I think we're officially live. Looks like the push alert's gone out. Welcome everybody to another

episode of Welcome to the Party, pal. I am your host, Mike Nellis, joined as always by my co-host, even though he calls himself my sidekick, which I hate. Former Tea Party congressman turned Democrat Joe Walsh. We are going to jump into a couple of really big topics today. Mostly Donald Trump deciding to press the detonate button, not on Iran this week, but on the MAGA movement, apparently. And then we're also going to talk about Melania's weird press conference on Epstein yesterday. And Joe, I think whatever else comes up, whatever's on your mind, we'll get into it. Folks, do us a favor while we get started. Make sure you subscribe to both of our channels. If you haven't yet, make sure that you like and engage with this video. Smash that heart button. Leave a comment. Tell us where you're watching it from. Every bit of engagement makes a huge difference in the algorithm on substack YouTube everywhere we go. Joe. I'm just going to say one quick thing before you start because I am your, I'm your administrative assistant. You are not my administrative assistant. You might be, you might be, what's it from the office? It's like assistant to the regional manager. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I want a title. I want to be one step above Pam. So you're Dwight, you know, we're doing that. That makes me Michael Scott, though, which I don't know. No, you don't want that. An idiot with a heart of gold i mean uh i'm about right for then today is kind

of my birthday in essence is it no no no 10 months ago i became a democrat so it's my 10 month birthday

um is that is that is that the is that the paper anniversary like what is that michael i'm just trying to fucking make it to 11 months you big tur

so stop we're gonna kick you we're gonna kick you out if you keep defending apex

yes by the way i got such great fucking feedback and most everybody agreed with you but michael

they loved a conversation yeah i mean look i think that not enough people in the party, outside of the party are willing to have a tough conversation when they disagree on a thing. I was grateful that you did that. I will tell you that you have, so we have a couple of staff folks that work here. I won't say her name, but there's, you know, you have an affinity for her and she has to affinity for you. You lost her on Isbrose. lost like they were both in the comments on dummy accounts like being like this is bullshit like trying to like get my attention and i was like you guys need to chill like i got it but would a dinner like if i bought her dinner would that get me back in good gracious i think you'd have to buy the whole team dinner i think it would have to be at a very expensive Chicago restaurant, like Chicago Cut Steakhouse, so you can find us there. All right, let's dive in, though, because, so I'm going to give you the lay of the land on how I view the Trump tweet, and I'll let you kind of tee off on it, because you are part of the exiled Republican Party, right? Like you are, you know, and maybe Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly and Candace Owens are about to join you. I don't know. But the way I see this is for the last

month, you are you know and maybe tucker carlson and megan kelly and kansas owns are about to join you i i

don't know but um the way i see this is for the last month trump has launched this illegal war

it's been unpopular since day one it is not getting more popular it's been an absolute disaster

and then last night this is how i pieced it together so laura lumer on her show said she texted

trump um videos of tucker carlson shitting all over the war. And then Donald Trump wrote that up, I assume, while sitting on the toilet, because that's just how I imagine him doing any of his true social post. Um, and he has officially kicked Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, Alex Jones, Candice Owens, Nick Flentes, out of the MAGA movement,

and really just started to, like, fracture this thing even worse than it's been.

What's your take on where we're at here?

So, my good, younger friend, you're going to disagree with me.

I'm not going to say this is all much ado about nothing, but I think we're blowing it up.

This has, these MAGA quibbles and MAGA fights have been going on from the very

beginning because it's such a fucking motley crew, right?

Trump brought to his credit a gazillion different interest under this MAGA umbrella.

So they've always kind of jabbed at each other. To your point, though, this war is a major

fuck-up. I mean, the Epstein Files cover-up was a real thing. This one is a bigger game.

But like the Megan Kelly's, Tucker Carlson's, Joe Rogans, all of these people, Michael,

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