Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 1/18/22 – Voting Rights and MLK

Episode Date: January 19, 2022

This week we discuss the obstacles faced by the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, namely Republicans along with frequent disappointments Sinema and Manchin, as well as their apparent love for MLK in spite of this. Also plenty of wild dumbassery going on, as always. Join us!Support the show

howdy there everybody welcome back and happy skews day to you it is january 18th 2022 i'm trey crow crowder and that is mark aji what's up mark what's up trade you see uh today's matt gates update um i did not he's uh his uh the feds have given an ex-girlfriend of his an immunity deal which is fun because you don't give something for nothing right um and uh just hope this case doesn't drag on long enough it is too old for him to date uh the uh i think you and i both spent the weekend watching football and seeing that matt damon crypto dot com commercial over and over and over again um if you're not with him looking at mars like yeah talking about how fortune favors the bold throughout history or whatever and like just

be brave enough to invest in crypto yeah if you don't uh anyway fast forward uh crypto uh crypto dot com. Does this spend all withdrawals yesterday because someone hacked it and stole $15 million in Ethereum and we're laundering at through another exchange? So, yeah, everybody Drew pointed out, he thinks Matt Damon is just wearing joggers in that commercial and joggers is the effort that, you know, cryptocurrencies deserve. So glad for him to get the cash grab. And crypto.com, by the way, by the way, is the same company that paid $700 million to rename the Staples Center here in Los Angeles. I was just about to ask you because I thought it was and I was about to bring that up. yeah well you know can't believe they're a target for like you know dark web fuckery or whatever

is going on there hackers coming after crypto we're trying to run a scam and you're scam and our scam you can't do your scam to our scam that's cheap oh man all righty well with us is always as producer matt this is weekly skews i want to remind you if you're vaccinated want to save me live you can go to well read comedy dot com for tickets and information will be in Omaha coming up than Andy in Appleton, Wisconsin, and a bunch of other places after that's going to be fun. I hope to see y'all out there. Now, as for the show tonight, we talk about the state of voting rights legislation and those who oppose it and their apparent love for Martin Luther King.

If you think that seems incongruent, then you, unlike many in GOP leadership, have a functioning brain. Speaking of having brains that don't work, we've got some more Capital Rider updates for you. They just wanted their stuff back. themselves red it's getting wild before we get to all that we of course must begin with the daily dumbass matt graphic please tonight's dd anyone who thought a supreme alpha male like dan krenshaw would ever back down from a threat even and especially if said threat is posed by a 10 year old girl that's right play the clip matt wow yeah yeah he hasn't heard Frenchaw said, quote, the most important thing here is that we have important hero archetypes that we look up to.

Jesus is a hero archetype, Superman is a hero archetype. Real characters, too. I could name it thousand, Rosa Parks, Ronald Reagan, end quote. I can't wrap my head around this. I'll help you. Put a period out for the word Jesus and don't question my faith. Wow. Wow.

You get that's a good girl. Where to go, man. You moron? Yeah, you don't talk to a kid like that. Don't question my phone. You guys can ask questions about all of these things, and I will answer them. But don't question my faith. I'm questioning your faith, and this is what you said.

That's, I mean, you can read the court again. But nowhere in that court of my saying, Jesus, it's not real. That's a ridiculous statement. Of course he's the son of God. I don't think that went the way he thought it was going to go, you know. But what's he going to do? He can't backtrack. He's got to just double down because, you know, he's not a punk, Mark.

He's a strong man. You can't just back pedal. When you're talking shit to a 10-year-old, you got to go in harder. He, uh, the thing is the fun thing is like he's right. He's being too mean to a little girl, but she is acting in bad faith, taking his quote out of context from a guy who was speaking extemporaneously. but yeah he would not be that fair to other people though so fuck

you yeah and it's also at the end of that video so like I'm assuming these are people at first I couldn't tell exactly what the context was of the room he was in and what was happening because he gets booed for this people are

heckling him and shit when he's made to this little girl which is how like I feel like you would expect most adult humans to respond to something like that but then at the end of it almost as though they knew that people watching the video would have this question. They start a let's go Brandon chant, just kind of out of nowhere at the end of it. And I don't know if that was them being like, you know, fuck you for that.

But, you know, we're still on board with everything else or what. But it's just, or they can't just go X number of minutes without having a let's go go Brandon chant. And it was just time for another one. I don't know. Yeah. I thought it was kind of weird. It's like if you sit in silence in Alabama for a longer 10 minutes,

somebody's going to yell roll tight you know it's just going to happen yes uh 100% no yeah I think he's just doing some constituent event at a restaurant maybe a fundraiser but uh the idea that you thought like somebody is making this point we we love that a lot of fun of these people tearing each other apart like I think we compared them to hyenas last week but the you can't you can't negotiate with a pack of hyenas right but like somebody made a point today like when you're when your entire group identities based upon hating out groups once you've cast out all the out groups. All you have left is fringes within your own group, right? So Crenshaw's gotten a rep as a rhino among the Let's Go Brandon group because he did not follow through

hard enough with trying to overturn the election, which is why he's been beefing with Marjor Taylor Green and Lauren Bolbert and those fucking types. So he's a rhino to them. He's a Navy SEAL lost and not committing war crimes. He's not hard core enough for them. He's got to blow up a Jeep in his campaign ad and yell about the Green New Deal. So yeah. Yeah. Also, just an side. This is a 10-year-old girl, reportedly. I have a 10-year-old and also a nine-year-old, and they make good grades and stuff, and I cannot ever, they don't listen to podcasts with the congressman on it or ask questions like this. Their question would be about, you know, what would happen if, you know, a butt was also had a face for a butt, like if you could

have both a butt, two butts on the same person, if they farted, how that would work. those are the types of like questions they would have if any at an event like this so you know well tray maybe if they prayed as much as this little girl their brains would get bigger oh you're right yeah that could be what we're missing that or her parents gassed her up and gave her a talking point yeah see i can't i can't help but again i mean kids are different i'm not judging them all based on just mine but i got friends we all got kids around the same age maybe we just all got just a bunch of pack of little dumbasses that's what we're all working with But, again, might do pretty good in school at least, and I just don't, you know, I don't see any of them acting like this. And I wonder, it's like, is she being forced-fed Dan Crenshaw sound bites or something at the dinner table? You know, but whatever. And I ain't, I know of my business. My nephew's 14. If I put a gun to his head, he couldn't tell you who his singer congressman was.

Right. Yeah, right. Much less go to go ask them an aggressive question and get them in that. Right. Get them in a gotcha about comparing Jesus to Superman as a picture. Yeah, exactly. Producer Matt said maybe she's homeschooled. Yeah, I would, you know, I could see it.

Okay, let's see here. Honorable mention, Daily Dumbasses. Let's get into them. First up, we got Tucker Carlson for stealing this guy's valor. This is a good one here. I like this one. She can play the clip, Matt. Who is this person?

Why hasn't he been charged? That's a very simple act. He passes up weapons, sledgehammers, poles, mace, some of those things come into contact with other protesters who have subsequently been charged with possessing dangerous weapons and or using dangerous weapons at the Capitol. This segment on Tucker calls since Fox News show last month, thrusted rally runner into national headlines. I never plan on being in the national spotlight.

Due to untrins circumstances and bogus playing by Joseph McBride, here I am. McBride is representing several defendants accused of riding at the U.S. Capitol a year ago. He accused Rally Runner of being an undercover cop, claiming that's why he hasn't been charged, like many others that day. I was clear of all wrongdoing in January 21 by the FBI and local law enforcement. I gave him a copy of my footage from my GoPro, which was submitted as evidence. Rally Runner says his footage proved to authorities he remained peaceful and didn't step foot inside the Capitol building.

He says he doesn't regret anything about January 6th, 2021. I'm proud I was there to stand for America when the spineless Congress would not. So that guy, the reporter's calling him Rally Runner. He's a fixture at St. Louis Cardinals games. He apparently jogs around the stadium before every game and that full body red paint. And they called him Rally Runner because he legally changed his name to Rally Runner and will not tell people what his birth name is. Refuses to even give up his birth. name. You will address him as

rally runner if you'll address him at all. So, first, if you can't, like, the reason we're laughing if you're listening to the podcast version is his face is painted red in his testimony video where he's like, and the reason he sounds so stilted is he's reading that statement because

another reporter made this clear. They reached out to him for comment. His lawyer told him he absolutely should not talk to the press. He really, really wanted to, so his lawyer drafted a statement that would not get his ass immediately locked up, even though he did ignore it and did profess his actual innocence, even though his lawyer told him, please do not talk about the case. So, yeah, he's going to own himself in the

jail. I wonder what his lawyer said about the face paint. Like, maybe he knows that's a non-starter. Maybe his logger's never met with him without the face paint on. You know, maybe the face paint never comes off. But I would imagine that would be part of the advice also. Like, don't speak about the case. And maybe also don't have the whole rally runner get up on it. It's like, well, it goes really good with the Keep America great hat, you know, like it fits his color scheme and the whole thing he's got going on. But something about that dude dressed up that way with that, like, fanatic face pattern, giving an official statement about his intentions and full whereabouts on the day of the capital insurrection is just kind of, it's just a perfect microcosm of that whole thing and the people who perpetrated it. But it's also very funny that this dude, got singled out apparently as being secret antifa FBI or whatever like because that's the whole thing that pissed him off right Tucker this other logger Joseph McBride went on Tucker Carlson and they singled out this guy as being one of the like what's the word not provocateurs but the agent agent agent provocateur I think yeah at that he they pointed out this guy like yeah clearly this one is one of the secret masterminds Well, they have, they have a, I mean, their suspicions are not without 1% of merit because it is weird that he has not been charged because one, he was easily recognizable on the video at the Capitol because everyone in St. Louis knows him for always wearing red face paint. He was wearing red face paint at the Capitol. All right.

See, it makes him clearly identifiable on video. And also, he was the front of the lines beaten on cops with the shield he took, he pulled off one of them in a fight. I don't know if this is about handing out weapons. I have no idea that's true. But it is weird. I don't know what's on his GoPro camera, but the publicly available footage that I watched earlier today shows him hitting a cop with his shield. So, yeah, maybe he did cut a deal.

I don't know. His lawyer probably does, but he shouldn't be taking his innocent. It's going to piss off a judgment when it comes time to, you know, figure out what his sentence is going to be or whether he's going to be let off on their charges. But here's a funny thing. The reason he saw that is because he's a huge Tucker Carlson fan. He routinely would tweet out in Facebook post links to Tucker

segments about how Tucker is dead right about everything because of the universal he always is to those people. But it must have been really jarring to him when he sees this, you know, the guy who speaks the truth straight from the word, mouth of God, says he's an undercover cop. Right. It's like you were saying about like the infighting and the whole, them being hyenas and ripping each other in part and stuff like that. It's got to be wild to be one of these people that's this fanatical about this

whole thing and then get sort of publicly hung out. to dry, you know, for being one of the things that you fear and despise the most, i.e. Antifa or whatever. Yeah. He's also, the rally runner is a good example of, like, I mean, one, they, this conspiracy that got picked up by Louis Gohmert, and he went on TV and talked about how this guy was definitely a undercover Fed a couple weeks ago, which Lou Gohmert's a huge fucking dumbass. So, yeah, the biggest.

But they weren't right. He was funded by the feds because before he went to January 6th, he posted that he was using a $600 stimulus check to pay for a strip to D.C., so they aren't right about that, but not the way they think. He also, like, somebody screened got a bunch of his posts, and in order, you can see him go, like, I was, I'm excited to be going for January 6th. I was at January 6th. Yes, we were aggressive, but we're standing up for truth.

The Democrats are framing us. Wait, January 6 of the setup, and then he posted this was all undercover cops encouraging them and rattle the mob up. Right. And now, complete the circle. Now he is an undercover cop to his family. fellow allies and travelers in this moment. So, yeah, it's just, you love to see it.

Yeah, man. Shit is pretty wild. But let's talk about some other capital rioters. Our next honorable mention, any of those that forgot about the finders' keepers doctrine. That's right. Apparently, many of the people who got into the U.S. Capitol later called the Nancy Pelosi's office asking, quote, asking whether there was a lost and found because they had forgot their phone there or they left their purse.

So, you know, maybe some zip ties like, you got a, so you got a snake flag in there. And they're like, you're going to be way more specific. We got, we got like a whole pile of snake flags. But they're like, well, there's any one of those work. I need to get those bag. Yeah, I got a tactical vest that I left in the office. I just, if I could just pick that up, that would be great. If you're not going to stick your head in it, can I have my news back?

Right. And so, I want to see, can we show the video of Tucker Carlson, once again, his take on this, like what he took away from that happening, if you have it, Matt. Noon that on January 7th of last year, the day after, protesters called Nancy Pelosi's office line in the Capitol looking for items that may have left inside. the building. Law enforcement took down their numbers and later arrested them. Is that the behavior of people who believe they were trying to overthrow the U.S. government? Obviously, it's not. These are Americans who came to their capital city with their friends to complain loudly about what politicians were doing. They assumed that was still allowed, but it's not allowed.

See, it's like, I feel like he's like dancing around saying what is actually happening here, I think, which is that, like, they so clearly thought that they were right and that it was fine, but they did also want to overthrow the government or at least overturn the result of that election. So it's just that they thought that would be okay. And it couldn't, they couldn't process the idea that that might not be okay. And that's why they'll just call up and ask where the lost and found is because they left some shit there. They're also just fucking stupid. I mean, yeah, right. Yes.

like something like 50% of murder go unsolved most of the ones that saw are the ones that cops show up and find the killer's name tag on the body or some shit it's like the literally mostly it's low hanging fruit when crimes get solved the person standing over the body or whatever like criminals by and large a lot of them the ones get caught anyway are fucking stupid so like someone like i don't know if you guys remember this but the first world trade center bombing. Those guys got caught because they had to get back the $400 deposit on the truck they exploded. All right. Well, dude, you got to get that deposit back, Mark. It's everybody knows like, it's real hard to get a deposit bag, but you got to try. I mean, just on principle, you know, you can't just let that go. And these guys were smart enough to build the bomb and successfully set it off under without getting attention to the FBI. So like, they're smarter than these people who, and if you've ever lost your phone, on, Trey, you really need your phone back when you lose it.

Yeah, you do. They got good footage of the riot on there. They need to post their socials. Right, exactly. Yeah, I need to get that back so they can post it on Facebook. But yeah, you're talking about being low-hanging fruit, many arrests. That's just, there's never been lower hanging fruit. Like, imagine being one of the FBI guys, whatever, that was assigned to this and taking

these phone calls because it's like, you know, they call and they're wanting to get their purse back or whatever. And so they just tell them, yeah, yeah, no problem. can totally do that. So just let me get your name, your address, your social. And box that up. We'll send it right out to you. But Tray's not even joking, because that's how the story goes. It's that like he says, they call it up ass with stuff. And then people like, yes, hold please. And they put them on the, then he transfer them to the cops. And the cops just said, yeah, here's the quote. They said, yeah, just give me your name, your address, your

social. You know, what, top those loose ends. And they're like, that is, you know what? The FBI is so helpful. Like, they get a bad rap sometimes, but that is just, that's top-notch customer service right there. I'll tell you what, yeah, they're going to have it here by tomorrow. They say, they know their fucking doors getting broken down. I know that they, uh, people get to say that one of the reasons they can't prosecute all these people is because the FBI agents already have their regular caseload in top of this and justice systems overwhelmed and all this shit. But like, if, when you spend your life trying to solve whodont, it's like what Al-Qaeda's up to, like, how, like, get us.

signed this batch of cases must be like you know when you're playing super mario and you get to find a secret door all just a pure coin world just all coins it's got to be dude they have to be laughing their asses off in the break room or whatever of this shit to comparing these notes and stuff i mean yeah but it was a wild time around there let's see what we got next for honorable mention uh the of course very few crazy people who did end up at trump's rally for giving the rest of them a bad name for example this guy we're going to see in this clip i'm sure he is in no way indicative of the general sort of mind state of those who attended but let's let's take a look at him anyway Matt we just need one and he won the election yeah yeah well and News is a clone okay

they just took him out yeah he's a puppet for the left well he's well he's a different level you're right but the real governor Newsom has had his military tribunal in his Gitmo and he's been executed there you go thank you for your time yes sir there you go I don't know what I don't know what else you're supposed to say in that reporter's shoes and that but like I like what he went with well there you have it all right yeah back to you Dan

yes that was Trump's big rally in Arizona we'll get to a Trump clip in a second but they did it like the main that that was the main I mean they broadcast it live on C-SPAN which fuck C-SPAN on what they're doing but like the main coverage there was that guy who has a YouTube channel called Real Patriot News or some shit I don't fucking know but they there's a bunch of Q&on people there like that

the person's been executed they've been replaced by clone that's all Q&on shit right but like the funny part was another CNN reporter who was there kept asking people what they think about Kristen cinema and those fuckers love some Kristen cinema so there is a group of people she does hit for but yeah so Trump did his normal the media is full of shit the election was

stolen. I got robbed. All that's part for the course now. We know what it sounds like. But the funny, he started talking about supply chain. First of all, we don't have this clip, but he called it, he kept calling it supply change, like you didn't even understand the term. Yeah. Problems was the supply change. And here's a big complaint about the supply change, uh, which really made me laugh. Bye, Chris. Christmas gifts. You say to your loved one, darling. I'm sorry. I love you very much, but I just can't. There's no merchandise in Tiffany. There's no, I wanted to buy,

the most beautiful ring, but they don't have any rings anymore. Nobody has anything. We never even heard the term supply change. You know, it's not something that we've never even heard the term. And that's what happened. I haven't heard the term. I mean, neither.

Yeah. So the man of the people, I love what he tries to be relatable. It's like, you know, when you go to Tiffany's, you try to buy a $200,000 ring? It's like, you're very short. Why is nobody reporting on this? We got a shortage of diamonds in this country. It's Joe Biden's fault. You know how hard it is to get diamonds lately.

Yeah. Just for the record, and I almost don't even want to say this, it was a very modest thing. I bought my wife a gift from there for Christmas, a very modest selection, but it was also a bit because I fucked up like the last three Christmas gifts in a row. Matter of fact, real quick, because it is funny. I'll tell the story. I can't remember if I told it last year, but she, uh, Last year, I had just ordered her gift for Christmas, and the next day, she was sitting on her phone laughing her ass off. And I was like, what is it?

And she goes, you got to see this. You got to see this. This is so great. And she shows me this Saturday Night Live sketch that had just aired that week on Saturday Night Live. And it was where Kristen Wigg is the mother of this family, this like suburban family. And the husband and the kids are all singing about the awesome shit they got. I got a new computer. I got all this.

And then it comes to her, and she's like, and I got a robe. And then it's back to them. And they're all happy, seem about the great shit they're getting in back to her. And I got a robe. And anyway, I had just ordered her a really nice robe. I mean, I thought it was a great robe. It was a wearable blanket is what it was. But anyway, I was like, oh, fuck, you know.

But, I mean, she laughed about it later. But I've been doing bad lately on presents. So I was like, well, I can't fuck this up. Anyway, I'm saying all that just to say, that also isn't even true, what he just said, at least in my experience. Like, there was no indication whatsoever that Tiffany was suffering during this trying economic time we're going through right now. Tiffany's things have been doing just fine. I kind of know. I got to feel like COVID supply chain problems wouldn't affect, you know, the blood diamond trade.

But what do I know? Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Like, maybe, maybe problem, Trey is that he's broke and you got Trey Crowder money. Yeah. Yeah.

That's surely what it is. If anybody's immune to the stresses of this pandemic, it's, you know, straffling comedians. All right. Let's, do you want to talk about this road rage guy? I do just because he's so, he's emblematic of everything that's happened in this country in a way that's really comically fucking ridiculous even in. And he can't sue us because he's dead now. So, let's make fun of him. Spoilers.

So, this guy, I'm going to. fuck up playing his last name i think it's kuzwanski if i had to say it's part of why i asked you to do it because i saw that i saw that last name and i was like oh shit so this guy named johns kuzwanski who was a republican uh he was chief of staff or a state senator then when she retired slid into a cushy job working for the state pension board um that's not the opportunity that's not the opportunity uh he fucked around the driver prius and found out last week what he did was he he swore he was playing on his phone and swerved into another lane

and hit this Prius. And when they pulled into a parking lot up like a Circle K to haggle this out, the Prius driver gave him shit. So what he did is what you always do when you started an accident. So he was mad at you for it. He got back in his car and started ramming this guy's Prius with

his BMW. And that not being enough, he got his gun out and he shot out his window at the driver of the Prius who, I guess unexpectedly to him, had a gun on him as well and shot back and fucking killed it. Now, here's the kicker to this.

The guy had previously been arrested for a road range incident where he pulled a gun on someone else at this exact same fucking stoplight. So, I think this guy should have like, on the one hand, you could kind of see in his head, he's like, well, a guy driving a Prius isn't going to have a gun. But on the other hand, this is a Prius in Tallahassee, Florida. So I feel like you have to assume everybody's got a gun on you. You know what I mean? I mean, there's meth, there's gaiters.

You need to be armed to defend yourself, even if you drive a Prius. But also just, I don't know, because I know this guy's wife came out afterwards and was talking about how it was a, it was like a misunderstanding that it was, he got pulled into this incident and it's so tragic and all this stuff, you know. But I don't know how you like, what did he think? think he was going to happen that he would be that he would be the one to shoot better and kill this guy and then just claim self-defense actually you know what i mean i guess that could have very easily happened given the way things go in this country so yeah maybe that is what he was thinking like i'll just shoot him away with it because that's that's how we roll here in florida trump trump's actual hardcore base are people exactly like this these are people who consider themselves

like like fiefdoms and petty tyrants over their small they're small territories right you're you're small business owners. You're like, you guys own C-Due dealerships. You're, you know, you're people with people have mid-mansions and shit. This guy really does think he's like a feudal lord.

And somebody who fuck with him like, who are you, who are you to fuck with me? It's sort of how he, um, deal with it. Sorry, my phone's working.

Um, the, uh, and did you mention his job? Yeah, he worked for the state. He worked, he worked for the state government. Like the agency that oversees investing pension pension,

pension money. Um, so. So he just flipped out because someone else was disrespecting him. That's, that's, yeah, it's like, we talked before about like so many, we've had like 10 state Republican officials get arrested for yard-based disputes with their neighbors, where they begin to fight with their neighbors. The most famous which is Rand Paul, you got the shit beat out of by neighbor for like, I think

they were fighting over, overhanging tree branches. Somebody cut down the other one's tree branches. It's like, Jesus Christ, man, I live in an apartment. My neighbor's a loud of the shit. It's just something you have to deal with is other people existing. This guy doesn't like that. Anyway, his wife, yeah. His wife says he's the real victim and he was set up and assassinated,

which goes to show you how important these people think they are, sort of like the root of the problem that got him killed. Anyway, the last little hit on this is his last tweak was him excited about winning a raffle for a handgun. Maybe the one that got him killed. Yeah. So an alien, not a literal, but it was like an alien arms raffle or something like that. I don't remember if that was a brand of gun. It was something like suitably ridiculous.

He was pumped about winning some gun that had the word alien and the title of it. I can't remember. But it was some wild shit. Yeah. All right. One more honorable mention for you because I like this one. Then we'll talk about voting and stuff. Let's see.

Microscopes for being total bullshit. Clearly. Let's hear this. Wisconsin, I think, state GOP rep talking about. The inherent futility of trying to battle COVID-19, Matt, play. So you ask, what are we going to do to stop the spread of the pandemic? And, you know, if you can't, if you can't see the virus, you can't see anything, how are you going to do it? How can you stop it?

How? You physically cannot see the virus. You don't know if it's in this room or it's outside or if it even exists. exist right now in here you have no clue how are you going to stop that it's a good question mark how do you whip that which ass you cannot see you know what i mean like if you can't say something to ask how you're going to whip it he poses a good question if anybody knows about whipping ass it's a state senator that has a ponytail so i'll take this word for it that dude's definitely taking some karate classes um he got a guy he got a whole assortment of samurai swords he's uh yeah he got his own

Dojo in the basement, probably. I remember when Trump got elected to thinking, like, having the thought, though, I thought it was joking at the time that we're going to have to redo the Enlightenment. And here we are, five years later, still relitigating the germ theory of disease, which I thought Louis Pestor saw off in like 1850s. Right. So, yeah, can't see it, can't stop it. Everything in the world exists just to be perceived by humans.

Well, a God makes the earth for people and then make stuff people can't see it. you're here, Trey. Don't make no sense. They wouldn't do that. That's why dog whistles aren't real. That's how I fucking know, right? Yeah. Can you say, like, cancer and stuff?

I guess tumors and whatnot, skin cancer, you could say. So you can, you can whip its ass. But how do you whip lung cancer's ass? I guess you just can't. Yeah. It's a pickle. It's a conundit, you know? If ninjas ever invade, we don't have to surrender because you can't

fucking see it, right? It's like disappeared in a cloud of smoke and let's take over the U.S. government, right? I'll see, I think this got to be ready for ninjas. He's been training his whole life, waiting on the day the news show up. While you studied microbiology, he studied the blade. That's right. He definitely has a study the blade vibe to him.

It's literally just a ponytail, but it's a good indicator. Okay. Yeah. Guys who have ponytails, they study the blade. Everybody knows it. Okay. Well, let's get into it. So we know there's an ongoing kerfuffle at Congress with the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

that Joe Biden is, you know, publicly declared that it needs to be a priority. We've got to get this done. Schumer said, yeah, we're, you know, working on it, whatever. But there's no real progress happening because it can be filibustered unless we did something about the filibuster and mansions and cinema. I don't want to do that. So they're standing in the way. Every Republican standing in the way none of them want to do that.

But yesterday was Martin Luther King Day. And that didn't stop any of them who are standing in the way of the Voting Rights Act getting passed didn't stop any of them from gushing about there there's like this is the it's terrible to me the honor a very important American with the day off of work that everyone uses to be extremely fucking annoying and off base right it's like like I'm not just talking about the FBI every year tweeting the remembrance of Martin Luther King who a guy who they actively tried to get to kill himself right to harass and to suicide um and it's like there was a private prison yesterday

they tweeted out an MLK for Wells Fargo Bank like I don't we didn't to go into it but one of the king

was not an agent of communists like people said he was in the 60s but he was absolutely a fucking socialist yeah

and he definitely wouldn't have fucked with private prisons you know I mean we we incarcerate black people

to create much higher rate to one of the biggest you know issues with racial relations in this country

and it's recent history. So I don't think Martin Luther King would be pro the private prison industry. And, yeah, the audacity of these people, it's like, it's just a thing you're supposed to do, I guess. Do you know what I mean? It's like you just have to do it, no matter who you are or what you stand for. So they just do it, despite how baldly hypocritical it is. And not a lot of people know this, but the most famous of his letters from Rohingham J.O. were just, was just the one saying five stars, I love it here. The fucking, like, the, like, the ball, the FBI, if, if Martin Luther King had an arch enemy, it was the, like, they were the wily coyote to his roadrunner.

It's not like, the Tom to his Jerry. There was no, like, there's no, like, other way to splice it. And I know they're not the same agents, and it's not the same. Hopefully, after the church committee hearings and stuff, they got more sane and Jagger Hoover, Rotten Hell. but like what the fuck are we doing here um but they all everybody loves to get their takes off and i just think this is evidence of like either they're way stupider than they have to be to like be in congress or say drive a car or cook their own dinner or they're just operating in such bad faith that

there's no point in having even having a debate of his stuff like voting rights with them because like he uh this one's just funny but this is a a congressman named um mike warts I think from Florida, he represents Ron DeSantis' old district outside of Jacksonville and covering Daytona Beach. And he was in the Army, which is what is the context for this. But let's hear this take on MLK, Matt. Here at the Martin Luther King Memorial celebrating Dr. King, you know, I've often said that he would have made the best of Green Berets.

Our motto in the Green Berets is Deo Presley Bear. to free the oppressed, where we've embedded with and helped oppressed societies all over the world. Well, that's exactly what Dr. King did. Okay. Except that he did it. Right. Exactly. Except for a couple differences in approach.

I'm not even. Yeah. I'm not even remotely going to argue with his take. I'm just going to say that that absolutely was not on Martin Luther King's take. He gave a lot of speeches about American imperialism and military interventions. He was extremely opposed to the Vietnam War. he talked a lot about how you can't stop oppression in America until you stop oppression overseas and stop meddling in other countries affairs and doing military adventurism.

This isn't like obscure stuff. This is the crux of his whole beliefs. Also just he was like he wasn't really a shoot first ask questions later type of guy either. Do you know what I mean? Like he wasn't known for taking the guns blazing approach. And I mean that literally with violence, you know, that wasn't, uh, wasn't, uh, wasn't generally how he approached the oppression. Someone else is a bigger expert in some of.

I think a part of that and one other I want to talk about is how we turn him into like a grandfatherly cartoon figure. He was more militant and more radical than people like want to remember him as. He wasn't some cuddly old tethery. It wasn't like it wasn't purely nonviolence always. It was nonviolence for now. If you don't stop fucking up. But also he made the quote of the riot as the language of the unheard.

You know, like it's it's not like he was making the point that you fuck or if you fuck round to go find out right it's like it's not it's not justifying violence but this is wait if you if you're violent enough people for a long enough time they're going to want some get back you know it's not it's not it's not a hard thing to dynamic to understand but um the one quote they do know they're not familiar with any of his other speeches or talks or books or writings but they do know that the con the one about the judge of people about the content of the character not the judge not the color of their skin because they say that i love it i love it and uh here's a Virginia's new governor, Glenn Yonkin, getting there, taking a long walk.

Whose whole entire thing, and his entire thing in his campaign was about the evils of critical race theory and teaching children that, you know, we had slaves and that was bad, basically. He wasn't down with all that. That was his entire thing in his campaign. Anyway. School system. We're not going to teach our children to view everything through a lens of race. Yes, we will teach all history, the good and the bad, because we can't know where we're going unless we know where we have come from. But to actually teach our children that one group is advantaged and another is disadvantaged simply because of the color of their skin cuts across everything we know to be true.

And the immortal words of Dr. Martin Luther King ring in our ears that we must judge one another by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. But this is what will be the founding principal of our executive order, what we're going to do in Virginia schools. All right. Yeah, we all know Martin Luther King would have been opposed to talking about structural racism. Right. Yeah, we're not going to talk about race. Like, yeah, M.O.K. hated talking about race. I know, never.

He famously avoided the subject of race. Martin Luther King did. No. But I just don't like the whole, he says we're going to talk about all of our. history, both the good and the bad, but not any kind of systemic racism now or what, or teaching them that that is real because it is false. But, but it is, how can you, how is it possible to teach the bad parts of history in a way that won't offend their precious white children's sensibilities or whatever?

I mean, how can you possibly do that? I guess you just remove all the context to the point where you think that like civil rights protesters were doing sit-ins in restaurants because the restaurants wouldn't or two tacos on Tuesday coupons or some shit or that like that MOK was getting his head cracked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge because they're going to put a toll booth up. I don't fucking know how you like it's just it's just dumb and like no one's asking a 10-year-old to feel guilty over what his great-grandpa did. The idea that the kids feel that way or anybody's trying to make kids feel that way is

fucking stupid. I don't know where like it's also defensive over nothing. But then again, the point is these people don't mean anything the way. what they're saying. Glenn Youngkin made $400 million working for a hedge fund. He went to like Princeton or some shit. He's not fucking stupid. You know, uh, it's just, you can't talk to these people. It's, it's like arguing with a dog that's trying to kill you. Yes. Yeah. And that makes it, so it does seem almost pointless to have, try to have like

actual discourse with them on any of this stuff. Because like you said, it just all starts, it begins in a place of bad faith so like what are you supposed to attempt to say or to you know talk to them about there's nothing you can say to people who behave that way but but the voting rights act is it's getting talked about a lot right now because of trying to get it passed but also the context and how important it is and it's important because it would uh in addition to other things, it would help to prevent things like Texas's SB1, right, laws like that. These restrictive voting rights laws, they're voting, voter suppression laws that are being passing a lot of red states, which do matter and are already starting to matter, correct?

Yeah. In Texas specifically. Yeah, there's a noise story right this week from Houston. The context being the Houston's one of the most populous counties in the country. It's heavily, like most cities anywhere, is heavily far more progressive than the, you know the surrounding excerpts or the rural areas. And it's also the most diversity in the country. And probably not coincidentally, they got rid of all their drop boxes.

Every county gets one, including Harris, which is, again, one of the biggest counties in the country. And they, people are applying for mail-in ballots. And they're now rejecting, under new state law, 16% of mail-in ballot applications. Now, that's a lot, considering in 2020, it was 2.5%. And one of the reasons they're doing this is they made the process to fill out so complicated. Like if you fill out one part of the application with your driver's license number and another part of your social security number, it'll get kicked back to you. Now, they're trying to rectify this by begging, begging voters to please put their phone number and stuff. So if you have something wrong with your application, they can call you and probably help you work it out.

But having an eightfold increase in rejections is the point of the bill. Maybe voters are figured out, and maybe the result won't be impacted as much by it, because people are determined to not get fucked with, hopefully. But it's still. What is the rationale supply? Like, I know that, I know what they say is like, no, this is all to prevent voter fraud, right? Which, of course, I know is bullshit. But I'm saying, like, what is even the ostensible rationale of making the progress or process infinitely more bureaucratic and also removing. drop boxes for voting, like, how are those things supposed to prevent fraud? They make it

harder to just do it in the first place, which means if you're trying to fake do it, then it's doubly hard. But the drop boxes, I don't get, that's more places you can cheat at, and we need less of those. Like, is this how they rationalize it? Or my choice in my time? The drop box thing is stupid. Trump just invented in his head that for some reason drop boxes were less safe than just regular old mailboxes so you can still mail ballot but you can't drive it and drop in a specific box right there's no there's nothing there's nothing there's no there's no there's no there's no there's there's inventing that thought in his head and now everybody wants to change the rules because everyone's just decided to agree with him even though it's fucking stupid right there's nothing

there's no deeper level but in general conservative is just think it's better when a fewer people vote they're just like yeah and there's not even really any evidence that it necessarily helps Republicans, but they think it helps them. So they're trying to rig the system anyway. Just like there's not much evidence, like someone's trying to make this point that maybe Democrats are freaking out a little too much because the idea that democracy will collapse because you can't give people water within 200 yards of a pool in place is like, I don't think that's going to have that much effect.

People will know to bring their own water. But like, what the fuck you're trying to do? The evil's in the intent. It's like, just let people vote. I mean, it's, yeah. It's not just let. I mean, I know that's the general consensus is when more people vote, it's bad for Republicans. And they know that and that's what you're going.

But it's also a lot of these things like target, they implicitly target minorities and things like that. Like they have laws about like whatever. You can't use a hyphen or you can't misplace a hyphen or things like that when you put your name on it. And then or if there's any kind of typos, then they can be rejected. And these are things that disproportionately affect minorities because they have. their names aren't John Smith, you know what I mean? I mean, a lot of them are, but you know what I mean? They have, they're more likely to have these types of elements in their names in the first place,

which is why it affects them more. And then the polling locations get shut down in neighborhoods that are, you know, minority populated neighborhoods and things like that. So it's all pretty transparent, really, but that's never stopped them before. No one knows what actually impact this is going to have. The Jerry Manning is the thing out that we wish we could definitely get rid of because that would make, I think people all this stuff isn't ideological

right the premise of democracy isn't completely ideological about freedom or whatever it's also just about accountability and you know being good at your job being good at governing if someone sucks

at their job the trains aren't running on time the schools are collapsing you can vote them out right that's not that's not ideological that's just trying to keep your government from sliding into corruption and kleptocracy and incompetence.

Speaking of which, another story I want to talk about today before we move into the comments is an example of this. Texas Monthly had a story called the Texas electric grid failure was a warm-up. And basically the point is that after the ledger grid failed and some like 700 people fucking died last year because of the snowstorm, they haven't done anything to fix it because they're more loyal to the electric company than power companies than they are their constituents, and that is what a one-party state looks like. That's not ideology.

That's just practical. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Matt, you can put those back. I think Brooke McClymond or something. I'm sorry, it was up there and now it's not.

It said there's from YouTube said there's no way Joe Biden is running again. I think we've talked about that on here before. I was thinking about it earlier today, too, just looking as approval rating and all that stuff. I mean, what are you, what are you, what are you, what are you think is going to happen with that? Um, I don't know, man, but there's a bunch of stories saying Hillary's thinking about running again. So God. Oh, God. Dude, that can't.

We got to get. We need some different fucking people up there and in there. Mm-hmm. Anybody under. Younger. Different younger people. Yeah, man. Fucking.

Anyone who could run a single lap around a track. or do a pull-up. But what is the likelihood in your opinion of? Because I remember people saying that when Joe Biden ran the first time. I remember people saying it's like he's probably only going to do one term or whatever. But I feel like that don't generally just happen. Like is the idea that he'll, he going to get primaried or he's going to just say, you know what, fuck this? Or like, what is supposed to happen with that?

Well, a lot of things I don't like about, you know, Joe Biden's not a perfect guy, a perfect politician. I don't doubt his patriotism on some level. And I think looking around, the only thing holding together this coalition that barely won the election in 2020 together is his heart beating, right? There's no other politician, like, he won the primary easily for fairly straightforward reasons. Nobody liked anybody else. Kamala Harris is polling about the same She has she has my approval rating

And only a dozen people know who I am And Mayor Pete Because he has an Amazon Prime documentary Like who the fuck is out there I mean I like I wish Jay Inslee would run I think he's like a good politician And a good governor But yeah

Yeah Wanda Manning says You need to specify that Because cinema wants to run I made a video about that the other day I find that laughable personally Because like you said up top Okay you go to Trump rally

And they're like, yeah, we think she's great, but they're not going to fucking vote for her, though, I don't think, because of everything else about her. And she's alienated this side of the fence completely. So it's like, but she thinks she's like, she speaks to the middle or something. But most people that genuinely fall in the middle don't give a fuck about politics or not active in it to begin with. There's those mythical swing voters, which have always been wild to me. But generally speaking, you're not going to win the presidency courting these, you know, the, the, the myth. middle, I guess. Cinema in particular is they don't give a fuck about her.

They're watching fucking Love Island, you know? They're not watching the latest. They're not watching C-SPAN. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's why there'll be a third party is like, what do you get, you could, so you win 5% of people who think it doesn't, yeah. It's not enough.

It's not enough. Yeah. The Jack of All Travels says, from YouTube, says, the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, feederman, or Federman, would be. be a great president and he's not very attractive, which means no one would be surprised when he wasn't friendly to a bunch of idiots. I don't, I don't know. You know that guy? You know what they're talking about? Yeah, he's like 6-5. He dresses like an auto mechanic even though he has two like master's degrees. He's got like a wife that dresses like a playboy Bonnie. He rules. He's a cool

guy. I think he drives a Harley. That all sounds cool to me. Yeah. He's got like he's a good politician. He comes across well on camera and stuff, and he's got an imposing presence. I think he, I mean, I don't know much about him other than watching him talk shit to Republicans during the recounts, and that was fun. Linda Joe Kinsinger says Stacey Abrams or Katie Porter. Yeah,

you know, they're both great, is it? Was there news about Abrams running for something? She's running for governor of Georgia. Again, like officially? Yeah. So, yeah, that's about that voter suppressive stuff, man. Like that Brian Kemp shit. I mean, remember people being aware that it happened and it was shady or whatever

but like looking back into that, to his like tenure as the Secretary of State of Georgia when he presided over all the voting shit in the state, in the run up to and during the election where he beat Stacey Abrams. It is,

it's wild how clearly corrupt and sorry and fucked up it all was. And he just straight up got a away with it. He's the governor. He's been the governor ever since. That's, and that's essentially the crux of his fallout with Trump is like, there are ways to cheated elections. You did it the fucking wrong way. You cheat, you cheat, you cheated an election on the front end. That's what the election

that's what the election suppression laws are about. You rigged election before it happens. You don't go after it happens and try to undo shit. That's fucking stupid. So yeah, he deleted like 300,000 people off the rolls that were, uh, I think he thought were Democratic voters and he won by like a few thousand or whatever. He also shut down a lot of places and the thing about the misspellings and typos and stuff and applications. He did all. He pulled out every trick in the voter suppression book and won, but still barely won,

despite all that. And just the fact that he like announced his intentions to run for governor and also his intentions to keep the job that presides over the gubernatorial election process, like that just shouldn't be allowed to happen in the first place. you know but yeah it was all pretty fucked up yeah it's basically like you know the it's like buying yourself a world's number one dad t-shirt and then i can't get to the real title it's like i got it for like w gift you just made yourself governor yeah you don't get to fucking do that kashishimoto howard says fetterman's an awesome guy we love him in pennsylvania yeah i'm like to i mean i you know

liking what i'm hearing amy up church todle says local elections are so important yes that's also true we're talking on a recent episode about how they have gotten more motivated and ambitious at a smaller level at a local let like the halt the assault on school boards and stuff and how that's really upsetting and worrying because you can be much more effective at that level you got you know a handful of lunatic screaming loudly enough in that small enough of a venue and like shit can happen like it can matter you know as opposed to just us hollering on the internet you know they do that too but yeah oh the jack of all travels back again says fetterman wears carhart every day that's right oh yeah go carhart you see that mark they're pissed off at carhart oh yeah oh i not fetterman isn't no yeah yeah because they they said it didn't matter what the Supreme court ruled they were going to force their employees to get vaccinated so now of course people on the rider calling for a boycott of car heart and all this stuff which is pretty juicy is there's what are you going to do not wear work pants right

it's like carhart's got a monopoly on actual useful that's what they're not going to they ain't going to stop wearing car heart over this but like you know uh like i sure there was at least a few gay people who were just like that chicken's just too good you know what i mean i can't like you know uh but i don't i don't understand uh well i guess it's because like they, nothing else matters, but everyone expressed in their politics through consumerism as well

to me. Yes. Yeah. Normally, all right, Nicole Johnson says, Trey for president. Yeah, sure. Why not? Don't forget to like and share everybody.

That's right. Like, subscribe, share all that good stuff. We do appreciate it. Thank you, Nicole, for being the person who has to remind me every week. But I do appreciate it. Did you see the, uh, never mind. I forgot what I was going to say. Oh, I was going to say about Carhart.

I feel like a lot of times when they call for boycotts of stuff, I feel like in my memory, it's been like, I remember they did it for Target and they did it for like, like Air Force Ones or Nike's or whatever over Kaepernick and stuff like that, you know, and it's, usually when that happens, I'm like, I think they'll be fine without, you know what I? I don't think they're sweating it too much, y'all boycotting them. But Carhart, it is a bit of a different story,

except I think Carhart just knows, yeah, y'all ain't going to do that. But you hang on, you know, you're going to buy these coveralls, motherfucker. Don't lie. It is funny that usually they express their, like, disdain for a brand by doing a reverse boycott, by buying more of the stuff and burning it or whatever. Yeah, but they purchase it first, yes. Like protesting, I mean, we talked about a week ago with protesting the Dr. Seuss's state for taking those three books out of circulation by buying up all the remaining copies of that book is fucking priceless. A book you never wanted to read anyway because no one had ever heard of those three books. Or they buy it all the Antimama bottles, the land of Lakes box, with the Indian on the side.

It's like, okay, we, you don't, like, they bought Nikes to burn. They bought, they bought Kaepernick jerseys to burn. I think that, like, I'm not saying it's literally the first time what producer Matt says. They ain't wearing Dickies, which is funny. But the, I don't know if it's literally the very first time it happened, but I know that, like, that happened with the Beatles. People were buying up a bunch of Beatles records. and burning them and stuff because of what John Lennon said about Jesus or whatever

and they asked him like what he thought about that and he was basically like well I mean you know as long as they're buying them first I don't really get kids and you know and nobody people just kept doing it still to this day because got to send a message Mark, I send a message to Nike

and the Beatles they did it with Harry Potter books remember they bought Harry Potter books and ran them over with like steam rollers and set them on fire and shit because they you know black magic whatever but like it is funny that that right wing protest ended up working because it made j k ralding a billionaire and now she spends all day tweeting anti-trans stuff so there you go yeah wild how things work out sometimes um yeah all right uh yeah go ahead sir um bob sullivan says boycott chickfilet by vomiting up the sandwich after

you waded in line yeah right yes That would be a similar scenario. Trey, you go poppies or Chick-fil-A? I've actually never really liked Chick-fil-A. That was a very convenient boycott situation for me, because obviously I'm a big-time ally, and I always have been, you know, got the lovely gay Uncle Tim since way back.

I care about things like that. But I didn't really have to try very hard for that one, because I've never really been a big, fan, which I know is like blasphemous in some circles, but when that came, when all that stuff came to light and it's like, no, they kind of suck actually. I was like, well, sweet. Yeah. Yeah. Now I don't have to defend the fact that I don't really like it in the first place. And I don't know why I just never, I just never did. I never really liked their shit. I love Popeyes, though. It's like, no more twisted. I love chicken. Just Chick-fil-A, never really was

my thing. Oh, John Orbit Bambridge has Popeyes way better. I got to tell you, like, I'd never really try Popeyes until like they had launched a chicken sandwich and people were going crazy over it and I was like I got to try this shit and then I tried it and I was like I can see why people were stabbing each other over these sandwiches. Yeah, no, Popeyes is fucking great man. Yeah, I love it. It is better than Chick-fil-A, I think, because they use the broilage bun. Anyway, that's my hot food.

That's my fast food take. I like it. Let's see here. There's a lot of people saying Popeyes is real good and, you know, I think we all agree. Oh, let's see. What else? we got not reading that one sorry i just saw one of our trolls pop up over here and said uh hey you are word hillbilly in all capital letters and then uh just a bunch of other ranting and

raven after that and i so was was the rest of it true too or just that yeah yeah oh uh music club excuse club music club recommendation before we go um So Vanilla Ice has apparently gone cue adjacent. He's now making, making hit songs with the Q&on rapper, MAGA rapper, Forgiato Blow. Who has other... Forgiato Blow. Yeah, he's the guy we talked about before dancing next to Roger Stone at a CPAC. Because we incorrectly called him jelly roll or thought that might be jelly roll, which prompted my sister to immediately text me saying, you take that back about jelly roll right now.

Jelly, jelly roll ain't like that. and you shouldn't be talking shit about jelly roll because he ain't like that and i had to put him you know put out a retraction and uh apologize for besmirching the good name of jelly roll it was in fact this guy instead oh here it is oh here's the deal here we go baby And Bronco Billy Ain't got nothing on this Sattled up, baby, give me a kiss You know it's Friday

And I just got paid Baby won't you come roll with me I'm gonna take it to the rodeo More than enough Anyway, if you're interested More Fiorgio Furreggia blow songs He's a couple called White History Month And Captain Kyle, which I'm assuming

is about written house. So there you go. I've wondered with vanilla eyes if it's like, is he going Q or is it just like this is how he can rap on a song with now? You know what I mean? Just like he'll just, if you want him to rap, he'll do it, he'll show up,

even if you're Forgiato Blow, perhaps. Or maybe he's full-blown Q lunatic. I don't know, you know. Anyway, who's to say? Thank you all for joining us. Remember, go to well-readcom. If you want to come and see me, you can go to weekly skews.com

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