The politics of resentment against other people will not just leave us a fractured party.
They're going to leave us a fractured nation.
They're going to leave us as a nation where people literally hate each other because they have different political opinions.
That we find ourselves at this point is not surprising, for the warning signs have been here for close to a decade.
In 2010, a Tea Party wave carried me and others into office because not enough was happening, and that Tea Party wave gave Republicans a majority in the House.
But nothing changed.
In 2014, those same voters gave Republicans a majority in the Senate, and still nothing changed.
And I blame some of that on the conservative movement.
A movement that is supposed to be about our principles and our ideas.
But I blame most of it on our political establishment.
A political establishment that for far too long has looked down at conservatives, looked down at conservatives as simple-minded people.
Looked down at conservatives as simply bomb throwers.
A political establishment that for far too long has taken the votes of conservatives for granted.
And a political establishment that has grown to confuse cronyism for capitalism and big business for free enterprise.
Well, he's got that right.
I mean, and it works both ways.
I think the conservative movement has demonized them as they have felt insulted, as the establishment insulted the conservatives.
The conservatives demonized the establishment until basically, if you weren't some kind of ideal platonic idea of a conservative, you were a traitor.
You know, I've talked a lot about Paul Ryan, a guy I admire and like, being called a traitor and, you know, everything that they do.
But it's just true.
Rubio gets it exactly right.
They have ignored us.
They did it on purpose.
They told me, one of the most powerful guys in Congress told me they were going to do it.
He told me they were going to use the Tea Party and ignore them.
And they did.
And this is the wages of sin.
This is the tide.
You bottle the tide.
The bottle comes open and the tide comes pouring out.
And that's what's happening.
And here is Rubio at his best looking forward to what we need, what kind of conservative movement we need.
America needs a vibrant conservative movement, but one that's built on principles and on ideas, not on fear, not on anger, not on preying on people's frustrations.
A conservative movement, a conservative movement that believes in the principles of our Constitution, that protects our rights and limits the power of government.
A conservative movement committed to the cause of free enterprise, the only economic model where everyone can climb without anyone falling.
A conservative movement that believes and belongs in a strong national defense, and a conservative movement that believes in the strong Judeo-Christian values that are the formation of our nation.
So there he is leaving a trail for others to follow to remind people of what we were trying to do when Trump destroyed it all.
I mean, this is what, you know, we were trying to find somebody to carry that banner just as he described it before Trump sort of blundered in and broke the shop.
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And of course, I'm a Ted Cruz fan.
I would have settled happily for Rubio, but I'm a Ted Cruz fan.
And sure, but I've liked to see him drop out and give Cruz a shot.
Absolutely.
Do I know those votes would have gone to Cruz?
No.
I mean, because it's such a weird election.
Rubio is a conservative.
But by the end of this, Rubio, like everybody was going, well, he's not conservative enough.
You know, he's not conservative.
So, you know, it's really hard to know where those votes would have gone.
Most of the liberal votes are going to Trump because Trump is a liberal.
Trump is a leftist, so they're going to Trump.
I don't know where the votes for Rubio would have gone.
But more importantly, more importantly, if you're going to win, you've got to win on the field you're playing on.
You know, that's the fact.
That's the fact.
Ted Cruz can't say, and he never did say to his credit.
You know, he called for people to unite.
He wanted Rubio to drop out, but he's got to win in that field.
That's his job.
You know, nobody, you can't go into a fight and say, could I have a shorter person, please?
A guy who doesn't have a long, you got to fight the guy you're fighting.
That's it.
And that's what politics is.
So, you know, this woulda, coulda, shoulda thing that we're all doing.
I mean, look, it's a heartbreaking race.
It's a heartbreaking race.
When you have a guy like Cruz talking about getting rid of the EPA, which so needs to be done, getting rid of the Department of Education, which we so need to do, getting rid of the IRS, which would be bliss, it would be heaven on earth.
When you have a guy talking about that stuff, nobody has come, no major candidate has come out and talked about that stuff in a presidential race forever.
We can only hope that it's leaving some kind of trace because Trump has blown it all away with nothing, with nothing.
With I'm going to make good deals, I'm going to get big people.
We're going to be very good about that.
That's one of my favorite Trump quotes.
I think they should put that up over the Oval.
If he wins, they should put it over the Oval Office.
I'm going to be very good about that.
I mean, that's what blew it away.
It's heartbreaking, but it's the fact.
This is what's happening.
This is the arena in which Cruz or anybody else has to win, and Trump is winning.
And I think he's going to go on to win.
I think a lot of this talk where people are starting to do calculations, can we get to an open convention?
Maybe, maybe we will.
I mean, the math is so up in the air, who knows?
But the fact is, as he wins, he'll start to win more.
I said this a long time ago.
As he wins, people are going to jump on that train.
You know, people think if you're a winner, a winner is a winner, and people love a winner, and they'll follow after him.
It's a sad fact of human nature, but that's what human beings do.
They get on the train.
So I think it's going to happen for Donald Trump.
That's just looking at right now.
I think my storyteller spidey sense tells me there's still a big surprise in this story.
There is still some big surprise coming down the pike.
I don't know if it's the FBI report on Hillary, maybe Hillary's health.
I do not know what it is, but just something tells me that we have not seen the last bump in the road.
So I'm not making any predictions.
But the thing that is just really interesting to me now, in the New York Times, a former newspaper, there was an article today saying that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and as I said, Hillary Clinton also cleaned up big last night, are winning votes, but they're not winning hearts.
And the article, just reading a little bit of it, says, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's resounding triumphs on Tuesday masked a profound, historic, and unusual reality.
Most Americans still don't like him or her.
Both major parties must now confront the depth of skepticism, resistance, and distaste for their frontrunners, distaste, good word for their frontrunners, a sentiment that would profoundly shape a potential general election showdown between Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton.
It goes back to this anger where everybody's so angry, we're going to wind up with two candidates that we all hate, that most of us hate.
I mean, there is maybe 35% of people are on that Trump train, but most people just dislike him.
And they may get on the train, but they're going to do it holding their nose.
And the same is true of Clinton.
You go to her rallies, you look at her rallies on TV, people are falling asleep.
So it's this weird thing.
Plus, plus, this great movement for outsiders, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, we're going to get two of the most inside insiders who have ever been inside.
I mean, Hillary Clinton is so connected that she's like, you know, she's like a neuron, you know, connected to every other cell in the body politic.
And so is Trump.
So is Trump.
This idea that he's an outsider because he's not a politician.
He is so inside.
He has made deals with everybody.
He's given money to everybody.
And people say, well, he's used the system and now he wants to change it.
You know, you've been watching too much TV.
You know, that's a character on TV.
That is not a description of a real person.
He's played the system.
He'll continue to play the system.
He's lied to everybody.
He's lying to you.
But listen, you know, 99% of the time in life, life goes on.
Every now and again, there's a war, there's a Holocaust, you find a lump on your head and you're gone.
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That's it.
Eventually you die.
But most days, life goes on.
We're going to have a bad president.
If Hillary and Trump are running against each other, our next president is going to be bad.
And don't tell me one is worse than the other.
I think either one of them will be bad.
But your life will go on.
You'll still have your girlfriend or your boyfriend.
You'll still have your children.
I hope they're healthy.
Hopefully you have a job.
Hopefully you can pay your rent.
And that's going to be the stuff that forms your life.
And there'll be a fight to fight.
That's why you're made.
That's why you're here.
You're here to fight the good fight.
If you're fighting against Trump, you'll be fighting against Trump.
If you're fighting against Clinton, you'll be fighting against Clinton.
You just got to stand for freedom.
And just the things that you say echo down the ages, so that people remember.
Even if you say them just to your kids, even if you say them just to your friends, you're passing on those values that Rubio was talking about in his valedictory speech.
Let us briefly turn to, this is a developing story, so I don't know that much about it, but it seems that Obama is going to pick Merrick Garland is going to be his Supreme Court pick.
He's 63.
He's a Washington, D.C. U.S. District Court of Appeals judge.
And what you're going to hear now, you're going to hear two things.
One, he's going to be called a moderate in every single mainstream news story.
He's not.
He's not a moderate.
Okay, like their argument that he's a moderate is that he once made a decision that made it impossible for Guantanamo prisoners to be tried in the United States.
So they're going to say, wow, you know, that's a conservative opinion.
Well, ridiculous.
You know, that is this one opinion.
The other thing, their other thing they're going to pull is because he's on the U.S. Court of Appeals.
They're going to say, oh, you know, he's turned down most criminal appeals.
When criminals have come and appealed to me, he's turned them down.
So he's really conservative in that regard.
Well, most criminal appeals are turned down because most criminal appeals are pro forma.
You get a certain number of appeals.
They go up to the court.
You know, the court turns them down because mostly it's, you know, like, yeah, I did kill her, but, you know, like, she was mean.
You know, it's like, but my lawyer was no good, but it rained that day.
You know, I mean, it's like, that's what most criminal appeals are.
He's not a moderate.
He is especially harsh with gun rights.
Somebody said he's liberal on gun rights, but if he were liberal on gun rights, he'd leave people alone to have their guns.
He is, you know, he is a plant being put in there to get at your Second Amendment rights.
That's why he's being in there.
And the other thing about him is they'll have a lot of quotes of conservatives praising him.
Why?
Because in 2010, he was one of the people, one of the names being brooded about instead of Eleanor Kagan.
So conservatives were saying, well, he's bad, but he's not Elena Kagan.
He's not, all right, you know, he's okay.
And Oren Hatch, I think, stupidly said he would be okay, but Obama's not going to name him or something like that.
So this is going to be a sell.
Look, Obama is a really, really, really smart politician.
And what you'll notice he's doing, he ran as a centrist, he governed as a leftist.
Now he's going out as a centrist.
He's going out with this kind of like, oh, it's so sad, this, you know, this mean dialogue we're having now, the Trump stuff.
It's so, I mean, this is a guy who sent out his vice president to say Republicans wanted to put blacks back in chains.
This is the guy who said about opponents to his Iran deal, oh, they're making common cause with the terrorists.
I'm a terrorist because I think your deal is stupid.
You know, I mean, this is a guy who is, this is the guy who degraded our political conversation.
It's Barack Obama who did it, and Trump's just taking advantage of it.
But this, again, very, very clever pick because now he can say, oh, you won't hear it.
I picked a moderate and you're not going to listen to it.
Let us just hope that our Senate Republicans, our friends in the establishment, let us just hope that they stand firm and do not give this guy a hearing.
That's what they have to do.
If they don't do that, I think we're not only going to have Hillary Clinton as president, I think they'll be wiped out of the Senate.
I won't vote for him.
I mean, I think if they let this guy through when they don't have to, I think they're finished.
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Stuff I like.
It's a tough day, guys.
I mean, why can I tell you?
The news was not good, but it's going to be this way for a while.
But it's a fight.
We're all in a fight, and you've got to just keep fighting.
Stuff I like.
The last good Hollywood liberal, Paul Newman.
And I've been talking about three of his H films from the 60s.
One was, what did I say, HUD, and Ombre was the other one.
And this one is Harper.
And all of them based on really, really fine novels.
This is based, Harper is based on Ross McDonald's The Moving Target.
Now, we're going to play the Big Sleep first, but hold on just a sec.
This is based on Ross McDonald, one of the best second-wave tough guy writers.
He was essentially a kind of Raymond Chandler for the new age, a much more Freudian Raymond Chandler, really, really good writer, wrote up about Santa Barbara, where I used to live.
The moving target had his private eye, Lou Archer.
They changed the name to Harper.
Some people said they did it because H was Newman's name.
Of all the movies that I've been recommending this week, this is the one that dates a little because it takes place in the 60s and it's about like, it has go-go girls in it and things like that.
So it's a little old-fashioned.
But you have to watch it for its referential relationship to old-time detective stories.
So The Big Sleep, which is the essential Hollywood detective story with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, has this opening scene where Bogart as Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, has just been in to see Lauren Bacall's father.
He's been in this hot house that the father lives in for his health, so he's pouring sweat.
And this just electric chemistry between Bogart and Bacall, who got married.
Bacall was like 19.
He was 50, and they got married.
And they were just really hot on screen, and here's their first meeting.
You're a mess, aren't you?
I'm not very tall either.
Next time I'll come on stilts, wear a white tie and carry a tennis racket.
I doubt if even that would help.
Now, this business of dad's, think you can handle it for him?
It shouldn't be too tough.
Really?
I would have thought a case like that took a little effort.
Not too much.
What will your first step be?
The usual one.
I didn't know there was a usual one.
Oh, sure, there is.
It comes complete with diagrams on page 47 of how to be a detective and 10 easy lessons, correspondent school textbook.
And your father offered me a drink.
You must have read another one on how to be a comedian.
Hear what I said about the drink?
I'm quite serious, Mr. Marlow.
My father's not.
Help yourself.
He wants that drink.
All right, so now Newman is the quintessential tough guy detective who moved into the 60s, right?
So it's now 20, 20, 30 years later.
Who is the woman who hires him?
Lauren Bacall, now an older lady.
She brings him in.
The first thing she does is offer him a drink.
So let's hear it.
A drink, Mr. Harper?
Not before lunch, thanks.
I thought you were a detective.
New type.
Oh.
Albert Graves is one of our lawyers.
It's on his recommendation I'm hiring you.
It's about time he threw some business my way.
Hmm?
I've known Albert since he was DA up here.
Oh, he said you were good at finding things.
My husband's.
You're sitting on my robe.
My husband's disappeared.
Try missing persons?
Well, that might mean publicity.
Ralph loathes publicity.
Besides, he's got an abnormal fear of the police.
I simply want you to find him and tell me which female he's with.
Any particular female?
I haven't the least notion.
Ralph need never know about this.
He'd be sure I was gathering material for divorce proceedings.
Actually, I have no intention of divorcing him.
I only intend to outlive him.
I only want to see him in his grave.
What a terrible thing to say.
People in love will say anything.
People in love will say anything.
It's an expertly written mystery story.
And what it does is Raymond Chandler wanted to take Philip Marlowe, essentially a knight in shining armor, and put him in the corrupt L.A. of the 40s and 50s.
This moves that character up into the even more corrupt, even more brutal world of the 60s L.A.
A really good detective story.
There was a sequel that's not as good, but that is our Paul Newman Stuff I Like week with three films you might not have seen.
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