Weekly Skews - S6 Ep26: Weekly Skews – A Jim Crow Jackson Pollock Painting

Episode Date: May 13, 2026

The government (barely) disclosed (very little) stuff about aliens and you’ll never guess, no one is satisfied. The root cause of all of this does seem to be a government disinformation campaign that no one seems to remember why they did it for. It’s pretty funny. Then, we talk about the practical death of the Voting Rights Act and the mad rush all over the South to gerrymander every state into a sloppy segregationist mess.Weekly Skews is brought to you by Fast Growing Trees. Right now, they have great deals on spring planting essentials, up to half off on select plants. And listeners to our show get TWENTY PERCENT OFF their first purchase when using the code SKEW at checkout. Visit https://www.fastgrowingtrees.com/skew and use the code SKEWThis 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 checkout

What's up, everybody. Welcome back. Happy Skees Day to you. It is May 13th, 20206. We're recording this on Monday, May, no, I'm sorry, it's May 12th, 2026. Sorry, we normally record these on Mondays now, but we didn't this week. It's Tuesday, May 12th, 2026. We're coming to you from about five hours in the past. It's noon on the West Coast as we sit here to record this. I'm Trey. That's Mark. How you doing, Mark? Good, man. Yeah, you and Matt were gracious enough to move the recording time because I spent Sunday afternoon when I usually be prepping the show. at a friend's Irish wake. So that was a weird, good time. So before we get to the show, I just want to talk about this for a minute because it's really fucking funny. It's been raining in Iran.

And one thing I want, like, you know, geography is a way, you know, God's way of teaching Americans, I mean, sorry, war is God's way of teaching American's geography, that old thing. Right. One, some ways learning about other, like, war is the only way we learn about other cultures

that realize, like, how deeply we are all the same, which is not ironic, like, like effective a war, but like, so the let's talk about Iranian conspiracy theories for a second. Okay. This sounds fun. Yeah. It's been raining in Iran. Okay. What's important because they've been suffering

for a really intense drought for years to the point, there was, like, discussion of moving the capital, moving the government from Tehran to a place who was going to continue to have water. Were the Jews keeping them from having rain? Here's why you might be interested to learn, right? I mean, we're talking about conspiracy theories. It's usually

Jews. I saw we're talking about the Middle East, so I didn't know. Yeah, so then the war happened, and then Iran blew up a bunch of American and Israeli satellite arrays, and then boom, it started raining. Yeah, right. So, you know, there's weather machine videos, like, there's just weather machine videos all over the Persian and Middle Eastern Internet now, where everyone's convinced that what had happened was the satellite arrays were what was keeping was raining in Iran, you know, the dashally Jews and Americans, the CIA and Assad. Right. And now, obviously, they will, like, they have freed themselves to the bondages of the weather machines. I was just thinking about how funny it would make it a handshake mean with like an Ayatola and like a guy from Florida and Oakley's and a Bass Pro Shop hat. Right.

Like you agreeing that like over the Jewish space lasers. Yeah, Jews control the weather. Yeah. Yeah. You could, I used to have a bit about how those two guys you just described would agree on more things than people think, you know. But then I saw a bunch of other people do versions of that over the years too. So I finally just let it go.

But yeah, they're not, not so different. and them. Yeah. Saying doesn't work as well when you're not saying you and I, I feel like. Anyway, uh, all over the world. We all agree we're at the word,

we're beleaguered by the unseen forces that are holding us all down and oppressing us. We just need to decide who they are and then I guess kill them all. I don't fucking know. But like, so the funny part of here is like Iran tried cloud seeding last fall. And of course it didn't work that well because it doesn't work. So I guess the conclusion everyone's coming to was that our one,

weather machines beat Iran's weather machines and a weather machine off or something. Until they blew up. Yeah. Makes sense to me. All right. Let's get into it. We're not doing the plugs here anymore. So that means we're just getting to get into the, you know, all the silliness with gerrymandering and the dismantling of the voting rights act, acting, all that fun stuff, the future of the country and everything.

But first, the Daily Dumbass, Matt, graphic, please. Today's D.D., the government for finally coming clean about aliens, but only as part of a cover-up of U.S. involvement in a war with demons. God is the creator of the universe. He's never not going to create. So it's always been something in my mind to say, well, how can we be the only one? Like, God's not going to stop creating just with us.

But the more I look into this, the more I see the Old Testament and what was told to us there of fallen angels and Nephlem. I mean, this is in the Bible. There's nothing that says that fallen angels that Nephilim just disappeared. And so I believe that this could be an aspect of it. You know, there are. So that's Congresswoman Lauren Bow were talking about the latest Pentagon disclosure is about their alien files.

Right. Before we continue, I did a few things about that. First, it's funny. It's fun to me to imagine that first thing she said about, like, God having multiple bites at the apple when it comes to, like, creating species and running the show and stuff. Like, I'd like to know if we are, you know, if we were like God's, like, beta testing program or like his blue ribbon project or if he's like, yeah, I was working out the kinks with that when he's moved. It would make sense to me if God had long since moved on to some other civilization and abandoned us entirely because that is sort of how it feels. to me. But also, and I said this before, because someone else, I don't remember who, but someone else

you brought up fucking Tim Burchett, maybe, or somebody like that. Somebody, no, he just, he just likes aliens. Some other Republican was talking about aliens being demons, and I said, this is actually, that's actually one of my favorite internet fan theories from the world of pop culture. It's for M. Knight Shyamalan's signs. There's an internet fan theory that those are not aliens, those are actually demons. Mel Gibson's character is a priest who's lost his faith or a preacher who's lost his faith over the death of the death of his wife or whatever.

He gradually regains his faith throughout the movie. And at the end of the water and everything, that that's like holy water or some shit. And their demons not aliens. That's definitely not what Shama Lam meant. But, you know, it's kind of fun. When people in Congress in real life were saying it, it's less fun to me. Reddit comment threads on the movie subreddit, you know, I could enjoy it more.

I do like the first thing you're talking about We're like like it would really revolutionize You know, you know, we weren't actually Made in God's Perfect Image We were God's rough draft You know how in sci-fi movies When they make a try to make a clone the first time It's like like just a jumble of teeth

And I'm all It's like, yeah Right, yeah, right yeah We're that. Yeah, that's us to God Yeah So yeah the Pentagon's been rolling out because of I don't really know what they just do this gradually

Because you know Shit's going fucked up So everybody this will distract him for a little bit And they put out I mean, they are paranoid. They really do think they're to get the bottom of aliens by making the Pentagon dump out batches of files. So, yeah, they released some last week, and Trump said on True Social Friday. These documents allow people to decide for themselves in all caps, what the hell is going on?

Question mark. Have fun and enjoy, the president said. So, yeah, that's the vibe here. So I'm sure you've been all over Reddit trying to read these. Have you found anything that are remotely interesting to you? Not so far. No, it would be at the top of Reddit if there was. Right.

So, yeah, the stuff that's in there so far, like, with, this statement's from a farmer in the 40s who said a UFO scared as birds. Some cops in the 60s I found a purple thing that fell from the sky and disintegrated when they touched it. My favorite document was like a letter to jail your Hoover from people who worked with like a DuPont Chemical Factory that said they were being harassed by UFOs and you basically forwarded it with like, not my fucking problem. This is dumb bullshit.

There's a former Luthwaffe mechanic who walked into an FBI office in Florida in 1950s and So the Nazis had super powerful UFOs. That's what UFOs are. So I guess the Nazis just decided not to use them and lost the war. That was the advent of the Jewish space lasers. So use those to shoot down the Nazi UFOs. And that's part of the secret effort to win the war. You didn't think about that.

I did not think about that. I just think it's important that we keep going around and around circles trying to win the approval of these people. Because I watched a video yesterday. It was the searching around for alien shit on the internet. And on X, formerly Twitter, I found an AI video that had gone viral of that, like, we will never believe the lives of this corrupt government. It's like a picture of like an alien hanging out with Trump and how they're secretly running everything.

So if you, why are you trying to win government approval for people who think that aliens already control the fucking, there's no, there's nothing you can do to convince these people. Well, but they've gotten so deep in bed with the crackpots in general, right? That's become like a significant voting block for them, I feel like. And by them, I mean MAGA, you know what I mean? crazy people. It's already kind of bitten them in the ass

a couple times anyway like courting that type of electorate but you know what are you going to do the crazies love? They're not reliable voters because sometimes they forget

to take their meds and go vote but like whatever I guess we're going to figure. So but like one of the things they released was like as evidence for like aliens was a composite sketch that was based upon witness statements.

So it was just like a drawing of an orb that people set us saw an orb and they drew it like here look aliens. Right. Like if I if I. if I look at a sketch did someone

drew a bigfoot because someone described Bigfoot to them is that a proof of fucking Bigfoot? No, no, it shouldn't be

yeah, this is all pretty anti-climactic so far. Right. So like, but they started a war to distract him the Epstein files.

Now they're releasing alien stuff to distract them how shitty the Iran war is going, I guess, or at least that's what Iran is saying

if you got this next video, Matt, is another Lego production. Oh, Fuck. Why is it? Trump, like, if you listen to the audio version, it's Trump looking through a telescope to an alien in space who holds up a sign

and from his UFO that says, you lost Iran, loser. And then Trump gets mad. So, like, you talk about how, like, they have become an important voting block. It is really a problem for Democrats that all the lunatics are kind of on one side now. Because usually you would have to be able to divide. Usually get some maha moms with the Democrat. Yeah, right. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah. But, like, so, like, but this is also stupid. So it's really just great to make it. making a bipartisan effort to make nobody happy. Here's Chuck Schumer and it needed to take partial credit for this on social media post that reads. For decades, UFO disclosure has been a distant object, unidentified and explained. That's starting to change. I'll keep pushing until we land on the truth.

Show you, Chuck. He just exhausts me so much everything he says. Like, I just can't, you know. Like, just sit it out. Let the fucking, let the people get mad at Trump. but why you got to be like, I'm also to blame for this. You'd be mad. It's so fucking stupid.

So I wanted to talk a little bit at length about this story from last summer, which I think I mentioned at one point, but it's worth talking about now that this panics june up, because I think it sort of explains why we're at and why nobody can get to the bottom of this, because the government's been lying about it in different ways for close to 100 years, but not necessarily in the way that you think, all right?

So let me start here in this piece in the Wall Street Journal. A tiny Pentagon office had spent months investigating conspiracy theories about secret Washington UFO programs when it uncovered a shocking truth. At least one of those theories have been fueled by the Pentagon itself. Basically, Congress ordered probe to look back at the stuff going back to the 1980s and going back to the 50s and 60s, but back in the 80s, one thing they found was an Air Force Colonel went to a bar near Area 51.

He gave the owner photos. What he said might be flying soft as a saucer owner to put up on the wall. Was the owner a chick with big knockers or something? Was he trying to impress her or just? like he just got drunk. He's like, bro, you're going to love this shit. Check this shit out. I mean, if I have pictures of flying saucers, I would also pull them out in bars. But I wouldn't be a general at Area 51 probably because of that, you would think. Nope. No knockers involved. I'll be quoted here. The colonel was on a mission of disinformation.

The photos were doctored and the now retired officer confessed to the Pentagon investigators in 2023. The whole exercise was a ruse for tech was really going on in Area 51. Look at me. The Air Force was used in the site to develop top secret. stealth fighter as viewed as a critical edge against the Soviet Union. Such a robe. Such an easy mark I am. I'd be like, you know, goddamn, I'd fall for the alien

pictures every time. Wouldn't even cross my mind. You've got a guy who works in the Air Force that types to get security clearance, just telling you there's fucking aliens, right? But he's doing it because obviously if the Soviets are recruiting agents in around New Mexico, they'd want people with like hanging out in bars where the Air Force guys hang out, so you want everybody believing

that the stealth aircraft are actually fucking aliens. So the Soviet Union believes they're aliens, right? Yeah, no. It throws them up to send. Yeah. so that part makes sense except it's completely destructive when it comes up 80 years later that nobody has trust in the government

because you convince them they're fucking aliens that you can't prove exist because they don't fucking exist because you made them up right yeah didn't entirely think it through wasn't really playing the long game with that one

right so the conspiracy here if the government is to believe this time around which you know whatever but like the cover it's a cover up of their own disinformation campaign to push the beliefs

the UFO to begin with but also kind of their own fucking stupidity but this would explain, if this is a propaganda effort of American government for the most part, this would explain what the overwhelming majority of UFO sightings

are by Americans. Right. We have been convinced by our government that they exist. Like, if you look at a heat map, the UFO sightings, it's the majority are in America, but the overwhelming majority, pretty much 99% are in English-speaking former colonies of the UK. So people that absorb

American media. Uh-huh. See what I'm saying? Yeah. So if you want a conspiracy, here it is. or Mark or just going to throw this out there aliens also like alien aliens also like US media

we've got a cultural victory over the aliens too and so when they come here to observe they're naturally going to check out the people that they've seen in the images that they picked up from space of Tom Cruise movies and stuff who also is in direct communication with them

I'm sure so they just now got they just now because it takes a long time for waves to get there. So they just now got Baywatch. They want to come visit Malibu and see what the fuck is up. Right. I'm sorry.

So one of the guys' tests, Lee, one of his investigations, is a guy by the name is Sean Patrick, who is a serious person, right? He was a respected scientist who spent years studying vibrations in laser crystals, which, you know, are tangentially related to weapons programs. But Congress assigned him to investigate this to figure out what the fuck is going on with the government's UFOs. And kind of funny, because he's sort of become a hero for the UFO lunatics on the internet. So now they take this boring guy who just seems to generally nobody's talking about.

And they put him, they edit his YouTube videos into dystopian, like, sci-fi things kind of to fit their vibe. Like, it makes him feel like he's on Asian aliens if you got this video, Jean-Ca-Patrick. The difference between scientific investigation and intelligence trade craft is actually very bad. There's a lot of overlap between. And in fact, we have a field. in the intelligence, called scientific and technical intelligence. And it is exactly what it sounds. All right.

So he's just sitting in his office, but they moved him into, like, having screens move behind and make it more kinetic and conspiratorial, right? So one of the things that Kirkpatrick discovered pretty easily was that there was a far-sicle level of security around this that doesn't exist for anything else that's real, right? Let me quote here. A former Air Force officer was visibly terrified when he told Kirkpatrick's investigators that he had been briefed on a secret. alien project decades earlier and was warned that if he ever repeated the seeker, he could be jailed or executed.

The claim would be repeated to investigators by other men who had never spoken of the matter, even with their spouses. It turned out the witnesses had been victims of a bizarre hazing ritual. So for generations, as part of a hazing ritual, or maybe an ink die test will get to, they would tell new officers who were being read into the Air Force weapons programs that they were deconstructing alien technology. Right. I mean, that, that, I totally get that as a prank, but like, you got to later let them in on the joke, don't, don't you think? Like, that's the funny part. That's fine to do that.

That's like a mechanic sending a new mechanic to get the, like, the headlight fluid. Like, you know what I mean? When I were construction, it was a-extendable two-by-four or like that type of shit. Like that's- When I were construction, it was a good, they would send new guys to get a metric adjustable wrench. Right. It's like that type of thing. It's a time-honored tradition that I really don't have any problem with, except you then got to later let the guy know that, you know,

you were just pulling a prank on him and making him feel like a dumbass. You can't just let him live his whole life, believing he might get executed if he tells anyone about the alien shit you would do it or whatever, losing sleep at night. Yeah, like, they can't do that. It's like, like, first of all, like, people that revealed American nuclear secrets, like Jonathan Poller just served us 30 years. and he lives in Israel now.

He's running for office there. Like, you don't get executed for, like, just for merely revealing the existence of weapons programs. So anyway, like, but they did this for so many generations. The guys involved forgot it was a prank, apparently. They, like,

it started with a class of dudes who did it, never told the guys it was a joke. Those guys retire, now these guys are doing it. And it's like, yeah, they don't even remember that it was a joke to begin with. So now it's almost not a joke.

they've manifested the existence of a metric adjustable wrench right they've they've now there's a Wikipedia like like instead of like snipe hunts being fake now there's a Wikipedia page dedicated to snipes as a real bird that everyone goes hunting for

and you catch it with a bag in a river right so like it's also fucking stupid now the practical like there is a like a realistic version where this would make sense to do and that's like you know what an ink die test is

for counterintelligence I mean I've definitely heard that term before but I don't remember I'm picturing Roershack shit, and I know that's not what it is. No, basically, like, if you want to figure out where a leak is and a series of pipes, you put ink, like, ink in different pipes, and then they take turns doing it with different colors or whatever. And if it comes out the other end, you know where the leak came from, right? Right.

So if you gave all your guys in the height peak of the Cold War, a bunch of bullshit information about UFOs, if the information about UFOs came back to the CIA through an agent in the Soviet Union, you would know that someone was leaking. Yeah, it's that famous thing with Tyrion and Game of Thrones. that's where my member he's trying to figure out who the like the rat is when he tells them all he's got a different plan from mercella the daughter of sarsie the princess and to determine which one is uh you know got loose lips or whatever he tells everybody a different thing and see which one flushes out so there you go yeah so so yeah we're on reading here for decades certain new commanders the air force's most classified programs as part of their introduction briefings would be handed a piece of paper with a photo would look like a flying saucer uh flying saucer the craft would describe as an anti-gravity maneuvering vehicle. The officer told the program they were joining dubbed Yankee Blue was part of an effort to reverse engineer the technology on the craft. They were told never to mention it again and many never learned it was fake, like I said.

So the Naval Force figured out this was going on back in 2023 and sent a memo out to everyone to tell them to please stop lying to the next classes of officers about there being this Yankee Blue program. But the fucking Cold War ended. 36 years ago. Right. And they just like, so they've just been teaching guys. They're involved in a war of the worlds for 30-some years for no fucking purpose.

Right. So like there's, but there's like, so that's the first two forms. It seems like they started to believe it or whatever. So they get this memo, it's like, hey, the bit was fun, but you got to stop the bit now. And they're all like, what bit? What are you talking about? Right. I don't even think they just think it's true.

So then that's the first two kinds of fucking up they were doing. The one, the intentional spy disinformation with the guy like handing out photos around Roswell in New Mexico, right? Then the second one, which is the disinformation of their own guys, which is apparently like either a prank or like a set of counterintelligence like ink die test that forgot to turn off. But there's a third kind of thing they were also doing to their own people, which is the accidental sciop through weapons testing programs, which is what everyone is sort of assumes going on anyway. But, for example, on the Black's interview with a guy named Robert Salas, who was describing an incident here when he was manning a nuclear missile silo back in 1967. And during this call, the security guard said, sir, we've been seeing strange lights in the sky. Flying very fast and then stopping in midair, making 90-degree turns. And he kept repeating.

He said, these are not aircrafts, sir. Okay. So what the guys actually saw, and of course, we're all human beings, understand how this thing happens. You see a thing you can't explain, and you tell the story over and over again. It becomes a little bit exaggerated, right? So he was seeing a glowing orb sitting on a platform.

It did not move. It don't make any unanimity returns. But a bunch of guys believe stuff like this because of stuff the government did to them, what you're going to get to. But Silas is one of five men interviewed by Kirkpatrick's team who witnessed such events in 60s and 70s. They were sworn as sequely, but the men began sharing their stories in the 90s and books and documentaries. I want to know it without being executed, which is the first clue that they're...

Right. So that was an interviewer from Salas from a couple weeks ago, but he still believes this shit, even though he's been told what was actually seen. What happened was, back in the 60s, scientists knew that those nuclear missiles could withstand the blast of a nuclear attack. But they did not know if they could withstand like the... EMPs that also came from the bombs, where they blow up their electronics. So they have built devices to test to see what happened if EMP went off near the missile silos, but did not tell the guys in the silos, because if they were Soviet spies, the Soviet Union would now know that the missile silos were vulnerable to EMP attacks. Man, it's got to be tiresome being in a Cold War like that.

I always got outsmarting yourself and fucking never trusted nothing and, you know, Well, we won the Cold War, and by the way, the secret never got out. The attack worked. The Soviets could have actually disabled our nuclear missiles by setting off EMP outside. So, like, it's good they didn't find that out, I guess, assuming that were going to try to annihilate us. But, like, the point is, they never went back until these guys they actually saw, even when they came out in public and said they were seeing UFOs. They could have went quietly to be, like, here's actually the device you saw, you reckon is familiar? That's what we were doing.

Right. I bet a lot of those guys, though, like, when they get told that, they're like, sure. okay. Right. That's the trap though. How do you prove anything to anyone at this point? Yeah, right. The DoD is called in this idiot doom loop where they actually convinced us there were aliens for disinformation reasons on purpose, but also they also committed their own people there are aliens for reasons that made sense of the time and other reasons they forgot or because it was a fun prank. Now they can't regain trust unless they produce proof of aliens that they don't fucking have. even when they do stuff the congressmen look at it and be like

I bet you that's demons not aliens right so fuck yeah hard to know what to do if you're them just brilliant work

all around right also hard to know what to do if you're an American or a Democrat or anything like that because of

if I work for the DOD or the Pentagon or the Trump White House or anybody in government right now or Congress a baby look there may or may not be

aliens. It doesn't appear the Pentagon knows for sure. Has any proof of it that we can find. I think the best thing for everyone to do is stop participating in craziness and kind of be quiet about it and move along and hope that goes back to the recesses of the nether regions. The nether regions is the wrong word. I don't mean the gruntle of America, but you know what I'm saying. It goes

back to the internet. Go back to Reddit. It's like Congress. Yeah. Where it belongs. And it would be. I think it would. I think it would. I mean, I think it's still mostly is. I know that it's like getting covered more mainstream more mainstream coverage than like it used to for a long time.

But I still think that to me, I think most people are, you know. Yeah, but I think I think it's crazy. When politics, some serious politicians become like this, it turns Normie's off from politics even more, so even more of our politics is controlled by the lunatics. Right, which, yeah, again, they're probably, that don't not hit for a bunch of them, probably.

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Gerrymandering. Herculian task making gerrymandering interesting to people, Mark, I feel like. So let's get a shot. But obnoxious conspiratorial fuckery is interesting to people, as we just discussed in the last seven. So three big things happen with voting rights and gerrymandering in the last week or so. And you just were paying superficial type of attention. You might think it was just one thing as all part of the same story. But it's kind of not.

I would say it's all part of the same eternal story, which is a certain class of people who don't want most people to have their votes count, right? Right. But it's, the impetus for all of it, or for most of it is the Supreme Court decision, right? They gutted the Voting Rights Act and all this other stuff is like the fallout from that.

But the Virginia stuff sort of, but the three things I'm referring to are the Virginia, the new gerrymandered Virginia map, which is redrawn to benefit Democrats, was struck down by the Virginia Supreme Court. In response to that, Florida quickly passed a new gerrymander, which to me read is illegal under the Florida Constitution, but good luck with that. But that gives Republicans a chance to win four new seats

in the math holds. And then the Supreme Court, as you mentioned, eliminated protections for predominantly minority-held seats in a case called Louisiana versus Kale, which is what's prompting hastily organized efforts by states like Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, and South Carolina to add additional Republican seats pretty late in primary season to be doing so. Right. So I have a few. question I mean so first of all I know Tennessee in particular because that's the state I'm from they have one blue congressional district left it was Memphis so they're taking Memphis now and splitting it up into three parts and putting each of those three parts attaching it to this you know

stretched out and totally like nonsensical conglomeration of rural interior Tennessee counties that are very red and thus diluting the Memphis vote and making it to where all the Tennessee congressional seats will be read. To describe, like, to help you people visualize what they did, this is according to a Democratic State Senator in Tennessee, as present, if you drive from one crispy team to another crispy cream

in the suburbs of Nashville, a 20-minute drive, you will pass through five different congressional districts. Right. Yeah, absolutely ridiculous. And, but also, the Virginia thing, because you're from Virginia, and I've said this before when

other things have happened, it is, I don't get how like so the Supreme Court made this decision right and the red states are using it to gerrymander to benefit Republicans so a lot of blue states have been like well we're going to gerrymandar back at you but to benefit Democrats and it's based on the Supreme Court decision and I don't get how the lower court in Virginia just only Virginia and none of the other states this court in virginia can be like no you y'all can't do that here when everyone else can do it like it just seems like it shouldn't be let's let's take it you're you're starting up the whole

whole thing in the beginning. Let's take it piece by piece for a second. Okay. We'll go through it. So, it's not, what's described to the lower court's not quite right, because it's a Virginia Supreme Court, it's not, it's a state court is that they don't, they don't report the Supreme Court, right? So, but the point is like for the Democrats, and I just want to keep this in mind

here is, as always, the time to do something about this was earlier. Yeah. Yeah. So like, and I thought it's up where it's like, at the time, there were people saying it too. It's like, uh, stalking the Supreme Court or

We said it. Yeah, right. They're the filibuster and stuff when they had the opportunity to do it and they just never do it. Right. And then later it's too late. And the central swing of the party, like I said, the time to do this was earlier, but the central swing of the party prefer, their favorite time to do stuff is way too fucking late.

Right. So that's where we're at right now is probably way too fucking late. Right. Because then they could just bitch about it without having to worry about actually fixing it or whatever, you know what I mean? Fundraise off of it. Yeah. So, but we, we sat there on this show back in 2020 and 2021 and 2021 and 2022, when,

when Joe Biden, like they began the Joe Biden administration, when court reform was in the, in the zeiticist, as part of a conversation when he took office. You know, they handed down the Dobbs decision. They, you know, were, you know, had got legalized bribery, had already eliminated part of the Voting Rights Act. And they were caught taking bribes,

including free vacations and a free fucking quarter million dollar RV from a billionaire donor who, how should I describe, let's just say it has a certain affinity for, to collect the artwork of a failed Austrian artist famous in the 1930s. And Joe Biden's response to this was to form a blue ribbon commission full of people who he knew would tell him

to do nothing about this and they came back and said, hey, actually everything's fine. He said, see, what am I going to do? And then fucking walked away from it, right? So, yeah. Anyway, the result of this latest, the current status of this gerrymandering push,

and we'll look at this map right here. This is a data of visualization from the New York Times. basically over the last two weeks, new court rulings, new congressional maps, have put Republicans back on track to have more than a dozen districts that voted for Donald Trump.

They're going to end up basically structurally with a 4% lead, so Democrats have to win the popular vote margin by like 5% to win the House in general. So devs will probably still take the house in this environment, but it makes their odds a little longer in the long term.

This is pretty fucking damaging to anybody that wants Democratic representation in this country. So everything I'm saying so far makes sense. Huh? Yeah. You're asking? Yeah, yeah. Sorry. Yeah. So this environment, so the Democrats did some college professor propose like a scheme to get around the Virginia Supreme Court. And here's Fox News responding to it pretty hilariously if you got this video on Matt.

Lawmakers vented anger at their defeat at the Virginia Supreme Court. They spoke about a collective determination to flip two or three Republican health. seats under the existing map and discussed a bank shop proposal to redraw the congressional lines anyway. Most dramatic idea they discussed, which would be involved, the unusual gambit to replace the entire Supreme Court of Virginia with the goal of reinstating their gerrymandered map. One key to the plan would be having Democrats in Richmond, but with the mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices. Can you imagine? Unbelievable. Firing the Virginia Supreme Court, by the way, if you want to take off in a purple state, independent, we

you need to win elections, do that. So that's to me, anything. So one of my favorite, I love concern trolling as a genre thing where it's like, I'm sure hope the Democrats don't do this because it would be really bad for Democrats. Oh, no. So I don't think Democrats are going to

do this. Personally, like, in general, I think they should try harder, but this feels a little bit too clever by half. I think the youngest justice is 53. It's to lower the retirement age for the Supreme Court to 53 years old. And, And like basically you'd be a test. It would be enough time for that?

Would they like to get rid of all of like lower the retirement age, force them all out and get them all entirely replaced in, you know, a few months? I mean, I guess you could. You could probably do it in a week or two probably. Right. You should be win hard. And so we also want to note in this context, like Republicans at present are just are stacking the Utah Supreme Court

because of a fight over gerrymandering there. That like the court ruled their new. maps are unconstitutional. So they're just simply the impeached one judge. They're adding two more of the Supreme Court to swing the balance of power. It's like a weird thing we're like, I do agree that it's asymmetrical where which side's allowed to do as part

of normal and which side's fucking crazy. I mean, the Ohio Republicans have just like changed the playbook entirely, but it's completely ignoring their state Supreme Court orders, which is another option here for Democrats in Virginia. But I don't think this is a way to I don't think this is a good way for society

to be going. You know what I'm saying? But to be fair, the Supreme Court of Virginia opinion was insanely stupid and obviously motivated to achieve a desired result. For context here, the justices are elected by the state legislature. And so they're not really partisan. And they're usually elected bipartisanly, but like four deuce Q's conservative, and those are the four that voted to do this. The case is called Scott B. Medougal. A four justice majority, the Virginia High Court ruled that the amended process was unconstitutional, rendering the voter-approved

Matt Nullin-voy. I want to note here that other than other kinds of jurymandering, this map was voter-approved. Right. Which puts it in a separate category to me, but like, whatever. The basic logic here, I need you to follow me closely. The Virginia Constitution requires the General Assembly

to pass a constitutional amendment twice before it goes to voters for ratification. Basically, you have to pass it once before an election, and then again, after an election, before to go to voters. The idea is to give the voters two temperate times to weigh in. Once, they kick in the bums out of office if they put a measure up for vote that you fucking hate. And secondly, to vote it down if you fucking hate it, right?

Okay. They first passed it on October 31st. The election was November 4th, and they passed it again in January. The catch is, Virginia has 45 days of early voting. So even though the plain meeting of the law specifies the general election or first to general election day, which they were before, they were technically 40 days into early voting. So that's what the Supreme Court, they just invented a never before used standard to throw this fucking voter approved referendum out.

They were 40 days into early voting when they passed it the first time. Yes. Before the election. Right. Which I, 45 days of early voting does sound like I'm not, like I don't really care. Like I've been Joe in favor of making it easier

for everybody to vote. That does sound like a lot. But even then, like, this general, again, they passed it twice and the voters approved it. Right. So, like, people, got the way in a bunch on this.

There was a huge campaign about it. They spent millions of millions of dollars and everyone went to go vote. Nobody could create the uninformed. If you voted for a legislature, legislator who voted for this later, you still had a chance to vote against the measure, the referendum. Right.

Yeah. So like, it's completely manufactured horse shit. But the way everyone's covering this, it's like, this gerrymandering push started with Virginia. Like the fight is like, it's worth remembering the general belief system.

here. Liberals and Democrats, including me, tend to believe that gerrymandering is bad because people should be in generally equal footing and it's worth noting that Democrats in Congress have opposed to a national bill banning it altogether. Conservatives like gerrymandering, basically because they think people with power

have the right to get to decide stuff, and if you don't like it, you should seize some fucking power. Yeah. Right? Yes. Also, I mean, it allows, it's one of the mechanisms of which they can stack the deck in their favor despite, you know, have been their policies be generally unpopular

and that type of thing, right? Well, they think the power is naturally stacked in their favor because, yes, money gives you more power, but the judge market, the free market has adjudicated them to be the more successful, smarter people, so therefore they get to wield it. Uh-huh, okay. It's not stacked.

The system giving them all the power and money is what's fair. Right. And because they've been given it, they should be able to determine how to keep it, leverage it, grow it, expand it, all that stuff. Exactly. By divine right. It's a divine right of kings except it's the free market is the God.

The divine being. Yeah, right. And it's decided because they started a successful used car dealership that they should get to rule their city. Yeah. Right. Right. So, arguing about whether the Texas or New York or Virginia started, it's weird because it's baked into belief systems of the parties. But anyway, so they brings this to the Supreme Court decision, which again was called Louisiana versus Kaleh.

Goes back a couple years. So arguing about when this started is weird. another reason. It went through a couple of different iterations of court fights. Basically, after the 2020 census, new maps were issued in Louisiana. And then a group called non-African American voters followed a lawsuit led by a guy named Philip Burke Calais,

who lives near Baton Rouge. That's what I note here, that Bert is not Phillips' legal name anyway, shape, or form. Bert's in quotes, Bert is Philip's nickname that he goes by. He goes by Bert. Our voting rights have been overturned by a guy named Philip who goes by Bert from Baton Rouge.

Yeah. He should be focusing on his frog leg recipe and stuff like that. I trust the guy named Bert when it comes to that, you know. Yeah. To talk about gumbo and that type of shit, but not determining the electoral landscape of the country or nothing. I was trying to figure out why his nickname is Bert.

Then I looked at a picture of him. If you got this picture, Matt. I think it's because he looks like Bert and Bert and Ernie, if you got this man. And Matt pulls it up. He's the guy on the right, but I think he'll immediately be able to tell. Yeah.

That's Bert. He looks like a bird-looking motherfucker. He has a very burnt-looking motherfucker. I agree with you. It's worth it. noting that Bert is an election conspiracy theorist who was at January 6th of course. In a post from February,

Bert dismissed concerns about access to mail-in voting. He told one user with a disability to, quote, find someone to haul you to the polls. So if you're handicapped and want to vote, just climb in your cousin's wheelbarrow. Oh, my God. See what I'm saying about, like, if you don't like power sees it,

he thinks like if you can't drag your ass to fucking polls, then God has decided that you, You don't get the boat by making your legs not work. Right. Right. Yeah. So, yeah. Sorry.

Never mind. I'm sorry. Sorry. I just did two podcasts back to back. And earlier me and Corey were talking about people. Some came up a guy that hates disability activist. Like I could say it was like, who can be against disability activists? I was like, it's got really hates ramps, right?

And then you made a whip. Then this came up. And I was like, another guy who hates ramps. And then realize this is two completely different podcasts. They run together, guys. What do you want me to tell you? Anyway, fuck, bur. But you're on?

there. It's like, why do they get a ramp when I have to walk up the steps with my stupid legs? Right. Yeah. So yeah, because of all this, Supreme Court is wiped out, which is basically the last vestige of the Voting Rights Act in this case. They flip the law in its head basically to say it's racist to draw

majority black districts. Right. Yeah. So, yeah, I saw a lot of the coverage I saw when this passed from like right-leaning outlets and shit. That's how they all presented. That's a spin they all went with. The Supreme Court has just valiantly struck down this racist practice. Right. And it's like, so the, the ostensible logic there is because drawing them explicitly by using racial demographics, that's, oh, it should all be colorblind.

Otherwise, it's racist is what they, how they would present it. Right. I don't like, I don't want to be like, do it super big to be fair here thing, but I just want to think about this in context because it is impossible to draw a perfectly quote unquote fair map. I know. I was actually going to ask you that. too because I was thinking about it's like well how do you know I mean how should it work if you know people are you're supposed to elect in a democracy like we have people are supposed to elect representatives you know ideally that represent their interests so like communities that are of a

certain type you know you'd think they should have uh at least someone who understands you know their concerns and their community and that type of thing or can't relate to them and that but I don't know how you guarantee that when it comes to giving X number of congressional districts in any given state and deciding where the lines have to be drawn. I know the way that they're doing it is obviously ridiculous. Like you're talking about Tennessee earlier and the way it's currently drawn is any idiot could look at that and say like, well, this is chicanery is what this is. But yeah, I don't, you know, I mean, how are you supposed to, what is the perfect way to do? You can't just draw like square lines and shit. But that's how the, that's how the UK like drew fucking.

borders in the Middle East and stuff like that. You know, that don't work. Right. You know. Well, they did it to maximize consternation because they wanted people fighting each other all the time. And it worked. You know, way to go Winston Churchill.

So, uh, you fucker. So the, uh, the, like, what you're saying like, yes, like, basically what you want to do is either draw like something approaching a square district with equal numbers of voters between them. But then, like you said, that's not fair because that might also break up Memphis. Right. Or, or do you draw like a, like, keep Memphis together to, try to have like a majority black district and a you know the south is very heavily like

is heavily blacker than the rest of the country right so like wouldn't you want like like black representation but neither one of those are are perfectly fair right so like like what you do is Congress put a bunch of balancing tests into the Voting Rights Act to have fair sober minded people come together and try to weigh those two things right right and Supreme Court has gradually been crushing them one by one and it's worth noting that like since the this 60s, to keep the lid on this stuff, you know, we went through the very contentious issue in the 60s and 70s with, you know, the civil rights movement. And they, we've all decided retroactively the civil rights movement was very nonviolent

because it's worth the sort of nice myths for it to tell each other. But there was a ton of fucking violence to get to something approaching fairness, right? Yeah. So like, but like, I just want to say it's bipartisan, like Reagan signed an expansion of the Voting Rights Act in the 80s. And then George D. Bush signed the last extension of the Voting Rights Act in 2006 with huge majorities. This is all very, very new, this kind of fight.

But, yeah, so basically the Supreme Court, where they did was they found a way to rule the 75% white district is legal, if you call it a political gerrymander, but a 40 to 45% black district is an illegal racial gerrymander. Well, why is it, why is a political gerrymander? Why is that constitutional and okay to begin with? And I get why a racial one isn't, because though that's racist, and it should be colored by them. but calling it, no, this one's done politically, and that's okay. I mean, why? What's the justification for that? As a general rule, and this also tends to work out to their favor a lot

because, you know, the Senate is also rigged to be anti-majoritarian, and once we're doing Jeremy, the House is going to be anti-majoritarian. The president with the electoral college is anti-majoritarian. So the Supreme Court, and all their wisdom, is basically said they sit out political issue. So if somebody's a political issue, that's some of the executive and congressional branches to fight, legislative branches to fight out. Right. And they stick out of it. So how you jurymander instead of political did gerrymander is a political issue for other, the parties to fight out.

Whether or not people have civil rights is it, is a court case. Okay. So what they've said is like, it's against white people's civil rights to all black districts. That's why they got rid of them. The rest of it's left up the politicians. Okay. Right. So, yeah.

So anyway, this is why all the southern states, are redrawing all their boundaries real quick in a hurry before the fall to try to stop, you know, insulate themselves from the damage of Trump having a 30% approval rating. But the way that's being presented, like this is all the fault of Virginia Democrats for trying to fight back exactly once. Like, if you think that's true, I just have a chunk of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel to sell you. Okay. I thought, so again, I know you're from Virginia and also you're the most informed dude, I know,

but I didn't even know until we sat down here and you started saying that, that is what people were saying. Because I, because I thought that I was in Texas and we were. went to a protest when they were talking about doing their big new gerrymandar like last year. And right after that, in my recollection, was when California was like, all right, well, we'll do it back, motherfuckers. I don't even remember Virginia, you know what I mean? Like, I didn't even recall that Virginia was the inciting incident for any of that or nothing.

Like, I thought it started with Texas and California and then it's like spiraled out from there. Not started, it's been going on for years, but you know what I mean? This is not conservative media is spinning it because what they do is the one of the way to do is want to say they want to take the heat off the Supreme Court for it and blame it as like an organic response to Virginia. When right, you're sure you'd say Texas and California Texas went first, California responded

to Texas. People started saying, no, no, Texas is actually responding to New York, which is bullshit because New York Democrats jurymented for Republicans and because, you know, that's stupid. It's all the other thing. But like, like the, it's all I get tired of the who started sort of thing, but it's just, it's not

a matter of who started it because in general conservatives are pro gerrymandering. And you can agree with them if you want. I think it's stupid and un-democratic. But like people, yes, it's undemocratic. I am not for pure democracy. Right. So, but anyway, if you think this is like all just like, just a coincidence is all happening at the same time. Here's governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry on 60 minutes Sunday night. Talk about why he's throwing out already cast votes in primaries. People following the Supreme Court decision, Governor Landry declared a state of emergency and abruptly suspended Congressional House primary

right as voting was starting, ordering a do-over at a future date, leaving voters dazed and confused. You declared a state of emergency. What exactly is the emergency? We've got the highest court of the land says the map that you have is unconstitutional, so we don't have a map under which our voters can vote on. This country has held elections during the Civil War, during two world wars, elections still went on.

We're going to have an election, and we're actually going to have an election on election day. But voting was already. So, people that have been wondering, like talking about Trump canceling elections or whatever, I didn't know how he would ever actually do that. This is what trying to steal an election looks like, and they're probably still a result in Democrats taking the House,

but it's going to be a bunch of corrupt fuckery in between here and then, right? So, like, I feel naive whenever this. kind of fucking, and I don't know what's in any of these guys' hearts or whatever, but like this kind of de facto racism where you're absolutely taking away people's rights, and he can claim for whatever reason that he's doing it because he believes

in the conservative values and Louisiana's a conservative state and they're allowed to do this politically, and why would you try to maximize your political advantage? It's your duty constituents and your party. All that's true. But I just want to say as a side note and other things are doing, that doesn't explain any of this. Louisiana Republicans

landed signed a bill last week, I think, eliminating an elected clerk of criminal court position just days before a Democrat was a base to take office in New Orleans. This guy was exonerie overwhelmingly won the seat and he was set to take office. They say it to cut costs. But the candidate, a guy named is a guy named Calvin Duncan, who's a Democrat whose murder conviction was vacated in 2021. After evidence to murder, the police officers had lied in court and he had ran for office after finishing law school, vowing to help fix a system that once failed him. And they just cannot let this motherfucker have a victory

because he makes them look bad because he's a black man who got a conviction overturned. I want to play this video of Calvin if you got this matter. At 19, when I got arrested, people was telling me that I was going to get executed to get the death penalty. And I asked him, how could I help myself? They said I had to become a lawyer.

I started in law. And I was trying to, you know, prevent myself from being executed, from executing me. And in my case, the jury rejected the debt panel and I was sentenced in the rest of my life.

One of the problems that we had in New Orleans was access in our records. I was court records. Yeah. So, obviously, this guy's a monster

must be stopped. Yeah. This guy, so yeah, he went to law school, got himself exonerated, cops were being shitty, whatever.

Then he gets elected this position. But then the overall state legislature just, eliminated the position he was elected to just because fuck this guy. Yeah. Yeah. How do you spend anything like that other than just as being, you know,

petty horse shit? You know what I'm saying? Like what kind of like actual argument can you make to the public about why that's a fair and just thing to do? But I mean, they don't care to and don't need to because most of their supporters are also like, yeah, fuck that guy. So simple eyes.

I mean, democracy is worth saying here. But like when I talked about, the Voting Rights Act being bipartisan, like, coming out of the Civil War and Jim Crow and civil rights movement and all this stuff, like the first thing of democracy, the first rule of it is you have to be able to take an L. right? And as a person

who skews pretty left wing, I am used to taking L after L after L. A little, ain't that the truth, yeah. And I am willing to eat my shit sandwiches, but Republicans seem no longer willing to eat any of their shit sandwiches, like to fight to keep that guy in prison, him beating you by becoming a jailhouse lawyer, getting exonerated,

then becoming a real lawyer and running for office, and winning a seat in Orleans Parish, which doesn't fucking matter statewide. You can't let him have it. So in this environment, like Alabama's lieutenant governor, who's also president in the state senate, has suggested 7-0 Republican gerrymander calling for his party to eliminate both black Democrats.

Every seat on a map like this would be dark red and heavily white. That's worth noting that Alabama is a quarter black. Also, just on Monday, Supreme Court lifted injunction stopping Alabama from redistricting. They reinstated a Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primaries, they'd plainly was too close the election to block it. But now they're letting Alabama jerrymander one week before primary

after trial court fell on the map was intentionally discriminated or against black voters. So the rules for Texas are 14 weeks different than the rules in Alabama. Right. Also, I don't, I know we talked about, okay, political gerrymandering is okay, and you alluded to this, but it's like, why not, okay, right? So all these new red districts they've created are all white, which is a race, but that don't count as doing it by race. no, that's doing it politically. Well, why can't it, why isn't the old Memphis district?

It's not because it's black. It's because it's Democrat. You know, like, it's politically gerrymandered. It's not, sure, there's a lot of black people there, but we're not using race to determine this. We're drawing it because it's a Democrat district, which makes it a political gerrymander, which should be okay, you would think. Right.

Well, that's the thing is like, because the Republicans redrawing, they're redrawing the map, but we're Republicans, we want to make us a Republicans win. The pursuing court's like, well, we can't do anything about that. Right. That's it. So then they pretend and not know the racial demographics of the districts are breaking up. If you want to see what I'm talking about, here's Tennessee State Senator London Lamar, questioning a redistricting bill of sponsors. A guy my name is John Stevens.

Are you aware that Memphis is predominantly African-American? I am not. So to my sponsor, who went to law school at the University of Memphis and lived there for three years, you're telling me you're not aware that Memphis is predominantly African-American. Am I correct? And Lamar, he's answered that. It's the sponsor aware that Shelby County is predominantly African-American. I'm not aware. Are you aware that?

If there's one thing people know about Memphis? Yeah. Look, I'm not, look, as a Tennessee, I'm not proud of this, but just so people know, I grew up four and a half hours away from Memphis in the northeast corner of Middle Tennessee and all the redneck people I went to school with there called Memphis, Memphrica. That's what they called it, which barely. fucking works. You know what I mean?

It doesn't even use two words and put them together. But what I'm saying is, like you said, every white person in the state of Tennessee is very aware that Memphis is a black city. Like, there's no doubt about it. Yeah, it's 63% black, by the way. And which is part of a bunch of a bunch of conversations about Memphis, it's part of, like Elon put a data center there

without against the will of the people. And part of the reason people are complaining about it because it's environmental racism that is poisoning, using the water of a majority of black city. You cannot exist in Tennessee and not know about this. And like even like there was part of a sports discourse earlier this year when somebody on one of the ESPN talking shows and like Stephen A. Smith and Kendrick Perkins were involved on the side of the racists basically being like those are black guys that we don't follow sports. It's a general thing that the grizzlies cannot get free agents because players are afraid of getting robbed in Memphis is what they were saying. Did you not say LeBron weighed in on that on a fucking golf course like three weeks ago?

which anti-Memphis didn't hit for me. And there's conspiracy theories about that, by the way, that the NBA desperately wants to move the Grizzlies, even if it's just to Nashville. Because in the thing, LeBron's playing golf, and he said, like, just move them to Nashville and that the NBA wants to move them out of Memphis, so they've got this thing going on with all these big voices

talking about how they can't compete, they can't be there because Memphis sucks so bad, basically. It's a real bummer. Yeah, I mean, it's just the whole thing, like I'm wearing my gris t-shirt, because I'm talking about Tennessee heck, we're talking about them today, but like I just want to point out here like,

like as we, as we wrap this up, the speaker of the house in Alabama has called on the courts to overturn the 14th Amendment to get rid of the equal protection clause, but also that would bring back the three-fifth compromise.

Which, people get the three-fifths compromise backwards in their heads. They seem to think it was like written to limit the humanity of black people when they couldn't vote anyway. That wasn't the point. the southern states wanted them to count a whole 100%.

They wanted to be able to keep people enslaved but have them count towards voter representation. Right. So they would have more Congress people or whatever as a state. Right. Yeah. And it was the North that said, no, you can't enslave people and have them count as voters, you fucking idiots. Right. So they're like, oh, it should be zero. So the compromise was three-fifths to limit southern states' political power. Right. So in which case... the three-fifths compromise all these super black southern states would lose congressional seats right right right yeah not the supreme court would let that happen

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