Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 3/12/24 – Full of Britt

Episode Date: March 13, 2024

Skewers tonight we talk about the designs of a brand spankin’ new group of far right Christian lunatic men, the many lies of former special counsel Robert Hur, the potential impact of RFK Jr, and finally perhaps the most unhinged State of the Union response in living memory, from Alabama Senator Katie Britt. Join us. Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it's march 12th 24 i'm tray that's mark how you doing there mark good man got a fun show we're going to talk about the state of the union the vibes based response to it and uh katie britt telling one of the wildest lies in american public discord i it's like it takes it's uh one of those lies it takes a while to unpack that's what we're going to do to talk about how full the shit she is and upside down. But a couple of things before we get to the show. Kate Middleton is either dad or AWOL,

so the British Royal Family is not taking applications to be the Princess of Windsor, if anybody wants to throw their hand the ring and do like a reverse lady King Ralph situation. Yes, and just so you all know, we're not going to go any further into that because this is a serious program. We talk about like stuff that actually matters in the world

and not the British Royals, but if you want to watch a stupid program and we talk about all kinds of shit that don't matter in the world, me and Corey are going to be talking about this on putting on airs this week. Look at Matt. He got the thing up there. He knew I was going to plug it. But yeah, I told Corey earlier, I was like, I need you to explain this Kate Middleton shit to me because Corey is like, he's one of them. It's like he rags on America's fascination with the Royal Family, but also he does kind of keep up with it all. Like, and so I told him, I was like, I know you know what's going on here. And I want to talk about it. So we're going to be doing that. But that's for a whole other thing. So Americans who are fascinated with the British Royal Family, what incredibly cooked behavior. Like, we fought a war, so you didn't have to do that. Anyway, whatever. No, I'm, like, I've, I mean, and at a certain point, it becomes like, I don't know if my rationalization really played.

But I'm, I am fascinated with the American fascination with the royal family. Do you know what I mean? Because of what you just said. I agree completely. But I find that a lot of time that ends up with you still kind of knowing what's going on with it or whatever. So it's like, you kind of end up in the sight, it's like a horseshoe effect or something, even though I'm, dude, fuck them. I ain't about no king, but it's a perfect

putting on air's discourse because it fits in the Venn diagram between trash shit and rich people's shit, because if you're trash, if you're trash, somebody's baby mama just disappears for a couple months. She's like, oh, she probably went to Atlantic City or Myrtle Beach or something. Yeah, right. So another thing,

Boeing whistleblower killed himself and everyone's being very sane about it, of course. And if anyone cares, he'd already done a ton of his whistleblowing of the last five years. And yeah, we've all seen Michael Clayton, but the important distinction here is they killed Arthur before he blew the whistle. So the only thing boy would get out, he was in the middle of a defamation suit of

them, like, you know, ruining his job prospects over being a whistleblower. So that, like, the only thing they would have saved was defamation money. If anybody cares, as far as I know. Well, I just want to, like, I just feel like, because obviously I believe you, I defer to you on this type of thing, but that you, I feel like some people could make the argument. It's like, like in Russia, if you cross Putin, even if you publicly cross him, and you get across what you meant to say, then you get defenestrated, it still is because you did that.

Do you know what I'm saying? I'm not saying this dude got abstain. I'm just saying there's a punitive nature of that theory that I feel like you're kind of discounting a little bit when you say like, oh, he already did everything he could do, you know, could be teaching a lesson type of thing. So Corey brought this up last night. And like it's sort of weird. It's like if you believe this conspiracy theory, you're deeply paranoid, but you're

also sort of believe that justice exists because they kill them to get away with it. They are getting away with it. Look at the fucking newspaper. They don't have to do it. It's like, okay. There's a bunch of people are calling up their congressmen and threatened to commit suicide.

If they ban TikTok, which they're not banning TikTok. We're going to get into all that on this week's Patreon episode, I think, unless something supersedes it. But I wanted to read you this quote here from a serious opinion piece in Canada's National Conservative Newspers, paper, this take is all over the right wing. Quote, are Sydney Sweeney's breasts, double D. Harbingers of the death of woke? This is because all these think pieces have been floated around the last two weeks a week and a half since she hosted SNL.

And I just want, I'll read that quote to you again, and I want you to guess how in the world Sidney Sweeney's cleavage could possibly be a savior for Western civilization. Are Sidney's Sweeney's breasts, double D harbingers of the death of woke? me how it connects. Okay. So first of all, I want to start out by saying, I feel like the right wing, they're the Christian side, the Christian conservative side. They're the ones that want like a handmaid's tail universe. You know what I mean? They're the ones that want women to be covered up from head to toe if you're showing, like, you know, like jihadist style rules. If you're showing an ankle, that's, you know, unlimited hoary right there. But so that, having said that, I assume their argument is because it's like,

oh we can't make bear commercials with twins with big tetties in them anymore is that what it is like i know how yeah y'all don't you all like it us treating women like pieces of meat and objectifying them on a grand scale but now that this woman who has titties is in public checkmate motherfuckers like that's that's my guess that's sort of it but that's that's sort of like the that's sort of like the true the white trash version of it in the uh in the in the in the mind space of like the bow-tie fascists, the kind of people who like have deeply weird conservative beliefs, but also like have PhDs and use words like epistemology and quote St. Thomas Aquinas. All right. So you got, so basically it's this. It's the kind of people who get mad when they see plus size models and people of color on the cover of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and think it's a cause of Western civilization. So they literally think wokeness has canceled being a hot blonde with big boobs. right well that's it's not they never went nowhere high blinds and big boobs don't call it a comeback

baby they never went away like they've been here the whole time the only thing the left ever tried to argue as far as that goes i feel like was like maybe some other types of people also and they were like nope absolutely not just that but blondes with big tennies have they've been doing just fine all throughout the woke mind virus spreading across america and all that they've still been doing just fine. So I don't really see how it changes too overly much. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you combine repression with also being deeply horny and thinking that people aren't making you horny enough. And then you use big words to write about it. Anyway, so Cindy Sweeney didn't do anything to ask for any of this, by the way. So. Of course not. She just looks how she looks. Yeah.

Not her. All right. Let's talk about secret societies, bud. We got a new one just dropped. Talking Points Memo got a hold of some internal documents in the Guardian also from a new secret society of Christian nationalists that call themselves a society for American civic renewal, which they pronounce sacchar among themselves. They're preparing for a new regime to be established after a national divorce. Membership requirements, you have to be male, a Trinitarian Christian, which I didn't even look up what that means, heterosexual, an unhyphenated American, and can answer questions about Trump, the Republican Party, and Christian nationalism in the right way. Their goal is to secure a future for Christian families. These are heads of

various right-wing think tanks and rich people. Also, one of the requirements is also you have to be rich. Right. And that does seem important. But yeah, an unhyphenated American, I mean, does that just mean pure white or do they mean a different type of thing? Like I think it means pure white. Right. So pure white, rich, Christian, straight, conservative. So the same people that have been running the right one in the government for forever now. We're back to you. Can't even be Irish American. So the Irish are back out, baby. So they're recruiting a brotherhood who will, quote, form the backbone of a new American

regime and, quote, understand the nature of authority and its legitimate, forceful exercise whose objectives are to collect, curate, and document a list of potential appointees and hires for renewed American regime. God, I hate the word regime. One of the guys is the leadership in leadership of it, he's from the, the Claremont Institute's last time. His name's Haywood. He went a podcast with a former Trump official.

A guy wrote a very famous essay called the Flight, about the Flight 93 election, which basically we got to, to keep the, it's worth taking the country down in flames, like Flight 93 went down in order to keep Hillary Clinton from being president. The guy's name is Michael, Michael Lenthal. Okay.

They talked for a couple hours about the need for Caesarism, the idea of the need for New American Caesar. And they decided, they decided to start this organization. after a unspecified secret event, which I don't know what that is. I'm assuming Biden rigging the election or something. They probably don't know either.

I feel like that's part of their plan is this starts after an unspecified secret event that they've got. Yeah, they've got cooking up. Yeah, I'm not all that worried about it. But also it's like, so Caesarism, they want a new American Caesar. It's wild to, you know, to be, to want to be the next Caesar, to want a new Caesar considering, like, what happened to Caesar pretty shortly after that whole thing went down. And I know, and maybe it's like Trump is a worthy sacrifice for something because, like, Caesar, we all know Caesar got assassinated, but they did still continue to be a dictatorship after that, like an empire. It was a republic, and then they continued to be an empire after Caesar took over.

But then he got killed, but I'm just saying it's wild to look at that period. of Roman history and be like, you know, this is the part of it that we need to implement here. Yeah, but the defying feature of modern American conservative conservatism, you never think about what comes next, right? Right. It's like, it's like we just, you just overthrow the republic because, you know, you can't pass anti-prone laws or whatever through the Senate. Right.

The head of the Dallas chapter of Sacker is a guy named Nate Fisher. He talks about being at war with the U.S. government, but he's also the owner of an ammunition company, which of course he is, but he contracts the federal government. It's like, buddy, you are the government. You're trying to overthrow yourself. What my takeaway is we're just doing the 1920s again, buddy. We got secret societies. We got a new gilded age. We got like a ton of the population can't read for shit. Planes are falling out of the sky. Corporations barely pay any taxes. All we need to do is bring prohibition back so I can like fire up my great grandfather still and make some real money again.

Let's get it going. Yeah. It's wild. You know, yeah, I mean, they say things were cyclical, but I don't know if this is what we all meant. But also, it's fun. They also, like, they actively want that. They want to return to that time period or whatever. And I'm like, yeah, I don't know because I think you could still die from everything back then. You know what I mean? Like, it was just on the frontier of American medicine and whatnot.

But, I mean, these people, I mean, they hate current American medicine. They hate science and all that stuff. So I guess it's fine. But it's easy to think that until you get polio prior to the vaccine being available or post the vaccine being outlawed. You know what I mean? Then all of a sudden, I feel like people change their tune. I mean, if anybody from Sackers watching, I'm open to me invited to a meeting and see what it's all about. I want to wear like a red masquerade ball mask and like watching orgy and talk about plotting a coup.

Let's do it. yeah all right well let's get into it so producer matt is with us doing his thing as always this is weekly skews before we continue i want to remind you of course of a few things first of all if you want to see me do stand-up comedy live in the flesh and you should it's a good time go to traycrouter dot com check out all my upcoming dates we just added a bunch of dates to the website and we're still adding more every week so check that out yeah i've got a little bit of time off here but my next shows are in vancouver and then seattle washington So come see me there.

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later about perhaps the most unhinged response to a state of the union address in living memory from Alabama Senator Katie Britt. It was wild and almost something approaching human-like, but not quite. And we'll get to that a little later. We've got a lot of things to talk about first, beginning, of course, with The Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Today's D-D.

Anyone who thinks you shouldn't believe a logger over your own lying eyes. This is former special counsel Robert Herr, who's been in front of Congress this week. Go ahead. And I want to give you a chance, since the transcript is out, to correct the record on an important point. Very sadly, your report on page 208 says that Mr. Biden couldn't come up with the date the year of his son, Bo Biden's death. When, in fact, in the transcript, it shows that you asked him the month. And do you know what he said, Mr. Hur? he said, oh God, May 30th.

Would you like to correct the record? His memory was pretty firm on the month and the day. Congresswoman, I don't believe that's correct with respect to the transcript, but if you could refer me to a specific page, I'd be happy to look. And my second document, to clarify for you, Sir, Mr. Hur, from the transcription, page 82. The words are President Biden's. What month did Beau die? Oh, God.

30th, a searing memory, I ask you now. So that was a central anecdote from a couple weeks ago and all the stories about how Joe Biden's like fully senile from this report. To recap, Robert Hurd put out a 350-some page report about how Joe Biden was innocent of stealing documents and then also threw in his top line summary, this stuff about how like he suffered memory problems. And then she's read, the transcript comes out, shows that he does remember it. and the guy's like, I don't remember him remembering that.

We see what he... Yeah. Yeah. Anytime they, like, anytime they, like, I can't believe that the star witness in some other Joe Biden ain't fit or is criminal, you know, trial that they're trying to put on in Congress has turned out to be full of shit. Like, who would have thought? It's like, this just keeps happening.

And what frustrates the shit out of me about this is like just knowing that it won't have any impact on how they feel, treat, or think about Joe Biden as it pertains to this going forward. Do you know what I mean? It feels like none of it had like they're still going to keep thinking the exact same things they've always thought. Like same thing with the with the Russian agent and stuff and Biden being, you know, compromised. It's like that got not only disproven, but that guy got publicly shamed and, you know, out at it. as being an actual Russian agent. But they still think that it's the Biden crime family. And it's the same thing here, I'm assuming.

Despite the fact, we're going to talk about the state of the union more later, but like in the wake of his state of the union address, which didn't seem very senile to me, but also this guy getting like outed as a fraud on this stage for declaring him senile, it just won't, I don't think any of that will matter or get through. I mean, maybe to some people, maybe enough to. account for something. Well, it's more, like, to me, it's more of, like, a, like, a media process story or something

where, like, you used to be able to kind of be, like, a fairly informed citizen just by reading headlines and a couple, the first few articles of paragraph, you know, paragraphs in an article. Like, the headlines coming out of this where, like, um, hearing adds new context to claims about Joe Biden's mental confidence or something like that. Right. That's context. It's like, yes. So if you just read the headline, you think, oh, there's more evidence of it, but it's not,

you know, it's actually obvious. And that's not hyperbole, right? Like, that really did used to be true, what you just said. Like, before, I don't know, the rise of, like, Rush Limbaugh-style AM radio and then Roger Ailes and Fox and everything that came out of that, before that all happening in, like, the mid to late 90s, you, people on both sides, if they saw a headline from, you know, an ostensibly reputable news source or saw, you know, saw a Chiron on, on news coverage or whatever. On either side, you didn't really question the veracity of it, right? You were like, oh, that must be, at least in part, accurate. I mean, people used to burn newspapers in the Civil War South. And, like, there was like, I mean, it's like, it's not always, but I'm just saying, like, you used to be able to, like, you trust that if you're a sane person reading a sane newspaper, you could trust that, like, the headline wasn't a mirror version of reality.

Like, so just. Yeah, well, I mean, I guess there was, you know, I mean, fucking William Randolph Hearst and the rise of yellow journalism, which was a hundred. which was a hundred years before that. So I guess the roots go deeper, but still, you know, there was... Yeah, the paranoid comic or whatever. Yeah, you got the John Burke Society. It's like, people have always been a little bit nuts.

But like, when you talk about add context to this, I want to read this exchange to you. His question, you said to President Biden, you appear to have a photographic understanding and recall. Did you say that? Her, those words do appear in the transcript. Question, but they never appeared in your report. Her, it does not appear in my report.

So, like, it's like, The context it adds is this guy's report was full, it was absolutely full of shit, right? Left out, yeah, a lot of pertinent information and whatnot. So, Matt, throw this image up here, this screen grab of a Wall Street Journal headline. So the Wall Street Journal ran 17 stories about Biden's mental fitness in the four days following the her report. After reviewing the transcript, the paper concludes it shows Biden, quote, veering into frequent digressions, but not stumped on basic factual questions.

So it veers off into side topics, which we just did on the show. show for five minutes for me bro i'll be the last person to ever go after somebody for veering off into random digressions or whatever because i'm uh i definitely have a pension for that myself and also you know if he's doing good on the factual questions part then that means he's doing better than me too i struggle with those sometimes i mean you should help maybe we're seeing no that's fine uh so i the part of the thing about this that bugs me is like her as a republican which is fine as far as it goes. And every special counsel whether they're investigating a Democrat or Republican is always

going to be a Republican. I don't know where we got that rule from, but it's always that way. And every special council has investigated a Democrat for my entire life has always been a horseshit rat fucking operation. Right. It's like the Lewinsky affair news

of like Whitewater, which was a bullshit land deal that the Clinton's lost money on. It lasted like five years and it was like what the fuck here. Anyway, so her, who he is a former clerk to right-wing judges and he was appointed by the Trump administration, all right? So all that contracts I gave you, you just do not have to take him in face value, but everyone just keeps taking all these people at face value. Like the report comes right. No one's like, well,

what's the context of this guy's motives? Well, I mean, it's kind of like you said a minute. It's like we should all know at this point to question these types of sources, whatever thing, but it's like a lot of people are still operating under, you know, the presumption that things are the way they used to be. Like you were saying, again, I don't know if they even were the way they used to be, but they weren't as bad as they were now. But it's like, I don't know. It's like, oh, this dude has this fancy job. He's sitting in front of Congress saying this stuff.

We can trust this guy. We can trust what he's saying, but that's, we should all know better than that by now, I think. You should question, like you said, people's motives and their background and what they're trying to do and all that. But like, but a lot of the Washington press score, it's not all of them, but they seem to think their job is just right down on people saying, that's the end of it. And we're going to talk about it with Katie Britt, too, because the story that took down her, One of their main anecdotes in her speech did not come from a mainstream publication. No one bothered. It was just the vibes of the performance and what people said about her performance.

None of it engaged with the content of any of it. It's like, it's very crazy. So it's like, this guy says this. I don't know. And everybody moves on. It's fucking crazy. If you want to further doubt his motives or whatever, he resigned like yesterday, so he would not be constrained by DOJ oversight or ethical guidelines.

So, but like, it's like over and over again, we were all born yesterday. But the thing about this, too, is like, because the bulk of the report exonerated Biden for not doing anything illegal, Republicans were mad at him, too. Here's a video. This is Representative Scott's Fitzgerald and a Republican from Wisconsin, if you have this video, Matt. The gentleman yields back, gentlemen from Wisconsin's recognized. Attorney Herr Webster's Dictionary defines senile as exhibiting a decline of cognitive ability such as memory associated with. old age. Mr. Hurd, based on your report, did you find that the president was senile? I did not. That conclusion does not appear in my report, Congressman.

All right. So, so Ken Buck, Republican from Colorado, who used to be a lunatic, but the lunatic's moved so far away from him, like he can't even stand anymore. He just announced he's retiring from Congress. So here's what Buck said after the exchange. What I've observed in this hearing is that one side of things you're trying to get Trump elected and the other side of things you're trying to get President Biden elected. Welcome to Congress. Now, this is in front of the House Judiciary Committee. It's important to remember the context here is this is part of their impeachment effort, right?

We're so far away for what the thing is supposed to be about that it's like what are we even, what was the point of this anymore? And Ken Buck pointed this when he's asked about his resignation or he's not running for reelection, he said, we take an impeachment and we made it. a social media issue as opposed to a constitutional concept. This place gets going downhill and I don't need to spend any more time here. So, yeah. Tell me the lie, buddy.

I mean, it's like you said, it's like that guy, you know, by 20 years ago standards would be, you know, near the lunatic into the spectrum. But now, you know, this guy's speaking. Even he, like you said, even he is like, I can't, I can't handle this shit anymore. Oh, DeCorness herself says is Mark's audio glitching, Mark, I don't know what you could do about that. I have noticed it, but I thought it was my headphones because I've had problems with these headphones recently. So I thought it was just me, but if it isn't just me, if you guys can hear that too, I don't know, you know, make sure your plugs are plugged in appropriately or whatever. I don't know what to tell you.

But I have been hearing it. I thought it was just, I thought it was these, though. I didn't think it was you, but I guess Yeah. People otherwise can hear it too. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, if I set up, it's all normal, I don't know what I've been doing about it.

Somebody was like, I couldn't think in the comments real quick and somebody said there's an echo, but it's the normal. Yeah, I don't know. You may leave and come back? All right. I don't know.

I mean, sorry for all this, y'all would do this show live. Matt, what, uh, Matt said, Mark, refresh your browser while Trey plugs the two or whatever. So, yeah, Matt noticed this earlier. So, yes, refresh it, come back, and I'll just run my mouth for a second. So anyway, yeah, it's weird.

This guy, it is kind of like what, you know, we say on the, oh, you can't, you're both pointing out this guy is full of shit, but also saying, well, even he said that Biden is not senile. But I don't think that that is inconsistent, frankly. I think it's more like a guy who has a narrative he's trying to plug. still isn't willing to go so far as to say that he's actually senile, you know, so I think that's how we should look at it. Mark, you're back now? Mark's back. Hey. Hello, 10-4, copy it, buddy. I must have echoed. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I hear you okay now. It wasn't a heck echo for me. You were like, it was like a, like, you know, like a drive-through window type

of thing. But for now you sound all right. So anyway, let's move in our honorable mentions for Daily Dumbass. The first one is people who think it's weird to hang out with Jeffrey. Jeffrey Epstein, when in reality, he fit right in. This is RFK Jr., giving a wild quote. Matt, you got this. Yeah. So, and I, you run into everybody in New York. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein.

I knew Roger Hales. I knew O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house. Yeah. So, and I, you run in. My God. So I don't mean nothing I'm going out with Jeffrey Epstein. Me and Kevin Spacey shared a pool boy.

I gave you Jordan Vanderslee. my travel miles what the fuck i'm yeah i actually used to be babysat by paul pot funnily enough paup was uh was my was my nanny as a chit as a kid yeah it's yeah we used to get polpot henry kessinger and the captain of the exon valdez together to play cards so he's parties with kiffel specter this is like also fucking it's like like it's like the idea he's saying my uncle and my was president my dad was the attorney general of course we were surrounded by war criminals and parties you're so close to getting it buddy I know that's what I was about to say.

I was like, the thing is, it's kind of like a gistamigo. It's like, show me the lie. You know what I mean? It's like it does totally track, like for that exact reason. But it's also like that plays right into, you know, what the most insane conspiracy theorists think about the way, you know, the elites work and all this stuff or whatever else. And there's like some truth to it, but they'll take it and run a mile with it. But also while defending this guy, I assume, largely across the board, you know.

So there's just no real logical consistency with any of it. But yeah, it's like George Carlin said, it's a big club, or it's a small club, but you ain't in it type of thing. Well, he's in it, you know. There's a report out this week. This, like, this woman who was like when she was a teenager was a, like a, was a groomed by Jeffrey Epstein, was one of his victims. And then when she was 20 years old, she's in the tabloid dating Donald Trump.

And these people are the conspiracy, their supporters of the conspiracy theorists, the conspiracy theorists are supporting RFK? It's like, how is, how are the two things exist in your head? the same time. I don't, I don't fucking know. Um, so there's a new polling out about third, the third parties and it's a little bit, this is going to be one of the weirdest elections, uh, at least since 92 or 96. I mean, it's going to be weird, the weirdest anyway, because Trump's in it. But, um, so he's a, uh, RFK Jr's polling well enough to get into the televised debates if there were going to be televised debates, but neither Trump nor Biden

seem to want them. So they're probably won't be. We're able to have them and it'll just be RFK showing up. Um, so he's pulling like 15% in a national average of a three way race as a of March 11th. Together, Kennedy, West, Cornel West, Jill Stein, and the other also Rams are growing an average of 17% polling averages, which means that, like, Biden or Trump could win with 45% of the vote. And if Kennedy improves the standing at all, or if no labels fines a candidate because they can't file one, even though they have ballot spots in a bunch of states, somebody

could win this election with less than 40%. Right. And to try to get there to make sure that, you know, know, America doesn't have a majority elected president. RFK Jr. is looking for his running mate. He needs one soon to get on ballots in a lot of states. And he's looking at none other than Aaron Rogers and Jesse Ventura. Okay.

This is real. I'm just saying, this ain't a bid or nothing. This is real. Those are his two front runners. This is New York Times. Yeah. This is coming from RFK.

Like, this is a source of his campaign. Aaron Rogers didn't, Aaron Rogers, like, representatives did not respond to quite request from comment. but uh so he's this to me read here r fk juniors uh recently approached the NFL quarterback Aaron Rogers and a four Minnesota governor and wrestler Jesse Ventura by serving as running made an eventual presidential ticket welcome the overtures to people familiar with the discussion said um so dude Rogers is committed to starting for the New York Jets and the football season starts that's what that's about that's about to say it's like I know I know a lot of our people

are not big sports fans or whatever don't keep up with football and stuff but just take it for me it would be so funny from a football fan perspective. It's like because the New York Jets and their history of despair and incompetence and everything. And they brought this guy in to finally have a chance to compete the first season. He runs out there waving an American flag, blows his Achilles out, four plays into the season and misses the whole thing. He's changed the whole look of their organization. They bring in whoever he wants. He's basically the GM there.

He's running things there. And they're like, well, he's going to be back next year. He'll be back next year. It's fine. And then if the next year, he's distracted by running for vice president with RFK Jr. in the most absurd election in American history, like, it's just, it's sad from the concept, you know, from the perspective of being an American. But as a football fan, it would also be fucking hilarious to be if that happened. The NFL schedule for next season hasn't come out yet, but can you imagine if it's like some polling data in October that shows that RFK is pulling more votes from Trump than.

and he is Biden, and the Jets are playing the 49ers and famous mega-siko, Nick Bosa, dives at Aaron Rogers knees. Right, right. Yeah. Oh, God, that'd be so funny. Anyway, so RFK Jr.'s main thing is being anti-vax, right? Although he's also, like, anti-Palestinian, and then has a grab bag of like left-wing issues, and whatever.

He's all over the place. But anyway, here's Trump attempting to shore up his anti-vax flank at a rally a couple days ago, if you got this, Matt. And I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask band. Make America mumps again, Trey. Yeah. So, yeah. I find this so baffling.

Like, anybody, like, I wish, anybody who's super anti-vax? And I read alcohol this week's pretty interesting. It's like the women who tend to be anti-vax have been mistreated by the medical establishment and therefore distrustful of doctors. And I sympathize with that. but also like just go read a history book and see what life was like before vaccines people didn't have 14 kids because they had a bunch of extra food around i just want to say that so absolutely yeah yeah so i mean it's such a wild thing for you to feel it's necessary to say do you know what i mean it's like you like go back if we went back to the time of polio and all that and with vaccines came out and we're seeing as like a miracle like a literal miracle thank god this has happened and i don't know out of the like nobody those people back then i feel like maybe i'm wrong but i feel like no matter what their political leanings were at the time if you told them that a hundred years later down the road we would be like no you can't trust these fucking vaccines you got to get out of you know like you can't

do that i think those people would call us dumbasses you know and they barely knew what math was back then so there's probably no more scientific advancement that's been better for human life and lifespan than the invention of vaccines and inoculations. There's nothing else that rivals it. My mom remembers when the polio vaccine rolled out. And her dad took her the day it came out for like the local, it was being dispensed to the fire department. She remembers them waiting in line the first day because it was,

they knew, like my grandfather had an eighth grade education. And so he trusted like the doctors and the president said to get it. Right. Which is a bit naive, but still it made sense at the time. And he was like, well, I don't know more than a fucking doctor. And he was the 1960s, so he wasn't able to get a Ph.D. in the Internet. It's just like, so anyway, somehow a guy with the eighth grade education was smarter than a bunch of people with computer. Like, the computer is more powerful than they used to get to the moon.

Exactly. That's what I was trying to say. So thank you for yes, clear. Because, yeah, it's so wild man. All right. But so side note, I hope everybody's experiencing the same thing. Producer Matt says that the audio issues have been fixed. So I think we're good now, Mark.

So with that said, let's get into talking. about the state of the union. And the response there too from the Republicans, particularly in the form of Alabama Senator Katie Britt. Yeah, so Katie Britt told a lie so brazen and full of shit. There's one of the most cynical things I've ever seen. And it's the kind of allowed that is like reality turned upside down, not just the opposite of the truth, but like the opposite of like everything. And it's like the kind of a lot takes like 30 seconds to tell, but like 10,000 words to unpack. I want to try to do it in less than that. But first, let's talk about Biden for a little bit. And in case you're wondering, here's what

Trump spent the entire state of the union doing. Playing with Snapchat filters, if you got this, Matt. I'm going to buy America. So trade rules. Fire America has been the loss since 1933. Also, caps, and won't go into effect

from the 2025. Oh, my God. It's like, by the way, that's all was written. And the benefit expires in 2025. It's not that. If you're watching the audio feed, it's like it gives him like Pinocchio noses and that was a chihuahua. That is a chihuahua, yes.

It's like, it's not that that's not just sort of funny and a fact. Like if my, like, if my 11 year old, if I made him watch the stay of the union and he had his tablet out or whatever, and then he showed me, hey, look at this. What do you think of this? I would think it was fucking hilarious and awesome, right? I would be, you know, it would crack me the fuck up, you know, but he's a. Like, this is the Republican nominee for president doing this. And I do feel like that makes a little bit of a difference. And people are like, no, Trump's hilarious.

I'm like, dude, this is not, what is the bar for hilarious anymore? Like, this is anyone can do this. It ain't like this is like fucking, you know, I wanted to say Dave. It's not like this is like Chris Rock style incisive, you know, comedic commentary or whatever. It's just fucking around with Snapchat filters that. anybody can do and this dude is running for president like it's wild it is funny but it's funny because of how patently absurd it is yeah it's funny in context because the guy wants to be the most powerful person in the world and apparently a bunch of people willing to hand him to

that even though this is the the level of intellect or operating he thinks that's fucking hilarious and like it it is but also like you said it takes about creativity or whatever you think so so the state of the union um the coverage is all vibe based and because Republicans lowered the bar so far, like basically all Biden to do was show up, not shit his pants, not wander off stage or forget where he was, and it was going to be an A plus and he cleared that bar by a significant margin.

So, of course, their takeaway was that he's on drugs, which... Yeah, right. That's what was funny to me about it. It was like, I, you know, I felt like they were all waiting on him to go out there. And like you said, you know, poop is diaper in front of the whole world and just like, forget we'd do a Mitch McConnell or whatever with an ice cream cone

in his hand or something. Like, that's what they were all waiting on to happen. Yeah. And I felt like not only did he not do that, I thought he did a pretty good job and did a pretty good, you know, gave a pretty good example of oration on a very large scale. And so then, like you said, the response to a lot of the response I saw immediately after was like, Joe Biden had far too, was far too fiery and divisive and energetic. He must have been on drugs. It's like, Sleepy Joe, their thing was like, oh, he was being real angry and mean and forceful. and therefore he must be on drugs beyond that.

But yeah, the goalpost fucking just, you can't keep up where the goalposts are in this narrative. They're all over the place. Aesthetically, it was like I don't, like it was fine to me. Like as far as the actual content of the speech, I'm not sure it was in the tall prompt or if you called it ad lib, but he used the word illegal, then had to walk it back a little bit in interviews after,

talking about undocumented immigrants. I don't really get super into language policing, but there are people who are offended by that. So I'm glad he walked her back a little bit. He also like, so on the way in, he was going to be talking about immigration in his speech. And I guess Marjor Taylor Green knew he was going to talk about Lake and Riley that the nursing student who was killed by a Venezuelan migrant in Atlanta. And she's like, she did the say her name thing, which like, say her name was coined by Black Lives Matter activist to encourage people to not forget there are female victims of police violence. And the Marjor Taylor Green is like they've learned woke.

They've learned say her name. Anyway, Joe Biden did what she said, took the button she had. had the Lincoln Riley on it. And when he said it, it sounded like he said Lincoln Riley, which some people said the Marjor, Taylor Green said Lincoln Riley to him. So she might have said it wrong. Anyway, Lincoln Riley is a football coach. It's different than Lake and Raleigh. And Pat McAfee, the sports personality, was very confused watching State of the Union. He thought that someone had killed Lincoln Riley. Well, dude, to be fair, when you, I mean, I even knew, I knew where this was going.

And when you first got into it and said Lake and Riley's name for the first time, I kind of heard Lincoln Riley even I mean they're pretty goddamn close just phonetically speaking it's not that crazy it's not like her name is Lake and Riley and he said Nick Sabin was murdered by you know by an immigrant like it they're not that far off it's not that egregious of a mistake if uh if if if if if a migrant killed Nick Sabin 49 states would vote for amnesty yeah uh so uh because the way the state of union goes now Biden got heckled a few times people wore like

Marjor Taylor Green wore a maga hat which I know you were allowed to wear a hat inside Congress but whatever it was going to enforce the rules I guess but like people wearing weird outfits like some guy who used to be a moderator is wearing a t-shirt with a Trump's mugshot on it and a maga bowtie I don't know weird fucking country not much more to really say about

the state of the union itself I don't have anything to say about you can go read about you want, but like the, uh, it did change the vibes because it was like, basically Joe Biden has proved a haters wrong by not being, but not, not drooling. Right. Right. Yeah. So, uh, let's get to Katie Brits deeply weird response. So we're talking about vibes here. Um, Joe Biden got good reviews for his vibes. Here were Katie Brits vibes. If you want to get, he gets this. I never could have imagined what my story would entail.

to think about what the American dream can do across to just one generation in just one lifetime. It's truly breathtaking. But right now, the American dream has turned into a nightmare. So, dude, she's like, it's like, other people point it, but it's so like Stepford wife-e or whatever. It's like she seems like a poorly programmed trad wife. life robot trying to get trying to like express human emotions whatever that's what that's the whole thing plays like that to me there's also a theater kid aspect to this where like the delivery store you ever like go to like a high school player they're doing like uh i don't know uh what's the street car name desire and you've

got these teenagers talking about all these super adult emotions like being a rejected woman with an abusive husband or whatever it's like the tone it's just so far off from the material it's like jar right it's like this is like what that's like to me um that's funny that's funny you know what i played a uh i played a nazi colonel once like a 45 year old nazi colonel in a high school production super heavy like i'm handling all the themes of the holocaust and stuff at 17 years old made with my wispy mustache everything so yeah no that's a that's a good good call on your part it does feel like that you're right the uh it wasn't just but by the this isn't just some like like glib liberal takeaway. This was like

the live viewing party on one of those Trumpy media networks that basically exists just on YouTube and obscure Roku channels called Real America's Voice. Here is MSNBC showing a clip from the end of their watch party. And on Real America's voice, the right-wing hosts were stunned into silence.

May God bless you and may God continue to bless these United States of America. Look, if you're all, they're all, they're all, they all shrug, they all think their head in their hands and shrugging, it's like, what the fuck? You're like, listen, I like her, I like her, but holy shit. And dude, I'm sorry, that's how you know, I don't know what her or her people are telling

her. I don't know what you could possibly tell yourself in the way. of something like this because this right here this is proof of just how bad it was because these people with their level of delusion and everything like they would fake it they would bullshit they would be something that was

like wholly terrifying to the rest of us and they would still cheer it on or whatever but even they are like oh my God what the fuck was that and that's how you know how bad it really was so one of my wife's best friends from high school from lug she got like she

decided she needed to get a husband so she turned religious and started going to like a real like evangelical church and like my wife grew up Catholic and sort of half a Catholic so she wasn't really familiar with like laying on up hands and she was like she gets really weirded out by the wedding and stuff and like they talked about like

in the ceremony they were talking about how like I will obey you and the husband is they head of the household and all this stuff. Yeah I've been to way and and she was like I've never heard such slang and just like really like it's like every wedding I went to as a kid but but it's like there's also the aspect where like they don't people don't really mean that like it's like

So here's an example of what I'm talking about. So Katie Britt is very Southern evangelical, like rich white lady. She's 42, the youngest woman in the Senate. She just got elected two years ago. Her husband, who she met at college at Bama, speaking to Nick Saban, we talked about a little bit earlier, played football for Bama, then played four years in the NFL. He did actually just fun fact. Well, it's a fun fact for me.

First Falls game I ever went to in person when I was in high school, watched Tennessee beat her husband's Alabama Crimson Tide in Knoxville. Phil. Go balls. I try by it. Anyway, yeah, Wesley Britt is his name.

Big ass motherfucker. Anyway. Right. So, but by any objective standard, like, she's a U.S. senator.

She's not some sniveling, like, like, like, you know, like some, some weak-willed wife, even that's the character

she's playing right here in this scene where they stashed her in a fucking kitchen. Right. They filmed it in the kitchen. Right. Right. So, like,

everything about this is so incredibly weird and like all putting to like, where most Americans are at in 2024. But anyway, let's get to the big, glass she told. Here's a clip from the speech, if you got this, Matt. It's like 30 seconds long, there's like 200 lies on it. I traveled to the Del Rio sector of Texas. That's where I spoke to a woman who shared her story with me. She had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at the

age of 12. She told me not just that she was raped every day. But how many times a day she was raped? The cartels put her on a mattress in a shoebox of a room. And they sent men through that door over and over again for hours and hours. Mark, you absolutely nailed it with that high school theater thing. By the way, now that you've said that, listening to this with that in my mind, I'm like, that's exactly what this sounds like. It sounds like a high school junior giving a melodramatic monologue, which like the subject matter of this is horrific.

We're going to talk about how it's all misleading and everything also, but just like, she just, you can just, it's so badly performative the way she's, again, she don't, she just sounds so absurd. Well, my note here is if I was directing this baffling theater piece, is like she's not connecting with the material because she's trying to. to feign being concerned about this woman while actually not giving a shit about her, which is what she's lying in service of. So the woman she's talking about here is named Carl Jocente Romero. And like just one thing,

like, what Carl Jocenta Romero went through is awful. It's just not what Katie Britt is. It didn't happen how Katie Britt's saying it. And she's, Katie Brits lying intentionally. So the first lie, she's to Katie's tale is that Carl Justin Romero's told the story in public over and over and over again. She's making it sound like this woman confided in her at a secret meeting at the border.

That's part of it. She said Romero's testified in front of Congress about this before. This is not some secret story she just discovered. The line number two, this happened in Mexico, not the United States. Now, stop it in the middle because it goes on forever and it's really gross and hard to listen to. And I don't want to torture people with it. But she goes, we would not let this happen in a third world country. We should not let it happen in the United States of America.

But like, it didn't have to happen in the United States of America. patently did not um the other lie she told she said it was his cartel she's still sticking to the cartel part of the story by the way but carlo jacinto romero was not trapped by a cartel she was groomed by a pimp in mexico who turned her out on a street corner which is awful it's just not i've no what she's saying right right um she was rescued by by a client a john i guess who got her into a halfway house kind of thing so uh that's a weird part of the story but it's the thing that that happened. It also happened a decade before Biden was president. She was basically forced to be a prostitute from 2004 to 2008 when George W. Bush was president. Joe Biden was in the

Senate. And in case you're wondering if she could have been misled, remember, this happened to this woman between the ages of 12 and 16. She's quite obviously not 12 years old. If you have this picture, Matt, throw it up. Here's what Colorado looks like. That woman is 32. She's not close to being 12 years old. She's a mother of two. All right. the big part of the lie, not the biggest part, but part of this that needs to be told is the anti-sex trafficking apologies that Carlysses-Romero has been advocating for were thwarted by Donald Trump and then activated under Joe Biden, all right? But here's the biggest evil part of the lie.

Like, Carl Jocento Romero, by the way, she still lives in Mexico City as far as I can tell. She only comes to the U.S. to be an advocate. So Brits stole her story and ran it through a fun house to advocate for policies, do it make it so women like Carl or Dissent of Romero cannot get asylum to escape human trafficking? Exactly. Like she's co-opting this woman's story in an effort to kill women like her. Right. And it's like on the same night as Marjorie Taylor Green did that performative bullshit about Lake and Wright, again, Lake and Riley,

it's terrible what happened to Lake and Riley. But like, they do not give a. fuck about her at all. It's just politically expedient for them in this particular situation to exploit her tragic situation for a narrative and that's so plain to anybody with eyes

or a heart or any of that. But this is even worse because it's like you said because of like the implications of what she's using that narrative to further what she wants to actually happen and what that would mean for people like Romero

you know in reality in real life like it's just it's so it's like it's like beyond cynical dude it goes beyond cynical into being like yeah much more gross than just i'm trying to think of like like it's like uh if i like was telling the story of uh of anne frank and i was like talking about well she was you know uh she died as a result of like a backlash in germany against It's like progressive policy. So therefore, we should not have, you know, open homosexuality and jazz music because it's like, what the fuck you're talking about, man? It's like, that's not, you're the, you're the person who would have killed Anne Frank.

Right. If you tried to like use George Floyd to say that we need more intense policing in American cities or something like this is why he died is because the police were not militarized enough and not empowered and emboldened enough in American cities, like that type of thing. That's what she's doing here. Yeah. So as far as DeSenta Romero's part in this, like she didn't realize she was a part of this story

until Saturday, because, yeah, she lives in Mexico and probably didn't watch the State of the Union, because I was watching basketball. So like, so she finally heard about this, and she's like, wait, this is fucking horseshit. And CNN got a hold of her. If you had the video, Matt, of DeCenta Romero speaking for herself, I think it's pretty, you know.

Yes. In fact, I hardly ever cooperate with politicians, because it seems to me that they only want an image. They only want a photo, and that to me is not fair. I work as a spokesperson. Yeah, so like, she's like, I, it's not fun to go in front of Congress and talk about being sexually assaulted. She does it to try to be an activist to help women who were stuck in the same situation like she was,

and here you have a woman stealing it to try to make people like hers lives worse, if not men, in their entirety. It's fucking, it's so, absolutely fucking gross. And Trey mentioned that Katie Brits from Alabama which is an important element of this. Because Alabama

is like we talked about the IVF policy and whatever, but like they've gone horrifically anti-immigrant and it's a reaction to nothing. All right? Like I read this piece written in Alabama publication. Katie Britt and the unreality of Alabama immigration rhetoric and the writer compared it to like what if all of Alabama's

politics was consumed with like talking about doomsday possibilities with the geothermal thermal energy industry. It's like it doesn't exist in Alabama, but that's all you're talking about. It's fucking crazy. Immigration is not a problem in Alabama. It's 1,000 miles from Mexico and 1,300 miles from Canada.

Like the numbers here. So it's like 4% of Alabama, Alabamians were born there, but that's compared to like 11% in Georgia and 22% of, sorry, 6% of the state's population is foreign born and compared to 14% nationwide nationwide. If you're in the 6% of Alabamians speak a language other than English in their home, it's 22% in the country in a whole. Like, you want to compare this like, you know, cosmopolitan paradise is like Georgia and Florida. Georgia is 11% foreign born and Florida is 22%.

Like Alabama does not have anything approaching an air quote problem with immigration. All right. It's absolutely stupid. But that doesn't change the fact that like Katie Brits, one of her main campaign issues in 2022 was like immigration. She filmed an ad on the U.S.-Mexican border. She boasts about all the immigration measures she introduced in her first three months in office. Then she went on Fox News Sunday morning and repeated her talking points claiming she was trying to illustrate what was happening while making a semantic argument about what she meant. She's like, don't pay attention to what I said.

Pay attention to what I meant, which was like, you know, we got to get rid of immigrants. Then she said Biden's policies were acting as a magnet for immigrants. It doesn't sound like someone who wants to help people fleeing violence the kind that she was describing. Like, it, this is a state where the governor, Kay Ivey, has deployed the National Guard to the border and expresses terror about people learning Spanish if Joe Biden keeps a living. immigrants in our states like oh my god you have to learn fucking spanish like that's your nightmare scenario is having to learn the words of spanish it's like 4% well it's just the thing that they've and i know that they this is one that they circle back to every now and then they go between like this and guns and gay people and you know poor people and whatever

else but they always come back to immigrants at some point but like it's just one of the things that's like what else are they and i know you know this we've talked about a lot but what else are they going to run on. Do you know what I mean? Like they have to run on something. They have to have something to bitch about. That's the other thing to is they don't want anything to ever actually be fixed because they can only run on bitching about things that they perceive as being wrong. And even it's like, you know, Matt, producer Matt's fucking home state of South Dakota, their governor, Christy Nome, they're even further away, much further away from the southern border. And she talks about immigration all the goddamn time. And she takes like a

fucking jet to, to the Mexican border and talks like it's like, you know, ruining the lives of South Dakotans and all this shit. So, I mean, it's just kind of like sort of chapter one of their playbook, but it's so, again, cynical and horse shit and, you know, not surprising, but is upsetting, though. I know we've been doing a lot of immigration-related topics lately, and I, like, it's not because I personally love talking, like, this is what the power that be have decided is going to be the national conversation about this election. And I would kill for, like, a 1990s level.

campaign they revolved around should raise the tax taxes the marginal income rates 2% to fund more social services or not like whatever happened you said they have something to run on they could run on cutting taxes they could do that

right used to do that so like but like the thing is like I just like you're talking about Lake and Riley if Lake and Riley had been killed by a school shooter they would not be talking about it if she died from absolutely of course not be talking about it of course no I know right I mean do what

look at how many people not just people children children have been killed by school shooters and that never never once if you see marjorie taylor green demand that someone say their name not any of in fact when she's been confronted by people who survived those school shooting she tells them to fuck off and you know gets in her limo and leaves or whatever and that's yeah it's all just it's such performative horse shit and i do want to say like that's what one is it bugs me is like since everybody on both sides decided this the conversation with his election is going to be out like i just wish the Democrats wouldn't take this bait because you absolutely do not have to meet these people's

rhetoric halfway. Here's Trump in a rally the other day. I want to see what I'm talking about. The suburban, they always say suburban houseways, they want something that's very important, security. They don't want illegal immigrants coming into our country. They don't want illegal immigrants knocking on their front door and saying, I'm going to use your kitchen and I'm going to use your bedroom and there's not a damn thing. I can credit back. Illegal immigrants are the three, Goldilocks now, I guess.

You can just come in your house and use your bedroom and your, in your bathroom. Also, and it's been point, like with Trump and his construction projects over the years with similar things, like how many super far right, mega rich white Republicans you think in this country employ illegal immigrants and either, you know, like in their business projects or like in their house or on their estates or whatever. else like I guarantee you it's a fucking ton of them you know what I mean and then they still run

their mouth I do want to like Republicans are defending Katie Brick saying people being unfair to her like she's treating her like she's Sarah Palin which is a funny comparison but not in the way they mean but I wanted to talk about the last depressing angle here which is the collapse of like journalism as an industry as an ongoing enterprise because Katie Brits lies were not discovered by anybody covering her response it was not discovered by the Washington Post New York Times or her home state papers in Alabama it was a stubborn by a former AP reporter who's now a freelancer slash unemployed who has a newsletter by the name of Jonathan M. Katz. He had been a fan of his work for a while. He wrote a great book called

Gangsters of Capitalism, Smadley Butler, the Marines, The Making and Breaking of America's Empire. So if you guys want to check out that book, if you're interested in Smadley Butler like I am, go buy the book and throw him a few dollars for doing some actual journalism. And he gave this, like, if you're wondering how he got into this, like he used to be at the Bureau in Haiti and he covered a lot of stuff going on to Haiti. And Katie Britt's story was from Del Rio. And Del Rio was the place, those photos went viral of custom and border patrol officers on horseback whipping, it looked like they were whipping migrants who were from Haiti.

So he'd been to Del Rio reporting on this. And he was like, I know Del Rio. We have to figure this out. And he just had to Google around for like 10 minutes to find press releases from Katie Brits website. And Marshall Blackburn, I think, was the center she went on the trip with. And they mentioned Carl DeCinter Romero. And he went, looked at her testimony, compared it to the speech.

And here's a quote from him about the investigation. It was really fast. The fastest investigation I think I've ever done you. And then he made a seven minute TikTok about it. And that's why this is the story. Yeah. And this guy should be working for the New York Times. And not the other people who fucking cover it.

And the headline on that piece was there should be newspapers. We work where we do this. Yes. There should. Yeah. It's not even these like grandios coverups that they do to hide. to the true nature of what they're talking about or anything. It's like it's easy to find for anybody that cares to look.

It's just so many people in this country just don't care to look, you know, including people in the mainstream media, which is what you're talking about. So, yeah, keep that mind. Look for the truth, y'all. That's what we can say here at the skews. Thank you guys for watching. I wanted to say, don't forget, like and subscribe. Smash that like button, guys.

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