Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 2/08/22 – Q vs. the Monarch (Butterfly)

Episode Date: February 9, 2022

We don’t necessarily make it a point to highlight a new insane right wing conspiracy theory every week, but damn if they don’t keep making em up. Tonight: butterflies, Mexicans, Mexican butterflies, a wall, death threats, fraud, and more! Also the biggest Bitcoin caper in history, and it’s truly wild perpetrators. Holler at it.Support the show

Hi, are we on. Hey, everybody, welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. Today is February 8th, 2022. I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? I'm really excited for the show tonight because we're talking about, you know, truckers,

crypto-financed rap. Q&ON and butterflies for my top four or five favorite things but before you about I want to talk about the truckers quick Canadian trucker update they're still doing it they're still driving around Ottawa blocking up roads honking their horns and shit

they've taken over Ottawa shut the city down because it's not big they are horrifically unpopular even among truckers they're huge assholes but you know who loves them Americans Americans Americans have given $15 million dollars to a go

fund me to support them, which has since been shut down and confiscated. So they're running around and thinking they're about to be reimbursed with hundreds of thousands of dollars for gas and food, and it's not coming. So that part really hits for me. But one reason I wanted to start with them. By the way, look out for your local trucker convoy because it's coming to every state capital. You're the annoying fucks.

But I wanted to start with it because we got this wonderful viewer bail from the Great White North. This is from Dave. We'll use his last name because I don't know if he wants to be. too, but it says, I like you guys. I like Trey. I like Mark parentheses, although I only catch what he's saying once in a while.

If I talk that fast in Canada, they all laugh and say, you've got it real bad, Dave. I do talk real fast. I got it from my dad who, just be grateful I don't have his real strong southern accent because when he talked,

it sounded like Boomhauer. Boomhauer. Yeah. Yeah. Your dad was Boomhauer. He was definitely Boomhauer. So a whole bunch of right-wing activist groups, Canadian neo-Nazis, Washington separatist party called Maverick and others joined up.

Conservative politicians give them supports about freedom, they say. But many actual truckers are embarrassed, which just talked about. 90% of truckers are vaccinated. He says the RCMP is being very patient. Biggest guns are in the whole streets is complaining about why they don't, why they are just being issued citations instead of, you know, being chased out of the fucking city like they should have. Anyway, but the end, he says,

If we go up to Canada, he's saying there will be a squad of three guys and they will break into your studio with a straight blade wooden hockey sticks in a case of B-Hav golden corn syrup. They'll be singing a Neil Young song and have banners of Joni Mitchell at age 22 when she was hot. I don't know why Johnny Mitchell's catching strays. Why you're distracted, especially Mark, they will dash you with syrup and then shoot pucks at your balls. Love your show fellows, but remember, don't fuck with a can-up now.

Yeah. all right well so he he right before they says if you don't lighten up on the flippant language making making us great white northerners reach for another beer we're gonna come down there and whip your ass with maple syrup and hockey pucks and stuff and i was like it was funny i appreciate the message day but i didn't realize we like shit i know that sometimes we bring can it up and we like we just want to illustrate that we are not the only dips shits on this continent like you all have some dips shit i know that we say that but i don't i never never meant to imply that, you know, we're on equal footing in terms of dip shittery. I mean,

we said we export our dip shits and dip shittery to you, which we apologize for. But, you know, nothing but love for Canada. I mean, for sure. In his defense, this is largely an American problem. We've exported to them. So they didn't really do. They didn't really ask for this. And, but at least we don't buy our milk and fucking bags, you see her, Peter. Fuck you. So. Get him. You got, you guys got. You guys. guys got health care you got potene everybody's got guns but no one shoots each other you got a fucking made don't get just let us have this man let us have this uh anyway this slate i didn't interview with a guy who writes writes books about civil wars and was talking about whether

canada has as bad as bad as us and they're like clearly not like these guys these guys are are a fringe movement they don't speak for 30 40 percent of americans and you can like you're turn on canadian news it's like these guys are fucking assholes who suck right you're turned on Fox News and like, these guys are heroes that pretty much highlights how much more fuck we are than them. Plus, aren't, didn't we find out that a lot of them are actually Americans even? Yeah. Like the guys are participating in it.

Because like, we said all that shit about how like, they got these signs saying 2022 is the new 1776 and Trump signs all this stuff. And it's like, what the hell? That's our dumbass shit. Like, why are you? But like, maybe those were just our actual dumbasses who went up there and did some dumbass shit. I mean, I would buy it, you know.

Yeah. The thing is to get across the Canadian border, you've got to be vaccinated. So they're full of shit. But the thing is like Marjor Taylor Green was calling for a trucker convoy to occupy D.C. The funny thing about that, like two or three years ago, there was a trucker convoy that occupied D.C. They were trying to fight for better working conditions because they were saying they're being like wage staff just taking away a lot of their pay and their standards living going down. But Trump got out there and said, these guys are here because they love me. So he totally co-opted.

They were like, no, no, no, we're protesting you, stupid. So it didn't even, it didn't even do anything because they just pretended that they were fans of Trump. So there you go. Go truckers in general. My dad was a long haul trucker. He had a good time. Yeah. Yeah.

So was my grandpa. We mentioned them last week. Again, we love truckers too. Hey, we're just, you know, just having fun here, Dave. Okay. You ain't going to send the goons after. Yeah. It's okay.

Just imagine my dad, drive around the country in his 20s, just hopped up on an infatamine and talking like Boomhauer really hits for me. For sure. Yeah. You got a JD Vance update for us, don't you? oh yeah so he's getting his ass kicked as we talked about but it was really funny because it came out publicly that like his one of his campaign pollsters leaked a 98 page PowerPoint presentation about how much he's fucking suck it like he couldn't stretch it to fill a hundred pages that's been a natural round number of suck you know 100 bucks worth to suck but 98's pretty good too yeah just two more pages of just his tweets or something would it would have made would have made it really just fill it up So it turns out that like when they pulled, so all the other bag of idiots in this primary are just running nonstop ads of J.D. Vance saying Trump don't hit from like 2015, 2016. So, but so when he polls people what they think of him, no matter how he acts, no matter how crazy he pretends to be, he more Republican primary voters describe him as liberal than conservative.

It's like 29 to 27. And like literally another problem he has is such a phony, like Frank Luntz, who's that asshole. Republican pollster who coined the term death tax, right? So he did focus groups and he found literally, usually name idea is good for candidates, which you want to people to know who you are and what you're about. But literally the more

people learn about J.D. Vance, his likeability goes down. You can graph you can graph how much they know and how much they like him like this. It's fucking hilarious. All them hillbillies ain't backing him up that he elegized? Where are they all at? Yeah, but what we're doing

right now is a hillbilly eulogy, I think, is what we're yeah but uh so so but trump hasn't endorsed anybody yeah that could be game over in this primary josh mandel is leading right we talked about him before but so he mandel's been going back and forth in morolago giving trump the hand job after hand job or whatever he's doing but it turns out trump hasn't endorsed him because according to the daily beast they trump is creeped out by his sex life, thinks he's some sort of weird sex weirdo. Now, I did some

deep diving. I can't find anything even on unreputable websites about Josh Mandel's sex life. Right. So I don't know whether it's just some anti-Semitism because Mandel's Jewish and Trump knows one thing and I said, fucking do a hole in the sheet. Or whether he knows something we don't or whether Mandel's just

creepy and you meet him in person. I was about to say, I could see it being just like he's just sort of creepy and so Trump is like, I bet he does weird butthole stuff. I got a bad. I got a bad butthole feeling about that guy. And then Trump was also the type to then turn around and just tell everyone matter-of-factly. Like, you know, he does wear a butthole stuff, right? You know what I mean?

Like, he just sort of comes to that conclusion and then tells everyone else that, you know? Yeah. And now you're the butthole guy in Ohio. Josh, Josh, the but whole guy, Mandel, that says they, I bet she put in a bumper sticker of Trump endorsed him. But Trump not, Trump not, like, in sex weirdos, I know that the people, like, the pee tape bullshit or whatever. But, like, when you read, like, tabloid stuff about what women said with who hooked up with Trump. He's he's such a horrible

germaphobe, which everybody knows, like he doesn't shake hands and shit. Like, he thinks sex is gross. Like, he would pick up women and take it back to his penthouse and they'd just not touch him. Because he wanted people to think he was a stud, but doesn't actually, like, yeah. What about all the pay stuff? Like you said. I don't, well, I mean, I never actually

believe that stuff, but it is funny. Sure. Well, listen, we've been bantering for a minute here. Let's give you all, an intro with us as always as producer mad and this is weekly skews of course i'd like to remind you if you're vaccinated want to see me live you can go to well red comedy dot com i'll be in knoxfield tennessee back where it all began for you boy on march 5th and some other fun places after that

as well hope to see all out there now as for the show tonight i know i say this seemingly every single week at this point but we've got a different right wing conspiracy theory the nature of which is truly insane and maddening. Pray for the butterflies, y'all. That's right. And we've got some other fun stuff, too, but let's go ahead and get started, as always, with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., anyone at this point who believes that the world of cryptocurrency isn't simply all of our biggest dumbasses stacked on top of each other in a trench coat. So a little context. This week, the feds busted a hub.

husband and wife couple and confiscate a retrieved $3.6 billion of stolen Bitcoin resulting from a 2016 hack. Okay. So I want y'all to take just a brief moment and picture in your mind, if you will, what you think the perpetrators of such a scheme might be like. You got a good mental image. Okay. Well, here's the wife half of the duo. Let's see how close you were. Go ahead, Matt. You really want to bang Always run the guilt game Ever since I was 15 I'm mini things

I'm an economist A journalist A writer A CEO And a dirty Dirty dirty dirty ho Beather Creepier than most girls

Weirder than most rappers But I still rock pearls Rackle Khan The Versace you better win I think that's enough of that Matt Thank you You guys have that So her name's

My last name is Morgan. So people start doing a deep dive because on her LinkedIn, she described herself as a serial entrepreneur and at a reverent comedic comedic rapper. So like, what the fuck? So she wraps under the name Razzle Khan, which is like a razzle-dazly Genghis Khan, I guess is how she thinks of it, which honestly isn't a bad rap name. If Cardi B had went with RazzleCon, I'd be like that. That's probably better than Cardi B. honestly. It's just her name. So what these, before we get back to making fun of them, what they actually did.

So a bunch of crypto got hacked in like a few years ago or whatever. So 120,000 bitcoins. It got laundered through a bunch of different exchanges, ended up in these people's wallets. The feds don't know if they did the hack, probably not. They probably bought it off whoever did the hack. But they managed to cash out 25,000, 120,000 bitcoins for however much money. But here's the funny part. We talked about how you know crypto is a scam.

You have to turn it back into money to spend it. How they laundered it was they turned it. it into Walmart gift cards. All right. So, so they, so they, but they told, they, they, they ended up with $3.6 billion in their crypto wallets. The hack was worth $4.5 billion. So no one knows where they had a billion went.

Who knows? Could be anywhere right now. I could have it. Fuck it. So, um, let's read her biography for a second. So Razzle Khan is like Gingas con, but with more pizzazz. Yep. I don't know that he was lacking for pizzazz personally.

Like, I don't know how you, you know, quantified. pizazaz, but he was like, he wasn't the most nuanced guy, Genghis Khan. Like, he was, you know, he was pretty flamboyant when it came to, you know, murder and rape and pillaging and conquest and all that stuff. Like, he was really putting it out there, you know. I think I remember reading that, like, in his time, he killed 10% of the world's population at the time, which is, uh, I mean, Putin could only aspire to that. Uh, the, uh, he also, didn't he, uh, assault or get it on with so many women that, like,

most of us are descendants of ganges card. So, yeah, real quick, just since he got brought up, I've always wondered, have you ever heard of gangis grill? You've heard of gangus grill? Yeah. Yeah. It's like a chain, like, bowl restaurant named after gangascombe. Yeah.

Yeah. Do you think there's any point at which that could or will happen with like Hitler or Pol Pot? or somebody like that. Like, because that's, I mean, it's just been so much longer now.

But like you said, in terms of like genocide and murder and all that, he's like Mount Rushmore, one of the goats, you know, purely in terms of numbers. And now he's a little cartoon character in a strip mall offering you,

you know, dragon salt on your pork bowl or whatever. Like, it's just, humans are weird or wild, man. Yeah, I mean,

I think the longer ghost stuff happened, the more we're just like, that's interesting. and not really have a moral attachment to it. But also, like, Hitler's brand, to speak, he's just, like, people don't even necessarily know exactly what he did. They just know Adolf equal evil, right? Whereas Genghis Khan just equals historic, exotic badass, right?

He's literally, like, he's literally the only Mongolian I can name, I think, that I know of. So you got a Mongolian barbecue place? Where are you going to name it? Yeah. Yeah. So, anyway, go ahead. Go ahead. No, no. That was a fun diversion. We just go to the genocide barbecue place and we finish up with the live stream. So, Razzle Khan is like Gingas Khan, but with more pizzazz. No one knows for sure where this rapper's from. Her LinkedIn says she's from California. But with more, but could be the North African desert, the jungles of Vietnam, or another universe. All that matters, she's here to stick up for misfitch and underdogs everywhere. We do know that she's descended from a nomadic tribe, though. Yeah, this girl is. wild. If she didn't steal three and a half billion dollars, she'd probably be fun

in a party. Honestly, she probably thought it was a pretty dope party. So here's the fun thing about, to me, this is like revelatory of a couple of different things. Like he's like, oh, well, she's some weirdo. There's nothing to do with the mainstream economy. When LinkedIn says she's a journalist and a writer, she wrote for fucking Forbes magazine. She was a contributor to the leading financial journal. But she wrote self-help stuff. And she wrote, as her role as a Forbes contributor, she advised burnouts the execs to, quote, try wrapping in order to recharge their batteries. Imagine, imagine being like a burnout exec and then seeing that information from this person

and like, you know, look, checking her out to see how that's, you know, see how that's going. It's like, well, if it's working for her and you Google it and then that comes up and she's, you know, rapping about being a gilf and whatever. That's another. They said she was like a sexy grandma since she was 15. Yeah. I guess, like, because she wears granny glasses. I don't know why I'm trying to analyze this, but I'm just saying, I feel like, like, I don't, also the person, the editor at Forbes who rolled with that piece, you know what I mean?

They're like, yeah, this is good. Like, this person recommending rapping as a form of therapy, that seems worthy of being published, but out there. We can really help people with this advice, I think. so unless you think she's the crazy one of the relationship let's talk about the dude half of this for a second this guy his last name's lichtenstein uh i think he's uh he's he's he's from russia originally he has dual citizenship with u.s and russia but he calls himself dutch don't know why uh but so the Daily Beast dug up his Facebook post uh announcing their engagement and this is one of the most deranged things ever heard my entire fucking like uh i got engaged to my best friend of the woman of my dreams okay that's straightforward so far this is how it all went down. Figured out how to how to post her was a project

that took the better part of this year. That's a little weird but we're here moving on. This is my one shot and I had to make sure to get it right. I spent a few months

researching different concepts and slowly dropping ideas and conversation to get a sense of how she would react. I saw a video of a Russian guy that proposed by faking his own death which I thought was really cool. Fortunately for her PTSD

he didn't go with that option. Instead he goes as you know, way no Heather is not just a tech entrepreneur. She's also Razel Khan, the fearless rapper. And what better way to propose to an entrepreneur slash rapper than with a weird, creative, multi-channel marketing campaign?

So what he did was buy ads in a bunch of different platforms, including a Times Square Billboard and proposed to her by bombarding her senses like when you go to a bad website and get 40 pop-up ads. So, what do you ought to win with fake him own death, if I were you? Yeah, so the guy, so yeah, it's an interesting approach. The guy faked his own death. as a way to propose.

Do you think the idea was like, you know, well, if I make her think that I'm dead and then she sees that I'm not, she will never be more appreciative of my existence than in that moment. And thus, that is the time to pop the question. Any other times she might be like, you know what, I'm not crazy about this guy. But if she has just thought that I have perished from the earth and she'll be so happy to see me, how could she possibly say no? that was that how it went down

I've only in Russia voice whole time well I've only been married ever been married to my wife and I'm trying to think how she would react if I did that to her and one she would beat the ever-loving shit out of me sure because one

she deeply cares for me so making her afraid that she'd fucking lost me forever which would be a really cruel thing to do for her but I think it might actually work for a Russian because they'd be like oh I'm so happy he got the sweet release I was about I was saying yeah

in Russia death is constant companion mark that's always around the corner so the thought process is more like she will think i've escaped to a better place and then think no i've made this sacrifice to come back and be and suffer with you therefore maybe it's sweet in russia that's what i would think yeah her man got eaten by a bear and she was like oh not again you know like it's just every week with bear uh anyway they think he killed himself just to save her the one potato they had to split for the whole winter. Sorry, Russia.

We're going to get a Russian email next week, and that one would be, that's a, that's a scary ordeal there. They got high sticks too and a whole bunch of other shit. Yeah, I don't like 10,000. Not that I want that Canada to smoke. I don't. Yeah, yeah. I don't know, I don't want no Canada smoke. I'm just saying, Russian

smoke. That's, that's some of the smoke there. Anyway, off the rails. Yeah. So, yeah, so, uh, biggest bust in Bitcoin history and there you have the biggest the biggest asset seizure in US history they didn't get this much of Melchapo see that's just wild it's just another so why how like just like made up it all seems to me I know the stuff has real value but

do you know what I mean it's like it's wild that X number of these uh these devices these like you know, nebulous, ethereal, digital modes of currency is worse more than El Chapo had in all the drugs and guns and cash money and shit. You know what I mean? Like, that's wild to think about. The feds say they're going to, once they finish process in the case, they're going to give the money back to the people it was stolen from, which is like, so when it was stolen, the $4.5 billion worth of crypto, it was only worth $71 million at the time.

So that's how much has gone up in like five years is like, you know, a thousandfold. I'm not doing the math on top of my head, right? But it's a lot, right? So you had like four bitcoins worth, you know, let's say 100 grand stolen five years ago. They're going to give it back to you worth like $4 million. My thing is if something's this easily stolen, you shouldn't get it. It's a bad investment. Also, isn't part of the whole deal?

It's supposed to be like harder to track it and stuff like that for it's supposed to be decentralized or whatever. So it's wild to have your Bitcoin stolen and be like, the FBI will take care of it. You know what I mean? Like the government, the government will track down and, you know, apprehend these cryptocurrency. That's the shock of the system here is all these dudes think their money is untraceable. But the FBI just traced it and we'll know who to give it back to. So what's the fucking point of it is? Yeah, went and found it, took it back, going to track it back to you, bring it back to you. And then they're like, yeah, it's completely untraceable. My thing is, if you invest in something precisely because you think it can't be tracked back to you,

you should not be able to be, hey, hey, track this back to me giving money back. I know. You should be a fucking dumbass. You lost your money. That's my thing I go with it. For sure. All right. We've got a couple of honorable mentions here.

As always, anytime this subject comes up, you're going to have to explain this NFT thing to me. Not the whole concept again, but John McNaughton, I'm saying that. Yeah. Yeah. So here's how you know it's a scam. Trump's favorite artists are getting into selling MSTs. I want you to see, like, that's Trump holding a snake like a snake charmer in front of his forgotten.

He has this famous painting called Forgotten Americans, where it's just all the founding fathers and former presidents standing around a Bush bench while like a poor white guy sits on a bench like abandoned while Obama has his back to him, but Trump's sitting next to him rubbing his shoulder. It's fucking weird. But anyway, this is Trump standing in front of that old painting now, a new painting of him standing in front of the old painting, wearing a maga hat. holding a snake for reasons I don't really aren't at his hand. And he's sung that as an NFT, which is just a JPEG with a crypto blockchain that points to it as a receipt. And they'll probably get like $5 million for that. That's insane.

Those former presidents in this picture I'm looking at, they look like they're applauding the destitute, the downtrodden man on the bench. They're standing behind him clapping, you know, like Obama seems to be on board. Matter of fact, Trump's the one with his back to him. Hell, he's, you know, he's brand-diving. fishing a snake. Who's the snake? What's the, what's the, what's the, what's the, what's the, what's the, he's into snakes now? Is there snake? I know they like the flags with the snakes on them. I get that. But Trump and snakes, how's that, how's that come together? But he's holding it like he's, like a snake handler. So I don't know if it's like wording a church or whether, yeah, the snake is the deep stake and he's got it on the head. And he's, yeah, right. And he's, yeah, right. It's not really clear. He's rooting out the vipers, the vipers in the nest or whatever. He's, yeah. Yeah, we go with that.

sure let's go with that that would be five million dollars um all right you want to do one more than get to the segment uh yeah sure which which one of you want to do pick uh let's let's do let's do Tucker yeah okay he's always so Tucker Carlson here with a pretty um Tucker Carlson a take on the situation with the truckers in Canada and the implications down here on our side of the border if you've got it Matt What would happen if American truck drivers decided they'd had enough of people like Joe Scarborough and went on strike? What would happen then? Well, this country would stop immediately.

No more deliveries of anything. Over time, that would mean starvation for people in the cities. But even in the short term, there would be profound suffering in this country. For example, and this is something that too few people outside of television even consider, the world's entire supply of Botox is manufactured on the west coast of Ireland. That's a long way from it. It's a 4,000 mile long supply chain. What about the Irish Botox?

What are we going to do? But like, go ahead, a few things about this. Yeah, I will try to be, I will try to argue in good faith and present. Botox is an actual medical, it is used for serious medical. stuff and he makes that point he's making a point about global medical supply chains yeah right that is a as we've seen with covid global supply chains when shit's disrupted it's a huge fucking problem as anybody couldn't buy toilet paper or uh or chlorox wipes uh two years ago can attest right uh we uh we pb e shortages and whatnot why he went directly to botox right yeah i do not

fucking understand but the part that really made me laugh was the if supply chains breakdown people in cities will start. Because you and I are both from the country. Right. Trey, how long could you live off the land? We've actually talked about this because Katie will watch like my father-in-law loves that show alone where people go and live off the land for a while.

So it's come up. How long would I last living off the land? And I don't know. How long does it take a person to starve to death with no help? Because that's how long. That's how long. Maybe less time because I would try to eat some kind of, I'd get desperate and eat some kind of poisonous root or mushroom or something and then die before I even, you know, did wither fully away. But yeah, just however long it takes for a person to die while outside, that's how long it would take me to die while outside.

I just love how fucking out of touch this air to the swans and this chicken fortune is, you know, went to a prep school in San Francisco and now lives in like Kenny Bunkford or whatever. his image of a rural American is just like a fur trapper. Yeah, right. Like, I'm trying to imagine my mom, who's a retired school teacher, just like trapping rabbits, you know, to make stew. Yeah, and look, I mean, people, you know, rural people do hunt. A lot of them do gross it and stuff like that. But, like, the implications would be far reaching for everybody.

But it's also, to me, it's like, is Canada, I don't know, Dave will have to tell us, is Canada like Mad Max style already up there? Like, you know what I mean? Like it's like has Canada completely shut down over this? I know they suck and they're fucking everything up and nobody likes it. But I feel like a version of that is what would happen here too. You know what I mean?

It wouldn't be all of the truckers. It would be enough to piss everybody off, you know, and fuck some things up. But yeah, if every single trucker quit, we'd be in deep shit. And, you know, maybe they should for fucking better pay. in working conditions like you were saying earlier. But yeah. Yeah, I just like, like for sure.

My brother-in-law, he hunts and fishes and he's good at it and he knows he can clean a deer real fast. I imagine he keeps his family alive for a few months. But they're all going to get scurvy because you can't grow oranges in southern Virginia. Right. You can't grow lemons. So producer Matt is pointing out to us, producer Matt, he's a big Tucker Carlson fan. That's not true.

I'm just kidding everybody. But he said that he brought up Botox specifically because he was talking about the host of Morning Joe. I guess either they mentioned it or he implied that they used Botox. Like, you know, he was saying, you got, what are you guys? What are you, you know, foppish libs over there on MSNBC? What are you going to do without your Botox? So it's actually, you know, fair enough, I guess. Yeah, I don't mind him owning Joe Scarborough and his wife, not wife, Mika, whatever name is.

It doesn't matter. They all fucking suck. Malika, Malika, that's her name, right? Mika, Micah, Micah, Mika, yeah, something like that. Whatever. Anyway, fuck, let's get into it, Mark. So this is, this story is, like, again, I think every week for like three or four weeks, we've covered, like, a different right-wing conspiracy theory,

and we've got another one this time, and it's like, it is ridiculous and all that, but this one is also, like, this one gets really upsetting. Yes. So everybody knows, like. this one's going to piss you off probably it starts out silly and everything but it's pretty fucking infuriating really so last week we talked about the moral panic about where kids had trolled a bunch of their parents and school administrators and they're identifying as furries at schools yeah that's just a little harmless fun that's just driving some old white people crazy nothing wrong with that this has the potential to get at least a couple people killed and to the point where um so So this has been building for four or five years where this national butterfly center in Mission, Texas, a butterfly preserve, the kind of place where that exists, it's a nonprofit to protect wildlife. And also it's a place for kids on field trips to go look at butterflies, right? Has become the center of a right-wing conspiracy theory complex that's had multiple people calling in death threats and trying to destroy them, including the federal government, the Border Patrol, and the National Guard.

and they've had to close because of it. Now, as a mood center, when I tell you this is just a sweet place run by sweet people, let's play a little video from the National Butterfly Center. I am Mariana Trevino, Wright. I'm the executive director of the National Butterfly Center. The Butterfly Center got started in 2003. It's the pilot project of the North American Butterfly Association, which is a national organization. And it chose the Lower Rio Grande Valley as the home for the one and only national butterfly center

because we have the greatest volume and variety of butterflies of anywhere in the United States. he entice the butterflies who could possibly have an issue with a lovely organization like that you know well the problem is that place that happens to be the best place to see butterflies in North America because there's four distinct

you know types of environments in a small area smaller than the size of San Diego County I think sits on the border now so Trump you might remember a few years ago, some asshole wanted to build a wall across the border for reasons that are nonsense and stupid. They said, no. So fast forward five years later to spiraling death cult and you get headlines like this from The Guardian. I'm afraid the Texas butterfly sanctuary

forced to close after far right death threats. So this is from, I'll read this from the NPR article because it's a good, like good summary. The National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, has announced its closing its doors for the immediate future after ongoing harassment directed employees and the center staff. The center, a non-profit nature reserve, nestled in the U.S.-Mexico border border, unwittingly became the subject of conservative conspiracy theories and political conflict in recent years, have been locked in a years-long legal battle with the Trump administration, and we build the wall regarding a planned border wall. We build the wall, you might remember, because we made fun of Aura, made fun of them a lot a few years ago,

was one of a few go-fundies started after Congress wouldn't give Trump enough money to build his stupid fucking sphinx like a monument to himself in the form of steel grate on the border um so one of them it was really funny because just as far as how dumb people are and this is just a general people don't understand how wealth works and how much money there is out there but one of the one of the go fund me's they were trying to raise a billion dollars and they got to five million dollars and a bunch of mago people celebrated being halfway there all right so that always really makes me laugh

that's the dumbest fucking thing so that is just so damn in a nutshell right there so a quick quick summary how we got here Trump wanted the border wall Congress wouldn't give enough money for the border wall this butterfly preserve that lady who saw Marianne Treveenier Wright would be talking about a few times today and you saw it in the butterfly video

She caught some contractors for the federal government on her land illegally without using any eminent domain or asking permission or paying for the land, clearing the land for the wall. She chased them off. The government was just taking somebody's land like that? Yeah. You think that wouldn't hit for conservatives, right? So the contractors came back with Border Patrol. It provided armed guards to defend them from the butterfly preserve, that lady. So in sign.

What happened next was Steve Bannon, a guy named Brian Colfage, who's an Army veteran amputee, started a go-fund me to build the wall. Here's a clip of Colfage talking about the project and you get a sense of his vibe. We raised this money was to be able to get the money to build the wall for the president. Hopefully we realized that wasn't going to happen as impossible to give the federal government. government any money from the go fund meeting and so we came up with a plan of how to how could we use that money for the intended purpose and there's that asshole I love that they're like they're they're they're they're like we need to find a way to get more money to the government right if there was some if there was some mechanism by which the government could take more of people's hard-earned money

and use it for governmental projects. But see, we just, we haven't figured that out in this country. So we're going to have to go our own way. But you know what I'm saying? Yeah, maybe we should tax rich people more. And they're like, get the fuck out of here, Connie. I want to read, I want to read an article from 20 years in the future where a bunch of Americans are, we're hearing stories about how people are getting too much health care. Meanwhile, the army is running a go fund me to buy a predator ground.

That's the future. I want to live in. So, but yeah, these guys won't pay taxes, but they'll volunteer. Right. money to vote for government. Yeah, it's fucking stupid. He got the whole, we don't need to show this video because we're running behind, but like you get the whole Fox News Hero treatment.

He was all over Fox News doing all the hits, Tucker, Ingram, whatever. And you can watch somebody did a montage of like every appearance. The boy, like, they helped him raise money because like he's raised $5 million in four days. Next day, he's already in today's $9 million. They ended up raising $25 million. And if you're familiar with anything that happens with these guys, do you want to guess what happened next. Steve Bannon and Brian Colfage got arrested for stealing a lot of the money. Yeah. Some boats. Some boats got bought, baby. That's what happened.

As the wrong, uh, what are they? Are they using these boats to, you know, patrol for Mexicans along the river or something like that? Like, it could have legitimate organizational uses for an organization. I build the wall. Yeah. Like buying a boat. So they actually threw up the wrong screen grab, but there I guess, yeah. They used, fed say wounded Air Force vets. We Build the Wall funds to buy luxury fishing boat named Warfighter. Now, I cannot think of a dumber name for a luxury fishing boat that has like heated seats and a DVD player in a full kitchen than Warfighter. It's the softest boat known to man. So, so this is what Trump,

this is the only time Trump, the Bannon never got in trouble. But what really hits for me about this is Trump pardoned Bannon, of course, everyone knows about that. This is what Bannon got pardoned for, but not Colfage. His ass is still a waiting trial. There you go with that. But what the moxie on these dudes, the balls on them, if you have this next screen grab map, throw it up. He didn't have the money to pay for his defense lawyers after they confiscated the We Build the Wall money. So he petitioned the judge to let him steal more money. This is still the wrong screen. Matt really wants us to know

about this National Guard member Craig. Yeah, we're going to talk on the National Guard. So he petitioned the judge to have to be able to use money from the we build the wall go fund me to pay for his defense lawyers against charges that he illegally used money from the we build the wall go fund me. I, that would have never occurred to me,

Trey. I would never fucking have thought of it. To put that in writing and ask a judge. Well, I mean, I feel like, you know, so he got all his money for people to build a wall and he was like but I can also buy a boat right and then he did and they were like no you can't buy a boat and now this is just him being like but I can also pay for lawyers right like he's just going down the list of things to use this money for you know and then and it's like no it's supposed to be wall money you know yeah just walls so so here's here's a

the butterfly lady Mary Antrovener right talking about her ordeal with uh with with the we build the wall people in order to boost their uh it in The question of the Sierra Club is how did we wield the wall and its followers respond to your litigate? Because they filed lawsuit against these people for harassing them and spreading lies about them. Because that's how they're a fundraising and saying, you've got to help us beat the, you've got to help us defeat this butterfly reserve. Well, they also, they filed a few lawsuits right, the butterfly people. They also, like, sued the government for not, they didn't, they didn't use eminent, they just, the federal government just broke a whole bunch of laws by just coming down there and just building a, goddamn wall through their nature preserve, like the Endangered Species Act and the Environmental

Protection Act and all this type of, you know, federal government, federal laws that they just ignored and broke to do this. So they sued them. They sued these people and everything. And they said, I don't know, at one point, one of those suits sat in a court in D.C. for like 14 months without literally anything at all. So just the border patrol are coming down. They can't get them to show up. It can't get authority to show up to do anything. When they do show up, They're like, yeah, we know how y'all are always causing trouble. Like, they're very much on their own down here. All right.

So, Matt, Matt, now we're on that subject. Matt, you could throw up out in your favorite screen grab right now. We'll talk about that. So this happened three weeks ago. Okay. Yeah. So this is from Border Report, which is, I think, a crazed right-wing website. I don't really know for sure.

So I don't take my word for that. But the exclusive video, National Guard member crashed his truck in the Gatorial of the National Butterfly Center. Now, talking about how this lands disputed. It's not really disputed. Legally, the Butterfly Center controls all this. land. But a bunch of federal agencies like the border patrol and the Texas National Guard who's down there doing a big, you know, K-Fabe defense against drug cartels to boost Greg Abbott's

political chances. They just like called a bunch of National Guard and sent them down to the border to get drunk and be sad. And so these guys at like five in the morning, not clear where they're on duty or they're drunk or they're mad where they did an accident on purpose. Because the way the stories framed from the National Guard's perspective, and the way the Border Patrol talks about it, sounds like they tried to ram the gate because they're mad that the butterfly preserve won't let

federal jackboots use their land to harass imaginary illegal immigrants coming across the river. So, by the way, this particular area of the river, like, this been a subject of like, this, right-wing media depicts this place is like a hot spot of a bunch of, like, trafficking and border

crossings. We show, I remember a couple, like, Six months ago, we showed a video of Ted Cruz radding around in the boat saying they could hear Mexican drug cartel members making fun of him from the other side of the border. And we laughed really hard at that. You heard that? That was the butter, that was the butterfly reserve. Politicians keep going to the butterfly reserve to do this fucking shit. So anyway, so that's the context in which they've been suing the federal government

and Colfage. They didn't actually name Steve Bannon a lawsuit because her bosses were scared to game that high. So they ask how to weed the wall and its followers respond to your litigation. She says, In order to boost their fundraising, they needed a straw man, they chose to make the National Butterfly Center

and the North American Butterfly Association and me personally, their pinata. They disparaged our organization, disrupted our operations. They declared that we were a cartel front. They were involved in human trafficking, that I was selling women children into sex slavery, that they saw dead bodies in the property

swarmed by butterfly, and that they had put snipers in the bushes around the, we build the wall says they had to put snipers in the bushes around their border wall workers to protect them from this butterfly lady. Yeah, she's, like,

she's weaponized butterflies. These butterflies are, because she's trained them to come out en masse and lift up white American children and fly them over the border into Mexico. It's the most horrific thing you've ever heard. And it's like, this propaganda against the

butterfly lady. And like, they just eat, they hear that and they're like, I bet she is taking babies with butterflies and giving them to Mexico. She's probably moving cocaine through them butterfly fields down there. Like, and they're just like, yeah, that totally makes sense to me that the butterfly lady is a front for Mexican drug, sex, child trafficking, cartel, vampire behavior. Yeah. I totally believe that. Here's a check for however much money. money you want to take care of the butterfly menace.

And if you're wondering if Steve Bannon's disinformation combined with the federal government fuckery combined with a bunch of private militias sending death threats and shit was part of any sort of orchestrated plan, there was reporting, I think, for the Washington Post, where they quoted Steve Miller, White House advisor in May of 2019. I'm sorry, Jared Kushner said this. Jared Kushner, the president's southern law, told an oval office full of GOP senator is, quote, we solved the butterfly thing. Like Obama was Osama bin Laden, you know?

It's like, yeah, yeah. We got, gentlemen, we got her. And they also got her clapping and shit. The butterfly, like, we've taken out the butterfly lady. You see that famous clip from the newsroom where the guy announces that they kill bin Laden on the plane? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's like that. But we've sufficiently harassed the butterfly lady and just almost surrendered.

So that was Jared Kushner who was talking about it. All right. So amid all this, Shvinia Wright is getting delusioned death threats from anti-immigration types and literal fucking Nazis, literal Nazis. The center still isn't shut down because she's a bad ass and you can go read and listen to interviews with her. And she has a great sense of humor about all this. She makes it even more frustrating as she keeps going to work. She seems awesome.

Like in the interview and stuff, she like take you out on her boat down the Rio Grande, drinking beers and talking shit about this. Yeah. She's pretty rad. Pretty radicality. So that's all from like 2016 to 2021. So you're probably thinking this probably couldn't get any worse, right? Well, it's America baby.

So absolutely, yes, it can get worse. The Q people got involved. Fast forward to earlier this month, this headline, MAGA candidate caught on tape, menacing butterfly sanctuary. This is a, this particular story is about a, a, a, Congress. candidate, congressional candidate from Virginia, my home state. The district she's running in, she's primarily considering a citizen congressman. She's been out-fund-fund-raised tenfold.

And she's a lunatic. She's definitely going to lose. But the district she's trying to represent is the dick-tick of Virginia down between Kentucky and Tennessee. What happened was she's trying to make herself the candidate who's strung on board her stuff. And she's also cue adjacent. So she tried to go into the Butterfly Reserve a couple weeks ago. And she was live streaming it, which is how she took.

it down because she ended up committing a crime. So she trespassed her and her friend refused to pay the entrance fee. They wouldn't even pay the fucking $10 to go look. They could have been, they could have filmed all they won the butterfly, but they didn't want to pay. She said, she tried to big dick and said, I'm running for Congress. Now I want to inspect

the butterfly preserve. And my friend here, they said no, he's like, well, my friend here is secret service and this person who wasn't secret service. Just some Tammy. Just some, just her friend from the beauty shop. Tammy, who's also crazy. He was like, I'm in Secret Service. Stop resisting. Everyone who declares for Congress

gets Secret Service protections that do you believeable cover story, which is just fucking adorable. So she tries to get in the Butterfly Reserve. Trevina Wright says, nah, you're live streaming. I googled who you are real quick. I can see her mega lunatic. I know what you're here for.

Just leave, right? She kicks her out. As she's escorting her out and giving this dumb bitch a piece of her mind, her and the Secret Service Lady turn around an assault or they slapped her phone out of her hand because she's recording them back and push her to the ground. And it's like even though you can't really

see what's happening in the live stream, you can hear the Secret Service lady, fake secret service lady say, stay down bitch, which is pretty clear that you pushed them down. Which is why she deleted the live stream video and she's being investigated. She says she got off that charges. She told her Virginia

paper that, but I don't know. She's kind of person to make up shit. So, um, This weren't, oh, God, she, she demanded, what low day was demanded to see the center give her access to the river to, quote, see all the illegals crossing on the raft. They're really fascinated with these rafts. And to add all this, like, so this butterfly center is this nonprofit, half a family

operation. Her son was working the front desk that day because everybody was out sick with COVID, like everybody that the rest of the world has been. So he had to deal with this, too. They threatened his life. It's not the first time his life's been threatened over this, which we get to that. second um they called the cops and by the way if you might have read about the big there's a there was a big maga rally on the border this past weekend and that's part of what escalated they they shut

they shut down temporarily for the first time a weekend before last because of this rally because the threats escalated this happened right before that low was in town for the rally uh she got booted from the rally because this embarrassed them so that's really funny she drove all the way to virginia to texas with her kids to do this and then leave uh so right calls the the cops to report this assault and talk about all the death threats she's getting. The chief, cops typically don't really understand or grasp internet

threats or don't think the realist and get stupid jerk off bullshit, whatever. But there's an actual assault here, but she told them that she was in danger because of the Maga Rally and Michael Flynn was going to be speaking there. And the cop, the police chief himself was there, said, the decorated war hero? And then left without doing anything.

He had to run down there and catch Michael Flynn set, you know? He didn't have time to, didn't have time to go. you know, protect and or serve. He had Michael Flynn was going to be in town. He was excited. Yeah. By the way, this event, the website said, quote,

illegals are beholden to their Marxist overlords, end quote. And among its figures, weren't just Flynn. It was also a fucking course, Ted Nugent. So we got some real intelligentsia at this thing. By the way, attendees the rally did go to the butterfly center while it was closed. They post a middle-long, some organizers from Real America's voice, to one of those white ring news places, post a mid-a-long clip on Twitter. repeating more claims about false sex trafficking.

So again, glad they closed. Okay, so it's not, we already talked about the National Guard ramming the gate. So it's not really getting any better, which is why they're probably going to stay closed for a while. And to sum all this up, two things. This quote and the title of the guy who said it really sort of highlight the absurdity of all this. Absolutely. Quote, it's incredibly distressing that the United States has come to the point where a really significant part of the public is just no longer tethered to reality, quote, said Jeffrey

Glassberg, the founder of the North American Butterfly Association. I know, dude. What the fuck is this timeline, man? Finally, some leadership from the national... Yes, from the person of butterflies. Yeah. By the way, shout out to Wright. Like I said, she does have a good sense of humor about this, but a thing that really found really creepy is, like, she was talking about what it's done to her life. She said it's definitely taking years off her life because the stress and the medical. problems that's giving her. But she can't, won't go to the doctor and she won't go to the doctor because, especially for therapy or whatever, because Steve Bannon somehow got a hold of her tax records. She doesn't know how. Maybe the Trump administration gave him to him to him. But she's afraid that she'll be able to get access to any of her records. He doesn't want to have that in a battle against her in court. And her son, I told you he got death threats. A kid in the school parking lot pulled a gun and pointed at his head, said it's going to blow his head off for what his mother was doing to the country.

That is so fucking crazy. they like the specifics of the trafficking is like like they think they literally think that they're shrinking kids down the size of the butterflies and the butterflies are carrying them across the board that's that's the crazier part of the cute people this is all just so fucking nuts kids just want to look at butterflies man leave malone shit this is probably the mads the god damn all the damn butterflies are going to be dead in a few years anyway because what we're doing to the fucking earth while we got some left let people look at them Jesus by the way this is cancel culture this is an internet mob who's ruined a person's life in livelihood over fucking nothing. Absolutely. Not even worse than nothing. They're making it out to be a villain for a good thing she's doing.

Right. Yep. Yes. The right has canceled butterflies for everyone in this. And this poor woman's life. Yeah, it's super fucked up. Again, it's so ridiculous. You can't have a laugh at parts of it, but it's actually, you know, really fucked up

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So the 14th Amendment says you can't be in Congress if you're met in an insurrection against the federal government. Sure. Seems like a good role. So that was, that was the, during Trump's second impeachment trial. people try to say you don't need to if there was a compromise position was just let's just invoke the 14th

and say he can't run again and not impeach it. Yeah, right. Yeah, I remember that, yeah. So apparently North Carolina has convinced enough election officials that this is plausible to be invoked against Madison Cothorn

using state election rules. So the Supreme Court has ruled the case can go forward, I think. And so he's in like, I imagine the federal courts will overturn it because they're all run by maga lunatics. But in the meantime, he's at risk in the short term.

but being taken off the ballot or probably have to go to court to get put back on. Anything that makes these fucks. I want Madison Cothorn to have to get a real job. Me too. Yeah.

I mean, hell, he'll just go around to Nazi rallies and do, you know. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Nothing hits. Nothing hits. No, no. You're riding a big Nazi book.

Get on the Nazi circuit and, you know, do just fine. Yeah, I was canceled. But I hear you. The funny thing is his defense is like, I guess after the Civil War, Congress passed a blanket a blanket immunity or pardon from the 14th for confederates so we could keep being a country

because otherwise you couldn't hang everybody. So he's trying to say that that includes him, but that was just for the Civil War. I'm also a Confederate, everybody just keep that in mind. I'm also a 250 years old. I'm also a Confederate. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know what, let's say here.

Jasmine Parker from YouTube says Do Republicans think that butterflies are just queer moths being over the top about everything? That's very funny. Yeah, that's good. It's funny thing we said tonight.

Oh, God. I just like Liberace moths. That's what they are. David. David, Wind Cups says, what would Jesus think of his loyal right-wing fans? Yeah, you know, he was, he's just big all hippie. Yeah, I mean, he was an ethnic minority who was put to death by the state for protesting

political, you know, corruption and state violence. So it's fair to say. It's fair to say the GOP would have. But like every time you frame the Bible that way, you're selling some crazy communist, but like it's literally just the story of what happened. Shela Lapey, I think. Sorry, Shaila, if I'm totally butchering that, it says Americans do have the ability to make Canadian crazy look a little less crazy.

And yeah, I think we, you know, I think we do that with, with everybody, you know. Yeah. I just like that was like the sort of mayonnaise type of crazy, do you know what I mean? I know plenty of other countries goes to pretty crazy shit, too. But when it comes to like, like truck stop crazy, you know, a fat white crazy we're number one baby nobody else can even touch that we're very one particular brand of dipshit like i said we grow them here better than anywhere well we're very powerful and rich and rich lunatics are more dangerous than poor lunatics right um erin mccullough back again

on facebook says super bowl predictions uh so ever since joe burrow dedicated his husband trophy to trailer trash everywhere that's not exactly what he said but it's pretty close to what he said he made a fan for life out of me uh personally and also the bengals are you know perpetually downtrodden the you know classic underdog so that would be cool but matt stafford also was kind of that he played for the fucking lions for like 12 years so i mean i can't you know i ain't going to be mad at stafford winning one either and i live in los angeles i'm not a rams fan but you know i'm cool with the rams so i'm good with it either way. Gun to my head, you're asking me to pick who's going to win. I think I would

pick. No, I'm going to pick the Bengals. I was going to say the Rams, but the Bengals has been picked against every week except the first one when they beat the Raiders. Like, people just keep picking against the Bengals and they keep winning. So I'm not going to pick against them and now they'll lose. That's what'll happen. I'm sure give merch that says Matt Graphic, please. Jeremy Parks. Can we please get merch that says Matt, graphic, please? I've got it on there three or four times, you know. Matt.

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I wish you guys could see his general demeanor because Ayr Tom Fruly does not hit for him. So, uh, Super Bowl, I think the Rams probably win. They're definitely, they're definitely favorite.

I'm looking at odds. I, but Joe Burrow just really, I mean, if you don't know anything about Joe Borough, he tried to advocate college athletes to get paid to the point of walking up the edges or you know demanding unionization he wears black lies matter shit and when he wins he smokes a cigar in a locker room and dances the new Orleans bounce music so I can't you can't everything about this kid fucking hits for me so I'm gonna just run to win yeah no I mean I agree with you I mean like yeah the Rams will definitely be favored but you know like said the Bengals I just I don't know. Just one of them teams this year, it seems like. Well, anyway, yeah, you know what?

Oh, yeah, Lara S from YouTube says the ride is up in arms about the halftime show, too. All those rappers. Yeah, those rappers out there. Then we talked about last week they're saying because it was anti-American because his Dr. Dre was in a group that said fuck the police. Oh, right. Yeah. All Americans are cops, baby.

All of us do you support the cops? That's all America's about. yeah uh anyway i sure am looking forward to it all right yeah next time we see y'all we'll uh we'll know what happened won't we hell it's this sunday sure damn sure is okay well enjoy the superball everybody go to well read comedy dot com for tickets for live shows for your boy here and uh yeah go weekly skews dot com slash feedback fill out producer matt survey it would sure would be sweet of you and uh like share subscribe five star review all that good stuff and uh we love you and we'll see you next time right here So you love you, bye.