Speaker 1: Everything's dead. Wait no, sorry, um, it's it could happen
Speaker 1: here a podcast about stuff falling apart and today about
Speaker 1: the fact that things fell less apart than people were
Speaker 1: worried they were going to fall apart, and in some
Speaker 1: ways got might get better. So that's kind of that's
Speaker 1: kind of nice. Sure. Yeah, on the whole, we're talking
Speaker 1: about the mid terms today and on the whole okay,
Speaker 1: I feel okay. Descripture. Yeah, it's the mid terms equivalent
Speaker 1: of getting like an ounce of of of like mid
Speaker 1: grade weed for like fifty bucks. But you find out
Speaker 1: later that like kind of in the middle of it
Speaker 1: was like half of a paper towel roll that they
Speaker 1: stuck in there to push up the weight. But it's like, well,
Speaker 1: least I got weed. All right, I've introduced the podcast
Speaker 1: Who Do We? Who do we have here? Today? You
Speaker 1: got me? I'm James Still, that's rightly? Yeah, yeah, I'm Garrison.
Speaker 1: I didn't vote. Look at you wow. Way to be
Speaker 1: a way to be an anarchist Garrison or a Canadian
Speaker 1: same deff democracy? Yeah yeah, I like committing voter fraud
Speaker 1: for the Democratic Party. Yeah yeah. I also decided to
Speaker 1: not vote for the people who are doing like the
Speaker 1: war on drugs in California right now, Garrison, you you
Speaker 1: continued your your years long tradition of submitting a crewed
Speaker 1: drawing of the Premier of Canada. Um to to a
Speaker 1: ballot box. Shut, let's Trudeau coming out of a cave.
Speaker 1: Who else do we have on with us right now?
Speaker 1: I'm here, Christopher Wong, and I absolutely despise elections, so
Speaker 1: I brought my friend who actually does like elections. That's
Speaker 1: excellent token election in Jodan pretty much. Yes, Hi, I
Speaker 1: am Jack. I am Christopher's token friend, as mentioned um
Speaker 1: and I'm here partly because of nepotism for knowing Christopher
Speaker 1: and partly because, as you reminded me, before we got started,
Speaker 1: I had a ninety three percent accurate prediction rating for
Speaker 1: all of the elections that I was paying attention to
Speaker 1: this year, so I know some things. Congratulations. I only
Speaker 1: made one prediction before this election, which was, well, it
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like Dr Roz is gonna win, which which
Speaker 1: means you did better than a lot of the people
Speaker 1: who are paid to do this. Like, Okay, that man,
Speaker 1: that man said the word crew detay in an election
Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania, Like there was he was never good. The
Speaker 1: moment that d came out, he was going to lose.
Speaker 1: I see, that's much more nuanced than my my political analysis,
Speaker 1: which was the fact that the other guy was much
Speaker 1: taller than him and also way hot, Like if they
Speaker 1: just sounded it with a fist fight, fat could have
Speaker 1: taken it. Yep, which that seems good. H It was fun.
Speaker 1: It was a fun election. We all had a good time.
Speaker 1: I enjoy that. Fucking Marjorie Taylor Green and j d
Speaker 1: Vance are going to be in Congress together. That's going
Speaker 1: to be fun for everybody. We're all gonna have a
Speaker 1: good time. But I suspect there's probably some stuff we
Speaker 1: haven't like. As you may have noticed listeners, we didn't
Speaker 1: do much in the way of pre mid term content
Speaker 1: because we all hate it. But but now now we're
Speaker 1: talking about it. So what what what? What should we
Speaker 1: know about these mid terms? What? What? What kind of
Speaker 1: occurred to you as somebody who's like actually has spent
Speaker 1: a lot more time delving into the nitty gritty and
Speaker 1: thinking about what was likely to happen. Um. So I
Speaker 1: told Christopher I would say this, and in arness, I
Speaker 1: do genuinely believe it I think the story of these
Speaker 1: mid terms when historians look back at it, will be
Speaker 1: that the Dabbs Supreme Court decision had the same electoral
Speaker 1: impact in the United States as nine eleven did. I
Speaker 1: think that is going to be like how this plays
Speaker 1: out over time, um, because when you look at how
Speaker 1: things were going before Dabbs and then how things were
Speaker 1: going after Dabbs. Obviously things got a lot worse on
Speaker 1: the policy front because abortion became illegal in a lot
Speaker 1: of states. Um. But the election essentially flipped overnight from
Speaker 1: what was going to be a Republican wave to the
Speaker 1: even split that we got. And that makes this one
Speaker 1: of three post World War two midterms where the incumbent
Speaker 1: party did well, and so this is definitely going to
Speaker 1: be him in term that gets lectured about in policy
Speaker 1: one on one courses for the next hundred years. Also,
Speaker 1: one of those, one of those other three, was the
Speaker 1: nine was to push that left. It was yeah, actually,
Speaker 1: I really because obviously I was aware, just because there
Speaker 1: was so much cover in saying like this is the
Speaker 1: best performance from an incumbent party in a mid term
Speaker 1: since two thousand two. So it was aware of that fact.
Speaker 1: But for some reason I hadn't put it together in
Speaker 1: my head that way that like, yeah, the this means that,
Speaker 1: like the Supreme Court's decision on Roe v. Wade had
Speaker 1: kind of a comparable electoral impact to flying two planes
Speaker 1: into a pair of skyscrapers and the Pentagon three plates.
Speaker 1: I mean, to be fair whatever, to be fair, the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court have killed like in terms of the immediate impact,
Speaker 1: the Screme Court will have killed more people than that
Speaker 1: by like thurs Day or something. So yeah, the other
Speaker 1: one was was fdos fest made tim right? Uh No,
Speaker 1: the other ones that so I said post World War Two.
Speaker 1: The other the other one was when the American electorate
Speaker 1: apparently got so mad at Republicans and pe team Bill
Speaker 1: Clinton that they decided to vote for Democrats in a
Speaker 1: good term. Again, well that's yeah, that's the other thing
Speaker 1: Biden can do if it, if it goes south. It's
Speaker 1: good to know their options. Yeah, but um, I think
Speaker 1: non zero chance that'll happen anyway. I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: we're still waiting. Who knows. Yeah, Doc Brandon, I enjoyed,
Speaker 1: from from an entertainment perspective, the like three months of
Speaker 1: lucidity that we got out of Joe Biden this year,
Speaker 1: We'll see how many more he has in him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: who knows? So yeah, like it. So you're you're suggesting
Speaker 1: that Dobbs has been like the really pivotal thing here
Speaker 1: in swinging a lot of these close races, right, absolutely, Um,
Speaker 1: and Dobbs definitely being the number one factor. Um. Tragically,
Speaker 1: because it's very cringe and I wish this hadn't happened.
Speaker 1: The January six investigation does actually seem to have also
Speaker 1: swung several important races. That's I mean, I'm interested in
Speaker 1: your thoughts on this, but I actually I'm I'm glad
Speaker 1: that it mattered that they tried to do a coup,
Speaker 1: and like I'm glad that people cared about that. I'm
Speaker 1: glad it mattered. I just I just think it sucks
Speaker 1: that because the way they went about the investigation was
Speaker 1: so incredibly terrible. Yeah. Um, like Marrick Garland is going
Speaker 1: to go down as like one of the most cowardly
Speaker 1: attorney generals in American history. But um, yeah, It's it's
Speaker 1: pretty clear that in a lot of races like the
Speaker 1: the investigation made a difference. I think this is really clear.
Speaker 1: If we're getting into like very kind of under the hood. Um,
Speaker 1: Democrats ran the table in competitive state level secretary of
Speaker 1: State races, and these are the officials that run elections. UM.
Speaker 1: And not only did Democrats run the table, pretty much
Speaker 1: every single one of those candidates out pre formed the
Speaker 1: top of the ticket. So they outperformed governor and Senate candidates. UM.
Speaker 1: So there are a lot of people. This is another
Speaker 1: big story the midterms is that swing voter. Your swing
Speaker 1: voting is back, not swing voting, I'm sorry, split ticket
Speaker 1: voting is back. Um. There were quite a few, there
Speaker 1: were quite a few millions of voters this year who
Speaker 1: voted for Republican in the Senate or a Republican for
Speaker 1: governor and then a Democrat to run their states actual elections.
Speaker 1: That's kind of good. It's so that's also like speaks
Speaker 1: promisingly of people's engagement with the political system and education
Speaker 1: about it and the awareness of what these different things do. Yes, um,
Speaker 1: but other like like that, other than that, but just overall,
Speaker 1: high level dobbs was the big one. Um. There is
Speaker 1: a person whose name I'm going to unfortunately mispronounce, and
Speaker 1: that I should have looked up beforehand. So all right,
Speaker 1: this is a safe place for that, Thank you. But
Speaker 1: there's a person there's a guy down in Louisiana named
Speaker 1: John uh cool Van I think is my best guests,
Speaker 1: and he is one of the people who makes money
Speaker 1: off of like looking at elections UM, and his big
Speaker 1: thing is that you can predict the outcome of elections
Speaker 1: just by looking at the nationwide composition of the primary electorate.
Speaker 1: So like, if Republicans turn out more voters in their
Speaker 1: primaries and Democrats to Republicans are going to win the
Speaker 1: election and vice versa. This has been true in pretty
Speaker 1: much every single election for the last thirty years or
Speaker 1: so UM, and he unfortunately got led astray UM this
Speaker 1: year because nationwide at the end of the primary season,
Speaker 1: Republicans were up by about like five points, and so
Speaker 1: he was insisting the whole rest of the campaign that
Speaker 1: Republicans are going to win. That's obviously not really what happened.
Speaker 1: But if you look at pre DBS versus post OBS,
Speaker 1: the primary elector at post OBS was Democrats plus like
Speaker 1: up by one point. That is the electorate that we
Speaker 1: got in the mid terms. So Dobbs set the tone
Speaker 1: of like what the mid terms were going to be UM,
Speaker 1: because we are not going to be legalizing abortion nationwide
Speaker 1: in the next two years because we are going to
Speaker 1: have a Republican House almost certainly, Dobbs is almost definitely
Speaker 1: going to be a huge factor in twenty four as well.
Speaker 1: I mean, and I guess that, like because the question
Speaker 1: I had, and I think a lot of people had
Speaker 1: running into this, especially people who are not election lovers,
Speaker 1: is like, do things matter? Right? Like? It was Dobbs
Speaker 1: going to matter? And was the were the constant sort
Speaker 1: of Republican assaults on on the ability of people to vote?
Speaker 1: Was the fucking attacks on children's hospitals and on trans
Speaker 1: case and stuff like? Was all of that going to work? Like?
Speaker 1: Do do things matter? Still? And? Uh, you know, we
Speaker 1: have to renswer that question. But it does kind of
Speaker 1: seem like that's the positive take out from this is
Speaker 1: not like, you know, it's it's probably probably too early
Speaker 1: to say are we seeing some sort of grand progressive
Speaker 1: swing or are people coming around on Biden or whatever
Speaker 1: things politicos want to take. But it does kind of
Speaker 1: seem that, like, on a on a very like ground
Speaker 1: floor level, Uh, it mattered that the Republicans were doing
Speaker 1: awful things, Yes, mattered. Um, I think Christopher and I
Speaker 1: have talked about how, in his words, Leah Thomas cost
Speaker 1: the Michigan Republican Party of the election. Um, let's talk.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that, because I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people I mean, yeah, let's yeah, let's talk about Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll give them I'll give the meme version of it first.
Speaker 1: The meme version of it basically is that there was Okay,
Speaker 1: so there there there was a report released by the
Speaker 1: Republican Party in Michigan after the election when they sort
Speaker 1: of got hammered. Part of what they're talking about was like, okay,
Speaker 1: so inflation is like seven point seven percent right now, right,
Speaker 1: this is the freest election anyone has ever been handed,
Speaker 1: like in human history, Like a child could have won
Speaker 1: this election. And the Republicans vanaged to blow it. And
Speaker 1: one of these they talk about this, they spent they
Speaker 1: spent like twenty five million dollars, like specifically on ads
Speaker 1: about trans like trans kids in sports and everybody mission.
Speaker 1: It was just like what the yes, real care not
Speaker 1: just not just blew it, but blew it in a
Speaker 1: way that they haven't blown it in forty years. Because
Speaker 1: for the first time in forty years, Democrats will have
Speaker 1: complete control of the Michigan state government. Yeah. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: it's like it's like the other things. It wasn't just
Speaker 1: in Michigan where this happened, right like like quite possibly,
Speaker 1: Like one of the ways they're going to lose the
Speaker 1: Senate is because like the Republicans like entire sort of
Speaker 1: apparatus and Nevada was against the Equal Rights Amendments, which
Speaker 1: and specifically they were running against the equal nevented passing
Speaker 1: diversity of the Equal Rights Amendment, like specifically on the
Speaker 1: grounds of transphobia, and the e ARRA passed by seventeen points. Uh,
Speaker 1: and replicants are about to lose that Senate. See, and
Speaker 1: it's just like my mein version of this is that
Speaker 1: the Republican Party ran a platform that is like the
Speaker 1: political equivalent of like a street preacher, right, like that
Speaker 1: that is the constituency for this. It is like they
Speaker 1: unbelievably hate trans people. They like an unbelievably hard line
Speaker 1: anti abortion position, which again like nobody actually likes. And
Speaker 1: you know, it turns out like if if if your
Speaker 1: constituency is street preachers, like the thing an average person
Speaker 1: does when they run into a street preacher is walked
Speaker 1: past them, and it turns out that's what happened to
Speaker 1: hear like this and they got, oh, that's that's that's
Speaker 1: the mean version of it. Absolutely, I mean that's not
Speaker 1: just the mean version of it. Is essentially what happened,
Speaker 1: UM in Michigan and Pennsylvania, in all of these states
Speaker 1: where hardline Christian nationalists won Republican primaries, like they went
Speaker 1: down hard um and so as Robert said, yeah, things
Speaker 1: actually mattered this election, and that's a good thing. UM.
Speaker 1: And I think I know for me, as like, I
Speaker 1: went into election night very nervous about my own predictions
Speaker 1: because when I put together my um Google spreadsheet that
Speaker 1: will never be shown to any of you because of
Speaker 1: how insane it is. UM. And I was picking, you know,
Speaker 1: I got more races wrong, by the way, by picking
Speaker 1: Republicans to win that Democrats actually won, then the other
Speaker 1: way around, because I kept second guessing myself. It's like
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, I'm not I'm being too kind to
Speaker 1: Democrats and then I went too far. But when I
Speaker 1: was making those predictions, honestly, I just kept thinking about, like,
Speaker 1: so I'm adopted, my parents are both white, and my
Speaker 1: mom is this like white woman from appalation, Ohio. And
Speaker 1: she is is UM in her upper sixties, so she
Speaker 1: grew up in a world before Roe v. Wade UM.
Speaker 1: And I had never seen my mom so angry about
Speaker 1: anything in politics, and like she was very very angry
Speaker 1: when Trump won. UM. She has been very angry. She's
Speaker 1: been very angry about like January six. She's been angry
Speaker 1: about a lot of stuff the last several years, as
Speaker 1: is my dad UM, because they're both very normally Democrats.
Speaker 1: But my mom has never been angrier as far as
Speaker 1: I've seen her than she was angrier about Dobbs. And
Speaker 1: it wasn't just like my mom. I was hearing from
Speaker 1: friends of mine from across the Midwest who also have
Speaker 1: like normy white suburban parents, and that was kind of
Speaker 1: the same thing that I was hearing from them too,
Speaker 1: is like, my mom is so upset about this, My
Speaker 1: grandmother is so upset about this. These women who remembered
Speaker 1: what it was like to grow up in a world
Speaker 1: where abortion it was not something that that they had
Speaker 1: access to if they needed it. UM, And that honestly,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's obviously completely anecdotal. It's not databased
Speaker 1: or data driven in any way. But that was just
Speaker 1: what I kept thinking about as I was making predictions
Speaker 1: about how the midterm was gonna go. Was you know,
Speaker 1: I think that these people are angry enough that they
Speaker 1: are not going to care about inflation. They're not going
Speaker 1: to care about the fact that our economy is very
Speaker 1: clearly headed for recession, um, because this is going to
Speaker 1: matter more to them, um, And it did. I kind't
Speaker 1: want to move on to talking about what what we
Speaker 1: think this sets us up for because I think the
Speaker 1: clearest and we talked about this a little earlier, but
Speaker 1: sort of the clearest thing that's positive about this is
Speaker 1: that we have of fewer state secretaries of state and
Speaker 1: state legislatures in the hands of the Republican Party, which
Speaker 1: means more of a chance that like what people actually
Speaker 1: vote for is going no matter. Um. Now, we're still
Speaker 1: dealing with the judiciary that is as fucked as it
Speaker 1: was prior to the mid terms and probably won't be
Speaker 1: less fucked in a way that is notable, um and aggregate, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we can. We can always hope and pray. Yeah. Then
Speaker 1: there could be a couple of very specific car accidents. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah on that point. Actually, so there, I know, I
Speaker 1: bang on about about like how the United States deals
Speaker 1: with its indigenous people a lot, but like that they
Speaker 1: slated and we'll do an episode on it, but we're
Speaker 1: trying to do it properly. Like slated for this Supreme
Speaker 1: Court session is to look at AQUA, right, the Indian
Speaker 1: Child Welfare Act, and like the challenge to it, challenges
Speaker 1: on out of the basis of other tribal law and
Speaker 1: in places like Arizona, right, Like, indigenous people are a
Speaker 1: large like often like they're supposed to be like the
Speaker 1: swing electorate and for like blue Arizona, so they could
Speaker 1: have positive outcomes for for Democrats, it could they could.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they could go out their way
Speaker 1: to this in French trans indigenous people, but they find
Speaker 1: you and exciting ways to do it all the fucking time.
Speaker 1: So like that will be interesting. And one thing I
Speaker 1: wanted to raise is like, so I live in California,
Speaker 1: which I think is seen as like the left coast
Speaker 1: and stuff, but we have an alarming amount of really
Speaker 1: chuggly people going to the house from California, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's becoming increasingly a bit like where like some of
Speaker 1: you live in Oregon, where like you have a very
Speaker 1: The far right in California is larger than the population
Speaker 1: of like many United US states. Yeah, yes, and they're
Speaker 1: increasingly big mad about like it's small things, m but yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I'm just looking at the districts around the one
Speaker 1: I'm in, and a number of them have sent like
Speaker 1: anti reproductive rights house representatives back to the House. California
Speaker 1: is a state where, um, the Democratic Party likes to
Speaker 1: flop its way to victory. It's one of it's one
Speaker 1: of the most incompetent state Democratic parties in the country,
Speaker 1: which is really saying something because they're competing. They're competing
Speaker 1: with they're competing with Florida. Like, I mean, hey, Oregons
Speaker 1: not didn't do great either, Like the state Democratic Party
Speaker 1: in Oregon had the most narrow governor's race in a
Speaker 1: long time, and also the Dems lost their their supermajority
Speaker 1: in the state Congress. They did lose their supermajority, but
Speaker 1: Democrats in Oregon do now have the ability to redistrict again,
Speaker 1: so they can take back that seat that Republicans picked
Speaker 1: up because there were is a constitutional amendment that got
Speaker 1: passed by the voters of Oregon that says that if
Speaker 1: Republicans do what they have done in the last few
Speaker 1: years in Oregon, which is walk out of the state
Speaker 1: House any time that a lot of my past they
Speaker 1: get banned for running for re election. But also, like
Speaker 1: without the supermajority, I don't know that there's as much
Speaker 1: of any I mean, we'll see what happens. Um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's there. As a general rule, it seems like when
Speaker 1: you've got there's no meaningful competition for what party is
Speaker 1: going to be in control of the state. It becomes
Speaker 1: a haven for like the political equivalent of grifters to
Speaker 1: suck in huge salaries and do very little um and yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah math, or to just do like star mayor look
Speaker 1: at that may also yeah, and she's up for re
Speaker 1: election in a few months, and we can only hope
Speaker 1: that she that she loses. I can't imagine her winning.
Speaker 1: I mean, it could happen, It could happen, It could happen.
Speaker 1: Here here's here's an ad break. Yeah what a professional. Ah,
Speaker 1: we're back. And you know what, talking about the mid
Speaker 1: term elections makes me feel like doing smoking a cigarette.
Speaker 1: Buy cigarettes, kids, they're is good for you. As democracy.
Speaker 1: All right, we're back in some other interesting news. This
Speaker 1: is also the this this Pessiman terms had more lgbt
Speaker 1: Q candidates win office than ever before in a midterm election.
Speaker 1: There was a few notable winds uh, specifically with trans
Speaker 1: people in the Midwest actually, which has been probably a
Speaker 1: decent side. It's it's a good sign, you know, heroes
Speaker 1: are doing good. Yeah, there's been a multiple multiple trans
Speaker 1: people and trans uh particularly quite a few trans women
Speaker 1: elected to state legislatives across across the Midwest, like in
Speaker 1: Montana and inside uh Midwestern I'm calling that out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well Mountain West. See. Well, the thing is I grew
Speaker 1: I grew up in Saskatchewan, which is like above Montana,
Speaker 1: and whenever you would drive down, we would always stay
Speaker 1: in the more Midwest east sections and everyone talks it
Speaker 1: felt very Midwest to me because of where I lived
Speaker 1: in Saskatchewan. So apology apologies to people who are Montana Mountainers,
Speaker 1: I guess apologies, No, no, we don't need to be
Speaker 1: upon So Zoe Zephyr, who testified against anti trans legislation
Speaker 1: previously is now able to vote against it um in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I talk about that, like very briefly, which is that like, Okay,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of queer communities in places that
Speaker 1: people just fucking ignore. Absolutely, it's just can you cannot
Speaker 1: discount these places? Yeah, it's like Missoula specifically has has
Speaker 1: a like like pretty substantive queer community. They do good ship,
Speaker 1: they're out there like they're like there's there's this sort
Speaker 1: of tendency I think to like like look at like
Speaker 1: a state and go like, oh, it's a red state,
Speaker 1: like there's whatever. They're just fleeing, and it's like it's
Speaker 1: not true, Like there there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: who are like have for many years been building a
Speaker 1: community there and hanging aucenaciously and building it. And also
Speaker 1: in Missoula, people take notice. Also in Missoula, the first
Speaker 1: non binary candidate was elected in UH s J. Howell,
Speaker 1: So tou to trans people. It's elected there in in
Speaker 1: uh in Missoula. But the way did did did Missoula,
Speaker 1: Missoula do this? Portland? Probably Portland's like city councils like
Speaker 1: four people. Yeah that's true, yeah, entirely. Yeah, and it
Speaker 1: swung and it's pretty conservative that this past election. Actually, um,
Speaker 1: but we also had in Minnesota, uh lay a think
Speaker 1: because the first transperson in state lets legislator and in
Speaker 1: New Hampshire, Uh, they elected the first transman to a
Speaker 1: US state House. So yeah, and and the other other
Speaker 1: good thing is um Arizona got a Democratic governor, which
Speaker 1: means a whole bunch of potential legislation will probably not
Speaker 1: get signed on because Arizona did have some pretty pretty
Speaker 1: pretty bad anti trans station to come up in the
Speaker 1: past few years. I also want to talk about So
Speaker 1: the Arizona election was critical, not just because it's amazing
Speaker 1: that fucking carry La is not going to be governor
Speaker 1: because she is an election denying google Um, but the
Speaker 1: nicest thing Blake Masters might be the scariest person who
Speaker 1: was running for a life. He is. He is the
Speaker 1: scariest serial killer. Yeah, yeah, yeah he was. He was
Speaker 1: scary until he was funny, is the thing, because like I,
Speaker 1: you know, when they failed, they're always funny. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: Christopher and I were talking about this before the podcast,
Speaker 1: and like during the during the final debate between Blake
Speaker 1: Masters and Mark Kelly, like and I just swear on
Speaker 1: this podcast, like we're allowed to say whatever the hell
Speaker 1: we want perfect Um debate. In their final debate between
Speaker 1: Mark Kelly and Blake Masters, Mark Kelly's like final statement,
Speaker 1: his conclusion argument was essentially pointing at Blake Masters and going,
Speaker 1: look at this fucking freak. Yeah, yeah, it was great
Speaker 1: it which is the which is one of the most
Speaker 1: powerful things he could do in politics because he was
Speaker 1: just like, like the specific thing he did, because his
Speaker 1: language was was I think a lot more nuanced than that,
Speaker 1: because what he was saying is Blake Masters. For those
Speaker 1: of you who don't don't know, like one of the
Speaker 1: most like famous moments of this campaign is he he
Speaker 1: put out a campaign ad that was just him parking
Speaker 1: in the desert with a silenced handgun, mentioning which is
Speaker 1: a child's gun, first off, but anyway, mentioning twice that
Speaker 1: the gun was German and like German, rested and then
Speaker 1: firing it blindly at nothing. And then the ad he
Speaker 1: fired it across the lake. Don't see him shoot at something,
Speaker 1: We don't see him hit a target. He is his
Speaker 1: stances dogs anyway, But it's just him taking a silence
Speaker 1: pistol out repeatedly mentioning that the gun is German, firing it,
Speaker 1: and the ad ends that's the whole a seconds of
Speaker 1: him just fondling and badly shooting it. It's worth giving
Speaker 1: the context that the person he's running against is someone
Speaker 1: whose wife was shot in the head. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because so that's but it's also just like, look, guns
Speaker 1: are a big part of American life. A lot of
Speaker 1: politicians have, including Democrats, have ads that involved guns, and
Speaker 1: usually it's like here is me hunting, you know, or
Speaker 1: even like here is me the range with friends, engaging
Speaker 1: in a thing that many Americans do. Masters was just
Speaker 1: blindly shooting a twenty two caliber handgun after immediately mentioning
Speaker 1: that it's German. It was like someone showed an alien,
Speaker 1: like a regular campaign ad someone shooting a gun, and
Speaker 1: then yes, I mean it's funny that that's the term
Speaker 1: that you use, because that was a term that was
Speaker 1: flying around like Arizona social media the entire campaign. It
Speaker 1: was like Blake Bastard's looks like an alien and you
Speaker 1: get pumped with Peter Tiel money for so so he
Speaker 1: has this and he has a couple of others like
Speaker 1: he is, he is on he's a number one. He
Speaker 1: worked with Peter Teele for years. Um, he's doing all
Speaker 1: sorts of fucking gohoule ship on Twitter, like really mask off, fascist, unhinged, shit.
Speaker 1: And Mark Kelly in the debate, isn't just like, look
Speaker 1: at this freak. He's like, hey, we all know guys
Speaker 1: like this talk about how dangerous and how scary they are,
Speaker 1: but they they've never done anything. They're just like weirdos
Speaker 1: trying to scare you so that you'll think that they're
Speaker 1: they're powerful, and like, don't don't fall forward it And
Speaker 1: it was perfect and the good news is that Arizona
Speaker 1: voters did not fall for it because you know, not
Speaker 1: only did Blake Masters lose by the best performing Republicans
Speaker 1: in Arizona where their House candidates, like the statewide house
Speaker 1: pular vote for the for U. S Congress, not the
Speaker 1: statehouse was I think Republicans want it, are going to
Speaker 1: win it by like five. So Cary Lake already drastically
Speaker 1: underperformed that by six because she's gonna lose. And then
Speaker 1: to Blake Masters underperformed his House candidates by like ten
Speaker 1: or eleven. Unbelievable. It's it's I mean it. It really
Speaker 1: goes to show that whatever most Americans want, they don't
Speaker 1: want a fucking weirdo fascist freak threatening. Uh there an
Speaker 1: astronaut's wife with a gun. Yeah, really briefly, like also
Speaker 1: like on this note, of all of the queer and
Speaker 1: trans candidates who won, um, I will point out this
Speaker 1: follows the pattern that has taken shape in the last decade,
Speaker 1: which is that these supposedly well not supposedly they are,
Speaker 1: but like these red and purple states in the South
Speaker 1: and the Midwest are sending queer and trans people into
Speaker 1: the hall of power a lot faster than deep blue
Speaker 1: states on the West coast and in the Northeast. The
Speaker 1: first non unfortunately forget their name, but the first non
Speaker 1: binary state legislator in the country was elected in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: And they're not only non binary, they are black and
Speaker 1: Muslim non binary. UM. So it's like, you know, these um,
Speaker 1: these communities as Christophers, like a, these communities do matter,
Speaker 1: and we can't forget about them, we can't abandon them.
Speaker 1: But also like not just they matter, but like, as
Speaker 1: I will happily argue, with any political operative from either coast,
Speaker 1: we are much more likely to see some kind of
Speaker 1: progressive resurgeons resurgeons in this country led by candidates out
Speaker 1: of the South or Midwest than either yeah, yeah, well
Speaker 1: and like like look at like this is one of
Speaker 1: the everythings that that you know, So I have a
Speaker 1: lot of friends in the like Michigan teachers Union, right,
Speaker 1: and you know, like right right now, what is happening
Speaker 1: in the Michigan Like in Michigan is that the teachers
Speaker 1: Union is literally sending lists of laws like to to
Speaker 1: the governor that are like you need to get rid
Speaker 1: of this. And you know, if you like if even
Speaker 1: if you look at like like almost every other Democratic
Speaker 1: Party like in the country is just constantly at word
Speaker 1: their teachers unions, and you know, and then you look
Speaker 1: at like you look at what's happening in Wisconsin, and
Speaker 1: it's like, like, what's happening in Michigan. Wells also Wisconsin too,
Speaker 1: with like they have a much more labor friendly like
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party even like fucking San Francisco or like
Speaker 1: the ghouls in like like honestly the ghouls in the
Speaker 1: Chicago machine, right Eric Adams office. Yeah, right, Like there's
Speaker 1: there's there's I don't know, they're like everybody doors the
Speaker 1: Midwest and we're here, damn it, and we do good things.
Speaker 1: Well it's a little bit like I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: little bit of what we were saying earlier that like
Speaker 1: when you've got these states where because of the population layout,
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party doesn't have to struggle to actually win
Speaker 1: for the most part, you're a hell of a lot.
Speaker 1: Number one, the party becomes effectively a cartel, so they're
Speaker 1: very good at stopping any like upstart, young progressive, non binary,
Speaker 1: queer trans people from like getting a hold on in
Speaker 1: local politics. You know, we we just had the most
Speaker 1: progressive member of the Portland City Council ousted by corporate
Speaker 1: business interests UM and you know it, which is very
Speaker 1: different from the trend that you're seeing in places like Montana,
Speaker 1: places like Oklahoma with a lot of these very progressive,
Speaker 1: you know, young candidates. And it's because um number one,
Speaker 1: maybe the state parties are a little more willing to
Speaker 1: throw a hail Mary. But also, just like those individual people,
Speaker 1: the people running in the folks doing their campaign have
Speaker 1: had to be a lot harder and a lot smarter
Speaker 1: to survive surrounded by people who hate them. And I
Speaker 1: think also like there's one of the ways that I
Speaker 1: was pretty sure that this wasn't going to be a
Speaker 1: read tsunami was so I have some friends, I have
Speaker 1: friends who go to Wheaton College, and for people who
Speaker 1: don't know who what Wheaton College is. It is like
Speaker 1: we're sorry that we're about to inform you. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: Wheaton College is one of like I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: the second behind like Graham Young like most right, we
Speaker 1: can evangelical college in the US, like they they famous.
Speaker 1: It's it's not as bad as the Liberty Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like number three, right, but like so it's it's
Speaker 1: it's this is this is like the the intellectual center
Speaker 1: of um like of sort of evangelical politics, like make
Speaker 1: sure I have this right, yeah, Like Billy Graham's family
Speaker 1: has funneled money into wheat In College for decades. In
Speaker 1: two days now and okay, so like Wheaton is a
Speaker 1: like broadly beking like a fucking ferociously hostile place to
Speaker 1: be anything other than a like assist head white person. Right,
Speaker 1: it is like unbelievably homophobic. It is really anti semitic.
Speaker 1: And like a few months ago, I was walking like
Speaker 1: through Wheaton downtown to visit a front and in the
Speaker 1: middle of fucking Wheaton Downtown, they're they're they're like there
Speaker 1: there there was someone who on in there in there
Speaker 1: like fucking lawn had had like had a giant Pride
Speaker 1: flag and like it wasn't like it was like it
Speaker 1: was like the it was the like the Brown Pride
Speaker 1: flag too, right, Like that was like even like five
Speaker 1: years ago, that would have been unimaginable, Like you would
Speaker 1: have been like you would have been fucking chased out
Speaker 1: of town by a bob. Like and it's it's just
Speaker 1: there now, and I don't know, like they haven't been
Speaker 1: run out. It's still there. No, it's literally yes everything
Speaker 1: that Christopher just said. And you know, these are people
Speaker 1: that Christopher, Christopher and I grew up with, like we
Speaker 1: literally I was there was a granddaughter of Billy Graham
Speaker 1: in my high school class. Um. And I think, you know,
Speaker 1: as much as you know, these people are not going
Speaker 1: to be socialists or progressive as anytime soon. They are
Speaker 1: very much like normy moderate Democrats now. But there were
Speaker 1: a lot of suburban white people who got very turned
Speaker 1: off by Trump for the Republican Party. And I think
Speaker 1: this mid term is the confirmation that, barring you know,
Speaker 1: some kind of economic catastrophe that always always throws elections
Speaker 1: to the out of power party, Uh, these Norman white
Speaker 1: suburban nights are not going back. Uh. And we you know,
Speaker 1: when you look at trends across the country. Um you
Speaker 1: know JB. Printker one do Page County, which is the
Speaker 1: county that Wheaton is in, which is like you know
Speaker 1: this is this yeah, like this used to be within
Speaker 1: Christopher and I his lifetimes. This used to be a
Speaker 1: county that Republicans banked on getting three hundred thousand votes
Speaker 1: out of on a statewide margin level. Um and now
Speaker 1: it's being one up and down by Democrats. Like Democrats
Speaker 1: flipped the county executive office in du Page County this year.
Speaker 1: Um So, like Chicago suburbs are trending are continuing to
Speaker 1: trend left, Atlanta suburbs are continuing to trend left. Uh
Speaker 1: the like Raleigh Durham area in North Carolina is trending left.
Speaker 1: The Texas urban areas are trending left. And this isn't
Speaker 1: just like in comparison to twenty six. This is in
Speaker 1: comparison to two years ago, which was a democratic environment.
Speaker 1: Um So, the fact that these counties are swinging left
Speaker 1: in a year where the country, even though the overall
Speaker 1: results were fined, the country definitely swung right, like these
Speaker 1: people are not going back. And not just that these
Speaker 1: people are not going back, but the ones who are
Speaker 1: staying Republicans A. They're moving, they're leaving the suburbs and
Speaker 1: they're establishing their little new white flight outposts in other places. Um.
Speaker 1: And the people who are replacing them are largely people
Speaker 1: of color. Like the suburbs today in America are sixty
Speaker 1: percent white as compared to in the year two thousand
Speaker 1: when they were something like percent white. UM. So this
Speaker 1: is I think this year was the confirmation we needed
Speaker 1: that this is a permanent trend that the suburbs from
Speaker 1: now on are either going to be a wash or
Speaker 1: even frankly just democratic places where Democrats will net votes.
Speaker 1: And this is all. There still is a lot of fear,
Speaker 1: and there's still is reason to be very concerned about
Speaker 1: the ability of the GOP's power to push things in
Speaker 1: a revancheus direction, in an anti democratic election, to remove
Speaker 1: the ability of people because that that is you know,
Speaker 1: we're seeing them talk right now. We're seeing guys like
Speaker 1: Matt Walsh, Christopher Rufo talk right now about the need
Speaker 1: to like stop young people from voting, to crack down
Speaker 1: on mail voting. Like this is not not to say
Speaker 1: like all right, it's all done, um, but this is
Speaker 1: like I guess the thing that's that's optimistic about this
Speaker 1: overall is that it is um it's evidence that the
Speaker 1: the there there was this kind of open question after
Speaker 1: Trump won in UM and if one thing you could
Speaker 1: look at, you could look at, you could look at
Speaker 1: two and go like, well, clearly the trend since then
Speaker 1: has been for the GOP to lose big in most
Speaker 1: of these elections. But that was also anything but clear,
Speaker 1: kind of as a result of the way COVID fuck
Speaker 1: things up. And this this does seem to like submit
Speaker 1: that that like, yeah, it may it may have in
Speaker 1: the long run proved to be a major, major tactical
Speaker 1: failure to to have gone for this guy the way
Speaker 1: that they did. Oh yeah, I mean, and we can
Speaker 1: only hope. I mean, I personally, from an entertainment factor,
Speaker 1: cannot wait for the the Santa's versus Trump primary. Um,
Speaker 1: I will be I will be rooting for Trump because
Speaker 1: he is funnier online. Um. And also I don't think
Speaker 1: it would make a substance of difference, uh in whether
Speaker 1: or not like who would be the nominee, because the
Speaker 1: Santis is just Trump without the charisma. Um. But I think, yeah, hopefully,
Speaker 1: like we saw the Republican party pay a price this
Speaker 1: year for arguably the first time in a long time
Speaker 1: for their insanity. Um and it's good to see that
Speaker 1: that happened. Hopefully it will happen again. And I will
Speaker 1: also note for anyone listening, who does you know, you
Speaker 1: care about elections, you want to get involved somewhere. The
Speaker 1: next somewhere for you to get involved in is the
Speaker 1: state of Wisconsin, where the there is a state Supreme
Speaker 1: Court seat up for election in April. If Democrats win
Speaker 1: that seat, they will flip the Supreme Court in Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: and that means that the absolutely insane Republican jerry managers
Speaker 1: in that state, which pretty much render the state of
Speaker 1: Wisconsin a non democracy, will likely get over charged if
Speaker 1: Democrats are able to flip the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which
Speaker 1: would mean a lot of good things could happen for
Speaker 1: a lot of people who live in that state. Okay,
Speaker 1: there is one other thing that is like basically umbul
Speaker 1: agist I don't want to touch on before we blows up,
Speaker 1: which is that the extent to which the Republicans have
Speaker 1: sort of entered chaos mode now a with with Trump
Speaker 1: just sort of like going off on the Santis and
Speaker 1: like the Remolican civil war happening. And then secondly, because
Speaker 1: they seem it looks like they've gotten the chaos mode
Speaker 1: configuration of their House majority. Yes, Um, any anyone who
Speaker 1: pays attention to Congress, I would encourage you to get very,
Speaker 1: very familiar with the term discharged petition, which is a
Speaker 1: mechanism by which if you have a majority of the
Speaker 1: House is willing to sign a piece of paper that
Speaker 1: says we should put this bill on the floor no
Speaker 1: matter what. It goes to the floor, no matter what. Um.
Speaker 1: And I think you're probably going to see Democrats successfully
Speaker 1: put a lot of bills on the House floor in
Speaker 1: the next two years because they're gonna get They're going
Speaker 1: to pick off the Republican moderates in the northeast to
Speaker 1: sign these these pieces of paper. We should I think
Speaker 1: we should explain what exactly Republican position looks like because
Speaker 1: it's oh sure, so, UM, it's so. I I should
Speaker 1: caveat this with the statement that there is still like
Speaker 1: I would say, a five percent chance that Democrats managed
Speaker 1: to scrap, like scrape their way to a one seat majority. Um,
Speaker 1: it's not likely by any means, but like it is
Speaker 1: still theoretically on the table, mostly because Lauren Bobert managed
Speaker 1: to put herself into position where she might actually lose.
Speaker 1: UM and but default modal outcome I would say is
Speaker 1: Republicans end up with a three or four House seat majority.
Speaker 1: Uh in. But what that means is that UHL, we
Speaker 1: get Calvin Ball for the next two years, essentially because
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy as a person, UM is well a he's
Speaker 1: like very unintelligent in general. And this is like a
Speaker 1: very common sentiment that you will run into uh in
Speaker 1: people who pay attention to Congress. He is not personally
Speaker 1: capable of managing a House majority of four. This is
Speaker 1: so widely accepted that Nancy Pelosi was willing to go
Speaker 1: on the record in an interview the other day saying
Speaker 1: that UM and so who knows Kevin McCarthy made not
Speaker 1: even end up being the speaker. We may not have
Speaker 1: a speaker until March because no one would get two
Speaker 1: and eighteen votes. Um. But whoever has that job, whatever
Speaker 1: Republican has that job, it is going to be the
Speaker 1: most thankless job of their life that they will suffer
Speaker 1: through for the next two years. Because you know, the
Speaker 1: the pundit class and political operatives love to talk about
Speaker 1: how ideologically diverse the Democratic Party is in the House,
Speaker 1: and it's true because like on the left wing end
Speaker 1: of the of the caucus you have people like Rashida
Speaker 1: Slab and Ellen Omar, and the right wing end you
Speaker 1: have people like Henry quay Are, who tragically survived his
Speaker 1: primary this year. UM. But I think it has gone
Speaker 1: under the radar that Republicans in the House are arguably
Speaker 1: more ideologically diverse than Democrats are because the moderates, the
Speaker 1: moderate Republicans in the House are like your very standard
Speaker 1: like socially liberal, fiscally conservative types that were very popular
Speaker 1: and like two thousand ten, UM, Like you have like
Speaker 1: some of these Northeastern Republicans who are were more than
Speaker 1: happy to vote for same sex marriage, though they would
Speaker 1: probably vote for uh like to quodeafy Row, they would
Speaker 1: probably vote to codify birth control legal like reality. And
Speaker 1: on the other end you have Marjorie Taylor Green and
Speaker 1: like if MT yeah, if if there is a person
Speaker 1: on this earth who is capable of managing that caucus, UM,
Speaker 1: I don't know who they are. I don't think anyone
Speaker 1: knows who they are. UM. And I think that the
Speaker 1: smartest thing that that person could do is, um not
Speaker 1: take the job and let someone else take the fall
Speaker 1: for what is going to be two years of chaos
Speaker 1: that will most likely hurt the Republican brand a lot
Speaker 1: in the next two years. Yeah. That that's like one
Speaker 1: of the things that actually makes me like slightly optimistic
Speaker 1: is that like the Republican Party like is it is
Speaker 1: it like a first coalition and it had been being
Speaker 1: held together sort of like by Trump and now Trump's
Speaker 1: not on Twitter anymore and Twitter may not exist by
Speaker 1: like the time need be speaker. Well, it's also I
Speaker 1: think I might add Chris, it's not just by Trump.
Speaker 1: And a part of why Trump was able to get
Speaker 1: the position did is it's it's a mix of Trump
Speaker 1: and owning the Libs, right, Like that's that's a huge
Speaker 1: part of why the most visible members of this caucus
Speaker 1: are where they are. Like, there's no there's no Marjorie
Speaker 1: Taylor Green right without the way that particular social reinforcement
Speaker 1: pattern works. And um yeah, I think that like that's
Speaker 1: not like number one. If Twitter goes away, which could
Speaker 1: have happened by the time you listen to this episode,
Speaker 1: that really gets gets in the way of their ability
Speaker 1: to own the Libs. But also if they're just getting
Speaker 1: their asses kicked up and down the country, they're they're
Speaker 1: no longer owning the Libs. The Libs have not been owned, No,
Speaker 1: they have not. And I think the other, you know,
Speaker 1: the other consideration here is that, um, we like to
Speaker 1: talk a lot in this country because it's true about
Speaker 1: neither party ever puts forth a substance of policy agenda. Um.
Speaker 1: And there are a lot of Republican political operatives who
Speaker 1: are running around right now complaining and saying that Republicans
Speaker 1: lost because they failed to offer a viable alternative. Except
Speaker 1: that's not true. Republicans did offer a policy agenda in
Speaker 1: this mid term and that policy agenda was Christian nationalism,
Speaker 1: and American voters took one look at that and said,
Speaker 1: are you fucking for real? Yeah, like that that's the
Speaker 1: that's the thing that like everyone like like people like
Speaker 1: all the fucking New York Times calumn this, like people
Speaker 1: don't understand that. Like there's maybe thirty percent of the
Speaker 1: population who actually likes that ship, and everyone else in
Speaker 1: the country is like, what the fuck? And you know,
Speaker 1: and but but you know, like the like the the
Speaker 1: the actual sort of median person in the US is
Speaker 1: so much less like that than the median person that
Speaker 1: every pundit imagines that like the version of reality that
Speaker 1: exist since sort of like the minds of the media class,
Speaker 1: like it's not yeah, they've they've, they've they've created incredible
Speaker 1: sand castles in their mind. Now the tides like washing
Speaker 1: them away. I don't know if the tides washing them away.
Speaker 1: I think we we can. We can only hope that
Speaker 1: The New York Times gets washed out to see But
Speaker 1: I think you know, I sorry, go for it, no, no, no, please.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, like, you know, obviously, the
Speaker 1: next two years are going to be the next two years,
Speaker 1: um and no one can predict the future. Anyone who
Speaker 1: anyone who tells you and literally the next eighteen months
Speaker 1: that they know how the two elections are going to
Speaker 1: go is lying to you, and you should block them
Speaker 1: and perhaps to report them to like whatever like non
Speaker 1: retributed forms of authority exists in your local area. But
Speaker 1: um my, you know, based on how this went, if
Speaker 1: the same trends play out for the next two years,
Speaker 1: which would be suburb continue swinging left Democrats continue to
Speaker 1: rack up problems with minority voters, but like not to
Speaker 1: the extent that we're gonna lose urban seats anytime soon. Um,
Speaker 1: and Republicans continue racking up margins in the states and
Speaker 1: like the seats that they're already winning by eighty points,
Speaker 1: which helps them on a statewide level but does not
Speaker 1: help them in the U. S. House. My I would say, like,
Speaker 1: assuming the current trends continue the trends we've had since sixteen, UM,
Speaker 1: that would mean Democrats flip back the House in two
Speaker 1: thousand twenty four. Uh. It would also mean that we
Speaker 1: are once again in like the fight of our lives
Speaker 1: for the Senate, as we likely will be for every
Speaker 1: single cycle for the next ten years. So you know,
Speaker 1: just kind of get used to that, um while you
Speaker 1: can when you have the breather. UM. But yeah, like,
Speaker 1: we had an okay mid term that was literally a
Speaker 1: year ago looking like it was going to be possibly
Speaker 1: the worst midterm wipe out, possibly the end of the
Speaker 1: Republics literally literally yea literally, UM, so it might be good.
Speaker 1: I think the responsible thing to do now is to
Speaker 1: close out by each giving one of our unhinged predictions
Speaker 1: for what we're gonna see in and I'm going to start.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna see Musk and McConaughey via for
Speaker 1: the governor of Texas once Greg Abbott is forced out
Speaker 1: god from a sex scandal. Um, that's my that's my call,
Speaker 1: proved to me. Show show when when when it happens? Everybody?
Speaker 1: Everybody alowe me? Yeah, some some French fries. Oh god,
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. Calling it now tom Brady, I reckon,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is gonna tom Brady's gonna take a swing
Speaker 1: at it at Texas. No one of those states up
Speaker 1: in where it's called marine at the time. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I assume he's from, broadly speaking, it Ay to Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: He is, he would be running in New England. Please
Speaker 1: do not pin that on us. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, bro,
Speaker 1: but no that kind of cold, like yeah, just just gray,
Speaker 1: not like like miserable cold like you will have the Yeah,
Speaker 1: tom Brady running in a place where you can't grow
Speaker 1: tomatoes is yeah, it's my prediction. That feels good. After
Speaker 1: his massive success selling the hit crypto platform f t X.
Speaker 1: What what can't Tom Brady do? Who knows? Don't don't
Speaker 1: ask that wuldn't put that out there win games for
Speaker 1: the bucketeers. Yeah, yeah in Germany. Yeah, survive eating what
Speaker 1: any normal human being would eat on a given day. Garrison.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't. I don't care about this
Speaker 1: type of thing very much. The perfect reason to make
Speaker 1: prediction unhinged prediction. I don't know. I think one of
Speaker 1: the funniest things is that earlier this year there's this
Speaker 1: big bit quin account who said that if things continue,
Speaker 1: bit coin is going to be a major factor in
Speaker 1: the mid terms, which is so not wrong. So I'm
Speaker 1: saying that, what's the what's what's an even dember cryptocurrency? Um?
Speaker 1: I was thinking of? I was thinking of, does coin
Speaker 1: is gonna be a significant factor in election? Yeah? Uh?
Speaker 1: Mine is that? Mine is that? Okay, Pritzker is going
Speaker 1: to bring back like the old school democratic machine, and
Speaker 1: by bye bye is gonna fall out a window like
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. He's going to sort of like turn up
Speaker 1: like they're going to drain a damn in thirty years
Speaker 1: and find her body and it's going to run again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he won't because he will have fallen out of a building.
Speaker 1: Then near the end of the about Christmas, that's your
Speaker 1: prediction that Joe Biden will fall out of a window
Speaker 1: the fourth Comtration of Prague. Like we we we all
Speaker 1: think that like the sort of like threat, like the
Speaker 1: threat to bourgeois democracy comes come comes from the Republicans.
Speaker 1: It's not. It's Pritzker. Pritsker is gonna cu the fucking
Speaker 1: country and probably sixty percent of the population is going
Speaker 1: to be completely on board because he's going to be
Speaker 1: less insane than like everyone that's been like in charge
Speaker 1: of this country for the last fifty years. And you
Speaker 1: know who's gonna save democracy? Then okay, m yeah, Okay.
Speaker 1: That leaves me what is my unhinted prediction. I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna top christophers prediction about JP prints ker Um.
Speaker 1: You know. I think my unhinted prediction will be that
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift runs for Senate in Tennessee. Oh god, oh
Speaker 1: she could do it. Yeah, yeah, don't don't look. It's
Speaker 1: if she brings on, if she brings on the head
Speaker 1: of her fan club who went to jail in Israel
Speaker 1: for refusing to serve the idea, I think they actually
Speaker 1: might get some progressive Yeah, that may have been untrue. Sadly,
Speaker 1: the swifty refuge. But maybe, really, really, why why did
Speaker 1: you even introducing that? Why? Why would you? Why would
Speaker 1: you say that to me? Yeah, because not all these
Speaker 1: beautiful things we believe it could be true, but Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift running for Tennessee, she would almost certainly be better
Speaker 1: than whoever is a Tennessee senator now right, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: now Colonel Sanders or someone basically the same as Colonel Sanders.
Speaker 1: I imagine that's Kentucky. Yeah, come on, come on, British
Speaker 1: is Kentucky. It's called Kentucky fried Chicken. James, that was
Speaker 1: that was basically a slur. I there is a type
Speaker 1: of guy epitomized by Colonel Sanders, who also pies all
Speaker 1: the Senate seat south to the Mason Dixon line. That's
Speaker 1: not true. That's that's my that's my stunt, and I'm
Speaker 1: sticking to it. I am pushing back on this. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch a fog horn leghorn video because that's
Speaker 1: that's who I'm thinking of now, James, all right, everybody
Speaker 1: that's been the episode, m hm, go vote Swift, Yeah,
Speaker 1: vote another couple of times. Just make sure, yeah, this
Speaker 1: looks the old Chicago model. Vote early vote often pay
Speaker 1: for pay for a few meals. Everyone go to Colorado
Speaker 1: and vote against lor Yes, literally seven of you or
Speaker 1: whatever constwing this. Let move to Colorado. We can't deal
Speaker 1: with her ship anymore. Fund raise in order to purchase
Speaker 1: a huge number of drones and drop ballots over wherever
Speaker 1: it is in Colorado. They count votes. I assume Denver, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Blanke at Denver in your ballots, and stop listening to
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