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Head in the Office

Barack Obama Wants a “Loyal” Republican Party

Head in the Office

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Politics, News

5.0797 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Former President Obama wants a “loyal” Republican Party… whatever that means! Also, the war with Iran is still on, and the administration is finding the most childish, inane ways possible to dodge responsibility and continue to hold the world hostage with this pointless conflict. Another Kash Patel story has hit the timeline, this time about his personalized bottles of whiskey, Kamala Harris has called for the release of the DNC autopsy, and Mallory McMorrow backed out of another interview. 

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(0:00) Obama with a terrible take

(8:05) Intro

(10:15) Iran war news

(29:10) Another Kash Patel story has hit the timeline

(38:25) Kamala Harris calls for the autopsy release

(57:35) Mallory McMorrow dodged another interview

(1:04:25) Reviews/ending


Seen on this episode:

Iran war - https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/world/live-news/trump-iran-war-news 

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5864920-rubio-argues-war-powers-unconstitutional/ 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-no-further-to-nuclear-weapon-than-it-was-before-war-us-intel-agencies-assess/ 

Kamala Harris election autopsy - 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2028-election/kamala-harris-dnc-release-autopsy-report-2024-campaign-rcna343453

Transcript

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0:00.0

I know we sound like a broken record at this point, but I still don't know where the fuck my opposition party is.

0:04.7

No, they're just gone. I'm still waiting on them to show up. Well, in fact, when I see my opposition party, it's them not opposing or it's them just straight up going on to interviews and saying, I love having a party that we need to strongly oppose that I'm not going to oppose. Yeah, and that's really what we got on the chopping block today folks is like we we got our democrats we're

0:21.4

always complaining about them they're saying shit, well, Trump could convince me to support the Iran war. He could convince me to support the invasion of Venezuela from back at the beginning of the year. And now we got maybe the Democrat. Yep. The Democrat Barack Obama, former president, saying, you know, I'd like it if the Republican Party was a little stronger.

0:37.8

I just don't understand why they all say this. I don't know. Joe Biden did it all the time.

0:43.5

I believe Kamala Harris also said it. Pelosi does it. Every like establishment Democrat gets

0:48.1

on there and says, I want a strong Republican party. Why would you want a strong Republican party?

0:52.6

I don't want a Republican Party. And oh my goodness,

0:56.3

I see you got a clip to play. Oh yeah. We got a clip here to play. I got to cut out from this interview

1:00.6

that Barack Obama did with Stephen Colbert. They're talking about, I believe, his presidential

1:04.2

library or something they're setting up in Obama's name. And he's essentially asked about the

1:08.6

direction of the Democratic Party. Stephen Colbert says

1:10.8

he roughly outlines the liberal versus leftist divide and asks the former president what he thinks

1:17.3

about this and this is his answer. Okay. On the, with this interview with Stephen Colbert. First,

1:22.8

you're right, the presidential center is nonpartisan. And the reason I want to mention that is because I'm worried

1:29.9

about the Republican Party, not just the Democratic Party. Okay. Oh, really? When I was president,

1:35.4

people would ask me, well, what change would you like to see in Washington? I'd say, I'd love a loyal

1:42.6

opposition. I'd love a Republican Party that was conservative in some ways,

1:49.1

that didn't agree with me on a whole bunch of stuff,

1:52.4

but believed in rule of law and judicial independence

1:58.3

and empirical evidence and science and wasn't constantly tapping into

2:06.8

our worst impulses. And there has been a Republican Party like that in the past. And I want to

2:13.2

see that return because I think you have to have two healthy parties. Literally, just like when?

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