Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – 11/19/24 – Cabinet of Curiosities

Episode Date: November 20, 2024

Tonight, we talk about the latest news in Hell’s waiting room, mainly how Trump’s terrifying cabinet nominees are basically all examples of America’s elite accountability crisis. Plus, fun with punching influencers, and there’s apparently a committee to invade Mexico? Probably fine. Join usSupport the show

howdy there everybody welcome back happy skews day to you the show must go on my god it's november 19th 24 i'm tray that's mark here we are how you doing mark hang you're gonna yeah yeah i gonna have a uh fun dystopian show talking about have you been more or less drunk uh in the past two weeks you think less okay all right yeah so i i've been vacillating between i should just go ahead and uh do all the things i want to do until i die because what's the fucking point or i need to get super healthy so i can live long enough to pissing all these motherfuckers graves right i can't really decide which one i want to do yeah um yeah so yeah um so a lot a lot of fun thoughts i've been having one the one

the one thing that occurred to me is like trump zio j is going to be there for the end of the marijuana a rescheduling process and a bunch of like young podhead enthusiasts are going to think he's the coolest guy in the world. So that's like, well, uh, thank you. Thank you, Joe Biden. Ain't that just the way. That's how things. Everything comes up.

Donnie, man. Everything comes up Trump. It's like the stars align for this motherfucker. Like no one else I've ever seen. It's truly something. But I got a, I got a buddy who's like that one of my best friends who moved to LA together. He was immediately on a TV show, immediately booking national commercials, immediately,

immediately hit. neatly rich and like everything just fell on his lap we went to a uh casino once in Vegas and we were going to a strip club and uh he was like we got he asked the uh casino floor manager where the uh where the ATM was you need to get cash and he was like oh it's all way across the casino and he goes uh I don't walk all over there hold on a second he just goes to a roulette table and takes a couple grand out of the roulette table like it's a fucking ATM and that's the closest I've ever seen to Donald Trump in my life My God.

Yeah. Some people just got it like that. What are you going to do? So, a fun story before we get to chaos. Do you know who Johnny Somali is, Trey? I don't think so. I did not until the other day, but he's got himself in some hijinks over in South Korea.

His name is Ramsey. Oh, yes. Yes, I do. Anyway, sorry, keep going, but yes, I do know. Go ahead. He's a streamer. He's like a shock streamer who makes it living, annoying people on the internet.

Right. Like, what I'd say annoying people, like the kind of shit he does. Like, he went to Israel and pinned pictures of Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein to the whaling wall. Got beat up on his own stream. Last year, I think he went to Japan and was like talking shit about Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the train. Got beat up. Right. So right now he was in South Korea.

He went to a memorial called the Statue of Peace, which is dedicated to comfort women. which, of course, were the women used as sex slaves by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. And he gave the statue lap dances, which, of course, everyone found fucking horrifying. He became, like, public enemy number one over there pretty quickly. He was also, like, rob the train and playing Kim Jong-un speeches, which probably really hits for South Koreans. He got denounced by Parliament. Anyway, the South Korean people responded to this by crowdfunding bail money for people who punched him in the face,

along with bounties to pay people beyond the bail money to punch him in the face and compounded by that he's got arrested for some sort of drunken disorderly thing

at a convenience store so he's been barred by the government from leaving the country so he's trapped in South Korea where a bunch of people are getting paid to hunt him down

and punch him in the face and I just want to say there is justice in light in the world if you look for it and people of South Korea please keep punching American streamers in the face

there's an appetite for it. I know that you are, you're dark mark, and I'm supposed to be on the other side of this, but see, what I worry about with that, I love the idea of him

getting stuck over there, surrounded exclusively by people who are paid to punch him in the face. Like, that really hits for me. But what I worry is that eventually that'll end and he'll get back over, whatever,

and that his views and followers and likes and counts will have gone up because of all the great content he's posted of him getting punched in the face because it's effective and the algorithm pumps it. I mean, Even me and you, like, we hate this guy, but like a video of him getting decked, we would be like, this is awesome, right?

But it's like, but it could be his video. He's the one that can monetize that and make a thing out of it. And this is the type of shit that like social media. And I'm a guy who's both people who have, you know, profited from social media. But this is the type of thing that happened. In my head, I'm like, well, you know, I try to be funny. I tell jokes. I don't talk shit to people or beg to get punched in the face.

It's a little different. but this is the type of thing that social media has done to society is that it like incentivizes lunacy like this like just going over there and just insulting an entire culture and people just because you'll get likes out of it even from people who are only watching because they want to see you get punched in the face like it just bothers me how effective this shit can be yeah jake paul just made what 40 million dollars up an old man because he had a youtube yeah and the reason he got paid so much is because there's a he's got plenty of people that love him but there's a huge number of people that are

only watching because they want to see him get knocked out because they hate everything about him but it works he's 40 million dollars one night i'm a dallas cowboys fan who has to watch my team on national tv every week because everyone else enjoys watching them getting the shit kicked out of them not realizing they're causing their own misery by tuning in to watch it to hate the cowboys it's like if you got there aren't enough of us to make them the national game It's the haters that do it. And I don't know what to tell everybody. Anyway, this is the world we've made for ourselves.

Yep. This is our bed. It's all fucking it, everybody. Why not? So big news, by the way, everybody. Producer Matt is back with us, back from the bed, as it were. Obviously, big shout out to producer Laura. She did a great job.

You guys know, we all knew the whole time that that was always going to be temporary, especially considering what Matt left to do. I think we all knew he'd be back eventually. but anyway, Matt is back with us now doing his thing where he belongs, behind the scenes, behind the curtains, shadowed. We didn't know it's coming back. Kamala could have made him Secretary of Agriculture or something. That would have hit. Yeah.

No, I just meant, you know, now in retrospect, it's like, why didn't anyone ever expect anything to be good for any of us? But anyway, production Matt's back with us. This is weekly skews. I do want to remind you all before we continue of a couple of things. I'm still touring if you want to see me do comedy live and in person. Go to Trey Crowder.com. come see me on the road. In December, I've got the Bay Area here in California,

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that too. So sign up on there, get some more skews in your life and support the show in the process. Now, as for the show tonight, we're going to be talking about Trump's big cabinet of curiosities. I feel like the first time around in 2016, Trump got elected, and some people were like, well, you know, I'm like, it might not be that. bad maybe he'll actually might be out and then his cabinet pick started coming out and people were like oh lord this going to be real bad and then fast forward eight years to this time around everybody's expecting it to be bad you're like you know how much worse could it be that last time and then his cabinet picks start coming out we're like holy shit it's even worse than i didn't even know it could get crazier but somehow it has thanks to his cabinet picks so far so we're going to break those down a little bit later but first we begin with the daily dumbass matt welcome back

graphic please tonight's DD anyone who doesn't get in one last spring break in Cabo before the Cold War with Mexico breaks out. This is incoming speaking of the cabinet, incoming borders are Tom

Holman. And we know what happens to these children Sean. Look, the illegal hand is coming across the border. People need to understand 31% of women that make their journey get raped by criminal cartels. children get raped. I've talked to little girls as young as nine that have been raped multiple times. These cartels are animals, and that's why President Trump's going to take them off the

face of yours. They've killed more Americans than every terrorist organization in the world. And President Trump is committed to column terrorist organization and use them full money of the United States special operations to take them out. Yeah, we're setting special forces into Mexico. So one thing I think we learned is that Trump is watching the Taylor Sheridan show Lioness, because this is basically the plot of season two. So there's a great throwaway 30 rock joke where Liz is in Jack's office

and she's like, she reads a pamphlet goes, what is the committee to reinvay Vietnam? So we're doing that now, but with the war on drugs, I'm going to go fucking insane, okay? When this first got brought up on our text thread or whatever, I was like, dude, it's like when the Germans decided to go to war with the whole world, for the second time.

Like, we're doing that, but it's drugs instead of the world, which is, I think, perhaps, dumber. Dugs as a concept have already proven very definitively. They cannot be beaten. There is no beating drugs on account of how humans are and human nature is.

We lost the war on drugs. We should just take our L and go home, but no, we've got to dive back in. But, you know, there's probably a lot of money in the war on drugs, I believe. I want to say there's a lot of, There's a lot to unpack in this, and we're going to get to that in a second about all the reasons this is a really stupid and dangerous idea. But the 300,000 kids thing is a Q&N conceit.

It's dangerous that these people are back in power. But beyond that, I don't know, what they're doing is they take like some statistics they sort of understand and then run them through a bunch of bullshit filters. And then what it comes out is that like 300,000 American kids are being snatched off the streets and shipped to, I don't know, a Gulf state to be. taken or something. But there's about 72 million kids under 18 in the United States. So 300,000 basically mean that one out of every 250 kids in America is being snatched per year and no one is fucking noticing. Right.

And that's like one of every grade in America. Yeah. And I don't, I don't think that's true. I think we would all, I think like I live down the street from elementary school where it has like a thousand kids. And I think they'd notice if four kids got kidnapped and disappeared. So, um, so to unpack all the way the drug, the drug war aspect of this is stupid. Um, for one, why do we assume that we're not already doing this?

Yeah. Yeah. Like, like, the lit, like, if you were like, let's list countries that American, like, like, the, the special forces and the CIA aren't killing people in, start from the poorest and go to the richest. I'd probably get to, like, Luxembourg before I was surprised. Um, but there are reasons you wouldn't fucking go on Fox News and run your goddamn mouth. about it. All right. It's also deeply funny that anybody in America would get on TV and be like, well, has the

government ever considered killing people in Latin America? It's like, no, not me personally, no, because I was literally born right before we started this fucking stream, okay? Right. Like, like, well, do you think part of it is like the idea that like you can, you said, why would you go on TV and say this stuff? Hell, we do this type of shit all the time. You think it's because, like, if they go on TV,

and say this stuff and then when we do some shit like that as we're always running operations with the DEA and stuff like that that they can then without ever really changing all that much they can just be like look what we're doing you see what we're doing we're making like progress over here do you know what I'm saying they're just pandering is what I'm saying they're just saying the right things and it's like like with the mass deportation what's that really going to end up looking like and I don't want a famous last word situation because who the hell knows but it's like it'll probably end up being. not all that many more deportations than normally happen because of the way bureaucracy works

and they'll get wrapped up in it, but they'll be able to point to 20,000 drug-addicted criminals they found or whatever and be like, see, we're cleaning up the streets, but when you look at it as compared to the whole numbers, it doesn't really matter. And by the way, I'm going to be the first to acknowledge some of what I'm saying is cope, because this is me being like, nah, America's America. Things will stay the same. And it's like, it's sad that that's become like the best case scenario. But in, but in this situation,

I feel like it kind of is the best case scenario. I was hoping for that, just the status quo, you know. Right. We're just hoping for incompetence because like, like,

I saw like a story that I'd interview with some of the Haitian migrants in Springfield who were already starting to flee. They were just trying to disperse so they don't have a community anymore. Some of them were fleeing to Canada. Some just moved into other towns in Ohio. Trying to be harder to find because they're definitely going to be,

again, they were here legally. They have legal status. Right. By the way, If enough of them do do that, the community of Springfield, we'll fall back apart again, just so everybody knows. Again, I was there a couple months ago, and I talked to so many people who were talking about how that town was on its last legs, and then that program started and brought these people in, and, like, suddenly they could survive. And so that's the type of thing that's going to happen all over the place.

If they actually follow through with this, you know, so. Yeah. So I wanted just to ground to ground this on some reality here, because, like the government of all institutions should be grounded in reality, and it's really dangerous for it not to be. Overdose deaths, as far as anybody can tell, we're down 13% in the 12-month period that ended in May. That's the last time we have data available.

There are a lot of reasons that would be happening. People less sad, less broke, whatever, less access to drugs, maybe, but I seriously doubt that because we live in America. But also, Biden had a big push to make Naloxone more accessible, which Trump will probably immediately undo that progress. also Trump's in common cabinet we're talking about Matt Gipps voted legalized weed Which is good

He also is a famously does a lot of cocaine Elon's hooked on ketamine Smote illegal weed on Roger Rogan Show RFK Jr wants to decriminalize Glucingens and have therapeutic use of MDMA Which sure, whatever But so like contextually I don't understand how these people can get off

Everybody in America is hooked on fucking SSRIs And Adel and what I mean like what I say hooked I mean like a lot of people need it some people like a lot of people take out of all who don't need it whatever but like the idea that like uh i don't yeah but we all know dude that their whole thing is always but you know rules for thee and not for me type of you know what i mean like that's what they live in is hypocrisy but yeah everything you said those are those are therapeutic drug and by the way i'm not shitting on it just so you know i think there are therapeutic applications to a lot of those drugs but

like uh but my response to that would be like we should be drugs should be legalized and regulated and studied and we should understand how they work and be a lot more open about how all drugs work. My response to that is not like we should kill every Mexican who's ever drug muleed some fucking heroin over the border and criminalized black neighborhoods even more than they already have been in all this bullshit that's actually going to happen when they get into this process. Besides the obvious, like, you know, diplomacy-based reasons, you wouldn't go on, you wouldn't

film yourself killing, during a cartel rate where you kill a bunch of Sicario's. it's one of the reasons you do you like that is you do a false flag attack so they blame another cartel right so you've already diminished the efficacy of the operation by taking credit for it whatever fuck

these people aren't so fucking stupid I hate talking about real politics like this anyway because it's deeply immoral and gross but this is how the world is run whatever but like let's deal with like the third reason this is a fucking stupid idea using special forces for this kind of shit okay let's talk about

who special forces actually who they actually are because like this is not the brand of the whole community or whatever but it's a big we expanded the fuck out of it during the global war and terror and it's not all

good guys who are having a good time okay the the uh black ops special yeah it's not all good guys you're having a good time it's not all like like it's not it's not it's not what pat tillman thought it was

is why he got depressed and got shot in the back of the head okay you're right so like So, Fort Bragg, I'm not sure if it's officially the new Woke name, Fort Liberty or whatever yet, but like, there's a story from 2023 where 13 soldiers assigned to U.S. Army Special Operations Command, not sure that's Delta or Green Berets, but they were caught up in a drug traffic investigation.

Fort Bragg, like, we've talked about the stuff going on there. Nobody wants to get to the bottom of, apparently. But like, a total of 109 soldiers assigned to Fort Bragg died in 2020 and 2021. That's murders, drug overdoses. It's just reading tea leaves. I think they're fucking running drugs, which of course they were serving in Afghanistan where like a brick of tar heroin is like finding a fucking like,

like it's like Pokemon Go over there or something. Right. Well, actually, I saw a really interesting documentary on Amazon Prime about that called Reacher. It was all about how they were running drugs out of these military bases. Interesting watch. You guys should look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about. Great, totally fact-based documentary series.

Anyway, go ahead. In 2021, some Navy SEAL whistleblowers came forward to talk about how, how drug abuse was super prevalent in the Navy SEAL community like all these guys are doing a ton of steroids which you know they're macho whatever but it's also a ton of cocaine abuse they also accused they also said a lot of guys

are you know trafficking somewhat and they two seals had gotten in trouble for killing a Green Beret during a training exercise which was called an accident and they were like this was not a fucking accident as a fight over drug money so for

additional context here this is Los Zetas cartel were Mexican commandos who were tasked to fight the war on drugs and defected two drugs okay so sending coked up Navy SEALs and deltas down there

to raid warehouses of cash and coke and fentanyl and heroin is going to result most definitely in some drugs in cash in a duffel bag being flown back to America on a C-130 there's no fucking way around that okay so

another way which is this fucking idiotic is do you really want to destabilize Mexico right now? Do you want to destroy the faith and credibility in the Mexican government even more than it currently is by launching military attacks in their territory? Well, it's not going to matter, Mark, because immigration is going to be shut down. The border's going to be closed

completely. It's going to be wholly impossible for any living human to ever cross that border again. So what does it matter if we destabilize it? That's my question for you. I can't get over here anyway. What matters if we hit them with big tariffs and their economy crumbles and their government can't function because we're shooting at it and like everybody flees north trying to come to America. We're going to put landmounds in the border because that's what we're going to fucking do, I guess. So it's also like a fundamentally misunderstands Mexico. Okay. So Mexico is a spy playground for the whole world because it's rich

and natural resources and also its proximity to the United States. Okay. It's very valuable fucking intelligence territory. It's also like we think of it as poor because, you know, they have a lot of wealth and equality and stuff, but they have the 12th of our biggest economy in the world. For context, Russia's 11th, okay? Like, for a couple examples of, like, Spashit, the famous Spashit that we know about that's going on there, like Germany tried to get Mexico to come in, the World War I on their side in 1917, and we intercepted the cable and convinced Mexico to instead kind of be on

our side. And since then, they've kind of been like an intelligence client state of the United States. Now, I'm not going to draw any conclusions about how the cartel system was helped set up by Mexican intelligence, and they also work with us, whatever. I'm just saying that when you're talking about a vast area with a lot of drug violence, organized crime tends to be less violent than regular crime, which is one reason you organize it. You pay a got protection money to keep from getting shot. I would just say that if this was, the goal of Mexican intelligence and maybe also the CIA was to diminish violence on the border

by having the cartel was organized, I would say it probably fucking failed so we shouldn't do more shit like that, but whatever. In a funny incident in 1940s, a German actress an alleged spy named Hilda Kruger seduced members of the Mexican elites to help gain Nazis access to oil supplies. So like this shit is like common in Mexico

and I would suggest that we not alienate them, further because like this is a country where when CIA files are declassified we found that a bunch of Mexican presidents were on the CIA payroll, okay? We did that for a reason. I'd not say there were all good reasons,

but it's kind of good to have an ally on your southern border and not an enemy you're at a fucking shooting war with. Can we all agree on that? Yeah, I just think for me, the main thing just comes down to what I said at the beginning of this whole segment here is like you just you can't beat drugs

in a war on drug like there's just no way to do it like it's not as possible as again I feel like the only way to beat drugs is to join them like you make like give drugs the win hand them and admit to the win make them and then you would depower

a lot of these fucking nefarious factions that are under the surface when the illegal drug trade crops up or like the fact that special forces guys are always going to get a better outcome from siding with drugs ultimately. Do you know what I mean? Like our government is never going to

give them a duffel bag with a half a million dollars in it or whatever. What's never the will? Drugs will. Drugs will give them that duffel bag. And so it's like it's just there's just it's not it's a war that it's a it's a losing proposition. And I thought we had learned that lesson,

but I think we're about to relearn a lot of lessons that that I thought we had learned as a country. I think that's not to be a theme in the near future. So It kind of jotted out. I think sending like an apocalypse now mentality special forces troops to Mexico to have unfettered access to guns and drugs is probably like, what's the name of that real life guy played by Ed, what's his name, Ed Harrison, that movie about the guy who went to Argentina and tried to send him, the American guy, tried to send him up as king of Argentina.

William Walker, that's a guy. So we're going to end up with like a special forces, William Walker and a shootout with other special forces guys while they're trying to run their own English-speaking cartel. so the point of this we've done like generations of effort and fuckery to ensure we border

an ally and we're going to throw it all away to make a TV spy show with cool explosions I've saw people in the comments on that video of Homo

we watched being like I hope they televised the raids they just really want to watch people die oh yeah so like

there's also like the part where like do you know Mexico's second biggest oil second biggest importer of Mexican oil is, tray, it's China. Okay? So, like, if Mexico feels threatened, like, say, I don't know, like Cuba after the revolution and then looking around needed a big, bad ally

to push back against American imperialism, China's right there, ready to take cheap oil after we slapped tariffs on oil coming into our country. And this is kind of how you end up with the Chinese army base and war-ass. Like, we have one of the DMZ in fucking Korea. This is all, like, fucking horrible. And, like, I'm begging the media to talk to these people about this stuff. stuff like to ask follow-up questions like is this a pretext for regime change in Mexico feels like a fucking worthy question to ask that no one's going to ask until the war is already started and framed as good versus evil okay so like to so some more context here Mexican had just elected the first one president uh Jewish

Jewish woman too right yeah Jewish woman so Mexico where wife murder is basically illegal was able to elect a woman president I would say I would say I would say suggest that like like like maybe america should be able to do it yeah you'd think you'd hope but what are you going to do and like like she has a she has a basically a 70% approval rating right now she won the election in the landslide uh basically she her purling party and i i understand there's corruption going on maybe the election was rigged or you know i i see i do people i see alleging that are all the neocon types who love to invade in conquer mexico so i'm just saying i don't know anything about that okay but she's very popular because she ran on expanding their

social safety net. Amazing how that works. So let me read some headlines here because I saw David from agitating for how she's a leftist radical who needs to be stopped. Fox News, Mexican president might be changing view on U.S. as Trump wins since warning to ruling socialists, all right? This is kind of rhetoric used to do before we overthrew Brazil and Venezuela. Wall Street Journal editorial, Shinebaum keeps moving Mexico left. Okay.

As to the world, you were joking about surrendering your drugs earlier, and that's a funny joke, but I understand drugs cause a lot of pain in people's families lives and stuff. My mom's a pillbilly. I know. Right. Half my cousins are dead from drugs. Yeah, mine too. So like, but there's a truth in there to like, shout out to my aunt Kim if she's listening.

I remember we're sitting her front porch once and she said, Toby once, cocaine is an amazing drug. Never do it. And like teaching people that drugs are awesome and that's why you shouldn't do them is probably a more winning message than drugs are all super dangerous immediately and then the first time somebody tries weed they're not instantaneously smoking dick for crack they think you're a fucking liar so like there is a truth in the serenity drugs thing if you want to keep your kids off drugs you need to tell them how how great they feel yes but also how false that good feeling and how fleeting it is shooting cartel

dries is not going to stop people from wanting to get high it was a demand side problem nothing is ever going to solve right the problem i'm in favor of you know fucking focusing on uh rehabilitation and support systems and stuff for people if i you know like um i don't know the whole way we've treated drugs my entire like like there i'd feel like there's no denying is dare is dare still a thing or is there coming back i saw a kid fundraising for it outside but you know outside yeah that there's no we all know everybody in our generation knows so many dudes who um would pack a ball while wearing it would go change into their dare shirt because it was time to get high in the dorm room or whatever like universal response like it didn't it didn't work at all and shit it's just like absent its only education when it comes to sex too same thing it's like it don't work it's never gonna it never has worked it never will it's a it's a demand side problem the way to approach it it's a demand side problem the the the the the the the cartel hit squads who are going to be in a shootout with

American Special Forces are also paid in American dollars. Right. They're shooting American guns. Right. So like, it's like like this is our fucking fault. You're right. Yeah. Oh, fuck. Yeah. All right. Well, for a more upbate and positive topic, let's talk about Trump's, uh, Trump's cabinet picks so far. It's been enlightening, interesting. Some intriguing choices.

thinking outside the box, Donald Trump seems to be as he approaches his second White House administration. As we take a step back during this interregnum between committing to living through this horror and beginning it on January 20th, it's worth thinking about some big picture ideas here. And like, like, I wish our political, you know, maybe they are. They seem to be somewhat. I saw like one congresswoman who just want a close election today proposing like she's a conservative Democrat who was like maybe we need multi-member districts and like and get rid of first past the post voting. We need some

structural like, you know, constitutional changes. I'm like, finally, somebody thinking about changing the constitution. Somebody should fucking think about it. This is fucking ridiculous. They were trapped in this prison of guys who thought syphilis was caused by curses from witches. Okay, this is fucking, we're past the time.

We can, we can edit the document. Okay. But I wanted to talk about how the second Trump cabinet is like a glaring example of our elite accountability crisis. it's like half these motherfuckers should definitely be in jail on layup charges but it's almost like if you hit a certain status

in America you've beaten the video game and you get unlimited lives of course yeah Republicans think this is awesome and Democrats just sort of accept that too often it's just kind of like the rules of the game that's just how it is and I just don't think that is I think part of the reason

we're seeing this anti-league backlash is this acceptance of being fucked by powerful people and Donald Trump pretending to stand up against it is an effective message to people who are like, do stand up against it in a lot of ways but don't want to be seen doing it

because it's rude, okay? Okay, well, hold on, I don't know. So you're, is it, you said like Republicans celebrated or whatever, but it's because they have been convinced that there's not a miscarriage of justice, right? Like, they believe in their heads that the miscarriage of justice would be

accountability for someone like Donald Trump or whatever. They still think that, they think that, like, they think that like Joe Biden's a fucking war criminal or whatever and he's he's immune to any kind of accountability right and it's like it just it's not just it's not just in a political system okay like you look at like so DuPont was just caught leaking a chemical that causes like childhood cancers and they they'd in a way they knew they were doing it's the plant Louisiana I'm going off top of head or whatever they got hit with a $500,000 fine

$500,000 fine is nothing And it's also just barely the cost To paying for one kid's cancer treatment in America Okay Right Republicans think that Is the way it should work Right

And Democrats are like Well what are you gonna do? We find them And I'm like no Okay People need to go to fucking jail Dude Okay yeah

I'm with you on that I thought I just thought Like when you said So You're like Democrats just acknowledge That's the way it goes sometimes and in my head I was like well I mean that is the way it goes though but I get what you're

talking about the people are actually in charge and make right because yes because like if you talk like yeah I acknowledge that is that is the way this country works that is the shit but like I think that's bullshit and that should be changed it should be different but acknowledging that it is the way that it works is just true and then yes the other side is like no but that's the way it should work though but there's no one motivated seemingly to attempt to actually change it or anything and the people that are get like you know let me tell what I'm talking about okay we just lived through an entire election campaign one of the main messages was Donald Trump's a criminal and immediate question comes well if he's such a criminal you guys have the executive branch

why didn't you put him in prison and it's a good fucking question and now the answers are like you know true as far as it goes in the context of the system but did you ever hear Joe Biden get on TV and rail against the injustice of Trump appointing his own judge I didn't so like so like the answer is the rules of justice turn slowly gotta yada yada it's not fucking

satisfying to people it doesn't make sense like like so I want to start this by talking about RFK which is sort of a this sort of a bank shot point I'm going to make

in a second but like though obviously he could did he is a famous sex pest who probably committed crimes that no one caught him for okay

outside the drug stuff he did get in trouble for he got treatment for so we're not going to talk about the death and the miseration part of his vaccine beliefs and how he's going to handle

you know medicine rollouts that's that's that's for later when he starts doing it but i want to talk about how if he's if he's successfully appointed it will like drastically up in my understanding of who has power in this country like he's running around saying he's going to like like adriana paulina luna was it was on twitter x or whatever a couple days ago saying she agreed with him on how we need to ban uh corn syrup and food dyes now it is bad that the government pay handers to corn growers right because it and subsidizes it because iowa is the first presidential primary state okay right we should not be doing that we should not be paying

corn growers to put to subsidize corn syrup towards putting every fucking thing because it's so goddamn cheap okay i would beg democrats to not stop him from doing that right that's one of the good things he wants to do yeah because if he wants to take the political hit and hand Iowa to Democrats for a generation for doing something that's objectively probably good you just don't need to get in the way of that right the price for that is getting rid of food dyes so we have to eat like cherry flavored starbursts they're gray and beige yeah yeah okay whatever so like like so but like if the coke brothers let him ban pesticides I will eat a burrito of dog shit on this fucking live absolutely exactly that's

what I've been thinking too this whole time about him the video I made today about Trump's cabinet I said I mean I use big pharma as an example But it's like, obviously, fuck big pharma, dude. But like, I think we all acknowledge that they wield a lot of power and influence big pharma in this country. And like the idea that like they're just going to stand back and let RFK Jr. replace some of their most profitable money makers with like raw milk and vibes or whatever. You don't know about like that.

That's just, that's just crazy. And it's what this is so sad. The whole video I made today was about this. But it's like, it's so sad that this is true. but it's like this is all we kind of have to hang our hats on right now is this idea that like there's just too many competing interests amongst all these different evil factions that are involved in the Trump presidency, do you know what I mean? But it's like that's all we have to hope for is like they'll just fight each other over stuff

the whole time and keep things from getting too awfully bad. It's just a bunch of like today like earlier, or I saw it today, Walmart like came out publicly criticizing the tariff proposal, right? Be like these tariffs are bad. They're bad for the economy. And it's like, I ain't trying to. on the roof for Walmart, fuck Walmart, but it's like, but Walmart has power

though. They listen to billionaires. They listen to people like the Walton's and it's like, when you look at all these different dynamics that are going on, the only real hope is that they will they'll just squabble with each other and stand in each other's way

and keep anything from really changing too much to fuck us all to death. That's all I can really hope for. Right. You got to like, you got to, like, one of things, like, we'll wait and see how this process plays out. We're going to talk about the whether or not they're going to be hearings and how they're going to go in a little bit. But like, you've got to maximize the contradictions and pain points here. Because one

of the ways you just, you can, you can hobble Trump's administration before it's fucking starts by making, by dragging them as approval ratings, by having contentious fucking hearings. But you do not make it about defending the honor of Pfizer, Purdue Farmer, and Monsanto. Right. Exactly. Yeah. So that does seem like some shit Democrats would do.

It does, doesn't it? It does. You don't have to welcome Walmart to the resistance because they're trying to protect the bottom line. You can just hope that they fucking stay off the shit together. You hope for the, you root for the meteor. You know, you want them to fuck each other to death. That's what you want.

Yeah, right. You get, what you do is you bring in Trump's Commerce Secretary when he, when he's fucking testifying and you ask him about his plan. to fuck over Walmart. So Walmart sees it on TV. You do not take Walmart's side, okay? Right. So one of the pre-surrender things is bugging me like crazy while everybody sort of figures out how the

world's going to work now is like a lot of Democrats and national media are acting like people don't hate the shit Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gets up to. He's horrifically. This shit's so fucking stupid. Not his actual good idea, one good idea, like trying to not subsidize corn. syrup. I'm talking about like the stuff he talks about all the time, which is what they should ask about. Like, like this poll, this media organization, data for progress, just went around asking voters about Trump's cabinet nominees and what they think of stuff they've said. And

the results are fucking horrifying for everybody. And the fact that like people, like everyone seems to ascribe Trump mystical powers. We were jokingly doing it earlier, but they assume he must be somehow be in alignment with the public and ways that it'll understand. So when RFK Jr. goes on TV and says that chemicals in the water are turning kids gay, everyone assumes that, and then

Trump wins anyway, people assume that everyone must agree with RFK Jr. that people think chemicals in the water are turning kids gay. It's just not. So that's what you, like, here, like that particular viewpoint is underwater by 66 points. Here's another statement. He has the coronavirus vaccine is the deadliest vaccine ever made. Underwater by 28.

vaccines call on autism underwater by 39 HIV may not be the cause of AIDS underwater by 42 COVID-19 was ethnically targeted to attack Caucasians and black people and spare Jews and Chinese people underwater by 55 just ask him about this shit you can let him be fucking H-I secretary if you want if they push him over the line after the public sees this shit that's probably it's not good but like we can fight over the vaccine stuff later he's openly said he won't stop vaccine like their problem is if we need new vaccine That's the problem. Right. And like I would I also want to like ask, uh, the people who have actually a power on Democratic Party, what the fuck does move away from the left mean in a world where Donald Trump is appointing RFK Jr. Secretary of Health and Human Services? What the fuck are we talking about? Like he's talking, he's talking about doing food communism.

Right. And it's him for people and it's like, statistics aside about how many, how Americans actually feel about this stuff. My wife, Katie, has been feeding me screenshot after screenshot of people from her hometown and deep red Wayne County, Tennessee, people she went to school with, whatever, who are loving all the RFK Jr stuff and news and announcements and everything, which she's showing me these because she's like, I cannot believe the hypocrisy of these people, because it's like they're the same people that they're on there sharing a RFK Jr. headliner article and being like,

make America healthy again. finally someone's getting this trash out of our food and these are the same people that like when Michelle Obama was like maybe six year old shouldn't eat only cheeseburgers people are like get the fuck out of here you communist bitch you know like they're like people that lost their minds over that people that are hardcore right wing supporting these types of like kind of hippie dippy movements or whatever because rfk junior is aligned with their guy or whatever it is but it definitely is like none of it makes any sense i mean that's what you're like it it it it's It's all, I don't, it's just all so weird.

I bet you'll notice when he bans Mountain Dew and Cheese, it's because that's on his list. He also wants to ban Vaseline for some reason? I don't fucking understand. Well, see, that's the type of thing on that note. And those, well, I mean, I was about to say I'd be fine with those, but I mean, I am a fat kid. So those particular examples, but if, like, Doritos Taco Bell got added that list,

I'm joining the resistance. But, but I'm saying, people, like, the idea of what you just said, let's see how they react when this happened. I think there's been a lot of that too of people being like you know what like last time around with Trump it felt like people a lot of people on the left were like

no fuck this we're going to keep fighting back you can't do this this was bullshit everything about like you can't do these things but I feel like this time around a lot of there's a lot of a growing sentiment of people being like okay fucking you know what have it have exactly what you think you won't

like do what you want them to do and see what have a vote Democrats can't stop him. All they can do is embarrass him. I'm talking about people at home. I'm saying like them. I think there's people, the idea of like,

okay, fine, fucking get what you want and see how you like it. Right. And like, I'm just wondering how you feel about it because I feel like I'll start to think that

and then I'll be like, oh man, but I live in this country too. That ain't good. You know what I'm saying? Like the spiteful idea of like, fucking, I hope you get everything,

be careful what you wish for. I hope you get everything you voted for. Right, but we all will get those things. That's why I don't know how to feel about that. Like, part of me wants them to fuck everything up just to just to show them, just to show them like, this is what you wanted. You got what you wanted. Are you happy?

They're going to get enough awful shit, Tray, without relenting on every shitty thing. I'm not, I don't want to relent on nothing. I'm not talking about relenting on. That's the case I'm making here is don't relent on fucking shit, dude. Right, because it'll happen anyway. Right. So, like, let people know that you opposed it when they go to the story. about cheez-its and there are no cheez-its.

Yeah, yeah, okay, yes. Okay. So, like, so, like, again, the, the, the left-right, like, we almost got to get rid of fucking left-right, left-right thinking in Donald Trump era because everything's so fucking scrambled, nothing makes any goddamn sense. Because, like, one of Kennedy's policy proposals is he wants to send people taking Adderall to labor camps, okay? Yeah.

So, um, he's a, uh, what he wants to do basically is, like, take people, he's not clear, but the government cut back, like, like, limited Adderall. there's like a like a what do you call it like a limit on how much adderol it can be produced and the government dialed it back last year and everybody had a fit it's not clear where he wants to like completely take ADHD medicine off the market but also SSRIs and when people who you know take those for legitimate causes he wants to send them to work on organic farms until they can process their own attention deficit disorder now he also phrased in terms of drug addiction too so like if this is like a

voluntary government funded like passages Malibu for people want to kick pills great I'd be all for that right that's fucking that that's that that's like the uh Norwegian socialism of my dreams right that's very different than rounding people up and sending them to camps or whatever and forced labor camps like you know if it's a voluntary hospital camp or is it right it's a voluntary government run hospital it's nice and people get to work outdoors and work through their feelings that's lovely that's not what's going to be It's a work camp for people to cope after you ban their Adderall and Prozac, fuck off.

And I'm saying, do you have any idea? And they're fucked up for this, but the amount of money that Big Pharma make and people at the top of Big Pharma make off of all these drugs. And by the way, my wife has been prescribed to ADHD medication since she was in high school and still is.

The whole them putting a limit on it really fucked her over in a lot of ways. because, you know, she takes it because she needs it and because of people who don't, she couldn't get it. So it's all an imperfect system. But it's like, I don't want my wife sent to a camp, especially when I'm going to be in the even worse camp for running my mouth too much. But like, just like, I just can't imagine that something like that.

Like, dude, you know, we couldn't get student loans forgiven or anything because of the amount of pushback from it from people with money who had things to gain from not allowing that to happen. or there's some real high level very, very, very wealthy people who want to keep the Adderall and Prozac and Xanax fucking pipelines open and flowing

in this country because they've made a shitload of money from it. The point of make is we need to protect people's access to life-changing drugs they need without defending the profit lines and the margins of Pfizer. I don't care about that. I don't care about it at all.

Okay. So like, so... Yeah, but that doesn't make it like not true, though. I'm saying they're going to fight their fight. These things are not, I'm not, I'm not defending Pfizer and saying it. I'm saying that like these things that they're promising or proposing are insanely not practical. Like it's just, it's hard to believe that any of it will actually happen for reasons because it's a cynical take is what it is. I'm saying I'm acknowledging how this country actually works and knowing how it actually works.

There's no way they're ever going to be able to do this shit. That's what I'm saying. Like, that's what I said at the beginning. Like, if they actually do this, or up into my understanding of who has power in America, because, like, if he can pull this off with, like, not a lot of corporate pushback,

there is zero reasons to not fucking nationalize the medicine industry in this country. Right. Next time in Dermagel's power, unless they just don't feel like it. So, like, so like, like, but in my point, I want a reason I want to talk about RFK is like the reason that anybody, including the people in your hometown,

by any of this at all, in my view, it's just a natural suspicion of shitty, big corporations like your drug companies and your big agriculture companies and that's I have that you have that should be a left thing right right well it should be a universal thing is what it is my point is it is a universal thing but right now who's expressing it more openly right and like like so like like so when it comes to elite accountability like I don't I don't fully know what's in all my food or who put it there or for what reason like maybe somebody like maybe there should be should be

oversight, but that's usually a big government thing. So like, like, anyway, I would just suggest to people they rethink what left right means and what it means to stand for somebody in this country and think about it that way. Because we've went through a whole campaign where it's just like, democracy's on the ballot, okay?

Democracy's on the ballot. But what did that mean? You know what I'm saying? Like, what did they mean by that? I know what he means to me, but he's presented as though, like, voting is fun and they want to take that away from you. But that's not the point. America was conceived in a fucking class war. We cast off a king because the idea that we should have a say over our own lives and not

be subject to the rims of which assholes. Okay. Now, they immediately clawed it back by establishing a Senate so poor people couldn't have too much of a say. But like the point is like like it's the whole point of having democracy, no matter what kind of economy you have or whatever, it's the only way to have any sort of elite accountability. Citizens of the Soviet Union could not fire Stalin. right? The fact that it was communist is sort of beside the point like if we're getting the point

where we can't fire our president we're going to be fucked too but like you've got to like the whole point of democracy is it's not an end of an end of itself it's a means to redressing inequality reigning in profit and power systems that are rigged against the people

so like there's an essential truth here that we all need to return to and the shit lords know it it's why Peter Theo hates democracy and why Elon Musk was on Twitter a couple days ago talking about how maybe democracy is not a great idea, we should be run by a wise counsel of, like, geniuses with high IQs.

Okay? Fuck that. We're going to rise up and kill you, motherfucker, if you try it. I'm warning you. Okay. So, which brings me to Lena Khan, okay? And then we'll skip ahead to Matt Gates

because I just wanted to make this point. A big sub-fight. Real quick, just respond to the, like, a council of wise elders thing. Like, for the record, I think if it was, if there was some way of guaranteeing that that council

was populated with people like fucking Mr. Rogers or Jonas Salk people like that You keep bringing this up. You keep bringing this up. It doesn't work.

Let me finish what I'm saying. You're not listening. Why do you get mad at the hope? Because I'm ending. It doesn't work. I'm ending at the same place you're saying. What I was going to say is when Elon Musk says that to some people it might sound okay

because it's like, yeah, you know what? wise and compassionate elders should be in charge of everything, but in reality, it never goes that way. In reality, it's people like Elon Musk who get referred to as being that, but really, they're fucking just billionaire shitlords who don't care about anybody but themselves and are not all that smart or intelligent or special to begin with. And that will always be the case. Like, it's always going to be cool. That's the real reason why, like, I love the idea of a lot of socialism and stuff, but the whole reason, like, full-blown communism and stuff is never worked is because you can't trust people to implement systems like that. They'll always get

corrupted, shitty people will always grasp for power and be able to take it over and you won't get whatever it is that the idealistic version of the system is, which is all I was going to say, thank you very much. I wasn't sitting here saying we should try that. I'm saying we can never try that because it's inherently unfeasible because of just human nature. Like, it just ain't going to work. There's also a part where Mr. Rogers has a son who's a shithead. That too? Does he, right, does his son take over for him? Right, yes, secession plant.

Yes, that too, absolutely. So, briefly, an underrated subfight in this election was, like, big damn donors, wanted Kamelib. She wanted to fire Lena Khan, who's a head of the Federal Trade Commission, who was doing a bunch of cool shit for consumers, like, the latest thing was, like, making it easier to cancel subscriptions to stuff. And the Apple Plectic Rage in Silicon Valley over making it is, easy to cancel something is to sign up for it is kind of what this election was about in a lot of

ways when it comes to like Silicon Valley shit but like what they like they didn't take enough like that stuff's too small to hang a whole campaign on but like they didn't take enough credit for shit like that like we talked about the FBI rating that shitty fucking company that was like using an algorithm to rig rent prices to be artificially high remember that that would that press conference was like a lower level like a like a DOJ person why was it was Like, if they had Trump's sense of theater, Kamala would have went along on the raid carrying that glock she loved to fucking talk about wearing an FBI jack. Yeah, yeah, right?

Very true. Yeah. So, like, but anyway, so it's like the central problem was like, it's not just they didn't do enough big picture stuff. They did, they didn't want to be seen doing the stuff that they were doing because it's like uncouth or like it's demagoguery. They don't be rude to some of their donors who like are invested in these companies. And like, or maybe here's the really cynical table.

Maybe it's if they're too rude to the oligarchs, they won't be allowed to govern, which is about to what we're going to find out with Trump here right now. But I just want to remind the oligarchs, if any of them are watching right now, the basic deal with the public in this country is you get to be wealthy, but not fuck the rest of us too much. That is the compromise position. I mean, buddy, I want to believe that that is something that will ultimately hold true in this country. because yeah, right. The idea, I mean, you know, it's like our fucking old Nick Hanauer was saying forever. It's like, eventually they'll eat you. That's what will happen.

This country don't play that. But it's like, I don't, I mean, I grow less and less confident of that by the day. But I do, I am morbidly curious about the power struggle between, like you said, the oligarchs and the demagogues, whatever, like Trump and Elon Musk and that whole thing, watching that play out, even though it's bad for all of us. I'm morbidly curious about how that's going to fucking go at the. end of the day because it's kind of like a deep like philosophical question that's like inherently tied to the soul of this country in 2024 for the future of it if he if he if like Walmart raises like t-shirts $30 and blames the blame with him Donald Trump's tariffs and he responds by nationalizing Walmart to eliminate the profit so the t-shirts can

go back to being $10 he's the man yeah right yeah oh god Yeah. So, anyway, Elon's obviously fucking been radicalized or whatever, but it's worth noting that he was mad of the stuff that Biden and National Labor Review Board was doing all his other shit. And Bezos, people, when Bezos stopped the Washington Post from writing an endorsement of Kamala, people are calling him a coward, but you should also know that he was also mad at the Labor Department and also mad the Biden, DOJ was geared up to do some antitrust shit against Amazon. You just don't know about it because the Biden, Justice, Biden, Justice, Biden, didn't want to talk about it, didn't want to antagonize Jeff Bezos. So, but not for nothing. I think it's fairly obvious. It's taken on corporate criminals and powerful shitheads is a really popular. It's like evocative of a kind of persona that voters want. It's like energy, spying, you know, pugnacious, anti-status quo.

And speaking of taking on huge corporate criminal shitheads in elite accountability, we're not going to get too deep in Elon and talk about him too much already. But he was a defense contractor openly doing drugs, running back channels to foreign adversaries. No one even tried to take away a security clearance. So now we get the Doge Department of Government Efficiency, which everyone's making the same joke. It's a government department with no infrastructure. It's called government efficiency, but it has two co-vice presidents. Right. Yeah. With no reports. Right. It's not just that Elon shouldn't have a security clearance. It should probably be in jail. His co-vice president is, or whatever

their titles are, is Vivek Ramoswami. Just want to remind everybody, Vivek made his first fortune in business with Martin Screlly. Then he got mega-rich and company there was headquarters in Bermuda to get around tax laws and what the company he did was pumping up a fraudulent Alzheimer's cure that he where he made off with a bag of money but he fucked over a California teacher's pension fund he should probably be in jail if we had to just live in a just society um but now they get to run up front of fake department his main function if it has any is for them to take bribes okay yeah well they're also saying aren't they didn't they say they're going to cut they're going to lay off 75 percent

of governmental employees on day one. And it's one of those things that's like we're going back with the mass deportation, all the things that they're saying versus what's going to actually happen. And that could be, to me, funny is not the right word. But like, if they even actually made the like the cursory gesture to do that, and then all of those governmental employees will just get like hired back on as consultant, like they'll just privatize that, which is what the government does it, which will cost the American taxpayer so much.

more money but it's like but the governmental you know payroll is lower like that's the type of shit I could see happening I can just see I'm not doing it at all part of the reason it's on my mind is because I was at a wedding this weekend with a buddy of mine that I used to work for the department of energy with and it was all my old DOE friends who have been there the whole time and they're pretty freaked out right now because of because of that whole thing you know they're worried about that matter let's fire everybody that works at the place that maintains or nukes it's a good idea exactly um so talking about elite accountability crisis uh trump's fucking uh did secretary of defense nominee pete heggseth who he just saw on fox news a lot um besides being not qualified and having a

history of paying somebody off for his sex crime um his big thing the reason he called trump's eye was going on fox news and being objectively pro war crimes and i do want to say it might have made it more clear that war crimes are bad if we had put henry kissinger and dick taney in prison um So, let's get to Matt Gates before we get out of here. We're not going to get to all of it probably. But, like, so he resigned from the House to short circuit the release of a House, a bipartisan ethics committee report about his drug use and sex crimes. Right.

Which I don't really get how that can, is a card you can play. But it's just like a technical loophole thing where it's like he, since he was no longer technically a member of the house or something that meant that they couldn't just he's no longer their jurisdiction right right yeah okay all right he resigning from the house is ostensibly the result you'd want for doing the investigation so they're the general but not when he's going to become the attorney right right so they parts of it started leaking a 17 year old woman testified that she had sex with matt gates when he when she was 17 he paid her for it um uh if you're wondering why the rumor mill about why he wasn't prosecuted for this

was that the two main witnesses were a Matt Gates a friend who was already in prison for his own crimes so his credibility is not great and the victim because she later became a porn star on social media so because she does only fans she's an untrustworthy whore right you can't so but like because he so if you pay women for sex If you can avoid prosecution for sex crimes by tossing the woman money afterwards, that

feels like a pretty big fucking loophole that we should not tolerate as a society. And also, there were other witnesses. Other women testified that they saw Gates having sex with a minor. These parties seem fucking crazy to me. And, like, I just want to tell everybody who, a hundred, like, a hundred Democrats today signed a letter asking for the report to be released. and there are Democrats in the community who could just leak it and the only recourse would be a fine.

Thank you. I was going to say the same. If you say that, I was going to say the same thing. Yeah, that's so emblematic of the way the Democrats have operated for so long. It's like, well, let's get a petition together and say we demand,

the people demand you release this. It's like some of y'all just got it. Just fucking, just rel-fuck them. Fuck them. Just release the fucking thing. You could do it in a way where it wouldn't trace back to you. And even if it does,

who know you know fucking have Biden grant you immunity because he's got immunity or whatever the fuck just just do it just fucking and this is not about winning points here all right like so if if if you don't stop his appointment you're putting a vengeful fucking sicko in charge of the doj and leaving these women out to fucking dry whose names he knows right okay so like like like it like but it's all led to this pretty funny headline yesterday Matt Gates allegedly paid an adult woman for sex in 2017 attorney says So they had to put adult

Like there's so many of these underage women Right Make sure Yeah there's no reason for them to put the word adult In that headline If that word didn't make this headline Noteworthy for when it comes to Matt Gates, you know what I mean?

Like that word would not be there If it wasn't necessary to make it stand out Amongst all the underage people He's had sex with whatever so Yeah Yeah The Attorney General of the United States, everybody. Do you remember Nestor, his fake adopted son?

Yes. Oh, yes, I do. The teenage boy that was living with him, his sister, he apparently dated, and Gates apparently dated his sister, then Nestor lived with him. He said his adopted son, or he wasn't adopted. He never adopted him. He just kind of lived with him. Anyway, very weird.

He apparently used Nestor's PayPal account to pay their underage girl for sex. Just very functional normal people, like we got running around the government here. I just wanted to also point out this was a bipartisan committee that wrote the report and everybody else in Congress hates Matt Gates I don't know why one thing you got to respect about Republicans is they know how to rat fuck a scumbag they hate

and I advise Democrats to take some lessons here because like the the uh because Hakeem Jeffries was like I encourage the you know the Democratic minority leader I encourage the speaker to follow the normal bipartisan process and like that's not fucking it dog

and like the point this, again, is to keep a maniac who's a dangerous criminal for being charged of federal law enforcement. I want to keep that thought in your head that politics touches the real world, affects the people's lives here. It's not just a TV show. And listen to Dick Durbin talk about this. If you got this video of Durbin, Matt, before we get out of here. I bet Matt was probably already checked out and ready to go. The timing of Mr. Gates' resignation from the House raises serious questions. about the contents of the House Ethics Committee report.

We cannot allow this valuable information from a bipartisan investigation to be hidden from the American people. I am going to demand release of the Ethics Committee report. Okay. So I just want to point out here that the problem with Matt Gates' nomination to be Attorney General of the United States,

is not that the House Republicans are not following the spirit of committee rules. Right. Do you want to do the Norm, Norm McDonald bit on Bill Cosby, Craig, real quick? Yeah, I was talking, yeah, he said, I was telling Pat and Oswald about Bill Cosby. He said, you know, to me, the worst part of it,

the whole thing is the hypocrisy. I was like, the hypocrisy, because I thought it was the rape Yes To me the rape was the worst part He's a Coke-addled sex assault fiend Okay Like

He doesn't accuse him anything violent But these are underage girls Who are not We cannot legally consent He should not be in charge Of federal law enforcement He's going to be enforcing Drug laws

While snorting Coke In his fucking office We cannot I cannot endure this Please stop him On the merits and make a case about why a rapist shouldn't be if America's lead prosecutor

and not that they're not following the rules. I also feel like it's kind of just a full-fledged middle finger message from Donald Trump being like, I don't have to care about anything. You know what I mean? Like I don't, there is no accountability. There's nothing. I can do whatever fuck I won't, including this.

There is no pushback. So if there's enough Republicans left that hate Matt Gates to at least stop this from happening, so there's some semblance of some kind of pushback, that would be nice. But I'll believe it when I say. say it. And they're so on their back foot, dude, at a really not optimal moment. And they seem to convince themselves that Donald Trump, like, the American people voted for this. And I just

want to, like, make the point they do not, they did not vote for this. They voted for egg prices to go down a little bit, a lot of them. And they, like, like, some numbers for you. Trump's popular vote win is down to 1.7 is down below a majority. Like, these, these numbers can be moved, a dictate, authoritarian still need popular support to elevate their

agenda. And you can fucking have this motherfucker severely dragged down and diminished before he's even sworn in

if you let people know what monsters these assholes are because the people cry out for fucking accountability. They scream for it. And not just

big pharma and big ag. I just also with so many of them I don't really know what you have to lose at this point. You know what I mean? Like on the Democrat side

of me, it's like you've, You've lost it. You've lost the thing. What do you have left to lose now? Unless they know something I don't. Maybe Trump's privately threatened to have them killed. I don't know.

Yeah. But they should tell everybody that. Right. All right. They fall out of a window on January 22nd. We're just getting started, everybody. It's going to be a long, long haul, but we'll be here the whole way. I reckon, well, maybe not.

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