Badlands Media - Altered State S4 Ep. 20: Filibusters, Judicial Corruption, and Anthony Weiner’s Political Comeback Attempt

Episode Date: March 12, 2026

Brad Zerbo and Zak Paine return for another episode of Altered State, mixing political analysis with their signature humor and storytelling. The conversation begins with an optimistic look at the current political moment and why the hosts believe the changes happening in Washington are fundamentally different from past administrations. They discuss the challenges President Trump faces while attempting to reverse decades of policy decisions and navigate a Congress that often resists major reforms. The discussion then shifts into the mechanics of government power, including the history of the filibuster, its origins in Senate rule changes, and how it has been used to stall legislation throughout American history. Brad and Zak explore whether Vice President JD Vance could play a larger role as President of the Senate to push forward key legislation like the SAVE Act. Later in the episode, the hosts examine corruption within the judicial system, highlighting examples of legal double standards, controversial rulings, and the broader impact these decisions have on public trust in the courts. The conversation takes a turn toward political scandals as they revisit infamous controversies involving elected officials before reacting to former Congressman Anthony Weiner attempting a political comeback despite his past criminal conviction. The episode closes with commentary on election integrity reforms, ranked choice voting, and why understanding the mechanics of elections is essential for voters moving forward.

out of the badlands explain those badlands that's a hell of a name citizens to watch me i will totally obliterate the deep state we will obliterate the deep state la everybody welcome to another episode of altered state and today we'll be covering why everything sucks in the world is anything there's nothing you can do about it that's so funny we're all here right i'm doing good man yeah i'm having a great time um lisa said somebody in the chat said uh yesterday that i sugarcoat everything and i i just i want to be very clear everything that i say like i genuinely believe like i i'm just i'm just like an optimistic person by nature because yeah i mean i've

i've literally lived through like the darkest years of my life like early on i i already had an opportunity for my life to be like fire brimstone and like a wall of shit. And I passed through it. I've been through the gauntlet and I've seen how things have changed in America. And I say this all the time, but having paid attention to this stuff for virtually my entire life, what's happening right now is so fundamentally different from any other time in history. It truly is a miracle the way that I look at it. And I understand not everybody is going to be satisfied with the pace or the direction. I mean, there's just there's no way to keep everybody happy. But, you know, from my perspective, President Trump is is juggling a lot of irons, man. I mean, and I think he's doing a fantastic job.

I do not envy him. That's for sure. One thing I've learned in life, in many iterations of my life, is that a lot of people are miserable. It's just the fact that when someone isn't miserable, it really bothers them. Surprisingly, our chat isn't typically like that, which is pretty cool. We have a very cool audience over here, which I love, absolutely love. I track with it. But as far as, yeah, as far as like positivity and feeling good about where we're at, this has never happened.

I've been paying attention to politics since 1990. and not as closely in hindsight as I should have, right? There's a lot of things where I look back and I'm like, I guess I was kind of just guessing based on these empty platitudes that they give us in their speeches and that they'll talk about when they're doing a guest spot on a talk show. But as far as like actually really digging into bills and stuff, a lot of that was all done in hindsight for me.

But I have paid attention and I have retroactive really, really dug again to these administrations, even before that with Clinton administration, administration before that. And there's like nothing even in the remote spectrum of what's going on. Like if you could combine everything that was happening, every good thing you can say Clinton did, Bush, GW, Obama, and you could take like all the positive things, right? And they don't even add up to a fraction of Trump's first term, let along what he's doing now. Nothing like this has ever even remotely happened.

So yeah, it's pretty cool. I've been enjoying it. Actually, when they actually do look into a lot of the things, especially Obama, oh my God, dude, it was just one horrible legislation after another. And then on top of that, there was a lot of psychological things going on with his speech and just this whole white people, every responsible for every horrible thing on earth. It's no mistake that that really rose over his.

eight years. And all that juxtaposed with what President Trump has already passed in five years, what he's pushing currently and what he's been working on, also with the psychological bent into America and people actually wanting to understand the process and get involved. This is the most unprecedented times in our, our lifetimes, impossibly our entire. entire countries' lifetimes, save for the first, say, maybe 20 years of the country. So I would agree. On the ladder, definitely on the ladder. Positive.

Yeah. And here's the thing. It's not just having a vision of what President Trump and his team want to accomplish. It's also a vision for trying to unravel every bad decision, every bad piece of policy that's been implemented, not just because of every president that preceded him, but also every legislature. And getting rid of that stuff is infinitely harder than just, you know, zeroing out an executive order or something like that. Because you have all of these people, hundreds of people in Congress, many of whom probably do not want what President Trump wants. And oftentimes when their views or goals align, it's not for the betterment of the United States.

United States or the American people. It's for their own benefit. It's so that they can prosper so that their careers can to continue, such as John Cornyn right now with his revised stance on the SAVE Act. You know, he wrote an op-ed for the New York Times, New York Post, excuse me, I believe it came out today. He had previously come out against the SAVE Act and against using the talking filibuster to get it All right. Made a strong argument because, of course, you know, he's a good old parliamentarian, just like Thune and everybody else, okay? They love using the rules to make themselves the least effective version of themselves that they can possibly be.

So then they can point to, oh, well, the rules, you know, we can't do this because, of course, it's just too hard. We don't have the people to go along with us, even though you might want to. it and I can tell you that I want it, but I don't really want it because I'm not going to try to convince anybody else to want it either. So he writes this op-ed in favor of using the talking filibuster to pass the SAVE Act and, you know, lauding these actions by President Trump to have these changes codified legislatively. And somebody like caught up with him in the hallway as he's walking through Congress and tried to ask him about it. And he got really pissed off. It was like the weirdest

reaction that you could elicit from someone. If you're asking them about a piece of work that they produced, like someone asking Beebe about one of his articles on Substack or somebody comes up to you and they ask you about about the movie. And you're like, you know what? I don't want to talk about 9-11 anymore. Go away. Okay.

Like it sounded more like he didn't know the substance of the article. Like somebody else might have written that article for him, a staffer or something like that that makes sense to me yeah they get a lot of money people don't realize how much money congress gets to one higher staff to like furnished their offices rent offices there there was so much more money than just their paycheck that comes to them then that's why a lot of people say that there's probably a problem with that but yeah they have tons of staff and tons of people who are doing the work that they should be themselves doing they are the representatives or they should at least be right in you know I think obviously it's good to have AIDS and staff,

but you have to know what's going on. I think Congress has gotten too big. Yeah, they are, they are in charge of too much on an individual level to be able to do their job effectively. I've made the case on a number of occasions to expand the size of the House of Representatives. I think that representative government should be representative. Okay, like it should actually represent you, the people. All right. So districts should be smaller.

There should be less that an individual should be tasked with paying attention to. And we've talked about single issue bills on a number of occasions. I think that that's the easiest way that you can assure people are going to be able to actually read that legislation. It's not like they get a whole lot of shit done as it is right now. You know, I mean, like they make these. they make the case, well, you know, we can't have time to read all the bills because, you know, there's just so much damn stuff in there and we're just so busy. Like 90% of the time, they're just dicking around, you know, I mean, like they're,

they're arguing with each other, or maybe they're doing fundraising for their next campaign, or they're meeting with a lobbyist or some other special interest group. And if, if Congress had less power because there was less that they had to do in terms of, like their representation. I think that they would be less easy to manipulate and less easy to control. I also don't think that they should live in Washington, D.C. I think that congressmen should live in their district and then they should travel to D.C. And barring travel, they can do Zoom calls. Yes, 100%. And we've actually touched on this right here on Alter State a few times because it's such a great idea. I also would add that,

maybe not necessarily monthly, maybe like four times a year, they should have to have in their district an open town hall where they take questions from their voter base. Yep, where you can just go and talk to your congressman who lives in your freaking town and then there will be more in touch for what the voters actually want. Yeah, so as far as the Save Act coming up and the filibuster, we know it's going to be a filibuster. Everyone knows it's going to be a filibuster. I thought it would be maybe good to go over a little bit of the filibuster and what that's all about. How rationality. Now, I will open up, guys, brace yourselves. I know you've been happy to not have to look at this guy's lovely face for a while.

But we're going to just play a quick 18-second clip from Joseph Biden. At its core, the filibusters are not about stopping a nominee or a bill. It's about compromise and moderation. That's why the founders put unlimited debate in. That's what it's about engendering compromise in moderation. Oh, man, and don't you miss being talked down to and yelled at by this guy? God, he was always a maniac, wasn't he? Always did.

When you look back at Joe Biden, he's involved in like the worst of the worst for everything for so long. Anyway, like he preloaded the freaking Patriot Act. He's the one who wrote the 94 Clinton crime bill. It's just this guy's a terror. But he's, that's a lie there, by the way, just because you say it loud and confidently. It doesn't mean it's real. The filibuster was not written in by the. the founders. It didn't exist when 181789 when they created the country. There was another

legislation called the PQ, the previous question motion. And this one evoked, only if needed to be evoked, didn't really back then because it said this wasn't, these were gentlemen, these weren't losers. So this wasn't done that much. It was only evoked four times in its history when this when this existed, it would bring the matter at hand to a vote with simple majority. It was only used again four times because the idea of senators in the minority position purposely elongating debate to prevent the majority from passing said bill was a foreign concept. So in 1806, one Aaron Burr, who was vice president at the time, fresh off murdering someone and talking about different times.

Yeah. Oh, shit. I was your son, that was pretty interesting, actually. Like, no big deal, yeah. He removed the PQ, the previous question motion. They said, you know, we got to clean up. There's too many laws in the Senate. Wait, Brad. And he removed that.

They can change the rules. Yeah. I thought that they were sacrosanct. I thought it was like scripture. I know. This is what they lead you to believe. Well, wouldn't it? So he removes this law, and cloture wasn't put in until 1917.

So from this time, from 1806 to 1917, there was no way to even force a vote with cloture. So what happened was in the mid-1800s, around the 1830s and starting to get more and more, the anti-slavery issue started being raised more and more. And they started trying to pass legislature that would knock down. slavery, maybe not in its entirety, but, you know, chipping away at the stone. And the Democrats, shocker, started filibustering. They started talking and talking. They realized that now with the PQ removed, they could just do this forever. And they did it. And they used it effectively throughout the 1800s to just destroy any sort of specifically, this is specifically where the filibuster

originates was specifically to stifle any anti-slavery, anything that was coming through Congress. Now, the name filibuster wasn't given to it right away, but this was eventually a tone to it because the word filibuster is Dutch for rebooters, which in English and in general means pirate, it because they are stealing, the minority is stealing the vote from the majority. And then eventually in 1917, they, uh, Woodrow Wilson was like, well, I can't get anything passed. And they were able to put in, uh, three, two thirds of the vote. And then eventually that was lowered to just 60 votes instead of, I think, 67 or whatever

was at then. But this was, this is where the filibuster's origins was. Democrats could stop slavery from becoming illegal. And it is just, again, they use it to this day to stop anything they want with the way the Congress is or the Senate, really. The Congress still has it. That's why Congress passes stuff. The Congress still has the PQ, which then evolved into different things that means

you have to take a vote and a simple majority rules. But this has now just stayed in for the Senate since that happened. and they use it. They use it to just destroy anything. And it is not what the founders wanted. It is not in the original constitution. This was of, this was a destruction. This was the Democrats taking advantage of the PQ being removed in 1806.

Wow. I wonder how many members of the Senate are even aware of that. Yeah, Ray, that's a good question. Probably not many. Had to guess. Probably not well known. No. They sure love it, though.

And they'll give me around, both sides use it when they need to. But this is mostly a Democrat tactic. The Republicans are always like, well, we're going to work with the other side. Okay. It's usually the rhinos in pushing that. God. Yeah, it only goes one way. I saw this post earlier, and tell me if you know anything about this.

I mean that, you know, constitutionally, the vice president is, what he's the president of the Senate. That's what it's officially. That's his official title. He's the president of the Senate. So, I mean, I guess he would have the ability to preside over the Senate every single day. That could perhaps, you know, move certain things along. It's been done before. J.D. Vance has obviously been present for a tiebreaking vote on a number of occasions.

But somebody posted this. and it suggests that as the president of the Senate, if you could share that, J.D. Vance could take over the leadership position from John Thune. And I don't know anything about this. I tried looking for it and I can't find anything referencing it. I only come back to information about him being the president of the Senate. But he says J.D. Vance should replace John Thune as Senate majority leader.

it's his constitutional right as vice president john adams did it for four whole years we can ram through the entire maga agenda before midterms let's make it happen um certainly a lot of the stalling that we have in the senate is because thune is not leading or he's leading in the opposite direction we still have so many positions uh that president trump is nominated that which have not been filled because they won't bring them up for a vote and we're dealing with this blue chip or the blue slip rule, which, you know, I mean, that's not, that that has historical precedents, but not eternal precedence. Like, it's not always being that way.

It's just another kind of, you know, add on rule that they put in at some point in the past. And so now they're like, oh, well, you know, this is the way that it works. And so we're going to keep it that way because, you know, otherwise, well, they, they would screw us. Like, are you kidding me? Like, they're going to screw you anyways. like you're going to get screwed you're Washington D.C. I want to see like you know I found that you know the president of Senate where it says the vice president's president's president's

article one section three of the constitution right and of course everything I see here everything that comes up is like well it's largely ceremonial like well there's no power there's no power does it say the word ceremonial in article one section three of the U.S. Congress that's constitution. the let's say say explicitly that this is a ceremonial position i doubt it does i should probably just pull up no it does not explicitly say it's the relevant text clause four reads exactly as follows the president of the united states the vice president of the united states shall be president of the senate but shall have no vote unless they be equally divided Well, that's a vote on legislature.

But in general, he is the president of the Senate, the end. So you can change the law. We just went over. This is what Aaron Burr did as vice president. He affected the removal of the previous question motion, which led to the filibuster. Why not J.D. Vance just reinstate the PQ in the thoughts of our founding fathers. I mean, as president of the Senate, he could quite literally set the tone. I mean, it says here that, you know, as John Adams was the presiding officer of the Senate for that four-year term, basically shaped early Senate procedures.

And, of course, he cast a record-breaking 31 tie-breaking votes. And so I'm wondering if, if J.D. Vance wanted to, could he just come in and say, guess what, guys, as the president of the Senate? Senate, we are going to get rid of all these things that have stacked up over the years, which are not an asset to the process, but are instead an impediment to moving forward with the agenda. I love this idea. I think obviously they don't have to go with reinstating the previous question motion, but I think that's at least an avenue that could be looked at right now. and J.D. Ball. J.D. fans has a lot of balls.

So there's anyone who'd be down to do it. He would. And I could see him in Trump war game in this app for sure. I wonder if I could reach out to J.R. and see if he could get a hold of J.D. If we could just like pitch the, Brad, if we could get on a call with this guy and just like pitch him on the process, like just hear me out, J.D.

Hear me out. because, you know, obviously President Trump is a fan of having his, having certain people do multiple things. All right. So we all know the, I would say that the president of the Senate is largely ceremonial. I would say being the vice president is even more ceremonial. Okay. Like you, you have the opportunity to affect even more change in a positive way as the president of the Senate. You know, you look at past vice presidents and they basically.

they were there to meet people on the tarmac when the president couldn't be there. Or they got sent out for photo shoots at daycares or something. I mean, just like the jobs that nobody else wanted. Like we need a representative of the United States. We're just going to send you there because you're worthless otherwise. You're basically a warm body in case something happens to the president. I feel like that's not the way it is with J.D. Vance. The efforts that he's leading in Minnesota, the new fraud,

division where they're trying to determine exactly what went down and who needs to be indicted i mean that's like that's going to be a big job i think that that could have a major effect in a positive way on the united states but he seems like the kind of guy who could handle a couple of things at once like a marco rubio of sorts oh yeah i've been increasingly impressed with him over the last couple of years of j d vans and i would say that getting in touch with him. If we could do that, that would be incredible, obviously. I know there are people who do seem to watch this channel and watch this show, and there's been enough things over the years that have happened where it just feels like President Trump does have an ear to

the people. He listens to shows like this. He listens across the net to pretty much everything everyone's saying, I'm sure not personally, but he clearly has people who are doing that. So, guys, you should look into this. It's pretty cut and dry as far as I'm concerned. This would be a way to do it. The American people didn't vote for the Senate to have to collude with the losing party to pass things. We voted, we voted a majority Republican right now to back up our Republican president. And that's the only thing that should lead the day.

that's how it still is in Congress in the House, and that's how it is. It should be across Congress, also the Senate. This is the original thing. It's only, the only reason you would want to keep it in place is the same reason they don't want to post voter ID,

which is ironic because that's one of the main things. And the Save Act is to cheat, to hold off legislation, like infamously, how this really became, the filibuster came to be, with trying to hold off slavery. We eventually had a fight of war over that.

We shouldn't need to get to that point anymore in a more increasingly civilized society. So let's just go back to what the founders wanted and just have the majority. If you don't like it, change the Senate in six years. That's all. We could also use JD as the president of the Senate to actually bring impeachment trials

against members of the judiciary. Huge. That would be the hugest thing that needs to happen. Judge Bowsberg. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's, it, it is frustrating when you think about how we, we theoretically have the majority of, you know, both the, the legislature, both houses of the legislature and the presidency, but virtually the entirety of the judicial branch. No, I'm, I can't say that. I mean, there are obviously pockets of resistance. And I think that of course, the Supreme Court is clearly the most important. But those lower courts, that are continuously standing in the way of the president. That is obviously very, very stressful. Now, I saw this story the other day about 175 judges essentially put out a statement saying that what the Supreme Court says they don't have to listen to. Oh, that's palsy. Yeah. Let me see if I can find this real quick.

Yeah, one thing we've learned in this process is that the judiciary, that has a lot of corrupt individuals in it. Absolutely. Okay, so let me share my screen once again. Okay, and if you would, Brad, go ahead and share that. All right, this is from the American Bar Association Journal. Nearly 200 former judges denounce claim that courts are ignoring Supreme Court orders. A group of more than 175 former federal and state judges have called out the Trump administration for claiming the district courts are

flouting the U.S. Supreme Court's orders, but they are. I mean, there have been a number of things that have been decided, and then they seem to get relitigated over and over again, depending on which district they're in. It's like the district judges are forcing the Supreme Court to make a decision again, even though that's supposed to be the law of the land at that point. So the ex-judges comments were part of an amicus brief and a pending Supreme Court case over the temporary protected status of Syrian nationals. In the brief, the judges described President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's attacks on judges as an extraordinary assault.

What about the extraordinary assault that's occurring against the executive branch? I mean, I just constantly, every single day, it's examples of judicial overreach. I mean, like the judge that was recently smacked down in Illinois where she wanted Greg Bevino to come in and report to her on a daily basis. Like, bitch, that's a totally different branch of the government. Like, what are you doing? He's got his game in hand, and you are telling him that you're basically want to put an ankle monitor on him. You want to keep him on house arrest so that he can't arrest dirty, savage illegal aliens in the street?

Like, no, no, ma'am. So Supreme Court has handed down many emergency orders, pausing lower court rulings against the administration's policies. The reason they are pausing these lower court rulings is because the lower court rulings are examples of that overreach. And while that's being paused, and of course the pause is because this administration recognizes that. They make the argument and they say, now we need the Supreme Court to tell those lower judges that what they did was incorrect. And that's why we get the pause and then we can go ahead and continue. And in virtually every single instance, that's exactly what's happened. So while the court has provided reasoning in some cases, there were other instances in which it granted the administration stay requests in short unexplained orders according to the story.

I think that the reason they're putting out short unexplained orders is because they're like, I can't believe the level of retardation that we're seeing out here. Like the way that these judges just don't seem to understand the law. And that should not surprise anybody. I mean, you look at the crop of judges that were confirmed under the Biden administration. And it was time and time again examples of people who they couldn't describe legal precedent. They couldn't define certain aspects of the law. they didn't know various portions of the Constitution.

I mean, they just seem to be lacking in some really profound ways. So the briefs had a fat tranny as his health secretary. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Qualification, being qualified wasn't a qualification of getting any office in the Biden administration. No, no. And being a person who immigrated to the United States oftentimes seems to have been one of those qualifications. The brief said that there have been many cases in which the president, Attorney General, and other executive branch officials have assailed judges in TPS and other cases

for ostensibly ignoring the law, which they have. There have been nationwide injunctions placed on the president on things that have already been long settled that undermine the public's confidence in the courts and judges across the land. The undermining of the public's confidence in the judges and the system that's being done by the courts themselves. Yeah. I mean, I don't know anybody here who trusts the court. Last place I want to be is in front of a lawyer or in front of a judge because you know you're either going to get lied to or effed. I mean, one of the two. It's basically your two options right there.

That's very much it. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know. I just, I thought that was, that was stunning. And, and, you know, and right as a perfect example of this, how corrupt the judicial system is and how wrapped up everything is. obviously the courts, whether it's lawyers that are fighting against the administration or the judges that are deciding on those fights by liberals and deep state assets. The American Bar Association, totally left-wing organization, the DC Bar Organization, totally left-wing.

They're trying to sanction and strip Ed Martin of his law degree so that he can't. can't work for the Justice Department and so that he can't implement the president's agenda. They are investigating him because he sent a letter to a university about their DEI policies. And then he confirmed that they were doing what he thought they were doing and he took action, which is what the president asked him to do. They didn't even take Kevin Kleinsmith's law degree when he lied to get a FISA warrant. Like, a really? Like what they did to Rudy too

A couple years back I mean they are terrorists They will use terrorizing policies To destroy lives And to do anything To stop any sort of pushback Against this stifling New World Order system that they have enacted

They've built it up over time It involves a lot of legislature It involves a lot of judges And dude one of the most eye-opening things ever Has been during the Biden administration when basically had all these corrupt judges and just

legal teams across the board and the attorney generals trying to put Trump in jail for nothing. I mean those at all, every one of these cases was so ridiculous that should have opened up a lot of people's eyes and a lot

of them were in favor against Trump. Even just forget about like some of that shit like even just the E. Gene Carroll case, right? You know, I'd say that stands alone, kind of aside from some of the other ones, because that was saying that Trump raped her,

it's so clear that she made that up. So it just go, and I guarantee you enough of that jury knew that this was fake. I guarantee you the judge knew that a fake. Her lawyers probably knew she was fake. Just you can't get any one's head, but this is my assessment of it. And yet they went ahead with it. They pushed it forward. The jury fucking ruled against them.

And the judge ruled against them. It was the most insane thing I've ever seen. All of it. Tamshin says, haven't seen a member of Congress ever in court. Well, you did have Brad's former senator. Yeah, Bob Menendez,

Mr. Dominican Republic Goldbar himself. He did end up getting prosecuted. That was, and also, of course, George George Santos? Yeah, George Santos, right? What the jail?

He did go to jail. Yeah, yeah. They also, who did, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, God, what was his name? We've talked about him here on the show before. He was totally based. Hold on just a second. I've got like several of his books, but his name is escaping me right now.

We've talked about him. Say what, I'd love to see former Governor Murphy on trial. That guy's a arched criminal. Yeah, he is. He's bad. Oh, God. They put him in, Trafficant.

Oh, yes. Yeah. They put him in prison as well. Yeah. Yeah. So it happens just rare, far too rare. Rare or much rare than it should. Yeah.

Yeah. And the wrong ones. Is he saying Carthorne? Was Madison Corthorn? Did he go against? No, he, they kicked him. out of his seat.

They primary him because he talked about the fact that they were having cocaine-fueled orgies in Washington, D.C. Yeah, James Trafficking from Ohio, yes. All right, now, have you heard about Tom Cotton? Oh,

another one, another fucking loser from New Jersey. Is he from Jersey? I don't know where he's from. I just know that. Maybe I'm thinking of a wrong person. Hold on. Let me so Tom Cotton's a bit of a weenie and he's a kind of

okay no I'm not thinking of this guy who am I thinking of there's Tom someone a congressman share that screen right there here's Tom Cotton right here this is Tom Cotton all right so the rumor he's a senator

the rumor is that somebody was traipsing around Georgetown and they came across Tom Cotton in a dress and he was out in drag and he's also named in the divorce proceedings of a large male donor because he was having an affair with that male donor which led to the divorce of that male donor from his wife which could explain the behavior of Tom Cotton in certain instances maybe he's from Arkansas anybody out there

no what state yeah Arkansas okay yeah he's from Arkansas but I mean I can see it to be perfectly honest with you I can see it dude yeah that's that's really sickening

no but yes so you look at somebody like Tom Cotton somebody like Lindsey Graham and you can definitely see the possibility for cocaine-fueled orgies taking place. And, I mean, you know, think about that, that male staffer who made that porno in the basement. Was that in the Senate building?

Oh, wasn't it like on the Senate floor or something? It was someplace where he wasn't supposed to be scrumping with his boyfriend. But either way, you know, I mean, maybe there is, I was thinking of Tom Malinowski. That's the representative from New Jersey. It was a worthless piece of crap. And then there's the, who was the guy with the wide stance? You remember him? From New Jersey.

I think he was from Minnesota, actually. Yeah. Larry Craig, he was a rep- Oh, he was from Idaho. Pardon me. So, Larry Craig, on June 11th of 2007, he was a Republican from Idaho. And he was arrested for lewd,

conduct in a men's restroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. So he entered a guilty plea about a month later and it kind of just went away. But he was in the stall in Minneapolis, St. Paul's restroom. And he pushed his foot out into the next stall and, like, tapped his foot like this. And I guess that is code for gay dudes and bathrooms. It is. You don't know how I know this? Do tell, Brad, do tell. There's a former New Jersey governor.

What was his name? Anyway, he got busted doing this at rest stops in New Jersey. And then the story went out at the time that this is a thing that they do at rest stops where people, there's lots of rest stops on the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garne State Parkway. So apparently these fags will go in there and they'll go in a stall. And they'll touch their feet. And that's how they know, like, if the guy responds, they're down to whatever. Oh, Jim McGreevy.

Jim McGreevy, yes. That's who it was. Yeah. Okay. I remember seeing this covered on the news. You were like, what? You did it creep to me out on rest stops for the longest time? I was like, I'm in it out, bro.

Yeah. So, yes, I definitely remember this because he kind of reminded me of, uh, Anthony weiner just, uh, yeah. Something about the way he carried himself. And I remember him giving like a tearful apology. And he, I think his wife was there with him or something like that. Yeah.

And then he wrote a memoir, like detailing all of his gay trists at rest stops. I mean, I was aware that like rest stops were like a hotbed for homosexual meetups. I never, I had no clue until the man grievous shit had. None of my friends either. We were like,

what the fuck? So the reason I knew is because when I was in high school, My buddy Justin and I were driving across country or maybe just across Michigan. I don't know exactly. And Justin had to go into the restroom and go to the bathroom. And some guy tried to pick him up in there. And the story is too graphic. Essentially the guy asked him, well, he told him that the last time he was at a rest stop,

he said the weirdest thing happened to me last time I was at a rest stop. And Justin was, you know, using the urinal. And he was like, oh, yeah, what's that? just he had no idea and uh and the guy told him oh you know the sexual act was performed upon me and justin just zipped up and ran out of the the restroom and he was like oh does that mean you don't want to and uh and he just ran to the car and he was like drive drive drive they're what the hell's going on dude we were like 16 years old it was horrible my god it was totally totally a shock that is so crazy yeah yeah yeah

Yeah, freaking good times. This is what we learned from our politicians and creepy people. That's right. Isn't that funny? Now, side note, you guys got your license when you were 16 in Michigan? Yes, yeah. In Jersey was 17. Oh, really?

Okay. Yeah. I think here in Alaska, it's also 16. Don't quote me on that, but I think it is also younger. Yeah. So when we were 15, we took our test, you know, our driver's class. I actually failed my road test the first time I took it because I did I did too. I stayed up like way too late and then you know there would be two of us in the car with the teacher

and one of us would be driving and then the other one would be in the back seat and we're supposed to be observing and then we you know tell the teacher what we think the other student did incorrectly and what they did correctly and and I just I passed out. I fell asleep with my head of the. I was snoring, saw, and, um, and, and, yeah, and he was all nervous when I was driving. Like he was like foot on the break and I was all over the place. So then, um, oh God, and my dad was so disappointed in me. I got home and he got home from work and he was like, well, we talked to your driving instructor.

He was like, you failed. I was, I was so done. I was like, I still hadn't slept yet. I just lost it. I was like, oh, God. And he was like, you're never going to drive. You're never going to drive. Meanwhile, what is it like?

I feel like I had to wait six weeks. It was like, it was not bad. I think I had to do. Two weeks, maybe? Yeah, I had to do another two weeks of instruction. And then, and then do the road test again. So, yeah, yeah. But my dad was like, he was so hard on me about that.

Oh, my God. I really wanted you to drive. He did. He did want to keep driving me around. He was sick of it. You know, now in New Jersey, I don't know if it's everywhere, but at least of the Eintown, DMV, where a lot of us had to take our license protest. There's a little course back there. When you fail, they tell you right away, the guy I was in the thing with, stop the car in the middle of the track and made me walk in front of all bunch of people, all the way back to the building, get my car, because I'm

I failed, but it was like very humiliating. Shame was a pretty effective tool when we were kids, apparently. So, dude, I didn't stop at the stops on. I messed up like three or four different things. I was so nervous when I did. And then I passed the second time. But I was too. It was so bad.

Yeah, the second time I was like, my man, I know exactly what I'm doing. Did it up a smoke? Yeah. What are we doing here, guy? It was, it was the same guy. He definitely was much calmer that next time. And as soon as I finished, he was like, you're going to be an excellent driver. And I was like, thank you very much.

I'm aware. Yeah. So. Thank you. Appreciate it. But, but yeah. So it is, it's a shame that these are the stories we tell about our former elected officials. Speaking of Anthony Weiner, he's looking to make a comeback.

Did you see that? I thought I did here. a little something about that but not an explosive. Yeah, yeah. He was on the view the other day. I guess enough time has passed where he's not a weird pervert anymore. Well, no, I don't think so. I really don't think so.

I think that maybe he's hoping that might be the case. Hold on. Let me pull this up. I certainly don't think that's the case. No, definitely not. I assume that's his thinking. Oh, yeah. You do have short memories.

That's definitely what he is trying to project. So if you can share that for me. Yeah. All right. Here we go. You resigned from Congress in 2011 over a sexting scandal. Two years later, you stepped. Hang on.

I feel like we need a little bit more context with that. All right. You resigned from Congress over a sexting scandal. That makes it sound like, you know, maybe you were getting fresh with one of your subordinates or something like that. maybe you incorrectly texted the other senator from your state's wife or something like that. It's quite diminished. Yeah, yeah. No, no, no.

It was a 15-year-old girl. And he was sending pictures of his junk, like with his son laying in bed with him and stuff. I mean, that should disqualify you forever. Forever. And it wasn't the only one. There were multiple instances like this. Like he got caught the first time and they basically gave him a pass. And then it got caught the second time.

And I think he was running for like mayor of New York or something like that. he had to drop out of the race. Yeah, he was mayor of New York. I don't know, it was something in New York. Maybe it was senator. He might have even been, was he, he might have even had a position. Yeah, oh, I think, I think he was an elected official and he was running for a higher office. But I don't know, let's, let's see.

Down from the mayoral race after sexting again under the alias, Carlos Danger. And then in 2016, Carlos Danger. Look at his face, too. Look at his face. He's like, oh, you bitch. We talked about this. You were going to bring that up. You sent Liu text to a minor and served 15 months in prison,

in addition to becoming a registered sex offender. So with all that said, why do you think, or why should New Yorkers give you a chance at a political comeback? Well, let me just say this. I mean, all of that happened, and I accept responsibility for it. You won't hear me do with some other people in public life. Listen, guys, all that stuff. I did it. I can't take it back now. So you might as well, might as well just be okay with it.

If I've done Donald Trump or Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams, I'm a victim. They persecuted me for no reason. I was dealing with very serious problems. Because yours really happened. I understand. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Well, you know, and let's also not forget he was worried about being Arkansasided at this time. At the same time, you know, that pressure will do a hell of a lot to a man, especially when the pressure is coming from Hillary Clinton. And you're married to her number, her gal Friday, so to speak. Yeah, you're getting in line quick. Yeah, it could be addiction.

I lost my brother set to addiction. And I accepted, I didn't ask for a trial. I pled guilty, served my time in prison, served in a halfway house, serve probation, went to try to do good work for the formerly incarcerated. And I guess what I'm saying to people is maybe don't vote for me in spite of what they know about me, but maybe consider that journey, that idea that we all go through things and we come out the other side. And also, what does it? This has a very focus group type flavor to it.

Like, like they definitely put together a panel of likely New York voters. And they said, you know, let's talk about Anthony Wiener. I mean, like, just hypothetically, if there was something that you might consider that might make it possible, palatable even for you to vote. vote for him, you know, what would it be? And they gave them probably two or three, maybe five scenarios. And then they whittled it down based upon what actually made people feel some type of empathy for him. Like basically everybody makes mistakes, right? Yeah, that was a mistake. I've gone through, I've gone through a lot, don't you know? Last time I texted a 15 year old, anything Lord, I was a sophomore in high school.

You know, I'm Jewish, but they have this notion in Catholic. Oh, God, there we go. There we go. Around you suffer for a reason so you can be of service at the other end. So I'm not asking people, I'm doing the opposite of what a lot of politicians do when they're in my position. Ignore that problem, pretend it didn't happen, blame someone else. I am saying, yes, I did these things. I got into recovery.

I try to make my life better. And now if I can be so of service, and I'm a damn. am good politician. I come up with answers. I talk to people directly. I don't try to to butter over things. I try to be direct. Then why shouldn't I? And if it's just because I have bad things in my past, that's not a good enough reason. I mean, look, all I can be, all I can ever be is who I am right now. And that brought me to this thing. Clap. Clap, everybody. Clap, you monkeys. Please clap. I love how he evokes.

Well, you know, I'm not doing with some people are doing like Trump where he's denying it. Yeah. You know what? Maybe we should talk about Trump why he's denying this case. This is the Katie Johnson, right? This is the famous Katie Johnson. Trump raped the 13 year old. You see it across the freaking country everywhere.

Oh, my God. That's a very coquettish picture for her to use as well in her. her come out. She's like, you know, oh, with the the bangs and the hair framing the face. You'd rape me, wouldn't you? That's right. That's right. How could Trump say no? So she claimed, the claim that she came out with was that in 1994, at the age of 13, Donald Trump raped her with Jeffrey Epstein. Now, this claim, she didn't come out with this or a file police report.

with this in 94, not 95, not 96. She came out with this in 2016. Right as President Trump was, right as Donald Trump was running for president. That's quite convenient timing. It was shopped around by Norm LaBeau, a producer for the Jerry Springer show, okay, talking about a clown circus that this whole was. and he was shopping it around to media outlets for $1 million a pop, okay? The claim was initially seen by an Obama-appointed district court judge, Dolly G, who, by the way, if you look at Trump's first term, and even into this term, terminal TDS.

Okay, this is not a fan of President Trump at all. She has tried many times over the course of presidency to shoot down many things for President Trump. is a matter of record. And she was, again, an Obama appointed judge, Obama, who at this time, the Obama administration, with also Hillary Clinton's team, were working day and night to subvert Donald Trump any way possible. This is literally when they were creating all the foundational everything for what turned into SpyGate. Okay. So this is spring of 2016.

She dismissed this. the district court Dolly G appointed by Obama called it invalid and dismisses it okay right off the bat

you know that you have no like stand on they're trying to get this guy any way humanly possible and this is dismissed then after that Cheney Mason the lawyer who got Casey Anthony acquitted

you know girl killed her kid allegedly allegedly allegedly yeah because you know got her off Cheney Mason got her off. Then she starts working with Katie now to put together a lawsuit in New York because

that first one was in California, grown out. It was garbage. Now, now this, another celebrity lawyer, Cheney Mason works with her to put together a lawsuit in New York. The court documents, when people have gone over them, have zero cooperative evidence, zero, Nothing. The claims are withdrawn by Katie herself because it's obviously bullshit. So it was a circus front to end.

This was almost assuredly made up. And she's lucky that it was thrown out because false rape allegations actually will land you up to five years to 10 years and present. Is that unique for New York? Because I don't know that it's that way in all states. yeah the consensus across the general consensus probably not every single say it is you can probably get between five and ten years if they determine it's more of a perjury type deal the way they go about it but yeah you can get jail time for lying about rape is can be very bad so there is that and then also there is the case of was it is it sarah ransom or something ransom. Is she the one? She definitely, yeah, she said that she had footage of like Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, like all raping kids on camera. And then admitted later that she made it up. Well, yeah, yeah, because like somebody actually was going to pay her money. They flew out to

wherever she was to go meet her and to do the exchange. And then she didn't show up. And then she was like, okay, I made it up. It's not real. Yeah. And she. And she, when she came out with this, where she was approached, if memory serves me, a New York Post had done an article on Jeffrey Epstein, and she approached them with this hot story. The same person did it right before the 2020 election.

So, you know, very interesting timing on both of these. That's why Donald Trump says this is absolutely ridiculous and made up, because it almost assuredly is. Anthony Weiner, however, has to admit that it's true. And the view and the view stuff,

they collapse and they like it. Because, again, it's the view. And just for reference point, here is Whoopi Goldberg commenting on Roman Polansky after he was arrested, I believe, in France and potentially facing jail time for what he fled the United States for, which was, by the way, he drugged and had, stat and statutory raped a

13 year old girl didn't just statutory rape her he also sodomized her sodomized her yep yeah the full boat and after getting her drunk and given her quailudes to a 13 year old I mean that alone

is horrendous yeah okay so and here's whoopi Goldberg talking about it charged I know it wasn't rank right there is it oh my god it doesn't count because it's I don't believe it was rape, rape. And when we get all the information, somebody will tell me in my ear.

All I'm trying to get you to understand is when we're talking about what someone did and what they were charged with, we have to say what it actually was, not what we think it was. What he said he did. He gave her quailutes. He gave her champagne. She was drugs. She was 13 years old. He asked, here's a transcript.

That's what I'm saying. You're 13 years old. She was still a child. He asked. Excuse me. Initially, he was charged with rape go ahead. And then he pled guilty to having sex with a minor. Okay?

And he went to jail. And when they let him out and when they let him out, he said, you know what? This guy's going to give me a hundred years in jail. I'm not staying. And that's why he left. So that's why I wanted to be really clear because I want to know exactly what we were talking about. I'm going to just. Okay.

That's enough of that. So, so it gets my goat when people. will try to use legal trickery like that on like what they plead to because oftentimes people will plead to lesser charges because they've done something so heinous and the state just wants to avoid a lengthy and expensive trial so they will allow someone to plead to something like you know whether it's rape of a minor or sex with a minor it's with a minor all right and of Of course, by removing the rape aspect from the conviction, it softens it in the minds of people like Whoopi Goldberg. Now, because she was essentially trying to make the argument that Romo Polansky did not rape a minor, but he actually did rape a minor.

He only pled guilty to something lesser. And then he fled the country rather than actually going to prison for it. Dude, if you're in your 40s, if you're in your 30s and you're hanging out with a 13-year-old. You should almost go to jail just in general. That's fucking weird. I mean, unless that is a family member or someone where there's a reason for you to be hanging out with them. And I love this. She's like acting like, well, it wasn't rape rape because allegedly the girl wanted her.

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Okay, someone suggested in the chat that we go look at the White House page. So I'm pulling up the White House Twitter right now. Oh, the White House Twitter posted Patriots are in control the other day. Oh, that's right. I saw that over the weekend.

Yeah, and like I know the Department of Labor was posting a lot of Q stuff. also like a couple weeks ago or maybe even a month ago which is awesome but it's like i don't know it hits just even just a little harder when it's coming directly from the white house page in my opinion i agree with you yeah okay okay so yes it is an arrainian themed bowling meme okay can you share my oh no you can't because i need to share it again hold on yeah okay go ahead and pull it up okay oh shit

strike to claim it a strike to claim it savage dude don't fuck with America pro tip if you're gonna spend almost five decades saying how much you hate America and how you're gonna fucking blow them up

eventually it's gonna come the roost so you better back that shit up yeah you might want to back it up painting painting painting shadows of fighter jets is not going to do it. Did you see that? So after the son of the Ayatollah was, I guess, I don't know what they would call it there.

He was inducted. He became the new president. I don't know. They anointed him in some fashion. And then immediately there was another strike and he was gravely wounded. And so he's, I guess he's in the hospital. But he had a speaking engagement set up for. later that day. And so they didn't cancel the engagement.

Like they were like, he's still going to be here. Don't worry about it. And then they brought out this cardboard cutout with a picture of his head. And like, you know how they got the robes on? Well, it's just like the neckline of the white underneath. They cut it right there and then they pasted it on. It was like the back of a Trump cardboard cut out. I swear to God, it was a Trump cardboard cut out. Now, incredible let me show you when you guys tell me if you think i'm right because i used to have one right behind me and i saw the back of it on more than one occasion because i would have to move it occasionally um i uh tola cardboard cut out i really would uh i really wish i still had it but

smoky had peed on it on accident one day so okay now i swear to god this is a trump cardboard cut out that's even freaking better yeah you sure yet or no yeah I'm still getting there oh yeah uh here it yeah freaking sparky

he had peed on the box for my pizza stone all the pizza stone was out of it thankfully oh thank God now I had to find a place on the shelf for it okay

so yeah take a look I mean I feel like this is the exact same position President Trump was in you can always see like that's that's sleeves of a suit right there that's not a yeah whatever they wear a dashiki or how fucking go i mean how

how surreal is this though this is this is the greatest thing i think i've ever seen very odd you know what it reminds me of um it reminds me on south park you know how to be yeah okay oh my god like could you imagine like you're the guy they're like hey they're like hey we've you to be the next president. I'm like, oh, fuck, no. Oh, cool. I'll meet you there. I think my jet far, far away, and immediately be like, I reject this position from like South Korea, wherever the fuck you wind up. Yeah, yeah, I'd be okay with that.

But yes, you know, ultimately, I don't think that this was, if that is a cardboard cut out of Trump, I don't think that it's on accident. I mean, I think that that was done intentionally. You know, but for what reason? I don't know. tell you that, but I don't think that they would just, you know, they'd be like, we need a cardboard cutout. He's like, all we've got is this one of Trump. Okay, it'll

work. I'll make it work. Oh, my God. Yeah, New case, that's exactly it. Are they trolling us? Or are we trolling them? Which is it? I can't tell you. They pulled it off. Like, yeah,

I'm injured. Oh, no. They got me. I guess we have to put out that cardboard beam. very strange very very strange stuff oh gosh they should just unconditionally surrender that's trump says it's the only way it's going to fully end and i'm sure we're getting close to that he said he's talked as if uh is probably getting close i don't know i can't see it going more in a year over there everyone like forever war like okay you know it's like all right it's happened five minutes ago but you know but we will see um you know obviously the all hoping for the best outcome for the

united states and for iran honestly um i wouldn't imagine and this is just going on based on the way trump has masterfully navigated so many uh geopolitical situations that when the smoke is cleared this will have wound up being good for everyone i feel so confident after five years of this guy just kicking ass in every freaking section of everything he's attempted. I fully agree. I fully agree. Ultimately,

what's going to be most impactful will be for the region, the specter of this nuclear run forever enemy of Israel for that not to exist anymore. That'll make a profound change.

And then also because, like, you know, there's like the Shia Sunni rift thing. I believe that Iran's Shia. Is that correct? Or are they Sunni? I don't know the difference, to be quite honest with you. But I think they're Shia and like their neighbors are Sunni. And so like there's tension because of that as well. So if the government of Iran is no longer this Islamic Republic that is opposed to all of their neighbors, then that creates the pathway for a lasting peace and economic cooperation, and that's ultimately what President Trump is trying to achieve all around the world. Because people who do business with each other and make money off of each other don't kill each other.

You have more of an incentive to keep that relationship going. Oh, it would be great for everyone. Well, absolutely. To bring Iran back to the world stage and have them to be like a contributor with their resources, it'll be, it'll help them to. be enriched. It'll help the world to be enriched with what they can offer. All around, I have good thoughts of where this is going to go. Well, and think about this too. I mean, Iran is constrained pretty tightly on who they can sell oil to right now. It's largely China, basically. And I don't think that they sell to Russia or anything. But they're selling at a discount to China. And now they

would theoretically have the possibility of selling to the entire world at the market rate. So that's a much larger amount of oil that gets sold at a higher price, which, of course, is going to bring in a ton more money. The only problem is now that Israel decimated their oil production capabilities by blowing up their facilities there in Tehran, which... That was retarded. That was a total shit move. But they knew it.

I mean, they knew what they were doing. They did it on purpose, obviously. I mean, they, I think, I'm certain that they were thinking like, you know, we will destroy their ability to make oil, which will destroy their ability to refuel their fleets and to even, you know, create energy for their nation, which of course is going to hasten the results. But President Trump, I believe, wanted to make sure that Iran could immediately go into making money as soon as a new government came in. Just like, you know, Venezuela, boom. It was like, in and out, there you go. straight back to making money and doing business with the United States and everybody else. Yeah, you could almost 100% assume.

Obviously, we're not in Trump's head, but you could almost 100% assume he wanted them to keep that capability and bring them to the table. He was trying to talk deals with them. It's a shame, too, at the end, by the end of the 2020, by the end of his first term, he had said many times, it's like, they're so close, you know, they're ready to come to the table, things after the solid. many hit all of a sudden they wanted to negotiate and if he wouldn't have had that election stolen from him i bet you all of this could have been avoided and uh they would have eventually made some sort of normal deal i agree i agree so elementary son of man wants to know zach would you rather be a 60 year old oil baron or a cocaine baron well i was already a cocaine baron once in my life so without hesitation i would rather be a 60-year-old

controlled oil baron 100%. I do have some good news. It looks like Annapalina Luna, Unipanabanka, has just shared that Senator Susan Collins has just became the 50th senator to sign on to supporting the SAVE Act,

which means that we're much, much closer to having it pass. Now, if they do the talking filibuster, we could do it with J.D. Vance, right? I mean, like, that gives us the 51. That would be great. But I mean, how do you get to go to vote, though? Well, I mean, if they're going to filibuster it.

They got to talk their way through it. And nobody lasts forever, Brad. Like, that's the thing. Like, they, they, like everybody, somebody backs down. And if you just, what's the longest filibuster that was ever done? I want to say it was like, longer the day. Longest filibuster. I know.

Jeffries had like a retarded long one, right? Not too long ago. So it was Strom Thurmond. He was arguing against the Civil Rights Act of 1957. In 90 years. Yes. So he filibustered for over 24 hours from 8.54 p.m. until 9.12 p.m. the next day.

24 hours and 18 minutes. And Corey Booker spoke that for in 2025, he broke that by speaking for, by speaking for 25 hours and 5 minutes. And you know, the great part about that is that Cory Booker didn't have anything to say for like the next two weeks because his throat had to heal. But, yeah, I don't. And that's why his throat had to heal. Yeah, hold on. Not for stopping in New Jersey restaurants.

I had to turn off my nuclear siren. Yeah, yeah, that's definitely it. Because Corey Booker's totally straight, everybody. He's definitely. Definitely married to what's the name from all the Marvel things? Oh, I don't know. Rosario Dawson. They are totally really together.

Wait a second. That's who he's supposed to be married to? Yeah, he's at least engaged to her, I think. Whoa, I mean, I knew that he had picked up a beard, but I guess I didn't realize it was Rosario Dawson. They hired an actress to be. Of course. Yeah.

But yes, I think they're still together. I mean, Corey probably takes after that other guy from New Jersey, if I had to guess. They did split. They eventually split. I know this is, oh, no. Here we go. They split temporarily in 2022, but they got engaged in 2025. Maybe they're married. I don't believe it for one second. That guy is the frutious dude in human history. Just of a clip. I got so many clips of him just being a total loser. So yeah, strangely that split coincided with Corey Berker's extended trip to Pataya Thailand, which just happens to be

the Lady Boy Capital of the world. Probably not related, but all right. So we've got 50 senators and who knows, maybe we'll get John Federman on board or something like that. But even still, do you think

better men was a plant? I don't know. I kind of don't, but like he is turning out to be one of the most reasonable Democrats in the history of the universe. So I just think that, No, I don't think he was a plant, but I think that it is entirely possible that his stroke rewired his brain in a good way to make him, because I mean, that is, that's a phenomenon that happens. I mean, people have traumatic brain injuries like that and their personality changes

slightly or, you know, perhaps their, the decisions that they make are slightly different than what they might have made before. But it's also, I mean, it's just like not statistically, possible for everybody to be retarded. I mean, like, there's got to be a couple of people, you know, along the way who have, who have, you know, they might have some bad takes, but overall, maybe they do have a couple of good takes. Who knows. But, yeah, I don't know.

I don't know. He had bad take for sure. Obviously, he's mostly aligned with a party that I think is like built on bad takes. But Pennsylvania, I guess you grew up on the other side of Pennsylvania, so you probably noticed as well. But outside of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia is like gun-totin GOP country. Like that is like a massive state. Yeah.

A massive red state. And I've seen him say in interviews that his family is mostly right wing and a lot of the people who grew up around. So I'm sure he has reasonable people in Zier being like, dude, I know we don't agree. but like to the degree that most of you take it to is absolutely unreasonable and ridiculous. And it seems that he is a reasonable person because he has taken that to heart. So cool. Yeah, yeah.

I think that's totally possible. But Murkowski's not back in the SEVE act. Shocker. Murkowski is not, she is a plant that was put in by her freaking dad, which is to be just the weirdest thing that you can never do. You look at like McCain, what happened after he died. Like, how can you just appoint someone? But Murkowski is the only way she's in now

is because they brought in this cancerous rank choice voting to Alaska, which is just a legal way to steal votes. And they do it again. And she was supposed to lose her primary. And because of ranked choice voting, it actually put her over. That was almost four years ago. now, I think, or no, maybe two years ago. I forget about, I forget exactly when.

And Dushy is still here. I have lived in Alaska for three and a half years now. Nobody likes Murkowski. When I say you nobody, like legitimately, every person you meet is like how to F is she the center. So can you explain to me the scientific method behind ranked choice voting? Because I don't even get it. I mean, is it just that you don't have a primary and you've got everyone in a pool and whoever gets the most votes. You put, I know it varies a little bit in the places where it is, but for the most part,

this is how I understand it works. You have, like, say, three or four candidates running in the primary, right? You have to put in order what's your number one pick, number two, number three, and four. Okay. As people drop out, those other votes, so if, like, everyone is voting for, you know, for this one candidate, right? And then, but their numbers, too, is Murkowski across the board. Even though they're not voting for Murkowski,

once that candidate drops out, those votes go to Mikkowski. So all down ballot, oh, there's no like splitting the vote. So say if there's four people and then the bottom three and four drop out, there's whoever those votes, their second choice, then goes. And say if like their second choice was this guy, then it goes to their third choice, which is probably Murkowski, if you're not voting for the person against Murkowski. So what happened was, I forget who she was, Kelly Chapaka is who she was running against. It was actually a pretty great candidate Trump endorser. She had the most votes.

But once you took out the rest of the primaries, although second and tertiary votes, then went to Murkowski and then Murkowski tech. beat her and went on to run in the general so that sounds to me a structure that ensures the people that you want the least end up winning thank you yes it is a total total force it also kept it it also who's our congresswoman i think it's uh mary mary polota i forget who but member sarah palin was running and then the rank choice voted when you broke it down is what her out of being congresswoman and alaska which is like so right wing currently our one congress person is a democrat this is absolute garbage that is the most retarded process to elect a candidate

that i've ever heard so bad dude they do it in california a lot too honestly i wow i feel like that should be made illegal it's just absolute travesty yeah yeah yeah yeah I mean, what happens if you go in to file your ballot and you don't select anyone else besides the one candidate you want? That's what they suggest you should do if you're against ranked choice voting. Now, another thing in the 2020 or election, it was on the ballot to do away with ranked choice voting. It initially won, the measure to do away with it initially won. And then they were like, well, it's too close. we have to wait and then all of a sudden over the course of the next month you know while we were all

celebrating trump's victory yeah they got more they were able to find enough votes to not overturn it by like 10 votes or something it was so wow cringially fake and for what i understand juno is like super corrupt and super like overrun by uh you know liberals you know good god that is crazy that's absolutely crazy yeah so it was again initially initially the measure to get rid of it was did win and then oh well we'll find more votes and there's all these mailing votes because well i mean here they do do mailing a lot because there are like very separated communities sure and you know as those trickled in yeah they wanted the rank choice vote yeah right they'd well once you're separated enough you can

start finding votes wherever that model was perfected by dean logan in washington state in 2004 for the governor race where you know the republican had won and he you know his office they started just finding these mail-in ballots and they eventually found just enough to push the democrat in and then while she was in they changed and made like mail-in balloting like the thing It was already widely spread in Washington State, but then the chief cemented it forever. And then Washington has been left wing ever since. And then he was also had moved to L.A. for the 2020. I think he was the registrar for the 2020 election.

But we shouldn't look into any of these things, guys. So we shouldn't break down elections because elections just fake. So I just go back to sleep. I just looked this up. And the first time that ranked choice voting was used was in European election. in the 1850s and it wasn't designed for single winner elections. It was designed for elections where you would have multiple winners. So, you know, you've got like a ballot of like 20, 30 people or something like that.

And then it was in and then it was eventually adapted to for single winner elections by a man by the name of William Ware. He was an MIT professor. and William Ware Let's see He grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts He was from a family of Unitarian pastors And I'm looking to see if there was anything

To indicate he's a communist This This indicates it pretty clearly Now also in the SAVE Act If I If it's not just voter ID It's also to make mail and ballots only what they should be for like the very rarest of occasions correct uh yes

that is correct it would do that okay so huge step everyone's like when are they going to fix the elections dude here it is this is a major step in that direction it's not everything but this is you have to chip away at the stone one piece at a time and the massive this is a major one This is the Q drops talk extensively about passing voter ID laws and how illegal immigrants are one of the major things that run up the vote, run up the illegal vote. They were showed graphs. They went into this in explicit detail. And what's happening right now? We have finally on the table nationwide voter ID, exactly like they told us they were going to do in those drops.

Yep. And we have ongoing deportations of illegal immigrants, even though it's not on the news right now because Iran has taken that over, still ongoing every single week there's deportations. So they're doing, again, there's so many times where they say they're doing exactly what they talked about in these drops. So it's pretty cool. I agree.

Okay, so share that. I've got the one pager for the same back so we can see exactly what it does. All right. So it would amend the National Voter Registration Act, which has governed state voter registration since 93. It requires states to obtain documentary proof of U.S. citizenship and identity. The requirement applies regardless of whether an individual is registering to vote at a DMV, a voter registration agency, or by mail. Directs states to establish an alternative process for applicants that may not have documentary proof of citizenship but are, in fact, U.S. citizens, due to religious reasons. So that would be like, Amish people, subject to minimum standards set by the Election Assistance Commission and signed attestations and affidavits by both the applicant and the official making the determination. So it makes it a crime if you attest to the fact that you are a citizen. And it's not only you that would get in trouble, it's the person registering you as well.

Direct states to provide reasonable accommodations for disabled Americans and applicants that have discrepancies, require states to establish a program to remove non-citizens from their existing voter rolls and give states no cost access to Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration databases. They've already attempted to do this and, you know, 29 states are balking at that. Empower citizens to bring civil suits against election officials. So no more not having standing that failed to uphold proof of citizenship requirements for federal elections by expanding the National Voter Registration Act's existing private right of action and adds penalties for election officials that register non-citizens who vote.

in federal elections. That means prison time and financial penalties, directs the Election Assistance Commission to promptly update any guidance associated with the SAVE Act and streamlines updates to federal forms by exempting the updates from the paperwork reduction act. So this, I think, is a little out of date because they've added, like, you know, no mutilization of kids with transgender surgeries. Is mutilization even a word?

I know, like, mutilation, but President Trump keeps saying mutilization. I mean, you know what? If it gets across the point of what you're trying to say. It's not. It's not. I mean, we all know what he means, right? Yes, exactly. And I have no problem with it.

I just, I think it's funny because this is one of those things that Trump does. He will let, you know, like he'll spell things incorrectly when he wants things to be paid attention to. Or, you know, he'll take out a letter, add a letter, or he continues to use this word mutilization. Because then, but, you know, strangely enough. about it because of that. Yes, but strangely enough, the press, I don't feel like they've latched onto it in the way that they have in years past. So maybe they're getting, maybe they're catching wise on what he does. It's remarkable that they have it for so many years, dude.

We watched them twist them around and he wants them to talk about something. He knows how to do it. Yeah, that's pretty sweet. All right. Well, it is 1033, Brad, so we should probably close out with any final thoughts that we have or if we have any final sponsors we need to. to say thank you too uh yeah well i'll close that with the one sponsor uh before before we do that guys the previous question motion post about it talk about it that will re that will revert the senate back to the original founding fathers way and it will destroy the filibuster right the pq the previous

question motion. And we will also talk about there's the first GART live stream for all the virtual ticket holders. This is going to be on Thursday, March 12th. Oh, so tomorrow at 2 p.m. So if you haven't gotten your virtual ticket yet, go get it. You can get it in the chat box of any one of these shows and you'd be worth it or you get your in-person tickets even better. And you get to hang out in Nashville. and you will be able to see an exclusive start live stream tomorrow at 2 p.m. And, you know, I'll leave out with the final commercial. So let me just take this down and maybe give our final thoughts here. I, yeah, I like, I love getting into the weeds about the voting stuff because I do think it's important.

I think it's important to understand. I think that, you know, there's a lot of cheating, of course, and we have spent many years breaking down how they've done it, which I think is really good because it makes it harder and harder for them to do, especially as you get more educated poll watchers and poll workers. So for that, it's very good, too. But there's also a real element where, historically speaking, the left is always organized and they have these big groups

where they really are educated on the process. And into the weeds of what's going on. And that also is just a natural thing that we've had against us. So over this process, especially because of the 2020 election, I think it's been really cool that people have been explicitly digging into the electoral process and how we go about it, how you become poll workers, and what the process is, what is a precinct committee person. Obviously, they're not directly involved in it, but they're obviously very important to the process, how to become a candidate, and how to all these things across the board.

And I think that is great because then you could look into, oh, what's ranked choice voting? Why don't I like it? Well, yeah, you can say, oh, I don't like it because my candidate isn't still win. Yeah, okay, that's a very broad section. It's like, you want to break it down. I like that. We're breaking it down. What is it actually doing?

Why is that bullshit? it. Why is that not really representative of what you want, just like the filibuster or half in the past cloture at 60 votes is not representative of what we didn't vote for that? We voted for the simple majority. We have it right now. And the fact that a lot of times you can't even use it because people are afraid of the filibuster is not good. So I like that we got into that. I like to break that down a little bit and go into some of these things, going to some of the save back. And it's cool. always a pleasure having a conversation with you my man likewise brother i love you and i'm glad to be here we do have some rumble rants yes indeed let's see ever bring these up okay yeah so i got

the patriot excellent show gentlemen oh you're missing uh s2g 109 uh s2g 109 says this group works to file ethics complaints on bar attorneys to have them disbarred it's the 65 project dot com okay sorry sorry we didn't see that earlier let me get it pulled up there we go the 65 project this would be something cool to look into oh god they haven't they haven't had much that they've done

since 2023 they had the complaint against Ed Martin and the last one before that appears to have been the complaint against Jenna Ellis so not as successful as perhaps they would have liked to have been but this is

this is their this is their bag This is what they do. And I'd like to see maybe we can file some complaints against them. Amen. Amen. D1Kar says, have you seen the gas station lines in China where people are in long lines that get gas? I see on next 22 earlier tonight. Okay, yeah, that's definitely a result of what's going on right now.

Is Iran their main supplier of gas? Yes, yes, yes, they are. Yeah. I know they were big in that region. I wasn't sure if they're others. But what about? Russia. Russia has to. I'm sure they can buy. I'm sure they can probably get more gas from Russia, but Russia is already selling a lot of gas to the European Union. And, you know, also, you know,

China was getting gas cheaper from Iran at like a 20% discount, which, you know, that's, that's then going to require them. They're buying gas from other sources. They're going to have to start charging more for it, which could be a problem. Definitely. Yeah. And then ZBM says, love you guys question do you think white hats are trying to find constitutional ways the deep state aren't aware of to rug pull them when they finally take them down down the hatch jans oh yeah dude i mean well i think it was pretty evident especially when trump first got in and it was at the arena signing all the eos and then for obviously the next couple weeks uh clearly they have people who are ready who have looked into a lot of different things and are ready to go and you know these aren't I don't see what's been going on over this last year is that I'm shooting, you know, shooting about the hip. No, no, no, I think the whole thing has been planned.

I think they spent four years essentially crafting the plan of what they were going to do. I think they probably worked on it even before then. But, but yeah, there was a lot of thought that went into all of this, which is why I get so pissed when I talk about the Senate, not approving President Trump's appointment. because a lot of those people were chosen for a reason. And every single one that we can't get through into a position, it leaves a void in the federal government and takes away an aspect of what that plan should be able to accomplish. Exactly. Couldn't agree more, brother.

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