WEBVTT - Vote Harder: 2022 Midterms Update 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:09.200 What's the horror of dead generations hanging off the backs 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:15.640 of my modern everyone society? What do we? What are 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:18.200 we doing that? I started a podcast? Are we do? Robert? 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:21.360 I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go take five. This is 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:25.000 your favorite electoralism podcast. It could happen here. Um, the 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.000 podcast that says, just vote about it? Come on, you 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.680 know how you voted? Can you vote a little harder? 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:35.000 You know, if if I could vote right right now, 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.559 I would. That is how dedicated I am. I know 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.560 that's everyone says that about you, Garrison, that you're always 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.720 ready to vote. Oh, we have, we have, we have, 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.159 we have. We have an update on the TikTok thing 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:52.000 um which we just this this just dropped. Um TikTok Uh. 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:54.800 There is now a new I need a new technic 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:58.640 account launched to boost Biden with young voters. Um. It 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:02.640 already has one hundred fans. Um. This this isn't a joke. 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:06.480 This is actually because that sounds like like a bad 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:10.080 like a like a Jimmy fallon Saturday Night Live weekend update. 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:15.200 This is because actually completely real. We have we have 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.840 a government funded Biden pro Biden TikTok account as lunched 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.800 and it has a hundred followers. Guys, it would be 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.880 funny if like, you know, like the Gravel Institute. But good, 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.319 they just steered it in really radical directions. So it 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.520 did start like tweeting about Zerzon and the importance of 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:41.760 destroying time. The Biden TikTok account embraces ecological sabotage. I would, 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:43.640 I would take it. I would take I would take 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:45.839 government money if they paid me to do that, I'll 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:49.120 say it. I'll take government money for a lot of reasons. 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:52.480 If they paid me to make an unhinged TikTok account 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.640 about how the scientists of the police, then yes, I would. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:57.920 I would do that. That's a fun joke for four 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.360 people listening to this podcast. We're gonna tell about the 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:05.920 mid terms. Yeah, because look, the official stance of the 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:11.760 mostly anarchists who make this podcast, voting is dumb. But uh, 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:16.120 it's also bad when certain things happen electorally, like a 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:21.119 bunch of insane fascists winning elected office. Uh. Two things 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.560 can be true, especially when people are really set on 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.600 killing trans people right now. Yeah, that's real problematic hashtag 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.280 problematic things are gonna have It could happen as a 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.200 result of the mid terms. I think the by by 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:37.919 far predominant media narrative is that the Democrats are heading 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:43.840 for a shellacking. Um, now, is that actually going to happen? 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:48.440 The short answer is, nobody knows. Because polling we should 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:50.640 all be we should all be accepting at this point 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:55.640 that polling is not good at its job generally. So 0:02:56.240 --> 0:03:00.000 heads up, No one's really sure. Uh, there are certainly 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.680 Number One, if this is a normal midterm election after 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:08.240 a presidential election, Democrats should lose a not insubstantial amount 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.519 of seats because that's just usually what happens. The only 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:15.360 time it didn't was the midterm election right after nine eleven, 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.680 and everyone was out of their minds at that point, 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:22.000 so you can't really factor that one into the averages. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.000 And nothing like nine eleven has really happened. Like the 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:27.760 war in Ukraine is a is a whole thing, but 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.080 it's also not I'm not I'm saying any evidence that 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.520 it's causing any kind of like political realignment or affecting 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.920 support for Joe Biden in any meaning. Everyone's still pretty 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.960 economy based in terms of what they're what they claimed 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.480 to be their biggest factors for voting. The war in 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:46.760 Ukraine is a huge deal obviously, Um, we've talked about 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.640 it a lot on on our shows. But also it's 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:52.560 it's foreigners, and Americans don't care about foreigners when it 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.000 comes to voting. So look, that's just a reality. As 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.400 a guy who's repeatedly trying to get Americans to care 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:02.720 about things happening in other countries, we we don't. UM. So, 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.320 in the absence of anything that has caused that could 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.920 cause some sort of massive political realignment, the most likely 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.600 thing historically is that the Democrats are gonna lose control 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.760 of one, maybe both houses of Congress um, and a 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.560 modest amount of seats. Um. So if that happens, if 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:25.559 it's kind of within historical dimensions, UM, then that won't 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.359 be all that weird at all. Um. If it's a 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:32.640 huge blowout, then that's a big deal. And if the 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:36.640 Democrats don't lose or kind of barely lose ground, then 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.600 those would both be big deals for different reasons. UM. 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.400 And again, no one knows what's going to happen, and 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:43.360 no one on this podcast is going to make a prediction. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.000 We're just going to kind of try to talk about 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.960 what what is sort of evident right now. Well, you're 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:52.960 not allowed to legally make predictions, Robert, I'm I'm not 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.200 allowed to legally make tradictions, although I will make one prediction, 0:04:56.360 --> 0:05:00.280 which is that at some point, at some point, we're 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:06.560 gonna see Joe Biden's whole ass in fifty odds. If 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.960 we see the ass fifty odds, that you can see 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:13.400 some balls. That is. I've gone back and forth with 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.120 my polling experts on this, and we're we're firm on 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:21.200 that fifty coin flip coin flip for the coin purse, 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.400 toss up, toss up, toss up for the tossing of 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.960 his salad, which might be why we see his butt. Anyway, 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.640 here's here first on ticket. Happen here, It could it 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:34.240 could happen here. That could happen here. It's not impossible. 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.640 Someone has a picture of Joe Biden's butt, right, it's 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:45.320 out there. So yeah, So for every miny terms of 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:50.320 the House has has has all their seats go up 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:54.000 for every two years, Uh, the Senate gets gets gets 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.080 one third of seats up because they serve six year terms. 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:01.160 Because we like having fun here. Um, yeah, so it's 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.320 it's gonna be. It's it's gonna be interesting both because yeah, 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.799 I mean, obviously, obviously it's most likely that definitely Republicans 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.800 will will win back a decent number of seats inside 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:15.120 the inside the House and probably um make make the 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.880 divide they're less extreme um if not actually just like 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:21.159 take the House. Also, the Senate's obviously more more of 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:22.640 a more of a toss up because of we're only 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.720 on the Senate at the moment um, so that is 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.400 definitely way more of a thing that they can totally cease. 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.320 But even if they do, season that's not actually changing 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:35.280 much because they're not we're not We're not able to 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:41.480 pass anything through the Senate anyway. Uh sure, So it 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:45.840 doesn't matter because yeah, I mean, like it would only 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.960 really suck if m Republicans get extreme control both the 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.680 House and the Senate um. But I think that's kind 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.640 of unlikely in terms of getting like total control and 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.920 then we still have executives. So it part of why 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:01.000 it doesn't seem super likely is that, like in the 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:06.520 last um couple of sets, in particularly terms, the Democrats 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:10.400 lost basically all of their most vulnerable seats, and so 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.200 a lot of the seats that are coming up are 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:16.320 less vulnerable and so and that does mean that like 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.520 if the Democrats lose a bunch more than again, it's 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:22.480 a much more significant sign that we're seeing, uh, pretty 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:27.720 predicted potentially like pretty fashy political realignment in the United States. 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.640 It's again, there's not like evidence that makes me think 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.800 that's particularly likely. Um, that's just what it would mean 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:36.960 if that were to happen. And I think probably the 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:38.840 number one thing I would expect if there were some 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:44.120 sort of gigantic apocle shift where the Republicans wind up 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.760 with like sixty percent of the seats in Congress or 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.560 something like that, Um, is they're going to try to impeach. 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:51.560 But like they would have to write if they won 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.400 in control of both house, like they would have to 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.480 try and impeach Biden because of the rhetoric. It's the 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.760 bit you know, which again I don't I'm not saying 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.040 I don't think that is particularly likely based on what 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.520 we're seeing, but like if that happens, they're going to 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.600 do that. Yeah, I Mean it's not even a prediction. 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.239 That's just like, well they've been talking about it because 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.400 like because like on average, the president's party has lost 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.840 about thirty thirty House seats during mid terms over the 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.840 course of the last century, um and Republicans only need 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.920 to gain five seats to win the chamber. But now 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.800 now gaining five seats is not the same as winning 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:31.520 five seats obviously, Yes, like the party needs to needs 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.000 at least two eighteen seats to win control of the House. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.120 So Republicans are actually they have to flip. They have 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.000 to they have to do the flipping um and they 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:40.840 have to flip actually a good number of them because 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.560 again the seats that they do, the seats that that 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:48.040 Democrats currently have are all like pretty firmly democrat um. 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.040 So there's there is there is less toss ups. And 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.520 the other thing that's kind of interesting is that the 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.160 redistricting process that has been going on in the past 0:08:56.240 --> 0:09:01.040 bit has seemed to kind of favor, uh favor Democrats. 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:05.040 So if it's interesting, if you want to have a 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:08.120 good time, go go look at what go look at 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.520 what the Democrats did to the Illinois map. It is hilarious. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.480 Between like, there is a district that is like it 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.120 starts in the like in the north in the south 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.280 side of the south side of Chicago, and the district 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:25.000 ends like literally like like nine tenths of the way 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:28.360 down the state, like a tiny town in seven Illinois, 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.000 and it's like, it's really funny because like like eighty 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.439 percent of what was going on there was like Solendinois 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.719 like elected a Nazi to the House. The Democrats were like, 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.439 how how can we Well, it's funny. Is also said 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.960 they didn't even do the optimal jerrymander because their cowards 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.160 and fools. But yeah, like this is you know, okay, 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:51.000 like the maps are always constantly jerrymandered, and part of 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.040 the reason the Democrats have been just like getting smashed 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:54.880 for the last decade is that what they lost a 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:59.520 dozen ten election they lost control of like the gerrymandering, 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.920 and so that like fucked them for like a decade 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:07.320 and they've gotten to a position that is slightly better 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:11.080 for them. But you know, again, the like the important 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:12.960 thing to actually take away here is it like basically 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.600 every like every every election that happens at the US 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.760 on like for the House is rigged like before it 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:21.840 starts like at least partially because jay mandering is just 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.040 legal and you could do it. I mean, it's amazing 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.280 to me that they're they're connecting these little rural areas 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.559 to the south side of Chicago, because and I'm sure 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:30.839 you're aware of this, Christopher, it's the baddest part of town. 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.280 And and if you go there, you just better be 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:38.240 aware of a man named Lee Roy Brown. Now you 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.200 know Lee Red Brown. It stood about six ft four um. 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.120 All those downtown ladies called him tree top lever. All 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.680 the men just called him, sir, you know, bad, badly 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.480 road Brown, baddest man in the whole, baddest man in 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.200 the whole. Damn. This is important electoral stuff, Sophie. He 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.840 could win. He's badder than old King Kong and meaner 0:10:54.840 --> 0:11:00.480 than a junkyard dog. So all of so U about 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.360 sixty one house races are seen to be viewed as 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:07.360 competitive out of four hundred thirty five um. But out 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:13.480 of those amazing democracy yeah so and and and out 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.400 of those sixty one, only about sixteen are actually kind 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.680 of viewed as toss ups at the moment, with seven 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.240 of those seats currently helped by Republicans, eight of them 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.040 being helped with Democrats, and one new seat in the 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:28.160 in the state of Colorado. UM. So yeah, Like it 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.800 does seem like in order for Republicans to really get 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.720 more controlled the House, they have to actually flip more 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:38.720 traditionally democratic uh territories, so like they're kind of they 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:40.520 have to do most of that the actual work here, 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.880 um to actually get those things flipped. But again I 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.680 don't I don't trust democrats ability to be able to 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:52.360 hold on to what they have anyway, So who knows. Yeah, 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.160 I mean, it's it's one of those things. There's a 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.480 lot of talk about like how incompetent the Democrats are, 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.520 And there's a pretty interesting article that dropped, Oh gosh, 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.839 where was it about how millennial support for Democrats is 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:11.000 like at its lowest point in recent memory. Yea millennial 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.240 here it's because they don't do anything. It's because they 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.640 say they're going to do a number of very popular 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:21.560 things and then do not do them. Again, the people 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.360 who Gerryman did all these districts, and as a general rule, 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.920 just the data we have on how mid terms seem 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.520 to go all factors in the fact that that young 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:33.040 people don't vote, you know. Um, so the fact that 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.520 the Democrats are worse than normal with youth may not 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.280 actually have a huge impact on the mid terms at 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.960 this state especially. Can Again, there's not as many, at 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.240 least based on the polling we have, which is again imperfect, 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:49.280 doesn't seem like there's a tremendous amount of super competitive districts. No, 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.920 and it does seem to be the group of people 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.200 that will be the most interesting deciding factor right now 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:58.600 is boomer women seems to be the one are actually 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:05.439 they're going. I don't like that boomers are allowed to vote. 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.360 Get him out of there. Get him out of there. 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.160 On on that note, should we take a quick little 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:16.160 addie break. You know who else doesn't want you to vote? 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:22.600 It's the Washington State Patrol, the oligarchs who support this podcast. 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.160 We're back and we're again talking about the elections in 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.040 the South side of Chicago, and there's a lot of 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:39.800 reasons to wonder how this is going to go. And 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.400 I just want to point out that Leroy Brown keeps 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.400 a thirty two guns in his pocket for fun and 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.880 a razor in issue, which should be factored in when 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.320 you're thinking about, you know, how things might go down 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:53.200 on election day. Thank you, thank you for that for 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:58.600 that critical analysis from Robert evans Um. Yeah really really 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.960 on the cusp of there. Thank you. Yeah, it's uh, 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.079 we are we are we are lucky to have such 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.440 an academic mind on the pod. I say that a lot, 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.720 but I'm I'm glad someone else is. Finally, Uh, should 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.280 we talk uh Senate Senate seats that are potentially going 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.840 to flip even though Garrison doesn't want to. Yeah, I 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:18.600 read the article and I didn't I found it kind 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.360 of boring and I didn't find them to say anything 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:25.280 super interesting. Um, but yes we can. So one of 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:29.080 the one of the ones we got here is in Pennsylvania. 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.400 Is that the one that's open. It is the one 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:38.120 that is open. Um. So yeah, this is uh the 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.240 see the seat the seat opened up when the Republican 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.120 Senator Pat too Many good for him for having a 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.760 funny name, announced that he would not be announced that 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.880 he would not be having he would not be running 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:51.920 for re election. So so yeah, there's the lieutenant governor 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:55.280 is running in the Democratic primary and raising a good 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:59.640 good deal of money. Um, that's cool. Yeah, it's a 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.640 it's a Yeah, it's a Trump has a Trump has 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.840 a has a has has stepped in to to fight 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.520 between between the two the two uh, the two candidates 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.320 which we have David David McCormick, which is a former 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:18.520 hedge fund manager and his Republican opposer is a friend 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:23.960 of the pod Dr Memas. Oh yeah, I love that. 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.240 I love that I have to care about a fight 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:32.480 between doctor Oz and a hedge fund manager. Awesome. And 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.000 do you want to guess who Trump endorsed between the 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.480 hedge fund manister and the and the good doctor, It's 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:40.680 got to be doctor Oz. Yes, of course it is. 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:47.440 They let Doctor Oz speak at Sea Pack so immediate, 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:51.120 which is funny because the hedge fund guy specifically went 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:57.239 to Marlago to to like help get Trump's support, um, 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.680 and then Trump endorsed the endorse good off was he 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.240 was he like? Was he like, hey, like, what's your 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:07.400 TV ratings? I don't know if you you don't have 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.480 a t like you were not? Oh no, no, no. 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:13.600 Trump is not a dumb man. He's just a very 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.040 focused one and the only thing he has focused on 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.200 is the same thing that Dr Oz is good at, 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:23.240 which yes, getting um. So yeah. It's It's seemed to 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.440 be kind of a toss up between these two Republican candidates. 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:29.000 Both both are both are pretty wealthy, Both are spending 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:33.040 millions and millions and millions of dollars um and it's 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:34.800 it's it is. It is expected to be the most 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.040 expensive race in the whole country because of the hedge 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.920 fund guy, because of Dr Oz And then then the 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:45.360 one Democrat Lieutenant Governor John fetterman Um who seems to 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:48.400 who is raising a lot of money for on on 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:52.560 on the the from the Democratic establishment. So yeah, um, 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:57.400 that's that's the metal head, right. I don't know, I 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.960 don't know. I want to talk about Ohio for a second, 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.679 because there's been some stuff out of there that is 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.840 it is because it is also open. Yeah, so it's open. 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.560 And the guy he's running on the Democratic side is 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:15.680 Tim Ryan, who's like a weirdo and like it's sort 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:17.760 of been like on the right wing the Democratic Party 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.800 for a long time. But like so Tim Brian's doing 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:27.200 this like it's being called economic populism. Oh where okay, yeah, 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:33.160 so let's let's out of the Yeah. So so let's 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.240 let's let's let's let's let's read some Ryan quotes. China. 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:40.119 It's definitely China. One word China. It's US versus China. 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:45.040 This is this is his his campaign basically is lyrical genius. 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.320 What are you talking about? I mean, I gotta say 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:51.640 it seems very hinged. For one, Yeah, super hinged. It's 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:53.520 an interesting thing because it's like, Okay, so he's trying 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:55.240 to do the like we're gonna we're gonna do that 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:57.399 kind of populism. We're talking about how China is like 0:17:57.720 --> 0:17:59.720 taking jobs away from the rest belt. It's also funny 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:03.680 because he's against Medicare for all, like so like he's 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:08.080 like he's like not like he's not actually like like 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.400 like on the left aning seriously, but you know, and 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.399 there's there's this whole thing like he's he's running as 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:14.840 a NAFTA, which is interesting because like you know if 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.240 in terms of populism, like Obama did run on that, 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.280 like Obama ran on get on on being against NAFTA. 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:22.840 And this is part of how we just like absolutely 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:27.119 claw Bard's uh John McCain, but like you know, the 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.320 Democrats everyone literally never do anything about that. But like, yeah, 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:32.080 you know, but there's there's the there's this whole sort 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.919 of factor here where Bryan's big thing is he's anti China, 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:39.480 and he's anti China. He he tried to be the 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.879 House speaker a mouthful times. Yeah, and there's just you 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.000 know the thing that's interesting about it is is so 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.199 he's getting a lot of support for the like he 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.080 looks so Asian American groups in Ohio. We're like, hey, 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:53.439 what the funk are you doing? And he was just 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.920 like I yeah, I don't care um and just kept 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:59.080 doing it. And and it's interesting because there's this sort 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.800 of like he's getting a lot of support from like 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.919 Republicans for this, Like you'll there's there's been a lot 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.320 of columns from sort of Republican columnists who are like, wow, 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.560 I'm pro free trade, but also like this whole opposing 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:15.120 China thing is good, and I think it's there there's 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.720 an interesting dynamic going on here where you have this 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:21.439 like that this is a very very old tradition in 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:24.560 American I guess you could call it American labor of 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:27.240 there being this kind of like, well, okay, so the 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.159 solution to all of reconic problems is that China is 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:30.640 taking our jobs away. I mean, like you can see 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:32.919 this like literally in the eight hundreds, this was happening. 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:34.679 And you know what happened in the eight hundred was 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:38.439 that they ethnically cleansed the entire West coast and like 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:42.560 most of the the sun Bolt States yeah, so like that, Yeah, 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:45.120 you know, a lot of stas mining going on. The Yeah, 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:46.960 this is they just like ethnically cleansed all the Asian 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.800 people out. And you know, this is I think worrying 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:53.400 in a lot of ways. It's the Democrats so far 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:57.800 haven't really gone as hard on this as they were 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:05.520 going in. But this kind of stuff gets really really bad, 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:10.359 really quickly. And you know, okay, like the worst the 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.160 anti aition violence has been largely colinivirus stuff. But like 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:15.200 if you go back to the eighties when this exact 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:18.920 same thing was happening with Japan, that got really really 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:23.080 bad very quickly. People got murdered. Um, yeah, a lot 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:27.040 of psychocrip and books were written with blots that are 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:31.240 very racist now in retrospective, and you know, and I 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:33.240 think I think it's important to remind people that, like, 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:36.439 you know, like, yeah, they're like there there were a 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:38.680 lot of jobs that got moved from the US to China, 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.320 and that happened because corporations were trying to find a 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:43.639 where we're where we're you know, like this this is 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:46.399 the thing that corporations did not like the Chinese people. 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:48.760 And the other part of the reason it happened was 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:52.199 that the Chinese government fucking murdered, like literally, like just 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:55.920 machine guns a bunch of trade unionists outside of Tieneman, 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:58.760 and you know that, like that that had the effectors 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:02.080 just like shattering whatever sort of left of the Chinese organization, 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.480 the Chinese working class. And so the factory worker in 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:10.439 China who is making like if they're lucky, maybe like 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:14.879 sixteen dollars a year, is not your enemy, despite what 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:17.640 fucking Tim Ryan and all these assholes are are trying 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:20.200 to tell you. It's that's it's just it's just it's 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:22.359 it's not true. And the reason they're doing this is 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:25.119 because they're trying to get you to not look at 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:27.480 the people who are actually stealing all your money. So 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:32.320 he also seems pretty pro cop. Yeah he sucks. Oh, 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:35.800 the Democrats are all pro cop. Now we have completely 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:39.320 turned turned around on that one. They were only anti 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:43.119 cop for eleven minutes. In what everyone was was scared 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:45.880 that things were going to go Minneapolis in a lot 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:50.080 more places. The in that eleven minutes was when Nancy 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:54.199 Polis that eleven minutes ruled, though not that part of it, 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:56.440 but a lot of parts of that part. That part 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:00.560 when when when the CEO of Target had to come 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:04.040 out and be like, it's cool if people, Yeah, that 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:07.520 was maybe the peak, you know. And I will say 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:10.199 this if if you if you want that back, you 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:12.119 can do it again. You just have to you just 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:14.440 have to burn a bunch of police stations and riot 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:22.160 and lute things. So yeah, someone that that's a thing 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:24.400 that could happen and if it were could happen here, 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:27.480 has happen here. That is the bit. I hope that 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:31.760 Georgia doesn't flip. Yeah, let's let's talk about let's talk 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:35.160 about let's talk about Georgia. Talk about Georgia, because yeah, 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:40.280 we got Raphael Uh that's what. Yeah, is it running 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:43.080 for his first full term after winning the special election 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:48.080 last year. UM, so yeah, he's obviously trying to trying to, 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:53.280 like since since Biden barely barely won Georgia in the 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:56.360 in the last election, trying to kind of ride off 0:22:56.400 --> 0:23:01.200