Cognitive Dissonance - Episode 830: Turnstile Dems and Autopen Shenanigans

Episode Date: March 24, 2025

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Starting point is 00:01:04 Be advised that this show is not for children, the faint of heart, or the easily offended. The explicit tag is there for a reason. Recording live from Glorial Studios in Chicago and beyond, this is cognitive dissonance. Every episode we blast anyone who gets in our way, we bring critical thinking, skepticism and irreverence to any topic that makes the news makes it big or makes us mad. It's skeptical. It's political. And there is no welcome mat today is Wednesday, no, Thursday, March the 20th. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:02:06 It's always Thursday. We've been recording on Thursdays for fucking eight years and I'm like, it's Wednesday today. I don't know. It's Thursday, March the 20th. I got it wrong. You're not surprised. And today our leader, our fearless leader, Donald Trump, signed an executive order with no effect of course, because Congress has to work on it, to eliminate the Department of Education.
Starting point is 00:02:35 So that's the thing that happened on Thursday, the 20th of March, 2025. That's great news. Yeah. I think like throughout history, Republicans have always tried to be like, except for Bush who I think tried to do what he could, even though it was bad, what he did was bad with the No Child Left Behind stuff. Even though he did bad stuff,
Starting point is 00:02:55 he at least recognized that education was important. But I think ever since then, there has been a genuine attack on that. I don't know if you remember, but there was two or three of these Republican debates where people are writing it on their hands to delete it. So it's not like it's a surprise that they- It's not, no.
Starting point is 00:03:15 It's bad. They wanted to get rid of it. It's bad. It's terrible. And it's terrible for people with special needs. Almost certainly it's the worst for them. And you know, I don't know how far it's gonna get. We're gonna talk about a lot of stories today
Starting point is 00:03:28 that have a lot of the same sort of, they have the same arc. The story arc is they did something horrifying. It's now going to the judge and the judge is saying, you did something horrifying. And then it's gonna go back to them and then we're gonna see if they ignore it. Because that's kind of where we're at.
Starting point is 00:03:46 Everybody cross your fingers. Yeah man, that's where you're at. Let's figure out if we still have a functional democracy. Yeah, I know, it's been real tough. It's been real difficult. And last week we recorded and we were sitting here, you and I, we talked over dinner and we were both thought,
Starting point is 00:04:03 well, at least this particular thing, you're gonna need 60 votes for this budget. You gotta at least get, you're gonna have to at least do something. There's gotta be some sort of compromise. And we were horrifyingly wrong. Like turnstile, just an absolute turnstile. The Democrats literally just said, no problem. Our fucking Senator
Starting point is 00:04:28 signed on with us. It's fucking unbelievable. Dick Durbin, I know he's retiring, but I would 100% vote for somebody else that would primary him. I would too. If he wasn't retiring, he's retiring. So it's not like it's, at this point he's like, fuck it. I don't care, but fuck him. And like also while, while it was Biden in office, he was kind of milk toast to should have been taking people, uh, to task in several of those committees. And we saw him kind of watch people push him over. So I'll be happy when he's happy to see that fucker go. Just go.
Starting point is 00:05:04 I'm glad. Go get rid of Schumer Get rid of all these turnstile people. I you know, I I listen to the daily this week and I listen to sort of Schumer's address of what his thoughts were on this and his Big thing was if we shut the government down and this is something we talked about if they shut the government down Is that helping them? Is this the thing that's gonna help the Republicans? Because if you shut the government down, you're basically giving them what they want,
Starting point is 00:05:29 which is what they want is a government that's non-functional. And his argument was, when they start turning things back on, they might just decide not to turn certain parts of it on. And I hate that argument, because they're already continuing to turn off parts they don't like. So it doesn't matter whether or not they're going to turn it on or turn it off.
Starting point is 00:05:49 At least you could have fought a little bit and done something and gotten some assurances, gotten something out of it instead of just saying, yeah, fine, we'll fund you. Yeah, man. Look, like, look, the robbers are coming to your house. Are you opening the door and showing them where all your good shit is? Or are you slamming the, look, maybe they're showing up with battering rams and there's 30 of them and you know they're getting in, right?
Starting point is 00:06:14 That's what's happening here. The rob, you know they're getting in. I'm still shutting and locking my door, right? I'm still making it more difficult. I am not welcoming them into the fucking house and walking around and being like oh Here's where my wife keeps her jewelry Yeah, right because I'm not an asshole and this exactly the thing like they're gonna break what they want to break So you're not protecting anything Schumer. What have you protected? You've protected nothing
Starting point is 00:06:38 You know, we control no levers of power The only levers of power we control are those levers that require 60 fucking votes. And there's not a lot of them. There's not a lot of them. So this was one of our levers and we were just like, eh, hands off. That's our approach. Here you go. Let me lube myself up when you fuck me. And the thing is, is like giving that to them just shows them that you're spineless and that they'll do whatever they want anyway.
Starting point is 00:07:06 So if they would have screamed and cried and yelled on TV and said the Democrats are shutting the government down, deal with it. Go out and say, well, we're not shutting the government down. What we're doing is not giving them a blank check to do whatever they want because they're already tearing the government apart and you're already feeling the aftermath of that. How hard is that to spin? These people act like it's the toughest thing in the world to get in front of a camera and spin.
Starting point is 00:07:31 Their government is bad on people. That's not a spin. That's just a truth, man. Dude, they're acting like it's their first day in politics. Like they don't understand the way this game is played, the way that you have to fight and the is played, the way that like you have to fight and like the dirty dealing and the way that you've got to like present your message. They're acting like they're in fucking student government or something.
Starting point is 00:07:52 Like grow the fuck up, grow a pair. Let's do something. What with this doing nothing is not going to help. What do we think they're going to stop? Oh, you know what? The Democrats, they voted for our funding bill. So we're going to go ahead and not do the evil shit that we now have all the authority to do. They're going to do everything they were going to do. They're eating your fucking
Starting point is 00:08:11 lunch man. They were going to do it anyway. And, and I think, I think shutting the entire government down accelerates the anger of the rest of the people in the country because suddenly everything's down. It's not just the pieces they don't in the country. Because suddenly everything's down. It's not just the pieces they don't want to see. It's everything's down. Well, everything being shut down suddenly gets a lot of people angry, and they're already angry at all these town halls.
Starting point is 00:08:37 You have plenty of ways to manipulate that and to show people, hey, this is a bad thing. They're already doing it. There's people out touring right now and trying to stir this sort of thing up to show people how bad a government we have right now and how dangerous a government we have. And the things that they're cutting out
Starting point is 00:08:55 are gonna be long lasting effects for us that we're gonna feel the ripples of for decades if we even fix it afterwards. If we even get back to even close to where we were before, all the progress that we had in the early 2000s, I guess it was 2008 to 2016, right? All that early progress gone, just gone, everything. They're talking about, look at what they're doing
Starting point is 00:09:21 to the LGBT community, look at what they're doing to the, look at how they're, we know, we're going to talk about things that they're taking down that they call DEI and it's all just racist. It is so racist. So we're, we're re you're going to have to claw that shit back. So it's, it's a, I, I was, I am with everybody who's like, get rid of everybody, every single person on the left that is fucking capitulating to these people, just get rid of them, mark their names down
Starting point is 00:09:49 in your little book, and I'll tell you what, if Durbin was running again, I would 100% do whatever I could, and that would probably wind up just being money, because I don't have a lot of time, but I would do whatever I could to make sure whoever was running against him is the person. I would, same thing, man. We got to encourage primaries
Starting point is 00:10:08 against these fucking assholes 100%. Like this cannot stand. It cannot stand. As Mr. Sloan always says, there's no I in team, but there is an I in pie. There's an I in meat pie. The anagram of meat is team. I don't know what he's talking about.
Starting point is 00:10:25 Look, that's it. So, Cecil, you had mentioned taking down anything with the, let me actually change this, because it's not so much about taking things down so much as it is about erasure, like the complete erasure of minorities across this country in favor of straight up white supremacy. That's what's going on.
Starting point is 00:10:47 Like I don't even like the framing of any of this as DEI. Like it's kind of playing into their hands, right? This is a white supremacist moment. This story is from KSBW Action News. I don't know what that is. Jackie Robinson's army history scrubbed from Department of Defense websites. This is just straight up white supremacist shit.
Starting point is 00:11:09 Yeah. And supposedly they took it down in error, right? But the URL added DEI. So they took it down in error. It's up now. But these are people who went through and were, you know, you get this fucking, you get big balls, you Genesis and Chief in there, and he's gonna write a bunch of, I'm kidding, of course, that guy probably isn't doing it. But there are, like, there are, these orders are not being,
Starting point is 00:11:36 these aren't organic orders from people, these aren't just people looking for busy work to do in the jobs they have. These are people, these are orders passed down from on high to when they say jump, what they mean is delete all, erase all black history because the Tuskegee Airmen get really get, get deleted. They're not going to talk about them anymore in different places. They're, they're erasing all these. And here's the thing. Take down a fucking
Starting point is 00:12:02 Confederate monument. Yeah, man. And watch all these fucking cockroaches come out and tiki torches and their fucking khakis and screaming, they will not replace us. Jews will not replace us. You take down one fucking Confederate monument to some fucking monster, right? To some fucking monster who what he wanted was the status quo of slavery to stay in place. 100%. So that fucking awful human beings got a monument somewhere down in the South where everybody walks by and loves their monument of whoever the fuck, you know, like Fort Bragg, right? All the other places, all these places that had these Confederate names.
Starting point is 00:12:38 Look at how these people get their fucking knickers in a twist when it comes to those things. They'd start taking this stuff down and they're like, Oh, what? This is not a big deal. What? It's not a big deal. Yeah. They're not taking down all notices of all individual people who served, right? They're not, they're not going through and saying, Hey, you're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. The selectivity of just singling out minorities for exclusion. what automatically leaves only the fucking white people to celebrate that is that is there is no way
Starting point is 00:13:09 that that's not racist. It's not like they're saying, hey, we're actually we're actually removing all stories on our Department of Defense website of all individual service members because you know, we really want to focus on, you know, the fits. There's fucking no I in team or whatever fucking nonsense they might want to say. Right? Yeah. They're not doing that.
Starting point is 00:13:29 They're just getting rid of one though. There is actually an eye. It's confusing. Your slogans are confusing. What's that? Just sign up and shut up. Okay. All right.
Starting point is 00:13:39 I'll do that. Sure. Yeah. Like this whole thing. And then also the work they're doing is just so obviously sloppy. Like they got rid of the fucking like references to the Enola Gay because the word gay is there. Like it's clearly like bad algorithmic decision making bullshit where somebody sat at a computer and plugged in you know keywords and we're like I don't know just scrub everything based on keywords.
Starting point is 00:14:03 Let's not even have humans look at any of this We're let's let's destroy the social fabric of our nation But let's be lazy about it and and and there might be somebody who sends us a message and is like, oh well You know what? They really were trying to do. Well, fuck what they were really trying to do. What's the fucking outcome, right? What's the what is their fucking what is their fucking ham-handed outcome that comes out from this? Basically, racism. That's what the outcome is. And tell me whether it was a fucking, you know, just an innocent mistake,
Starting point is 00:14:33 or it was this, how you should feel if you're a person of color and you see this. Because it doesn't matter. Because either way, they don't fucking care about you, whether it was a mistake or not. Because obviously they didn't give a fuck about you until somebody pointed it out to them Yeah, you know and the thing is and I think this is important to remind people of is they are erasing People of color and they're erasing women and they're erasing LGBT references and when you take all of that and you start adding it Up what this is is a minority rule. Yeah, they are no longer erasing numerical minorities, right? When
Starting point is 00:15:07 we say minority, what we're talking about is people who have a minority of power and they are platforming and they are continuing to ensconce into power a statistical minority of people. White men are not the majority. They will lead you to believe that they are the majority because they control all the levers of power. That's intentional, but they are a minority of human beings that wake up and draw air and take shits. Like they are not the most biologically, the most of us. Numerous. Yeah. Yeah. That's a way better word than the most of us. Yeah.ous is a word that you could use for that, sure. The most of us.
Starting point is 00:15:47 I is words. You should listen to me. Amazing. And remember, you don't have to be a convicted murderer slash public masturbating rapist pedophile to want to look like one. Sex criminal fashions, because the bad boy look is for pussies. LGBTQ Nation GOP representative who wanted to protect girls from trans people arrested for preying on young girl.
Starting point is 00:16:13 Okay, I'm not gonna make fun of how this guy looks, but I am gonna say, are you surprised? That's all I'm saying. I'm not making fun of him. He looks how he looks, but tell me if he was in a lineup of a hundred other people, you wouldn't be able to pick that guy up. A thousand percent.
Starting point is 00:16:32 Also, like if fucking Circle K Truckerspeed had a fucking spokesperson, it would be this guy. He's like crushing Vibrin and snorting them. Yeah. This guy also. Not all those people turn out bad. You didn't snort it then did you? I didn't snort it but I poured it into stuff.
Starting point is 00:16:55 My coffee doesn't have enough Vibrin in it. I need more Vibrin in my coffee. There's literally no way I should have survived. Why didn't your heart stop? I have no idea. Genuinely, I don't know. We're talking about it. Tom, when he was in college, he would crush Vibrin. Yeah, because it hits hard.
Starting point is 00:17:10 And he put it in his coffee. And then he would pour that coffee into a coffee maker and then make more coffee. So he would heat his Vibrin up to that perfect temperature. And then he would inject. Well, I will say you got to do the vibrant as the last step, though, because you don't want to get caught in the filter. Yeah, that's true.
Starting point is 00:17:32 You don't want to get caught in the filter. You don't want to deal with that line built up to be vibrant in your coffee maker. That's something you want to avoid. My heart 100 percent should have stopped. Was there ever a time you were like, I did too much Vibrin? Oh, yeah. Really? Because you shit you were like, I did too much Vibrin? Oh yeah. Really? Because you shit your brains out.
Starting point is 00:17:47 I didn't know that. Oh yeah. Like, like, like, like, I don't want to be like, you know, but like if you take an enormous amount of stimulants, it stimulates everything. I didn't realize that. I guess I always thought like drugs sort of slowed everything down. Oh no. But only certain drugs do that.
Starting point is 00:18:03 So only certain drugs do that. Brazile. So only certain drugs do that, right? So like, I know like heroin, I don't know, what is that stuff? Oh yeah, any opiate. Opiates. Opiates binds you up. Yeah, they bind you up. Opiates binds you up. Stimulants stimulate.
Starting point is 00:18:17 No kidding. Oh yeah, man, it's rocket fuel through your intestines. Yeah. Wow. It's just like. Cranks those things up. You're a pole start at that point, you know, you've pushed a little too Yeah, and also like like yeah, I should but like you'd sweat like crazy sucks because now like you're you're staying up But you're you're only staying up to shit. It does damage your productivity I will say like it just but like damages your toilets, you know, like as a guy to get an English degree. I can read a book anywhere. Oh, that's true
Starting point is 00:18:48 Yeah, so if I had like yeah, there were times I'd be like I gotta read like two books tonight like I gotta read two books How did you put that off until then? Good have we met Jesus Christ? I'm two books 20 some years and you're asking me to read two books in one night fast It's easy now. Now you're like, chat GPT, lie to me. No, but like if you read, if you read for 10 or 12 hours,
Starting point is 00:19:13 you can bang through two books. Like if you read a page and a half a minute, and you don't take a lot of breaks, my body would shut down. Well, not if you fucking fill it full of stimulants. Yeah, and if I'm stuck in the, you know if you fucking I guess it's true. Yeah I'm stuck in the bathroom I'll be bored. This is before cell phones. You say yeah before you could play words with friends That's what it's to do. You know like you jerk off twice and you're like, all right now
Starting point is 00:19:35 I've got a long time to read Wait, I want to get back to this guy. Yeah, guy, this crazy dude, who's, you know, a terrifying individual, decides to also pass a law about Trump deranger syndrome, tries to get it past the Minnesota house or whatever, tries to introduce the bill. And then he's, he's caught for preying on, you know, a young kid and you're just like, of course, of course,
Starting point is 00:20:03 it's all a confession. All of this is a projection. All of us as a confession. There's so many of these instances that happen and you just, it's just so gross. It is. And like it's, it's also, you see a guy like this and his Trump derangement syndrome, he wants to pass a bill to make it a real diagnosis, but it's like, that's not even how diseases they don't, it's not like they're like, okay, we got to pass a bill or Parkinson's doesn't exist. That's not how any of this works.
Starting point is 00:20:31 Oh man. That's not how any of this works, man. It's just, and you can't rely on Congress because they just shut down. Now. Did you see, oh God, you see McConnell shut down again? No, did he really? Not really. Like he's standing there and he's just looking and then he looks out and he looks over at
Starting point is 00:20:47 his aide and he's like, my hearing ain't what it used to be. And then she had to ask him, she had to come and be like, he's talking about terrorists. And he's like, I don't like terrorists. Oh my god. This is the worst timeline. It is the worst timeline. Whoever is running the simulation, they fucking hate us so much. Don't you feel like they hate us? They hate people who like reality. They're like, yeah man, I'm sorry. We're gonna fucking ruin everything for you. I seriously, I feel like whoever was running the simulation
Starting point is 00:21:27 and like, at some point they just like walked away from the machine to go get coffee and they just never came back. And it's all just been chugging along and getting worse and getting, cause like the little bugs in the programming just start accelerating on each other. When you buy a game,
Starting point is 00:21:44 sometimes you're able to do a thing called modding it and so you can download like these other These other people will go through and code in you know Make all the heads be like Pikachu's or something where you can you know do all kinds of crazy shit could change the gravity In your game you can you know you can make all the you can make a you know GT5 look like Minecraft or whatever it is that you want to do. There's a ton of people who mod these games and I feel like somebody just downloaded way too many and they're like, there's so many of the simulation that now they're just like
Starting point is 00:22:14 fighting each other and they're like, yeah, no, we, we did the, we did the, we, we downloaded campus craziness and downloaded, you know, it's like, it's like every Tucker segment. So like every single Tucker segment got downloaded. Run the plague ink one too. Just run. Oh my God. It's not in the notes. I just saw the story and it's not going to be, we're not going to be talking about it.
Starting point is 00:22:37 We're talking about it alongside of this particular Trump domain syndrome, but it's okay. There is a, the, so the Mennonites that are down in Texas, one of them lost a little girl, six year old, and they're interviewing her, they're interviewing the parents, and they're interviewing them on like a anti-vaccine network, and they're asking them questions and whatever, and they have to have an interpreter
Starting point is 00:23:02 because they speak like low German or whatever, so there's like a whole interpreter they have to have an interpreter because they speak like low German or whatever. So there's like a whole interpreter they have to have. But they said, don't vaccinate your kids. Like it's worse if the vaccine's worse than their dead kid. What do they think the vaccine kills you twice? I mean, because they're sold a lie that it causes autism. So what does that say about autistic kids? Right, if they're worse than death. They're saying that that that it causes autism. So what does that say about autistic kids? If they're saying that that's worse than death,
Starting point is 00:23:29 what does that say about them? Fucking hell. But genuinely, that's not true. No. But they buy it, but they lost a child and they're standing by, they're saying, don't rush out and get a vaccination, don't do it. They're still, because they had four
Starting point is 00:23:45 other ones that survived it. So it's like a die roll. Like they rolled a unlucky roll on one of them. Like I have a lot of people in my life that don't like, just because I have a lot of people in my life doesn't make any of them disposable. It's like, yeah, it's like, what? Like, can you be like, well, I've got other ones. What? Assassin knocks on your door. We've got to pick one. Oh, I don't know. Eenie meenie.
Starting point is 00:24:10 I think the only way to do it. It's roll it down. Yeah. Holy shit. Yeah, dude. It's crazy. It's crazy. Jesus Christ.
Starting point is 00:24:18 All the crazy. All of them. All right. I run the men and nights have the plague mod. Yeah, that's a weird one. Hey, we didn't see that one coming. Actually we did. We saw that one coming.
Starting point is 00:24:27 Yeah, we're actually in our house. We're going to get MMR boosters. Yeah, yeah. Because you have to go to like the drug store or whatever, right? Or just go to CVS. Yeah, just swing over to CVS. We're gonna review it.
Starting point is 00:24:37 Because I saw a thread in fans of, and they had said, you can't get your doctor. Your doctor won't do it. So like, if you ask your doctor. Oh, my doctor told me just, yeah, he told me won't do it. So like, if you ask your doctor. Yeah, he told me I could do it at my physical, but that's not for like next month. A bunch of people are asking their doctor
Starting point is 00:24:51 and their doctors are saying, no, your immunity should be fine. You'll be fine. And so they're all like, no, I'm gonna go get it again. And so they're all gonna go, cause CVS doesn't check. They don't care. Well, it's because like we have no,
Starting point is 00:25:02 like because we have no centralized, it's how I got a million vaccines for COVID. It made me laugh. It's like the only advantage to not having any kind of centralized healthcare system is that nobody knows what's happening. Like, like if you fucking miss a payment on your goddamn discover card, everybody that's ever lent you money in all the history of time gets a fucking email and a blow job or whatever. But like if you get a vaccine, nobody knows. It's a secret vaccine.
Starting point is 00:25:32 Your medical history is a secret to everybody. It's one of those things that like of all the things we should know about people, that might be an interesting and important thing. Every doctor I go to should know what all the other doctors I've gone to have done and said. And that would be really important if like I were unconscious in a hospital. Yeah. Right.
Starting point is 00:25:53 Like they could look at it. It's important. Cause like they could get my social security number and be like, Oh, he's got a 780 credit score, but they can't like pull up my shit and be like, Oh, you know what? He takes fucking beta blockers or whatever. You know, like I don't take beta, but you know what I mean? Like it's crazy. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:07 I need to find someone who can translate into seven different languages. Well, I can do that. Yeah. I did a Teflon my gap year. All right. This story is from the AP judge rules. Doge's USA dismantling likely violates the constitution. It likely violates the constitution.
Starting point is 00:26:29 He did go. He did say like, we can't reverse all the firings, but you gotta stop now. And I think that's great. But all those people are still fucking fired. USAID is essentially Crippled it's dismantled. I mean they dismantled it anyway, right, but they still to send the money out, right? So they still have to do certain things because they're saying like we've promised those funds. You can't just say no
Starting point is 00:26:56 Um, I just did on the other show I do we just did Elon Musk no Rogan. Yeah, no Rogan We had we had Elon Musk, we did the Elon Musk recent visit to Joe Rogan and he just straight up lied about multiple things that had to do with USAID and they're so easy to fact check that he's just wrong in lying about these things. But these people are, they're dismantling our government, they're dismantling our soft power,
Starting point is 00:27:25 they're dismantling really good work that the United States government did. And there's a lot of people, when I said this I think last week where I said, there's people who will comment on our threads and things that are anti sort of liberal. They're the conservative, the hard right people. I see those comments more now that I'm in a couple
Starting point is 00:27:46 of these spaces and I'm also getting them sent to us and things like that. And the comments are all about, hey, I wanna, you know, I don't wanna send all that money over there. I don't wanna send all that money over there. I don't wanna, but that's not how taxes work, right? I don't wanna fucking make bombs, but I gotta make fucking bombs and more of my check
Starting point is 00:28:04 goes to bombs than fucking feeding people, feeding hungry people or taking care of people in different parts of the world that we were doing good work with. Like there was good work happening because the United States government was funding people getting food, people getting medical attention, people getting, you know, housing, different types of ways in which they can which they can deal with mental issues and helping people in war zones, all these types of things that they were doing. And it was a fraction of the cost of like, you know, our defense budget and we're selling and sending weapons all over the world and we're sending our troops all the, I don't
Starting point is 00:28:39 want to, I don't want to pay for that, but I got to, right? I have to, I don't want to pay for lots of different things. But you know, that's not how taxes work. I don't just get to pick some of the stuff we do. And really, the unempathetic, trashy right is just gleeful with how they've cut these things. And they're happy and excited that it makes other people upset. That the one thing, the one or two things
Starting point is 00:29:02 our government was doing that was OK, that most people would be like, yeah, that's fine. I'm actually happy our money's going there because it's like a quarter of my... I pay a quarter a year or something for this. And a bunch of people get fed because of it. These people are gleeful that stuff got cut out of there. And they're stupid because even if you're just selfish... Yeah. No, you're absolutely right. You're absolutely right.
Starting point is 00:29:24 Even if I just take a selfish standpoint, what I've done by reducing my soft power internationally is I've made intelligence gathering vastly more difficult. Way harder. I've made military operations vastly more difficult to perform. I've reduced the number of on the ground allies, ears on the ground.
Starting point is 00:29:44 It's gonna be harder for our military, if we just wanna talk about military, it's gonna be harder for our military to secure translators and other on the ground assistance. That soft power helps us wield power in other parts of the world. It also keeps us safer by building goodwill and holding back certain other political forces
Starting point is 00:30:05 from swooping in and taking advantage. You know, one of the things that like gave organizations like the Taliban, the ability to swoop in and gain power is they kept the lights on and they kept people fed. If we stop doing that work, someone else will fill that vacuum. You bet they will. And those people will now have an allegiance
Starting point is 00:30:28 to those folks who might have intents that damage us, right, that are against our own interests. So even if we only have entirely selfish interests, the investment is minimal in USAID, and we reap direct reward from that. There will be times where now we don't know something is happening and some terrorist shit will occur and we will have consequences from that.
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Starting point is 00:32:15 We made them up. Like the boogeyman. The three little pigs, Pinocchio, Mother Goose, shit like that. Rights are an idea. They're just imaginary. They're a cute idea. Cute. But that's idea. They're just imaginary. They're a cute idea. Cute. But that's all. Cute and fictional.
Starting point is 00:32:27 New York Times. Trump officials say deportees were gang members. Few details were disclosed. This is one of the most fucked stories and this is an ongoing legal drama as well. But, you know, the Trump administration has deported people, supposedly, what they've said is that they are Venezuelan gang members and they shipped them not to Venezuela, but to a prison in El Salvador using a fucking war act, like a fucking wartime act from forever ago that's essentially like never been used,
Starting point is 00:33:04 like it hasn't been used in a very, very, very long time and is inappropriate to the situation. And not only did they send people not even to their own home country, but to an entirely other country to be put in a prison without due process. They did all of this without even necessarily verifying that any of these people were these like gang members. They're just like, you got a tattoo, you got to go. And one of them was very specifically an asylum seeker.
Starting point is 00:33:35 Yeah. Like one of them, they detail in this article, one of them just had a soccer ball on his, as a tattoo, he was a soccer coach. He left his country because he was being ostracized there and had real hard time. I don't know exactly what was the cause. I don't remember. He protested against the current administration
Starting point is 00:33:56 of Venezuela. And here's another thing that happens too. And this is something we covered when I used to do the other podcast with Craig when I did Lawful Assembly. A lot of times people who are in other countries, they will sometimes be, they will have criminal records,
Starting point is 00:34:11 but the country that they live in is corrupt. So they will have a charge of some kind, and then they'll come here and they'll check their criminal record and be like, oh, you're a criminal. And if they don't have a lawyer who can argue and say, wait a minute, that was because they were protesting against their government. That's perfectly, that's something we would consider a virtue here. So far, so far,
Starting point is 00:34:34 at least in other administrations. Right. And so there's a, they would have these, these, they would have an ability to at least fight against that sort of thing, because sometimes they're unjustly charged with crimes. And that is why they're a criminal, right? That's why they're a criminal, according to, you know, our government. And so they would have an opportunity to fight against that. But in this case, all these people are sent back. They haven't really proven that these people are these gang members that they suggest. They have tattoos, I think, with some of the things, but they've been pressured to ask. And a lot of times they're not producing any kind of information for this. This is all going to have to be going in front of a judge. And I've already seen a judge say, you better bring something to me by Tuesday. That really shows that these people were who you say they were.
Starting point is 00:35:23 Because if you're just shipping people out like this, that's awful, right? And we're going to stop you doing that. And the other thing I want to point out too, we're paying another country to do this. Like, so one thing you have to understand is we're not just shipping them away and it's like, that's the end of it. No, right. We're shipping that country money too.
Starting point is 00:35:42 We're paying $6 million for something like 238 people. And if you do the math in the cheapest place to house people in the United States in a penitentiary is Arkansas. We're paying a quarter of a million dollars more to ship them somewhere else. So if we were to house them in Arkansas, it'd be cheaper. And you know, look, I don't think you should fucking be imprisoning people who are here seeking asylum. Right? If that's the case, I don't think that's the case. That's what you should be doing in the first place.
Starting point is 00:36:15 But even still, it's like, like, wouldn't you want American jobs? You know what I mean? Like in some ways, I mean, like you're saying, you know, you're going to be spending the money somewhere because it's not like that money would stay in our house. It would turn your own economy It's not free to send these people other places But everybody out there is like yeah, man get rid of him and then like they're posting horrific shit I know did you see the closing time video? No fuck Fuck man. Hold on a second God, I hate this so much. This is so, I like this feels like, like we're podcasting in the middle of like, like, like
Starting point is 00:36:56 we're podcasting our way through a fascist takeover, a racist fascist takeover of our country. Like, I can't believe I'm living through this in real time. Jesus Christ, I fucking hate this. Here we go guys, this is what I wanted to show everybody. Here we go. So if you're watching at home and you're hearing closing time, what's really happening is they're showing deportation. It's a fucking horror.
Starting point is 00:37:43 And it's, it's what we talked about for years. This is not a party of values. This is not a party of action. This is not a party of trying to do the things, those lies that they told you on the campaign trail. This is a party of trolling. And this is what they do best. And that sort of thing is made, it's made to make everybody furious.
Starting point is 00:38:04 It's made to make us angry. But what it normally does is it makes us angry and apathetic. But what I want you to do is hear that and make yourself angry with it, but then do something about it. Make some action about it. And there's plenty of things that we can do.
Starting point is 00:38:19 Right now, there are three seats that are gonna be up for, by say April 1st, there's three special elections and they could get flipped over. So I'm getting messages about it right now, three different states, I know Florida's one of them because of Gates and then a couple others. You can find out more information about those
Starting point is 00:38:43 and then, you know, money, you can probably offer to call, you can offer to do a lot of things to make sure that, you know, maybe in April when this, because they're already starting like early voting on some of these. And this anger that they're seeing in all these red districts all across the country, there's people who live in those red districts.
Starting point is 00:39:05 And there may be some people who are laughing at home at this, but they might not make it out to the polls this time. They might not care as much. They'll be like, oh, whatever, who cares? We got it, we're fine. Those three votes could be huge for the Democrats in the House.
Starting point is 00:39:21 So there's something to do. There's some way to do something about it. You know, you said something, and it just occurs to me. Like the antidote for us is to care more than they do. Yeah. If we care more than they do, there's a lot of us. There is, numerically, there's more of us. We have to care more than they do.
Starting point is 00:39:43 And then we will be able to win. Like we'll be able to get this shit. Cause we like, the thing is like, there's a really small window of opportunity. If we do not flip the house and the Senate in 2026, like we can't, we can't prevent what's happening until 2026. My God, can you imagine if he gets four years of full control? The damage he's done in three and a half months or whatever it's been. Three months. It's been, it's been a complete nightmare. The only solution is to care more. Apathy is the opposite of the solution. Apathy is the unsolution. What do you mean it's advancing?
Starting point is 00:40:23 It's not only advancing, it's moving at an incredible speed. We're having trouble following it. is the unsolution. Judges block Trump's executive order barring transgender people from the military. This is what you were talking about at the top of the show. Judges are thankfully stepping in and saying like, you can't just do this shit. You literally do not have the authority. That's not how the separation of powers works. You can't just do this shit. Yeah, and he's like you suggested,
Starting point is 00:40:53 I think a couple shows ago, testing the fences. He's doing what he can to test the boundaries, push everything he can, and see where things fold. And we're gonna talk about a couple of other things because we've seen him push the media and they fold. We've seen him push in other places. Certain states have folded to him. Other people have capitulated to him.
Starting point is 00:41:16 The social media companies have already done it because the tech bros I think are all on board with all this stuff. And so all these different places that you thought might, there might be some sort of pushback. There's none of that. There's really been nothing. And the one place we've seen is the judicial branch.
Starting point is 00:41:32 And this week he said, these judges should be impeached. And it's like, well, you just don't have enough votes, dipshit. Like, you can't, you can't impeach them. And they have to go through an impeachment process in the house and the Senate. So you're never going to be able to impeach these judges. Nobody's going to impeach him. That was never going to happen anyway. So, so all that stuff is just useless. So guess what? You're just, you're just stuck with the judges that were appointed. And now, and one of them, she was complaining. I don't know if you saw this, but this was a story this week. One of the judges,
Starting point is 00:42:06 they were complaining about them saying they were an Obama appointee. And one of the poor reporters pointed out that was a George W. Bush appointee. They got elevated again by Obama to a different district, but they were not an Obama appointee. They were a George W. Bush appointee. So, you know, like you're wrong. You're just wrong.
Starting point is 00:42:23 You're just factually wrong. But they want to make everything partisan. And judges, you know, like you're wrong, you're just wrong, you're just factually wrong, but they want to make everything partisan. And judges, you know, again, this is something that I talked about a lot on that Lawful Assembly show. They should be above this sort of back and forth. They should look at the law and be able to make judgments based on that
Starting point is 00:42:37 and not their partisan opinions. They should be able to base on what the law says and how the law should be carried out. And they shouldn't be, They should be able to base on what the law says and how the law should be carried out. And they shouldn't be, and Trump has been since the beginning, and he's recognized that the best way to do this is to make them partisan too. So get hacks in there,
Starting point is 00:42:56 like that lady who threw his fucking case out. Yeah, Cannon. Cannon and all those people. Get as many of these people you can in there that will make it, that'll pollute the pool. But if you know, if you're getting people that don't want to do that, that's the, that's way better for the, the, you know, the hygiene of the courts and they're not letting they are not, he was, he was not interested in that at all.
Starting point is 00:43:17 He was interested in putting those people like getting those people to fight as much as possible. Look what he did to the Supreme court and Look at all of his nominees for federal judges. And after the impeachment comments that he made on social media, even Chief Justice John Roberts came out and was like, Hey, we've had like 200 plus years of not doing that shit. Cut it the fuck out. Yeah. And hopefully he means it. Yeah. And hopefully the other lackey bullshit bootlicking dipshits on the Supreme Court will also want to hopefully preserve their own autonomy and authority. I hope that's the case.
Starting point is 00:43:53 I hope that is. And the only solace that I take is that once appointed, they can fucking grab balls at him. It doesn't matter. He can't like these other assholes in the Congress are to some degree subject to his ire because he can be like, fuck that guy. We're going to primary that guy. He could hurt those people and kind of remove them from power. Like, you know, not himself personally, but he can do a lot to damage them politically such that they don't get reelected or at least he feels like they can and they feel like he can. I think that's why a lot to damage them politically such that they don't get reelected or at least he feels like they can and they feel like he can.
Starting point is 00:44:26 I think that's why a lot of those assholes capitulate constantly. The judge is not, not so much, you know, they are not subject to the same kind of pressures. So to some degree, and I think that's structurally like obviously very much like the intention of all of this is to create a Judiciary that does not subject to the same kind of political pressures man This is our bulwark. It should not come to this. Yeah, this is our bulwark You know, I was listening to a show that reminded me again today that like this scary thing is that like judges do not have at their disposal a
Starting point is 00:45:05 police force or a military to make sure that the orders they pass down happen. They pass down an order and it's up to the executive branch that's their job is to enforce the law. That's the executive branch's function. We are we are gonna be in a weird spot where if the executive branch loses, throughout all of our history until this moment, we're going to see what happens. The executive branch has said, all right, we lost. We respect your decision. We disagree, but we respect it.
Starting point is 00:45:38 If the executive branch just says, well, we're doing it anyway. And the deportation case is potentially the first wedge in that door. Because the federal judge said, turn those planes around. And they didn't turn those planes around. They just didn't do it. And the president of El Salvador mocked our judiciary with a video on their social media saying like,
Starting point is 00:46:04 oops, I guess the plane landed. We didn't catch your order on time. So like we're already in a spot where to some degree that the orders of the judiciary are being tested. How far can we push this before we hit a constitutional crisis? And at a certain point, you know, like, like the judges have, they have power in the sense that they can levy things against people if they don't follow their orders. But like you suggest, who's
Starting point is 00:46:30 the one who gets to enforce those levies and those things that are, that are the, you know, if I say fine, well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna say that you're in contempt or whatever, and I'm going to put you in jail. I don't know what they could do, right? But let's just say that that's what they do. And then everybody's like, yeah, well, I'm just not going to go to jail. Right. Cause I don't have to and fuck you. right? But let's just say that that's what they do. And then everybody's like, yeah, well, I'm just not gonna go to jail. Cause I don't have to and fuck you. And then what? Then what?
Starting point is 00:46:50 And there's a couple of moments in our country where it's gonna be like, well, then what? And I mean, I feel like at that point, all bets are off. All bets are off. And the same thing goes for if they're gonna call off like the 2026 election, like they call off the midterms, all bets are off. That's it, there's no more democracy. I don't know that there's a country anymore.
Starting point is 00:47:09 No, there's not a United States of America in the constitution. And we still got people sending us messages this week to be like, oh, it's okay if it gets burned down or whatever. Yeah, I said, yeah. Last week we said that and they're like, we're like, fuck you and they're like, oh no, it's okay if it burns down.
Starting point is 00:47:22 I'm like, yeah, you're safe. You're far enough away. It's fine, yeah. But I gotta fucking die it breaks burns down. I'm like, yeah, you're safe. You're far enough away. It's fine. Yeah. But I, I got to fucking die in the civil war. Thanks. Appreciate it. You know, but no, you mean you're, you're, it's something that could happen. It could seriously happen.
Starting point is 00:47:34 It could be a, an absolute crisis. And I don't know. I don't even know what I would do. I don't know what I do. I'd be like, I'm looking for other people. Cause at that point, you know, like I, I tend to think I kind of know how things, I understand certain things, but at this point you're breaking all the laws of physics.
Starting point is 00:47:49 Yeah, right. At that point, and like, if that happens, I just want to be clear too. You know, they say like, when America sneezes, the world catches a cold. Well, I gotta tell you, if America collapses, nobody's okay. Like I said last week, I said, you know,
Starting point is 00:48:05 you might be sitting outside of the toilet, but if the shit drops, I'm in the bowl, but you're still gonna get splashed. You're getting splashed. You're still gonna get splashed. I mean, look at the, in 2008, when the United States housing crisis occurred, it threw the world into a global recession.
Starting point is 00:48:23 Yeah. You should care. Through the whole world. You should care what happens here. Everybody will a global recession. You should care. You should care what happens here. Everybody will eat our shit. You should care. This is outrageous. Where are the armed men who come in to take the protesters away? Where are they?
Starting point is 00:48:35 You're charging too high prices for sweaters, glasses. You write to jail. You undercook fish. Believe it or not, jail. You overcook chicken, also jail. Undercook, overcook. This story is from Huffington Post. Rubio refuses to say if there's evidence
Starting point is 00:48:50 justifying Mahmoud Khalil's arrest. So Mahmoud Khalil was a student, I believe at Columbia. In Columbia. And was leading a protest movement. And is immigrant with a green card. So perfectly legal. Perfectly legal to be here. And the Trump administration has arrested him and is working on deporting. And they are not saying, they're saying, oh he broke the
Starting point is 00:49:15 law, he's supporting terrorism, he's supporting Hamas, he's just the proof. Yeah and there is nothing. They are being absolutely silent. Yeah. They're using the jackboots of the state to inflict damage on people they disagree with. Right? Protest is a right. And before people send a message, you know, I don't know if we have any of these assholes who would even listen to this, but I can already hear the right wingers out there saying, you know, if you don't like this country, what the hell are you doing here protesting? It's like, you can like this country and dislike some of the things that they're doing. You can be here, even as an immigrant, and be like, I don't like what's happening in Gaza right now.
Starting point is 00:49:52 I'm gonna protest that. And you have every right to do that. And the fact that Colombia, I don't know if you saw this, but Colombia also rescinded diplomas and degrees from people who participated in some of this. This should tell everybody that they need to know that higher education isn't on your side either, okay? This has always been a class war.
Starting point is 00:50:15 It's always, and these people are not in your class. All those people are capitulating to Trump. Everybody, every single one of these people who makes any kind of money or who has any kind of status in this country, they're all capitulating. It's always been about a class war and they've always been trying to fucking lie to us that it's not. They've always been trying to throw different things out that it's not.
Starting point is 00:50:38 We have something that is, you know, it's a unity that we are of a class that is not their class. We are the lower class a class that is not their class. We are the lower class. We're not the billionaire class. We're not the millionaire class. We're not the class that runs things in this country, but we're the worker class. We're the people who make sure it happens.
Starting point is 00:50:57 There's a lot of unity that I think that the Democrats and you know, whoever, at this point, I saw Bernie Sanders this week saying, you know what, just run as an independent and then align with the Democrats when you know, whoever at this point, I saw Bernie Sanders this week saying, you know what, just run as an independent and then align with the Democrats when it suits your needs. And it's like, yeah, I kind of agree with it. Fucking run as an independent, fuck them. Especially after this fucking craven week
Starting point is 00:51:16 when 10 fucking cowards go in and fucking capitulate to the Republicans, fuck you then. Like run as an independent then, I don't care. Like run as somebody who's gonna stick up for the working class. And you know what? This higher education institution should be immune to this sort of thing.
Starting point is 00:51:37 You should be able to look Trump in the face and tell him to go fuck himself. And they didn't, they immediately, they capitulated here and this person person they're gonna be deported Yeah, because they thought that America was doing something wrong and these people want to punish anybody Anybody that they can that they think doesn't fall in line with their ideals Yeah, this person is gonna get deported because they were acting at the time under the protections of the first amendment. So those protections are no longer an umbrella. They don't work for you.
Starting point is 00:52:14 They don't work for him. They don't work for you. Like we have to be real honest here and say like there is an aggressive purposeful stripping away of your civil rights. That is a real thing that is happening. So see, so I saw another story today, probably 10 minutes before I hopped in the car to get to the studio that the administration is positing that the wartime act that they are using under shaky grounds to deport immigrants, that that gives them the right to enter homes without warrants, looking for immigrants, a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Starting point is 00:52:52 They are violating the First and the Fourth Amendment like they don't mean shit, like they do not mean shit. These are, like, there are some of our amendments which have, they're all very, very important, but there are some that have taken on a sacred quality because they define in many ways our values that we hold collectively as a nation, right? The First Amendment, our right to assemble,
Starting point is 00:53:17 our right to freedom of speech, freedom of the press, to a large degree, if we're talking about like the zeitgeist of our nation, the second amendment, the fourth amendment, you can't come into my house without a warrant. You cannot enter my home without a warrant. These are part of our cultural identity. They are not just legal things. They are really sacred totems that we hold together that bind us
Starting point is 00:53:46 as a people. If we lose them, we are unbound. We are unbound as a nation. We're gonna do it anyway. We're gonna do it anyway. We're gonna do it anyway. We're gonna do it anyway. Yikes on bikes, NBC News, Texas mega church founder Robert Morris indicted on charges of lewd acts with a child. Yeah, like there's a part of this that I want to read because it's particularly grotesque. And I think it's important when this guy is talking about his own actions, he gets caught, right? He gets caught. He gets caught and he resigns. And he resigns.
Starting point is 00:54:29 And now he's being indicted. So in June, after Cindy Clemmonshire came forward to accuse Morris of sexually abusing her as a child, Morris said he engaged in quote, inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady in a home where I was staying. I was kissing, it was kissing and petting and not intercourse, but it was wrong is what he says.
Starting point is 00:54:50 This is not a young lady. This is a kid. This is a 12 year old kid. Yeah, a 12 year old kid. He was 21 and she was 12. 12. 12 years old. That's a sixth grader, man.
Starting point is 00:55:04 It's a little kid, man. Yeah, you're a little, you're a senior in college. That's a sixth grader, man. It's a little kid, man. Yeah, you're a senior in college. That's a sixth grader. Think of the Gulf there. It's a little kid. That's a child. It's a little kid. To call that child a young lady
Starting point is 00:55:16 is to intentionally minimize your own culpability. Yeah, yeah. No, you're not wrong. This is one of those things though, that if we had a segment every week, you could have someone every week be in the segment. Sure, yeah. It's a pastor who, you know,
Starting point is 00:55:36 he fucking diddled a kid, and now he's sorry, he's crying and sorry and whatever, and they're gonna charge us, dude, which is great. Great, yeah, awesome. But you know, this last week, and again, I'm gonna reference the other show I'm doing, the Snow Rogan Experience, we covered a show where they're regenerating
Starting point is 00:55:56 the Pizzagate scandal. And the Pizzagate scandal, we'll talk about this, the Pizzagate scandal is, it's a scandal that talks about a pedophile ring. And we've been saying for so many years, the real pedophile ring is the church. Like there's a pedophile ring right in front of you. There's a bunch of people who have been shifted around like fucking the worst three card money you could possibly imagine, right?
Starting point is 00:56:20 You don't want to pick any of the cards, right? You don't want any of the cards, But you certainly don't want the jack. Of all of them, you don't want the jack. But I'll tell you what, these guys, they move them around. They shuffle them around. It's a shell game to all these priests. They move them from one parish to another parish. They do horrible shit.
Starting point is 00:56:38 They wind up with jobs with kids, even after they've been caught in other places. And it takes years to find this stuff out. And this stuff was way harder to find before the internet was prevalent. So, you know, we have decades of sexual abuse by these priests, decades of it. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:55 And people still blind eye to that. They want to make up their own conspiracy to hurt somebody because they don't like them. But there's that literal pedophile ring in front of our eyes. Yeah, there's a pedophile ring full of a bunch of moral grandstanders. Yes, yes. You know, like here's these fucking moral grandstanders standing in front of you
Starting point is 00:57:16 and saying, here's the way to live your life. And if you do it wrong, here are the judgments that we will inflict upon you. I know how to teach you how to be good.. I know how to teach you how to be good. And I know how to teach you how to avoid judgment and all this other stuff. And give me a bunch of money. And meanwhile, they're abusing that position of authority to hurt your children in that church. What a fucking nightmare this is. And to pretend that this is always a one-off. How is it
Starting point is 00:57:46 always a one-off when it happens constant? Like I said it could be a it could be a segment every single week. Constant. And this is? Lila Dallas multi pass. Yeah. Multi pass. She knows it's a multi pass. Lila Dallas, my wife, we're newlyweds. Just met. You know how it is bumping to each other, sparks happen. Yeah, she knows it's a multi-pass. Yeah, anyway, we're in love. PBS News fact-checking Trump's claim that Biden's pardons are void because he used an auto pen. So Trump is furious that Biden proactively pardoned a bunch of people that he wants to hurt. Which like a lot of people, I think us included were somewhat critical of.
Starting point is 00:58:31 But I'm super glad in retrospect. I'm happy he did it. I'm happy. I wish he would have done it like six months earlier. Yeah. You know, I wish you would have done it like maybe right. Even if it was right after the election, I wish he wouldn't have done it the last days of the election. I wish he would have done it right after
Starting point is 00:58:46 and then taken the heat from it. And then just had to answer a couple of questions about it and just be like, fuck you, because I haven't seen Biden since then. No, nobody has, I'm sure. But I will say like, I wish he would have taken some heat for it. But even still, his argument that there,
Starting point is 00:59:00 that it's an auto pen, there's nothing at all in the constitution about a signature. So it doesn't actually have to be signed. It could just be a verbal pardon. So his whole thing is a lie. It's a joke. There's no judge, at least that I could see,
Starting point is 00:59:14 that would uphold this and say, oh, it's an auto pen. They've, there's been a sort of standing rule that auto pen documents are okay. That's a standing rule and pardons don't need him. So it's like it is a loser for Trump. It's a loser, but he's still screaming about it because what he wants to do is he wants to go after the people who he thinks wronged him and his constituency wants the same thing. Yeah. Well, his whole narrative relies on a series of villains.
Starting point is 00:59:48 And I think it's inconvenient for him that he cannot go after Liz Cheney, for example. He wants to go after Liz Cheney. He wants to go after all of these people that were on the January 6th select committee, and he can't do it. He can't go after Hunter Biden. He can't go after any of these people.
Starting point is 01:00:04 So to a large degree, that pours water on the fire of his villain narrative that he needs in order to sort of keep the flames stoked for people to be excited about this, for people to be like, yeah, there is a, a cabal, a cabal, a conspiracy. Like it all kind of dies out if you can't do anything about it. There's nothing. So this is a way for him to cast out to say these people were evil the whole time. Hey, Biden was so corrupt. He couldn't even pardon properly. It's like when he's like, Oh, like I, I told Elon to go get those astronauts that Biden just forgot about and left up in space. And it's like, that is the least true series of things. That's not how space even works. My guy.
Starting point is 01:00:48 Yeah. Like if you look into it, it's like, no, like it takes time to plan missions. There's windows of launch. These things were in the works when by the date was already set. It's a right wing talking point though. They all talk. They're all talking about it as if, as if Biden stranded them up there politically. Yeah, like the reason the astronauts got stranded, I know this isn't a side, but the reason the
Starting point is 01:01:09 astronauts got stranded is because the Boeing Starliner flew up there and realized it was a Boeing and so it broke. And so they couldn't get on it because it was a fucking Boeing and the doors fell off it or whatever. And then it came back down and whoever was working on I committed suicide four times So they're like alright That's kind of a loser. We don't want to we don't want to get on that one that keeps It keeps catching on fire or whatever fucking crazy shit
Starting point is 01:01:41 But then it's not like you can be like oh, we'll just send a new spaceship up in the air like that's not how spaceships work It's not how any of this works. The idea that you could just like, go to your garage and get your second spaceship. Right. Oh yeah, we'll just fly up there. There's windows for launch that are very specific when shit's fucking lined up and you gotta get fucking everything. There are Ts to cross and Is to dot
Starting point is 01:02:01 before you shoot fucking hundreds of thousands of pounds of rocket fuel into the fucking atmosphere. And he's pretending like, I made a phone call, got my good guy. I must got a phone. And then, and then of course the people that are up there are like, yeah, thank you for getting me down or whatever. But it's like, yeah, they were going to get you down anyway, no matter what it was going to happen. The mission was set during the Biden administration. Doesn't matter. Yeah. It's such a stupid thing. Well, I, in any case, auto, auto pens don't work.
Starting point is 01:02:29 So any orgasm you have from a vibrator is null and void. I had to look up an auto pen. Yeah. They're weird. Did you see one? I haven't seen one. When I first read auto pen, I was like, oh, like they probably just mean like a, like a digital stamp or something. Like it's like a plotter. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:02:50 It's a plotter that does like a thing. Yeah. Yeah. It's a pen that like lives in like a thing and it's, it's signed your name. Yeah. In this, it's, I figured it'd be like a plotter. Like what used to do like drafting back in the day. And that would have like a thing that was a plotter and the thing Would stay still but the paper would move all over and you could do circles and curves and write and draw Yeah, yeah super Weird little device. Yeah, I kind of want one. I don't know why I don't sign shit with it
Starting point is 01:03:17 I don't sign shit sign anything. Oh, I still want one though. Yeah, I at that point you gotta sign I sign every you have to sign. Okay, I put the. At that point you gotta sign. I sign everything. You have to sign things. I put the kids in there. Sign the f... I'd put everything. I'd be signing constant. Stickin' cats in there.
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