Dave And Dave are back on the road, and they're joined by their good friend Gerald A. on this episode of the podcast. They discuss what it's like to be a drag queen in 2019, how they're feeling about the midterms, and what they're looking forward to in 2020.
00:02:27.000Hey, look, really quickly before we move on here, please share right now, hit the like button, comment, because the YouTube algorithm has told everyone that we are dead, but we are not.
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00:04:06.000There are probably going to be some changes here coming the new year because all of us were...
00:04:09.000We enjoyed ourselves more not being here.
00:04:21.000By the way, yeah, we're gonna have to be careful with some of the jokes that you made about the, uh, the Drag Queen Story Hours and the prizes.
00:05:38.000And we have a time to close for Nancy Pelosi.
00:05:40.000But this is an issue, of course, after these elections right now, the left is trying to gaslight you into believing that Republicans, conservatives, are only winning because of redistricting and gerrymandering.
00:05:48.000It's something that a lot of people have asked me to explain, so we'll take some time to do it today, but I will tell you this.
00:06:36.000We often do a little, like, we have a clip, we like to have a laugh, uh, that we show you and we usually react to, but I've been made aware from producers beforehand that we have to be very careful because, uh, what you're about to watch is a Brazilian, I believe it's Brazil's Got Talent, whatever the equivalent, a trans, deaf, and mute person, uh, competing.
00:07:04.000Yeah, won a national singing competition.
00:07:06.000After a beautiful transmute deaf person, and you've seen this, but you haven't seen all of it, a beautiful rendition of, remember we're on YouTube, Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You.
00:07:17.000Brazilian deaf mute trans woman sings Whitney Houston.
00:09:43.000I mean, pardon my language, I don't know what else to say.
00:09:48.000Like, here's the thing, like, even when you look at, like, straight white cis male, like, okay, we never assumed that, it's like, yeah, we don't demand we win a talent show.
00:11:38.000There is no greater official honor for me than to stand on this floor and to speak for the people of San Francisco.
00:11:46.000This I will continue to do as a member of the House, speaking for the people of San Francisco, serving the great state of California, and defending our Constitution.
00:11:58.000And with great confidence in our caucus, I will not seek re-election to Democratic leadership in the next Congress.
00:12:06.000Okay, well, and thank God because we do this all.
00:12:09.000It's a tradition here at Lottery with Crowder.
00:12:10.000We of course recognize that Nancy Pelosi had a good run.
00:12:13.000We will miss you and also because I need time to gather myself after the initial clip.
00:12:18.000This brings us to this week's time to close.
00:12:22.000When I hear people talk about inflation, as I heard them there, we have to change that subject.
00:12:26.000What I said was any sign of progress is always good for the public when they understand what it is and I think they understand infrastructure.
00:12:34.000time to close. Endings and beginnings are ending and beginning. Now, why are
00:12:44.000you shipping these immigrants up north? We need them to pick the crops.
00:15:17.000Remember specifically when this was all done.
00:15:19.000So not only was he lighting and accelerating the fire on January 6th, also before January
00:15:25.0006th with his conspiracies, at the end of the day, he said, this is what you get when a
00:15:30.000victory is so unceremoniously basically taken away from the American people.
00:15:35.000So not only when it was done did he have any remorse, he said, well of course you guys had an insurrection because that's what you get when you steal an election.
00:15:42.000Hey, by the way, nothing up my sleeves.
00:16:39.000And you'd think it'd be like a meeting of lawyers, and okay, what can we do, because maybe this might be good to use, kind of like us with YouTube, to use Twitter to migrate people to Truth Social, and some lawyers would kind of have a meeting as far as the exclusivity in the contract, but what I mean more so, it's probably going to come down to, screw ya, do it!
00:16:54.000Well, as of last night, Eric had made about 90 million fake accounts.
00:17:05.000So, here are two of Donald Trump's final tweets before he was kicked off.
00:17:08.000I just think you should remember how awesome it was.
00:17:10.000Well, that too, but Kinzinger is making the point, like, basically, at the end of the day, he was doing this, and it's like, you forgot to include these tweets, where he was trying to do something good.
00:18:14.000Whoever transcribes those has quite the job of the editor.
00:18:21.000So, November 18th, Elon Musk posted a Twitter poll asking whether Donald Trump should be allowed back on, which by the way, I hope it wasn't actually determined by a poll, because it should just be determined by what's right, but I think he was trying to make a point.
00:18:35.000Over 15 million people voted in the poll, 134 million people saw it, and Musk tweeted before the poll was, well once it was closed actually, people have spoken, Trump will be reinstated.
00:18:49.000Latin, which I don't want to read improperly, but it's Vox Populi Vox Dei.
00:19:35.000This is a wing of the government, if not at the very least, the minimum, the digital town square.
00:19:42.000And if you have the Ayatollah, if you have members of the, if you have the Taliban, On Twitter, you've got to let the guy on who was a sitting president who said back our blue and remain peaceful.
00:20:06.000That's incredibly, that would be as egregious as Mussolini as Pol Pot as Pinochet.
00:20:11.000That would be as bad as any banana republic that we mock if you had big tech deciding to do the bidding of Joe Biden against his political opponent.
00:20:21.000By the way, hit the like button right now if you're on YouTube.
00:20:23.000More of you are watching on YouTube, thank you, that's a good thing, but we also want a lot of people here on YouTube so you know how to migrate somewhere else.
00:20:29.000By the way, he was reinstated, Jordan Peterson, I believe.
00:20:34.000I don't know if Babylon Bee, James Lindsay, I don't know if they were reinstated, but of course Donald Trump, he was not the only conservative who had been removed.
00:20:56.000We made that point when he banned her, basically saying, this is probably 8D chess, he's gonna bring her back at some point and then they can't complain.
00:22:33.000It's all shades of gray I'm just saying it's just not the same Yes, that's all About as pleasing to the ears as her final bath American Defense League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted about Donald Trump being back on Twitter.
00:22:47.000For Elon Musk to allow Donald Trump back on Twitter, ostensibly after a brief poll, shows he is not remotely serious about safeguarding the platform from hate, harassment, and misinformation.
00:23:00.000And this is going to bring us, of course, later into the idea of redistricting and gerrymandering.
00:23:03.000It's really easy to sort of say, well yeah, hate, harassment, that's bad.
00:23:11.000In other words, if you say, hey, gerrymandering, redistricting is ridiculous, and it has been ridiculous on both the side of the right and the left.
00:23:34.000Oh, by a special committee that you appoint in your states.
00:23:37.000You always have to look at the replacement because the replacement has... it's the only way, it's the only way throughout history that you've ended up with fascism, with communism, with socialism.
00:23:47.000It's always presented itself as a viable replacement where no one really asks the questions.
00:23:57.000Of course, celebrity atheist Sam Harris tweeted, the prevailing opinion among, quote, free speech absolutists, you know, the people off whom he made a lot of money, appears to be that this platform, in order to become healthy, must helplessly publish the malicious lies of any maniac at scale, regardless of the consequences.
00:25:26.000Just look, I will tell you this, a lot of the people even right now who you think are on your side, they're not on your side.
00:25:32.000Look at the track record, look at the transparency.
00:25:34.000Sam Harris, I don't use the term charlatan or grifter.
00:25:39.000Maybe he's genuine and he's just that indecisive because he's such an intellectual that we couldn't possibly comprehend.
00:25:44.000We're now someone who we thought was on our side, or you thought was on your side, who supported the idea of free speech, who supported the idea of a free exchange of ideas.
00:26:51.000How do you come to a conclusion and what standard do you use that allows Dr. Jordan Peterson to remain on Twitter and Donald Trump to be removed?
00:27:10.000You have to give that power to a person to console it.
00:27:14.000And by the way, it's not lost on me that Elon Musk effectively, through executive order with a stroke of a pen, is allowing Donald Trump back on.
00:27:20.000But again, the standard that I'm using here, at least the length through which I'm looking, is through the stroke of a pen is the person allowing more freedom.
00:27:29.000He's not making decisions that remove freedom.
00:27:34.000I want the right person to say, Jordan Peterson, you're allowed, but Donald Trump, you're not.
00:27:40.000How does that work out in the long run?
00:27:42.000Do not be fooled by the intellectuals, by the intelligentsia, if they're not even able to give you a basic rationalization of a position that, by the way, cannot be rationalized.
00:28:50.000By the way, just so we can refresh your memory, thanks to Elon, here's some of the gems from Donald Trump on Twitter that are now available again for your viewing pleasure.
00:28:58.000That's something that I think people don't realize these were lost to the archives.
00:32:16.000Have you heard this argument, this trope, that Republicans are always gerrymandering to win elections, and of course Democrats don't gerrymander, and that's why redistrict, we'll use these terms of course interchangeably, and that's why our elections are actually not free and fair.
00:32:53.000And in states where the gerrymandering process has been undone so that it does not advantage either party, that is what happened in Michigan.
00:33:03.000Democrats ran the table with un-gerrymandered maps.
00:33:06.000I don't think a democracy can long thrive or maybe even survive if, over a sustained period of time, it is governed by a minority of its citizens.
00:33:10.000be in charge. And when asked to do so in a fair process, a transparent, nonpartisan process,
00:33:15.000that was the result. That is what Republicans are so afraid of when it comes to giving up on
00:33:19.000gerrymandering. I don't think a democracy can long thrive or maybe even survive if over a sustained
00:33:27.000period of time it is governed by a minority of its citizens.
00:33:31.000And through the gerrymander, the House is often controlled by a minority of Americans.
00:33:35.000Okay, so in order for you to not have to do so. I have actually been signed up for Adam Schiff's
00:34:05.000So that Democrats can pass voting legislation.
00:34:08.000And of course, the main crux of his argument Is that Republicans effectively stole the election through quote-unquote illegal gerrymandering.
00:34:16.000And if anyone else out there has signed up for Adam Schiff's mailing list, let me know if you had received this.
00:34:20.000I just can't tell you how much crap goes to it.
00:34:22.000I have a separate email set up so I can just, it's what I call my crap inbox, so I just go check it every day.
00:34:26.000I sign up for every single leftist newsletter.
00:34:54.000Well, we'll get into what happened in New York and how it was worse than any other example that you can find, I would argue, across the country.
00:35:00.000in relation to redistricting. So this brings us to some of the claims versus the truths that are
00:35:05.000made in this email Adam Schiff. So here's the first claim that's consistently made.
00:35:10.000That Republicans gerrymandered their way to a House majority and that Democrats overperformed
00:35:16.000to keep it close. Here's a quote from Adam Schiff. He wrote, this is an email.
00:35:20.000GOP legislatures spent the last two years since the 2020 census eliminating Democratic districts with illegal maps and defying court orders to redraw them leading up to the 2022 election.
00:35:30.000Their gerrymanders were their only saving grace from a historic Republican flop on November 8.
00:36:56.000Democrats actually gained significantly from redistricting efforts in 2022, along with gains that they've made historically.
00:37:04.000It historically has benefited Democrats disproportionately.
00:37:08.000According to Cook's Political, and by the way, this is Cook Political, it's non-partisan, which means probably slightly leaning left, their redistricting scorecard.
00:37:55.000No, 3.5 million total is how Republicans won the popular vote.
00:38:00.000And now, according to Vox Democrats, you had Vox, sorry, according to Vox, you had Democrats wipe out 12 Republican districts through gerrymandering.
00:38:15.000So none of that is Republicans taking over because they gerrymandered, which is the whole crux of this email is that we did this and that's how we won all these seats.
00:38:23.000And again, this is all, all of these arguments that we'll go through, these are designed to get you frustrated, get you confused, get you overwhelmed.
00:38:30.000So you say, Yeah, yeah, just let them appoint, I don't know, a special counsel.
00:38:39.000So this brings us to another claim that they've made, that Adam Schiff at least, he also made, that very few House Democrats lost their re-elections and that Republican gains were entirely because of, or mostly because of, gerrymandered districts, right?
00:38:52.000So that would seem like it's significant if that was true.
00:38:55.000Yeah, well look, hey, Democrats very few lost their re-elections and the only reason Republicans won.
00:40:34.000So because yeah exactly oh let's pack the court let's get rid of the filibuster now you've gotten rid of two checks and balances and it's all based on the idea that we don't have any checks and balances against republicans redistricting by the way can you redistrict that for any democrat who wants it please i don't want it okay here's another truth according to an analysis done by the atlantic I have.
00:40:54.000And the Atlantic, just so you know, tends to lean very left if you've read them for
00:41:15.000The sniff test would tell you that in midterms, which has to do largely with local elections, that the most popular party would get the most amount of seats and that they would sort of be congruent.
00:41:31.000They also wrote, also, despite conventional wisdom to the contrary, the number of competitive congressional districts has increased since 2012.
00:41:37.000Again, the point here is that the midterm popular vote should more accurately reflect the will of the country.
00:43:45.000Back to gerrymandering and redistricting.
00:43:49.000Here's another claim that they make on the left.
00:43:51.000This is a claim that you'll hear a lot, that Republicans are the only party that gerrymander.
00:43:57.000Here's the truth, and I want to show you a little bit of a bait-and-switch.
00:43:59.000The truth is that Democrats invented gerrymandering.
00:44:05.000Wow, usually that doesn't actually apply to being real.
00:44:08.000The term gerrymandering came after, it was named after the Jeffersonian Republicans created this sort of like weird serpent-shaped district in Massachusetts.
00:44:17.000And by the way, this is the thing, you're gonna hear like, oh, Jeffersonian Republicans.
00:45:24.000In order to try and push the filibuster, where are we with election deniers?
00:45:27.000He basically tried to say that this was stolen for a very, very slim victory that doesn't make sense to anyone who can basically add 2 plus 2.
00:45:32.000Well, no, so that's the illegal gerrymandering, and so they, the Democrats, do the legal gerrymandering.
00:46:02.000Redistricting in New Mexico turned Republican, by the way, a Republican, Yvette Harrell's, this was, just to give you an idea, some numbers here to get a little nerdy.
00:49:05.000So, here's how FiveThirtyEight Describe the Illinois gerrymander effect.
00:49:12.000One of our greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln, was a Republican from Illinois, but the state's new gerrymandered congressional map seems hell-bent on making Republican congressmen from Illinois an endangered species.
00:50:26.000It's funny you should use that word because in New York you guys put forward your, you know, redistricting map, your gerrymandering, and it was struck down by the New York Supreme Court for quote, partisan gerrymandering.
00:50:37.000Hey, for reference, what's the most important court in the state of New York?
00:50:47.000So, it was originally proposed by the Independent Council, that we've warned you about in the past here, and approved by the Democratic Legislature.
00:50:55.000So, okay, it's going through this proper process.
00:52:29.000The ultra-wealthy, of course, they support leftist after leftist after leftist, except for Elon Musk, who I just love the idea that the richest man in the world is basically a 4chan autist.
00:54:46.000Okay, look, you already have all the big tech.
00:54:49.000Oh, we need to enshrine it into law that it's basically beholden to our whims and we can remove whoever we want so that we can keep our political opponents off of the platforms.
00:56:15.000But this is important for you to note because it's all doom and gloom on the right.
00:56:17.000Adam Schiff sends out this email and then you have Conservative Inc.
00:56:20.000who they send out their emails and say, oh, look, no, no, no, here is, it's not doom and gloom as far as where the country is going.
00:56:26.000It is doom and gloom as far as the leadership of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, by the way, in a lot of facets because 53-47 and You all believe that Colorado is an entirely blue state, and electorally it is.
00:58:10.000Here's another claim that you'll hear from the left.
00:58:12.000Again, this goal is right now what they want to do is gerrymander to the point where they have enough control and then boom, shut the door behind them.
00:58:18.000Kind of like the Sarah Silverman's, kind of like the Amy Schumer's, kind of like the shock comics of the world who now want to say that you shouldn't be allowed to say something's gay in your act.
00:58:28.000Lest you be, of course, blacklisted and not booked, right?
00:58:31.000They want to make it to the next floor and then blow up the stairs behind them.
00:58:35.000You see it in the industry and you certainly see it in politics.
00:58:38.000They want to gerrymander until they get enough control and then solidify it, make it set in stone.
00:59:00.000So Schiff, and I'm reading this email, so I get that it's hard.
00:59:02.000I have the images for you and the text on loudearthcreditor.com, because I can't really give you a link because it's sent out in an email, which is kind of clever.
00:59:08.000And by the way, the email self-destructs.
01:00:11.000Oh, he won a majority of the vote across the board.
01:00:14.000Donald Trump made record gains with black people.
01:00:16.000They pick one group that may not favor you for a multitude of reasons to say it must be due to racism.
01:00:23.000So with the Santas, they know that the dog won't hunt as far as saying Hispanic, as far as saying Latinx if you're a total self-important prick.
01:00:54.000For some reason we thought that Miami-Dade County was forever going to Dems.
01:00:58.000Let me right now bring up CNN because this is, just so you can see this happening in real time, they're saying lawmakers prepare for gridlock because Republicans didn't win their rightful seats.
01:01:06.000Now they're gonna give us gridlock when they should have won 15 to 25 more.
01:01:13.000He has cut so many deals with bad people to get to this position that I think he's not going to be a leader at all.
01:01:20.000I think he'll be completely hostage to kind of the extreme wings of the Republican Party and I frankly don't think he's going to last very long.
01:01:28.000Do you mean like your whole state is held hostage by the way, you Republican representative in Illinois who went along with this?
01:01:55.000I'm fine with gridlock if it stops Joe Biden from running the country off the rails, which he's been doing a very bang up job of for, you know, a little while now, almost two years.
01:02:03.000I'm fine with a little bit of gridlock until we can get some competent people in the White House.
01:02:19.000They want to stop the bullshit that you've been pushing.
01:02:21.000Gas prices, inflation, when you're looking at what's happening with Ukraine, when you're looking at what's happening culturally, the decay of the American worker.
01:03:20.000And by the way, DeSantis noted that it was unconstitutional as far as the nature of the district.
01:03:24.000So not only did he veto it saying that it would affect black voters negatively, Contrary to what Schiff says, again, all so we get rid of the filibuster, which is even more severe than the gridlock.
01:04:09.000And people don't check into it, and they of course assume, well, Ron DeSantis, and he's like Trump, and so therefore he must be bad and racist like Trump, even though Trump was never proven to be racist.
01:05:52.000The only argument that you have is that, well, he was racist.
01:05:54.000And the only reason someone would say, well, I'd put that on the right-wing side of the ledger is because you say that right-wingers are racist.
01:06:00.000I say, I put on the leftist side of the ledger Hitler, you know, when you look at his centralized government planning, when you look at disarming people, when you look at his... I say, well, also the socialism, because it's in the name.
01:06:13.000Well, I tend to put the party that has the longest filibuster in history protesting voting rights.
01:06:55.000And also, by the way, some awful Republicans who didn't have the faith to stand on their policies in Florida, which by the way resulted in more black representatives in that state, in white districts.
01:07:06.000Hey, if it's the party of racism, Let's walk through this.
01:08:21.000And by the way, all of this, we're going to talk about this on Mug Club, this isn't even taking into account the incredible violation from the census that they're using to try and... So they're trying to redistrict this, and the census, it fundamentally changed to no longer only include citizens.
01:09:49.000So let me just recap this for you really quickly.
01:09:51.000Democrats, they hate gerrymandering when they're out of power only.
01:09:54.000Because they gerrymander all the time when they're in power.
01:09:57.000This election cycle, gerrymandering incredibly, to the tune that is almost unfathomable, benefited Democrats.
01:10:03.000Democrats lost a popular vote by over 3.5 million votes, somewhere around there.
01:10:08.000And Democrats, of course, will use this as an excuse to try and kill the filibuster.
01:10:13.000And we haven't even broached the topic of the census yet, which, by the way, may play the biggest part in all of this, if you don't know about it.
01:10:22.000We would discuss it more, but we can't.