Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 3/22/22 – We’re Sorry, Judge Jackson (Woooo)

Episode Date: March 23, 2022

On tonight’s Skews, we go further into the epic straw-grasping of the GOP during Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing. We got some good dumbassery for ya too. Join us. Support the show

Howdy, everybody. Welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It is March 22nd, 2022. I'm Trey Crowder. And that's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? I'm excited about the show today. We're talking a lot about a Senate hearing Jackassery. We're not going to be talking about Ukraine tonight, but real quick, it's turned into a hellish stale. mate where you know rush is just bombing this shit out of maripole because it's the closest country to their board a city of their board they can fuck with um i did run across this really funny article about the ukrainian foreign legion which is all the where the all americans are going to sign up to fight um and uh apparently it's not going well the reporter follow these guys are trying to make it in from poland and the one guy who was signed up to be a chaplain kept ranting

about what a fucking shit hole uh on poland is and the reporter was like i don't know to break it to you buddy, but you're going to war to a war zone. So this old board from Alabama, apparently just like a beam pole with big thick glasses, which you know, hey, far better from us, glasses are fine. But just not really like special forces material. And apparently the reporter found out he had been in the army but washed out. It didn't work out. And his mom even told him, you probably shouldn't do that.

That's not for you. And so then the guy says, so I just figured I'd go to Ukraine and show him the way. And the reporter was like, oh, this dude, he's going to. show them the way to kick-ass American style or whatever, but the guy actually meant show them the way, capital W-I-E, the light of the Lord, the way, the path of Jesus, because he was going there to be a chaplain. I don't know how that works preaching in, you know, Alabama and English to these Ukrainian troops, but, you know, thank goodness that guy's there. I've been assuming the whole time with that Foreign Legion thing that there has to be a bunch of like

mall ninja types, you know, going. And I'm sure some fully legitimate badasses. But, you know, they're going to be a lot of, a lot of people trying to play war, which ain't going to help nobody. Yeah, the reporter made the point that even if you have combat experience in the American military, fighting in Afghanistan when you're on the side of overwhelming forces is a little bit different than being bombarded in a foxhole when you're severely outnumbered. So, like, the American plan would be to call for a drone strike. And it's not really going to work here. But anyway, like, I, some sometimes. I was like, so Zelensky is like banned a lot of, uh, private media and, uh, and, uh, outlawed a bunch of political parties.

Now, some, some people are saying their left wing. So we were saying their Russia sympathizing, which would be weird for a left wing party in Ukraine to be sympathizing with Russia because it's, you know, uh, turbo capitalist, kleptocracy, anti-gay, anti-Muslim. But, um, I don't, I don't, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, and assume it's closer to Lincoln, uh, revoking habeas corpus than it is and trying to establish themselves as a dictator. I don't know. You're fighting for your life. Yeah. Right. It's clearly very, it's extraordinary circumstances. And, you know, he seems to be doing the best he can. And, you know, people have been with it so far. So I'm also going to give him the benefit of the doubt on this particular move. You know, they got a lot of shit going on right now, Zelensky does.

Yeah. Speaking of which, there were reports that are trying to get Zelensky to zoom into the Oscars. for what and i got to say please don't do that like to do what raise awareness of the thing the world's most aware of right now who's unaware of that right now yeah like the Oscars don't get enough shit for like sort of political grandstanding or whatever you know that's like the number one thing people bitch about it at the Oscars every year so they're going to add a big Zelensky section

as though he doesn't have more important things to do then holler at the Hollywood elite. Yeah, that's, uh, that's, yeah. And, uh, domestic political news, uh, news, just to give you an update on, uh, the, uh, the skewers favorite, uh, lieutenant governor, John Federman, who's running for Senate in Pennsylvania, uh, he's running against Connor Lamb, who's like a centrist, uh, think tank dipshit. Um, I kind of do we hate around here. And Lam, Lam's campaign leaked polling data, which shows he's way behind Federman.

also Federman clobbers Dr. Oz by like 30 fucking points. So the funny thing is he's leaking this as an excuse for why he's about to go super negative on Federman, which is like, if you believe in issues and you want a Democrat to be in the Senate, it seems like you're already one buddy. I think you can just go home, Connor, or just go back to the house. That's such classic just Democrats, you know what I mean? We just like tear ourselves apart, tear each other apart to the extent that they don't even have to all the time.

so that totally tracks. I know people have brought up Federman to us a lot, and I didn't know that much about him until my Patreon segment this week. I covered the Pennsylvania Senate race, and so I looked into him more. And I tell you what? I'm a fan of that motherfucker from what I read about him. He's like 6-8, got tattoos, ball with a go-tee.

He looks like a biker wear shorts in the wintertime and shit. Hardly ever wears a suit. And, you know, just seems like a no-nonsense type of guy. But, you know, progressive him. whatnot. It's, uh, I'm into it. Yeah, but he scrambles the minds of the DNC types who think that you get elected by adopting the right sequence of like various centrist issues. So, the fact, he, uh, you know, uh, has a graduate degree from Ivy League school, but waves a rainbow flag and also a gun and also says Black Lives Matter. Yeah, no, they don't, it doesn't compute.

The party leadership, they don't like him, you know, I guess because he's like effective. I don't know. But no, it's because he don't, like, play their game their way, is what I read. He doesn't, like, make overtures to the right other politicians and shit. Doesn't kiss the right asses and whatnot. So they're not a fan. And, of course, he's, like, you know, a favorite of the people. So they're going to try to undermine him and fuck him over, presumably. Because, again, that's just sort of how they roll.

Yeah. They look at a guy like that and say, you see him getting over because of authenticity. And I go, like, authenticity, how do we fake that? Right. Yeah. Before we get to our normal hell world bullshit, some good news. One, the web telescope, one of the crowning achievements in human ingenuity in all of our species history, appears to be operating fantastic and they've got some cool pictures from it.

And maybe we'll get the, maybe we'll be able to peek at the face of God, Trey. That's good. I've been pumped about that goddamn thing for what feels like 15 years or something. It's been in the work for a very long time. And I'm so fucking excited that it's finally up there and up and running. I'm all about that spaceship, buddy. Yeah, it's amazing what a bunch of scientists can accomplish. You can just give them a boatload of money and tell them not to worry about war stuff.

And another good news, I don't know if you follow this, this is like container ship that was shipping a bunch of luxury cars, the United States caught on fire and sank a while back. And I did some maritime law research. And apparently whatever is at the bottom of the ocean is finders keepers. So if you guys want a free Porsche or Audi or Ferrari, just get yourself a fucking storical baby and go get it. That is.

That's right. Yo, ho, ho. Get your pirate on. Why not? Diving for buried treasure. Sounds like a good time. Okay, well, let's get into it with us. As always, this producer, Matt.

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have a principle called freedom of speech. Freedom of speech means that everybody gets to... Freedom of speech means that government doesn't get involved. Shut the fucking mouth. Because I'm not asking you what freedom speeches. I fucking love that clip so much. Let me tell you about freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is shut the fuck up.

You don't speak when I'm explaining freedom of speech to you, motherfucker. It's like, it's such a perfect snapshot of those people just like... like immune to irony, fucking baldly hypocritical rules for me, or rules for they, not for me type shit, like just all summed up in one in one little 13 second clip. It's so, so great to me. Yeah, New York Times wrote a whole fucking editorial this week about, or in the last week about cancel culture stuff and everyone dunked on it.

But I like, I think basically all the whole argument on cancel culture was just summed up by that 10 second clip. It's like, it's like, I'm not saying internet pollens don't happen or whatever, but there's not, there's no government department that can be like, well, 10 people have replied to this tweet already, you got to stop everyone else from doing it. That's like, you reach the maximum amount of pig poop balls jips being sent to this guy. So it's like, freedom speech is also somebody being like, hey, your opinion, you fucking sucks your dingus.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. It was, uh, I don't know if it's the originator of the material, but it was, uh, I don't know if it's the originator of the material, but it was. from Walter Masterson, I believe it is, on TikTok. So if that was him in the video, it was a good get. Good get there. Also, nice move to give the camera the sort of the office side-eye thing.

You know, very effective. Okay, what do we got next? Our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is Kim Jong-un for not being prepared to deal with the ultimate American badass having access to classified White House intel. correctly correct and i'm like just being pretty you know we're looking at maps and i'm like you know i'm like am i supposed to you like get on i make dirty records sometimes like i do it here you didn't think you'd have a hand what do you think we should do about north korea i'm like what i don't think i'm qualified to answer yes i agree kid rock yeah i mean honestly i i respect his

position in that one small moment there. Like, you know, good for you, Kid Rock, for having, you know, at least the amount of self-awareness required to acknowledge that you probably shouldn't be making, you know, massive foreign policy decisions on behalf of the United States or whatever. I'm going to throw this out here. We talk about Kid Rock and her political discourse far too much for a healthy democracy. That's so true. That's so true.

I mean, he has come up a lot lately, but he's been putting those songs out that, like, You just can't help, but, you know, comment on and make fun of. I'm not saying we're the problem here. Tucker Carlson is the fucking problem. Like, we're just roasting a dumbass. He's interviewing Kid Rock for his serious political opinions. And I just like, what the fuck, man? Like, just let people be jokes.

It's fine. Kid Rock's got a nice life. He's got a big house. He makes a lot of money. He's coasting on a bunch of record deals from the fucking 90s. And he's also still making hits and touring for a couple thousand people somewhere. So we should probably lay off of him a little bit Because if my mama sees any of this

She's going to be real pissed at me She ain't she ain't gonna appreciate me going after Kid Rock Pretty big fan You know And again, as was I for a long time You know, that's my white trash prerogative Cowboy, that's my jam Bye with the Ba

Don't ain't like I'll get you fired up Oh, underrated I am the Bull guy That's why it's probably my favorite I Kid Rock song yeah yeah he had some bangers all right now that we've been fair to kid rocks uva moving on next honorable mention any old person who thinks they can just fuck around with josh mandale and not find out but i can file elections commission you own stock in chinese petro i personally didn't buy the stock

you made millions off it sir i don't think i'd millions off of anything i'd love to have me millions off of Chinese Petro. First of all, Shanghai, Shenda, and Chinese Petro. Buying a second, you may not understand this because you've never been in the... No, you don't. I do. You've never been in the private sector in your... I've worked, sir.

Squat. Two chores and Iraq. Don't tell me I haven't worked. Don't tell me I haven't worked. You don't know squat. It's okay, right? You don't know squat. I can't tell you're booing.

I know. I know. But like, I don't know. Imagine. thinking that's going to play, man, just getting up in a Papaw's face and threatening to whip his ass on the stage. I mean, you know, again, but see, this is like an old businessman Papaw who's also on their side, I believe. If this was like a long-haired hippie papaw, they'd probably be egging him on, I imagine. But still, you know, if you're running for

U.S. Congress, you probably ought not be trying to whip Papal's asses in public. That's just my opinion, but, you know, I'm not a political consultant. that i mean they're they're all fucking they're having a crazy off in that whole primary sure are that shit is wild our boy our boy jd was there and he stood up after that and basically split the difference by saying because he because jd was the marines too um he said how dare you use your service so that's checking off mandel to threaten an old man so he also dunked on the other guy that was pretty smooth move but it's also like men men men at least served in the infantry.

I'm not trying to denigrate a way of service, but JD was like a public affairs guy. So he was like the definition of a rare ashton motherfucker. So it's like it's not like the Marines. Yeah, that guy hits. I guess he made it through boot camp, so more power to him. Yeah,

but that's the race that we've covered recently where there's like attack ads talking about how little their dicks are and stuff or something like that. Yeah. Trump don't like Mandel because he thinks he's into butthole stuff and is weird and whatnot. And it's just wild, wild shit there in Ohio. but moving on to wild shit in the this is the nation's capital still going on the big maga truck convoy

and our honorable mention is everyone who would have bet on the trucks when it comes to them versus some smart ass on a bike look at this in front of the truck convoy just barely moving, going like three miles an hour, and they're hitting him with the truck or horn to no avail. He cannot pedal a bike slower than this. This guy hits from me. No, yeah. He's like this close to having to stick his leg out, just out himself from falling over.

The guy doing the filming is in a car, but he's with the convoy. And so when the bike gets up next to him, he goes like, hey, man, what are you doing? Why are you in the way? And the guy goes, he's like, I'm sorry, I can't hear you. Because over the horns, it's the ultimate smart estimate. That's great. How's this going, Mark?

Big D.C. Convoy. They're not accomplishing much. It wasn't surprising because as we covered last week, they're not actually asking for anything. So I'm not sure how they would win. But they're getting pretty frustrated because people in D.C. traffic, they're stuck there anyways.

They're just fucking with them. We talked about last week how they're flipping them off. But the people sort of break checking them this week. And here's how they responded. this is funny because after they sort of like the truck of convoy got in a fight about this because they box this guy in a Tesla in for break checking them and then the other truckers made them let them go because they're afraid they're already arrested for kidnapping and that's the context for this video and then the woman getting shushed at the end for confessing

to a crime on camera. It Matt you got the Tesla video there producer Matt. Matt. oh no oh no we're missing matt no matt has matt vanished matt died into the ether he's gone in just like that without a trace producer matt was gone never to be heard from again we can skip that matt i basically just told you what happened but uh so anyway matt please send us a message and let us know that you're okay all right we want to call the police ah here we go yeah it's okay mad

I don't know. That's him driving away right there. I saw that. I was the truck that had him up against the rail. We're live here, so, yeah. Somebody reached out to the cops and were like, because they were worried about it being kidnapping charge. And like, man, we went in charge of her kidnapping for that, but it would be like a road rage incident. So she did confess to something. But so the Daily Beast reporters had fallen around just, they, they've been touring around the idea of this stuff for a while because that they've people's convoy as a new goal conduct quote citizens arrests of metropedy officers and DC mayor Muriel Bowser.

Okay. We have to put a summons out to the Metro PD so we can citizens arrest them. So what's a summons? Bold strategy right there. See how that. They're going to citizens arrest the cops, the D.C. cops? Yeah. Yeah.

Good luck with that, truckers. See how that goes. Coleman is one of the guys in charge of the convoy. and convoy lawyers are looking into it. So you've got the convoy lawyers on it. As to the arrest reasoning, truckers speak with Coleman say that other truckers haven't been able to, quote, go to the bathroom while circling the beltway,

which is left, quote, people having actually pissed their pants. So they're not allowed to go in D.C. bathrooms because of the vaccine mandates. So they're going to arrest the mayor because they pissed their pants. All according to plan, Mark. Just like they grew it up, buddy. The Domino's your.

falling into place. And this is before this happened with the Tesla, but there's been a growing fascination with the prospect of arresting DC residents. Some truckers have also suggested they could arrest a Beltway driver if they successfully pin the driver and take them out of their condar car

and to conduct an arrest. So that was part of a, pinning that to Tesla was part of a pre-planned op. They'd been kicking around. But yeah, I personally think if I piss or shit my pants, I should be able to arrest the closest mayor. So I'm in favor of that platform.

Piss yourself. You're like, this is the fault of the mayor. Who has pissed my pants? Who has pissed my pants? It was that dastardly mayor. Like, everything is so fucking dumb. So dumb. Look, the last time I pooped my pants was when during the pandemic when gyms are closed,

I was working out of the park and had something go wrong. I had to hurry home. I made it, I made it, though, but it was a close call. But I would have had no one to blame but myself for having two cups of coffee before I went to a park. Right. Yeah, you're not going to, like, call up the city council or go to, like, a town hall and wait your turn and stand up there and be like, what are we going to do about me pooping my pants in the park? A city park, by the way, I poop my pants there, and I'd like some answers. Just holding up my underwear before we put them in the trash can.

Just like, I have the evidence. Yeah, right here. Okay. What are you going to do about this, city of Los Angeles? Oh, my God. Yeah, you're right, dude. So everything is just so dumb. It's got the dumbest era imaginable. Speaking of which, what do we got up next? Oh, that's our next honorable mention. Anybody who thought Sean Hannity wouldn't give glory to the brave Mujahideen of Afghanistan?

It's literally true. I look to the past. You're the historian. We watch Ronald Reagan. He never put a single American foot on the ground. when the former Soviet Union went into Afghanistan, but he did provide them Stinger missiles, and those stinger missiles to the Mujahideen made all the difference. He did provide the freedom fighters, the contras

in Nicaragua, the weaponry that they needed. That proved successful. Look to the past. You're the historian. You can see it, Matt. So what he's saying here is a good case study for a while we should increase our armaments to Ukraine,

which I don't think this would go that way. But like American leftists were like, oh, arming foreign flit. You know, I would be a critic of arming almost anyone, too, but I just think this is a different situation. But he's saying, like, the two good examples, how we armed death squads in South America. Yeah. And then also how we armed the Mujahideen trade. What's another name for what they turned? What that would they rebrand is? I believe the, uh, Taliban and Al Qaeda. Yeah. Al Qaeda. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. It's so wild. Like, is there anything they will not praise Ronald Reagan for? You know what I mean? They're like, You know, it's just a wild thing to just openly say, like, again, it was a different.

This was pre-Al Qaeda and Taliban. It was a different thing going on in Afghanistan at the time. It's still a wild thing for Sean Hannity to say on Fox News. It's like, you know, it was a great thing Ronald Reagan did was when he armed the Taliban or what would become the Taliban. Yeah. Yeah, he sent all these arms and weapons to Afghanistan for the Mujahideen, and then they won, and nothing else ever happened after that. They sent the gun back. they never used them for anything else

and things have been cozy over there to this day so thank you Gipper they literally got all their history of Afghanistan Rambo 3 which is like which is funny to me because Ray broke my heart because there's an apocryphal title card

for the end of that movie even floating around the internet says where thanks to the brave fighter the brave Mujahideen for their help of making this film or something like that and I had seen that and thought it was real, but it was actually the one, the fake ones on the left here, this film is dedicated

to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan. Someone edited that, but the real version of the film's entitled car was this film was dedicated to the gallant people of Afghanistan, which is at least vague enough to be passable, but they still took it out of the movie. Either version of which no longer exist in the movie. I told you before we start. We're talking about Rambo 3 here, right? So I had seen the Rambo 1 and 2 when I was younger. And then when I was in college, when my best friend Thompson, we got really high. and turned on Rambo 3, having never seen it. This is in like 2006, right?

And I don't know, you know, quarter of the way into it or something, we both were just kind of like, dude, is the Taliban the good guys in this movie? I heard the good guys in this movie. Are they the Taliban? Is that what's happening right now? And like, again, we were real stoned and that shit fucked us up. We could not get over it. Like I said, this is 2006.

And we were like, this is, wow, why ain't nobody talking about this? Rambo 3, this is crazy. And now it's like a well-known fact on, you know, on the internet and stuff. But at the time, I'd never heard that brought up before, and it blew my mind. I did not see that coming. Yeah, we loved Mujahideen in the 80s, man. They came over here and did press to a first. They were fighting the dirty Soviets, you know.

Yeah. We should probably, we weren't out of time. We should probably skip to the segment, I think. Wait, man, hang on. I want to, let's do the Marjorie Taylor Green one quickly, please. Okay, okay. Just go ahead and show the clip, Matt. y'all know how she is you don't need context talking about vaccines and he's also recommending a fourth COVID vaccine shot now I don't know about you guys but many of us were vaccinated

kids against polio had our MMR and I have never seen the CDC coming out saying oh you've got to get your second polio shot you got to get your third you got to get your fourth and this may continue to keep going. I think the question we all should ask is, when does it stop? And when are enough vaccines enough? But we don't have that question.

So, Ron Howard, no rater voice. The CDC recommends, it's on the city website. CD recommends that children get four doses of polio vaccine. They should get one dose. These are the following ages. Two months old, four months old, six through 12 months old, 18 months old. It's like, what

I don't. How hard is it to not do that? Like, how hard is it to look that shit up before you say? It's like, I don't remember us having to have four polio vaccines. Then literally on the CDC website, we recommend four polio vaccines. Also, like, I hope her ass don't step on a rusty nail. Her jaw is going to lock smooth up from tetanus because obviously she hasn't had a tetanus shot in forever either. If she doesn't believe in getting additional boosters, that wouldn't be the worst thing for her to have her jaw locked up.

But, but yeah, you know what I mean? It's like this. It's just the idea that vaccine means you get one shot and then you're good forever is like not something anyone has ever said about vaccines as a concept. There are some, I guess, that are like that. Others that are not. Diseases are different. Novel thought I know. But like it's just, but again, I don't know why I do this, especially with people like her.

Like there's sooner lasso of the moon. It makes sense of her. is incoherent ramblings. Doesn't it disprove the conspiracy theory is? Because what's the idea you hear that the microchips ran out of batteries or something? Like they got to inject some recharging. Right. Like so, but like people are on this argument on Twitterly, how many, how many are you guys going to take?

And it's like, I don't, I mean, I don't know. Like, I get flu shot every, I don't. Every year. What's, what is you're worried about it? Everything is just a big pharma scam and make more money. And they're giving us like, you know, they essentially, what do you call them? You get fake doses. is a, why I might the word escape?

Placebos. Placebos, yeah. Okay, but it's free to me, so it's not really, I guess it costs the government, but like, I don't know. We ain't got to get into this now because we've got to move on, but like we're like about to gut a bit chunk of our COVID infrastructure. So that's cool. That's good.

It's like things lighten up briefly and we're like, ah, we can just say fuck all that, spend that money on war stuff or whatever. Like, I just don't think if some other variant or whatever does crop up what not and then we're fucked because we did this. That'll be very typical, I guess. It's the most human thing in the world to panic and then forget about a problem. Then when you confront the problem again, panic and then you then forget about it.

But like the whole reason you have a government is to like think ahead a little bit. Like literally, we pay our tax dollars to a bunch of people to sit around and think ahead about about future problems 10 years from now so we don't fucking have to do that. So I can just go to the store and shit. Like literally that's what I give you taxes to worry about shit. Live my life. but all that does give you more shit to worry about though works in the opposite direction anyway mark let's talk about the scotis hearings yeah pretty much at night like pretty much just a grab bag schmorgas board of nightmare bullshit some of it funny some of it horrifying but i thought this was funny because like they basically started out with some of the most impoverty positions in the world like check out this uh we seem to play at the first 10 seconds map but this video uh tray's home state hero marshal blackbird put out this video

for why she opposes Kintaghi Brown Jackson. Good. Constitutionally unsound rulings like Griswold v. Connecticut. All right. So we talked a couple of weeks ago, we talked about Griswold v. Connecticut because it came up in a debate between three AG candidates for Michigan, I believe. And they all said they would overturn Griswold. Now, Griswold is a twin court decision for, I think, the 50s or 60s, is what makes. it illegal for states to forbid married people from buying birth control.

All right. What bugs about this, that decision is that laid the framework for that decision. Well, it's like the government has no place in your fucking child rearing decisions with like the groundwork for Roe v. Wade. But they want to throw it out. So I'm saying Republicans, if you're married want a mandate you have a baby. Yeah. You and your wife cannot decide whether or not to use the pill or an IUD or you or your husband or however. it goes um i don't think people are going to sign up for that but i'm glad they're just saying

shit like that out loud and there was a lot of that stuff that stuff today so what marshal blackburn was saying that uh judge jackson has like supported that ruling from the 50s or whatever or something she's saying we need because she supports that ruling that's a reason you can't she's not a good idea or whatever she's making a general argument for putting strict constitutionalists and textualists on the Supreme Court because they will not find rights in the Constitution like you and, like me and my wife, have the right to decide whether or not to be on the pill. Okay. So it's not a specific argument against Jackson.

It's a general argument against liberals not being put to death. Right. Right. So. Okay. But it's like, we'll get to do some more serious stuff in a minute. But for a second, let's enjoy some clownery from our favorite Mr. Ted Cruz. Ted chose to use his time

to interrogate Judge Jackson about children's books that are in the library at I want to enjoy this picture as Ted Cruz has been in front of a self-portrait I think if you're just listening it's a fat baby and a diaper and this book is apparently some anti-racist text

that's in the library for the Georgetown Georgetown Day School Georgetown Day School is a school for which Kataji Brown Jackson is on the board of I think because her kids went there A lot of rich D.C. type people, kids go there. Your buddy, Ruben Fleischer, also graduated from there. Trey, I looked at their notable alumni page.

Nice. Show out, Rubin. So he chose to ask her about whether baby, basically whether babies can be racist. That's what he uses time of the Senate floor for because she's saying this is critical race theory at a children's school for which she just sits on the board of. for she's the she's at fault for our kids being taught in civil wars over slavery or something i don't really know i'm you do you be following it by the way georgetown day's mark do you think real quick like do they have staffers or interns or something that are like how do they are they going through all the books at the georgetown day school or what like i i get okay she's on the board

of this school all right look into that school but how you find one fucking kid's book that has to do with race and throw it up there. I don't know. There's shit's wild to me. Yeah, I mean, like this is what Apollo research is basically. I think people like Apollo research is digging through people's dumpsters, but it's basically just scouring public records for obscure shit. You can hang over people, hang around people's necks, like what books are in the library of Georgetown Day School. For the record, Georgetown Day School was found in 1945 as D.C.'s first integrated school, so it's not wild that a theme there would be being pro-justice. But it's also currently $40,000 for kindergarten to go there.

The idea that it's for radicals is just fucking hilarious. Oh, shit. For example, Phil Graham, the famous right-wing senator from Texas, sent his kids there. So I doubt they're doing communism. So, yeah. No doubt. That's all you had to say, as far as I'm concerned. Anything that costs $40,000 a semester or a year for elementary school, you're not going to have, it's not going to be a progressive bastion.

Okay. It might be cosmopolitanly liberal. Maybe out here. Maybe in L.A. or something. I could see that. But, like, you know, not in D.C. Look, I mean, like, we talk, people talk about California being liberal. It's like, you mean cosmopolitan liberal.

I mean, they're fine with gay people and morale people as long as you don't live in your neighborhoods. But you're not, no one's opposed to capitalism. And, in fact, we enjoy making a shit ton of money and having low taxes. So, like, it's like Disney stance from last week about Florida's don't say gay bill. That's cosmopolitan liberalism. Yep. So, uh, here's a funny thing to Chris did. If you wouldn't think he'd use a Senate confirmation hearing for his Supreme Court justice,

you know, one of the solemn moments, most solemn moments in American democracy, in theory, uh, to make a few bucks off of stamps.com and, uh, dick pills. You'd be fucking wrong. This will not be the kind of character smear that sadly our Democratic colleagues have gotten very good at. And it's important to note, you know, a couple of years ago I was doing my weekly podcast, and I was on there you go you plugged in podcast

intellectual got the plug in there uh just so you know Trey when I'm when I'm on trial when I went at the sentencing phase from my death penalty trial I will use it to plug skews for you yeah I would appreciate that

dude it's come up somehow before I think we maybe showed a clip from it or something at one point but who the fuck is listening to Ted Cruz's podcast like I've always gotten the impression that even people that support him because of his ideology And he's like one of the biggest name Republicans there is.

But even those people don't like to look at or listen to Ted Cruz, I thought, was the general sentiment. I cannot even imagine that shit. We're going to bring up Gitmo a little later. That's like if I was in Gitmo, that would be a strong strategy for them. Just play Ted Cruz's podcast on a loop. I'll tell you whatever you want to know. You know, like the man's got a podcast audience based. upon his intense charisma tray.

Here's what I imagine his listenership is. It's one extremely weird guy with this very specific case of ASMR who just jerks off to it. That's his listenership. So, Ted Cruz got stuck in Bozman, Montana over the weekend. He missed his flight. And he was recorded.

There's no audio on the record. All you have is the airplane employees take on it, but you see him yelling at them. He apparently missed his, he was late for his flight and they shut the door so he couldn't get on it. And so he was going, do you know who I am to an airport employee who the funny part was, had no idea who he was. And he was doing this because he was in a hurry to get back to D.C. Monday morning for Supreme Court hearing so he could ask a woman if babies could be racist. Right. Yeah. Lively important. Yes. All right. So the war on terror came up in this, in this hearing because,

In their role as a civil rights attorney, Jackson was hired by the Libertarian Cato Institute to write a brief for how Gitmo detainees are being held without trials and violation of, you know, little things like the United States fucking constitution and all in all forms of decency. So, Lindsey Graham went off on a tirade about this, then stormed off. So this is a, here we go. Testing decisions failed miserably and advocates to change this. system like she was advocating, would destroy our ability to protect this country. We're at war. We're not fighting a crime. This is not some passage of time event. As long as they're dangerous, I hope they all die in jail if they're going to go back to kill Americans. It won't bother me one bit if 39 them die in prison. That's the better outcome to letting them go. And if it costs

$500 million to keep them in jail, keep them in jail because they're going to go back to the fight. Look at the friggin' Afghan government. It's made up a former detainees at Gitmo. whole thing by the left about this war ain't working. Let me also note that Larry Thompson, there he goes. There he goes. Lindsey Graham has had a bit of a bloodlust lately. Like he turned over a bloodthirsty leaf the past couple of week or two because, you know,

he was openly calling for somebody to murder Putin. And now he's just like, let them all die. Let them ride. I don't give a fuck. Not that Lindsey Graham's ever like not. that he has ever valued human life or wouldn't have, you know, watch the light go out of someone's eyes just to get himself off or whatever. Any of that stuff, sure he would.

But I'm just saying he's been more openly homicidal recently, I feel like. Yeah. And just to talk about what he's saying is bullshit from top to bottom, one, going back to what fight is he talking about. I think everyone's aware by now. There are no more American troops in Afghanistan unless they're, there by secret doing covert op shit. So secondly,

does anyone pay attention to who's in fucking Gitmo? Because you've got to think about what Afghanistan was like in 2001 when we invaded. We had a bunch of intelligence people walked around bags full of cash saying you can have cash if you turn in somebody. And they're presenting this off in this cash to warlords

who were druged opium dealers who had rival opium dealers who they're obviously afraid would turn them in if they didn't do it first. So what they do is be like, that guy, he's with Al-Qaeda, go fucking get him. They haul off his competitive, competing drug dealer, and get a $3 million in the U.S. government. That's a pretty fucking sweet deal if you're a warlord. Absolutely.

You also just got random people who were, like, mistaken of mistakes. No one knew what's happening. You got people who just drove people around, like their high-level terror positives. It's a fucking nightmare scenario, and no one's confident that any of these dudes fucking did anything. And if they were confident, they did stuff, they could prove it in court. and they could get them sent to an actual prison instead of being stuck in this hellish legal gray area on a military base.

But even then, these guys have been tortured for 20 years now. When I was say torture, we're talking about like they go on hunger strikes and they force feed them through their rectums, shit like that. So, and to say this this week,

this report came out this week. The CIA Inspector General talked about this guy who was a low-level terror operative, didn't know anything. They tortured him so much. They were confident that he didn't know jack shit. And instead of letting him go, he was already brain damaged.

So they decided, well, it's no point letting him go because he's already ruined his life. So I used him as a practice dummy for terror, for interrogators to practice torturing on. All right? Because these people, it's called walling. I guess you just ram a guy's head against the wall gently to keep his fucking head hurting. Well, I say gently. It was enough to, again, give him brain damage. But these guys had to be certified in this, like it's lifeguard training.

They use them literally like a CPR dummy. And so Luzi Graham is saying that this week, it's just fucking gross. And I hate that. I hate this all so much. That is so fucked up. But yeah, like my thoughts on Gitmo are similar to like when we've talked about the death penalty before. I think there are people in this world who like could be taken out of it. And it would, you know, and everybody would be better off for it.

Literal child murderers and shit like that. People who are evil. But if we've ever executed an innocent person, which we know we have multiple times, then the whole thing is. is fucked and we can't have that anymore and it's similar to me with Gitmo like fuck an actual legitimate terrorist but in my mind there is a zero percent chance that all of those dudes who have been detained in Gitmo are all actual legitimate terrorists not you know for all the reasons you're already outlined and if that is the case which I'm certain it is then the whole fucking

thing needs to be shut down and go away because it ain't it ain't worth that the one or two got legitimate guys you might have in there that are threats, it's not worth the fucking stripping the humanity away from all the other regular people that you've tortured for 20 fucking years, or at least it shouldn't be. So fuck that shit. It's an indictment. Well, it's an indictment of like all of our humanity. These people do this shit in our fucking name funded by our tax dollars. And but anyway, think about all this. And here, listen to this question, John Cornyn asked her. Again, it doesn't ground anything. But I think you consider this question asked and answered by all this shit i just told you about just ask you i don't

know you well but i've been impressed by our interaction and you've been gracious and charming why in the world would you call secretary of defense rumsfeld and george w bush war criminals i have an answer i have an answer so out of care of you know senator you may have been to talk are you talking about briefs that I can cut it back because she goes on for a while but she doesn't have any idea what the fuck he's talking about um is it true that you referred to the cleveland browns as a quote joke of a franchise why would you say something like that it's completely out of bounds yeah where did that come from yeah so this is uh we talked about marshall blackburn wanting to make it make it illegal for married people to fucking not make a kid so uh they're

really taking this back to the 1950s and if you don't believe me here's an interview with a Mike Braun Republican Senator from Indiana. Do we have it, Matt? It's, yeah, here we go. He's getting it for everybody. Here we go. Mark, also, moving forward.

Let's keep an eye on the time here. We've got a lot of wild shit left to cover. But here we go. So you would be okay with the Supreme Court leaving the question of, interracial marriage to the states? Yes, I think that that's something that if you're not wanting the Supreme Court to weigh in on issues like that, you're not going to be able to have your cake and eat it too.

I think that's hypocritical. It's like maybe I'm just, you can list a whole whole. That's good, like, maybe it's me, but I feel like what is the Supreme Court for to, to this dude? You know what I mean? Like, you know, leave it up to. Yeah, like, it's so wild. The way these questions are framed, I feel like anyone with any amount of PR training or no, like, oh, I can't say yes to this. You just ask me if I'd be cool with interracial marriage being a state's rights issue.

Probably wouldn't be wise to say, yeah, it's fine with me. But a barrel right on ahead. The case of legalized interracial marriage was Loving v. Virginia, all right, because interracial marriage was illegal in Virginia, my home state. And just a little personal story. I had a great aunt who had to flee the state because she married a black dude. She went to live in D.C. Everybody's got a cool party aunt, and she was mine, one of my dads. And she had married a couple of times, had a good time.

And rumor was, she used to tell people she fucks a JFK. No idea of the truth of it. That is a fun aunt right there. She really hits for me, and she should be able to marry whoever she should have been married whoever she wanted. So fuck this guy. But what he's talking about when he says, the Supreme Court weighing on issues like that, He's talking about wanting to re-overturn gay marriage, a case called Overfell.

So that's what he's talking about. But in case you think the race part of this isn't going to matter from state to state because, you know, we're past that. Matt found this store today from his home stomping grounds of San Diego. Sorry, South Dakota is at San Diego. It's pretty different. Yeah, very different. So there's apparently a shooting at a hotel, sports hotel and a sports bar in Rapid City, South Dakota,

where a person happened to be shot by Native America. person. So he put out in Facebook that he was banning Native Americans from his business. So yeah, that's illegal currently, but not for another 15 minutes of this guy has the way with the Supreme Court. Another really funny moment. We'll get through this stuff really fast,

but they're attacking her for being a product of a dark money effort, which is so fucking funny to consider conservatives by the Supreme Court. One, the left doesn't have any fucking money. There's one liberal billionaire as George Sorrows since when they're making the boogeyman for everything. Meanwhile, there's like a trillion right

wing a psycho billionaires. This Slate article, Matt, if you want to throw it up there. I think they don't have it. Okay. So the federal society, which is in the same building with like five other dark money groups that all have the same director and they all funnel money towards the same efforts. Like this one called JCN, running by a guy called Leonard Leo, who runs all this shit, is a

social where also operates another group called the Concord Fund. They're all running hit ads, anti-Judge Jack. The group routinely accepts individual anonymous donations, topping $15 million. This is not a grassroots network. These are individuals running checks for $15 million to sway the Supreme Court. And so, Matt, do you have showed in White House? Because this video, he calls his office bullshit for what it is. Mr. Chairman, Judge Jackson will be an exemplary justice, both because of the qualities

that she possesses and because she did not undergo a secret. pre-selection process to get here. She is before us on the basis of her own merit, not on the recommendation of a secretive right-wing donor operation, hiding behind anonymous multi-million dollar donations, and aimed at capturing the United States Supreme Court as if it were some 19th century railroad commission. All right. Yeah. I don't understand the argument from them that that entity, a right-wing dark money group aimed at capturing Supreme Court seats, that they would pick this person. If they would pick Judge, Jack.

They're saying there's a parallel effort in the left, which there isn't. There is a group working to try to call demand justice, which is what they're talking. The right-wing people are talking about. Demand justice is like a small group of the small budget who's just lobbying people to expand the Supreme Court. But the thing they do with buying. seats and, you know, just judge ships, whatever, and Senate seats and all that. They're saying that we're saying that we're doing that, which is not cool.

Yeah, they're saying, we're supposed to do that. Y'all ain't supposed to do that. Yeah, they're saying the thing. $300 million spent per year is being overwhelmed by the thing that your group who has $2 million budget is doing with donations from school teachers. That's what you're saying. So the part of this, like we won't, I had a whole thing ran about QAnon shit. I know this, we don't have time to get into it, I don't think.

Plus, I would know what you got was with Q and on shit enough. But Josh Halley, we talked about a little bit on Friday, has basically constructed a whole argument that she's pro-child porn, which is a dog whistle of the Q-types and also just as a good satanic panic bullshit. And also there's nothing to actually back that up. Like when you look into the actual numbers, like he said she's soft on child porn because in cases where she's presided over child porn sentencing, She's been lighter on those offenders, but as compared to most other judges, her numbers, whatever you want to call it, are essentially the same.

It's very in line with kind of the standard for that. So it's complete bullshit in addition to being QAnon dog whistling and all that type of coded messaging they do with fucking the pedophile panic and whatever the fuck else. So, and this is part of it by ran about the trans panic stuff so much because it's all tied. in together. They just want you thinking that there are gay trans pedophiles hiding in your bushes and Democrats are on their side. And they have message unity

from the wing nuts to the Fed Society types are all using different forms as talking points. Some sound more professorial than others, but it's all engineered for the same panic, right? And this one was even a little too far because right wing judges and left wing judges

centrist judges, everyone hates these science and guidelines. They're all bullshit. There's been a by-parts a working group of judges who've been trying to end this shit for years. And it wouldn't even too far for a guy, I got me, Andrew C. McCarthy, who's an absolute lunatic who writes for a National Review, which if you're not familiar with National Review is essentially a birther magazine. And this guy, here's his quote. Judge Jackson's views on this matter are not only mainstream.

They're correct in my view. Undoubtedly Jackson, a progressive who worked as a criminal defense lawyer is more sympathetic to criminals than I am. If I were a judge, I'm sure I'd impose at least marginally more serious sentences than she has. however she appears to follow the guidelines low end of the sentencing range as most judges do because a lot of people caught up you're not talking about child pornographers here

we're talking to people who downloaded some images off the internet and oftentimes they're like 18, 19 years old looking at pictures of 16, 17 year olds and they hate having to put these kids into fucking federal prison for a minimum of five years instead of putting in the like a pre-trial diversion thing because it just saps the humanity of everyone

and judges universally are aligned on this It's not some whack-a-do thing. Yeah. Yeah, but yeah, they're trying to, the whole Q&N thing, like you said, they're sort of like tying it all in together because there's another part of this where like they've started using the terms when they talk about their other hot button topics, like critical race theory and stuff, like, you know, teachers who are indoctrinating kids with critical race theory in school, they're grooming them.

Like they say, they're calling them groomers or grooming these kids. and stuff like that and it's very much on purpose trying to kind of blur the lines and make everything about fucking child sex predators or whatever

because they know that that's effective with a huge chunk of people so you make everything about that then you know you're one step closer I guess but it's fucking gross and terrible and they're all about it

one last thing and then we'll turn into comments but one of the reasons they want to throw this stuff back to the states is because let's wonder what the state's up to tray if the federal government can't right it can't protect your your god-given rights from the constitution but it's going to follow the states what are the states going to do well 33 states are trying to pass abortion restrictions that's like two-thirds of right so it's one small example here's what's going on your home state

of Tennessee is a list of stuff from representative gloria johnson who i understand you know i didn't know that until we started talking the pre-show she's a friend of uncle tam you know uncle tam if you've been following for a while. And I know Gloria as well, yeah, she's great. And God bless her for, you know, doing her damned us there in Tennessee, which is, you know, increasingly one of just the most sorry-ass and shameful states at the state government level that we have in this country. And basically what we've been doing lately is we look at all these things that other red states are doing

that people hate that make headlines for infuriating people, like don't say gay and the abortion laws and stuff. And we just take all of those. Like we go like, okay, we want the don't say gay. bill. We want that Idaho abortion shit. We want what Texas is doing. We take all the worst shit from everywhere and do it all at the same time in Tennessee. That's what we're about. So here's this list from, from Representative Johnson. We have a don't say gay bill worse than Florida's and about four more bills that go along with it, all equally filled with hate. We have a vigilante, oh, I'd say GOP and B-List celebrities are accusing

librarians and teachers of grooming kids. Sounds familiar, Q and on shit. We have a vigilante abortion bill worse than Texas is. A bill that makes your friends and family $10,000 if they rat you out. Heck, if you decide to abort your rapist baby, his family and friends can sue you for $10,000. Cue up that video, Matt. We'll go to, we'll throw that next because it's this, she's not exaggerating. No. Did you ever imagine Tennessee would have more right to a violent rapist and a victim of a violent rapist?

So, but here, she's not exaggerating here. Here's a Democrat asking the woman who wrote the bill if that's what happened. Listen to how this in the conversation goes. You could have a rapist, one in five, maybe one in six women in Tennessee, are victims of rape. And you could have a rapist, and that rapist could impregnate a young lady, a minor, and the rapist's mother or father could bring suit against that minor if they decided to get a abortion if this passes. Representative? The bill states that a rapist, sexual assault, or incest cannot bring a charge against the woman that has harmed. So, Representative Freeman?

That wasn't the question I asked. I'm sorry. I asked if their parent, sibling, friend, neighbor, spouse could bring suit against the minor who was raped to force them to pay a $10,000 fine if they decide to have an abortion. Representative. Can we go out a session for legal two? She does not want to answer this on camera. Any objections, we'll go out of session. Representative Freeman.

I would appreciate the sponsor's opinion. Would you have an opinion? My assumption is that they could because it's any citizen. So yes. Other than the rapist. I don't need to go out of session. Basically this exact same thing played out in the Iowa.

Idaho Congress too like last week and very similar clips except it's a white man who sponsored that bill Natch and but it's the same type of back and forth

but he just he the whole time is like yes that is accurate yes that is true and I I just don't know how in situations like these she clearly didn't want to answer that on camera

like you were saying but I don't know how you don't have any kind of like self-awareness at any kind of moment of like, okay, I'm saying that a rapist family members can sue the person who he raped for having an abortion. Maybe we're the bad guys here. Like, maybe this is wrong. Like, when you put it that way, this seems a little fucked up. Maybe we should circle back to at least that part of this fucking, you know, the part of your missing

tray is that it's all God's will. So God wanted that girl to get raped. And what God wants to happen next to say a 40-year-old high school soccer coach rapes a 15-year-old student and she gets pregnant, what God wants to happen is for his wife to be able to sue that girl for $10,000 to pay for his legal defense. So there, there you go. That's what God wants to go. It's just so, like I just, again, he specified a minor too. Talk about a kid. A kid could be raped, get pregnant, have an abortion, and then be sued and have to pay money to the right. rapist family for that happening and when you just say all that out loud i don't know how you

still are in support of it despite god's will i know fucking they go into mysterious ways mode but it's just it's fucking egregious man the shit that's happening right now is truly egregious and upsetting and uh it's just it's fucking uh really hard to stomach man it's hard enough to go to court to successfully go to court uh when you're a victim of a rape in the first place and a criminal trial. Now you have to go with a defendant in a civil trial. Right. Yeah. I know. Well, we're about out of time. I want to remind everybody, Matt, if you've got a comment or two, you can throw them up there if you have any ready. Sorry, y'all, we've got to, you know how we do sometimes. You've got to run in our mouse, but I do want to remind you to please like and subscribe and

share and all that. We appreciate it. And Ellen Clark on Facebook says, are these Christian fundamentalist or just opportunistic politicians. I do think a lot of times at the state level, and I've thought this for years, a lot of these people that sponsor these bills, it's like a name-making play. Do you know what I mean? Like, it's like a way to make a name for yourself

if you're like a state-level politician by being the one who sponsors one of these headline-grabbing bills, you know. But it's fundamentalist Christians, too. I do think the state-level people are more likely to believe their own bullshit. I don't think Ted Cruz believes anything he says. I mean, he went to, He went to Princeton, Harvard. Like, there's no way he's not cool again.

I mean, he might, there are gay people at Princeton and Harvard. There's a bunch of Jewish people. There's a bunch of, like, he is a cosmopolitan elite. You know, I don't believe for a second. It's like, Trump was a huge fan of musical theater. He loves the fan of the opera, and he spent the 70s going to discos doing cocaine. There's like, he's not judgmental of gay stuff. Right.

You know? I thought Trump was like not even. much of a conservative for a long time, like when he was younger, I thought. And then that became his thing, and he rolled with it real hard. And now he's, you know, their God emperor. You just got that cranky old man racism. That's all I mean. It's only the thing he made a conservative.

Well, I'm not saying, look, I'm sure Trump was always racist and also always sucked. I just mean in terms of, like, believing all his own bullshit. I feel like for a long time he didn't even pretend to believe half the shit he says he believes now. Like, I know for a fact, the Christianity, but they're like, faith part of it. I can remember when he didn't even really front like he fucked with God, you know? And then, but he became, you know, the pious president. We've got a holy man in office now. And now he plays that card sometimes. But like, you know, he didn't need to. There was a famous anecdote where some religious leaders went to Trump Tower to meet with

him, conservative religious leaders. And they were introduced as evangelicals. And he goes, evangelical, I thought you were Christian. I wasn't kidding. But it's a funny joke. yeah yeah that's well you know he's he's good at that or good for that i mean wasn't kidding but it was kind of funny you know like he never means to be funny but good lord just so over the top absurd so many times all right well listen we're wrapping up here thank you guys for being here remind you again come see me live please go to well redcomedy com and get some tickets going to be announcing some new dates very soon um for later in the year Also, if you want some more of us, some more of this show, please go to weekly skews.com

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