Vote Harder: 2022 Midterms Update

I would. That is how dedicated I am. I know that's everyone says that about you, Garrison, that you're always ready to vote. Oh, we have, we have, we have, we have. We have an update on the TikTok thing um which we just this this just dropped. Um TikTok Uh. There is now a new I need a new technic account launched to boost Biden with young voters. Um. It already has one hundred fans. Um. This this isn't a joke.

This is actually because that sounds like like a bad like a like a Jimmy fallon Saturday Night Live weekend update. This is because actually completely real. We have we have a government funded Biden pro Biden TikTok account as lunched and it has a hundred followers. Guys, it would be funny if like, you know, like the Gravel Institute. But good, they just steered it in really radical directions. So it did start like tweeting about Zerzon and the importance of

destroying time. The Biden TikTok account embraces ecological sabotage. I would, I would take it. I would take I would take government money if they paid me to do that, I'll say it. I'll take government money for a lot of reasons. If they paid me to make an unhinged TikTok account about how the scientists of the police, then yes, I would. I would do that. That's a fun joke for four people listening to this podcast. We're gonna tell about the

mid terms. Yeah, because look, the official stance of the mostly anarchists who make this podcast, voting is dumb. But uh, it's also bad when certain things happen electorally, like a bunch of insane fascists winning elected office. Uh. Two things can be true, especially when people are really set on killing trans people right now. Yeah, that's real problematic hashtag problematic things are gonna have It could happen as a

result of the mid terms. I think the by by far predominant media narrative is that the Democrats are heading for a shellacking. Um, now, is that actually going to happen? The short answer is, nobody knows. Because polling we should all be we should all be accepting at this point that polling is not good at its job generally. So

heads up, No one's really sure. Uh, there are certainly Number One, if this is a normal midterm election after a presidential election, Democrats should lose a not insubstantial amount of seats because that's just usually what happens. The only time it didn't was the midterm election right after nine eleven, and everyone was out of their minds at that point, so you can't really factor that one into the averages.

And nothing like nine eleven has really happened. Like the war in Ukraine is a is a whole thing, but it's also not I'm not I'm saying any evidence that it's causing any kind of like political realignment or affecting support for Joe Biden in any meaning. Everyone's still pretty economy based in terms of what they're what they claimed to be their biggest factors for voting. The war in Ukraine is a huge deal obviously, Um, we've talked about

it a lot on on our shows. But also it's it's foreigners, and Americans don't care about foreigners when it comes to voting. So look, that's just a reality. As a guy who's repeatedly trying to get Americans to care

about things happening in other countries, we we don't. UM. So, in the absence of anything that has caused that could cause some sort of massive political realignment, the most likely thing historically is that the Democrats are gonna lose control of one, maybe both houses of Congress um, and a modest amount of seats. Um. So if that happens, if it's kind of within historical dimensions, UM, then that won't be all that weird at all. Um. If it's a

huge blowout, then that's a big deal. And if the Democrats don't lose or kind of barely lose ground, then those would both be big deals for different reasons. UM. And again, no one knows what's going to happen, and no one on this podcast is going to make a prediction. We're just going to kind of try to talk about

what what is sort of evident right now. Well, you're not allowed to legally make predictions, Robert, I'm I'm not allowed to legally make tradictions, although I will make one prediction, which is that at some point, at some point, we're gonna see Joe Biden's whole ass in fifty odds. If we see the ass fifty odds, that you can see

some balls. That is. I've gone back and forth with my polling experts on this, and we're we're firm on that fifty coin flip coin flip for the coin purse, toss up, toss up, toss up for the tossing of his salad, which might be why we see his butt. Anyway, here's here first on ticket. Happen here, It could it could happen here. That could happen here. It's not impossible. Someone has a picture of Joe Biden's butt, right, it's

out there. So yeah, So for every miny terms of the House has has has all their seats go up for every two years, Uh, the Senate gets gets gets one third of seats up because they serve six year terms. Because we like having fun here. Um, yeah, so it's

it's gonna be. It's it's gonna be interesting both because yeah, I mean, obviously, obviously it's most likely that definitely Republicans will will win back a decent number of seats inside the inside the House and probably um make make the divide they're less extreme um if not actually just like take the House. Also, the Senate's obviously more more of a more of a toss up because of we're only on the Senate at the moment um, so that is definitely way more of a thing that they can totally cease.

But even if they do, season that's not actually changing much because they're not we're not We're not able to pass anything through the Senate anyway. Uh sure, So it doesn't matter because yeah, I mean, like it would only really suck if m Republicans get extreme control both the House and the Senate um. But I think that's kind of unlikely in terms of getting like total control and

then we still have executives. So it part of why it doesn't seem super likely is that, like in the last um couple of sets, in particularly terms, the Democrats lost basically all of their most vulnerable seats, and so a lot of the seats that are coming up are less vulnerable and so and that does mean that like if the Democrats lose a bunch more than again, it's a much more significant sign that we're seeing, uh, pretty

predicted potentially like pretty fashy political realignment in the United States. It's again, there's not like evidence that makes me think that's particularly likely. Um, that's just what it would mean if that were to happen. And I think probably the number one thing I would expect if there were some sort of gigantic apocle shift where the Republicans wind up with like sixty percent of the seats in Congress or something like that, Um, is they're going to try to impeach.

But like they would have to write if they won in control of both house, like they would have to try and impeach Biden because of the rhetoric. It's the bit you know, which again I don't I'm not saying I don't think that is particularly likely based on what we're seeing, but like if that happens, they're going to do that. Yeah, I Mean it's not even a prediction.

That's just like, well they've been talking about it because like because like on average, the president's party has lost about thirty thirty House seats during mid terms over the course of the last century, um and Republicans only need to gain five seats to win the chamber. But now now gaining five seats is not the same as winning five seats obviously, Yes, like the party needs to needs at least two eighteen seats to win control of the House.

So Republicans are actually they have to flip. They have to they have to do the flipping um and they have to flip actually a good number of them because again the seats that they do, the seats that that Democrats currently have are all like pretty firmly democrat um. So there's there is there is less toss ups. And the other thing that's kind of interesting is that the redistricting process that has been going on in the past bit has seemed to kind of favor, uh favor Democrats.

So if it's interesting, if you want to have a good time, go go look at what go look at what the Democrats did to the Illinois map. It is hilarious.

Between like, there is a district that is like it starts in the like in the north in the south side of the south side of Chicago, and the district ends like literally like like nine tenths of the way down the state, like a tiny town in seven Illinois, and it's like, it's really funny because like like eighty percent of what was going on there was like Solendinois like elected a Nazi to the House. The Democrats were like,

how how can we Well, it's funny. Is also said they didn't even do the optimal jerrymander because their cowards and fools. But yeah, like this is you know, okay, like the maps are always constantly jerrymandered, and part of the reason the Democrats have been just like getting smashed for the last decade is that what they lost a dozen ten election they lost control of like the gerrymandering, and so that like fucked them for like a decade and they've gotten to a position that is slightly better

for them. But you know, again, the like the important thing to actually take away here is it like basically every like every every election that happens at the US on like for the House is rigged like before it starts like at least partially because jay mandering is just legal and you could do it. I mean, it's amazing to me that they're they're connecting these little rural areas to the south side of Chicago, because and I'm sure you're aware of this, Christopher, it's the baddest part of town.

And and if you go there, you just better be aware of a man named Lee Roy Brown. Now you know Lee Red Brown. It stood about six ft four um. All those downtown ladies called him tree top lever. All the men just called him, sir, you know, bad, badly road Brown, baddest man in the whole, baddest man in the whole. Damn. This is important electoral stuff, Sophie. He could win. He's badder than old King Kong and meaner

than a junkyard dog. So all of so U about sixty one house races are seen to be viewed as competitive out of four hundred thirty five um. But out of those amazing democracy yeah so and and and out of those sixty one, only about sixteen are actually kind of viewed as toss ups at the moment, with seven of those seats currently helped by Republicans, eight of them being helped with Democrats, and one new seat in the

in the state of Colorado. UM. So yeah, Like it does seem like in order for Republicans to really get more controlled the House, they have to actually flip more traditionally democratic uh territories, so like they're kind of they have to do most of that the actual work here, um to actually get those things flipped. But again I don't I don't trust democrats ability to be able to hold on to what they have anyway, So who knows. Yeah,

I mean, it's it's one of those things. There's a lot of talk about like how incompetent the Democrats are, And there's a pretty interesting article that dropped, Oh gosh, where was it about how millennial support for Democrats is like at its lowest point in recent memory. Yea millennial here it's because they don't do anything. It's because they say they're going to do a number of very popular

things and then do not do them. Again, the people who Gerryman did all these districts, and as a general rule, just the data we have on how mid terms seem to go all factors in the fact that that young people don't vote, you know. Um, so the fact that the Democrats are worse than normal with youth may not actually have a huge impact on the mid terms at this state especially. Can Again, there's not as many, at least based on the polling we have, which is again imperfect,

doesn't seem like there's a tremendous amount of super competitive districts. No, and it does seem to be the group of people that will be the most interesting deciding factor right now is boomer women seems to be the one are actually they're going. I don't like that boomers are allowed to vote. Get him out of there. Get him out of there. On on that note, should we take a quick little addie break. You know who else doesn't want you to vote?

It's the Washington State Patrol, the oligarchs who support this podcast. We're back and we're again talking about the elections in the South side of Chicago, and there's a lot of reasons to wonder how this is going to go. And I just want to point out that Leroy Brown keeps a thirty two guns in his pocket for fun and a razor in issue, which should be factored in when you're thinking about, you know, how things might go down on election day. Thank you, thank you for that for

that critical analysis from Robert evans Um. Yeah really really on the cusp of there. Thank you. Yeah, it's uh, we are we are we are lucky to have such an academic mind on the pod. I say that a lot, but I'm I'm glad someone else is. Finally, Uh, should we talk uh Senate Senate seats that are potentially going to flip even though Garrison doesn't want to. Yeah, I read the article and I didn't I found it kind of boring and I didn't find them to say anything

super interesting. Um, but yes we can. So one of the one of the ones we got here is in Pennsylvania. Is that the one that's open. It is the one that is open. Um. So yeah, this is uh the see the seat the seat opened up when the Republican Senator Pat too Many good for him for having a funny name, announced that he would not be announced that he would not be having he would not be running

for re election. So so yeah, there's the lieutenant governor is running in the Democratic primary and raising a good good deal of money. Um, that's cool. Yeah, it's a it's a Yeah, it's a Trump has a Trump has a has a has has stepped in to to fight between between the two the two uh, the two candidates which we have David David McCormick, which is a former hedge fund manager and his Republican opposer is a friend of the pod Dr Memas. Oh yeah, I love that. I love that I have to care about a fight

between doctor Oz and a hedge fund manager. Awesome. And do you want to guess who Trump endorsed between the hedge fund manister and the and the good doctor, It's got to be doctor Oz. Yes, of course it is. They let Doctor Oz speak at Sea Pack so immediate, which is funny because the hedge fund guy specifically went to Marlago to to like help get Trump's support, um, and then Trump endorsed the endorse good off was he was he like? Was he like, hey, like, what's your

TV ratings? I don't know if you you don't have a t like you were not? Oh no, no, no. Trump is not a dumb man. He's just a very focused one and the only thing he has focused on is the same thing that Dr Oz is good at, which yes, getting um. So yeah. It's It's seemed to be kind of a toss up between these two Republican candidates. Both both are both are pretty wealthy, Both are spending millions and millions and millions of dollars um and it's

it's it is. It is expected to be the most expensive race in the whole country because of the hedge fund guy, because of Dr Oz And then then the one Democrat Lieutenant Governor John fetterman Um who seems to who is raising a lot of money for on on on the the from the Democratic establishment. So yeah, um, that's that's the metal head, right. I don't know, I don't know. I want to talk about Ohio for a second, because there's been some stuff out of there that is

it is because it is also open. Yeah, so it's open. And the guy he's running on the Democratic side is Tim Ryan, who's like a weirdo and like it's sort of been like on the right wing the Democratic Party for a long time. But like so Tim Brian's doing this like it's being called economic populism. Oh where okay, yeah, so let's let's out of the Yeah. So so let's let's let's let's let's let's read some Ryan quotes. China. It's definitely China. One word China. It's US versus China.

This is this is his his campaign basically is lyrical genius. What are you talking about? I mean, I gotta say it seems very hinged. For one, Yeah, super hinged. It's an interesting thing because it's like, Okay, so he's trying to do the like we're gonna we're gonna do that kind of populism. We're talking about how China is like

taking jobs away from the rest belt. It's also funny because he's against Medicare for all, like so like he's like he's like not like he's not actually like like like on the left aning seriously, but you know, and there's there's this whole thing like he's he's running as a NAFTA, which is interesting because like you know if in terms of populism, like Obama did run on that, like Obama ran on get on on being against NAFTA.

And this is part of how we just like absolutely claw Bard's uh John McCain, but like you know, the Democrats everyone literally never do anything about that. But like, yeah, you know, but there's there's the there's this whole sort of factor here where Bryan's big thing is he's anti China, and he's anti China. He he tried to be the House speaker a mouthful times. Yeah, and there's just you know the thing that's interesting about it is is so he's getting a lot of support for the like he

looks so Asian American groups in Ohio. We're like, hey, what the funk are you doing? And he was just like I yeah, I don't care um and just kept

doing it. And and it's interesting because there's this sort of like he's getting a lot of support from like Republicans for this, Like you'll there's there's been a lot of columns from sort of Republican columnists who are like, wow, I'm pro free trade, but also like this whole opposing China thing is good, and I think it's there there's an interesting dynamic going on here where you have this like that this is a very very old tradition in American I guess you could call it American labor of

there being this kind of like, well, okay, so the solution to all of reconic problems is that China is taking our jobs away. I mean, like you can see this like literally in the eight hundreds, this was happening. And you know what happened in the eight hundred was that they ethnically cleansed the entire West coast and like most of the the sun Bolt States yeah, so like that, Yeah, you know, a lot of stas mining going on. The Yeah, this is they just like ethnically cleansed all the Asian

people out. And you know, this is I think worrying in a lot of ways. It's the Democrats so far haven't really gone as hard on this as they were going in. But this kind of stuff gets really really bad, really quickly. And you know, okay, like the worst the anti aition violence has been largely colinivirus stuff. But like if you go back to the eighties when this exact same thing was happening with Japan, that got really really

bad very quickly. People got murdered. Um, yeah, a lot of psychocrip and books were written with blots that are very racist now in retrospective, and you know, and I think I think it's important to remind people that, like, you know, like, yeah, they're like there there were a lot of jobs that got moved from the US to China, and that happened because corporations were trying to find a where we're where we're you know, like this this is the thing that corporations did not like the Chinese people.

And the other part of the reason it happened was that the Chinese government fucking murdered, like literally, like just machine guns a bunch of trade unionists outside of Tieneman, and you know that, like that that had the effectors just like shattering whatever sort of left of the Chinese organization,

the Chinese working class. And so the factory worker in China who is making like if they're lucky, maybe like sixteen dollars a year, is not your enemy, despite what fucking Tim Ryan and all these assholes are are trying to tell you. It's that's it's just it's just it's it's not true. And the reason they're doing this is because they're trying to get you to not look at the people who are actually stealing all your money. So he also seems pretty pro cop. Yeah he sucks. Oh,

the Democrats are all pro cop. Now we have completely turned turned around on that one. They were only anti cop for eleven minutes. In what everyone was was scared that things were going to go Minneapolis in a lot more places. The in that eleven minutes was when Nancy Polis that eleven minutes ruled, though not that part of it, but a lot of parts of that part. That part when when when the CEO of Target had to come out and be like, it's cool if people, Yeah, that

was maybe the peak, you know. And I will say this if if you if you want that back, you can do it again. You just have to you just have to burn a bunch of police stations and riot and lute things. So yeah, someone that that's a thing that could happen and if it were could happen here, has happen here. That is the bit. I hope that Georgia doesn't flip. Yeah, let's let's talk about let's talk about let's talk about Georgia. Talk about Georgia, because yeah,

we got Raphael Uh that's what. Yeah, is it running for his first full term after winning the special election last year. UM, so yeah, he's obviously trying to trying to, like since since Biden barely barely won Georgia in the in the last election, trying to kind of ride off of that that energy. But Biden's approval everywhere nationally, but in Georgia his approval is taken quite the nose dive um with like only like saying he they approve of Biden's performance on the job, um and then on the

on the Republican side. We got the guy leading the race is a formal former and NFL running back, Herschel Walker. Um so he he has he has, he has Trump's endorsement. Um so he's trying to trying to run off that. But he's he's pretty new, So it's kind of he's on, he's more, he's more, he's it's it's unclear because he doesn't have a lot of political background, so who knows

what's gonna what's gonna, what's gonna happen there? Um. Well, and it's also one of the reasons why we're not one is that while as has been shown, people in his district aren't big fans of Biden, they just really

were tired of Donald Trump. So it is kind of a question as to like, well, what is the degree to which trump endorsement's got a matter a ton in this because the fact that they're now don't like Biden very much does not necessarily mean they're less exhausted at the thought of a Trump type guy coming in again. So another and another rice it's open is actually North Carolina,

um which is which which is intriguing? Um So that's uh, why, well, North Carolina has always had a pretty a reasonably prominent left, Like it gets kind of like loved in by Democrats, is like a right wing state, but it's not. I mean, there's certainly strong elements of that. There's a lot going on in North Carolina. Yeah. I mean the person that they're they're trying to run is uh is a Cherry Beasley, which is the first black woman to serve as a

chief justice on the state Supreme Court. Um. So she will probably when the primary Republicans are still flip flopping between their Trump back to candidate UM and the former governor Pat mccruary. UM. So it's that's that's still still kind of retiring, is it is it? Uh? Yeah, Richard Burr is retiring Republican Richard. So yeah, it seems like Republicans don't really think Cherry Viasley is going to be much of a threat. Um. And again Biden's appropriating is

also nose diving at around UM. So it's it's the Democrats they can just hopefully hopefully wish that there's because of the vote is so split on the on the Republican side, if they can stoke stoke, stoke divisions there and just go spy, but they don't seem to be doing much much work in North Carolina actually in terms of trying to like a gain ground. So yeah, yeah, yeah, it's because again, like the primary is going to be in May, so it's there's there's enough time to get

support behind one Republican candidate. So let's see. I don't I think that's all of the ones that are open races. But we also got more more stuff like in like a Nevada, Wisconsin, Arizona, Florida, Florida. But oh yeah, flow Ride. I won a twenty two in the Eurovision Awards representing San Marino. Back in it's Rubio seat. That it is Rubio. Yes, that would be so fun. I would like I do enjoy the thought of bad things happening tomorrow. That would

be so fun. Yeah. Currently Rubio is leading in the polls, but it's not it's not uh, it isn't above it is so it is, it's it's pretty, it's still it's it's close. But I'm not gonna get let down by Florida. I refuse never expect good things from Florida or Texas. Yeah, that is that is the general rule. And never count out North Carolina. Uh yeah, sure, as a Texan, do count out Texas. Look if it happens, if and it's good that that'll be lovely, but don't don't hinge your

mental health on it. Well, um, do you know what? You should hinge your mental health on the products and services that support this podcast? That is right, Robert, You guys a little bit too literal to our major advertiser, Garrison. That's why I did it. I also hope Rubio gets kicked. Sophie, Oh, welcome back. We're talking about the thing. I was just gonna make threats of violence against an last sitting representative. But that is one of our favorite things, isn't It

is one of our favorite things. That's why we're launching a new podcast, the Actionable Threats against Congressman Cast. Do we know anything about the person who is running against Rubia? Do they have a chance? Do they have a chance? That is a good question to so, probably not. But because you can't rely on Floridas val val Val Demmings

is waging the fight against against Rubio. Um, and uh, it looks like the funding is actually pretty pretty pretty similar in terms of both having around twenty million dollars in funding. Um, but there is a lot of other Democratic challengers. Uh, there's but I mean the Demmings is the one that's going to do it, but there's a shocking amount of others. Like there's still like other millions of dollars getting spent on other challengers which are not

going to succeed. Again, great, great, great way to do democracy. Yeah, we really have it locked down. Um. It is cool that Santa Claus is running for governor of Alaska and see they have a first past the post system. I think he's running for governor. Yeah, Santa Claus is. Yeah, there's a I who's the mayor of the North Pole, which is a town in Alaska, who legally changed his name to Santa Claus. That's funny. You know, he's a big Bernie supporter. That is that? Okay, that's pretty rad.

It is pretty too, because I know Santa Claus has been doing more more acting recently. So yes, I mean, I can't wait to see the new crash More film. I'm pretty excited about as well. Vote for Santa, vote for dun le Vy, vote for Santa. Yeah. So what do we what do we do we? The other thing I wanted to mention is that. Um, is that in terms of like, you know, the other recurring bit we've been having is, uh, people thinking that elections aren't actually real. Um,

A fun bit. So we have only forty seven percent of Republicans are confident that the midterms will be conducted fairly and accurately. Um. So that's less than half. That's that you know, what that is is a recipe for stability. That's less that have compared to seventies six percent of Democrats who think they will be fair and accurate. Um. Yeah.

But also it's not going to be a problem. Also, Republicans are more sure that everyone who wants to vote will be able to They just don't think the votes will be counted verse, but they think everyone who has access to voting is can do it easily, when as Democrats say that voting access is more of an issue that actually could impact elections. Um, which is you know,

if you actually look at stuff, is actually true. Um. Yes, yeah, it's that we have we have one of the like the fact that our elections are ran by volunteers is like one of the most absolutely bad ship things on Earth.

It's it's low key and existential threat to everybody listening to this, Yeah, and I mean it's and you know, and this is one of the things I would say about sort of electoralisms, and like every every single you probably won't hear about it that much this year because it's not a presidential election, but every single time there's there's a there's a national presidential election, there's a bunch of stories about how a bunch of people waited in

lines for fucking seven hours because there weren't enough stations, they didn't set them up in the right places, and nothing ever will literally will ever be done about this. This has been like I I remember, I remember stories about this when I was like ten, and it is. It will never change, nothing will ever be done about it. Every single time that happens, people say that they're going to do stuff about it, and they don't. And yet

so that's that's fun. The elections are kind of pre rigged already, further fun, kind of staddy things to help with, to help with trying to you know, get the temperature of the room. So about half of white voters say that they would vote for a Republican candidate say that they will vote Democrat. Uh, I know, I talked I mentioned this briefly of women aged fifteen up say that the economy is not working well, um, and that's going

to strongly impact their their electoral choices. And this is what a lot of people are kind of looking towards in terms of indications of how they're going to vote and how results could be in the end. Is like you know, older, older women who are gen X and UM and UM and boomer women are seemed to be kind of the people to go after at the moment um. So, yeah, say that they don't like the economy and it's not

working well. That's up from seventy Sorry, that's up from um and it's it's most of its around like day most of it's around like day to day budgets. Uh. So that's that's that's good. That's uh. That's an interesting thing in terms of how how propaganda can be shifted around that we know we've even seen that around like the war in Ukraine with like with like gas prices and stuff. We have in terms of back to how kind of looking at looking at people of what race

is generally turning towards what what thing? Yeah, so over half say they do Republicans about a third say they vote for Democrats if if if they are white. On contrast, we got like a larger majority of black voters saying that they prefer the Democratic candidates seven percent for Republican. Asian voters prefer Democrat over Republican uh from about like a tweeter one ratio, which is a seven and Hispanic voters also favored Democrats at about Republicans have about eight

percent UM. And the other interesting and other interesting stat pulled from a Pew Research Center is that seventy percent of Republicans agree that party control of of of the House and Senate is an important factor, but only sixty percent of Democrats believe that, So that means of Democrats don't think that the House and Senate's important um which is a little wacky, which is also a down from seven points because uh in in the same in this under the same question, sixty seven percent of of of

Democrats said that they valued House, House and Senate control, so that is so that that is down by almost ten percent. Meanwhile, the Republican percentage points of that question have has turned it upwards, which makes sense because of you know, whoever's affecting who's ever in the executive branch, we'll we'll say, oh yeah, it's less important for the House and Senate, right, so Trump say it's it's less

important now to them, it's more important, you know. And I also think with the Democrats there's an angle of this which is like, okay, so we gave them power for two years and they did kind of nothing. Yeah, like it feels like nothing like they well, actually that's that's not true. They gave they gave police more money. They gave they gave the Pentagon lots and lots of more money, the most about of money ever, largest budget ever,

largest ice budget. With global warming, we're gonna need more ice, y'all, like, come on, come on, uh huh. I'm sure that was it. That was the joke. That's the joke. Temperature joke, yes, I underst and it's also a climate refugee joke though. Oh double double meanings, so we call it double on. Tom, got that that's how you pronounced the French garrison. But yeah, it's only se of female voters age have decided who they're going to vote for in November. Um, so that

is wacky. With so many good choices, how could they not know. So, yeah, they're really they're really really trying to pull from there. And where do women over fifty spend a lot of time on? Typically face Facebook dot com. Um, so yeah, Facebook is Facebook and the GOP are really trying to do a lot of stuff to influence elections right now. As we detailed in our last episode around around Facebook and the GOP funding all of the anti

TikTok stuff and funding all the pro Facebook stuff. They really want people to be on Facebook because it turns out that's how they spread their propaganda the best. Um and yeah, specifically with women age over fifty, that's like the prime demographic for Facebook. So neat uh yeah, anyway, that is a that is a lot of the h a lot of the election notes that I had because again I am as I keep up with all of

the electoralisms. Basically every day I wake up, every morning, I go to I go to that one polling website, um, and I find you text the word vote every single morning. Always, always here's what's weird? Always using a different phone, tell us, tell us the truth. But yeah, that it's not that they're a pholster. It's that one day Nate Silver woke up with a splitting headache and Garrison leapt fully formed out of a hole in the side of his skull.

But yeah, I mean in terms of all of the anti trend stuff that it's actually worth focusing on obvious the Ice really really depressing in terms of by the getting an office and giving Ice millions and millions of more dollars. You're like, great, um, but you know, it seems like if more Democrats are in office right now, it seems like that will make life slightly easier for

trans people. So that is it's you know, it's the thing you always have to accept with our democracy, which is that it's foolish to say that the elections don't matter, because they do because, for example, price caps on insulin or not passing more laws to make life a nightmare

for trans people really does matter. But certain horrible things like the continued dominance of extractive industries that are pushing us towards climate disaster or uh, the expansion of the car Serile state, and militarized policing in many different forms, in the militarization of the border that's gonna keep right on trucking no matter who's in charge, and the elections don't matter for that so far. Maybe someday they will, but I'd have to see it happen, you know, I do.

I do. Got good news for you, though, is that the White House is launching a new TikTok campaign and it already has a hundred followers. After like, why don't you why don't you refresh that TikTok aarson, Let's see how much they've gained since we started this episode. I want to see what they're up to give me because I'm curious if I've gained more followers on Twitter on TikTok at this period of time. I'm checking, I'm checking, I'm checking. All right, here we go, I'm going to

do it. Um. The the account is called building Back Together, so already pretty catchy. Um. How do they keep making these phrases worse? I know they cannot. Oh, they are actually up since so the the last news article I looked at, they had ninety four followers. Now they're up to a thousand and eight hundred. Okay, so no, thanks for going better, Biden an apology. I think I think we got this. I think we got it. This is

a good side anyway. I mean, there's a good there's an article about the uh, the millennial whisper or something like, oh wait no, sorry, it's DIM's turn to gen Z whisper to show her up support. An article from a day ago from Real Clear Politics. Um, that's that's that's that's fun. You know what, you know what Biden has to do. Bide has to get Mr Beast on the job and start making those politic and then I think, I think, I think, I think we'll have this one

in the bag. Um yeah, I mean, Garrison, just based on my knowledge of you, the main thing that Joseph Biden could do to to prop up gen Z support is to just start air dropping hormones uh to whoever wants them. I think air dropped hormones an air dropped money, it would be the way to go. You could appeal to the right by giving them h g H. There's a lot of options here, Like, it doesn't have to

be just one. Everybody likes some kind of hormone, you know, hormones for all, hormones for all steroids and estrogen for everybody. Well yeah, I mean like in terms of things that Biden could do to actually gains to actually get stuff to do get to like get enough support, is that he can start doing executive orders that actually do are that actually are helpful. Um, he could, they we could, we could. They can really start rallying around the marijuana

legalization bill. Um, Like they're like, hey, if you vote for Democrats in the Senate, we can pass this thing. But we need to have more Democrats in the side. Like they could do that, they could campaign, they could actually do things, but they're not. He could, he could. He could order the d e A to reschedule cannabis. That is a thing that the president can do. Um. He can do more stimulus checks. He can do a

whole bunch of stuff. He could forgive a bunch of student loan that just honestly, making tangible progress on federal decriminalization of Marina and forgiving a bunch of student debt uh in the time left before the mid terms would be enough that it would be a lot harder for people to say Joe Biden didn't do anything. There is ways to counter the arguments people are going to make the show, and by god, some of them are easy.

Pot is a real, real free free space. I most of my family are like super right wing and absolutely none of them support marijuana being illegal anymore. Most of them now smoke pot like it's like, you can make this happen. Joe, Unfortunately, the presidents of the United States is the man who wrote, who wrote planned Colombia, so oh just parts of it. Come on. He claimed responsibility for all of it. He did, he shire, he really did. Know we're talking about it's super funny. Um, not about

all the deaths, because a lot of people died. But so that is our that's our little rundown on the terms as it stands at this moment, they're still is primaries happening. Obviously that's gonna keep going. But yeah, if if if, if, if, if the Democrats actually want to stay in office, which I'm not serious they actually do, but but if they do, they could actually just start

doing things, um, things that are not hard. That would that would that would that would actually, you know, if you want young people to vote for you, maybe you could give them drugs, whether that be estrogen or weed, and that might be excited Joe Biden's famous saying vote out with your scrots out. It could happen. Here is a production of cool Zone Media. For more podcasts from

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