Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – 10/22/24 – The Price of the Presidency

Episode Date: February 19, 2025

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what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it is february 18th 2025 we're coming to you from oh so slightly in the past it's 1.01 p.m. on the left coast as we sit here to record this you'll see it in like four short hours thanks for joining us i'm trey that's mark how you doing mark Pretty good, yeah, continue to have one of the, you know, every week, it's like, oh, this is the dumbest week in American history. Then it just keeps getting dumber. I'm certainly getting even dumber by the time the show drops at 5 o'clock. Somehow, a couple of a quick Doge competence updates before we get to the show. Last week, the Defense Department was, quote, sent scrambling after Doge publicly posted classified information on the federal agency that handles U.S. surveillance satellites.

Nice. Yeah. Yeah, so if you just want to know where our spice highlights are, you can just Google it. Apparently. The Trump administration also, they fired a bunch of people that handled the safety of nuclear weapons and that realized they wanted to rehire them, but they'd forgotten to keep their, they had turned off their email addresses and had no other way to contact them. Right.

They had their government email. They sent an email to that government email and said, you're fired. Then they just deleted that email and we're like, oh, we don't have a phone number or nothing. We don't know how to find these guys. I imagine that if they're panicking pressure, we hired them, they're super. It's like, okay, I guess like, this is nuclear missiles are going to explode in their silos unless we can find the email addresses for these people. Yeah, those are NNSA people, which is kind of sort. It's a semi-autonomous sub-agency to the Department of Energy, which is where I used to work.

Obviously, we had some NNSA people in Oak Ridge, where I was stationed at. A lot of those, you know. They, they're the one, the Department of Energy technically has stewardship of the nuclear, nuclear weapons, the whole nuclear weapons complex. But really, it's the NNSA that does it. And I guess these guys didn't realize that or know that, the Doge guys, I mean. But also, the NNSA, they're like, they're unsurprisingly and reassuringly, they're fucking hardcore. They have all these different separate rules that we didn't have about, it's called, I think it's called the human reliability program, anybody that works directly with the nukes. it's like it's just like a background check type thing on steroids like they they can't do shit

like they they can't even like go to the bar and have a beer or whatever even when they're not working like that type of thing because uh you know they got to be they're really so you're saying highly competent is what I'm saying and professional you're saying America has warrior monks but their computer engineers kind of yeah and they're in charge of the nukes and it's all taken very very seriously until these people showed up I guess is what I'm trying to say right so apparently so they're they're I guess they're firing everybody who's a quote-unquote probationary employee because like they're easier to get rid of according to federal like you

know the unit contracts or whatever but you apparently you get put on a you're a probationary employee when you get promoted or transfer departments so like they're not these aren't like green new people like it turns out if you got if you earned a promotion last year you fucked yourself into being unemployed right so but this is like this is the old recurring thing going back to Trump's first administration, quote, sources told CNN, the officials did not seem to know this agency overseas America's nuclear weapons, meaning the Department of Energy. So it's Rick Perry taking, putting Rick Perry in charge of the Department of Energy because they thought energy equal

to oil. And even Rick Perry didn't know who was being put in charge of the nukes. This is just like, ah, God. Um, this last one I wanted to talk about. So USAID withdrawing from around the world has apparently been extremely chaotic. Like I read a lawsuit earlier today. This guy, his wife the stress of getting fired and being in a war-torn area or whatever like they did she was eight months pregnant and she started having pregnancy difficulties and the government said oh we can't provide a medevac and so they had spent like this is a kid they really wanted they'd spend 50 grand infertility treatments and like it's not clear whether she's going to lose the baby or not she's still laid up in a hospital leading and stuff but like

so just the example of how chaos we talk about chaos so another lawsuit followed by USA employees. This guy detailed his experience trying to get out of Kinshasa in the Congo. They were told to leave their possessions behind amidst the panic. The civil servant who deployed with his wife and three kids to Kinshasa, and their mission there was like to develop Congolese capacity to sell cobalt to not capital in, not China, okay? Which I have the goal, I don't, I don't understand the technical, whatever, whether the goal is worth it or not. But he was told by U.S. Marines to load into a raft with one back, pack per person.

They're escaping on a raft. This is basically the Vietnam airlift, but a cheap version of it. And they had to leave their dog behind. Now, if you're not a dog owner, this is the formula you would design to create super ISIS. Like, if you force me to leave my dog behind a gunpoint because I'm fucking Washington in bureaucratic politics and like my kids are having to leave all their stuff behind, leave with one backpack on a fucking raft. and these are people who've been brought back to America

with no place to live and no income. These are a fellow countryman who volunteered for public service and I, yeah. Well, I've seen some people point out online like what you just highlighted that that's presumably also happening to a lot of like ex-military people

who now have government jobs and everything. You know, people that are like, and I don't mean to imply that ex-military people are like unhinged or nothing. I'm just saying that like it's going to make a lot of desperate people overnight out of nowhere for no good reason and some of whom you know might have the capacity to uh dude people are being radicalized that's one reason like somebody on

a progressive side should throw a way to grab the microphone and be able to give a message because people are going to need something to believe in to fix all this to hold people accountable and like somebody somebody should somebody should lead right as i'm saying but chuck schumer is the guy obviously yeah yeah right we're talking about him a little bit catching his briefings and stuff but he's pretty on top of it. But I, so yeah, you said that this USA guy was there to develop Congolese capacity to sell cobalt to not China. And that's what a lot of this USAID stuff comes down to, right?

A lot of these things have been canceled by them. It's like that mantle is going to be picked up by China and all these other countries, right? It's like a soft power, cold war between us and China. And now we've removed ourselves from it. China's just going to, you know, slide right in there very happily. Did you see that list of stuff that doge themselves? put out all the money they said they'd saved like yeah they they took the real number multiplied by 10 because they can't add something like that yeah it was at 486 million dollars

to the consortium for elections and political process strengthening including uh 22 million for inclusive and participatory political processes in maldova and 21 million for voter turnout in india and it's like people read that and see that number you're like what kind of bullshit is that but it's like that's so clearly a like uh you know democratic soft power aim to it's like instead of doing coups and shit like we used to do we do stuff like this so we don't have to do those hopefully and uh yeah and it's still a kind of coup

like like they were they were making which is like coo light yeah I'm not even like but like I don't know I don't even get into like real politic and how to how to push the world as a live but like but there's outcomes from this that should hit for these people is why I'm trying to say

that they don't realize, right? Or it's like they just look at it as just wasteful money. It's like a lot of this stuff, what it goes to is actually shit that is more in line with how y'all think things are at work. Right. You just don't realize that. I saw a meme floating around the internet.

Some Doge supporter had made like a madman thing. It's like, well, the Don Draper's pitching, you know? It's like, what if we use USAID to establish right-wing governments? And somebody was like, who's going to tell these motherfuckers? Yeah. But I was like, I was like, I was texting you about that podcast I'll listen to about the Challenger disaster. And the two, because you and I are, you know, we're really into Challenger and a big bird part of it and all that shit.

So there's two guys who designed the O-Ring who saw the explosion coming and tried desperately to stop the launch, but it couldn't get anybody to listen to him. And they spent the rest of their lives, like, being depressed and guilty about it. And they, but the way it worked is like they told everybody was going to explode. It was like 20 degrees too cold for the, for this rubber O-ring to like hold up. it was going to freeze and give way or whatever. And what they did was the NASS administrators kicked everyone out of the room who knew what they were talking about so they could move forward with the launch. And what if the government did that with the lives of 330 million people instead of seven,

and you essentially have what's happening right now. Yep. Well, reassuring y'all as always, thanks for being here. This is weekly skews. Before we continue, of course, a couple quick announcements. Come see me on the road, please. Treycrouter.com. I got Carolinas coming up this weekend and then Florida after that, Minneapolis,

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So, you know, get a little. interactive action and just some more of this show, if you like it, for only $5. So consider signing up on Patreon. Now, as for the show tonight, we're talking about Eric Adams and all the patriotic heroism under his belt that he's been dealing with lately and trying to be the true hero that New York needs in the long line of a very impressive mayors they've had in the Big Apple. Eric Adams stands out and a lot of other dumb shit with Doge and Elon along the way, beginning with the Daily Dumbass, Matt. Graphic, please.

Tonight's D.D., the Doge Kids, for accidentally melting stolen Fort Knox gold when their cybertruck spontaneously combust. All right, so this morning to talk about going for the gold, Elon Musk and Doge, setting their sights on the country's largest gold reserve, Fort Knox, in Kentucky. As its own center reveals that 425 billion, million dollars of a gold supply doesn't even get a yearly review. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul joins us now. So do you see the safety report that cyber trucks are seven, the catch on fire seven times more than the Ford Pinto, which got taken off the market for catching on fire.

No, but I know the Pinto is legendary or infamous, I guess it's a better way to put it for that. Seven times worse seems pretty bad. Seems like we just have a government look into it. I wonder if anybody works there anymore. So there's layers of this gold thing, which is floating around right-wing internet and what, like, so Rand Paul always calls for the Federal Reserve to be audited. I guess it hasn't been audited in a long time, which feels a little bit weird, but Rand Paul's dad was also going on about auditing Fort Knox, you know, back when he was in Congress, like the 90s and shit. So this, this, the layers just go like this. So, Ron and grand paul come from like the gold bug wing nutter part of the right where they think we should

go back to the gold standard because paper you know uh money is a scheme by the jews or something yeah right okay so the jews don't traffic in gold that seems odd for you know what i've always heard these people say about the jews figured they'd be all over that so he was doing to making this noise and then also it flooded in kentucky yeah i was there fucking suck by the way i meant well look I mean, I was fine. Don't get me wrong. But it didn't hit. Yeah, it was, it sucked.

So then you see the wing nuts said that going on with their weather machine bullshit that we go to in a second. And now Musk is basically trying to stage manage a crossover event between the John Birchers society stuff that Rand Paul's up to and the wing nut faction talking about the weather machines. And he's saying that Fort Knox needs to be audited because maybe the gold absolutely isn't there anymore. Let me quote, Musk tweeted, quote, who is confirming that gold wasn't stolen for Fort Knox? Maybe it's there. Maybe it's not. Which I'm not sure if they know that gold's heavy. Maybe somebody took it.

I don't know, but I know that it seems fine. Nothing's happened. Right. If all the gold got stolen in 1998, like what the fuck? What happened? I don't know. So. That is a good point.

If it's just been gone the whole time, maybe we didn't even need it because it seems like sort of worked out just fine. Seems like it just proved the Paul's hypothesis. this hypothesis that we need to go back to the gold standard. So this is the kind of memes that float around white wing Twitter yesterday. Okay. Milojoy, who's an influencer who spends most of her time online, like beefing with Ilhan Omar, says all this talk of auditing Fort Docks

and all of a sudden, all that area is completely flooded, if only our conspiracy theorist. Okay. So, and then Candace Taylor, who we talked about a lot when she ran for governor of Georgia a couple years ago, whoever did this is the blood of a seven-year-old child on their hand. So they're accusing... So I thought they fired the whole deep state already. Who got the weather machine?

The deeper state? What the fuck are we talking about? Still the Jews, I think. Actually, his name's Shlomo Goldberg. Actually, he's a fan of the show. Actually, I called them on Saturday because I had shows that night in Kentucky where it was raining. And I said, if you don't mind, you turn down the flood machine for just long enough for me to do my shows and you could turn it back up. And he was like, of course.

And so he did. And so I appreciate shout out Shlomo doing good work over there with the, uh, you know, the big, the big liberal hurricane weather generator that we've been working on. But yeah, no, you're right. It's like who, but they're going to keep doing this where it's like, y'all are in now. You've, you've cleared it all out, haven't you? Isn't that the narrative?

So anytime something like this happens, it's like you can't just keep saying, oh, that's interesting. Wonder who's behind this. It's like you fucking fired them all. They're all gone. You are the deep, you're the deep state now. Like, yeah. So it's you.

if the deep state is doing something that means it's you because you're the deep state now right i mean i can't i don't get it can have it both ways if you want to be comfort about stupid these people are like like so my question of them is if you have a machine that controls the weather why do you need to oceans 11 fort knox you don't need gold right you've you're your past needing money for power now you control the fucking weather i don't understand i yeah so uh i want to talk about some other phone money stuff it happened right now so Javier Malay uh the president of argentina who's uh super popular among the trump right do you know how much you know about him tray i mean i knew that they had a wild son of a bitch down there that got elected in their most recent

elections because i remember we talked about it because of how you know it's alarming when lunatics around the world get elected after you know following our obsession with trump but i can't remember the specifics of what he all what all he actually did though well his sister is his first lady uh he has five concurrent clones of his dead dog um that he named the same thing uh he used to be a libertarian economics professor who uh who wants to legalize the sale of human organs uh like you sell you can sell your the idea is that you can sell you why interfere with a free market if a person wants to sell their own organs but i imagine the next step to that is some enterprising entrepreneur is Like, what if I sold other people's organs?

Yeah, well, if I harvested organs? That sounds fun, too. Yeah, right. So what if we legalize waking up in a bathtub with no kidneys, basically? A utopia that capitalism is long promised, right there. Yes. Get ahead by selling yours and others kidneys. Yeah, so he's got the kind of ideas that a lot of people in Trump world want a copy.

He's always party at Mar-a-Lago. I think he was at Trump's inauguration. So right now, he's in a bit of political trouble because he launched a meme coin called Libra. There were immediately over $280 million disappeared from 75,000 individual traders. So hot right now, these maim coins. Yeah. So people are calling for his impeachment, maybe jailing over fraud. Other countries still put the president in prison.

It must be nice. So it's not clear where the money went. He says that he was just the face of the meme coin, like the Hawk to a girl of Argentina, basically. Right. The good news here is, let me quote here, a few Argentines were financially affected by the coins crash. with the country's fintech chambers saying analysis of ex post suggested most Libre buyers reading the United States and Asia. So he just plainly fucked Americans with this. So good for him because these are probably huge, you know, these are the kind of people who deserve to be taken to these scams because they're trying to participate in these scams.

So the plot twist here, the connection to American politics other than Trump War 11, Malabier, is the guy who orchestrated this, his name's Hayden Davis. And he was also behind the launch of Melania Trump's mean coin, which, you know, immediately sorted $2 billion in market cap, but then crashed 90% immediately. throw up this picture of Hayden he did an interview with the same guy we played a clip from a day it looks like a space virgin

what the fuck do you describe this look that's perfect I can't do better than that space version is perfect so yeah these are people at the levers of power man this is who the whole world

has been controlled by now is these guys various types of you know the me have inherited the earth and it's well yeah in one form anyway I don't know where he's from. His accent sounded.

I would guess he's either Canadian or American, but yeah. So I was in an interview he did with Coffey Zilla, who's the same crypto influencer who he played a clip from where he interviewed somebody with a Hawk to a mean going crash. And like he said he confessed like seven different securities violations. So he'll be under a jail at about 15 minutes if America does laws applicable to rich people, which we don't. But speaking of which. Right.

Yeah. Go ahead. let's talk about Eric Adams Eric Adams cannot take a pinch dog he's not a stand-up guy he will not do his time standing up he's standing on his head he like do not do crimes with Eric Adams because he will not stand up

under questioning that's what we learned so the mayor of America's largest city who's basically got dead to rights for taking brass a couple different foreign governments and Toronto administrations decided to leave him in office and use the threat of charges to blackmailing him into carrying out their agenda

mostly dealing with immigration so far and they did it all out in the fucking open, okay? Yeah. This is the kind of scandal. This is like, this is exactly what Nixon got forced out for except 10 times worse. So. Yeah.

I remember us covering the stuff when it broke with him, the scant, when the charges came out and all this stuff, it's like, oh, that's not good. And then, yeah, the fact that it just seems to be, the clip we're going to show in a minute,

it to me is one of the wilder clips we've shown in a minute. I mean, I know everything's wild now. This is truly something else because it's just like, like you said, there's dupe and there's very openly blackmailing or bribing or however you want to put it, the mayor of New York City to do their bidding or they'll,

you know, throw them in jail. And it's like they're just, everybody just knows it. They're just doing it in the broad daylight. And it's just, it's wild. Yeah.

So we'll play this clip in a second. But I want to mention like, the New York Times reported that acting deputy AG, Emilbo coached Mayor Adams' attorneys on what to argue in their filings in order to get the charges dismissed. They told him what to say, which is basically that the prosecution was a political prosecution by the Biden administration because he was complaining too much about immigrants, which is what Trump said basically the same thing the DOJ was doing to him. So basically don't to use Trumpy language if you wanted to get the charges dropped. And that all led to none of their documents they filed to get the charges dropped to even pretend that he didn't do it. none of them say he didn't do it

because they want to you don't want to say he didn't do it because they want to have the anvil hanging over his head that they can refile if he doesn't do exactly what they want and that led to this appearance that Trey mentioned on Fox and Friends in the morning or whatever they're dumb shit, yeah Fox and Friends with Trump's borders are

Tom Homan where Eric Adams is basically sitting on his lap being his ventralica's dummy except he's not talking right if he doesn't come through if he doesn't come through I'll be back in York City and we won't be sitting on the couch and be in his office

up his butt saying where the hell is an agreement we came to so I don't know too. So pathetic, dude. He's just sitting there right sitting there on the couch

with the mayor being like if he doesn't do what I say, I'll come back and I'll put my foot in his ass until he does what I told him to do and he's just sitting there like chuckling the whole time. It's like absolutely shameless.

I would rather go to I know, me too. I would rather go to jail than do this. I know, I agree. I could not. handled having to go through something like that publicly. I really really couldn't like it's

it's gross it's so gross thing that drives me crazy about I mean a lot of things drive me crazy about this kind of stuff but like Trump people can't just do something shitty they feel morally obligated to rub your face in it is immorily obligated a thing I don't fucking know it should be immorily

obligated because that does describe them perfectly you're right it's like yeah they can't just it's from the top down They can't just take a win or whatever. They've got to be real shitty about it the whole way. They're sore winners and losers. They're just sore about everything all the time. The deal is basically to deputizing W.

PD to have manpower to do immigration enforcement. And what, like, you sent, was it the Dallas PDs announced we're going to refuse to do this? You sent it to me yesterday, right? Yeah, Dallas PD is, yeah, not going to cooperate with ICE or whatever. And I was like, well, of course, because one, cities. typically, NYPDs is on thing because it has the budget, a budget bigger than most foreign countries' militaries. But, like, most police departments don't have the resources to focus on immigration enforcement.

Plus, it's a bad idea because you can't police communities where no one will talk to you or call 911 or, you know, or be a witness in criminal trials. So, like, it's self-sabotaging their mission besides the fact that local business owners who employ a bunch of immigrants are going to be calling to scream with the mayor and the police chief when you start taking their kidnapping their employees. Right. So they also want, like, open. ice office on Riker on Rikers Island or something,

sit to, I'm going to make a glad path to deport people that get arrested for, you know, loitering in public or whatever. So, to refresh people, because we talked about it when it happened, what the charges actually were. He was indicted by a federal grand jury in September on one count of bribery and four counts of campaign finance fraud and charges he

gave favorable treatment to campaign donors connected to the Turkish government. Basically, he took free flights on Istanbul Airlines to let the Turkish government get around New York City fire codes or something. And he also took a bunch of straw donor donations from foreign nationals

which was illegal in order to get matching funds in the city of New York. So he's basically did paperwork crimes to steal millions of dollars from New York City taxpayers. Okay. And he did that like, was it, what was the funniest example? He flew through Istanbul on Turkish Airlines to connect

to go to South America. Yeah, I remember that because at the time we were like, again, similar to what we said earlier, it's like, I'd rather just pay the fucking regular ticket to get that then do that fly halfway across the world to get back in this direction just because it was free and i was you know i was getting it as part of some uh political scheme i'd cooked up it's like i'd literally just rather not even do that right then jeopardize myself in exchange for something like that like you're risking federal prison to spend 18 extra hours

on the flight right why i know it's crazy i don't know so after this he did a live stream he wanted to a press Congress, because I want to talk to anybody, but he did a live stream where he basically gloated about getting off. And he quoted the Bible, specifically Psalms 34-1. I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. Bro, a gun should be in your mouth. This man, I don't hate to sound like a fucking samurai, but this man has no honor. Right, clearly. Bring back Sepaku. I like, like, like, think about the late, like, for you doing the crime, you get caught for it, you refuse to resign, you stay in office,

and you sell your own constituents. You already. robbed in order to fuck them over harder for shit they didn't vote for. They did not elect a mega guy mayor for a reason. And it's like backstabbing all the way through. I expect self-serving and self-dealing the politics. The system's kind of premised upon people being greedy and ambitious. Yeah. Part of the problem now is that Congress isn't ambitious enough, right? Right. They're not standing up for themselves. So like, but like, you're not supposed to be greedy and ambitious this way. You're supposed to be greedy and ambitious in fighting for your constituents and standing up to higher powers, right? This is the opposite.

of, this is the opposite kind of ambition and greed he's supposed to have. He's supposed to be wanting to run for president as Democrat, not converting to being a Republican so he can stay out of prison, okay? Why does it seem like that doesn't ever happen in the other direction, by the way? I mean, there's maybe, maybe there's, well, I mean, I, I'm sure they would claim that people like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinsinger and whatever did that, but from my perspective, all they did was just be sane about treason and stuff. But you know what I mean?

Like, we always, we always have Democrat fucking. mansion and cinema and fucking Fatterman and this dude and it's like it's just what I don't know I guess because being corrupt is sort of inherently Republican or whatever and getting into politics makes you corrupt

like you were saying or it attracts corrupt people it's a chicken and egg thing we're going to get to it but there are actual people acting in principle here in the mass resignation that happened and those are principled Republicans right yeah so like the only heroes in this story so far are Republicans

right so so it's a little bit it's all very very weird um so also in the documents they filed to drop the charges uh they leave open the room to refile so again this is just about having a gun to his head they haven't let him off they're being like you do what we want we're going to put you back in jail and he's going to keep giving them bullets to put in their gun because there's so much rinky-knit corruption in the adams new york we talked about them like like people connect to his administration like you know taking bribes from bar owners for liquor licenses uh uh uh uh uh uh Some police people had to resign for, like, paying their subordinates extra overtime pay for getting blow jobs. This story happened this week in the quote here of his headline, New York City nonprofit founder indicted for taking millions of kickbacks under city-funded COVID housing program.

This guy named Julio Medina, who's executive director and founder of Exodus Transitional Community, which is a city-funded nonprofit that aids people released from jail. He took $2.5 million in cash kickbacks plus other gifts, including home and luxury car loan payments to funneled tens of millions of public funds to two corrupt business people. A few of those are connected to Adams. Here's a picture, you want to throw it up, Matt. They got it on camera. And if you think New York City corruption looks any different than a guy in a ponytail and an Adidas track jacket sliding a cash,

it's not even in an envelope across the table, you poor sweet supper childs. Yeah, you know, I think sometimes, I mean, I'm kidding. Let me preface this. I wouldn't have done it anyway. But, like, I used to be, you know, I used to work in procurement and contracts for the federal government. And, like, it was beaten into us from the very beginning.

It's like, dude, we couldn't let a prospective vendor or contractor, like, buy lunch and shit like that. You know what I mean? Like, if we went on a, like, you couldn't do nothing. Like, they hammered it into it. It's like, you can't take nothing from them, even the fucking, the appearance of any kind of impropriety. And it's like, now it's like, if I'd just been 10, 15 years younger and if I was doing all this And, like, Trump, I mean, there wouldn't be a government, I guess. I wouldn't have been able to get a job in the first place.

But in the current landscape, it's like I could have boats and all kinds of sweet stuff, you know, because it's just fine. You can just do all that. It's just, it seems to be encouraged. If anything, so I've really missed out. Yeah, if you'd worked in Trump's D.A, you could have taken, like, a bass boat to give a nuclear weapon to, like, I don't know, Dubai or something. So this whole operation was spearheaded by acting. Deputy Attorney General Emil Boe, like I said, there was a picture of this guy, Matt. So it looks like, uh, like this looks like, uh, like this looks like exactly the kind of guy who would do this, looks like, uh, like, he's, it looks like, uh, he's, he's, he looks like exactly the kind of guy who's, um, how old do you think this guy is, Trey?

Um, 52. He's like, he's, he was born at 81 or 82, so he's like 42, 40, 4, 4, 4th, 4th, oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. He was, he was Trump's personal attorney representing him through a lot of, like, his Mueller stuff. And I guess now he still is Trump's personal attorney, so he works with DOJ. And after a bunch of people resigned who will get to, he assembled the few people left in the GOJ's public corruption prosecutor's office and gave them an hour to find someone who would sign the Derek Adams dismissal. It basically put him in the room to do a prisoner's dilemma, which is not how you do a prisoner's dilemma. You're supposed to have them in separate rooms, but whatever. It's like a key component of it, I thought. Right.

So they found one guy to do it. His reasoning was that he's about to retire anyway, so his honor doesn't matter anymore. and therefore, like, he'd give them time to find other jobs. Now, these are people that work, all they got to do is make two phone calls and we work in a white shoe law firm in like a week and a half. It's not going to be hard for these people to find a job, especially with all the litigation that's going to be happening, where people need to sue the federal government over contracts being canceled.

These people are going to be making bank, dude. You do not need to protect them. And also, like, I was reading, like, this piece about how people end up being fascist and up being Nazis. And one of the way you do it is be rationalized. I'm actually protecting a larger amount of people by throwing this smaller group of people under a bus. And so what he did was through the citizens of New York under a bus

and all the immigrants who live in New York under a bus to save a couple weeks of employment for people that are planning to leave anyway. And you don't need to do that, man. Right. So this dude ratione now was basically like, if one of us doesn't do this shady thing, we all going to be fired. I'm already leaving, so my career is basically already over.

These colleagues of mine, they're not in that situation. Either we all get fired or if I do it, it'll save them, and that's why I did it. Right. Right. Yeah. So the guy I represent Adams, the lawyer, his name's Alex Spiro, who's a fascinating character. He's the same lawyer who represents Elon Musk in a bunch of stuff if you want to be conspiratorial about it. But Spiro also represents Jay-Z, Mr. Beast, Alex.

ball when Aaron Hernandez, he represented him in his murder trial, and Robert Kraft. So basically, he represents how rich people engaged in a variety of enterprises. In Elon's case, securities fraud and calling a cave diver a pedophile. And Aaron Hernandez's case, murder. And Robert Kraft's case, getting a hand job. Yeah. All over the place. Yeah.

Varied results, too, there. You know what I mean? Like, yeah. Varied results, but he had a great, he got, he only got Eric Adams off last week, but Jay Z, he was representing Jay Z and his sexual assault. civil suit and that case got dropped. So he basically, Spiro basically won the week. Dude,

he also represented 21 Savage in his immigration case. And as a DA in Manhattan, he prosecuted the dating game serial killer. So I'm like, I want to watch the Alex Spiro biopic. He's only like his early forward. He's like basically OJ's legal team all rolled into one. These high-powered lawyers like that

are wild because it seems like a lot of the ones at the top. It's always like this. Like I did a corporate gig at a Lawyers convention last year. And And the guy they were honoring as, like, lawyer of the year, whatever, was, I don't know if currently, but either had very recently been or was literally at the time, he was both Hunter Biden and I think Matt Gates's attorney at the same time. And it wrapped all, and it wrapped like Bill Clinton in the past and all these other people too. And it's like, you know, once you get into like a position where you become a go-to in these situations and your phone starts ringing for that, then you just rack them up, dude, over and over. over and over again.

It's wild how that works. Yeah, Spiro charges $2,025 an hour that's where he bills, and the 25 just made me laugh. Yeah. Just get lunch on us, Alex. So, so talk about the resignations for a minute.

Last time I counted, seven people resigned after refusing to, you know, file these documents, letting Alex, letting Eric Adams off. The first one was, she was the acting head of the Southern District of New York, names Danielle R. Sassoon.

And then the next two were Kevin O'Driskel and John Keller. They basically kind of wrapping succession to Thursday afternoon and they all just refused to fucking do this shit. Sassoon is a committed movement conservative. Like, she was appointed by Donald Trump to be acting U.S. acting a U.S. attorney for the Southern District just a couple weeks ago, just when Trump took office. Right, which is, that's like a, that's like the.

gig, isn't it, in this ecosystem? Yeah. SD&Y is like the major leagues of being U.S. attorney because it's where you prosecute all the, yeah, because it has Manhattan, so basically every financial malfeasance case is going to end up on their, on their desk.

So, Sassoon said, she wrote that the mayor's lawyers that, quote, repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo, indicating that Adams would be in a position to assist with the department's enforcement. priorities only if the indictment were dismissed. She,

if you throw up this footnote here from this legal brief, she says that they had a meeting to talk about dropping the charges and quote, Mr. Boe admonished a member of my team who took notes during that meeting and directed the collection of those notes at the meeting's conclusion. What does that remind you of?

The stringer bell meme. Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy? Yes, exactly. But they did a lot of that. Trump, they've learned, at least, to get rid of the notes. So, like I said, she joined the Southern District. She got promoted by Trump, but she's been in the Southern District since 2016. She's a graduate of Harvard in Yale.

She clerked for Antonin Scalia as a member of the Federal Society. She's not some lib, okay? The, I'd tell you to three people, the fourth person resigned rather than do this, wasn't in the office that day. They were in the hospital giving birth. And they called a reporter in the middle of labor. To tell them, just so you know, I'm not in today, so I can't do it, but I'm fucking resigning too. Fuck this shit.

The next guy to quit, his name was Hagen Scotton, okay? And if you're going to want your kid to become a conservative attorney through nominative deterrentism, name them something like Hagen Scotton, you'll definitely wear a bowtie and be in court arguing that actually the federalist papers mean that women can't have driver's license. driver's licenses, but they do have principles or just not ours, okay? So he wrote this scaling fucking resignation letter to, I think it was,

I forget it to the judge or to Emil Bove, but it said, it ended with, I expect you will eventually find someone who was enough of a fool or enough of a coward to file your emotion,

but it was never going to be me. Bars, dude. Yeah. See, this, this happened a lot last time, too, where it's like, hey, I don't know

where they keep finding people, period. Them being the Trump administration, it's like they just run through, because anybody with any shred of integrity or principles or anything, they quit, they leave eventually, or they get run off for having them. And it's like, that's alarming because the only thing that's left is team crazy, which is part of their whole plan this time to begin with anyway. But it's like, at a certain point, when do they, like, run out of people? I don't know.

It's just wild how they've got to be pretty deep into the bench already. I would think with a lot of these things. And it's like, Who's going to work there? Right. This reason they're using five Doge kids to do the digital part of the coup is because they can't, they don't have anybody else to fuck. They trust they can hire.

Right. So like, talk about like Hagan Scott and like if they care about anything, how they're shooting and cells in the foot. Let me read your resume real quick. He had the, he graduated the top of his class in Harvard Law. He got two bronze stars fighting in the global war on terror, I think in the Marines. He's a law clerk for both Chief Justice John Roberts and then D.C. Circuit Court.

D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh. He's the kind of guy in olden times they'd be grooming to run for president. Right. Yeah. Not anymore. So, think about but it was never going to be me, all right? We're not going to spend a lot of time

talking about, like, Democrats here outside of Kathy Hockle and maybe Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. But, like, this, those are continuing to have this argument internally about whether the problem is messaging versus policies, but the problem is both are expressed, but both express weakness, right? Like, they do milk, milk toe shit sold with the vibe of a Cialis ad. Meanwhile, these movement conservative lawyers are writing resignation letters

that sound like the same Christmas Day speech. Um, because they care about stuff. I can't figure it up. Um, I know. I don't, it's, it just feels like another version of the problem that they've had every step of the way for so long whereas it's like how is this the best foot that you're putting forward you know what I mean like at what

I don't know it's like because I'm like we're talking about it's not like part it's not that Democrats aren't fighting back or not saying shit it's that it's not breaking through because not picking actual conflicts either there's no legislative conflicts to pick right now because they're not trying to pass any laws

and they that they didn't have the votes to stop any appointments but like here's a fight you could pick is by Kathy Hockel has the authority on the Constitution of New York to remove him as mayor and make her case why she has not done it yet she had a meeting with Al Sharpton today

where she basically tried to get Al Sharpton's permission to fire Mayor. I don't understand power in this country at all so Al Sharpton who spent Sunday night at the S&L 50th anniversary taping is now the guy who has to bless the firing of the mayor of New York. So,

uh, uh, uh, uh, Sharpton said, because the judge hasn't approved dismissing the charges yet. He says, basically says they're awaiting the,

that decision. The hearing's supposed to happen tomorrow, I think. But I don't understand what waiting does because either he does let them dismiss the charges and he's, the mayor gets off with it under crooked circumstances, or he doesn't dismiss the indictment, in which case the mayor of New York is still indicted for corruption.

Both are bad. Which outcome, means you want to fire him. Like, if he remains indicted, you leave him in power? Right. Right. So I, make it make sense,

Trey. She's already backtracking, but at a press conference last week, she said she would not use her power to remove the mayor. Now, not to be all hypocritic here, we shit all over Ron DeSantis for moving public, removing public officials using the same power in Florida. but he did it for corrupt purposes. Right. What you're doing,

why you're doing something matters is important. Yes, of course. Context fucking matters. Right. So the idea that like, well, we made fun of Ron and Sanchez for doing it is what we can't do it.

It's like, no, you're supposed to remove corrupt people. You're not supposed to remove people for being elected by voters you disagree with. Right. It's also like another version of it

that's been happening lately is like, I've seen a lot of people in concerns me like, oh, oh, now Democrats care about egg prices and stuff. that and it's like no the point is we're making fun of you for not you know what I

mean it's like we're it's we're making fun of the shit that you did and how disingenuous it was and trying to shove it in your face that you're too stupid to get that so you think that it's like you know it's just that I don't yeah context matters the reason people do things matters you have to think about more than just the action itself or the thing that a person says you have to think about you know the situation in which they say or do it but a lot of people don't want to do that. Or they never get that context in the first place, you know, but anyway. Eric Adams made a handshake deal to ship a bunch of New Yorkers to Gitmo in exchange for his own freedom.

And you're like, well, what are you going to do? Right. You don't have the power to do something about it, right? Let me read a quote here. Is my hope that after, you know, this issue, that there's more attention now back on the minutia of running the city. She's agreeing with Trump's take, the now Mayor Adams, without the distraction of being prosecuted. for his brazen corruption, could focus on his job.

She said that Adams should be doubling down and regaining New Yorkers' trust. Double down and regaining their trust after selling him out the first, second time, after being caught, selling him out the first time. Okay. These politicians,

I'm talking about the feckless wing of the Democratic Party that somehow finds itself always in leadership. Right, right. Yeah. But keep telling themselves that being lazy and cowardly is always the politically savvy move.

I don't understand how they get there And out Adams wants revenge on the city For hating him, you fucking moron He is the he has the approval rating of scabies Right There's a She's also throwing her own career Under the bus for this shit

Here's a protest in front of C Hall in New York yesterday Look at this drawing of Hockel That are your constituents Are walking around with This is like an incompetent or mean courtroom sketch of Corella DeVille Yeah, they've been kind of bringing it With some of those protest signs

That I've seen lately I mean, I guess it's confirmation bias. The ones that I see on the internet are the ones that, you know, people have hit with. But I've seen a lot of good, uh, yeah. So somebody made, uh, they took Elon and JD and Trump and put those little like musketeer hats on and said the three, uh, musk, like Elon Musketeers, all for them, none for all. That was pretty good. They put, uh, they taped a Hitler mustache over Trump's face, not the most original, but, you know. I'm just saying a lot of people

have been working on these protest signs doing good stuff. Yeah, people are protesting cyber truck Tesla dealerships which is probably the most effective thing you can do right now because who's in next thing in charge of shit. So,

the fact list is the Democratic leadership. Chuck Schumer and Hakeemorty's, the Senate minority leader and the House minority leader just also happened to be from New York City. And they haven't said shit about Eric Adams needing to resign. The last I checked anyway,

which had been four days. AOC has a bunch of other city officials have because he can't fucking govern. Four deputy mayors resign trying to put pressure on Kathy Hochland to remove him because he can't run the city. Schumer and Jeffrey's being a part of the same corrupt New York City political machine

that created Eric Adams is a problem. And the fact they won't even like, it's popular among your own constituents to say fuck Eric Adams. They won't do it because they'd rather go to the same parties as him again. I know, I mean, is that what it is, though?

I mean, is that, because that's what I don't really get is like, what's the upside of doing this? Is it just like some kind of Democrat version of a thin blue line thing or something? Because it's funny, it's funny for them to have that now when like, when it's just open corruption or whatever. Because I feel like, you know, before, I don't know, I mean, I guess it was happening. I don't know. I don't feel like that's always happened. You know what I mean? So let me tell you what happens if Adam's resigned or is removed.

Okay. If he's removed, New York City's public advocate, a guy named Jumain Williams, who become the acting mayor. He's a self-described Democratic Socialist. In 2018, Williams challenged to come with Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hockel and a Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor. He ran a platform of anti-corruption, affordable housing, and criminal justice reform. Does any of his platform sound like anything that would hit for Hockel, Jeffries, or Schumer? Schumer, no.

No. That, oh, my God. It's so frustrated that that's what the answer is. It's like there's an actual progressive who, would end up taking this guy's place and they'd rather just see it all burn and help Trump out than let that happen. What if people like it? What do people like it? Yeah. Yeah, right. So, like it. Also, the fact he ran a primary campaign against Hokel when she's lieutenant governor is it's pretty telling me. If you don't think these people would let New York City burn out

of a personal grudge against the guy who dared to challenge them an election, then you don't understand these people at all. Yeah. So, and if you, comparing their messages about this shit, Kathy Hoke was like, well, maybe this is a chance to regain their trust versus Hagen Scott and being like, I want to fucking see you and, like, which one is a more compelling message to rouse people to follow you? I will see you in hell versus, I will see you in arbitration

provided you find my terms agreeable. No worries, if not. Yeah. No, it's a good, I mean, dude, it's a great point. Like, they're just, I mean, I said that even about, like, Trump after his inauguration speech, whatever, so much of what they're, like, it's making us lose sleep at night, but they're fucking crushing for their people though for my like you know for my and that's wild

as hell to me but they are they're like they've got them riled up in a good way like they're fucking on board and it's hitting and then look at what's happening look what the resistance looks like it's chuck schumer on the avocado with his fucking reading glasses at the end of his nose or whatever it's you know it's sucks it's like I don't they get that like being brave with his own inspiration. Like it's not so matter of the poll tested wording

of what you say as opposed to like it's just like seeing somebody throw a punch is like hey that's what leadership feels like. So there's a whole thing happening on the internet

where like Bill Crystal the old blog the guy, Neo Conner used to write for the weekly standard who was a big Georgia Bush supporter is like hardcore anti-Trump and I see a bunch of people saying

like always to the left of the Dems now. He's not to the left of the Dems. That's not what he's doing. He just like, say what you will about the tenants of the people who lied to invade Iraq, but at least it's an ethos. He believes in American greatness. He believes in it stupidly in ways that got a lot of people killed, but he does believe in shit. And I'm not sure that Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries really do. And it's real difficult, like, reality to confront, but somebody has to confront because these people need to get the fuck out of the way if they're not going to lead.

Because, like, it's not just immigration that, that, like, obviously, the first thing that Eric Adams is going to betray New York on, and that seems to be the thing people care about the least for whatever fucking inhumane reason. But, like, let me quote here from the story about abortion politics. New York on Thursday rejected requests from Louisiana to extradite a doctor who was charged with prescribing abortion pills to a pregnant minor in the deep south state, setting up a potential test of laws to protect physicians who prescribe such medications with state bans. Kathy Hokel said she will not honor Louisiana's request to arrest and send the doctor to Louisiana after she was charged with violated in the state's anti-abortion law. She sent a notice of law enforcement in New York, they instructed them not to cooperate with out-of-state warrants for such charges. Okay, Kathy, right now you have the doctor in New York. What do you do if Eric Adams obeys a DOG day command to have NYPD put this lady on a fucking private flight to a black site in Austin?

and you lose custody of her what van kathy right you know what i'm saying like like is this a this is a new york doctor who gave these drugs to a louisiana pregnant teenager until the male through the right yeah damn dude that's freaky um mm-hmm that that doing that under the assumption that they're in new york and new york won't play that louisiana bullshit but if he's under the thumb of, you know. I said, Baton Rouge, sorry, I was thinking Texas. But, yeah.

Baton Rouge, but yeah. Yeah, that's, I mean, that's a good. If they certainly do extraordinary rendition flights from blue states after like co-opted. Because like, like, so dropping legit charges in exchange for cooperation is one, one element of this. But what happens we start dumbing out fake prosecutions? Yeah, right. Of equally cowardly, big city mayor.

Because like, another lady of DOJ designed for. today because she said she was asked to open a corrupt investigation with no evidence. So that's the next part of this plan to start. Man, it really does just keep getting dumber and worse every each and every, each and every week, day, hour, minute even. And they really are banking upon, like, they're not being an equally, like, I saw, I saw a guy he say, like, I'm basically a new deal liberal, but now I'm convinced we need of Vladimir Lenin.

Right. So when a populist left-winger takes control and uses the DOJ for equally corrupt means to go after like Musk and Trump, is there anybody who's going to actually be principled enough to say we ought not do that? Because I don't give a shit anymore. I'm about saying it won't be me if that happened. I had a hard time seeing that in this version of America ever coming to pass. But if it did, I mean, I'll probably be popping bottles, to be honest with you. Right.

So there's nothing like, there's Eric Adams was, even at this, even with this, even with, Without the indictments and stuff, already would have probably been the worst mayor in New York history. You're talking about a guy who was, like, closing the libraries to get to, to, add, so to hire new cops, so New York City doesn't need them. Like, I run like, like, all the, he ran on ending solitary confinement, Rikers, and then amped it up. He just basically lied to win an election, Mr. Representative, who was. He was a career Republican and cop. He pretended to be a social justice advocate to win the mayor, mayor, mayor's ice by, like, a small plurality. And, like, so I mentioned, like, Nixon earlier, what all the shit Nixon did, he was eventually forced out for firing the head of the top three lawyers, the DOJ, after refused to fire a special prosecutor who wouldn't drop a subpoena for the, well, uh, uh, Oval Office tapes and Nixon where it had said all the crooked anti-Semitic shit on, right?

and the basic principle here and they like they're refusing to fight over USA aid even though it's a violation of the Constitution and stuff Andrew Johnson was impeached over some like violating some patientage rules with hiring practices

in like I forget what federal department people made principal arguments of why he ought not be allowed to do that but it wasn't about violating the patronage rules he was trying to trying to put people in place who would sabotage reconstruction. Right.

This stuff always sounds corny and rules-based when you describe it in the abstract. Right. But when you talk about it and what he's literally trying to do, Nixon was trying to assume dictatorial powers for himself by taking political control of the DOJ, right? That's what Trump is doing. Right. He's basically conquered New York City by ratituing the mayor to be mean to immigrants. right but when Nixon did all that though is like it was still even with as crazy as everything was and as crazy as Nixon was and all kinds of all the bad shit that had happened in the state of the country and how racist so many things to wear and all kinds of that shit it still was like when that when all that came out it was you know a death nail for Nixon eventually you know what I mean like you couldn't you couldn't survive that it's like with Trump how many things has he already survived you know

And he's getting it. Every single one is emboldened him further. And it's like now they just do the Nixon shit, like we said earlier at the top of the show, just in broad daylight in front of everybody and dare anybody to do anything about it, you know? And the guy worked for Nixon left and started Fox News to make sure they have alternate news source to make sure there'd never be plugged pressure to make him president resign over shit like this ever again. And it seems like it's worked. Like a charm. Yeah. So, but this is like, I hate being corny about this stuff.

But, like, well, one, the founders fucked up because the founders did not like political parties. They thought there would not be political parties. Right. They thought Congress and the executive branch would stand up for their own power. And maybe they will because, like, those DOG lawyers resigning with the, the, the, the, the, all those people who clerk for the Supreme Court, their audience for that is threefold. It's the public, right, to make clear there's an emergency, some crooked shit's going on. It's trying to give Democrats politically ammunition that they're not using to push back against this shit. And it's also the Supreme Court.

court their former friends and bosses to be like look what you did yeah i saw an interview with the new yorker with one of the maybe the head of the ACLU uh the logger over there that's like in charge and he was saying that he was and i don't share this but also i don't know i'm law dumb and he's not obviously that he was still somewhat optimistic about the uh judicial future of some of these cases and the lawsuits and stuff and they brought up like what even with this compromised supreme court and his whole thing was like, look, Clarence Thomas, sure, he's a complete ideal log or whatever, but even some of the other conservatives, like, basically that they care enough about their own position of power and what they are supposed to do and represent to just give it all up,

even for the guy who, you know, whose ring they kiss all the time. You know, it's like, in their heads, they're like, no, we, we have real power at the Supreme Court, you know, it's like, I don't care if he's the president. that their egos alone and where they position themselves mentally and the hierarchy of everything would end up being a buffer against them just making Trump a king essentially

was the argument I was trying to make you know and they did the way they wrote their like well the decision made Trump above the law it's like well sort of which says that like if it's for a public purpose instead of a private purpose however they phrase it but that's it has to be interpreted every time right but yeah the ultimate power still rest

with them to whether or not the president can be prosecuted. It's not the president can't be prosecuted. Okay. But like, so I'd much rather have a Democrat in office that we can shit on for not being progressive enough for a lot of reasons. But like, like, I hate being corny and, and cringy, but like norms are cringe, but they're also good. Yeah.

Like, I don't like say that. Like, like, it's like, the hard part of the norms conversation is like when Democrats were in the majority during Biden administration, I'm like, well, we can't get rid of the filibuster because we're going to want these minoritarian rules in place when we're in the minority and then now they're in the minority and they're not really using them that much right like I can't I don't understand

what they didn't do like a hundred hours of talking filibusters to keep RFK from taking control of healthy human services right it's pretty frustrating he would have gotten there eventually as long as Republicans pushed through but Ted Cruz once read green eggs and ham for like 24 straight hours on the floor to stop Obama from like spending

20 bucks on school lunch or something so I don't yeah Um, so, look, so I don't want to be cringe. And politicians are supposed to be the cringe ones so we can make fun of them. But they're not being cringy enough. They're not talking about public integrity and the public, in the public people's trust. They're not doing it. So why are they making me do it?

Right. Uh, so it's like, like contrary to public opinion, people are talking about whether or not we have free and fair elections in, uh, in, uh, in 2028 and 26 or whatever. But like, that's not even really the point of all this stuff. Like civil society comes before free and fair elections. We're really talking about an environment, but we're going to have free and maybe looks like we're going to have some form of free and fair elections without any sort of civil society. That's basically where we're headed, which is upside down.

I remember back when they were trying to set up the government in Iraq and I was reading some experts who work in that field doing that kind of thing. And like the Bush administration, they were saying the Bush administration was going too fast because you have to establish civic trust before people, you have to trust. opposition to not murder you when they take power before the elections have any sort of meaning you got to do stuff like trash collection and a judicial system before you can really even think about having like a parliamentary election we just skipped all that to fucking be like wipe right her hands of it and be like okay we did it we're done democracy

and like we're just it's completely like it's weird man and like Kathy Hockel uh I know you're watching. It's fucking fire this motherfucker and make a point of saying why because it's crooked and Trump administration's corrupt and they're persecuted the citizens of New York by taking, seizing control of their mayor's office in a

fucking Department of Justice coup because that's what's happening and somebody needs to make it clear. Yeah. But any of you skewers out there have the governor of New York's ear, which you clip that out and send it to her. Although you're right, she's surely watching anyway. Before we go, I do want to congratulate Elon Musk on surprise dropping a five-month-old baby

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