Grubstakers - Episode 40: 2018 Election Special Episode!

Episode Date: November 5, 2018

This week we cover the financial backers of the upcoming election. Sean sniffles his way through this episode as we place our bets for who will win the United States Senate Elections. Enjoy!

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Hello, welcome back to Grubstakers. Sean P. McCarthy here, joined by... Yogi Poywoldt. Steve Jeffries. Andy Palmer. And on this, Grubstakers, the podcast about billionaires today, we have a special election episode for you. That is, of course, celebrating the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. Hell yeah, daddy.

The only candidate in the election endorsed by this podcast uh because he's going to bring investment opportunities to brazil we we haven't really talked about it on the podcast but we do actually make most of our money from strip mining the amazon rainforest so uh there's a slight conflict but we did want to disclose that to our leftist listeners and uh his new finance minister paulo guedes um has said that he is going to implement pinochet style reforms which i assume means hyperinflation and uh shooting leftists in a soccer stadium yes he is going to provide subsidies to build more soccer stadiums yeah but yes it's just gonna how they're gonna kick up kick off their like world cup placing matches it's just shooting lines of leftists love to

normalize draconian economic reform namar comes out for like the ceremonial first bullet in a leftist and it's like played on a big screen at Chicago University. An unfortunate situation in Brazil. Bolsonaro, probably a neo-fascist, won about 55% of the presidential vote. Let's not judge the actual contents of the book before we open it. He won about 55% of the vote. He will be sworn in in January. There will certainly be violence, at least against, you know, favela dwellers and these kinds of things. And there's already a good deal of violence that people have been reporting, basically from his supporters,

have been assaulting people in the streets already. I wonder what country is also like that. We'll never know. But wait a minute. What about the investment opportunities? What does this mean for your portfolio? But yeah, I mean,

it's just something. I'm investing in two by fours, two by four futures. It was interesting when I was in like, skin hooks. When I was in San Paulo with my wife, like you go through, we get it.

You have a wife. Yeah. You go through like the rich residential neighborhoods and, you know, like there's like these beautiful houses, but all of them have razor wire and cameras all around them to the point where it's like kind of conspicuous. So what you're saying is that Bolsonaro is the new founding father of Brazil. He's going to bring them the purge. But yeah, it's just something where he won the election there. He'll be sworn in in January. And, you know, best of luck to all the leftist comrades and those people in Brazil.

And hopefully things are okay. But, you know, I mean, use a VPN is what I've been told. Might want to switch to an anonymous Twitter AVI It's been nice Having the journalism Of Glenn Greenwald Is our boy safe? Is anyone safe?

He's in like a gated community in Rio I mean they're rich I'd say like well He is an American citizen But he's in Brazil so that he doesn't have to come to America like I think if he were executed there wouldn't be much of a fuss from the government but okay so we clearly endorsed

I want to use the death of Glenn Greenwald to talk about why suicide is a preventable tragedy and if you're thinking about shooting yourself multiple times please talk to somebody but yes so again best of luck to those in Brazil but but this week we're kind of I gotta I gotta clarify that of course we the Bolsonaro thing was a joke, but there is one candidate that we unironically support, and that is a fellow who didn't make it through the primaries, but we still support him. Who's this, Eddie?

Hi, I'm Don Blankenship, candidate for U.S. Senate, and I approve this message. Swamp Captain Mitch McConnell has created millions of jobs for China people. While doing so, Mitch has gotten rich. In fact, his China family has given him tens of millions of dollars. Mitch's swamp people are now running false negative ads against me. They are also childishly calling me despicable and mentally ill. The war to drain the swamp and create jobs for West Virginia people has begun. I will beat Joe Manchin and ditch cocaine Mitch for So that was an ad cut by Don Blankenship running for the Senate in West Virginia. He ran in a Republican primary. He unfortunately lost the primary, but you can still write him in.

If you're in West Virginia, you can write in Don Blankenship. And ditch cocaine Mitch. Something you didn't see because you were listening to the ad, but it ends after he talks about Mitch McConnell's China people family. He holds up his two white children for the final very subtle shot to the camera. Who look like they're about to audition to be the new prussian blue and then like the other thing about don blankenship is he was the ceo of massey energy where uh there was an explosion in 2010 in a west virginia mine that he owned where 29 people died and he served a year in federal prison for that because he cut corners on safety and all of this stuff so again it's like i mean

he would have been such a perfect republican candidate you know like again a guy who murdered 29 people and then talks about cocaine mitch and his china person wife which it turns out he got the cocaine mitch thing because what was it his uh mitch mcconnell's father-in-law owned a shipping company where they found nine pounds of cocaine 90 pounds of cocaine yes uh the chow family uh they found a gymnast of cocaine and that's why he calls him cocaine mitch um but yeah so uh interestingly like uh we'll get into kind of the 11 competitive Senate races for the U.S. midterm. We'll have a small bracket. I am going to make the prediction now that the Republicans will lose that race because they didn't nominate Don Blankenship. Because I think in the Trump era, we can safely say that the funniest candidate possible will win any given election.

I mean, the way he says swamp people, it sounds like... China people. He's saying... It sounds like he's just talking about a different species of human. Like, it doesn't feel like... He said... Call him Swamp Captain.

But so, we'll get back to the 11 competitive Senate races, but I did just want to give you a quick little overview of the U.S. midterms. What are the duties of a swamp captain? Like is it for one of those fan boats? Just

tell people to just you work on the allocation of the alligator stick to beat them back from the fan boats. You do the fishing where you put your hand in a hole and then the fish grabs onto your hand. You know know noodling yes that's cold yeah if you're a swamp captain you wait until austerity hits brazil and then you become the fastest president um but so um just quick little overview uh if you haven't had this beaten into your heads yet um

the uh u.s midterms are this Tuesday, you know, vote and all that rah-rah. If you're Billy Eichner, tell your bellhop to vote. If you didn't see that shitty tweet, I encourage everyone to tell Billy Eichner to vote if you see him on Twitter. Just constantly remind Billy Eichner to vote. In lieu of a tip,

I am urging you to take an hour out of your day to support Bob Menendez in New Jersey. If Billy accosts you on the street, tell him to vote. Yes. So, we are also millionaires urging you to vote, but we made our money by strip mining the

Amazon rainforest. But, so, the Democrats need to flip about 23 republican seats to win the house there's 23 republican seats that are in districts that hillary clinton won uh there's according to new york times 75 competitive house seats total so um you know 538 and all these other prediction sites they're all giving it like more than 80 percent that the democrats will take back the house uh it's closer i think 538 has it at like 17% that the Democrats take the Senate. So most likely outcome of this election on Tuesday, Democrats take the House, they don't take the Senate.

But we'll talk about the Senate races. Ironically, we will be discussing democratic elections for a completely anti-democratic body that exists only to block democracy in this country but so we'll kind of go through our bracket of the 11 uh uh senate races how we all think they'll turn out and i guess like we should just kind of mention when we started grub stakers you know there's like a lot of uh current events news podcasts there's a lot of good ones too you know and then there's also love it or leave it or whatever else. But essentially, we started Grubstakers because we were doing, you know, Democracy Later is like your typical current events. And there's a lot of good ones. But

the problem is essentially, the episodes get old, they get completely old, like a week or two after the fact. So we usually try to do these billionaire episodes that last longer. But, you know, today, we just wanted to kind of talk about the election. And, in order to keep this current long after, Andy has promised that he will start beef with another podcast today. All right. So that's what we tune in for. So stick around to the end when Andy will just drop the hammer on some other leftist

podcast, some other infighting that we all secretly desire to tune in for and listen for. Very exciting. This kind of slander that'll make this episode stand the test of time. Can you do that for us, Andy? Someone said they liked my cartoon. But before we get to the bracket, Andy did do some research on some of the billionaires that we have covered pouring money into different elections for this U uh, uh, elections for this, uh, U S election on Tuesday. So, yeah. So I, um, I went through, uh, essentially

the FEC's, uh, donor list to kind of look into who was, who of our old favorites was donating to what, um, for instance, we have, uh, Elon Musk, who is a big fan of Dianne Feinstein, uh, which is interesting because in that race, Dianne Feinstein is not running against a Republican. She's running against Kevin DeLeon because of their primary system where the top two, uh, recipients of votes goes on to the general. And so, yeah. And so Kevin DeLeon is actually running to the left of Senator Feinstein, which isn't hard to do. So basically, Elon Musk is supporting the Republican in the

California Senate race. He's also supporting Kevin McCarthy, who is a Republican Protect the House PAC, which is a Republican-leaning PAC, and then also the Democratic Midterm Victory Fund. But now, did he make these decisions before or after he broke the internet and smoked marijuana on Joe Rogan's podcast? Because that's very important. Sadly, I think most of these were before he talked to Elon about quantum mechanics. Kevin McCarthy made the bold choice to always drive a Tesla to see his mistress. So that's really solidified the Elon Musk support behind him.

He's also never been left home alone. It's a Home Alone reference. The kid's name is Kevin McCarthy in that movie. Let's move on. Our boy Jeff Bezos, he supports Cory Gardner, who's a Republican. He also supports Murray Cantwell, who is a Democratic senator in Washington State. He also supports Maria Cantwell, who is a Democratic senator in Washington State. He also supports Orrin Hatch. I'm sure she will crack down

on Amazon's abusive practices in the city of Seattle. Yes. Maria Cantwell, who I've heard from an aide to Senator Patty Murray, a mutual friend of ours. She said, you know, Patty Murray's great. Maria Cantwell is a huge bitch.

Hard words, not ox. Yeah, yeah. Fun little inside story. Just as we promised, Andy will be starting beef with the Maria Cantwell podcast. And then he also has Amazon Pack, which pretty much supports everyone who is an incumbent. If you look to the party breakdown on Open Secrets, Amazon PAC put $162,000 into Democratic campaigns and $236,000 into Republican campaigns.

I wonder if that says anything about how money functions in our democracy. No, I think it just means that you know they they support bipartisanship i think so over at amazon uh similarly mark zuckerberg has facebook pack that uh face pack face pack has given 103 000 to democrats and 131 000 to republicans uh well that's good At least an extra two grand to the Democrats. I'm happy that he's on our side. Oh, but it's primarily Republican backing. Mark.

David Geffen delightfully gave money to Louise Slaughter, who is now dead. Well, her last name was Slaughter and she's dead now? Yeah, yeah. What a coincidence. Goes around, comes around. I just like that Facebook pack is probably the only corporate pack that knows where you are at all times. And discloses that to advertisers.

And finally, Jerry Seinfeld did not contribute to anybody. Aw. Yeah, nor did Mark Cuban, sadly. What's the deal with all this corruption? The two-party system is a lie. Morbo Sonaro is uncorruptible. He will bring order to Rio. Can I do 30 minutes at this mic?

I'm workshopping my next 40. You get on the train. I stole this bit from George Carlin. So, in the spirit of also big money going into different campaigns, David Sirota has been doing some... Wait, wait. Jerry Seinfeld didn't donate any money

because he disagrees with the voting age being 18. He was taking photos in the park of voters. I'm sorry. Go on. So David Cerota has been doing some reporting on money and politics, which I figured we should stick in here since that's kind of our wheelhouse. Right. He's been reporting specifically on an amendment and an initiative going down in Colorado where there's Initiative 112, which bans it. It bans basically oil drilling, shale drilling, that kind of thing from being within a certain amount of within a certain distance of like where people live or like public spaces. And then there's Amendment 74, which is essentially a private property amendment.

And as they report it, it will radically alter the law to give oil and gas companies more power to sue state and local governments for property losses if those governments restrict or regulate fossil fuel exploration for any reason, health, safety, climate change, anything. Any reason? Yeah. And so basically... We're definitely going to fix this climate change in the next decade, right? Yeah. Yeah, of course.

And the trick here is that even if Amendment 12 or proposition 12 passes, because amendment 74 is a Colorado constitutional amendment, it will supersede initiative 112. And so rendering it completely ineffective. And so it's interesting. Sarota also found the main supporters of pro-74 and anti-112 campaigns. Basically, the anti-112 campaign, they have a website that is called Protect Colorado. That's what it's called? Yeah, Protect Colorado, and they say reckless energy setbacks being pushed by extreme out-of-state groups would wipe out thousands of jobs and devastate Colorado's economy for years to come. Stand with Colorado communities. Vote no on Proposition 112.

If devastating Colorado is what it takes to save the planet, I'm all for it, personally. No, it's worth noting they talk about extreme out-of-state companies, but Protect Colorado, this website, has gotten a combined $13.7 million from Texas-based Andarco Petroleum and Noble Energy. And also, more than half of their money comes from Andarco Petroleum, Noble Energy, PDC Energy, and Extraction Oil and Gas, those four energy companies. Oh, here's a chairman of one of those gas companies. Here's a drop from him. How can fossil fuels be causing global warming when dinosaurs never existed? Well, they do have an FAQ with questions like, how important is oil and natural gas to Colorado's economy? Why do we need fracking?

Does fracking contaminate water? Of course not. Does fracking pollute the air? No, I frack my water before I drink it every day. Yeah. There are no questions like who's paying for this. You know, give us like 10 years and that will be a trend in Silicon Valley. Microfracking is the new way to survive. On one of them, it was, does fracking pollute the air? And the answer is like clean burning natural gas does fracking pollute the air and the answer is like clean burning natural gas from fracking helped curve u.s carbon emissions to 20 year lows in 2013 which is like straight up hank hill yeah like propane burns clean and smooth

well propane does so let's not talk about propane's different yeah Paying is different, yeah. And so they've also been able to wire money and directly funding TV spots. And there's the other Pro-Amendment 74 website, which is the Committee for Colorado Shared Heritage. And whenever you hear the word heritage, basically just a Confederate flag should come up in your head. Like anyone who uses the word heritage is probably, if not a white supremacist, they do want to kill someone you love.

Their thing is safeguarding private property from unjust or unfair confiscation is at the core of Colorado values. See why we're supporting Amendment 74 to protect all Colorado property owners. And like their images are of like farmers tilling their fields so that apparently that fields that are going to be taken away by the government. Oh. And yeah, it's basically a libertarian's wet dream where you can sue over any, I guess you can just make up a number of like potential loss of profits and then sue the state over that. And they've been pumping money.

You can't do that already. I mean, we're going to, we're going to make it happen soon um and so yeah there's just been an avalanche of money going into this and whether it will pass uh anyone's guess uh or which one will or will not pass um but it's one to keep an eye on certainly uh. Hey, I know this is a quick aside. I'm not trying to ruin the flow or anything, but have you guys seen the Diamond and Silk black duo

that's pro-Trumps? They created a movie. Do you guys know anything about this? I know they testified in front of the House or Senate. Yeah, you know what's crazy? Because Mark Zuckerberg, emphasis on the Berg part, was infringing on their free speech. I just noticed that...

Actually worse than the Rohingya genocide. Every single, you know, Black conservative Republican are all living very comfortably. And it's very funny to me that Black people that live in the suburbs that haven't dealt with as much adversity as they're denying exists in the world are very uh pro-conservative values very funny to me i mean it's an easy grift it's like why does tommy lauren go on tv and make you know x million to just like be an attractive blonde lady who says black people need to die you know know, it's easy money. I mean, you don't do actual manual labor of any kind and you have a media lifestyle.

There was this Arizona comic, a black guy who, I don't remember his name at this moment, but he was doing a, like, basically a Republican comedian tour and, like, the tickets were going for 45 a pop and I was like, man, I do not agree with their values, but those ticket prices, I could afford a lot more shit. If I didn't care about how the world existed tomorrow,

I could make a lot more money. Oh, yeah. $40 if you're an ICE agent. Oh, yeah, and I guess in relation to the Colorado thing, we should also briefly mention Prop 10. It was the rent control ballot initiative in California. Interesting. I believe the Guardian, if I'm remembering correctly, but among others, have reported on BlackRock.

We did an episode about them. America's largest landlord and also, of course, a financial company is using investor money to fund the opposition to Prop 10. Also the most dead-end plot line in the show Lost. Probably 10th most dead-end plot line. But Steve, did you know any more about Prop 10 that you wish to elaborate on? As you know, BlackRock has started issuing rental-backed securities. Hell yes. Yes.

So I guess rent control might fuck with that. Yeah. I hope that tanks the economy. It's just like California passes just a soft rent control ballot initiative and then all of a sudden

it turns out all of everyone's pensions went into rental backed securities. This is why we have to be able to fuck California renters so that the economy won't tank because of BlackRock.

I thought Prop 10 was Carrot Top's 10th joke. I thought that's what was going on. People just turned off the episode. Can I say one interesting thing I noticed about the stock market? No. Related to the midterms. Yeah.

So since the beginning of this year, the likelihood of a divided Congress, one where a party owns each house, has increased. And at the same time, the stock prices for a lot of the big healthcare and medical device and drug companies have also gone up. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. So, like, the likelihood of a divided Congress helps them basically avoid questions about, like, what's going to happen to the ACA? Mm-hmm. And, like, the individual mandate and all that right like

the health care companies want divided they want to divide congress because repealing the hca might be pretty bad for them i guess with the individual mandate or that type of thing or is that yeah so the individual mandate has supposedly been undone by the trump tax bill like that hasn't come to effect yet but supposedly like the pre-existing condition that's another big thing that democrats are running on somewhat effectively it seems like so they would prefer that the status quo remains basically right but then also like the subsidies are like basically they're you know that puts off medicare for all of her so if the republicans can't struggle with subsidies, then they'll stay in business.

That's actually a pretty good segue into our Senate bracket because I wanted to start with Indiana. You have that drop of Joe Donnelly. But so basically, we've got 11 competitive Senate races here, and we're going to bet on how they all turn out. We'll report the results and who won next week. But if you want to play along at home, feel free to bet on these Senate races

and let us know your brackets. Real money. And yes, we'll give you some of our fucking Amazon resource money. Rainforest, not the website. We do not support the Amazon company. But we do support strip mining. But so I wanted to start with Indiana because we mentioned this guy, Joe Donnelly. I think he's a pretty good example of the kind of Democrat running in red state where it's just kind of like a corporate Democrat that's

like somehow the lesser of two evils or whatever. And we talked about him on the Bill Ackman episode, Bill Ackman, billionaire who invested in a pharmaceutical company called Valiant, which was in addition to doing just straight up fraud, was doing the legal thing where they would buy up drugs, life-saving drugs, jack up the prices several hundred or even thousand percent. And so Joe, Bill Ackman was dragged before a Senate hearing and a Democrat, Joe Donnelly, really laid into him on behalf of working people. Isopryl was $21.83 for 10 five milliliter vials. It's now seventeen thousand nine hundred and one dollars that's an that's in about a year and a half time why would you not recommend to the board that you know over a 30% increase for one year I would think that's that's a

pretty good return rate why don't you charge three thousand for that look at something we'll discuss tomorrow. You can stop it there. But yes, that is your Democratic Party. They will hold drug prices increases to only 30% annually. And I think that really incorporates, you know, like a lot of these corporate Democrats who are running in states that Donald Trump won, and they are vulnerable in the Senate.

It's also pure-ass capitalist ideology, where it's like, well, they have to make profits. Right. You know, doing absolutely nothing. Like, again, these are buying existing drugs and then making money by jacking up the prices. It's entirely rent-seeking. It literally kills people.

It's gouging. But, you know, Joe Donnelly, the champion of the working man, is going to ensure that it's only 30% instead of 3,000%. You're forgetting the X factor, though. Lucy Brenton, the libertarian candidate. Oh, yeah.

5% in the latest poll. Oh. Oh. Yeah. So that could be a takeaway from Republicans. Oh, so she's going to. She could split the Republican vote somewhat. She's going to rise.

That could override the Democrat shittiness. But, yes. My man ross perot so in indiana it's a donald trump state uh you just heard the democrat incumbent senator joe donnelly he's running against a former state legislator and businessman mike braun interestingly enough mike braun is multi-millionaire from an auto parts company that uh sells mostly made in china-China products. So he, of course, supports all these outsourcing subsidies and doesn't really employ any U.S. manufacturing capabilities. The PC term is China people products.

He's really dodged a bullet not running against Don Blankenship. But so they've made a point of Mike Braun's company has their employees on a health insurance plan with a $10,000 deductible. Wow. Which is like, I mean, it's insane, the idea that you will ever get to use your health insurance at that level.

Yeah, I have a $2,000 deductible and it's already a joke like um but we did kind of mention this on the um uh the walmart episode but uh mike braun again running for senate as the republican nominee in indiana he also has a trucking company and just quoting from the ap over the past decade workers have sued in west virginia oklahoma and california alleging they were forced to work long hours in unsafe conditions and denied overtime pay, meal times, and breaks. In 2014, a West Virginia driver alleged he was forced to falsify log books

to conceal time spent on the road that exceeded federal regulations that limit driving time to 11 hours per day. The AP says Mike Braun regularly demanded truckers work 16 to 18 hour day which is of course how Tracy Morgan yeah made several hundred million more dollars than he already had but yes so getting hit by a truck more profitable than making 30 Rocks? Oh, yeah. Infinitely more. Oh, shit.

It does not take years. It's also more entertaining for spectators. It's surprisingly less racist. But, yes. Say for the record that I like 30 Rocks. Yeah. No, I think 30 Rocks is fine. I jumped the shark at one point, but who doesn't knows I think it's surprisingly racist That people don't talk about

But let's move on Oh you mean the only character That's a success on it Is a black guy That can say nonsense constantly Yeah sure that's a great Show for everyone to enjoy Yogi you might like this place

Called Left Twitter I think your critiques of Tina Fey Have a certain resonance there But so essentially We support call-out culture uh but so you know i mean that kind of encapsulates all of this where you have joe donnelly again shitty corporate democrat oh also he uh we talked about this he voted to roll back dodd frank so he would get you know the financial industry money um and uh you know he

only wants to raise your drug prices 30 annually and then you have a guy who's like somehow worse because he's become a millionaire entirely through exploitation and abuse and uh extremely dangerous conditions forced on his truck drivers um but I predict that joe donnelly will win in indiana and uh would you guys like to register your predictions for this race i will yeah i think the republican will win all right because of lucy brenton our girl was gonna break up the race oh is that the libertarian yeah all right uh yogi andy i'm going for the libertarian i think I think she can pull the money out of the way. Wild card, baby. Yogi putting a strong mark on his bracket early. Andy, you got a prediction?

Green. All right. Green party winning in Indiana. Andy Palmer. Be the change you want to see in the world. You heard it here first. Look, it's not getting talked about, but Angela Merkel just got pushed out. She's not going to seek re-election in 2020 because in the german state of hessen the green party outplayed the social democrats

and basically torpedoed her coalition government so what is this what are the implications for the german state of indiana yeah the Green Party's on the rise. Okay. I'm sure there's a lot of Germanic descendants in Indiana. Andy Palmer predicting that the $20,000 budget of the Green Party will drag it over the finish line in this $100 million Senate race. If they can do it in Germany, they can do it here. The CDU party leadership is at stake, and it on india indiana voters yeah i would have otherwise

i would have supported cdu in indiana you know green party only survives on honey mustard and pretzels so they're they're very we're the remnant of the east german stasi government you mean walmart um moving right along yes moving right along uh that brings us to west virginia where of course we mentioned the funniest man ever to run for senate uh the racist who has killed 29 minors and coined the term cocaine mitch which mitch mcconnell has apparently talked about like he became more relatable when like his twitter his whatever fucking dipshit unfuckable millennials he has working for his twitter account like they tweeted out some image of him being photoshopped into Narcos

to appropriate cocaine Mitch. How would that ever be considered a good thing to do? Well, apparently it made him more relatable, according to him. I mean, it was a little funny, but then you remember that it's Mitch McConnell's team and it feels gross. I want his head photoshopped on the tortoise that has the head in Breaking Bad. That, I think, would have been a better move. They photoshopped him onto China's president, Xi Jinping. But, so, unfortunately, Don Blankenship lost the Republican primary,

and instead, Joe Manchin will be running against West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrissey and interestingly like again if you pay attention to politics you know that Joe Manchin is a garbage Democrat corrupt all this stuff but somehow Patrick Morrissey also manages to be worse just a interesting thing his wife worked as a lobbyist for Cardinal Health. We've kind of talked about this a bit. Cardinal Health is one of the big three opiate distributors. There's three in this country, McKesson, Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen.

And these are the three who essentially, I think they control more than 90% of the opiate pill market. And they just created the heroin epidemic. Like, there's no way around that. They get their pills from, say, Purdue Pharma, then they just send them out uh to pill mills like they'll send a million pills to some pharmacy with like a hundred residents or whatever i mean and this happened all over the country where it's like just so obvious that these people are like just pill mills or just selling them to dealers or whatever um so his wife was a lobbyist on, for,

I think it's pretty ill how they pay a lot of their bills with the pill mills. His wife, Patrick Morrissey's wife was a lobbyist for Cardinal Health on opiate issues. He himself also lobbied for a health, the healthcare distribution management association that represents drug wholesalers, including Cardinal Health. And so basically the thing is West Virginia has really been ground zero for

the heroin epidemic. And again, these people became rich by fueling the heroin epidemic. So in addition to the fact that they didn't nominate the funniest candidate, I think the Republicans will lose because they have done an effective job tying him to the heroin epidemic, and people obviously are fucked up about this. There's a PBS documentary where Joe Manchin's stupid face, he's talking to West Virginia, I believe, middle schoolers,

and it's one of the craziest things I've ever seen because this middle schooler tells him that He's like I understand how hard it's been ever since the federal government took the mining jobs away from me If I had my way I'd put all of you back in the mines So this middle schooler tells Joe Manchin that yes my father has become addicted to heroin and Oxycontin and he abuses my mother repeatedly and forces her to inject heroin

or these kinds of things and again this is a child telling the US Senator this and Joe Manchin in his dumb face is like well is he out of the family now? And this child without missing a beat goes, well, he's dead. He killed my mother by injecting her with heroin and giving her an overdose,

and then he killed himself. And then you just see Joe Manchin's stupid politician face try to give an answer for this fucking child. And I mean, this is what we were talking about with the heroin epidemic again these people got rich killing people and i know i've talked about this it's particularly an issue for me because i have a member of my family who's dealt with this but it's just something where it's like you know what mansion sucks but these people can't get away with it so yeah but sean like it seems like there is a demand in your family for heroin.

This country is a supply and demand economy, Sean. You really got to buy into the method if you want to buy into the country. Listen, I've been taking some correspondence courses at the caucus. You Chicago? But, anyways, my vote for West Virginia Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin wins the seat You guys want to predict Republican Green Party insurgency? Democrat Democrat

Alright, Steve says Manchin wins You know, I think Manchin could take it But I don't know Morrissey looks like a fat Dick Cheney We're going with Morrissey Alright, Yogi says the Republican will win in West Virginia Andy? Morrissey's the only one who can sing to my emotions

Alright, so that brings us to uh montana i'm just so sad to be leaving cocaine mitch behind because that's probably the best bit we have on this episode i mean his name is dawn it's not our bit give credit where credit's due well you know what there'll be a presidential election in 2020. Cocaine Mitch sounds like a B-side country song. That's my favorite thing about it. So we move on to Montana, where Jon Tester is the Democrat senator.

Again, this is a Donald Trump state. Jon Tester, again, one of the Democrats who helped roll back Dodd-Frank. This happens again and again. corporate democrats did this uh essentially created the next financial crisis to get that sweet wall street money um but so john tester has a decent approval ratings in montana but again trump is very popular there trump's visited the state about four times um and interestingly enough uh interestingly enough he's running against a former state legislator uh matt rosendale

is the republican nominee and uh all right what is that it's uh john linella they might be giants uh solo album called state songs It's John Linnell of They Might Be Giants Solo album called State Songs And it's called Montana And it's about someone with dementia About to die realizing that Montana's a lake Is this off his album China People Families? I just realized that I didn't get a chance to play West Virginia

Well, we're already running long I just realized that I didn't get a chance to play West Virginia. Well, we're already running long. So it's actually Matt Rosendale is a former state legislator. But interestingly enough, he's also a Maryland real estate developer. He's worth somewhere from $7 to $20 million. He's like a big proponent of selling off public lands in Montana to private interests. But just like a fun thing about this guy, he calls himself a rancher, like in campaign literature and all this stuff. But according to Talking Points Memo,

he has never owned any cattle. And the reason he calls himself a rancher is because he has rented out land that he owns for other people to farm and run cattle on. Which is like, I mean, I really do love that. The idea of like a landlord just saying yeah i'm whatever the people who live in my property do so you'll have like brooklyn landlords

being like yeah i'm a graphic designer and podcaster but yeah and he also has like a thick maryland uh accent staten island landlords yeah you know i'm a domestic abuser yeah i'm the cop who uh strangled that guy um but yeah so uh again i'm being i'm being bold i'm predicting blue wave i think uh uh our good friend john tester uh who helped uh unleash the next financial crisis will be there to protect the middle class from fake rancher matt rosendale. And I think Jon Tester, the Democrat, will win in Montana. I do too. Put me down for the Tester.

Put me down for some Democrat. I mean, yeah, I think I'm going to go Jon. What about Rick Breckinridge, though? Libertarian party. Apparently he endorsed the Republican because on Jon Tester's last election, if the Libertarian vote had gone Republican, Tester would have won. Look at this guy's face.

He's like a chubby mix of Jerry Garcia and Richard Branson. That's our episode picture. That is libertarianism.jpg. He looks like a white-haired Jesus talking to you about age of consent laws. Underneath his picture, he should read Bitcoiner and Proud. He does look a lot like... Yeah, I'm a rancher. I'm a Bitcoin rancher.

Once when Sean and I were partaking in some Washington exports, we would just put up YouTube videos, and one of them that we ended up on was asmr bitcoin explanation and it was a guy who looked like that oh my god by washington exports he means amazon's abusive labor practices um all right so yes yogi uh andy uh montana

democrat republican i was too busy looking up up the song and wasn't listening to you so I'm going to say green I'm going to go long shot Breckenridge Yogi says Libertarian wins in Montana that's an alpha move because there actually isn't a Green Party candidate I'm going for the write in

I like how you went for someone even worse than Rick Breckenridge so that brings us to Florida. Again, held by a Democrat, Bill Nelson. Another shitty corporate Democrat voted to repeal Dodd-Frank or rollback Dodd-Frank. He's running against the current governor, Rick Scott. Interestingly enough, as of 2015, Rick Scott instructed all Florida state government officials that they are forbidden from using the terms climate change or global warming in any context. Wow.

You want to know another great thing about Florida? Yeah. Is that their state rejected Common Core standards. wants to use their products in Florida, get it selected by Florida, they have to remove all references to Common Core and use the Florida state standards, which I shit you not because I have professional experience with this, are nearly identical word for word,

the same as Common Core standards with slight modifications. They want to change it to Mumblecore standards. They make them change the the food pyramid to include bath salts um oh yeah and interestingly uh i don't know when else we'll get to talk about this the mega bomber the guy who was sending those pipe bombs to soros and shit he was illegally foreclosed on in florida we've kind of beat this into the ground how like nine million 9.3 million people were foreclosed on in the financial crisis the majority of that was just completely illegal fake documents robo signed etc etc but it's just interesting where it's like something that hasn't really been talked about that much is this guy who uh clearly had a mental

breakdown that might have been a contributing factor just getting illegally thrown out of your home i will say it's also a statement about Florida education, how shitty all those bombs were. It's not hard to build a bomb. The thing that's stopping people from making bombs Let's not keep talking about how subliminal it is to build a bomb. is the fact that people don't want to make bombs. I'm imagining Rick Scott hearing about the maga bomber and being like

but did he get his absentee ballot in yet he voted before you apprehended him right he's he's not a felon until he is prosecuted as a felon until he's found guilty yes um and then the other thing about the florida race andrew Andrew Gillum is running a very popular populist campaign, you know, Medicare for All, these kinds of things, for governor, I should say. So there's a lot of speculation that the Andrew Gillum turnout boost will also benefit Bill Nelson, the Democrat. So I'm also predicting that the shitty corporate Democrat will win here in Florida. You guys want to make a bet? Rick Scott or Bill Nelson? I'm going to go Nelson.

He's got a better hair. He had a hair. All right. Yogi says the Democrat will win. Steve, Andy? Republican. All right. Steve has the Republican Rick Scott

winning in the Florida Senate race. Andy? Yeah, I'm going to spitefully go with Rick Scott because he made my life harder at work uh so that brings us to missouri which is a democrat held race uh this is senator claire mccaskill um a running theme also voted to roll back dodd frank um but she is running against the state attorney general josh howley interesting Interesting thing about Claire McCaskill. She first got elected to the Senate in 2012,

where she beat Todd Aiken, who was the legitimate rape guy. Yeah. He of course said, I'm paraphrasing, but he said that you don't need abortion in cases of rape because when there is a legitimate rape, the female body has ways of shutting that down and preventing pregnancy.

And this attracted some controversy in 2012 when he was running against Claire McCaskill and lost but interestingly enough I read this he wrote a book in 2014 in which he says he regrets apologizing for those comments oh my god which is actually true like in the Trump era I think we have learned that the worst thing you can do is apologize when you say that. Female bodies automatically reject rape babies. But yes. So Claire McCaskill will be running against the current Attorney General Josh Howley, the Republican. And there's just like another interesting scandal in this state the Republican governor of Missouri resigned in June of this year because he was um having an affair

he was like elected in 2017 he resigned uh in about a year after he was having an affair and he also blackmailed his mistress by taking naked pictures of her without her consent when she was blindfolded and then threatening to release them if she disclosed the affair to the public so that's why the republican governor had to resign and uh but so neat yeah sounds to me like he can't bluff. But Josh Howley is interesting. He's like, again, like we mentioned, the Democrats are kind of running on this pre-existing conditions thing. Josh Howley says he will protect pre-existing conditions, but he is one of 22 state attorney generals who are suing to overturn all of Obamacare, including the pre-existing condition protection so but he's kind of he's cut an ad about how like my family means so much to me that i would never get rid of your

pre-existing condition well his name is on a lawsuit to do exactly that um but just like my favorite thing that he did was in the near the end of 2017 he uh blamed sex trafficking on the sexual revolution of the 1960s he was uh speaking to a religious uh group and he said quote there is a mark uh basically you have men who treat women like commodities that's a paraphrase then here's the quote there is a market for it why is there Because our culture has completely lost its way. The sexual revolution has led to exploitation of women on a scale that we would never have imagined. Never have imagined. We must deliver.

Prove them wrong. We must deliver a message to our culture that the false gospel of anything goes ends in the road, in this road of slavery. It ends in the slavery and exploitation road of slavery it ends in the slavery and exploitation of the most vulnerable among us it ends in the slavery and exploitation of young women and as we all know sex trafficking is something that did not exist before the birth control bill I just like the idea that the Roman rape of the Sabine women was a direct result of Gloria Steinem's. But yes, I mean, that's basically what you have going on in Missouri.

Claire McCaskill is running on pre-existing conditions and Obamacare and this stuff. And the Republican is saying that human trafficking is a result of the hippie movement. Those damn hippies. Fuck it. I'm betting on the Republican guy. Josh Hawley? Yeah. I also think Hawley's going to win it.

Jeffries, what do you think? Is there a libertarian running? There is a libertarian running. No, that's a genuine question. There's a Green Party Joe Crane, an independent Craig O'Deer, and then my man, Jabhead Campbell, a Libertarian, got 5,000 votes

or is better known as 100% of the Libertarian ballot. Okay, never mind that. I think I'm going to go McCaskill. Actually, yeah, change mine to Green. So Andy says the Green Party. Joe Crane. Steve says the Democrat McCaskill will win. I'm on the Republican.

And Yogi, who are you going with? I'm going Jabhath Campbell. What does he look like? Is he the libertarian? Yeah, he's libertarian. He looks like a dweebier version of Ted Cruz. He's got Bitcoin blockchain in his Twitter bio. You know, I didn't think it was possible.

Looking at his picture, I still don't think it's possible. But that would be a delirious version of Ted Cruz. I like the idea of the libertarian candidate being like, you know, the true tragedy of sex trafficking is that these workers are overpaid. The craziest thing is that there's this one guy who had the least amount of votes for the Democratic primary, and his name is Leonard Steinman

and just like that last guy we covered, another real grizzly Adams looking motherfucker. Oh wow, that's a Yeti motherfucker. What was his previous profession? Truck driver and I really wish. That's the libertarian? No, this is the last guy on the Democratic primary. Honestly, I'd vote for that lion-faced

bro. Yeah, I was gonna say, didn't he hold up his child and say, one day this will all be yours? He was a trucker, but before that he was the mascot for MGM. This moves us on to North Dakota. North Dakota, I think, is a gimme.

This is a Democrat-held seat. Heidi Heitkamp voted to repeal Dodd-Frank. Oh. She's the Democrat. Trump is hugely popular there. He's running against Kevin Cramer. Most people say this is a lean Republican race.

I think Kevin Cramer picks it up. The only interesting thing I've found is essentially Heidi Heitkamp is trying to run against Donald Trump's tariffs on China, has led to China putting tariffs on soybeans. So in North Dakota, they're like big soybean exporters and they've exported like no soybeans to China as a result of this. And I believe Kevin Cramer said something like farmers were being hysterical and, you know, they have a need to have a higher threshold for pain. Actually, do you have Joe Biden? So Joe Biden in town hall apparently threatened our good friend Kevin Kramer, the Republican nominee, for his comments. Your guys calls farmers concerns hysteria.

He says they don't have a very high threshold for pain. Now I get that president of the trade union is up here. He'll show them a threshold. Joe Biden's like, when I get your wife up here, I'm going to give her the best shoulder rub she's ever had. Well, Kramer replied with, if this were 50 years ago, you'd be upside down in a tree with a fork in your ass. Joe Biden was like, I'm going to get the president of the unions up here and then you'll never be seen again, Mr. Kramer. But yes, so that race, again, most of the pollers have this leaning Republican.

I think it will be a Republican victory. What about you guys? Heidi Heitkamp versus Republican Kevin Kramer. Yeah, Joe Biden. I'm just going to go with Kramer because Joe Biden is kind of electoral poison at this point. Kevin Kramer is like, you know, there's a lot of estrogen in soybeans, and I think that's what's making these farmers hysterical. I'm going to go with Kramer's China family.

All right, Steve says Republican, Andy says Republican. Yogi, you got a prediction yeah i mean i want to say heidi but her total votes for 36 000 and kevin kramer's were 61 he's got this in the bag i think hmm and uh so yeah everybody thinks that'll be a republican uh and then we get to move on to new jersey which is this is one of the more fascinating races to me because, uh, Bob Menendez, the incumbent Democrat Senator in New Jersey has, uh, has been indicted on corruption charges. There was a deadlock jury. He has been credibly accused of, uh, being offered, uh, and utilizing the services of a South American child prostitute.

And despite all of that, he's still, I will make the argument the lesser of two evils. I would not vote for the guy. I think he's a complete piece of shit. And I think New Jersey, it could conceivably go Republican. And if it does, it will be entirely the fault of the Democratic establishment, including Cory Booker, who lined up behind this corrupt fucking child predator. But I think ultimately Menendez will win because it's, you know, blue wave and they don't want to give Trump a Republican senator.

And when I say that, I will talk about why I think the Republican guy is somehow worse. But it should just be noted, Bob Menendez ran a primary campaign against the Democrat where all the establishment New Jersey Democrats, including Cory Booker, endorsed Bob Menendez, the child diddler and corrupt guy who was indicted and condemned by the Senate Ethics Committee. I wonder if anyone approached any of the jurors during his hearing. Are you just playing the Sopranos intro? You could have at least played that clip from the Sopranos where i think it's gg goes up to the juror and says hey you're on that junior soprano trial right and then he says his name and his address and he's like you know that's what i was referring to oh okay guys guys no fighting that's

what politics are for all right but uh new jersey rules we have to uh state our picks over the sopranos wait i want to get to before we get to the picks i have one other thing on this well you have to say it over the spring it just makes it harder to edit no it doesn't all right uh but keep in mind if you go too long, we're going to have to vote over the rap part. But yeah, so Bob Menendez, less corrupt, more corrupt than the Sopranos. But so essentially, Bob Menendez had a primary challenger from a Democrat with no funding, no establishment support, and she still got 38% of the vote. So it was entirely the responsibility of the democrats to not line up behind this corrupt child predator but here we are and he

is running against a man who was the ceo of a pharmaceutical company called cal selgene for six years where he jacked up the prices of cancer drugs. We mentioned this, the Bill Aikman thing, Bill Ackman, valiant. But Bob Hugin is the wealthy pharma executive. He's spending $20 million of his own money on this New Jersey Senate race. And he became a millionaire because he raised the price of a drug, Revlimid, a cancer drug, a 500% rise during his six years as CEO. It went from $6,195 a month to 18 691 a month this is a life-saving cancer drug that you need to stay alive and uh ironically the white house put out a name and

shame of pharmaceutical executives where they had a woman named pam holtz say uh i had to use my credit card and run up 10000 in debt last year to stay alive. That's in 2017. She was quoted in 2018. So again, you had people literally dying because this guy was jacking up cancer drug prices. And he, of course, had no pharmaceutical experience. She should have invested in Woobistics. He had no pharmaceutical experience. He came from Wall Street as a Wall Street executive to become the CEO of a pharmaceutical company, where, again, the big Wall Street innovation in pharma companies is to just jack up the prices of existing drugs. So that is my argument as to why the Republican is actually worse than a child sex predator.

Because, you know, Bob Menendez has only ruined one life well i don't know so probably probably more than that but the point is i think bob menendez will win this race but if uh he loses it it is entirely the fault of new jersey democrats and the establishment you guys want to give your picks well i do think Menendez has this in the bag. However, I want to let the people know that my candidate for New Jersey is Kevin Kimple, the Make It Simple candidate. Real guy. Kevin Kimple makes it simple. His slogan rhymes, and let's be honest, Menendez,

find a good rhyme for that, Sean. That's what I thought. You're right. You got me. You can't keep it simple with Kevin Kipple. I think Menendez is going to win because his victim is not old enough to vote yet. Yeah, but so Steve, Andy? This is a tough one i'm gonna go with the republican okay uh steve says the republican will win the farm executive will beat the child predator

democrat for me no i want kevin kimball oh you're on kevin kimball you write kk for me is he independent he's to make it simple i'm gonna go with the guy who played polly he's like make it simple candidate. I'm going to go with the guy who played Pauly. He's like, make it simple. The age of consent is 18. I do love like there's, so Menendez is Democrat. Maybe it's Bob Menendez. She didn't say what her age is. We got Trisha Flanagan, New Day NG.

Kevin Kimpo, make it simple. Natalie Lynn Rivera, For The People. Hank Schroeder, Economic Growth. Madeline Hoffman G. Murray Sabrinell. A lot of choices in New Jersey. The city, the state of choice. Okay, how about Bob Menendez?

He knows where the kids is. All right, sorry. Yogi, Andy, where were your bets? You're keeping it simple. He's the independent or what? That's the party called keep it simple. I'm not changing it. You write K-I-S on there.

All right, keep it simple. Andy, who do you think? Who do you got? Pauly Walnuts. Pauly Walnuts. All right. Well, if write-in candidate Pauly Walnuts. We're at it.

I originally said the guy who played Py walnuts but i'm changing it to the character polly walnuts uh so we got just a few senate races left uh nevada i think is a for democrats dean heller is the republican senator uh hillary clinton of course won nevada this is the only republican senator up in a state that Hillary Clinton won. He's running against Congresswoman Jackie Rosen. And he, of course, voted to repeal Obamacare. And then, you know, you have all this union turnout, Latino enthusiasm, these kinds of things. I think Nevada is a gimme for Democrats. You guys disagree?

Yeah, I'm going to say blue wave. Blue wave? Yeah. Okay. Yogi says blue wave me too uh andy green the green will win in nevada uh green wave yeah all right hell yeah so we got tennessee arizona and texas left uh tennessee quickly uh is uh bob corker the republican who like doesn't like Trump or whatever,

but still votes with him all the time, is retiring because, you know, sea change and all that. It's the former governor of Tennessee, Phil Bredesen, is the Democrat. He's, again, corporate Democrat. He's needlessly released a statement saying that he supported Kavanaugh in the middle of the hearings, which is like, you're running for Senate. You could just say, I think they should investigate and I don't have an opinion until we've seen

all the facts. But he came out and said, hell yeah, let's fucking, uh, hold our hands over the mouths of, uh, fucking college students or what at high schoolers.

Um, he's, uh, his party was the keep it simple. And he's, he's the Democrat. Yes. Great. Great.

He's the former Democratic governor who they both support Kavanaugh. But he's running against Marsha Blackburn, Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn. And again, this is one of those cases where I think there's a debate to be had about, you know, lesser of two evil voting and vote shaming your bellhop or whatever else. But Marsha Blackburn, again, the opiate stuff does kind of bother me to the point where I want Marsha Blackburn to lose, even though the Democrats sucks, because Marsha Blackburn co-sponsored a bill that was signed into law by Obama in 2016 that removed the ability of the DEA to shut down suspicious transactions from these big three pharma heroin pushers. We mentioned this. She's taken more than $800,000 in campaign contributions from opiate pharma companies. I will say that he should have gone with Phil B bredesen for cheaper medicine uh so we mentioned this and uh this uh

marsha blackburn was a co-sponsor of a law that was again literally written by an employee for one of these opiate pharmaceutical companies which essentially said the dea has no no more ability to shut down uh suspicious transfers when uh one of the distributors wants to send, in the case of West Virginia, four million pain pills into one town in a single year with 400 residents. So essentially, she's bought and paid for by the opiate industry, and he's run a few ads on this. And I hope it resonates because, again, a lot of people have been affected by this, and people like Marsha Blackburn. There will never be criminal accountability, but we can at least hope they don't gain power however I think realistically Tennessee is a Trump state and I think Marsha

Blackburn and her opiate buddies will win I agree with that put me down uh all right yeah I think the pharma chick's in all right, farmer chick in. I'm going to say, just by merit of having already won the entire state, I'm going to go with Phil. Phil Dogg. Which Phil? Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah. Democrat?

Yeah. I'm actually going to change my vote to Bob Dylan's most underrated album. It will be the senator from Tennessee. All right, so we just got uh tennessee and air sorry arizona and texas left um to arizona uh kristin cinema is the democrat running against martha mcsally she beat joe arpaio in the primary which again i think we can solidify it right there that the republicans will lose as soon as the most hilarious and most overtly racist candidate right does not prevail in the primary uh so sheriff joe lost in the primary to martha mcsally the republican uh martha

mcsally was a colonel in the air force until 2010 she was elected in 2014 she voted to repeal obamacare but she has made a big thing like all these other republicans have about supporting the protection for pre-existing conditions uh even though she voted to repeal all of obamacare but i think in arizona oh yeah and the other part about arizona is that jeff flake another senator who like talks about how Mr. Trump Is a bad man and then votes for all his bills Is retiring So that's why it's an open seat

But I think the Democrat will win in Arizona Because they did not nominate someone Racist enough What about you guys Who's the Democrat Candidate Kristen Sinema S-I-N-E-M-A.

Sinema. Sinema. Sinema. I don't know. Sinema. Like what Bob Menendez recorded in South America. I just think Martha McSally is just too white and American of a name for anyone in Arizona to pass up. So you're literally judging her by her name?

I mean, I don't see why not. Yeah, put me down for red. Yogi says the red. I'll go with the Republican. All right, Steve says the Republican. Andy? Green. All right, the Green Party will win in Arizona.

Green wave, baby. Martha McSally will make sure that the caravan does not enter Arizona. Go with the colonel. And which brings us to our final race on the ballot. We've been through, this is our 11th competitive Senate race. They get tiring to talk about, I know. But we have here Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz!

Versus Beto O'Rourke. And Ted Cruz, of course, you really just can't imagine how anyone can vote for that lizard-faced Goldman Sachs banker whose wife... Ted Cruz! Zodiac killer. He embraces it now.

Yes. It's on his Twitter. One of his Twitter things said like, they tweeted out like the Zodiac killer messages. And then I don't know how serious it was, but some like vaguely left Twitter account was like, so he's joking about the unapprehended murderer of six women or something like that.

Well, you see the real joke is that Ted Cruz's politics have killed way more people than the Zodiac. There's a great vine and it's got Kevin from The Office right next to Ted Cruz's politics have killed way more people than the Zodiac. There's a great Vine, and it's got Kevin from The Office right next to Ted Cruz. And he's at one of Ted Cruz's campaign speeches. He goes, we want answers! And then turns the side around, and Ted Cruz's face is like, ah, fuck, I do look like that guy. So this is a dead heat, pretty much, polling?

Mm-hmm. 49-49. Yeah. So it's a dead heat. Beto O'Rourke has raised a lot of money texas is a solid red state trump of course has come to campaign for ted cruz um after retweeting a meme that called ted cruz's wife ugly which i think trump missed the perfect trump missed the perfect opportunity to go to that Ted Cruz rally and be like, folks, you know, we're not going to build the wall. We're just going to put Ted Cruz's wife there.

She'll scare them away. But so Ted Cruz, of course, has embraced Trump. Few people could as conceivably be a Trump speech writer as Sean McCarthy. Hey, man, I will shut down the podcast you just give me like what 80 000 a year let's get it done um but i think beto's received like a record amount of money for a senate race yes 38 million yeah he's raised a shit ton of money so he has a lot of money but i think he was kind of doing a stupid thing until about a month ago which is like sometimes democrats get on this idea like let's run a positive campaign with no negative ads right you know which like oh it worked for john kerry or dukakis or whoever and it's like you fucking moron this is the way

politics works is you have to define your opponent before they define you. It's a blood sport and you have to tell voters why the other guy is evil. But Beto was running, you know, the usual hope and change campaign until about a month ago when Ted Cruz kind of pulled ahead in the polling and now he's started attacking a bit. So I think that might hurt him. And, you know, as much as I hate to try to understand how anyone could vote for that fucking spineless lizard, I think Ted Cruz will pull it off in Texas because it is a Trump state. What about you guys? I think I'm going to go for the upset and say O'Rourke. Okay.

Steve says O'Rourke. You know what? And I would love it if O'Rourke won in Texas. What about you, Palmer? I hear yours yogi i think that in grubstaker's fashion i'm gonna go with the venture capitalist libertarian neil dykeman founded jane capital at 25 and co-founded seven other technology startups his platforms are privacy i identified addressing the national debt and he was running for U.S. Senate for his children.

He said, together we should be building our sons' and daughters' futures, not letting our elected officials borrow from it to support our lifestyles. But tell me what cryptocurrency is he investing in? What does this mean for my corn portfolio? That's the real question for your candidate. All right.

Yogi goes libertarian in Texas. I want to be known. If any of my wild cards get in, a billion points for Polly Walton. I just want to say that Texas is a very dry and dusty state. And this election, this particular senatorial election election has been a complete blood sport they've been going at each other's throats kicking up a ton of dust but when i i think that when that dust clears all you're gonna see is green all right so how about this for arizona martha mcsally will take george soros' migrant caravan to Death Valley.

And then it's just an image of her, like, beheading ISIS members on the migrant caravan. Ah, all right. Well, that's it. But Andy did promise to start beef. Beef, beef, beef, beef, beef, beef. Beef! Beef! Beef! Beef! Beef! Beef! Someone from Red Scare Pod said that she liked my animations. That's not beef. That's literal praise.

That's like the opposite. I was thinking we should do it like Chairman Mao did. What he would do is when he wanted to denounce someone in the Chinese Communist Party he wouldn't denounce them directly. He would instead denounce someone lower on the totem pole that was associated with them.

So we should, instead of attacking Red Scare, we attack the Red Scare Roundup podcast and those kinds of nerdy dudes who summarize Red Scare episodes. And this is how we make our denunciations of Red Scare. Right, we take out the bottom of the totem pole to lower the totem pole and eventually cross it.

I don't think they've seen my animation. They have a very low view count. Fun Loving Millennials in Hell, it's on YouTube. It's not very good. Check it out. Yogi Paiwa will be on King 5 News in Seattle on November 21st. Check that out, Seattle. You'll be endorsing Maria Cantwell.

Neil Dykeman all the way. They'll be like, it's already over. She lost. So nobody gets to twist it. I think the Red Scare podcast is great, but I do fucking hate the Red Scare Roundup guys. Jeffrey, has he got any beef you want to stir up? Well, I do.

Fuck Lana Del Rey. She performed at the Apple keynote for the new iPad where they introduced the same magnetic pen thing that the fucking Surface debuted three years ago and all these Mac fanboys made fun of and now their bullshit Tim Cook is creating it. Hey, Cook, maybe you shouldn't get your ideas from previous Microsoft products, you piece of shit.

And fuck Lana Del Rey and Lana Dunham's ex-boyfriend. Can't remember his name, but he's in the band Fun. He played piano at the show. Fuck them. Oh, yeah, fuck them. They suck.

She lived in a trailer park early on and claimed that it was for research. It's like, bitch, you just wanted to live next to poor people to increase your portfolio of credibility. Fuck you, LDR. Jack Antonoff, aka Less Fun,

really the anchor dragging them down. Andy, you're in my rant here. She performed at Sasquatch and wouldn't perform without a filter on her face because she's self-conscious about how she looks.

You suck, Lana Del Rey. You are not the heart of New York. You are the heart of Times Square, the plastic-iest part of New York. My name is Neil Dykeman

and this has been Grub Seekers. I was hoping it was Lana Del Rey, but Connor Arpwell actually wrote this tweet. The video for Carly Rae Jepsen's latest bop, Party for One, shows a hotel full of lonely people coming together to have a weird dance party after the power goes out, which is clearly a commentary on the struggle to overcome capitalist alienation in order to build a socialist future so unfortunately connor arpoire noted socialist account connor arpoire all right let's wrap this up yeah i mean that's a that's basically it we have our predictions for the senate uh we will check out the elections uh tuesday uh night um we encourage you to vote i do billy eichner to vote

yeah if you don't have to vote but you do have to tell billy on the street to vote so please go out there there are no excuses not to tell billy eichner to vote uh i will not be voting because i am a real revolutionary and will of course be assassinating members of congress this tuesday he knows where they are yeah um but so you have all our predictions again follow along at home uh next week we'll just kind of go through who got the most correct um uh again vote tuesday uh next week we will be covering Rupert Murdoch so if you have any special guest yes special guest if you have any

suggestions for where we should look with Rupert Murdoch or things you would like to hear us talk about please tweet at the Grubstakers pod twitter account and we will cover it so anything else before we get out of here and with that this has been Grubstakers I'm Yogi Pollywalt I'm Steve Jeffries I'm Andy Palmer I'm Sean cover it. So anything else before we get out of here? And with that, this has been Grubstakers.

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