Weekly Skews - S6 Ep33: Weekly Skews - HBD America, with Corey Ryan Forrester

Episode Date: July 1, 2026

This week Mark is regrettably absent, and it just so happens to be America’s 250th birthday week. Coincidence? Yes, yes it is a coincidence. He’s fine and will return next week but in the meantime the one and only Cho joins Trae to opine on the state of things in this husk of an empire. Weekly Skews is brought to you by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. If you believe religious freedom is supposed to protect everybody, not be weaponized to turn away good families, visit https://www.au.org/crooked to learn more and become a member today. Weekly Skews is brought to you by Fast Growing Trees. Visit https://www.fastgrowingtrees.com/skew and use the code SKEW. Listeners to our show get 20% their first purchase when using the code SKEW at checkout.Go to https://Leesa.com for 30% off select mattresses PLUS get an extra $50 off with promo code SKEW, exclusive for my listeners. 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 checkout

What's up, everybody. Welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It is Tuesday, June 30th, 2026, the week of America's 250th birthday. This is weekly skews. I'm Trey. That's not Mark. You might have noticed. Mark was a rare absence, a little family issue, but he'll be okay. He'll be back next week. Everything's fine. You know, he wouldn't want you caring too much about him or anything in the world. Just act like I never said anything about it, in fact. He'll feel weird if y'all acknowledge anything happened. But he'll be back next week. And in his stead, as is often the case, common guests. host and chief good buddy correspondent, Corey Ryan Forster, the show. Hey, Cho, how you doing? I'm doing well, Trey. I'm very happy to be here celebrating America's 250th birthday. It's a good one.

You know, we've really matured. We're a mature 250, I think. Coming into our own, really in our crime right now. So just everybody knows you probably, this is a thing that I imagine could go without saying but I usually say those things. That's part of my whole thing as I say the things that could have gone without saying. This is going to be quite a bit looser of an episode because, you know, any sports fans we have out there, which I know is not many, but Mark is sort of like the play-by-play. Right. And then I'm like the color commentator. And then you, because you're usually feeling for me, you're also, what we've got here is two color commentators. I'm Booger McFarland, I would say. Right. Yeah. And so, but my point is,

We both, we're not the ones that know stuff, you know. Right. You've got two guys that just comment on things said by the guy who knows stuff. And the guy who knows stuff isn't here today. So it's going to be a little more loosey-goosey. But we're going to try to keep up. I've got some news for you. I know about some things that are happening in the world.

But before we get into all that, normally we don't do plugs anymore, but I got an important plug for everybody right now. Because y'all know that this is America's 250th birthday. producer Matt want me to tell y'all about something he's working on in Seattle this weekend. Y'all know producer Matt's always up to something. Well, this Saturday, July 4th, you might have heard of it. Our very own producer Matt is bringing the backroads tour home to the Tractor Tavern in Seattle, Washington, for a more progressive take on America's 250th birthday.

Imagine that. So they're going to have live music from John Tavius Willis, Melissa Carper, and the Reverend Mary Gold. It starts at 4 o'clock, 4 p.m. Seattle time. So if you're wanting to celebrate a better vision for this country than what we've been getting from the Trump administration, you're in the Pacific Northwest up there in that general area there around Seattle, Washington, then consider going to hang out with producer Matt at the Tractor Tavern in Seattle.

It's an early show, so we have plenty of time to catch the fireworks afterwards. You can get tickets to that at backroads.us. backroads.us. So that's the only plug for now. I'll ask Cho for his at the end. I'll throw mine in at the end as well. I was about to say I don't adhere to your no plug bullshit because otherwise I'm just doing this show for free.

I only come on here to plug. Well, I mean, we still do plugs at the end. I had just stopped doing them two times. But if you're, since you're doing me a favor of being here, if you want to plug stuff now, you can. Yeah, Corey writes for you.com. I'm in the middle of a wonderful, and these are not my words. these are the fans words.

Southern crime drama called Here We Rest. People are really, really, really loving it. You can get it absolutely for free at CoreyRights for you.com, which is my substack. And Here We Rest made me, it shot me up to number 15 on the substack rankings, and I'd love to stay there. So you can subscribe for free, Corey rights for you.com. It's a lot of fun.

Thank you, Trey. Yeah, no problem. All right. So with that, and with no further ado, we're going to get started as we often do with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. this week's d d tim dylan for not yet mastering the art of overlord ingratiation despite having one of the all-time goats for a mentor matt hit it my worry is that in the guise of fighting china we're going to become china saying palinters should merge all these different government databases so your health data and your criminal justice data and your tax data all merges and who's doing that palantir so you go and then

they go, well, Trinie's got a credit score. Well, what the hell is that? Have you gotten any invites to any bunkers? No. No. Do you think you'd feel differently if you did? Okay. So what the fuck, bro?

So you tell me if I'm being silly or hyperbolic or overreacting, but that kind of made my blood run cold a little bit when Joe Rogan asked him that question. Because I, he's not, he's not, I know that Joe Rogan is a comedian, but he's not doing a bit, right? He doesn't really do that. on his show, I don't think. Like, he's being serious. Or am I being stupid? No, that was the point I was about to make. And it kind of doesn't matter whether he was or not because, like, he has definitely worn out his welcome in the, hey, I'm just a comedian space.

Like, because, yeah, he, when can you tell? Like, for the most part, Joe, like, obviously started out as a comedian. And when the show first, me and you were both huge Joe Rogan experienced listeners and I listened to it because of the comedy and it wasn't just that it was like always laugh out loud funny but he would have comedians on there to tell stories so it was all comedy first but like he has 100% entered the space of a self-titled philosopher free thinker type person so unless he just says by the way I'm kidding I take everything he says at face value and the guys hanging out with Dana White. he's hanging out with Elon Musk and stuff.

Like, I think he's definitely being serious, you know. Yeah, and being serious about what he said, you know, so Tim Dillon is criticizing the way things are going just generally. And then he says, okay, but have you been invited to any bunkers yet? And then do you think you'd feel differently if you had? It's just such a wild thing to say because it's implying like, you know, well, if they let you into the club, then maybe you'd be on board, right? Right.

almost like it's like him justifying the turn that he's made because he's like acknowledging like oh well I'm in now they'll let me go on living after the fall and that justifies uh you know sucking them off at every turn basically and that's just like uh I don't know that's just a wild ass um sort of bitch made position in my opinion for somebody somebody to take you know I couldn't agree more I mean it's basically it's just saying like, hey, all this stuff is super evil, and we know it's evil, but if you get invited to the club and you become one of them, it won't affect you, so why would you care? And then you'll be in, yeah, right. That's what so many people, like, it's a lack of empathy,

it's a lack of fucking common decency. Like, I heard so many people during any of the three Trump elections who were basically like, they would say something like, I don't know why people get so been out of shape about the presidential election because, like, you know, there have been so many different presidents in my lifetime and none of it has affected me personally. And these are all middle class white people who are saying that. And it's like, yeah, well, no shit. Some people have the capacity to think about other people. And they really just don't. And like, I don't know if Joe ever did, but you're known by the company you keep. And he is exclusively hanging out with, I mean, I would say that, like, 90s.

of the people he talks to on a daily basis are like clinical sociopaths. Oh, yeah, because it's all, it feels like it's mostly like tech billionaires and stuff now. And it's like, like, I know he's like pro flock cameras and stuff now because he had the billionaire on that started those on his show lately. And it's like, you know, people have said for a long time, it's like when he, he just agrees with the last smart person he had on the show or whatever. And he used to have, like Bernie Sanders would be one of those people, you know. but it feels like he don't do that anymore. But if y'all are wondering how Tim responded to that, Matt, you can play the rest of the clip because I think it's pretty on point. If somebody said to me, a few people are going to survive and it's just going to be you and these people and everybody else is going to die, it's tough.

How fun would it be, though? Is it fun? Is it fun if the whole world dies? And I'm just sitting and having dinner with JD Vance and his wife? Right. Okay, yeah, but you know, that's a thing, because I said, you didn't, you hadn't even seen it, I just texted you about Rogan having said that, and you had the same organic initial response, which I agree with. You want to be like in a bunker for the, you know, during the rest of

the apocalypse with Peter Thiel and his blood boy, you'll be his blood boy, I guess. Of course. You know, like, although your blood don't hit and my blood don't hit. But, you know, it just wouldn't hit to be there either way, I feel like. Well, and also, also, you count your days because, like, yeah, you might be there, but you're certainly not at the top of the list of hitters there. So, like, when resources do start depleting, you're going to be the one getting butt-fucked and turned into fuel, you know. 100%. But, yeah, I think that this whole scenario reminds me of my similar take, which I know you agree with.

We've talked about it a lot. It's basically the same way I feel about, like, the Southern Baptist Christian version of heaven, you know. it's like oh yes right you're right that is it is a similar thing it's like they're like don't you want to go to heaven and i'm like not if y'all are there you know and like every cool person i've ever known and liked is going to be in hell the way y'all describe it so i think i'd rather go down there yeah like every single thing that brings me joy in life you have labeled as a sin so what am i even going to do up there like i mean what the like i don't i don't get it but yeah man like it's just so crazy that like on hand, we're talking about the bunkers, but then on the other hand, those, the same people will

turn around and tell you that everything is fine. Like, there's just a lot of cognitive dissonance going on, and I don't, I don't know, man, like, it's just, but yeah, no, if I had to be in a bunker with, with anybody, it certainly wouldn't be those people. I mean, even me and you in a bunker, you're my best friend. I love you, but, like, we'd eventually drive each other insane. Yeah, you'd have to have two different ends of the bunker, like a bunker do play. or something. You can retreat to your own part of the bunker, I feel like. But, yeah, so America's birthday is coming up 250th,

and this is something I brought up to Mark recently. Do you think that if literally anybody else was the president right now from either party, like basically the equivalent of any president that we've had in our lifetime, mine and yours, like, how do you think this would be going? Do you think they'd be having some big grand thing and there'd be, all kinds of, you know, celebrities involved and it'd be just sort of a bipartisan celebration with everybody just being like, yay, America? Or do you think there'd be some divisive bullshit either way? I mean, dude, and I will be fair to the Republicans on this because, yeah, I don't

think this specifically is like, oh, this is how Republicans handle it. No, this is how Trump is handled it. Yeah, right. Like, my favorite... Yeah, I think it's a George Bush. If we had turned 250 during George W. Bush or whatever, I think they would... It would be respectful. Yeah, right, 100%. He's my favorite war criminal slash painter, and I know he's a piece of shit, but like as far as... You got him over Hitler, huh?

Where do you rank Hitler in that? War criminal slash painters. I've never seen Hitler's golf game, you know, so like I have to give Bush. Like, I've said it a million times, like, fuck Bush, fuck all those people, but like the dude did like, he could meet the moment.

You know what I mean? Like, he could absolutely meet the moment, whether that was good or bad. But, like, I do think there would be some type of spectacle because, I mean, dude, it's 250. It is a big deal. And we do have pride in this country. And there's a lot of things that we should have pride in this country for.

Oddly enough, the thing that I feel like we should have the most pride for, which is, like, our diversity, like, that was what this country was founded on. Like, hey, we're not just going to be this homogenous slop fest like all of Europe. We take everybody. The thing that we should have the most pride in is the thing. that we are underplaying the most. Matter of fact, we are attacking it as something that's horrible. But dude,

yeah, first off, if Obama was doing it, you know Springsteen would be headlining, which would be fucking fire. It'd be great. But I also think that like, you take away if it was right after the Dixie Chicks thing, maybe a lot of people wouldn't come out in support of Bush, but like

if Bush, if 250 had to happen during maybe pre-9-11 Bush or whatever, I think even people who disagreed with Bush's politics would have thought of it as, yes, this is bipartisan and you don't salute the man, you salute the office, you know, and this is about the country and he just happens to be who litigian. I think that, like, you know, you'd have your blue angels flying over and you'd have some country music, but I think it would all be respectful, and it wouldn't be this,

because what Trump is doing essentially is not happy birthday to America, it's happy birthday to half of America is what he's doing. And I don't think any other person. president in my lifetime. I say in my lifetime, who knows what would have happened with Andrew Jackson and all these people. But like, no, they wouldn't have done that. There's most, most presidents up until Trump did at least have a little respect of what should be bipartisan activities. And they would at least give lip service to, like, well, I represent all Americans. Even if you disagree with me, that's fine. And we're all Americans at the end of the day. And even there would be tons of Americans who were like, fuck you die, whatever.

But like, the president, though, would still be like, it's your right as an American to feel that way. And I represent you both. But Trump is the first one, again, in our living memories, that's ever not done that. He's actively like, no, fuck you if you ain't on board. And this ain't for you. And it's just politicized everything to the point that it's just ruined what should have been a pretty joyous celebration. There still would have been an undertone of, you know, existential dread and stuff.

because I'm sure climate change would still be going hard. Late stage capitalism still be fucking everybody's butts and all that. But we could all at least put it aside and pretend to be in a good mood and on the same team for a little while if literally anyone else was in charge during this milestone other than this motherfucker. It really does feel like a worst case scenario to me. But you said, oh, the one thing we should be celebrating and instead of denigrating is, you know, our diversity and all that's what this country was founded on. Well, there's some news on that front, actually, which we'll, well, we'll get to right. after this.

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all right so I don't know if you know but the Supreme Court session just ended they had a bunch of different decisions the one that I think they closed with is the one that most Democrats are the happiest with I think a lot of people saw this coming relevant to what you were talking about the Supreme Court has upheld birthright citizenship so I don't know if you even knew if that that was being determined right now because I'm going to be honest. I kind of figured that they were going to try to fuck with that. But I didn't see anything on it. He put out all those executive orders and shit

right when he first got in there and it's somewhere along the way he put out an executive order, you know, I'm doing air quotes, ending birthright citizenship, which an executive order can't do that. And then that went, and it got all the way of Supreme Court, and they put out their decision today. And they ruled, I think it was six to three in favor of upholding

birthright citizenship. Either way, it was the majority. Amy Coney Barrett flipped. I know with the liberals and they so now they said the 14th Amendment defined you know it said that citizenship is a right granted

to every quote every freeborn citizen of this land right and this is obviously because we had had slavery slavery slavery it ended and that was them saying these people are American citizens and they were born here well people on the right were saying like yeah well they only meant that about

They didn't mean Mexicans or whatever. So, like, that was their argument for getting rid of it, but it's been upheld, which obviously I, an decision that I agree with. And I've just always thought that, like, in it, first of all, I'm with you on, I do believe that's what, I don't know how you can make any kind of good faith argument that America isn't a country founded by and of for immigrants. That's objectively the case. We killed the people who did live here and everyone, you know, and then. but also I just don't what are they supposed to do

people that like whatever anchor babies and shit you got somebody whose parents were illegal immigrants but they gave birth to them in fucking LA or somewhere in Texas or something

and they've never lived anywhere else and they're 20 years old and you're gonna deport them or whatever like to where like they might even speak the other language they've only ever been

an American I just don't know how you can argue that that's the way that things should work I just think that that's crazy and makes you an asshole if you think that.

But a lot of people are assholes and racist. If we're going to fucking attack loopholes here, which is what they're claiming this is, like, oh, it's just a loophole. That's what they do. They come in here and they have this anchor baby and it's a loophole. Well, fucking, I hear about loopholes all the time from these people, like, such as their taxes or whatever, like, oh, I'm not, you know, I'm not having to pay. It's just a loophole and I took advantage of it.

That makes me smart. Okay, well, that makes these people smart. I'm sorry that they found a loophole that you don't agree. with, but if we want to start attacking these loopholes, then let's look at the loopholes that you benefit from that fuck other people over. But it's ridiculous. Like, I mean, I don't know, dude. Like, if someone is, if someone's an American and they're on vacation in Canada and they're born in Canada, you don't let them become president, which obviously states to you that being born on this soil is somehow divine. So if it so happens to be a Guatemalan,

that does it and they're an American. I don't know what to tell you. Yeah, and not that you should ever look to the current iteration of Twitter, Elon Musk is Twitter for any kind of like political commentary, but, but I still do sometimes just because I want to see just how wild they're getting over there. And so the response to this on Twitter, dude, there's people on there. And again, it's Twitter. They do this on purpose. They're all fucking edge lords and they love to bait everybody and everything. But like there's people in there saying like that this is this is now the end of America, you know, because, you know, the whole great replacement theory, like white people are

being eliminated in this country. And this is like the final stepping stone in that. And they're like that like they're going to have to take matters into their own hands. I guess that's just them saying soon we're going to have to start killing immigrants. Killing immigrants and brown people in the streets and stuff, I guess. So that's, you know, encouraging. but at least the Supreme Court did the right thing. But it's like, I just don't.

It's like, it's like I said, I just, I don't, I'm never in favor of anything that hurts a kid that didn't have anything to do with the decision making. Like, you remember when we first started touring and stuff? Carolla. We went on Adam Carolla's show and we were talking at that time about they were taking away school lunches from kids whose parents didn't pay or whatever. Right. And I was like, well, you know, I just, I grew up, so I was a super poor kid. We were on food stamps and shit. And so I just, I don't, I'm never in favor of anything that punishes a kid because their parents are poor.

And Carolla was like, well, I did too. And he, and he grew up to, he grew up the same way. And he was like, and I get, his stance on it was basically like, you know, whatever. It, like, builds character. I turned out fine. Yeah, you turned it to a mad old man that just screams about shit. But the other, but the thing about that, it, there's a part of that, like, all. Like, you know, you know me.

I do kind of wear that as a badge of honor sometimes that I grew up. But first of all, we had food stamps and shit. Like, I was a fat kid. I didn't have food taken away for me by the government. I had it given to me by the government. But I'm saying I do kind of wear that as a badge of honor sometimes. But still, that don't mean I want to take food out of other poor kids' mouths for any fucking reason. I just think that that's insane.

And I feel like this argument about anchor babies and shit is another. side of that same coin you know it's like whatever whatever the parents fucking motivations were whatever when they did it that that baby ain't got nothing to do with that i could care i could care less yeah and i mean there it's that whole like you know going through tough shit makes tough men i agree with that and like but there's gray areas here like so for instance like you know me and you both struggled in comedy for years before we saw any type of success and me personally like i didn't even have a good job. I was just broke and shit was horrible and I was doing drugs and stuff. And like, I do think now that looking back on it, it's like, yeah, I needed to go through all that because

it made me a more well-rounded person and a better comedian. Sure, right? I agree with that. But we're talking about children with fucking food. It's a different situation. And also, like, I cannot make this point enough. It behooves us as a nation to take care of children because for every person, like you and Adam Carolla who went through, you know, that system or whatever, or for every, for every kid who was denied something and then shook it off and made it have them a tough skin and got through it, there's a hundred kids who felt neglected by the system and ended up going into a life of fucking crime because they didn't have anything and they weren't taken care of and they weren't educated. So like to me, it has nothing to do with what's fair or whatever. It's just a net

positive if kids are taken care of. It is just like it's it's an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Like we worry, all we want to do now is like we have these robbers and we have these thieves and murderers and we want to find out how to solve that problem now. But you could solve, you could make it to where that never even happens if you just take care of people. And it would be a financial benefit. It's called an investment. Yeah, exactly. Well, I mean, I say that all the time about myself too. It's not even just about like, avoiding the negative outcomes, although all that is also true. But I say it's like, you know, again, I had food stamps.

I had pale grants and all that type of shit and interest rate free loans, all that fafta stuff, all that like government welfare programs and everything. Right. And I have now at the age of 40, I have paid the federal government back in taxes so much more. Right. So much more than I ever got in the form of those benefits. So the, so it was a good, the ROI on me was pretty good. Pretty good.

It's like you invest in people and it works out for the better, but I just don't, I don't, you know, I don't know. People think that, I don't know how much of it is because they, they just think the government's going to inherently always do a bad job of it or something. Or it's just, you know, they just, they don't, they think poor people are going to be pieces of shit no matter how much you invest in. I definitely think that's a big part of it for a lot of people. And then there's racism because a lot of them when they think poor, they think black and brown, and then they think the previous thing I said. And it's just all that rolled up into one. But it's just so illogical, in my opinion.

This isn't even my opinion. It's nobody's opinion. It's just facts. Like, yes, there is welfare fraud. Of course there is. No matter what system you have, there's always going to be somebody that games a system. There is, of course, welfare fraud. But if you look at the numbers, the percentage of welfare fraud versus people who use,

it correctly is just, it's staggering. It doesn't happen at the rate that they think that it does. And in my opinion, you should never base a law on the small number of people who fuck it over. Of course. You should never do that because, again, like, to me, I swear to God, if I see a family, a mother of five, and let's look at who is benefiting from these things. A lot of times, Now, let me invent my own Joe the plumber. There's Marianne from the South, whose husband was deployed to Afghanistan. They had five kids. He died.

And now she's got to raise these five kids. And she gets benefits to help her kids. I don't give a fuck if a million people are taking advantage of the system. As long as the system is in place to help Marianne, I'm for it. I'm 100% for it. Yeah, no, right. It's like that saying in criminal justice about, you know, it's better to let a thousand guilty men go free than to, you know,

lock one innocent man up. Correct. Or whatever. And I mean, I agree with that too. And obviously we've moved away a little bit from the birthright citizenship thing, but the underlying principles applied. There was one other decision in this session, this latest Supreme Court session, that Democrat, that the left generally favored.

They ruled in favor. of mail-in ballots. So another decision they had was to, you know, it's another like voter suppression attempt by the right. But basically all it says is that as long as you're, if mail-in ballots, as long as they're postmarked by election day, they, you know, still count, which like to me, it's like, I mean, of course. And I live in California and there's so many people out here.

And that's how it works out here. And it does take a long time to count the votes usually. and that people, anything that takes a while that gives dumbasses a longer amount of time to cook up some half-baked conspiracy theory about what's really going on or whatever. Right. And so, but I don't give a fuck. I just don't see any reason that you would have it work any other way. It's also just, like I said, a bald-faced attempt by them to just make it harder for people to vote because the more people in this country that vote the worst outcomes are for them electorally. And I don't, you know, Stevie Wonder could see that.

So, you know, what are we doing here? But the court ruled five to four, Amy Coney Barrett again and John Roberts again, joining the liberals in upholding that. And it's so clear who it is that they won't voting because like, you know. Who does mailing voting versus who goes down there? Yeah. The mammals and papas, they go on election day. Right, right. And that's the thing.

You got your mammals and papaws who are retired, they can go whenever, right? Then you've got your CEO type people who like can always fuck off for an hour from work because and they've got nannies that look after their kids and all this shit. And yeah, I mean, it's just very clear. Because like, dude, I'm, I make my own schedule and still with the kid and with everything, sometimes like I do get down there to vote. But sometimes I'm getting it in at the wire because it's like, oh, I got this and I got this and I got that. And like if you're someone, like I said, if you're Marianne and you've got five kids and you work a, you don't work a nine to five, you know, you work night shift or whatever, it's going to be more difficult for you to get down to the polls. And mail-in voting was made to make it easier so that everybody's voice can be heard. But they don't want those people voting because those people overwhelmingly vote for workers' rights, which is a tenant of the Democratic Party. yeah no yeah 100% um but that got upheld so you know that's at least there's that was although i mean in earlier in this same session they did kind of gut other big parts of the

voting rights act obviously like the gerrymandering part so they upheld the mail-in voting part but they also uh really they raised substantially raised the bar for proving uh voting rights acts violations again that was like back back last month but basically just said that, you know, the southern state, the red states and stuff can gerrymander to their heart's content pretty much and claim that it's not, uh, or you can't, it's, it, you can't gerrymander on racial grounds, right? And, uh, because that would be racist. So what they do instead is, uh, classist. Jerry, yeah, do it in a way that scro, that keeps black people, that disenfranchises black people. That's actually the less racist way, uh, to do it. You see,

Cho. Well, that's good on them for going the less racist. route. You know, they're getting better. Sure, yeah. But it, uh... I also don't understand how that they're like, with fucking, uh, mail-in voting, there's going to be more fraud or whatever. Like, have you seen what it's like to just regularly vote? Like, I go in and, you know, we've still got, uh, it's digital and all that stuff, but then you print off a thing. When I go down, I'm the only fucking liberal that votes in my particular precinct. You know how easy it would be for them just to take my thing and just throw

it away if they wanted to. Like, it's not like that building is Fort Knox or anything. Like, I'm not saying voter fraud doesn't exist, but I do not understand how mail-in ballots make it inherently easier for voter fraud. It's just so stupid. They just make shit up. Yeah, and I don't know. I mean, I guess now, it's a little different now because of all the digital systems and stuff. So you, hypothetically, God only knows who, because, you know, I mean, there's people on the left now that are like, well Elon Musk is fucking fixing elections and shit now. Do you know what I mean? And like changing the digital tallies and stuff like that.

So the waters are getting very, very muddied. But for a long time, I was always like, dude, who is what, what, who's got the motivation to like commit voter fraud, you know, like risk, like prison and that type of thing to do that, like to vote multiple times or whatever, even if it's like getting all your dead relatives, having. submitted a vote somehow and it's like 15 votes in a state of 50 million people or whatever, you know? Yeah. Like, who do they think is out here doing that? And there's never been, to my knowledge to this day, any significant, there's never, it's never been proven that any significant voter fraud has happened in any of these recent elections on the left. The only time they've ever found any examples of it, I think, were lunatics on the right. Back in the day, though, I mean, you know that, I mean, this is just kind of a tangentially relinquency.

fun little side story, but back in, well, I say fun. Back like, LBJ got his political start by like straight up buying and coercing an election in the part of Texas he was in. Yeah. Did you know that? He, I don't remember exactly how I went about it. But he like, he like intimidated people into voting for him or he just like threw out the votes for the, whatever it was, it was super underhanded and shady. I'll show you my dick again if you don't. Yeah, that was his number one technique in later years. But, you know, but yeah, in the modern era, they've looked over and over in the 2020 election that Trump still calls fraudulent to this day. And they've checked, like, so many times they're so desperate to prove it.

And just nothing. They never found nothing. They never found anything. And also, why didn't they do it again for Kamala? Right. Like, why did they, if it was so effective. And Trump's... Also just the fuck in the House and in the Senate and just everywhere.

Why don't we have health care? You know what I mean? Right. Why aren't we taking more of y'all's hard-earned tax dollars and giving them to more poor people? Why don't we have universal health care and more socialist policies and stuff? Why isn't... But why aren't both houses of the Congress deep, deep blue?

If the left has mastered the art of fucking electoral manipulation or whatever like that. The left ain't mastered the art of shit. except for annoying me. That's the whole thing they do too about talking on both sides of their mouth. It's like the part that, you know, y'all talk about how like weak-willed and ineffectual they are. And it's like, I'm with you on that. But you can't both say that. And then that they're pulling all the strings at the highest levels when it comes to elections and stuff.

When y'all have been running shit fucking carte blanche for way too goddamn long now. Like I just don't. It doesn't make any sense. George Soros gets way too much shine. Like he's not doing shit, man. I've been waiting on that motherfucker to call. I say it all the time. But like if he was this fucking man behind the curtain,

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They basically ruled that, okay, they struck down longstanding campaign finance restrictions. So basically like lifted restrictions on how much money political parties could spend in coordination with certain candidates or whatever, right? And it's like I feel, and I know a lot of lefty queers feel pretty strongly that like Citizens United and all the money in our. politics and stuff is like the number one thing that has fucked us so bad. Yeah. I mean, we were just talking about George, so where's George Soroset and all that stuff? It's like that. The role money plays in American politics is like one of the biggest problems we have.

So I, you know, this one is a colossal bummer, but not at all surprising to me. So they say that restricting those sort of like campaign finance spending. that would be a violation of the First Amendment. That violates free speech rights, they said. Political spending is a form of speech, and therefore it would violate the First Amendment to restrict political spending at all. Boy, they are really, they really play fast and loose with that first amendment, man. The free speech thing, yeah.

Well, I tell you what, they just haven't quite figured it out. To me, it's pretty well set in stone and seems right, but they, I don't know, man. God, whatever. Yeah, so let's see here. It says a string of Supreme Court rulings has stripped back campaign finance restrictions over the years, including the landmark 2010 Citizens United Decision, which paved the way for unlimited independent expenditures by Super PACs. And so this is, I think, so that's why they had Super PACs. It was like that was a loophole, right?

You're talking about loophole. Super PACs were like a loophole to have unlimited spending, but it still did apply. to the restrictions still did apply to like the parties themselves, I think. And now they don't, I guess. So it's just, you know, we're just even more fucked. It's like you can't be more pregnant. I don't know how much more. Well, I shouldn't say that.

We can and will be way more fucked, I'm sure, all the money and the rich people and stuff. I mean, I'm starting to, I hear you. I do for some reason I've felt hope. but it's only but yeah but you know what it was just since the Knicks one that was it like the Knicks one and Mom Domney I was about to say

the next one and then you saw more of Zoram Mamdani after that because he's got that Obama quality of like he'll make you feel hope I know I mean you were saying earlier he can never be president right because he wasn't born there but he's right which is a very unfortunate he definitely got it like that though he does and

not only that like he's actually doing things like It's not just lip. It's not just like because a lot of liberals, Democrats, like there's a lot of lip service. They say a lot of things that I agree about, but then they get a little bit of a better power and they don't do anything. He's actually doing things. And like he's doing them. And I'm seeing a lot of people who would have normally been super against this guy who I'm not saying that they're going, I'm deregistering as a Republican and going to become a Democratic socialist.

But like he's getting some flowers from some people that I didn't think he would get flowers for. and he's making New York better, and New York could be the canary in the coal mine of what the rest of the country should look like. And it just does give me a little hope that he's becoming really popular because he obviously can't get it done, become president, but he can be an example to other people who feel the same way as he does that, like, hey, it is no longer the complete uphill battle you thought it was these policies and the way I'm doing them are popular and this is what you should start telling people. Right. Well, the other thing is there's people on the right here still trying to,

I was reading an article about this yesterday, trying to make him the like, they're like trying to make him the face of the, of the left right now in an effort to scare people because he's brown and mother. Right. And a lot of people like the top Reddit comment, the first thing I thought, the first thing I think a lot of people think was like, well, I don't think that's going to work. out for them the way that they think it will. Like that could really, really backfire, in my opinion. I don't think they necessarily want to do that. But they're putting a lot

of stock in, yeah, him being a brown Muslim guy with a wild-sounding name. But I think you're right. Like people, like, who is this? People in Kansas or whatever, and then they listen to him and everything. And I think that, you know, I don't think it'll go the way people expect. All the bullshit they say, too,

is like, it's insane. Bro, he won Donald Trump over when he went to the White House after he won, Trump was like, this guy's kind of cool actually this guy's pretty all right he uh yeah and he would probably do numbers on joe rogan but like it's so funny the way that they try to attack him which is like it is so insane that 20 years after 9-11 we elect a muslim mayor and it's like that doesn't apply in any other situation like nobody's like can you believe that 20 years after the oklahoma city bombing they elected a christian as the mayor you know what i mean like what the fuck does one have to do with the other but he's doing great work

And he does have that, like, he's fucking cool, man. Like, he really is cool. Like, that speech he gave about the Nix. Oh, dude. It was fire. And I saw a lot of people in the comments being like, well, you know that he pre-wrote that, right? And I'm like, oh. Fuck what?

You think the Gettysburg Address wasn't pre-written or whatever? Like, Trump has made these people think that you have to freestyle, you know? But, like, even if, of course he wrote it, but guess what? It was bars, son. It was awesome. Yeah. And I'm sure you saw, like, and then people. Knicks fan took that speech and like cut it into like a highlight reel of their championship run or whatever.

Dude, dude, it's so bad. I don't even give, you know, I've never been a Knicks fan or nothing. I was happy that they won, but I'm saying I've never cared about them really. But watching that, I was like, it made me fucking hype. And I can't stand people who jerk off over politicians. Like I've never been, like, I've got ones that I like more than others. But like, I got to tell you, like, that dude got me hype. And I was like, I'm on the mom, Donnie train.

Yeah, me too. All right, well, let's see. Well, we got another bad one. Trump v. Slaughter, this one. This was about presidential removal power. So he fired at least one, maybe a couple commissioners of independent agencies. I remember it's because, like, the numbers they were giving him didn't hit for him. They were real numbers, but he was like, I don't like these numbers.

He fired him. He fired them. He fired him. He was like, give me somebody in there. They'll bring me numbers that do hit for me, you know, whether they're true or not. Classic him move. But that ended up going to the Supreme Court as to whether or not he could do that

because the thought at the time was that, you know, he can't because we ostensibly have checks and balances in this country. And again, those agencies are called independent. Like that's in the name of the, you know, the description of what those agencies are. They're independent and regulatory. But this Supreme Court ruled that they ruled in favor of the president having that power. So expanded presidential power to fire independent agency officials at will. So again, it's just a removal of one of the few remaining checks we have in all those checks and balances.

Me and you heard so much about in like middle school and junior high and stuff when learning about how American government work. Yeah. People. Right. Right. Yeah, I know. And it is. It is the most important thing.

Yeah. But like it was as a kid like, bro, it could not have been positioned as any more. important than it was. Like every fucking teacher I ever had, Republican or Democrat, they all were just like, and the only reason this whole thing works is because we have these checks and balances. And it was, and it's such a good system that it was simple enough for a third grader to understand and be like, oh, that is right because absolute power corrupts absolutely. And boy, that just doesn't, it doesn't favor the current regime. No, no it does not It's all that You know That's why all these protests Are called the no king's protest

Because they've just been chipping away at those This whole time And he's acting like a king And yeah that was one of the founding principles This country you know You'd think was that We don't fuck with kings here Right

But turns out kings really hit for a lot of people Sure do In this country I mean me and you talked about it On putting on ass one time It's like if the king does do all the good stuff That would hit but they never do They never do. And also, what about the next one?

It's like, was it, you know, I mean, I think maybe this is just the plot of the movie Gladiator. But one of those Roman emperors, like, might not have been Marcus Aurelius, but I know that there's like, great, there's a great Roman emperor whose son was then a abject fucking lunatic who just tore everything apart or whatever. And it's like, well, if you're talking about having kings and it's a good king and that's good. but if it's a king how are you going to who's going to be the next one is it going to be the son because otherwise well how do you pick it well i guess we could vote and then it's like well then it's not a king anymore and so basically what we were really saying we were saying yeah if the king was like had good opinions and was benevolent and stuff that would hit but really you're just saying it it would hit if you know i was the king or if everything

if i got everything i wanted then i wanted if the king just did what i wanted i don't You know, then, yeah, it's like, yeah, who wouldn't think that? All right. Last one, again, I'm pretty predictable, in my opinion. This one's a little, well, I don't know. We'll see what you think about it. The court upheld state laws banning transgender athletes from girls and women's sports. So if a state can make laws that prohibit trans athletes.

for participating in girls and women's sports. Were you at on this? To me, this is just another thing where is this really the most important thing to worry about in our legislation? And I'm not even saying it doesn't happen, right? I'm not even saying it doesn't happen. But I am saying it happens at such a minuscule rate. This has always been my whole thing on it. if you for anyone that says it's not a complicated issue you're insane it is a complicated issue

but my thing has always been regardless of how i feel and i love sports right i'm a huge sports fan regardless of how i feel about it the only thing that it seems to do is stoke the already heavy flames of transphobia that causes bodily harm murder in some cases bullying all sorts of stuff that it's not worth it to me. Like, it's just not worth it to me. And as you said, like 10 years ago, nobody even thought this existed. And now it is subject number one on any Republicans platform. I just don't think, I don't know, man, it just, it just disheartens me because they're using it, they're using the sports way to make it seem less evil. They're pretending that they care about women, which we all know they don't.

Also, women's sports. I mean, conservatives you've ever known in your life that watch women's fucking sports, they'll like post on Twitter about Caitlin Clark and shit just because that's become fucking politically charged too, but they don't give a fuck about women's basketball. That's what I mean. And that's what I mean by like, what they, want to say is we don't want transgender people to exist, but they know that they can't say that. So what they can do is use this more logical Trojan horse to get it in there. And to me, every

second spent on any of this legislation, any money spent on any of this legislation, when there are people starving in this country, and it's just a waste, man, it's a waste of resources, a waste of time and if you they could never look me in the eye and tell me that it's not just about the hatred of a different type of people they couldn't they couldn't do it i would not believe them ever well here yeah i mean i'm pretty much i think we're basically on the same page but what i like how i've always felt about that pretty much is like look the the version of it that they're always acting like is just ubiquitous

and happening all the time, which is like in their minds, it's like the fucking the ones that conservative comedians make sketches about where it's like some ripped dude puts on a wig, goes down to the swim meat and just smokes all them bitches, you know, and takes on the gold or whatever.

Like, of course I don't think that that should be allowed, but I don't, but I don't think that that is really happening. Like, right. I don't know one or two times fucking, ever because I also because it's like yes it's by it's just a biological fact that men are like

stronger and faster and everything than what because of in large part testosterone and the hormones that we have so my understanding is also that when you have like hormone replacement therapy if you were born a man but you're getting a bunch of estrogen for a long time that mitigates a lot of those inherent biological advantages you know what I mean so like it's not even necessarily at a certain point a competitive advantage anyway. So even that is a gray area. But regardless, it's like,

like it barely happens. That one, the swimmer that got, it was such a huge thing or whatever. And they like came in fifth, you know, or whatever it was. And like, it's just not worth the time.

And like you say, everything you said about it being a dog whistle is not the right word. I'm sure there's a better word for what that is. But it's like, it's a stand in for what they're really trying to say. And also, fucking, the thing about how, you know, uncommon it really is. I remember what they said, okay, states can make these laws. I think it was Oklahoma, but either way, one red, some red state, I know a few years ago,

was making one of these laws about transgender athletes in like Oklahoma, if it was Oklahoma high school sports. And I remember at that time, because Mark looked into it, there was like, like, one. There was literally in the whole state of Oklahoma. Oklahoma, there was one high school athlete who identified as transgender and it was in some, you know, mid-level school in some sport. Nobody really cares about. Sorry, whatever.

But either way, so it's like, the joke I made at the time was they might as well have called that law, like the make Zoe sad act of, fucking, of 2020 or whatever, because that's how targeted it is. And it's just insane to spend those resources and stuff on something like that. when like you said, Oklahoma ain't got bigger fish to fry than Zoe swimming

or whatever the fuck it was. It's insane. It also leads to them looking at fucking teenagers genitals and shit which is also insane. Because now it's like any woman over 6-4

which does exist and they end up going to the WMBA, they just call everyone a man now. Right. So like it's on that like biological women they're just calling men just to say it. And also can I tell you this?

it makes no logical sense that like they position it as someone who otherwise didn't feel like they were trapped in the wrong body otherwise they didn't feel that way but they just wanted to win a medal so bad that they right went through all that went through all that and ruined their life and by the way i'm not saying that i'm not saying that that being transgender inherently ruins but like in this country right now especially in a red state and to do that knowing the risk of like, fuck it, you're going to ruin your life for a, it, that doesn't happen. Right. That doesn't happen, dog. That's, that's, it's just like the same people that are like, oh, they're just, they, they chose to be gay to help that. What do you mean? Right. What do you mean that they chose to be, they chose to risk, uh, being bullied and beat up at

bars for, to get an acting role. Get the fuck out of my face with your shit. Absolutely. Chow Spitting, as he always does. Couldn't agree more, brother. Thank you for filling in for Mark this week. Always. And so we are going to do the plugs here at the end.

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