Folks, we have already begun what is going to be the dumbest presidential primary on
the Republican side that we have ever seen. Like if you thought 2016, you know, which
actually started in 2015, you thought that was bad with Donald Trump coming out and basically
stealing the show and everything, just getting dumber from there. Now you've seen nothing
yet. And the reason we know it's going to get dumber is because we now have things like
deep fakes and artificial intelligence that, uh, pro-Trump groups are using to try to trash
his opponents. Specifically, of course, Ron DeSantis. And this past Friday, Donald Trump
Jr. Got into the game and he shared a deep fake video, which unfortunately, for copyright
reasons we can't show. But if you wanna see it, it is in the link in the description of
this video. So I'll just have to describe it for now, unless you wanna watch that and
then come right back.
But anyway, for those who haven't seen it, it was Rhonda San's face and voice like his,
his voice superimposed onto Steve Carell's character of Michael Scott from the Office.
And in the clip where they've switched out Michael Scott with Ron DeSantis. was
a clip where Michael Scott was of course being berated by his, uh, coworkers for accidentally
wearing a lady's pantsuit instead of a man's suit. So the coworkers were mocking him and
he was humiliated and they switched out his voice with Ron DeSantis reading the same lines.
And Don Jr shared that clip along with a quote that said, DeSantis does seem to spend a lot
of time in high heels, followed by three, laughing, crying, smiley face emojis. But
the video, of course, is, is not real. It's fake. And, and Ron DeSantis for all of his
faults, um, well he does kind of like to wear boots that make 'em look a little bit taller.
Like as a not super tall guy myself, I empathize with that a little bit. But at the same time,
this is what we're going to be dealing with in this primary. Do you know why? Do you know
why it's gonna be stupid stuff like these deep fake videos instead of policy talk? Because
all of these idiots believe the same thing. There is not a a, a hair's breath of difference
between Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis, or Nikki Haley or Tim Scott or Asa Hutchinson. All
of these idiots on the right believe in the exact same thing. So we are not gonna get
discussions on policy. We're not gonna get a real conversation going or real debate about
who differs on what issue because they all agree on the same thing. And because of that,
because they all agree, they of course can't attack somebody for supporting something when
they themselves also support it. So we're gonna go to the stupid talk. We're gonna go
to the deep fake videos. We're gonna go to the AI images that show their opponents doing
all sorts of scandalous things. That's where we are, probably not just with the Republican
primary, but
In politics in general. They don't want to talk policy. At least the Republicans don't
because they don't have policy. And the policy they do have is absolutely horrendous and
not supported by a majority of people. So we're gonna see these stupid videos emerge
and people like Donald Trump Jr. Are going to push them out there. And even though most
people understood that that was a scene from the office, I guarantee you there were plenty
of Trump supporters who believed that that was actually a thing that actually happened
and was caught on tape. I guarantee you some of his supporters believed it was real. And
I know that because you can actually go through the comments and see people saying like, oh
my God, when did this happen? That's what's terrifying about this.
This is the new era of American politics and it's a scary one cuz once these Republicans
are done going after one another, one of them is going to emerge at the top and they're
gonna use these same tactics against the Democrats and there's gonna be enough of their idiotic
followers who believe that this is real. It doesn't matter if they put somebody's face
over a scene from Mash or in a black and white movie, there's gonna be plenty of Republicans
who say, oh my God, where did you find this video of him? That's how stupid things are
getting and buckle up cuz it's gonna get even dumber much faster than you think.