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Starting point is 00:01:41 We're back with another episode of Raging Perspective. It is Wednesday, October 14th. And if you haven't yet subscribe, make sure to subscribe up here if you're on substacks. Subscribe down here if you're on YouTube. I'm Aaron Parnas and my co-host Jessica Tarlob. And we're so excited to be here this Wednesday this afternoon. Are you going to do the whole show? I could throw on my Warby Parkers.

Starting point is 00:02:07 These aren't Warpies. Oh, sorry. I love Warby. But you know, like these were my dad's glasses. Buy your copy of I disagree where I write about the glasses. Okay, there you go. My first book called in a few days. What's on the agenda today?

Starting point is 00:02:21 Inflation report today. No, Bueno. Consumer prices rose 0.6% for the month, the biggest increase in five months, bringing annual inflation to a whopping 3.7%. Tariffs and rising AA investment costs also contributing to price pressures. The latest report can keep the federal. reserve on track for another interest rate hike in December. This is definitely not the news that the administration was hoping for going into the midterms. Trump has been out on the campaign trail,

Starting point is 00:02:50 dropping absolute bangers like looking in John Hustead's ass when he was in Ohio, but he was in Alaska last night. Let's watch a clip. Now, these are the greatest sound bites anyone's ever had. I could also say the stock markets at the highest level. Your 401ks are at the highest level. And then you hear about them. Affordability. Just stupid people. They want to put them in jail for 10 years because they fixed an engine. How sick? Well, I heard about it. I read the story about it and did a little check-in and I'm giving each one of the three an unconditional pardon. I don't know if you've ever heard when you give somebody a pardon. They say that means, and I don't know how this works and why it's an expression, but it's well used. That means you're as clean and

Starting point is 00:03:36 as a newborn baby's ass. Now, I never understood that. Why is that so clean? This is a lot of ass talk happening. Yeah, but I mean, there's that. But what infuriates me about all of this, the pardons were given out to individuals convicted of violating the Clean Air Act. They pled guilty.

Starting point is 00:03:56 They were not even convicted by a jury. They admitted fault. They tampered with federally mandated monitoring devices on private and commercial diesel vehicles and required air pollution control equipment on more than three dozen vehicles. They are actively making our country less safe because the air we breathe is worse off because of them. They violated the law and he pardoned them. They weren't pardons for fixing engines. They were pardoned for taking federally mandated pollution monitors out of vehicles intentionally

Starting point is 00:04:25 in violation of the Clean Air Act. Now, that's one thing. The other thing is you have a president of the United States who says affordability is great because the stock market is great and because your 401ks are great. Well, you know who can't afford to even invest in the stock market? Most Americans. And so how is the economy great for a majority of the country when they can't afford to invest in the stock market that's performing well,

Starting point is 00:04:47 which arguably if you look at the stock market, I looked at my 401K over the past couple years. It is not performing better this year than it was in the past. 401K has been doing better in the past than it has been this year. The stock market was doing better in the past than it has been this year. you have a very rapidly kind of flattening market, and it's not good for anyone. And the expectation is there will be some sort of correction coming our way in the coming months. It'll be interesting to see if we get the rate hike.

Starting point is 00:05:16 I appreciate the explainer on the engine situation, and I'm a little bit embarrassed that I, of course, went straight to the fact that he talks about asses every night. And you're like, let me tell you about the real thing. But it all gets looped in together into the fact that President Trump is just not talking about the things that average Americans are thinking about. And he's downright mocking them when he does get around to doing that. I want to go a little bit deeper into this inflation report. So gas prices up 34.2% over the last year. This is the longest time that we've had over 4.4.4.4.5. dollars a gallon of gas in one year. The typical household is now paid an extra $1,043 in fuel

Starting point is 00:06:02 expenses since the start of the war. Obviously, oil gas, gas utilities, electricity, up, food away from home. So when you eat out, apparel, shelter, transportation, medical care, like, there is no good news pockets. And watching how enthusiasts for the Trump administration or believers in Trump's economic policies are handling the data in the morning reports has brought a little bit of a smile to my face. They're not even tap dancing, though, essentially. This is straight up bad,

Starting point is 00:06:37 and it's the last thing that you want to see going into an election. I will add, you know, he's in Alaska, and Donald Trump should not have to be in Alaska with under three weeks to go into this election. Like, that is a ruby-red state. I don't think he wants to be in Alaska. That is a long trip.

Starting point is 00:06:55 That's an eight-hour flight from D.C. That's not, I mean, he's not enjoying his time on Air Force. I mean, maybe he is on the new Air Force One, but this is not like a quick day trip, right? The non-secure one? Yeah, he went all the way to Alaska. He practically saw Russia from his rally. So it's not good.

Starting point is 00:07:15 And that was a Sarah Palin joke, if people didn't get it. Because I know people in the comments sometimes say, Aaron, you're dumb, you're one. Anyways, I think that, No, I'm just impressed that you know the Sarah Palin joke because usually you say that political humor or like spots from my time

Starting point is 00:07:33 that you were like in a diaper when Sarah Palin was a thing. Indeed, I was actually getting Bar Mitzvah that year. But setting that aside, I think he has a real problem. I think Republicans don't want him with them. The ones that he's campaigning with are he's like, he's trying to, because if he turns out Maga and his base of support in Alaska and Texas and all, Ohio, the Republican candidates will win.

Starting point is 00:07:56 I mean, that's what they need to win. But in states like North Carolina, which they've practically given up on in a state like Michigan, Trump isn't going to save Mike Rogers. Like, he's not going to Michigan. Mike Rogers wants him to stay the hell away. Iowa, too. It's very interesting. And with just three weeks to go now, less than three weeks to go, I think they're in a really,

Starting point is 00:08:13 really bad spot. So I've been watching the money and where they're taking it from and where they're putting it in. You mentioned already in North Carolina. where they're leaving Michael Watley to the Roy Cooper wolves at this point in Georgia. Democrats are even stopping the spend on John Ossoff because they feel like everything is hunky-dory there. And we're going to talk a little bit about another John Ossoff debate with Mike Collins, which they're just so brutal for Collins. I can't imagine sitting next to or standing next to someone as that's happening.

Starting point is 00:08:50 But I saw just this morning that Republicans are abandoning. going after Henry Quayar's seat in Texas. And that's really important for two reasons. One, on the pardon front, remember the Donald Trump pardoned, or, well, why are you laughing? It's true. No, I find that whole situation hilarious. Oh, I thought you were right to tell me I was wrong. And I was like, no, I definitely know this is right.

Starting point is 00:09:12 He pardoned Henry Quayar, for sure. Right. And Hakeem Jeffries was supportive of this. It wasn't, but Quayor had to cozy up to some degree to the Republicans for this to happen. they got their hand-picked candidate to go against QuayR, and they redistricted it there. Remember, this is so it set off everything before Gavin Newsom was like, okay, Texas, I'll raise you prop 50. I'm going to draw these districts in California with the approval of the people, which is important to make sure that we backstop the losses that we'll have in Texas. And with the surge in Latino support for Democrats, they've accomplished very little.

Starting point is 00:09:52 and maybe even gone in the reverse direction. So I'm curious as to, you know, what you think about the moving around of the money and Texas specifically, where things were looking good for what felt like long, long, long, impossible shot candidacies like a Bobby Pulido. Yeah, for sure. I mean, listen, I think that the one thing Republicans don't have a problem with is money. Like, they have the resource. Elon Musk just dumped almost $300 million into this election Trump is dumping $400 million until this election day, seeminglyly have endless money. So it's a big story when they pull money out of districts or out of states like North Carolina.

Starting point is 00:10:27 That means that not that they don't have the money to spend. It means that they don't believe that their candidate can win and they think that the money would be better spent elsewhere. Where I find a fascinating where they are spending a boatload of money is in places where they shouldn't have to. Kansas, for example. Kansas should not be a tough state for Republican, South Carolina. Darlene Graham should be running away with this thing. she's not. Now, ultimately, do I think Darling Graham will probably win? Probably. I mean, the odds are against the Democrat in that race and Dr. Annie Andrews, but it's a close race. It's

Starting point is 00:11:00 anyone's guess in this election cycle. And so you're now at a point where you have Democrats who are historically, who are running in historically uphill battles in South Carolina and Kansas, Mississippi even, substantially. Yeah, Scott columns, awesome. I know, but they're like substantially overperforming in these areas. And if Republicans are having to spend in Mississippi and in Texas and in Iowa and in some of these states, like, yeah, I mean, they have very little hope of flipping a state like Michigan or New Hampshire. Yeah, I would just add on the money differential, which is obviously a very big deal. And it's particularly acute on the gubernatorial races, which I feel like we are not talking about enough.

Starting point is 00:11:43 The GGA is pumping a ton of money in to races that we need to hold, like Katie Hobbs and Arizona, but flipping Georgia, for instance, we want to hold in Wisconsin with David Crowley. These races might not feel as sexy as the Senate races and the peak congressional races that we're paying attention to. But having control of governor's mansions matters a lot. So we wrote about this for the Monday Rage, the newsletter that comes out on Mondays because it's called the Monday Rage. But anyway, pay attention to the governor's races. And I just want to add about the money itself. they are spending sometimes three times what the Democrats are spending, but they are not getting the impact that they expected. People are seeing one Democrat ad versus the three, and they're remembering the messaging of the Democrats' ads.

Starting point is 00:12:32 And that's because it jives with their personal experience, right? We're talking about costs, and they know how much it is to fill up a tank of gas, cost of the grocery store. So yes, the money advantage, it matters a lot, but also the quality of these ads, the quality of the message, and just the track record. is neutering a lot of this spend. And you're seeing that specifically in Texas where Ken Paxton cannot control himself from complaining about D.C. and also throwing Abbott a bit under the bus

Starting point is 00:13:04 this time around too, that he's struggling against Gina and Yehosa, which I love to hear. Before we talk about more American electoral politics, I want to get to this Ukraine story. They're facing a dangerous double blow Russia's intensifying attacks on its energy infrastructure, just as Ukrainian forces lose partial access to Starlink. Elon Musk's satellite internet network, which has become critical to Ukraine's battlefield communications and drone operations.

Starting point is 00:13:30 The disruption comes amidst escalating tensions between Trump and Kiev, raising questions about whether Trump is using must technology to pressure Ukraine. All of this comes as Hegseth was called a war criminal while speaking in a panel discussion on drone warfare in Washington. Let's watch a clip. So what you know you will get from us is urgency, urgency to address threats around the world as well. So you've given, you've given Adjant Court a one-year deadline, October 1st, 2027 to stand up this command for Max, myself, the chairman, the joint staff, and the services. I must say, by the way, the... So what are your thoughts before I give my thoughts? Well, he can't go anywhere.

Starting point is 00:14:17 Trump officials can't go anywhere without being heckled these days, which I found fine fascinating. And that wasn't the only heckling moment. There were multiple moments where they were heckled. So I think that's interesting. I think the second thing is, is that Pete Hexeth and Elon Musk are war criminals for Elon Musk for blocking the Starlink Pete Hexeth for bombing in all-girls school in Iran. I mean, the proof is in the pudding. Elon Musk, what he did last night, killed Ukrainian civilians and left hundreds of thousands of people across Ukraine without. power by intentionally disrupting Starlink activity right just literally minutes before Russia

Starting point is 00:14:52 launched one of its largest ballistic missile and drone attacks since the start of the war. And so I think that there needs to be a serious conversation of accountability, but I don't know how you get accountability these days. Yeah, I would add, so there are two platforms that we're discussing here that Musk created. So there's Starlink and then there's also Star Shield, which is this constellation of a satellites that are used in warfare. And the DOD is actually in charge of Star Shield, which is apparently what was affected in this outage. They actually slowed the rate. So like Starlink has, the, it's been prohibited to 100 miles per hour since 2025. That was a new thing that Star Shield

Starting point is 00:15:36 was not firing at above 100 miles per hour, which they needed to be able to defend themselves against the latest Russian attack. And so there are questions now of who might have authorized the downgrading of the Star Shield protective system in the midst of all of this. So this is a DOD question on top of it being an Elon Musk question. And when you have Musk pumping $276 million into the midterms for the Republicans and you see something like this, you know, on the heels of Trump cutting, it's arguably an illegal deal with the Russians to buy, what is it, eight or nine days worth of diesel over the course of the next couple of months. I think it's pretty fair to say that the U.S. government is now on the side of the Russians. And it's actually the polls who pay

Starting point is 00:16:26 for the Ukrainians Starlink, which I didn't know that. So, you know, we love to say, like, you know, you're taking all our money and we're always rolling it out for you. It's actually, no, the Europeans are doing this. So I thought that the Polish government was coming after Elon Musk as well. on Twitter, on his own platform, saying, like, we're paying customers here. Yeah. Like, how dare you do something like this? And you're right. People died as a result of this.

Starting point is 00:16:52 And they're heading into the winter. And the Russians know that they can fight harder and potentially crush Ukrainians when they can take away their heat and their water during the winter months. Yep, 100%. And it's not just about – I mean, listen, I think the Russians know that they're not going to win this war tomorrow or in that. three months from now, but they can target Ukrainian civilians. They can make Ukraine's life a living hell. And I think the ultimate goal still with Putin is not just to take Ukraine, but also to decapitate Ukrainian leadership. If he can take out Zelensky, he would do it. So I think that's the goal here. And Musk and Hexeth and all and the American government are making it easier for that to

Starting point is 00:17:32 happen. Do you think the Ukrainians are going to continue their hits on like the Yandak status centers and carry on with that offensive? They should. I, I think so. I don't know. I don't see why not. I think Zelensky is giving it a few days to see whether or not to kind of show Trump, like, look, hey, we're not the problem here. Because listen, at the end of the day, Zelensky needs Trump. The Ukrainians need the Americans. So Zelensky can't go too hard against Trump, can't attack him too much because they need each other or Ukraine needs America. Without America, Ukraine is going to suffer even more. And so I think he's giving it a few days. All right. Let them pause and live with a world without taxis, a payment system, no music. I mean, it's really incredible.

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Starting point is 00:22:17 You know the 2020 election? Everybody's seen my my views on that. What are they? They know my views on that. There was a lot of doubt in that election. Well, Donna, I didn't hear an answer to the question. Your opponent said that you have $5 million in private stock. Is that true? 30 seconds. I think it's a shame that I would just say this. His lies are beneath him on this race and he's muddying the water because he does not want to about his own liberal record here, which is that he does support kids changing gender at school and tax benefits going to illegal immigrants. Well, all that she just said was what was a lie.

Starting point is 00:22:51 The reality is that in her public disclosure or filing, it says private stock from $1 million to $5 million. She also took $50,000, even though she's a multimillionaire and taxpayer dollars to give herself a luxury DC apartment and has had her husband operating as a shadow lobbyist. I think we did have an agreement before Donald Trump tore it up. and decide to go to war. And, you know, Senator Collins says that, you know, she voted against it nine times, but she didn't have the votes.

Starting point is 00:23:20 Well, that sounds like then we probably ought to have Democrats in charge the U.S. Senate so that we have the votes to stop this war. I liked that more than Rhodes Salt. I thought that was a particularly good deep cut from Troy Jackson. What did you think of the night of many debates? Well, the Mike Collins one just isn't fair. I mean, John Osse off against Mike Collins. That's just not a fair debate.

Starting point is 00:23:42 Like, I think, oh my God, it's so bad. Also, the Ashley Hinson-Jah Turing one, I think Ashley Hins, I found it fascinating. I don't know if you saw it right after the debate their first ad Ashley Hinson released. I voted to release the Epstein files. I would never, yeah, that's the ad she's running, even though she was working to block the Epstein files. She's now claiming because she voted it. She's standing on with survivors. That's a hilarious thing to me.

Starting point is 00:24:06 And then I really, I mean, I think Troy Jackson's a really, good person and a really good candidate. I think Maine is just such an uphill battle given all the shit of everything that happened. But it was a good debate for him. It's just like I... It was better than the first one. He felt, it seemed like he found his sea legs more than the first time. And I thought that Collins was more on the defensive than she was the first time, which

Starting point is 00:24:28 makes sense because she's been doing this for decades. Yeah, I just, I'm still a lot more bullish even on Iowa than I am on Maine right now, which is saying a lot. I just like when someone stands there and says, well, we might as well just have more Democrats in Washington so that we can end this war. And for anyone sitting at home thinking like, oh, Susan Collins stands with us, it's like, well, she does, but there's no one else around her who will do it. I mean, even this, you know, bipartisan letter that they've sent out to try to get Trump to rescind this deal with Russia for the diesel has like four or five Republican senators

Starting point is 00:25:01 on it. The rest of the caucus is, you know, cowering in the corner. And so it's all well and good to have a maverick, to have a fighter, an independent spirit. person on your side, but, like, no one can do it alone. You can't push that boulder up the hill. I mean, all of these heroes, like when you think about, you know, John McCain and his vote for Obamacare, that's because all the Democrats also that were going to help out there. So, you know. It's going to be an interesting, I'm really curious to see what the outcome is. I really don't know. I'm, like, every day is, like, a different, like, I'm toying. I hate looking at the polls. Every poll story I talk to says they're going to be wrong in some respects. I just don't

Starting point is 00:25:38 know if they're going to be wrong in the sense that, like, Republicans are going to turn out more than they're answering polls or if the Democratic turnout is even bigger. I don't know what that's going to look like. I'm just, I'm so ready for this election to be over. I am so ready to sit down on November 4th and, like, take a breath and then on November 5th start 2028, but at least for a day to just like breathe, it'll be a nice time. Well, November 4th will start the onslaught of shoddy lawsuits. So you will not be breathing a sigh of relief that it's over. Yes, to everything about John Ossoff, not a fair fight. I love that he is making hay of the fact that Mike Collins' own son-in-law is a white nationalist influencer

Starting point is 00:26:21 and that he had people with ties to the KKK working in his office. Like in Georgia, that should not play well. And, you know, he's trying to deflect. I would say also, you know, everyone is into John Ossoff, and you hear this from the most liberal sides of the party, you know, two more centrist Democrats. There were questions, like, how is he on his feet? And you see these, like, incredible televised speeches that he was doing basically every Sunday. And the camera work was incredible and the glow up and all the things.

Starting point is 00:26:47 People were like, well, you know, how's he going to be back against the wall? Looks pretty good, actually. You know, I mean, some of that stuff can be scripted. But most of it is living in the moment. And he's just dropping haymakers on Mike Collins all the time. I think Osloff's going to win that race by, like, 10 points. Like, I don't think it's going to be. Hopefully, Keisha Lance Bottoms also gets good help there on the governor's race.

Starting point is 00:27:11 I think he'll do enough to push Keisha Lance Bottoms over the finish line here. I think it's going to be – I think she'll win by maybe one or two, but I think he'll win by eight to ten. And then if he wants to run for president, I mean, the floor is – Well, he says he's not going to, but Barack Obama also said he wasn't going to. In 2004, Barack Obama said there is no chance to know. I'm going to assume by my full term. Also, Washington, I kind of like it here. Maybe I could go and live in the really big house, too.

Starting point is 00:27:37 Not like the present one, like the good big house. Thoughts on what's going on in Texas. On the polling front, I will just say Maris just released their newest poll. They had Tala Rico up six. Wait, I want to say this because it's important. No, it's to your point. They had Tolariko up six. Now he's up two.

Starting point is 00:27:55 They moved the sample to be R plus 14. So arguably over sampling Republicans and he's still up by two. So I would appreciate it. like all these pollsters, oversample the crap out of Republicans. Please, like, I don't want to feel unnecessarily good about anything. But if you show me an R plus 14 sample with an inflation rate at 3.7, Donald Trump underwater at these levels, you know, people knowing who Ken Paxton is and Talarico is still up by two. I can live with that. Yeah, I think that's that I agree with you on that front.

Starting point is 00:28:26 I think that every, every race should be oversampled right now, the Republican side of things. We'll just change everyone's methodology. Do you think this latest bit of Apo, Ken Paxton, New Year's Eve, Dubai with two fugitives and his mistress, does that matter? No. Or it's just like added to the, it's baked in. It's so sad that it doesn't matter because this could end someone's candidacy. But Ken Paxton has about 10 other scandals that are worse than this. That's absolutely crazy to me.

Starting point is 00:28:55 They also give him $190,000. We have so much. Have you heard about the burn book? Kimberly Gilfoyle has a burn book where she wrote down all of the... Have you been watching Mean Girls? Because that's very millennial-coded. No, no, no.

Starting point is 00:29:08 She apparently allegedly wrote down a bunch of secrets about the Trump family in a journal. She's been holed up in an estate in Athens, Greece, ever since being terminated. Trump says now she was never part of the family despite... I know. Like being engaged and on every family vacation

Starting point is 00:29:24 for four years. Literally. What do you make of the allegations? I mean, seems pretty serious. Also, this is shit they're all doing all the time. I love when they just decide, like, they're upset about it this time. It's usually a woman, I will say, I mean, Chrissy Dome got fired for a whole host of reasons, but they were so offended that people were getting no bid contracts and she was profiting

Starting point is 00:29:46 off the office with her lame boyfriend. And it's like, you guys are major criminals. I mean, Trump is worth $6.5 billion now. I think his wealth was it tripled at this point since he's been an office. and, like, we're shocked that Kimberly was having donors pay her Amex bills and giving her lavish gifts for political influence that she didn't really have. Well, they do it. They do it so they can say, well, look, look, we're fighting corruption. And Kimberly Gilfoy, I don't think they ever wanted her in the administration. That's why they shipped her off to Greece. And so she was like the easy fall guy here. Let's answer some of your guys's questions. Um, Jess, Crown Mr. Brown 7701 wants to know,

Starting point is 00:30:30 do you think the New York governor race might be a sleeper as a New York president, too? I know. Well, I'm glad that you brought this up because this is the first topic on the five tonight. Oh. So we are definitely trying to make fetch happen as the mean girls people on this call. Uh, we'll get my meaning, the older folks. Do I think it's going to be close? Yeah, I think that it is.

Starting point is 00:30:52 I mean, Lee Zeldon got within a few points of Kathy Hokel. Granted, I think he was a better candidate than Bruce Blakeman. It was also a Trump year. And this is going to be a blue year. But there are a lot of New Yorkers who are upset about prices, especially utility bills and are looking around and saying, like, we've had essentially wall-to-wall blue governance. And we're not necessarily doing better. That's why people took flyers on Donald Trump also in 2024. I think ultimately, she pulls it.

Starting point is 00:31:22 out. But he did land some blows last night in the debate. What do you think, I agree with you. I think it'll be a little closer, but I think she'll win. Okay. I'm glad we're agreed. J.C. asks, what if Mike Johnson refuses to seat newly elected Democrats? It's not his job to seat or unseat Democrats. It is the nonpartisan clerk of the United States House of Representatives to decide whether to seat or unseat representatives. He does not actually have any ability to do that. What will end up happening is the states will send certificates of election to the clerk of the House of Representatives who will then seat. Now, the question is, what happens if Mike Johnson decides to fire the clerk and install someone who may not seat? Well,

Starting point is 00:32:05 then that's a constitutional crisis that no one has really contemplated. And I have been inside rooms where they've discussed this constitutional crisis and no one has an answer. So that's the latest. Yeah, and there are many groups of lawyers war-rooming and game plan scenarioing for what happens from the day after the election through the days that they're supposed to get seated. This is a top concern for them. But the other side is also war-roaming all of this. And they're a maniacal bunch. Just watch Steve Bannon's latest interview. If you would like more of an indication of what could be coming our way. All right, Delco Strong. If must suspend Starlink access in Ukraine, could he possibly be liable for involuntary manslaughter or another murder category?

Starting point is 00:32:56 No, it's just so hard to prove. I mean, it's so attenuated, like, as far as, like, actual, like, crimes like that. I would argue it's more of a, it could be a war crime in the Hague, but, I mean, we're not a party to the ICC, so it'll never happen. Okay. That's the latest. If you haven't yet, hit that subscribe button up here on Substack,

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