Weekly Skews - S6 Ep10: Weekly Skews – Inbred Watergate

Episode Date: February 18, 2026

Portugal has MAGA now, down to even A.I.-generated xenophobic rap videos, and we’re sorry. Then we discuss the nationwide widespread pushback against new ICE detention facilities due to an alliance of wokes and the most undefeatable of American political forces, NIMBYs. After that we bring on Corey Ryan Forrester to walk us through a hilarious mayoral scandal that’s rocked his small town.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. BetterHelp makes it easy to get matched online with a qualified therapist. Sign up and get 10%  https://www.betterhelp.com/skews This episode is sponsored by ZBiotics. Go to https://zbiotics.com/SKEW now. You'll get 15% off your first order when you use SKEW at checkout

What's up, everybody. Welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It's February 17th, 20206. We're recording this on Monday, February 16th at about 1.30 p.m. on the rainy, dreary left coast, at least this part of it, the Southern California part of it. Mud slides and flash floods galore. It's always something in California.

That's not true. It's normally sunny and 74 for 90% of the time. But every now and then, we've got to deal with a little bit of stuff and we get pissy about it. Hey, Mark, how you doing? I'm doing all right. Man, except for it, I just got brutally, frame-mogged by two mid-tier moids, so that's not going great. What?

You have fun, it's an internet and influencer called clavicular, who's in the Manosphere, who's, like, inspired this whole new lingo. You've been given you missed all of this? Yeah. Moids? He sees a guy that hangs out of entertain. Moids are, like, a male humanoid. So he basically calls somebody a non-player character. They use foids for feminites.

And it's in-cell fucking lingo. I don't want, we don't have to get into it. It's just like, when you see clavicular pop up on your timeline, just know he has a siop being run fucking. somebody to make everyone fucking dumber. Okay. All right. But you got frame mapped?

Is that what you said? Frame mo. Okay, so MOG is short for AMOG, which stands for alpha male of the group. So you establish yourself as an alpha by doing something. Framemog means just like being, having a better body than somebody.

So I'm basically showing somebody up by having a better body than that. I'm framing. Okay. Okay. All right. We're caught up. So,

we have fun showing. we're going to talk about some resistance to ice facilities. I know Matt talked to an organizer about the same thing on a good skews of the day. We independently had the same idea for episodes. So we're coming out from different angles, though. But then we're going to bring on Corey to talk about a mayoral scandal in his hometown that is fucking hilarious. Before we get to that, though, I want to talk about another country we owe an apology to. We talked about recently about how we've sent MAGA people all over.

We franchised all over the globe. Yeah. New country we own apology to is Portugal, who had resisted. it, but now Portugal has fallen to whatever this fucking... Well, yeah, but I got some... Mapa. I guess it would be Mapa or no, wait, no. That'd be Make America, Portugal again. You can't, yeah, it'd be MPGA.

You can't, yeah, that doesn't flow as well. Mbigha. Mbigha. So, Portugal has first president to runoff election in 40 years last weekend. It was, because there were 14 candidates to split the vote a lot. The leading vote getter was a socialist party candidate by the name Antonio Jose, And he went first place in the runoff, got 31%, then got 67% in the runoff.

But I want to talk to the guy who lost, who ended up getting, they ended up getting 33% of the votes. The guy named Andre Ventura, who represents a fairly new political party called Chega, which is Portugal's popularist right nationalist party. All right. When I say they're Maggi, they're fully into it, even down to making AI rap videos starring the candidate if you got this video of a map. Okay.

You're saying this is not Bangladesh. Yeah, this is not Bangladesh. So you can tell me. Keep Portugal for Portuguese, I'm assuming. Yeah. Keep the dirty bang. The Bangladeshis are Mexicans, I guess. Or, you know, Guatemalans.

I don't know if they're, they're really, really their beef is with like people from Africa who are from. there from former Portuguese colonies. But I don't know I do where Bangladesh got to the fucking thing. It's just like I think he blurted out and began a slogan. Maybe they have Bengali-ish. He's in Portugal. I don't think. Yeah, one of the worst things about what we've done here as a country

and export is like illustrating to so many other people around the world that like all those years of like recent or modern politics which involved like at least the semblance of, you know, like decorum or class or whatever. Pretend it was like illustrating to people that like people that like people. a large enough group of people never gave a fuck about any of that

and would generally prefer that you act like a pro wrestler, you know, with a rapper gimmick or whatever and, you know, make AI videos of yourself and just be as stupid as fucking possible and there's enough of a, you know, voting block that likes that kind of thing that you can succeed with that, which is a real shame. They didn't used to know that for a long time and Donald Trump, you know, blew that open for everybody. The entirety of my life, if a college professor got up in front of a sociology class and said that the fake civility of American Empire and the lies about spreading free markets are just out of greed and rape and empire, you would have been called like an America hating asshole.

And then now everybody just gets up on the microphone and goes, this is about greed, rape, and power. And everybody goes, ooh! Right. So Ventura, Andre Ventura specifically. So to get the veteran vibe with this guy, how dumb everything has gotten, like during the COVID pandemic. He proposed serious restrictions on freedom of movement to control the spread of the disease. We're like, wait, that sounds like lefty, except he wanted to promote restrictions specifically on just the Romani communities in Portugal, who he blamed basically solely for spreading the disease. So it was the gypsies, Trey.

Right, yeah. It's always the gypsies over there. Yeah. Yeah, the whole thing. I've talked about this before, I know, because it's just like been a pet thing of mine ever since I realized it. But one of the things I find that's super funny to me that you see play out on the internet. periodically. It's like, and when I say the internet, of course, I mean Reddit, but not just Reddit,

Twitter or wherever else. It's like Europeans on there talking about like how horribly racist, you know, America is, but then like gypsies come up and they do this whole thing where they're like, well, no, you don't understand. That's not the same thing. Okay. That's not like American racism. You don't understand.

See, gypsies are like bad, right? It's like, it's not like you guys with black people who are cool. Gypsies are like, they don't work, they rob you. And then you have all these Americans being like, you are literally doing what American racist do for black people. Yeah, but it's about gypsies, and it's not like that. You know, so anyway, it's the whole thing over there. I do.

I believe gypsy is the unwoke racist term for them. And we're using it. I don't know. I don't know how to do it. Well, we don't have, again, I don't know. I feel like it can't come from any kind of place of malice or anything. from an American, I really think that because we don't, that's not, they're not a thing here.

So like, it's, you know, I don't think, it's not a problem. I would have thought we'd all gotten over it after the great piece of pro-Romania propaganda known as Peaky Blinders. But they, you know, they were robbing you, but they did it organize, like, you know. Are they Romani in that show, by the way? Because there's two types of gypsies. There's the travelers, right, who are in, like, the UK, and then there's the Romani in Europe. And they're both called gypsies separately. the heavyweight champion Tyson Fury or whatever.

He's like the Picky Blinder type. Maybe they are the same, though. I don't know. I'm gypsy dumb. But I know that neither one of them. And also Snatch, Brad Pitt and Snatch, that's the former type as well. But anyway, that's as much I know about gypsies. Ventura is his day job as being a soccer commentator.

But he also published two novellas, one called Montenegro, and another one called The Last Dawn of Islam. You want to guess where this is going, Trey. both has significant elements of female submission and homoeroticism. In Montenegro, the Arabic word for uprousing, which is, you know, intifada, is used four times, three times the metaphor for strength and courage, which is how it's intended, and once when describing the act of an act of sexual penetration. And the other one is a novel about the death of Yasser Arafat, and it was suspended by his publishers for its incendiary potential for its gratuitous reference to the Prophet Muhammad. they're calling the most want to be murdered motherfucker alive

so this is like okay so back in 2020 an actor a local actor like some movie actor I think he was doing theater again named Bruno Kande who was a black guy was an immigrant from Africa he was murdered and premeditated

racist homicide by a papaw neighbor and Ventura organized a counter protest because there were people having anti-racist demonstrations around the country because of this horrific racist racist murder and he organized a counter demonstration where they chanted Portugal is not racist

all right the murderer was a former soldier in the colonial war against African independence in a former Portuguese colony of Angola and like and so he goes to his counterpartos and to chant we are not right

Portuguese is not racist as white people what is it in her DNA when anything happens anywhere and we have to pop up and go not all fucking white people yeah but well it's funny what's also funny about that is that oftentimes

the white people who feel it necessary to say, hey, not all white people, they are the white people who do the things. You know what I mean? Like racist, white people are the ones who feel the need to be like, hey, don't just act like we're racist just because we're white.

Like, you know, I'm white, you're white. I don't think I've ever had that response to when someone says this country's racist or white people, I'm like, yeah, no, I hear you. We've been really lighting it up for a long time. on the racism charge, for sure, for sure. But, you know, but actual racists get all defensive about it. So, you know, how that works.

It's like, I don't think of like the interpersonal equivalent of it. It's like, like, if I heard like across town, somebody's like, hey, America's racist, I got in my car, I drew it all the way over there. I knocked on the door in the open and go like, not me. Yeah. I mean, I guess in a way, that's kind of my whole career when I think about it. Fair enough. So anyway I do think like something about this modern edition of America

Like where is this like this Political ethos or it's not even really political It's just it's a psychological disorder Like it like spreads internationally It feels like something about like we've unleashed in people It's like everyone wants to be their own little feudal lord tyrant And we've just like yep you can do that We allow it look at it they can be

Whether you want a car dealership or become president of Portugal Fucking just be a tyrant You know just how it goes Yeah. All right. Well, as Mark said, we've got a fun show coming up for you later. Shifting gears a little bit. It is politics, but it's local politics and like the truly, like the dumbest iteration of local politics.

I think you can find considering the source, i.e. Corey's hometown. I'm looking forward to it. But first, we start with the Daily Dumbass. Mac, graphic, please. This week's DD, this lady, for putting the wrong date in her Google calendar to start the revolution. They're called 911, got first responders. There's the video right now.

Apparently, spring some sort of an accelerant and then setting it on fire. And again, she drove away, but obviously here we left video. All right. So this isn't in Kansas City. This woman set fire to what was supposed to be potentially an ice warehouse. And now if pretending she's trying to stop the warehouse, like a detention facility, she's too late to have already succeeded because the city, like the sale was pulled. after she fucking

before she set this did this like active revolution slash stochastic terror attack with a can of lighter fluid I was just talk about this specific lady for a second

she this video was eight and a half minutes long to tell you how dumb this is I watched their whole raw video and the reason she's on a video for eight and a half minutes is because TV news cameras were already set up

to report on the fact the deal to sell the warehouse had fallen through the reason she's con is just already pre-successful. Do you understand how stupid this is? Yeah. Well, it's also, it's just, I don't know.

That's a wild time. To me, that feels like a wild amount of time to be committing arson in broad daylight. Like, whether you are aware you're on video or not, and you would think in 20206, you always have to assume that you are. So, yeah, it seems like she didn't give much of a fuck. It would appear to me. Yeah. And this is basically just like, the reason the sale was pulled, the property owner was named Platform

Bitters. said it was no longer moving forth and he sailed to the site to the U.S. government. Basically because of so many complaints to City Hall, they didn't want to be local pariahs. I don't want to say

that cops have still not found this queen. She drove away. This was on Thursday. And no one's bothered to find her. I don't know. Guess I was wrong. You know, seems like it worked out,

I guess, or at least that part of it so far. Yeah, and like, watch you with this shit, dude, they'll put you in fucking super max prison for this type of thing.

Do you know what I mean? Yeah, don't do this. No. It's like, no. Like literally, like 23-hour lockdown. You'll be in there with El Chapo or the lady El Chapo or whatever and shit for this type of time. I don't know.

Like the amount of terrorism enhances they could hit you for for this for the federal charge. Like you get 10 years in prison for not doing anything, mildly setting fire to the window of a warehouse that like, like, oh man, get involved. But like we're presuming that she was trying to stop. I do want to say here there are other possibilities here. She could be mad that the sale didn't go through. She could have been a one to burn it down.

the owners didn't sell it. That's a possibility. And also, this is the real dark thing here. Like, she might have thought there were already migrants in there. I know that. Yeah, that crossed my mind. There have been, like, for attempted arsons on hotels where migrants are housed in a UK, for example. So, but I do want to talk about the trouble the government's been having building these and why everybody seems to fucking hate them all over the country.

For context, ISIS is planning to spend $38.3 billion on buying new warehouses to build detention centers across the U.S. and the Washington Post report in December that the combined facilities under consideration from ICE would be able to hold roughly 80,000 new detainees at any given time. They currently have the ability to hold about 100,000.

So you're talking about 180,000 people if they deploy all these to be able to, you know, housing people in American concentration camps, essentially. And I know the word concentration camp is loaded because we also specifically of it as death camps with the Holocaust.

I'm not saying that the years are going to instantly become death camps or anything like that, but people are dying in these things. People are being sexually assault in these things. would have their medicine take away to they die on these things. This just fucking piss me off.

Let me read this from you. This headline, despite increased profits, private prison companies want to cage even more people. So, you know, that's getting political pressure. But that, I don't get that. Despite increased profits, they want, I mean, they should be like, yeah, isn't that because of increased profits or whatever? You know what I mean? Like, you know, businesses abomin and their business is caging people. so of course you're going to want to cage more people.

That's how they got the money in the first place. Right. Everybody wants to make more money. I know what you're saying. But the fact is these guys are getting everything they want, but the administration's incompetence as far as, like, they haven't been able to come through with detaining as many people as they promised they would. And these greedy-ass motherfuckers are complaining

and putting more pressure on administration to cage more people so they can put in a pool at their third house. Yeah. No, I'm not defending it. I'm saying, I just, it's like, I'm saying, it's like, yeah, no shit. That's, they're evil. That's what, you know, that's, yeah, that's what they do.

I mean, quote here, quote, from a gal on this earnings call, quote, one of the big questions has been the pace of detention by ICE that it's been below what investors thought it was going to be, one caller said. I think people thought we'd be at, be at that $100,000 level. We're a little over $70,000. Yeah, I don't, I hate the fact that we live in a society. that like financially incentivizes his shit so we have to like live in the communities with these people like you can construct a society where you would never know that someone this fucking evil was your neighbor yeah because it wouldn't be allowed the opportunity to be in a business like this yeah they got like zoom calls with earning reports and line graphs and charts and stuff they're all about you know the number of uh fathers and sons and husbands and wives and shit that are being yeah detained some illegally by ice but it's just numbers on a screen related to some position they had because some metrics said that it would be, you know, profitable over the near term or whatever the fuck.

And it's just also, uh, like, uh, soulless and cynical and unfortunate, uh, inhuman. But, you know, yeah, so make that money, baby. Yeah, so save some sympathy in your heart for these guys who were, uh, upset that their long position on children's tears hasn't paid off to quite the degree they had hoped. Um, the fun part here is what's actually staying in their way as, as, uh, ICE continues to try to expand the state-held warehouses is what they're running into, and this is going to be deeply funny to anybody who lives in a city that can't get housing or transit built. Nimbism.

Not surprised by that either. Yeah. The DHS has to be quoted here from this MS Now story. DHS has to spend millions of dollars on facilities in Arizona and Maryland. The Associated Press compiled a list of states where federal officials have been touring locations, including Florida, Indiana, and Mississippi, where several sites have already been purchased. So basically the same reason we can't get high-speed rail, affordable housing, homeless shelters, you also can't have home of concentration camps.

So at least we're all fucked by the same goddamn thing. I know. That's exactly what I thought you said that. I was like, for once, it goes the other way. You know, it's fine. You know, that's like that, that meme about, you know, the worst person you know made a really good point or whatever is how I feel about nimbism, stopping the spread of ICE detention centers. Because, yeah, it's almost always something that would be a net good for most people.

and then, you know, like, rich suburbanites and said, like, absolutely not. So it's nice to go the other way for once. There was a public park here in Los Angeles where a local city councilman tried to get like, the park was already there by the you. He tried to get a playground put into this park. And there's been local resistance for good people because they thought if you put into playground, then it would bring traffic to their neighborhood, which it probably would. People would be four or five cars are coming to time and park on the street.

So they really, they're so annoyed at four more parking spots being taken that they pushed out the sound of children's laughter. That's where we live. So, continuing, for example, plan to convert a former pep boys distribution singer, God, we live in a bleak timeline. And Chester, New York, into a deportation center is met with bipartisan outcry.

The tiny town in Orange County usually votes Republican, but the New York Times reported that, quote, Republican and Democrat elected officials and a residence across the Hudson Valley region lamb-baseded the plan, expressing fears of the immigration operation would overwhelm scarce local resources and unleash a torrent of fraught

encounters with federal agents. so? Yeah. I mean, like if you... I'd say you're probably right about that. Even if you're pro deportation, mass deportations, you have to be aware

at this point if you put a fucking ICE detention facility in your town that a bunch of people are going to show up and protest there and you're going to deal with tear gas and noise all hours of the night. Yeah, I know. That's what I'm saying.

Like you think about it and it's like even people, anyone on both sides, no one wants it like in their neighborhood or across the street from them. Like I said, regardless of which, side they're on because they just don't want to put up with the fucking circus it would involve. But, you know, none of that even needs to be happening if they just weren't doing the shit they're doing in the first place.

So it's still they fault. But I'm saying, whichever side you hate, you don't want to deal with it near you, I feel like. So where are they going to put it? Yeah. Like, so, like, another example. Like, this happened. Republican Mayor David Holt of Oklahoma City issued a statement last month to, quote, commend the owners for their decision not to engage with DHS talks after a city, rejected to a property sale.

Republican mayor of Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City, don't want this shit. So over to Maryland. Howard County officials passed emergency legislation, revoked permits to block a 29,000 square foot, private ICE detention center from opening in Elkridge. In Mississippi, U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, Republican Mississippi, sent a letter to Christy Knollum.

He expressed opposition to proposed DHS plan to purchase a warehouse in Bihalia. Bahlia? Are you saying that? I don't know. Never heard of that. By hell yeah. By hell yeah. That's probably how they say it.

That's probably how they're saying. The warehouse design is an industrial site to it. This is I'm quoting here from Wickers' letter. The warehouse is designed as an industrial site to attract economic investment in Mississippi. Converting this site to an ICE detention facility would strain the existing local infrastructure and foreclose and economic opportunities better suited for this site. You're fucking with the tax base. How will the mayor afford handouts local car dealerships?

Going to Pennsylvania, John Federer put out a letter. opposing an ice facility. But basically an attitude, I'm cool with concentration chaos, but not when they overload the sewer system. We've got to be reasonable here, you know? Yeah. Here's the real baller-ass one. In Surprise Arizona, officials, like, they had

like a super long-ass fucking city council meeting where they were subjected to a barrage of complaints from local officials, from local citizens. And then, basically, DHS bought a 418,000 square foot warehouse and didn't tell the city. this is how ICE is trying to get around this is they're trying to buy these up in secret before we will get complain

even Paul Gosar remember Gosar he's the maga dentist whose family hates him in Congress yes yes how can I forget a guy stood up in front of the mayor at city council meeting and read a newspaper story from 1940s about a German mayor who after he learned the full truth about a local camp when it was freed went home and put a gun in his mouth

the guy told the mayor to consider what the mayor of Erdof must have thought before he died by suicide quote he might have thought how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this maybe said this site was not subject to local zoning and I would like can you, Trey

put yourself in the mind of a guy who's reading a letter about the Holocaust these people can't like Jesus people are fired up dude you can't win in this environment so I want to say that the woman in charge of all this is surely focused on this right so I want to read this story about Christy Noam for the Wall Street Journal a couple of brief excerpts

two days after they killed outspready Corey Lewandowski texted the White House that they needed to help Chrissy Noem out by buying an ad and they fucking ghosted him Within DHS Kristi Noem and Corey Lundowski Corey Lundowski's a well-known affair partner

Yeah that's what I was about to say I knew he was somebody's affair partner And it is her They still work together and shit Like to this day Yeah he's not official government employee But essentially functions that are chief of staff

at the fucking illegally created position that doesn't pay. Is she still married to some other dude? Yeah. They're both married to other people. Okay. Within DHS, Chrissy Noem and Corey Lewandowski

frequently berate low senior level staff, give polygraph tests to employees they don't trust and have fired employees. In one incident, they fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot. They fly around Coast Guard planes historically. After Noam's blanket was left behind on a plane, they moved from one private jet to another one.

The pilot left her blanket on the first plane, so they fired him. But they had to switch pilots. they were switching planes because of a maintenance issue. The Coast Guard pilot was initially fired and told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination. But they eventually reinstated him because no one else was available to fly them home. So they fired him. They never had to give his job back because neither one of them doing to fly their own fucking plate.

I think I would have told them to fuck off and just took that Southwest flight home myself and started crop dusting or something. Yeah. But I don't know. It's easy for me to say. Might be a pretty sweet gig flying bitches around all the time. that was their last plane but they bought a brand new jet for $70 million

that there's a private room for them to fuck on and official documents the luxury plane is here marked for quote high profile deportation so they bought a plane to deport I don't know

bad bunny but until they find a place to send him they're just fraddly on fucking so but the other one the other reason you wouldn't should want one of these facilities in your goddamn city

is like she is taking over authority to like process every payment that DHS makes over $100,000 like for example Florida officials have struggled to secure money for months for their work building alligator alcatraz and they haven't been paid for it. It sounds like another reason to not join the process of building the fucking camps. Yeah, I thought that they got juiced with all kinds of money like as part of the state money.

State money. Yeah. Like ice and all that. They got like, um, they gave it to DHS, but DHS doesn't pay the contractors. Right. Just because of incompetency or corruption. they're using it on foot planes or something instead. But yeah, nobody knows.

Well, if we find that at all, it'll be in the next presidential administration. Right. So, but here's the funny one, the real parts lined all this. One of the contracts for bulk steel sat on Noam's desk for approval for so long that from the time the deal was struck in December until it was signed February 10th, the price of steel would have more than $100 million. This was for steel to build the wall, Trey. Trump tariffed the wall.

Nowhere is safe. All right. Okay. All right. Take a good. Yeah, we'll take a quick break right. And then after this, you know, him, you love him. He'll be here, the man himself, the show, right after this.

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North Georgia drama. But Mark, I don't, I, you, this started with you texting the group chat. Some of this stuff was happening. And Mark was like, you need to come on skews and break this down. So I don't know all the details, but I'm looking forward to it.

But Mark, I don't know if you want to sort of set it up a little bit or what. Yeah. Tell me about it, please. All right. We're going to take this in three parts. Okay. We're going to begin about talking about who

Mayor Trade Deck is or former Mayor Trade Deck is. Former Mayor Trade Deck was. Don't look now. It's the watermelon man. Okay. That's him. Corey's going to explain

why he's singing that song. Then we're going to talk about what he's, what trade deck? What are you call him deck here from here on out? Because there's two trays involved in the way. The tray we're talking to and then the tray's warrior trade deck. Then we're talking what he was removed for. And then thirdly we're talking about where there's other shenanigans involved,

which is the part where Corey is kind of on deck's side, even though he's a huge shithead because it's all very corrupt, right? Yeah, man. I mean, dude, that's the thing. thing in my town is that if I am to be involved in local politics at all and even make

a choice, every single person that I'd be voting for we don't share actual like macro opinions with each other. There's no libertarian or liberal candidate. So that's always been a little bit weird for me.

But also I need to remind you guys that I am going to talk about this and before I say anything, I should say that anything that comes out of my mouth is alleged and might be false or not be sued for. I was going to remind you to use the word of alleged lot lately. But I do want to say to the context here. I am. You're really sick of it.

Corey is a resident of Chickamauga, Georgia, which is a town in Northwest Georgia, which is in Marjorie Taylor Green's congressional district. It was her district. We're not even talking about any of that. right the closest city is the closest city like where you guys go to see a movie is like Chad, Nuga, Tennessee, right? Correct. Yeah, and I'll just say from my perspective,

me, Corey and Drew, especially, and this probably applies to you too, Mark, we're like, me and Drew, like, we met, we all found out we're all from like small southern towns or whatever and so, you know, became buddies and shit. But then over the years, me and Drew kept having this experience where, Corey, be like, man, you know how in y'all's hometown? Insert bat shit insanity or whatever,

like, even in like Salina and Sunbright where me and Drew from me and Drew were like bro what fucking that happened

in your hometown? Can I tell? Can I tell my favorite one? Yeah. Can I tell my favorite one? It's the time with when Corey's church the preacher made his son

stand in front of the church and apologizing for jerking off while watching you to show Reeve up. But it's just all like wild shit, dude. But yeah, it's 100% true. That's so normal here.

All right. All right, so we're talking about a city of 2,917 people as of the 2020 census. By a lot, by the way. Okay, since, because it's gone down since the 2010 census by like 100 people. Anyway, but the point is like, it's,

I want everybody to keep in mind the stakes here. They're this low. We're talking about the mayor, mayorality of a city of 2,900 people. And here's a video, this first film play here to set the vibe, is former mayor trade deck

screaming outside of a hearing that was held to decide whether or not he was going to be kicked out of office, which he was. Dude, he looks like, he looks like a little elf doll that just came to life and just immediately was like, ah, like, he looks insane right there. And again, maybe not to y'all, because y'all don't know this guy, but like, he's got big dabbo-sweeney energy. You know what I mean? That's what he brings to the table, just good, clean-cut, old South. dumb ass ways. You know what I mean?

We're talking an early part of the show about like the modern version of America. I mean, it might have always been this way, but someone's been in a leased like the regular average person where they think of it. Everybody thinks they get to be a fucking feudal lord tyrant. Right.

And it's like everything I've seen about this guy has this vibe. But I'll play this next video because the contrast when what's being talked about with this picture of deck is fucking hilarious. We got this video out.

And these witnesses recounted Mayor Deck making sexual himself at Tom's or coworker. Is he? Is he just holding stocks of corn when somebody being a pervert? Y'all won't come get this corn? No, well, here's the deal. And again, allegedly.

That looks like a billboard for like a show at the comedy barn and fucking Gatlinburg or something like that. Or honestly, he looks like corn cob carry this Friday. It also looks like it would be carved out of wood and have a hole where his face is so people could stand behind. Yeah. Yeah. You're taking it in the back of it. But no, the reason that's funny, the reason that corn is specifically funny, and I know you didn't intend to talk about this, but here I am. Because I've got to give you the shit you can't know.

You know what I mean? So he is the watermelon man, okay? I know I've saying that several times, but now I'm saying it just with words. He had, he would get watermelon, so everybody would go get their watermelons from him, right? Because you don't want none of that grocery store watermelon. No, we're down here in the country. We've got to have that homegrown now, and I got that homegrown. come on and get you some, you know.

And so for years, he was that, and then he ended up starting a restaurant called the melon patch to sort of piggyback off of that, which was very successful. I knew a lot of people that worked there. Then, in a promo move, oh, no, these commercials were super regional, but damn it, I wish I'd had to told Matt and I could get him to pull it up. There was these commercials for, like, a title cash-in loan place or something on Russell Boulevard, and their mascot was this big chicken that would come out and just go, hey! do you need your credit proved you need to get you a loan i got it i got it and there was a statue of this chicken

and that place closed down and tray bought the statue of the chicken and just put it in front of the melon patch it was very weird because that commercial was the most famous thing around here so nobody was thinking oh nice original chicken everybody that drives by is like is that the credit loan chicken and the meat and three parking lot what the fuck is happening so but the controversy is though people over the years allegedly saw this man on multiple occasions at out of town grocery

stores just stocking up on watermelons. So the hashtag Where's the Farm Trey got trending on Chickamauga socials? And yeah, now we think that he wasn't actually, I mean he, yeah, he did have watermelons, but they did not hit.

So it feels like it being easy enough case of investigative journalism to find out whether or not he has a watermelon patch or how big it is or how hard it hits or whatever. Nobody, until now, nobody ever wanted to look further into this man's life. You know what I mean? It was fine to just not get his fucking watermelon. You didn't have to call the BBB or anything.

That was okay. So would you say this guy's been a pillar of the community for, you know, years before? I mean, yeah, he has. Actually, big time. I just, that don't mean shit to me. When did he get elected mayor originally? bro. How long have you been mayor?

I can't remember. And what's hilarious is when I heard that he had not only ran for mayor, but one, I was like, I was like, wait a minute, Trey Deck. And I said, uh, I said, where's, where's like he beat Ray Crowder. And she goes, honey, Ray Crowder's dead. And I said, oh, is that how he gets to be the mayor? You know? And she goes, honey, Ray hasn't been our mayor in 11 years. He died 11.

I point that out to you to say it's never mattered. It's never mattered. The whole deal in the 90s is everybody, I go, wait, we have a mayor and everybody was like, yeah, he mows some people's grass. You know, he ain't got nothing else to do.

And he's a nice guy. And that really was it. We knew it was a powerless position. And then all of a sudden, they've done a reverse Buckingham Palace and just been like, no, you know what? We do hit? That's, so do you remember what?

What are the campaign issues because usually like you run for mayor you say you're on people who agree with you and I understand exactly what you're not deciding you're not deciding whether or not to like set state tax rates or invade Iraq or whatever it's like do you want to spend take your small city budget and spend it on a

third stoplight or put a couple of speed bumps in somewhere right? Yeah I mean and I think that's why cities like this get so dramatic about this stuff is because everyone here voted for the same president the same down the line all that they have the same most of them obviously I live here

too. So I think in this case, they're like, damn, everybody here believes the same thing we do, but we still want to stir shit up, so we have to get, we just have to get personal. They can't say, hey, you know, Trey Deck wants the, our girls basketball team has been bad at Gordon Lee for a while, which is not true. Trade Deck has proposed that we cut the dicks off of every boy at Gordon Lee and they go play for the women, right? And we can't have that.

No, none of that shit. It's just fucking watermelon shit and goddamn... So local watermelon king pan branches off into politics and assumes, you know, leadership position pretty quickly. What is happening? Deck was according to this news story, which I, like, the local coverage of this has been awful. I don't think because they know him personally, but I couldn't find... Like, this is a Fox story out of Atlanta to figure out what was actually said because the local stories alluded to it, but they would say what would fucking happen. I know what it is.

So, Dex is accused of sexual harassment using racist language. A female city staff member testified that the mayor repeatedly told her she looked hot or like a hoe. She detailed instances as recently December 3rd. She detailed an instance as recent as December 31st when she wore red pants to work. What a whore. She wore red pants. You can't do that anymore. Come on.

Damn. Or you think you're at a Methodist church? Fuck. The woman testified she told the mayor she felt uncomfortable to which he allegedly. responded that he could call her that because he was the mayor. Also leds the mayor said he should be referred to as master or king. I wonder who he voted for though. Did they tell that? Did they put that and where was he on January 6th? Is it in there? It's just like Mark was, I mean, I get now why you set that up earlier, Mark, but yeah, everybody wants to be their own, like, little tyrant or feudal lord now.

I'm like, that's, you know, that's the only reason for even wanting to be mayor for this watermelon feller is just so he can. Right. But he had to have whatever modicum of power he had obtained. He had to, you know, lord. He's elected to a ceremonial position over a town of 2,900 people where his job's mainly to do, like, ribbon cuttings at the pigly wiggly. And he thinks he gets to be called king gets to write a prima nocta. What the fuck is going on here? Right.

And where, by the way, I'm the one who's written a book out of it. know what I mean? Imagine, and I barely got that out. Imagine how, you know, I'm just saying, they're not sending their best, you know, here. I love them. I love my town. Don't kill me. There are other people back up this lady's statements. By the way, witnesses noted that the woman appeared very upset by their remarks. The mayor calling her a horror because she's wearing red pants. Imagine her being upset. Some witnesses have testified the deck was often flirty with women, and he described himself as powerful due to his position.

I got the key to the rusty water tire if you girls won't get up there with a bottle of state. He said, okay, don't just have testimony. They have a voicemail he left where he made a reference to a dog and used racial slurridge with a gather from context with the N-word. He goes, quote, shake hands if you're a dog, okay, you're not a dog. Deccas heard saying in one clip. What the fuck?

Okay, so you tell us what's going on this voicemail. He, his dog, there's an audio recording of his dog had started barking. And so he opened the door and he, when he opens the door, the dog goes out and he goes, hey, you want to go get you some, you want to go get you some. And he just kept saying, you want to go get you some in words, right? And everybody was like, and I swear to God, dude, when that came, so when that, that was leaked, that was leaked on Chickamauga Facebook, right? And this lady not trying to hit in all earnest goes. now hey before we judge him that might just be his pet name for the dog and sometimes you know like whatever it's like that makes it fine yeah right and everybody was like that's true carroll we didn't

think about that you are right trust in the lord he will provide and uh so you said i saved that comment it was it was a comment apparently on the live stream for the the of the hearing where they were kicking him out of office okay and there's a woman named uh kathy whose uh last name i won't yeah I don't. You can ask him as well, I won't say it. But it's even dumber than what you're saying

from memory because she says, well, so what? That was a trigger word for his dog to attack. That is a word he doesn't use rarely

if it is used for a dog trigger word to attack intruders. She is saying that it's proof that he only rarely says the N word by creating a false universe where it's an MK Ultra

word to activate his dogs to attack somebody who's in his yard for some reason. It doesn't happen and it wasn't even, he's let the dog. out. It's also, again, that just is what he was doing, except he was joking.

He's literally saying, I don't know if these were blood hounds or what, but he's like, he's got his hood and his torch ready, and he's like, you know, let's go get us some, you know, like back in Pappy's Day. Like, he literally was joking about sicking a dog on a black man, except he used the M word. And then she basically is just like, he's just, that's just how he synced six his dog on black. black man is all that is. I want to be fair to her morally and fair to her morally

but say what is she's alleging is even stupider. But let's be real here. He's not letting out bloodhounds. He's letting out some lab riddles. I know he's actually doing that, but that's what he's alluding to. Yeah. He's joking.

He's joking about sick. He's joking about sicking his schnauzers on imaginary black people who are not in his yard where he lets his dogs out. Right. And this lady is a false universe where instead what he's doing is actually sicking real life of attack dogs on white people by using the N-word.

Okay. Therefore, he's not racist. Right. Right. So she got there. That's like the first comment, too, isn't it? It didn't take her no time. She already...

What is this fucking town? Kathy was like, it's clear to me what's happened here. She wouldn't bury me inside the Gucci Stowe. This is a town, by the way. We talked about this being a cartoon town. When Corey runs to the corner store, the cashier makes a, I don't have no idea with the race to the cashier, but the cashier makes Chinese fake accent noises it Corey? Right.

And in case you forgot how they sound. And Corey does not know why. To Corey. She does that. Just me. I've seen her not do it to anyone. But then I get up there and she goes, oh, thank you. I've seen her not do it to anyone.

It's a funny thing. A lot. about almost all the time it's all the all I see you're doing is not that to anyone yeah anyway so back in the real world this stupid ass town earlier Monday this is last Monday I believe

deck and his attorneys released a public safety notice of a warning of a potential threat tied to the meeting and urging residents to consider whether attending in person was necessary so trade deck alleged that terrorist threats, the hearing where they were going to vote him out of office. He tried to say that he was going to be murdered

so he could not go so therefore they shouldn't hold the hearing. Accurate. I can't, but I just like the fact that he basically announced you can't fire me because of the terrorism, bro, is this the funniest fucking thing? It's a town of 2,900 people. My question of you, Corey,

is how many Hamas sales are active in Chickamauga, Georgia? Just Corey. He's the only one. No, 23 in me. Of course, to the census. are you mean. How, man, I've been waiting on an excuse to use that pun

and you gave it to me. Thank you, buddy. All right, so, Decc has followed a lawsuit based upon two claims. One is that his due process rights were violated because they sprung this on him and didn't have some, he wants to base the equivalent to a criminal trial with the right to call witnesses

before being basically removed office from office by the city council. The second part of this is also funny. Because the city charter does not include the right for basically a full criminal trial for the mayor before he'd been removed. He's alleging that the Chigamaga

town charter is unconstitutional. He's going, he wants to go to the Supreme Court to be reinstated as mayor of Chikamaga. The Totino's Supreme Court down here. How can you be mayor of a town that shouldn't exist? Right.

You know what I mean? If the town charter is unconstitutional, that means the town is illegitimate and you can be mayor of what is not a town, right? Let me say this. They should kill all of us and give it to Palestine. that's what I think.

You know what I mean? Let them deal with it. God damn. Yeah, but I was seeing the same thing, Trayley. How can you be like, he's trying to get the whole town. Basically, he's trying to get the town abolished that they want to be mayor of it. So he's like, is he out like he's gone? Yes.

Evitt Parish is mayor pro temp right now. Okay. What's this person's name? Evit Parrish. I went to high school with Evit. Evitt's actually a, Evit, Evit is a, a very nice guy and that's all I have to say about that. Okay.

He is like, look, man, okay. All right, fuck it. All right, so anyways, there's a lot of, and I'm, again, this is where we get into allegedly and maybe I'm paraphrasing mode, you know what I'm saying? But so one thing that's been happening is there's the property of land, right, over here where we used to call Mill Village because, you know, when people used to have mills, that's where it was and that's where the people left, but now it's still that 30 years later, of course.

There's a big piece of property, and the city has just been gifted it, and there's a controversy over that because what they think is, what they allegedly think is happening is that Haney, I think, is trying to do some shady allocation deal to get, you know, maybe the city to pay the taxes

for a personal thing, because nobody really knows where it was gifted from. you know what I mean so there's that yeah there's that aspect of it and then there is he you know so he's the city manager most dude even town's not so can ask a question here yeah so Haney Haney is a city manager yes he used to be a cop too if that helps okay uh so Haney he's his first name's last name Michael Haney it's my it's my guy I'm sorry so you so you know all these people I just want to make sure clear oh I know everybody yeah yeah and that's why I'm so I kind of walking on, you know, thin water.

So maybe some corrupt chicane or involved in the land deal that Mayor Deck had to be pushed aside for it because he was standing the way of it or something. And again, and I'm genuinely, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying those pieces are being put together and people are drawing their own conclusions. And I mean, yeah, like, if I didn't, it's when you do know people personally, it's really wild. When you know people personally and then a thing happens that if it happened in another town, you could figure it out so quickly. Like you would go, well, what's, of course, it's, but when it's people you know and you have their backstory and you have all the context, you go, guys, y'all, no, no, that's not true. But then you go, fuck, that's just how the world works. We don't know shit.

You know what I mean? First of all, I feel like, I feel confident in this considering their voicemail and stuff. I would not want Trade Day to be my mayor. And I think it's fine for him to be removed in a normal process. This doesn't appear to be a normal process. No, it appears to be. He was, he was, he woke up Monday morning, happy and comfortable as the mayor of this chicken mug. and then read the city council agenda that he was going to be removed that evening

it was like Joe Pesci walking into the basement in Goodfellas They've got blue arms down with mud on them Yeah They didn't tell anybody the shit was going on And then so like the so then the whole town tries to show up to the fight To see what the fuck is going on in the city council meeting But the town council city council chamber only holds 60-some people So not everybody can get in

So another city councilman guy by name of Matthew Knave I'm assuming you know, because he's not that much younger. He looks like you even younger than you. He's like, tries to table the resolutions that can have so people can speak on. I can feel strongly. And this fucking silence him and shut the fuck up and vote mayor out anyway. It's complete lack of transparency going on here. And they didn't nearly see any of the evidence they were going to use against like against the deck before the hearing.

There really was no due process. I don't think he deserves a criminal trial. But also I feel like the people should be able to weigh on this for like a day or two. Agreed. Two things there. Number one, I forgot to mention the part where they are coming back and saying, hey, we have no proof that the voice you heard and that was me. That could have been AI. There's an AI element to this now. They're doing deep fakes of him calling dogs the N-word just in case, you know, just in case he can't fuck this and up on his own. You know what I mean?

And yeah, that and just like, this is funny because now it goes, the inverse, like, because I'm the one in the town looking out, if I saw, if I'm from any other place and I saw this going on, I'd go, oh my God, yeah, you've got it. Dude, there has to be due process. Like, this is a kangaroo court. This is fucked up. I don't care what the parties are, who the people are. The law is the law. But because I live here, I'm like, oh, fuck it. Just who gives the shit about the Constitution? Nobody gives a fuck here. We don't know. We have a town constitution. I didn't know that shit. And what we got just like, we the people and Marcus Dupree

one, you know, we're here, we got Coonscaps, and we, I said Coonscaps, didn't I? Coom's caps. I can't save it. All right. That does make it sound like there was some ulterior motive. It's like,

because it makes, I almost made a joke a couple times about how, I can't believe in Chickamauga, this is enough to get a mayor fired. You know what I mean? It's like, I figured that got him elected. He put that in his campaign ads, you know? Yeah.

My dog called my dog the N-word. Vote for me. But that coupled with the fact that they didn't present any kind of evidence until after the fact and it all happened, very fly-by-night and everything, I mean, you know, I don't want to be conspiratorial, but that does make it sound like there was some kind of ulterior. Someone else decided this guy's got to go for some bullshit. And they were like, wait, what are we going to use the justification? We're like, oh, tons of stuff.

He says the N-word all the time. Release the N-word files. Calling women horrors and stuff. We got all that, you know. That's why I can't really even like, like, even though this all does seem corrupt, like, deck hasn't said, it feels like there's a war between two different corrupt purposes, and he can't say what the real reason is because that would be a confession. But let's say, like, to pull this next, I want to put this still image in this video,

if you got it, Matt. I want to show you this guy's hat and how conspiratorial this is. Yeah, this is my favorite shit I've ever seen. Spitting. Yeah. No more big frogs and little paw. on in the Chickamauga Mafia. Yeah.

Hey, something else going on here, boys. This land deal, Corey's talking about. It's always the money at the end of the day. I'm going to tell you this. If it's got something to do with the Chickamauga Mafia, I've fucking said my last word. I'm not doing that shit. I don't know.

But it's like, so Deck isn't saying what the real conspiracy is here because he said he got thinking he wants to do his own corrupt land deal, allegedly. Yes. But so instead they're going with, he was taken out by the deep state on behalf of Big Watermelon. I'm essentially with the growing back. So, so it is the, it is the, I just want to say here's the families that suffer the most here.

And I want to read here from it. You sent me a screen grab off of Facebook posted by one Jacob Deck, I'm assuming, is Mayor Trey Deck's son. Yeah. All right. He is. Quote, just wanted to let everybody know that I have officially stepped away from raising Flemish giant rabbits. It wasn't an easy decision. It definitely wasn't something I took lightly.

Sometimes you have to step back to grow. Tori is struggling right now because there's there's longstanding war with that boy I know who that guy is from rabbit fame over here with no and Tori I didn't realize that that was this mayor's son or whatever Don't it makes it!

Yeah All right so I just want to say like the reason for the reason why I was talking about this is like, look, every type of government has dingus and corrupt dipshits in it. We should be allowed to laugh at them. Of course. This is the point. Freedom of information laws.

Public hearings. We get to laugh at the fucking mayor's dipshit son raises his rabbits. So, Mark, I had no idea of you any personal. Nobody else even has to know. We are out of time, though. It's been a lot of fun. I like this little small town update we've done. Oh, well.

Seeing how it all plays out. Anytime. As long as Corey doesn't end up underneath the melon patch after going against the Chickamauga. Watermelon shoes at the bottom of Lake Chickamauga. All right. Well, that's it for weekly skews this week. Send me on the road. Treycrouter.com, please.

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