Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 11/15/22 – Red Wave(ing the White Flag)

Episode Date: November 19, 2022

Tonight Chief Georgia Correspondent Corey Ryan Forrester returns to talk to us about the Red Wave that Wasn't, and what happens now, particularly in his home state. Join us.Support the show

Hey there, everybody, welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It is November 15th, 2022. I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? You all have noticed Trey's voice, Trey's dealing with a little bit of a cold.

Matt was saying it improves, makes them sound all sexy. And it did occur to be a sound like an overnight radio DJ. It's like, like, this one goes. out to Maria. Baby, I'm sorry. Yeah, it's called Anytime. Brian McKnight right here on K-Love Radio. Yeah.

There you. Yeah, right. Yeah, everybody. I mean, I'll end up saying this again later, but I've, you know, I'm married with kids. We've had a, we've been passing a cold or some such around for the past few days, as often happens this time of year. So I apologize if I have a cough and figure, get shortness of breath or any kind of

shit like that. My bad. But, hey, Mark's here to cover for me. Not only that later, Corey Forrester's going to. to be back but we'll talk about a little bit more of that in a minute uh mark within uh aren't we signing off just in time for everybody to catch the announcement of the century today isn't that what trump is supposed to make a big announcement like right when we get done he timed it on yeah the marlago uh ballroom is filled with all the mega luminaries and it's set the hat which is so

funny he's like he's at his biggest political low point like even worse than losing the election since january six like everybody thinks he's a fucking loser and he's going to announce after being abjectly humiliated with all his favorite candidates went down. We talked a lot about the election on the Patreon episode or that we take Saturday about a lot of state level stuff and why I particularly was so despondent and what would a difference a week makes, right? But yeah, we're going to be talking about the House and Senate today because there's a lot of stuff still up in the air and it's all going to be pretty interesting and hilarious, especially in the House. But we talked about the polling mess on Saturday, and some new stuff came out. The right-wing motivated polls, their motivations are pretty clear, right? They wanted to make people like me and you be sad and less likely to vote, right?

Sure. But there's a guy named Sean McAwee McHawley, who's a progressive pollster who he also runs a political betting market. and he was so gassed up on his own negativity that he lost $50,000 being against progressive candidates that he was aboard. It's like, well, hold on.

Was he, was he, you know, they call it emotional hedging. Is that what he was doing? Like the idea in sports is you bet, sometimes you bet heavily against your team, if you're a big fan,

because that way you win in some capacity either way. If they get beat, like you think they will, your heart hurts, but your wallet thanks you. And then, you know, you might lose.

It's like, how much money would you, pay the loo, how much money would you pay to watch them win this big game? And then you can bet that. That's what he was doing, but with liberal candidates. Sort of, but it's even dumber than that because, like, like, the betting markets usually more accurate predicting elections than polls. But the kind of people who do sports betting on political races tend to be like crypto-bro types. So they're like, they started messing with the accuracy of the betting markets by pushing outcomes. So they'd move the lines.

So if you bet accurately and what you actually thought was going to win, you've got a great price for your bet and you got paid four to one for like Blake Masters to lose or something shit. So it's like they created their own fake reality and then got tricked by it. Yeah, well, I don't need another thing to be terrible at. I start betting on political races. And then, yeah, that'll, you know, hurt even more depending on the ones. I think I'll sit that one out.

Yeah, sort of like it asked backwards versions of the NBA referee batting scan. where, like, that guy could actually have some say in the outcome. They tricked themselves and thinking they could impact the outcome and paid a lot of money. It's also fucking funny. One last thing for getting to the show. We talked last week about the guy who threw the white claw at Ted Cruz at the Astros World Series. So, a fun plot twist. The guy's name is Joey R.

I'm going to push of this. Archidicono. There we go. So he said he was just trying to, if you go to this parade, they will throw players and people who don't float beers to drink. And so he's saying he was just throwing

a white cloth for Ted Cruz to chug, which is actually absolutely hilarious impulse. But it's also a side of how the default assumptions everyone must hate Ted Cruz so much they want to hit him in the head with a can of whitecloth. Well, obviously. Right. What's funny,

because I was going to say the reason I feel like this is bullshit is because I don't feel like anybody on planet earth. feels like Ted Cruz is cool enough to pull that move off. Like, Ted Cruz can't stone-cold it. You can't launch him a beer from across the parade. And imagine him doing that, catching it one hand, fucking shotgun in there, whatever. Like, he would never, who would ever expect him to be able to do something that rad? That's what, that's so funny to be.

It was literally any other human people on Earth, like, yeah, obviously he was just trying to, they were celebrating World Series way. Right. But he's guys going to go into court and be like, I just wanted to treat Ted Cruz. Like, it was a nice, like, well, God. And the judge would be like, that doesn't hold that. So, you're so right. He was the only person in that whole fucking parade who people would assume anything other than, yeah, just trying to give him a beer.

He's having a good time. Like he was the only person there. They were like, no, he was trying to kill him. He obviously wants to murder Senator Cruz because that is the default assumption. Yeah, you're right. That's very funny. All right. Well, let's get into it with us.

As always, this producer Matt. This is weekly skews. I want to remind you of a couple things. If you would like to see me perform live, go to Trey Crowder.com, get your tickets. I'll be at Zanis in Nashville the weekend before Christmas with Corey and Drew, as we always are each and every year. That's always fun. Then in 2023, I'm going all over the place and still adding more dates as we speak. So go to Trey Crowder.com, come and see me.

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the linchpin of every damn thing we'll talk about some other midterm stuff along the way But first, of course, we must begin with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., Jefferson Davis, for slinging herb or something like that. It's hard to say. See what you think. Here's Pete Sessions from Texas. The product is being marketed.

The product is being sold. The product is being advocated by people who were in it to make money. slavery made money also and was a terrible circumstance like what yeah a lot of stuff going on here but like well everybody I figured it I got to the bottom of it and these people selling weed are only in it for the money right right it's like this is America buddy everything's about the money right right like the problem of slavery was not that it was profitable. Right. That's the problem with it.

But anyway, this guy, so Pete Sessions, I went to look up if he, like, has a long history of, like, rail against cannabis and he does.

He's, like, basically against federalism when it comes to cannabis. He doesn't think states to go set their own rules. And he's soft to prevent people, like,

even veterans from using weed in Stevenette's states where it's legal, to my people with PTSD and shit. But I also discovered something pretty interesting. He has a, an official position on magic. Is it Christiani? Is it like Harry Potter's devil? No? No. No. What is it?

In March 2016, Sessions introduced a house resolution to quote, recognize magic as a rare and valuable art form and national treasure. So Pete Sessions believes in the healing power of magic, but not cannabis. Right. That's a wild combination. I feel like magic hits the hardest when you're stones. You know what I mean? Like, if I can get stoned and watch, magic. It's wild to have somebody that's a huge fan of magic and totally against weed. But yeah, it's like

a lot of people like marijuana. You know, who else? A lot of people used to like Adolf Hitler. Okay. Coincidence, I think not. It's like, what the fuck are you talking about? Magic does not hit for me high or not otherwise. That totally checks

out, dude. I totally believe that. But I do like watching videos of monkeys watching magic tricks you ever see those are great but i'm not monkey usually i watch it like it's funny i'll watch a video of a monkey watching magic and then i realize that i'm making the same like face that the monkey's making in the video that i'm watching like holy shit i'm just a monkey watching magic yeah yeah those are great yeah but it reminds me tell the people about that article you're feeling yesterday the fact you skipped about monkeys yesterday uh well one of the big

food delivery services allegedly is under fire for using coconut products and coconut milk that they obtained through the use of monkey slaves. And I sent that to you, and your first response was you were, you were like, isn't that just like riding a horse or a donkey or something like that on a farm? He's like, are they not slaves? I thought we had animal slaves for a long time. And you said that. And I was like, damn, donkeys are slaves, I guess.

I never thought about it. but yeah but no apparently it's like they abuse them and shit like that it's yeah it's not just but do you think if you didn't abuse a monkey it would be cool to have monkey slaves because like you said that beast of burden like people are out with that I mean we test on them and shit like everybody rather pick coconuts than get you know shot up with cancer drugs or whatever yeah or live in a zoo but like um we all work for a living why can a monkey earn his game bananas aren't free man right but yeah this episode of the simpsons we're a home Mark gets a helper monkey. It seems like a pill paid pretty hard. Yeah. Well, you know what? You've swayed me, Mark. You and I both pro-monkey slave now. Let the record show. Oh, man. Our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is Republicans for forgetting to marry off child brides to get more votes. That's right. They forgot a key election strategy in advance of the midterms. Matt, play the clip. also single women are breaking for democrats by 30 points

and it makes sense when you think about how democrat policies are designed to keep women single but once women get married they vote republican married women married men go for republicans by double digits but single women and voters under 40 have been captured by democrats so we need these ladies to get married there it is and it's time to fall in love and just down guys go put a ring on it so funny dude these people's brains are so diseased like the idea that i would get married just to try to change some electoral outcome by one vote but it's also just like it's just basically it's them saying it's like you know once some some good honest american man turns a formerly godless hoar into a you know a nice settled down woman with family

values then we got them it's like you know it's like they're just being like Like, listen, these women need a man to tell them how to vote, guys. Like, it just needs to happen. So you all need to get off your asses and go out there and force these women to marry you so we can win more elections. It's just like I feel like he said it. Like, he's smiling. Like, it's a little bit tongue in cheek. But I feel like there's literally no other way to interpret that if you're being honest other than, you know, these women need a man to tell them to vote the right way.

But how's up? But you scoffed at it, too. Like, what policies you think he's talking about? about in the middle about he said democrat policies are aimed at keeping women single like what is what is that about now i didn't know we were that was another thing we were up to uh it's not but this sort of messaging is all over the right right now like there's a whole there's a whole meme about how like younger women are liberal because they're all hopped up on like SSRIs and uh they they're all drunk sluts and it's like that'll win their votes i guess um but i'll make your family values

Jesse Waters. He left his wife for a 20-year-old intern at Fox News. So he's made two Republican voters. I was about saying, yeah, he had to get right. He'd already got the one. He needed to flip another vote there. Yeah, that's wild.

All right. Our next honorable mention is GOP voters for not being totally enamored by the charms of Ron DeSantis, evidently. He thought he was a rising star? Check these guys out. USA! USA! This is very disrespectful in the Arab states.

Ron is out two victories bridges. He's out. He has plenty of time to gain wisdom. Trump or death. Let him stay in Florida for a while. Remember when he could do. Dude, this, like, I'm famous last words. Don't want jinx myself or nothing like that.

But like, this is great. I'm really, I'm pretty invested in this forthcoming storyline, you know, because, yeah, it could get really wild and hopefully in a comical way, you know, could also be the end of it all. But right now, I'm on board. I'm looking forward to seeing this play out. Yeah, Trump's been real mad at Ron DeSantis for, DeSantis didn't do anything to him except, you know,

not repeat his claims of election fraud. Ryan DeSantis' official position of whether the 2020 election was stolen was, I have no comment. So just that, but also he's been going off of Glenn Yonke's like Yonkin said some stuff to the governor of Virginia about how maybe the party needs to move on. So Trump posted this thing on truth social about like, um, young kin, hmm, sounds Chinese, and then one with some fucking rant. It's just like, what? Got him.

Got him. yeah it's like this whole dynamic is going to be hilarious because i don't think of disantos is the juice nationally i think he comes across steeply unlikable on camera but also trump does to me too so maybe i just miss it but um i don't think he's i mean if he's running against Biden who knows like the just the optics we've talked about before the optics having a person that old running at someone who's relatively extremely young and barrel is going to like i mean dude i you know if if desantis just cleanly wins the repris and Republican primary against Trump and then Trump like just goes away after that, which I feel like is hard to, hard to see that happening. But if that happens, I mean, I'm going to be pretty day. And it is Joe Biden. He's up again. It's like, you know, I'm worried about that. Like I don't know about the, you know, how I feel how optimistic I would be in that scenario. I just want to see them like fully cannibalize each other as much as possible and just fuck all the shit up along the way. I kind of think the best case scenario for what Trump would. I mean, the best case for Ron DeSantis scenario of what Trump would do if like DeSantis feed him in the primary best case he would stay at home and post stuff on social media that's like we have to do everything we can to defeat the communist Democrats and Joe Biden common even if it means abiding our tongues and supporting Ron DeSanctimonious that huge loser who never

supported me. That's the best case. That's the best thing you know. Yeah. So like it's going to be extremely funny if we all hold that at the end. Yeah, all right. Well, you want to take us through this last one, this last dumbass candidate anyway. So this dumbass, Iranian mentioned Daily Dumbass, is people don't need into a scam for being tricked

despite the giant flesh and neon signed that says this is a scam. So do you remember America's frontline doctor is the pro hydrochloroquine group that did a couple of ceremonies of the White House? Yeah, the one with that crazy doctor lady who, is that the same one where she had, was it like eight? She was into all kinds of crazy shit, like even aliens and stuff or demons. Was it daemon? Yeah.

Demon sperm. She talked a lot of demon sperm, right. Yeah, yeah. So the woman, the founder of the group, his name was Dr. Simone Gold. Now, it turns out, they, they made their money by selling prescriptions to hydrochloroquine over, like, Zoom, and also by taking donations. They got like $10 million just in donations alone. So I don't know how much money to be made in total from selling it. but it turns out she was just paying herself a bunch of money like she spent

me look at this in the numbers she's spent $100,000 in a private jet trip $3.6 million in a mansion and was paying herself $50,000 in monthly expenses that's beyond her salary now she's no longer the director of the group because she went to jail for storming the capital along with her much younger boyfriend who's an underwear model who, by the way, also stormed the Capitol in January 6th. But she has gotten out of prison. This lady's living a life, dude. She's fucking got it all for that side of the fence.

She got out of jail and tried to go back to running the group. They tried to please stay away because they don't be associated with her on account of all the felonies. But she's, there's still $7.5 million somewhere in some bank account that they can't find. Presumably she knows where it is. And like this power struggle in this quack group of doc, wing doctors, she went so far as to figure the way to hack into or steal an invite to a private Zoom meeting where she got stuck in the waiting room because they didn't want to take her out, kick her off, but also didn't want to litter it. These people, this story always ends

the same way, man. It's like, I thought we were, I thought I was doing the scam, but turned out I was being scammed. Right. Yeah, I was just trying to scam the right people, but instead the wrong people got scammed, I, e. me. It's like, I'll tell you what, dude, if you're like if you're down to grift they're just there ain't no grift like a far right wing grift in this country right now you said 10 and a half million dollars or whatever that shit is wild dude um the most effective scams or run on people who think they're in on the scam like con artists always for people who are trying to make easy quick money which is what the con artist is doing right so it's like it's always it's a tale of oldest time man uh trump to in his defense is always

up on the good ends of scams. He famously, when crypto got rolling, he said, he said, crypto's bullshit. I was like, he's right, because you can't fucking con a car artist. Yeah. Well, let's get into it a little bit. When we left y'all last week around, you know, 6 p.m. Pacific time on election day, we didn't know shit and had been generally pretty negative about the outcome. And the intervening time, a lot of shit has happened.

Again, we did a full Patreon episode on Saturday, breaking down a lot of the outcomes. But we've got no even more now, and it seems like all that election denial bullshit weren't it, it seems, to say the least. Like the outcomes are way better than I hope for, Mark. Yeah, dude, it wasn't for sure on Saturday, but Carrey Lake lost. We did most of the state-level stuff on Saturday, but we're talking about the House and Senate today. But I didn't want to note this because this lady absolutely sucks, and I'm glad she ate shit. But I also wanted to talk about this video from Charlie Kirk's election night feed. was really just shifts kiss.

If you got this video, Matt started in 102. Matt, we'll see if, here we go, 102. Yeah. Get up there. He's doing it. He's doing it. He's got it. Look, everybody. There we go. I'm shocked by some of these numbers, Wendy. I've got to be honest.

I mean, you know the state really well. You've been a grassroots activist for a while. The vibe on the ground was totally different than this, wasn't it? yes well we wonder now if we were in an echo chamber I don't know I'm just beginning to get some perspective everybody everybody I talked to the main things they were mad about or about trans women

in Ivy League swim meets and litter boxes in schools I don't understand how we can lose this every person I talked to didn't care at the Supreme Court overturn Ruby Wade every person I'd talk to, really wants us to trade Ukraine to Russia for fucking magic dudes. It's like, it's like these people, man. Look, I know, you know, I'm aware that we are mostly preaching to the choir and like people that come to my shows and stuff.

I know where they're, like, I would not use them as a representative sample of anything other than, you know, American liberals or Democrats in a certain state. Like, I would never be surprised by finding out that, you know, everybody who came to my show in Alabama thinks K. Ivy sucks or whatever. Like, I would assume that. It's wild to me to be surprised by anything like that. Like, apparently they genuinely think they do, like, they got their finger on the pulse of John Q. public. Like, that's great. Yeah.

I've seen Republican pun, it's flirting with, like, election denying in these Arizona races by saying they're like, Blake Masters and Carrey Lake were such amazing candidates. how could they possibly lose? It's like, what planet do you? Like every Blake Master's video was about like, he was carpet shooting

with suppressors. Every video looks like there's like hostages, jet a set out of screen, he's talking to Batman or something. It's just like there's nothing, there's a regular person looking at Blake Masters is like, this guy's a fucking creep. There's literally an interview with one voter

who voted straight ticket Republican and except for Masters. And they asked her why and she goes, I don't know, it's his vibe. It's like, yeah, it's a fucking vibe. Yeah. It's his vibe.

yeah anyway so anyway uh fuck off carrie lake forever so let's talk about the house for a little bit because this is going to be absolutely insane it might be weeks before we know exactly who what the exact count is but the most projections right now are like republicans at like 219 or 220 which lead to democrats of 216 216 or the races that have been called so far as of this morning which might have already be out of date um Dems had 206 to GOPs 216 or most of counting on the west coast where for example uh can't Katie Porter is in a much tighter race than I would have hoped. She said 1.2% 80% counted.

She's the rare good congressperson. Right. And also, like, I thought she was, I don't know if you saw any of the ads against her, but they were so, they were literally just like, Katie Porter, she ain't it. Like, they didn't really have anything like concrete to point to or say. It was just literally them saying, like, she's part of the problem. You agree there's a problem? She's part of it.

And in my head, I was like, this is how half asses. this campaign is because they just know that she's going to walk with it, but evidently not. Yeah, I don't know if she got redistricted or what, but like it shouldn't be that close for a high-profile congressperson to win. It doesn't come. But anyway, let's talk about the LOL red tsunami for a second, because that's where Ted Cruz is good around saying it's going to be a red tsunami.

So Democrats kept two of the three Virginia House seats. They were monitoring as potential defections. They held a Rhode Island house seat. They were tokens targeted. They won five of Ohio's 15 districts where they thought they might only win two under the gerrymandered Republican map. They hold toss-ups in South Texas, both in New Hampshire-South seats, and docked off. One of Trump's prized recruits in North Carolina, a kid by the name of Bo Hines, who absolutely sucks.

So I'm glad he's not going to be in Congress. Even the fishing lady, we talked about in Alaska, she got over 47 percent of the first choice votes, but the Alaska does the rank choice thing. So the second place was Sarah Palin with 27%. So she picks up less than 3% from any, any other candidate, like five or six candidates on the ballot, I think, to 2%. She's going to win. And a lot of people were wondering why. And to go back to a marriage counselor, Jesse Waters, but I think he pretty much kind of nailed it right here.

But see if you want to see one big thing he's missing. It's not the hatred for Joe Biden that there is for Barack Obama and for the Clinton. There's not a hate Biden vote that's out there. You know, when you go with Trump's on the ballot, there's that hate Trump Democrat vote. People just don't feel the same passion against the guy that they also feel for other people. I mean, and we have a problem. Dude, I remember. I remember people saying this about it, like, in the run up to the 2020 election.

I remember me and, like, there's people in my, among my in-laws and stuff who, like, they didn't like, you know, they were generally conservative, but they did not like Donald Trump at all. but they, like, you know, could stomach the idea of Joe Biden or at least like not having, not feeling the need to vote against him, whereas they wouldn't have done that with like Obama or Hillary or whatever. Like his milk toastness, you know, as a feature and not a bug for some people on the right. Like, it's not the first time I've heard that. Yeah. But it's also the one big thing he's missing is like he's basically wondering aloud

why they couldn't have as much hate for the elderly white dude. Yeah. he talked like a working class dude as opposed to the black man his middle name was the same as the last man it's a weird thing to wonder about it's just two things to wonder to regret about the House

when the Democrats don't have the majority at least at the beginning is the Supreme Court just absolutely fucking handed it to them there were two voting rights cases there should be layups if we live in a fair society but they Republican like Alabama and I think North Carolina keep gerrymandered maps

already been ruled racially gerrymandered for this election cycle. Hopefully those go down, you know, that case has resolved in a way that approaches democracy and fairness before 2024, but I don't have much hope with the Supreme Court. But an underrated villain here is fucking Andrew Cuomo and the New York Democratic Party. So the big dynamic when Cuomo was governor was he hated the left, right? Because the Democratic one party stayed in Cuomo is essentially like a centrist Republican who the dean next to his name. So we pointed a bunch of conservatives to the Supreme Court to own them, and they kicked back a Democratic gerrymander that would have netted them 11 seats and said they got, they just got, they just four Republicans, but instead New York's not going to have 11.

So that seven seat difference is far more than the margins going to separate the house. Also an asshole here is Eric Adams, the mayor of New York for running around saying the rest of his party is too soft on crime in the middle of the stupid fucking crime narrative feeding that bullshit in the New York metropolitan area. New York has a pretty low primary relative to almost every other city in America. And also, another guy can get fucked here, Sean Patrick Maloney, who's the chairman of the D-Triple-C, who lost his own election. This is a guy in charge of getting all Democrats elected to Congress, and he lost because when they got redistricted, he pushed out it in combat. He represented most of that district to move because he thought it would be easier for him to win. Then he spent the last three months in Europe, just fucking goofing off. Because he thought he had it on lock or what?

like it just he just thought he never considered the idea that he might lose or was it something yeah nothing else and mondare jones the guy he pushed out and forced him to run in a much less competitive both lost because of the because of a maloney's decision and here's a quote i want to read for a republican uh communication director uh from the guy who beat him i feel bad because he's been so gracious this guy he seems bill at raleigh he was not billed that biller rally said but he really was just an outwork situation he wasn't around and we just outworked him so right Yeah. If they have a one-vote margin, it's because this guy bumble-fucked Democrats in 10 different ways. One more thing we get to Corey to wrap up the House stuff.

The Freedom Caucus is going to walk Kevin McCarthy around on a leash if you get to get a elected speaker. Because there's already been multiple Republicans who literally said, I would rather murder my own firstborn child. That's a direct quote. The vote is Kevin McCarthy to speak. Not nearly crazy enough. Is that what it is? like he needs to step up the insanity. Yeah. Yeah, I guess.

But like the dynamic here is they're ungovernable. There's not going to any person they can agree on. It's theoretically possible that this gets so contentious to have three or four centrist Republicans. Regito supports Pelosi and she becomes speaking of the house again. But yeah, I want to talk about this article. But yeah, there's a couple quotes from Politico ran this story a few months ago. Like, well, everybody thinks Kevin McCarthy's dumb, but no one can say it. There's some quotes alluding to him and I was saying,

he's a goal to retrieve of a remand, not known for his being a policy won't, not known for his immersion in policy details, not known to have a mind for policy, a coastal extrovert of ambiguous ideological portfolio who would rather, far rather talk about personalities in the tax code. These are all different washy ways to call a guy a moron. But another thing about the speaker election is they're 435 people in the house, but they're also never 435 people in the house. There's always like three to six absences, right?

Because people, like a typical term I have somewhere between 4 and 6 people lose their seats. Either they resign, they die. or they get arrested or they take better paying private sector jobs. So we could be seeing a dynamic where this majority party who flips back and forth every couple months for the next two years, which is going to be absolutely fucking stupid. This is going to be absolutely, yeah, good skews content, I guess. God, this is going to be. All right.

All right. Well, let's get them in here. You all know him. You love him. It's senior Georgia correspondent. Pete Stater extraordinaire. Corey Ryan Forrester. What's up, Joe?

What's up, butt liquor? how y'all doing? Ooh, nothing, you know, hanging out. Quick question. One time we had to do this show, and you forgot you were doing it, and you accidentally took your sleeping pills before he came one. Did that happen to this stuff? No, it did not.

Matter of fact, I'm on a bunch of uppers. Opposite. All right. Yeah. I normally do this bit with Mark, but I only have two of them because I know we want to get to the Georgia stuff, but I do have my normal questions because y'all are who I get my news from. Number one, if I don't pay the $8,

$8, can Elon Musk repossess my car? What's the deal? I know, but he might publish the DMs. Yeah, I haven't paid $8 now. I can't change my goddamn name anymore. Oh, that don't hit. I'm stuck promoting shows I did a week ago. Oh, that's fun.

That's fun. Secondly, Ben Carson, what's he up to? Hadn't heard from the guy in forever. What's the deal there? You know, I don't know. I'm going to Google it real quick. Okay. Thank you, Mark.

So, Tray, you're, you're perpetually just promoting Oxnard and Brea, like forever? Yeah, until something changes. Yeah, I can't do anything about my Twitter name. So, yeah, I'll be promoting shows that are further and further into the past as we go forward. But Cho, we were talking about the midterms, obviously. We're about to get into the Senate. Now, I had to, so the incumbent Democrat in Nevada, Catherine Cortez-Mistow won, which I thought gave like control of the Senate to the Democrats without Georgia. But Mark, it is still vitally

important that we get Georgia despite that. And then I want to hear what Corey's prognosis is after you clear that up. Yeah. So when it's 50-50, they have comma as a tiebreaker, but still they have to have a power sharing agreement, which means that you have equal committee apportionment. That gumps things up in a couple of ways. With a tied vote in committee, They can force, it's called a discharge petition, which makes extra vote that takes up floor time, so it slows things down. And if they go nuclear, what that means, they just boycott the committees and they can prevent votes from happening because you don't have a quorum. They do that all the time. They've been using to block a pick to the Federal Reserve Board, yada, yada, yada.

Also, 51 votes allows for absences because these people get sick a lot because they're very old. So they also get, they get, this happened a lot under COVID. it. And also, like, 50-50, like, if a Democratic senator from a Republican state dies, they'll get replaced or, you know, arrested or whatever, to keep that office. They'll get replaced by a Republican governor, so that'd be a Republican pickup. So there's just no margin for error if anything goes wrong. But also, Warnock gets to hold the seat for six years. Like, it's in, you get six years of one more seat, no matter what happens in 2024 or 2026, right? So, like, it's that, that's important. important. So yes, Georgia is still very important. Don't listen to anyone. It tells you that 50 is enough. It's not fucking enough. And at a middle, you don't be held hostage by Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema. Right. So knowing all that, Corey, how do you feel about that as a Georgian who lives in Georgia? Where are you at? I would rather kill my firstborn child than have our political future come down to the state of Georgia. That's how I feel. Yeah, but it worked out. It worked out last

time like the same thing was true in 2020 and i know you and me too most most southerners were like well yeah right but then it did so you know i don't know i don't know man i mean it does seem like i want to sit here and believe that like yeah georgia turned the corner but i've always been a believer in that whole pendulum thing as far as politics goes and like to me as great as it was that Georgia flipped blue in 2020, I immediately saw everybody be like, okay, well, we did not hate hard enough. You know what I mean? We got to get back out there and hate. So like, I don't know, man. It's just we vote like, even as a Georgia football fan, like we won the national championship last year, but there were so many years where we didn't get it done that I still

believe that we won't. And I still believe that way in politics. And it's just, I don't think it's good to get your hopes up when it comes to politics in the South, really. I mean, I, you know, I agree with you. I know we talked about on the well-read podcast this week coming out tomorrow or later tonight, whatever, well-read podcast. You were asking, we were talking about the midterms, and you were like, you know, it seems like people, like Democrats are like pretty okay with shit, whatever else. But like, I'm in North Georgia where Marjorie Taylor Green just cruised to be.

Yeah, cruised. It's our buddy and friend of the show, Marcus Flowers. So, like, did you ever, were you at all surprised by that? No. Yeah, right. I knew he was getting his ass who up the whole time. That's just not something you say about your friends. Right.

You know what I'm saying? And I didn't want, like, when you're, when you hope that that's not the case, I can't go out there with that defeatist attitude because in a way I was campaigning for change and wanting it to happen. But like, you know, dude, in the back of my mind, I knew it was going to happen. Like, now, did I know that she was going to win by the same margin that she basically won by when she ran unopposed? No, I didn't see that shit coming at all. And I love Marcus, and it's not Marcus's fault.

It's just like, dude, I mean, you know, we're beating the horse to death here, but like this area is number one super gerrymandered, which, you know, that alone controls most of the percentages. But outside of that, this is just an insane, very Q&9 heavy, wild area. Like we've got Dalton right up above us that, like, has billboards up talking about getting rid of illegal immigrants. Yet at the same time, the industry in Dalton is carpets and they actually have signs in Mexico telling you how to get to Dalton, Georgia because they'll give you jobs for 275 and some bread or whatever. so like I don't know it's just and this is also a civil war area so there the rebel flag stuff hit us a little bit harder and like we're we're we're we come from a place that is like ultra divided huge chip on our shoulder fuck you you ain't gonna tell me what I can and can't say queer's place so like I don't know man it just don't feel like nothing's changed here like it's just we're just just the wild west am I wrong I mean I don't think you're not you you're not you You know better than anybody, obviously. I don't know if I do. The stories you tell me about Chickamauga.

Right. I wouldn't disagree with Chikamaga, but Georgia also has Atlanta in it. Yeah. So like that's true. We have. Yeah, go ahead, Mark. If I had to predict what's going to happen, it feels like Democrats would be far more motivated, motivated to vote in like a runoff election because if you're the Republicans, there was. especially 49 and 50 is basically nothing.

You're still not in the majority either way. Two, Herschel ran way behind Kemp and a bunch of other candidates. So like to a certain extent, there were a bunch of people who wanted to vote Republican or did not want to vote for Herschel. Those people probably stay home

because Kemp would have pretty good coattails for down-ticket races for anybody that wasn't Herschel fucking Walker. Right. Even beyond like politics stuff, I keep wondering when people are going to realize how lazy these Magick Kemp, minutes are and they just want these job because they're just sweet gigs.

Because even if you disagree with Warnock's positions, he will have constituent service offices, though. But Marjor Taylor Green doesn't have any offices in our home district. You can't find them. You go on Google Maps they don't exist. Yeah, we ain't ever seen that bitch here. I mean, she, every now and then she's at the tower doing some stuff. But, like, I swear to God, she just pops him for some photo op.

And then the next thing, you know, she's down at Mar-a-Lago wearing some same dress. What's the, what's the, like, how vocally or, you know, you know, enthusiastically, does she seem to be supported from your perspective just like kicking around town and shit? Obviously, she won by a lot, but is it like, yeah, there's signs everywhere. She's super hits for everybody. People are out loud and proud by how much she is, you know, their thing. No, and then that was what I tried to tell everybody for a long time.

And, like, now I've had to eat my words because I told her about first. It's like, look, she ran unopposed. You can't blame us for this, you know. But there's signs everywhere. It's Marjorie Taylor Green, Flood the Polls, her original slogan. which still is, is stop socialism, vote Marjorie Taylor Green. Everybody that I know who has actually listened to her speak is like, ugh, like, no, like even people who were like,

yeah, yeah, to like most of that stuff, they're like, yeah, but she's fucking crazy. But I think that they would still vote for her because in their mind, the opposite is socialism because they really play into those red scare tactics. But you see the signs everywhere, but I guarantee you if I was to knock on, on every door that has a sign and go, hey, do you remember when Marjorie Taylor Green said that thing about Jewish space lasers? They'd be like, I have no idea what you're talking about. You know what I mean? And I think a lot of people really fail to understand that Twitter is not real life. And because we're younger and we're on Twitter and we're politically engaged, we see all

the worst things of people. Most of these people go to work every day. They work. They're not on their phone at work. Then they come home. They put on Andy Griffith and they go to bed. only interaction with these politicians is when they hear them say stop socialism vote marjorie taylor green i'm not saying that's a good thing to be so heading have your head in the sand but like i do think if a lot of these people were as politically active as all of us insane people that are on twitter they would be like oh my god really that's what this person does but they don't they just know that the opposite means socialism in their brain and so yeah that's just that yeah keep your socialist hands off my medicare yeah dude that's all of them bro that's it man yeah

yeah i was just going to ask like you already mentioned you're a big georgia football fan too obviously southern state just won national championship the dogs big deal they're huge big thing in georgia ursha walker is the greatest dog of all time and also obviously a smush brain lunatic but i'm asking like same question basically but for harshal walker and how much if any do you think the dogness plays into it like is that still a factor after all the shit oh yeah everything you said it still is that never that never stops being a factor i mean he's a name and donald trump proved that celebrity means just as much to anybody as qualifications and he's a celebrity that happens to be on their same team stop socialism uh they want they want a strong christian man tray so now

they cannot in any way vote for the minister at Martin Luther King's actual church. That can't happen. They have to have a real Christian, Herschel Walker, who believes in Jesus' teaching, such as don't give no gay people money or whatever it was he said in the book. I didn't read it. But yeah, no, that holds a lot of cachet. And again, I don't, like, when the things that come out about Herschel, like, oh, he beat a slew of women or, oh, he had a bunch of abortions,

look man Donald Trump laid the groundwork for all this stuff to be refuted and that's called fake news they don't believe any allegations that come out against them because it was planted by the by the liberal media it's as easy as that like they just choose not to believe that stuff because otherwise this guy is going to be a puppet for the MAGA regime or whatever the fuck like I really wish that I could come to you with anything other than it's just pitiful how fucking stupid. stupid these idiots are. Dude, where I'm from, was near where Liberty University is, and when all of this bad reports are coming about Jerry Falwell Jr., stealing the college's money

and covering up rape investigations and filming his wife, getting cuckold about pool boy and all that stuff. I saw people who went, like, who go to his church, who I went to high school with on Facebook, saying, I was just the media trying to take him down. But the articles are quotes from people

who were devout Christians who work and attend the school who are begging for somebody to help them. Right. It's like the report is that it's your money being stolen so he can follow in to crooked real estate investments for the guys who are banging his wife. And you're like fake news. It's like it's your money. Right.

You're the one being grifted. Well, right. It's not even just fake news, though. It's like they'll just find any kind of rationale they need because, Mark, we had that clip last week or the week before of that lady in Georgia, Corey, asked her like, you know, You're Christian, you pro-life, whatever. She's like, yes, yes, she's holding a baby and stuff. Do you support hers to walker?

Yes. Yes, I do. Well, how do you feel about the reports about him paying for multiple abortions or whatever? And her response was not, I don't believe it. Her response was, well, listen, we all make mistakes when we're young, as long as he's grown and learned and, you know, a change man. And it's like he was 50 when he called that fast abortion. You know what I mean?

Also, that right there, that right there, that right, because I believe that there's a lot of people that would say that same thing, like, well, yeah, he made some mistakes when he was younger, but now he knows it's wrong. Okay, you can't have that mindset, but also believe in your heart that it is murder. Because if Herschel Walker had murdered five grown women, you wouldn't be going. Well, he made some mistakes. But they are, but to them, it's murdering a person. So it either is murdering a person or it isn't murdering a person. And if you believe in your heart that abortion is murdering a person, then you should believe

that a person who had five abortions should be in prison on five fucking counts of manslaughter. So you can't have it both ways. Dude, I don't even saw as a clip for her. Like, there were a couple of funny rehearsal clips

that I chose not to use for dumb ass today just because they're so mush-mouth and can't really make sense of him. Right. But he had a rally today where he said he was talking about something some ginned up scandal

where I guess Warfield, he's saying that Ruffield Warnock pays himself money to pay for his own child care. I don't know. I don't know. Again, you can't make sense of it. But he's saying, like, watch your own damn kids. I watch my kids. You literally don't. You don't live in the house.

They need your fucking kids. They don't talk to you. They hate you. They come out on Twitter and do like a little dance and talk about how much you don't hit. What are you talking about? The reporter who undercovered the first abortions to Hershey Walker story,

quote tweeted it with like, I showed this to the woman and she was like, you've got to be fucking kidding me. This is, Herschel doesn't even text his son. Right. Right. It's like, yeah. Well, Matt, uh, Corey, as long as you're cool with it, Matt, won't you start looking through the questions and comments,

throw them up there just so. Can I stay for the questions? Corey can, yeah, participate. Last week, some of these that we got right here in this, uh, section of the show was like, Corey should be here. Where's Corey? Yeah. Well, thank you guys. Here you are.

Also, let me just say, remember to like, share, smash that like button, guys, subscribe to the channel. Yeah, rate, review, five stars, tell you mom and them, all that good internet shit. I sure would appreciate it. All right. Gabriel carry on on YouTube says Ben Carson is at the annual Hope Women's Resource Clinic gala tonight in Beaumont, Texas. That's a deep pull, right? That is a deep pull. Good God.

He's a, I did look it up. Yeah, I don't know if he, yeah, I just, I knew he was going to announce tonight. It's supposed to happen in 13. He actually did. Oh, God. Gary Cruz on YouTube says Trump just filed to run in 2024. So Ben Carson started a conservative think tank in 2021. So he takes like Cook Brother handouts to say shit, like there's a crisis of families in Black America or dumb shit, whatever.

That's what he does for a living out. Motherfucker was a genius brain surgeon. Right. And just like he, he would, he was that Matt Damon, Siamese twin movie. You remember that? Yeah. Stuck on you. Stuck on you?

Oh, yeah, yeah. Wait, was he? Was he the one that gets them apart? Yeah. That movie hits for me. The Fairley brothers

can do no wrong, in my opinion. Absolutely worship the Fairley brothers. Me too. And they still hit for me. They still hit, dude. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah.

What about Dr. Oz, well, hang on. Aaron McCullough and YouTube says, is there anything Herschel could do that would put off Republican diehards? Do you think there's any? I mean, not with these, not with this particular brand of Republicans.

I do think that, like Mark was saying earlier, there was a slew of people, and this might be why we're in a runoff to begin with, that simply went, you know what, man, I can't bring myself to vote for a Democrat, but I also can't bring myself to vote for a mush brain lunatic. So I'm just going to sit this one out. So I actually do think that he's done, I do think that he's done a lot to run off your John McCain types, your Mitt Romney types, your Bob Dole types. I really do genuinely believe. But it's just like, but those Republicans also aren't standing. up and saying anything. They're just like the cops who watch their partner shoot an unarmed black guy and then be like, but I didn't shoot an unarmed black guy. It's like, yeah, you didn't turn him in either. You know what I mean? You're just kind of sitting there. Like you kind of need to be vocal about this. So like, I think he's done plenty to run him off. It's just that those diehard Trump, January 6 lunatics are still out there in vocal, baby. Long time viewer and commenter and enemy anemone. God damn it. I knew I'd fuck it up. And enemy anemone. Every time. Every time.

I was actually kind of confident in at that time and then still fucked it up. Anyway, says, we need to get some dedicated trolls to start staring up more shit between Trump and DeSantis supporters. Corey, before you got on, we showed a clip of these Trump people in New York outside Trump Tower stomping all over Ron DeSantis' face on a flag. And they were saying, they were like, this is considered very disrespectful in the Arab countries. I was pretty sure that's disrespectful everywhere, stomping on his face in the ground. But anyway, they said Trump or death, you know, whatever. it's like it's shaping up to be some wild stuff between those two. Well, on that note, I think that we all three were talking about this off mic,

or maybe we weren't that like, you know, the GOP is trying to, it needs to, because of how these elections went with Bobert, you know, it's kind of close and like all these MAGA Republicans losing it. It looks like the GOP needs to get away from the Trump type stuff and go back to one of their milk toast guys. Now, if they're going to do that and get a candidate who still espouses the Trump stuff, but does it in a way more classy way. That's Ron DeSantis all day. So in the event, Ron DeSantis becomes the GOP nominee for president,

Donald Trump still runs, but as a third party Ross Perot type candidate, don't you think that is actually great because it will split it right in two and then whatever no nothing fucking worthless Democrat we put up will win just because, you know? This is so probable for him. Like, I don't know if you saw he was running a fundraising,

online fundraising for ostensibly for Herschel Walker. But if you didn't click through and change the ratio, like literally 99 cents the dollar went to Trump. And like so if you give $10, Herschel Walker got 10 cents. So like, why in the hell would he ever stop running for stuff? Yeah, right. You know what I'm saying? So like, like, and I know Van Wick,

that's a brilliant plan and enemy an enmity. Got it. Yeah. The troll they're talking about is Trump. Trump's not going to quit. Those people are dancing with Rodney Sanchez's phrase in front of Trump Tower because Trump amp them up. So, like, we don't have to do shit, but watch.

Alex Bottomah says Trump running third party and stealing votes would be amazing. So, yeah, Alex is with the show. And, I mean, again, I'm with you too. But, yeah, like you were also alluding to, I remember when Roy Moore was running in Alabama in 2017 or whenever that was, 2018. The cowboy pedophile? Exactly, the cowboy pedophile, yeah. against Doug Jones and it was this big linchpin race and at the time and you know and he lost and I was real pumped about that and a lot of people like on the internet and stuff were saying are like I mean yeah but look what it took yeah right for them to lose a race in Alabama but my whole thing back then was like right but that's just who they are now right you think that you think that's going to just stop like they're not going to be putting up any more roy moors going forward it's like that's what they do you know and it's like that's kind of exactly how these midterms played out. Yeah, you can't look at what you think the world should be and live your life accordingly.

You have to live your life accordingly to how the world be, and that's how the world be. They don't do none of that. No, I'm just talking about us. I'm talking about, yeah, I'm talking about us. It's like, yeah, it does suck that someone has to come out with two six shooters going like, where's that 12-year-old pussy for them to, you know, not, but like that is what it is. So like celebrate a win, a W-ZW. All right.

So I got a surprise for you all. We're bringing Marcus Flowers. on right now. No, I'm kidding. Just waiting for the 30 little pussy line. I forgot this is a family show. Jamie Hunter on Facebook says any opinion

on the recent Pence interview. Who watches that shit? Right. He's on maybe seen news and said it. Yeah, right. He, um, you know, he said Trump was, you know, he like denounced Trump in it basically, right? So it did it did and all that.

Mark watched this gripping television. vision let him explain to us so he's promoting his book and i knew it i fucking knew it i said like as soon as you see something like that and it's about some shit that's years in the past normally it's like so when does their book come out and you know every fucking time so there's a passage from the book where uh he he goes in the oval office after january 6th and he's basically like mr president sir you know that was wrong sir and and bush i mean trump it goes like basically admits he was wrong and apologizes to Mike Pence. And I cannot tell you

a thousand percent that did not fucking happen. It did not happen. And he also, like an interview, they asked him if he should run for, would Pence support Donald Trump returning to the presidency in 2024?

And he said some stuff, well, that's for the voters to decide. And also every version of the January 6th story he tells is that they, he's like, me and he wasn't just my president. He was my friend.

We had a very close working relationship together. And up until that moment, then I told him, you know what, sir, I must walk away. It's like, it's like, first of all, no way to Trump ever fucking like Mike Pence. Right. No, anyone.

No. Trump hikes his children other than the one girl. They sort of want to pork. Like, that's it. Mike Pence is like quoting Psalms and Trump is like, ah, saw you know, Chrissy

Chrissy Teigen in a nightclub in 2012, and I could have had it. It's like, Jesus, great. Nikon Colapakam, Nikon Kalli Pakum says, on YouTube, says, thoughts on Fox News, blaming Trump for the defeat. I don't feel like it was just Fox News.

I mean, I guess it carries a lot more weight. For what defeat? Like in the midterms, I made. Oh, yeah, yeah. I did it. Like, we've been saying that Trumpism is like, you know, why they lost. I mean, I feel like, like, if they had ranked. If they were pushing out the, like, John McCain, Mitt Romney types in this election, I think they, right, they had a clean house, I think. And they didn't. And that's because of fucking Donald Trump.

Dude, if they could, if they ran out, if they ran some milk toast, if they ran some milk toast John McCain, like Mitt Romney type right now, they would get a lot of the older Democrats to maybe flip, you know, because they're so used to all this crazy shit. But there's plenty, there's plenty of. There's plenty of. old Democrats who like, ah, man, if they weren't so crazy, I sure would like them taxes, you know what I mean? But, like, so, yeah, you're right. They could have cleaned up. But all these dumb fucks thinking that they can do what Trump does,

like it just, you're not going to win unless you're that guy. I, I'll put it this way. I just do want to flag this for a second. I know what you're saying about people that present like John McCain and Mitt Romney is nice middle of route dudes. McCain and Romney in their 2008 and 2012 campaign.

were absolute lying psychopaths. Well, yeah. None of them hit. They've always, when you're comparing them to fucking Donald Trump and his, you know, and the, you know, the Maastrianos and Taylor Greens and stuff

of the world. It's like none of them hit, but still give me that all day. For sure, dude. The old version. Anna, L.A., on YouTube, says you think the vote on marriage equality will pass.

I imagine so, I think after this shall have, the Democrats are going to try to pass a bill in a lame duck session to protect marriage equality. I see people arguing about it. I'm not sure why people on the left would be against it. Maybe the bill is poorly written, but I read part of a piece today by a lawyer slash legal journalist who happens to be gay, who was very much in favor of the bill. So I don't know. I just, we'll see if it shakes out. I imagine we'd even get a bunch of Republican votes in the Senate just because they see how this cultural bullshit. We just went in the midterms.

It's like, this is take this issue off the table. So we don't have a bunch of the psychopaths running against gay marriage in two years and dragging the rest of us down. Right. Yeah. I didn't know this was a thing, so I can't comment on it. I'll go ahead and say also while we're here, me and Corey have another podcast called Putting on Ares. And if y'all don't watch it, you should. it's not political at all.

It's all about us talking about fancy shit, fancy people and their shit. And it hits. It does hit. It does hit. You can get it wherever you get your podcast putting on airs, or you can watch it at watch p.OA.com. It's a raw good time.

Rick Rodriguez says, and I know Mark had wanted to talk about this at least for a second, how the hell did Hillbilly Elogy win? Is Ohio that fucked up? We talked about Tim Ryan quite a bit in a route to this, and yeah, he got smart. It's because Trey was right about Tim Ryan. We talked about a couple of weeks ago.

And Tray was like, he's running the kind of campaign that to me seems like it shouldn't work. And guess what? It absolutely did not fucking work. Vance ran behind where he should have. He won by a much smaller margin than a non-cyclopath would have. But that's just because J.D. Vance doesn't have people. But it turns out Tim Vance running against student debt relief, running being milk toast about weed legalization. And trying to run a campaign based upon like fearmongering about China.

Did not work when you're running against a Republican? Who the fuck would have thought? Trey, you're genius. Thanks, Mark. I was trying to tell everybody the whole time. All right, well, hey, Corey, also, we told you about putting on airs, but why don't you tell everybody where else they can find your lovely work out there on the internet? Yeah, you can go to part-time funnyman.com.

That's where I'm focusing a lot of my efforts on account. I just found out I'm going to be a dad, and I don't want to tour as much. By the way, guys, announcement here just found out that I am a substack bestseller Yeah, part-time funnyman.com is at the top of the heap over there on Substack. I do videos, I do bonus podcast, I write essays, I write poetry. It's a whole lot of cool stuff. It is $5 a month, but if you cannot afford it for any reason, you can just email ButtercreamCore at gmail.com and I'll hook you up, no questions asked.

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