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
Dark MAGA: Moron Edition
What happens when Elon Musk aligns himself with Trump and claims the "dark MAGA" mantle? We unpack this unexpected turn of events and question the implications of Musk's newfound political stance, especially given his financial woes tied to Twitter's devaluation. With Musk's bold statements about jail time hanging in the balance if Trump loses, we explore the irony of his support and the potential legal ramifications with Trump-aligned PACs. As Trump makes headlines with remarks on dictatorship and radical policies, we examine the feasibility of his Madison Square Garden rally amidst mounting controversy.
The unsettling rise of extremist rhetoric in politics poses a threat to democratic norms. We take a critical look at Trump's dangerous policy proposals, mass deportation plans, and the normalization of violent rhetoric. By drawing parallels to historical and fictional authoritarian regimes, we spotlight the cult-like devotion that fosters unchecked power and threatens democracy. Our conversation serves as a wake-up call to recognize and resist the erosion of democratic values in contemporary politics.
Shifting gears to a brighter narrative, Kamala Harris's campaign is gaining momentum, fueled by her energetic outreach to younger voters and diverse media platforms. We celebrate Harris's successful fundraising efforts and the optimism surrounding her dynamic presence compared to Trump's chaotic rallies. Highlighting the strategic advantages of early voting, we compare her campaign's vibrant atmosphere to the unpredictable nature of Trump's appearances. Join us as we explore the hopeful energy propelling Harris towards the election, signaling a potential shift in public sentiment from disillusionment to hope.
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One, two, three, four. Speaking of insanity taking place at Trump rallies, you may or may not have missed this video of Elon Musk purported neither right nor left. Supposedly you know independent mind and independent voters showing up at a Trump rally, and he had a blast jumping around like a weirdo hopping mad hopping mad, yes, and referring to himself as dark MAGA.
Speaker 1:That's extraordinarily unfortunate.
Speaker 1:You know, after all of the allegations about the previous owners of Twitter being supposedly in the bag for Democratic candidates, here we are having Elon Musk out here literally campaigning for Trump After buying Twitter the irony is not lost on me Also just looking like a total fucking weirdo.
Speaker 1:And then Trump looking at him like a weirdo as well. It's just weird, a fucking weirdo. And then trump looking at him like a weirdo as well. It's just weird, um, but so I think, in terms of, like elon's behavior here, clearly not only is he in the back of trump, he must be like in dire straits, because I would imagine, with the amount of money he's in the hole after you know twitter losing what 80 of his worth since he bought it, yep, you know he must be in some dire financial straits. But even in that unfortunate situation for his bank account, I would imagine he's still out here pouring tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars into a Trump-aligned PAC which, it seems, given the fact that he's the largest contributor to that PAC and PACs are forbidden from coordinating with the candidates themselves being out here on the campaign trail with the candidate is an FEC violation.
Speaker 4:Yes. Well, maybe he was very cognizant when he says if Trump doesn't win, he's going to jail. I completely believe that, not to mention all of the SEC investigations that he has against him and for all of the the trading stuff, like what he did with the 420 for Tesla.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the stock price manipulation, possibly insider trading and who knows what else is being investigated.
Speaker 3:Elon Musk said he's going to jail if Trump doesn't win yeah, he said in his interview with Tucker.
Speaker 1:So yeah, elon did an interview with Tucker Carlson. You know just two weirdos getting their shit off together.
Speaker 4:Laughing about the vice president being assassinated. You know, just another day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just another day, a couple of privileged white guys laughing about the murder and death of a black woman. No big deal there. Me didn't care about that. But yeah, in that interview he said if Trump doesn't win, he's fucked. And you know, I hopefully take him at his word.
Speaker 4:That's why I'm voting for Kamala Harris to make sure Trump loses and Elon is fucked.
Speaker 2:Oh, that in and of itself alone would be worth it, even if she was president for just one day.
Speaker 1:Fair enough, but you know, speaking of being president for one day, trump is back to his insinuations that he will be a dictator on day one, Surprise, surprise.
Speaker 2:So I have to be careful with this. I said once, about a month ago you only have to vote this one time and after that everything will be good. And the fake news said see, he wants to be a dictator and take over the country. No, no, that's not what I said. We got to fix the country, got to make sure, and then the country will be great and we're going to have, hopefully, some great person, whether it's JD or somebody else.
Speaker 3:And when the great Sean.
Speaker 1:Hannity asked me a question and I jokingly said, he said okay let's get this off.
Speaker 2:You don't want to be a dictator, do you? I said, sean, I only want to be a dictator for one day and I'm going to close the borders and drill baby drill, but after that I never want to be a dictator.
Speaker 4:He's going to do all that in one day.
Speaker 2:Be drilled, but after that I never want to be a dictator, he's going to do all that in one day. So the fake news took that answer and they said Sean, I want to be a dictator. So he said Sean, I want to be a dictator. And they go he wants to be a dictator. They cut the rest of it. These are the worst people. These are the worst. They said he's a threat to democracy, he wants to be a dictator. No, you know, the threat to democracy are when you put incompetent people in charge of our country.
Speaker 1:It's all that much. I never looked in a mirror. You like the democracy is when you put incompetent people in charge, and we just showed you a clip of Trump reading off the teleprompter, saying he doesn't read the teleprompter, no. So again in terms of Trump's comments about being a dictator, he's saying yes, I want to be a dictator, but only in terms of closing the border and drilling. Sir, that has nothing to do with being a dictator.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You can just say no, I don't want to be a dictator, I would just like to manage the border and produce more oil, even though under Biden, the United States is producing more oil than it ever has.
Speaker 4:And than anyone else in the world, even fucking OPEC countries.
Speaker 3:So that just implies that he's going not just close the border but commit extreme violence? I mean, weren't we talking about his? You know he's gonna. He's cool with whatever acts of violence and doing so um yeah, uh, yeah, we're, we're fresh.
Speaker 1:We're fresh off of a week where trump suggested basically purge, yeah, and in all likelihood a day of violence engaged in by Trump supporters or and or law enforcement under his direction.
Speaker 4:I don't see the difference yeah, I mean, I'm sure supporters and the law enforcement.
Speaker 3:I tuned out a little bit before because I was reading about the Madison Square Garden rally he's supposedly going to have. How can he afford Madison Square Garden for his Nazi rally?
Speaker 1:So two things. I don't know if he necessarily has the money to afford a Madison Square Garden rally, but also well, considering he's a Republican in Madison Square Garden is in New York City, a city and a state that he'll never win. By all means, spend all your time campaigning in New York days before the election Awesome.
Speaker 3:It just would prefer those people to not all be in Manhattan.
Speaker 1:No, totally fair. But I'd rather him be in New York setting money on fire and setting opportunity on fire. Like the opportunity cost of that when he could be in a swing state like Arizona or Michigan perhaps, or even North Carolina, like the opportunity cost of that is fucking insane. So, yeah, great, go to New York.
Speaker 4:Then wasn't he in Coachella today?
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's been. Why is he in California? He's not good he's talking about he's gonna mount a serious effort and win california. Like what is he talking? Like? And again, like, if any, if, if kamala harris was doing this, this shit, right, like if she was in, you know, I don't know south carolina mississippi, miss.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if south carolina was holding a rally in South Carolina, was holding a rally in Mississippi and then holding a rally in Alabama and talking about she's going to mount a serious campaign to win Alabama, like the media would be lighting her on fire. But Trump does this weird, stupid shit in the media just shrugs their shoulders. It's beyond insane. But yeah, no.
Speaker 1:So yes, back to Trump saying he wants to be a dictator on day one. Obviously he actually wants to be a dictator. That has nothing to do with drilling or border security. You don't need a dictator to manage either of those. All you need is Congress to pass a bill to help you with the border. And again, as we said, biden's found a way to get oil production up in America to levels we've never seen before. We've never seen anything like it. But Trump is also, in terms of being a dictator, trump has also made comments here about well, you know, if you are a Kamala Harris supporter, he's saying maybe you might not want to come out and publicly say that because bad things just might happen to you.
Speaker 2:Are you? Is anybody OK? Is there anybody here that's going to vote for Lyon? Kamala, Please raise your hand. Please raise your hand. Actually, I should say don't raise your hand. It would be very dangerous. We don't want to see anybody get hurt. Please don't raise your hand. It would be very dangerous. We don't want to see anybody get hurt. Please don't raise your hand.
Speaker 1:Sounded like a threat, I mean.
Speaker 3:I don't know that one was kind of dumb, but it could be a threat.
Speaker 4:I mean well he said that Did you see that one, that video of that MAGA? And he was saying, if he saw someone with Harris because, like, trump's rally was like later that evening. So it was like coming on the backs of that guy saying if he saw anybody wearing it, that they were going to have a knot on their head faster than some some bullshit that this guy was saying. And then you add to that that sheriff that said you know, send in the names of anybody that has a hair sign in their yards. So when you take all of these things together, it most certainly is yeah, it's stochastic terrorism at its worst.
Speaker 1:Now you know I'm in the micro he's talking about. If you're a Harris supporter at that rally, maybe don't raise your hand in support of Harris, but we've also seen him in numerous rallies instigate violence. It's happened multiple times, specifically in his rallies, so I don't want them coming to the city near where I am.
Speaker 3:So, I was just reading about In the 1930s. Let's see the headline 1930s Michael Benson's Gangsters vs Nazis Tells you how New York judge Secretly directed mafia bosses Meyer, lansky, bugsy, siegel To recruit an army of Jewish thugs to intimidate anti-Semites. And they just like were outside a Nazi rally in New York and just beat the shit out of them so maybe we can get something like that going again. Just you know these people coming in to intimidate New Yorkers.
Speaker 1:Just watch your fucking backs and watch your fronts in fairness, the only time in which I find encouraging mass violence to be acceptable is when it comes to punching Nazis. So again.
Speaker 4:I'm down with that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're not. You're never going to catch it. Look, if there's one thing I'm going to be hypocritical about, it's that violence against Nazis Totally fine, you know, maybe don't engage in anything life threatening, but if you want to hit one in the face, go for it. But no Trump.
Speaker 1:Over the course of these past few years I mean over the course of the entire existence of the political version of Trump he's done nothing but encourage acts of violence to the point where, you know, we had pipe bombers sending bombs to his political opponents January 6th, had his own mob try to overthrow the government, kill his vice president. I mean you know. We had the Trumpers try and run Kamala Harris's bus off the road in Texas. Just numerous instants of violence and Trump is all about it, except for when the violence happens to be redirected towards him by one of his own fellow Republicans. That is when he decides to have an issue with instigating violence. But again, you know Trump and his hypocrisy. Much like his stupidity and his lies, it never ends. But back to Trump in terms of wanting to be a dictator. He's also promised to engage in the largest instance of mass deportation in American history.
Speaker 2:Day one, I will seal the border and stop the migrant invasion into our country. I will seal the border and stop the migrant invasion into our country. We will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of the United States. Dwight Eisenhower right now has that record. It's not and, by the way, it's not something I want to do. I dread having to do it, but we have no choice. What they've done to our country is not even believable, especially the criminals, the criminal element that's in our country and again, all over the world crime rates are down because they've taken their criminals and they've dumped them into the United States. And you know what? I would have been worse than them, I would have had it done even faster. They've dumped them into the United States of America and that's what we have and it's dangerous out there we're getting he hates to do it.
Speaker 3:It sounds an awful lot like he's really enjoying it and I love how he goes from they're ruining, they're doing terrible things here, especially the criminals. So people who are not doing any criminal activity are still terrible. It's what? And you know what he sounds like an abusive husband.
Speaker 4:It's what? And you know what he sounds like an abusive husband. He's like I don't like beating you, you know Like when they're, but you do it, you bring it up. That's exactly how it sounds.
Speaker 1:You make me hit you and I'm hitting you out of love.
Speaker 4:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:That's what it sounds like. It's insane. And then look, given the comments he's made about Haitian immigrants over the course of the past month here, immigrants who are in this country legally they're not undocumented in any shape, form or fashion they're granted, you know, special immigration status, even over the course of his own administration, and he's talking about deporting them as well. So you know his mass deportation scheme. It has nothing to do with your legal status. He just wants anyone who wasn't born here out of the country.
Speaker 4:No, he just wants anybody, black and brown. He doesn't care if you were born here or not. Because when he said, when someone had brought up like TPS or something he's like, well, they're not legal as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1:Right, regardless of their actual status, and that lets you know like just what a fucking massive disaster it would be to have this dude back in power.
Speaker 3:And there's two main problems. Let's just be clear that there's both of them. I always talk about my bad faith and stupidity spectrum and he's high on both.
Speaker 1:Uh he, you know the overlap is a circle he under, he, he understands and doesn't understand.
Speaker 3:so he may well not know what tps means.
Speaker 1:It's temporary protective status for the listeners, but he's no, I mean he, but he unders, he wants the consequences of the actions he's taking, whether or not he understands what his actual job is and is capable of doing it. There you go. Yes, I do know what you're saying. He has no idea what the fine print says, but he still wants to set everything on fire regardless. And again, like the dude, is telling you what he's planning on doing. I mean, he's quoting Hitler.
Speaker 1:He's, you know, talking about deporting somewhere close to 60 million people in America. Maybe a small percentage of those would actually be undocumented immigrants. He does not care. I mean, and this shit would be devastating to the economy. I mean, can you? And just just the cost of trying to round up that many people alone would probably cost hundreds of billions of dollars, I would imagine. And you got to put them somewhere. There's. There's no one flight where you can just pack 50 million people on to they would have to go at detention centers and yes, those would probably be run by corporations who got tax breaks through trump's tax plan.
Speaker 3:does he have a tax plan? I assume it involves giving a huge tax breaks to uh detention, to to migrant detention facilities run by corporations.
Speaker 1:I just made that up, but you know well, his tax plan currently is to give a huge tax break to people who are already making millions of dollars a year millions of dollars a year and then offset that by raising taxes on the poor. But no, he wouldn't have. He wouldn't have corporations running these detention camps, wouldn't have corporations running these detention camps. He would have his own Trump branded detention camp and it would be subsidized by the government.
Speaker 4:Yeah. I just imagine that we'll be forced to like. We'll be down to like one television station and then, every night, like before the TV signs off, we'll have to like, watch him in some kim jong-un style thing that he's doing with the music playing in the background. I don't know, I think it was ron philip kowski showing one of his rallies and it's like this music is getting way more bizarre.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I usually try and cut the rallies on, like after the music starts and before you know before the rally starts, and then you know after the rally ends, but before the music starts back. It's disgusting, can't, can't do it, and it gets weird. And he does like the thing with the national anthem, except it's not the real national anthem, it's the january 6th choir national anthem, which is just, it's bizarre, it's it's some cult like shit. Just the dude is just. How can you vote for this person?
Speaker 3:it's total, fucking disaster and I think it's it's. It's too dismissive of how cult like it is. By saying cult like and just saying so, you're saying it's a cult, it's a cult, it's a cult.
Speaker 1:You're absolutely right about that.
Speaker 4:It is a cult, just period. It's a cult.
Speaker 1:Right. Well, in terms of you know Trump engaging in stochastic terrorism. He was asked by an interview that he was doing with some kind of right-wing podcast about his relationship with Mike Pence, and it speaks podcast about his relationship with Mike Pence and it speaks for itself.
Speaker 2:What about Mike Pence? You got anything from Mike Pence? Well, it's a shame because he and I had a very good relationship. Hey, Mike Pence.
Speaker 4:Hey Mike Pence, hey Mike Pence, Hanging out somewhere.
Speaker 1:He couldn't cross the line of doing what was right in my opinion yeah, so thanks to the kamala harris campaign rapid response social media team for turning that into a high quality ad in like 20 seconds, I think we are good.
Speaker 4:They are fast about the dude that laughed at him when he said that he was a very truthful person.
Speaker 1:He laughed, it's a softball interview. I was just like rolling, he fucking chuckled.
Speaker 4:He couldn't even hold it. He could not keep a straight face with that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was so funny, that guy's going to be one of the first on the wall when we have to watch that show you were talking about. There's going to be the segment after the music where we watch the traitors.
Speaker 1:We watch the public hanging.
Speaker 3:The list yes, the public hangings and Carol for saying I was a loser these times.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm pretty sure Trump is highly in favor of a firing squad. So we might be short on public hangings, but we're going to see a lot of people lined up against the wall getting executed.
Speaker 4:See maximum carnage. He wants to see blood yeah, he absolutely does.
Speaker 1:I mean, if you're voting for Trump at this point, you got to be aware that he's going to go to the most extreme lengths possible, because he'll be backed by a Supreme Court who will be willing to allow him to do whatever he wants, regardless of how legal it actually is, and he'll have the power, like in all likelihood, of deputizing state and local law enforcement in red states to do whatever they want to. And by the time we're in the middle of the purge, even if you were once a Trump supporter, if by that time you decide this was too much for you and you try and stand up against him, he'll have you executed.
Speaker 4:So we're warning you in advance in Florida and the Everglades where they round up the pythons and shit and it's like a free hunting day for snakes Wacking Day it's going to be.
Speaker 3:Wacking Day.
Speaker 4:It's going to be all kinds of shit.
Speaker 1:You've been watching the Simpsons, huh.
Speaker 3:No, I've been thinking about Wacking Day with the directive to squish lanternflies and like people get like really do you have lanternflies near where you are Of?
Speaker 1:course there's just like a directive to squish them.
Speaker 3:Anyway, everyone gets all into it. They're like yeah, get it.
Speaker 1:Oh, you got it.
Speaker 3:And I'm like, oh, we're all revering smushing these cute little bugs. I don't want to be smushed.
Speaker 4:Carol. I don't want to be smushed.
Speaker 1:Well, as you were saying ty uh to all the snakes out there willing to vote for trump, he's going to be the one to tread on you in the long run. Um, and as per usual, uh I'm sorry I ruined that joke. It would have been good had it been made timely, that's okay, I had it locked and loaded, but it's totally fine for you to jump in there with your terrible jokes, carol, that's, that's what we have, totally fine for you to jump in there with your terrible jokes, Carol.
Speaker 3:That's what we have you on for. This is why we don't have a script. Terrible.
Speaker 1:You guys finish without me, but no, before we go Carol, where are we at Kamala Harris campaign? Vibe check less than a month before the election Go campaign vibe check less than a month before the election go.
Speaker 3:I mean, I I can't even enter, entertain a trump win as a possibility right now, and I don't know if that's just my mind rejecting this possibility because, um, as we were just alluding to, a vote for trump is a vote for the firing squad for people like us, um, dissidents. Anyway, I was supposed to be talking about my positive feelings about hey no harris campaign.
Speaker 3:They are doing a fucking awesome job. I I'm super impressed with her in terms of like presentation and content. They're I'm impressed, I'm hopeful. We have a month to. We have one more month to get this home and I think we can do it. Get your shit together. Oh, and don't fall for these fucking doom narratives on Twitter, because it's not going to help us.
Speaker 1:Just yeah, push forward all right, bob checks how you feeling what we doing doing great.
Speaker 4:I'm liking the way that she's kind of going all in in this last stretch, her and walls doing these dual rallies, and walls has been doing great. He's gotten a little bit more aggressive.
Speaker 1:I think he realized he was a little too nice at the debate so he's kind of come out swinging a little bit and he's you say that, but I think that was actually part of the game plan to make vance look like even more of a lunatic I mean just to appeal to people who are like you know I'm tired of the fighting on both sides the people who are like the half a percent of voters who haven't made up their mind yet. Anyway, sorry Well.
Speaker 4:I do like how he does seem to be taking a bit more of an aggressive stance and he seems to kind of have a little bit more fire in his belly with some of the shots that he's throwing, you know, at Vance and at Trump, and I think that's hitting home. I think that's with people because they're like this nice guy's been kind of pushed to the brink. You know that they're like, yeah, he's, he's bringing that out in him. Kamala Harris Kamala's style is a little bit different but it works. And her appealing to the younger demographic, I think that she's giving them hope.
Speaker 4:And I mean, look at Fox. Fox is considered the number one cable news station and they get like four million viewers. Call Her Daddy has 10 million. All the smoke has that black male demographic that I think that she needs to reach. Um, and then, like I said, just kind of diversifying the podcast and the shows that she's been going on. You know the stephen colbert crowd is this more kind of the snarky witty like kind of you know, are um looking for? Looking for that then?
Speaker 4:you know, on the view, getting those suburban moms that are watching the view. You know 10 a 10 AM in the morning and stuff. I think it's been well played, it's well-rounded. I have a lot of faith in in Harris and that's what scares the right, because they see she has gangbusters, what she's raised in just three months, and they're trying to to denigrate her. It's like she didn't get one vote, no bitch, but she got a billion dollars.
Speaker 4:So shut the fuck up, okay, because that like I'm sorry, like that's not that's not flying, because if that was the case, she would have crashed and burned within a week of them, knowing that she was going to be the candidate, but people flocked to her. So they're trying to make people who may be, quote, unquote, undecided though I don't think that's a real thing but to shake their faith and that she has the support thing. But to to shake their faith and that she has the support, yeah, you know, I think, because they don't really have any other choice and they haven't succeeded in making people hate her. 2020 was not 2024. She's come a long way. She has really met the moment and I think when people realized that that that feeling they were feeling was actual hope, they were like screw it, I'm going all in on this. I I want more of this feeling after coming out of their fever dream yeah, so well first.
Speaker 3:So the undecided voter thing throw in really quick that trump has had eight years and never met the moment.
Speaker 1:Go on, that's true, yeah, and then, like him drawing the hair, the, the hair came with a Sharpie. That was the day he became presidential. No, so undecided? Yeah, so undecided voters it actually is a thing, but not the way typically that, like the media tries to portray it, or what you see in these polls, like you know, you see the undecided voter and it's whatever percentage, and you're like wait, how is it possible that, in a world where you're two options in terms of a candidate that you're voting for, or Donald Trump and Kamala Harris and we know everything we know about Trump how is it possible that you're undecided, that you don't know which one of those candidates you're going to vote for? Well, that's not actually the question. The question is are you going to vote for a candidate or are you not going to vote at all?
Speaker 4:And those people do exist, that's fair.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you have, in terms of, you know, disillusioned Republicans who see what the Republican Party has become, but they don't want to vote for a Democrat. But they're looking at Trump and they don't know if they can hold their nose and vote for him yet again, so they're deciding whether or not they're going to stay home next month. In terms in like, on the flip side, you have millions of people who look at Trump and they're never going to vote for Trump in their life, never going to vote for Republican. But they were looking at Biden, or now they're currently looking at Harris and they're like, well, I don't know about the specifics of her campaign or her policy platform or, you know, I don't know enough about her to know whether or not I'm going to pull the trigger on voting for her in November, but they're never going to vote for Trump. So, like, in terms of undecided that's that's really what we're talking about here. Can the candidates turn out those who won't vote for the other one under any circumstances, but considering voting for them? That that could possibly be the difference. But in terms of like, generally speaking, where the campaign is, you know the polls are giving. If you at least cut out the polls that are cooked in terms of favoring Republicans to make the averages look more friendly. The polls for Harris, in terms of, like the swing states, she's got a slight lead. I mean it's usually right within the margin for error, if not right above. So I mean that's a good start. But in terms of where the campaign is on the ground, it's like in practical terms, while the polls might say it's close, she is entering the month with all the advantages you could possibly want. She's got all the momentum. Um, she's out here campaigning in ways and that typically candidates don't do, again with the media blitz here on non-conventional media platforms like podcasts and radio shows and Stern Show and whatnot. Trump isn't doing any of that.
Speaker 1:In terms of money, like you said, you know she's passed more bills as a tie-breaking vote in the Senate than any vice president in history and now she's out here passing a bill. In terms of money raised and given that she's only been the candidate for, you know, 80 some odd days, that's an incredibly absurd number. Just fundraising at a level we've never seen before. It's putting Obama to shame. No offense to Obama, just like. That's just how far she surpassed what he had done previously. You know, and Trump's fundraising is just his head's like. It's slowly trickling up but it's at a snail's pace. It's nowhere near in terms of, like you know, the just massive haul Harris has taken in. And then Trump's drain Republican voters so dry over the course of the past eight years, just sucking up you know what, probably over the course of the past eight years, a couple billion dollars. I know his, his donors might be tapped in terms of small dollar donors and also just in so many small dollar donors are turning out to support Harris. Like you said, it's voting with your checkbook. It shows a level of enthusiasm for Harris as a candidate that just does not exist on the right in any form or fashion.
Speaker 1:In terms of the ground game, she's got far more going for her than the Trump campaign. She's got hundreds of, hundreds of thousands of volunteers on the ground in all of these swing states in a way that Trump doesn't. I mean you know they were closing up Trump field offices in North Carolina. That's a state Trump needs Like. There's no path to victory for Trump to win the electoral college and lose North Carolina. You're not going to win the blue wall and lose North Carolina and become president, because you're probably not going to win the blue wall. If that's the case, in all likelihood, if you're losing North Carolina, you're probably losing Georgia and Arizona is a possibility as well.
Speaker 1:And I know it's been stated here recently over and over by a lot of people on the right that they have a, you know, active voter advantage in Florida somewhere close to a million active voters. But that's a little bit deceiving because you know inactive voters can still vote. They don't have to re-register, they don't have to do anything like that. They can just show up on Election Day cast a vote. They like that. They can just show up on Election Day, cast a vote. And if you look at early voting in terms of requested ballots and also return ballots, in most something like 67 percent of the ballots and have returned nearly 70 percent more or 70 percent of the ballots I mean, it's just you know she's going to have the advantage going in election day and it might not be a margin that Trump will be able to overcome.
Speaker 1:That's what you want to do. You want to get your votes banked because you never know what might happen over the course of October. It's called the October surprise for a reason. We don't necessarily know what that may or may not be, but in all likelihood it's not going to be anything damning for Kamala Harris. So you want to get as many votes in the bank as you can as possible. Harris is doing that. I mean, just everything is going on her way at this point all the momentum, all the advantages and she's not the one running from debates and running from interviews. And every time you turn on a Kamala Harris rally, it looks like some kind of fucking celebrity is just hosting an event. It's incredible. The energy is off the charts. And every time you turn on a Trump rally, he's saying something utterly fucking insane.
Speaker 4:Oh my God, the contrast could not be more stark.
Speaker 3:She has what he wishes. He had.
Speaker 1:What is this? The Wizard of Oz? If he only had a brain.
Speaker 3:I meant an adoring audience. But yeah, a brain would be great. I think he cares less about that.
Speaker 1:Wow. Well, there is no such thing as the wizard, and he's definitely not out here controlling the hurricanes. And that concludes this episode of Parody Interaction.
