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A (0:00)
Hello everyone. This is JVL here with my Bulwark colleague Andrew Egger. And in the aftermath of the no Kings protest, MAGA is having a lot of cope a lot of feelings about what they just saw. Andrew, how are they getting through this very difficult time?
B (0:16)
Well, the weird thing is they're doing it a lot of different ways. There are, it turns out there are a lot of different ways that you can process, you know, these five stages in the streets. A little bit like that, a little bit like that, or like a choose your own adventure sort of thing. I mean, you could tell that what they were really gearing up for going in was let's see some violence, let's see some violence. Let's see a lot of arrests. We've been talking about this Hate America march. We've been talking about the antifa insurgents and the terrorist sympathizers and the Hamas people that are gonna be out in force this weekend. So let's see some of that. And in some of the initial MAGA coverage, that was kind of the timbre of the thing. I mean, like, if you went to Fox News's sort of like live blog of the no Kings protests, it was basically just like a running list of anywhere there happened to be arrests in the vicinity of a no Kings protest, which was primarily where there have been clashes before. You know, Portland and the Chicago suburb where that ICE facility has seen some arrests outside. But we didn't get a lot of that right. Like they were overwhelmingly, I mean, like Republicans like to clown on the mostly peaceful thing. But these weren't mostly peaceful protests. These were overwhelmingly peaceful protests with like, I mean, even more so than the one back in June, which saw a couple of like sporadic outbreaks of sort of random violence and things like that. But so there have been, I mean, should we just go down the list? I mean, there's a few different ways that you can cope with this stuff. Okay, so you could be the president, right? You could be the President of the United States. You have a lot of resources at your disposal. You have a lot of people around you at all times to kind of whisper sweet nothings to you and tell you how things aren't that bad. So here was Donald Trump, I think it was last night, sort of reacting while talking to reporters to some of this. He said, I think it's a joke. I looked at all the people, they are not representative of this country. And I looked at all the brand new signs, I guess paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics. It looks like it was. We're checking it out. The demonstrations were very small, very ineffective, and the people were whacked out. One thing that's funny about this is, I don't know if you saw Trump's own, like that Truth Social AI video, the insane one that he put out where he was wearing the crown and he had King Trump on the fighter jet and he was dumping literal feces on crowds of protesters. It was kind of striking that it was still giant crowds of protesters who are getting it dumped on in that video. You know, I mean, not really a very small and ineffective crowd. It was like time dissonance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, but I mean, so there's. That's the President's line. Right. I mean, first of all, on the one hand, totally small, totally ineffective. On the other hand, you know, paid for by Soros, still sort of alarming and, and sort of the sort of veiled threat of we're checking it out, which is what they've been saying all along, that they think these are things are paid for by these, you know, dissident left wing groups and these activists, and that they're going to root out those networks, those financial networks. But they didn't get to sort of put that into effect to the, to the extent that they seemed to want to as far as like actual on the ground stuff, because there wasn't any chaos to, to crack down on. So that's the President. What do you think? I don't know. Should we, should we keep going?