Cognitive Dissonance - Episode 739: No Welfare for School Kids, Boebert Switching Districts

Episode Date: January 8, 2024

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And there is no welcome mat. Today is Thursday, January the 4th. And we've got an upcoming long form episode, Cecil, that I just read the audio of today. 32 pages of bullet points from one Donald J. Trump. And his whole, and his crack team, Tom. And his crack team. bullet points from one Donald J. Trump outlining his case. And his crack team, Tom. His crack team. His team that is clearly

on crack. On crack. So, you know, our patrons will be able to hear the reading of that long-form, 32-page, nonsensical bullet point rambling. I edited today, and it was almost, it was like 45, it was like 48 minutes. It's, it's, hmm, not compelling, but interesting. Not interesting. But this Thursday. Is it compelling was almost, it was like 45, it was like 48 minutes. It's not compelling,

but interesting. Not interesting. But this Thursday. Is it compelling? No, it's total garbage. This Thursday though, we'll be covering it. Yeah. We'll be talking about it. And huge, exciting news for you, Tom. Huge, exciting news. I am launching a show along with, well, I shouldn't say I'm launching it. My beautiful wife, Haley, is launching a show and I am riding her coattails and enjoying the view. Nice, nice. It is, show is called Talking Ship. It's just a fun little show that we're doing.

We're going to talk about relationships. We're going to be launching, if you're listening to this, tomorrow. So- Tuesday, January the 9th. You can find it everywhere. Assuming that I figure out how to post it properly. You can find it everywhere.

I can't wait to see this happen. I can't wait to, I'm like giddy to see it happen because it's so exciting. I got a chance, I got preview of three episodes and it's funny. And the best part about it is

your guys' relationship really shows through, like how much you guys love each other. And so I love that. I thought it was great. I really enjoyed it. And so I'm sure people are really going to enjoy it too. Yeah, we're looking forward to it. Thank you.

So tomorrow, look for it. Tuesday, January the 9th. Talking Ship is the name of the show. You'll be able to download it. Fingers crossed. Everywhere you can download a podcast. We're going to put a link in this week's show notes to the Patreon and to specifically, if it's not there on the day before, as soon as it launches and there is a thing to link to,

we will link to it on the show notes for this episode as it launches and there is a thing to link to, we will link to it on the show notes for this episode. Terminated. No, no. It wasn't my fault, sir. It was Needles. Needles was behind

the whole thing. And you cooperated. No, I didn't. It was a sting operation. I was setting him up. Read my facts. No, please. No, I cannot be fired.

I'm fired. Ah. No, I cannot be fired. I'm fired. Ah. So, Cecil, let's talk a little bit about Kim Davis. Oh, who's that, Tom? Kim Davis. Who's Kim Davis?

Refresh my memory to who Kim Davis is. So, if y'all don't remember, come on down and sit and hear a little story about old Kim Davis. come on down and sit and hear a little story about old Kim Davis. Kim Davis was the anti-gay bigot who took her case all the way up to the courts and said, you know what? I am absolutely, definitely, for sure not going to certify marriages between anyone other than one man and one woman. And the court said, oh, also, the fuck you are. You know what? He didn't write that exactly,

but they sure as hell, it certainly sounded like that because what they did was they jailed her ass. They did. Well, when she refused, after they said, yes, you are, and she's like, no, I'm not, they jailed her. They were like, awesome. Yeah. You're going to spend some time in the clink. Who jumps first? You jump first. We're playing chicken. You lose. Now, this is in Kentucky, right? So, and it's amazing to me that even in Kentucky, she lost. That's the thing too, is when I look back on this and I remember it, I remember being outraged. And I do remember her speaking freely for several weeks before something really happened. Yeah. There was a big national hubbub about how she wasn't going to fulfill this request. And she got a chance to sit on that throne and shout a bunch of shit and be interviewed

and like, you know, like be the steadfast. I'm not going to do it. And she got a lot of, a lot of, uh, accolades from the right for doing this. And she was kind of their darling for a little while. She really, really was. She became, it was great, because as fast as she became a hero, she became a villain.

Because I think that the right thought that she was going to win in court. Yeah. And instead, she got slapped down extra fucking hard, and then she got fired, and then she got fucking jailed, and maybe I've got the order of operations wrong, but I also don't care, because ha ha. Yeah. And now she got fucking jailed. And maybe I've got the order of operations wrong, but I also don't care because ha ha.

Yeah. And now she's been ordered to pay buckets of money. Yeah. Now she's got to pay more than a quarter of a million dollars, which I don't know what you make as the fucking clerk of the, you know, marriage certificate. But like, this is a lot of years of her pay. It really is. This is a lot of years of her pay. It really is. This is a lot of years of her pay. And all she had to do to not be on the fucking hook for, I think, $260,000 in fees and $100,000 in damages.

All she had to do was her fucking job. Yeah. She just had to wake up, go to fucking work, and do her fucking job. That's it. That's all she had to do, man. I feel vindicated by this in some way because we talked about this and it's genuinely an immoral thing that she was doing. Absolutely. This is two consenting people who are adults who want to get married. Getting married isn't just

a religious thing where people say, okay, forever and ever, we're going to love each other, whatever. That isn't what it is. Getting married in our country matters because of decisions that you have to make for somebody when they're incapacitated, being able to be put on beneficiary forms and other things. There's lots of other, you know, the joint filing of certain things like insurance or taxes or bank accounts, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. The passing of property upon death. All these things. There's all kinds of reasons why getting married is important. In fact, I know someone who they had said recently they would never get married. They wound up getting married specifically because someone that they've been

dating for many, many years is actually going through some serious medical issues. And they needed to be on their insurance in order to handle this sort of, so they had to get married and they got a justice of the peace thing. They've been together for years, right? Right. But they had no intention of finalizing it.

But here's the problem. It has to be because, you know, some, most companies won't do other domiciled adult as your secondary on your insurance. They won't allow it. You have to have some sort of relationship with that person in order for them to allow it. They won't do it because they want to save money too, right? They don't want to insure other people. Because they want to do as much as they can want to. Your company doesn't want to insure other people as much as possible. And so I was lucky enough for many years to work for a university

that allowed second domiciled adult. Is that what they called it? Yeah. Our company calls it like a, not a civil union, but something similar because you don't have to have anything other than you live there for a year. That was a requirement is you have to, in our company, for our insurance, you have to prove that you've cohabitated for a year. I see. That's it. Yeah. So I like the second domiciled. That's what they had. That's what they had called it. And I don't know what it, what the requirements were. I never had to put my mistress on insurance, so I didn't know, but no, but, but I had no idea, right? Like I was married the whole time. So I have no idea

what the requirements were. It could be a year. It might've been, but what was great was they allowed that sort of thing, but scroll back to this, right? Here's this person who's trying to come in and get something to say, look, I don't need your fucking blessing. I don't need you to approve of who I'm with. I'm not looking for you to fucking look at me and say, you know what? I think you're doing the right thing. Atta boy. I don't need any of that. I just need you to fucking sign a piece of paper. That's all I need you to do. I don't need you to do a goddamn thing else. Just sign the piece of paper. That's it. That's all I need you to do. I don't need you to do a goddamn thing else. Just sign the piece of paper. That's your job.

That's what we asked you to do. That's what you got elected to do if you were elected or you were appointed. I don't remember exactly which she was. I don't either. But that's how you got a new job. So do it. Do your job.

And like, I really do think that as much as they try to paint this as a issue of conscience, it is an issue of conscience for them. But I think that they paint it as like, well, I don't think that they should be married. And what they're really saying is, I don't want them to be legally protected. That is really it. Because I think of them as like less than people, and they don't deserve those protections you were just talking about. So what they want is to make it difficult, if not impossible, for people to enjoy the same kind of rights and privileges if you're gay in society as if you're straight in society. They want to hurt you. This isn't about them.

You are less than. Yeah. Right. This is about making sure that they put their fucking thumb right on that scale. Absolutely. And weigh you as less. Yeah. That's what this is about. It's about removing your legal protections. He just made Lieutenant wants to

hang on to his little gold bar. Oh, this guy is fucked, dude. This guy is fucked. And I'm glad this guy's stories from BBC put a picture up here. Bob Menendez, U S Senator accused of accepting gifts from Qatar. So if you don't remember, this is the guy with gold bars in his freezer or whatever. He looks like he has gold bars because he looks like a leprechaun medikibler elf. That's what he looks like to me. He really does. He really looks like,

he looks like he is hiding his bars of gold. And there they are. He's got, oh, it's my gold. He's got, oh, a kilo of gold. Look, it's my gold. Gold bars previously found. He's got, oh, a kilo of gold. Look at me, gold. Gold bars previously found

in the Menendez home. This isn't like, they didn't just find a stock photo of fucking gold bars, Tom. These are the ones that they found there.

These are the actual gold. These are fucking a kilo of gold they found in his house. Straight up. A pound of gold. A pound of gold. A pound of gold

is $26,000. And this is 2.2 pounds. 2.2. So this is what, $54 of gold is $26,000. And this is 2.2 pounds. 2.2. So this is what? $54,000, $55,000? $54,000, $55,000. It's a lot of fucking. And you can knock a fucker out with it too.

I know. You can put this in a sock and give some, like. It'd be like, it's like that Full Metal Jacket scene or whatever. If I get fucking beaten to death with a sap, I want it to be a gold. It better be gold. I want it to be a bougie beating. Yeah, at least I get, yeah. That's awesome.

I don't want a beating you can get at Zales. Yeah, look, what exactly? You know what I mean? Like, what is that? Go to Jared's, right? Don't go to Jared's either. Look, here's the thing. Trash.

But like, here's the thing. There's no legitimate reason to have a bar of gold. It's 2024. I would say if you're a prepper and you want to beat someone to death after the world collapses. Have you ever met anybody who has had a bar of gold? A bar of actual gold, Cecil.

I don't even think I have any gold jewelry. I don't think I have any gold. I don't think Sarah has any gold jewelry. I have gold. My wife, no,. I don't even think I have any gold jewelry. I don't think I have any gold. I don't think Sarah has any gold jewelry. I have gold. My wife... No, do I have gold? I have a piece of gold. I have gold in a watch.

I have platinum on my ring. I don't have a single piece of... And Haley has some... I take that back. I think my wedding ring may have a tiny bit of gold on it somewhere. But I don't wear it, so I don't know. It is not a bar of gold. Like, a bar of gold is something pirates have.

Yeah, sure. I mean, if it's in a... You better have a bunch of fucking, like, those trunks in your house, too. And you better have a peg leg and a parrot. There is no legitimate business person who's like, let's transact this in bars of gold. Yarr! It's like going to his house

and you have to climb, to climb one of those rope things to get to the second floor. When he jumps out, he has to cut a sail and go all the way down to the bottom. Like, this is... You go into his house and you're looking. You're like, okay, now there's a dotted line that leads upstairs and then

underneath there's a big X on his bed. So it's clearly that's where the treasure is. It's under his bed. There's a series of booby traps to catch the goonies or shit. Like cops are trying to break down the door and the cannons come to the window. There's just like the cops show up and it's like, hey, you guys. Baby Roots. This fucking guy.

And here's what I want to do with him, Tom. Here's what I want to do with him Tom here's what I want to do with him I want to put him in the fucking Goonies catapult and shoot him out of fucking out of Congress

fuck this guy forever period forever slick shoes I don't care yeah exactly slick shoes

slick shoes yeah I want I want somebody to pick him up and all the gadgets just start going off he's punching people. He fucking knocks Mitch McConnell out with his belt fucking puncher.

I want to see it all. All of it. I want to see it all. Fuck this guy, though, forever. I don't give a shit that this guy's a Democrat. He's a fucking criminal. Criminals be criminals. I'm going to say this.

Even if they pulled him out and they replaced him with a Republican because that's who the governor is. I'm okay with it. We can't have criminals in the Senate. Fuck this guy. Yeah, you cannot have. He's like, he's selling shit to Qatar.

He's like, he's like. He's brokering deals. Yeah, he's brokering deals. He's openly like, like talking like favorably in public about Qatar, which has an effect, right? When a U.S. senator is talking publicly and openly in positive ways, and then they're just like sending them pictures of like Rolexes and shit, like $20,000 Rolexes. Like, which one of these do you want? You want to fucking watch you up?

Right? Yeah, man. I mean, the guy's a fucking crook. He's an absolute crook. He's a fucking complete crook. I have no idea how this happened. When I read the first story, when this first broke, what it very much sounded

like, and I hate to say this, but it sounded like a foreign honeypot operation. That did sound like that. When I first read it, too, that's how it was played out. That's how it was played. But when you read this article, you're like, no. No. No. That's what I was going to say. Now, and still, no sympathy, right? If you get honeypotted, you still are a crook, right? You still did all this shit.

You're like, maybe I'd be a little more sympathetic to your reasoning why you were a crook, but you're still a crook. Right. And you still have like responsibility to your crookism for sure. But like, I'm a sucker for love. Fine. Like, it's okay. You know, I'm not like saying it's okay, but, now I'm like, no, man, he's getting texts that are very quid pro quo. He's got bars of gold

in his house. He's setting up meetings between people in New Jersey and Qatar and he's brokering deals for them. And then he's

suddenly getting texts to say, hey, which Rolex do you like better? And they're $30,000 and $40,000 watches. This is fucking like, this is, if it's not treason,

it's treason adjacent. Yeah, exactly. God, a Rolex is so expensive. How? That is so fucking, I can't imagine. Like, I'm seriously, at this point,

in the next couple years, I'll be looking for a car and I'll think, that's a Rolex watch. Yeah, man. It's that expensive. You can have a nice car or a wristwatch. Oh, I'm sorry. A timepiece. Wow. Here, here's the thing I will say about a Rolex is I do know that

they hold their value. I mean, yeah. So they are. So like if you think of them as, yeah. But I do think if you think of something like that as an investment or a store of value, they are not actually a bad store of value. Sure, sure. So they oftentimes are something you buy, you don't wear it. You have it so that it goes up in value.

See, stick it in a sink. You wear it like a Flavor Flav clock. Flavor Flav! Around your neck. You put it right here so you can always keep an eye on it.

I don't know if those are a store of value. You make a Rolex as big as a fucking dinner plate that you're wearing around. That'd be amazing. I got a fucking giant Seamaster Rolex Get the hell out wearing around. That'd be amazing. I got a fucking giant Seamaster Rolex.

Get the hell out of here. That'd be amazing. Ridiculous. Really does fit with this pirate theme, though, with the chronometer. Yarr, I've been caught. It's me, Sexton. Vote for me in the Senate.

Black beard for president. One-eyed Willie for secretary of the treasury the fucking bird is calling the roll just like outstanding Polly want a quorum I want a hamburger no a cheeseburger

I want a hot dog I want a milkshake I want potato chips. You'll get nothing and I can. All right, this story is from the AP News. Nebraska governor stands firm on rejection of federal money to feed food insecure children. I want to read part of what this guy said. COVID-19 is over and Nebraska taxpayers expect the pandemic era relief programs to end too,

he said in a statement. He announced on December 19th that Nebraska would not participate in the program, and he had a firestorm of criticism, later defending the stance at a news conference by saying, quote, I don't believe in welfare, end quote. And here's what this was. This was a program so that an EBT card would get a little bit of money when school wasn't in session to help feed some of these kids. I literally don't understand how we can be at this point where it's so adversarial and so obviously adversarial rich versus people that are underprivileged. Yeah. We are talking to, just to give this some context, $40 a month.

Yeah. That's the amount of, that's the magnanimous fucking amount. Intense, intense amount that the tax pay. And this isn't $40 a month to every single person. This is $40 a month for those who qualify for school lunch, for free school lunch. So if you're on the free lunch program,

that program is oftentimes for a lot of kids, that will be the only square meal that they get that day. Which means 181 days in Illinois, 181 days out of the year, you get a square meal. And that leaves by my math, 184 days, more than half the year that you are going to be food insecure. And this tries to cover a tiny piece of that gap. That's all this tries to do. It's the tiniest bit in the summer. The idea that like anybody would think about a kid going hungry and be like, that's better.

It's never better to not feed kids. This is money. Like the state of Nebraska stood to gain federal disbursement of like 16 or 18 million dollars. I don't remember which. And in exchange, they would only have to pay out something like one hundred and seventy thousand dollars in administrative costs to basically move the money around and get it where it's supposed to go. It's an enormous net benefit. Right. So like they pay a little tiny amount. They get a much, much larger sum. And then kids get to eat food. Kids get to eat food, yeah.

And to have the governor stand there and be like, I don't believe in welfare. Fuck you. Man, you've never fucking needed anything. He believes in corporate welfare. Yeah, right. Sure as fuck believes in that. And also, that's just a lie.

It's just not true. I know. Right? The thing is that that guy probably knows people that were on welfare. He just never were on welfare. They just, he just never considered that welfare. Right?

There's a lot of people that you know that have gotten some sort of government assistance. They might not have talked about it or that might've been that they're working a job, but they still got that government assistance because they needed it. These are safety nets that are so fucking full of holes and so hard to even fall into as it is right. They're already defunded. They're already badly, uh, badly taken

care of. They're already badly administered. These are weak, shitty safety nets. And we're willing, we are willing to look at a bunch of kids and be like, you don't get anything. Yeah. Fuck your face. You don't get anything. And it's like, we're not giving these people, God, it wouldn't even matter to me. But like, just for a point of clarification, we're not giving them cash. We're giving them a card they can only use to buy food. And we are saying, I want you to be hungry. How do you look at a kid and be like, 40 bucks a month? Why don't you fuck yourself, kid? Why don't you fuck yourself right in your fucking empty belly? I don't, you don't get it. You don't get anything. You don't

get anything from us. And, and I'm going to tell you as a kid, like my parents, we were very, we were pretty, we were, we got some welfare, but there wasn't a lot back then. We lived off food stamps and paper routes. And I look back on that time and I think, I don't want anybody to go through that. No. Especially when it's so easy to fix, right? It's such an easy fix. This isn't a lot of money.

It's not even your citizens' money, really. I mean, it is in a broad sense, but the United States government is paying for it. So yeah, sure. Are your citizens paying for it? Yeah, in a roundabout way through their income tax, yes, they're paying for it. But you're only one of 50 states

and not a super populous state. So chances are most of that money is coming from California, New York, and Illinois. Right. And Florida. So like the most populous place is Texas. The most populous places are shitting the most money into that.

And then it's going to come back to your state. So your tiny little state with a small population is able to benefit from this, and those people are able to benefit. And it also pays for them. The one way you're going to make them fail, make your state fail, is to let your younger generation fail as kids. The way you get through school is through eating. The way you learn, the way you get smarter is through eating. That's absolutely 100% true. Dude, your brain needs fucking calories.

Needs it. Your brain needs fucking calories. You're making your state stupider. You are. And like this guy is, just to be like abundantly clear, like the U.S. federal government budget is in the trillions of dollars. This is an $18 million drop in the bucket. It's not even a drop.

This is the scent of a drop lingering in the air after a storm. So what this really is, Cecil, is a political show. It is a show of cruelty, but it is a way for him to be like, here in Nebraska, we're hardy, self-reliant, God-fearing corn goblins, and we don't take snow help from the governments. And it's like- Fuck those kids. Man, fuck those hungry, hungry kids in your state that are going to go without so you as the governor could show everybody

how tough you are while your belly is full. Exactly. What are you giving up? Nothing. Nothing. Yeah. So there I was, barbecue sauce on my tase. Oh, I didn't see you there.

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adamandeve.com and use code glory. What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal? Gentlemen, this is Democracy Manifest. AP News, this is a great story. There's so many things we gotta read. I'm gonna read this whole thing. This made me so proud to live in Illinois. Laws banning semi-automatic weapons and library censorship, among others,

to take effect in Illinois. So this is our home state. So there is now a ban on semi-automatic weapons. The U.S. Supreme Court failed to take the case of Illinois' ban on the sale, possession, or manufacture of semi-automatic weapons like the type used in a mass shooting in Highland Park. Yeah. The law bans dozens of specific brands or types of rifles and handguns, including.50 caliber guns, attachments, and rapid fire devices. No rifle will be allowed to accommodate more than 10 rounds

with a 15-round limit for handguns. Those who previously purchased such guns must register them with the Illinois State Police by January 1st. I did read that almost nobody's registered the guns. Yeah, I'm sure.

Book ban prohibition. Libraries that indiscriminately ban books will not be eligible for state funds. They must adopt the ALA Library Bill of Rights, saying that materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation. The Library Association reported that attempts to censor books reached a 20-year high in 2022, especially those with LGBTQ plus themes.

Paid time off. Employers are now required in Illinois to offer paid vacation for any reason. Workers accrue an hour of paid leave for every 40 hours worked, up to 40 hours in total. Employers may offer more than 40 hours and employees may take time off after working after 90 days. Is that part-time too or no? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know that. I don't care about the air fresheners. Well, actually,

I do care about the air fresheners. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Here's what I want to say about the air fresheners, Tom, is the police can't pull you over because of motorist safety solely because there's an object hanging in the rearview mirror. And what that is

is it's saying to the police, you can't just pull people over because you want to just search their car and be shitty to them. And it's going to be a black person who you're probably going to pull over. It's racially profiled. It's no pretense bullshit. Stop. That's all it is.

Right, right, right. That's a very good point. I skipped over that when I read this earlier and I shouldn't have. Yeah. No video conferencing on the road. Fine. Okay. I feel fucking sane, Springfield. You never look at it though, right? Like while you're,

what's the next one, Ty? The next one. No indoor vaping. Well, what I'll do, Cecil. How dare you, Ty? Don't, don't try to, don't you dare try to fucking,

don't you try to smooth this over. We're not talking now. What's indoor vaping? No indoor vaping, vaping, vaping or smoking indoor vaping. Vaping or smoking an e-cigarette or cigar in a public indoor space will be prohibited.

Nothing worse than walking out and getting either a face full of smoke or a face full of vape. It's always the worst. Somebody would be like, oh, I'm just vaping. You're like, no, it smells like fucking bubble gum and you spit it right in my face. I'm like, what the fuck, man? Look, I know we're all breathing each other's lung juice.

Yeah. But I don't need to see your lung juice. I don't need to see your lung juice. Yeah. Like, I don't need to see it and smell your tutti frutti fresh and tutti or whatever. Do you remember when we were at Skepticon and that dude had a van? Yes! The first time we saw these guys.

Because this was like 20 years ago. This was a long time ago. This was 12 years ago. Maybe 11 or 10 years ago even. We drove down. It might have even was like 20 years. This was a long time. This was 12 years ago. Maybe, maybe 11 or 10 years ago. Even we drove down. It might've been like nine years ago. We drove down with David Michael. He used to do a,

my book of Mormon. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, no, that's the name of a pot. That's the name of it.

What was it? Uh, was it my book of Mormon? I don't remember what it was called. It was, it was a Mormon. He read the book of Mormon on his podcast. I forgot the name of the show.

I can't remember. Anyway, if you guys, if you guys know what the podcast is, I don't remember the podcast. He was a Mormon. He read the Book of Mormon on his podcast. I forgot the name of the show. I can't remember. He had a great voice. Anyway, if you guys know what the podcast is, I don't remember the name of the podcast. He was a great guy. He was a funny guy. We got to meet him, and we hung out with him. And he's a nice guy. We hung out with him multiple times.

And we actually drove down to Springfield with him. And so we were driving down there with him. He was fun to hang out with. And we show up at this place, and it's indoors, and there's a big bar. And we're sort of basically stayed up at this place and it's indoors and there's a big bar and we're sort of basically staying in the bar the whole time. And so there's a big bar

and we're just drinking and hanging out. And this dude comes up and he's like, hey man, do you want to see, you want to see like my vape tricks? And I had never really even seen

vapes at that point. I was like, oh cool. Yeah, sure. I don't know what that is. So he's fucking sucking this thing. He's like, and then he's got a huge box, guys.

He's got like, so if you guys know vaping, he's got one of these giant vape boxes that it was like totally foreign. So he's able to like pull a cloud. Yeah. The amount of fucking vape smoke

that he was able to get in his lungs was amazing. And then he would be, he would blow it on the table and then like move his hands and he would do like a, like a tornado. Yeah.

And it would stay there for like three minutes. It's like his lung juice is just spinning in the middle of the table for like three minutes. I was blown away. He did all kinds of tricks. He did all kinds of tricks and crazies blowing smoke rings with bigger smoke rings and

blowing rings through other rings and shit. And then he's got like a smoke star and then there's a smoke square and a smoke hexagon. He made a smoke Hogwarts Express to drive through. It was fucking horrible. It was crazy. But it was, that was the first time I ever did it.

And I was like, man, this should, I remember thinking there, this shouldn't be allowed indoors. Indoors. Like, just like take it outside.

Yeah. I remember thinking that there. Take it outside. It's not functionally different than smoke. It really isn't. Just take it outside. License plate reader restrictions.

Interstate agreements between law enforcement agencies must specify that license plate reader technology not be used on cars driven by women coming into Illinois to have abortions. Wow. Fuck you, the other states. Good. Wow. We're not fucking playing. Amazing. Fuck off.

This was cool, too. Surveillance drones. Following the Highland Park parade shooting, lawmakers approved the use of drones by law enforcement to surveil routed or special events. The drones may not be equipped with weapons or facial recognition technology. I like that. At first I started reading this like,

that's dystopian. I don't like it. But I like that we're like, yeah, no facial recognition. If you're going to fly those things around, fly them around, but we're not using that fucking racist facial recognition. Right. Right.

We had a story we didn't even cover where there was like a, like they had this facial recognition technology and they wound up putting in for the facial recognition technology for a store. It was Rite Aid where they're saying anybody who is Asian or black, they were automatically a suspect for shoplifting. Like a huge- It's so racist, man. It's just so much that facial recognition technology is racist as fuck.

So racist. It's crazy racist. This is a great one too. Deepfake porn. Victims of digital forgeries known as deepfake pornography may file civil lawsuits against anyone who shares or threatens to share an image that falsely depicts a person exposing genitalia or other private parts or engaging in a sex act. Identifying the image as materially altered is not a defense to liability.

Amazing. Amazing. Fucking good. Amazing. Restrooms may be all gender multi-occupancy. Businesses have the option of installing restrooms that may be used by any gender simultaneously. Current restrooms may be renovated to accommodate all genders.

Urinals may not be included and stalls must have floor-to-ceiling locking dividers. Why have they always had the not floor-to-ceiling thing? You know, do you remember the public in downtown had this? Yeah. So you walk in, it's a one big bathroom and in the center is like a big trough type thing to wash your hands.

And then a bunch of, it's ringed all around with stalls. And so they're just these closing stalls. They're little rooms you walk in and it didn't matter who it was. Right. Guys, girls, everybody can go into this bathroom together. And then we all come out and wash our hands together. Right.

And it was like, that felt to me so adult. It felt like you're an adult. You're not in a weird like, okay, boys go here and girls go here. It's just like, yeah, we're all adults here. We can go to the bathroom and then come out and wash our hands and go back to sit down. Yeah. Look, it doesn't even make sense to have it any other way. I'm just excited that the goddamn stalls go all the way down.

I know. Nothing in the world makes me happier than the stalls go down all the way. Europe is awesome for that. Why were they ever not like that? I don't know, save money. If we save money there, then we can't feed kids in Nebraska. That's how it works.

Like I don't need to see the fucking ankles of like my neighbor taking a shit. So weird. Voter registration for teens. This is great too, because this gets more people registered to vote at a younger age. Teenagers may pre-register to vote.

And I have a story about this. At age 16 or 17, while obtaining a driver's license or state ID card at a driver's services office run by the secretary of state. When turning 18, the legal voting age, they will already be registered to vote. Donovan did that last, this last, just last week. It's great, man. Yep. My stepson, Donovan, I took him to get his license.

He got his license. He is registered to vote. He's not yet 18. How great is that? I think that that is a list. You know, we were talking a while back at these places across America. And these places across America

are becoming conservative little hovels, right? Where these conservatives, they have this fortress where they strip women's rights away. They take away all, I mean, Florida is a perfect example, right? Strip women's rights away, no trans people, anti-woke, whatever that means. And so they, it's just like this place. Book plans and everything. It's this place that, you know, these awful conservatives that you run into up here are like, I'm going to Florida.

And you're like, good, go. Fucking good. Fucking go. Can't wait for your leave. Nobody cares, go. But we always talk about- Get dengue while you're down there, dumbass. All these people are in this, all these places across our country are instituting these awful laws and becoming these bastions of conservatism. And we talked about it a while back. This should be, we should be, we have the votes, let's do progressive.

Let's do the same thing, but we'll do it progressive. And man, didn't Illinois fucking return on that? Didn't we put a return on investment on that? You know, as much as, as much as people dislike Pritzker and there's a ton of people in the state, they're all conservative. We dislike him. I got to say, I was not, I held my nose and voted for the billionaire and I was upset and didn't like him, but I'll tell you what he did. He did a damn fine job with that. And all these things that keep on getting past, I'm like, no, man, this is my guy. That's our guy. This is my guy. Yeah. Yeah. I couldn't agree more. He's the best governor we have had in my life. In my lifetime. I can't wait until he goes to jail.

When he finally. When he finally gets caught. That's the Illinois retirement for governors. Yeah, for sure. You think he's going to run for president? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe. I think maybe, I think maybe, you know, once the field opens up in the next election cycle, he may throw his hat in for the ring because I think he's doing things that are very public and it feels very calculated to me

that he's doing things that are progressively public. And so it may be that the United States knows who Pritzker is soon enough. I hope so. Yeah. I think he would make a fine president. I think he'll do well if

the reputation of the city of Chicago can be improved. I think so too. Yeah. The problem is that the reputation of the city of Chicago has become such a talking point for the rest of the country around violence and poverty that like, if that doesn't get- And now immigration. Yeah. And now immigration. If that doesn't get immigration, yeah. And now immigration, if that doesn't get improved, that'll be weaponized. Sure. I think so too. I think, you know, it'd be really interesting. My, my hope is that he does eventually get in, uh, at least in talks and maybe runs against somebody because I'd love to hear the Republican spin on a billionaire. Yeah. Right. As a Democrat. I would love to hear that.

the Republicans spin on a billionaire. Yeah, right. As a Democrat. I would love to hear that. Another fat cat billionaire. I don't remember them futzing too much with Bloomberg, but he wasn't really a threat. Yeah, he never really took off.

He didn't really like... It's crazy because he's light and frail. And he should easily take off. Like a kite in the wind. He's like a reptile skin. He just floats to the ground like a feather. Like, are you kidding me? God, he was a fucking horrible candidate. He in the wind. He's like a reptile skin. He just floats to the ground like a feather. Like, are you kidding me? God, he was a fucking horrible kid.

He was the worst. He was terrible. After he left, I had posted a meme. There's a meme with a, it's supposed to be about a dog. And the original comic is there's a dog who dies and there's a Grim Reaper standing next to him. And the original comic, the dog says,

was I a good boy? And he says, no. And then he starts walking away. He's like, I told you we're the best boy. You know, so it's like a very cute. But in this, it's like Bloomberg standing there is like, was I a good candidate? And he says, no. And then it just ended. No, no, you weren't.

God, I was so like nervous when he threw his hat in the ring because I don't like Bloomberg was so nervous when he threw his hat in the ring because I don't like Bloomberg. And when he threw his hat in the ring, I was like, God, he's going to buy his way in. And he did such a shit job. He couldn't even buy his way in. From what they said, he spent so much money

and he was terrible. He was terrible. He spent so much money. He got nowhere. He dropped like a billion of his dollars and it didn't do him anything. Didn't do shit. Well, this is it.

The last bastion of pure capitalism left on earth. This story comes from USA Today or everywhere. It was covered everywhere. Nikki Haley was asked what caused the civil war. She didn't mention slavery. So let me, let me, let me actually read this. So during the town hall in Berlin, New Hampshire, a voter asked Nikki Haley, what was the cause of the United States Civil War? And Haley responds, well, don't come with an easy question or anything. I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how the government was going to run, the freedoms, and what people could and couldn't do. She then redirected the question to the voter who said he wasn't the one running for president

and wanted to hear her answer. And Haley continued that Americans need economic freedom and other liberties without government interference. And the voter said, thank you. In the year 2023, it's astonishing to me that you'd answer that question without mentioning the word slavery. And she asked the voter, what do you want me to say about slavery? To which the voter replied, you've answered my question. Thank you. Which that should not be a trick question. Yeah. That's not a gotcha.

No, no. She treated it like that, though. Afterwards, she said he was a liberal plant. Yeah. Look, if you can't get an easy fucking question right, when this happened, I went back, because I'm a petty asshole, I went back and I re-listened to

the Lost Cause of the Confederacy episode of Citation. And there are, and I went back and I re-listened to the Lost Cause of the Confederacy episode of Citation. And there are, and I went back and I looked at like what Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, said about slavery. And he said, this is about fucking slavery, people. That's like he fucking, like if you look at what the people who were running the Confederacy said said was motivating this they're like out loud saying shit like well this is really is about slavery yeah it's not difficult this is this is like the easiest question to get right the the thing about the thing about the after the the war and the reconstruction period was that I think initially people understood it was about slavery, right?

They wrote about it. They knew it was about slavery. The same thing happened when Sherman marched. I did a citation he did on Sherman's march. And one of the things that I came across when I was doing that research was that the South really didn't hate Sherman right after the war.

They said he did what he needed to do. He was in a tough spot. He decided to end the war. And so he did that by creating a scorched earth policy and destroying a ton of land down here so he could stop us from fighting. He did what he had to do. And they actually respected him.

Like the South actually respected him right after the war. But then it got turned on its head by this Daughters of the Confederacy where Sherman is now this evil guy. If you talk to anybody from the South, they hate Sherman. Sherman, yeah. They hate him. Like, they think he's awful.

And the same thing goes with when you talk about what the war was about. They say, oh, it was about states' rights or states' rights or whatever. And you're like, no, it's states' rights to own other human beings, to traffic other human beings. That was the right that you're forgetting about. What was the right? It wasn't, you know what I mean? And, and the way she answers this question to Tom, she talks about capitalism and you're like the ultimate extension of capitalism is human slavery. It is the ultimate

extension of capitalism. That is capitalism writ large. The reason why we're, we even got into that whole situation was money. That was why it all happened. It wasn't about, it certainly wasn't about, the reason why wasn't because they were fun to have around. They were like, wow, you know what, I really enjoy doing this. It was because they were making fucking shit tons of money because they were making so much money and they didn't want to give that money up.

That's why. And she gets up on the stage and starts talking about capitalism. Like, get the fuck out of here. And then to look the guy in the face and be like what do you want me to say what the fuck are you running for president right now what you should ask somebody what you should what do you want me to say well i don't fucking know you're the one running for president that's it and like biden tweeted out like it was about slavery yeah the end that's it the end that's all it was about guys it's like all the rest of the political machinations

that like were built into the background of the cause of the civil war hinged upon this single issue, right? The South had built an economy that was dependent, deeply dependent on involuntary slavery in order for them to function. And the North was like, well, we're going to start breaking that shit down. And they're like, well, we won't be able to function economically. And so we're going to secede. And that's the fucking civil war. Like it was about slavery. It was like absolutely about that. And all you have to do is read what they said. Like there's nothing more complicated. You don't have to like do some deep dive, just like literally Google Jefferson Davis on slavery. And you'll see that he's like, yeah, we're doing this because of slavery.

The problem is that she doesn't want to get on a stage with DeSantis who's going to call her woke if she mentioned slavery. Yeah, man. That's the problem, right? Is that now they have pushed the Overton window so far to the fucking right that when you mention enslaved people, right? Suddenly it's like, that's woke. And you're like,

dude, it's fucking reality. It's history. Why? We're going to forget about it. Are you kidding me? They've pushed that. That Overton window is now on another building.

Like they pushed it so far away. Like when you can't even mention that it's about slavery? Get the fuck out of here. Which we learned in seventh grade. Yeah, man. We learned this in seventh grade. Watch the fucking Ken Burns documentary. Yeah.

Like, this was not, this is actually not terribly kind. It's actually one of the least complicated wars to understand the causation of, actually. And, like, you're exactly exactly right because desantis is promoting the idea openly and in textbooks that slavery actually in some ways benefited the slaves he's got on the job training right yeah for real sure that's insane yeah there's an attempt to whitewash history to rewrite revisionist whitewashing of history. And we can't allow that. Like we can't let that shit happen. And these sort of like weasel word bullshit answers, they got to get called out. She did backpedal on this. Yeah. She absolutely did backpedal on this because the

backlash was pretty fucking intense. So, but like in that moment, you know, everything you need to know. That's not just about her. It's not the after, it's not the after comments. No, but like in that moment, you know, everything you need to know. That's not just about her. It's not the after. It's not the after comments. No, but like, you know, everything you need to know about Nikki Haley. But like, I think more importantly, you know, everything you need to know about the constituency she's trying to court. Absolutely.

The stories from CPR News Boebert says she is switching congressional districts for the 2024 election The move will put her in a safer Republican seat Does she have to go through a primary? She will be primaried, it says

Okay, so she's going to have to go through a primary because she's taking over She wants to take over Ken Buck's seat who's retiring There's going to have to go through a primary because she wants to take over Ken Buck's seat, who's retiring. Who's retiring, yeah. And so there's going to be a primary there anyway, and she's going to put your hat in. I wonder if it's like senators who run for president, because she's up for election regardless. Right. If she loses that primary, can she go try to win her old seat back?

I don't know that. I also don't know if the new seat is next to somebody she'll give a handy to. Oh, it definitely is. Come on now. It 100% is. It doesn't matter who's on whose side. Right. The thing is, she is bound for a tough fight in her seat that she was in before. It's going to be a tug of war, Tom. That's for sure. And so in an act of just pure political cowardice, she is leaving the seat that she is likely to have to spend a lot of time and energy and money defending and may lose. She only won by hundreds of votes. Right. So, and in Colorado, evidently you don't have to live in your district. Yeah.

Which is, that's a bonkers rule. I hate this system. That's a bonkers rule. I hate that, I think it was Mark Meadows could live in a, could have a trailer with a fucking PO box or whatever somewhere. And then get, I hate that fucking,

you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene can somehow not live in her district and get some- I hate it. And here's the other thing too. Why have the system? Isn't that the point of Congress, right? Thank you, yes.

The point of Congress, the reason why your shitty little state gets three fucking votes every time, your state with like six people and nine horses is because we have a congressional system. So you complain every single time that the cities are running at all. The cities are running at all. No matter what you say, we're going to, these cities over here are the ones that make decisions. These big city folk keep telling us

country folk what to do, but then you'll let somebody who doesn't even live in your country ass district fucking show up with their fucking big old hat and their spurs and be like, um, what are you all stupid fucks? And then get the votes. Like either it works this way or it doesn't. Right. We do this shit all the time where they, they,

they fucking want their cake and they want to fucking eat it too. Fuck you, man. Either it's fucking either. It's the city versus the country. Like you say it is all the time. And, and guess what?

You don't get to fucking move around everywhere. Right. Or it's, it's what you say. We're like, great. Anybody could go anywhere then. Yeah. Or it's what you say. We're like, great. Anybody could go anywhere then. This is like a fucking crazy person thing to allow.

I don't know how we allow this. It flies in the face of the entire structure and intent, like you said, of the whole congressional system. And like, it enables this kind of cowardice. Yeah. She'll win. So she'll go in to a seat

that's a heavily Republican favored seat. She'll win. So she'll go in to a seat that's a heavily Republican-favored seat. She'll win. And then the problem is she was such a shitty, divisive figure that she was maybe going to lose that seat for Colorado if she stayed in the more competitive seat. But now, analysts have said, like,

although it was a toss-up before, her leaving that seat actually turns her old seat into a leaning Republican. It's a smart play for all the Republicans who love it. But it's just fucking cowardice

and it really shows the weakness of this system. And here's the thing. You got to buy a place there. If you got enough money to buy it, and it feels like money can get you anywhere, right?

I'd have to wake up there every day. Yeah. That should be your Monday through Friday wake-up. Where do you wake up? It seems so stupid to me that we let this happen. Yeah.

That we just let you go where, I don't know, wherever. I can just go wherever. I mean, like, why bother having a rule that you have to live in the state then? Yeah, I mean, can I just apply to run against her there? For real. If it doesn't matter, then, like, just let anybody in any location at all, let fucking people living in Spain, let's let, like, fucking like fucking like random expats run

for that seat from fucking. Let's let Sarah run that shit from Spain. Right. Oh, hear me. All pay heed. The Lord, the Lord Jehovah has given unto you these 15 10, 10 commandments for all to obey

This story is from the Friendly Atheist blog Oklahoma GOP lawmaker files bill forcing ten commandments into every classroom I just want to put this on screen And say this looks like a guy who would file a bill to put the ten commandments in every classroom That's all I want to say This looks like a guy who can lick his own eyeball and wants my monatomic gold. You know what's so cringy about

this whole thing? Oh, I don't want to sign in. You can just continue reading. Sorry, Hammett. I don't want to sign into your site. Can I just say, like, the text of this thing is so cringy that they put it in the bill. The actual bill has the Ten Commandments in it this thing is so cringy that they put it in the bill. The actual bill has the 10 commandments in it. It's so cringy.

The 10 commandments, one, the 10 commandments are stupid, right? They are really bad. The 10 commandments are just, can you just read really quickly the 10 commandments? Thank you. I was going to do this. So I have not read the 10 commandments in a long time, right? Because I'm not a crazy person that believes in bullshit. So like sometimes you reread this, which I did for the show, and you're reminded

what a really paltry and shitty moral basis system this is. Like if this is supposed to be some moral foundation, here they are. I almost said in no particular order. You should read them out of order. I'll read them out of order. The Ten Commandments.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his cattle, nor anything that is thy neighbor's. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his cattle, nor anything that is thy neighbor's. Thou shalt not kill. Anything? Anything? Nope. I like his golf clubs. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. What about after you, though? Can I have a God after you? Is that okay? Thou shalt not steal. gods before me. What about after you, though? Can I have a god after you? Is that okay? Thou shalt not steal. Okay. Honor thy father and thy mother.

There's a couple of them that are good. Like, I'm like, thou shalt not kill and thou shalt not steal. Okay, sure. Sure. Don't lie. Okay, sure. But I know that's false witness, but still, that's okay. We haven't gotten there, but we'll get there. Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

I don't think that that's necessary. That's boring. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven images. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

And then false witness against your neighbor. I thought I just did that one. Maybe you did. Did you do the house? What house? Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. Yeah, I think I did that one. Oh, yeah, well, yeah. Whatever.

Oh, no, wait a minute. I didn't because, like, I was confused. I was like, oh, you can't cover the wife or the manservant or the maidservant or the cattle. So, like, and then you also can't covet their house. Fine, fucking whatever. Who cares? But, like, can you covet thy neighbor's husband?

What if they have a nice lawn? Right? God. What if they, yeah. What if they're just like. What if they're like a really nice greenskeeper? Or they're like, the landscaping is really nice. What about their car?

As I get older, I appreciate good landscaping. So I wonder if you can covet that. What if somebody like pulls in like next door and they've just got like a really sweet ride. Can you covet that? Because like, I don't think the Bible knew that we'd be building automobiles. So like it's kind of passed out. I have no idea.

But women can covet husbands. Would that fall under their ass? Is that in there? Cattle? Cattle. So you can, yeah. You can't covet a wife. It's a modern cattle.

So you can't do it. That is. You can't do it. I think it's funny that you can't covet the wife, but the wife, your wife can covet a husband. Sure. That's fine.

You gotta let her at least dream. These are so stupid. These are bad rules. These are so stupid. Sure, there's three or four of them that they're no-brainers. They're so to remember. But where's rape? Yeah. Where's rape? Where's slavery? Where's child abuse?

Well, it's fine. The opposite is true. There's no elder abuse here. That's against the commandments, but it's not the other way around where's child abuse. Yeah. Right? Well, it's fine. The opposite is true. There's no elder abuse here. Right. That's against the commandments, but it's not the other way around where it's children. Children, they don't give a shit. They don't give a shit.

Yeah. You kill, like, where's like, thou shalt not beat thy wife. Yeah. You know, like, where's like any decent moral code really at all? Like, thou shalt not kill is such a lame, but it's also like a meaningless blandishment, right? Because like

the Bible is full of killing. Sure. Which means that, and that the Bible is full of killing sanctioned by God after the 10 commandments were handed down. So, you know, God doesn't mean it. There's caveats to all of this, right? So like, like as soon as you start reading through this, you're like, okay, well, I know that there's going to be a get out of murder free card, right? It's not like the Bible came down and everybody was like, all the Christians were like, oh, thou shalt not kill. And then we didn't have the crusades or we stopped going to war or, you know, we stopped hunting witches or we stopped like invading Iraq, you know, like we do all that stuff because like nobody, everybody understands that like, we're just not

going to do that one. Like the easiest one. We're just like, yeah, skeptics. Yeah, I can do it if I want to though, right? Yeah. Yeah. I think this is, and here's the thing. Even as a little kid, I really didn't have the capacity to understand

what most of this stuff meant anyway. As a young person, until I was maybe in middle school or something, then I understood, I think, mostly what they meant. But as a young child, I had no idea what this stuff meant. I was, I don't know, what is adultery? Does that mean I can't have another adult? I literally don't even know what that means.

So as a little kid, I didn't understand. That's true. You know, I could probably ask somebody, but as a kid, I didn't know. But like, also like if you're posting this in every classroom, why are you posting something about adultery for like six-year-olds? Yeah, what does a six-year-old care about that? Like, but plus, like, as a teacher, now I have to explain adultery to a six-year-old. Yeah. We go through all these, like, especially the right goes through all this trouble to be like, we shouldn't have to explain anything about sex and gender to kids.

Right? We don't want to explain anything at any point about sex and gender to any kid ever at all. But I'm going to put up this poster that is going to force me to explain fucking adultery. And what this is is just, what it is is it's forcing all the kids to read a thing on a wall that's in an official place to say there is a God and he's your God.

Yeah. That's what it's for. That's all it's for. It's not for any of the moral teachings that they try to- No, no, no. That's bullshit. What it's there for

is to try to indoctrinate more kids because they're going to see it in class and say, well, evidently there's a God. It says it on the wall here in school and school has all the right answers. So evidently there is a God. He is my God.

Yeah. And those two things are very evident and very easy to understand in that list. Dude, for fucking real, what putting this sign up in every single classroom in Oklahoma does is it establishes that school as a Christian school. That's all it does. And it makes everybody who's not Christian unwelcome in that school.

Absolutely. It lets you know you're the fucking minority here. You are the other. How grand it is to meet the men from all the states, east and west, down here ready to for their country, as the old fellows did in the revolution. So the story comes from the Joe My God blog. Mega prophet, Jesus told me a revolution is coming. Okay, I'm going to have this lady crazy talk at you, Tom. So here she is.

She's going to crazy talk at you. This is 100%. This is you somewhere being accosted by somebody who doesn't have a real firm grip on reality and they're just shouting at you. That's what this feels like. This is the webcam version of the fucking sandwich sign that the end is not.

Yeah, exactly. This is Julie Green. This is who the prophet is. My children, the time has come. A time... The fuck is wrong with her eyes? Cecil? I don't know.

The fuck is wrong with her eyes? Is she using a filter? Is she using all of the filters at the same time? There's a possibility she's using a filter and it's deforming her face. It looks insane, guys. It looks really crazy. If you're listening to this,

her eyes look fucking insane, like Uncanny Valley insane. What's happening is, I think the filter is sucking her eyes closer into the middle of her head. And so what appears to be, it's making her head smoothed out. And so it like makes it bigger. And like her eyelids look way too big and her eyelashes look fucking enormous. Now the eyelashes could look big because somebody puts on fake eyelashes, right? That's a possibility. Right, right, right.

But genuinely, there's a deforming effect. She looks very strange. And they're droopy and crazy. It looks insane. A reinstatement. A shift of power. A new government in control.

An overthrow. And a takeover in this nation from the hands of the wicked to the hands of the righteous. The fall has come, but time is drawing near. A coup is about to be disrupted and annihilated and everyone a part of it exposed and removed. So my children, hold on. 2024 will start out with a bang

so brace for a mighty impact coming to shake you loose from the chains that bind you it will look worse but remember my words this means your enemy's days are running out I don't have any enemies

I also I just want to say like, I think her Hobby Lobby choices that she's chosen. Thank you. I was looking at that ball. The little balls of twine or whatever that people have in their house.

You 100% know she has a live, laugh, love just to the left of this. Oh yeah, a thousand, a thousand percent guarantee. So I evidently, first off, you're terrible at reading. Like I recognize when I'm not good at it. I know I'm not good at reading things loud. I know. I've said this to you for many years, right? I just, I have something in my head. It's hard for me to

read things aloud. It's just, it's just part of my body. It's just my part of my body. And I recognize my limitations. I understand my limitations. When I have to do a citation needed essay as the essayist, I have to read it three or four times aloud as the essayist, I have to read it three or four times aloud by myself ahead of time just to even get through that sort of thing.

It's tough. I recognize my limitations. Recognize your limitations, man. Just recognize your limitations. Look at it and say, you know what? I'm just not good at this. I'm not going to be able

to read this in any way that is compelling whatsoever. Well, and it's not like, and we'll play another one because it's crazier, but like, it's not like, and we'll play another one because it's crazier, but like, it's not like her reading it rather than just writing this rambling gibberish.

I listen to that and I have a hard time like concentrating on the gibberish. Because I'm like, I listened to that fairly carefully and I'm like, I don't honestly know what she said. Yeah, she said there's going to be a coup that's going to be disrupted. And I'm like, well, that already happened. We already disrupted it.

And she alluded to maybe a bombing, I think, taking place. I don't, like, I'm just like, fuck, man. All right, well, here's a phrase. Farther away from the screen, which is probably better. So let's see what this calls up. She's talking to Eric Trump and someone else, another guy. And she's on his show as a prophet. So let's, let's listen to her prophetize to Eric Trump. No matter what they're going to try to do to your dad, it will not,

no matter what they're going to do, and no matter what they're going to try to do to your dad, it will not, it will not go the way they want it. It will not go the way they want it because God's on his side and he's called him his David. He's at his anointing, his appointed one. it because God's on his side and he's called him his David. He's at his anointing, his appointed one. He said it more than once. He continually says it. I've had so many different prophetic words regarding your father and the Lord.

I've cried because I knew the love that God has for him. He is trying not to laugh. He's doing the thing right now. He's biting the inside of his cheeks. I just believe it. It's just like, yep, whatever you say, lady. Also, I figured out what the problem was with the,

the camera was too close to her. Okay. That was what the problem was. That was why she looked insane. She looked crazy. She looks fine, but she's farther away from the camera.

God has for your family, and I could just feel it. And it's like, he's not going to let, he's not going to forsake you, and he's not going to let this continue. Look, he's biting his fucking mouth. Dude, was he biting his mouth, or does he have chew in his lipake you and he's not going to let this continue. He's biting his fucking mouth. Was he biting his mouth

or does he have chew in his lip? I think he probably has cocaine sniffles. Probably. That's probably what happened. These people are crazy, man. These people are fucking nuts. These people are nuts. These people are,

this isn't uncommon, right? This is a common thing where they think they're talking. These are people who think they talk to God. And then, and maybe there's bullshit. Who knows, right? They could be lying. It's certainly easy to do, right?

You could easily just lie and say you're talking to God and Donald Trump's not going to lose or whatever. And then just collect a bunch of money from a bunch of people who don't know any better. All these grifters create a virtuous, vicious cycle of drifting, you know? So it's virtuous for them,

but it's vicious for everybody that gets sucked up into it. Yeah, for sure. You know, like, so it's like Eric Trump wants this fucking profit test nonsense to like talk to her followers so that, you know,

they can, and she wants Eric Trump on there because she got a Trump on her fucking crazy person show and it lends her credibility. Even if they were both guests on the other show. Right. It doesn't matter.

Put them in the same room. It's still great. They're in the same room. And really genuinely- There's a room where nothing happened. This is still one of those things that surprises me to this day. When I see people saying this

and that they have some sort of following, following enough to somehow wind up in the same room as Eric Trump, right? That to me is shocking that somebody could say blatantly crazy, crazy pants shit like this and then somehow wind up in a room. And what does that tell you about Eric Trump?

What does that tell you about his opportunistic nature, first off, but then also what does that tell you about what he is trying to tell other people he believes? Yeah, but like, I'm starting to think, Cecil, truly, that like, these guys, like these big power broker guys, aren't as hard to get to as I used to think. I really, because like, you know, that fucking, like, what's his nuts, That, that Nick Fuentes. Yeah. Sat with Donald Trump. Yeah, that's true.

This chick who's got no idea what day it is, is talking to Eric Trump, right? Like, uh, uh, random pastors are meeting up with Supreme court justices and being buddy, buddy.

Yeah, I guess that's true. I guess. I mean, it's like these power brokers aren't as hard to get to. I think you're probably right. As maybe I used to. I used to think they were shielded by these like layers, these social and economic layers.

And I think to some degree they are, but I also think it's real fucking paper thin. That like, as long as you're just even tangentially, accidentally someone, you can get to them. Yeah, yeah. Alright, that's going to wrap it up for this week. Be sure to check out Tom's show, Talking Ship. Tom and Haley's new show drops tomorrow. So check it out and download and subscribe to that. You will check it out on the show notes this week.

We're going to make sure it's there so you guys can have an opportunity to listen to it right away. That's going to wrap it up for this week. We'll be back on Thursday with an amazing show about, you just got to show up. You just got to show up. You just got to listen. All right. We'll catch you guys on Thursday.

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