Weekly Skews - CPAC Recap: Unpack The Madcap

Episode Date: March 3, 2021

Don't call it a comeback! The lunatic contingent never left y'all. All the best (which of course means worst) stuff from the shitshow that was this weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). And more!Support the show

Hey, everybody, thanks for joining us. I just want to say, you know, as you all know, if you watch us regularly, comments fly by on the right. The first comment I saw pop up was from Derek Dukes, who says, why does Texas suck so much? I love how he's like, he's just coming out the gate with, hey, y'all, start with this. this, what the fuck is wrong with Texas? Hey. Come on, buddy. Yeah, Mark's got some thoughts on that, I'm sure.

Thank you all for joining us today's Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021. I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? I'm glad he brought up Texas. I know that they, uh, they, they jump the gun on, on getting rid of all the mass mandates and anything, any sort of attendance capacities. But I'm feeling pretty good, been a lot of good COVID dude the last couple days, man.

I hopefully, uh, not too many Texans would be the, last handful of people to die of it but yeah yeah yeah there Biden has said it'll be available to all of us in early May which is way better than I expected so that's great I want to know because we're both from rural the rural South without naming any names I'm aware of some people around the rural South who are able to get the vaccine right now because in these counties they have surplus because A is very small and rural but b plenty of people are like no fuck that i ain't taking it so i know some people that are like going back home to to get vaccinated or whatnot but you know it's a two time it's a two time

vaccination deal you got to get the first one you got to wait a month you got to come back and get the second one so i'm wondering mark you're from rural virginia like how do you weigh that out are you willing are you willing to go back to your hometown for a month to get this vaccine do you Are you against that in general? How are you going to handle the rural COVID vaccine situation? Well, I'm not sure. My family is in Virginia, so I'm not sure. My mom and my sisters have gotten,

but they work in schools of Virginia, Virginia prioritized teachers and people who work in schools. So, for me, both yes and no, I mean, I got nothing keeping me here except for working over the internet. And the problem with that is my mom has satellite internet, so she can't check her email when it rains. So that would really put a cramp in my style.

But you, I assume, would not, would rather die of COVID than fly with two kids cross down to Salina for a month. Well, if we have to stay there for the entire month, yes, I'll take my chances. Like if we had to take my wife and children to Clay County or Wang County, Tennessee, where my wife's from, and we all had to be there for an entire month while we get this vaccine hookup that some rural Americans are getting. And yeah, no, I'll just wait. I'll just wait and go to Dodger Stadium in June or whatever it is.

That's fine with me. It's not worth the handoff. I mean, we're so used to being a home now. What's the, what's three months? I remember the first two weeks of this almost drove me insane. Now I'm like, yeah, what's another three months of it? Right. But it is, like, weird that rural areas have so much excess dosage because, like, they thought

it'd be the last place to get it. Like, that's where the Johnson Johnson vaccine would go because they don't have the, like, a fancy dipping dots cool. you need to keep the, keep the good ones in. But, um, uh, not the good. They're all good. You know what I'm saying? The Madonna, it's like A plus versus A.

They're all good. Get, I get whatever one you can get. But, uh, uh, I saw some polling today that like, everybody's worried about, uh, uh, black people refusing to get it for a fairly obvious historical reasons for anybody that can Google it. But, uh, um, Ruby Laguna over here. Ruby Laguna in the comment says, I get it. Death greater than Florida.

I hear y'all. I guess Rudy would have to go back to Florida. But also, this is kind of a PSA for any of, any, like, expat, rural Americans out there that are listening. If y'all haven't thought about it, if you're from a really small town, you might be able to go home and get vaccinated right now if you want to. It seems like it's a bit of a trend. Yeah, what I was in the middle of saying was that, like, that they were pulling, that's okay. The polling data says that the number one, the number one group of people refusing to get it or white male. Republican. So that's why there's a bunch of extra doses

in East Tennessee. If you want to move there, you can get a vaccine from a dude named Darrell. I'm sorry, I got clean slated by Ruby's Florida comment over here. I know. Chimed in. You're like, no, yes. Thank you, Trey. That's literally exactly what I was in the middle of saying. Stop look at the comments. That's

Matt's job. Stop look at the comments. All right. Speaking of Matt, he's here with us, as always, producer Matt, holding it down. This is evening, or this is weekly skews. Weekly. That's right. Tonight, CPAC it up, everybody. That's right. American Conservatives

held a conference in the state of Florida over the weekend, and weirdly, it was stupid. All the dumbest and most inflammatory moments from CPAC on tonight's episode and more. But first, as always, before we get to that dumb shit, we must begin with the daily dumbass. Max. tonight's dd anybody who believe that donald trump might be struggling with his recent

twitter ban all contrary mon cherie that's right france you're welcome for that uh don't trump is in fact thriving without twitter and if you don't believe it coming for me take it straight from the fat dumb orange horse's mouth right here in this clip Matt, that's just our logo. I don't know what... There we go. There we go. Can't hear it, Matt.

Go back. You've been stuck from using Twitter. You're actually happier to be off Twitter. And I'm just wondering whether, you know, the impact of your speech today, not being on Twitter, there's a sort of Trump 2.0 where there's kind of less is more strategy that actually might be something you want to see. Well, it could be. I mean, I have much more time. I can now speak to you a little bit. And I can do things that, frankly, when you're tweeting, does take up time and you want to make it perfect because if you make a smelling mistake or you put a comma in the wrong location, they go wild. He doesn't know this. So, you know, you want to make it good. You want to make it. But I will tell you, I do have much more time. My poll numbers are high. You know, I think they're the highest they've ever been. It's very interesting. I had when I was tweeting, and I know you about tweeting too, but I'm telling you it's sort of very cool.

I had a lot of people saying, I love them. We love our president, but I wish you wouldn't tweet. It's true. Well, they want. Now they've got... It's a double-edged sword. Well, now they've got that. Thank you.

Mr. President, I'm sorry. We're out of time. So, all right. First of all, I love how he's like... I love how Trump is like, yes, now that I no longer have to worry about tweeting, I have more time on my hands to do. these other important things. Had plenty of time when he was the president of the

fucking United States. Yes. Yes, exactly. That's what I was in the middle of saying, Mark. Sorry. We're doing a thing, y'all. We're cutting each other off in the middle of our points. Now, but yes, him being like, now that I'm not tweeting,

I have more time to do important things that need to be done. For example, talking to you on Fox News. Like, the subtext of that is him admitting that he wasn't doing any presidenting because he spent all his time tweeting. You know what I mean? It's like it's kind of nice having this free time from tweeting.

I don't have to spend all my time on the toilet insulting people on Twitter as opposed to, you know, running a country or whatever the hell was supposed to be going on for the past four years. But yeah, how do you feel about this and do you believe this also? I mean, no, I don't believe it because the tone of voice at the beginning of that It's kind of like you run into somebody who, your buddy who's getting divorced. And the first thing he's like, I mean, he must have so much time.

I mean, yeah, it took up wood carving and a yoga, the voice guitar, you know, it's like, I'm getting into yoga. Yeah, you know, we're doing good. She took the kids, yeah. Trying some things out. It's fine. We're going to be fine. Yeah. Some me time.

It's doing great. I mean, it's good to hear from him, honestly. He's sort of like a misteving him as ever presence in my life, just always like looming over. my head like a fucking uh like that like the telotubbies moon just that baby face is hovering right there honestly it was also kind of wild to me that in the middle of this that he admitted that he was like there's plenty of people who you know said oh we love the president we love our president talking about himself but we wish he wouldn't tweet so much like i'm kind of surprised to hear that come from him frankly to hear him say that publicly that he

acknowledged, you know, the opinion of people who thought, it'd be a lot better if you just stop doing this. Like, that's weird to me. That was the consensus among every congressional Republican for the entire four years of his opinion. I know. I mean, I know that, but it's still, he's not, he's not the first time he's become aware of this opinion. He could have not tweeted the whole fucking time. But like, it's like, but it's also funny to me that he's like, you know what? People like me more than I'm not around. It's just like, it just said it. out. Right. Yeah. People like me more when I say fewer things, you know, which I can relate to that hell. Who among us can't? Um, all right. Some honorable, some dumb ass honorable mentions for

you all. First up, I would like to apologize for this next one in advance of doing it. Uh, we've all had a rough year this past year. And just when you thought the universe couldn't hate you anymore than it already does. Here's Tucker Carlson talking about sperm. Oh, God, this is great. I mean, it's horrible, but. Some last year hearing about a health crisis, a pandemic, but there are a lot of health crises. This may be the biggest one. Falling testosterone levels, which have completely reshaped our society,

and falling sperm counts, which may make it impossible to continue the human race. Why is this happening? Probably because of chemicals in our environment. According to one scientist, sperm counts in the Western world have dropped 59% between 1973 and 2011. At this pace, sperm counts will reach

zero by 2045. No one talks about this. Everybody should be. The beginning of that with Dr. Mark Siegel You might think this is environmental in nature. You cut us out, but I think this is the good part. Why is this not the biggest story there is? Wait, wait, wait, well, Tucker, this is a very big

story. And this scientist, Dr. Shana Swan has been following this a long time. And she put out a big paper in 2017. And she blamed something called everywhere chemicals, bisphenol A, thallates. These are found everywhere and plastics all around. And they believe, she believes that they've contributed to falling sperm counts. And there's a lot of evidence to support her. But I'm actually more concerned about something right now, Tucker, that also involves falling sperm counts. And that's lockdown libido. Locked down libido occurs when everybody is shut down for too long. You know what they do? They gain weight. They get obese. You know what

obesity does? Drives down testosterone and sperm counts. You drink more alcohol. You know what alcohol does? It makes estrogen out of testosterone. Your sperm counts drop. Smoking cigarettes, which everyone is doing more and more. Smoking cigarettes drives down sperm counts. Vaping and probably the biggest culprit of all, according to reproductive specialists I spoke to tonight, smoking marijuana drives down sperm count. So you're at home. You're not even looking at your loved one because your despair, depression has replaced romance.

There's going to be no baby bump coming out of this pandemic. So tonight I do have a message for Shauna Swan. She says, Dr. Swan, who again is a very prominent researcher, epidemiologist at Mount Sinai, she says my grandfather had three times the amount of a sperm count than I did. than I did. And I say, more power to my grandfather. She says hunters and gathers for the distant past had sperm counts through the cave ceiling.

And I say she's probably right about that. But I have a message for Shawna tonight. That's enough. Didn't we spend the entire 60s and 70s with them worried about that we made hippies have too much sex? That was the whole thing. Right. Shouldn't they be happy that all the loser, stoners out there, can't reproduce, you know what I mean?

Like, I feel like the subtext of this is like, if you're a good God-Faring American who's not drinking and smoking weed and doing all the devil's work, then you'll be fine and you can keep having babies. But all these degenerates out here not going to be able to reproduce anymore, which I feel like anyone who has spent any time in the degenerate community knows is the opposite of true. Uh, me, me and my degenerate peers, we reproduce at an insect. same level.

That's how we do. We're like rabbits. But yeah, watching this clip, I felt like it started out stupid and crazy. And then you think, oh, okay, that's the silly part.

It can't get more silly. And then it got more silly. And then that happened again, like three more times by the end of it. He literally talked about a caveman coming through the roof of the cave. At the end of the thing, he's like, you know our great, great, great, great, great papas,

they used to shoot come all the way through the cave roof, y'all. We can't do that no more. What's happened? Well, let me, let me to, well, there's two layers to this. The first part, when I first started listening to it was, like, oh, if you're really concerned about people not going to be able to go to the doctor about their collapsing spurn counts and you're worried about environmental toxins, there is a political movement you can join, Tucker.

It's just not the one you're a part of. But secondly, there's not to rate on the fun parade here, but there's a evil subtext of racism here. It's not birth rate that's declining. It's white birth rate that's declining. This is part of the whole white genocide myth is the word. Like Steve King said it out loud a few years ago. You can't replace our culture with their babies or some shit.

That's how I put it. But that's what they're worried about is. Yes. Yeah. Well, that's kind of what happened in this clip, right? Like I'm saying when it first starts, and Carlson's saying something about oh it's it's chemicals it's chemicals in what and it almost sounds like it's going to be some kind of like environmentalist spiel they're about to go on but of course right after that it takes a hard right turn into no it's because the liberals have locked us all down and we don't want to fuck anymore and also all the drugs and fun they're having and all that stuff that's what's ruining America like the the nose dive is it took into conservative ass hattery is what might which of course it's Tucker Carlson's show of course

that's what happened but it's still it's funny the execution I appreciated yeah yeah I mean like all this stuff has a horrific subtext he'd be digging it and he took a cross and sort of piece but also like it spur rights are going down because we all wear boxer briefs uh but here's the thing it only takes one and what they're really mad out is that now the now that the now that metabolize, now that they finally make abortions illegal, pretty much, that accidental pregnancies are all but eliminated by nature. So, here we go. Yeah. All right. So moving on, honorable mention, next up, Mark, please handle this one, the Supreme Court. All right. So, let us be straightforward here. The dumb ass here is this Republican lawyer in front of the Supreme Court today who just said

the quiet part real loud because Amy Coney Barrett asked him a question he wasn't prepared for about standing. And I'll explain, I'll explain what happens. after they played a clip. All right, we don't have it. So, all right, yeah. I'm interested in knowing why the RNC is in the case. So, you know, the D&C has standing and the district court said that it had standing to challenge the out of precinct policy because the policy placed a greater imperative on

Democratic organizations to educate their voters and because the policy harmed its members who would have voted out of precincts. What's the interest to the Arizona RNC here in keeping, say, the out-of-precinct voter ballot disqualification rules on the books? Because it puts us at a competitive disadvantage. There you go. Democrats. Politics is a zero-sum game. All right. Okay. So, Mark, I want to, like, part of me kind of respects this, actually.

Like in a super shitty and fuck them way, but I'm saying just the ownership of like, yeah, that's what we're doing. We're like, if we don't do this, we cannot win, you know, and just coming out right and saying it, like, I almost respect that. Can I say something? This would make some idiot as a lawyer. Maybe he's being an idiot because he knows he's going to win anyway because he has six three majority. But the Constitution does not protect the rights in the Republican Party to win elections. That is not fucking in there. Their founding fathers not envisioned political parties.

The DNC has standing, because what happened was Arizona passed a law to make it so if you, there's currently a law on the books that says if you accidentally vote the wrong precinct, they'll just put your vote the right precinct because the draw the district so fucked up. People are the precinct closest to their house and sometimes sometimes it's the wrong one. Who wouldn't do that, by the way? What regular everyday American person wouldn't just go to the polling place or location close? to you, of course you're going to do that. But yes, but if that happens to be not your official one, then your vote don't count in Arizona. So the DNC won their argument based on standing because they sued on behalf of voters. They said, this is fucked up to voters because it's not the voters' fault. The districts are drawn stupid. And the state has an interest in

helping people vote to make it as easy as possible. Republicans are trying to change law and they butted in this lawsuit. And then Dakota Barrett asked, straight forward to question, whose rights are you protecting here? Because there's no actual person you're saying is being harmed by this policy and say, well, it's us because it'll make us harder for us to win, but that's not a right you have. Right. There's no right to win elections

in the Constitution. The right to victory. Yes. Well, and we'll you know, we'll circle back to this later in talking about CPAC and Trump and everything he had to say and how they're just openly, right. Saying the quiet part out loud is, that's like their

version of the secret going forward. It's seems like you know what I mean like just just put it out there just say it like they're doing whatever they can to just to win because that's all that matters but they have no shame about the tactics that they employed to do so but before we get to all that our last I think last honorable mention for daily dumbass um Donald Trump for hurting Alex Jones's feelings this is sad I feel so bad for Alex Jones here Matt you could you could play it whenever poor guy poor Alex Jones

poor lunatic Alex Jones Matt you play it whenever you go this is also keep in mind this is from 2019 whenever we get this

go January they filmed it they filmed it in 2019 but yeah right it just came out today yes yes

I'm so sick of fucking Donald Trump man I'm fucking sick of him and I'm not doing this because it's like I'm kissing in his fucking ass, you know, just like I'm sick of it.

Do it in a minute. Yes. There's a lot. Yeah. There's a lot in that clip. He said, he said, I'm so sick of Donald Trump like 400 times

and almost got on the verge of crying about how he was. There's a longer clip too where he's like, where he's like, look, you know, I just, he like kind of waffles back and forth

between saying it and he's finally like, look, I'll just say it. I wish I'd never met Donald Trump. You know, like, uh, fuck me over.

And he takes credit for being part of like multiple paradigm shifts in American politics. But then he says he regrets being a prime mover in the last paradigm shift, which was getting Donald Trump elected. But you got Alex Jones talking about regretting, you know, supporting your cause, not a good look. He also says he wishes he, you never met Roger Stone too, which is really funny in his contact. because he's currently under investigation with the FBI for whatever him and that Roger Jones are doing leading up to January 6th. So he probably does really regret it a year later

after that after he recorded that. Anyway, so Alex Jones is off the bandwagon and a quick update on the insurrection. FBI director testified in front of Congress today. Basically saying it's not my fault. Somebody else did it. Somebody else screwed up. And said they got 2,000 investigations

in the white nationalist groups open, which is probably good for the survival of the republic. Although they did arrest a guy today. I'm kind of some trumped-up bullshit. He was some Nazi with $40,000 of a $40,000 telegram followers, which I don't care about him, but free speech-wise. I guess maybe it's good to see what the FBI does to dissidents for white people to learn that for once.

But also this lady, this dude was great. This guy got arrested a couple days ago. And after January 26th, this was an arrest warrant affidavit. somebody asked him, I'm curious why you went to D.C. It's on Facebook comments anyone could read. I'm curious why you went to D.C. just to show her actual intent to violate the election. Legit question.

Remember, he already knows that people are being arrested by this point. Three reasons. To be there when history happens, to participate in anarchy, to smoke weed in public building and government buildings. But the real reason was to intimidate Congress. So there's your fucking motive, dickhead.

The consistency these people have with just admitting their dumb shittery is impressive at this point. But yeah, so like you said, Mark, after all the other shit's already happening, when people getting arrested, that's already happened. And then this guy gets asked by a friend of his on Facebook, explain to me why you went there. And him, first of all, him being like, well, you know, A, I wanted to smoke a doobie in Congress, because that hits, which I mean, you know, who among us, right? Yeah.

Yeah. But, and then, and then being like, and finally, and most importantly, it was to intimidate Congress so they know not to fuck with us anymore. Like, they just put it out there, man. They just put it out there for everybody to see. They don't give a fuck. And they might give a little more of a fuck when they end up in, you know, federal prison. But we'll see how it goes. Imagine I hit you in the head with a lead pipe.

And I knew it was being investigated for hitting you in the head with a lead pipe. And somebody gets in the Facebook trying to help me out being like, hey, you were just intending to assault, tray. And I go, nope, nope, I was attempting murder. Definitely attempting murder. That's what I was doing. Yeah. No, the point was to kill him.

Like, and if I didn't kill him, and that's fine, but he knows I can kill him. And that's what I was trying to do, just so everyone knows. They said on Facebook. All right, so somewhat on that note, let's move into CPAC. First of all, Mark, is it CPAC or CPAC? CPAC. C-PAC, yeah, I don't know if I got Tupac on the brain. You know what I mean?

I just want to pronounce it that way. C-Pacalypse now we had talked about, but I guess we'll go with the short A, if that's correct. So if you missed CPAC over the weekend, good for you. I commend you on that. But if you want to get a general sense of how it went, you can just watch this clip. Matt, you could play the clip whenever you have it. Our first CPAC clip kind of sums it up pretty well, I feel like. Potato Head, the Muppets.

Freedom! She was murdered! Look out, Mr. Potato Head? That's the gist of the whole thing. Yeah, you pretty much get it now. If you missed it all, you wonder how it went. That's pretty much how it went. Them just hollering, lunatic shit for, you know, 72 straight hours.

And that was pretty much the whole thing. The highlight for me, our aforementioned homeboy Roger Stone was there. Also, this doubles it. We talked about MAGA rap last week. Here is a quick MAGA rap update. Roger Stone fucking digs it. If you can play this clip there, man. Yeah, dude, he's grooving, man.

He's done. That's some moves. Oh, that's the last video. Yeah, he's hurting it back. I just got a call from gentle fin. He told me that's facts. Demer rats go and tell me how you feel about that. Who don't want a Trump one?

Watermark the bat is forty by the chosen one. You know the fans didn't sleep, they was knocking at the struggle. Oh, yeah. You know the fans are sweet folk, because I know you're a big, you're big hip-hop guy, right? Well, first of all,

everybody is only listening to what we're speaking. What do you want to be saying here is a fat white bearded rapper rapping about how Trump really won in front of a jacked-up, what is that? Is that a Ford? A big jacked-up truck that is literally painted with the American flag and superimposed on the American flag is a picture of Donald Trump as Rambo. This is all literal.

Donald Trump has Rambo over an American flag jacked-up truck. This guy's rapping in front of it. And he is accompanied by the interpretive dance of Roger Stone. who is dancing to this Trump rap music because that's the reality that we all live in. But what I wanted to ask you, Mark, is, do you know who this guy is? Is this jelly roll? Drew told me this was Jelly Roll, which is a white trash rapper from way back. Do you know who this is or any other details about this?

Okay. I didn't see him mention about who he was. I just assumed he was some loser because he's like rapping at CPAC. But the lyrics, the lyrics themselves are like, he's talking about rolling up, knocking on the Capitol. and running Trump back in 2021, which, but there's no presidential elections. That means reinstalling him about force. And I wonder if Roger Stone knew what they'd be,

with the lyrics where before he started dancing to this, knowing he's under investigation by the FBI. But what is, what's the point of this? Do you think this type of thing? Like, who is this aimed at or do they even think about that? And what I mean is like, because look, I'm, we are both white trash Americans. I'm extra. I come from trash stuff.

y'all the trashiest trash stock that's what i come from and i'm proud and it's fine i don't give a shit whiskey tango as fuck but i don't know who is like what's supposed to happen here like fat dumb trash kids like me are supposed to see this and be like they're so fucking cool do you know what i mean like cooler than black guys who are rapping about like actually good rap music and shit like or or is it not am i just am i thinking too much about it it's just that's just what they do now what is this supposed to be mark i don't understand i think fairly i think a fairly consistent theme on the show is you try to imagine there's a point of things that don't really have one yes yeah you're yeah you're right yeah it just feels good they're just they're just

hitting yeah they're just hitting yeah no you're right you're right i know but still man roger i mean like what do you think the step the next step depending your truck up like that is there's nothing there's another point to it but just to have a trunk faded like that that's it there's no next level to it yeah yeah uh you're right you're right so after after after that little dance dance number somebody uh cornered roger stone and asked him tried to ask him about january 6th and this is pretty funny or a couple levels if you got that video map go grizzlies by the way my man in the Memphis jersey in the back.

We got no sound, Matt. Yeah, we can't hear the can't hear this clip. All right. Anyway, he's saying he's saying he unequivocally denies any, having in advance knowledge of the January 6th. And he's saying he also has no connection to the proud boys. And what's funny about that is he's standing in front of three or four guys who are pretty obviously proud boys.

Like the dude to job, But they don't, the usual, the old uniform for proud boys was wearing those orange and black, yellow and black Tom Sperry shirts. But they, they got disavowed by them. So they tossed them off. And now they just wear a typical, like, a flatbrim hats, basketball jersey. I mean, they're not a lot of Trump supporters who would be wearing John Morant jerseys who wouldn't be in the proud boys. So I feel pretty comfortable in that.

Yeah. So he also, he also condemns the journalist who asked the question in the middle of that. like, I'm paraphrasing here, obviously. But he says, Matt, I don't know what's planned right now, but it's not. You can cut that out, Matt. I think Matt's international hearing. I think Matt's internet's fucked.

Yeah, I think he's in Ohio somewhere. Y'all know how about. Oh, hey, we've got a, we got breaking, not breaking news, but we are one of our field journalist on the, one of our boots on the ground that we Have my sister, Paige, you all know, who broke the news that Dr. Dre had had an aneurysm on the show, has chimed in to say, and I've got to say, Paige, I know you're still watching to my little sister. I've heard the opposite of this, but Paige says, our investigative reporter, Paige Crowder says, pretty sure jelly roll is liberal and pretty certain that's not jelly roll, just saying. so my sister will she will stomach no sullying of the good name of jelly roll while we're playing these clips on here and she needs everybody to know that uh yeah now drew friend of the show drew morgan is the one who told me that was jelly roll i'm not saying it is but that's what i

heard but we we trust you page thank you for your thank you for your input i mean it's not like drew to be loud and confidently wrong yeah he would never I love a shit on him when he can't defend him, though. My personal favorite headline to come out of CPAC keeping this role. And as a quiz is from Raw story, Donald Trump Jr. is the CPAC warm-up act for a speaker from a cult that believes its leader is a reincarnated alien, which is a real thing that happened. Yeah. Saw a comment that said jelly roll is vindicated. Yes, sir.

So this cult is run by a man who claims of the incarnation of multiple gods while pretending to channel the second. spirits of anyone from Kwezel Kotel, I don't know to pronounce that, to Bashar al-Assad, to Natalie Portman. So this is a fuck everyone's a hell of a gamut.

The guy who was speaking, his name is Jay Hiroki Aiba. I'm probably fucking that up. Yes. This is a Japanese guy who has spoken at multiple CPAC conventions and spoke this year.

12. Yeah, 12 straight C-PACs. A Japanese guy who, as Mark said, I don't know, I don't know if y'all caught that or not, but uh he leads a cult that believes that he is a reincarnated alien from venus uh so a venusian god named el canter who created life on earth he also is a reincarnation of the buddha just so y'all know um he has the power to channel the spirits of any person

living or dead because he had a great awakening in the year 1981 and then founded the happy science religion uh in japan and that's what he's doing here talking to these people why does that make sense i barely understand it it's because he doesn't like china i think is all of that but this man literally convenes with the spirits of the dead but also is has the power to i'm not i'm not making any this is all actual real shit that this dude says he also can channel Donald Trump's spirit on on command and has done so multiple times this was like a headliner at CPAC this guy well this is uh the guy that spoke at CPAC runs the military political faction this call the guy in the video is the cult leader but yeah okay well thank yes so anyway it's worth

how that would happen yeah Watch this. This is him channeling, this is him in Japan channeling Donald Trump's spirit. If we don't have sound, I'm going to be depressed. We still can't hear it, Matt. Yeah. So I, there's no way for me to experience you, y'all. There we go.

There we go. Other practitioners in the U.S. are always afraid of, in the criticism. Press. But why you can be so. My criticism is New York Cheesecake For me

Every good You I'm sorry That's like I feel racist For laughing at that But for everybody that's just listening You heard that

That was his Donald Trump He was channeling Donald Trump spirit there Which you know I got to say Sounds just like him But

Yeah I don't if you I'll forget played it But what the guy was saying was the fake reporter and doing this sketch with him while he was channeling the spirit of Donald Trump. I guess it's not a sketch because he's not trying to be funny. He really is trying to channel the spirit of Donald Trump. But they asked him why he could handle the press while somebody other, so many politicians are tough enough.

And he says, it's just like New York cheesecake. My metabolism can handle it while it makes other people fat. So, yeah. And he says that. in the character, when he says that he's in character as Donald Trump's spirit, right? Which I can understand how you'd be confused by this because it's like, okay, he's channeling the ghost of Donald Trump, but Donald Trump is alive. You know how it goes. But, but yeah, he says that in character as Donald Trump's spirit, right?

I can't get fat from cheesecake. Yeah. Because we all know Donald Trump not known for being fat or, you know, not being in shape. what is I could kind of forgive an organization for booking a dude like this

I guess once but this was year number 12 right 12 times they bring this guy back to say the same shit and I mean I guess I get from their perspective he's there

to shit on China and show that other countries support their ideology or whatever but he literally claims to be a Venusian god reincarnated who channels the spirits of others both living and dead this man beguiles the disincarnate Mark I made most of those words up

but what is happening here what is this? It's a very natural fit for how stupid things of God and like one what this political party believes they want like one Japanese to be able to build up its own military to fight off China and Korea. They think that the schools, they think that like the stuff, the

atrocities that Japan has been accused of historically, like the South Korean comfort women and all that shit. Like all the, all the rape and impillaging they did during World War II, they think that's fake news. And they don't want it taught in history books. You can see how they can be natural allies with like Trump, who hates the, hates the 1619 commission

and like British Tories. You don't have to be reminded. They stole everything that's in their fucking museums, right? So it makes sense that like literally this dude what this dude's really good friends with steve bannett it's a natural partnership plus they he pays to speak at CPAC so it's like a money grift so it all it all fits together really really great so these these these are international coalitions of like like like this guy supported brexit which why would a japanese do give a shit about Brexit except of course rightway nationalists they're international okay so uh our journalist page

has chimed back in she's done some more digging she's done some more investigating and and gotten to the bottom of the previous clip here. She says, uh, don't do jelly that way. That guy's name is forgiato blow. And I'm probably mispronouncing it. But yes,

you do not sully the good name of jelly roll in front of my little sister. Let it be known everyone. But yes, it's not jelly roll. And I, and I genuinely, I do apologize, Mr. Roll.

I apologize for that. This is a completely different guy. To put a button, I glad we cleared that up. To put a button on the Happy Science Cult, before we move on to Trump's keynote speech, I really don't care if we slander mega rappers or jelly roll or whoever. I just can't give a shit. The group sold, so the Happy Science Cult had a worship center in New York, and they were selling spiritual vaccines that claimed to cure and prevent COVID.

They were selling those for $100 or $400. and they refused to abide by social distancing rules so they had to close their center but then they did sell them social distancing you could get on Zoom they would take 400 bucks for you to cure COVID over Zoom so this is a really up and up fucking organization but now

let's talk about the big boy baby yes of course the headliner obviously the headliner CPAC was none other than Donald Trump who you know kept saying the same shit he's been saying for a while which is kind of his thing but he doubled down on the indignation

at having the election stolen from him and also very heavily implied that he might be back. And this was a huge hit, Mark. Leave us into this, please. Yeah. So he just did the big lie again. But who knows?

Here we go. Who knows? I may even decide to beat them for a third time. Okay? look at everybody I don't want to I don't want to just like

discount Trump or just shrug him off because of you know as we've said before I'm superstitious apparently I don't identify superstitious but apparently I am I don't want to jinx nothing Mark which I guess that's clearly a superstitious thing

but yeah I don't want to jinx nothing but how what he's 74 or 75 right and we're talking for like at what point he's 70 he's in his mid 70s he doesn't believe in cheese or he doesn't say doesn't believe in cheeseburgers he doesn't believe in exercise he believes heavily in cheeseburgers like at what point does the universe just take care of this like how scared should we be it's frightening listening to that to him listening to him say that because you know that he has the capacity to do so but i don't know man surely we're going to be okay right like yeah he can't mean he can't win mark he can't he can't win again he can cause a bunch of terrorist attacks when he loses so that's the really oh well there you go yes

that is the mark agy version of uh encouragement everybody making you feel yeah that's that's how mark makes you feel better it's like no he can't let don't worry about he can't win again i mean he could kill a whole bunch of innocent people in the process of losing but he cannot win again um but yeah the it's just there is no there is no point at which truth just becomes the truth to these people right do you know what i mean like every we've had months now months and months of multiple stories and multiple you know layers of facts coming out illustrating that the election of course was not stolen it wasn't fraudulent that's been proven at this point time and time again

but it doesn't matter he says it they cheer yeah they stole it there's literally nothing we can do right or ever will be able to do to combat that if you want to know like

why he'll probably can't win but he will be able to jump terrorist attacks is like this is like 15% of America if you want to queue up that trust clip Matt like these people these people went to Florida to say this, too. Yeah, listen to this lady.

I'm getting a sound man. Yeah. This lady, she's outside CPAC. What she was saying was, he was like, asked her to, if she understands, the election wasn't stolen, and she says she doesn't trust anybody but Trump. She only lets trust Trump and Trump followers, and she won't listen to anybody else. And the guy names off. He's like, you don't, you don't trust the courts.

You don't trust, you know, officials, administer anything, you know, and every time no no no and he says well who do you trust i trust don't trump and his supporters and that's it yeah and yeah that what do you do but there's nothing you can do about that yeah uh so yeah i mean and like i don't know if we should bother trying to uh show more video clips because we're having yeah as you know as it's custom here at the skew having some uh technical difficulties which we apologize for uh but yeah anyway go ahead so So anyway, so they did the CPEC like straw poll and it's a pretty interesting results because like they pulled the audience and asked them, they asked them who they would

want to see vote for for president and 65% of them, it's like 68% of them said they wanted Trump to run again, but he only won 55% of the vote. So 13% at least 13% of people want him to run again but don't want to vote for him, which is really funny to me. They just don't want to hurt his feelings, I guess. Yeah, but is it, but okay, was that survey? Of CPAC people? Yeah, what's the... It's people there. Right.

It's a straw poll. Honestly, it's wild to me that it's only 60-something percent because of where they're pulling it from. Like, yeah, it's not good news for him. I'm honestly surprised by that. Yeah. Yeah, he did have a 97% approval rating for people that were there, but these are people that went to Florida for CPAC, you know. Right.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, that's what I expect. you say yes people people that made it a point to travel to Florida for CPAC 97% of them support Donald Trump you tell me that and I'm like yeah that sounds right that checks out but then you tell me that a survey of that same group of people 60 something percent of them support him running again or whatever I don't know I don't know if I'm trying to find silver linings or what but I'm almost encouraged by that because that that feels low to me I feel like yeah I would have expected them all to say, yes, please, can we have another? You know, the fact that it's only roughly two-thirds, I kind of feel good about that because that's the country right now. They presented, I mean, two-thirds said he should run again, but again, only 55% wanted to vote for him.

I think the next two, you think Rhonda Sanchez got 21% and then the rest of it was like 1% Don Jr., 1% Tucker Carlson, 1% Christy Noam. I think maybe she got 3%. she's the governor in South Dakota 1% 10% Ted Cruz flew there and kissed their asses and only got 1%. So that's fucking hilarious.

That's right. Yes, we should also mention we showed it in the montage up top Ted Cruz screaming the word freedom. But yes. So he basically had a little a brief layover in his home state between going to Cancun and going to Florida.

Ted Cruz's first words of his speech at CPAC were Orlando's great. It's no Cancun, but it's great. So, you know, he's leaning into it. People are dying in Texas. Things are not fixed still. And he's flying down there and making fun of the situation. So, you know, I mean, part for the course for him.

Gene Vale talking about Trump, I think, says he's making money every time he says this crap. That's always the goal. Yeah. So as we turn into the comments, Trey, did you keep up with the Dr. Seussgate stuff today? No, actually, no, I did not. So please explain it to me. So I tried to piece together what was happening.

On the floor of the House today, while they're debating HR1, which is the new voting rights act, Kevin McCarthy talked about how voting should be handled at the state level and also Democrats are trying to keep us, make it illegal to speak our minds. By the way, they just outlawed Dr. Seuss. And then apparently some email went out to everybody. Dipshit America today that Dr. Seuss is going to be the thing

we're going to talk about because I tried to piece together what happened. The company that owns Dr. Seuss' books decided they were going to stop publishing

six books. These books are and to think I sell it on Mulberry Street if I ran the zoo, McGelliot's Pool, owned Beyond Zebra, scrambled eggs,

super, and the cat's quizer. Now, do you know what those books have in commentary? I've never fucking heard of any of them. I've never heard of any of them

They're not the Dr. Seuss books that we all know and love Like Lorax and the places you will go And cat and a hat and one fish two fish All right And the reason their reasons were And to think of us all Mulberry Strait Like this is an example An Asian person is portrayed wearing a conical hat

Holding chopsticks and eating from a bowl Right And I read So they're not publishing that book anymore Right? Yeah So this is what we're talking about With Disney last week

There literally is no correct play here for these people because if instead of pulling them from public you know ceasing to publish them and put them out in the circulation if instead of doing that they kept publishing them but put some disclaimer at the front that's like listen this was written in 1952 or whatever that that they would be bitching about that on fox news today you know what i mean like they were all over disney for putting disclaimer on there, but there's nothing you can do that won't piss them off other than just be like, hey, you remember how hard it hit when we were racist? Check it out. You're going to love it. Like, just, what are you supposed to do if you're these people? They could have quietly

stopped publishing these books and no one would have known because I've never heard. Again, I've never heard of these books. So like, no one, I don't know anyone who's read them. They could have stopped publishing them because there's no money in it probably. And that's why they did it. The only reason they put it up, they put it at a press release because it's Dr. Seuss's birthday today. So it's part of his birthday celebration. They put in the press release we're going to stop publishing these books. So we thought it was offensive to his legacy. Now, we'll get around to whether Dr. Seuss was actually a racist in the second. But the, uh, can't wait for that.

Real quick, Aaron McCullough says, basically the GOP's claiming that Democrats are trying to cancel Dr. Seuss. This is super weird. So, uh, go ahead, Mark. Are we trying to cancel Dr. Seuss? Keep going. Yeah, because there's, but basically this company decided there wasn't, there wasn't worth the money to publish these shitty books no one was buying because if I ran the zoo includes a drawing of two barefooted African men wearing what appear to be grass skirts with their hair tied above their heads, right? So they still want to publish that book anymore for their own personal reasons. It doesn't matter why they don't want to do it. They're private company. Anyway, but when you filter that through the bad faith disinformation machine, what it comes out

is this actual push alert from Fox News that came to everybody's phones, quote, the White House just dodged a question about why President Biden canceled Dr. Seuss. Yeah. Uh, they didn't run it past Biden. It's not his fucking call. Right. Well, that's the thing. We're trying to cancel everything, Mark, here on the left. That's what we do.

We're canceling everything. So any beloved figure they can prop up and be like, guess who the left's coming for now? Mickey Mouse, you know? And it's like, yeah, sure. Walt Disney was an anti-Semite or whatever. Uh, we all know that. Which is probably why they don't want to. We just probably don't want to pay someone who makes anti-Semite or whatever.

anti-Semitic Twitter posts because they don't want people connecting it to their history, right? They're trying to move on from it. It's not profitable to them. So, anyway, in case you're wondering, yes, people have tried to cancel Dr. Seuss before, and it's for being a flame and liberal because he wrote an anti-war book for kids in 1984 called the Butter Battle book that a bunch of school districts tried to rip all Dr. Seuss's books out of school libraries because he made a book called the Butter Battle book about these two groups called the Yukes and the Zooks, who, uh, who butter their bread on opposite sides of the,

uh, put the butter on opposite sides of the bread and therefore decide they need to kill each other and they get in a big arms race. And you can imagine why this would be controversial in 1984, the height of the Reagan, uh, Reagan administration. So anyway, uh, they don't believe anything they said. As far as Dr. Seuss's actual life and works, he's a mixed bag with anybody else. He drew some free. Of course. Yeah, from that era. Like, of course that's how it's going to be. D.C. Trevitt says it's not cancel culture. It's the free market. Because like you said, it's all these books that they're pulling, there,

no one gave a shit about those books. So it's like you got to weigh the, you know, the potential PR hit of putting out these regrettable Dr. Seuss books versus the amount of money you're going to make from selling them. And it's an easy equation because all of the ones we named, no one gives a shit.

So why wouldn't you pull, it's not worth, it's not worth the trouble. that you put yourself through, you know, to keep them out there. And yes, that's very, very, very capitalist. If they, if it, if, if, if all the places you will go had some horrifically racist shit buried in it somewhere that had always been there, but only now do we care about it, I promise you, they would still keep printing it. Yes. Like, they, they would come up with a disclaimer or something, but they would absolutely keep printing it because, you know, it's a moneymaker.

So, yeah, capitalism at its fine. finest. You can get mind comp on Amazon because it makes money. Right. Yes. Yeah, exactly. And like for the record, I'm fine with that because like whatever, fuck burning book. It's like Disney and Song of the South or whatever. I know it's regrettable. You don't have to like celebrate it, but just, you know, fuck it, leave it out there, man. Like it is what it is. It was what it was. It's unfortunate. But, and that's why when Disney, again, we talked about this on a previous episode, but when Disney opted instead to put a disclaimer in the front,

it's like, look, the cartoon you're about to see is a product of the time it was made in. I'm into that. That's what I think they should do because it feels disingenuous to me to just, like, get rid of them and try to act like they never existed. To instead be like, listen,

we said some fucked up shit back in the day, but we don't believe that anymore, but we're not going to sit here lie to you and act like we didn't say it so this is what it is I don't know what else you're supposed to do and I'm saying I'm as liberal as they come and that's not that ain't

cancelling anything. In fact it's the opposite. You know what I mean? I'm arguing for the opposite like what that's fine. We all have racist grandparents Mark you know what I mean? Pretty much all of us. We know shit back in the day was rough.

It was rough out here in these streets. Jasmine Parker says maybe they're so pissed about Dr. Seuss getting canceled because they're the most advanced books they can read. Boom. Boom. Nailed up. Don't come on, Jasmine. That's right. Now I like it.

I mean, as far as who Dr. Seuss actually was in actual politics, he was extremely anti-fascist during World War II. Yes. He drew a bunch of political cartoons basically calling the Charles Lindberg, Republican right, Nazi water carriers, which they were. He had like this famous political cartoon that showed like America first with fascist

like as kangaroos with a fascist riding a pouch and inside its pouch were Nazis inside that pouch were like concentration camps and shit. And, uh, but also that came through with some pretty horrifically racist Japanese cartoons and he really did support in tournament of Japanese Americans.

So that's not great. But again, like this stuff, fucking history's messy. He also was like pretty mean to his wife. And one of the things that really, really hit for me about Dr. Seuss was he fucking hated kids. He just like writing books for him. So that's, That's amazing.

People always asked him why he never had kids. It's like, having kids, that's a y'all thing. I don't want to be around them. Yeah, it's like, I just don't like, again, we all know the deal, what the deal was back in the back then. You know what I mean? People were right. The only people who were allowed to do anything in the world were white people.

And white people back then were racist. Like, we all know. no point in trying to act like that isn't what happened or trying to cover it up or whatnot. But I think it is appropriate to address it and be like yeah, that wasn't

cool and we're not going to do that anymore. And to me, that's all you need to do. Larissa Berg says the GOP forgets they canceled the Dixie Chicks and derailed female progress in country music for the last two decades. You goddamn right

Larissa. That's 100% true. Yes, all this cancel culture bullshit they're talking about now ask the Dixie Chicks about it and how that went down when they talk shit about George W. Bush as country music icons in the early 2000s.

Completely derailed their career. And you're right. I remember the only time I listened to country music was because of my mama when I was a kid and I grew up in the 90s. But female country artists were very, very prevalent in

90s. They were all over the place. They had a huge presence. And now how many are there? I mean, I don't listen to country radio and I have no desire to. But I literally, I actually couldn't name you a single one. I know Casey Musgrave, she crossed over, but

I don't know any other ones. And what is the explanation for that? You know, they cancel people every goddamn day, but we're the problem somehow. I don't know. I really like what Larissa is saying, even though I've sat here and

butchered it with this rambling diatribe in response to it. But yes, you are right, Larissa. You're 100% right. Yeah. I don't, I mean,

I remember the Dixiex thing happened. I don't follow pop country radio enough to, I mean, she could say, what's the name of the girl that Tony Romo dated that sings the Sunday night NFL song? Carrie Underwood.

Yeah. But the thing about that is like Carrie Underwood, man, this point carry underwood dates back over 10 years you know yeah like carry underwood's been around for a long time so in terms of present day country radio or whatever you know you'll sooner find a sentient confectionery marshmallow on the country charts and you will be a lady friends of the daily dumbass segment lady antebellum about them ah yes yes absolutely yeah no i don't know and now you know and it's like uh the thing with morgan wallin recently

or white however you say his name y'all know that guy the guy that screamed the end word and got caught doing it and his uh album sales went up 400% overnight and it's like uh i don't know it's like it's like popular countries become this like uh i don't know like it's where you plant your flag culturally if you're on that side of things you know and i don't want to speak for everybody but i for one am completely okay y'all can have that shit as far as i'm concerned you can have all that like yeah all like you know as long as we still can keep fucking the jason isibles and stargill simps and uh tyler childers and sarah shooks and all them of the world uh then y'all can have all that shit and that's fine with me i really don't give a fuck

But, yeah, you know, most country artists who hit, if you have good taste, are liberal as shit. So, um, yeah, I mean, like, I mean, how this filters into the marketplace is like, like, like, so wall and sales went up 400%. I don't think people were like, he said the N word, so I got to support him. I think it's more that he just reminded people that his album came out. But I don't know, man. I don't know. I think, I think it was like the, the, uh, the chick filth. a thing back whenever that was

2012 or whenever that happened it was like when people were lining up around the block to support Jesus by eating a chicken sandwich or whatever I think I mean I do think that's what happened like he said to M word people got mad and they were

like you ain't allowed to get mad at us for saying the M word and I'll prove it by buying this shitty country album you don't think that's what happened you think people just you think people just didn't they liked Morgan Wallen but they forgot they hadn't occurred to them that he had an album out

and then they heard somewhere in the distance they heard the M word being carried over the wind and they heard it like oh shit Morgan Wylan his album's out I need to check that out I think no publicity is bad publicity and he was in the news way more than he would have been otherwise so it made people remind people I liked his last album much go get this one

I mean that's objectively true but that's still funny though Mark to hear like imagine being a person you hear a story you're like a story pops up it's like no to country music country music artist caught on camera saying the M word seeing that mean like oh yeah I love that guy I forgot about him that guy is great I don't want my take to be taking the defense or being charitable to people who did that because objectively of you should be like oh well maybe I shouldn't support this guy as opposed to I'm reminded to support this guy based on the news story I'm not going to pay attention to but like yeah but how this filters into the marketplace compared it to like what Jason Aldeen, 57 people got murdered in one of his concerts. And he said,

yeah, maybe we should do something about guns guys. And his fucking, his career went to the floor for a little while. Yeah. Eric Church had that Rolling Stone interview where he said a bunch of liberal shit

and they all got mad. But I mean, I think Eric Church is still okay. I don't know. If he was a band of women artist, probably not. Because that's what happened to the Dixie Chicks. But yeah.

I mean, look, we've all this stuff more close than anybody, but I think for like 80% of people don't pay attention to any of this shit, and they just listen to what they want to listen to as long as the artist doesn't fucking annoy them with their shit, you know? Yeah.

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