Just Vance

What happens when political chaos meets media spin? This episode unpacks the Republican National Convention’s media circus and the uproar surrounding Trump's vice-presidential pick, JD Vance. We challenge the media portrayal, especially by figures like Katie Turr, and draw comparisons to past controversial VP choices like Sarah Palin. We also examine the elephant in the room – the tension between Trump and Mike Pence, and how the media has largely ignored Pence's refusal to endorse Trump and the alleged incitement of violence against him in 2021. Is Trump’s choice of another super MAGA candidate a masterstroke or a miscalculation? Tune in to hear our take.

Next, we delve into the irony-laden relationship between JD Vance and Donald Trump. Remember when Vance publicly criticized Trump, comparing him to Hitler? Now they're political allies, a scenario reminiscent of the historical "Night of the Long Knives." We also scrutinize the Republican Party's contradictory stance on diversity, highlighting Vance’s marriage to an Indian-American woman amidst the party’s anti-diversity rhetoric. From performative attempts to attract minority voters to Trump's criminal convictions, we reveal how these efforts fall flat and expose the underlying disconnect within the GOP.

Finally, we turn our spotlight on the hypocrisy in political leadership and media complicity. Texas' mishandling of emergencies due to power grid deregulation serves as a prime example of failed leadership. We also call out influential figures like Elon Musk, who despite claiming to be apolitical, financially supports Trump. Additionally, we dive into the media's failure to hold Trump accountable, notably MSNBC's controversial decisions that sparked backlash. Wrapping up, we address the unsettling support Trump garners from unexpected quarters, like the president of the Teamsters Union, and why even the wealthy, including Musk, might not be as safe under a second Trump administration as they believe. Don’t miss why we’ve named Elon Musk our number one shithole of the week!

Chapters

• 0:18 Republican National Convention and VP Pick
• 17:50 Corruption and Racism in Politics
• 29:05 Political Hypocrisy and Media Deception
• 36:11 Media Complicity and Political Corruption

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:18

All right. So in case you weren't aware, out there, the Republican National Committee start will begin yesterday. We're recording this on Tuesday. It began Monday. It's a total shit show. As far as the media coverage is concerned, katie Tura is out here slobbering all over. Trump glazed him up. You know. If you're not familiar with her work, she was the one who was crying on MSNBC when Trump got convicted. Was the one who was crying on MSNBC when Trump got convicted. Also, in that very court case, michael Cohen revealed that a number of individuals in the media are basically in Trump's pocket. That would include Maggie Haberman, chris Cuomo and, of course, msnbc's very own Katie Turr, who I like to refer to as the original Cat Turd If you're familiar with Cat.

Speaker 2: 1:09

Turd's work you might. Yeah, katie, turd it's so sad the state of the world that we have to reference someone called Cat Turd Feline feces. It does sound classier.

Speaker 1: 1:21

Okay, fair enough. So the fat guy's name, feline Feces, and Katie Turds nickname, from here on out, is now Cat Turd with a K, but no, so the coverage of the RNC convention has been quite insane. Trump landed on his VP pick finally, apparently with no vetting and no consideration whatsoever for what it might do to the campaign Pick, possibly the worst vice presidential candidate in the history of vice presidents. And I say that in a world where, within our lifetime, we're all familiar with Sarah Palin's, in a world where Sarah Palin was chosen to be vice president. Yeah, jd fucking Vance be vice president. Yeah, jd fucking vance. Um, now, one of the most insane aspects of the media coverage of the republican national convention is the refusal to acknowledge why mike pence wasn't available as trump's vp pick the second time around yes it.

Speaker 2: 2:21

Yes. There's multiple reasons, aren't there? There's the tried to have him killed thing and the refusing to endorse him thing. And then Mike Pence refuses to endorse Donald Trump.

Speaker 3: 2:35

It's funny you bring up. If somebody wanted to endorse killing me, I'd feel some type of way.

Speaker 2: 2:43

No, no, not endorse killing, endorse him for president.

Speaker 1: 2:48

No, Trump did the endorsing of the killing in 2021.

Speaker 2: 2:52

Yes, that's accurate.

Speaker 1: 2:54

Yeah, and he still, and later he still that on Republican violence. The media refuses to point out the fact that Mike Pence is unavailable as Trump's VP pick because Republic, because of Republican on Republican violence. It's just extraordinarily ironic that they're willing to ignore that, especially given the current state of affairs, right Like they've already gotten bored with the shoot, Like once it wasn't Democrat on Republican violence.

Speaker 3: 3:31

Why don't white crime? We need to address it.

Speaker 1: 3:34

It's an epidemic.

Speaker 3: 3:36

It's killing our kids.

Speaker 1: 3:37

It's destroying our country. It's tearing our cities apart.

Speaker 2: 3:43

Not our cities, our small towns well, yeah, technically.

Speaker 1: 3:49

Uh. So what was it? Jason aldean dedicated the song to trump and then, like you, look up the population of the city where trump was shot at it's like 19 000 people. It was like literally the definition of trying that in a small town he tried it.

Speaker 2: 4:08

Oh yeah, you're right we should.

Speaker 1: 4:10

Someone should redub that video oh yeah, look, I've got ideas, but anyway, um, so moving on. Moving on to trump's vp pick uh, jd vance, total fucking moron. You might be familiar with his work um, hillilly Fuckery, something like that. He wrote. His life accomplishment that propelled him into the land of politics was a book about poor white people that poor white people didn't even bother to read. Apart from that, he's like the most inexperienced they're not readers per se.

Speaker 2: 4:44

he's like the most inexperienced.

Speaker 1: 4:45

They're not readers per se, he's likely the most inexperienced politician we've ever had to be selected as vice president and in terms of what he brings to the campaign, it's absolutely nothing. He's a super MAGA guy, just like Trump, even though he didn't start off that way. But we'll get to that in just a second. Just like Trump, even though he didn't start off that way, but we'll get to that in just a second.

Speaker 1: 5:08

You know, typically, what you look for and not necessarily that vice presidential picks have the ability to sway a huge swath of the electorate. But I think it's more like in terms of you know, vice presidential picks, what they bring to the campaign is not nearly as typically, not nearly as important as what they can cost the campaign. Not nearly as typically, not nearly as important is what they can cost the campaign. Right, we can all agree that you know. Picking sarah palin as his vice presidential candidate was probably the dumbest decision john mccain ever made, and the second he signed signed off on that. His campaign was Regardless of whether he might have still lost if he'd chosen another candidate to run being his running mate. He was definitely losing after that move, and I'm not necessarily saying that's the case.

Speaker 3: 5:55

It was all downhill from there.

Speaker 2: 5:57

I don't think Trump had really good options. I mean, if he wants to keep his MAGA base, he needs to choose a crazed extremist. But if he wants to keep his mega base, he needs to choose a crazed extremist. But if he wants to, but he should have chosen someone more moderate. If he because he wants to appeal to you know the republicans who would rather have someone else, and you know he, he he's not going to lose his base no matter what.

Speaker 3: 6:21

So exactly, fuck up, but you nailed it I don't think, honestly, I don't think that he chose jd mandel. I think that jp was chosen for trump. I was watching um kevin roberts, wait before you get to that.

Speaker 1: 6:45

Save that thought. So, carol, what you said about Trump like Trump is Trumpism, right, so he doesn't need another MAGA cultist to keep the base happy. What he needs to do, because he lost 2020 by such a huge margin, is expand his support to people who aren't necessarily hardcore MAas, and that's why in 2016, he went with mike pence in the first place, the first place right, to get the hardcore evangelical vote, and obviously you know those people are the most staunch trump supporters at this point, and while you say he didn't have any good options, he didn't have options that were way better than jdD Vance. Say what you want to about Marco Rubio, aside from the technicality that they live in the same state and you know, technically Rubio would have to move. You know that would have brought him support from, like the normies left over in the Republican party. Yeah.

Speaker 1: 7:42

If there are any if there are any, I mean, I'm sure they still exist somewhere. Also, you have Doug Burgum, who's a fairly or reasonably not insane person. His political stance is, at this point, what he's willing to support on paper probably insane, but he ain't saying that shit in public. Also, nikki Haley was an option in the terms of she probably did the most harm to Trump over the course of the Republican campaign, so inviting her to be his VP probably would have won over some of his or some of her supporters. I don't know where Ty went.

Speaker 1: 8:18

But the problem with nominating Nikki Haley as the vice presidential candidate is that, well, she's brown and she's a woman and I don't know if you've seen the Republican Party lately, but the last thing they're ever really going to support as a whole. Like the hardcore maggots, you nominate a brown woman and put her in the House. Yeah, not going to work out.

Speaker 2: 8:39

Surprised he didn't go for Yunkin.

Speaker 1: 8:43

Is he just?

Speaker 2: 8:44

too much of a loser, didn't it go for yunkin um? Is he just too much of a loser? But he can only. You can only do one term, wasn't it? Don't they have?

Speaker 1: 8:53

some ridiculous rule in virginia. Uh, yeah, I do think he's out after this term and I I'm assuming that the hope was that trump would lose in this election so that he could run in 2028. I mean, actually, I do believe the hope was actually that these prosecutions of Trump caused him to lose the nomination or drop out of the race and then he was going to hop in, but that wasn't the case. I mean, obviously, the Republican Party and the United around the ship is still going down.

Speaker 2: 9:18

They're still stuck on it.

Speaker 1: 9:20

They cannot get off the ship.

Speaker 1: 9:22

The Nazis are rallying behind their Hitler, but no. So what JD Vance does bring to the table that might possibly be a potential benefit to the Trump campaign is finances in terms of, you know, the right wing tech billionaires and such that he's been associated with or associated with being on their payroll the Peter Thiel's of the world. But what appears to have been tied into the announcement of JD Vance as Trump's VP pick is Elon Musk announcing that he'll be donating $45 million per month to a Trump line pack running up to the election. That announcement officially places Elon Musk as Trump's biggest political donor. Yeah, shame on him. I'll get to that later in my closing thoughts.

Speaker 2: 10:23

Who is he scamming to get that money? I guess we could to that later in my closing thoughts. Who is he scamming to get that money? I guess we could get that later.

Speaker 1: 10:28

In terms of Elon Musk, I mean he is worth billions of dollars on paper and spending a few hundred million dollars in order to potentially purchase a presidential candidate. Presidential candidate, I mean, it's a pretty big investment considering that, like, the president of the United States will have a lot of control over regulations when it comes to, you know, the companies that Elon has a majority stake in, uh, like the I mean obviously Tesla, tesla electric car company, um, obviously SpaceX, uh, who's basically runs on government contracts at this point, and welcome back, ty, you're on mute or something, or you don't have your mic plugged in, or I don't know what. What'd you do? You go? Rape your, your husband, you go sexually.

Speaker 1: 11:21

It don't take but a couple of minutes, girl, you do. Do you know what I can do with like two minutes? Um, but yeah so, but yeah. So the one thing jd vance brings to the table is the finance aspect. Um, from the rich guys. Uh, like.

Speaker 1: 11:43

Much has been said about Vance's appeal in the Midwest, given that he's from Ohio, but he's out Well, he's underperformed literally every other Republican running the statewide race in the Midwest. He's like the worst possible candidate if you want to win Midwest swing states. So I don't understand the thought process there. Obviously you need like Michigan, pennsylvania, but again, like Vance, underperforming in Ohio suggests he's not going to be any boon there. Now some people were saying that this vice presidential pick was Trump coming from a position of strength, like he thinks he's guaranteed to win the election, so he picked someone that doesn't necessarily help him electorally. I don't actually think that's the case. What I believe is Trump likes Trumpers and Trump's a reality TV show candidate. And he looked at JD Vance and said this dude is right out of Central Casting, that's my guy show candidate. And he looked at JD Vance and said this dude is right out of Central Casting, that's my guy. So JD Vance what he does bring to the table. Ty, you were saying.

Speaker 3: 12:53

Yeah, no, honestly, I don't think that Trump picked JD Vance. I think the Heritage Foundation picked JD Vance and Trump didn't have a choice One because he's a weak pussy ass bitch. But when I was watching Kevin Roberts and his response to JD Vance being picked and he was downright giddy, it was something that they wanted. But I honestly think I'm like one of the first orders of business when Trump is, yes if not, is, but if he is re-elected, that JD Vance would be the first person that he locks up and that he will spin some kind of wonder tale that JD Vance was treasonous was undermining his.

Speaker 3: 14:04

Yeah, like Hitler did you know okay, so the it.

Speaker 1: 14:09

It sounds like we're being absolutely absurdist and bringing this up, but I'm glad you did. Um, if there was any like, if you were rooting for the shooter and you wanted to have trump pick a vice presidential candidate that's likely to finish the job, there was no one on Trump's list more likely to do that for you and, you know, fulfill your hopes and dreams than JD Vance. Um, no one's more willing to stab Trump in the back like figuratively and literally, for power than JD Vance, maybe Marco Rubio, but the problem with Marco Rubio is he's kind of a little bitch, like that's his, that's his whole get down. Uh, with marco rubio is he's kind of a little bitch, like that's his, that's his whole get down.

Speaker 3: 14:49

Uh, vance is just a psychopath and like obviously vance is smart, he's not a fucking idiot. And then just going back and looking at the things that he was saying and look at the interviews and stuff, when he was talking about trump, they were very logical points, they were very pointed, they were thought out and I have zero doubt that at that time that JD Vance meant what he said about Trump and also what I know about Trump is he doesn't forgive or forget. And so when he said, oh, when Vance got to know me, he changed his position.

Speaker 1: 15:36

Yeah, no Well let's, let's, let's, let's play a video clip of some of JD Vance's previous comments and I cannot stand Trump because Vance's previous comments and I cannot stand Trump because I think he's a fraud. Well, I think he's a total fraud that is exploiting these people.

Speaker 3: 15:52

Who is?

Speaker 1: 15:53

a total fraud.

Speaker 3: 15:54

I agree with you on Trump, because I don't think that he's the person. I don't think he actually cares about folks, but I think that that I'm going to vote for. I'm going to vote third party because I can't stomach Trump. I think that he's noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.

Speaker 2: 16:12

The white working class.

Speaker 1: 16:14

Absolutely. I mean, you know that's a whole get down.

Speaker 3: 16:18

You know what? That? You mentioned that and that was something I was thinking about today when I was listening to it. Mentioned that and that was something I was thinking about today when I was listening to it. And he says the white working class, the working class, is the working class um, but.

Speaker 1: 16:32

But there's a subsection of the working class, the, the poor whites, right, and that's the demographic that he appeals to and, ironically enough, it's kind of the same the like the same skis is bernie sanders like bernie sanders and the bernie bros and the jd vances of the world kind of have a believe it or not, a real crossover with the same subsection of of american.

Speaker 2: 17:01

Uh, you know the horseshoe meeting on both.

Speaker 1: 17:11

Yeah, I mean like people make fun of the idea and like the theory. It does absolutely have some flaws and some weak points generally speaking, but there are some specific instances where it totally aligns, and this is one of those crossovers. This is like the same instance where, over the summer, you had those competing rallies of, like, you know, the, the pro Hamas people in, like the, the count, the Trump counter protests and they come together and then the, the Trumpers are screaming fuck Joe Biden. And then the pro Hamas are screaming fuck Joe Biden. So it was like fuck Joe Biden. So it was like fuck Joe Biden, fuck Joe Biden. And like this is this, is that.

Speaker 1: 17:50

But also, you know, that's just like a sliver of the negative comments from JD Vance at the time when, in reference to Trump, he's also referred to him in a message as America's Hitler. Obviously, hitler picked a vice presidential candidate who correctly identified him as Hitler. That makes JD Vance Himmler at this point. But no, it's what you were saying about the potential for Trump to. You know, clearly, there's not a huge difference in terms of the spelling of their name. You know Vance and Pence. So the idea that Trump is going to treat Vance like Pence in a second administration, just on that joke isn't far flung. But also, like again, as noted, vance is one of those individuals who is easily as likely to betray trump as trump is to betray him oh, I have zero doubt and when I think, and like I said when I was listening to kevin roberts, well, when you, when he called trump hitler, uh, it would probably have done vance, uh, probably done him.

Speaker 1: 19:04

Well to look up and I've talked about this previously the night of long knives, you know, after hitler came to power, the first thing he did, it wasn't take out his political opponents in opposing parties, it was to take out his perceived threats within his own party right. So the brown shirts had to go. The people who empowered him on his rise to autocracy were also the most immediate threats to his power. And you know Hitler clean house in in the JD Vance's of the world, at least in 1930s. Germany had to go.

Speaker 3: 19:37

So, as you were saying, yes, no, no, exactly because I I didn't get an enthusiasm from Trump.

Speaker 1: 19:46

Carol, we appreciate you putting on a show for the audience, but, like she's putting up legs Put your legs together. We're trying to talk about Trump assassinating yet another vice president.

Speaker 2: 20:03

But I'm uncomfortable. I want to put my legs on my desk.

Speaker 1: 20:05

Okay, fine, put your legs back up there. All right, continue Ty yeah no Vance is craving.

Speaker 3: 20:16

He has decided, he's drawn his line in the sand and he has decided that he will do anything and everything to have power even though he has no qualifications to have control or power whatsoever exactly this is the most craven of individuals.

Speaker 2: 20:42

No it's the HE hires. Homogeny and exclusion the H-E hires Okay.

Speaker 3: 20:48

Well, I made a post and it was like I'll take a D-E-I hire over a B-E-I hire Bigotry, exclusion, ignorance, hire.

Speaker 1: 20:59

Hey, okay, so we got to get to. Before we get to our shithole of the week award, we do have to get to some of the, the blow black, the blowback on vans already. So obviously the republican party at this point is the party of racism and bigotry. They just you know the again part of the reason why trump looked at vans and was like this guy's perfect. It's because he's like your stereotypical, uh white guy. He just fits the bill in every way that trump thinks of about what a vice president should look like. The only problem is, uh, republicans have discovered that jd vance is married to a dei candidate. Uh, you know, his wife is indian, american. And I don't mean like you know, quote unquote, american Indian, I mean like, right from India yes, yes, right, um.

Speaker 1: 21:51

So they've been berating her. They've been berating her online. I won't say anything, you know I won't repeat some of the extraordinarily racist shit, but I do remember seeing this one post where it was like a side-by-side photo, compete like a family shot, and it was like, you know, um jd vance and his family, with his brown wife and his little half brown kids, and it was like a side-by-side shot of um. Um, who was that?

Speaker 1: 22:24

what of of gavin newsom with, like his white, super lily white wife and their little white kids and the little white leaving the dog is white. And they were like where did the republican party go wrong? It was like, like democrat gavin newsom family, republican.

Speaker 3: 22:42

You know, jd vance's little brown family was like where did in that wedding picture of him and he's got the dot on his head with oh boy, that was right.

Speaker 1: 22:51

No they were roasting that one. I didn't even want to bring it up yeah they were on the town.

Speaker 1: 22:55

But look and this is what I was getting back to earlier about, like you know, trump's potential vice presidential pick, like all of these, you know, the tim scotts of the world. Rest in peace to his marriage before it even got off the ground. Um, you know the vivek ramaswamy's, the nikki haley's and this I I'd been previously talking about this while they were never going to be the republican nominee, uh, even as trump somehow managed to, you know, drop out of the race or end up in jail. Republicans, at this point, I mean, they're the party of anti-diversity, right. They use diversity as some kind of calling card to, like they astroturf this black support, even though black people aren't any more likely to vote for trump, whether they do it or not. But they do that like with the shoes and saying that appeals to Black voters and with his criminal conviction.

Speaker 2: 23:47

Have you ever seen anyone wearing the shoes?

Speaker 1: 23:49

No, never. And part of that not just that they're ugly, but that it was a scam and they couldn't get any shoes produced was also part of the problem.

Speaker 2: 24:00

I didn't know that part, but I should have assumed.

Speaker 1: 24:02

Yeah, they use these stereotypical instances over the course of Trump's campaign, like the shoes and the criminal conviction and now being shot at, as some kind of calling card for Black support.

Speaker 2: 24:18

What's being shot at? Oh my God.

Speaker 1: 24:20

Yeah Well, that's also like offensive to black people and won't garner any black support. What it does do is it just continues to give the racist people in the Republican Party and like you know, a permission structure to feel like they're not racist just because they're voting for Trump. That's, that's all that's for, but it's difficult to do that. No-transcript. They're probably both willing. I mean, I'm just saying right, you know they're going to undo birthright citizenship, which will probably apply retroactively, and you know apply retroactively.

Speaker 2: 25:27

Do you think they care about their own wives, these people? They couldn't be serious about a platform like this if they cared about any women at all.

Speaker 1: 25:37

I mean, I'm fairly sure there's a lot of white guys out there ready to deport their super 100% white wife at this point. Marriage will do that to you. Some of you, ty know you're happily carol know you're happily at this point. But there's a lot of people out there who like whatever it takes to get this bitch up out of here, and I'm sure a lot of wives feel that way I'm sure a lot of wives feel that way about their husbands, and rightfully so.

Speaker 1: 26:01

um, but if you do ever want to happen to get rid of your husband, you might want to vote for Joe Biden, because under Trump's Project 2025, there will be no such thing as no fault of force. So that's my campaign commercial for the Biden administration. All right, shithole of the Week award, tom Ty. I'm sure you have a nominee. I have one as well. We've already agreed in advance. For all intents and purposes, this is going to be a dual shithole of the week award. Because the shitholes are that bad, I'll let you go first. That is true.

Speaker 2: 26:35

That's you. You're the one who's the Sorry.

Speaker 3: 26:40

Greg fucking Abbott. Okay, we're halfway through the year, so he's already racking up the points for a shithole of the year he's working his way.

Speaker 1: 26:50

He is working his way. I think this is number two and it's June. I mean it's July. Yeah, yes.

Speaker 3: 26:57

Greg Abbott. So someone said and they had posted on dan patrick's where he said that, oh, we wanted to help houston. They, uh, they denied it. Judge hendenhall sent a day before the hurricane hit what she felt that Houston would need the money, the assistance, et cetera. And then someone said you know, this isn't a Texas problem, this is a Houston problem and Cedar Point. So they should just deal with that themselves. So it's like so you're saying they're not a part of Texas. Like what the fuck are you saying?

Speaker 2: 27:57

Great, so we're going to vote Houston into statehood Right.

Speaker 3: 28:04

They get how many?

Speaker 2: 28:06

electoral votes.

Speaker 3: 28:12

And it was so, and then no, the gag is Abbott comes back from his trip to Asia. Well, first of all, you left out the part he was going to do an investigation into what happened Before you even get to that before you get to that, barrel slammed into Texas.

Speaker 1: 28:31

Millions of people were out without power. Where was Greg Abbott, off on the other side of the fucking planet, not answering his phone, no matter who called, whether it were officials from Texas or even the fucking White House. They couldn't find him for days and here he is, pulling a fucking Ted Cruz here, flying out the country, leaving his constituents in the middle of a fucking crisis.

Speaker 2: 28:59

I thought you were going to say dog. Did he leave his dog?

Speaker 3: 29:02

And then I was watching, I was reading a post. It was like not somebody I follow, but just like someone who's like a journalist and was like you know, I've been doing journalism a long time and I cannot remember at any time when there was a natural disaster or an emergency happening that the people in charge didn't cancel their trips to come back home or like, oh shit, and go and handle their business. He's like I can't in the last 40, 50 fucking years that I've been doing journalism, that I can't imagine or remember a time that this has happened.

Speaker 1: 29:50

And I can't either like I can't either, because no, it's a response that was worse than bush during katrina. Okay, just luckily enough for texans, and like the storm wasn't nearly horrific as it had been predicted to be earlier, or like people would be underwater right now.

Speaker 3: 30:09

It is so, it is so disheartening. And you know I've been here a long time. Of course I'm originally from North Carolina, but I've been here in Texas since like 1991. And I know it's political, because Houston is a strong dim area and so they are trying to turn the tables or try to paint a narrative that, oh, this is the leadership that you have here in Houston.

Speaker 1: 30:55

They've just let you, yeah, let them, let they let the black people drown and just be underwater and without power and then try and blame the black people, when it's actually the state's responsibility to prepare and respond to these kinds of disaster, disasters exactly like it is so fucking.

Speaker 3: 31:10

It is so fucking. Then.

Speaker 1: 31:12

The part, part of the reason, like with the whole power infrastructure, the reason it's such in such dilapidated state, is because of the whole plot by republicans to just deregulate the state, and and to do so it because if you're connected to the other states power grids, you have to comply with a certain level of federal guidelines in in order to avoid those. They've just disconnected the state from the rest of the country, and that's why anytime there's any sort of particular strain on the power systems down there, you get massive outages.

Speaker 3: 31:46

And I had some DM in there like how are you in El Paso? We're on the New Mexico grid, we're not on the Texas grid. El Paso is on the New Mexico grid, which is why we didn't on the texas grid no shit ain't never going on the new mexico grid, which is why we didn't have the power outages during the snow storm storm yuri yeah we had our power on um during the summers, the blackouts we don't have. We're on the new mexico grid. Here in el paso, we got our own.

Speaker 1: 32:16

This is a situation that can easily be remedied just by regulating your fucking power company up to like normal standards. But you know again in that regard, you know, greg Abbott, you gotta get the shithole of the week award for just abandoning your fucking state in a time of disaster. As far as the dual shithole of the week award goes, this goes back to Elon Musk for his previous announcements about how he's apolitical and he doesn't choose one side or the other. He's not going to donate to Trump during the presidential campaign whatsoever and totally reversing course, which we obviously knew he would, because it was a fucking sham. We know why he bought the platform Twitter to begin with, to help Republicans win the election. And now here he is with the announcement of JD Vance, trump's vice president, simultaneously announcing that Elon Musk will be donating $45 million per month to the Trump-affiliated PAC in order to help Trump win the election. That's not surprising.

Speaker 1: 33:17

The problem is just the obvious, fucking blatant hypocrisy, like we were well aware, um, of what your you know your motivations are. Just be, just be real. Just come out here and be honest. You've done everything you can to enable the right on your platform and suppress the left and let all the fucking nazis and racists back on your platform. I mean there was like n word killer slash, like you know, at n word killer slash, jew, hater, 88, hitler, uh, you know posting all kinds of blatant racist, homophobic shit. You try to report the account and, like twitter support, you send you the email back. We found nothing, nothing offensive.

Speaker 1: 33:57

Yeah exactly Right. So like we knew what the game was. But Elon's not the only one right. It's not just the wealthy, it's not just the billionaires, it's also the media. You know MSNBC.

Speaker 1: 34:12

They pulled Morning Joe off the air Monday morning after the shooting and and we understood that initially to mean that they were afraid that because joe and mika are at this point not to speak about their past, but currently they're ardent, uh, detractors of trump and his campaign and you know the way he moves through the world and you, we understood that to mean that they didn't want Joe and Mika saying anything disparaging about Trump or the campaign. They could be used as ammunition against the network and affect appeasing a dictator before he even takes power. Just capitulating like fucking bitches, just capitulating like fucking bitches. Now, uh, joe and Mika were back on the air Tuesday morning and they spoke to the situation saying that they were told that MSNBC was going to have, like you know, rolling 24 hour, basically breaking news coverage. They'd have, like you know, a panel that would just like hang in all day, go to this topic and that and have it, and then you get Monday morning comes.

Speaker 1: 35:19

So Joe and Mika aren't there. Turns out there is no 24-hour rolling breaking news coverage. It's business as usual. Except ain't nobody there on Morning Joe? They show up today and they're like hey, you know, msnbc basically lied to us about this. If they ever suggest that they're going to have a situation where it's going to be like the 24-hour breaking news coverage, they'll be in their seats on Morning Joe, regardless whether that takes place or not, and if that's not the case, they're going to quit. They basically threw the network under the bus.

Speaker 3: 35:56

Wow, yeah, I didn't see that Wow.

Speaker 1: 36:00

Yeah, so it look.

Speaker 2: 36:02

and this is in the asshole. Who's the shit hole?

Speaker 1: 36:06

Well, Elon Musk, I'm getting. I'm circling back to it. Give me a second, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1: 36:11

This is also my closing thoughts. We're mixing and matching today, okay, great. So Mixing and matching today Okay great. And this is MSNBC. This is supposedly the bastion of left-leaning media and they're already capitulating to Trump. And this is just all the evidence. I need to know that when the third right comes, the media is not going to be there to support us. Msnbc they've got Katie Turr on here, as we earlier noted. Earlier already had a trump apologist. Cnn they've already chosen sides. Fox news they've been in trump's bag since the beginning. Uh, also, we've got the court system at this point doing everything they can, the legal system conspiring to do everything they can to get Trump off the hook from the Supreme Court, basically taken a look at that numerous times and decided that, yes, special counsel appointments, especially in this vein, are totally fine.

Speaker 3: 37:08

We've got Wait, wasn't it a special counsel that prosecuted Hunter Biden?

Speaker 1: 37:36

Yes, that was actually the case. Okay that under the Trump administration, Bill Barr appointed a special counsel to.

Speaker 3: 37:43

Just double checking, making sure.

Speaker 1: 37:46

Yeah, and that, yeah, it's not the, it's the first of many. It's the first of many special counsels since Robert Mueller closed his investigation. But you've got the legal system conspiring to save Trump. You've got the media conspiring to do everything they can to get, even got the president of the Teamsters Union showing up to the RNC to show support for Trump, even though Trump's never done anything for unions and in fact the Republican Party has done everything they can to hurt unions, and which his vice president of the union said it was egregious and irresponsible of him to side with a party that does not side with the working people.

Speaker 1: 38:47

No, and that was.

Speaker 1: 38:49

Trump even showed up to that plant, pretending as though it was a union plan. It wasn't, and then he had scabs pretend to be union workers. That's a level of just disrespect that Trump has for unions. And I, as a Teamster member myself and well aware of the fact that our pension system was in trouble, you know who bailed us out President Biden. So to have the Teamsters Teamsters president show up at the RNC is just fucking despicable In my eyes. You know, I'm definitely going to be lobbying to get rid of his ass. Uh, the next time there's a vote.

Speaker 1: 39:20

But what this gets back to is the willingness of people in positions of power and in prominence who think, you know, under a second trump administration, because you know they're white or wealthy or in positions of power, they'll be just fine here to tell you, as Ty alluded to earlier with JD Vance, there's this strong likelihood that all of the people who conspired to enable Trump and put him in a position to enjoy his newfound powers as a dictator on day one will be the first individuals to pay. And I'm absolutely sure that, regardless of how much money Elon Musk puts in Trump's pocket, trump's going to come after him first, should he be reelected and get to exercise his powers of the presidency with absolute immunity, and that makes Elon Musk number one shithole of the week. And that concludes this episode of part of the insurrection.