Texas man claims I'm "obsessed" with "inflammatory" topics like January 6th
Texas man claims I'm "obsessed" with "inflammatory" topics like January 6th
Those were the first words from caller Evan after he said he wanted to have a "civil discussion."
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This week I had a discussion on my SiriusXM program about the text messages obtained by Talking Points Memo between 34 GOP members of Congress and Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows in the days after the 2020 election and leading up to January 6th and the attack on the Capitol.
They included a text from South Carolina Representative Ralph Norman calling for Trump to declare “Marshall Law.” He is now facing calls for him to resign, and not because of his misspelling of martial law. Surely a bombshell of a story which all Americans who care about democracy should want to learn about.
That’s when Evan from Texas called the program. He claimed to be a “conservative constitutionalist” who wanted to have a “civil discussion.” But he then followed that with the accusation that I’m “obsessed” with “inflammatory” topics — like the discussion we were having about January 6th.
Not very civil.
He claimed that January 6th was a “terrible thing,” and said “nine out of 10 intellectually honest Republicans” would agree with him. (How many “intellectually honest” Republicans are there again?) Thus, we should just move on and talk about other issues — like “the border.” He then admitted that, even though he didn’t believe the 2020 election was stolen, he still voted for election deniers.
He got really mad, by the way. Listen in and see if you can make sense of out. And let me know your thoughts!
Texas man claims I'm "obsessed" with "inflammatory" topics like January 6th
I'm STILL laughing at the "intellectually honest republicans" line......that's comedy gold, right there!! What an absolute joke..he's supposedly intellectually honest yet he continues to vote for these treasonous garbage republicans. They're all so tone deaf and narcisistic like that one caller brought up. They 'll just never accept right from wrong when it's their side doing it.
You were great with Evan and my favorite part was when you told him that you are obsessed with democracy!
So, I actually just finished listening to your show from today. I heard the guy live yesterday. The fact that he said 1/6 was a horrible thing, but then just brushes it off like nothing more should be done, shows his callus attitude towards our CONSTITUTION. He called himself a Conservative Constitutionalist. WTF!
How the hell is speaking about wanting justice for 1/6 and accountability for those involved, causing/spreading hate and demonizing those that were involved? They should all be either in jail or out of government never, ever to be able to run for anything again. The wheels of justice move way to slow.
Also, your 3 hr. show discusses many topics other than 1/6, however, if there is new news about it, like the text messages, you are going to talk about it. As it should be.
I would have loved to hear the plans/platform he thinks Republicans have. The border is rather redundant since Biden already worked a deal with the Mexican government. I wish you would talk more about that.
Anyway, good job Mike!