Amy Klobuchar

My brother won’t talk to my father

My father is mad at my mother

And nobody’s mad at me

Because I’m supporting Amy

Which is, in some ways,

Really insulting?

Because the implication is that--

Let her support Amy

What does it matter?

Amy’s not a threat

And I just want to be like--

Screw you

Amy is a huge threat

Amy is basically Biden

Without all the stuff about Biden

That turns people off

She checks all the boxes

For the voters we lost last time

And for some reason

Checking those boxes

Makes her totally unappealing

I get it

Believe me

I get the impulse

To tear everything down

But we’re not tearing everything down

Nobody is going to--

Nobody is tearing

Anything down

Because we have districts

In this country

We have congressional districts

That are rigorous

And strict

And in those districts

We have voters

Who do not want their lives

To change that much

And that’s not going to change

Before 2020

It’s not

So this idea

This idea

That what we need

Is huge institutional change

I get it

I want change

I want change for the people

Who need change

But those people

Don’t seem to be too interested in--

Or are disenfranchised or whatever--

I believe in the attacks on voting rights

I do, I do

But whatever the reason is

We can’t get those people

To move the needle

So we have to go to war

With the army we have

And we have to get votes

From the voters we have

And that means not running people for President

Who talk as if you’re going to stick someone in the White House

Who’s pie-in-the-sky

And get everything you want

Without Congress

Without the courts--

Do you see how we’ve been able to

Curtail a lot of what the President is doing

Using checks and balances and--

And yes, he’s got some stuff through

He has

But we’ve blocked him a lot

And that’s because

You can block a President

So what you need--

You need Congress

This obsession you have

Sorry, that people have

With the Presidency

The Presidency

The Presidency

We need Congress

We need all of Congress

We need the Senate

OR

We need someone

Who can work with Congress

Who can figure out what the halfway point is

For a lot of these policies

And ideas

Bipartisanship has become this thing

That everybody has just

Given up on

And that scares me

That scares the hell out of me

Because whether you want

To bridge the divide

Of the divided country or not

It’s still a country

That’s split down the middle

And whoever wins the White House

Has to do something

About the half of the country

That hates him

Or her

And all these other candidates

Who are just running as if

They can’t be worried about that

Just stun the hell out of me

Because

How can you think like that?

Really?

How can you--

I just want everyone

To start acting

To start--

To try and get back

To some kind of

Decency, you know?

To some kind of

Decent way of--

Of looking at things

And meanwhile

Nobody even thinks

That I’m a factor

Or what I want is a factor

Because I’m not

The loudest voice in the room

Saying the meanest things

And that’s--

Tough

For me

That’s--

Really tough