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Ep: 90 Both Parties Think You’re Stupid · The Sense and Senseless Podcast

• Bryan: Did the Republican Party underestimate the average person's ability to think for themselves? Did they really believe the uneducated MAGA voters would just follow blindly forever? Is this why they got hit so hard in the midterms? They gaslit us about the economy. They told us how good this war with Iran is. For us, the American taxpayer. Like we aren't supposed to believe our own reality. Most of us don't really benefit either way. We're fucked no matter what party wins the majority. They don't have your best interest in mind. They can't. There's too much money buying our politicians for them to actually care about the same things you care about. They give you an illusion of a choice. A speech that makes it sound like they care about the same things you care about. But the truth, the only thing these fucking parasites care about is draining your wallet to benefit themselves and their donors. That's what we're digging in tonight. Join us. Hey, welcome back to the Sense and Senseless Podcast. I am Bryan.. Jason: Hum Jason. Bryan: Yes, Jaden. This is your first time joining us. Welcome to the family. Just two guys discussing shit in a way that everyone can understand. All right. I'm sure by now most people know that the Republican Party didn't do too well this week in the midterm elections. Jason: Got that ass spined. Bryan: Yep. And there are many excuses why they didn't do well, but in my opinion it is simple. The Republican Party lost support from the average Americans. Think so? Jason: That's what it looks like. there could be some number manipulation in there. You know what I'm saying? It we know Bryan: This would have Jason: it's there. And I know we're gonna talk about that later, but yeah, for the most part, they lost a lot of A, either people didn't go vote Bryan: That's what I'm thinking. Jason: Or they voted the the the ones that they got to turn and vote for Trump this last election. Bryan: Yeah. You think Jason: Turn back. Bryan: I don't think that he got that many people to probably turn from blue to red in the last election, but I think he brought independents in and that were on the fence in the last election that might not have gone vote this time. That's what I'm thinking. the Republican Party themselves, them they benefited heavily from the average Americans jumping on that fucking Trump train. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: They did. But what they didn't anticipate was that these voters, most of them, they're not for sale. these voters that Trump brought to the politics in 2016 want what is good for the people. And if you can't deliver that, then they're no longer gonna support you. They're transactional, they want results. They want what they voted for. And offering money to look the other way. And not believe their own reality, that's an insult to most of us, Jason: Yeah, we're not loyal like a dog. We're not gonna just Bryan: No, that's what they Jason: sit there and keep 'cause you offered us something and you get us home, you start beating our ass and we just sit there and take it. We're not gonna sit there and do that. Bryan: We lost our five thousand dollars too. Jason: man, so we're not getting that? Gosh dang Bryan: Getting. Jason: it. Bryan: he lost all his uneducated voters, the poorly educated people. I'm not saying that that's what they said, but when in twenty sixteen, whenever he won his primaries and shit, that's Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: what they were saying. There was all the uneducated people. When he won the election, there was all the uneducated people that come out. And he even loved us back then. Why here's Trump talking about how much he loved us. Jason: The poorly educated and Hispanics, man, that's a good class to be in. Them dudes cook good. Bryan: Ain't nothing wrong with that. Jason: no, and they damn good workers too. Bryan: Back in 2016, being poorly educated was the rallying cry for the people that were not seen. Most Trump supporters back then felt they had someone that would fight for them. They saw Trump as a DC outsider, someone that was going to fight against the swamp that has been draining our wallets. But when you come out and say shit like this, it'll make some of your supporters feel as as though you're mocking them. Much listen to this. Jason: I did not hear cheap gas and groceries and that. I mean I like some of the stuff he's Bryan: Well you're gonna clap anyway. Jason: talking about, but right now I'm just trying to stock my fridge. Holly clean the fridge out, dude. We look like we're poor again. Bryan: It don't take much to look poor again. But yeah it Jason: Finally been eating on them thirty five chickens that I killed. Seriously, I made smoked chicken tonight. Thighs and legs, boy, Bryan: Ain't nothing wrong with that. Jason: that it's pretty good. And I got I'm souveing some chicken breast tomorrow mor tomorrow after church. Hmm. Bryan: Go you? Jason: Yes. Look at me getting in my freezer and prepping Bryan: So do you think that Trump saying that he can say the stupidest things and people would clap that not Jason: He thinks yeah, he's he's dude, he's he's straight narcissist, man. We've already Bryan: But you don't think people seen that as them him mocking them? You he think that Jason: Hate? Bryan: he he thought that that was gonna go over well with everyone? Jason: He thinks, yeah, Bryan: Okay. he was talking about the f Jason: What what what what's your thoughts? Do you think he thinks that? Bryan: I don't know what he thinks, honestly. I don't know w how he if he even thinks that Jason: I don't think he thinks before he speaks a lot of times, dude. We've already shown that too. Bryan: I honestly know well, here's the way they look at it. I honestly know what he was trying to say because people love him so much they just hold on to every word that he says and they will clap. And I understand that. But him to say that to his supporters, I I think that's a little slap in the face. That's how I look at it. now if they're if you there to rally. And you support Trump that much and he says that, you probably clapping and all, because it don't matter what he says. And he knows that. You see my point? So it's like he he's Jason: but Bryan: condescending to the same people that love him. And it's weird. Jason: Right. I'm not gonna mention any names 'cause I know somebody that's with somebody that says that to them in front of people. I can do whatever I wanna do, you ain't gonna leave. Bryan: That's ba yeah. Say it like that. Jason: That's narcissism, dude. it's just straight up like you're that full of yourself that you think and that's how them people that's how they work. Bryan: 'Cause I I didn't know if it was more like that or more that he just Jason: That's how I felt it. Bryan: or he just couldn't read the room. I don't know. Yeah, I think he's a narcissist and what he's saying, but to say the truth out loud in a moment like that, I I don't know. But a lot of people Jason: I think he makes shit weird when shit ain't going his way, he makes shit weird. Bryan: A lot of people gonna support what he just said and they're gonna ridicule me for even, saying something about it. But I see it as a mockery towards a Trump vote. I do. You know, it doesn't just because you say something doesn't mean that we all hold you like God. We're not gonna follow you. But he does have a following that will. So he's not lying. You know? And then there was this Jason: Right. Right. I'm not that. Bryan: there was this one this week, it would that five thousand dollars he was offering if the Republican Party won the midterms. Well, I don't know. We just put it this way, I'm gonna play it, but we don't live in the same reality. Jason: Can't afford there. Bryan: Y you can't even afford that. I'm gonna give you five thousand dollars and you still can't afford to eat at my restaurant. That's fucked up. Who thinks that is good fucking messaging, dude? Jason: Who's writing his shit? Bryan: I and that was the second time he said that. So he said it before. And then okay, somebody said, that was pretty damn good. Why don't you say that again? I don't know. Again, somebody'll beat me up for saying something about it, but I think that if when you say you're gonna give somebody five thousand dollars and five thousand dollars I'll only buy a hamburger in a fucking restaurant that he owns. We're we're we're not the same. We Jason: No, we're not. Bryan: know we're not the same, and you saying we're not you telling us how poor we are. You know what I'm saying? Jason: I d I hundred percent agree with you. he's Bryan: I was bitching about ten dollar and forty six cents a pound for fucking stew meat last week. Jason: I I know. You were. Bryan: And he's he's got five thousand dollar hamburgers. Jason: I ain't even gonna say what that hamburger better do for me for t five thousand dollars. I'm tr I'm not I yeah, I've got people sometimes that might listen to Bryan: Well, you better do more than that. That motherfucker better be over here cutting grass and all c Jason: this and be like, You're nasty. Bryan: yeah. All right. So he has that type of messaging. Jason: Yes. Bryan: And that's supposed to work. And I didn't follow all the voting, but I I did watch some of the midterm analysis Tuesday night. And I was flipping back and forth through multiple channels just to get a feel how both sides were seeing the election results. And and off the bat, Fox was already defending Trump. They even brought in Caroline Levitt to the panel. And it was said early and often that Trump ran a strong campaign for the Republican Party, even though he wasn't on the ticket. He did everything he could, and basically if the candidate still lost, it wasn't his fault because he he went all out. He did everything he can and he was not on the ballot. Okay, that may be the case. But you would think they could have just mentioned that once or twice. But no, that was the whole fucking theme of the night was any losses were not Trump's fault. And I agree with that. But you don't have to focus on that shit, you know. don't have to keep telling me it's not Trump's fault. Okay. Well, Jessica Tarloff, he she weighs in, and I'm not a fan of this lady, but what she said was true. And she was talking about how Trump's messaging on the campaign trail didn't resonate with most of them average Americas and blue collar workers. He was telling us how good we have it, and we all feel the strain on our wallets. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: He was telling us how good the war in Iran was going, how good we will have it when it's over. But he never gave us a plan when the shit was going in. Almost nine months into a three day excursion. Jason: I told you, man, Carnival don't offer that shit, dude. What the hell? Bryan: No. Then Caroline Levitt, she she jumps in after Jessica speaks, defends Trump by saying the things that he did were good, like closing the border and putting more money in your pockets with the tax cuts and a and a few more things he had done. Some of the others on the panel defend Trump by saying that he's done things so fast that people forget what he accomplished because how fast the news cycles move, right? Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And how Trump is constantly attacked on media for what he doesn't do. The media doesn't highlight the good that he has done. And that those are good arguments, right? And if you Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: sit there and listen to these arguments, then you understand that it's a real good defense, and you're gonna agree with him. But none of those fucking arguments change how you feel daily. It doesn't change how expensive shit is today. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: It just don't. Here's Jesse Waters from that night. Short term pain f for long term gain. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: he done some good things, Jason: Do when I'm eating a bowl of ramen noodles. And Holly's over there eating some crackers. I just look at her and I say, you know what? At least Iran don't have a nuke. Bryan: Damn right. And he he Jason: When the when the cable guys out there cutting my shit off, I'd be like, Hey, Iran ain't got nuke, do they? Bryan: Do I don't know I no one actually showed me. Jason: Tow truck driver pulls up my driveway and gets both my cars. I ran ain't got a nuke, do they? Bryan: how about this? When your kids don't have presents this year for Christmas, hey man, I don't have a new. Jason: They're they're getting a card that says Iran don't have a nuke. I found out how we can make our money. Well, some Christmas Bryan: That's it. We're gonna sell Jason: cards say at least Iran don't have a nuke. Bryan: There you go. That's not a bad idea. You need to make you just hand people an empty Christmas card. That's all it is. Hey, best Christmas you can fucking have. You didn't know that. That's the the best person Jason: Merry Christmas. It's just a gift that keeps on giving. Bet you didn't know that, did you? Bryan: you can have in your life. And it cost you nothing. Jason: And on the back it'll say, Have you seen the Dow? No, I haven't cause I ain't got the damn money to damn invest in it. Bryan: Nope. yeah. You didn't get that five thousand. No, I 'cause I spent my five thousand on the hamburger at Mar a Largo. Jason: 'Cause I didn't get my five thousand dollar dividend check. Bryan: What you think it would feel like if and a whole bunch of people got their five thousand dollar check or they just heard the young come down to Mar-a Largo. And all these motherfuckers just show up at Mar Largo and be like, Jason: Yeah Bryan: Got my EBT. Rad it in with the press. Jason: I said dress motherfucker. Bryan: Gosh. That's right. What? Jason: Don't skip out on that damn shit. Put it on there. shit. Sucker Bryan: All right. Jason: better be dressed in coach and Gucci. Bryan: So Jason: Sorry. Bryan: they in that last yeah, I don't care. In the Jason: We're gonna get beat up on this show anyways, we might as well have fun. Bryan: last segment that we just showed with Jesse Waters, they blame Biden for inflation and and I agree. Under Biden, inflation was high as fuck. Jason: it was with no war. Bryan: Yeah, but have we really seen inflation go down? So I I looked in those numbers and inflation under Biden on average was four point nine to five percent over four years while he was president. And this includes eight percent in twenty twenty two with a peak of nine point one percent in June of twenty twenty two. Inflation in twenty twenty four under Biden was two point nine percent from what I found. The benchmark for Trump comes from his first term. When inflation averaged 1.9%. Now Trump's second term is a little bit fucking different. Jason: Yep. Bryan: Inflation under Trump in 2025 averaged 2.6 to 2.7%. Not too bad. Currently, under Trump's second term, his inflation average is right around 3% per year, with the peak at September 2026, around 3.7%. So Jason: Not yeah, so it's not as high as Biden's. Bryan: No, but if you're not getting a three percent increase in pay every year, you're not keeping up with the rate of inflation. Jason: No, we said that. Bryan: That 1.9 in his first term was awesome. let's look at the cumulative inflation. Under Trump's first turn from 2017 to 2021, cumulative inflation grew 7.7 to 7.8%. And this was outstanding. You know, but the COVID year hit and that just fucked us all up. Under Biden, from January 2021 to January 2025. Cumulative inflation was twenty one point two to twenty one point five percent. That was Jason: That's a lot. Bryan: a fucking kick in the balls, right? Jason: I hated it. Bryan: Under Trump's second term, cumulative inflation sits around six point one percent. At this rate, the cumulative inflation for his current presidency will be around twelve point two percent. So yes, you're still getting poor. Okay. And if we really want to push the issue, Trump added more to the debt or printed more money for COVID than Biden did. Yet Biden had to deal with the inflation that it his spending created. So that inflation was a lot to do with COVID. And this is from the Committee of Responsible Federal, the Committee for Font Responsible Federal Budget. That's a little bit much to say. So Trump's COVID spending was around 3.5 to $3.6 trillion. Yeah, $2.2 trillion on the Carers Act. The paycheck protection program was roughly $480 billion. Consolidation Approach Appropriations Act of 2021 was $900 billion. And another $30 billion on some small bills for COVID. Biden had the America Rescue Plan Act. That was roughly $2 trillion. But man, we loved all them fucking STEMI checks, didn't we? Jason: Mm. Bryan: Those stimmy checks, they were about one point one trillion of the three point six trillion dollar COVID money. and don't forget the small businesses were shut down across the country while the big businesses operated. There was instances where store owners were arrested for opening up their own stores. While major companies like Amazon, Apple, Tesla, Pfizer, Moderna, Walmart, Home Depot, Costco were making record profits. Now, I'm not saying this is a conspiracy to steal even more money from the average man, but it was fucking happening in that way. The US billionaire wealth rose 1.2 trillion from 2020 to 2021. While small businesses closed at alarming rates. You saw some sharp gains from your STEMI checks and some of the money given out through the pay payment protection program, but overall the average person has been losing money. Ever since COVID hit. That STIMI check was nice, but that money killed our purchasing power. Yes, we got a short boost to the economy, and we all love that free money. But when you add up the cumulative inflation from 2020 to now is when you see the real picture. We have 30% cumulative inflation since 2020. So, what cost you $100 in January of 2020 cost you roughly $130 today. This is why you feel poorer, even though you're likely making more money. Your income had to increase at least 30% since 2020 to continue with the same purchasing power you had back then. Your income had to increase roughly 5% per year to keep up with inflation since 2020. So if you were making fifty thousand in twenty twenty, you should be making sixty five thousand dollars today. And you wage if you're not making sixty five thousand dollars today, your wage didn't keep up with inflation. And most of us are just fucking treading water. we just a mischeck from fucking drowning. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And we're told how great everything is. And through all this shit, Trump is putting out messages like this. Pretty fucked up. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: We I think we watched the whole video last week and okay, I get it. Even if the country is making money, it's to me it's just bad messaging. I think Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: a lot of people aren't when we look at the inflation that we have through Biden and Trump, it's a lot. you go to the store and you spending more money on shit. You just are. I don't give a shit who you are. We're all spending more money on shit. The people like him and the people that he associates himself with might not realize this because they don't go to the fucking store. You know what I'm getting at? They don't see what we see in reality, and their reality is totally different from ours. So I can understand how they can miss the mark, but this man was so in touch with people for so long. How does his messaging get so fucked up? Do you would have never expected to hear something like that, what we showed tonight. In the past, Jason: Yeah, no kidding. Bryan: it was what Trump was gonna do for you and all this other stuff. It wasn't talking about big businesses and all. And all this shit, it's not all Trump's fault. You you can't put all this on one man. I y you looked at just what you know between Trump and Biden, what went on. It's to me it's like a slow boil. But I believe it's a lot to do in the messaging. And this is why I believe his his messaging about how good we have it just doesn't resonate with the average person. It just don't. And when you add in that I ran on ending the war in Ukraine, releasing Epstein files, no new wars, bring gas below two dollars a gallon, which it was close before the Iran war. When you don't deliver on your promises and you act like you did, this creates a problem with your base. And people stop stop believing in you. Do you think that's what happened? Jason: Yeah, you just empty promises, dude. would you sir would you stay with a spouse, like a woman or a man, for the women listening? Or if you swing that way, I don't care. Would you stay with somebody if they kept promising shit and never delivered? Bryan: Or yeah. Or just as simple as I'm I'm gonna paint the fence. I'ma paint the fence. You know, as soon as we get married, I'm gonna paint the fence. Jason: Right. Right. Bryan: You get married and I'm gonna paint the fence. You see how pretty that fence is? That's a pretty fence. That's the prettiest fence you ever seen. That's a pretty damn good fence. That's a nice fence, pretty fence. Jason: Right. And then it's like mirror smoking mirrors and and slide of hand. He tries to distract you over here. Well, I know I didn't do this, but we're doing this. But that's not what you said. Bryan: Or well I know we're doing this, but have you did you know how bad it was back then when they did this? Nobody said nothing then. You Jason: Yeah. Yeah. Bryan: you you're not supposed to be that. That's the whole reason you went there. You Jason: Yeah. Motherfucker, we're moving forward. We ain't going backwards. So let's stop that. We're going off of what you Bryan: Well it's not even that much. Jason: said and don't play that game. Well, you say we're moving forward, then you can't hold against me what I told you we were gonna do when I ran. Bryan: Saunu. Sao nu. Jason: Yeah. Yeah, it's like, gosh dang, here I go tonight. Sorry, honey, or anybody else I film with this. It's like marrying that girl that acts like she's gonna be a freak when you get married and then you get married and that girl like eating like mashed potatoes. Bryan: Plain mashed potatoes. Instant motherfucking mashed potatoes. Just add water. Jason: Plain at that. just slock that yeah, instant instant mashed potatoes that have been sitting out for a while and just plop down on the plate. didn't even make it look nice, didn't even do a smear with the spoon, with the little drizzle of s sauce and shit like the cooks do to dress it up. No, she just just like the right look yeah, and you're like. Bryan: That's what you got. Jason: That's that's all I get? Bryan: Well yeah. You got a wet spot. Enjoy. Jason: you see these TikToks now that my wife wants me to do this and she'll say she do she'll do this if I do. Well guess what? Her credit's horrible. So I'm gonna need to see payment before I do that. Can we not be like that with politicians? I told you that, man. Bryan: we should. Jason: I think it should be shorter term. And you think, okay, well w would the presidency be bad with a two year term? Bryan: I don't know. I don't know if they ever played that out. Jason: Does that give somebody enough time to puts them on a short short ass leash, don't it? Bryan: Well, when you look at it, the way it's set up now, Congress and Senate and shit, the power that they have because they in there so long, all they gotta do is wait out anyway. So Jason: I know. Bryan: yeah, I don't know. I I think it's all just a it's all just smoke and mirrors. If if it was working properly, if it if it worked the way it was designed, it wouldn't be a problem. The problem is is the same reason why we got a fucking hundred thousand laws. It's because everyone has to push the next lupo. They have to push this next lupo. It's like Jason: You y you knew who George Carlin was, right? That old man comedian? Okay, Bryan: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I know George Carlin. Jason: well they've been playing s bits of him and he he didn't vote. And he said, people that say that you can't bitch if you don't vote, he said, Y'all got that backwards. I can bitch because I didn't vote for that shit. You can't bitch because you put that some buck in there. You see what I'm saying? So I liked what he said. You're you're right. I'm not voting. That's how I'm gonna be from now on. And and and fired up, man. Maybe we'll get a billion comments from this crap, right? I'm not voting no more if they don't put a better candidate up there. I'm not voting aside no more. And I'm not voting the lesser of two evils. I'm sick and tired of it. I stopped telling my kids. Bryan., I used to tell my kids, you ain't gotta be the fastest kid, just don't be the slowest. I was wrong for saying that. What happened to go out there and give a hundred and ten percent? Bryan: I don't know. I really don't know what happened to that, honestly. Jason: Now we just tell our kid, just don't be the slowest kid. You ain't gotta be the best, don't be the worst. Bryan: Well, 'cause you can always point out somebody that Hey look, leas lease you faster than that one. Jason: That's what our mentality is now. Bryan: Well, that's what our president's mentality is. Jason: Well, it's that's our government. That's all we get offered. Pick pick one. Bryan: Well, there's another way you can do this. And Jason: Mm. What? Bryan: but if if you voted if you really looked at primaries, primaries is where you can get rid of a lot of these fucking politicians that you don't want. The problem with it is is getting enough people to vote in the primaries. Cause I think it's like twenty to thirty percent of people that vote in primaries. Jason: But you never have another candidate to overtake so if say I want to go conservative. We'll just say that, right? I like the con I'm more conservative than I am liberal. I'll I'll I'll admit that. I am. But it so you don't get anybody worth f frickin' voting for over a Mitch McConnell or a frickin' Rand Paul or or y they're not put Bryan: Y what I'm getting at is you could run in the primaries. Jason: I know that, Bryan.. Who the fuck you think's gonna vote for me? Bryan: That's my point. My point is, is you have to get people in the primaries and you have to get somebody behind that person that's not actually taking money. But you got to get people out to vote for pro in the primaries. Cause the only people that's voting in the primaries are the people that's really in tune with politics, right? Jason: Right. Right. Bryan: The people that really want change are not in tune with politics. You need to if if you can close that gap. You can make change. The problem is it's getting other people and want to understand politics. Most people don't want to deal with this shit until they get older. when I was young, I didn't give a flying fuck about politics. I didn't realize how much it fucked my life up. Jason: No. I still don't really care for it now. Right. Bryan: now that I realize how much it fucks with your life, it's like, man, maybe we should pay more attention to it. But until you can get people to actually start paying attention and saying, hey, look, we need to do something. Well, how do we do it? We get in the primaries. Now, having said that, look at what happened to Thomas Massey in the primaries. They threw so much money against him he couldn't win anyway, and he was a prominent figure, going up for reelection. Jason: Yeah. A lot of people liked him and still like him and he lost, so you tell me that. Bryan: Exactly. So d the only other way to do that is somehow we gotta take the money back out of politics. The problem is the people that's gonna vote on that are the people that's getting the fucking money through politics. Jason: That's right. Bryan: So you can't how do you get that out of there? You Jason: Right. Bryan: you Jason: Like George Carlin said too, if your vote counted, they wouldn't let you do it. Bryan: Exactly. I that that's what I was about to say. I don't think you vote your way out of this. And I don't want to say that lightly because I don't want to see the the American people rise up and it become violent. I don't want to see that. Having said that, I don't know of any other way to correct the system without something like that. Jason: Right. Right. Bryan: But but I hope to God we never go to something like that. Jason: Hell, somebody played the the the the audio of Mel Gibson and the Patriot, where it says, You guys don't understand what this war's gonna do. Your your kids are gonna witness this from their front porch and blah, blah, blah. And they were like, was he foretelling the future? Because that's what it feels like is coming up. Bryan: Yeah, you yeah, you don't wanna Jason: We don't want that. I don't want it. But at the same time, Bryan: No, you don't want that. Jason: dude, this I don't think that we're voting for anybody. I really don't. Bryan: No, we're gonna talk about that a little bit more too. It looked like Jason: I know. I know. 'Cause there there's so much going on with this shit. Bryan: Trump he he wasn't too happy with everything going on on election day. So he he put out a couple of tweets. All right, so this his first tweet, he's got watching the pre-election results on Fox News, but I can't stand Jessica Torlov's voice, dumb as a rock. But it's the voice that gets me. Have to go somewhere else until that loser is off the air. I'll be back later. Then he says, the Fox News poll, always the worst, is so insulting with the questions they ask. Every question's a hit job, and every answer is bullshit. This has been going on for years. So he hears Trump talking to Fox. It's almost like, Hey look, go out and get a poll and see w how how I'm doing. They bring it back, No fuck them results. Go get another one. keep Jason: Until it comes back favorable, you're gonna d it it's not legit. Bryan: Yep, the beatings will continue to morale improves, right? Jason: Yeah. Yeah. Bryan: Yeah, I I don't get it. His messaging it's is just bad. And again, he might be it might be the people that's around him. Because like I've said multiple times before, he he has to get his information from someone. He he can't know everything all at once, right? He can't be everywhere. So the people around him have to give him the information that he's getting. Can they be giving him just some fucked up ass information and feeding this dumb shit to him and he's spewing this dumb shit out of his mouth. Is is that a possibility? Yeah? Or is he just I don't know, batshit crazy? I don't fucking know. You know, but it don't make sense. I heard one guy this week said that Trump, and this could be true. I don't fucking know. You know, he might have been the way he did it, but Trump is so smart that he welcomed All the elections in this blue wave because he knew that they were gonna cheat in all the elections. So he was gonna let them cheat and then he's gonna do an investigation and then he's gonna arrest all of them for cheating. Is he that smart? You know what I'm saying? Jason: Once again. Knew I know what I did or didn't do, right? And I'm not discussing that on here. I'm not. Did was there some cheating going on? You know what I'm saying? W we know or it's pretty obvious that that shit was happening other I mean, they've been flooding this country with illegals. And states will not pass laws to keep illegals from voting. Why? Bryan: I yeah, I understand what you're saying. I'm not gonna say that there's not any cheating. I don't I don't know. I don't I don't know if he was if that was the plan. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: I just say that they he gets he gets a lot of cover for what he does. Let's just put it that way. they come up Jason: Yeah. Bryan: he is a 20 D chess player now. You know, he doesn't skip five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. He's he's 20 D chess player. Jason: He's up to twenty. He'll be a hundred before his term's over. Bryan: Yeah, well yeah. Jason: He'll probably run for another term, I meant. That's what he's doing. Bryan: Why not? Why not? Jason: Yeah. Bryan: So the Republican Party, they wanted their party back. If you remember, they didn't want the MAGA supporters back in 2016. They didn't want these uneducated voters that Trump brought out of the shadows back in 2016. They didn't want us. But they thought they owned us once we started supporting the Republican ticket. Just as the Democrats do to the poor people that support them. They pander to their supporters and dangle some money in front of them for a vote. This money doesn't make their lives great, but it makes it better in the short term, just long enough to get them on the hook for the next election. The American voters are starting to wake up and understand that neither party has our best interests in mind. They all suck ass. Jason: You're so nasty. Bryan: no. Jason: Sucking ass. Bryan: Well, so the next defense that they had of Trump came from Sean Hannity. And he was talking about how the party that wins the presidency more than not loses the midterms. And for the most part, that is true. Between 1946 and 2022, there were 20 midterm elections. The president's party lost house seats in 18 to 20 of those midterm elections, with the average loss of about 26 seats. The exception was nineteen ninety-eight Bill Clinton and the 2002 George W. Bush, the 911 rally around the flag. So the rule is the president's party loses the midterms. Them's the rules. That's just the way it is, right? Jason: The rules. Bryan: That's the rule. And political scientists will give you all these reasons why this is the case. But let's think about this for ourselves for a minute. Why would the party that just won the presidential election just two years ago constantly lose the midterms? If Trump won a mandate, As we hear, why would his supporters not show up in the midterms to elect people that support Trump? Same for Biden. When Biden won his miraculous election, when he got more votes than Obama, why wouldn't his voters turn out to vote for the people that support him? from what political scientists state, voters turn out to vote against the president's party as a referendum on the sitting president. Some voters deliberately support the opposition as a check on White House power. Okay. I believe that is true, but I also believe that it's not the whole truth. Nothing but the truth. I yeah, I think that's the truth they want you to believe. Jason: And nothing but the truth. So so help you God. Right. Bryan: What if this isn't a way to keep the White House in check, but is a way to keep the people in check? Think about this. All right. Let me let me let me throw this on real quick because we're gonna get a little deep. Jason: Damn. I gotta order me one. Bryan: All right. If you get a president that works for you and he builds Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: a coalition that works for the taxpayer, all Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: right, you would think that most taxpayers would vote for that for the politicians that support that president. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: Right? That would be logical, right? Jason: if the majority of the people put a Republican in there, you think that they would want the Congress and Senate to be Republican too, so all the shit would roll. Because if you, well, no, we got to balance it out. We understand that, Bryan.. We have to balance it out. We can't we don't want one side having too much power. We w the Bryan: Exactly. So that's Jason: American people don't say that. They want their side to have the power to get all this shit passed. Bryan: And if the they thems allowed that, then they lose their own game, right? Jason: Yes. Bryan: Because they they need us fighting. They need us at each other's throats. So they can't have the majority of politicians in DC doing what's right by the Jason: What have we said? How bad would it be if we all came together? Bryan: It'd be it would it wouldn't be bad. It would be awesome. It'd be great. Jason: It would be awesome, but it would be really bad for them. Yes. Bryan: It'd be really bad for them. If you had the people in the White House in in DC doing what's right by the taxpayer, it would it would be a glorious day. Jason: Yes. Bryan: But they can't have that. Jason: No. Bryan: He can't allow one party to be bigger than the other because if they did, all this facade that they have, it just falls apart. If one party has majority control for too long, then they are completely responsible for what happens in our government, good or bad. Right? If it's good, then likely that party will stay in power for quite a while. But that they themselves will lose money and power because the people will have true representation. All right. So if if it's good and we constantly supporting the people in DC, they're doing what's right by us. That's the reason why we're supporting them. Right? But Jason: Mm-hmm. Yep. Bryan: if they're doing what's right by us, they're not stealing our money. You know, I'm getting it, it's not as much fraud. They're giving us everything we need. They're not putting us trillion dollars in debt. That don't benefit the they them. So you can't have it that good. All Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: right. And if if that If it's bad, that party will not only lose power, but it'll also lose support for future elections, which is also bad for business. Therefore, you got to keep it at this sweet spot, just where each party gets a little bit bite of the pie, but neither one of them have full control to help the taxpayer. And this way they can promise you something and blame it on the other party when they don't deliver. it's it isn't their fault. It's the other party's fault. This is even true when the party of your choice hold the majority in the House and the Senate while they also have the president. They still can't get nothing passed that supports you. All three of them. Jason: Mm-hmm. No. 'Cause that filibuster and all that shit, dude, they got all kinds of damn rules. When you Bryan: It's all a fucking illusion, dude. Jason: It is. Bryan: Does that make sense? Jason: Yeah. Bryan: And in my opinion, and and I've checked this a lot of ways and and in checking it a lot of ways, I'm wrong. So I'm telling you, this is in my opinion. The law of averages just don't work out in this case with the presidential election in the midterms, 18 out of 20 times. And the only other two times that it didn't change was they said because of Bill Clinton's economy, and they was also trying to impeach Bill Clinton. And Bill Clinton had a hell of a following and his people really supported Bill Clinton. Right. So they went out and voted for his people. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And then of course after nine eleven with which George Dubb with yeah with Lil Bush. Jason: Yeah. Junior. Bryan: 'Cause he had so much following because it was a that's the big biggest patriotic time in my life, nine eleven. You Jason: America came together for the first time. Yes. Yes. Bryan: know, everyone had flags, everyone loved this fucking country. So think about this. Again, this is in my opinion because everything else argues against it. To me, it's more about the messaging, which makes me wonder why Trump was messaging the way he was. You could even back in 9 11, you could take that patriot patriotism away. You you can start all this other shit on the news, but there was such a swell of patriotism. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: that people just bought into it. They actually loved the country. They didn't have enough messaging to take it down enough for that election. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: But they always talk, think about they always talk about the October surprise and all this other shit. It's the messaging. Watch the messaging before these elections. And then you'll know which way that they all trying to skew this fucking election. Always. It's it's a joke, dude. It's a fucking joke. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: So I really don't believe that. Jason: It makes you not want to participate at all because you're just sitting there like, What what good did that do? Well, you got your point across, Jay No you didn't. Bryan: I don't know, dude. Well, if this episode's hitting different, do us a favor, hit like, share it with someone who still thinks their party has their back and follow us or subscribe. So you don't miss the next one. We're just two guys trying to make sense of this shit. We appreciate you joining us. All right, we're gonna move on to something else. A couple weeks ago, we went over who was spending the most in the midterms. Jason: Mm. Bryan: The big spenders were cryptocurrency, AI, big tech, online bet and finance and investment. And of course, our APAC peoples. Our APACs. Jason: Or Apex? Mm. Bryan: We also had Elon and Trump throwing money at the midterms. Well, opensecrets.org has reported that almost 12 billion was spent on political advertising at the federal level for the midterms, exceeding 2024 presidential cycle. And 2022 midterms. Super PACs and independent groups make up near 3.9 billion of this spending, up from roughly 2 billion in the 2022 midterms. Almost fucking double. Conservatives spent the most. Corporate contributions reached an estimated record $737 million, more than the entire 2024 presidential cycle for corporations. AI line super PACs have spent roughly 50 to 80 million on the midterm elections. And this is after they pulled back on the election ads due to public backlash over their data centers. They wasn't receiving too much love about their data centers, so they they pulled some of their messaging back. Jason: Mm. Bryan: Reuters reports that crypto spent roughly 176 to 200 million on more than 100 political races. MAGA Inc. spent roughly 300 million in the midterms, and their Israeli buddies put in about 120 million through APAC, the United Democracy Project, and similar Israel-supported PACs. Now A large majority of the members of Congress from both parties received campaign contributions from APAC and related pro-Israel PACs or benefited from independent expenditures by APAC link super PACs, such as the United Democracy Project. Data comes primarily from the FEC filings analyzed by independent trackers. One comprehensive tracker Lists Israel related funding for roughly four hundred and ninety-eight of five hundred and twenty-nine or ninety-four percent members of Congress when com yeah, Jason: That's on both sides, people. Both sides. Bryan: when combining direct and related pro Israel sources. Jason: Yeah. How many how many is that what? Two? Carry the carry the one. That's that thirty-one. Only thirty-one people weren't being supported out of your Congress by Israel. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Bryan: About four hundred and nineteen of four hundred and thirty-nine representatives in the House have APAC or other pro-Israel PAC money on record. Roughly two hundred and two Democrats and two hundred and sixteen Republicans, totaling over 150 million in track amounts. Now Jason: So let's do the math on that. That's twenty. Twenty that ain't being bought off by Israel. Bryan: Republicans tend to have near universal coverage, they say, often cited around ninety-nine percent of the GOP members. But they're getting they're getting lower money donated to them. So the Democrats have less people get money donated, which not much less, but less. But they're getting a higher percentage of money per person. So it's almost like the same money that's going out, it's just there's more of Republicans taking it than the Democrats. But they're all taking money. Jason: They are. Taking it's taking it. Bryan: Well. Jason: if you take ten dollars, what's the difference between ten and a hundred? You took money. Bryan: Well, they announced in October that they're gonna shutter its traditional pack and shift towards less transparent direct giving by members while the super pack is gonna continue. it seems like they they notice that people are noticing them, giving money to everybody, and they're like, Well, we'll just use some shell accounts. We'll still give you money, but it won't be from a pack. You know what I'm saying? Wink wink. Jason: It'll be from them offshore accounts. Bryan: Yeah. Well what kind of effect do you think this all the support from Israel had on the midterms? You don't think? Jason: None. None. No, it didn't. It didn't skew nothing, Bryan.. This was legit shit. Bryan: Most candidates backed by APAC or other pro-Israel packs, super PACs, won their races. This I pulled this data last Wednesday. One tracker reported that candidates backed by these pro-Israel groups won at least 245 of 267 track races, roughly 92%. Not too fucking shabby. Jason: Damn, that's a high success rate. Bryan: They're pretty good. Pretty damn good. They put all their money on red and let it ride. Jason: Let's I Pay out to the winner. Bryan: They put all their money on red, blue, green. Jason: Just they put it all on there. Bryan: They that's what they call being diversified. Jason: D E I They wrote that shit. Bryan: one thing I was surprised to see was the surveillance companies like Palantir and Flock, they only spent an estimate 10 million on the midterms. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: And and I thought they would have spent more, but this is what and looking at, I'm like, why didn't they spend more? For what they say, they learned that lesson through the attention that the AI data centers brought on AI during the elections. And so these surveillance companies realized that the surveillance state doesn't really sell to American people. So they focus on regulatory issues and getting government contracts. So that's where they spend their money on lobbying. So they basically save their money to buy the politicians you vote for and line the pockets of the bureaucrats that they put in positions by the people you voted for. Jason: So they can keep putting their damn spy shit up. Bryan: So so they keep so they can spy on you because you the problem. Jason: Yeah. Yep. Bryan: It's all for you. It's all to make your life better. It's n all for you. Jason: It's to help you, Bryan.. Bryan: It's all for you. If you think that any of these people give a fuck about you, good lord. Jason: They don't. Bryan: Yeah, I I it took me a while really to really think about it, but when you try to get into the head of one of and I'm not trying to say understand how they really think, but just think about what their daily life is compared to yours. Jason: Wonder what them fuckers do all day? Bryan: They'd make your life better. They do everything for you. Everything. I I was listening to this lady earlier this week, and she does she's a nanny, and she's a nanny up around Hollywood, and she was talking about this interview that she went on in the Hollywood Hills. Jason: Right. Right. Bryan: Anyway, she goes through all this interview and and the whole story is pretty fucking cool, but that ain't what got me. What got me was she says she got there and there was three nannies, so they worked in eight hour shifts. So there's always a nanny there. The nannies had iPads so they can punch in what the kids wanted. So that would go to the chef for the chef to cook what they need. Right? There was an estate manager, there was a house manager, there was the chef, there was the gardener, there were all these motherfucking people. The the there was 24-hour laundry. So the laundry never got dirty. As soon as they took something off, they were laundry in. That's how these fucking people live. I'm not saying all our politicians, but that's what these elite motherfuckers deal with. The nanny wouldn't even talk to the lady that she was work that was paying her. She talked Jason: Right. Right. Bryan: to the house manager. The house manager manages everything else, and she talks to the homeowner. Jason: The ham. Bryan: it's this whole fucking hierarchy in this fucking house. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: and we can never we can't understand that. No more than they can understand us. But do you think that? Well, yeah, he got my bag. Yeah, yeah. Trump said we're a bunch of idiots. Yeah, yeah. Trump said we're too poor to eat at Mar a Lago. Yeah, yeah. And I was like, come on, guys. You know, he he Jason: He wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire on the side of the road and he had a peabad. You know what I'm saying? He wouldn't. Bryan: Yeah, I don't know No. Jason: If he would then Trump give us a call and invite us up there and I'll come. Bryan: That's right. Call call us on the hotline. Jason: Yeah. I know you gotta be watching this shit. Bryan: I know you watch it. Jason: Cause we're them dumb motherfuckers that voted for you back in the day. Bryan: He did say that he was gonna end the defunding the Israel. Here's Trump's talking about that. Jason: Yeah, I heard that. I heard that. Bryan: Well, we're not giving Israel any more money. I did read that he that he can't stop these payments alone. These payments are supposed to go through twenty twenty eight and they can still be putting a spending bill, but Trump said he ain't doing it. So is he trying to distance himself from the spending? Jason: He said they don't need it. Bryan: Well BB said earlier this year that he did he he didn't need it. We we played one of them videos in one of our episodes where BB said that they didn't need our money anymore. But that's when they were talking about merging our military intelligence together or something. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: So I d I don't know if he's getting something that way. Or Jason: I'm just trying to understand why we be giving people and they say we don't need it. That'd be like, I guarantee if I told my job I don't need that money, they'd stop check would stop the next week. Bryan: Well, one thing that I've read, and I could be completely wrong by saying this, but this is what I've read in multiple outlets, is that the money that we give the three point eight billion or the three billion or whatever it is, they have this money and they turn around and buy weapons from us with that money. Right. So that's why we give it to them. We're not giving them weapons, we're giving them money to buy weapons from us. It's almost like money laundering, in my opinion. We're Jason: Yeah. Bryan: giving them money and we're feeding Raytheon and Northrop Grumman. We're feeding them with the money that we're giving to Israel. So w are we not giving them the money and now we're just gonna give them missiles? Or did he Let me think of it like a Trump so like a Trump supporter. Did he go ahead and say, hey, look, I don't want to I don't want to support Israel anymore. We're not gonna give him the money. And he knows he can't do it, but it has to go to Congress and the Senate and all, and they have to vote on it or whatnot to say they're not gonna continue giving them this money. So if they continue paying Israel, Trump's like, look, I told them I didn't want to give them the money. So how do you think I'm bought? Y'all the ones that won't stop the money. You have all the power right now. I told you I didn't want to give money. All you gotta do is sign off on it. Jason: Yeah, he trying to look good like that, isn't Bryan: You think it's possible? Jason: he? Yeah, it is. That's plausible. Bryan: It's plausible. I think it's plausible. Yeah, no. Jason: They're trying to do damage control right now. Bryan: I don't know what he's trying to do 'cause he's still very loved in Israel. You heard when Jason: Yeah, dude, he's he's he could probably become the next prime minister over there. He said that. Bryan: That's what he said. Yeah, watch check this out. Jason: shit. That's funny. Bryan: Well, you got a take, a correction, or something you wanna us to dig into, hit us up. Email us at the sense and senseless podcast at outlook dot com. We'd love to hear from you. All right, what I found during this podcast is that there's a lot of stupid people out there. I get it. Jason: y yeah yeah yeah. The comments are gonna come on that. Yeah, we're watching Bryan: Yeah. Jason: two of Bryan: yeah, they are. And you you'll hear me I'm I'm stupid also. I get it. I'm not gonna argue that, but let me explain myself. Jason: What what what are y'all? Idiots or something? I I said or something, but Bryan: And so this is what I mean by stupid people. Stupid people stop thinking for themselves. Jason: Yep. Bryan: These people may have all the degrees, they may have read a thousands and thousands of books, yet they give into the masses because it's easier than standing alone. Most people want to fit into a tribe. they don't want to be an outcast. For some reason, I don't know. I've always been some sort of an outcast. I had so I I had no problem standing alone because I was put there anyway. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: And I fought a lot of battles by myself. And but truthfully the majority of the time that was by my own doing. It wasn't because I didn't have other people. I didn't include other people in my battles. And because at the end of the day, I I I have to answer to myself. So I want to do shit my way. It's not easy, nor am I always right, but I I do my best to be truthful to who I am. It doesn't matter how intelligent you are. If you're mentally weak, you can't stand on your own ideas. Don't be scared to say what you see is wrong. You don't have to agree with someone you know isn't right just to be part of something bigger. You speaking up might give someone else courage to speak up. If you see something and think that can't be right, fucking question it. Burying your head in the sand so you don't ruffle feathers or lose your place in a tribe helps no one, especially you. And when it comes to politics, quit thinking you have to support your party a hundred percent of the time. Yeah, you won't agree with your loved ones a hundred percent of time. So why do you go all or nothing for your politicians? We're conditioned to believe that we have to support our party regardless. Because while your party may not be doing what is right for you, can you imagine if the other party got in power? That is the mentality of most voters today. It is not that they believe their party has better policies or their politicians are helping making their lives better. In their minds, they know that if the other party gets in office, the world as it is over. all these politicians care about is money and power. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: For them to gain access to office, they have to sell themselves to the highest bidder. Corporations and even foreign companies have bought our politicians and took your vote away from you. Even when your fucking politician wins, you lose. You have little to say in what your politicians will do while in office because they're controlled by the donor and the elitist class. These people are invested in your politicians to steal your fucking money. This does nothing to help you. They're stealing your money, running up the debt, enriching themselves and their friends, and calling it fucking progress. It's all a fucking illusion to keep you fighting with your neighbors so you don't wake up and realize you have been getting ass raped all along. I think American taxpayers have Stockholm syndrome, and it's time we wake the fuck up and realize we are better together. Another thing I want to mention, huh? Jason: We preach that we preach that a lot on here. Bryan: We do. I think it's it's I don't know. You got anything to say on that? That makes sense? Jason: No, I d I tr yeah, it's a it's a big ploy. I didn't realize it either until we started doing this and and it the it's not like we're y ten full hattin making up shit and you know what I'm saying? It's actual i I mean, they're basically showing it to you now. Bryan: And I'm gonna go over one more thing before we leave, just to show you how fucked up all this shit is. The last time a federal budget was completed on time was nineteen ninety six. Think about that. Jason: That's crazy. Bryan: The last time Congress passed all of its mandatory individual appropriations bill on time was in September of 1996. Since then, they used these massive omnibus bills and continuing resolutions to get what they want or kick the can down the road. Technically, our politicians, and I didn't know this. Are supposed to vote on 12 smaller individual appropriations bills for shit like defense, education, agriculture, energy, financial services, homeland security, human services, and all and all that shit, right? That's all supposed to be voted on separately from what I found. But doing that not only takes time, but shows exactly who is voting for what. It shows the people who is doing right by them. Right. So it shows your politician and what he voted for. And that politician vote the way that you thought he would vote. So instead of doing that, they play this fucking omnibus game where they roll all this shit up in one big ass bill, throw all pork spending and benefits for them and their donors. And they put out this 2,000 page bill the night before the vote, knowing no one can fucking scrutinize what's inside of it. And now the things already passed. Time you wake up in the morning. And they'll they'll tell you shit you had to sign this huge bill so the government don't get shut down. You gotta avoid the government shutdown. Do you want to do you want to lose your social security check? Do you want to lose they they stress you all the time about this shit? And there's not enough time to go through everything we need and get the best answer. So yeah, we had to give some concessions, and this is the best we could fucking do. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: Yeah. They're doing this for you. Think about that. They're there to represent you and this is what they're doing. They're doing all this for you. Passing a budget is one of their primary duties, and they can't even do that. Think about that. This isn't partisan. This is both parties being greedy and you footing the fucking bill. Jason: Deal. Bryan: We're still on a working CR today, and none of the 12 mandatory annual appropriations bills have been passed for 2027. The fiscal year ended in October, and we're still working from a kick the can resolution from 2026 going into 2027. Passing a fucking bill is one of the primary duties and they can't even fucking do that. Think about that. And my opinion, it's because they all need to bleed you dry and they are too greedy to give concessions. Not Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: because it'll help you, but because it will hurt their donors' pockets. And God forbid we do that. In the last 50 years, or basically since I've been alive, Congress has managed to pass the budget as designed only four fucking times. And when I say does as design, I'm referring to voting on and passing the 12 distinct appropriation bills. So why am I telling you this? Because it isn't one party that is causing these issues for us. It's both parties, and it has been going on forever. What's fucked up is there's no repercussions for not passing the budget. If they don't pass it, the only fucking people that will suffer are you. They know this and play this to their benefit. Because it's all for you. It's all for you. Yeah, I think Jason. Jason: Nope. Tired of it. Bryan: All that makes sense. Jason: I'm tired of it, dude. Bryan: I am too. And I d the the biggest thing is it was a hell of a week. If you was Republican, it was a hell of a week if you was Democrat. I'm independent. It was a hell of a week for me. Midterms was something. It's gonna be interesting to see where we go. this keep arguing left and right forever. That that's just don't work. We gotta wake the fuck up. You know. Both these parties treat the American taxpayer like shit, you know. Jason: I should have had my popcorn out tonight. Bryan: All right. So the results from the midterms didn't happen because voters suddenly got smarter or dumber. They happened because a lot of people stopped believing the sales pitch when it didn't match their grocery bill, their paycheck, or the war that was supposed to be over in three days. If that resonates, you're not alone. Thanks for joining us tonight. It was a pleasure spending time with you. Until next time, this is the Sense Assistance Pro podcast. I'm Bryan.. Jason: I'm Jason. Bryan: He's Jay's all. Peace. Jason: Peace.