Okay, so the next topic comes down to now that the election's over, what happens now?
What happens now? You know, somebody in the chat saying, I'm going to wake up in the morning,
go to work like I usually do, what the majority of America is going to do.
Some people say, stay safe. Look, I saw somebody on there earlier today,
they were a GOP voter, and they were like, why are people telling me to stay?
Because there are portions of the country that are about to change
significantly. And as far as what happens next, again,
I personally have the privilege of living in Washington state. So again, I've already seen
the Massachusetts governor on there, and they were like, are you going to help with the mass
deportation? She was like, no, no, our state police won't do it. Sorry, like,
send feds in, but we're not going to help. That's already started.
Again, I think a lot of this comes down to your theory of the case. There is a not small
piece portion of the electorate that doesn't really think Trump's going to do all the things
that he says he's going to do. Do I think I'll be honest, I don't know. I have no idea what's
about to happen. It is so hard at this point to prognosticate how the next four to eight years
are going to go because we don't know what the administration looks like. We just don't. Previous
times, the guardrails of democracy have held. We just don't know. We just really, really,
really, really don't know. He made a lot of promises on the campaign trail that are worrying a lot of
people, 200% tariffs, things like that. I'm going to bring this up. This guy's one of my favorite
TikTokers. He's a disabled vet. I watch his stuff all the time. He's hilarious, but I'm going to play.
I'm going to play his video and you guys can help me react to this. Here you go.
Fine. Touch the hot stove. This is where I'm at. I'm angry. I'm disappointed. I'm terrified for
my future as a veteran who depends on the government. I'm afraid for my friends. I'm afraid for my
infant niece. More than any other emotion is just the feeling of, fine, touch the hot stove. I keep
trying to warn you, but clearly you're not going to listen. The reason I like this is kind of,
this is kind of where he's going to go. Our functionally illiterate electorate kneeling at
the altars of algorithms is going to get the exact guy that their brain route represents.
He's told us who he is. We've told you who he is. His advisors have told you who he is,
but it doesn't matter because the price of eggs went up a little bit. Gas was a little more expensive
two years ago after a global pandemic. Theo Games had the audacity to put pronouns in the character
selector and one, two, few grizzled white men on the cover. Maybe it's the machismo of men who are
so uneducated on women's bodies that they are genuinely terrified of a 60 year old's time of the
month. Maybe you fell for those white leftists who told you not to vote in between regurgitating
Russian propaganda word for word because they want to burn down the house. Who cares if the stove is
hot? I'm sure this Republican trifecta will usher in a beautiful new age of leftist ideals,
but we're going to find out together, aren't we? We're all getting burned. There's no more need for
warnings or pleas to people's better natures. We're done with that. We have overwhelmingly chosen
as a country to do the worst possible route and some part of me is just like, all right, strap in,
let's go. I survived a war. I'll survive this. I did everything in my power. I believe the Democrats
ran an unbelievably popular campaign. Yeah, we could blame Joe Biden for not dropping out. Yeah,
that's my only critique. I'm trying to claim the entire Democratic establishment for being so obsessed
with political norms and trying to take the high road that they allowed populism to bloom under
their watch. But some 70 million people chose fascism. And then tens of millions of more people
said, I don't even care, whoever wins because they didn't show up to vote. I'm strapped into this
bus. Nobody around the world wants a disabled expat veteran from America. So if I'm strapped
into this bus and you all are so determined to drive it off of a cliff, I'm not going to cry
while we go over. I'm a laugh. I'm a laugh the whole time because we're hitting those consequences
together, baby. You want to destroy the country? I love so much. I wrote a blank check on her behalf
and then deployed to the other side of the planet to get blown up in one of her dumb wars.
Let's do it, baby. America's not going out with a whimper. Let's touch all the stoves.
All these books I read about World War Two about to get a lot more relevant. I'm front row seat to
the greatest fireworks show we've ever seen in history. USA. Okay. So what's the what's the end
thing here? And I'm going to bring up something. Somebody's saying over in the YouTube chat
because it's it's bringing up a good point that we kind of talked about in the last
section, right? Where again, I was with somebody last night who again was talking about all these
things in our political system and was like, why are we doing it this way? And he kind of skews a
little and I was like, you're right. It's it's it's those guys. It's the Republicans. It's not
it's not the Democrats who are doing it. Okay. The things that you're complaining about, man,
are and me and my other buddy who are there with me at the election night are telling them like,
dude, like we love you, but learn like this. The funny thing is, and so so somebody in the
YouTube chat brought up the tax on overtime thing. I love this because if you read the lovely agenda
47, he's going to put the no tax on overtime. I think they're going to pass that. And this is
again, where I think that law is going to get knocked down. They're going to change the overtime
rules. So you're not going to get taxed on your overtime, but it doesn't matter how many hours
in the week you work for your overtime. They're going to do it as a rolling monthly average,
right? And so that's how they're going to cut down on overtime, right? Is they're going to
to bang you on overtime like, okay, you're going to work 50 hours, 50 hours, 30, 30, right? And now
you don't get any overtime because even though you worked 50 hours those two weeks, there's no
overtime, right? So that's they've they've this is all very well structured. Like and and again,
this is why I said in the last segment, the Republicans have won the information fight.
Okay, they've got the Democrats be because the problem is, is that there were a lot of people
in the Democratic establishment trying to explain to people like, hey, these are bad policies and
here's why. But the problem is, is it's not their messaging is not getting through, right?
Yeah, exactly. Somebody that's wish that's bringing it up, right? So
they're going to try and change the overtime rules. Again, I think what you're going to see for
probably the first two years, because that's how long it takes to get through the court system,
is they're going to pass stuff, and then a state's going to sue and go or a union's going to sue.
And on the overtime one, what's going to happen is they're going to pass the no tax on overtime
thing. They're going to lock it in with this new overtime plan that they have. And then every union
in the country is going to sue. They're going to go, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute,
wait a minute. And then it's going to go through the courts. And so I don't think a lot of this
stuff is going to happen for the first couple of years. The ones that are the ones that that concern
me, right? The tariff thing he might be able to do unilaterally, I guess I'm going to stop drinking
coffee, because coffee is meant to get really fucking expensive. If he puts 200% tariffs across
the board, you know, it's, it's, it is what it is. And again, like, like our good buddy Pat Lohler
over here said, right, just go down with the bus, man. Like, I mean, that's kind of the choice that
you have at this stage is, you know, go down with the bus. And this, you know, there was one other
thing he says in this that really stuck with me. And actually, I see a lot of people on the left
saying this today. Wait, hang on. There's there's one in particular one of highland America. So if I'm strapped into this bus, and you all are so determined to drive it off of a cliff, I'm not going to cry while we go over. I'm a laugh. I'm a laugh the whole time, because we're hitting those consequences together, baby.
I want to destroy the country. I love so much. I wrote a blank check on her. Trying to find the line he says.
This one deals, but we're going to find out together, aren't we? We're all getting burned. There's no more need for warnings or please people's better natures. Yeah, so that that's the thing that I think that I'm seeing a lot on the left right now is I'm seeing a lot of people on the left being like, you know what, fuck it, we give up. We we give up.
They thought they feel that they tried like, look, we tried to explain like this is why 200% tariffs across the board is a bad policy. All right, don't listen, you know, like, um, somebody in the thing. So I do work as in management, the security industry.
There's no big negative to untaxed overtime for the for the contractor. Okay, that's the thing is it's not that's not who it's bad for. It's bad for the workers, right? And and again, you know, we're going to find out, right?
You know, you know, that's that's what it is. I was rolling through some some right wing pages today. And a lot of them are like, it was funny because Mike Lee who's a senator from where's my name from, you know, I was like, I'm not going to find out.
I'm not going to find out what it is. I was rolling through some some right wing pages today. And a lot of them are like, it was funny because Mike Lee who's a senator from where's Mike Lee a senator in.
I think it's Utah. Oh, no. Yeah, Utah. Yeah, I was right. Utah motherfucker. He was like, which the which cabinet agency should go first? Right. And I saw all these conservatives and his thing be like, Oh, this one and this one and I was just like, Oh, this is going to be funny.
This is going to be hilarious. Like, are they actually going to let Elon get in there and start eliminating cabinet level fucking secretaries? It's it's funny.
Some of the YouTube chat saying it's a lot of wait and see right now. Yeah. And I mean, and that's the thing is a lot of people are like, how how bad I don't know.
Right. There is a non zero some chance that he's going to get in there. And he's just going to get stymied at every level. And they're just, it's going to be a lot like his first term, where they set things up for his second term.
But they didn't really get a lot done. Like, not a lot happened substantively, because they just couldn't do it through a series of either putting people in the positions who didn't understand how to do it, because they'd never worked in government before.
And things like that. So again, and this is kind of the thing that I get to with Pat Lohler and the Daily Show and the reason I'm doing these and I'm going to talk to somebody in the chat, you know, call it sort of trade is great.
And the reason I keep bringing up the stories about people who are just, again, ridiculously misinformed. Right. Again, this is somebody I see every week and he's just like, Why is this and I'm like, it's it's frustrating because I like this guy as a person, right.
We hang out with play games. But he really like, I'm like, dude, like everything you're talking about is, is, is not informed from a place of reality. Right.
It's, and again, I just don't, the Republicans won the information, you know, and this kind of goes back to that joke in Trump's first term when they were like, I'm giving you alternative facts.
Right. Like, and that became a big meme for a while in Trump's first term was alternative facts, because they would, they would like, here's the alternative. Like these are facts.
You can't just call them facts when they're not. Okay.
I don't know.
Yeah, I honestly don't know. Like, there is a chance that this is just basically going to go nowhere.
And, but I'm almost again, I'm almost in Pat Lohler's, like, boat where I'm like, I kind of hope he like, I am not.
So I wish I could say it's been obvious, but it's not.
It's not obvious. And again, I know that our nature tells us we want to be like, it's not obvious.
How bad the disinformation has been a team spent like calmly spend a lot of time being like, what, what?
You know, they just a lot of people don't spend a lot of time on this, right?
There's 24 hours in the day, and they don't spend a lot of time looking at policy documents or hearing anything.
And so it's, it's the information they're getting is just whoever can jam it through whatever channels first.
Right. That's why I give a little bit of grace, right?
Speaking of the project, somebody brought up project 2025 and all during the all during the campaign, he was like, it's not me.
It's not me. It's not me. So I'm going to, I'm going to bring this up. This is fucking hilarious because this this happened today.
It's a fucking shithead Matt Walsh who everybody loves.
Right. Obviously, what did he do this morning?
He said something.
Oh, he, oh wait, here we go.
So this is, if you're in the right wing, if you understand the right wing ecosystem, you know who this is, he's in the right wing system and literally this morning he's like, all right, now that we won, we can say, yep, project 2025 is the agenda.
Like, they're not even hiding it anymore. Right. And it was funny because one of the posts, one of the posts, he actually ended up retweeting.
Right. Somebody was like, holy crap, it was true because basically they were like, hey, fuckers, we fucking lied.
Yep. And again, some of you said like people who don't follow a ton of politics.
Yes, both sides struggle to do research on what they're voting on. That is absolutely true. That's that is not, that is not incorrect.
Okay. Both sides struggle to do research.
Is that the sprinkle idiot? I don't, I don't know.
But yes, as far as that, again, I just don't know.
Before Biden dropped out, I had kind of come to a place where I believed he was going to lose.
Like, I was like, he's going to lose. Trump's going to fucking mollywop, especially after that god awful debate performance.
It was the thing that I had to push them out.
So the thing that the thing that was interesting was I kind of gotten into my head that he the Trump was going to win months ago.
And then when Kamala brought it up, it was like, okay, man, we got a shot in like three weeks.
It was like, okay. And again, anybody that was on the show last week, I was going to do my predictions last week and I stopped myself.
I was like, and it's you can go back and watch the last week's show and look. And on last week's show, I was like, I, I don't know, because the data was all over the map.
Right. Like there was nothing in there where I was like, I feel confident about anything right now.
So somebody in the chat saying that this is a more lefty podcast, it might be a little more biased, but they see it happen on both sides a lot.
And I would say while you're checking me, check yourself and where you're getting your data from as well.
Because if you're seeing it happen on both sides a lot, I would, I would, I would, I would in person challenge that, that theory.
And say about lefties is here, here, if you want to come with some real critiques for left wingers, hang on.