Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 3/19/24 – Ohi-Oh No

Episode Date: March 20, 2024

Skewers, tonight we discuss the GOP primary happening in Ohio and the dumbness unfolding therein, with some experts saying that Ohio has become “the Hindenburg of democracy”. So that’s reassuring. Also, Producer Matt’s governor Kristi Noem is doing Texas teeth ads and Paul Manafort is back in the game baby. Join us.Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it is march 19th 2024 i'm tray that's mark i'm excited man we got a good show we're talking about a real area of expertise here today perverts a lot of sex scandals going on around the country we're going to talk about a few of them a couple things uh trump's apparently dead broke they can't pay his bond so that's what i heard New York AG might better start seizing his assets starting next week, although I doubt that happens. He's also sold more of them cards, buddy. More than six-pack digital cards he's got. Yeah, sneaker.

Yeah, $450 million worth. But he's also, it seems like he's successfully played all his criminal trials after the election. So good for him. The guy can't lose, man. Elon Musk sat down in for an interview with Don Lemon, where he was asked to talk about a lot of shit. but he also said that his ketamine use is good for Tesla investors, which I agree. It might even save the company if it kills him.

There was a new report out, like, the sentencing, to lead up the sentencing to Sandbank, and Freed prosecutors said they got a hold of some documents he had on Google Drive where he was saying that, like, one of the PR strategies he considered after FDX collapse was to go on Tucker Carlson and come out as Republican and come out against the woke agenda. Yeah.

Which is like... Good move. Which is funny because the guys like Tucker thought that SPF would never even be prosecuted because he was a Democratic donor. Right. Right. Yeah. No, it's a good company. People have used that PR move before.

Not in that exact situation, but a lot of people pointed out like when a Russell Brand, right, before he had all his sex pest stuff come out or when it came out, people like, notice they're like, you know, it's convenient that right before all this shit came out, he pivoted to a. pandering to the exact demographic that would not care about this type of thing, you know, so it's like, it's kind of a proven straight. I mean, I say it's a proven straight. I don't know how Russell Brand is doing and I don't care. But yeah, it's definitely a thing on the PR list

of options. Just pivot to them. They don't give a fuck about nothing. Some other fun news. North of Grumman, the defense contractor, said that they were chosen by DARPA to further develop the concept of building a moon-based railroad network. They would transport

human supplies and resources for commercial ventures on the moon. Hell, yeah. Can we get a train to fucking San Francisco? Can we get a train up and down the I-35 corridor from Minneapolis to San Antonio? Like, what the fuck is going to? I'm such a, I'm such a mark for space shit or whatever that, like, a lot of time this stuff comes up. It's like, we got problems here.

We can we fix these problems here, which I generally agree with. But any type of like wild space shit, I'm always kind of on board with it, because I just want to live in a world where that stuff happens. I just can't help it. Like, I want there, I want us to be on the moon. I want there to be, I want there to be trains on the moon. I love the idea of that. In general, yes, I disagree with the concept that we can't do space exploration until every

problem on Earth is solved. But we're talking about literal trains. Right. You can't get trains on Earth. It'd be like we had, we had a universal basic income on the moon. Like, what the fuck you guys do? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, there's no reason to believe that they can actually achieve that. Do you know what I mean? That's what makes it. It's like it's just a, you know, just a silly thought experiment or whatever. But if it was like practical and rational and possible, like I said, trains on the moon. If I can sign me up. I mean, I ain't going up there. But I'd like to think, hey, there's trains on the moon.

I don't know. DARPA is the military research program that like tries to do stuff like weather control machines and shit, like the men who stare at goat stuff. Yes, they got kill bots and all that stuff, presumably. Right. wild yeah they uh so they had the intercept had a report yesterday where they have a program to build like it sounds like they're making like trying to make like mecksuits or whatever for soldiers but the program's called kerkosa which is the pedophile name of the pedophile ritual place from the first season or true detective i was like can you got in the environment we're working in right now can you not name your fairly normal insane weapons research project after a pedophile ring please yes i'm with you on that that's another good example of like my my sci-fi nerdness fucks me up sometimes because my genuine initial reaction to like DARPA's developing mech suits is

fucking A hell yeah I've been waiting on that and it's like you know it would be like robocop you know what I mean fucking stop resisting whatever then fucking civilians get mowed down by a fucking death robot or whatever that's what would really happen but still when you say like hey we're working on mex suits I'm like

right on just because I think they're cool I can't help it anyway Go ahead. Yeah, man. We all play G.I. Joe's. So we're kind of be talking about the GOP's, let's call it, candidate talent level recruitment problems they have a day.

So the guy is probably going to be the nominee for Pennsylvania Senate is David McCormick, who also ran in 22, but lost Dr. Oz in the primary. His wife's Deina Powell, who worked for the Trump administration. McCormick's like a former army guy who made a few billion and like doing investment. hedge fund bullshit. Anyway, I want to read a couple of quotes from him today. Just like one of the most hilarious guys we got running.

Remember how Dr. Oz didn't live in Pennsylvania? It was kind of a thing. Okay, well, McCormick also kind of doesn't live in Pennsylvania. So the lead of the story, as McCormick launched his 67 County campaign bus tour on Saturday afternoon in Littitz. He told supporters gathered he was going to live on the bus through November. He flew back to Connecticut later that evening.

Yeah, yeah. If I live on my campaign bus, which is touring Pennsylvania exclusively, that counts as being a Pennsylvania citizen, right? And they're like, yeah, the does count. And he's like, all right, see you. And then goes back to Connecticut. I'll leave my body double here or an in-town or whatever. It's the real poochy dad on the way back to his home planet type of vibes going on.

He was having another like a coffee drinking event with veterans in Palmerton. And a former Marine brought up the high cost of gas and more former sort of nodded, trying to empathize and give, Dean, I'm talking about his wife. Dean is on the board of Exxon. Yeah. We get it. We get it. You know. All right. We're talking about some pervert Canada. Let's talk about one of the OG perverts in the MAGA world.

Paul Manafort is in talks to join Trump's 2024 campaign team. We don't have to go through the whole litany of stuff, but he remember he was convicted of tax and bank fraud and felonies as part of the Mueller investigation before Trump pardoned him. He was also the guy who was sharing data with Russian operatives, yada, yada, yada. But the thing nobody remembers is also like a weird pervert, like a bunch of his daughter's message got leaked after he got caught up in all these investigations, and they were talking about how, like, they hated him, not just because he took blood money from evil people overseas, but because he apparently pressured his wife into having sex with other men while he washed, and she caught some STDs from it. And I'm like, how, how is that not disqualifying from public life anymore? Yeah, I'm always surprised when it, like, I, reading through this before, whatever, I was like, yeah, I totally didn't remember that. And it's like, it's sort of like the Trump strategy of just like an avalanche of bullshit and you can't keep up with it all.

But you would think, especially in the fucking, you know, the morality police side of things that that type of thing would be a bigger deal. But it's always them, dude. I guess it's just like the culture of repression or something. I don't know. But like we're, we're going to have multiple more examples of this as we go through this show. But it's always them who are, you know, trying to keep everybody repressed sexually while still doing the white. wildest shit there is to do. Yeah, I mean, like, what's the name, like the guy in Florida, Roger,

like Trump guy, but Roger Stone. Oh? Roger Stone, yeah, Roger Stone's also a cuck, right? He also likes to watch his wife have sex with other men. It's like, but this is the campaign that pushed cuck as an insult into the mainstream cautious. Right, exactly. Well, that's one of those things is like, you know, we're the ones that say don't kink shame

and shit, you know, or whatever. But it's just like when there's a hardcore anti-LGBT Republican who gets caught, you know blowing dudes in a bathroom or whatever it's like we're not ragging on the guy for blowing dudes it's the context of it it's everything else about it's the hypocrisy you know and yeah it's the same thing here it happens like hypocrisy doesn't exist in 2024 i guess but like but my thing is like i don't care that if him his wife are into her having sexual other guys when he watches fine the problem is she didn't want to do it right um uh got another weirdo uh candidate problem the GOP has.

The nominee to run for North Carolina's public schools, everyone's name Michelle Mero. Turns out they fucked up and realized after she got nominated that she spent a much time on the internet calling for top Democrats to be executed, including Biden

and Obama. And she tried to come out and say, people are tired of the dysfunctional media, trying to create gotcha moments out of old comments, taken out of context, made in jest, or never made in the first place. Now, I'm open to the idea that a death threat can be a joke because I've

made plenty of those. Sure. Yeah. But this, Matt, throw this up here if you got it. This is not a joke to me. Who wants to see Obama tossed him to get him over treason? Her reply, I prefer a pay-per-view him in front of the firing squad. Not what to waste another dime on supporting his life. We could make some money back from supporting his death. Yeah. Yeah. Where's the joke? That's what I was about to say all the time this comes up there. Like, oh, it's out of It was a joke. I was kidding. And it's like, what, where's the punchline in that?

Like, what is supposed to be funny about that? You know what I mean? Like, I'm not saying I'm a full-blown expert, but this is our purview, I think, humor. And there is a different, like, sometimes people, you know, you do sarcastically make a reference to somebody killing themselves or whatever. I remember what I'm in one of my videos that said something about I hope Trump dies in a horrible hairspray accident, right? Or something like that. Like, that's clearly there's humor involved. This is just like, I want him to be executed.

Isn't that funny? Everybody or whatever, I get like, it's, you know. But I mean, they also fundamentally do not understand humor or comedy. Anyway, so I guess I can kind of believe that they think it counts as a joke somehow, but yeah. Turns out the awesome, there's someone else Republicans discovered after they nominated her. It turns out she's a Q and on lady. So that tracks. Bonus.

Yeah. But I guess this. kind of thing, like these kind of candidates, which you get when this is your avatar. This is a photo of Trump at a rally last week where he'd autographed a photo of Lake and Riley, the 22-year-old woman who was murdered in Georgia,

and he autographed it and then spelled her name wrong. It's not big enough for you can see, but he spelled it L-A-A-N. And he's gritting like a fucking idiot. Yeah. It's just just way bit down-bting. Yeah. He just can't, you know, he's like, his whole thing is like,

Yeah, I'm crushing it here. Look at this. Acknowledging this thing. Isn't everything great? So, like, of course he smiles. He doesn't, you know, have the capacity to understand different, like, emotional context and situations and things like that. But for what it's worth, her dad, uh, her dad gave an interview last week where he's like, can politicians please stop talking about my daughter?

Sure. Of course. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yep. Yep. Well, it's the world we live in. All right.

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well there's a GOP primary happening in ohio right now and the implications there are somewhat alarming as the candidate seemed to be all a little bit lunaticy yeah imagine you're surprise, but we'll break down exactly the level of dip shittery going on in Ohio a little bit later. But before that, we begin with, of course, the Daily Dumbass, Matt, graphic, please. Matt's dead. Matt. Matt. It's fundamentally silly thing we're doing here.

I forget about it. And then we did ask for this. We told Matt we wanted a sillier sound because that underlying thing said it to like dystopia. And we try to be silly here and it just got a fart on it. And also, I mean, you know, asses do fart. You know what I mean? We're talking daily dumb. Oh, yeah.

You know, sure, I do. I'm not saying it don't work. But I also always forget about it. And then it happens when we come back. And I'm just sitting there like, this is what we do here. All right. Matt's producing chess, not checkers. Yeah.

So tonight's D-D, anyone who thinks they could guess in a million years what this congressional candidate needs a, quote, outpouring of support for. Watch this. It's Thursday, March 14th, and I'm just so thankful for the outpouring of support that we've received. I've never been more motivated than I am today. We're just getting started, and we won't stop fighting for we, the people. We will win. All right. That's Nevada's Elizabeth.

How do you say that, Mark? Helgling? Helgaly. Helgling. Yeah. Yeah. She's running for Nevada's third congressional district. So basically what had happened here is her ex-mother-in-law wrote an op-ed in a paper in Nevada

that said that mother-laws in Christine Haliseth. Elizabeth raised a murderer, was forced out of office after a series of sex scandals, was caught in a series of lies, posed for lewd photographs, and has already proven to be unelectable. All right. A lot going on here. Raised the murder. I'm like, what? All right. So she raised a murder in a sense that Elizabeth's daughter killed her ex-husband.

This woman's son. Which was her, which was the daughter's dad, right? Like not stepdad, right? Yes. Her daughter killed her dad. Her and her boyfriend did. Yeah. So Helgeline's one of seven Republican candidates in the primary fighting to take on the incumbent.

It was a Democrat named Susie Lee. It's a kind of a toss-up district. Lee won the last election, 52 to 48. So it should be win a goal for Republicans, except this lady is one of the top two candidates, it looks like. So to recap what's going on here. So she was a Republican member of the Nevada Senate from November 2010 until 2012. That seems like a short political career. What happened?

Well, she got caught cheating on her husband with her husband's, the guy who was making her husband's website. Her husband was named Daniel. found out from some sort of political rival or someone also involved in nevada politics sent him some opposition research i guess they had proof for photographs uh elizabeth fucking around with this guy he found out while the guy was over at their house now they're not no real heroes in this story outside of maybe the mother-in-law so daniel apparently upon finding out that that his wife was fucking his ostensible employee or business partner or whatever like confronted the two of them while they were together was charged criminally for allegedly pulling her pants down and demanding

that she fucked the other guy in front of him so he could see what he was up against. What the fuck, dude? Right. Always something with these people. Yeah. By the way, in May of 2012, after she resigned for the Senate, she appeared in Maxim's Hot 100 photo contest in a bikini. And they only reason to note this, because if she wins, she'll be, by my count, at least the second sitting member of Congress who's MAGA and also opposed in Maxim. Yeah, because they ever, not to be crass here, I'm just genuinely asking, like, have they, have they, MAGA, Republicans, whatever, have they ever elected a, you know, a not maximi type woman?

Have they ever elected a woman to office who they couldn't envision holding a casserole on the cover of a Life magazine? Do you know what I mean? Like, have they ever done that? that you can think of. Or there's Kaye Ivy in Alabama. She's a mammal, you know, so they got mammoths is another class that they're okay with. I don't want to speculate on like rank mega women by which ones would qualify for maximum. It feels like I might get in trouble for that.

But like, yeah, there are plenty of like, you know, Republican women. They just seem to be most of the, most of the like, you know, high profile mega women that I can think of seem to have. that type of thing going on. Do you know what I mean? Like, it's important. Like, if they don't want to sort of shove their head into a pillow or whatever, then, you know, they're not going to line up to help for it. That's the only way you can succeed as a woman in Maga World, I feel like.

That and being a doormat, but. Look, you're asking me to, like, I personally, she does crossfit and stuff, but I personally do not want to see Marjorie Taylor Green in a bikini. So that's like, that's my personal, but yeah. like that so yeah uh so the her and daniel divorced she got custody of the kids somehow uh one of them was named sierra who was eventually 16 years old and had an 18 year old boyfriend i guess daniel tried to break them up so they tried to run off out of state and they got arrested because daniel fought a complaint i guess and so they stabbed him more than 70 times then tried to cut up and

torch his body um so yeah a lot of fucked up shit going on here and my thing about elizabeth and her new named Hoglein is like, beyond her politics, think about what you're putting your family through. She's a sociopath of running again. Like, go get another job. And she did try after she, she left to move to Alaska and did real estate and failed with that

and came back because doing this now, I think. So like, it's just like, I guess instead of getting a real job, she's doing this and embarrassing her kids and putting all this back in the newspaper again. So yeah, I don't know. I don't know what to say about it either because it's one of those things where it's like,

as a parent, I, literally lose sleep but I worry a lot about like just the whole bad seed idea I don't I don't have that issue with either of my sons but like there's there are stories about like people who do their best and their kids are still just monsters like that does I guess there's examples of that happening and I live in fear of that and again I think it seems like I'm doing pretty okay as far as that goes but like that is possible I suppose but it's also like it seems

I feel like 90% of the time that's not the case and there are other... Like, dude, you feel not fucking stab your dad 70 times and cut him up into pieces. There's some shit going on at home, I feel like.

And maybe it was mostly the dad. Maybe it wasn't mostly her, whatever. But like you said, the fact that she's willing to get back into politics. It just feels like there could be better candidates than someone who's got that type of shit going on,

especially when like the whole thing with the fucking the husband's best friend and then the cuck and all this other. That's just a lot of red flags, man. And it's like you would think there would be a higher standard for this level of public office, you know. But they don't care as long as you smile and say the right things, the right hateful

things. They're okay with it. Yeah. And the daughter did, after she was arrested for the murder, she said her dad had abused her, but she'd never claimed that any other time before she's trying to get off from murder. So it sounds like a fucked up family. But yeah, sometimes kids can be hellions as teenagers and turn it around.

Like, I have a relative who ran away from home 15 times and dropped out of high school. And then later on, went back and got his GED, his college degree, his master's degree. And now he has a nice white collar job. It does happen. Right. Yeah, but, you know, not if you perforate a family member 70 times and then drop them into pay. But it's a little bit different than running away from home every now and then. But anyway, our honorable mention.

for Daily Dumbass is people who didn't think a MAGA governor could turn having teeth into a grift. This is Matt's homeland, South Dakota. They're governor, Christy Noam. Well, hi, I'm Christine Noam. I'm the governor of South Dakota and had the opportunity to come to Smile, Texas, to fix my teeth, which has been absolutely amazing. For years, I have needed to have an adjustment to my teeth from a biking accident, and they have been absolutely phenomenal.

years ago. So that's a five minute video just so. Five minute video. Five minute video of her extolling the virtues of Smile, Texas's dental program as the governor of South Dakota. Right. Small Texas is in Houston, by the way. And one thing you'll notice about that, obvious ad is it doesn't say ad anywhere on it, which is a violation of federal law. You got to put a hashtag ad somewhere in there if you're paid.

So once it was posted, everyone's like, wait, what the fuck? Why has the governor of South Dakota shilling for an out-of-state private cosmetic dentist practice on her official X-Feed or whatever? It's like, so a bunch of people had questions about this. So this is like a bunch of weird, small controversies and scandals in it. Like whatever big campaigns, like PSA campaigns, the government recruitment things, has been to try to get people to come recruit and live. in South Dakota, including trying to get dental hygienists to come there. And then she said, basically put out a five-minute ad that says, you could, yeah, you can move here as long as you're grill aid busted because we ain't

got a place to can fix it, right? Right. I mean, you know, I guess it sort of makes sense. She's like, yeah, I've been trying to get teeth people to come here, but they won't. We ain't got no teeth people, so I had to go to Texas. But that's different than encouraging other people to, you know, go to Texas for, Teeth stuff. She says she broke her front teeth in a bike accident, which like my front tooth teeth are fake.

I got elbow in the face playing basketball when I was like in my 20s and I had to get it had to get them fixed. So like that I empathize with a, you know, super athletic sense. So but like besides the bike accident, there might be another reason that Chrissy known needs to get her teeth fixed. I'll let her tell it to you right here from this PSA she filmed a couple years ago. Love this. Make sure you stick around to the end. of this, by the way. God damn it, Matt.

It's all right. The video, Matt. The video. The video. The video. Never mind. It's a video. It's a video with a famous PSA they made.

It's too late, Matt. You missed it up. Where she talks about Meth Dakota. South Dakota has a horrible meth problem. And it's announcement of a new campaign called South Dakota colon meth. We're on it. Yeah. Put the picture back.

up there, Matt, because that's, yeah, so the, the PSA, it's talking about the horrors of meth and everything. And then it, it, it's all very serious and whatever. And then it ends with this picture, which just absolutely kills me. Honestly, like, if that was the silhouette of a, of Tennessee, like, I would kind of want that t-shirt, an ironic. I think it's funny, but that's just like, it just kills me, dude. Meth, where on it? Like, how many, like, committees and shit, do you think that had to go through. Do you know what I mean? How many different people like signed off on like, yep, this is it.

You know, maybe there were a couple people involved along the way who were, you know, hip to it and thought it was funny. I don't know, maybe, but like, that's, uh, it's something else, dude. I would have a consultant got paid like a quarter million dollars to like. Right. Cheers to you about it. So, uh, reporter Olivia Nuzzi, uh, Steve reached out to try to figure out what was going on here. This whole wing

of people just resists any idea of accountability or honesty. It's kind of crazy to me. Not just Christine Nome's office didn't respond and requests for comment whether she's moonlighting quoting her moonlighting as a cosmetic dentistry influencer. But the dentist who owned Smile, Texas, said it would be a HIPAA violation to disclose

if no one was compensated for appearance in the advertisement. It is not a fucking HIPAA violation to say if you paid someone to be an influencer for you. Right. That is not any law. You're just fucking lying. A lying ass. Dennis are liars, man.

I'm sick. Also, man, I'm sorry, but like, why else would she do it? Like, there's some kind of quid pro quo here, whether it's just straight up financial compensation or something, but like, if I could sit and governor would make a five-minute

video jerking off a private practice or a corporation or any of that, like, for no use them. Yeah, yeah. Like, they're, like, of course, she was there's something else going it's not just like yeah i mean it it should go without saying but you know so the following from this like a couple like a state senator is calling from

an investigation to this because if she took us like a state right plane or a private plane to fly to Texas to get free dental care and a couple thousand dollars to post this ad that's kind of a misuse and misappropriation on public resources sure um she's also already even here with a lawsuit. I travels United, a consumer advocacy group, found a lawsuit saying about, you know, the fact that it wasn't announced as an ad. I accused the governor of violating federal trade commission requirement, the social post disclosed whether or not their advertisements. And it's pretty funny from the lawsuit. Governor Chrissy Noam is a governor of South Dakota for a living, but it seems to have taken up work as a social media influencer as of March 12, 2024. So yeah, this is just an insanely stupid thing. And we brought up Marjor Taylor Green a minute ago. I just wanted to briefly, touch on what she spent today doing, but she had a hearing in D.C. about black market abortion

organs. I don't know. But anyway, she said this there at this thing, if you had the video met. Certainly we will pray for them. It shouldn't be that way. And we will repeal the FACE Act if we can get our opportunity. I know each of us definitely would. Let's switch. All right. So the FACE Act is the freedom of access to clinic interests of act. So it makes it a federal crime to use force, the threat of force, a physical obstruction to prevent individuals from basically getting a reproductive health care services. So it makes it illegal to like, you know, threaten to murder people who are going into a woman's clinic.

Yeah. So it's like she's not happy. Like it's not enough to go down there in an abortion clinic and call all these, you know, poor women hoars and stuff on their way in. It's not enough to do that. She's like, no, we need to repeal the law that prevents us. from physically accosting them or threatening their life. Like, it would be better if we could do that.

It's a shame we can't do that anymore. As a regular person, like, I'd forgotten this is illegal, because it would never come up in the course of any sane person's life. Right. Like, I know speeding's illegal because I want to go fast. I would never, like, how the fuck do you, you stand up nights being like, oh, man, I wish a good point of gun at that doctor. Right.

But I can't. Right. I've got to change the law. Jesus, fucking crazy. All right, let's talk about Ohio. Want to? Yeah, let's do it. All right, so today's election day for various things in Illinois and Ohio.

Polls closed at 430 in Ohio. I'm going to hold off and checking the results until we get as a retreat to the end to see if this rat fucking campaign were about to talk about work. So there are three candidates basically in Ohio Senate's vying to take on Sherrod Brown, who's the incumbent Democrat. There's Matt Dolan, whose family owns the Cleveland Guardians baseball team, formerly known as the Indians.

um he's like a fairly normal republican by 2024 standards like he ran in 22 but uh had to drop out if he refused to say the 2020 election was stolen see like that and i don't know i'm sure i disagree on almost everything with this guy and i'm sure he also don't hit for me he's a fucking you know nepo baby and all that shit but like this is like this is a prime example of what republicans used to be do you know what i mean like even 10 20 years ago or whatever it's like the guy whose family owns the cleveland indians and he just wants to to not tax his papal anymore and whatever else and also secretly think guy or you know

things gay people shouldn't get married and all that stuff but isn't a full-blown public lunatic who doesn't believe in the fabric of reality right like that guy would have been a shoe in but this is what we're dealing with now this is like a good it's like a good snapshot or microcosm of the devolution of the republican party i think is yeah i know primary here that's sort of the stakes in this race is like

whether it's mega versus everybody because like Trump this guy is supported by like I started talking about Dolan he's supported by Mike Devine who's a Republican governor of Ohio and another Rob Portman

who were you know like you said the old old school old school Republicans who like Mr. Burns from the Simpsons TV the TV series who like wanted to dump nuclear race in a river and you know and have tax cuts right the new ones are like Mr. Burns from the Simpson's movie who wanted to blot out the sun Yes, right.

So another candidate's Frank LaRose, who's just like just a party guy who just wants to be more powerful. He's the Secretary of State. He's the self-proclaimed Trump supporter, but nobody believes him. He's the guy we talked about who led the effort to change the state constitution to make it harder to make it easier to outlaw abortion. And the last thing the man guy we're talking about is Bernie Moreno, who's a Colombian immigrant. We talked about him before. He's the one who got the Trump endorsement. He owns car dealerships, calls himself an evangelist for crypto technology.

do, which is, of course. He also ran for Senate as a Magorvite Wenger in 2022, but he dropped out of the race to clear the path for J.D. Vance. And he's the guy we talked about recently who said that the rights answer to abortion should be like the nice guy on the airplane who helped his pregnant daughter with her luggage. Remember him? Yes. Yeah, I don't remember. I do remember us talking about that, but I don't remember what is like his ultimate take or stance. Like somehow the answer to abortion was being nice to ladies or being nice to.

pregnant ladies. I go, if they're pregnant, just be nice to them and then they won't want to have an abortion. Is that? Yeah, well, make it easier to become a mother, which I get. But that's like, that helping with luggage on an airplane is like the smallest version of that. Like maternity leave and child care would be like much. Yeah, no. That costs money.

Right. Yeah, right. So Trump had a rally for, to try to save Bernie Moreno's candidacy on over the weekend. And here's Trump announcing how much. She loves, once again, Adi N.M. says this, a guy named Bernie Moreno. We're going to take that victory, and we're going to add to it with Bernie Marino, who's a fantastic guy. All right. So, this is the speech Trump gave over the weekend where you use the word bloodbath, which is everyone's been talking about for like four hours days. I'm not super interested in that. Seems like a debate over semantics. It's like whatever. We know Trump's a bloodthorcy psycho. I don't care what. the context of the word, whether he was talking about car dealerships or whatever. So as far as

Morano himself, he definitely was the favorite. And we're going to get to why he might not be anymore in a second. But here's him just pretending to be stupider than he is, which is kind of his whole thing recently. You get to heaven. And imagine what that's like, what that feels like. And imagine who you get to meet. You get to meet the 55 people that signed our Declaration of Independence. you get to meet James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, John Jay, Alex. Okay. Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809. Right.

So, wait, are you saying you don't buy that he, like, you think that was calculated? You say he pretends to be dumber than he is? No, I think that was a slip of the time. To pretend to be this dumb because it plays, like he knows Abraham Lincoln wasn't there. He's changed his whole personality and we're going to get there in a few minutes. but like, like, he's sold with a little bit of a soul he had to do this for reasons I don't even understand. But, like, we'll get there in a second. But I think that was a sip of the tongue.

He meant to say, like, say, like, you meet the people, 55 people who signed the Declaration of Independence, like James Madison, comma, plus also Abraham Lincoln. I think that was probably what he intended to say, but he fucked it up. Sure. Also, this is apropos of nothing, but I just can't help but notice it on this clip we're showing here. This is sponsored. This clip we watch is sponsored by Prepperbeef.com. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

these are steaks that last 25 years is that what this is it? That's what it looks like, yeah, you know, when the apocalypse comes and you're in your bunker, when the liberals destroy the entire world and everything in it, you can still have a nice New York strip steak, U.S. Prime. You can eat that 20 years from now. Is that how that's supposed to work? Is that not just like jerky or something? I know you don't know. I'm just kind of fascinated by this.

I sort of want to look up prepper beef now because I'm just like, I eat it. You have steaks, you can keep for 25th. State bunker steaks. It's funny that they're luxurizing. They're making it more luxurious, the bunker life because that's who their people are. Do you know what I mean? Like the prepper people, people that live in a bunker, they're trying to, like, cater to them with quality of life improvements like steaks and stuff like that. That's just kind of inherently funny to me.

Anyway, I'm just very confused about the right-wing. economy because like CBS is having trouble staying in business and running advertisements for like Lexus and Big Pharma, but they can stay in business running as for prep or food. Tell me about, dude, I think that all the time. Sometimes I'll turn on like daytime right wing television or something like that to watch. It's not just right wing television, frankly. It's also like ESPN of the daytime or whatever, but I'll turn on sometimes to see what they're talking about to try to get ideas for shit to make a video about or something. And yes, it's all like, like fucking wristbands that cure cancer.

whatever and like super powered socks and shit like that just like the most neat shit that you know like right like you said it's like lexas commercials can't keep the networks afloat but this is working for y'all there's so much but i'm i'm constantly confounded by money and how it works especially at these levels but yeah it's wild yeah so uh trying to save bernie's ass uh trump went directly after dolin and the most obvious layup of a fucking pandering this feels like everything they do feels like

from 10 years ago but even go out play about okay nice and loud now who wants to keep it the Cleveland Indians that wasn't too tough right all right

so we're talking about he started to say Burry's ass say burying's ass for what okay so this rat fucking thing happened over the last week late last week the Associated Press put out a story

saying that there was a rumor floating not really a rumor because everyone knew it but no one was afraid to print it or to say it out loud or put it in a campaign ad for fear of looking like I don't know what out of touch bigot I guess but so there's an email address associated with Bernie Moreno that back in 2008

signed up for an account on adult friend finder which is a sex and swinger site looking for me quote here quote hi looking for young guys to have fun with while traveling it was the account said he was in Florida and the username was Nardo 19672

which is going to be an important element of this for a second and again I don't have any problem with the dude with dudes I don't know if his wife's fine with it

but you know whatever do whatever you want I don't like being bullshitted right and also his public positions on LBTQ stuff

is just horrific so that's the only reason you have it's a problem Yes, it's like I was saying earlier. It's like, I don't care if you want to fucking go on Craigslist or the equivalent and meet some dude at a glory hall or whatever, if I fucking do your thing. But then if you're in daylight, you're talking about how trans people aren't real

and gay people shouldn't be able to get married or that type of shit, then I have a, that's when I have a problem with you. And it's when it's like appropriate to talk about this shit, you know? Like if they weren't like that in the first place, they could do all this shit and it would be fine. But, you know, again, they're the morality police. So, like, they put it on themselves, you know. Even in that context, I still think it's a little weird that the AP printed the story,

but they're basic justification and they were a separate piece talking about why they talked about it. Because this is a behavior that, like, is not nearly illegal unless they would, unless they said it would be if they had their way. And it's not even considered immoral to a lot of people, except for the fact that he's married. If he was lying to his wife, that's not cool, obviously. but like they basically this story was an open secret in GOP politics all everybody worked in GOP politics in Ohio was talking about it so they're just like we why not let everybody know

what the people who are vying to represent them are talking about so here you go right um but it gets really funny because it led to uh his wife had to put out a statement basically saying that he's straight which is like I have a I have a note from my wife wife saying I'm straight. It's just one of the funniest fucking things that could ever happen. Yeah, I got to take one of those with me when I go back home to Salina. It's a Rite Aid and stuff. So their basic explanation for this,

and it holds a little bit of water as long as you don't think about it too hard, but they're saying it was a prank by an intern who worked at his car dealership. All right. Now, they got a written statement from the guy who was the intern. His name is Dan Ritchie, who said he created account as, quote, account is, quote, part of a juvenile prank, okay? Coincidentally, he's also a big donor to Moreno's campaign because he's got, you know, since he was an internship, the car dealership, he's leveled up, and so he now can donate

$6,600 to Bernie, according to campaign finance records. Now, the thing is, the kind of information this kid would have had to know when he was like a college junior or senior in 2008 about his much older superior at work who owns the car dealership his intern again. The account, the username was Nardo 19. So the 19672, is his birth month and year, 1967, and two is February. He also have to know that Nardo, which apparently I didn't know until this, is the Colombian nickname for Bernardo, not Bernie. All right.

He would also have to know that, like, because the account was looking for sex in Fort Lauderdale, where Bernie's parents have a house. We'd also have to know where Bernie visits his parents to do this. you'd also have access to the email account to verify the membership. Also, like, an intern was making fun of the guy who owns the car dealership doing a prank. Right. Does that make sense? Also, I mean, I guess it depends on his relationship with the owner or whatever. If it was supposed to be, like, so basically this guy's story is like, it's the equivalent,

it's the modern day equivalent of like going into a truck stop bathroom and riding like, hey guys for a good wainer time call and then i put your number on there right like that's that's what the guy was doing but yeah his story is he did it good naturedly like they had a good like they're because if he's coming forward now like willingly it seems like they're like on you know they're on friendly enough terms or whatever so it's like yeah i just thought it'd be a funny goof is that what he's saying because yeah that's yeah a 21 year old intern right yeah a 20 21 year old intern pranked his 41 year old rich boss at an unpaid job is what is the story they're going with yeah by the way rich is was in college three hours away so they're the part of their story is he

was commuting three hours each way for an internship i don't fucking know i don't care about any of this but the funny the part of this is it it kind of fucks democrats if it works if it puts uh uh uh dolan over the top because they've invested two and a half million dollars right sure morano is the candidate ticket. Again, it's a pact called duty in country, I spent the $2.5 million on TV ads, arguing that Moreno is, quote, two conservative of Ohio, which is one of those bankshot things where he's not here and think he's great,

but he also submits him as a right-wing cycle in the minds of centrist voters. And Mike Devine, the governor, who supports Dolan, like I said, complain Thursday, the Democrats, quote, no Moreno is the weakest candidate to beat Sherrod Brown this fall. So that's why they're doing this. So...

A lot of rap fucking going on. Right. So Democrats should hope that this sex scandal glosses over or like smooths over, whatever, because they want the other guy to, no, no, they want to smooth out of it because they want this because they want Moreno to win because he's more beatable, right? It's in this new era of like backing certain opponents on purpose because you think you can beat him later. Mm-hmm. Yeah. it's a real pick your poison sort of thing to do because in some races it really works in some environments right that's what I'm saying like when I first heard it was a thing which was in like I feel like in the midterms is when I first became aware of it and I heard they were doing it when I first heard about it I was like oh oh no because like it just felt to me like the classic type of big Democrat fuck up that would come back to bite them in the ass like the type of needlessly stupid shit that they'd do. do that leads to losing, which is like the story of their life or whatever, but I guess

it has actually mostly worked out, or at least in a lot of situations it's worked out, or it's been effective, but sometimes, like you said, it's depending on context, but yeah, it makes me kind of uncomfortable the whole thing. Thanks, Mama G, yeah, just checked. Yeah, she's right. My dear, Miranda was just declared the winner. So the Democrat rat fucking worked and the adult friend. found a rat fucking did not work.

But yeah, what you're talking about, like, it just kind of backfired out here in California. We haven't talked about it yet, but like Adam Schiff ran a bunch of ads against Steve Garvey with the same thing, arguing he's too conservative for California, but basically making him the go-to candidate for MAGA people. So what it did was it pushed Steve Garby, who wasn't even really actively campaigning into the top two because California is a jungle primary, so it killed Katie Porter's chances. And ensure Adam Schiff will be the senator. It raised right-wing turnout in a lot of House and state delegate races and pushed a lot of Democrats out of the top to giving the Republicans a chance to take those seats.

Right, which is fucked up. But just to be clear, like, that's what Schiff wanted, right, was to push Katie Porter out of it. Like, wasn't that the whole idea? Right. It worked for him, but it fucked the party. And he was going to win anyway. So that's why I was just like, this is too psychotic by half. So the sad part about Moreno, and now as a candidate, we can talk to him.

Talk about him as a candidate in present sense. Is he used to be saying, like talking about this one specific issue, LBGTQ stuff. When Cleveland and Akron won their bid to host a 2014 gay games, which is an Olympic-like international competition that features gay athletes. Moreno was an enthusiastic supporter while his auto dealership company was a financial sponsor. I mean quote here, successful gay games would go a long way toward boosting our images of cities that welcome all. In 2016, he noted his eldest son is gay.

while I accredited the TV show Modern Family with changing perceptions around same-sex marriage. He's on the board of Cleveland State University, and there was an incident in 2017 where somebody posted a bunch of flyers urging gay and trans students to commit suicide, and he spoke up and said that it was a, quote, an attack on our whole campus called an abhorrent message.

This is a good example, like a reminder, not that people need reminding, but a reminder of how we have backslid recently because, like, those examples you gave from the late Obama era of like there was a time man I know because I care about this shit I got a gay uncle I care about the like growing up in Salina I never in my life thought I would see gay marriage be legal I never thought that would happen but there was an era post gay marriage being legalized in late Obama where it it genuinely did seem like we were moving past that

not that there wouldn't be other bullshit we would talk about but we were moving past that And I feel like that's why this guy, at that point in time, guys like this were, you know, coming out publicly in favor of LGBT rights or whatever because they seemed like that's where the winds were blowing or whatever. And then, you know, they found out about trans people at the same time Trump showed up with his fucking, you know, overt hatred and all that. And then it's just, you know, it's just turned into an abject shit show since then. but it's a stark and unsettling reminder of like where we were headed and what, you know, the hope we did have and then what has ended up happening. Yeah, I mean, talking about him personally backsliding. There's a couple of other, like he was an advocate for some anti-discrimination legislation.

It would have covered gays and lesbans and transgender people. But when he first ran percent in 2021, he began to distance himself from his past activism and pre-claimed to be unfamiliar with the anti-discrimination legislation he'd been advocating previously. So I'm talking by him pretending to be dumber than he is. This is what I'm talking about. So during his current Senate campaign, Marano was accused advocates for LGBT-Rights of advancing a quote radical agenda of indoctrination. He's been endorsed by Ohio value voters, a group that opposes gay rights, including same-sex marriage. So he went from saying, my son's gay, and I'm glad that modern family helped people accept it to being like my son should not be able

to get married. His campaign, social media accounts have blasted his opponents, LaRose and Dolan as supporters of a quote radical trans agenda recent TV ad paid for by buckout values It's a pro merino super PAC Superimposed LaRose over a rainbow flag While attacking him as a champion of trans equality And I just will never understand Remember he's independently wealthy

Right He doesn't have to be doing any of this And I will never understand a person Independently wealthy Who will sink to doing shit like this You have this video of him like slobbering all over Trump's asshole from the rally

over the weekend, Matt. Yeah, well, do people like, you know, wealth is not, like, it's power, too. Anyway,

play the, I want to clear something up. They're one of a hundred, they're one of a hundred people. They're only trying to leave and run for presidents because they get,

they finally realize they can't actually do much. It's very, it's hard committee work. It's like hurting cats and shit. It's like, anyway, go ahead and play the video,

man. I am, so sick and tired of Republicans that will say I support President Trump's policies but I don't like the man this is

a good man this is a great American this man wakes up every day fighting for us fighting for this country he loves this country like no other leader even Lindsey Graham doesn't say Trump's a good man.

Yeah. I'm just saying like I agree with you. I mean, I've said a million times. If I got like I hit a big enough lick or whatever, I'm going to the beach or the mountains or whatever and that and that's it for me. But like, but they want,

I don't know, they want adoration. They want like he wants to be Trump. Do you know what I mean? Like they want an extra degree of attention and respect that comes with having senator in front of your name like they just want to be that person it doesn't matter that they have the kind of money i know that and i don't care either like i know that psychological affliction exists i can't wrap my i know i'm with you i've always told i always heard the most powerful

word in the english language is no right having the power to say notice it's like do you want to do this no right he's asking yes the guy who's a millionaire car dealership owner is asking for a job that pays a hundred and seventy thousand dollars a year the requires them to go to vfd w halls and to get it. He has to lick Trump's asshole. I don't I understand what you're saying. Intellectually, it does not make any sense. We need to stop acting like it makes sense. No, I know. I'm with it. This is like when I

ask you to try to make sense of some weird ass talking point wherever they have and you're like, it doesn't make sense. Like what are you talking about? Like, this is that, but in reverse. Because I'm totally, I totally agree with you. I'm just saying it's how they are. You know, it's how these people are.

It's a certain mental affliction that some people have. But anyway. So the one reason Sherrod Brown is going to have a shot at this and why Democrats are going to make sure he holds under the Senate seat is like it's a statewide race, which means it's still contestable in a state like Ohio, because other seats in Ohio, because of radical fucking gerrymandering are not. Ohio is otherwise rigged. We interviewed the guys who were white rural rage a couple weeks ago, and I pulled this quote because I remember reading it. Ohio Republicans who control both the chambers of the state legislature need not worry that their views conflict with the citizens, citizenry at large. This academic rates, Ohio is the second most gerrymandered state legislature in the nation. Here's a quote, it's a political scientist named David Niven.

Ohio has become the Hindenburg of democracy. So we haven't a time to touch on all the corruption shit going on Ohio, but I have a working theory that Ohio might be the America's new most corrupt state. the follow-out from this energy scandal where a nuclear power company essentially paid state officials $60 million to secure $1.3 billion and like, you know, free money to help prop up their businesses. Devine's right in the middle of it, but isn't going to be in any trouble. Like just last week, he came to support of an aide who knew about a $4.3 million payoff, the energy company named First Energy, paid to the guy. that DeWine had put it in charge of the public utilities commission.

She knew about it, but didn't tell DeWine, and she still has her job, and he's like, that's fucking cool. By the way, she's not talking, so, you know, nobody snitches over there. This is a scandal that's already sent two people to a federal prison. It has a bunch of people, other people awaiting trial. And DeWine is going to escape. See, talking about the MAGA people versus the old guard. DeWine is the old school kind of corrupt?

Right. Where everything he did, he made sure it was legal. He took campaign contributions, right? He ignored other people taking bribes. He didn't take bribes. He secured a, took a quarter million dollar contribution to his daughter's failed political campaign for some office she wasn't qualified for. Right. And in exchange those campaign donations, he appointed a guy to be his name, Steve Randazzo, Sam Randazzo, sorry, to be in charge of the state's top energy regulator whose previous qualification was working

for the fucking power company. You've been on their payroll secretly since 2010. And it's just normal. And you can't vote these motherfuckers out. I mean, DeWine is technically statewide, but like, it's just like, DeWine has a history of corruption. Let me go back here. Jules T on YouTube says Mike DeWine is crooked as fuck.

Also previous guest host and guest, Travis Irvine, a big Ohio politics guy, has been pounding the Mike DeWine as a corrupt piece of shit. You know, been pounding that drum for a long, long time now. So, yeah. Yeah.

So a few months back, the Ohio Capitol General reported that DeWine's former campaign treasurer compiled a 198-page dossier to detail why DeWine shouldn't pick notorious lawyer Sam Rundazzo to be chairman of the Public Utilities Commission. This guy, Rundazzo was so crooked that a fellow Republican drafted a 198-page dossier on him. Like, he stayed up late in a term paper about this motherfucker. That's a level of corruption. that I can't even fathom. And like the FBI is all over this.

And like I would take as the personal affront if these guys were just dunked on me like this, just running around being this corrupt. But the FBI is not some great moral institution here. And I feel so weird rooting for the FBI, but the voters have no other fucking recourse. Right. Well, that's a weird thing that's happened in recent years too,

is like the FBI has become left coded or whatever. You know what I mean? It's like, we were never fucking fans. of the FBI or whatever. Like I always felt a little uncomfortable with, because, you know, they're cop, they're super cops, right? I always felt a little uncomfortable with them becoming, like, our heroes and shit during the Mueller investigation and all that stuff.

It's like, I'm not, I remember when that, uh, when the Clint Eastwood movie Richard Jewell came out, which independently is a great story. And I like that movie, but like, at the time that movie was painted as like conservative propaganda because it demonized the FBI who, which was liberal. nature or whatever and I was like what the

we're we're huge FBI fans I must have missed that memo when the fuck did that happen but yeah it is weird to be like rooting for the FBI in any scenario but it's because corruption is now coded as cool on the right it's right wing

right like if you're like I don't think a state official should take a 4.3 million bribe to give 1.3 billion dollars this scandal is cost to one estimate it costs to a They're still getting the money at first electric. It cost them like half a million dollars a day, every day, ongoing.

Because it was a bill, the law that gave them that money. So they got to pass a different law to stop giving them the money. And they're so corrupt and I'm interested in passing a different law that's going to send a few people to jail. So everybody else keep the gravy train going. It's fucking crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Throw us a couple more things up there, Matt. If you got them, comments and questions and whatnot. We got three minutes left. Carla Barrick says, oh, great, trying to keep up with old school GOP corruption versus Maga corruption. Yeah, I mean, I know what you mean. It is like I was just, I saw a clip that was getting recirculated of George W. Bush recently. And when I watched it, my initial genuine reaction was kind of like, man, I kind of

whispered. Don't do it. But then I further thought after that, I was like, dude, at the time. him, I did not think it was possible for me to hate a politician more than I hated George W. Bush. Like, I reviled that man. I was like, there cannot be any worse than this. Like, I hated that motherfucker. And they have gotten so, God, that the bar has dipped so low that I almost get like nostalgic for that. And it's like the Republicans, too, of his ilk at the time. They drove me crazy in that, in that time period. But now looking back, I'm like,

like, I kind of miss those guys. Like, they still didn't hit for me, but I would rather have them here than what we do have here is what I'm saying. No, you wouldn't. Do you remember the Iraq war, Trey? Yeah, but like, you don't think Trump is capable of worse than that? He might, I mean, he hasn't yet, but he could kill us all if he gets in there. I don't, I don't, I don't, this is like a five-hour talk. I don't want to have it.

I'm just like, the bottom light, like, you don't think that that era and that, and that, the Republicans cut from that cloth, you don't think that was preferable to what we have right now in the MAGA era. That's all I'm saying. I think it's all bad. It is all bad.

Of course it's all bad. I'm not going to see it in part with you whether I either a shit sandwich or a shit taco. It's fucking bad. Right. I know. But the shit taco is also on fire.

Anyway, Carla Berry says no, Trey. No. I don't, please don't misunderstand me. George W. Bush don't hit for me.

I'm not saying he. hits for me. I'm just, all I'm trying to say is like, it's wild how much worse things have gotten. That's all I'm trying to say, because that's how I feel about it. We've had this fight before too. Mr. Hall, Dr. Carl Lucy's a tray over there saying, wish we had Mitt. I'm not saying I wish Mitt was the president. I'd rather be dealing with Mitt than with Donald Trump, like from the opposing side is what I'm trying to say. I think you've memory hall of the whole 2012 campaign, but that's a whole, that's a whole other episode. Red, Red Romney, you ran one of the most hasteful dishonest campaigns ever in the history of American politics, up until John.

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I worked at a restaurant too happened to be Hispanic and we were riding around after work one day smoking weed and he goes he's just talking about Trump, Bush and he goes like he's going to textify the whole country man and he just got real depressed about it

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