1 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: Welcome. Today could happen here. It's it's the last episode 2 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: that that there were that I'm recording this year. Um yeah, 3 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: I'm your host. Be along, and today we are going 4 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: to tell you a story of the Republican Party using 5 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 1: extensive political violence and attempt to manipulate an election to 6 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:25,440 Speaker 1: install their unelected presidential Canada's dictator of the United States. 7 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 1: And of by this, of course, I am referring not 8 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 1: to the election, but to the election of two thousand's okay, 9 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:34,839 Speaker 1: So for for for those of you who do not 10 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 1: remember this story, and this is okay, I was like 11 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: three when this was happening. But weirdly, I have a 12 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: very very this is legitimately one of my first memories. 13 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 1: Is just I have the words engraved into my mind 14 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: hanging Chad's and so we we we will get to 15 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: what exactly that is, but that the two thousand election 16 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: was one of the most chaotic elects in the history 17 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 1: of the United States. Now, the US has a long 18 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: history of really really weird elections. I mean, you know, 19 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: from from from the subspective of sort of like is 20 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: the U s representative democracy? I think there's a pretty 21 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: good argument that no election until like after the Civil 22 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: Rights Act is even sort of a legitimate election. But 23 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: you know, I mean and and so far as you 24 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: like consider elections to be legitimate, which you know, okay, 25 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: but you know, the u s is, no is no 26 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: stranger to someone winning an election than not taking office. 27 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: There are, in fact, there are if you if you 28 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: go back into your berking history, there are two different 29 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: elections that are called the corrupt bargain Um. There's John 30 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: Quincy Adams and I think it's four makes this really 31 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: really weird alliance with the original American political Slee's ball 32 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 1: Henry Clay to get himself often sold as president. Although 33 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 1: that that that's an election that's like truly an election 34 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,639 Speaker 1: with there are no heroes where it's it's John Quincy 35 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: Adams Henry Clay allying to bring down Andrew fucking Jackson. 36 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: So you know, no no heroes there. There there's there's 37 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: another election after Reconstruction, which is the end of Reconstruction, 38 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 1: where the Republican Party literally trades and like trades ending 39 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 1: Reconstruction for putting their president in office. After a truly 40 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: genuinely wild set of voting results happens, we're like all 41 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 1: of the votes are in a box, and the two 42 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: parties are fighting over like who's going to count the votes, 43 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: because the guy who counts the votes from like the 44 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: box is the person who's going to determine who wins 45 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: the election. And so there's this whole negotiated thing where 46 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: the eight hundreds, like racist Southern Democrats are like, okay, 47 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: we'll we'll give you, we'll we'll give you this election 48 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: if you promised to pull troops out of the South. 49 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:04,839 Speaker 1: So okay. You know, American elections have always been sort 50 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: of more fraudulent than people give them credit for, but 51 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: the two thousand election, even by the standards of like 52 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: an American election, is some bullshit. So let's let's let's 53 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 1: go back. Let's go back to the origin of the story. 54 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 1: The year is two thousand. For the last time in 55 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:24,239 Speaker 1: human history, humanity has taken collective action to stop and 56 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: impenny catastrophe, having by the heartrending labor of a bunch 57 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: of siss admins, including a guy that I knew growing up, 58 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 1: who spent fucking New Year, who literally spent New Year's 59 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 1: Eve until the bell ring, like basically in a closet 60 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: with a bunch of computers at his job trying to 61 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: make sure what UK wouldn't happen. But you know, we 62 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: did it, actually we we actually did it. There was 63 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: there was, there was like you know, there was human 64 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 1: collective action to stop a major catastrophy from happening. And 65 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: Al Gore, a Democrat who claims we have invented the Internet, 66 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: is running against Harvard educated Harvard and actually Yale educated 67 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: oil man caused as a cowboy whose name is George Bush. 68 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 1: And I, oh god, I don't know, I I don't 69 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: I feel like people have kind of forgotten how really 70 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 1: genuinely sleazy George Bush was. Like he he has this 71 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 1: sort of public like, you know, one of the reasons 72 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 1: he wins elections, and he has his public images like 73 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: the guy who you know, like everyone like he he's 74 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: the presidential candidate who you'd want to have a beer with. 75 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: But again, like literally everything from he's like public mannerisms 76 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 1: down to like the minutia of his accent to like 77 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,160 Speaker 1: the stupid cowboy hat that he wears, all of this 78 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: this is a bullshit, right, This is a fucking Harvard guy, 79 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:43,040 Speaker 1: And all of this is you know, like completely intricately 80 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:46,719 Speaker 1: manufactured by a set a set of like very very 81 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:55,119 Speaker 1: very like sleazy but incredibly ruthless and efficient Republican political operatives. Now, 82 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 1: George Bush's father is George H. W. Bush, who was 83 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: the first to only director of the CIA to become president. 84 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: So yeah, but Bush Bushes running on this sort of 85 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: neo conservative alliance of Texas oil men, evangelical hardliners, and 86 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: weapons contractors. Um, the weapons contractors part uh winds up 87 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: being incredibly relevant when nine eleven happens and both Bush 88 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: and Dick his co uh what's it called vice presidential 89 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 1: I guess candidate at the time, but his vice presidential 90 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 1: selection Dick Cheney, who is like Dick Cheney like saying 91 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: that he's like the physical human embodiments of the military 92 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 1: industrial complex, is under selling how closely tied, um, Dick 93 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: Cheney is to the military dustrial complex. And you know, 94 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:45,280 Speaker 1: like this is this is part of the reason why 95 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 1: the ward Rock happens, because again, like this entire coalition 96 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: is just like it is, it is the it is 97 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 1: is the sort of height of the military petro dollar coalition, 98 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 1: just a a coalition of peer evil like fueled by 99 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: war profits and homophobia. And but you know, part part 100 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: of part of what's been happening in this entire period 101 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: is this is this is the year after the Battle 102 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: of Seattle on the anti globalization movement hasn't been smashed again. 103 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:17,919 Speaker 1: This is There's other thing is this is pre nine eleven, right, 104 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: This is this is a very very short period of 105 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,720 Speaker 1: time where like in between the Battle of Seattle and 106 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 1: uh eleven where American politics are very very very weird. 107 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 1: And you get another thing that we don't really have now, 108 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: but from the nineties until about nine eleven kind of 109 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,039 Speaker 1: existed where that which was that there was a period 110 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: where third party is kind of mattered ish like Ross 111 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: Pirot like in the nineties. Arguably maybe could have won 112 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: the election if vietn't just like given up. But yeah, 113 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: you know what one of the sort of products of 114 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: this is that the Green Party is actually a real 115 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 1: thing in in two thousands in a way that they're 116 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:05,719 Speaker 1: kind of not right. And then this has been this 117 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: this sort of unfolding of a bunch of left wing 118 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: social movements into which is absolutely disasterous attempt to enter 119 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: party politics. Um, but they pull you know, and this 120 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 1: is the thing that no one has ever heard the 121 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:20,239 Speaker 1: end of. But they pull a bunch of votes into 122 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: Ralph Nader in Florida, which winds up being a big deal. 123 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: But the product of this is that this election is 124 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: on a just on a knife's edge. Both sides of 125 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 1: this election are unbelievably close. The entire election comes down 126 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: to Florida. Now, the problem with the entire election coming 127 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: down to Florida is that the American electoral system is 128 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: a fucking joke. It is a disaster. It is a 129 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: a genuine embarrassment. The United States is a country that 130 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: has more resources than like, it has enough resources that, 131 00:07:55,760 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: like Genghis Khan would weep like, it has genuinely unfathomable 132 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 1: amounts of resources, and its election system is basically run 133 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: by a bunch of weird dipshit like party if like 134 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: local like a weird patchwork of like completely underfunded and 135 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 1: overworked local government officials who never have real budgets and 136 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 1: who just spends like two months not sleeping with their 137 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: like three co workers trying to make the elections work. 138 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 1: And this is really weird because like most places on 139 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: Earth that have elections, um, there's like, you know, a 140 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: national thing that sort of does the elections in the US, 141 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: like no, no, it relies heavily on volunteers. It's just 142 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 1: like this weird patchwork quilt of stuff, and Florida being Florida, 143 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:57,959 Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff goes very wrong very quickly. Um. 144 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: There there's two very famous ballot problems, the most aimless 145 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: of which is hanging chads. So okay, okay, what what what? 146 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 1: What is a hanging chat for people who have forgotten? 147 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: Are people who you know weren't alive then? Which I 148 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 1: realize is I man, the fact that the fact that 149 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 1: I have coworkers who are not alive for hanging chads 150 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 1: is really really disturbing thought. But okay, so what is 151 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 1: a hanging chat? Um? The answer is that in Florida, 152 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 1: the way this ballot works is that you have to 153 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 1: physically punch holes in your ballot. And you know, you 154 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: punch a hole in the place, like okay, so today, 155 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 1: right when you fill in a ballot, you have to 156 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: like fill in a square right with a pencil in 157 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: in in Florida, you have to like hold punch that square. 158 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: This is maybe the worst ballot design I can possibly imagine, 159 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 1: and it goes terribly wrong. A bunch of these whole 160 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 1: punches basically don't actually remove all the paper. And there's 161 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: there are so many ways, so many ways that this 162 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: gets sucked up. The hanging chat is the most name 163 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: was one that Haying so a chad. Basically, it's it's 164 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 1: the piece of paper that when you punch the thing 165 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: with like the whole punch, it's supposed to like it's 166 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 1: the paper that comes out of the whole right, Haying 167 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 1: chad is when you do the whole punch thing, but 168 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 1: the chat is still connected to the piece of paper 169 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: by like one corner. But but but again less less 170 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 1: you think there's only one way that these ballots get 171 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:28,959 Speaker 1: fucked up. No, no, no, no, no, there's there are like, 172 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 1: there are unfathomable number of ways that these ballots don't 173 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: punch correctly. They're they're swinging door chairs, there's tried chairs, 174 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: there's did bull chairs, there's pregnant chats. It's unbelievable, and 175 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 1: a bunch of people's votes just don't get counted because 176 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 1: these ballots. The reason they're doing these whole punch ballots 177 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:49,840 Speaker 1: that these are these are you know, this is what's 178 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 1: supposed to be like the fancy new like voting technology. 179 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: Right then the new vote technology is the voting machines. 180 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 1: And the way the voting machine works is basically, the 181 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: votoing machine can check if if if there's a whole 182 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 1: air and if there's a hole in the paper, then 183 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,960 Speaker 1: it counts you as the accounts it as the vote. 184 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 1: But if the entire chad hasn't been punched out, it 185 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,199 Speaker 1: won't count your vote. This is a problem. And there's 186 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: another problem. Uh and and that problem is the butterfly ballot. 187 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,959 Speaker 1: So the butterfly ballot was original Is this ballot you're 188 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: using in Florida that was originally designed to help elderly voters? Um, 189 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 1: it's supposed to be the goal of the ballot is 190 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 1: to have larger fought sizes to make it more accessible 191 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 1: for people. Which this is good, right, Like, okay, I 192 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: I support I support accessible design. Is put accessible design 193 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 1: for voting. The problem is this ballot is designed like ship. 194 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 1: The way it works is there's a two page ballot 195 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 1: with like a crease in it. All right, It's it's 196 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:44,079 Speaker 1: kind of like a book, right, like you unfold the 197 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:45,839 Speaker 1: book in the middle of the ballot, you know, And 198 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: on both of these pages there are like the different 199 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 1: different candidate names and parties The problem is, in order 200 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 1: to pick a candidate, you have to punch like a whole, 201 00:11:57,520 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: you have to punch one of the one of these 202 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: served circles. But these st goals are in a line 203 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 1: down the middle of the crease of the ballot, right, 204 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 1: so you have you have candidates on both You should 205 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: you should google what these look like because it's kind 206 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 1: of hard to explain. But basically what's happening is that 207 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: there are there are different party names on each side 208 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 1: of the ballot. But then in order to pick which 209 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 1: party you're voting for, you have to pick for a 210 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 1: specific hole that's supposed to be next to the like 211 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:27,439 Speaker 1: that the candidate you support it in the in the 212 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 1: middle of the page. And the problem is these are 213 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 1: all on a line, right, They're all a straight line, 214 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 1: which means that two candidates can be like across from 215 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: each other on the same page or on on opposite pages. 216 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:41,199 Speaker 1: And then there's two holes that are like right next 217 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 1: because because the holes are both in the middle of 218 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: the ballot, right, so that you have these situations where 219 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 1: for example, for and this is the one that's important 220 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: inside of the there's like two lines and then there's 221 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: like it says al Gore Lieberman in it right, and 222 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: inside of those two lines in the in the in 223 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 1: the middle of the page, there are two holes, and 224 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: one of these holds votes for Core but the other 225 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: one of those holes I is for the candidate on 226 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: the other side of the page, which is Reformed Party 227 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: candidate and cryptal fascist goal Pat Buchanan. And the result 228 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 1: of this and says, people start looking through these things 229 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 1: where Pat Buchanan has a bunch of voters from Democratic 230 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 1: Party strongholds and like also particularly like like a bunch 231 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 1: of like Democratic Catholic voters vote for Buchanan, and Buchanan 232 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 1: himself is like, there's no way this is real. Like 233 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:34,959 Speaker 1: Buchanan's like, you know, he's he's a figure will probably 234 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 1: like one day do a like we'll probably talk about 235 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: more on this podcast. Yeah, that those behind the Baschard's 236 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 1: episode about him. He is a he is a fucking Nazi. Uh, 237 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: he sucks ass. But he's also so he's some a 238 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 1: kind of evangelical who like really really really fucking hates Catholics. 239 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: And you know, so there's a bunch of these Catholic 240 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: like Democratic voters he voted for this guy, and everyone's 241 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: like what the funk happened here. The thing that happened 242 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: here is all these people got confused. And yeah, so 243 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: this is a disaster on a hundred million levels. And 244 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: when we come back from ADS, we will talk about 245 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 1: the product of all of this, which is not good. Alright, 246 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 1: we're back. So on election night, the media starts to 247 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 1: call Florida for Gore based on exit pulling, but they 248 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 1: start getting calls for Republican political operatives saying, hold hold on, 249 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: hold on, it's actually too close to call. And the 250 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: initial count from Florida has the Republican Party ahead. But 251 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 1: when I say the Hublican Party is ahead, they were 252 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: ahead by like six hundred votes. And so this triggers 253 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 1: a mandatory recount. But and this, and this is another 254 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 1: problem with this, right we we we We've gone through 255 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 1: atlant all of the problems with these ballots. Right. The 256 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 1: recall that they do is a recall using the voting machines. 257 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: And those voting machines our guess what the ones that are. 258 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: If if you if you rerun a funked up Chad 259 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: ballot through the same voting machine, it's going to get 260 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: a fucked up result. So okay, so they run this 261 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 1: again and the difference in votes comes down to FLEC 262 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 1: five hundred votes. And at this point, Gore's campaign requests 263 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 1: a manual recount. They want people to look at the 264 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: ballots by hand and figure out who people actually voted for, 265 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 1: because these machines are a fucking shit show. But in 266 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 1: any kind of sort of like you know, and even 267 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: remotely competent or saying, like democratic political system, there would 268 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 1: be a bunch of people doing this like they're there, 269 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: you know, like when when an election happens, they would 270 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: be just a very very large number of people mobilize 271 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 1: to make sure that it runs smoothly. There's not there's 272 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: like a bunch of like unbelievably overworked and underpaid. Some 273 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 1: people are people who also people who are just sucking volunteers, 274 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 1: like a bunch of just random, like unbelievably exhausted like 275 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 1: local election officials who have to do this recount. And 276 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 1: this is where the Bush campaign sees their chance to 277 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: steal the election. So the election happens no November seven, 278 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 1: and on November eleven, the Bush campaign sues to stop 279 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: the recount. Now, we talked on a previous episode a 280 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: while back about the Democrats how they have this line 281 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 1: in the two thousand's about how they're part of the 282 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:43,479 Speaker 1: quote reality based community and how this is a reflection 283 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 1: of you know, if you look at the whole quote, 284 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: which is from a Republican political strategist, I what's actually 285 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: what they're saying here is that what's happening is that 286 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: the Democrats observe reality. Well, the Republicans set out to 287 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 1: define reality. And this is the moment, this election is 288 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 1: where we get to see how the daynat we we 289 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 1: we we we get to like really first see these 290 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:11,400 Speaker 1: these principles in action. I'm gonna read from the Washington 291 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: Post here. Unlike the Gore campaign, which focused on filing 292 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,320 Speaker 1: motions in Florida courts to keep the recount going in 293 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: key counties like Miami Dodd, the Bush campaign waged a broader, 294 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 1: costlier effort on multiple fronts. Blakeman said it was a 295 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: three pronged effort. He said it was a court battle, 296 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:31,679 Speaker 1: it was a recount organization, and it was also a 297 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 1: pr effort because although the voting effort ended, the campaign 298 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,919 Speaker 1: never did until there was a definitive winner. So what 299 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 1: happens here is Republicans start this massive media blitz to 300 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:46,639 Speaker 1: convince people that Bush actually won the election. And this 301 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,920 Speaker 1: this is a really really important moment in sort of 302 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:51,200 Speaker 1: American history because it's one of the things that solidifies 303 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 1: um is one of the things that solidifies sort of 304 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 1: like like owning the lib for example. It's like a 305 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:00,360 Speaker 1: major point, and it's like like one of the key 306 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:02,679 Speaker 1: focal points of America of Republican politics, and this is 307 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:06,119 Speaker 1: eventually going to consume like all of their politics, right 308 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 1: until when we get this sort of you know, like 309 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 1: now right where that's like we're owning the Libs is 310 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: the only thing this is about. You know, this, this 311 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 1: owning the Libs is kind of like it's it's been 312 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:17,400 Speaker 1: a partner of Republican politics for a long time, but 313 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 1: this is where we really start to see it sort 314 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: of consuming everything. And Okay, if you look at their 315 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: like like what they're saying, by modern standards, it is 316 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:28,439 Speaker 1: incredibly weak ship, right. This is like this is a 317 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,240 Speaker 1: culture that is just a burge from the nineties. Nobody 318 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 1: has invented real posted yet, but it is really on 319 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 1: the lips stuff. Like they have this whole campaign where 320 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: they call the goyal Libramain campaign sore loser man, and 321 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:43,479 Speaker 1: everyone has like sore loser man hats, and like they 322 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 1: have all these like printed signs and like T shirts 323 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:50,879 Speaker 1: and they're selling merch and you know, and so you know, 324 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 1: they're running basically an OP, and they're running an OPT 325 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 1: to convince everyone that like, no, actually we legitimately won 326 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 1: this election and it's over, and the recounts just people 327 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: being but heard they lost. And this is where things 328 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 1: get really really weird. So in Miami DoD where there's 329 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:12,679 Speaker 1: a manual recount going on, a bunch of protesters in 330 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:17,399 Speaker 1: fancy suits show up but starts screaming at election workers. Now, 331 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: if this was the old Democratic Party machine like LBJ, 332 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:23,679 Speaker 1: would have personally pushed six of these guys out a 333 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: window and the recount would have been run by like 334 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 1: sixty of the earliest dudes, the entire Chicago mob. But 335 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,640 Speaker 1: this is the incredibly decrepit two thousand Democratic Party, who 336 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 1: have replaced all their mob guys with consultants. And these 337 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: people legitimately, like you know, they believe in the rules 338 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 1: and the norms and the process. And the result of 339 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,359 Speaker 1: this is that Bush literally destroys the entire United States. 340 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:53,679 Speaker 1: And I think, like irrevocably damaged, like the entirety of 341 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 1: the of you know, like what what whatever is left 342 00:19:55,680 --> 00:20:01,400 Speaker 1: to the American democratic system. So how how this is achieved? 343 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: But back in Miami DoD this Democratic Party operative is 344 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: seen walking around the recount area with a ballot. Now 345 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: this is a blank ballot, right, this guy is going 346 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 1: to see he's going with an election official to go 347 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,359 Speaker 1: see if he can replicate like the like how they 348 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:19,399 Speaker 1: h has stuff happens to prove that, like this is 349 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 1: what's going on. But the publicans see this guy and 350 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:25,440 Speaker 1: they immediately start screaming about how the Democrats are staling 351 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:28,400 Speaker 1: in the election, and they like beat this ship out 352 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: of this guy, and just a full on riot starts 353 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:37,920 Speaker 1: in this government building and it works. The recount stops. 354 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 1: The election workers are terrified. The recount yeah, like the 355 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: like everything stopped for the day, they can't do anything. 356 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 1: And the next day the recount is fully stopped. It 357 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:52,119 Speaker 1: never resumes, And the Republicans are stunned by this. They 358 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: assumed that, like, you know, the political operatives doing the rioting, 359 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 1: we're gonna like face some oppositions to the Democrats on 360 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 1: the ground for you know, like literally assaulting and intimidating 361 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:06,159 Speaker 1: a bunch of election workers in order to like stop 362 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 1: votes from being counted. But there's they they don't, there's 363 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 1: there's nothing, there's no resistance at all. Um. Here's a 364 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,240 Speaker 1: quote from Douglas Hay, who is there a Republican Political Operatives, 365 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 1: who is one of the organizers of the Brooks Brothers riot, 366 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 1: who he tried to do a redemption arc in the 367 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 1: media to sort of like be like, oh, I was 368 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 1: part of the Brooks Brothers riot. But even I think 369 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,639 Speaker 1: the stop the steel stuff is bad, which like I 370 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,680 Speaker 1: think my man doth protests too much. Um, here's just 371 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,639 Speaker 1: the quote. I still don't understand how it was that 372 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 1: we completely outmatched the Democrats, hey says, And this is 373 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:47,120 Speaker 1: how Bush wins the election. The Supreme Court, which again 374 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: it should also be know the Streame Court is staffed 375 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: by a bunch of George H. W. Bush appointees. Um. 376 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: Eventually here's the Clayic case and decides that the constitution 377 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 1: says that the winner the winner has to be declared 378 00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 1: by a certain time, so there's no time for a recount. 379 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: And they have the election and the Bush and this 380 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:05,879 Speaker 1: is achieved, and this is possible because of the Brooks 381 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 1: Brothers riot and the Brooks Brothers, right, is what this 382 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 1: whole sort of Republican opertor things comes to be known 383 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: because they're all wearing Brooks Brothers suits. Um. Now, okay, 384 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 1: there are a lot of people involved in this riot 385 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:22,160 Speaker 1: who are like at the core of modern Republican politics. Um. Yeah, 386 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: Neil Gorrich and AMYCLEMYN. Barritt, and I think there's actually 387 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:29,399 Speaker 1: one other like Paris and Republicans of elevated senior office. 388 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 1: There are multiple people on the Supreme Court today who 389 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:35,120 Speaker 1: were on the Bush legal team when they were doing this. 390 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: And you know, there's also the question of the extent 391 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 1: to which roger Stone has involved. He asked roger Stone, 392 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 1: he claims to have organized literally this entire thing. Um. Now, 393 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 1: other people who were involved with they claimed that roger 394 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 1: Stone was like fucked off at a hotel somewhere else 395 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: and didn't was just sort of around and didn't actually 396 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 1: organize it. But either way, this set a precedent for 397 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:05,199 Speaker 1: how you can rig an election, which is if you 398 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,640 Speaker 1: if you can seize the majority on the Supreme Court 399 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,159 Speaker 1: with sort of like when you know you can put 400 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: your sort of loyal minions there and then you can 401 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: have an initial count of an election that looked that 402 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: that that looks like it's favoring you, even if that's 403 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 1: not actually true. If you then have an initial count 404 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: of an election that says that you win, and then 405 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 1: you can stop and then you were able to stop 406 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: votes from being counted from November until January, you will 407 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 1: win the election. That that is that that is the 408 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 1: precedents that was installed by by the two election. And 409 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,159 Speaker 1: if you look at the Stop the Still campaign, this 410 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,639 Speaker 1: is exactly what Trump is trying to do. Then literally 411 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:47,440 Speaker 1: Roger Stone is also trying to do this. Right, Um, 412 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:48,879 Speaker 1: this is this is this is this is what stop 413 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,119 Speaker 1: is still is. Right. You can you can find Trump 414 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:54,640 Speaker 1: talking about this monthly for the election. Right. This this, 415 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,879 Speaker 1: this is why he was trying to do his whole 416 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 1: thing about about the mail in batt because he and 417 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: Roger Stone and sort of all the political operators who 418 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,440 Speaker 1: are involved in the circles were like, okay, so we 419 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 1: know that that a bunch of Democrats are gonna do 420 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: mail in ballots because of COVID, because they don't want 421 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,439 Speaker 1: to be there at the ballots. They know that the 422 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,880 Speaker 1: initial count is going to favor them. And I think 423 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,880 Speaker 1: people have forgotten this, but if you remember the night 424 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,879 Speaker 1: of the election in I remember like like even a 425 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 1: bunch of my friends who were like people who were 426 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: you know, like like fairly serious, like I don't know 427 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 1: politics nowhere, people were really deeply invested in politics, like 428 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:33,400 Speaker 1: thought that Trump had won the election because what would 429 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 1: have been counted on that night was just was just 430 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: the sort of initially wasn't counting the mail in ballots, 431 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 1: and so yeah, the plan was just to delegitimate mail 432 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 1: in ballots in the eyes of of sort of the 433 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,399 Speaker 1: well mostly the Republican based, but like sort of the 434 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 1: American populacets the whole, and then have a bunch of 435 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 1: people physically assault these centers to get him to stop 436 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 1: the places where these votes are being counted, to get 437 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: him to stop the count and it doesn't work. And 438 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: it doesn't work I think partially because but yeah, those 439 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:12,159 Speaker 1: few things, Like one of the things is that you 440 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,680 Speaker 1: know you can't if you're gonna do a play like this, 441 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 1: you have to run it like you you you are 442 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,920 Speaker 1: relying on the sort of physical intimidation of the court workers. 443 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 1: But mostly what you need to do is make sure 444 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: that it's stuck in a court fight. And the problem 445 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 1: is that like the sort of modern like Trump based people, 446 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:37,440 Speaker 1: like they don't have any competent lawyers. The root of 447 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: Giuliani is like trying to do this ship or whatever. 448 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: But like that guy, I don't know that that guy 449 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 1: may have known what a law was in like nineteen 450 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 1: seventy three, but his brain has been just melted by 451 00:25:53,240 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: like inhaling cigar smoke and truly copious about a drug. 452 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,159 Speaker 1: So you know, they're not they're not really able to 453 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 1: sort of pull this off, but Bush is. And the 454 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:11,639 Speaker 1: result of this is the American reaction at eleven is 455 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:16,399 Speaker 1: the war in the Rock is basically the the the 456 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 1: sort of complete annihilation of like then like this is 457 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:26,119 Speaker 1: slightly an exaggeration, but like the concept of freedom in 458 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 1: the US, like the ability for you not to be 459 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:33,479 Speaker 1: constantly surveiled, the ability for you to like you know, 460 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 1: live live in a society in which there's like every 461 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 1: single thing you do isn't being monitored by a thousand 462 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 1: different kinds of police stations who are all sharing your 463 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: tweets so they can fucking grab people out off of 464 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 1: the road and sucking unmarked fans, right, Like, that's all 465 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: stuff that is a specific product of the sort of 466 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 1: kind of fascism at the Bush administration deploys. And they're 467 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:57,480 Speaker 1: able to do this because they just try to stole 468 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 1: an election. And now we all, we all sort of 469 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 1: just live in in the permanent afterlife of the Brooks 470 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,439 Speaker 1: Brothers riot. This is what January sixth was. This is 471 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 1: what stop the Steel is, and it's what the that's 472 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 1: what the modern Republican Party is. So yeah, it's happy holidays, 473 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,120 Speaker 1: ye everyone. I hope you have a good new year. 474 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: And uh, in Chlaw, we will destroy these fashion Republican 475 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 1: bastards and make sure that none of them ever get 476 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: to do this again.