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Nov. 10, 2022 - Adventures in HellwQrld

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Adventures in HellwQrld Episode #112: The Midterms Podcast

QAnon and the GOP were sure they were going to crush the midterms, turns out that didn't happen and we're here to talk about it. Also Q is back and even more boring! Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hellwqrld. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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	Thank you.
	♪ CONTENT WARNING
	The Adventures in Hellworld podcast talks in depth about QAnon, which means we have to talk about all kinds of child abuse and violence against people.
	Listener discretion advised.
	Hello, everybody.
	I am Mike Rains, a.k.a.
	Poker and Politics, and welcome to another episode of Adventures in Hellworld.
	I am joined, as always, by Sarge.
	Hello.
	I come to you from the dark future of the 41st millennium, where people are still somehow voting Republican.
	And the mysterious L.
	Oh yeah!
	Hello, my beautiful babies!
	Elle's got you for three minutes!
	Moonseye's ready!
	Three minutes of playtime!
	Ah, man.
	Love a nice bone sound.
	Yes.
	Every now and then, like, one of my employees is like, hey, Mike, can I go home?
	And I'm like, hey, freak show!
	You're going nowhere!
	I just let him know, no, you're actually not leaving.
	You're not going home.
	Sorry.
	Tough shit.
	So.
	I've got you for much more than three minutes.
	Yes, exactly.
	I've got you for 90 minutes!
	On average, that's what we run.
	So no news today, this Wednesday.
	Good thing Frosty recorded a bunch of Qdrops for us, the old stuff, not the new stuff.
	We're just going to go over that.
	Oh wait, no.
	There's tons of news.
	There's a thing that happened yesterday.
	A thing that... Yeah, sometimes we get punished and sometimes we get lucky for doing our recording on a Wednesday.
	It turns out that when elections are on Tuesday, we get paid off.
	Yes.
	So usually here's where we jibber jabber and have a little small talk, but no, we're just going to go right into the boosh and get moving.
	It's time for a light sampling of insanity.
	Get ready for the amuse-bouche.
	Also, for the record, before we get into the amuse-bouche, as is our want on the Adventures in Hellworld podcast, we are Goldilocksing this thing because I give no fucks about these elections.
	I mean, I of course want Blue to win, but I haven't been watching them.
	I don't care.
	It looks like Georgia's close.
	Whatever.
	But in the middle you have Sarge, and then on the opposite end of the spectrum from me, you have Mike, who has been foaming at the mouth with election fever.
	Like, he needs to call a doctor because his election has been lasting for longer than four hours.
	We were talking about it before the pod, and since I'm in Missouri, All my elected officials were just going red.
	It did not really matter how I was voting.
	We like to vote in traitors.
	But there are a bunch of ballot initiatives in Missouri that were very important and some of them passed and didn't as I wanted.
	And then you guys being out East kind of had the opposite problem.
	Where there were a bunch of ballot initiatives that were kind of bad, but you were most likely going the right way in terms of voting for officials?
	No, all our ballot initiatives were great.
	I don't know what the fuck you're talking about, buddy.
	All right, well, calm down.
	I didn't know what's on your ballot.
	I told you, frothing at the mouth.
	Classic Adventures in Hellworld, no and.
	Yes.
	No, the thing you said is wrong, and let me say something else.
	Yes.
	Improv 102, baby!
	The no-ed!
	It's the future!
	It's the revolution!
	Yeah, we're the professor who comes in and we turn the chair backwards and straddle it.
	And we're just like, hey, let's rap.
	Let me tell you about the no-ed.
	Yes.
	And then they're just like, but professor, aren't we supposed to be learning about stuff we can actually use?
	And you're like, no.
	And here's my lesson on no-ed.
	Also, shut your cake hole.
	Yum.
	You're like Robin Williams from that movie.
	You know the one.
	Right.
	That one.
	Good morning, Vietnam.
	I love how we both reach for a completely different one.
	I almost said fern gully.
	See, now this is a content people are tuning in.
	Fuck the election.
	Who cares?
	Exactly right.
	Q is back, and there's an election happening.
	Fuck that.
	Time to talk about Robin Williams movies.
	Hey, I mean, we have our first elected hoodie-with-shorts guy to Senate.
	Okay, well, let's properly get to Booshin, and we're going to start, as has been teased a couple of times, with what I have listed here as Q's re-reemergence.
	He's back, baby!
	This time, better than ever.
	His son's got a Killdozer, and he's ready to fly.
	How did he fuck it up this time?
	Okay, well the way he fucked it up this time was by being really weak.
	Um, and what I mean by that is, uh, these Q drops, uh, the first one he posted on the 6th,
	he basically did one a day, he did one on the 6th, one on the 7th, and one on the 8th.
	And you can just feel, like, like Jim went through the old drops, and like, saw the style of Riddler Q,
	It was just like, that's my play.
	Like, I just got to go with the leading questions.
	Cause I don't know how to do this character.
	I don't know exactly how to make it work, but I can type, I can just type in a bunch of leading questions.
	And that will sound Q-y enough for people, and that'll be it.
	Does he not have his son's phone number?
	This has never occurred to me before, but Mike talking about this right now, it came upon me like the greatest idea in the world.
	Do we think that there's enough Q material in the drops to A.I.
	train, like a Q.A.I., and then just give it the reins to the trip code?
	There has to be.
	To just produce an endless amount of Q drops?
	Oh, I think there is on the QAnon Anonymous Discord, I think they have a bot that shouts at you and Q drops.
	I think something like that does exist somewhere, but yeah.
	It has to be there.
	There was this thing on Twitter where if you went to the website and typed in the handle of someone, it would parrot back a couple of tweets in the style of the person who writes those tweets.
	And they were pretty on-the-nose for me, so it was a pretty solid little bot.
	So I appreciated that.
	So our boy Q came back and his first post was literally just all about Ukraine, whining about Ukraine a bunch.
	And then at the very end, Q just put in, your vote matters!
	You have all the tools you need!
	Because, you know, Q's a real civic-minded guy.
	Get out there and vote, folks!
	You know, let's win one for the team!
	Basically, everyone... the QAnon reaction to this drop was just sort of like, yo, Q, we already knew that... they're like, Q, get up to speed with us.
	We already baked the fact that Ukraine has biolabs, really made COVID, and it's a hub of child trafficking, and... We already believe all that.
	Yeah, we already believe everything.
	Stop selling us on Ukraine.
	We're already all in on hating Ukraine.
	We don't need this, bro.
	It's covered ground.
	And then the second thing Q posted was about rigged elections and stuff like that.
	And the best part of... After whining about this stuff, at the end of this drop, he posted the words, White hats have secured many systems, but problems still remain.
	Which was like, uh, when Trump was president and you were posting this shit, you literally said Trump was five steps ahead of all of his enemies.
	You repeatedly said Patriots in control and we have it all.
	Now it is like five years into Q owning the world, working hand in hand with Donald Trump to kick deep state ass.
	And you're like, guys, guys, we got a lot of these systems locked down, but a few of them, not so much.
	And he posted this on November 7th, a day before the election.
	So Q's like, look, we got 24 hours to smooth out some of this stuff, or maybe we don't get the Senate.
	I mean, who knows?
	So it's just like, I just love that Q's power level has diminished so greatly from where he was at the start of this story to where he is now.
	It's just like, really Q?
	You can't even make sure that Kerry Lake is going to win in Arizona.
	You can't lock down Pennsylvania for Dr. Oz.
	What's going on, buddy?
	What's going on, man?
	Come on!
	No way, man.
	Q is just as powerful as he ever has been.
	Oh, yeah.
	Q's followers will tell you now that his powers... I mean, if he seems less powerful, it's because you don't recognize how powerful he is.
	Exactly!
	If you don't understand why Q is right, you need to figure out why you are wrong.
	And he is actually right.
	Exactly.
	So are we sure that this is Jim again this time?
	Is it definitely him?
	Has he fucked up in some way to tip the hand already like he did last time?
	Did he just fumble the ball immediately?
	The main reason why it's probably Jim is that no one's actually using Aiden Koon at this point.
	Because Jim has created so many different ways to try to get around all these DDoS attacks that he's been, that 8kun's been suffering and the site's totally unstable and unusable.
	And the last thing he did was create an authenticator where you had to pay five bucks a month to get an access code to use 8kun.
	And the people who looked at the authenticator were like, dude, This fucking takes all my personal information off my credit card.
	The thing you're using to authenticate me is like so fucking unsafe and such a massive security risk that I'm trusting you, Jim Watkins, the Filipino pig farmer pornographer, like you, this schmuck, you're gonna get all my fucking personal details off of this authenticator?
	No thanks.
	The people that follow Akun and use these platforms are so unhappy with him that literally the only thing he has To try to drum up interest in the site is posting as Q. So, while we don't have the evidence we did from the last series where, like, literally he was posting under his own ID defending Jim Watkins, and then the next thing you know, suddenly Q, under that ID, is posting a Q drop.
	Like, we haven't had that level of stepping on my own dick yet.
	I hear that Jim Watkins guy's real cool!
	Yes!
	Fuck off, buddy!
	Jim Watkins is the best!
	Now let me hit send on this Q drop.
	Boop!
	Oh shit!
	Same ID as the thing where I was defending Jim Watkins!
	Oh no!
	Whoopsie doopsie!
	Yeah, he hasn't quite done that, but given the levels of shittiness of his platform and his desperation to make the platform relevant in any way or shape or form, it's really, as the saying goes, five will get you ten, it's Jim.
	I mean, this is an even money bet.
	If not, you should be actually laying odds for it to not be Jim.
	So, yeah.
	Yeah, and my favorite part is the last Q-Drop.
	The last Q-Drop ended with the phrase, taking control.
	It's like, again, weren't you supposed to be in control for the last fucking five years?
	Yeah, or at the very least, the last official Q-Drop, before Jim obviously took the reins, they insisted that they were not going to take it.
	So, clearly that meant that they were not going to take control.
	That was like he left.
	He was like, hey, we lost.
	We are not going to take control.
	We're not going to take it.
	And by it, I mean control.
	We are not going to take it anymore.
	We're leaving.
	Are Jim and Ron just on the outs?
	Like, does he not have Ron's phone number anymore?
	Ron does not have a phone in the outback where he's building his killdozer to destroy the Sydney Opera House.
	I mean, obviously, like, it becomes more and more obvious that Ron was the one writing these incredibly crazy Riddler Q drops.
	The one that really got the idiots, the smooth brains going.
	That becomes more and more obvious.
	Well, that was probably Paul Ferber.
	The shit that we read back in the day was Paul Ferber.
	Yeah, that was Paul Ferber.
	And then Ron stole it from Paul, and then now Jim is just doing it because Ron doesn't want to do it.
	That is the mainstream Warren Commission review of the authorship of QAnon.
	The magic poster theory explaining all of these things and the like.
	I mean, then you go into the, like, Michael Flynn did it, or blah blah blah, or the Russians, and it's like, no, no.
	I mean, us boring normies in the QAnon world just think it was, again, it was like Pamphletanon, and Paul Ferber, and Tracy Beans, and then Ron, and now Jim.
	And that's your lineage of Q as a hero.
	There you go, buddy.
	There's your great champions.
	No way, man.
	It was a Russian op the whole time.
	J-Stew told me.
	And that guy seems pretty on the level.
	Oh, God.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	Nobody, nobody with more trenchant critical analysis of QAnon than J-Stew.
	Please do not subscribe to his sub stack.
	Please go to our Patreon.
	Patreon.com.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, luckily you don't have to hear from him on Twitter anymore.
	A clown that you do have to hear from on Twitter is Elon Musk.
	And boy how do you better believe Elon Musk is still in the headlines this week.
	So we've stuffed him in the bush.
	Yeah.
	Because we have bigger fists to fry.
	But let's talk about...
	Weird idiot and hair plug enthusiast with a deformed penis.
	1 million United States dollars, etc.
	Elon Musk.
	Parody account.
	I don't give a fuck about his blue check mark.
	This is not parody.
	His penis is deformed.
	Yeah, so our boy Elon, first off, either on election day or directly before it, made a post.
	Day before.
	Yeah, day before.
	He was like, yo, independent-minded voters, you should vote Republican for split government, because that's the best way to have America move forward.
	And then he proceeded to defend that by claiming he had never voted for a Republican until recently, and he'd always been kind of a Democrat before this.
	And it's just like, fuck off, Elon.
	Yeah.
	Nobody believes you.
	Your origin story of how you became a Republican is flimsy at best and stupid at worst.
	So from there, Elon's ineptitude, then he decided that we need to revamp the verified system, which you probably heard about being that you could buy verification for $8, or at least you could buy the checkmark.
	And people were trying to figure out what does the $8 checkmark entail?
	What do I get for the $8 checkmark?
	Do I actually have to give information that verifies myself?
	And it's like, nope!
	Just $8 and you get a checkmark, which could not in any way, shape, or form go disastrously wrong for everybody on Earth.
	Catastrophically.
	Yeah, like, I was thinking about this, and that there's been a lot of times where WWE wrestlers who are women, because this is the way the scam always works, because it's catfishing, have had to post on social media, guys, I do not DM people.
	If you're being DM'd by Alexa Bliss, it's not me.
	Like, stop talking to that person.
	They are fucking conning you.
	And I was like, man, can you imagine if all these catfishing assholes just got blue check marks on their accounts?
	And now you have these, these assholes fucking swindling lonely incels for all their, for all their money.
	And it's like, well, it has to be her.
	She's going to check mark.
	It's like, no, it's just eight bucks, you idiot.
	So all that shit's going on.
	So then Elon comes out with this thing where he's like, well, actually guys, what we're going to do is we're going to let you have the $8 check mark.
	But then on top of that, we're going to have an official check mark under your, in your bio, under your name.
	So you're going to have... A secret double check mark.
	Which I saw... I've only seen one.
	I saw Jacksepticeye got his immediately this morning, and he was like, for the record, I did not pay or ask for this.
	It just showed up, and I guess it's already gone?
	Yeah, literally, one of Elon's minions at Twitter was like, this is why we're doing this, and this is how it's gonna work, and all this kind of stuff.
	And then after that happened, Elon was like, we've gotten rid of it.
	The second checkmark is no more.
	I'm not Ron Braverman, I repeat.
	I'm not Ron Braverman.
	Yeah, so it's really wild that this is all the stuff that, like, they're just throwing shit at the wall so aggressively and stupidly.
	And of course, another group of people that tried to abuse the $8 check mark were QAnon promoters, who've been kicked off the platform for a long time.
	QAnon John, who is one of my favorite QAnon crifters because he If you look at any of his social media, he gets like so little engagement compared to the rest of them.
	But because he has a lot of money and he runs these conventions and he pays for people to speak at his conventions, he gets to buy his way into having influence.
	So, QAnon John bought an... Yeah, we call that move the Mike Lindell.
	Yes!
	I assume we're going to get to Mike here at some point.
	He had a night.
	Oh yeah, he's been doing well.
	At some point, I'll throw it to you, Sarge, for the Mike Lindell minutes.
	He's not a real knight.
	The MyPillow Minute on Hellworld.
	So QAnonJon bought the $8 checkmark and then immediately had his account suspended.
	So it was just like, yep, there you go, buddy.
	You did it.
	You're totally verified on Twitter.
	SmashCut2, not verified on Twitter.
	Not even allowed on Twitter at all!
	Verified to have been suspended from Twitter.
	Yup.
	Thanks for the $8 you chump.
	Yup.
	You giant dum-dum.
	So, I mean, like, how's Elon taking this?
	He's clearly, I mean, he's clearly been kind of losing it in terms of his own tweets, correct?
	Well, he's taking it well.
	He thinks that he's doing a great job of, like, triggering people, that he's being so smart and suppressive, but...
	That doesn't seem like a great business strategy.
	No.
	Yeah.
	Before his post where he basically inferred that he was masturbating on his computer screen, which maybe not the greatest look, Yeah, so like... Hot takes here!
	Oh, the scorchingest hot takes!
	So, on November 4th, Tesla stock was valued at $222 a share.
	Number four, Tesla stock was valued at $222 a share. Right this minute, Tesla stock is
	right now at $179.91. So they've had about a $40 haircut off of Tesla stock in the past
	five days. After Elon was just like, you know what I like to do?
	Masturbate in front of my computer screen.
	That's what I like to say about Mastodon, because I'm totally rational and handling what's going on with Twitter very well.
	I enjoyed that I paid $44 billion for the right to make myself the main character of Twitter every fucking day!
	It's going good.
	It's going great.
	I complained about this, ironically, on my Twitter.
	But without tagging anybody.
	I was just like, man, everybody seems like, everybody's playing right into his hands when he makes one of those dumb posts where it's just like, haha, like, oh, you're free to express your opinions for $8.
	And then like a winky face.
	And then it looks like it's just like, you know, like a jillion retweets and it's getting ratioed and all this and that.
	And I'm just like, everybody's just engaging with it.
	Why?
	Stop!
	Like it's not worth it.
	What are you going to say to him?
	He's worth like 300 billion dollars or whatever.
	He doesn't care about you.
	All he cares about is buying Twitters and like firing children into gribes.
	That's his whole deal.
	Well, not anymore.
	Well, he cares about that, and we're watching his midlife crisis happen in front of us.
	Yeah, and who knows?
	That might happen again.
	It's already happened twice.
	Who's to say it's not going to happen again?
	I mean, fair enough.
	Any other partner for her might want to name their child something like a real name instead of some sort of dumbfuck math equation to prove how smart and genius you are.
	I mean, I'm finding it hard to argue with you in a number of ways.
	Gramps is like Poppy, but somehow, like, she got the big push.
	And so, I don't understand how, I'm just like, wow.
	Every time, like, her music is catchy, but then every time I hear anything about her as an artist, I'm just like, ugh.
	We're such a try-hard.
	I don't like this.
	You were trying too hard.
	Oh god, there's nothing I enjoy more than the try-hard life.
	Oh my god.
	Can I go to someone's concert and just get to the front row and just be like, toe-to-toe!
	You need to take it down a notch.
	Yeah, Grimes or Machine Gun Kelly.
	Take your pick.
	You're a 10 right now, we need you at a 7.
	If you could just rain it down a skosh.
	This would all work out a lot better.
	Now that's subversive.
	Talk to me what you'd do with that, Elon.
	Like, using your money to buy a thing that you want?
	There's nothing subversive about that, Dig Dog.
	And then, like, publicly having dug yourself in a big hole and trying to dig your way out of it by you, richest man in the world, begging us, not the richest man in the world, for $8.
	And you're paying it!
	He didn't want to buy it!
	He, like, he was legally forced to honor a contract where he's like, I'm gonna buy it.
	And he's like, Oh, this is a mistake.
	And then just like, no takesies-backsies.
	And the court backed them up.
	Also, for the record, a lot of people, like QAnon people, conservative types, they love Elon, but he bought what he considers to be the digital town square, and now he's asking you to pitch in $8 to keep it afloat.
	Those are taxes made.
	Like, Elon is trying to generate a tax for you to pay.
	Also, Netflix wants me to watch ads, but here's the thing.
	If I have to look at ads, I need to be getting something.
	And I'm going to be paying them to look at ads, so I don't know what's going on.
	There's so many smart people out there that could tell Elon, hey, people really don't like it when you already saddle them with ads and then ask them to pay on top of that.
	Like, you have to make it less, but this was free before.
	Well, the best part was Elon was just like, hey, if you pay the eight bucks, you'll get half as many ads.
	And it's like, really?
	That's your sales pitch for me?
	Is I get half as many ads if I actually drop the jingle jangle in your cup there, buddy?
	What's the ad-free payment I have to make?
	I mean, it's just...
	It's so wild that, like, the vast majority of the money Twitter makes is from advertisers.
	And now Elon's like, hey advertisers, would you like to have your ads have half as much reach?
	That's my goal.
	That's my actual goal.
	And there's also been a report that some people on Twitter are talking about putting the entire site behind a paywall.
	That you literally are going to have to pay for Twitter.
	Which, my god, talk about killing the golden goose.
	Boy outtie!
	Well, you have absolutely fucking nobody on that site if you make people pay for it.
	I hope the people that are responsible for Mastodon are prepared for if that happens.
	Yeah.
	They think they're seeing a crush now.
	Oh my god.
	Yeah, Tumblr and Mastodon are gonna get so many.
	The day Twitter goes paywall, it's just gonna be like, Time to learn how to use Mastodon.
	Oh yeah, you can just have your peen out on Tumblr now while you're engaging with people, right?
	Yeah, so they've allowed nudity but not sexual content.
	That line is real hazy.
	It looked like they backed off it all the way.
	They didn't.
	They kept the wording real hazy.
	So probably no full penny?
	No, probably not.
	Unless it's artistic.
	Oh snap, the artistic penny.
	It's gotta be tasteful.
	It's gotta be very tasteful.
	Okay, we have to get to talking to Election here for a minute, but not before I surprise my co-host with a special guest boosh item that I had forgotten to talk about.
	So this is the part where the lights come down to the house and the Jumbotron lights up and some mystery figure steps out.
	And this time around it's Katy Perry, and she's voting Republican?
	Mike, do you have any insight into this?
	I know that I'm ambushing you with it, but I saw this photo floating around that seemed to be Katy Perry proudly being like, I'm voting for a Republican candidate.
	I kissed a girl, like, rich pop star, kind of assumed to be liberal Katy Perry.
	Why is she voting Republican, Mike?
	Should I break all of my Katy Perry vinyls?
	Katy has stated that she, quote unquote, I am voting for a myriad of reasons, and LA is kind of a mess right now.
	And basically, Rick Caruso is a guy who has funded anti-abortion measures in Los Angeles.
	He's basically a piece of shit.
	Other famous people like Chris Pratt and Kim Kardashian.
	Have decided to back this guy for nebulous reasons because, you know, famous rich people do that kind of stuff where they don't exactly vote with us filthy unwashed masses.
	Are you saying that having money might change people?
	A skosh, just a little, yes.
	And this is funny because Katie was An aggressive campaigner in support of Obama when he ran for the presidency.
	On the podcast that I did with Amanda and Arizona Right Wing Watch, we were joking about how Katy Perry had worn a ballot dress that had the Obama-Biden box marked filled in and the Romney-Ryan box left blank.
	And we had talked about how perhaps the mules had stolen that dress and tried to submit it as an official ballot.
	Yeah, that sounds like ultimate mule stuff to me.
	Yes.
	Hiding in plain sight.
	Absolutely.
	Look at my hilarious dress.
	Oh, give me just one second.
	I have to go put it in coat check.
	Stuff it in the ballot box.
	Yes.
	Mewling accomplished.
	Boom.
	Successful mewl.
	Yeah.
	And it turns out that maybe she was a double-double agent.
	Apparently.
	Apparently.
	So yeah, she posted this thing and basically everyone was like, Katie, bad move.
	Bad move, sis.
	This guy is not good.
	Not the play we're looking for.
	So yeah.
	So Katie Perry got dragged quite viciously for her decision in the L.A.
	mayor race.
	If she had had any career that I have noticed over the past five years, I would say that it might be in jeopardy.
	Maybe that had already happened.
	No, I just recently watched Todd in the Shadow's Train Records, and her last album was not received well, and now she's trying to revive her career with a Vegas residency.
	And from everything I've read, it's not good.
	But she does sing with a giant animatronic vaping rat, so that's cool.
	It's only a matter of time before she goes country.
	Yes!
	This Republican voting is the first step to going country.
	And her eye malfunctions and she went viral for it.
	So, I mean, hey, the Vegas residency is doing a little something for her.
	She's gonna be all like, howdy y'all!
	I've been reprogrammed to be country!
	Oops, did I say that out loud?
	Anyway, hit it boys!
	And then like a fiddle player's gonna start going and she's gonna sing some country nonsense.
	That'd be great.
	I'm here for it.
	I'm here for all of it.
	About like love under the fireflies at the bayou or some shit.
	Did she backpedal any?
	I know she got dragged.
	I read her statement where she just said, I'm voting for a myriad of reasons.
	She's like, LA's kind of a mess right now, and the Democrat wants to tax me 2% extra, so what are you going to do?
	She's very rich, and I don't care about you.
	I hate you because you're rich.
	Be less rich, and I'll hate you less.
	And since I didn't win that Powerball, I can keep saying things like that.
	Because the second I myself become a billionaire, I will wash my hands of all of you poors.
	There is no slur I enjoy more than pores.
	I love calling people the filthy pores.
	I will pay to make it look like I am literally ascending in front of people.
	I'll stage it, like at Times Square or whatever.
	I'll just be like, I am announcing that I am rich now!
	And the SFX will kick in and it will look like I'm rising into heaven.
	That's an Andrew Tate-ism.
	You hanging out with poors.
	You're poor because you hang out with poors.
	Oh, right.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	That's my problem.
	I should really be sucking up to fucking rich dickhead alphas.
	That'd be great.
	I'm sure they're really going to be like, you know what we should do?
	Elevate you to alpha status.
	Yeah, God.
	Fuck that.
	Nothing's more alpha than being a beta to an alpha.
	Yeah, fuck all that shit.
	Sigma life for reals.
	God.
	Idiot male culture is the dumbest male culture.
	It's absolutely the worst.
	Correct.
	Yeah.
	Yikes.
	Ugh.
	Calling it culture makes my skin crawl.
	Well, it should.
	Anyway, speaking of things that make my skin crawl, let's talk about an election.
	Let's get to Q's in the News!
	From the digital headlines to the digital front lines, it's Q's in the News.
	Mike Raines's election erection because this is this man I mean if you can see the look on his face
	he's playing it for a joke but you can tell he's genuinely pretty psyched to be talking about the
	election. All right buddy let her rip where do we want to start? Well I'll basically uh Sarge or you
	uh throw a state at me and we'll talk about it.
	I think it's the best way to just... I mean, I don't give a fuck enough to know what states matter.
	Okay, I guess Georgia.
	Well, yeah, let's talk about Georgia.
	That's what I know is close.
	Georgia, then Pennsylvania.
	Sounds good.
	So Georgia is going to go to a runoff between brilliant Reverend Senator Warnock and a football playing guy who had about 14 abortions he paid for and numerous other children that were not aborted.
	Walker. These two... And don't forget the likely CTE. Oh yes, and the mental disease and CTE and
	all the rest of it. These two men in the eyes of the Georgia electorate, too close to call.
	We got to do it over again. We got to have a rematch. Who has the lead?
	Warnock had the lead, and there was some hope that Warnock would actually make it to 50% and win outright, but it did not happen.
	So Warnock basically won Round 1.
	Round 2 will be in a month.
	Much like last time, where I think it was like January 6th, I think?
	No, it wasn't January 6th.
	It was like January 4th or somewhere around there, that Ossoff and Warnock won the runoffs to give the Democrats the Senate majority.
	That will basically happen again now.
	There was a Libertarian on the ballot and other, I think, other small party people that pulled enough away from both candidates that they didn't get the 50%.
	So on the one hand, if you're a Republican, you're like, well, the Libertarian obviously took votes away from Walker, and that's why he'll do better in the runoff.
	But if you're a Democrat on the other side, you're basically saying the only reason why Walker was even in the game was because Kemp, the governor of Georgia, is incredibly popular and won an easy race over Stacey Abrams, and that probably Kemp had some coattails.
	Probably a bunch of people voted for Kemp.
	They're like, well, while I'm here, I'll fucking vote for the guy with his R next to his name for Senate.
	And that when you have a straight Warnock versus Walker one-on-one battle with no really popular Republican on the ballot to lift Walker up, that Warnock will probably have the edge.
	So, I subscribe to that theory of this election because I'm a Democrat and I like to have optimism.
	But I also think that Warnock did this before.
	He won the runoff to win his Senate seat in the first place.
	And I mean, close that it is, I'd be close enough to trigger a runoff or whatever.
	It did look like our guy won.
	Right, exactly.
	By the numbers already, it sort of looked like he won, and now we're going to do it again, and it would require some actual flippy-floppies.
	Right, exactly.
	I can't imagine anyone being like, you know, I voted Warnock the first time, but now that I've thought about it, I want the semi-incoherent, abortion-loving guy.
	I want him.
	I'm going to change my mind.
	I'm going to go the other way on this one now.
	So yeah, so I like Warnock's chances and as mentioned, Governor Kemp won re-election.
	Kemp really kind of got lucky in the sense that Donald Trump fucking hates him and tried to primary him with The guy who lost the Senate seat, Perdue, who lost his seat to Ossoff in the same election cycle that Warnock won his seat.
	Kemp stomped Perdue in the primary, beat Abrams in the general.
	So he's able to run as this sensible, moderate Republican when he's a vote-suppressing piece of shit and an absolute scumbag.
	But thanks to Trump going at him and hating him so much, he's Been able to build this fake, moderate gravitas, which is infuriating because Kemp's a huge piece of shit.
	But that's basically Georgia.
	Sarge teed me up for Pennsylvania, which is the land of milk and honey for Democrats.
	Could not have gone better.
	Shapiro won the governorship.
	...over Mastrioni, who was a QAnon-promoting, election-denying, was at the Capitol on 1-6, basically said that if he got elected governor, he would fuck elections and try to get Trump installed as president, because I'm a piece of shit and I don't care who fucking knows it, so yeah.
	Governors have that power.
	Well, the thing is, the governor in Pennsylvania gets to appoint the Secretary of State.
	So, Mastroni was like, I'm just going to appoint a guy who's just going to give it to Trump.
	Like, we're going to take all your votes that are for the Democrats, throw them into a furnace, boom, certified elected Republican, sending our electoral slate to Congress.
	Donnie Two-Scoops gets our electoral votes.
	Eat a dick, citizens of Pennsylvania who don't want to be ruled by one party.
	That's how this works.
	So, Mastroni got smashed, and then a few hours later, Dr. Oz was also defeated.
	John Fetterman Uh, winning that seat.
	And this is, and what's really funny is right now everyone's talking about, oh, this crazy battle.
	Everyone, all these seats are in play.
	Uh, Fetterman, Fetterman's win is at this moment, the only flipped Senate seat we've had in any election.
	Every, every incumbent up to this point has held onto their seats.
	Uh, Pat Toomey had, was retiring.
	So this was an open seat that had been held by Republicans and Dr. Oz failed to hold on to the, seed for Team Red. And our boy Donald Trump, who loved
	himself some, who loved himself some Dr. Oz previously, now
	suddenly not so happy with him now kind of upset with Dr. Oz. It was,
	it was, it's been said that he is blaming Melania for making
	him support Dr. Oz and that this was a mistake.
	Man, that God, I like I haven't watched a lot of secession or
	succession. But I was like, they can't be like, it's just a nest
	of vipers like he turns on.
	It's That show seems less and less like fiction the longer we go on.
	Well, yeah, so this sort of Donald Trump treachery is nothing new to even this week.
	So, despite the fact we probably know how it goes, let's cast our eyes towards Florida, if only so we can discuss Donald Trump's opinions about one Mr. DeSantis.
	Oh yeah, our boy Ron DeSantis, who cruised to re-election and then basically was like, I mean, everyone knows DeSantis wants to run for president.
	So our boy Donald Trump busted out the Ron DeSanctimonious line on him.
	Earlier this week, in an effort to... So clever.
	Oh, God!
	Oh, man.
	You can just tell whatever minion of Donald Trump who got him to say that, just like, what a fist pump they had afterwards.
	They were just like, boom!
	Yes!
	Nailed it!
	I did it!
	And... Didn't they steal it from Roger Stone?
	Didn't he, like, I thought I heard that he used it, like, the week before.
	Could have, uh, it could have been... So Trump was just, like, straight up lifting it.
	I think it was Roger Stone.
	It was someone.
	They were lifting it from somebody.
	Also, again, like, you know, with the relative-to-what-they-were-hoping-for weak performance of Republicans in this election, at least as it looks now, this would be the perfect time.
	And DeSantis, if you want to hire me, like, I could be bought.
	So if you make the right offer, you can get sweet advice like this on the regs.
	Now's the time to come out, once again, like I suggested before, and just call it the way it is.
	Just say that Trump is a stupid and weak old man.
	Who is out of touch with everything, and he happens to have a few good ideas that he can't execute on because look at him.
	I mean, just look at him.
	And then, like, he'd just be like, hey, we already have a duff- we already have a duff-fuck old white man in the presidency that we don't want there.
	Why would we elect another old, like, old bag of bones?
	Especially this one.
	He already had his shot and he sucked.
	I'm DeSantis.
	I will take the good ideas from Trump, and I will get rid of all the parts of him that suck, like he's being like an old loser.
	And now I'm the new Trump.
	How do you like that?
	I'm Ron DeSantis.
	I'll be way more racist and anti-LGBTQ, and I'll hide it better.
	You know you shouldn't like a loser.
	Look at this loser.
	Yes!
	God, it would kill for someone to call Trump a loser.
	When he is, that's what happened.
	It's such a low-hanging fruit that no Republican dares to pick against that man for some reason.
	What you said appears to be true.
	I'm checking Twitter, and there's a guy named Mike Crispy, who's got a checkmark, which still means something to us, and it said that Yeah, it means he's got eight disposable dollars.
	It says, many of you who watched my show freaked out when Roger Stone came out and discussed Trump vs. DeSantis feud and called him Ron DeSanctimonious.
	And tonight, what did Trump say for the first time out loud?
	Ron DeSanctimonious!
	I tried to warn you!
	So yes, it does appear that Roger Stone is the source of this bon mot from the Team Trump campaign hat.
	Roger Stone definitely works for Trump, still.
	Yes, 100%.
	And there was also Trump talking about DeSantis and he said, if he did run, I will tell you things about him that won't be very flattering.
	I know more about him than anyone other than perhaps his wife, who is really running his campaign.
	So Trump is just claiming he's going to go into the gutter to destroy DeSantis, should DeSantis challenge the God Emperor for the mantle of champion of the Republican Party.
	But which is like, I mean, this is like such strong, This is some strong play.
	Like, I mean, he's, you know, this is him outrageously being like, hey, Ron DeSantis sucks, and if he runs against me, I'll destroy him.
	Yeah.
	So again, you can either sit there and show your belly and take this like a chump, or you can come out swinging and you can be like, Trump sucks, and there's a feeble old man who already had his shot and fucked it up.
	To Joe Biden, of all people.
	I mean, come on.
	Yeah, exactly.
	What Elle is saying is so obvious.
	The only way to fight Trump is to go full on at him and just start beating him up.
	Just start throwing haymakers.
	The moment you try to do any sort of deftness or, oh, that was a good joke, Donnie.
	Nope.
	He calls you a motherfucker, you call him a motherfucker right back.
	You just gotta go hammer and tongs at that guy.
	It's just full-blown all-out war.
	And that's the only way you can win.
	I have no belief that DeSantis has the toughness or mental acuity to pull it off.
	I just don't.
	Yeah, so you think his official response to this is just going to be completely rollover?
	I'll just be like, well, I guess Donald Trump's right.
	He does know stuff about me that would destroy my career immediately if it ever got out.
	That's gotta be a good look.
	You just rollover?
	Like, Donald Trump's just like, hey, if you try to run for president, I'm going to tell the press stuff about you that will destroy you and that you're just like, I've elected to not run for president.
	That means that there's fucking dirt on you.
	I'm Trump.
	I'm the only one who gets to be weirdly untouchable and say shit that should destroy any other politician.
	Yeah.
	Not you.
	Yeah.
	But I just don't think DeSantis, I mean, I don't know if DeSantis has the juice outside of very gerrymandered Florida.
	Uh...
	He has a chance, but I just don't know.
	I have no faith in him at all.
	None. Oh, I mean, and neither do I.
	But but if there if there was anybody that could challenge him, it seems like
	because he's been positioning himself as just being like a like a lesser Trump.
	So I feel like now is the time for him to try to, like, kill his master.
	You know what I mean?
	Like, he's just like I like I've learned as much of the blade as I can.
	Forbid, forbid your shadow, old man.
	And then now they have to duel.
	But the way that looks like is to grow a bed that should be just calling each other pieces of shit back
	and forth.
	Because that's what the Republican Party is right now.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's just... It's a bunch of apes just throwing shit at each other.
	You're not wrong.
	No.
	So I will now leave murderous and terrible Florida for the more enjoyable lands of Michigan and Wisconsin, because in Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, endorsed by Eminem, came in and crushed it, won re-election easily.
	And her opponent was an election denying sack of shit.
	So this is a trend that has been going on and we will see if Kerry Lake bucks that trend probably by the end of this week.
	But every election denier who ran for governor in any state lost up to this point.
	So that game plan Again, wow.
	Could you imagine using that as ammo if you're DeSantis?
	You're just like, look, here are the facts.
	Every single person that lined up for Trump that tried to back his country in the election was stolen and got destroyed in the polls.
	They all lost.
	Come on, guys.
	You need somebody that's not Trump to lead you, and I'm that guy.
	We are here, Ron.
	We work cheap and we're soulless.
	We will prop you up.
	We'll get you in the ring against the God Emperor.
	We can do this!
	Yeah, elevate me out of poverty and I will do almost anything.
	The Adventures in Hellworld and Ron DeSantis Primary Messaging Campaign Service.
	We're here for you, Ron.
	We're stunningly for sale.
	Oh god, I dream of a world where I could live without a roommate.
	Yeah, so election denier and Trump anchor, I believe her name was Tudor, lost.
	And then in Wisconsin, Governor Evers won re-election over Tim Michaels.
	It's Michael without an A at the end, so whatever.
	You want to have a funny Michael name?
	Michelle.
	It could be Tim Michelle.
	That's possible.
	But the best part of Mr. Michael Michelle was that he literally said during the campaign that after I become governor, no Republican will ever lose an election in Wisconsin again.
	I'm running on the plan to end democracy.
	That is my campaign platform.
	Once you have put me in office, you will no longer have the ability to vote.
	Actual fascism, go!
	Let's do fascist dictator now!
	And thankfully, the good people of Wisconsin were like, overt fascism?
	No!
	We don't want that!
	So, yeah.
	Wow, Wisconsin, you're breaking the heat.
	I apologize for some small amount of the things I've said about you.
	Certainly not all of it.
	So yeah, our boy Evers won in Wisconsin.
	Unfortunately, Ron Johnson appears to be heading to victory in a very narrow race against Mandela Barnes in the Senate.
	Right now, Johnson is up a little under 30,000 votes with somewhere around 98 or so percent of the votes counted.
	It could be even more than that.
	But who knows?
	Maybe they'll find a bag event.
	Hey, mules!
	Get to Madison right quick!
	Let's go!
	Let's do this!
	Yeah, let me just reach into this ornate leather pouch and I'll pull out this intricately boned ivory whistle that when I blow it summons the mules.
	Toot toot!
	Yeah, the mule watching in Arizona certainly went real well.
	Yeah, we don't have the full information on Arizona, but at the moment it does appear that Mark Kelly, the Democrat for Senate, is going to win.
	He's leading right now and most people think he's going to win.
	Mike Lindell's already saying that they're on his live stream that there's there's something weird going on in Arizona.
	Stop me if you've heard this one.
	Mike Lindell says there's election irregularities in Arizona.
	Oh, oh my god.
	Yeah, our boy Mike Lindell.
	Oh, man.
	He had himself a night.
	He sure did!
	I believe at one point he said he was going to stay up until we win, so apparently he will not go to sleep until 2024 at the earliest.
	I don't know if he's still up.
	He was up, like, late into this morning, and his co-hosts that he would not let leave were looking real rough.
	They were just on their phones on the livestream, just like, oh my god.
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	Yeah, it's gotta be awesome when you're, like, absolutely crazed boss.
	It's like, don't you dare leave my stream!
	I gotta scream and yell about how the cyber's going wrong!
	Oh, man.
	Yeah, so our rough boy, Mike Lindell, having the roughest of ones, and...
	Good must MyPillow pay.
	Like, if you work there, a quick aside, if you work at MyPillow, and you see your boss routinely on the news being an unhinged lunatic, just screaming at clouds, like, I have to assume MyPillow pays real well.
	He hates clouds because they're fluffier than his head.
	He doesn't want to go to God's Earth more comfortable than a pillow from MyPillow.
	He is, and he gives away his money so ridiculously.
	One of my favorite things is looking at all the grifters who have affiliate links to MyPillow.
	Like Jack Posabeck, who's just constantly fucking posting shit everywhere.
	Just always, every third tweet is just, Hey!
	Use the Poso code at MyPillow to get savings!
	Man, God, how much money is that affiliate link actually making you that you're like that desperate to shill it constantly?
	I mean, I hope it's a lot because my God, I mean, it's just, it's like it's like buying that $8 Checkmark from Twitter just branding yourself as like an Elon incel.
	You're just branding yourself as this like bootlicker.
	Like, once you have that MyPillow link in your personal bio, it's just like, oh, this guy's a right wing grifter.
	This guy is actually just a piece of shit who tries to like, con money out of low information morons by...
	Blind to them.
	Before the election results even started, our boy Jack Posobiec was on, probably on, he probably cross-posted it on Twitter also, but on Truth Social he said, I've never seen anything like this.
	This is a generational realignment.
	Yeah, Gen Z showed up to vote and went overwhelmingly blue.
	It couldn't change some deeply entrenched elections, but Gen Z showed up and voted, it was blue, and Republicans have to know that their voter base is just aging.
	They're gonna start dying off.
	So I think yeah, one of the things that I think is like so interesting about American politics right now is just the idea that boomers are losing control over everything because they were this giant generation And they basically took everything from their parents because they were like, hey, mom and pop, thanks for having a ton of us.
	Now we grossly outnumber you.
	So now we control American politics.
	And then Gen X grew up and basically we just replaced their parents who all got old and died.
	And then the boomers were like, hey, Gen X, guess what?
	We still run fucking everything.
	We still grossly outnumber you.
	Get fucked.
	And then, like, the Millennials showed up, and the Boomers were like, still got you outnumbered!
	And now Gen Z shows up.
	So now you have Gen X, the Millennials, and Zen Z. And the Boomers were like, oh no!
	We no longer run everything!
	A lot of us are dying!
	And now there's three generations of younger people than us who resent the fact that we've run America for the last 60-odd years, basically.
	And now they're like, Time for Grandma and Pop-Pop to no longer tell me that we're not allowed to regulate guns, or that we can't tax the rich, or that abortion is bad.
	I mean, it's just... I think one of the things that's going to make Generation Z much different than Gen X and the Millennials when it comes to voting is that they're not going to be the first generation to have this albatross of having a giant generation Right around them, that could just always outvote them.
	That could always put their thumb on the scale and be like, Nope!
	You don't get what you want, because we get what we want!
	Fuck off!
	And it's like, Gen Z's like, Nope!
	The boomers are dying!
	And every year there's more of us and less of them!
	And, like, the rest of us are like, Well, I mean, we're not huge fans of Gen Z, but you're better than the fucking boomers.
	So, hey!
	Welcome to the team!
	So, I mean, it's like... That situation, I think, is very interesting.
	And, um...
	Maxwell Alejandro Frost became the first Generation Z member of Congress.
	He's 25 years old.
	And he won a district.
	Val Demings, who quit the district in order to run against Rubio and get raffle stomped, he picked up her very blue district.
	I think that's a great move, both for him and for the Florida Democratic Party.
	And Democrats at large to be like, Hey, there's a very blue district.
	We need a new face for the party.
	So let's get this like 25 year old kid who's a real go-getter and has hit it to win it.
	And let's do this.
	And they rallied behind him and he won the seat.
	So that's, that's good all around.
	How do you do voters?
	Poggers, etc.
	So, Boebert lost, but MTG stays around, right?
	MTG will never leave.
	MTG's district is so ridiculous that she could only lose a Republican primary.
	Flowers, the guy that ran against MTG, thank you for stealing everybody's money and throwing it into a fireplace.
	Anyone who donated money to that guy, I appreciate the sentiment, but it was a waste.
	We're never... If you want to beat Marjorie Taylor Greene, you literally have to primary her with a Republican.
	The district is like plus 20 Republican.
	Boebert is losing.
	It is not official.
	I mean, it's... God, do I want her to lose.
	But right now...
	Her opponent is 2,500 votes ahead out of 300,000.
	And it's really weird, because I've seen a bunch of places say that 93% of the vote is in.
	I'm looking at CNN right now, and it says 90% of the vote is in.
	And when it's this razor thin, every vote counts, and every percentage point counts.
	But, um, Beaubourn's district is plus eight Republican.
	So the fact that she managed to offend and alienate enough of her district that it is, this is like, basically, if you are a normal Republican, you win this district by eight points and she is perilously close to losing it.
	It just goes to show how unbelievably shitty she is.
	And I think what this really means is that if she loses, which I hope she does, that'll be great, but if she doesn't lose, what this basically means is that the Republican powers that be are going to find a boring, empty suit and fucking primary the shit out of her in 2024.
	Because they're going to look at this shit and be like, no, we are not going to have somebody who is capable of losing a fucking Republican plus eight district in a fucking... Because the thing is, Boebert is doing this without the headwind of running in a presidential election season in a blue state like Colorado.
	Imagine if Boebert's opponent had Biden's coattails in Colorado and Boebert had the Trump anchor around her neck in Colorado.
	She'd have been done.
	She'd have been done 10 times out of 10.
	So yeah, like Boebert, even if she wins this, oh my God, whoever the fuck it was who beat Madison Cawthorn, they're going to clone that guy and they're going to run him against Boebert.
	In the Republican primary in 2024, and she is going to be gone.
	Because if she holds on here, she is not holding on to this seat in 2024.
	She's proven to be super vulnerable and incredibly unpopular.
	So yeah, this is just bad times for her in every way, shape, and form.
	And if her political career doesn't end today or tomorrow, it will end in two years.
	So yeah, she's toast.
	Wow, surprisingly uplifting for a news segment of our show.
	Yes!
	Although probably not as scintillating to the listener, who in the future may already know how all of these things shake out, and you can only hear us in the past speculating at this moment.
	Yeah.
	Mike, let's say we have time for one more before we get to a short mailbag.
	What state do you want to round us off with?
	I wanted to round us off with New Hampshire because that became a sort of reach goal for the Kickstarter fund that was the Republican Party.
	Because for a long time, New Hampshire wasn't even on the map.
	And then out of nowhere, you had all these shitty Republican funded polls that were being thrown out all over the place.
	And People were like, yo, Nate Silver, why are you putting all these obviously Republican polls into your aggregator when all they're doing is manipulating the results?
	And Nate Silver's reaction was, hey, if Democrats want to manipulate my aggregator, they could!
	They're choosing not to!
	Stupid Democrats!
	And it's like, Nate, Aren't you trying to, I don't know, like, get the result right?
	Instead of just letting people fuck with your numbers?
	And he's like, nope!
	Can't hear you!
	And so if you watch on FiveThirtyEight, um, Maggie Hassan Her probability of winning was basically a rainbow where it went up a lot and then it was coming crashing down.
	And Dawn Bullock, her opponent, was basically the reverse of that rainbow.
	So they were creating a circle where he was rising to catch her while she was descending to meet him.
	No, she stomped him.
	She won easily.
	It was not competitive.
	Dan Bullock was another election denier.
	He was my hero because literally he ran in the Republican primary under, the election was stolen from Trump and it was fucking bullshit!
	I'm the only man with the fucking balls to say it!
	And then he won the primary and they're like, hey, this is the New Hampshire early morning news show talking to Republican nominee Dan Bullock.
	Hey, Dan, was the election stolen?
	Oh, no!
	Joe Biden, duly elected President of the United States!
	Moderate, centrist Republican Dan Bullock, just here to represent the good people of New Hampshire!
	And I was like, fuck you, you piece of shit.
	Oh, God.
	And yeah, so Dan Bullock, the man who thought that kids were crapping in kitty litter boxes because they're furries and all that shit, would literally say anything to anyone to win a vote.
	He got himself ruffle stomped, and that was great.
	So, yeah.
	I was very gladdened to see that happen.
	It's just so funny, just people thinking that, oh yeah, this is the year that...
	The Republicans are going to make inroads into New England.
	And it's like, not so much.
	Really not so much.
	I mean, this whole election could have gone worse for Republicans, but not by a lot.
	Like, Biden is not a popular president with massive interest rates out there.
	Inflation, not out of control, but very high.
	Just like constantly having to release oil reserves, keep the price of gas down.
	And they still couldn't like they still lost a ton of key seats and the ones that they a lot of the elections they did win were razor thin.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	And I mean, right now, like literally nobody thought that we would be waking up and talking right now about the Democrats potentially still holding the House.
	It's like it's like probably the Republicans are going to win the House.
	But the idea that On Wednesday after the election, it has not already been called, Republicans control the house.
	It's just like, wow.
	Like, as you just said, like all, all the things were in the Republicans' favor.
	They're the out party during the midterm.
	And basically every time that happens, the American people vote to send the party in power a message that let them know that like, you need to listen to us and we need divided government to get your ear and this kind of stuff.
	You have high inflation.
	You have Biden's approval rating in the 40s.
	You have the war in Ukraine driving up the... Literally every ad I saw was, heating costs continue to rise, but Democrats side with Biden in his reckless agenda.
	And it's just, I mean, you just had all these things.
	And literally, the one thing the Democrats had is the fact that Republicans are trying to outlaw abortion!
	And you fucking idiots grabbed that third rail and we're so proud you did it!
	And congratulations Elizabeth Girth, this is what you've won.
	Like, the midterms that you absolutely should have destroyed in.
	You should have taken the House with a huge majority.
	You should have won like 40 seats in the House.
	You probably should have won the Senate.
	And now, at best, you might get 51 seats in the Senate if everything breaks your way.
	And you might get a razor-thin majority in the House if everything breaks your way.
	It's just, it is...
	If our political media actually ever criticized Republicans the way they criticize Democrats, they should be beating the shit out of the Republican Party tonight.
	I mean, just absolutely.
	Well, there you have it.
	A robust little look at the current political landscape as the votes are still rolling in as of the time of this reporting.
	So, yeah, there's our take on things.
	Hopefully, those of you listening in the future have awoken to a brighter future where the Democrats control everything and we're finally rounding up and putting Republicans into the camps the way we've always hoped and dreamed.
	Please, please.
	Next week's good.
	That is what Moloch craves.
	Yes.
	Oh, God, all three of us are hoping that next week is the Camps episode.
	It's going to be so great.
	It's going to be the best episode ever.
	Oh, I'm much more... We need to capture Kyle Reese so he can be the bait for John Cotter so we can kill John Cotter.
	I say against the wall with all of them.
	But Skynet, shouldn't you just kill Kyle Reese?
	Silence!
	Silence.
	What are you talking about?
	That's not how that works.
	Time travel is confusing.
	Shut up.
	I'm embarrassed.
	Just do what I said.
	I'm your boss.
	Skynet, the passive-aggressive AI.
	Obviously Elon Musk downloaded his brain into Skynet.
	That's why it's so stupid.
	If that makes sense.
	Yikes.
	All right, let's get into our mailbag for the week.
	Our listeners got questions, we got answers.
	It's time for Q and A. Cleodora Silvestri, the Hellworld Grand Inquisitor asks, something lighter this week to take our minds off the world being on fire.
	What's everyone's favorite Vigi game?
	I do like the Mass Effect series a lot, but it is one of the few games I've played more than once.
	So it's probably that, but I've also played XCOM, Enemy Unknown, multiple, multiple times.
	So I keep coming back to that genre, and Steam dimed me out to myself.
	I don't know how, but I have an absurd amount of hours played on Plants vs. Zombies.
	So, according to Steam, my favorite video game is Plants vs. Zombies.
	And I did play the piss out of that.
	My current favorite game, I've been playing a lot of Storybrooke Brawl still.
	I just, I like it.
	It scratches a particular itch for me.
	So I just vibe with it and I try to play a few matches every day if I can.
	When I don't have social commitments or whatever that keep me away from the house.
	When I was younger, and still to this day I have a fondness for it, but when I was younger I was sort of notorious for being a big big fan of Shadow of the Colossus.
	That was like one of the first video games I was just like, Oh my god, this thing has like something artistic to say!
	Look, the scales fell from my eyes as video games as a medium for art instead of just being like, you know, like a Mario 64, like, wahoo!
	You know what I mean?
	Yes.
	So there's that.
	And then, you know, I'm a sucker for some of the big franchises.
	I like a lot of Bethesda's open world RPGs, even though they're all very samey.
	Oh, Monster Train.
	Shout out to Monster Train.
	Oh yeah, I have a lot of hours in that as well.
	That's probably the game on Steam I have the most hours in.
	I want to say I probably have close to a thousand hours in Monster Train.
	That's a lot of train.
	Yeah, it's funny because when my brain saw this question, my immediate answer was the Horizon franchise because I loved Zero Dawn, I loved Forbidden West.
	But the more my co-hosts are talking, I'm like, I also really enjoy roguelikes.
	Slay the Spire, Monster Train, Hades.
	I was cripplingly addicted to Hades for a while.
	So that kind of stuff I enjoy.
	Also enjoy storybook brawl in Marvel Snap.
	So like, I think like when I just think of the term video game for some reason, a lot of those other games like don't kind of fit that like box.
	So I think of like that kind of like the franchises and those kinds of games.
	But basically, if you show me a roguelike, I'm going to give it a try.
	And I'm also looking forward to God of War, which is coming out I think this week.
	So that'll be fun.
	Today.
	Today.
	Oh, oh.
	Yeah, dude.
	Dad of Boy Cole and Ragnarok drops today, mate.
	That's exactly what you're doing with your afternoon.
	I pre-ordered that yesterday.
	That's my thing I'm looking forward to.
	Spoiler warning.
	I pre-loaded it.
	It's now also my thing I'm looking forward to.
	We can just skip that bit right now.
	L's on the hook for that bit.
	He's got to carry it by himself.
	The end.
	Yeah, so yeah, I think that's our vidya game question for the day.
	Leech from Buff asks, is the last Q post the most boring of all time?
	Is there another one that sucks more that I've forgotten about?
	There are a lot of them that suck.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Oh, I think my favorite, like the dog shit, bad Q drops were the ones that like literally were just a graphic for Donald Trump being interviewed by Sean Hannity back when Trump was president.
	Those were the best.
	...was that Q went from being a guy that would blow up North Korean nuclear test sites and tracking Barack Obama on spy satellites and mocking him to being like, hey, you should tune on Antity!
	Trump's gonna be on!
	It's like, really?
	That's what the super-secret spy who's gonna save the world from the deep state's doing?
	He's giving us programming updates on Fox News?
	What the fuck?
	Yeah, he went from super spy to like prophet to the just like sort of Republican hype man.
	Yes, exactly.
	Oh yeah, so, I mean, dumb though the new ones might be, they're certainly not the worst.
	There are a lot of Q-drops where it's just one or two lines of whatever the opposite of fury is.
	Calmness.
	One or two lines of stuff that should be exciting but is very much calm and not exciting.
	Reverend Xenofact asks, for Sarge, but you can all chime in.
	You are challenged to create a QAnon anime to mock it, not promote it.
	You have to pick.
	How to do it?
	Zika?
	Mecha?
	What's the story?
	A studio in or artists to design it?
	And who manufactures the disturbing life-sized dolls?
	Um, I mean... First of all, I'm assuming that Mike Reins mispronounced Isekai.
	Yeah, that's it.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	Yep.
	As one of the genres.
	There's a terrible movie out on Amazon where the, like, the lizard people are real, and there's an actual, like, comet ping pong, and I saw that and, like, made me throw up in my mouth a little, because I don't think you should indulge these people even that much.
	But it so we used to back in like the the 2010s and everything we had a bunch of series where like conspiracy theories and like time travel and whatever were real and I think it'd be like a Steins Gate kind of deal-y Uh, which is what I'm trying to say.
	It'd be something like that.
	So like a sort of sci-fi thriller?
	Yeah.
	We used to have those.
	Like Serial Experiments Lane?
	Yeah, that's what I was trying to think of.
	Yeah, I could sort of see it on the tip of your brain.
	I love how this is like a pointed question at you, as if you're the only weeb on the show.
	Yeah, for the regular question and answer, I was the one who just arrived at Sarge that the thing he was trying to think of was serial experiments.
	I'm like, God, what the fuck is the name of that show?
	Yeah, when you said Steins Gate and they couldn't pull the other one, I knew exactly what you were reaching for.
	Anyway, Mike Rains is lost.
	Mike Rains is confused.
	He's heard himself.
	So we had these shows, and it would be like that if we're playing it more straight.
	I could easily see, well I mean, easily, in an alternate dimension where I could imagine somebody with the Q Republican conservative mindset somehow generating the same level of talent as the creator of the show I'm about to evoke, but I could see a weird show paranoia agent.
	That has like a Q idea, like a Q idealism to it.
	If it was, you know, if in a world where there was a creator who could sometimes simultaneously be some weird American conservative like wackadoo and also just like incredibly artistically creative in that way.
	Also something like Boogie Pop Phantom.
	If you know about Boogie Pop Phantom, you're one of the real ones.
	And then I mean, let's be real, something like just straight up The Matrix, or I guess the Animatrix in this case, because that's what they really want.
	They want like an isekai where instead of them being transported to another world, they have awoken to what the real world is.
	Yeah.
	And they're just like, oh god, now I have to be a super spy.
	Now I have to beat Nancy Pelosi's with hammers.
	Yeah, it would just be a dumb anime version of whatever that old sci-fi miniseries is, where they get the glasses and you can see the real monsters among us.
	They Live, which was a TV show.
	They Live.
	It wasn't even a series, it was just a movie.
	Oh, it was just a movie?
	Yeah, just a movie.
	Yeah, the movie's great, with Rowdy Rowdy Peeper?
	Yes, Rowdy Rowdy Peeper.
	Oh my god, have you never seen They Live?
	Dude, that is one that you and your partner should actually watch.
	For sure.
	They Live is genuinely great.
	I was confusing it with V.
	Oh, yes.
	Yeah, that makes sense.
	I remember V. V was a sci-fi channel series.
	I think it was also broadcast on some other network.
	Anyway, now we're really in the weeds.
	Yeah.
	The point is you should watch They Live, and much like The Matrix, QAnon is obsessed with believing that they have the sunglasses.
	They're the ones who see the world correctly, and that they're trying to pill you.
	They're trying to make you put sunglasses on also, so you can see what's going on.
	It's Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David.
	Is that the other lead in that one?
	Yeah, and they have that brawl in the parking lot.
	Such a good brawl.
	The alleyway or whatever?
	Yeah, so good.
	So yeah, that is our attempt at an anime to destroy QAnon.
	Reverend Xenofact also asked the question, because there weren't a lot of questions in the mailbag, how does he challenge Cleodora for the title of Grand Inquisitor?
	To which I declare that the title of Grand Inquisitor is much like a title in sumo wrestling, where multiple people can be Yokozuna at the same time.
	You just have to rise up through the ranks to achieve that title.
	So basically we as a board have to deem you worthy is the only way this works.
	So- So if we go by 40K rules,
	if you're not the Grand Inquisitor and you wanna be, you just find out some heresy that she's done
	and destroy her with it.
	And then now you're the Grand Inquisitor.
	But like in your mind palace or whatever, because doing it any other way would be like a crime.
	We don't want to be endorsing that.
	Girl, when I say heresy, you have to, like, prove that she's consulting with the Ruinous Powers.
	And, like, trying to dethrone the Emperor.
	She's consulting with Khorne.
	It's Khorne!
	So yes, that's... Dude, it's a big lump of knobs.
	And it has the juice.
	How can I resist it?
	You can't!
	You can't resist it.
	When I tried it with butter, everything changed!
	It absolutely did!
	That's right.
	That's how you can tell roughly what age I am.
	That TikTok has come and gone.
	That was like...
	Three weeks ago or whatever.
	Four weeks ago, time is meaningless.
	But yeah, here I am still evoking it as of this recording on the 9th of November in the year of our Lord 2022.
	And the secret question that was asked to me in a different area from Existential Dreads was, if you had to recast Back to the Future with all QAnon grifters, who would get what role?
	And obviously Ron and Jim or Doc and Marty.
	And someone mentioned to, like, have the Middle Eastern terrorists who shoot up Doc to be, like, Kash Patel and Ali Alexander, which would probably be a little too on the nose and might get us cancelled.
	But hey, we're trying to stay true to the original.
	We're trying to stay true to the movie.
	So they are the Yikes.
	For the record, when we were in the casting room for this one, Sarge and I fought really hard against the racist pick.
	Mike really shouted us out on this one.
	He absolutely shouted us down.
	I'm not sure if it qualifies quite as a cute grifter, but I'm going to nominate it anyway.
	I just love the idea of Matt Gaetz as Biff Tannen, or whatever his name is.
	Yes!
	I just want to see his big menacing forehead calling our boy Chicken.
	Call it a call a guard boy chicken.
	That word.
	Rotter you chicken.
	Alright, well Lauren Bobert might be out of a job soon.
	She could be Marty's dad.
	Or Marty's mom.
	She could definitely be.
	Marty's dad!
	How progressive.
	That's me!
	Marty's dad now.
	Oh god, hey.
	And then Marty, yeah, and then Ron makes out with his dad.
	Also, don't worry, even if Bobert loses her seat, like, you know, she's not going to be out of work.
	What America News will snap her up immediately.
	They'll be like, hey, put on this corset and grab this microphone and be a pundit.
	100%.
	100%.
	Wear this Bratz doll lip gloss and get out there and tell us about politics.
	I love the specificity of that.
	That is jarring in its accuracy.
	Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm a real wordsmith.
	I've often said that of El.
	El is truly the best of us when it comes to the words and the communications.
	The words and stuff.
	Yeah, dude, I word mad good.
	Oh, the best.
	He knows words, the best words.
	Me word good best.
	So, beyond just my basking in the continuing tears of QAnon's misery for what's happened in this election, what are you guys looking forward to besides God of War?
	Unless that's all you have in your life, Sarge.
	Uh, I mean, that was what I was coming into this one with, how dare you.
	But before Sarge steals mine, let me jump in there, because you two clowns are both excited for God of War now, and I will say that, uh...
	I am excited for Black Panther Wakanda Forever.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yep.
	That's coming.
	That's that's dropping on Friday, which of course means I'm going to be going to see it tomorrow evening on Thursday, because that's just how movies work.
	Nice.
	They're just like it's dropping on Friday, but advance screening starts Thursday at 3 p.m.
	But yeah, tomorrow when I get out of work, me and some friends are going to go see Black Panther.
	I'm very excited.
	There's a rumor that Doctor Doom might be in the Stinger, and if that's the case, my pants are going to get very tight.
	Doctor Doom versus Thanos, who are you the bigger fanboy for?
	Dr. Doom, by a slight margin.
	I've always secretly been a bigger fan of Dr. Doom.
	Well, not so secretly.
	It's always been the case, but it's harder to let that freak flag fly because Marvel started pushing Thanos.
	So suddenly everybody was just like, oh, El Paso's been talking about this guy forever.
	And I'm just like, yeah, he's great.
	And I will have a similar opinion when Dr. Doom drops, although because comic books in general are more popular, I feel like through osmosis, most people know that Dr. Doom is a big deal.
	Whereas nobody knew who the fuck Thanos was.
	I remember coming out of the Avengers and hearing one guy look at his friend and just be like, who is that?
	And his friend was just like, I think it was the Red Skull.
	No, you fools!
	That's Thanos!
	He's so much cooler than the Red Skull!
	You have no idea!
	Oh, you fucking philistines!
	I can't believe this shit!
	Anyway, yeah, so Black Panther should rule.
	I hear that it's pretty good, but advanced greetings are usually positive, so I will reserve my judgment.
	Marvel needs a big hit.
	Hopefully this is the one.
	And then, you know, we'll see whether or not Quantumania lives up to the hype.
	Guatemala was already supposed to have come out, and I think that it's actually a pretty big deal in terms of their continuing story.
	So the fact that it kept getting pushed back was a real bummer, because Phase 4 has felt kind of listless.
	And I think it's just because a year ago we were supposed to have been introduced to Kang, and he was supposed to just be like, I'm gonna show up at some point and smash everything!
	And you should be afraid!
	Anyway, Marvel talk over.
	Yes.
	Marvel talk over.
	On to Sarge.
	Um, I mean, he stole Marvel.
	Like, I'm not allowed to say Ragnarok anymore.
	I'm not allowed to say Black Panther.
	You're the one who's allowed to claim Ragnarok.
	Mike didn't even know it was coming out.
	Okay.
	Uh, yeah, no.
	Thor Ragnarok.
	Super excited.
	Thor Ragnarok.
	Thor Ragnarok.
	God damn it.
	Got Marvel Snap on the brain.
	Don't worry, we'll act that out.
	Got more Ragnarok.
	Real excited for it, like a lot of other people on this podcast.
	Have it pre-downloaded and everything.
	I'm going to start playing as soon as we're done here.
	Outstanding.
	I am looking forward to sleep because I stupidly stayed up way too late last night with the election news and I was waiting for some finality in Boebert's race or anything in Arizona.
	And then I went to bed, and then I woke up way too early, and was like, nothing has changed yet, go back to bed, you giant dum-dum.
	And the brain was like, no!
	Need more numbers-es-es!
	So, uh, yeah.
	Eventually, at some point today, hopefully, I'm gonna get a nappy nap, and not be so plum-tuckered out as the giant man-baby that I am.
	So that'll be fun, and then I'll probably play a bunch of Ragnarok from Thor or Loki or any other god of the... Thor will be in it, so.
	Oh yeah, yeah.
	I was only a little off.
	Yeah, just a skosh, a touch, a smidge.
	Yeah.
	So yeah, yeah.
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