Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 11/02/21 – Va Governor Race To The Bottom

Episode Date: November 4, 2021

Tonight we talk about the hotly contested Virginia gubernatorial race, which has been a hell of a thing, even by 2021 standards. Also in case you missed it, JFK and his son were supposed to rise from the dead today, there’s a bunch of Satan in the vaccine, and lots of other super dumb stuff as well. Support the show

Howdy there, everybody, welcome back and happy skews day to you. It is November 2nd, 2021. I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? Trey, you remember last week that we talked about the Let's Go Brandon thing, and you were marveling about how stupid it is? Yes, I do remember that. So there's a thing that happened over the weekend where a pilot,

Southwest Airlines as the plane touched down from I think Houston to Albuquerque said let's go Brandon and there happened to be an associated press reporter on the plane for whatever weird cosmic coincidence and so the incident went viral and people lost their fucking minds right? On which

side? On both sides or what? Well, every it's like there were like the people like former FBI agents and CIA agents who are currently CNN commentators which there are far too many of those in my opinion who were calling for the guy to be prosecuted

and investigated and, like, it's one of those things where, like, it's the perfect stupid fight because everyone's appealing to a higher authority that doesn't exist except maybe Southwest's, like, human resources department, and it just doesn't matter. Like, it's like, it's like the perfect social media fight because no one can say

anything smart or even handed about it and that few characters. So everyone's very easily dunk on a bolt. You know what I'm saying? It's like, one, yes, it's a stupid joke. Two, who cares? Three, it's good and fine to say fuck the president. YG and Nipsey Hustle made a song,

Rest in Peace Nipsey, called Fuck Donald Trump. There was a huge hit in 2017. Remember that? This is less offensive than that, and it's fine. Fourth, like, you probably should not be trolling people who's obviously holding your hands as an airline pilot.

Yeah. That's fair and fine. And Southwest Airlines are probably asked him not do that maybe give them a week off work for it to send a message and no one else i'll be doing either but also anyone there's float southwest airlines know that they are encouraged on that airline to be cheeky on the microphone yeah yeah so it was all really fucking stupid and by the way libs everyone out there when you're being trolled the way to make it stop is not by getting really mad about it yeah i um i don't know like i like you said i just feel like people saying fuck the insert president here is sort of part of just being the president you know what I mean

half of the country is going to think fuck you you suck uh and of course they've you know they found their little cheeky workaround with let's go brandon instead of fuck joe biden which is also just as we were saying last week not necessary you can just say it you know you're not like it's not as cute or clever as they as they think it is but yeah it's you know whatever i certainly don't think he needs to be drawn and quartered uh for no somebody asking about asking about to do that again and that's fine yeah all right so with us is always producer matt doing his thing this is weekly skews want to remind you if you're vaccinated want to see me live you can go to well read comedy dot com for tickets and information i hope to see y'all out there will be in washington state

this weekend, Seattle on Saturday and Spokane on Sunday and a lot of other places in the near future. So yes, come and see us. Okay, tonight we cover the big Virginia governor's race to the bottom. Yes, the hotly contested gubernatorial election that is seemingly centered largely around critical race theory, despite the fact that it is not taught in any of Virginia's public schools. Conservatives up in arms over something that isn't real, the hell you say. We will talk all about it and cover the results as much as possible as they come in. in. But first, we've got a litany of truly dumb dummies for you, starting at the top with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic. Tonight's DD, JFK and JFK Jr. for allowing a little white drizzle to stop them from rising from the dead. That's right.

Cuen honors, only two days after Halloween, have flocked to Mark's old stomping grounds in Dallas, Texas to welcome the walking dead to the realm of the living. at a Rolling Stones concert, headlined by the Kennedys, but featuring also Dale Earnhardt, Robin Williams, Richard Pryor, and a bunch of other dead people. For what reason?

I'm not really sure, but it doesn't seem to be going too well so far. Does it Mark? Any of them showed up yet? No, yeah. So today was the, what do you call it? What years is?

It's 2021, so it's the 58th anniversary. I can't do math. I mean, I had that quick of JFK being assassinated. And so they gathered on Dealey Plaza about 1,000 people by one count. to stand around in the rain and wait for JFK to JFK Jr. Well, Simbo thought it's because a lot of them think that JFK Jr. Faked his own death and has been undercover trying to stop the petal soccer ball, right?

Right. But there's also a subset of them who think that JFK and Jackie L are both going to be there too because they were going to rise in the dead. All three of them like a Holy Trinity kind of thing. And they would also, this is true, switch us back from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, I think, in which case that JFK would still be president, and therefore he could hand power to Donald Trump. Oh, okay.

So wait a minute. Hang on. JFK Jr. faked his death, right? But JFK and Jackie O are going to rise from the underworld, having been dead, to join him who has only been fake dead this whole time. Yeah. Yeah.

And that would like Donald Trump, the president again, all this zombie Kennedy action. Yes. So when JFK, neither JFK or nor Jack EO showed up at Dealey Plaza today, they're like, oh, well, I guess because it's just because it's raining, but a Rolling, there's a Rolling Stones concert in Dallas tonight. My friend Dave's going, shout out Dave. And because Rolling Stone, you remember when Jesus came, I know you weren't in the, you weren't, you weren't churched as a kid. you're a little heathen but so when jesus rose from the dead he rolled away a rock from the uh from yeah i know that there's a rock involved in there yeah yeah so rolling stones they're gonna roll the stone away roll the stone away i get it that's what they've been meaning in this this whole time yeah

50 year career with the culminate in the forebanded in 1958 or whatever uh the whole point's been leading to this uh so anyway so a lot of fun shit happened so this is all of course a bunch of idiots making stuff up in real time doing somebody right rolling stones were in town so but they were hiding from the rain here's a video uh matt said to his version maybe the audio sucks we'll see if it works but play that video of the people of breaking this down map the plan's going to be my is here I'm a visit oh by the way I have another piece information November 3rd at 1.30 a.m. It should be about two and a half hours after the concert.

Trump is flying into the White House at 1.30 a.m. Why? So two and a half hours after the concert ends, Trump's landing at the White House, and he'll be president again after the Rolling Stones gone. Because I guess that's the travel time from Mora Largo to D.C. as soon as the Rolling Stones concert. What I liked about this was like, you're kind of getting to see a little, this is sort of how the sausage is made.

I feel like with their predictions, like we get to see how their predictions apparently work. Because you talk about, oh, they all came here to see him rise for the dead. Then when that didn't happen at the appointed time, they of course immediately moved the goalpost to, no, well, it'll be this time instead. And you think, like, are they just literally making this up in the moment? And it seems to me that this is how some lady just yells, I have another piece of information. and then just says a thing, and they're like, oh, okay, so that's what's going to happen now. And then when that doesn't happen, some other lady or dude will yell some other thing that they'll then wait for it to not happen and just, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, it's like, it's just all numerology and shit.

So like, like, just it's simple. It's as simple as there was a stone that rolled in the Bible. There's a Rolling Stones concert, ergo, obviously. That's it. so they they they before they more to more on this in a second but like hey tray have you ever been to dely plaza no so it's really it's not much it's a little park and the the the the grassy knoll is literally just a four foot tall hill that's like right over there it's not like some remote sniper's nest it's a little hill right over there and uh it's not it it's not it it's

I've heard to be the subject to so many conspiracy theories. Even calling it the grassy knoll makes it sound more like it's 20 feet away, a four-foot tall hill. Anyway. Right. So, and there's also a weird thing. These people thought drivers were honking at them because it's this weird tradition when you pass the X where it marks the spot where JFK was shot.

People will honk their horns out of superstition or whatever. So people thought they were cheering them on because they were honking at the X. So anyway, they did have a good time. By the way, if you want You're just talking about how much bullshit this is How child like this is So this is from Telegram, I think, or Discord at QAnon channel.

Here's the image is where they were breaking all this down and explaining why JFK was coming back. If you throw that up there, bad. So here's the funny part to me. Negative 48 is JFK. I'm not sure why they arrived at negative 48. It's a neurology describing his president number. Anyway, as of midnight the second,

the world will go back to Julian calendar. Thus, the day we'll go back to Auburn 20th. That way we'll have two. Halloweens. Yay. These are a bunch of adult stray. Yeah. We're excited about two Halleons.

Here's a funny thing. Living in Dallas with the alcohol rules, like I've been in lots of bars when the time when you're falling back, they will do last call. And then when the clock gets two, it pumps one a.m. again, they open the bar back up. So kind of already get two Halloween's in Dallas. Oh, nice. Yeah. I feel like they're, you know, they're targeting children with this, I think, you know, with

this idea. All of trying to get the kids on board is, hey, you get two Halloweens. But it is so funny that in the middle of this, like, just screed of lunacy, you know, about all this apocalyptic stuff that's going to happen, including the dead rising from the grave and the literal second coming of Jesus and all this. They do take time to point out. Also, side note, we get two Hallowanes. How great is that? So we're running a little behind so we skip the next couple of a video. map but like they did they didn't have a little fun they did the world's weakest let's go brandon

chant wearing while waving a sign that said trump jfk junior 24 which i'm not sure because that'll be third's trump president's return if he's reinstated at midnight so i'm not sure how that work but that's beside the point uh they also the uh jf k would jack was killed at 1230 and so he was supposed to reappear at 1229 why one minute early i don't know but they led up to it by they counted down by doing the pleasure allegiance they all stood around thousand people doing the the Pledge of Allegiance. And then the clock hit 1229 and nothing struck in nothing. Right.

I always wonder like that moment, the moment, you know, like how long do they give it? Is it like the 15 minute rule like in college where the professor doesn't show up, then you can leave? Except that's how long they wait before they make up a new prediction on the spot. Like just, you know, the moment in time where the insane thing, of course, doesn't happen. transition from that into predicting and then waiting on the next thing, you know, the ends and out of how all that works. I like to see unfold. Well, that's why you keep your predictions vague.

Like, that's why, like, Fortune cookies and astrology really has it figured out, which you do not do say, this is going to happen to you at 12, not 29 p.m. Anyway, I don't know how you hang on into a belief system where God's plan just got rained out, but whatever. Doesn't he control the range, right? Yeah, right. So these people, like, they really do live in the world where everything happens with their TV. And so, like, they were walking around when JFK Jr. and JFK and other famous political figures didn't show up.

They saw, there's a guy there who looked like Robin Williams. Everyone decided that must be Robin Williams. He affected his death too. And this lady, she gives his video where she goes, he was wearing a mask, but he definitely had Robin Williams' cheekbones. I was like, what the fuck people think he'd talk? Like, it's like people thought, people that said Dale Earnhardt was there. Somebody said Tupac was there. There's a prediction that Kobe would be there.

This is like all the greatest hitters in history just showing up to reinstate Trump as ghosts. I don't really fucking know. There was a Richard Pryor siding too, so that's cool. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to make of this. Yeah. A thousand people. A thousand people showed up for this.

Yeah. And these are like the, even in the world of QAnon, this is the fringe, right? Like QAnon is already like fringe. This is like the fringe. of the fringe, you know. So, I mean, I guess we shouldn't be surprised that there's like Halloween ghost presidents involved, you know. Yeah, these the cute people, the other Q people think are embarrassing and stupid. But still a thousand of them, flew through the Loon and across the country for this.

That's like if they're a small fringe of even Q, that bugs me. Yeah. All right. Our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass, Satan himself for having too much of an ego when it comes to his nefarious plans. That's right. You put up the screen grab there. Matt, they have discovered, not that one. buddy the other yeah about to listen to this this is the head white house correspondent from newsmax who's

breaking this news here dear christians the vaccines contain a bioluminescent marker called lucifer ace luciferate luciferase luciferase i don't know how it's supposed to be pronounced but it's got lucifer in it so that you can be tracked read the last book of the new testament to see how this ends now i thought Satan was supposed to be a grand trickster, Mark, like it seems a little short-sighted to just put your name directly in the vaccine like that. I'm surprised it took them this long to catch on to his scheming. Well, I mean, we went from the greatest trick the devil over pool was convinced in the world that he didn't exist to being, hi, I'm wearing a, like, hello, I'm Satan wearing it. My name is Satan T-shirt. I'm like, so anyway, there is no luciferous in the vaccines or whatever,

but it is a bio it is a term for a bioluminesic chemical that is in some medical so like i don't really understand because lucifer it's something like lucifer in the latin or whatever has to do with light like light bringer yeah it's like it's like bringer yeah light bringer and this is this stuff that makes lightning bugs butts light up is this stuff so it's just you know that's uh that's where it gets its name but yeah it's like first of all if i don't know if the vaccines did make your butts light up i think there'd be a lot of instagram influencers jumping all over that, I think. Way to get ahead in the butt game, the butt sharing game, make it light up, you know,

lightning bug style. But also just the whole, like saying, like essentially just saying the vaccine has the devil in it is just such a great example of like the self-parody that they, you know, participate in all the time. Because it sounds like something, that sounds like a half. joke you would make about what anti-vaxers say. Do you know what I mean? Like, oh, it's the devil. It's got the devil in it. But now they're literally saying that it has the devil in it.

It's one step up. There was like the conspiracy theory a couple weeks ago that if you looked at the vaccine under a microscope, you could see like tiny like squid like organisms. They're aliens. Yeah. And this is like... Devil, Cthulow having a part in the vaccine. This is like one step above

that because at least you did learn a science word. You know? So, but if the vaccine did make my ass light up, that would make going to the bathroom in the night a lot easier. When it turned light on, it would be hit, honestly. So. Yeah. All right. Our next arm will mention any American school child who is a,

or in American school children are flunking people eating class. That's right. Thanks. In case you missed it, getting wild out here in our nation's classrooms. A lot of people really upset about it, including this lady. Play the, play the clip, Matt. I'm just wondering if we're attending a clown show. This is ridiculous.

You know how ridiculous you guys look with all these masks on? Satanic. Okay? You know, Satan's agenda is behind all of this. And I want to address what is actually behind this agenda, the fearmongering. Masks don't work, and neither does vaccines. It's destroying and it's killing. right before the Holocaust and let me remind you they mask them up so that they are not being told they're dumbed down

all the children why are you attacking our children and the reason why you're attacking our children is because you want to program the children to turn in the parents and right now there are classrooms in the United States that are teaching cannibalism where does this come from okay what else are you guys going to be doing. Cancabalism class. Where does this come from? Indeed. Like, whether you, like, if you want to get it's like, like a donner party thing. Like, you know how they were like that one lady was talking about Tony Morrison's beloved or

something? So it's like somewhere this lady heard that a kid was taught the story of the donner party or something and that turned into they've got cannibalism class right after recess down at the, you know, the middle school down the street? Or is it just literally just, this is some satan-y sounding shit, and Satan's in the school board, henceforth, cannibalism class? I don't know why we try to make sense of this stuff. Yeah. I'm trying to figure, like, you know, break down the train of thought or the logic that goes into these things.

I'd sooner lasso the moon, Mark, but, you know. Yeah, I mean, that's something is your thing is trying to really connect with these people really understand where they're coming from. I don't really have any interest in understand. There's nothing deeper there, man. There's nothing behind it. She just pulled out of her ass and there it goes. It's like, you know, I don't know. Yeah. Okay. Well, our next honorable mention, he's becoming a daily dumbass Hall of Famer in my book, one of my absolute favorites. It's Texas Congressman Louis Gomer. And really, the dumbass here is anybody that doesn't understand that in the world of agriculture,

warm equals good play the clip matt trump years we have been producing 1.3% less carbon dioxide and we can debate about what that does to the environment whether it makes the temperature warmer Experts have said, if you've got a choice between the temperature getting slightly warmer or slightly colder, you want warmer because if it's getting slightly colder, that means there's less time for crops to grow. If it's slightly warmer, not too much warmer, then you've got more time for crops to grow, you've got more food, and you have fewer people starving. so there's a lot of various Trump years we have

so the thing you piss to me off about his folksy demeanor is the man's obviously never grown anything because that doesn't make any like someone to grow up on a farm

like some stuff won't grow when it's warmer yeah it's just like farming 101 so it's not even based in anything it's like what the fuck I don't know, like, yeah, he's like, you know, and they say, you know, maybe with global warming, we could, you know, grow more corn in Canada that way, uh, or, you know, might be bad for what Russia would do with it. We're not sure about that. But, uh, generally speaking, uh, you know, can't grow corn in the snow. That's all I'm saying. I've read where experts agree on that. And this is why I'm trying to bring the sun closer to the earth, uh, if I could get, um, the Bureau of Land Management to work on that finally.

Yeah, Trey, Trey is referencing one of his old hidden videos where he tried to talk about bringing the moon closer to change the ties or something. Or perhaps the Earth, failing that. See, he's not unreasonable. Like, he doesn't just, he gives you options,

just a few things you could try. If you can't get the moon closer to the Earth, you could also then try getting the Earth closer to the sun, see? And you could maybe try both things. see how that pans out, you know, see what you get from it. He also is worried about windmills, murdering birds all the time. No, solar panels exploding birds.

That's a pet. That's a pet passion. I didn't want to do Gohmert Overload, but that same speech, there's another clip where he talks about how, like, we have the fossil fuel companies to thank for toothbrushes, you know, because they're made of plastic. And then he goes on a long tangent with, like, I'm well aware that throughout history, people have brushed their teeth with tree bark, but I personally prefer the modern, Listen, I know it's just a nightmare that this dude is in Congress, but like, I'm kind of a fan of Louis Gump, like as a concept, like as a character. He just, it's so wild to me that somebody

that dumb and wild could be, you know, an elected representative. The man has a, he has a thick front tooth that comes out during floor speech as a Congress, and he just like catches it with his tongue and puts it back in without his hands. It's like, it's, wow, he's a lunatic. Absolute lunatic. This is the, we've got a theme in the middle portion of Daily Dumbass here with lunatic Congress people. Next up, let's skip the pharmacist, I think, since I've set this up this way and go

to Chip Roy, Matt, to see what he's on about on the floor of the house. I got a prescription for Ivermectin. So to my wife. We each went to go get it filled. And it's not horse medicine. I didn't roll down to tractor supply, which I go too often, to go get supplies for the land on which I live. And yes, I've seen the Ivermectin in the cabinet at tractor supply. I know, this was a prescription for pills of Ivermectin that we wanted to have on supply in case we thought we needed it.

so we go down to get it filled at a pharmacy CVS and the first time my wife went down there they whispered in the back he's oh we can't we can't do that we can't fill that prescription oh well finally one person came in an overroad and said look do they have a prescription okay yeah well then go ahead and fill it so they fill the prescription then I go down to get the prescription filled that I got, a few weeks later, they wouldn't fill it. Went to another pharmaceutical company, another pharmacy, I should say. They wouldn't fill it. Finally went to a third one and we got it filled.

Why is that? Why is that? I have an answer for you, Turo. And this is like, we talked about this last week, but they want different rules for themselves, right? So, conservatives have run around for the last 20. years trying to pass all these like conscience bills for pharmaceuticals do not have to fill stuff like birth control and plan B and abortion pills right so they freed pharmacists from obligations to follow prescriptions so in this one instance they go down there and like there's

another video we just skipped where a guy was trying to try to tell pharmacists he's legally obligated to fill his abermectin prescription and the pharmacist who doesn't want to be responsible for hurting this guy or misleading him or uh just to get money from under false predenses or perhaps hurting him, uh, says no. And he keeps yelling at this pharmacist, but the pharmacist does have a choice and he has a choice in this matter, specifically because conservatives won these fucking fights. This is your fault. Sorry, Chip. Can't get your hyperbectin. Yeah, well, it's also he says that they were getting it, they were trying to get it filled because we just wanted to have it on hand just in case we might need it. And it's like, that's generally not how prescription drugs work.

That's the reason you got to get a prescription. to get, and I know they got a prescription from a doctor, but I'm saying that's why there are these trained professionals have the ability in the first place to keep that from happening because, you know, people don't know what drugs are or how they work and you can't just go down to the drug store and just go to the, you know, the horse pill aisle and pick up some horse pills. It's also fun to me, first of all, how he had to make sure to make an aside that, and by the way, I do, I drive a tractor i have land i clear brush and stuff i'm you know tractor supply where i often go for supplies for my tractor which i drive because i'm a man on my life chip chip roy is from

fucking maryland he's from fucking maryland these guys like like there's a certain class i live in texas like 11 years right and there's a certain class you talk to any texan about this it'll drive them insane there's a type of person who moves to texas because they have an idea of texas based on no country for old men and truck commercials and the New York City pays pecanis sauce commercial and they move to Texas and they start acting like

what they think Texans are which is insane and ridiculous and crazy so they get boots and they start talking about going to the tractor supply and they run for offices of Republican and they ruin every fucking thing you're not from there

stop acting like it get on with your life and be a responsible person also Ibermican is not an EpiPen you don't have Ivermech to land around just in case It's not like Narcan or whatever. Right.

And it also is funny to me how he kind of like acknowledges that it is horse pills also. But you know what he means? Like, yeah, I know they've got it at tractor supply for the horses, okay. But that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the miracle cure kind. Yeah. The drug is the drug. They get mad at me called horse paste.

And I understand why because it's sort of a semantic insult. But like, it's the same drug. It's like saying, I don't need horse hay. I eat people hay. It's fucking hay, motherfucker. I don't care. Yeah. All right.

And our next lunatic congressperson also becoming a hall of famer, Lauren Bobert, who's really upset about Pete Buttigieg's nipples and stuff. What? Yeah. Here, let's see it. Mayor Pete was on a two-month maternity, paternity, whatever the heck you want to call it, leave. The guy was gone. Okay?

The guy was not. not working. Because why? He was trying to figure out how to chest feed. Maybe someone should tell him, please, so he can get back to work. Listen, I'm a mother of four. I delivered one of my children in the front seat of my truck. Because as a mom of four, we got things to do. And nobody got time for two and a half months of maternity leave. We have a world to save here. but her delivery is fucking awful and like she's obviously reading of her

her speech and not doing it less. The paternity maternity thing was also like clearly a planned thing, you know what I mean? Like she's doing a thing and trying to act like she isn't like oh I just messed up, you know, whatever it's called but that was clearly part of it.

Also like do you believe she gave birth to her fourth kid in the truck in the cab of her truck? Because it's her Yeah, maybe. I don't know. I mean, her husband's pulling his dick out of the bowling alley and she got arrested probably running her purse and was fucking like freaking out at a music festival or something once and wrecked into a ditch and shit. She's like, she sounds like one of our white trash cousins in a lot of different ways as opposed to a congress person. And, you know, I probably got a cousin that's had a baby in a truck.

So, yeah, I could see her doing it. It's a weird flex, I think, for a person in the House of Representatives to be talking about birthing inside a pickup truck. but, you know, playing to the base, baby. How is your takeaway after giving birth to a kid in a truck that we need a worse health care system?

That's fucking amazing. I know. It's like we ain't, nobody got time for that whole having a baby in a hospital instead of a truck thing or whatever.

It's like she's such a mover and a shaker that it necessitated the truck birth, I guess. She's got a business to run, Trey. She's too busy getting a,

de-rating from the health department and getting sued from constantly causing e-coli outbreaks with pork sandwiches. So, yeah, she's, she's got shit to do. Maybe, maybe she shouldn't wash her hands after she gave birth in the truck. That's why she got all those people sick at a restaurant. All right. So producer Matt's giving us some updates here. We might as well get into the main chunk of the show, I guess, to talk about the Virginia governor's race, which I guess since this is happening now, we might as well start by saying, and then we can talk about some of the shit that's happened in the race. Matt is telling us that the sentiment on Twitter is that it's turning for

Yonkin, Glenn Yonkin, the Republican from Dave Wasserman on Twitter. I've seen enough Glenn Yonkin defeats Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor's race. And that's not like full on official, I don't guess, but that's what what we're hearing, what we're hearing

here at the skews, Mark. I just referenced the results in he's a, with 52% of the vote counted, he's up by like eight points or some shit. So remember Biden won this state by 10. in so yeah what is what's that say to you I don't know man but it's there's so like we're swimming in so much bullshit like

I'm just really depressed man my whole family still does in Virginia yeah yeah yeah a couple of work a bunch of them work for the state um yes don't hit so everybody went crazy if you're wondering what the general feeling like in Virginia was the last couple weeks. Let's talk to this guy who's really mad over critical race theory, especially because it won't even tell him what it is. Yeah. What's the most important issue in the governor's race here in Virginia? Getting back to the basics of teaching children, not teaching them critical race theory. And what is critical race theory? Well, I'm not going to get into the specifics of it because I don't understand it that much,

but it's something that I don't, what little bit that I know I don't care for. And what have you heard that you don't like? Well, I'm not going to, you know, I don't. That's the whole race. That's the whole race. I know. That's all of American politics right now,

it feels like to me, you know what I mean? Like, they're really good at that. Like, they find the thing that, like, latches on with these people, and it doesn't matter what any of the reality is surrounding any of it. It's just that it works, and then they just pump it out there over and over, and they just fucking lap it up, and it just becomes a thing. Yeah, that guy really sums up the whole deal, I feel like. He's real pissed off about it and has no idea what it even is or is supposed to be. It just upsets him.

Yeah, yeah. So we've got a couple more videos, I want to show you, but just since we already know he's going to be governors to tell you who Glenn Yonkin is, a little bit about him. Well, first of all, he's 6-7, so congrats to him on that. He's very tall. He's probably America's tallest governor at his point, I'm going to guess. He played basketball on a college basketball on a scholarship at Rice University with career averages of 1.4 points per game. So basketball was not his calling.

But he still did pretty well for himself. He's worth about $440 million. How do you get that money? Yeah. How do you get that money? Well, he worked for 25 years if he quit to run for governor. They worked for the Carlisle Group. You might have heard of the Carlisle Group before.

Back in the mid-2000s, they were one of the subjects of the Michael Moore documentary, Fahrenheit 9-01, merely because they were very close to George Bush and made a lot of money off 9-11, which is not necessarily their fault. But here's a fun little fact. Osama bin Laden's brother was literally at a Carlisle Group investor conference at the very moment 9-11 happened. So hopefully, Yonkin, enjoyed working with him.

Ah, fuck. This is not to be conspiratorial. All rich people know each other, and there's like, there's like, of course the Bin Laden's were in business with the bushes. They're all in the oil. They're all rich people in the oil business. So the end of this race, because Yonkin doesn't have a biography to run on, but he's just some rich guy who filled up in finance and private equity.

He doesn't have any ideas, not that people like anyway. He literally was caught on Mike Singh and didn't want to talk about abortion publicly. He was that he didn't want to alienate swing voters. And so we just talked about critical. race theory and education this whole time because Terry McCawoff had a gaffe in a debate where he said he didn't think parents should be telling schools what to teach which did not play well even though it's

patently true as we talked about last week and the end of the race got really race baity and bleak. Let's play that campaign ad that's just video, the borrow videos of black kids in high schools fighting each other. I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach. Glenn Youngton's taking my words out of context.

Here's some context. As Former Governor, McCullough pushed left liberal bureaucrats into our schools and pushed parents out, covering up rape and sexual assault in our schools. Now our schools are teetering on chaos, violence in kids' classrooms, Virginia students and teachers in danger. Terry McCullough failed, Virginia children and parents. I'm Glenn Yonkin, candidate for governor, and I sponsored this ad. Inspiring stuff. A lot of people are comparing that to the Willie Horton ad. Um, or, uh, you ever heard about the hands ad, Trey?

I don't think so. So this is tangentially related to comedy. It's that part of, that part of interest to you. So, uh, when Jesse Helms was running for Senate, they're running for reelection Senate, he was, uh, almost defeated by young um, upstart, whose last name is Galifanakis. He happens to be comedian Zach Alphenakis, his uncle in North Carolina. And, uh, until Jesse Helms, uh, Galvanakis is obviously a funny sounding name. It happens to be Greek.

Um, he, he ran an ad, and as. that just saw it was a white hand trying to fill out a job application and a black hand reached in and jerked the hand away from the application. That's my black memory with the applications. So Jesse Helms, it was like for us, not them, or someone was with them.

So it was like immigrant baited Galaphanacus and also was racist against black people, yada, yada, y'all. Jesse Helms was a piece of shit. And Zach Alfenacchus should be the nephew of a former senator. So, kind of, sort of on that note and the whole critical race theory thing in that campaign I just saw and how like how thinly veiled all the racism is and stuff I saw kind of as

compared to the gravity of the whole situation kind of a silly thing happening with this today we Matt you put up that tweet that picture of the guy at the Yoncan campaign stop this was all over Twitter earlier if you've got it so they got a picture like Yonkin's last big campaign stop or something like that and there's a dude sitting right in front of the press uh press area yeah right there matt right under the video you just played there's a picture and he's got a cowboy hat on and a denim jacket with a confederate flag sewn on to the back of it right and it was just tweeted as like oh here at the big glen yonkin rally or whatever and so then a whole bunch of conservative people on

Twitter started flipping out and saying that it was clearly a hoax, like that the Confederate stamp was clearly brand new and just sewn on to the jacket. Oh, this guy's just very conveniently located right in front of the press, so he's going to be right in the middle of a shot. Yeah, there he is that. And they were like, yeah, sorry, not buying it. Nice try. Nice false flag, false Confederate flag there, liberal Twitter. I'm seeing the replies. For context, there was a kerfuffle where the lincoln project paid some actors to show up to a yonken rally wearing nazi gear um so that was sure and this guy might be a plant right i'm but i still just think that the indignation is kind of hilarious because you know you're from virginia i promise you there are plenty of people in virginia who rocked a confederate flag and i also promise you that every one of those who is voting is voting for glen yonkin Like, it's that they are the official, you don't, you're not necessarily all Confederate flaggy, if you like Glenn Yonkin, I guess, but they are officially the party of the Confederate flaggy persuasion in this country. So when they try to act like they're not, it's just hilarious to me.

You know what I mean? Like, if that dude is a fucking plant, that is some horse shit, but like, it doesn't matter. Like, that is who they are, whether that dude was actually there or not. not you know like it's just it's horseshit yeah i mean it's horseshit all the way down that same rally the new york don't you saw people going crazy over the new york times coverage of this race because one um one of the political reporters talked about uh Biden to yon voters but the guy he held up as a test case was quite obviously i've been a conservative for like decades and it's like actually a party operative and writes like race baity stuff for like those weird race science journals

so it was just and and his day job was fake because he runs a nonprofit that doesn't do anything but his soak up fine. It was a very weird fuck up by the New York Times. And then the story about that campaign event you just showed the guy wrote it up is like Glenn Yon ends his

campaign on campaigns last night on a hopeful note as he speaks to an audience and blah blah about critical race theory and it's like how is your takeaway we just watched that ad. How would your takeaway that this is a hopeful note? I mean Trump literally Trump literally named his

inauguration speech American carnage and it was worse than the title sounds and he's like the role model for all these deeds there's not

a lot of hope you know involved in this movement yeah hope not not super big right now hope

yeah yeah the good news if I could offer a positive takeaway from this is that Virginia's governor

isn't very important it's going to be held up as a as a bell weather for the midterms and the 2024 presidential race when it's not that. The party out of power, the presidency almost always wins Virginia's governorship for whatever fucking reason. Right. Yeah, I saw that earlier. I was going to ask you about that.

But I guess McColliffe was like the only one in 50 years for that to not be the case. For whatever reason, Virginia always has an opposite-party governor from the president or something. And I was going to ask like how much of a Harbinger or Harbinger, or Harbinger, every set of things to come. Because it's been painted, like, sort of like that, like this. It's like a test case or whatever. And if Yonkin ends up just, like, whipping his ass, you know, I mean, it's a little alarming. I feel like how much does that have to do with Joe Biden, the Democrats in power and what they're doing with it or not doing with it, you know, and all that type of shit.

As far as how he'll actually govern, like, the campaigns, the hard part of these two is you try to split the difference between between keeping Trump's support. supporters and not alienating sane people, right? So in office, he's probably going to govern like a center-right Republican who's annoying on social issues. Like, if you can get an anti-abortion bill to the House of Delegates, he'll probably sign some mild version of one. He's bad on trans issues. He'll probably, but like, Virginia's governorship's not a stepping stone to the presidency

because you only get one term, your term limited out after one. And it's just a weird state. I wouldn't I wouldn't I'm not worried about my relatives in Virginia except for the immediate term the huge lifting of COVID restrictions yeah yeah so I don't want but they're all vaccinated except for the kids so I just don't want to mom getting COVID even if she's got her booster shot so yeah so what is the deal with the the big bit speaking of the Democrats in power and what they're doing with it the big bills build back better and bipartisan bill and all that shit. But you said before the show, there's like maybe an update on that front. Yeah, Chuck Schumer announced they had a deal on prescription drug spending, which has been a big holdup because Kristen Sinema did not like any of the plans to try to lower prescription drug prices. They seem to have reached a deal that she is okay with. And everyone seems ready to move forward and vote for stuff.

Now, let's talk about how bad the Democrats are in politics. Maybe McCall was going to lose by enough that this wouldn't make that much of a difference. but all the general vibe of dysfunction and incompetence that surrounds the Democratic Party and their inability to just do stuff. If they had passed these bills a week ago, the end of this election campaign probably looks a lot differently as far as how people feel about Democrats.

If you swing one voter at every 200, I don't understand swing voters. I can't wrap my head around them. They seem like by and large, like a type of person who honestly believe you disappeared when you go behind your peek-a-boo hands. Um, but you've changed one out of 200 minds and you get two people who didn't feel like voting because they're mad at you to go to the polls. That might be enough to turn the election.

And there you go. They're just bad at this stuff. Um, they think people follow the news super, super closely instead of just getting vague impressions of how things are going. And, uh, here we are. Yeah. They don't hit. No. Matt, I don't, Matt, best, send this in the chat if they've anything news come out about the bill.

It's like they're still hovering around 1.75 trillion, I think, for all the mansions making noise about when to see what happens to the deficits or, I don't know, that's fucking stupid. Matt, if you want to, if you have that screenshot you were talking about, about the governor's race, you want to put it up there, you can so we can see what, what you're talking about there. Shane Goldmacher says, look at the southwestern most corner of Virginia. Yonkin at 89.9% in Lee County up from Gillespie, 79.2%. in 2017 with more votes total already in and not all votes yet counted the democrats keep falling further and further and further in rural areas yeah and this is from the new york times shang this with the new york times yeah that's uh you know depressing to me as a uh rural former rural whatever american but uh not surprising though can i rant for a second because

this seems like fairly obvious to me why this is the case yeah um the democratic party and liberalism in general is dominated by a particular strain of like cosmopolitan coastal people who all went to grad school and think everyone else did too and they talk about things in very academic ways and all while governing neoliberally and not actually investing stuff and helping people so like they do they started with politics exactly backwards like when i was a kid it was always democrat Democrats were proposed like a social program. Republicans would say it's just a handout to the poor minorities. Democrats would say, no, it's not, even though it sort of is because any sort of social program is going to disproportionately help poor people, it's going to disproportionately help poor people in minorities, right?

Because they have their money distributed in America. And that was always the contest. So what Democrats have started doing instead is announcing they want to do programs to just help poor people and minorities, just literally giving away the politics, And then not passing any of it. Like, like, the example is like a couple weeks ago

with that big fight over Joe Biden proclaiming Columbus Day, Indigenous People's Day, he picked a fight on social issue over nothing while offering no concrete help to actual indigenous people. What you do, which you don't issue the proclamation to heat up the culture war, what you do is just pass a program to help indigenous people. Yeah. That's the way you help them. They will tweet out Happy Trans Day and not do anything to help trans.

It's like you're antagonizing social conservatives, but not giving people programs that actually help. It's like, it's just very clear to me that they've, all they do is talk. It's all language. It's all just stuff about, when people get mad about woke politics or whatever, it's just like, that's so dumb. But also, like, you don't have to, like, give them ammo for it. It drives me insane. Yeah, no, I mean, we said, you know, after the last elections, when it was settled that they would have some, you know, semblance of power, you know, that, okay, well, do something with it and make the things that

you do be things that actually help people, you know, out and have an effect on their lives. And that will hopefully mean more than just, you know, tweeting about shit or whatever. And of course, so far, they just haven't really done any of that. So it's like you said, they just, the rhetoric pisses people off on the other side. And then there's nothing to point to, uh, to counterbalance that in terms of actual. effects, policies, or anything. So you're left with just the rhetoric, which they really don't appreciate to begin with. So, yeah.

I'm glad you read a book on intersectionality. I'm sure it was fascinating. I'm sure you've got a lot of insight in the culture and how things work. But instead of talking about that, tax a billionaire to spend on a school. Do that instead. So, yeah. Yeah, let's see here. Look at this.

It comes up. Joanne Walkup says, Smart Mark is so smart. I agree. Talk is cheap. Dems need to do stuff. I like that, Mark. That's a very simple slogan,

and I wish they would understand it and follow it because, yeah. They are metrocrats, Linda Joe Huber says. Democrats who don't see anything outside the metro areas. And it's like, I feel like also a big part of their whole deal with that has been like, oh, it's a lot, you know, they write that off. Like, we're not going to win. those people anyway. So like, let's not try at all. But if it has the opposite effect when they're just mobilizing them further and further against you, you know what I mean?

Then like it's going to get even worse. Like it's really going to bite you in the ass. Like what appears to maybe be happening in Virginia as we speak, you know? I don't know how to tell someone that if you do the right thing and it doesn't personally help you that you should still do it. Yeah. It's like I don't like said, that famous headline from 2016. I don't know how I'm supposed to tell you, convince you they're supposed to care about others. But it's like you can't keep doing this.

And I say that even in an environment or Democrats have one of the popular vote in the presidential elections like every year except for once since 1988. So like it's not lost. It's just like the Democratic consultant class is a jobs program for people that don't want to finish their doctoral degrees.

And it's like, fire all the consultants and just go show take hands and talk to people, you know? I don't tell people. McCall-I mean, McCalleth, like, McCalliff is a perfect example. He wasn't a, he wasn't a terrible governor, but he's like, he's just about the money. He's just a corporate class political consultants who likes fundraising. And sure, he'll pass some decent stuff, but like he wasn't going to do anything to people.

Carrie Whaley says, I like McCullough's agenda, but he's an awful candidate. He only became governor because he ran against someone Cuchinelli, who looked. but crazier than he did. You agree with that assessment, Mark? I don't. Yeah, Ken Cuccinelli was nuts. Cucinelli was essentially, Chucinelli was running on literally a Neo-Confederate platform.

He was like, he was running on, his main campaign plank was saved the Confederate statues, which a lot of people in Virginia, are favored, but also it's just not enough to hang a whole ad on. That was in 2017, too, after Trump had just gotten fucking elected. I mean, no, this was two governorships ago. So it was before Trump, but maybe I'm mixing up my candidates. I don't know. Sorry. It's been a while. It's been a long day.

Catherine Lane says, many Democrats are owned by the dark money. I hate to say it, but it's true. Well, many Democrats are getting buried. And I mean, yeah, it's definitely, I mean, Mansion and Cinema, you know, it's what's going on with them. The money is everything on both sides. It's a plutocracy that we live in. It's just that's who really happens the place. there would be 51 Democratic senators and we'd have a much better bill if this dipshit called Cal Cunningham

hadn't sexted a lady two weeks before in North Carolina Senate election last year. This is how short-sighted and selfish these motherfuckers are. And I hate all of them. Rusty Martin says I spend my days consoling my wife

who is a pharmacist in Texas. She's putting ghost in your blood or so she's been told. Yeah, that's got to be very frustrating. I've made it. Back to ghost in her blood. That's some, you know, that's some old time. It was like in the last plague when we had ghosts in our blood, you know,

they're giving you mercury and bloodletting and all that stuff, get all them ghost out of your blood. They're wearing the bird mask and shit. You know, I'd hope we had gotten past that as a society. But here we are. I remember. Oh, oh, wait a minute. Hold on, hold on, because I always forget. Thank you.

If it would probably. Yeah. Like it. Thank you. Thank you. you, uh, Heinzzy Nunya, uh, I'm just like you, the last names of you. None, Nunia. Yeah, I appreciate it. Like and share, tray. That's, but all the show, like, subscribe, all that stuff. I never say it. Yeah. Until I'm reminded. So thank

Heinzzi, do that. Sorry, Mark, what were you going to say? I was going to thank Heinzzi for being more professional than we are. I appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't like, I remember joking in 2016. They were going to have to redo the enlightenment. And I was joking at the time, but this is worse than that. Because even in the black plague people knew to stay away from people that had it they weren't trying to get it on purpose right they didn't know why they didn't know how you got it they knew you got it though also dude given that they were uh putting the chickens on their wounds and drinking the mercury and all that stuff the people in the black plague if we had given them a shot to take to keep them all

from getting the fucking plague they would have lined up around the block to take it you know what I mean, in a heartbeat, man. So, yeah, shit's pretty dire when you're getting, uh, getting wrecked by the, the denizens of the black plague. Through my eyes says, I think let's go Brandon is popular. So in quotations, Christians can say it without swearing. I don't know. I think they just like to feel clever, you know, I think it's an inside, it's an inside joke

that trolls people who are on your in group who get it. It's, it's very, very simple. It's like, it's like. kids using slang it's it's it's not it's not it's i don't first of all i grew up in a southern baptist church people are fine saying fuck it's not a big deal uh for the most part not the women but the men um and i don't know if anybody really care that much about it i think it's just people like inside jokes you know yeah sorry i'm looking at these comments over here so how i'm trying a lot of people are bringing this up about you know we on a recent episode we were talking about this about how like they the party seems to be being held hostage entirely by two bad actors right now really i know there are more but the like if it wasn't for mansion and cinema you know would all this shit still be happening so uh like judy socal here says how can dembs do national stuff when they don't have a real majority in congress a lot of other people pointing out like look it's 50 50 mansion cinema

the way they are and it fucks everything up for everybody, you know. I mean, it's a, look, we're like, we're, we're, we're trapped in a circle here because, like, they can't win elections because they don't do stuff when they have power. You're saying they can't do stuff because they don't have more power, so that's why they lose elections. It's like the, the, the context here is that the, the party fundraising apparatus squashes primaries against candidates who actually want to do stuff and then tries to run tries to primary candidates who do want to actually do stuff for working people they're they're actively

the fundraising apparatus is the party are actively trying to get candidates like cinema and mansion who do not want to do much stuff so they're saying to support us so we can win elections and do stuff while actively like they're talking out of both sides in their mouth and even when they get power, they we just had an election a year ago less, what a year is it? Like, less than a year ago, the Senate were off in Georgia where they

literally said, give us these two seats and we will do X, Y, Z. Now, either they were lying or, like, it wasn't, the argument over the $2,000 bucks or whatever, because Trump sent out you know, 1400 and Biden said,

we just meant we're going to take it up $600 to be two or whatever. It's like that weird fight was just like, why are you even having that fight? Why are you making people disappointed in? You're just sending them two grand or don't or whatever. I don't know the right answer here. But like you explicitly said do X and we'll do Y. We did X.

They did not do Y. They, so like, they're falling short of their promises they can stop making them or just admit they're lying about them to begin with. Like, I don't know what to tell you, but like they, it's like the parties, the parties actively trying to not do stuff. I just don't know. Right. And then meanwhile on the other side, like the guy we showed earlier with the critical race theory thing, they don't even, a lot of times they don't even have to do stuff because the shit they're mad about isn't real. Do you know what I mean? Like they have that boogeyman and whatnot. So like the rhetoric is all you need on their side. I feel like they haven't historically been great at doing shit either. You know, I mean, they wanted Obamacare gotten rid of for like over a decade or whatnot and had every. branch of government for a big chunk of that time and just, you know, kept fucking that up too.

So it's like a congressional problem, just our politicians, they're just not big on doing stuff, I feel like, but I feel like it matters way more on our side because of the differences in like the rhetoric and the dog whistling and all that that they have, that they, you know, can fall back on. Like the doing stuff isn't even as important to them, I feel like. it is i mean not to quote spaceballs but um evil will always defeat good because good is dumb you know it's like that's uh always a good but it's it's it's true you there you've frozen oh you're just trying to you're just trying to read when you're trying to yeah so my mouth's open and i'm afraid yeah uh yeah i mean it's just it is easier to it's always

easier to destroy than to build that's why that's why republicans like the filibuster more than Democrats because, like, the stuff they want to do, they don't need to get over the filibuster to do. They can do it with 50 votes. It's just passed a tax cut. Right? Democrats need more votes because they want to actually build programs. I get that. It's a harder thing to do. But, like, that's what we have to actually try.

You know? And like, the whole, like, the whole thing about Manchin and the build back better plan and all that shit is like, Pelosi Bumble fuck this by separating the bills when they were always supposed to be contingent upon one another. So she gave Manchin, took

way all of the leverage over mansion and then they could just put the floor bills on the floor and all the vote at the same time and made him vote they didn't do that uh i want to end on this comment because i just appreciated it uh this is this is from tech nauseated on youtube a kid i worked with kept saying foot bucker in front of customers and legitimately thought that the adults didn't understand his secret code and i think this is a typo or something something but so let's go brandon reminds me of that yeah uh which yeah you know it's an industrial teenager you got their footbucker he cracked the code with foot bucker do you have did you have did you have a hamburger joint fudruckers were you yeah of course yeah the idiocry that becomes

butt fuckers hmm yeah that makes sense does make sense all right well uh sorry about virginia mark nothing hits yeah i'll be there next month also i'll see how to glen cool all right well thank you all for joining us you can go to weekly skews.com and get you shared if you're so inclined you can also go to well read comedy.com for my tour dates and whatnot if you're vaccinated of course and uh hope to see y'all out there and either way we'll see you right here next week on weekly skews thank you say you love you bye you