One , two , three , four . Hey , this is D9 .
This is Carol , this is Ty .
And you're listening to the Pardon the Insurrection podcast , where we will let a naysayer know about the fucking insurrection on January 6th . Speaking of which currently recording this on January 6th , I feel like it is a personal day for me and obviously a day that we will always remember , never forget .
I mean , people will say that it was a day that wasn't quite as serious as 9-11 , because obviously far more people died , but my take on that , as always , has been that , no matter how many planes been lied and crashed well , how many buildings been lied and crashed planes into , we were never going to lose our democracy .
But on January 6th , if them fuckheads had ignored the black police officer and been slightly less racist , they were a couple of steps away from entering the Senate chambers and murdering half of our legislative branch , presumably ending the transfer of power from one president to another , leading us into a dictatorship .
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Makes sense to me . Makes sense to me .
Oh , for God's sake , colin is going to like he's going . We're not even going to get to the 2024 election because Colin is going to shoot us for butchering butchering ads for his company . So again , as you're well aware , it's January 6th . At this rate , you'll probably be listening to this podcast on January 7th and you will have enjoyed a day of festivities .
Clan , you were a six is I like to refer to it . Never forget other people might , might , typically refer to this day going forward as white Juneteenth Lord . Yeah , no , not ideal , but I do feel like if we , if , if President Biden ever sides into law , white History Month , I feel like that celebration , quote unquote , will begin on January 6th .
It'll go from January 6th in roll right into Black History Month , because , of course yeah , these jokes is dark , I'm sorry .
It's been a white history month is going to go from January 6th to Christmas . That sounds appropriate , right , yeah , well , yeah . Sorry Right , just sorry , that's just that's for the whole wins . White History Month .
Appropriate , all the months , I suppose , but yeah , already we have all the months .
OK , fair enough .
Fair enough , you already have all the months . So it's been three long years since , since the day when Trump brought his mob to the Capitol , sent them down to the Capitol building and had them storm the building and attempt to stop Congress from certifying certifying the election for Biden's electoral college win . It has been a fucking road . Let me tell you .
I just it's been exhausting . It's weird , like I mean , on the one year anniversary it was like gosh , it's been one year . This anniversary I mean it's the third , but it's more anxiety written for me and I don't know if it's because so much is at stake this year , like on the first year , and it was like man , we made it through that first year .
In the second it's , the danger is so palpable at this point it's absolutely palpable .
It is Well , I understand your anxiety , because we are currently , at this point , as close to having yet another insurrection as we were from the first one . Yeah first anniversary , because the thing is like having President Biden sued us in 2021 . Oh my God , like irreplaceable . He's an irreplaceable person and irreplaceable president , given the circumstances .
But you felt like because the election , the next election , was three years away , you had time to breathe and kind of regain your composure .
Yes , my time ended . I don't like it .
Yeah , where'd the fucking time go ? Where did it go ? And we .
It seemed like four years was such a long way away .
It was . It's simultaneously been an eternity and it's evaporated overnight .
Yeah , because it's like us never really getting a chance to breathe . We it feels it was never ending . We , we it's just it's been . 2020 has been the longest .
Four years of your life . Yes , thank you . I haven't had any severe physical or emotional trauma in my life , and I guess I'm lucky to say that because I'm aware that a number of other people deal with all kinds of terrifying , horrifying circumstances or just stressful circumstances .
But I can only imagine , after our nationwide experience with a global pandemic that nearly ended the world economy and took millions of lives , combined with the fact that our democracy was at stake , combined with the fact that , even after winning an election and saving democracy , we experienced the first attempt by a sitting president to in the transfer of power from
one president to another , like just in the fallout there of , like the collective trauma from that we all share now . But , having been through this experience , I just like maybe I don't understand fully , but I do have a grasp on what it must be like for someone to have experienced severe trauma in their life , because I find the time no longer means anything .
Yes , that's true .
Like days , weeks , months . They kind of just all blur together .
Yep and now there's like .
So , looking back on things in my life personally and I don't know if this is like this for everyone , it might just be me there's like before 2020 and there's after 2020 .
And before 2020 , I'm like I remember this thing happened at this specific time and then this thing happened , and then after 2020 is like everything happened all at once $2 cash Congratulations .
To be a Nielsen household . Huh , nice Nielsen , the ratings people .
Oh , did they cut you a royalty's check ?
Well , I got two bucks for my participation . However , in 1997 , I was given $5 .
Oh , fucking congratulations .
More money . What the ?
fuck is this More money ?
than you're making on this podcast Inflation .
Wait , are you saying that there is no inflation ? We have actually default ?
I don't know Something happened to that other $3 . I mean , I thought this is now an investigative journalism podcast .
Two ones , two ones . Where had ties $3 gone when ? Happened Did it happen to me , biden ? Was it greed ? Did Biden do it ?
Yeah , yeah , I blame Biden for this . Yeah , no , sorry audience . I know I'm aware Audio medium only and we're doing visual jokes . I was holding up $2 , you're like I can't see that shit .
She mentioned $2 .
She held it up for us and mouthed in silence as I was talking . Anyway , but yes , back to more important things . Time , wait a light in the mood . There it's been . Look , we've had a lot .
It's just a lot crammed into three years we started this podcast in 2022 , the advent of the January 6th committee hearings , and I didn't know what we would do with this thing . I was like , well , this feels like the perfect time to kind of reiterate what's going on with the January 6th committee .
We didn't understand at that time that the eventual conclusion of the legal process as it pertains to Mayor Garland's Department of Justice , and the eventual appointment of a special counsel and multiple indictments and multiple jurisdictions for multiple sets of crimes , along with multiple state indictment I mean actually , to be fair , I did actually believe all of that was
coming , but if I had sat down and just like explained in detail that I believe we'd be in a similar position to where we are now , at that time no one would have believed me , because I tried to fucking tell people on Twitter and all they did was shit on me for a year and a half . I'm sorry .
Well , yeah , I mean , I guess when you get to that place of like ongoing normalized trauma , it's hard to want to believe , it's hard to believe anything good will happen . But people become like outrage and fear , addicts and just like I don't know .
I feel like they just have to .
They have to be angry .
Yeah , they have to be 24 , seven .
Everything is anger . They're , they're addicted .
Yeah , the thing is even when they get like the resolution that they , you know , were complaining about not getting well , because that would like solve the problem and alleviate the anger , they have to move the goalpost to create something new to be outraged about .
Because I remember it vividly , I kept telling people I was like , hey , man , the OJ is looking at this . You got to give him some time . Like it's going to be a process for a number of reasons and you know , of course there's also like there's fallout just from having Trump in office for four years .
And you know , one of the issues with that is he got to feel the Department of Justice with fucking cronies and we don't know what kind of fucking wrenches bar bill bar threw into the machine to . You know , fuck this up for Biden's incoming attorney general . And people didn't listen to me and I told y'all like of course I was correct about that too .
It's like Pat D on the D patting himself on the back podcast day , I guess , or something .
But no , because we can't reach you , sweetie .
Look also yet another side , tangent , like this podcast is a lot different now than it would have been . And I started earlier before people on Twitter just beat like they beat it out of me the fact that there was like so many things that I want to talk about that people just wouldn't believe me or wouldn't hear .
So now , just don't you just missed out on what could have been a totally different , probably more pleasurable experience . Anyway , that aside , there's been a lot of fucking consequences .
I think again , if you go back to March , april , may , june , july of 2021 , when the investigation was just first getting underway , really as it pertains to Trump and his insiders and again , I know you want to blame Mayor Garland for that . Mayor Garland , it's largely not his fault that things got delayed for a number of reasons .
It took him forever to get confirmed because of the 50-50 split in the Senate and Republicans had enough . I mean , because of the 50-50 split . They were just able to just put up my just I don't know . They put up barriers to making that process run more smoothly . So he was confirmed in March .
He couldn't get his deputies confirmed for more months after that , trump sold overs . He's getting briefings from dudes who aren't even telling him all the fucking facts , just like slowing the investigation down .
Once those dudes got up out of there and Garland got his people in , this shit got rolling and they were seizing phones , they were seizing devices , they were looking at Trump's fucking Twitter account . They were getting these emails from people .
They were on that shit and by the time the January 6th committee rolled around , it just so happened to coincide with the public hearings . Just so happened to coincide with the public steps Mayor Garland's office was taking .
And then from there , just like again , do you guys remember when we started this podcast and we were talking about , hmm , I wonder what we're going to do when , like , the January 6th committee hearing ?
Right , little did we know I mean . But look at Allison , I mean the Mueller report is how old and smaller , yeah .
I like Mueller too .
Yeah , even if it's quote , unquote , not how they pronounce the name is this because you're like a fan of Ferris Bueller's Day off , so you're like no .
I don't even think I've seen that movie .
That isn't possible , that's not even .
Well , I mean , but she still has the name and it's still you know yeah , still still relevant .
I mean , it's a period of time and definitely in folks , 2018 .
I think what we ? We can thank Republicans , but because they never let shit go , you know we can keep going on and on and they're still , you know , insurrecting . You know Trump is always talking about the , the Mueller , mueller , Mueller .
It's , it's OK , just say Russia investigation .
Yeah , it helps . I can't even say it like it's OK , mueller , mueller .
Can you say dollar ? It's just like that .
It's that with the dollar , but I'm looking at the .
Mueller of it and the way the letters are it by I know it just makes you want to say mule , but like that's not , it's just not it . Remember all right , x files Mulder is like that , but without the D . Anyway , you're absolutely right . Like it , not only do Republicans keep doing shit , but like just the shit that Trump was into while he was in office .
The amount of crimes were so ever fucking expansive that just cleaning up after him is like , even though he's not in office . It's just an all consuming process . There's just new shit every day .
Every day now and then as soon as something comes out about him , he knows his people don't read , so he just goes on TV and one of his rallies and he'll go . He goes , boy , all that money Biden had in his Chinese bank account .
Yeah .
And I'm sitting here and I'm like yeah , all right .
So what Ty is referring to is House Democrats released a report released a report earlier this week that revealed that Trump made over eight million dollars just from foreign governments alone while he was in office , and that's not the totality of the money that he received from foreign governments .
That is according to one percentage of the income that they were able to investigate . Of that , eight point five million dollars came from foreign governments , largely from you know countries we wouldn't necessarily consider our allies Saudi Arabia , qatar , russia , china . Yeah , you get it , yep .
So , of course , like you said , ty , the GOP , they don't read , so he can just get on TV and say fucking anything and they'll believe it without fact checking anything .
And then they repeated this cannon over and , over and over . Now we know that he had a bank account with like four million dollars in China for that secret Chinese bank account . We're not even talking about that . And we know that you know TV . What is it that like the patents , when he admitted to having these patents or trademarks like 116 . Vanka ?
Yeah yeah , she had a Vanka , not .
Ivanka Trump himself .
Oh , he has Chinese trademarks . It was like a month or two ago .
Yeah , but see , that's what I'm saying . It barely made a blip , like I can't use things , and then you know , and then it's onto the neck because on the scale of Trump fuckery , that's an angel , like he is not corrupt . If that's the only thing like so much awful stuff , then it's like man , you know so he had some . You know so he had some trademark .
There's such a deluge of shit that Trump gets into that we like it never , like no one specific thing ever gets to register . But then , like Republicans , can just make up one thing and then hammer it over and over , like accusing Biden of being corrupt for loaning his son money to , for a down payment for a quarter and his brother .
but they talk about okay , they go on and on about millions and or billions of dollars from communist China , but the only . But we don't know the names of these quote , unquote , shell companies . They've never even mentioned one .
They ain't got a single receipt , not a single receipt , not a wire transfer , not nothing .
And that's the . That's the that's because that's what they want to .
Yes , it's called counter programming , Right ? You , you ignore what your side is doing and then you only in . Look first of all , before I even explain that like it's going to sound like hey , isn't that what ? Like the Democrats do ? Don't they do the same thing ? No , because you know there is corruption in the Democratic Party .
But the thing is , when the shit happens , like Bob , and then there's with the gold bars , were like great , arrest his ass .
Yeah , yeah , we're like Andrew Cornwall's got to go like yeah exactly .
We make senators resign and shit in the Democratic Party . So all this shit happens on the right but the right wing propaganda outlets . What they do is just they ignore that and then they create these fake or phony plot lines that they can just hammer and send that . And this is not for the public , the masses per se , like the general public .
this is for their , their particular viewership , like to keep them distracted from the scandals in their own party and to have them focus on what they perceive to be scandals by the Democratic Party . And it just the only way to keep up appearances in the Republican Party is a lot of their viewers .
Because if they tell their viewers the truth like I don't know , like Republican supporters would lose their mind if they actually learn the fucking facts . And we know this because , you know , on the internet , even though Twitter isn't real life , it does reflect some minute portion of the population's thinking .
And like we can't even get people like I'm arguing with morons about how January 6 was an insurrection three years after we watched the shit happen live on television .
They sit and they just play this . Oh yeah , it was a it's like dude . We all watched the shit .
We can pull up the video Like seriously . Mitch McConnell got on TV said it was an insurrection .
In the same for like Vivek Ramos , Swami and oh .
Yeah , vivek on like the . What was it the next day it might have been later that week when he was on Fox News and talking about this was a horrible event , he cried and shit . And now today he's like happy entrapment day .
Yeah , I guess they overestimated the patriotism and Just goodness of Trump supporters , because they , I guess those elected officials thought that their best bet was to condemn the events of the day .
And maybe some of there was some sincerity and fear mixed in there , maybe , but it seemed like they Mitch McConnell and his ilk Thought that they would do better by denouncing those events . And then they got there . You know , I guess they were still under control .
I don't know if they didn't know there was compromise , compromise on them , or they just I Don't know they thought they were gonna push this out of the way and they fucking failed .
Yeah , I don't know what decisions were made and why , but we know , on the day of and the day after , republicans was mad because them motherfuckers almost died too . And then apparently , some backdoor deals were made before you know . They made the . They had the opportunity to convict Trump and his impeachment trial in the Senate .
They only needed a handful of votes to get him the fuck up out of there . And I I feel like I Feel like what Republicans should have done at the time is GLP senators should have drawn straws and then the losers had to vote to convict Trump , and then the party could have been rid of them forever . It could have been done with them .
They could have been on their way to . You know , given the state of affairs of the world economy and how it impacted America , even though you know largely the struggles with inflation and such during 2021 and 2022 , we're outside of Biden's control because America was handling it better than most of the world . Of course I mean it doesn't care .
Report that anyway . Aside from that , had Republicans gotten rid of Trump , they could have been hammering that and then building towards a future 2024 candidate that might potentially have a chance of beating Biden . Instead , they decided to remain loyal to Trump , not bar him from running for office again . And now he took he . They had their opportunity .
And then he took the fucking party back in like weeks and now he's their fucking frontmourner . He might not even be fucking eligible for office . He might not even be on the ballot . He might be like it . Just why did they do this to themselves ?
Who was the one that was going around ? Well , was it representative Burkett who was saying that there's so much dirt on everybody , they're all being blackmailed ?
Basically said that what we've been thinking all along , because it's like they open the door to whatever Space they keep Lindsey Graham in and then goes on the rounds out of the blue Nearly crying and then he's gone again , never to be seen or heard from again .
Yeah , so representative Tim Burkett gop Rep straight shot to the kidneys went on Fox News a couple of weeks ago and Was basically saying there are a number of members of the Republican Party who are likely being blackmailed and subject to being victims of compromising materials .
Compromise , you called it , and he was One of the things he was referring to were like photos and videos of some members of Congress being involved in explicit sexual activities with , with paid sex workers and such and potentially visiting brothels , and we talked about this a couple of weeks or hell , it's been over a month now .
So there was a brothel in Virginia , in a prominent part of Virginia known to be frequented by political figures . That brothel was shut down along with , us believe , a brothel in New Jersey where a number of people of , we'll just say , financially well-off or financially prominent or politically prominent people were known to have visited .
This is this is one perfect example of how you can get caught in the honeypot .
Well the honey pot . Well , you know , see , they've probably been doing dirt for so long . And then there was no . You know the internet , now in all kinds of People have cameras . They I mean there's so much me . Back in the day it was like Heidi Fleiss black book .
You know the Mayflower madam , I remember her back in the day and it was like , oh my gosh , her little black book . But now it's like People have all kinds of stuff to survey people . Yeah , you know On video . Oh , did you , marry , wait ?
before you move on like in and like how you know , burkett is probably telling the truth . It's cuz . We all saw what happened to Madison fucking Carthorne . They got his ass straight up out of there . Yeah , yep , they did . He talked about them coke orgies and they was like nah son . They put out them videos and him with his quote-unquote cousin .
He was gone , peace out . We ain't never heard from doing again With his ass patch hair . That was fucking weird , that was no no , what was weird is why are you inviting a dude in a wheelchair to the sex orgy ? What's he gonna do ? Well , I heard that . I'm sorry if I'm being able to , so all my wheelchair bound people out there .
You deserve sex orgies as well . I apologize .
Yeah , just don't bring you know far right people .
Yeah , yeah , yeah you know , man , I'll say will you ? You're in a wheelchair , but you're a Republican . It don't even add like , do the math , like they don't , they don't like y'all so many Republicans .
That don't make sense to me , like yeah , I got some brown Republicans out there running for president currently who don't make any sense , like you know , nikki , you know with the KKK's and I KKK , I Haley Miss , formerly known as nim rada in her childhood out here can't figure out how to explain the cause of the civil war . Bitch , it was slavery .
She's just , she's a mess , and With states rights to have slavery .
Well , she never mentioned the slavery part . She conveniently left that out and then she tried to double that , like one of her explanations here over the last couple of days , is as to why her original response didn't include an illusion of any sort of slavery . I think she says growing up she had a black friend .
It's what they got to do with , anything for one .
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That's what I was yelling at a friend from a lower caste . That's what I thought was the white people wouldn't play with her .
She was lying , first of all because she went to a segregated school , so there's absolutely no way she had a black friend . But you're right , carol , I alluded to this on a previous episode of the podcast , solo episode .
You know India very well , ingrained caste system , and you know you come into America where caste system , our caste system , is generally tied to the color of your skin . You're like , hey , if you can pass this white , you know , and that might get your kid moving up in the world , like why don't you go ahead and do that ?
Well , that's what her parents did with her Apparently . She was like I ain't out here kicking it with no , kicking it with no brown and black kids . My name ain't riding no more . Get this , get these couple of plastic surgeries . Going on to facial features , make me look a little less . A little less ethnic . Less and you just less .
A little less ethnic , a little more Caucasian , and the next thing you know , I'll be running for president . Bitch , I'm polling number two , right ? Well , I guess you know . Technically , nikki Haley is polling , uh , behind Trump in the GOP . There's a caveat to that , though .
The caveat is that , even though the DeSantis is polling is practically falling off a cliff , he is still the second favorite choice of Trump supporters . So if Trump something should happen to Trump , it doesn't necessarily guarantee that Nikki Haley will be be number two .
It just it's in all likelihood , say , if Trump is removed from the ballot , then DeSantis becomes the number two . Anyway , side note over Ty , where were you going ?
I , I oh no , I was just going to say . Apparently , lauren Burbert allegedly punched her ex-husband a couple of times in the face today .
Oh , only today .
There was some restaurant in silk Colorado and she , uh , american muckrakers had put that , uh , put that out . They got a text or something . I forgot what the hold on it was at the Miners claim restaurant and scanner . And um , it says , supposedly there's a witness Right . So what was to come , so we shall see ?
Um , well , you know , we finally got into quality in America . Now women can be uh cute credibly accused of domestic abuse .
Domestic abuse .
Um so , tying back to one thing we said earlier , when we're like well you know , republicans don't read . So , uh , you know , marjorie Taylor Greene dropped her book . It sold no copies . There was a picture of her floating around on the internet today and doing the kitty care .
What the fuck ? I don't know .
There was a daycare signing copies of her book and it was like literally no one there . And that's what you get Republicans . You sit there and you turn all your fucking voters against simple things like books and reading and shit . And then you're like hey , you know what ? I got a really wonderful idea on how to make some money . I'm going to write a book .
Well , who the fuck gonna read it ? You made them , hey , books .
Interesting point . They never thought about thinking about it . There's no second part to the plan , come on .
That's the one way to put it , carol . Yeah , they didn't think that far through , like , oh yeah , books are bad . And then you look like , yeah , I've got to write a book . Maybe . Maybe you should have considered that before you told everyone that books were bad .
Probably not burn any and celebrate the burning of books either , if you're going to become an author . Just you know , these are . These feel like fairly straightforward hints , you know if whoever booked her there was trolling her at a daycare center . you said they trolled her into beating her husband . So you know what's funny .
So I've all I've been thinking about it for you know , a couple months here , like so what happens if , like , the 2024 election goes great and Biden's elected and Trump goes to prison ? And then you know what . You know , why are we even doing this podcast , this one ? Just hang it all up . I'm going a couple of places with this .
For one , I'm sure , like , first of all , I'd be totally fine with that , It'd be awesome , Like I would love to have absolutely no reason whatsoever to do this podcast .
Yeah , we can pivot to whatever the hell we wanna talk about all the time .
Yeah , we can just talk about whatever we want to Brand new podcast , title it something totally different . We can talk about people in entertainment , Maybe , but anyway that'll never happen because Republicans won't stop Republicaning and there's gonna be .
Whatever we want , except for what Ty wants to talk about , yeah .
No , I'm just saying like . So there's never going to be a point in time where our democracy is safe as long as the Republican party and its current forms still exist . So it's a somber thought , but I mean , that's the fucking truth .
Also an easy decision .
Yeah , fair enough , but also say 2024 goes great . Trump gets , you know , beaten in the landslide . This ain't the end of even the criminal investigations . Like and I talked about this on previous episodes of the podcast over the course of last month , I talked about it on Twitter today there's gonna be more fallout .
Trump ain't the only motherfucker Jackson Smith is looking at . So Trump got indicted for what happened on January 6th in DC in August right August of 2023 . It's currently January . That investigation is still running . It's humming along . They ain't stopped looking at shit . You know what that means .
That means once they wrap up , they keep finding evidence . They keep it so much .
That means , once they wrap up with Trump , all the other co-conspirators are getting indicted . Yay , so there's going to be even far more fallout than what we're currently seeing . Again , I tell you like .
Is the Republican party even gonna be able to slay to enough candidates ? I mean , they're already dropping like flies out of Congress .
That is true , but , as Marjorie Taylor-Green said , hoping the bun dies .
Yeah , so they're probably not going to have Again . So here's the thing we're all concerned now that the Supreme Court is taking up all of these absurd Trump claims about immunity or whether or not he should be removed from the ballot , like the answers , legally , are obvious .
We're not concerned that the Supreme Court is going to bail him out based on the facts or the law or any of any such matter . We're concerned that they're going to bail him out because it's a majority conservative and he appointed three of them motherfuckers .
And again , just like with the compromise of Republican members of Congress , like who knows what the fuck he's got on the Supreme Court , just as we already know , clarence Thomas is compromised financially so they could burn him on that . And then they got Roberts to get I mean , yeah , they got a candidate to resign so they could put Gorsuch on the bench .
So like , who knows what they got on Gorsuch in order just to get him , in order to just get Kennedy to resign so they could fill his position . And then we all know that all of those people sent all that dirt on Brett Kavanaugh to the fucking White House and White House Counsel's office .
So like they know everything , every bad thing Brett Kavanaugh has ever done . Congratulations , guys . We gave Trump all the information he ever needed . Black male Kavanaugh that was a genius move on our part . And then Amy Coney Barrett I mean , she's just a wacko . I think I got a black male . Her she's awful . Right .
So what happens if these motherfuckers decide to fall prey to Alina Habba going on national television and threatening them to bail Trump out ? So say they make some kind of ruling in some form of fashion ? We don't have to get into the specifics , it just gets Trump out of trouble , or the latest trial , definitely .
Well , what's going to happen is Jack Smith's going to have no reason to continue like holding playing shit close to the vest . He can put all his cars out there . He can indict everybody , cause the fact of the matter is that if Trump is elected president in 2024 , he's going to kill these investigations . He's going to kill the trial .
He's going to have DOJ drop the charges . He's going to pardon all his co-conspirators . So there ain't no reason for Jack Smith to be like , well , I'll just wait until things play out before I dump all the evidence on the pump . No , he's going to go after everybody .
You know how , like people used to sit around and theorize and Mueller had like hundreds of indictments sealed and ready to go . That's going to be real shit . Like that's actually going to happen in this case If the Supreme Court bells Trump out with his criminal trials . But yeah , it's just . Hey , man , it's wild times , crazy times .
I wish time would just slow down .
Carol just like put her hood on and like shrink away from that .
You're cold .
Do you want me to get you like a space heater or something ?
Has it started ?
snowing yet . Yeah Well , I'm also like this room that I managed like a finished attic and it's . I don't know if I've ever showed you the ceilings , but it's really the ventilation is not great .
Yeah , right here it is not high .
No , no , no one at home will benefit from this , but they're like over there , it's super high .
Yeah , if you could . Yeah , she's got like a what's it called A vaulted ceiling ?
Yeah , vaulted ceiling , it's just the roof One side of .
Yeah , she's in the attic . It's basically the roof and one side of it's vaulted . So , like all , the warm air rises far above the roof .
It wasn't on when I came up here , so , anyway , I'm wearing lots of things . I gotta get back into it . I guess I don't . I haven't been that politically aware . I mean , I always say that . And then every time we do this and I'm like , oh , I haven't been paying attention , and you're like , oh okay , so you didn't see this and this .
I'm like , well , I saw that , so- . Okay , that's funny for a couple of reasons . The different part of not paying attention .
No , no , no , the thing is is like so if you're listening to this podcast , one of the things we have to do is make some like editorial decisions . There's always so much going on .
We can't record like we would have to record the podcast just like four hours a day , every single day , to talk about every single thing that happens , cause there's so fucking much . But we , you know , at least try to highlight the most noteworthy items . Of course , sometimes what happens is we highlight the same thing , like every podcast is highlighting .
But again , I don't necessarily feel there's no , that's a bad thing Because , like you know , what the right-wing media outlets do is they just harp on the same stupid shit Like at least we're harping on like legitimate issues and actual information and actual evidence and whatnot .
But also , you know it's been Christmas time , carol , you've been out of town on a cruise and shit . Like it's absolutely fine for you or Ty or myself or any of you listeners or anyone out there who's you know politically engaged , to take a fucking break , because politics ain't never been like this , you know it's . It's always to some degree .
Whenever there's been a Republican in charge , you know , president , in the United States , it's always been some kind of fucking crazy , because you know , w was insane all four years or all eight years of that was bananas . His daddy Was kind of crazy , but he got most of his crazy in before he made his way in the office .
You know , reagan was up to some crazy shit , just banana shit like . The fact that he wasn't criminally indicted is in anathema . Nixon speaks for itself . Yeah , so it's always been crazy when Republicans are in charge , but they never been this crazy .
We were like all right , we're almost four years after the Republican president and we still cleaning up the fucking disaster and it's an I'm everyday .
So if you feel the need to unplug and just clear your mind and clear your psyche and like breathe and woo , saw and like , just coax yourself Into like a manageable emotional state so you can survive the next year , dude , you got to do . It's totally fine . It's got to take a break , it's okay . Just make sure you show up in November to vote .
Yeah , I feel like I should do a little more than that . I Could at least get back into writing postcards . And that's a pretty easy way to stay involved . I , for , I'll look up which organization I've been using for that and make Derek put it in the show notes .
That's a absolute . That's a great idea . Actually , you should do that . One of the things the next one .
There's a special election coming up soon to replace disgraced former congressman George Santos .
All about that dude well , so Hopefully over the course of 2023 . We'll , we'll all get it together on this podcast . We're gonna fucking crush it . Try and get Biden in the office and look if things go .
Well done , 24 dude . I know it's , I know it's like traumatic to say that kind of it really is like I just I can't believe it's 2024 , yeah , 2024 .
Like we'll get Biden elected . We're like maybe we can take a couple weeks off and just like gather ourselves fingers crossed you know .
They know that um , it's like this Conflict in Gaza is Like was a gift for Republicans , because yeah , it was because it's like hits every note that they want to talk about .
Like if Biden's like , oh , you know , israel bad , they'll be like , all right , biden's a Nazi , yeah . And then , yeah , exactly like if Biden's like , well , hey , there was a bunch of terrorists who attack Israel . We got to support our allies and you know they're traumatic time of need and loss .
And , and you know , now you know idiots out here who don't like do any critical thinking and like a genocide joke , um , yeah , gift that they . But the thing is they can't really capitalize on it in terms of like Benefit for themselves that you can only try and use it to hurt Biden because like , look they're they Republicans want a nuke Gaza .
They're like , let's kill all the Muslim people anyway , yeah .
So I wonder how many , if we'll gain any Republican voters back like more conservative Jews if they think that Biden is very supportive of Gaza . I've of .
Israel , israel . Uh , I think what you're gonna happen is normal people who are in the middle Aren't gonna leave Biden because , like he's pretty , it's pretty fucking rational . And the other thing is Again , and I hate to say this , um , there's only so much warring Israel can do in Gaza , um , and so they're are you saying they're almost done ?
No , no , no , no , I'm just . What I'm saying . Is is like there's not that much Gaza , so there's not that much war you can do .
Yeah , that's what I meant . I don't know either .
I turning the Iran ? I think I don't think that's a coincidence .
What I'm saying is unlike this thing in Ukraine and Russia , where it can drag on infinitely , because Russia has an infinite amount of well , not infinite , but they have millions of bodies they could throw into the meat grinder . And uh , you know , ukraine is such a large , spread out country that you can have continued fighting for years on end .
Uh , and you know that's worst case scenario , like Israel and Gaza , even if it drags on for years , the scale of it Will have died down and , like I , and I hate to say this , people get so bored , even with war , they don't even talk about Ukraine . No more on news , ever , never , no more .
And we're approaching an insane , an insane number of Russians dying . Nobody cares . I hate to say this , gaza ain't gonna be a problem in the 2024 election . I'm just telling you and like you're not gonna believe me , but I'm absolutely telling you , when we get to 2024 , nobody even go remember Gaza .
If they wanted , like Israel and Gaza , to be a problem for Joe Biden , maybe they should have told Hamas to hold off until , like , election season anyway , and again , I'm supportive of the Israeli people . Uh , I think the Israeli government , however , is a dumpster fire . This is what happens when you let right wing nut jobs . Take over your country , america .
Take the hint .
I'm also supportive of Palestinian people , but again , like also just the warning , not that we could do much except vote . What happens when you corrupt the supreme court and allow it to be unchecked .
Yeah , well , part of the problem . In like I don't want any Palestinians to die , and you know what ? That's why Hamas shouldn't start at a war , but that's a whole another . I mean just we'll say that for another podcast . Um , yeah , just it's , I hope it's . I hope we find some resolution for whatever's going on in Israel and Palestine .
This has been like a multi-decade problem . Biden ain't gonna be able to fix it and you can't like it anyway . Just , I'm doing that , we don't . Just that's not what this podcast is for . Um , I don't even remember where I was going because I got so totally thrown off .
Um , we thought it's okay to take a break , like tie , who may be maybe sleeping .
Yeah , tie you still with us .