Political Divides

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I tossed this question out because I'm curious, as divided
as we are, and maybe as divided as we've ever
been in this country, have you lost any relationships over politics?
I got this email this morning. Jdi says. When people
first started talking about Trump arrangement syndrome, I found it

(00:23):
sort of amusing. But this is absolutely a real thing.
My sister in law has completely gone off the rails,
even going as far as texting her family and asking
if we all will turn her in if Trump wins,
and then starts to round up all the people that

(00:44):
spoke out against him. And she was not kidding, she
was serious as a heart attack.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
But this misinformation, well is just ridiculously.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Well, here's the thing. I had a couple other examples, Rosie.
Two friends, both conservatives. One is thinking that his relationship
might be over depending on how the election goes because
his wife has just gone.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
That's a shame.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Another friend whose brother is liberal, but his brother's wife
has just gone, and and and his friend's brother told
him so, she's going to drive me crazy. They're both
they're both liberal, but she's just gone. She's just on
the ceiling at all times. Well, I can't understand it.

(01:41):
I don't understand it, and I wonder if you've lost
any I mean marital or or or boyfriend girlfriend relationship
would be bad enough, but friends, yeah, marit will be worse.
But some marriages have broken up over this, and some
friendships have broken up.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
I have to leave that that marriage had other issues
that may have contributed to this.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Well.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
I actually have a hard time believing that Trump Harris
can break up a marriage if everything else is perfect.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
So that's one thing. He put it to me this way.
He said we were best friends and now we're not.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
That's a factor, you know, you know, you can disagree
with this. I'm very fortunate because the Boss and I
agree almost universally on politics, which is, you know, a
wonderful that's a wonderful benefit, but it's not that important.
The challenge, of course, thatler is this ridiculous amount of
misinformation out there about what Donald Trump's going to do

(02:41):
on inauguration day. Let me just set the record straight.
And I'm not speaking out a turn. I'm speaking like
somebody who knows Donald Trump is not going to arrest people,
just ordinary American citizens and throw them in jail. Because
he didn't they didn't vote for him. The only people
that are going to get arrested are illegal aliens who

(03:04):
are also on terrorist watch lists and criminals. These people
shouldn't be here anyway. So the average ordinary American who
lives at seventy ninth and Dorcas, who might have a
Harris Wall sign in their yard, don't need to fear
secret police knocking on their door at one in the morning,
throwing them in the back of a black car, and

(03:26):
speeding off into the night. This isn't going to happen.
And regardless of these people believe this, I know it.
It's very, very troubling. It says something to me about
the education system in this country. It says something to
me about the unhealthy influence of social media. It says
something to me about the news media's narrative of fascism

(03:46):
and Hitlerism. Is it not enough that they have foiled
at least two assassination attempts and the president was barely
missed by a quarter of an inch on a bullet
from a high powered rifle. Is it not enough that
those three things have happened since the fourth of July,

(04:07):
and yet we continue to talk about a threat to democracy?
A dictator who's going to take the military and sway
the military against average Americans. This is part of the
Rosie de genozi. But just so you understand, the president
is a powerful person, but the president of the United

(04:27):
States does not have the power to do what he's
being accused of planning to do. He can't turn the
military against the citizenry. He has a cabinet, he has
a Congress, he has a Supreme By the.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Way, does anybody know where that came from. She's been
out there now for a couple of weeks saying they're lunatic.
He's talked about turning the military against I have never
heard that they're lunatics. The other claims are explainable. This
I don't even know where the hell she got that one.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
They have hijacked his remarks and made them into something
they aren't. When he said to Sean Hannity last spring,
I'll be a dictator on the first day, they don't
know what it had to do with the border, meaning
I'm going to close the border. That was the context,
but that got blown out of proportion. These opponents of
President Trump are lunatics. They are so frothy at the

(05:21):
at the concept of him and his administration breaking up
the deep state and draining the swamp. That they are
now hatching theories that are just well baseless. That's official wash,
that's that's right, that's Washington. They can't stand the idea
that they're little their little deal broken, which it will, yes,

(05:42):
especially with vv. Akramswami and Elon Muskina. But but for
regular people to lose their minds to this because they
listen to that and they get inundated with that on
social media and the mainstream news media, which just parrots
these kinds of ridiculous, baseless theories. Just to understand, where
were you in grade school or junior high or high

(06:04):
school when you were taught the tenants of the American government.
The president can't do that. Yes, he is commander in chief,
but the Congress has to approve use of military force.
You can't turn the military against the citizenry. He can't
do that. If he tried to do that. Let's say
he woke up one day and said, you know what,
I'm going to dispatch the National Guard in the state

(06:26):
of Nebraska to round up people who donated to the
Kamala Harris campaign. They would say no, you're not going
to do that. You can't do that. Of course it is.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
It's preposterous that people would believe that he would that
he wants to let alone be able to very scary,
very interest Rob. He said Rob on an email. I've
not lost any friends or anything, but one of my
very liberal friends did eight years ago. Eight years ago,
she was posting things online paralleling Trump to Hitler. She's

(06:56):
Jewish and lived in Israel on October seventh, a year ago,
and has since come back to the US because of
the stress of the attacks. She is now supporting Trump
basically because of his support for Israel, which has made
some of her other liberal friends mad, because she put
more weight on that than anything else. We are in

(07:18):
a strange place.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
But where is our education system? Where is where that
what has happened