Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 10/18/22 – Midterm Mess

Episode Date: October 19, 2022

Tonight we talk about the latest polls in the upcoming midterm election, which don't, uh, don't seem particularly great for Dems. We'll try to make sense/fun of it all, so join usSupport the show

Howdy, everybody, welcome back. Happy Shue's Day to you. It is October 18th, 2022. I'm Trey Crowder. And that's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? First night of basketball scenes.

I know I'm excited. I know you don't care very much. We've got a lot of talking about. Not until later in the year. Later in the year, I start to get into it. It's just too many games for me. Yeah. The, uh, got a lot to talk about tonight where we talk about, uh, piss drinking and impersonating police officers, which are always fun topics for a show like ours and how they relate to American politics and a site of, uh, decline of a once great empire. Uh, yeah, sounds very own brand.

Yeah, yeah. Uh, before we get that, Ed, to show a couple things. Uh, so Kanye is buying parlor, the, uh, I saw that. social media, like, and everybody's framing it as like some great, and like the equivalent of Elon buying Twitter, but it's not for a lot of reasons. One, Parlor only has like 40,000 daily users, which is like, I don't know, the amount of cars that pass in the street from my house in a given day. But also the funny part about this to me, go ahead, Tara. I just didn't, I didn't, obviously I remember when Parlor first became a thing, but I hadn't even realized that it had continued to be a thing, really, because I thought, you know, they

were truthing socially now, like true social, I thought. There's also GAV. There's also Rumble, the right-wing YouTube. But yeah, so Parlor is still around, but almost nobody uses it. So for context, so I think everybody's probably heard something about Kanye lately. He tweeted and posted on Instagram with a bunch of anti-Semitic stuff, I mean explicitly anti-Semitic stuff, and got kicked off those platforms. So he's essentially buying his own platforms.

which I can post all the anti-Jewish stuff he wants. But he also, like, he's going to have manic for a long time. But, like, he did the thing last week where he publicly announced he was quitting his bank because, J.P. Morgan Chase, a bank, because whichever one, Jamie Diamond is the president. Because he was mad because Jamie Diamond wouldn't return his phone calls. He was going to quit the bank. But then he acted like he's being canceled, that they were dumped in his bank accounts because of anti-Semitism, which is not what happened because we all know money is immoral in banks.

I mean, they all got founded based on stolen Nazi gold, so it's not like act like they wouldn't take Kanye's money. But so anyway, Candace Owens is in this too, because she's the one who went to his fashion show and they both wore the White Lous Matter shirts. Yeah. That's got him on Tucker Carlson. But so Candice Owens' husband is a CEO parlor.

So another way to read this is Candice is manipulated a mentally ill-peratured. person into giving her husband $56 million to bail him out of a failed investment. That's how much he bought it for, $56 million? Yeah, so like $1.3 million for every person who uses the website daily. Right. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know that the ROI on that is going to be particularly good. But Kanye is like a billionaire, right?

So maybe he's just hooking Candace up, I guess. The next little story I want to talk about is, John Durham's final effort at proven Trump innocent for Russia against stuff flamed out in court

today. Durham's a special prosecutor reported by Trump to investigate the origins of the FBI investigation into his

dealings of Russia. This guy got in Igor Danchenko. It's worth pointing out here that like all this is wishcasting that's like

from another planet and involves like time being not being linear because in order for this scheme that they're alleging which is Obama and

Biden and Hillary and the deep state or whatever, conspired to frame Trump by opening this investigation, but didn't actually announce the investigation was happening until after Trump was already inaugurated or right before he was inaugurated. So it doesn't even make any sense as a plot. That's never really matter to them. And Trump, it's worked when Trump did have a bunch of weird connections with Russia.

It did happen. Everybody could see it. He, from hiring his half his campaign staff, they were working for Russian oligarchs. So his pamphi manager working for free, he was being paid by Russian oligarch. to the weird stuff he said about Russia, and he lied about not having business deals in Russia when he was, like, being dangled hundreds of millions of dollars by people close to Putin,

which is bad for American president. Yeah. You have investments overseas. That's one thing, but also when you're lying about it, then it opens you up to blackmail, which happens a lot in European governments. I think Germany just suspended one of its intelligence chiefs for ties to Russian intelligence.

Like, this is like, this is a worldwide problem, but Americans just don't, like, follow form politics. because they don't really know about it. But the guy who was tried, it's funny to me because with a lot of this spy shit that we talk about a lot, there's no way to like, all these dudes are liars. Yeah. Professionally. Yeah.

That's what they do. Or their whole thing. Yeah. And so in this case, Rolls for this guy named Igor Danchenko, who's born in Russia, he was living in America for a long time. And he was accused of lying to FBI agents. But when the FBI agents got put on the stand, one of the reason he was acquitted was like, this guy was actually a super valuable. source and you guys birded him by arresting him.

And so... Yeah, so the whole idea is supposed to be just proving that all the Russiagate stuff was bullshit is what they're trying to do by take down the conspirators like this guy. They're saying like, this guy lied as part of the big conspiracy to frame Trump for Russiagate and that's what they're trying to prove and they failed at that. Yeah, they did bust one guy for lying on like a, I think, a warrant affidavit or something. So, congrats to the John Durham investigation for uncovering the one law enforcement official who exaggerate stuff in charging documents and war affidavits. You did it.

He found the one guy. This Denschenko guy is pointing to me because he, one of the things that made him well known among people that are known in this world is he published a takedown of Vladimir Putin's doctoral dissertation where he alleged plagiarism. So he got Putin to trade. He got Putin down. Yeah, that'll show him. It's funny that Putin even, and I guess I don't know when he got his doctoral, his PhD, or when that happened. But it's funny to me that he even went through the effort of plagiarizing it. You know what I mean?

Like Putin's dissertation could have just been like, give me PhD. And they're in standing ovation. Here's your PhD, sir. Thank you, glorious leader, or whatever. So at least he tried. professor's even going to give him a B. She ended up falling out of a window. Yeah, right.

The whole thing's fucking, this is the guy who staged his hockey games where you throw it in prison if you play defense, he scores eight games, his name is BD. Yeah, you're right. The title of his thesis was like, the positive correlation between not giving me a PhD and defenestration, spontaneous defenestration, as presented by Vladimir Putin. Yeah, a little.

thing's so fucking stupid. Anyway, John Durham got humiliated, but he probably served his purpose because he injected a lot about right-wing bullshit disinformation into not just right-wing media, but the way that the New York Times and stuff covered this, whether both sides are equal bullshit is, you know, made people question stuff that is pretty straightforward. Some of us have some good news. We're talking about DeSantis because I need a pallet cleanser, drug companies, and maybe they're lying for share, to probably lose the share prices, but they say they're expected to be able to deal a lot of cancer vaccines by 2030.

Like all cancer or what? I imagine it would start with a few, then, because they're going to be different vaccines for different cancers. Okay, but the big question, Mark, what's that going to do for my 5G coverage, right? Or, or my magnetism, that's what I really want to know, this, this so-called vaccine for the so-called cancer you're talking about sounds like a deep state ploy to me uh no that's great i do kind of feel like every now and then at least on reddit and place like that i'll see a headline about some crazy results and some cancer research or whatever and then you look in the comments and there's

always somebody in there like you know debunking it completely it's like the reason this is bullshit will never work is yada yada so um but sure would be sweet though yeah i mean the last science last I took was Ken for kids and I got a D in it almost flown me out of college. So I'm not going to like pretend to understand how MRI works. But they tell me it's good news and I'm choosing to believe it because I don't want to die of cancer. But yeah

it probably will be full of micro-robots and what will happen is you have to be subscribed for $6 a month to a non-cancer app. Yeah. Put in a capture to prove your your colon's not a robot or something. All right. Let's talk about to say this for a minute because

Remember we talked a couple weeks ago about him framing those 20 people for voter fraud in order to arrest them on some trumped-up bullshit when they were told they were allowed to vote after Florida citizens passed out an initiative to allow them to vote? Tampa Bay newspaper got a hold of the body cam footage from those arrests and rolled it out today. And I want to watch a little bit of it because it's pretty fucking, it's grossly funny. How apologetic the cops are about even doing this. If you want to roll that, Matt. Apparently, I guess you have a warrant?

For what? For voter stuff, man. For voters? What it is, I think the agents with the FDLE talked to you last week about some voter fraud, voter stuff, when you weren't supposed to be voting, maybe. I didn't. So, that's what you're, we're not the case agents, but what you got to do, they have reduced your bond quite a bit. You kind of get it. You know it's some bullshit.

And the cops are like, listen, man, we're real sorry about this, but here's the deal. As opposed, you know, putting a knee in your back and, you know, shooting your dog and all that stuff. It's a pretty different approach in this particular case. I feel like it's sort of telling. As much as we rag on cops, you want to say, that's how cops are supposed to, they walk up to you calmly, explain to you calmly while you're being arrested, treat you with empathy. It's not that fucking hard. that guy when he got arrested his name's Tony Patterson

that he says later on the tape what is wrong with his state man voter fraud y'all said anybody with a felony could vote man and he's fucking right um is this is the idea here just to like

sort of get some statistics or stories that he could point to later and be like look voter fraud is real and we are combating it in this state like that's the whole idea here even though it's some technicality bullshit clearly

yeah Yeah. I mean, the statute clearly says you have to willingly vote fraudulently, and they were told they could vote by a government official. So they fully believe they're within their rights. And the reason not within their rights is because DeSantis moved the goalposts and, like, they institute a bunch of, like, if you haven't fallen into closely, they have like a poll text thing where the ballot initiative wording said once you've paid your debt to society, some such. And so the DeSantis administration is interpreting that to include like fines of reparations, which, okay, whatever. fine um but you can't even figure out how much you owe like they made the website so confusing that you can't you can't you can't even figure out who to pay or how much you owe in order to get your right to vote back so they just completely like nullified the uh the ballot initiative um this woman named Ramona Oliver was told what she was being arrested for and she said voter fraud I voted by ain't commit no fraud and she's fucking right these people are just being harassed into the ground they the cops be the first guy they were being arrested

like we got set your bail low it's only $500 per charge so only $1,000 and anybody has ever paid bail knows you don't get that money back unless you like this issue you that amounts if you go to a bail bonds but it's not the total amount so that's the amount you're paying a bill on them to pay the total total amount to get back so it's a thousand so I'll never get back for trumped up bullshit and most Americans can't afford just dump $1,000 on dumb bullshit so it's just a whole thing's really fucking stupid and annoying bunch of dumb bullshit. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Even the guys think so. Well, speaking of dumb bullshit, let's get into the rest of the show, am I right? With us, as always as producer, Matt, this is weekly skews. I do want to remind you, of course, real quick, two things. If you'd like to see me perform live, go to Trey Crowder.com. Got a few more shows the rest of this year, ramping up big time in 2023, though.

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or just go on Patreon, look me up, sign up on there, get some more skews in your life and support the show in the process. We sure would appreciate it. Now, as for tonight's episode, we're three weeks removed from the big midterm elections and it seems the outlook might be dimming for the Democrats

reportedly due to economic concerns on behalf of the voters because after all, what are reproductive rights and the future of democracy in the face of these damn gas prices, guys? We'll break it all down a little later, but first, the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., any punk-ass New York City rat who don't make like fival and go west while they still can. That's right. Listen to the city's leadership.

Lay down the law in this clip. Fighting crime, fighting inequality, fighting rats. Some of the same folks to criticizing us now called me a murderer because I was killed. I hate rats. Shut down the all night all you need rat buffet. The rats are absolutely going to hate this announcement. The rats don't run this city. We do. The rats hate that too.

This is not a ratatooie. Rats are not our friends. We don't fight to the rats. Oh my God. I like the notion that these damn rats have gotten, you know, they're on their high horse or something because of ratatooie, they've been emboldened and they're out here just running shit in New York need to be put in their place or whatever the hell is going on here.

I mean, you know, a pest problem is a pest problem, but they seem to have a serious. fixation on the on the rats i mean it's like they can't fix the subway so they're going to perform really execute some fucking rats i just like it'll use to do if there's going around killing rats but we talked we talked about la city politics and a patron episode today so i thought we'd talk about new york a little bit because this is a little personal anecdote uh i was i was we're going to have a job in new york once took the overnight flight was straight to the office and i get up out of the subway coming off the airport the first thing i see on the fair island of

Manhattan is a rat had suffocated to death in a trash ban. It's like, good to be back. Yeah, that's an appropriate, yeah, that's a fitting first sight. Yeah, but it's like all politics is local to a certain extent and the idea that like Adams is an abject failure. Everybody hates him. He lies constantly. He can't fix shit. He talks about crime and inequality.

The first one's not really a huge problem in Diorably to pretend it is. And equality is a huge problem. They're not going to do anything about it. other stuff that's going to go into state it is like pedestrians get hit all the time by cars and cops protect you it's vehicular homicide is legal in new york it's absolutely fucking legal and they and they can't fix the subway which it runs at like 1907 level quality but they're like you know what we're going to do we're going to murder a bunch of fucking rats and they do a whole press comments and media run about it and they act like the rats can read the newspaper which is the

part i know yeah that was my favorite part's like the rats aren't going to like this when the rats here what we got in store for them, they're going to be pretty upset, okay? It just feels like any, you know, New Yorkers just listen to that. Like, what the fuck is going on? Like you said, what about all the other stuff? Like, no, let's focus on the rats. Your mayor is an interesting job because some people say it's the second most powerful job in America behind the president. It's probably the closest thing to being president in terms of all the interests you have to manage the budget power you have.

And NYPD is the budget the size of most militaries. but I've never heard of one actually being popular. This was Giuliani of 9-11. And Giuliani was unpopular before that. The mayor is essentially elected as like an avatar for every single New Yorker to hate. Right. And people still want the job. I don't fucking understand it.

Yeah. I don't know. But moving on, our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass, Minnesota colleges for desegregating, apparently, according to this guy, it seems. like let's hear for this guy at the University of Minnesota Board of Regents meeting is it possible that at Morris we've become too diverse is it possible all from a marketing standpoint for for instance Chancellor I've received

a couple letters to actually I've got two letters because it is too diverse, let's say, a campus. They just didn't feel comfortable. I do want to say that guy's absolutely lying that as an American politician, you only got two racist letters. I thought it's hard to believe. So this guy's name is Steve Sviggum. He's in Minnesota.

He's talking about a satellite campus University of Minnesota. He's currently on the University of Minnesota Board of Regents. And he's also the executive assistant and communications director for the Republican Caucus and the Minnesota. So he's still employed by, you know, in electoral politics. He's a former speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, and he's there asking if a college campus is too diverse from a marketing perspective, which is funny for a couple reasons.

One, Matt crunched the numbers, and that campus is exactly 0.3% more black and brown than American population as a whole. It's like 60% white and 40% of people who have done. manifest something other than that when they check their boxes, right? Yeah. So it's saying, like, what the fuck is he talking about? And also, we talk about diversity from a marketing perspective. It's an old joke that college brochures.

Right. The school I went to was like my black friends I had there, we would joke about how every time there's hanging out in the public space on the campus, a photographer would show up and take pictures. Yeah. Right. Yeah, because of the brochures, it's always like, you have a white kid, a black kid, you know, a kid in a wheelchair, an Asian kid holding a notebook or whatever. Yeah, like you said, it's a very old premise, but it's just funny because he's like, you know, is it possible that colleges would be better if they were all white?

Like, can we just talk about that for a second? If we considered the possibility that minorities are a mistake in higher education? Like, just answer the questions. Yeah, I'm just throwing it out there. I just thought maybe, you know, we can table it for later or whatever, but just, you know, food for thought. something, something to think about. I thought there were no bad ideas. We're just brainstown here.

That's ridiculous. All right. Our next honorable mention for Daily Dumbass, large brain marge for not securing all the evidence custody and the big divorce. That's right. Listen to this bombshell. Fine about me and you will not defame my character in that manner.

Did Joe Biden win the election? Congresswoman Green. Joe Biden is the president of the United States. Absolutely. But you pushed a big lie that said he did not win the election. There was election fraud. And you drove those people to the Capitol on January 6th with your lie. We're going to move on.

Josh Roe, it's your turn to ask the question to Marjorie Taylor Green. We have FOIA evidence of proof of election fraud that came out. All right. So there's a lot going on there. One, he just serves with respect to Congressman Green and she just calls him Marcus. That's Marcus Flowers. by the way, Corey's friend of the show. Marcus Flower.

Hey, he's been on. I wasn't on that episode. I forgot. Yeah, he's been on the show. No. Cory was ridiculous right before we brought him on. And, you know, it was a wee bit awkward, but Marcus is great. Anyway, go ahead.

She says they have the proof of election fraud. Her husband has it, which is hilarious that, like, you know, because he just left her. I'm assuming he took the evidence with him, as you would do. But also that she says they foyer it, which, you know, freedom of it for that, for freedom of of Information Act requests. So she thinks they sent a form of the government, public records requests, give us evidence of voter fraud.

The government's like, here you go. And they wrote, here's how we did voter fraud. Yeah, that's great. Yeah. Also, like,

I didn't know at first. I was like, is this supposed to be a thing where she's like, so that's why I don't have it, see, it's because of the divorce. Like my husband, I would have it.

But like, he's got it all. And what are you going to do? I'm getting divorced. But I don't know why I'm looking for any level. of logic in there. But no, I'll remind you an audience real quick, just sort of, since it sort came up and was very funny

if unfortunate to me, when you weren't on an episode and Corey was sitting in and Marcus came on, in part because he, you know, knew Corey already and that was sort of the idea. We had talked extensively about Marcus comes on at 5.30. 5.30, we need to go, whatever we're doing. We need

to wrap it up, go to Marcus. Matt had put in the private chat, you know, Marcus here, he's in the lobby, we're ready to go, whatever. 529, Corey chooses to launch into a big diatribe, a hypothetical diatribe, in which Republican politicians were getting pegged in the butt by their mistresses with an apple shoved in their mouth, being flocked and humiliated sexually in graphic detail. And it was like, all right, everybody, Marcus Flowers, here we go. He was a serious political candidate. Yeah.

So, yeah. Yeah, I don't. Oh, no. The presidential candidates can go on Bill Maher, I'm sure it's fucking fine. No, it was fine. I mean, you know, it's just, it's funny. It was a very, a very corey moment. But, yeah, that's all we got for dumbasses.

Well, not really. That's the end of the dumbass segment. But we are talking about the midterms. We're talking about the races, how they're going, and there's a whole lot of dumbassery wrapped up in this whole thing, Mark. Yeah. It sure is. I read this piece today.

from Slate called Democrats grapple with strong chance that GOP mega bozos will all win the races because of the price of gas. And I wanted to put my head through a plate glass window and just bleed out. This is the dumbest thing. The reason it's dumb to me is like it's extremely economically short-sighted. There's tons of data that shows they get better job growth

and healthier counties under Democratic presidents. That's mostly because they make saner economic choices because they believe in stuff like data. Whereas you want to a comparison, in British politics right now, Liz Trust has been prime minister for six weeks. Her party just won a huge election like a year and a half ago. And she's down to a 16% approval rating because she introduced a budget plan that's essentially Republican light. And it tanked the British pound to the point where every. once fucking broke. So if they held election now, like, Labor would get like 10% of the seats in parliaments.

And my point is, like, vote for Republicans counter the economy works is a vote to. Right. I know. I mean, yeah, that's the, it's like the, that's the shittiest part about, well, I don't know if it's the shittiest part about the whole Republican dynamic in this country. But, like, the way they have pretty successfully sold a lot of people on the idea that, like, we are the ones who fix the economy like that you know the idea it's like okay listen you may not like all the racism and sexism and all that or you may love it that's great too but either way you all know that we are the money people we're the ones who make the economy good and that's why so

you see shit like it seems being framed as people being like you know i'm not crazy about row being overturned or any of that stuff i'm alarmed by some of this but you know the economy we got to fix economy. So I feel like I have to vote Republican. And it's just infuriating because like you said, that shit ain't true either. It hasn't been true in a long time. Like, I mean, unless you're super fucking rich, voting for Republican is not in your own economic self-interest for the most part. But it persists. The belief persists. Yeah. And it's like it's also at hands like our whole national sovereignty over to like Saudi Arabia and Russia because they can decide when gas prices go up. Because, like, we can't, all the places to control the price of gas,

just look at the members of OPEC, you know, but also, like, the major oil gas producers, like Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela. Ask yourself if you want to give them your vote, because this is essentially what we're doing is you're going to control over who wins American elections to those countries. And I don't think that's fucking smart or good. And I wish somebody in the Democratic Party would make that case plainly. I've seen some lower-level Democrats.

Some people would make it. but like nobody with a major megaphone like Joe Biden is doing it or Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer and it's a I find it mildly infuriated and you got a couple of extended proposals to like stop selling weapons to Saudi Arabia until they help us out with golden gas but like no one really thinks we're not going to do that because

American arms manufacturers would fucking throw a fit and they've got a very powerful lobbyists they're making a ton of money off Saudi Arabia some weapons to Saudi Arabia to kill Yemeni civilians so anyway but these forces are so powerful by the way just before we're talking about gas prices I do want to say that that's same piece notes that analysts expect gas prices to go down soon because what happened was a

bunch of American plant you know what do you call it oil processing refineries or something oh yeah old refineries yeah we're like offline or doing or needed improvements or need to expand capacity and they're almost done doing that but the idea that who controls the United States Senate is decided about whether or not British Petroleum can finish upgrades at a facility in Illinois is like ridiculous to me right and if they're not going to do it fast enough Joe Biden should fucking nationalize it and fix it because this is too stupid and powerful to let it happen

this way. But like the combined effects of this is that races that shouldn't be close, for a whole host of reasons, are close, including two of the biggest fucking clown shows that I can recall in American history and that's the Senate races in Georgia and Pennsylvania

who got even crazier this week. So as you watch this, I want you to think about whether or not it's worth paying $0.25 cents, a gallon of gas to have these motherfuckers be able to vote to take away all your rights and benefits as an American citizen.

So first of all, this happened last week in the Warnock versus Walker debate. Yeah. It's hard to explain, but obviously. I have not done. I've never pretended to be a police officer. And I've never

threatened a shootout with the police and now I have to respond to that we are moving on gentlemen and you know what so funny I am what with many police officers yeah he pulled out a badge

yeah excuse me Mr. Walker please out of respect I need to let you know Mr. Walker you are very well aware of the rules tonight yes and you have a prop that is not

yes I did Put that prop away. Where it's not a crap? She gets it modest for using a prop. It's not a prop. It's real. But yeah, he pulls out a badge.

It goes, well, in fact, I am work with police. And, yeah, then insist that the badge is real. And it's not at all.

Yeah. But it's also like, it's that did he, like, you think he, and either one is, But, like, do you think he anticipated this coming up and was like, I got just the thing to shut that down, my badge? Or do you think he always has that badge on him in his coat pocket?

He pretty clearly always has it on him. But, like, it's like, the thing about people with law enforcement community, we're talking about licensed Leo's. The badge is the signed your license law enforcement officer. If you don't have the license, it is a fucking prop. I can go to the dollar store and buy a badge. It doesn't give me the right to detain people. But, like, he was clearly, he says, I am, whatever he said. I don't say I am a police officer, but then he said, I am work with police officer.

It's not clear during all this, whether he not, he believes he's a real cop. And I'm going to show you what I'm talking about. I think he thinks he's a cop. Yeah. But also the middle part of what Warnock was talking about got completely ignored, where he's said, he threatened a shootouts with cops. He's talking about he put a gun to a woman's head and said he'd kill her and then do commit suicide by a cop.

Now, like, how is that not a major major feature of this fucking campaign? And how is this guy only behind by two points? And he was tied until the abortion stuff came out. I mean, I don't know how you make it a major fit. Meaning, like, I've seen that get brought up a lot. I've seen ads that mention that in it. You know, the thing about putting a gun to his wife's head and all that shit, it's not like they've just been ignoring it or not trying to.

It's just like none of this shit seems to matter. matter to the base or a lot of the voters in Georgia because it's all come out and there's been national no there's been so many it's hard to keep up with but like I mean I don't know it's been pushed people just don't give a ship because gas is so high yeah I guess I guess I can understand like gas is high that affects my life whether or not george herson wants to shoot it out with cops doesn't affect my life but you know his life it does affect is cops and watch this this is Herschel Walker. This is the badge I flashed at the debate

and this is my sheriff. Sheriff Rowland. Yes. If Herschel's badge is a prop, then I guess this badge I wear every day. Dude, we threatened to shoot you if you came to stop. You can stop him at. This

is all so fucking infuriating. And the fallout from this, instead of just acting embarrassed by it, just plowing ahead and act like this is like maybe it thinks it's a better debate to have than the one about that lying about being a cop is a better campaign issue than lying about paying for an abortion you lie right I mean like like or like you said I don't maybe he you know cops do that honorary deputy thing or whatever I've heard of that being a thing but which is that's what happened with him I guess and even though honorary's in the in the title he probably he may not

know that word you know and but and he's like well I got the badge they told me I was a Like, I would sincerely would believe that he actually thinks that he is some kind of actual cop because, and for no other reason, it's like, look, I got this badge. You know, a lot of other people have pointed this out too already, but it's like, you know, it's like that badge is like the wings that pilots give out to kit. Like my sons, I guess, are both pilots, trained pilots because they got the pair of those wings the first time they flew on an airplane. plane, you know. But yeah, I don't know. I just, I'm not trying to let him off the hook by saying, no, I think he genuinely believes it. I'm just trying to emphasize just how dumb I think it is possible that he is and that he does think that he's like, no, I didn't lie. See? I am. Right. Either option means he should not be trusted to be in a series of six. Of course. Of course it does. Right. That's what I'm saying. I'm not trying to

defend him at all because, yeah, it's like which one is worth. you know, in terms of potential as a U.S. senator. But, yeah, I don't know. There's just no, he's smushed brain, man. Yeah. I cannot figure out what's going on with him. The, so Matt, put that picture back up from the MSNBC because he did an MSNBC interview where a reporter is trying to get to the bottom of what he actually thinks about this,

which just as we're disgusting, it's pretty fucking impossible. He pulls it out, and let me read a quote from it. from Walker that is a legit badge I carry it with me all the time it's a real badge it's not a fake badge if anything happened in this county I have the right to work with the police and getting things done I work in law enforcement right yeah yeah I mean so but yeah he's trying to pretend this isn't like an embarrassing fiasco this is this is a quote from a parochal prosecutor it says quote being an honorary deputy is like having a junior Ranger badge.

Look at the quote of him on screen. What Walker has is a toy given to him because he used to play football. As we've discussed, the candidate tried to use this prop to, quote, get things done alongside real police officers, he could be arrested for personating a cop. Exactly. He's not allowed to do any of this shit. It's like Matt Gates's best friend who gave himself a badge and a fake light will pull people over even though there was a county tax assessor.

These guys are like, like, I generally make fun of the country. concept that pretty much every white person thinks of themselves as a cop. Like, stop thinking of yourselves as cops, people. This is not, like, the two, in Georgia, those two guys just got long prison sentences for appointing themselves law enforcement

investigating a guy who was innocent, they thought, of trespassing or theft or whatever, and executed him in the street. You don't have to be doing that shit. And this is just like, yeah, this is going to drive. The way, whatever Walker thinks, but he's got a whole new campaign staff now. So I'm not sure if anybody can get control over him or whether this is part of a plan. But in the guys they're protecting him, maybe because they're as stupid as he is,

they've gone all on the idea that impersonating a police officer is good politics because it reminds people that you're pro-law enforcement. Watch this is a dumb analyst and CNN if you have that video, Matt. I've been told that they're going to really double down on this issue and his connection with law enforcement. They're going to make up little badges and hand them out at the next campaign events as they get to the election because they want to show. show that his record on

fighting crime is much stronger than Raphael Warnock and his... And what universe does that... Are those two things... Having fake badges mocked up and distributed

at a campaign event, what the fuck does that have to do with Raphael Warnock's record on crime? Like, it just... It don't even begin to make... It's just like, see, we're we good badge good you good we good Herschel good all good you know who don't have a bunch of fake

badges Reverend Warnock and they're like that's true he doesn't yeah he got my load there's run around saying that like Warnock wants to defund the police which he does it I mean it hasn't said he does I don't know what's in the horror hearts he's at like but like even the way this person is covered so they did that debate we just sort of clip from the moderators did this thing, but they talked about both of their personal issues. Walker's was beating and threatening to kill his wife, lying about an abortion he paid, not spending time with his kids,

threatening to shoot cops, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada. And they turned to pivot to Warren. I actually Warren, I went first in the stains, but I would like the question to him about their equally significant personal issues was after his divorce, when he started he got his income got a lot larger him and his wife went back to court to adjust their settlement so he paid more in child support right not yeah like so clearly he has issues to being a family man too right they're basically the same you know sure one guy father's a bunch

of children he has nothing to do with and threatens to kill their mothers in front of him and all that type of thing but you know this guy had to pay a little more money you're getting divorced yeah and it wasn't like it wasn't even framed like he fought it it's just like when you have these are quartering settlement you can't just work it out with your wife your subject you put it in writing so you go to court it's not it's like so this guy's big personal failing is getting a divorce and i personally have never gotten divorced today so i am better than rafield warlock the right reverend i will say that um so anyway they seem to think this is good politics i do not and before you put a second to that this from a different debate one which

Walker did not show up for standing as Sean Haney appearance and talked about how it was just smart he won the first debate so handily it was smart for him not to go and he was represented by an empty podium which is why you're going to see an empty podium in this clip. So here we go. Because I work for Georgia and I'm not

going to be distracted about what Herschel Walker says about me. He doesn't tell the truth about himself. He said that he graduated from college. He didn't. He said he was valedictorian of his class. He wasn't. He said he started a business that doesn't even exist. And the other night when I said he pretended to be a police officer,

he presented a badge as if that were proof that he really is a police officer. And now he wants us to think that he's a senator. When the main thing people know about you at this point is it's a huge liar, a lies about everything, reminding them you're a big liar by defending your lie for being true when it's obviously a plastic badge, you're not a licensed law enforcement professional,

which people can look up in public records, seems like bad politics to me. It seems like it shouldn't work. But we're through the looking glass here and gas is up 25 cents. So therefore we got to do fascism. But it's also kind of like, I don't know, it's sort of right out of the Trump playbook, isn't it? And a lot, you know what I mean?

Like just the whole like just lie and continue to lie and then lie about your lying and also act like your lying is not a big deal and be like, oh, fuck you. It means I'm smart. Don't mean I'm bad, you know, and that whole thing. And just keep running it. And, you know, I mean, he sort of wrote the book on that whole thing.

Yeah, but Trump's been practicing lying on TV for 40 years. And while Herschel was in the wait room and doing, you know, tire drills in football practice, Trump was doing those reps on lies, baby. So, like, I don't know if you could be able to catch up the game. Are you, I might have this wrong, but I don't think I do. I'm pretty sure this is a real thing. Another one of Herschel Walker's lies, I believe, was that he used to say that he never worked out or that he did like, he didn't lift weights he never in his life lifted weights he did like 20 pushups a day and ran a mile or something like that and that's all the exercise you need to be a world-class athlete so you're reminding me of another one yeah i forgot about that one uh so now we talk about all the reasons harshal walkers should be getting blown out in humiliating fashion let's talk about reality uh because

he's behind about two points since all this stuff started since the abortion news broke look, all what's moved is like two and a half points and it's still within the margin of fucking error. That poll looks a little old to me, but yeah, the one I read today, the write-up on 538 says, now we have new polling data, suggest this story might have cost Walker some support. This polling accurate shows that Raphael Warnock leading on average 48 to 45 among likely voters previously for those same pollsters, recent surveys, before the news broke, they were

essentially tied at 47% age. so after all this has happened Warnock's gone up one point and Walker's gone down too that's all it's affected shit and I am very fucking confused and disheartened but while we're talking about polling ignore them I saw an interview with a pollster last week

talking about the crisis in polling and they get like a 0.4% response rate so they have to call constantly for two hours to get one person to answer the phone and talk to them. And I don't know what those people are representative of. So it could be off significantly in any or all directions. Now, these pollsters are smart people who get paid good money to try to give people accurate results. So they're trying their ass off because if you're not accurate, you don't get paid. I'm sure they feel that ways to adjust their models

to account for all this shit. But they don't know if the models they built to account for accurate until after the votes are counted, they compare it to the polls. So anyway, act like you're down 20 and vote. Yeah. Hell yeah. This is probably more important related to Georgia. Today was the first day of early voting and 130,000 votes were cast in the first day, according to the Secretary of State's Office, that surpasses the record for a first day

of early voting in a mid-term year ago. So I'm assuming that's good news. I mean, it's good news that people vote, but it's also to be bad news, Republicans and a lot of people vote. Right. So anyway, vote. You can vote if you're in Georgia now. Now, let's go to Dr. Oz, because this is just a bunch of fun. So, first of all, there's no way to couch this. Dr. Oz drinks his piss. Matt, roll a clip. Depending on what we're putting in it, it'll smell one way or the other. urine, by the way, if you haven't had anything fancy, has a sort of a nutty smell to it. And that's sort of a taste like that, too. all right and you know he was way ahead of the game dude because i thought they didn't start

drinking their pee until covid became a thing but that's clearly an old that's an old clip so like he was on the vanguard of piss drinking dr eyeswell i like these also like a pissed somali a apparently you know what i mean he's like talking about notes got like nutty notes and stuff like that like hints of asparagus some floral tones uh he's wild i don't know why i took along for this clip to be dug up because this is a clip for the Jimmy Kimmel show in 2009 where they talked to him about it when he was just a TV personality, he brought a show.

And he said that he was in medical school, it's something they all do in medical school. And every doctor has seen talk about that. It's like, we know we don't drink our fucking piss in medical school. He's like, the weirdest thing we do is practice drawing each other's blood, but like what the fuck? It makes me think, I mean, who knows with his

crazy ass, but it's funny to me to think that like the bunch of other doctors or med students, who are in there with him, that one night at a party, one of them was like, I bet you I can get us to drink his own piss. He's like, no, you can't. He's like, no, watch me. I'll just tell him it's something we all have to do.

It's like a whole thing, right of passage, whatever. He'll totally do it. And then, you know, 20 years later, he's on TV talking about piss drinking, blame him in all med school. Yeah. I don't fucking understand. The same interview, he also said, he told Kimmel, that he tried to stick a needle in his sister's head when they were kids.

Yeah. Like he literally, like his dad was a doctor, I guess, who had needles around all the time. So he would stick them in oranges all the time. He's trying to use the charming attitude about I always wanted to be in medicine. But he is a quote. And one day I noticed my sister's head had little pores in it too. And I still remember, I swear, watching her head from behind, and he mimicked how he crept up behind his sister with the needle.

I threw it in there and it didn't go in. The skull got in the way. I got no brain. I got nothing back. You're trying to fucking kill his sister with a needle. I can't. Dude, and thinking that that is, like you said, a charming anecdote that will make for good panel fodder on a network late-night talk show is some wild shit to me. I mean, they pre-screen all that shit, but I'm sure they were like, well, this is fucking crazy.

We'll totally let him say this. In fact, I think Kimmel then said to him, you're the craziest person ever had on the show or something like that, but that Oz thought it would be just like, you know, a heartwarming little story of, you know, adolescent naivete. or whatever the fuck he thinks was going on in his head. It's pretty wild. So to recap, he drinks his piss. He tries to stab his sister with the needle. He scanned recently where he oversaw the murder of a bunch of dogs. He called, he said people that are fat, deserve to have strokes.

He's, and he's only down, like, two points. He's only down, like, two points. And, like, local news station, I go up at him today. And if we're talking about the economy, stuff, this should be fucking checkmate. Roll this, man. Dietitians will tell you that

red meat in your diet is not always the healthy choice. But pricing meat to make it unaffordable to average families, well, that's not something most candidates would suggest. If we did not subsidize the food in this country, a pound

of meat would cost us $90. And you wouldn't be eating a lot of it. Appearing at the So, you cut it, Matt. This sounds like the caricature of Republicans think that AOC argues for. Right. Yeah, basically, he, like, he made this argument that we should charge, we should charge more for unhealthy foods to force people to eat healthier because

they can't afford things like meat and stuff like that. And that, that's from years ago, but that was his whole stance. And then, of course, recently he went viral for, calling vegetables, cruditay, and lamenting how expensive they were. Like, he just wants your average day, you know, your average Joe to be able to go down the grocery store and be able to afford their food. But he has in the past openly advocated for making food much more expensive, not vegetables, but still, either way. He had like, this, I can't believe, forget politics, just as for like, as a professional, I have so little esteem for these campaigns. They're being run by absolute fucking clowns

who deserve to lose and be unemployed. And instead, what they're doing is shit like this. Another one thing that came out this week, he stayed to photo with someone who lost a memory of gun violence. He pretended to have this candidate for him with a woman who's worried about crime. The context of saying a bunch of racist bullshit about, you know, race-baiting

bullshit about how John Federman sue soft on criminals. And he didn't reveal the woman he was talking to about gun violence was on this campaign's payroll. And the thing is the woman's story as far as I can tell at least half true

shut out losing an uncle and a nephew to gun violence they found the nephew so there's no reason to lie if you just say that this is why I got involved to Oz's campaign and I was happy to work for us

because I'm passionate about this issue. They just lied as a reflex. Yeah, I know. I mean, to me being like, you know, I have a woman on my staff, a very dedicated member of our staff and part of our family here at the Oz campaign

and she means a lot to me. And she's been person impacted by the horror that is gun violence, you know, whatever, like, there's absolutely nothing wrong with just framing it that way. Like you said, you don't have to lie about any of that. They just do because it's their default position. Yeah. And he's like down, Oz is down like two and a half points this point to Federman because of a bunch of race baiting attacks and Republicans who don't like Oz coming home because they don't want Federman to win. But like, it's, that's within the Mars de Verre. That's from the Marge de Verre. That's

in the marjor era and the press is doing everything we talked about it i can't remember we talked about it friday or last tuesday but about how the press is going all in on the same basis that john federman's mentally incapacitated because he had a stroke and again going back to the economy stuff like republic and tax policies they make people make the stock market buzz in the short term because that's what happened you take all the rules and governors off stuff if you make it legal for oil companies to dump chemicals in a river their stock will go up that is true but in a long run, we're all fucking dead. So if everyone would think a little bit more long term, because a vote for Republicans is a vote to be poor and a vote for authoritarian is a vote to be poor

because one party states, and that's where we're headed towards unless somebody gets their shit together, Democratic Party, is it's a formula for corruption because they can get away with anything. So all they do is hand sweetheart goes through buddies and everyone else is locked out and they have no interest in making policies better for working people because your vote doesn't work. It doesn't matter. So anyway, Bernie makes this point in this video that we'll watch and then we're done and then we'll be done with this topic. We live in a moment, Chuck, in which we see an economy where the people on top are doing well while working people are struggling. You got more income and wealth inequality today than any time in the history of the

United States, three people only more wealth than the bottom half of the people in our society. So what I think is Democrats should talk about the economy. I think they should contrast their views with the Republican positions. I believe, and most Democrats believe, that at a time on half our people live in paycheck to paycheck, we should raise the minimum wage to a living wage. No Republicans support that. I think we should make it easier for workers to join unions. Republicans don't support that.

I believe that when you have billionaires not paying a nickel in some cases, some cases, in federal income taxes, yeah, we should demand that the rich and large corporations be starting. You can cut it back. He then talks about how they, on the other hand, like you already said earlier, on the other hand, they propose we cut Social Security and Medicare and all that, or Medicaid. And so, yeah. Bernie, as always keeping it real on the economic issues. Yeah, I think I know I talked to the pre-show. I can't really have mentioned it, but like The House Republicans and candidates are promising to refuse to raise the debt ceiling unless Democrats in exchange cut Social Security and Medicare, which the hostage there is either you starve old people or you collapse the world economy into a global Great Depression.

Right. And like that's what they're running on. I know. I don't get. So Matt, first of all, find some questions and comments and put them up there. But yeah, and I think that came up on a previous episode at one point. But I just, I don't understand, I mean, old people, you know, I thought old people was their bread and butter. And before any of y'all start going in on us, I don't mean all old people.

I'm just saying, I thought, you know, old people vote more than young people do. And a lot of the narratives about Republicans and their bait. It's pap balls and whatnot. Yeah. And they're like actively targeting the papals now, it seems to me, like, in a really egregious fashion. but I think probably what they do to solve that problem is phase out in the future. So you pass a bill saying it'll be eliminated by 2050 or whatever. Yeah,

after gradual cuts into the current people with grandfathered in and get their benefits. And they get their tax cut. Dude. You're not paying for future. Never mind. Never mind. I'm an idiot. I don't know why I didn't think of that.

That makes all the sense in the world. That shit will work too, buddy. Yeah. Yeah. I ain't got no problems with that. Well, Matt's looking for comments. I wanted to mention the story that I think is definitely worth talking about. Missouri woman did not have emergency abortion.

She called a state senator for help, and he sent her to an anti-abortion clinic. So that happened was this Missouri woman. She was 17 weeks pregnant and her water broke, and the doctor essentially told her there was no way to save the baby. And if she kept the baby, if you didn't get that procedure, she'd have complications, including risk of sepsis, loss of her uterus, and maybe even die. This woman's 41 years old. The doctor recommended abortion, but of course she couldn't give her one under state law. So they called their state senator and was like, can you help me out here? I need an exception because I'm going to die if they can get this procedure.

He said, sure. And then he referred her to one of those, you know, pretend abortion clinics is actually an anti-abortion propaganda place. And they, of course, couldn't help her because what she needed wasn't propaganda literature. What she needed was actual medical care. And he then ghosted her and just, I guess, hope she'd die before he called back and bugged her again. He also told her that actually the law that was causing her the issues in the first place was actually intended specifically to help her and women like her. It's so fine. Just like, what you don't understand about this situation is actually this is good for you, okay?

This life-threatening situation that you're in that we have caused through our, you know, regardless. Progressive policies. It's actually a good thing that you should be thankful for. Debbie Lynn Robinson says, hit that like button. Thank you so much. Like, subscribe, share, rate review, tell all your friends, all that good internet stuff. We appreciate it. Also, she did, this woman, she did end up getting, she, first of all, I want to tell you that she described herself as moderately pro-life, which is absolutely fine.

But, like, this is necessary medical care. So she didn't even consider this to be an abortion because the pregnancy wasn't. viable. But she still couldn't get the procedure. And I just want to point out in another example of how everyone has an exception for themselves. You know what I'm saying? In my situation special, it ever occurs to people, they might need this procedure, but a lot of people do need it. And she ended up getting an abortion care fund to fund her travel into another state to get the health care she needed done, done. So she did not die. But when we talk about Republicans make you poor, this woman, if she had to pay out of pocket, she'd been gone out of the money for the procedure,

the flight, the hotel, days off from work, all that stuff, because she needed to see a fucking doctor. And they passed the stupid bill. So I think she'd pay 10 cents higher in gas prices to get all that money back. Although she, like I said, somebody else, a charity covered it. But again, that's charity. Also, and gas prices aren't even, you know, actually, they don't work that way anyway. But Jim Gray says, what's your all's take on the last January 6 hearing?

We talked about the Patriot. Yeah. So, yeah, just everybody knows. Look at Matt being shrewd. Yeah, that's one of the topics we covered on a bonus, our most recent bonus Patreon episode. Not that we won't answer your question. Go ahead, Mark.

I think our consensus was, it was effective, but underwhelming, just because, like, the stuff they're describing is super urgent and important, but they're not acting like it's urgent and important. Like the report, their writing will come out after the election. They probably, the subpoenas they issue, like the subpoena Trump, about the clock will run out on that when the committee, before the committee expires in January, probably. Pretty much all he was seated in doing is getting Steve Bannon

in a few months in jail for contempt. And like, it's just like if democracy is really at stake, you've got to be running around with your hair on fire looking like is at stake. It'll look busy, motherfuckers. And, yeah, the government coverage compelling. I just don't know it, like, I didn't know if it got covered on the nightly news, you know? Right. Yeah, and it's like it was pretty much what I was saying about.

about them the whole time. Like you said, it is, it was important. It was imperative that they do it. I'm glad they did it and all that stuff. But the whole time, I was saying, you know, I want to see what all of it ultimately actually amounts to, you know. And it's, and I suspected the whole time, the answer would probably be not all that much, really. And it's still sort of seeming like that to me. Uh, sell sword king says, effective, but underwhelming. The fucking mood. Yeah. For they mark something all up. If you want to see how should sound, wait until next February when the Republicans are holding

wall-to-wall hearings about 100 Biden's laptop. And compare and contrast how fucking dumb that topic is with their tone. And then Democrats, sober, calm, not scared tone with the content they're talking about. Yeah. Christy Fowles says

kitty litter in bathroom is making rounds again. Yeah. That one's too stupid to die there. That one's got real legs. We talked about that on Friday too, but just, you know, we did find some real kitty litter or NBC News did. They got to the bottom of it. They found some kitty litter in schools. And what it's it, what it is, it's in go buckets that school, a school in a Colorado district, the same district that at Columbine High School uses in

to prepare for school shootings. The kid litter in their bucket so the kids can pee and poop when they're in the lockdown. It's fucking nightmares all the way down. But you pull back the curtain in this country, all you're going to find this horrific bullshit. Appalachia fungorum says, how about Roger Stone. Yeah, he was on one again today. The documentary footage, the January 6th Commission showed, and CNN got more of later, where he's talking about, he called Ivanka an abortionist

bitch. He said Jared Kushner had an IQ of 70. Anyway, he went on Alex Jones show today. Yeah, I think it was Alex Jones. Maybe it was Roger Stone. I mean, Steve Bannins, I forget. One of those morons. One of those horrifically gross-looking liars.

He went on their show and said it was a deep fake, which is why he's suing a filmmaker for $25 million. Oh, Sennie Jones says, Stop being defeatist. We don't know that the wreaths will win. A lot of us are working very hard to see that they don't. Yeah, and we appreciate it. I actually think that Federman will win

and that's a coin flip whether Warnot wins. I'm not defeatist about their election prospects. I'm defeatist that it's fucking close. This country should be smarter than this. That's what frustrates me. I think anything that their kind of candidates are doing or that it's my disappointments in 50% of the voters. So there you go. I will answer this question real quick, not that I would.

Okay, Anita Jermaine says, any chance you're throwing your hat in the ring for the opening on the daily show, I think it'll be a perfect fit. First of all, thank you. Secondly, they would never, I don't think. But thirdly, no, I wouldn't even consider doing that because as far as I'm concerned, Roy Wood Jr. Roy is the only choice for that job. but he's a friend of mine. I fucking love Roy. And also, it's just, he's just the best.

And it should, and it should be his before it should be anybody. So that's my thoughts on that. But again, I appreciate the, uh, the thought, though. All right. Well, that'll do it once again. Like I said, go to traycrouter.com, check out my tour or, uh, and go to weekly skews.com slash more or go on Patreon, look me up to get some bonus stuff where you can see all that, uh, January 6th talk and whatnot and all the other things we cover.

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