Gishgallop Girl updates on the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act, highlighting right-wing silence and Candace Owens' questionable voter status amidst Project 2025 alignment. The host links fluoride supply disruptions from the Israel-Hamas war to antisemitic motives targeting Israeli manufacturing, while arguing that rising oil costs and metal losses explain recent right-wing shifts away from Trump rather than ideological changes, noting a resulting glut of used electric vehicles as consumers flee gas prices. [Automatically generated summary]
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Candace Is A Big Liar00:14:47
Hey everybody, so this is another update episode.
I just wanted to check in with y'all.
I thought about changing the name of these, but I'm kind of in this right now.
Now, obviously, anybody who listened to the original, you know, eight episodes of this broadcast know that we did absolutely change the name of the show from Please Only One Light at a Time to Gish Gallop Girl.
That was also because we had changed.
The original focus.
You know, the original focus of the show was to be we were going to be doing, you know, a different right wing shitbag book every season or so, as it were.
And then, you know, a lot of things happened and we wound up deciding to definitely go all in and kind of hyper focus on the work of Candace Owens.
Well, I wanted to talk, you know, just another off the cuff update episode here about something I noticed yesterday.
For those of you who may not be aware, our Supreme Court, the highest court in the land in America, voted yesterday on certain things that don't entirely get rid of the Voting Rights Act, but they essentially make it toothless for any community that is marginalized to have more of a say in government.
And just a little disclaimer of top, as usual, I am driving, so.
Anyway, yeah, the Voting Rights Act, when it was passed, it gave communities a chance to not so much gerrymander, but get voting districts more in their favor with how they actually vote.
You know, if, like in this case, it was Louisiana, I believe.
You know, the whole idea being that a lot of Louisiana is black folks and they didn't feel they were being represented.
So, you know, there was a lawsuit many years back, and what they won was the ability to district in the way that matches their actual demographics.
That was a thing that we had to make into a fucking law, because America, well, anyway, better minds than me have talked about it, better minds than smarter people than myself, certainly, have discussed what the all but Gutting of the VRA as it happened yesterday means.
That information is all over the web.
If you want to go find it, please be my guest.
I'm not talking about that today.
What I noticed yesterday, because, you know, I do this, so I was like, well, you know, what did Candace have to say about this?
You know, did she post anything up to Twitter or Instagram or whatever other, you know, stupid social media channel she's.
Deciding to flood the zone with this week.
Did she say anything?
The answer to that is no.
She merely posted up about whatever her most recent, you know, video about Erica Kirk is.
Like, okay, well, you know, Candace is the focus of our show, but let me poke around here and see if anybody else mentioned anything.
I got crickets.
You know, I got nothing.
I was like, huh.
All right.
You know, now that's.
That's really weird to me.
I mean, the focus of this program is Candace Owens, but Tucker didn't have a take.
And several of these other people who I don't want to give any, I don't want to give them any space by saying their names, but they didn't have takes either.
I was like, uh-huh, okay.
Well, this is different, right?
And I can't really put a finger on why.
You know, I can certainly think of some reasons, but I don't have any proof for those.
But going back around to Candace, you know, she's a black conservative.
Now, we've had our doubts, our serious, well founded doubts that, you know, Candace even is able to vote.
Like, I still want, I still put it out there that she is not listed on any of the voting rolls.
In Tennessee, and not the other states she's resided in.
And, you know, I find it really hard to believe that she is a voter at all.
Now, somebody, I don't remember which forum I was on, but it was, man, it was easily a year ago.
Somebody had mentioned in something when we were having a back and forth openly online, it may have been on Reddit, but.
They said that, you know, some celebrities or persons of, you know, public interest are able to get things like their residents taken from voter rolls.
Like they'll pay a fee or whatever to make it private.
Now, that could have happened, but barring any evidence to the contrary, I'm going to stick with the fact that Candace is a big old liar.
Has never been photographed or anything with an I voted sticker or anything like that.
She's never provided any evidence beyond her own word that, yeah, I voted for so and so.
I voted on this issue, that issue, what have you.
She's never gone that far.
And, you know, which for someone like herself just points to, okay, she's lying.
Because she's hyper online.
Like, I can't be torn away from my phone because of my job.
And I get that her entire thing is being online, you know, being a mouthpiece on Twitter and on her own media channels and shit.
I get that.
You know, I'm not going to knock it because that's what she does for a living.
And that's how we have channel content for y'all.
But, you know, I'm online a lot.
And what I noticed from her things and others is that generally when these people vote, even if they can't have a camera or whatever at the polling place, as soon as they are able to, they document that shit.
Because they document every little facet of their lives.
At least as it pertains to whatever their, you know, paid political outlook is.
So, yeah, I just want to go back to I don't believe she is a voter.
Now, that all having been said, like I said before, she didn't say anything regarding the Voting Rights Act legislation.
And, you know, you can't chalk it up to, okay, well, she made a video midday, you know, for her whole channel thing.
Maybe she didn't get around to it.
That doesn't excuse the fact that, again, she is terminally online.
The same with Tucker, you know.
Same with, like, Alex Jones, all these other numbnuts.
They're terminally online.
You know, if you scroll their Twitter feed any given day, If you're a free Twitter user like I am and you get to look at maybe 500 tweets a day, you can burn out that 500 tweets pretty quickly by going to any of their feeds and just scrolling that feed exclusively.
These people do not stop.
You know, they are as fucking brain rot addicted to it as anyone can be.
I mean, you know, so yeah, I just, I find it odd.
You know, not the least of which because of how she's, you know, she's very like in full-throated support of almost everything that's gone on, you know, regarding Trump and his policies.
Now, it can be pointed out that she's tried to do a public breakaway from, you know, associating her image with his to the point that Trump posted up a very, very terrible mock-up.
TIME Magazine photo, you know, declaring her the worst person of the year and putting her, her face into a washed out filter with like a do rag and some um, some lip damage and stuff it's.
It's gross and i'm not going to be linking to it or anything.
If you want to find it, it's out there.
Candace used it as some sort of you know thing, some sort of content for her to have a video, and I haven't covered that yet.
You know, the fact of these people are out there fighting each other, of course, my thought on it is let them fight.
Fuck it.
You know, who cares?
But she is not going to be able to escape the fact that, you know, she pushed really hard for Trump to the point of running open, public, bogus investigations on Kamala Harris's family.
Yeah, we covered that here and there.
So I don't want to retread into that water.
But, of course, we all know it was bullshit.
And I gave up the reasons early on and then later as we had to actually handle more of that crap.
But, yeah, I don't see why she wouldn't be on the VRA stuff unless she knew it would be a bad look.
because the gutting of the Voting Rights Act affects everyone.
Everyone but, you know, a certain subset of people here and there.
This thing is going to have implications into the future that none of us can see right now.
You know, people can guess at it.
I've read a lot of doomsaying about it.
You know, not something to the point of like Trump being a dictator or anything like that.
That, although he certainly would love to be.
But it's been more along the lines of, you know, this is going to negatively affect how particularly communities of color and even poorer communities, period, vote.
Regardless of race, you know, regardless of ideology, even.
This is going to have an effect, this is going to have an outward effect on everybody.
So, yeah, it's one of those things that really remains to be seen, but.
When things like Roe v. Wade, when Roe v. Wade was overturned and the power of abortion was directed to the states themselves, people like Candace were immediately on it.
You know, they were immediately out there, if not making videos, then pushing their view on the subject gleefully on all of their social media channels.
You know, they couldn't get enough of it.
Well, This whole Voting Rights Act thing, like I said, this affects everybody the same way that an abortion ruling did.
But where the hell are they?
You know, where's the MAGA at?
This is one of their many stated things.
This is, you know, a thing that's outlined in Project 2025.
Where are they at?
You know, and I think a large part of it is aligning themselves with this really puts them in a bad spot.
I don't think this is the kind of thing that they thought was really going to happen.
Regardless of it being in line with Project 2025, I don't think a lot of them really thought this kind of thing would happen, that the Supreme Court would go there.
It's just like the birthright citizenship issue.
Even the most extreme people in that camp don't really seem to think that the Supreme Court would do that.
And yet, here we are, you know, waiting on a decision for something that, as far as anyone alive is concerned, was decided.
Give me a second here.
I pulled into a parking space.
Had to get some coffee.
Anyway, so, yeah, I find it, sorry, I took off my seatbelt.
I find it odd that.
She hasn't said anything about it.
That I haven't seen much of anything from that side, if anything at all.
And, you know, we'll talk about this more on the show, but her whole pushback against Trump, I don't believe any of these people.
Metals Trade And Global Spiral00:04:52
You know, you really can't believe them.
Because they've proven themselves to be liars time and again.
Candace, especially, obviously, have an entire show about it.
But, yeah, what I think, my belief on it, though, what I do believe is that with all of this, you know, Iran war stuff,
with blockading the Strait of Hormuz so that traffic can't get in or out, with all of this bad business going on, and, you know, the obvious thing that, Trump has been the attack dog for the state of Israel this time around.
Not that him and other politicians haven't been in the past, but this is, you know, attacking Iran on entirely false means, whatever way you want to look at it.
You know, doing that on just the word of Netanyahu alone, like the whole, trust me, bro.
Culture of it just floors me.
But anyway, I don't believe that any of them really give a shit about it beyond the fact that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, that expense that's being felt in markets around the world, I believe that fucked up the bag.
That's what I believe.
I believe that it fucked up the bag.
You know, meaning it messed with the money hard because, especially in Candace's case, her husband works in both, he has both a PR firm and his family money is built around the metals trade, which again is a global commodity trade, as most things are.
You know, if you talk about lumber and say Canada or China.
Has an issue getting lumber out, or Russia.
These countries have issues getting lumber out.
It affects lumber prices across the world.
You know, not just locally to them, but everywhere.
It's the same thing with any other market.
We're seeing it, you know, most consumers are seeing it at the pump with oil, but it happens with metals too.
It happens with fertilizer too.
We could see decreased crop yields around the world this year because less, you know, Components to fertilizer, if not actual fertilizer itself, has been locked away.
You know, we're going to feel a lot of these other effects down the line.
You know, because if these things aren't getting, if you're not getting the ingredients of a thing out, well, then the people that work on that, say, let's say you get fertilizer components to a factory somewhere, the people that work on that, If the ingredients aren't coming in, they justifiably don't have jobs.
And unless they're on salary, which is super rare, they're not getting paid.
If they're not getting paid, you know, it's a spiral in all kinds of directions.
If they're not getting paid, they got to withhold money for their own rent, which means they're buying less groceries, out there doing less fun shit, not participating in the economy.
Excuse me.
You know, they're.
They're not doing the things that make the wheels on the bus go round, as it were.
You know, this has implications across the board.
Things that we can't even see yet are getting affected by this.
And you can bet that somebody that's invested in metals is having a time of it right now.
You know, one of the things that That I found out only recently that made me scream.
And we'll cover it on the show because I haven't gotten, I haven't told Matthew about this yet.
So y'all are getting it first.
Fluoride Water Grift Revealed00:05:48
He doesn't listen to these, so I can feel safe in talking about it.
At least I don't think he listens to these.
If you're listening, boy, stop.
He's my son.
Remember that.
Anyway, yeah, so there's been this big push.
In right-wing social media circles, going back before the time of social media, where they were trying to get fluoride out of municipal water systems.
Okay.
I couldn't really put my hand on it.
I couldn't really wrap my mind around that.
You know, they gave all kinds of bullshit, you know, reasons for this, saying things like an abundance of fluoride would calcify the pituitary gland.
you know, in your brain, like all kinds of crazy shit.
Right.
And they would point to things like, um, like locations in the world where fluoride occurs naturally and the people there are, you know, horribly affected by it when, when it like shows up, you know, if they tap into like a spring and the spring has a bunch of fluoride and they drink from it, they don't realize it.
And, you know, then people get sick or die or what have you.
Um, You know, so opponents of fluoride have been on that tip for years.
You know, regular listeners to Knowledge Fight, of course, understand that, you know, Alex Jones has been pushing against fluoride for years.
His company sells a fluoride free toothpaste that is pushed by his retired dentist father, that kind of thing.
Well, you know, it's always seemed like a grift, but like more than a grift.
And I was listening to NPR recently, and they were talking about how.
Among everything else, with this war in Iran and the Gaza genocide and all this stuff, they started talking about how components to fluoride were being held up in manufacture because the facilities that manufacture the components to fluoride, a lot of them are located in Israel, and these factories have been bleeding young men into the Israeli war machine.
You know, the IDF has been calling up these able bodied young men and women, presumably, but mostly young men, into the war machine of their apartheid fascist state.
Well, if you don't have the workers because they're being turned into meat grinders, then you don't have the components.
And if you don't have the components, That makes it really hard to manufacture the stuff.
As far as I understand, the fluoride that goes into things like toothpaste is not going to be affected.
What's going to be affected are the components that make up the fluoride that goes into your municipal water system.
Very few municipal systems, meaning systems that are done by a city, like in our case, we live in Minneapolis.
So, depending on the town that you live in here, like if you live in Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Water Authority, let's call it that.
I can't remember the exact term, even though I cut these people a check every month.
You know, the Minneapolis Water Authority handles putting the fluoride in our water.
Same thing with our nearby towns of Golden Valley and Crystal and stuff like that.
Unless they're working in conjunction with another utility, they handle putting the fluoride in the water of their town or county, whatever it is, wherever you are.
Well, because they have to work within guidelines.
You know, like too much fluoride is bad for you.
You know, so they have to work within guidelines to get the proper amount in there.
So they're always testing the water and tweaking what gets added or subtracted to it.
So fluoride is sold in components for that reason.
You know, just like any other recipe.
You know, if you have, you know, let's say you're making like a garlic bread, right?
Well, if you have a really powerful, excuse me, if you have a really powerful, like black garlic, or you know, you've got a jumbo elephant garlic or something like that, you're going to use a different amount of that any given time you're making this recipe.
You know, so you're going to use a different amount of that.
You're going to use, you know, a little more or less parsley to cut the sharpness of the garlic that you're using.
Or the bread that you're using.
You know, if you're doing it on a classic baguette as opposed to like a ciabatta or something like that, or just some white bread, nothing wrong with that.
I love garlic bread across all phases of itself.
But anyway, you know, you're going to tweak what you're using with everything else.
That's just how recipes and food work.
Same as with anything in life, really.
But yeah, fluoride in your water is no different.
Anti-Semitism Behind The Hate00:06:12
And the country that makes a lot of those components is Israel.
And due to the Strait of Hormuz thing and the stupid ass wars and shit, those supplies are going to get disrupted as well.
They already are.
So, you know, this has really fucked with everyone on some level.
Because having fluoride in.
Municipal systems has been shown to be a ben, to be a social good, a social medical good for people that doesn't cost much of anything for uh, for a municipality to include it in their water system.
It really doesn't.
Well, you know, we get these people that are doing this.
We got we're attacking Iran, they close off the strait Of Hormuz And it's only really beginning to spiral into.
Oh, yeah, I forgot about Israel's war in Lebanon.
Another fucking practical genocidal situation there.
I mean, you know, and the people fighting back for the people of Lebanon, aside from their own military, is, what is it?
It's not Hamas.
It's, I can't remember right now.
But, yeah, they have their own, you know, freedom fighters and stuff there.
So, yeah, this is all a big churn that we should have had no part in.
No other country should have had a part in that.
We shouldn't be giving guns and shit to Israel to make war on their neighbors.
But we have been for decades, and it doesn't look like anybody wants to stop the process.
But yeah, so we've got fluoride disruptions.
You know, and I come back to that because, again, it almost always comes back to anti Semitism.
You look at any.
long held, and I'm not saying the state of Israel is, you know, you can dislike the state of Israel.
I certainly do, and I'm Jewish.
You can dislike the state of Israel.
You can dislike the shit that they do.
That is not anti-Semitic.
No.
What is anti-Semitic is painting all Jewish people with the same brush.
Yeah, which I would never engage in.
I do have to stop myself from sneering.
At houses that have these little signs out in the yard that say we stand with Israel, it's like, man, no, especially right now, no, fucking no, you know.
Now, if they were actually the gentle lamb state that they want people to believe they are, yeah, sure, you know, whatever.
But anyway, like I said, it always comes back to anti Semitism with these people.
You know, I would find it hard to believe that they would not know.
That we get fluoride components sent to city water systems from Israel.
I had never heard it put that way before until recently.
When I heard the story, I was driving, I had to stop my car and just get out and take a walk for a bit because it crashed in on me that for decades these people have been on a, you know, no fluoride in the city water systems.
You know, it does this, it does that, making up all kinds of bullshit, scaremongering people.
into believing that this was some sort of like thing that was going to wreck humanity, even though it had shown no evidence of that whatsoever.
It was going to wreck humanity.
And then you get right down to it.
And the question I had not been asking forever was, how does this relate to Jewish people?
And the answer was always there.
I just, I never looked for it.
You know, the fact that They manufacture all of these components for fluoride systems.
It just, it brought it all home to me that you pick any, any like social push, any political push that these people have.
And by that, I mean the Nazis, the Alt-Reich, the conservatives who never bother to look past the very top layer of anything.
You look into any of these things with these people, and it almost always comes back to anti Semitism.
You know, it is almost always a thing that they don't want to talk about because they know it's unpopular.
They know that the actual act of anti Semitism is unpopular.
Not saying that we shouldn't be, you know, not being anti war.
That's not unpopular.
But directly.
Attacking Jewish people for this.
That's what I find most appalling.
And I heard about that on NPR.
The whole thing of the fluoride components, the fact that the companies aren't being able to manufacture it due to a lack of manpower because their youngest and most fit workers are being sent off to the various wars that Israel has.
Oil Industry Facing Extinction00:05:09
Yeah.
So, yeah.
I wasn't likely about to hear anything about that from any of the right wing shitbags.
But the fact that I've never seen them bring it up, I've only ever seen them attack fluoride, not the source of it.
It's always like, huh.
I wonder how long it's going to take.
How long is it going to take for them to start spinning up those stories?
But.
Yeah, you know, like I said, I haven't heard anything from Candace about this Voting Rights Act business.
I haven't.
And I firmly believe that the only reason she's anti Trump right now, the only reason any of these people are, is because his actions have severely fucked with the bag and screwed over the global markets in such a way that I would hope that many of them are losing money.
Due to their investments, due to shit being disrupted.
You know, the consistent gravy train of capitalism of saying that, oh, these things will always be available has proven itself yet again to be wrong thinking.
You know, rather than accept that the oil industry can mostly die off, now we're probably going to need it for things like plastics and stuff in the future, but the actual oil fuel vehicle industry.
Has had its day and its day is done.
You know, electrics are the future, period.
At least for right now.
And rather than invest in those companies, rather than accept those outcomes, they've been taking oil money in one way or another.
You know, if we just focus it on oil, they can take money.
From the oil companies, from lobbyists, from whoever, to continuously push, you know, buy a new American car, you know, buy your American gas, whatever.
They can keep doing that.
Or, more likely, I think, they're invested.
They've got their money tied up in these companies because as long as they kept pushing that viewpoint, it was never going to stop.
The gravy train was not going to stop anytime soon.
Even though EVs have been on a trickle rise in America, that wasn't going to stop.
Well, now, because of all this Mideast bullshit, more people are looking at buying EVs, even without the tax breaks that Trump took away.
They're looking at buying them.
They're looking at buying the used ones because what happened in the EV world was people that had EVs on lease, you know, where you give the car back after a couple of years or whatever, those EVs that were on lease, a lot of people opted not to buy them when the lease agreements came due because they were like, oh, well, if the tax breaks, Brake isn't there.
I don't want it.
So, you know, they let them go.
Well, then you wind up with a bunch of dealers that have an absolute glut of these vehicles that they now need to get rid of.
And so they're selling them at well below market rates just to get them off the lots.
You know, this is pretty standard car shit.
Well, anyway, they're moving all these things and they start moving more of them because now they're cheaper.
With or without the tax break, they're cheaper than they were.
And people don't want to be tied into this fucking expense of gasoline or diesel in some cases, but gasoline.
They don't want to be tied to it anymore.
They see how fucked up it is.
And I think a lot of people know someone who at least has a Tesla, if not some other EV, that they can go, hey, man, how much do you pay to like keep that thing powered?
You know, what do you do?
So, um, Yeah, it's been interesting, if nothing else, to watch this stuff fall apart and flounder.
But yeah, it's still coming back around to the start of this.
It still gets me that I didn't see any of them really post anything about the VRA yesterday, the Voting Rights Act.
I didn't see it.
I just think it's funny.
That's all.
All right, everybody.
Well, I will let y'all go on that one, and hopefully, we will have another actual episode soon.
Take care, stay safe, and yeah, just times are going to be weird and rough for a while.