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We’re here with our Midterms 2022 analysis. Felix’s “normal whites” thesis vindicated, GOP in disarray as weirdness on display, the future of L. Ron Santis vs. Toxic Trump…all this and more state by state, race by race coverage within. Plus, we finish on an almost psychedelically incomprehensible column from the one and only John Kass!

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E Joseph Weixel

I want to know if Virgil Texas is the same guy as Nathan J Robinson

Hardcore Virgin

It is crazy that Elon keeps rolling forward

John

felix needs a bigger bag for all the w's

William

Man, I could've been first. I could've been a contender

Kevin LeMasters

Chris please lend your producer expertise to The Adam Friedland Show.

Justin

Kamala on that loud pack

Jon W

Jester Maxxed

Ryan W

jacobdotgov, cityafreaks, byyourlogic, predictive triumvirate

H G

:( i recognize all these handles :(((((((

Chris Wade

I would love to, think what they’re doing over there is fucking hilarious. Come to think of it I was trying to give them one of our old studio lights, I should follow up.

Nolan

Patriots are in control

Andrew M

i voted for kamala ten times

B2B Commuter

FWIW the Michigan Dems seem to be taking the big boy strategy to heart by nominating Joe Tate, a retired NFL O-lineman to be their speaker of the house.

Bobi Jon-son Kenobi

I know it’s easy to be cynical about these elections (and rightfully so), but there is good news: Illinois’s Amendment 1 successfully passed, giving workers a fundamental right to organize within the state constitution!

Justin

I’m high as shit but this is an instant classic episode. More of these episodes please

Calvin Smale

>kass episode Instantly an all timer. No I haven’t listened yet.

Jeffrey Miller

Never expected a fucking Earthworm Jim reference from Matt of all people. What was that clip from around 53 minutes?

Bryan Jennings

The "time for honoring themselves is at an end" line is him quoting Gladiator. Which makes perfect fucking sense for Kass.

Ricardo Pleasure

i never know what the fuck kass is talking about. complete fucking gremlin

aida beats

Dont drink the gay potion you don't know how safe it is

Michael

I think "underperformance," will be a consistent theme in post elections analysis going forward, regardless of party.

Dan

I'm never entertained by John Kass; he's just a depressed Blue-Lives-Matter dad.

Alex

Good episode

Alex

I think it was Benny Johnson and Charlie Kirk raging on their show

Mitch H.

We want Rod.

dannypresson .

I can't live the buttoned down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend a few of the blue-noses with my cocky stride and musky odor - oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called 'City Fathers' who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about what's to be done with these jesters?

Kyle Petty

I wonder how much of these comments the boys read. This is like the third time Matt has mentioned the somewhat narrow frame of reference they have because of their jobs and only being online. I like to think I had something to do with it because I posted that exact thing on an episode recently. You know what I'm just going to take credit for it and make this my own Felix version of a win because that would make me feel nice 🤣

plainwrap

The Republicans have a sound electoral strategy. For every boring suburban dad they lose in western Pennsylvania they will pick up two shrieking groomer-obsessed weirdos online, and they can repeat that with the Dilbert Guy's twitter feed, and catturd2's twitter feed and LibsofTikTok's twitter feed.

Tom Joad

No way. He's not gay enough.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸🔻

Every single time they mention Wisconsin I cross my fingers hoping to hear Matt dump shit on Ron Johnson’s dicklipped head. I hate that fucking cunt more than anyone in the world.

Major bit me

Chuck Grassley back in the senate let’s goooo age 89 god willing he’ll win re-election and be the first centenarian American senator 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Will

Fuck who can tell me the intro/outro song name? Losing my mind trying to remember

J P 3

Trump's interventions definitely hurt the GOP in this cycle, but they didn't hurt nearly as much as the GOP-controlled Supreme Court overturning Roe. However, there was clearly a media campaign to boost Ron DeSatanic and blame Trump for anything bad that happened, that has been in the works for a while. Pompeo is another guy who I would watch -- he will have strong establishment backing, looks like he also is going to run, and is a much more sophisticated political operator than the Florida Guv. Not sure if he can actually win a national election, but he might be able to win a GOP presidential primary. The other factor I can't really figure out in terms of political implication is what kind of impact a legal prosecution of Trump is going to have on elections in the near-term.

nova

salute 2 el chapo - dj smokey

Will

Lol thanks but sorry I meant the one playing for Felix’s victory lap it kinda sounds like the guys that do Ain’t I but that feels wrong

Clean Shirt Piggie

How do the midterms get us to a president JB Pritzker?

Post Void

Just you wait until JFK Jr runs in 2024!

Michael S. Judge

One day, the jesters will be in the gutter, drowning in the accumulated filth of their whoredom, and they will scream, "Save me!" And I will say, "I'm looking for the finest garlic-habanero olive martini approved by the Chicago Police Department."

Thomas Carroll

The best part about this pod is that they are ALL the funniest

Jamin Kreighbaum

Here come the jesters, one two three... four... five... Jesus!

Ben

Cydia freak ? Who ?

spinalcordial

I enjoyed that episode so much I might listen to it again tomorrow

Khemith

His phylactery should be complete by then.

Will

Fuck yes thank you

Anders Olsson

The Dwarf by Lagerkvist is actually a pretty good novel. It's about a Nixon style dude. Kass mentioning it is 169% projection.

Kamran Husain

naw trumps next wife just got tossed from U Kentucky

BigBoto

31:01 wait...what's up with the Foggy Bottom Barnes & Noble I want answers! Banger ep btw

Greg Spicer

Wait, JD Vance isn't Will in disguise as a spoiler candidate?

Grant Hallan

GOP media seems to be forgetting that Trump took the 2016 primary more or less against their wishes. They really think they can just tell him he's done? Lmao

justdave

Men deserve mercy, a jester deserves to be put down (my underwear stain is a 'Becks depression inventory test')

Matt Murray

2 amazing episodes this week. Well done guys

ursie

Can someone enlightened me about the City of Freaks Twitter account they mention in this ep?

Brent in TX

they are talking about @cityafreaks who is a good twitter account to follow, but no idea who it is IRL though

Jason

Felix is grossly incandescent with all these W's

Isaac Jones

Uh it's um a Twitter account @cityafreaks

brodie

John Kass is in touch with some kind of dark God. This sounds like he is being contacted by alagata

Isaac Jones

Any GOP strategist or conservative who thinks that they can bury trump after 2022 is in for a rude awakening. It took them all of 5 years to forget that the reason they won 2016 had nothing to do with the Republican party itself. Trump is a singular force who is ultimately not beholden to the coasts and he knows he can play spoiler if they don't give him the nom, it's only a matter if he decides to leverage it. He doesn't actually care about a single issue and can easily win a game of chicken against the party. It's only a matter of whether he decides it's worth it

Alejandro Pepsi

For warlock vs Hershy, look at the vote totals for the governor's race. Very clear normal whites voted for Kemp and left senate race blank.

Sam Burton

In part because the word "jester" is inherently much better suited to use by musicians than opinion columnists, but also because of every other phrase that he comes up with, that Cass column is like a never-ending game of band/album/song.

ChigBungus

White House Down: The Jester’s Caper

Ryan Lazarus

this kass column written like the goddamn 36 lessons of vivec

Blair LaCross

Chris, thank you for including Shawty Lo in the episode

#1 Caleb Foster Fan

I would pay an extra few bucks for Carl Diggler Season 2 (limited series)

Cindy Carrot

All along the watchtower 😭

etienne

crazy how chapo can put out a great politics show when a bunch of politics just happened

Maxwell Harkness

The Republican Party is a fight between Republican Party Nerds who love the party and want to see it win, and people on the outside who thinks its funny when these nerds get wrecked just like they do when liberals get wrecked. I think the Nerd faction has regained some ground by basically ceding ground on every single issue to Trump but I still don't think they have to juice to knock out Trump.

Marcus

If it's still acceptable to use ironic sexism against right wingers, I propose we start pronouncing 'Ron DeSantis' as "Rhonda (short pause) Santis'. I may have stolen this idea from somewhere and can't remember where.

Clean Shirt Piggie

The ultimate Trump move would be to run for Dem pres nom in 24

Tim O'

I had no idea who John Kass was before I started listening to Chapo. His reading series alone makes it worth the time to keep listening.

Harper Big Spender Karabees

"If the military isn't going to overthrow the government, who will?" "I dunno, Coast Guard?" Since the officers are so captured in the system, no one would expect the Coastie Carnation Revolution

Laura

I haven't been following the election news much, I have no idea who they're calling cathy molecule. Who is that?

etienne

kathy hochul interim governor of ny state after cuomo resigned

glorb

can anyone ID the song played at Felix's victory lap? Is that Gucci?

BBMM

Felix said something about a Twitter handle like "city of freaks". Does anyone know how this is stylized? I tried searching twitter and couldn't find it

Michael lefsky

I continue to support Chapo because in most episodes, but especially this one, I'm reminded that although my relationship with them is parasocial, that doesn't change the fact that the three of them, and me, and countless others, all had their lives irrevocably broken in April of 2022. And the only thing we got in exchange for our hope in a better world was the clarity of vision that hope obscures, as shown by Felix today. You should feel free to blast me for this sentimental response

AJ

Where's that clip of the guy screaming about kevin mccarthy based video clips from? I could listen to that on repeat

Damen Irving

Found out a little while back that I work with one of Kass’s former editorial assistants. Was talking to him and it’s insane that guy used to be a respected columnist.

Brendan Kneeland

It’s staring trump right in the face: Wrong DeSantis

Bobby Volcano

Chris can we please get a youtube clip of Matt's FDR bit ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

Justin Roll

finally you gave us the Beltway Garage! Pressuring Chapos works!

Corey Reynolds

Nashvillian here. The state constitutional word changing about slavery is confusing. It prohibits slavery from ever being enforced in the state of TN again. Which is good. But I’ve heard other people say it was a just a rewording issue. Not sure why any of this is an issue if we have the 13th amendment in the US constitution. Just be safe I voted yes to changing it. The sad part? 20% of TN voters voted to keep slavery in the state constitution. 😔. The other sad part is that Congress might go the GOP bc Nashville and middle TN have been gerrymandered to hell. Nashville has been blue for a very long time up until this year. Very sad.

Jake Zydek

clowns to the left of me, jesters to the right

Shimosanz (Brian Sanchez)

Matt was totally right about “normal Latinos.” Will add that conversely, just like with whites, the GOP is also the party of freakazoid Latinos. The ones who are despised by their relatives and don’t get invited to barbecues and quinceañeras.

james

Me listening to this: 😎

Will

Jester pilled.

Nolan

Where do Republicans stand after losing the German fart fetish vote?

Nolan

Chris please investigate 9/11.

Gagortion

what was Felix's victory song?

K102.1FM Mornings w/ Jonny Corndogs

Yeah, how the fuck he miss this? It's simple, it hits quick enough for his dogbrain base to eat it up, and requires little effort. Ron Sanctimonious? It sounds like Trump hired a C-tier Obama coms staffer to manage his posts...like the Millhouse to one of the Pod Save Jons.

Cameron

Arizona resident here: it’s absolute hell

syd

I’m so fucking obsessed with the idea of John Kass giving himself Stendhal Syndrome by staring at that fucking jester painting for hours and hours on end

syd

I need to see a recreation of the scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off where Cameron stares at A Sunday on La Grande Jatt except instead of Cameron zoning out while looking at the impressionistic splotches of paint like it’s a magic eye picture, it’s John Kass experiencing a deep and profound empathetic sorrow for this jester. Because John knows in his heart that he too is the jester.

Sam Tung

Favorite episode in a while

J.P. McD.

Did Chapo talk about Michael Bay’s The Ambulance for 15 minutes in an episode this year? Watched it last night and now want to re-listen but can’t find a trace of it.

J.P. McD.

Honestly might just be mixing it up with The Important Cinema Club

etienne

iirr they touched on how it was kind of a miss but I can't remember if it was a tweet by one of the dryboys or in the actual pod

Andrew Cross

John Kass writing about Mushroom, the dwarf court fool of Viserys I, Aegon II and Aegon III

Shiv

if you like hearing catturd2 over and over this latest QAA ep is for u

Shiv

solidarity

Shiv

i would love animated shorts that bring to life some of these Reading Series scenarios

Marcus

If they only knew what the Florida Panhandle was like. A guy down the road from me had a 10' x 15' Trump sign in his yard for the longest time.

Samwell Ganges

Every day I shed Minecraft blood to prevent the clowns from jestermaxxing.

Travis F. Welch

It’s definitely a rewording. The TN constitution had a “slavery banned except as punishment for crime” clause (like the US constitution). The exact text of the amendment just adopted is “slavery and involuntary servitude are forever prohibited. Nothing in this section shall prohibit an inmate from working when the inmate has been duly convicted of a crime.” So it just rephrased the statement but says the same thing.

orc

Look, Matt, I am trying to watch House of the Dragon, and I’m as soy as anyone, but it sucks! It’s so formulaic

Dan

They did earlier this year. Said something like movies are back. Check the pod timeline whenever it was in theatres

J.P. McD.

Absolutely love that Matt obviously listens to every single episode of the 538 podcast (or at least the Model Talk ones). I do too tbh

S.E. Nyarady

I lived in New Mexico when Lujan-Grisham was elected and have to say it was extremely funny to hear CNN refer to her as the only Latina governor, as she is part of the strange NM-specific minority of white "Spaniards" who claim descent from the original white Spanish settlers, have steadfastly refused to ever intermarry with indigenous people for 500 years, speak a weird Don Quixote Spanish, and are very entrenched in local politics there

Frank

I think if you ever doubt the dry boys all it takes is one like this to make you admit they still hit hard.

Thom

I can't even picture talking to a Thiel paid podcaster, let alone allowing them to stalk around my house as I tell people they're my girlfriend. Yeeeesh

Cameron Young

Earthworm Jim- never beat it - never will

JD Nonce

Can someone actually do the ‘normal whites’ compilation and post it on YouTube so I have something to listen to in the bath?

Gengeros

Pennsylvanian here, we dogged the bullet of the century.

bl

john kass writes like a jester lmao

CT

I’ve long contended that Florida is Tropical Ohio

Aaron C

Love hearing someone earnestly asking for someone to do something “based”, very normal

ursie

Thank you, sincerely. I guess Twitter (and me too I guess) is too stupid to find this account because the "of" v. "a" is apparently too difficult to differentiate.

Alec

Classic episode

Terrance McDonald

I don’t know much about John Kass except for whats been talked about on the show, but that was the funniest thing I’ve ever heard. John must’ve seen his son playing Skyrim, the dark brotherhood quest line. And that Cicero fella didn’t sit well with ol John.

Terrance McDonald

Agreed. I love the John articles, but I also love that other guy who’s in like, Estonia, or some thing, and is a closeted homosexual.

Lizabet

Sometimes I forget just how bad the internet is for some people's brains. If anyone ever needed to touch some grass it's that guy

David

A good outro song would have been "Public Jestering" by Lee Scratch Perry & Judge Winchester

nateybakesss

Suffering here in North Florida (Ohio)

Free Palestine 🇵🇸🔻

Scott Walker has already been executed and replaced with an animatronic butter sculpture according to the WisconsANON drops so I dont worry about him as much anymore. But yeah damn I fucking hate him too

etienne

approvalcels seething over dobbschads

AKorgar

Hey nonny nonny, for my new healthcare policy is a harlequin fool in calico motley

etienne

i am outside and my sheets are in the washing machine. im so much more normal than you, you can't imagine

etienne

its the pinned tweet from that cityafreaks account they kept quoting. funny turn of phrase

AKorgar

Montagues over Capuets, pimps up hoes down

Jacob

All my generic white friends said abortion was why they decided to vote. Anecdotal but I have lots of these friends.

Chandler

Does anyone know what the song is at the end of the episode?

james

That should be a new rule, you can only vote if you have a mortgage

Kyle Strupp

Fantastic episode, but huge missed opportunity to use RKL's Tribute to the Jester as the outro music. Perfect thematic fit lyrically, and the frenetic energy also matches the overall tone of the discussion.

Yup

Love that Chris didn't bother to do the Felix "Nermal whites" compilation

etienne

we can all be resistance libs just for this week and think the senate is cool. i think we all need it

justdave

CAPULETS RULE NERD!

Gengeros

Who is this “we” lib? Congress needs to go under socialism.

etienne

that's kinda what i was saying yeah

Malika Nash

It doesn’t come up in the search if you don’t know the exact spelling.

Chubby Justin

It's a Venn diagram everyone! Remember those things for 3rd graders? You said little babies love these, don't you? It's a great way for me, an Ivy league alumnus, to explain things to you dumbos! I went to law school, where i learned the exclusive skill of abstract reasoning, which you simpletons cannot do, without the use of Venn diagrams and apuppet show!

etienne

going to business school and the professor is showing me what a bar graph is and I'm writing it down in my notes as if it were super novel and interesting

Danny

need this to be free so I can send it to my mom

Chubby Justin

Ron DeChina Ron DeLoser Ron DeTranny Ron DeBitch Ron DeShit Ron DeSuck

Poppy Chulo

I already showed her. :)

etienne

there was a trap DJ in montreal going around in the early teens by Tronald Trump. wonder how he feels about that these days. probably nothing in particular

Of course

The dream is: The Deep State puts Trump in prison, Hillary gets the 2024 Dem nomination, Trump defeats DeSantis for the GOP nomination and runs for president from prison, beating Hillary... again.

justdave

mine is 'Bins Laden'

Brandon

Praise the Sun 💀💀💀 this episodes gonna go down as one of the goats

Brandon

Felixs point about every single republican issue just boiling down to being all about trump is so true ive been trying to find the words to say that for every person ive heard say ron desantis has a chance. The base worships the man! Its all wishful thinking that this guy that makes normies uncomfortable will magically go away! Hes gonna be posting and rallying until he dies!

Josephus Franks

What's the outro song? Sounds like T.I., but I can't find it... Can anyone help?

Micheal Plant

I live in rural WA. We have alot of those Freakazoids here. I think the Tejano vibe/culture is slowly spreading through 2nd and 3rd gen mexicans and Central Americans. I have no experience with other Latin Americans.

Jö

The Kamala Venn diagram video was a moment for me. I know it’s fashionable to say Trump is the funniest person in politics, and he no doubt is, but I’m starting to think that we underestimated Kamala. She’s got solid base stats and has acquired a few buffs since becoming VP. She’s not in the running yet, but she’s a prospect, watch this space.

gaylord

Benny Johnson on Charlie kirk i think

Darbi Simmons

Great episode guys. Our frog should be the peace frog. Remember him?

Josh Woods

"I must admit that I've always been susceptible to the dark charms of jesters..." just say evil clown fetish.

Volt_wizard

based king crimson reference

etienne

cityafreaks locked his account : ( what did you people do to him

Cole

From his Tweet where he said he was locking: "This isn’t about the fucking liberals by the way that was actually fun, it’s the misanthropic self-serious “communists” who seem to always have it out for me. They make me deeply uncomfortable and I would rather not be in their sights again." So yeah tryhard twitter communists

William

Nah, second tier

etienne

goddam. no fun allowed

Patrick Holt

The problem is that the Dems will be able to say that their fascism-wolfcrying was the winning strategy, and they are fine to keep moving right and shitting on workers. I understand crowing over Republican failure, but Dem success is stilll defeat for the working class and the planet.

Baron

Lmao at Felix’s voice at 32:05 “he made it exciting!”

Forrest Taylor

What is the song that is used for Felix's victory lap?

SkinPickup

I am also wondering this if anyone knows

JN

Just beat a case by shawty lo and gucci mane

Jan S.

Genuinely fun ep. Well done.

Erik Weissengruber

People do Harry Potter and GoT allegory for politics. But who is the Pattern Juggler, who the Fire Witch in the court of the Crimson Mac.