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Oct. 21, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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Is Obama Right: Are Dems Buzzkill?
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Good day, my friends.
Wishing you a great and a glorious time.
Cool weather here in New York City.
In the city.
77 in the city.
It's 48 degrees.
What a day.
Liz Truss, gone.
Did you hear the news?
Liz Truss, out of there.
What's that about, everybody?
What is that about?
Please explain that one to me.
Hold it.
Wait a minute.
There's something very weird.
I don't know what it is.
I turn to you.
As I do Joe DiMaggio.
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
Why do you think Liz Truss...
44 days?
I wrote this morning, I thought to myself, in fact, you probably knew this already because you're the smartest, you're the smartest folks around, without a doubt, without a doubt.
But Liz Truss, oh here we go, the shortest serving Prime Minister was George Canning, who died in 1827 after 119 days in office.
He died.
Let's trust.
Gone.
44 days.
What is that about?
Believe me when I'm telling you something is up with that.
But Americans, of course, don't understand that because, well, that's the UK and we don't really care about that.
We don't.
I don't know what that even means.
Okay, fine.
Now, we have a lot to talk about.
There's so much good stuff.
Tomorrow we're going to be talking about a very interesting thing.
There was a...
The NHL announced a study for the first time in internal demographics shows that its staff and all 32 teams that NHL, the Hockey League, Is 84% white?
Now, I don't know if you knew this, but this is an AP story, and we're going to be talking about that, and what possibly, possibly could be motivating and responsible for this.
Well, I mean, this is a bit troublesome, if you ask me.
I mean, I always had my suspicions about...
And I just did, by the way, the best.
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See, that's the thing that's funny.
But I can't say it now.
But it's pretty good.
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And as my dear friend Bob Grant used to say years ago, he says, I can't say it, but I can think it.
So for you and yours, let me just give you a link.
We always love, because as you know, I think you know this, this is my public, you know, this is where you have to play nice.
Say the right things and be careful.
Don't get too...
Just talk around it.
Don't get, you know, crazy.
Okay.
You mean don't say the truth?
No, no, no.
No, no, no.
You can say the truth, but just don't...
And by the way, what this causes is self-censorship.
Which...
Which...
As you know, as you know, is the worst form of censorship there is.
But I digress.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, in today's subject matter, there was a piece that was put out a while back.
CNN reports that former President Barack Obama thinks Democrats can be a bit of a buzzkill.
Too easily offended over the accidental slights and the...
Complicated scenarios of modern life.
He said in a podcast, hey, by the way, did you hear that Andrew Cuomo has a new podcast coming?
Somebody told me his first guest is Scaramucci.
That'll bring him in, huh?
That'll bring him in.
I think Chris Cuomo has a podcast too.
Chris Cuomo has...
I think he had his mother on.
His first night.
Wasn't his mother on?
His mother.
Hilda.
Special call-in guest.
Nothing is wrong.
By the way, we don't know this because in our New York area, the Next Star group is off of Verizon Fios.
Let me tell you something.
That's something.
And I don't know, carriage deals or whatever it is, but it is...
They are...
I mean, they're just...
There's no Channel 11 here, which is my beloved pics.
Nothing.
And News Nation that was covering...
It's not there.
And I'm sure there are other ways to get it.
I'm not going to be going there.
Because certain things don't interest me.
But, tomorrow we're going to be talking about why are there so many seemingly disproportionate groups?
You know, I don't know about you, but I've been talking about there is a paucity, a de minimis group of people of Cambodians in the NBA.
I don't know why.
But I digress.
Are the Democrats too, too, Punctilious?
Are they too sensitive to, as President Obama was, former President Obama, are they too thin-skinned?
Is that even remotely possible?
I don't know about that.
Or, are they correctly, correctly sensitive to items that should be addressed?
With care and with a sense of deliberate sensitivity.
Do you think?
I'm very curious.
I want you to subscribe to this channel and please, please, I beg you, I beg you, write in after we're done, this or on the Spotify...
Platforms or Apple?
Are people too sensitive?
When does sensitivity take over?
When does that occur?
I want to discuss that.
I want to discuss that with you and ask yourself, isn't it better that we be too sensitive than too discourteous?
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Now let's talk about something.
Do you think it best that people err?
By the way, it's not err.
To err is human.
No, it's to err is human.
It's one of those mispronunciations that drive me nuts.
Do you not think it a good idea for people to recognize that we need to show each other more sensitivity?
Words count.
Words matter.
What is all this?
Politically correct.
What's wrong with being politically correct?
What's wrong with being sentient?
An understanding of what people think.
There are certain words that are just outdated.
Words matter.
Pronunciations matter.
Things matter.
These are things I cannot explain to you in any other way other than to explain, other than to hope, to make you recognize the fact that we are using these words, that there's a reason for this.
Now, I don't know about you.
You may not be able to do this.
But I want you to notice a few things that many people in the business are starting to state.
Because this is going to be, I am telling you, the most fascinating race, bar none.
Bar none is going to be the Pennsylvania Senate race between Fetterman and Oz.
Nothing.
Nothing.
There is no race.
Even a Liz Truss retrospective.
Let me see.
Days until midterm.
Days until midterm is 18 days.
And I'm telling you right now, this is going to be, watch what happens.
What are you looking for?
Okay.
Look for this.
Number one.
Look for the polls to kind of correct themselves.
Look for the polls that were at first saying things that you thought, well that doesn't make any sense.
now all of a sudden correcting themselves.
Adjusting themselves.
Trying to correct because The worst thing is for polls to be that wrong that often.
That's number one.
Number two, what I would tell President Obama, turn out, turn out, turn out, turn out, turn out, turn out.
Remember this.
If you do not have people show up to vote, let me ask this question and this astute audience that we have right now.
Give me one word.
One word.
Use your head.
One word to explain the best description for somebody who turns out en masse during midterms in particular.
What do you call the voter who turns out?
What?
What is the name?
What is the name of the person?
Of the type of person, of the...
What do you call this person?
What do you call them?
Because if people aren't showing up, if turnout is an issue, which it always is, who are the people not voting?
And there are many, many people like you who are not showing up.
You're not going to vote.
I know this.
I know this as a matter of fact.
Why don't you vote?
I don't know.
So, the first issue is turnout.
That's number one.
And I would advise President Obama, if you're worried about any party, anything, you've got to get turnout.
Now, why do you think the Democrats would turn out more than, let's say, Republicans or whatever it is?
Well, you normally vote when you feel what?
When you are happy or when you are scared.
I'll answer that for you, when you are scared.
That's why the worst thing in the world, like Lee Zeldin and others, who's running for governor, they're telling you, we've got this one!
Don't say that.
By the way, yesterday I heard my good friend Mark Simone had on Andrew Giuliani.
Andrew Giuliani is one of the smartest, most lucid, most Eloquent young men, or people, I shouldn't say young men, that you've ever seen.
That's it.
Number two, number three, excuse me, whatever, you keep track of the numbers.
What are the issues that would make the Democratic Party most interesting?
If I were to suggest to them, you have to do the following.
Number one, who Who is the average, prototypical Democrat?
The one most likely to vote.
The one who has voted.
The good and honorable Democrat throughout the years who has been around for a long time.
They tend to be older.
Older people always tend to vote.
And there are people out there, my question is this, that represent more...
Formidable or formidable classic issue-oriented types of momentums and these are not what you would call woke.
They are not radical left or whatever it is.
They're going to come out.
What do you think is the reason for this?
What do you think is The reason for this.
We're going to have to ask.
If you have to speak to the Democratic Party, and I realize that when I ask people to do this, they cannot do this.
I give up, I have given up, asking a lot of people to put themselves in that position because as a lawyer would do, a lawyer would say, well, let me just switch and argue your point because this makes the most sense.
I'll argue your point and then you can argue my point so that I can do this.
Most people can't do this because they just cannot do this.
But what I would do if I was asked to consult I would not go specifically into any particular issue out of fear that it might be misunderstood.
I would give them in essence a version of Something to the effect of you don't want there to be Trump again.
right wing.
Uh...
Trump.
For lack of a better word.
I would say you continue this cause.
I don't know whether people really know about the filibuster.
They might.
I don't know how many people really care about, for example, Puerto Rico being the next state, packing the cord, getting rid of the electoral college.
I don't know how many people are really into that.
I don't know that.
I don't know how many people are necessarily for border reform.
I don't know if people are for bail reform.
I don't know.
I don't know how many people actually...
On the, quote, left are for that.
But I do know that whatever side you are on, it is critical to give them a very few ideas.
And I would say to them, if I represented the Democratic Party, I would say, Joe Biden is not perfect.
I wouldn't start off with that, but I would kind of intimate that.
Now is not the time to risk turning this over to, and then, Using the words, starting off, number one, right-wing,
authoritarian, you might want to say racist, you might want to say, that's at the top, to other people, to other factions, maybe not as important as that, because there's a generic sense of, I don't want to go, Democrats hate Republicans.
Republicans hate Democrats.
Yankees hate the Red Sox.
Red Sox hate the Yankees.
And that's the way that is.
So always play that.
You've got to remind them.
It goes back to their base.
Second, third in line.
Climate change.
Science.
Energy.
Don't even say the environment.
Climate change.
Misinformation.
Right-wing rhetoric.
Falsify.
And we're not referring to January 6th per se.
You can get close to it by saying maintaining order.
Maintaining the sense of order.
There is this rabble-rousing, this raucous, very volatile group of people that are most...
The same way the right will focus on radical left, woke, open borders.
You have to know both sides.
You've got to be able to explain them.
You've got to be able to switch.
I can argue your case.
You can argue mine.
That's the way that goes.
That's what this is going to be.
But the case...
Above them all, the most fascinating is going to be Pennsylvania.
And people are going to be watching that.
Why is that important?
You have a man, John Fetterman, who the Republicans are saying is so, he is riddled, riddled with every conceivable somatic and medical problem from cognition to cardiac to name it.
This man is...
You got it?
Okay.
He is without a doubt the most, he is a walking time bomb.
He doesn't remember what he's saying.
He can't speak without Stephen Hawking-esque, you know, okay, fine, okay.
Why is that important?
Well, it tests for people, kind of gives a test run on those Republicans who keep coming after Biden saying that he is incompetent.
It's incompetent.
Incompetent.
It's their own version of trust to science.
Well, watch what happens in Pennsylvania.
Because one would argue, if you were to check off the Anton Chekhov, if you were to check off the list of infirmities that this man suffers from, allegedly, by virtue of medical records, which have been the subject of resistance, His outweighs Biden's, because Biden you contribute to certain age and chronology and that sort of thing.
And by the way, the right will play this as, these are the people who say trust the science.
Well, here's your science.
This is medical science, and this is what that is.
Watch what happens.
If John Fetterman beats Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon, Harvard-trained, cardiac, supposedly in the best of health, who...
In my humble opinion, has spent too little time expressing who he is, what he's about, what he stands for.
Been a hell of a time explaining Fetterman's this, Fetterman's that, Fetterman's this, where's the hoodie?
He's scary.
Okay, fine.
What about you?
Forget who I am.
That's a big mistake.
I'm going to vote for you because I like you, not because I don't like the other guy.
Sorry, it doesn't work like that.
You think it does, I might just sit down and let it, you know.
This is the most interesting case there is.
This is the most interesting case there is.
And I am telling you, they are throwing...
This is not about Oz.
I don't think anybody really...
I don't think the right really trusts him.
This is an Oprah acolyte.
He's been around for, you know, whatever.
But he's there.
He's a Republican.
In name only, perhaps.
I don't know, but they're throwing...
And I think they kind of...
A lot of the cool kids on the right, you know, the medium millionaires, they kind of hang around together.
They have kind of a club, like, I'll take care of you.
He's kind of one of us.
He's cool.
You know, they kind of relate to him a little bit.
But if he wins, if Fetterman wins this...
Now, the last time...
The last time Pennsylvania, I think, was read was with Trump.
And all eyes are on this.
Let me give you a little bit of advice.
Every time there is an election, it's a referendum on everything.
And it's also a replication of what has been done in the past.
You got it?
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My friend, I cannot tell you enough how American politics is a joy to watch.
And the thing that you must do is take the anger out of it.
You're missing something that is so glorious.
You're missing something that is so...
I don't know what to say.
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It is so terrific.
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I love this strategy.
And I don't care, necessarily.
I mean, look, I've been around.
And I know you have too.
And I know people are, you know, they get very, very, they get very, very, they get very committed to things.
And I recognize this fact.
But I'm telling you, you're missing something.
And don't ever underestimate Barack Obama.
Ever.
Ever.
Don't ever.
I'm telling you.
Politicians?
You can argue policy left or right.
Politicians?
Trump redefined the rally.
Trump did stuff nobody's done.
Obama?
Absolutely.
I never saw it with Jimmy Carter.
Never saw it with George Bush.
Bill Clinton is very, very good at getting the point across.
Ronald Reagan, the greatest.
Nixon didn't have it.
Johnson didn't have it.
Kennedy had it, but I always thought he was so stiff.
It was just the way he looked, but he was stiff.
Barack Obama is the smoothest, the coolest, he don't ever, ever underestimate the power of that man.
Ever.
Don't ever underestimate how Trump rewrote politicking.
Like you can't believe.
And if you want to go back, and if you want to see this, look at what Ronald Reagan did.
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There's so much going on right now.
So Liz Truss, gone.
There's a big story.
Tomorrow we're going to be talking about why some certain sports tend to be, dare I say, inhabited by certain demographics.
Well, there's no one.
You know what I found out?
You know who predominates the Eskimo Olympics?
You ever watch the Eskimo Olympics?
Fantastic.
Eskimos.
Swimming, tennis, golf, professional sports.
Why?
Why?
Equity versus equality.
We'll be talking about that and it will be a barn burner.
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See you tomorrow, same bad time, same bad channel, 9 a.m. Eastern Time.
Until then...
The monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue ya.
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