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Thursday on Tequila Talk, Cliff and Joe Walsh squared off over the most wacky Senate race in America. Maine! Popular 2-term Governor Janet Mills just dropped out because she’s being clobbered by Graham Platner. Platner—populist insurgent with a beard, flannel shirt, Nazi tattoo he claims he didn’t know was a Nazi tattoo (then covered up)—which, btw, Joe thinks he’s FOS about—and the kinda rugged authenticity Democratic primary voters—really all Americans—crave.
The problem? Walsh ain’t buying it. “There isn’t a tent big enough for Joe Walsh and Graham Platner,” he tells Cliff in one of the sharpest lines of the night. Then they go—two pals, some generous sips of tequila, and some sparring over where to draw the line of what’s acceptable to stop GOP fascism, something neither can quite name. They just know it doesn’t cake on carrot-colored makeup and wear a girdle.
The conversation goes deeper than Maine. It runs through Mills’ filibuster support that cost her Cliff’s support, through the Hungary playbook that just ended Orbán, through the question of whether you’d vote for Rashida Tlaib if she were running against Susan Collins in your state, and through the harder question underneath all of it: when the GOP nominated Trump three times, did they take character off the table for everyone—and what does the Democratic Party become if it follows?
Cliff closes with a stake-the-ground call for institutional reform: 17 justices on the Supreme Court, a bigger House, the filibuster gone, and six-to-nine Senate pickups in 2026. If you’ve ever wondered what an honest argument between two friends who agree on the stakes but disagree on the tactics actually sounds like, this is it. Pour something good and hit play.
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