Chapo Trap House - 632 - They Droop Horses, Don’t They? (5/31/22)

Episode Date: June 1, 2022

We do a public company audit over our failure to obtain PPP loans for our podcast business like our more industrious competitors. Then, a few current events including Trump at the NRA convention, Swedish hospitality habits, and the bloody shambles of indignities around the Queen’s platinum jubilee. Finally, a reading series from Biden-world about the president’s frustration that he just can’t seem to catch a break!

I Okay, hello friends, it's Chapo Tuesday, May 31st. I hope everyone had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. Summer is truly here. It's Felix's birthday today. So birthday boy is taking the day off to celebrate his ascension to Godhood. But it's me, Matt, and Chris on today's show. And you know, to kick things off this week, it's a little unfortunate that Felix, our money manager and business, you know, a business guru and lifestyle coach isn't here to answer these questions, but I'm kicking off today's show with some some hard truths. Basically, like we need to do like a status check on our business mindset because I found out something this weekend

that's shaken me to my core and really led to a lot of questions about how we're managing our finances and just our general business mindset for for the show. I'm putting you guys on the spot right now. But like these questions need to be asked and someone has to be held responsible. So here it goes. Gentlemen, can any of you explain to me why we did not get a PPP loan from the government during COVID to keep doing the podcast? Because we are bag fumblers. That's why.

It's a huge bungal. It is a huge bungal on our parts. What a fucking bungal. I just honestly like... I didn't think it would be possible. It's like, well, why would a podcast? How could a podcast possibly need fucking payroll supports when it requires no in-person office work of any kind? It's basically no overhead. But even if I'd known that the podcasters were eligible, I probably foolishly would have thought, well, no, these are loans. We might have to pay them back. Like the fucking stu-gotts over here thinking that that would possibly happen.

This giant slush fund for every fucking boat ownership scumbag and connected fucking small business crook in this country. That fucking PPP loan, that is some Brezhnev level shit. That is just a good old fashioned crony capitalism at its finest. Well, what the fuck, man? Like, why don't we have any good cronies here? How come no one told me that there were cronies giving out $52,000 in free money to keep doing a podcast during COVID? How did we think... How the fuck did we not get $52,000 in free money? How was I not aware that they were just giving it... Can we still get it? Can we still apply for these loans? I'd like to think that it's because, you know, we just spoke too many truths.

We were too hardcore that all the fat cats in Washington all hate us. They all have our pictures on their dartboard. And, yeah, I'll just go with that to dry my tears. The only guy we possibly could have had as a connect was Matthew Lesko, and that's our own fault for not getting in touch with him. We should try to get him on the show. I would love to interview Matthew Lesko. That's such a good idea. There are multiple stories about people being in coffee shops and restaurants and turning around and seeing him, and, yes, he's always wearing the suit. Yeah, well, I mean, he has several suits. He's got all different colors. But there's also question marks, which is, he's not the Riddler, though. In fact, he's the opposite of the Riddler. He's giving you answers.

He's telling you, like, yes, he gives all the answers to how to get money for the government. It's not how to get money for the government. The suit should be covered in periods because he's just giving statements of facts. For a while, I just kind of, like, Mandela affected it. No, it's dollar signs. It's got dollar signs on it because that just intuitively made sense. He's giving you free money for the government. He should have dollar signs on a suit. But no, it's question marks. Apparently, it's a car with question marks. Oh, that's so cool.

That's also him. That's so cool. I'm looking at a photo of Matthew Lesko right now, and, yes, indeed, it is all question marks on the suit. He's got a look of sort of wild anticipation and surprise for all the free money he's about to give you. So here's this. So, yeah, oh, riddle me this. How the fuck did the Muller She Wrote podcast get $52,000 in free money and we're sitting here with our dicks in our hands? Well, I mean, the Muller She Wrote lady is apparently connected to the deep state. That's what I hear. Not kidding.

She's a quote unquote veteran. Her family is like in Northern Virginia style family, if you know what I mean. Yeah, I really don't know anything about her, but I have seen everywhere that her biography is listed. It always has the phrase, has worked for high level federal agencies. It's like something very specific, but very vague. Yeah, it's like top men. Top level position in a federal agency. Do not ask any further questions. I believe someone who looked into it, I think Alex found out that it was actually just the VA. I think she works for the VA.

Oh, man, that's not fun. Yeah, that's not what I was hoping for. Even if your student loans zeroed out too. Yeah, she had $76,000. I mean, this all came about because she was berating people who were like, oh, like, why don't you tell the victims of, you know, the Buffalo and Texas shootings that you're not going to vote for the Democrats because they won't, you know, they only gave you. They only gave you $10,000 in student loan relief. She got $76,000 in student loan relief and $52,000 in free money to, quote, make payroll for her fucking podcast. How is that possible?

This is a real inside you there are two wolves situation because you're in that position. You find yourself running a semi-popular podcast based off of something that has become irrelevant four years ago. And you find yourself with a slush fund of free money from the government. You can then either be choose to become Matthew Lesko or shame people on the Internet for not voting hard enough for the Democrats. It's like this is the origin story of a hero and a villain and the hero in this situation would be a lesko type. The one who wants to bring it to the people. Yes, exactly. You need to know.

Yes. I think the thing that really triggered people more even than just the at this point bog standard complaining was this absolutely hallucinatory version of the 2000 election when gay people refused to vote because the Democrats weren't fully on board with gay marriage. And that's what led to Bush defeating Gore and 9 11 and 9 11 and the Warner Rack. So they were blaming she blamed the gays on for the Iraq war, which that's that's impressive, especially since I'm sorry. I'm an old man. I have enough vague enough remedies to know that there was gayness gay marriage was not on the agenda. The whole thing about the 2000 election is that there were no issues. It was like, what do we do with social security?

In an epic lock box or do we do tax cuts that was the that was the entirety of the 2000 election that that was it was only after that like the real culture war exploded. 2004 was the gay marriage. 2004 was the gay marriage election and just be able to just to look backward with perfect delusional clarity and just make any election about whatever specific narrow point you wanted to make. It really does remind you why it's talking about politics is so popular for people because it has absolutely no rigor whatsoever. I mean, why are we here? Because of that very fact. Yeah, I don't know anything. You can say anything.

And there's no way you can be proven right or wrong. You're either going to be people disagree with you. It doesn't matter as long as there is some group of people who they hear it and it hits their air and it sounds right. And it confirms other things that they already believe. And so they're going to decide that you have some insight. It's amazing. It's the greatest track that there is. And now you can also get free government money for it.

Amazing. But that does show we're at the end of the day where we're not we're not operating at maximum drift capacity. We got to we got to be doing we could be doing a lot better. I'm just like, oh, I'm just thinking about that $52,000. Imagine what we would spend it on and get vintage Sennheiser microphones for everyone, solid state amplifiers. Of course, I would just hoard all this equipment because we all live in different places now. So it would be all. And there would be no way that anybody would figure it out how to work it without me.

I would like to pay. I would like to use the money for one of those billboard trucks, you know, like this to sort of drive around broadcasting a message. You know, like, I mean, think of the good we could have done for the anti circumcision cause was $52,000 in free money. You get the $50,000 in taxpayer money. And then we get we buy one billboard on the Beltway around D.C. That just says this is your tax money at work. Chapeau trap house. It's a giant billboard. Chapeau trap house docs, Taylor Lorenz, Chapeau trap house docs, Libs of Tiktok and Taylor Lorenz.

This is now the currently the national debt. Just like just like a totally incomprehensible message to anyone. You know, it's like, yes, I will buy billboard about Libs of Tiktok Taylor Lorenz, a national debt count that debt clock counter and an anti circumcision message all in one right on the Beltway. Everyone D.C. has to know about it. Yes. Yeah, we're getting the word out. We could do like a God's plan video type deal. We're turning the David Buster's cards and then hand out the David Buster's cards.

So like, it's not even really money. You can't even use it unless you want to go play a video game. Well shit faced. We like like like like a God's plan music video, but we're just like handing out racks of cash only to like already wealthy hipsters in Brooklyn and dime square. Yeah. Yeah. We're just going to go into clandestino and just giving people thousands of dollars and they're like, yeah. They've earned it.

Yeah, but whatever. It's free money. Free money. It's free money. It's free money from the government. Free money to pay your bills. The ones who know about the programs are the ones who get the money. I mean, that's, that's why she got it.

She, she was placed in top level organizations. She knew about the programs. How would we even, how would we even have gone up? Like, was there like a site to go to? I knew about the PPP program. I just assumed like, well, there's no fucking way like they would ever give like me money for this shit. I mean, like I have a job with no overhead and no employees. Like what the fuck and end that anyone can do from home.

Anything podcasts are the only business that should have been excluded from the PPP. Cause like fucking like it's the only business that not only wasn't affected by COVID, but in fact it was our bottom line was greatly increased, was greatly, you know, juiced by everyone having to stay inside and lose their minds at the same time. Next year, the government is going to give out over $350 billion. And those who know about the programs are the ones who get the money. All right. Well, moving on from our just absolutely boneheaded bungling of money and ignorance of the free programs that the government provides for entrepreneurs.

Let's move on to just like a little bit of hot story out of the state of California. Nancy Pelosi's husband charged with DUI. You guys see this folks? You heard about this one? Nancy Pelosi's husband. He's like 9,000 years old. I believe he's 82. Jesus fucking Christ. When did he get, when did he get drunk on like a thimble full of Chardonnay? He's got three ounces of blood running through his veins.

It's like Mr. Burns. Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband was arrested and charged with driving under the influence after being involved in a collision Saturday night law enforcement official said, Paul Pelosi, 82, was arrested at 1144 p.m. Pacific Standard Time and charged with driving under the influence with a blood alcohol content of 0.08% or higher according to the Napa County Criminal Justice Network's public booking report. Both charges are misdemeanors. Pelosi was attending to cross SR 29 when his 2021 Porsche was hit by a 2014 Jeep

traveling northbound on the road according to a collision report from the California Highway Patrol, which either doesn't identify the driver as being at fault, doesn't identify either driver as being at fault in the crash. Troopers were called to the scene just before 10 30 p.m. The report said there were no injuries reported in crash and the Jeep driver was not arrested. Well, Paul Pelosi, he was arrested. He was fucked up. I'm just thinking about my, my grandpa made it to about 82.

And he died because he fell down going to get the mail. I'm just trying to imagine him drunk behind the wheel of a Porsche. What are they giving these fucking people? I mean, I know the joke is Adrienacrone, but like there is something, some sort of demonic serum that is keeping these people spry well beyond when is natural. I was at a memorial or barbecue on Sunday and a friend of mine just like, as he was approaching the barbecue, just be lined it to me with a phone up being like, Chris, I need to tell you something.

And it was this news and it did indeed put a enormous smile on my face. It's just like the idea that you would be in that position, be the husband, the 82 year old husband of the speaker of the house and be like, yeah, no, I'm good. I'm good to drive. Don't worry about it. Uber Schmoober. Wait a second.

The article did say there were no injuries and that the Highway Patrol concluded that neither driver was at fault. Sounds like a big news crime. Maybe he's just very good at drunk driving. He might be one of those ones where he's better after he's had a few, which is a real thing. You all need to accept that that's real. Billy Joel syndrome. Yeah. I'm sorry.

If you say that there's no such thing, then you're anti-science because we have plenty of data on this. But again, it's like sort of like at 82 years old, should you be whipping a 2021 Porsche around California's highway? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. So if you're Paul Pelosi, just get a driver. You could get as fucked up as you want, but I don't know. Call a car or just like I said, if you're rich enough, just have a guy drive you everywhere.

They're rich enough for that. They could afford a guy who literally drives him one night a week. Oh, but they would look out of touch then. Oh, yeah. Oh, right. He's got to talk of his own Porsche to his own house with his own four refrigerators filled with the Pizza Gate ice cream. Okay. Well, okay.

There we go. Here's another thing we could have done with that $52,000. I could have hired the transporter to like make sure I don't kill anyone getting fucked up trying to drive home. I went, yeah, like that's what I would do the money. I would hire Jason Statham to drive me places. He was a little overqualified. 52 grand is probably like that's probably not enough money to hire Statham. Statham? That's not enough for like headwax.

Probably sounds more than that in the air. Keeping his dome nice and shiny. I wonder if you gave him the $50,000 but also said that you were dying of, well, I guess it would have been PPP time. So let's just say COVID and it was a dying wish. You're dying wish to be transported just once. That would be funny if there's like some eight year old kid with Virginia who's like, I want Jason Statham to transport me. Like that kid. That kid, remember that?

Only, and they're like hire guys and motorcycles to pretend to chase him and shit. By the way, that bat kid is still alive. I think that whole thing was a scam. It was like some kids like Tatum O'Neill and the fucking paper moon or something. And she's on a grip because I don't because like, I'm sorry, you got to be real sick for the entire city to pretend you're Batman. They were like faking charts at the very least to like exaggerate the seriousness because I don't know how the hell that kids still alive. You municipal like county meeting the next week or the next year and they're like, well, we spent so much on the bat kid parade that we really can fix the sewage system this year. And then one of the counselors is like, did that kid die?

And they're like, no, he's still around even after we spent the $100,000 on the bat parade. It'd be funny if they sent him a bill when he hit 16. Bat kid, he just lost his virginity. He's applying to college. He's loving it. He's still coasting off that bat cred. He gets laid so much off of being bat kid. He's on Tinder.

Like just like his profile is like, hey, I was the bat kid looking for looking for my poison ivy. If you know what I'm talking about. No, if I were like one of those terminally ill kids, I would be like my wish is to have Jason Stathin kill me with a single blow to the chest. That's how I want to die. I just want that bald, bullet-headed man to just come into my hospital room and be like, oh, right. Listen, you can't. Listen, you can't. It's all over.

It's all over for you. Say your prayers, mate. Say your prayers, mate. And then just a single like Krav Maga, like knee to the chest or something. Definitely go to the ball hall if that's how you die. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's what Krav Maga was designed for. Killing children.

I mean, I, I know what I would have asked. Please. I don't know. I know it's, it's, it's fucked up, but I would like to have sex before I die. I would like to get laid. And I would have been like, I'm sorry. There's no way that's going to work. It's like, look, guys, I'm not moving.

Hey, I don't give a shit about anything else right now. It's the only thought I've ever had for the last two years, depending on how old I am, of course, when this is happening. Like, yo, like, I feel in that, can I just get some titties in my face? Can I just, can I just motorboat them real quick? Yeah. If it was before puberty, it would be something really lame. Like, I want to meet the big brewers.

Something like that. But if it hit, if it like 12, it's like, nope, get me laid son. That's all I care about. Do you think the Make-A-Wish Foundation has a forum letter or perhaps a specific counselor they have to deploy to respond to those requests? Because you've got to imagine that that's a lot of them. It's got, yeah. My son wants it just, just squeeze, just to get squeezed off something.

He would like to reenact one of the scenes from Revenge of the Nerds. Just something for him. See, it's easy. They're like, look, we can get you five minutes with Chris Hemsworth, but we can't. We can't do, we can't do the titty. They're like, would you like to lift Thor's hammer? It's like, no, I'm trying to get a hand job. I'm trying to get off here.

Can Chris Hemsworth suck me off? Jesus Christ. Five minutes is all I need. I mean, I've never busted before. Well, moving on, moving on from Pelosi's husband. I got to say though, did you guys, did you guys see Trump at the NRA convention this weekend? Because he was in, he was in a rare form. Just listed off those names.

He was, yeah. Did you guys get a good job pronouncing them? Yeah. I mean, I know I'm one to talk about pronouncing people's names, but you know, most of the names that I butcher on this show weren't the, you know, child victims of mass shooting. Yeah. Maybe Chris just dropped a little of that audio in there. It was totally fucking surreal because he's at the NRA convention.

And okay, so he's given his big address there. The crowd's loving it. And the, like he does the thing where like he reads off the names of all of the victims of this latest mass shooting in Texas. Playing a bell after each name. Rogelio Torres. Tess Marie Matta. That was surreal enough.

But the best part by far is that in a televised address where like I said, he memorializes the names of recently slaughtered children. He exits the stage hyping up the crowd doing his macho man dance. Yeah. The macho man dance. I mean, the jacking off two guys at once dance. You guys know what I'm talking about. He loves it.

He gets up. He gets the people going. He's just sucking them off. He's jacking them off. The guys, they just say, I'll take anyone who comes. I'll take them all on. The other thing from the weekend that I really like, this is, did you see the Lauren Boebert thing where she was at the Trump rally in Wyoming addressing the crowd?

I'm going to drop this audio in here. But this quote by Boebert is just so good. I want to tell you a story about his generosity, about how kind he is, about how welcoming he is, and even not liking germs, President Trump shared a bowl of popcorn with my 14-year-old son. Now listen, Wyoming. I know where he's been. I don't share food with my son.

I don't even share food with my son. It's disgusting. Okay, so there's multiple levels to how much I like this quote here. The first being that the one example of Trump's kindness and generosity that she said like the media, the fake news media in the back, all the people with cameras, the one example that she can come up with of how extraordinarily kind and generous he is, is sharing some popcorn with a 14-year-old boy. You got a bag of popcorn here?

You want some? Okay. I like to imagine that it's just the very end of it where it's all the unpopped kernels left in the bottom. And he's like, yeah, I'm done with this here. You have it. Just shake out a few, just some salt and some corn kernels into your mouth. But don't give it back to me.

I'm too afraid of your germs. And yeah, Lauren Boebert said she's like, in the full quote, she's like, I know where my son's been. I don't want him touching my food. Okay, and this is the second incredible layer to this amazing onion here. Lauren Boebert is the person famous for making 80 people sick with bloody diarrhea thanks to her poisoned pork sliders at her like shooter's bar and grill. Shooter's bar and grill, or the other thing after a gun.

It's the kind of place that John Taffer would walk into and go, you're making people sick. Literally, yeah. You'd get the horrified shots of the fly covered fryers and shit. The grease trap that hasn't been emptied since the Reagan administration. That's for you pigs. My precious mouth would never. Maybe she just subscribes to that libertarian ideal of child raising where as long as the door is left unlocked and there's food around, you don't have to actually provide anything

for your children since they're free to walk away at any moment. It's your son. It came out of your body and you're just like, I don't want him touching my food. It's like, isn't this sort of like feeding your child is like one of the main, main biological and psychological imperatives of being a parent. The kind of thing where most parents would say that they would, you know, give your last ounce of food to a child, your child, even if you were starving. Your little hands are, you guys don't understand middle American folk ways.

Okay. This is, this is heartland values. Your grubby little kids are disgusting and you shouldn't touch them. That's how we live. That's how we live out in real America. Well, you know, actually related to this issue, you know, is it gross to feed children? This is an interesting bit of sociological data that, you know, it was also fascinated me this weekend.

Maybe, maybe you guys saw this, maybe you were wondering what your opinions are on this. I'm speaking, of course, about a phenomenon that I was unaware of. But I am, of course, speaking about folks, what's the deal with Swedish people not feeding guests? You folks, you folks heard about this one? Apparently, the fucking lid was blown off of. Oh, the wonderful, nice Nordic model that everyone loves. Oh, it's the nicest country in the world, highest quality of life.

You know, everyone's well taken care of and happy. Well, no, not everyone is well taken care of and happy because apparently in Swedish culture, if you go over to your friend's house, they're like, hang out, and then their family has dinner, you will be made to stay in your friend's room while the family eats dinner without you. And if you, and if you, like, take anything from their refrigerator, like if you have a glass of milk or something, they go apeshit because they're like, you know, they're like, they're like that, that milk was for, that milk was for the breakfast. We have, we have budgeted all the milk and they are now gone.

So I wasn't able to follow this that closely. Was it just like, do they not invite people over for like, does the idea of a dinner party not exist in Sweden? Do they not ever invite people over for the specific means of eating food with them? For what I understand, it's not unheard of, it's just, it's less of a trope, the cultural trope. It's sort of understood that you take care of yourself when it comes to providing food for your face.

And what do they do with all the, what do they do with all the meatballs? It's the perfect food for sharing. Well, I mean, they're probably the sweetest meatballs in the little gravy. Come on. Well, probably because it's like, it's like, they don't like sharing, but also that they're very like extremely like anal about food portions and like meal planning and stuff. So they don't, they don't want any leftovers, you know, and they'll like, they'll like, you know, some grubby kid coming over and expecting snacks or whatever.

It throws off their whole fucking, their whole week that they've meticulously planned out. But yeah, like this is a real, yeah, like this is a real schism. I mean, like this prompted like a real backlash from shall we say Southern Europe, you know, who looks at this as like, you know, you go to an Italian household and like, let's say you're not hungry. Brother. Oh boy. Yeah.

You cannot not eat if you got like, you know, I'm like, and they're looking at these fucking Swedish people as the Annamale, they're Annamale. They're just not feeding people who come to your house. Not like sort of like the, you know, Southern Europe, like the fucking the Odyssey, that whole fucking book is just about how to treat guests properly and all the terrible things that happen to you. If you don't feed your guests or, you know, don't observe the rules of hospitality. Yeah, but it depends on its cultural, you know, values and the way that you respond to

things. I mean, you say, Hey, you know, why wouldn't you want to treat your guests nicely and give them a meal? But what if getting a free meal makes you feel obligated and makes you feel awkward to be around someone because you ate their food? And wouldn't you then prefer it much if they did not provide you with that kind of awkward moment by trying to make them insist that you enter their debt in some cosmic ledger? And that's that's down to that's down to, you know, cultural values.

Like thinking back to like, you know, like my childhood or like, you know, you go to your friend's house for like a, you know, like a play date or whatever. Honestly, like I would have liked the option to have just sort of like adjourned from eating dinner with their family because like, you know, I don't know what kind of food they're into, you know, like a lot of kids are picky eateries, you know, I just be like, Hey, can I just play a video game in the bedroom while you just talk to your family? Let me just grind through a few more levels of goldeneye while you guys eat. I'll be here when you're back.

Yeah, exactly. You know, because like that could be considered rude too if you, you know, like a decline to have. I mean, shit, what if your friends' parents are like really shitty cooks or they like are into health food or something like that? What are you going to do? Now, could there be part of this where perhaps you could make the argument that the, these Nordics with their robust social welfare state where, you know, the society in general, you

know, cares and provides through the government to its citizens thus would not need to build a robust, you know, feeling of civic responsibility. Yeah. Guest culture. Guest culture because, you know, you don't need your neighbor to be helping out with you or is in, you know, the places where that, that welfare is not as robust, then, you know, it's kind of, you have to lean on your neighbor to, you know, charity is basically used to fill in the blanks where, you know, the social situation is not providing as much.

You know, It is, it's a paradox of the egalitarianism because if you have these institutions that are providing these, you know, abstracted away mutual aid benefits, then it kind of undermines the, you know, the bonds of citizens that are outside of that, you know, of neighbors and friends and such. Well, you know, we'll keep that in mind next time we're in Sweden, you know, I'm bringing all my own snacks to that country, you know, they're just like, they're very, I was in Stockholm once and I was in a very small restaurant and it was absolutely packed.

I was like, okay, you know, the kind of place where if you went to any city in America, it would just be incredibly loud, like you'd all be yelling to be heard and go in there and even though this place is absolutely packed, you had to speak at like below regular volume or else you felt like you were being obnoxious. People next to us was like, these absolutely round, ham-faced white dudes just pounding wine, and they were like fucking whispering, sweets are freaks, it's just a fact. Being up there, all alone, no sun, or too much sun, barely any crops, freezing colds, it does something to you, it makes, it makes you strange.

Well, okay, I'm moving on from like one bizarre cultural weirdness and phenomenon that we're unfamiliar with. I just wanted to check in, I know we even talked about jolly old England in a while, but I saw this story in the Daily Mail and I wanted to share it with you guys. This is a Daily Mail exclusive. Was Prince William's horse drugged at trooping the color rehearsals? Military veterans claim the Royal Household Division Charger seemed to have been doped to make it more docile, branding it a disgrace.

Prince William wrote a Household Division Charger named George during the rehearsal of the Queen's Birthday Parade. When unnamed veteran claimed, William's horse looked drugged, its head is on the floor, it's a disgrace. The rehearsal… Head drooping everywhere, it's very disrespectful, the horse is very disrespectful. The rehearsal, Colonel's review, is near a full run-through of Trooping the Color, which takes place on June 2.

Her majesty usually attends and takes the salute, but this year Charles, William, and Anne will fulfill her duties. So going down here, I need some video and photo evidence of this. And here's the thing, I'm looking at it, and Prince William's horse, I gotta say, that head is drooping as fuck, it looks like it's knotting off, man. They gave it a percassette the size of a soap bar. So it's a charming bit of glorious, glorious Britannia, it's a bloodiest grace. Prince William's horse was drugged.

But here's my question, though. If the horse hadn't been drugged and then just acted a damn fool, wouldn't that also be a bloody disgrace as the Queen's Diamond Jubilee? It's so funny the things that they come up with as being disgraceful over there when you think that it's in the context of a massive military parade for their ancient hereditary monarch that is somehow still part of their society. But no, it's the droopy horse that's the disgraceful part of the whole proceeding. That's what the other week of, I forget which royal, I can't keep them track, I'm sitting

on the Golden Throne saying, yeah, we're actually gonna need to do more austerity. That was Prince Charles, right? That was the Queen's speech that he gave on behalf of the Queen, who's alive. He's definitely alive. They're wheeling her out for what, the Platinum Jubilee, 75 years this diamond, right? Good Lord. Or no, 70? It's old as hell.

It's unnational. I mean, isn't she now like the longest reigning monarch in history? I think there's an African guy who's like two years longer, but she's up there. She's like in the top two or three. Which you know, gotta say, in terms of all the monarchs in history, that is a pretty incredible stat. But here's my pitch. They should just keep her in seclusion forever, never do another public appearance with her,

but just keep saying, yeah, no, no, no, she's alive. She's still reigning. She's still reigning and let everyone else in the family slowly die out. And then just let her slowly ascend over hundreds of years as they keep up the fiction that she's alive to some kind of mythical God status. And then it just eliminate the monarchy and be like, no, Queen Elizabeth still reigns overall. This is like 100 years from now.

She still reigns over us. We still all hail Queen Elizabeth, but you know, we don't need to see her again and everybody else just slowly fades in the background. That's how they slowly off ramp the monarchy over there. Yeah. It's the BBC's like metaverse hollow stream. Yeah. Exactly.

Everybody. Everybody. It's the Queen's 175th birthday today. Everybody's celebrating her. Yay. We love her. She's the Queen. She's waving at you.

Look at her. From behind the screen. She's in the metaverse now. Yeah. Yes. And then, you know, like again, as long as you're talking about England and the Queen, I know you must have seen, you know, probably the coolest, you know, little celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee is that they projected images of her onto the stone slabs

that make up Stonehenge. I mean, come on. You cannot tell me these people aren't doing black magic. They're doing Halloween III shit right here. And it was just, I saw the picture of it and I was like, this is a photo shot, right? No. No. They like, it was like they projected images of Queen Elizabeth, all different, you know,

photos of her from throughout her glorious 70 year reign on the giant slabs of Stonehenge, which like, you know, Stonehenge, do we know what it's for? Maybe, maybe not. But if you're telling me that wasn't used for human sacrifice, I mean, like, I'm just, I'm giving you the old side eye. I'm much more of like a Stargate thing. That's kind of what I imagine the Stonehenge for. But I find that very disrespectful to the Paleolithic peoples of England who had nothing

to do with this monarchy. Yeah. They were a bunch of like, what, druid ass kelp motherfuckers? Yeah. Yeah. Not these square-headed German fucking crowd asses, goddammit, sax goothas. Just happy birthday to the Queen, or no, it's not her birthday, it's, it's her ascension. It's her ascension to God today.

Yes. Yes. Absolutely. I think they could keep her alive forever, honestly. If they really committed to it, like the resources of empire, I think they could keep her to God forever. Because the human body has that capacity. Have you ever seen the video of that like 109 year old monk who's like a living mummy?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like you could just, if you, you know, are an enlightened being, you can just keep your body just going almost indefinitely. And she doesn't have that. But what she does have is all of the lizard-powered technology that her demonic family has piled up over the centuries. Also, if you can use it, it's like the dark magic or light magic. Either way, you can keep that fucking thing going on to miraculous lengths, like the fucking

the Hanukkah candles. So like, yeah, okay. Okay. So like the British monarchy can use the dark magics of Stonehenge to keep Queen Elizabeth alive indefinitely. But they can't do shit about Prince William's hairline. I tell you, you know, there's no cure. Come on.

Yeah. I'm like him and Bezos at Boston. Like the fact that they're either like letting it go or just bicking it completely. By the way, that would be very funny if Prince William decided to go Bezos, shave the whole thing off and become like one of those bullet-head British guys are talking about. Like, boy, I'm the bloody armor prince, I'm the prince of England, my goodness. And then just one more, one more brief thing from England. I saw again, like this is recently the British press were in a tizzy because apparently fans

of a Liverpool soccer club have a new chant that they debuted at one of the games. The chant being Philip's dead, the Queen's senile, Andrew is a pedophile. And then they go again, a bloody disgrace. It's the Queen's diamond jubilee. You've got fucking heads drooping, the hair receding. What did we do Brexit for if we're going to end up like this? This is what Brexit was supposed to stop. And yet here it is happening anyway.

It's a bloody shambles. It's a disgrace. Horses. Horses in my eyes, but not because this is a masterclass, one of those horses are smacked out of their minds at the trooping of the color. Fuck it. I just, you know, Sinn Fein on the March and they just took power in Northern Ireland. For the first time, there's a poll that has them above the combined totals of Finafale

and Fingale in the Republic. It's not impossible to imagine in a couple of years a Sinn Fein governments in both sides of the border in Ireland. And at that point happens, I don't know how you don't get some sort of significant union push. A couple of years, that would be 2024, which would make Star Trek the next generation's data saying, in Star Trek the next generation, two packed in Picard about the uses of political violence to achieve the democratic goals.

He says, what about the Irish unification of 2024? Yeah, we're not, honestly, we're kind of on track here. We really are data. Exactly. They, they, they were on the mind beam writing that episode. Of course, the funny thing is, is that once it happens, the English are going to go, okay, thank Christ. That's what a relief.

We never even wanted these fuckers in the first place. Now they're your problem. Good luck Ireland dealing with these fucking psychotic hillbillies that we have in our housing estates of Northern Ireland. Have fun with them. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, England, the trooping of the color, the colors, the color has been very trooped.

They drooped it. They drooped it. How are you going to droop the color? That horse George, though, was immediately killed. Okay. Yeah. And again, like, there's only one horse William can ride. That's all they do in that fucking country is just watch horses fuck.

Yep. In addition, in addition to the horse, the, the royal horse tender who presented William with a drooping horse was also executed by one of the B theaters at the tower guard. Yep. They chopped his head off with a halberd at the tower of London. Throw him in the Thames. Well, uh, Well, going from, uh, one, um, a desiccated and decaying monarchy to the desiccated and

decaying presidency of Joe Biden and his brain and his brain as well is also drooping quite seriously. Uh, this is just, uh, as we're running out today, Sean, this is a big, big story on NBC news inside a Biden White House adrift amid a rolling series of calamities and sinking approval ratings. The president's feeling lately that he just can't catch a break and an angst is rippling through his party. The thing is, the thing about all of this is that they told you exactly what was going

to happen. Yep. They called their shot. They said, we're going to do this. They even had the fucking slogan ready. The real slogan of the 2020, uh, Biden campaign, whatever the, I don't even remember what bullshit they actually went with formally. It was, come on, man.

And that's, that's it. It's just like, give me a break. What do you want from me? That's the entire, always what it was. Yeah, exactly. Come on, man. It's just like, it's the way he says it. It's the intonation and the import behind it is the slogan for our, the times we're living

in right now. It's what we all feel. Like we've got, we, we, we press the same, we only have one button to press as the Democratic party. Uh, we pressed it. We keep pressing it. We got what we wanted, uh, which is to take power from Republicans after they fuck up too much, which is our only way of taking power.

We've done it, but now it's at a terminal point where they fucked up that the near term stability of the system itself is now coming under stress and they have nothing else to do. So at this point, you just got to throw your hands up. You just got to shrug because it's like, this was the only possible thing that other stuff you crazy people wanted to imagine. That was impossible. Because this doesn't work. It's not because we fucked up.

It's because nothing would have, that's what it boils down to. So there are, there are, there are four, uh, names on the byline for this story. Um, but it begins here, faced with a worsening political predicament, president Joe binded is pressing AIDS for a more compelling message and a sharper strategy while bristling at how they've tried to stifle the plain speaking persona that has long been one of his most potent assets. They're, they're stifling him, they're silencing him, they're de-platforming him, they're de-platforming Brandon.

De-platforming Brandon. The de-platforming of Brandon, that's what they should have called this article. Biden is rattled by his sinking approval ratings and is looking to regain voters confidence that he can provide the sure-handed leadership he promised during the campaign. People close to the president say, Hey, you know, he also promised a bunch of other shit during the campaign. What's the deal with that? He's promised all sorts of shit during the campaign.

I mean, it's, it's become a thing where people just dig up like his tweets from 2020 where he's like, yeah, when I'm president, we're going to ban all saw rivals. I'm going to do it personally. I just thought the idea that we're supposed to take it seriously, that he is personally engaged on any of these issues. Like he's here, not like, sir, the, the inflation, uh, is, is, is real bad. And he's, he just like snaps back to 1978. It's like, well, what if we promised to, uh, amnesty all draft Dodgers?

Will that help us with the hippies? Well, long here's the vote for us. If we do that, yes, sir. Look, he should, he should go ahead and do that. Uh, just amnesty, like now say amnesty, uh, the current draft Dodgers, uh, just to confuse people do a little, you know, when it comes to acid, amnesty and abortion, I think all three should be safe, legal, but rare. Um, okay, so crises have piled up in ways that have at times made by the Biden White

House look flat footed, record inflation, high gas prices arise in COVID case numbers. And now a Texas school massacre that is one more horrific reminder that he has been unable to get Congress to pass legislation to curb gun violence. Democratic leaders are at a loss about how he can revive his prospects by November when midterm elections may cost his party control of Congress. I don't know what's required here said representative James Clyburn of South Carolina, who's endorsement in the 2020 primaries help rescue Biden's struggling candidacy. But I do know the poll numbers have been stuck where they are for far too long.

Congratulations asshole. Yes. Talk about getting what you wanted. Oh, yeah, just forget the idea that he would just be like, Oh, I'm concerned about this now. Motherfucker, like it's on you. It's like you, you're concerned. You do something about it.

He's your guy. I mean, he intervened to ensure that the party stayed in the hands of people who were operating on the same glad handing principles that constrained them from doing anything effectively that had run the party into the ground at that point. And yeah, this is you just got what you want to congratulate. I mean, again, they're all hoping that just that just like, because it's another chance something is going to change like Biden kept saying that the hilarious stuff behind the scenes.

We're all going to have an epiphany. He's still saying that. He's still saying that the about gun control, right? Yeah. The other day. They're going to come to their senses every time they come to their senses last week. And it's like, I honestly think that he's sent it brained enough and senile enough to believe that.

But I don't even think that your average MSNBC cycle believed that. But I think what they had to believe in is that when you get in there in game time conditions, you'll figure something out. You know, you'll drop a play Statue of Liberty, Hail Mary, West Wing style, you're going to get a buttonhook through the end zone and say, you know, that's the dream, like, OK, we're going to do some, we're going to play hardball. And then it all fell apart. And there is nothing there because the margins are not existent with the Republican Party

right there in total opposition. Like those are the game time conditions that make the sort of Clintonian politics that they are all practicing. Impossible. They cannot do what they used to be able to do. And Matt, you're totally right that the like the MSNBC brain people, like when we're responding to that like Biden quote, you called Mitch McConnell rational on gun control. Of course, they didn't believe it, but they defended it on the grounds like, look, you

know, in politics, like you can't insult your opponents. Yeah. You know, he's like his opposition is up against feelings. Yes. People talk about how Mitch McConnell is like this tactical genius. He could be he literally could be a fucking tortoise. He could be a tortoise who had an office and all he had to do like Homer Simpson, when he was like working from home is tap the button that says no, instead of yes, vent explosive

gases. No. That's all you have to do because he has a unified caucus and control of this fucking machinery. And they have a clear objective, don't let Republicans do anything. As long as Mitch gets like one or two leafs of iceberg lettuce to gnaw on every day, just to just swallow that he's fine. You cannot triangulate that.

No. And the entire premise of Clintonian Democratic politics that filled the gap left by the collapse of, you know, the old New Deal coalition and labor politics was through these through these baby splitting triangulated negotiations. And they got to all feel like pragmatic geniuses for figuring out how to make this machine work. And they all got praised as gods by Aaron Sorkin types. And you know, you can make an argument that given the conditions at the time where the electorate was, they were doing what the Democrats had to do to hold power.

But the thing is, they're still clinging to those strategies when the conditions have changed and made it impossible for them to work. So no matter how less senile the other Democrats are who like might not agree with Biden's fantasy of like that Republicans switching around. They're also still captured by just as deep a delusion about the conditions that we live on and about how politics works. Well, okay, like that's one strategy. But like, let me know, what are some new strategies, a West Wing shakeup?

Speculation is churning that Biden could shake up the West Wing staff, although that's not about to happen right away. Multiple people close to the White House said that they've heard the chief of staff, Ron Klain, will depart at some point after the midterms. Okay. It's not really a shakeup. The midterms are already open. I mean, like this thing, like unspoken on all this, is there like, which you don't want

to change. You don't want to, you don't want to rearrange deck chairs in mid-sync. Yeah. When you don't hit the bottom and then you can, it's all stabilized and you can rearrange the deck chairs to your heart's content. We're sending James Cameron down to fix the Democratic party and when it's, but yeah, like, you know, like the articles are like, you know, which could see his party lose control of Congress and the midterms like, does anyone believe, like they all accept

that? Like there's no way. Everyone knows that. Everybody knows that it is a, there is nothing, nothing that could happen that's going to stop the Republicans from. Every one of these articles that is now going to come out between now and election day and has all have already been coming out for months. These are all people setting up their alibis with the media.

That's it. Where was I and what was I doing when this thing that I know is going to happen happened so I can't be held responsible? All right. I mean, like this is just some speculation and how like, you know, who could come in, you know, blah, blah, blah. And he goes, sorry, and any assessment of Biden's performance needs to take into account the epic challenges he faced from the start.

They came in with the most daunting set of challenges arguably, they came in with the most daunting set of challenges arguably since Franklin D. Roosevelt, only then to be hit by a perfect storm of crises from Ukraine to inflation, to the supply chain, to baby formula, said Chris Whipple, the author of the book about White House chiefs of staff who is now writing a book about the Biden presidency. What's next? Why do wonders the same thing? Ukraine is one that's like, I'm sorry, this is another deal where you got what you asked

for. The Biden administration's diplomatic position on Ukraine and the conditions they imposed on Zelensky were basically guaranteed to provoke an invasion. So that's one where you got to go. I'm sorry. Once again, you got what you ordered perfectly as you wanted it on the fucking menu. What do you want? Stop complaining.

You're supposed, congratulations, you got your warrant Ukraine. It's a propaganda machine. You get to dump all this money into the defense. Now what are you going to do? Just complain about it. Just going to bitch about the thing I got. No, no, like this is, I mean, like this is their actual, their big W because, you know, they pulled out of Afghanistan, but like, oh, where does that $3 trillion in defense

spent like, you know, defense contractors? Oh, well, Ukraine war. Just give Javelin missiles to Nazi al-Qaeda for the next three years. No problem there. Awesome. Solve that problem. All these things are happening separately. There's no connection.

It's a bunch of, it's little hives of bureaucrats pursuing their bureaucratic objectives, which largely are, you know, in one direction, but have politically are totally in conflict and they have no buddy at the top who can coordinate them because there's no disciplinary mechanism to actually impose anything like an agenda on Democrats under any definition of that term. Under that, under the subhead managerial breakdowns, it says you're a middle rolling managerial breakdowns, a middle rolling series of calamities. Biden's feeling lately is that he just can't catch a break.

Biden is frustrated. If it's not one thing, it's another, I said the person, I said a person close to the president, an assumption. The president of the United States of America. At what point do you think that this job is not going to be one damn thing than another? You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps. Remember when Lincoln Shafi ran for president as a Democrat and he'd been a Republican, he'd been a liberal Republican, the last real liberal Republican in the Senate, but

he had some votes that were, you know, pro-conservative and he gets up there and they go, why did you vote for this? And he goes, you know, you got to understand, my dad had just died. I just got appointed to a Senate seat. I was sad. Like, Biden should be like, you got to get it, my old man. He kicked the bucket in 1962. I still remember it like a just today.

Like, he could take out the bow thing again, you know, I was like, the burn pits killed them, man. Yeah. Man, burn pits. He should get in touch with the Make-A-Wish Foundation and wish for some better messaging office. Because I says, an assumption baked into Biden's candidacy was that he would preside over a smoothly running administration by dint of his decades of experience in public office.

Yet there are signs of managerial breakdowns that have angered both him and his party. Biden is annoyed that he wasn't alerted sooner about the baby formula shortage. Okay, that's a lie. Biden is mad that he wasn't alerted sooner about baby formula period. He was just like, I thought it came from some of the titties, you know what? They can make that with science now? That's when. He goes, and that he got his first briefing in the past month, even though the crisis

had long been in the making. His nominee to the head of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Robert Califf, told Congress last week that the agency was sluggish and that it had made suboptimal decisions as parents hunted for formula on empty storage shelves. Beyond policy, Biden is unhappy about a pattern that has developed inside the West Wing. He makes a clear succinct statement only to have aides rush to explain that he actually meant something else. The so-called cleanup campaign he has told his advisors undermines him and smothers the

authenticity that has fueled his rise. Worse, it feeds a Republican talking point that he's not fully in command. The issue came to a head when Biden ad-libbed during a speech in Poland that Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot remain in power. Within minutes, Biden's aides tried to walk back his comments, saying he hadn't called for Putin's removal and that U.S. policy was unchanged. Biden was furious that his remarks were being seen as unreliable, arguing that he speaks genuinely and reminding his staff that he's the one who's president.

This is a situation where you've got to sympathize with the staff here. The staff just needs to get out there and say, the thing about Biden is you've got to take him seriously not literally. Biden's angst is ripping through the party. Democratic lawmakers are sparring among themselves and blaming the White House for their dim prospects in November. Representative Stephanie Murphy, a Democrat of Florida, said the White House has failed to put forward what she called an intellectually honest plan to combat inflation.

If I sound frustrated, it's because I hear from my constituents, Murphy said. They're struggling. This is not a time for political games. It is not a time for finding boogeymen. For Biden's frustrations, it says here, Biden has vented the aides about not getting credit from Americans or the news media for actions he believes have helped the country, particularly on the economy. Unemployment rates have dropped to below 4 percent pre-pandemic levels, but polling indicates

that Americans believe the economy is in bad shape. Biden grouses that Republicans aren't getting their share of the blame for legislative gridlock in Congress while he's repeatedly faulted for not getting his agenda passed. He's the president. He's the decider. The same kind of loose attention that people mostly pay to politics that makes them casually associate the president in power with whatever is happening. You can say that's unfair, and that's what he's complaining about, but it's that same

attitude towards politics that lets a fucking guy like Joe Biden end up president in the first place. Exactly. Exactly. Once again, these are the politics that have allowed you to flimflam your way into the fucking White House on some fucking fake Irish bullshit, some fucking glad-handing VFW song and dance. Part of that is that these people think the president's in charge. Well, now you're in charge of that.

What do you even know about it? What fucking whining? Again, you said the fuck up. This kind of frustration map that you're talking about, I see this from Democrat, MSNBC, brain people. Brain people, whether it's Texas or guns or baby formula, when people are just angrily just say, do something, do something, this is what we elected you for, the stock response I'm seeing a lot of now is, it's a shame America stopped educating kids in civics.

Because if everyone took civics classes, they would understand that the president really can't do anything. If you were educated, you would know that. You would stop complaining. I just started going on here in the article, it says, the president has also told AIDS. He doesn't think enough Democrats go on television to defend him. I'm sorry, this is Donald Trump shit. This is Trump raid.

I'm not seeing it on the TV. They're being very unfaithful to me. He goes, a particular sore spot is his slumping poll numbers. He's mystified that his approval rating has dropped to a level approaching that of his president predecessor, Donald Trump, ranked by historians as one of the worst presidents in history. He's now lower than Trump and he's really twisted about it. Another person close to the White House said, I feel like in any team sport, when you're

paying attention to the stats and the Hall of Fame and everything like that, you're taking your eyes off the game. Honestly, this is glory boy behavior. This is not lunch pail nine to five president. And from Joe Biden? It's not. It's a lunch pail president. It's supposed to be about the W's.

It's supposed to be about the rings, not about individual statistics. Yeah. Jimmy Butler, 45 points in game six. Where was he in game seven? Celtics in the finals now. There you go. That's a diva style presidency. Wait, this is really good.

A few weeks ago, Biden started employing a midterm election tactic that has been a go-to for sitting presidents, villainized the opposition. He has sought to tether Republicans to Trump's make America a great again agenda. But Biden has been leaning on... Oh, it's a mega. Yes, Biden has been leaning on White House aides to come up with a message that captures the stark choice voters face. Biden himself thought up the phrase ultra-mega, which he and other Democrats have started

using in the hope of drawing a clear choice. How are they letting this guy wither away in the White House? Why aren't they putting him front and center every day with this message? It's like, wait a second, like, how do you have to do work to tie the Republicans to Trump's agenda? They literally, they say, if everyone is running for office right now as a Republican is just literally saying, I'm ultra-mega. And they've just found there's the limit to how much people care about that once you

get to a sufficient level of polarization in the electorate. They're going to vote for Republicans no matter what. They no longer care about your notions of political decency. The people who do is a very small and shrinking cadre. And when the economy and shit is bad, the party in power gets fucking owned for it. That means the people are not going to, they don't, they don't have the, like, it's only really Democrats who have that and partisan ones who are never going to vote for Republican anyway and you can always depend on and therefore basically meaningless when you're talking about

actually like building power. You assume them, like they have these ideas connecting Trump to the notion of evil and horror. The Republicans imagining, like representing his return. That's just Democrats and you can't win, certainly can't win fucking midterms with that. The phrase tested well and polling reviewed by the way, I'm sorry, this is like death of Stalin shit.

Yeah. They're just like, yes, sir. We've tested the ultra maga, like the people, the people very much like this idea. The people are weeping about ultra maga and begging for your help to save them from ultra maga. And it says, Biden should just do like Trump's stories where he's like, I was, I was talking to a guy the other day, a real Mac and he, I said, Republican, they're all, they're all ultra maga and he, strong guy, biggest guy I've ever seen started weeping in front of

me and said, sir, Joe, please protect us from the ultra maga. We're going to folks, we're going to get, uh, we're going to get Gamera. He's going to be friends all children, Gamera will bring many baby, baby formulas, the way that the Biden administration ends with like the way he's just totally morphing into Trump one in power, just this impotent senile man, baby, just banging a spoon on a fucking high chair. Uh, is one day he comes out for like his, his, uh, uh, state of the union and it's like the end of, uh, 1984.

He's got the full Trump hairdo, he's replaced his awful fucking plugs with the complete main and he looks identical and he's bronze, he's like fucking cheeto colored and it's just like that is it. That is the apotheosis of the American presidency. And then right at, right at that moment, the nukes fly and we all get to go out on a nice high note listening to macho man, this might be terrifying, but this is narratively satisfying. I will accept this. I'm going to do the jacking off to you guys, it's macho macho man as I see lower Manhattan

just turned into an orb of sunlight, just the sun, like Akira macho macho man. I want to do the little hams, I'm just jacking off guys. I'm sucking them off. I'll just do it in time. I love it. Uh, just starting to finish out this paragraph, it says here, uh, the, the, the phrase, the phrase tested well in polling reviewed by the White House, but it also had the unintended effect of firing up the Trump faithful for merchandisers have found a hot market for

ultra MAGA t-shirts. He shares like these things are like tied to each other and it's like a dialectical relationship and you can't advantage. You can't pump up one without pumping up the other one. He shares the view that we haven't landed on a winning midterm message at third person close to the White House said of the president and he's putting a lot of pressure on people to figure out what that is. I'm going to fix the things people get back to me.

Now this is, this is leadership. This is delegation of power and responsibility. Fix the things. Please. See, I love the word messaging, which is in the first like sentence of this article, whenever I like dip into, yeah, like MSNBC or like what, check on in on the, the pod save guys, all they're talking, it's never about, wonder if we did something, wonder if we had an accomplishment, wonder if we changed the, the, the material conditions.

No, it's messaging. The messaging is never good enough. We're never conveying to the, how good things already are. We all, people who are smart and pay attention to the damn news, no, the things are actually really good. The smart, the smart knowledge, the real like truth beyond the veil is that things are objectively going well and the administration is objectively doing well, but we have all of these foolish blinders that we won't want to see it and it's up to us, the geniuses, the mentats of

the Democratic party to somehow fool these idiots into finally seeing the reality that's in front of them. And it can kind of go into really ghoulish places. Like, you know, after the, the, the row memo leaked, you know, I was seeing some people in those quarters being like, you know, obviously this terrible atrocious for women's rights, but the messaging, our base, when we can get them scared about these things, if we can keep messaging, how bad things will get if you don't keep voting for us, that will actually put us in a really good position for the midterms.

We can just talk about how, like basically just scare our voters as, as part of the ban. Because that's the only button that they've been able to press for the last 20 years. That's all they can do. Okay. Here we go. I've got a winning message for the Democrats to the midterms and 2024. It's this, the Democrats, we are living in the best of all possible worlds.

Yeah. Yes. Dr. Pangloss is the new VP. Get rid of fucking Kamala Harris. Of course, the funny thing is, is that it is in fact that fantasy of like an objective reality of, of like democratic competence and, and success, policy success, like the idea of a, of a upward trajectory. That's the actual propaganda fantasy that that's the actual veil.

And it's actually just the people who are not like literally hypnotizing themselves every day so that they can go to fucking sleep, given what they do for a living, uh, can actually see, no, it's actually bad. And we don't actually have to have terribly sophisticated understandings of the issues. We don't actually have to bury ourselves into the wonk papers to see that you do that, to enchant yourself, like fucking Ezra Klein in the New York time saying, you guys, you just got to get less lawyerly. You just got to stop lawyering up so much.

And then maybe we'll build some tunnels. Yeah. I mean, I guess like, well, I guess my closing thoughts about this is like, you know, what is the problem here is like, you know, as they seem to acknowledge, like, why did people vote for Joe Biden? Why did he win? Well, it's because they were sick of Trump and, you know, like what he said, like nothing will fundamentally change.

It was this idea that people were just tired of all the weirdness, uh, you know, like, they wanted to return to normalcy. They wanted to go back to normal. Here is the problem that the Democrats face and the Biden midterms, the next presidential election, just, just everything in general. Since Biden has become president, things have gotten weirder and weirder and weirder. It has not gotten any, even one iota more normal. And in fact, it has gotten exponentially stranger with every passing day.

And people just don't see a way out of that. So like to return to Trump, like if he runs again or the Republicans, like, like Trump's 40 years in the White House, that looks more normal. That was normal. That was, that's now the new normal. So there's people who want to go back to that. Perhaps the winning message for some kind of a new figure on the left, maybe a Democrat, maybe some kind of independent is just really going, let's get weird with it.

Things are already weird. Let's see how weird we can get. Let's get fun weird at least. Yeah. It's like nauseous, kind of creepy weird. Yeah. Well, uh, you know, good luck to them. I mean, honestly, I absolutely just think, uh, let me know how it goes.

I seriously think, though, that like, you know, so like Trump, he's probably going to run again. But like, you know, who, who are the Democrats going to turn to to write the ship? Like, like who's walking through that door? It ain't Kamala. It ain't Joe. It ain't Joe. But you know, who's no who's still out there, though, our girl, our girl hill dog.

You think she has stopped thinking for a second that she could still be president? Like they're going to turn to her to save them again. Like, she's going to go because then third time's the charm, third time's the charm. She could then stand for like a time of even more normality for the older voters to think of. Like, hey, remember me before things got weird the first time and, you know, like the last couple of years has proved anything. It's that like anyone who offers predictions about the future is a fool and doesn't know

what they're talking about. But I just, I just have a feeling that we have not seen the last of hill dog as a national political figure running for president or being president. Yeah. She's got that Tom Brady thing. It's like she can't, she can't leave a conversation. I mean, look who is one, you know, she just has to feel like if I could, I'm so much smarter and more driven than these idiots that if I put myself to it, I could do this, but we'll

see. I don't know. We shall see. Yeah, just the future. It's where we are all going to live. Yeah. Good luck. Wear a helmet.

All right, guys. Let's wrap it up for today's show. Just hope everyone, like I said, had a great Memorial Day weekend and we'll have an even better summer. Let's go. Absolutely. Let's go. All right.

Cheers, everybody. Bye-bye. All right? Bye-bye. Bye-bye. You'll be in my toes