wellRED podcast - Evening Skews - Week of January 5, 2021 (COUP WEEK!)

Episode Date: January 9, 2021

Well good googly-moogly, how to even put into words the level of holy-shittery that happened this week? First we get into the latest on the liberal elite's attempt to steal Georgia for Our Side, and THEN....It was a coup, y'all! The dumbest coup ever! What a wild ass week. Me and Smart Mark, and alla yall, were there for it. Enjoy!

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That's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? What's up, Ray? Before you log down the chat it was looking iffy whether we're going to be able to do the show but it turned out it was just matt's dog sleeping on his Wi-Fi router so yeah yeah code update for you yeah yeah we'll park DIY here at evening skews uh also another reason i'm stopped man uh kim and conya are getting divorced and buddy today today of all days right like if as if we weren't all stressed out enough

as a society we had to find out that kim and conya are on the outs. You know what, I'll be serious for a minute about that subject. How long have they been together? However long it is, I think that's actually pretty good. I'm stunned that like honestly, hell, good for them. Because if you asked me to place bets when they first got married, how long it would last, it wouldn't have been as long as it has. I can promise you that right now. No, I mean, they beat, they beat the spread, definitely. They had four kids. They were together for, it's got to be over a decade. And I kind of don't even care about. the Georgia runoffs anymore, man. The whole reason I wanted to do the $2,000 checks was to get them

some embroidered towels for their anniversary. So, well, hopefully we will find some way to collectively move on. Anyway, let's do the show. We've got, I'm Trey, that's Mark. We've got producer Matt with us as always, and this is evening skews. We've got a good show for you tonight, a peachy affair, if I do say so myself. All Georgia talk for the most part. naturally. We're going to get into the latest what we know as we know it. And a little bit later, of course, we're going to be joined by Chief Georgia correspondent, Corey Ryan Forrester, to give the latest boots on the ground feedback from there in Peach Country. So it's going to be a good time. We've got some other fun topics depending on how the time works out. But first,

as always, we begin with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, let's do it. Tonight's dumbass is any god-fearing MAGA hat wearing red-blooded conservative in the state of Georgia who debased themselves today by participating in this liberal sham of an election. And if you don't want to take that for me, maybe you'll take it from the dumbass in chief. On New Year's Eve, Donald Trump tweeted that all of his followers should turn on Newsmax right that instant. And what was playing on Newsmax at that instant? instant? Well, the following ad about the Georgia runoffs, which does not mince words. Matt, play it.

Where's David Perduey? I'll be standing right here. Do not be fooled twice. This is Georgia. We ain't dumb. We're not going to go vote on January 5th and another machine made by China. You're not going to fool Georgians again. They have not earned your vote. Don't you give it to them. give it to them. My distouch is responsible for the content of this advertising.

You know, Mark, I've got to say, I'm not, it's not often that I agree with President Trump, but like, I can't find a single thing wrong with that ad. That's the gospel truth, as far as I'm concerned. Every conservative should watch that and live by that, if you ask me. Before 2016, I remember in a dumb bar argument with a friend of mine who was, like, disgusted with the process and doesn't really follow politics, who was like, you've got to not vote, man. That's the only thing to show them that it's fucked up is if we all stood it all out. And I always made the point that if you win one to nothing, you still get the

nuclear bombs. So. Yeah, yeah. Yes. Obviously, we're being tongue and cheek as we are want to do. Of course, it's never a good strategy to not vote, but I'm all for that strategy in this particular instance. Also, we want to say for anybody, like before y'all start hitting us with it in the comments, we are aware. that Midas Touch is a progressive pack. So that was like a progressively funded ad. But that doesn't change the fact that it aired on Newsmax and was propped up by the president.

In fact, arguably makes it funnier that that was the source of it. Yeah, it either makes it clear that it's Newsmax is totally a grift. They'll take money to air ads that hurt their own calls because it's just about the fucking money. Or they didn't Google who Midas Touch was. So I don't know I don't know which way is plenty here So if you're wondering

Like if that is if it's fair to represent Donald Trump's position on the runoffs In that way Because I said that was on New Year's Eve That was almost a week ago now You know And also it's this ad of dubious origins or whatnot Well he's obviously said plenty more about it since then

He in fact had a rally In Georgia Rural Northern Georgia From which Corey Ryan enforcer will be joining us later. He had a rally there last night that was ostensibly about the importance of electing Purdue and Loeffler, but in which he mostly just talked about himself, and he hasn't stopped giving his opinion on the general state of the runoff election there. He tweeted this earlier today. Matt, put that the screen grab up up there. From Donald Trump,

six hours ago, reports are coming out of the 12th Congressional District of Georgia that Dominion machines are not working in certain Republican strongholds for over an hour now. Ballots are being left in lock boxes. Hopefully they count them. Thank you, Congressman Rick Allen. So even in the 11th hour, he is casting doubt upon the process there in the state of Georgia. Yeah. I mean, like all these Republican officials are drowning and he keeps throwing him center blocks,

which is this fucking funny his shit to me. The only ones that bother me that once he's actually trying to get murdered, which will to later, but making them lose is just funny. Yeah, so, right, we're going to get, we're going to get to all the, you know, the stats and whatnot as we have them on Georgia a little bit later, but we've got some daily dumbass honorable mentions for you because, you know, went like anybody to be left out. The first honorable mention, new Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Bobert, who recently posted this, this, I don't know what else to call this.

but a campaign ad, except this came out after she already won her campaign. So I don't know what the hell this actually is, but it's some kind of ad that she put out for some reason, Matt, play the first part of it. I'm Lauren Bober, and I approve this message. Cut. That's a wrap. Hi, I'm Lauren. I'm a newly elected congresswoman from Colorado. even though I now work in one of the most... Yeah, okay, so there you see it.

What makes that dumbass fair? Well, Mark, because it's very illegal to carry a Glock on your hip through Washington, D.C., the streets of Washington, D.C. there. Yeah. And that was pointed out to her after this ag came out. She got in a little hot water, but has since walked it back and said, oh, no, no, no. It wasn't an actual Glock. I was just faking.

all that bullshit. So the sequence of events here, she makes this ad, it goes viral. Somebody, reporter calls up the cops and be like, hey, can she do that? Because she's,

like, she's been in a fight with, with Congress, or whether she can take her block into the congressional into the Capitol building, which she can't. So somebody asked the cops,

if she can do that, they say, no, she hasn't registered a weapon. So they go back to her and she goes, actually, I'm not in any trouble because that wasn't a real gun. After the first scene,

I was carrying a prop gun. And then she goes, on Fox News, pretending like she hasn't lied to somebody and takes her star turn as the person who's going to carry her gun into the Capitol. So I don't know who's full of shit or who's illegal, but she's lying to some group of people, and I bet it's not the cops. Right. That's the thing, like, obviously it's completely okay. See, look, we got in the Washington Post, a spokesman for Bobert said she was not carrying the gun throughout the video shoot despite the opening scene. And this was about to say, it's totally fine to do some movie magic shit. Of course,

like, if you're doing some kind of, if you're shooting something in which you have a gun, I think most of us would agree. It's preferable that it's not a real gun, unless the entire point of the thing you are shooting is that you will be carrying a real gun in this real area. and in that case it's a little bit of a bitch move to have a fake Glock in a video message like that. Yeah, it's almost like the lady

who won the primary pretending to believe in QAnon and then won the general pretending to not believe in Q&N is full of shit. But the thing that's even funnier to me is like you brought it up

like she made a campaign ad like a day after being sworn in from an election she just won and that's like sort of like it sort of like lays bare like the hollowness of the center of America right now. We're like, she doesn't want to be a congresswoman. Congresswoman is a stepping stone to be the highest American calling, being an influencer.

Right. An influence. She'll get to marry Kanye West. He's single now. That'll be fun. Right. So you get to go on the view. Right.

Well, it's like, I mean, it's like Trump still holding rallies, you know, after he had won or whatever. Like holding rallies while he's in office or whatever, it's just become normalized now. because again, like, when I first saw this ad, I didn't think anything about it. I mean, other than like, yeah, that totally checks out. Everything about that checks out. But then you pointed out we were talking about it that, like, it came out after the fact. And you just, like, what even is that? Like, it's just a hype video.

Like, they make hype videos now that have nothing to do with elections or campaigns or anything like that. It's just supposed to fucking, I don't know. It's like a... It's like, I don't know what else it's supposed to do. It's like a fake viral video when like a new Supreme drop comes out and all the hypebeats line up. And it's like you just get excited about like a thermist with a Supreme logo on it, wait seven hours for it. It's like it's the same shit except for all like 60 year old, corny car dealership owners. Yeah.

All right. So moving on. This isn't an honorable mention so much as it is a daily dumbass update. You know, we like to keep y'all updated on our previous honorees here. So this was a daily dumbass from a couple weeks ago. We got an update on him. The Wisconsin Pharmacy Tech, who purposefully destroyed 500 doses of the COVID vaccine, it turns out, y'all never going to believe this.

This is crazy. He was a conspiracy theorist going through a bad divorce who had been caught, bringing a gun to work two times before that. I know that's wild. Everything else about him led you to believe that this was, you know, an upstanding pillar of the community type of guy, but turns out that is not the case, Mark. This guy had some issues.

Yeah. Here's the screen grab. He says he did it because he believed the long-dubunk conspiracy that shots would alter and mutate human DNA. So we're all going to the island of Dr. Moreau if we get these shots, court of this dude, I guess. But it's, I mean, like, I like to think they flew in, like some FBI behavioral analysts, profiler,

to be like, and they just walked in the office and was like, all right, is anybody here going through a bad divorce and has been called bringing a gun to work? Right. It seems like a layup of a rest. Yeah, but let me ask you this, Mark. Is your mama currently a mutant? Yeah. Oh, all right.

Well, okay, well, never mind now. He's the next man. I was, okay. Well, most of y'all out there, I'm saying if your loved ones are not mutants, well, you got this guy to think. I'm saying, like, what, you know, he did what he did, and people are not mutants. So who's to say? Who doesn't want to be a mutant, by the way? Right, yeah, right.

Yes. I mean, yes, if the X-Men franchise has taught us anything, it's totally cool to be a mutant. Yeah. Khyck's ass. All right. In keeping with the theme of lunatic motherfuckers, tomorrow is Cracken Day, right?

Or Cracken Day for it. Every day is Cracken Day when you're a Cracken American. But tomorrow's a big day in Cracken World. January 6th, been a lot of, because tomorrow's when the election results are supposed to be like certified. And there's been all kinds of planning and talk about how the opposition is going to respond to this tomorrow, what they're going to do to keep us, you know, those of us on the side of actual democracy and letting it work to what it's supposed to work. They're going to keep us from stealing the country from them, Mark, and they got a lot of plans.

Yeah, Trump's doing a big rally tomorrow at 9 a.m. They start counting at 1. A proud boy was just arrested at the airport flying in from burning that BLM flag a couple weeks ago with the last big Pride Boy rally in DC they had. That video went viral of the proud boys burned the BLM flag. Some other dudes got arrested for it. He tried to do the I'm Spartacus thing and say, I'm the one to burn the flag. So we got in the airport cops arrested him.

He goes, no, no, no. I was kidding. I was kidding. that was just the thing I was doing. Yeah. So, but they searched his bag and found some high capacity magazines that are illegal in D.C., which he tried to say he was just bringing him to a friend.

And who knows, but they were engraved with the Proud Boys logo, but you got to customize your AK mags. So he's going away for a little while. They released him on bail, and he has to leave D.C. So let's hope that happens. There's just a bunch of shit happening.

Trump, you know, we had a big call to Rappensburg. you guys have all probably heard about it where he called it spent an hour on the phone with Raffinsberger trying to talk him into finding him 11,000 votes because that's all that you need Trey is 11,000 votes. Now what's funny about that is

he's not asking for an honest count. He's asking him to go find 11,000 bucks, which is sort who doesn't believe anything illegal happened. He just wants the guy to do him a favor. If he wants his soprano, he just knows those conversations go. So Rappensburg has begun persona non grata in the Fox News

Cinematic Universe and they don't know what to say about him. So he went on a fox a bunch of shows today and tried to talk to them. And here's one if Matt, you have the video clip. I just want to ask you once again to respond specifically to Senator Purdue who said that he thought it was inappropriate and disgusting to release this audio. How do you respond to him on that charge? Senator Purdue still owes my wife an apology for all the answers she got after he asked for my resignation and I've not heard one peep from that man since and he wants to call me face-to-face man-to-man I'll talk to him off the record but he hasn't done that so do you

think it feels like this is very much about a grudge and between you and the president and between you and mr. Purdue that for that's really about getting the facts out because we just did a press release today we did president Trump probably had eight to ten points Every one of his numbers were wrong. And we have a poster board of all the different numbers. The actual actual numbers are real numbers that we have. First of all right. And our numbers will be supported in the court of law.

Their numbers will not be. Dude, this guy, like, I was actually thinking when I was watching this earlier because I found, like, I found myself in this position before, because I'm from the rural south. And like, this idea of, it's hard for some people, it's hard for some liberals to understand. how you can like like someone or enjoy someone who is like a Trump supporter or someone on that side. Like it didn't used to be as bad, but over the Trump era, it's gotten worse and worse.

People just can't understand. Like, I don't understand how you can make excuses for any of these people. And I've always had this thing of like, well, I mean, hell, I grew up with them, you know? Like, what do you want me to tell you? Like, it's hard. I actually think this Raffinsberger guy is a good example of how to illustrate. that for people because while on Fox News he talks about like he's a Trump was a Trump supporter he voted for Donald Trump he's a big Trump guy but he just ain't about this bullshit you know what I mean so

like this is a very public example of how a Trump supporting American can still maintain some level of sanity you know what I mean like how they're you we ain't we don't have to write them all off there are still some scruples on that side and I think this guy proves it and I'm just just glad people like him, you know, fucking exist. He has more than most and how you know that is this is definitely not the only phone call that happened. In fact, Bradfussberger said it was the 19th time President Trump had called him. This is the first, this is the first tape they released because Trump lied about what was said on the phone call. But I do want to point out that you and my wife, an apology, is the single most angry thing

an aging white man could say to another white man. It's like I he is more spine than most but if the election was closer and 11,000 votes is pretty close but they just didn't have any pretext to throw out all the votes because Stacey Abrams had organized so well and they won so many lawsuits like you would have gladly thrown out the votes that the courts are given permission to so but I just wonder like that's reason that the house pissed me off so much because they declared a recess and went home and they need to be calling this guy to testify and calling all the other secretaries of state and Republican secretaries of state in close elections and the county officials to testify about whether Donald Trump called them and what he said to them too. Everybody needs to be like, I know everybody thinks this is going to fail, but why are we acting like it's a, it's a given and letting ceding the whole battlefield to the end to make this an intra-Republican fight?

It's very, very strange to me, especially after the votes, before, after the votes in Georgia have been counted. No, no, I, no, right. I agree with that completely because I,

like, we talked about plenty of times in the run-up to the election. like I was worried about him just taking it through whatever means because I didn't have faith in people like Raffensberger and his ilk actually having the backbone to stand up and just say no that's not what happened. Like I didn't I didn't expect there to be enough of those people for that to matter. That's why I was so worried about the idea of him basically stealing the election no matter what the vote said because I knew it would take people on that side. of everything you just said to keep it from happening. And I'm just glad they're actually there. Because I wouldn't have bet money on it before November.

Yeah, I mean, we've got a bunch of like ceremonial stuff that just pretends on the, depends on the decency of people. And we've been lucky it's lasted as 200 some years because like there's, first of all, the transition shouldn't be the transition used to last until March, which was stupid. And then he realized, wait, we don't come to DC on horses anymore. Let's move it back to January. But then we have this thing where like that the, where Congress is going to ceremonial count the votes and like the Republican officials are trying to make it look like it's not ceremonial.

But because it's based on all the time you think where an envelope will be sealed with the seal of the governor or whatever and ridden to the Capitol building on horseback and handed it and they would open it and they would be surprised by the goddamn results because they didn't have cable news. So I don't understand what we're still doing it this way. But anyway, tomorrow Ted Cruz circulated a letter calling it through rejection of election. electoral college results until a 10-day emergency audit, which is, there's no legal precedent for that. Roughly a dozen Republican letters are going to talk to join Josh Howley and objection to electoral college results,

which is still- Both of Tennessee's senators, by the way, both of them. One of the main ones is a boss of all Karen's Marsha Blackburn, my least favorite person on earth, probably. And then our new incoming Tennessee and Senator Bill Haggerty, who's just as fucking shitty. yeah, they are both on that list of dipsets who are going to

object to the actual results of the Democratic election we held in November or whatever the fuck they're going to do tomorrow. But yeah. These guys are riding like a, they're, they created a monster. They can't ride and they keep trotting to ride it. And I, they thought they could control it when it almost got Sarah Palin

with it a heartbeat of the presidency. And then they got Donald Trump elected. and they're still trying to control this beast, the point where like what they say in court filings and in Congress is going to be so different from what they say on cable news. The point how he's raising is that Pennsylvania expanded mail-in-ballity, he made it borderline universal as my understanding, and forgive me if I'm wrong.

That happened in November of 2019. They used it in the primary in 2020, and they used it in the general in 2020. Nobody objected until after all the mail-in ballots came in, Biden had won. Now they're trying to pretend like that process was unconstitutional, which the Pennsylvania Supreme Court already heard that case like three times and throw it out. So they're not even alleging fraud. They're alleging that the voting process itself that everyone who voted thought was legal is somehow like like uncredible. Which would have raised that point any time

over the last like 15 months. They're doing cowardly lying sacks of shit trying to make the rubs who watch Fox News think there was something illegal happening. And they don't believe it. They're just fucking lying. And if you want to see what it looks like when they're confronted with reality, Matt, if you had video clip of Josh Halley on Fox News from today, or today or last night, I think, hit it real quick. You'll see him squirming trying to answer some direct questions. So the Supreme Court didn't take up that case either. They did not take up the quick case, the Supreme Court. We've seen courts across the country deal not only with not the standing of different cases, but also the evidence. And some of them trump Trump judges. I just want to pin you down

on what you're trying to do. You know, are you trying to say that as of January 20th, that President Trump will be president? No. Well, that depends on what happens on Wednesday. I mean, this is why we have the debate. No, it doesn't.

I mean, the states by the Constitution say they certify the election. They did certify it. By the Constitution, Congress doesn't have the right to overturn the certification, at least as most experts read it. Well, Congress is, is directed under the 12th Amendment to count the electoral votes.

There's a statute that dates back to the 1800s, rather, 19th century, that says that there is a right to object, there's a right to be heard, and there's also a certification process. Right, that's from 1876, Senator. And it's the Tilden-Hays race in which there were three states that did not certify their electors. So Congress was left to come up with this system, this commission, that eventually got to negotiate a grand bargain.

But now all of the states, have certified their elections as of December 14th. So it doesn't, by constitutional ways, open a door to Congress to overturn that, does it? Well, no, I'm talking about the statute, Brett. There's a statute that says that governs what Congress does on January the 6th, and it says that we have a vote of certification and that we have the opportunity to debate the results,

to certify the results, we count them, and then we certify. And my point is, this is my only opportunity during this process to raise an objection and to be heard. I don't have standing to file lawsuits. I'm not a prosecutor anymore. I used to be, but I'm not anymore. I can't investigate claims of voter fraud on my own. But I do have a responsibility in this joint session of Congress

to either say I've got no problem with it or I do have a problem with it. And my constituents expect me and they're right to say, I have a problem. Don't you have a responsibility to tell them that it's not going to be President Trump as of January 21st as well? well Brett we're

they do this thing where it's like they you know I don't know they have like a talking point version of the stance that they have right we're like no you know we have the right to do this and such and such and then even when you hit them with here's why what you just said is bullshit

right they then just repeat it's that that maimed version of from the 2016 Republican primary where Marco Rubio kept repeating the like that was that thing it was like it's like look let's let's not let's not pretend that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing let's end this fallacy that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing he knows exactly what he's doing he kept repeating that like a robot or whatever they do that shit so much where it's and you can't respond logically or anything to what they're saying because they just it doesn't it has no

impact they just go back to saying just reiterating more emphatically no, what I said is what is actually what is it. Is what? Howley is doing this because he wants to be president. And he's a cynical, he's not stupid. He was a Supreme Court clerk. He knows this is all unconstitutional. That's why he's not alleging anything actually illegal.

He's just saying, I want to speak. I want my TV airtime. I want to complain. I want a bitch. I want to be a dick. I want to make all this worse for everybody else. So I raise my profile. And Trump supporters have some big affection towards me in case he doesn't run in 2024.

That's all this is and fire him out of a cannon into a big pile of horse shit, in my opinion. But all this stuff is happening in the legislative branch outside of Trump because, like, when you're in an executive branch, you're actually responsible for stuff, right? That's where Raffinsberg is like, I have to actually get up in the morning, go to work and do stuff. I don't get to just go on cable news and complain. So he's been ranting and raving, like the Georgia legislature, like some wing of the legislature of full on Trumpists. held election integrity hearings featuring the guy who invented the Q-Cat, which we can't get to today. But he knows nothing.

He's no expert on anything. They're pulling up all these people out their fucking ass. And Raffinsberger, if you throw up this screen grab here, he has the, if Senators Loughlin and Purdue lose on January 5th, the legislators have only themselves to blame, right? Basically, the shorter version of Rappensberger is like, please just go vote so don't get assassinated. because these guys are in real trouble.

And everyone who is trying to raise their own profile to become an influencer like Lauren Bobert is making things worse for everyone else who actually has to do something to make the government run. Whether it's deliver vaccines or make the mail get the mail get delivered or try to run an election. And it's frustrating.

Yep. Yeah, indeed it is. Very frustrating. But let's get to the goddamn order of the day. Let's get to Georgia. What's going on there as far as we know it? And in order to do that, let's go ahead and bring in Chief Georgia correspondent. You know him, you love him. Corey Ryan Forster, get him in here, Matt.

Bring the boy on. There he is. What's up, Cho. That's what we call him. Who's sweet, baby? Yeah. Well, how do you feel? Yeah, yeah, we can hear you.

How are you feeling down? You don't even need a mic, Corey. We can hear you anyway from Georgia. Man, I'm looking. Okay. So now. If I know anything about both of y'all and my relationship, specifically Mark, I'm about to say something, and then Mark is about to tell me how I should really feel, which is fine.

That's what I look to you guys for. Y'all are my news. Right now, I understand that what I'm currently looking at is a lot of early voting, but if you lay down, like the graphs on top of each other, it's all starting to match up to what we saw for the presidential race. I couldn't think of the presidential race the other day, so I called it the big one, the final. The big one, the main one, yeah, yeah. The Royal Rumble of voting.

So I'm feeling good right now, but that scares me. Well, what about this? We've talked about before when you've been on the show, how I brought up the whole, the science of yard signs, right? Yeah. And I mentioned that, you know, And I ate crow because I deserve to. I said, like, we were on tour together when the 2016 election was going on.

And we got asked all the time what we thought about who was going to win. And I ain't got no lies to tell. I was telling everybody like, look, Hillary's going to win, okay? Trump should be taking more seriously than people are taking him. But at the end of the day, Hillary's going to win. And you, the whole time, were saying, I don't think that's true. And here's why. And you were talking about, and you were like,

I know how dumb people think. You're talking about, we go all over the place. I see all these Trump signs and I think there's something to that. And like at the time you were saying it, I was like, this man is a yard scientist. That's what he's doing. Like what this thing. But like, you ain't been wrong yet. And I say all that to say, I know because of text you sent us and stuff, you've got some yard sign updates.

Even there in rural northern Georgia, right? Yes, I do. So I told you all during the Super Bowl of elections, the presidential one, that I had actually seen a couple Biden-Harrisines. I only saw two, but I'd said, like, look, for every two that feel comfortable putting those out in their yard, to me, there has to be at least 25 that didn't, probably more, honestly. So the past couple days, I've just been, sometimes I just go on drives because it feels like I'm doing something, you know, and that's a pandemic-safe activity for me to do. Sorry for everybody who's like, you're wasting gas. I know, but whatever, it's why I do. So I've been going on some drives.

Yesterday, I saw, I had to, I literally pulled over to text, y'all. I saw a couple of assoff signs in, like, pretty prominent areas in Chickamauga. Like, I live in a red place, not only red, but like Civil War Town. Today, I was dropping off some food at my sister's house, and I saw four more Osoff Biden signs out in, like, the boonies. Like, my sister lit, like, Chickamauga. is very much a, one of the, a town that's got the railroad tracks and there's this side and there's that side. And really ours is broken into like rednecks that may have a boat and rednecks who would build a boat. You know what I mean?

This was on the rednecks that would build a boat side, had a bunch of them and like that really shocked me. So dude, I'm telling you, I'm feeling good because like I said, we're such a red area that if there's people that are like, fuck this, then like, I don't know, man. It feels good. No, I know. It's like I've told people before when they ask, you know, thinking that I'm, the only one or you're the only one meaning liberal where i'm from or whatever and i'm always like no look i got a lot of my best friends that i'm still friends with from growing up are also liberals and it's like yeah how many is that it's like well you know it's like i mean it's like four or five of us but like

but they don't understand like that yeah in one class from a play one graduating class from a lot like salina or whatever like that actually means something that's indicative of something that's indicative of something thing. I will agree. You know what would help somebody build a boat is a $2,000 check from the government. Yes. Yes, that's true. But hey, man, like how many times when we were on tour tray would somebody come up to us at like the meet and greet or whatever and they'd be standing on the side of the stage and they'd be like, oh my God, we love you guys because like where I'm from and we'd be in the city that they're from and where I'm from, I'm the only one and you would just go, hey, look, turn around and there's a thousand of you right here in this room. And I think

what it is is that, like, I would have never thought that people supported Donald Trump until they got mobilized and all of a sudden I saw these people. I think that, like, the reverse happened in, even to me, someone who knows that people like me exist. I'm still sitting here going, like, oh my God, there really were more and they finally just gotten over like me. They've gotten over that whole, like, I may as well not vote. I'm from a red state. It doesn't matter. There's no point in going on Tuesday. They saw that it does. And like, I think because of that we're about to see a huge shift for a long time.

Buddy, I hope you're right. So here come Mark to set us straight. Or is he? Mark, what's the actual facts? What's the actual numbers as we know it right now? People watch this stream later or the podcast or from the future. So fuck you for calling me wrong.

Here's some pre-vote reasons for optimism, alright? This is before today. So 40% of the 100,000 voters who cast ballots in the runoff after not voting in the general election. or black. That's a huge increase in black turnout among prior non-voters. 32% of early voters voted in Democratic primary, and the general, that was only 27%. So that number's up. More than 75,000 new Georgia voters registered ahead of Tuesday's runoffs.

23,000 of those were people who were too young to vote in November, who turned 18 between November and January 5th. And as far as turnout today, it does not look good for Republicans. This is for election reporter Dave Wasserman. What we saw in 2018, plenty of Trump voters just won't turn out

without Trump on the ballot. Are we seeing history repeat itself tonight? So far, yes. The betting markets, which are probably more accurate than polls, are like running like 70% the money on the Democratic candidates. And the famous...

Yeah. Dude, I listen to Vegas. As a long-time sports fan and whatnot, Vegas fucking... They know their shit. If Vegas is saying something, you should pay attention to it, generally speaking, because there's so much money riding on it for them and they know what they're talking about.

So, like, if Vegas is trending in that direction, that's certainly encouraging. Yeah. I mean, that's something else. I still don't know. Speaking of being a sports fan, I know that we keep bringing that up, but, like, as a Georgia sports fan, I'm still, like, fourth quarter, you know what I mean? I see it. How exactly will we completely fuck this up?

Yes. Is what, yeah, right. Granted, I thought that about the presidential race. So obviously I feel about it now, but like, I don't know it's starting to look good. And now, typical Georgia fan, I'm already looking at next game. Like, well, I mean, Stacey Abrams is going to run again. And this time, she's got it. There's no way she doesn't.

And then, like, literally the whole, there's no arguments to be made. Like, I live in Georgia. It's a blue state. We've got a production. We've got several production studios now. We're going to turn into Little Hollywood, and I've made the right move by staying in the Hollywood of the South, baby. I mean, dog, I'm getting shivers.

Hell yeah, buddy. I mean, that's what's up. But it's funny, like, because I know from your perspective, you're a huge Georgia sports fan, but also a liberal. And like you said, because you're a big Georgia sports fan, it's hard for you to believe that we're actually going to pull this off, right? Which totally makes sense to me.

But as we were talking about earlier, I'd say there's way more hardcore Georgia sports fans who are on the other side of it politically who like imagine the despair in the heart of these hopeless sons of bitches right now. I would hate to be a Georgia sports fan's wife tonight. You know what I'm saying?

That is, you better, girl, you better get in there and make a third casserole. That's all I know what I tell you is about to pop. You can make a casserole. Find this man's favorite Keith Whitley shirt, put on some music and file his toenails or some shit. Like you need to keep him occupied. Like, it's about to go down. This is a, this is a, correct in the pronunciation, Corey, but a Coney County, Ocany. Yeah, I'll correct you on pronunciation.

The county Athens is in. It's either Athens is in Clark County because I've been to jail there. All right. Corey, do you know do you not pronounce the name of every county you've been to jail in? This is a pop quiz.

We're doing that for me. Summerville. No, Summerville is the county. No, I don't remember. Shit, man. They used to drink and throw stuff at stop signs in front of cops. It was like, you know.

No, it was the 90s. It was. No dogs. So here's the number I wanted to throw out of you from, from O'Ne County, which, parentheses, outside Athens, says Dave Losterman from the district. Purdue is running a point, a half behind what he did in November. So since when Trump was on the ballot, a percentage of people should have to vote, one and a half percent of them switched their vote to John Ossov.

So I don't know what happened since November, but that's funny of shit to me. That is. And tremendous. again, I'm just, I don't, boys, I don't know what to, I don't know what to think. It's just, it feels like a, it just feels like a new day down here. I'm going to, like, here's the thing. One thing Ozop did that was really smart is he pivoted to running on corruption. He and Warnock both did.

Not about ideology, Purdue and Lawfler are fucking crooks, which they are. There's some of the most crooked Congress, people in Congress have ever goddamn heard of. They haven't been convicted and thrown in jail yet. They ran, they ran ads about Purdue outsourcing a bunch of jobs. of North Carolina, about all the stock kickbacks and about privatizing, like outsourcing stuff when he was a CEO of Dollar General, about running Dollar General, about insider trading, both him and Loeffler. And that shit resonates with people.

People hate crooks. It's not even about ideality. Especially when they were, you know, they listened to their Jesus Christ, Donald Trump for years, talk about draining the swamp at a certain point. If someone's not running against him, I guess it's easy for them. I'll go, wait a minute, like by very definition, that is the swanour. But I'll tell you this, that 1% of people who flipped from Republicans to Democrats, I guarantee you it was because they got sick of all that bullshit they were getting in the mailbox, dude.

I'm telling you that shit backfired. Yeah. To me, the lesson here is that like Democrats should have held nonstop hearings about Trump corruption and ran on corruption and they would have taken back. They would have held more seats in the house. I'm no expert, but it seems like calling people crooks is a fucking winning message. Trump does, like you said, Trump does it all the time, and though he is a crook. imagine people who actually are crooks crux how effective that is i think with him they just they

they they got with him to the point of they wouldn't listen to anything bad about him specifically so i don't know if that would have worked but with everybody else it seems to be well so i and i know it's impossible for you to know this for sure probably but i know from knowing you for a very long time that you have a lot of people that you know pretty well that are pretty insane right uh you know like people there and Chichelaga. Yeah, pretty, pretty lunacy-filled and very Trumpy people that you've known for a long time. And I'm just wondering, I know this is anecdotal. But do you have any sense of like some of those hardcore people that I'm talking about? People like, you know, Wade and the Wade types, you don't know who Wade is that are watching, McCory knows who Wade is. Wade types out there that, you have any sense of like whether or not, whether any of them abstained from both. because they don't trust the system because of what happened in November and everything that Trump has said in that whole deal.

Like, have you seen any actual effect of that that you know of, or is it all just speculation? All speculation on specifics on the Warnock and Ossoff race, but I will say that I've told you guys off might before that when it came to the, the WrestleMania, the presidential election, I had a lot of friends, like four specific that came up to me like a week before. and told me they're like, hey man, I know that, I know this might not be what you want to hear, but I'm not, I'm not voting. And these were like Trump supporters. They're like, I'm not voting this time. Like, I can't bring myself to vote for Joe Biden, but I can't also go back and vote for Trump. And I know you'd rather me, but and I said, dude, that's fine. Honestly, if that's as

far as, if that's as far as you can get, that's fine. I would venture to say that those people, if they couldn't bring themselves to vote for Donald Trump, they probably couldn't bring themselves to vote for Leflin Purdue, but the only way that may have backfired is when Donald Trump shit talked to them, you know, so I don't know, but I know that there was people who didn't vote in the general for Donald Trump because they were like, this is bullshit. So I can't see them getting energized for a runoff election, if that makes sense. Well, see, I can see that in both directions, because I also, I know people, people in my extended in-laws, family and stuff like that, or people from Salina and whatnot, who were similar like you just said, who I knew they weren't going to,

they voted for Trump in 2016 and they're still very Republican, but would not, they're not, they weren't going to vote for Trump again. I think there's X number of those people who I feel like the ones that I'm thinking of, I could see them voting for like Purdue and Leffler or whatnot. Yeah. Because they are still very Republican. They just, they, Trump left a bad taste in their mouth. But at the same time, I also can see a shitload of, you know, the biggest trumpets out there, the biggest MAGA hat types out there, not voting for Purdue and Leffler. Right. Because they don't show up if daddy don't say to show up, you know what I mean?

Let alone when Daddy implies that you probably shouldn't show up. Right. I mean, and to me, I think that that combined with the. remobilization of the left by Stacey Abrams and by just seeing how crooked these people are. I think that if you put those two things together, I don't want to talk during a heater or nothing, but like that just feels really good because both of those numbers combined is a huge chunk, in my opinion. Right. Matt's got a screen grab for us.

Throw it up there, Matt, we got it from the New York Times. Here it is. The latest results from Georgia Senate runoffs. Votes reported in Georgia Senate runoffs. we got right now with 40% reporting that's 1.6 million votes. Asoff leads 55.5% to 44.5% and Warnock leads same numbers reporting and the vote so far. 55.9% to Loughler's 44.1%. Now, let me ask you, especially... Now, is that 40% of today or 40% including early?

I think including early and that's what I was about to say, Mark, so. that like is this the opposite of what was going on on election night meaning we should expect to see it lane in a in the blue direction right now right like as votes continue to come in tonight isn't it possible that it would push it in the other direction or does anybody know george took a few days to count in November I didn't remember this is going to be like 80% of or 75 80% of turnout I think it looks like or 72% I think is what they're saying right now at which projected to be. So it's like the Rappensberger this morning said you wouldn't expect to know the results, the final results until like early tomorrow morning. So I wouldn't, who knows when you're

going to know, but based upon the nerd science projections is looking good for Osloff and Warnock. But there could be like, I mean like what you said is true that people did split their tickets for like some people couldn't vote for Trump but did vote for law. in Purdue. But what's happened since then, like, normally, if the president lost your state and you had a runoff, you'd run away from the president, right? You'd try to stick your independence. You'd say, I'm different than him somehow. But Trump grabbed them around the neck and said, don't you make me look bad, or I'll tweet that my voter shouldn't vote for you, and then you're fucked. So they had to run very Trump being campaigns, and it did not, uh, it doesn't,

Trump's shit works for Trump. It does not work for other people. And if you've seen Loeffler flop sweat through trying to call a war knock a socialist. It's clumsy and it doesn't look good on camera and she doesn't believe in it and it's gross. Yeah, I think that's a real point and also hopeful for me for the future that like Trump, say what you will about the guy. He's real good at what he does and you think like, oh yeah, he just goes up and says this and this and that's what those people want to hear. And that's true. But like I do see other politicians trying to do it. It's like, man, he's just got that kind of racism. You can't coach.

You know what I mean? Like, he just, he's the natural, dude. Like, that's just how it goes. So, like, I don't think that's going to work out. I think that's a good point. Like, they're very obvious on these people. It could compare like Trump to Ted Cruz. All right.

Trump, that's the guy I was thinking about. Remember, remember during the primary in 2015 when Marco tried to say that, Marco Rubio tried to say that Trump had a little dick because he had small hands? Yeah. And it just seemed to really, really bad and like two days later Rubio was out of the race.

It like it doesn't work for other people. Like think about the two guys' resumes between him and Cruz. All right. Trump for whatever, his charm doesn't work on me, but it's fairly apparent he has charm. Like he hasn't, right?

He's been in sales for 40 years, I mean for 50 years. He's been on TV for 40. He hosted a game show. He has charisma. He talked three models in the Mary. I know big rich helps. But like,

while Trump was like talking. models into bed and talking banks into giving him free money they didn't have to pay back, Cruz was in debate club trying to debate chicks at Harvard into thinking he was smart. Those are two different levels of charisma and charm. And you just can't go on TV and fake it, you know? No, it's that, you know what it is, it's that, that version of like, in movies, movies like the room, you know, which are famous and cult classics for being so bad it's good type movies. And then what happens is,

sci-fi channel or other places like that, they try to replicate that and they try to purposefully make a so-bad, it's good movie, but that don't work. Because it has to do with, like, the self-awareness of it and the intention of it.

Like, you can't just fake that. It's like Corey was saying with Trump, like, you can't coach that. Like, that just is his whole thing genuinely. And when these, dumb motherfuckers start having like focus group and think tanks instructing them on how they can replicate it i just do not believe that that is going to work also like the thing is is that ted cruz and all those dudes when they're like oh oh donald trump he's not politically correct

that's the move i won't be politically correct they are still like as far as conservatives go they're conservatively politically correct when doing that so it doesn't come off it's like Trump don't give a fuck, no way. But they'll be like, okay, I'm going to say some brass shit. You know, don't vote for them. They're a duty head. Right, exactly. Like that just doesn't work.

Like, we can still see that you're trying to, your asshole's still puckered and you're still trying not to offend. Trump literally just fucking jugular, jugular, jugular, jugular. Right. Yes, it's completely 100% authentic with him. Yes. None of it is contrived at all. And it's like, and he's doing his best. and that's what I'm saying

and so was so was Tommy Wussaud or whatever when he made the room like he was doing his very best and that's how it turned out and that is what makes all the difference when you show up and you try to like replicate that by just trying to like copy the moves or whatever that doesn't work it's not the same thing I'm probably about to get a lot of shit here

but like and for the record I know that they've been doing this since the dawn of time they were doing politics when I was a kid. I think they should continue to do it. That's okay. But that's why I wasn't really interested in Saturday Night Live, this whole presidency, because like you think to yourself, all right, hell, you don't even have to write this for this guy. We can just say exactly what it was that he did. And it's like, yeah, but it ain't as good as when he did it.

Why do I want to see this shit again? You know what I mean? No, 100%. Right. Yes. Why would you want to see the, if it's the literal exact way. I get the joke of, this is new. It's like when South Park did the thing about Scientology or whatever,

where they had to keep putting it up there. Like, this is not a joke. This is literally what it says. This is what they believe. That was hilarious, right? Absolutely. It was Saturday out live doing the same thing with Trump. It's like you just said, like, why do we need to see it being said by a different person

when the actual president was way funny? said the shit. Yeah. Right. Exactly. Mark, you got an update for us? Yeah, this one just makes me laugh. So the first heavily done rural county, which is Macon County, which is heavily black. Biden won 21% in November. Osloff and Warnock are running like four or five percent ahead of that at 25 and 26. So my takeaway from that is the black Trump supporters didn't show up to vote, probably too depressed over Kanye's divorce news, I think. Kanye's getting divorced Oh yeah No No Yes breaking right here on the show Forer for

Forresting correspondent Cory Forre yes Mark Mark broke that at the top of the show Yes Kim and Kanye are getting divorced Did she follow or did he follow? Oh I mean my honest opinion of that is like

Can't believe it took this long Exactly right That's what we said Honestly good for them for making as long as they did Given the circumstances And good for them for not just trying stay together because oh we're a power couple because like i could see it going that way where they're like look you just go on and fuck him and i'll fuck her but like together we are more powerful than the

sum of our parts you know uh but yeah no that that doesn't surprise me but i don't know my uh my buddy geoffrey used to teach uh northwest baby yoga he said Kim was real nice so that made me depressed because I really wanted to hate on her being an example of everything wrong with America but she got her money so I'm sure she's right and she's nice she fucking gets to feel good all the time

with what like she's got a billion dollars well I don't know I guess those people were mean sometimes but yeah I mean poor Kanye I guess but like I just help the man get some goddamn help I tell you this if that divorce gets us something even close to college drop out then absolutely also I don't want it to get passed up here y'all smart Mark his buddy taught northwest baby yoga let's not just gloss over that like that was hold on

Northwest is the name of the kid the name of the kid it sounded like it sound like a school of baby yoga like he taught Northwest baby yoa much different from southeast baby yoga he taught Northwest baby yoga but no he means the baby This is just like a $10 an hour job at like a strip mall and Woodland Hills. This isn't some like exclusive celebrity millionaire service. Well, see, that's what I thought is you were like, yeah, he taught at Northwest Baby Yoga and that is where Kim attended yoga school. And like, that all just made sense to me perfectly.

No, no. He taught their baby, he taught their baby yoga. What a fucking baby shit deal that is. Oh, Matt, by the way, if you have any, you say, whatever, y'all let us know what you're thinking about Georgia, how you're feeling about it out there. And Matt, you could throw up some comments and questions or whatnot as they arise. But I'll say this, having known Corey for a very long time,

and I know, and I don't blame him, because I'm the same way. Corey has not been optimistic or hopeful at all about Georgia politically since before the Disneyland, before the WrestleMania. I know, of course, of course. I completely understand I don't blame you a bit. But my point is, I've gradually seen him like come around. Even on this particular...

Even after the shit happened in the general, he was like, well, we're going to fuck up that Senate shit just so everybody knows. I hate that everybody's looking at us because it's going to be even more embarrassing, but we are going to fuck that up. But as the weeks have gone on and more and more yard signs have cropped up,

Corey has slowly come around. Talk your shit, bitch. No, I'm serious, though. Corey wasn't even optimistic about himself living past 30, so I'm not surprised. Accurate. Hey, this is also proof of the thing I've been saying for a long time. When you're a liberal and you get proven wrong, it's actually great. Right.

Like, it's always a good thing. Like, every day I'm just like, please let everything I believe not be true. please let everything I believe not be true. And so like, yeah, I didn't think we were going to pull it out. And I'm fucking happy. I had my bets and I won. But if we're going to the question I want to post you guys to jump off the comment section is, do you guys believe better things are possible?

They have to be, right? I am scared, though. Let me tell you why I'm scared. Donald Trump is what happened after Barack Obama happens. And because, you know, that was the pendulum swinging back the other way. I'm like, oh, George is going to turn over a new leaf. And I really want to believe that. But there's part of me that goes, oh, my God, how proud boy is this shit about to get?

You know what I mean? Trying to completely overcorrect because they thought they had it. Well, Biden. Hold on. I don't know that this is breaking news. I'm giving the caveat of this breaking news is coming from my redneck sister. I'll tell you. My redneck sister, Paige, just

texted me and said, and I'm quoting here, bruh, people in the comments are saying Dr. Gray's in the ICU with a brain aneurism. No. Can we verify that big day in hip hop

and Georgia today, if that's true? The first Dr. Dre died this year, didn't he? No, I think the sugar took his foot or whatever, but is it him? Because, because, remember, DJ thought that... No, TMZ says Dr. Dr. Drey, the primary doctor Drey, the primary physician, Dr. Drey's, uh,

suffers brain aneurysm is in the ICU at the L.A. hospital. Oh, dude. Apparently. That has also happened. That don't do you. That's wild as hell that fucking Kim and Kanye split up and that happened on this massive, like political day or whatever. Like, I'm saying the hip-hop world is shaking to its core at the same time that,

Yes. Georgia is. Yeah. Yeah, Aaron McCullough, says I saw this on Twitter like 10 minutes ago. Yeah, that's why. Why about that? Breaking News from Sister Page. That's the first time she's.

Yeah. Brug. Yeah, right. Yes. The only journalist, the only journalist who's breaking news report starts with bruh with eight H's. I can tell you this, though, like, hey, first off, thoughts and prayers, all that good stuff. to Dr. Dre and his family hope everything works out. But dude, if you just said that about JuCJ,

I'd have had to leave and go comfort my wife. I would have to guess that. I would have to be like, Amber, I'm not going to tell you why, but take this Dan X and lay your ass down. Oh, good. Oh, shit. Before page, before page, before page through that bomb at us.

I'm sorry, where we're... Oh, I had said I was I was worried that Georgia in the next couple years was going to do like the country did after Obama and try to reset their... Oh, right. Yeah, I don't know.

I go back and forth on that because of what, partially because of what we were saying earlier where it's like, like you're about Trump, like you can't replicate that. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, but they're going to, They're going to try to out Trump Trump, but I just don't. For the record, for the record, that can be done.

Hold on. Let me, let me rephrase what I said. I don't necessarily mean electing a politician-wise. I kind of sort of just mean people in the streets, like the behavior, because I didn't normally used to worry about that type of shit, but like, dude, them proud boys kind of like, as big of pussies as they are, as big a shit name at it, like, they're at least, they're stirring shit up. at some point, they're going to,

not that they haven't already taking it too far, but like, there's going to be like, motherfucker. If some people walk down this street and shit with guns, there's going to be a whole lot

of other people who are like, what, we're doing this? And just follow suit. And then it's be clicking and you clack. I said it before we, like the big thing you guys are missing

as far as the backlash to Obama. Biden's white. Like, that's got to be factored in here. Right. Well, and also on the note of what Corey just said,

because I hear you, Corey, I thought and worried about the same things, but I was a, I was actually listening to a podcast on, a TV writer's podcast that Kenya Barris was on. Kenya Barris created Blackish, and he was on there with another black TV writer, and they got on a tangent talking about after Obama got elected and his inauguration and how legitimately terrified they were that he was going to get shot. They were, they were like, there's no, there's no possible way he's going to survive his presidency without being shot, right?

and I'm saying now he did eight years and we had four years of Trump or whatever and you don't think about that anymore but when he first got elected like yeah I also thought oh they're gonna shoot him right do you know what I mean

I'm saying like when he first got elected these same proud boy types right you were worried at the time in 2008 like oh they're gonna be on some shit now and like they were because they elected Donald Trump in 2016. But

it didn't amount to fucking Molotov cocktails and shit like that in the streets, is my point. Mark is laughing and rolling his eyes. Well, I think we still I'm like, those people those people, yeah, you're right, that didn't

happen, but then Donald Trump happened and emboldened those people even more and I think, I don't know, dude. Like, you remember that Louis joke when he was talking about, like, you know, the people that believe, that don't believe in abortion, they think that you're killing a baby. There's these people that are legitimately convinced that they are like revolutionary war type

patriots and that if they don't do something, like, you know, we're going to, that's going to happen again. And like, they really believe that. And like, if our government can't do it, we're going to have to do it. And they, in their brains, I see some of these dudes. They think, like, the history books are going to speak of me. like they did of Thomas Payne. They're fucking delusional and insane. I don't think I saw that much of that in like 2008. Yes, but my thing with the thing I hang my hat on with those guys,

first of all, there's a dude in the comments, Shotrunner 1029 who keeps just posting, fuck you emojis and talking about how much liberals don't hit. So he's doing the Lord's work over there. But anyway, my thing I hang my hat on with those guys is, and I don't want this, this could be too, famous last wordsy but sincerely

the way I generally feel about what you just said is like those same people you're talking about you're right but like they are also real dumb yeah real fat real don't hit real like real incompetent

and I don't think they'd be able to keyboard keyboard warrior type like I just don't I don't believe in their capacity to start a fucking in sale revolution No, no, no, no, no. Again, I don't think there's actually going to be like a successful coup d'etat,

but I do think, like, a golden corral is going to get shot up. Right, yeah, yeah. There's always, like, random shooters and stochastic terrorism in America. Like, we live under that all the time. Like, like, Timothy McVeigh was one of those dudes. He thought he was jump-starting a revolution, too. And the FBI is good at tracking down. dudes who buy a lot of fertilizer.

So that's okay. But I'm saying like, well, those guys on the internet are real loud. And it's sort of like they get this proportional way. But if you look closely, all of them are still waiting for someone else to do something. They'll talk shit about going to DC with a gun. But you look, not. Right. The researcher made this point about like Qaeda's conspiracies like Q&on.

Those people are, like conspiracy theories like that might actually tamp down people's violence because it gives them an outlet to hope. for someone else is going to change shit. Right. So, yeah, so it's like... Well, again, I hope I'm wrong, as with everything. It just, I don't know. I just see a little bit of that.

And like every time I see those dudes, I don't know how it is for people that grew up in a sane place to see those dudes. But when I see those dudes, I'm like, oh, my God, I know those guys. You know what I mean? Like, I know those dudes and I know how easily it is for them to be radicalized. and all live around me and me.

Yeah. Yeah, man. All right, well, we are over time here. We're getting some messages from producer Matt. He's having audio issues. I hope no one else is. I hope it sounds okay to everybody else. But thank you all for joining us.

And, um, Corey, may you wake up tomorrow in an even brighter and bluer Georgia, baby. We'll see what happens. You could have ended that sentence at almost any time and I still would have said, hope so. so yeah. All right, well, we'll be back in 48 hours and then we'll know what the hell happened, not just with Georgia,

but also with the Cracken being released tomorrow. We'll have all the Georgia and Cracken news you can handle in 48 hours on evening skews this coming Thursday. But that's it for tonight's edition. Thank you all very much. See you, love you by. Matt, you can cut. Hey, hey, everybody.

How you did? That was a wild. Shit, right? Welcome to the show. Today's Thursday, January 7th. I'm Trey Crowder. That's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark?

Kind of regretting that they put sober January at the worst fucking month of all time. Yeah, honestly, you should have known better. I'm going to give it like, yeah, not the time to be sober. Or maybe, no, no, it's not the time to be sober. Yeah, I want to feel every moment of this, Trey. Right, yeah. Feel it to your bum.

every waking moment of it. That's the best way to experience this fucking month. Well, let's do the show. With us as always, producer Matt doing his thing. This is Evening Skews. Got a good show for you tonight. You'll be surprised to hear it's mostly focused on fat, stupid, white 9-11 or whatever you want to call the bullshit that went down yesterday. A lot to unpack there, and we'll do our best to unpack it as much as we can.

But first, as always, we must. must begin with the daily dumb ass. Matt, let's do it. Okay, so I'm not going to lie to y'all. We struggled with this one. Because I feel like you'll agree. Past 48 hours, 36 hours, whatever, in this country, mostly dumbass, like really almost entirely dumbass the past 36 to 48 hours in this country. So it may hard us to dial down on just one. Daily Dumbass, we ultimately decided to take it to the root of it all, because all these dumbasses in D.C. playing their dumbass games,

doing their dumbass things for their dumbass reasons, and frankly, I'd sooner lasso the moon than try to understand it all. But I think we can all agree that at the core of it, it comes down to, they were there to install their chosen God emperor as the dictator of America for the foreseeable future. So, after a day that ended with blood, sweat, tears, loss of life and all other manners of lunacy, we thought it appropriate to look at how the day began and how it began with the man himself, their chosen king, and what he was saying

to rally his troops. And this clip is, at least in part, some of that rallying cry. Matt, play the clip. And I had to beat Oprah. Used to be a friend of mine. You know, I was on her last show, her last week. She picked the five outstanding people. I don't think. she thinks that anymore. Once I ran for president, I didn't notice there were too many calls coming in from Oprah. Believe it or not, she used to like me, but I was one of the five outstanding people. Well, Mark, how could you not be inspired to foment a revolution by one of Oprah's five coolest people of 2011 or whatever the hell that was supposed to be about, like, inspiring stuff? I don't believe him that he was on her last week as one of her five

impressive people. It's like one of those things like he, every time he's in Michigan, he claims to have won Michigan man of the year, which is an award that doesn't exist. But he's just a real man of the people. You know, it's just like, like he just,

what you want your populists is a guy who really wants to hang out with Oprah, you know. But if you're going to pick a God emperor from the Oprah Cinematic Universe, you could have had Dr. Drew or Dr. Oz or Jenny McCarthy, right? Tom Cruise jumping up and down a couch, right? You have other options.

Right. I mean, yeah, that's the thing is it's like this is, again, this is their guy. This is who all of this shit was about. That guy. And he just, he inspires these people to a level of bloodlust at, you know,

with everything he says, and this is the type of shit that he says in those speeches. Like, you think of like movies like Patton and stuff like that where they have their big like, you know, their big pet rally speech moment that gets everybody behind them or hell even the president and independence day you know what i mean compared to that like this is trump's version of that because every speech he ever has has this type of

shit in it and i will just never be able to understand how this man in particular has just gotten straight to the core of so many stupid people in this country, stupid, angry people. It's wild. Bill Pullman was trying to get people fired up to fight back an alien invasion so the human race can survive. Trump get these people just as fired up to try, because they don't want to hear people speaking Spanish in the grocery store. Like that's their alien invasion. But we're being unfair, because let's get into our daily dumbass honorable mentions here. And the First honorable mention, is anybody out there who actually believes that yesterday was Donald Trump's fault? Of course, it wasn't Donald Trump's fault.

If you don't believe that, former vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, will explain to you whose fault it actually is. Matt, play the Palin. Next guest says that she is outraged over the, quote, insincere fake DC patriots who showed up today. Former Alaska governor and former GOP vice presidential nominee. Sarah Palin joins me now. Keep in mind, we don't know who all were the insincerptial. instigators in this, of these horrible things that happened today, I think a lot of it is the Antifa folks. I've been sent pictures of the same characters whom were captured on images today,

storming the Capitol, as had been in protests on the other side of politics earlier in the summer. So I don't know, there's a lot of questions out there, and I wish we could trust the media to do its job to go research, report who all these people are. Mark, what can Antifa not do? That's what I want to know. Like, I'm starting to think they should just replace the CIA with Antifa. They are such an effective, shadowy black ops organization. I mean, I feel like even on the other side, at this point, you've got to start just giving your respect to Antifa for how effective they are.

Because, I mean, we, we, because, of course, I'm part of Antifa, we have our hands in everything at this point. We're doing a hell of a job. Yeah, I mean, I've been doing some shifts in the accounts receivable at Soros headquarters, and I really appreciate the work you guys are doing out in the streets. I don't understand. Like, it's always been that way, the paranoid style in American conservative conservatism

where, like, there's always a boogeyman behind everywhere. Like, the American Civil Rights Movement was communist. It couldn't just be that, you know, black people were upset about being second-class citizens in their own country. They had to be communist behind it. It's always like this weird, oh, they're out to get you. But like, I'm trying to figure out what they think happened.

I mean, we'll get to it later in the show, I think. But there's a bunch of people who have spent all day dying their Antifa because they've been Trump loyalists the whole time. And now they're getting roasted by their compatriots online for letting down the cause. But it's funny how like it's wild kind of how every aspect of Trump's leadership kind of trickles down throughout it all. And what I mean is like how many people. have we seen be part of Trump's like inner circle and then get thrown directly under the

fucking bus at the first opportunity that Trump has and then that's exactly what's happening with a lot of these Q people too right now after this after this attempted coup because like you said of course they were going to make it be about Antique no really that was Antifa well you got to have a face for that so inevitably some of these true patriots are going to get painted by their own red-blooded patriotic brothers and sisters in arms as as Antifa traders and it's just it's such a shame that happens to them the closest I could find to an actual left-wing or among them there was one dude who went viral who's like like a left-wing streamer who embedded himself with him to cover

with them to cover the protests and he's getting floated around as an Antifa organizer and he's just some guy some grifter who's raising money off his Venmo or whatever by live streaming these protests but I can't find anyone who actually you know, things are what they seem to be. Like they were weird. Well, but don't tell Fox News that. Matt, we got a graphic, right? Fox News, every one of their, all three of Fox News's like big primetime hitters in their shows

have come out claiming that really it was Antifa behind this. And also, they said, if it wasn't it, no matter who it, A, it was Antifa. B, whoever it was, really it was America's fault. America had this coming. Yeah, yeah. Yes. Furdenmore. Broughton hosts along with the best newsmax.

They've been pushing it that it was let, Antifa activists who spurred on the mob to make Trump and his supporters look bad, which is like Trump has been tweeting, come to Washington on January 6th. We saw the fucking footage from the flight yesterday where they were heckling Mitt Romney on the night before the protest headed to D.C.

I saw screen grabs from parlor where people couldn't find parking. Like, these are Trump supporters that went there looking for trouble. And it just is, I don't know, man, we're through, we've undone the enlightenment and people just believe whatever they want to believe now. It's magic and wizards. And it's also like, and again, I know this is completely par for the course where Trump is concerned. This is part of the like narcissist prayer or whatever that thing is they call where it's like,

oh, I didn't do that. Oh, if I did do that, it wasn't my phone. Oh, if it was my fault, it wasn't that bad. Oh, if it was that bad, then you had it coming. Or whatever. I paraphrase, there's a whole bunch of steps in there. And I know that's like totally Trump's wheelhouse. But this argument of...

First of all, it was Antifa who did all the bullshit. But also, just so you know, all that bullshit completely warranted. And America had it coming. You know what I mean? Like, how are both things true at the same time? But like I said, I know that. what they do, but it's just what's what happens when

you believe that Trump is Trump and Q are God's perfect angels because therefore they can do no wrong so if something goes bad there must be someone else to blame for it, right? And Trump is of course fully behind this investigation

into the Antifa radicals who caused this Matt, we got some screen grabs there for that from Twitter talking about sources who know about where Trump's mind is at on the Antifa rumors. He wants people to look into the rumors of Antifa radicals infiltrating the MAGA protest and riot this week. That's from Matthew Gertz on Twitter with apparent sources. But so they went through this whole process.

Conservative America went through this. They went through a real roller coaster yesterday. Yeah. That ended with where we are right now, which is, oh, that was all Antifa. But of course, that's not where it started. And everybody's favorite Jesus-loving Hercules, Kevin Sorbo, actually kind of inadvertently gave a nice summation of the emotional journey that Trump-loving conservatives went on yesterday.

Matt, you throw up the Kevin Sorbo stuff whenever you got it. Yeah, okay. Here's number one. This is the morning. What's the morning? What's the timestamps on these? This is 10.27 a.m. It's happening.

Yesterday morning. He says it's happening about people storming the Capitol. Next up, Matt, we got 11.17 a.m., so not even a full hour later. History is being made. Kevin Sorboe wants us to know. And then 12, 16 p.m., so again, about an hour later. To those storming the Capitol building, please be careful. Do not act like Antifa.

Respect the police. and no, they are mostly on our side. They're simply trying to do their job. And then finally, less than 45 minutes later, at 1 p.m., Antifa led the charge in the Capitol building dressed as Trump supporters. So that whole thing was like less than three hours from the beginning to the end of it, from it's happening. History is happening unfolding before our very eyes, everyone, to this was all the Democrats,

and they're just doing this to make us look bad, and that was never us to begin with. in less than three hours time. And that's indicative of every Trump-loving Americans journey yesterday, I think. Yeah, yeah, it's like it's weird when you do something, if they're hoping it's going to go well, and then it doesn't, then it goes badly. Then you got to be like, oh, I drank too much. You know, I don't know why.

It's like, I didn't mean, I wasn't, I was just kidding when I proposed that threesome money. I wasn't like, I know it's your anniversary, but that isn't what I, it was just, I was just joking. All right. I was going to say let's move on from the Daily Dumbass into like the rest of the show. But again, the whole thing is kind of daily dumbass.

But let's get into the specifics of it here. This little coup, Trump putting the Q and Q. It didn't go well for all of them, obviously. So again, as I mentioned earlier, actual loss of life. Four people died, Mark, one lady shot. Five actually, they just came out that a capital police officer died in the hospital this afternoon. that makes five total yeah okay well five people died the first before the capital police officer

news it was four people all protesters rioters whatever you want to insurgents whatever you want to call them one lady got shot while trying to break into a room with actual congresspeople in it by i think a secret service agent the other three people were uh it said they they died of quote medical emergencies so that could be any number of things and let's be honest these people they're not they're not the most they don't take the best care of themselves like you know what I mean like a lot of them are you know uh sugar Americans I think they've got some issues probably probably some breathing problems probably some some general physical fitness problems their hearts are probably not the best I would think so there's any number of things that could

have taken them out I think it's astonishing well no it's not astonishing because the people there It would otherwise be astonishing that only four of them died, given what they were doing. Like, they should count themselves lucky that they only lost four. It's, I mean, I'm assuming that it was like good things don't happen. Not only good things happen when 60-year-olds get tear gassed. I'm assuming that's what the mental emergency thing is. But like, it was weird. Lindsey Graham came out today and he seemed scared shitless talking about how they could have been killed.

And he was saying that the cops should have opened fire into the crowd, which is like a conservative state being conservative like that about cops killing people even if it's their supporters um i don't know what to make of any of this because personally like i i'm against cops killing on-armed people even when they're idiots um i'm not sure what they should have done they should have more manpower uh mad did some research uh producer and found that the the cap on hill police force basically they're glorified park rangers they don't have a lot of authority or harm capability and there's only like 2,000 on them. So even if like all three shifts have been called up simultaneously or however it works, they like they wouldn't have enough people to hold them back. They needed the National Guard,

which is the wide DC National Guard under the control of the Department of Defense because it's a, you know, federal, you know, I just think that if you, before all this happened, if you took any American on either side of it and you told them that a armed, angry mob, but don't describe it further than that don't describe their motivations or what types of people they are, whatever, just an armed, angry mob of people stormed the Capitol building while Congress was in session and successfully got into the building. And you then asked that person, how do you think that went for them? I think pretty much any American on any end of the political spectrum would have said, they probably got shot a whole lot, I would assume, like, probably not good.

I would imagine that got shut down because if you just, it's a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot. I would assume. It's also stupid and they're also stupid that it's easy to like forget i think how insane of a thing that is to even attempt in the first place in any country really and you know i mean again i think they they got off easy i'm all yeah i'm trying to not be a hypocrite here because like i remember back in the summer when uh black lives matter uh you know took over some city halls and police stations and i uh thought that was cool so in principle i'm not against forming a government building. I mean,

that's fair. And if like, if the shoe was on other foot and Republicans control the House and the Senate and were about to install Trump and overturned the electoral college, I'd be pro people storming the Capitol.

For sure. Okay. Yes. Right. You're right about all that. And I agree with you. I don't want to sound hypocritical either. But don't you think, though,

and a million other people have pointed this out, too, if it was one of those situations yesterday, if it was Black Lives Matter or what, right, exactly. Or, like a Muslim group fighting for equal rights or whatever if it was just almost anyone else

any kind of minority group or whatever who did the exact same thing it would have gone down that way I'm not saying they all would have gotten massacred but there'd be a hell of a lot more than four casualties I think and that also is a huge part of this they wouldn't even have got to that point in the first place right okay I want you to tell me is this unfair or not this idea that they were basically let in because I know I've seen like clips

and I know that it's like anecdotal when it's like I've seen clips of the Capitol police basically like literally just ushering people into the Capitol pretty much how fair is that or not as far as what happened? Well there is one I will say a lot of the critics

like Matt pointed out a lot of the criticism is unfair because there was one that went mega viral of the moving the barricades but the Capitol Hill police probably in the best they could yeah it is pretty incriminating but not doing it

I don't know if you saw that, but they cop ran over, and that wasn't the one to make bigger viral, but that one's more incriminating cop. Literally, the gates are already open. He runs up, and it's like, come on, guys, we're going. Like, he's, like, egging them on, which is bad. But a lot of cops are equally right-wing Trump supporters. So it's not, like, super shocking. Yeah, there was a funny.

I wish I could remember who it came from. I'm sorry. I wish I had the source, but it was just one of the million tweets I saw yesterday where someone tweeted, all y'all that are asking, where are the cops at during all this? like, what the hell? Do you ask, where is Miley at when Hannah Montana's on stage? You know, there's the same fucking people, which I thought was funny. But I mean, yeah, there's some truth to that. Yeah, but the Capitol Hill Police Chief is already, he's tendered his resignation, affected the 16th. It didn't, yeah, I mean, those guys, they fucked up. They had a bad day at work.

But they probably did the main thing they needed to do, which was stall for a few minutes to get Congress time to not get murdered, get out of the way. because the vice president was there, as was the vice president elect. So, Secret Service, you can't run up on the Secret Service. No, you cannot run up on the Secret Service. That's a generally accepted principle of running up on people. It is, Trump's incompetent sometimes disguises his, like we don't use a clarity of language this stuff, but like Trump had control of the National Guard and he held them back to give his paramilitary force time to ease the legislature.

If that happened in Cairo, what will we call it? Right. Right. It's a coup. A coup, yeah. A coup, yeah. And some of these people were armed. They put bullet holes and shit.

They wrecked a bunch of stuff. And it wasn't cool. But like I said, if the shoe was on their foot and BLM and Antifa and a bunch of union guys overtook the Capitol to stop the Republicans from installing Trump for a second term. And, you know, put their feet up on Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy's dead. and took a shit in Mitch McConnell's world's number one grandpa mug, I would think that was fucking fantastic. Well, but on that note, it goes back to what you were saying.

If any other group did this, there have been a whole lot more casualties. And I think that it's evident that that was the expectation on the part of the terrorist. They had, they didn't, they fully expected to be able to just walk in and do whatever the hell they wanted to. And you can tell that because of all the, the myriatic. examples of them just publicizing these acts of sedition that they are committing without a second thought like here's one with the Nick Fuentes and baked Alaska live streaming themselves

in Pelosi's office yeah there you go there's uh this is this is one of my favorites I don't know if we have the actual clip or not but I'm from I'm sort of from Knoxville it's where I started comedy I moved to LA from Knoxville I lived there for seven years one of my old you know hometown people's Elizabeth she made a

she made a great showing yesterday again just putting it all out there on front street ma'am what happened to you I got maced you got maced and what happened you were trying to go inside the capital

I made it like a foot inside and they pushed me out and they maced me what's your name where you from my name is Elizabeth I'm from Knoxville Tennessee Why did you want to go in? We're storming the capital.

It's a revolution. Thank you. Trey, not only did she confess to a crime on television, but she gave her address and announced she was trying to do a revolution. So now she's getting hit a fucking sedition charge. A seditionist conspiracy charges, that's 20 fucking years. Right. The fact that Elizabeth is going to be hearing from the U.S. attorney over the area of eastern Tennessee or whatever, Central Texas. Well, listen, on that note,

As a former Knoxvillian, I would like to sit here and be like, listen, just so you guys know, Elizabeth doesn't represent the area entirely. But the county mayor is the undertaker's brother. So, you know, that's true. It's not a joke. A fucking mute demon cane is the mayor in Knoxville just fucking challenging the school board to cage matches and shit. So this chick's kind of par for the course, I think. I can't really act any otherwise. But hey, at least the football team's so.

I'm sorry. I think, but talking about like these people who have the online to plan about the deep state all the time have no understanding of how shit works or the trouble they're in. Like you want to talk about like privilege. And when they hit the streets, they leave their cell phones at home. They cover their faces. They know how to full facial recognition. These people live streamed. They refuse to wear masks.

Thank God they refuse to wear masks because they're pro-covidding themselves into jail. They, the amount of, here's a quote that fucking floored me. This is from one of the people. This is not America. They're shooting at us. They're supposed to shoot BLM,

but they're shooting the Patriots. Dude, but I mean, that's it. That sums up their whole attitude. You know what I mean? Like, that's exactly it.

There was also a famous, like, comment on a Trump tweet that went viral for its lack of self-awareness for years that said, like, I just don't, understand, I don't understand why he's hurting the wrong people. Like, he's hurting us. He's,

that he's supposed to be hurting the other people. And that's literally how they look at it. I was going to say, like she, she admitted to sedition on camera and gave her name and address, like you said, but like, it's because she has no concept of even the notion that she's committing sedition. Like, she's a heroic patriot, a literal, she is astonished at the idea that there was opposition to what she tried to do, legitimately. And that's fucking crazy. They had no operational security because they thought what they were doing was pro-government, which is fucking insane to me.

But this is what happens when you get high on your own care and supply. It's like I was trying to talk to the manager of America, and I got amazed for it. But these people, they really are true believers, and it has some really bad side effects for some of them, namely the woman who got the worst of it, the one who was shot in the chest and died three hours later. Her name was Ashley, and she's an Air Force vet whose estranged husband

found out she was dead from the news. So she apparently ran off from San Diego and got involved in all this shit and tried the charge into the chamber where again the vice president and vice president elect were and somebody capital, there's like three police forces there, so who knows who shot her. I assume we'll find out many days.

but she was a big she was a Q lady as a lot of these people are and her last tweet I don't know if we have it ready to go but she did giveaway is she says nothing will stop us they can try but the storm is here

but it's descending upon DCS and DC in less than 24 hours dark to light that's a lot of Q&I and terminology in there did you see the headline that quoted the first part of this tweet I can't remember who put it out but some publication the headline said

Nothing will stop us tweets woman who was shot to death while storming the capitals like I mean other than bullets I guess nothing will stop no I mean also you know tear gas and any number of other mechanisms would have stopped them too but bullets in particular pretty effective

she also said damn it let me find it real quick she didn't say this she retweeted a thing just like three days ago. Dude, I'm sorry, this is wild. She retweeted a tweet on, I'm pulling it up right now, on January 4th, so two days ago.

She retweeted a tweet that says, the president reinstates death by firing squad. Guess what the U.S. penalty for treason is. Death by firing squad. Two plus two equals four the last time I checked. I told you and Matt earlier, like, stuff like that almost makes it hard for me to go on not believing in God, you know, like something, somebody just line up too well. They're too wild, too coincidental for me to remain as agnostic as I am. But yeah, I don't know.

Like, I, the whole thing. We're both like from the south, the rural, you're not supposed to speak ill of the dead and all that, Mark. But it's just hard. It's just, it's hard for me to feel. too bad. I feel bad for her children because she had children and it ain't the kids fault and I feel terrible for them. But like she, I don't know, man.

You at a certain point, like, what the fuck do you expect? You know? And she died draped in a Trump flag. Right? She was wearing a Trump flag as a cape. She had a Trump cape on. How many fucks do you think Donald Trump gives about this lady? He wouldn't fist on her if she was on fire. Absolutely.

And one thing that the mainstream media keeps missing this stuff, because I don't know whether they don't want to promote it or whatever. But to the extent I feel bad for is that she's brainwashed, but she's self-brained. And I don't just mean by Trump. I'm talking about the Q stuff. This stuff seems invisible to the mainstream press, but it's everywhere among these people if you look for it. And they just sort of refuse to. Why do you think that is? Do you think that it's because it's like too, it's like hard for them to, you?

to wrap their heads around how best to present it to people are like they don't even understand it. Like it's too out there or something. They think it'll seem ridiculous if they even report on these people believing this Q stuff. Like, why is it ignored to the extent that it is by the media? All this Q is on bullshit. When you guys had time later, Google Wolf Blitzer Jeopardy

and look at his negative 5,000 score, and that's one reason for it. But these, these, I mean, Like our society, we get called A-Dist a lot for bitching about how like we're Jaron Toccas here. We're run by old people who are out of touch. And that's like a lot of problems with that. But they just don't see this stuff. It doesn't like it doesn't compute to them.

Like I've bitched a lot about like the most disconcerting part like the Ukraine call that got leaked was Trump bitching about the conspiracy theory. It's Q&O adjacent. And they didn't even notice that. The one about the server that got evicted to Ukraine or whatever. That's part of the Seth-rich conspiracy universe. It's all connected to this stuff. This was a Q&ONO-G-N-Oregon-esque coup. Okay, right.

Well, I was about to, I know you don't actually know and you couldn't know, but as a guy who, you know, follows Q&N pretty closely, like, what percentage of these people who showed up yesterday and participated in this do you think are, like, at least kind of into the Q&N narrative, if not full-blown Q-Q lunatics, at least, like, they're buying a good chunk of it. There aren't a lot of people who believe all of it. Those people wouldn't be able to feed themselves.

But there are people who bind into various different aspects of it, right? But, like, basically what you told yesterday was the proud boys combining with Q people and forming an alliance and charging the county. Yeah. But, like, if you have that picture of the guy with the zip ties, Matt, this is a guy who infiltrated the Capitol yesterday. and hanging off his belt. See those zip ties?

Those are to arrest the pedophiles and put them on trial. The deep state cabal that runs Congress, the ones who are opposing Trump so the deep state can keep eating babies and shit. And you can we can pretend these people are, but these people aren't going away just because Trump does.

They'll turn on Trump, and they're already starting to. We're going to get to that a little bit, but they'll throw Trump under the bus before they let go with this worldview. They'll assume Trump's been turned. The Deep State has gotten to Trump and they'll find a new avatar

to fight for them. And it'll be Josh Howley or Ted Cruz or whoever else is willing to like throw out the code words. Because they've all been thrown out the code words. Whenever you, whenever you see a congressman tweet about sex trafficking, that's what they're doing. Sex trafficking as the cue people understand it doesn't exist. But they're throwing out these code words. Sex trafficking is largely teenagers running away and trafficking themselves in exchange for drug money or whatever. It's not little kids being snatched off the street to be delivered to Jeffrey Epstein's Island. That's not what's happening on America's streets. But they, it's just like, they're just so out of touch.

And like, I don't know how we could bring these people back to reality because there's a significant chunk of America at this point. And it's spreading wider and hardly. Okay, on that, and I know that, I mean, I know that you're right, but what's the, what's the final count that we have, like, so far for how many people were actually there yesterday? I haven't seen an estimate, but it would, like, Don Jr. said 100,000. Let's make it.

I saw one. I saw one that was, that said it was. was like 80,000, but I don't know how accurate that was either, which I mean like that is an alarming amount of people, but it still is, you know, a fraction of a fraction of like actual Americans. And I just keep telling myself that even a lot of Republicans and even a lot of Trump-loving Republicans are not at that level. In fact, I know a lot of them are not because we've shared around in our group chats and stuff, newsletters and shit that like Corey has seen in Chickamauga that are getting passed around by churches.

And they're mostly saying, like, don't believe the lies. This was not, Republicans wouldn't do this. This was Antifa, which is infuriating and stupid as hell. But it indicates that, like, they're not on board with what happened, is my point. Even some of the shittiest papas among us are not on board with what went down yesterday. I mean, a lot of them are, but I saw the quick, the first quick reaction poll I saw is that 45% of Republicans approved of the capital. I almost said, even before I finished speaking myself a minute ago, I almost said, that's probably a little bit because it didn't work. You know what I mean? Like, had it fucking, God forbid, worked, they wouldn't be saying any of that shit.

Wait, I think that it would be higher if it worked. I think because it looked bad on the news, the numbers dropped. That's what I meant. Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm saying like it because it didn't work is what I mean. Yeah. If it had worked, then they wouldn't be saying all of that shit. You know, it's like when a football coach goes for two at the end of the game

when he could have tied it up, you know what I mean? Like if it works, it's like, yeah, it's a fucking genius and they're all for it. And if it don't work, it's like fucking fire this guy. Get him out of there. I think it's a version of that going on with. mainstream Republicans right now after what went down yesterday. Yeah. I mean, for sure. Matt, Matt was just messages that his crowd estimate based upon his expertise going

to rallies in the same space was 40,000. But those are the people that are supposed to income and time off to travel to D.C. on a Wednesday. And her passionate enough to charge guns. So multiply that by 100 to get an approximate number of people who like were, would have been there if they could, if they weren't like, something based on reality and didn't want to get COVID because they everything. dude easily because I'm sorry but just like to speak stereotypically about this demographic there you know a lot of

basement dwellers neck beard types whatever not known for being having a lot of disposable income as you were saying a minute ago you know like I and also the type to be like if I could if I could at all I'd be on the front lines fighting this war but you know I can't because my mom's kind of sick and I don't have a job you know what I mean or whatever, that type of thing. There's got to be a huge percentage of this same demographic that like Q types fit into. I will. Who, you know, wouldn't have gone there yesterday, despite the fact that they firmly agree with every single bit of it. I mean, I'll want to push back against that a little bit.

I think like the poor white trash people get a little bit of the route for more Trump stuff than they should. Trump's demographic is richer than the average American, especially the far poor people, the ones that carry around $5,000 AR-15s, and the lady who died had attended a boat parade, one of the Trump boat parade. To be clear, because I'm poor white trash too, and I think poor white trash people get too much shit sometimes. In my head, it's more like the adult children of middle class white people

who have lived in the basement until they're 35 or whatever. I don't mean like the, you know, mechanic in Clay County or whatever. It was in the trailer with his wife and kids. That's not the son of a guy. The son of a guy, one's Dick's sporting goods who lives at home and got an AR-15 for Christmas and drives a brand-new truck. That's what we're talking about here,

who joins the Cowboys. But like a funny angle that's talking about what criminal penalties they could face. You remember when Trump signed that executive order during the summer protests, George Floyd to protect federal property and monuments and mandated in your sentences? So that doesn't really change the law, but it changes the instruction,

operating instructions that it's an attorney general. are working under. So basically everybody gets the map and max for destruction of federal property. So it's going to be kind of funny. Yeah, they could face 10 years in prison on the Trump's executive order. So it's extremely funny. I mean, these people continue keeping hoisted on their own but I don't really know what a partard is, but I like the expression. But check out like, like they explicitly named monuments. Do we have that picture of the monument that they dressed up. They put in a MAGA hat. Gerald Ford, right?

Yeah. Oh, no, we don't have it. But as a picture floating around, they defaced a statue of Gerald Ford, which Gerald Ford was president for like a year and a half. I don't fucking understand what this statue of Gerald Ford. I think it was just the one that was there when they decided to do the picture, the photo op or whatever. You know what I mean? Like, that's what I'm saying. I don't think there was too much forethought that went into most of the actions that happened yesterday for most of them.

Yeah. And yeah, you're talking about them being hoisted by their own petards. Yeah, it goes so much further than just the monument. the whole entire thing that happened yesterday is the exact inverse of all the shit they were terrified of and that meant

the fall of American civilization in the summertime when Black Lives Matter was protesting when all that was going on. Like, you know, if this, if the fucking capital building had been a target in Minneapolis yesterday, you know, be a different story.

Not really because it wasn't the same people doing it, but you know what I mean. Like the whole thing is a flip-flop, bullshit hypocritical narrative from the very beginning of it. And just like, like literal federal prosecutors, when Biden gets in, might

not be as big or hard asses, but the federal prosecutors have a ton of power and a ton of discretion. And there's a ton of various different charges. There's a statue of the that's the statue, buddy. They defaced the statue. Those are 10 years. And then you Instagramed it. But it's slated.

had an interview with a fed product from some former federal prosecutors today making this point like the 10 years might even mean the max like they could get 20 if if prosecutors really lean into a charge called seditious conspiracy which that fucking Elizabeth from Knoxville explicitly said into her camera they were yeah so

pack your bags Liz but also like politicians man it's been kind of like the Wall Street Journal came out tonight and called for Trump to be impeached to remove or to resign. Even Mitchell and Kyle stood up and said, this is bullshit. I might get the name wrong, but you'll get the, the American Association of Manufacturers or something,

like a huge manufacturing organization, sent a letter to Congress and Mike Pence asking for Donald Trump to be removed from power. And, you know, that's like, I mean, that's that money talk shit. That's people that actually are pulling on the purse strings and whatnot. I don't know if we're getting ahead of ourselves by talking about what you think will happen or not. But yeah, I mean, there's been a shift in the types of people who are talking

shit about Donald Trump right now who would not have ever done so before yesterday, I don't think. Yeah, I mean, it feels like the fever broke a little bit. The funny one to me was like Chevron put a depressed release, opposing the coup attempt at the Capitol, which is like funny because they, you know, they backed every coup in South America where they were over 50 years. It was like, no, we do coups over there. We live here. Don't destabilize here. They're kids in school.

That is also the exact rationale that a number of Republican Congress people had when the assault happened yesterday. Do you know what I mean? Like people that were going to, like Marsha Blackburn, for example, who sucks, Senator from Tennessee, she had already been on the record saying she was going to support, she was going to object the electoral results or whatever yesterday. But then she ended up not doing it. I assume because at a certain point she was like, oh, wait, they might hurt me. You know, like he's not, Trump's not going to protect me. I thought he was going to protect us and everybody else is the problem, you know.

And then when it seemed like it was actually going to affect them on a personal level, which is always the case with those people, a bunch of Republican and Congress people backed off of their bullshit. Not all of them, but a bunch of them did. Keep a big, big mean guard dog around. It's fucking awesome to have to keep people away until one day you forget to feed it. Then what happens, right?

You can't ride these monsters very long. But it's been funny watching the politicians cover their ass because Ted Cruz was fucking riling these people up and promising him shit. And then immediately tried to like say, no, no, no violence. I was just trying to say that the government was, the election was rigged and was being thrown to,

you know, illegal occupying forces known as Democrats, but I didn't want you to do anything about it. I just wanted you to send me money. And so he was fundraising off the riots, and AOC called out for it and called for a Howley and Cruz to be expelled from the Senate, and he called her a liar.

And then she produced a text message. His campaign had sent her, Ted Cruz here, I'm leading to fight to reject the lectures from key states unless there's a burden of the election. Will you stand with me? What did Cruz standing with him meant? He just meant to send me 20.

he didn't mean storm the building where I'm in and try to fucking kill everybody but you need to be more specific Ted uh but another thing that made me happy today was um this Josh Howley had a very very bad day um all in one day his political mentor a former senator by name of john Danforth uh trashed him to the st louis post dispatch saying supporting him was the biggest mistake of his life the Kansas city star his hometown flagship newspaper said he had blood on his hands and his book publisher dropped him. So that's probably the one that hurt him because it costs him a little bit of money. Right.

He's not the only one getting excommunicado right now. Also, Mike Pence finds himself in the crosshairs. They're getting it from both sides because legitimate people are calling them fucking assholes. And then you got Pence whose life is being threatened by Q people. Like you have this screen graph, throw it up. They, yeah, blood is on your hands, traitor. is either going to get more or going to be executed, right? These are Trump supporters trying to get him murdered,

and Pence still won't vote the 25th Amendment. There's another, this also happened yesterday. This fucking guy, okay, this is a really funny case. So this happened, this guy by the name, is a QAnon shaman by the name of Jake Angelo, right? He's a QAnon shaman. Yeah, I mean, he is, though. There's no better descriptor for what this guy is and does,

but what's a ridiculous. he's known as, all right? So he's... No, I know. Yeah. Q and on shamans. So he was speaker of the house for 15 glorious minutes. You see him right there in the world of the house.

It's flexing with his shirt off. He never wears a shirt. He always wears those bison horns. And so he got, healy got labeled Antifa. All right? So he had a bunch of people in line saying he's not really a Trump supporter. So this happened. This guy, a bunch of people turned on him.

So he, this woman with 150,000 Trump supporter followers was saying that he's a climate activist who can't be a Trump supporter. This is a rally where he was there to yell at people from climate. He was there to, he was there to scream at people for loving the earth or whatever, call them dumbasses and sheep and whatnot. Yeah, he was there to tell them that the global warming of the Chinese hoax. And so, but they used that photo out of context to make it look like his Antifa and he led them into a trap. So he went online. He's been online all day trying to convince people that he's yelling at people like, no, no, I am a Trump supporter.

I'm not Antifa. Yeah, Syria is saying, Mr. Wood, this is Lynn Wood treated that he's Antifa and he infiltrated the rallies. Mr. Wood, I'm not Antifa or BLM. I have a Q&M and digital soldier. My name is Jake and I marched with the police and fought against BLM and Antifa in Phoenix. Look up Owen's coverage of July 4th rally in Phoenix, Capitol. I was standing against BLM mob.

outnumbered and unfazed. Look it up. Matt, before you bring that down, I just want to emphasize a few parts of that. I'm a QAnon and digital soldier. Yeah.

I marched with police and fought against BLM and Antifa in Phoenix. I was standing against the mob outnumbered but unfazed. I ended up pretty much just reading the whole thing. But how like just the lack of self-awareness again, they approach self-parody. This is a man in a fucking, like, bison hat,

or whatever the hell that is. Shirtless in a bison hat, screaming. And he's like, I'm a digital soldier on the front lines fighting this all-important battle against black people and whatever else. And he's completely serious about all of it. And again, I want to know, what do you think? And I know neither you nor I, nor almost anyone watching us right now. now could effectively put themselves into the mental space of a dude like this, I don't think.

But like, how do you think he's feeling or how do you think it affects him for them to have turned against him now? Because we were talking earlier up top, like eventually the Trump cult and Trump himself, one way or another eventually, they'll eat their own. They'll turn against you too. And this is happening to this shaman right now. And obviously, he's not happy about it. He's out they're stating this case, but like, how do you think that plays in his mind? Do you think it's turning, like making him see the light at all? Like, oh, man, what I'm doing? Or do you think he's just like, no, brothers, you must understand. I'm with you. It, I mean, it's like if they're, see, it's like, it's like the mafia. You know when like the mob guy gets caught and they

immediately say there is no mob, right? So at least the mob gets paid. Like, you're in it for money. These guys get caught and get disavowed like the Jason. Yeah, but I say it's like getting disavowed. in a Mission Impossible movie or something. That's what's happened to this guy. The minute they fuck up and kill a cop, there's like, well, by definition, they cannot be a Trump supporter because they're anti-law and order.

They hurt a cop, so therefore the BLM and Antifa. It happens every goddamn time. These people will never learn. But I'm here to vouch for you, Jake. I know, I've been following your work for a year or two now, and I know you're a hardcore Trump supporter, and I have your own words here to prove it if you have that video, I've been playing in the drum circle, Matt.

Yes, let's please play this. you have it, Matt, the fucking drum circle shit or whatever. I don't know, it's not a circle. It's a one man drum circle. Yeah. But yeah, the one where he's doing his thing, singing the song of his people. Matt, you got that one?

Yeah! Thank you, President Trump! Thank you, Q! We have no spitters at all. You know what I mean? They got nobody who's got bars or something or is an orator. Like, like, who is,

is moved by shit like that. And I was just saying the same things people agree with, but I'm saying like, this dude is like, we're talking about it right now. He's a high level dude on their side. He's their shaman. He's their guy.

And listen to that shit. He sounds like a fucking 10 year old. Yeah. But they're all turning each other so fast. Like, and it's like kind of funny because a bunch of the president's followers, they're turning on him now. I was an article in BuzzFeed today.

The headline was pro-Trump activists who helped plan the insurrection to feel betrayed by the president. doesn't it? And they're mad. Here's a quote, it's sickening seeing people give Antifa the glory of fed up Americans. They want credit for their goddamn crime. Right.

They want it. Absolutely. I mean, yeah, I'm not at all surprised by that. It's like the thing up top, we were talking about what Fox News is saying, where it's like, okay, it was Antifa, but just so you know, it was a good thing that America deserved. You know what I mean? It's like, how do you do both things? Like, clearly, of course they want credit.

credit for fucking what, by the way. Again, they didn't accomplish shit, but of course they want credit for it. So it's got to be hard for them to spin it around and put it on Antifa. You ever watched like the end of like a law and order when they trick somebody in and confessing because they're so desperate to get credit

for also more if the crime was? Just like that. Just let Antifa take the rap, man. You don't have to go to jail for this, but apparently they're desperate to. Yeah. There's more detectives across the table for these guys like Antifa.

absolute brilliance, right? Yeah. The sheer moxie, the strategy they showed and planning something like that. Can you even wrap your head around it? It's hard for regular people to even envision something like that, right? But Antifa, they pulled it off. And then fucking Q and on Proud Boys sitting there like, no, it was me. That's the law and order ending of this whole episode.

Yeah. And it's a they're even like they're even turning on Trump for being insufficiently pro Trump, which is really fucking funny. And I haven't seen any react. Right before we came on, Trump released a video, slamming the protesters for being not, not following law and order or whatever

and the chaos. The typical speech he gives up for the summer protests, the George Floyd protest. But you get it on his own people. This quote was before then from that bus feed article. But like, I just want to save the country, one guy said,

I don't care who we follow, but I'm getting doubt that person is DJT. So, oh, man. We're just rudderless right now. Oh, man. Sure not DJT. letting them down. Not you, D.J. At 2, DJT.

We're probably going to run a little over to that I'm gathering, but before we get to the comments, I just want to be real quick. Like, the Democratic response to this was at the beginning of the day, was typically spineless and ineffectual. Nancy Pelosi sent Congress adjourned Congress and sent them home without calling anybody, without calling

any hearings about the Capitol Police or calling the FBI to testify about, you know, Q&N and Ringers, probably being domestic terrorist threats. Without any of that much less impeaching Trump. Also, if the 25th Amendment's invoked, apparently if Trump's not incapacitated, he can challenge it,

which his Congress is supposed to deliberate over it. So she started to send everyone home, but then she came out and called for Trump to resign or be impeached. So I'm not sure where she's out on that. But it's been a real rollercoaster day for Pelosi. So on that note, I'm not trying to sound defeatist or anything at all here.

I'm just saying, like, I kind of doubt the ability to of the government to accomplish anything remotely like that in the two weeks that are left right now and I'm not saying like oh they they should impeach his ass tomorrow that's not what I'm saying I'm just saying

the glacial pace that any kind of government machinations move at with two weeks left even if they all I think even if they all decided right now yeah he got to go I don't think they could actually push it through make it happen in the amount of time that exists between now and the inauguration, me personally.

Yeah, for sure they could. They could vote today and convict tomorrow. They don't want you. I mean, okay. I mean, I know, look, I know that, I know that, like, objectively speaking, they have the ability to do that. I'm just saying the way that the American government works with fucking anything ever, I just don't think they could possibly do it. I'm not, I'm not saying they shouldn't try. They should do it. They should try. They should do it. All I'm trying to say is, Mark, I have no faith in them.

That's all I'm trying to say. Like, I just, I have no faith in them being able to do it, even if they all agreed that they should in two weeks time. First of all, they absolutely could. They absolutely should. I'm not going to let them up a hook by saying that because that's fucking, that's bullshit. It's also like, it's amazing that Donald Trump is the only person in America with any actual political imagination for what leadership is. Trump doesn't go out in the morning and be like, this is a crazy idea. There's no way I'm ever going to convince anybody of it.

I'm not going to try it. He goes out and fucking tries. He tries to convince people. And a lot of people go along with him. Nancy, Democrats can lead. I swear to God, they can lead.

They can make the way to convince people and win votes. I guess you're used to. I mean, you're right. I mean, it is letting them off the hook to say that. In my mind, it's more about like,

on a personal level or for everyone who agrees with us, you know, that whole thing of like, hope for the best, expect the worst or whatever. Like, I just,

I don't want people to have any expectation of anything actually happening because there's not one single part of me that believes that it will. I'm just trying to be realistic about it. You're right that it is like letting them off the hook by saying, oh, they couldn't do it. But I'm just saying no part of me is allowing myself to believe that any actual consequences will happen because I just don't think that's how shit goes in this fucking country. It's really pessimistic outlook is what it is, but it's not me trying to let them off the hook. I'm just trying to say, don't get your fucking hopes up is all I'm trying to say, because I just don't, I just don't see them doing shit, man.

They don't ever do shit. I know, but like, that's why we're all going to die. I know, I know. I mean, yeah, I know. I hear you. You're right. It kind of gives them permission to be that way when you just accept that they are that way. I mean, you're right about that.

Because this, this fascist moment isn't going away. Like, it's not going away with Trump. Like, Howley or Cruz or someone else is going to try it again, and they'll have more leverage next time if you don't push back. Like the good news is Pelosi is talking about passing a new voting rights act as soon as to two senators are sworn in. So hopefully elections will be more fair and it'll be more even handed and we can downplay some of this fucking pent up aggression. It comes from having minority rule in a country that's like a fairly center left. We have a center-right government.

But like the experience of being like I might just be up front about it, my politics are more left-wing than your average Democratic congresspersons. And like the experience of being a leftist in America is your experience of being a leftist in America is your experience. constantly predicting shit that comes true, while everyone tells you you're a pessimist. And you're always right. And that's what makes us fucking annoying, right? And I'm here to tell you that if you don't push these motherfuckers back, we're going

to have fascism. We're just all, and like if I would have said the same thing 10 years ago, and everyone would have told me I was mean a negative fucking Nancy. But here we are with people storming the Capitol building in the name of installing a dictator to be mean to Mexicans. So I don't know. I'm the one who's being overly pessimistic right now,

and you're the one telling me that that That's the exact attitude that leads to this shit happening. No, I'm saying, look, you're being pessimistic in the short term. I'm saying, like, but optimistic in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the medium term. I'm saying if somebody, if we don't be harder on these motherfuckers to make them grasp the gravity of this moment, we're going to continue drifting right. Because like the, the history echoes, right? It rhymes.

And like this, this moment has happened before. Our current moment on austerity and desperation and well, inequality is manufactured, but it still exists. And what happens when societies get at this point is you have a choice between fascism or social democracy. It's what happened in the 1930s, and we ended up in a war, at a world war between the fascist and social democracy and Russia playing both switching sides in the middle of it. But like, if you don't try to install some sort of social democracy, we're going to end up fascism. It just happened. And it's like it's not a coincidence that liberals will always choose to side with right-wingers against some.

socialists. They will always do it and it always ends this way. So if you don't push Nancy Pelosi to do the responsible thing because her instincts, Democratic instincts are going to be to be more timid now because they almost lost. But the reality is they need to be more aggressive to give people better lives, to give them better reasons to vote for them. The way you beat this moment is with stuff like universal health care and a green new deal. And like, yeah, this piece in the cup is great. You like, you have to try. Republicans don't govern cowardly when they only have 50 seats. push for everything they want. They fight. So. Yeah, and I know that they go hand in hand is one and the same, but I think the more

important part and more important part of that is the second part, which is stop trying to placate Republicans. Like I've given up a few years ago now at that whole like idea of trying to reach them, reach across the aisle and work with them or whatever. Like they, how not, I mean, after eight years of Obama and then everything has happened since, how much more proof do they have to give to you that they are not interested in doing that they're not they're not going to do that no matter what we do they're not going to do that so fuck all that fuck what they want when we're in power like we just recently have found ourselves or soon will be then you got to go for it man go bigger go home like you said try to and and democratic the whole idea is that democratic policy

to make regular people's lives better, right? Well, prove that over the next four years, and maybe you'll see a shift in how people look at you in other parts of the country. You know what I mean? Like, just go for it. We workers and wages, buddy. We eat workers and wages.

Absolutely. I'll stream until they, howley's Gestapo comes and hauls me away. But, I mean, it's just like, it's fairly straightforward. Like, if the house impeaches, as soon as the two, senators are installed, they can bring it to a vote, in which case, put Republicans on the record. Make them stand up what Trump did trying to do a coup wasn't that bad. Make them vote on it. Embarrass them. Be able to make campaign ads about it.

Missouri is not exactly a swing state. He won by double digits, but fucking embarrass the shit out of him. He's a venal coward. Make it apparent to his supporters. Make them feel bad voting for him. That's what politics is. Do politics for the love of Christ. Yeah. All right. So, you know, normally we're right at where we would typically end, but we always like to take at least a couple questions or comments if we can. So let's see if we can get those in here from you guys. Producer Matt will skew them up. We don't have any issues. Tell us what you think should be the approach going forward now. Well, you think, how do you think the Democrats at large should respond to this hoarse shit that went down yesterday?

In the meantime, while we're waiting on a couple of those to come in, my sister texted me earlier right before we started. I remember my sister, page, one of our key journalists who actually broke the Dr. Dre news on the last episode, I'm excused. My sister said, this is before we even started the episode, she was just upset thinking about it, I think. She said, at the women's march, she went to the women's march in January after Trump was elected in 2017 or whatever. At the women's march, we were met with fucking assault rifles and rows of police and secret service, and they moved us back. all the way to the road just because Trump could. We were super peaceful and they had fucking bike cops and shit out there for the Trumpers. That's Sister Page with her typical brand of articulate to the pointedness.

But yeah, it goes back to what we were saying earlier. Like just the entitlement of this general group and what went down yesterday is a real thing. Yeah. Barbara Kelly says, lifelong disappointed them because they always try to placate the Republicans just stupid yes i agree with you completely and also i didn't always feel that way for the record because as a liberal that grew up in the south like i kind of was i think conditioned earlier in my adulthood i thought you had to do that like my attitude was always like i mean you you have to nothing will ever you have no choice but to try

to placate these assholes that's just how it works but yeah i i I don't believe that shit anymore and I haven't for a while now. Well, the dynamic, especially in Congress is like if you put, Democrats will have the power with the Senate and the House and the presidency, they will have the power to put bills up for votes. You can just put a bill up for vote and then buy votes, Republican votes, by making concessions once the bills introduce. The problem is they try to pre-negotiate before introducing the bill,

and the Republicans still want more concessions after the bill is introduced. And you end up with nothing. That's why Obama spent two years. trying to get a decent health care bill through. And it fell apart of the last minute. The Republicans took Congress and Obamacare had barely slid through by the skin of its teeth. And it wasn't, you know, it was like a half a loaf of what they originally wanted because they're trying to negotiate.

They wanted a bipartisan bill instead of using their 60 vote majority to pass what they wanted. And we all have super expensive health care because of it. So I'm just saying you've got to stop treating them like good faith negotiating partners until they want to come back into being part of the government. Because like basically, apparently you look at what happened yesterday and saw people objecting to the electors, even after an armed insurrection took the capital, they're not, they don't believe anything they say. They're not good faith participants in the process. They don't have ideological adjunctions to shit. They're just fucking assholes. Yeah. And I mean,

like we alluded to earlier, I really think that again, now we we have both both houses of Congress, the White House and all that, like use this time to actually push some shit through. And I think if you do that and you make healthcare easier on most Americans, you put more money in their pocket and that type of thing. I think even the ones that will still talk shit about Democrats, still, if they're, even outwardly they're doing that, I don't think they will, you know, try to launch a literal insurrection against the very idea of our existing

or whatever, at the very least in the future. Like, I think, I just don't, I don't see the losing proposition of doing something like that. Brent Winter says, what do you want Biden to do now that the Democrats have the House and the Senate? Well, that's what we were just saying. Fucking, can I, something? Yeah. Just something.

I know how that sounds, but literally some truly progressive policy push it through. I know that Obama, he had to start with Obamacare. He had to, like, start somewhere. He had to do what he could do. And I get that. But like, just something. Some kind of genuinely swore. Weeping progressive policy, make that shit happen and make it last.

And that's a good starting point for me. I mean, healthcare would be a great one to start with. But there's any number of other ones, too. Student loan debts or fucking some measure of gun control or taxing the fucking rich. That would be a great place to start. There's a lot of things. I mean, the first one I'd start with, and they already have it ready to go, is HB1 or whatever they've had for two years,

which is just the new voting rights act that should stand up to the Supreme Court scrutiny. Because if you don't fix that problem, you're all these long term, like, you text the rich because there are two main reasons that we, the American society stuns political scientists.

Like governments, societies like ours don't last very long, in two ways. One, with this degree of wealth inequality, they don't survive. And two, democracies with minority rule don't survive. Even with the 50-50 Senate

50-50 Senate, Democrats represent 40 million more people than Republicans in the Senate. That is sustainable. I mean, you probably can't fix the Senate, but you can't fix the House. You can try to make voting easier for people so it's easier for Democrats to win the House. And so right now, Democrats have to win like 56% of the popular vote to win the House typically. That's not able to be the Republicans can have a majority with 45%. They're like, that's not sustainable. It's just going to end up in riots.

Do something about the level of influx? that moneyed interest have, lobbyist and that type, big corporations, that type of thing, address the high degree of influence they can have on American politics. That would be colossal. Michelle, by the way, Dems have balls in Georgia. They didn't campaign the platform policy platforms, I would have chosen for them, but they did not run scared. They call Republicans out on their corruption, and they didn't spend their time explaining or defending themselves.

I mean, look, yeah, don't get me wrong. I mean, I think it's objective at this point, but the Democrats rose to the occasion recently and did what needed to be done to get where we needed to be as a starting point. But it's like now it's go time. You know what I mean? Now the game really starts.

And they've got to fucking do something useful with this opportunity that they have. and that'll be what really tells the tale, in my opinion. So it still remains to be seen. Obviously, great that we fucking won so much better than the alternative, but we're just getting started. They need to put Stacey A in charge of the DNC of the DCC, and they need to take her game plan and implement it first in North Carolina

because they already have the moral Monday's type type framework to go to work there. because these states are not like, they're not as red as the vote outcomes we believe. And you can, you can't win on helping people's lives. Even if like you can't win on guns and stuff in the South, you can be like, hey, do you want a league of weed and a $15 minimum wage? And they'd be like, yeah, well, shake my hand. I got your back. I'm not a demon. I came to your door and a knock on.

I'm not some pedophile, baby, baby blood drinking pedophile. Right. Let's make your life better. Absolutely. Start there. Let's make your life better. Trying to make everybody's life better. All right. Well, that's it. We're going to call it. Went a little bit over, but we're glad to hear from you guys. Thank you for joining us on this.

Dumbass Reak to End all dumbassass rap's edition of evening skews. God damn, what a wild world we live in, right? Mark, you got any closing thoughts? Buy a gun. Get some cancer. There you go. You heard from Smart Mark. Bye, Gun. And join us next Tuesday when we return January 12th for another edition of evening skews.

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