Cognitive Dissonance - Episode 502: Christmas Present

Episode Date: December 23, 2019

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It's skeptical. It sure as shit is political. It's political. And there is. There's nothing you can do about it. No welcome, man. Motherfucker. Everything is political right now.

Everything that is except for Tulsi Gabbard, who voted present. Yeah. Present. The only person in the history of the United States. Now, granted, it's not a long storied history of impeachment processes. There's only been three. Yeah. There was almost four, but Nixon realized, hey, I could get pardoned for these crimes if I don't get impeached for them.

So he decided to go with the fucking latter rather than the former. Back when being a crook still had some integrity attached to it, you know, when you had a fucking sense to be ashamed of your crimes. Fucking Gabbard though.

Do you think she meant to say president? She thought, if I flip this, I'm the next president. What kind of person is like, all right, it's a binary choice. You're asking people to vote for you to be the primary decision maker. Now, what is your decision on one of the most pressing political issues that you will ever face. Pass. Hard pass. Pass.

I quit. Who is supporting her now? And you know, did you read her reasoning why? No. She said- Instead, I stuck a fucking knife through my eye. A knife through your eye

to pluck out part of your brain so you can be on the same level? Here's what she said. I think he's guilty. I just don't like the process that we're going through that's dividing this country. That's her rationale for voting president.

For voting president. That's the reason why she voted president. Because she thought he was guilty. She thought he was guilty so she couldn't vote no, but she also didn't like the process because it's tearing this country apart so she voted present instead of yes. That's why.

That's why. Coward. Coward. Straight coward. Absolute fucking coward. Independent in the spring, guaranteed. Yeah. Guaranteed.

Yep. Independent in the spring. Yeah, I don't, I, fucking just fire this woman. Like if, if. She's not running again. So good. Yeah. Not at all.

No, she, well, she's not, she's not running for Congress. I don't think, I think she's stepping down. Oh really? Yeah. I think all? No. Well, she's not running for Congress, I don't think. I think she's stepping down. Oh, really? Yeah, I think she's quitting. So she can pursue her present career? Yeah, so she can pursue her present, present, president, presidential present. There's no upside to this.

I was trying to think, like, I think she thinks it's like, maybe it doesn't piss off either party or either group. This pisses off everybody. Yeah. Like, who does this not piss off? Well, I think you know, when you think about it, she has

she's trying to play a numbers game with the people in America who are middle of the road and don't really care about this, right? There's a group of people in America I'm sure that she's trying to appeal to. I'm sure she I'm not going to say sure, but I hope that she

has people behind her that are trying to give her, you know, advice'm not going to say sure, but I hope that she has people behind her that are trying to give her, you know, advice on what to do. And this is the best that they came up with. Now, granted, they probably all tied their shoes together too right afterwards. I know. Because they can't imagine. But at the same time, you know, that's her strategy. Right after it happened, Pelosi gave a mom look to everybody in there who was going to cheer. I loved that. Which I to cheer. I loved that. Which I love too.

I love that. I love that too. And I got to say, Rashida Tlaib went to the impeachment, was walking down with her staffers and they were all smiling and laughing. And one of them's like, woohoo, we're going to go impeach this guy.

And that is a bad look. It is. It's a bad look for us. It's terrible. Here's the thing. Very immature. I will say this. I'm not happy that he's impeached

because you know what that means? It means he's a fucking criminal, right? Well, you know, like when we say criminal, we mean that he used his power. And there's no disputing this. Like there's no disputing the facts because they spent nine, 10 hours on the fucking floor yesterday

debating the exact same thing. And not a single Republican was like, the facts are in question. We're going to debate these facts. No, none of them. Every single one of them was like, yeah, he totally did that. He totally did that.

And that's okay. And that's a normal process. And it's not a normal process. And it's a fucking crime. You know, utilizing your own, try to get your own personal gain off of this is absolutely abhorrent. It would never fly if it was anybody else on the other side for these Republicans. It would never fly. They would never want this to happen. They are such a party of

selfish fucks that they can't pull themselves out of the fucking equation for 10 seconds to be like, no, you know what? We need to make sure the system's okay. We don't need to worry about our party right now. We need to make sure the system is in place and working correctly. But there's no broader view on this. There's no broader view. Like, you know, like one of the best things

that's been said is like, you got to understand like the Democrats don't win if Trump is impeached. Because we get Pence. Yeah. You get Pence. Yeah. It's not like the Democrats,

like, oh, good, great news, guys. Cory Booker's in charge for a year. Right, exactly, yeah. We don't draw a hat with the people who are, don't draw names out of a hat

from the people who are currently in the Democratic running. It's not like the Democrats are like, we vanquish thee! Like, we're in charge. Exactly, right. Like, and I see a lot

of this conversation and the conversation centers around this idea that this is a trial in the same sense that there's a criminal trial. That Trump has, that the same kinds of things

are at stake. The worst thing that happens here is he gets fired. Yeah. Right? That's it. We're not talking about whether a man goes to jail or not. Yeah.

We're not talking about it. You know, a man's Liberty is at stake. We're talking about whether his fucking job for the next one year or so. Like his temp job is at stake here. Yeah. That's what, like the stakes are not actually like in terms of,

of saying like, Oh my gosh,, we're treating him like a criminal. I see a lot of this conversation about, like, you know, the unfairness of the process. And I dispute that the process is unfair. I think the process is fair. But it's also like, man, imagine if we treated anybody else losing their job like this. Imagine if, like, you're going to go to work, and in order to lose your job, there had to be even a process. An inquiry of some sort. Or that you even had to deserve it in some way.

Instead, like regular fucking schmucks like me and you, we go to work and it's like if the boss is like, today you don't work anymore. You don't work here. Go away. That's all they have to do. They don't have to tell you why you don't work here anymore. No, not at all. Nothing. We're not talking about a criminal indictment.

We're not talking about jail time. We're not talking about liberty laws. Yeah. Well, and I think when we celebrate this, when people are celebrating it, to get back to that for a second, I think like, you know, I'm not happy that our president

tried to leverage his position for his own political know, I'm not happy that our president tried to leverage his position for his own political gain. I'm not happy about that. I'm not happy that he did that. It's a sad day that our president did this. I agree with you. Like we shouldn't be here. Like what we should be doing is having like substantive arguments about our differences in policy. That's what we should be doing for four years. Every four years, that's what we should do. Like we should have like real and meaningful substantive conversations about like our differences

around the direction of the country. We shouldn't be in a place where we're like, yeah, like you fucking sold us out for your own political purposes. Amazing. We have to spend a year of everybody's life going through this fucking dog and pony show to see whether or not you get fired while we accomplish nothing the nation stalls we like

the country deserves better than to have effectively no governance now i will say like as somebody who disagrees with literally everything trump has ever done no governance is the amount of governance i wanted exactly yeah but i don't want it this way yeah like this is not how this is not everything Trump has ever done. No governance is the amount of governance I want him to have. That's exactly, yeah. But I don't want it this way. Yeah. Like this is not how, this is not the right thing. Nobody is winning

because when we treat like the future of our country and like as a game to play, it's not a game. It's not a game. This isn't football. This isn't some other game where it's like,

yeah, great, my team won, your team won, who's I? You know, where the stakes are very low. Yeah. The stakes are super fucking high. Well, and we all lost. It's not like one side won.

We've all lost because of this. This isn't a win for anybody. It's not a win for a side. It's a loss for everybody. And one of the things that they kept saying over and over and over again in the impeachment, when they were talking about it on the floor, when they were debating it on the floor, they kept talking about how they've had it out for this president since the beginning. They're trying to impeach your vote is what they're trying to do.

The Republicans kept saying it over and over again. And I kept thinking to myself, I'm like, he has to do something wrong in order for us to impeach him, right? It's like, yeah, Tlaib wrong in order for us to impeach him, right? It's like, yeah, Tlaib did come in saying impeach the motherfucker, but she was talking about the Russia thing. She's talking about the Mueller report. She's not talking about this because this came to light after they came into office. This isn't, this phone call happened in the summer. I know.

It didn't happen. It didn't happen fucking two years ago. It happened in the summer. Nobody disliked a president as much. Like, Obama was very disliked. Right. Right? The right hated Obama.

But, like, he didn't do anything impeachable. So they couldn't fucking impeach him. He couldn't do anything about it. Just don't have scandal. Yeah. Maybe don't have a series of scandals. Right. Maybe don't have so many scandals that, like, it's difficult to remember what all the scandals are.

Maybe don't pay off a porn star as a campaign contribution. Maybe don't have weird, creepy meetings with foreign governments. Maybe don't stand in front of a fucking helicopter and be like, hey, China, maybe help me out with my political campaign. Maybe don't have a call with the Ukraine where you're like, hey, $400 million of aid may or may not come your way, depending on whether or not you publicly announce an investigation. I don't give a shit about whether or not it happens. I don't care whether the investigation happens. Right, it's the announcement of the investigation, which is purely political.

That is, the announcement of investigation is only optics. Optics is exclusively political because all it does is influence people's perceptions. Like, maybe just don't be awful. Like you can, you know who I never thought should be impeached, even though maybe he should have been, is George W. Bush. Yeah.

I hated George W. Bush. When he was in office, I thought he was a horrible president. Looking back, I think history will judge him now as the second worst president of many generations. Like maybe not of all time, but like. Certainly. Certainly like he's in the top two or three of the worst presidents.

Ever. Ever. Ever. Agreed. Like he's a monster of a person. His cabinet was an atrocity. Everything about his presidency, I disagreed with fundamentally at its fucking core. But I was never like we should impeach him.

We got to vote this fucking guy out. Yeah. We got to vote the guy out. I did think, I did wonder at one point whether or not like he should be tried for war crimes. For lying and saying, yeah, for the weapons of mass destruction at least. Yeah.

But part of me is like, I think he was misled by his own cabinet. Could be. I'm not 100% sure that's not the case. I think that's real easy with George Bush. Yeah, with W? Super easy to mislead that guy. Are you kidding me? Yeah, he didn't seem like he was very, very, very, very

super whip smart, if you know what I mean. A fucking special assistance dog with its own problems could fucking mislead him. Are you kidding me? You know, the other thing that's really appalling about this whole procedure is McConnell and Graham already saying that they've already made up their minds. And then they play that against the tape of them talking about Clinton years ago and how they were just like, oh, we've got to hear everything. We got to make sure we

hear everything we can. And it's so funny to hear their stance on it back then when it was a Democrat. And now you roll it forward and you're like, oh, okay, this is how you guys handle it when it's a Republican. Hypocrisy means nothing. No, nothing whatsoever. Because it's games. It's gamesmanship and it's winning. And it's like, it's this bullshit, my side, your side stuff. None of these are principled men. These are garbage people. Garbage, horrible, monstr of these are principled men. These are garbage people, garbage, horrible, monstrous people that are hurting us. They are hurting the country so much. The things you want, the things we need as a country

to be safe and to be economically powerful and to have like some fucking quality of life. Mitch McConnell, one fucking person somehow walks around and fucking pisses and shits and is just a regular person and is hurting 300 million of us and we're letting him do it and it's astonishing like that guy is supposed to swear an oath saying that he will be a fair and impartial juror and he's already come out publicly and said i have no intention of being a fair and impartial juror he said as much and like he said, I am working directly with the defense,

with the White House, to coordinate this trial. What the fuck is going on right now? All of this is illegal. This is a subversion of the system. And we don't care. Somehow, and I don't understand how, we don't care because we've gotten so caught up in the games. We've lost our principles.

And it's crazy because right now, we know Russia's doing all this shit right now. We know that they're trying to manipulate our elections. They're continuing to try to manipulate us over and over and over again. And even now, we know it's true and there's nothing we can do to go back to stop that. We can't stop it. We can't stop it now because right now there's no push in

our government whatsoever to try to prevent any of that. And the right has blocked legislation, blocked funding. Over and over. We are actively blocking the funding and the legislation that we need to put into place to make sure that our elections are sound. That's not a democracy anymore. You're handing democracy over to foreign governments that are hostile to us. It's Russia. I don't understand what happened to the right. I don't get it either.

They fucking suck the shriveled dead dick of Ronald Reagan more than any other party ever. And that guy fought a Cold War with Russia. And somehow the right is fucking got it right up the fucking tuchus with Russia and is grinning about it with every thrust. They can't stop. I don't understand. Isn't that the party that's supposed to hate Russia? I thought so, but they are a party of opportunists.

And I think that whatever helps them, they will use. And this is a perfect opportunity of that. Do you think it's because they see the writing on the wall that republicanism is demographically dying? And it's just like, all right, well, if we can't appeal to the masses anymore, if we can't appeal to young voters, if we, you know what I mean? If we are demographically dying, then the only way we win is procedurally. Do you think that that's a part of it? I don't know. I think there is something to be said about that if you look at how things get gerrymandered

and the way in which they try to control the elections. And they have for a long time. Purging voter rolls now, that's coming out. Many different places are purging different voter rolls. And so there's a difference between the two parties. One party wants everybody to vote and wants to make sure that everybody has an opportunity to vote. And the other one wants to limit it and got to ask yourself, which one's better. We got to ask yourself, like, which one is democracy? Yeah. Like that. It's so funny because like the right

somehow has, um, they have, they have copyrighted the idea of patriotism and they've, they've trademarked the idea of nationalism. And at the same time that they do that is the same time that they like fucking make the fucking constitution into their own personal Snuggie

and walk around with it. Like they are the party that like seems the most hell-bent on having the least democratic processes. I will say this, and we're going to cover a couple Trump stories

in sort of quick succession here. This will be our This Week in Trump to open the show. I want to talk about a couple of things that happened with Trump and the impeachment, but the first one is Nancy Pelosi is going to be holding onto these

articles for a little bit. I just saw this as a developing story. Like all this shit is just happening as we're talking about it. Yeah. Yeah. She wants to, she wants to hold onto the articles until she gets a guarantee from the Senate that they will do a fair trial because clearly right away when they go on these Fox news shows, they've already said they're not interested in fair trial. What do you think about her doing this? Okay, so initially I was like, wow, that's an interesting way to do it. That's basically what they did with, you know, they've done this, they've stalled over and over and over and over again throughout, you know, the last several years. And it's served the Republicans very well to stall. You know, Neil Gorsuch is a perfect example of that. But already their spin on it,

McConnell's already responded. He's saying, what, did the prosecutors get cold feet already? Are they sure that their bill isn't, their impeachment isn't going to hold up to people? And he's playing it. He's spinning it because he doesn't want to, he thinks that he knows what's going to happen.

I mean, let's be real honest. You got to get 67 votes in order to fucking remove them. That wouldn't happen with any of the Congresses going back to like the 70s. Like there's no chance it's going to happen. Yeah, maybe you could flip six or seven guys from the other side, but you can't flip. I mean, gosh, how many do you have to flip? That's 20 people you got to flip over. It's not happening.

It's not happening. It's not happening. There's no way 20 people are going to jump ship from Trump. That's just not going to happen. So you know the outcome already. I think the problem is, is that they want to, what they really want to do is get all the people who are on,

that are on Trump's staff that he told not to come or the former staffers that he told not to come, to come and actually say shit out loud. He wants to, they want to make to come and actually say shit out loud. They want to make sure that they hear that stuff out loud. And if they dispute some of those facts and they come out as lying in the Senate, that's a big deal for some of those people. And I think that's what Pelosi wants,

is to make sure that they come out and do that. And that's what all the Senate wants. The Senate, at least the Democrat side, wants that to happen. But I think the Republicans are going to do what they're going to do, which is they don't mind that it stalls. They'll be able to try to spin it as best they can. I thought this was super weird, actually. I disagree with this. And I like Nancy Pelosi, so maybe she's just playing chess two steps ahead of me. She's a smart, smart woman. Yeah, she's a smart lady. Because Mitch McConnell

was basically like, well, then don't send it to me. Yeah. What? Well, don't give a shit. Like, what if you never send it to me? Yeah. Like, and I kind of agree with him. Like, if all you do is impeach him in the House

and then every day you don't move it to the Senate, we look like we have, like to the people, like it looks like what it is. It looks like a broken, fractured government that can't even get impeachment done. We can't even decide what we've decided.

We're Tulsi Gabbard-ing the whole fucking thing. We're just like, ah, we'll get to it or not. Like, this doesn't play well for the Democrats unless it plays out perfectly. And that seems so dangerous to me.

And nothing ever plays out perfectly for us. Look around. Nothing has in the past several years. So the other couple of things, he tried to bully, cyber bully Greta Thunberg again, which was great. He had said,

one of the things he had said to her, he had tweeted at her. Trump said, Greta must work on her anger management problem and then go to a good old-fashioned movie with a friend. Chill, Greta, chill. She changed her Twitter bio

to a teenager working on her anger management problem, currently chilling and watching a good old-fashioned movie with a friend. It's the second time she's done it to him. And each time,

it's made him look like an absolute blithering idiot. And I love it. I cannot love it enough. I love that he can't bully a 16-year-old girl. Well, it's like, I don't know how, oh boy. Okay.

All right. She got me. Like, and it's all she has to do is just like, not hit him. Yeah. This is, this is also Trump faces backlash. Oh yeah. After John Dingell hell joke during Michigan rally. Basically what he said out loud was, you know, let's just listen to it.

Let's just listen to it. Debbie Dingle, that's a real beauty. So she calls me up like eight months ago. Her husband was here a long time, but I didn't give him the B treatment. I didn't give him the C or the D. I could have. Nobody would have, you know. I gave the A plus treatment. Take down the flags. what else, you know. I gave the A-plus treatment. Take down the flags while you're taking them down for ex-Congressman Dingell. Oh, okay. Do this, do that, do that. Rotunda, everything. I gave him everything. That's okay. I don't want anything for it. I don't need anything for anything. She calls me up. It's the nicest thing that's ever happened. Listen to how he's talking about her. This is a woman who lost her husband

after years and years, and he's mocking her for crying on the phone. Yeah, and he's also making a big deal about doing the only decent thing you can do that cost him nothing to do. It's not like any of this was a personal difficulty for him. It'd be like if I was like, oh my God, when your spouse died, I sent flowers.

So like, now you got to blow me. And it's also not his decision, right? Like a lot of this stuff is up to Congress. It's not even his decision. Right. Thank you so much. John would be so thrilled. He's looking down. He'd be so thrilled. Thank you so much, sir. I said, that's

okay. Don't worry about it. Maybe he's looking up. I don't know. Yeah. The implication being that he's burning in hell, which these fucking numbskulls believe in. Yeah, right. This is, that's what he did this week.

He said that this week about her, about her husband. And one of the things she said back was like, look, this is a really difficult time. My first Christmas without my husband and you've made it harder. Thank you. Like, thanks for doing that.

Appreciate it. You know. But he's attacking her because she's not allied with him politically. Because she voted for impeachment. Guy's a classless human being, man. Now, Tom, this one you didn't hear about. When you came in, I said,

hey, what about this thing? And you said, oh, what? And so I'm just going to play it for you. And I came into office. I did a lot of this. Sinks, showers, all of this stuff. I did a lot of it. No water comes out. You have areas where there's so much water, you don't know what to do with it. You turn on the shower. You're not allowed to have any water anymore. I mean, we do a lot of it. Dishwashers. We did the dishwasher, right? You press it. Hold on a second.

Can we just pause for a second, Cecil? He is sweating. He is absolutely fucking sweating like an absolute pig. He is rendering right now. I have done some fucking shit in my life, and I have sweat my own puddle, and this man is standing. Like he is standing in place right now. And he is exerting himself so much.

He is sweating like mile 24 of a marathon. You know, they always talk about like, oh, you know, what if we get another Trump, another four years of Trump? And that's possibility, very much possibility, especially after, you know,

what happens here with this impeachment and how this plays out. There's a possibility, but I don't know that we're ever going to get four years of Trump. I look at this guy who's standing in place, sweating and nearly dying, and I think probably not going to happen.

Anyway, he's going to say, he's going to talk about dishwashers here in a second. Dishwashers. The dishwasher, right? You press it. Remember the dishwasher? You'd press it. Boom, there'd be like an explosion.

Five minutes later, you open it up. The you'd press it boom there'd be like an explosion five minutes later you open it up the steam pours out the dishes now you press it 12 times women tell me women tell me what is what is happening did that just happen that just happened women tell me that you press it 12 times press the button 12 so what he's basically saying is i don't understand how dishwashers work anymore, but the ladies say, you know, them bitches in the kitchen. They wash the dishes. Oh my God. Again, you know, they give you four drops of water and they're in places where there's so much water,

they don't know what to do with it. So we just came out with- Well, we should waste it, God damn it. If you've got a natural resource, you should waste it. What you should do is, and it's funny too, because you're just like, yeah, okay. So it. What you should do is, and it's funny too, because you're just like, yeah, okay.

So what we're going to do is make an individual dishwasher for everybody in the country. So Chicago area sells its own dishwasher. California sells its own dishwasher. Yeah, that's what a company wants to do, right? A company. No, instead what you do, dumb ass, is you go for the fucking least common denominator

and be like, hey, they're having lots of droughts in 15 areas in the country. Why don't we sell a fucking, you know, a dishwasher that handles that and still performs just fine in other areas? Well, like, I love the idea that you're just like, well, we could use more resources. Well, sir, we actually don't have to. We've just made it better.

We've figured that out. Yeah, but we should just, you know what we should do? We should all just drive around a Canyonero. Like, are you fucking true? It's true. What is happening? It's true. With the rag-on dishwashers, we're going back to you.

By the way, by the time they press it 10 times, you spend more on water and electric. Don't forget, the whole thing is worse because you're spending all that money on electric. So we're bringing back standards that are great and better machinery that you can have the water again. He's basically saying, look, I am going to bring, I'm going to cut down regulations so that I'm going to get rid of energy star shit and anything that has water conservation. And I'm just going to get rid of it. I feel like this is one of those like crazy person moments where you're like, we're actually having a conversation where the solution is, wouldn't it be better if it was less efficient? Yeah, exactly.

No, that's what the word efficiency means. That is the entirety of the anti-environmental stance. And we've been talking about that for years. You put two people in a room and you're like, yeah, but we can make it better now. So it doesn't use as much gas. It gets better mileage. It's better for the environment. And they're like, why though? Yeah. And it's everything. They just respond with the letter Y and T-H-O over and over. And they're like, why though? Why though? You're just like, are you fucking two years old? Are you a fool?

What is wrong with you? Just make it better. We can make things more efficient. We don't have to fucking like mine a fucking six tons of cobalt for us to do X, Y, or Z. We could stop doing that. It's like if you just changed how we pay. If you just had this conversation, you'd be like, okay, let's change the conversation. Imagine you had to pay for everything with your fingers. Like if everything cost a finger. Yeah.

All right. All right. Well, you got to wash the dishes. Would you like that to cost one finger or three fingers? Well, I like my fingers. Okay. Well, I like water. Yeah.

Like we have, there's a finite amount of this stuff. Why are you wasting it stupid? Glory all in extremely long black cock. This story comes from CNN.com. It's kind of a big story, actually. Mormon Church accused of stockpiling billions and avoiding taxes. Like, just so you understand what billions here means, billions means about $100 billion. And in case you guys are curious, churches aren't allowed to stockpile money. So that's a really, really, really big deal.

Churches are allowed to be tax exempt because they're 501c3. They're 501c3 the same way any other charity is a 501c3, which means that there's a limited amount of cash reserves which are available, which means that there's a limited amount of cash reserves which are available, which they're allowed to keep on hand. They're a charity, so they are supposed to act as a community good. That's the only reason that churches are tax exempt, because they're supposed to pay into the community. Hoarding $100 billion is not paying it back into the community. Hoarding $100 billion is not paying it back

into the community. You can't do this. This is a great big fucking deal. Yeah. And it says, one thing it says is a whistleblower alleges that billions of dollars

collected in ties, mandatory donations by members, was invested in an investment arm of the church, but in 22 years it had not been distributed to charitable causes in accordance with the IRS rules according to complaint. How isolated do

you think an incident like this is? You know what I mean? Constantly we hear about, you know, we hear about churches acting like they're charities. Right? That's the thing, is that they say we are a charity. We are a charity. It's weird to give it to a middleman, in my but hey you know you do you right you know like if you think your church is doing the right thing great i know that they also have to have a building and like a fucking

person works there and like a bunch of other overhead costs that are also included in that but whatever you do you but when it comes to this how much are they just keeping they can't stockpile this money. They're not, that is just not something that they can do. I have no doubt that like Scientology does it. Yeah. You know, from everything that I've read, there seems to be ample evidence that Scientology does it.

And they're just not using it. They're just not using it towards charitable causes. Yeah, they're not supposed to care. There's supposed to be money in, money out. Yeah. You know, that's how this is supposed to work. Money in, money out. Or you don't get tax exempt status. And it's not like they don't get to exist. Let's be really

clear about that. It's not like anyone is saying, look, if you want to keep your money, you can't exist. No one's saying that. What they're saying is if you want to keep your money, that's cool, but you're a business and you get taxed. You get taxed just like everybody else. Because that's profit off your revenue. Yeah. It says here, in the statement, the church made no mention of allegedly accumulating $100 billion, but did say, all church funds exist

for no other reason than to support the church's divinely appointed mission. Which is really pretty churches, I guess. Yeah, right? Make Salt Lake City beautiful again. I don't know.

What if they're stockpiling this money for like the end times? I'm serious. I read a different article. It says like- Yeah, that they're stockpiling this money. Oh, is it in gold or something? Which will be equally worthless

to the dollar in the end times? Can we chat about that for a minute? We've talked about this in the past. We've talked about this in the past. Like, those fucking dumbass motherfuckers who are like, well, you know,

if the economy crashes, I'm going to be all right because I have gold. It's like gold is just money that's heavier. It's not food, right? It's a thing I trade. Right. That's it. Money is something that's worthless that we pretend is worthwhile.

And then we hand it to each other in exchange for things that have objective value, like water you can drink or a home you get to live in. Objective value. And then money is this fucking pretend thing that makes the world go around. Gold's the same thing. It's just metal that's shiny. Like, if I'm hungry and you're like, would you like some gold or would you like a Whopper? I want a Whopper. Like, there are times where a Whopper? I want a whopper. Like there, like there is, there are

times where a whopper is, has more valuable than gold. Yeah. Like the gold is a fake. It's just money that just fucking a pain in the ass to carry around. Did you hear in this story that they're saying that like the whistleblower in this, um, because of the IRS rules, they have an opportunity to take, what is it, 30% of the taxes collected. No, I missed that part. So the whistleblower gets up to 30% if they collect taxes on it. And that tracks because the whistleblower for Ukraine got a half of a fighter jet. He's just sitting in the back half. He's waiting for the front half to get delivered. Buddy, for $30 billion, there's nothing I wouldn't blow. Well, it's not 30, you know,

it's a third of what they collect off taxes. So it would, but it would still be in the millions of dollars easily. Which I think is great. I'm still putting it in my mouth is what I'm saying. I'll tell you what, I'll tell you, well, not only am I, I'm also doing that too. But like the idea too is like,

I think that's a great way to to make sure that people stay honest right you put that you put that clause in there and then suddenly people are like oh they're gonna watch you they'll pay attention to you yeah fucking a get on the train baby you know holiday movies actually do make me feel really good christina i love holidays but those sappy Hallmark holiday movies, if my wife wanted to watch that marathon, I would actually pay her money not to do it. Yeah. So this story has been kind of all over the place this week, right? We can watch Brian Fisher, Hallmark caved to the gay Gestapo. Now, a little bit of background before you play the clip.

So Hallmark had an ad which had a lesbian couple getting married and they kiss. Then they pulled the ad because one million moms just consists of about 47 actual members. I don't think I'm wrong. No, they got up to like 400,000. But again, it's some people like. That's likes. And that's likes and that's like okay well how do i know that you like the page because you're not just making fun of it or yeah right right so the one million moms they they complained that hallmark had two ladies kissing

oh my god really yeah it's a whole cinema yeah and then like everybody was like we want to see two ladies kissing everybody everybody was like yeah we want to see two ladies kissing. Everybody was like, yeah, stop the presses. Right. And they put the ad back. They put the ad back because they realized, they suddenly realized, they're like, huh. So one tiny little market share said no. And one giant market share said yay.

It's yay. I made the mistake of reading some comments on the New York Times about this thing. And people were like, they're so stupid, it's unbelievable. They're like, Hallmark only cares about the money. They pulled it when they thought, and I was like, yeah, it's what businesses do. Do you think that all Hallmark

has some fucking principled stance here? What's their mission statement of Hallmark and they all stand behind it, they're like, principled, they're like, no, you take that money elsewhere. I read that, I was like, yeah, companies like stand behind it. They're like principled. They're like, no, you take that money elsewhere. I read that. I was like, yeah, companies only care about money. They're companies.

It's not people. It's not like you said like, well, Tom flip-flopped. Get the fuck out of here. Tom has no morals. It's like stupid. Hallmark flip-flopped. Yeah. Yeah.

Right. They caved. Of course they caved. At what point is that news? That is not the news here. This happens with every single business. Right. The business gets pressured

because they made a fucking bonehead maneuver and then they change their fucking, they change or they don't. You know, there was a bunch of backlash. Do you remember when the fucking Cheerios commercial came out that had a fucking interracial couple on it? I do. And people were just like,

oh, what the fuck? And you're like, what is this? What is happening? I couldn't literally- Oh, were? What is happening? He couldn't buy, couldn't literally. Oh, were they Negroes? I literally couldn't believe that there was backlash

to an inter-ray. I was like, what fucking timeline am I in, man? And like, there was backlash to that. And I'm glad that like,

you know, Cheerios, there's enough people who eat Cheerios who aren't racist, right? There's like enough non-racists that are like, no, Cheerios are cool.

I'm going to keep, Cheerios are cool. I'm going to keep buying Cheerios. And so they didn't buckle to it. But here's the thing. Play that commercial 60 years ago. Right. It would have never, they would have 100%. I don't care where your morality is

because your morality should be, yeah, man, interracial couples are fine. You're an idiot if you think otherwise, right? That's where the real morality is. But if you roll the clock back, they would have absolutely changed their position

and would have taken that commercial off the air and been like, we're really sorry. We actually turned all the Cheerios black for a little time so you could beat

a bowl of Cheerios and feel good about yourself. They would have fucking 100% caved. They wouldn't have even, they wouldn't have even run it. Right. I know, but like still. Right.

Yeah. No, I love the idea that it's like, well, that company doesn't have any morals. No, they don't. That's not what they do. Don't look to fucking corporations for fucking moral guidance. Yeah.

They write, you know what they also, they don't mean anything on the gift cards either. Right. They don't mean it. They don't mean it. They don't know your Aunt Jane. They don't know she died of it. They don't mean it. They don't know your Aunt Jane. They don't know she died of cancer. They don't give a fuck.

They sold you a card. They don't mean all the cards. Look, most of these companies, if they could make more money selling Jew ovens, they would sell Jew ovens. Are you kidding me? Of course they would. All right, this is Brian Fisher, also in favor of Jew ovens. Fisher also in favor of Jew ovens.

Hallmark, earlier or late last week, they actually pulled ads off of their programming that celebrated homosexual marriage. There was an ad that was run, produced by an organization, a company called Zola. They specialize in doing wedding ceremonies. And what better place to advertise your wares than on Hallmark, which is nothing but gushy romantic stuff. Gross, disgusting romantic stuff. Where you have to touch your wife. Nasty, disgusting, horrible stuff like that. It's a whole channel where losers love each other like jerks.

Good place to advertise wedding services. And one of their ads had two lesbians kissing. Well, our organization, One Million Moms, headed up my Monica call. It's just like the only mom on the whole thing. She just has a million cardboard cutouts of herself. She stands in front of those standees. Sent a letter to the CEO of of crown media which owns hallmark complaining about this and complaining about the offense it is to pro-family viewers their children do not want to turn on the hallmark

channel and see that kind of stuff okay question for you got a four-year-old at home four or five five five yeah what happens if he sees something like that on tv would he even talk to you about it would even ask you about it oh i mean it would it would it would raise hell he would ask for a brownie yeah and then i would give that brownie to him and then he would knock some water over on the table and then he wouldn't wipe particularly because he has your jeans and he's ultimately very clumsy yeah nothing would happen at all. He wouldn't notice. Nobody would notice. It's like it's a controversy to people that like fucking raise controversy over it.

It's a controversy to people who are super grossed out by it as adults and can't stop their own reaction. The only reason the kid would ever pick up on something like that is if the adult picked up on something like that. You can change a channel.

You're not required to watch the Hallmark Channel. I don't like action movies very much. I find them boring. When they're on, I'm like, oh, I can press one button and I don't have to watch it anymore. And then I press that button and it goes away because that's the magic of television.

You don't have to watch things you find objectionable. You don't have to watch things you find objectionable. Everything doesn't have to be... They talk about how the gay agenda wants to force these ideas on us. Just change the channel if you don't like it. Nobody's forcing anything. I could see if maybe somebody was fucking

clockwork oranging you to watch this shit. You start changing the channel. You're like, Jesus, this is only gay people's bedrooms. What is happening? So the CEO called Monica, called us back, left voice messages for our president, President Tim Wildman,

and said, we're sorry. We're sorry all over ourselves. We apologize. We're never going to let it happen again. And then the gay Gestapo, the bull. Okay, hold on, hold on. Before we get into the gay, hold on. What does that say on his,

he's got a book called The Boy to Man Book. Yep, that he wrote. Ron Fisher wrote it. I think we need to read The Boy to Man Book. That's all I'm saying. And I hope that it ends

in a melody of boys to men. That's all I'm hoping. We need to read that. Real quick, this is the part of the story where he's going to describe how he bullied Hallmark into doing something and then he's mad that somebody else bullied Hallmark into doing a different thing.

When I'm bullying you into giving you my lunch money, it's like- Somebody did the exact same thing I did. If I beat you up and take your lunch money, that's okay. But if somebody beats me up and takes your lunch money from me, then that guy's a dick. It's exactly the same thing, right? It's exactly the same thing.

I wanted to dump your books. I didn't want them to dump your books. Oh, man. We apologize. We're never going to let it happen again. And then the gay Gestapo, the bullies of the homosexual movement. And remember their theme is homosexuality, uber alice, homosexuality trumps everything. And so they got a hold of Walmart. They started getting in, getting after it, getting on Hallmark. And they,

they folded in about 48 hours. They completely collapsed. Because there's more people that aren't bigots. I mean, it's just like because the numbers aren't with you, man. Because you're a tiny little subsect of society of weirdos, weirdly obsessed with other people touching each other. I'm on the wrong side of history and everyone notices. At least, you know, to Dan Cathy's credit, it took him several years to completely fold.

It took Hallmark 48 hours. They'd completely reversed. Now they're apologizing all over themselves for supporting normative sexuality. So anyway, they completely reversed field. Another victory for the gay Gestapo. He keeps on calling him the gay Gestapo, but he's the anti-gay GB. Right. And so, ask not who's been naughty to you.

Ask who you can be nice to. Oh, oh, ho, ho. Merry Impeachment. To you. Sister comes from Right Wing Watch. Touch not the anointed. Lance, all new praise against the effort to impeach Trump. I thought he was in like a handjob video or something.

He's in like one of those, he's in like one of those ones where they don't touch it and the guy like asks for them to touch it. Yeah, he's just like, just don't. Come on. Just a little. He's just running around the room waiting for somebody to touch it.

All right, here we go. This is Lance gesticulating wildly and praying. This is awesome because, you know, once in a while Tom will get it, Tom will find a prayer and this is perfectly caught by right-wing watch. It's just him being absolutely nutty.

We pray, Lord, for the refreshing momentum and strength to come upon the president of the United States. I pray that every weapon formed against him will not only fail, it'll boomerang that every pit that's been dug for him to fall into, his enemies will fall into. What is this fucking bounces off of me and Lance on you? That's exactly like when I listened to this, I was like, this is the I'm rubber, you're glue prayer. That's what it is. He is praying, I'm rubber, you're glue.

Also, it didn't work that way in the impeachment. I just want to point that out. It's not like Nancy Pelosi was like, damn, they got me for colluding with the Ukraine. Fuck. Nothing has been cast to snare him. We'll become a snare for those that have sent it. Lord, they're not

battling with a man. They're battling with the intercession and the mercy of God over America. Lord, America needs mercy. It deserves judgment. But I pray that you... Well, it's not going to get it in the fucking Senate because he's already said he's not going to

call any witnesses. It deserves mercy and it needs judgment. Those things feel contradictory to me. I want mercy and judgment. I'll take the mercy part, actually. Skip your judgy-ass bullshit. These guys Let you skip your judgy-ass bullshit.

These guys can't skip the judgy-ass bullshit. No, they can't. Rise up for the sake of the sheep nations of the earth and for the Christians of this country. The sheep nations of the earth? I think that's everyone that's not America. Oh. I think America, so I think,

I think America's in charge. Are we the wolf nation? Yeah. I think America, so I think, I think America's in charge. Are we the wolf nation? I think America's in charge because somebody had to be in charge. So after Jesus died, nobody was in charge for like 2000 years. Yeah. 1700 years thereabouts. Give or take.

Then America was in charge. Then America came in charge. And now we're still in charge and all the rest of the nations are sheeples. Yeah. And that's the dumbest fucking thing ever. I pray that you rise up, send angels down that will tear open the veil of deception. Is he goat seeing us right now? He's goat seeing us.

Isn't he goat seeing us? You guys can't see this, but at 42, 42 seconds in, that is the answer to the life universe and everything. 42 seconds in, he's goat seeing the screen it's fucking amazing right now pause the minds of americans to awaken with shock and revelation to the truth uh lord i pray that you will have an elijah anointing that is going to take this seduction of jezebel witchcraft and political self-interest and money compromise and cause it oh my god that's literally, I know. Political self-interest and money compromise. There's like no politician in the history of fucking our country that is more

compromised by his own fucking money than Trump. And it's amusing to me because like, when you bring that argument up and you have conversations, I don't know if this happens to you Cecil, but you have that conversation, it's like there's never a denial that that's the case. Everything I always hear is, well, all politicians are corrupt. Which is just like, well, okay, but yours is still super duper. Like, we're talking about

yours, which you're defending. And the defense is, well, they're all like that. Well, that's not a defense of that at all. Like, even if that were true, it's like alright well but the one in Supercharged is a problem then we both agree what you're basically saying is we both agree

but because the whole system is fucked then just fuck it there'd be a fireful moment there a fireful moment? a fireful, full of fire, fireful it's a whole festival about how fireful you can watch you, the thing is like, they didn't finish the last season of Fireful,

but then they had a movie. Well, it's Firefly goes on to Fireful. Yeah. In America, where we'll be able to see, Lord, the false prophets for what they are and to see the Lord, he is God. The Lord, he is God. The Lord, he is God.

Is he going to keep saying that? It's already boring. By the, by the middle of the first time he said it, I was already bored. And he's doing this like weird karate chop praying. Well, his whole,

the whole time he keeps on like, it's, it's like he's doing the itsy bitsy spider. Like when he's praying, he's like moving his hands and he's doing his crying and he's moving it. Like he's kind of, he's signed like this is ASL version of the prayer this whole like praying like this praying and gibberish stuff that these guys do they're so good at it oh yeah like because if you if you listen to it he hasn't

said anything at all yeah none of this is actually like this is just a bunch of nonsense phrases but he slings them and screws them together in such a way that, and he says it like with like a weird, passionate fervor. And you're just like, Oh, you're just good at this structurally. Yeah.

Yeah. Nothing is happening. You're not thinking about anything. We're not asking for anything. It's the Yakov. The ant guy does this too. Yeah. He'll just say random shit that comes into his head.

And you're like, there's nobody in the audience realizes this is random shit. It sounds like fucking Jabberwocky. It's like, that's almost stuff. That's like we're nearly, I get a sense of. And because it's all interpretable. We believe that you're having your way right now, Lord. We never would have known any of this stuff.

We wouldn't have known about the condition of American politics, intelligence oh no we knew about the condition of american politics how did god just fucking blow that whistle yeah i would be impressed if the whistleblower identity hadn't already been leaked if the whistleblower turns out to just be the fucking second coming of jesus standing there in sandals and fucking holes in his hands, blowing through them like, whoo, whoo. He's got the phone up to one ear. He's listening on the call on one ear. He's just like, this is outrageous. I got to step down here.

I got to do something about this community or the corruption of media. Had it not been that you did send Trump and we pray that you're going to protect and preserve him and that every weapon that comes, that is forged against him will boomerang because they're hitting the anointing. Touch not the anointed,

that this man has been anointed. Nobody is touching you, Lance. And that dude is going to die in like five years. Like I can't imagine that guy not dying in five years. He doesn't do anything. He's like one of these weird like throwbacks to like medieval times that thinks you only have a certain amount of energy

in your body and he won't work out. Like he's weird and crazy. Well, the energy in your body is a lot like the water in your body and he won't work out like he's weird and crazy well you're the energy in your body is a lot like the water in your dishwasher if i used if it's too efficient cause the anointing to refresh him and his circle give him people he could trust let mike pompeo come into a fresh anointing i love mike pompeo pray for mike pompeo for william barr and for john durham for the apparatus of what's rising up now. He ran out of people that are in his cabinet because he doesn't know.

He couldn't remember anybody else. It's just the apparatus. Nobody does because they're all temporary. I love these guys know a lot of words and they use kind of close to the right word a lot. You know? Oh, pray for the apparatus.

What? That's not... What? No, like... No. No. Lindsay, may he experience Lord, a clarity and a kind of a righteous indignation give... May he experience clarity and righteous indignation.

What good would that do? I've been righteously indignant for 41 do? I've been righteously indignant for 41 years. I was born righteously indignant. I don't know. Again, he's just saying things. It's like he has a word of the day calendar every day and he tries to make a prayer

on his word of the day calendar. To give to the Senate, Lord God, moments of piercing clarity and judicial... It's going to be party lines. God, moments of piercing clarity and judicial authority. It's going to be party lines. They don't need piercing clarity. They're going to literally go party line vote. What are you, high?

They don't need clarity to arrive at a foregone conclusion. Authority. And let there be soundbites, Lord, that are going to be a sustained pattern of public persuasion. We're praying for soundbites, though! that are going to be a sustained pattern of public persuasion. We're praying for soundbites, though! That's what... What I really want is a 10-second story. God,

can you provide a 10-second story? I really need a great soundbite for your fucking word. Omniscient creator of all things. Thank you. Can you give me a soundbite? Thank you for sending the 3,000-page book, but it's a little long.

It's a little long. It's a little long. Can you send a 10-second Cliff Notes version of your Bible? Five roast beef sandwiches. Five roast beef sandwiches. That can't be right. I thought it was five golden rings. It says roast beef sandwiches. Is that the way I remember it?

I kind of like the change. Announcing Arby's Holiday 5 for $5.55 deal. All right, Arby's Holiday 5 for $5.55 deal. And soon. This story is fucking amazing. This is from the New York Post. Missouri church leader tried to pay for sex on Grindr with Arby's card. And I'm just going to read the article to everybody.

Yeah, it's short. It's short and it's great. Because I love the way that it's written. I got to say, New York Post, sometimes this is a fucking highly right-leaning rag. And they sometimes can say some things that are actually really funny. He tried to lure beefcakes with the meats.

We have the meats. A Missouri church leader allegedly tried to pay for sex on the gay hookup app Grindr with an Arby's card. That's my favorite thing I've ever heard. It's like my favorite thing I've ever heard. It just keeps getting better. Oh, I love it so much. Using the handle DILF.

Using the handle DILF. Barry Cole Pointer, 57, allegedly tried to bed hot college age guys by offering to pay for gas, clothes, and roast beef sandwiches. Like, you got to keep your boys in roast beef. That's how it works. I'll be perfectly frank. I'll be perfectly frank.

If someone were to find me and offer me, say, an Italian beef sandwich, I would do a lot of things for an Italian beef sandwich. Sex and a sandwich sounds great. Yeah, right? Like, I'm usually,

after the sex, I'm like, so you hungry? All right. Oh my God, I love it. The Church of Christ Elder, who is also a professor at nearby Truman State University, was busted after a student reported him and a cop went undercover on the app, according to the paper. Poynter allegedly sent the officer a message saying he, quote, would love to have a sugar

daddy relationship, end quote, then offered to fill up his gas tank in exchange for sexual favors. That's what it takes to be a sugar daddy? I'll fill your gas tank? Jesus, that's pretty easy. Sugar daddy is like $43? Yeah. Jesus.

What are you fucking kidding me? I could be a sugar daddy for like six or seven people. I could have a sugar harem. What are you talking about? That's amazing. Jesus Christ. But I do want to stop there for a second though, because like, is it explicitly, because one, I think we're just laughing and I want to make

this pretty clear. I'm just laughing that this guy got caught who's like a priest, right? A preacher, right? That's why I'm laughing. And the absurdity of it. Yeah, it's absurd too, because of the grinder and the roast beef thing. That's it. It's funny, right? But I also want to say too, like if somebody wants to have like a sugar daddy, sugar baby relationship, I don't give a fuck. Like have whatever – these are adults. He's talking about college-age people. These are adults having relationships. You have whatever relationship you want.

I don't care about – Well, it's prostitution is the problem. Again, I don't care about prostitution either. No, I know. You know what I mean? Like so for me, prostitution is literally I don't care about prostitution either. No, I know. You know what I mean? Like, so for me, prostitution is literally, I don't give a shit. And I also,

and also really, let's be honest, sugar baby, sugar daddy relationships are fucking essentially prostitution. Right. It's just you're buying them stuff instead of buying them, you know, paying them outright. You know what I mean?

I don't care about it. I don't think, I'm not being morally judgy about that at all. Literally don't give a fuck about those relationships. I want to get that out of the way so people don't say like, oh, what are you being, I don't give a fuck. Yeah relationships. I want to get that out of the way so people don't say like, oh, what are you being,

I don't give a fuck. Yeah, sex workers, do your thing. Yeah, do your thing. Exactly. Do your thing. Yeah. If the younger guy was willing,

Pointer said, he also might throw in an Arby's card. Arby's card? Throw, I might throw it in. I'll fill up your gas tank. Could you imagine?

Okay. The Arby's card. So here, he's standing there, he's just filled up the gas tank and there's, there's Pointer and he's. The Arby's card. So here, he's standing there. He's just filled up the gas tank. And there's Pointer. And he's got this Arby's card.

And he's kind of playing with it on his face. Like sort of rubbing it on himself a little. He's sort of rubbing the meats on himself. And he's like running across his lips. He's like, you want me to throw this in, big boy? This is a $7 Arby's card. You get like two or three roast beef sandwiches for this, depending on the tax.

Do you think his other like pickup line was like, what would you do for a Klondike bar? He's got a, he's got a, a $5 foot long card, but he's like, it's really not that long. Okay. No,

I'm going to fuck you three times. I got three, $4 cards. Do you think he would have been more successful? Like, I mean, I admire that he's trying to like lure people on Grindr with a sandwich. Like, was he trying the same thing on Hoagie the app? Maybe somebody with a little bit better with technology

should have given him some pointers. Yeah, exactly. All right. Instead, he was greeted by officers at the gas station where he tried to flee, according to the paper. When he was pulled over a few blocks away, he allegedly told police he was not doing anything with a minor and was only trying to help by offering gifts to men on the app.

He realized the app's for a sir. So you went on a site that hooks dudes up with other dudes and you're like, yeah, no, I was just trying to be nice. I'm sure there's other more charitable apps out there that you could download. I feel like if you're on Grindr, I've never used Grindr

because I'm not a game man, but like, I'm pretty sure like, unless you're like really unpleasant, you don't have to offer to fill someone's gas tank to hook up. It's a hookup app. Yeah. Like you're just to fill someone's gas tank to hook up. It's a hookup app.

Yeah. Like, you're just like, all right, this isn't working. I don't know. You guys want a, like, horseradish sauce or something? I don't know. I look at this guy

and I think he might need to do some luring. Right. He was charged with patronizing prostitution and faces six months behind bars. Truman stayed

a suspended pointer. It wasn't immediately clear if he was still in his leadership role at the Church of Christ, which has, of course, made homophobic comments in the past.

Nice, yeah. Oh, God, it's so great. He's got a roast beef sandwich with a stick on a box just waiting for the next person to come by and pull the stick out. He pulled the stick.

I got one. I got another. I got another. He's capturing a gay in there. Here it comes. Tom, half the people in our audience, more than half probably, have penises. I'm going to say it's more than half, Cecil. The other bit like them a lot.

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you can take if you're in a high risk category and like your chances of getting HIV are significantly fucking diminished. Yeah. Like really like double digits, awesome, significantly diminished if you're taking PrEP. And so it's, it's a great drug. And it's like one of these things, I read this article and it's like, well, this is great. This should exist. And then it's like, there's, there's a company out there spreading fucking disinformation about the effectiveness and the safety of PrEP. And there's no mechanism to fight this disinformation. Yeah. And this shit spreads like a goddamn wildfire because like all information is just like out there to be consumed.

And the consumption of information is what helps to move information. It's not, it's even worse than that because it's targeted, right? So like Facebook, you can target. So you're targeting this group of people. And this is, this is a, so this is a law firm that's trying to spread misinformation about this drug so that they can make a class action suit. That's what they're trying to do is try to drum up, drum up business for this class action suit. Well, the problem is, is that if you put out misinformation out there, then you're going to, and you target a group of people because you can target a group of people. This is way more dangerous than it used to be with like stuff on TV, right? When you just like blast shit out on TV, it's way worse than that. And there's no,

there's nothing that's sort of a regulation, at least the FCC, there's some sort of regulation behind that. There's some sort of body that sees this and says, no, that's not good. We can't do that. We can't let that go on the air, et cetera, et cetera. Or they find, you know, they'll let it go on the air, but companies that do stuff on that do stuff on the broadcast waves, they have probably, I would imagine, an FCC compliance officer, somebody who works for them. Because the FCC isn't policing everything that goes out. What probably happens is they have their own internal person

who's like, nope, the FCC will fuck us for that. Don't put that out there. It's probably a general counsel, right? Who just knows what's good and what's bad for the FCC. So they specifically have a person in-house who's like going to be their compliance officer who's like, yeah, no, yes and no and when they and there's a body out there that enforces against that there's nothing like that on facebook because these companies don't have to have a facebook

compliance officer because there's no teeth to anything and they can it's essentially the wild west because this is compliant because like that's the thing is that it's okay to lie on there. It's okay to like, it is okay to say things that is not out of compliance. Like there is no compliance regulation. It is entirely within the bounds of the organization and the structure to make up shit that eventually will cause somebody to have AIDS. Like somebody is going to get AIDS because of this. Yeah.

Like people are not going to take PrEP and then they're going to become HIV positive and then they're going to get AIDS because of this. Yeah. Like, people are not going to take PrEP, and then they're going to become HIV positive, and then they're going to have AIDS because of this. Right. Because, like, we have a structure which has said, like, I'm not policing anything. There are no rules here. Yeah. That's fucked up. Yeah.

Like, that's really scary and fucked up. And, like, that's, like, people are going to get hurt because of that. And, like we said, it's more it's more targeted it's just more targeted and so there's a better chance that someone's gonna see this that that can be fucked up by right yeah a tennessee deputy is accused of groping a woman and forcing her to choose between jail and being dunked in a lake in a late-night baptism. What the what? Yep. Court documents show Chandel Marie Riley is suing Hamilton County and deputies Jacob Goforth and Daniel Wilkie for $11 million in connection with a February traffic stop.

Riley says Wilkie followed her to a friend's house from a gas station around 10 or 11 p.m. on February 6th where he initiated a traffic stop. He told her he believed she was in possession of meth and started to perform a search during which he groped her in order to remove and shake out her bra, according to the lawsuit. Jesus Christ. In the car, he finds a single marijuana cigarette,

which he admitted to having. Then Wilkie told Riley she was a piece of shit and asked her if she was saved and believed in Jesus Christ. The suit went on. God, Wilkie allegedly told her, had been speaking to him throughout the entire interaction. Wilkie then offered to keep her out of jail if she let him baptize her in Soddy Lake.

Soddy Lake! Soddy Lake, by the way, is in nearby Soddy Daisy. I love that. The lawsuit says wilkie scored her to the lake stripped her to a stripped down to his underwear while she refused to take off her clothes and then arrived at the lake in time to witness the ritual as wilkie dunked riley beneath the water at no point did wilkie ever speak to a judge on riley's behalf as he told her he would so he he's like here's the thing i'm gonna charge you with this crime i will speak

to a judge on your behalf if you let me dunk you in the fucking ice water in the middle of the night and she's like okay if it'll help like what a weird thing anyway just be like well if it'll help my my case sure and then he's like nah nah you know here's the thing i'd have to tell the judge about groping you and making you take your clothes off and dunking you in this lake so that puts me in an awkward spot it would be awesome

if he comes in and he's just like here's the thing your honor after I got done groping her yeah everything everything is wrong

with that story like this is like the easiest 11 million dollars anybody should ever win I'll tell you what if it's true you know because again it's alleged by a suit Yeah. Everything is wrong with that story. Like, this is like the easiest $11 million anybody should ever win. I'll tell you what, if it's true, you know, because again, it's alleged by a suit. But if it's true, absolutely, you know.

But isn't this why, like, we've talked about this before, like, oh no, we don't need body cams. Can you imagine watching this body cam footage? Well, Jesus wanted me to touch titties and dunk you in this water. Okay. All right. We're just going to start writing a check.

Just start writing. That's payable to me. They should just carry around big, giant-sized novelty checks in their trunk next to the assault rifle that's in there. And every time that they violate someone's rights, they get out their Sharpie and sign away a bunch of the city's money to them.

The suit itself should be attached to somebody at home base who can watch and be like, okay. Alright, and they hit a button, the suit freezes up, it can't move, and it starts pushing money out like an ATM. It's like one of those things, you remember when you go to the thing and there's that push

thing for the quarters? That's what happens is suddenly just change starts falling out of them. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. So what's more real, Santa Claus or climate change? Climate change. Thank you, Jesus. Santa Claus! Santa Claus!

That's a serious political question. Climate change! Santa Claus! Looks like we'll never know. This story comes from Raw Story. Kill the Gaze Passers suggests climate activist Greta Thunberg is demonically possessed and needs Jesus. This is Kevin Swanson

saying this. Kevin Swanson. Now, Kevin Swanson is the guy who said that he should be covered in sackcloth and ashes and poop or something

and like dig himself in a well of poo and hang out. I should cover myself in feces and hang out in a gay wedding because I want to be

pig pen at the gay wedding i guess i don't know anyway we're not going to play all this because it's like three and a half minutes long but i am going to play i'm going to play maybe the first minute minute and a half there is a picture of the collapse of the west i think more than anything i've ever seen this the most iconic picture of the death of the west ever and that is that Time Magazine has appointed Time's Person of the Year to Greta Thunberg. Greta? That really made Trump mad. Oh, it really

upset him so much. It really upset him. You know what's great about that? It's like, Trump doesn't seem to understand that Person of the Year, like, I think like, it doesn't mean, like, most admired Person of the Year. Like, wasn't Osama bin Laden the time person of the year? They've done some of these where they're like,

the person of the year, the person of the year. They did one where they're like, you're the person of the year. They had a mirror on there, and they're like, you. And I'm like, oh, my God. I'm the best they could do. It's like, Trump seems to confuse person of the year with, like, best person of the year with like best person of the year. Not like most influential or capturing part of the zeitgeist.

Nobody can be Michigan man of the year that many times. That's just how it works. Nobody can be Michigan man, Michigander of the year. I love that he's like, he claimed that he was Michigan man of the year, but he looks like the Michelin man of the year. Greta Thunberg. Yeah, some 15, 16 years of age. The prophetess of the new age, Greta Thunberg. She is a teenager from Stockholm, Sweden, and she is the prophetess that speaks at the United Nations, no less.

at the United Nations, no less. This is what she said. This is a piece of what she said to the United Nations. Speaking to the world, instructing the leaders of the entire world concerning her wisdom. Could you hate somebody's voice

more than his voice? Also, this guy gives a lot of cred to the United Nations that it doesn't deserve. You know what I mean? Like, genuinely gives so much cred to this where it's just like, all the leaders of the world. Yeah, they all sit there

and they get their fucking programming drilled into them, right? Right. As if the United Nations, they all go back, well, we got our instructions from Greta. Exactly. Everybody got your syllabus from Greta? Yeah. And also here's what they constantly say, like getting our instructions. She's like, she didn't instruct anybody on anything

no she just shamed them like they should be shamed that's it well I think that's why they're so reactive I think they're reactive because it's a she

yeah I think they're reactive because it's a young person yeah and I think they're reactive because like she's refusing to enter into a debate

on the facts yeah what she's doing instead is saying like this shit is fucking poison and you know it and you're pretending you don't know it

and you're going to fucking kill us. Yeah. And she, it's not like, it's unequivocal. The message is emotionally unequivocal.

Right. And they don't like it. And her prophetic announcements and pronouncements for the day. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction for the day. Entire ecosystems are collapsing.

We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you? All right. So there it is. None of that's a prophecy.

Those are all scientific. Ecosystems are collapsing. That's literally true. We cannot have a substantive conversation that has scientific backing that does not involve the absolute facts that ecosystems are 100% collapsing. 100%.

And we are in the middle of a major mass extinction. That is another 100% true statement. That's happening right now. You can't, you can't know a sciencing thing without knowing that. You can't even accidentally like, you can't even watch like, like you can't even watch the new like BBC documentaries,

like the new nature documentaries without that message being first and foremost in those nature documents. I went to the Museum of Science and Industry here in Chicago to go see the Christmas lights. They have Christmas lights display every year. And I went there to go see it this last Saturday. And I hadn't been in the museum since last year. I went last year.

And I didn't really walk around the museum last year. I kind of just went to the lights thing and then kind of left. Didn't really do a lot. And this year, I got there early enough where the crowds weren't. There was enough crowds. Still kind of smallish group of people there. And I was like, well, I'll go really do a lot. And this year I got there early enough where the crowd, the crowds weren't, there was enough crowds, you know, still kind of smallish group of people there. And I was like, well, I'll go for a little walk. And I walked into the area where they're talking about climate change. Oh. And it's, I got to say one, if you're familiar with the museum of science and industry for my entire life, it's been the museum with a bunch of broke shit. I don't know,

but it's essentially everything is literally broken. Like there's like a crank thing and you're just like, you sit there and spin and nothing happens. Buttons you press don't work. It's been, and it's been like that my whole life, like my whole life. I went in there, this, this, I was absolutely blown away by their climate. Really? Their climate exhibition that they have. It is unbelievable state of the art. Amazing. They have giant pillars, like 20 or maybe about maybe 10 of these giant pillars. And each one of these giant pillars has playable movies. You walk up and it's touchscreen and it's huge and it's vibrant and it's beautiful. And they, they pull no punches in that. They're talking about, they're showing all the stuff. And I thought for sure,

Museum of Science and Industry would have some, because there's a lot of industry backers. It's been heavily industry. And it's been a lot of oil backers. This pulled no punches. So it feels like they put science first here. At least from the stuff that I saw.

I don't want to say that I 100% examined the exhibition. So I didn't, and I'm also not a scientist, so I didn't do that. But from the glances that I was able to put through stuff, it felt like it was pushing a narrative that was like, no, climate change is absolutely 100% real. Wow. And, uh, and they had this beautiful, uh, place where you could see a movie and a really cleverly filmed on a globe. So you sit inside of this area and it's filmed on a globe so that each piece of it, everybody can see the whole thing, but it's all one piece. So it's showing you on a planet, essentially the extension of the dinosaurs and you know, like how bad that was. And they're talking about mass extinctions.

And this is, this is, you know, the museum of, like I said, the museum of science and industry, a place that might actually have a way to spin this. Nope. I thought for sure they were going to be like, oil's good for you. I know, right? Like here's your can of motor oil. That place has always been like, on a frog. Coal. Ain't it great? Here's some, here you go. Everybody gets to drown a duck in oil. Here you go. Everybody just pick a duck and then drown it in oil. But nope. Problem is the duck would be broken when you got there. The duck's just kind of quacking. It's like one of those squeezy ducks that screams. The prophet is speaking, what, 14, 15 years of age to the entire world. We're going to get to

the Isaiah 3 passage in just a moment i know that most of our listening audience is going to be that's isaiah 3 but this is the iconic picture of what is happening at the death of the west friends this is it this is the unraveling of the western world this is what it looks like are you kidding me the death of the west all the horrible shit that we have done like the death of the west like we the horrible shit that we have done, like the death of the West, like we're going to look at our history of Western culture. We're like, yeah, all the awful, terrible, fucking evil shit that we've done. And like this girl being like, hey, we should pay attention to climate change.

That's the thing that we're going to get. There's a giant scale on the one side is smallpox blankets and the other side is Greta Kutunberg. And you're like, those are equal. World War II, yeah. Or, you know, hey, slavery's on one side, Greta Thunberg's on the other. I don't know.

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And they're talking about like, and Mark Taylor asks the guy, the McFiles guy, hey, Chris McDonald, when was the last person to be executed for treason? And Chris McDonald explodes his cheeks out just he's like, um, and he fucking like fucking wanders around the room for five minutes and he couldn't answer the question. And so Sarah looked it up and Sarah

said that the last person in the United States to be killed for treason was a person by the name of William Mumford in 1862 for tearing down an American flag during the Civil War. Jeez, that's rough. Pretty ruthless. And then the other person in the UK, the UK actually executed someone in 1942 for treason, but we've not done that. All the other ones are basically put in prison. So that's what

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It's okay, because your uncle probably listens to it. Not wrong. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, he's mentally ill in the sense that like, he's a hateful, terrible bigot. But I mean, I guess all terrible. I mean, he's mentally ill in the sense that like he's a hateful, terrible bigot. But I mean, I mean,

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I always wondered about this because for me, I wonder like, do I have to pay them money to charge? Is it like a- Some are. Some are pay, right? Yeah. Because I mean, it's not like it's free energy. It's not like it's just energy that's just sitting around. They have to get it from coal nowadays. That's where they normally get it. So some chargers you pay for, other chargers in places where they want to encourage people to just go to. So some chargers you pay for, other chargers in places where they want to encourage people to just go to. So like there are retail locations

that I've seen that have free electric chargers. Oh, nice. Because they want people to be there. So it's like, oh yeah, if I've got to, there's three grocery stores in town and this one has an electric charging station. I'll go to that one. I'm going to go to that one.

Yeah. So it's smart for them to put those charging stations in as an inducement to get people to shop. Yeah. Yeah. I know that the, I know that the batteries and the fast charging is a, is a problem with the electric vehicles. You can't go on long trips with them. You can't do stuff like that. But if we had a proper infrastructure in this country where long trips weren't an issue with like high speed rails and shit, then it wouldn't be an issue. Right. And I think like with some of the, some of the longer range electric vehicles, you can go 300 miles or so. So

you got 300 miles and you got to stop and you got to charge your car. You got to plan that shit out. It's a different, it's certainly a different way to drive on a road trip. But how often is, how often you drive over 300 miles in a single trip? Yeah. I'm not saying you never do it. I'm saying it's infrequent.

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