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SPEAKER_1 (0:01)

Welcome to The Rogue Recap. Hot takes, cold facts, and zero respect for the official narrative.

Sit back, roll your eyes, and let's recap.

Lynda McLaughlin (0:30)

What's up, everybody, and welcome to The Rogue Recap. We are here for yet another episode, which I love being with my buddy Eric Eggers. He is bomb.com.

But today, I was just telling him before we got on camera, I said, you know, I'm kind of bummed, dude. Like, there's a lot to make fun of. And so I appreciate the Democrats rigging the shit out of the election so that I can laugh for a few years and just make fun of them. But I could have done that with them not being in power. I don't know. I'm just like asking for a friend. Like it was kind of fun to watch them on the outside, you know, doing all the dumb things that they do, singing on the steps of Congress and hugging each other while they violently smash the windows of storefronts during their Antifa rallies and screaming social justice while saying everyone is not welcome here, while they have a sign on their lawn that says, hate has no home here. Like they were, they're just the walking oxymorons and the irony is never lost on me. I enjoy it all. But how are you feeling today, Mr. Eggers?

Eric Eggers (1:40)

Well, with the way you just described it, it's interesting. It reminded me like, so any movie that gets made now is not based on new IP, right? Like I took my son to see the Street Fighter movie in the theaters recently. Oh, you did? Yeah, and it's based on this video game. It was pretty good. You know, I-

Lynda McLaughlin (1:55)

Dude, my son loves that game.

Eric Eggers (1:56)

Yeah, I know. And so now I've got like him download. So now we're like playing like-

Lynda McLaughlin (2:00)

That's old school game.

Eric Eggers (2:01)

Peony, yes, like 1990s video games. It doesn't seem old school to me. It's like, because I'm still immature and a child.

But I was like, no, this is exactly what we're doing. All that to say, I think the Democrats are going to do the same thing. It's not going to be new intellectual property. Like, if there's a way for them to have hearings about January 6th again, they will do it. And they will have hearings about ice shootings. It's like sequels of all the things that were marginally successful at the box office from 2021 through 2024

Lynda McLaughlin (2:30)

Listen, if it ain't fixed, don't, you know, if it ain't broken, don't fix it.

Eric Eggers (2:33)

Well, and you saw the quote from Robert Garcia, the new House Oversight Committee Chair, who said, I'm gay, but I'm petty. And that's how it's going to be.

Lynda McLaughlin (2:41)

And he's like, I'm DACA. Did I tell you I was the first DACA congressman? Blah, blah, blah. I'm like, just shut up, bro.

Eric Eggers (2:49)

No, by the way, that guy was a Bush Cheney volunteer. And he worked for a Republican city commissioner in Long Beach until he decided he was going to run. Then he switched to being a Democrat. It just shows you how quickly. I still don't understand how that guy's going to be House Oversight Committee Chair. He's only been in Congress since 2022 So it can't be like a senior. I don't understand how that works.

Lynda McLaughlin (3:10)

He's got pictures. He has pictures.

And that's really what it comes down to. But part of where we're at today has very little to do with the Dems. As I have said, and I say this all the time, I do not believe in a two-party system. I believe in the they them and not the kind of they them that the pronoun people love. The they them of they over there are the uniparty. And then there's the thems. We are the thems. We are just a group of people trying to get by and do the right things. And Republicans claimed that they wanted to help us, but they don't because you had power for two years. You didn't just have power. You had every branch of the government and you didn't do shit with it. To your point, because Thune is a Democrat.

Eric Eggers (3:59)

Well, by the way, to the uniparty point, Thune got re-elected quicker than it takes me to go through a dang drive-thru at late at night. You know what I mean? Like it happened so quickly.

Lynda McLaughlin (4:07)

Not only did he get re-elected, and I'm using Chandler Bing air quotes for this shit, okay, if you're listening, big, big, loud air quotes.