Go to Hell, Swalwell.
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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VR28 - On this week’s Vapid Response, we survey the fallout from California Congressman Eric Swalwell’s recent exposure as a longtime sexual predator and ensuing swift exit from both the California governor’s race and Congress itself. What does Swalwell’s fall say about how our country’s two political parties handle these kinds of allegations in 2026--and can we once again count on The Federalist to deliver the stupidest possible take on the situation? We then briefly revisit the single worst take on the allegations raised against Brett Kavanaugh during his 2018 confirmation process before paying tribute to the women who organized to bring Swalwell’s many abuses of his power and privilege to light.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is Vapid Response. It's number 28 somehow. I'm Thomas, that over there, is real life attorney. Matt Cameron. How are you doing, Matt? |
| 0:18.0 | Wow, number 28. Great. No, doing good. doing good. We've really been doing video for that long. |
| 0:23.7 | Apparently, that's, I mean, numbers are pretty simple. Like, you just go up one every time, but I'm amazed. I'm as amazed as you are. Like, I'm trying to figure out how we could have messed this up. Yeah. Who knows? |
| 0:35.8 | They seem to just go up by one each time, and yet we're at 28. It seems to possible. That's like 28 weeks or more. Well, I will say... You skip weeks sometimes. When we first started this, I was still recording on my closet. So that was quite a while ago. I don't know. Yeah, I've been recording out not in my closet for some time. Yeah, she's in the garage. |
| 0:58.5 | She's in the bathroom. I'm trying to think. Better airflow regardless of where I am. |
| 1:03.0 | Lydia's set up nice than I am pretty much. It's cozier. And of course, Lydia, how are you doing? |
| 1:08.7 | Hello. I'm happy to be here today to talk about a piece of |
| 1:11.8 | shit. I can't wait. My favorite thing in the world. Let's talk about men sucking. Unlike, |
| 1:20.4 | you know, that wonderful man, Jeffrey Epstein that we can't get enough of. Yeah, yeah, I know. |
| 1:24.7 | It's true. We do talk about a lot of pieces of shit. This is an alive piece of shit. |
| 1:29.3 | A living one, yes. Yes. A big distinction. Living shit. |
| 1:33.6 | Oh, boy. Yeah, this is not good. Not good. Yeah, we're going to be talking about Swalwell. And I think that on one hand, it's horrifying. There seem to be new horrors every day. |
| 1:44.8 | On the other hand, I do like that the response was pretty immediate and thorough. |
| 1:49.6 | Like, he's out. |
| 1:50.7 | Not only he's like, his campaign is suspended, then he's out of Congress. |
| 1:55.0 | You know, it's good. |
| 1:55.8 | I will say there was a period of time where it wasn't that. |
| 2:00.5 | And it was right before. It was when the content |
| 2:02.5 | creators that were given this information from all the survivors were sharing that information |
| 2:08.1 | prior to the report coming out in the, you know, corporate media. And we had folks like Ruben |
| 2:16.1 | Gallego basically say that these were people who were paid off by Roger Stone and MAGA. |
| 2:22.5 | And then trying to say that it was like Katie Porter, you know, as a political operative from Katie Porter's team or Tom Steyer's team trying to take down Eric Swalwell. |
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