rant · moment 19 of 20
McCain's Black Baby Smear and the GOP's Religious Turn
from Vice President Kump · #18
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
5 minTim recounts the infamous 2000 South Carolina push-poll about McCain's out-of-wedlock black child, then argues the Republican Party became captured by religious extremism and out-of-touch economic messaging, contrasted with working-class Long Island 'lug heads.'
- 59:19Push polling in South Carolina during McCain's 2000 campaign spread rumors that he had an out-of-wedlock Black child.
- 59:40McCain had a personality and was seen as a maverick compared to Tea Party Republicans, but the GOP claims any Republican could have beaten Clinton.
- 1:00:02The Republican Party became explicitly religious, requiring candidates to oppose Roe v. Wade and gay marriage.
- 1:00:21Republican economic messaging about starting your own business fails when people are bankrupt and companies move jobs overseas.
- 1:01:28Long Island guys who inherit houses from their mothers run around lecturing about fiscal responsibility while doing nothing to earn it.
- 1:02:12Previous generations couldn't get loans and were denied opportunities to create wealth, making it generational.
- 1:02:42Electoral votes update shows Clinton at 44 and Trump at 31 during the election coverage.
- 1:02:57James Baker from the farm is overseeing the election with contingency plans, described as elderly with bloodhound qualities.
- 1:03:33Tim expresses reluctance to believe his heroes are pedophiles, attributing darker behavior to being gangsters instead.
- 1:03:45Closing reflection on the absurdity of the show and who actually listens to it.
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