Dive into the intense dialogue surrounding Texas Democrats and their recent decision to leave the state. Hosts explore the motives behind the move, the potential political implications, and whether this is a truly courageous act or a theatrical performance for the public. As Republicans face criticism from their own ranks, the tension between intent and impact is starkly laid out. Through lively debate, the hosts provide a nuanced perspective on the political maneuvering happening under this highly charged event.
A run, run, run, run, runaway. It was either this or Bon Jovi. I need a runaway songs. The Texas Democrat theme, Del Shannon, 1961. Run, run, run, run, run. But Mike, they’re not fleeing. They’re fighting. They’re drawing a line. They’re standing up. They’re warriors. They’re true tellers. It’s courage. It’s a profile in courage, Mike. We just have this wrong. We’ve just got this wrong.
SPEAKER 02 :
And we’ve got the right characters involved. J.B. Pritzker, he’s putting them up at the Hyatt. He’s got a lot of hotels. He’s the heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, right? Great. And I guess he still owns a bunch. I don’t know how that works. I don’t care. But he’s likely going to house them. Kathy Hochul is fighting back against Texas. Look, you all have picked a fight with the most fearsome Democrats out there. Gavin Newsom is very mad at you, Texas. Oh, no. Yep, Gavin Newsom, Governor Hairgel, is not happy with the state of Texas. He thinks it’s outrageous what you’re doing. Now, look, here’s what I keep asking, and I’m listening to every word of you today because I want to find out what you’re – I get it. You’ll believe it when you see it. If Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton’s promises are just performative – That’s going to be a big problem, Mark. Then it becomes a Republican problem, not a Democrat problem. We get who they are. They’re sleazy. They’re cowardly. They’re a bunch of lily-livered, weak-kneed, spineless pieces of jello. So go hide at the Hyatt house in Chicago and play poker until the wee hours of the night and drink out of your boxes of wine and think you’re doing something big, Democrats. But Greg Abbott has a chance to do something about it. Will he? Will we? Will Texas act? Because how does this end? There’s going to be a vote at some point. It might be December.
SPEAKER 01 :
I don’t think it’ll play out that long. It could.
SPEAKER 02 :
When’s the session come back?
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, we’re in a special session that ends in about two weeks. In two weeks. But then he can call another one. He can call special sessions as often or as much as he wishes. Got it. Got it. So, okay.
SPEAKER 02 :
So how does it play out? Seriously, let’s, you and me, let’s take all the emotion out of this. Let’s just take all of the rhetoric out. Let’s ask a heartfelt good faith question. What’s the purpose of doing this? In other words, what is the actual, literal, technical reason you have 51 Democrats leave the state to break a quorum? What’s the goal here? What do they think is going to happen? This is going to go away? There will never be another vote on redistricting? There won’t be? What’s the goal, Mark? What are they trying to do?
SPEAKER 01 :
First, on the number, there are indeed 51 Democrats who are not in Austin. The suspicion is there are more of them lurking in Texas than you or I know, which does place them within the jurisdiction of the DPS officers, meaning they can be zip-tied and brought back to the Capitol Dome. I’ll believe that when I see it. So they may not all be in Chicago, et cetera, et cetera. You’ve asked the perfect question. Since it is futile, since this is ultimately doomed, It is the word you used. It is performative on their side. It is so that they can give it because they’ve got nothing. This is what we talked about yesterday. But they wouldn’t say that. Of course they wouldn’t say that because they’re not honest. I’m honest on their behalf. All right, lie for them. What will the lie be? We are fighting. We are doing our best to protect Texans and protect Americans from the tyranny of Donald Trump. Texas Republicans are in his thrall. They are kissing the ring. They are doing his bidding. They are kneeling at his altar, etc.
SPEAKER 02 :
Okay, Debbie Democrat, we get that. But I’ve got to ask you, Debbie, what is your endgame? We get what you don’t like about the Republicans, and we get what you don’t like about redistricting. You’re terrified because you’re never going to win the House again if it all goes through. What is your endgame, Debbie Democrat? What would you like to accomplish here?
SPEAKER 01 :
You know what you’re using in asking for an endgame, Mike? Earth logic? Earth logic. Exactly right. There’s no endgame, Mike. Come on, man. There’s no endgame. We’re just doing this for… In a childlike fashion, they’re looking no farther than the end of their own nose, looking no farther than this day of news cycle, hoping that they get just a couple of blissful days of getting some honor of being in a fighting stance against evil, tyrannical Trump and evil, tyrannical Republicans because that distracts from the total… vacancy of their policy position.
SPEAKER 02 :
Who’s your favorite Democrat caller? You’ve got a couple, right? You’ve got some regulars, right? Sure, sure, sure. I love them. So let’s call on them. In fact, right now, we’re streaming this segment as we speak at Gallagher Show on X. We stream the Eminem Experience live every day. I urge you to follow us at Gallagher Show. You’ll see, you know, Mark wearing his Texas Longhorn shirt. I’ve got my… Salem News Channel mandated blue, plain blue shirt and a solid brown coat. No, no, no plaid coats for me anymore. So you can see it. Oh, yeah. Many, many memos. So you can go to at Gallagher show on X right now and post a comment. If you’re a Democrat, if you’re a loyal opposition to everything that Mark Davis and Mike Gallagher and the state of Texas Republicans believe. Tell us what the literal goal of the Democrats is.
SPEAKER 01 :
Or to streamline it, honestly. We both have text lines. Mine is 866-660-5759. Shoot us a couple of lines of text. I’ll read them on the fly as we go.
SPEAKER 02 :
And my text line is 800, like we’re competing. My text line is bigger than yours. Yes, it is.
SPEAKER 1 :
800.
SPEAKER 02 :
What’s because it’s the MyPillow text line? Size matters. Yes.
SPEAKER 1 :
800.
SPEAKER 02 :
It’s what you do with it, Mike. That’s right. It’s how you use it. And I’m really proud of the way we use our text line. We’re thoughtful. We’re loving. We care. We really care about our text line. We put a lot of thought into it. 800-655-MIKE. Lloyd, if you’re watching, Mark, you’re turning all kinds of shades of red right now.
SPEAKER 01 :
I am. 800.
SPEAKER 02 :
800-655-6453 or call. So we’ve given you three ways, Democrats, to tell us what the actual, not the rhetorical. How does this sort of work out well for you? Right. What do you think you’re going to accomplish by doing this? And we’re all ears. Meanwhile, isn’t Alex Stein from Texas?
SPEAKER 01 :
I guess. Oh, God. Are we going to do this?
SPEAKER 02 :
Come on. Oh, you didn’t enjoy it? Did you see yesterday what he did on MSNBC?
SPEAKER 01 :
I hate it. Oh, come on. Lighten up, Gladys. I don’t hate it. I don’t hate it. It will never be my cup of tea. For those that don’t know, this is a satirist prankster who did Troll. Exactly. Is there an entertainment thing to it? It’s a movie I don’t like. It’s a song I don’t like. He has he has a fan base. I don’t I don’t I don’t quarrel with any of that. There were two things. His main thing is to show up at various hearings, city council meetings, legislative things where where people sign up to speak. And he abuses that privilege or that right by by making it his bit. And that’s part of what makes me crazy is is just such a scold. I haven’t seen. Karen. I guess. Karen Davis. I guess. And the other thing. So showing up, and it’s often stupid. It is occasionally funny. Funny is funny. But it’s not my cup of tea. And the other thing was, and I guess I’m going to catch holy you-know-what for this. MSNBC, stand up. They’re doing a thing. Got a reporter. Here I am. And he shows up and yells at them while they’re live. Let’s play it. Let’s play it. Get your reaction up.
SPEAKER 02 :
Here it is. I don’t even know the name of the reporter. The funniest part, though, is the technician who tries to wrangle Alex away when Alex sticks his big mug in front of the camera. Here’s how it sounded.
SPEAKER 03 :
We just watched the speaker dabble out with a whole lot of anger, Kelly. Here’s the state of play. MSNBC sucks. MSNBC sucks. MSNBC sucks.
SPEAKER 01 :
Sometimes this happens, and we understand that that can happen. So great. What’s wrong with you? The worst thing you can do about comedy is overanalyze it, so I’m going to do this. I don’t want to say it quote unquote makes us look bad. It doesn’t. Everybody’s an individual. They do what they want to do. And does MSNBC suck? Of course they do. So he speaks truth. There’s defense in speaking truth. Truth to power, baby. And I know it’s not apples and apples, but if a lib troll came up upon Peter Doocy on Fox. They do it all the time. I know. And what do we think? We go, wow, look at that idiot.
SPEAKER 02 :
So let the left on MSNBC, let the leftist viewers say, look at that idiot. But tell me that isn’t funny. And here’s the best part.
SPEAKER 01 :
Here’s the best part. I’m sorry, I hate it.
SPEAKER 02 :
Oh, you’re an old, come on, you’re being an old woman today.
SPEAKER 01 :
What’s wrong with you? Put your hair up in curlers. I’m not Mr. Straight Lace. Get off my lawn! I’m going to get off my lawn, little boy. Oh, come on. Have some fun. There is conservative satire. Oh, please. Gutfeld is a conservative satirist who makes us look good. This doesn’t make us look bad. There’s not an ounce of cleverness to it. Oh, come on. It is of zero. Zero value. You’re humorless. Listen, I begrudge him nothing. He’s got clicks and followers.
SPEAKER 02 :
So the best part is when they carry him out. They push him away.
SPEAKER 01 :
Whatever it is.
SPEAKER 02 :
They go back to New York. The anchor woman says, and she’s very obviously flummoxed and she’s stumbling. And then she goes back to the reporter a second time saying, okay, we’ve got the scene cleared. It’s cleared now. Let’s go back to Bob Smith on location. They go back to whatever his name is. And then Alex is back. He’s in the background. MSNBC sucks. They do it all over again. I mean, come on, Mark.
SPEAKER 01 :
I’ll give you partial credit. The reporter was Ryan Chandler. Ryan Chandler. Okay, if you hadn’t have brought it up, I wouldn’t have because that’s how basically little I care. But if you do bring it up, this will never be my favorite thing. All right. So I got a Democrat answer. I got an answer.
SPEAKER 02 :
As my Denise used to say. Yeah. Gallagher, you are a little, little man. Maybe I’m proving it to you.
SPEAKER 01 :
Here’s a possible. Democrats are going to capitalize on the spinelessness of the Republicans. The goal for Democrats. Here’s another one. Delay and run out the clock. And there’s a chance that it works if the courts get involved. How can you run out the clock? The legislature doesn’t cease to exist. No, but I guess it involves coming up against our primary date. November is when your deadline for primaries. I know, but your deadline for announcing you’re going to run and everything is November. I don’t think they can run out the clock. You get to a point where if the things are not redrawn, you pretty well have to have next year’s elections with the congressional seats as they stand without them having been changed.
SPEAKER 02 :
Let me bounce another thing that you might not like either. Maybe the New York Post cover won’t be your favorite thing.
SPEAKER 01 :
Oh, is it African American meets Indian American? African American meets Native American. So you think it’s a black guy and an Iroquois?
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, because it is. It is.
SPEAKER 01 :
Tell me who it is.
SPEAKER 02 :
Zoran Mamdani and Elizabeth Warren. The African-American. Both of them who faked their their ethnicity. And so that’s the New York Post. And did you see Elizabeth Warren gushing about communism? This is today’s Democrat Party, Mark.
SPEAKER 01 :
First explain the cover, because Mamdani is Middle Eastern, but was born in Uganda, so there’s your African-American.
SPEAKER 02 :
And so he has been accused of falsely describing himself on various college application forms, et cetera, as an African-American.
SPEAKER 01 :
And Elizabeth Warren famously used a droplet of her 164th or something or other from Native Americans.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, because Meemaw’s portrait over the fireplace looked like, had big earlobes or something. And so Meemaw looked Indian, so we all thought we were Indians. So that was that. But that was that. And finally, one more thing. Think about the big picture right now, Mark, about the state of today’s Democrat Party. They’re really coming apart at the seams. This is remarkable. I’ve never seen anything like this. We’re watching. How about the Democrat representative Delia Ramirez? She’s at a summit in Mexico City. She told the audience in Spanish, I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American. Mark, it’s a U.S. Congresswoman. Now, in normal times, that would be grounds for immediate dismissal.
SPEAKER 01 :
That’d be it.
SPEAKER 02 :
Hey, lady, go over to Guatemala and run for Congress. This is crazy. And then finally, Jim Acosta. Tell me you saw what Jim Acosta pulled yesterday.
SPEAKER 01 :
He put out a tweet and said, this is an interview you don’t want to miss.
SPEAKER 02 :
Tell him about that interview, Mike. It’s an interview with Joaquin Oliver. Now, Joaquin Oliver, tragically, was killed in the Parkland school shooting back in 2018. How do you interview a dead kid? AI. It’s an AI version of the kid. And there’s Jim Acosta, this unhinged ghoul, this lunatic saying, Joaquin, what do you think about gun control? And the AI of the dead kid.
SPEAKER 01 :
And it’s bad. This is bad. Bad AI. We’ve seen great AI. This is jittery, weird. Lips aren’t really mouthing the words. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 02 :
And the dead kid says, that’s a good question. We believe in fairness for all. And some gun control answer that has been programmed. It is ghoulish. It is opportunistic. It is journalistic fraud. Gross. It’s also evil. I mean, it’s a nasty… Can you imagine Jim Acosta thinking, this is a guy who was a CNN guy. You remember the Jim Acosta story when he attacked Seb Gorka and me, right?
SPEAKER 01 :
Verbally? What’s his real name? Abilio. His real name is Abilio.
SPEAKER 02 :
How dare you, Abilio! Come back here! And Jim Acosta looked up at Gorka. Acosta walked by Seb and me standing in the White House press briefing, and Acosta said to Gorka, this room is reserved for real journalists. Well, yeah, you’re a real journalist now. You’re interviewing dead kids. That was gross. Oh, disgusting. That’s who they are. When they say who they are, believe them. And Mark today has got his hair up in curlers, and he’s got his fuzzy bathrobe on. Gladys Kravitz. I want you to get off his lawn.
SPEAKER 01 :
And I don’t like comedy. Of course, I love comedy. You know what? It’s crazy. I like comedy when it’s funny. Just silly me.
SPEAKER 02 :
I’m going to book Alex Stein today. I’m going to get him on the show. You do you, baby. I love you. Mike’s going to do him right there, 10 o’clock, soon as we’re done.
