Elections Will Be Won on Prices! (w/ Greg Landsman)
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🗓️ 23 August 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Check out Landsman’s “Pledge to America” article here
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| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business? |
| 0:01.9 | Serving the best Americano in town is up to you. |
| 0:04.1 | But winning back time and growing your business, leave that to sum up. Take orders and payments anywhere with the new SumUp terminal. Turn occasional customers into regulars with a free loyalty program. And with the SumUp point of sale system, you'll always know when you're running low on your best selling blends. Visit sumup.com.com. To learn more. Hey, yall, Tim Miller from the bulwark here with my buddy Congressman Greg Lansman from Ohio. Um, uh, he has a new pledge to America. He has a new pledge to him. Let's just get a great name. It's really, you get name is everything. We're workshopping the name. We're workshopping the name. He has been pledged. |
| 0:37.8 | What were the other ideas in the brainstorm? |
| 0:40.7 | So, you know, it started with in the 1990s with the contract for America when New Kingings, |
| 0:46.8 | like Republicans found themselves in a similar mess in the 90s, right? |
| 0:51.7 | And they put out a new governing document, which isn't the right language either, |
| 0:57.1 | but they said, look, we will fix this. Like, you know, it feels like everything is broken. If you put |
| 1:02.9 | us in charge, we will balance the budget. You know, we will keep you safe. We'll fix the economy. |
| 1:08.6 | And he called it the contract for America. And they won, |
| 1:12.7 | you know, 60, 70 seats. I mean, it was an insane election year in 1994 for them. And so I think |
| 1:18.8 | Democrats have to have something forward-looking that says, look, this is a mess. It's pure chaos. |
| 1:25.8 | There's a level of corruption none of us have seen. |
| 1:29.1 | There's a meanness in politics that none of us like. |
| 1:32.6 | But the economy needs to be fixed. |
| 1:34.7 | People need to be kept safe. |
| 1:36.6 | We need to fix the government. |
| 1:37.8 | There's just a whole bunch of things that need to be fixed. |
| 1:39.9 | Here are our 10 bills. |
| 1:41.8 | And it gives people something to hold on to, uh, and believe in and |
| 1:47.1 | work on in addition to just being against Trump, which I think Democrats and Americans in |
| 1:53.0 | general desperately need. What I like about this at first is, uh, you know, it's the alcoholics |
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