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Ep.118: None Dare Call It Treason (When Republicans Do It) · The Opinionated Ogre Podcast

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  SPEAKER_01: This is The Opinionated Ogre Podcast,
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  SPEAKER_01: your weekly rampage through current events with a little snark,
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  SPEAKER_01: a bit of foul language, and a lot of strong opinions.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're in new episodes every Thursday,
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  SPEAKER_01: I am your podcast host, The Opinionated Ogre, and this is my co-host, Florida Woman.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hello, Florida Woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, everybody.
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  SPEAKER_01: How are you doing this week?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Excellent.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you watched a little bit of Press Secretary Kate Zachariah.
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  SPEAKER_01: How do you pronounce her name?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is it Zachariah or Zachariah?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm never going to be bothered to even learn it because she'll be gone soon.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, she's going to pull a Scaramucci.
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  SPEAKER_01: She's terrible at this job.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love how we used to count people's stays in the White House by Scaramucci's during
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  SPEAKER_00: the first term.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is she's she's not.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, yeah, I'm sure she's good at something looking like Ivanka.
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  SPEAKER_01: But what's weird about her?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, one thing weird about her,
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  SPEAKER_01: it's like she said she's a lawyer,
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  SPEAKER_01: but she hasn't passed the bar anywhere in the United States.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now we're finding out that she allegedly passed the bar while she was in China.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it's illegal for foreigners to take the bar in China or practice law.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: And she's very well connected to China for some reason.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now she's the press secretary, which is odd.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's odd for us, but it's perfectly normal for this White House.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nothing suspicious.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's about the slightest.
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  SPEAKER_01: And, you know,
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  SPEAKER_01: these are the people like if if Democrats even meet with someone from China,
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  SPEAKER_01: they scream treason, treason, treason for a year straight.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now it's just like, oh, you've got one of them working in the White House and it's fine.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's no problem.
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  SPEAKER_01: She has access to all sorts of stuff, you know, classified information.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't worry.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's all good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ignore that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't pay attention.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nothing to see here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: So just remember,
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  SPEAKER_01: don't dare call treason when it's a republic committing it,
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  SPEAKER_01: because that's how the saying goes, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: That's how it goes?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't think so,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I guess we're going to have to go with that,
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  SPEAKER_00: because that's the America we
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  SPEAKER_01: live in.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's definitely how it is now.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the recording for Thursday,
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  SPEAKER_01: October 15th, 2026, and we have a lot to get to on 118 of the Ogpod.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are we ready to do this?
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  SPEAKER_00: Hell yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, then let's get to it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's time for the Ogre Nation news updates.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go Bills.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Donald Trump has gone full traitor right before the midterms,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is a really bold choice for him.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: His brain seems to be leaking out of his ears faster than normal.
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  SPEAKER_01: But by now, you know that he made this deal to buy diesel from Russia.
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  SPEAKER_01: Which is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Isn't that against the law?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's literally against the law.
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  SPEAKER_01: This isn't like, you know, we just have informal sanctions.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sanctions are not a suggestion.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are actual laws that have been passed and were signed by Trump.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, he's buying 300 tons of fuel from the murderous Russian dictator.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who's at war with our country.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're not calling it a war, but Putin's been trying to topple the United States for decades.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we're giving him money now.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: 300,000 tons.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sounds like
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  SPEAKER_01: We have the third largest population in the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: Three.
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  SPEAKER_01: 300 tons of fuel, we will go through that in 12 hours.
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  SPEAKER_01: We use twice that much a day.
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  SPEAKER_01: Never mind the fact that we're one of the largest countries in the world,
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  SPEAKER_01: we're also one of the top fossil fuel consumers of the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, that's really literally 12 hours worth of diesel fuel for us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Paul Krugman did the math.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he was like, how much do we use a day?
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  SPEAKER_01: That's half.
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  SPEAKER_01: What the hell?
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's $400 million going to Putin.
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  SPEAKER_01: Which he desperately needs.
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  SPEAKER_01: Trump plans to buy another 500,000 tons in November and
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  SPEAKER_01: then another million tons sometime right after that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's another one and a half to two billion dollars to Russia.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's assuming.
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  SPEAKER_01: Trump doesn't start paying him extra just because.
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  SPEAKER_01: And clearly, this is a financial lifeline to Putin.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Russian economy has been under enormous strain for years between
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  SPEAKER_01: The various sanctions from pretty much everybody on the planet,
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  SPEAKER_01: the war that's been going absolutely horrendously for Russia.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is going on, what, four years now?
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  SPEAKER_01: I believe it's been four years.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's going terribly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, 2022, I think.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Russia's been just burning through money left and right
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  SPEAKER_01: and their economy is not built for this in any way, shape or form.
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  SPEAKER_01: But they need money from someplace and China's not going to just start pumping in tons of money.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we are now.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're giving them billions of dollars for fuel that we're going to burn through in just days.
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  SPEAKER_01: But this is money that they desperately, desperately need.
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  SPEAKER_01: And The fact that Trump made this deal weeks ago and didn't announce it tells you
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  SPEAKER_01: that, one,
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  SPEAKER_01: he knew he was doing something illegal and he needed to keep it from the public
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  SPEAKER_01: because Trump cannot keep his mouth shut about Michael Tracy?
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  SPEAKER_01: Are you in the room?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is Michael Chasey here?
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  SPEAKER_01: What?
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  SPEAKER_01: No, I'm sorry.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's too busy trying to debunk the Cornell 7 rape case.
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  SPEAKER_01: What?
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what he does for a living.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's got to pander to his audience of mediocre white rapists.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is where we are now.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're literally funding a country that's directly working to topple our government.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Trump demanded an energy ceasefire from both Russia and Ukraine.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the idea here Both countries have been completely decimating infrastructure
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  SPEAKER_01: in each of the countries.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, Russia is bombing electric and gas infrastructure in Ukraine.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not like they're...
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know how much gas and oil Ukraine produces,
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  SPEAKER_01: if any at all,
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  SPEAKER_01: but they've been shutting down their civilian infrastructure,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is a war crime,
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  SPEAKER_01: by the way,
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  SPEAKER_01: but they've been doing it in order to put people out in the cold during
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  SPEAKER_01: a brutal winter.
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  SPEAKER_01: They've been doing this every fucking year.
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  SPEAKER_01: The fact that Ukraine is still standing is a testament
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  SPEAKER_01: to how much those people don't give a flying fuck about Russia and they're willing
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  SPEAKER_01: to put up with it in order to tell Russia to go take a walk off a long cliff.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been really surprising, to be honest with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought Ukraine would have fallen years ago, and they're still fighting.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and part of it is they know what's going to happen if Russia takes over their country.
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  SPEAKER_01: They know this is an existential—Russia will kill them.
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  SPEAKER_01: They will just simply kill them, and they will be living in a fucking never-ending nightmare.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like, well, we either keep fighting.
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  SPEAKER_01: We either fight and die now or we die slowly later.
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  SPEAKER_01: OK, not much of a choice.
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  SPEAKER_01: But so on the other hand, Ukraine is not blowing up civilian infrastructure.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're not blowing up, you know, the oil and heating and electric.
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  SPEAKER_01: So people go cold.
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  SPEAKER_01: They are blowing up Russia's ability to pump and refine and deliver gas and oil
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  SPEAKER_01: to other countries,
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  SPEAKER_01: which has been very strategic in crippling Russia's petro economy.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is their only real source of money because Russia doesn't produce anything
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  SPEAKER_01: of value besides maybe vodka, okay?
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  SPEAKER_01: So they've been very, very smart about this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Russia has been losing hundreds of billions of dollars.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they can't afford to keep going like this.
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  SPEAKER_01: They need that money,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is why all of a sudden Trump is very,
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  SPEAKER_01: very concerned about Ukraine bombing the shit out of Russia's energy infrastructure.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Opinionated Ogre.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have to wonder if that was partially the idea behind us attacking Iran in the first place.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we knew they were going to close the Shade of Hormuz.
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  SPEAKER_01: We knew that was going to happen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if that did, it was going to drive.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's no way that came from Trump.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's not smart enough.
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  SPEAKER_01: Putin's smart enough, though, and he is exactly that country.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, have we forgotten that?
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  SPEAKER_01: We don't talk about that.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're literally still, we're giving money to the country that's helping kill our own troops.
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  SPEAKER_01: But, you know, that's not a big deal.
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  SPEAKER_01: The press doesn't really want to talk about that.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's not really a big thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: But this is absolutely fucking ridiculous.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why?
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  SPEAKER_01: Why?
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  SPEAKER_01: The problem is Russia is also attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure still.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he's going to have a really hard time justifying cutting off the sales to Ukraine
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  SPEAKER_01: and saying, well, they're doing this.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, yeah, but what?
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  SPEAKER_01: You're still going to be buying it from them?
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course he will.
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  SPEAKER_01: How do you justify it?
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  SPEAKER_01: You can't.
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  SPEAKER_01: If both sides are ignoring your demands for a ceasefire,
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  SPEAKER_01: you can't only punish Ukraine and reward Russia without everything.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, at
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  SPEAKER_01: some point, it's absolutely going to happen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Trump is going to declare Ukraine a national security threat and he's going
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  SPEAKER_01: to start sending weapons and money.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's not going to be buying diesel.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's going to start sending weapons and money directly to Russia in order to,
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  SPEAKER_01: and this is what you're going to be listening for, secure the peace.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the phrase you're going to be listening for.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's going to say he's a national security threat.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have to help Russia end this war in order to secure the peace.
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  SPEAKER_01: All it's going to be is treason.
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  SPEAKER_01: Trump is a Russian asset.
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  SPEAKER_01: Half the Republican Party is on board with this.
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  SPEAKER_01: The other half is actually really hostile to the idea because they're like Reagan Republicans.
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  SPEAKER_01: Republicans in that sense, they're incredibly hostile to Russia.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the other half, I have been bought and paid for by Russia for years.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is who they fucking are.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is who the Republican Party is.
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  SPEAKER_01: And unless they get together with Democrats and they push Trump out,
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  SPEAKER_01: we're going to have to deal with this for the next two fucking years
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  SPEAKER_01: of Trump just selling our country out and working directly for fucking work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, that's something to look forward to.
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  SPEAKER_01: Can't wait.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, speaking of Trump,
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  SPEAKER_00: last week the Trump regime announced the military was going to put Nadal Hassan
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  SPEAKER_00: to death via firing squad.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hassan is a former U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: major who served as an Army Medical Corps psychiatrist,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is pretty disturbing if you consider his history.
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  SPEAKER_00: He opened fire on the Fort Hood Army Base in 2009, murdering 13 and injuring 32.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 2013,
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  SPEAKER_00: he was sentenced to death for the massacre and has been in a military prison
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  SPEAKER_00: in Leavenworth since then because the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: military hasn't executed a soldier since 1961.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, the Trump regime loves killing people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So last Monday,
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  SPEAKER_00: Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announced Secretary Loti recommended Hassan be
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  SPEAKER_00: killed by firing squad.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump approved the request.
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  SPEAKER_00: And by the way,
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  SPEAKER_00: this announcement was made on Twitter because apparently that's the platform
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  SPEAKER_00: that we use to announce very serious, serious decisions to
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  SPEAKER_01: the American people.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's where all the best Nazis are, so.
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  SPEAKER_00: The U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: military has not killed a soldier by firing squad since 1945,
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  SPEAKER_00: when Private Eddie D.
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  SPEAKER_00: Slavic was executed in France for desertion during World War II, since 1945.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two days after Parnell's announcement,
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  SPEAKER_00: the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: Army announced it decided that Hassan's execution should happen during
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  SPEAKER_00: the holiday season on December 3rd.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ho, ho, ho!
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  SPEAKER_00: Merry Christmas!
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  SPEAKER_00: I actually had missed all of this last week
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  SPEAKER_00: and only found out what my best friend informed me during a phone call.
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  SPEAKER_00: She said, this is so barbaric.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next thing you know, they're going to air it on television.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we hung up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And well,
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  SPEAKER_00: a few hours later,
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  SPEAKER_00: I was sending her an announcement
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  SPEAKER_00: because that's exactly what these super Christians want to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, a little Yule blog and, you know, some public execution.
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  SPEAKER_00: That sounds like fun for the holiday season.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, this is straight up fucking, this is straight up running man shit.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like, no, murder on TV, just for fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: Gotta entertain the masses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, the same day the military announced the execution date,
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  SPEAKER_00: Hegseth told far-right podcaster Jack, how do you say his name?
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  SPEAKER_01: Basobiec.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_00: Basobiec.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, no, he was definitely way into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Especially his own.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hassan, by the way,
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  SPEAKER_00: is in a wheelchair because he was paralyzed when police shot him after the massacre.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Trump regime is going to look super, super,
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  SPEAKER_00: super tough when it executes a prisoner by firing squad who's in a wheelchair.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll bet you $5 they make him stand up somehow.
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  SPEAKER_00: They bring in like a piece of wood and they like...
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like
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  SPEAKER_01: they strap him up somehow so he's not in a wheelchair because they know
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  SPEAKER_01: the optics of that are going to be ridiculous.
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  SPEAKER_00: While Hegseth is giddy with excitement over the possibility of a public execution,
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  SPEAKER_00: the army was reportedly caught completely off guard.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, because, you know, 1945.
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  SPEAKER_00: And why wouldn't they be?
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  SPEAKER_00: This isn't normal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And more importantly, it's against army regulations.
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  SPEAKER_00: The only people who are supposed to be at military executions are The families of
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  SPEAKER_00: the victims, the lawyers for the defendant, their family, and then officials.
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  SPEAKER_00: One army officer who's had multiple deployments to the Middle East told CNN, quote,
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  SPEAKER_00: When we do public executions,
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  SPEAKER_00: the generational harm caused by allowing troops in uniform to stand in front of
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  SPEAKER_00: a man in a wheelchair and watch him get shot to death is irreparable.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even Vice President J.D.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vance was skeptical,
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  SPEAKER_00: telling the media he didn't know if it would actually happen,
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  SPEAKER_00: and, quote, I'm not going to be watching it.
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  SPEAKER_01: But he doesn't have enough of a fucking spine to speak up
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  SPEAKER_01: and say maybe we shouldn't do this, because of course he won't.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right, of course not.
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: So much for his fucking Catholic face.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have to laugh because, you know, he's not a real Catholic.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, he really isn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump spoke in support of the public execution on Friday and then
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  SPEAKER_00: in true Trump fashion got the details wrong saying 14 people had been murdered.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yes,
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  SPEAKER_00: I know that it's just one more than what was actually murdered at Fort Hood,
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  SPEAKER_00: but it just shows you that he just doesn't care to learn about anything.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if Joe Biden got that wrong, it would be front page news.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: But by the weekend,
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump was casting doubt in whether or not
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  SPEAKER_00: the live-streamed execution would actually happen,
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  SPEAKER_00: saying, quote, They are making a determination about that, but he will be killed.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really don't care how he goes as long as he goes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, apparently a lot of people,
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  SPEAKER_01: like Republicans,
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  SPEAKER_01: came up, went up to him and said, this is a really bad fucking idea.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like, you know, they don't mind the execution.
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  SPEAKER_01: The live streaming part,
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  SPEAKER_01: they're telling him it's really going to make a lot of people really,
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  SPEAKER_01: really fucking uncomfortable.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even on our side, this is a very, very bad fucking idea.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, experts are telling parents to get their children ready for this because
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: if it happens, it's going to be everywhere.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's going to be pushed out on social media.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and what are they going to do?
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: Censor it on social media when the government approves this?
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_01: Well, even then, you know they won't on Twitter.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_00: And the thing is,
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_00: is like, yeah,
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_00: Republicans are against it too,
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: because even if you are pro-death penalty,
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: a public execution is fucking barbaric and it's not something we do.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_01: And that's, it's not a, it's not an execution, that's a lynching.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_01: That's the lynching.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: The idea is to make it a big old sport for everyone's enjoyment.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: That's not about justice.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: It's not even about retribution, right?
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_01: It's about making sure everyone gets to see it and have a good time.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_01: I know you've seen these, the pictures of all the smiling white people.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, you know.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's what they're going for.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: And if this guy was white, I guarantee they would not be doing this.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: No, not at all.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_01: If this was a white Christian who went on a killing spree,
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: they would not be trying to do this in public execution.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: There are already reports that soldiers are asking for religious exemptions so that
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: the military won't call them up to be part of the firing squad.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: Michael L.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: Weinstein,
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: the founder of Military Religious Freedom Foundation,
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: the Military Religious Freedom Foundation,
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: told the Washington Sun that
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: at least six service members have approached his organization about exemptions
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: and he expects up to 180 more.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: Now, it's important to understand.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, let me
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: think about that.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: I'm a little curious about why anyone would need an exemption.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_01: Wouldn't they just be asking for volunteers?
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: No, they would definitely.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: It would be orders.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: Why?
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: Because the military doesn't ask for volunteers.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: They...
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: They order you to do something and you
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: do it.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: But for something like this, it's like... And for everything.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_01: Just get a volunteer.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: That way you don't have to worry about if the person wants to do it or not.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: In this particular instance where someone might have a moral objection to it,
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_01: it's like, no, we don't have to worry about that.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_01: This is a little outside their usual duties.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: Make it a volunteer mission.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: Well, so it's important to understand that none of this is set in stone
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: because Hassan still has appeals and he could have this whole thing delayed.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: Also,
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: the courts have previously ruled against allowing the public to view executions
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_00: when media members have asked to broadcast them.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: Because apparently the media has previously asked for an execution to be broadcast,
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: which is weird.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: Ew.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: The fact that the Trump regime is even trying to terrorize the country with
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: a live-streamed execution is wild.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: Violent extremists are the only people who execute people via live-stream.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: We actually saw a lot of this during the war on...
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that wasn't great.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yay, social media.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: And I was a child, really, when the war on terror started.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: So the first execution I ever saw online was of a government contractor from Orlando.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like a teenager.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, yikes.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: And it stays with me.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: So I was like 15 or 16.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm 41 now.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: We can't be doing this to our children anymore.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: Several terrorists, domestically and abroad, have live-streamed mass shootings.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: The Trump regime wants to be just like them.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_00: Of course, we all know that they're terrorists anyways.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: We should also point out,
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_00: this is exactly the kind of shit that we would expect from a fascist regime.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: Their supporters will eat this violent propaganda up.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter how much psychological harm it's going to do.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: Including
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_01: their own children.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: Including to their own children because, hey, the enemy deserves to die, right?
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: We've already seen these people killing immigrants in the street.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: The next logical step is to start killing prisoners on television.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: It helps them desensitize the American people.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_00: If nothing shocks us, there won't be any backlash.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: We're much less likely to rise up.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: We kind of see this with mass shootings at schools.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: How often do we go out and protest mass shootings at schools anymore?
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: And they happen all the time.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's just a thing now.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's just normal.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: They keep taking it further and further.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: That's why it's so important that we all use our voices to object to this.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: We all have to speak out against it.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care if you are pro-death penalty.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: Or against the death penalty.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: We should all protest public executions.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: This isn't the fucking Salem Witch Trials, guys.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: Which, by the way, they weren't burning witches.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: They were burning women.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_00: Nadal Hassan is a...
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: I'm
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: against the death penalty even as the daughter of a murdered parent,
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: but I can understand why people would want him to be put to death,
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: but it's not about him.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's about what the regime is doing to our country and how we can protect ourselves
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_00: and our children.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: They always say save the children.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_00: Well, okay.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: Now is a perfect opportunity to do that.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and it's not like there's some way to prevent kids from watching it.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_01: Once you put it online like that, that's it.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: It's on there.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_01: Social media is not going to scrub these images.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: It'll just be accessible.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_01: You'll be able to find it.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: And that's part of why they're doing it.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_01: They want to teach people that it's okay to kill bad people, yada, yada, yada.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_01: And mind you, you know...
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: Four years from now,
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: when there's a Democrat in the White House,
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_01: if President, blah, blah,
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: whoever,
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_01: the Democrat,
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: wanted to publicly execute a white nationalist that shot up a school and killed
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_01: a bunch of kids,
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_01: people would be like,
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: oh, that guy killed They don't want that kind of execution publicized.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: They don't want that kind of execution for people to see
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_01: because that's their people being executed.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_01: They don't want that.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_01: They want brown people.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: They want those people being executed, not their people.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_01: The Trump regime will never do a public execution of a right-wing extremist.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_01: Never.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_01: Or at least not a right-wing Christian.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: It'll always be Yeah, she had one in the ad and they lost their minds.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, why are you showing white men?
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_01: You should be showing black women.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, guys, when you're doing a racism, you can't say the racism out loud.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: You have to be more subtle than that, guys.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: But they were so fucking mad because she was targeting them,
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_01: not the people that they think are all on welfare.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, well, yeah,
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: there's some black people on there,
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: but there's also an awful lot of white people on there.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: Especially in a state that's overwhelmingly white.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_01: So because she was only talking about her state.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_01: So this is it's all about racism, even the death penalty.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_01: Everything's with racism with these guys.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_01: So, all right, let us move on.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_01: Otherwise,
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: we will be here all day just talking about what animals these Republicans are
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: with their bloodlust.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_01: Let us move on to, wow, we have just two weeks left of this one.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: And probably a recap for the week or two after.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: But for now, it is time to move on to the Midterm Massacre.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: So according to MS Now,
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: there are now five red state governorships under threat of flipping
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: and one red state blue governor in danger of flipping back.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_00: Democrats are currently ahead in Iowa and Ohio, according to 50 Plus One.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_00: The races in Nevada,
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: Texas, and Georgia are also close, though the GOP candidates have narrow leads.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: We've come within striking distance in Georgia in the last two races.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_00: But unfortunately, Republicans of the state cheated.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_00: Remember when, what was his name?
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_00: Stacey Adams.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Stacey Adams was running, and it was Brian Kemp, right?
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_01: He was the- He was the Secretary of State running for governor,
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_00: and just somehow- And he didn't recuse himself as Secretary of State.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_00: And then all these voters got thrown off the polls.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's very weird.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_00: Totally unexpected.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_00: So hopefully we'll get across the finish line this time.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_00: I have hope because John Ossoff is also running.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm hoping that we get both.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he's going to have some long coattails there.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_00: Fingers crossed.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: Rob Sand,
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_00: the Democratic candidate in Iowa,
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_00: is nine points ahead of the Republican candidate there.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus Christ.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_00: Crazy.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's one of our best shots to flip a governorship.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_00: And then in Ohio,
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_00: Republican and Doge OG Vivek Ramaswamy made the race competitive for Democrats.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_01: He made it competitive in the sense of he was terrible.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_01: He shouldn't have been there.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_01: And a regular candidate probably would just want to ran away with it.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_00: The tech bro did not even live in Ohio.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: He moved there just to run for governor because he thought he could win there.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_01: Definition of carpetbagger.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_00: Southerners love to use that term.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_00: The Democratic candidate, Amy Acton, is pulling four points ahead.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_00: She actually used to work for the Republican governor.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_00: She was appointed to something.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_00: Take what you can get.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_00: We take what we can get in red states, man.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: In Kansas, Republicans could take back the governorship after eight years of Democratic rule.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: Sadly, Governor Laura Kelly is term limited.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_00: One wonders, though,
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_00: if the people of Kansas are ready to take that plunge again,
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_00: because former Republican Governor Sam Brownback was so single-mindedly focused
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_00: on his far-right,
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_00: pro-corporate, anti-everybody else economic agenda, he trashed the state.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_00: He trashed it so badly that people started calling it Brownbackistan.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: Which I totally forgot about until you mentioned it in the notes.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_00: And his own party rebelled.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: Even his fellow Republicans thought that maybe living in a state without electricity
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_00: and running water might be a bit too much.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_00: He was so bad.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, when your own party says, you know what?
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: No, we can't do this.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_01: You're destroying everything and our kids have to live here too.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he was so bad.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_01: Speaking of terrible, Musk,
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_01: Elon Musk, like Trump, is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the midterms.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_01: Musk is just pouring his own money in.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: Trump is using his super PAC.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_01: I forget what it's called.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_01: They're both trying to save the GOP majority.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_01: Between the two of them, they've dropped in like half a billion dollars.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_01: But they started way too late.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_01: And it's not clear that they could do anything except maybe keeping the bloodbath
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_01: from becoming an apocalypse.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_01: So maybe a minor apocalypse instead of an extinction event?
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_01: So...
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_01: What were they waiting for?
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_01: What the fuck were they waiting for?
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_01: Partly, they were waiting because of arrogance.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_01: Because they were like, we don't have to do anything.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_01: We're Republicans.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_01: We control everything.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_01: Blah, blah, blah.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_01: But also, the polling only got...
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_01: The Opinionated Ogre.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_00: And you know that 30% is really the people who are part of the cult.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_00: The ones who are like, they have their car wrapped in.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: There's a car around here that's wrapped in Trump as Rambo.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_01: But like three months ago,
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_01: that number was 37%, where it was like, oh, I'll never go lower than 37%.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_01: The Professional Left Podcast,
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_01: which is one of the ones I listen to regularly,
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_01: they call that the Sarah Palin pool, right?
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_01: It was like 37%.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: They'll never go lower than 37%,
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_01: but now they went through the Sarah Palin floor where there's 30%, 32%, 31%.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_01: They're down there,
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_01: and if things keep getting worse,
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_01: and they They're even more pissed off at Republicans because while Trump has a cult,
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_01: The Republican Party does not have a cult.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_01: They have trained their voters to hate Democrats, but not necessarily love Republicans.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_01: So they'll never vote for a Democrat,
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_01: but they'll stay home and not vote before they'll,
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_01: you know, they won't go in and vote for a Republican.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_01: They'll just stay home.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_01: Although I have to say, I did read something today and I have to go back and go through it.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_01: The data center thing, the whole thing about data centers is pissing off Republicans so much.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_01: That some of them are voting for Democrats,
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_01: which is insane to hear to say that out loud because they've been conditioned
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_01: for 50 years that Democrats are literally the children of Satan himself.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_01: They literally believe that we kill and eat babies,
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_01: that we're pedophiles who kill and eat children,
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_01: and they're still willing to vote for us over Republicans because of
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_01: the data center thing.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_01: See how angry people are about that.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_01: And yet Trump goes out there and says, I love data centers.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, oh my fucking God, you've got to be shitting me.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_01: So, all right.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, back to what we were talking about.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_01: So another reason that Trump and Musk waited until The absolute last minute
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_01: to start pouring in half a billion dollars into
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_01: the midterms is they thought their various schemes to rate the elections were going
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_01: to work.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_01: They thought gerrymandering was going to deliver them the House.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_01: That didn't work out at all.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_01: Controlling mail-in ballots would eliminate millions of votes.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_01: That didn't work out.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_01: There's still this vain hope that the military is going to seize ballots
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_01: and shut down polling sites.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_01: But with the polling this heavily against Republicans, that's a problem.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_01: Like we've explained over and over and over again, A stolen election has to appear plausible.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_01: Sending the military or the FBI or Department of Homeland Security to grab
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_01: the ballots in multiple states while claiming voter fraud
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_01: across multiple elections That's not going to appear even slightly legitimate.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_01: It will appear as exactly what it is.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_01: A fascist regime stealing elections it lost.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_01: And that won't work.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_01: No one's going to accept it.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_01: And you have to have that fig leaf of plausibility.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_01: And it disappears when you do it that way.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_01: So now the corrupt morons have to pour a ton of money into the midterms
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_01: And hope they can fire their way out of this mess.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_01: They dug a huge, massive hole for themselves.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_01: But they can't.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_01: And we'd love seeing that for them and them setting money on fire, especially Trump.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_01: If he blows half of his rather So, boo-hoo.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_00: So sad.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_00: Well, speaking of Trump, he's making farmers' lives even harder ahead of the midterms.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_00: So nice of him.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_00: The government invested nearly $5 billion into renewable and energy-efficient products.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_00: It helped fund more than 19,000 energy projects undertaken by small businesses and farmers.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_00: That's a massive amount of projects taken on by farmers and small businesses.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_00: You know, that probably really props up the local economies.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_00: The projects included everything from solar and wind power to manure biodigesters,
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_00: which sounds really gross.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_00: I wonder what they do.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_01: Hmm.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_01: One wonders.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_00: Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins claimed solar projects were taking farmland
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_00: needed for crops.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_00: Personally,
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_00: I find this hilarious,
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_00: especially since we can all see with our eyeballs what developers like Trump
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_00: and others are doing.
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_00: What are they using the farmland for?
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what it's like in Virginia,
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_00: but in Florida,
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_00: they're taking the farmland and building master communities like
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_00: where you have Three acres of land and 100 houses
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_00: and they're all like four feet apart.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_00: Or, you know, huge, huge apartment building complexes.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_00: That's what's happening to our farmland here.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's really a big problem in Florida.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what it's like in other states,
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_00: but it's not solar farms that are taking our farmland.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_00: But I digress.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_00: Over two-thirds of the energy grants have gone to districts held by Republicans.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_00: Oof.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_00: So that spells more bad news for the GOP.
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_00: Good fucking riddance.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_01: Now, one thing about the whole, oh, they're taking up our farmland.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_01: There are big, large swaths of farmland that farmers are paid not to use.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, that too.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_01: It's a supply and demand issue, right?
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_01: If too many people are producing tomatoes,
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_01: then you can't sell the tomatoes enough to make a profit on what you've made.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_01: Okay,
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_01: so the government literally pays farmers to not use large chunks of their fields
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_01: across the country in order to crop up the price of various crops.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_01: And I know that sounds...
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_01: These projects were a perfect solution if...
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_01: If I have 500 acres of field and 200 of it,
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_01: you don't want me to use 200 acres of it, convert it to a solar farm.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_01: Now I don't have to use it to grow crops and it's not wasted.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_01: It's not just sitting there.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_01: The government doesn't have to pay me money for it.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_01: Now it's generating revenue and it's helping the power grid in general.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_01: It was the perfect solution for this problem because we have a ton of farmland.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_01: Not all of it we need.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, depending on the state, obviously, right?
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_01: But like out in the Midwest, there's a ton of farmland.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_01: They don't need all of it all the fucking time.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_01: We grow a lot of corn.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_01: We don't necessarily need Right.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_00: And we're already suffering, which is becoming a real, real problem.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_01: If we have to move the farmland to some other parts,
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_01: those farmers, well,
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_01: they need to do something with their no longer useful farmland,
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_01: solar farms, wind farms.
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_01: It's perfect, especially out in the Midwest where there's lots of sun, lots of wind.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_01: But of course, Republicans don't want that because of their insane ideology.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_01: It's perfect for the farmers.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_01: It's perfect.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_01: Never mind the environment.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's perfect for the farms and it's perfect for the economy.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_01: Because every year we use more and more electricity.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_01: This is a perfect solution.
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_01: And Republicans are doing everything possible to cripple our growing energy economy,
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_01: aside from the whole economics.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_00: Plus, if you think about it, we invest upfront.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_00: They build a solar farm, right?
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_00: And then instead of the government paying them to not use that land every year,
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_00: it's the private power companies that are paying them for their own land.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_00: Why is this complicated?
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_00: That's common sense.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the economics of it work out fantastic.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_01: And these are like, oh, we're the party of the economy.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, you don't act like it.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_01: Now, moving on to Texas, James Tallarico is freaking out Republicans.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_01: He's doing so well,
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_01: and Ken Paxton,
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_01: his idiot opponent,
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_01: is doing so poorly, we are seeing levels of panic that are unusual.
• 39:53
  SPEAKER_01: Even for the party of creepy weirdos that is the Republican.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_01: They've been throwing all kinds of stupid nicknames at Tallarico for months.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_01: I don't even know half of them because none of them have stuck.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_01: They've been trying to suggest that he's trans somehow and that happens.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_01: But, you know, James Tallarico is the one that's actually secretly gay.
• 40:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 40:23
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, last week,
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_01: Tallarico got the flu and he stepped off the campaign trail so he wouldn't collapse
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_01: while campaigning and probably so he wouldn't spread it around
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_01: to everyone around him.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_01: And the right went absolutely apeshit with all sorts of stupidity.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_01: Some right-wing tool named Nick Sorter.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_01: But he whipped up fake,
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_01: quote unquote,
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_01: evidence that Tallarico was in a mental hospital in Ohio, I think it was.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_01: And right-wing influencers tried to run with this story,
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_01: but it was nuked from orbit almost instantly.
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_01: Instantly, because the evidence was so clearly fucking fake.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_01: It was AI genetics, like a voicemail shit.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_01: The whole thing blew up in their faces so fucking fast,
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_01: and it all just reeked of absolute desperation.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_01: Personally, I hope Sorter gets sued for libel.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_01: But anyway,
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_01: what's really going on here is that Ken Paxton is
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_01: the single worst candidate they could have picked.
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_01: But Trump wanted him because he,
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_01: Paxton, is just as corrupt and scummy The Opinionated Ogre, opinionatedogre.com.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_01: Two years ago, they were selling the lie that they were unstoppable and fascism was inevitable.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_01: Now they're going to lose the Senate seat in the once untouchable Texas
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_01: while losing control of the House,
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_01: the Senate,
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_01: several governorships,
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_01: and hundreds of state seats in every single corner of the country.
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_01: So much for the thousand-year rights.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_00: So we're going to pause here a minute and talk about the violence at Trump's rally
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_00: on Monday night.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_00: Two protesters,
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_00: a woman, and later a man were beaten up by the crowd while Trump cheered them on.
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_00: And the rest of the audience laughed and roared approval.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know about this until this morning.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_00: And then I watched the video and I was appalled.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_00: It reminded me of 2016 when the protesters were being punched in the face and stuff
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_00: at his rallies and
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_01: USA, USA.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah,
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_00: which is so gross.
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_00: It's like the most performative patriotism I've ever seen in my life.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_00: And the thing is, he's not a candidate.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_00: He's the president of the United States.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_00: Could you imagine if a Republican was beaten up at one of Obama's rallies for
• 42:59
  SPEAKER_00: a candidate and then Obama cheered it on?
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_01: It would be a nonstop scandal for the next six months.
• 43:07
  SPEAKER_01: There would be demands for his impeachment and removal.
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's straight up Nazi shit.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_00: They use violence to intimidate the public into obedience,
• 43:15
  SPEAKER_00: but there's zero chance that will work here.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_00: We've mentioned this before.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_00: America has a lot of myths about itself, some true, some not.
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_00: But one of the most treasured myths that we...
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_00: React very violently to is tyranny.
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_00: The Proud Boys tried to go all brown shirt and that went very badly for them.
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_00: Neo-Nazis have to show up unexpectedly or massive crowds
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_00: of counter protesters show up to chase them away.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_01: Like every time,
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_01: every time the Neo-Nazis announced that they're going to be someplace,
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_01: there's a huge crowd of people waiting for them.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_01: So they have to like kind of pop out of a U-Haul and surprise everybody.
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_01: Like no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
• 43:53
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry.
• 43:53
  SPEAKER_01: But they, they,
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_01: This is the only way they can do it without a huge fucking counter rally showing up
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_01: and chasing away.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like I've seen that a couple of times.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_01: Like one time I went to,
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_01: fuck, I forgot where it was, but I went to what was supposed to be a Nazi rally.
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_01: And when I got there, there were several hundred people who were not Nazis.
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_01: And I couldn't actually find,
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_01: by the time I actually found where the Nazis were supposed to be,
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_01: the police had already escorted them away.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_01: Because there were only a couple of them,
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_01: maybe a dozen or so,
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_01: and there were hundreds of other people looking to surround them and chase them off.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_01: So the police had to escort them away.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_01: And the thing that always annoys me about that is,
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_01: The people who got beat up at this rally, they got arrested.
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_01: The people who attacked them did not.
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_01: And that is not how it works anywhere else.
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_01: Like a couple of weeks ago, a fucking Nazi showed up.
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_01: That guy got arrested.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_01: But not the neo-Nazi.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_01: And it's always the same way.
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_01: If you show up at one of their rallies and you get beat up, you get arrested.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_01: They show up at one of our rallies and get beat up, we get arrested.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_01: We're the only ones that ever get arrested.
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's never them.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's always the same.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_00: And when they did get arrested for,
• 45:37
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, scaling the walls of the Capitol building, they were given pardons.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_01: But on the day it happened, a lot of them got arrested.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_01: They were sent home.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_01: That's true.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for being massive crimes.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_01: Bye.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_00: But if it had been Black Lives Matter scaling the Capitol.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_01: They didn't even get a chance to do that.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_01: When Black Lives Matter protested, they showed up with heavily armed SWATs.
• 46:05
  SPEAKER_00: Heavily armed.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_01: They hadn't even done anything and they were ready to shoot everybody.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_00: And this time they were just like, you know, cops on bikes.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_01: Now, this new wave of mega violence, right?
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_01: It is similar to what was going on in 2016, right?
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_01: Because there hasn't really been this kind of violence in between, right?
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_01: At Trump rallies.
• 46:27
  SPEAKER_01: But the difference is, is back in 2016, They were angry and they felt ascended, right?
• 46:34
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, you know, Trump is on the rise.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_01: We're taking back America, yada, yada, yada.
• 46:39
  SPEAKER_01: So they were angry and they felt empowered to beat up protesters because this is it, right?
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_01: This is their time.
• 46:47
  SPEAKER_01: They could do whatever they want.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_01: They're free to be the monsters that they've always wanted to be.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_01: This time is different.
• 46:54
  SPEAKER_01: This time they're losing.
• 46:57
  SPEAKER_01: They know they're losing.
• 46:59
  SPEAKER_01: They had their shot at the brass ring twice.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_01: Twice they had their shot at the brass ring and they blew it both fucking times.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_01: They're about to get curb stomped in two weeks.
• 47:12
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, they're going to try to overthrow the results.
• 47:15
  SPEAKER_01: They're going to try and steal the election.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_01: That shit is not going to fucking work.
• 47:20
  SPEAKER_01: And they all fucking know it.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_01: This is going to They're going to get stumped.
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_01: And what they're afraid of is that losing means accountability.
• 47:37
  SPEAKER_01: And nothing scares mediocre,
• 47:40
  SPEAKER_01: racist white people more than being held accountable for what they've done.
• 47:45
  SPEAKER_01: They're terrified of what Democrats,
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_01: even if Democrats only do milquetoast investigations,
• 47:53
  SPEAKER_01: so much corruption is going to spill out.
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_00: Merrick Garland, are you in the room with us?
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'm channeling Merrick Garland.
• 48:02
  SPEAKER_01: I will slowly investigate.
• 48:05
  SPEAKER_01: But there's so much rot that even poking the surface,
• 48:10
  SPEAKER_01: it's all going to come spilling out like a fucking ton of maggots.
• 48:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like a boil.
• 48:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_01: And they know it.
• 48:17
  SPEAKER_01: They know that even just a minor cursory glance at what they're doing is going
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_01: to reveal more than they want to know about.
• 48:26
  SPEAKER_01: And people are already mad about the corruption that we see at And just even taking
• 48:32
  SPEAKER_01: a peek under the hood is going to reveal a hundred times more,
• 48:36
  SPEAKER_01: much less if Democrats start going hard.
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_01: It's going to be a thousand times,
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_01: a million times more worse than anything we can imagine so far.
• 48:46
  SPEAKER_01: And that's what they're afraid of because accountability terrifies Magalit.
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_01: They hate accountability because accountability is for other people, never for them.
• 48:57
  SPEAKER_00: All right, let us move on to
• 48:59
  SPEAKER_01: headlines for short of
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm never saying it again.
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry.
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 49:08
  SPEAKER_01: Back in July,
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_01: there was news that Kash Patel was going to visit Russia and have a nice chat with
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_01: the FSB, which is weird.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_01: I know that's a successor to the notoriously murderous and corrupt KGB.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_01: And His trip would just so happen to land just a few weeks before the midterms.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing odd about that, right?
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_01: It is a little strange that it didn't make more front pages.
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_01: But there's no way,
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_01: absolutely no way,
• 49:34
  SPEAKER_01: Kash Patel,
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_01: who's an election denier,
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_01: who has also made it clear he's willing to use the FBI to interfere
• 49:39
  SPEAKER_01: with midterm elections,
• 49:40
  SPEAKER_01: would be going to Russia to coordinate efforts to disrupt the November election or
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_01: to hand over sensitive information that Russia could use to attack the integrity of
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_01: the vote.
• 49:49
  SPEAKER_01: That can't happen.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_01: After all, Paul Manafort, one of Trump's earliest campaign people.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, man, I forgot all about him.
• 49:57
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he definitely 100% did not hand polling data over to Russia,
• 50:03
  SPEAKER_01: which totally 100% did not allow them to target Americans with disinformation
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_01: in 2016.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_01: That totally didn't happen.
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_01: Just ask Michael Tracy.
• 50:11
  SPEAKER_01: He'll tell you.
• 50:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 50:14
  SPEAKER_01: Cash Patel would never,
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_01: ever do something like that on behalf of the Trump regime in order
• 50:19
  SPEAKER_01: to leave no digital footprints that could be traced.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_01: Just as a side note, these people are all fucking traitors.
• 50:25
  SPEAKER_01: And when the regime falls, and it will, they should be arrested, tried, and then hung.
• 50:31
  SPEAKER_00: Nuremberg them all.
• 50:32
  SPEAKER_01: Nuremberg them all.
• 50:33
  SPEAKER_00: So, I shot another person last week.
• 50:36
  SPEAKER_00: We're super shocked about it.
• 50:38
  SPEAKER_00: This time,
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_00: they opened fire on a man in New York City while he had his five-year-old child in
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_00: the car.
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_00: 28-year-old Oscar Belgall was shot on Thursday afternoon, escorted.
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_00: Sound familiar?
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_00: Amazing.
• 50:49
  SPEAKER_00: These fucking people.
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_00: They're just animals.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that's exactly what they did to Wilbur Rafael Garces Perez in Austin, Texas last month.
• 51:21
  SPEAKER_00: And he had to be re-hospitalized.
• 51:23
  SPEAKER_00: Remember, he was shot in the back and then suffered paralysis on one side of his body.
• 51:28
  SPEAKER_00: And they had to re-hospitalize him because he couldn't even walk.
• 51:31
  SPEAKER_01: Didn't they just leave him laying on the floor?
• 51:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 51:35
  SPEAKER_00: Immigration advocates have pointed out that the ICE agent looked like
• 51:38
  SPEAKER_00: a construction worker or a bank robber.
• 51:42
  SPEAKER_00: He was wearing all black with a reflective construction vest on,
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_00: like the orange ones, and carrying a long gun.
• 51:49
  SPEAKER_00: He literally looked like a bank robber from a movie.
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they just ran up on the guy's car.
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_01: He had no idea what was going on.
• 51:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, just ran up on his car.
• 51:58
  SPEAKER_00: DHS claimed that he had gang ties and was involved in the shooting of
• 52:02
  SPEAKER_00: an off-duty ICE agent in Central Park.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_00: As usual, they haven't provided any evidence of that.
• 52:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's true that he has a criminal record, but that doesn't fucking matter.
• 52:11
  SPEAKER_00: In this country, we don't gun And you know what?
• 52:13
  SPEAKER_00: If we start using that standard, do we get to start shooting Proud Boys?
• 52:16
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like that's not the case.
• 52:31
  SPEAKER_00: No, don't be silly.
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_00: So a federal judge has blocked his deportation for now.
• 52:36
  SPEAKER_00: But as we say every single week,
• 52:38
  SPEAKER_00: and we said five minutes ago,
• 52:40
  SPEAKER_00: when it falls,
• 52:41
  SPEAKER_00: and it will, we have to go through every file and... Nuremberg them all.
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_00: Nuremberg them all.
• 52:46
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 53:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, all year.
• 53:02
  SPEAKER_01: He's at it again last week when he tweeted some crazy fucking screed
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_01: about Somalian immigrants causing,
• 53:07
  SPEAKER_01: quote, violence, murder, and mayhem and demanding people, quote, fight back.
• 53:12
  SPEAKER_01: None of that's happening, of course.
• 53:14
  SPEAKER_01: None of that is fucking happening.
• 53:15
  SPEAKER_01: This is the same, you know.
• 53:16
  SPEAKER_01: All the cities are burning to the ground and that old nonsense.
• 53:19
  SPEAKER_01: Now,
• 53:20
  SPEAKER_01: Representative Omar is a particular target of Trump's because she's a black woman
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_01: who isn't afraid of him.
• 53:25
  SPEAKER_01: And she calls him out on his bullshit and lies and corruption all the fucking time.
• 53:30
  SPEAKER_01: Trump hates women.
• 53:31
  SPEAKER_01: He hates black people and he hates people smarter than him.
• 53:35
  SPEAKER_01: And Omar is all three.
• 53:37
  SPEAKER_01: So the regime,
• 53:38
  SPEAKER_01: of course,
• 53:38
  SPEAKER_01: is trying to fabricate a case so they can strip Omar of her citizenship
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_01: because she came here as a kid and deport her.
• 53:46
  SPEAKER_01: It won't.
• 53:46
  SPEAKER_01: And it worked for Hillary Clinton, so...
• 54:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
• 54:12
  SPEAKER_01: And the DOJ has really strict guidelines about doing this sort of thing
• 54:16
  SPEAKER_01: within 60 days of an election, specifically as to not influence the vote.
• 54:20
  SPEAKER_01: Comey, James Comey, ignored this in 2016, and here we are doing it again.
• 54:25
  SPEAKER_01: We upheld We'll see you next time.
• 54:45
  SPEAKER_01: I've written about this before.
• 54:46
  SPEAKER_01: Trump shattering another norm,
• 54:48
  SPEAKER_01: another taboo, is going to haunt Republicans for a very, very long time.
• 54:54
  SPEAKER_01: The GOP is by far the more corrupt party, filled with literal traitor.
• 55:02
  SPEAKER_01: They have been able to hide behind the norms of one party not investigating
• 55:06
  SPEAKER_01: the other for decades unless the crime is particularly egregious.
• 55:10
  SPEAKER_01: And even then, they barely get investigated.
• 55:12
  SPEAKER_01: Now, that's all gone.
• 55:15
  SPEAKER_01: They burned that away.
• 55:17
  SPEAKER_01: They threw it out the window.
• 55:18
  SPEAKER_01: And now it's just going to be open season on all the bullshit that they do.
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_01: When the regime falls, we keep saying it will.
• 55:26
  SPEAKER_01: Republicans are going to howl.
• 55:33
  SPEAKER_01: It's normal now, quote unquote.
• 55:35
  SPEAKER_01: Trump made it normal to use the DOJ to persecute your political enemy.
• 55:40
  SPEAKER_01: That Republicans will have committed actual crimes won't matter to
• 55:44
  SPEAKER_01: the This is just what we do as a country now, right?
• 55:48
  SPEAKER_01: However,
• 55:49
  SPEAKER_01: it's going to make a huge difference when it actually gets to the courts
• 55:54
  SPEAKER_01: because unlike Trump's made-up investigations into Democrats,
• 55:59
  SPEAKER_01: Republicans Do commit felony after felony after felony.
• 56:04
  SPEAKER_01: And when the evidence is put in front of a jury, Republicans are going to go to prison.
• 56:09
  SPEAKER_01: They should be very worried about this.
• 56:10
  SPEAKER_01: And you know how much they're going to be worried by how loudly they scream
• 56:15
  SPEAKER_01: about getting back to normal when Trump is gone.
• 56:19
  SPEAKER_01: The screaming is going to shatter eardrums in Australia.
• 56:23
  SPEAKER_01: And Democrats, they better fucking ignore it if they know what is good for them.
• 56:29
  SPEAKER_01: Because no one is going to be interested in getting back to normal.
• 56:34
  SPEAKER_01: They're going to be interested in Nuremberg fucking trial.
• 56:37
  SPEAKER_01: That's what we're going to be interested in.
• 56:39
  SPEAKER_01: Not business as usual or looking forward for the good of the nation.
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_01: We are going to want Nuremberg trial.
• 56:45
  SPEAKER_01: These people have to go to fucking prison.
• 56:47
  SPEAKER_00: So in episode 116,
• 56:49
  SPEAKER_00: we told you about Trump violating the Hatch Act by running political ads dedicated
• 56:53
  SPEAKER_00: to himself.
• 56:54
  SPEAKER_00: He's
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_01: such a twit.
• 56:56
  SPEAKER_00: They were public service announcement, even though they were 2024 ads repackaged.
• 57:01
  SPEAKER_00: But, you know, whatever.
• 57:02
  SPEAKER_00: U.S. District Judge Jennifer Rocon,
• 57:06
  SPEAKER_00: we'll go with that,
• 57:07
  SPEAKER_00: ordered the Department of Homeland Security to cancel the rest of
• 57:09
  SPEAKER_00: the $20 million ad buy and prohibited the regime from restarting the campaign.
• 57:14
  SPEAKER_00: They had ads going out that night, and she said, no, they're not going out.
• 57:19
  SPEAKER_00: They were sued.
• 57:20
  SPEAKER_00: The regime was sued by a litany of nonprofits and at least one Democratic candidate in Alabama.
• 57:26
  SPEAKER_00: Over the ads, but they claimed that they intended to stop running the ads soon.
• 57:31
  SPEAKER_00: However, the judge's order prohibited them from doing any more at all.
• 57:36
  SPEAKER_00: And it's great that the judge stopped the ads from airing,
• 57:39
  SPEAKER_00: but Democrats still have to investigate this.
• 57:41
  SPEAKER_00: Because as Ogre just said, we can't just get back to normal.
• 57:45
  SPEAKER_00: They have to be punished for violating the law.
• 57:48
  SPEAKER_00: We are all so sick and tired of watching this shit and watching them get away
• 57:53
  SPEAKER_00: with everything they do.
• 57:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's it's fucking crazy.
• 57:57
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, Trump just cut down 500 fucking trees.
• 58:00
  SPEAKER_01: My God, crazy.
• 58:02
  SPEAKER_01: A judge said, do not cut any trees down.
• 58:05
  SPEAKER_01: And then he went and did it anyway, because once you do it, it's done.
• 58:08
  SPEAKER_01: You can't put the tree back up.
• 58:10
  SPEAKER_01: So sorry, my bad.
• 58:12
  SPEAKER_01: And no one's going to go to jail for it.
• 58:14
  SPEAKER_00: And remember, I told you that he was probably going to cut down the cherry trees there.
• 58:17
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure he, well, the cherry blossoms.
• 58:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 58:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 58:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure he wants to.
• 58:22
  SPEAKER_01: If he didn't cut some of them down,
• 58:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure he's going to order them to do it because he's an asshole
• 58:27
  SPEAKER_01: and he doesn't care.
• 58:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's like everything he does is designed to hurt the public.
• 58:32
  SPEAKER_01: He wants to hurt the public because they don't like him.
• 58:35
  SPEAKER_01: We don't like him.
• 58:36
  SPEAKER_01: So therefore, he's going to make them suffer.
• 58:39
  SPEAKER_01: And that's one of the ways he'll do it.
• 58:40
  SPEAKER_01: He'll just turn the golf course into a tacky,
• 58:42
  SPEAKER_01: tacky, shitty golf course and then make it exclusive instead of public.
• 58:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 58:46
  SPEAKER_00: And that's the thing about, I mean,
• 58:47
  SPEAKER_00: I don't live in DC,
• 58:48
  SPEAKER_00: but from what I understand is that it's a really popular birding trail.
• 58:52
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it used to be.
• 58:54
  SPEAKER_00: And the public uses it for all sorts of things,
• 58:56
  SPEAKER_00: running, jogging, taking their kids through there, golfing.
• 59:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 59:01
  SPEAKER_01: It's a really nice area.
• 59:03
  SPEAKER_01: So of course he wants to destroy it because why have nice things
• 59:06
  SPEAKER_01: when you can have Not nice things.
• 59:08
  SPEAKER_00: Tacky things.
• 59:08
  SPEAKER_00: He's going to make a Panera.
• 59:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's going to be a Panera, a really tacky Panera patio.
• 59:15
  SPEAKER_00: I actually think Panera's patios are nicer than what Trump's done.
• 59:20
  SPEAKER_00: Actually.
• 59:21
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 59:22
  SPEAKER_01: Let us move on to some good news.
• 59:24
  SPEAKER_01: Trolls be gone.
• 59:26
  SPEAKER_01: Now, you may or may not have noticed.
• 59:29
  SPEAKER_01: I mean,
• 59:29
  SPEAKER_01: I haven't seen it on Substack and I'm not really on other social media platforms,
• 59:33
  SPEAKER_01: but you may have noticed your social media platform of choice has been much quieter
• 59:36
  SPEAKER_01: and If that's the case for you, all due credit to Ukraine.
• 59:52
  SPEAKER_01: And just like that,
• 59:59
  SPEAKER_01: a huge amount of automated computer traffic from Russia went dead,
• 1:00:03
  SPEAKER_01: and a whole lot of people immediately noticed traffic
• 1:00:05
  SPEAKER_01: to right-wing websites plummeting, and a whole lot of trolls went poof.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_01: There's some dispute of whether this is actually happening or not,
• 1:00:13
  SPEAKER_01: but an awful lot of people reporting the level
• 1:00:16
  SPEAKER_01: of harassment has virtually disappeared.
• 1:00:19
  SPEAKER_01: I haven't noticed it, but I don't get that kind of troll storm on Substack.
• 1:00:24
  SPEAKER_01: I get trolls, but I don't get troll storms.
• 1:00:27
  SPEAKER_01: So since Republicans rely heavily on the perception of public support
• 1:00:32
  SPEAKER_01: for their most racist and misogynistic bullshit and having the majority
• 1:00:36
  SPEAKER_01: of their public support vanish right before the midterms is potentially
• 1:00:41
  SPEAKER_01: a huge problem.
• 1:00:43
  SPEAKER_01: Without the amplification of Russian bots to manufacture the appearance
• 1:00:47
  SPEAKER_01: of widespread support,
• 1:00:49
  SPEAKER_01: what little shreds of momentum they had,
• 1:00:52
  SPEAKER_01: not that there was much to begin with,
• 1:00:53
  SPEAKER_01: is going to disappear and burning through half a billion dollars on ads.
• 1:00:58
  SPEAKER_01: Is not going to move that needle one fucking inch, which is very, very, very sad.
• 1:01:05
  SPEAKER_01: Now, people have been trying to point out that just because a whole lot
• 1:01:10
  SPEAKER_01: of fake Russian Support has disappeared does not mean
• 1:01:15
  SPEAKER_01: that there is no actual real support.
• 1:01:19
  SPEAKER_01: Like Trump has millions of psychotically devoted cult members at his beck and call.
• 1:01:26
  SPEAKER_01: That's true.
• 1:01:27
  SPEAKER_01: That hasn't And we're going to have to deal with these people for decades
• 1:01:32
  SPEAKER_01: after Trump is dead and gone.
• 1:01:43
  SPEAKER_01: That amplification, which is one of the reasons I really, really, really want Russia to fall.
• 1:01:50
  SPEAKER_01: If their government topples and they get replaced by someone less hostile,
• 1:01:55
  SPEAKER_01: they lost a huge benefactor when Viktor Orban Bond disappeared
• 1:01:59
  SPEAKER_01: because he was funneling a lot of money and support towards global fascism.
• 1:02:04
  SPEAKER_01: Russia is another huge benefactor for global fascism.
• 1:02:08
  SPEAKER_01: Without it, the global movement takes a huge fucking hit.
• 1:02:13
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 1:02:16
  SPEAKER_01: One last thing here.
• 1:02:17
  SPEAKER_01: When this is all over,
• 1:02:19
  SPEAKER_01: a large part of why the fascist coup to overthrow the United States
• 1:02:23
  SPEAKER_01: of America will have failed is because these people are really,
• 1:02:26
  SPEAKER_01: really fucking stupid.
• 1:02:29
  SPEAKER_01: Two weeks ago,
• 1:02:29
  SPEAKER_01: we told you about Senator Eric Schmidt clowning himself trying to catch Jack Smith
• 1:02:34
  SPEAKER_01: in a perjury trap.
• 1:02:35
  SPEAKER_01: We also mentioned that Trump had signed a grand AI declaration
• 1:02:39
  SPEAKER_01: about superintelligence and yet somehow misspelled the word United.
• 1:02:44
  SPEAKER_01: Substack, Substack, The Opinionated Ogre, opinionatedogre.com
• 1:02:59
  SPEAKER_01: They
• 1:03:06
  SPEAKER_01: ran them in Portland, Oregon,
• 1:03:09
  SPEAKER_01: because we live in the stupidest fucking timeline,
• 1:03:12
  SPEAKER_01: and fascists are just the dumbest fucking people imaginable.
• 1:03:16
  SPEAKER_01: So, keep going, guys.
• 1:03:18
  SPEAKER_01: You're doing great.
• 1:03:20
  SPEAKER_00: They really fucking Well, on to self-care of the week.
• 1:03:24
  SPEAKER_00: And I guess I will go first.
• 1:03:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yay!
• 1:03:26
  SPEAKER_00: So I had a bestie day on Saturday morning.
• 1:03:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 1:03:30
  SPEAKER_00: We went to the Dollar Tree to buy Halloween decorations for a party
• 1:03:33
  SPEAKER_00: that my best friend is throwing for Halloween.
• 1:03:36
  SPEAKER_00: Then we went to the farmer's market with...
• 1:03:40
  SPEAKER_00: When we went in,
• 1:03:40
  SPEAKER_00: I thought her strategy to eat the samples at the farmer's market was actually weird.
• 1:03:47
  SPEAKER_00: But it was actually a really good idea because by the time we made our way back
• 1:03:52
  SPEAKER_00: to their samples with our actual cart, we did impulse buy.
• 1:03:55
  SPEAKER_00: And then after the farmer's market,
• 1:03:57
  SPEAKER_00: we went to this really cute little local coffee shop and she bought us lattes
• 1:04:01
  SPEAKER_00: and cannolis.
• 1:04:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not a cannoli fan, but these were banging.
• 1:04:06
  SPEAKER_01: They're so hard to find good ones.
• 1:04:08
  SPEAKER_00: They were like the shell was crisp and not stale.
• 1:04:14
  SPEAKER_01: More soggy, which is even worse.
• 1:04:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the filling was really good.
• 1:04:18
  SPEAKER_00: It was actually so good.
• 1:04:20
  SPEAKER_00: I would go back and buy them again.
• 1:04:21
  SPEAKER_00: And I have never been like, oh, let me go buy a cannoli.
• 1:04:26
  SPEAKER_01: Mrs. Ogre loves cannolis.
• 1:04:28
  SPEAKER_01: She loves them.
• 1:04:30
  SPEAKER_01: Finding good ones is so hard out of here.
• 1:04:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they were really, really good.
• 1:04:34
  SPEAKER_00: I was very impressed with them.
• 1:04:38
  SPEAKER_00: The coffee shop was cute.
• 1:04:39
  SPEAKER_00: Then we came back to my house and printed spooky pictures and put them in frames
• 1:04:43
  SPEAKER_00: for Halloween decorations.
• 1:04:45
  SPEAKER_00: And then on Monday, I watched the motherfucking Buffalo Bills beat the LA Rams.
• 1:04:52
  SPEAKER_00: We won 37 to 34 in overtime, but it was not an easy win, let me tell you.
• 1:04:57
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my God, the text from you was hilarious.
• 1:05:03
  SPEAKER_00: I think I sent him a message at like 1130 at night.
• 1:05:07
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, this fucking team.
• 1:05:09
  SPEAKER_01: It was so fucking funny.
• 1:05:11
  SPEAKER_01: I saw it the next morning.
• 1:05:12
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, huh, that's interesting.
• 1:05:15
  SPEAKER_00: And then I sent him another one that said, ah, nevermind.
• 1:05:17
  SPEAKER_00: They won.
• 1:05:20
  SPEAKER_01: It was, it was, it was 1130 PM, this fucking team.
• 1:05:26
  SPEAKER_01: And then 17 minutes later, I fucking love this team.
• 1:05:30
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, wow, that is some, that is some real, that is some real whiplash right there.
• 1:05:38
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, guys, my team is like all day.
• 1:05:41
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, my team is going to play.
• 1:05:43
  SPEAKER_00: My team is going to play.
• 1:05:44
  SPEAKER_00: My team is going to play.
• 1:05:45
  SPEAKER_00: My team is going to play.
• 1:05:46
  SPEAKER_00: And then I'm sitting there watching the game like,
• 1:05:48
  SPEAKER_00: oh, my God, what's happening to my life right now?
• 1:05:53
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, my God.
• 1:05:55
  SPEAKER_00: And then at the end, Josh Allen runs.
• 1:05:58
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, we won.
• 1:06:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you got that.
• 1:06:01
  SPEAKER_01: That was like some real bipolar shit going on.
• 1:06:02
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, whoa.
• 1:06:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:06:07
  SPEAKER_00: I think I posted something on Instagram that said, relaxes stressfully.
• 1:06:17
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, it's crazy.
• 1:06:18
  SPEAKER_00: It was a good game because the Rams are one of the best teams in the league.
• 1:06:23
  SPEAKER_00: They are a Super Bowl contender.
• 1:06:25
  SPEAKER_00: There's been a lot of talk about them.
• 1:06:27
  SPEAKER_00: So it wasn't like we were playing some, you know, it's not, I don't.
• 1:06:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we were playing a really good team.
• 1:06:36
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, the Rams coaches often called one of the best coaches in the NFL.
• 1:06:41
  SPEAKER_00: So it was a very good game.
• 1:06:43
  SPEAKER_00: One thing that I didn't mention in my notes, I did watch a movie.
• 1:06:47
  SPEAKER_00: This week, it was called White Man Walking.
• 1:06:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's on Amazon Prime.
• 1:06:51
  SPEAKER_00: I highly, highly recommend watching it.
• 1:06:54
  SPEAKER_00: It's about this white guy who after the George Floyd murder,
• 1:06:59
  SPEAKER_00: he was like, hey, what can I do to support the black community?
• 1:07:02
  SPEAKER_00: So what he decided to do was walk, I think, 1,500 miles in two months.
• 1:07:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's a lot of walking.
• 1:07:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm proud when I get in six miles.
• 1:07:11
  SPEAKER_00: He was walking like 25 miles a day.
• 1:07:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's wild.
• 1:07:14
  SPEAKER_00: His feet were crazy.
• 1:07:16
  SPEAKER_00: His feet look gross.
• 1:07:17
  SPEAKER_00: They show them on the documentary.
• 1:07:20
  SPEAKER_00: So he was walking 1,500 miles with a Black Lives Matter shirt on.
• 1:07:25
  SPEAKER_00: And the way that white people reacted to the shirt,
• 1:07:28
  SPEAKER_00: the way that the N-word rolled off of their tongues,
• 1:07:32
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, I do highly recommend watching it and then play it at Thanksgiving
• 1:07:40
  SPEAKER_00: for like your racist cousins and uncles who don't think that racism exists anymore.
• 1:07:45
  SPEAKER_01: If only if only I talk to any of them.
• 1:07:47
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 1:07:48
  SPEAKER_01: Go Bills.
• 1:07:49
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 1:07:50
  SPEAKER_01: Saturday.
• 1:07:50
  SPEAKER_01: Speaking of sports, Jordan played soccer.
• 1:07:53
  SPEAKER_01: We had like Special Olympics soccer.
• 1:07:56
  SPEAKER_01: Your wife sent me a picture.
• 1:07:57
  SPEAKER_01: He looked so cute.
• 1:07:58
  SPEAKER_01: It was it was it was cute.
• 1:08:00
  SPEAKER_01: He was definitely the MVP of his games.
• 1:08:03
  SPEAKER_01: He scored more goals than pretty much everyone on both teams combined,
• 1:08:06
  SPEAKER_01: both games that he played.
• 1:08:08
  SPEAKER_01: And it wasn't that he was a ball hog or anything.
• 1:08:10
  SPEAKER_01: It's just he was the only kid there who knew how to dribble the ball and kick it
• 1:08:13
  SPEAKER_01: into the net, which surprised me.
• 1:08:15
  SPEAKER_01: He surprised the shit out of us.
• 1:08:16
  SPEAKER_01: We know Jordan loves to play basketball.
• 1:08:19
  SPEAKER_01: He loves to play basketball.
• 1:08:22
  SPEAKER_01: We had not seen him play soccer before.
• 1:08:25
  SPEAKER_01: Clearly, he does it in school.
• 1:08:27
  SPEAKER_01: So clearly, he's been learning to play in school.
• 1:08:30
  SPEAKER_01: And he was up there on the field by himself doing drills.
• 1:08:34
  SPEAKER_01: And we're watching him.
• 1:08:35
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, you know, he is doing that.
• 1:08:38
  SPEAKER_01: Because I've seen people drill before,
• 1:08:41
  SPEAKER_01: like kicking the ball up and down,
• 1:08:43
  SPEAKER_01: not up and down, but back and forth and putting one foot up, another foot up.
• 1:08:46
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, huh, Jordan's not very coordinated, but he's doing that pretty well for Jordan.
• 1:08:52
  SPEAKER_01: And then he's...
• 1:08:53
  SPEAKER_01: He just ran the ball down the field.
• 1:08:55
  SPEAKER_01: Not fast, because Jordan doesn't run quickly.
• 1:08:58
  SPEAKER_01: Even though he's 6'1", he doesn't run.
• 1:09:01
  SPEAKER_01: He jogs.
• 1:09:03
  SPEAKER_01: But he drilled it down, he dribbled it down the field, and then he kicked it into the net.
• 1:09:08
  SPEAKER_01: Over and over and over.
• 1:09:09
  SPEAKER_01: And it was just like, son of a bitch.
• 1:09:11
  SPEAKER_01: He knows how to kick.
• 1:09:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I can't do that.
• 1:09:13
  SPEAKER_01: I can't dribble the ball for more than like 10 feet without losing control of it at all.
• 1:09:17
  SPEAKER_01: But he was the same thing on the stage.
• 1:09:19
  SPEAKER_01: She was like, I can't do that.
• 1:09:20
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, but Jordan can.
• 1:09:21
  SPEAKER_01: So we were like, yay, Jordan.
• 1:09:23
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, clearly Jordan has a Latino soccer gene.
• 1:09:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:09:28
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean, clearly he got it from me and it skipped a generation because I don't got it.
• 1:09:33
  SPEAKER_01: But now we were supposed to go to the Renaissance Fair on Sunday.
• 1:09:38
  SPEAKER_01: But the last time we went, it was raining and it was a mud pit.
• 1:09:41
  SPEAKER_01: And apparently it's just been raining almost every single weekend.
• 1:09:44
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's been rainy.
• 1:09:46
  SPEAKER_00: It's been so rainy.
• 1:09:47
  SPEAKER_00: It might be.
• 1:09:48
  SPEAKER_00: Is it this weekend, too?
• 1:09:49
  SPEAKER_00: Because it's not raining this weekend, I don't think.
• 1:09:51
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we can't go.
• 1:09:52
  SPEAKER_01: Like the tickets are all sold out months in advance.
• 1:09:55
  SPEAKER_01: So.
• 1:09:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um, the place was just, like,
• 1:09:58
  SPEAKER_01: I saw a video,
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  SPEAKER_01: someone took a video of what it looked like,
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  SPEAKER_01: someone who works there, and it's just rivers of mud.
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  SPEAKER_01: So they canceled it, so we didn't get to go.
• 1:10:07
  SPEAKER_01: We played Dungeon of Dragons instead, and that night we watched The Avengers.
• 1:10:10
  SPEAKER_01: Since Anastasia is like really into chewing her way through the MCU movies.
• 1:10:17
  SPEAKER_01: Like last night, you know, the recording is on Wednesday.
• 1:10:19
  SPEAKER_01: So last night was Tuesday.
• 1:10:20
  SPEAKER_01: We watched Iron Man 3 and she's just like, what's next?
• 1:10:24
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, oh, yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Woohoo!
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  SPEAKER_01: She's into it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Monday night,
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  SPEAKER_01: I took Anastasia into DC to the Warner Theater and we watched My Hero Academia
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  SPEAKER_01: in concert.
• 1:10:33
  SPEAKER_01: That's an anime and they just took clips from the show and they played the music
• 1:10:38
  SPEAKER_01: with a live orchestra and the band and whatnot.
• 1:10:40
  SPEAKER_01: If you've never seen anything in concert, like any movie or show, you are missing out.
• 1:10:49
  SPEAKER_01: This started a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away with Star Wars in concert.
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  SPEAKER_01: As far as I know,
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  SPEAKER_01: that was like the first time they had done that,
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  SPEAKER_01: where they took a movie, played the movie, and had a live orchestra play the music.
• 1:11:04
  SPEAKER_00: There's Romeo and Juliet is coming out and Donna wants to go see it.
• 1:11:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, I actually am taking Anastasia to see that.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's going to be in March.
• 1:11:13
  SPEAKER_01: Her birthday's in February, and we're going to go see that.
• 1:11:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's the 1996 Romeo and Juliet, the one with Leonardo DiCaprio.
• 1:11:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I thought about going to see it.
• 1:11:22
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my God, that movie's amazing.
• 1:11:23
  SPEAKER_01: Have you seen the movie?
• 1:11:24
  SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
• 1:11:25
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my God, I love the movie.
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  SPEAKER_01: So getting to watch that in concert is going to be fantastic.
• 1:11:30
  SPEAKER_01: But they do anime, they do sci-fi, they do rom-coms.
• 1:11:35
  SPEAKER_01: I wanted to get Lila and June tickets to go see Love Actually.
• 1:11:40
  SPEAKER_01: That's one of the best movies ever.
• 1:11:41
  SPEAKER_01: I know.
• 1:11:43
  SPEAKER_01: I've never seen it, but I know Lila loves that movie.
• 1:11:45
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like,
• 1:11:45
  SPEAKER_01: that would be such an awesome date night for them to go see that down in Richmond.
• 1:11:51
  SPEAKER_01: And I have to figure that out, whether or not she can actually make it or not.
• 1:11:55
  SPEAKER_01: But They do this for all sorts of movies.
• 1:11:59
  SPEAKER_01: Mostly it tends to be sci-fi and anime,
• 1:12:02
  SPEAKER_01: but they do other stuff like, again, Romeo and Juliet, Love Actually.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not just niche genres.
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  SPEAKER_01: They do all sorts of stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you have an opportunity to go see something,
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  SPEAKER_01: a movie that you like,
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  SPEAKER_01: that you're like,
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  SPEAKER_01: I love that movie,
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  SPEAKER_01: and you get a chance to see it in concert,
• 1:12:20
  SPEAKER_01: you absolutely should go see it in concert.
• 1:12:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's amazing.
• 1:12:24
  SPEAKER_00: Didn't you bring Jordan to see something in concert?
• 1:12:28
  SPEAKER_00: A television show or movie or something in concert?
• 1:12:31
  SPEAKER_01: No, no.
• 1:12:32
  SPEAKER_01: We took him to see the Imagination Movers, but that was the actual guys up on stage.
• 1:12:37
  SPEAKER_01: That's what it was.
• 1:12:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we haven't taken him to one of these things in concert.
• 1:12:41
  SPEAKER_01: We haven't seen one of those yet.
• 1:12:44
  SPEAKER_01: If we do, we would definitely...
• 1:12:45
  SPEAKER_01: If they did Dora the Explorer in concert, I would definitely take him to see that.
• 1:12:49
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, I love Dora the Explorer.
• 1:12:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he still watches that.
• 1:12:53
  SPEAKER_01: They did Yo Gabba Gabba in concert.
• 1:12:56
  SPEAKER_01: I would absolutely take them to go see Yo Gabba Gabba in concert,
• 1:12:59
  SPEAKER_01: but until we find something, we will.
• 1:13:02
  SPEAKER_01: They're doing Pepper Pig.
• 1:13:03
  SPEAKER_01: Pepper Pig's going to have something in the theater in a couple of months,
• 1:13:06
  SPEAKER_01: so we're probably going to take them to go see Pepper Pig because he's like,
• 1:13:10
  SPEAKER_01: whatever.
• 1:13:12
  SPEAKER_01: He's still stuck in the stuff he watches.
• 1:13:14
  SPEAKER_01: He's still stuck at five or six years old, but...
• 1:13:18
  SPEAKER_00: My best friend, as you know, she's an RBT who's going to school to be a BCBA.
• 1:13:22
  SPEAKER_00: And we were talking about this the other day.
• 1:13:23
  SPEAKER_00: And we were talking about how a lot of parents with adult kids
• 1:13:27
  SPEAKER_00: who have autism are like, oh, all he wants to do is watch SpongeBob.
• 1:13:31
  SPEAKER_00: And she's like, we like what we like.
• 1:13:33
  SPEAKER_00: Let him watch SpongeBob.
• 1:13:35
  SPEAKER_00: As long as he's not masturbating to SpongeBob, it's fine.
• 1:13:37
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 1:13:38
  SPEAKER_01: It's just whatever they want to watch, whatever they want to watch.
• 1:13:41
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 1:13:43
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 1:13:43
  SPEAKER_01: What are you going to do?
• 1:13:44
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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