From The Great American State Fair — Party Lines Podcast (Full Episode)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen welcome to the stage curt bardella aaron mcguire chuck rocha and your host of the ashley davis podcast ashley davis they're on us we're on we're here we're alive we are live [00:00:20] Speaker 2: welcome to the ashley davis podcast also about that also known as the chuck rocha show or the party lines podcast with aaron mcguire and kurt bardella or the practically political podcast with me ashley and our dear friend dave spencer i feel like you're all going to find out very [00:00:38] Speaker 3: quickly we all have our own podcasts and we're here together to talk about politics and america [00:00:43] Speaker 2: it's very incestuous much like america oh wow weird to get weird early one two i think the most [00:00:50] Speaker 4: important part is what we have to say is this is a bipartisan group and we uh love each other in our real lives and we're able to spar okay but i do think that today is really about sitting here being able to be on stage in front of the capitol in front of the white house melting melting for sure that we are more importantly um here to celebrate our country and the 250 year births of america of the [00:01:22] Speaker 3: greatest nation the world has ever known and since a lot of people here may not be familiar with us why don't we go each round real quick and introduce ourselves chuck you are chuck rocha i'm here [00:01:35] Speaker 5: live and living colors glad to be here i uh run a podcast called the latino vote podcast i'm also a political operative and i'm also ashley's body guy and you're on cnn like every minute it's true with me [00:01:48] Speaker 4: with ashley that's right morning this morning this morning um i'm ashley davis i i am a republican and but also very reasonable republican and um live in washington dc i am in the uh consulting space mainly on i represent clients in front of the government aka meaning lobbying and uh but also do [00:02:15] Speaker 3: media and speaking i am erin mcguire i am a political operative and comms professional by trade i am also a republican i've worked for almost every republican major republican in the party at this point including president trump senator cruz senator thune former speaker mccarthy former speaker paul ryan senator ron johnson governor ron de santis you name it there's a republican i've probably worked with them at some point in some way and i also do media as well so if anybody is a gutfeld fan out here i watch that i am on that you do the gut very frequently we got a gutfeld fantasy all [00:02:51] Speaker 2: right i'm kurt bardella i'm a recovering my dad says you're very funny by the way thank you i'm uh aaron's mom's favorite political pundit you'll see me sometimes on ms now last night i was on cnn mom loves i'm a country music influencer that's what i'm best known for actually and uh i'm excited to be here with my my bipartisan friends we we can disagree without being disagreeable which i feel like is at the heart of what this country was founded upon and so to to to get us started out we have i pray i did a lot of notes he did none of these notes i wrote a whole page of stuff and [00:03:27] Speaker 3: he is gaslighting a woman to believing he wrote aaron likes to take credit for my work that's okay [00:03:32] Speaker 2: but i'm gonna stop i'm gonna ask chuck i'm gonna ask chuck first uh what's one thing america gets [00:03:38] Speaker 5: right that we don't appreciate enough i think how you can come here and change your life i think if you were born in america it's one of the greatest privileges uh i'm the democrat here with the cowboy hat and the boots but you know i was born in a trailer house in east texas to a 15 year old model and i've never been to college i have a criminal record i was a teenage father myself and i get to live one of the greatest lives ever because i was born in the greatest country ever and i think sometimes we take that for granted democrat republicans or independents actually what what do we get right [00:04:14] Speaker 4: that we don't we don't always appreciate i i actually a hundred percent think democracy everyone um talks about oh our country this our country that and the best story i have to say i see my husband and my son we had a a son uh someone visit us from congo when donald trump won in 2016 and he said to us do you realize that you had 50 of the country or whatever the numbers were that didn't vote for this president but no one is getting killed in the streets no one is um having anything happen to them yeah that um they accept the elections and you know i don't want to go into the other story but i mean like they um it was a hundred percent supportive of the fact that democracy works in our country and i think that's a really really important thing that we all need to appreciate someone from the congo that must have been mind-blowing yeah he said if someone would have lost in our country they would have been [00:05:17] Speaker 2: murdered on the street yeah yeah i see that aaron since you wrote the question credit to you oh now i get credit for the question what's your answer what what do we what don't we appreciate enough [00:05:27] Speaker 3: other than your wit and humor honestly i think it's our freedoms and i mean that as broadly as i can there is really no other country in the entire world where you get the freedom the opportunity the first amendment protections we get here in the united states truly don't exist anywhere else in the world our ability to be on this stage and disagree with each other and be friends and have these conversations as much as we do is purely only because we live in the united states i don't care if you live in canada or england you do not have the same freedoms guaranteed that we have here in the united states and i know for a fact we all take it for granted every single day that i can wake up and tell the world exactly what i think exactly how i feel in the exact voice i want to say it and piss kurt off every time and it's great it's great look at all the fun it does make you question [00:06:14] Speaker 2: the virtues of the first amendment listening oh but but no i i i i wholeheartedly agree with everything you just said aaron mcguire um and i think for me you know as someone who i was adopted you know wasn't even born here didn't go to college don't have a college education which doesn't surprise anyone who actually knows me the fact that on america's you know 250th anniversary i could be sitting here in the national mall with the u.s capital in backdrop you know the washington monument straight ahead uh and being able to participate in the exchange of free ideas differing opinions uh is something that as someone whose jobs it is is to talk and to disagree uh and and to stir the pot and offer conspiracy theories to make ashley laugh uh it is it is a really amazing thing that by the way i'm getting chills a little bit oh during oratory only here in america bringing the thrills um yeah but actually you brought up you know the issue of democracy and there's there's a lot of obviously conversation about democracy uh and where we are as a country aaron is democracy healthier than we think it is and the way that we talk about it on tv every day absolutely it is i again the same way i think we [00:07:26] Speaker 3: take our freedoms for granted as she mentions democracy i think that as well you know i i did an election night coverage in 2024 and i was asked you know what if kamala wins what if trump wins what does that mean for democracy what if trump wins is actually what i was asked on air what does that mean for democracy and i said it means democracy works it means that the voices of the people were effectuated in the way it was supposed to and if that meant that kamala won or it meant that president trump won it meant that we did what we were supposed to do as a country and we're allowed to express our voice and i always believe that our democracy functions so much better than again our freedoms and we're on autopilot so much in this country for our freedom we don't even realize it chuck [00:08:06] Speaker 2: is america is democracy healthier than we think it is or or are we on the bubble what do you think [00:08:10] Speaker 5: i think it ebbs and flows i think we become more patriotic during times when people come together and terrence point when we're on autopilot sometimes we don't think about it enough because we take it for granted like the story i just told about my family in east texas growing up on that farm like if you had asked me as a kid what democracy is i probably couldn't have told you because i didn't know because in texas you know the schools aren't the best schools that i went to we got a lot of texas history we never got a lot of us history yeah i find myself and i was telling ashley this other day of watching documentaries now about our history and about our forefathers history because it's so insightful to me now as a 57 year old grandfather i want to know that you would think well why would you want to know it now because you want to appreciate it and when i have these conversations with my grandsons you want to talk about that because our families come a long way from guanajuato mexico to my mama's family that came from kentucky like all of those stories are kind of woven into our democracy yeah you [00:09:05] Speaker 2: know ashley yeah you were in the white house on 9 11 um and you've had a front row seat to what it looks like when democracy is truly our way of life is truly under siege from an enemy who hates everything that we represent how did that experience color how you would see america and democracy going forward um [00:09:28] Speaker 4: i really think that even though we have so many different ideas we have so many people that we get so angry like we right now we're like in the middle of a uh midterm and everyone's like fighting against each other and are the democrats too socialist and the republicans too conservative but at the end of the day everyone rallies behind america and i actually think what's happening right now with fifa being in our country i love it right so i actually think that it's something it's not the mainstream media it's not that everyone's watching internationally saying oh my gosh america's so chaotic no there are people in our country and understand every day the freedoms that we have and i think i mean i'm very biased obviously towards president bush and in regards to what we were able to do after 9 11 and i'm a hundred percent agree that president trump loves our country as much as anybody else and that um and what he's done to be able to i mean look at this mall right now i mean look what we're looking at i mean this is something that is unbelievable and the capital behind us we could all fight but at the end of the day um people love america and i think that people rally behind that when there's a crisis you know what to [00:10:46] Speaker 3: that point it's almost like a family here in the united states where it's like no no i can talk bad about my mom you can't talk about my mom like that that's my mom like listen like i love my mother as many of you were here earlier kurt's my mom's favorite person in the world and but like if you said if you made a joke about my mom like no no i can make that joke about my mom it's kind of how we are in the u.s like no no we can all be in here but then if somebody else said something or did something [00:11:10] Speaker 4: in our country would be like excuse me exactly my son just got back from um overseas he was in africa for a couple weeks and he came home and he was just like wow like i think unless you experience other cultures like what we have is something that's amazing right yeah yeah chuck you know ashley [00:11:29] Speaker 2: mentioned a minute ago yeah we have the midterms coming up uh obviously a lot of the political conversation is is about that what's one issue that isn't getting enough attention enough oxygen that should be as we head towards again a very consequential decision turnout plummets in midterm years but i wish it wouldn't because what our legislators do in that building over there matters just as much as what happens across the street on pennsylvania avenue i think going back to democracy [00:11:57] Speaker 5: uh we take it for granted i won't talk about affordability because that's all the midterms will be about i'm not going to talk about trump putting his name on things in dc because that's what democrats would want to talk about what's the most underrated issue out there is something i think we take for granted and that's our public lands i do and spend a lot of time outside hunting and fishing [00:12:20] Speaker 3: and because we are lost the g right yeah that's how you know it's real like brian said love it every day [00:12:26] Speaker 5: when you do that again we take it for granted that that public land will be there for us to use which was why it was set aside you know i would again watching these documentaries and trying to get some learning and when i did it talked about all of the things of like us creating a national park so that our grandchildren my grandchildren that'll be 10 in october get to see these amazing things and i grew up really poor so we didn't really get to go see or have vacation at a national park we got to go to six flags and i'm glad my mama could afford that but now i'm getting to see it i'm getting to experience these national parks with my grandsons at the same time and because of that i think that that's an issue to where we should be protecting our public lands and our national parks at all costs now you would say well who would mess with that well the folks in that building back there have had bad ideas before and there's lots of corporations and people with money that would like to have access to that pristine land because it's a great place to put a hotel or to build an airport maybe if you watch yellowstone but i think that's an issue that we should talk more about which is our public lands [00:13:25] Speaker 3: and protecting them aaron what do you think honestly i think truly the most underreported thing going into the midterms is going to be ultimately you know ultimately i don't actually think that there's an underreported thing and when i wrote the question i was trying to actually figure it out for myself like you like the you know public lands are important but when i think about it we've talked about redistricting so much that's going to be so monumental in these midterms but also what hasn't been talked about yet because it just happened today is that fec was the supreme court ruling on fec versus the national republican senatorial committee when it comes to coordinating campaign funds between committees and campaigns when it comes to underreporting that change right now in the ability to remove the barriers between coordination i think that's going to be one of the most underreported things because this is going to change the game big all the money going into november ashley what aren't we [00:14:19] Speaker 4: talking enough about i i actually think that the president does a good job on this but i also think that we don't talk about our military enough i really don't think i think it's become politicized because of various you know whether we agree if we're in you know iran or or we're actually even in ukraine i mean i actually think that we need to all recognize that we have the best military in the world and that we should thank these people that are serving our country every day and that to me is something that's more important that is the backbone of our country and i know under the bush days we and i'm not saying the democrats do not appreciate oh yes you are i'm not i'm saying though um i know what george bush did for the military i think president trump's done a lot for the military i think you know i do think that it's the best thing that we have in our country i think that one thing [00:15:20] Speaker 2: that we don't spend enough time talking about is our kids um you know everything that we decide everything that we do every policy that's enacted will have a larger impact on on our kids and the next generation than the one that that that is happening right now at this time um you know and just again speaking as someone who spends almost all of my life revolves around getting our kids to point a to point b getting to the right schools preparing them for the future all those things student aid and and the cost of of of actual living life uh i feel like the political conversation at times doesn't talk [00:15:53] Speaker 3: enough about that's my microphone about our kids aaron what are you breaking i'm throwing stuff [00:15:57] Speaker 2: around what did you expect my god oh i can't just sit in a chair with that um you know we're here right now four of us we're we are what you would call washington insiders uh but we are here amongst you know just the american people as they check out the exhibits like we're so different than them but this is a juxtaposition you know when people talk about the swamp when people talk about the insiders they're talking about folks like us what do we get wrong most do you think oh it's the acela [00:16:27] Speaker 3: corridor mentality that life only exists between dc and new york i gotta tell you i can't l.a yeah especially and i mean this as kindly as i can reporters during campaign cycles when they get out into texas when they get into iowa when they get into wisconsin and michigan they're like wow everything we're talking about on the news is not what they're talking about in real life i think that happens every cycle and it's happening yet again because i it's their instinct that that the power centers are the only thing that matters and then they get out and they're like oh who knew it's that idea of [00:17:01] Speaker 2: touching grass yeah naturally as someone who straddles that line of like real life parenting like you know what it's like to take your kid on a college tour and to prepare him to take that next step in life but you also know what it's like to be amongst the elite in the yeah and the insiders and everything that goes on in the acela corridor what are we missing what's the disconnect between the two [00:17:20] Speaker 4: words chuck actually brings this home to me all the time when we're together because he's like what we're talking about even whether it's whatever channel we're on it is not what the rest of the the world's talking about and i do think if i go home you know i'm from a small town outside of pittsburgh when i go home they're talking about beef prices they're talking about their electric bill they're talking about how they're going to get uh pay for x y and z whatever it is and we miss that here so we're talking about the elitism i think about how this bill becomes a law that actually no one cares about all they're caring about is how they're going to pay for tomorrow or for tonight and so i think we miss it completely and i know you have a lot to say about it i do you're gonna make my eye twitch [00:18:07] Speaker 5: both parties get this wrong when we talk about working families i don't think republicans have any idea what a working family is just like i don't think a democratic socialist does i think if you've got a red white and blue hat on you got your face painted you got a let's go brandon flag i don't think i don't i don't think that the press understands or people in dc to answer the question specifically understand those people yeah just like the opposite i don't think a woman with a master's degree with purple hair with a ring in her nose in new york city understands working people in both of those dc will tell you are the working class of each party when working class ain't got time to be at a donald trump rally right and they don't have time to have the privilege of having a master's degree so i think that that's where we get that wrong is that we assume because people in dc have not touched grass or been separated from the privilege of what a lot of people have here you know the privilege don't make them bad people right my wife gets in my ass all the time about just because somebody's doing something don't mean that they're not well-intentioned they may not know no better to my mamaw's point right but they just i think that's why i'm a good political consultant because it wasn't that long ago i had a truck repo and i remember the feeling of walking outside my truck being gone that's real and i think people in dc have gotten away from real [00:19:21] Speaker 4: yeah by the way i i we were on this morning with a candidate and i i'm not going to call him out but he was talking about how bad it is that elon musk became a trillionaire and how horrible it is because of all this x y and z and i'm like i i didn't say anything because it wasn't we weren't part of the conversation but the point is is elon musk made his money why is that bad i understand that there's people in this country that are suffering of course they are and everyone should give back but why are we going to underestimate people's growth and ability to succeed in this country that's what we were built [00:20:00] Speaker 2: on sure sure you know aaron and chuck you guys are your political operatives um aren't we chuck yes [00:20:06] Speaker 3: we are chuck likes to say on tv that he's a political operative and i have to remind him that i am as well because there are a lot of people who do tv who call themselves you mess up one time this is like every other damn life they never let you forget it yeah heck yeah heck yeah tv is forever never gonna let him forget it and i can tell you i'm one of the few chuck and i are one of the few political consultants who actually still do political consulting that say they're political consultants on tv there are a lot of people who pretend they are or get that chyron and it's like make believe at this point it'd be [00:20:34] Speaker 2: like if i said i was in a client in decades um but my question is why is it that we have so many people on both sides of the aisle who are really good at campaigning but suck at governing because it's easy to be [00:20:50] Speaker 3: splashy sometimes than it is to be thoughtful and so like it's it sometimes it's easier for people to do that kind of pithy thing and do a good video and also if you've never legislated if you don't know the process it takes to actually make a bill of law it there is a lot to it so i think it is like that you could you could either be some people have both that's a true political talent yep yep but yeah most people have one they're either good they're either good one way or good the other and you got to try to make up for the deficit where you can what do you think chuck look after watching sure she wants [00:21:24] Speaker 2: to ask a question uh that is not in our purview uh the staging of the signing uh uh but but just just because you asked uh i'm kurt bardella that's erin mcguire that's ashley davis that's chuck rocca we got we got two democrats two republicans yeah we were podcast hosts yeah yeah so we have two pod we have three podcasts on this stage right now we have party lines which is being errant practically political which is me ashley uh and her dear friend dave spencer who couldn't be here today um and then uh uh and chuck you and mike mike madrid great consultant as well you have a podcast and it's called latino vote podcast there you go um and you also see these guys all of us were on cable news a lot these guys were on cnn together this morning she's on fox we'll be on fox uh this evening this evening as a matter of fact i was on cnn last night um we all have worked in politics public democrat politics for a better part of two decades yeah i i i understand i i couldn't agree more again outside our pay grade yeah i know [00:22:33] Speaker 5: let's keep going so let's get all right so to answer your question about the government again back to me watching these documentaries let me tell you about some history so what i've learned is is that purposefully the government has been set up to work slow the house of the people is supposed to be reactionary to the people they work a little faster right but when it gets to the senate people complain but it's set up like that so folks can't change this democracy or the government in a very quick way that's why we protect the filibuster and to erin's point there are politicians who are really good at campaigning that are horrible at legislating and i've elected a lot of nerds that are wonderful legislators but i had to bring them kicking and screaming as a campaign because they are as exciting as dirt and get look fundraising with someone yeah to get them across the board so i think finding that and what's interesting about that is presidential politics are different because you're not a legislature so you can ride on vibes and i am an unpopular democrat sometimes because i give donald trump this credit that he's a great campaigner but also in the same vein in a different way barack obama was that both of these two men brought lots of new people to bear in my industry which was going and getting votes which i find fascinating to study and to figure out how did you do that is because they touched a nerve in the [00:23:52] Speaker 2: american electorate that we don't see that often yeah absolutely ashley what's one problem if you can wave your magic wand and be in control of the world what's one problem that you think that both parties should solve and could solve that they just don't well i don't know if it's both parties that can [00:24:12] Speaker 4: solve it but i think what's hindering our legislative process right now is social media and the 24-hour news source and i know we can't get rid of it and i can't wave my my magic wand but the reason that we're so polarizing is everyone's talking in 10 second bites everyone's talking in 30 second bites right and but also the good part of that is every single person that's elected on the hill right now it talks every day every hour to their constituents so they're held accountable which is what you see there's all these people that are going to be switching probably this year because people are tired of the status quo however i do think that it also hinders being able to get something done because if you're if you're always talking to the next sound bite you can't agree or make a deal to [00:24:59] Speaker 2: get actually anything passed yeah yeah that makes sense um aaron what's one issue that washington [00:25:05] Speaker 3: insiders obsess over that real people don't everything yeah i mean honestly yeah ashley's completely right uh washington insiders obsess about the media echo chamber and the american people don't care honestly there are things that drive the news cycle up here that caused like the biggest freakouts in the world and 99 of the country have no clue i'll text my cousin amanda and be like hey did you hear this sometimes just to get my own reality check because well we can all be guilty of disassociating with [00:25:36] Speaker 2: reality sometimes being in the you are definitely a big never mind i am not a swamp creature yet but i also [00:25:45] Speaker 4: think how many people if you went out to america how many people would know who the speaker of the house is yeah zero who is it mike johnson oh yeah that guy no but seriously no it's true not even a [00:25:58] Speaker 5: quarter of a percent yeah let me answer the question because i think it's a really good one and there's really an issue i wrote it myself is the issue of immigration people will think of that as a real polarizing issue but it's one of the few issues where the chamber of commerce yeah and labor unions who are arch enemies agree yep that there should be a legalized efficient pathway to citizenship for lots of people who want to come here like my parents did for a better life yep but both parties i'll do both parties here and for different reasons but it's both parties have used the issue as a political issue not to actually care about solving the issue and because of this thing in our pocket and what you talked about with algorithms that are supposed to make us hate each other as democrats and republicans that issue is used as a wedge we use it to say they hate us and look what they're doing the other sides are like we're using this for this issue but it's one of the few issues where business and labor and lots of folks are like yeah we should fix this once and for all but it will did not be a political [00:26:55] Speaker 2: issue like it's both parties has used yeah we have a lot of issues that end up kind of getting held hostage that actually the majority of americans very much agree on and the only place where there is disagreement is in that building over there exactly there's profitability i mean the housing bill is an [00:27:11] Speaker 3: example right that passed with massive bipartisan support and is just waiting to the 10-day period [00:27:17] Speaker 4: so i think what we should do next and i'm gonna put my i'm gonna put my matching hat but i think we should do our spangled freedoms we should do our round robin uh flashing lights yeah terrible talk okay [00:27:37] Speaker 5: i'm not gonna take my clothes off yeah i don't want to go take an article of clothing you better get these [00:27:43] Speaker 3: right this is what everybody wants it's good this is for you what you came for it looks cute it does [00:27:50] Speaker 4: i mean you're all about matching i know look at the two of you look at these guys he's gonna wear that [00:27:56] Speaker 2: on tv the other day that's gonna be the christmas part i get from you guys this year all right lightning [00:28:00] Speaker 4: round let's go lightning round for the last part for making sure that we are a hundred percent historians [00:28:07] Speaker 5: yes i can't read but i just started learning i was watching netflix oh never mind let's do it [00:28:12] Speaker 3: who is the most underrated president dwight eisenhower oh wow i ran out of the gate i love dwight eisenhower i think he's been an extraordinary president and i think even before his time the work he did as the general commander and leading into d-day plus the work he tried to do to help jfk before he went into his administration i think eisenhower is one of the most underrated president god you're a [00:28:32] Speaker 4: nerd i love dwight eisenhower madison huh james madison absolutely so bill of rights really he was also author of the federalist papers obviously one of the founding fathers i think he's very underrated [00:28:45] Speaker 5: got it chuck lyndon b johnson oh i think he is because he went against his own party and some of his own quote-unquote culture to see through kennedy's legacy after he got shot yeah i'm gonna go more [00:28:58] Speaker 2: how about that i saw that hw bush is incredibly underrated i actually was gonna say that first [00:29:06] Speaker 5: and i decided to switch yeah yeah yeah i like the w president now that that one because he does he does the drawings all right all right who is the most overrated president obama oh come on you [00:29:19] Speaker 3: want to ask me my opinion i'm gonna give it i was asking ashley i didn't that wasn't on the list [00:29:25] Speaker 4: she's not gonna answer that question okay no not the most overrated president most overrated politician okay fine is gavin newsom oh love that boy right now okay you're here and now we're throwing [00:29:36] Speaker 3: heaters chuck you can do politician or president sure okay ted cruz oh i will fight you on that one super smart he is brilliant yeah i'm not that's why i don't like him he's absolutely brilliant one of [00:29:52] Speaker 5: the most brilliant people i've ever met yes it all depends some people said i'm brilliant i've never [00:29:56] Speaker 3: been to college uh absolutely brilliant i actually think he's pretty underrated for out wearing it yes agree fascinated again my opinion see we all get a little banged up around here oh i didn't like that okay next okay who is wait who did you say yeah who did you say whoa i was just moving on for for no yeah you're gonna grill us let's go homeboy all right i think that the most overrated president [00:30:19] Speaker 4: is john f kennedy and i'll leave it at that oh overrated okay okay i think that's fair i think that's [00:30:25] Speaker 2: fair i would make a joke but i won't um best political speech okay wait i wrote this down [00:30:32] Speaker 3: reagan after the challenger exploded oh that was a great speech i know oh mine was gonna be mine was gonna be reagan at normandy he gave a speech on the beaches about the boys of normandy it was really [00:30:44] Speaker 5: great yep yep yep chuck best political speech you've ever heard uh young obama at the boston convention [00:30:50] Speaker 4: 2004 that was on my list too 2004 was that you were what'd you do like i said he took his clothes off [00:30:58] Speaker 5: what does chuck always do when he get after i took my clothes back on i sat on the steps because there [00:31:02] Speaker 4: were no seats that's what you remember did you know no that was the kick of his political future [00:31:09] Speaker 2: yeah like when you you're there a lot like when you heard that speech did you know like no no again [00:31:15] Speaker 5: i'm not that smart when it comes to history and things i didn't know what i was listening to i just thought it was the best thing i'd ever heard and then after i got older i appreciate it more because i've been around so many horrible speeches about politicians i was like a lot of bad ones what about like the [00:31:27] Speaker 2: gettysburg address that's obvious we're going we're going more modern in our life in our life okay what was yours uh george w bush at 9 11. yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah rubble's probably the greatest speech [00:31:40] Speaker 4: i've ever yeah yeah yeah i agree no that's that's fair that's fair best political comeback not named donald trump no you skipped one okay okay good i'm gonna dance to it okay okay who's going what is the most political comes no i was gonna say trump trump's the most best political comeback ever [00:32:01] Speaker 3: the best political comeback listen like it or lump it kevin mccarthy that was yeah kevin mccarthy i worked for speed i worked for kevin mccarthy i obviously think he's a brilliant man but the way he stayed in leadership had one of the fastest rise in leadership history became the speaker had no shutdowns had a deficit reducing bill elected the most veterans females and minorities to the [00:32:23] Speaker 2: republicans in the house history kevin mccarthy yeah the 15 ballot like the juggernaut yeah i got [00:32:30] Speaker 5: one i got one it's gonna throw you off you can take it off okay thank you it's hot it's hot i spent a career making commercials against george w bush about the war in iraq yep and about all the things and making fun of him about all of his family and eat that smart and all of that i love him now the new george bush that's funny and he's always picking for what it's worth he was always like that right i didn't never give credit right and but now i see him i'm like man i like that guy yeah yeah yeah yeah mean [00:32:59] Speaker 4: the best political comeback uh was joe biden in the primary uh i'm not sure if that was a comeback [00:33:10] Speaker 2: just like everyone was scared of bernie sanders but he was on the bernie sanders campaign you had to go back and look at where we were politically in that process and he was left for dead i mean truly like no money the call was made to get everybody to drop out yes exactly exactly which is gonna happen [00:33:26] Speaker 4: again i think mine but anyway okay best campaign slogan happy days are here again who was that [00:33:36] Speaker 3: i have no idea roosevelt i was happy days are here again okay all right um i for what it's worth i you might i ted cruz during the 2016 campaign his logo was trusted trusted i actually liked i thought that i was like all right well done it's not jet it's not exclamation point jump exclamation it was trusted [00:33:59] Speaker 5: i like it trusted okay yes but i'll always like not me us like bernie's thing in 2020 was that [00:34:06] Speaker 4: it's not about me it's about us you guys need to go into history although what about i like ike [00:34:11] Speaker 2: i mean i that's a great i don't know but i didn't want to school or it's iconic i was gonna say high hopes kennedy high hopes sinatra turned it into a song like what was reagan's like morning morning in america [00:34:23] Speaker 4: morning in america okay there's two more that i wrote down it's the economy this is the economy economy's gonna be stupid i know that was james carville more than it was uh um clinton but the other one this is the best one ever and it wasn't a campaign slogan but the sore loser man stuff that came out after bush won in 2000 it was over lieberman the sore loser man was like the best i do can't make for a living i ain't never i've never heard that one i don't know what you're talking [00:34:52] Speaker 3: about you're a nerd just so you know okay actually proud nerd you're so excited about this random [00:34:59] Speaker 2: trivia um okay who is the political figure you like to most have dinner with uh that is a really tough question i don't like any of these guys enough to want to have a meal with them [00:35:17] Speaker 3: we're not modern guys but let's go back i would think like i grant i'm thinking margaret thatcher well yeah i just think that would be such an interesting conversation and the crowd goes wild yes [00:35:28] Speaker 4: thank you the iron lady what do you think yeah i mean that's really queen elizabeth oh that would [00:35:35] Speaker 2: be interesting early queen elizabeth that would be really interesting i don't know i mean i knew [00:35:40] Speaker 5: i knew edward kennedy fairly well and when he was a senator and there's so much even though some may think he's overrated you know when when when the kennedys when the brothers were in the white house like to watch that power dynamic again netflix history uh i'd like to have seen that i'd like to have been there to have dinner with them yeah because they were young i mean they were 35 and i had a kid when i was 19. i can't imagine like running a country and doing that when i'm 35 so i'd like to have dinner and ask you know i get that netflix will only get you i'm 37 and i'm terrified about [00:36:14] Speaker 3: the idea that i'm eligible to run for president like we gotta raise the standards we gotta raise standards that's that's mortifying to think about i'm like the grandmother i think the person i would [00:36:24] Speaker 2: actually enjoy having dinner with the most it was probably george w bush and all that's a great one [00:36:29] Speaker 4: i bet you w be a great dinner partner uh he is a really good dinner partner and he's fun yeah and [00:36:34] Speaker 2: you know probably more fun when he drank yeah heck yeah what historical event you wish you could witness [00:36:40] Speaker 5: in person berlin wall all the berlin wall yeah the alamo oh man you can't take the texas out of you chuck i would like to have been out of filled rocks and cheap stuff stuff so i know it sounds weird but [00:36:56] Speaker 3: i would actually like to have been there when the british burned the capital because i'd be standing there going good luck guys i know how this ends i'm going to tell you how this ends it ain't good [00:37:03] Speaker 2: for your inner time machine i'll be like just judge good luck friends no i wanted to see you burn the [00:37:08] Speaker 3: fireplace here yeah i know the marks in the capital from what you guys did and then be like watch how [00:37:11] Speaker 2: this ends just like saying they're eating popcorn i think uh i think being at the shot heard around the world would have been really cool that would just just know well yeah my time is she'd be like [00:37:21] Speaker 4: or the boston tea party yes i'd be like let's go kings they're gonna do with the word tea party a [00:37:26] Speaker 3: hundred years later but uh yes it'll be an activist okay this is our grand finale [00:37:32] Speaker 2: and it's full choreography no i'm kidding yes one prediction for american politics over the next 10 years [00:37:40] Speaker 5: no need to bother tv advertising will become at some point less than 50 percent of where we spend our [00:37:48] Speaker 3: money it's the most political consulting wow i've ever heard and we talk about inside baseball we're [00:37:53] Speaker 4: talking about chuck rocha chuck you're just gonna move the money outside that he's talking about media buys [00:38:00] Speaker 2: and that will define the next decade nobody's here y'all go ahead and that's why they call him the operative [00:38:06] Speaker 4: yeah tv um i think people are going to continue to appreciate our country even though that we and i'm going to leave this on a high note even though we're all bickering or the outside world thinks that we're crazy signals i'm sure enough my muscles um i know but i um i actually think the fifa being here again show a case in our country not in new york and in la and miami are a real part of our country i think the olympics will do it again even though it's mainly in la but just really show the fabric of our country and i think that it's going to continue to grow and admiration all right what's [00:38:48] Speaker 3: gonna happen next 10 years well i do agree with ashley i think that this like run up right now between fifa and the olympics i think that the u.s is getting almost like a rewrite globally of what people believe about our country um i also listen i'm going to take a little bit more of a controversial turn here and i will not be surprised in the next 10 years if democrats do not aggressively advocate to have non-us citizens be able to run for president of the united states non-us-born citizens run for president of the united states well didn't obama do that well no it depends who you ask not me um but you get my point though like i wouldn't like i've said it before i think that like democrats are going to try to push for zarin mandami to be able to run okay that's aaron's crazy conspiracy theory for it's not a conspiracy when it happens y'all are going to be like i heard that girl on that stage [00:39:30] Speaker 2: said that months ago that's exactly what they're all going to be thinking this guy knows this guy this guy will definitely be thinking here all right uh prediction for the next 10 years uh one lebron james will never win an nba championship ever again the buffalo bills will win a super bowels will win a super bowl if there is a god no bills uh donald trump will try to run for a third term no but that's not the right so wrong show wrong show sorry uh something aspirational about the [00:39:55] Speaker 4: next 10 years we'll still be here doing this yeah i'll be i will be 61 and so i will not be 45 [00:40:06] Speaker 2: thank you everybody all right thanks for being here thanks for watching waitresses and your bartenders america and watch this on youtube yeah and go okay so thanks for watching uh practically political ashley davis party lines with aaron mcguire and myself what [00:40:20] Speaker 5: the hell is name of your thing again chuck wrote you live tonight at the saturday night live there you [00:40:24] Speaker 2: go thanks for listening to the ashley davis podcast yay i get naked come take a picture with me y'all [00:40:52] Speaker ?: you