Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 10/24/23 – Litmus Test for ‘24

Episode Date: October 25, 2023

Tonight Smart Mark returns and, after a check-in on the continuing idiocy that is the House GOP’s search for a Speaker, as well as some other fun tidbits, we then take a look at the few elections happening this November, e.g. the KY gubernatorial race, the Ohio abortion measure, etc., and how the outcomes thereof could shape the larger elections in 2024. Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it is october 24th twenty-three i'm trey crouter and look who's back everybody mark a g how you doing mark doing all right bud i know you mentioned a death in the family my uh oldest nephew uh 18 years old he died last sunday he had uh must your dystrophy he wasn't destined for a long life He had a version of muscular dystrophy that has a, you know, not a long lifespan, but still was unexpected. Yeah, that's rough. He's a good kid. His mom did a heroic job, given the best life possible.

And now he's in a better place, as people have more faith than me say. But either way, he got to spend his last date a pumpkin patch with his cousins and his favorite aunt. So better way to go than what he was, doctor said it would be. So anyway, on the show, I wanted to give a shout out to, Jim Gray, who's a frequent skewer, who's a former chief of the Osage Nation. He's one of the people that was involved in, you know, Martin Scorsese's got a new movie

The Killers of a Flower Moon. They consulted a bunch of Native Osage people about what went down in the reign of terror that the movie's about. And he had a piece in the New York Times with David Grand, who wrote the book, talking about how they can't even teach it in Oklahoma schools.

It's not taught anyway. So if you want to get some Oklahoma history, go see the new Martin Scorsesee movie. and that's wild oh i mean i guess it's not wild it's you know it's a shame i'm not wild that is because you know can't like that is altogether surprising i wonder do you know if that's like because that deals with native issues i could see that being a longstanding thing or is that a more recent you know how the attack on public schools can't teach kids nothing you know critical race theory like is it fallout from all that or they just been doing this for forever in

Oklahoma forever I mean like in his piece to talk about a woman who was a contemporary wrote about her experiences during the rain of terror and like her writings about it just disappear from the library but it's about the same time as a Tulsa race massacre um and just like a bunch of you know after the end of reconstruction a lot of like white supremacy should have happened that we just sort of yada yada it away as a country and that don't hit a couple things that made me laugh before we get to the show. Let me read to this headline. The White House altru state dinner plans due to world crises.

The B-52s are no longer performed. So B-52s don't get to play at the White House because of Hamas attacking Israel. That's got to be a pretty big bummer for the B-52s. I bet they were pretty psyched to be doing the White House in 20-23. No, you know, P-Fentic-2s are great. They're rad, but, you know, I don't even know if they were still together. tour and let alone do in the White House. It sucks that all the staffers have to miss out on, you know,

rock lobster all because of, you know, this bullshit in the Middle East. I don't, did they think it was disrespectful or they were just like, Biden wasn't going to be there because he had other shit to do because of everything that's going on or something? You know how the shit plays that end up being a headline on Fox News, just not where the Jews didn't work to squeeze for me. And like, the White House has a celebration with the B-50s. Right.

other silly stuff the Rangers advanced the World Series last night. I don't usually pay attention to baseball as a Dallas sports fan. The Rangers are deep in the playoffs. How somebody texts my buddies back in Dallas about. But last night, the Astros fans who the Rangers are playing started a petition to keep Ted Cruz from going to game.

Yeah. Yeah. And before you give the context, I just, I saw on Twitter, I saw the response to it. I saw a tweet that said something, it was something like, Ted Cruz issue statement that despite fan-led petition to keep him from coming to the game, he will attend the game tonight. And it cracked me up because I was just like,

I just thought it's just everybody continuing to hate Ted Cruz as much as they do. You know what I mean? I was a jinks. Yeah, right. Yeah, I didn't even know that part until you told me. I thought they were, you know, just, yeah, I wouldn't want Ted Cruz anywhere I'm going to be either. They did when they won before, he like,

was at the parade or something and got shit thrown at him and that type of thing? Like, you remember that? Like, you know, he don't hit for a whole lot of people. And I thought that's all it was. But like you said, no, there's more to it than that. No, even people that don't follow sports. Like he'll, like, he showed it to a lot of Texas sporting events. And like, invariably the team always loses.

He'd be like, go rice. And they lose like a big ball game. Or like, go UT. And they lose a big game. Man, I hate to say this. But like, I, you know, I feel Ted Cruz on that particular thing. I have the worst luck with attending sporting events. It's like, you know, I mean, it's a thing in our text thread that I'm a curse.

So the last game I went to was the Titans Browns game in Cleveland. They got murdered 27 to 3. Anyway, the rate, the, the, uh, Ted Cruz attended four Astros games, this playoffs, and they were 0 and 4 in the game sequence. And now they are eliminated. Yes, O and 4, including the game 7, which kept them out of it. And this won't hit for you at all. Somebody who flies a lot, way more than I do anymore.

I know I just flew a couple days ago. an off-duty pilot tried to I engage a flight he was flying in a jump seat in a cockpit and tried to pull like the the you know fire shutdown you know the what do you call the flame guy why can't think of the name for it

like fire suppression system yeah fire spray we just put a cut fuel to the engines and a flight from Washington State to San Francisco they had to do an emergency landing in Portland and I was like oh because the political thing here is I need everybody to remember here if the airlines want to go down to one pilot per flight.

Right. And they, I mean, I'm kind of, I guess in that respect, I'm almost kind of glad this. Because, you know, the plane didn't crash. They stopped him. Like,

they ended up being fine. But like, you know, there was that big case in Europe a few years ago where that pilot, you know, it was the only pilot. He locked himself in the cockpit and he crashed the plane

because he was suicidal and beyond and he took everybody else with him. And ever since then, they changed the regulations to where no one is ever in the cockpit by themselves. There's never just one pilot in there. And they got this whole thing, like all these procedures now and changed the way the doors work and everything

to prevent that. And I was going to say, this type of thing I'm supposed to happen, but I mean, it didn't happen because they stopped the guy because of that. So you're right. So them wanting to like go back down to one pilot because of cost cutting measures and nobody want to work anymore or whatever. That can fuck right off.

Yeah. All they can stop it is union. So go pilots' union. Stopping's bullshit. But like, anyway, the guys His guy's name is Joseph David Emerson. He's like a 44-year-old father of, like, nothing in his guy's profile still when he would do this. He's currently charged with reckless endangerment of all 83 people who are on board and attempted murder of all 83. But he says he was just on mushrooms. Yeah, man.

A body experience. I mean, I guess you could get so fucked up on mushrooms who are just completely outside your mind and do some shit like that. But it'd be pretty wild. There's an old Bill Hicks bit about this exact type of thing where he's like, he says something. Like in the bid, he's like, you only ever hear in the news, but some guy takes too much acid and, you know, tries to run a school bus off the road or whatever. It's like they never ever talk about the guy who takes acid and he fucking discovers the truth of the universe. We're all atoms experiencing themselves and has a spiritual awakening. You know, this invert Bill Hicksian style.

But, yeah, that's what I thought of when I read this. It's been a while since I heard like a fearmongering drug-related story like this. I feel like they used to happen all the time, like the dude eating faces in Florida and that type of shit. but this is the first one I've heard in a minute. Yeah, I don't really know why this guy did what he did. Obviously, he wasn't in a good mental headspace, one way or the other. But anyway, we need multiple pilots because of one pilot in the cockpit might have lost a fist fight for this dude. All the 83 people will be dead.

So, anyway, support your pilots union. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, let's get into it. Producer Matt is with us, a little bit of a caveat. He's on the road right now. He's also dealing with some stuff, but he's still doing the show tonight.

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Talk about the Ohio abortion measure, a tight governor's race in Kentucky, and more. We'll get to all those a little later. But first, the Daily Dumbass, Matt Graeme. Tonight's D.D., Republican Congresspeople, for not submitting to the leadership of the genius that is Tom Emmer. Seen pair. Last word, obviously. Today's gig economy sprung out from the last recession. It offers

a job to anyone who wants one. During COVID-19, we must make sure that our nation's sole proprietors and the smallest of small businesses. If you're only listening, his head is upside down on the Zoom call. And disembodied, too, by the way.

I think that's a nice part of it, too. It's not just that it's not like an image of him at his desk flipped upside down. It's his disembodied. bodied floating head also flipped upside down. He looks like Zordon from the Power Rangers, you know, without any tech support or whatever. Yeah, and Maxime Waters is like, Tom, you're upside down, you're upside down. He's like, I can't figure, I know, but I can't figure out how to turn it off. I guess this kid was played around a Zoom or something.

But yeah, so Tom Ever won Republican straw poll in the caucus meeting this morning. And then, but without even a floor vote, dropped out four hours later. he's the third one to go down. No one knows what's going to happen next. These morons can't get through shit in order. And remember when Liz Trust was the prime minister of the UK for like a couple weeks? Less time than it took a cabbage to wilt. I believe they had a head of lettuce.

It was Liz versus the lettuce. Yeah. They had a viral thing over there would do was tracking whether this lettuce would survive longer than she did. And it did. And it did. And it did. Anyway, the Republicans are like, they've gotten the timetable down to like a spoon full of mayonnaise and a hot car on a summer day.

So if you want to what their beef with Tom ever was or why he couldn't, like, everyone understands, like, Republicans can't even accept the results of their own legitimate elections anymore. Right. Like, the whole, the whole reason you have this vote is everyone nominates their candidate, you get the one who gets the most votes, you go to the floor and all vote for. You've got to, you've got to consent to the binding of, anyway. So, Emmer did cast doubt in the 2020 election, but ultimately voted to certify Biden's victory, which is his problem with both Trump and the people that are Trump fanatics.

But, like, he's not, like, sane. He's from Minnesota, if you're wondering. I think he represents the Minnesota 6th and something like that. Like, he opposed legislation that was aimed to curb school bullying. Like, he's pro-school bullying. He's not crazy enough for these fuckers. These kids are soft today, Mark. You got to toughen them up somehow.

he made an internet video where he said wanted to fire Nancy Pelosi where he was firing a machine gun. I guess the idea was he was going to shoot Nancy Pelosi. He's pro-cryptocurrency and kind of pro-drunk driving. And he's like he literally like, I mean, if I want to be fair to his position, he thinks they shouldn't take your driver's license away

just for refusing a sobriety test. Like you proposed legislation. But like, you know, anyway, I'm not going to get in the weeds of like libertarian stuff of whether or not you should be able to lose your driver's license without a conviction first. but like so this is such a messy so messy yesterday a reporter asked representative jack burp and do you have a path forward tomorrow and he said well i have a path to at least get up in the

morning and get here so finding their way to the capital is now a victory for republicans in congress yeah man like you know you said it's like ah he's in favor of school bullying and drunk driving he shot a machine gun at nancy pelosi in a video ostensive you know and faked it whatever and he's still not crazy enough for them because he ultimately voted to certify Biden's victory or whatever. And it's like how, you know, it's like with Liz Cheney and Kinsinger or whatever. Liz Cheney, especially, everybody knows fucking arch conservative, like near perfect score on the crazy-ass conservative scale. But, you know, she opposed like sedition and treason and whatnot. And that was pretty much her only sin and she had to go.

And so that's like the purity test now. Like, and I just, I know I brought this up when all this first started a few weeks ago, but I just think it's kind of ironic sort of deliciously so that I feel like for a long time it was like the thing you know you couldn't fuck up on the right almost do you know what I mean and not like they were they'd still back like sexual assault charges whatever and all that is still cool but like it always seemed like liberals were always at each other's throats more than Republicans tended to be more infighting and whatnot and now that's flipped on its head completely that's the level of disarray

they're at they're submitting each other to these purity tests and stuff all the time and calling each other rhinos and stuff for, you know, voting to certify the results of a completely fair election. And that's it. I mean, it's pretty wild. Byron Donald's Republican from Florida. He's in his, he's trying to run for speaker and he was in his first term. Like, you literally just knows where the bathrooms aren't about it. I mean, you know, might as well take a shot at it, like how it's going. Yeah. He went on Fox News and said that like this is happening because Republicans are all independent thinkers where Democrats have like an authoritarian lockstep.

style it's like that is not historically the case at all exactly it's the opposite the old the old quote it's like I'm not a member of any organized political party I'm a Democrat that's usually how this fucking goes right and somehow they in comparison are just in complete lockstep over everything except you know Israel but so but ways we have here is like if you combine like a parliamentary system where a majority legislature could bring down the government at any point with the presidential system where the government would then be in place until next fixed election until a new legislature was elected, which is like currently 16 months away. And like, I don't know if we'll ever, like, I do think the only way, I brought up

before, the only way out of this is for the 18 or 20 Biden district Republicans to just caucus with the Democrats and just get it, get the fuck over with because they're never going to arrive at a solution this way. And we'll get into why a second. But like, so you're wondering what happened to Emma, it was just Trump. Trump called around, got a bunch of people to turn on Emmer. And then he called a person close to him and asked me to a reporter. He's done. It's over. I killed him. And minutes later, Emmer officially announced he was dropping out of the race. Trump had been floating around a dossier, some old apple research on Emmer, talking about emmer's old DUI arrest and his views on normalizing relations with Cuba, which getting DUIs isn't

cool, but normalizing relations with Cuba would be. He also voted to support gay marriage. He was against gay marriage until it became like the law of the land. and he voted for a federal bill for the federal government to recognize legal same-sex marriages, and that was enough to get him in the bad graces of the shit of conservatives.

Trump was in New York today for his fraud trial, civil trial. Michael Cohen was testifying, and he stepped out and called Amher or Rhino, and it was just over instantly. Right.

Over. So he's on trial for fraud. But we'll still do exactly what he wants. If you're wondering what Cohen testified today, they were talking about Trump's efforts to buy the Buffalo bills for a billion dollars. And he was like, I guess technically they were saying the government saying his net worth was $2.3 billion at the time.

He was trying to lie and say it's $8 million because the NFL will only finance 10% the purchase price of a team. So he was trying to inflate his net worth to make it look like you can buy the bills. I'm not sure what his plan was once he said he could buy it. Anyway, the other day he was in New Hampshire to follow to run the primary. And he said, they were asking about the story. speaker race, and he said, let me quote here. There's only one person that can do it all the way. That's Jesus Christ. If Jesus Christ came down and said, I want to be speaker, he would do it.

Other than that, I haven't seen anyone I can guarantee it. So, Jesus would need votes. Like, wouldn't, like, the powers of God be enough? Like, like, that. Right. That is funny to imagine that, that, like, he actually finally does come back, but has to, like, submit to, you know, parliamentary procedure or whatever. It's like, well, I don't know, you know, because we're going to go about this right way. We need to be fair and orderly about everything. But, yeah, I mean.

Jesus would say we need to take care of the poor and let in the immigrants. Right. He would lose like 20. And he'd lose to speak. Yeah, right. Exactly. Yeah. Like you said, the fact that he's like sitting in court as he's going to be doing almost

every day, you know, in getting, you know, talking about how he's defrauded, everybody's ever known and whatnot and not even get into his criminal cases yet and can just like, send the text that says take Tom Emmer down or whatever and then that happens is uh pretty insane i mean it's not we all have known for a while the chokehold he has on the gop but i mean it's like pronounced you know bring it up all the time it comes up all the time but it's all fucking you know anti lindsay lindsay lindsay graham said in 2016 you know if we if we go with this guy it will destroy this party and we will deserve it and it's like some of the most prophetic

shit i've heard anybody say in the past 10 years so and they they are like they sort of they're aware of how dumb they look they keep getting asked don't you know how dumb you look and i go like you and here's uh here's kevin mccarthy trying to like trying to like get a get his hands around this uh former speaker of the house until three weeks ago what history you'll look at the crazy aides led by gates the amount of damage they have done to this party into this country is insurmountable i've never never seen this amount of damage done to just a few people for their own personalities, for their own fear of what's going through.

All right. So Crazy Ates led by Gates. I'm not sure I was going to catch on, but I respect the effort. I kind of liked it. I was going to say, like, I kind of, I kind of dig that. I don't know if that's a McCarthyism or who he got that from or whatever, but, yeah, it don't not work for me. Yeah.

So before Jim Jordan dropped out, a bunch of the holdouts who were relatively moderate Republicans. And by that, I mean, people who didn't vote to overturn the election. And they were all getting a bunch of fucking death threats. And Jim Jordan basically said in a caucus meeting, well, it's your fault for getting the death threats because you won't vote for me. And if you're wondering what the death threats sound like, let's play a little clip of a wide mat, if you get this clip from CNN. I have some exclusive audio right now of a threatening message that was left as a voicemail for the wife of one of the Republican lawmakers who opposes Jordan. This has only been edited to take out identifying information of the wife and the lawmaker. We've bleeped out some of the language, but not all of it.

And I want to warn you, this is pretty ugly stuff. Take a listen. Why is your husband such a pig? Why would you get on TV to make an ass? of himself because he's a deep state prick because he doesn't represent the people so what we're

going to do is we're going to come follow you all over the place we're going to be up your ass nonstop we are now Antifa we're going to do what the left does because you're fucking of a husband

oh the bad guys they did so I'm going to vote I can cut it back so this goes on for like four or five minutes. We definitely not going to listen to the whole thing, but I do. One thing I'll point out is that like later on multiple points, because it does go on forever, he sounds like, we'll stalk you, we'll molest you, but he keeps being like, not violently

though. Like, he's like, you're going to be fucking molested, bitch, not violently. I'm not saying that. But yeah, you and your husband deserve it. Like, it's, it's wild. I also enjoyed the part where he's like, we're Antifa now, that's it for me. Yeah, I was trying to what he's referring to, like, when people show up to Brett Kavanaugh's house and like waved a sign around. I know one guy did try to show up like on Kevin on a street with a gun one time. And, uh, yeah, but I don't, but they, they, they, they sort of imagine that the left evil and motivated and militant all the time. And they think they're doing, they think they think they're doing. They think they got like, like, like, like, stalking and harassing good red blood and American conservatives, you know, all the time. Like they, they, they just think that they just do that, despite them not ever having that had that happen to them or anyone that they know or anything like that. But yeah, it's definitely a thing. They believe.

So the moderate Republicans who usually be guaranteed to cave because they're more afraid of their own party than they are of losing a general election for whatever reason, even if they're in a majority Democratic usually district. Because shit like this will happen. But so much of this shit happened that it made them mad where they won't fucking relent. They said they just get sheriff's deputies to follow their wife around and tell everybody to fuck off. So, like, why would you vote for Jim Jordan when he says, hey, man, I'm getting death threats. They're threatening to molest to my wife nonviolently or whatever. And it goes, well, if you just vote for me, it would stop. And be like, okay, well, you can fuck off and die.

You know, it's like, that's not a satisfactory response. And, but anyway, this doesn't just look clownish to like us and the rest of the world. Republicans are pissed off about this. It's a polling data here. 67% of Americans believe the House elects speaker as soon as possible compared to 25% who don't care if a new speaker's chosen. I want to meet the 25%. This includes 57% of Republican voters who want the drama to be over compared to

34% or prepared to put up with it a little longer. Like, this is just, like, try, this, let me give you a sense of, like, the kind of clowns we're dealing with here. There's a couple of things from this week, all right? George Santos told the New York Times that his niece was kidnapped, likely by Chinese communist. Okay. Like, recently, or this is like a.

another thing they dug up. That happened this week. He called New York Times reporter. Dude, this guy. This guy is something else, man. So the reporter called the cops, and they go, like, I don't know about the communist part, but like, we've had no reports of any kidnapping. Anyway, he just made up Chinese communist kidnapping his knees.

New York Post found some old campaign expenditures. Remember Lauren Boebert giving the guy over-the-pants hand job at the Beatles thing? Of course. Who could forget? She said she dumped him because she had no idea he was a Democrat. But anyway, campaign, she used like $400 in campaign money of her campaign money at his bar where they put on drag shows. She's revealed to be, back in July, she's revealed to be a huge fucking liar. Apparently they've been dating for a long time, and she'd been to the bar, probably seen the flyers for the drag brunches if not attended some of them. Brian Mask, Republican from Florida, has been running around Congress since the Hamas attack on Israel, wearing a uniform for the Israeli Defense Force.

Check out this picture. Yeah. he's been wearing it every day and he didn't even serve he sort of served like did a photo op thing where he did in some sort of civil volunteer corps he handed out like supplies but like it was just

he was running for Congress in a part of Florida that I'm assuming he has a bunch of like Jewish people who fled New York so he's just pretending that he was an Israeli soldier if you're wondering he's not Jewish he's a Christian guy originally from Michigan he's an army vet who lost both his legs in Iraq

so I guess I can forgive him being a little crazy after that he was led to Congress in 2016 and yeah the reality is in 2015 he was running his first campaign he volunteered with IDF working on a base outside Tel Aviv for I don't know a couple days a week

Yeah I think I read it was like two or three weeks Yeah I did a volunteer thing like you said handing out supplies or whatever For like two or three weeks maximum I mean just like this is totally This is 100% stolen valor right They hate that shit

Like imagine Imagine someone who it was proven Was not in like the US Marines dressing wearing dress blues around like publicly every day to make some kind of political form that guy would get right man like it's like if uh like i did a bake sale for the army rangers right and then after black hawk down i'm wearing a ranger uniform in solidarity of my fellow rangers right uh but this kind of guy this guy's nothing but a fucking fraud so in 2016 mass was briefly linked with a company called world patent marketing they're kind of

they're like you know we see those late night infomercials like we'll help you patent your invention right oh yeah it's one of those people got shut down by the federal trade commission uh world patent marketing donated money to his campaign and said in a press release he set on their advisory board then after they were busty he said i never heard of them i know he's never heard of them i know he's never in their board anyway uh wondering what kind of fucking weirdo he is i found this profile of him uh his four kids are named magnum after magnum p i maverick from top gun madeline after madeline con who's the little girl was kidnapped in 2007 and major because they needed another, a fourth M name.

You couldn't think of one, just one with the military ring. So these are the people who are trying to wrangle in a voting for a speaker. If you want it like the through line here, these people are not trying to govern. They're trying to get on TV with stupid stunts. That's all this is. So if you wonder what comes next, they're having a big caucus meeting tonight trying to figure out what the fuck to do. Donald's is still running, a few other people.

They're floating the idea of a joint speakership between Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan, which I didn't know this. The Constitution doesn't say the speaker has to be one person. Now, if it got down to one of them, how to be president of Kamala and Biden both died, I have no idea I'd have to decide. Right. But yeah, that you made me think.

I mean, does it say anywhere in the Constitution that the speaker can't be a golden retriever? Maybe have they thought about that? Fair bud, you know? Yeah. Speaker of the doghouse. Why not? I want to see that movie.

Play out in a real time. Yeah. Remember that baby hippo? It's a sensation at the Cincinnati Zoo. get a Fiona? That's it. Thank you. I was trying to remember the name

and it was going to tort. Yes, Fiona, yeah. Another name they're floating around. I guess he was the next man up because they only have, they have 221-ish, depending on how many people are in jail or dead at the particular moment,

members of Congress. And like, so they've already, three have already failed, although Jordan and McCarthy are trying to get as a team up, I guess. So Mike Johnson from Louisiana, he was hardcore committed to overturning Biden's election victory

through the state legislature theories. He passes that test. And if Trump is up to anything here It's trying to get hard ladders In charge of Congress before the next election So they will refuse to certify a Democrat If he's doing anything intelligible And otherwise just fucking don't want to fit

And trying to like screw over people He thinks are against him So But other bad Trump news today Bad news for him In the last couple days Kevin Cheesebro and Sidney Powell Who was lawyers involved in the scheme to overturn the election

Both pled guilty in Atlanta And then so did Jenna Ellis He was a lawyer who was sitting next to Rudy when he farted in that legislature hearing. Yes. Yeah. They're rolling on him, Matt. They're flipping on him. Yeah, they all flipped.

Also, Mark Meadows, it came out today that he got some sort of immunity deal from the special prosecutor in January 6th investigation, although whether or not he's testifying against Trump. People are arguing about that when our show started. I don't know. But like, this is the guy. I just want to show this clip from a Trump speech, I think, yesterday. This is the guy. They're all fucking willing to die. for and I can't make I

I will never understand this this is on our business is why you're doing that he said Macron nice guy you know look he's for France I'm for us I'm for us you know how you spell us right you spell us US

I just picked that up has anyone ever thought of that being I just picked that a couple of days I've never thought of that before what the fuck you just realized u.s spells us right that same speech he talked about how much you loved victorubon who he said was the leader of turkey or bonn's the leader of hungary uh erdogan erdogan or erdogan however you say erdogan's how you pronounce he erdog uh he said he would kick out immigrants who don't

believe in our religion i don't know what fucking i mean i know which one he means but he didn't say, but although this is one of the most un-American things I've ever heard him in my entire life. He compared himself to Nelson Mandela because he may be going to prison. He also just can't keep a train of thought together. And today, DeSantis finally started hitting him for his brain not working good. Too late, motherfucker.

Too late. Anyway. Never even got started. You know what else didn't get started? If you notice in that clip when he says, you can't spell us without US or whatever he said, USA, some dude in the back tries to start a USA, USA. And it doesn't take.

that dude had to be so crushed by that. Like, you know, you thought that guy at a Trump rally was like, this is the most surefire USA chant opportunity I've ever had. Nope. Can't fail. No dice.

Yeah. Yeah. Poor bastard. Anyway, let's get into it. So, yeah, people are voting on things in November, Mark. I knew about the stuff in Ohio. I haven't really kept up with the rest of it,

but some of it's sortly important. You were just in Virginia. They got a bunch of shit to vote on. Oh, dude. I was just trying to, like, I don't watch a lot of linear TV, but I live in California, which is not like a heavily contested state for most elections. And so I'm not, I don't see a lot of political ads usually.

And I tried watching like playoff baseball and college football, I was inundated with some of the craziest fucking ads. And the Republican ads are all like, he's a self-described socialist. And he laughed at the father of a teenage sexual assault victim. I'm like, Jesus Christ. And the Democratic ads are like, I'm sane. My name's Josh. that's right yeah uh the yeah so uh there's a bunch of state and local elections nationwide in a couple weeks

uh special election there's a special election for legislative seat in new hampshire which could flip the chamber there as mayoral elections in a lot of major cities uh you all check out your local ones and make sure and vote but i want to key in on a few with national import um but like i'll i cannot get over the disparity between how people vote in a lock booth and how sane they are when you check their hands I know, right, right. Think about that all the time. I mean, post-Trump especially, you know, it's gotten, it's a real stark contract. And it's like being from the South, you think both of us would like sort of understand that already, but it's just, I don't know, it's gotten wilder. Like you said, the people you meet and talk to seem totally normal. And then some of the shit that they believe or are down with is just like the blood curdle, weird. I mentioned a show before in my home county, Buckingham County, Virginia. It was in the national news because like this local legislation, elections administrators, the county of like, I don't know, 14, 15,000 people, was in hot waters. I thought she'd help the read the election, even though Trump wanted because they didn't

run by enough or whatever. I mentioned it before. Anyway, I was talking to my sister about it. That's a friend of hers. That's why my sister ends up volunteering for polling places. And, like, her husband was at my nephew's family night. And these are good old boys. And they were thinking, like, what do you think when these people accuse your wife of being a

deep state hubbard? Yeah. Yeah, right. And it's just like, it's just so fucking crazy. But anyway, a lot of people are saying this elections, these elections are going to like be referitums in a variety of issues, mostly abortion. And also like school stuff,

like the book banning and stuff that the national parties will like use as like a litmus test or like a canary and a coal mine to see how they should go on it. So like, I would urge you to vote to send a message to the national party that you are a sane person who supports women having rights and kids being able to read books. All right. So, like, for example, if, what the Republicans are telling themselves is that, like, Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance won their elections while being openly pro-life, while Mehmet Oz, Dr. Oz, and Adam Lexalt, Nevada, tried to, like, be coy with it. And Rubio and Vance won and the other two lost. They're trying to tell themselves that, like, being hardcore, extremely pro-life, anti-choice, is the way to go in these elections. And you need to,

come out hard and rebut them. Otherwise, the Democratic Party and their cowardly risk-averse way will also agree with the Republican Party and abortion will not be a salient issue going forward. Isn't there's just so much like evidence to the contrary as far as that goes in terms of,

you know, results in polling and just shit. You know, how many, you know, everything that's happened since the Dobbs' decisions seem to indicate like this has pissed people off and it's bad for Republicans. So it seems weird to, me at this stage that they're telling themselves like, no, this is the way to go. We need to be even more hardcore.

We need to double down. Like, I don't get it. Virginia Democrats made like a basically an issue ad for statewide for everybody. It was basically like, made the point that like, here's all the places they have these hardcore abortion bans. There's all these, all these other southern states. It's like Virginia's next. Right.

They made the case that's coming from them. So like they are trying, but I'm saying they have to keep seeing it win or they'll give up on it. Yeah. And we've talked about the Ohio ballot. initiative before. But one reason national parties need watching this is because Sherrod Brown's up for election and they're going to, he's a good senator as far as Democratic senators go. And if they look at that and abortion access doesn't win by a mile, they're not going to put as much money towards keeping Sherrod Brown in office as Ohio's turned hard right. And they have limited

money, right? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, right. Yes. Yeah, it becomes like a self-fulfilling prophecy with a lot of these races because they just don't put any effort or resources whatsoever towards some of them because they consider it a foregone conclusion that you're going to lose anyway. But like with an incumbent though in a place like Ohio, you know, that. And Chavall Brown's he's usually, I mean, like even the conservative is there because he's like a real dude who cares about working people's issues, you know. But like it's not just like the left liberal side that's watching these elections. Activists in Florida and Arizona are watching it too because are going to be abortion rights measures, probably in Florida and Arizona, they're going

to be on the ballot there next year, and everybody's going to, like, see how hard to fight for that stuff, depending on how Ohio goes. Also, weeds up for legalization via a ballot initiative in Ohio. Those are two things people who are voting for is whether they want to keep women having rights and everybody to be able to smoke weed. So go vote in Ohio. Let's talk about my home state of Virginia, where 140 seats, all 140 seats in the General Assembly are on the ballot. You know, it comes up every four years last time. 2019. It's also the first time in 10 years that a Republican trifecta, party control of both state

houses and the governorship is possible because Dylan Yonkin will be the governor. Right now, I looked up polling, I was trying to look up polling data for the legislature and this article popped up second. The first thing popped out was written by my alma mater, so I didn't want to use it to see it filled two up my ass. But I quoted old professor of mine by the name of Stephen J. Fonsworth, whose name always hit for me because it sounded like he's wearing bowtows and talking a deep southern accent, which is for good.

So the poll that says, this is just like 700 registered voters, I think. 42% of Virginians said they would vote for Democratic candidates. Well, 41% said they would vote for Republicans. It's got a 4% margin of error, so they should cut either way. But conservative election activists are training people. They're trying to do a dry run for 2024, as an example of the National Party about how to do vote suppression. So they're training people to go to volunteer polling places to try to gum up the works

and stop people they think are Democrats, I guess, by looking at them, from voting. They also, air quote, accidentally purge 10,000 people from voter rolls because the computer thought they were felons, even though they weren't. Democrats have filed lawsuits and are trying to get the GOJ to probe it because, you know, Republicans do this kind of shit. It's easier to go back and discount a felons vote than it is. I guess that's not true. but like because you don't know how he voted like it's like people that are felons we've talked about

this before the reason people don't do in person voter fraud for the most part knowingly not like they tricked people in florida doing it but like people don't knowingly do it is why am i risking jail time to help i don't know get a job of course right worth to squeeze um yeah i mean that was the whole thing like the yeah the boogeyman of like voter fraud and actually think that type of shit is is happening and that's how the democrats steal the elections and like that being more plausible in their minds versus the idea that, like, you know, restricting voting rights, especially amongst marginalized groups, generally just helps the Republicans win, you know, like one of those seems more likely than the other.

Although I guess, I mean, they probably would be in favor either way, you know, like Republican voters, but still, it's maddening. Yeah. That's why I mean, like, if I'm not saying in-person voter fraud, it never happens. Usually it'd be a huge psychotic idiot to do it, who doesn't understand anything works. and that's why people get caught doing it are mostly Trump voters who think that voter fraud is easy.

It's not just, why would I risk jail time to get somebody I don't know a job? It's also like, you'd have to in person, you'd have to fraud it up so that you vote 10,000 more times or something to make any actual difference.

You know what I mean? Like, because of the numbers involved. So it's like the whole risk reward equation just makes no sense for that to be an actual thing. So, yeah. Right. Yeah. The math does the math. By the way, Republicans tried to pass a 15-week abortion ban earlier this year, and it was only blocked because Democrats controlled a small majority in the state Senate. So if they get a trifecta, they're openly campaigning. They're going to pass a 15-week abortion ban. But they're trying to – Republicans are trying to thread a weird needle here because they're not being coy about it. We're trying to, like, present it as, like, empathetic. because they're saying they're going to be exceptions for rape and incest.

In 15 weeks, most people, over one majority of people who exercise their option to choose, do so before 15 weeks, right? So this only affects a small portion of people, but also it affects people who are having medical emergencies. So why you don't, you don't have to be proof. And also these exceptions are fake. Like, no one, you can't get access to them. How do you get a judge to rule that you're pregnant due to incest,

before the baby like it's like it's very hard to do and doctors are too afraid and doctors are afraid right yeah exactly doctors won't yeah they're afraid of getting this well whatever you know losing their license is that's called this that's not disbarred right that's just loggers what they call it it doesn't matter doctor don't want to lose their license over it whatever because of these ridiculous laws so uh yeah it fucks people over regardless it's like you said the vast majority of people it's not they frame it as being like democrats want to fucking you know code hangar out and nine-month-old fetuses and whatever, like shit like that. They just want to kill babies at any age or whatever, and it's like, it's all just a straw man

because, you know, like you said, the vast majority of just regular old abortions are happening, you know, well before 15 weeks anyway. It's just, you know, a mass of cellular material, basically, and whatnot. And then, but they use that to justify these laws that fuck over people in horrendous situations for no good reason other than just the Lord or. morality or whatever. Yeah, and by the way, there's a study that came out today from a reputable source that said that abortions nationwide were up 5.5% last year, legal abortions.

So that's, despite the fact that 13 states, it's basically impossible to, I think it's 13 states, it's basically impossible to get one in. So people are either traveling to other states or all this talk about abortion has made a much more live option for people who wouldn't have considered prayer. I don't know, but the point is like, if their idea was to stop, have more babies be born this issue was totally back

well we could have told them out if you want to have less abortions you have better sex education of course that's yes right support for moms right better paternity leave shit like that

but like this isn't going to work this is no way to achieve their goal which is like one of the things it makes it so fucking nihilistic and Republicans in a lot of themselves because they like prior to the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade

most people would tell people there was broad support There was broad polling support for a restricting abortion after 15 weeks. But since then, since people have heard the horror stories about all the stuff that's happening downstream of banning abortion, people don't like their rights be. Like, ask people a question the poll, it's hypothetical. When the reality, when the rubber hits the road of rights being taken away, it does not hit for people. And a new poll that came out this summer showed even a third of Republican primary voters. These are the hardest core conservatives in the country opposing the 15 weeks.

ban idea. Right now, only 17% of Virginia voters want abortion laws become more restricted. The rest of this stuff, here's a majority of Virginians poll, it's that they think public schools should teach how racism in America's history impacts the country today, with 38% saying it should be taught a great deal, and 31% saying a good amount. So that's 69% saying at least a good amount. 12 Republicans poll said should be taught a great deal. comes to banning books and school libraries,

84% of Virginians said they disagreed with removing books that any parent objects to, even if other parents like the book. Paul also found 73% agree that's important for public school libraries to have books representing different perspectives about controversial issues, even if it makes some uncomfortable.

So how the fuck is this close? The people are not going to know what the parties stand for at this point? And if Republicans win this by any decent margin, there's already talked about drafting Yonkin as a last-ditch attempt to try to stop Trump, which is just laughable because no one's going to be able to do it. I like I can't figure out what people think like they're voting for because 58% of Virginians want retail cells of recreational marijuana to be allowed with even 38% support for

Republicans. A large majority of they want Virginia to stand a regional greenhouse gas and gas initiative with caps carbon dioxide emissions from power plants across 11 states, 26% support leaving the program. I don't like, so like there are four greenhouse gas limiting initiatives. They're against banning books. The only people are reasonable reasons are for teaching racism, but also it's a total selection. Right, yeah, exactly. Yeah, right.

I mean, that's the thing. That's what happens all the time. It's like we talk all the time about how, like, actually most of their policies are unpopular with most people, but they maintain an outsize, you know, hold on power because of just so many different facts because they stack the deck in their favor in so many different ways. But yeah, it's like you said, everything, all those polls indicate that Virginia lean. you know, left-ish on most of these major issues and yet they might be staring down the barrel of a, you know, Republican trifecta in the state. Yeah. If you want any sort of takeaway here about a Democratic branding problem, Yonkin has a 55% approval rating in Virginia and Biden has 41%.

Okay, Kentucky. So incumbent Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, and yes, Kentucky has a Democratic governor somehow. Yeah. And he made kind of a splash during COVID, I remember. I remember him like getting some shine because I mean I just because I was very jealous of them or jealous of them because I'm from Tennessee, you know. And I was like, what the fuck? This is Kentucky's governor. It's like a level headed Democrat who also was like standing up to the bullshit about like COVID restrictions.

Yeah. And it's about it and whatnot. I was like, where did they find this guy? How did they elect this guy? But like he's been like he's pretty popular. Right. I'm not. It's still Kentucky.

He can lose. But like, I mean, they like him there. Yeah, and I'm sort of surprised by that because he was hardcore, like, he did, like, some of it was just, it just optically look bad, but like when church services were supposed to not be taking place, like, Kentucky state troopers were taking license plates numbers down in churches, which seemed, though, that stayed open, which seems sort of like out of context, dystopian, right? But what they're doing, they were just, they were just trying to, like, do contract tracing for later as if there was an outbreak. But, like, it still looked fucking awful. But there was that guy who was under a manateen quarantine quarantine order in a hospital. He had COVID. And he just busted out of the hospital and went home.

So Bashir sent state troopers to surround his house so he couldn't leave. So yeah. But he's like he's been doing pretty well. He's leading hard on abortion rights in otherwise conservative state. His opponent's attorney general, a guy with the name of Daniel Cameron, who has previously voiced support for total abortion ban with no exceptions for rape and incest. and Bashir's campaign has worked really hard to let people know that. Let's watch this campaign ad, which, as I say, pulls no punches.

I was raped by my stepfather after years of sexual abuse. I was 12. Anyone who believed there should be no exceptions for rape and incest could never understand what it's like to stand in my shoes. This is to you, Daniel Cameron. To tell a 12-year-old girl she must have the baby of her stepfather who raped her is unthinkable. I'm speaking out because women and girls need to have options.

Daniel Cameron would give us none. Yeah, make it clear. Hard-hidden. I mean, yeah, that's one of those things. It's like, I see that, and I'm just like, I don't know how you could possibly argue with. I don't know how you could be like a hardcore pro-life Christian conservative and see that ad.

And your response just be like, well, that don't matter. You still can't kill babies. You know what I mean? But I know there's going to be people who have that response. to be like, well, that baby still shouldn't have been killed. You can't kill babies, whatever. Like, I just don't know how you can't be. Also, it's all part of God's plan.

Right, yeah, exactly. Right. Yeah, and it just drives me crazy because I don't know how you could not be impacted by that kind of messaging. And I saw the other, Cameron, his opponent's response to it. I don't know if it's backpedaling or what, which would be fitting because he played defensive back at Louisville.

So I don't know if it's backpedaling or bullshitting or what. But in response to this, he said that, He was like, no, I would sign a piece of legislation that had exceptions for rape and incest, right? Like, he's, like, is he, uh, you know, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, is he a full of shit? Or is he just like, is he pivoting because of this or whatever? Earlier, they had a debate, I think, last night, and I watched a clip of it and they were talking about this. And the moderator is asking him.

So you said you, what is your position on exceptions for raping incestine, again, those are fake? They're inaccessible. The distances on paper. They're just branding. But anyway, she asked him about it. And he goes, like, well, if this legislature passed the bill, I would sign it. And he's sort of, like, looking down in a way and stuff. And she was like, but you wouldn't, like, advocate for it.

And he's, like, diso-milly-mouthed shit. And Bashir was like, I will straighten the camera and say that I will keep abortionally. It's like much more. Cameron just comes across as really dishonest. And if you're wondering, so Bashir was an AG before Daniel Cameron. And Daniel Cameron ran took a spot. Like Trey said, he played backup defensive back for Louisville. worked for Mitch McConnell. He's sort of like Mitch McConnell's

pet project. As attorney general, he's the guy who helped cover up Brianna Taylor's murder by taking the case away from the city of Louisville and making a state operation, letting all the cops off. Although he did, the one conviction he did get was the cop was punished for endangering her neighbors, so not for

killing Brianna Taylor, but wildly firing through the apartment walls that could have hurt other people. So, Let me get somewhere out in the outline, sorry. Let me just quote Cameron here. We talked about the abortion law that went into effect after Roe was overturned. Our law has gone to effect now. I think this is a day in cause for celebration.

So he can try to backtrack all he want, but like he's full of shit. And if you're wondering, recent polling has Bashir up between like some polls either two points, eight points or 16 points. I don't believe the 16. But either way, like he's like, Cameron is pushing polls to say he's only two points behind. Yeah. So even his campaign says he's losing. Right.

Like just being straightforward about what you're about and honest about it, hits for people. People like it. Cameron's coming across like a mealy-mouth coward and Bashir's not. And like that matters to people a lot, to a degree, to a lot of people more than actual issue positions, just seeming like an honest person. And younger governors like Bashir, Whitmer in Michigan, Pritzker in Ohio, sorry, Illinois, and Shapiro and Pennsylvania are this way.

And people like them. And they're way more popular than Biden is in their states because of it. I'm just saying like elect more leaders like Bashir. In Mississippi, there's a gubernatorial election where there was just downgraded if you're a Republican from likely Republican to lean Republican. Tate Reeves is still winning, but Democrat challenger's been closing. The guy that is a guy by the name of Brandon Presley, who, uh, he goes the other way. He's, uh, he's pro-life and openly about openly so about it. I'll get to get to his issues, why he's catching him on a second.

But if you're wondering, he was raised in poverty after his father was murdered and as a second cousin of the legendary Elvis Presley. So yes, he's that. Yeah, yeah, you hear that's like, how can any Democrat make any kind of like headway in Mississippi and he's like, what his last name's Presley? He's Elvis's cousin. You're like, all right, well, okay. I guess that makes a little bit of sense.

So one of his signature issues is expanding Medicaid to save rural hospitals. He's done like campaign events at rural hospitals, which I can tell you. Like when my nephew collapsed last week, there was like, we have volunteer rescues quality. Because they're volunteers, it was the middle of the night. It took them, like, a long time to get there. Having access to, like, emergency health services is important to people. My mom tried to get an appointment for a routine infection, and they told her to, their general practitioner told her, like, they couldn't fit her in until, like, the middle

of November, this was last week. So, like, this people are struggling with this issue in it. Like, people should be fighting for it. You can just stand on it. Oh, yeah. I'm going to do socialism. Yeah. Hospital in my hometown has closed, like, three separate times, and it is currently

closed. Like, it's closed, and it got it back up, and it closed again. Anyway, it's closed now and has been closed for months. But, I mean, yeah, you know, it's a whole shit show thing people care about. But, yeah, you know, who are they going to vote for? I don't know. But, yeah, I mean, that's the type of thing that I'd like to see these people leaning on more when it, you know, especially in like the southern states and whatnot or rural areas.

Sorry. One more I wanted to mention briefly. Pennsylvania has a Supreme Court election that's kind of important. I don't know if you remember that like during the 2020, there was a whole of the speed about mail ballots in Pennsylvania. And the Supreme Court deadlocked 3-3 because a guy named Max Bayer was a Democratic Chief Justice had just died. So it's important to like swing the balance of the court. And the election is pitting a Democrat named Daniel McCaffrey, who is a judge on Pennsylvania Superior Court up against a Republican named Carolyn Carluccio, who has a soft core election denier. And she, yeah, she defeated in the primary a candidate who was not an election denier.

So, like, you don't want to, you don't want an election denier on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court because it's a swing state. Because elections do matter. And to that point, I wanted to say that in Wisconsin, we talked about them trying to impeach Janet Pro Seowitz, who was just elected and is going to help, you know, undo their horrific gerrymander. and the Republican State Speaker of the House, Rich Voss, retreated, so they're not going to do that anymore. Rich Voss? Was it? No, not Rich Voss.

Robin Voss. Rich Voss is a New York comedian from way back who's been around forever. And also, it's hilarious to picture Rich Voss in any kind of state house or whatever. But yeah, no, that's surprising. And I guess, you know, I'll take it. I would not expect that, you know, anyone in that position to have backed off of that. I figured they'd definitely try to go through. with impeaching her and then, you know,

who knows how I'd play out, that probably would have fucked it up. But for them to just back off, that hits for me. Matt, if you got time and the inclination and the availability, bring us some questions and comments. Thank you, McJet. McJet says, hit that like button, people to odd ellipsis, in my opinion, but I appreciate the reminder. Please hit the like button and share and subscribe and all that stuff.

And Severn Williamson says Andy was voted in partly by teachers. We love him. he's been logical, safe, intelligent, and good for the economy. I love a governor you can call Andy. It feels like you can have a beer with him, you know. Everybody loves that, yeah. James L. Johnson says, yay, Kentucky. His success is that the last Republican governor was an A-Haul,

and teachers like my mother and sister voted for him. Teachers out in full effect. I like it. My sister and my mom are teachers. I love teachers. Jesse Samson says Democrats need better messaging. yeah we rail about it a lot it's just like the it's hard to message the bills they like to pass because it'll be like it's we're gonna we're gonna fight racism and you go like how it's like you know

in inclusionary zones and certain economic districts we're gonna offer like low cost loans to small business it's like I already fucking lost you like I can't follow that and there's also there's all these polls and stuff that show what people think about like you know which party is better about certain things in the economy including like job, like not just inflation and gas prices, but things that like

the Biden administration's been objectively had great numbers on like unemployment or jobs and whatever and the people just get it fucking wrong. And it's like, and I don't know if that's just how bad the messaging is or how they're supposed to be doing it better or what. I mean,

it's got to have them banging their head against the wall. It's pure branding because like you can go back like, the economy does better and a Democratic president's going back to like FDR. And like I don't really have a solid understanding of why I have my guesses. I think it's just like capitalism is a government run program. It needs rules. Like, would you rather watch football with no rules or football with rules? Right? Which one's a more effective product? And like when you understand, when you clear

understand the rules of the game, what's inbound and out of bounds, then the economy just grows stably and normally. And then a Republican gets in the office and takes off all the governors, all the rules, dumps a bunch of fucking tax cuts. And then everything goes haywire. And everyone can't understand why. Right. But they preside over for a while, you know, some prosperity, make all these changes. Things start to go shitty. And then by the time they're gone, then the next guy comes in has to clean up that mess. And it takes a while to do it. And then they get blamed for all this shit that they inherited. And you just rinse and repeat. We'll make traffic go faster. Well, how? It's like, we took off the brakes. Okay. But like, we want to be able to stop the car.

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