WEBVTT - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #39 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:10.440 Old media. 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:18.840 No, yep, yep, it's it could happen here electile. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:24.000 Disorder executive disorder, which is our weekly newscast, which we've 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.960 been doing all year, so we should we should know 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:27.920 what it's called by now. 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.120 Yeah, that's why I'm so good at doing it, naming it. 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:32.320 Yep. 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:35.680 This show covers what's happening in the White House, the 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.720 crumbling world, and what it means for you and me 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:41.680 and everyone else. I'm Garrison Davis. This episode, I'm joined 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.080 by Robert Evans, James Stout, and Maya Wong, and we 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:48.720 are covering the week of October twenty second to October thirtieth. Yep. 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.440 So I think we should start off the bat by 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:54.320 with the same thing we started off last week with, 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:59.240 which is that as your Halloween. Yeah, well that on 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.640 the upside weed woo spooky. On the downside, forty million 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:08.480 people lose, lose, there's not benefits the next day on Saturday. 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.880 Yeah, but what's spookier than that. Look, one thing you 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.480 can't say about the government is that they're not failing 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:17.160 to celebrate the holiday. 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.680 I am scared of the consequences. 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:24.560 Yeah, stock up on the trigger treater candy. 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.720 I guess, steal as much candy as you can get. 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:29.639 You're going to need it to stay alive. 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:31.880 See a group of children, you run past him. 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:32.640 Kick them. 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:34.120 Oh their kids. They can't stop you. 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.800 Yep. Hold it above your head. They can't reach it. 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.800 No, it is. It is extremely grim, and there seems 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.840 to be no indication from the Republicans of the Trump 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.399 administration that they are going to work with the Democrats 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:52.040 to resolve this without sacrificing health care for millions of Americans. 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.920 Yeah. So, Gavin Newsom, a friend of the show, has 0:01:55.960 --> 0:02:00.640 deployed the California National God to assist food banks and estate. 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:02.520 Oh my god. Yeah. 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.200 Like, look, the thing is, when you participate in the 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.480 largest crackdown unprotected First Amendments beach in recent history, you 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.560 don't get to show up and hand out snacks and 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:15.720 feel good. And many food banks, including some in the 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:19.160 Bay Area, have refused the help of National Guard members 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:22.680 right because they have this very obvious concern that some 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.640 people might be reluctant to go to places where the 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:29.160 soldiers who are standing right next to all the different 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:34.280 immigration agents in la are now working, and so this 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.280 will have the opposite of a positive effect in those 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:38.000 instances right, people who are afraid to go to food 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.320 banks are going to remain hungry. The consequences of this 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.840 will be negative. The issue, I don't think is a 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:47.080 lack of person power. The issue is a lack of funding. 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:52.120 The state has mobilized eighty million dollars in funds, but 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:57.320 millions of Californians will be going hungry. And because of 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:01.000 the failure of state authorities to stop federal authorities deploying 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.640 the National Guard to LA and other areas where immigration 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:07.640 enforcement was happening, this stunt that Newsman is going for 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.720 could have very negative consequences for for food banks and 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.800 for Californians who are hungry. Something sick and cool you 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:15.959 can do if you have the means and the time 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.160 is to pick up food from food banks for people 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.840 who need it. A lot of people might be concerned. 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.280 One of the biggest problems is how much food banks 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.520 get food also through these programs, yeah. 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.919 Yeah, yeah, I mean support. Yeah, food banks themselves are 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.400 going to be struggling right now. So like I actually 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.440 I did a thread on lib on blue Sky where 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:36.400 were you going to say? 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:38.800 Lived Twitter? And then corrected to blue Sky. 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:43.280 I was going to say lib Sky. Yeah. Yeah, I 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.680 fact checked myself. It's blue Wave Sky. 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:47.400 There you go. 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:49.960 You cannot get that past me. I could pick up 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:54.920 on what you were doing, Garrison Davis like a viper struck. Yeah, 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.240 at the core of my thought process. Yeah. 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:02.040 So if you're on, if you're Skeeita, then you can 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:03.960 you can find their threader made I link get in 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.440 the show notes with food banks that are looking for donations, 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.480 and you can also use that to find a food 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.440 bank in your area if you're interested in that. But yet, 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.440 this is a serious problem. This is the should be 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.400 the biggest news story. I'm thinking particularly of those folks 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:23.960 in Alaska right who found themselves as climate refugees due 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.800 to this storm right which flooded their villages and now 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.720 not only facing the loss of their villages and their homes, 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.960 but also all their cached food. These are people who 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:36.520 often would have hunted or fished or relied on storing 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.839 food for the winter, and now finding themselves unable to 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.760 access federal benefits. 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:46.080 Doing the thing that like, there's a representative. Clay Higgins 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:51.080 of Louisiana made a tweet today blaming snap recipients for 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.599 not stockpiling a month's worth of food. 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.080 Does he understand how this works? 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.080 He said, try to get your head wrapped around how 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.680 many pantries you can start with forty two hundred dollars, 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.480 which is what people get on average per year. He says, 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:06.320 with Snap benefits in properly shopped groceries. Any American who's 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.320 been receiving forty two hundred dollars per year of free 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.400 groceries and does not have at least one month of 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.479 grocery stock should never again receive Snap because wow, stop 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:14.240 smoking crack. 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:15.400 That's inhumane. 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.400 Dealing with the shit that they talk about is almost 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:22.200 pointless because they're all liars. But like h as like 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.719 what you said, Like people are on Snap for a 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.400 wide variety of reasons. They're largely employed. They're just not 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:32.520 getting enough money to actually like survive and feed their family. 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:38.039 And like, the forty two hundred dollars a year for 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.719 a family is not in fact enough to stockpile a 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:43.159 huge quantity of food. 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:47.080 No, it's not like it's remarkable how totach the people 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.400 who make our laws off from Yeah, the working class experience. 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:52.440 There is no way that guy knows how much of 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:53.440 banana costs. 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.760 No way, zero, He has no idea that man isn't 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:58.640 shopped for himself in fucking twenty years. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.359 Yeah, yeah they I does not know how much it 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.800 cost to buy now mac and cheese for your kids. 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.520 And obviously you know we hear we talk about storing food, 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.039 about canning your own food, and there are things you 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.560 can do even on a budget when you don't have 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.800 much money to build a stockpile. And that's why I 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.960 encourage people to pay attention to things like prices at 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.360 the grocery store when things are a lot cheaper because 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.880 they're in season, and learn how to do things like 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.600 pressure can right and pickle different foods. You want it, 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:29.120 because there are ways that you can. And this is why, right, 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.720 it's not because you should be doing that or your irresponsible. 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.440 It's because we even when it comes to the social 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.159 safety net, you know that we have what little of 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.840 one that we have. You can't rely on it because 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.920 at any given point it could become a fucking fucking 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:49.160 football for Democrats and Republicans to fight over and go away. Right, Like, 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.080 none of this stuff is reliable, which is why people 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.560 ought to, if it's at all possible, be doing stuff 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.200 like that, right, Not because they should have to do that. 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:03.280 But because you cannot rely on the government, right. And 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:05.960 I don't say that as like a critique of people 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.040 or to like shit on people. It's just like it's 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.200 a fact. It's the fact that people need to increasingly 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.680 accept because this is not going to be getting better 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:16.120 in the long run. Yeah, let's talk about Graham Plattner. 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:21.120 All right, Oh god, I do so to touch politicians. 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.320 A couple of weeks ago, James brought up Graham Plattner, 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:28.880 who is running for Congress in Maine, and some ads 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:30.920 that he had put out which were really and I 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.120 still think are really good ads, good ads in terms 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.400 of they were effective objectively. He raised a lot of money. 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.760 He was leading in the polls prior to us. We'll 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.200 talk about a bunch of scandals coming out. He's no 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.320 longer leading, but he was doing very well for a while. 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:48.160 So his campaign, the strategy that he was following, which 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.480 was largely a mix of talking about and really pushing 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:57.360 investments in social programs and particularly healthcare, and attacking the 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.360 billionaire class in very stark terms. Talked about they need 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:04.280 to effectively get rid of that as a group of people, 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:08.120 like tax them out of existence. That's a popular you know, 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.640 and and and a good thing to campaign on. And 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.120 the success that he had early on is evidence that 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.960 there's a lot of legs to talking about that kind 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:17.080 of stuff and the way that he did, and he 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.120 talked about in a very combative way. Right, this guy 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.840 was a former marine, some sort of fisherman. I think 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.680 whatever kind of he's fisherman. I think it's an oyster 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.400 farmer or some shit whatever. They have a that nonsense 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.960 state Sorry Maynites. 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:34.680 They called maniacs. Technically, I think they're called maners. That 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:35.760 copy right Garrison. 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.440 So he was coming across as a very like blue 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.920 collar guy, right, like a very and kind of crude 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:44.800 but crewed in a like I'm a straight talker sort 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.600 of guy. And that worked that that was a good campaign, 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.160 and we highlighted that because I think it struck you know, 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:51.800 James is the one who brought it to our attention, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.600 but I think it struck all of us as, oh, yeah, 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:57.040 this is a guy who was kind of doing talking 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.200 to voters in a way that we wish more Democrats 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.920 were right, and then in the last couple of weeks, 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:07.520 oh god, so many scamps come out about this guy, 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:09.760 the most well known of them as that for the 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.840 last twenty years of his life he has had a 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:17.400 totin cough tattooed over his pectoral that is the Death's Head. Now, 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.640 it dates back before the Nazis. It was a niche. 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:22.559 I don't know if this was the very first use 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.240 of it, but the very first prominent use of it 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.960 in military history was as the insignia for a unit 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:32.160 called the Death'shead Hussars, which was an elite German cavalry unit. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:34.480 I mean, I'm sure I think they did still exist 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:36.040 in World War One, but they were that was well 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:40.120 past their prime. And it was then adopted by the SS, 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.000 and it was it was worn by a number, by 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:43.480 a lot of guys in the SS, but it was 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.800 specifically the insignia of a unit called the totenkof SS, 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.960 which existed to guard concentration camps and death camps. So 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:55.360 having one tattooed on you bad, Yeah, not cool. Platner 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.240 has said, basically, it was a dumb tattoo I got 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.800 when I was young and just joining the Marine Corps, 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.199 and I didn't know what it meant. And I am 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.199 willing to believe that like a nineteen year old who 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.640 joins the Marines would make a bad tattoo decision because 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.120 I have a lot of friends that were in the 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:16.240 Marines and they all have bad tattoos, right, none of 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:17.800 them have Death's Heads. 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:23.600 So you got it well, in like Croatia drunk, Yeah, right, 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.880 and he was hammered, and yeah, the probability of walking 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.000 into a tattoo shop in Croatia and coming out with 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.360 a Nazi tattoo is extremely high. 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:35.199 Sure, Yeah, it's not low. Yeah, Yeah, they're on the 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:38.760 flash seat for Friday the thirteenth. They probably are. 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:41.920 If it had just come out that he'd had this 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:43.679 for some period of time, being like, yeah, I got 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:45.719 like I was hammered in Croatia and I got a 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.199 fucked up tattoo and realized it and got it covered. 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.960 I had it been like not a story, right, like 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:55.560 man gets bad tattoos, dumb kid. But number one, he 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.480 kept it until he got it covered in like the 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:58.520 last week or so. 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.800 Yeah, tell you that was a real piece of odd 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.319 that he covered it with, which is a. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.040 Wild choice to just keep it for that long. But 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.920 also he claimed I had no idea until it came 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.600 out as a story because I forget what outlet, but 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:15.960 some news outlet found out that he had it and 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:16.840 was going to publish it. 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.120 And I think his team told Pod Save America when 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.319 he went on the PUD Save America pod. 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:26.400 Yeah, yeah, but he had heard that there was opposition research. 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.400 Yeah, yeah, because he had sent out to like another 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.360 thing that he went on, like a picture of him 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.839 with his shirt off, and they were like wait, what. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.640 Like there were a few of them floating around. 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:39.439 Huh. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:41.480 If you've lived that kind of life, there's going to 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.880 be pitched of you with the shirt off, you know, 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.040 like they refusing to acknowledge. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.440 Yeah, I knew earlier in my life that it was 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.240 a death's head. And like there's reports from people who 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.680 knew him that he called it a tote cough and 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:55.480 joked about it. 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:56.520 I didn't know that. 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.600 I'll me be clear, I don't actually think that Graham 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:03.880 is a secret Nazi sleeper agent. I really don't. I 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:08.680 think he's a guy with really questionable judgment, which is reason, 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.880 you know, to be very critical of his campaign. And yeah, 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.760 I take a lot of issue with how he's responded 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.400 to this because rather than again just kind of doing 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.200 a mea polpa he's gone on the this is my 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.920 enemies in the Democratic Party to silence me thing, and 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.959 a very weird coalition has propped up kind of around him, 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:32.679 trying to argue that this is a circular firing squad 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.040 kind of deal. Like there was a Jacobin article being like, 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.120 it's fucked up that people are going after Graham, and 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.360 the pod Save guys are defending him, like it is 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.760 a weird coalition that's circling around this fella. 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.400 What do you think that Joe Rogan of the Left meant? 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:48.640 Vibes essays. 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.080 We wanted a guy who took loads of steroids and 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.000 didn't have problematic opinions. 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.080 I'm never gonna say this in any other instance about 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.400 Joe Rogan, but he wouldn't have gotten that tattoo because 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:01.800 he knows what a death's hit. 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:04.839 I don't know if he knew in like two thousand 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:08.040 and seven or what. I think there's a very strong 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.200 alternate world where two thousand and seven, Joe Rogan is 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:15.920 traveling a total accidentally gets a com tattoo. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.920 It's not impossible. You're right, You're right. I guess I'm 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.480 just assuming he's watched enough World War two documentaries to know. 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.719 Yeah, but watching those will like smoking weeds, so he 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.520 doesn't remember anything that's fair. 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:32.240 These are fair points you're making, Garrison. So a couple 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.560 of surprising things about this, And this is not the 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.360 only scandal it's kind of come out about him recently, 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.280 but at number one, it did not immediately take a 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.679 strong hit to his polling. This seems to be prilmarily 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.760 just because a lot of voters aren't aware of it. 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.520 Because in poles where they at where they informed people 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:53.160 that he had a Nazi tattoo, his support drops dramatically 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:57.040 by like thirty points. That said he was leading until 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:58.880 like two or three days ago, I think was the 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.320 most recent poll that came out that had a main governor, 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:05.200 Janet Mills, in the lead above him. We're not talking 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.560 about the main race yet. This is we're still in 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:11.000 the primary, right, so he's challenging Janet Mills for the primary. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:12.400 Sure, And yeah, at. 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.319 Present, according to so called strategies who did a pole 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.600 very recently and it's the most recent poll, Mills has 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.800 forty one percent from likely voters and Platner has thirty 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:25.120 six percent, although about a fifth of respondents are undecided. 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:31.120 And yeah, this is a pretty dramatic upset because prior 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.800 to the whole Nazi tattoo news coming out, Platner was 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.160 leading Mills by about thirty four points. So this has 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.600 gone from Platner looked to have it in the bag 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.320 to it's pretty close. Mills is ahead, not by a 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.440 lead that's so commanding that it's a definite thing. You know, 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.120 a standard polling error could have them basically be neck 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:52.200 and neck, and we all should know at this point 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.320 how frequently that kind of stuff happens. 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:58.640 Yeah, polling never wrong. But yeah, so I don't know. 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.040 It's one of those somebody angry at us on the 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.800 subredit being like, I can't believe they're hiding that like 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:05.960 this has happened, you know, with this guy that they 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.960 endorse like that we did endorse him and number two 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.600 like this, this shit was breaking. When we were recording 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.480 the ed last week, we made like a reference about it, 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.480 but not much had come out, and there certainly hadn't 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.360 been time for us to really look into what was 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.640 going on here. And it's not this is a main 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.840 Senate primary, and this is not like the very top 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.760 of our list of crucial things to hit. The second 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.320 it happens. We can wait on something like this to 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.960 see how stuffs shaking out a little bit. No one's 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.440 voting yet, so it's not like we're influencing the election 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:39.960 by not coming out or whatever. 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.760 Yeah, like we only get to come so much. We 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.440 have one hour of like news round Up show a week, 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.640 and they the Blue Sky Twitter drama about Grand Plannery 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:50.600 is not as important as the fact that millions of 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.560 people are losing that food this week. Now. 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:55.840 One thing that is interesting, and I do think this 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:57.640 is an important race just because of kind of what 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.480 it says about what sort of strategies are working now 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.720 and igniting the base, and what kind of stuff does 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.120 matter in terms of scandals. I think there are some 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.200 things that are really relevant here. One thing that is 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.640 interesting to me is that, according to a poll, very 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.120 recent poll, the article came in October twenty sixth, twenty 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:18.400 twenty five, majority of young Democrats still back grand Platner 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.560 even after the whole tattoo thing. And this is really 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.760 interesting to me because the data shows that in general, 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:28.640 among likely voters, his potential support plummets when people are 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.920 made aware that he had the tattoo, but young Democrats 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.400 are by far the group most likely to have become 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.480 aware of it as soon as the story broke, because 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.280 young people are much more online than older people, and 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.880 among young people he's still well ahead, which I really 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.320 just do think speaks more than anything to the strength of. 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:47.880 The rhetoric he has been using. 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.360 The platform that he came out the gate with. It's 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.760 and the rhetoric right, his combative rhetoric is really attractive 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.160 to young voters, especially. 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.640 Explain you a generation to us, garrison, why you like this? 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.800 I mean, these are a lot of stuff that the 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.800 Zoron campaign kind of like ignited around, Yeah you're you're 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:08.040 right exactly rhetoric. And then you know, Sanders and AOC 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:12.040 had their like anti oligarchy tour, which I mean, we 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.040 don't need to like debate like the use of like 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.960 that term. But no, there there isn't a huge frustration 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:22.399 at the geriatric Democratic Party, and this sort of populis 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.400 rhetoric is very popular among young people as it as 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.600 it has been since the Sanders campaign in twenty sixteen. 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:33.040 This isn't like new a revolutionary information. The fact that 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.800 this guy has gotten to this point has gotten either 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:40.119 past scandals where it's navigating through it, despite his like 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:44.639 you know, very questionable background and military and uh military 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:49.800 private contracting, his like misogynistic Reddit posts which were unearthed 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.120 as as like an attack against him, which I think 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:56.439 he actually handled that scandal fairly well, using it as 0:17:56.440 --> 0:18:01.160 a parallel to chart his own political journey. So yeah, 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:04.320 I can understand why a whole bunch of young people 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.160 who are reading about this aren't going to actually care 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.600 at all about any of these stories and still vote 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:10.960 for him because of what he's saying. 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.000 Yeah, And I want to be clear, I didn't bring 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.360 this up because think it's bad even that, like young 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.440 people are still supporting him. I think this is something 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:20.480 that people, especially in the Democratic Party, who care about winning. 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.240 And I think it's people on the left who are 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.840 trying to look at what can we do to get 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:31.040 more progressive and combative candidates who are going to do 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:35.240 something both about the right and about the billionaire class. 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:39.520 What can we do to actually like win. You should 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:42.399 be paying attention to this because this this rhetoric works. 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:46.160 Yeah, and because surely there's one other guy who can 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:54.200 say these things. You can find one person who could 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:58.200 use rhetoric, is good on camera and has not had 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:02.480 a total CoV tattooed on their chest for almost twenty years. Yeah. 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.280 And also the most wild part about this I don't 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:09.600 even think is that it's that this guy was in 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.840 Blackwater like Sonid's constell Us, but he calls it Blackwater. 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:18.560 He was, yeah, that's the other scandals. Please, let's let's Yeah. 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:23.919 He deployed to Afghanistan for Blackwater in twenty. 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:27.160 Eight their first Shrug administration. 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:31.400 No one at any point in this process went, hold on, wait, 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:36.159 this guy went to fight in Afghanistan, like in twenty. 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:39.800 Eighteen, Like, yeah, they prosecuted. 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:44.640 The guys from Nisar Square, Yeah, from the Sour Square massacre. Yeah, 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.800 after the square, Like those people got prosecuted four years 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:48.520 before that. 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.480 And he joined Blackwater in twenty eighteen. 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.400 And to be clear, because this is something James brought 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:56.520 up when we talked about this in our chat previously, 0:19:56.960 --> 0:20:00.720 he didn't technically join Blackwater because Blackwater has changed its 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:02.399 name and I think merged for a couple of countries. 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:06.040 It was a culprit name. But to be fair to me, yeah, 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:12.399 he's all that. He said that for Blackwater. There's a 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:15.280 way in which like, I'm okay with people fucking up 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:17.800 if they acknowledge they funked up, right, Like, I'm okay 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.040 with him saying I did this and it was wrong, 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:22.960 so I left and I regret doing it. 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:25.280 I mean that that is what he's saying, though it 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:28.520 was specifically after this deployment. Yes, that this is where 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:32.399 he says that, like this marked his like politicalticalization or 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:35.280 like yeah, during the path of like how he viewed 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:39.000