Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 12/19/23 – Satan Claus is Comin’ to Town

Episode Date: December 20, 2023

 Skewers tonight Smart Mark returns for the most festive of Christmas week conversation topics: the Dark Lord Satan! Obviously we’re aware that Satan is not real, but the Satanic Temple is (and they rock), and they’ve been making some serious waves lately. Also, the big Trump ruling in Colorado and a Texas Lunacy Recap. Join us. Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it is December 19th 2023 i'm trying mark mark mark's there he showed up for a second there i thought something had happened but he's here hey mark how's it going you're looking festive got the the christmas sweater on yeah but i'm in the holiday spirit uh feel a little homesick i'll be able to make a home this year which makes me a little sad but my mama she got us all matching pajamas to wear on FaceTime, so that'll hit. Yeah, I'm going to have fun show

for you guys, and we talk about Satan Clause. You've got to put out some... Mark, I'm sorry, but I'm sorry before we continue. Has she sent you these pajamas already? Have you seen them? We did it before, too, during the COVID years, so I already have them, yeah. Okay.

What kind of pajamas we talk? Because, like, you in a matching set of Christmas pajamas is really, really doing something for me. I don't mean sexually. I mean, in my heart, it's doing something for me. Like, that's a whole. It's like I go straight back to the pictures of you on the beach with the beautiful ocean, beautiful ocean behind you and just stone-faced. That, but in front of a Christmas tree in matching very festive Christmas pajamas, but still being very marquey about the whole thing.

I'm a pretty big fan of that thought. It's hard. You know, like when you're not going home and we're in the middle of moving, so we didn't put up decorations or anything. It's like, it feels, plus it's like 65 degrees. It doesn't feel very Christmassy, but I'm trying, you know. So you've got to do some of the lecture to get in the spirit. Before we get the show, so Christina Pushaw, who's like, wanted Trump's press people, are you, DeSantis's head, depressed people, she's been most of her time on Twitter

and screaming at people. She went to X and apparently accidentally tweeted a text message she meant to send. It was about DeSantis, apparently. We were going to lose every single state, didn't realize it to work for someone this useless. This post has been deleted, but it got... Okay. That's hilarious,

but also like, dude, I feel like you've got to be pretty fucking drunk to accidentally tweet what you intend to be a text message. Like, like, we've all accidentally texted their own person, and that's a nightmare. But it's a whole other app. The interface is

completely different. It looks totally different. Like, you know, I mean, I don't know, I guess mammals be typing in their search stuff into Facebook's status updateer and that type of thing. So maybe she's just like she identifies as a mammal.

Maybe it's something like that. Either way, it's very funny. Do you remember Tom Dian Norris from Breaking Bad? He went to search, but he actually posted to Twitter sex gifs. Yeah, right.

Honestly, like, I mad respect to him for just leaving it up. I'm like, we all fucking jerk off. It gives a shit. But yeah, but yeah, you got to be pretty drunk

to do this. You also got to be pretty drunk to be working for Ron DeSantis at this point? Well, fair enough, yeah. So I don't blame her for that. I do blame her for working for Ron Sanchez in the first place and being an evil person. Also, Rudy Giuliani this week, last week actually, in his lawsuit, there was being sued

by the two Georgia poll workers, Ruby Freeman and her mom, got hit with a $148 million judgment. And to appeal, I'm sure he's going to appeal and I'll probably get knocked down, but you've got to put up, like, on the judgment size, you get to put up like a $25 million bond to file the appeal. And none of this can be disclosed to bankruptcy. So Rudy's fucked. But my thing is, like, how do you not know you're going to lose when you showed up to the court with this. This is his lawyer. Look at this guy's haircut. What the fuck is that? No way. That's a real thing. That's a real person in a real picture. And that's an actual lawyer who represents Rudy Giuliani. Very high profile, former mayor of New York and Trump acolyte. That's, uh, that is completely insane. I mean,

I guess it makes, if I can see Rudy, like, vetting, lawyers and that guy. There's two ways to look at it. It's like, one, it's like he's scraping the bottom of the barrel because nobody wants to rep him in this case anyway, so this is what he's left with. But the other way is like, you know, again, he's like vetting lawyers and this dude walks in. And he's like, there's something about this guy because he can just see the, you know, the crazy seeping off of him or something.

But that's, I mean, what do you even call that, dude? What is that? It's like half of a Hitler youth haircut. You know what I mean? It's like, but the back half is gone. Like that's it doesn't even like. So Rudy's got the horseshoe going, right? Right.

But even if you can buy their heads of hair, you still got a big gap. Yeah. Like the front is like, it's like the, it's like the bill of a cap or something. I don't even know what to call that. If you're watching the podcast, he's listening to the podcast version, the guy's heads shaved except for basically what hangs over his forehead, except bigger than that, but not enough. I don't know if I can know what it's kind of. Now, dude, medieval monks, look at that dude. And they're like, bro.

I don't know about that. If I could get that together. So Giuliani, his accusations against these women for, like, stuffing ballots in their pockets or whatever he said they were doing that they absolutely weren't doing, they got like death threats harassed out of their house. Remember, Kanye's form of PR person showed up at their house and told them that they should air, air quote, confess or they'd be killed, basically. So $140 million, they still can't go back to their old lives, at least they can have some better afford to start new lives after they'd change their names. Maybe move to a country without Trump supporters. But, like, so Giuliani went out in the court, courtroom steps and said that he was absolutely right and he was railroaded and the election was stolen. And they immediately filed another lawsuit against him because he called them liars again.

Trapped in this perpetual motion machine of bullshit. Anyway, other legal news, Colorado Supreme Court today overturned a lower court judge that had said that Donald Trump could stay on the ballot, even, you know, the 14th Amendment bans and directionists from running for office or holding federal office. right they said that trump can't appear on the primary ballot which affects it kicks them off the you know main election ballot uh they stayed the ruling until january 4th this has happened late this afternoon i haven't like so it's the state until january 4th the supreme court has a chance to weigh in and supreme court i know we all think they're going to do here but it does make have to rule some stuff they've tried to duck like uh trump claims he has absolute immunity for anything he does as president they're going to have to rule on that um so uh

So, all right, I got a few questions with this because, yeah, this just came out earlier. And, you know, I know you're not a legal expert or nothing. But, well, so first of all, or an electoral expert. But so they ruled specifically he can't be on the primary ballot. But that if he's not on the primary ballot, even in all the other states, if he wins the primary and becomes the nominee, then in the general election, he can't be on the ballot then either if he wasn't on the primary ballot, ostensibly. Right, because winning the primary is how you get on the main ballot, right? So, okay. Also, it's, so it's, you know, Colorado is a very firmly blue state. So it's like what real effect would actually have. But like, can other states use the press? It would only be blue states that would do it. But like could this start any kind of like cascade or waterfall since this happened here from like others? And would they have to go through the whole same legal process or like to this open up some kind of floodgates of like people, states excluding him from the ballot or something? because of this i mean we got to see like i'm trying to think of a state with the liberal majority

of supreme court that is a that is a swing state that we're to make a difference maybe was constant right right um so like i'm not sure like we were texting about this what scares me about this is like this creates like i the logic seems straightforward to me about the 14th amendment was written and the thing about this this this opinion i read part of it it really does rely upon like you know strict constructionist reading of the constitution like it just takes it literally and the lower court had ruled that president of the United States is not an officer of the United States was kind of like legal trickery horseshits, obviously not true. So like, but it does this, if the Republicans control the house, you know, after next year's

election, and this gives a pretext to say the election wasn't fairly run and they can toss the results. That's what it scares me. Although they don't need, they've proven they don't really need. They'll do that anyway. Right. Right. Well, they will do that anyway.

But if there's something like this, they can point to to like. seemingly strengthen their argument even though it still won't be actually strengthened but still it just gives them more of like a leg to stand on basically yeah no that don't that ain't it it's also just like this hell we're trapped in where Trump's the protagonist

to reality and all we do is fight about Trump like if what you want are Trump's policies like that's I hate his fucking policies but at least like Trump doesn't have to be the guy right so like it's like when you represent a movement as somebody who's

He was like, you know, Democratic socialist leanings or whatever. Like, you vote for like a movement. No one's bigger than the herd. And this guy is just more important than not heard. Right. It's like, yeah. Well, that's the whole thing with him. Like, the way you just described it is right usually.

But that's why he's different. And I think that's why it's like so cultish is because like it don't work like that with him. Like it's, it's him. It's all him, which I know he would love to hear. But it is true. It's right. It's not like.

But if you're if you're a person. who believes in the maga movement or whatever it means like he's going to die one day right so like what is your fucking plan anyway it doesn't matter uh i don't i don't want them to work out for them so i don't want to give them advice um so i i'll as far as what the large term effects we had to see what the supreme court is i got to read a bunch of people smarter than me about that shit to see how it's gonna play out because i don't i don't fucking know it feels like all seven these justice judges were appointed by democratic governors uh doesn't mean the law their lawyring's wrong it's just it feels like the Marlow quote from the wire. You want it to be one way, but it's the other way.

Like, straightforward, you should not be allowed in the ballot. Right. It's not the planet we live on. Right. Another fun story that had a bunch of conservatives that I follow for this show and other jobs that I have, tweeting out gay porn last week. A Senate staffer who worked for Ben Cardin apparently made a sex tape on the at a Senate hearing room, the Daily Caller, Taylor Carlson's old website, Brooke the story. I don't know how they found it or who sent it to them or who or whether they just stumbled on it or this is a small world they live and maybe somebody heard about it who looks who surfs amateur game porn sites and recognize the guy. But like, so I want to read this to you. Leaked amateur pornography shows a congressional staffer having anal sex with an unknown man in the Senate hearing room video obtained by the daily call. It shows. The alleged staffer can be seen in a photo naked on all fours looking back at the camera on the table where senators often sit to ask questions during hearing.

Oh my God. A source identified the room to the daily caller, a senator of room, Hart 216, the Judiciary Room. It appears to be unprotected sex. So you guys watched it, watched it. Right. Yeah. Studded it intensely.

Yeah, also, I'm just, you know, I'm offended at the, at the mere thought of any American getting fucked in the halls of the Senate, you know what I mean? Yeah. They would stand for this type of thing. People weren't supposed to get fucked inside the Senate or, you know, know. Yeah. But I mean,

no, this is, it's wild. I don't care what your sexual proclivities are or whatever, obviously,

but like to, to film a fucking, you know, a hardcore gay sex scene or any kind of sex scene inside the Senate, that's like a, that's a ballsy move.

That's like, outside of a few specific jobs, if you get caught having sex and making a sex tape at work, you're going to be going to have a bad trade, bad day. no matter you know what the kind of sex you're filming is but it's also not be babies people have had sex in this room before like power being like the amount of like mid-level staffers who've

gotten blowjobs of interns of course probably through the fucking car because it's like that's probably what they use for pickup lines with these people if you're a congressional staffer and you're out of the bar in dc or whatever and you say that you're like hey you want to go buying in the fucking in the capital building or whatever like that probably seals the deal a lot of the time I would imagine. I do it. The Daily Caller, like they had this sex tape.

They wanted to show, they wanted to post the video, but also allow people to see still images of it. They didn't want to watch the sex tape. So the way they did it was they put an image of the Capitol Dome over the butthole if you got this picture, Matt. Uh, uh,

tastefully done by the Daily Caller. I wonder if they batted around a few different things. You know what I mean? Like the Capitol Dome, George Washington's profile. like Statue of Liberty. What do you think? The Washington Monument

would have been the best job. Yeah, but I don't know if you get the kind of coverage out of that that you need. You know what I mean? It's kind of slender. So there's a staff for Ben Cardin, who's a senator for a Democratic senator from Maryland.

And like, so this guy got fired, obviously. His name's Aiden, uh, been identified as Aidan Mace Zoropski. Sorry if I'm pronounced that bad. You know, Aiden, you're in a rough enough time.

So like, he posted his statement. He didn't deny this. this, but did say, while so many actions in the past have shown poor judgment, I love my job, but would never disrespect my workplace. It's like, okay, buddy. So your daughter-to-dog, you did it, you just don't think you disrespect the workplace, which, you know, again, other people have done this, so whatever. But he was also been in trouble recently because Max Miller, a congressman he talked about recently from Ohio, happens to be Jewish, and Aiden, I guess,

walked past him and yelled Free Palestine at him. Of course, he denied doing. Again, the context of this, I don't really know whether he screamed it like in a threatening manner or whatever, but you should be able to say Palestinians should have freedom without it, you know, be construed as a threat. But anyway, he did not do it. Anyway, Aidan seems like a wild card. Yeah. One scoes, excuse buddy or just meet up and have a beer.

It feels like a really fun time. It's actually, yeah. Matt, we should try to find Aiden here. Yeah, he does. Like you said, he's a bit of a maverick, a firebrand, this guy. He's, uh, he's out there. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Not holding back is A-N. All right. Well, let's continue. Producer Matt is with us on this holiday edition of weekly skews. Before we continue, I want to let y'all know about a few things, of course. First of all, if you'd like to see me perform, stand-up comedy live, and of course, you should. Go to Treycrowder.com. Check out my upcoming tour dates at 2024. And come see me. Thanks to anybody that was in Nashville this last weekend for me, Corey and Drew's yearly well-read shows there. They were fantastic. as always. We appreciate y'all.

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All right, that's for the show tonight. It is the Christmas season of what's more Christmassy than the Dark Lord Satan. Am I right? Hail, his unholy name. He's having a moment in the sun, the eclipsed sun recently. I don't know if y'all have noticed, but there's been a lot of Satan news in the past couple weeks. And we're going to talk about it a little bit later, being as festive as we can be. But before we get to all that, though, we will begin, of course, with the Daily Dumbass.

Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's DD, anybody who thought Ted Cruz couldn't find new debts when it comes to being a coward. Listen to this. Senator, are you supportive of the Texas Supreme Court's ruling in the Kate Cox case that prevented her from getting an abortion after she learned her fetus was not viable? Just call her press off. I actually have for two days now and I still haven't received an answer. Thank you. Thank you.

All right. I'm out. the disdain they have for like being called to task by you know constituents or journalists and stuff like I mean videos like this have we shown on the show or seen on here where it's like they're getting asked you know legitimate questions about actual issues and stuff that they are part and parcel to and they seem like offended by the notion of it or just that's very least very dismissive of the whole thing and it's like it just it shit just pisses me off this is supposed to be what you're for is answering things like this, you know. Right. But he is Ted Cruz, so. Right. And they don't want to govern in reality.

They want to govern on Newsmax, right? Right. Yeah, right. The Ted Cox story was going to talk about a little bit. I know you the video about it last week. Like, Fox News has not mentioned it. It's been a really big story. We'll get to the, the deeper parts of it.

As a woman who needed an abortion, she wanted to be pregnant. The kid was going to not survive the pregnancy. She was going to be in medical trouble. from it. She went to court, got permission from a judge to get an abortion. The first woman in America had to get permission from a judge to get an abortion in decades and decades. And then Ken Paxson, the fucking Texas government still threatened to put people in jail and we appealed to the Supreme Court. She ended up getting an abortion out of state. Anyway, but I want to talk about how we got here for a second because ProPublica dropped another absolutely devastating ex-posé of

Clarence Thomas late last week on Monday. I mean, you say that. You say absolutely devastating, but like he hasn't been remotely devastated by any of it so far. I mean, I saw it too as soon as it came out. I was like, okay, it's sort of like all the shit with Trump or whatever. It's like, all right, this is also infuriating, but I'm assuming it will amount to the exact same thing that the initial bombshells did, which is to say nothing at all. But yeah, it was reported this week that this has been going on for a long time, I guess, right? Back in 2000, Clarence Thomas was bitching to her. Republican congressman about how I just can't work for this amount of money.

Like with the amount of money we get paid on the Supreme Court, I can't support my family. I can't live. I might have to leave the Supreme Court. And this congressman heard that report it back and they're like, we can't lose him. We got to make it worked as well. So then they got their billionaire puppet masters to just lavish him with gifts and yacht rides and all this stuff and whatnot. And, you know, got the job done, I guess, because he didn't quit, although he was never going to quit in the first place. So Clarence Thomas at this luxury resort where he gave a speech

afterwards was on a flight back with his Republican Congressman and told them that he might have to leave the court over money stuff. And what Publica got a hold of was a bunch of emails panicked that a bunch of people sort of send around worried about that result. Now, there's layers to this. One, Thomas was like hundreds of thousands of dollars in law school debt and it was a career government lawyer. Now, the thing about that is, I agree it sucks that you graduate from medical school or law school with so much fucking debt you can't you're forced to choose the most evil corporate job

possible to pay back that debt that's he ended up working for like a big law firm defending the rights of Hershey's to have a child slaves all right yeah it ought not be that way but Clarence Thomas also was on the side that voted that kids couldn't have college debt relief all right

well what do you think about like part of me thinks that they they should all of them all Supreme Court justices liberal and conservative alike maybe should be paid significantly more than they are exactly because of circumstance. Now, no greed knows no bounds. So it doesn't matter how much you got,

you still want more. But I'm saying, so they're not susceptible to like these kind of overtures from billionaires and shits. I mean, but yeah, I mean, they will be anyway.

But like, the idea being if they were paid a shitload of money, they wouldn't be vulnerable financially to nefarrow. various interest or whatever, which is what you think you want for Supreme Court justices. But again, I know if somebody says, you want to go on a super yacht, you're probably going to say yes, no matter how much you're making either way. So they still would be this way. But that's also the argument for West State legislators and mayors should be paid good wages. And so working class people can run for those jobs as opposed to just independently wealthy car dealers and lawyers and shit who end up getting these jobs because they pay so little, you only, you can only afford to do it for a bunch of free time and just want.

of power, right? So, but if you want to look at the dollar effects, like in $2,000, he was making about the equivalent of $300,000 a year. But it's also $300,000 a year. You're guaranteed for the rest of your life plus a fucking pension when you do retire. All right. So like, it's not like a regular, it's not even like a regular $300,000 a year, which is a great job. It's a steady $300,000 a year, year every year, every year, or a year. Yes. What they, what they did besides helping him buy that RV we talked about before. He got a, he got a $500,000 mortgage. They only had to put $8,000 up to buy a five-acre estate in Virginia. So that, I'm sorry, I just have to say, as someone who's currently looking at

houses with my wife and everything right now, and I know this isn't news to anybody, but holy shit. In the general D.C. area, a five-acre, you know, house for $500,000, you know, in 2000, it's like, good Lord, dude. what what things cost today is absolutely fucking insane and how it's what's 20 is all I'm saying like 23 years of you know of what is 500,000 in 2000 and 2023 dollars because I bet you that same property which he still owns I'm assuming it's got to be worth like I don't know three mill I was going to say two but two something million yeah right yeah shit is insane anyway go ahead I just couldn't not say that so three so three thousand dollars

But like the thing is people, you ever heard the stats of the most unhappy people in America, people that make $5 million a year? Because they're living in social circles of people who make $10, $20, $30 million a year, but they can't afford to keep up with the lifestyle. They can't afford to buy a price. He's so clearly one of those people. All the details of this story are him being like he's got all these, like, like you said, I can't afford to buy this sweet ass RV.

I just bought this sweet ass mansion and the mortgage payments are killing me. Like everything, it's like all the stuff he's spending money. He's living beyond his means, but he's a Supreme Court justice operating in these realms of society. So he feels like he's got to do it or whatever. But, uh, yeah. Like if you just look at his colleagues at the time, like Stephen Breyer's wife is the daughter of an English lord. Right. He's literally married into royalty.

Right. And here's, here's Clarence Thomas with his wife. He was like a congressional staffer. He's making $300,000 a year. And he thinks it's bullshit, right? So he threatened to quit. What he wanted was a big pay raise and to be able to give paid speeches. soon after Mitch McConnell

tried to add a provision to a law that would have allowed them to make paid speeches. It didn't get passed. The band was never listed and somebody asked McConnell what happened and he just said no comment. So then later on, years and years later,

nothing he complained about changed. He hasn't gotten a raise and the ban on paid speeches hasn't been lifted and he was given a talk in 2019 during a public appearance. He was asked, about salaries of the court and he says quote oh goodness i think it's plenty a wife and i are doing fine we don't live extravagantly but we are fine so what happened between 2000 and 2019 when he was

complaining about money and being fucked right now he's super fine but i know what happened is like he took care of all of his debts and his wife got a bunch of i'm saying jenny too jenny since became just like high paid consultant and all this shit and he gets all yeah right everything paid off and yeah so yeah now it's also brett cabin i got put in the court and somehow all of his debts disappeared. And now Roe versus Way got overturned. All these fucking dark lord billionaires got exactly what they wanted.

And here we are. And now let's talk about Texas. All right. So this story came out this week. This story isn't about Katie, Katie Cox. It's about a woman named Taylor Edwards. More and more of these women are coming forward.

There are horrific stories about what Texas government's doing to them. And it's just a law of large numbers problem because eventually it's going to affect enough women and enough of them to be brave enough to come forward. You're going to keep reading stories about this constantly. So, but details about Kate Cox, I said it had been a decade since a woman had asked for a court-approved abortion, it had been five decades. December 7th, Ken Paxson appealed the judge's ruling after threatening to jail her doctors. The Texas Supreme Court, if you, by the way, her fetus had diagnosed, the diagnosis was trisemy 18. I don't exactly know what that is.

I should look it up, but it's not so to cut in real quick, I got it, we got a comment on on Patreon from I'm not going to name her because it's about her family. I don't know if she would want me to do that, but she's a long-time skewer and patron, and you definitely know what I'm talking about. She's been around for a long time. She sent me a message that said that she had a family member who had a pregnancy that was diagnosed. The fetus was diagnosed with the same thing, but her family member carried it to term at the time. And the way she described what resulted, which was to say, like, you know, the fetus was born and the baby lived for like three days in a state of abject agony.

And it was horrific. And she basically said that, like, her families all had to live with that trauma and, and everything ever since, including the family member that was pregnant and how, like, it was incredibly horrific experience, right, having a pregnancy with this condition. And that's, but Kate Cox, her doctor, they identified it and said, that's the deal. This is a mother of two. It's going to be her third child. Like you said, she got pregnant. She wanted this baby. everything. This is a horrible thing to happen to anyone. But the, but the, you know, the verdict is the merciful thing and the like medically appropriate and best option for you and for everybody is you have to terminate this pregnancy. It's awful, but there's nothing else you can do about it. And that's what she wanted to do because that's what her fucking doctor told her to do. And, uh, but the state of Texas would not allow that to happen. Right. The Texas Supreme Court,

like the ruling was like pure like fucking sophistry it was like like writing these vague hypotheticals about some woman's concrete reality it was like just pure meaningless dribble um the courtly quote here they ruled that the medical doctor's belief about treatment didn't count as medical judgment right you're saying what the doctors like in my medical opinion and they're like well that's just your opinion man right it's like no it's my fucking like this is like what like uh creations to do with evolution like oh it's just the theory it's like no but scientists don't use theory the way the same way you do. Like a medical opinion is not just some guy fucking spitballing.

It's a medical opinion. Like she was at risk of not be able to get pregnant again. It was going to do so much damage to her body. So he's a woman who wants to have more kids. And in the name of being pro-life, Texas is trying to sentence her to not be able to have more kids. Right. And these lawsuits, like the sheer, like it's hard to explain law your brain

as, like, as someone who's fascinated with it. So it issues court cases, civil cases is standing, right? So like, you have to prove you're personally damaged by by something to be able to sue over it is my layman's understanding of it you can go listen to a legal podcast for a better explanation of it but like it's like i couldn't sue about texas's abortion law because i'm a man who lives in california right that'd be stupid so it's so like that so some of these women the problem is like by the time you get the court your pregnancy's over one way or the other so like you're like oh we're not pregnant anymore so you don't have

standing it's like but what if i want to get pregnant again they're saying well that doesn't account. And then there's a woman who's attached to one of these lawsuits who they're saying she doesn't have standing because she can't get pregnant again. Do you want to guess why she can't get pregnant again? Was it because of one of these types of situations that would have been solved by a medically necessary abortion that they did not allow her to have? Yeah. Yeah. So this lay a story, it's woman named Taylor Edwards. She went through two rounds of fertility treatments to try to have a first kid, hundreds of shots. They really, really wanted to be pregnant. They named the baby girl Phoebe.

They found out the kid was going to, the fetus was going to die. So it's the worst moment in my entire life. They found out about it on their eighth wedding anniversary. The kid has encephal, the kid had encephalosal. I don't know what he, like, I shouldn't be making Texas abortion laws for the same reason these people don't. I know what the fuck these words are. It's a neural tube defect that causes brain tissue to protrude out of the skull. Most babies don't survive.

And the doctor said that Phoebe definitely wasn't. wasn't going to. The doctor wrote her essentially a doctor's note telling her to go to New Mexico for an abortion. So she also, she's at risk of not to be able to ever get pregnant again at the time was called polycystic ovarian syndrome. She was able to terminate her pregnancy back in March. She was 19 weeks pregnant, but she got more medical complication because she was so, she was so far along her pregnancy from when she got diagnosed. She had two separate trips out of state. They had to be moved from medical reasons and no point scheduling reasons and after like after her procedure she was so scarred she had

have a separate procedure to get rid of the scarring in her uterus okay and then see so she's talking about like like the effects of this like they would love to have had the remains of phoebe cremated but in all the hectorness trying to get the procedure done so she'd be able to have kids in the future they forgot to they don't have a they don't have an urn with their baby's ashes which you would love to have because the inhumanity of texas is government um The happy ending here is she's currently pregnant again. I hope it's healthy and she doesn't have to go through this nightmare shit again. But this whole process, Ken Paxton has been saying, like, our exceptions are actually effective.

It's your doctor's fault. You people can get abortions. You guys and your doctors are just fucking idiots. But with Kenny Kay Cox situation of a woman explicitly getting a judge's permission based on doctor's recommendation, Ken Paxson told this woman to her face she could not get a life-saving abortion. Right. Fuck Ken Paxon. these people just like tell themselves like I saw whatever I don't know one like a national pro life group uh tweeted when the whole cat cox thing was going on they like celebrated the judgment because they were like yes but you know because we need to explore possible life affirming options even for fetuses with complications or disabilities or whatever like this is important that type of we can't just you know kill them is basically what they're saying it's like there's there is no life to affirm here.

here. I don't know what else to tell you. Like, it's just, the decisions already been made by the goddamn universe. It is what it is. You're not helping anybody. In fact, all you're doing is really, really, really hurting actual adult living human people. Good taxpaying Texas fucking mothers, you know, mothers of two or whatever, just because that's their, that's your, your ideology ostensibly or whatever it's uh it's for and this is the type of thing that like this shit when i when the decision came down or when the decision was leaked the dob's decision was first leaked people were saying it's like this shit will happen you know and they were and they were all like no it won't it's not like that we're just trying to prevent wanton infant murder or

whatever which is of course ridiculous but they were like framing it that way and being like it's not going to go it it won't be like that that's all just alarmist or whatever but But it's like, these are real people that shit is really happening to. And it's exactly 100% because of this decision. People's lives are being ruined. Women will die. Like, it's all real. It's all real.

And it's because of that one decision. And yeah. And I have no idea how this plays out because nothing's new under the sun. Ireland already lived through this. Back in 2012, was a woman named Savita Halaphanon. of our. Sorry to everybody from South Asia for butchering that.

She was a dentist married to an engineer in Ireland. They were expecting the first child. She was excited about the kid and had her baby share and all that shit and she got really sick. The fetal membranes were bulging at her 17-year-old we call fetus for not survive. She had dying of sepsis because abortion was illegal

in Ireland. And then there was so much outrage over it that very Catholic Ireland, although they are very pretty left wing, but very Catholic Ireland, legalized abortion and a ballot referendum in 2018. The Catholic Church was taking so much heat over this. The Catholic Church came out and said,

the church has never taught that the life of an unborn child takes precedence over the mother. Republicans in Texas on abortion are to the right of the Irish Catholic Church. This is like, this is sort of like there was that, there was a mass shooting in Australia ride

in like the 90s or whatever. And then when that, when that happened, that happened and it prompted a response in the country. The whole country was, like, well, that's horrific. We've got to do something about that. And same thing with Ireland here. This case happened.

Like it happened, people saw it play out and they're like, well, that's inexcusable. That can't be allowed to happen anymore. This need, this, this justifies systemic change, right? But just like with America and guns the first time around, it'll probably be the same way here with this story. You know, I mean, at least on the right wing, as long as they're in power, it's not going to, it's not going to matter. Like, people just could be like, well, fuck it.

You know, whatever. It didn't happen to me, in my opinions are still more important than these actual human beings that this is affecting. I'm just wondering which way tribal loyalty is going to go. Because like once everyone knows a woman who's had this kind of has this kind of story, which is mathematically, it's going to be true. It's going to be a woman in every church and every town with some version of this story. And it's like, are your loyal, is it going to be going to be more to your neighbors or to the people talking at you on TV? And like, which is your Republican tribal identity going to continue to be like, once you know once you have a cousin who had sepsis you know i it's like i don't know how

it's going to play out but fuck kent paxman forever recently by the way there was a prison guard who was pregnant uh yeah uh who in texas right she's pregnant and she was having complications or and they wouldn't let her go on they wouldn't let her off her shift they were like no deal with it and right and she sued after losing her baby because the daughter boss wouldn't believe her where she says she was sick. And Ken Paxson argued in court that a Texas prison guard stillborn baby does not have rights to the person who has to avoid paying her compensation for the kid that the state murdered. That's exactly right.

So, yeah. Anyway, you want to, we should probably run in late. Yeah, let's get into Satan. I've been down to talk about Satan anyway. So yeah, tis the season mark. So what's what's Satan been up to lately? So I was like, I wonder like, what's going on to panic wise lately? I was wondering that when I saw this story.

There's a more right-wing panic about Tim Allen's show on Disney Plus, famously conservative Tim Allen, the Santa Claus is, the spinoff TV show. There's a sight gag where kids are holding up letters that spell it Santa and they get in the wrong order and spell Satan. Just to say a little joke. And they're like, is Disney trying to indoctrinate or fucking... Classic woke Disney.

Always showing that woke agenda. Yeah. Yeah, classic Tim Allen trying to turn my kid into Satanists. fucking snitching his buddy song cocaine. That's the worst thing about I know about Tim Allen. So there's also been other panics like a bunch of school board, this guy in a school board

in Fairfax had himself sworn in a bunch of banned books, which hit for me. But of course, they thought it was demonic because they were like, you know, books are gay now or whatever. But didn't bat some of this story about Iowa. So the satanic temple successfully got

a fucking Christmas display, a religious display at Christmas up in the Iowa State Capitol. Now, a couple things about this. One, it's basically it's a statue of Baphimet, right? Which is like the goathead thing or whatever.

Yeah. So think of this organization, and we've talked about this before. This isn't the same, this isn't the Middle Satanic Church that is based in California. This is a group of a couple guys who started an organization

in Salem, Massachusetts, home of the witch trials. Well, yeah. To be fair, I think, because I've looked into this recently too even before like before this episode i think they've i think they've since long overtaken the original church of satan i think but you're right like people do get them confused like the church of satan anton levy and all them yeah satan ain't real whatever they're not they're still

know what people think they are but they are kind of assholes if you look into them they're sort of like hedonist and just do whatever feels good and all this shit and fuck other people all that matters is your own pleasure type of shit and they don't hit but the satanic temple though right they do hit and their whole thing is about empathy and justice and illustrating the inherent hypocrisies in the the american system especially when it comes to like um freedom of speech and freedom of religion and things like that and that's their whole their whole deal and message and they're they're pretty great and they've gained some uh you know they've made some headway in recent years right if you take if you take the goat head off their t-shirts they looked at the list of like activity they do you'd be like well this is like the boy scouts right exactly yes right so so you wanted so they're found in 2013 by two guys who gave themselves a name lucian greaves and malcolm greaves and malcolm grieves and malcolm greeves and malcolm greeves and malcolm greeves and i'll see why it changed to lucian grieves yeah so like they made the always point they don't they don't believe in satan but they can

of the concept of the mythical framework that encourages people to question authority and follow the best available evidence. Satan, he said, is the embodiment of the ultimate rebel against tyranny. That's one way to see it, I guess. So I think it's just, I mean, what do you? I think, like, to call these people trolls diminishes the important work, I genuinely believe that they do. But I still think an element of it is like trolling, which is very important. and I think that that is really why they picked Satan and why Satan is an important part of it.

I think if they were just like the fucking Doug Messner organization for empathy and justice or whatever, no one would know or care about them at all. Do you know what I mean? But being the satanic temple, but fighting for these just causes, it's a perfect alchemy of like outrage and clickbait and getting people's attention and eyes on it.

And I just think it's very effective. I think it was pretty ingenious of these guys. like I get they don't they don't believe in Satan whatsoever but they know what they're doing and I think that they're on to something like clearly they are like it's effective I think they clearly would not get any press if not for backman exactly right yes but like like it also trolling is important to know do you know like well like my sister would be like play a mom Mark's chasing me like well he can't chase you if you don't run right like trolling is often about something. someone's response. It's more about you don't have to fall for a troll. So true. So true. I can do,

bro, I get so many trolls all the time, but you don't feed them. Don't feed the trolls. But in this, if the Satanic temples to trolls, they stay getting fed, do Christians can't help it.

And that's the whole point. You know, like they're so easily roped in. It's like our group threads, it's the way Corey is, you know, which is inside baseball. But we all know Corey is very easy to get going and get rolled up and we do it for fun.

That's sort of how Christians are. yeah the caption of the pictures that he's sitting there just praying over and over again in Latin like to do to protest the statue apparently I guess from a Catholic point of view

but there's nothing more satanic ritual to me than saying Latin phrases over and over again in front of a goat's desk so like but going back to your point about how they're like about how they know what they're doing and it's not like it's not really even trolling isn't really even their goal

it says this is what religious liberty is This is what free expression looks like. It doesn't have to be painful if we understand its value. We should look at this with some pride. I looked at it. I was like, yes, this is like, this is American as a flag being raised to Riyuajima. It's like people being annoyed by a satanic statue and to stay capital and just sitting there being normal. And like this is a response for intivity seeing me put up.

And I do want to say like even like the people of Iowa were mostly saying about this. Like a bunch of state legislators, a conservative said the appropriate, correct thing. Kim, Kim Reynolds is like, well, they. response to speech is more speech. She does some Christian-centric stuff in response to it, which wasn't great. But her overall point of view was like, yeah, the statue gets to stay up. So, like, everyone was mostly normal about it.

Except one guy got arrested for beheading the Baffamette statue. A guy from Mississippi, I don't know if he was there doing campaign stuff for DeSantis or something or whether he drove up from Mississippi to it. But, like, what's more satanic than beheading a fucking goat? So this guy was a former Navy fighter pilot, congressional candidate. His name is Michael Cassidy. And he got charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief. And Tuesday, he posted a message on X fully noticed his Twitter.

They included two photos. One was of Thomas Jefferson, a statue being removed from an unspecified location, another of the satanic temple display. He said, we've reached the point where a capitals are removing Jefferson while monument or Satan are erected. uh see yes because this is a free country and one guy owned slaves and another is a cartoon drawing that's just there to represent freedom right yeah well i mean they don't the thing is with these people they don't like it doesn't actually care they don't it doesn't actually matter to them at all that baffamette is represented in the halls of the statehouse in fact i i bet they probably would prefer that he wasn't but when christian organizations have the ability to put the 10 commandments and these monuments to Jesus and stuff like that in the Statehouse, when we ostensibly have the separation of church and state, it's important to push back on that and, you know, illustrate the alternative, right? And that's sort of their whole thing. They don't, they don't care about like disseminating satanic iconography or anything like that. They just want to, they just want to illustrate the importance of freedom of speech, religion, and separation of church and state. That's what they're trying to do with things like this. And I'm not the kind of not believer if it gets pissed off about religious displays.

Like, if I see it like a Nativity set, it's cool. Like, it's cool. It gives me to move for Christmas. It also reminds me the time my nephew tried to eat the nativity sec is the one mom was saying baby cheeses. That's great. But they do other stuff.

I mean, I'm sure you know this, but you know, they also like they're very, very, very, very active in the, in the pro-choice movement, especially since the Dobbs decision and everything. And they've got this like facility. that they've like kickstarted or go fund meat or whatever.

They called the, as they call the Samuel Alito's mom satanic abortion clinic, right? Which is just fucking chef's kit. Because it's also just so y'all know, again, I said calling them trolls diminishes what they're doing. That's not just, it's a legitimate facility with like actual doctors and medical professionals and stuff doing important work.

But that combination of, that with the sort of trolling of naming it Samuel Alito's mom's satanic abortion clinic like I'm just a pretty big fan man that pretty big fan of these guys no they I would love to hang out with them the thing they rule as a strategy I don't know if like making people are angry all the time is like but it goes okay so like the approach choice stuff it's an important cause but making a religious liberty argument leaning into the idea that Christians think you do baby sacrifices and saying well out of the religious liberty to do baby sacrifices in my satanic

abortion clinic is like I don't know if that's really that anyone I know I just in my head I'm like anyone who's like dumb enough to not understand the right what's going on there difference in those things I don't have any sympathy for anyway but I you can't really have that argument in the country we live in considering how many people don't understand that so I mean it's a fair it's a fair argument what you're saying but still you know they're still attempting to fight the good fight in their way you know it's very It's very profitable to not to understand or to pretend not to understand, which brings me the late-wing grifter, Jack Pasebiak, a big Trump guy, who's a demanded a pardon for that guy who'd be headed the statue. Anyways, we're probably going to get off with misdemeanor community service.

So it's not like, I don't think he deserves to go to prison for hitting a mannequin with a rock or whatever. So, but Pesbiac said that he called on Ron DeSantis to go and get a sledgehammer, walk into the Iowa State Capitol and just take this thing down. It would help him win the caucus. Now, I actually think politically this is a good idea for DeSantis. do he's not going to do it because it's a chicken shit he doesn't want to spend an a court but like that probably that's a pretty good political advice he probably would search about 10 points also selfishly i would just love to see him attempted because i bet he'd like swing and miss or the sledgehammer be too heavy it like it like whips him all the way around in a circle and he falls off and his you know his lips

come out whatever like you know i mean the way he fucks up just trying to smile i have to assume he would fuck this up too which would be pretty funny yeah so yeah this tent temple has also been sitting up after school Satan clubs at a few schools around the country. Including in Tennessee

and people in Tennessee are not happy about it. My group chat's been lit lately ever since this happened. It's in Memphis.

A school in Memphis announced there was going to be an after school Satan program. It's not related to the school. The school

gives access to the school for any nonprofit, any recognized nonprofit entity entity. They get space to them. And they've got

Christian programs there. So the satanic temple came in and started a satanic program there, which again is not actually satanic in nature. And they announced it and people in Tennessee have flipped the fuck out about it, which I've really been enjoying. Yeah. So it's like it's in a chimney rock elementary school in Cordova, Tennessee, which is 17 miles east of Memphis.

They started to announce themselves by handing out flyers and said, hey kids, it ran against the backdrop of colored pencils. Let's have fun at after school, Satan. club. Yeah. So if you wonder what you'd do at after school, Satan club, now one, like, it's an after school club. It's for fucking nerds, all right?

Right. I'm not, I'm not staying after school for nothing. I'm getting the fuck out of there. Oh, I love that. That's great. It's a very, that's a very marked position, but I'm with it. I was good. Yeah.

So they, they basically stay after school. It's an alternative hangout program for kids who want to join out of school club, but don't want to join the religious club like the good news club is that one they pointed out they play puzzles and games do science projects nature activities and community service projects it's like they like they like make paper mache heads and stuff right well it's like you said earlier if you just removed satan from it it seems like the boy scouts or whatever that's all they're doing it's all any of it is but it's also there to start but it's also like i don't i don't need my sons to be in an after school program but like if i was in a school in tennessee school in tennessee

see where the only after-school programs were Christian, I would not send my sons to it. If I needed an after-school, like, child care, after-school, child care, I'd be like, well, I guess I'm going to get a fucking, a part-time babysitter or something. I don't know what I'm going to do. And if a secular option arose, including one that said, yeah, after-school Satan Club, I'd be like, thank the fake Lord for this. This is great, because it's like, but that's the type of thing that always pisses me off about it. It's like, they lose their minds over this. It's like, oh, this is, this is unacceptable. And they have no, they never give any thought to, like, people who aren't believers like them, you know what I mean, who's kids.

They're talking about indoctrinating kids. And it's like, someone who grew up in the South and had kids in the South for a long time and may, again, in the near future. I worry about them indoctrinated all, them being indoctrinated all the time into fucking hardcore Christianity, right? But that, but they don't see how that's. it is the same thing, and that's the satanic temple's whole purpose, is to attempt to illustrate. These are the same thing, right? But they don't, they don't see it that way. Well, indoctrination is a funny thing.

Like, it definitely works, obviously, but also me and Corey and Drew grew up in a church. I know. I know why, I mean, yeah, that's what I always say. People always expect that to be the case for me, too. Like, whenever they ask me about it, they're always surprised to hear that I wasn't like that at all. But I always tell them, it's like most of my friends who are like me, meaning rural Southerners who are progressive and a religious and all this stuff, they mostly grew up in the church. And also, I don't know about you, but Corey and Drew, credit, I don't know if

credit's the right word, but credit the church with being the way they are, you know, meaning like, growing up in the church drove them away from being churchy, basically. Yeah. Once you see, like, this isn't my experience, but I do wonder if I've heard the stories some people like once you see the hypocrisy and the meanness now my church mom's church family is nice and wonderful yeah like that wasn't my experience mine was sort of like when i was six and tried to tell me that no put two of every animal on a boat i was like this is you you literally put them on a boat and like yeah literally i'm like okay we're run out of the clock here this is dumb uh so uh so the after school program only in four schools and the uh there are only four after

school Satan clubs in the entire country, California, Ohio, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and maybe in this new one in 10th, it's coming in Tennessee. All right. Now, so that big five, they say they only go to schools where parents have requested them. The thing is, the one can confirm that because the parents request the Satan Club, don't come forward after the request Satan Club for a fairly obvious reason. I'd say, I mean, I get it, dude. If you got, if you're on the PTA or you've got kids in that school, you know what I mean, you're active in that community and school and stuff, especially in Tennessee, not wanting to broadcast yourself as a Satanist. Now, I mean, me, I would do it because I already broadcast myself

as a Satanus. But that upsets me sometimes thinking about that. Like, if we lived in Tennessee, you know what I mean? Like, everyone would know that about me. Like, my son's classmates would know that their parents would be talking about how I'm a, you know, devil worship and queer or whatever. Like, I think about that type of shit. So I understand where people are coming from. But, you know, I'm way too far gone already, obviously. So a Pennsylvania school district that tried to push back against their after-school Satan club and I not let them have access to school facilities.

And they just lost a lawsuit from the ACLU $200,000. So they just funded the Satan Club. It's like, thanks for free money. We'll put it on Satan stuff. And like, so. like you know you have to do this you've seen the fucking news you can't kick the Satan club out

you could just go talk to them and realize they don't believe in Satan and they're just trying to annoy you and not be annoyed but like what I say I have mixed feelings about the efficacy of stuff like this here's TV news coverage

of a protest and this is funny as shit but also I feel sad this lady is so upset it play bad you say in the name of Jesus Christ Antelope Valley residents protest against a self-proclaimed satanic temple holding an after...

I guess it's not playing. Anyway, the lady's really upset. In the interviewer got from the Satan Club, he's just worded. He's just like, this most milk-toast, nice guy is like, we actually don't believe in Satan. The kids are doing arts and crafts. It's all very fun, and we don't, yeah, right, but he's wearing a Satan shirt. Hey, cut it, Matt. We got to call you an author.

Cut it off right there, please. Yeah, it's like, anything that makes that lady consider voting Republican? I know, no, I hear you on that. But I don't know, dude, I don't, well, all right, no, go ahead. No, no, and it's like, I have mixed feelings. It's like, again, it's because people must understand what you're actually doing. But, like, people are so, the idea of Satan, I mean, there's horror movies about just the presence of Satan. Like, it's a viscerally unappealing concept to people.

So, like, what they're actually doing, I have no problem with. Satan's fucking rad, dog. Satan's metal is fucked. Satan kicks ass, you know. That's my position. But I know what you're saying. But I hear what you're saying. It's like, oh, is this the best move?

But as we already mentioned up top, if they weren't, if they didn't have the Satan angle, me and you wouldn't be talking about them. Nobody would have heard of them. None of this would ever be getting any publicity. And the shit that they're doing fundamentally, I think, is important. Like, I think it is. And I think the Satan angle is a huge part of it. I don't think it would work the same way without it.

I think that they're, I don't know, I'm on board. I'm team sight and not to be surprised to hear that. I mean, what would it turn out been at Ozzy Osbourne shows, Black Sabbath shows if it didn't do the double horns and bite that off bats? You know what I'm saying? It's safe marketing rules. But do you go back to Tennessee for a second? The interim superintendent of the Memphis Shelby County Schools, a lady by the

Tony Williams, who's obviously trying to hang on to the job for real, not be the interim anymore. She had out of press conference with a bunch of Christian pastor. and said she tried to explain and she was duty-bound to uphold board policy, state laws and the Constitution. Right, which is not a thing you should say

mournfully. I'm unfortunately duty-bound to do the next thing here. But let's not be fooled. Let's not be fooled about what we've seen in the past 24 hours, which is an agenda initiated

to ensure we cancel all faith-based organizations that partner with their school district. No, you don't have to do that. You can let into Christian kids. You just have to fucking let into Satan kids. You can do both. But you're acting like weaker to make me get rid of the Christian clubs.

It's like, no, nobody's, the Satan club's not even asking for that. Right. No one's asked for that. And then this local pastor, I mean, William A. Adkins, Jr. said it was critical to not allow quote, quote, any entity and call satanic temple to have time, private time with our children. But he acknowledged he was not sure how to borrow the group without violating in the Constitution. That is tricky there, Pastor Atkins. This, in fact, what I call Satan personified.

They put us in a trick bag and we almost can't get out of it. it using the Constitution against us. Interesting that, isn't it? It's always sad how when I can't have freedom without, you have freedom too. That shit sucks, bro. It's also like, yeah, it's almost like that's the whole entire point of this whole exercise is exactly what you just said without realizing it at all. And that's like, that is classic them.

So, yeah. Matt, if you got a couple of questions and comments for us up there in these last a couple of minutes in him with us. Leah Tushul says so Tennessee can have Satan Club in an elementary school but not a drag club. Yeah. Fair enough. I have a pitch for the after school Satan Club. You say

it's one of the tenets of your religion as a Satanist that boys must dress like girls and wear lipstick. There you go. Give it a shot. Timothy Timothy Mark Twain said, go to heaven for the climate. Hell for

the company heard that brother that's well yeah i've heard um you know there's been plenty of stand-up bits and stuff and jim jeffreys had one about like the devil and everything and everything he stands for and he's like well he's gonna love you you're a cool guy you know you like to party why would he punish you susan alice miller says in ohio you can get an 8600 school voucher to go to satan school well i didn't know that way we talked about the vouchers well that's that's another thing It's like illustrating that helps to push back on the voucher programs, right? It's like there's people in Tennessee pissed off you can use vouchers to go to Muslim school or whatever. It's the same type of thing, I would imagine, without having looked into it.

Satan Club just took that $200,000 they got from Pennsylvania and start a satanic charter school and see how fast it could end that fucking stupid voucher bullshit in Tennessee. Right, exactly. Door knobhead says, baby Jesus. It was like three. I'd be like, I see where you're going from. Jesus saves. Hell of L.O.L. Jesus saves. I was like, what are you doing?

What are you doing, Cole? It was like, none. Did you eat the Jesus crackers growing up? You grew up in the church, so. We did, uh, so Southern Baptist, we don't do a community every week like, uh, like Catholics do. It's like quarterly. And there'd be like, yeah, a little, uh, like a crouton or some shit and grape juice. We didn't use actual wine.

I just wondered about those Jesus crackers. I assume they don't hit, but I'm a pretty big cracker fan, actually. Can we see Mark? Please ask Lori Fole. I bought it off a line. Remember the Crying Jordan meme was a big thing a couple years ago? I saw that and I had a couple of whiskies and I was like,

this is a purchase that must have. It's the Crying Jordan meme and a Santa hat. It's my only Christmas sweater, so I had to get it. And a Santa hat. Yeah. Thank you, Debbie Lynn. Debbie Lynn. Debbie Lynn Robinson is back once again to remind us.

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