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| Cheers to the end of the week. | |
| Not just the end of the week, but the end of a political career. | |
| Welcome, everybody, to the Muckering Podcast. | |
| I'm Jared Yates. | |
| I'm here with Nick Hausman, who's back. | |
| Hooray! | |
| Hooray! | |
| Pour one out, Jared. | |
| Came back just in time to celebrate Madison Cawthorn losing his seat in the wonderful state of North Carolina. | |
| You better believe we're going to get real, real deep and dirty on this one because it deserves it. | |
| But, Nick, what were you doing? | |
| Where were you when you heard that Madison Cawthorn had been beaten in the primary? | |
| I think I was probably like en route back to LA or something like that or was sensing that there was going to be an issue with his campaign. | |
| Did the captain come over the loudspeaker to tell everybody? | |
| Yes, in between you know encouraging people not to wear a mask on the plane then yes he was also you know making sure to let's go Brandon and you know I have a moment of silence for Madison Cawthorn. | |
| Have a quick little moment of silence. | |
| That's wonderful. | |
| I gotta tell you, I am enjoying this quite a bit. | |
| And I'll tell you why. | |
| Because Madison Cawthorn is simply one of the most disgusting snots. | |
| Who's come across the political radar in a very long time. | |
| This could not have happened to a worse person, a crypto fascist, just an absolute loser of a representative from North Carolina. | |
| The way this happened, though, Nick, we have talked about this, not as we've recorded. | |
| We've been following a lot of different things. | |
| We haven't talked about it on the show. | |
| We've been talking about this off the microphone a little bit. | |
| What an incredible turn of events over the past couple of months with Madison Cawthorne. | |
| Sure. | |
| Well, you remember, he got launched in the Republican National Convention from two years ago. | |
| And those things tend to give people a big boost without maybe even, you know, vetting and anything like that. | |
| He just sort of like jumpstarts at people's careers. | |
| and he came out there in his wheelchair and with you know a lot of the patriotic shit and he's young and he's handsome and all these things so so I kind of like I got it in the beginning but and here's the other thing is all these things that this kid has done you know and it's like stupid young kid shit 20s whatever it's like you know I'm not gonna I don't want to hold that against him it's just that the fuck that he's supposedly gonna represent an entire congressional district in North Carolina I mean that is when you didn't draw the line when you're talking about Americans running for office | |
| Yeah, so in all of this, I want to point out this is probably one of the most surprising and cataclysmic campaign catastrophes that we have seen. | |
| I was telling you before we started recording that the only thing I can think of was the Christine O'Donnell collapse back in 2010 when it came out that maybe she was a witch. | |
| I'm not a witch. | |
| I'm nothing you've heard. | |
| I'm you. | |
| That's a feature these days. | |
| It is. | |
| And you know, in all of this, just because our memories are so short at this point, this happened because Madison Cawthorne, and I want to, the absurdity of this, sometimes you have to look at American politics and just shake your head and like clap your hands. | |
| Like it wasn't just what he said. | |
| And everybody knows this. | |
| He said that he had been invited to a coke-fueled orgy by Republicans in Washington, D.C. | |
| Then all of a sudden you get invited to, like, well, hey, we're gonna have kind of a sexual get-together at one of our homes. | |
| You should come. | |
| And I'm like, what did you just ask me to come to? | |
| Nick, do you know where he said this? | |
| Oh, gosh. | |
| Was it CPAC? | |
| Where was he? | |
| He was talking to me somewhere. | |
| Okay, CPAC is one guess. | |
| Okay. | |
| Gosh, I could picture it, right? | |
| No, no, no. | |
| It was on a podcast. | |
| It was on a podcast. | |
| I don't remember which one, though. | |
| Yeah, and there's a reason you don't remember which one, because it is just an absolute rinky-dink piece of shit podcast. | |
| It's called the Warrior Poet Podcast, which is just one of basically, and I'm sure you've run across these at times. | |
| There's like this whole right wing aesthetic. | |
| And by the way, we're going to be talking about a lot of very, very insecure, sad, embarrassing men today. | |
| That's going to be a theme of this podcast. | |
| This is one of the, you know, where they all get that same haircut where it's all like shaved down on the sides. | |
| And then they've got the fascist swoop and then they're all sitting around like smoking cigars and talking about 1776 and like barber products. | |
| Like, it's one of those. | |
| He literally submarined his entire future because he went on this rinky-dink bullshit podcast and wanted to show off for somebody. | |
| That's it! | |
| And it ruined his entire political career. | |
| I think the moral of the story is don't go on any podcasts. | |
| Don't go on podcasts! | |
| Ever! | |
| Because he, you know, I'm sure he thought no one was really listening and it's a small whatever. | |
| I mean, maybe it is a big one. | |
| Who knows? | |
| But here's the thing. | |
| If it wasn't true, then it probably wouldn't have caused a lot of ripples across Washington. | |
| Well, okay. | |
| A 100% chance that political elites of some stripe and some identity are having Coke-fueled orgies in Washington, D.C. | |
| 100%. | |
| Correct? | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| And inviting a guy like Madison Cawthorn would probably have been just perfect kink for them. | |
| I would not be shocked whatsoever if he actually was invited to one of these things. | |
| The problem was also just him going around shooting his dumb mouth off talking about this. | |
| But I want to point out before we get into the hit job, because we have to appreciate what an amazing destruction this was. | |
| Just the demolition of Madison Cawthorn. | |
| He is a repugnant person. | |
| Who has idolized Nazis, white nationalism, has said some of the most disgusting things imaginable. | |
| And by the way, all of this material that got rolled out over the past couple of months, the Republican Party knew about it. | |
| They obviously had it in their pocket. | |
| They had it in a file folder somewhere. | |
| This is the same party that stood by Donald Trump, that stood by Roy, you're not allowed within 500 feet of this shopping mall or elementary school more. | |
| I mean, they stood by Steve King. | |
| I mean, this is a party that has not come down on somebody like this with the hammer of the gods. | |
| Ever. | |
| And this is what it took, was him to go on this rinky-dink podcast and talk about Coke fuel dorjies. | |
| Well, here's a question though. | |
| Is that what sunk his campaign? | |
| Because, was he going to lose anyway? | |
| Well, so there is the question. | |
| He did not lose by much. | |
| He lost, by the way, just a complete and utterly nobody, like Chuck Edwards. | |
| He looks like a tub of sour cream that gained sentience and decided to run for public office. | |
| I mean, there's nothing going on with this guy. | |
| So he loses barely, and it comes after, and I made a list of this, you know, in my notes, Nick, and maybe you'll remember something that I haven't remembered. | |
| And I'm going to try to go through this chronologically. | |
| This is what the Republican Party unleashed on Madison Cawthorn after he said that he had been invited by Republicans to these orgies. | |
| They released almost immediately a picture of his male staffer putting his hand on his groin, which in Republican politics, that's You don't do it, right? | |
| And by the way, no judgment! | |
| Nobody listening to this podcast gives a shit about that. | |
| There's a picture of him in lingerie. | |
| Okay. | |
| We really don't care about it. | |
| We don't care. | |
| I love Rocky Horror Picture Show. | |
| We do not care about that. | |
| I'll tell you what we do care about and that is a video of him thrusting his penis into the face of his cousin. | |
| Can we have... alright. | |
| So I've been... I don't... I'm confused by that footage. | |
| Nick, I think the rightful reaction is to be confused by that footage. | |
| But I'm confused because there's movement that I would think he wouldn't be able to do. | |
| He's an incredibly strong man. | |
| And this thing that he did, and I gotta tell you, Nick, did you watch this? | |
| What? | |
| This video. | |
| How else would I be confused? | |
| I'm confused because I watched the video. | |
| I was confused because I watched the video as well. | |
| By the way, Muckrake Podcast official stand on this. | |
| We don't care if you're wearing lingerie. | |
| We don't care if another guy has his hand on your groin. | |
| We do not endorse forcing your genitalia into your cousin's face. | |
| Fair. | |
| I would not endorse that. | |
| Although, I mean, listen, they were fucking around, right? | |
| I guess. | |
| But I was getting like Bob Roberts, you know, visions in my head at this point. | |
| It's so bad. | |
| Remember the very end of that movie? | |
| I know it, yeah. | |
| It's so bad. | |
| And listen, this is a murderer's role. | |
| of opposition material to roll out. | |
| I mean literally it's a nuclear option. | |
| The Republican Party said you're done. | |
| Right and we're going to make you out to seem gay and we know how everyone feels about gay people and you're never going to win an election. | |
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