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Episode Two Hundred Sixty Six: So It Begins · The Death Of Journalism

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  Speaker 1: Welcomed episode two hundred and sixty six of the Death
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  Speaker 1: of Journalism podcasts. My name is John Zigler. I'm your
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  Speaker 1: host on today's show. The off year election results are
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  Speaker 1: even worse than I expected for Republicans and for the country.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what it all really means. My close friend,
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  Speaker 1: movie director Cyrus n Rosta joins us to discuss his
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  Speaker 1: latest great movie to hit theaters this weekend, called Sarah's Oil.
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk makes some very disturbing comments about AI, plus
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  Speaker 1: a review of Maybe Our Last Family Halloween and my
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  Speaker 1: reunion trip to Washington, d C. In the last episode
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  Speaker 1: of the podcast, I made several predictions about the off
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  Speaker 1: year elections which transpired last night as we were taping
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  Speaker 1: this on Wednesday morning, and those predictions, unfortunately all turned
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  Speaker 1: out to be true and accurate. I told you it
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  Speaker 1: was going to be a very good day for Democrats
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  Speaker 1: and for progressives and for socialists, in a very bad
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  Speaker 1: day for Republicans in general. I was even correct when
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  Speaker 1: I told you that it did not matter whether or not
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  Speaker 1: the Republican in New York City got out of the race,
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  Speaker 1: because Zorn Mondani would win regardless. He did get over
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  Speaker 1: fifty percent of the vote, not by much, barely, but
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  Speaker 1: it would not have mattered in the end who he
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  Speaker 1: ran against, he would have won. And while there are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of very disturbing results that we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: in this off yr election, I want to begin with
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  Speaker 1: what happened in New York City, because, if only from
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  Speaker 1: a symbolic and maybe from a practical perspective, this is
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  Speaker 1: one of the most disturbing developments in American political history,
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  Speaker 1: and I do think we need to at least take
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  Speaker 1: a moment to comprehend what it all truly means and
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  Speaker 1: just how utterly insane it is that New York City,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the premier city in the world, and the
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  Speaker 1: largest in America, the center of commerce and finance in
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  Speaker 1: the world, and in America, some people believe the greatest
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  Speaker 1: city that's ever been created in the history of man
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  Speaker 1: is now going to be run by a guy who
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  Speaker 1: is foreign born, who is a Muslim, who is a
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  Speaker 1: Marxist socialist, who is an anti Semite, who has almost
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  Speaker 1: no experience, who basically has a fraudulent biography. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is all happening twenty four years after nine to eleven.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you had created this as some sort
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  Speaker 1: of a fictional account. Even a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 1: no one would have believed this was possible. He's not
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  Speaker 1: a celebrity. He wasn't a celebrity until basically fifteen minutes ago.
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  Speaker 1: And yet this has all now happened, and it has happened.
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  Speaker 1: I have to at least mention that it happened. Not
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  Speaker 1: that this mattered to the results, but it happened with
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  Speaker 1: the backing of even former conservative commentator Bill Crystal. I
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  Speaker 1: just have to acknowledge the utter insanity of the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Bill Crystal once a leader, a thought leader in
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  Speaker 1: the conservative movement, a guy who I've had some pretty
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  Speaker 1: significant contact with because at one time his funder was
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  Speaker 1: my father's boss, a guy by the name of Roger Hurtog,
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  Speaker 1: And that was that even facilitated the conversation between myself
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  Speaker 1: and Bill Crystal back when Bill Crystal was still pretending
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  Speaker 1: to be a conservative. And he has lost his mind
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  Speaker 1: more than any other alleged conservative commentator in the era
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  Speaker 1: of Trump. He's gone so off the deep end. He's
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  Speaker 1: such an anti Trump quote unquote conservative, but he's not
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  Speaker 1: that he even felt the need to vertue signal by
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  Speaker 1: showing just how anti Trump he is by deciding that
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  Speaker 1: he would endorse or Mommi for the mayor of New
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  Speaker 1: York City. Now he didn't influence any votes, but just symbolically,
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  Speaker 1: I just thought, my god, there it is. In a nutshell.
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  Speaker 1: There's that's where we are. When it comes to the
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote conservative movement or the anti Trump, never Trump
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  Speaker 1: conservative movement, We've got Bill CRYSTALSMI make it stop, somebody please.
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  Speaker 1: What a fucking frauds. Just unbelievable. The entire anti Trump
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  Speaker 1: conservative movement is full of frauds, which is partially why
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  Speaker 1: I'm as in the wilderness as anybody possibly could be
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  Speaker 1: because I'm an anti Trump conservative. But I never sold
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  Speaker 1: out any of my principles, unlike Bill Crystal, who just
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  Speaker 1: completely jumped the shark a long time ago but now
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  Speaker 1: is irredeemable. I mean just comical. Comical is the only
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  Speaker 1: way to describe it, because if you're either gonna laugh
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  Speaker 1: or you're gonna cry, and at least in that situation,
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  Speaker 1: I prefer to laugh. But with regard to the bigger picture,
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  Speaker 1: with Zaramandami winning with just over fifty percent of the vote,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is startling this is. It's
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  Speaker 1: not shocking because we knew this was going to happen,
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  Speaker 1: but it is. It still shakes you to your core,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you're of a certain age and you believed
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  Speaker 1: in America in the way that I did, and you
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  Speaker 1: spend a lot of time in New York City, as
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  Speaker 1: I did, because that's where my father worked as when
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  Speaker 1: I was a kid, and I meant to many sporting events,
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  Speaker 1: many many sporting events in New York City, spent a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time in New York City. You don't want
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  Speaker 1: to see it burn. And I have really dealt quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit internally and on this podcast with the idea of, okay,
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  Speaker 1: do you'll just let New York City burn? Is this
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  Speaker 1: potentially actually a good thing for the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: country to see New York City burn? Because they now
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  Speaker 1: have a Marxist who's naive and inexperienced and incompetent and
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  Speaker 1: ignorant of basic realities in charge, and if he gets
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  Speaker 1: what he wants, it's going to be a complete and
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  Speaker 1: total disaster. Do you root for that? Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a large part of me doesn't want to root for that,
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  Speaker 1: because you don't want to see New York City go down.
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  Speaker 1: In figurative, if not literal flames. But I'm also not
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  Speaker 1: convinced at all that what a lot of Trump Fans
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  Speaker 1: and Republicans think is gonna happen is going to be
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  Speaker 1: the message that the vast majority of the public is
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  Speaker 1: gonna get, partially because it's obvious that the media in
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  Speaker 1: large part is in the tank for Mondannie, although that's
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  Speaker 1: not as important as it used to be. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: not one hundred percent there that even if New York
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  Speaker 1: City burns to the ground because of Mondanie being the mayor,
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  Speaker 1: that that's going to have the impact that we think
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  Speaker 1: that it will. It might. Part of me now hopes
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  Speaker 1: that that's the case, because that's the only good scenario
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  Speaker 1: out of all this, But I'm not sure we still
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  Speaker 1: live in that world. I'm just not sure. And did
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  Speaker 1: we just see what the beginnings of what has already
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  Speaker 1: transpired in Europe happened here in America, even in New
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  Speaker 1: York fricking City. I think that's a scenario that's quite possible.
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  Speaker 1: So is this going to be a situation where the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the country wakes up to the dangers of this,
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  Speaker 1: or is this now a situation where the Mandans of
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  Speaker 1: the world have gotten traction in a very big way
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  Speaker 1: where he is in charge of the largest city in
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  Speaker 1: America and maybe the most important city in America. And
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  Speaker 1: so it was just really quite shocking to watch the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing actually take place, even though you knew it
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  Speaker 1: was going to happen. You knew it was going to happen,
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  Speaker 1: and yet it was still startling to actually see it.
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  Speaker 1: And Mandami gave his speech, which was, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: thing that the media was most eager to see all
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  Speaker 1: night long, because by that point it was very, very
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  Speaker 1: obvious that it was going to be a fantastic night
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  Speaker 1: for Democrats across the country, and everyone wanted to know, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so which Mondami was going to show up in this speech?
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  Speaker 1: And the Mondamie we got was I think probably the
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  Speaker 1: real Mandami, which is a very angry, very militant, and
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  Speaker 1: almost evangelical socialist, Marxist, Islamisist. I mean this, Everything that
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  Speaker 1: you think that could be bad about came out in
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  Speaker 1: his address, his victory speech to his supporters in New
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  Speaker 1: York City, so much so that even Van Jones, a
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  Speaker 1: black liberal commentator on CNN who I've mentioned many times
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  Speaker 1: on this podcast, seem to be a bit uneasy about it.
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  Speaker 1: David Oxelarod was uneasy about it. They both criticized it
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  Speaker 1: for basically, these are my words with being too militant,
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  Speaker 1: or as the I think the better way to describe
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  Speaker 1: it is. They were basically saying to Mandami, you know
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to keep this quiet, dude, this is not
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  Speaker 1: the part that's supposed to come out publicly. You're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be Obama in public, not this, dude, whatever this
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  Speaker 1: character is, you're creating. No. No, you said the quiet
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  Speaker 1: part out loud. You're not supposed to let people see
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  Speaker 1: this kind of stuff, especially not in such a high
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  Speaker 1: profile situation. It's okay that you believe this. They don't
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  Speaker 1: have a the problem with his beliefs. They just don't
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  Speaker 1: like the fact that he's saying it so publicly in
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  Speaker 1: such a prominent situation, because they know that for a
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  Speaker 1: large portion of the population, not nearly as large as
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  Speaker 1: it should be or it used to be, this is
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  Speaker 1: going to cause some problems, at least in theory for Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: And there were many elements of this speech that were
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  Speaker 1: extremely disturbing, Probably the most chilling line that any major
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  Speaker 1: politician has ever said in a victory speech at least
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  Speaker 1: to my knowledge in America, was quote we will prove
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  Speaker 1: that there is no problem too large for government to
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  Speaker 1: solve and no problem too small for government to care about.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to I'm gonna repeat that right because
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  Speaker 1: that is that is chilling right there. I mean, that
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  Speaker 1: is government as HOA and in the era of AI
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  Speaker 1: when they're going to have an increasing ability to crack
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  Speaker 1: down on anything they want to. You should really be
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  Speaker 1: disturbed when the mayor of New York City in his
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  Speaker 1: victory speech says, quote, we will prove that there is
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  Speaker 1: no problem too large for government to solve and no
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  Speaker 1: problem too small for government to care about. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: government runs your life. In other words, COVID on steroids,
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  Speaker 1: COVID panic on steroids. That's what man Donnie is promising here.
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  Speaker 1: But it didn't stop there. I'm going to play one
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  Speaker 1: fairly significantly long clip from this speech where he specifically
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  Speaker 1: addresses Donald Trump and the war that he perceives he
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  Speaker 1: is now in with Donald Trump. And this is the
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  Speaker 1: end of his speech where he attacks Trump, lays out
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  Speaker 1: a litany of all the socialist fantasies that he's intending
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  Speaker 1: to fulfill in New York City and then ends it
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  Speaker 1: by declaring that an immigrant is now in charge of
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  Speaker 1: New York City and that you're going to have to
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  Speaker 1: deal with him and all those like him. And here's
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  Speaker 1: what that sounded like election night in New York City.
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  Speaker 2: If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: how to defeat him, it is the city that gave
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  Speaker 2: rise to him. And if there is any way to
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  Speaker 2: terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions
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  Speaker 2: that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only
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  Speaker 2: how we stopped Trump, it's how we stop the next one. So,
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four
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  Speaker 2: words for you.
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  Speaker 3: Turn the volume up. We will hold bad landlords.
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  Speaker 2: To account because the Donald Trumps.
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  Speaker 1: Of our city have grown.
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  Speaker 2: Far too comfortable taking advantage of their tenants. We will
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  Speaker 2: put an end to the culture of corruption that has
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  Speaker 2: allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks.
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  Speaker 2: We will stand alongside union and expand labor protections because
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  Speaker 2: we know, just as Double Trump does, that when working
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  Speaker 2: people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort
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  Speaker 2: them become very small.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed, New York will remain.
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  Speaker 2: A city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered
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  Speaker 2: by immigrants, and as of tonight Land by an immigrant.
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  Speaker 2: So hear me, President Trump, when I say this, To
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  Speaker 2: get to any of us, you will have to get
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  Speaker 2: through all of us.
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  Speaker 1: Now, that is pretty much a really disturbing synopsis of
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  Speaker 1: his speech in general and what Mandami is intending to do,
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  Speaker 1: and he was not bashful about it. I've already referenced
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  Speaker 1: the Van Jones and David Axelrod on CNN. You know
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  Speaker 1: we're basically saying, hey, dude, keep it quiet. Be more
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  Speaker 1: like Obama. Mandami is a lot like Obama, except Obama
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  Speaker 1: either didn't have the balls or was too willing to
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  Speaker 1: listen to his advisors and never let it come out
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  Speaker 1: quite like that. So maybe Mandani is Obama with balls.
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  Speaker 1: Now with Mondami, it's always trunck to tell what's real
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  Speaker 1: and what's acting, because he absolutely is an actor. But
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  Speaker 1: let's just presume that he really does believe in most
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  Speaker 1: of not all of this stuff that he's promising. If
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  Speaker 1: he gets it, it's going to be a disaster for
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  Speaker 1: New York City. That is as clear as could possibly be. Right,
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  Speaker 1: And I could talk for a very long time about
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  Speaker 1: why that is. He still needs to get approval from
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  Speaker 1: the you know, the governor of the state, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in some cases for what he wants to do. But
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  Speaker 1: let's just presume he gets most of what he wants.
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  Speaker 1: The fundamental problem, and there are many, but the number
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  Speaker 1: one fundamental problem with what he wants to do is
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  Speaker 1: this flaw that liberals. It's so incredibly obvious that this
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  Speaker 1: is a flaw in liberal, progressive, socialist thinking, but they
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  Speaker 1: just either don't understand it or they will not accept it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what which it is. Maybe it's a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of both. But when you make something free,
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  Speaker 1: this is a universal truth that literally my young children
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  Speaker 1: can understand. If you make something free, people are going
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  Speaker 1: to use more of it. Right. That's it's the number
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  Speaker 1: one problem with universal healthcare, right because there's a whole
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  Speaker 1: slew of things we don't even bother to go to
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  Speaker 1: the doctors for because we know we're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to pay for it. Well, but if everything's free, that
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  Speaker 1: changes so and that goes for every little thing that
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  Speaker 1: Mondamie wants to do for free, whether it's childcare or bussing,
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  Speaker 1: whatever the hell it is. When it's free, people will
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  Speaker 1: use more of it. You probably saw that on Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: There's every Halloween now there's ring videos of people stealing
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  Speaker 1: buckets of Halloween candy that people leave on their front
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  Speaker 1: porch because they're not home or they don't want to
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  Speaker 1: answer the door. Well, when it's free, people will take
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  Speaker 1: more of it. It's just an obvious human reality. So
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to work. It is not going to work.
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  Speaker 1: But will it fail in time and will that failure
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  Speaker 1: be properly presented to the rest of them Marria, so
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  Speaker 1: that this doesn't spread and maybe actually creates a backlash.
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  Speaker 1: That's the part I don't have an answer for. I
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  Speaker 1: just don't know, And that's going to be the key
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  Speaker 1: question I believe as Mandamie becomes the next mayor of
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  Speaker 1: New York City, But there is no question that in
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  Speaker 1: the history of this country, this is a significant marking point.
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  Speaker 1: To have New York City have a mayor with the
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  Speaker 1: profile in the persona of Zoran Mandani is is incredibly disturbing.
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  Speaker 1: It is very very telling about where we are and
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  Speaker 1: where we are headed. And yes, Donald Trump plays a
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  Speaker 1: role in that, because you know, Donald Trump plays a
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  Speaker 1: role in all of this. His fans don't want to
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  Speaker 1: accept that. But you cannot believe that the results of
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  Speaker 1: last night are completely irrelevant to Donald Trump. When Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump is the entire brand of the Republican Party and
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  Speaker 1: the most dominant figure in all of our politics. He
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  Speaker 1: has an impact on everything. And I'm going to get
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  Speaker 1: to more of that impact in a moment, but I
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  Speaker 1: want to go through some of the other results from
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday's election. I had told you that I did not
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  Speaker 1: believe my two friends in New Jersey who were telling
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  Speaker 1: me either that the Republican was going to win the
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  Speaker 1: governorship or that it was going to be very very close.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it would be closer than it turned out
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  Speaker 1: to be. But I did predict that the Democrat would
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  Speaker 1: win in New Jersey. I said, maybe, just maybe, if
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  Speaker 1: there was a backlash to the Mandani impending victory, that
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  Speaker 1: who knows, you could pull off some sort of a
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  Speaker 1: massive upset in New Jersey. But I did not predict that.
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  Speaker 1: I predicted that the Democrat would win. The Democrat won,
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  Speaker 1: but the most important part of that was the margins.
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  Speaker 1: And this is one of the many things that maga
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  Speaker 1: Republicans that, based upon my experience online are universally not
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  Speaker 1: accepting or not seeing. They think that this was no
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  Speaker 1: big deal. What happened last night was no big deal
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  Speaker 1: because Democrats won in places they're expected to win. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, I didn't realize that we're now accepting that Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: which are going to get to momentarily, is somehow a
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  Speaker 1: blue state. They have a Republican governor currently who is
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  Speaker 1: actually pretty darn popular. So I don't quite understand that thinking.
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  Speaker 1: But the rationalization here is very very strong, very strong
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  Speaker 1: among the Maga Republican Trump bas But the idea that
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  Speaker 1: this was just about who won is ridiculous. It's the
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  Speaker 1: margin stupid. The margins here were shocking, you know, and frankly,
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  Speaker 1: Mondamie getting barely over fifty percent might have been one
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  Speaker 1: of the better results of the night. That's how bad
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  Speaker 1: it was, because in New Jersey it wasn't even close.
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  Speaker 1: I was wrong about the margins. I actually believed the
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  Speaker 1: polling and my friends and some polling actually had the
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  Speaker 1: margins close to what it turned out to be. And
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  Speaker 1: I always try to be as optimistic as possible. I
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  Speaker 1: did not think the Republican had a real chance of winning,
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  Speaker 1: but they got slaughtered and so now there's a democratic
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  Speaker 1: governor in New Jersey by a large margin, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a democratic governor in Virginia by a very similar margin.
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  Speaker 1: It was also double digits. And so how in the
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  Speaker 1: world a maga Republican can rationalize that, Wow, it's no
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  Speaker 1: big deal that we went from a popular Republican governor
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  Speaker 1: in Virginia to the first female governor in Virginia's history,
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  Speaker 1: winning by double digits over the lieutenant governor of the
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  Speaker 1: current governor. Now I realize people think she was a
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  Speaker 1: bad candidate. I spent most of the weekend in Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: saw a ton of commercials. I frankly thought some of
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  Speaker 1: the commercials being run against the Republican female lieutenant governor
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  Speaker 1: happens to be African American, we're a bit racist. If
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  Speaker 1: they had been running out a Democratic black female, they
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  Speaker 1: would have been considered to be racist. But that's the
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  Speaker 1: world we live in. A lot of people didn't think
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  Speaker 1: she was a good candidate. It doesn't explain the massive
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  Speaker 1: margin of the loss. And you cannot spin that. You
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  Speaker 1: cannot spin that that that has no political significance or
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  Speaker 1: ramifications beyond just those two candidates. There's just no way
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  Speaker 1: to go from a popular youngkin to a Democrat winning
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  Speaker 1: by a massive margin over his lieutenant governor. Not just
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: that either. That to me actually was the least upsetting
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: result in Virginia. They elected a Democrat Attorney General by
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: a fairly safe margin who is all one record in
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: social media posts saying that he fantasizes about Republicans dying.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: That's not an exaggeration, and the media kept that story
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: under raps to the extent where he actually won the
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: race fairly comfortably for Attorney General of Virginia. And then
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: there was the the state legislature races in Virginia, complete
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: total wipeout by Democrats of Republicans wipeout. I mean, this
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: could not have been a more clear cut victory. Now,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the government shut down probably played more of a role
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: than even I thought was likely, because you know, I'm
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: a logical thinker, and I talk all the time about
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: how Virginia in national elections and a presidential election is
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: clearly a bluestone because you have massive numbers of federal
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: workers in the northern part of the state, but you
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: can still have in theory a Republican governor because those workers,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: while they're Democrats, they're not as deeply invested in someone
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: being a Democrat or not being a Republican in the
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: governorship because it doesn't impact their job. Well, you know,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: you would think that that would not really matter very
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: much because the state has nothing to do with the
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: federal government shutdown. But I think symbolically, people just wanted
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: a way to express their anger. They're anger at Trump,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: they're anger at the shut down, and so they all
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: showed up. And so the Democratic turnout was extraordinary for
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: an off year election in Virginia. And so whether it
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: was conscious or subconscious, maybe even subliminal, the government shutdown
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: clearly hurt Republicans in Virginia, even though that's totally illogical
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: because none of the people that were up for election
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: had anything to do with the shutdown whatsoever, because obviously
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: that's federal as opposed to state. But you know, people,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: when they are angry and they get any sort of
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: an outlet to express that angry, that anger, they're going
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to do it. And that's what happened in Virginia. And
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: so it was a disaster in New York City. It
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: was a disaster in New Jersey, especially with regard to
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: the margins. It was a complete and total disaster in
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Virginia up and down the ballot, and here in California
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: it was also a complete and total disaster with Proposition fifty,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the redistricting proposition that was created by Governor Gavin Newsom.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: And it first looked like, you know, it was going
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: to win by only a couple of points. Except when
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I first talked about this, I thought it was going
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: to be fairly close. I thought two to four points
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: is what but Proposition fifty would win by then last
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: week I waved the white flag because it was clear
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: this was over. But even I did not anticipate the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: massive margins by which Proposition fifty would win. Right now
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: currently has sixty three percent of the vote, which is
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: just an absolute slaughter, even in a state where about
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: sixty three percent of the voters are Democrats. But the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: exit polling on Proposition fifty presented maybe the most stunning
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: result in the history of exit polls. And I realize
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: that sounds like hyperbole. I don't think it is. I
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: cannot recall a result that is more stupefying and in
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: some ways more depressing than this one. So if you
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: are unfamiliar Proposition fifty allows the state constitution to be shit,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and instead of the independent Commissions determining what the congressional
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: districts are gonna be for the next election in twenty
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: twenty six, essentially the Democratic Party is gonna be allowed,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: in fact, literally to draw their own congressional districts against
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the state constitution, allegedly temporarily. But that's in my view
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: bullshit on every level. I mean, first of all, I
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: don't believe that they're gonna abide by the temporary element
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: of this, But it almost doesn't matter because if this
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: holds up in court, what you're gonna do is you're
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: gonna wipe out almost every Republican in the States. So
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: even if you go back to the independent Commission in
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: twenty thirty, it's not gonna matter because there will be
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: no Republicans to run because there will be no incumbents
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: and you're gonna have like fifty Democrat incumbents. So that
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: and that's a huge advantage, especially in the state that's
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: overwhelmingly Democrat. So there's so many problems with the proposition itself.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: It's in my view on constitutional I believe it's a
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: moral it's incredibly expensive. I can't believe Gavin Newsom got
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: away with spending over two hundred million dollars on a
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: one question ballot initiative that was obviously partisan politics, and
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: obviously it intended to help his run for the presidential
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: nomination in twenty twenty eight. I mean, this is as
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: brazenly political as anything you could possibly get. All less
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: than a year after a massive wildfire burns most of
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles to the ground, there's not a sign of
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: any kind of rebuilding. And Newsom gets away with spending
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: this kind of money on a politically partisan proposition that
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: is clearly intended to help prop up and promote his
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: presidential ambitions, and he gets away with it completely. But anyway,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: here's the result of this exit poll that and this
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: was reported on Fox News. I don't know who did
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the exit poll, but this is just amazing. So the
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: thing passes with sixty three percent support. And what it
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: does is it takes the power away from the Independent
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Redistricting Commission and gives it to the Democratic Party. Okay,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: that's what this proposition does. So sixty three percent of
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: people who voted voted in favor of that. Yet in
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the exit polls it indicated that ninety two percent, ninety
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: two percent of people who voted across the board wanted
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: the lines to be drawn by the independent commission. Only
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: seven percent wanted it drawn by the political parties themselves.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: So your mind just he gets blown by this insanity.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Ninety two percent of people who voted strongly disagreed with
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the what the impact of this was gonna be or
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: should be, or how this should go, and yet sixty
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: three percent of the people voted for it. So if
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: you just do the numbers, well over fifty percent of
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: the voters voted for something that they philosophically disagree with
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: based upon their answers in the exit poll. He just
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: can't make this up. And I don't know how many
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: of those people even understand what they did. There's probably
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: a large percentage who just voted for whatever their friends
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: were doing, whatever the signs told them to do, or
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: if they're a Democrat, you know what Newsom told them
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: to do. But even the people that voted for this
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: boon did not agree philosophically with the way that the
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: districts ought to be drawn. And it's just incredibly frustrating,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: especially as someone who's now lived in California for far
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: too long, over twenty years, and looks like I'm doomed
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: to die here hopefully soon's it's just unbelievable, and this
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: is going to have far reaching implications if it is
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: not thrown out in court, and it will be challenged,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: and I actually I hate whenever i'm a little bit optimistic,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: because it always turns almost always turns out that I'm wrong.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: But it almost feels like there's got to be a
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: lot of confidence by Republicans that this is going to
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: eventually be overturned, probably by the US Supreme Court, because
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: the level of outrage and the amount of history onics
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: and the people that are very upset about this on
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: the national level is pretty small. I'm not seeing anywhere
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: close to the level of outrage that I should or
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: people being incensed by this. I mean, first of all,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: forget about the fact that it looks like Democrats are
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: going to pick up at least five new congressional seats,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: and I thought at first it would be maybe four,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: maybe five. The New York Times thinks they might get
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: a completely clean sweep, depending on how that goes in
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the next midterm election. If these lines that just got
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: approved by voters are accepted as legitimate by the court system,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: which of course would have a massive impact on next
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: year's midterms and almost ensure that Democrats will take over
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: the House Representatives, even if yesterday wasn't a disaster for Republicans.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: But I gotta believe that there must be some confidence
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: that this is going to be overturned. I'm just reading
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the tea leaves based upon the fact that people are
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: not nearly as enraged by this result on the national
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: level and upset by it as they should be. Now,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: maybe you know, they're over confident, maybe I'm misreading it,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: maybe I'm being too optimistic. But assuming that this holds
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: and is not overturned by the US Supreme Court, which
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I think it should be, I mean, there's so many
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: problems with the way this was done, but you know
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: that doesn't often matter anymore in this very strange world
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: in which we live. But if this holds, it means,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: first of all, that Democrats will almost certainly win the
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: House of Representatives in twenty twenty six. And here in California,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: it's now Katie bar the door. The floodgates are open.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, the floodgates have been open for a long
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: time here, but now there's zero ambiguity about it. Democrats
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: can do whatever the hell they want with literally zero opposition,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: zero position. And you know, you want to talk about
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: a real world impact of some of this stuff. You know,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: you may recall in the clip from Mondami that I
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: just played, one of the things that he goes into
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: is how they're going to go after landlords, unfair landlords,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: and you know, they're gonna they're gonna fix the rent
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: and freeze the rent. You know, that actually had a
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: massive impact on me when I watched that speech, knowing
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: what was happening with Proposition fifty, and knowing that we
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: have a gubernatorial election here in California next year, and
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: how every single one of the candidates on the Democratic
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: side is going to mimic Mandami. I said to my wife, well,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: you know what I think our plan to buy a
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: rental property here in Ventura County along the shoreline, which
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: is had been our plan. In fact, we had put
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: a bid on one a couple of months ago. It
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: should have been accepted, but stupidly the owners did not
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: accept it. I think they're going to regret that. But anyway,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: the point is We've been in the market for a
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: condo along the beach, and the point of our doing
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: that was to rent it out before we eventually use
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: it as a place to retire to, and so we
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: would be renting it out for a fairly significant number
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: of years. And I just don't feel comfortable doing that
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: anymore because I am convinced that in an effort to
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: mimic Mandami, these lunatics in California, now knowing they can
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: get away with anything, are going to do the exact
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: same thing when it comes to rents. And you know,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: the pendulum, which has already swung very much from the
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: landlord to the tenant in liberal states like California, is
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: going to go to the extreme and getting a tenant
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: out of your property or getting them to pay their rent,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: or increasing the rent if inflation goes crazy, is going
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: to be impossible. It's you're basically going to make it
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: an idiotic idea for someone to be a property owner
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: and to rent out their property. That's where this is
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: gonna go. And I mean, it's obvious to me this
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: is where it's gonna go. And proposition fifty winning by
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: that larger margin basically told the Democratic Party. Hey, go
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: go knock yourself out. You can do whatever the fuck
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: you want now. Haha. Happy days are here, you know it.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: And Mandami is gonna show the way. Mandamie is going
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: to show them that anything is possible. You should not
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: be limited by your imagination anymore about what you can
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: do to impose your progressive socialist Marxist will on the
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: people of your state, or in Manami's case, the people
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: of your city. And so this is a very very
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: dark time we're heading into, and it's going to have
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: real world impact and it's going to happen probably pretty
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: darn quickly. Now, as far as why this all happened,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I get that as an anti Trump conservative, everyone's going
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: to expect me to be blaming Donald Trump. Donald Trump
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: is not the only element to blame for what transpired
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: last night, but he is absolutely one of the key
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: elements to blame. And I think it's important to take
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: a moment to now consider who Donald Trump is as
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: a political entity. Now, you may recall that one of
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: the things that happened when Trump won the twenty twenty
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: four election is that my view of him, at least
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: temporarily significantly changed because my biggest, not my only by far,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: but my biggest objection to Trump has always been he's
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: a political loser. This is before the twenty twenty four election.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: That he's been a political loser that you're going to
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: sell If you're going to sell out, you got to
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: at least get something really good in return. And it's
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: always been my view that Republicans had completely sold out
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: their soul and their long term credibility and all their
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: principles in exchange for what. Well, prior to twenty twenty
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: four's election, it was in exchange for very little. Three
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Supreme Court justices, two of which have turned out to
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: be one's turned out to be good, but by and
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: large it's not been a tremendous result on the Supreme
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Court side. Yes, there's been some some cases that have
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: gone in directions that were good that wouldn't have happened
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: if Trump had not gotten those justices on the Supreme Court.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: And yes, Hillary Clinton was prevented from being president. And yes,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: there was a tax cut, so there was a few
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: things good that had happened. But on the negative side
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: of the leisure prior to twenty twenty four, there was
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: all sorts of terrible things. There was a mid term
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: loss that was very significant in twenty eighteen. There was
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: the COVID panic that was facilitated and embraced by Donald Trump.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: The fauci the Fauciization of America, if you will, facilitated
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: by Donald Trump. You had after he lost that twenty
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: twenty general election, you had him then effectively costing two
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: losses in Senate seats in Georgia. You had a significant
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: situation that was similar in twenty twenty two, where most
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: of the candidates that Trump endorsed lost and other than
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis winning in twenty twenty two, it was a
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: very disappointing night for Republicans because the Trump brand so
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: dominated Republican politics, and Trump is and has been the
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: GOP brand since twenty sixteen. You got to take the
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: good with the bad on that, and there was bad
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. But then in twenty twenty four
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: he won. And I said, you know what, Now he's
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: won two out of three presidential elections. He's prevented Hillary
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Clinton and Kamala Harris from being president. He's prevented a
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: second Joe Biden term. There's positives to that, and at
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: least now I can see a scenario where, while the
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: sellout is still probably not going to work out in
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: the long run, at least it wasn't as bad a
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: deal as I thought it was before Trump won the
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four election. But now here we are a
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: year after winning the twenty twenty four election, and I
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: think we have to start to reevaluate that again because
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: now we have a complete disaster in this off year election.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Now we still don't know how it's all going to
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: turn out with Mondami. Is it still possible that maybe
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: down the road that turns out to be a great
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: thing for America because he's seen as a disaster and
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: the experiment fails. Yeah, that's possible, But you cannot argue that,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: at least as of right now, this was not a
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: terrible result for America and for any semblance of conservatism,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: not just in New York but throughout the country. That
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: the results in New Jersey, in Virginia, and what's going
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: to happen in California, and what's gonna happen with the
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: midterm elections, because if it holds a proposition fifty, that
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: there's almost no chance for Republicans to hold the House
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: of Representatives, and without the House, effectively, Trump's presidency is over.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: From a legislative perspective, of course, he hasn't really given
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: it damn about passing actual legislation. But I got to
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: tell you, folks, reading the margins, and that's the part
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: that Maggie is really not understanding. Reading the margins. Especially
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: in Virginia, it is not difficult to see that the
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: mood of the country is such that the Senate majority
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six is also in jeopardy. Based upon
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: last night's results, you can see easily a world where
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Republicans lose Senate seats in North Carolina, in Ohio, in
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Iowa where the tariffs are not playing well at all,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: and you may lose a very moderate Republican in Maine
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: and Collins. But when it comes to Supreme Court battles,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: you know, Collins and Murkowski are already useless. So you
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: really only have fifty one votes plus jd vance as
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: a tiebreaker if you want to, you know, convince Clarence
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Thomas and Sam Alito to retire, which I'm all in
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: favor of now. I mean that to me is one
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: of the subheadlines of last night's results, Clarence Thomas and
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: sam Alito need to retire now. And I have no
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: expectation that's going to happen, but they need to retire
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: now because, based upon what we saw last night, the
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: midterm elections at twenty twenty six could be as big
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: a disaster. And under that scenario, you lose the House,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: you lose the Senate, and now there is no ability
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: to replace Clarence Thomas and sam Alito, and the Supreme
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Court might be the last bashion of defense against this
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: onslaught of progressive socialist Marxist insanity that we're going to
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: be facing potentially with a goddamn Gavin Knewso presidency in
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine. And that is not an exaggeration. And
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: so I actually think we start to reevaluate in the
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: rational world, we start to reevaluate what the twenty twenty
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: four election really was about, because look, I gave Trump
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: all sorts of credit for that, but he has greatly
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: exaggerated the nature of his victory. He did not get
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: fifty percent of the vote. He did win the popular vote,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: which is signific and amazing, but he won the electoral
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: college because he won three states by less than two
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: percent of the vote. The so called you know Midwestern
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: firewall that never turned out to be a firewall for
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Democrats Wisconsin and Michigan, Pennsylvania, and so you know, if
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: those states go a point in the other direction or
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: point and a half in the other direction, Harris actually
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: wins the election, which I mean, which is, you know,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: similar to what happened. The last three elections have all
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: been very very similar. Three states go the other direction
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: and the losing candidate actually wins, and so yes on
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: paper to someone who doesn't really understand the way this works,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Trump's victory looked tremendous. It really wasn't that tremendous. It
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: was impressive historically, but you also have to remember what
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: the circumstances were. Trump ran against a geriatric Joe Biden
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: who shit the bed in the first debate. Then Trump
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: got shot and survived in incredibly dramatic fashion. Then Democrats,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: in an incredibly undemocratic and hypocritical fashion, installed Kamala Harris,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: a terrible candidate, in at the last second. So all
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: three of those events are basically unprecedented in American modern
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: political history. You're running against somebody who physically can't do
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: the job, and that gets exposed in a national debate.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: You get shot, and with blood dripping down your face,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: you pump your fists and say fight, fight, fight, live
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: on national television. You can't get any better than that
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: from a political theater perspective. And then you have a
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: terrible candidate installed at the last second to run against you.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: And even under those circumstances, Trump didn't get fifty percent
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: of the vote. And as I've already said, if he
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: loses those three states where's he only won by a
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: point and a half each, he loses the election. So
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: I think, while I'm not changing my opinion that okay,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: you can't call Trump a loser on the presidential side,
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: I do think that in retrospect now we need to reevaluate.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: And I think one of the ways where we should
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: be reevaluating this is what does it mean to be
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: a Trump voter, to be a Maga voter. It is
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: abundantly clear now that we have enough data that there
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: is a large group of people who will vote for
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump in a presidential election but will never vote
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: for a Repubt publican in any sort of state or
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: local election. Now, what's driving these people, I don't fully know.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: I'm sure that there are some people who are just
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: live and die with Donald Trump. They love him to death,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: and either they just don't care that much about the
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: other elections, or they're philosophically not motivated to actually vote,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: or whatever it is. Maybe they're actually voting Democrat. Who
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: knows that's possible too, So I'm sure that there are
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: some people in that category. However, I'm now convinced, and
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: I'm theorized about this before on the podcast. I'm now
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: convinced that some of these Trump only voters have just
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: been voting for the laughs and the chaos. I truly
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: believe that. I don't know what the number is. I
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: don't think it's possible to know what the number is.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: But now that we have enough data and enough elections
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: under our belt to be able to perceive what's really
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: transpired here, it is clear to me that there must
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: be a not insignificant number of people who voted for
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Trump for president in sixteen and in twenty and in
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: twenty four simply because he's funny and they love the chaos.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: These are the arsonists of the world. These are the
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: anarchists of the world. These are the let it burn
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: to the ground people. I just want entertainment voters, and
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: those people were never Republicans, they weren't even really Trump fans,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: and who knows, they may have been the difference between
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: him winning and losing in twenty sixteen and twenty twenty four.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: By the way, those are exactly the type of people
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: who would elude polsters. So not only does this make
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: sense from the perspective of, okay, how do you understand
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: why these people don't show up in non Trump elections,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: it would also explain why pollsters have had such a
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: difficult time in Trump elections, because the people I just
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: described are not going to be responding to pollsters, and
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: they're going to be very easy for posters to miss.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: And I don't have proof of this, It's just a theory,
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: and I think the results from last night certainly promote
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: that idea to at least be something to consider. Now.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Trump's reaction to this was typically bizarre and narcissistic. Trump
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: posted on social media that there were two reasons, based
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: upon what so called experts were saying, two reasons why
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Republicans lost. One because Trump wasn't on the ballot. Okay,
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: I've just explained my perspective on that. And two, because
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: of the government shutdown, which was quite remarkable for the
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: President of the United States to effectively, if you use
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: your brain, essentially take credit or ownership over the shut down,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: and to acknowledge that it's been a political loser. Now,
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: I'm somebody who thought that Republicans were actually holding their
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: own when it came to the narrative of the shutdown.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: And I've already dealt with how I think people underestimated
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: how significant the shutdown was going to be when it
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: came to Virginia voters for reasons that don't make sense logically,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: but they may make sense psychologically. And so Trump is
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: trying to claim that if we had just had him
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: on the ballot, then it might have been different for Republicans.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: And I guess if he hadn't approved the government shutdown,
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: then also it wouldn't have been such a bad night
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: for Republicans. And so it's just unbelievable that Trump has
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: this kind of reaction to what's going on. He's also
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: apparently seemingly thrown down the gauntlet on Mandami, putting out
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: a social media post overnight late at night saying so
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: it begins, which you can interpret as almost anything, but
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: many people have interpreted as it's going to be war
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: between Trump, obviously a guy who spent most of his
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: life in New York City, and Zorn Mundani, who is
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: now the new mayor of New York City. But as
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: much as I'm concerned about Mondannie, I'm actually more concerned
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: right now about Gavin Newsom, not just because he's the
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: governor of my state here in California, but because this
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: is all breaking absolutely perfectly for him to be the
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Democratic nominee in twenty twenty eight and potentially, very potentially
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: being the president of the United States in twenty twenty nine,
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: and he's been doing all sorts of interviews. One of
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: the many boondoggles involving proposition fifty is that I guess
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: the media decided, because these rules are now nebulous, that
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: interviewing Gavin Newsom, who clearly could not be more associated
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: with proposition fifty, is not a situation that requires them
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form to provide you some
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: sort of fair use or you know, the old doctrine
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: that used to indicate that he had equal time that
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: doesn't exist anymore. But there used to be at least
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: some semblance of fairness that, Okay, if you're gonna have
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Newsom on constantly on major media outlets to promote yes
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: on Proposition fifty, shouldn't you have somebody on the other side. No, no, no,
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: that that doesn't count anymore. So Newsom was getting two
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: bites of the apple with all these interviews that he
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: was doing leading up to election day one. He was
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: promoting Proposition fifty with no opposition, with nobody there to
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: mention that the comparison to Texas is utterly bogus. I mean,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: that was the biggest lie of Proposition fifty was that
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: somehow this was in response and this was exactly what
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: Texas was doing, stealing Republican seats in Texas. So now
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: we got to steal Democratic seats in California. That is bullshit,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: And anybody that's looked at it remotely objectively knows it's
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: bullshit for a whole host of reasons. I mean, what
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Texas did was perfectly legal. What California did was going
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: against their own state constitution. What Texas did was in
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: response to the Biden administration, essentially forcing their hand on
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: what transpired. But Anyway, the point I'm getting at here
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: is that that Newsom got to not just promote proposition
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: fifty in all these interviews, but also to promote himself. Obviously,
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: that's what he cares about most. He's a sociopathic narcissist,
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: which is why it's interesting that he and Trump have
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: seemed to have this love hate relationship. And how at
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: one point Trump probably considered Newsome to be part of
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: his clan because Newsom used to be married to Kimberly Guilfoyle,
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: who was once the fiance of Donald Trump Junior. The
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: mind boggles, and how this whole thing has gone down.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: But Newsom and Trump are actually very very similar psychologically,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: and so he's been promoting this notion while also pretending
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: that he's not thirsting after it, that he's going to
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: be the Democratic front runner in the twenty twenty eight
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: nominating process. And one of these interviews that he did recently,
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: and he's all he's been doing has been interviews. I mean,
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: as if he has nothing else to do. Is governor
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: of California, where we have this deficit, and this city
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: of Los Angeles is trying to recover from having burned down.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: And here he is spending hundreds of millions of dollars
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: on this partisan, politically advantageous proposition that really is very
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: much not just about promoting democratic interest in Congress, but
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: promoting his campaign to be the Democratic presidential nominee. In
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, he did an interview with Kristen Welker
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: on NBC's Meet the Press, and this was really quite amazing.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: This got mocked quite a bit on social media, especially
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: on x and rightfully so, because Welker asks Newsome about
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: the issue of running for president in twenty twenty eight,
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: and Newsom lies and claims that he doesn't want to
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: run for president in twenty twenty eight, and then in
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: the next breath talks about how he hates when politicians
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: lie to you. I mean, you just can't make this up.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: He's literally condemning lying while lying, and anybody with a
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: brain can see right through it. And here's what that
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: sounded like on NBC's Meet the Press.
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: You've said, as we've discussed, you are considering a run
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: for president, and you've said you'll make a decision about
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: whether to run for president after the midterms. Yeah, I mean,
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: why do governor, Let me ask you why do you
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: want to be president?
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not suggesting I am.
• 55:52
  Speaker 5: I'm saying I have in response to someone talked about it.
• 55:54
  Speaker 5: And I hate when I nothing. I dislike more than
• 55:59
  Speaker 5: the politician that sits there and lies to you and
• 56:02
  Speaker 5: we all just sit there, roll in our eyes, going
• 56:04
  Speaker 5: give me a break. So as it relates to that
• 56:08
  Speaker 5: there's nothing on the road, I'm focused on Prop fifty.
• 56:10
  Speaker 5: I'm focusing on fair, free elections and to the extent,
• 56:14
  Speaker 5: fate the future. There's an alignment. You have a big
• 56:18
  Speaker 5: enough why, you have a what and how you meet
• 56:21
  Speaker 5: a moment, and that moment presents itself in a year,
• 56:24
  Speaker 5: year and a half, we'll see what happens.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: Now. While that was rightfully mocked on right wing social media,
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: the problem I have is that Gavin Newsom is actually
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: an extremely good liar. He makes Bill Clinton look like
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: an amateur. Bill Clinton was considered to be a great liar.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: Newsom is even better now. Just because a lot of
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: people can see through it doesn't mean that he's not
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: a great liar and can't get away with it with
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: a majority of the American people. And there is way
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: way too much complacency among right wing maga Republicans about
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: a Gavin Newsom presidential nomination in twenty twenty eight, just
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: like there was way too much overconfidence after the twenty
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: twenty four election. Maga people tend to be delusionally optimistic,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: and they overestimated Trump's victory in twenty twenty four, and
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: they're underestimating the dangers of Gavin Newsom, because just because
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: conservatives and Republicans can so easily see through Gavenussom does
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: not mean that the people that are going to determine
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: who wins the twenty twenty eight presidential election will be
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: able to see the same thing, especially if the economy
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: sucks and Trump is causing all sorts of chaos when
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: it comes to who is success is going to be,
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: and you have a situation where the country is already
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: very very divided in presidential politics basically fifty to fifty.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: In my view, Newsom is going to be a very
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: very dangerous man. He is a sociopath, He is evil.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: I hate this man more than I have hated any
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: other politician. I have an OJ Simpson nineteen ninety four
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: ninety five level of hatred of Gavin Newsom. But you
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: have to understand how this thing is shaping up right
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: now in a way that could not be more perfectly
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: suited for him, and the media is buying right in
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: the media is lovingness. This is almost a comically parody
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: like headline that came from ABC News just a couple
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: of days ago, and this was mocked again on X.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: But this is emblematic of where I'm seeing this narrative
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: going when it comes to the media and how they're
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: gonna be embracing Gaven Newssom, if not as the clear
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: favorite to be the Democratic nominee in twenty twenty eight,
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: clearly a person who is gonna have to be reckoned with.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: Here's the actual headline from ABC News ABC News. California
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: Governor Gaven Neussom is a leader running miles ahead of others,
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: experts explained to ABC News. What Gavin neussm is a
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: leader running miles ahead of others, experts explained to ABC News. Boy,
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: that sounds awfully objective. I wonder who these experts were.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: Were these the masks stop COVID experts? Where these the
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: vaccine is very effective and totally safe experts? Where these
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: are the experts that you know that said that the
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation that you know you can.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: The list could go on and on forever, this so
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: called expert class that has been completely discredited. But here
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: the bigger and more important picture here is it is
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: obvious that the media is thirsting for a clear cut
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: democratic nominee in twenty twenty eight, and they see Newsome
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: now as potentially the antidote. And at first it seems
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: counterintuitive because he is so far left and he has
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: been such a disaster for California, and in irrational world,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: he would be incredibly easy to defeat. Interrational world, all
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: you gotta do is show the price of gasoline in
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: California in comparison to the rest of the country, and
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: it's game, set match. That's all you'd have to do.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: Interrational world, we have to get to homelessness and deficits
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: and the price of living and inflation and the cost
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: of living and the cost of housing and all sorts
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: of all sorts of other problems that California has. But
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: we don't live in that world anymore. Rationality doesn't matter,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: truth doesn't matter, And so you would think they would
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: be looking for someone who would be a moderate that
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: could appeal to the states that actually determine who wins
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: presidential elections. But we live in a world of perception
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: and persona and celebrity, and I think what they're seeing
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: is we've got a guy who's got enough celebrity, he's
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: well known enough. He's a white male. Right, we didn't
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: do so well with the black female, and we lost
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen with the female. So it's clear that
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: we need to have a male, and we probably need
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: to have a heterosexual male, and we probably need to
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: have a white heterosexual. Now there doesn't seem to be
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: another Obama on the horizon. And he's a good looking guy,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: and boy is he a good talker, and boy is
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: he a great liar, and most importantly, he's taking the
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: fight to Trump and winning and winning. Newsom is going
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: to be perceived in Democratic ranks as having led this
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: victory in twenty twenty five, that he was the one
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: carrying the flag, he was the lead one leading the charge.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: So in reality he's a left wing sociopathic lunatic. But
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: in perception, there's enough there for the media to use
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: to sell this. And again you have to understand the
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: difference between a democratic primary voter and a general election
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: voter if he gets the nomination. Now it's Russian Roulette
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: because of the circumstances. I've already mentioned that there's nobody
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: in the Republican side that's gonna have an enormous amount
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: of popularity, a huge amount of celebrity. Trump is going
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: to cause all sorts of problems for that person under
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: the best case scenario. And you've already got a country
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: that at best is divided fifty to fifty. And that's it.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: That's assuming the economy doesn't go to shit and the
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: Republican brand isn't even worse than it is today after
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: a catastrophic loss last night. So I am actually gonna
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: institute a brand new I guess I would call it
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: a rating on every episode of this podcast where it's relevant,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: which is probably gonna be almost every single week. I
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: am now instituting the Gavin Newsome Fear Factor rating, which
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: is gonna be on a scale of zero to ten,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: ten meaning it's over, we're all gonna die. So ten
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: is a very very very high threshold. And so and
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: I don't want to start off too too high because
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: I don't want to have no place to go, and
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: we are still quite a long ways in the twenty
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: twenty eight election. But right now I'm going to institute
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: for the first time our Newsom fear factor rating at
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: six point five. That's where I am. That's my personal
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: Newsome fear factor rating with regard to him being the
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: next president of the United States, a six point five,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: and I'm actually trying to be as optimistic as possible.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: By the way, We're also going to be instituting an
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: AI fear factor rating as well whenever relevant. But we
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: start the news fear factor rating at six point five,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: and I could actually make an argument that it should
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: probably be higher than that, considering how much momentum he's
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: going to have coming out of Proposition fifty winning in
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: a massive landslide and Democrats doing so incredibly well in
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: last night's election. And you know, part of why I'm
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: so fearful of Gavin Newsom and how difficult it would
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: be to defeat him, far more difficult than Republicans understand,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: should he be the Democratic nominee in twenty twenty eight.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: And by the way, I actually think it might be
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: easier to defeat him in a Democratic primary than it
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: would be to defeat him in a general election, which
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: is why I'm desperately hoping that Kamala Harris runs, because
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: I think if Kamala Harris runs, I think Newsom has
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: a much more difficult time getting the Democratic nomination. But
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: part of the equation, and why it is that I
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: think Newsom would be so difficult to beat in a
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: general election, is that Trump himself has paved the way
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: for Newsom in many ways, because, and I've said this
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: a million times, you enjoy as a Trump fan. You
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: enjoy him breaking all the rules, breaking all the norms,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: not giving a shit about principle, not giving a damn
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: about the quorum. You enjoy that when it's your guy
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: in charge. But guess what that also means. It also
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: means that the rules no longer exist. There are no rules.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: Trump blew up all the rules. And because he blew
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: up all the rules, it opens the path for someone
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: like Gavin Newsomb, who, prior to Trump would have had
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: no chance, no chance to be president of the United States.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: I mean Newsom from a personal standpoint alone, couldn't possibly
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: be president. He admitted that he had sex with his
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: best friend's wife while she was working for him when
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  Speaker 1: he was mayor of San Francisco. That's game set match
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  Speaker 1: before Trump, Before Trump, that's game set match. But we
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  Speaker 1: gave up when we sold our souls to Trump. We
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  Speaker 1: gave up everything. We gave up every possible argument we
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: could ever have against so many people like Gavin Newsom,
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  Speaker 1: so many people who are morally corrupt. We decided, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't matter. We sold our soul. Well, the price
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  Speaker 1: of selling your soul is you don't have it when
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  Speaker 1: you need it. You don't have it when you need
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  Speaker 1: to be able to say, well, come on, this guy
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  Speaker 1: is morally corrupt. He can't be president. And by the way,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: that sex schedule is just a tip of the fricking
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  Speaker 1: iceberg when it comes to Gavin Newsom. I mean, these
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: are things that are happening all the time. Just recently,
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  Speaker 1: he got exposed for lying about his son being a
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk fan. He said his son was a Charlie
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  Speaker 1: Kirk fan back when he interviewed him on his podcast,
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  Speaker 1: and then after Charlie Kirk got assassinated, he got asked
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: a question about how his son reacted to Charlie Kirk's assassination,
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  Speaker 1: and he basically said he wasn't ever a fan of
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk. What the fuck is that all about? He
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: claims to be a big Tailor Swift fan. What his
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: favorite Taylor Swift song was, He couldn't come up with one.
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  Speaker 1: He's a complete, total fraud, a liar. But none of
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  Speaker 1: these things matter anymore because Trump blew up all the rules.
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  Speaker 1: And I've always said, we're going to pay for that,
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  Speaker 1: and we may pay for it far more than I
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  Speaker 1: ever imagined, because we may pay for it with a
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  Speaker 1: Gavin fucking knwsome presidency in an era where AI is
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  Speaker 1: overtaking the world, and we're going to see the COVID
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  Speaker 1: panic on steroids, with a guy who has already told
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  Speaker 1: us exactly what he's willing and able to do when
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: it comes to tyranny. And in a large way, it'll
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  Speaker 1: be because if it happens, it'll be because Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: paved his way, not on purpose, but because of who
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  Speaker 1: Trump is and how all principles went out the window,
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  Speaker 1: all right and wrong the window. All rules went out
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  Speaker 1: the window. And we have another example of this that
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: just happened in the last week. I mentioned briefly, probably
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  Speaker 1: far too briefly, in the last episode of the podcast
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  Speaker 1: that Donald Trump just did something when it came to
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  Speaker 1: his pardon power that was utterly outrageous, maybe the most
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  Speaker 1: outrageous pardon in the modern history of America, where he
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  Speaker 1: pardoned the founder of this company called Binance, this crypto
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  Speaker 1: company where it is obvious that the Trump family has
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  Speaker 1: a massive, not even just theoretical, but real world conflict
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  Speaker 1: of interest where they have made billions, billions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: since retaking office as a direct result of this company, Binance.
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  Speaker 1: And then Trump pardons their founder who had pled guilty,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: pled guilty to very significant crimes, in fact, crimes that
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  Speaker 1: most experts believe were the reason why Bidance became as
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  Speaker 1: big as it did. These were crimes involving money laundering.
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  Speaker 1: And so Trump pardons this dude Binance, then immediately openly
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  Speaker 1: promotes the Trump cryptocurrency. These are things that are way
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  Speaker 1: bigger than that. You know, the Trump people of the
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  Speaker 1: House representatives all upset about the Joe Biden auto pen
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  Speaker 1: and the pardons that he gave and maybe didn't approve of.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm all in favor of that being investigated. And
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised at all if Biden had no
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  Speaker 1: idea who he was actually pardoning, and that is absolutely
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  Speaker 1: a scandal in interrational world. But that's nowhere big as
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  Speaker 1: nowhere near as big as scandal as what the peers
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  Speaker 1: happened here. And the scandal got even bigger, if that's possible,
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  Speaker 1: when Trump did an interview with Nora O'Donnell on CBS's
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  Speaker 1: Sixty Minutes and gave one of the most stupefying answers
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  Speaker 1: I could ever remember Trump giving, because she laid out
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  Speaker 1: on sixty minutes the facts surrounding the pardon, and then
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  Speaker 1: Trump's response was he doesn't even know who this guy is,
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  Speaker 1: which is both a lie as well as an indication
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  Speaker 1: that what he's doing with his pardons is just as
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  Speaker 1: bad and not worse than what Republicans are claiming Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden was doing with the auto pen And if you
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  Speaker 1: think I'm making it up, I'm not. Here's what it
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  Speaker 1: sounded like on sixty minutes.
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  Speaker 6: So far this year, the president has pardoned or shortened
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  Speaker 6: the sentences of more than sixteen hundred people. The latest
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  Speaker 6: pardon was for a cryptocurrency tycoon who is known as CZ.
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  Speaker 6: The company CZ founded Binance, helped to boost the profile
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  Speaker 6: of the Trump family's crypto firm, World Liberty Financial. He
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  Speaker 6: pled guilty in twenty twenty three to violating anti money
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  Speaker 6: laundering laws. The government at the time said that CZ
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  Speaker 6: had caused significant harm to US national security, essentially by
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  Speaker 6: allowing terrorist groups like Hamas to move millions of dollars around.
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  Speaker 6: Why did you pardon him?
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  Speaker 7: Okay, are you ready? I don't know who he is.
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  Speaker 7: I know he got a four month sentence or something
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  Speaker 7: like that, and I heard it was a Biden witch hunt.
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  Speaker 6: In twenty twenty five, his crypto exchange Finance helped facilitate
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  Speaker 6: a two billion dollar purchase of World Liberty Financial's stable coin,
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  Speaker 6: and then you pardoned CZ. How do you address the
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 6: appearance of pay for play?
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  Speaker 7: Well, here's the thing. I know nothing about it because
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  Speaker 7: I'm too busy.
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  Speaker 1: Doing the other.
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  Speaker 6: But he can only tell you that.
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  Speaker 7: I can only tell you this. My sons are into it.
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  Speaker 7: I'm glad they are because it's probably a great industry crypto.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's good.
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  Speaker 7: You know they're running a business and not in government.
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  Speaker 6: Because World Liberty Financial has denied any involvement in the pardon.
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  Speaker 1: Now, how does that happen? How does Donald Trump try
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  Speaker 1: to claim on sixty minutes that he doesn't know who
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  Speaker 1: this person is, which I don't believe. But even if
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  Speaker 1: it's possibly true, I mean, I guess it's theoretically true
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  Speaker 1: that he's that out of the loop, he's that clueless,
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  Speaker 1: that his sons are just in control of this whole situation.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually worse. It's actually worse because he's just going
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  Speaker 1: by what his sons, you know, under that scenario, what
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  Speaker 1: his sons told him to do. But when you consider
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  Speaker 1: that this guy got elected president claiming he was going
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  Speaker 1: to drain the swamp, and where we have the Republicans
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  Speaker 1: and the House of Representatives with a very significant investigation
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  Speaker 1: ongoing into Joe Biden's auto pen pardons, and this one
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  Speaker 1: makes all of those pardons in comparison when it comes
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: to scandal and outrage. It's it's really stunning. But it
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  Speaker 1: also goes to the issue I just reference when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to Trump paving the way for someone as corrupt
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  Speaker 1: as Gavin Newsom because there are no rules anymore, there's
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  Speaker 1: no credibility that Republican Party and the right wing media
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: has no credibility to go after someone like a gaven
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  Speaker 1: Neussom on almost anything, because in almost any situation, they're
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: going to be able to say, well, you are upset
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: about X, but what about when Trump did why? And
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: so it's not going to be effective. The you know,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: the antidote or the poison will be deluded to the
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  Speaker 1: point where it won't work on a Gavin Ussom all
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: because everyone sold their soul to Donald Trump, who has
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  Speaker 1: no morality, no principles, no ethics, and is willing to
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  Speaker 1: use his own personal power for the enrichment of him
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: and his family, even in a situation that forget about
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: how corrupt it is when it comes to cryptocurrency, maybe
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: undermining our very currency, the dollar, which you know, the
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: long run, may be the biggest element of this whole situation.
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  Speaker 1: So now, to be fair, I want to since I've
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  Speaker 1: mentioned the autopen circumstance, I have to play this clip
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  Speaker 1: from former Biden White House Press secretary Kareem Jean Pierre,
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  Speaker 1: who was an absolute idiot and who is in the
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  Speaker 1: process of having one of the worst book launches in
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: political history. I mean she, I mean she's getting hit
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  Speaker 1: from all sides, and I'm sure the book's doing very
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  Speaker 1: poorly and her career is going down in flames because
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: she's now's no one in her audience, I mean, and
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: she's basically pissed off everybody. But she was testifying in
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: front of the House Oversight Committee related to this whole
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: issue of Joe Biden's health and the auto pen pardons,
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  Speaker 1: and she said something rather extraordinary and that is obviously
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  Speaker 1: something that The Death of Journalism podcasts should cover because
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  Speaker 1: it relates to just how closely the legacy media and
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  Speaker 1: the Democratic Party worked together as a team. And here
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: is Kareem Jean Pierre talking about the issue that we
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  Speaker 1: discussed on the podcast at the time, back in the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four election, where there were these videos that
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  Speaker 1: were going viral online, mostly on X of Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: appearing to be very confused and out of it and
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  Speaker 1: wandering around cluelessly, and Karine Jean Pierre started to refer
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  Speaker 1: to these videos as cheap fakes. Now, no one had
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  Speaker 1: ever heard the phrase cheap fakes before. I guess it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a play on deep fakes and the concept
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  Speaker 1: that in this new world of editing and AI and CGI,
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  Speaker 1: you can basically fake almost anything you want. And the
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  Speaker 1: implication was that these videos of Biden looking clueless are
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  Speaker 1: not real and so Kareene Jean Pierre was asked where
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  Speaker 1: did that come from the whole concept of cheap fakes,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: and she acknowledged that they plagiarized cheap fakes from the
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: media because the legacy media was promoting this narrative and
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: they were just taking advantage of it. And here's what
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: she said to the House Oversight Committee.
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  Speaker 8: You use the term cheap fakes. Was that choice of
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  Speaker 8: words in the moment or was that something that had
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  Speaker 8: been prepared ahead of time as a talk it was prepared,
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  Speaker 8: Did you or did anyone ever verify if the videos
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  Speaker 8: you were talking about were in fact cheap fakes?
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  Speaker 9: I believe So.
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  Speaker 1: What is a cheap fake?
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  Speaker 3: I really don't know.
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  Speaker 9: It was something that we did that coin. It was
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 9: something that the media coined. They did the work, they
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 9: did the legwork on coming up with that terminology, and
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 9: so we were just elevating essentially what.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 8: The media was saying, what the press was saying.
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  Speaker 1: But you know where it is.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, it basically is laid out how you defined
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 9: it with what President Biden was actually doing, and it
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 9: took away from what he was actually doing or created
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 9: an illusion of something that just did not exist.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 8: We're all clipped circulated on social media or otherwise showing
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 8: President Biden being confused or freezing at times? Were those
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 8: all faces?
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  Speaker 9: I can't speak to every everything that was.
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  Speaker 8: On social media, sure, but there were instances where videos
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  Speaker 8: were circulated of President Biden appearing confused or freezing for
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 8: a moment that were real, correct.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 9: Not that I recall this. What we were trying to
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 9: lift up was something that was very very clear that
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 9: what they were showing was not actually what was happening.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, right, there is a smoking gun when it
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: comes to the relationship, the incestuous relationship between the legacy
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: liberal media and the Democratic Party at the very highest
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: levels on a topic that's extremely important, especially when it
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: comes to issues related to AI and how we don't
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: know what's real and what's fake. I mean that maybe
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: is the most outrageous part of that story, is that
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: what's real and what's fake needs to be treated as
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: sacred ground going forward, and for the Democratic Party and
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: the White House apparatus to engage in an alliance with
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: the legacy news media to try to trick people into
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: believing that videos that were real were actually fake, all
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: because they didn't like how people were understandably interpreting those
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: videos is really outrageous and incredibly dangerous. I mean, we
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: are living in a very very concerning time when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to the entire issue of what's real and what's fake,
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: and so you should not, you know, when someone fakes that,
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: when someone lies about that, that should be taken very
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: very seriously. That should be considered a felony crime when
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: it comes to to, you know, political scandal because you
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't you should not be allowed to mess with that.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: Because once we're in a world where we don't know
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: what's real and what's fake, and we have the presidential
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: Press secretary telling us a video is fake when it's
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: actually real, stick a fork in us. That goes way
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: beyond just trying to get out of a political scandal
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: or win an election. That goes to the essence of
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: everything that matters, because if you don't know what's what
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: is real and what's fake, how can you possibly function.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: So to my opinion, this is a scandal that is
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: not getting nearly enough attention, even in the right wing media,
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: but I needed to play it here on the Death
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