The Purge: Election Year 2024

Is Trump really suggesting a 'purge' to combat crime, or are we living in a twisted version of reality?" In this episode, we humorously examine Trump's latest controversial statements, including his bizarre proposal of a 'purge' day, later scaled down to just an hour. We reflect on the irony of crime rates dropping under Biden, despite Trump's fearmongering, and share some personal stories like Carol's laptop calamity to highlight the relentless stress of staying updated with the news.

Next, we delve into the dangerous path of Trump's rhetoric and the looming threats of his potential re-election. We discuss the unsettling possibility of Trump being granted immunity by the Supreme Court, his plans to fill federal positions with loyalists, and state governors empowering him to deputize local law enforcement. The media's failure to critically analyze Trump's statements, coupled with his blatant ignorance on basic issues—like phone apps and hurricane seasons—paints a dire picture of his readiness (or lack thereof) for another term.

Lastly, we stress the crucial role of voting, especially as the 2024 elections approach. Even in traditionally blue states, voter turnout is vital for down-ballot races. We talk about the impact of redistricting and the role of state legislatures in safeguarding elections. Additionally, we address the manipulation of polling data by biased sources, urging caution against skewed polls that distort public perception. Tune in for a critical, engaging, and often humorous commentary on the surreal state of today's politics.

Chapters

• 0:02 Trump's Endorsement of the Purge
• 6:56 Trump's Dangerous Rhetoric and Incompetence
• 22:55 Importance of Voting in Every State
• 30:10 Manipulating Polling Data for Political Gain

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:02

one, two, three, four. Hey, this is d night this is carol and womp, and dies at work and you're listening to the pardon the insurrection podcast, where we do not endorse the idea of a 12-hour period in which all crime is deemed legal, including murder especially murder I mean, I mean we especially do not condone that no, we don't condone it, even though numerous republicans recently have tried to murder their own presidential candidate.

Speaker 1: 0:35

But that aside, um, it's been a wacky, wild week, as per the usual non-stop news every single goddamn day. It's driving me crazy. Uh, I don't know how many of you out there consume alcohol on a regular basis, but, uh, if you're thinking of quitting drinking anytime soon, you're crazy. Yeah, I would suggest you hold off. Typically I don't mean, uh, it's super, super bad for you.

Speaker 1: 0:59

It's killing you, but like so stress yeah, but it's also keeping your soul alive at this point with all of this ridiculous nonsense that's going on in the news, in the media, especially in an election cycle will um get rid of a hundred percent of your will to live now.

Speaker 1: 1:18

The flip side of that it's not coffee if you don't drink alcohol. That's like one less beverage that you might accidentally spill on your laptop, as Carol once did not too long ago here. But she got a replacement, Chardonnay Carol, as we like to refer to her. That's her new nickname.

Speaker 2: 1:33

I don't know what happened. That laptop just stopped working on its own. I have no idea what happened to that.

Speaker 1: 1:39

Look, at least your nickname is far better than what they're calling the diddler, so you have that going for you. But in case you missed it, over the course of this weekend and one of Trump's events, he was referencing the amount of crime in the United States, even though the FBI just put out a report showing that over the course of the past six months, crime has drastically decreased under the Biden administration. Yet another accomplishment that he, just like he, continues to be lacking in terms of praise as far as the public is concerned. But at this event, trump was saying all of this crime, blah, blah, blah. It's terrible. There's one way to fix it. We should have a day in which he was basically endorsing the idea of the purge, and if you think that I'm being ironic there, I heard something about like one hour, but it's gonna be really really bad, really bad hour.

Speaker 2: 2:42

Make them not do.

Speaker 1: 2:44

Yeah, okay he started off with an entire day and then, I think, he toned it down to just an hour because he realized how absurd he fucking sounded.

Speaker 4: 2:53

But you'd see it originally. You saw kids walk in with calculators. They were calculating, they didn't want to go over the $950. They're standing with calculators adding it up. You know, these are smart, smart people. They're not so stupid, but they have to be taught. Now, if you had one really violent day, like a guy like Mike Kelly, put him in charge, congressman Kelly. Put him in charge for one day. Mike, would you say he's right here, he's a great congressman. Would you say, mike, that if you were in charge, you would say, oh, please, don't touch them. Don't touch them. Let them rob your store. All these stores go out of business, right? They don't pay rent, the city doesn't have money. It's a chain of events that's so bad. One rough hour and I mean real rough, the word will get out and it will end immediately, all right.

Speaker 2: 3:49

So the idea that all those kids that you said were trying to take calculators how dare they do math?

Speaker 1: 4:00

Yeah, like I guess engaging in crime in which you use a calculator does show some sort of intelligence that you could probably apply to another endeavor.

Speaker 1: 4:04

No, the idea Trump is basically endorsing there is that if there were a day or some period of time in which you could be violent towards criminals, that that would end crime. That is the plot of the Purge. I kid you not Now if you haven't seen any of the Purge films. The basic premise there is that the conservative government in like an alternate version of the United States, has instituted a policy where one day a year, for a 12-hour period, all crime is legal in the United States, including murder, and the idea behind that is that if you give people the opportunity to engage in just a free reign of terror and destruction for a short period of time, over the course of the rest of the year, crime will decrease. I mean, like some subplot lines of that include the fact that it's actually a ploy by the government and a few wealthy people. It's a grift like they. They make billions of dollars every year selling guns and security systems and whatnot. Make billions of dollars every year selling guns and security systems and and whatnot.

Speaker 2: 5:07

But also there's a separate subplot. Is there any? Are there any entities in this country today that make money off of of selling guns and defensive?

Speaker 1: 5:15

yeah, fair enough. I mean there are more guns in america currently than there are people. So, and considering I think like two percent of americans legally own guns, it seems like an absurd number of guns to flood the country with. But nonetheless, there's also the subplot in these movies of the idea that the purge is just cover for the party in power to eliminate their political opponents. So, you know, it seems like the kind of idea Trump would readily endorse and it's fucking insane. I wish the media would actually cover this with some kind of diligence. I mean, like this is they're still.

Speaker 2: 5:48

They still just laughed at the dictator on day one comment but like, haha, he's gonna be a dictator.

Speaker 1: 5:54

Moving on, we're talking to someone in a diner right um, not to mention again, you know, of trump's echoing of hitler over the course of the past few years here, not not only with the dictator on day one thing, and calling immigrants animals and saying they're also the Night of Shattered Glass. If you might be familiar with that from your American, or rather your World War.

Speaker 1: 6:34

II history in which you know, hitler did all of this encouragement of violence against the Jewish community and businesses and such, and that erupted into a night of violence. I mean it's the parallels are getting out of control here and I feel like just not enough people in America are taking this seriously, the media included. Actually, they're probably at the top of the list. They seem to be doing a piss poor job at informing the people of not only the insanity of Trump's comments but the parallels that you can draw from them and the fact that, while he's an unserious person, totally absurd at times, he's absolutely serious about the threats he's making and don't get it twisted and he's surrounded himself by people at this point who are willing to carry them out for him.

Speaker 2: 7:21

I mean all of the people who had any integrity jumped ship a long time ago I mean I don't want to get into their original integrity.

Speaker 1: 7:32

Fair enough. Yeah, we don't know how much integrity they had to begin with, but what little shred of integrity some of those individuals might've had, the ones that did seem to have at least some line that they weren't willing to cross when you want to have someone who's willing to tell you, yes, black is white, then you don't have a good advisor.

Speaker 2: 7:51

I mean you, you're gonna, you're not gonna, you're not gonna attract good people when you're insisting they all lie to you and then expect good counsel anyway gone for sure.

Speaker 1: 8:01

And then, like the fact that, one, the supreme Court has granted this dude immunity to, they plan on firing literally everyone they possibly can in the federal government If Trump wins the election, and replacing them with stooges, basically his own brown shirts. And then, three, there are a number of state governors who are willing to let Trump deputize their local law enforcement and treat them as his own private army. I would say I would suggest that, like everyone, take this shit seriously, because we could all die if trump's elected in november. So keep that in mind. Um, but the insanity at trump's events didn't stop over the course of the weekend, because, well, look, he can't help himself. He just says some of the most ridiculous possible stuff that you could possibly. I mean, well, here's a clip of Trump not knowing what a phone app is.

Speaker 4: 8:55

Immigrants. They have a phone app so that people can come into our country. These are smart immigrants, I guess, because most people don't have any idea what the hell a phone app is.

Speaker 1: 9:05

But they do. These are very yeah, and he's referring to an app that that was used prominently in the course of his administration there to help immigrants deal with some of the issues that arise from uh they laughed at him.

Speaker 2: 9:22

Did you hear them laughing? Yeah, they did laugh.

Speaker 1: 9:24

Now, as insane as that was, um, it drives me crazy that this nonsense just continues to be spouted by him and his rallies in front of these people who, like, take him seriously, and the media just, they're just like, oh, trump just held another rally, but they don't actually cover the ridiculous content of the things that he actually says. It drives me crazy. But here is Trump who, while brain dead, is accusing others of being mentally handicapped in some form or fashion.

Speaker 4: 9:55

Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way, she was born that way.

Speaker 1: 10:15

Yeah, that is Trump engaging in some of the most absurdly racist shit he's. I mean you know it's really difficult to rank Trump's racist comments over the years, but in terms of the 2024 campaign that's pretty bad. I mean, you know it's really difficult to rank Trump's racist comments over the years, but in terms of the 2024 campaign that's pretty bad. I mean saying that, the implication being there that because Joe Biden is white, that he's experiencing mental decline, but because Kamala Harris is black, that she's somehow been mentally she was born mentally disabled.

Speaker 2: 10:45

And this is coming from the person despite all the evidence that she is much smarter than him, and just kicked his ass and embarrassed him in a debate yeah, that's well.

Speaker 1: 10:56

If you take trump's implication in his word, then he's lost to two mentally handicapped people I mean he's no longer campaigning, he's just complaining.

Speaker 2: 11:07

I mean that's just his thing, right?

Speaker 1: 11:09

well, yeah, his campaigns are a mix of him whining and like trash, talking like in a way that's not even clever or like yeah, it's like white supremacist deaf comedy. Jam up there like the. The jokes quote unquote that he's making are Quite terrible. But I mean, that's that's also Trump calling someone else mentally disabled or whatnot, while also not knowing what a phone app is and also, well, clearly not knowing anything about hurricane season, as you will see in this particular clip here.

Speaker 4: 11:45

Georgia, as well as North Carolina, south Carolina, florida, virginia, alabama and Tennessee. That's a big one, and the devastation wrought by this storm is incredible. It's so extensive.

Speaker 2: 12:04

Nobody thought this would be happening, especially now it's so late in the season for the hurricanes? No, it's not. And also, everyone was warning that this was going to have devastating effects when it made landfall.

Speaker 1: 12:11

Yeah, we do that days in advance. Also, it's peak hurricane season, Like I mean. I think it's pretty clear. It's like September, end of September, early October. This is when hurricanes are at the most severe, and literally anyone who just knows the bare minimum about hurricanes understands that.

Speaker 2: 12:28

Anyone who's looked at cruises ever and was like why is it so cheap at this time of year? Oh, yeah, you know, because you could potentially paying attention and remember when all the other serious hurricanes have been throughout the course of your life. And his life has been considerably longer than mine, so there's like less of an excuse for him to have so little self-awareness.

Speaker 1: 12:47

But sorry, not self-awareness awareness of your surroundings as well I mean as someone who was president for four years and dealt with multiple natural disasters over the, and by dealt with I mean remember he tossed all the hurricanes in september every year, something, something cut me off.

Speaker 1: 13:09

Now it's getting really bad so, yes, by dealing with natural disasters I mean tossing paper towels, fm and doing nothing else over the course of his administration. Like, how is the media not holding him accountable for learning absolutely nothing after four years on the job and then four more years campaigning for president?

Speaker 2: 13:41

And then telling his underlings no, you have to tell them. Tell them that we should have more paper towels.

Speaker 1: 13:49

Everyone keep lying and pretending that this is some great idea yeah, just keep in mind he we just saw a clip of him referring to joe biden and kamala harris is mentally handicapped. And then there he is, immediately proving that he knows absolutely nothing and his brain is jello. And then just again, man, I don't know, like I don't know at what point this country turned to like this hellscape where a presidential candidate could say, oh, it's incredibly stupid or racist or violent shit and then face no consequences. I don't know what happened. Like, is this the george bushification of the conservative party? Is that what happened? Because I was like, yeah, after four or eight years of that, we'll never see anyone this dumb or stupid or useless again.

Speaker 2: 14:42

Wrong we'll never see someone who made george bush seem innocent just a sweet, innocent war criminal well and beyond the war criminality.

Speaker 1: 14:53

Just like the idiocy. Like if you thought the bush presidency was like idiocracy, this is idiocracy I never thought someone was going to come around to and make bush seem quaint yeah this is uh yeah, steroids level stupidity.

Speaker 1: 15:09

I just I don't understand. It almost has me pulling my hair out. I mean I just I just need them to do better. But we also had Trump just straight up lie about President Biden's disaster response. Just just straight up lies. As you see, biden's disaster response just just straight up lies as you see, ideally with the governor.

Speaker 4: 15:32

That governor needs to. He's been trying to get them and I'm sure they're going to come through.

Speaker 3: 15:43

But he's been calling the president hasn't been able to get him, but I just spoke. The president just called me yesterday afternoon. I missed him and called him right back and he just said hey, what do you need? And I told him you know, we got what we need. We'll work through the federal process. He offered that if there's other things, we need just to call him directly, which I appreciate that.

Speaker 1: 16:03

Yes, absolutely. Wow, the Trump is just willing to outright oh wait, that's what he does regularly, every single day, every single time, nearly that he opens his mouth. No, just trying to outright oh wait, that's what he does regularly, every single day, every single time, nearly that he opens his mouth. Uh, no, just trying to lie like yeah, well, super conservative.

Speaker 1: 16:16

Uh, governor brian camp is obviously a liberal show well, yeah, it's, he's like trying to blame biden for some seeming lack of disaster response. Governor Kemp is like actually no, I was, I was talking to Biden every day here he's. He's been on board now a lot of people. So I live in Tennessee currently and of all the governors who have been affected by the hurricane, they issued a state of emergency at least a couple of days before landfall at the earliest. My state was the only one to request aid from the federal government after the fucking storm created a disaster and people were trying to blame President Biden for that. I'm like you know what? Biden can't actually really do anything until the governor requests help from the federal government.

Speaker 1: 17:14

So, and you know, the right-wing nut jobs are out here trying to blame biden for lack of response here in tennessee. No, it's actually my, my state's, idiot moron of a governor, his fault for not watching the fucking news, like everyone knew. We look, you could just like look at the map. It's got like the hurricane path and it's like all the way from florida through georgia and tennessee and north carolina and you could see it and like the fact that this fucking moron waited to like half the state was in dire straits and to ask for federal assistance. It's just, I mean, look, that's what you have to look forward to if you vote for a republican. If there's any sort of incident god forbid, some kind of disaster they're going to leave you to die. I'm just telling you that for sure, for fact, and like you can look at project 2025 like one of the plans I think getting rid of fema um, they're.

Speaker 1: 18:09

You know, they're treating it like they said what leftists wanted to do to the police in 2020. They're going to defund it. And you know, again, these climate disasters are only getting worse and worse and then more and more frequent. So, yeah, if you want to live, vote for Kamala Harris. I guess that's really your only option. Live vote for Kamala Harris. I guess that's really your only option. And like these people who have their like single issue or whatever, for whatever reason, they don't feel as though they can vote for Kamala Harris, I'm like, hey, man, it's all this other important stuff in the world that will literally affect you if you choose to not vote in the election in November and if Trump wins it's, it's going to be deleterious to you and not only you, everyone that you know and possibly all the entire United States. So, you know, get your shit together. But speaking of like you know the ideal response to a natural disaster like a hurricane, here we have Jesse Waters from Fox News giving Kamala Harris advice on how she should handle the impact from Hurricane Helene.

Speaker 4: 19:26

What I recommend her doing is maybe you get a little paper towel like this, like he did in Puerto Rico. That's what the people want.

Speaker 2: 19:36

He means his viewers, though not he wants that. He's the people.

Speaker 1: 19:42

Yeah, let's not actually throw the fucking paper towel at hurricane victims like.

Speaker 2: 19:48

Jesse Waters. If you see Jesse Waters, offer him some, some paper towels in a in a non violent way.

Speaker 1: 19:56

I mean that's, that's an option, but yeah, look, you know, numerous people have died from this fucking hurricane. It has been an under disaster. I think it's something like close to 120 million, or rather 120 billion, with the b dollars in damage so far, and you know who knows what the actual total number will be. Uh, over the course of the next couple of weeks, as we get, uh, relief and aid in and clean up after this horrific disaster, and the idea that, like you know, following trump's lead from when he was president in 2017, where he didn't do anything for puerto rico, but go down there and throw the throw that paper towel roll of paper towels at the people, it's fucking disgusting, like, it's absolutely asinine, like. First, not only are they lying about, let them eat cake, sorry, yeah, yeah let them eat paper towels.

Speaker 1: 20:54

Let them eat, uh what? Brownie or something, I don't know, downy um it would.

Speaker 2: 21:00

it's kind of like if um, after after the French Revolution, like Marie Antoinette, still alive Friends in exile are making jokes to like poor people about. They're making like the same joke and they're like what?

Speaker 1: 21:21

This is yeah, it's off the rails. No, but the idea that Jesse Waters would even suggest that, when we know that people are suffering in the way that they are is absurd. The second we knew this was going to be some kind of horrific event and, given the nature and strength of the storm and the trajectory and the likelihood that it was just resulted massive down, just like these people, man, we, we gotta get them the fuck out of here. Cut off. Your fox news is if you watch this.

Speaker 1: 22:01

I mean, I guess, if you're listening to this podcast, there's absolutely no way that you're listening to fox news or watching fox news for that matter. But guess, if you're listening to this podcast, there's absolutely no way that you're listening to Fox News or watching Fox News for that matter. But definitely if you live in a red state. Just look at what kind of absurd shit is going on here and then, like Republicans, again in the middle of a disaster, just voted to shut down the government just a couple of weeks ago, which really would have handicapped any kind of federal response in getting aid to these people and saving then they would just be like, well, our hands are tied.

Speaker 2: 22:30

The democrats wouldn't allow our innocuous bill about not letting women vote if their passport doesn't match their birth certificate something like that, but yeah something like that. I was conflating it with another thing, that's.

Speaker 1: 22:46

OK, there's a million insane issues that Republicans are making a priority over actually doing anything good for the American people.

Speaker 2: 22:54

I just want to mention. You said you know if you're in a red state, I don't want my our blue state friends to forget you also need to vote. Don't think like it's a sure thing in your state for president. Don't think like it's a sure thing in your state for president. It might be, but like I live in what is supposed to be a pretty blue district and we currently have a Republican congressman, I don't know if people just got too complacent last time or yeah, that's what happened.

Speaker 1: 23:19

Well, part of it is that also the redistricting probably didn't help help you guys either. And then a bit of complacency, but again, so if you do live in a blue state, obviously having a presidential election is probably going to help boost turnout in that regard. But again, if we had taken 2022 seriously in just a handful of states, largely Florida and New York, we could have had control of the House. But I mean, I guess a lesson learned, yeah, so treat the 2024 election.

Speaker 2: 23:53

I was taking it seriously, not you. But I can still only vote the once.

Speaker 1: 23:58

I'm talking about just generally the royal. We weren't taking it seriously. But lesson learned. So if you do happen to live in a blue state, don't treat that as some kind of excuse not to turn out and vote, because there are other elections down ballot that matter. You know your governor's races, senate races, perhaps also the house of representatives is in play, so make sure you turn out and vote for that Judges make a huge yeah and you have a state Senate.

Speaker 2: 24:26

I got a DA race right now. We got lots of stuff.

Speaker 1: 24:31

Yeah, your state legislatures. They make well, they matter a lot. They're a huge deal and, considering what Republicans are possibly planning for the election in terms of cheating, your state legislation might, or state, yes, your state legislature might be the difference between Kamala Harris winning the presidency or Republicans cheating in hand against Trump. But also, if you live in a swing state, obviously, when it comes to president, your vote is super important, because you were literally the only thing saving us from hell, destruction and, well, a real life version of the purge.

Speaker 2: 25:10

So absolutely turn out to vote in that regard and obviously, and remember, since you're in a swing state, it's going to fall. Your state will fall faster Right.

Speaker 1: 25:19

Yeah, the odds are the more of you in swing states. If you turn out to vote and help Kamala Harris win by a landslide in your state, the less likely it is for them the Republican Party to effectively cheat and steal your vote.

Speaker 2: 25:35

And if you're a blue dot in a red state, or purge you or let you get blown away or flooded.

Speaker 1: 25:43

Yes, there are any number of ways in which letting republicans uh take control of the federal government disease for which we have a vaccine available. Yeah, uh, any number of any number of, yeah, any number of ways in which, if republicans take control of the federal government or your state, that you could die miserably health care that is available yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1: 26:08

Um, so about abortion care? Yes, your vote is important there, and if you live in a red state and you're a blue dot, don't think your vote isn't important there, because a number of you could largely be the reason why, even though trump might win your state, republicans might lose the House or the Senate. So it's absolutely vital to turn out to vote in November and make things happen, because we need every single vote.

Speaker 2: 26:34

Some of you have some pretty sick ballot initiatives too.

Speaker 1: 26:44

Yeah, Florida, we're looking at you, of course, with the abortion rights and legalization of marijuana on the ballot.

Speaker 2: 26:47

Uh, I don't know why you're there voting. To get to voting with your stoner stoniness and to for your free joints, throw a, throw a.

Speaker 1: 26:57

Throw a vote in there for kamala I don't think you get free weed you just. It just becomes legal. But also, you know, arizona here's looking at you guys. You have abortion access on the ballot as well.

Speaker 2: 27:08

New York was given out joints in exchange for COVID vaccines a few years ago.

Speaker 1: 27:13

Yeah, that was probably an effective method of getting people to show up and get vaccinated. Yeah, instead of having to take like some Advil afterwards because your arm is sore, you just fire up a blunt. It was a joint. Or joint. I mean you. You know you got to be like I didn't get them.

Speaker 1: 27:35

I had already been vaccinated I don't know what type of community you're typically associating with, but the individuals I typically associate with who engage in the smoking of cannabis generally roll blunts, yes, um okay, well, if they were handed a free joint for getting a vaccine, where are you telling me they're gonna unroll it and roll it into a blunt? I've never met a pothead.

Speaker 2: 27:59

Who is that?

Speaker 1: 28:00

no, they're absolutely gonna smoke it, but I was just saying that typically, the preference there in order would be like blunt at the top of the list and then somewhere down lower would be joint um, but in terms of the landscape and what it looks like for republicans winning the 2024 election. I'm sure a lot of you out there are checking out the polls and one of the things you're going to see regularly here is polling averages, and I'm going to advise you to stay away from anyone who's using polling averages, and here's the reason why so recently um according to some really bad polls and they still average into the number yes, so yeah that's.

Speaker 2: 28:46

Can you put it in a song?

Speaker 1: 28:48

I don't know if I like there's not as clear an obviously fitting song uh for the polling averages as there were for hurricanes. Uh, in in september, um, shout out to earth, wind and fire y'all, Y'all crushed it with that. So, according to some leaked documents, it was revealed that Rasmussen polls you know the notoriously super right leaning polls despite what every other legitimate poll tends to say there were documents revealed that they basically are coordinating with the Trump campaign and are working in tandem, which is likely some sort of campaign finance violation. I'm sure the FEC should probably look into that, regardless of whether they will or not.

Speaker 2: 29:37

I mean again like they're taking notes right now. They're like oh shit.

Speaker 1: 29:43

But beyond that, that just shows that Rasmussen and this is one of the more prominent right wing polls they're just an arm of the Trump campaign, and the reason why they're working with the Trump campaign and the reason why some of their numbers are so skewed is, you'll likely see, like you know, maybe Pennsylvania, perhaps most polls will have Kamala Harris up by one, two, three, four points and Rasmussen will have Trump up by three. Well, one of the reasons why they do this is because one of the methods that have become popular in terms of using polling data to quote unquote predict elections is aggregating the data inside of polling averages. So you take a number of polls, you, you know, average them together more or less, and then you take that number and that's supposed to eliminate some of the noise that comes with the issues arising from individual polls, right? Well, the way polls are typically used by media now is not to inform campaigns on how to effectively campaign better, but to influence public opinion. So if you have a poll or set of polls showing Trump losing by four points, it's extraordinarily debilitating for that campaign's ability to convince people to donate to them. It depresses turnout in the election, Like it.

Speaker 1: 31:12

If it looks like it's certain defeat, then a number of supporters typically won't show up at the polls. So one of the ways to counteract that is to introduce these. They're cooked like they. They cook up these polls that show more right-wing support than actually exists, they introduce these to the pollsters who do the aggregation and voila, you've magically somehow shifted what would have been a harris advantage plus four per se to now a harris advantage plus one, because you've introduced polls like Rasmussen per se and a number of other right wing funded polls that are basically intended to affect public perception. So what I would say largely is that's just what.

Speaker 2: 32:01

I said, and I'm much more articulate I do okay sometimes.

Speaker 1: 32:07

So what I would say is, if you're looking at the polls just to get an idea of where things are and where to send, you know, donate your money to these races, down ballot or where you think the campaign should be spending its money. Stay away from anyone using polling averages and absolutely stay away from anyone that's specifically including Rasmussen polls in their polling averages, because, as we just explained to you, their polls are cooked and it's basically right-wing propaganda coming straight from the Trump campaign. And that especially includes Nate Silver, formerly of FiveThirtyEight, who got fired by his own company. Fuck that guy. And that concludes this episode of Pardon the Insurrection.