Weekly Skews - S6 Ep30: Weekly Skews – PrattFall

Episode Date: June 10, 2026

It would obviously take a conspiracy to make Spencer Pratt, a well-known failure, fail. We get to the bottom of it. Then, Congress has it’s own CIA? And they’re mostly watching your posts about data centers. Before all that we get to Pete Hegseth declaring Mormonism a cult, which has gone over great in Utah.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 checkoutWeekly Skews is brought to you by Fast Growing Trees. Visit https://www.fastgrowingtrees.com/skew and use the code SKEW for an additional 20% off!This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. BetterHelp makes it easy to get matched online with a qualified therapist. Sign up and get 10% at  https://www.betterhelp.com/skews 

What's up, everybody. Welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It's June 9th, 2026. We're recording this on Monday, June 8th at about 3 o'clock p.m. on the West Coast. I'm back. Y'all don't even want to know from where. It's fine.

But I'm back this week. Happy to be here. It was hell on earth, y'all. He had to go to office for a week straight. I'll tell you about it some other time, Mark. You don't have it. I remember his head on my buddy. I have a good buddy named Paul who he went straight into comedy out of college.

He never really had a job after working at the mall when he was in high school. And he was talking about a friend of Iris who got promoted at a comedy club. We went from being a waiter to a manager. And he was like, bro, he's working like five days a week now. He said that out loud. And I was like, how many days do you think? So. Yeah.

Yeah, I know. No, I mean, you know, it has been a long time since I had to basically show up at what's essentially an office for an eight. an eight-hour workday, five days in a week. That is true. But it was way more just other stuff. What's what we were doing there, Mark? Right. But anyway.

I know. I'm familiar. I'm just making it before. Yeah, I know you've done it before. But you weren't at this particular one. People had no idea what we're talking about. It doesn't matter. We're here.

Drew was here last week, right? Mm-hmm. Was that uneventful? Let go fine? Yeah. Yeah, he did. He didn't do anything insane. He didn't show on the show.

No. No, no, not this time. He did do his normal thing where he dropped like a rhetorical grenade in my lap with a pen out and walked off right before the show ended where it sounds like I was defending the concept of internet adultery, which is not really, anyway, it doesn't matter. Today, we're talking about Spencer Pratt's fucking, like, tilting at windmills in the LA election, which is obviously rigged and then some data center stuff, including apparently Congress has its own CIA now that I got after January 6, which is great.

Everyone needs our intelligence agency, right? So before we get to all that, I want to talk about religion. We're going to get to the bottom of. Pete Hex has been trying to use the Department of Defense to get to the bottom of which one is the one true God. And you'll never guess it's not going that well. Which is the problem referring to is a DOD effort to streamline the way service members' religious affiliations are categorized. They basically did it as overhauled or reduced a number of religious affiliations. The codes involved in their paperwork from more than 200 to just 31 religions.

which involve folding many faith traditions and belief systems in a broader classifications. So like Episcopalians, sorry, you're now just gay Catholics. Methodist, you're just Baptists who do less real estate fraud. And Seventh-day Adventist, you're now Adventists with the regular number of days, whatever that is. So is this like, is this mostly a like, so if you get exploded at war, they'll know, how to handle your spiritual disposition basically. Because otherwise

why do they need to you know categorize a person's I do get that part what I just said but outside of that like you know. They have you know they have a bunch of different chapley they release chaplain. I think it involves the paperwork the chaplains you have to do to accommodate

people's faith traditions. I don't think I have to do it like I don't think it material affects anybody's lived day to day life in the middle. Right. Right. but we'll get to the controversy in a second but I want to point out the list that God just completely got rid of atheists Unitarian Universalists

Which I don't manage there a lot of those in the Marines anyway Pagans and Wiccans So there's no more 10th Army Wiccan division So I guess a couple of our wives Can not join the army if they can't do their sage And essential oil for the shit Yeah that's a shame Unitarian Universalist is that the one where it's like

Hey there's a church and stuff But we don't do God Or they do believe in a God But there's no it's like super woke church is that what that is? Yeah it's woke it's woke church my understanding

right and it's not like affiliated with any of the Abrahamic religions specifically I think it's I don't want to you're gonna make me guess you're asking me like I know

I don't well the way you said the Unitarian Universalist whenever you brought it up made it sound to me like you know they used to have one of those in Oak Ridge I think and I remember getting like

I got a brochure or whatever a pamphlet for that particular church and I you know I still wasn't gonna do it but it was the only time my life that I was like, this church doesn't

seem completely awful. I'm not going to go, but I, you know, and I'm super woke and gay, so I just assumed that they are that too. Yeah, so yeah, they started off as like a Christian, like radical Protestantism and Christian universe list

and then, but then they basically started to dabble a lot of it. Anyway, it's basically, if you want to go to their church, you can. That's all you need to know about it. But what's controversial about it is that they did not put Mormons under the Christian category, which does not hit for Mormons. Where did they put them?

Did they take them out entirely? I think it's in their own category. So, which Senator Mike Lee of Utah has called this repugnant, and he's been all over the internet, basically for the last three days, I think, trying to shit all over Pete Hexeth for being, for religious discrimination, for going after Mormons. Like, he's been, like, Twitter arguments. He's like, because, like, okay, I'm not sure, look, part of the beauty. of being non-religious is like this ain't my fight.

Right. Right. Yeah. I support all y'all. But I don't know what Mormons thought other people thought they were because I was taught in Southern Baptist Sunday school that Mormons are a cult who aren't Christian. Right. Right. I think that's a fairly common. I mean, a lot of Protestants don't think Catholicism is real Christianity. Yeah, right. That's what I was about to say. But I feel like if you're outside of it or whatever, then, you know, like I know that I know that they are. sect of Christianity or whatever. I mean, hell,

Jesus Christ, but also they've got the Latter-day Saints, which I don't know who those guys are or what they do. But I know that they're with Jesus in the title. So it is Christian, but like you said, dude, fucking Church of Christ, I think it's Church of Christ, thinks that

if you're any kind of Christian other than specifically Church of Christ, you will burn in hell for all eternity. So, you know, may wild. It's Christianity's main, invention among the Abraham religions is to think the other ones are all doomed to hell. And that includes within the different denominations. They think each other are doomed to hell.

I think Christchurch of Christ people think Baptists are going to hell. Yeah, right. Because they dance on their birthdays or whatever. So, like, so like I don't, I don't know. But Mike Lee has spent the last few days on Twitter, argue with Magal Blue checkmarks about how Mormonism is Christianity. And he'd be telling him to read the book of Mormon. And you can go through his Twitter feed.

They're like, no. it's the Satan's, it's satanic. And they go like, well, have you read it? He goes, no, why would I read a book that's satanic? So anyway, good luck to Pete Hickson. He says they're going to redo the categories. Well, this is like the white Christian version of those like, like, you know,

gay Republicans or Latino Republicans or that type of thing where it's like, like you didn't realize that you don't count to these people or whatever. they're like shocked to find that or whatever, you know. I do, with Mormons I get it a little bit more because they're so white, you know?

Like I can get why they would be surprised somewhat, but yeah, it's always kind of funny when that happens. Well, it's new that they were surprised because Mormons used to be really pro religious freedom for pretty obvious reasons because they're part of their backstories is they were fucking persecuted. It's why they fled to

Utah in the first place, right? A bunch of them were murdered in literal wars with the United States government over their fucking religion. They also murdered a lot of people in the name of their religion. We'll get to that in a minute. But like, but like the idea of like I, they've thrown, the Mike Lee's throwing in with Maga, they've all forgotten this. I'm always, I keep thinking like, so the people that run like Supreme Court in Congress and J.D. Vance are all like Opus Dei, hardcore right wing Catholics. Pete Hexeth is a hardcore evangelical whose preacher says the Catholics are, Catholics aren't real

Christians and Catholicism should not be allowed to be practiced in public. How do you guys think you're on the same fucking religious team. Right? And how in the world Mormons with their history did they ever think they were on this fucking team? Mike Lee, if you want to be a part of a political tradition that includes religious pluralism, it does exist United States America

or it did until fairly recently and you're just not in it. I don't know what the fuck to tell you. But this is how I learned that Mike Lee is the defendant of a guy named John D. Lee, who's Defendant? Descendant?

Descendant, yeah. That's what I'm going to say. Right. It's a grandpa or something. Yeah, it's great-grandfathers. John D. Lee, who had 19 wives, though 11 did leave him just before he was executed by firing squad for mass murder. He was one of the leaders of the Mountain Meadors massacre.

Them other eight, real ride or died, dude. Fucking, he had eight women still stuck with him. Although, I'll be honest, I didn't know that Mormon sister wives were, like, you know, allowed to leave. So good for those first 11. But anyway, he mass-murdered a bunch of people and then got shot for it. Yeah, he was one of the leaders of the Mount Meadows

massacre where a party of settler colonios who were heading to California named the Baker Francher party. About 120 people were slaughtered by a bunch of Mormons and maybe also Native Americans who we don't, it's not very clear how many were actually Native Americans because a bunch of the Mormons

dressed as Native Americans. If you watch the Taylor Kitch, Netflix, series American Prime Evil a couple of years ago. You saw a fictionalized version of this depicted. Okay. That's what that was about. I still never did get around watching that.

It's on my list, though. I know Mormons is wild in that show. That's all I know. Also, Hello Wheels. It wasn't the Western show. Well, we grew up on the East Coast, man. All this wild west shit, not super familiar with it. But Mormons play a much bigger part of it than you're led to believe.

Yeah, right. Yeah, I didn't really know that. Yeah. But, I mean, it makes sense. I get it because I know roughly when they went out there. And obviously, Utah being the West and shit. but yeah. Yeah.

So, on day three, so they attack the break of the branch party in Mountain Meadows, and they circle the wagons to do what you do, you know, and do this, initiate this standoff, the siege. I think they only killed like six or seven people in the first volley, and then it was just like sitting there looking at each other. On day three, John D. League gets the bright idea. Like, I'm going to do a Trojan horse type situation. So he puts back on his white man clothes and walks over to the wagon train with the white flag.

He's like, hey man, we chase those Indians away. They're gone now. Don't worry about it. Come on out. And then all this goes to like one feather sticking out of his pants or something like that. Don't worry about that. So they come out of their fortifications, the wagon, circle wagons, and then they kill all the men. Then they kill all the women and kidnap 17 of the kids.

It might have killed some of the kids or whatever. Then when the U.S. army got to the bottom of what had happened here, they're like, we think this might have been some Mormons. They're like, oh, the Indians did it. You know, the Indians always like, I guess, like, Indians using, like, dress shoes and shit. We look at these tracks. Don't look great. So they tried John D. Lee and were set to be

executed and Brigham Young supposedly didn't know about it after it happened. Nobody really believed that. But John D. Lee, for his part, did not snitch, kept his mouth shut. And his descendants went on to be very successful, including not just Mike Lee, but

I think four other guys tonight United States senators, another two were a congressman, a Supreme Court Justice, Solicitor General of the United States, and a Utah Supreme Court Justice. So he had a, his life worked out pretty well, even though he got executed by firing squad. It's a real American success story, this guy. So, but, like, I don't know, at least I lost where I was at my fucking out of

a lot. Sorry, but, oh, I hear him want to say this. So, John D. Lee was played in a movie called September dawn about the massacre by John Greece, who you might remember as Uncle Rico. on Napoleon dynamite? What? All right. So this is a movie

where John Voight played Brigham Young. You've got this clip. Here's John Grease as the ancestor of Senator Mike Lee. Women's Who?

You are? That's going to be the last thing Pete Hanks and hears. John Void is Brigham Young, huh? Yeah. Appropriately crazy enough for that. Shit, I kind of want to watch this now. Also, you said that Uncle Rico,

to me forever to realize that's the white lotus dude he's like a major part of white lotus now i was like into like season two or three or whatever and i was like that's fucking uncle rico uh but you know it's always fun when that happens all right all right we're gonna get into it skipping the plugs as we do nowadays mark already told you we're gonna be talking about a little later so let's just get started with the daily dumb ass matt you got that graphic for me buddy do you matt is there a graph I think Matt's got it. This week's D.D., those who call themselves patriots but aren't ready to storm,

man's Chinese theater to declare the guy from the hills, mayor of a town where they don't live and will not visit. This is Representative Randy Fine of Florida talking about this whole Spencer Pratt deal. He recently lost an election in L.A. Matt hit it. A lot of questions are surrounding this. Again, you think about how many states had elections that day. We heard from Iowa, Montana, South Dakota, New Mexico,

and yet we're only talking about California. They are still counting. Sir, what is going on? Well, California has invited these accusations of fraud. They have chosen to create a system that cannot deliver election results on election day. I represent the third largest state in the country. we know who's won the elections within an hour or two of polls closing. And so when you invite this kind of skepticism and then weird things happen,

there's no reasonable explanation than fraud. I believe fraud is absolutely going on in California. So, Randy, again, Randy Fine is from Florida. Like this is ridiculous. Like our elections have become so nationalized to the point that people are weighing on shit that doesn't affect them and has no impact. on them, but I do want to say that Spencer Pratt flying to New York City days before the election

to declare on Fox News that he'd win the L.A. mayor race outright even before the fucking and finish in first place in the jungle primary. Then spike in the football election night after a tiny fraction of votes had been counted, then face planning and missing the runoff as such an incredible collapse. I just have to fucking applaud it.

But he was always going to finish third. Yeah, what's going on? I know I saw a lot of people bitching on Twitter and stuff like, you know, right-wing dumbasses. just saying basically being like you know trying to make it out there like him falling to third all of a sudden

just like it just can't be true can't be the case like how is it possibly legit I mean it's got to be electoral fraud because he didn't come in second he didn't lose it coming second he fell all the way to third and that makes it egregious and inexplicable

outside of like fraudulent rationales but why the fuck are they saying that It's a D plus 40 city with like 15 candidates running, including other Republicans. It was an amazing accomplishment to finish third. Right. Like, he should be fucking celebrated. Put him on money if you want.

But it's like, I don't, like, the stuff they find conspiratorial is insane to me. Let me say something so obvious. It's going to seem like incredibly fucking patronizing when I say it out loud. It would not take a bunch of extra time to not count. if you want to make up a fake number you could have done it a minute after the polls closed right I mean a matter of fact I mean why would you do that

if you were making up a fake number if you were defrauding everyone why would you do anything as suspicious as taking an inordinate amount of time to count the votes or whatever you'd want to make it look as like straightforward as possible if it was some conspiracy

or whatnot. You wouldn't do anything to invite skepticism, although it's always going to be there, but it just doesn't make sense. Well, I mean, like, look, of all our national sicknesses, California has taken this long for, like, decades. It's never been a problem.

It just isn't. If you're a person who doesn't lose sleep over whether or not your congressman got reelected, then who can possibly give a fuck. And the reason it takes so long, it's one, it's our thought, the jungle primary system makes us all vote tactically. So like people literally wait until

the very last minute to vote because they don't know who exactly need to vote for to achieve their actual goals. Right. Like I, like my wife, I didn't turn under our ballots until like the day, election day, she dropped it off on the way back to work at like 4 p.m. or whatever. That's because I did not know, I mean, I'd like, we were just on vacation to get back, but like, people are waiting to see, like, I voted for Karen. Okay, talking about the mayoral primary. I'll vote for Karen Bass four years ago. This time around, I wanted to vote for someone a little more progressive, a little more left

wing. Nothing to mean, I've no hard feelings against Karen Bass. Just wanted to trust something different, right? But there were three progressive challengers and I had to wait to see who was polling closest to Bass to see who had been most useful to put my vote towards. So I am, I guess I'm part of the conspiracy

that I waited to the last minute. But part of the reason California takes their long-account votes is because they have such a, like, a small, L. liberal voting system that lets, they wants to encourage as many people to vote by mail and vote by as possible. They take longer to make sure the votes were legal. They spent extra time curing ballots and judging signatures and shit. And to give you in a month to fucking go to the county register office and contest it

if your balance was being correct or processed incorrectly. So they're trying hard to get it right. It's also just a government job. They go home at five. So I don't know what you want from it. It's just like it's the most big, it's the biggest pile of nothing. But yeah, the print, yeah, go ahead. Well, just I don't like, what is up with Spencer Pratt and the whole thing to begin with?

It's just they latched onto him because, like you said, it's a crazy accomplishment that he even got third. Like the fact that he was having, I don't know if it's because of his celebrity or whatever, but him being like one of their candidates in a race like this and making any kind of noise, they like, you know, glommed onto that or backed him for that reason. That's where like the interest came from to begin with. or something. It's just because they know him from the TV. And like,

because he's, he's been good at going viral by making stupid AI videos that we'll get to. But like, like, like he just like, they keep saying like, how did Nithia Rathman pass him? No one knows who Nithia Raman is.

And I'm like, well, you don't because you live in fucking Florida and Austin, Texas and New Jersey and Philadelphia. Nithia Raman's really well known in Los Angeles. She, uh,

uh, one as a DSA challenger to an incumbent in 2020. defeating an incumbent in LA City Council does not fucking happen she got like aOC comparisons in 2020

then in 2023 the Democratic establishment in LA tried to turf her out by redistricting because she was so annoying progressive

so I voted I voted for her because she annoys the same people that annoy me so I don't want to do that but like anyway

like so in comparison to TV to Spencer Pratt TV Guy included Pratt in his 2013 list of the quote

the 60 nastiest villains of of all time on television. He has a 60% disapproval rate in Los Angeles. Just because you know him from your screens does not mean that we like him. 87% of his money came from outside of Los Angeles. He made a,

like he made, he did a, one, all of his campaign videos were AI generated in a town where all the actors live. Right. Yeah. And he was, I mean, he was a reality star or whatever, but he was like, you know,

in the business or whatnot. And I remember Heidi, right? Heidi was his lady. Are they still together? Anyway, I know she tried to, you know, make the leap, make the transition into like mainstream fame

and all that shit. And they had their, you know, there were all tabloid stars and stuff. I hate, you know, which I hated the whole time. Me too.

Yeah. But they just, they just did dancing with the stars. last year. Like she did. He was like, he wore another mask and unmasked her

or whatever. Like, like, the idea that like, there's some grand swell of affection of the general public for Sprintso Pratt is not something that's evidenced any sort of facts.

And like, like one of his ads, like the, it involved a couple of yoga ladies who were talking about how, you know what? Spencer Pratt has some good ideas. I like him too.

Don't tell anybody, but I'm going to vote for Spencer Pratt. These were three women who were AI generated. He could not find three women to pretend to like his candidacy. so why do you think that there's some sort of like

that you must be like some sort of conspiracy to defeat him because dude these people even though they think you know LA and San Francisco and all these like California cities are you know fucking coastal liberal hellholes and all that shit even though they both think that they also

think that like somehow that everyone agrees with them you know or even if it's like secretly especially any white people or whatever. It's like secretly they actually agree. Everyone really thinks this. They're just too cowardly to admit it or something like that,

even though there's all this evidence, you know, to the contrary. But a lot of these people live so deep in their own bubble and everything that they're like, they just... LA had just been waiting for a guy like Spencer Pratt to allow them to embrace, you know, their true MAGA feelings as an electorate or whatever. Like these people really talked themselves into shit like that. that. I want to ask them

what they think he would be able to accomplish. Like, if no one else the city council was on his side about fucking anything, he could probably get a few more cops on the beat and cooperate more with ice. That's about all he could do. Like, let him be fucking mayor who gives a shit. But I cannot for the life of me understand

what all these people live in Florida and Texas and whatever care about L.A. City trash collection and what the fuck ever. It's goddamn insane to me. But I do like this. I think a really fun idea. The Democrats have this unbeatable fucking vote rigging operation. I know. But instead of

losing it all the fucking time. They basically just use it sadistically. They wait until Republicans are about to have some sort of big upset and then whoop turn it on. But they don't turn it. Instead, they don't use to stop Donald Trump from becoming president and then trying to

put them all in fucking jail. I think they're using it inappropriately, is my point. Well, it's that same thing with our weather machine. that we have don't somehow don't didn't use that

to put out the fires in California or whatever just so people wouldn't know that we sent those hurricanes to the south or whatever the fuck happened um I've been I've been

trying to get in touch with the people down at weather machine HQ uh because you know as the leftist propagandist I have I know some people that run the weather machine trying to make sure

that the UFC thing on Sunday you know we gin up a big thunderstorm for that some really like send the tornado through there if possible I thought the White House UFC thing Sunday I thought it was to last 4th I'm pretty sure it's Sunday oh okay yeah like it's all it's like part of America's birthday deal or whatever but it's this Sunday I think but anyway trying to

see if I can get some time on the weather machine to send a big why wouldn't they fight the rain there what is the think of they get brain damage of broken bones in the rain. Let them fight in the rain. They will, apparently, so you ain't seen people talking about that? Because it's like, there's like a 65% chance that's, as of right now, for weather. And they say they will fight in the rain.

But if there's any lightning or like high winds or anything, then they'll have to call it, they said. The guy, the UFC guy said that. Oh, was there, what, I'm sorry, did George Washington his men not fighting the weather? You fucking pussies? Thought you loved America. So part of this, all these election lies have somehow been financially supported by Kalsi and Polly Market. At least 16 influencers, this is according to the article I was reading, with a collective audience of 13 million have published election-related misinformation posts sponsored by Pauly Market. Here's an example you want to throw that up, Matt, from an influencer by the name of Owen Schroier.

Owen Schroyer is a former Info Wars correspondent. He was a paid partnership with Polymarket for some fucking reason. Previously, he was named a defendant a defamation lawsuit by the Sandhook families and was found liable by default because he didn't show up to court. He's also sentenced to 60 days in jail for his role in January 6th. So you definitely wouldn't be paying this guy

to be associated with your politics betting brand. Cali's doing this shit too. There's a screen grab in there from a Post by Gunther Eggleman. There's not a real name. That guy. Oh, yeah. Another guy in Cowish's payroll said,

we should all fly to L.A. and vote for Pratt. Nothing can stop us. They don't require voter ID. If you believe that, please come try this and fucking end up in prison. You guys are all so fucking stupid. Then Pondmark and Kalshi had to realize they were fucking with their own money.

It had tell the people that they're paying for advertisements not to promote election conspiracies because I want to emphasize this here. they take money for people who gamble on elections. Right. Yeah. If the election results are fraudulent, they can't take bets on them. Right.

Yeah. It'd be like a NFL sports book accusing the fucking refs of being in the pocket of the mafia. Anyway, they finally told me to cut it out. What if like the book at like Churchill Downs like Sea Biscuits, juiced? You know, it wouldn't do it really work. But so to understand, like, another reason these consideracy theories are stupid, you got to understand the players here. So, like, the top three are Karen Bass, Spencer Pratt, and Nithia Rahman, as I said before. I told you why that Rahman isn't, like, super popular with the L.A. Democratic establishment, which should be self-evidence by the fact she's running against the sitting Democratic mayor.

So in this scenario, I want to ask, who do you think? think is rigging it for nithiarama right the votes are counted by this county not the city but she doesn't really have a constituency among the elites and either but karen bass for her part remember the couple weeks ago you were asking about whether or not uh democrats are doing some sort of election chican chicanery to support any republican candidates and some cynical fuckery mhm karen bas was kind of doing that with spencer pratt right yeah because she would be more confident in winning the general against Spencer Pratt, right? Then this and Rahman.

It was all the polls that were saying Spencer Pratt was in a close second place to Karen Bass promoted by, it was interning polls done by the Bass campaign. She's the one telling Spencer Pratt's followers he was just about to do it. Mom Donied, right? Yes. By Rama. Yeah. So she really wants like Pratt to be in the general because she, like, if I'm, let me

quotes from some polls here, she's favored to be Pratt by about 18 and only and Romano by only about four, which would probably close with the momentum of being in the general, right? So, who is the they here rigging it to fuck Pratt? I can't figure it out for the life of me. Antifa, Mark. Yeah, I guess.

The deep pockets of far left Antifa. The same people that can't get bike lanes or a single fucking homeless shelter built in L.A. County, right? Yeah. So, and like, if you're not familiar with Spencer Pratt and how fucking stupid this all is. They're throwing in behind him as

like the candidate, the Republican candidate of the future of the whole country's rooting for. Since the hills, he's been doing, I'm a celebrity, get me out of here, and he wrapped into the name Great White. In July. Word? First of all, that's already a band

name, right, from the 80s. Like 80s, like fucking hair metal or that type of thing, whatever they were called Great White, but also, wow. He didn't even You didn't even have his own rap career So Heidi was trying to sing And he was like her MC Scat cat

Rapping in between her third third firsts Oh my God dog Imagine that I'm glad I knew Heidi tried to sing Try to be a pop star whatever I did not know that he was doing the like You know the shitty ass rap interludes or whatnot That's the worst thing I can imagine

musical. It's the like the Drake line on Meek Mill when he was bad when Meek was engaged to Nickyman dies like that in a world tour

that's a girl's tour pretty much the most devastating line in world history so they're so desperate to remain famous which have to be a part of how you understand

this fucking campaign for mayor in July of 2010 Heidi Montag filed for divorce from Pratt but they called up the divorce

after confessing the action was intended to boost her career then they renewed their vows. They did a fake divorce to get in TMZ and it didn't work so they just got fucking remarried. Brad was also arrested in jail in Costa Rica on September 2010 while attempting to board an aircraft with guns.

So there. So his actual campaign, I can't explain to you the degree to which he was not trying to do anything. Like, this is a total fabrication. What do you mean, like, politically? or you mean like he didn't even mean for it to go this far or what do you mean he wasn't trying to

he had no like policy no platform no plan of any kind he just talk shit and made AI videos he's basically that like he was campaigning like he did fundraisers

in Beverly Hills or whatever but I'm telling you he was doing his press appearances in New York on Fox News which is not a way you fucking reach voters in LA County right or the city of Los Angeles

He also like So his campaign was based upon two things His personal narrative Because his house burned down In the Palisades fire To which he responded by lying And pretending that he was living in an airstream trail In his burnt down lot

When he actually he was staying at a hotel in Beverly Hills While his family lives in fucking Santa Barbara In a mansion Right And his actual campaign platform was just about killing the homeless basically. There was no like... It was just like we got...

He literally... He went on Fox News and they complained about how all the homeless people are raping their dogs. Their own dogs? Yes. Our dogs.

Their dogs. The homeless people's dogs. Yes. The homeless people of dogs. Not Angelino's dogs. Not they're raping our dogs. They're raping their own dogs. Well, you know.

Hell. It's their dogs. dog. Find your own business. What you wanted to do? Yes. You might have missed this. We're going way over on this because I've fucking,

I got a lot of complaints about Spencer Press. That's okay. So, you know, he's the only like, like, a material campaign platform. He wanted to take money from

a nonprofit program and see he's been financing. Like, homelessness is down in Los Angeles. Uh, by a fairly significant margin. Not enough to where it's gone or anything. That's fucking,

it's not, going to ever be going to be gone. We know the political will to accomplish that, but she put a bass or the city government put a lot of money in some non-profits that managed to get the problem down somewhat, right? It's like boring, fairly meaningful progress. Mitz's campaigned upon, is based upon saying those numbers or lies. He's going to defund all those charities and give them money to cops who will then hit the homeless people in the head with batons and then the problem will be solved. Right. Right. That's it. It's wild to me to think.

think that anybody in Los Angeles wants more money for the LAPD. All I ever hear out here is people complaining about them generally. You know, they're like, they've started full-on riots and shit in the past, obviously, and super racist and all that. But also, like, like, if you're like buying a house, it's like a thing, it's like one of the things that realtors were talking about is, you know, just how long it'll take the cops to show up if you call them in anyone given neighborhood or whatever. You know, it's one of the big selling point.

points to Burbank is Burbank's got its own police department or whatnot because everybody bitches about them all the time. But the people that have come out to the public to support him are all wealthy Hollywood types in Beverly Hills. The police are an amorphous concept who crack other people's heads elsewhere. Right. Well, I guess also even after I say that, I guess anybody that's like conservative out here would hear me say that and be like, yeah, that's why they need more money. You know, that would be their response to that. So never mind. Either way, he lost, so that house. So, go ahead. Sorry, go ahead. Sorry, we're going to say?

Well, nothing. No, you do it. I wanted to play the, like, when I say he wasn't tried to win, his most successful campaign ad, I want to play this for you if you got this, man. There's an AI-generated video where Spencer Pratt is Batman. Please, I'm begging you. There's homeless drug addicts in front of the schools. My children aren't safe. Look, if you were a transgender migrant, I could get you a free pussy.

see. All right. And that's Puppet Nithy Ross. So that's Karen Bass and Joker makeup. Gavin Newsom hosting this decadent

banquet where he offers a free pussy. And Nithia Rothman's a marionette on a string and like, Kamala Harris is also there. So if you can make sense about what he wants to accomplish

other than he's vaguely against trans people and wants to like thinks the DSA are like dressed like cops. I don't fucking understand. what's happening there. But apparently that really

resonated with the online right who say they don't know who Nithyromid is even though she's a puppet in that video. So my big picture takeaway from this is that someone

like Spencer Pratt will be the Republican nominee in 2028. Like they're going to nominate some fucking psycho with no resume who makes AI videos and J.D. Vance will kill himself.

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I think it was very detrimental and very inappropriate and disrespectful language to be used. People in Shelbyville are calling out their own mayor after he was caught on camera saying this. I've seen a lot of these all over town. Yes, more than 30. But they're on court. But I only see him in

Houses It was All right. So what he was saying was he's seen a lot of these signs opposing data centers He's only seen them in front of shitty houses

Oh, okay And then I was like, did he say the N-Wark? And then he was Shitting houses, okay. And then they were like They were mortified

and he goes, he goes, but they're people's houses and he goes, mostly rentals. If you wonder, Marie Antoinette would sound like if she lived in fucking suburban Indiana.

So, yeah, this is about a proposed $2 billion data center, which is like, I'm a bit of a political flashpoint in that small city of Shelby and Vienna. And it sort of blew up after this because can you imagine anything going more viral in a small town than a mayor making fun of everybody's shitty house? Yeah, I mean, I don't know anything about Shelbyville,

but I mean, dude, it's Indiana, you know? I don't know. Maybe it's a wealthy fucking suburb. I don't know anything about it. Shelbyville. But I would just imagine in Indiana there'd be plenty of working class white people who would be pissed off by that. I mean like

people live in like houses that their dad had because who wants to fight. But I guess we had he just send the couple from Lovett and listed around to see who's allowed to vote. I guess that's the plan we're going to do. That's our new fucking Jim Crow poll taxes is like some sort of

like HDTV show will they come and inspect your fucking set up to see if you're landed entry. So, but shit got real heat in Shelbyville. That happened after this exchange at the city council meeting, which you've got to fucking see the augurs of this to believe it.

Mayor Scott Ferguson's comments came after this fiery exchange at Monday's council meeting. Okay, can you guys share how much money you all are getting from the data center? Who? Zero. You? Us? Yeah. Oh, zero.

Seven million dollars. I hope you're getting something because people are going to die from this going up in our community. What you really want to say is I'm getting $7 million sarcastically when the residents of your town are like, why are you fucking doing this and everybody hates it? Right.

Well, why are they doing it when everybody hates it? They're getting something, right? Isn't this like what BJ talked about when he was on here, right? When he was running for city council and his town. Look, I will say this, in defense of city councils like this, right? They're looking at their constituents who all politicians consider their constituents largely robs. And the constituents don't want to pay taxes, but they want stuff.

And then you have a data center comes to town. It's going to build a parcel of land that nobody's using or used to be in some sort of factory or something. And they're like, we'll go put this up and you will get millions of dollars of free tax money to use as you wish. Now, I have my suspicions. There have been communities where the tax money doesn't like materialize. I think a lot of the funding for these data centers are going to fall through before they're finished being built. The cities have also been caught giving them way too many tax incentives to where it's not even designed to show up where it's built upon a lie upon the city. But that is the promise.

That is what they're doing. So to their mind, they're like, what do you Robs want? Do you want the school to still be open? Because the state doesn't set us any money. And the constituents are like, well, we want the schools to be open. We don't want this building that keeps us up at night with the noise and gives us all cancer. and they're like, well, we can't have everything. Right. Okay.

So, but I, like, we got to ask a question on whatever a skew and a is recently about, messaging with the midterms. I got no idea, dude. I do think politicians talk too fake or whatever, but I continue to be amazed that, like, this is such a layup of an issue that somebody's not grabbing a hold of it and making it their main thing. Here's a video from MSNBC or whatever MSNBC, NBC, or whatever MSC, see MS now, wherever it's called now, last week where Texas voters are told by James

Tala Rico. Night. It's changed everything about how she lives for life, including political politics. Red or blue, if you vote against data, you vote from you. A lifelong conservative, she's so angry. She refuses to vote for Trump Act Attorney General Ken Paxton. Clinched the GOP nomination for Senate Tuesday. It said she's all in for James Talarico.

seeking to flip a seat controlled by Republicans since 1993. You're willing at this point to forego basically every conservative issue and let the Senate fall into the hands of Democrats if that's what it takes to kill data centers. Yep. My entire community is going to break rank. Everybody. All of us. We've had enough.

Breaking rank. We've got a middle-aged white conservative lady in Texas rocking a Gojira shirt. Takes all kinds, Mark. That is a French heavy metal band. Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty hard. I know my drawing for you, but you're starting to be in the age bracket where old people will be wearing shirts of bands you like, Drake.

That's true. Anytime I see, I know how dumb it is because of fucking Paul Ryan loved rage against a machine or whatever, but any time I see somebody that's like representing some sort of musical taste that I like like or appreciate, I'm always, and part of my brain goes like, well, they must be pretty cool, you know. But it don't be like that.

Well, she does seem cool enough as far as, you know, Texas conservatives go. She seems she's fed up. They love being fed up. She's fed up in like a way that I can agree with right now. Yeah. Yeah. So a gallopold for March found the 7 and 10 Americans opposed to the local construction of data centers for AI. 7 and 10 is almost too many to maybe comfortable.

Like, that's too many people to agree. with me. Like about, that leaves 30% of people on the other side. And like 30% is a magic number in polling in American politics. 30% of people believe in Bigfoot, ghosts. 30% of people

consult tarot cards and fortune tellers. Exactly 30% of Americans say that presidential elections should be the side of the electoral college rather than the popular vote. Basically, you get 30% of people in America to say they believe in anything. Right. So the thing about this movement is

one that you've got to get comfortable with is you're going to have people, you're going to have a lot of Maha people on your side. You're going to have the 5G fucking conspiracy theory people on your head. They're really on your side. They think the things, the noises from the thing are giving them cancer. You got the NIMBY's

on your side. But in just in nine months, the American public has swung 49 points against AI data centers. Swing voters, the thing people love more than anything else in American politics, I have fucking found them, Trey. Let me read this to you.

He made me, news's data shows that one of the top predictors, if not top predictor of local opposition to a data center project is if the area voted for Barack Obama for president and then Donald Trump for president. Huh.

I found them. I thought they didn't exist. Right. What is... I mean, obviously, I agree with them about the data centers, but what, like, what has, tangibly has happened here, do you think? Like, You said it was a 49 point swing in less than a year.

That's pretty crazy. It's not like there was like a big high profile case of a data center and fucking exploding and blowing up an elementary school or whatever or going Chernobyl or some shit. Like, it's just like some sort of groundswell of public awareness or something or when they found out, oh, it's weird techie shit. I don't like that generally, but also there's no jobs associated with it and whatever. and it just, something just turned or what?

Let me, okay, so people generally get the vibes of stuff, and they tend to be direction, often be directionally correct, right? Even if they don't follow the details of it. So if I were to tell you that, you know, you go to school, your kids' class size is bigger than it was last year, you drive through a pothole on the way home, you flip through a new story about how they say your job in your place with AI in five years.

Another news story says they're building an AI data center in your town. It's going to be loud. No one wants it. Maybe you don't want it. And then also you get, you get, here's this. I don't know if people know this, but like more money in this country is now being invested in AI data centers than is using all public infrastructure combined. That's so crazy.

So obviously one's private sector and one's public sector, but we as a society, you get to decide what's private and what public. Yeah. It's just such a crazy. Like, man. massive bet, you know? Like everybody, just, all the fucking rich people decided at the same time to just be all in

on this, this one fucking thing. It seems like it's pretty wild to me. Yeah. And like, so like, so people have a vague sense that too much is being put in this. When, when trillions of dollars

are being bet on business dickhead AS stuff that you're being told is going to ruin your life, that's the advertisement for it. While also, your kid's school isn't being adequately funded. You just get the vague sense these things are bullshit. Right.

You know, and everybody sort of fucking shares it. Now, this part of it's a moral panic, but rarely there's a moral panic go in a good way. So, I will simply follow the mob on this one.

Like, I mentioned the fact that a lot of this tax revenue is not going to materialize, but like even if it does, there's another part of it. Do you familiar with the term Dutch disease? Dutch disease? Yeah, it's a term economist's used for like when too much of an economy

is leveraged on one thing. And it's like, I forget what that, why it's actually used Dutch, but like the classic example is Venezuela. Like it said, for a certain point, 80% of Venezuela's economy depending upon oil exports, which is not a healthy way for a country to live.

You've got to diversify your bonds. And word. Right. That's a real show. Anyway. Yeah. So, you get Dave Chappelle is a great investment. devices.

It's truly the war buffeting. It was one of the Wu-Tang Clan who said that in the schedule. Anyway, and I do trust them over at Wutang Financial. But yeah, you've got to diversified your portfolio with money and shit. You can't be all in on one thing. I assume it's called Dutch disease because they put everything into wooden shoes. It might have been the tulips, but yeah. So, okay, right now Northern Virginia, which has been nicknamed Data Center Alley by some people.

they have so many data centers. If you rely, like, for example, if you allow an oil and gas revenue for your state's budget, eventually you'd kind of be reliant upon that industry to a point where you're not able to successfully regulate it as much as people would like. The example of that one is Alaska, right? Right.

So what's happening in counties like Loudoun in Virginia, the counties started to warn that their budget is on track to be 60% data center revenues. And they're actually very concerned about how much data center money is providing a foundation. for their living and they're recommended and gets relying on it so much data center money because it presents our who's in charge of who fucking scenario. Yeah.

Your county ends up working for the data center. Right. Yeah. It's like a company town type of thing or whatever. The way that like, you know, big coal at a stranglehold on all these communities and stuff for so long and everything. Because it's like they pay the fucking bills or whatnot. And you feel like you said, it's like who's in charge here and it becomes. it sounds pretty clear who that actually is, you know.

And so right now in Congress, there's a bill for National Data Center moratorium that's sponsored by AOC and Bernie. Now, Bernie is for it because Bernie's a true believer in AI. Right? He thinks it's going to work and it's going to be the god that fucking can destroy everything if we don't have ownership of it. So what he wants is like a public ownership and universal basic income for like on the other side of AI when the robots do all the jobs.

when we live in the Jets. Bernie is all the other than I'm going to live on the Jetsons. All right. I don't agree with them, but like, whatever. But I agree with it. If we're going in that direction anyway, we definitely, it would be better to have the Bernie approach of actually regulating the fucking shit and being prepared for it instead of just bending over and spreading our cheeks

the way we seem to be doing. We're building so many of these goddamn things that like, like, no one knows how many are being built, where the financing is fully coming from, how much if it's going to fall through when the bubble pops, yada, yada, yada. No one's even really tracking them nationwide except for, Trey, Aaron Brockovich is on it. Aaron Brockovich has started an organization to track data centers based on public reporting. Basically, when no one else would do anything in the United States, we all got to rely on Aaron Brockovich to get in time.

But I do want to let you know that Congress has noticed the backlash, and they're on it, by which I mean spying on you, I may quote here from this article titled, Congress is CIA, I's data data center critics. So after January 6th, I didn't know this. The Capitol Police started their own intelligence services bureau to have intel by which I gather what they do is surf the internet. I could have done that job for him. But everybody started getting private security a few years ago is like a like a status symbol, like all the rich people did. and now it's sort of extenuated to like private intelligence

like all they don't have their own blackwater and shit working for them and now CIA had to get it and their Congress had to get on on theirs so their intelligence agency sent this note to Congress warning them of potential how they just read the news and forwarded a summary of it to Congress

told them that by the way people who shut up a data center and people took through a Molotov cocktail at Sam Alwin's house there's only one problem here is the report admits there is no evidence of any actual threat to Congress. I mean, quote, here, the U.S. Capitol Police is not investigating any data center motivated threats to members of Congress. So, the official report is, there's nothing going on. Stay safe out there.

But we're keeping an eye on the American people, which is their job is law enforcement. They've been, like, compiling non-legally actionable death threats and forward them, like, who would never see them otherwise. So if, like, someone on the internet says, man, we've got to kill Congress about these data centers. And I as a member of Congress don't see it. Because there's some random Yahoo and Facebook, but you find it and send it to me. Are you the one making me feel threatened?

Yeah. I mean, it's both. If somebody sends me, if Corey just sent me a random comment and he saw that it was like a death threat to me and I had not seen it. I still wouldn't appreciate the death threat, but I would also be like, what the fuck, bro? I'm fucking. Yeah, Corey's the bad guy here. I didn't have to know that. That's why I don't go looking for that shit.

And all these, do you know what an intelligence future center in there is? So after 9-11, Homeland Security sent up all these regional intelligence centers to share information with law enforcement around the country. And they're all also watching people's anti-AI data center posts on social media. And that's where I discovered that, so if you guys, literally, they're circling in ports where people like us, bitch about Bulgarian jihad or call for it. making a reference to the Dune movies for books. They're sharing that, like, we're calling for actual jihad, and preparing to fight us.

But that's how I discovered that NYPD is tracking the Zizians. Do you know the Zizians? Is that that... Is that the death cult for AI, the AI death cult, or whatever the fuck, in California?

Yeah, they're one of the Silicon Valley rationalist cults. This one has a couple buys to them. They kill that. Border Patrol agent at the beginning of last year in Vermont. But the Silicon Valley is,

I'm always bringing up. Sam Altman, Elon, all in different rationales cults. Zizians are, want to kill the robot god before it takes power. They also have it to be

mostly a group of, a lot of them are trans, including Ziz, who's the leader of it. So basically I just have this funny image of like a NYPD cop whose wife's yelling at him

to get out of the garage. He's like, Marie, I'm keeping an aisle on the Zizians. They're like French Dividians that want to kill the robot god and they're trans. sleep.

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