The David Pakman Show - 10/31/22: Pelosi Attack Leads to Conspiracies, Obama Crushes GOP

Episode Date: October 31, 2022

-- On the Show: -- Trumpist anti-vaccine antisemitic man attacks Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi, in a middle of the night home invasion -- Fox News reacts to the violent home invasion and attack of Paul Pelosi by saying that "a lot of people get hit with hammers" -- New Twitter owner Elon Musk tweets an unhinged conspiracy theory about the hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, and then deletes the tweet -- Brazil goes left, voting to replace right wing President Jair Bolsonaro with left-wing Lula -- Joe Rogan and Dr. Phil McGraw spread fake news about fentanyl in Halloween candy -- Former President Barack Obama brutally destroys Ron Johnson, Herschel Walker, and other Republicans while campaigning for 2022 Democratic candidates -- Multiple recent polls show Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker leading incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock -- Republican Alaska House candidate Sarah Palin essentially gives up her campaign, stopping fundraising and firing her staff -- Radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says it's okay that she believes insane things because her followers also believe them -- Voicemail caller asks about Bill O'Reilly's recent prediction that Joe Biden will resign from the presidency for health reasons sometime after the 2022 midterm election -- On the Bonus Show: Elon Musk wastes no time changing Twitter, men exonerated in Malcolm X killing to receive $36 million, ballot measures could change how Americans vote, gamble, and smoke, much more... 🌿 Sunset Lake CBD: Get 20% OFF using code PAKMAN at https://sunsetlakecbd.com 👍 Get 20% off an Allform sofa or armchair at https://allform.com/pakman 💻 Get Private Internet Access for 82% OFF + 3 months free at https://www.piavpn.com/David 🔊 Try Blinkist for FREE and get 25% off at http://www.blinkist.com/pakman 👍 Munk Pack: Code PAKMAN saves you 20% at https://thld.co/munkpack_pakman_1022 -- Become a Supporter: http://www.davidpakman.com/membership -- Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/thedavidpakmanshow -- Subscribe to Pakman Live: https://www.youtube.com/pakmanlive -- Subscribe to Pakman Finance: https://www.youtube.com/pakmanfinance -- Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/davidpakmanshow -- Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davidpakmanshow -- Leave us a message at The David Pakman Show Voicemail Line (219)-2DAVIDP

So we're starting today with one of the biggest stories of the weekend and one that has led to all sorts of different conspiracy theorizing, even involving, yes, the new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk. And we will get to that. But let's start with what took place, a horrible home invasion involving a hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi, in their San Francisco home. This was a Trumpist anti-vax, anti-Semite. There is no doubt about it. No matter how much the right immediately said, we don't know anything about the politics of this guy. And then when it became clear that it was one of these conspiracy right wingers, that they must be lies or the entire thing was staged or whatever the case may be. So let's talk it through step by step.

The accused Pelosi attacker spread QAnon and other far right bigoted conspiracies. This is an individual who broke into Nancy Pelosi's house, was reportedly yelling, where's Nancy? Ultimately, in the middle of the night, attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer, requiring him to go into emergency surgery, a horrible, horrible situation. And the individual, as is written about by the L.A. Times in some detail, was in the world of far right conspiracies, anti-Semitism, hate and more. In a personal blog that he maintained, he included topics like the hollow hoax, a term used by Holocaust deniers. He wrote about it's OK to be white. He mentioned the far right message board for Chan. He posted conspiracies about covid vaccines and even the war in Ukraine being

a ploy for Jewish people to buy land. This is all extensively documented by the L.A. Times. He included posts about QAnon. He wrote that either Q is Trump himself or Q is the deep state moles within Trump's circle. The daughter of the individual told the Times her father wrote this stuff. She said they were reeling from the news that he had been the guy arrested in connection with the attack on Paul Pelosi. The motive has not been officially revealed, but it has now been learned in addition to the fact that the guy was walking around yelling, where's Nancy? Where's Nancy? It appears very clear that he was targeting Nancy Pelosi.

There is another article from CBS News. Suspect in Paul Pelosi attack had list of targets. Law enforcement sources say they have not gone so far as to call it a hit list, but authorities believe the suspect may have been planning to target others. Arraignment is expected tomorrow. Authorities are taking their time filing federal charges because he is indeed in custody. The suspect planned to keep Paul Pelosi tied up until Nancy Pelosi got home. It is not a random act, as is being reported. Nancy Pelosi was in Washington, D.C. at the time.

The alleged attacker was in the house when Paul Pelosi was able to dial 9-1-1 and police were indeed dispatched. The suspect was apprehended, will be charged with attempted homicide, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, burglary and many additional felonies. So what the fundamental thing to understand here and this is, you know, it's when something like this happens, you will often see the side. I don't even want to say that when attackers in these circumstances are right wingers, you will often see right wingers come out and sort of condemn all violence generically. And the problem with that is that it ignores that there has been a concerted effort here by the right to dismiss and normalize and sometimes even encourage violence. You know, the culture of violence promoted by Donald Trump,

encouraging people to rough up protesters at rallies dating back five, six years, saying he'll cover the legal fees of those who beat up protesters at rallies, violent rhetoric of, you know, knock them out, knock them around, this type of thing, not ever truly denouncing violence that is uniquely right wing. You know, knock them out, knock them around, this type of thing, not ever truly denouncing violence that is uniquely right wing. You know, the vague condemnations of listen, I'm against violence. And also the January 6 protesters were completely right to be there and protesting because the election was stolen from them. You're not really discouraging violence when you do that. So all of those different things play a role in this. And when

you see the normalization of violence from everybody, from Steve Bannon recently saying Fauci and his family are going to be hunted to even candidates, even Marjorie Taylor Greene is on audio visual recording talking about going after Nancy Pelosi. This is exactly what happens. This is the stochastic terrorism that I've been talking to you about for so, so long. Trump has four rallies coming up. I believe it's Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday or something like that leading up to the election. Does Trump defend this guy or does he at least minimize what this guy did to some degree? Or does he play into the conspiracy theories that we're starting to see about? I think it's about a 50 50 shot. And the maggots have been threatening Nancy Pelosi

for so long to some degree, saying that it is logical that something like this would happen because of all of the horrible communist things that Nancy Pelosi has done, which she hasn't, by the way. And you end up with this attacker who is a Trump supporter, watched him pool, read Ben Shapiro, liked what Kanye was saying about the Jews, subscribes to QAnon and on and on and on. This is expected. This is what I and others have been sounding the alarm about for so long. And how does how does Fox News and right wing media react? A combination of depravity and conspiracy theories. Let's talk about that next.

After a right wing anti-Semitic anti-vax QAnon, Trump is not broken to Nancy Pelosi's house and hit her husband over the head with a hammer. Fox News anchor Jesse Waters said, listen, a lot of people get hit with hammers and if they hadn't defunded the police in San Francisco, which didn't happen, maybe this wouldn't have taken place. It's unbelievable. But this is what they're going with. Take a listen to this. Speaker 4 What I want is that I want this alleged perpetrator to be treated the exact same way if he had treated if he had attacked anybody else, because a lot of people get hit with hammers. Why? A lot of people get attacked. And a lot of the times they're out on bail the next day

and it's a simple assault charge. So I don't know why this guy is being treated differently. And he's facing what attempted homicide. He's in prison right now. We've seen people assault people all the time randomly with all kinds of weapons and we see them released the next day. Not not super tough on crime when it's Trump is riders on January 6th or a middle of the night home invasion. These are the types of home invasions that the right loves to say. This is when you just shoot them with your self-defense gun. They love talking

about home invasions. And yet now he's like, well, the guy's actually being treated potentially too harshly, too harshly. Usually you say these people can be shot. I don't know why this guy is getting all of a sudden special treatment or different treatment because the victim was so high profile. Remember, if you call on a welfare check, the left wants to send a social worker. What if a social worker had come to this call? You would had a dead husband and you would have had a dead social worker. Yeah, I have not seen nor have I suggested that social workers be sent out to middle of the night home invasions where they're targeted attacks. I have never said that. I've not heard people on

the left side that say that I have heard, hey, you know, if you have a homeless person where police are called because they're sleeping on a business stoop, maybe then you send a social worker, maybe if you have, you know, some kind of minor drug situation. But anyway, they have to they have no choice but to put up these straw men in order to tear them down. Now, you have to hand it to them. On the one hand, they spent a week when the Fox News Christmas tree was vandalized, no victims, no individual victims. And a week they spent on that. And now it's listen, a lot of people get hit with hammers. A lot of people get hit with hammers. It is truly unbelievable. And then also saying this is because of the defunding

of police. There has been almost no defunding of police anywhere in the country. And the police department budget in San Francisco is up more than four percent since 2019. Waters and others love to say they've defunded the police. That's why this is happening. But they've not defunded the police and it has nothing to do with it. It actually the hammers thing reminds me of the good liars. Remember our friends, the good liars went to the NRA convention and this this guy they talked to tried to talk about hammers and it went south very quickly. More people and more crime is committed and more people are killed with hammers every year than guns. Look at the facts. I will look that up. I

don't think that's true. Actually, it's true in the United States, though, sir. That is true. Look it up. It's on. You can Google it. It's true. It's actually true. So the number of murder victims and the weapons used. Okay, number one, handguns, 8,029. Number two, firearms, type not stated, 4,863. Number three, knives or cutting instruments, personal weapons, fists, feet, then rifles at four fifty five, then blunt objects, clubs, hammers, three hundred and ninety three. So the three hundred the hammers that that stat is just wrong. Back to your question.

Second Amendment is still my right and it's still important to me. Everything I said was wrong about the hammers, but I still want my guns. And then one more clip here. Check out how Fox News covers the attack and manages to completely omit the entire political backstory of the individual. The fact that he's a MAGA, not QAnon anti Semite, Kanye loving. Now, police have not stated a motive for this attack. The suspect in this case, the Pepe is reportedly from the Bay Area, from Berkeley. Fox Digital reports that this suspect has ties to a radical nudist activist and has a disturbing online presence that involves the online presence is disturbing posts about

pedophiles, Big Brother censorship and anti-Semitic content and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle swiftly condemned this attack on Pelosi yesterday. Former Vice President Mike Pence says this suspect should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Now, yeah, what a completely anodyne way to state, listen, this is a radical and everybody condemned it. Hold on a second. The right wingers generically condemn it while completely ignoring the basis politically for what this guy did and what his beliefs were. And it is, of course, deliberate that they are doing that. So not an altogether shocking response from the right. Let's go to one more little chapter on this related to the new Twitter owner, Elon Musk. In response to the home invasion attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi, Elon Musk, fresh off of buying

Twitter, tweeted a bonkers conspiracy theory from the Santa Monica Observer, a paper publication which previously reported that Hillary Clinton died before the 2016 election and a body double was debating Donald Trump. Elon Musk tweeted such a conspiracy theory that claims or suggests that the home invader was actually Paul Pelosi's gay lover. Completely baseless and ultimately deleted that. This is the owner of Twitter that did this article about this on CBS News. Elon Musk tweets and deletes link to article pushing unfounded conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack. And it reads Elon Musk Sunday tweeted and deleted a link to an article

pushing an unfounded conspiracy theory about the attack on Paul Pelosi. The tweet from Musk, who now owns Twitter, raised concerns about the type of content that will be allowed on social media on the social media site under his control. Yeah, that's an understatement. In a since deleted tweet responding to Hillary Clinton, Musk wrote, there is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye. With a link to a story from the right wing website Santa Monica Observer, a site that has pushed anti LGBT conspiracy theory regarding the attack, according to an archived version of the story. The outlet previously made false claims, including that Hillary Clinton died on 9-11 and was replaced by a lookalike. You can still find an archive of the story that was posted.

And the story says it doesn't add up. People on social media are questioning the attack on Paul Pelosi. And it says, you know, San Francisco's gay bars close at 2 a.m. And what happened was the bars closed. Paul Pelosi went home with his lover and it was a lover's quarrel, a lover's quarrel. Now, Ben Collins on MSNBC explains how this entire thing got going. And it really is instructive in terms of how this nonsense starts with a spark and very quickly becomes a fire that is difficult to put out. First of all, lies on the Internet move faster than the truth.

And that's in part why there are all these safeguards that Elon Musk is trying to take down on Twitter right now. The lies that were pushed were from bad piece of information. For example, they said that Paul Pelosi was in his underwear. Of course, he was two30 in the morning at the time he was attacked. That led them to believe this was a lover's quarrel between two different people that knew each other. The reason they believe they knew each other is because the police put out a statement saying that they didn't really know who opened the door. So that led them to

believe there was a third person in the house. So from there, there was this world building on the pro-Trump internet. What could be the opposite of reality here? And the opposite of reality they came up with was these two people were having a lover's quarrel in a house and the police sort of intruded on us. It's fundamentally incorrect. It was pushed by the richest man in the world. And then yesterday it was pushed by Donald Trump Jr. who posted a picture of underwear and a hammer and said it's a Halloween costume for Paul Pelosi. If we don't cut this out right now, not just the normalization of violence, but the idea that reality can't even exist anymore because it cannot catch up to the lies

on the internet. I'm not a scholar on authoritarian history, but I've read Hannah Arendt. I've read all these people. This is how it gets really bad. This is the start of something that gets really, really bad. Yeah. And Ben Collins is, of course, completely correct. And the added layer to it now is forget about whether Elon Musk is going to properly moderate at Twitter the dissemination of outrageous disinformation, he's participating in spreading it, which is a new dystopian layer altogether. Let me know what you think. Find me

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who is returning to the presidency in Brazil. It is a major internet international political story. We're going to talk about all of it. The Guardian reporting Lula triumphs over far right incumbent Bolsonaro in stunning comeback. Remember that this was the runoff election because no candidate got 50 percent in the initial election. It was scheduled for October 30th. Indeed, it took place. Not surprisingly, many on the American right, Steve Bannon and others already starting to say it was rigged. It was rigged.

It was rigged. We've seen this story before. It's the same story, but in Portuguese, we are not going to fall for it. The Guardian reporting Lula stages astonishing comeback. Brazil's former leftist president, Lula, has sealed an astonishing political comeback, beating the far right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in one of the most significant and bruising elections in the country's history. With 99 percent of the votes counted, Silva, a former Silva, Lula da Silva, right?

Lula, a former factory worker who became Brazil's first working class president 20 years ago, secured 50.8 percent of the vote. And indeed, the results now have been further counted to 100 percent. The results are Lula 50.9 percent and Jair Bolsonaro 49.1 percent. Many right wingers focusing on the five point seven million invalid or null votes to say, no, it was stolen from Bolsonaro. We will have a deeper dive into those numbers maybe tomorrow or the day after. Now, I know that many of you are going to write in and say, David, it's hard to imagine, given your skepticism of corrupt left wing Latin American leaders, that you would be a big fan of Lula. Now, I think it's important to say many people don't consider Brazil part of Latin America. This is a different conversation, not for today, but to the extent that we are talking about South America, it is true.

I'm not even a fan of Lula, but it is, of course, way better than Bolsonaro. Now, here, let's talk about this. And by the way, let me just put out there right now, the people who love to write in or post on Reddit. David Pakman is a the son of rich Argentinians who supported the military dictatorship. And that's why they left with money from Argentina. That's the opposite story. OK, my parents were and are left wing Argentinians. We lost folks we knew during the military dictatorship. We left to get away from the right wing insanity and the destruction of the economy, not with its support. So anytime you see comments like that about me, you should ask what evidence do you have to support that? So that's not the reason for my skepticism of folks like Lula.

Now, remember, I'm going to say it again. Were I choosing between Bolsonaro and Lula, I would, of course, vote for Lula. But what are the reasons I'm not the biggest fan of Lula? Well, it's a very similar package to other self-serving South American, Central American, Latin American left wing leaders. We've seen the routine in Argentina. We've certainly seen the routine in Venezuela plagued with corruption scandals charged in multiple of these affairs. You can just to pick one. There's like a dozen of these. Check out the Mensalau scandal. This was a major parliamentary vote buying scandal by Lula's original administration. He gave in to the horrible Venezuela style calls to have government

controlling media. In 2004, Lula pushed for the creation of the Federal Council of Journalists, as well as a national cinema agency. This is this is when these left wing leaders do the Venezuela stuff. We've seen it to some degree in Argentina as well. I'm anti authoritarian, so I can't support that stuff. Operation Car Wash, where Lula was accused of influence peddling and lobbied for government contracts for specific foreign of specific companies in foreign countries. This would be like Trump or Biden going to Germany and saying, listen, I would really like for you to hire Exxon in your country.

It's overt corruption. We would denounce it wholeheartedly. I would anyway, as a progressive, no matter who did it. He persuaded the Brazilian Development Bank to finance specific projects in Ghana and Angola and Cuba and the Dominican Republic. This is corruption. This is cronyism. This is the stuff we hate. I could give you the full list. There's like seven, eight different scandals here. And Lula, along with his former chief of staff, Gilberto Carvalho and five others were indicted in a corruption probe as part of Operation Zelotes, which

involved the payment of bribes. So sadly, Central, South and Latin America have been plagued with these corrupt left wing leaders. And the sad thing is that you end up with all kind of bad choices. Look at Argentina when it was, you know, more Christina or right wing Makri. These are not good choices. And the entire continent has been plagued with it. Would I support Lula over Bolsonaro? Yes, I would. But the idea that this is some kind of panacea, very much not the case. Joe Rogan and Dr. Phil have been spreading the fake news story of fentanyl candy. It is Halloween, so it seems like an appropriate day to do the story. This is one that has become very popular. Donald Trump has been spreading it at his rallies.

Others have been repeating it. Drug dealers are going to poison and kill your kids by disguising fentanyl as candy. Sadly, it is not true, but it is still being repeated. Take a look at this. Those pills look exactly like the pills that you get at the pharmacy. And what they're doing now, Joe, is they're putting them in these pastel colors. I think I sent you some of those, Jamie, in the pastel colors. They're making them look like these candies that the kids get. And kids are going to see these things around and pick them up and think they're like sweet tarts or whatever and bite into them. If I was a parent, I would go to the store and buy every kind of candy I could find.

And as soon as my kids came home from trick-or-treating, I would take their pumpkin and dump it into the trash and then fill it back up with candy i knew was good and hand it back to them i wouldn't let them take a single piece of candy from trick-or-treating because you don't know what's in there that was always the fear right when we were kids someone's gonna sneak in we thought there'd be a razor blade and an apple or something yeah i saw this going around but i heard a lot of people pushing back a couple of days after this. Yeah. Jamie rightly suspects that this may not be a real story. Made major headlines. Experts say no. Who's the expert?

I don't know. I'm just it. There was a lot of hubbub about this viral picture because this went out. The D.A. was talking about it. But then I read there was like no evidence that this was real. Exactly. That's what I read. Well, let's scroll down and see what they say in terms of – it looks like Candy DEA Administrator Alan – or Ann Milgram told CBS News, in fact, some of the drug traffickers have nicknamed it Sweet Tarts, Skittles. The DEA alert didn't mention Halloween, but fears about rainbow fentanyl and the holiday went viral. DEA warning meets skepticism from drug experts. Drug policy experts contacted by NPR agree there's no new fentanyl threat this Halloween. Many are also skeptical of the DEA's original warning. They don't believe that Mexican drug cartels and street dealers have launched any new campaign targeting children.

I don't see any evidence that the DEA has produced that supports that conjecture. I don't think they're targeting children. I think the fact that they are making these things in pastel colors make children vulnerable. But Dr. Phil, you just said they're going to hand these out at Halloween and you've got to swap your kids' candy. Picking these things up. You want to argue over the the word targeting? Well, there's a lot implicit in that word. If a child picks up something. Where? How? That look, you know, on the floor, drug dealers are going to leave fentanyl on the

ground. I said that young girl that I was talking about took three quarters of a pill or one quarter of a pill and three quarters of it was left in her drawer. Yeah. If she has a younger sister. Right. Very specific hypothetical. So let's break this down. Why do right wingers love this story? It's a way to attack Joe Biden. That's that's the origin of this story. And you might say, David, how on earth does fentanyl candy serve as a way to attack Joe Biden? Here's how they do it. There's fentanyl and candy which came in through the border, which was opened by Joe Biden. So fentanyl candy is Biden's fault. And he hates kids who are going to be poisoned by fentanyl as they pronounce it, which is part of how he doesn't care about kids. Now, you would think that Rogan would realize this is the exact same thing as with the cannabis

edibles. There was a time, as we saw more states legalize cannabis recreationally, where people said, you know, a lot of these edibles just look like a chocolate bar. It's very, very dangerous. Kids aren't going to know. They're just going to say, hey, chocolate, this is good. Next thing you know, they'll be high as a kite. I'm guessing Rogan rejected that then because it made no sense. But he is not really applying the same skepticism here, although good for him for at least looking up an article. First of all, this doesn't pass the sniff test.

The idea that drug dealers would just dish out free drugs either as a goof during trick or treating or just would leave drugs around when the whole point is to sell the drugs for money doesn't make any sense. Drug dealers want to make money. There's no financial benefit to dishing out fentanyl laced candy to children, which might kill them. What how are you making money from that? It doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Now, if you do some Googling, you will find some stories of drug dealers using

candy packaging and putting drugs in there. And you can get a resealing machine to make it look like the Skittles package or whatever was never open. But they're they're not doing this to then hand out at Halloween. They're just trying to do this to get it through the border or authorities or whatever where police would see it and say, oh, it just looks like a package of Skittles. Is it hypothetically, theoretically possible that your Skittle bag that has actually been emptied and refilled with some kind of drug and then sealed, it could be misplaced and end up in the hands of a kid. Sure, that's theoretically possible. That's not new. I hate to break it to you, but if you Google what do ecstasy pills look like, MDMA, for decades

they have looked like candy. They've got heart shaped ones and they've got this, that. It is not new and it is not a real thing that kids are just going, oh, sweet tarts, put them in my mouth. It's a fake story. And understand that the origin is to criticize Biden about the border. We'll have the clip I played on our Instagram, which you can find at David Pakman show. You already know that you need a VPN to protect your privacy from your internet provider, from tech platforms, from hackers, and you've seen a ton of ads for different VPNs. They seem similar. Which one do you choose? There's really one thing I look at.

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and I would be with you 100 percent. And I was critical of that when it was going on. But generally speaking, Barack Obama made clear that there is one party right now that believes in democracy, period, no matter what the outcome is, whereas the other party, the Republican Party, sort of believes in it if they win. But if not, then they believe in something very different than democracy. He spoke passionately. He absolutely crushed all of the Republicans that were running in those states. And I don't want to waste any time. Let's get right into the first clip. Here is Barack Obama on Social Security. This was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, campaigning against Ron Johnson for Mandela

Barnes, a very important race. Some of you here are on Social Security. Some of your parents are on Social Security. Some of your parents are on social security. Some of your grandparents are on social security. You know why they have social security? Because they worked for it. They worked hard jobs for it.

They have chapped hands for it. They have long hours and sore backs and bad knees to get that Social Security. And if Ron Johnson does not understand that, if he understands giving tax breaks for private planes more than he understands making sure that seniors who've worked all their lives are able to retire with dignity and respect. He's not the person who's thinking about you and knows you and sees you. And he should not be your senator from Wisconsin. Every single one of this weekend's speeches was this level of energy and also this accurate about what it is that these Republicans want to do. Here's another brilliant one from Detroit, Michigan.

The other day, I did not realize this. I did not. I read about this. Somebody had to show it to me the other day. A video came out of Governor Whitmer's opponent claiming that Democrats have been working for decades to topple the United States because they're still upset about losing the Civil War and that COVID restrictions were part of some master plan to do this.

Now, first of all, what? What, what? What? I mean, I know some folks go down these rabbit holes on the Internet. They're up too late. But that's like a subway tunnel. That's that's deep. And that is indeed the way it works. They go down absolutely bonkers conspiracy theories. Now, then he was also in Georgia in support of Raphael Warnock

against Herschel Walker, where, by the way, the polling is looking increasingly disastrous for Raphael Warnock. But we'll cover that momentarily. And Barack Obama making the case, Herschel Walker, fine football player, but senator, that doesn't make any sense. Some of you may not remember, but Herschel Walker was a heck of a football player. I mean, I mean, some of you are too young to remember, but in college he was amazing. One of the best running backs of all time. But but but here's the question. Does that make him the best person to represent you in the U.S. Senate? Does that make him equipped to weigh in on the critical decisions about our economy and our foreign policy and our future?

Let's do a thought experiment. Let's say you're at the airport and you see Mr. Walker and you say, Hey, there's Herschel Walker, Heisman winner. Let's have him fly the plane. You probably wouldn't say that. No, you would not. And indeed, saying that he should be one of 100 members of the Senate making such important decisions is insanity. And sadly, that's what's going on. Barack Obama making the point that House Republicans are ready and willing to impeach Joe Biden.

They don't even really know why. Speaker 4 on record, if they get control of Congress, they will spend the next two years investigating President Biden and their political opponents. That's all they want to do. They see it as payback. And some of some of them said that they they're they've already got prepared that they're going to impeach Biden. They're not sure what for. But apparently that's beside the point. And you're laughing, except they've actually said that they have literally said we're not sure what the theory is, but we're going to come up

with one. In fact, there's an incredible clip from I believe it was a New Hampshire debate, which I played for you, where they were going around saying, what would you impeach Joe Biden for? And everybody agreed they should impeach Biden other than one candidate. But they disagreed as to why they should impeach him. And they have absolutely no idea in reality. Barack Obama also making the point that no matter what's going on out there, even an asteroid heading towards Earth, they want tax cuts for the rich.

And they do. The Republicans are having a field day running ads talking about it. But what is their actual solution to it? Well, no, I'll tell you. They want to gut Social Security and Medicare and then give some more tax breaks to the wealthy. And the reason I know that's their agenda is, listen, that's their answer to everything.

When inflation is low, what do you want to do? Cut taxes. When unemployment's high, what do you want? Let's cut taxes on the wealthy. That's going to solve that. I was joking down in Georgia. If there was an asteroid headed towards Earth, it's going to land in like two weeks. If you went in the Republican caucus and you said, what do you want to do?

Well, we need a tax break for the wealthy. That's going to help. I'm I'm only barely exaggerating. I don't even know that he is exaggerating. I think if there were such an asteroid, Republicans would say, well, let's, I guess, do something about the asteroid. But let's remember, once we survive the asteroid, we need to encourage business growth. And the way to do that is give a tax cut to the rich.

I don't think it's an exaggeration whatsoever. Barack Obama accurately pointing out that there are two obsessions for Republicans right now, owning the libs and getting Donald Trump's approval. This hasn't always been a partisan thing. My favorite president was a guy from my home state, Illinois, named Abe Lincoln, helped found the Republican Party. It used to be that there were GOP members who championed progress and civil rights and rule of law.

Folks who were with me in the 2008 election, you remember. We talked about bringing people together and spoke to all people, regardless of party, about how we could move the country forward so so that's my instinct i i i'm not somebody who believes that all that some party label defines us but i but i i have to speak the truth, which is these days, just about every Republican politician seems obsessed with just two things. Own the lips and let's own the lips.

And and getting Donald Trump's approval. That's their agenda. No, no, no. Don't boo. Oh, yeah. He does warn Barack Obama does Mandela Barnes. You'd better be ready with that birth certificate, my friend. I want to say something here. I know that there's some folks, maybe not in this auditorium, but elsewhere in Wisconsin who think and I know these ads are running this way, that just because Mandela's named Mandela,

just because he's a Democrat with a funny name, he must not be like you. He must not share your values. I mean, we've seen this. It sounds pretty familiar, doesn't it? So some men know I get ready to dig up that birth certificate. Yeah. Love him or hate him on his politics. Former President Obama is very, very good at this.

Now, will it be enough to turn around some of these races? I wish I could say yes. Let's take a look at some of the latest polling. If you want a single poll that confirms that America is rapidly crumbling, it is a very disturbing series of recent polls, almost all of which have Herschel Walker leading Raphael Warnock in Georgia. This is such an important race. The incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock is being challenged by former football player Herschel Walker. Herschel Walker can barely speak. He cannot coherently explain his position and the

reasoning for his position on any issue. He claims to be against abortion, period, but has now been caught urging multiple women and paying for the abortions of multiple women. And if you look at recent polls from just the last week, you have Walker leading three of the four polls Walker plus two Walker plus five Walker plus three with Raphael Warnock up in one of those polls, New York Times, Siena. And on average, Herschel Walker is now leading this race. Imagine the humiliation it will mean to the United States if Herschel Walker is one of 100 senators. All is not yet lost. Make sure that you vote.

Other races that are not looking good. The Carrie Lake race in Arizona, where lunatic, big lie, conspiracy theorist Carrie Lake, who wanted to secede from the United States at one point, although now she denies it. She is leading Katie Hobbs in all of the four latest polls, plus four, plus three, plus 11 and plus two. On average, Carrie Lake is now leading by almost four points. Carrie Lake could be the next governor of Arizona. Vance versus Ryan. J.D. Vance is now leading or is tied in every recent poll against Democratic challenger, a Democratic contender, Tim Ryan, for the Ohio Senate. Another very important race. For a little

while, it looked like maybe Ryan was going to going to be right in there. Now, just about every poll has J.D. Vance leading. I hope that if you live in Ohio, you will be voting. And in Pennsylvania Senate race, Oz versus Fetterman, we are still trying to figure out what is going on, but it is as close as it has been. There is now an insider advantage poll that has Oz leading, although on average and sadly, these polls predate the debate between Oz and Fetterman. So we don't really know what's going on. The momentum has certainly shifted for Oz. As you can see, Oz is the red line and just climbing, climbing, climbing to where it is now a veritable tie. If you look at the 538 Senate forecast for who is expected to control the Senate, it is now essentially tied.

What at one point was let me take a look. What at one point was 71 percent odds that Democrats would keep control of the Senate. That has dropped 20 points and it is now fifty one forty nine. This is the lowest point for Democrats controlling the Senate going all the way back to what was it? The late July summer period. This could very quickly become a humiliating disaster for Democrats. I hope every single one of you plans to vote. I certainly do.

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bad for her. But I don't. Sarah Palin appeared on Steve Bannon's The War Room, and she said there, you know what? I'm no longer accepting donations. I've gotten rid of my campaign stuff staff because they gave me bad advice. Let me interpret this for you. Sarah Palin has given up. She's trying to save money because it would be pointless

to keep spending money because she's obviously going to lose. But look at the spin. I didn't know what way was up and down after I heard this the first time. I'm going to get in trouble for saying this, but sometimes you wonder the people who are actually advising, working on campaigns, you gotta wonder if they're really in it for the right reasons, because sometimes they give really crappy advice and effort. So I'm doing a lot of this myself. I'm not going to ask people for donations, though, which ticks off those in my campaign who and other campaigns, you know, because they look at this as a business and they get a cut of funds raised. I don't ask people for money because I've won all the races that I've been in over my life except one, the big one.

And I've done it being outspent ten to one or whatever it is, because, you know, this will be outspent ten to zero now. I roll and it's always worked well. Yeah. And you can tell from the look on Steve Bannon's face, it's over for Sarah Palin. What this means is nobody is supporting me anymore. I'm out of money. No one's donating anyway.

So I'll say I'm no longer accepting donations. As we talked about last week, Republican Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski is voting for Sarah Palin's Democratic opponent. People don't like that Sarah Palin's Democratic opponent. People don't like that Sarah Palin quit being governor. A lot of Republicans in Alaska don't like Sarah Palin. And this is just the last nail in the coffin. I'm no longer having any staff and I'm no longer accepting donations. You're giving up, Sarah. You're giving up. And my hope is and I don't know if this will be the case. My hope is that this will really be the end of Sarah Palin's political career,

a career that never really should have gotten started, but it did. And she is really, in a sense, a precursor to the Trumpism that exists today. Palin giving up. And it is yet another humiliation. Marjorie Taylor Greene going from one lunatic extremist Republican and Sarah Palin to another lunatic extremist Republican and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Marjorie Taylor Greene says, listen, it's OK that I believe things that aren't true because lots of my followers believe things that aren't true. These are my words, not hers. My guess is she would put it a little bit differently.

But let's listen to what Marjorie Taylor Greene had to say on this. It looks like it looks like this program is from the 90s. Night Talk is the name of the show. Check this out. I think the Atlanta paper tells me that 10 days ago you were still insisting at a Trump rally in Arizona that Trump won the 2020 election. And it says that you are one of his biggest allies. I am always proud to support President Trump, Judy. I'm so grateful for the way he led our country with his America

first policies. I miss him very much being our president. And so do a lot of people. And I do. I say all the time, I really feel like he won the state of Georgia. And I feel like he won the state of Georgia. Now, is there a factual basis there? No, but she guys, she feels it. And I do think he won the 2020 election. But you want to know something? It's OK for me to say that because a lot of people feel the same way. Right.

This is actually super important. They justify their investigations and their claims about the 2020 election by saying lots of people feel this way. Lots of people believe this. But the reason that lots of people feel that way and believe it is because people like Marjorie Taylor Greene told them that it's true. Now, I'm not excusing anyone. Right. It's not if Marjorie Taylor Greene told me Trump won, I wouldn't believe it unless I had actual evidence that suggested that. But it's a vicious circle. This is like the Marco Rubio dropbox thing last week or I think maybe it was the week before at this point. Senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, who's a Republican, he's running against Val Demings.

Val Demings is a Democratic congresswoman who now is running for Senate. And one of the best debate performances, by the way, was that by Val Demings. Val Demings is a Democratic congresswoman who now is running for Senate. And one of the best debate performances, by the way, was that by Val Demings. But there was a certain point when the topic of election integrity, as they like to call it, came up or Mark or Marco Rubio said, well, listen, there's two reasons why we should be against these ballot drop boxes. One, someone could bomb the ballot drop box, which hasn't happened. And it was interesting that he was giving people that idea. And he said the second reason is people don't really trust the ballot drop boxes. But at the time we said, well, why don't people trust the ballot drop boxes? Because Marco and others are telling them they aren't trustworthy. So is that really can you really use a belief you created as

a reason why something should change in the way you want it to change? This is like when Trump says a lot of people are really angry about what happened in 2020. And so we have to look into it. Well, they're angry because you lied to them and made them angry based on things that aren't true claims that are completely debunked. And if you apply this, I mean, imagine that Marjorie Taylor Greene or whoever said, listen, I think Jews will not replace us is a really important thing for us to talk about, because a lot of my constituents feel the same way. They're worried about the Jews replacing us. So I think it's an it's a totally logical thing to talk about. We wouldn't accept that. At least many of us would not. Maybe some of Marjorie Taylor Greene's

followers would. So understand that they use the beliefs they created in others to justify their continued pursuit and further lies about these issues. It's an endless circle. There's this term doxastic closure that is sometimes used to describe this where there's you can't your universe reinforces the very beliefs you are in. This is often the case with religious beliefs. And I know that some in the audience may not like this analogy. One of the things that often happens with religious beliefs is people say, here's my beliefs, because this is what my sacred texts tell me to believe. And so they are true. And then you say, OK, what evidence do you have that these sacred beliefs

are really sacred beliefs given by God? They say, well, the sacred texts themselves say that they are sacred. And then you try to exit the bubble and say, right, but what do we have from outside of that that tells us these are the sacred beliefs given by God? They don't have anything, but it doesn't matter. The very claim within those sacred beliefs is self-perpetuating by virtue of saying these are the sacred beliefs of God and you can't pierce it. Sometimes you can, but it is very difficult to pierce it. Same type of thing with this voter fraud stuff. We have a voicemail number. That number is two one nine two. David P. Here is a question from a viewer about something former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly recently said. Speaker 4

David, it's James again. I don't know if you heard, but Bill O'Reilly recently made this prediction that Joe Biden is going to announce that he will resign after the midterms. I think that at the most he'll announce that he won't run again, but he won't announce he'll resign just less than two years into his term. My question to you is, do you think Bill O'Reilly actually believes that or is he lying and sort of pandering to an audience because he figures like his audience would love to hear that Biden's going to resign? Or do you think that there's any truth to that? I certainly don't. Speaker 1 Yeah.

So listen, what the caller is referring to is that on News Nation, Bill O'Reilly showed up and everything Bill O'Reilly says, he says very confidently. Bill O'Reilly said that sometime after the midterms, Joe Biden is going to announce I'm resigning the presidency and it's because of health reasons. And Bill O'Reilly went on to say Kamala Harris is not going to be a viable candidate for 2024. So it's going to leave Democrats in a difficult position in 2024. Listen, I don't have any reason right now to think that Joe Biden is going to resign. The thing about Bill O'Reilly is he'll tell you whatever and he'll say it extraordinarily confidently. His confidence should not be

used to evaluate the likelihood of the claim. Is it conceivable that a president would resign? Yes. Sometimes presidents resign. Uncommon, but it can happen. It is a mechanism that exists. All else being equal, is it more likely that the older a president is, the more likely it is they might resign for health reasons? I think statistically that's probably true.

I think it's more likely an 80 year old president would resign for health reasons than a 70 year old president, than a 60 year old president, than a 50 for you get the point. Do I have any reason to believe that this is part of Biden's plan? Not at all. And it's increasingly looking to me like Joe Biden does want to run for reelection in 2024. Six months ago, I would not have said that, but it increasingly looks that way. And I do agree with the caller that if there's going to be a sort of a wind down to Biden's presidency that will not include four more years, it will be Biden saying I'm not running for reelection. Is a resignation possible? Of course it's possible. But I don't have any particular reason to think that's the plan. We've got a great bonus show for you today. We will talk more about Elon Musk. Elon Musk wasting no time after buying Twitter in instituting some changes,

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