Oct. 25, 2024

Gavin New Scum? That's actually kinda funny

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The Governor of California doesn't think Trump's Nickname Game is strong.

Tim Walls tapdances on The View

Those polls are getting intersting!

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Caalaroga Shark media from California, where new scum is actually

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kind of funny. This is ballad, that's right.

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I mean, it's no Crooked Hillary or Sleepy Joe, but

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they can't all be winners.

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Okay, let's hit this.

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Welcome back to political playground Theater, where today's recess features

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a riveting battle of name calling. So Trump's been calling

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Gavin Newsom new scum, proving once again that his nickname

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game peaked somewhere between recess and detention. Newsom responded by

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pointing out that the last person to use that zinger

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was wearing braces and worried about pre algebra. It's very

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familiar to me. I think it was a seventh or

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eighth grader that called me new scum. Now it's a

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seventy eight year old, Newsom said, basically confirming that Trump's

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insult game is stuck in middle school. Though, to be fair,

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middle schoolers usually have better spelling. But the real comedy

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gold came from Trump's campaign spokesperson and Stephen Chung, who

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called Newsom a third rate scumbag loser while accusing others

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of wait for it, peddling lies. That's like getting lectured

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about table manners by someone eating soup with their hands.

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Newsom meanwhile took the high road, saying he doesn't talk

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down to people who disagree with him, which in today's

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political climate is about as rare as a Trump tax return. Meanwhile,

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at a recent rally in Pennsylvania, Trump decided to spice

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up his vocabulary by calling Kamala Harris a crappy vice president,

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except he used the S word. Something's wrong when the

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wannabe president swears more than a guy hosting a podcast.

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Trump told the crowd, you have to tell Kamala Harris

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that you've had enough funny. That's exactly what the rest

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of America has been saying about Trump since twenty sixteen.

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But hey, at least he's consistent in his inconsistency. And

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get this, Trump claims Harris is further left than Bernie Sanders. Yeah,

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and I'm further right than Genghis Khan. Come on, Donald,

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we all know the only thing further left than Bernie

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is his unruly hair and a strong wind.

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But wait, there's more.

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Trump's rally crowd got in on the action, shouting s

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to describe the Biden Harris administration. It's like a rowdy

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game of mad libs, except instead of adjectives, they're just

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filling in the blanks with potty words.

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How presidential.

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Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is out there campaigning like a normal

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human being. She even called Trump's rallies really interesting to watch.

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That's what I say about the jets. That's diplomats speak

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for what in the name of all that is holy

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is going on over there? The presidential race has turned

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into a geriatric episode of are you smarter than a

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fifth grader?

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Our man?

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Donald Trump is out here trying to convince everyone he's

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not knocking on eighties door, while simultaneously praising ninety three

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year old Rupert Murdoch for being sharp as attack. I

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guess in Trump's world, age is just a number. Trump's

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insisting he's not that close.

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Yeah.

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Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is over here throwing shade like it's

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her full time job. She's saying, if Trump's too tired

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for the campaign trail, he's too tired for the Oval office.

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I guess she's never heard of the presidential nap room.

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It's right next to the situation room, folks, top secret stuff.

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But wait, there's more.

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Trump's calling for cognitive tests for all presidential candidates because

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nothing says I'm mentally fit like desperately trying to prove

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your mentally fit.

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It's like when I tell.

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Everyone I'm cool, it totally works, right, And let's not

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forget about Biden and all this. Remember him, don't worry,

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he doesn't either. He's turning eighty two soon, which in

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political years is.

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About one hundred and fifty.

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Trump's latest campaign strategy is basically make politics wwe again,

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and who better to help than his old wrestling buddies.

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At the RNC, Hulk Hogan ripped off his shirt to

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reveal a Trump tank top and shouted, let Trump Amania

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run wild, brother, which I guess is better than his

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usual catchphrase of brother, can you spot me some bail money?

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Then this week, Trump sat down with.

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The Undertaker, you know, Mark Callaway for an hour long

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podcast where the dead Man told him you've made politics

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fun again, to which Trump just smiled and said, yeah,

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because nothing says presidential timber like getting validation from a

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guy whose signature move was pretending to be undead. The

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Trump campaigns basically admitted they're leaning into this whole celebrity angle.

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His advisor Alex Brucewitz told reporters they're leveraging Trump as

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a person, the celebrity of Donald Trump, the unmatched aura

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of Donald Trump. You know you're in trouble when your

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campaign strategy sounds like a WWE intro video. But author

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Abraham Reasman points out the danger here when politics becomes

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like wrestling, it becomes about the thrill, about the self identification,

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rather than about policies. Though to be fair, Trump's been

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treating politics like wrestling since day one, saying truth outright

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lies and half truths in the middle, with an equal

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amount of enthusiasm and sincerity at all times. Not everyone's

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ready to jump into the political ring, though. Dave Bautista

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dropped an elbow on Trump in a viral ad, calling

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him a weak tubby toddler who wears more makeup than

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Dolly Parton. Somewhere, Dolly's wondering how she got dragged into

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this royal rumble. The Undertaker summed it up perfectly when

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he told Trump, You've got to make people care one

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way or another, either they love you or they hate you,

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which might explain why Trump's treating this election like its WrestleMania,

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except instead of fighting for a championship belt, he's fighting

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multiple indictments. Analyst Dave Wasserman, the guy who I've seen

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enough famous enough to be a political drinking game, sat

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down to explain why everyone needs to take a deep

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breath and stop doom scrolling through election polls. He's calling

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this the Aladdin election because we're in a whole new world. Personally,

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I think Beauty and the Beast might be more fitting.

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One candidate's trying to be the bell of the ball

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while the others, well, you get it. Speaking of Disney analogies,

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Harris's campaign went from the Lion King to the real

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world real quick. August was all Hakuna Matata, but October's

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like when MTV stops being polite and starts getting real.

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Trump's running ads.

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That make Tucker Carlson look like Sesame Street, and how

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about those house races. Thanks to Mike Johnson being greener

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than Kermit the Frog at fundraising and Kevin McCarthy doing

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his best mean girl's revenge tour, Democrats actually have a shot,

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though McCarthy's sitting there like you're gonna miss me when

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I'm gone.

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Spoiler alert. They don't the best part.

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There's apparently a whole scandal about politicians lying about their

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ages on dating apps. Finally something Congress and your Tinder

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matches have in common. And Wasserman's watching Virginia's races like

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they're the season finale of The Bachelor. If Alexander Vinman wins,

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Democrats get a rose. If he loses, well, somebody's getting

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sent home without a majority. So Tim Walls appeared on

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the view to explain some let's call them creative retellings

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of his past. The host basically said, hey, you're no

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Trump in the Lyne department. That's like comparing a paper

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cut to a chainsaw accident.

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But what's with the whoopsies.

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Waltz's defense was basically, I speak from my heart, which

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is political speak for my memory is like a Wikipedia

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page that anyone can edit. He claimed he was in

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Hong Kong during the Tian and Men's Square protests, which

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is like saying you were at Woodstock when you actually

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showed up three months later to help clean up. Then

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there's the whole weapons of war thing. The Harris campaign

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had to clarify that when walt said he carried weapons

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of war in war. What he actually meant was, well,

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not that. It's like claiming you played in the NFL.

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When you met, you played Madden on PlayStation. The best

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part was Walt saying he's at a disadvantage in debates

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because he just answers the question that you're asked as

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quickly as you can, which is probably the first time

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in political history someone's claimed that honesty is their weakness.

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It's like saying you're bad at dating because you're too

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good looking. His final explanation, I'm a knucklehead at times, which,

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to be fair, might be the most honest thing any

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politician has said this campaign season. Portions of today's program

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were made with the help of AI. We're gonna work

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this weekend since the election is like ten days away

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and we want to sell some midroll ads before Trump

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throws us in the Jimmy Kimmel gulag. See you tomorrow

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unless I get lazy.