Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – The Eye of Sauron, with Rep. Aftyn Behn

Episode Date: November 26, 2025

Marjorie Taylor Green quits Congress like she works at Pizza Hut. The AI nerds are angling for a government bailout for a crash that hasn’t happened yet, so your Social Security can fund chatpots that give you recipes with rocks in them. Then we talk with Tennessee State Rep. Aftyn Behn about her run for Congress in next week’s special election, and what it’s like becoming a national target for attacks just because the race is closer than anyone thought it would be.Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you thanks for joining us on this this turkey week i hope your fasting and anticipation got all your gravies lined up and stuff ready to go for this thursday it is november 25th 2025 um i'm tray that's mark are multiple gravies a thing in her to have Thanksgiving? Well, it can but it was so my me ma, I don't know how regional the thing this is, but she used to, and not

just her, but other members of my family used to do jiblet gravy. You ever have jiblet gravy? Right, okay, which I like jiblet gravy, but me, I'm going to just make a like turkey gravy with like the pan drip, just like a classic standard gravy up. That's my choice. But generally it's probably going to be one or the other,

But there's a couple of different Thanksgiving gravies that live in my heart, Mark. So, you know, yeah, it's a matter of, you don't even want to get into the whole, like, dressing versus stuffing debate, by the way. We devoted an entire episode of Well-read to that once, and it never really got solved. I don't have a firm opinion. I'm not saying it's a way, there's a specific way it should or shouldn't be done. We never did it inside the turkey in my family. It just wasn't a thing people did.

Right. So I don't really have a frame of reference for how much better the other way is. Right. um so uh speaking of turkeys marjor taylor's shot on a fucking perfect nailed it so fucking dad joke so marjor taylor green uh now she's going to resign her office effect of january 5th as a congressperson and uh i find this whole thing i didn't watch the entirety of her 10 minute video announcement i did find it interesting in a couple levels uh did you watch any of it do you know i was on the road this past weekend and i saw i knew that

It happened, but I haven't actually gone back and watched any of it or anything, so I don't know. I don't know what she said. I don't know, you know, the specifics. Basically, her reasoning is that, well, Trump hates her now. He's picked her out of the four Republicans who forced their vote on the Epstein files. He picked her to hate the most probably because she's the one who's closest to. And she's going to get a primary challenge. And she's like, well, I would win the primary, but it would be bloody and awful for the party.

And also, I'm getting death threats already. I don't want to deal with that. She compared herself to an abused house, abused, wife, and then said, fuck it, I'm out. The part of it, I did find, and she also said that I found interesting, it's like, we're going to lose the house. And I would be expected as a member of this party to defend the president from impeachment charges after he's trying to get me killed, basically.

Right. She's like, I'm not going to, but there's other option marks. You could vote to impeach them. You don't have to be a member of a different party. That's what I saw people say. And I saw some, like, reactions to it. Because I also saw, I don't know, like an unnamed or anonymous other House Republicans said this could be the start of a trend potentially that like there could be others coming or

whatnot and i saw some people on like reddit saying like you know they could just like stick around and try to you know do something about it like you said like actually vote in favor some of these things are like fight back or whatever instead of just basically taking their ball and going home essentially but that's why yeah brand so uh so let me quote here we i mean you might be referencing this is a report from punchball news this morning uh martyela green's four-page know it was stinging for House Republicans. Why? Because the message rang true to so many in the House GOP. In fact, a few other GOP members messengers over the weekend saying that they too were considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here's one particularly exercised senior

House Republican. The entire White House team is treated all members like garbage, all. And Mike Johnson has let it happen because he wanted it to happen. That's the sentiment of nearly all, all the rank and file. The arrogance of this White House team is off-putting to members who are being run rush shot over and threatened. They don't even have us less little wins, yada, yada, yada, goes on. Basically, so the Epstein Discourse position was one little coup, but there's other ones brewing where the House Republicans want to vote on putting sanctions back on Russia, and what's the other one? Oh, banning congressional stock trading, right? Which both those have bipartisan support, and Mike Johnson is stopping as a fair for the White House,

and then he's got a little coup going on because of it. But back to Green for a second. she scheduled she said she's resigning as of January 5th the timing that is interesting because that is that would put a special election on track for March the regular primary for receipt in 2026 would be May 19th so the filing the following windows are like fuck everybody up it couldn't out with candidates they can only run for the special and not the regular so like she really fucked her own party here and I feel like this was on purpose just hilarious but as far as her letter that she put out along with her video statement two parts that stuck out out to me as since she was the first Q&ON member of Congress, all right?

She said at the end of it, there is no plan, there is no four-dimensional chest. That is explicitly addressing other members of Q that QAnon is bullshit. What she did was she went to Congress. She found out that there were too stupid to be doing any really deep level conspiracies. And then gave up and went home. It reminds me like the guy that went to comment pizza looking for during Pizza Gate. And when he saw there was no basement that had kids in, he just laid down his gun inside my bad. He surrendered to cops.

Yeah. Is that a different dude than the Sernovich or whatever, the guy that's, or whatever, okay. There's some big right wing fucking whatever, Twitter thought leader or something, right, who like made his bones on Pizza Gate, I think. Jack Pacific. That's him. Yeah. Yeah.

Who's, I can't keep him straight. Anyway, yeah, that guy. But that's not that you're talking about, you're talking about a guy that was influenced by that guy to actually physically show up with a gun. And then it was, yeah. he was just pizza here he went to do a mass shooting and didn't do it because comic pizza didn't have a basement and like like like

he was in his head he was trying to rescue kids and he realized he'd been lied to and gave it up and didn't hurt anybody I'm like fantastic well basically what we need to do is elect every member of Q and on to Congress for a five year since they can recognize that there's nothing that nothing like that going on there's different kinds of fuckery

and then we can de-radicalize everybody so yeah that's the lesson yep all right well we'll see we often don't learn lessons So we'll see how that one actually turns out. But thank you guys for joining us. Producer Matt is back there doing this thing.

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As for this episode, we got another guest, guest joining us this episode, from back my old stomping grounds my home state of tennessee state represented afton bain who has found herself in the middle of a you know suddenly surprisingly contentious u.s. congressional race um and one of the reddest states we got my homeland so we'll get her perspective on that a little bit later but we got some other stuff first of course starting with as always the daily dumbass my graphic please Tonight's D.D., the taxpayers, for not knowing my so far useless computer thingy is worth more than their water, health care, food, and retirement. At some level, when something gets sufficiently huge, whether or not they are on paper, the federal government is kind of the insurer of last resort, as we've seen in various financial crises and insurance companies screwing things up.

So, I guess, given the magnitude of what I expect AI economic impact to look like, sort of, I do think the government. So that's OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman. Open AI runs Chi-GPT. Laying the groundwork for government bailout while his stock is still going up. Right. That's how you know this is going to be fucking awful. Right. What was even the context for him bringing that up in the first place? Because it seems like, why would you even be talking about that if you hadn't considered?

you know, possibility. Because like you said, the way they presented always is like, oh, we haven't even started to, you know, bloom. Y'all ain't even going to believe where this is all going. He was on like a like a YouTube show with one of his big investors. A guy who owns a bunch of open AI stock. He was like, and he was asking Sam like basically like, you said you're going to spend a trillion dollars in data centers, but you had 13 billion dollars in revenue last year. How the fuck? And that essentially escalated the bubble talk, right?

So, like, he's sort of responding to that, saying, oh, don't worry about the government got us. So it's not just him. His chief financial officer suggests the government could backstop its investment data centers. Open AI also is the letter to the White House asking for more tax, more government support, specifically tax credits for about supply chain issues, and asked the administration to explore using the advanced manufacturing investment credit and the Defense Production Act. The Defense Production Act is a thing that Trump would not invoke in 2020 to make more masks during COVID. But they're going to do it to make AI data centers. The flop sweat around these people has been fucking, like, it's getting insane. It's not just Sam Alvin.

Mark Andreessen spent like a whole week a couple weeks ago posting nothing but Sidney's Sweeney memes and arguing with the Pope on Twitter. Elon Musk celebrated his... Mark Andreessen and Corey Ryan Forster got a lot in common, sounds like. Yeah. Spend their time on Twitter similarly. Elon Musk got a fake trillion dollar payout and celebrated by making Grok say I love you to him

and like a young girl in a video and now he just retrained Grok to merely just compliment him all day which is great use of resources just like nothing other. The planet doesn't need anything else. So that's you're talking about that's the same thing where like people ask hey Grok

who is a better overall athlete Elon Musk or LeBron James, right? Like that type of thing. And no matter how you, who would win in a fight Mike Tyson or Elon James, or Elon James, Mike Tyson or Elon Musk, that type of thing. And every time Grok is like, well, listen, while Mike Tyson is great and has a lot of power, like the sustained, you know, type of stamina required to work 100 hours a week for two decades or whatever, the way that Elon has shows a whole different level of athletic, like this type of patently ridiculous shit,

which is like, there's no way Grock would be doing that if Elon had not basically directed him to just say all this truly ridiculous shit about him that no same person is going to believe. It's just like, I don't know, I don't understand how you don't realize how cringy that comes across to anybody with a fucking brain. You know, it's so transparent what happened. And it's pathetic. Like, it's sad. I would, if that happened to me, I would, uh, take every pill in my cabinet and walk into the ocean of my pockets full of rocks. Like, it's like, it's so fucking, right. It's so fucking embarrassing. When people, when people figured out that you could flip it, like, Because Grock's not allowed to say any negative about him.

But if you phrase something negative as a positive, like they asked it, well, this isn't negative to it. There's only negative in the context of what they're talking about because it's Elon, but somebody was like, who would win a blowjob contest between Elon and Nancy Reagan? Oh, Nancy Reagan, hands down. He's got like, he's got these guys, he really wants these guy. He's a really a generous person, you know, like somebody like who would win a piss drinking contest, too, all the world's elite. It's really ridiculous because if you're wondering if these things think at all, they cannot figure out that fucking. ruse, right? So,

and Alice Karp, CEO of Palantir, he went on a drug out of rant on CNBC because Michael Burry, the guy that Christian Bale played in the big short, shorted Palantir. He said it was basically

cosmically unfair to short sell Palantir because what Palantir sells is ontology, whatever the fuck he thinks that means. And here's a video interview with Carp. And does this not seem like a guy

who's doing great? Do you got this video, Matt? I had Matt drop on the music He has Alice Carp showing off his sword To a girl who's in a young lady who's interviewing him As you do You have we all have our office swords right Sure

So that who is that Obviously that's some higher up at Palantir Is who that is That's Alice Carp He's supposed to be the liberal yin to Peter Thiel's Yang Oh okay That's how they sell themselves too But he also like

He tells people kills himself as like a thought low thought he's like a philosophy major he's supposedly liberal but he also wants to kill everything alive so you can parse whatever you want but anyway after an interview who gave her a t-shirt that woman a t-shirt of his own face on it and the word dominate if you got this picture about it just the folk like all these people are so fucking pathetic um nevidia uh yeah there it goes dominate picture him in sunglasses so michael burry has become a villain to a lot of these guys if you michael burry made millions short selling the housing market. Right. Christian Bail and the big short. Yeah, right. Yeah. The autistic guy who loves drumming to heavy metal in the big short.

Yep. He's also short selling NVIDIA. And I'm not going to like, but the fact these guys are so scared to him, he's like the Omar's coming of short sellers. And they put out this story, this story, this headline, Navidia dispute big short investor Michael Berry's bearish case. Here's what the company says. If I were NVIDIA in this business environment, I wouldn't be trying to pump.

or prop up the stock, I'd be trying to say we're focused on making a good product because, again, if you're just focusing on your stock price, it makes me think all you care about is your fucking stock price. Why are you care about pumping and dumping your stock if you're not dumping it? You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Well, that's been the problem with like, um, like when we talk about it in shitification and stuff like that, it's all, that's what a lot of it all comes back to is because they got the actual product or service or whatever that's offered long ago took a back seat to just, the number on the on the big board or whatever just the stock price and the shareholder fucking dividends and all that stuff and uh that's what's like fucking everything up is that like philosophy shift the only like big corporations that still managed to be worth the fuck pretty much every one of them is still like privately held or whatever you know so it's a lot of coincidence anyway uh this baron's headline this morning is fun uh it's the headline reads if you got it man uh nevidia says it's not Enron and private member refusing accounting questions.

Claiming you're not Enron. This is, this was inspired by a fake blog post where a guy said he'd caught Navidia doing fraudulent accounting with an algorithm, which I was hoping was real because I'd been deeply funny if AI caught the big AI chipmaker doing doing financial fraud. But it turned out not to be totally accurate. But anyway, Navidia put out this thing. The whole argument is basically we're not Enron because all the financial fraud we're doing is legal. Right. Oh my God, bro. So it's really important as they're definitely about to seek a huge taxpayer bailout that we all understand that we really need to spend our tax dollars on public goods like this.

See, I don't, but okay, with like the banks and shit, right, which was also infuriating to everybody, but it was, it was like, well, these things are central to fucking all of it, the whole economy, the whole house of cards. Like, if we let these fail, the ripple effect is going to fucking take the whole thing down. and that's why we can't do it. But how can you make that argument about fucking AI companies or whatever that do fucking smoke and mirrors professionally? You know, like... We can't lose to China.

Right, okay. That's going to be their argument for systemic risk is like, but if China has better... Yeah, right. I don't know, whatever. You know, I literally just saw a clip of Joe Rogan making that exact argument.

And I don't seek out Joe Rogan clips anymore. This one somehow found its way in front of me. But he was... That's the exact argument he was making. I said, yeah, something of this AI stuff and drones and all that. He's like, well, here's the problem. China's doing it. We can't just let them do it and us not do it or whatever. So yeah, you're right. That is the, that's the

spin, the angle. We're all told we couldn't lose the race to 5G to China. It was very, very important. They run their, one, they won the race to 5G and nothing fucking happened. Right. Either way, the way they're doing it's totally different the way the U.S. companies are doing it. So, like, they're going to win it. They're winning a different race than we're even running. Probably because they're less connected to the profit incentives. They can just focus on making cool shit that does actually useful stuff, as though what this thing does, which is make people kill themselves. Seven more families are now suing open AI where Chad GPT's role in suicides, like the number keeps climbing. I want to read this to you, okay. This is the lead to one of the stories.

Zane Shamblin sat alone with his car with a loaded handgun, his face illuminated in the pre-dawn dark by the dull glow of the phone. He was ready to die. But first, he wanted to keep conferring with his closest confidant. I'm used to the cool metal on my temple now, Shamblin typed. I'm with you, brother. All the way, his texting partner responded. The two spent hours chatting as Shamblin drank hard-siders on a remote Texas roadside. Cold steel pressed against a mind that's already made peace. That's not fear. That's not.

That's clarity. You're not rushing. You're just ready. The 23-year-old, who had recently graduated with a master's degree from Texas A&M, died by suicide two hours later. Rest easy, King, read the final message to sent to his phone. You did good. Chad GPT, obviously. So, 40 years ago, we had congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bans of

putting backwards messages in their songs if they told kids to kill themselves when they remotely like this happened. And now we have a planet killing fucking chapbob that's like, I bet you won't commit suicide, you chicken shit pussy. And the government's like, here's $5 billion. Mm-hmm. Yeah, you're 100% right. All that moral panic in the 90s and stuff about, yeah, metal, rap, gangster rap, video games,

all that shit. Congressional hearings and everything. Oh, yeah, across the board. But this is like, they've just decided. it's like they all just decided automatically that like this was you know the thing they all bought in even though 95 plus percent of them and by them I mean the politicians like definitely don't actually understand any of it that's just I mean I don't either but like but you know it's we don't have like I've opted out from it I don't use it I don't want it in my life I don't think I don't need to know about it because they're insisting of shoving it down my fucking throat yeah on that note so I use like chrome usually and like or I got a thing like in my window right now I'm looking at it where I have our show notes yeah and I was like I don't what does that mean where did that come from because I know that that's their AI or whatever but I was like I didn't turn that on and what is that doing and it

made me immediately like uneasy I was like I don't want that there I didn't I don't need that I don't know what that is fucking you know but anyway but yeah it's just there all it's just everywhere all the time being shoved down your throat and we are worried about the gay agenda men shoved on their base. It's also like they're trying to do all this in service of rendering us unemployed. The government is about to spend our taxpayer money that we paid with the jobs we used to have to fucking take those jobs away from us. And like without a plan of whatever comes next.

Like so it also it's important to remember that six months ago, tech guys were like, we're cutting all this wasteful spending by eliminating medical research in USAID. And now the tech guys are like, yeah, I think tax. pairs would be excited to bail out my non-consensual pornography machine. I want to speed run this because I know we're running a little late, but like, so these systems of nefarious going on at late with these companies. Meta just had their former head of safety and well-being come forward and testified the company had a 17-X strike policy for accounts engaged in the trafficking of humans for sex.

So 16 strikes, you get one more chance, baby, for human trafficking for doing sex trafficking. Then your child gets suspended. Why even have a fucking rule if it's 17? Yeah, that's weird. Open AIS video generation tools, SORA, their second, their SOR2, their second update, had a bunch of videos. Apparently one of the most popular thing to do with their video generation

is to make images of teen girls being choked out. That's what people are doing with SORA, which is supposed to be the nice public-facing one for everyone to use. Do you mean, like, in a fight setting or like a sexual setting? The ones I saw, it's just a, Like a teen girl in front of the camera, and someone chokes her as she passes out. That's all that happens in there. Right.

Yeah. Did you, did y'all do that when you were a kid? This is obviously fake, but I mean, is that what you're talking about? We used to choke each other until we passed out. I know what you're talking about. No, this is, well, these aren't real people. These are AI. I know that.

I know that. I'm saying is it an AI representation of that. Is that what the. Okay. No. It's a voyeurist. It's a voyeur and jury enjoying someone like being shows. Right.

The point, if you guys weren't 90s kids, what Trey's talking about is you could get a buzz by having someone do like the auto-erotic as fixation with it, the erotic part to you. Right. Just choke you a little bit, right? It was like it was the 90s. We were fucking idiots. So, so. There's also a thing where, like, this company called Secret Desires, whose whole purpose is to turn pictures of random people, celebrities, strangers, people, your book photos of people you went to, like, school with into sex videos. they left their back door open where all the images were public to everybody.

So if you generate, like, that's embarrassing. First of all, it's a death threat to the women. It's also embarrassing for the guys. But it gives you think like this is like, well, it's like it's got to be like sore, right? Where it can do everything that people are just using it to do pervert and shit. No, that was their whole, that was a secret desire's whole pitch. Like don't, I know a lot of states I'm sure don't, but a lot of states do have like revenge porn laws or whatever, right? Don't they?

Where you can't just do that. Like, and I know that this is. I'm saying, I don't know, it seems at least adjacent to that. It feels like it should be a thing that you ought not just be able to do because of how real it all looks, you know? I agree with you, but they're doing it. Yeah, right. So, like, yeah, I agree. Y'all not be able to do it, but also, like, the comparison sort of, like, all these ontological questions about, like, if it's artificially generated, is it revenge porn?

Honestly, nobody's supposed to know about you that you make it a video of the girl from the gym, but they left the, but they got hacked or whatever. They actually didn't even get hacked. They just, like, put it all on the internet. So I want to talk about, like, for a few minutes about, like, all the stuff that government's already doing for them, that this is, like, basically a second buyout. But, like, for starters, like, the guy, Bill Pulte is in charge of the federal housing finance agency, which runs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, says that those agencies are looking at ways to take equity stakes in technology companies, equity stakes and technology companies. He didn't say what tech, but, like, it's, Fannie Mae does this supposed to help people get mortgages? right Freddie Mac

I mean Fannie Mae's student loans right maybe I got that but like so but like how why are they getting in bed with Silicon Valley

because it's going to end up like a reverse mortgage from a fintech that like the final person says you only get 40 bucks and you have to like twerk on a webcam or some shit

like maybe it's just an AI generator that makes you a picture of a house if you want to buy a house um AIS companies are already basically government program via terrorists they all got huge carve out from the tarvouts

from the terrace to rest of us are having to pay for if you you were trying to say the Trump administration was like a children's object lesson in proving their own ideas were bad and stupid, this is kind of how you'd go about it. So the White House tells us that free trade is bad and tariffs are good. So if you want to prove that it was dumb, you would say raise tariffs and a bunch of stuff

including agriculture and manufacturing. So those policies cause disasters in those industries. Then create huge carve-outs, exemptions for AI stuff and their supply chain, so tariffs didn't apply to them, show the AI stuff is booming. like they just showed you they just did a we're morons fucking thing you know what I'm saying yeah but yeah

they do that all the time but then they just misrepresent what actually happens and people believe that misrepresentation you know what I mean well Elon's telling people that optimist robots

would be able to do surgery so we'll get to like the utopia where everyone has access to everything because a humanoid robot which by the way not how you would design a robot

unless you wanted fucking just wanted to look like a person and with his fat fingers it's like we have robots to do surgery already they use lasers you stupid stupid fuck. Right.

Anyway. So, this is how the regular regulatory framework they would prefer. I want to quote here from DeFsteen's email, Jeffrey Epstein's emails. This is the email from Melanie Walker, who's a neuroscientist and advisor to Bill Gates, in the email that got forwarded to Jeffrey Epstein. Quote, the Middle East is a perfect, as a regular, let me call here, sorry. Middle East is perfect, perfect to test clinical wearables, parentheses, due to no legal or policy restrictions in parentheses, and also to experiment.

with remote telemetry, parentheses, don't have to leave the home slash great for gender issues there in parentheses. To translate that, they can test AI-powered headbands and rings and bracelets

on the people and women in the Middle East and transmit all the data to a centralized location because there are no privacy laws to worry about, and you'd always know where to find your test subjects because they're chained to a fucking radiator at home the women are. They're not,

but that's what this woman seems to thank them at least all this. So that's what they want us to be for them. Right. yeah everything's so fucking strange and dystopian man and again it's like i said i feel it makes me feel dumb on top of everything because that when i was younger and you know liked sci-fi and cool shit so much so that i was like naive enough to think that this stuff would be neat instead of fucking existentially terrifying or whatever uh but you know yeah what are you going to do yeah so trump is supposedly considering a executive order which would ban all state regulation of

AI, which is, I don't think he has the constitutional authority to do, but fuck it. You know, whatever. We're just working through the looking classes and shit. But here's him talking about it, if you got this video, Matt. On artificial intelligence, and we will work closely with friends and partners like those in this room to build the largest, most powerful, most innovative AI ecosystem in the world. And we are going to work it so that you'll have a one approval process, not have to go through 50 states in the United States.

You know, you can't go through 50 states. state. You have to get one approval. Okay. You got a bad. So he goes on to blame it on the wolksters. If you do 50 states, one wokster can throw a monkey rich in the whole problem, which I don't know what he means about wokster in the context of AI, but it's going to be deeply funny because state governments all seem like at least marginally suspicious of this shit. So if he does an executive order,

I don't get a huge lawsuit with 49 states attorney general suing him over and the one that won't will probably California because Silicon Valley is here. And I'm going to fucking sit fire to something. One of Trump's biggest opponents on this is Ron DeSantis, who we'd never talk about anymore. Let me quote here. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has become one of the loudest voices calling for states to regulate artificial intelligence. A vocal AI skeptic, the GOP governor pledged this summer that Florida would craft, quote, strong policies on what he contends, quote, is the biggest issue facing our society.

Whoever's saying how great it's going to be, there's going to be big pitfalls, too. I mean, at best, right? Yeah. You end up in this situation where people don't even know what's real. He's talking about the media environment, which is. is fucking true. You can't, like, no one knows what's real on the internet anymore. Right. And he says, let me quote here, stripping states of jurisdiction to regulate AI as a subsidy to big tech, yeah, and prevent states from protecting its online censorship of political

speech, yeah, predatory applications that target children, yeah, violations of IP rights, yeah, and data center intrusion on power water resources, DeSantis post on social media. During his remarks at the economic stomach, DeSantis reiterated his longstanding concern that AI could replace workers and trigger economic upheaval. Quotes, one of the reasons why I don't think we should be subsidizing it, DeSantis said. Why will we subsidize something that could potentially cause problems for folks? Good fucking question, Ron DeSantis. God damn.

Strange days, man. First Marjorie Taylor Green making sense and now DeSantis. Meatball Ron doing it, but, you know, fucking blind squires and all that. It's worth noting there that Trump was given that speech at the Saudi economic forum. They just had the D.C. where all the tech overlords were there, like, kissing MBS's ass to get money from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund. So all this is in service of giving Saudi Arabia access to all of our fucking data. All right. Okay.

All right. With that moving on, we're going to get our guest out here for you. Like us, our guest tonight is a Democratic State Representative and former health care community organizer who is running to represent Tennessee, my home state, seventh congressional district. She is running against Republican nominee Matt Van Epps in a competition to succeed, former GOP rep Mark Green, who, resigned from office in June to take a cushy private sector job and things are hating up for our guest afton bain if you don't believe us watch this afton bain says i'm a very radical person so radical bane thinks rioting is a way for people to express themselves worse bain went on a midnight joy ride harassing ice officers and state trooper our girl squat and we're bullying the ice

vehicles and state trooper so this is like unhinged and it's really scary stop afton bane so radical it's scared club for growth action is responsible for the content this happened i'm so scared train aren't you terrified effing scary all right here we're at afton bain everybody thank you very much for joining us to my first question is you know when did you decide to destroy america with your radical radical belief. How did you land on that? I mean, my rebuttal to that is I don't think it's radical to be trying to expand Medicaid for my entire organizing career in the state of Tennessee. I mean, they have pulled, they have dug up. I mean, apparently the New York Times reported they have a 73-page

dossier of me. Yeah. Well, that's good. If somebody put a 73-page dossier on me, there would be stuff I did like in high school on it. No, I mean, I've always thought, even with the notion of possibly running for office, I immediately think of that and how much that would suck, frankly, you know, how, like, awful of experience that's got to be. Not too, are you getting, like, brigaded and stuff, too, by, like, the base and that type of thing? It's been, I mean, I wouldn't, I'm, I've been prepared because in May, you all, you all may not know, but we had a massive ice operation. I recorded a video in which I was defending my Hispanic constituents and monitoring, you know, federal government overreach. And I had lots of calls for my arrest, you know, all the barrage of assaults and threats all my life. And so I've gotten used to it.

And this time around, I'm just upset that everyone thinks I hate country music. It's unfair. That is the funniest controversy. See, like, I put it in notes and me, me, fine. So you said, like, how do you explain this? All right? Like, this is what happens when a race gets nationalized. So we, this is the same.

Tennessee 7 is one of those heavily gerrymandered districts that stretches from the exurbs into Nashville, right? Yes. Is that correct? And you're currently a state rep and you want a primary to win on a special election that kind of wasn't nationalized at the time because it looks like this might, could potentially control. who could decide who controls the House, right? Okay, so Nashville was a consolidated Democratic district. And after 2020, they cut it up into three Republican districts.

And what's interesting is the representative who just vacated his seat, of which I'm running for, when that happened, he said, do not do this, it will backfire. And the backfiring is here because Democrats are energized. The district goes all the way up to the Kentucky. border. It includes Clarksville or Montgomery County, which is our purple bellwether in Tennessee. It includes the highest voting turnout precincts in Davidson County, which is the black communities in Nashville and some other Democratic stronghold. So they overreached and thus this opportunity. And today I was being interviewed and the reporter from CBS News said, did you know that the RNC called

this a battleground district? All right. So now you've got like you said 73-page dossier. like basically every because there's no other election going on so every Republican operative who wants a job right now was digging through all your old social media posts and podcast appearances, right? You called it being an eye of Sauron.

Donald Trump's called you the AOC of Tennessee basically. It might have been a Fox News quote. And then somebody dug up a podcast clip where you said, you were obviously joking. I listened to it, okay? And this, I'm not sure what person in New York

thought this made you look bad, but he said, I hate the city, I hate the bachelorets, I hate the pedal taverns. I hate country music. It had all the things to make Nashville apparently in its city to the rest of the country,

but I hate it. You were laughing when you said it. Obviously shitting on tourists, which everybody in every tourist tourist city in America does. It's part of the local lore. I mean, it's part of our factory, right?

We have to live with it. And I think me launching into a diatribe, you know, upset about how our city is caters towards tourists and not locals, I think, has been embraced by every Nashvilleian. And it just hit really hard. because I represent downtown Nashville, and so I felt like it was in a personal affront

to my legislative leadership. But like I said, unfortunately, everything, and once again, it is the reason these attacks are so, they're spending millions of dollars against me. In a race, it wasn't supposed to be competitive. And the reason they're doing all of the character assassination stuff is because they don't have a plan to make health care more affordable, and they don't have to talk about it.

Right. That's exactly right. But yeah, so you represent downtown Nashville. Is downtown Nashville also part of this new seventh? Yes, yes, it is. Okay, so I know, so I've looked and it's so spread out that, so this new seventh district includes downtown Nashville and also a county called Wayne County, which is where my wife is from and where my in-laws live and where I spend every single Christmas. And so I know from, you know, the past 15 years down there that that's like arguably the reddest county in Tennessee. like they're hardcore down there but it's also very very rural i know you're familiar

of wayne county because there's a wayne county didison denizen was a state level rep named david bird who was also a high school coach basketball coach down there who uh it came out that he'd been you know doing some uh sex pesty stuff with the girls on the team and then he still got reelected after that and you in 2018 um put together like a campaign basically saying like Really? This is nuts. So you know what Wayne County is like, right? Is what I'm saying. The idea that that one district encompasses both of those two places is like kind of hilarious to me. And I really hope it does bite them in the ass the way that your hopeful predecessor, you know, predicted. Well, the other thing I wanted to say is like, why can, like, why can cable news, why can Fox News undermine our cities, right? Like, all they like to do is talk about urban cores and like, And if they loved Nashville so much, they wouldn't have cut up our congressional district into three.

Right. There's also the part of it, like, I think the funniest take I heard on the whole country music thing. First of all, a country music fan here, so is Trey. Crapping on pop radio country is the most universal across the board, country music opinion in the world. And like, and you can complain about like, like, you know,

locals being a little resentful because people, People are coming in to stay at Airbnb's inject up your rents and go to Kid Rock's bar. Every woman found that annoying, right? It's not like the ability that's doing national controversy is hilarious. And my funniest take I saw was like somebody from the five, somebody right-wing influence was like, that's like running from mayor of New York and saying you hate Times Square. Every New Yorker hates Times Square. Anyway, they're not from there.

Their opinion doesn't really matter, but it is funny what they think is going to stick. But I also think it's funny what's a controversy or what's a controversy or what's, a scandal anymore because like during the protest, the guy you're just talking about the former state rep who was accused of a sexual assault, yeah. Yes, the allegation, he, he was eventually forced out of office, but it's considered like a controversial thing on your record that you were escorted out of a hearing where you were protesting him. Like, that's a controversy, right?

Well, and Trump just posted, so, I mean, people need to understand that we had victims with, I mean, these are women who were, who have been emotionally scarred forever. I'm someone who's always stood up for survivors and victims of sexual abuse. And Donald Trump just shared a photo of me after I tried to throw myself into the governor's office to try to get a conversation with him about this predator that was in office. And I was hurled out by the state troopers and thrown on the marble floor and started crying because it hurt. And Donald Trump just re-shared the photos of me mocking me.

And I'm like, I'm sorry. I've been standing up for survivors my entire life. It's not funny. It's not funny to me. No. And you came out of a, you were social work out of college and then got into political organizing through health care policies. Is that correct? Yeah. And then your producer, Matt Hildreth, is my best political mentor I've ever had. And I'm very grateful for him because he's invested in me and believed in me when a lot of other people wouldn't. So I owe him a lot. And I've just been really grateful for the opportunities. I didn't expect to be running for Congress this year. Honestly, like, I thought this was going to be a mind off. I was going to hang out with my pug and my fat cat and drive my Jeep around. And lo and behold, like this, you know, this moment demands leadership and a courage that I hope has been contagious. And it's felt that way across the district.

It's also like it was a Trump plus 22 district, right? So like the fact that it's even within like being competitive, the fact they've having to spend the money and it's a huge like kind of failure, right? I mean, it's like it's kind of the whole thing. No one thought this would be going like this. It wasn't just you. Narrator's voice, it was not supposed to be like this. But there's a few reasons. I can't take all the credit.

One, we have been, while they've been scapegoating and terrorizing, we have been building and organizing. And so the past decade, I've been part of the cadre of organizers that have worked to rebuild democratic infrastructure in the South. And we are leveraging that. infrastructure right now. I mean, we're set to knock probably 80,000, 100,000 doors by the end of the campaign, which is probably hasn't been done in a very long time for a congressional race. Two is that the Republican political project is kind of falling apart. I've heard from a lot of

Republicans across the district that they're like, we didn't sign up for this. And as Matt always says, the Republican Party, you know, you didn't leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left you. And a lot of people are feeling homeless. And so we have built this campaign to create a coalition of the disenchanted. I don't care who you voted for. I don't care what your political party is. But if you are upset about the cost of living and the chaos of Washington, then I'm your candidate. And it seems to be resonating. All right. Like your campaign, I saw like people, because you've been, you've been talking affordability's been one of your main things. Like to explain the grocery tax thing.

Yeah. So in Tennessee, the grocery taxes consider one of the most regressive taxes a state can have. In Tennessee, and we're seeing Republican trifecta states eliminating at Oklahoma, Mississippi. we don't have, you know what bothers me about the Tennessee legislature is that there's always money for their pet projects, but never money for working people. So we, my colleague and I filed a bill. We've filed it twice to end Tennessee's grocery tax by closing corporate loopholes, of which we know that multinational companies are paying nothing in taxes while working moms buying baby formula at Kroger are effectively paying a higher tax rate. It's totally unfair. So we have tried to unrig the system in favor of working people.

to which our legislature has just totally rebuked the idea. And that's the message that I've been organizing in in the district and across the state for three years. And so it's a continuum for me. Whereas my opponent, Matt Van Epps, he was very much pro-Trump, pro, yeah, whatever, Gingo, you know, whatever that is. And then immediately shifted and pivoted to a message of affordability because that's what it's going to take to win this race. you just sort of got into it because I was about to ask about that I'm not trying to like lead you into you know slinging slinging mud or nothing but your opponent Matt Van Epps like how you know you said he's very pro Trump is he like sort of your stereo like hardcore maga like candidates he's more like I have some sense type of Republican he his assent is really interesting I think he's been picked for this position and he's actually a really good guy. Like he's actually, he's a constituent of mine. He lives in my house district. So, but it's the people behind him. And he is someone who, uh, only says things when he

is told. Uh, it, for example, he never said that he would be in favor of releasing the Epstein files until Donald Trump gave his seal of approval and said, now you can speak on this, go forth and conquer. Uh, and he did, whereas I've been talking about signing the discharge petition to release the files for, for my entire candidacy. So, So he's someone who answers to the puppet master is not the people. And I take, I have issues with that. I was going to, like, I don't, you don't have to comment on this or anything. I just like, like, my reader, I couldn't figure out anything about him.

I was like, oh, he's just a haircut and a suit. But being in Congress is a sweet gig for a lot of people. So that's seen to be the end of it. I mean, he's a vehicle for the puppet masters of the universe. And it's very clear. I mean, special interest money has, first of all, me as a grassroots Democratic candidate, outraised him. we've raised a million dollars which is wild he's raised less than that and 50% of his his funding

has come from corporate packs like including core civic which is our private prison industry our private prison company that was started in tennessee it's like he just doesn't answer he's going to answer to his donors and not the not the special you know not the constituents of the 7th district then i've always said and i've and i've been this way as a legislator is like i may not agree with you but i'm always willing to lend an ear and represent a diversity of a political opinion in my constituency. And I just don't think, I don't, I don't think he's up to the task. Do you think that, you said, obviously, you've got a lot of, like, boots on the ground experience,

all those doors you're knocking on and everything, and you're there. And, you know, like I said, I mean, my old neck, I'm from Middle Tennessee. I'm from the other side. I'm from up above Cookville. But, like I said, my wife is from your, hopefully your district. And so I'm very familiar with that area. And you're doing the, like, real work all the time and have been for a long time. now do you like how optimistic have you you know are you feeling right now like you feeling like a real like sort of you know sea change or like a shifting people getting like fed up with some of this stuff or is that me being naive like how are you feeling about all that I'm inspired by the grassroots energy that our campaign has revitalized I mean to give you an example like I remember an event it may have been adventurous aren't you from lake no what county I'm from

Clay County. Clay, that's right. Which there is a lake there, Del Hollow Lake is not Lake. Yeah. It's not Lake. Yeah. You know, I've organized across the state in rooms of like less than five people, right? So it's like my expectations have always been really low. And showing up to these canvases for our congressional race. Like I was having a tough day last, the Tuesday, last a week ago when the I have Saran fixated on me. And it was just like story after story was just being like pushed into my news. feed about me and it just felt, you know, jarring and kind of discombobulated. And I showed up to a

canvas at 2 o'clock. It was pouring rain. And there were 30 people there. And this girl reaches out to me and she pulls my shoulders in. She's like, listen, I traveled two hours to come canvas for you. That is how much you mean to us. And we are so inspired. I just found out that there's been a bridge brigade every day in Williamson County, which is one of the most affluent counties in Tennessee that They hold a sign that says vote afton feed kids over a bridge every day for the past few weeks. So the energy is just incredible. And I'm so honored to be the nominee. You know, stranger things have happened.

Stranger things have happened. To me get me back to what's the scandal here? You don't have to comment on this and all. But I just want to say, I have no idea these things are connected. But Mark Green, the guy you guys are running to replace, suddenly quit. Also, at the same time, is going through a messy divorce because his wife accused him having an affair with a younger woman who's working as a political reporter turned out to be a different woman because the real woman he's on a fair with came forward to

to get offered an alibi to the political reporter so she wouldn't get fired. Oh, very messy. Anyway, he loves Jesus and you can't have rights because of that. So this kind of district the person typically represents. I mean, what I'll say is, unfortunately, Tennessee suffers from a disease of politicians that cash in, right, on their corporate clout and leave office with nothing in their wake. I mean, I've shown up at rural town halls and community meetings and asked, like, hey, what did this representative do for you? Like, do you, did you know what federal funding you could

access? Like, you know, what type of constituent services was he providing was nothing? And it's like, that's, that's the bar. Like, come on, we deserve better. We deserve more than crumbs. And that's been a staple of our campaign is we did. This is not the best we can do. This is not the best we can do. We can do better. And we need to do better. And that's why I'm running is to hopefully offer folks across the district something different. Yeah. I mean, I agree with you. I just talking about like

the opposition has arguments like this. He had green one with the campaign that suggested that welfare interrupts the opportunity for people to come to a saving knowledge of who God is. So yeah, the government should take away your food so you find God. That was an official position. So anyway, yeah, it's like I think it's amazing.

I haven't seen last time I saw, I mean, I think it speaks for itself that they're dumping money into the race. Right. Yeah. would be spending money if you didn't have a chance, right? I mean, it's just, it's, it's just comical to me, uh, this has become a battleground, like an R plus 22 district. Like, how embarrassing. Um, so, but we've, we've just been running a great campaign.

And it's a testament to my campaign team, uh, all the grassroots supporters, volunteers. And I have to say, um, I was thinking about this, the national democratic apparatus, right? Like, their investment and a lot of. of people have shown up. They have paid attention to this race. Uh, their investment in me as a candidate. And in the South says something. It says something. And when they do something good, like we need to, you know, provide a positive response. Like I'm, I'm grateful. We're really grateful that they're investing in our state in a deep red district. It speaks volumes. Right. Because that was always one of the arguments, you know, it's like kind of became a self-fulfilling prophecy. You know,

like the larger democratic apparatus. They're like, just putting nothing. effort whatsoever into like so many parts of the south and so many races and stuff because they were like well there's no place just wasting money because we have no shot you know but again like it's pretty defeatist and you got to put you got to start somewhere and build that up right so like or it's never going to have any opportunity to change so yeah like the fact that um that this has become competitive this relatively quickly you know that there's this much resources being put into it um like you said it definitely It means whatever happens on the actual election day, like it definitely means something, you know, it's indicative of some kind of hopefully positive change. Well, and it's important for the national map next year, right? Like, if we get within three or four points, if we pull off and upset, it will dramatically shift the map in favor of Democrats next year. And more importantly, this came out, and then I have something, I like, I said this on another interview, but I think you guys would get a kick out of it in terms of the country music controversy. But this race is also important because with Marjorie Taylor Green resigning, that will leave a vacancy. If we flip this, it'll be, I think, 2.16 or two, I think it's 218 now.

Anyways, all that, in essence, this race, if we flip it, slims the margin for the House Republican majority. And it provides an opportunity for us to stop either bad legislation and or to sort anything that they're trying to do ahead of midterms. And so it is strategically, I didn't realize that if you had told me that Tennessee would be at the political epicenter of this story, I would have laughed. And here we are in almost December. And it seems to be the case. Yeah, the math is too, after Marchion Taylor Green resigns will be 216, although the caveat is that the congressional math is always changing because people are always dying, getting arrested or getting caught having affairs by their wife. and like so but it but it does like I feel like if you if you win about Matt and I were talking before we started like a couple dozen other Republicans are going to make the same decision to retire or quit midterm it's like it's going to be it would be it would be it would be it would be it would be signal it would be it would be signal blood bath of biblical proportions um I did I did read one interview with you where you said tell me the country music allegations allegation allegation You said, band refuted accusations that she hates country music, noting that she was, in fact, conceived after a George Strait concert.

Do you wish to deny that? No, it's true. And it's funny because growing up, my parents had a stack of CDs. I'm sure you all can relate. And my favorite was George Strait. And one day I just remember asking mom, like, why do I have this affinity towards George Strait? And she was like, well, actually, you conceived after a George Strait concert. I was like, oh, my gosh.

That is some deep, incredible lore. Like, thank you. And so someone picked it up today because I had said it, and it's true. So I hope my mom doesn't get calls, like trying to refute that. But, yeah, just to say that, you know, I, once again, like, I love Nashville. I love my state. It's why I decided to grow roots and run for office, right? It's no easy task running as a progressive.

in a state like Tennessee and representing a Nashville that is under siege from our state government. And it's something I take really seriously. And so I just wanted to say that out loud. Yeah. I just, sorry, I was going to say, I just found like they used to be to all politics was local and now pretty much every important race is Nashville to the point where a local person making an utterly banal complaint about the city they live in that is shared by roughly 90% of the people that live there is treated as a controversy because no one understands going on. I don't know. Anyway. Well, also, I see that to me that feels like that indicates that they're not coming up with a much else on her. Like if she, if they had good shit on her, they'd be using that. But they're using that, which means they're, they're clearly, they're coming up relatively empty. That's my takeaway from that. I, I'm always curious, like, all the doorknock you've been doing, is there anything, like, is any, have you heard any, like, complaints among a decent number of people that you didn't expect to hear? about what their issues are? Like, I just find that always to be interesting. Well, I don't know if you all have been talking about TVA privatization, but it is a huge issue right now in the 7th Congressional District. So for your listeners, Tennessee Valley Authority is the brainchild of the New Deal,

and it provides really good union-paying jobs in some of the rural parts of the 7th District. And yes, TVA can always be better, right? We want it to be better. But right now the Trump administration is trying to privatize it by installing Sinkafans on the board. And so I've been working with local trade unions to elevate the importance of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the existential fight that we're in to save it. And it's resonated across the district. I mean, anywhere I go, I talk about TVA and utility rates. And it's been a really important, I think, overlooked issue in the district.

Yeah, I always think it's funny. I remember a couple years ago because TVA is pretty popular because it provided. It's low-cost electricity and good jobs and whatever. But it's also like socialist, but people in Tennessee love us on Marshall Blackburn. There's something's talking about privacy a couple years ago, privatizing it a couple years ago. And she was like, keep your, don't let you get your big government hands off our TVA. And it just made me laugh. It's like, people love this shit when they get it.

It's so funny. Yeah. But I will say that like, and I've been surprised. I mean, trust me, because the onslaught of negative ads has, I mean, people wake up and it's like they just see negative. things about me from dawn till dusk. And it's having a, I think, an adverse effect on Nashville. Like a lot of my people are, they're like, I'm going to vote so much harder because they're being me to Afton. And it's like, thank you, you know. And so people, I've had, my constituents know, I have their back. And I've had Nashville's back and I've, and I've cared loudly for their issues.

And they know where I stand. And so to denigrate, you know, someone like me who is taking hits and sacrificed a lot for the state and city is not landing well with a lot of folks. So I'm hoping, and the interesting thing about this race is the asymmetry of it, because you're trying to mobilize your base without mobilizing theirs, right? And what they're doing with their onslaught of negative ads is mobilizing our base even more. So, I mean, it's just, everything is up in the air, and I, you know, I hope we pull it off, but it's, it would be the most profound political upset, probably in recent history. Yeah, that would be so awesome, especially for me as a Tennessee

because it's just been no good political news for at least a decade or more. But you just made me wonder though, like strategy-wise, they're running all these crazy attack ads against you. Is there any kind of like,

you know, retaliation in terms of ads like are y'all I did see there was a pack which I know you guys don't coordinate with packs. There's packs that do it and you're not involved or how all that works. I watched one, which was,

was set to country music. It was a song about Mavann Epps, basically wanted to cover up the X-teen files when he's a puppet. He, like, dances on strings and stuff. Good ad. And obviously, somebody likes French music down here. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, obviously we can't coordinate. So there's a lot of special interest money in this race on both sides. But the House majority pack, which once again was an important show strength and solidarity, said we're going to drop a million dollars in this special election race in Tennessee, which is kind of unheard of. And the ad was it's pro, you know, pro me, pro change saying Matt Van Ebbs is, my opponent is more of the status quo of which he is. And we're hoping that that message resonates. And, you know, I've heard, I don't know if we're going to be able to flip thousands of Republicans, right, in this race. But I do think that I do see that we have created more of a permission structure for disillusioned Republicans or disenchanted independence to come to our side and to welcome them, right? Like, you know, I, I, I, you know where my, my views are. I, uh, you know, where my politics are,

but I also am someone who has fought for my community, my state and my, my, my, my city. Uh, and I hope that, you know, will hopefully transcend into, and into what they believe and, and they will vote for me. I do want to say the, the Afghan, the act, like, uh, we, we, we, we, we remember not. We, we met in a Zoom call in 2020 once, uh, back before you Representative Bain when you were, when you were still Afton. Yeah. And you're a regular, you're a person and they watch an attack, I don't think Afton is going to eat your babies, guys.

I don't know. Whatever. Like, it's like, it's very, it's, it's, to watch this machine run is very, very, very weird. It's been rough, man. It's, it's been rough. Like, especially as a young woman, it's made me, I'm, once again, I'm like, I know I'm in the big, the big, like, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've gotten into the big stratosphere and I've got to pull up my big girl pants.

Like, I get it. But it's just, like, it's really hard. because it's it's a character assassination it is um you know they're throwing everything they can to the wall and i think what hurts me is like i hope people i think i hope at this point people know where i stand and my values um but it just it it's been rough it's been really rough all right well i want to give an opportunity yeah yeah good luck and i wanted to give you an opportunity to to throw out the w b de bois quote that you like so much i've seen you use a couple of yeah well amani perry re restated it, but it comes from W.E.B. Du Bois, who said, as goes to the South, so goes

the nation. And right now we are a bellwether for where this country is going and who's going to take it back. And so you've got a young, progressive candidate that has been organizing in the state and really tough turf and bringing a cavalry along with her. And I hope that the country, I know that we've captured the hearts of the country. And everyone loves an underdog story and especially a scrappy Tennessee campaign that, you know, gotten the ring with Goliath and perhaps, you know, might be, might be successful. It's really something that the legacies are written about. Hell yeah. Well, all the best to you. We're rooting for you, hardcore, anything we can never do to help, which is nothing. But we'll, you know, with the offers there.

But I'm rooting for you, I hope it for you. And yeah. So we've got early voting until Wednesday. So if you're in the district, please look up your voting record. We've, or your registration, see if you're registered to vote. Early voting last until afternoon on Wednesday. And then the election's December 2nd. If you've got five or ten bucks to throw around or trying to keep up our ads up on TV,

and we would love your support. It means a lot. And I'm just really grateful for the attention on the race. All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Representative Afton Bain, everybody. All right, well, that was lovely. If you're back home in Middle Tennessee, specifically in the 7th Congressional District, please vote for Afton Bain. We appreciate her joining the show this weekend. You all for listening. So that's it for this episode. But reminder, go to Treycrowder.com and check out my upcoming tour dates. Come and see me out there on the road. Check out producer Matt's audio exclusive, good skews. And consider signing up on Patreon to get two full-length bonus episodes per month for only $5. way if you keep showing up on skews days we will too we'll see you next week love you bye