Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 12/06/22 – Georgia On All Our Minds

Episode Date: December 7, 2022

Once again the eyes of the nation are on Georgia. Will smooshbrain Herschel Walker finally be vanquished, or is hope well and truly dead? Only time will tell, but we'll surely opine upon the matter, so join us. Support the show

What's up, everybody? Welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It's December 6th. I fucked that word up. It's the 6th. It's the 6th day of December 2022. It's a runoff night down there in Georgia, which of course we're going to be talking about.

But I'm Trey Crowder. That's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? Yeah, it's a Tuesday, Trey, which means Georgia's voting. Every Tuesday on the dog. Yeah. man. Good Lord, man.

It would not hit to live in Georgia lately. I agree. Yeah, God bless those people, man. They're sticking with it. It seems like, you know, it wouldn't surprise. I know that we're going to talk about like turnout is, is good. Turnouts high. And I find that, you know, I guess impressive or whatever.

Because I would, you know, you'd have to have fatigue, I would think, living there, like you said. It's like every other year for three months, we've got to go vote. a bunch of times and the fight of the world hangs in the balance or whatever, so, you know. That's why when Republicans get on their voting isn't a right, it's a privilege sort of shit, it's like, it's a privilege, it's fucking, it's like going to the DMV. It's like, it's an obligation to always do it, but it's like, it's not fun to wait in line and check by and fill a standard-ass test. But yeah, a lot to get to.

We'll talk about the turnout stuff because the numbers are funny depending on how you slice it. And basically voter suppression works is a lesson we're learning. I still think Warnock's going to win, but we'll find out on the moment a little bit. A couple of things where we get to the show. So Trump Org was found guilty in 17 counsel fraud and tax evasion today. And so I need somebody like a lawyer to sit me down and explain to me like a child, how a company can be guilty of crimes, but none of the people that work there. Was it a corporation?

Because corporations are, they're their own people, right? It's like a whole thing in this country. That's bad was said a long time ago, Mark. I'm surprised you missed it. Yeah. The company is a person. So it's guilty. So like the people, I would think that at least be accomplices, you know, but yeah. Not to be not to be too fair to Mitt Romney, but like his point was that corporations are made up of people, right? He's not wrong. No. But also he was making a case for corporations to have people's rights, which I disagree with, like being able to spend a limited malice in elections and shit. fuck that but so anyway the so the white collar is basically legal in america and it's extremely funny that they had to do this shit for like three decades and have the guy get elected president and be universally hated to be held remotely to account for fairly obvious crimes but i was looking

to the charges and it's really funny that they found 12 people who were like yes this highly technical law was definitely violated the jury system is it perfect it's the best we can do but it's funny because i was thinking about that quote um uh uh I forget whose quote it was. Was it Mark Twain's way like, like... It's always Mark Twain. Yeah, it's always Mark Twain. It's like, it's hard for your faith in democracy to survive a conversation with a single voter.

But like, you make that up with large numbers, right? And then the will of the people. But now you're picking 12 random dipshits to decide something highly technical is really funny. Yeah, no, we were, Corey, you know, our senior Georgia correspondent who is indisposed tonight. So he will not be joining us and regret to inform you all. He's okay. Everything's fine. But anyway, he just had to almost do jury.

He got called him for jury duty. And so we were talking about that on a well-read podcast. And it was the first time that I had really sort of, I mean, not the first time. And I'm not saying just because Corey almost was on a jury. That's not entirely what I mean. It's just during that conversation, I was thinking it's like, man, the whole jury thing is kind of wild when you think about it. Because it's like, you know, pretty important. And most of us don't know much.

But it's like you said, you know, it's the best we could do. I mean, obviously, I'm not opposed to the idea of a jury of your peers or anything. It's just, you know, my peers be dumb. I trust 12 random people off the street on a judge who's trying to put it like a hard ass or like, for sure. He's taking kickbacks from private prisons to put people in jail, which they've been called doing. Yes. Yeah, but it's just like, I like to imagine these people are just like, I don't understand any of this,

but fuck that asshole. Right. That's probably how it went. So when Trump complains about the jury pool in New York, they always say it's unfair to be tried in D.C., which is parentheses because those people are black, right? And they're voting, they're deciding guilty of Republicans that's held January 6th defendants have been claiming.

And so I'm sure he's going to complain about a New York jury pool, but whatever. We all know he's guilty of shit. Who gives us? But speaking of Trump, he also posted on truth that he should be reinstated, even if it means like eliminating the Constitution and then everyone I hear it because like Republican they made a big deal over like the first thing they're doing the retake of the house is read the Constitution into the record.

Uh-huh. Just like, jerk off, who cares? Yes. If you gave me line item veto and the right power of benevolent dictate, I'd probably redo the constitution some too, but uh, there's got to be a process. I honestly can't believe it took him as long as it has to suggest, uh, deleting the Constitution. Um, yeah, you know. I mean, it's like, it's clear most of them don't know shit about it or give a fuck about it anyway, despite jerking it off all the time. But yeah, I'm not surprised it was, he was the one that finally just said, you know, we should just get rid of this fucking thing. Mike McCain forever. And so many people, you're going to hear that and be like, he's right. We should. Yeah, it's like they heard that the Constitution's not a suicide pact

But it is a suicide pact We want to we want to replace it with a different suicide pact The jury do thing reminds me I forgot I was supposed to have jury due this week I got COVID So shout to COVID And also reminds me Aaron my life was supposed to have jury duty a couple years ago And she, you know, you have to go like multiple days

See if you get seated And she was in there supposed to do like a pretty horrific trial at sex crime against children. And you're trying on, they were questioning her, so you let her go because she couldn't handle listening to. Yeah. I hate me laugh, but it's like, yeah, I mean, but you're probably the person who should be on the jury.

Okay, so you just, you got what I was about to say on the well read podcast, a lot of it came down to that exact dynamic. It wasn't like a child sex crimes case or anything, but it was all about how Corey, like, got out of it basically by saying, you know, that the justice system is bullshit, giving his actual opinions, you know. but and and drew who's a former defense attorney said he was like he was like yeah I'm not shaming you or anything like that I totally get it and also all you did was tell the truth so it's fine he was like but you know you're arguably the last person in that room who shouldn't be on the jury the jury you know what I mean like you said I got like juries actually need more people like you on them you know but obviously I mean

jury duty still don't hit yeah uh i got jury duty during covid so i didn't have to physically go down there i just had to call a number every morning instead of going there to do the check-in thing and i just i never got called and then it was over so shout out to covid yeah yeah i've never had to do it going to hook us both up yeah i think it had fun being on a jury as long as a couple days in his interesting case but yeah i don't uh a i've never never been called um for you the show like you suggested you wanted to talk about the more North Carolina thing and so if you guys don't know there was a highly protested drag show happening in a small town in Carolina and then coincidentally maybe someone shot up some power substations and knocked 40,000 people out of power including

locations going to have the trench and a bunch of people are guessing that the two are related and they might very well be and I had a bunch of stories prepped about how like taking out power stations to some of right-wing terrorists a decent amount, even though it doesn't, like, it's one of those things where when the government looks at right-wing terrorism, they don't see a pattern. They refuse to see a pattern.

But, yeah, it's like, it's pretty common. In fact, a couple guys just got sentenced, and somebody pulled some really funny courtroom transcripts where in the chat logs, this right-wing psychos, they were talking about what weapons they had. They quoted a biggie lyric listing off a bunch of guns. And the only person he recognized it as a biggie lyric

was the judge. as he's trying to explain to the prosecutor that these are rap lyrics. We'll get into that when it comes. So, yeah, I thought that I'm not surprised that shooting up a bunch of machinery will fuck up how that machinery works. But there's something about the fact that they just, like, decided we're going to knock the power out. And so they just drove down there and just shot it all a bunch, you know, and then successfully knocked the power out.

I mean, again, I'm not saying that I'm surprised. that it, you know, that it can work that way. It's just also kind of, you know, I guess alarming how sort of simplistic many straight-up terrorist actions can be, you know, just get on there and just shoot all that shit if you wanted to shut down. And that will work. And yeah, I know a lot of people, I know there was,

they showed this lady who was at January 6th, who lives in that community, who posted on Facebook, all the lights are about to go out. and I know why or something like that. And she also posted a picture of the drag show, the theater having the drag show, and just said something like God will not be mocked or something, but they don't have any like proof, proof that that's what it was.

Also, I saw some people on Twitter saying that the Queens, the Queens went up there and by flashlight and did their thing, Acapella anyway. So the terrorists did not win. Yeah, America's tearing itself over. part over men doing karaoke and dresses. It makes a lot of the sense. Right.

So, yeah, you made an interesting point, though. Like, I wouldn't know how to knock out a power substation. Right-wing psychos, trade tips, and all their message boards and stuff. So that seems to be a data point in favor of the theory. But who knows? But, yeah, the FBI is on it. And the whole county, a bunch of the county has been out of power for a while. And one person has died.

It's not clear where that's related to the power outage or different medical thing. But, like, it's cold as shit in North Carolina right now. People are, like, going to the grocery store to warm up and stuff. So, uh, they fucked up a bunch of people's lives to stop, uh, a drag show. Yeah. Um, well, I also wondered, you know, they said that like the nursing home, there's nursing homes there. And they're out of powers. There's like, really old people in there, you know, freezing their asses off.

And I wondered, I was like, I wonder where those pat balls in there fall on this whole situation. You know what I mean? Like, I wonder if there's at least a couple of them in there like, it's worth it. You know, or if they're like, you know, let them dance. God damn. It's cold in here. Yeah. Yeah.

That was a quote from someone who's protesting. It was like, these aren't like the drag show up with. And it's like, well, they are. It's so fucking stupid. So one last time we got to show.

We tied last week's episode was on the looming railroad strike that Biden was trying to kneecap. And they successfully did so. The House passed a better version of the compromise plan with the workers would have gotten seven days of paid sick leave and sent both versions to the Senate and Democrats got six Republican votes. Joe Manchin was the only defector, but they didn't get to 60 so they had to pass a stripped down version. So you could get one hand, you could say Democrats did everything they could. On the other hand, you could say, why didn't Biden at least ask them for more?

Because who knows what the president could have done with a megaphone? And it's like also we talked about, but this doesn't solve the problem. Like I'm seeing a bunch of like interviews with wives or railroad workers. Like he's still trying to figure out of quit as soon as they get the big lump sum payment for the back pay that they just negotiated. He's walking off the job. No one's going to want to take these jobs. Like, if the goal is to keep shit moving on the railroads, this is not a long-term fix.

No, it's also just disheart. I mean, we talked about it last week, but it's just disheartening and shitty because it's like literally nobody in government, no politicians really give a fuck about working. I mean, other than like Bernie and some of the actual progressives, like a handful of them, but generally speaking, like, you know, big money.

runs the show like hey fucking christmas is coming you know how much money everybody's going to make we can't fuck that up so yeah fuck the whole notion of labor and uh organizing for you know better conditions and all that even from the most quote pro labor president of all time it's uh it's just a bummer but if there aren't any people to work on the railroads this is also going to be a long long term negative impact on the railroads bottom line it's like this it's so short-sighted another only thing to the end of the court and they get their bonus and then they get fired and it's the next guy's job, but that's the whole problem with the system. But speaking of it, it's all being about money.

So about 100 years ago, there was a railroad strike. And the New York Daily News sent a guy on the street to ask people what they thought about it. And this guy, Albert Harriman, you see it on the screen. He's 36th Street. He's an elevator inspector, which is your fun job that I think is probably still around. Our government is won with capitalistic tendencies. And since it has taken charge of the situation, I feel that capital will force the strikers to its own terms. So same song, same as it ever was.

Right. So Albert Herman for president, everybody, we'd dig him up. Yeah, he's probably not even that much older than some of our top candidates, really. All right, let's get into it with us as always as producer Matt. This is weekly skews. I want to remind you all, of course, real quick. Number one, if you'd like to see me perform live, go to traycrouter.com. Me, Corey and Drew, will be in Nashville next weekend.

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We're going to do another one later this week. We're having a lot of fun with it, so we hope you will consider it. All right, get some more skews in your life. As for the show, and as we already alluded to, all the nations, eyes or once again on the great state of Georgia, will Herschel Walker be vanquished or is hope well and truly dead? It doesn't determine the control of the Senate, but it still feels pretty high stakes to me on account of it would indicate just how low the bar really is in a lot of ways. So we'll see what happens and we'll talk about it. But first, the Daily Dumbass,

Matt, graphic, please. damn one of us is the day day tonight for not being on the supreme court despite apparently being observably smarter than justice samuel alito listen to this clip if there's a black santa at the other end of the mall and he doesn't want to have his picture taken with a child who's dressed up in a Ku Klux Klan outfit that black Santa has has to do that. No, because Ku Klux Klan outfits are not protected characteristics under public accommodation laws.

So, I know. I was so, when I first saw this clip, so there's also, there's a part after this where, um, I don't remember if it's Judge Jackson. One of the other judges says something else. And then Alito says something like, oh, yeah, you always see black kids and clan outfits on or something, just something like wise ass crack. And I saw people like tweeting about that. And immediately I was like, well,

the, but fuck that part. The first part was the shitty and dumb part, like the truth, you know, but when I heard him say that, it's one of those things where I was almost like screaming at my, my scream, but I was so relieved that the dude just, you know, immediately responded, uh, in the appropriate way, which is not surprising because this dude's arguing a case for the Supreme court, I guess, but, you know, that's what makes it so surprising that it comes from a, you know, a disingenuous query like that came from a Supreme Court justice to begin with

but you've pointed out multiple times on this show it's like these people ain't all that special or anything really it's like he's either dumb or shitty or both you know because that makes no fucking sense to equate the being a just a black child

versus you know wearing a clan outfit and equating it too yeah I wanted to talk about this because I wanted to talk about the case that they're arguing about because it's sort of like example of how fucking dumb everything is and also how conservative legal organizations have figured out how to gain

the system and with the cooperation, they've hacked the legal system and with six conservative justes, they can just do whatever they want. So this is a case out of Colorado. This lady named Lori Smith, she makes websites and what she doesn't want to do is have to make a website for a gay wedding. A couple things to know here is that she's never made a website for a gay wedding or asked to make a website for a gay wedding or ever made a website for a wedding at all.

It's not her brand of job. She pivoted from advertising to this website company fairly recently, and she makes websites for nonprofits and churches and political candidates. And then this group called the Alliance Defending Freedom, which you can guess what their beliefs are, took her on as a client, and then she added, I would like to make wedding websites to her website. Again, no one's asked her to make a gay website. Right.

I didn't know that, I mean, you know, I'm law dumb. I've said it many times, but like I didn't even realize something like this could happen, meaning like just some sort of hypothetical situation could end up being argued before the Supreme Court. Like I just assumed, okay, some gay couple asked her for a website and she said no, like the cake situation, and now here we are again, but yeah, finding out, it's like, no, that has never happened. She's never made, yeah, she don't even hardly do that. It's never come up. It's just like, but you know, it might.

Mike could come up, and that's worth the Supreme Court's time, apparently. I just didn't even realize that shit worked that way. It doesn't. It doesn't. All right. Yeah. So, yeah, it's completely like, fucking, like, the, you know, it, yeah, so it's like a child's drawing of what a legal case should be.

Yeah, but they, so this, yeah, this is a redo of the masterpiece cakes thing, which the woman, the Supreme Court essentially held that cakes aren't speech, so whatever, we're just like punting on this. And so, like, well, the website speech, so we get a control off the lead on this, right? So they go back up. And, like, look, they're fighting the last war at a certain extent because probably, I bet 95% of companies that make websites would make them happily for a gay couple because they do the job to make money, right? But there's also a lot of money to be made if you're the one person who becomes the face of a conservative issue. Of course.

Yeah. And you get one working that welfare circuit, right? Right. Yeah. Yeah, it's just all. So it's just like, it's so fucking dumb. And the leader knows arguments are full of shit. And I just can't believe they bootstrap this fake case all the way to the Supreme Court.

They're definitely going to win. And pretty much going forward, if you want to be a huge prejudice to asshole, all you have to do is say it's your religious belief. And there's not going to be any sort of public accommodation. That's the thing. There's just a public accommodation. You provide a service. You cannot deny it to someone based upon their race, sex, national origin, yada, yada, yada, right? That's it.

Like you can't have a restaurant in the South and not let white people set the counter or if you let white people set the count. right that's the you can have a private club and then whoever you want but if you're a have a public facility you got to you yeah whatever so this is also so fucking dumb elito also he the another analogy he used was um if you are a jewish photographer and you take someone's profile photo for j date and he was joking around with kagan about j date saying she they were joking about her being on their go because she's the one jewish memberless frame court and then he also said well you might be familiar this website to ashley madison and sort of and then realized he'd accused her of fucking cheating on her husband and it's just like i don't know man just like mind you're a business let people marry who they marry it's this is also fucking dumb yeah yeah all right uh mark i don't know if it's gonna help or not but you check the i don't know the cord or something on your microphone i'm getting a little bit of like popping from you every now and then i can hear you and everything it's just like uh

something going on technically now i can't hear you at all so hopefully i ruined it yep still can't hear you i don't know i killed it uh yeah you'll figure it out uh in the meantime up next while mark is doing that matt we can go ahead and show this video that should still work i imagine if i haven't caused everything to fall apart next honorable mention for daily dumb asses you who for not getting out in front of whatever the hell Kanye is doing uh this is not a good look for them We're picking up the Yahoo and the netting. So for now it's just netting. I know some people call him BB.

No, some of you call him Yahoo, but we're going to call him Netting. What you want, then? Hey, yay, right after this, I'm going to say you're crazy. I'll take your family away from you. We are done with you yet. You cannot cause free thought. We have to control the history books. We have to control the banks.

And we have to go and kill people. Also, we're in a bad theory. So, hopefully you're going to take the mask off, because is this actually gay here? Yeah. Okay. So first of all, I've got to admit something. And I don't feel that bad about this, considering everything about Kanye right now. But I didn't put it, I didn't put the U-Hoo, I didn't put the U-Hoo together with the rest of the bit that he's doing.

But he's got a net and a U-Hoo, which he calls Yahoo. So it's net net and Yahu. See, now I get it. I thought he'd just like you. I say I get it. I don't have a fucking clue what's happening right now. But, yeah, I miss the Yu-Hu-Yahu thing. If you watched every minute of this three-hour interview, it still wouldn't make any more sense to me.

A basic bit of context is that Kanye in his dive in anti-Semitism, he's a fast learner and he just heard of Benjamin Netanyahu like a week ago. And he thought his name was funny. He's doing this a bit. And, yeah, Nanyahu does suck, but for reasons other than his Jewishness. So I want to talk about this because we're going to talk about the 100-bottin laptop in a second through the lens of Twitter. But, like, Elon let Kanye back on Twitter after this. Is he still on there now? Or do he then take him off again?

No, he kicked him off again because he tweeted an image of a swastika matched up with the star of David. And Elon kicked him off for violating in terms of service. He said it was an incitement to violence, which is absolutely not as protected speech under the U.S. law. But he said his justification was it made him want to smack Kanye. So therefore it's an incitement to violence. This Kanye shit, I mean, I don't know how he can top what he's done now. But like, you know, just when you thought he couldn't get wilder going out there and just straight up talking about how much Hitler hits for him and the Nazis were cool and all this. It's like, again, dude, as everybody, I said in a video, as everybody else pointed out, like, when Alex, John, that's my favorite part of this one clip is Alex, Alex Jones being dumbfounded and not knowing what the fuck to say, he just sits there for a second.

He's like, so, uh, okay, uh, like Alex Jones being on his back feet throughout this whole, this whole interview is, uh, you know, tells you all you need to know about it. Like, even he was like, whoa, he had bumped breaks there, buddy. like that that takes a special something well it's not that they disagree with them but yeah it's not that these dudes disagree with him he's just blowing up their dog whistles like he doesn't have to pay yeah no i know that right yeah that's what i said that in the the video i made i said the end of it i was like i'm sure behind closed doors they would all be like look you know we love your we you know we love where your head's at it's just the messaging needs to be massaged a little bit you know like say globalist smore so you know like and if you're going to

bring up the Holocaust compared to vaccine mandates or something like that. It's like you just got to, you know, just got to choose your words a little more carefully. But, you know, we like where your head's at, you know. Yeah, you're saying all the right things, but the wrong way basically. Yeah.

Yeah. So while on the subject to Twitter, let's talk about Hunter's laptop for a second because this is going to be national news for years probably if Republicans have their way. I know. And it's also fucking stupid. We're going to have congressional hearings about the website where I'll call it back up in a minute, Matt.

I want to talk about what actually did tell you stuff first. So, fuck. How do I even broach this? So the idea that they're going to be congressional hearings about the content of a website where people with handle names like Boner Hitler 420 post P is stored in the balls. And also the president post press releases. It's like this is just a truly fucking dumb era we live in. Oh, yeah.

So late last week, Elon tweeted, we're finally going to reveal what happened with Hunter Biden's laptop. Now, in reality, what happened with Hunter Biden's laptop is Hunter Biden has drug problems. He dropped a laptop off to be fixed. He got high and forgot about it. The guy kept it and opened it. Apparently, as a right-wing conspiracy theorist, he looked up at Rudy Giuliani. And they started shopping this story around to try to get somebody to write about the laptop. Even though, as far as I can tell, there's nothing really revelatory on it,

you assume facts not in evidence, right? Yeah, they start shopping around this data that's supposedly taken into a laptop, even there's way too much data to fit on a fucking laptop. So everyone's like, we can't verify this. They actually did give the actual hard drive to someone legit who looked at it. And it was like, I can only confirm like a third of these files legitimate. So we cannot report on this. All right.

They finally got the New York Post to write it up. In the meantime, the story was floating around. and after everyone got burned in 2016 by a bunch of fake news horse shit, including the Steele dossier stuff, which we'll come back to in a second. The FBI had a meeting with all those social media companies, let them know that we have no idea of the Providence's story. This very much could be Russian bullshit, and it's going to be floating around. And so Twitter's like, okay, we'll take it down.

So New York Post story drops, and it's a legitimate news source sort, even though the post is a rag. To them, it looks like the same thing. And so they block the story for two days from being shared on Twitter, two days. Right. All right. That's what the right wing's mad about. Right.

And what Ty, so Elon leaks all the internal communication, selectively was chosen, I'm assuming, of all these content of liberations. There are people who are trying their best, are thinking through stuff, and don't know what they should do. Yeah, the people that were working at Twitter at the time, all the internal conversations they had about how they should treat this New York Post. was Hunter Biden laptop situation when it was banned for two days. And that was like the big bomb, the big truth bomb that Elon and Taibi were dropping on everybody proving how opposed to the fundamental nature of free speech, Twitter is, or whatever the hell, evidently. But like, that's pretty much the whole thing.

Like you just said, people being like, how do we handle this? I don't know. Do we do this? Do we do that? Whatever. And then, like, you know, debating it. And that's pretty much it. Pretty much all is.

Like, if I was running Twitter, I probably would not have blocked the post story. That feels like over the top to me. But it's their website and do what they want. It's like, you long can do whatever you want. He could boot me off tomorrow. You could let Kanye back on tomorrow. You can do whatever I thought he wants. You know, but like the examples of deleted content that Taibi point to.

And by the way, this makes you depressed because Taivi used to be awesome. I know. I know. I know. I didn't, I hadn't kept up with Taibi, really. I sort of lost him at some point. And I didn't know that all this had happened with him. Because, yeah, like in the Bush era, I love that.

that motherfucker, you know, because he was like, he stayed going in on W and all that shit back in the day. Yeah, he used to hit for me. I didn't, it's a damn shame. He probably should have won a bunch of Pulitzer's after the 2008 collapsed because he fucking tore Wall Street apart appropriately. But apparently what happened since then is

a book came out that he and his partner wrote about their time when they were stationed in Russia as reporters. And there was a bunch of like sexual harassment stuff in there. And people were grossed out by it. Apparently, that was fictionalized to make the story more interesting, but it still didn't make it look good, but that semi-cancellation sort of radicalized him and left him out of political home. And now I moved to substack and he makes like $2 million a year writing is Biden too woke think pieces. So there

you go. That's a career for you. Um, so, so, but the links type you pointed to of stuff that was taken down were literally just green grabs of Hunter Biden's dick from his sex tapes he had on the laptop. Now, people are saying Biden asked him to answer the story. Biden did not ask this since the New York Post story. That's a different thing. If you want to blame somebody for that, that's the THS or FBI asking Twitter polite, warning them politely. This could be common. It could be disinformation, right?

So from the Biden campaign, Biden was nice. People say the First Amendment violation. Biden was not in fucking government. He had no power. He pointed to some revenge porn picks of his son's dick. They flagged as an obvious violation of Twitter terms of service because they made reposting revenge porn on their illegal against the rules in, like, 2015. That's it. It's just unwanted nudes of his son.

Right. They were posted by James Woods and a bunch of other psychos. All right. So, but remember all that when you watch this Tucker video. Now you can play this, Matt. In 20 election, Twitter did this with the help of the FBI, getting censorship on behalf of one candidate, but working to hurt the other candidate.

It is hard to imagine a more brazen attack on our don't. democracy than this. This is not how our system is supposed to work. In fact, it's illegal. What Twitter did is a violation of the First Amendment, as well as of established campaign finance law. They never declared those contributions to the... Yeah. Hard to imagine a more brazen attack on our democracy. It's like, I can think of at least one pretty quickly, right off the bat. But sure, yeah, them taking down pictures of, you know, the president's cokehead son's dick. Yeah, maybe number two. I don't know.

I'm assuming there's other things, though, that might qualify more highly. Yeah, this is such a silly little nothing thing, but it's still going to be a big deal because they can make it a big deal. And, like, their frustration would not be going to make this as big a deal as he thought he should be in 2016 is part of this. You've got to remember, like, Trump got impeached for their first October surprise, which is trying to get Ukraine to gin up a phony, holding weapons they need over Ukraine's head to blackmail, ginning up a phony investigation of whatever Hunter Biden was doing for reason. in Ukraine and saying Joe Biden was under investigation.

That flamed out. So their second one was this laptop thing. And so they're trying to push it. The only person I could get to take the story is New York Post. But people did cover it

after the Post did. In fact, someone looked it up and it was mentioned 3,000 times in separate news articles when they run up to the election. But they just didn't get

the blaring headlines they wanted. And they think it's because of Twitter as opposed to no one fucking caring because they can't point to anything that actually happened.

So, yeah. it's just like these guys by the way every political campaign is lobbying every newspaper every television station every social media network

for more favorable coverage and more favorable outcomes like Taibi even said that Trump administration was doing it too and Trump was in power he just didn't point to whatever content they asked to be flagged

as disinformation or unfair and take it down so it's also stupid sorry so it's taking off COVID um they invited James Woods on again One of his tweets of just a close-up of Hunter's dick while he's fucking.

He's the one of taking down. He got a fight in on Tucker where he talked for 15 minutes uninterrupted about how this is an affront to the founding fathers that he can't look at Hunter Biden's hog on his Twitter timeline. He also randomly went on a rant about how everyone talks about these old white guys front of their country, but James Madison was only 17 when they wrote the Constitution. I looked it up. He was 36. I don't know why he'd fucking lie about that.

I know. They just can't help but bullshit. Also, he probably just heard it or misheard it at some point along the way. And he was like, that fit some shit. You know, a narrative that he had. And so it's just the truth now to him from now until the end of time because that's how they fucking work. If he'd said the Declaration of Independence, he would have been far off because he was 21 of the Declaration of Independence. But anyway, it doesn't matter.

James Wood's a fucking idiot. He's also probably, he's a pervert too. I don't know if we get, can we just say allegedly? He likes young girls. So the thing is, this is going to be the next two years where a fucking, like all these stupid scandals, I tried to pin people down who believe Benghazi is a big deal or what actually they think happened. Now, it could be a tragedy or a mistake.

It can be incompetence, but they think they think something's malicious there. And they think something malicious is here, too. Right. So we're going to be a bunch of hearings about it. If you don't believe me, listen to this Republican congressman who's about to take over at the committee chairmanship. Stories just beginning, Jason, because we're going to have every single person at Twitter that was involved in this in front of the House Oversight Committee as possible.

Well, and one of the stories just beginning, Jason, because we're going to have everything. Right, so you said, because they can, like they're, you know, they're going to have control of Congress and it's just going to be however many years they're there of shit like this, totally worthless waste of time bullshit. It's like with their their Twitter account, the first thing they tweeted, I think, after they took control with something about the laptop. Hunter Biden's laptop is real.

And it's like, yeah, never mind inflation and all that shit. Y'all said you cared about, right? Let's get back into the, you know, this dude's dick. No one's going to fucking care. I don't care. Like, I don't care to defend Hunter Biden. Like, trading on his dad's name to get free no-show jobs seems

utterly corrupt, but it's also the normal amount of American corruption. Right. It's normal corruption, but I don't care about 100 Biden. Hit him in the head with a fucking laptop if you want. Outlaw this type of fucking name trading if you want. I'd be in favor of that. You're not in favor of that. You just want this one particular guy to be embarrassed and for everyone look at his dick.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. And speaking of everybody being embarrassed because we've got to look at a dick, Herschel Walker in Georgia, am I right? That was a reach. I apologize for that. That wasn't very good.

Well, let's talk about the runoff currently going on. Matt or you we got any kind of where we at right now where are we at right now 54% in and Warnock is up 1.50 and a half

to 49 and a half so the same amount he run the first round by at one point but we don't know where it's going to end up yet so I title this segment optimistically

farewell to a clown but put in we hope just in case it's either it's either fell where to a clown or welcome our new clown overlords yeah i'm not going to lie and say that i'm like optimistic uh obviously i'm hopeful but

you know i'm pretty worried about it just because i mean i'm from georgia they got the senate whatever but it's like i said earlier just i feel like just the sort of precedent that this sets and message that it sends and everything if he actually gets in is just pretty uh it doesn't disconcerting and upsetting in a lot of ways yeah i mean it doesn't He doesn't say much about the status of public service in this country, right? If you think this guy's qualified. Right. And we're going to relive some of his most unqualified moments in a little bit.

But you're talking about the voting totals because you're seeing all these headlines that they're really runoff of shattering records. But then I'd see other stories about how turnout's lagging behind election day in November. And I was like, well, how can both those things be true? And the answer is the per day rates are smashing records. But Republicans shorten the number of dates. Right. So vote suppression works because black and brown turnout is down.

So if Herschel wins, that will probably be why. They'll point to those turnout numbers, though, and be like, you know, see, we told you there's no voter suppression. How can there possibly be voter suppression if turnout is at record highs or whatever? But like you said, it's just statistics, man. Las and statistics. Exactly, yeah. so yeah like we talk we joking really about how voting doesn't hit but if you yeah it's true

if you make people do it enough times and wait enough lines are fucking just like i got something i got shit to do man i got a job to go to and kids to raise um so we're gonna talk about some his greatest hits but let's start with the last week of this thing we showed his fucking dumb werewolf video last week um so yeah Obama did another rally and just uh and is as bad as as you can own someone in politics um hit in pretty hard with this video if you got it ready Matt yeah Obama still got it

this is that uh... powers for good more often right this is a at a war knock rally in Georgia yeah on the subject of Hershey Walker and the shit he'd be saying if Matt has it I just re recited the same thing you are

here we go here we're going I was he Since the last time I was here, Mr. Walker has been talking about issues that are of great importance to the people of Georgia. Like whether it's better to be a vampire or a werewolf. This is a debate that I must confess I once had myself. when I was seven yeah you got it Matt

yeah got him yeah that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a a showtime with the Apollo level burn for politics and apparently it hurt Herschel Walker's feelings yeah he went around doing a bunch of news hits and all this friendly outlets

remember last year last week we were trying to analyze what his point was I made the points about faith and I thought he's going to people didn't listen to the second half the clip. It's about how you've got to have faith. Yeah, I know. Yeah, he's saying he's telling everybody's like, it's not, it's not fair what Obama did because he didn't tell the whole story as, as if explaining the rest of that incoherent string of lunacy that he's put together about whereos and vampires as if explaining the rest of it through the very end would make people go, oh, well, that's good.

That's smart then. That makes a lot of sense, actually. I don't know why he left out the all important context in that werewolf vampire diatribe that this guy went on but yeah he's like no they're not telling the whole story and it's like bro the whole story does not help yeah it's like you don't like you didn't need to talk about the movie frank knight to get to the point about having having faith makes your actions more meaningful it'd be like if i was like you know what's thinking the other day about you should be nice to your fellow man and uh uh i got actually got that from an episode of veggie tails and here's a 20 minute diatriam about veggie tails it just doesn't it's like yeah okay i get your point dude but he also i don't know if we talked about this but uh herschel was doing a stump

speech about how he played basketball with obama one time and he let obama win because he felt threatened by the secret service now he's being funny he's joking around but it never happened and harsall eventually admitted that he didn't happen and then obamas made another joke at that rally the hell is an imaginary ass whip him. It's like, it's like there's so many lies that, I know. I was going to say it's like you'd think,

how is he not learned to not do that by this point? Because he's under such scrutiny and it's so high profile. And you can't just say things that are, you know, demonstrably false over and over and expect people to not find out, especially once you've already been caught saying demonstrably false things, like an innumerable amount of times already. But it's like,

I mean, he, you know, his, his brain just don't work. Like, he's, he's like, it's literally, he's a pathological liar. Like, I don't, I don't think he can help it. He don't think about doing any of it. It just happens, you know, like, lying is like breathing to him. I think it's got to be. It doesn't really break through the news anymore, but like, there have been, like,

two more winning in the last week that came forward and said he, he physically abused them when they dated. One said he definitely, like, Herschel talks a lot about, how he has multiple personalities but God helped cure him of it or something and this woman's like no he does have multiple personalities

and a lot of them are extremely violent and I don't know if she's qualified to diagnose him or whether he has an official diagnosis but like either way both he and this woman agree he's mentally ill right and so those are just some lies from the past week because he denies all this shit and I fully believe this woman he also like

he said he's lived in Georgia his whole life when quite obviously he lived in Dallas for decades this woman was like my dad was his mailman for 20 years he lived in fucking Dallas he still lives in Dallas it's like you don't if Georgia law

doesn't forbid you running for Georgia Senate from Dallas why even fucking lie about it no one really cares about that shit and so this article the man had up there the headlines was Herschel Walker's nine most dependents ridiculous and offensive lies

this is from October So it doesn't even count the latest ones we just talked about. We all know that the abortion one. He all know he lied about his education. Like he's still lying about his education. He said he has a doctorate this week. He said he has a doctor. It was a really funny line because he got up there and said,

everyone is mentally ill. We're all very crazy. You can trust me. I have a doctor. Right. Yeah, I don't know if in his mind that's like we're all crazy. So lay off of me about it. it or something.

Do you know what I mean? Like, hey, everybody's a little crazy and violent and abusive and all that. So, yeah. Trust me, I'm a doctor. Trying to diagram his speeches is like. No, I know. That's what I'm saying. I don't know why I even, like, bothered trying to make sense of what he might be thinking

or attempting at any given point in time because it's just an exercise and futility. But, you know, here we are. He claimed to have founded a nonprofit veterans charity that turned out to be a for-profit program run by someone else who isn't him. All right. He also, he told another charity lie that a lot of the proceeds for one of his companies went to charity. Everything, 85% of profits, that was a fucking lie. We all know, but the I was a cop lie. He claimed, I think we talked before about it, he claimed to have owned.

the largest upholstery business in the country when he doesn't own, and it's not the largest the poultry business in the country, he doesn't own an upholstery business. Grandma being Native American for some reason. I didn't realize that it, you know, I know that white

southerners really into that, you know, being, claiming to be one, whatever, Cherokee or whatever. It's a southern, a southern tradition having a mom all, somewhere down the line that was full-blooded Cherokee. But, yeah. I didn't know that Hersh Walker was on that same tip, but...

Yeah, my family's a 116th Cherokee going back like 12 generations. You think eventually it would get diluted, but it stays at 116th. Any lower than that and it starts to sound like bullshit, Mark. You know, so one 16th you can run with. So this is a new one this week that made me laugh my ass off for a reason we'll get to in a second. But I'm not sure this goes in the category. It's obviously, it's both a lot. and a mistake. Let's watch this

first Naval Academy. I mean, to start this West Point clip, Matt. But I'm going to tell y'all a secret. I don't really want to go to college. I believe you. Because that's where I wanted to be. I want to be a Marine. I want to be a Marine.

I spent time at West Point, and I thought I was going to be a Marine, but I couldn't tell my mom and dad. All right. You got it. So the last. lie is that he wanted to go in the military instead of playing a very lucrative career playing pro football.

The mistake is that Marines don't go to fucking Westbrook. Right. Yeah. That's the army bag up there. Yeah. Marines go to the Naval Academy. Annapolis. The Marines are a subset of the Navy. All right. So

I was like, did he just fumble his words to get mistaken there? No. Because he said this at least twice that I know of him was caught on film. Matt, if you had the second video. I started playing football as I started to get better as an athlete, and it's fun. I started getting a scholarship to go to college, but I'm going to tell y'all a little secret, and we were talking about it by stage.

I really didn't want to go to college. I had spent time at West Point, and I thought I was cut out to be in the military. I really, really wanted to be a Marine, so I want to give all our servicemen and women. I'm done, man. I fucking quit. I know that. The last member of my family served in the military was like, drafted in Korea.

How the fuck does he not know that? And by the way, he's only down 0.8 points right now. So I guess no one else fucking cares. So he also said, like this is like not just stupid and obviously full of lies because none of this actually happened, but it's creepy as fuck. Watch this video of him talking about renting a child so he can go see a children's movie. And I just thank you guys. one last story

you know y'all have kids everybody have kids I hope you have kids that they love to watch all these shows and you have to sit there and watch them with them and stuff and sooner or later you get you like the shows

but they don't like them no more and now you have to watch them by yourself and you feel like a dirty old man like I have to rent the neighbor's kid to go see Jungle Book like a year ago called my son I want to go

you cut it back you do not have to you have 43 kids dude just go find one of them take them with you but i think an underrated part of this one is that like harshal walker it like how do i want to put this like well he really loves kids programming uh for a pretty obvious reason i feel like do you know what i mean like it's really telling that he's like you get he gets into watching fucking cocoa melon or something like that with a three-year-old because you got no choice then the three-year-old so the three-year-old grows up and gets to be a certain

point where the kid is like, this shit is dumb. I want to watch other shit because I'm too old for this. I'm not a baby. And Herschel Walker's like, oh man, I was just getting invested in this. Like this is like watching them in secret and stuff because, you know, he can't process.

Look, dude, look how much of a loop the movie Fright Night threw him for, right? Like, oh, fuck this whole week up. He's much better off sticking to children's programming, 10 and under specifically. that's his entertainment wheelhouse.

I feel like, now, renting a neighbor child to take with you to the movie theater, yeah, I don't know what fuck that's about. But I'm not surprised in his choice of entertainment is all I'm saying. It's something we can keep up with. It's very funny that at work today, the show I happened to work on his host about a former NFL player. And he was joking with other hosts, asked him how he met his wife. And he was like, I played a lot of football. I honestly don't remember the early stages of our relationships.

And this guy has a baseline of smart. Herschel does fucking not. He did start from a baseline of fucking stupid and obviously can't think anymore. But if you want to, the Republican Party knows this. They know this very well, all right? So I want to just to hear this clip of John Kennedy trying to explain how it's actually Herschel choose the smart one. If you got the video, Matt.

John Kennedy, he's something else in his whole face. fucking foghorn leghorn thing which evidently by the way it's not how he actually talks i saw i've seen like old older clips of him where he's not he don't have that same voice so it seems like you know something happened uh at some yeah either way he's whether he's faking the the voice or not he's still a cartoon character this motherfucker but yeah this is uh yeah i mean he went to like oxford and another ivy league school at oxford england another and an Ivy League school for grad school, law school or whatever. So I'm a suit.

He's a very smart guy, at least on paper. But it does remind me of like George Bush's fake West Texas accent when like he grew up in Maine. I went to private school in New Hampshire and then moved to Texas and all of a sudden became the only member of his family. He started talking like this. Anyway, watch John Kennedy try to explain how Herschel is actually the one who's wise. Dear Lord, save us. from the IQ people

what they may be smart but they don't have any sense now you know who they are they're all over Washington DC they walk around with Ziploc bags of kale this joke is from 2005

I know I don't eat kale you know why because kale taste to me like I'd rather be fat Mr. Walker understands. All right, you can cut it right. Yeah.

So, yeah, still doing the kale stuff. It always found the whole Kale discourse really frustrating and it became sort of like hipster superfood. But like when I was a kid we grew it in a garden and you throw it in a pot like every other type of greens and cooking up with some fucking hamhawks. There's nothing new about kale.

Someone figured out of blanch it, market it in salads. And it is good in salads. I like but like it's like when Obama got a Rugal on a burger and they tried to make it out like he was acting like oh was he like

the king of France it's like a Rugal is like a dollar 99 of thing who the fuck cares but I know that that that whole like that's the thing that I've been hearing

dumb people say for a long time about smart people the whole like it may be book smart but he ain't got no common sense you know what I mean

it's like the implications always you know it does have common sense is me I know how to work and stuff like that and it's like another version of that

but also the IQ maybe he meant to say the word high and forgot high IQ stupid people or something because you're saying IQ stupid people that don't work and that part bothers me for some reason I think you sort of pointed out because he's pretending to be dumber than he is to connect what he imagines as his voters but I don't agree with the gist of his point we talked before about how the whole Democratic Party consultant class taught like has too much grad school They talk like, fucking, you know, like aliens from a, from a, you know, planet Stanford or something. But the, uh, the, the, and he's also like, it was, it was people who went to Harvard who got us involved in Vietnam and Iraq and collapsed the financial markets in 2008. So he's sort of right, but he's talking about like pronouns and shit.

Right. Yeah. And ban vegan or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Matt, if you want to start looking for some. comments and stuff like that. You can throw up there.

Hey, everybody smash that like button. All right. Like, subscribe, share, tell your friends, whatever, all that stuff. What did you find out, Mark? Something bad? Yeah, 63% reporting

and Horsesville Walker's now up 5149. There we go. Well, it's going to bring us in. We're going to close strong with that downward trend. Maybe, I mean, I'm looking at where the votes

are coming in from. I can't tell. You know, maybe it'll be a big, big, maybe Atlanta's yet to report or something. Yeah, I need, uh, old John King, uh, need him to explain this to me. Mm-hmm. With a touchscreen map, uh,

and much talk of districts and reporting and things of that nature, because I don't like the sound of it. Miami Day is not yet to report it, Miami Day. It's not yet reported. Yeah. Uh, I know, before we started, you said there was like 35% in and he was up by like, three or four points or something like that at that time, and then it's just gradually gone down now walkers in the late. If I had to guess,

they dumped the early mail ballot, early voting in first, and then the same day comes last. So it's probably more heavily Republican tilted, but we'll see. Adam Cuthbert says, I recalled DeKalb County always taking a very long time. I don't know.

Yeah, now's the coping part of being owned. We'll see. Cab County has much of the Atlanta area, says enemy anemone, longtime watcher and commenter there. Well, Matt's looking for comments. I want to talk about, so I read this story, this reporter went to, yeah, I can't wait to see Zanis next week either. I won't be there, but. Laura Borealis, can't wait to see you at Zanis next week. Yeah, we can't wait, neither.

Not Mark, me, Corrin, Drew, can't. They're always great fun. I'm glad you're coming. Anyway, Mark, you've been cut off like four times. What are you trying to say there, buddy? Oh, this reporter went to, I've never heard of this place before. The Faroe Islands, it's a group of 18 islands in North Atlantic, about halfway between Norway and Iceland. It's technically part of Denmark that kind of runs their own government.

And the guy was right about their tax system, which should be a very boring article, but it made me furious because it's amazingly simple. Right. It's a small country with a central bank that does your taxes, takes them out, sends your paycheck, also adds in whatever government benefits you have. you never to fucking think about your taxes. And I was like, it's just an example of how we can't have nice things. Yeah, we've talked about it before and it's like we were talking last week about workers' rights and stuff in this country.

It's the type of shit that most Americans don't ever really like think about because they don't have a frame of reference or whatever, but there's no reason that it needs to be as shitty as it is. Yeah, the way taxes work is another great example of that. Because dude, I don't, I don't, I didn't know that until I was probably, I mean, I definitely was in my 20s for sure when I found out that, you know, that other countries, it don't work like that. You know, you get a bill basically and, you know, they don't make you. Because I remember when I first got to be an adult and so I had to like due taxes, I was like, the fuck is all this shit.

But it's just like, oh, it's just how it works. And then finding out a few years later, it's not how it works everywhere. Piss me off. Andrea Fox says my 87-year-old grandma. does my taxes. Well, I go to jail, Jail, Andrea.

Maybe you can plead my mom on a tax product case, you know what I mean? And enemy anemone is back and says, I do think Warnock will win. So they are not discouraged.

It says Warnock has 50.7% now. Yeah, it's going to, I mean, obviously, you know, it's going to be changing and be razor thin.

Michael Waldrop says, I'm in the cab. We have a little. turned out in early voting, and we vote damn. So DeKalb County is not 45% reporting. Walker's still ahead by about 32,000 votes.

Okay. We got our own John Kings. Yeah. In the skewer ship, some of our skewers out there. Yeah. I got a bunch of Steve's Cornacki. That's a sound pluralizing Steve Kornacki. Like attorneys general? Yeah. No, I like it.

Yeah, you guys Doing great. I appreciate you. Yeah. We're not going to know in the next two minutes what happens, but at least by the end of the day, nothing crazy happens. I'm going to call it. I'm wrong all the time of the show and nothing fucking happens to me,

so I'm going to call it. Warnock is won. Everybody go to bed. How about that? You're here first. Yeah, it had to be here first. I think that means we broke that because nobody else would, you know, just make it up like we did.

But Mark says, I've seen enough. I'm going to win. Yeah, Mark has seen enough. Aaron McCullough says, who needs the cornice? hockey cam that's right not when we got all the steves got our steves of her own have you seen when they bring him out to talk about sports because he gets really excited to talk about sports like all his high-level statistical analysis that's really ways to have the most one they kind of

i get what dude i totally get that that makes all the sense in the world to me anytime i'm ever on a rare do somebody else's podcast something like that and like sports is the thing we're talking about or like every now and in in tennessee i'll do like sports radio in nashville rarely and but it's always just a wonderful time. I don't know any more about that than I do this, but I run my mouth with equal aplomb. So let me take this one. So Kim, Kim Cousato is asking Trey, who do you want to be in the college football top

four? And I will tell you, Trey's ideal top four would be Tennessee, volunteers, Rocky, top. He nailed it. That's right. Yeah. Kim, also longtime viewer and patron and all that stuff. So, I mean, I think they got it. I think they got it right.

I was furious and terrified at the prospect that Alabama might somehow sneak in once TCU lost, but TCU lost by a narrow margin in the state in the top four, which I think was correct. USC loss which put Ohio State in it. I do not like Ohio State, but like I get it. I'm not furious at how it turned out, obviously. It just, it really kills me that now and retro, we knew then too, but all Tennessee had to do was beat the goddamn Gamecocks and we'd be in there for sure.

but, you know. It is, it is extremely funny that, like, TCU was going to get it because TCU lost, but Alabama wasn't playing because TCU made it to their conference championship game, and Alabama was just sitting at home because they were losers, and they were going to have somehow advanced the team played and lost. And they had two losses. Yeah, no, I mean, right. Again, people, you know, but I get why people were, you know,

postulating that it might happen because Alabama, you know, they're fucking Alabama. And it's like the committee will bend over backwards to get Alabama in there. if any way they can and the whole time I was like I swear to God if that happens I won't do anything but piss and moan and still watch and be upset but I'll be very upset but it didn't happen so hey what are you going to do all right it's December everybody listen we're going to have we're going to we're going to figure out how the holidays are going to work here at the skews but they're going to something's going to happen and we'll let you all know but either way quick reminders again traycrouter.com to get tickets to see me live it's fun you should do it it and also go to weekly skews.com slash more or go on Patreon and look me up and you can get some bonus skews episodes for $5 a month and support the show in the process. Either way, we'll be back here next Tuesday to do it all again. Go Wardock. Go balls. Merry Christmas. See, love you, bye. That'll do it.