Wait! We thought that, according to Dems and the MSM, it's Donald Trump, with his rhetoric, who is inciting violence. Okay, yeah, he's been the target of two assassination attempts. But mean tweets!
Sunday's episode of MSNBC's The Weekend invited on Dem Rep. Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania, whose Pittsburgh district isn't far from Butler County, the site of one of those assassination attempts. Deluzio was there to attack Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy for their DOGE undertaking, particularly their proposal to abolish Elizabeth Warren's creation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Said Deluzio:
"For too long, Democrats were all about always finding some win-win framing. And you know what? Sometimes there's a villain. Sometimes there's a bad guy, and you got to punch him in the mouth and fight for your people. We need more of that in the Democratic party.
So, Democrats have been too nice to Republicans. Riight! In fact, the Dems' political opponents are "villains" and "bad guys" who must be "punch[ed] in the mouth," and "we need more of that in the Democratic party."
Talk about inciting violence!
And far from reprimanding Deluzio for his inflammatory rhetoric, co-host Michael Steele, while laughably calling himself a "small-government conservative," bemoaned the prospective abolition of the CFPB and other agencies on the DOGE list. Steele proclaimed "over the years, Republicans have become delusional when it comes to government. And that has become manifest in the appointment of these two misfits, as part of this menagerie that Donald Trump is putting in place."
Introducing the segment, co-host Alicia Menendez warned that Musk and Ramaswamy are Trump's picks "to completely gut the federal government." If only! If the duo manages to chip a few agencies and a couple of trillion dollars off the federal behemoth, that will be a huge accomplishment!
Deluzio, dripping with ambition, positioned himself as the tough guy fighter. He bragged that "guys like me are going to fight to bring down costs." And Democrats ought to be looking to folks who are willing to fight for people and against some folks." You know: folks like me!!
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
The Weekend
12/1/24
8:16 am ETALICIA MENENDEZ: This coming week, House Republicans will meet with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, Trump's picks to completely gut the federal government, despite never having worked in the federal government.
One of the duo's new targets, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, surprising no one. Project 2025 called for the CFPB to be shut down too. Democratic Congressman, Chris Deluzio, denounced that move, saying, "Of course the billionaire crowd wants to kill a government watchdog that saves folks money from fraudsters and crooks."
Congressman Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvani joins us now. Good morning, Congressman.
MICHAEL STEELE: How do you see this whole DOGE thing playing out, and what exactly can Democrats do to at least let the American people know that when, you know, CFPB goes and other agencies disappear, that all the things that protected them, all the things that they have come to rely on in terms of a properly functioning government, go away?
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CHRIS DELUZIO: Donald Trump is going to put billionaires in charge of protecting all of us and doing the things that they're going to do to make life more expensive? If that's the lesson they learned from the election, we're going to crush them in two years at the polls.
The American people do not want to get ripped off. They think life is too expensive. And guys like me are going to fight to bring down costs, and fight the billionaire handouts that it seems that Donald Trump is going to be doing again in the second term of his.
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I think Democrats ought to be looking to folks who are willing to fight for people and against some folks.
I have talked about, for too long, Democrats were all about always finding some win-win framing. And you know what? Sometimes there's a villain. Sometimes there's a bad guy, and you got to punch him in the mouth and fight for your people. We need more of that in the Democratic Party.
STEELE: Yeah. You know, it's interesting for me. Having grown up in Washington, DC, I'm, I'm not a big government guy. I'm a small government conservative. I believe in the proper role and function of government. It has a place. What is frustrating is that, over the years, Republicans have become delusional when it comes to government. And that has become manifest in the appointment of these two misfits, as part of this menagerie that Donald Trump is putting in place.
