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Ep. 117: Toy Soldier Hegseth Hands The Military Over To Idiots · The Opinionated Ogre Podcast

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SPEAKER_00: Alright, episode 117, toy soldier Hexeth hands the military over to idiots.
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SPEAKER_01: Yay, cancels, excited, we also, nothing could possibly go wrong.
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SPEAKER_00: All right,
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SPEAKER_00: this is The Opinionated Ogre Podcast,
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SPEAKER_00: your weekly rampage through current events with little snark,
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SPEAKER_00: a bit of foul language, and a lot of strong opinion.
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SPEAKER_00: There are new episodes every Thursday and they're not safe for work
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SPEAKER_00: or polite company of any kind whatsoever.
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SPEAKER_00: I am your podcast host, The Opinionated Ogre, and this is my co-host, Florida Woman.
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SPEAKER_00: Hello, Florida Woman, how are you today?
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SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm good.
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SPEAKER_00: Excellent.
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SPEAKER_00: So, Florida woman,
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SPEAKER_00: were you at all surprised,
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SPEAKER_00: even a little bit,
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SPEAKER_00: that Trump called on Iran to nuke two American cities and the press yawned
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SPEAKER_00: and went back to sleep?
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SPEAKER_01: No, not at all.
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SPEAKER_01: Like not even a tiny bit surprised?
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SPEAKER_01: Not even a little bit surprised.
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SPEAKER_00: Not the fact that this is the same press that cried big sobbing tears
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SPEAKER_00: when Hillary Clinton called some Republican voters deplorables.
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SPEAKER_00: And that was a line that was just too far.
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SPEAKER_00: But nuking L.A. and San Diego?
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SPEAKER_00: What's to be upset about?
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SPEAKER_00: Just Trump being Trump at all?
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SPEAKER_00: Nothing?
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SPEAKER_00: Not even a little surprised?
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SPEAKER_01: Not even a little bit.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, that's true because it's like what we always say.
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SPEAKER_00: Republicans are not held to a lowest standard.
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SPEAKER_01: They're held to no standard at all.
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SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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SPEAKER_00: All right.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the recording for Thursday, October 8th, 2026.
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SPEAKER_00: And we have a lot to get to on episode 117 of the Og Pod.
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SPEAKER_00: Are we ready to do this?
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SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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SPEAKER_00: Woo.
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SPEAKER_00: Then let's get to it.
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SPEAKER_00: It's time for the Yoga Nation news update.
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Roar.
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SPEAKER_01: Roar.
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SPEAKER_01: Pete Hegseth has spent the entirety of his time as Defense Secretary,
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SPEAKER_01: or in his case, Secretary of War,
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SPEAKER_01: completely shitting on the military.
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SPEAKER_01: He once again...
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SPEAKER_01: He demonstrated how much he hates the people who serve this country last week
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SPEAKER_01: at his State of the Force speech when he announced that he'd cut 20% of
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SPEAKER_01: the top generals who he'd decided were too woke,
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SPEAKER_01: you know, because they were like following the law.
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SPEAKER_01: Super weird.
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SPEAKER_01: During his bizarre speech,
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SPEAKER_01: he also announced that the world's richest man,
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SPEAKER_01: Elon Musk,
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SPEAKER_01: and Ann Durrell Industries billionaire founder,
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SPEAKER_01: Palmer Luckey,
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SPEAKER_01: which he is getting very lucky,
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SPEAKER_01: and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich,
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SPEAKER_01: would form a commission and, quote, map the trajectory of future warfare.
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SPEAKER_01: Hmm.
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SPEAKER_01: Both Musk and Lucky.
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SPEAKER_01: Is that how you say his name?
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SPEAKER_01: Lucky?
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SPEAKER_01: I guess so.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, it does look like it.
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SPEAKER_01: Both Musk and Lucky already enjoy the fruits of massive billion-dollar military contracts.
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SPEAKER_01: Allowing the two of them to map a strategy
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SPEAKER_01: that will directly financially benefit their companies is exactly the type
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SPEAKER_01: of corruption that we've come to expect from the Trump regime.
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SPEAKER_01: It's also the first time Musk has been allowed back in the government
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SPEAKER_01: since he pillaged it and stole Americans' personal data with the failed DOGE scheme.
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SPEAKER_00: But remember, Hunter Biden's laptop, biggest story.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I hear he did crack or something.
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SPEAKER_01: He never talks about it.
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SPEAKER_01: Wes J. Bryant,
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SPEAKER_01: a retired Air Force Master Sergeant who was forced out of his leadership position by
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SPEAKER_01: the regime,
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SPEAKER_01: told Politico the move is, quote,
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SPEAKER_01: entirely indicative of the decay and oligarchy that has taken over our government
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SPEAKER_01: and,
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SPEAKER_01: in many cases,
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SPEAKER_01: directly through purchasing influence and power and authority,
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SPEAKER_01: blatantly right in front of us.
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SPEAKER_01: They're not even trying to hide it anymore.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: Others have pointed out that Hegseth appears to be shoring up his political relationships.
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SPEAKER_01: There's been talk that the low-T defense sec wants to run for president in 2028.
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SPEAKER_01: God, I hope he does.
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SPEAKER_00: Please, please, please let him, please.
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SPEAKER_01: Getting Musk and other billionaire defense contractors
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SPEAKER_01: on his side would potentially give him the cash and influence he'd need
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SPEAKER_01: to start his campaign off strong.
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SPEAKER_01: But of course,
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SPEAKER_01: we've learned that starting your campaign off strong doesn't necessarily mean
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SPEAKER_01: that you're going to be ending as the party's nominee.
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SPEAKER_01: So we'll see what happens there.
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SPEAKER_01: And of course, there is a little problem of his terrible, terrible handling of the war in Iran.
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SPEAKER_01: And, you know, possibly that small matter of being impeached when Democrats win.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, then he'll get to have his victim card.
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SPEAKER_01: That is true.
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SPEAKER_01: He'll be the martyr that they want.
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SPEAKER_01: Either way,
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SPEAKER_01: giving Elon Musk more power after he fucked up
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SPEAKER_01: so royally last year is exactly what we don't fucking need,
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SPEAKER_01: but I guess we're going to get anyways.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, can't wait.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, the other thing about this is, you know, you've got Newt Gingrich.
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SPEAKER_00: Newt Gingrich is 83 years old.
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SPEAKER_00: He understands modern warfare about as well as I understand designing nuclear fucking bombs.
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SPEAKER_00: Elon Musk understands modern warfare with all the sophistication of a middle schooler.
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SPEAKER_00: Last week...
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SPEAKER_00: He posted on Twitter,
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SPEAKER_00: which I will continue to deadname until the oceans boil and the Earth orbits
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SPEAKER_00: a dead star,
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SPEAKER_00: that stealth bombers weren't useful because they weren't actually invisible.
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SPEAKER_00: That an advanced enemy could detect them with advanced robots.
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SPEAKER_00: That maybe, but how many countries actually have that level of radar everywhere, right?
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SPEAKER_00: They just don't.
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SPEAKER_00: And B-2 bombers are really, really hard to spot and independently.
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SPEAKER_00: The 30 years,
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SPEAKER_00: 30 plus years that they've been in existence,
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SPEAKER_00: no one else has developed their own version.
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SPEAKER_00: China's working on it.
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SPEAKER_00: They still don't have them.
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SPEAKER_00: And this tells you something.
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SPEAKER_00: What about they're really fucking expensive, but they're also very, very successful.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't believe one has been shot down yet.
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SPEAKER_00: And we've used them a bunch of times.
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SPEAKER_00: And this tells you that Elon Musk is a fucking moron and putting him in charge
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SPEAKER_00: the military will simply mean That we're not doing something useful for
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SPEAKER_00: the military.
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SPEAKER_00: We're opening direct channel from the Pentagon to his bank account
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SPEAKER_00: and getting fuck all in return.
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SPEAKER_00: But actually, that's not really true.
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SPEAKER_00: We'll be getting a military that's poorly equipped, poorly trained, and poorly led in return.
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SPEAKER_00: But Elon Musk will certainly find new and inventive ways to funnel $1.5 trillion of
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SPEAKER_00: the Pentagon's budget right into his bank account.
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SPEAKER_00: And as for Palmer Luckey, I don't know shit about him.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know anything about him.
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SPEAKER_00: All I know is that he looks like he still lives in his mother's basement and yells
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SPEAKER_00: at women online all day.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm sure he'll be a strategic,
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SPEAKER_00: brilliant strategic mind,
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SPEAKER_00: able to guide America's armed forces into what could possibly go wrong.
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SPEAKER_01: You know,
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SPEAKER_01: the comment that he made about
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SPEAKER_01: the stealth bombers not really being invisible just reminds me of Trump
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SPEAKER_01: when he first took office the first time and he was like,
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SPEAKER_01: yeah, we're creating this new invisible plane.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like, okay, Wonder Woman.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm like, no, that's not what that means.
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SPEAKER_00: These people are just so, I swear to God.
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SPEAKER_00: All right, let us move on.
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SPEAKER_00: Saturday morning.
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SPEAKER_00: I got up.
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SPEAKER_00: I drove down to Stacey to take her to the SAT for the first time.
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SPEAKER_00: She was, I don't know if I'd say excited about it, but she thinks she did well.
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SPEAKER_00: We'll find out soon enough.
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SPEAKER_01: Is that the free one?
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SPEAKER_01: Did she take the free one?
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_00: Then I drove into D.C. to pick up Lila from the bus station.
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SPEAKER_00: She was up for the weekend.
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SPEAKER_00: And then I drove with Claudia out to Maryland to listen to nine hours
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SPEAKER_00: of very angry anti-fascist music.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, I was very lucky.
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SPEAKER_00: I got tickets to go to the Power to the People Festival.
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SPEAKER_00: And it was fucking awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: And if I understand it correctly,
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SPEAKER_00: about 19,000 people were at the Meriwether Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland.
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SPEAKER_00: The whole event was set up by Tom Morello.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the lead singer and guitarist of Rage Against the Machine.
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SPEAKER_00: It's weird.
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SPEAKER_00: The way the press was talking about it would have you believe
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SPEAKER_00: that this was all set up by Bruce Springsteen, and it wasn't.
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SPEAKER_00: This was Tom Morello's baby.
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SPEAKER_00: Bruce Springsteen was like the biggest name there, but this was Tom Morello's baby.
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SPEAKER_00: The lineup was a couple of bands from the early to mid-2000s,
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SPEAKER_00: like The Last International,
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SPEAKER_00: who I was not familiar with,
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SPEAKER_00: and State Radio, again, not familiar with, and much newer acts like Grandson, who...
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SPEAKER_00: It was very enjoyable.
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SPEAKER_00: He bought out a guy dressed as, he had like a Trump mask and he was wearing a diaper.
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SPEAKER_00: Very, very fucking funny.
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SPEAKER_00: Apparently, when they came out, YouTube was live streaming.
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SPEAKER_00: When that came out, they cut it.
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SPEAKER_00: They cut the footage.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know if that's true or not.
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SPEAKER_00: I just saw someone post about it on Blue Sky, but still.
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SPEAKER_00: They also had the Linda Lindes, which they're a lot of fun.
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SPEAKER_00: I'd heard of the Linda Lindes.
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SPEAKER_00: This is my first time seeing them, but they're a lot of fun.
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SPEAKER_00: They're between the ages of 16 and 22, but they were definitely enjoying themselves up on stage.
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SPEAKER_00: They also had a bunch of 80s and 90s acts.
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SPEAKER_00: They had DMC from Run DMC, Cypress Hill, Public Enemy, Dropkick Murphys, Foo Fighters.
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SPEAKER_00: Tom Morello, of course, was out there.
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SPEAKER_00: Not Rage Against Machine.
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SPEAKER_00: It was just him and other people playing.
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SPEAKER_00: And, of course, Bruce Springsteen.
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SPEAKER_00: Dave Matthews had an appearance.
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SPEAKER_00: He had a very short set, and he was a little off.
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SPEAKER_00: We weren't sure if he was just really stoned out of his head,
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SPEAKER_00: but Claudius convinced there's something really, really wrong with him.
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SPEAKER_00: He's in the early stages of MS and hasn't gone public yet
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SPEAKER_00: because he's holding his hands really weird.
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SPEAKER_00: And I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: We're going to see what's going on with that probably in the next year or two.
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SPEAKER_00: But I hope that's not true because, I don't know, I like that.
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SPEAKER_00: Dave Matthews.
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SPEAKER_00: It was a really fun show.
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SPEAKER_00: It was a very intense day.
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SPEAKER_00: Michael Fanone,
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SPEAKER_00: that's the Capitol Hill cop who was beaten up on January 6th,
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SPEAKER_00: along with a lot of other people.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's the guy who has since become a thorn in the side of GOP.
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SPEAKER_00: And he's constantly reminding them that they're all traitors and liars.
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SPEAKER_00: He got up on stage with Dropkick Murphys, which was a lot of fun.
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SPEAKER_00: I found out the next day, on Sunday, that Jack Smith was there, which I had no idea.
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SPEAKER_00: He was 20, 30 feet behind where I was sitting.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he was wearing a No King shirt.
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SPEAKER_01: And well, you know, it's funny about Jack Smith.
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SPEAKER_01: It's like when you see him like out in public,
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SPEAKER_01: like a picture of him out in public,
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SPEAKER_01: you're like, I would never guess that that guy has
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SPEAKER_00: fucking prosecuted war criminals.
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SPEAKER_01: He looks like your uncle who's like always has a hangover, you know?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but he was just wandering around.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, the entire event was billed as nonpartisan, and technically it was.
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SPEAKER_00: No one was out there saying, vote for Democrats.
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SPEAKER_00: They did say, vote a lot, and fuck fascism a lot, and fuck racism a lot, and fuck ICE a lot.
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SPEAKER_00: A lot.
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SPEAKER_00: You can interpret that as partisan,
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SPEAKER_00: but then you'd have to admit that Republicans are a bunch of racist fascists
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SPEAKER_00: who oppose voting.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, we shouldn't do that because, hmm, teehee.
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SPEAKER_00: Anyway, it was an amazing day.
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SPEAKER_00: And it reminded me,
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SPEAKER_00: once again,
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SPEAKER_00: we've talked about this a couple of times,
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SPEAKER_00: that the right simply cannot do this sort of thing.
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SPEAKER_00: They cannot put together a massive all-day festival with almost 20,000 people
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SPEAKER_00: with some of the greatest music acts over the last 40 years to come out and sing
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SPEAKER_00: about what makes this country amazing because...
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SPEAKER_00: They don't understand what makes this country amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: They scream, make America great again, but they don't actually understand what that means.
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SPEAKER_00: What they mean is make America white and Christian and hateful.
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SPEAKER_00: And they don't have this kind of cultural power and they never fucking will.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's like I've been saying for a while now, fascism cannot create art.
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SPEAKER_00: It can only consume it, but it cannot consume.
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SPEAKER_00: It destroys.
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SPEAKER_00: You're so smart.
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SPEAKER_00: This is why the right despises TV and music and movies and books and video games.
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SPEAKER_00: They're all expressions of who we are and who we want to be.
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SPEAKER_00: And that is not Republican.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not a world dominated by mediocre racist white Christian men.
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SPEAKER_00: And they cannot fucking tolerate that.
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SPEAKER_00: So they want to burn it all down and replace it with bland, flavorless, unsweetened oatmeal.
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SPEAKER_01: Unseasoned.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
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SPEAKER_00: It's unseasoned.
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SPEAKER_00: They want unseasoned oatmeal.
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SPEAKER_00: So, you know, fuck these assholes and power to the people.
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SPEAKER_01: Power to the people.
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SPEAKER_00: All right.
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SPEAKER_00: So we're moving on to our next segment,
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SPEAKER_00: which is new for the next couple of weeks until the midterms are here.
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SPEAKER_00: It is time for the Midterm Massacre.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh!
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SPEAKER_01: The press might be ignoring the main Senate race, but it seems the voters are not.
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SPEAKER_01: A new AARP poll found 50% of respondents said that they were probably
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SPEAKER_01: or definitely leaning toward casting their ballots for Democrat Troy Jackson.
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SPEAKER_01: 47% said that they support Collins and 3% are undecided.
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SPEAKER_01: The poll had a 3% margin of error.
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SPEAKER_01: So the race is neck and neck, but it looks like Jackson is leading it.
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SPEAKER_01: He is a former state Senate president.
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SPEAKER_01: And was able to win the nomination after Graham Plattner dropped out.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank fucking God.
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SPEAKER_01: Cook Political Report has the race as a toss up.
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SPEAKER_01: The Democratic candidate is also leading the gubernatorial race accordingly.
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SPEAKER_01: According to AARP,
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SPEAKER_01: the news about the poll came out the same week that ProPublica published
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SPEAKER_01: a bombshell report about corruption allegations against Susan Collins.
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SPEAKER_01: According to the report,
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SPEAKER_01: the FBI was investigating Collins' relationship with Martin Cow,
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SPEAKER_01: CEO of defense contractor Navatec and one of her top donors.
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SPEAKER_01: Cow claimed the head of a pro-Collins super PAC met with him and
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SPEAKER_01: And other Navatec execs in 2019 and asked for a $500,000 donation,
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SPEAKER_00: which is illegal.
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SPEAKER_00: I can't believe a Republican is corrupt.
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SPEAKER_00: So weird.
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SPEAKER_00: In this day and age, I can't believe there's just corrupt Republicans.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, what kind of world are we living in?
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SPEAKER_01: And somebody who looks like our grandma?
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SPEAKER_01: No.
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SPEAKER_01: No.
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SPEAKER_01: So Kao sent a $150,000 donation to the super PAC using a shell company to cover his identity.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Nothing says I'm innocent using a shell company.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: A few weeks later,
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SPEAKER_01: the CEO told execs that Collins had committed to giving Navatech $32 million
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SPEAKER_01: in naval contracts.
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SPEAKER_00: I love how he sent one third of what was asked for and he still got the fucking thing.
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SPEAKER_00: Right, right, right.
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SPEAKER_00: I was like, wow, she just sells herself.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: In 2022, Cal was indicted for making illegal campaign contributions because, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: Contributions?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, look who he was donating to.
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SPEAKER_00: So anyway.
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SPEAKER_01: And I guess the shell company didn't fool the FBI.
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SPEAKER_01: Weird.
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SPEAKER_01: Government contractors are prohibited from making political donations
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SPEAKER_01: because obviously we don't want government contractors donating
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SPEAKER_01: to political candidates and then getting government contracts.
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SPEAKER_00: Seems like a pay-to-play scheme.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it seems like a bit of a conflict of interest though.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, a little bit.
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SPEAKER_00: A little bit.
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SPEAKER_01: We like our corruption to be disguised by lobbyists from K Street.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, put a little bit of a layer in between the corruption.
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SPEAKER_01: Right, right.
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SPEAKER_01: The first time I went to DC,
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SPEAKER_01: the first time I went to DC,
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SPEAKER_01: I took my mom and Jennifer down K Street and I said, behold, this is the real power.
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SPEAKER_01: The CEO then revealed the scheme to the FBI because he wanted a lighter sentence.
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SPEAKER_01: So he sold her out to save himself,
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SPEAKER_01: which is exactly what we would expect.
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SPEAKER_01: The Trump regime, shockingly, killed the investigation when he took office again.
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SPEAKER_00: Amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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SPEAKER_01: Collins is now vehemently denying the allegations.
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SPEAKER_01: She just did nothing wrong.
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SPEAKER_01: This is just she can't understand.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, look at her.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm just an innocent grandma.
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SPEAKER_01: I would never do something like this.
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SPEAKER_01: ProPublica.
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SPEAKER_00: Sorry, go ahead.
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SPEAKER_01: ProPublica,
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SPEAKER_01: however,
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SPEAKER_01: standing by its reporting,
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SPEAKER_01: saying that it reviewed the FBI against our evidence against the Congresswoman.
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SPEAKER_01: So.
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SPEAKER_00: Corruption is becoming a real sticking point in this election.
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SPEAKER_00: People are really getting sick of just a non-stop corruption.
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SPEAKER_00: So this has the potential to really hurt if the story catches on.
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SPEAKER_00: So fingers crossed.
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SPEAKER_00: All right.
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SPEAKER_00: When Senator Lindsey Graham died, I drank a beer to celebrate because what a glorious day.
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SPEAKER_00: And then Republicans installed his sister, Darlene.
17:32
SPEAKER_00: In his seat to serve out the rest of his term.
17:34
SPEAKER_01: What a moron.
17:35
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
17:35
SPEAKER_00: Some people made us think about that.
17:37
SPEAKER_00: Right.
17:37
SPEAKER_00: But there is a long tradition in American politics and probably in other countries.
17:40
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
17:41
SPEAKER_00: I don't pay attention to that.
17:42
SPEAKER_00: But of the spouse or sibling of
17:45
SPEAKER_00: a long serving elected official finishing their term out of respect.
17:48
SPEAKER_00: So that's not really super unusual.
17:51
SPEAKER_00: What was unusual was that Darlene deciding totally all on her own.
17:57
SPEAKER_00: Totally.
17:58
SPEAKER_00: To run for the seat when her brother's term expired.
18:01
SPEAKER_00: She's never worked in politics before and is completely unqualified for the position.
18:07
SPEAKER_00: Like, really, really embarrassingly unqualified.
18:11
SPEAKER_00: Her only qualification is her willingness to be a rubber stamp for Donald Trump,
18:16
SPEAKER_00: who enthusiastically endorsed her,
18:18
SPEAKER_00: cementing Darlene Graham as the Republican nominee.
18:22
SPEAKER_01: She's so unqualified that she literally said when asked a question
18:26
SPEAKER_01: about foreign policy, I don't really know anything about that.
18:29
SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
18:30
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it was just like, oh, man, that's like,
18:33
SPEAKER_01: oh, that's who I want.
18:35
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
18:35
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, definitely want that person.
18:36
SPEAKER_00: She's just going to do whatever she's told to do.
18:38
SPEAKER_00: It's like that's not representation.
18:40
SPEAKER_00: So that's she's just a puppet.
18:43
SPEAKER_00: Now, if Republicans were figuring on name recognition in a reliably red state,
18:47
SPEAKER_00: If that would give them an easy win,
18:49
SPEAKER_00: that turned out to be a very costly mistake in an election cycle
18:52
SPEAKER_00: that is already turning out to be insanely expensive for Republicans.
18:57
SPEAKER_00: So while the GOP is bleeding money in Texas and Iowa and Kansas, Kansas.
19:04
SPEAKER_00: Now they have to pour money into South Carolina to protect
19:07
SPEAKER_00: a seat they shouldn't even need to defend.
19:10
SPEAKER_00: The Daily Beast reports that the GOP is about to drop $5 million,
19:14
SPEAKER_00: they don't really have just laying around,
19:17
SPEAKER_00: into the race to keep Democrat and And Andrews from winning.
19:21
SPEAKER_00: Andrews trails Graham in the polls by one whole point.
19:26
SPEAKER_00: And that's $5 million that Republicans could have spent literally anywhere else.
19:31
SPEAKER_00: Now it's being wasted to save a Nepo baby who shouldn't be there in the first place.
19:35
SPEAKER_00: And that is another brilliant strategic move by the greatest natural politician
19:40
SPEAKER_00: in American history, TM, Donald J. Trump.
19:44
SPEAKER_01: Did you see Trump's statement about Annie Andrews?
19:48
SPEAKER_00: The one where he uses the T word.
19:49
SPEAKER_00: He calls her...
19:50
SPEAKER_01: Multiple times.
19:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, slur for transgender.
19:54
SPEAKER_01: Yes, that's the one.
19:56
SPEAKER_01: Because it rhymes.
19:57
SPEAKER_01: It rhymes with Annie.
19:59
SPEAKER_01: Get it?
20:00
SPEAKER_01: I literally read that statement and I just...
20:02
SPEAKER_01: I just sat there for a second and I was like, is this really what we've become?
20:07
SPEAKER_01: Like, this is the president of the fucking United States of America using
20:12
SPEAKER_01: a transgender slur in a social media post attacking a political candidate.
20:19
SPEAKER_00: Do you know what I'm really going to look forward to?
20:22
SPEAKER_01: A political candidate, by the way, who is a pediatrician.
20:25
SPEAKER_00: What I'm really looking forward to,
20:27
SPEAKER_00: like after the 2024 election,
20:29
SPEAKER_00: the press made a huge,
20:32
SPEAKER_00: huge deal about, you know, oh, transgender issues sunk Democrats.
20:37
SPEAKER_00: It didn't.
20:38
SPEAKER_00: That's not what happened.
20:39
SPEAKER_00: But they wanted to make sure everyone knew
20:42
SPEAKER_00: that definitely transgender is definitely part of the story of how Democrats lost.
20:47
SPEAKER_00: And definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely, we should do something about that.
20:51
SPEAKER_00: Now, Republicans are hitting the transgender button really, really hard for this election.
20:57
SPEAKER_00: They're going to get crushed.
21:00
SPEAKER_00: It's going to be a fucking bloodbath.
21:02
SPEAKER_00: I mean, not for nothing.
21:04
SPEAKER_00: There's a reason we're calling it the midterm fucking massacre here.
21:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
21:14
SPEAKER_00: All Republicans everywhere.
21:16
SPEAKER_00: And I'm super curious about if the press is going to be like,
21:20
SPEAKER_00: hmm, they hit the transgender button really hard and it didn't work.
21:24
SPEAKER_00: Maybe that shouldn't be the issue for them anymore.
21:27
SPEAKER_00: Maybe they should.
21:28
SPEAKER_00: They're not going to.
21:29
SPEAKER_00: They're just not going to.
21:30
SPEAKER_00: They're going to be like, well, it still remains a potent weapon.
21:32
SPEAKER_00: It's like, does it?
21:34
SPEAKER_00: Did it?
21:35
SPEAKER_00: It's not.
21:35
SPEAKER_00: It didn't work at all.
21:37
SPEAKER_00: They still got absolutely fucking slaughtered.
21:42
SPEAKER_00: Correlation is not causation.
21:44
SPEAKER_00: Just because he was screaming it in 2024 does not mean it worked.
21:48
SPEAKER_00: The fact that they were screaming it in 2026 and it didn't work should be
21:52
SPEAKER_00: an indication that perhaps they should move on from it.
21:55
SPEAKER_00: And the press will not make that case because the press,
21:58
SPEAKER_00: especially the New York Times, really,
22:00
SPEAKER_00: really wants to keep that story going because they're very,
22:03
SPEAKER_00: very hostile to trans people.
22:06
SPEAKER_01: But, you know, that Nazi next door, no problem with that.
22:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no.
22:10
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
22:10
SPEAKER_00: You know, the Nazi next door.
22:11
SPEAKER_00: I mean, they're just like you and me.
22:14
SPEAKER_00: Anyway, up a few miles north in North Carolina,
22:18
SPEAKER_00: Republicans have abandoned the Senate race,
22:22
SPEAKER_00: canceling their antibodies so they can redirect that money
22:25
SPEAKER_00: to races they could possibly win, like maybe in South Carolina.
22:30
SPEAKER_00: At the same time,
22:31
SPEAKER_00: Democrats are so confident that Roy Cooper is a lock,
22:35
SPEAKER_00: they've pulled their ad money too.
22:37
SPEAKER_00: And they're redirecting it to other races they think they can win, like maybe South Carolina.
22:42
SPEAKER_00: So yeah,
22:44
SPEAKER_00: things are going pretty well for us in North Carolina and not so well
22:48
SPEAKER_00: for Republicans in South Carolina.
22:49
SPEAKER_01: So go Carolinas.
22:52
SPEAKER_01: I do love North Carolina.
22:53
SPEAKER_01: It's my favorite place.
22:55
SPEAKER_00: My aunt thinks so.
22:56
SPEAKER_00: My aunt Janie lives there, and she loves North Carolina.
22:59
SPEAKER_00: It's nice visiting her every now and then.
23:00
SPEAKER_00: We have to go back down there.
23:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but you have to visit.
23:04
SPEAKER_01: We should just take a family vacation,
23:07
SPEAKER_01: and all of us should go,
23:08
SPEAKER_01: and you and I can just stand on the mountain and put our hands at our hips and go.
23:11
SPEAKER_00: And then we can push the kids down the slide, the rock slide.
23:17
SPEAKER_01: Sliding rock is amazing, I'm telling you.
23:19
SPEAKER_01: I would totally do sliding rock with you.
23:23
SPEAKER_01: And then we could see our pictures that are never attractive.
23:25
SPEAKER_01: The pictures are never attractive.
23:28
SPEAKER_01: And I always reach up to plug my nose because I'm afraid of that brain-eating amoeba.
23:35
SPEAKER_01: Even though it doesn't live in cold water like that.
23:38
SPEAKER_01: But the force of the waterfall, because it's a waterfall, will turn your body around.
23:43
SPEAKER_01: And I've hit the water backwards so many times.
23:47
SPEAKER_01: Anyways, moving on.
23:49
SPEAKER_00: All right.
23:49
SPEAKER_00: So before we continue midterm massacre here,
23:54
SPEAKER_00: if you'd like to throw us a small tip, we would be very, very appreciative.
23:59
SPEAKER_00: We both have college kids and the QR codes for Venmo and PayPal are up on the screen right now.
24:05
SPEAKER_00: We have no sponsors or advertisers, and we're definitely not going to have any anytime soon.
24:11
SPEAKER_00: Florida woman curses too fucking much.
24:13
SPEAKER_00: And she says way too many objectionable things.
24:16
SPEAKER_00: So clearly this is never going to happen.
24:18
SPEAKER_00: Although,
24:19
SPEAKER_00: you know,
24:20
SPEAKER_00: if Sliding Rock in North Carolina,
24:22
SPEAKER_00: if, you know, that town wants to sponsor us, we will definitely take your money.
24:25
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
24:25
SPEAKER_01: Pisgah National Forest.
24:27
SPEAKER_01: Oh, shit.
24:27
SPEAKER_01: It's a national forest.
24:28
SPEAKER_00: We're screwed.
24:29
SPEAKER_00: Damn it.
24:30
SPEAKER_00: Oh, well.
24:30
SPEAKER_00: It was a threat.
24:32
SPEAKER_01: Anyways.
24:32
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
24:33
SPEAKER_01: Please send us monies.
24:34
SPEAKER_01: Our college kids are expensive.
24:36
SPEAKER_01: Mine just spent $176 of my money on groceries.
24:39
SPEAKER_00: We're going down to Richmond in a couple of weeks and taking Lila
24:44
SPEAKER_00: and June grocery shopping and taking them out for lunch.
24:47
SPEAKER_00: Painful.
24:50
SPEAKER_01: With just four weeks left and voting already underway, you'd think...
24:54
SPEAKER_01: Which is just fucking insane.
25:22
SPEAKER_01: Yes, it could be a ploy to get Republicans to divide their attention
25:26
SPEAKER_01: and spend money they don't have.
25:28
SPEAKER_01: But Democrats do not have an unlimited budget.
25:32
SPEAKER_01: If they're spending money on these seats, they have to think there's a real chance.
25:35
SPEAKER_01: Otherwise, it would be money better spent in competitive races.
25:39
SPEAKER_01: But remember what we said about Iowa last week?
25:43
SPEAKER_01: A plus 15 is in the margin of error for the GOP now and every day.
25:52
SPEAKER_01: Sorry.
25:53
SPEAKER_01: The economy is getting worse because of Trump and his party of pedophiles, grifters, and Nazis.
25:58
SPEAKER_01: So we'll ask the same question that we asked last week.
26:02
SPEAKER_01: Are there really any house seats safe?
26:05
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm sure plus 40 might be safe.
26:07
SPEAKER_00: Maybe.
26:07
SPEAKER_00: Maybe.
26:10
SPEAKER_00: All right.
26:10
SPEAKER_00: Originally,
26:11
SPEAKER_00: the last segment here was going to be talking about JD Vance and Ted Cruz fighting
26:16
SPEAKER_00: because there's nothing funnier than the two worst people in the country squabbling
26:19
SPEAKER_00: over who's going to lose the 2028 election the hardest.
26:22
SPEAKER_00: But the Washington Post put out an article
26:25
SPEAKER_00: that addressed something I've been wondering about for a while.
26:28
SPEAKER_00: I'm not a numbers guy,
26:29
SPEAKER_00: and I don't have the time nor the patience to dig through state-level data
26:33
SPEAKER_00: to figure out how fucked Republicans are or how many state houses they're at risk
26:38
SPEAKER_00: of losing control of.
26:39
SPEAKER_00: Fortunately,
26:40
SPEAKER_00: people know how to do that,
26:41
SPEAKER_00: and Washington Post,
26:42
SPEAKER_00: of limited value they may be, went ahead and put that information together.
26:48
SPEAKER_00: And the results are, wow, Republicans are even more fucked than I thought.
26:52
SPEAKER_00: Republicans are looking at the potential loss of a trifecta where they control
26:57
SPEAKER_00: the state Senate,
26:57
SPEAKER_00: the state House or Assembly and the governorship in five,
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SPEAKER_00: one, two, three, four, five different states.
27:04
SPEAKER_00: They're looking at losing complete control,
27:07
SPEAKER_00: you know, where they have complete control in Florida, Georgia, Iowa, California.
27:10
SPEAKER_00: Can I just interrupt really fast?
27:13
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
27:34
SPEAKER_01: So I know there's a lot of talk about Florida and I do think that we should try to flip it.
27:40
SPEAKER_01: But I just want to remind people that before this last election
27:43
SPEAKER_01: where Ron DeSantis won by like a huge margin,
27:47
SPEAKER_01: every race before that had been decided with 1% of the vote.
27:51
SPEAKER_01: So even though the media is like, oh my God, this is so weird.
27:54
SPEAKER_01: Florida is so close.
27:55
SPEAKER_01: It's actually not that weird.
27:57
SPEAKER_01: Like before this, it was always by 1%.
28:00
SPEAKER_01: Like it was a very small margin.
28:03
SPEAKER_00: True, but Florida's gotten a lot redder.
28:05
SPEAKER_00: It has.
28:05
SPEAKER_00: A lot of Republicans moved to Florida,
28:08
SPEAKER_00: you know, because it became the promised land and then it became very expensive.
28:12
SPEAKER_01: Very expensive.
28:12
SPEAKER_01: So I think that people are like, oh shit, it's very expensive to live here.
28:17
SPEAKER_00: But we're not saying that Democrats are going to take control of the state.
28:22
SPEAKER_00: They're definitely not.
28:23
SPEAKER_00: That's not going to happen.
28:24
SPEAKER_00: But they're going to take control of one chamber.
28:28
SPEAKER_00: And that means Republicans will – they can, right?
28:32
SPEAKER_00: They have the shot at taking control of one chamber or two.
28:36
SPEAKER_00: And that means Republicans will not just be able to pass –
28:39
SPEAKER_01: Which is good.
28:40
SPEAKER_00: Whatever law they want.
28:41
SPEAKER_00: They won't be able to – Because right now – Yeah.
28:43
SPEAKER_01: Right now in Florida and Texas, there are super majorities and our voices don't matter at all.
28:49
SPEAKER_00: They can do anything they want and they won't be able to do that anymore,
28:53
SPEAKER_00: which means they won't be able to strip everyone of their rights.
28:57
SPEAKER_00: They won't be able to attack trans people as easily anymore.
29:00
SPEAKER_00: They won't be able to just run rampant over your civil rights.
29:03
SPEAKER_00: On the flip side, Alaska,
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SPEAKER_00: Minnesota, Nevada,
29:08
SPEAKER_00: Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin are That is also a big fucking deal.
29:13
SPEAKER_00: On top of that, five of those states are swing states.
29:17
SPEAKER_00: And you can bet with a democratic trifecta,
29:19
SPEAKER_00: every single piece of election ranking Republicans have put into place over
29:22
SPEAKER_00: the years will be eliminated.
29:39
SPEAKER_00: Wisconsin especially will see a sharp shift to the left after all the gerrymandering
29:44
SPEAKER_00: and vote suppression is just erased in the first six months.
29:48
SPEAKER_00: We've been saying for a long time,
29:51
SPEAKER_00: if you want to see the potential future of America,
29:54
SPEAKER_00: Without Republicans or free of Republican bullshit, look to Wisconsin.
30:00
SPEAKER_00: They've been cleaning up the GOP's mess for the last few years and
30:03
SPEAKER_00: the results have been amazing,
30:05
SPEAKER_00: which is why Elon Musk spent millions of dollars trying
30:08
SPEAKER_00: to buy their We'll see you next time.
30:39
SPEAKER_00: And it's far more likely that Democrats are going to pick up four to six trifectas
30:43
SPEAKER_00: and Republicans will be lucky if they get even one.
30:47
SPEAKER_00: I, for one,
30:48
SPEAKER_00: am looking forward to Republicans gaining control of one state and New York
30:52
SPEAKER_00: the fucking Times declaring that the blue wave is just a dud,
30:55
SPEAKER_00: just like they did the last time there was a blue wave.
30:59
SPEAKER_00: And the press desperately tried to convince us that it didn't exist
31:03
SPEAKER_00: because Republicans did well in a couple of states and they just ignored All
31:08
SPEAKER_00: the other stuff that happened all over the rest of the country
31:10
SPEAKER_00: because Republicans did well in a couple of states.
31:13
SPEAKER_00: So the rest of the blue wave, this is going to be fucking hilarious.
31:17
SPEAKER_00: I'm really waiting for the headline saying, no blue wave because Republicans won a trifecta.
31:23
SPEAKER_00: What about the other six trifectas Democrats won?
31:26
SPEAKER_00: That doesn't count.
31:27
SPEAKER_00: It's going to be amazing.
31:30
SPEAKER_00: Anyway, let us move on.
31:32
SPEAKER_00: It is time for headlines for short attention spans.
31:35
SPEAKER_00: Headlines for short attention spans.
31:38
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
31:39
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
31:53
SPEAKER_01: More than a dozen Americans have been deported, most of them children.
31:58
SPEAKER_01: And here are some other facts from the report.
32:01
SPEAKER_01: Quote, more than 100 Americans held after agents questioned their citizenship.
32:07
SPEAKER_01: Nearly all were people of color.
32:08
SPEAKER_01: Oh.
32:10
SPEAKER_01: At least
32:15
SPEAKER_01: 70 American children and teens detained,
32:19
SPEAKER_01: some of whom were handcuffed,
32:21
SPEAKER_01: even though the Trump regime said, we never handcuff children.
32:25
SPEAKER_01: Of the more than 300 Americans ProPublica tracked as detained
32:30
SPEAKER_01: for allegedly assaulting or obstructing agents,
32:34
SPEAKER_01: they found fewer than half were actually charged in federal court,
32:39
SPEAKER_01: and many of those cases were dropped or dismissed.
32:41
SPEAKER_01: At least 63 Americans were detained for recording.
32:46
SPEAKER_01: 36 Americans held for at least a day without being able to contact their lawyer or their family.
32:52
SPEAKER_00: Which is just wildly unconstitutional.
32:54
SPEAKER_00: But, you know, fascism, what are you going to do?
32:57
SPEAKER_01: So we have warned since the very beginning of this podcast, I mean,
33:01
SPEAKER_01: from the first time that I was on this podcast,
33:04
SPEAKER_01: that this was never, ever about getting the criminals out of this country.
33:08
SPEAKER_01: It was always about targeting brown people and forcing those communities to live
33:12
SPEAKER_01: in fear, not just the fear of deportation, Deliberately.
33:29
SPEAKER_01: This is also not something Trump even cares about.
33:32
SPEAKER_01: He has targeted immigrants and people of color because he knows that it's popular
33:37
SPEAKER_01: with Republicans and knew that he could use it to drive or he could use that hatred
33:42
SPEAKER_01: to drive people to the polls.
33:44
SPEAKER_01: Remember,
33:45
SPEAKER_01: Trump ran for president at least once before this,
33:48
SPEAKER_01: and it was for as an independent and his campaign got nowhere.
33:52
SPEAKER_01: Then he was a Democrat for a long time, right?
33:56
SPEAKER_00: That's because he was in New York and New York is just Democrats.
33:59
SPEAKER_00: He was sucking up to the people there.
34:01
SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
34:01
SPEAKER_00: We all hated him anyway.
34:03
SPEAKER_00: I was living in New York.
34:04
SPEAKER_00: Everyone hated him.
34:04
SPEAKER_00: They still do.
34:05
SPEAKER_00: They always did.
34:07
SPEAKER_01: And then he decided that he could use all of the racist hatred against Obama to run
34:12
SPEAKER_01: as a Republican.
34:13
SPEAKER_01: And that's when he got his win.
34:15
SPEAKER_00: His alleged win.
34:16
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
34:19
SPEAKER_01: So he knew that he could use that hatred to drive Republicans to the polls,
34:23
SPEAKER_01: the same way white politicians used the fear of desegregation to drive white parents
34:27
SPEAKER_01: to the polls in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
34:30
SPEAKER_01: The GOP has targeted minorities since the Declaration of So it's always been
34:35
SPEAKER_01: about targeting immigrants.
34:48
SPEAKER_01: This is not a Trump policy.
34:51
SPEAKER_01: It's a Republican policy.
34:53
SPEAKER_01: The only thing that Trump has succeeded
34:55
SPEAKER_01: in doing is showing conservatives how far they can take their bloodlust.
34:59
SPEAKER_01: That's why we always say when this regime falls, we must Nuremberg them all.
35:04
SPEAKER_00: Yep, because the next time they get in, this is where they'll start from.
35:09
SPEAKER_00: This is their starting point.
35:11
SPEAKER_01: This is their baseline now.
35:13
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
35:13
SPEAKER_00: They're not going to go back.
35:15
SPEAKER_00: They're not going to ease up.
35:16
SPEAKER_00: They're not going to step back.
35:18
SPEAKER_00: This is their starting point.
35:19
SPEAKER_00: This is their baseline,
35:21
SPEAKER_00: which means the next time they get in there,
35:23
SPEAKER_00: they're just going to start with Nazi and escalate from there.
35:28
SPEAKER_00: And no one wants to see where that goes.
35:30
SPEAKER_00: They're already starting with concentration camps from day one.
35:34
SPEAKER_00: Why would you want to risk that?
35:35
SPEAKER_00: All right.
35:36
SPEAKER_00: Now, Apparently, we bombed Iran over drugs now.
35:42
SPEAKER_00: That's the new story that Trump came up with during a rally in Oklahoma.
35:46
SPEAKER_00: Apparently,
35:47
SPEAKER_00: not only were there nuclear facilities working on nuclear bombs,
35:51
SPEAKER_00: but also producing drugs.
35:55
SPEAKER_01: Sure.
35:55
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
35:55
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's what that was about.
35:57
SPEAKER_01: That Iranian weed must be real good.
35:59
SPEAKER_00: I know, man.
36:00
SPEAKER_00: I want some nuclear-infused weed.
36:02
SPEAKER_00: That shit must fucking kick hard.
36:05
SPEAKER_00: Booyah.
36:06
SPEAKER_00: Anyway.
36:07
SPEAKER_01: I fell asleep and I didn't wake up.
36:09
SPEAKER_01: I don't know why.
36:10
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right?
36:11
SPEAKER_00: It's glow-in-the-dark.
36:14
SPEAKER_00: Who needs a blacklight?
36:15
SPEAKER_00: You just smoke the weed.
36:16
SPEAKER_00: Anyway, Trump had to rally in Oklahoma,
36:19
SPEAKER_00: by the way, because he could only guarantee these audiences in deep red state.
36:23
SPEAKER_00: And J.D.
36:23
SPEAKER_00: Vance can't get large audiences anywhere.
36:26
SPEAKER_00: So anyway, Trump has sent another aircraft carrier and about 10,000 more troops into the Gulf.
36:32
SPEAKER_00: So it seems pretty clear that he's getting ready to bomb Iran again.
36:35
SPEAKER_00: Possibly before the midterms in order to make himself look tough.
36:39
SPEAKER_00: And he's almost certainly going to follow this with a ground invasion after the polls close.
36:43
SPEAKER_00: Possibly in preparation for clearing a national emergency in a desperate attempt
36:50
SPEAKER_00: to cancel the results.
36:50
SPEAKER_00: He's about to lose in historic numbers.
36:53
SPEAKER_00: Now, that may sound alarmist,
36:56
SPEAKER_00: sure, but Trump is a fascist and he cannot allow Democrats to control Congress.
37:02
SPEAKER_00: So we have to consider the craziest fucking thing.
37:05
SPEAKER_00: And that is an exercise in caution,
37:10
SPEAKER_00: not in doomerism,
37:11
SPEAKER_00: because while he's going to try it, trying is not the same as getting away with.
37:17
SPEAKER_00: Remember, Trump can declare a national He can scream martial law.
37:24
SPEAKER_00: He can scream Insurrection Act.
37:26
SPEAKER_00: None of these things allow him to cancel elections.
37:30
SPEAKER_00: None of them.
37:32
SPEAKER_00: There's nothing in any law, any piece of the Constitution.
37:36
SPEAKER_00: There's no legal provisions for him to go and say, none of these elections can happen.
37:42
SPEAKER_00: None of these elections count now.
37:44
SPEAKER_00: I'm throwing them all out.
37:46
SPEAKER_00: Nothing.
37:47
SPEAKER_00: Nothing at all, even remotely comes within a thousand miles of him being able to do that.
37:53
SPEAKER_00: And even this Supreme Court is not going to say, well, actually he has the right to do that.
37:58
SPEAKER_00: No, he doesn't.
38:00
SPEAKER_00: And everybody knows it.
38:02
SPEAKER_00: Magellan will go, yeah, he could do that because he's the God King Emperor.
38:07
SPEAKER_00: Everyone else is going to go, the fuck he can.
38:10
SPEAKER_00: And there's not enough of the fucking military to show up
38:13
SPEAKER_00: and shut down elections all over the country.
38:15
SPEAKER_00: He just cannot do it.
38:17
SPEAKER_00: And he can't order governors to shut down elections and throw out the results.
38:21
SPEAKER_00: He just doesn't have the manpower to seize all the fucking ballots.
38:25
SPEAKER_00: He just can't.
38:27
SPEAKER_00: So it's one thing to be ready.
38:30
SPEAKER_00: And it's another thing to be prepared.
38:32
SPEAKER_00: And there's another thing to be like,
38:33
SPEAKER_00: well, he's just going to do it and we can't do anything to stop him.
38:35
SPEAKER_01: He can't.
38:38
SPEAKER_00: But he's going to try to do it.
38:41
SPEAKER_00: And don't surrender in advance.
38:44
SPEAKER_00: Do not obey in advance.
38:46
SPEAKER_00: When he says it, your first reaction has to be, fuck you.
38:51
SPEAKER_00: No.
38:51
SPEAKER_00: Not, oh, well, he did it and we can't stop him now.
38:55
SPEAKER_00: No.
38:55
SPEAKER_00: He actually has to do it.
38:57
SPEAKER_00: Just saying it doesn't make it true.
39:00
SPEAKER_00: And remember,
39:01
SPEAKER_00: Democrats and attorney generals and governors all over
39:05
SPEAKER_00: the country are very much getting ready for him to try this.
39:08
SPEAKER_00: And there are red states that are like,
39:10
SPEAKER_00: Already very,
39:11
SPEAKER_00: very not thrilled with the idea of Trump seizing their fucking elections,
39:16
SPEAKER_00: especially state secretaries.
39:19
SPEAKER_00: Their whole job is to make their elections secure, and they don't like the idea.
39:26
SPEAKER_00: Trump's really been pissing them off by saying, oh, yeah, your elections are all fraud.
39:30
SPEAKER_00: That's their job.
39:31
SPEAKER_00: And they don't like being told that they're not doing their jobs well.
39:36
SPEAKER_00: They get a little fucking offended by that.
39:38
SPEAKER_00: Even Republican secretaries of state.
39:40
SPEAKER_00: I mean, we saw that in Georgia.
39:41
SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
39:42
SPEAKER_00: In 2020.
39:42
SPEAKER_00: You know, not that Brad Raffensperger is a good person.
40:09
SPEAKER_01: Terrible person.
40:11
SPEAKER_00: There's a limit to how much illegal bullshit they're going to put up with,
40:16
SPEAKER_00: especially in this context.
40:18
SPEAKER_00: All right.
40:20
SPEAKER_01: Speaking of caution,
40:21
SPEAKER_01: New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared the first state of emergency for measles in
40:27
SPEAKER_01: the U.S. this week.
40:29
SPEAKER_01: The state had 108 cases as of Tuesday and the vast majority were in rural parts of
40:35
SPEAKER_01: the state where vaccination rates are low.
40:37
SPEAKER_01: The state of emergency will allow an expanded group of medical professionals,
40:41
SPEAKER_01: including midwives,
40:43
SPEAKER_01: paramedics and others, to administer the MMR vaccine to kids two years old and over.
40:50
SPEAKER_01: Healthcare professionals are also required to report vaccinations to the state within 72 hours.
40:56
SPEAKER_01: Hochul's emergency comes as Pennsylvania cases surpass 1,000,
41:01
SPEAKER_01: and at least five people have died there, like New York.
41:05
SPEAKER_01: The majority of those cases have been reported in rural areas.
41:09
SPEAKER_01: And just as an aside,
41:10
SPEAKER_01: the Amish community is very large in both of these states and Ohio,
41:14
SPEAKER_01: where the outbreak is also pretty bad.
41:16
SPEAKER_01: And we know that the outbreaks this year have been particularly severe among
41:21
SPEAKER_01: the Amish because they congregate in small spaces.
41:26
SPEAKER_01: They're always together.
41:28
SPEAKER_01: Their communities are pretty insulated from the outside world.
41:32
SPEAKER_01: I live in Florida in a community in Florida that's known as
41:36
SPEAKER_01: the Snowbird Amish community because the Amish and Mennonites travel here
41:41
SPEAKER_01: to vacation in the winter.
41:43
SPEAKER_01: Everybody comes here in the winter.
41:45
SPEAKER_01: And as that season gets underway,
41:48
SPEAKER_01: I'm not going to lie,
41:48
SPEAKER_01: I'm very concerned that we're going to see an uptick of cases here as well,
41:53
SPEAKER_01: especially because Florida has become very anti-vaccine over the last several years.
42:00
SPEAKER_01: And the thought of dealing with the measles and dengue fever at the same time,
42:06
SPEAKER_01: really- The
42:07
SPEAKER_00: sooner you move out of that hellhole, the better.
42:09
SPEAKER_01: It's annoying.
42:10
SPEAKER_01: So I don't want to be like Republicans were during COVID,
42:13
SPEAKER_01: where they were like, you can't go to Chinese restaurants.
42:17
SPEAKER_01: They're just not safe.
42:19
SPEAKER_01: And I hate to say but,
42:20
SPEAKER_01: because it's like,
42:21
SPEAKER_01: I'm racist, but I'm not racist, but I feel a little bit like that right now.
42:27
SPEAKER_00: Well, you can't go to Amish restaurants, so- Yes.
42:31
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm just saying that if I had a baby,
42:33
SPEAKER_01: I would not be visiting the Amish stores,
42:37
SPEAKER_01: even though they sell the best apple butter ever.
42:41
SPEAKER_01: But that's just me.
42:42
SPEAKER_01: You know, do what you will with your life.
42:44
SPEAKER_01: But I'm just not bringing my infant in there or my grandmother.
42:48
SPEAKER_00: Now, as if one disease spreading wasn't enough, Russia has a plague on its hand, literally.
42:56
SPEAKER_00: Remember all those rumors that the right invented about Ukrainian bioweapons labs?
43:00
SPEAKER_00: Well, it looks like Russia was doing a little research of their own and there was
43:04
SPEAKER_01: an... Oh, no.
43:05
SPEAKER_01: Oh, no.
43:06
SPEAKER_00: A form of the pneumonic plague,
43:08
SPEAKER_00: a close relative of the bubonic plague,
43:10
SPEAKER_00: aka the Black Death that wiped out one-third of Europe in the 14th century,
43:15
SPEAKER_00: that got loose.
43:16
SPEAKER_00: And this version spreads through the air in its most virulent and lethal kind of plague.
43:22
SPEAKER_00: Remember, I'm saying plague.
43:23
SPEAKER_00: This is the plague, not a plague.
43:26
SPEAKER_01: So if you live in Alaska, don't go in your backyards.
43:30
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
43:30
SPEAKER_00: Sarah Palin is telling you she can see Russia from her backyard and now the plague too.
43:37
SPEAKER_00: Now, the good news here is that this disease has a really,
43:40
SPEAKER_00: really fast incubation period and a really short incubation period and
43:44
SPEAKER_00: a really fast progression.
43:46
SPEAKER_00: It's literally hours to just a few days.
43:49
SPEAKER_00: And it doesn't sit quietly like for a few weeks like COVID did and spread.
43:54
SPEAKER_00: Which means it's almost impossible for it to turn into a pandemic.
43:59
SPEAKER_00: It kills too quickly to spread.
44:01
SPEAKER_00: So, yay.
44:03
SPEAKER_00: The bad news is that the plague is still incredibly dangerous if it gets loose in
44:07
SPEAKER_00: a major population center.
44:09
SPEAKER_00: And our government is currently twiddling its thumbs.
44:12
SPEAKER_00: If we had a real CDC, I would be less worried.
44:16
SPEAKER_00: But RFK Jr.
44:18
SPEAKER_00: is a eugenicist who clearly wants a new pandemic in order to thin the herd of
44:24
SPEAKER_00: the unfit.
44:25
SPEAKER_00: This outbreak is not going to do what he wants, but the next one might.
44:29
SPEAKER_00: And our current government will do everything possible to help that along.
44:33
SPEAKER_00: So don't necessarily panic about the spread of the plague.
44:37
SPEAKER_00: But do be worried about the death cult in charge of American health care.
44:42
SPEAKER_01: I'm feeling really good about Secretary Whaleblood right now.
44:46
SPEAKER_01: Well, let's wrap up headlines with some good news.
44:49
SPEAKER_01: If we can believe him,
44:51
SPEAKER_01: and that is a bit of a stretch to be honest,
44:53
SPEAKER_01: Samuel Alito,
44:54
SPEAKER_01: one of the most corrupt Supreme Court justices in American history,
44:58
SPEAKER_01: a Christian nationalist,
45:00
SPEAKER_01: and a pro-insurrectionist traitor, is not, we repeat, not resigning this year.
45:06
SPEAKER_01: There was a flurry of reports that the second oldest justice, Thomas is 78 and Alito is 76,
45:15
SPEAKER_00: I can't wait until they're both dead and I get to tears.
45:18
SPEAKER_01: Was considering retiring before the end of the year,
45:21
SPEAKER_01: which would allow Trump to appoint his replacement while Republicans are still
45:26
SPEAKER_01: in control of the Senate.
45:28
SPEAKER_01: Observers noted that both Alito and Thomas are both extremely arrogant.
45:33
SPEAKER_01: Womp womp.
45:58
SPEAKER_01: That is,
45:58
SPEAKER_01: of course,
45:59
SPEAKER_01: assuming Democrats do not immediately expand the court as soon as they control
46:03
SPEAKER_01: the White House and the Senate in 2029.
46:05
SPEAKER_01: Alito might be lying about this and planning to resign immediately
46:09
SPEAKER_01: after Democrats win control of the Senate, but before they're sworn in next year.
46:14
SPEAKER_01: But why lie?
46:15
SPEAKER_01: Because his announcement would supercharge Democratic voters
46:19
SPEAKER_01: who no longer take control of the Senate for granted,
46:22
SPEAKER_01: which we did for such a long time, guys.
46:25
SPEAKER_01: We really have to stop doing that.
46:27
SPEAKER_01: No amount of,
46:29
SPEAKER_01: I won't vote my fear,
46:31
SPEAKER_01: from the alt-left will keep people from voting to regain control of
46:35
SPEAKER_01: the Supreme Court after the damage they've done in the last several years.
46:39
SPEAKER_01: I mean, we're looking at our uteruses.
46:41
SPEAKER_01: Our uteri.
46:43
SPEAKER_01: The left has finally cut up to where the right has been for the last 40 years.
46:48
SPEAKER_01: It only took the overturning of Roe and the death and suffering of thousands
46:53
SPEAKER_01: of women, but we got there.
46:54
SPEAKER_01: Good job, guys.
46:57
SPEAKER_01: Yay!
46:58
SPEAKER_01: Alito knows this and would lie right to our faces if it meant helping Republicans.
47:02
SPEAKER_01: He really is that corrupt and that partisan.
47:05
SPEAKER_01: I mean, the interview he gave was on fucking Fox News.
47:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I know.
47:10
SPEAKER_00: Jesus Christ.
47:11
SPEAKER_01: And he's going to be on CBS.
47:13
SPEAKER_01: Hello.
47:15
SPEAKER_01: I guess we'll see what happens a month from now.
47:18
SPEAKER_01: Same with Thomas.
47:19
SPEAKER_01: But with Thomas, he'll do whatever his billionaire's owner asked him to do anyways.
47:23
SPEAKER_01: Because he wouldn't want to give up that RV.
47:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
47:26
SPEAKER_00: He's got to live that bowler lifestyle.
47:28
SPEAKER_00: He's so used to it now.
47:29
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he can't be paying for his nephew to go to school.
47:32
SPEAKER_00: That would be silly.
47:33
SPEAKER_00: All right.
47:34
SPEAKER_00: So one of the things I like to do is regularly remind people of just how vile
47:40
SPEAKER_00: and repulsive the alt-left is, right?
47:41
SPEAKER_00: I do this all the time.
47:43
SPEAKER_00: I post constant screencaps of things that Glenn Greenwald,
47:48
SPEAKER_00: Matt Taibbi, The Young Turks, et cetera, say and do.
47:51
SPEAKER_00: And I point out just how fucked up these people are.
47:55
SPEAKER_00: And another one of these fake progressive pieces of shit is Michael Treat.
47:59
SPEAKER_00: He's on Substack.
48:00
SPEAKER_00: So stop by and say hi.
48:02
SPEAKER_00: He's a second tier scumbag.
48:04
SPEAKER_00: He's not like one of the leading scumbags.
48:06
SPEAKER_00: He's a second tier scumbag.
48:08
SPEAKER_00: But still, he's a scumbag.
48:10
SPEAKER_00: And one of the great joys of my life is getting...
48:13
SPEAKER_00: Getting under the very,
48:14
SPEAKER_00: very thin skin of these fucksticks because they're such little crybabies.
48:20
SPEAKER_00: And like I've mentioned before that Cenk Uygur devoted an entire like 15,
48:25
SPEAKER_00: 17 minute segment screeching He's in the middle of right now being raked over
48:31
SPEAKER_00: the coals as a rape apologist, and he has big feelings.
48:56
SPEAKER_01: Can't everyone just understand that he's just asking questions?
48:59
SPEAKER_00: This has to do with the Cornell 7, which he thinks are being unfairly picked on by the mob.
49:05
SPEAKER_00: He's not defending rapists, though.
49:07
SPEAKER_00: He just wants them to have due process.
49:09
SPEAKER_00: A due process that he does not extend to people he does not like Jew.
49:13
SPEAKER_00: And also, what's wrong with trying to dox the alleged victim?
49:18
SPEAKER_01: Why is everyone being so mean to him?
49:20
SPEAKER_01: Didn't he actually reveal her name and then delete it?
49:23
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
49:24
SPEAKER_01: Did he get that far?
49:25
SPEAKER_01: I thought he did, yeah.
49:26
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so, yeah,
49:28
SPEAKER_01: people are...
49:29
SPEAKER_00: And it's important to understand that Tracy's audience is mediocre racist white boys
49:36
SPEAKER_00: who only want to hear about how feminism
49:40
SPEAKER_00: and identity politics have ruined their lives.
49:45
SPEAKER_00: Jeffrey Epstein was even a pedophile and whether or not any of his victims
49:50
SPEAKER_00: or even victims were even underage.
49:52
SPEAKER_00: When Russia attacked Ukraine,
49:54
SPEAKER_00: Tracy literally went to Ukraine to try and disprove if Russia had even invaded
49:59
SPEAKER_00: and was caught trying to give away Ukrainian troop positions.
50:04
SPEAKER_00: Honestly, I'm surprised he wasn't shot as a spy.
50:07
SPEAKER_00: And, oh, he's a Russiagate denier.
50:09
SPEAKER_00: Donald Trump 100% did not work with Russia to steal the 2016 election.
50:13
SPEAKER_00: No, sir.
50:15
SPEAKER_00: But don't you forget, Michael Tracy's a true progressive.
50:18
SPEAKER_00: Not like you, you corporate-centric sellout shill.
50:22
SPEAKER_00: Anyway, everything he does almost always seems to help Republican.
50:27
SPEAKER_00: And this is who I'm talking about when I talk about the alt-left.
50:31
SPEAKER_00: And that is whose skin I got under this week because a hit dog will holler.
50:35
SPEAKER_00: Ha ha ha.
50:37
SPEAKER_00: I love it.
50:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I typically stay out of your war against the alt-left because after all,
50:43
SPEAKER_01: I did want to get a Bernie Sanders tattoo at some point.
50:47
SPEAKER_00: I forget that.
50:49
SPEAKER_01: But I then went to Michael Tracy's Substack wall and scrolled,
50:55
SPEAKER_01: and I was so disgusted that I told Ogre, you have to talk about this on the pod.
51:01
SPEAKER_00: You have to rip him apart on the pod because it was so bad.
51:06
SPEAKER_00: He's just trash.
51:07
SPEAKER_00: He's just one of those, I'm just asking questions.
51:09
SPEAKER_00: We don't know anything.
51:12
SPEAKER_00: We have to wait for the process to play out, blah, blah, blah.
51:14
SPEAKER_00: And it's just like, dude, no.
51:17
SPEAKER_01: No, he literally said he was upset.
51:21
SPEAKER_01: Hold on.
51:22
SPEAKER_01: Let me just tell you guys.
51:23
SPEAKER_01: This is him.
51:24
SPEAKER_01: New rule.
51:26
SPEAKER_01: Stop presumptively declaring people to be victims when their victimhood
51:31
SPEAKER_01: or lack thereof is precisely what is in dispute.
51:35
SPEAKER_01: Short-circuiting the entire fact-finding and legal process
51:39
SPEAKER_01: by assigning this label explains a lot of why everybody's gone berserk
51:45
SPEAKER_01: over this shit.
51:47
SPEAKER_01: And then he goes on for a minute.
51:49
SPEAKER_01: And then he says, see also Epstein survivors.
51:53
SPEAKER_01: He put it in quotes.
51:54
SPEAKER_01: Everyone and their mother gets universally declared a survivor as
51:59
SPEAKER_01: though they survived some massive Holocaust like historical atrocity without
52:05
SPEAKER_01: a single detail of their claimed victimization being minimally corroborated.
52:10
SPEAKER_01: That's what he's saying about Epstein victims.
52:12
SPEAKER_01: Now, mind you.
52:13
SPEAKER_01: Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted of trafficking minors.
52:19
SPEAKER_01: She has been convicted of enticing minors.
52:22
SPEAKER_01: She has all of these things that she was actually convicted of.
52:26
SPEAKER_01: So is it really like he's arguing Yeah, that's my thing.
52:28
SPEAKER_01: It's his thing.
52:29
SPEAKER_01: Stay in your lane.
52:53
SPEAKER_01: Right.
52:54
SPEAKER_01: But as far as the Cornell 7 go, they were punished by the university.
52:59
SPEAKER_01: Law enforcement failed to do their job and punish them criminally,
53:03
SPEAKER_01: but they were punished by the university.
53:05
SPEAKER_01: Not enough, in our opinions, but they did get punished.
53:09
SPEAKER_01: So guess what?
53:10
SPEAKER_01: The university decided that the victim was a victim.
53:14
SPEAKER_01: Not us.
53:15
SPEAKER_01: The university decided that.
53:17
SPEAKER_01: We wouldn't even know about it.
53:20
SPEAKER_00: Clearly, someone decided something happened.
53:23
SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
53:24
SPEAKER_01: By a preponderance of the evidence.
53:27
SPEAKER_01: And the fraternity was shut down.
53:30
SPEAKER_01: Now, do you think they would have shut down the fraternity if there was nothing wrong?
53:33
SPEAKER_01: When fraternity members pay so much money and some of that money goes to
53:39
SPEAKER_01: the universities, do you think that it would have gotten shut down?
53:42
SPEAKER_01: Of course not.
53:43
SPEAKER_01: So Michael Tracy can go suck a big fucking dick.
53:46
SPEAKER_01: And, you know, if he falls into a pond full of alligators, whatever.
53:51
SPEAKER_00: You know,
53:52
SPEAKER_00: of all the things,
53:53
SPEAKER_00: it's so weird that so many of these progressive men,
53:58
SPEAKER_00: these super progressive men of all the things that are happening in the world,
54:03
SPEAKER_00: it's so weird how frequently people And they keep coming back to the same.
54:21
SPEAKER_00: It's like, dude,
54:29
SPEAKER_00: even if you believe that's true,
54:31
SPEAKER_00: there's so many other things that you could be focusing on as a person.
54:39
SPEAKER_00: But that's not what your audience wants to hear.
54:42
SPEAKER_00: Your audience wants to hear of your audience of mediocre,
54:46
SPEAKER_00: racist, white, you know, aggrieved white boys.
54:50
SPEAKER_00: They only want to hear about housing.
54:52
SPEAKER_00: How they're victimized.
54:54
SPEAKER_00: That's all they want to hear about.
54:55
SPEAKER_00: They want to hear about how feminism ruins their lives and how,
55:00
SPEAKER_00: you know,
55:01
SPEAKER_00: if you're Greenwald, do you want to hear about how the Jews are ruining their lives?
55:04
SPEAKER_00: If they're Mataibi, it's women ruining their lives.
55:07
SPEAKER_00: It's the same thing over and over.
55:09
SPEAKER_00: They don't want to talk about any of this progressive stuff
55:12
SPEAKER_00: because this is just their gateway drug.
55:15
SPEAKER_01: Ask yourself this.
55:16
SPEAKER_01: How many times have you seen Michael Tracy,
55:18
SPEAKER_01: Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Cenk Uygur at a fuck the ice protest?
55:23
SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
55:24
SPEAKER_01: They don't
55:28
SPEAKER_00: go to this stuff.
55:29
SPEAKER_00: They don't go.
55:29
SPEAKER_00: They don't champion real progressive causes because that's not what their audience wants.
55:33
SPEAKER_01: How many times have you seen them marching for reproductive rights?
55:37
SPEAKER_00: Black Lives Matter.
55:39
SPEAKER_01: Black Lives Matter.
55:40
SPEAKER_00: Or anything.
55:41
SPEAKER_00: When was the last time they showed up at a detention center?
55:45
SPEAKER_00: They don't.
55:46
SPEAKER_00: They don't.
55:46
SPEAKER_00: They'll show up at Free Palestine because they can scream their hate about Israel
55:53
SPEAKER_00: and Jews because that's what their audience wants to hear.
55:56
SPEAKER_00: But they don't give a shit about anything else.
55:58
SPEAKER_00: It's not important enough.
56:00
SPEAKER_00: It has to do with appealing to their audience of mediocre, racist, agreed white boys.
56:05
SPEAKER_01: Whew.
56:06
SPEAKER_01: But we have to move on because my stomach is hurting from those jalapenos.
56:11
SPEAKER_00: All right.
56:12
SPEAKER_00: It's time for our self-care of the week.
56:17
SPEAKER_00: Which would require not eating jalapenos for breakfast, apparently.
56:21
SPEAKER_01: Oh, my God.
56:21
SPEAKER_01: I should have done it.
56:22
SPEAKER_01: It's bad.
56:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
56:25
SPEAKER_01: So I had a crazy busy weekend.
56:27
SPEAKER_01: My brother bought his first home last week.
56:29
SPEAKER_01: Yay for him.
56:31
SPEAKER_01: So proud of him.
56:32
SPEAKER_01: So my husband and I helped him move.
56:35
SPEAKER_01: Mostly I just went through my prized Starbucks mug collection.
56:40
SPEAKER_01: And packed some of the stuff that we left there while my husband moved actual heavy furniture.
56:45
SPEAKER_01: I won't lie, I did spend a large amount of time sitting down.
56:49
SPEAKER_01: And then on Sunday, my oldest met me at his uncle's new house so that I could borrow his car.
56:54
SPEAKER_01: Which is my former car, but when he got his license, I just gave him my car.
56:58
SPEAKER_01: Which, in hindsight, probably wasn't a great idea.
57:02
SPEAKER_01: Because I have to borrow my car every once in a while.
57:04
SPEAKER_01: Right.
57:27
SPEAKER_01: That was weird, but we didn't really think anything of it.
57:30
SPEAKER_01: I bought Chinese for him to take home to eat with his girlfriend for dinner.
57:34
SPEAKER_01: And then as we drove to Tampa, he was like, hey, mom, do you have ibuprofen in your purse?
57:38
SPEAKER_01: And I said, no, you know, my purse is in your dad's car.
57:41
SPEAKER_01: And I asked him if his head hurts.
57:42
SPEAKER_01: And he said, yeah.
57:44
SPEAKER_01: And I go, okay, well just lay back and I'll drive you home.
57:47
SPEAKER_01: Just rest, right?
57:48
SPEAKER_01: He'd worked 12 hours that day.
57:50
SPEAKER_01: He was tired.
57:51
SPEAKER_01: And plus he's always gotten car sick.
57:54
SPEAKER_01: I talked on the last show about how he used to puke in my car all the time.
57:58
SPEAKER_00: Blech.
57:59
SPEAKER_01: So he's always been carsick, you know?
58:00
SPEAKER_01: So I was like, just lay back.
58:02
SPEAKER_01: He's like, no, I don't really get to spend a lot of time with you, so I want to talk to you.
58:05
SPEAKER_01: But by the time we got to his apartment, he could barely open his eyes.
58:09
SPEAKER_01: And then as we got closer, he was like, fuck, it's a migraine.
58:14
SPEAKER_01: And I go, oh, why did you get the aura?
58:16
SPEAKER_01: Because,
58:16
SPEAKER_01: you know,
58:17
SPEAKER_01: if you've ever experienced migraines,
58:18
SPEAKER_01: you know that a lot of times before you get the actual pain,
58:22
SPEAKER_01: you have, like, weird feelings, like ocular problems.
58:26
SPEAKER_01: And he's like, yeah, that blurry vision.
58:30
SPEAKER_01: So I dropped him off and I told him to call me in the morning
58:34
SPEAKER_01: if he needed medication because I'd be on his college campus anyways at
58:38
SPEAKER_01: the Cancer Center.
58:39
SPEAKER_01: Fortunately, he was good as new on Monday, but he did tell me that he's been getting migraines.
58:43
SPEAKER_01: Aye, aye, aye.
59:06
SPEAKER_01: I thought maybe his migraine came from the Bills losing on Sunday,
59:09
SPEAKER_01: but,
59:10
SPEAKER_01: you know, apparently that was only my migraine.
59:12
SPEAKER_01: So my uncle had his endoscopy and that went really well.
59:16
SPEAKER_01: It only took 15 minutes, which I thought was crazy.
59:19
SPEAKER_01: We find out the results next week, I think.
59:21
SPEAKER_01: And then I spent the rest of Monday celebrating my mom's 66th birthday.
59:28
SPEAKER_01: And meal prepping for Aiden because he wanted me to go buy pre-made meals at Costco,
59:33
SPEAKER_01: but something happened and I didn't go do that.
59:35
SPEAKER_01: So I just meal prepped for him.
59:37
SPEAKER_01: I literally spent the whole day cooking all day.
59:40
SPEAKER_01: And then I drove back to Tampa with all of the food and dropped off his car and the food.
59:45
SPEAKER_01: I left my house at 5am on Monday and I literally didn't sit down to relax until 11pm.
59:51
SPEAKER_01: It was crazy.
59:53
SPEAKER_01: I can't complain, though,
59:54
SPEAKER_01: because I love when he needs me to do things like cooking his meals for the week.
59:58
SPEAKER_01: He's going to be 22 next month, and he's pretty independent.
1:00:01
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't need a whole lot for me,
1:00:03
SPEAKER_01: but doing stuff like that reminds me that I'm still his mommy.
1:00:06
SPEAKER_01: And when I told my husband that, he laughed at me.
1:00:09
SPEAKER_00: I know.
1:00:10
SPEAKER_00: When I get to do stuff for Lila, it's the same thing.
1:00:12
SPEAKER_00: Even if it's little things, it's like I still get to do stuff for her.
1:00:15
SPEAKER_00: Yay.
1:00:16
SPEAKER_01: I told him yesterday, I said, I think I'm going to crash out when you're in medical school.
1:00:19
SPEAKER_01: Because if he goes to medical school in another state,
1:00:25
SPEAKER_01: obviously I'm not going to be able to just cook for him all one day and bring it
1:00:28
SPEAKER_01: to him.
1:00:29
SPEAKER_00: Right.
1:00:29
SPEAKER_00: He'll be too far away.
1:00:30
SPEAKER_01: Well, unless he's close to you, then I'll make you do that for me.
1:00:33
SPEAKER_00: Oh, gee.
1:00:34
SPEAKER_00: Yay.
1:00:37
SPEAKER_00: All right.
1:00:39
SPEAKER_00: So Friday night, I dropped Jordan off at a social group for older special needs kids.
1:00:45
SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's cool.
1:00:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he had a really good time.
1:00:48
SPEAKER_00: He drew some pictures because, you know, that's what he does.
1:00:51
SPEAKER_00: And he also painted a picture and glued leaves to it and watched some videos, played some games.
1:00:55
SPEAKER_00: It was his first time there, and he had a really, really good time.
1:00:59
SPEAKER_00: They have this group like twice a month,
1:01:01
SPEAKER_00: and there's an associated summer camp we're trying to get him to.
1:01:04
SPEAKER_00: We're going to try and enroll him in to keep him active this summer.
1:01:06
SPEAKER_00: So no more sleeping until 9.30 and laying in bed watching YouTube.
1:01:10
SPEAKER_00: Sorry, Jordan.
1:01:11
SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's cool.
1:01:11
SPEAKER_01: So they offer like respite care?
1:01:14
SPEAKER_01: You guys can get a break?
1:01:16
SPEAKER_00: We don't know if they do that.
1:01:18
SPEAKER_00: We've had opportunities to use respite care.
1:01:20
SPEAKER_00: We've never used it though, like ever.
1:01:23
SPEAKER_00: Like his entire life, we've never used respite care.
1:01:25
SPEAKER_00: Really?
1:01:26
SPEAKER_01: My best friend does it now for an old client of hers that she knows because she's
1:01:32
SPEAKER_01: an RBT and she's going to school to be a BCBA.
1:01:35
SPEAKER_01: And she did respite care last week.
1:01:39
SPEAKER_01: It's for like a wealthy family.
1:01:40
SPEAKER_01: They paid her like $1,500 for like three days of respite care.
1:01:44
SPEAKER_01: I was like, damn.
1:01:46
SPEAKER_00: It feels weird to have someone stay with him so we can go out and do stuff.
1:01:51
SPEAKER_01: No, I think all parents deserve to do that.
1:01:54
SPEAKER_00: Well, Anastasia's old enough she can watch them.
1:01:58
SPEAKER_00: I mean, there's been times where Claudia's watched the kids.
1:02:00
SPEAKER_00: We've gone out, but we don't do that.
1:02:02
SPEAKER_01: I think it's different for her because she's been watching this kid for years.
1:02:07
SPEAKER_01: So he knows her.
1:02:08
SPEAKER_00: Right.
1:02:08
SPEAKER_01: Like he's an adult now.
1:02:09
SPEAKER_01: He's Jordan's age and he knows her really well.
1:02:12
SPEAKER_01: So I guess it would be like a friend coming over.
1:02:15
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
1:02:16
SPEAKER_01: Not just like a random stranger, different strangers every single time.
1:02:20
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:02:20
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I don't think autism would like that anyways.
1:02:24
SPEAKER_00: He wouldn't mind because he just kind of does what he does.
1:02:27
SPEAKER_00: So it would just be someone literally just kind of hanging out here
1:02:30
SPEAKER_00: and just being here while he does what he does.
1:02:32
SPEAKER_00: But it just always felt weird to be like,
1:02:34
SPEAKER_00: yeah, stay and watch our kids so we can go out and do something without them.
1:02:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:02:39
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you're kind of like me.
1:02:42
SPEAKER_01: You never really hired babysitters either.
1:02:45
SPEAKER_01: My parents watched my kids, but I don't think I've ever hired a babysitter for my kids.
1:02:51
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we never really
1:02:52
SPEAKER_00: needed a break from the kids.
1:02:55
SPEAKER_00: We did all the stuff we wanted to do before.
1:02:58
SPEAKER_01: I guess so, because you had them when you were a little bit older.
1:03:02
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:03:03
SPEAKER_00: So we didn't need to go out and do stuff without the kids.
1:03:05
SPEAKER_00: It wasn't really like we did the stuff we wanted to do without the kids.
1:03:09
SPEAKER_00: Now, when we go out, we want the kids to come with us, so we do stuff as a family.
1:03:13
SPEAKER_01: I understand.
1:03:16
SPEAKER_01: My kids always went to my mom's house every single weekend,
1:03:18
SPEAKER_01: not because I wanted to get rid of them, although sometimes I was so happy.
1:03:24
SPEAKER_01: But because I thought it was super important for them to have a good relationship
1:03:28
SPEAKER_01: with their grandparents.
1:03:29
SPEAKER_01: So they always went to my parents' house.
1:03:31
SPEAKER_01: And I think they like my parents better than they like me.
1:03:35
SPEAKER_00: Well, Debbie's father and stepmother were too old.
1:03:38
SPEAKER_00: And one or two times...
1:03:39
SPEAKER_01: I'm very lucky.
1:03:41
SPEAKER_00: Well, the one or two times that they stayed over with Debbie's mother, it just didn't work out.
1:03:46
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:03:47
SPEAKER_01: I am very blessed to have the mother and father that I have.
1:03:51
SPEAKER_01: So anyway...
1:03:52
SPEAKER_00: Anyway, you all know where I was on Saturday.
1:03:55
SPEAKER_00: I was at the festival all day.
1:03:57
SPEAKER_00: But Sunday morning,
1:03:58
SPEAKER_00: I dragged my very tired and very achy self out of bed and made breakfast
1:04:02
SPEAKER_00: for everyone.
1:04:03
SPEAKER_00: Debbie made – Mrs. Ogre made pancakes.
1:04:07
SPEAKER_00: I made everything else.
1:04:10
SPEAKER_00: Lila was in for the weekend,
1:04:11
SPEAKER_00: and I'm trying very,
1:04:12
SPEAKER_00: very hard to make family breakfast a thing whenever she comes in.
1:04:16
SPEAKER_00: If not breakfast, at least one meal – While she's here for the weekend.
1:04:20
SPEAKER_00: So we sat around, we talked and we had a good time, yada, yada, yada.
1:04:25
SPEAKER_00: Lila told us everything that's going on with college.
1:04:28
SPEAKER_00: She's doing really well.
1:04:30
SPEAKER_00: She got top of her class in a calc test by a lot.
1:04:34
SPEAKER_00: She was floating on cloud nine about that.
1:04:36
SPEAKER_00: And she hasn't really discussed her other classes,
1:04:38
SPEAKER_00: but I don't think she's like she's not failing or anything.
1:04:41
SPEAKER_00: She just hasn't because she hasn't sunk into depression and she's not talking about quitting.
1:04:45
SPEAKER_00: She doesn't love her other classes as much as she likes her math class because she's
1:04:49
SPEAKER_00: a nerd, but she's sticking with it.
1:04:51
SPEAKER_00: And that's a big fucking deal with her.
1:04:53
SPEAKER_00: And, you know, it's the same thing with her roommates who are a bit of a slob.
1:04:57
SPEAKER_00: But, you know, she's not freaking out.
1:04:59
SPEAKER_00: She's not withdrawing.
1:05:00
SPEAKER_00: She doesn't have like social anxiety about the whole thing, which, again, is a big fucking deal.
1:05:05
SPEAKER_00: You know, she's handling it.
1:05:07
SPEAKER_00: And we're super proud of how well she's doing on her own.
1:05:10
SPEAKER_00: It's almost like we've raised a functional adult or something.
1:05:12
SPEAKER_00: Isn't that weird?
1:05:13
SPEAKER_00: I know.
1:05:14
SPEAKER_00: Sunday night,
1:05:15
SPEAKER_00: I dropped Anastasia off at the Metro Station,
1:05:17
SPEAKER_00: and she and a friend went into D.C.
1:05:19
SPEAKER_00: by themselves to go see Olivia Rodrigo at the Capital One Arena.
1:05:23
SPEAKER_00: They both foamed at the mouth.
1:05:26
SPEAKER_00: Anastasia has been in lust with Rodrigo for years and her head exploded
1:05:30
SPEAKER_00: the entire time that she was up on stage.
1:05:32
SPEAKER_00: And this was her first solo concert.
1:05:34
SPEAKER_00: And she was thrilled to go off on her own into DC like an adult.
1:05:37
SPEAKER_00: And I knew she was going to be surrounded by a bunch of women and other girls the entire time.
1:05:41
SPEAKER_00: There wasn't, I wasn't worried at all.
1:05:43
SPEAKER_00: And again,
1:05:44
SPEAKER_00: we appeared to be raising a functional adult who can take the train by herself into
1:05:49
SPEAKER_00: the city for the night out.
1:05:50
SPEAKER_00: It was, you know, it was a nice weekend.
1:05:52
SPEAKER_00: So everyone, I know it's like we're successful parents or something.
1:05:56
SPEAKER_00: It's so weird, right?
1:06:00
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, no, it was thriving.
1:06:03
SPEAKER_00: Thriving kids, it was a good weekend, so yay.
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