Okay, you know what? I can’t stand really stupid, idiotic conversations. Just can’t stand them. So, Bill Maher was on Stephen A. Smith’s Sirius XM radio show, and Bill Maher actually said this, which I just think it’s a dumbass idea.
Listen to this here. Who’s the candidate on the left that can somehow derail him? Because I don’t see anybody with a national presence that can pull that off. Where are you on that? I see somebody right here in my Zoom camera.
And by the way, only for you Zoom. I hate Zoom. But for you, uh, but uh, what where where’s the Stephen A. Smith presidential bubble? No.
No. No. I’d have to give up too much money, Bill. I’d have to give up too much money. I’m not giving up my money, man.
I’m not giving up my money. Yeah, money. They’ll give you a free plane from Qatar. Are you kidding? Don’t worry about money.
You don’t need money when you’re the president. You think the president carries money? You didn’t need money. Not for eight years. probably needed after that.
But go ahead. Well, the Democrats, the reason why, you know, I’m taking you a little more seriously uh for this is because the Democrats definitely need an outsider. I mean, I I’m going to give you a little preview of something I’m working on that’ll be on our show one of these weeks at the end as an editorial is to me the Democratic Party is a ghost brand.
You know what a ghost brand is? It’s like Sears or you know General Electric.
you know, it’s still a company, Abberrobi and Fitch, but they they’ve really fallen on hard times. Yeah. But this but they’ve been around for a long time. So there there is value in it’s an asset, right? Because there are still people who know of the company and and if you and if you could have somebody take it over uh who’s not sentimental about that company and you know relaunch it, rebrand it, but it would have to be somebody who is unapologetic about calling them out.
People have lost faith in the Democratic party for very good reasons. Uh and um you know, you’re the only one I hear who like doesn’t look like he cares what the other Democrats will say about I don’t care. I really don’t. I don’t give a damn what they say. I really don’t.
I know. And it’s somebody I don’t either. I’m I’m right where you are.
We’re very close on all these things. And I think somebody with that kind of abandon uh is the only person who is going to win back uh former Democratic voters who have SW.
So let’s just deal here. This is why that’s a stupid ass conversation. I’ve said this. I’ve said to him Steven A. Smith ain’t grossly qualified to not be president, to run for president, to think about president at all.
Bill Maher, same. Okay. Being an entertainer ain’t the same as being president. Now, let’s be real clear. Some of y’all might be saying, “Well, you know, uh, that America did vote for Trump.
” Let’s be real clear.
Trump is a white man with a lot of money. And what did he do? The Republican party, he played to the issue of race. That’s what he did.
And see, this is where all these people are. All this, “Oh my god, we need an outsider.” First of all, define an outsider. to find an outsider. I’mma go ahead and say it.
Democratic voters are smarter than Republican voters. Republican voters fail for the okie do. They fail for the [ __ ]. Broke ass white people with no health care, no teeth, no no education got behind a rich dude who would not even let them walk through his hotel lobby. Are we clear?
You can’t be a loud uneducated person who’s an outsider and you actually think Democrats are going to pay you any attention. That ain’t going to happen. All right. And so I love these people, people like Bill Maher who sit here and go, “Oh, we need an we need right now.
We need an outsider who can actually run.
” Let’s see here. Uh who was a two-turn who was elected twice? Senator Barack Obama. Who was the Democrat before him? Governor Bill Clinton, two-term president.
Let’s see. The Democrat before him. Who was that? Oh, that was Governor Jimmy Carter. Who was a Democrat before him?
Oh, that was US Senator Lyndon Bangs Johnson who actually was vice president who became president and then was elected to his own four-year term. Who was before that? Oh, I’m sorry. That was Harry Truman who followed FDR after FDR was there for four terms. What was FDR?
Governor, New York. Do y’all see where I’m going? Do y’all see why these are stupid conversations? See, this is where America, See, this is what Trump has done. Trump has dumbed down America so much that we literally will have conversations about grossly unqualified people because they happen to entertain us.
Oh, Schwarzenegger should run. Oprah should run. Oh, George Clooney should run. That’s what we’ve actually become. Okay.
So what we’ve done is we’ve stopped actually thinking smart is sexy.
So Trump has so delegitimized politics that what Democrats are saying is, “Hey, let’s have a buffoon run who is loud, obnoxious, who yells at people, says crazy things, and yeah, that’s actually going to do it.” No, that’s not going to do it. What’s actually going to work is if you have a Democrat who says this is what I’m going to deliver and actually do it.
You see, Democrats said, “Oh, no.
We can’t change the rules in the Senate because if we change the rules when it comes to the Biden Harris nominees, then the Republicans, they’re definitely going to do it.” So, what do Democrats do? They play by the rules. And then what do Republicans do when Trump gets in? They change them.
They’re like, “Yeah, we’re gonna move these nominees. They go ahead and do it.” Republicans lay out Project 2025, a damn near 1,000page document, and says, “If you put us back in, we’re going to do all of these things.” They literally gave them the playbook.
I Every time I think about this, I think about Barry Switzer.
Switcher says, “If we run the wishbone the way we’re supposed to run the wishbone, you will never be able to stop us.” That’s what they did. The problem is we had a bunch of dumbass people who are progressives or independents who said, “Okay, I know they did probably 2025, but I don’t really think they’re going to actually do what they wrote down.” Really? Who spends three years putting together a massive plan as damn nearly a thousand pages and then go, “Ah, we were just joking.
” No, they were very serious. And so this is a moment for serious people in serious times. Not a Stephen A.
Smith, not a Bill Maher, not some other damn entertainer who talks big [ __ ] on television. But then when you actually have to deal with the thorny issues, it’s a whole different conversation.
And that’s what we’re talking about. And so, sure, Stephen A can pontificate and blow hard and he can go on Chris Cuomo and then he can go on CNN. He can do all of that stuff. That ain’t governing. And so, the stupidity of the Bill Myers of the world is to act like, “Oh my god, there are no Democrats who can run.
Let’s see. You have a governor reelected in Illinois, JDB Pritsker. You got a governor in Maryland, Wes Moore. You got a governor in Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer. You got a governor in Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro.
You got a governor in California, Gavin Newsome. You got a governor in Kentucky, Andy Brashier. And we ain’t even talking about the other folks who might be United States senators or in uh Congress as well. That’s what we’re dealing with. So, I think it’s stupid to somehow suggest, oh, Democrats don’t have anybody who could run.
Vice President Kla Harris could run again. We know Pete Buddha Judge plans on running again. And so, you’re going to have 8 to 10 to 12 Democrats who actually run. But if they’re going to win, what they have to do is that they actually put together.
The Obama coalition was there, which means you’re going to have to have to actually talk to people.
You’re going to have to invest in African-Americans. You’re going to need to stop listening to these white dumbass Democratic strategists who won’t spend money on blacks and Latinos because they still chasing that mythical invisible white woman in the suburbs who ain’t voting for the Democrats. So the way you win is you actually appeal to your base. And what you also do is you be a Democrat who has the guts and the courage to go to some broke ass red, white, uneducated, unhealthy places and say, “Guess what? Why y’all asses keep voting against your own interest?
See, to me, if I’m a Democrat running, you know what I do? I go to West Virginia and I say, “Hey, West Virginia, here are the stats.
You at the bottom in education, the bottom in education, the bottom in healthcare, the bottom in wages, all these categories. So, do y’all voted for this person? Oh, did y’all see how he or she voted on education?
How they voted on healthcare? how they voted on right to work and you go, “So, can y’all explain to me what the hell are y’all doing?” Then when you leave West Virginia, hop on over to South Carolina, then go to Tennessee, then go to Arkansas, then Mississippi, then Louisiana, do Florida, going over to Texas is having real conversations.
But what I’m sick and tired of are these idiots who throw this silly [ __ ] out every damn time. I did earn your leisure.
They threw out, oh man, Steph Curry. I was like, are you out of your [ __ ] mind? And I love Steph. Great basketball player. Okay, but I’m not tossing out Steph Curry’s name.
Be the goddamn president of the United States. That to me is what’s stupid. And we keep having these dumbass conversations by these media people.
So, I just have one thing to say. And again, me and Stephen ain’t cool.
We talk and we text. You know what? Y’all can have these dumbass television conversations, but the rest of us are in real America in real time. And what we don’t need is a goddamn entertainer trying to run to the president of the United States. Nola, you first.
Nola, go. So, yes to everything that you just said. Um, I I am I’m trying to Oh, go. Oh, okay. Um, yes to everything you just said.
[ __ ]. Come on. Yeah, you got that ragged ass internet. Go. Okay.
See, I told you she got that crooked internet. Uh, Zabor, go. Everything you said is absolutely right. Every They giving everybody a mic to say the craziest of things.
We don’t need nobody else that’s incompetent, that don’t know politics, that don’t know economics, that don’t know science, that don’t understand research.
We need somebody that’s going to understand and look at the facts, look at all of the things how we could create so much damage in less than six months. We got to stop spreading rhetoric that is impacting our communities. It’s impacting black, brown, disabled, all of these things. and you have the nerve to still not take this serious. How do we even say things like that if you’re looking at how this is impacting all of the things how we have the government more in our business than we’ve ever had them and we’re dealing with people that are saying one thing they don’t want big government.
They don’t want this. They don’t want that. But then on the other side, they’re supporting all of these things that allow the government to be directly in our business. And you say things like you want a person that had that yes, he’s charismatic.
Yes, he’s a truth teller allegedly or fear fearless or whatever you want to say, but that don’t make sense when it comes to running this country.
I want a person that understand the policy brief. I want a person that’s not on Tik Tok or on Twitter saying all of the weird things just because that’s the first thing that came into their mind. I want a skilled person, a person that has a skilled team, a person that has a representation that looks like the rest of this country and not just a bunch of white people in a room doing what they want to do. We need real change, real people and people that understand our issues. We real need real organ organizing grassroot efforts.
We need a real president, a real leader that understand what the people need, not just I need some money and I’m worried about this.
That doesn’t even make sense. We don’t need unfiltered in that way. Greg, I agree. I agree.
You know, it’s very interesting. uh maybe a third uh the most charitable reading of it is a third of the those eligible to vote in the United States of America voted for Donald Trump in the last presidential election. Just a little over 60% of the people who are eligible to vote in this country voted. That means that just somewhere south of 40% of the people in this country did not vote at all. And of the people who voted, only about a third of the people who voted voted for Donald Trump.
He has no mandate. He has no uh no veneer of inevitability. And he is a purebred idiot. This gives the conveys a sense that the United States is an idiocracy. We all saw Bozo vomiting at the United Nations this this week.
And unfortunately, these these news cycle, not even news cycle, these platformdriven politics have projected the idea that people in the United States are just that stupid.
It’s not the case. There are a lot of stupid people, millions of them, millions of them pull the lever for Donald Trump. Stephen Anthony Smith has no chance to be president of the United States. However, he occupies an outsized space in these broadcast and d streaming media platforms.
So, when he comes out as he did this spring and saying that he may have no choice but to run for president, when he comes out as he did earlier this year and talks about the idea that’s when when asked why would you start a political career by starting as president and he responds why not? This of course this isn’t unhinged. This isn’t uh delusional. This is a talking head doing what talking heads do talking. When he said this week uh when he asked the question, who cares what Kla Harris has to say in the wake of the the release of her book and when he says that her political career is over?
Well, I put as much stock in that as I do uh anything Stephen Anthony Smith says, which uh really comes down, let me think.
Oh yes, zero. I put nothing in Stephen Anthony Smith. And finally, when he said, as he has said this week, that Josh Shapiro or Wes Moore might be the best candidates. This is where I think Stephen Anthony Smith comes into play, if at all.
There are people who might consider something he has to say as it relates to politics to be uh worthwhile. These people would be deeply ignorant and underinformed, but they might say that. Stephen Anthony Smith working the angle so he can remain uh visible, so he can continue to make his money. As we heard him say, uh talk to Bill Maher, who is a completely um almost indescribably useless uh public commentator. When he says that, well then he would then might calculate that it might be better for me to push forward names that will keep my name in the mouths and my face in the eyes of the people who get me my bread and butter by making me relevant by allowing me to peer places.
I think that’s what we’re going to see more and more for Stephen Anthony Smith as politics heats up, election cycles get closer, and people begin to focus on real issues. Stephen Anthony Smith will never be president of the United States and he will never run. what he wants to do is take up time like what he’s doing right now. And again, real simple bottom line is look, if folks can have whatever conversation they want, I just want people to understand, don’t waste your time with dumb, useless conversations. And if any of these people talking about entertainers or sports talking heads or entertainment talking heads or other y’all, it’s a waste of time.
I’m tell I’m telling you right now there are real people who on the Democratic side who can be who can run for president. We don’t have to resort to stupidity. When I say we, I mean the American people. Enough is enough. We are seeing the damage of what happens when you elect an idiot and put him in charge because we know Donald Trump is actually not in charge.
Ste we know who’s in charge. Steven Miller. Steve Bannon. The Fairless Society. That’s who’s in charge.
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