The Blue Trendnami 11/4: Midterm Election Results, Trump

0:01 Hello the internet and welcome to this episode of the blue trend nami that one courtesy of snarfula Or we could have gone with trendocrat blue cocky That one courtesy of elk Amino is in the ass.

0:19 My culture is not your costume. Okay, boo cocky Boo is have you're really gonna pronounce it. It's boo cocky. I know there's a lot trending blue nami and I think that's another Japanese word. I know. What the fuck? Well, you know. These libs. They're going to call it, I don't even know, GOP. Now, there's nothing that rhymes with seppuku or harakiri, but yeah, yeah, yeah. What a shit night for them. Bad night for them. Good night for America.

0:47 Good night for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. Don't make it bad already, Miles. I'm not making it bad. I'm not making it bad. No, no, no. I think this is absolutely what you want to happen. For the most part, best case scenario. I think it's a little bit of both, right? Because I think There was a lot of historic wins, a lot of historic results. And you also just saw, too, like a lot of fucked up like trans bills also got passed to across the country. And you're sort of like this is where you want Democrats now. They've got a they've got a lot of fucking power now. Yeah.

1:20 And they walk, chew gum, defend rights, fight inequality. Can we do all of these things now together? Right. that's what we're talking that's what we're here to talk about uh my name is jack o'brien that is mr miles gray yes yes um super producer anna hosnier texted us at i think it was like six pm our time flying yesterday was like you guys doing an election special tonight Which, first of all, how dare you? We're old.

1:49 We're old. I'm in my 40s.

1:50 We don't do election specials in the middle of the night anymore. And then she said, fucking Texas. And I was trying to ignore the results until we had, like, enough to, but I immediately was like.

2:05 What the fuck are you talking about? Oh, no, Texas blew it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

2:09 But she meant it more in a fucking Texas. You replied, did Texas go R?

2:13 Yeah. No, she said, Tallarico looking good in Texas. And she goes, TDZ has changed. The hosts are getting old. And then he said, oh, fucking Texas in a good way. Okay, you had me panic Googling. Yeah. But I have been too old for this shit since I was in my 20s. Since I was a baby, been too old for this shit, Danny Glover. All right. But let's, I mean....

2:39 The thing that we got a Fetterman proof majority. That's the thing.

2:42 That's the thing. I was always like, look, 51. I thought we were going to be carving edges. No, dude, we're not shaving edges. Downhill skiing, bro. Just carving edges. No, no, no, no. Always trying to shave an edge. This is, I mean, you know, The way it's looking, it's right now they have a 54 seat that they gained seven seats with two still to be called. That's in Alaska and fucking Mississippi.

3:11 Mississippi is crazy. Like, what the fuck? Mississippi, this is, I mean, in that sense, I'm like, there's no way you can be like, this isn't fucking significant. And I think depending on what your worldview is, you can pretend it means something or not another thing, but absolutely people are disgusted with the direction things are going. And we're like, here you go, bro. Here's a fucking, here's such a majority in the Senate that this is going to be durable for at least nine or 10 years. That's what, yeah.

3:40 I mean, even JD Vance was like, Do you think it was worth it to give them the Senate for six years? He's he's come out and like like that. That is another nice thing to see is they're just fractured.

3:52 Oh yeah. Yeah. They're pointing their finger pointing. I think also too, uh, we'll get into the results, but this is real bad news bears. Smell Walter Matthau for Pete Hegseth. He's in trouble, bro. Because the last week stories have been about like, I don't know, man, the vibes are kind of changing in the oval office around Pete Hegseth.

4:11 A lot of people are saying like, he's lying to Trump. And it feels like this is the low hanging fruit that the Democrats could go after for impeachment. Yeah. Or, Trump uses Hegseth because he needs a fucking scapegoat. He might go, it was all the Iran war, nothing else, and it was all you, Pete. That is what J.D.

4:27 Vance's analysis is, is that it was all the Iran war. Oh, I mean, you fucking ignorant idiots. God bless you for thinking that, that it was only that. I mean, it's honestly, it feels so much bigger than just like the cost of living and the Iran war, et cetera. There is just sort of, I think people really just saw they're like, dude, this, this is a fucking mess. And this guy's lost his shit up there. It does feel like we just might be getting to the point. Like he is a con man.

4:58 That's what we've known from the start. He came into office. as a con man, did his con man thing, told people he could do impossible things, you know, got caught running out the door with the money for the.

5:12 Orphanage and then like was able to do it a second time and people are just it like the results have gotten so bad and so hard to ignore.

5:22 Yeah that i mean they well and truly fucked the bed and it felt like that since the ice raids began yeah and people suddenly realized what the fucking stakes were because that's when people go Well, I didn't vote for this. Yeah. And I shouldn't like part of me was like, you're just fucking you're posturing because you're trying to save your own ass. I think there are people who really went, oh, what the fuck? Right. I'm stupid.

5:45 I really didn't. I didn't think it was this, even though I was screaming in my face that it was. And on top of that, too, they're just the economy is not good enough. for a bunch of conservatives to pretend they're not on a fucking knife's edge financially to be like, no, like we have to go in another direction.

6:00 And most people I think woke up to that. But again, as things stand, Democrats have a federal, as I call it, Fetterman, I'm sure many people call it Fetterman proof majority in the Senate. Yeah. Um, and also good news because the governorships going blue means like people, you know, there are people who could run for the white house or whatever, and could be replaced by it. You know, like the Senate math doesn't change when you have, uh, Democrats and governors mansions to, um, Tallarico, obviously huge, um, Hinojosa Governor race Huge El Sayed Huge Hinojosa was that on your radar?

6:33 Like I knew I was just scared I just didn't Cause Greg Abbott's a I don't even.

6:37 Right Greg So Hinojosa came in and Fucked Fucked up Greg Abbott Like the Fucking one of our main villains Yeah yeah yeah He's.

6:45 Fucking gone bro You're out of here He's gone Yeah yeah Um It was a And like again They went up and down the ballot You know what I mean like Yeah yeah They got like the lieutenant governor It's fully flipped. And I... Wow. I never fucking... I was like, yeah, bro, when's this shit gonna happen? I feel like every time a lot of people, especially in Texas, are like, it can happen here. Right. It just needs the right fucking things to kind of come together. We even saw, like, a lot of gerrymandered districts completely... like the gerrymander fucking failed for Republicans.

7:18 Didn't work.

7:20 There was just, it was just kind of amazing to see like the vibe shift be so significant. Remember like when we looked at the election map after 2024 and you saw those red, like there was directions where the vibe changed. All the red arrows. Everything was going red. It was all like, intensely blue. So again, I mean, these are the people that you want in office to at least begin to start changing things for the better.

7:42 Like I say, I'd rather be in a fist fight with Democrats than these fascists who are going to completely, uh, do everything they can to stop people. And not to say that, again, Democrats don't have that in them. But this is good. This is good. This feels... I think it really... We've earned this sense of relief after two years.

8:03 But now. Now it's time to fucking figure it out tomorrow. The yeah. To your point, like the back and forth of it. Like I remember all those arrows being like hard red and then now being hard blue. Yeah.

8:20 I feel like that's going to continue. I've been saying this since like when you look at like the approval of whoever.

8:30 Is in office, the president that's in office. it's always like really bad. Like ever since Obama, essentially, it's just like low because ever since like the 2008, uh, you know, market crash, like people have been fucking not happy with the job that, like what, what the president's job is, is to protect the status quo. Sure.

8:54 And so every, like, it's just like people are getting more and more aware of that. And so they're just like, now it's just two years of Trump being in office and people seeing that very plainly. And it's just like this, like, back and forth where like two years ago it was hard red.

9:11 Now it's like way harder blue.

9:13 And I feel like it's just going to go violently back and forth until somebody steps in. And maybe this is the moment somebody steps in and is like, no, the system, like the system is, is wrong.

9:24 That's why I'm like, that's why I'm very, I'm cautiously optimistic. Yeah. Borderline cynical. I'm not, I'm trying not to be cynical, but I'm like, Is a Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer-led Congress going to be the boat rockers?

9:38 Miles, stop saying that. I don't want to think about those two guys.

9:41 And it's fine. I mean, look, that's just the reality.

9:46 I was listening to the John Ossoff victory speech, and he was speeching his Ossoff.

9:54 Yeah, wow. He was But he was He was saying like Some real Economically populist Stuff Out there Um I don't know man Maybe Like it It feels like they know What the message is And like what At least the Where the energy was On this one Yeah Or at least partially Yeah yeah Yeah okay I'm not gonna be Too optimistic Let's just talk about I'm not trying to shit on it I'm just saying like There's it's not as simple. I don't want, I think a lot of people are like, okay, it's done. Great. They took the house. No, it's that thinking that allows Joe Biden to go in the presidency. People go back to brunch.

10:30 The inequality grows. And then now suddenly people are like, yeah, I want to brunch. I want summary executions in the street, but good things have happened just from a numerical standpoint. You love to see it. The house could potentially be a 75 seat majority. Is that a lot? That's a lot. That seems like a lot. And also a little terrifying because now you're, you're like, do the socialists, they need to like band together in the house to start creating a block because you already know with a 75 seat majority, they're going to like, yeah, sure thing. DSA people go ahead and vote. Fucking no. Yeah. Like we can keep this, the neoliberal shit moving. Um, but again, there's truly fuck all the Republicans can do in that sense. They are

11:09 fucking just, they're going to be useless. Um, so elsewhere, history has been made. Keisha Lance bottoms ended almost 30 years of GOP rule in the state of Georgia became America's first black woman to be governor and Georgia's first black governor. We just talked about Gina Hinojosa became Texas's first Latina governor, the first Democrat elected governor since Ann Richards in 1990. And I do know it's Hinojosa and that you don't pronounce the H and I apologize. Of course, dude, you studied abroad. I studied abroad. I won awards for my Spanish pronunciation.

11:41 In Kentucky.

11:42 Don't leave that part out of it. Okay. In America. I am an award winning Spanish speaker. Truly. And you demonstrated that. Hinojosa. Hinojosa. Hinojosa. Sammy Sosa. Aaron Ford became Nevada's first black governor. Byron Donalds also made history. Even though he's a Republican, he's also Florida's first black governor.

12:02 David Crawley became Wisconsin's first black governor. Amy Acton smashed Vivek. Put the smash on Vivek. And 20 years of GOP gubernatorial control. Ohio was a state a lot of people pointed out. They're like, this is what happens when Republicans fucking control everything. You get this fucking weird wasteland of a state. Not wasteland, but you know what I mean?

12:23 Like legislatively becomes so fucking rigid. Dr. Amy Andrews. defeated Lindsay's nepo-pic sister, Darlene, who admittedly... We hate to see it. I don't... I'm sorry. I don't know much about foreign policy. She burned bright, Miles.

12:38 Love that truth.

12:38 She was like the Tupac. Her political career was like, you know, just... Burn bright, die young, leaving a beautiful looking corpse. Tupac was what? The rose that grew from concrete was his poetic? She was the rose that grew out of nepo shit. Nepotism bullshit. So yeah, she... So also, Annie Andrews flipped a seat that has been in Republican hands since fucking Strom Thurmond. Okay? And she becomes the first woman elected to represent South Carolina in the Senate.

13:07 So just... There's so many other things. I also don't want to leave out I will say on the on the DSA side and on the on the leftist side, the, you know, Minneapolis or the Minnesota senator. Mm hmm. you know, one, um, yeah, she, uh, yeah, she beat, uh, Michelle Tafoya. Yeah. Uh, Peggy Flanagan. Yeah. Flanagan. Um, yeah.

13:31 Tafoya just didn't have it. And also I was just going to say, um, I wanted to also just point out to, uh, the Egyptian American surgeon, Dr. Adam Homawi has won in New Jersey, first Muslim member of Congress to represent New Jersey, uh, And, you know, he he was a guy who's like a combat surgeon. He was volunteering in Gaza. He's like there's a lot of other like really interesting candidates. Obviously, the people at the very tops of the ticket and, you know, at the Senate are getting a lot of attention. But, yeah, there are definitely some really also good heartening results in terms of people that are entering Congress that feel like they're like, I'm not here for the status quo. Yeah. OK. Were

14:09 you on Twitter last night? I know you're not generally on Twitter. I was on Twitter last night. Okay, there you go. Good for you. I know when to go on Twitter. It's like when there's huge MAGA L's, because that's when all the shit posters on the left come out. Get your umbrellas out. And just start fucking... Dumpin yes, yeah, there were some some great. What was that drill tweet?

14:32 That was so funny I really put it in.

14:34 There because I Rogan and Elon are on a jet to Israel Enjoy your unfunny circle jerk do not try to contact us. We are safe We are safe Entered the lexicon like that is going because wasn't that from the I from the, uh, that infidelity scandal.

14:56 Oh yeah. Yeah. The staff said that they're safe. It's like, nobody was worried. Yeah. There was just so many things about like, yo, the pronouns are coming back.

15:05 Uh, so Django gold had my favorite turning in early. I got to beat your daughter's ass in high school volleyball tomorrow.

15:12 Former guest Django gold. Armand Domoluski, the mandatory sex change surgeries begin tonight. All Republican voters, please report to your local abortion clinic voluntarily. Uh, Or a bisexual MS-13 member will be sent to your home. Somehow, pansexual orgies and Sharia law are simultaneously in effect as of this moment.

15:33 Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker writer, to your point about Fetterman, said, at this rate, we can just throw them Fetterman like he's Torian Prince and we need to make some salaries match. Referencing an NBA trade. Love that. We need to see it. I also just do.

15:49 Like there are some just beautiful moments of Republican cope. I will say the cope when I got to Twitter, uh, Was still flowing because the algorithm so fucked that like they're still serving up Spencer Pratt and shit Like and I was like confused because I was like wait They just called the Senate but he's like guys the the voter turnout actually is crazy for Trump voters And it was actually like Trump voters turned out.

16:18 They just didn't vote for Republican. Yeah, but I Uh, there's this really good one where somebody tweeted, what the fuck is wrong with Americans and Democrat States? You were really going to vote for a Muslim. It's your funeral. Thank God. I live in Texas.

16:34 Responding to polymarket breaking Michigan projected to elect Abdul El-Sayed, uh, then responded. My entire feed is nothing but people saying they're voting straight Republican. There is hope for America. And then a few hours later, Jesus Christ, Texas has fallen.

16:52 You do hate to see it. Yeah. Yeah. So much cope. I mean, even like when Trump just posted the veto hat as like his thing, it's like the way he Trump has just been talking about vetoes and we'll get to Trump in a second. But yeah, also got to point out not a great, not great results for tech billionaires either who pissed away millions on this race.

17:12 As much as I enjoyed the celebration and, you know, people on Twitter, the thing that really was giving me strength was really putting my head softly on my pillow last night, was thinking about the people who were having sleepless nights last night.

17:27 Yeah. You know? He's, I mean, doing Elon, like, because again, with the Dems sweeping up and down the ballot in Texas, that's bad news for his data center dreams. He just moved there. Yeah. He thought, he's going to have to move all the way back to California. Yeah, that's what he's going to do. California's safe for billionaires. Yeah, right.

17:47 But again, like, this is a really, like, He even posted like, I guess we're gonna have to do data centers on them in space or something like sort of flippantly, you know, and like the Mark Andreessen and Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz. They they dumped like over 100 million dollars mostly to Republicans. Open AI people were dumping 15.

18:05 It's just a lot of money going to try and keep their sort of like keep a hold on what they felt was a very tech friendly Congress. Now, not so much. And then also some shitty results. Like I said, there were a lot of anti-trans bills that just, yeah, they ended up passing. Like in Washington, the state bill that's meant to ban trans kids from participating in sports passed.

18:30 But 58% of the Washingtonians did vote against Initiative 645 that was going to repeal the state's millionaire tax. In California, Prop 40, the billionaire tax, nope, not happening. Prop 42 passed. Um, so, you know, 42 is the one that would have invalidated prop 40 if it passed.

18:50 Yeah.

18:50 Um, yeah. So not, not all perfect. No, uh, the Angie Nixon one also bummed me out a little bit. Um, because she was a really promising candidate in Florida and it feels like, well, we'll talk about this one also tomorrow, but it just felt like there was a real opportunity there. Um, she was like a DSA candidate who, came out of nowhere to win the primary. And then if she had just been supported as if she were not a DSA candidate, I think would have won because she lost by like a very narrow margin, even though the Democrat, like the mainstream Democrats had just like kind of not supported her at all. But we'll, we'll talk about that one tomorrow. Um, let's, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and

19:34 we'll just, uh, take a look at the night that Donald Trump had. We'll be right back. And we're back.

19:50 And so we kind of got the one good thing about Trump constantly tweeting and constantly like just being on Fox News is we kind of get a look. at him as he's going through a night like last night.

20:06 And he seemed gassed from the beginning of the night. He called into Fox News and was slurring his words like a Teddy Ruxpin running out of batteries. I was watching Fox all night And I was just waiting for the There was a moment where Brett Baier was like Oh we have the president Calling in I was like oh fuck What the fuck is this gonna be Put it in my vein straight up It's like listening to a Bill Simmons podcast after the Celtics lose.

20:35 Yeah yeah yeah Like I gotta hear this I gotta hear this And it was he was just It sounded like the midterms his first term too Where he was just like Yeah.

20:46 You know, they won. They won, but we're going to have to maybe work with them. I didn't lose. They won. I didn't lose.

20:53 That was like the main point that he wanted to differentiate. I told him, vote like I'm on the ballot. By the way, on Fox, did you see.

20:59 The moment where Bret Baier, like, they were with somebody remotely at like, some disastrous campaign celebration party. And the guy was reporting and he was like, back to you, Brett. And Brett Baer didn't know that he had thrown to him. And he was like, can we spin this election? Oh, sorry, it sounds like I'm live again. So he was specifically trying to find a positive spin of any election, but didn't realize he was on mic. So that, I think, summed up the night that Fox News had Yeah. In one moment. Um, yeah, he, so he, he also started like, uh, our writer jam pointed out that he started giving like, uh, the dying replicant and blade runner vibes. Like he kept saying, so Brett bear said, Hey, I'll just read directly. He said,

21:53 do you think Mr. President that you're going to make changes in your cabinet as a result of the, this election said, no, I don't think so. Had nothing to do with my cabinet. Uh, and then cue the Blade Runner music. It was just a point. Honestly, look, I've been doing a lot of great things for a long time, and it's just a point in time, Brett. Just a point in time. It's the way it is. There was a mood in the air, I guess. And you know, if you look, I shouldn't feel guilty. And then he goes on to be like, look, you said we were going to lose all the Elections that the presidents always do He also then goes on to be like I mean the only midterms where The president didn't lose was You know 9-11 and that was Basically a gimme So

22:40 he was like also just like being jealous Of 9-11 happening Under a different president Never heard that described as a gimme before. It was a gimme. 9-11 was a gimme. Also, he was like, I don't know why. Nobody knows why. No matter how good or bad or Republican or Democrat he or she is, but no matter how good the president is, you lose. I don't know why. You don't? Yeah, it's called not following through on your campaign promises or not doing enough. But yeah, I don't know. He... He did say the Democrats finally got it. They've been looking for this one for 11 years and they finally got it.

23:19 So he feels he seems to feel the most defeated that he's ever felt, which is nice to see, you know, in addition to kind of feeling the secondhand flop sweat. Elon Musk like just like Trump seeming to be this deflated Politico did the move that works fucking sleepover Energy where it's like, you know, what if we called the president right now? Yeah. Yeah. What do you say? Yes, you've got him I.

23:58 She's like, you're on with me and my colleagues here at Politico. I'm just wondering, what's your message? What do you think happened with your party tonight?

24:08 He said, I wasn't on the ballot and we didn't get the people out, but I wasn't on the ballot. And if I was on the ballot, we would have won. We would have won it all very easily. You did get the people out. The people came out. The voting, the participation of voters generally, but voters who voted for you was incredibly high. Yeah. They just all voted against you.

24:28 I mean, again, a lot of these coalitions, these new little blocks of supporters he built in 2024 just fucking vaporized. Not great, Donald. Yeah. Drudge Report has a big thing that says lame Donald Duck. Lame Donald Duck.

24:42 Oh, wow.

24:43 Clever. And then it's a picture of Donald Duck with Trump hair. These guys fucking nailed it. Uh, but yeah, I don't know. Well, any other impressions from election night? We'll kind of dig into what, what, what we do going forward, how we see this all playing out going forward. Yeah. There was a, uh, there's a weird, do you see the hunger games that no CNN and Fox news aired an ad for the new hunger games movie that looked like an address from like a fascist president was being interrupted by hackers who posted the message break the machine. Um, which was kind of weird to air on election night, but like, like it feels like it had to have been part of the pitch where they're like, and like, this is going to be election night where fascism is

25:31 on the ballot. So what if we like do our, uh, movie ad about a fascist dictatorship being overthrown while they're voting on whether that's going to happen?

25:42 Yeah.

25:43 Oh man. Um, geez. break the machine such a weird ad to run in the middle of an election also it's a hunger games prequel so the machine doesn't get broken and the evil president is ruling over a dystopian america decades later so the it's not not a super hopeful message uh i will say and also like why would you watch would you watch that movie at that point yeah um But yeah, I don't know. I think this is exactly what you'd want. This is exactly what you want to happen. I couldn't be much happier other than the Prop 40. Yeah, yeah. And many other like, but obviously broadly, it's not 100% across the board. Every single race went the way you wanted to or every ballot proposition went the way you wanted to. Um, we

26:29 don't know. I will say we, we don't know yet on, uh, Nithya Raman versus Karen Bass in Los Angeles. Um, because in, in Los Angeles, we count votes the way that they count votes is they have my son who really hates math. Like when he's at his most exhausted, they bring him in to count the votes and he's like, uh, and then he like does it real slow. Like as if he's like proving a point um that that's how they uh count votes in los angeles so that's why it just takes a little bit of extra time i think it's weird that they do it that way yeah a lot of pressure to put on an eight-year-old yeah yeah then they they gotta know i mean like also what like the labor laws sure right he couldn't be working

27:12 that right yeah yeah exactly yeah right brief brief shifts but i think yeah this definitely feels like the beginning of the end of the maga movement right because like the lack of the lack of them trying to even evoke trump even for their own campaign showed oh it would go worse maybe if i was openly embracing trump or having that my campaign materials um and the finger pointing is just like they're like at the lower levels they're all pointing up to the white house the Um, so yeah, there's, there's going to be some, um, I mean, that's the message that JD Vance got. He certainly was like, uh, breaking with the white house on, even though I'm part of the white house, he's, he's basically saying fuck Trump

28:01 on this one. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending. Uh, we're going to keep talking about this on tomorrow's episode. We have Hayes Davenport from Hollywood handbook. Yeah. Bit of a politico. Yeah.

28:12 On to discuss and, uh, parse. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines. I still can. Maybe those will come back. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow.

28:28 Bye.

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