"Having A Record Seems To Benefit Republican Candidates" - Cliff Schecter

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let's check in with our friend cliff shatner who joins us now good morning i we don't i oh you're not doing on president and so we're not playing hell to the chief backwards we need to find a new theme song for cliff that's right we do sadly uh john and i i mean we just had you know been four years and we started to un-president which happened and you did it you accomplished a couple of us obviously yeah thanks everyone else for helping um but no i mean seriously we and we had things we wanted to do john's doing a lot with it's with um tick tock about ukraine because john has a lot of international affairs experience and i've got a youtube channel i'll talk about that i want to start because i got my start doing you know these video debates with morons on the right on msnbc and places like that and yeah i want to go back to kind of to that so well i think as bob cesca called you uh you guys are alpha liberals like eric bowler that's right we need more you need more absolutely yeah and i do want to say quickly you know my you you've covered it fully but my little tribute to eric bullard who again you know he was one of those folks like john aravosis and others in the early 2000s i met when we lived in washington and and we were working hard you know hard we were all just shocked at what was going on with bush and that the new york times was we just published like hey we found some big aluminum tubes saddam's about to nuke us all um and you know we had to respond to that atmosphere and i've known eric had known eric for nearly 20 years and so you know at least i have never done exactly what he does but certainly people read my tweets and see what i do i'm i rip into dean bakke baquette bacca baccarat i don't know all the time and and the failures of the mainstream media and now i feel like you know people like me and you guys i'm going to step it up in this the youtube stuff i'm doing on twitter when i write for the daily beast and everything i do to be that much more of a media critic because we need someone to step in there yeah because he'll be missed yeah yeah as i keep saying we are we are all eric now um in fact rachel bittikoffer one of those warriors um and you know obviously as a someone that's done campaign strategy a lot she said republicans parties 2022 platform tax hikes and treason how do we drive that home that's that's correct yeah and again you know i've had these conversations on this show with you before if we would just get our folks out there repeating this stuff constantly somebody brought up did you see when brian schatz got up yeah yeah we just played it this morning fantastic it should be a lesson for democrats i mean it was like amazing look what happened it went viral the news media was forced to respond to it they were asking republicans about it when you push a message like that and as you're saying you know raising taxes and treason yeah that's a good message if we were to push this all the time and we just saw what happened with donald trump jr which you brought up we just read about jared kushner's 2 billion investment you know from the saudis who even themselves are like god this guy's a [ __ ] do we really want to put money in his hand yeah i guess but it clearly is for favors that already happened so i mean it's all right there we just need to be repeating it every damn day and like we're i i'm going to and i'm going to try to grab as many of us as i can and be like we should be on these messages maybe the first five tweets of every day is reminding people who the republican party is yeah well you are a liberal helper you tweeted i believe i have the perfect solution that will please everyone make mills will smith watch chuck todd's segments on katanji brown jackson in studio for two weeks straight nobody comes out of this unscathed see problem solver are we all a lot of problems i think we're all winners yeah we all win um also you tweeted uh yeah so jane whoever tweeted looking forward to a full day of events across ohio today with former nypd commissioner bernard carrick and you just said we're bragging about campaigning with convicted felons now because of course we are it's a republican primary which means it's just a morality wrapped in a performative hatred for the right people that wins i mean we've been talking about the herschel walker being a couple she was ahead of uh you know raphael warnock and wait a minute hold please oh here dr jack brown