'They just come back for more': Joe slams GOP's subservience to Trump

axus has compiled a list of responses from elected Republicans when asked if

they

would accept the results of the November election, their responses are far from reassuring. It all starts with Donald Trump, who has not committed to accepting the results of the 2024 election, Senator JD Vance told CNN. State of the Union yesterday that he will accept the results if

they

are fair and free. In February he told ABC News that if he were vice president in 2020, he would have told states to submit alternative slates of electors and let Congress decide. Senator. Tim Scott dodged eight times when Meet the Press host Christen Welker asked him if he would accept the results of the upcoming election, calling it a hypothetical question.

Congresswoman Alise Stefanic said she would accept the results if they were constitutional, but she also said the 2020 election was not due to the Covid era. voting changes Senator Lindsay Graham told Meet the Press on Sunday that he will accept the results if there is no massive cheating and Congressman Byron Donalds will accept the results if he believes they are fair and if the states follow their own laws Joe um It's

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that I'm not going to send this to you directly. What do we do with this? I mean, how should voters process this information? Well, you have a party that says it will accept the election results. if they like the election results, they say things that are very subjective, if they think it's fair and we can go

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to 2020 to see where there were members of the Trump Administration who were responsible for protecting voting in 2020 by saying it was the most secure. . election, the cleanest election in the history of the United States mhm M and with that

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ground you have had Republicans who have refused to accept the results, so everything is subjective, if they like the results, they will accept the results if not.

They don't like the results, they won't accept the results, let's bring in Donnie Deuts, he's the host of the podcast on branding with Donnie Deutsch and by the way, it's a great podcast, Donnie, you too, of course, know an advertising legend , an advertising legend, a brand. Legend, now let's talk about the Republican brand here, you know, no need for hyperbole, the peaceful transition of power has been the guarantor of American democracy of Western democracy for centuries, where the loser accepts the results and we. I've seen, you know, on Our Lifetime we saw Al gour do it in the most extraordinary way, the most dramatic way, uh, is to put the country of the party, so you know, here we have a vote, we're going to have a vote this fall and uh, I know a lot of Republicans, uh, John, I would call them Peter Malar vest Republicans, uh, who

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want to pretend they're Bob Dole versus Bill Clinton, uh, they do well, you know, always vote for a Republican, no, that year.

This year you're not just voting for a Republican, it's a vote for a candidate who doesn't believe in the most basic principles of American democracy and we might be on the list, but I really don't want to waste my breath on it because everyone knows it. , everyone knows about the assassination of generals, etc., etc., but you have Republicans, uh, those Republicans in Peter Malar vests who want to say, oh, it's like you know they're Republicans and Democrats, what's the difference? No, it's actually voting for someone who doesn't subscribe to the most basic precepts of American democracy against a candidate who does, and it's really that simple Donnie, isn't it?

You know, we have said it many times on the program when an authoritarian tells you what they are going to do you pay attention to them well now their followers are telling you what they are going to do so you pay attention and for anyone in Jo you can remove from the list we can all remove the list, if it is no longer free elections, if it is an armed department of justice, if it is an independent Federal Communications Commission, again and again, we can continue when someone tells me, well, that doesn't really work to happen because we have checks and balances and the institutions and you are already seeing that there will be no checks and balances, so not only do we have the information of the fearless leader, but we also have the information of the leming followers, so there is no mystery here , so there is absolutely no mystery here, so anyone who votes Republican and doesn't understand that they are voting for the end of democracy, just pay attention to the Sunday shows from last weekend and the other thing I want to say It's just that we've talked a lot about this on the show and I've talked about this as a man, these pathetic men, the cowardice, the sycophancy, the sycophancy, I don't know how they deal with their loved ones, I don't know how they treat their children, these are the guy, these are the The guys who talk about the war on masculinity, right, they play tough guys and, like I've always said about the war on masculinity, if you're a real man, you don't really realize that people are trying to declare a war on masculinity.

You just go out and do what you're supposed to do and tune out the noise and yet these guys who play tough guys and want you to know that they want the world to be

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manly and they're the less manly men that they are are guys who went to Ivy League universities and won't defend their father's honor won't defend their wives' honor will let Donald Trump say the worst, most humiliating things about them constantly uh uh um how do I say this politely just obviously don't use the word don't use the word Joe don't I used it once problem don't do it yes they they they they just well, I can They don't say it, they just he undermines them and humiliates them and they just

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back for

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and they're the ones who write books about masculinity.

Give me a damn break, it's yeah, I just can't understand it. I don't know if these kids had their lunch money taken away from them growing up. I do not know what it is. I keep thinking about Josh Holly prancing around the capital during The Siege there, but these are, you know the irony and they bring It's about them talking about the men under siege in this country. um, you guys aren't setting an example of what it means to stand up and be a man, no, that's not what you're for.