Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 11/01/22 – Hammer Havoc

Episode Date: November 2, 2022

If you ever thought the American right couldn't possibly conduct itself in a more insane or malicious fashion, look no further than their response to Nancy's Pelosi's husband being assaulted with a hammer. We'll talk about it (and plenty more) tonight. Join us. Support the show

Hey, everybody, welcome back. Happy Scues Day to you. It is November 1st, 2022. I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark. What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? I hope you're doing good, but lots to talk about today, including little hammers and how the rate has gotten so good at bullshit.

It's not clear whether they're gaslighting us or themselves anymore. before we get to show a couple things. Bolsonaro lost in Brazil, which is fucking great news. Did he though, Mark? It's still up in the air a little bit. And then as I understand it, he's not yet conceded, right? Well, he won't congratulate Lula, but he did say that transition can commence, even though a bunch of, like, wrecking truck drivers have blockaded all over Brazil, like 18 or 26 states or whatever.

It's like we said before, like the way we export that. That's like our number one export now. America's number one export is that particular brand of radicalized stupidity. Yeah. Like the dumbest shit, we can come up with the dumbassas in another country, see it, and they're like, that's, that's a cutting edge dumbassery right there. Yeah, I think two of our biggest exports right now are like showbiz stuff and tech, so that's how that stuff travels. Yeah, but Brazil is probably the world's second most important democracy in the world when it comes to environmental stuff behind us. So that's good because little is good on deforestation of the Amazon, which is like if you're, when it comes to the logic that we have to invade Iraq, like it's, the Amazon is a doomsday device that will destroy the planet if it's raised, right?

And so the logic there is much more one-to-one, but we don't think of it that way. So it's just like, I'm not saying we should invade us. I was about to say, so you're advocating for us pulling a little coup or invading them and just, you know, bringing them some more freedom and doing what's best for the people of Brazil. With our time. I'm actually like someone was calling it like the CIA flop era because a bunch of leftists to take in power in South America. Lula, like Lula was president before and he's reassented the presidency after being like convicted on some trumped up charges, which I assume CIA was involved in that. But I'd say it's pretty funny that, yeah, they can't when Biden and Bernie first, but then Biden also said we need a free and fair election in Venezuela and people took this message to Bolzano. And I think more likely is also a message to the CIA.

so that was funny to me um in legal news i'm about the Supreme court a little bit today but the Supreme court uh denied Lindsey Graham's uh petition to not to testify in front of the Georgia grand jury that was pretty funny the logic of his uh appeal was that it the speech and debate clause the constitution allows him to in his private office call the Georgia secretary of state and tell them to change the election results which is like speech and debate clauses for example, if you read like some crazy shit that American, the executive branch is done, you can go on the floor

Congress and reveal it without breaking like, uh, you know, laws around top secret shit. Uh, but Lindsay Graham was trying to apply it to like, doing a coup. I don't know. I'm glad they, uh, well, uh,

uh, smacked it down. Although they, yeah, well, I mean, shoot your shot, you know, what else you get? I mean, I'm not, I mean, you know, wouldn't surprise me if it did work, uh, you know, the way they've been trend. lately, so hard to line Lindsay, I guess. John Roberts did temporarily

hop because the court had ruled that Congress could get a hold of Trump's taxes and they trouble to go to the Supreme Court and he stayed that for a while, so I'm assuming to try to run off the clock until he get a Republican Congress and they just withdraw the subpoena. So, yeah, that's how that goes.

This is a fun story. What we're talking about, the election bullshit. So the true of the vote, organization is being sued in Texas. These two go mooks by the name of Catherine Englebrecht and Greg Phillips. They're being sued by a company called Connick, Connich, K-O-N-E-C-H, a company based in Michigan that provides election worker, poll worker management software, because the CEO is a guy named

Eugene Yu, who at YU, the accused me being a Chinese communist spy and to help throw the election to Biden. And he got a bunch of death threats. We've suing them for defamation. And these people's story is fucking wild, Trey. They say they had an analyst. His name is Mike Hassan. They revealed his name reluctantly, who figured out that Connick had been up to no good with the Chinese government or whatever. And so the judge is like, okay, I want to talk this Mike Hassan guy. And they're like, we can't reach him because he's in hiding. And the judge goes, okay, well, if he's in hiding, You can't reach him. How do you know he's in hiding?

Yeah. And then when I got on the state of testify, they said, actually, there was a second analyst there. And the judge goes, okay, what's that person's name? They're like, we're not going to tell you because he's also in hiding. And if we reveal his name, he'll be murdered by Mexican drug cartels. Yeah, you'll have that. Yeah. And the judge is like, okay, we got to tell me his name by Monday or you're going to jail.

And then Monday it was yesterday. And they didn't, wouldn't say the second guy was. So they're in fucking jail right now. So that's, that's the day's. addition to fuck around and find out. But here's the plot twist, right? You, the guy who's suing them, was arrested in Los Angeles because he, for breaching his contract, there's the two demokes, because he did, again, break his contract by storing some of the poll worker data on a server in China. So it doesn't necessarily mean anything because I'm not sure what the

Chinese government would do with poll worker data to fucking like this is just like payroll stuff I'm assuming to rig an election of much less why they would swing it to Biden because China likes it when Trump's president but it's just they wouldn't it's right it's total bullshit they would have enough to hand their conspiracy theory on right just waited yeah right yeah you know they're losing their minds and their conspiracy base but I wonder how much money people like this spend on you know red string and thumb tax and court boards and stuff You know what I mean, down there making their spider web connecting all the dots between China and Biden and this guy and the Mexican drug cartel and all this shit. Like, it's always something with him.

But this one guy, hey, that's a real Texas Ranger looking some bitch right there. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, they don't need to connect the dots, though. These motherfuckers could look at the big, look at the big dipper and draw the Mona Lisa. So, like, it doesn't, like, it's what we're going to talk about today when it gets the Pelosi hammer attack stuff. But, like, it's wild, man. They can just make up stuff out of thin air. make it their whole reality.

Oh, yeah. Don't hit. No, don't hit. I agree. All right. Well, let's get into it. This is always his producer, Matt. This is weekly skews.

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We hope you'll go to weekly skews.com slash more, or you can just go on Patreon and look me up. Either way it works. Sign up on there, get some more skews in your life. Now, as for the show tonight, as Mark alluded to, in the wake of the vicious attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband in their home, right-wing pundits are desperately grasping for any possible explanation for this senseless crime, except, of course, the most immediate and obvious one. We'll discuss it in detail in a few minutes, but first, let's begin, as always, with the Daily Dumbass man. Tonight's D-D, anyone who thinks a 50-year-old's brain is fully developed. Listen to this Georgia voter's rationale regarding the Herschel Walker abortion situation.

It's the matter to you if it's true or not. No. As long as he has had a change of heart, I mean, we all do things when we're young, naive. He's an adult now. I swear if that damn Tom Petty's on playing in the background of that gets this whole episode stricken or something that's going to drive me insane. But that's all right. Anyway, listen, I can't. The one thing I'll say is like, you know, I do feel like Hershal Walker has the brain of a small child.

You know what I mean? But I don't think small children should be making abortion decisions necessarily. But yeah, no, it's wild to couch this as. It's like, well, listen, you live and you learn. But. Yeah. Yeah. Abortion's murder.

He paid for a murder. But like, you know, we all made mistakes. But he was young. He was young. He was young. Naives. Who among us hasn't paid for a murder the way I say things? Lost in all this. A second woman came forward this week who lives in who's from Dallas, I guess this is from

a rehearsal play for the Cowboys, who said that he pressured to get an abortion and essentially said that if she. didn't get an abortion because of his wife's family, that neither she nor the baby would be safe. And so he was like, threatening her life. He said that? Yes. I can't believe Hershey Walker would threaten a woman's life. That seems so out of character for him.

It's like, it's hard to keep up with the numbers of both abortions he's paid for and lives of women that he's threatened. It's like, you know, it's a wild thing to have a multiple unit list of, you know, he just keeps racking a, up stand-up guy yeah yeah i don't know what to say about us anymore if he wins i'm gonna fucking uh i don't know piss and moan on the show about it with me for the next that's also what i'm planning to do so uh yeah i swear to god i'll do it too i will you wait and see you wait and see say i won't if he wins you'll see i will piss and moan uh with you'll see i will piss and moan uh with with the best of them. And that's it.

Yeah. All right. Our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass, anybody who takes the time to hack a Twitter account that's got like 40 followers. Ohio GOP candidate named Jared Golden has blamed a vicious hacker for liking a whole bunch of milk porn on his Twitter accounts. That's right. He apparently unknowing that likes for public information went on a bit of a spree looking at these sexy aged ladies

and then later claimed that his account was compromised in fact. Yeah, he said he was hacked as if like Antifa or the Chinese government of whoever go after a Republican candidate for County Auditor in Franklin, Ohio, who again had like

40, 50 followers. And the hacking doesn't even make superficial sense because interspersed his likes of milk of milk pictures where like Trump was right about the election. So unless the hacker is like, liking those tweets too. Yeah, well, we got to keep it consistent.

They're trying to paint a believable picture, Mark. You got to, you got to, you know, you got to be, you know, you got to pay attention to the details if you're going to frame somebody for liking milf porn, although I'll say porn is a strong word. Yes. For this. Yeah, we could show it on here. It's fine.

Look, see that? They got clothes on still. Like, I swear to God, I would just, I don't know, just roll with it. if you're running for county auditor or whatever. It's like, you know, who don't like sexy ladies in tank tops? It's fine. It's not. It shouldn't be all that scandalous.

But I guess, I don't know, all the other stuff that the, you know, family values party has pulled and it's been totally fine. I feel like this probably wouldn't have mattered that. The only reason we even know about it is probably because, you know, he claimed he was had. Yeah, right. If this is like some guy noticed it, some just random dude in this town, noticed it.

If he'd just done nothing, nothing would happen. But he had an official denial to lie that he was hacked. And then this happened. But like, this is so innocent within the standards of the internet. Yeah. Like, who would care? It's just like no one would care about his wife and maybe even not then, right? Yeah, he should just be like, what?

You don't think they're pretty? You're saying these lovely ladies ain't attractive? Is that what you're trying to say? Like, he'd been better off doing that than whatever the hell this is. Yeah, the hacker's saying, I don't, I mean, I guess it's because there's no other card to play in their minds, but like how many different times, you know, someone's going to claim to be hacked every time anything. Like there was a basketball player, right, who was lacking some anti-Semitic stuff, all the rage lately, and said that he said he was hacked. But yeah, it's just always the go to, to the point that I don't think anybody ever really believes it no more. Hackers aren't that subtle, people get hacked, you know, because one, either they post crazy out-of-pocket stuff on Maine or they try to sell like, they try to sell stuff to your account.

Yeah, I got, actually, I did get, I got my Facebook hacked once a few years ago and they immediately like changed all my profile pictures and stuff to the ISIS flag. Yeah, like you said, it's not, it's not subtle. Like they were, they went on a tear immediately. before I, you know, got it back, but... I do want to thank this guy for reminding me of, like, a time three or four years ago when Ted Cruz liked the milk porn tweet on 9-11. I also immediately thought of that. All right.

Our last honorable mention for Daily Dumbass, Supreme Court justices apparently for not having even a third-grade vocabulary. Listen to Clarence Thomas in his abject confusion. I've heard the word diversity quite a few times, and I don't have a clue what it means. All right. It seems to me. So, these guys, I just, you know, one of the time of the Supreme Court, because he had two big affirmative action cases today in between smacking down Lindsey Graham and helping Trump. And it made me so fucking furious.

Regardless what you think about affirmative action, you can always tell the Supreme Court wants to do some bullshit because they say stuff like that where they sound. number than they are. Right. It's like, according to the plain letter of the law, it should be this way. And they go like, well, what do words even mean, really? They start to sound like fucking Descartes or something. And it's like, you know what diversity means. Even if you think it's bullshit.

If it's a bullshit thing to aspire to, you know what people mean when they say it. They mean giving opportunities to people who are historically disadvantaged or not a part of a campus community. And you could be like, well, that's unfair to, I don't know, rich white kids named Connor and Maddie, but like you can't fucking do it. It's just, it's so frustrating. So

I just want to point out real quick just because I know you haven't seen it. I've got a newer bit that I'm doing where I talk about like rich white people some. And the two names that I use for the names I give their children in the bit are Madeline and Connor. So thank you for that.

Yeah. You just, yeah. Yeah, validated me there. You know, although I don't think anyone would dispute that those are very white names, but I just want to let you know we're on the same rich white page as far as that goes. Anyway, continue. So these two cases, there are two cases they heard today of the University of North Carolina and Harvard. All right, and there are two very different cases, but they're being lumped into affirmative action together. So North Carolina Solicitor General Ryan Park tried to answer Thomas's question about what is diversity. He says,

oh, it's students, he said that students benefit from having classmates with different backgrounds, and he offered peer reviews research in the topic. And justice retorted, I don't put my stock in that because I've heard similar arguments in favor segregation too. He's saying an argument for segregation was it students benefit from diverse viewpoints? I don't even begin to understand how that's supposed to make any sense. But I think we talked about before Clarence Thomas came up, he's like, he seems to have that sort of, like he talks about how real racism is and stuff, but he always,

always couches it in the way of like, which is why, uh, you know, we don't need to coddle black, he sees stuff like this is like being hurtful or whatever. It's like, uh, you know, like it's, I don't know. He has a similar sort of outlook he seems to as like J.D. Vance does on like four white people or whatever is like, yeah, they're just, it's just the way they are. And, you know, it's not helping them by trying to help them or whatever. But there are other, I know that part of their rationale, correct me, if I'm wrong, had something to do with, I guess in a previous case years ago, Sandra Day O'Connor made some statement about how, you know, by the year of 2028, affirmative action will no longer be necessary in this country. I mean, just trying to be optimistic about the future of race relations in America is clearly all that was supposed to mean.

Like, it is my sincerest hope that in the future, you know, and we won't even be talking about things like this. but they're now today treating that as like an expiration date on the concept of affirmative action or something. It's like, you know, we're getting that, really. We don't even need the next six years. We just go ahead and cut it off. But it's got a shelf life anyway. Yeah. Yeah.

I read that O'Connor quote earlier today, too. And it's like, well, I also wish there was no racism. Yeah, right. Right. Is the thing you want to know what these fucking, like, elitish schmucks are concerned with, the two cases. It's been two and a half hours arguing about North. Carolina and six hours on Harvard. Fuck Harvard.

I cannot give less of a fuck about Harvard. And the premise to Harvard case is that this white dude, I forget in his name, he's in charge of both cases. He's a conservative legal activist who spent like 30 years trying to destroy affirmative action among other religious liberty cases and so forth. He takes a ton of money in just to fight these bullshit cases. The premise to Harvard case is that Harvard is discriminating against Asian students by having some sort of artificial cap on their numbers because if they if it was based purely

a meritocracy every Asian tiger mom would have their kid and hard all right so but they like the this goes to something I'm not a hard time expressing this because it's like too big of a thought but like the point of affirmative action is to break up social networks right or allow people to enter social networks that wouldn't otherwise be in because if you're locked out of stuff right yeah it's sort of like it's kind of like regulations on big corporations when it comes and the environment and stuff in my mind because it's like, you know, you have to do something because they're not going to do it.

Like, they're never going to get these opportunities because of the way these systems work and have always worked if there isn't some mechanism that, you know, affords them the opportunities. And it will have to be implemented because the institutions in question are never going to take those steps on their own. So that's why we need things like this. But it also goes to the heart of like the twisted reason

people want to get into Harvard because they, they're not it's not there for the education you can get educated lots of places like like the famous scene in good in goodwill hunting where is like you got you spent a hundred thousand dollars and education you could have gotten with a library card right but like what they want is to get into those social networks they want to get into stone and bones and other social networks so then they can pull up the ladder behind them and be in there now right right but like the whole premise that harvard is eligible to be have any oversight from the federal government so they take federal funds

Harvard doesn't even have to do that. They could tell the government to fuck off and just be fully private. I looked up Harvard's endowment trade. Do you know what it is on the top of your head? Jesus, dude. I wouldn't even want to hazard a guess. $53 billion. Yeah.

I mean, I knew it'd be insane, but I wouldn't have guessed that much. $53.2 billion. I only short them at $200 million because they get educated a shit below to kids that $200 million if they wanted to. If Harvard just wanted to educate, literally everybody wanted to go to Harvard could get They can start satellite campuses in like places where there's land like Iowa and fucking Texas and shit. They're not going to do that because the exclusivity is the point because they want to keep the search networks. And this should drives me insane.

Like I look at it like Yale's endowment, by the way, they're their second place with 42.3 billion. Stanford is 37.8. Princeton has 37 billion. It's like all these places are private. And it's just like it makes me like, I don't know how to like it's something broken about all this. I don't even know how to fucking phrase it but like it's it's not egalitarian

in the slightest but going back to the premise of affirmative action which Harvard's not doing at all because like 80% of their students or legacy admits which means their parents went there

it's like because they you know alumni give donations yeah right because you got to you couldn't possibly crack into that adowment you got to keep growing it baby

every college is now just a fucking a real estate hedge fund right that also has a few students and just like this whole thing finds me uh makes me furious because it's like it gets the whole idea of education um but like there was this moment in it that did make me laugh uh justice samuel elito took a wholly gratuitous

pot shot at senator elizabeth warren asking whether someone counts as a racial minority if they are quote friendly lore claims american indian heritage so those words called a random fucking stray at a Supreme court hearing about affirmative action it's like just like i don't even like what would even like a purely meritocratic admissions process look like just just test scores. Right. Because, like, can athletes go or musicians or, like, people that are good at acting? Or, like, does the college essay count?

Does, like, does, you know, public service? Does what they want to major in count? Or, like, because, like, you can't, you do things purely meritocratically. You're not going to get the best students in the first place because that's not how the real world works. So we all start off on uneven late. Let's say, let's say I was actually a good student. Let's pretend that that was the truth.

Let's say a kid like me who was like an aspirational student who wanted to go to Harvard. A kid like that in my high school, if they'd gotten straight A's and everything, would only have like a 4.1 average because we only had two AP classes. Right. You're not getting to fucking Harvard unless somebody goes, oh, well, you're from a little community and that's the best you could do. Yeah. And that's why, again, that's why I think you need considerations like this and everything

because some kids are born into situations, whether it's their race or socioeconomic or whatever, that they have zero control over. And if you're purely just looking at, like, kids with the best scores and the best grades from the best schools, there's so many reasons that, you know, kids like that, you know, born into an inherently disadvantaged in that way situation can just never possibly crack through, like literally no matter what they do. And that is just inherently unfair. And so, you know, we should try to do something to combat that, you would think. But as soon as I saw that they were even ruling on the idea of affirmative evidence. I was like, well, okay, so that's gone, I'm assuming, like, just because of the way, you know, the way they be. Yeah.

And I'm like, you know, you can, even if like the idea of race-based admissions annoys you, like, it's just, like you take this, people that look exactly like, you've got a kid who's raising the younger siblings with perfect grades who has two jobs, the night before SATs, you know, like the kid looks exactly like them taking the SATs, who has rich parents, who doesn't have to work, who has private tutors and private SAT prep. and their parents bought them an ADHD diagnosis so they get extra test time. And that's a level playing field according to the Supreme Court. Right. Exactly. All right. Well, yeah, let's get into it. You guys all saw the home invasion and hammer assault on Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi's husband, last week.

And it seems like maybe it's not as simple as we all thought, Mark, or at least to hear the right-wing talking heads put it. anyway we talked about the beginnings of this fucking weird conspiracy movie stuff on friday when it was only like three hours after news had broken after the attack but like i didn't even i'm pretty cynical about her modern at this moment modern american politics but even i didn't imagine you get this fucked up this quick um it feels like something this feels like a moment where this should become true to everybody that the right wing is completely unhinged and detached from reality but i don't have like even though the main street media is covering this is like a both sides of a problem of violence type situation

as opposed to looking at the lies going on about it. But first, let's talk about what actually happened. All right. Guy named David DePape, 2.30 in the morning, Friday morning, breaks in a Nancy Pelosi's house, uses a hammer. He's going to hold her husband Paul hostage until Nancy got home. Paul surreptitiously called 911 and just let the, he just pressed the buttons on his phone where the operator could hear him talking to the guy

and she figured out what was going on. as he talked in code and then when the cops got there the guy realized that he was busted and smacked Paul around with a hammer that's as close as that can come to summarizing the public details of how this went down right now

all right but how is his report in the beginning and this is to be expected from first day reports where there's any holes or mistakes there's the game of telephone fog of war type bullshit there was a local reporter who said then retracted that the tape was in his underwear all right

but that that fact hasn't gone away from public consciousness even though the report admits he misunderstood it was probably paulose he was his underwear because he was at home at 2.30 in the morning right it's legal to sleep in your underwear nothing weird about it just want to put that out there um then there's another report from somewhere that is since vanished that said there was a third man there who had let police into the home don't know where that came from or why it went away but like i'm not particularly trusting a police but there are two different police but there's two different police agencies involved here because I got hit with federal charges. You got the FBI, you got

the local San Francisco police. If you follow local San Francisco politics, you would know that the police department fucking hates people like Nancy Pelosi. They would do nothing to carry water for her as far as I can see that unless she has some strings to pull that I don't fucking know about. They also

pretended to be confused about when he got hit with the hammer because like how is he calling 911 if he has had trauma from being hit with a hammer? Right. I don't know what to say about that. So, yeah, so all these things that you've laid out immediately got latched onto about people on the right as being like holes they were poking in the convenient cover story of the Paul Pelosi affair, basically. They're like, well, none of this makes sense. This can't possibly be true.

I mean, as soon as I even saw that it happened, I knew it, like you said, I knew it would be some bullshit, but yeah, I didn't know the full extent. I knew they'd be like tasteless jokes and shit. probably, and I also figured, I figured they'd be like, listen, this man was just unhinged and ain't got nothing. We don't need to politicize things like this is where I thought they'd probably go. And, you know, Antifa, why would Antifa do something like this? Antifa strikes again some of that, but it goes further even. There's more than that. It's further ranging and a lot of darts, a lot of darts being thrown right now. Yeah. Well, we can skip this Jesse Waters' videos. You kind of just sort of talked about it. But, uh, the,

So here's a summary of 48 hours after the attack of the series of conspiracy theories that they went through. This is from media matters, I think. So first, there was speculation. It was a false flag operation. Just like January 6th. There was a hoax perpetrated Democrats to show support for their party by slandering the rights just for the midterms. There's one version that Antifa did it, like you said. there's another Nancy Pelosi

was furious. Matt abandoned her husband over the DUI he got a little bit a while ago had she had him like staged a hit on him then there was a whole thing the whole thing was a lie they were comparing Pelosi to Jesse Smollett

Denesha Susan went all in on this one which is funny because he went all in on all the conspiracy theories you're going to be talking about even though they're mutually exclusive you can't have a version where Nancy arranged the hit, and also Paul was having a gay affair with the guy who hit him.

Right. It's like, anyway. Well, it's also like the, like, I don't know, the, these exact types of conspiracy theories are the things that lead to

these events anyway. Do you know what I mean? So it's like this vicious cycle in like a feedback loop where it's like some guy read some crazy far-flung shit on the internet, gets radicalized by it, takes action, you know, in response to it, commits some crazy politically motivated attack, which then gets turned into this wild conspiracy theory about the evils of the left. And it just goes on and on. Like it's, I don't know, the shit is wild, man. Yeah. So DeSuzza said the guy was obviously

Antifa because the websites and his social media that contained all this conservative politics and conspiracy theorizing. He claimed they were fabricated just because he couldn't find them, but they were taken down like every mass shooter or attacker with the political manifesto was taken down because social networks don't want to be associated with it and also the FBI asked them to so they're not copycats. Anyway, all that's pro forma, but of course it becomes evidence of the conspiracy when you believe in the conspiracy just like everything does.

That brings the part where they're denying that the paper was generally. genuinely right wing, even though there's a ton of evidence. There was an interview with a friend of his today who talked about how he got radicalized but going on internet wormholes and the Q&9, January 6th stuff, COVID denial, all of it, anti-Semitism. So like anti-immigrant on conspiracy theories, which is funny because he's now part of an anti-immigrant conspiracy theory. We're going to get to him a little bit.

Right, right. So, but they had lied and said because it used to be affiliated with the Green Party in like 2007. And also, again, And because this guy was, like, part of some sort of nudist group and is from San Francisco and it was one point made money selling hemp bracelets that reads to them as a left winger, which is like, if you're familiar with any sort of how woo-woo politics interacted with COVID denialism and anti-back stuff, all those people are super right-wing now. So there's nothing different. Every nudist who sells hemp bracelets is now fucking Nazi. That's how that's how this works. Well, yeah, it's like their whole thing is basically like, he's a.

Damn hippie. Hippies can't be right wing. And I just- Charles Manson. Charles Manson was a fucking Nazi psycho. Also, I mean, isn't the QAnon shaman?

Like, he's that type of dude too, isn't he? Like, he's all like, you know, vegany, hippie,

dippy or whatever. And I mean, you know, it's not like it's unprecedented, but it's all, it's just funny that it's treated is like an incontrovertible fact of law of the universe by them.

It's like, you'd sell hemp jewelry. you must be a commie liberal or whatever. Yeah, yeah. So after going to secondly those conspiracy theories, the main one they settled on is when we mentioned earlier is that Paul Pelosi and DePape are lovers and the assault was the result of a lover's quarrel

that he happened to bring a hammer to, I guess. And because Paul got the DUI a few months ago, he also must be drunk at the time. They just fabricated a drunkness. I don't know where, but I got drunk before. Yeah, that too, but at least there's a guy there. They can't even prove anything fucking wine or booze in the house. There was a guy there.

Which brings us to Elon. Because when this went mega wide was Sunday morning when Hillary Clinton posted a news story about the attack and just said basic poor form of stuff about how this is bad for democracy when there are attempted assassinations, which is one of the things Hillary said that's true, one of the few. But so he tweeted this. He has like a hundred million Twitter followers. Yeah. And he tweeted a link to this story about how Paul Pelosi and David DePaper having a gay affair

from a publication called a Santa Monica Observer, which is the original definition of fake news. They literally ran a story in 2016 saying that Hillary Clinton was dead. and she had been replaced by a Democratic body double at a debate with Trump. This is the same website, the world's richest man is tweeting out to 100 million people. This is, it feels like we've lost the center of anything. Like, there's no shared reality. Yeah, no, and Elon, he's got such a cult now, especially after the Twitter stuff.

Because I know that, like, when Pelosi gay lover, it wasn't Pelosi's gay. gay lover. It was hashtag Pelosi gay lovers. It also had a grammatical error in it. But when that was trending, you know, on near the top of Twitter or whatever, most of the like the replies

and the tweets and stuff that I saw about it were people celebrating the fact that this was possible now on Twitter because of Elon. You know what I mean? They were like, thank you, Elon. Free speech is back on Twitter. It was like they're celebrating. It's like, this is the

pinnacle of free speech hashtag Pelosi gay lover but they're all jerking him off for allowing this to run rampant on Twitter as if like there haven't been crazy you know right wing hashtags have trended plenty of times before but yeah he's like become

you know attached directly to this type of shit and he's got a massive cult of personality and everything and yeah shit's just it's you know it's something else it's it's at least it's wild watching him radicalize himself in real time

because he's just going where the people tell him is awesome which I guess you have natural human instincts but it's just like Jesus man you got up until a few months ago you were the richest man in the world now I feel like he's broke now the way he's behaving he's broke as fuck he had to buy Tesla for work for three times

I mean he had to buy Twitter for three times more than it's worth his Tesla stocks down 44% crypto is went to zero so this motherfucker's going to be washing dishes in the cold months so there's just one problem with this conspiracy theory though And that's that it's been debunked by David DePape. Yeah, by the man himself.

Yeah. Yes. He told the FBI, and this is a sworn affidavit to an agent who specializes in domestic terror. So, like, if you're a raving conspiracy theory and you want to, like, I don't believe in any of this. Okay, but this woman will go to jail if this is wrong because we're going to law of that instrument. Okay. So the guy says he went there to break Pelosi's. knees unless she would come clean about the Democratic Cabal because she's the ringleader

of its lies. He was going to hold Paul hostage so she got there. And then he also, there's the LA Towns report that came out today that said he was on a suicide mission. And so I guess he wasn't going to stop with Pelosi after he broke her knees to get more names. He was going to go those places and break those people's knees to get more names and kill them or whatever. This guy was all in for it. But like you talked about earlier about how they'll jumpstart this shit, then run away from claim these people aren't theirs. We talked about this before, but imagine you're this guy. Right, yeah.

You risk it all over the call. It happened with the Qadon Shaman and so many of the other ones. It's what always happens. Like, you get disavowed immediately. Like, you think you're going to be, you know, a hero, like front page of the right-wing lunatic comic book, you know, and have your face on it. And then as soon as you do some shit that you've been led to believe is the exact thing that this country needs immediately, they start calling you,

a fucking commie left as hippie. They don't even do the naked gay Tommy left his hippie

like the honorable Republican conservative thing would be to accept the reality

of what he did and admonish him for it they don't even do that give him

that much credit they he goes like hey look what I did for Q guys

I'm down I risked off the cause and they go LMAO this dude gay yeah

it's like Jesus Christ fuck the whole thing is like I don't know how it got around and feeling sorry for him.

No, but didn't he, maybe you said this. I knew you said he planned on breaking her kneecaps, but didn't he also say he wanted to do that so she would then be in a wheelchair as like a sign to liberal politicians everywhere to other Democrats and stuff? Like when she rolls into the House of representatives

in her wheelchair, everybody will look at that and be like, oh, damn, we better stop caring about go. people and black people, I guess, or we're all going to get kneecap, too. But yeah, no, it was a pretty, pretty straightforward and vicious idea that the guy had, which he's been very, very open about, and yet they won't hear it. There was a, it doesn't, but like, this is escaped from either fact or fiction at this point, even though it's all been proven to be fiction.

It's just purely in the world of meme now, which means is nothing but jokes. The Paul Pelosi, who, by the way, I'm not a fan of. He seems quite obviously you're a crooked businessman. But he's an 82-year-old man who got hit in the head with a hammer, and he's still in intensive care. Anymore than Australia of humanity probably shouldn't be making a lot of fun of that. Not in public anyway. We all make shitty jokes in private. That's what being in private's four.

So let's run through a list of these. Don Jr. Suggested a Halloween costume that have alled a pair of underwear and a hammer. he also deleted like let's look at this for a second so that's used underwear so either he that's obviously yellowed out used underwear so either he posted a picture of his own busted ass filthy underwear or got on the internet and bought used men's underwear yeah let's figure this out uh he also posted a since deleted instagram post with an altered frame from a south park comic that depicted two men having sex it implies they were Pelosi and DePape. Wendy. Is part of their whole conspiracy thing that was Paul supposed to also,

did he also have a hammer? Were there two hammers? No. The guy attacked him had a hammer. Right. Well, so really, say Don Jr., this is a David DePape costume for Halloween. But that's part of the conspiracy theory is that DePape was in his underwear

because they were fucking. No, I know. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Like, underwear and a hammer. Oh, yeah, yeah. You're dressed, he, I'm just, I'm just, uh, yeah, I'm just trying to, yeah, I'm just trying to

point out that even in making his tasteless joke, uh, he, uh, that it's, it lacks logical consistency, you know, I don't know why I'd be surprised by, by that, but I do want to say that I seriously doubt any self-respecting sexy gay man would be caught dead in underwear that look like Don Jr's right there, but it's a whole different conversation. Uh, Wendy Rogers, who's in the, uh, is a low Arizona congresswoman, uh, in the state, in the state Senate. Sorry, she shared an Amazon listing

for a Paul Pelosi fake attack novelty item headpiece. It was like, you know, the things Steve Martin used to wear with an aerostick

made it took as an arrow stick in his head. It was one of those with a hammer. Office out of your head. Congressman Clay Higgins, I joked, he posted a meme,

it was like that. The moment you realize the nudist hippie male prostitute LSD guy was the reason her husband didn't make it to your fundraiser. It's what elected Represendatives, man.

You know what I mean? Like, it's wild that they, you know, used to the whole, like, line on any kind of politician was like, oh, they never say anything. Like, they can't say nothing. You know what I mean? They're so political and diplomatic all the time. And all they care about is PR and fucking, you can't get them to say anything real. And now they're just out here just letting their fucking fascist freak flags fly at every,

every given opportunity. It's, uh, yeah. Yeah, Carrey Lake had an event. She's running for governor of Arizona where she was talking about how we should put guns in schools and then made a joke about how Nancy Pelosi does, like Nancy Pelosi's house lists protected in our schools or whatever. And then the whole crowd guffawed at it, which is like, beyond it being dumb and kind of gross, it's not even a good joke. It's right a good evil joke. I can do it. Even the same when Glenn Yonkin made a shitty joke, he's supposed to be the same.

nice guy Republican the governor of Virginia because he wears a fucking fleece. I could have told he's as much as psycho as anyone, but the media got fooled by him because he presents his affable. But let's talk about the ways this tangentially relates to reality, because they're trying to spin into a story of an urban decay and crime. We talked about that one on Friday, but like,

they've gone way overboard, but like it's, this transitions from the realm would be in total, total, like, lies to just bullshit. Right? It's because, like, my, I want to tell you this tweet, Marjor Taylor Green tweeted that violence and crime are rampant in Joe Biden's America.

And as you said, it shouldn't happen to me. That was a reaction to Paul Pelosi to get hit with a hammer, is it shouldn't happen to me. Which I guess, like, Green already walks around, I think a person who's already been hitting the head with a hammer multiple times, maybe he's got flashbacks. But like, listen to this GOP rep on Fox News, if you want to see how they're talking about it, all right?

With this man who say that he was really disturbing, a megalomaniac and so out of touch with reality. So we have a, this is probably the bigger problem that we have on our hands right now, Congressman. Oh, 100%. I was a federal prosecutor. Like, when you let dangerous criminals out on the streets, you know, with bail and not put him in prison,

you're just asking for this sort of... He wasn't on bail! Right. He created the environment where this happens. In each of these cases, I always see a pattern of conduct. All right, you can go to pass. So, like, he's trying to make this about bail reform when nothing about this case, like, as we talked about on Friday, anybody that promises to stop crime is a fucking liar.

As long as there are bills, there'll be crime. So, like, you can make, you can do stuff to try to combat, combat crime and bring it down. But, like, fuck. I don't even know what to say about these assholes. No, it's just, they're just like, again, they're just, it's anything other than, you know, our rhetoric radicalizes people to be violent. The stuff that we all either, you know, either like implicitly endorse or outright push onto our base,

you know, leads to shit like this directly. The dude straight up admits it himself, but they just can't, you know, they can't have that. So it's just any other way that they can find to deflect it back onto actually the left. It's a human centipede information cycle.

because it's like we say stuff the gases got to hit somebody with a hammer we go on TV and say see people getting hit in the hammer hit with hammers and Joe Biden's America is you should elect us to stop people getting hit with the hammers and more people have to do hammer attacks and around and we go but like that's that's a cynical way to put it even more cynical way to put it is it's a nice head you have you better vote for us or something with a hammer might happen to it you know because this is just but like so that guy talking blames it on bail reform Hold that thought in your head while you listen to Charlie Kirk, probably the second most prominent conservative influencer in America, suggest what should be done about this. Why are we to blame for that exactly? And why is he still in jail? Why has he not been bailed out? By the way, if some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area

wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out. I bet his bail's like 30 or 40,000 bucks. Bail him out and then go. ask him some questions. He says, Dingo, ask him some questions. What's the, I don't know,

what's he implying there or whatever? What's he actually even saying? If we bail him out, we can get the real answer about the gay affair story. Okay. All right. Yeah.

Another element of this where it's not quite fantasy, but it's just bullshit is that DePape is an illegal immigrant. Now, the Pape is from Canada. I don't know it was immigration status. And neither do they. All right. It's important to remember this.

But watch Jesse Waters and Fox News talking about how he's an illegal immigrant. And that's the real problem here. Actually, you know what fuck? I just told you what he said, Matt. What's the point? Yeah, it's fucking, we're soft on crime, leave criminal out on bail. We let immigrants into this country. They're violent.

It's the first time I've ever heard them make that argument about a white immigrant, you know, a Canadian immigrant. I thought to Canadian, I thought they only cared about the immigrants that came from, you know, down there as opposed to up there. But just anything they can latch on to. I also saw that Ted Cruz liked or retweeted the whole thing about this dude being an immigrant from Canada or whatever. Ted Cruz is originally from Canada. Yeah. That was a Border Patrol tweet because like, so Border Patrol retweet this thing about, by the way, Border Patrol is not ICE or two separate agencies.

Border Patrol wouldn't necessarily know. this guy's immigration status. No one knows this guy's immigration status as far as I know. Because, like, I'm willing to bet that a guy that mentally ill forgot to re-up his visa. There's the tweet from the Customs Border Patrol Union, staying this. But like this all, someone tried to figure out where this started. There was a Washington exam or opinion piece that asserts that since nobody has yet reported on his immigration status, it must be because he's a little immigrant.

So because no one said or found out yet, obviously there's a cover up. All right, now we have the beginning of a conspiracy theory. So the logic is that since no one's report he's in the U.S. legally or not, we must assume he's not. So then you open the Border Patrol doing this because the Border Patrol Union likes this thought process because it wants to remote the idea that crime is caused by folks who don't have immigration status, and then corner retweets it because he's a shameless fucking hack. All right. So do you want to follow all the stuff that's happened here?

In the beginning, this is because of lawless San Francisco and Democrat crime. Then it's because of Antifa did it. It was a, you know, a false fire attack stage by Nancy Pelosi yourself. Then it was Nancy putting out a hit on her husband because she's mad at him for getting a DUI a while back. Then it was a gay hookup going wrong. Now it's illegal aliens are to blame. Or is it D or E or whatever rat by now? It's all the fucking above.

It's all the above. All these moose exclusive stuff are happening at once. They believe all of it at once. They don't believe any of it. And it drives me insane. And I don't know how we, like, somebody's got a fair way to pull us back from this, man, because you can't govern a country. We're like fully 40% of the people believes all this bullshit now. I know.

And it's like you said, it's crazy. It's because it's like you would think, I don't know, you would think it would matter to them to land on the one thing. Like, if they believe that something happened, you'd think they'd want to figure out what that one thing was and go with it rather than just throw all the shit at the wall and somehow simultaneously believe all of it at the same time. You know what I mean? even though some of it's contradictory and all this shit, it's just like literally anything but admitting what actually happened, which they unstract from the horse's mouth, you know, he admitted exactly why I did it, but they just can't have that. So here we are. In this case, it might not even matter. It doesn't really, I guess it doesn't really matter fully whether 40% of the country thinks that Nancy Pelosi's husband was having a gay affair. It might even matter, but I saw these two stories today in an environment where everyone's mad about gas prices. There are two elections, right? We, in Florida and Indiana, Indiana state Republicans in the legislature blocked a gas tax holiday and are running on higher gas prices to blame Biden. And in Florida, Ron DeSantis ended a gas tax holiday and is complaining running against Biden for high gas prices.

Now, their followers will never know they fuck their own constituents to make them mad about gas prices because they can't get honest information. And that's the thing that's the thing that matters more. Like whatever happens on November 8th after people vote, the things people come to believe about it are not going to be granted in reality because this right wing infrastructure has been built up where there's a pipeline from social media like Twitter and Reddit to fucking Fox News to Congress to the former president and it happens. It used to take weeks for it to happen. Now it happens in like 12 hours along with the help of the richest man on the planet or former richest man on the planet depending on we believe about us. Fridays. So yeah.

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I'll just give a little shout out. My Tennessee ball is undefeated going into the game of the century this Saturday against Corey Forrester's Georgia Bulldogs. I was getting ready for the show and hadn't looked at it, but Corey said, I guess the college football playoff committee ranked Tennessee number one and Georgia three. I didn't see that coming. Also assures me we'll lose now. But either way, it's been a magical season on Rocky Top and I'm pretty happy about it. Skew me on YouTube says Elon sucks straight to the point. anyway. Okay. Hold on that. I want to talk about this. Yeah. Nicole Johnson says anyone else deactivate their Twitter.

We and Mark, we're talking about this a little bit before we started, and it just really, I resent the fact that I, like, objectively need Twitter as one of my mechanisms for, you know, reaching you lovely people out there because I'm not happy about it either. But also, like, you know, we don't have to necessarily seed the space to the lunatics just yet. Obviously, I have selfish motivations, but yeah, it's like the way Corey put it was he was like, you know, I don't, it's the same way I feel about anybody's got any sense moving out of North Georgia, you know, he's like, then the only thing that's left behind are the Marjorie Taylor Greens of the world. And I think there's something to that. But yes, I'm just saying this because, you know, I need to post promos and videos and stuff on there. So y'all only follow me is what I'm saying. just follow me nothing else turn on twitter and just be a try crowder app but no people definitely are there's an exodus for sure um yeah what do you think about all that mark taylor stam says i'm watching twitter's decline and it's fascinatingly tragic yeah what do you think about it um

i am personally going to take a lot of joy and helping Elon lose every last dollar that he can i'm gonna be a part of it because like you guys like paid attention to the background like what he's up to but like so today he've announced yesterday he's like we're going to charge $5 for a verification badge and then by the end of day it was $20 and then Stephen King said, I'm not paying fucking $20 to be verified and he

I was like oh come on man we're going to get the lights on somehow how about eight? How about eight? I thought it was like haggling with Stephen King as though as if the price point was the sticking factor for Stephen King

you know what I mean? Like the fact that it was like Stephen King would be like okay well hey we can work what about six Can we go six? Like, I don't think it was the specific dollar value that Stephen Kane was balking at. So I did the math and said that even if, like, a full 20% of Twitter's verified users paid the full $20 a month, it would still add up to one percent of the debt service and the money Elon was forced to bar to buy Twitter if you fucked up and made the deal. Like, general consent, people seem to believe that Elon did a hostile takeover Twitter, which he sort of did at the beginning of the year.

But the end, he was forced to buy it after really not one. him to because he didn't have the money anymore. Right. So, like, he had Twitter to take him court to make him buy them. He doesn't want to fucking be there. He's already fired half the staff. He can't afford to pay them. It's like, he's sweaty right now.

Zach H says Elon is like Edison. He stole all his best ideas from other inventors. I feel like that's what a lot of those guys do, you know. Yeah, but Elon didn't, Edison at least invented some stuff. Elon didn't even, even about Tesla. He claims he found it, but he bought it from two other dudes who were all. already established the company like his biggest his big innovations were getting a bunch of federal tax credits and stuff so like also i didn't realize this till recently do you know what

Tesla makes their money because it's not by making cars they sell the carbon offsets they get um and extra for being in a green company and two polluters so the net the net impact of their business is increasing pollution so yeah of course it is oh yeah that's just about right right there Um, he's just, what if, what if, what if, what if, what if, what if Elon, pretend he didn't have any money and you look his behavior, he'd be like, that guy's fucking dumb. Uh, yeah, absolutely, dude. Yeah, based just on his like social media presence. Yeah, I have, you would absolutely think that. Uh, Nikon Colopacom says updates on the Georgia governor race, Grassley, Oz. Uh, yeah, I know Mark said the, before we started, you were saying the latest polling is looking pessimistic or trending and. direction but we talked about in the patron episode on friday polls are sort of up in the air anyway so but yeah if you guys aren't patreon subscribers we talked about basically they interviewed a bunch of pollsters about the state of their industry and the general takeaway was the end of the piece was pollsters take polls less serious than we do because they know all the flaws big ten of them

so just go vote and hope they're all a little off you know they're just guessing they're guessing they're guessing based upon limited responses and guessing about what the shape of the electric looks like sampling the responses based on that and they don't know yeah um yeah i don't know what are you uh what about oz and fetterman specifically uh i i think the fetterman oz race would be the one i would find most in i don't know it's between that or warnock and and walker i can't figure out which one i'd be more like pessimistic about state of politics at least at least at least George you'd understand why Republican would have a huge big advantage, but Pennsylvania is like a purple

state. It's like isn't Oz's huge comeback victory based on nothing, but racist trolling would be infuriated. Racist trolling and ableism about a Federman's stroke and lies

about it. So that would, I think that would find that more depressing. Kim Cusado, long time watcher, and I believe also a patron, says polls are a coin flip. um yeah i don't know that again that was the whole thing on on the last patreon episode was trying to you know get into why they seem to be so much less reliable and it has a lot to do with their outdated methodologies and stuff like that they mostly rely on just cold calling people

and trying to get responses and it's like who the hell answers their phone anymore not just cold calling people the thing that blew my mind was cold calling random phone numbers like it's like auto dialing random phone numbers with the same area code so like everyone has a cell phone now I don't live on my area code is, neither to you. We talked about that on, too. So, like, I would be getting polls from Texas. Yeah.

I don't know what use of this shit is. Mr. Wondress says we need Beasley votes in North Carolina. That race is closer than Georgia probably. And she's not getting any money because after the last few election cycles, the National Party refuses to believe

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it's probably a very good night for Democrats. But I hope he does because Ron Johnson is probably the second worst person that's currently in the Senate after Ted Cruz. It's close. There's a lot of bad one. But like, Ron Johnson's running on coding Social Security.

I don't fucking have. They used to be the third rail of shit. And like nothing sticks to these dudes. They just bullshit the way through everything. It's amazing. No, and I know the Mandela Barnes is focused a lot on like working people in labor unions and things like that, you know. And that's the type of shit that I've screamed about for years.

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