Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 11/14/23 – Fight Night

Episode Date: November 15, 2023

It was a rootin’ tootin’ day at congress with at least two instances of almost fisticuffs. To whatever extent it was hidden Trump went full on mask-off fascist over the weekend. Also should the government allow for-profit A.I. revenge porn? Silicon Valley says yes. Mark’s hosting and Corey’s hopping on last minute because Trae is in 1883 with no wifi. Join us!Support the show

Good evening, viewers of the skewn universe or whatever Trey says at the top of the show. Whatever Trey says. You've done this every day. I don't want to be listening to Trey. It is, welcome to weekly skews. It is Tuesday, November 14th. I'm Mark Aegee, filling in for Trey Crowder, who is in Nashville where apparently he got an Airbnb where he's got the Flintstones like. like the routers like the Flintstones with like a little bird. Yeah, yeah. So Tray tried, but couldn't join us.

So we got Corey Sub in last minute. Here's Corey around Forrester. Join me tonight. How are you doing, Corey? I'm doing good, Mark. Yes, this is the most last minute I've ever been. I've been called kind of last minute to do skews, but usually like a couple hours. I was literally in the middle of a transaction in Chattanooga.

I was purchasing some old Greek tragedies as one does, you know, when they're me and have some time off. And Trey was like, can you do the show? And I was like, wait, isn't it in 30 minutes? He's like, drive fast. So here I am. All right. Well, I'll be telling you about the news because stuff happened today. I do. Thank you for coming here. I find your affinity for bookstore is so quaint. It's like it's, yeah, it's like it's very. It doesn't match who I am. I mean, it does inside, but it doesn't match what people think of you when they look at you. For sure. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for that, Mark. Yeah. Before we get to the show, I wanted to say, at a very weird weekend where I had two friends become like international memes.

One is a buddy of mine who used to stand up with back in Dallas who does like basketball analysis for the Mavericks pregame and he did like this epic rant about how James Hardin's a huge loser. And they got like hundreds of millions of views and then the network deleted it and tried to act like it didn't happen. but like people already grabbed it and put like the ether beat from gnaz over it and like started out his face is up and another one my friend nia was at the ufc fight where trump showed up with kid rock right yeah they walked into a kid right to a kid rock song and sat down and she was behind him flipping him off so of course she's getting like nothing nothing really happened except she got a bunch of fucking death threats yeah i saw i that i found out in reverse like I saw a pundit from like Fox News or whatever tweeting, like randomly tweeting about how she's

fat, which she's not, you know? And I was like, wait, what's the context of this? I was like, that's a random person to just go after. And then you sent me the clip and I was like, oh, it makes so much sense now. Yeah, it's like so funny because like the fuck your feelings crowd is so mad about a woman flipping off Trump. Right. By the way, Trump's been, he got flipped off like half the crowd of an Iowa football game just like a

month or two ago. Those were all white people though and fat. they have a kindred spirit with those people yeah it's just so funny like the people chatting let's go brand is literally like fuck joe biden right you're like how good get the vapors it's like you're first of all it's at a ufc match where you're all there to watch people die and you're wearing my middle fingers yeah it's like it very much it very much goes with their normal methodology of like with thanksgiving is coming up and we all know that they see you know people those type of people always say, hey, you know, you don't talk religion and politics at Thanksgiving.

And I've found that what that means is if it's different than ours. You know what I mean? Like, if you have the same politics and religion as me, we can talk about it all the time. Don't bring anything different in here. So their whole, you know, fuck your feelings thing is like, your feelings, not mine. My feelings are valid. Yeah. Yeah.

Anyway, what crazy world, speaking of which, there was a march for Israel. DC today and like it's a very weird crowd uh Michael Rappaport was there uh Michael Michael Rappaport Chuck Schumer uh Hakeem Jeffries uh speaker of the house Mike Johnson I got to say that you want Mike Johnson so vague and Pastor John Hagee the mega church pastor yeah San Antonio spoke at it and John Hagee if I found myself when I was staged of John Hagee, I'd be like, wait a minute. Yeah. This is a guy who suggested the Holocaust

was God's punishment against disobedient Jews and said the Antichrist will likely be partially Jewish as was Adolf Hitler. This guy took the stage to march for Israel. This is a guy. And introduced Michael Rappaport. Michael Rappaport, John Hagee.

John McCain rejected Hagee's endorsement 2008 because he said God sent Hitler to help the Jews get to Israel. Wow. Yeah. My thing is, like, today'd be a good day to call for a ceasefire, Joe Biden. This thing's good.

This war has made such strange bedfellows and things getting it's so fucking insane. It'd be nice for women to calm down a little bit. Before we get to the show, a couple quick plugs I think I'm supposed to do. Trey's got road dates. He's somewhere coming to you soon, all over the country. He's in Nashville right now. I don't know why. Well, yeah, you can go to Treycroutor.com and get those.

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Or you can go to weekly skews. Dot more, I think, is how that goes. All right. I've got a great show for you guys. We're going to talk about Trump coming out full fash over the weekend as if he was ever hiding it. The academics can stop debating now. But first, we're going to talk about some zany of fisticuffs in our esteemed national

legislature. And The Daily Dumbass, Matt Graphic Pleas. Tonight's dumbass is any U.S. senator who thinks a fight with a teamster is just going to end with just fists, Matt plays with the video. When I was building my plumbing company, myself and my wife was running the office because I sure remember working pretty hard and long hours. Pretends like he's self-made. What a clown. fraud always has been always will be quit the tough guy act

in these Senate hearings you know where to find me any place, anytime cowboy oh come on tech shit he's mulling it over yeah we can be to consenting adults we can finish it here

okay that's fine perfect you want to do it now I'd love to do it right now Well, stand your butt up, then. You stand your butt up. Oh, hold it. Oh, stop it. Is that your solution of your pulling?

No, no, sit down. Sit down. You're a United States senator. Actively. Okay. Sit down. Can I respond? Hold it.

Hold it. Are you cut it, Matt? No, I have the mind. All right, so America's quite a tapestry. So you've got a redneck from Oklahoma, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. Mark Wayne? Hold on. His name is Mark Wayne.

All one word, Mark Wayne Mullen. Shut the fuck up. It's one word. You're trolling me. No, no. That's awesome. Arguing with a teenster's head named Sean O'Brien. He was the most incredible mass hole energy I've ever heard my entire life.

Yeah, that's the perfect name for that guy, Sean O'Brien. Yeah, both being admonished by Bernie Sanders and his, like, Brooklyn Jewie accent thing. Like, it's like America's a land of contrast. So this was a Senate hearing and the health, education, labor, and pension. committee where Sanders is holding to try and review how unions help working families. And this kind of embolizes how unions help working families because when an asshole exec is trying to yell at you, you'll have a guy go fight him for you. But it escalated the point where Bernie says, this is a hearing and God knows the American people

have enough contempt for Congress. Let's not make it worse. All right. So this is a real throwback day. It reminded me of 1798 when two members of Congress named Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold tried to kill one another with a walking cane, a pair of iron fireplace tongs on the floor of the house. I remember that? He has a painting of it. Yeah, which I fucking love. Because the two guys

are trying to beat each other to death, and you can't quite see it. I urge everyone to go look it up. Because everyone else watching is just laughing their ass off. Yeah, it's got a real, like, I don't know, that. It was obviously stupider and more like John Wayne put on kind of, but it reminded me of like the old school British Parliament days where they were all standing up with their wigs on, just like, telly who, my boy, I shall cause a ruckus.

The background for this has been going, their beefs been going on for months. There was a Senate back in, I think, March, where Mullen told O'Brien to shut your mouth and he had exchanged, and later they both got on social media and fired off at each other. That's what O'Brien was reading from there. called him a clown, a fraud, a piece of shit. And basically, O'Brien, Mullen started a big plumbing business and a real estate business and sold it to like, yeah, like $30 million. And O'Brien basically, like, you're a fat cat CEO, profit off other people's labor. And he got really really mad about that. Like, everybody's like, I work hard. Everybody works hard, man. This is America.

This is not the point. It's like, I work nine to six every day for my $100 billion. It's like, yeah, that's, I get it. Yeah. Let me ask you this, Mark. Did one of them consider taking off their white glove smacking the other one in the face and officially challenging them to a duel? Because in my country, that's how it starts. That's the protocol.

Mark Wayne did go on Fox after this and say they should bring back duels. No way! No fucking way. He pointed to Andrew Johnson beating people up and they're like, maybe, like I've heard people make this point, like ironically or papoy or even people do this bit on stage or it's like, Like, people would be, you know, more civilized. They thought you could hit him. And I get what he's saying. But also calling some guy with $100 million in anti-union,

calling him out in this bullshit, I think is in bounds. That's not something that's unfair. So what he's really mad about, the tweets he's reading, I went back and found one. This is Sean O'Brien. He wrote, greedy CEO, pretends he's self-made. Reality just a clown to fraud. Always has been.

Always will be. Quit the tough guy in these Senate hearings. You know where to find me. any place anytime cowboy hashtag little man syndrome and included this image if you haven't matt of mark way and mullin standing on a box at a debate all right dude this mace hole's hitting for me real hard uh so anyway today after this was over with this wasn't directed at o'brien it was directed to somebody inviting him on a podcast to debate this but he posted this picture he's wrote let's do it any place anytime and the picture of him

loading a gun. Oh, my God. Okay. Well, that's a bridge too far. So, by the way, Mark Ray and McMullen is trained. Like in 06 and 07, he fought in three mixed martial arts fights.

He won all three. And the total fight time was less than 10 minutes. And he followed a total less than three full rounds. So I would not want to get in an octagon with him. But you're going up against the Teamsters here, buddy. Right. it's not going to be, it's going to be bats and bricks in a 22 to the back of your ear and you get rolled up in a rug.

Right. Like that Jimmy Hoffa situation, that Jimmy Hoffa situation was an outlier. It usually goes to the teamsters. You know what I mean? And also, like, I guess to be a little bit serious here, like, how many people on this dude's camp have to approve a tweet where he's like, me and this guy had a disagreement of words, I'm going to threaten to shoot him. Because that is what you should do.

That means I'm a very serious person. Yeah. I was thinking about Teamsters. I was working on a show once that tried to use a – the bosses tried to use a nine-union crew. Oh, boy. And the Teamsters found out about it and surrounded the building and beat the execs cars with bats. Yeah. So these are not people I want to fucking best with.

Anyway, that was just one of two fights on Capitol Hill today. or near-fist near fights no way fisticuffs I believe yeah the other one was a representative Tim Burchett from Tennessee went on CNN

Southern Kevin McCarthy hit him in the back I'll be here just watch this video Matt explain to us what happened with you and Kevin McCarthy well I was doing an interview

with Claudia from NPR a lovely lady and when she was asking me a question. And at that time, I got elbowed in the back, and it kind of caught me off guard because it was a clean shot to the kidneys. And I turned back, and there was Kevin. And for a minute, I was kind of, what the heck just happened? And then I chased after him, of course.

As I've stated many times, he's a bully with $17 million in a security detail. You know, he's the type of guy that, when you're a kid, would throw a rock over the fence, run home and hide behind his mom's skirt. And he just, you know, he, you could have met from. Okay, hold on. This guy's not supposed to hit for me, right? Because he's kind of hitting for me right here. I like this, like, swaggy papal energy.

No, I mean, he's, you'd probably enjoy having barbecue with him, but no, he's a psychotic ass. You know, he's the one of, like, he's one of, like, he's one of the guys who after the big school, coming to school shooting in Nashville was like, well, it hurts the same no matter what gun you get shot with. Wow. Okay. Well, fuck him in almost every instance, I guess, except for this one. He's just kind of, he's responding in a way that I like. You know, most GOP people don't respond in a way that I like. I enjoy his demeanor here. But as we all know, there ain't a river so long, don't contain a bend, I suppose. Yeah. So the context here is he's one of the eight people that voted, eight Republicans have voted to remove McCarthy, which is where McCarthy has a beef about it. And here's McCarthy trying to love.

I'll tell you why we know he's lying in a second, but you can tell, I probably tell he's lying. Because his mouse moving? Yeah, there's that. But also, listen to the tone of his voice here real quick. A reporter was interviewing virtue or something. I guess our shoulders said, because virtue runs up to me out. I didn't know what he was talking about. I did not run and hit the guy.

I did not kidney punch him. I did not shoot anything like that. He didn't. All right. No. So it's always a clear. I can tell fucking right now. That's like back in the day.

Yeah. Like back in the day when like some squirmy kid would like flip off a bully thinking the bully had their back turn and the bully would turn around. They were like, no, no, I meant the guy over your shoulder. What were they? Like that's, yeah. That's a, by the way, when they pulled that iPhone out, I thought it was a gun. And I was like, holy shit, we buried the lead on this. Yeah.

We really haven't had a bud, our budd wire situation a long time. time if you guys don't know our buddwires uh so uh the reason one of the reason we know he's lying is like bertit was talking to a reporter in the middle of when when mccarthy hit him it was like apparently hard enough that he fell over into the reporter like she saw it all and she was recording him she posts the audio and uh berchette goes and chases him he says what a jerk when it happens and chases him down he goes what kind of chicken poop was that he said chicken poop no he did not dude i fucking i can't cannot get over the just piled-on cake makeup phoniness of the GOP when it's like, I know that

you're not actually upset because if you were, you wouldn't be able to choose the word chicken poop. Yeah, it's like, you got to have a friend who's like, just say chicken shit, buddy. You're like, you're about to try to fight a grown man on floor Congress. So just say, in the halls of Congress, just say shit. Some more context here. Adam Kinsiger, who's a, you know, a Republican who turned on Trump after January 6th, He had a book just come out, and he said that Kevin McCarthy intentionally shoulder-checked him twice, sort of similar to a Burchett's story.

McCarthy, of course, denies that, too, but he just lies. Some more context here is Mark Wayne Mullen and Tim Burchett also have beef. Bichet, McMullen runs like a fitness workout group for a bunch of Congress people, like a bipartisan, like, CrossFit group or something. And he kicked Burchett out of it for being enemies with Kevin McCarthy. Just all these people rule, man. Just fucking total psychos. as a as a new father i wanted to include that is you are a new father i wanted to include this last story uh some more fun in congress this guy in pat fallon a congressman in texas said he was

retiring from congress to run for state senate which everyone thought was super weird because that's going backwards backwards yeah i was about to say that's not even a lateral move like what the fuck are you doing yeah so he has stated reason that he wanted to spend more time with his family. But I'm going to quote here from the story that quotes him. But after making his announcement Monday and talking more to his family and his constituents, he reconsidered his oldest son Thomas was distraught. No, daddy, please. Less time. Run for president. I'm assuming his son meant like his dad was given up fighting for the cause or whatever, but the phrase he just fucking killed me. And all this is happening when the government was set to

run out of money on Friday. Right. Right. slap at each other and shit. And last minute today, the House did pass a short-term continuing resolution to kick the can down the road until January where we will do all this again. And more Republicans voted against today's continuing resolution

than voted against the one that got McCarthy shit canned. So I don't know what the fuck these idiots are doing. Cor, are you proud to be in America? No, Mark. Not really. I mean, listen, I mean, there's a There's an undercurrent.

You know, we write about it a lot in our book around here and over yonder, Mark. It's the duality, the duality of the Southern man as the drive-by truckers have written also just exists to me as an American, you know, at large. I'm not proud, but it's like at this point, it's like, eh, what are you going to do? Yeah, I mean, like, Republicans keep making this point and kind of hits from me. It's like, this is what more of a democracy looks like is people fucking arguing and fighting and yelling. And I'm like, okay, that makes sense. It's not wrong. Yeah.

Here's the thing, though, a lot of the stuff that we've been talking about here is infighting between, you know, the GOP and shit. And I'm all for that. Like, you know, Birchette or whatever, I was like, wait, am I supposed to be on this guy's side? And I was like, he's a Republican. How could I be? But then I look and it's like, oh, he's talking shit about McCarthy. All right. I guess, you know, this is like me watching a football game where my team isn't playing.

And I just, I'm like, fucking, I hope. Everybody scores all the time, baby. Right. And it's sort of like, like if the context was different, like, if what they were fighting over was, you know, we only have X billion dollars to spend. But we need, one person's like we need to spend it on hospitals. Another person's like we need to spend it on children's cancer research and they get into an argument over it. That is a hidden argument for me. Right.

This is you cost me my job as house speaker because I'm a lion dip shit. And then you kicked me out of your cross-fed group. Yeah, it is different. And that don't hit. But, you know, whatever. It's good television. All right. So let's talk about the stakes of next year's election because reporters are finally

getting around to talking about that. Even using the word, finally, let's talk about stakes. It's like, okay. And I'll get that in a second. But so a couple of things happened over the weekend. A couple of pieces came out. This first one behind the curtain, Trump allies pre-screen loyalists for unprecedented power grab. Basically, they're setting up a shadow government so far of 54,000 people across the

government to assigned various departments to be pure Trump loyalists. They're using artificial intelligence from Oracle to screen social media posts for the most deranged tweets. That's how you get a job. Honestly, that's the smartest thing they could do is outsource it to artificial intelligence instead of stupid intelligence. Yeah. The Heritage Foundation is working with Trump on this.

I just said this apparatus is orders of magnitude bigger than anything ever assembled for party out of power. So, you know, they're coming forth this time. And talk about the stakes reporting thing. One of the reporter who tweeted the story out said, this is stakes reporting. Me, like the alternative to horse race coverage. Instead of talking about polls and who's down and who's up, talk about what the candidates would fucking do, which they almost never do with Trump. So I found this at least a little bit, you know, helpful. But also, it's funny to me they have to announce, here's something substantive for once. They had to say, like, what if you were like 25 minutes in your said like okay now for a good joke yeah i've done that i think a couple

times i was like well you know i better i better let him know it's going to start getting good from here on out uh the uh the like to me the stakes this are insanely high like if these changes are allowed to take root like even the long term it sets a stage for generation of like america at least semi-dictators yeah full on dictatorship of trump has his way but like it also like i don't remember like how the how the iraq war was ran but because trump couldn't i mean because i'm sorry george w bush couldn't find anybody with sense to participate in it right they would like get like 27 year olds who graduated from like christian law schools to run like the iraqi police ministry or something they didn't even speak arabic or whatever it's like so like if trump has his way basically one of these 54 000

people would probably be a 22 year old uh you know liberty university graduate charlie kirk clone yeah who thinks the earth is 6,000 years old, and we put in charge of the FDA, even though he thinks, like, not drinking raw milk is gay or something. Yeah, it's not good, dude. None of it's good. I mean, this part is scary, obviously. And then there's the, and I don't know if y'all have talked about this on the show, but, like, him going to the UFC fight actually brought it up in my mind,

I was like, dude, if he runs and picks Tucker as his running mate, I don't think it'll be close. you know and I really don't I really don't like I don't Tucker Croson's extremely off-putting to majority people man I know dude

but like him and Elon are boys and like he's off-putting but like to the people that Kamala Harris is off-putting to he might get a lot of people out to vote like I don't know it terrifies me just like that level of media

control and shit because like dude when Elon first took over Twitter and everybody was like bitching like oh man he's gonna make this far ride or whatever now I don't didn't like Elon, but I was kind of of of the camp. I was like,

okay, look, what's really going to happen is he's just not going to suppress as many hateful things. And that does suck, but like everyone will be able to say whatever they want to, whatever. But like, bro, he's retweeting Tucker Carlson every day. Like, he's clearly,

anyone that thinks like Elon Musk is like, he's just an intelligent, independent. No, he's not. He is a full-blown fascist-style Republican. and regardless of how cringe we think Elon Musk is the man wields like maybe not William Randolph

Hurst levels but like it's fucking close it's the modern day equivalent you know yeah I'm seeing so much disinformation all over the internet from about the like Israel and Gaza and most of it's coming from Twitter like it's completely unchecked bullshit

I'm not talking like it's from every aspect of every spectrum everything everything You do not tell what reality is from the Internet right now. So I saw a poll the other day. It said the two and five people want a dictator. Two and five Americans are open to some form of dictator.

And I found that fucking... That's a weird. I've never heard anybody say two and five. That's odd. But you were they 40%? Yeah. Yeah, I was going to say like four out of ten, I'd go with that. Two out of five, you know, it's a seems like more for some reason, even though it's not.

I reduced the fraction, but it's weird, like, the concept of democracy has become, like, ideological, because, like, it was a revolutionary idea when it was, like, first introduced, you know, like, the idea of self-rule, even though the founding fathers was, like, more like 10% of selves rule, but, like, eventually we got closer and something approaching, something resembling a full of democracy after the 1960s, all right? Right, well, and I mean, they were obviously heavily influenced by, like, the Roman Empire and shit like that. Which is like, yeah, which, which is like, the thing is, like, I understand base level. It's like, yeah, they had it figured out. I'm like, did you read all the way to the end, though? Because we're in that part. Yeah. Yeah, but also like, you know, the Greeks had, you know, they're all very warlike and slaves and shit.

So the founding, we eventually mailed that too. So, but like the basic idea is not liberal. Democracy is not liberal, capital ill liberal, right? Right. Small ill liberal. The idea is competence. If somebody is fucking up, you could throw the bum out. And also, you're not subject to a king who will draft your kid to go fighting some

assonine war for their profit. That's what the don't treadle me flag was about. Right. So anyway, it's like people have forgotten what the fuck it is. You're not going to like a dictatorship. It's not going to hit for you. You're going to end up, your kids are going to end up fighting in some war over a gold mine where the goal goes straight to the fucking king's like layer.

So this one thing if we had like a decent dictator, but it's like, God damn, we're going to go to dictatorship and start off with the worst one. Fuck. It's, well, there's no such thing as a benevolent dictatorship, but that's the whole other. Like, it's still going to do something to the whims of some moron. And I prefer having a say in my own destiny. Yeah, I agree. Head on this next piece, some stuff that happened over the weekend, when Trump tells

you some authoritarian believe him. Like, this is about how people have been debating the definitions of this shit, but he fucking threw the academics out of the way this weekend and just called everybody that poses him, vermin. Matt, if you have this next video, you can go ahead and play it because I think we're a little behind the tech stuff. Today, especially in honor of our great veterans on Veterans Day, we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxist, fascist, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections, will do anything possible.

They'll do anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the American. Can you see me? Yeah. Okay. My thing is going like really crazy, so I was afraid that I had been kicked out. I apologize, everybody, for that dead air. No, so anybody's familiar with the rhetoric of, you know, fascistic dictators will recognize this.

Like, Hitler literally called Jews, Berman, and cockroaches. Right. I promise to root out the communists, the socialist trade unionists. Trump, just say fucking Jesse Owens and jazz musicians and play all the hits, right? Right. And I know Trump is stupid, okay, but I will throw out that a couple profiles written of him in the 90s said the one book he owned was a book of Hitler speeches that he kept him on his bedside table.

But even if he accidentally stumbled ass backwards into just clearly quoting Hitler, Right. Hitler was stupid, too. Right. He was a passionate, dumb man. Yes. And Trump's folks, my name is Stephen Chung, attempted to clarify, I'm putting clarifying quotes here, Trump's Hitler in illusions by making it worse, stating that Trump's

political opponents, quote, entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returned to the White House. This is the guy trying to make it less Hitler. Right. Yeah, I saw that. I saw the quote, too, where he was like, actually, I meant, sorry, I meant to say their sad existence, not their entire existence. But then after Chung said this, trying to make it seem more nice, even though he didn't,

Trump went on and said he was wrong. He said, the, quote, the team of losers and misfits, the people that oppose them, will end up in a mental institution by the time my next term as president is successfully completed. By the way, he's not joking about him just driving people crazy. He's talking about using the government to throw his political opponents and mental institutions just like a guy named, again, Adolf Hitler. Also Stalin did this shit. Here's the next headline.

Trump says Jack Smith and Letitia James will be in mental institutions during next term. He's also talking about clearing out the homeless camps throughout the country by throwing them involuntarily in the mental institutions after the screen and makeshift tent cities. Corey, what's the name for a camp where you concentrate people? I believe, Mark, it is called a concentration camp, or I guess in the future, Jacksonville, Florida.

yeah fair enough uh also talking about immigrations he talked about like having clean blooded americans within our borders which fuck that he's got like he rolled out a plan for giant detention camps for immigrants like i'm not just talking about people at the border i'm talking about people that are here legally yes like just our brown skinned comedian friends yes we have political opinions that trump doesn't like um basically these talking about a task force of like millions of people, I guess expanding Border Patrol and deploying them into the inner part of the country

to round up people and throw them into giant camps. These are not just the detention centers that already exist, which are bad enough, but of quoting Stephen Miller here, a vastly expanded network that facilitate the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants, including longtime residents with deep ties communities. Here's where we get to the clownish part of this.

Okay, thank you. aren't even there. Because, like, clowns can be dangerous. We mostly make fun of Trump. Yeah, right. But he's getting penny-wise. Right. But other countries have clown leaders, too.

And that's what I want to show this clip of Trump over the weekend talking about President Xi of China. All right. Unless we lost Matt. There we go. Central casting. There's nobody in Hollywood that can play the wrong. of Presidency, the look, the strength, divorce, we will begin immediately negotiation.

And I say, I say, loosen up. I say, loosen up. I had a great relationship with him until COVID. Then I said, that's the end of that. But I did. It's good to have a good relationship with Putin and Xi and all these people. That's a nuclear way. So he goes on to talk about how strong she is for, like, giving the death penalty to drug dealers,

saying that China doesn't have a drug problem, which will get to that in a second. Because if you think of the country of 1.2 billion people or whatever, nobody's partying with drugs. Right. I got a fucking bridge to sell you. The home of heroin? Are you kidding? So. And such insane cocaine-fueled capitalism.

Right. He doesn't like, he doesn't even, uh, like, he's, he's actually like she has some big, tough baritone voice, which is not true. But also, she's not like super beloved or respected by like large chunks of Chinese population. It's not like that he rules them, I mean, he rules with Iron Fist and sense. So they fuck up too bad. They'll end up in a jail. But it's not like everyone walking around and scared of President Xi.

Let me give me an example here. This headline is from a couple years ago. China bans winning the poo film. Actually, this is from recent headline. This is an ongoing thing. China bans winning the poo film after comparisons to President Xi. So for years, so in the Chinese Internet, we did a whole piece about this when I work for Patriot Act.

Like, the way people do political criticism is essentially like using memes as like political cartoons. Right. And people decided that President Xi looked like Winnie the Pooh, and it went mega viral. And it started with this image of President Xi walking with President Obama compared to Tigger walking with Winnie to Pooh. Oh, I'm sure some people did something with that. Oh, yeah, I was just focus on the Winnie the Pooh part for a second. Yeah, yeah.

So, like, this has been a mega viral on the Chinese Internet for like seven, eight years. And this is how people can be eating out in China. Like, people think the Chinese Internet's totally locked down. it's not like a lot of days you can still read the new york times from the chinese internet right um but like the uh there was a guy named the the the barefoot lawyer who was in a human rights lawyer in china i like his cousin the contessa more but go on yeah yeah so the man one thing to know about him is he's blind it's important part of the story because he wore funky sunglasses to cover his eyes like a lot of blind people do uh he managed to like he was under home confinement

because the government he didn't hit for the government he broke out of home a blind guy and managed to make it to the U.S. embassy. He lives in New York now. Anyway, to make fun of President Xi for this big of a fuck up for a blind guy escaping his police state, everyone was posting pictures of themselves over the Chinese internet wearing this guy's sunglasses. All right? So anyway, she is not beloved for being super strong. And I think we just lost Corey. And in case he comes back, I'll just talk for a few minutes about how China doesn't have allegedly doesn't have a drug problem. So this headline, Trump said China. China doesn't have a drug problem. The data tells a different story. There's a 2017 report from China's National Narcotics Control Commission. This is according to China's own government, there are $2.5 million. Welcome back, Corey. Thank you.

Sorry. My country has internet finally did it. Yeah. According to China's own government, 2.5 million, there are 2.5 million drug users in China, which is like just say zero because 2.5 million. But even they said there was a year-over-year increase of 7%. But they have the government registers drug users. like they're going to use numbers from people who voluntarily

register that they use drugs with the government. Right. Which is what the fuck are you even talking about? Like, I've got a bunch of buddies that do drugs. The only way that they would do that is if the government had some sort of cash for clunkers with like old pill bottles or something.

You know what I mean? They might do it then. Anyway, outside experts, their best guess is China's rates will drug you. are much higher. So, like, executing drug dealers, whatever you think of the merits of it. Certainly some drill dealers are assholes, but most of them are just guys live around a corner who are bringing some weed.

Anyway, if China doesn't have a drug problem, you've got to ask yourself, why does China's government invest millions of dollars in equipment that, you know we had, we had like, wastewater testing for COVID rates? Yeah. All right, China has that for drugs and people's poop and pee. No shit. Yeah. So China's government is authoritarian and don't hit.

But like the idea that Trump fantasizes about having China's government is very fucking weird. Yeah. I've talked on this show probably before about how like I've I've read a lot about Hitler and fascist dictators and stuff purely for research. Every time I go to the bookstore and I'm buying a Hitler book, I have to like I also buy like, you know, like some sort of Jane Austen book to go with it. And I'm just like, no, listen, not me, I promise. But, like, I talked about the whole thing of, like, the authoritarian, fascist Hitler textbook 101 is, like, create a problem that doesn't exist and only you can solve it, right? And so I've been bitching about it forever, like, man, I'm starting to see these things.

But in my brain, I was like, they're never going to just come out and full on say it out loud. We've got to be searching for it. But, like, dude, they're just literally quoting, like, they're just remixing Hitler and not even changing any of the lyrics like at what point are people going to have to go you know what i guess i like hitler i feel like it's kind of like how like like a 60 year old black dude in 1991 must have felt when you heard juicy by biggie he's like this guy's just talking over juicy fruit by too may it's the same song the same song So Trump also did this over the weekend.

He keeps confusing. Like, he loves Victor Orban, who's like the president of Hungary. Okay. Why? Because Hungary has slid back in his semi right winged dictatorship. Like he's done stuff like banned all wokenness from the schools and like fire all liberal judges. Like how do they do that? It's so funny.

Right. Like, it's basically like if Ron DeSantis got rubbed a genie's lamp, it could remake America into a country, it would be what like Hungary's government is like right now. But he also doesn't really know where Hungary is. And he keeps mixing up Hungary and Turkey and saying Victor Obon's the president of Turkey. I totally understand why. I swear to God, Mark, every time I hear Hungary, I think, I'd like some turkey. I'm serious.

I've always confused them too. But here's the difference. I'm not trying to run our country, nor should I ever. You know what I mean? Yeah. I didn't make that connection. I'm hungry. I want some turkey.

That's probably a little trouble. I do it every time. I do it every time. If there was a country called Bola Gravy, I'd think of them every time fucking Hungary got brought up. So he thinks of Orban is very strong, but he also thinks that Hungary shares a border with Russia.

That's what makes them so tough, but it's like four countries away from Russia. I don't know. I can't figure out of his brain works. You're closer to me with the hungry turkey thing. But in the middle of this rant, let me quote here from him, the head of Hungary,

a very tough, strong guy of Victor Orban. They interviewed him two weeks ago, and they asked, what would you advise President Obama? He said, it's very simple. He should immediately resignedly to replace him with President Trump. Now, this is like the 20th time in the past couple months that Trump has said that President Obama is currently the president. So it's really like, Trey not a ton of this recently, but it's sort of like muddying his Biden, his old and senile attacks when he can't remember.

Like, that's like the first concussion test is who's the president, right? Well, it's like he's going into his old material. It's like he's on stage and he's, you know, when you're on a comedian, you're on stage and you're bombing. It's like, oh, I remembered one from 10 years ago. I'm going to slip into it real quick. That's all his greatest hits were Obama jokes and shit. So he's just on autopilot, dude, which is what, you know, being senile is. And he has, so trying to defend him, Brian Kilmeet on Fox News made the weirdest argument

that you'll ever hear him make about how Trump isn't senile. He's just crazy. Okay. I said, have yourself to Joe Biden. There's no way. And Donald Trump keeps saying that because he believes Obama's pulling the strings. I talked to him off camera about that. I talked to him on radio about that. I said, and I corrected him on the radio interview. Please go back and listen. I said, you mean Joe Biden? He goes, no, Joe Biden, he's convinced Barack Obama's running the country. That's why he says it. He wants to. Obama's pulling like a Dick Cheney? yes he thinks that like kill me's defense of him here and it's an affirmative defense

he thinks is like like dispositive or whatever the word is or like what do you call it gets him off the hook whatever the fence is yeah right his defense here is he's not the dementia kind of demented

he's the other kind of demented he's a dementor from Harry Potter that's what he is and I'll bring me to like some other recent news this week. So if Obama was actually pulling the strings, that would kind of explain why are, like, why the job, we've got so many jobs created. You know what I mean? So I'm fine with that on certain aspects. So some news this week. Trump's former lawyer, we talked about it recently, Jenna Ellis flipped on him, but ABC News got a hold of like some videotape of her proffer. Proffer sessions where you go in and talk to a prosecutor about what you would tell them if they gave you a deal. All right. So, Corey, get ready to read. I sent Cory a thing

he's in a cold read we're going to get to in a second so you can go ahead vote that up Corey just don't read it yet I want you to be surprised by this basically Jenna

the most striking part of her testimony was that like they were in the White House in December and she was talking to Dan Skavino who's Trump used to be

catty now social media manager slash advisor they were like she was like I don't think we're going to be able to overturn the election yada yada yada and Dan Skavino says

it doesn't matter the boss is not going to leave we're just going to stay in power all right so anyway just be warned if Trump gets in he's not leaving this time but one other person who flipped on Trump was Sidney Powell who talked about how her plan to seize voting machines nationwide and admitted that she frequently communicated with Trump about this plan she still believes that Trump won the election by the way so she won't retract that whatever but the main one to get to was like the

Daily Beast Sydney Powell based all this all these accusations on a single email she got from a woman who you were about to read, Daily Beast got an interview with this woman who sent the email. She also emailed Maria Bordoromo and Tom Fitton, who's like a conservative like a lawyer. All right. Barterromo realized it was crazy, kind of ignored it. I'm not sure what Tom Fitton did, although he was in the White House about this time a lot. But read this interview, this interview with this woman whose name is Marlene Bourne. Okay. Before I read this, I only learned recently that the Daily Beast and Mr. Beast are not the same thing. Daily Beast is an interesting news publications.

Anyway, go. Okay. We do good covering conspiracy of the issue, yeah. Here we go, Cold Read. In an interview with The Daily Beast, the woman behind that email, a Minnesota artist named Marlene Bourne said that she based her now nationally prominent ideas about election fraud on a wide variety of sources, including hidden messages she detects in films, song lyrics, she hears on the radio, and overheard conversation she hears while in line at the supermarket checkout.

Quote, yeah, I'm crazy. Born told the Daily Beast, crazy like a fox. Fucking Michael Scott. Bourne makes what she calls cactus art using glitter and Swarsky crystals. Quote, the wind tells me I'm a go. but I don't believe it, end quote. Asked about the, quote, wind that gives her ideas, Bourne responded to the Daily Beast with a question of her own.

Quote, well, let me ask you something. Do you believe in telepathy? In a in a discerive 40-minute interview with the Daily Beast, born throughout a jumble of ideas that centered on ties between telepaths, the Bank of the Vatican, the NXIVM sex cult, which I assume is a numerical thing that I don't know how to read, and the 1970 film Beneath the Planet of the Apes, my friend. Not the original.

Not the original. Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Bourne gets her theories from song lyrics and glimpses of magazine covers. She's working on a book styled after the ancient aliens television series that focuses on the discovery of Tutankham's tomb. This woman's theories cost Fox billions of dollars, sent a ton of people to prison, and almost doomed the Republic.

Yes. My God. There's a lot to unpack in there. The sex cults just pronounces itself Nixium. I don't know why they spell it in Roman numerals, but it's just pronounced Nixium. But also I just want to point out that her job is making cactus. art and she lives in Minnesota. Everything about this lady hits so hard for me.

Not a lot of people are doing it there. You know what I mean? If you're making cactus art, but you live in Arizona, it's quite the saturated market, my friend. You might need to move your fucking ass to Minnesota. Yeah. Well, Matt's looking for this before I look for some comments. I wanted to get to this story real quick. Another thing scares me about, you know, Republicans have any levers of power with their pension for not regulating shit. Now, Democrats get around to it too late and they're all too old understanding what's happening on the internet but this is truly frightening to me

this headline Andresen Horowitz invest in Civitai is a company that profits from non-consensual AI porn. Oh my God. Some content here. Mark Andresen who owns this company. He wrote a manifesto recently about how

safety and trust, trust and safety teams in the internet are the enemy of innovation. So basically he's saying that all content moderation is bad, which is not unless you want to see ISIS beheading videos the top of face of your Facebook feed fuck this guy but also if they don't get a child pornography

a thing that they're always so concerned about would be insanely prevalent suicide videos all that stuff is only not on the internet because someone in like making $2 an hour on a content farm in Indonesia sees it and deletes it before it gets to your feed that's the one reason you don't see that shit

so basically this company you'll be able to upload photos of woman who rejected you into this program and pay someone to make an AI porn for you with it. Oh, God. And there's nothing stopping it. And Andreessen, like, this is like a huge manifesto talking about how, like, people need to get out of creators ways. They want AI to save the world.

I got to ask you, Mark Andreessen, how the fuck are you saving the world by investing in AI revenge porn? What's the, how do we, how do you get to that, the world being saved? I don't fucking know, and you don't either. And also, he did a big, his company put a big statement about AI, like Chad GPT, whatever they're Chad GPT. I think it might actually be Chad GPT, that it warned that if they're not able to steal people's copyrighted material, that might never be profitable.

And he stated that as though the government needed to fix something about that problem. It's, we need a, we need a unit of measurement that is named after the amount of time it takes for a new technology to be created and then use. for the absolute worst thing possible. It's like we just now heard about AI and immediately it's like you should put your teacher that failed you into it and then you can watch a black dude fucker on TV

and nobody can say anything about it. Yeah. Alan Speeds has hit that like button. Thank you, Adam. The thing is like inventions usually go the opposite direction. The first things invented are almost always to like you invent something to fuck or something to kill people with. And then you reverse engineer ways it's useful.

Right. Yeah. So, but like this is not, you can start with the useful stuff. You can make home movies, for example. I don't want to watch an AI home movie with my dad in it doing stuff he didn't do. But like somebody might, you know, David Snar says, CactusArt in Minnesota, the least crazy thing in the article. I agree. You know what? Maybe there are there snow cactuses? I don't know what they're stuck. Kim She says, come on, guys, we're when we're created in those loons. Let's create a conspiracy. Oh, I've got conspiracy theories. They're just all true. I got a couple, definitely. Like when pharma execs talk openly on an earnings call about how the treatment's more profitable than the cure, so they shouldn't try to cure a disease. That's why I fully believe in, because I've heard them say it. Mine was that the original coronavirus vaccine was in the original recipe of Butterfinger, and that's why they changed it. And that's why we all started getting sick.

because, if you will note, uh, 2019, the year named after the virus, that is right before that Butterfinger changed their recipe. No one fucking asked for this. No one at all. We all love Butterfinger. It was us and Bart Simpson. We were still getting over the fact that we couldn't get B-Bs, but we were like, at least I can get the original recipe Butterfinger. All the sudden, they changed the recipe, right? They changed the recipe. And now everybody starts. getting sick. You know what I'm saying? Who owns Butterfinger? Nestle. Right around this time, Nestle is in litigation with their ongoing war to own all the water. They need something to happen. They need everyone to lose focus on that. So they make everyone sick with the coronavirus.

And that is my theory. I'm not on board with this, but it makes a lot more sense than most conspiracy theories I hear. Carl O'Barrick says, you can't. can't keep Corey down, even with redneck Wi-Fi. See, you fucking figured it out. Trey's fucking ass, lazy-ass hillbill. He just gave up. Yeah, well, in Trey's defense, and I'm not great at doing two things at once. I'm not great at it, but Trey is literally paralyzed when something else is going on.

Like, literally can't, like, he can't do two things at once. Yeah, I think all I did was I just restarted my window and I can't. came back on and it was fine. I literally, I blew into the video game. That's it. And it worked because it does all the time. History with Coach says North Georgia Internet sucks. I feel you, Corey. It sure does. And here's a fun fact. I'm 10 minutes away, literally 10 minutes away from the world's fastest internet. Did I say the country's fastest internet? No, I did not. Did I say the state of Georgia's fat? No, I did not. The fucking world's fastest internet is 10 minutes away from my house, but they won't let me have it because right now it's a Tennessee exclusive.

They're in bed with Nestle. They finally got a good Wi-Fi at my mom's house. It used to be like you couldn't go on the internet if it was raining. I mean, like, not raining hard. It just means like Dreslin. I know. John Orbit Bambord says, I want to move to a bowl of gravy. It's so funny.

I didn't realize that I said it like that, but I sure did. And that's wonderful. I'm going to have to use that in a bit now. Thank you, John. Bull of gravy. It doesn't like, there probably be like a city of Eastern Europe called Bullagravie. Yeah, for sure. Nestle owns Pull and Spring in Maine and other.

We're trying to stop them here in Maine. You're not going to succeed. I'm sorry to say, but like, I hope you do. They would, there was a, there's a video on YouTube and go watch their exact talking about how they need to coin. The next, the next most valuable commodity is going to be fresh water. And Nestle needs to corner the market on all the world's fresh water. And like, and after that came out with a long video, it's like to shareholders, they went public. He's like, oh, I didn't mean any of that.

Right. They literally want to own the rain, ladies and gentlemen. The rain. Your air is next. They're going to put something in a fucking baby roof, and it's going to be like a respirator. You're going to have to have that. There's native reservations in Cardas is Nestle as evil.

There's native reservations in Canada where the people have to go buy jugs of water because the government sold all their water to Nestle. Jesus Christ. And it doesn't even take. like peanut butter crunch. Yeah. Yeah. This Byrne says they're responsible

with thousands of deaths of babies from their infant formula. Jesus. We talked about this back when like the government had shut down a baby formula factory and there was a shortage. Like only three companies

make baby form in America. And all the government's got to do is let European companies compete with them for U.S. market share. Right. Is that the wrong with European baby formula? And you know that. shit's good because they're like Greek yogurt style baby formula they got like every time listen say

what you will about europe and my papaw certainly has but almost every time uh we get one of their food things that they've been doing for a long time i'm so pleasantly surprised to and to know like god damn i can't believe we had yogurt fucked up that whole time like don't get me wrong i still love a good gogurt oh my god you put it in the freezer you suck it like a puddin pop i don't know why I did that, but, you know, but the Greeks and, and also the Swedish people, what they're doing with yogurt, I'm a fan, so I have to imagine that their baby formula would be good, too. It's like how Mexican Coke's better. I mean, Coca-Cola. Mexican Cocaine's probably better, too, but Mexican Coca-Cola is better because it has real sugar in it because they're government.

Just uses real sugar. That's it. Doesn't, doesn't subsidize corn syrup. That's it. It's one thing, and it's so funny because all my friends, you know, we all buy the big glass ball of Coke. They're like, why is it so much better? I'm like, because they make it the way you should. That's it. They're not doing anything magical. They're just, they just make it the way it should be made.

Yeah. It's like the chocolate used real sugar and like less palm oil or whatever is an hour. Yes, dude. European chocolate is so superior to America. It is unbelievable. We write about that, by the way, in our book, around here and over yonder. There's a whole chapter dedicated to it.

This is like a dissertation. or like a whole book you could write about the weird ways and this isn't across all things but a lot of specific areas the government goes out of its way to make things worse. Worse.

Yeah. It's like what? It's like, oh, okay, you got a substance as corn syrup because you got to win I to win the presidency. It's like, okay, but I don't want to eat that shit

and it should, everything shouldn't like everybody shouldn't be obese because they're finding places to put corn syrup because I've got so much of it. It's like corn syrup and ham. It should be,

yeah. We're eating corn syrup to livestock. You know, it should also be noted that we invented Coca-Cola and ours is worse than anyone's. Like, ours is worse than anyone's. Like, this is like when the Americans finally lose the Olympics in basketball.

It's like, what the fuck are we doing? Uh, Woody Whitley-Witt 36, uh, greaseless says real sugar is better. Corn syrup is garbage. Yeah.

Yeah. Now, I've got beef with sugar, though. I ain't going to lie because of what they did to fat in the 90s. You know, I've written an entire dissertation called what sugar did to fat and the whole, you know, fat-free thing where they were pumping sugar and everything. However, I will say when it's just neck and neck with corn syrup and sugar, yeah, sugar hits harder. Yeah, it's almost like, there was no wonder they didn't do the same thing with fat they did with MSG

and just pretend that fat's Chinese or something. Yeah, I still can't convince my mom that no mom, you don't. don't actually get a headache when you eat Seshwan chicken because of the MSG. It's totally fine. And actually, 50% less sodium than salt, Mark. Jasmine Parker says,

now I want to fuck up some chocolate. And you can feel free. Just know that your French cousin is fucking up a little bit slightly better chocolate. And hey, you can get those on Amazon, by the way. Not that I support Amazon,

but like it is easy. Let's face it. I actually have a subscription to picnic bars. They come every month. they're from Europe and uh because like I'm I'm I've lost a lot of weight but now I'm like if I'm going to eat a candy bar it's not it's gonna be the good shit you know what I mean I like I like imagine you being at your uh your weekly bookstore on you're running to like some like you know

somebody who thinks of you was a fellow fellow intellectual and I go what did you subscribe to thinking you're going to say the Atlantic and you say candy bars I've just got chocolate all over my face it's European though it really is fine yeah Well, I reckon we're right about doing for us. Corey, you want to do your plugs? Yes, I will. I've mentioned my book all throughout this, so I don't have to do that again. Putting on airs with me and Trey Crowder. That's a fantastic podcast, obviously well read. And hey, if you really enjoy me, the cut of my jib, how I get down, if you will, please go to bonus corey.com. That is where I do all my, you guessed it, bonus stuff. I write essays over there. I do podcast.

I basically put up, you know, at least three or four things a week. It's similar to a Patreon, but it's a substack. BonusCori.com. I just finished my first audio drama, full-length audio drama. It was called Colonel Cornbread and the case of the Confederate Ruby. It was a mystery. It was a lot of fun. And right now, I kind of teased it earlier in the show,

my next audio drama that I'm working on is I'm turning a collection of Greek tragedies into a southern comedy. So I'm sort of going the co-eastern comedy. I'm sort of going the, uh, the Cohen brothers style with, oh, brother, we're art thouish, you know? Yeah, good, great movie. Uh, so are you, do you do all the voices in this? I do, I do, I do all, I do all, yeah, in Colonel Cornbread, I do all the, I write it, I produce it, I edit it, I do all the voices. Um, I will be casting a woman for this next one because I just, you know, I got to, uh, but the first one getting it under my belt, I did everything.

And I'll still do the majority of them. I'm Eddie Murphy in it. But yeah, bonus Corey.com. It's a lot of fun. All right. Yeah, you probably, once you expand to start doing more diverse properties, you should probably do some casting there. No, no, no.

Listen, listen, listen, trust me. Right now it's a solo operation because, like, I've kind of just started it. But listen, as soon as it starts hitting real hard, you're coming on to right. I'm getting some black people, some gay people, some Indians, whatever the fuck I need. And I'll be happy to do it. This plug fell apart. This plug fell apart. All right.

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