Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 10/04/22 – Herschel’s Hubris

Episode Date: October 5, 2022

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howdy everybody welcome back happy skews day to you breaker breaker today's a big 10th come back i apologize for that it's october 4th 2022 i'm trey crouter that's mark that's mark i'm trey we're eastbounded down got a long way to go in a short time to get there buddy so i like your little uh shout out to the smoky smoking the bandit, particularly the bandit, um, great anti-cop redneck icon. Absolutely.

Uh, got a lot to talk about trade. There's like so much news. We're not going to get to any of it, but, uh, a couple of brief points. Um, Trump sued CNN in a pretty comical

$500 million lawsuit because a couple of their commentators compared him to Hitler and it hurt his feelings. So he's saying, he just now found out about that. Like, why hasn't he sued, you know, half the country or whatever?

whatever, because I feel like he's been being compared to Hitler for a minute now from where I've been sitting. Yeah, so Trump's been a big tabloid guys since the 80s and changing lava laws has sort of been a, like, a passion of his. It's just an important reminder. Like, this is not a factual comparison. It's pure political rhetoric, which is the core of the First Amendment. It's just a reminder of these guys don't actually like free speech. By the way, Trump is Hitler. I said it.

I fucking sue me. It's also funny because, like, he's saying that them doing that cost him the 2020 election, which is like, you know, I just. enter into evidence a piece of paper with COVID written on it. Also, that probably drove up some, you know, that probably riled the base up a little bit. You know, drove some more, some more Hitler fans out to the polls,

I would imagine, but, you know, maybe not. Yeah, I'm not sure it would hurt too much, considering how popular that new Mussolini lady is, money American, right, just took over Italy. But it's, yeah, it's funny. They sued them for, I think, $475 million for costing them a 400 grand a year job. So I'm not sure on the math works out.

that. But the Oathkeeper's trial started this week, and I bet you we'll get deeper into it at some point, because it's going to last, like, months. They're being tried for seditious conspiracy, like seven of them were on trial, I think. I think they're a total 12 people going to be tried for it, but they literally had to

break them up because they couldn't fit all 12 defendants in the courtroom at the same time, which is funny. America doesn't have a big enough court trial to people trying to go through the government. It's a very interesting case, because the government's typically loses seditious conspiracy cases historically. So I'm not sure they must feel pretty good about this one.

But I wanted to talk to that. I was a friend's birthday, Shindig, over the weekend. And a lady there happened to be a daughter of a Persian immigrant was, like, visibly upset about what's going on Iran because she communicates with her relatives via, like, Instagram DMs, the government keeps turn off the internet because of the uprisings that are happening over there right now and do somebody, nobody talks about it. And somebody was like, don't you have a podcast? I'm like, you're right. I'm one of the people not talking about it. So let's talk about it. So what's happening in Iran is pretty inspirational and also horrifying.

What happened was last month, Iranian religious morality police killed a 22-year-old woman named Masa Amini. She's a Kurdish Iranian who was visiting the capital with her family, and she was wearing her hijab wrong. Not that she wasn't wearing it. She just didn't have it on correctly, according to them. So they took her into custody and she ended up dead. They said she died of a heart attack, but she was pretty obviously beaten to death. And so people took to the streets. And so far, there's been uprisings all over the country in about 50 cities.

At least 92 protesters have been killed. It's a pretty crazy situation. And kind of like people want to be free, man. People have all stripes all over the world. Just want freedom. And these people aren't, it's not like they aren't observatory. Muslims, most of them,

they're not asking to a hijab or to, they just don't think we should be forced to wear the hijab under penalty of death. Right. And that's the part

that makes it so, like you said, inspirational. It's just like, you know, we're all for fighting the power and everything in this country

and it's good and you should do that. But I mean, it's obviously a whole other level with this issue and in that country. I mean, you know,

they will kill you. They have, they have been killing them. So, I mean, you know, it takes,

massive lady balls to do what these women are doing. It's pretty crazy. Yeah. I mean, a lot of this stuff is happening around schools and some places like places are calling at the school children's uprising, which is children's afraid way to frame it because the schools are segregated sexually, obviously, because it's Iran, and there are a lot of them are girls. And let's check out this picture that was floating around the internet today. These little girls and middle school, high school, flipping off the fucking Ayatollah. Yeah, that's hard core, dude.

Yeah, they had this, you have this video, Matt. This is from a school where a bunch of girls chased the principal out spitting on it and calling him names, which anybody's been to school. That was probably really fun, man. Yeah, didn't it say, yeah, it's like an education ministry official or something like that? Yeah, I think I'll have that rank, but I read some. It's hard to know, like, the authenticity, authenticity this stuff is hard to prove, but this was from a reporter stationed in Iran who speaks the language and stuff. So if you get this video back. Power of the people, man.

Yeah. You can cut it, man. So Iran has a history of. Women in the protest movements since the 1970s at least. Some of the first revolts against the Revolutionary Government were about the right to abortion, the right to divorce, and this one hit for me because it's just in an American context, it sounds funny, but it's the right for a wife to have a say about who her husband's second wife was going to be.

So, yeah, I mean, I guess you should get a right of approval if your husband's going to get the second wife to see if she wants to hang out with the woman. But, yeah, it's also like opposition to the dress code goes back to the 70s, too. The first major protests against the Iranian Revolutionary Government, which is what they call themselves, but, you know, they're the hardcore fascist, she is.

The first protests were on International Women's Day in 1979 when both secular and religious women joined forces to challenge the hijab laws and rallies in Tehran. But since we're an America-centric podcast, let's talk about our role on this shit. One of the reasons that Iranian people

are upset and frustrated is they're economically starved because Trump pulled out of the Iran deal. So people have trouble getting medicine, food, yada, yada, yada. It's not good over there. And, you know, basics of it, their government wants to nuk to fend off Israel because I think Israel would wipe them off the map. And you know what?

Fair. Israel's got a right-wing government. It's pretty psychotic. But, yeah, so because we bailed an area of commitment's made under Obama, like, things have gotten pretty worse over there. And coincidentally, this article was in New York yesterday, and you know all things anti-CAA hit for me, but it was titled, as a New Yorker, has the CIA done more harm than good? And you know, the old rule in general, if a headline is a question, is a question, the answer is usually no, but this one is definitely yes. Yeah, right.

I feel like it's almost a rhetorical question, to me at least. It's like, I think, yeah, probably the New Yorker, but go on. Yeah. So this actually barely mentioned Iran, but it did talk about, like, it was a pretty good piece about all the historical failures of the CIA and how like, there's actually legislation trying to abolish the CIA in the 80s the last time we tried it, but it was pretty uncontroversial the CIA needed to be gotten rid of. Harry Truman believed it. Eisenhower came to believe it. They're pretty disastrous organization. But talking about Iran. How we ended up here is in 1953, the CIA and the British government worked together to overthrow a democratically elected prime minister named Muhammad Masad. I can't, I have it a fat American tongue. I think it's probably supposed to be a Mazada. Mosada.

It's called a Masada. They installed the Shah. And how that came about was we called it Operation Ajax in the UK called it Operation Boot. We couldn't even settle and agree on a name to call the thing. But we worked with a clergy to install a monarch because the Democratic Party and Prime Minister just wanted to audit the finances of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, which is now British Petroleum, basically, in order to verify they were paying their contracted royalties to Iran and to limit the country's control over the Iranian oil reserves. And when the company refused to do that, cooperate, Parliament voted to nationalize Iran's oil industry. and to expel form corporate reps. That didn't hit for Winston Churchill and the CIA, so they fucking installed the Shah.

I mean, everything, all's well that ends well, right? So they got a nice Western friendly government. No, well, the Shah was horribly corrupt, so a bunch of leftist work with the theocrats to overthrow the government. And, yeah. I can't believe that the U.S. and U.K. would involve themselves in the politics over there over something like oil money. You know what I mean? That's just, it's a crazy overreach and totally out of character for them. CIA doesn't even get a cut.

They're just doing a favor to the oil industry. Right. Do you remember, I rewatched the movie Argo over pandemic. Ben Affleck, but a good movie, even though it's a great. Yeah, I like the movie. I only saw it when it came out, but I liked it. Yeah. So it's set in the middle of the 70-9 revolution when a bunch of Americans got taken hostage

and somewhere in hiding to avoid being taken hostage. And the plot of Argo is, the back story is the CIA was tired of everyone thinking they weren't good at their jobs. They wanted to tell a success story. It's declassified the information about this Argo mission and co-wrote the screenplay with, you know, Hollywood. But the idea that one of their biggest success stories is you fuck up Iran so bad there's a coup and like, I don't know, I forget the exact number of people were taking hostage. Let's say 200. And you have a successful mission to get like five of them out. Right.

And that's a home run. Yes, that's their home run. Yeah. If they got burned down our apartment and my wife came home, but I got two chairs and a fellow photo album out. Yeah. We're talking about all the bad stuff. We should make a movie about those chairs, really.

You should appreciate me more for getting those chairs out. Yeah. Anyway. The people of Iran, the ladies of Iran, especially. I hope you guys successfully liberalize something over there. and make a little better place. Yep, absolutely. Word to that. Well, let's get into it.

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collegiate rushing records from his time at the University of Georgia, and it seems now he has his site set on a whole new cut type of record the most lies and scandals to emerge from one senate campaign two more came out this week one from the daily beast which reported on a secret abortion from the very very pro-life candidate and the second from his own son will detail those and remind you of the others because it is hard to keep up at this point a little bit later but first of course we begin with the daily dumbass mac graphic please Tonight's D-D. Crackheads for not being Batman.

What? You'll see here in a minute. This is Senator Kennedy from Louisiana. Violent crime is surging in Louisiana. Woke leaders blame the police. I blame the criminals. A mom should not have to look over her shoulder when she's pumping gas. I voted against the early release of violent criminals, and I opposed defunding the police.

Look, if you hate cops just because of the cops, the next time you get in trouble, call a crackhead. I'm John Kempel, and I approve this message. Well, I don't know, Mark. Crackhead might not shoot your dog, at least. Yeah. Yeah, I'd rather someone steal my TV and shoot my dog, but as a fair suggestion. So it's funny because he talks about violent crime surgeon and says the New Orleans murder rate is like reached number one in the country. It's like, and he complains about woke leaders.

It's like, does Louisiana have woke leaders? Right. Is Louisiana in the police? It's also like a false equivalency in that it's like the idea that, oh, if you think the police overstep their bounds and need something needs to be done to reform the order because of, you know, their violent history, if you think that, then that means, well, we should just have crackheads in charge then, you know, what I mean? where it's like, no, we could just do one thing and also not do the other thing. That would be okay. If you don't let cops murder everyone's dogs, Trey,

they cannot do their jobs. Right. Yeah. But for the record, these guys are like, I mean, I was want to remind people whenever John Kennedy comes up because he plays this country bump, good old boy, but he's very rich. He went to Ivy League schools, including Oxford and Yale, I think.

So, like, he's not like, he's smarter than this. Yeah. For the record, he just voted against $300 billion and funding for local police departments, which good, I think, but awesome. Yeah. Good, but still. Yeah. And just an example of how dumb this whole conversation is about, like, if police are cannibal, you can't have police. Cops aren't just dangerous to dogs and people color and poor people in general, including poor white people.

they're also dangerous to each other. Like, this is a story that's been happening in Los Angeles. You know, you guys around the country who might not know about it. But a cop died in a training exercise, and the story keeps getting worse and worse and worse. Originally, they said he just fell. And then the autopsy was like, no, he's quite obviously beat to death. And it turns out of the guys that beat him to death, one of them was being investigated by this particular officer for committing a gang rape. And it's important to know the reason the woman knew who to accuse the cops were in, the four cops were in uniform and wearing their name tags.

Um, so yeah, so this is from a lawsuit or vulnerable death lawsuit, uh, being filed by the family of this, uh, slain officer. Uh, and I hope they get to the bottom of this shit because, uh, LA cops are the fucking worst, man. Yeah. Yeah, there's been a lot of like, uh, reports of like, shadow gang activity, basically that cops have their own gangs within the LAPD, uh, infrastructure. And yeah, like you said, so four cops being investigated, uh, for a guy. gang rape and this cop who was later murdered was investigating them or had tipped it off or something like that. So the appearance would say that he was, he got stitches for snitching is perhaps what happened.

Yeah, they said they were trying to simulate mob activity or something like that when they beat him. Yeah. I mean, it probably, you know, feels like not to. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. I guess you nailed that. I would imagine that heard.

If they get done, they're like, no, don't do it. that, okay? They were trying to rehearse putting down violent riots that they create. Right. All right. Well, let's say so our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is the deep state for ruining all of our beach houses. That's right.

There's some wild shit right here. Both these women here have run for Congress's GOP candidates in 2020, I believe. Yeah. Yeah, I'll tell you who they are. I see it. We understand. understand that the deep state, they have weather manipulation technology. They have DARPA.

They know how to manipulate and create big storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, climate change, etc. And these huge hurricanes always seem to target red states, red districts, and always at a convenient time, typically right before elections, or, you know, in this case possibly because Ron DeSantis has been stepping out of line a lot and challenging fighting the deep state. I don't know, Lauren, the timing is definitely interesting, and they're even saying it. Do you think this could be a weather-manipulated hurricane? Yeah, well, we know the technology does exist. I mean, Deanna, they're literally trying to change people's DNA through vaccination.

Of course, they would be willing to do something like this to target red states. I have no doubt. I mean, the technology exists to manipulate weather. And, you know, this whole storm coming. You pause that, Matt, but I did want to say, I know it's kind of hard to see down there because of our own ticker. But I'd like to point out the ticker at the bottom of this on their little program. It reads, Biden builds transhuman cyborg army using immigrants. I feel like they've buried the lead a little bit with the hurricane machines or whatever.

I want to hear about these trans-robots, trans-medican robots, in fact. I can't believe that the shit they're saying is, I've noticed that it can believe the shit they're saying is the craziest thing about this. Oh, God. Oh, shit. I don't even have a take on that. Well, also, I've got a figure. Some of the people that watch this, I imagine sitting there thinking, like, well, wait, hold on. How does gay sex factor into this?

Because I had previously been under the assumption. I thought we were all clear that gay sex is what causes natural disasters. I thought, thus spakeeth the Lord. they've pivoted now now it's the deep state so when a hurricane hits a bad place that's God's work when a hurricane hits God's country

that's the deep state's work so they're just in a fight the way you fight with your brother over who gets the video game controller it's like God and the deep state are like that way right so those two women for the record are Deanna Lorraine who ran for Congress in 2020

and Lauren Witsky who was the Delaware GOP's candidate for Senate in 2020 And there's so much funny shit in there, for example, the idea how come hurricanes hit red states? I guess it was a deep state's idea to put the Confederacy on the Gulf Coast. I don't know, maybe that's right.

Or also like the idea that they always happened before an election. Yeah, hurricane season is August, September. I think it's like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's just weather stuff. I mean, you know,

perhaps the more frequent and more severe, because of man-made climate change, but I've got a feeling. But no, it's just gays and the spooks, the deep state. Great. Have you ever noticed that the deep state always makes the snow around Christmas so you can get to, you can't get the grandma's house? Those sons of bitches.

Yeah. All right. So in a related note here, Ron DeSantis, been super cool about the whole thing, obviously, really putting his best foot forward as he did in the hard hit area of Arcadia, which you can see in this clip right here. I don't give a fly right now.

But frustration mounted as civilians were told to pause their relief operations for several hours as Governor Ron Santis toured the area. Our hands are tied. I'm not trying to be rude, but we've been doing this very thing, one street over and the only reason we're not over there. It's because the governor's governor. That's right. I understand.

So why does that have to stop right now? It's the same thing we've been doing before anybody was here. All right, we're going to head back over to the... I'll get to you. Frustrated that they had to shut down operations because you're here. Can you just... What is your message to them? They had to pause operations, Governor, while you came in.

Can you... I'm with ABC Action News. That's great. Your messages... Folks were stopped from going in back and forth. We have it on video. Yeah. Well, he had to be photographed down there helping the calls.

You know what I mean? Get some pictures of me. engaging in hurricane relief. But first things, first, shut down all that hurricane relief that's going on. I can't have the pores screwing up photo bombing me in my PR session. Matt, if you have that picture of him in the boots from earlier, I just want to show you how hilarious this photo up is where we're talking about it. Because so he not only did he stop actual relief efforts to go pretending to relief efforts,

but he did them in the whitest waiter boots you've ever seen in my life. They don't have a speck of mud on him. you've got this man um it's like he looks like the fucking green m&m you know the 60 green mnm with the white boots yeah yeah he's got some uh i don't know yeah he's got fat okay let me tell you why these people are mad so these people have been doing their like they're just helping out their neighbors in volunteer relief efforts and the one one was essentially like i know they'd do it for us our neighborhood was uh wasn't they hit that hard and we got a boats or taking them water and stuff and fairing people back and forth and we're getting them whatever they need and the risk in their

is doing it. She's talking about how she had ducked to get under a lot of power lines that could have reached up and touched them if she wanted to. And here comes a fucking dipship governor who wants to get a picture. It's just like, what a fucking jackass. He really is the worst, man. And Republicans have not colored themselves in glory.

If you got that picture, Matt, though, that would have any time you got it. Matt did? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what's going on with Matt. I think he's all right. He got it. There it is. look at those boots those are fancy white is my choice i feel like

probably not going to hold up uh under arrest although i guess that's the whole thing is he's not not going to endure very much duress so they'll probably be fine yeah so remember we talked about a couple weeks ago uh desanta spent 12 million dollars in state funds uh flying pockets around the country to troll people and now florida had a hurricane hit it and he's asking people to donate money to the state, which is very cool. He also asked the federal government for relief, and that's good. I mean, I want people to get relief. We need to pick each other about for national disasters.

It's the whole point of being a country that's this big and this rich and this spread out and diverse, you know, climates and shit. But for the record, all 16 Republican congressmen from Florida voted against Hurricane Inner Relief for their own state. Rubio and Rick Scott, senators from Florida, skip the vote as to not have them to take one. and the only reason they can do this, this is so fucking nihilistic. If Democrats behave this way,

they wouldn't get me relief. Right. Like, they obviously want to get the relief. They just don't want to set the precedent. They voted for hurricane relief. So next time the Blue State gets said, they can say, fuck you. We don't want to give out money.

Yeah, I know. It's like, where they just get, you know, bailed out and get to take credit and shit like that for, people who just actually don't want people to suffer in certain situations, uh, you know, because people try to be good or do good things, uh, it, they get off scot free by being able to turn around and, you know, vote against it, but still try to take credit for it and all that shit. It's just, yeah, it's pretty classic. It's not just cruel,

but it's, it's, it's reliant upon other people not being cruel. It's like, it's like an asymmetrical political environment where one guy, one side gets to be evil, knowing the other side will help them and the other side volunteers to be good even though knowing the other side's not going to reciprocate when it's their turn so it's fucked up situation rubio gave an interview where we talked about why he voted against sandy eight and it was pretty funny because all of his reasons were stupid um yeah so anyway hopeful people from florida are doing pretty good pretty doing better now all right our next honorable mention for daily dumbass is nuke gangrich for the exact same thing everybody called him a dumbass for last week he's still pretty obsessed with john fetterman's

tattoo. In case you've forgotten his explanation for it, he's still rolling with it right here. I mean, these people verge on being sick. In the case of Federman, of course, he apparently had a tattoo that was either a reference to a song in favor of heroin use or was a trip to the Cripps, which is a Los Angeles-based, very violent gang, which actually was in Federman's hometown and which worked with Fetterman in his election. Maybe it's me. But I feel like even people who really hate Fetterman and everything, I feel like even those people probably don't look at him and think that's a Crip.

This guy, I totally buy that this guy is working hand in hand with the Crips of Los Angeles. But, yeah, Newt tweeted this, got shit on completely for it, but there's still, you know, he's committed to it, though. He's convinced it's either heroin or Crips. It's not Johnny Cash. It's also funny, if you guys missed, we talked about the last time. I wanted to talk about it again because he escalated it this time. It wasn't just a tattooed honor of the Crips,

but the Crips were helping out this mayoral campaign, which is something Crips do all the time is like involved in local politics. They're famously high information voters, the Crips. See, the tattoo is I will make you hurt, which is quite obviously a reference. I'm guessing. I don't know which version of Federman would like better, the Nineh-Ditchdale's version or the Johnny Cash version.

But the idea that I will make you hurt My Empire of Dirt is a pro-heroen song is also a funny take on this shit. It's about anything. It's about pain of addiction and how you ruin everyone's lives around you. But anyway, these people don't know anything about art or life or how anything work.

So I'm glad Gingertz has doubled him on this because they keep making Federman seem cool as fuck. I know. It's like that's their whole thing. Well, speaking of Federman, our next honorable mention for Daily Domass is cats for being Dr. Oz's science advisors. That's right, because you guys missed this. Dr. Oz apparently presided over multiple medical experiments, which killed over 300 dogs and an entire litter of puppies. Now, you might think, okay, medical, you know, they test on animals.

Maybe this happens all the time, and it's just a dark secret. nobody likes to acknowledge when it comes to medical testing, but it goes beyond that and looking further into it, these experiments violated multiple general agreed upon, you know, proper codes of conduct when it comes to these sorts of experiments in a pretty horrific fashion, Mark, some pretty nasty stuff. Yeah, so a lot of these, like, I'm not trying to be a hypocrite here, I eat meat, and I like life-saving medicines, and there's obviously animal testing. and killing animals involved and all that stuff. But it was just the cruelty here because the way they killed them was great. Like they would take dead dogs who died of kidney, they let die of kidney failure

instead of euthanizing and then to stuff them in sacks of like trash bags with live puppies and shit. This was at a research center of Columbia. I believe that Dr. Oz ran and oversaw and was completely responsible for it. It is worth reminding that he was a serious

heart surgeon. It's just like you wonder how he got here and this is sort of an origin story for it because he's obviously at his core just a shitty fucking person so you wonder why he's pretending to be dumber than he is running around pretending to be conservative to elevate his power on fame level it's just this he's just

a fucking sicko who will strangle a dog to get ahead in life and his race with Federman has tightened a lot which everyone expected to happen is what happened when elections come to their clothes. Republicans who hate Oz will hold their nose and come home and also running a bunch of like race-baiting

terrible anti-crime ads or like the one we watched earlier from uh from uh john kennedy and it's been working but fetterman's still up by like four or five points and that's all you need to win by is one so uh that's fine whatever yeah fuck dr oz god this guy i've probably nobody in politics right now um bozman warden this guy because he's smart enough to know better and um didn't have to do any of this he was a rich heart surgeon he didn't have dogs he didn't have to go on tv and tell people they could cure cancer with flat belly tea and he didn't have to pretend to be a republican from pennsylvania when he's just a weird weirdo from New Jersey.

It's just a lie on top of lie on top of lie. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. Fuck Dr. Oz. All right. This is our final honorable mention for Daily Dumbass. It's that dastardly transhuman artificial intelligence out there for making me have that fifth whiskey last night.

This is a Texas-based religious right activist, speaking of one of their deals. This is how it works. They're injected with, you're injected with graphene oxide once injected. with the so-called vaccine, you become connected to the Internet of Things. You can be mind controlled by

artificial intelligence through maybe 5G. Why are they putting 5G everywhere? It's like the Tower Babel. So we can watch porn in our phones, dip shit. Imagine the horror of being connected to the Internet of

things, Mark. I can't imagine what happened if everybody had some mechanism through which they were connected to the internet of things on them at all points. But yeah, he then says this is transhumanism. We turn us into mutant robots with X-ray vision or something like that through the vaccine and cell phone towers, as you do. Yeah, it's weird. This is the second time transhumanism has come up on this.

It's weirdly how they hooked into it because some right winners love it. Like the Peter Thiel's look on Valley types would love to upload their consciousness. to a fucking Yeager and live forever, right? But I've been trying to cherry-pick less random weirdos for daily dumbass. So I want to point out, this guy is not fringe. His name is Stephen Hotes. He's a religious right activist and a doctor. So that's cool.

He's got the ear of Trump and is in tight with all the Texas Republican leaders. So he's not a nobody. He's just a fucking whack-a-doodle. Yeah, well, speaking of fucking whack-a-doodle, Let's talk about Herschel Walker. All right. Yeah. Go ahead.

Yeah, so Newsbrook last night, Daily Beast, had this story, and they seemed to have all of their receipts in order literally that Herschel Walker in 2009 paid for an abortion for a long-time girlfriend. Remember that. She's a long-time girlfriend who talks about this. This wasn't some one-off fling or some jump-off or whatever, or some woman he barely knew. They were together a long time. So later on, you're going to see him say he doesn't know who she is.

Maybe he doesn't because he's got real bad concussion problems for playing football, but that's a whole different issue for the reason he shouldn't be in the Senate. The woman supports her claim. She has a $5.5 receipt from the abortion clinic, a getwell card from Walker, and a bank deposit receipt that included an image of a signed $700 personal check from Walker. She's a $125 difference because she ballparked the cost in abortion after Google the procedure and added on expenses such as travel and recovery costs. So I'm glad she got everything that she was coming to her. They also independently, Daily Beast independently corroborated details the woman's story with a close friend. She told at the time and who, according to the woman and the friend, took care of her in the days after the procedure.

So they got two witnesses, plus a bunch of paper trail stuff. The card was a particularly funny element to me. Yes. The card. I've got the images right here. Matt, if you want to pull it up so we can talk about it for a second. The check was inside the Get Well card. The front of the card features a drawing of a steaming cup of tea and reads, rest, rest, relax, and inside the card it says, recover.

Oh, well, that's nice, you know, at least you put some thought into it. You know, we were, like, I imagine Herschel Walker going to the CVS or whatever and, like, frantically looking for the abortion section of the greeting card aisle, you know what I mean, asking people? I'm sorry, do you have an abortion section? And then he settles on Get Well, soon. He's like, well, you know, this is the best I can do. I suppose. But yeah, a lot of thought went into that.

He's clearly a kind-hearted man with the Hallmark card for the abortion. Yeah, pretty wild. A couple things are really funny about this to me. One, mailing a get well card to your girlfriend's funny. With the check and sad. It's also funny.

But also he signed it with his football number. It says H. Walker number 34. Casey forgot which Herschel Walker you fuck, maybe. It was a good old number 34. Hall of Famer, baby. Three, four. He went on handy last night,

right as this story was breaking, which was a funny choice to me, because, like, if you go to foxnews.com as a couple hours ago, they hadn't written anything about it. So if he hadn't chosen to go on Fox News, information is so solid right now. Chances are not a single Republican voter

in Georgia might have heard about the story. if he hadn't gone on Sean Hannity to deny it when quite obviously he did. And I want you to see part of his denial because it's funny as shit. What about the $700 check? Is there anybody you can remember sending that much money to? Well, I send money to a lot of people, and that's what's so funny. And let's go back to my part. You know, I do scholarship for kids.

I give money to people all the time. And you sent it in a get-well card. The get-well card, it looks like it's included with your signature in the art. article. Have you seen it? And is that your signature? I haven't seen it. But, you know, I can tell you, I send out so many get well, send out so much of anything. But I can tell you right now, I never asked anyone to get an abortion. I never pay for an abortion. And it's a lie. Yeah. I sent out so much of anything that it could be or whatever and who did the was.

Yeah. You know, it could be something like that. I sent Get Well Cards Get Well Assune cards with $700 checks to them to everybody. I can't fucking be expected. Well, I mean, maybe he's paid for just that many abortions. You know what I mean? Maybe he had, and that's just his go-to. He's like, listen, it's a nice card.

It's a nice round number. And it's hard for me to keep up. Part of the it's worth noting that of his three secret kids, one of them was born this same year, this happened. He had a reason to not another. I know. I wonder

Yeah, I saw that too. Yeah, the secret kids, it's one of the many scandals that come out about him. He fathered three secret children. And, yeah, one of them was the exact same year that he paid for this abortion. So I wonder what kind of like decision might. Maybe he hit his quota. It's like, you know, only one secret kid per year. And the other one came first.

So then after that, it's, you know, what are you going to do? Yeah. Time to hit the Hallmark section. Yeah, he was trying to stop short of the Nick Cannon zone. I think 14 kids, but 14 women or something. So I'm not the first person to make this point, but it was funny yesterday. It was so crazy that a news story came out

that a Republican Senate candidate killed 300 dogs, and he did not have the worst day of any Republican Senate candidate. Well, because, I mean, like, it's not just that he paid for an abortion. It's not just that everything's going on with Roe right now and all that. It's that he, in particular, has not followed... the general approach of a lot of Republican candidates and trying to, like, backpedal or soft play, the abortion thing. He's been hardcore, you know, anti-choice, no abortion, no exceptions. I think what Jesus wants, it's completely, like, he's been one of the most hard line of the hard liners on this issue.

And so that gives this a little added weight. Yeah, he's against, even he's against rape exceptions, which puts him in a far, far minority, which is why he should not be willing to talk about the, This issue, but as we're talking about later, this is now going to be the number one issue for obvious scandal reasons. People love a scandal. But to talk about how we got here, let's briefly talk about the lies he's told. Pack a lunch, everybody. He lied about being a police officer, a lot about being an FBI agent, a lot about being a high school

valedictorian, a lot of being a college valedictorian. He lied about being a college graduate, because one of the reasons he couldn't be a college valedictorian, he didn't actually graduate. He lied out being the founder for charity for military veterans. and Ladov being the founder of the largest minority-owned food supply and poultry companies in the United States. I think those are two separate companies, not a food supply and a poultry company,

but there we go. He said his chicken processing company, it's 600 employees, and it turned out it had eight. It also does not process chicken. Just put his name on chicken. It's already been processed. Yeah.

Yeah, just slept number 34, number 34 chicken. He also, I believe, was a self-professed world chamber. champion of Russian roulette, right? The all-time great Russian roulette player, I believe he said. You just got to have a love of the game for doing that one. So he's still, he's still a reigned neck and neck of a war knock despite all this stuff, including his violent stuff he hasn't lied about, includes that, I mean, maybe he lied.

He just sort of doesn't talk about it, but he supposedly threatened to kill his wife and ex-girlfriend, which we're going to talk about a little bit more later. But all this stuff is crazy. It's still a close race. It's still a close race because Republicans will not turn their back on him no matter what goes wrong. Rick Scott went on TV today and defended him. And if you want to know why they're doing this,

while they're desperate to hold on this one seat, Congress is going to be so tight this time the vote. Like if you assume Georgia is blue, the odds for Democratic control of the Senate go from around 70% to around 90%. One seat's a big fucking pickup here. They really, really need him to win, even if they don't like him. They tried to sabotage his campaign in the primary because they knew this kind of stuff was going to come out. But once the rocket ship, the count that had begun, they're all on board.

And here is Mitch McConnell in April explaining why. Let's talk about a candidate you have talked about. Herschel Walker, the leading GOP candidate in the vital Senate race in Georgia. You endorsed him. Yet his ex-wife says he pointed a pistol at her head. said, I'm going to blow your effing brains out. And an ex-girlfriend has accused him of threatening her life. Why is he a suitable candidate?

Herschel Walker has addressed that issue repeatedly over the last 10 years. I think he's... It's a heck of an issue. Well, he admitted he had had some troubles in his life. He's been an exemplary citizen in recent years. he's a hero in Georgia almost every candidate's had trouble I don't know that almost every candidate

has pointed out. I don't want to argue with it. I think Walker is completely electable. He's actually ahead at the beginning of this race and we're fully behind him. All right. Yeah. Just no, no shame. No shame. No, well, that's...

Yeah, I think that that's like, and I mean, not that this is surprising to any. who's been paying attention. But to me, the main takeaway of this whole thing is just like there's almost literally nothing that outweighs not being a Democrat or a liberal, like for so many of these people. You know, it's like that's just, that's really all it is. It's like, you know, they sell family values and all that shit they say, but you can actively disprove those qualifications for yourself in every conceivable way.

but as long as you, you know, still have the R by your name, a good chunk of them will still show up. Also, I know we're going to talk about what his son went in on him too. And when Christian went in on him denouncing him, which we'll show the tweets and everything in just a second. I saw when he did one of the top responses was from some Twitter Patriot, somebody with a flag profile picture. And it just said, it said something like, please, I'm begging you, just wait until after the election. please. So it's just like acknowledging like, yeah, okay, sure all that's true and everything, but like first things first, we got to get him in Senate. And then we can talk about all this horrific stuff he did in his past. We can worry about it later. But yeah, that's how their

priorities are laid out. Yeah. I mean, it sort of makes sense because if they get him elected and Brian Kemp gets elected, they could just get him resign and Brian Kemp would get to appoint a replacement Republican. So that would, that's how that would work. So yeah, Let's talk about Christian, his son, Christian Walker for a second. We showed his videos before. If you guys aren't familiar, he's sort of a maggot internet influencer with a million followers across, like, TikTok and Instagram. And he has a very particular brand of trolling the libs. He's kind of funny in his own way.

He's also, like, just to understand how, so the kid, he's gay. And I mean that, since the most of us understand it, where he openly talks about being attracted to man and he likes dudes. but he doesn't like being called gay because he doesn't want to be associated with rainbow flags and the LBGT community. He wants to have sex with men but not be gay. What's okay, whatever you want to do, buddy. He makes a bunch of videos.

His biggest thing is talking about how fathers need to be in the home, which people took as a conservative thing is talking about like denigrating black fathers to being absentee. But one thing I don't think people realize until yesterday is he was actually doing, was talking about his own fucking father abandoning him

but no one put those two things together and so when this came out yesterday Christian lost his shit and one of the things he tweeted was I know my mom and I would really appreciate if my father Herschel Walker stopped lying and making a mockery of us. You were not a family man when you left us to bang a bunch of women

threatened to kill us and had us move over six times and six months running from your violence. He posted a bunch of stuff And again, talking about reading T. Lee's for stuff. Like, he did introduce Herschel at one event, but he hasn't really talked about his father of campaign much. Everyone's thought it was weird. But then all this happened, and the thing broke, and it turns out he hates his fucking dad for mistreating him and his mom of being a scumbag. Right.

And the thing is, it's like, I feel like if he wasn't, again, his whole thing is he's like a MAGA internet personality. I feel like if he wasn't, if he was just a regular, you know, I was. openly gay, black, or openly man-loving, but not gay, but, you know, however you explained it. If he was just that and Hershey Walker's son and this came out, they would immediately just be like, oh, you know, he's clearly a, like he's a leftist. He's just trying to smear his dad or whatever, but, you know, they can't do that in this scenario because he's completely on their side about everything.

And he's still calling them out and saying, this dude's full of shit. You can't trust him. One of the things he said was he said, uh, all I'm saying is don't lie. Don't lie on my mom. Don't lie on me. Don't lie on the lives you've destroyed and act like you're some moral family man. Y'all should care about that, conservatives. I mean, yeah, you know, I've never really agreed with anything I've ever seen this dude say,

but it's hard to, you know, hard to disagree with this particular shit. He's talking about his relationship with his dad and pretty much calling it like most of us see it, it seems to me. And if you're wondering the accusations of violence, these are not, these are whole. She came forward in 2009 or 10, I think. This isn't going to do with politics. But it's worth noting that his ex-wife, his son, his ex-girlfriend, and also people from inside his campaign and leaving damaging stuff. Pretty much everyone who knows this guy thinks he shouldn't be elected.

So that's worth fucking knowing. The only people who like him don't interact with him. And it's watch this video from Christian, if you got it, Matt. I stayed silent as the atrocities committed against my mom. were downplayed. I stayed silent when it came out that my father, Herschel Walker, had all these random kids across the country, none of whom he raised. And you know my favorite issue to talk about is father absent. Surprise, because it affected me. That's why I talk about it all the time, because it affected me. Family values people, he has four kids, four different

women, wasn't in the house raising one of them. He was out having sex with other women. Do you care about family values? I was silent lie after lie, after lie. The abortion drops yesterday. It's literally his handwriting in the car. They say they have receipts, whatever. He gets on Twitter. He lies about it. Okay, I'm done. Done. Everything has been a lie. And so for the right to say, I'm being suspicious for saying, hey, I'm done with the lies. When you all have been calling me saying, is this true about your dad? Gosh, we're not going to win Georgia and this candid all. That's been you. You have no idea what I've been through in my life. You have no idea what me and my mom have survived. We could have ended this on day one.

We haven't. I haven't told any stories. I'm just saying, don't lie. Don't lie on my mom. Don't lie on me. Don't lie on the lives you've destroyed and act like you're some moral family, man. So I hope this kid, I mean, not just how do I put this? Like this family obviously needs counseling.

To the degree Christian has any political impact, I would bet that Hershey Walker has lost the support of all the gay TikTok Republicans in Georgia. But so, God, I hate when stuff like this explodes into the public, man. It shouldn't be the family drama shouldn't be a thing, but this is going to infect an important Senate race. We have to talk about it. So anyway, after this, all this stuff happened, Herschel Walker tweeted, I love my son no matter what.

Christian quote tweeted with, if you have four kids, we know of him, and you were in the house raising one of them, you were cheating in line. If you love your kids, we raise them instead of running in the Senate race to boost your ego. So, yeah. the yeah the sorry i was mistaken earlier a cindy grossman who was uh uh um christian's mom and herssel's ex-wife keg told her allegations to cnn in 2008 he said she said he held held a gun to her head quote a handful of times and threatened her on other occasions with knives and a razor uh her defense was he has disassociative identity disorder and does not remember threatening his ex-wife so he's saying he has multiple personalities right and it's like okay

he, you know, take all mental health issues seriously. I'm not downplaying if the possibility he actually has something like that, but maybe he shouldn't be in Congress then if he has, you know, such debilitating mental health issues that he will not even recall pulling a gun on someone close to him. Like, it's wild to just throw it out there and just be like, so let's just move on then. You know what I mean? And you were saying Christian Walker, you know, you're like, I don't, you know,

the political impact he has. He maybe lost all the gay conservative TikTokers in the state of Georgia. but they're already actively blaming him, right, in advance the Walker camp and Republican strategists and whatnot are already saying that if Walker does go down, well, it's Christian's fault. Yeah, that was clearly Christian who called all this. Yeah, that was a story from the Atlanta Journal of Constitution yesterday. One Republican official close to Walker was already shifting responsibility for the candidate's potential downfall saying Christian Walker is, quote, solely to blame if Herschel loses the race. Only to blame. That's a wild statement to make in this particular context.

That has nothing to do with Herschel himself. It's solely the fault of his son whose transgression is just outlining all the various horrible things that Herschel Walker has done. But it's not his fault that he did those things. It's his son's fault for saying them publicly. Which I can see how they would actually genuinely feel that way about it. But it's not like the shit isn't coming out from everywhere else anyway. Christian Walker is basically just like confirming it pretty much. Yeah, just to go back to like Walker's actual statements about abortion.

He's called for total ban the procedure, even in cases of incest or rape. He endorsed the 15-week federal abortion restriction proposed by Lindsey Graham. So according to his own state of beliefs, Walker is guilty of murder for hire. But he's saying this is a lie, which is funny because he'll probably file a lawsuit that it'll drop. This one woman had a funny quote. He's a representative named Scott Holfam, who happens to be an attorney, a DeKalbty County Democrat. It's called it a desperate attempt to misdirection, said he may be filed, but I guarantee he'll be withdrawn right after election day. After all, truth is a defense to a defamation claim of Walker would need to testify under oath.

To talk about the politics of this for a second, if he loses, it's not because a Christian, quite obviously, but because his position's horrifically and popular, a toll of bans and abortion are like 90% of people are against those. Now, people have compared this to the Access Hollywood tape, which obviously didn't have much of affecting the election in 2016 because Trump won. But this isn't that because whether or not you have a legal right to grab women by the pussy wasn't on the ballot in 2016. Right.

The abortion is on the ballot in 2020. And so it's not just about the personal scandal. This is going to remind people that he has awful views on this issue. And also hypocrisy is not the greatest sin. It moves the importance of the issue up the ballot. Right. Yeah, right. Yeah.

It's already like the issue for a whole, in just the grander context of the midterms in general. And he just, yeah, elevated that in relation to his own campaign. He brought it to the forefront. Yeah. And in case you're wondering, because we're running behind Matt, I'm going to skip down to the bottom. This is pretty bleak. It's going to sound worth it is to put in context, but it did get like a dark timeline

LOL out of me. This headline, Herschel Walker reportedly breaks fundraising record after Daily Beast abortion received. Yeah. He did. He set a one-day record. He raised $182,000 in roughly 24 hours since the day. The Daily Beast story broke, including $50,000 just during the Monday night interview with Sean Hannity.

So now, that's crazy, but also for context, this is from a reporter whose name I can't pronounce, but it said if $182,000 is the record-breaking fundraising day for Herschel Walker, that's sad commentary on his campaign. That's less than Warnock's average daily hall during the second quarter, which was, you know, way early in the year, further away from the election. So there's so much money floating around this, and a lot of it's being spent by pro choice organizations, which, of course, they raised $150 million to spend on elections, various pro-choice organizations, which is more than $110 million in cash the D-Triple C has on hand. So, yeah, these people are passionate about this issue and not on Walker's side, is my point.

So, yeah. Yeah, I mean, no, yeah, we'll see. It's arguably the most, whatever, hotly contested and perhaps most important of the many battleground Senate races. We'll see what happens. Matt, if you want to grab some questions and comments, throw him up there. I saw, I think it was Dinesh D'Souza earlier saying something about how, like, if, you know, if Warnock did something like this, liberals will be falling all over themselves to, you know, absolve him and all this shit. And then people start bringing up Al Franken, you know, who was, you know, basically ran out of office for a tasteless joke.

And it's just the idea that, like, they try to do that. They're like, oh, if the shoe was on the other foot, but it's just like, there's no reason to, like, there's nothing to back. that up, in my opinion. You know what I mean? Like, that's not what has happened or generally does happen. Ross settles on YouTube says, like and sub. Love you guys. Thank you very much. Like, subscribe, share. Thanks, Ross. Tell your mom and them. I appreciate it. Smash that a lot. But anyway. If Raphael Warnock, this came out about Raphael Warnock, it would rivilly damages his campaign because his brand is being a nice, kindly old minister. It wouldn't be paying for the abortion to be cheating on his

wife or whatever because I'm pro-choice. If it came out that I'd pay for an abortion and be like, good for Mark picking up half the tab or whatever. Yeah, well, also it's just like, to me, it was even more than just, it's also all the shit about Herschel Walker, you know what I mean? Like a Democratic

candidate couldn't survive a fourth of that type of onslaught. Anna, L.A. says it's amazing. My relatives that are anti-abortion are all voting for Walker. Yeah. I mean, like, again, I don't think he's going

I don't really care about hypocrisy as a thing because it doesn't like I think your relatives, if they are, do really care about the pro-life cause or probably doing the correct calculus doing the correct math because he'll vote the way they tell it.

It doesn't really matter what he did personally. Right. Like the same deal that they made with Trump. The problem, again, if he had for him politically, is that his position's unpopular and it reminds people those positions on top. So your relatives are probably doing the right thing to vote their conscious, but they're going to remind everyone else to vote their conscious, and it goes the other

way. Lisa Guggenheim-Daach on Facebook says, I'm dearly hoping Warnock mops the floor with Walker. I don't know about the mopping, but we'll see. I meant to just bring up at one point, people outside Tennessee may not know or remember, but there's this Tennessee congressman named Scott Desjardet, who's, you know, he doesn't pronounce it that way. I put the stink on it. But Anyway, he's also very pro-life Republican. Also, while he was on the campaign trail, it came out that he had paid for, I think, like three abortion. First, it was more than one abortion that he had paid for.

And, you know, he's still won in a landslide. So what are you going to do? But, again, the context was different. It wasn't like it is this year with the Roe decision and that type of thing. Leah, two Schultz, says Walker's most certainly not the first, are only, in quotes, conservative, hypocrite to force and or pay for an abortion. At case of point, Scott Desjardale, one of many. But, I mean, yeah, you're right.

I mean, they all know. Every both, most of these people are like, again, that's the thing. It's like, it's mostly just going to impact poor people. And like rich people, you know, some rich senator or daughter gets pregnant or something. Even if they're in Alabama, they'll fly her to the same place and have it taken care of and just keep doing the same shit they've always done. I think Michael Cohen had four of their clients besides Trump, and two of them, a Republican campaign finance dudes in charge of the RNC who he helped arrange payoffs to women to get abortion. One of them was like a former playmate or something, the one that got paid off.

But it's also worth remembering, I mean, so a couple years ago, I worked on Roy Wood Jr., hoping he gets to take over the Daily Show, shout out to Roy. He did the Democratic Congress. You know they do the White House Correspondents dinner. Right. There's one for Congress that just nobody pays attention to. Roy did that one year. One of the jokes he made was like, if you want to make Republicans pro-choice, you need to ban abortion in D.C. so they can only get them for their mistresses in their home districts. Yeah. That was a fucking great joke to Dr. Roy. Yeah. Will Tyson, these comments are pretty in line with what me and Mark are saying because Will Tyson says it's all part of a consistent narrative that Republicans want rights for themselves, but not for us. abortion is just one of those rights

yeah for the my reasons are good yeah Patricia Perring says Walker can be easily manipulated that is why the Republican politicians

love him they will use him and throw him away as soon as it's convenient I mean yeah it's yeah like Mark said I'm going he'll vote the way

they want him to you know what I mean I mean yeah he'll definitely fall in line no doubt about it so that's a good point it's just why

I don't know it's just so shameless as the whole thing for me you know like they they're the fuck it's like you said somebody found out you paid for an abortion and they're like right on good for you you know who cares because you're a fucking

pro-choice liberal but they're the goddamn Christian family values high moral standards people and you'd think it would make it you know harder to to stomach but it just doesn't at all doesn't bother them since time in memoriam

uh sexual morality has been a thing for the plebe so rich people do what they want it was like that in ancient Rome it was like that with a King whatever, King James or whatever it cut off all his wives had and they couldn't get acquit because he couldn't get divorced. Henry 8th, sorry, yeah.

I was thinking about the King James Bible. But so the... Henry 8th invented a whole new type of church just so he could get a divorce but also chop some of their heads off yet. Yeah. And then you got like it goes, that's what they're joking about

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