Donald Trump Asked Kid Rock About North Korea and There Is No Bottom – The Daily Beast

Summing up the Republicans appalling conduct at the Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearing, and Sen. Mike Brauns interview where he said interracial marriage should be a question for the states, The New Abnormal co-host Molly Jong-Fast says theyre never gonna be happy. Theyre not gonna be happy when they take away abortion. They wanna go back to antebellum times. This ends with less and less rights.

Thats anything but a joke, but its funny because I remember thinking before the 2016 election, Well, Trump wont get elected, but even when he did I thought, Wow, its so terrible, but theyll get what they want and theyll see how much it sucks. And they didnt. They were thrilled. And then when Trump started killing his own people and telling them that the virus wasnt a big deal, I thought, Well, hell kill his own people. And theyll see this guys a monster, but it seems like he can pretty much do anything. These Republicans can pretty much do anything and (their supporters) dont notice that its against their interests.

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If not antebellum times, says co-host Andy Levy, the most charitable thing you can say about them is that they want to go back to the 1950s. Thats the latest time-frame you can give them. They all think that the 1950s were grand, with the white picket fences and the nuclear families that all loved each other and to them, thats the garden of Eden that they dont care that first of all never really existed. And second of all, to the extent that existed, it existed for white Christians only, and it wasnt even so great for white Christian women. But they dont care, thats their end game.

Meantime, Kid Rock of all damn people is boasting about how Donald Trump would call him up after Sarah Palin introduced him and Ted Nugent to the president, and ask things like What do you think we could do about North Korea?

Im like, What? I dont think Im qualified to answer this.

Then again, it could always be worse with this set. As Molly asks, Do you think Kid Rock is stupider than Junior? And, notes Andy, at least Kid Rock was self-aware enough to know that he shouldnt be talking, giving advice about North Korea.

Plus, Florida Agriculture Commissioner and gubernatorial candidate Nikki Friedwho went to high school with Judge Jacksonjoins to explain how she won office in a red state and her bid to become its first female governor. She says the party needs to follow my lead to win again in the Sunshine State:

The Democrats need to understand, once again, that it is always about the economyit always has been and always will be. Of course, we have to stand up and we have to fight and we have to advocate for our people and our principles. But at the end of the day, the people of our state want leaders. They dont want their elected officials to be falling into these cultural war traps, which Republicans are trying to do. We have an opportunity under my leadership to bring our party together, to unite our party and to fight for fundamental principles thatyou know, might have been electing Republican governors for 25 years, but its by the smallest of margins by, by less than one percent, Ron DeSantis won by 34,000 votes out of almost 8.3 million votes.

Fried concludes: So to say that our state is red is not consistent with how we vote. And for those same 25 years, the people of our state have consistently voted for very progressive constitutional amendments, from a $15 minimum wage to medical marijuana to environmental issues to restoration of civil rights. But we as Democrats have not done a good enough job running campaigns, and making sure we are on the same page as the rest of the people of our state. So we have to take some playbooks by the Republicans on the economy, on home rule, on the free market. But really weve got to rise above this chaos and this nonsense and be ready to fight. Theres no one out there who doesnt know that I am willing and able to throw punches. And most of the times I land them, and make the governor squirm every time that we are in the same room together. And thats what its going to take to stand up against this bully and show the people of our state that there is a better way to lead.

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