Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – 10/15/24 – Tough Times in Florida

Episode Date: October 16, 2024

Evening, Skewers. Tonight we discuss the state of affairs in Florida, where citizens still reeling from the effects of two hurricanes are also forced to deal with a malicious governor hell bent on making their lives worse. So that’s fun. Also, some dumb stuff from Trump and MAGA wants to cancel the weather. Support the show

All right, everybody, welcome back. It's October 15th, 2024. I'm Trey, that's Mark. How's it going, Mark? Good, Trey. How are you doing today, bud? Doing good? I'm hanging in there.

Yep. Yeah. Early voting started today and just a little bit of news before we get the show. Early voting today started today and joined today. and Georgia and North Carolina. There are any numbers from North Carolina yet, but in Georgia, 252,000 people vote or ballots were cast today,

according to the Georgia Secretary of State's office. He tweeted, spectacular turnout. We were running out of adjutants for this. The previous first day record was $136,000 in 2020, so they've almost doubled the first day record, which is, you know, good for liberals, progressives, leftists, everyone to put it, because if they,

more people voting is bad for conservatives always has been right i was going to say but specific isn't it also maybe not early but the reason they hated these things for a long time is typically like early voting and mailing voting and that type of stuff tends to skew them doesn't it like well also it just makes voting easier so more people vote right like if you can't make it on the tuesday of the the election then you're just fucked right and anytime more people can vote it helps the democrats like you said Some out of context here, Georgia did make some rule changes to get rid of, like, ballot drop boxes and stuff or the limit there. So, like, a lot of these votes are moved over from other ways people were voting, so it's not like just explicit.

So people can push towards this, which if, look, if Republicans are going to be inherently suspicious of mail voting, but not in-person voting, do an early in-person voting, fine work around, whatever, if it keeps the Republic from, you know, blowing up in a hellfire because they think the mail is inherently satanic or whatever, whatever. Yeah, did you get your ballot already? We got our, yeah. Mine need to go ahead and knock that out. Yeah, if y'all aren't familiar with California ballots or like do it, taking the SATs, it was like 400 pages of filling in dots. Yeah. Other Georgia election news, we got asked about like a Georgia election chicanery and one of our skew and A's

recently, and there was a resolution for a case today. Basically, the Georgia State Election Board was trying to change the rules. We're local county election. the lawsuit was basically legend they could like throw up results if they didn't like them and this judge today was like no the law says shall you shall certify

you have to certify you must it's mandatory to certify election results you can't not do it your role is ceremonial you're not the king of America because you've got to appoint into a county election board right let me ask you let's say one of those

crazies in one of those positions when the time comes is just like I don't care what that judge says I'm not doing it because reasons and then like then what happens you know because that couldn't that then that just gets other judges involved or like does a person get like arrested immediately or then you just start going up the courts because obviously courts are a crapshoot you know right I mean like people tried this in 2020 and because the law said shell they were just like the judge said nope you certify it so they had to certify and some people who resisted just went it's okay I'll

certify um but the judge in this case his name's Robert McBurney trying to discuss guys like I hate law stuff so much even though I find it entertaining but like the word shall is a very clear meaning that's why they write laws of the word shall in it right and he made the point he talked about Gandalf and Lord of the Rings saying you shall not pass it's not conditional it's like you're not getting

you're not getting past me it's not like so Gandalf is officially part of the court record in this uh yeah I like it when they spice it up like that throwing little pop culture references and stuff like that you know show a little humanity get away from the legalese for a bit you know yeah

It's fun. One more fun story before we get to the show. Yesterday was Columbus Day. Well, it depends on how you talk to, right? Yes. Yeah, yeah. It's Columbus Day on the California. So some scientists dug up some remains

purported to be Christopher Columbus for whatever reason compared it to, like, they proved it was him by comparing it to alleged a sentence of his and then determined that Christopher Columbus is Jewish. Seems like a bad break for them They've had a lot of PR problems Lady to start with But like

This quote floored me I didn't realize this Columbus was traditionally believed To come from Genoa, Italy Though historians had theorized him As being a Spanish Jew Or perhaps Greek, best, Portuguese or British I didn't know

It was undetermined by historians That Columbus was actually Italian Right Because I love him They're real big in the Yeah, he really hits for them The idea of these Italian is apparently based upon some like a vague mention in his own writings but of course he was a

fucking stupid liar uh and also he was married to a wealthy Portuguese woman which doesn't make sense to historians because the Portuguese apparently hated the Italians so um but anyway you think about like I've decided to give up like every day every year Columbus Day I think I've done different versions of this round this show every fucking year I've decided to accept it as my favorite holiday because it's so stupid that we've dedicated an entire holiday to a guy who's biggest accomplishment was being one of the biggest fucking idiots in the planet. Right.

The earth was, nobody thought the earth was flat. He didn't prove shit. He thought the earth was small. He got lost. And then the origin, did we talk about the origin of Columbus Day on this show before? I don't know if we talk. I mean, I know what it is, but I don't know if we talked about it on here or not. So go ahead.

So in 1890, the police chief in New Orleans got murdered. And his dying utterance trying to say who killed him, he used a racial epithet for Italians, all right? So, New Orleans police rounded up 19 Italians, I think, who were all found innocent because all they had was a racial epithet from a dying man's last word. That didn't hit for a bunch of good old boys in New Orleans. They went down to the courthouse and lynched 11 Italians. Yeah.

All right. Catholics were growing voting block and caused their international incident with Italy and the Pope and shit. So Benjamin Harrison was like, we'll make it a holiday in celebration of Italians. Columbus Day was originally woke. Right. It was originally woke. It was woke pandering on a front of.

identity politics for Italians. And that turns out he's not even fucking Italian. The whole thing is so goddamn dumb. Yeah, it's also, it's funny that, like, you know, that one, like, that one admittedly horrific thing happened to the Italians. I mean, I'm sure there was other persecution, but that one big thing got, like, a response. It was like, well, we'll give them something. And it's like, meanwhile, you know, the natives or black people.

and I said like centuries of atrocities and it's like, you know. Yeah, unfortunately, Native Americans are not a big voting block for some reason. Right. Who knows? Probably nobody's fault. Anyway, that's honor Christopher Columbus.

Well, I was saying, I was thinking the video I made about yesterday, I was saying it's like, look, if it, because part of my whole thing was like, all, it's become a right wing talking point, obviously, all these people like pretending they want to, they'll fight tooth and nail to put their lives on the line to defend Columbus Day, right? And it's like, I'm, I never remember anyone giving even the tiniest of shits about Columbus Day my whole life, right?

Because I didn't grow up around no Italian people, but I'm from a very red part of the country. And I was just like, if it is true that Italians have always been into it, it's like a special date to them or whatever. If that's the case, then like it don't need to be a federal holiday. Just turn it into some like St. Patrick's Day type shit where we all get like cartoonishly Italian on that day. Do you know what I mean? Just have a big spaghetti day, you know. Drink red wine and Super Mario outfits or whatever. Yeah, right.

But like that, you know. Italians, first of all, Columbus isn't, like, probably isn't Italian that we just discussed about. But Italians have Amerigo Vespucci, which America's named after. Right. Why can't we have Amerigo Day? Mm-hmm. All right. I don't know.

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Now, as for the show tonight and be talking about, among other things, the state of affairs in Florida, which is not great. People still reeling from the effects of two hurricanes are also having to deal with an openly malicious governor who seems hell-bent on making their lives

as much worse as possible. So we'll get into that. Talk about the abortion ballot initiative and his, Rondon to Santos' efforts to declare himself dictator of Florida. Yeah. So, but we got some other stuff along the way

including, of course, the Daily Dumbass, Laura, please. If you have that graphic for us. Tonight's D.D., anyone who doesn't yet have their hunting license to shoot police. It's police season in Colorado, everybody. It was once tranquil. You were once tranquil. In Colorado, the gang even got a green light to shoot police officers. Did you know that the gang got the okay to kill your police?

You know that? By the way, that's the New York Times. What, dude, from what planet? Well, also, he says right at the end of when we cut out, he says that's not even me saying that that's the New York Times. Like, do you know what actual thing in the New York Times he's referencing or something? No. Okay, so.

But like, what planet of level where they think of it's, They've made killing police illegal, and the whole crowd goes, that sounds right. And you go, boo, the concept of police murder. Yeah. It's like, like, I just don't know what to make of, we're going to talk about unreality in the dumbass segment for, because like, I just can't wrap my, I did 10 year, almost 10 years of this. I can't even wrap my mind around it.

That was an event of Aurora, Colorado over the weekend, where Stephen Miller Trump's old, like, ghoul open for him and just had pictures of immigrants on stage and led the crowd in booing the pictures of immigrants. and just pictures of people who came he just points at it and they just booed you know what that it's like the what was it called the two minutes hate or the in 1984

the book 1984 they have a scheduled hate period every day where they'll go to the same place and just hate together and that's like part of you know how Big Brother operates they're literally doing that stuff I mean there's worship in that book obviously it's kind of famous

prophetic, but George Orwell famously so anti-fascist He went to Spain to kill some So he had fascists pretty well pegged But like at this point I would settle for two minutes of hate a day That seems like it would be an upgrade The uh Like they're booing these pictures of my immigrants

But like I don't know that they're immigrants in the United States I just know that he said they're immigrants to the United States It could have been like the roster of Real Madrid or some shit As far as I fucking know And like this whole like okay I want to show this uh uh real america news clip from uh that rally because this is just like if you guys know what these people are up to this is like fucking insane playing two mugshots of two of the most heinous t d a venezuelan gang members and these people they are so evil they are not

your run of the mill criminal they are people that are satanic they are involved in human sacrifice They are raping men, women, and children, especially underage children. People who come from some of those Catholic countries on the planet are satanic and involved in human sacrifice. Honestly, we could use some hardworking satanic immigrants to revitalize our once-thriving heavy metal industry. If you guys got some, you could send their way. I've been waiting on the devil and I could come back for a while now, honestly. We need a little more Satan in this country, I think, as far as he asked me. I mean, not the, like, cutting hearts out kind or whatever.

but yeah there's the hard rockin kind yeah the animal satin that's what I like you know the biting a head off a bat while you're high on cocaine kind of Satan yeah yeah I guess what's up but yeah no this shit's crazy the fear mongering also you said it was real American news but I think it's actually right side right guess so how many of those things are there now like different right wing outlets like that

that have popped up over it because there's like newsmax right and there's this one right outside obviously Fox News the granddaddy but then there's what you'd the real America one or whatever and there's probably more and they're like well Fox went woke because they called Bill Arizona for Joe Biden so then that began Newsmax then Newsmax lost a billion

dollar lawsuit to Dominion so then they had to go woke so then they keep they keep like an evolutionary chart a fucking bigger degenerates as they get sued into oblivionary chart there you go yeah get more troglodyity anyway this shit's crazy fear mongering to the

nth degree but you know Yeah, that wasn't even Trump's weirdest rally of the last few days. He had a rally last thing in Pennsylvania where two of his supporters passed out fainted in separate incidents because I guess they didn't have the air conditioner on in this hot

ass warehouse and he called them fat as they were being carted out on stretchers. And we were joking about like the guy bleeding out of the Butler shooting as the crowd cheered fight fight fight.

Yeah. Like they literally happy he got shot and then you pass out and I saw the picture of the guy like he was pretty heavy dude they carried him out and a stretcher with his shirt off because he's having a cardiac event because I guess they cut his shirt off to like you know hook up an EKG

or whatever and Trump's telling him to lose weight I'm like Jesus Christ this whole thing's fucking they don't care about anybody much less themselves. No I know it's just he's like open the antagonistic to him sometimes they just love it they just ate it up you know it's so funny like there was that other head like well Corey he threaded a head

but it was from a while ago now it was like kind of big story at the time, but the headline just says something like, Trump, Trump visits restaurant promises food for everyone, then leaves without paying or whatever. And it's just like such a perfect metaphor for his whole thing. You know what I mean? Yeah, he just now promised a big donation to Hurricane Relief in Florida. And as far as anyone knows, didn't do it. Maybe he did anonymously, but why would you announce it publicly then do it anonymously? So, but about the people passing out of Trump's rallies, one of the, I forget even which one of these psychotic rape, wing news networks one of their hosts had a theory if you've got this video laura so as we get ready

for brian glenn to come in give us his thoughts since he's in the building i want to bring in amanda head uh to talk about some of what we just witnessed amanda that was strange and you know brian had raised the question to me that is there any possibility that the new protest now is fake medical emergencies i don't want to say that that's what has happened here. But he doesn't understand why. He said it really isn't that hot inside this building. So, a bizarre situation. So if you didn't ready for Brian Glenn to come in, give a... That's what to hear reaction. I don't even... This is one of those where it's like, to what

so they're saying it like Antifa, but particularly like type 1 or type 2 diabetic 60-year-old Antifa undercover agents, like two of them. them infiltrated this rally and faked, a medical incident, faked passing out in the middle of it to end it all? Like, because they thought then the rally couldn't happen. Like, what's the- Well, they did, they did successfully end it, but not by their own choice, by Trump's choice.

Because this was supposed to be an audience Q&A, all right? Right, dude, I was going to ask you about this when I saw this, but I saw it on the outline. So, Christy Noam flew in from South Dakota for this to host this thing. And then they took four questions. These two people passed out. Trump gave up doing any of the cues. And then just had the DJ play his playlist for 40 minutes.

Well, he just kind of bopped around on stage. And everybody looked at him. Let's just hear some music, right? During the community, they just turned music on me. He just stands there while music plays in front of them for 40 minutes. It's like, I mean, truly changed, dude. Clearly lost his mind, although it doesn't seem to matter to anybody. But, like, so he played, uh, he played, uh, you know, uh, some guns and roses.

This is, if you want someone inside what, what, kind of what hits for Trump. They put some guns and roses. They played Avae Maria. Uh, they played nothing compares to you by, uh, Chenate O'Connor, because I guess she's too dead to sue him over it. And then they played the Rufus Wainwright version of hallelujah from the, from the Shrek soundtrack. Oh, my God. just like I can't like Rufus Wainwright put it a cease and desist today and I was like

but like why why is one of Trump's favorite eight songs that you're playing on a loop for these people from the Shrek soundtrack yeah I mean the Shrek soundtrack is you know pretty banging to make fair it's a pretty pretty sweet soundtrack but I just it's hard for me to imagine Trump enjoying like literally any kind of music really like I you know what I mean like it just I don't know he I just can't see him being like God I love this band you know no matter who it is it just don't seem to fit his personality to me yeah and this guy like he also hit that route the he had a rally in california over the weekend where like it was in near cocello somewhere it wasn't at cocello but they uh they bust people in because it's in the middle

of a field like a like a music festival but trump didn't pay the buses so the buses didn't come back to pick people up he's left him out there so he left his supporters in the middle of a desert he calls his supporters fat when they're being carded out and stretchers it's so funny And they still believe, yeah. It's just one of those things we're thinking about it's been said a million times about it, but it's like, if it wasn't for like the existential threat, I believe he poses to American democracy and the seemingly very real possibility that he'll, you know, could be put in that position to do so again.

Like, it would all be just so genuinely funny so much of this stuff. I mean, it still is a lot of it, but like it's whole, how insane him and his followers are, how stupid some of them are the way he treats them, the scams he runs on them, this stuff it's like it would be all you know pretty pretty enjoyable really if there wasn't you know that whole other added aspect to it where it's terrifying at the same time but if he was just a subject subject like an actor doing a mockumentary like a borat type thing it would really hit for me but unfortunately he's not self-away at all so but like no matter what he does to them people believe every word out of his mouth like it's a fucking goddamn gospel so so to briefly

update the hurricane so milton hit last week it we got extremely lucky that the course shifted slightly south the wind speed dropped a little bit and enough people evacuated the last thing i saw like i think i saw like a dozen or 20 people were killed which is sucks but it's not nearly the the damage from helene or whatever what people were expecting yeah lieutenant diane made it through right yeah the meth head on the boat yeah yeah so meth heads find a way dude so Yeah, but you can't kill him about that, dude. So, the, talk about his supporters believe in dumb bullshit, the dangerous side of it. All right, a couple days ago, North Carolina authorities arrested in the armed man for threats against FEMA workers.

Now, FEMA had pulled out of entire county, I had a Rutherford County in North Carolina because there were rumors circulating that a militia was coming after them. I mean, why, for what? like because I mean what what what what what is it again that they think that FEMA's doing that well they think FEMA's like engaging in open warfare with real patriots or something it's like well which part of it they believe is like depends on like I mean it's a real it's like a buffet of conspiracy theories it could have been that they think like that the FEMA was like preventing people from evacuating that was a conspiracy theory in Florida there was a conspiracy theory in Florida that FEMA was going to prevent people from coming back home after the evacuated to their land could be. stolen. In North Carolina, there's one of the conspiracy theories is that the purpose of using the weather machine to flood western North Carolina was so the government could steal

lithium deposits because it's the lithium mine in the area. There's also that the FEMA's intentionally withholding aid from, you know, rural counties because they're Trump supporters. So take your dealer's choice, man, what this guy thought. But yeah, so they got him free shot, anybody,

thank God. But yeah, if you want one example of how conspiracy theories stop people from being able to do the jobs they need to help people. Here's a pretty solid example. Yeah, I mean, this is like, I think maybe I said this last week, too, when they were first talking about the FEMA stuff, but it's just like, it's like medical

professionals during COVID, you know what I mean? I just always thought that had to be so incredibly frustrating. Like, you're like genuinely doing your best to try to help these people and so many of them spit in your face for it, call you a pawn of the deep state and all this type of shit. And now it's

happening with FEMA workers too. It seems be a pretty thankless job going into places like this and doing your best to help and then now like your life is threatened they want to kill you for it it's just crazy but also like like if a COVID patient wants to spit in your face obviously besides the danger of giving you COVID making you sick and maybe killing you like that person refuses treatment fine your choice you die whatever right yeah but this is a person stopping other people from getting aid right like like Like, it's like if me and my family need bottle water and blankets and they, but I can't get them because FEMA had to pull out because some third party psycho was threatening them. That's like more unfair to me, you know?

True. Yeah. For sure. So another thing that's been happening is meteorologists all over the Southwest were getting death threats for reporting the weather. I mean, they really think if you kill the weather man, the weather just can't happen. Like if the news don't have the weather and the weatherman don't say it's going to storm, then. there can't be a storm? Is that what they think?

They think that the meteorologists know the government controls the weather and they're lying about it. Aha. Okay. They're part of it. Yeah. And so one meteorologist had to tweet a woman named Katie Nicolao tweeted murdering meteorologists won't stop hurricanes. I can't believe I just had to type that.

So we've gone from old man yells at cloud to mob threatens to lynch science man for noticing cloud. the main reason I want to talk about this is like it's not like there aren't fucking shitty conspiracies in America they're just not magical right like my old my old thing I think I know I've said on the show before is if you want to read a real life conspiracy theory just read the cover of the fucking business section or any coverage of Congress because they're right there laid out in front of you I don't know why people find this stuff which is just as evil too boring to think about but if you want some conspiracies that are real life here you go

here's a headline from just last week amid Hurricane Milton, Florida Republicans aimed to block climate emergency declaration because they're in the payroll of the fossil fuel industry. All right? Last year, Ron DeSantis denied a billion dollars in federal funding from the Biden administration to update infrastructure

and roads, especially in the Tampa region because he felt it was quote to blow to political agenda. Now, imagine the funding came with strings to raise compliance standards so it would have cost builders more money, right? There you go. You want to know where your bridge is collapsing? is because Ron DeSantis made it so they're weaker.

It's also like just the sort of idea that it's like, well, if we let them spend this money to improve our own infrastructure, then people might want to vote for them for doing a thing that helped. And we can't have that would be promoting a political agenda. See, it's unfair. They're just doing this to make, to like get people on their side or whatever. So we have to keep that from happening, which is just keeps anything from ever being. done people in the first place. I don't think that's it because I think Republicans are like 30 years ahead of Democrats

and realizing that voters do not vote at all based upon policy. So no one would have noticed that the bridges actually withstood hurricanes instead of collapsing. And if they did withstand the hurricane, Rhonda Sanchez could have just taken credit for strengthening the bridges or whatever. So what's the political agenda that's being

promoted by allowing it to go through? The climate change exists. Okay. While we have to strengthen our infrastructure because of climate change, there's no climate change. It's no climate change. Or whatever. No, but it's part of the Green New Deal.

It's part of the Green New Deal explicitly, right? Yeah, yeah. So you can't, it has green in it. We can't do it because then we'd be admitting that it's real, even if we're improving our own bridges. Just this past May, speaking of which, DeSanta signed a bill that deleted climate change from the state law. That law took place July first. Good news, everyone. Climate change did not impact Florida at all if you just read the law. This example from 2017 fucking blew my mind because it has a twist ending to it.

So, 2017, Trump and his team overturned an Obama administration rule requiring that infrastructure projects, including roads and bridges, be designed to withstand the consequences of climate change. Now, the amazing thing about this policy was had bipartisan support, including for free market, economic groups, Republicans and Congress, like Republican members of Congress went out a way to praise the new standard. Because as long as, typically, Republicans didn't like unfunded mandates. But if you want us to meet a new compliance standard, as long as the government pays for it, fucking more power to you. It's also a way to generate construction and get more jobs, yada, yada, yada, yada. Right. Trump and Elaine Chow, Mitch McConnell's wife slash Trump's

transportation secretary, crushed it basically just because the concept of regulations are bad. Now, the reason no one remembers that this happened is because the speech he was going to give about it was the same one right after the United Rights Riot in Charlottesville where Trump said that Nazis were very fine people on both sides. Right. Which is how always goes with Trump, right? It's like there's just there's just too much bad shit and too much insanity for anyone to possibly keep up with all of it. Or stay appropriately mad at some of it because new shit just always comes along and replaces it. And then before long, you just can't even remember, you know, what all that happened. This is the perfect example of what you're talking about, which I'm choosing to call a Trump scandal shit sandwich.

Because nobody remembers the fullness of his nihilism because he did something else stupid and racist in the middle of it. Right. Which is easy to encapsulate. Like Trump's sabotaging building policy, so more people drown in hurricane. is very, is difficult to explain to people. Trump said Nazis are good, is memorable and easy to say. All right. Here's an example, another example of capitalism being the real problem that people want to get

conspiratorial about, the American version of corrupt capitalism anyway. There was a point where it seemed like the White House might have to declare a national emergency over IV fluid shortages caused by Helene because 60% of U.S. IVs are manufactured at one factory in Marion, North Carolina, which is wiped out by the goddamn hurricane. So if you go to the hospital and they don't have an IV for you is because the U.S. government allowed a company

to basically set itself up as a monopolies. They could control the market share and they put their plant right in the path of a middle of a fucking hurricane, all right? Yeah. That's a conspiracy. You know, some redundancy there or something or diversification of something that's

that important, you know what I mean? but there was another I said might have to declare a state of emergency that's because one of the other main manufacturing plants for IVs was in was in Florida that plant was like luckily was spared by Milton but that's just a lucky coincidence and like the pandemic wasn't the only time in human history that narrow monopolized supply chains without diversity or production could lead to shortages and crises right but we seem to have assumed it was and like you said this is not exactly the kind of redundancy you need and something is non-vital as fucking health care.

Right. It's also like even it just also with Helene the I mean that whole lithium thing that they're all freaking out about or whatever but that that's part of a is it processors or some kind of some kind of computery type thing right? Batteries, microchips, solar panels. Yeah, right. And that was like a huge percentage of the sourcing for that for the resources needed to make a bunch of these things and it you know almost wiped out or whatever and it's like

no one had thought what if that happens, you know, then what it would do? It's also, you don't need to fire up the weather machine and destroy all that real estate to get to lithium. You could just use eminent domain or just force the person to take a deal to sell it on the cheap. Like, it's not like, like, again, that's how the real conspiracy would work is that they would just take your shit under some legal framework. They don't need to fucking fire up the door machines.

Remember I said there was a conspiracy theory that FEMA was blocking people from evacuating Tampa? Yeah. The only people I saw. complaining about being blocked for evacuating Tampa where because their bosses still made them come to work Tuesday night when the hurricane was. That's just capitalism running normally.

It's like if you don't come into work Tuesday night, you're fired. So then you're stuck in the path of a hurricane. That's just normal American business, right? I mean, people literally died in East Tennessee like directly because of that happening. At some factory, their boss told them, now you have to work. You'll get fired if you leave, you can't leave.

they died there. Yeah, I saw that. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is on it, and there probably won't be. I don't know what legal framework you have to hold a boss account. Like, there probably be some civil violation of OSHA could get involved, maybe, you know, occupational self-and-hate, health and safety administration. But as far as a criminal liability, you're basically legally allowed to kill your employees with neglect in America. There's a conspiracy. All right.

Here's another one. Insurance nightmare unfolds for Florida homeowners after back-to-back hurricanes. Basically, even people who have insurance, I think we talked before about the Florida home insurance market collapsing because no one wants to pay for houses to be rebuilt in the path of fucking hurricanes that happen once a week during hurricane season. Even people who have insurance, I'll just read here from the story.

Fresh off the one-two punch of Elaine and Milton, Hurricane victims in Florida, even those with insurance face a challenging recovery. The insurance industry is categorizing the storm as two separate events, meaning anyone who did not or could not document damage from Helene could face even greater odds that their claim would be denied if they were hit by both storms.

So basically they're saying because of the way the insurance rules are written, if you didn't prove, if you can't separate the two different damages from the two storms because you didn't get your records updated after the first storm because you only had four or five days or whatever, you're not going to be able to prove which storm caused which damage, therefore they're going to throw away your entire fucking policy. Yeah. All right. Sounds pretty classic insurance company type of stuff.

also to try to entice companies does not leave Florida DeSantis changed the rules to lower the standards so like there's basically no legal recourse for these people that are getting fucked by the insurance companies because DeSantis eliminated it

to try to make it more profitable for insurance companies to still exist in Florida. Right. Basically they were like it just wasn't a good value proposition for insurance companies given the state of climate change and all the stuff that happens in Florida

to keep insuring these houses or it was incredibly expensive so DeSantis part of the way it It was like, well, what do we just make it where you just, you know, they'll just pay you your premium, but you don't have to pay for anything. Sounds like a good business. Yeah, right. Give you free money and you have no under, you have no legal obligation to actually insure them

at all. And they're like, I mean, I guess you're going to do that. That sounds fine. Yeah. And even if you, like the way. When he's like, say, there's no insurance problem. They're here. They're back.

Yeah. You know, win, win, win. Except for. Yeah. So, the fucker loses his house. Yeah. So if you have, by the way, the way it's written, the rules are in Florida, if you have hurricane insurance, but not flood insurance, you're probably fucked because the insurers have chosen the categorized Hurricane Helene as a purely flood-driven event. So good fucking luck.

People of Florida, don't know what to tell you, man. Fuck. Okay. While we're on to Santa, let's get into the abortion stuff. You want to, Terry? Yeah. Sure. So this November, Florida residents will have the opportunity.

to vote on Amendment 4. If it passes, the measure will enshrine the right to abortion, quote, before viability or when necessary to protect the patient's health, quote, in Florida's Constitution. Florida is one of nine states with a measure on the November ballot to protect access to abortion, but this is probably the most important because it's the biggest state with one. It's also the most expensive with about $150 million spent just on ads so far. The pitch, like the amendment's idea for the amendment is broadly popular in, Florida in Florida. A September poll showed the measure attracting support from 76% of voters, which is a lot. Yeah. And you need 60% to pass it, which is a high bar, but apparently the bar

is still low enough for Floridians to clear it by a mile. Unfortunately for them, voting does not hit for Ron DeSantis. All right. So for context here, DeSantis has signed two separate abortion bans into law, the first one restricted it to 15 weeks then six weeks gestation, then the next one restricted to the six weeks gestation, right? So he just wants to stop amendment for. So

if you want to stop a, Trey, what kind of things did you get up to, do you think? I mean, I don't know, probably you know, call all these like shady dark money evil billionaire type dudes to help me rat fuck the whole thing in some capacity. Yeah. He used to like Roger Stoneish type

shit to kill it. But real quick, before you say what he is doing, I just want to say, like, this is exactly the type thing that pisses me off so much. It's like, he's the governor of a state, and 76% of the people in that state are like, we,

the people, want this to happen, and he could just be like, well, fuck you, I don't, and I don't give a shit what you think. It's not my job to represent the will of the people. I'm just the governor of the state. You don't know what I mean? I like, I hate shit. Like, this is, like, in this type of instance, like, it shouldn't even fucking matter what Ron DeSantis thinks or what his puppet master's think or whatever, you know, when it's so clearly favored by his actual constituents. But of course, well, no, that's not how it actually works, but it just, the shit just kills me. Like, it's, you know, not democracy. I mean, like, look, there's a middle ground here where like, yes, the ballot initiative is the will of the people, that's direct democracy, but also the will the people was to elect fucking Ron DeSantis. But the middle path here is to be like, yes, you guys elected me, I'm pro life. I brought, I

I signed the law, making it illegal. That's my position in role in this process. If you guys go around with the ballot initiative, that's your role in the process, and that's the way it goes. I lose, right? Right. But unfortunately, I lose is not in their fucking vocabulary.

Rhonda Santos has a megaphone. He can make his case. He can spend money on ads. He can go around campaigning. What he can't do or what it seems to me immoral is the shit he's getting up to. And yes, the first step is dark money bullshit. We'll get to pulling the guns on people later.

All right. So I'm using that metaphorically as cars enforced The idea that when you send cops to people's houses The implicit threat is we have guns Right, so as far as I know, no guns have actually been pulled on people yet But cops are going to people's houses We'll get to that second So the first thing to Santis did was you work with the Heritage Foundation

There's your dark money psychos To add language to the ballot measure implying the re-legalizing abortion would have negative fiscal impact on the budget All right What they did was they They got whoever runs Florida elections, they went to court to add what's called a fiscal impact note, basically like

a paragraph above the ballot measure, explaining to people how actually expensive it would be to have rights, all right? The first part of the language said it would result in significantly more abortions and fewer live bursts in Florida to which my answer is, yeah, that's kind of the point. It's like, did you know the ending pregnancy? Yeah, right. But the argument for the budget. part the budgetary impacts though it's like I don't how can that possibly be is it that like well we need more we need more wage slaves any more work around so we can't okay all right

they're also lying and saying that like if you put a right to abortion in the florida constitution that that will somehow obligate the state to pay for it which is what they're saying I think they're probably lying because I can't imagine that would be the case like I have a right to own a gun the government does not issue me a gun right so I think they're just fucking bullshitting on that but yes part of it says um an increase in abortions may not negatively affect the growth of state and local revenues over time, which, you know, did you consider that the fetus would be a taxpayer? Right. Just like so fucking funny. Like, don't we all dream of having kids that will one day contribute to the tax base and they're just, you know, when you're playing catch with your son out in your yard, Trey, you're just daydreaming about how one day he can contribute to a point two five cents sales tax to build

the new baseball stadium. That's what it's all about. Oh, fuck. So that's part of it. He also has the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration, which oversees licensing for health care facilities and manages the state's Medicaid program. They put up a website full of lies with basis political attacks on Amendment 4, including the above stuff we were talking about, which they're also running TV and radio ads for.

But they're also lying about the current state of women's health and health care in Florida. Like, because you write an exception into the law does not mean it would be a good. exists because saying you have to get two doctors and a judge or whatever to sign off on something what if you get the wrong doctor or the wrong judge you don't have access the woman doesn't have access to that right if she starts to get approval from a third fourth fifth party to have the right um most of whom are probably dudes yes obviously yeah so when they run these ads saying well there are exceptions for the life of the mother it's sort of true, but they're also sort of fucking lying.

Let me give you a couple examples, all right. There's a group called Physicians for Human Rights. They interviewed a bunch of doctors about their experience dealing in Florida in Florida's new legal regime. All right. This is a doctor talking about a patient when terminal pancreatic cancer. Her learned she was pregnant

during a pet scan. It took more than a week for that doctor to get the specific documentation that would justify a health exception under Florida's ban, then arranged for an abortion at a hospital that could accommodate her specific medical risks, which was a four-hour drive away, all right? Pancreatic cancer is not something you can wait a week for treatment for. Now, my dad died of pancreatic cancer. It's absolutely brutal. It's, you know, or maybe the worst ones, definitely one of the worst ones. And yeah,

you can't, there's no time. Like, time is definitely, uh, as a finite resource for sure when you're dealing with that. It's, uh, it's as close as a cancer that can come, it can come to a bullet to the head, basically. It's true. Um, so, Another doctor talk about being hamstrung by unnecessary paperwork while trying to treat a patient experiencing a premature rupture of a membrane, which is like a routine emergency, but can be fatal if you don't treat it. So this doctor, this is the way this doctor described the situation. He's like, quote, let us roll in with the brochure of state paperwork. Let us start filling it all out together because even though you know what you want, we have to do all this paperwork. There is still a delay that occurs with all of this that seems unnecessary in a situation where a delay could potentially increase the chance of infection.

the party of a small government in Florida has turned emergency rooms into the fucking DMV all right and medicine is not something that waits right um so yeah I just like just they're so foolish shit and you can't just go ahead and do like doctors can't just like they'd be putting their careers and licenses and stuff at risk right to just like you know do what the patient needs to be done you know just because it needs to be done I'm saying like I can't you know that they have to follow these rules or you know or they are threatened which is some motivated prosecutor finds another doctor who says you didn't actually need to do it now you're going to fucking jail right so like what risks are you willing to take I mean I wish people were braver

in general but I understand I want to go to prison for just doing your job right so a couple weeks ago a couple months ago I remember reading that like people who signed the um petitioned to get amendment four on the ballot had cops show up to their house to ask them if they really signed it and why they signed it and it seemed vaguely threatening at the time although no one could really know what he really knew what he was doing it for well i think now we know um florida state government put a report yesterday that finds fault with the uh signatures on the petition to get the get amendment four on the ballot basically they're saying a bunch of signatures don't match which i hate signatures matching bro my signature is not the same ever right

even when I concentrate. So, like, I don't know. It's also illegible. You can't even tell it's money. Yeah. That's why we have pin numbers. Give every voter a fucking pin number if you're that worried about it. I, like, I have a hard time.

Like, look, okay. So when you sign one of these petitions, and in California, they wait outside grocery stores of petitions, all right? Those people are paid, and they're paid by the signature. I expect some fraud there. right yeah um it's a shitty system now i expect less fraud with left wing causes than right wing causes because the right wing causes are cynically motivated and people only do it for the money i expect less fraud with people who are doing it who actually believe in 76% of floridians

want this ballot member to measure to pass so i expect less fraud but it would not be surprised that some signatures were fake that being said the the petition was certified months ago why is DeSantis doing this now? It's not even clear that he has any sort of legal recourse because the ballots are printed. Right. So what is, I mean, what is supposed to be the outcome of that? Like, I don't know.

I imagine it's just to deter future ballot initiatives. Because, like, you're an organization that, like, does, gets things in a ballot the normal way people do by paying canvassers to get signatures. You're going to end up, he's saying, we will put you in prison. If one of the people you hired fucking, signs one signature wrong.

So the worst one of these to me, the DeSantis administration is now threatening criminal penalties, including jail time against TV stations that air a 30-second TV spot in Supportive Amendment 4. You want to watch the banned ad, Trey? Yeah, always exciting. That's the old news clip, Laura, if you got this one. This is an ad called Caroline, which is just a woman named Caroline

speaking to um speaking to camera about her experience in Florida and how other women wouldn't have the same opportunity she had because it would which the treatment she got is now illegal when I saw the tumor on the MRI my first thought was am I going to be able to see my daughter again the doctors knew if I did not in my pregnancy I would lose my baby I would lose my life and my daughter would lose her her mom. Florida has now banned abortion, even in cases like mine.

Amendment 4 is going to protect women like me. We have to vote yes. So that's illegal, according to Rhonda Santis, to show that ad? Like, on what grounds? You know what I mean, it's just pure, I mean, he's just tyrant shit. And he just sends him a letter. It's like, hey, I'm the governor and I'll bust your ass if you don't do what I tell you to do and stop airing this ad, which has been, you know,

properly placed on your networks and stuff. Right. In a state where Nazis are marching freely with DeSantis and swastika flags because the First Amendment protects their right to free speech, he's threatening to criminal penalties against TV stations for airing this ad because he says it's a lie. Yeah. Did you see that? When they're like a Trump boat party in Florida this week?

And there was a bunch of Nazis at people out there like getting drunk on a boat, but with swastika flags and shit and then there's all just the regular Trump people who are partying with them, you know what I mean? And it's like, what is it? It's like if there's one Nazi at a table with 10 people There's 10 Nazis. And nobody says,

nobody says anything about it or nobody gets up and leased and then there's 10 Nazis at the table or whatever. Yeah. And it's about how it goes with these MAGA rallies. Yeah. So I'll get to their reasoning. The main reason they say it's a lie is because as we talked about before,

there is an exception for the life of the mother in the law, right? But you can't get it, right? You can't get it. It's not clear that she would have been able to get one quick enough for it to matter for her. We'll get this particular in her case in a second. But like, so Floridians protecting freedom, which is the organization that was running this ad, says about 50 stations were airing the ad that all or nearly all of them received the warning and that they've continued to air it anyway.

So good for them. Fuck Radasantis. First Amendment exists for everyone, not just Nazis. sorry Ron so Caroline Rolling Stone did an interview with her they didn't use her last name probably because she's afraid of getting death threats

so she says she was 18 weeks pregnant when she started losing her speech I could read a book and understand it but the words that came out of my mouth were different at first I thought maybe it was pregnancy brain until it became so bad within one week that I was teaching a class and it was very much like stroke symptoms

I wasn't able to talk I wasn't able to read I was very confused and my sister who's a nurse told me to go to the hospital. She couldn't get a CT scan because of concern for her baby, but she could get an MRI without the contrast. The results came back. They showed a large mass in the language center sector of her brain. She was advised to undergo surgery, which revealed a malignant tumor, a grade four glyoma.

Forget me, I'm using a medical terms I don't understand, but the kind of brain cancer she has is the deadliest form of it. There is no cure. Treatment can only slow its progression, which is an important element here. less than 7% of patients survived five years after diagnosis. So basically, she was a mother with a daughter. She desperately wanted a second kid, but she was given the choice between slightly more time with her daughter she has

or dying maybe with two young children. And she chose to spend time with the daughter she has. And that's a shitty choice. Maybe other people would choose differently. I don't know. That's between her and her husband and her daughter and God. nobody else is fucking business all right

so by the time she had a firm diagnosis she was 21 weeks along that was 2022 and abortion was still legal in Florida currently there's a six week ban so she would have to get

two doctors to do the paperwork to approve her before she'd start this procedure while she has terminal brain cancer that's rapidly progressing all right that fucking sucks yeah

there's a reason 76% of Floridian say this shit fucking sucks and it's stupid. Right. I mean, this is what we talked about before on the show. We've had other cases like this that have come up that we've talked about. You know, when it first happened, when they repealed Roe or whatever, there are people saying, like, you know, people are going to die as a result of this.

Or this is like, it's, you know, and it's not hypothetical. It's not theoretical. And then, but, you know, now it's happening. Like, you see these real people that it really does matter where it's like they tried to act like that was never the case, it's like just a bunch of, well, I don't know, godless baby killers who can't stop having, you know, unprotected sex and can't deal with the consequences of their actions. Like, that's who they think is exclusively getting abortions or whatever as though there's no other, you know, possibilities. The concept of a person who wanted, who got pregnant on purpose and wanted a second child, but then had a disastrous medical event like brain cancer happened to them in the middle of age, just doesn't occur to them. Right.

Which is probably why the government should be in your fucking business with your doctor. doctor in the first place. So like I said, Florida's threatened to prosecute TV stations over that ad. The FCC chiefs weighed in a woman named Jessica Rosenwurzel. She said that stations should not be intimidated for airing political ads. And I just want to say this is one of those examples where there will be worse with Trump in the White House because the FCC would probably take DeSantis' side and threaten to remove their licenses even if Trump, DeSantis couldn't throw them in prison.

Right. So to get to this answer to this logic here about why the ad is illegal, one of the guy who's in charge of the Department of Health in Florida, his name's John Wilson. He said that it's categorically false to claim that, quote, current Florida law does not allow physicians to perform abortions necessary to preserve the lives and health of pregnant women. Thus, he wrote, airing the ad is, quote, dangerous to the public's health, and the health department uses legal powers to initiate criminal proceedings. it falls in a category of law called sanitary nuisance. Basically, he's saying these lies might lead other women to not seek health care, so therefore it's dangerous.

But the problem, as we've outlined, is you've got to fill out a bunch of fucking, like you've got to get seven doctors and three judges to sign forms and triplicate before you can get the fucking doctor. So then you've got to hope a DA later agrees with your findings and doesn't initiate criminal procedures. Yeah,

it's just circular logic. So basically it's like the ad puts the lives of Florida women in danger and thus constitutes a crime. of the kind of the health department is authorized to prosecute. So it's just like, this is all so extremely stupid. And going back to the thing about Caroline's diagnosis being terminal, it put Floridians for Freedom or whatever, I forget, I'm blanking on the name of the organization. They put out the ad right now, but they put them in this shitty position of making the point

that Caroline is dying. All right. So if they got some shitty judge or district attorney who said, wait the procedure is to save the life of the mother right and like yeah dying anyway you're not saving her right you're not going to save her you're merely she's going to die anyway so there's no reason to right to do this so like for which one like by that definition you never save anyone's life well yeah because we all fucking die eventually you just get extra time but but also like like so the but you very it could very easily go to court and make the case that because you're not

saving her life she has to live out the next few months as a human incubator looking at her time waste away on a fucking like like hourglass just being just being a human test tube for a child she might never meet right like like this is also fucking bleak and dystopian honestly don't even know how to fucking think about it um yeah so floridians go vote and please fucking i think i know rick scott's gonna win again but god i hope he loses the senate race and i hope fuck we never see see Ron DeSantis again after he's, I think he's term limited out after this year, at this term.

These people are so fucking awful, man. Yeah. And, you know, surely there's no way that they'll progressively get worse or anything as we go forward. You know, Republicans in general, I'm sure the next crop of the MAGA-ass candidates will be, you know, a return to order insanity. Do you want to, do you want to handle some fun? Or do you want to do some comments?

All right. Yeah, either way. I mean, I wanted to ask you real quick. I mean, I texted you about this earlier, and I know you said you're agnostic, but just real, because I've just seen it come up a lot lately. Like so a big part of Trump's economic, his concept of a plan for the economy or whatever is tariffs, right? And people think he's like, no, tariffs. So we make China pay tariffs and that's good for us. We get more money or whatever.

And it keeps, but like the American companies who import stuff pay the, they're the ones who pay the tariffs, right? and then they raised their prices to cover that they paid the tariffs. So it's just going to drive prices up. And I know it's supposed to incentivize not getting stuff from China, but it's still, even with the tariffs, can be cheaper if you raise the prices. Also, there's maybe not much better options or whatever. People still do. And then they just have to pay the tariffs.

And so the price goes up. And that's really all that ends up happening. Right? I mean, is that? Right. So, like, you can't, the tariff is going to be paid by, like, it's going to be paid by the company does the import. and therefore pass loan to the consumer. It's a very simple economic prospect.

And like the reason I said, I'm agnostic on it is, I mean, some tariffs make sense and some are stupid. It depends on what you're trying to accomplish. In general, Trump's just talking about slapping a blanket, depending on what talk you hear and give, it's either a 100% or 2,000% tariff on every product coming into the United States. From everywhere or just from China? I thought it was everywhere. Maybe it was China.

He was talking about Mercedes-Benzes earlier, so that's German cars, too, I guess. just make it up as he goes along, which wouldn't surprise me. But like, so, yeah, like, if you, sometimes the tariff might make sense. If you want to make companies buy American steel and you've got cheap steel coming from somewhere else, sure, a small tariff to make the price is competitive so China isn't undercutting American manufacturers. That can make some sense. But some, one reason things are cheap and while we have, well, while we don't have a barter economy,

while we exchange goods and services, is it makes, you know how like, Like, I don't grow my own meat. Someone does it for me. The economies of scale doesn't make, it doesn't make sense for me to spend my time raising a cow where some other guy can do it with 500 cows at a time. He makes a living and I get to eat beef, right? It makes sense between countries, too. China can make some stuff cheaper than we can make it. And it makes sense for us to buy it from China.

Now, when you get too intertwined and stuff like IV bags and medical gear when you're during a pandemic, that fucking sucks. You can't get stuff fast enough. So maybe you want to incentivize. what I'm saying is it's a big picture stuff and it's very complicated but some stuff we cannot grow and make in America like it doesn't matter how big of a terror if you slap on fucking bananas

we can't replace it with American products you're just not gonna have $4 bananas right right so like so the clip you sent me where he did an economic forum speech today we mostly talked about immigration because he just we use every question back to it

but this guy from the Wall Street Journal I think or Bloomberg I forget which It's Bloomberg's editor-in-chief, I think. I can't remember his name, but... Yeah, so he was arguing with Trump, because he's an old-school conservative. I mean, he likes free trade and money, right? And he was like trying to talk about how dumb this tariffs idea is and how would, you know, damage the economy and all this,

and Trump basically called him an idiot because, like, you've been doing this for 25 years, you know, the tariffs are great, and the whole crowd, who do you like baboons? Right, you're right, exactly. And you've got a bunch of people cheering for the concept of tariffs, the same people who basically threatened to overthrow the guns, government over like 5% inflation are cheering for $45 t-shirts at Walmart and I'm fucking

losing my mind. I'm like, what do you people want? Yeah. I know. It's crazy. I guess they just hear him say, you know, tariffs are good. And they're like, see, tariffs are good. And that's as far as it goes.

Laura, if you want to put that comment back up there, you can. That's one of the reason when you first said, we get some comments. We haven't in a long time. Sorry about that to everybody. We usually have way too much stuff to talk about. I didn't know if producer Laura, We'd never done that with her here, you know, and I wasn't 100% sure if she, you know, knew how to get them up there. So I didn't want to put her on the spot.

But if you have any comments, you won't throw up there, Laura, in the last couple minutes, you can. But otherwise, yeah, I didn't, I mean, I don't know. Again, he just says stuff. Yeah, that clip just really, it wasn't just the clip you're talking about where this dude, this economist dude is pressing him on tariffs and how they could, in fact, be bad and Trump just responds like he's he's like yeah it must be very difficult for you having worked in this field for 25 years for

someone to tell you that you're wrong and you don't know what you're talking about but you're wrong and you don't know where you're talking and then people just lose their and people love it but not only do people love it in the room they it got posted all over social media by these like Trump people blue checks on Twitter and I got to stop saying that

since I fucking have one again now but anyway you know the bad guy and they're all posting that clip and saying like Trump bodied this loser. Like Trump absolutely dunked on this dip shit, this economic forum. And it just drives me crazy because it's like he's wrong. He's the one that's wrong about what he's saying. But they're just all jerking him off because I, he crushed it, destroyed him with facts and logic.

It's like just living in it like you said, an unreality, a post-truth society where sexuality doesn't matter. I need someone to explain to me that the person who believes. him that China's going to pay the tariff explain to me why so China ships a t-shirt into America use t-shirts example again for four they manufacture them to

the wholesaler for four dollars a piece or whatever why they're going to pay $12 a t-shirt to sell a t-shirt for four dollars to an imp to a wholesaler right if some moron who believes trump can explain that to me I surrender I'll give up I'll fucking vote for

Trump yeah yeah all right Well, I don't know. We'll see what happened, y'all. Thanks for being here. We appreciate it.

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