Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 1/16/24 – Are Airplanes Woke Now? (No.)

Episode Date: January 17, 2024

Skewers, join us as we dive into the recent kerfuffle with Boeing and their apparently rickety planes, which, if ya didn’t know, are rickety due to wokeness (at least according to Fox News). We talk about what really is to blame (spoiler: it’s capitalism again), along with the Iowa caucus results and a whole buncha other dumb stuff, on tonight’s show. Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it is january 16th 2024 i'm tray this my mustache that's mark how you doing mark good buddy mustache place was good uh yeah man we got a fun show when you're talking about uh if airplanes are woke now if the reason boeing's planes are falling out of the sky is because uh you know black people existing And we'll skip ahead and tell you the answer to no. We talked about the last night's caucus results and a slew of dumbasses because it's just one of the stupidest things ever happened, including everyone's really heightened takeaways about it. But before I shoot at the show, I wanted to do a couple good news pieces because, you know, we're trying to shift the vibes here at skews a little bit. Not talking about just bad stuff.

So the Biden administration is successfully blocked to merger by JetBlue and Spirit airlines so far. so that's good. Some good plain news. It's good for consumers and not to have people having, companies having less monopoly power is good. I'm not sure when we forgot that in America, but it is. I've been following what's going on with the acting labor secretary. No. Julie Sue.

So she was the deputy labor secretary to the last guy left to go run the union for the National Hockey League Players Association. Right. And so Biden just nominated to be the secretary. She's been the acting secretary, but she can't get confirmed. because Republicans hate her because she likes workers. Right. And Joe Manchin hates her because she likes workers. Yeah.

And so Biden said, okay, fuck you. She was already confirmed as a deputy secretary. So she's legally allowed to still stay in the job because she has been confirmed by the Senate. It's not in this rule. And it's probably going to keep renominating her every January as a fucking stupid Senate. I was going to ask, because, you know, the rules are always so, like, kind of archaic and everything. They're hard to parse how the rules actually work. So, like, he's able to do this because.

In her role as undersecretary, she had been previously confirmed. So he can just like make her the interim secretary for as long as he wants to. And there's nothing that can do about that. Because I mean, you know, that hits right. Yeah, just like, fuck you. We're doing, we're doing pro worker stuff over here. What also implicit, like, you know, if they confirmed her for the undersecretary, that should imply that, you know, she's qualified to then take the next job.

I mean, that's how secession works, you know what I mean? So it makes it very obvious that it's political theater. act like, oh, we're just not sold on it, you know. Yeah. Manchin was apparently willing to appear a peer pro worker when it was a lesser position, but not when it actually mattered. I thought that was, I don't want to dwell on this whole thing too much. But as far as Manchin, I would have thought that that was like one of the last things he would

be kind of Democrat-e about because he's from West Virginia and whatnot as like, you know, workers and labor and unions and that sort. In my head, if you'd ask me, I would be like, well, that's the only thing that even makes him a Democrat, you know, is that. So if he's, like, abandoned that, then, like, what pretense does he even have left for, you know, his party affiliation? It makes no sense. That, I don't know, but this line that story, wavering senators point to perceptions that she's anti-business. That's the reason they won't confirm her. Perceptions that she's anti-business. The fucking Labor Secretary should be a little bit anti-business, in my opinion. If anti-business means pro-worker,

she's the Labor secretary, she should be pro-labor, you know what I mean? We have a Commerce Secretary. Right. Exactly. Commerce Secretary, I get it, should be pro-business. But the labor secretary should be pro-labor, which is inherently anti-business, but, you know. Or maybe like, it's pro-workers getting their cut of the business, you know. Well, yeah, right. Obviously, yes, of course. Nobody wants the business to fail. This is still in America. It's still a capitalist hellscape. You still got to make a living, but like, you know, you know how it goes. This fun thing I surfed across today. You know when you feel like your taxes, it has the thing where you can donate money to the government if you want to? Yeah, always wondered why that even existed. People do

that. Last year, they got $180,000 in pure donations. That was in 2022. 2023, around a million dollars. The numbers from 2022 is 1500 people gave gifts of $100 or less, but somebody donated $1.5 million in 2023, sorry. And you can donate via, this is the screen grab map put up, via Amazon gift cards. You can donate Amazon gift cards to the government. Sure. Yeah, well, you know, government don'ts need Alexa too or whatever. Yeah. You know what I mean? Just God bless the absolute nerds who love America so much to donating money to the government. Yeah, I read that. Look, I'm all for like, you know, I'm not anti-taxes or whatever, obviously.

You got to have a government and they got to do stuff to take care of people. But it's like my reaction to hearing this to even seeing that part on the forum or that people donate to it is that the scene for Mad Men with John Hamm where it's like that's what the taxes are for. Right. I mean, he says money, but it's like that, ostensibly, I'm already doing that. Like, I'm giving you money and in the hopes that you'll do something good with it. If I, you know, why would I just tack on another one million out of the goodness of my heart or whatever, considering the state of, you know, our defense budget and things of that nature.

And I'm on the other side, see it, you know, similarly, but in reverse. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, we got to ship bombs to Israel so they can still afford their free health care. Right. So, Guatemala had their own January 6th last week. Naturally. Well, good for them. Congrats for them.

It's the sign of a growing country. You know what I mean? Sign you're doing well. Things are going good. You're putting it all together because you have an open threat to democracy like that. Yeah, it's a tale as oldest time. A right-wing party loses a free and fair election, claim election fraud.

They refused to certify the results. This happened worse in America than Brazil, and now Guatemala had their turn. There's no armed militia, but there's still a bunch of chaos, the capital, right before the inauguration. The inauguration is delayed by a few hours. But this is about a, like, a months-long, putch, what do you call it? I forget, yeah, putch, I think, yeah, like the beer hall putch, that Hitler did, yeah. And it's, some Americans are involved, and you won't be surprised which ones will get to that

in a minute. But here's what it looked like on the ground. It looked remarkably similar January 6th, if you got this video, Matt. You're funny to play on it. The difference is it's the good guys doing the rioting here because they were locked out of power. So this is when January 6 happened. I said it wasn't like the actual behavior that I disagree with. I don't mind armed protests or resistance.

It's the context. Yeah. Yeah. So here's the party that won the election trying to fight to get in the actual halls of their legislature. I mean, dude, good for them. I mean, it's like you said, like, you know, I'm sure right wingers would watch this segment and call us, like, baldly hypocritical for being in favor of this. But, like, context should matter.

You know what I mean? It's like if they, like, they have Democratic elections. They won and you're being locked out. Uh-huh. Then this hits for me. Fucking force your answer. No, that's not how it works. Like, we did.

We did the thing. We got the W. and this is ours now. And that does whatever people think makes the thing is like the people on the other side, they genuinely somehow believe that that is what happened to them too. Do you know what I mean? They really don't think that. They think they're in this same position, which is what makes it so maddening because

there's literally no evidence for that. Right. There's been a ton of investigations by every level of government, every level of court, every private organization. It's nothing really happened. I understand you're saying they believe it. But the allegations of our point. hypocrisy, you're funny to me. It's like, oh, you're against fighting for injustice, but

for fighting for justice. Right. Yeah, yeah. The contact here is like an anti-corruption candidate, uh, leftist by the name, basically a social democrat, you know, Bernardo Alvarillo was fairly elected. Um, they tried to block the peaceful transfer of power with court challenges, saying they all the vote was rigged, which is stupid because there were two rounds of voting and the other side almost won the first one, got blown out in the second one. Uh, Alvarillo won with 61% in a runoff against a woman named Sandra Torres. I, I'm not going to pretend to know enough about Guatemala in politics to understand why the outgoing president

who was term-loaded out was fighting to put a woman in power he's not of his party. I don't really understand that. But yeah, like I said, he won in the landslide. The last president's by the name Alejandro Jean-Mete. Horrifly corrupt hates gays and abortion. I guess

one reason he's fighting for Torres is because she also hits gays and abortion. So they went there's long process where Jean-Mete's attorney general tried to stop a revel-o from taking the presidency. What was happening in the hall, like they failed in all those efforts. What they were doing in Congress at this point

was trying to strip the presidency of authority and remove all their legal immunity. So I guess they could try to put the president in jail for being the president. But at an American side, Senator Mike Lee was, you know, fully on board with pushing this coup from Utah Republican.

Rick Rinell, who's Trump's Director of National Intelligence and Ambassador for, Germany before that was on the ground in Guatemala trying to help them organize this coup, because of course he is. And Cornell was acuting the Biden administration of weaponizing foreign policy, quote, against Guatemal and conservatives, which is sort of true, but not because they're conservatives, but because of what they're doing. Yes, I think it's good for the State Department and the CIA, for example, to be on the

side of not doing fascist coups. Right. So like, yeah. Anyway, Guatemala's got really lucky that the, you know, the wealthy elite, business elite fascists in the military didn't intervene. But like this international alliance of right-wing psychos, I'm not sure everyone's really got their whole head around it because there's not really, this is what, you know, American conservatives thought was happening with communism in the 60s and 70s, but it is

happening with conservative, populist conservative hatefulness in 2024, you know, been doing it since 2019. On that lines, Putin gave a speech yesterday, Vladimir Putin, where he's talked about how a lot of Russians who had fled are moving back. because they're sickened by unisex bathrooms. Right. You mean like, what's the word, gender neutral bathrooms? Yeah, I guess.

Or they're also like the Allen Beal style unisex where everybody pees and poops in the same bathroom. You remember that? Like, it's like, yeah, right. Yeah. That don't hit for me because I don't want women. I'd rather fight in a war. I'm going to share a bathroom with a woman. God damn it.

Right. I said, I meant my potato Russian voice, but I didn't. But anyway. But it's obviously not true. People are fleeing in Russia because they're going to be drafted into a stupid bullshit war. and in case you're wondering, according to Moscow Times, 22% of Russians don't have indoor plumbing at all. I did not know that.

They would kill for a fucking unisex bathroom. It's cold as shit over there, too. I know you're talking about largely rural Russians, so in my head I go straight to Siberia, somewhere cold, somewhere that don't hit. And these people are pooping outside. Good Lord. Yeah, I think I said it's in rural, rural Russians.

But I thought my first thought was maybe it's like old Soviet-style dormitory housing, with like communal bathrooms or something, but I guess that's not the case. Maybe they're talking about outhouses. So the Guatemala thing, just to be clear, like, is that over? Did it resolve? Yeah, Revelo's in charge now. Okay. The person who actually won the election, made it work and is in charge.

Well, all right, well, thank God for that. Yeah, and I don't know enough, like, all these guys, the guy, the John Mette also ran anti-corruption and he just was horrifically corrupt, which you even recognize that. That's what Donald Trump did. All right. I have no idea if a Revelo is going to be. saving grace with Guatemalan people to like, you know, they have a standard living crisis and a crime crisis and all that stuff that's pushing people to flee to America. These trying to fix it. If you if you're, if immigration is a problem for you having good leaders in South America is the first. Right. Absolutely. That's I mean, that's such a good point, man. I mean, you know, being short-sighted is absolutely their bread and butter, but you're 100% right. Like if you you hate them, you hate these people coming up here so much, you should be fully in support of, you know, them having leadership. which gets their country back on track so people don't feel desperate enough to attempt to do that type of thing.

But again, though, they think they do feel that way. Like, I wanted to add, like, do you think, like, they see this, like, Mike Lee and Rick Grinnell or whatever, they're going down there supporting this thing or whatnot? Like, you think legitimately in their head, they're like, well, no, this is what, this is all bullshit. They say that's what the result was, but that's not really what happened. This election was stolen, and right-wingers should be in power, and they're just fighting for what right because clearly they've had it stolen from them and been lied to like well the most important thing is to make sure you can't see gay people in public that's the number one issue for all these

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the world of aviation. Or has it? No, it hasn't. But we'll talk about all that a little later. First, we begin with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D. Donald Trump for making sure trans people weren't invented until 2021. Let's see this video from who else. Large Brain Marge.

Under President Trump. Under President Trump, there were only two genders. Remember that? Male and female. And we didn't have men trying to beat women in women's sports. Okay. Okay. This is also fucking, so she's stumbling for Trump in Iowa right there. And so I guess this is my way of getting to talking about the caucuses because Trump won for the, he says the third time, it's actually the second, because you're on if you remember Ted Cruz beat him in 2016 in Iowa. And he said it was rigged. Right. Yeah, he didn't just say it was rigged. I saw some people sharing a quote. He lost the caucus in Iowa in 2016, like you said, and then he went out to do his presser or stump speech or whatever after that happened. And as part of that speech, he said, how dumb are the people of Iowa? Iowa. That's what he said. He called him stupid. And then now he's celebrating their staley resolve after the result of this one. So if you're wondering how Trump won over the heartland evangelical voters of Iowa, it is by saying shit like this, if you have this video, Matt, which is a so astoundly stupid for anyone who grew up evangelical. I don't even know how to parse it. Right. Yeah. The evangelical part of it is an interesting part. More in a minute. We will pray for God, and we will be with God.

Okay. We will pray for God. To who? Yeah, right. Who are you praying, too, if it's for God? Yeah, right. It's like, yeah, dear Lord, I hope you're hitting up there. Hope everything's going well.

You're talking to God, like you talk to your neighbor when you haven't seen him in a while. You know what I mean? Like, I hope everything's good. Hope things are all right for you, the Lord. But yeah, I had read that, you know, you said Ted Cruz beat him last time. And the other thing is, like, I was always first, right, with the caucus, which was actually just kind of a fluke, I reckon. Like when they switched to caucuses in the

1900s, it was a logistical concern that made them push it way back, which just led to them bang first. And then ever since then they're like the bellwether for American politics arbitrarily. But anyway, he lost a cruise in 2016 there, which was before he really started

popping. It was before his rise really started and he was real pissed off about it. But the thing I read said that like, you know, well, I know this part is true. Iowa hadn't correct Iowa Republicans had not correctly voted for or chosen the eventual nominee since George W. Bush, right? And I read that it was because they have this strong evangelical voting block, which mostly previously voted for who they viewed as being the most Jesusy candidate, right? So in like 2008, it was Huckabee, and in 2012, it was Santorum. And in 2016, I guess it was Ted Cruz, because that's how low the bar was. The joke I made in the video I made about this today was they must have been like, Well, listen, this guy talking about Ted Cruz, this guy is so palpably uncharismatic. There's no way he's actually a secret demon who's just dressed up as a billboard DUI lawyer.

You know what I mean? He must be good. But yeah, the reason I think this is interesting is because, like, that this big evangelical voting block amongst Iowa Republicans was always like a major factor in the Iowa caucus, which implies that, as we've all seen, play out already, they're fully on board. Lord with Trump, the holy man, right? The guy who says, let's pray to God, like they have at this point fully convinced themselves that he is the holiest candidate out there and a true man and servant of God who will lead this country into the promised land, despite every piece of available outward facing evidence about this deal, which is why I don't think. We'll get some numbers a little bit by why I don't think. Like, to me, the news is presenting this like Trump has a stranglehold in the party, which is true. But the number, the wrong numbers, well, I think. like Donald Trump, Trump was getting extremely weak, like, general election candidate and, like, very few people. He actually were human beings in Iowa actually showed up to vote and voted for him. We'll get that in a second.

But, like, so Trump got first with 51% of the vote. DeSantis got second with 21%. Noghila got third, we're 19. Vivek got so little. Vivek got so little. He fucked off. He quit. If you want to get to the scary stuff, like the entrance polls from CNN said that 65% of the people

voted in the caucuses and think by. and didn't legitimately win in 2020 and 64% say Trump is fit for the presidency, even if he's convicted of any of the charges is accused of. Tupper's not one time about DeSantis for a second because all the media organizations, including Fox, called the caucus for Trump

like 30 minutes into the voting before he wanted it before he like. So he got really mad at everyone, including Fox. He gave a speech. Actually, like, I was like, if you had, I'm not as political advisor. I don't want Ron DeSantis. to have a fun, nice life.

So I do it, but, like, he actually gave a speech. He was, like, talking about how, like, right-wing media acts like Trump's Praetorian Guard. They, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they don't, you know what's actually happening. And the main thing with Trump is, like, you, like, he doesn't, he doesn't care about you. And, and he doesn't care where the people he supports care about you. He just cares about people like kiss his ring. Right.

All true. He's making, he's making, like, I actually at least want to make your life better, which is a true. But it, but it's a better line of attack than, like, like, like, he'd be, you. He's basically being like Trump is susceptible to being conned by rhinos because he just cares when people kiss their ass. And like if he'd come out swinging with that like six months ago, he might have fucking had a chance. But again, he's dead in the water. He also became the first. It's a big thing in Iowa, going back to why Iowa, like if you want to make the romantic case for it, and I don't agree with it.

But it is like because it's such a small population, 99 counties, you can physically shake the hand of most people are going to be voting in the primary. And they can get a sense of you and hear what you actually think and they can see if they trust you. look you in the eye, that kind of thing. Right. Well, essentially, that's why they even made it a caucus in the first place, right? Was that they thought it should be a more bottom-up approach as opposed to a top-down approach. That was like the idea behind it even becoming a caucus to begin with. One of the guys people caucusing for DeSantis when he gave his stump speech is his argument was that like, well, if you want Trump to not go to jail,

uh, desantis can actually win and he will pardon Trump. That was his argument. I was like, actually, it's not a bad argument. Right. So, but like, so like, did Sandus became the first candidate to ever go to all 99 counties in Iowa, women lose? Ramoswale became the first candidate to go all night and go to all 99 counties. Sorry, Descanis went the first to go to 99 counties and not win a single one. Ramoswai was the first candidate to go to all 99 counties twice and not win a single one.

Damn. But it goes back to, so the whole point, the reason for being for the Iowa caucus is in an environment where a politics is so nationalized. It's like there's zero argument for it anymore. Like try to do any of that shit. Right. What's the fucking point? Anyway, less than a year ago, before he even tried, he was pulling a 30% in Iowa and he got two thirds of that. So by meeting Ron DeSantis, people actually turned against him.

Right. Yeah, Desantis, yeah, Desantis before ever actually campaigning was at 30% and then finished it like 20 or whatever. So like you said, like the worst thing for DeSantis's campaign was like him introducing himself to the rest of the world, right? People like getting, people met and heard him, and that was the worst thing that ever happened to him. And they realized, like, oh, this guy sucks.

Thought he was like a COVID hero or something like that. And then they heard him talk and looked at weird, bobblehead, fake smile and stuff. And they're like, I'm upset by this. I don't like this guy. Yeah. And I, like, the number that fucking, like, blew my mind is altogether the campaigns all combined,

spent $1,200 per vote just on TV ads. It doesn't count the door. knocking all the other campaign staff. Yeah. It's crazy. Private plane flights and shit. Like, so like, just pay me $1,200 to vote for you. I understand why you go through all this.

The amount of money, yeah, you look at like the amount of money that campaign spend on shit like that. It's like, it's wild. You know what I mean? Like the stuff that, uh, all the things that we could use money for and that's what, and that's what it goes to. And I know that on both, I know the Democrats spend like crazy too. But again, it's just, it's wild to consider the sheer amount of money it gets thrown. around from these people that like fools errands like the desantis campaign ain't going to amount to

a goddamn thing is going to spend what hundreds of millions of dollars by the time it's all said and done like it's crazy i was taught taught this woman who's a husband's an immigrant from the netherlands and uh she was like so he's like you drive around you look at like schools and hospitals and the roads and stuff and he goes like america's so rich where's all the fucking money right absolutely uh yeah so talking about this being this this being portrayed as like trumping strong or whatever. Yeah, it was a record, like him winning by 30 points. Right. And a contested primary, but he's running basically as an incumbent. Again, the base thinks he still was elected president. So like, so like this would be like, as a thought experiment, imagine there was an open

primary for the Democratic side right now. If Joe Biden only got 51% and say Dean, what's his name, and RFK and Mary Williamson got combined for 49, Mary Williamson, like, that would be a crushing fucking defeat, but it's not being spun that way for whatever reason. So, well, I mean, at the end of the day, man, I mean, I think, you know, me, you and Matt, we're all group texting about this. I think at least a part of what you're talking about that. I mean, I hear you. I get what you're saying.

But I think that, like, at least a part of that is people, like, on our side, recognizing, like, goddamn, he's still, he's dog walking these people. And I get what you mean. It's like, well, he's basically the incumbent that makes it a little different. Sure. But this is all happening in the way. of all this other wild-ass shit that's, you know, post-January 6th, post-fucking insurrection, post-91 indictments and all this stuff, which wouldn't say whatever you want to say about Trump. Like, I knew he was a lunatic then.

I know you did too, but in 2016, it wasn't that. It was grabber by the pussy, which should have been bad enough, but that was the only thing. And so the fact that none of that seems to have phased him at all. And, you know, if anything, it's like you said, he hasn't been there. He hasn't been actually campaigned has been doing anything. He don't even have to go. he's in court every day defending himself for civil rape charges and things of that nature and still just crushing everybody and we're all seeing that happen in the context of all the

stuff we know that he is done and that shit is alarming in my opinion I find that alarming let me present the numbers to because we're talking about my percentages so far and I might so I talked to the percentage yeah yes 51% is too high for a guy inviting people to smear shit on the walls of Congress right right let's talk about some raw numbers for a second all right because 110,000 people participated in the caucus this year. That's down from 187,000 in 2016. Yeah. Massive,

is it negative 7 degree wind chill or whatever, right? Football player, NFL playoffs are on. All that's true. All right. But like, still, that's an astounding drop off of 40%. 40% of people are so turned off by the Republican primary. Some of those people watching football, yes, or the Emmys or whatever. But like, but Iowans live in cold all the time.

It was cold in 2016, too. That's true. I think that's cold. But like, okay. So it's down 40% of the people that did go vote, almost half of them, exactly half, chose to vote for someone who's not Trump. So there's 752,000 registered Republicans in Iowa. So 75% of Iowa Republicans either didn't vote or voted for not Trump. And here's another piece of doubt for me to throw out yet.

A poll came out yesterday said that nearly half of Nikki Haley's Iowa backers, which would be 9% of total voters. So they'd vote for Biden over Trump. Okay. All right. well that that right there makes it a little different to me because I was going to say like look, I appreciate what you're doing here and I'm not trying to be a doomer. But like the way I look at all that stuff is like, oh, it's only a fraction, whatever came out, but still you can extrapolate statistics to some degree, you know, these people like just because he didn't show up, that don't mean they're going to vote for Biden and the general or whatever. And I felt like whatever happens while his primary shit, and we know what's going to happen. He's going to win it. When he wins the primary, they will fall in line most of them, I thought, I was going to say. Because I mean, I think like, dude, I voted for Bernie both. times in the two recent Democrat primaries. I vote for Bernie both times. Susie didn't win. I was fucking all in on Hillary and then Joe Biden. You know, so like I feel like they'll do a similar thing. But that this right here,

this poll, I do think is interesting. If this is true, like Nikki Haley's people, you know, half of the people that are behind her, if they are like never Trumpers, they're Republicans, but they're never Trumpers, then that does, you know, that does kind of change things for me as far as how I perceive this. I mean, that, that is interesting. Right. Like, it lies, damn lies in statistics, right? You can slice these numbers any way you want. My point is why, why is everything always construed in the most pro-Trump way possible when this also be seen as a disaster for Trump. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like, like, so that's what that's a part that frustrates me. There's also this thing when people, when they poll like the general

election stuff, we haven't talked about Biden at all yet, really. But like, so like, yes, Biden's approval rating is lower than Trump's, but also people aren't paying attention to Trump. There was a, there's a piece that got everybody mad. They went around yesterday. McKay Coppins wrote it for the Atlantic, so everyone should go to a Trump rally. And his point was, you should go see how fucking crazy this shit is

because people have forgot. Right. Absolutely. And like, so here's another data point for you, when you look at that polling, the majority of Americans, old world majority are an absolute denial

that Donald Trump's going to be the Republican nominee. That's fucking crazy to me. I don't know. Like, what world are you living in? What rock are you under? Like, of course he's going to be,

unless there's something like, catastrophic medical situation he's gonna be the fucking nominee man he is you better buckle up and get ready for it because that's what's gonna happen yeah even if but his problem like the problem his base is because like a lot of them are QAnon psychos

who believe in really unhinged shit is like even if he dies they will still write in Trump because they'll think it's a game yeah like it's a like it's a gambit so like like like it's like I just think they're so fucked like like like it's like like there's a ton of stuff's gonna happen between now and November

I can't tell you what's going to happen. I just like the bleakness with the way everyone's approaching this. I understand the stakes are super high. And it's naturally having your anxiety be super high when the stakes are. Like it's like everyone's going to be nervous if they're told they have a one and a thousand chance they're going to die today. Right. Yeah. But I'm just saying like there's no reason to like to be, be scared like that Trump's going to win, but don't live in abject fear that's definitely going to happen or something.

Do you know what I'm saying? I do. And you're hitting for me. I mean, I said recently on the show. I remember in the 2020 election, you were my bacon in the run-up to it because you would come through with shit like this and be like, look, it's going to be fine. It's what's going to happen. And I was like, I want that mark to show up at 2024. It's only January.

We'll see how it goes. But yeah, I mean, you know, I like you reframing it in this way because, you know, we need to do that. Predictions are a Mug's game. I'm not making predictions here. I'm saying, I'm telling you, like, how all the ways you can slice the data. And if I was like, if I was looking at betting predictions markets and I had to put money down and be on Trump losing some fashion, right? based upon this result. Again, things are going to change.

But things aren't going to change for the better for Trump. One, the sentiments turning around the economy. Like the number one issue in the Iowa caucus, do you know it was, right? It wasn't the economy. It was immigration. It was immigration. Go look where Iowa was out on the map. Right.

The very middle of the country, yeah. Middle north. Like, it was three degrees there. A good tell when you're not close to the Mexican border is if it's three degrees where you're at, in general. Right. He was back in court today. talking about whether or not he committed sexual assault. Actually, that's not a factor in the case.

It's just a defamation because it's already been found that he committed sexual assault. He just keeps lying about it. He's going to get back and back in court. There, a funny thing happened there with this court date where he tried to push it because he said he wanted to go to Melania's mom's funeral, RIP, Melania's mom. But the judge is like, but I'm looking at your website, and it says you have a campaign appearance. So, like, you're not, you're skipping Melania's funeral to do a campaign appearance, but you're lying and saying you want to go to her funeral.

so no, we're not moving it. Anyway, he went to Iowa, did his campaign appearance where he lied about the judge not moving the date first. And the guy's such a fucking loser. So, yeah. But Matt's big predictions

of one of them is going to have a bad health scare between now and November. So that's really the thing. I mean, I mean, that checks out giving their advanced age, each of them. And I feel like if you look at

every single other metric, the smart money would be on it happening to Trump. But just he just, people like that, dude, we all know them to lesser degrees or wherever. They just, I don't know. It just don't happen. They just push through a lot of the time.

Like, dude, he's going to torment us for years yet, I feel like. Oh, even if he loses, he'll run again in 2028. Right.

It's like, so yeah, for real. Oh, do you want to save this next dumbass for the Patreon? Because we're running a little behind. We're talking about the caucuses for too long. Yeah,

sure. If you want to move on, we can move on. Because we promise the people we're talking about planes. We've got to talk about planes. You can't save that, right? Sure.

All right. So if you guys saw any of the news, You probably saw this happen last week. Show up the image of this plain wall being blown out, Matt. People haven't seen it. So Alaskans Airlines flight, 1282, took off from Portland International Airport, heading for Ontario, California with 171 passengers and six crew members on board, including some babies and unattended children, and then the wall fell out.

That ain't good. That's less than a deal, as I understand it. You want the walls on a plane to generally stay in place. Wall falls off. That's bad news. If you guys haven't followed Boeing the stuff recently, they had a couple of bad crashes

in the last few years based on some faulty software. They just made the plane nose dive. That somehow I saw some people that work in aerospace engineering and be like that's actually more understandable than this because this just happened because they didn't tighten some bolts or something. We'll get to that a second about what I'm not going to lie. I absolutely hate this. As somebody who flies round trip basically every other weekend on average or more than

that is super don't hit for me i don't i do not i do not want i do not want the door to fly off because you know i often go for that exit row obviously if i mean if i'm in economics i mean extra leg room or whatnot well that's not that's not the exit row that's the thing we'll get to that it was it's a possible exit row it's not an exit row it's a whole placeholder for an exit row hypothetically speaking the reasons i'll explain a little bit it's about money it's about profit so um they uh so i don't understand why boeing like can continually do this shit and we'll talk about some more stuff they've been doing that they have some more recent manufacturing failures

um like they should have gotten a corporate death penalty after the air max software shit but like it's this is fucking like they're making the new air force want right imagine the president fucking get sucked out of the side of a fucking plane but well it's like you're talking about competition and whatever right and there being more companies i mean at that level i mean isn't it just like them and airbus or whatever like basically yeah right i mean that like that's it so you know what the hell else you're going to do i guess basically and also i feel like another factor that plays in here is i feel like i think that most regular people

who are familiar with this story and stuff and obviously this isn't across the board true but like i think a lot of most regular people heard this story i think they like i think they flame alaska airlines more than than Boeing a lot of them you know what i mean it was an alaska airlines flight and i think Alaska airline i guarantee you their stocks took a big hit and I'm sure Boeing's did too, but, like, I think people think more about the airline than the, than the manufacturer. Maybe that's part of how they've, you know, managed to keep looking around the way they have. Airlines are blameless. We'll get to the stuff in a little bit when you get to the money stuff.

But like, like, it's basically like to the degrees of airlines are responsible, it's because they're asking for these sort of structural designs that are, it can't be perfect for profit-based reasons. So they got extremely lucky with this. One, there was no one in that row. I know. I heard that, I heard that I don't have no idea. if this is true. I heard like I heard someone literally on the internet saying that they it was like a couple or something that had tickets for those seats and they just didn't they just missed the flight and didn't show up and like they were supposed to be on there but

they just didn't make it which meant those seats were empty had they not been empty it would have been a real bad time for those people. Yeah it's a burnt it's a burnt toast theory it's like if you burn your toes you had to make new toast maybe you maybe you missed a car accident that would killed you right that sort of thing it's like uh you know how uh the the guy from family step mcfather was supposed to be in one of the night 11 fights um but he was hung over uh just shout shout out to being hung over not dying uh absolutely so like i said they got extremely lucky the the the manufacturing defect was so bad that that's that's part of this being lucky they only got to 16000 feet for a blew out which means they were able to land a lot quicker

and it wasn't as like the air pressure wasn't as low and it wasn't as cold So the fact it was so poorly done saved a lot of lives. There was an interview with a guy who was in the seat behind there, who like his shoe and iPhone were sucked out of the flight. The good news is his flight still works. I mean, his phone still works. They found the airline found his phone on the ground. And I guess his theory was.

Well, it's funny about like Apple, while Alaska Airlines and Boeing are like fucking shit in themselves, Apple's over here popping bottles. Like fucking stocks up, baby, you know what I mean? Like, hell yeah. worked out. Like, that's the story because I was like, his iPhone somehow still works

despite a 16,000 foot drop. And they're like, hell yeah. His quote, he's like, I was just in disbelief. I was like,

what's going on here? Why does everything feel so weird? Next thing I know, I'm like, oh shit, there's a big hole. And then on his phone, but regarding his phone,

I was like, I think it might be because it landed in soft dirt or something. Yeah, that's a good theory. The door was found by a science teacher in his yard. It's called. I was like, I got your door.

it reminded me of like I was still a reporter in Texas when they Space Shuttle blew up over Texas and NASA people were like looking for pieces of it in their yard while cops were responding on one cause cause about people who thought they'd found stuff from the space shuttle

and NASA's director was like that's been to space don't touch it stupid but people were walking around I was at the cops get called and they went to babysit random debris until someone from NASA could show up and be like nope that's not like what like the piece I was babysit I was babysitting turned out to be like the melted wax you put on skateboard wheels.

The cops were just babysitting for like to eight hours. So NASA got there. And I saw people like couples in tank tops walking around with salad tongs picking shit up and putting the Ziploc bag. I was like, NASA says don't touch that. It's been in space and you're using your salad tongs to touch it. All right. Well, that's not touching it, Mark, to be fair to those people. I'm not touching it.

Tongs don't count. That's what tongs are for is grabbing stuff you don't want to touch. God damn. So there's been at least two other Boeing, like, weird things, though. I've actually three recently. A cockpit window on a Boeing flight in Japan, like it cracked and they had to turn around and go back. This was a flying from a city in Sapporo to hike to Japan's mainland. A ground collision of two Boeing planes in Chicago sparked an FAA investigation, which he said could be caused by a manufacturing flaw.

I'm not sure. To me, that feels like an air traffic controlling thing, but maybe it's a censored thing. I don't know. There also been warning signs about the 737 Max Nines before this recent accident. In December, another Alaska Airlines series of flights had a bunch of issues where warning lights flashed indicating a loss of cabin pressure on the max nine planes. So their decision was they decided volunteer to not fly the planes over waters. They could have a safe landing if they depressurized. See, that, that's not.

I don't like that. You know what I mean? Like they had a meeting and they were like, listen, clearly, we should not be flying these over water anymore. And as like a flyer, just a customer, you're like, why would you, why would you say that? Because that makes it seem like you feel like it's kind of likely that they might go down and you don't want them to go down in water. What other reason could there be for that?

And it's like, no, it's just, you know, water is just worse than a mountain or whatever, I guess. But, yeah, also not flying over water is kind of a choice you can make when your Alaska Airlines flying up and down the Pacific Coast, but it's not a choice you can make when you're say, Nippon Airlines in Japan, that island nation. So, like, it's like this is not a solution that's available to everybody. But anyway, so Boeing clearly has some problems going on over there, right? And so the riot has settled on a theory for why all this is happening. And you'll never guess what it is.

It's the same one it always is. You can play on this video, man. Attention, Boeing executives. DEI must die, not passengers on your planes. Steve Moore on the company's misguided priorities coming up next. So Boeing has a diversity, equity, inclusion policy. Therefore, this is why this is happening. Right.

Yeah, because like you said up top, because black people exist. Like, okay, to me and to you, like, we hear this response to all this thing, and it's like them just being like, listen, guys, if you only let white people work on the planes, they would never fall apart, right? Like, what are you doing? But it's funny, it's like, even Asians, and they're like, well, nobody's saying that. But, like, but yeah, you know, it, that's how I interpret it, trying to, I don't know why I'm trying to be generous to these people tonight or whatever, but I get like, I guess to them, they're like, no, what we're saying is they're wasting unnecessary company time and resources on caring about black people having jobs or whatever when they should instead be devoting that time to making planes that don't fall apart or whatnot. Like, they have to have some way of, they have to have some way of rationalizing it, right?

Is what I'm saying. They can't just admit, like, we don't think black people should be allowed to work on airplanes, right? Like, they can't. No, but they don't say that. Right. You're being too generous, all right? Because the civilized way to put it is if you put in these affirmative action policies, what you're due is you're choosing less qualified candidates as a matter of course.

That's not true, but that's how they look at. That's a civilized way to put it. There's also the uncivilized way to put it, which is that minorities are inherently dumber. Right. And they should not be put in these positions. of authority. If you want to see that case being made by a very powerful person who is the most

wealthiest man in the world, who's also a government contractor, just like Boeing, here's Elon Musk making that case. You have this screen grab with this tweet, Matt. I'll read you from it if Matt doesn't happen. There we go. There it is. He's responding to some random race IQ science person who's talking about the average IQ of Air Force pilots being about 120 and airline pilots being 115 to 120, but the mean IQ of

these United Airlines HBCU partners is about 85 to 90. I have no idea I was getting the numbers I can tell you they're absolutely bullshit I'm going to say I straight up do not believe that 80 like there's no way that's accurate

I don't like that's even suggesting that HBCU graduates in whatever program have an average of an 85 IQ is like that shit is just right there's no way that's fucking true

dude there's no way and I know IQ is flawed it is but still 85 man you're not that far away from like forest gump level at that point genuinely and you're saying that like hbc users are pumping out grads that are just all a bunch of forest gumps and stuff walking around black forest gumps like i that there's no way that's fucking true you ever you've ever interacted with an hbc u graduate i was about to say that's what i was about to say it's like i have friends who graduated from hbc u's and like i know their IQ ain't 85 there They're smart guy. They really got a better education than I did. I'll just tell you that.

That's what I'm saying. Like, at my old day job, one of the loggers there was a proud HBCU graduate and was sharp as a fucking tack, man. Like they're good schools. Yeah.

It's crazy. They turn out like 85% of the black doctors in America. It's crazy. It's crazy. If this shit was true, black doctors would be inadvertently killing people every other goddamn week due to their incompetence or whatever.

You know what I'm saying? And it's like, and that don't happen. Like, it's just. Yeah. But people, but people that are racist, they hear, read this shit and they're like, I knew it. I knew it. Totally checks out to me. And it's like, yeah.

Just, it's wild, man. Yeah. And let's see. Elon's in the, if you're listening to podcast version, Elon's in the comments agreeing with this guy about race IQ science, about how like the planes are going to have to kill people before they get rid of DEI stuff, which I just want to say this obvious thing out loud. A lot of people, these types, a lot of stuff, these people, uh, these types blame on like wokeness or socialism is just capitalism.

These companies have DEI policies because someone crunched the numbers and said they would make more money if they had them either because it makes the customers more comfortable or it makes it easier of their track talent or lessens or likelihood of a lawsuit. So like this is just pure money. It's all it is. So like fuck off of being worried, blaming the shit for every bad thing that goes on in the world. And I just do it as an aside,

I want to say that like planes used to crash all the time back when only white people made them. Right. Good point. Good point. I want to quote here from Derek Thompson, he writes for the Atlantic. In the 1990s, aviation officials feared that if accident rates remain the same while global passenger traffic grew at projected rates, we'd have at least one major jet crash a week by 2015. Instead, with voluntary reporting safety practices and better planes, this happened, and as a chart, that shows it basically went from a lot to approaching zero. What happened was just regulation. And we did a whole episode talking about, like, like cyber truck and European

car regulations versus American car regulations. One reason American planes are just as safe as European planes is because we're regulator planes like Europe regulates or planes. And one reason American cars are more dangerous than European cars is because the opposite is true. All right. So just want to say the government isn't always bad. Better things are possible.

And sometimes we can will them that way through government by making the money psychos behave responsibly. All right? This also makes me think of like Chris Rock on his tambourine special had a bit about he's talking about police brutality that special came out not too long after the george floyd stuff and all that shit black lies matter and everything and he had this whole thing he was talking about a lot of them make the argument talking about these cops and listen it's not all cops it's obviously not all cops it's just some bad apples you know who who act this way

ruined a bunch and he was like i'm sorry but some jobs just ain't allowed to have bad apples it's just how it works like think about airline pilots think about airlines like if there was an airline out there that was like, look, most of our pilots like to land, but we got a few bad apples out there that prefer instead to fly into the side of a goddamn mountain, right? Like that wouldn't, that shit would not fly. No pun intended, right? And it's like, it's like you said, and it comes from regulation at the top. And it's like, it proves that it should also be possible at these lower levels too. We're like with like policing, like if there were, you know, repercussions like there are

for this type of thing because in the aviation I mean dude look a door flew off a plane that's insane it's inexcusable which is part of my point no one died right

a cell phone flew out hell the cell phone still works people have been talking about this it's been a trending topic and people have been talking about it ever since it happened or whatnot because it's so unacceptable

right and they're going to take note of that their stock prices taking ahead all this shit is happening and it's just wild that the same thing doesn't happen for in other instances like when you're talking cops and the reason on black guys and that type of thing is like why doesn't it work the same way because you act like it can't possibly be fixed but no it could it did it they fixed it we just

show you the chart they fixed it and like right talking about being responsible it's like they are being responsible to their bottom line because what happens here with that in the face of no regulations or no huge fucking corporate death penalty for companies like bowling right now for doing shit like this is they crunch the numbers and they'll do the math and figure out how many people it's okay to let die where the cost of the body mother regulations isn't worth it. Now, as a society, we can't tolerate that, but the markets will tolerate it. All right? Okay. I'm not a cat. You have to have regulations. But I think it, I think in certain instances like life or death shit like this, I think also capitalism is a fact,

me like, correct me if I'm wrong, I was a kid when it happened, right? But like TWA flight 800, right? Remember that? It was like just a straight up plane crash, commercial plane crash with just regular civilians on regular people in America. And, you know, TWA didn't survive that, right? Because like, you just can't people, because with people, that's also why you're talking, why competition is so important, why there should be more than just two arrow or aviation companies, because like if you're going to buy a plane ticket to fly somewhere and one airline be having plane crashes, you're going to go with the other one instead, right?

So it's like, I'm not defending capitalism. I'm defending competition, I guess. Like, if you have competition and life or death is on the line, then that also can be a regulating factor because people are not going to sign up and get on a plane with their kids and shit that when you've been dropping planes out of the fucking sky repeatedly, and they know that.

That's just the reality which forces them to attempt to do the right thing, I think. Right. And a lot of places, a lot of industries don't have that, you know. So, right. But it's okay. So what happened when TWA was they were acquired by American Airlines, right? So what happened then was vertical integration, you got less competition. See what I'm saying? But it's still kind of, I mean, I don't know. Again, I was a kid. I don't remember. But would that have ever happened if that crash hadn't happened? Right. But probably not. Either way. It crashed their value and it allowed American Airlines to swoop in and do that. I think you're disagreeing with a very small point, why you agree with my larger point. But like the main thing is Boeing is this. essentially a fucking monopoly like you brought up earlier.

Right. And I'm saying that ain't good. You're saying this can't happen. It's capitalism has competition. But I just showed you a bunch of stories where it's happening. They are redirecting money into their own pocket at the expensive safety because no one's making them not do it. Because they're trying to find the line, though, right? That's what I'm saying.

And that's bad too. I'm not defending that. But that's, they're trying to find the line. Like you said, like how many corners can we cut without killing a profit detriment amount of people right like that's the equation that they have and that ain't good they would not be doing that but like we as a we as a citizen citizen citizen citizen citizen should demand that number is zero exactly right that's that's what we're talking about here right right right or at least effort to be as close as possible to zero obviously like accidents are

going to happen planes all not fall apart at 16,000 feet right so let's let's talk about Boeing as a company for example for a second so here's a headline from a prospect, Boeing 737 Max incident is a byproduct of its financial mindset. So they're restructured in the 90s from being an association of engineers to a firm run by Wall Street. All right? You already see where this is going, right? So they, even though you know, you say that happened in that, that restructuring, it happened in the 90s. I have a reason for asking.

Okay. All right. Because when I went, when I went to college, I went to Tennessee Tech University in Cookville, Tennessee. And at the time, which was 2004, they were very. very, very, very proud of the fact that a T.TU alum was the current CEO of Boeing in 2004. And so I was wondering if he's the guy that did what you're talking about. But it sounds like it was a little bit before his time. Anyway.

Yeah. So even the company's decision to move its headquarters, I'm quoting here from this piece, companies decision to leave Seattle where production is located and move its corporate headquarters to Chicago symbolize this transition away from engineering and toward becoming a shareholder-driven firm that issued extravagant dividend payouts. So in the past 10 years, Boeing's paid out billions and buybacks and dividends

while simultaneously cutting costs in production. All right. So what happened on that flight there? It's something called a door plug. A door plug is where an exit row could be, but isn't. All right.

Okay. All right. Because the different airlines are asking for different seat configurations. Yeah, okay. vacuumize how many people they can cram on a flight. And instead of making a bunch of different planes,

Boeing's work around to save costs is to put fake doors where anywhere someone might want to put a real door. Right. And what happened is according to the National Transportation Safety Board, as four bolts were meant to attach the Alaska Airlines door plugs, the fuselage, the plane, where missing inspectors are working to determine if they were ever installed. They might not ever put the bolts in the place all the door in the first place. Door was designed and made by a subsidiary that Boeing spun off

2005 for whatever financial shenanigan reason. All right. So they're not even in control their own production anymore because they probably saves them $12 on their taxes. So this is just all such fucking ridiculous horseshit that they're even like allowed to do like, okay, you want to try this because it makes you more money. The minute it doesn't work, you can't do it anymore. Right. Because I don't get sucked out of the side of a fucking airplane.

Of course. Right. And all the airlines have monopolies. If I want to go to Atlanta, I got to take Delta. Like, it's not like, it can be like, well, I got to choose the one with a safer planes because they get air buses. I don't have a, I don't have a vote no matter, right? These are all. Yeah, I think they, I mean, I could be wrong, but I think they all use both, I think.

Like all the prominent airlines, I think they have, they have planes from Boeing and also Airbus. Yeah, that's what you're saying. I never pay attention. I know they tell you what plane you're on, but I never look. But because I don't have a choice. It's like, right. The same reason we don't really look at gas prices because I got to get gas. Like, it's getting gas is an optional for me.

I'm not taking a bunch of optional long trips for me. the most part. So, like, what's the point? Like, uh, it's like, also in a recent lawsuit reported by the lever, court documents indicate that employees at spirit error systems, which is Boeing's main supplier for door plugs, warned the company about safety issues, but we're instructed to falsify documents instead. They're like, hey guys, so this product is fucked up with the door plugs. And the parent company is like, well, that's expensive to fix. So instead, let's just lie about it. Right. And it's possible that one of those persons was a DEI hire, but I don't know that. That's right. I mean, that's the ultimate point here is that, right, that's the ultimate point here is like, what is actually the root of the problem? Is it cutting corners because of the, you know, because of care more about the bottom line and anything else?

Or is it that you sometimes hire black and brown people, right? And it's like, again, to me, you, you just pose that question and it's so obvious what the, answer is, but like other people, I don't, I don't know. Somehow they see it differently. They're like, no, listen, you have a fiduciary duty to try to save some money or whatever, but hiring people that are inherently dumb because they're inferior due to the color of their skin, not that they would ever actually say any of that. That's inexcusable, right? And if they're doing that, it's because they're cheaper. Yes, right? Yeah, absolutely. So like, yeah, it's like we brought this quote up before, but something I thought was really insightful, this right-wing psycho, like, tech libertarian. Guy said this a couple years ago. They're like, we're talking about, well, we don't live under laborism. We live in our capitalism. And I was like, you're making, that's a great point, but not for the reasons you think. Like, you're right. The economy doesn't function for the worker.

It functions on behalf of the money, right? So it doesn't matter who's in the position, whether a, you know, a Yale legacy hire or some person who's seen as an affirmative action hire or whatever. If you don't make the decision that's in favor of the money, the money will move you out of the way and put in position someone who will make the psychiatrist. decision. Yep, absolutely. So the point is you have to have rules where the money doesn't get to make the

decisions, which is why we can have regulations. Yep, yep, yep. An example, what I'm talking about, all right, here's the last thing I'll tell you. For the 777 at Old Plain, Boeing put their heads of software engineering on the test flights. An example of showing how safe they are to help them test it, right? For the 737 max, Boeing outsource the software testing to a $9 an hour contractor in India, all right?

I'm not saying there's any workers might be just as good at doing the job. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying they didn't do, they did that regardless of the quality of the work. They did it because it cost $9. Right. And decline is a choice in this option. And we have a choice to fucking put some Boeing execs in fucking jail before someone dies to know this shit's unacceptable. And that's my, that's my thesis.

Yeah. No, no. You make it a good point. There you go. Matt, he's on top of it. I was about to cue up the questions and comments. But Matt's ahead of me. Patricia pairing says Boeing,

colon. Well, this screw hold at 30,000 feet? It's cool if it fails at 14,000, so we probably don't need to replace them. Well, does the pressure come? The pressure gets less than the outside at the higher you go up, but stays the same inside or tries the pressurization stuff, tries to be the same. I'm assuming it'd be more likely to pop by the high. But yeah, some MBA who doesn't understand anything about engineering probably did ask that stupid, that question. Something blonde says Russians are almost all white and they shoot down passenger planes. Yeah, they do do that.

They do do that. It's true. They do do that. The vinyl villain says Elon Musk should pilot every SpaceX launch. I watch that live. Well, that would automatically doom it if he was the actual pilot. He don't know. It blew up anyway.

Yeah. Right. Do you remember he launched a car in space with a mannequin in it? Yep, I do. And I was like, did he just get rid of a body and say it's a mannequin? Like, because that's the best way to get rid of a body I've ever heard of entirely. Yeah. That's a good point.

Patricia Perings is back and says, high-speed trains would give us some other options. Yeah, dude, I went, you know, I'm sure this is old news to a lot of y'all, but I took my first trip to the UK last May. Actually, no, shit, it was the May before that, May 22. God damn time flies, Mark. Anyway, I took my first trip to the UK in May of 2022. And I knew they'd be fucking with trains over there,

but the trains really supremely impressed me. And I spent most of the time being like, what the fuck of me? And I know that it's not. Apples to Apple's thing, we are a much, much bigger country than they are, and that changes the logistics, but like, we could do better than we do. You know what I mean? It could be an option, right? Yeah, population density makes it reasonable in certain corridors. Like the Pacific, like, they, sorry, the, you know, East Coast North should have it. And they actually do, I think up there a lot of people do take trains a lot of times. Right. They got the Acela, but it's not high speed. But yeah, but like, so like, yeah, but as a reason, like, look, we are, you know how like, like, our government's so lucky that most Americans don't travel because like you would people would see shit and be like why don't we have that right you know and like they'd be fucked but like you know Israel has birthright where if you're if you're Jewish you get a free trip to Israel to like visit and bond with your homeland we ought like we ought to give every American like a week it took a two week trip to Europe that'd be great I'd be all for that dude and then like I can see like wait we got they got trains and health care I spray my ankle and went to the doctor and they fixed it for free and yeah I mean that's obviously uh you know socialist Marxist bullshit you you're preaching there, Mark, but I think it's a great idea. Keith Fernandez says, finally found your current wallpaper mark. I'm getting it, but still can't find your last wallpaper, which I loved as well.

Well, that was also peeling stick off Amazon. So maybe they discontinued it or something. But yeah, I'm not sure. I used to have a link. People would message me to ask for it. And I would find it. But no one's asking a while, so I don't have it handy. Yeah.

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