Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – 10/08/24 – Hurricane of Bulls**t

Episode Date: October 9, 2024

 Skewers it’s only been one week and already another generationally cataclysmic hurricane is bearing down on this country. Surely politicians on all sides have put away partisan disputes and come together to help our fellow Americans in this time of need right? Actually, no, Trump and MAGA have deemed this fertile ground for sowing lies and unrest. Imagine that. Support the show

all right everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it's october 8th twenty 24 i'm trade that's mark how you doing mark uh good man got a uh uh got a good show today i think we're gonna be talking about what we're not some phoneless and conspiracy theories mostly today because last week was eating was talking about the you know existential angst of our coming climate apocalypse so let's talk about how the morons are going to deal with it because that's more fun um but before we get to show on top of the stuff we're not going to talk about today that's in the news one uh apparently trump white house ran interference for the FBI investigation into brett cavanaw's sexual assault allegations back when he was in during his confirmation hearings in 2018 which i think

we all ever thought everyone knew that at the time but i guess we got concrete sourcing on that today um what does that even mean ran interference on i mean didn't the stuff come out anyway or like was there more stuff that didn't come out at the time i mean i remember feeling like it looked pretty bad and then it didn't matter and he was fine the fbi after the accusations happened this fb i set up a tip line uh on which they got like 4200 uh tips and the white house made sure they didn't do anything about it which i mean 4200 obviously i the man held the job i don't think he did 4200 sex crimes yeah i mean that'd be like he'd be like the wilt chamberlain of uh right uh sexual assault

sexual assaulting judges. Yeah, that would be some really impressive, well, not impressive. It's not the right word. It would be some wild stats if it was 4200. Yeah. Right. How did he finish law? So obviously there's a lot of cranks and weirdo. But anytime you set up the tip line, you're going to get a bunch of tips from just like random lunatics who are watching the news. Dude, any kind of government thing, it don't even have to be on the new because I used to work for the government and I led out government contracts and government grants and stuff. Anytime we posted a grant opportunity online for like a renewable energy project or something, because I work for Department of Energy. Dude, if my number was on it, it was going to be a real shitty month because people

just called me all day being like, I got this great idea, you know, you take, I got all these, I got all these llamas. They poop, right? We take the poop. We turn it in to energy through the means that we're like just crank bullshit. So any kind of government line like that is going to get some of that. But still, they probably should have at least looked into it a little bit. Yeah.

Anyway, the White House made sure they didn't. So there's also like Bob Woodward's books coming out You're like you know when you're a big time Washington reporter Who's already really wealthy When you get interesting stuff What you got to do is sit on it until your book comes out four years later So I guess How old is Bob Woodward?

486 I bet to say God damn Yeah All right So he's old enough that It was already ridiculous that What was it? Robert Redford played him in the movie or whatever

Right 40 years ago Yeah which one played him in all the president's men, but yeah. So, but he sent a apparently COVID test to Putin. And I don't mean he sent like, like, like, because Russia didn't have a good supply of COVID test. He didn't send like a big stock, a big supply for the Russian people. He sent some to Vladimir Putin personally because he's a huge germaphobe. All right. So that's nice. Trump did? Yeah.

Okay. All right. He could. All right. Well, that's wild. Putin couldn't get him from nowhere else. Like he's like, okay. The Russian medical test. field apparently is behind the times who knew uh so uh trump apparently according to willbert has talked to Putin on the phone at least seven times since he left the white house i don't know about what he's got a bunch of classified documents sitting around as a bathroom um but also like it's just like it's illegal for american private citizens to run their own foreign policy which we let we let Elon Musk and jeff bezos do it because that's free enterprise baby i have no idea why i got said to moroago whatever there's no it's funny that trump's being left on red by Putin

or whatever like you can't get on leaving a string of embarrassing uh late night voicemails and shit for vladimir Putin just can't hear back from him yeah it's uh yeah yeah it's weird they are uh they are besties i guess well i mean no Trump loves him I think uh you know Putin knows that Trump's his bitch so it's not exactly the same thing but the former KGB agent working a source man yeah it's like that's a user relationship so uh so I want to talk about this story because there's a famous internet meme that like after 2016

Darren's going to look in the mirror and take a hard look and say we got to get more racist. All right? But what instead? What if instead they just got fucking dumber, all right? And you're going to love this story

as a fan of stuff like aliens and cryptids. All right? So I don't know. I'm sure people noticed recently that Kamala Harris has been around talking about just how she owns a gun but if you come in her house after dark she will fucking shoot you're at.

All right. Yeah. Which is just like, just saying repeatedly, openly, did an interview with 60 minutes, so it was a clock. She said clarify it's a clock. All right. So,

yeah, if there is any organized strategy here, it's to like not come across like a liberal nanny, right? Which is like, she isn't the scolding, uptight kind of liberal. She's a new cooler liberal

who shoot you, right? Okay. Right. So I've read this piece and I thought it was a joke, but I think it might, I couldn't tell the person's kidding, but it actually might be a good idea here.

Basically arguing that she should find a conspiracy theory to claim she believes. in. And because all the cranks have united under one ban, like Trump's got doing on, he's got the anti-vaxxers, he's got the UFO people, right? He's got the crypto, the gold bugs. We think the economy's going to collapse. You should build a bunker, right? So what they're saying is he goes, because she should find like a pretty harmless conspiracy theory, like Bigfoot or whatever, and claim she believes in it. And the reason is, so research by Fairleigh Dickinson University suggests that

cryptids could be fertile territory for recruiting swing voters, this article states. Democrats and Republicans are equally likely to believe that creatures known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch exist in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. 20% of Democrats say that it's, quote, somewhat or very likely to be true compared with 19% of Republicans and 22% of Americans overall. Younger Americans are much more likely than older ones to believe it's true. But Bigfoot is old and busted, right? The new hotness is Mothman.

Are you familiar with Mothman, Trey? I mean, I know that Mothman's been around for a while because there's, like, two movies, there was original movie and then a remake of the movie that wasn't well ever said, the Mothman prophecies and stuff. So I know that Mothman's been around, but I thought it was sort of a, you know, a lesser known regional benchwarmer type of cryptid is what I thought. I didn't know that he was getting called up to the majors, Mothman. So, no, please educate me. Apparently Mothman lore is huge on TikTok, okay? So Mothman, if you guys aren't familiar, because I wasn't, is a seven-foot creature with glowing red eyes that makes me. quote a screeching sound as it follows cars through the dark mountain night.

It's mostly seen in like West Virginia and like that part of the country, all right, which is important electorally because it's right next to Pennsylvania. It's our new strategy to win Pennsylvania is to claim to believe in a seven-foot-tall mothman who flies and chases cars. All right. So it's also like pulling down to the shows that is an up-and-com encrypted. The mothman has a particularly strong appeal to younger and more progressive people. so there's even a recent novel about a young trans boy writing letters to the moth man

I've been diagram crossover appeal there you go yeah right so producer Matt if you're listening from your new perch in Delaware at the campaign headquarters have Kamala Harris go on ancient aliens that is your winning strategy here that's okay look I don't want to derail this episode I have so many thoughts about this so some of this I'm taking personally it's like yeah so first of all I didn't realize so you know you know I'm into alien shit we've talked about here on the show before

but that that like is it am I an outlier in the fact that I'm like yeah Bigfoot ghost that's all a bunch of bullshit but aliens though that's what's up like is that because to me alien is the most reasonable

gateway cryptid if you even want to call it a cryptid into this world because I feel like it just makes mathematical sense, goddammit, when you understand the size and breadth of the fucking universe. Like, it's not, it's not that wild. I don't like aliens getting lumped in with this shit.

You know what I mean? But we're not rehashed this whole argument. We've done 47 times in this show. But to be fucking clear, that math cuts both ways. Yes, it's mathematically likely that there exists life in the universe. It also makes the same math makes extremely unlikely that they've come across us

or have light speed travel. Yeah, that's called the Fermi parent. and there are a lot of proposed fucking answers for it, okay? Don't come of me with that shit. I know, I know about the Fermi. You say I don't know about the Fermi paradox? I do, motherfucker.

Anyway, I'm just, me personally, I feel like, I get, I like the case you made for Mothman, but I feel like aliens is the, is the play. If you're going to pick one to get into, it just feels like it has broader appeal to me. But unless you're as dumb as, remember Trump was already president, they ignore that part, right?

But, like, it's hard to claim you're going to get to the bottom of aliens when you're sending vice president and you haven't done it for four years. Like, you should know they're aliens. Trump should know if they're aliens too, but they just pretend he wasn't. Okay, that actually, that is a good point. Yeah, you're right. I didn't think about that part of it. So, all right, yeah, Mothman.

All right, that's fine. Go for it. Moth, you know, I can get on board. All right, anyway, listen, we got to producer Laura with us tonight. This is weekly skews. I want to remind y'all before we continue that I'm on road, as always. If you would like to see me do stand-up comedy live and in person, go to Trey Crowder.com

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It's been barely a week, and there's already another perhaps cataclysmic hurricane bearing down on this country. Now, you might think that this is a time to put away partisan differences and come together in honor of helping our fellow Americans in this time of need, right? Actually, no, you'd be very wrong. Turns out Trump and MAGA have been this fertile ground for sowing discord, lies, and unrest. Imagine that. Yeah, the banter, the rhetoric is pretty wild. We'll get to it a little later. But first, we begin with the Daily Dumbass.

Laura, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D. Moderate Republicans for famously hating Christianity and wanting porn in schools. We are a group of moderate Republicans have partnered with Democrats. These are folks that want pornography in your kids' school. These are folks that don't want the Bible in school. They have been attacking Christianity. These are folks that do whatever the teachers' unions tell them to,

and they want to bring back an era of the teachers' union controlling our schools. We're not going to allow that. We're going to continue to put... So that's Oklahoma Secretary of Education... Sorry, school superintendent, Ryan Walters, that's the title there. Who's on one recently, and he got caught in this pretty fucking naked grift involving Bibles, which grift involving Bibles, that sounds like a two sentences that shouldn't go together. Unfortunately, this is America, and deep in the...

the era of prosperity gospels. So, he's, we talked before about him trying to put Bibles in schools, all right. So he finally put out

the request for proposal for bids for delivering the Bibles, all right? He wants 55,000 Bibles. According to the bid documents, vendors must meet certain specifications.

Bibles must be the King James version and must contain the Old and New Testaments, must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, and the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, and must be bound in leather.

other like material. Do you want to guess how many Bibles fit that criteria? I mean, I ain't never seen a Bible. I don't think that had all those American documents in it. And I grew up in a pretty American part of America. And I don't remember saying the Pledge of Allegiance Declaration of Independence, U.S.

Constitution and Bill of Rights all included in a Bible. Plus, we didn't have leather money. That's nothing. You wasted money on leather. You don't need to be leather. God damn. So, I mean, I would think not a lot. Not very many.

Not many at all. The main one that does is the Lee Greenwood, God bless the USA Bible, endorsed by former President Donald Trump and commonly referred to as the Trump Bible. The Lee Greenwood's God bless the USA Bible endorsed by Donald Trump and otherwise known as the Trump Bible. It wonders never cease, dude. It blows my mind that any adult human being could fail to see that as the naked. grift that it is you know what I mean it sounds it's like almost like it's almost who on the

nose it sounds like a it sounds like a made up uh thing in a story about people using the bible to fucking you know rip people off for money and overly like corporate like the right okola presents the word of the lord like it sounds like a joke or something yeah it's straight out of the boys right so exactly this uh uh report for the ok Oklahoma and reached out to a Christian bookstore named Mordell Christian Education and they carry 2,900 Bibles and none of theirs fit those particular parameters because why would you put the Bill of Rights omitting every amendment after 10, by the way, including the anti-slavery amendments, of course. And none of them fit the parameters of 2,900. But there's one other Bible

that also meets these specifications. It's the We the People Bible that costs the sells for $90 apiece. That was endorsed by Donald Trump Jr. The Trump, Lee Greenwood Trump Bible sells for $60 each. By the way, you can get a King James Bible, a paperback will online for $2.99. All right. Bro, I've had Christians give them to me for free. They lean for free at hotel. And my tip and oh, Charlie's and shit. This country is lousy with Bible.

It's not a scarce resource. They're all over the goddamn place. Definitely not. And so like, so Walters has said that he frequently wants Bibles in every classroom, but publicly clarified he wants them classes with a Bible. might apply to academic standards such as history or literature which like okay but the problem here is like he's requesting 55,000 he wants 55,000 bibles delivered okay there are only 43,000 classrooms in the state and so obviously a lot less than 43,000 of those teach history or literature

so basically every history or literature class will have like I don't know nine Bibles um I don't want like so this has been bugged me for a while I don't think I burned it up on the show but like I think a of people misunderstand the separation church and state and what it's for because i think everyone including us you know non-god people or whatever primarily assume is to protect the state from religion right it's to protect unbelievers and have a religion enforced on them and uh and obviously a lot of christians have grown to see that too that that this the first amendment the which they think separation church and state's fake just exists to get in their way from taking power all right but that i wish everyone would understand that's not the main purpose of it a lot of the founding followers

not all of them, like Thomas Jefferson famously was basically agnostic, but like they were fierce believers and thought that the separation church and state would be a way to keep the state from corrupting religion. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yeah, to keep religion from having fucking corporate sponsors. Right. To keep things like Lee Greenwood presents.

God bless the USA, Holy Bible, like to keep stuff like that from being able to happen. Right. Like, this is, like, this is, like, the church being implicated in vulgar grifts that are, like, compromises are necessary in politics. What you don't want to do is have to compromise religious faith, so you don't want to keep the two things separate, so you don't, you know, end up going to fucking hell, all right? So, so you don't sell your soul for a few votes or a few dollars or whatever. So it's worth to remember that the founders, you know, and the early American settlers had fled, you know, monarchies that had merged with the church where you had corrupt priests living off the taxpayer teat. and monarchs rewriting religion so they could whatever weird sex stuff they wanted to get up to

like cutting their wife's head off would be legal sure like um so like yeah using taxpayer like using religion to steal taxpayer money to griff for a political patron is like a literal example of taking the Lord's name in vain not like saying God damn you but using the cover of God to steal money that's that's that's taking the Lord's name in vain all right right and I like start to say this on church you here but I grew up in the church and this kind of shit this kind of shit is the reason a lot of people people like me are pushed away from religion.

It's because a fucking scumbaggag is like this, this asshole, all right? And using the King James Bible here is a bit on the nose. So, the reason King James had his own Bible written was for a lot of reasons. But among them was he cited two passages in the Geneva translation where he found the marginal notes offensive to the principles of divinely ordained royal supremacy. All right. That include Exodus 1-9, where the Geneva Bible notes had commended the example of, civil deed obedience of the pharaoh. So because Moses stole slaves from the pharaoh and that was presented as good,

that didn't hit for King James because he wanted to keep his loyal subjects. Right. And this is the Bible they're pushing on school kids in Oklahoma. Yeah, well, I mean, I've, for a long time, it's like I reached a certain age of my life and I was like, why is King James the one that, like, you know, because when I was a kid, it was the King James Bible and now they got the new international version and all this stuff. But it's just, it's always been kind of inherently weird to me. And I know it's all translated.

It's all ancient. But like the word of Lord has all these. There's like, you know, you can pick and choose which version of it hits for you the hardest. And that was part of, like, that was one of the, like, first cracks in the foundation of my, which there really was no foundation of my faith. But you know what I'm saying. Anyway, go ahead. I was trying to figure out before we came on why the King James version is so popular among evangelicals. because, like, the Bible, I was gifted when I, you know, got baptized or whatever,

which is, you know, the leather fancy one is a keepsake was a, uh, uh, was a King James version. Yeah. I was trying to figure out, like, why. And the best answers to come up with, because no one, like, there's not, no one announces their reasons why they love particularly, but it's like, two reasons. One, the language sounds fancy and authority, so therefore authoritative. So, like, I, like, get, like, like, look, and though, and Moses gazed at the pun of the burning bush and said, the, like, I love thee, Lord my God.

Sounds authoritative and like a higher form of language. So it sounds like... Yeah, if somebody just says some shit to you, that's one thing. But if they spake unto thee, you know, that feels different. Right. So like if a modern English translation, it's like, yo, check out that burning bush, dude. Like that doesn't sound like a legit religion.

That shit is not chill, bro. Yeah. Yeah. They should do that. They need a Zoomer Bible. Anyway, go ahead. And the other version is because the language sound is hard to decipher for a lot of people. It makes it easier to obfuscate the true meaning.

of like religious passages. Totally by that. 100% by that. So Walter's appears to like once again gotten way out over his skis here to a degree that he's doing stuff that's not just illegal and like immoral arguably

but also unconstitutional but also just fucking annoying. So like a lot of more and more Republicans in the state are turning on him. Like he pissed off the legislature doing some dumb shit a while back I forget what we talked about.

But like so Oklahoma's attorney general is a guy named Jentner Drummond which Seems to me like a form of indirect nominative determinism because he's a Republican, obviously. And if you want your kid to grow up to be a conservative lawyer, name him Gentner. Yeah. He had to send a letter basically threatening him. Like, I'm not sure what legal action they take, impeachment, or just like, like, like, take him to court or whatever.

Because he's not spending taxpayer. This isn't even about the Bible thing. It's about the fact that he's doing the Bible thing while ignoring other money he's, like, obligated to spend, specifically on inhalers. A couple years ago, a kid in Oklahoma school died because they didn't have access to inhaler. So the legislature did what a government should do. Oh, shit, we got kids out inhalers who are dying at school. I mean, even if we don't care about our kids,

like this feels like a lawsuit, so maybe we should just get inhalers because they're not super expensive. So they allocated $250,000 to buy inhalers for the kids of Oklahoma. And he just hasn't even put out a request proposal or even made any movement in the last year to get inhalers because he doesn't fucking give a shit

about the kids and the schools. he overseas. And Drummond added that Walters has basically given up writing, quote, it appears that you have elected to require school districts to directly purchase inhalers and be refunded rather than procuring inhalers directly, which means like he's making it more expensive for them to buy them in small amounts instead of buying in books. He's just fucking over the taxpayers here. Yeah. I don't know. I don't want to say this because I don't want to take any of these people's

side at all and I'm not taking their side. But, you know, this is literally what I used to do was federal procurement. This is state level procurement, but this is what my job used to be. And I just know from some of the people that I worked with and stuff that like it's the whole, what's that, what's that, uh, what's that, uh, that maxim or whatever is talking about, you know, don't blame malice when it can be explained by incompetence or whatever, when it comes like a, this is malice. Yeah. Right. With the, but the federal, somebody, a governmental employee, a procurement employee taking seven months to get in inhalers after getting the month. for it or whatever is uh you know i can very easily see that happening is all i'm saying just

because that just because that's how that type of thing goes it moves at a glacial pace like it used to blow my mind all the time you can even do it corruptly you've got to have a buddy who wants to make a little extra money on the side who can start an open up an LLC that acquires some inhalers to sell to the state and you get a cut of it and you get a kickback and the kids get inhalers that's prefer to me than this fucking system where you just don't get them inhalers. I mean, no, yeah, I agree with that for sure. And yet, the fact that apparently that the Bible's thing got, uh, got speed ran, it got rushed to the front of the line is definitely indicative of, uh, some bullshit going on. But especially because we know that the,

the, the, even if you waste the money and gives Trump with, was it got up to $3.3 million that he had Trump will get a cut of the, the, the, the, the, the Greenwood Bible thing. Like, it, like, the Bibles will never make it to the classroom because like, we, this has been well litigated. It absolutely has. And. Man, if you're a kid in Oklahoma and you're having an asthma attack, I guess it's reached for one of the eight Bibles that's in your history class. Hope you're in history when you have an asthma attack. And flip to Isaiah 222, where it says, stop regarding man whose nostrils is breath.

For what of what account is he? That's obviously the King James Version, which the meaning of wishes to stop trusting a mere human beings to save you because your fucking school superintendent sucks shit. And I hope he goes to jail. So, yeah. Yep. he don't hit all right but speaking of uh shit let's talk about some bullshit there's been a lot

of it lately right with these hurricanes it's like i mentioned up top you'd like to think that i mean i'm not at all surprised i'm sure none of you all are are either watching this but like in the wake of a natural disaster where people are i do maybe i'm wrong maybe i look it's nostalgia i'm looking through it through rose-colored glasses at the past and how the way things used to work maybe this wasn't true then either I don't know, but it just, it's the type of scenario where, in my head, in a pre-Trump world, when I was younger in the political landscape in this country, is like, that would be a time where people would just sort of would actually come together and just not worry about bullshit.

And there'd always be grifters. There'd be people trying to capitalize or profiteer. Like, you always have assholes like that. But like politically, people on both sides would acknowledge, like, well, none of that matters right now. people are dying this is fucked up let's just try to get as many people as much help as we can and this past week has really illuminated

just how far of a fall from grace we've had with that type of thing because it's the exact opposite in the wake of Helene and now there's Milton on the horizon and it's not going to be any better well there appears to be a huge bright dividing line between people

that like have been mugged like the old you know expressions that are like a liberal is it just a conservative hasn't been mugged yet or whatever a lot of Republicans have been mugged by reality in the past few weeks and they've responded by

becoming sane or acting sanely in the temporary and those are people that have to have to be responsible and talking mostly about like higher level like to officials they actually have to oversee shit and the dividing lines between them and the people have done what they always do

which is basically just post right right just post online your average backments your fucking congressman like your Adrian Polina Luna, whatever her name is, and Marjor Taylor Green, and your Fox News types. And I want to start with this video here because it kind of shows the dichotomy here. Here's Dan Abash interviewing Laura Trump, who's running the RNC still, I guess. And we're talking about Senator Tom Tillis, who's a Republican senator from North Carolina, what he's seeing on the ground versus what Laura is trying to say here, which is based upon shit she's seen on the internet.

You need to listen to what the Republican senator from North Carolina, Tom Tillis, said about the rescue and recovery efforts. I'm actually impressed with how much attention was paid to a region that wasn't likely to have experienced the impact that they did. For anybody who thinks that any level of government, anybody here could have been prepared precisely for what we're dealing with here, clearly are clueless. But right now, I'm out here to say that we're doing. a good job so he and others are saying please to the former president and to others stop spreading misinformation because it's hurting people in north carolina i'm so glad to hear that he feels that way but it's coming directly from people there you can go online you can look at videos of people recording themselves and posting online saying you can go online and no one has

recording themselves and no one has even do you want to guess the problem with that? It's like you hear a report from a guy who's there who's like is literally being filmed while there and saying like no you know that's not true we're actually working very hard we're doing as good of a job as we can and the federal government's been very helpful here or whatever and then and then she's like well listen I don't give a shit what that dumb ass says I know from talking to people who are on the ground it's like this dude is also

on the ground like it's too you know that's an actual firsthand account. But I know that like, also I get people being like, oh, I heard, you know, I heard from a guy who lives in this hauler in North Carolina and not people in hollers, they need to be protected too. But, uh, lives in a holler in North Carolina says he hasn't seen Joe Biden anywhere at all. You know what I mean? It's like, well, yeah.

Like that's not even what she's talking about. That's not even what she's talking about. She's talking about somebody who's caught in a place of comfort and safety hopping online and being like, I heard from a buddy on the. the ground that FEMA's in a shootout marine horse snipers. Right. That's what she's talking about. Yes.

So that is still worse. But either way, I'm just saying, I mean, even if it was, even if someone has like a first hand account from a person, it still depends on the context and also in what they're saying. It's like,

you know what I mean? Like you could have. And I, like I saw one of these. Yeah, sorry. I saw a woman on the ground in West North Carolina trying to make a post like pushing back in this information.

And she's basically trying to explain how everything works because what a, like, basically, okay, well, the local government handles this, and the state government handles this, and the federal government handles this, and the $750 are given you. It's not the totalality of the bailout you're going to give. That's just cash for immediate needs, like, groceries and water. Yeah.

And if you case you need a hotel room. But all that's fucking complicated. FEMA is closed the airspace so white people can be executed is a very simple thing to explain to people. So, like, basically what I've realized is that our government is set up to generate conspiracy theories because it's so clunky and, like, so much duplicative shit, right?

So, like, and... Well, hold on. Well, I'm sorry, but what do you mean by that, though? Just because, like, I mean, look, dude, I know that our government is highly bureaucratic and duplicative. And it is, it lends itself to a bunch of inefficient bullshit. I know firsthand that that is true. But I'm saying in this scenario, like, what, when people just, when people say that they're fucking, whatever, that FEMA's in a ground war with armed patriots in Western North Carolina, like, that's not, I mean, what's the. government is supposed to do about that like that you know what like where is that like that's just

crazy people saying shit right like there's i i'm saying you know there's a there's a there's been it's become a common expression lately but like when you don't when you don't understand how anything works everything but everything becomes a conspiracy right so like like you and i are you and i grew up rural all right so one thing every person who's from the middle of nowhere knows understands instinctually is that you are far away from fucking help Right. Like, like, one time we had a ice storm, we went 16 days without power. We just had to survive.

And like, that's like that, that's fine. That's expected because the way large numbers works, you're going to turn the city's power back on first. And you're going to be last because your power line only has your house on it. So they're not just by triaging like who's helping the larger numbers of people. They're going to get to you last. All right. So when a rural area like Appalachia is flooded, a town with one road in, you. and one road out

and there's no place to land a fucking helicopter shit sucks and a bunch of people don't understand how remote even parts the United States are

so what they do is because they assume that help hasn't gotten there yet that obviously that's purposeful and Joe Biden wants to kill

all the white people right okay no yeah I hear you no you're right and like you said I know like from growing up where I did

there was also there's an expectation that it would come you know you're allowed to mind your own and you're away from things, which is the upside.

People like that. But that also means, you know, they're going to, the government whoever's going to get to you later, you're off by yourself. You're out and, you know, you're away from things. You still deserve help, but the people, I feel like in my hometown at the time, I remember a real

bad ice storm in like the 90s when I lived there and shit was real bad for a little bit. And I don't feel like there was people claiming Bill Clinton was trying to kill them all, right? Like, you know, they, basically said that later after NAFTA and the factory left. But at the time, with the

Ice Storm, that wasn't where people's heads went. Whereas today, that's immediately what people think. Ice storm also didn't wipe out entire towns. Right? So, like, also TikTok didn't exist. So, but like, it's just like, everything's, like, very confusing to people right now who barely pay attention.

And I'd say, it's pretty startling how easy to insert disinformation and misinformation into all this shit. If you're a bad actor who, like, say, wants to hop on Twitter and make $7 by getting because Elon pays for engagement by coming with a brazen lie and getting a bunch of retweets about it, right? But since Laura Trump told us to go on the internet, let's see what's been going on the internet. Here's a Facebook post that went mega viral over one of many AI generated images of Trump.

And, okay. Like, Facebook doesn't want to cut out the person's username, but Facebook doesn't want us to see this. They keep deleting it, but I'm going to keep sharing. Okay. Facebook is deleting it because this is obviously fake bullshit for a lot of reasons. One, you know it's AI because of the, like, uncanny valley nature of the, you know, image, right? Yeah.

It's also Donald Trump helping people. Yeah. He also, he's standing in thigh deep water in his suit and everything. But also it's like what it, what's the, it looks like a joke or something. Like the paper towels, do you know what I mean? It's like, you're going to need a lot more paper towels, brother. Like what is it even supposed to be doing? Yeah, right, exactly.

Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Like, oh, thank God you showed up with this one roll of paper towels while he's standing in, you know, a foot and a half deep water or whatever. It's fucking ridiculous. Right. Flip over the next

image lower because I'm going to show a zooped and zoomed in. Like, okay, this is another reason that was fake. There's a woman staying in the crowd, he's handing a paper towels to who's wearing a known law, which is the conical Vietnamese hat that's made from bamboo. All right? I think what happened here is the person generated,

like, showed Donald Trump helping flood victims in the South. All right. So it gets the paper towel thing for when he was in Puerto Rico, tossing paper towels to the crowd. And because it says South, it's like well South Vietnam's in the South and just generates an image of a Vietnamese woman

that's my best guess as to what happened there and I told you about the mega viral the mega viral thing that's happened last night where people were live tweeting fan fiction about Marine Corps snipers being in a shootout

with FEMA which you already talked about a little bit which is just like the core of the Marines sniper saying we're in the fight of our lives against FEMA truck drivers and people that process insurance paperwork? That's what you're fucking, like, who do you think's in FEMA, man?

Like, I think a lot of people think that any governmental agency has like, you know, spook in it or whatever. Do you know what I'm saying? I think people think that. It's like a governmental agency. Yeah, they got, they got agent, you know, it's an agency. They got agents. FEMA's got agents who are armed and, you know, have training and all that.

Who knows what they can do? They work for the deep state, Mark. Mark, fucking, you know. That's what, that's what, like, so the, the Q&A people, which of course, but become half the Republican Party think that, like, there's a war going on at all times between, like, the forces of light and God, which would be the Marines, and the Navy Seals, and then the evil, which would be the deep state, the CIA, and I guess FEMA. So they're always, remember there was, there was a shootup they supposedly had after the election where the Navy SEALs were in a shootout with the CIA, the director of the CIA over a thumb drive. They would prove the election was stolen, when they all thought that was happening. like that's whatever i just like what i've basically arrived at is i think the superhydron collider did explode in 2015 and yeah separate us into a bunch of like multiverses yeah

and we're in the dumbest one right every every time there's a multiverse movie there's like always a really dumb universe like an into the spiderverse is where everyone's pigs yeah that's where it's where we're at uh or like everything every all wants is the there's a universe where everyone knows dildos for fingers we're in the dildos for fingers universe yeah right of american politics yeah uh yeah that check out also just real quick about FEMA though it just pisses me off though too because it's like I feel like it's sort of like medical

professionals uh working during COVID right when people like they're just like trying to do their jobs and also help people like selflessly a lot of these people and they're just get like spit in their face for it. Do you know what I'm saying? They get like demonized and fucking say they're pawns of the deep state or whatever and they're

trying to kill people and it's like to do that and to still keep helping people despite it's like it's just it's just it's It's got to be frustrating as hell. And that's what's happening with a lot of these. Yeah. What they're basically trying to do is to get a FEMA aid station shot up while they're having out bottle of water or whatever.

Exactly. Our Marjor Taylor Green's been on one, repeatedly going back to her old conspiracy theory that the government controls the weather. Here's the first one where she's like, oh, you think they don't control the weather. Yes, they can control the weather. It's ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can't be done.

So I read an explainer from a scientist who's like, even if the government could start a hurricane with a laser, like what you do is you'd like seed clouds and use a super hot laser, heat the ocean water to the point where maybe you can jump start a hurricane. But a person's like, even if there was as theoretically possible, the amount of energy it would take to do it would require like all the energy of the sun. It's not theoretically possible, all right?

Well, also, okay, the deep state's run by liberals, right? Or the people in charge, they're leftist, aren't they? I guess. And California is like a leftist haven and whatnot. I'm just, I feel like a week, if they could do shit like this, whenever California is on fire, which is very often, they just don't, they're like, I don't see, you know, they don't see any kind of use for their weather controlling technology.

In that case, you know what I mean? They don't want to like protect, because they're acting like they're using it to fuck over red America, Trump country. That's what they use this power for. But they don't use it to like save California when everything's on fire. You know what I mean? There's no other uses that can find for it other than just doing doing this, you know?

Oh, that's the thing that drives me crazy is like, like, let's the spitball here, all right? Like, like, if you had a machine that could control the weather, all right, think of all the things you could do with it, all right? You could, you know, you could control every future's betting, betting market in the planet, right? Therefore, control the world economy and collapse the economies of all your enemies. instead what they think they do with it is like try to give Donald Trump a slightly less of a chance on the margins of the electoral college

right it's by ginning up a hurricane and killing a bunch of people right like also that then you have to rely on the fact that you'll never get found out for that either you know what I mean it's just not

the risk reward is just not there you know like yeah also these hurricanes are supposed to be laser focused do you know what I mean it's a hurricane You couldn't control it. That's what I'm saying. It's like even if they think that you can create one, you can cause a hurricane. Are they saying they can dial it in towards like, no, hit this county in western North Carolina, but not this county or whatever.

Because it's fucking ridiculous. Also, Asheville is a liberal haven and it got fucked over bad. It wasn't just like Trump country stuff in North Carolina. So it just none of it makes any goddamn sense at all, which should go without saying. but I mean it doesn't apparently it doesn't yeah well you said you'd have to expect to get caught but Marjor Taylor Green thinks she caught them

she posted this Twitter this meme on Twitter it says like you know the meme face they can control the weather with a list of patents that are you know patents people patent all kinds of shit all the time a bunch of cranks like patent stuff having to do with the weather which is funny to me that you would have to patent

like a secret super weapon like do you think like the stealth bombers patented I bet it's not I bet there aren't blueprints for it in some fucking office somewhere that it's a good point like you could figure out everything DARPA's got going on yeah yeah yeah yeah like checking the patent off it yeah right yeah like you think the plans for a moon breaker baser in there or like what so like like one of the patents you listed there is for a balloon that just drops water drops another one is like a plan like a guy's idea to use heat to make toxic gases float upwards they don't kill people so like if you were being attacked with chemical

weapons you'd have like like a like a trench warfare kind of line where you'd have hot air blowing up to like float the chlorine glass up over the troops heads which might be a good idea you know good for him a little bit too late for war one but i'm glad he's guys still left there thinking about shit um while we're talking about my conspiracy stuff like you were talking about how like you'd think at times like this people would pull together people do pull together on the ground like fema's on the ground working with like the cajan navy which you know with the cajian navy right uh no not really tell me about them all right well they're kind of formed around 2005 it's basically just a bunch of good old boys with bass boats who go help people when there's floods.

Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, and after Katrina, right? Yeah, they've been active basically every major hurricane. They all load up their trucks with supplies and gas, take their votes to go try to rescue people from floodwaters. And they're not a political organization. I would guess how they're going to vote being a bunch of guys with big trucks and bass boats, but that's not the point of the organization. They go help people. So, like, they do good work, whatever.

and they post a video just to tell about how stuff does seem weird it's easy to get conspiratorial about this stuff one of their aid stations where they were like loading up stuff to take the people in the floodwaters got rotor water washing is tray I mean I just assume

it's a helicopter like blowing the shit out of somebody with the air from their blades tell them helicopter dumb but yeah people like using all that spinning air to fuck shit up From a, yeah, from a, yeah, right, okay.

Militaries and police agencies will typically do it to harass protesters, right? Right, yes, yes. It's like, it's kind of, it's, it's one of those lower level. It's considered, one of those things that's considered a war crime. If you do it to people you're occupying, but American police do all the time, like tear gas. So, um, uh, you're fine to do your own people, I guess. But a black hawk helicopter, like, with no markings on it, like, rotor washed their camp. And they're like, and the one of the, the guy in charge of the cave and Cajun Navy

Station was like, I'm not trying to be conspiratorial, but what the fuck? And I'm like, I get it. But like, Akam's Razor here, if the New World Order or the Deep State or whatever want to stop there from distributing supplies, I bet you've got to be more effective means than one helicopter, rotor washing. Like, it was a pretty mild rotor washing. You just like blew some papers around. Like, it's the simplest solution to me is some fucking guy in the National Guard thought he saw the guy who's fucking his wife down there or something. That's more plausible to me than the deep state's trying to harass the Cajun Navy with one helicopter. Whatever.

But my point is that stuff like that goes violent on the internet. it drives people insane because it seems weird, right? Right. Right. Yeah, well, also, but it could also even be the thing we were talking about earlier with incompetence versus malice or whatever. It's not just about it.

Or, yeah, it's just a prank, bro. It just seems funny. You think they're going to be in on it. There's a million different ways you could explain it. And it's like, given that it didn't end with people dying, like, I think it's fine to explore those, the ideas that that that pilot is just kind of a troll or whatever. I'd find that pilot, give him like 40 demerits and suspend it for two weeks or whatever.

That seems like an appropriate punishment as opposed to like whatever they, but the conspiracy, the people that picked up on this and made it go mega viral are, do not have anyone's best interest at heart, not even the Cajun navies or the people trying to be helped. They just want to people to think that Joe Biden sent a helicopter to harassed the Cajun Navy. All right. And like this stuff's been seized on by a bunch of bad actors, not least among them is fucking Elon Musk who just can't, he can't find anything. single situation that he can't make worse um yeah so there's been this like weird disinformation

trick that the right wingers are using now basically where they they have a screen grab a text message they say us from a source who's trustworthy and then go is this really happening what the fuck and it's like it's like there's no sourcing or whatever for it right so let me read one here from charlie kirk the director turning point USA he screen grabbed the text message and said Charlie, my sources in western North Carolina tell me that personnel from FEMA are being housed at one of the nicest hotels and they work only until 5 p.m. I read the alleged text, which he tweeted Friday to 3.5 million followers on X. And they will not work weekends. My folks are being told if they don't contact them by 5 p.m. today, they will have to wait until Monday. Is this true

FEMA? Kirk added, Americans are dying, but FEMA workers are treating their job like it's a 9 to 5 government clock punching gig. So I don't know how hard federal employees are working here, but like his sourcing here is a guy who texted Charlie Kirk who heard from some people in North Carolina, all right? Right. That went up to 3.5 million people. Well, you also have to just think like because he's Charlie Kirk, like the idea that this dude texting him, he's a true believer probably, he's on board or at least as a powerful grifter or whatever into the grift to one of the two. And so like his source could just be like some dude he has DM'd on the internet who has told him that he's from North Carolina. Right. And,

that where he's at North Carolina, he's seeing this stuff. So it's just, it's wing nuts all the way down is what I'm saying. So, like, so this dude's like, no, I'm hearing directly from the ground that this is what happening. It's like, yeah, but it's just, it's just layers of dip shits talking to each other who all think this stuff is going on. So it doesn't really mean anything. But, you know, that counts as a source nowadays, I guess.

Elon Musk, one of his own tweets, didn't even bother with the fake made-up source. like with a screen grab. He was his own one-man game with telephone where he obviously seems like to me he just made up, made this up, but he posted, just received this note from a SpaceX engineer

helping on the ground and with Carolina. The alleged note, which doesn't even include even a screenshot of a text or email, says if FEMA's blocking shipments into Asheville, seizing goods

and claiming them as its own. So, I'm not sure. Why? I, okay, so. For what? Like, to stop people, to, help to make sure people die.

That's what I think FEMA's doing. Yeah, but people in Asheville are probably, oh, wait, okay. No, they want, they want people to die. They're going to vote for Trump, right? Isn't that the conspiracy theory? That's who they want to die. But people in Asheville are probably not going to vote for Trump. They should be propping Asheville up and letting other people die, I would think,

according to this conspiracy theory. Yeah, you're thinking too hard. I know, I mean, I always do that. But, yeah. It's just like, like, and also there, there, are valid reasons why, like, FEMA why I want to control what, what stuff is being delivered to be, like, like, I'm not saying bottled water or whatever, but

like, like, like, like, for example, like, Elon went on a thread about how, like, FEMA was blocking the airspace over the disaster area so people couldn't help. And Pete Buttigieg, you know, the Secretary of Transportation had to, like, respond to him on Twitter. It was like basically just like, you can just call me, bro. Right. You can just call me. Like, you're a government contractor.

You have the phone number of the second, a bunch of, like, like, cabinet secretaries. and you're you're fucking posting on Twitter when you could just check like so he basically Mayor Pete got him on the phone and basically explained to him that like they had a bunch of near collisions

because there were so many helicopters over the disaster area of course that they were trying to keep track of who was entering who was leaving so there wouldn't be crashes that would necessitate more people being helped and Elon was satisfied with that explanation

but like why wouldn't you presume that was explanation to begin with? I was about to say that makes all the sense and of course someone should be controlling the airspace over a disaster where you got all these different people coming in in helicopters and trying to pull people out. Like someone needs to regulate that.

It's not weird at all that they would restrict that airspace to like protect people who are in charge. And also, yeah, like FEMA taking, seizing people's property and stuff like that. Like, you, they're, even people that's like, no, I brought this generator because I want it to be, you know, I want it to be useful in this effort. If they're like, well, where we are currently at, we have. have a surplus of generators but over there you know somewhere else now they're missing a generator so we're going to send this generator there do you know what I mean like that type of like you

even there's a benign explanation for why they would be given the authority to do stuff like that is what I'm saying because they know where resources are needed and how to allocate them but it's turned into this whole like deep state big government you're just they're you're confiscating your property and fucking all this stuff like it's just it's crazy it's not even it's like you said it should be the immediate explanation that people assume to me in my head it's like it's not like it's not like most of this shit even seems that weird like no it all seems to check out just fine to me there have been things before i'm like yeah i can see how that seems a little weird but look here's the but with this stuff it's like it don't even seem weird it just all seems like like of course of

course this is the way all this stuff works like what i it i don't understand it man like it's like you look at a situation where shit's absolutely fucked and you're like well this must be a conspiracy it's like a thousand year flood hit appalachia and you're like you're do you think it's a conspiracy that it's fucked right oh my god bro like i can be like it's gonna be fucked for a long time there isn't like nobody has to be a bad actor here for shit to be fucked it's like so weird to me that's where people with brains go but these guys like like we were joking a couple weeks to go after the second assassination attempt that like like these guys don't understand if forces they're playing with.

I just briefly want to say that, like, someone's going to shoot at Elon soon. He popped up at Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the first assassination attempt happened back a couple months ago and jumped around on stage or whatever. He fucked up and he wore a belt buckle that had the lone star of Texas superimposed over the Tesla logo, and which QAnon thought it was satanic. The Q&O thinks it depicts Baphomet's head on a pentagram. so like these people gin up all this anger and conspiracy theories they put themselves in the center of fighting it so when the bad forces aren't defeated what's immediately going to happen is you're going to be lumped with the bad guys and someone's going to try to fucking kill you so i'm just warning Elon right now to ramp up your security dogs and fleas man it's like you know there's the people you court on you purposefully gin up the most unstable people in this country and then expect none of that to ever blow back on you in any capacity like it's not again, Trump's been shot at twice

both times by reported Trump voters. Previous fans of it. Yeah, Trump supporters. I mean, so Yeah. So the thing that is depressing about this to me is like, America's always had cranks and weirdos. Of course, the internet elevates them, but the fever swamps used to kind of stay the fever swamps.

But now there's like this game of footsie, if not outright blasting of it. So Trump's been like all in one lately about the disaster response. Just to go through a couple fucking lies he's been told. So, because they have a unified theory of every problem in America and it's migrants, right?

Uh-huh. Yeah, anybody watching the vice presidential debate could tell that for sure. Right. Right. They're going to get housing costs down by, uh, by evict, by deporting migrants because if you're trying to buy a four bedroom, three-bedroom house in the suburbs of Northern Virginia, you're getting outbid by a migrant family. Well, no, I know when I was, when I, I bought a house in Burbank, California this year, and I had to, I had to outbid like four or five different migrant families. They were really strong, uh, strong negotiators. They competed hard. But, you know, we,

came out on top but yeah it's just yeah ridiculous yeah so he's so right now which one of the last Trump's telling is like he's saying that uh the Biden Harris administration spent quote all her FEMA money on housing illegal migrants right which is a bit of projection because Trump stole money from FEMA when he was president to build migrant prisons um and as I understand it it's also that they said that it's one of the same you've said a million times before about how there's like a kernel of truth to things that they say and it's like we're like FEMA administers a program that's funded through Customs and Border Patrol, which does, as part of what they do, provide temporary housing to migrants who they get over, whatever, up here.

But it's not, but it's completely separate from disaster relief. It's a whole different pot of money. It has nothing to do with disaster relief at all. But in 2019, the Trump administration, they literally rerouted money from actual disaster relief directly to the board. order, but the difference is they didn't house migrants. They detained them, Mark. And if you're putting them in cages or whatever, then that hits for people just fine. It's like, I'll help. My neighbor can do without the help as long as we're locking brown kids up. It's okay with me. But yeah. So see what you just said. Remember a few minutes ago when I was like, I think our government's just too confusing so people can't understand it. They insert conspiracy theories. That's exactly kind of what I'm talking about. Yeah. budgets, appropriations, all this stuff. Yeah, they administer it, but the money. comes to her here. I mean, yeah, no, you're right. It's lab-in-thing. What Trump did was patently illegal, but no one's going to stop him

from doing it. So my proposal is, Biden should just start illegally moving money around when he needs to for fuck congressional appropriations because, like, they're going to say you're doing it anyway. And, like, why are you following the nerd rules when they're going to take money from, like, I don't know, feeding poor kids to, like, start the shoot migrants in the head

factory or whatever. So, like, so another lie I've been telling is, like, he's been claiming the federal government will give him $750 to people who lost their homes. Like, talked about earlier. Again, a government being overly complicated, a bunch of bullshit. $750 is merely the immediate upfront aid survivors can get to cover basic

pressing needs like food, water, baby formula, and emergency supplies. So survivors are also eligible to apply for additional forms of assistance, such as to pay for temporary housing and home repairs. It can be worth thousands of dollars. The current maximum amount for home repair assistance, for example, is $42,500, which I'm sure will be too hard to get and have to fill out too many

forms. A lot of people think it's fucking bullshit. Sure. And a lot of people will resent. the government over and then end up voting for a Republican, even the Republicans try to take away this aid entirely. Entirely, exactly. So I would once again urge Democrats to stop means testing, P, things so fucking difficult. Yep. Make it things so difficult because honestly, that's $750, you should be handing up, like,

for Hurricane Milton, you should be handing it out yesterday and today in Tampa so people have gas money to get the fuck out of town. Absolutely. Don't wait until afterwards to do it. You spent, bro. I don't. Everywhere of that is true. It's like you said, people will hold down.

against the government, not just the government, Democrats, because they're the big government party without ever stopping to consider the fact that Republicans don't want any of those programs in place at all. You know, that's what, like, they're, you know, that's shit. That's what, that's what, that's what, that's what, that's what church groups are for. That's what bootstraps are, it's not the government's job to help people in times of need. That's, you know, they can find that other ways. That's not what the government's for. They don't want any of this to exist at all, but they'll gladly capitalize on it politically. in scenarios like this

when they know people are hurting and are wanting somebody to be pissed off at and that's, you know, bullshit. Yeah. Like if you, like, if you, if somebody wanted to argue, somebody from the Republicans said, I wanted to argue that it's not enough

and not fast enough. I like, agree. But they're not arguing the $750 and is enough so you give them enough. They argue $750 isn't enough so you don't vote for Kamala Harris so they can take office and make that amount down to zero.

Exactly. And that's the, that's the part that's so, there's so much bullshit wrapped up in this to me. And like, like, I would, I would encourage, like, the means testing stuff always drives me insane because the reason they won't just be on the ground in Tampa right now handing out, like, bags of cash, whoever needs it to get the fuck out of town is because one newspaper story about somebody who didn't need it, getting it, would cause the anger at the whole program. I'm here to tell you, I do not fucking care if somebody who already has money to get out of town gets a thousand bucks, don't fucking give a shit. All right. So, um, no, you hitting everywhere.

Yeah. You're 100% right. That's exactly how. it's exactly what goes on with people and it is fucking bullshit um but so we're talking about hurricane milton we'll skip ahead a little bit lower down to the milton section instead of skip over the trump of laurenne video um here's the mayor of tampa and i've never seen people be so honest about hurricane milton like i saw somebody on like a meteorologist talking yesterday about how milton as a category five has hit the theoretical mathematical limits of

how powerful a hurricane can possibly be. Yeah, I saw that. It literally cannot, a hurricane literally cannot be more destructive. Right. That's heading straight for fucking Tampa. By this time tomorrow, God forbid, there may not be,

I got married just south of Tampa. My wife and I were just having a little personal, like, morning last. We might not ever be able to be able to visit the spot where we got married on the beach, which is not the most important thing by a mile, which is a little bit of thing. There was one of the many things that's making us sad.

So here's the mayor of Tampa, but Jane Castor giving an urgent message to everyone in her region. This is literally catastrophic. And I can say without any dramatization whatsoever, if you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you're going to die. Wow. I mean.

So, I mean, that's what they need to tell people, dude. I know a lot of people still want to stick around. I know they tell them sometimes like, okay, where you want to stick around, take a Sharpie and write your information on your chest. So when we find your corpse, we know who to contact. We're not to find your next to can, trying to get it through people's heads. They're like, no, this is serious. But, yeah, no, it's brutal.

And also I find I don't believe in a simulation or nothing like that. But just the way things go, like, I'm a little, and I saw other people point this out. But I'm a little unnerved by the fact that this hurricane, it's namesake, is the guy who wrote Paradise Lost, you know? like I'm just not feeling not feeling good about it I hope everybody I thought of the stapler guy from the fucking sure yeah well that yeah that's also a good poll but yeah right get the hell out of Dodge in Florida and I'm hope it all I they're all okay do you want to say that obviously like Helene just came through the west coast of Florida so obviously there are people who can't flee Milton because the cars are still fucked from Helene.

I saw a longtime meteorologist in a local NBC station in Florida talking about Milton and crying on air yesterday. This is going to be fucking bad. And we didn't get to those whole consequences of these lives things, the lies part of the outline, but I do want to say briefly before we get out of here that like part of this disinformation campaign about how little aid there is available to people is going to convince Trump supporters and people that live in these areas that are just wherever they get the information that there is an aid for them.

so they won't apply. They're not going to get the benefits are entitled to. Marco Rubio has been all over social media today and yesterday in local news trying to get people to flee Milton where he's spent, he spent an entirety of last week

trying to get people to think that the Bureau of Labor Statistics was lying about unemployment numbers, employment numbers. So now he's trying to get people to believe the federal government when it's the weather service but not believe them.

This is why this stuff's dangerous. They're going to be people who don't flee because the right-wing media ecosphere is convinced them that hurricanes are fucking faced. right and it's a deep state you can't trust anything the Biden administration tells you it's all a bunch of bullshit

and then they you know and then these people end up dying because they won't listen to the government or just don't trust the government anymore it's it's dangerous yeah Christina pushaw who's uh ronda santis is like she's supposed technically as press spokesman

but she mostly just tweets of people she's been trying like quote tweeting people like these rumors saying that FEMA has hired mercenaries to shoot people who leave their homes in Tampa if they try to return. So she's trying to say she's trying to say

don't believe this because people aren't going to leave because they're afraid they won't be able to return. Right, right. And like, I'm like, but you spent your entire career

convincing people to believe lies when they helped you, but now that they're going to get your own people killed, you're upset about it. And all of you are full of shit and I fucking hate all you. You're all going to burn hell.

Fuck all. Yeah. Hey, man, heard that. They capitalize on these disasters and they also, they know that these disasters are just going to keep happening. all these generational things.

It's been barely a week, barely more than a week, and we've had two of them now. And we're just getting started. So the shit's not going to slow down. And, you know, they're going to keep doing the same bullshit every time, I'm sure, because it's politically expedient. But anyway, all the best, everybody in Florida. Like I said, get out of Dodge.

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