Pardon The Insurrection
Where we discuss the ongoing Congressional and criminal investigations of the January 6 coup orchestrated by the former President. And because insurrection wasn't enough, we'll also cover the Department of Justice espionage investigation, investigations relating to other members of Congress, and more. Don't worry, we're not handing out any pardons.
Pardon The Insurrection
The Trump Implosion Won't Stop
Can holding Israeli leaders accountable for their actions be misconstrued as anti-Semitism? Join us for a provocative examination of former President Trump’s incendiary remarks about prominent political figures and the complex dynamics in Israel. We dissect Trump’s outlandish claims about Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s supposed pro-Palestinian stance and the baseless accusations of anti-Semitism against Vice President Kamala Harris, despite her strong Jewish family ties. Get ready to navigate through the labyrinth of misinformation as we clarify the distinction between legitimate criticism and bigotry.
Ever wondered if five minutes is enough to master logistics? That’s what Trump claimed in a recent interview, along with some bewildering assertions about China's finances. We delve into Trump’s perplexing admiration for authoritarian figures like Viktor Orban and Vladimir Putin, exploring the potential dangers his rhetoric poses. We also expose Trump's tangled web of contradictions surrounding Project 2025 and his blatant disdain for union workers, shedding light on his true alliances and motivations.
Racial undertones and political tokenism take center stage as we scrutinize Trump’s unsettling comments about Black Republican congressman Byron Donalds. From discussing the implications of tokenism to critiquing Laura Trump's surreal musical ambitions, we offer a comprehensive analysis of the political and cultural landscape. As we wrap up, we focus on the Harris campaign's strategic investment in Florida and the critical importance of securing a Democratic majority in the House. This episode is packed with insightful commentary and critical reflections on today’s political climate.
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but again even more carnage, with trump referring to uh senate majority leader chuck schumer.
Speaker 2:Well, I'll let you hear from mark levin looks like his brain is broken oh man, he's fried up his soul has left his body.
Speaker 1:What little he had I think this was like 15 minutes in.
Speaker 3:It's amazing. If you go back 15 years or even less, the strongest lobby in that sense in the United States was Israel. You couldn't say a thing about Israel, christian or Jew you couldn't say anything about today. It's like under siege. You look at AOC plus three. You look at these people the't say anything about today. It's like under siege. You look at AOC plus three. You look at these people, the way they talk about it, and then you see Schumer, who's become a Palestinian.
Speaker 4:As far as I'm concerned, I would just like to point out that Chuck Schumer is Jewish. Yeah, yes, he is. That's not even the only reason that's a ridiculous statement.
Speaker 2:I mean it's ridiculous as him continuing to say that kamala harris hates israel and is anti-semitic and is pro-hamas. Her stepkids are jewish, her husband's jewish, her in-laws are jewish, they all love her. Her ex's wife ex-wife I mean her husband's ex-wife is jewish yeah I just but his statement boils down to.
Speaker 4:He thinks he's making this huge point being like you used to not be able to criticize israel and now you can't.
Speaker 1:Now people do it more yeah, I mean largely because they're in the middle of a war and they're not handling it in the best way.
Speaker 2:I don't think that the tens of thousands of Israelis that poured into the streets to demand that Bibi work to get the hostages returned are anti-Semitic. So yeah, because I mean, you know so you don't say people doing, people here wanting to hold Bibi accountable for delaying and prolonging this and not, in good faith, trying to broker a deal to stop the carnage and mean is the Netanyahu administration.
Speaker 1:It is like a Jewish person or not. Complaining about Benjamin Netanyahu and the job he's doing doesn't mean you're anti-Semitic or you hate Israel or you hate the Jews. It's the same thing as Americans complaining about Trump during the Biden administration. That part.
Speaker 2:Oh, then you're not American. If you don't support trump, you're not a real patriot. It's the same thing yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And these are the same people who spend, who spent the last four years trashing joe biden, even though he's now currently the head of the united states. Does that make you un-american? But yeah, just the just the incessant conflation of these issues in order to get to these weird points. Just I'm sick of this guy. I can't wait till he loses. Hopefully, once he goes to prison, we'll never have to talk about him again, other than laughing at whatever happens to him while he is in jail. He is in jail, but again it continues on and on. Trump made more comments about gassed immigrants.
Speaker 3:We have people that are allowed to just walk in from countries unknown, from countries that nobody's ever even heard of, from countries where we don't even know how to speak their language, because small countries are a lot of them.
Speaker 1:What countries have we never heard of?
Speaker 4:Well, if we recognize it as a country, we have, by definition, heard of it at the very least.
Speaker 2:They're just walking in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, where are they walking in from?
Speaker 2:I mean, I had to wait in line for 45 minutes yesterday to cross the bridge after we got our dental work done and wanted.
Speaker 4:I want to say Ty crosses the border on foot all the time.
Speaker 2:David got harassed and there's no one would assume that he's anything but white. And he got harassed by CBP telling him that his ID wasn't good enough.
Speaker 1:Damn, that's fucked up.
Speaker 4:I mean, was it good enough?
Speaker 1:I'm just trying to understand what countries he thinks people are coming from Like. Does he think they're coming from like South Sudan, or?
Speaker 4:something he's like I couldn't. I had never heard of it and I couldn't pronounce it, so I'm sorry about my accent.
Speaker 2:my Trump voice, in all fairness, trump has only heard of Russia, hungary, the United States and Mexico In.
Speaker 1:Venezuela.
Speaker 4:In.
Speaker 2:Mexico. He assumes that all Spanish-speaking countries are Mexico. Oh, in Venezuela there's.
Speaker 4:Mexico and then over in Europe, old Mexico.
Speaker 2:Then there's Brazilian Mexico.
Speaker 1:This guy, it just it never like. We talk about how insane it is on this podcast, but we really don't even do it justice in pointing out how just ridiculous some of these comments are and we have more here for you.
Speaker 3:Figure this out. The American people I think a lot of them want to know how do you come by your decisions and how do you manage in the Oval Office. Well, I think that I learned like I talked about the truckers. I learned about trucks and by talking to them, in five minutes I knew as much as I'm going to have to know to make decisions that are going to be earth shattering for transportation, for moving cargo and moving a lot of other things. I learned from having interaction. Some politicians don't have interaction. Some politicians aren't smart. They can't have interactions. I think you have.
Speaker 4:Some politicians need more than five minutes to make a conclusion.
Speaker 2:OK, I need to know if he learned from the trucks how moving cargo works. What the fuck did he think the truckers did, or truckers did before?
Speaker 4:They didn't make it much past you know the five minute mark, obviously because someone else was talking besides him.
Speaker 2:Or somebody put one of those red lights on the wall and he went after it like a cat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't understand like what he thinks.
Speaker 4:What does?
Speaker 1:Trump think he can learn about the logistics industry in order to make executive decisions in five minutes. I'm sorry, like it's a lot more complicated than that as someone who works in the logistics industry.
Speaker 2:No, I want to know what he learned about trucks and what trucks themselves have to do. Like he didn't say you, you know, I learned a lot about supply chain, or I learned a lot about how.
Speaker 1:I learned a lot about trucks.
Speaker 2:They have a lot of wheels the warehouse and how important truckers are. He said I learned about trucks like if he was in auto shop, like they told me what a carburetor was.
Speaker 1:I don't know what the fuck he's like, okay. And then they told me what a carburetor was. I don't know what the fuck he's doing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like, okay, and then.
Speaker 1:Look, it just gets more bananas from here.
Speaker 3:Here's Trump telling the audience that China gave him a gajillion dollars and China paid me hundreds of billions of dollars and then they say, oh, you're soft on China. I remember President Xi saying you're soft on me, I'd hate to see if you were bad. Billions of dollars. And then they say, oh, he's soft in china. I remember president she said if you're soft to me, I'd hate to see if you were bad. By the way, putin said the exact same thing if you're soft, I'd hate to see you bad. This is a good thing. You know the press. If I said get along with him, great, the press would say, oh, he said he gets along with him, great.
Speaker 2:No, look at Mark Levin's face. I can't. He's like he's got this smirk and he's like oh my God.
Speaker 1:Hey, having a humor Trump is part of your job.
Speaker 2:It's got to be the most humility, especially for somebody like Mark Levin, who it feels that he is intellectually superior to just about everyone.
Speaker 4:I would have to wave my hands around when he was doing it.
Speaker 1:I could not sit there and not mock him. Hey look, so we bash Fox News constantly and largely it is just a propaganda network, but they do have the handful of serious journalists over there, and Mark Levin. He would qualify to work in numerous news outlets outside of Fox News. I don't know why he stays there, other than a paycheck. But yeah, having a totally serious person give this interview, that's total bullshit is actually no.
Speaker 2:It means like I'm a Jew, so I need to look nice Because you know, oh, my God. He's thinking ahead Like let me get in front of this, in case this lunatic does become president again, he'll kill me last. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but look so, while Trump is insane, he's extraordinarily dangerous, and it never stops the praising of dictators. Here we have Trump praising Viktor Orban from Hungary.
Speaker 3:Ask the prime minister of Hungary, as you know, who I'm talking about, viktor Orban, and he's in the book. He's in the book. A lot of these leaders you dealt with are in the book. Many of them are, but they asked him. What do you think I mean? Why is the world blowing up Viktor Orban from? I mean strong. They consider him strong. It's a good thing, not a bad thing.
Speaker 1:It's an extraordinarily bad thing. Victor Orban is a dictator. He's one of these soft dictators like Vladimir.
Speaker 2:Putin Like Lukashenko.
Speaker 1:Yeah, where it appears to be like some soft form of democracy going on, but it's manipulated behind the scenes and institutionalized in such a way that he's never going to lose another election because everything is rigged in the way that he tried to rig things, or Trump tried to rig things here in 2020. But again, that's not the only dictator Trump has love for. Of course, he couldn't leave out his favorite buddy, who.
Speaker 4:Kimmy.
Speaker 1:Oh well, he loves him too, but no, in this case, vladimir Putin.
Speaker 3:But we were having a problem. You had Adam Shifty, schiff and all these bad people, including Hillary and others, coming up with this Russia hoax. And I told Putin. I said you know, it's a shame because we could have done a lot of business, the countries together, but with this whole fake thing that's going on. And he understood that. He said it's a fake deal. He actually said to me he said it's tough to make a deal. Now I said you're right, it's tough. They created a fake narrative this Russia, russia, russia.
Speaker 4:Oh my God, my eyes just rolled back so far in my head.
Speaker 2:Now you can't see that I saw my butt cheeks.
Speaker 1:Vladimir Putin's a dictator. He's killed everyone. Basically that's publicly opposed him in Russia and some people outside of Russia and some abroad. Yeah, some abroad as well.
Speaker 4:There are windows in other countries, you know clearly there's there's been this illegal yes illegal right here I have my tea as well.
Speaker 2:You even have the string okay, well, just in case, I love you guys a lot of bags. That's why I make this is your last sip.
Speaker 1:That's why I make my own tea.
Speaker 2:I'm drinking hugs.
Speaker 1:The bags are extraordinarily small, you see, so I use two of them to make the tea, but it does get fairly potent the longer you let the bags steep. That aside, there's this illegal war that Russia started when they invaded Ukraine Well, actually back in 2014. But despite that, you know, putin's engaged in horrific behavior. I don't understand why any current president after the fact, after 2014, would want to have a positive relationship with Vladimir Putin. In fact, he wants to do all these business deals with Russia still, but the Biden administration has placed numerous sanctions on the Russian government. So good luck with those business deals, buddy, and you ain't ever getting back in the white house, uh, to lift those sanctions. I don't understand the love affair with vladimir. The thing is, he calls it a hoax, right?
Speaker 4:the russia, russia, russia, hoax but remember when it was fake, he also agreed it was fake, right after he talked about how good I was and how glad he was that I wasn't bad and mean. Exactly so he's got a love affair with Putin, even though he says the Russia thing was a hoax, even though After those two dictators both independently said the same. Weird thing to me.
Speaker 2:But you know, what is crazy is that the former, the former prime minister of Australia, said that of Australia, said that the relationship or the admiration that Trump has for Putin was just strange. And this is a foreign leader who was running Australia when Trump was president. He was like it was bizarre. He was like a 12-year-old kid who the captain of the football team invites you to come hang out with him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's just mesmerized by the guy If the captain of the football team also invites you to come hang out with him?
Speaker 4:yeah, he's just mesmerized by the guy.
Speaker 1:If the captain of the football team also murdered children, if you go back, if you go back to 2018 I believe that was, it was 2018 russian investigation. I know this is old news at this point, but again, no one ever really talks about this. Uh, robert muller, in the special counsel office, they indicted all of well well, not all of but numerous Russian intelligence officials who were involved with the hacking of the campaign emails the DNC and the RNC emails in 2016. There's an indictment. They even lay out the fucking keystrokes. That's how much information that they had on the hack and how the orders came straight from black.
Speaker 1:You know they came from the top and this was in an effort to help Trump win the 2016 election, and they proved all of these connections between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. They just couldn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime was committed, because a lot of fucking people lied and they destroyed evidence. It's it's in the mull report. You can read about it yourself if you have the opportunity, if you haven't yet done so. But yeah, this thing like, but because trump wasn't indicted for it, he can continue to call it a hoax. But the thing is, when you indict him, he'll just lie about that too and call it a witch.
Speaker 2:They indicted him that he just would have switched a witch hunt. Those are the only two he's got. It's either a hoax and then if he gets held accountable.
Speaker 1:It's a witch hunt yeah, and then once he was, once he would have been convicted, he would just been saying he was persecuted.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah that I mean there, there's no, there's no winning. I mean it's gonna be, he's got, he's got his three defenses, so he's gonna pull one out of the hat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, regardless of what happens it's it's heads, you lose tails, I win, uh, but again. So we have trump constantly being questioned about project 2025 and, depending on the venue or the audience, he will either lie or tell the truth. Truth, when he's in front of his fans or in front of his donors, he props up Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation, but when he's asked in an interview, well, you can hear his response for yourself. Let me ask you about Project 2025.
Speaker 3:So you've publicly said that you don't have any direct connection to Project 2025.
Speaker 1:Nothing.
Speaker 3:I know nothing about it, and they know that. Democrats know that and I purposely haven't read it Because I want to say to you I don't, I have no idea what it's all about. It's easier than saying I read it, then you know all of the things, though I purposely haven't read it and I've heard about it. I've heard about things that are in there that I don't like, and there's some things in there that everybody would like.
Speaker 2:Okay. So in the same sentence he says that he's never heard of it, and then he says I've heard of it and I purposely didn't read it.
Speaker 1:Yes, the lie immediately falls apart with, in that case, no follow-up question. He just told on himself. It's like I haven't read it, but there are some things. I've heard some things. There's some good things in there.
Speaker 4:He was going on to say a lot of people would like it, so what the hell is he talking about? That's his only basis on which he can disavow it is that he hasn't read it.
Speaker 2:Even that's his only basis on which he can disavow it is that he hasn't read it, even in his fraud social posts, when he originally denied it and when he realized that it was not going to be a winning platform for him. And then he said that he has nothing to do with it, but he wishes them well. But there are some things that he doesn't agree with in there.
Speaker 1:There are some things that he doesn't agree with in there. Yeah, there's this thing he does where it's like denial followed by an admission that maybe he isn't totally denying it, but it's terrible. But then that's followed with well, it's not all terrible, some of it's good. And then by the end of the sentence, he's like actually it's fucking awesome. Sentence. He's like actually it's fucking awesome. But here's Trump. Actually, well, we've got another follow up on Trump commenting on Project 2025.
Speaker 3:Heritage Foundation president, somebody else doing an unbelievable job. He's bringing it back to levels it's never seen. Dr Kevin Roberts, Kevin. Thank you, Kevin. Our Project 2025 has developed a comprehensive policy agenda.
Speaker 4:We want no credit. We want the American people, if President Trump is elected again, President Trump and his administration to take credit for that.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So when you just heard Trump saying he's never heard of Project 2025, never read about it, and then you immediately have yet another video of him congratulating the head of the heritage foundation, the architect behind project 2025, and telling the audience what an awesome job the dude is doing. Well, there you go. Trump's a fucking liar. I wish the media would just like I don't know why they can't possibly do their jobs to the bare minimum and point out the fact that not only is he a fucking liar, but he's totally in cahoots with the people behind Project 2025, a large number of which the people who were involved in orchestrating the plan were part of his former administration. And just this man. It just makes me want to rip my face off that we can't.
Speaker 1:Don't do that, that we can't seem to get the media to cover this stuff in good faith, or at least do like the bare minimum job of like what we just did in playing the two videos One of Trump lying, yeah, telling the truth and just play them back to back and tell the audience the truth about Trump's relationship let him talk.
Speaker 2:I can tell by your blinds that you have a cat and kids, and children.
Speaker 1:But look, the carnage again is just never ending. Here's Trump slandering union workers. This is definitely the way to celebrate Labor Day Same thing with the unions.
Speaker 3:That's right. They get their little 5%, they get another 2%, they get another 3%, 4%. All of a sudden they're making more money than the people that own the company.
Speaker 2:He looked like a Muppet right there. He sounded like a Muppet right there. He sounded like a Muppet too.
Speaker 1:He looks extraordinarily strange.
Speaker 4:He was all fat back then.
Speaker 1:That was a few years ago. He looks even weirder now. Now that his face has all gotten strange, I think he's got.
Speaker 2:It's somewhere between being a quadroon and an orange. He's looking like a light-skinned black man right now, a high-yellow negro.
Speaker 1:I just want to say no union employee is making more than the fucking CEO of the company. In fact, ceos are making a record amount of money. They're making like thousands of times more than the.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and you could hear he just has contempt for the smallest increases and attempts to become closer to hear he just has contempt for the smallest increases and attempts to become closer to livable wage. He doesn't want a wealth gap to be lessened.
Speaker 2:If you make $15 an hour, 3%, I mean what's that doing? I mean 20% would be an extra $3. So I mean, yeah, so then you'd be making 18. So we're talking 3%.
Speaker 4:Did you guys hear the story about the Brooklyn? Is it? Is it where has the first unionized Amazon location? Is it Brooklyn? I don't know if it was Brooklyn.
Speaker 2:I know there were several New York locations I wrote about.
Speaker 4:But anyway, did you hear about how all those guys are now richer than Jeff?
Speaker 1:Bezos You're hilarious, carol. Yeah, look, unionization. While it's been great for employees wages, you're not going to get any hourly employees making millions of dollars a year, you know, plus multi-million or multi-tens of million dollar bonuses like that's fucking insane. But here's a video of trump praising elon musk, firing, firing workers who were trying to strike in order to gain better wages. This, this cutter.
Speaker 3:I mean, I look at what you do. You walk in and you just say you want to quit, they go on strike. I won't mention the name of the company, but they go on strike and you say that's OK, You're all gone. You're all gone. So every one of you is gone and you are the greatest. You would be very good. Oh, you would love it.
Speaker 1:Yeah no-transcript.
Speaker 4:They don't want us to have hope.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they don't. No, that's why they were so irate with Barack Obama, because his whole campaign was based on the idea of hope and change, not, like you know, in terms of quarters, nickels, dimes, percentages of a dollar, but like the other kind of change. But Trump obviously is in support of the abortion ban, despite whatever he says, and we have video proof of that as we speak. You're voting yes or no on Amendment 4 in Florida.
Speaker 3:So I think six weeks you need more time than six weeks. I've disagreed with that right from the early primaries. When I heard about it, I disagreed with it. At the same time the Democrats are radical because the nine months is just a ridiculous situation, that where you can do an abortion in the ninth month and you know some of the states like Minnesota and other states have it where you could actually execute the baby after birth and all of that stuff is unacceptable. So I'll be voting no for that reason.
Speaker 1:The media is too afraid to say this. Every time a Republican or Trump himself brings this up. No one's aborting babies in the ninth month.
Speaker 3:It doesn't happen.
Speaker 1:Or after birth. That's called murder. There are laws against that. Yes.
Speaker 2:In every state. Infanticide is illegal, yeah, and very frowned upon.
Speaker 1:Extraordinarily so. Yes, Democrats and Republicans alike. And in terms of Roe v Wade, that was about providing protections for unborn fetuses after viability, which is nowhere near the ninth month. There was a balancing of the parental rights in terms of terminating an abortion before viability, after viability up to a certain point. An abortion before viability, after viability up to a certain point. It depends upon the potential health of the mother or the fetus. In that case and I believe the last three months, typically exceptionally rare cases where the life of the mother was in danger, would you even consider an abortion, and they were extraordinarily rare Most take place in the first trimester.
Speaker 4:Again, just some weird recreational shit. It doesn't, you don't, it doesn't happen. Invited all my co-workers.
Speaker 2:I went and got everything got the nursery diapers and all that shit. Then I went to the hospital and decided I'm going to kill this baby. And then I just went back to work on Monday like what's he talking about? I wasn't pregnant. It's insane, I mean like how much sense does that make, for all intents and purposes, anyone going that far?
Speaker 1:it's a pregnancy that was wanted it's insane and it never happens, and if it did, you would see coverage on the news everywhere because it's such an unusual event. And, like again, you know after birth no one's killing their kid. If they do, they go to prison. But again Trump's insane ramblings didn't stop. He made this comment previously over the course of the weekend about Byron Donalds from North Carolina. Oh God, extraordinarily disgusting. But we're going to play that for you as well.
Speaker 3:I'd say, mr Congress, oh look who we have. He's getting darker. Byron said that place superstar of the future. He's already a superstar, but he's a superstar of the future. Byron Donald's, florida. Wow, that's nice to have you here. That's good, he's great. He's great. He knows exactly what I'm talking about. That one is smart. You have smart ones and you have some that aren't quite so good.
Speaker 4:Aren't so quite. So what Quite, so what.
Speaker 1:I wonder what he meant by that one. I'm assuming, because Byron Donald is black and he's a Republican.
Speaker 2:he means Some maggot troll on X-Chan was like he obviously was talking about as a congressman, and I'm like Trump thinks that Marjorie Taylor Greene is a rock star, okay, so yeah, no, that's not what he meant and he prefaced. He started with it and you know what I'm talking about. You're a credit to your race, boy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's extraordinarily disgusting just the way he views race in America, just in general. I can't believe this guy. How did we let him into the White House? The reason it's extraordinarily disgusting is because normally what you see across voting patterns over the course of the last 60 plus years or so is that largely the majority of the black population somewhere close to 85, 90 percent vote for Democrats. And this idea that because you know you have a handful of people who are willing to sell out to the party who does the most harm towards the black community uh, for the basically being a pick me right um, to congratulate that but also pointed out like openly in public horribly disgusting I find a white crowd in a sundown town uh look, you know, they gotta have their tokens right.
Speaker 1:So, even back in the days of slavery, we all make these jokes in the black community about the house Negro, the one who would suck up to master and continue to try and implement the systemic oppression of slavery among the fellow Negroes in the field in order for his personal position to be improved, but still to continue to be oppressed. I mean that that tradition is alive and well, and it's in the form of the Byron Donalds here and the Clarence Thomases on the Supreme Court, like there's a never ending slew of of these dudes, but it's always a tiny percentage of the population that's willing to sell out. Um, please don't congratulate them, fuckers. Uh, you know again, if you're white and you want to criticize these people, obviously be careful about the language that you choose. Uh, but also continue to shit on them at the same time. They absolutely deserve it.
Speaker 1:Um, but even though it's campaign season and trump is currently trailing kamala harris by a significant margin at this point, uh, he appears to be losing in swing states, headed toward a significant loss in november if we all do, if we all do our jobs. Uh, the head of the rnc, laura trump, because, sorry, don't you do it.
Speaker 2:That wasn't a joke. I just don't you play it.
Speaker 1:Having jared and ivaca in the white house wasn't enough. The nepotism never ends, uh. But instead of focusing on the campaign and helping republicans win elections in november and helping the trump campaign dig itself out of this hole, laura Trump is.
Speaker 4:Instead, she's focused on becoming some kind of pop superstar, a siren luring Republicans to their doom, into the rocks of doom.
Speaker 1:Well, we can debate whether or not she's doing a fair job of even that with this clip of her singing on Sky News.
Speaker 2:Well, you have to sing us a line here on air and come on.
Speaker 4:I'll do my best without any music or anything. Okay, well, I won't back down. No, I won't back down. You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down. What the fuck was that? I'm sorry, was that distorted? What happened? We know it.
Speaker 2:That was the end of civilization, Carol. That is what we just witnessed. You know how they were trying to give Kamala Harris shit. What's his name? Do she do see? And claim when does she get that Southern accent? Where the hell did Laura get that?
Speaker 1:Oh God and do she do sing and claim where did she get?
Speaker 4:that southern accent? Where the hell did Laura get that? Oh god, whatever, yeah was I. Were we experiencing distortion as well, or was that this?
Speaker 2:singing acapella yeah live.
Speaker 1:I mean she's got another song. I don't need auto-tune oh, she does, and with her song that's been produced, they applied the auto-tune to at she does. And with her song that's been produced, they applied the auto-tune to at least bring her in the Afghan whatever the fuck it's called.
Speaker 2:Victim's Tribute.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know. She sings a number of songs fairly terribly, even the colors Well she's got like on the little piece of the video.
Speaker 2:It showed like they're showing video of those soldiers of the video. It showed like they're showing video of those soldier of the soldiers, yeah, that one's bad died in af and during the afghanistan at abbey gate well, she's got the one where she's playing the piano.
Speaker 1:It's, it's. Even with the auto-tune, it's still terrible, I mean, and look, we say this is even though we're not professional singers on this podcast. I'm a lot better than I mean, I'm far better than her. I can even sing that same song for you in much, much better fashion. Well, I won't back down.
Speaker 2:See, look, I'm better than that bitch oh, that'd be a real nice bluesy one, and I bet his family would give permission for that yeah, I'm just saying like you may be like like who the fuck is this guy?
Speaker 1:music critic part of the insurrection podcast. Talk about the fucking insurrection.
Speaker 4:Lose no, actually you know also she's just. I mean, anyone who was listening couldn't hear that she was terrible and off key it's not even that was just bad and like, forget about, like the timbre of her voice, just like she was off key, it wasn't like okay, I guess if I have to like, it sounds like she doesn't realize that she is a beneficiary of autotune.
Speaker 4:Um, normally, because she's like oh great. I don't know if the music or anything, but like, when I have the music, it's somehow it always ends up sounding great, like when I hear it back. But when I sing it just like with nothing, it always sounds awful. I don't know when I hear it back, but when I sing it just like with nothing, it always sounds awful, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she must be hot Taylor spliff.
Speaker 2:Imagine her going around the house singing all the time and Eric has to listen to that while he holds her.
Speaker 4:Couture brushes, and she's the most talented one in the family, I mean no.
Speaker 1:That's. It's funny that you say that, because she might be. I mean, I guess melania had the talent of taking a close off in a previous occupation I'm talking about singing as a singer oh, as a musician or an artist, yeah, specifically singing.
Speaker 4:If they're gonna try to get singing like that was the best, in that there is not one person who can sing a very well-known melody on key in the family.
Speaker 1:I mean, maybe I don't know, I don't want to give a vodka any credit.
Speaker 2:She probably can't do they even listen to music? Yeah, like I can't imagine javanka jamming in the house.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean no, I'm I'm fairly sure avanka listens to music.
Speaker 2:Well, she does hang with Kim Kardashian.
Speaker 1:More importantly, I just can't believe that, instead of focusing on trying to not lose this election so that Trump doesn't go to prison, she's trying to be a pop star. It's pretty funny. I just like priorities. Guys Get it together. But before we get out of here, we will do our usual weekly vibes check. As it pertains to the Harris campaign.
Speaker 2:Ty, how you feeling where we at well, right now, all eyes are on what's going on in Ohio and in Texas with the ballot, texas with kicking the people off the voter rolls, and with Ohio with them like banning drop boxes, since you know they can't do anything else.
Speaker 2:They couldn't stop early voting, so they're ramping up, you know, two months out from the election, from the election. So while I am still very, very much confident in, you know, harris Walsh, I think that they see that the rest of America is also confident in Harris Walsh. So they're just going to pull out all the fuckery they can because they can't gerrymander that away. Right now, when they realize that you got white dudes for Harris, white women for Harris, they realize you got Republicans for Harris, veterans for Harris.
Speaker 4:They didn't think that all the way through Three cats in a jumpsuit for Harris.
Speaker 2:Harris. I mean they've got a comedy tour.
Speaker 1:Way to nail the dismount, Carol.
Speaker 2:Comedians for Harris. You've got venture capitalists for Harris with Mark Cuban and 100 venture capitalists. You've got cooks for Harris with Jose Andres. You've got cooks for Harris with Jose Andres. You've got the Latinos for Harris. And then what happened with LULAC and the raiding of the offices in Texas and the seizing of of Gestapo style. So that's going to get people fired up. Oh, I'm sorry, I mispronounced the Gazpacho style no-transcript.
Speaker 1:Wait, which one of them was it that confused gestapo with that might?
Speaker 2:actually have been marjorie, of course.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all roads point to marjorie, taylor green hey look, don't count out lauren bober for saying something incredibly stupid well, she's been quiet lately.
Speaker 4:She has been, or I just haven't cared, and no one else.
Speaker 1:She's got her hands full but yeah, but that's.
Speaker 2:But that's just where, like my focus is, I will be out registering people to vote again at EPCC on Thursday.
Speaker 1:Yes, I hear doing a dirty work, she getting it out of the mud out here we did 140.
Speaker 2:We registered 140, 98 percent Gen Z yeah, awesome. Yeah, because you know during the day most of the students are younger. Yeah, because you know, during the day most of the students are younger. I'm sure there's probably an older demographic. At night, people that work are going, you know, are part timers. But during the day, yeah, but it was so crazy because when we set up our table I'm thinking we're going to have to be out there with our clipboard hey, would you like to register? We were slammed and they came to us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, people are coming to us slammed and they came to us. Yeah, people are coming to us, and if you want your anecdotal evidence that people are excited to actually come out and vote in November, there you have it.
Speaker 2:And it was about 95% Latino. So there's that as well. So the excitement, if people try to put some false narrative or talking point out there that Latinos, latino Gen Z is not enthusiastic about Kamala Harris, it is patent, it is completely false and gaslighting. I mean, and we had people come and it was like, oh, I brought my friend. Oh, you know, valerie is like oh, I remember you from yesterday. She goes yeah, I brought my friend today and I had about registration forms in English and Spanish.
Speaker 2:And then so we have to ask, you know if they're a citizen or if they're eligible, because a lot of students do cross, like they come over for school and they go home, so they're residents. But being a resident of Juarez doesn't mean you're not a citizen, because I know a lot of citizens that choose to live there because their family's there, it's cheaper and they just make that commute. But that's like the standard question. And then you know, if we did ask someone walking by, who walked by our table, hey, you know, are you registered to vote? And they would say I'm not eligible, I'm not. So they're very upfront about it. So they take it very, very seriously. They're not trying, they didn't come all the way here to leave because they wanted to vote in an election. They weren't eligible to vote and like that's not a thing. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:That accusation has always been insane. We've just never had any evidence whatsoever to suggest that people.
Speaker 4:It's also just dumb because they would have thrown it out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, obviously.
Speaker 4:Yeah, exactly as you were saying. It's not worth the risk to their personal well, to their well-being, I guess.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and they had to provide with us they had to provide either their social or driver's license number.
Speaker 1:Well, I appreciate you doing your part to like ensure people get to exercise their right to vote when Republicans are engaging in efforts to make sure that Americans who are eligible to vote don't get the opportunity.
Speaker 2:And they're doing early voting starts on August the 21st. Early voting starts on August the 21st. And right there where they signed up, we're, right out front of like where the sort of student union area is, is where they're going to have voting. So it's like, hey, october 21st, early voting starts and the deadline to register is October the 7th.
Speaker 1:So we're really like every day trying to ramp up because we've got about a month left for people to register to vote. All right, Carol vibe, check when you at how you feeling.
Speaker 4:I mean it sounds like from what Ty is saying. I know that we're not going to count on it, but it's just kind of sounds like Texas is in play, no matter how many leans are we see or likely are whatever. So that's exciting. I think the Ohio thing, Mark Elias, is going to be making a lot of money off of the Republicans. Insistence of democracy being bad.
Speaker 1:I don't think he makes a lot of money doing his work. I mean, I'm sure he gets paid well, but he's not, I meant he'd be busy.
Speaker 4:No, I know what you mean His work cut out for him.
Speaker 1:He's not profiteering off of Republican. That's not what I was suggesting, but he's going to be fucking busy and he does a good job and he's my hero. Yeah, to be honest, like you know, I'm not wishing this anytime soon or anything, but like whenever we live in a world without a mark elias. I don't know what we're gonna do, because he's constantly saving elections.
Speaker 4:Well, hopefully he's trained a bunch of of protégés at the firm he started specifically for. You know what?
Speaker 2:mark elias does now reminds me of the what the southern poverty law Center back in the day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you see the civil rights era.
Speaker 2:you know just how impactful and out front and just the face of civil rights back in the day. So that's what Mark Elias and Democracy Docket and his team, that's what, that's the vibe I get from them. It just reminds me of them, of Southern Poverty Law Center back in the days.
Speaker 1:Yeah, by the way, if you're listening to this, go check out their podcast, democracy Docket. Like he, I think they do it two or three times a week. It's extraordinarily informative if you want to keep up with, like the nuts and bolts of the legal fight for protecting your democracy. But yeah, sorry Carol, as you were saying you excited.
Speaker 4:What? Who are you?
Speaker 1:guys, anyway. So, as for me, I think what's most noteworthy here again, we had, like the Ipsos poll the other day, I believe, showing Kamala Harris with somewhere around a six-point lead. Might have been closer to five and a half points or so, but what was really important there is, if you just took a look at the numbers, they were fairly representative of how Biden performed in 2020. And if you remember that, in terms of the popular vote, it was a massive blowout. Biden won by millions of votes. In terms of electoral college, it was a massive blowout. Biden won by millions of votes.
Speaker 1:In terms of electoral college, it was a substantial win. I wouldn't call it necessarily a massive blowout. It was basically the same electoral college victory that Trump had over Hillary Clinton in 2016. But if you also look back at 2020, what you would see is that Biden won you know the three swing states Michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin by less than 100,000 combined votes. So even with a massive uptick in the polls in terms of support for Kamala Harris, it's still probably going to be a close election. It's going to come down to a handful of states possibly, with the exception being that if Kamala Harris wins Georgia and North Carolina, I think all bets are off in terms of Trump's path.
Speaker 1:Imagine she won Texas I know it's not likely, but that would be like I think. So in terms of winning Texas, it's probably not in the cards.
Speaker 4:I think Trump might have his bunker moment.
Speaker 1:It's probably not in the cards. I think Trump might have his bunker moment it's probably not in the cards in 24. I think what's going to happen for Texas if a Democratic president wants to have a shot at winning there, there'll have to be a change in governor. You have to get a Democratic governor in there who's not going to suppress the vote, a Democratic governor in there who's not going to suppress the vote, but a state that is actually in play, that's got a similar makeup to Texas in terms of demographic makeup.
Speaker 1:Florida that is actually in play and the Harris campaign has shown recently that they're serious about making a play for the state, even if they don't win it. They're campaigning heavily down there. They're spending a lot of money. I think the harris campaign just sent 35 million dollars down ticket. Some of that's going to florida candidates in order to get that the florida democratic party organized, mobilized and ready to get people registered to vote and inform them about showing up to vote for Harris on the ticket in November.
Speaker 1:And what's important about that, even if Harris does still in fact, lose Florida is if, say, the Biden campaign in 2020 had taken a significant portion of the billion plus dollars they raised and poured it into the Democratic Party down there, not 2020, 2022, I'm sorry If they had taken that money in 2020 and invested it in the Democratic Party in 2022 in Florida, it's possible that that would have flipped a few House seats to Democratic and Democrats would have kept the House because they only lost it by a slim majority. If you combine that with the redistricting failure in New York sorry Carol it's almost certain they would have kept the House.
Speaker 4:It sucks for all of us. So yeah, this investment in time and energy, not to mention that census where, if New York had, like, 84 more respondents to the 2020 census, we would have had an additional additional role to George fucking Santos.
Speaker 1:That too.
Speaker 2:But that was the easiest get with minimal money.
Speaker 4:But we lost a congressional seat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thanks to some shenanigans with the census. But so again that investment, even if Harris doesn't win, win Florida could pay dividends in a major way, because at this point currently the Republicans only have like a tiny single digit majority in the house. And this is one of the ways even again, even if she doesn't win the state, the Democrats get the house back and that could have a huge impact on whether or not, if she ends up in the White House, her first term is successful or not. Because you see, even with a tiny majority, what Biden was able to accomplish over his first two years. Most of his major legislation was passed with a tiny majority in the House and basically no majority in the Senate, only the tiebreaker in terms of Kamala Harris. You need the House, you need it back, you need Speaker of the House, hakeem Jeffries, and we can get it done if you guys show up to vote in November. No-transcript.
