Cliff’s Note:
This week a Substack writer informed her readers that I founded Blue Amp as a front for a Zionist cabal. I want you to know I have read it twice and I have never felt more powerful.
Joe and I then spent forty-five minutes saying things that will annoy a great many people, including some who agree with us about almost everything else. That is the deal here. Nobody pays us to say the safe version, because nobody pays us at all except you.
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The rest of the conversation is below.
—Cliff
Joe Walsh has known Mike Rogers for years. He served with him in Congress. On this week’s Tequila Talk, he said something about Rogers that you will not hear from anyone who did not sit in that building with him.
And that was not even the part of the conversation that will get us yelled at.
Cliff said, plainly and for the record, that he believes Abdul El-Sayed—the Democrat running for Senate in Michigan—is an antisemite, and explained exactly what brought him to that conclusion. Joe, who is not a Democrat and has spent the last decade telling his old party what it has become, agreed on the principle: bigotry disqualifies a candidate, and it does not matter which flavor of bigotry it is or which team benefits.
Then they said the thing that will get the replies going. Neither of them would vote in that race. Not for El-Sayed. Not for Rogers.
