Lovett or Leave It - Protect Stacey Abrams!

Episode Date: September 14, 2019

And we're back. Live from Radio City! Fox News reads John Bolton's texts on air so Desus and Mero join Jon for "OK, Stop." Wyatt Cenac, Alyssa Mastromonaco, and Dulcé Sloan cover the Democratic debate and discuss which candidate is our Hawkeye. Then Stacey Abrams talks about protecting the vote in battleground states and what her romance novels have in common with Republican voter suppression. And thanks to Michael Barbaro for being part of our intro video. What a week. What a time to go to votesaveamerica.com/fairfight.For a closed-captioned version of this episode, please visit crooked.com/lovettorleaveit. For a transcript of this episode, please email [e-mail] and include the name of the podcast.

Look, it's just been a really tough few years for everybody. Trump is exhausting. Politics is exhausting. And I have so many pent-up emotions. There's just so many things I feel like I just need to get off of my chest. Am I coping, or am I just making excuses? If a Democrat wins office, what am I going to tell myself when I get a 10-piece McNuggets at 5 p.m. because the dinner reservation is late and I don't want to be grumpy before the bread comes? The Secretary of the Treasury produced Suicide Squad.

What is electable? Joe Biden's eye exploded. What if he actually does nuke the hurricane? What if it works? Here's a question. Here's a question. Are cashews good for you? Also, we are going to regret smoothies, there is no way they're healthy. Is Adam Driver even hot?

Now there are Gen Z memes I don't even understand. Is Euphoria what high school is now? Why were there only two seasons of Fleabag? I delete Twitter on my phone and then I log in in Safari. Remember they thought spam would ruin the internet? Turns out it was Nazis. People keep saying this isn't normal, but at some point it has to be normal, right?

Star Trek doesn't work if people are just walking around the ship going, holy shit, aliens! Anyway, that's why I'm here. It's all about routine. Like the way you introduce yourself on my drive to work every morning. It just makes me feel happy. I'm not your therapist.

Yeah, I know. I know that. You're Michael Barbaro. From the Daily. How did you get in here? Oh, I told them I had a scoop, and if they didn't let me in, I was going to give it to Ronan Farrow. You need to get out of here. No, I'm not leaving here until you say those soothing, calming words.

I'm Michael Barbaro. And? I'm Michael Barbaro and I'm Michael Barbaro and this is Love It or Leave It. What? What is up, Radio City Music Hall? There has been some kind of mistake. How's it going, first mezzanine? How's it going second mezzanine? How's that third mezzanine? Fuck the orchestra right Third Mezzanine? Hi, orchestra. Thank you.

Where's Syosset at? That's a lot. That's a lot. Thank you for making the trip. New York City. It is great to be home. Think about what this city has achieved. This city hated Donald Trump so much, it sent him into a narcissistic emotional spiral so severe,

it now imperils the entire world. New York did that. That's incredible. If one Upper East Side rich asshole had invited Donald Trump to dinner one time in like 1993, he'd be pitching a reboot of The Apprentice to Apple TV Plus right fucking now. President Hillary Clinton would be in the middle of her impeachment for faxing classified documents to the Hamptons like God wanted. Ruth Bader Ginsburg would be on a beach in Maui right now being fucked to death by liberal lifeguards.

Aloha, they would say. And then aloha, they would say. This is exciting. I can't believe it. What an honor that you guys all came out to see this. Thank you. That's all. Three years ago,

Donald Trump became the Republican nominee. I know. Yeah, we don't like him. It was a crisis on that day. It has been a crisis every day since. And in the midst of all of that, Taco Bell discontinues the double-decker taco. The thinking man's taco.

But it's a metaphor. Because some people, they like a's taco. But it's a metaphor. Because some people, they like a crunchy taco. Some people, they like a soft-shell taco. But the double-decker taco brings these two groups of people together through the connective power of beans. I want you guys to know something. I was on Colbert last night. It's not a big deal. Chill out. Chill out. Unbelievable. And I was feeling pretty good after.

It was a live show and I was hungry, so at 1.30 in the morning I ordered a chicken parmesan sandwich via room service. It's fine. It's fine. And as I'm walking to get the chicken parm sandwich, I stepped on the little door stopper to protect the bathroom door, and I went flying. I ate shit.

And I hurt my foot, and I smacked my arm. I think I fucked up my hand. My phone went flying and I yelled, oh, fuck, ow, fuck, fuck. And then from the bedroom, I hear one of the great investigative reporters of his generation, perhaps any generation, say, is everything all right? And it wasn't. The point is, Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow is available for pre-order now. Three years we have been fighting Donald Trump.

Three years. It has been exhausting. We've had some big symbolic victories and some even bigger actual losses. But we won the House. And we won the House. And we won big races from Arizona to Iowa in red states and blue states and non-conforming states. And now we're gearing up for 2020

in the midst of the most important Democratic primary of our lives. This is our chance to pick the person who will represent us in the fight to not only defeat Trump but to defeat the kind of politics that led to Donald Trump. The stakes are total and our stomachs hurt all the time. We have Pepto-Bismol on our rider. That's not a joke. We don't have a bowl of green M&Ms, Pepto-Bismol, and a picture of Chris Evans saying, you got this. And the truth is we don't feel confident in our collective ability to get this right. We fucked up the presidential election last time. So what's going to stop us from fucking it get this right. We fucked up the presidential election last time,

so what's going to stop us from fucking it up this time? We are glad when the DNC narrows the field, but then we worry if we miss somebody who might have been the right candidate, not John Delaney, but some of the others. So we have been fighting Donald Trump for three years. It's exhausting, but not as hard and not as bad as the genuine pain he is causing for people who his policies hurt every day. And nothing

that we have been through so far will be as bad as what it will feel like to have to deal with four more years. 2020 is here. We've got a year of pure, uncut anxiety coming right fucking for us. And I don't think we're totally ready for it. So let's Papa Xanax. Let's Carbo Load. Let's take a moment to reflect on what's ahead.

And then let's get to fucking work. Oh, should I start the show? Why? I'm alone on stage at Radio City Music Hall. All right, all right. We have got an incredible panel for you. She's a correspondent on The Daily Show.

Her Comedy Central Presents stand-up special premieres on Comedy Central on October 25th. Please welcome Dulce Sloan. How are you? This is like nuts. I was talking to one of my friends today, and I was like, what are you? This is like nuts. I was talking to one of my friends today and I was like, what are you doing? I was like, oh, I got to do a call and I got to perform a radio music call.

He was like, what? Why would you so casually say that? I was like, oh, no. I guess I didn't think about it. I've never been here before. So I was like, oh, yeah, it's a big thing. But it's kind of like a TARDIS because it's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Because from the outside, it doesn't look like there's a small country in this bitch.

And then you came in on the stage. I didn't know anything about the fancy stage and this fucking elevator situation. There's a lot going on in here. They usually save this for Santa to come up at the end of the Christmas spectacular. But guess what? No Santa today. Just a gay Jew. And if there's anything that I'm a fan of, it's Jews. Hello, hello. Any single men in the audience? No. Why would there be? Oh my god. Are there any

single men here? That was brutal. Liars. Liars. There are 35 really pissed significant others right now, you assholes. Apologize! Alright, look, we'll delve into all of that in a moment.

This isn't a dating thing! Fuck! Let's bring out our next panelist. He's a comedian, writer, and actor. You know him from The Daily Show, People of Earth, and his own show, Problem Areas on HBO. Please welcome Wyatt Cenac. How you doing, Wyatt? I'm doing all right. How are you?

Are you single? No. Okay. Sorry. Very happy. For the 13 people who wooed that they were single, get into a relationship. It's good. Hey.

Great advice, Wyatt. Hey, get into a relationship. That's what he said to me backstage. Oh, that sucks. Get into a relationship. Thank you. Look, there's enough people here. Look to the left.

Look to the right. Kiss one of them. All right. She was the deputy chief of staff to President Obama and the best-selling author of Who Thought This Was a Good Idea. Please welcome Alyssa Mastromonaco. Hi, Alyssa. Hello.

Where do you stand on everyone in here who's not in a relationship just fucking? I'm a bit of a prude, so if that happens, I'm just going to look the other way. We'll turn the lights off. Oh, then that's better. And if somebody's got a few songs on their phone, we can just hook it up to a microphone here. I just remembered that my parents are here. Alright, let's get

into it. What a week. Last night there was a presidential debate. Julian Castro faced some criticism for running a Medicare scam on Joe Biden. Don't trust people on the phone, seniors. All right. Beto said he was going to put on face paint and break in the homes of every single conservative and take away the only thing that could protect them

from 30 to 50 feral hogs. And Kamala Harris lost my vote by making fun of short people. Was the Wizard of Oz a little old man? Yes, he was. He was. He was. Little and old. But the point is, he was not a wizard had he been tall the outcome was the same he did not have hearts he did not have brains he was just a man and everyone in oz was

short and everyone in oz was short alissa i'll start with you. Wasn't The Wizard of Oz just a con man? Yeah. I love a good con. Listen, America loves a good con. That's the whole problem. Alyssa, Rahm Emanuel was on TV right after the debate calling Castro's attack on Biden disqualifying. Is Julian Castro canceled? No, he's not canceled. I mean, people have said worse shit in debates,

but it's more like, I feel last night, nobody's shit was landing. Like, maybe they should have called you if they wanted to make funnies on stage, but like, we're going, we want serious things, we want to find out what people really think, and people just came. It's like, they kept talking about the

embarrassment of riches. Their ability for comedy is not an embarrassment of riches. Dulce, a lot was made of Warren and Biden being on the stage together for the first time, but they really barely spoke to one another. Do you think that at some point those two are going to mix it up? This was the first time we had Warren, Biden, center left, left. It's like all the people that we were gonna pay attention to were finally on the same show.

Somebody gave Joe Biden a facial and then he just flipped the hell out. Like, his skin was looking, like, moisturized. He was yelling at everybody. Because, like, the last two debates, I was like, I don't think Biden is up. And then, as in up, I mean, like, awake. And then

this time it was kind of like, they've been yelling at me for two damn debates. I'm yelling back. Like he was finally like, oh shit, I gotta yell. His skin was smooth. His skin was smooth. It was such smooth skin.

I was looking at that being like, that's a good dermatologist. That's the kind of skin you only get in la that's what i was thinking that is yeah that's some la skin that is some la work that's top notch that was like he called jennifer aniston and was like girl where you get your face done not that she's ever had work i just mean like microplaning i like the idea that joe biden was just like looking for like going down to like South Central to get some shea butter or something like that. Just to really, oh yeah, let me soften this shit up.

Beto had another big moment of the night. He said he was for a mandatory buyback program. Pundits were pointing out that we can't even get a background check bill done. And yet inside of this debate, these candidates are now arguing well beyond what is achievable in this current Senate. Does that give you hope? Does that feel pointless to you? What do you make of it? None of it gives me hope. Okay. I think I'm at this point watching it where I'm just like, like, fucking stop fighting on television. Like, go find a room somewhere. Figure out, like, okay, you and you will be the ticket. Not Joe.

But, like, whatever. Like, no, but it's this very weird thing where it's like, like we're still in the part of the Avengers movie where they're all just fucking fighting, thinking that they're the star of this shit. And it's like, let's just be honest, like not all of you should be president. And what I would love is if they came out to a debate and they were just like, ah you know what, instead of debating each other we're all talking in the green room and it's just gonna be like Warren Booker and then, hold on, hold on. I'm just, let me fucking speculate.

Don't fucking cheer for imaginary shit. Let me finish my whole fucking scheme here. But they just come out and they're like, we're not going to fucking debate. It'll be like Warren Booker or whatever. And then like, let Kamala Harris just run for attorney general. And let her just say like, look, if this all works, I'm gonna be attorney general. And here's how I'm a better attorney general than Trump's attorney general. And like let like Bernie run for like secretary of commerce and let them all just like rather than focus on just Trump.

It feels like why not focus on all the other people that he has around him? Let some motherfucker run against Betsy DeVos. Let some motherfucker run against Steve Mnuchin. Stop just focusing on him and just start to pick everybody else apart.

Come together like the Avengers and recognize that one of y'all motherfuckers is Hawkeye. You're not... You're not... Is that who Jeremy Renner plays?uckers is Hawkeye. You're not. You're not. Is that who Jeremy Renner plays? Yes. Oh, he creepy. He cute, but creepy.

And that's like Beto's Hawkeye. Like, I don't know who Buttigieg is. I don't think he knows who he is. No, you think that man has a chance in hell? No. He's got a book deal coming out of this and maybe a talk show. Let's just be honest. That motherfucker's not winning shit.

Sorry, Mayor Pete, you're not. If you can't even solve police brutality in your own fucking city, you ain't getting president. Shut the fuck up. Sit the fuck down and figure out how you can help the party. Tim Pawlenty was the character who went on a gay date in that one scene with Chris Evans. You know what I mean?

Like, just forgotten. I gotta watch more movies. I've never seen it. Alyssa. They're great for an airplane. So this race has been relatively stable. We've seen Biden and then Warren and Sanders right behind and then a bunch of other candidates beneath them. If anything, those candidates have lost ground

and we've seen sort of a coalescing around these three. Do you see anything right now that can change that dynamic? Because I think what Wyatt is ultimately pointing at is the fact that we've been having these debates again and again. We had the same healthcare debate last night that we had the previous debate and the debate before that, and yet no one seems to be kind of stepping out from their place in the 1%, 2%, 3% of votes. What do you think? The one percenters? The one percenters. No, no. I personally think it's the three of them, and everybody else should go in Ocean's Eleven,

the cabinet situation, and figure out what post they want and go surrogate in states where they will accrue goodwill and can go become Attorney General or something. But no, I think that it's pretty obvious and I'm going to get a lot of shit for how I feel about this but I really want people to drop out sooner rather than later because the debates, I mean, I'm going to get a lot of shit for how I feel about this, but I really want people to drop out sooner rather than later because the debates, I think, right? I think the debates are still absurd because it's still 10 people on the stage and it's like watching everyone try to get their pre-planned lines that have nothing to do really with actual policy. And I know that Beto didn't give you joy,

but Beto gave me joy because he knows that his gun line, like how he feels about guns and saying he's going to go get the AR-15s is not popular, but it's what he believes. The thing that bummed me out after that was like Amy Klobuchar moonwalked into the debate and she's just like, let me tell you how I feel about it in Minnesota.

And it's like, no, you should really hate it in Minnesota because nobody uses those guns to hunt animals they intend to eat because those guns blow animals apart. So there is no reason for anybody to have those guns. And it's weird that only Beto is willing to just like lay it down. Wyatt. Yeah.

Question. Sure, answer. So Castro's faced some blowback Lay it down. Wyatt. Yeah. Question. Sure. Answer. So Castro's faced some blowback for the way he went after Joe Biden. That said, I watched the debate, and what I saw to me was Joe Biden at his best and Joe Biden as a flawed candidate. I saw good answers from him. He was more energetic. Skin so smooth.

more energetic, skin so smooth. And also just at the end when he talked about loss, when he talked about what motivates him, resilience, I was reminded of what makes Joe Biden a strong candidate beyond name recognition, beyond Barack Obama, that there is a genuine connection to people rooted in the fact that this is a man who has been through a great deal and people can relate to that. At the same time, I saw halting answers. I saw answers that were hard to follow. I saw someone most animated about going after Medicare for all and offering, I think, not totally fair critiques of that policy. Castro faces blowback for the way he goes after Joe Biden, but I think that there is still this legitimate question as to whether or not he's up for this race. How should Democrats be talking about Joe Biden's fitness to be the Democratic nominee?

Look, there's a part of me that's like, OK, an old white man got us into this mess. Why is it that we're going to put our faith in an old white man to get us out of it? of this mess, why is it that we're going to put our faith in an old white man to get us out of it? Like, at a time when we're talking about so many things, whether we're talking about racism, whether we're talking about sexual harassment, whether we're talking about just the amount of issues that exist in this country that have been the impact of white male privilege, why is it then that, like, you know, when everything started happening, you saw, like, whether it was racism, whether it was sexual harassment, whether all these things, you saw people saying, like, as a white man, I should maybe sit down and listen.

And with this, it's like, maybe sit down and listen. Maybe just fucking sit down. You've done your, you've done your due diligence. Help somebody else out for the future. Help make the future better by being a consultant. You don't need to fucking lead anymore. Just fucking sit down and help out. This country is changing. The demographics of this

country are much more diverse than old white guys. So maybe it's time for old white guys to say, you know what? We should help out and help push other people along. And so it's time for old white guys to say, you know what, we should help out and help push other people along. And so that's my feeling on it. No, I was just going to say the one thing I think that that Vice President Biden could do is really just figure out was he in the Oval Office for all the decisions or was he next door? Because you don't get to be for it for the good stuff and then like I wasn't there for the bad stuff.

That's like, that's the one thing. I'm like no, you don't get to do that. Yeah, that's shady. Yeah, good! I don't know. It's like he was kind of like Sean Spicer in the bushes for that immigration conversation. Alright, we we come back.

Okay, stop. Hey, don't go anywhere. There's more of Love It or Leave It coming up. And we're back. Now it's time for OK, stop. And to help us with OK, stop, please welcome to the stage from Showtime's Desus and Mero, New York's own Desus Nice and the kid Mero.

Thank you for being here, guys. What up, what up, what up, what up, what up, what up? Shout out to my Bronx people up top. I see you. Yeah. How's it work? You just sit? Okay, I bet. Can we curse? You can do whatever you want.

Oh, shit, it's fucking lit. I like this crowd. This shit look like a Lizzo concert. Okay, I bet. Can we curse? You can do whatever you want. Oh, shit, it's fucking lit. I like this crowd. This shit look like a Lizzo concert. Oh, I like this. Hell yeah. Let's go. Fuck yeah. This shit is dope.

Yo, shout out to you in the back, and I can't even see you motherfuckers. Yeah. Yeah. Third mezzanine. Third mezzanine. Look at them up there. Yeah. Love the third mezzanine. Let'szzanine. Look at them up there. Yeah! Love the third mezzanine.

Let's turn this shit into a Travis Scott concert. Somebody jump off that shit! Don't do it. No, no, no. Don't do it. I'm just playing. Sir, are you aware how health care works in America? Don't encourage stuff like that.

It's okay. I'll FaceTime Drake. He'll make it work for you. You can't do it. You can't do it. Not with Biden care. I'll FaceTime Drake. He'll make it work for you. You can't do it. You can't do it. Not with Biden care. I'm just kidding. I'll go drop Biden off the top mezzanine.

All right. Here's how OK Stop works. We'll roll a clip, and you guys can say OK Stop at any point to comment. Gotcha. The Pringles man. He loves love, and he loves chips. And he wants to spread those chips to comment. Gotcha. The Pringles man. He loves love and he loves chips and he wants to spread those chips to everyone. But what if the Pringles man became enamored of an ideology that

believed you could spread chips and democracy through war? National Security Advisor John Bolton was fired this week and Fox and Friends had a lot to say about it let's watch let's watch the president has just fired his national security advisor i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions so there's that list brian we don't know what's on it but it's it's you know strong okay stop is this how you five people five motherfuckers via twitter now that's how you fire motherfuckers? People fire motherfuckers via Twitter now? That's how you're doing it? He loves to fire people via Twitter. Like, but he can't, but it doesn't... Yeah, he doesn't call Trump, you know. He can't do a face-to-face.

Yeah. He got to do it through the tweets. But, fam, your whole thing was like you had a TV show when you did that face-to-face. Like Chrissy Teigen said, your president's a pussy-ass bitch. He's a pussy-ass bitch. Oh, man.

He got little hands but big Twitter fingers. You know what I mean? He's getting those tweets from far away. You understand? He could not fire Rex Tillerson himself. And so John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, had to do it. And Rex Tillerson found out on the toilet. Yeah.

Damn. And then John Kelly told everybody that. He got fired while he was taking a shit. I thought he was on the fucking toilet. Damn. And then John Kelly told everybody that. He got fired while he was taking a shit. I got fired from the fucking toilet. Damn, dog. That would help you though. If you're taking a shit, that would help you pinch it off. Like, oh.

You're like, all right, we're done here. Oh, I'm fine? Just fuck it. I ain't flushing. And I'm not washing my hands. Hold that. I'm going to leave you with that. Just take it with that on the way out.

Like, it was nice working with you. Amazing working with you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hit every elevator button. Yeah.

From the just fired John Bolton saying that, no, it didn't actually play out that way. I offered to resign last night and President Trump said, let's talk about it tomorrow. Okay, stop. I fucking love that. I love it. I love that John Bolton doesn't give a shit. He was gross before Trump was ever a realistic possibility. John Bolton has been disgusting back when Donald Trump was pitching The Apprentice for the very first time.

Way back in the day. He's an early adopter of disgusting. Hell yeah. Also, shout out to John Bolton right here. He clearly is trying to break up with Donald Trump, but Donald Trump was like, nah, nah, nah. I'm not finding a new apartment. We're staying together.

I'm dumping you. This is my decision. We've grown apart. I fucking dumped you. I dumped you. Trump dumped you. Trump dumped Bolton. And then Trump's ahead.

He was like, wait, I got gotta get a whole new Netflix? Nah. Nah. Fuck that. We had a beautiful algorithm. Come on, there's a ramen spot right underneath our apartment. Why are you being hysterical? Come on, please. Texted me. Just now he's watching. Can you read it?

Yeah, he said, let's be clear, I resigned. Okay, stop. Does no one watch a Fox News movie like the weather or anything? Like, this is what they're showing at 9 a.m.? Just so we understand the world we live in, this is Fox News, the worst thing on television. And at the moment, John Bolton, the former National Security Advisor, and Donald Trump, the President of the United States,

are watching it and texting the hosts to get their burns out there. That's right. Yo, stop. Or as we like to say, they're dragging each other. Come on, though. They are dragging each other. This is like loving hip-hop White House style.

So... How the fuck's with it? No, this is seriously like the Drive-In Five. Like, yo, call in. Yo, hit me up on Instagram. Yo, you know what I'm saying? Send in your requests. Shoutouts.

Think I have to direct to camera John Bolton. Like, Donald Trump tried to play me at Mama Sushi, but I was not having that. That's right. So I called my friends. This is nice in the Camaro, and we had to talk about it. Okay. Just come up like, girl.

How you doing? She's trying to play you. Mm-mm. Let's get some more mimosas over here. Some more mimosas, please. Thank you. Please for's trying to play you. Let's get some more mimosas. Some more mimosas, please. Thank you. Please, for the table. Thank you.

Do you mind if I say that while you were talking? And he wrote, yes. So John Bolton has just told me, texted me, to say, I resigned. OK. So I just want to be clear. That was the making of the reading of the tweet. Yeah.

That was him explaining that John Bolton did give him permission to tell everybody that he didn't get fired. He quit. Yo, this season of America is trash. It sure is whack. It really is. There's another season.

I'm like, I'm not doing this again. There we go. I don't know. Let the junior writers write it. Fuck it. Who cares? Am I crazy, but didn't they do this exact story like three years ago? I've seen this before. This is what they did with Scaramucci in season two. Yeah, that was even faster. That was like one week. And by the way, it's like, you know that

John Bolton's not going to last too much in the season. He's too big of a name. They can't pay that guy for two years. No way. Is it too late for John Bolton to go on Dancing with the Stars? It's never too late. I've seen him do the Foxtrot like, yeah. Yeah, my man had like a four episode

arc. That was it. This, look, we don't deserve anything, but we do deserve John Bolton and Sean Spicer dancing with one another. To Michael Bolton. To Michael Bolton. Bang! You know what I'm saying?

Yes, go ahead and say it, because I do not want to say that. For all the obvious reasons, right? So John Bolton has just answered the president's tweet by saying yes or no. Why are we doing this? Like, why are we saying... I know why we're doing it.

It's a talk show. Okay, stop. I just want to point out that that woman came within one neuron firing of a total breakdown. She was so close to the truth. She was like, why are we doing this?

Why am I doing this? What choices did I make that led me here? How did I get to this place in my life? Was it worth it? Am I happy? I am not. I don't belong here. Who? How did I get to this place in my life? Was it worth it? Am I happy? I am not. I don't belong here. Who's advice should I follow? Who should I have not listened to that told me to do this? And then the voice in the back of her head said,

girl, you have a mortgage. It's like, you want to buy more yellow dresses? You better close your mouth. It's like the bad guy from No Country for Old Men was in her head being like, if every choice led you to this.

If every choice. I can't do it. I'm Javier Bardem with a funny haircut. With a bowl cut. That was the worst, because I was like, I'm not even scared of you, dog. You're going to cut your head with a cereal bowl. Get out of here, Prince Fauntleroy.

Why are we seeing this play one against the other almost in terms of what the narrative is? Is it important or is it just that the president has moved on and he's going to hire a new national security advisor? I mean, that's the news, right? Put it this way. If anyone leaves a position and you think, okay, you

shake hands with the CEO and say, thanks for my time here, and they come out and say, I fired him or I said I want your resignation, you'd want to correct the record. I don't think there's any anxiety. Let me just correct the record. I resigned. That's like if you work at the Gap, though. That's not if you work...

That's not like government shit. I was folding those jeans correctly. I would just like to clear my name. I'm just letting y'all know. I use the board and all that. John Bolton is walking out of the Gap just with his arm out. Yeah, like, fuck it, y'all know. I use the board in all acts. John Bolton is walking out of the gap just with his arm out. Yeah, like, fuck it, y'all. You clean this fucking shit up.

I just tear open a puffer vest and shit, man, down everywhere. Everybody's sneezing and shit. Anarchy. Yo, Fox is terrible, dog. I was in the ER and the lady next to me was playing this shit. I was like, stop! I was like, yo, bring me more time loaded. They was in the ER and the lady next to me was playing this shit. I was like, stop!

I was like, yo, bring me more Tha-Lotted! They was like, yo, what's your pay in on the 1 to 10? I'm like, yo, 38! She's playing Hannity! Fuck! And that's okay, stop! Guys, give it up for Desus and Mero. Thank you guys for being here.

That was awesome. When we come back, let's play a game. Don't go anywhere. This is Love It or Leave It, and there's more on the way. And we're back. The southern border isn't the only place Trump is trying to build a wall.

He's also trying to fence in our hearts. We're inundated with sad news and raging news, terrifying news, hurricane-nuking news. And honestly, at some point, it makes sense that we turn off our emotions. If you got an electric shock every time you picked up the TV remote, at some point, you'd stop watching TV. Probably. Where's my father at? It would take a while. I see him. I look at him. I can't tell. I just see a face. I think I am. Nope. Wave. Point. Point. Point. How many shocks would it take? It would take a lot of shocks.

Ten shocks. But that's what they want. They want us to get so sick of politics that we turn off and give up. That we stop caring. But one way to stay in the fight is to remember we're in this together. We may experience horrific Trump tweets alone in our beds or online at Chipotle

when the person in front of us acts like they've never seen beans before. But we're in this together, and we'll prove it tonight in a game we're calling Tweet Emotion. Tweet Emotion. Tweet Emotion. So annoying.

Who out there wants to play the game? Hi, what's your name? Michelle. Michelle? Michelle. How you doing? I'm fantastic. Where are your name? Michelle. Michelle? Michelle. How you doing? I'm fantastic.

Where are you from? Troy. Troy, New York. Yes. Nice. Here's how it works. On the screen are 30 events of the past three years. And I'm going to read you an emotional response.

Your job will be to match an event from the screen to the emotional response I'm describing. All right, Michelle? Who's emotional? Ours, but mine. Ours, okay. And if you're listening to this podcast while walking your dog or having sex,

you don't need to see what's on screen. I regret it. But if you want to see what's on screen, it is my pin tweet. Michelle, are you ready? Yes! Question number one. Here's the emotion. Match it to the event.

I know I shouldn't take pleasure in others' pain and I don't want our toxic political culture to make me a coarse person, but I don't care. This is entertaining and we deserve it. Tillerson fired on toilet? So close. So close. But it's Kellyanne Conway insulting her husband

George Conway and then trying to retroactively make it off the record. Next emotion. What about the Trump era would lead you to believe that anything would be satisfying? Why shouldn't this be one more disappointment? U.S. pulls out of Paris Climate Accord? No, unfortunately, it was the Game of Thrones finale. Next emotion.

Being too cynical and pleasantly surprised is not more sophisticated than being too idealistic and disappointed. I will keep a light, a tiny flame of hope in my heart, and I don't care what Twitter says. What do you got? There's so many choices. It's such a hard game. This is a really hard game.

Yeah, I know. It sucks. You raised your hand though. I need your hand, though. I need an answer, Michelle. Democrats win the House? No. It's McCain kills Obamacare repeal. Next question, Michelle. Here's your emotion.

Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew. Trump tells Boy Scouts about yacht sex? You got it. That's right. Donald Trump at the Boy Scout Jamboree told a story about a fuck yacht. Next emotion. Sometimes the unfairness is so big and complete and final you don't feel mad.

You feel empty. And you turn on the television and the worst people are celebrating, not because they don't see the injustice you see, but because they see it and they fucking love it. And you're reminded of how broken our system is and the people who lead it now. Kavanaugh screams, I like beer. I'll give it to you. It was actually about Gorsuch,

but same fucking difference. Next emotion. Oh, you're screaming on the inside too, like all of us, and you couldn't help but project your fear and loneliness through your work, even when that work was meant to evoke love and joy? Good to know. Melania's blood-red Christmas tree. You bet. You bet.

You got it. Her job was to decorate the White House for Christmas. And because apparently she leads a pretty well unexamined life, she could not help but spill all of her worst feelings onto the walls of that building. It was terrifying and revealing. Final emotion. Honestly, I'd

watch that. Trump wants a new hurricane? No. It's Melania giving Trudeau sexy eyes. Michelle from Troy, New York, you've won the game. Thank you for playing Tweet Emotion. When we come back, Stacey Abrams.

Hey, don't go anywhere. There's more of Love It or Leave It coming up. And we're back. She's the former minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, the former candidate for governor of the great state of Georgia, and the founder and chair of the brand new voting rights organization Fair Fight. Please welcome Stacey Abrams. Thank you for being here.

They love you. Thank you. There are a lot of you here. I know, it's wild. Why weren't you in Georgia last year? Good fucking question! Good question! So, Governor, you just launched. I'll take it.

You just launched Fair Fight 2020. Can you tell us about this initiative and what you're hoping to accomplish? Sure. I believe voter suppression is real. I think it sucks. And I think it's one of the tools that will be used by the Republican Party to thwart the ambition of Americans in November 2020. And so having ruled out some job opportunities, I decided that my best contribution... Boo, boo her. I just wanted to get it out. I appreciate that. Thank you. That my contribution would be using what we learned in Georgia to set up in 20 battleground states

voter protection teams, basically SWAT teams in every one of those states so that every time voter suppression rears its head, we can beat it down. so that every time voter suppression rears its head, we can beat it down. So, joking aside, there are now two Senate seats up in Georgia, but you've made a decision that this is the most important thing you can do in 2020. Can you just tell people why this, why running for the Senate to you wasn't the right decision and doing this was?

I appreciate and understand in a way most people want me to. I know what the Senate is. I know what it does. And I'm going to work as hard as possible to make certain that the right person becomes, in fact, the right two people become the new senators from Georgia. However, thank you. However, I don't want the job. I have been in the legislative body. I think the legislature is an incredibly important role to play. I think the deliberative bodies are necessary. I don't like it. And to stand for senator, you should intend to be there for the next six years the next 12 years the next 18 years that's not what i want to do i've done that work i think it's critical work but i'm really good at setting up organizations and leading them and that's the work i want to do so we just had another presidential primary debate this week.

There hasn't been a single question about voting rights in any of the debates so far. What is a question on the subject, if you were moderating a presidential debate, that you would ask the Democratic candidates? What are you willing to do to protect the right of Americans to vote in every state in every election? And the answer is that we need to defeat voter suppression. Voter suppression exists in three ways. It is being able to register and stay on the rolls, and that's why it's so critical to note how many states are purging valid voters using pretext and illusion.

Number two, it's the ability to cast a ballot, and we have to recognize that since the end, the evisceration of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, 1,688 precincts have been closed in communities that used to be governed by the Voting Rights Act. Those are people who cannot go and vote near their homes. They have to go across town. It's harder for them to vote. And then it's making sure your ballot is counted, otherwise known as Florida. So we have to fight voter suppression in all of its forms and in all the places where it rears its head. So one thing that, you know, one reason I think it hasn't

necessarily come up in these debates is that there's a kind of skittishness in the media on the issue. You know, so much of our election coverage is predicated on a lot of assumptions that these are two equal sides fighting it out on a level playing field. And when that's not true, everybody's kind of words get scrambled. You know, you pointed out that there were enough shenanigans in Georgia based on the evidence to suggest that voter suppression not a factor, you'd be currently the governor of Georgia. And when you said that, a lot of people in the media said, oh, you sound just like Donald Trump. You're both trying to delegitimize an election, attacking the integrity of election when your actual critique is that our elections don't

have enough integrity. How do you fight that kind of false objectivity in this work? How do we get the media to understand that our elections aren't fair and aren't as free as they should be? One is we, you know, I've refused to be cowed by the critiques. What they expected was that on the day that I did my non-concession speech, that the very righteous screeds against me would force me to rethink my position and apologize to humanity for having questioned the system. Nuh-uh. But to your point, part of the insidious nature of voter suppression is that it seems like it's user error. Voter suppression used to be very clear.

It was dogs and hoses and laws that say you could not vote. What it looks like today are administrative burdens and having your absentee ballot get lost in the mail, closing down early voting places. It makes it look like you made a mistake and not that the system is mistaken. It makes it look like you made a mistake and not that the system is mistaken. Unlike Donald Trump, who questions the legitimacy of elections based on absolutely no evidence that he has spent three years searching for, voter suppression is real. We know it's real. We have absolute concrete evidence of its existence. But the reality is it is a feature of our democracy. It is not a bug.

Our democracy began with voter suppression and it has continued. And so my argument is not with the legal sufficiency of the election in 2018 in Georgia. The laws allowed what happened to happen. My argument is with the law itself that allowed that to be so, and that's what we have to happen. My argument is with the law itself that allowed that to be so, and that's what we have to fight. So one aspect of this, though, it goes beyond laws, and it goes to our relationship as citizens to our government, and that's true of citizens who are voting, but also the elected representatives, and it does seem as though one part of this is not just legal. It is that there are many, many people in politics who view winning as more important than democracy, who would rather be elected than elected fairly. Do you view that as a problem that is currently getting worse?

You know, how do we deal with the fact that, you know, just in North Carolina the other day, they waited until a bunch of Democrats were at a 9-11 memorial to cast a vote, and they said, well, sorry, you know, you lost. You know, how do you deal with that kind of cultural problem? We have to reclaim the notion of what democracy means. Part of it for me is that, well, thank you. Part of it is that we have to stop thinking about elections as being about candidates. One of the things I say that infuriates the right, but I mean it sincerely, is that in Georgia, we won. It's because I didn't see victory simply as me getting across the

finish line and getting a title. It was about transforming the electorate and ensuring that people who did not think they mattered in our system believe they could lift their voices up. As long as politicians make elections about them, as long as we make winning the only thing, when we make crossing that finish line and getting that crown the only metric, then we are going to continue to lose our democracy. Because when winning is all that matters, how you win has less and less relevance. My mission is to remind us that it is not about me getting a job. It is about me helping the voices of our people be heard.

And that's what democracy is. It's giving the people the ability to have their values represented and to select their leaders. And any time we erode that capacity, we are eroding the very democracy we seek to protect. You know, we've been talking a lot about Georgia. You ran an incredible race in Georgia that showed people just how possible it is for a Democrat to win that state. And a lot of people are looking at this map and thinking, well, how do we recreate what you did? What can Democrats running in red states or pre-blue states in 2020 learn from what you did? Well, we've just put out a very handy 16-page memo called the Abrams Playbook, available on Google.

And it's for this reason. I am deeply appreciative of the fact that I got to lead an extraordinary team in what I would say was one of the best campaigns ever run in America, because it was run by people who look like Georgia. But you can try this at home. And what I don't want people to think is that you have to have a singular person at the top of the ticket in order to be successful. You can win elections by talking to people, by being authentic and honest about your positions. They're not going to agree with everything you say, but they get excited to know that you're willing to tell them the truth. And what our campaign says, or what our playbook

says, is invest in everyone, go everywhere, and reject the myths that say that if you talk to people of color, white people won't vote for you, and if you only talk to white people, people of color won't vote for you. You can have it both. You can have both voting, that you can talk to people of color, white people won't vote for you. And if you only talk to white people, people of color won't vote for you. You can have it both. You can have both voting. That you can talk to people in rural communities and the suburban communities and in urban communities, and you can build a coalition. But the campaign has to do all of the work. And that's the part that tends to lead to the disconnect. You and I both know there are a lot of great candidates who lose because they run crappy campaigns. And those campaigns that are the most efficient are not the ones who select this group of

voters to win. Most efficient campaign is the one that wins, that gets the most voters to turn out. And my mission is to say that if you're in a red state or a pre-blue state, that more than likely what you are missing is that you're not talking to the people that you've already written off. People that you say are unlikely voters or non-voters. They're non-voters because you haven't given them something to vote for. They will vote if you give them an opportunity. One last question. You have written multiple novels. I have. Under your nom de plume, Selena Montgomery. Yes, I have. What a name.

Here are some of the titles. Never Tell, Hidden Sins, Secrets and Lies, Reckless, Deception. Did you realize that those were also names that could be used to describe Republican efforts to suppress the vote?

I try to multitask at all times. All right. So we have an announcement tonight. You heard it from Stacey. You're seeing it across the country. Republicans are doing everything they can to suppress the vote in the battleground states we need to win in 2020. That's why Stacey launched Fair Fight 2020, an unprecedented effort to put a full-time voter protection team in all 20 battleground states next year. We know that this works, that discriminatory anti-democratic laws that make it harder to vote can be overcome with good, local, on-the-ground organizing, exactly what Stacey Abrams intends to do with Fair Fight 2020, and we want to help. Tonight, Vote Save America is announcing a new partnership with Stacey Abrams and Fair Fight to raise the funds she needs to get it done.

raise the funds. She needs to get it done. Our goal is $1 million by November 5th, which is a lot of money to fund teams in the states that will determine control of the presidency of the Senate, of the House, of our future. If everyone listening goes to votesaveamerica.com slash fair fight and donates $10, we can do this. Bear Fight and donates $10, we can do this. I want people out here right now to take out their phones at Radio City and go to votesaveamerica.com

slash bearfight and put $10 in right now. Shouldn't they, Stacey? They shouldn't. I can see you. Now go to votesaveamerica.com slash fair fight, and you're going to donate $10, and you're going to kick us off because raising a million dollars by November 5th is a very heady target, and we're a little bit nervous about it.

What is the overall fundraising goal that you guys have? The overall goal is $5 million. We are, to your point, we are actually setting up these teams. They're four-person teams, and we are paying for full-time staffers. We're not asking states to do it themselves. We're not waiting until we have a nominee. We are actually going to fund, train, and staff in all 20 states. We're going to make sure that no matter who the nominee is, by the time that person takes the stage at the convention, we have voter protection teams that have already gone through a primary and are ready to be scaled up and win the election in November 2020. So donate to this effort.

We have to pick the right candidate. We have to do everything we can to turn out the vote, to knock on doors, to get people excited for our candidates. But none of it matters if our votes don't count, if people aren't able to go to the poll and make their voices heard. So that's what this fund is about. Show me your phones again. Are you doing it? I'm going to believe you. Do you believe them? I believe them because they wouldn't want to disappoint me again. All right. VoteSaveAmerica.com slash Fair Fight. Guys, give it up for Stacey Abrams for doing this incredible, important work.

You'll stay around for a game, right? You guys want to play a game with Stacey Abrams? for a game, right? You guys want to play a game with Stacey Abrams? When we come back, we'll play a game. Don't go anywhere. This is Love It or Leave It,

and there's more on the way. And we're back! Stacey Abrams has agreed to help me co-host, and to play with us, please welcome back to the stage Alyssa Mastromonaco, Wyatt Cenac, and Dulce Sloan! Hi, team. I donated. Thank you. Alyssa, we would expect nothing less.

Donated. Thank you so much. Hi! Hi. Hi. Hi. Hello again. All right. Stacey and I are co-hosting.

Okay. Oh, this seems bad. Democracy in America. It's a lot like a Star Wars movie. It's based on a really, really cool idea, but it rarely lives up to your expectations. With what? What are we?

We're not going to be honest about the prequels? We're not going to be honest about the promise of Star Wars? Rarely met? I don't watch enough movies. You know I love Rogue One. We established that. But that's why we need

Fair Fight, and we need it now. And to show us why, it's time for a game we're calling, I think we're going to need a bigger vote. Here's how it works. We're going to ask questions to our panel and they're going to try to guess the right number, the correct number without going over price is right style. Stacey will ask the question

i will reveal the answer are you guys ready no i mean let's see how it goes why i don't know it seems complicated but we'll get there i mean do i do i have an option it seems like i'm kind of stuck now you're in yeah yeah all right alloo! Okay. Between 2010 and 2018 in Georgia, lots of voters were purged from the voter rolls. Without going over, how many voters were purged from the rolls in that time period in Georgia? 54,000.

I'm going to say 300,001. Sweet. It's very Plinko. 95,000. Wyatt, you got it. Because the correct answer is 1.6 million. Fuck yeah. I mean, that's terrible.

Why am I happy? And I also... Fuck! No! That's horrible, but I win! You win. We lose. Oh, that's what it That's horrible, but I win! You win, we lose. Oh, that's what it's like to voter suppress someone. You're probably like, I won! Oh, but I'm a piece of shit. I also want to let you all in on something a little bit behind the scenes, which is, the card had incorrect information,

and Stacey Abrams corrected the data on stage as she read. And because she is a consummate professional, she wasn't going to point it out. She just fucking rolled with it and fixed it. That's why. That's why she's Stacey Abrams. Question two. Wisconsin passed a voter ID law in 2011,

and by 2016, 300,000 voters in the state lacked the requisite ID to cast a ballot. Without going over, by how many voters did Trump win the state of Wisconsin by? One dollar. Ooh, we got a one dollar. One of us had to say it, okay? Their prices right rules. Someone had to

say one dollar. Someone had to say one dollar. Did all of you? They have jobs. They haven't seen the prices right since they were in high school. Wyatt, what do you got? 300,001. Alyssa? 80,000 Oh man, it's $1 Tulsa, you got it

The correct answer is 27,000 That's right 300,000 people didn't have the right ID But Trump won by 27,000 So why are you celebrating? Say that again? Did y'all catch that math? Did that shit sound wild to you celebrating? Say that again? Did y'all catch that, man? Did that shit sound wild to you too?

Isn't that voter fraud? No, it's voter suppression. Fraud would be if they voted anyway. But they got to vote. No. They didn't vote. 300,000 didn't have the ID, so they weren't allowed to cast a ballot. And Trump only won by 27,000 votes.

a ballot and Trump only won by 27,000 votes. If those 300,000 people had been allowed to vote the way they were prior to 2011, we would be having a very different conversation today. I'd be working on an uncontroversial reboot of Roseanne. And that's why I'm here to get questions answered. I feel like a lot of everybody was fucking confused. Next question. In 2016, Donald Trump won Michigan by just over 13,000 votes. Without going over, how many voters were purged from the voter rolls that very same year?

42,628. Wyatt? It sounds fun. Sounds good. You got that. 42,628 Wyatt It sounds fun If you got that Exactly to the person You should run out of here And get every lotto ticket And then give all your winnings

To Fair Fight 2020 Yes I'm gonna say 95,000 Give all your winnings to Fair Fight 2020. Yes! I'm going to say $95,000. Alyssa, what do you got? I mean, I'm really tempted for the $1, because I've not been doing well, but I'm going to say $65,000.

What did you say? I said $95,000. $65,000. Wyatt, you've done it again. Fuck yeah! Because $400,000. For those listening at home, he has kicked over now two chairs. Very softly because I don't know if the people at Radio City

are going to make me pay for those. 449,922 voters, or over 34 times the number of voters between Trump and Clinton, were purged that year in Michigan. So great job, Wyatt. Yeah. Who's hissing? No, no, it's a gas leak. Don't worry. It's just a gas leak.

It's just a gas leak. Yeah. It's to help lull everyone into a sleep so that we forget the nightmare we've been living in. And not in a rage. Got it. Let's go.

Am I winning? You're doing so good. Cool, cool, cool, cool. You're doing so good. And Joe Biden's skin was so smooth. So smooth. Final question. It's like a Neutrogena commercial.

Final question. 27's like a Neutrogena commercial. Final question. 27 states purge voters using a shared database called Interstate Crosscheck. Since it was created in 2005, Crosscheck has resulted in more than 1 million voters being purged from the rolls. When Crosscheck flags a voter, what percentage of the time is it an error? Interesting question. Is Facebook involved? No.

Probably, in some way. 60%. 60%. So it's called cross-check? Yes. Sounds like CompStat for voting. For those of you who know what the fuck CompStat is. Yes. It's another thing to be annoyed about.

I'm going to go 93%. 93%? Alyssa, what do you got? 45%. 45%. I mean, the domination by Wyatt is truly incredible. None of you are pessimistic enough. I live in the darkness.

99%. Oh, my God. After North Carolina used cross-check, they were alerted to 35,000 illegal double voters in the state. But when they hired a former FBI agent to track them all down and bring them to justice, the FBI agent found exactly zero double voters from 35,000 to zero. That is how bad the technology is.

Can I add one quick thing? Please. So here's why cross-check sucks. In Arizona, Michael Johnson registers to vote. And in Indiana, Michael Johnson registers to vote. and in Indiana Michael Johnson registers to vote cross check then says Michael Johnson is illegally voting

in two separate states 99% of the time cross check is absolutely wrong and we don't know who the idiot was who actually got caught Jesus take the wheel that's crazy because my friend his email is Josh Johnson 846 you're just giving that out but that's crazy because my friend his email is joshjohnson846

because they're no no no no but that's fucked up because my friend's email is joshjohnson846 because there are 845 other josh johnsons so that means by that logic that all 846 of them can get

purged because they'll say it's a duplicate. Because in 27 states, use a system they know is wrong 99% of the time. Now, who is the... But I feel like the people who are getting purged look like me. Just checking. You are correct. Okay.

You are correct. Just making sure that white nonsense is doing what white nonsense does. Don't say... You cracked it. You cracked the case yet again. So I did win!

White nonsense! We have the results. Dulce has won the game. Wyatt right behind her in second. Hey, this is a game about how your vote doesn't get counted. No, no, yeah. It's so in a weird way.

I'm sorry. According to the thesis of the game, the theory of the game, Alyssa, you've won the game. Wait, how did... Wait, I'm also too optimistic. Welcome to Georgia. Yeah, welcome to Georgia. We got cross-checked. Didn't you figure it out?

You guys got... Oh, white lady. Right, right, right. I'm sorry. I'm a nice white lady, though. I forgot the country I live in. All right, everybody. You've all won the game.

Guys, give it up for Alyssa Mastromonaco, Wyatt Sinef, Dulce Sloan, and Stacey Abrams. Support Fair Fight. When we come back, the Railwheel. Don't go anywhere. This is Love It or Leave It, and there's more on the way. And we're back! Now it's time for the rant wheel.

You know how it works. We spin the wheel and we rant, and whatever topic it lands upon, this week on the wheel and we rant, and whatever topic it lands upon, this week on the wheel we have... We have 2020. 2020. 2020 on 2020. All right. We got to face it. 2020 is going to be rough.

This is going to be the biggest fight of our lives, no matter who our nominee is. This isn't Trump who ran for president to goose the apprentice ratings. This is a Trump who fears that if he loses, he might go to jail, or something even worse, become a joke. And he controls the Justice Department.

He's got Rudy Giuliani skulking around the Ukraine looking for evidence. After Trump won, it sort of felt like a death. I think we were all mourning. It wasn't just sad, it wasn't just scary, it wasn't just enraging. There was a kind of dull, empty feeling for a while. But then we went to the funeral, and right when the loss was sinking in, right as we began to grieve,

Uncle Moshe popped out of the casket and bit a chunk out of Aunt Ethel's neck, and then Aunt Ethel attacked the rabbi. And we were like, no time to grieve. We're all wearing one kind of pink hat, and Don Cheadle is running a phone bank. But like any good zombie movie, at first you're

overwhelmed and sad because you saw a zombie child eat a dog. And she was your neighbor's sweet little girl when she was alive. That's the harrowing part of every zombie movie. When the hero sees someone they used to know attack someone else they used to know.

But then eventually you get used to it. Everyone said for so long, this isn't normal. And we said it so often, it became a joke. But when something awful becomes normal, that doesn't mean you accept it as normal forever. But it does mean you stop being surprised and you stop being scared. And you get together with your non-zombie neighbors and you have a party where you tie barbed wire around some baseball bats. Metaphorically, the zombie is racism. The zombie is in our hearts. I'm talking about organizing. Here's what I've realized.

Here's what I've realized. Trump is normal. It's awful and it's sad and it's normal and that's okay. It's normal that someone like Trump could get 46% of the vote. It is normal that Trump was embraced by the Republican Party. That is normal. It is up to us to change what is normal. In the first part of an apocalypse movie, nobody believes Randy Quaid. They think he's crazy. Then, in the second act, everybody panics. But then, in the third act, Jeff Goldblum gets everybody in a room, and he explains computers. Goldblum gets everybody in a room and he explains computers. And Bill Pullman gives a rousing speech and Will Smith says, welcome to Earth. And that's what we have to do, I guess. Like Jeff Goldblum, we need to outsmart our opponents. Like Bill Pullman, we have to be more inspiring than our opponents. Like Bill Pullman, we have to be more inspiring than our opponents.

And like Randy Quaid in Independence Day and in life, we have to get weird and we have to get fucking crazy. Normal? They're normal. McConnell is normal. Fox News is normal.

Trump is normal. We're the crazy ones now. We're the crazy ones now. We're the ones. They did this to us. They're the normal ones. We're fucked up. They don't know what we're going to do. That's the headspace we need to get into.

Randy Quaid with a thick fucking beard, traveling in an RV and hiding from the government. That's the mentality we need to bring to this fight. They're a bunch of normal dweebs, and we're out of our fucking minds. That's our show. I want to thank Michael Barbaro, Stacey Abrams, Desus and Mero,

Dulce Swann, Wyatt Cenac, Alyssa Mastromonaco. I want to thank the incredible crew at Radio City. I want to thank Travis, Elisa, Belinda, and everyone on our team. I want to thank all of you for coming out. Have a great night!

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