
In this episode of Nightly Scroll: Dems are banking on Newsom’s good looks to win in 2028, President Trump cracks down on mail-in voting, People are falling in love with AI & more
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Hello everyone and welcome to Nightly Scroll. I'm Haley Karenia. Thank you for joining me this evening, 6:00pm Eastern Time. If you want to join us live in the chat and you want to scroll with all my homies, rumble.com Haley is the place to do that. That'll bring you to the Bondino Report channel. Of course, you follow there, subscribe, make sure that you never miss a show because even if you can't catch us at 6pm that's okay. You can watch it whenever you want or you can listen on your favorite podcast platform, Apple Podcast, Spotify, wherever you get your shows. I am grateful for you to be here and listen whenever or wherever you can. So thank you for being here. I do have a intense show for you tonight. We've got Gavin Newsom. We've got all these things. Democrats floundering. CNN is even admitting it. MSDNC is getting a weird rebrand. It's all a failure. And Newsom seems to be the front runner for the Democrats in 2028. They're banking on the fact that he's good looking. That is all they've got. All of this losing is driving them to drink, apparently, according to a new poll. We're going to get into that. And then President Trump is cracking down on mail in voting. Denzel Washington isn't subscribing to cancel culture and people are still falling in love with AI chatbots. All that and so much more. On this episode of Nightly Scroll, Justin just threw out a question to the chat. Is Newsome objectively handsome? Yes, I agree. People post a lot. That meme of the side by side of him and Beavis and Butthead and they think that he looks like that. I don't think that he really looks like that. I think that he's objectively a handsome dude. He just is. I'm sorry, people don't want to admit it. I guess because he's a Democrat, like he's good looking. And we're going to get into that in just a moment. But first we have to get to cnn and they're kind of admitting that the Democrats are floundering. They really don't have a front runner. The brand is in the basement. Watch this.
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Democrats at this point are historically divided. It is a complete and utter mess. It is messier than a hoarder's basement. What are we talking about here? The national early poll leader, 25% plus. Normally, that's where Democrats are. Biden was at 25% plus in 2020. Hillary Clinton was in 08 and 16. Gore was in 01 04. At this particular point, there is no one. No one in the Democratic race for president who's polling at 25% plus. The water is quite warm. If you're a Democrat potentially thinking about running in 2028, jump right in, because at this point, there is no. No front runner.
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Is that. What do you think? Is that. Because where. How people view the Democratic Party right now? Is that contributing to this?
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Yeah, I think that that is in large part of what's going on is one of the reasons why there is no front runner. Nobody wants to put anybody up at the top of their ballot list, is because at this particular point, the Democratic brand is in the basement. It is total and complete garbage in the mind of the American public. The Democratic Party's net rating record lows in all three. Wall Street Journal, 30 points underwater. CNN, 26 points underwater. Gallup, 26 points underwater. And that is being driven in large part by discontent within the Democratic base. The Democratic base wants something different. We'll ultimately end up seeing who they choose. It will be quite the thing who ultimately gets the rose.
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Yes, sir. Which is interesting because they're admitting that the Democrat Party needs to do something different. But I think that putting up Gavin Newsom wouldn't really be doing anything different other than the fact that he's a dude. And the Democrats have been putting up Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, and that hasn't worked for them. So. But in. In terms of politics, like, Gavin Newsom isn't really, like, trying something new.
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He. He is. He is not. But, like, one of the things that he can do is the gift of gab.
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Yeah.
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And those other people did not know up, down, left, or right on a stage in a debate. And it was a dumpster fire, like, or hate, whatever. Gavin. Gavin Newsom, he will give you energy back at the same pace that you give it. And, like, I mean, that's the. That is everything when it comes to the difference in what they have ran and the opportunity that he has.
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I would argue that Kamala had the gift of gab, but it just wasn't good.
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A drunken one.
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She would definitely gab, but it seemed like she had maybe like a shot or two or three or seven of.
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Did you say that she. She had gab, but it wasn't a gift.
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It wasn't a gift. She had gab. It wasn't a gift. You know, but the only things that the Democrat Party stands for now are abortion. They don't even really talk about abortion anymore. Illegal Immigration, everything should be free. And we hate Trump. That's really it. They're. They're not even really putting abortion and women's reproductive health as, you know, they're Mount Rushmore of policies. I would say, you know, they'll probably kick that back into gear when they start getting into the midterms and the presidential election in 2028. But abortion was, like, a huge topic in 2022 and when Roe vs. Wade was overturned. But illegal immigration, socialist stuff, and we hate Trump is really all that they have right now. But I would argue that Gavin Newsom is the only front runner that they have. Senator Bernie Sanders has said that he would not run again, and I do not blame him. The Democrats, the dnc, they totally shafted Bernie in the past. I do not blame him for sitting this one out. His reasoning for this was, you know, we're going to let some of the newer blood, you know, take it. Like, I'm not going to put my hat in the ring. I'm going to let these, these younger candidates, you know, take this and run with it again. Don't blame him. They did him really dirty. The Amy Klobuchars, the Senator Elizabeth Warrens, they've run for president before. I don't think they have a shot in hell. And then the AOCs, the Jasmine Crocketts, the other, you know, fire brands that are in the squad, they don't scream presidential candidate to me, at least, at best, I think they would be a vice presidential pick for Gavin Newsom to offset his maleness and his whiteness, which, of course, is a big no, no if you're a Democrat these days. So I think that Gavin Newsom is going to be the guy also. Gavin is certainly setting himself up to run. We saw him campaigning in South Carolina, like, this was a few months ago. What are you doing campaigning in South Carolina when you're the governor of California? Right. So he's obviously setting himself up for the future. He will no longer be governor come 20, 28. So what is he going to do next? I mean, he's young. Can you look up how old Gavin Newsom is? But, you know, he's. He's young. He's got a long political career ahead of him. So gearing up to run for president, to me, makes sense. He's 57, so, you know, he's a lot younger than our recent presidents. And I think that is the move that the Democrat Party needs to go in. It's also the move that the Republican Party needs to go in. I think People are kind of done seeing our candidates like die or get sick. Sick. You know, it's just not where people want to see leadership. I think a lot of people are sick and tired. We want term limits. We don't want people dying in office. We don't want people womb to tuming this public service. I mean, they're not public servants. It's a scam. They're making all this money. They're becoming bajillionaires when they're supposed to be working for us. So this whole valiant, virtuous, yeah, I'm working for you. And people are kind of realizing that that's a scam. So I think people want newer candidates, younger candidates, fresher faces. And not that Gavin Newsom is a fresher face, but he's certainly younger and he has the political resume. And according to Olivia Giuliana. Do you remember Olivia Giuliana? She is the Democrat strategist that they hired to get more Gen Z men to vote Democrat. But she's not the most gorgeous woman, so everyone was making fun of her. Well, according to Olivia Giuliana, Gavin Newsom has a superpower and that is his attractiveness. So watch this.
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People who watched the presidential debate between JFK and Richard Nixon preferred jfk, but people who listen to it on the radio preferred Richard Nixon. The Republicans who are trying to go after Gavin Newsom have this one fatal flaw. They don't seem to to understand Gavin Newsom is hot and he is tall and charming and he has fantastic hair. So this strategy Republicans do where they just spam videos of people try to make you look crazy and bad or whatever, it's not going to work. Because I guarantee you, the more people see of Gavin Newsom, the more that they like him. And by y' all amplifying him, what you're gonna end up doing is you're gonna make swing voters and independent voters like him more because he's throwing punches at y' all and he looks damn good while he's doing so y' all can continue on baiting him and pushing him into doing this redistricting shit in California, but you're going to fuck around and make him the next President of the United States.
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So I agree that I think being good looking and well spoken, it's not necessarily going to seal the deal for you and make you the President of the United States, but it's definitely helpful in politics. I think being better looking than, than the candidate that you're running against can't hurt. So. So Gavin Newsome, he has that. He's 57 years old, he's handsome and I guess that's what they're going with because he doesn't really have much else to go at. I mean if you look at his record in California, California is not looking so good. We're going to get into that in just a second. But it looks like Democrats online are gearing up for this Gavin Doome vs. JD Vance potential matchup in 2028. So now Gavin Newsom is on X and he's kind of like having fun with this. So we can, we could put this up, this post. Gavin Newsome in High School vs. J.D. vance in high school. So they have a picture of Gavin Newsom and he's, you know, very suave. He's got his well dressed, he's got the, the button down shirt on, he's got a suit jacket on, he's got this Burberry scarf on. He's looking down at a, a newspaper, he's reading a newspaper. So he looks very, very well to do. And you Contrast that with J.D. vance on the right and you know he's, we all know J.D. vance's story. You know, it's the rags to riches story. He didn't have a Burberry scarf around his neck. I mean he grew up poor with a drug, drug addicted mom and he was raised by his grandmother. He was poor. So yeah, if you, if you take a picture of Gavin Newsom in high school and then JD Vance in high school, they are going to look very different. To me that's not a winning strategy because JD Vance has the story that's relatable. Gavin Newsom looks like an elitist snob and he is, he's a Nepo baby. His parents set him up for success. Didn't his parents give him like the winery, like he started the wineries in California? I mean he is the definition of, of a Nepo baby born with a silver spoon in his mouth. So I don't know why Democrats keep putting up these candidates. It's like you have Gavin Newsom who's a Nepo baby, Zoran Mamdani who's also a Nepo baby, pretending that they're, you know, men of the people. It's just very phony. So we could put up this other post making fun of this, you know, 2028 potential matchup between Gavin Newsom and Vice President Vance. And there's again a photo of Gavin Newsom, very handsome. He's, this is like his baseball photo. He, you know, he looks very good, you know, he's tanned, he's got the hair, he looks good. And it says Chad Newsome with a greater than sign, Chud Vance. So Chad versus Chud. Whatever. I guess they're trying to say that, you know, a chad is, like, handsome and a chud is not. And, you know, this is J.D. vance's. Maybe a high school yearbook photo. Is he the most handsome man I've ever seen? No. But, you know, to make this comparison is just very childish. I don't think that the American voters are really going to have this JFK versus Richard Nixon moment, like Olivia Giuliana was saying, because everyone already knows what these people look like. So you can drudge up pictures from high school yearbook photos, but I just don't think that that's going to be very effective because as we saw in the 2024 election, when you don't have substantive policy to run on, you are going to fail with Kamala Harris. They had these and. Right. Great point. So let's. What's with the.
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What's with the.
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Let's.
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Let's give some love to the late bloomers, y'.
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All.
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What about the late bloomers? Can. Can we not give some love to the late bloomers?
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Exactly. So, you know, if you dredge up these ugly high school photos, sure. But, you know, J.D. vance in 2025 versus Gavin Newsom in 2025. They're both handsome. They're both handsome. So, I don't know, you could say that he had, like, an ugly yearbook photo in high school, but that just doesn't matter. And to my point that I'm trying to make is that you have to have policy. You can't bank on good looks or funny memes on social media, because we saw that fail with Kamala Harris. She had absolutely nothing to run on. They tried to make fetch happen on TikTok and on social media, and now they're trying to do the same thing with Gavin Newsom. Watch this. So this is a Lana Del Rey song, and they're. They're putting it to all these videos of Gavin Newsom, trying to make this, like a romantic, romanticized, glamorized video showing, you know, the very handsome Gavin Newsom. Will this work for people? I don't know. I would be careful because the Tick Tock edits didn't work for Kamala Harris. You can try to make someone look cool on social media, but if you don't have the campaign to back it up, you are screwed. But they are even making the case that Gavin Newsom's wife would make a better first lady than Melania because she has get this great jeans. Watch this.
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Jennifer Siebel Newsome gives me first lady vibes. That's a first lady. That's what a first lady is supposed to look like. That is what a first lady's hair is supposed to look like. Eyes, features. I think that we have gotten a little bit too woke in this country by allowing our president to have a migrant wife. I believe she was a prostitute at one point of sex work. Excuse me, I don't know the language but that's a little too woke for me. I prefer blue blooded white, real white, not eastern European. Unclear women to be in the White House. Just my opinion. I think we've gotten a little too woke in this country and we've allowed a little bit too much to slide in that Oval Office. I don't know what, you know, back page or Craigslist ads have been set up. What's going on over there? Melania's background is very unclear and distasteful. Jennifer on the other hand is a philanthropist and she just has really good genes. So she has my vote. I just feel like that's what a First lady is supposed to represent and she's actually American. So I don't know, I just feel like if ice can go after everybody, at least we should have an American first lady.
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How the tables have turned in just two weeks time. It was racist fascist eugenics when Sydney Sweeney had good genes and she was blonde with blue eyes. But Jennifer Nome, she is the good kind of blonde and blue eyes because she's a Democrat. That's the, that's the, the switcheroo that they did there. But anyway, what does Gavin do stand for? You know, what is his legacy in California? He touts the fourth largest economy in the world but then he has to borrow billions of dollars because he can't afford to pay all of the illegal immigrants the free health care that he promised them. There are homeless people defecating and shooting up on the streets, living in tent cities and he claims he's in charge of this great economy. But then he can only fix it up when the Chinese president is in town or the super bowl is coming or the Olympics are coming. So what does he actually stand for? Because he really can't stand for any good policies. All he stands for is I'm not Trump Orange man bad. I'm going to take on J.D. vance because he's connected to Orange Man. So Gavin Newsom's press office has been trolling President Trump by tweeting in the style of his truth social post. So if we could pull up this example here. Gavin Newsom's press office tweeted, donald tiny hands has written his autobiography this morning. Unfortunately, low iq. He spelled it wrong. Beta. Soon you will be fired, beta, because of my perfect, my beautiful maps. Thank you for your attention to this matter. GCN obviously making fun of the fact that President Trump writes his truth social posts in this style. All caps, calling people's names. Thank you for your attention to this matter. And then the sign off djt. So they're obviously poking fun. Now, I will say a lot of conservatives talking heads on, you know, right wing media are making fun of Gavin Newsom for this, saying that he's being, you know, immature. This makes him look unhinged. But obviously this is not Gavin Newsom tweeting. This is his staff and they are posting how President Trump does. So if you're saying that Gavin Newsom is on some unhinged lunatic, well, what are you really saying? So I think it's amusing. I wouldn't call it funny because I think Democrats have totally lost their sense of humor a long time ago and all they know how to do now is hate Trump. So it tracks. But I want to get into James Comey because James Comey is warning Gavin Newsom in a very strange video on substack that he shouldn't tweet like Trump and Taylor Swift helped him realize that. Listen.
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Hey, everybody, welcome back to my substack. Last week's cold turns out to have been Covid quite a flashback. And Donald Trump is still president and still humiliating America on a national stage standing next to Vladimir Putin. It's like a dream, a bad dream you can't wake up from. But I don't want to talk about that bad dream this week. I want to talk about a truly inspirational public figure named Taylor Swift. Of course I watched her podcast interview with the Kelsey brothers. Of course I watched the whole thing. Although on YouTube, Patrice and I got kicked off for the last 15 minutes and finished it on her phone.
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But I watched, like, why does anyone care about this?
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You see, Taylor Swift and I go way back. I went to my first concert of hers 15 years ago.
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We go way back.
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I've been to a second and I have helped financially support the attendance of a lot of family members. At others, I'm in a family's swifty group chat. Like a lot of you, I struggle with how to stand up to bullies without letting their meanness infect me and change me. You may have seen that the governor of California has been generating a lot of attention lately by posting on social media in a satirical way where he mocks Donald Trump and his all caps megalomania and his absurdity. And I find it very funny, hilarious even sometimes. But I gotta be honest, it also leaves me with a strange feeling at times because I don't want us to become like Trump and his followers.
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Well, you're nowhere near becoming like Trump or his followers because you're a freak. You're a freak of nature. You're calling for the death of the current President of the United States. 8647 in, in a seashell formation on social media. And now you're talking about how your best buds with Taylor Swift and you've financially. What did he say? He said he's like financially support, financially supported.
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The ability for, for other people to go to her concerts.
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Tay Tay again, why do we care about this? It's just so odd. So anyway, Gavin Newsom trying to rebrand into this, you know, Trump hater, this memer, this sex symbol, man of the people. It is not the only failed Democrat rebrand of the week, I would say. So MSNBC is now Ms. Now they're rebranding. This is going to take place at the end of the year. Ms. Now this is their new logo, which is totally whack in my opinion. It's just not creative. It, the font underneath. Well, the logo is kind of similar to the bunch of the silver Lock logo with the flag and it's kind of America vibes for a company that does not like America and they think that, you know, democracy is, you know, very fragile and, and Trump is ruining it and all that stuff. So I think that it's an odd logo for them. Ms. Now we're going to get into that in just a moment. But the font, my source News Opinion World, it's a very, I don't know, I just don't like it. I, it's very 2D. It's very boring.
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Yeah, that's what I was going to say. It feels like somebody just made this on an airplane in Canva and just like, like phoned it in, like, oh, forgot this was due in five minutes. The next corporate logo. Here we go.
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Yeah, I, I don't, I don't like it. So MSNBC was originally a joint venture between NBC and Microsoft. So Ms. Stands for Microsoft and Microsoft divested in 2005 and then it was completely out of the whole company and website by 2012. So they kept the MSN NBC after that. And now there's a new merger taking place. So Ms. No longer stands for Microsoft, it stands for my source. And then N O W stands for News, opinion and world. Those words underneath, kind of like the sub headline. Maybe they decided to keep the Ms. Because of the familiarity of it all. Like it's hard to drop the Ms. And the NBC and become something totally different. So maybe they just wanted something familiar so that MSNBC is going to be msnow. I don't know. Here's what they said in the, in the statement. You might be wondering why this change is happening as part of our move to a new media company, Versant, which includes cnbc, Golf Channel, Golf now and Sports Engine, will no longer be part of NBC Universal and NBC News. This gives us a the freedom to chart our own path forward and we're excited about where it's headed. Where it's headed. Probably as liberal as ever to lie on behalf of the Democrats. As usual, MSNBC was more opinion than news anyway, in my opinion. And they did mention in this statement that all of the MSNBC talent is staying. They are moving on. It's MSNBC is staying, staying the way it is. They're, you know, the Rachel Maddows, the Jen Psakis of the world. They're going to be at Ms. Now and they're hiring more than 100 staffers. But I was looking up for some online reaction and we could pull up this Reddit thread here because people were kind of reacting to what people were saying and someone mentioned that it looks like someone built this the night before the project was due to Andy's point that it's very, I don't know, last minute lazy. Someone said multiple sclerosis is the first thing that I think of when you see Ms. Maybe I could see that. I, I think if you're going to go with a rebrand, you should have just totally rebrand, rebrand it all together. I wouldn't trust a new source with this aesthetic. Interesting. And people are, are not liking it for the most part and I don't blame them. I think it's a really weird move. I think if they were going to, you know, they, Microsoft divested more than a decade ago. So I think you should just get rid of Ms. And if you have to get rid of msnbc, you might as well make something totally new.
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What are you doing? If you don't get rid of any talent and rebrand the actual nuts and bolts of the programming. Like if you don't get rid of the personalities. What are you doing? And changing the logo.
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I mean they're doing it because of the new merger. So they're going to be under this new company Versant. And now Microsoft hasn't been involved in over a decade. NBC is not going to be involved. So it can't really be called msnbc. It's not part of NBC. So they have to drop the NBC. I'm just wondering why they kept the Ms. And kind of rebranded the Ms. From Microsoft to my source.
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This just feels like a really good chance for them to completely cut what's bad. Right? I mean you're seeing, you were seeing CBS cut Colbert because the show is not doing good, not work period. So like this would be a great time for whoever owns or whoever's operationally an executive in this merger. Cut the stuff that's bad and do it now. It just this sort of, I don't know, it does not compute for me. We'll see what happens.
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Yeah, I mean, I think nothing's going to happen. I think the logo is going to change and the content is going to be just as cringe and horrible and false. So I guess we'll see. And there's more to come on the Democrats failing brand and how it is driving them to drink after a hectic day. There's nothing better than coming home to my Helix mattress. It is a game changer for sleep. No tossing, no turning, no restless nights. Thanks to Helix, I wake up feeling refreshed, energized and ready to take on the day. If you struggle with any sleep issues, whether it's snoring, sleep apnea or waking up with back pain, Helix has you covered. Their award winning mattresses are designed to give you the best sleep possible. Helix Sleep takes the guesswork out of mattress shopping. They will help you choose the perfect mattress for what you need from cooling to support. It's like having a sleep expert on speed dial. And right now Helix has an exclusive offer for the homies 27% off site wide. 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And he blocked all the lanes of highway with this truck and he caused the deaths of three innocent people. It was a family in Florida. So just horrible. He was arrested on three counts of vehicular homicide. So let's show this video. In case you haven't seen it, it's gone totally viral. So I'm sure a lot of you have seen it. But we could play the video of this. There, here's this guy, he's not alone in the vehicle he is driving. He's got someone in the passenger seat. Don't know his documentation status but he decided to make an illegal U turn. So his entire 18 wheeler was blocking the whole road and a car smashed into it. Horrible. Three innocent people. So this is a statement put out by assistant secretary of DHS Trisha McLaughlin. She said three innocent people were killed in Florida because Gavin Newsom's California Department of Motor Vehicles issued an illegal immigrant a commercial driver's license. This state of governance is asinine. How many more people must die before Gavin Newsom stops playing games with the safety of the American public. We pray for the victims and their families. Secretary Noem and DHS are working around the clock to protect the public and get these criminal aliens out of America. It is crazy to think that this guy was given a commercial driver's license in, in California. Obviously if you are a truck driver, you drive all over the place. So you know, I never really thought about this. I, I, I know that the Transportation Secretary Duffy put out that you have to be able to speak English and at certain truck stops they're going to ask you are you fluent in or proficient in English? Because you have to be able to read the signs. You have to be able to read where you're going, what the rules of the law and the road are. You can't be speaking another language and expect to follow the law. I mean how can you be expected to do that? So I thought about the truck drivers in that sense where you know, it's dangerous to have illegal immigrants on the road, because if they can't speak English, how can they drive safely? Right? But I didn't think about how dangerous it is that these illegal immigrants can come into sanctuary states. They can get their driver's licenses, they can get commercial driver's licenses, and then they're in a red state that doesn't allow this kind of stuff, and they can kill innocent people. And, you know, people move to red states, they move out of sanctuary states and cities to get away from this kind of stuff. Then it's like, you move here and, you know, Gavin Newsom's California can say, here you go. Here's your commercial driver's license. You can get out on the road and see you later. And then they can pull something like this. And I will say something so deeply disturbing about this video. Aside from the fact that three innocent people's lives were lost, he shoot there, he showed no remorse. If you watch that video and you could play it again. But he doesn't look shocked that this car rammed into him. I mean, the other guy in the passenger seat looked a little shaken up, like physically shaking from the hit. But this guy just has no care in the world. If you look at him, like, he's just looking and he's like, all right, put the car and park. I mean, he doesn't even look like he cares, in my opinion. Totally disgusting. Just gross. Like, what an evil, evil person.
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You know, we just looked at this. You know, we could have a concealed carry license legal in the state of Florida, Tennessee, lots of states of reciprocity, but not in California. We couldn't take that gun right to California, but this joker can get a CDL right as an illegal in California and make a happy journey across the country and have this happen in. In Florida. It's just, man, we get there's. These laws have to be better and stricter.
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I totally agree. So if I was a Democrat, all of this would drive me to drink. And a new poll suggests just that. Because, you know, we talk about all these failed policies, failed politicians and all that. Here's this. This is a. A Gallup poll that was done recently so we could pull this up and apparently if you could scroll down here, because they did this by gender, race and ethnicity, age, annual household income, party identification. So they did a poll about how really in all Americans are drinking less. And they are Republicans, independents and Democrats are drinking less, but Democrats are drinking a lot more than independents and Republicans. So all. Although it is down across the board. So Republicans, what was the original year there. Can you scroll back at the top just so we could see what we're. Okay, so this is between 2023 and 2025. And I think a lot of people are abusing alcohol during COVID because people weren't working, they were stuck in their houses, you know, doing whatever. So I think a lot of people use that as an opportunity to drink a bottle of wine or whatever. And I don't think that that's a good thing. But people have been now cutting back on that. A lot of, especially Gen Z, younger demographics and generations are just not drinking as much. We're not going out as much. Maybe that has to do with the economy. Maybe people can't afford to go out as much as millennials did and Gen X did and boomers did. So I can understand that. But I also think it's interesting that Republicans are drinking the least. Some people online were saying, well, this is because they're more religious, they're more conservative, but back in 2023, they were drinking the most. So back in 2023, 65% of Republicans were drinking alcohol. Independents 61%, Democrats 64%. So Republicans were drinking the most out of everyone. But they have had the most dramatic shift to not drinking. And I see you can't say that it's because they're religious or conservative or they don't believe in alcohol because they did two years ago. But now I think it has to do with the Maha movement because in 2025, 46% of Republicans drink alcohol, 55% of independents and 61% of Democrats. So from 2023 to 2025, Democrats really haven't made that much of a difference. They're down 3%. Republicans are down 19%. That's a lot. That is a lot. That's a huge difference.
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And I do think, I think it's all Maha. You mean there's a lot, there's a lot of buy in with that. I mean, but there's also a lot more data and I think too culturally, like it isn't cheap.
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No.
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To go to a bar and have three or unless you're getting Pabst Blue Ribbon at the gas station, like drink it alone. Which, you know, I know some people, but like it's, it's. So it's expensive to go to a bar and socialize with eight or nine people and buy five drinks.
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Yeah, it totally is. But I think, you know, 19%. I don't think it's just the economy because it's not like Republicans are the Only ones affected by the economy and everyone is. So if it was just the economy, I think you would see a bigger difference in the Democrats and independents. But I think if this is just specifically targeting Republicans and Republicans are drinking so much less and Democrats are drinking so much more than Republicans. Some people are saying that, you know, all of these Democrat failures, they're very miserable. They have this misery loves company attitude where they think the world's going to end and they believe that we're under this fascist regime and we're living under a dictator and everything sucks and everything's horrible. So maybe that would force them to drink more than Republicans. But I do think that this is the Maha movement working and people are really realizing this is poison. We're also realizing not just alcohol, but everything that we put in our bodies. I'm reading ingredient labels like I never have before and it's, it's, you know, everything that you put on your skin. My makeup, I'm trying to use all makeup products that are non comedogenic, non pore clogging, non toxic. People are now really realizing I shouldn't be spraying this toxic stuff. When I wipe down my countertops, I should use something more, more natural. Or if I'm using perfume, I should use something natural with essential oils. Not so much of this endocrine disrupting content.
C
I think it's all, it's all a movement toward better awareness.
A
Agree.
C
You know what I mean? And then, you know, probably some inspiration by all you ladies carrying around seven gallon buckets of, of water all day instead of, instead of alcohol, carrying around trash cans, Rubbermaid trash cans full of water in it.
A
Well, who said this is in vodka? The world may never know. No, but I, my drinking habits really haven't changed. I obviously drank more in college and right out after college. And now I'm just getting older, so I'm not going out as often. I'm not going to bars with my, it's just like the stage of life that I'm in. So I think that that's interesting too. But even younger people are not drinking as much anymore. So I, I do think it's people just trending more to like a healthier lifestyle. So I'm into it. I'm into it. All right. President Trump, he is leading a movement to get rid of mail in ballots so we could put up this, he posted this on Truth Social earlier today saying that while we're at it, highly inaccurate, very expensive, seriously controversial voting machines which cost 10 times more accurate, more than accurate, sophisticated watermark paper, which is faster. It leaves no doubt at the end of the evening as to who won and who lost the election. We are now the only country in the world that uses mail in voting. Others gave it up because of the massive voter fraud encountered. We will begin this effort which will be strongly opposed by the Democrats because they cheat at levels never seen before by signing an executive order to help bring honesty to the 2026 midterm elections. I am all for Mallet Male Getting rid of mail in voting and just doing in person voting. I like it. Go to the polls on your lunch break, before work, after work. A lot of people, if you work for the government or you work in schools or whatever, you get election day off. And if you need to get an absentee ballot for whatever reason, if you can't, if you're disabled or you're serving in the military overseas or whatever, you can ask for an absentee ballot and request that apply for one in advance. Democrats will say, oh no, this, you know, this group of people, they're just so stupid and helpless. They'll never be able to figure out how to get to their polling place. Or, you know, they'll claim that this is some Republican power grab. It's a threat to democracy. They're taking away the rights to, the rights of women to vote. They're taking away the rights of black people to vote. People who don't have cars. This is an attack on people who are impoverished. It's all a load of crap. My, I can walk to my voting location. Everywhere I've ever lived, I was able to walk to my voting location. That's how close they are.
C
Probably not now you're going to have to drive.
A
No, I live really very close to my. It's actually your church is my voting location.
C
So let me ask you, let me.
A
I will drive because I have a car, but if I didn't, I could get there.
C
Me ask you a question. Do you think National Day off, like a, like, like a, like a, a Labor Day off to vote makes sense? I think I've seen that ping pong around and, and I, I mean, I think this is a great idea. Like give, give people, don't give them an excuse. You have the day off.
A
I mean, certain people, like we will always be working on, you know, we, we don't get off. A lot of other people who work in different industries won't get off and that's fine. But yeah, I think, you know, national election day is a day off I think is good. The more people that can be off from work and can get to a polling location, the better. So I say do it, and I like it. I mean, the Democrats will fight this at every turn because they're, you know, tds, deranged. But I think it's a whole. It's a load of crap. And I think everyone should be able to get to a polling location and this should not be a problem. I don't think this should be controversial at all. I have always voted in person. It's easy. I bring my id. Not when I lived in New York, though. You could just roll up and say, hey, my name is Joe. They've let you in? Yeah.
C
Seriously?
A
Oh, yeah, yeah. I walked in and I just said, hey, my name's Haley Kearney. And they would check my name off and say, okay, go. But anyone could have come in and said, hi, my name's Haley Karenia. And go vote for, you know, Joe Biden. That is the level of security that was there. None. Next to nothing. So then I moved to Tennessee and it was, where's your id? Here it is. And they said, okay, no problem. They had that to verify. And I haven't voted in Florida, but same deal. Yeah, it, I, I think it's a problem because you could show up and there were many, many accounts of this where people said, I showed up and someone already voted under my name. This is why voter ID is important.
C
That's absolutely.
A
Why not verify who's voting? Is the person showing up?
C
Everyone has an id. Let's get past this argument. It is a moot point. You're not convincing anyone. It, it, it just takes oxygen out of the atmosphere when people talk like that. Everybody has an id, so use it. Show up in person. Let's get the day off.
A
Yeah.
C
And let's get this done.
A
Agreed. I'm all for it. So hopefully they get. I mean, can he just do that in executive order or. I guess it's got to be how.
C
Many, how many, how many people? I mean, how many pride holidays have just been decided? Months and months and months of this and that and whatever days. It's national something day. Every day. Have a national election day and give the people off. And, you know, I mean, let's make this voter in person thing happen.
A
Agreed. All right. Should we get to. Okay, we'll do one more story. I'm gonna save the AI chat stuff for tomorrow and we'll get into some scrolling time, so. All right. Denzel Washington. He does not subscribe to Cancel Culture. I absolutely love this story. He did an interview with Complex magazine, and this is the headline. Denzel Washington not bothered about being canceled. Who cares? And as someone, I started a trend on TikTok and a playlist called Cancel Culture is officially canceled. I need to trademark it. Cancel Culture is officially canceled. Cancel people. You can't get canceled if you don't care. So this is the perfect example of if someone even tried to cancel down Denzel Washington for something, he's not even paying attention. If you don't care, what people are saying about you on social media, doesn't matter. I mean, I think if you care about influencers and followers on social media, and maybe if followers on social media, maybe if you're an influencer and that's the only thing that you're making money with, then I guess that would matter. But if you're doing something that matters with your life and you're not just a social media influencer, then who cares what people are saying about you online half the time? All press is good press anyway.
C
I just didn't hear saying this, Justin. Hollywood and the record industry and all, it's such a mind hive that if this would have happened two years ago, like, it would have been a completely different landscape. Because you watch and see, he's Denzel, he don't care. He don't care at all. Mel Gibson, he don't care. He don't care at all. And so, like, hopefully some of these, like, young actors who feel like, oh, man, I've got to, you know, toe the line with some of this stuff can see this. And the people that have really made iconic movies, I wonder if it's people.
A
Who are so established in their careers, they've made their money, they're not getting a lot of roles anymore. They feel like, well, fine, at this point, I don't need the money. I don't care. I can do it. I think it would be. You'd be hard pressed to find someone just starting out in their career that's not just gonna, like, do whatever they're told to do.
C
Yeah, but the, the courage comes from seeing these people not care. Woody Harrelson's another one. Just don't care. And so, like, you're starting.
A
How many roles are they getting now?
C
Well, Denzel, maybe they. Denzel could get what he wants, right? I mean, Mel Gibson can direct whatever he wants. And so, like, I mean, these people are maybe a little bit more strategic on what they're choosing or they're making less movies a year or whatever. But all I'm saying is, like, I'm glad to see a top tier.
A
Yeah.
C
Star.
A
Totally agree.
C
Music and.
A
Yeah.
C
And.
A
And movies though I think is he's dipped his toe almost I think too deep into the conservative culture where I think a lot of people in Hollywood, although he's an amazing director, I don't know if people are willing to work with him as much anymore. I don't know.
C
But yeah, no, I mean that's, I.
A
Mean, Denzel Washington, all he said, and I'll get into all the comments that he made, but he's saying that he's not. He doesn't care about cancel culture because all he does is follow God. So not that this is like politically conservative, but he's talking about his faith, which I think is wonderful. So this is what he said. Oh. The reporter asked him if he considers the idea of being canceled. And Denzel said, what does that mean to be canceled? Who cares what made public support so important to begin with? And the reporter then asked him, you know, social media followers are now a source of currency. And he said, I don't care who's following who. And then he also said, you can't lead and follow at the same time. You can't follow and lead at the same time. I don't follow anybody. I follow the heavenly spirit. I follow God, I don't follow man. I have faith in God, I have hope in man. But look around, it ain't working out so well.
C
Good for him and good for him. All I'm hoping is that like some of these people, some of these iconic people can, can set a standard and a younger generation behind them don't have to deal with that crap. Like what? Stupid is stupid and you shouldn't have to kiss anybody's ring. Like make good art and be the best person you can.
A
Yeah.
C
And period.
A
It's wonderful to see someone in Hollywood who is so successful come out and talk about their faith because Hollywood has become so overwhelmingly demonic. And not only just demonic with imagery and things like that, but people are so willing to just hate on people for being religious. They demonize people for being religious. So I just like that he was cool enough to be. I don't, you know, I don't care what people say about me and I only care what God thinks. And that's really how we should all operate. So very cool to see that. Let's get into some scrolling time. All righty. Scrolling time, scrolling time. This one. This is a Crazy Karen video. She confronted dog owner and yes, this is outside of Portland, Oregon. If anyone's Wondering. Watch.
G
That's what you are. You're unethical. You're an unethical piece of shit.
C
Oh, yeah?
G
Kills dogs because he has to have his bread.
C
Dogs?
A
Me?
G
Yes. You bought those dogs, didn't you?
B
No.
G
You didn't adopt them. You didn't save their lives. You don't care about them. You don't care about anyone.
C
But you are crazy, lady.
G
Get away from me then. Get away from me.
B
You walked up to me.
A
Go away from me.
G
This guy won't leave me alone. Help me. Help me. This guy won't leave me alone. And he is saying that I said something racist when I absolutely did not.
C
You did.
G
Please help me. I did not say anything.
B
Who you talking to?
G
Help me. Help me, please. Please get this guy away from me.
C
Justin, cut that. And I'm watching this for the first time. I don't even know what to say.
A
Your reaction? Someone said, is this a skit? I don't know if it's a skit. I pulled this from this woman's Instagram. Not the woman screaming, but this woman posted it and said, the man in the video is my aunt's husband or my aunt's boyfriend or something. So the woman who posted this video, like, isn't even the person who took the video. And Justin cut it shorter. But the. I mean, the video is very long. But she then started filming the dog owner. Because once the dog owner started filming, I mean, this is what happens, right? Everyone just starts filming each other so that everyone's got the different POV and everyone can blame someone else for whatever. But I find it. Well, first of all, this woman is totally unhinged. I don't know if she's on drugs or alcohol or something. I'm not saying you're crazy if you're walking around in the woods by yourself, but I think if you're a woman walking alone in the woods by yourself and you pick a fight with a man, you're crazy.
C
Yeah, I don't. I wouldn't support this in general as just a. As just like a blanket statement, but, like, some people can just use a good tranquilizer in the shoulder. Just a good, smooth train in the shoulder. Little. Night. Night.
A
She's bipolar. She's mentally ill. Where do these people come from? Well, they come from Portland, Oregon.
C
That's why I believe this, that the skit thing would really. But, like, Portland or Seattle. You know, I was in Seattle last year, and this stuff is, like, she looked more sober than some of the people on the streets in Seattle kind of doing this, screaming at bypassers. But like that's insane, Totally insane.
A
And the thing about liberals and rabid liberals like this woman is that they think that they are right. And because they believe that they are right, they don't care about anyone's point of view. She doesn't know that this dog wasn't adopted, but she has assumed that this dog, depending on the breed, I don't know what it was, was some pure bread something or other that was got at a, a breeder and it wasn't adopted. Okay, first of all, this woman has no idea what the dog's story is or what the dog owner story is. And quite frankly, it's out of her business. I would say, yeah, I think adopting is wonderful and you should do that. But if you want to get a purebred dog for another reason, some people have allergies, some people have kids and certain breeds or whatever. Here's the thing. Mind your own frickin business. Just mind your own business. If you wouldn't want to get a purebred dog and you want to adopt, go do that in your personal life. But to stop someone in, in real life and confront them like this does not make you the better person. It does not make you the bigger person. It makes you look like a freak. So she is yelling at this man. It's just totally just weird wacko behavior.
C
I will say, like if there's even a manual on how to react to when some goon approaches you like that. This guy did a crazy, this guy did a great, great job. Kudos to whoever that dude is for keeping it cool.
A
On the contrary, this woman being so rabid and would not make someone want to see her point of view. If you want, if you want to teach someone about, you know, the evils of dog breeding or something, I mean, at least do it in a manner that is palatable for someone to listen to you and to hear, hear you out. Who is going to hear this woman out? She's just screaming like a lunatic.
C
I will say thank you for bringing this, this episode of Waco to us in nature because usually you do it in an airplane. And so like it's, it's nice that like, you know, at least, at least the birds are chirping.
A
Yes.
C
When, when wacko was.
A
It's a nice background, nice scenery. I did have an airport video that I didn't play. Maybe I'll play it tomorrow. Did you see the video of the Asian kid that was vaping? Caught vaping in the bathroom? Okay. So maybe if some people in the chat haven't seen it, I will, I'll play that tomorrow. But just totally. I. I love the airport crash outs. I think they're funny. All right, this next one, this liberal took to the Internet. She was saying that she wanted to find a bag that wouldn't make her look Republican. So here she, she took to also, what the hell is on her plate? She's drinking an espresso martini, it looks like. And I don't know what is on her plate, but that looks like some mystery meat or some cabbage or something like burnt wontons. She's burnt won. She's not eating good, that's for sure. So here's what she said. Where are we getting work totes that don't scream I'm Republican? Like, what's the Democrat version of the Louis Vuitton neverfull sign? A mom who started working again after having K. We are cooked. We are absolutely cooked. These people are so Trump deranged and they are so. They believe that we are so politically divided. We are only politically divided because of the left. By the way, I'm willing to be friends with liberals. I don't hate them for being liberals. We agree to disagree. I'm totally fine. But liberals are the ones that are, you know, screaming at people in the woods and, and all that. So this woman, she's going back to work, she wants to find a work bag that doesn't make her look Republican. And people were kind of trolling her in the comments. This one person said, any bag made by Subaru will work just fine. Obviously poking fun that liberals drive. Drive Subarus. Someone else said Balenciaga is definitely for you because Balenciaga was known to have all those like child, weird, pedophile type photo shoots, which is also very funny. And then someone also said all work totes look Republican because all Republicans work. And someone else said, trick question, Democrats don't work. But then other people were giving her actual responses for bags that she could carry that would make her look like a Democrat. Someone said a Trader Joe's tote. Someone else said, I use a tote with my local library's name on it. I read. That's pretty unrepublican. I don't know where they have this notion that Republicans don't read but or can't read. And someone replied to that and said, you're so right. The library does scream Democrat. The Republicans I know have money and just buy their books from Barnes and Noble. But yeah, other people were just Calling her out, saying, since when the purses have political affiliation? Someone else said, just get whatever you think is cute and fits your needs. Who cares what something looks like? A bag being a bag or a bag being political is wild. It's just a bag. Totally agree. Because there were people in the comments saying, I Do you want to pull up a photo of a Louis Vuitton never full bag? Never full as in, like, you could, you know, it's a big tote bag. Why this would scream one way or the other, I have no idea. I didn't think that they were Republican. I think they're kind of like going. I mean, as classic as Louis Vuitton bags are, I guess. Like, I think that this is kind of out of style. So if anything, I think it's just out of style. Maybe she thinks that Republicans don't have style. I don't know. But this is insane. I mean, this is the bag that she's saying, I can't carry this because people will think I'm Republican. But then people were giving her other, like, designer bag options. So it's not even a money thing. I mean, this woman is clearly out of her damn mind. Because I don't know if we're politicizing bags and clothes and all this stuff. I mean, again, this is why I'm anti cancel culture and I'm anti boycott because there aren't a lot of Republican clothing brands. So unless you're getting like a MAGA shirt or something. I mean, a lot of brands are. Are Democrat. I don't know.
C
It's a 2300 bag.
A
What?
C
That's a 2300 bag. So it seems like the Republican thing do might be like, just find something in your price range good and good on Amazon and go the fiscal route. What do you think?
A
I don't know. The whole thing is just wild. I mean, if you're gonna make everything political, everything that you wear has to be Democrat. Everything that you do has to be. I mean, it's just exhausting. I mean, this kind of mentality has to be exhausting. There's also an online. An ongoing online battle between Americans and people living in the UK about who's better. It just stems from jokes about the Revolutionary War and how we beat them. And, you know, it's. It's just like, fun poking fun. And we usually make fun of them, people in the UK for their makeup, their music, and they make fun of us for gun violence because that's, like, the only thing that they can get us on, I guess. But this guy points out a very embarrassing statistic. So watch this.
C
More than three times as many Europeans die of heat stroke than Americans do of gun violence. And you guys think you don't have to drink water. Oh, you Americans with your air conditioning. And it's not that bad. More than three times as many of you die from the heat at a latitude equivalent to Canada, then we do from guns. And we don't hear the end of it from you freaks. All I know is today they'd be dropping dead, walk into my mailbox because it was muggy.
A
Oh, they would not last a day.
C
I mean, like, done.
A
They would not last a day in Florida. I think the heat index said today felt like 109.
C
Brutal.
A
112, something like that. So, yeah, I think this calls for an eagle screech. And on that note, thank you for scrolling along with me. If you want to watch, you got to do it on rumble. Rumble.com, haley, where you can join us in the chat, of course, Apple podcast, Spotify, wherever you get your shows. I appreciate you watching, however and wherever. So tell a friend, leave a five star review. All the things make me happy. So thank you and I will see you right back here tomorrow.
Episode Title: Dems Scramble To Rebrand and it’s a BIG FAIL
Host: Hayley Caronia
Date: August 18, 2025
Hayley Caronia dissects a tumultuous week for the Democratic Party, highlighting efforts to rebrand ahead of future elections—efforts she argues are floundering both in substance and style. Through her signature conservative lens and direct dialogue with chat guests, Hayley explores media coverage, Democratic frontrunner predictions, political branding strategies, and social media memes. Additional discussions cover cultural trends on drinking, the fallout of immigration policy, voting reform, AI, cancel culture, viral internet moments, and humorous culture war skirmishes.
"Republicans...don’t seem to understand Gavin Newsom is hot and tall and charming and he has fantastic hair.” ([08:31])
"Gavin Newsom looks like an elitist snob and he is; he's a Nepo baby… It’s just very phony.” ([11:25])
“He touts the fourth largest economy...but then he has to borrow billions...homeless people defecating and shooting up on the streets…All he stands for is ‘I’m not Trump.’” ([16:08])
“How many more people must die before Gavin Newsom stops playing games with the safety of the American public?” ([31:25])
“What does that mean to be canceled? Who cares what made public support so important to begin with?...I don’t follow anybody. I follow the heavenly spirit. I follow God, I don’t follow man.” ([46:48])
“If you’re gonna make everything political, everything that you wear has to be Democrat…This kind of mentality has to be exhausting.” ([57:33])
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This episode will catch you up on the state of Democratic party politics, reveal conservative takes on election reform and political branding, and offer a window into the memes, polls, and viral stories shaping today’s right-leaning discourse.
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