GOP Midterm Disaster

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode of Fever Dreams, hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill discuss how just two weeks on from the Pelosi controversy, the Twitter CEO jumped on board a vague and unverified theory that is being used to explain why the “red wave” failed to materialize on Election Day. As well, the hosts talk Kari Lake’s Arizona election loss and their surprise that she is among the first to make vague references of fraud during this election cycle, noting her Nov. 15 tweet: “Arizonans know BS when they see it.”

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0:00.0	Picture this. Static cars, idling engines, angry horns.
0:08.6	Now, picture you, zooming past it all.
0:13.8	Light and breezy.
0:16.2	Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.
0:20.8	Book your train journey via avantiwestcoastcoast.coast.com.
0:25.1	Avanti West Coast, feel good travel.
0:32.4	Hi, I'm Will Summer, and welcome to The Daily Beast fever dreams.
0:35.9	I'm a politics reporter at The Daily Beast.
0:37.9	My book on Q&ONONN, Trust the Plan, The Rise of Q&N, and the Conspiracy that Unhinged America
0:42.5	will be available in February and is available for a pre-order now. And I'm Kelly Weil. I am also
0:47.7	a reporter at The Daily Beast, and I'm the author of the book Off the Edge, Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything.
0:55.6	On this podcast, we're going to take you on plunges into the sometimes hilarious, sometimes scary fanatics, infecting the way that millions of Americans view the world and how they vote.
1:03.6	Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, the energy of these conspiracy theorists, grifters, and influencers, is still pushing our mainstream
1:11.5	political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point. Welcome back to Fever Dreams. I'm Will
1:16.6	Summer, joined as always by Kelly Wyle. Kelly, how is it going? I'm hanging in there, Will. How are you
1:21.8	doing? Are you hanging in there? Because I hear you were deep. You were long on FTX. Yeah, man, I shouldn't have put all my retirement funds in there.
1:30.1	I shouldn't have banked my family's fortune, several generations of wealth. But what can you do, really?
1:35.5	So first of all, before we dive it, obviously the big news this week is the election and its fallout.
1:40.1	And for us, the big news is the ensuing Republican Civil War. But first, I wanted to check out FTX.
1:45.5	So the background here is this was a big crypto exchange.
1:49.0	It was run by a guy named Sam Bankman-Fried, who is a sort of iconoclastic character who made
1:54.3	enough money that he could wear cargo pants and hang out with Bill Clinton and stuff like that.
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