Weekly Skews - S6 Ep25: Weekly Skews – Everything in Moderation

Episode Date: May 6, 2026

The War in Iran has hit a new phase with dolphin troops. Dolphin troops? Support the dolphin troops. Primary season’s in full swing, so let’s talk about Graham Platner becoming the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, the Reddit post controversies, and the shaken state of Dem moderates. Also,   Because the definition feels very specific, and not what you might think.This episode is sponsored by ZBiotics. Go to https://www.zbiotics.com/SKEW now. You'll get 15% off your first order when you use SKEW at checkoutThis 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 Weekly Skews is brought to you by Americans United for Separation of Church and State.If you believe religious freedom is supposed to protect everybody, not be weaponized to turn away good families, visit https://www.au.org/crooked to learn more and become a member today. 

What's up, everybody, welcome back. Happy Skues Day to you. It is, oh, damn, Cinco de Mayo. That's right. So, white people, happy margaritas and chimichanga's day. You know, it's always a good time. I mean, it's a good time regardless of what the day is. But we're recording this on Monday, May 4th, which is fucking Star Wars Day.

So, I'm Trey, that's Mark. All kinds of holidays happening over here. I don't think we're going to talk about any of those, any of that again. But anyway, how's it going, Mark? No, I was, you know, I tried to do Georgia-R-Binxin person right here, but I couldn't quite figure out what to say. Well, you've got to be kind of racist to do sort of a patois or whatever, and yeah, do that. I went to, I was in New York, I just got back from New York, I went to a Yankees game on Saturday. They don't hit for me, but I'd never been to Yankee Stadium.

And they were doing Star Wars Day, and they put all of their players. They photoshopped them into Rebel Alliance outfits and, like, Jedi gear. And that pissed me off so much. Because it's like, it's like, dude, if anyone's the evil empire, it's the New York Yankees. and that's okay. Like, no one in that stadium if they'd put Aaron Judge and like a Sith get up

with a red lightsaber, nobody there would be like, oh, why would they do that? They're the bad guys. Like, everybody would be like, fuck yeah. You know, like, you know, people like that shit.

It's cool. Anyway, they just really bothered me. It is funny. Listen to you called the Yankees the Evil Empire while you are a Los Angeles Dodgers fan. I know,

but I'd sort of say, I think about them. But like, with the Yankees, even the color scheme matches. Well, dude, the Raiders suck. and I bet the Raiders would go with like a Darth Vader motif

and people would clown on them because they're not any good but I am a Raiders fan and I would be in favor of that so I'm saying it's just a bitch move anyway whatever it's like I forget this is misapplied here but like it's like basically every fascist movement considers themselves the underdog so that's you're a Yankees for you there my thing is like when you're rude for like one of those teams

that generally wins why don't you just enjoy it I know, right. Like, that's the thing that's like, yeah, we win like three World Series a decade. It's great. Like, you don't have to fucking, we're going to go get them. Like, you know, you're going to knock around guys. Yeah. So, so, so, our show today, we're talking about the status of the primaries.

Basically, because it looks like Graham Platner is going to be Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine. And after much consternation. So I want to talk about the consternation because a lot of it's pretty funny. but a pretty pretty busy week other weekend last few days Spear Airlines has gone bankrupt pretty much while flights were mid-air and everyone had to jump out with old tummy

parachutes like they were the Red Baron Did you see that guy that pilot who was retiring and I guess in the world of commercial aviation they have a whole ceremony that they go through when a pilot retires and he like went up in the air and came down and his company didn't exist anymore or something so Southwest Airlines

gave him the traditional send-off that you're supposed to get. They like shoot water hoses over the plane that you drive it under or something. He did that in Southwest plane instead because Spirit just ended on his last day. So, yeah, pretty raven. All sorts of brotherhoods out there we don't know about. I do feel real bad for like the, like, these are union jobs or good jobs. And like the flight attendants, I guess, had to, they all lose their seniority.

So even if they move to another airline, they start over. So it's like their careers directly fuck you to get a job. So yeah, it sucks. I don't really have any good answers for it. Did Biden administration blocked a merger that might have kept them in business a little longer, but also jet fuel prices are like double. So it's like they're a budget airline, their margins are smaller. And so they couldn't stomach this, you know, this recent shift or whatever.

I know that people buy tickets well in advance. And that would have been priced in at the time. And then now, you know, now the actual cost is much higher. And like I said, because they're a budget airline, they just couldn't shoulder that or something. I think every airline runs on really small, really thin margins. We talk about profit margins strong

but after everybody pays themselves so that's part of it. But I really don't know. I'll be talking on my ass about, right. So, Iran will for a minute,

which I guess is back on today or ran restarted it. We haven't necessarily yet otherwise blowing up a few small boats. A few days ago, United Arab Emirates pulled out of OPEC to be able to, you know,

increase production to fulfill some of the capacity of the world's loss because they have a pipeline that doesn't go through the straight of war moves. and then today Iran bombed that pipeline, which I guess no one else thought was allowed.

Right. Like, did anybody have the UAE fucking look at a map and be like, yeah, they can shoot that? Like, this is probably this workaround is not going to fucking... They've already been targeted too, right? Yeah. Like, yeah, when it very first started, I remember there was all that shit about, you know,

people being stuck in Dubai and everything. And so, yeah, can't believe they thought of that. Iran. Yeah. So also, like, another Iran war thing, Let me quote here The Wall Street Journal reported that Iran

is contemplating using suicide dolphins equipped with mines to try to go after U.S. ships. I don't believe this is true for fucking seconds when those cartoonish deep state things

they make up like Osama bin Laden have any underground layer but like I do want to say if this is what you're trying deep state we are all well aware that dolphins commit sexual assault

Yeah so you've got to go with a cuter animal like otters otters I'd be a fucking on board I think I hate to say this this comes up a lot of nature I think otters also get a little sexual assaulty sometimes.

People might want to look into that. But, you know, they're also cute. They keep their favorite rock in their fur pocket, and that's precious. But, you know, they also do wild shit. Everybody that's listening to this that also listens like Well Red and other shows that's been around for a while, I'm sitting here thinking right now probably going like, Trey's going to bring it up, isn't he? Here he goes again with this thing. Suicide Dolphins, right?

Military research. There's some precedent for it. I don't know if Iran's got the stomach to do what it takes. But years ago in America, there was a military program where they trying to teach dolphins to communicate with humans for like military reasons. They hired this linguistics researcher lady to do the project to try to teach a dolphin to communicate with humans. And the dolphin wouldn't listen or participate because of what you said. he was too riled up. So she started jacking this dolphin off

just to get him to pay attention, right? But the dolphin got, caught feelings for this lady. I guess she was, you know, pretty skilled. The dolphin fell in love with her. When the funding lapsed and she left, the dolphin killed himself, or some people say died of a broken heart. You know, it depends on how you look at it.

But you're going to have to get some, like, you're going to have to romantically scorn these dolphins and then convince them that it was our, boats that did it or something and then maybe they'll you know alohaqbar the the boats with suicide fest on i don't know what i'm talking about but that's just one of my favorite examples of science going to rise so i'm bringing up a lot you know i remember kism sulemani the leader of the irgc that we assassinated back during trump won and he was like a huge hero to the revolution do you think maybe he was such a huge hero in iran because he was the best in checking off their

to us that dog. It's a thankless job, you know, the truly patriotic. But yeah, there's actually a long tradition of that type of thing, right? In World War II, they had like, didn't they do that with like dogs? Sorry, everybody. Dogs, I think, some type, where they'd put

them on strap bombs to them and send them towards tanks and, like, they tried to get pigeons or bats or something to... Some armies have used children for that, so it's better, like, than dogs. That's true. That is true. But, like, we do... I think I've missed this show before,

But when I first moved to L.A., one of my day jobs, they worked for an executive head at a firm where I had to, like, basically fix a lot of people's resumes, the executives. And, like, the military guys always had the coolest job titles. And this one guy who was who retired from the Navy whose job title was commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet Dolphins. He was a dolphin commander. And I was like, fucking badass. So we, I know we have, we have anti-mine dolphins. So I think maybe if we just have, like, remember I like in ancient times, the armies would send out their champions to fight and settle the whole war? right what if we send our dolphin to fight their dolphin yeah and the winner gets

control the straight of whomew's what if what if the dolphins decide it's more of like a you know a rape off than like a fight to the death you know what I mean that would change the buddy just don't televise it you know which there are no rules there are no rules dolphin combat not dolphin combat trying like dolphin combat uh yeah man imagine the kowshy bets on that yeah all their fucking dystopians involved in one thing All right. Okay, well, yeah, let's go ahead and get into it. Like we said, we got some, you know, looking at the results as we head towards,

there's projections as we head towards the midterms and all of that. We're not doing plugs anymore at this point anyway. So let's just go ahead and Matt, if you don't mind. Give me that daily dumbass graphic, buddy. Today's DD, political ads from the 30 Rock Extended Universe for Escaping Contemporary. entertainment. Graham Platner blames Maine's women for getting raped because he says they get

f***ed up drunk. And Platter bragged about having a Nazi tattoo on his chest. That's the real Graham Platner. Pine Free Results Back is responsible for the content of this advertising. Well, the guy in that ads a real fucking lunatic. So, that ads paid for, the pack that funded that

ad is the main backers of it are Blackstone CEO, Stephen Swartsmut and Palantiers, Alex Carp. They spent $2 million on it. Mostly, I imagine, because Platinor is called Gaza a genocide. And Carp probably prefers Janet Mills because of data centers.

But also, a fun fact about Stephen Schwartzman, if you remember him. In 2010, he compared Barack Obama's plan to raise the tax rate on carried interest to Hitler's invasion to Poland. Yeah. So it's important to take out Grand Platinum for

minimizing the Holocaust. He's like, this is my holocaust. these tax loopholes being closed with all have her own personal tragedies I think it's like so the fear-mogging about this kind of stuff we just went to live through it last year

with Zora Mammie where he's been in office Zora's been mayor of New York for six months and Shariah Law remains painfully unenforced in the city of New York what he's done mainly is fix some basketball hoops around the city and proposed a pianetare tax where billionaires who have to pay extra tax from houses in the city

that are worth $5 million or more, which one billionaire said was, this is how it begins. So if you have to pay slightly higher property taxes on the place where you house your mistress in Manhattan, then the next step is Red October. Right. These people fucking exhaust me.

So get back to Platter, maybe Maine's non-primary voters will care about his internet posts, which are what we're going to be talking about for a lot of the show today. But I just want to point here that a private equity billionaire who's bankrupturing another anti-platiner

pack drove two of Maine's largest paper mills into bankruptcy, selling them for scraps and wiped out more than a thousand jobs and then walked away with the pension money. So I feel like we've got to bounce what matters here and what doesn't. And I would have recommended people who would have for Janet Mills if she's survived the primary one too.

Because this is likely to be the tipping point state for control of the Senate. You're talking about whether or not Trump gets to see two more Supreme Court justices. Right. With no oversight. Right.

That's the ballgame here. That's why they're going to spend so much fucking money trying to destroy Graham Platner. How do you feel about that? I mean, it's like if he ends up, I know we talked about him on here before and the context of all that and everything, but like, it's so high stakes, right? And it's like, of course, it's like everything is riding on a guy who had a Nazi tattoo. It's like, why is it always got to be something, man?

like you know well like look like i try not to uh think of everything's a parasocial relationship right now so this thing where people pick politicians to root for like their characters and like like a like a story like i try not to do although everybody falls into it i'm not gonna fucking act like i'm not human with regards to this stuff a lot but like he's a dude janet mills is the lady they're running for a job that humans do both have baggage and like like people are having all these like huge takes about it but yeah you're right like I don't think every criticism of Platner is unfair. Like, basically, like, the D.C. Democrats' establishment disliked him for two reasons.

One I think is fair. What I'm going to disagree with him on? The one you're talking about, he's a wildcard. His internet post, his unpredictability, it could absolutely cost him the race. They might be correct, right? But the second reason I'll like him is basically eat the rich adjacent. And he might not be a team player in the Senate. Now, that hits for me, but not Chuck Schumer.

Right. We need more of that. Yeah. Right. But somebody else could have run in that lane. Right. Who doesn't have to be. Right.

It didn't have to be him, but he's just the one who got off his ass and did it. Yeah. Right. So what? But like the two biggest points of contention in the primary between him and Janet Mills were basically she wanted to keep the filibuster. She would have voted for Chuck Schumer. Sorry, the three biggest differences. She promised to vote for Chuck Schumer for leadership or was mealy-mouthed about it.

And third, he's against farming. is real for free, right? So those are three things that I agree with him on, but will make Chuck Schumer's life fucking hell, right? Platter's been barnstorm to the state going to ever, like, VFW Hall, county fair, whatever, so like

one of the reasons these tax might be tax might not land on him so far is because a lot of people have fucking met him. Right. So like, like, you're like, all this, the TV says that he posted a weird stuff with the internet back in 2013, but then you just had, you just

had a conversation when they both had a corn dog. Right. So what? There's also the part where Janet Mills is 78 years old.

Let me add some context here for you. Two weeks ago, or a congressman by the name of David Scott from Georgia died at the age of 80. A couple weeks ago, he was wheeled into office

to register to run again. Yep. Three members of Congress missed all 18 votes in the House last week. One of them was representative Frederick Wilson from Florida,

who has missed the last two weeks of house business. She's 83 years old, turns 84 the day after the midterm, and is seeking re-election. Right. Right. Yeah, I know. It's one of the biggest problems that we have. You know, nobody will relinquish power.

I just, like, you know, easy for me to say, I'm not in that position. But I just feel like when I'm, I would barely want to be able to muster the energy to do that job right now, I think. Right. You know, if I'm 80 years old, bro. absolutely not but I guess it's different when you you know when you're running those circles

and think about the situation you're elected him into like if you want actually anything to actually you fix in this country the Supreme Court just like nuked the Voting Rights Act so these three day work weeks for the Senate aren't going to fucking cut it like they need a new voting rights act

and to pack the courts they won't get overturned otherwise we're about to be in a gerrymandering hell full of fucking super rig state delegations with no minority representation we're back to like I have no idea why when conservatives in America this out of they wanted to be 1913 again but we got fucking disease outbreaks no vaccines no science education is being destroyed child labor and and uh and uh taking away represented uh you know voting representation for minorities so like it's a lot to do and i don't really think

a bunch of 85 year olds are equipped for it right it's maybe it's also they don't it's the whole just the concept of them you know they're not going to be around to see how it all turns out anyway. Do you know what I mean? They don't have as much of a vest. I mean, you would think if they have fucking grandchildren and stuff, but it just seems so many of them are not as concerned with that or, you know, whatever. But it's hard to argue they're planning for the future when they're signing up to run again in a fucking wheelchair. That is a sign of, like, that is not a sign of having a plan to pass power and have your project outlive you. That's fucking narcissism, up and down. So, yeah, Platterner didn't have to be like the guy running in the non-establishment

lane, but nobody made Chuck Schumer run Janet Mills either. And by the way, a fucking tip of the hat to Chuck Schumer here. So they chased a moderate outsider out of the race in favor of Janet Mills. They pressured people to rally behind. She's basically an elderly sleepy moderate in one of America's literally least popular governor. She's like six least popular or whatever. She could have been Joanne Biden. And then they went negative on the populist guy who was obviously going to win the primary

the whole time. He had a huge head start on her and a polling lead. And then the candidate they chose to try to push him out doesn't even make it to the end of the race. that's like Chuck Schumer had four straight bullseyes except he was throwing the darts at his own dick Right And if you wonder why people are like Okay, so

Here's both why a lot of people find Platinum refreshing And why the money people want to destroy him If you got this video clip of Matt from a speech That Platner gave last week to a building trade union It's 23 seconds long But it basically includes all the reasons The money people want to kill it Guaranteeing dignity to working people is not some side show to policies.

It must be central. Paying union workers a good wage to build our schools and our roads and our energy grids is the possible way we could spend our money. Certainly better than giving tax breaks to billionaires or blowing up girls schools in Iran. Guarantee. Yeah, I agree with that. also it's like one of his big applause lines is we're all being exploited by the exact same people and it's not

immigrants and it's not trans kids it's billionaires right which is also basically my theory of politics and I wish more people would say it this plainly right no I know yeah a lot of this I know that's kind of what I mean it's like so much of what this guy represents it's like I'm like this is exactly exactly what we need right now

except for you know some of that old shit if people bring it up and it's like it does you know whatever. I'm not even I felt similarly about Federman initially and then he you know his brain went zap

and now he's all wild and shit but he did he did have a stroke and his personality changed and he seemed to gotten a little dumber but also it's important to remember like so the Federman consulate goes so far first of all

Federman hates Platinum's fucking guts openly um they firmly disagree about like the Israel and Gaza war for example It's also important to remember There's a piece out today About the Republican effort

To get Federman to switch size And he basically is saying I would never do that Because I'd make a very shitty Republican He's not wrong He flies a gay pride flag outside of his office He's like a reliable vote for Democrats 90% of the time

Outside of like immigration basically Like he's mouthier about Israel And says a lot of really stuff that I find horrifying But The rest of the caucus votes Pretty much the same way he does on it Right So it's not like he's voting wise.

He's a pretty normal Democrat. Which is like when it comes to Federman, I don't think like I don't think Chuck Schumer has a problem with Federman at all. Right. Right. Probably not. As far as like when it comes to Platner, like the concern is like the attacks on him are happening too parallel, right? On one side of the mouth, though, say he's two left wing and the other right side of the mouth, they say he's two reactionary and two right way. basically the same the two right wing thing to the public and the two left wing thing to the money people

which one do you think they actually have a problem with you know what I'm saying right because you can't be both I guess you could do a horseshoot thing and be both right wing and left wing depending on what issue you're talking about but like let's talk about the reasons people don't like him okay let's talk about the controversies because they're they're all kind of funny and this is an observer as an amateur anthropologist I find these controversies interesting in American culture in 2026 it seemed like they're from a fucking time capsule, you'll see him talking about. So basically, I forget

who dug up his internet, his Reddit history, but back around 2013, like from 2010 to 2015 or whatever, he was posting a lot on Reddit under the name P-Hustle. Right? Yep. So we got to tell about

possible. Are we going on with Platt Daddy maybe? I wonder if he's, you know, thought of that one. Yeah. G-dog, you know, I'm sure he went through a few options

before he landed on pay hustle. Platt-ass would have worked too. Yeah. I don't have one, a graham, gram, gram the cracker. Plata pussy slayer, you know what I'm saying? Anyway, there you go. There you go. Okay.

So basically, no one should ever post on the internet. No, absolutely not. Take it from me. And, like, it's kind of funny because, like, what happened here is, like, I get the vibe that Pladner never planned to run for a higher office. They did, like, the class of people who find his existence an affront to them picked their high school yearbook quote based on how they thought it would play when they were. ran for Congress 20 years later. Yeah, right. Yeah.

So this is a vibe of a guy, like you're watching a movie, like about a guy who found himself running for Congress who didn't intend to. Like the immediate res beginning is like him typing on his computer alone. It is underwear holding a bag of Doritos and a beer. And then he typed something like quasi-racially problematic and then smash forward to a Senate debate. He's like, you might have wondered how I got here. Yeah, right.

Yeah. So I just all find this fucking kind of. funny um so uh basically like when i said no one should post on the internet i want to have a caveat here especially after four tours in iraq and after six to eight beers right so it's a lot of dumb shit i can't talk about it all like but like he used the f-word slur for gay people a few times mostly on military message boards talking about his officers yeah all right look that's every marine right talking about the navy right exactly dude and it's like if he has that mentality of

you know that fucking again unfortunate source but Louis CK had a bit about 15 plus years ago or whatever where he tried to make the case he's like it doesn't even mean

someone who's gay it means someone you know who sucks or whatever and it's like if he's got that mentality about it as a Marine and saying it about his officers and stuff I'm still not saying

it's like just totally fine to do that but it's like context does matter and I know a million of those dudes so yeah it's like also like it's like you do you do you

You look at like, so it's not like he made a couple problematic posts, then started running for office. And like, by the way, his stance on this stuff now is, I should have done that. It was bad. I know better now. But you can, it's not just he says that when he's running for office. You can watch in his posts over time, his viewpoint, this kind of stuff changed. Like, he wasn't saying this. Yeah.

I mean, he got fucking 13 years older or whatever. How old is him? 41, I think. Right. So he's just, I'm 40. He's pretty much my age. So he started doing, you know, that was when he was 27, 28, fresh out of the fucking Marines and all that stuff.

2013 was a different world in so many ways. It's like, yeah, I'm sure he's changed a lot. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't say shit now that I said in 2013. No, I wasn't like, that's what I'm saying. I've always never been a fan of the art, like casual use of the artworks. My mom taught special ed and she'd be mad at me for using it. Like, it's like, but I never, I was super comfortable with the F-Wordsurr for gay people just because that's my own personal thing.

But like, but it's not like I didn't say problematic fucked up shit. I had a bit where the giant punch word was, punchline was a gay guy calling me the F word that I stopped doing because the audience is in the middle, like if it used to be it was a closing bit, then it stopped working because things changed. Right. The world changes.

It's fine. So, but he talked with like whether or not he had any actual hate in his heart. Even back in 2013 he was calling stuff, basically doing the OECK thing. We said like called stuff, quote, gay, parentheses, not in the fun, dick-sucking way in parentheses. Right.

Yeah. That's a progressive for a white Marine in 2013. I'm just saying. Right. So, like, it's basically like, like, I'm not saying this stuff is great, but, like, I'm just saying, like, anybody was alive in 2013. It's like, this is fucking, I would, a congressman shouldn't talk this way, but a 26-year-old ex-marine. So, like, it's like, the funniest part of the, like, in this section was like, he told us long story. about playing a game of gay chicken with British sailors in Bahrain?

Do you remember gay chicken? Yes, of course. You basically lead in to kiss your boy and the first one to chicken out lost the game of gay chicken. Well, there's different versions. There's that. And there's also like running your hand up each other's thigh or whatever, you know, towards your crotch. And then, yeah, yeah. And whoever stops at first is the one who's gay?

Is that? Yes. If you stop, but he tells the story about playing a couple of British sailors, and one of the British sailors actually licked his homeboy's dick to win this game of games. This is a cat might be in the Senate. So we talk about, like,

we talk about like our generation, like the people that grew up on the internet, like it's just going to be this way for a while. I told people to figure out how to have been when they were children on the internet or how to talk about it when they become adults. Now, I want to talk about the, let's get the quote unquote sexual assault part of this when we get back from break. All right, we'll be right back.

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taking sexual assault likely or victim-blamey for its stuff that wasn't that political ad. That's a reference to a Reddit thread, re-commented. The thread was titled, shorts that prevent you from being raped. It involved Indiegogo ad for hard-to-moved boxer briefs for ladies that had Kevlar-reinforced crotches.

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the two women who made the Indigo go-go pitch raised $54,000, then ghosted with the money. Yeah, that happened so much back then. Right. I mean, probably so does, but. What Platter was commenting on was there was a whole thing in the thread where people are talking about how this product is good because it will enable you to get blackout drunk without fear of any sexual repercussions.

And when you talk about taking personal responsibility here, he's saying maybe don't go for that fifth Long Island iced tea because you're safe from this one thing and take some responsibility for your own drinking. Right. Now, if you think this product isn't stupid, I just disagree with you. I don't think that thinking this product is stupid is that out of bounds opinion, considering I remember this product at the time it was widely mocked

and like SNL weekend update bits and daily show pieces and shit that doesn't mean it was like I'm just what it doesn't you get old and people misremember things that you live through and it's fucking weird right you know what I mean it's a wild ass product

for sure but you're saying he was on the he was on the side of this is stupid because it was marketed as you can go out and get as hammered drunk as you want and no one will be able to sexually assault you and he was like

maybe just don't get that drunk in the first place is what he said of it. Right. You should not plan to get blackout drunk. You should not plan to get so drunk he passed out in a fucking booth at a bar. Well, you shouldn't get that blackout drunk

regardless period. Right. Putting it all aside because there's a lot of really bad things that can happen, you know? One, you're giving yourself brain damage. You could reckon kill a family. You know, fucking,

like there's a ton of things besides just that. You could fall and hit your head. You could drugly start a bar fight with somebody kills you. Lots of fucking bad stuff could happen. So I found this opinion piece from 2013, the garden about the Kevlar underwear. This modern-day chastity belt is yet another product of a society that blames victims rather than rapists.

So this is a woman femininely arguing against the underwear. You know what I'm saying? Like it's basically a perfect culture war issue because it's anti-feminist to make the underwear, but it's also anti-feminist to criticize the underwear. Right. Yeah. Whereas I, on the other hand, am the perfect cultural war issue. perfect feminist for thinking it has managed to wear the underwear that locks.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't really get how, I know you said they were con artists. And so that's obviously a different thing. But if this was made by two women, I don't get how it's like even implying that it's the woman's fault for getting, you know, like a,

I don't really get the argument. If you, if you're, but believe in the universe with the underwear, you're creating a world where it's still on the woman to stop the rape. Okay. Right. Do you know what I'm saying? Like instead of like like it's like which I get the I get the argument here. Um, so let's talk about the Nazi tattoo thing. So I've seen a lot of people say I will never vote for someone with a Nazi tattoo and I got to say I don't disagree with the fucking rule. So we got to ask a question about this on a skew and a couple months ago and I like my basic takeaway is I haven't seen it any he got the tattoo supposedly his story was drunk on leave with his fellow. Marine, like, Marines in his unit. They got the tattoo as a group in Croatia

while they were drunk. It did not know it was a toad and conf. They thought it was just a regular skull and bones. Okay. That's the important part to make, okay. Does he still have it? He got covered up after. He got it covered up, but not until after it came out as a news story.

But he was like, he's like his own Facebook and Instagram, like catching fish and stuff shirtless with the tattoo clearly visible in photo. He wasn't a hide. Okay. All right. And so, yeah, we're not talking about a swastika. It's a, it's a Nazi skull that he says. he just thought was just a skull.

It's a very well-known symbol for the SS, but I would not have recognized it out of context, but so maybe I'm being too forgiving because of my own stupidity and blindspot here. But like that to look up what it particularly looks like. Is it the skull from the famous sketch? Are we the bad? Oh, we the bad.

Why skulls? It's exactly. It's exactly. But basically like, but I was like until like, like, I would, if it, like, say, so like, let's talk about like Pete Hex has tattoos, which were a thing when he was getting confirmed. I thought Pete Hicks has tattoos were a problem because they're indicated in ideology, right?

That goes along with his other ideology that he's written books about, which is basically that we are at a civilizational war against Islam because he has tattoos of the fucking crusades. Right. Right. And lo and behold, now we're in a fucking huge war with Iran. I thought the tattoo was as a sign he before war with Iran and lo and behold, I was proved right. There was more than one sign. I just found the picture of it, the original one. Like, I mean, I'm dumb, but I would not have immediately clocked as a Nazi tattoo personally.

I just got a new shirt recently. It's got a bunch of skulls on it. And I'm like, damn, I need to go look at that shirt. I've been wearing that shirt on stage. I don't even know. I don't know if those are cool skulls or did I get like the bad skulls? I don't even know. But yeah, I would not have known that.

Right. And told me. So, yeah. But I was like, something with the platter, but like, is there like a second? get Nazi thing. Because like it's like because he because he like imagine if you found out that back in college Ted Cruz got a tattoo that was like a hammer and sickle trap stamp. Right.

I would not think that makes him a secret communist. Right. Right. So like so like if if grand planter he has a crypto Nazi, it's extremely long con that goes back decades with no sign he ever planned to run for office. Like this is a 2008 documentary that was joint production of CNN and MTV where he like was a profile of him and a few of his buddies, they had started like a progressive, woke-coated, like, veterans organization to help the, at George Washington to help them, like, integrate

themselves into, like, the student community. It was like diverse, inclusive, yada, yada, yada, all that stuff. And she was talking about out loud in 2008. So, like, it got, this, if he was whispering hell harder to people, it's been a very, you know, like, there's also a part, like, here's where he gets back to, like, the whole outsider persona is a little bit fake because, like, he thought, like, the whole blue-collar thing, Okay, he went to a pretty expensive private school. His dad's a lawyer.

His mom runs like a Michelin Star restaurant. And when he was going to GWU, he was a bartender at a place that had a lot of, like, Democrat consultants and DC reporters, like, as regular. So they all know him from then. Which means that he was pretending to not be a Nazi while he was pouring drinks for, like, I don't know, like the Senate staffers that are now in Congress back in 2000.

Like, it seems like it's like when people think that a Barack Obama they planted birth announcements in the Honolulu newspaper in 1954 as part of a long con to get a communist elected as a black guy with a Muslim name in 2008. Yeah. That's a lot of moving parts. Without even knowing that it wasn't, without even knowing exactly what kind of Nazi-coded symbol it was until just now actually seeing the picture of it. And what his explanation for it was, even before that, the first thing that popped into my mind, which I've talked about here before. You know, when I, after my me, ma died and me and we went and my sister went and cleaned out the house we grew up in,

and then later sold it, and we were cleaning out in my old bedroom, cleaning out of the bedroom that I grew up in. A truly comical number of things with Confederate flags on them, like posters from county fairs, Leonard Skinner, T-shirts, so much stuff. I always say the funniest one was it was a Confederate, it was one of those little, you throw darts at the fair to win little shitty framed pictures in like a cardboard frame

and it was a Confederate flag background and the foreground was a green alien with a cigarette hanging out of its mouth dressed in a Confederate soldier's uniform for who is that

just your mind I thought it was rad when I was 14 I guess but it's like but again I didn't I don't I'm happy to say zero Confederate flags in my Burbank house.

But like I just, you know, I just didn't. It was, I did not. I had a very, in retrospect, very stupid, very naive, idea and opinion and sort of perspective on all that at the time that I've changed tremendously on in the years since.

So, you know, I'm like, I guess I'm more apt to be understanding about that kind of thing in the first place. I also had a fucking, uh you know every dmx record and a subscription to the source and shit and fucking you know war lugs and stuff too so i was making no sense in 2000 the year 2000 young people are young people are often all over the place and then they grow up and they they they they formed firm opinions about stuff let me quote here uh back in 20 in 2021 according to CNN platinum platinum responded to a threat about people

becoming more conservative as they get older by writing i got older and became a communist so if you're talking about the post that probably bugged the actual Democrat establishment the most to come back at Haught him. It's like back in 2020, he's posting a lot of anti-cops shit during the joint blood protest. So that's probably more of what they're worried about. But anyway, Platter, if you're worried about the Nazi stuff, Platter has been endorsed by this showing up a racial justice on the equality. Graham has been willing to defend those that GOP scapegoats and many Democrats failed to

defend. He has unapologetically defended trans people and immigrants and spoken out against the genocide in Palestine. So, you know, as I said, no second Nazi stuff? not no racially questionable stuff. You and I both were in the service industry. Let's talk about the, participating at a Reddit board

for people who work in the service industry and asked basically why black people are bad tippers. Okay. Which is a stupid thing to say out loud, and I've been in these arguments before going back 25 years, okay? I've told people this is a stupid thing to say and believe to their faces by cool workers. This is a very common sentiment among people.

It's a stereotype. For sure, is what I'm saying. Like, I'm not, you know, because, yeah, I worked in restaurants for years, and it's like, it's a stereotype without a doubt. It is like, and it's a good, this comes up because American tipping culture is insane. And when I say culture, I want to emphasize culture here, because a lot of cultures are stereotyped as bad tippers. And it's not just black people in America, but servers will tell you that.

Christians. Church groups are awful tippers. Church crowd was my least favorite by far. Give me a, the entire tech basket. team over a fucking church of Christ letting out, you know. But I guess when I start listening these categories, you'll eventually realize that every single human being basically falls into these categories at one point of time. And basically servers are all haters who hate fucking every table.

That's like so true, dude. All right. British people are bad tippers. Immigrants in general are bad tippers. Tourists are bad tippers. French people are bad tippers. Southerners are bad tippers. And that's not even like it's remotely false.

Like the amount of times I have to go back to tables after my relatives have picked up the check to drop more cash on the table is the list of those times is long. Okay. We talk about people that are stereotypally good tippers. The list is very, very short. It's basically just dudes that come in, large groups of dudes that come in buzz and just playing a round of golf. And brunch gays. Right.

Back when you had smoking sections, a smoking table of brunch gays will pay your way through college. also like this stereotype of a like I used to work in college one of the restaurants I worked at was a fine dining steakhouse well is it a small college town version of a fine dining steakhouse I'm not saying anything by anybody any rich person's idea fancy but it was a trash person's idea fancy yep but it's a kind of place where we wore like you know cheap tuxedo vests and you might get a 10 tables total in a busy night right so it makes it easy to keep track and I'm like a made a bet with my coworkers who were pushing this awful stereotype that I didn't think it was, it didn't think it was true or as true as they said it was. And I kept track of all my tables for a month. We could compare different groups. This is how fucking annoying. I am. And when I found that the median tip was lower, but the average tip was higher because occasionally some black table who was aware of the stereotype and wanted to say, fuck you, the servers of being racist would leave like 100% tip. Yeah, right. Like you do with your family or whatever. And I, yeah, I do that too.

like white track because I've definitely had that experience before too where it's like outside the South where it's like I know they don't want to be taking care of me because they think I'm a dumb it's not going to go well so you tip to compensate but dude fucking Mark

bring it empirical evidence into the fucking you've got spreadsheets and data points and shit from 20 years ago right so anyway my point is like the

The racial one is the worst form of stereotype. I will point, because it's only one you can see from across the restaurant and people will try to pawn tables off in each other. And this is like servers of all, all colors and creeds. I've had black coworkers, like,

think they were sticking me with black tables before. So it's like, it's a very weird thing. But my point is like, like people do get worse service because of the stereotype. And that fucking sucks. That's the part where the racism materially affects people's lives. And I've been out to eat with black friends where it happened.

I've seen it happen. It's fucking sucks. So anyway, the point is like when you, there's like a two Americas thing where like if you think just broaching the topic is somehow a conversation that people are not having every day all over this country, then it means you haven't waited tables. Right. So anyway, anyway, again, he said, I shouldn't have said that. It's fucking stupid. And he's right. It's fucking stupid.

So I'm glad he came around to the right conclusion. So I do want to say, after all this stuff, it is true that no matter what arguments people are making about as posts and whatever, the DC did prefer Mills over Platterner because she's a moderate. To that end, for example, she just vetoed a bill that would have temporarily paused permits for new data centers due to November 2027 while the impacts were studied. I think I mentioned that on Friday show. But I wanted to talk about a little bit here about what a moderate is, Because they have a very specific idea about what a moderate is. Because to me a moderate means like a regular normal person. Uh-huh.

That's not what they mean. Well, who's they? You mean the D.C. established or the Democratic establishment? Yes. Yes. So my definition of a moderate is a bit larger and it includes dudes like Graham Platner because they're 70 million of them in America. and like you've got to it's an utterly normal regular kind of guy even if he should have put a breath

laser on his computer back in 2012 that makes him even more of a normal guy in my opinion right but like their definition of a moderate's always very pro business like you notice that yeah yeah yeah like neoliberal shit or whatever yeah you're supposed to be yeah pro pro corporation and like um for wall street Israel too nowadays right and wall street pro silicon valley it's like yeah The moderate consensus position is to be super pro-Israel, even though the voters are 80% we should stop funding. We should have funding this least so easily without some constraints. So, but yeah, moderate means pro-military industrial complex, for Silicon Valley, pro-land developers, pro-private health insurance. Pro-coops and shit like that.

Yeah. Right. Yeah. Right. So if you take like, like, basically it's like a moderate, you'd think it'll be somebody who's like a five out of ten on the political scale, right? if like 10 is like hardcore conservative in or no 10 is like hardcore socialists and zero is like moderate democrats are really like center right at least right right right right on business stuff yeah so like right wing of business stuff especially so say it's like say you're a three out of 10

on business regulation but a seven out of 10 on cosmetals and liberal stuff like kneeling in the kentek cough or tweeting happy quanza right yeah right yeah but a five out of 10 on actual social justice and stuff, just enough so nobody gets mad of you. That's a moderate, right? But flip the, scramble the numbers a little bit. That is not a plattering you know, description or a set. For me, I mean, like,

that person, that hypothetical person you described is like, not a big fan. I'm not even, though, not the biggest fan. It's not somebody's supposed to be part of the left wing coalition, right? But it doesn't mean like the worst kind of politician in the world because they're not. Like, I'm just, I'm trying to, I'm trying to like talk about, like, so

the point is like it's not just averaging in a right so let's flit scramble the numbers a little bit so you're seven out of ten are regulating businesses but three out of ten on the cosmopolitan liberal stuff like tweeting happy quanza but like let's say let's say the social justice stuff is like like the cops cops should not have mecksuits right right where like does that put you on your number scale if you think that zero or chops you all have mex suits 10 okay let's say you're you're seven opposing the mecks suits where the other side's like you still average out to a five they would say you're a left-wing radical for seeing the cop should of the mexswit.

The point is not to average out to a five, but in a specific fucking situation, right? But so it leaves a lot of people politically homeless because I need you to imagine here. Do you remember the famous like 30 rock joke where Jack is asking Liz's boyfriend, Dennis. Yes, love it. Keep going. But I, yeah, one of my favorites all time from that show. Jack asked Dennis what his politics are. and Dennis says

socially conservative but fiscally liberal. And the joke there is that no one ever says that but it's very common to say you're socially liberal but fiscally conservative. But the thing is, there are a ton of people who are socially conservative but fiscally liberal.

They do fucking exist. The worst case scenario is a hair-in-vulk democracy. That's essentially national socialism, right? But there are a ton of people who would just be in favor. of like pushing back against more corporate power, but aren't fully on board with like... Yeah.

All the pronoun shit and fucking all that stuff, yeah. And I mean, if we're being honest, there's also plenty of people who would like push back on the fucking corporate overlords and stuff who just straight up, you know, don't like gay people or are some form of racist or whatever. Yeah, no, you're right. It's just weird sort of inconvenient truth, I think,

for a lot of people in the world. of Democrats, you know, is that is basically that. It's like there's some factions that like they need or sort of rely on that are, are really, probably would just straight up be Republicans. A lot of them if our Republican Party didn't, you know, want to execute and or deport them or whatever,

which makes it kind of a tough sale. So, you know. Yeah. So what I'm saying, what's about politically homeless? Like, people that are like,

for, to put it Dennis's way of thinking, or a social conservative but fiscally liberal. Like it leaves a lot of people inscrutable to the wider establishment. I'm talking about like the Maha movement, for example, who do not trust corporations, big pharma, fucking whatever, but also don't trust the liberal mainstream media, right? Yeah.

You got like the unwoke anti-war people who don't trust Palantir and banks, right? A lot of those are anti-Semitic. I'm not saying you bring those people in. If people aren't persuadable or willing to bend on stuff like civil rights for trans people and gay people, I'm not to say you invite them into the coalition anyway or fucking. listen to them on it. I'm saying like the way they, the way they pan... Okay, for those last people, just real quick, though. Because you're right,

it's wild. There's like, I feel like Trump was able to bring in all these different types of people that were not your like classical picture of just like a Republican voter in a lot of ways. And now there's this sort of civil war and stuff. But it's like, like you said,

unwoke, anti-war, fuck Palantir, fuck the banks or whatever. And it's like, I feel like fucking like, you know, like Tim Dillon and guys like that are, you know, they sort of, are like, Dave Smith is straight up libertarian, but these people that, but I just don't get how,

is, the, the perceived wokeness of like voting Democrat or the left or whatever just outweighs on the scale so much that other shit, do you know what I mean? Like, that's the only point against, like, the left is the wokeness, but they just can't,

the wot, they're like, Yeah, I'd almost rather vote for the banks and palatire and the war people. That's how much I'm anti-woke, you know? I know what you're saying, but like, but no one's trying, like I say, so when, like, for example, when Democrats go to try to win, what they see is swing voters or moderate voters, okay? The pitch is always, like, they'll always try to, like, say that, like, I will, the pitch is always like, sure, I might help your boss outsource your job. but we'll make sure trans kids can't play sports, right?

It's never the inverse of it, which is that we might not agree on trans kids in sports. I'm not going to bend on that, but it will make sure that your boss can't fuck you over, your job isn't shipped overseas, and your health insurance company can't kill you. Right. Where? Right. And like Graham Platner is sort of doing that, right? Right, right.

So like, it's an interesting experiment. I'm glad somebody's running it. I know it feels obvious to me, you know. I mean, it's a, I feel like it's a person that thing we've been saying on here for a long time. It's like, how do you go to these places and talk about this stuff as a Democrat or whatever? And we've always been like, well, just don't focus on that part of it. Focus on the other part, you know. I don't just care about trans kids.

I care about all kids and make sure your kids have opportunities in good schools too. Like, it's like, why is it never, like, when people complain about, like, they notice that there's a bunch of Haitian immigrants that moved into their town. it's it's always we will do something to cap immigration it's never the like i hear you it hasn't been disruptive we'll make sure that there's enough hospitals and schools for everybody and we're to have like a big potluck everybody gets to know each other like i do what i'm saying it's like it's like they always want to surrender on the wokeness stuff first instead of giving on the money issues which is the problem it's always the moderation is always designed by defined by your relationship to capital right that's it right that's the only thing and the most important thing

It's going to be tough to change, isn't it, though? Because they're, like, funded by that. Right. They're in the pockets of these big money people. I mean, so what the fuck are you going to do, you know? That's what they say is, like, you guys are being naive. Like, since the Supreme Court threw away, like, all the campaign finance regulations, like Citizens United and stuff, we can't compete without a bunch of fucking handouts from billionaires.

And, like, so it just is the way. And they won't give us that if we don't fucking kiss the ring and suck up to them. And, yeah, give in all this stuff. Right. I know. So you got to, you got to find a different way. Otherwise, it's just too. things just keep spiraling.

Maybe it's not feasible for all of them to be able to do that. Maybe because Bernie was like one of a kind sort of at the time. But it's been proven that you can't, you know, you can do some real like grassroots shit. I think if you're like, if you tap into this left-wing populace thing, you know, small dollar donations and you could be politically relevant. But they don't want to, you know, that don't hit as hard if you're in the fucking, you know, the driver's seat like they are or want to. to be. The parties aren't as cool and stuff. I wanted to propose a thought experiment about who's considered moderate and who considered

tough on crime or whatever by thinking about it this way. So if I ran for office saying that like, you know, it's a typical Democrat move to be pro death penalty. Would you need to look tough to win like a centrist state, right? So what if I was like, okay, if we're going to have the death penalty, we should expand it to white collar criminals. Because if you commit murder by dumping fucking chemicals in a river and it gives kids cancer and they die, you have killed those people for money, just like a fucking hitman or a guy who robs

a bank dead. Would that be considered conservative coded or left wing coded? Right. Yeah. It's hard to say, I feel like, right now. Right. I think you'd talk about me like I was fucking Stalin, honestly. But it's just like, how is the guy who kills your kid to make a fucking profit off their

stock price any different than a drug dealer who kills your kid for fucking being in the way of his drug sale? Right. Well, that, I mean, that's Luigi stuff. And it's like when all that, and when Luigi first happened, there were, you know, there were people on both sides. There's people at the top on both sides. You're like, obviously, that's, you can't. No, this guy's a fucking psycho or whatever.

But then there were like common people on both sides who were like, this guy hits for me. You know, so it's, I don't know. But just an example of how maybe people should think differently and more aggressively about this stuff. And we're like, kudos to, I've never said this before, but kudos to Hakeem Jeffries who made noise about expanding. a reform in the Supreme Court this week because finally they pushed it to the point where those guys are starting to get it. But I read this piece in the Financial Times that a little fucking infuriate you. It's about a conference for white collar defense lawyers where all of them are complaining about how they have no business because nobody in America is being prosecuted for white collar crime anymore. Like, does it feel like this is because of less scams?

Because just being texting calls, I've had 20 people try to rob me just fucking today. No, I know. for putting on airs once I googled like white collar crime to talk about it and I found this like business week article that was like white collar crime is down a crazy

and while I was reading it going into it knowing nothing and while reading it I was like I feel like I know why that probably is you know what I mean it's the same reason COVID was so down in Florida in 2020 or whatever you know what I mean it's like you're not people just letting it happen you're not doing anything

about it I got some numbers here from that piece. There were fewer white collar prosecutions in 2025 than in 80 years since 1986 when Ronald Reagan was president. So there's a lot of fucking justice to be muted out on the other side of this from people that are taken, like we're talking about mortgage fraud, taking people's houses, health care scams, reverse mortgages, fucking crypto scams, yada, yada, yada. They're stealing everything that is a nail down right now, everybody with a business degree. And anybody's not running for office to try to fix that. don't trust them is my point

or trust them less than the other guys yeah not everybody hashtag not everybody with a business degree I have a business degree mark we gotta kill trade really that just shows just how stupid I am I'm the only person with a business degree not capitalizing on the fucking

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