“The Fog of War” & “Affordability is a Democrat Hoax”
Head in the Office
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🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump just entered the contest for worst messaging attempt of 2025 with his “affordability is a Democrat hoax”, and polling indicates the Republican coalition is utterly falling apart. Add the Tennessee special election shift towards blue in the mix, and things are beginning to look good for the 2026 midterms! Also, Pete Hegseth can't stop himself from lambasting reporters and being infinitely corny in the process – even when being questioned about his alleged war crimes.
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Pete Hegseth commits brazen war crimes - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/28/hegseth-kill-them-all-survivors-boat-strike/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/hegseth-us-soldiers-iraq-rules-engagement
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/us/hegseth-drug-boat-strike-order-venezuela.html
Affordability -
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/04/poll-americans-trump-voters-affordability-crisis-00674747
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| 0:40.5 | I can't afford my groceries. I can't afford health care. I can't afford to do anything else that I want to do in my life. Tough shit. Who fucking cares. Who fucking cares about any of that right now. I swear to God, like get your money up, not your funny up. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's basically what Trump just said to a group of reporters this past week. If you can't afford anything, it's because you're not trying hard enough. And it's because of Biden's economy. But we're in Trump's economy now, and everything is better and perfect. But it's still Biden's fault. But it's still Biden's fault. He just hadn't had enough time to work and cook yet. It's like caramelizing onions fixing the economy. So true. As Trump almost verbatim said earlier this year, everything bad is Biden, everything good is Trump. And that's true. Huge. And that's true. How can you argue against that? |
| 0:55.0 | You can't. The numbers, they're right there. Actually, they're not there because we're hiding them. Exactly. So I think, I think that means we should roll this Trump clip. We should roll the trip because there, clip, there's no satire that I can engage in. There's no jokes. There's no funny that I can do that's better than what Trump literally said in his own words. Yeah, it's it's like satirizing him just doesn't work anymore. |
| 0:59.5 | It is beyond parity. It is true. It's post parity. But the word affordability is a Democrat scam. |
| 1:06.3 | They say it and then they go into the next subject and everyone thinks, oh, they had lower prices. No, they had the worst inflation in the history of our country. Trump's plan coming in was tank the economy, put in tariffs that are going to make things a trillion times more expensive than they were before. And then, I don't know, not even necessarily like blame Biden in this instance, but then just go and say like like, you shouldn't give a shit about this. Like, they're lying to you when they say that your groceries are more expensive. Well, I thought Trump was odd an affordability tour. The whole, like after he met Mom Donnie, he was like, oh, I'm all about affordability. We need to talk about affordability. Less than a month later, it's, fuck you guys. What, to Walmart Thanksgiving is more affordable than ever because they took things out of the basket, made it all generic brands. Yeah, when people say affordability, they're talking about campaigning on making life more affordable. They're talking about the cost of living. Yeah. There's nothing about that that's like a hoax. And it's just like literally like a week and a half ago or two weeks ago he |
| 2:01.6 | says thanksgiving's cheaper than it ever was to then now say you motherfuckers are crying too much |
| 2:06.2 | what do you even talk about affordability this affordability that why don't you inflation down |
| 2:11.5 | yeah because because the the implication is that nobody needs to focus on affordability because |
| 2:16.5 | everything's already affordable that's what the hoax is in his mind. Yeah. And this is what we said was going to happen from the beginning. When Trump and his aide started talking about, we're going to talk about affordability. We said from the beginning, it would require him to admit that things are not affordable right now, which he fundamentally can't do because that means that he is failing. Yeah. No, and it's this, this is the thing about like guys like Trump who will go out there on the campaign trail and just like say anything to get elected. And it's, it's the faux populism that he engages in because he came in. He said, oh my God, I'm going to lower the price of literally everything on day one, blah, blah, blah, this, blah, blah, blah, that. |
| 2:50.9 | And then he gets in a year to office. He realizes that's something that's, like, impossible to do even under the perfect circumstances. And he says, stop bitching. Stop crying too much. What are you guys doing? Things are affordable. Things are affordable. Just get your money up. They're affordable if you can buy them. Real. |
| 3:07.2 | Insane message to come out after just like a blue sweep across the country in the November |
| 3:12.0 | elections, making up ground in the Tennessee special election that was this week and then say, |
| 3:16.9 | guys, maybe we should stop talking about this thing that the other people are winning on. |
| 3:20.2 | And like when affordability is like the main thing that people are worried about, when it was very |
| 3:23.8 | clear just last month that cost of living is front of mind for voters across the country, it's political suicide to just be like, fuck affordability. It's not real. You guys are fine. It's anti- messaging. It's literally the worst thing that you can go and say is I don't, why is everybody talk about affordability? We got a billionaire sitting in office right now who's been doing everything to just help his other billionaire friends who's been fucking selling pardons damn near, accepting like private jet bribes from other foreign governments, telling you that who cares that you can't afford your groceries? Come on, man, that's ridiculous. And the switch up from when he was campaigning and saying he was going to lower egg prices, going to lower grocery prices on day one to doing this is just honestly generational. You got to respect the shamelessness that's involved in this. It's almost like switching up by saying, I don't know, there's going to be no new wars. I'm not going to do anything. Everything's going to be pro peace under me. And then talking about doing land strikes in. Sending us to war against Venezuela, man. It is just on its face absurd. Yeah. Like, it is, it is just plainly absurd and fell for it again award, I guess. It's almost like he lied about literally everything that he said about the campaign trail and now everyone is suffering because of it. More on all this later. If only we could have known before. If only we had like a point of reference at some point in the last like 50 years that we could have pointed to. And if only there were two quirked up Midwestern white boys out of Michigan. So true. Who have been on the microphones telling you about it. It's just like he had a first administration. Like we knew what it would be like. Yeah. Whatever. It's all right there. We actually had a first administration. Like, we, we knew what it would be like. Yeah. |
| 4:48.4 | Whatever. |
| 4:49.0 | It's all right there. |
| 4:50.0 | We actually had a trial run. |
| 4:51.5 | Yeah. |
| 4:52.0 | Yeah. |
| 5:00.9 | Welcome back to head in the office, everybody. |
| 5:03.0 | What a week. |
| 5:03.5 | What a week it's been, man. It happened. Yeah. Today is Thursday, December 4th. We got to talk about, heck Seth, being an obvious war criminal, not even hiding it. Not even hiding it. Yeah, they're just coming out there and saying, yeah, we did that chill. Yeah, we got to talk about the economy. And that's it. I love the economy. We're really focusing in on war crimes and how nobody can afford anything right now. Yeah, it's really bad and I'm not happy about it. And neither are you. And that's what we're going to talk about today. And neither should you be. And don't let any, I don't know, billionaire most powerful person in the world tell you that affordability is a Democrat scam. It's like Democrats aren't even trying that hard with the whole affordability. No, they're really not. Most of them don't mean anything when they say. They just finally caught on to the vibes that like, oh my God, people are struggling to pay groceries. Maybe I should mention that on the campaign trail. It's only a few of them that like actually mean it. Yeah. Others when they say affordability is the same shit about like fiddling with the knobs well it's because people like zoron already did the work of like winning on the message so they're like okay we can do this kind of yeah yeah i guess so but before we get into the episode today i'll just beg and plead at this point like i don't know what else to do i just get on my fucking knees like um become a patron or i don't know if I can make it. I can't. I don't know what I'm going to do if you don't pay your tithe. Guys, things are getting more and more expensive as we sit here and wait. As the rate of patrons, new patron slows down, we're getting further and further away from our new serious goal of buying a house and cash. Yeah, we need to be able to buy a house and cash. |
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