Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – 3/25/25 – Holding a Telethon for the Downtrodden (Elon)

Episode Date: March 26, 2025

Today, Trump goes to war with his biggest adversaries yet: The Golden Girls. A popcorn warlord rich moron attempts a one-man mayoral coup in a small village in New York, proving once again America has an unlimited supply of Guys Like This. Plus, the administration’s plan to Abu Ghraib everyone who frowns at a Tesla, and why are they acting like he’s going broke? All that and more on tonight’s Skews.Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you we're coming to you from a little earlier today it's skews day march 25th 2025 we've recorded we're sitting down to record this at 1102 a.m. on the left coast I'm Trey and that's Mark. How you doing there, Mark? Hey good buddy. You follow in the emoji treason, emoji treason group chat story that's currently overtaken DC. Indeed, I am. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out. I'm actually, I'm looking forward to talking this.

I don't know how, I don't know how much you realize that this happens. I'm sure you realize it. But, like, very often this is how I go about coming up with what I'm going to say in those silly videos I make is there's a big thing happening. I hear you say stuff about it. And then I repurpose that into, like, my own version of saying it. So, yeah, I just, or at least I double check. Okay, Mark thinks that.

Then I know it isn't completely stupid. So I feel safe saying it. so I'm looking forward with that how far you go with that because I'm going to get you in some real trouble yeah yeah I mean it's a fucking lot I think we'll probably do the whole episode about it later this week but like it's like it's a it's a fucking lot going on there man and I think like I would Matt and I were talking about before going on the Democrats are focusing on the rule breaking aspect of it without talking about why the rule exists and why it's dangerous what they did because they're talking about the dangers that Yemen if they know in advance could have shot down our air force I don't think that's the real concern here but anyway we'll talk about it on on Friday or Thursday whenever we did the bonus episode Today we're talking with the Tesla protests because they're growing and so is the administration's reaction to them

and it's getting pretty crazy and I'm not sure where this is all going to end up but it is fun to talk about the moment and the real overarching question is can Elon go broke because the Trump administration

is fucking acting like it and that's really weird to me. Okay. So before we get the show B. Arthur was in the Marines. Did you know that, Trey? I think that I knew that she,

I feel like I've seen a picture of her and some kind of, you know, I knew they were like in World War II women had certain positions and stuff. I didn't know the extent of it. So she joined up in 43 and she was originally a typist and she transferred to being a truck driver. And there was a, she was asked about this later, like,

she denied it. She's the opposite stealing violer. She's like, didn't want anybody to know she was in Marines. Not that she was ashamed of it, just that like, she didn't want credit for, she drove a truck, you know. Right. So, but so there's a webpage, DOD had on their history website or whatever, dedicated to like American heroes, who served, and B. Arthur had a page on there, right, under her birth name, which is

Bernice Frankel. The Trump administration took it down. They disappeared. Leon Trotsky, Dorothy Spornack. Right. Because they're DEI stuff. So, again, I know if I ask this every time this, like, comes up when it's like, like, for example, when they erased every mention of the Annola Gay and that type of thing,

Is this like an unintended consequence of using some sort of computer program to get rid of anything that's DEI related, which means in this case a woman doing stuff is DEI related so it gets deleted or someone going like, fuck by Arthur, we're arresting her. That's the question. Well, get that a second because I was trying to figure out the root cause of this. But like the main thing to know is whether or not she's a woman is like, if you know anything about World War II American propaganda, the fucking. these women were held up as heroes back, man, Rose of the Riveter. Yeah, Rose of the River.

Yeah, of course. So, like, so, like, these P guys are more troglodyte than their fucking grandfathers were. It's so true. I mean, that was back then when it was like a, I don't know, there was still the whole,

like, you know, all those pap balls were like, well, I mean, of course, a woman is not, you know,

I still want to slap her ass whenever I want to, and I'm not going to let her be my boss or whatever, but I'm not going to be a dick about the contributions they're making. I'm still, going to like give it up for them and let them know that we appreciate what they're doing and the war effort and everything there was a huge amount of that where it's like they're you know they're they're getting it done at home while the boys are fighting abroad and we wouldn't be able to do this without them and then all that and it's like now it's just you know they're just not even

allowed to heading towards that fucking um you know y'all kata howdy arabia version we're gonna have them all covered up and not allowed to drive before long what's the name with that uh hidden figures the movie about the black women who worked in NASA. So like, yes, those white guys took credit for the math and the problem solving of black women. These guys wouldn't even let the black women do the math. They would to take credit for. This is so insane. But, okay, so besides the fact that B. Arthur's a woman, what are the possible reasons her page got deleted? The page they had up, there's her enlistment photo. She was really tall, by the way, 5-11, it's almost 6 feet tall with her hair right there.

So her page didn't mention her lifelong support for gay rights and women's suffrage, right? Her activism. So that's part of it. There's also a part of it where she was starred in Maud, where they did a bunch of like very woke episodes in the 70s. Like, can you imagine a sitcom-uping episode about abortion in 2025? I can't, but they did in the 70s. But here's the funniest possible answer. Golden Girls did an episode in 1992 in their final season where Dorothy had a dream sequence where she goes on Jeopardy.

Okay. And Dorothy says to Merv Griffin, who in her mind was the host of Jeopardy in 1992, but I think it was earlier than that. Mr. Griffin, please, you're the most beloved man in America. You are bright. You are charming. You are the anti-Trump. That's what you said on the episode. I would play. I know, it's like, I've said this, this is such a good example of like this revisionist history around Trump. Because I've been screaming literally since the very beginning of Trump's rise in 2016 and stuff. I was talking about how wild I found this. that it was even happening because I know, like, rednecks and dudes and country people,

red staters, whatever you want to put it, and I know that he's a douchebag to that, where he has been, you know, I know that he's exactly the archetype of a person that they cannot stand, and it's like now it's treated like, I don't know, like he's always been an icon, but it's like, no, he was famous for being a rich douchebag, like, for decades. That's how he kept himself famous. calling up tab boys to talk about how like how big his dick was under secret second identity like he he marketed himself as a scumbag that's what's so weird about the yeah you're right so anyway uh yeah all right well let's get into it producer matt's back here behind the scenes

pulling the strings doing the things this is weekly skews mark told you we're talking about uh the war on elan the poor poor downtrod and victorian child that is elon musk fair target of all this uh anamus we get into that a little bit later but first, a couple announcements for you, as always, if you want to see me do stand-up comedy live and in person, go to Trey Crowder.com and check out my upcoming tour dates. Thanks to everybody came out to the Wilbur in Boston and also in Portsmouth and Binghamton, New York.

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Before we get to all that E-Line stuff, first we begin, as always, with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., people who don't think pop. Corn Barron is a real feudal title. I think it's crazy. See Cliff residents reacting tonight after a wealthy businessman claims he's the village's new mayor. Robert Ehrlich, founder of the snack company Pirates Booty, apparently tried to stage a mutiny of his own.

According to a Facebook post by village officials, quote, Ehrlich presented a statement falsely asserting his authority as mayor, demanding access to office me and declaring that the entire village staff was fired, effective immediately, but could reapply for their job. You could have. Whatever they're saying about me is wrong. Is that him right there? Yeah, yeah, you're kind of out.

Does he think that he's like a pirate? Is that where the pirates, but do you think, you know, is he like trying to do some pirate king that his own like Tortuga thing or something? Just like, I'm not sure. I'm not sure what this guy, okay, I got a real guy for you here, Trey. this is a real this is a real secret of events so yeah this guy's mega wealthy got rich I'm not familiar with his snacks oh I'm a huge fan I don't know how to feel about it it's the shit is good but well you probably wouldn't like it but I'm a fat kid and I think

it's fire well he he sold it off to get rich so he's not he's no longer you're no like attributing to him still eat okay that's good he also his particular crazy the fact he's doing this he's not even really maga like so we're gonna go we'll get to that a second Okay. Okay. So the sequence of events is deeply hilarious here because there was a mayoral election last week, all right? The incumbent was running unopposed her names Elena Villafane. Okay. Robert Ehrlich, that guy, announced he was running as a writing candidate, didn't bother filing his paperwork early enough, but he lost, just to me get these numbers straight. This is a very small village about 25 miles north of Manhattan. He lost by, Villafing got 1,064 votes, and he got 64 votes, and he got 62 votes. All right. He lost almost 20 to 1. That's about that much.

Almost had him. There's one wrong move. You know, who knows? It could have gone his way. 10 to 1. So, but he has, he has had an envelope that's labeled vote for me for mayor and people at a coffee shop he owns have been putting slips in the envelope for like four years. So he thinks that entitles him to be mayor to the degree.

But he walked into city hall and declared himself the rightful mayor of this. village, it's called Seacliff, before the election happened. So he'd just been, in his mind, he'd been like holding his own ongoing election for mayor. And once he had enough of his little envelopes from his coffee shop, he was like, I hereby declare myself mayor as given as, you know, the authority granted to me by these people who'd get cappuccino's downtown. He apparently had the envelope out since the last mayor election four years ago. So he said he had that 1900 votes at his cost.

copy shop over the past four years and said such an unusual ballot has holy precedent quote 1900 votes since our last since our election he said the longest election in history was from 1268 to 12671 when they couldn't find a pope so actually i had the longest election in history he thinks he's the pope too so um so so he walked in his city hall and just basically remember the qanon uh queen of canada of course how could i forget yeah right she up to now by the have she done? She's still doing her thing? I don't know recently.

We should do an update. Yeah, we should do an update on that way. So, but he basically just walked up and he's like, yep, you're all fired out of the mayor. And they're like, who the fuck are you?

Right. All right. And he hasn't even been like, like he says that he knows the election was rigged because his, it was fraudulent because his buddies voted four times each for him. Remember, he only got 62 votes.

So he's saying there, it's like maybe six, like 16 people voted for him. Right. I'm doing the bad thing correctly. Oh, oh, Jesus gracious. Wait, he's admitting that his friends voted multiple times for him,

which proves that her number is also fraudulent because people are, okay, right. But it would still, I mean, that, okay. She would have more people who voted multiple times than you had people who voted multiple times. You know, like Lance Armstrong beat all the other guys that were on steroids, you know, as Bill Bair pointed out. So it's like it still kind of counts, you know. Well, that's Armstrong only one ball, too, It's even more impressive.

He did it. So the crazy thing about this about early, when I say he's not MAGA, like you suspect in one of these guys, okay, I've got them fighting the system because the pedophical ball is taking over the town

or the international, the New World Order, or George Soros or whatever, so they can do, turn all the kids trans or whatever. He's none of that. He's professed none of that. His main issue is the mayor

isn't doing enough to increase business activity on Main Street. Right. What's the mayor supposed to do there? and see if you think a town of five thousand people i don't know like but like it's like again he's worth four hundred million dollars he wants more more foot traffic to his coffee shop so he wants to overthrow the make this all the how do we keep finding these guys why are we making so many of these guys yeah it's wild to me that some of these guys can be

like as successful as some of them are you it's like i don't know you're you're taught or given the impression at least i feel like growing up in this country especially if you go to college and stuff like that, that you've got to be highly, you know, like competent and rational and professional and all that and work with a large work ethic and all this stuff to be, to be successful. But some of the most successful people in this country are just like full-blown lunatics, you know, it's like it seems like that almost selects more for success than just working. We all know that sociopathie is correlated with it or whatever.

But it goes beyond, they're just, they're weird too. It's not just that they're like, you know, sociopathic or whatever. They're fucking, like, strange and like losers. They're laying stuff. It's odd. There's been a ton of studies on this. Like, people with psychopathic personality traits are going to be very successful in business, right? That's part of it.

Right. Part of it's, I think, that the extreme level of wealth makes you fucking insane. Right. Like, you never hear the word no. There's nothing you can't have. So you find something you can't have, like the job is mayor of Seaccliff, New York. Right. Yeah.

It drives you insane. But, like, the craziest part here, let me quote here from a person who worked a village administrator named Bruce Kennedy. To the best of my knowledge, he has never participated in any government entity and any volunteer agency or any board or commission. The guy got interested in politics 15 minutes ago and decided he should declare himself. Like, the first thing he decided to do was declare a coup on the mayor of Seacliff Village. I just like, we just keep doing this. but like America, the only thing America makes anymore is this guy, this type of guy.

Right. So, ask whether you might take another shot in running for mayor in two years using more conventional methods that can land on the ballot. He said, no, I'm mayor now. Why do you have to wait two years? I am mayor at this moment.

I can write an executive order. Have you not been paying attention? Yeah. Everything I just did, I just explained to you. I'm the mayor. Why don't even like the mayor? I'm already the mayor. Yeah, I'm the mayor.

But again, he's so rich. He could be, like, if he ran a conventional campaign, he could definitely win the mayor. Of course, right. Of course he could. You just outspend the other person in a village like that. Like it wouldn't be hard.

No, it's a town of 5,000 people for you pay everybody $5,000 each for, for, for, what's that, what's that 25? You can buy, you can pay her like. Yeah, I'm doing the math in my head right now. I'll be wrong. But like, so we need to talk about like popcorn companies for a second. Like like, like, I'd love to. Yeah. Boutique brand flavored popcorn companies.

Uh-huh. Because Pirates Booty isn't also a source of. like, you know, of political radicalism. So, lesser evil popcorn, uh, their CEO is Charles Khorstein,

who is the father of Edward Khorstein, aka Big Balls. What? So, small world ain't it. And I'm not familiar with lesser evil popcorn. Many of them. Pirates booty,

I fuck with heavily, but, uh, lesser evil, I don't, I don't know. Oh, the fact that's named lesser evil is

deeply hilarious to me at this moment. I thought, yeah, I don't know. I thought, like did that guy come from tech or something and it's like is it at for some reason i was like it's like a google spin off or something like and it's just the fact that it's a popcorn brand is you know comical it's like yeah what what this who's the greater evil pop right exactly yeah

orville reddenbocker but dastardly son of a bitch we all know uh the evil empire of olber the evil empire of orville reddenbocker yeah um yeah i don't know man shit is so weird All right. Speaking of weird, evil, rich people. I was after the segue. The Tesla protest. I just at the vibe here. I want to play this clip of Attorney General Pam Bondi on Fox News the other day.

We have people who are locking up on that. We have someone in jail right now from one of the dealerships. They threw a Molotov cocktail through a dealership. They're looking at up to 20 years in prison. So if you're going to touch a Tesla, go to a dealership, do anything. You better watch out because we're coming after you. Wow. I always have seen this work.

All right. So you touch a Tesla, if you go to a dealership, all right? The model top cocktails, we all understand and know why that's illegal, okay? But people are like drawing swastika as in dust on Teslas and stuff, which, like, I have friends who own Tesla. I don't know anybody with the cyber truck. Yeah. Right. That's kind of why I keep thinking to it.

It's like, I get it. Like part of me was to hold my fist up, but it's also like you said, I've known, living in California, I've had, I've had so many. any friends and people that had Teslas and shit who are not down with any of the Elon stuff. And it's like, again, cyber truck, I do feel like it's a different story because I don't know any non-douchebags that own a cyber truck. But like just Tesla's though, I feel like, I don't know. I kind of waffle on this a little bit. But part of like, what everything, we circle around a lot here.

We're talking about protests. Protest are supposed to make people uncomfortable. Now, I wouldn't draw swastik on somebody's, but right, sell your car and dust or whatever. It's like, what you're trying to do is a social stigma campaign to drive down the value of a fucking fascist business empire. Yeah. Right? So, like, so yes, part of that means some of our friends being socially pressured to sell their cars at loss. Yeah.

Right. All right. It's not great. It's not ideal, but none of this is fucking ideal. And like, if you don't want to sell your car, that's your choice. But people are going to invite to sell your car on it and may, and give you a thumbs down in traffic or whatever. But like, it again, we all know that when the model Y and model three and yes, the model

Model 3 Model X Model Y Tesla's four brains for the cyber truck were spelled sexy with the three yes

yeah the elite speak like hacker you know version of sexy yeah if you should have like

if anything should be a clue that Elon was a fucking dumb douchebag that should have been a clue but anyway no one

called on until you know too late but so Bondi also been going on Fox News and she called

uh Mazov cocktails weapons of mass destruction if you're wondering where this is headed so Fentelel's weapon of mass destruction, a fucking glass wine bottle with some gasoline and a rag on its weapon

of mass destruction now. And the context of all this, this Tesla takedown stuff has been amping up. It's really grown rapidly over the last few weeks. Right now, they're organizing 500 demonstrations for this weekend. It's on Saturday. Tesla locations across the country, if anyone wants to, if any of you guys want to go be annoying, because that's pretty much, I'll keep saying it. Liberal superpower is being hella fucking annoying. So get out there and do your part. Okay. Oh, so, but all these myths and fantasies we're hearing, and they're doing the paid protester shit to, they're going to start calling every kind of protester terrorists, even if it's like upper middle class white people holding a sign and chanting across the street

from a Tesla showroom. You've got to understand the context of a pending report from the Department of Defense and DHS. It's due April 20th about whether or not Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act. These people are thinking about declaring martial law and Lubbush. for justification to do so. Yeah, I mean, isn't that, hasn't that been like a narrative put forth since the very beginning of this administration, meaning like he desperately wants to declare martial law

and they want a reason for it? So, you know, like for a while it was, you know, trying to get people in the streets with the, you know, whatever, all the layoffs and tariffs or whatever, but just people saying that they want that to happen. And now they're going to use this Tesla. thing is justification for it because martial law would give him more even more uh like unbridled authority right is that that's the idea yeah i mean yeah to me it's like well he's just he seems to be doing whatever the fuck he wants anyway at least trying to you know i would just i would cost

everybody trying to like trying to strategize your way out of him not by like well we shouldn't protest because they know declare martial law if you think that way you've already you're already under martial law yeah well it's like i mean that's kind of another that's like what chuck Schumer was doing sort of you know what I mean it's like the like oh we can't government shuts down that plays right into his hands but you know that can't do you see what Chuck Schumer said over the weekend that fucking like he was like being questioned about like whether or not they're in a constitutional crisis and he basically move the goalpost to be like we're only in a constitutional crisis if the president disobeyed an order from the Supreme Court and like

motherfucker what if he doesn't go ignores every other court and what is the Supreme Court vote six to three that he can do whatever you want what then Chuck and he said then he goes well then people should take to the streets

to save a democracy last week you said you were cool people being deported for fucking protesting and now you're asking other people who'll get shot

because you're too lazy anyway fuck that motherfucker so do you think about well is that enough justification to him to vote

the insurrection act but he's same court standard no but he's using the alien enemies act to deport people right now

it's only to use twice in American history Both were horrific, by the way, but we were at war when they was invoked the first two times. You're only supposed to be able to evoke in him during times of war. He's saying a handful of Venezuelan teenagers coming across the border is an invasion, and therefore we're under attack. So I don't think, yeah, I don't think we could reason our way out of this because it's all fucking nonsense. And just because something, I need everybody, just because it's something too stupid to happen, doesn't mean it can't keep happening because we're there. Yeah.

And I got to admit, I got to admit deploying Delta Force to protect car dealerships is. probably a fitting button for American collapse. Have you even thought what's going on Turkey, Tray? You mean the protest they're having over there? Yeah. Istanbul and all that. Yeah, a little bit. I know that it's happening.

Also, I saw that super rad picture. You know, the picture I'm talking about the... Yeah. The dervish... The dervish getting pepper sprayed or whatever, just standing in his arms out. It looks like something out of a fucking cyberpunk video game. Yeah, yeah. So people are in the streets because Erdogan's up for election again.

he's doing his normal shit where he's rigging it. Like he had his main opponent as the mayor of Istanbul arrested during charges of fucking, I don't know, corruption and terror, quote unquote terrorism. But tell him I think, just because something stupid doesn't mean it can't happen. So apparently Turkey has a college degree requirement to be president. All right. And his opponent has a college degree or used to. What happened was the college he went to decided to revoke his diploma. Okay.

The guy that he's running against had his diploma revoked by the. right yeah which makes him ineligible to run now right because they they allegedly found some irregularities with his academic transcript from like 40 years ago or whatever just now so you see like we did at one point is like just

because something's really fucking stupid doesn't mean it can't happen and be cemented by power right oh yeah of course yeah so uh and they're pretending these more violent than they are but of course they are not that there hasn't been multiple fire sent stuff but like there's been like

by my count like not eight eight fires in a I didn't count how many mass shootings have happened since the inauguration day but I bet you it's way more than eight it's a pretty big fucking country is my point but the quote they're saying quote

the backlash has turned violent at times quote unquote is exact kind of training that's used to just to describe it the civil fucking civil rights movement and nothing has happened to any single human being I mean who's anti Tesla I'd that say there's a dude

um there was that guy who's like tasing people who are protesting Tesla? Yeah, we got a video clip of that. I'm going to show you a few minutes. But yeah, there's also, but my point is that like the, um, the, the, the only violence that's happened has been to people who were protesting Tesla. Like I drove his car into a crowd in Florida too. Right.

So like, like, no, but no he means it doesn't matter. They're going to call terrorism because a couple cars have been set on fire. Um, and so what we're going to do now is basically coin tell pro for ugly fucking trucks, right? So the FBI is investigating an attack on Tesla as domestic terror. This is one headline. The domestic terrorism designation on alleged Tesla attacks give law enforcement sweeping authority to disavail people protesting against Elon Musk's role in the U.S. federal government, civil liberties experts warn. So basically, what we're looking at going forward is, you know the CIA of the FBI and they go undercover and they trick some, the dumbest guy out of mosque into buying a bomb from them or whatever? Yes, right.

they also were they were accused of doing that to some to some uh whatever you want to i don't know j6y or whatever type people too right like that yeah it's just kind of what they do yeah so uh uh you know infiltrate social movements do snitchjacketing shit like that but like the uh so basically because people are throwing cheese at cyber trucks somebody's going to get arrested for buying surreptitious american cheese from an FBI agent i can see it coming now uh and i'm not i'm only half kidding let me quote here the FBI has created a task force dedicated to investigating Tesla attacks FBI director Cashman confirmed on Monday.

They got a task force going after the cheesers. This would be a funny, I don't have the resources or budget to do it, but it would be kind of funny to make a sort of like parody or like comical kind of like black Klansman type thing, but about like the FBI infiltrating the Tesla protest or whatever. You know what I mean? Just like with the cheese and the fucking hipsters. Like, being treated with the same gravity as, like, the Klan was. But it's people protesting, just the inherent absurdity of that.

Like good fodder for at least a sketch. But anyway. Yeah. The D.C. Metro Police announced yesterday, I think, they're investigating the defacement of Teslas as potential hate crimes. So we're talking about people that... Against who? How can you...

I mean, a hate crime means a certain thing, doesn't it? Like, isn't it? It means a crime based on an immutable characteristic of a person or whatever? whatever. Yes. But it's already legally defined as a protected class. So are they saying Tesla's they're black, gay, or trans.

Right. Because France is the funniest one to do. So like, yeah, like they're going to make them woke, of course, you know. Right,

right. It would be funny for years. Yeah. Yeah. So like I said, there have been eight or nine, I think firebobbies are ars at Tesla showrooms or charging stations,

plus a few others in France, Canada, and Ireland. They've already arrested three women separately facing five to 20 years on federal charges for the all it's off cocktails. None of these three women don't seem to be connected anyway as far as I can tell.

But the protests are largely peaceful. Here's a video from while we're on Saturday. So you can see what I'm talking about. This is mostly what the protests are. Protests are. Everyone must have to go. Oh, ho. We love us is got to go.

All right. Yeah. Pretty standard protesting stuff. Make signs. Come up with a chant. You know. Protest. Well, we definitely, what this protest merits is definitely

an FBI SWAT team shooting all these people. All right. Yeah. So. Elbow to elbow and riot shields and shit. Protects in a fucking car dealership. Yeah. I mean, I watched another video from New York City that showed nine cops

guarding one cyber truck in front of a showroom. If you want to know the state's mood about this shit. So, but I wondered, like, I was wondering, like, they're pretending the protests. but I don't think Tesla's stocks and stales are way down because of a few burn cars. I don't think anyone's really scared of being Maltov cocktail in a Tesla. No, the two things are, they are related, meaning that like the... People are mad Elon.

Right. The stocks and sales are down for the same reasons that people are protesting Tesla, you know, but it's not... The stocks and sales are not down because people are protesting Tesla. It's like, that's fucking ridiculous. But so I'm just curious Like I mean we I think

Especially after the signal leaked jupe chat thing We're talking about Friday Everybody realizes these people Just fucking stupid But they really think this is like like I honestly think that the social stigma That the That the protester enforcing is more

To have more to do with the drop in like The protesters I'm seeing That I'm following online Are saying that people are taking Pamphlets they're handing out And being shocked by the shit Elon's up to They don't know Right

So if people don't know that he's shuddering social security offices and shit that he's defunded all the cancer research people just definitely don't know so like to me that has more to do with it but also like cyber trucks so like they're not they don't have the greatest best reputations as cars right now like I know people model my buddy with the model Y he was trying to figure a way to sell but it's underwater right now who's liked them but like Tesla bet it all on the cyber truck and their their hot new product the first one they rolled out since 2017 I think has converted two percent of residential reservations in the sales and like I said, I had eight recalls in his first year.

Yeah. And they're big, they're big, yeah, the last one they just, like the side just falls off. Right. Like the whole side of the truck just falls off. Yeah.

I see a new, because it's glued on. Right. Yeah, I know. I see a new video of someone like, totaling a cyber truck by trying to like go off-roading over the equivalent of like a pitcher's mound or whatever. It,

it's bottomed out and just explodes. I see a new one of those things like every day on I literally saw one this morning on Reddit, and it's like, yeah, they didn't seem to, they didn't seem to have the best quality control with the cyber truck over there.

So I'm not business, not some big business to you and it's like E-Line, but like I don't think your big marketing idea to turn it around should be, to claim that organized terror campaigns are going to blow up people who drive your cars. But what do I know? But what they are doing is they're trying to radicalize MAGA people

into making Elon's bank account into their personal culture. culture war fight. Yes. It's like with Trump and him getting out on the White House loan and stuff, they're like trying to frame it as supporting Elon and supporting Tesla is for true patriots.

Makes you a real American or whatever. It's like what's the old, the guy goes so goes America. But he was talking about manufacturing being a core employment dream or whatever. He didn't mean like, but they're trying to make it like as Tesla's stock price goes, so goes America.

Right. Get out your guns. And I mean that literally, here's Marjor Taylor's, Green's boyfriend, who's a reporter slash pundit for Newsmax or One American News, one of those fucking Fox, the right of Fox News clowns. Terrorizing

not only dealerships and taking down an American company, but also drivers as well. And it may be it's time to go full-on Cow-Rittenhouse-style security. What? Security guards in front of a dealership. If I was in charge of a dealership, that's exactly

well, yeah. Get up your gun and good on Tesla and shoot some protesters like how Rittenhouse did. that's my introduction of that guy but i gotta say it's a perfect match for marge you know you know they two uh two lunatic peas in a pod i did as soon as you said argy taylor green's boyfriend i was like i got an idea what this is going to be like but let's see and then it was exactly kind of what i thought it was going to be so yeah at least at least through that so like you like you said you pointed out earlier they have successfully generated some pro teslas

tacastic terrorists like i said the the guy drove into the crowd in florids South Florida outside of Miami. He's 44-year-old in West Palm Beach. He got arrested where a felony, which is crazy. I thought Florida legalized running protesters over with your car. But I think the mistake he made was he swerved off the road into the sidewalk. You can legally kill people in the road for protesting. But you can't go on the sidewalk.

Sure, yeah. He's a guy's name's Andrew Dutiel. I don't want to say his last name, D-U-T-I-L. After he tried to run to people over, he parked, got out of his car, his car, Tesla dealership and said he stands with Tesla then walked out. He told workers he stands with Tesla. Bro, he's like I said like they were supposed to salute him for his service. Right.

Yeah. People just work there. They don't own stock. They don't give a shit. People like rolling on the ground behind him that he just mowed down with his car and everything and he just parks and walks in calmly. It's like it's been an honor to serve Mr. Musk or whatever. It's fucking so weird.

Here's the punchline. He was driving a Nissan. Yeah, he probably can't afford a Tesla He just likes the idea of Tesla because Elon runs it Yeah, of course, yeah And again, it's just like, as everyone has pointed out But it's like that's, I guarantee you that same dude Like, irrespective of the Tesla part, like hates EVs

and thinks that climate changes bullshit and electric vehicles are gay And all that stuff, you know, like hates everything that Tesla was ostensibly founded, you know, to be for, but he loves Tesla specifically, though, just because Elon is a fucking Nazi, and that's his boy or whatever. So it's like everything is, you know, nothing makes sense and everything is crazy.

Yeah, because you brought it up as a treat, I want to show this video of this guy trying to taste an old lady and getting his ass whipped. If you got the, you got this video, Matt. Rick Fuse, I believe is this guy's name uh yeah great name yeah got a rick with a short fuse am i right um come back i can do over here waiting on this video i'm just trying to kill time until this video starts playing that's what i want to do because i don't want to mat to have to edit anything

because it ain't you know and all right here we go so you've got a bad so when you see there is guy he's a rick fuse he's a trump supporter tase an old lady who was unfazed by then whips his ass and smacks his head into a fucking car pretty awesome I think that there's a maybe he didn't tase people

there was another one of these guys I don't think he's the driving one either but another one of these dudes and it wasn't that guy because he was like a kind of more stereotypical old white maga or middle-aged white maga looking dude who did some shit at a Tesla protest and got arrested because I was reading about him on Reddit and it was also funny because I read about in that guy he has he he's got a blog where he jerks off Trump in America and all

this stuff all time and he also talks a lot about his German his immigrant girlfriend from Germany who also loves Trump and is totally moving over here to marry him soon and all this and maybe she is real but it seems very much like he's getting catfished and doesn't know it He's got like a fake German girlfriend and all this stuff. And it's just always something with these people. It is pretty perfect to have a one-way fake girlfriend and also have a one-way fake love affair with Elon. It's very perfect. So, yeah, Rick Fuse, that was in Berkeley, by the way.

He was arrested for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters. He claimed they were paid protesters. He went down there to show a support for Musk and Doge. Now, the paid protesters thing, it's too stupid for the mainstream media to report, but I've always suspected that what Elon is doing by turning off every bit of government spending they can't figure out or understand is he thinks it's covert funding to protesters and left-wing organizers. He's trying to unplug the cathedral.

We don't have time to get into Curtis Garvin stuff, but the cathedral versus the bizarre, that kind of stuff. Like, it's fucking insane. So, where is calling that old lady who got stun guns, a terrorist? Where is it going to lead? Here's Donald Trump posting on. and true social, what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla. Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador,

which has become so recently famous for such lovely conditions. Yeah, so, yeah, he's going to, he, did he, do you mean Americans, do you think? Right, yeah. I don't know, maybe it's like, to them, it's like, the assumption is that anyone who would do this is like, even if they are an American, they're not, they don't count as an American. You know what I mean? If you would do this type because you're just a terrorist thug.

But yeah, but it is wild. he's openly talking about sending American citizens to a fucking El Salvadoran prison for protesting a car dealership. Right. And more context here. Marco Rubio at some event the other day was asked about this kind of thing. And he said that El Salvador has agreed to accept deportations of American citizens. In his defense, he did say, we're not sure in the law of that, but Buckele has volunteered to do so.

So that's good to know. Um, but anyway, it seems like a broken campaign problem. Why wouldn't, we're paying them, right? Like, yeah. Like, why would, you know, what, what reason they have not to say yes? And, you know, if we're going to pay them to do it and whatever, it's more about just how fucked up it is. We're doing that in the first place. And also that that is a thing that we'll spend government money on, you know, if not shipping American citizens, the Central American prisons.

Yeah, buying Americans into slavery. Um, so it seems like a broken campaign promise, by the way, for Trump to offshore crimes against humanity, the countries of low-cost labor, when we could be doing those jobs at home. Right. And just some context here. Like, we're putting up with a lot more shit. Probably it's happening so fast, but these are the kind of conditions that we usually spirk a kind of fucking like revolutions in a lot of different countries.

For example, I mean, we quote him the declarations of independence. You can think about like shipping Americans overseas to be imprisoned and the tariffs, all right? A couple of the complaints in the Declaration of Independence were why we had to fucking kill or die to get away from King George. was, quote, cutting off our trade with all parts of the world and for transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses. Yeah. So all this, like, tell me how it's escalating.

Pam Bondi isn't just threatening regular old Americans. She also told Jasmine Crockett, the congresswoman from Texas, to quote, tread very carefully in what she says about Elon Musk. She said that, because Crockett said that Elon needed to be, quote, taken down. meaning like metaphorically but she's going to treat like a physical threat of violence right sure so let's talk about the financial trouble tesley is in because things aren't going that great for them whatever um Tesla is basically announced that it can't even sell the cyber truck even with tax credits and discounts all right they're only going to deliver up between 7,000

8,000 cyber trucks and quarter one of 2025 uh for comparison sake their projections as of a year ago in the first quarter of last year was by now they'd be delivering 125,000 units per quarter of the cyber truck. So they're delivering five to six percent of what they anticipated needing to make, right? Like I said before, it's their first all-new products since 2017. Their only real prospect on the product side right now is a quote-unquote cheaper electric vehicle that are trying to sell in China. But it turned out just to be a stripped-down version of a model Y that was just facelifted. Well, there are... brings zero percent financing to move to move those units in china hold on mark i thought that uh thought

they had a grand scheme to introduce uh robot slaves to the american public too is that they're going to pivot that forget the car thing that tesla's now you know they're the they're the company for my robot or whatever they're going to be shipping out robot butlers to everybody's homes uh robot's capable of things like walking and playing music or something nothing nothing really that that impressive, but... He was walking and catching things, I think, was what they're saying. They're making you a dad. How sweet of them.

But, you know, it's been an ongoing theme on here with all this talk about Elon and Tesla over the past, I mean, months, from even years. And the whole time I've been saying, like, how is it still, how is the stock still through the roof? How is it still so successful and all this stuff with all these, just everything about it, but like at what point can, I don't know, the bottom fall out. You know what I mean? Like, I mean, there has to be a Rubicon, right, for a business or come. I mean, I guess if enough people with enough money want something to not fail, then it won't. But I, I don't know. It just feels like

it should be dire. Shit at Tesla should be dire, like from a business perspective. Well, so we're getting to, it sort of seems like it kind of is. Okay. To Tesla insiders, by that, I mean, executives have sold 1.416. million shares over the last 12 months and bought precisely zero, all right? That includes just in the recent weeks they've sold over $100 million of stock, all right? And like I said, they're pretending just because the protests, but I want to talk about the national mood here for a second and why this is happening. Like, we talked about the being recalled because the panels fell off, but here's a clip from a, what do you call it, town hall meeting by a congressman from Nebraska.

I support Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency. That's Nebraska. Yeah. All right. You can cut back. So does one point here up like how Elon fucked up if Tesla has anything new with his plans for the rest of his life. He chose to make himself in Tesla a political figure. I just want to say I don't know who the CEO of Ford is because whoever he or she is is not trying to take away my life.

Yeah, I don't either. I don't even know if it's still a Ford person. And all I know about them is that they run the Detroit lines and they're finally doing a heck of a job. That's all I know about the Ford family. But, yeah, no, I mean, we've talked about that before, too. But I just, I'll never understand it because it's like, it wasn't that long ago where Elon Musk was almost universally, if not, like, admired, at least, like, thought of positively. You know, it was, he was shown up in Marvel movies. He was the real life Tony Stark.

He, like, was doing all this stuff because he wanted to save the world and people really believe that. And it's like he was a multi-billion. air what why not just take that and just and just get just and just and just roll with just that what why do you need to sabotage yourself for for what because you need to be an evil emperor specifically like it's got to be sith lord shit or you're not happy i don't i just don't get it there was no need for any of this like yeah we're all in his hell now but at least he's kind of inhaled too because I saw somebody I want to talk about this for a second

because the numbers are such that there is a potential point where he could lose a lot. I don't know like I don't really think you could ever actually be broke especially with the government backstopping him but he doesn't have a lot of actual property which is important to understand. Last time I saw I think he bought a house in Austin but for a long

time before that he was living in rental houses. He didn't care to own a house. And all his fucking, most of his wealth tied up in Tesla stock which he's used to leverage like whatever his other companies need bail outs to get loans. He used Tesla stock to buy Twitter, is collateral to buy Twitter

based on other loans, yada, yada, yada. And a bunch of people tried to work through the numbers. And their best guess is when Tesla stock is down about half now. If it goes down half again,

it'll be about $110, $114.14. That's a point where he should, if real gravity matters, face margin call, where he'd be worth $47 billion and owe about $47 billion. Okay?

That's when the rest of us need to pop popcorn. because I doubt anybody's going to call on those loans when he's first buddy, but it's still, but it, uh, I don't know, man, we've got nothing else to do, but root for this to happen to him. sure and I'm with you it's like I don't think it just seems like I can't ever remember a time where something like that happened to someone like this like literally the world's richest man by whatever metric actually going broke and losing it all it's just especially like you said with the backing of this administration of the American government so like probably not but it but what like you said it gets you know where his debts and his you know his worth is equal and he could be margin called so people call in debts and then and then what happened like like on like from a practical standpoint what happens if that point does get reached like what does he have to do he's forced by who like banks creditors to liquidate everything he has or yeah so like a big bank whatever banks signed like a bunch of banks give money about twitter so it's like hey man it looks like on paper this stock you put up as collateral is not worth nearly what it used to be but you still owe us the money we owed you to pay twitter so you've got to give us some money Okay, so you've got to prove that you're still able to make these payments. So then he would have to sell Tesla stock, which would drive down the price of Tesla stock further, compounding his problems. But you have to sell more stock and you have to sell more.

That's how the doom loop theoretically would happen. Cascades, yeah. Yeah. But talking about being back by the government. Like, let's talk about the telethon they're doing for poor downtrod and Elon because they're going full bore. Here's U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lucknick. I think if you want to learn something on this show tonight, buy Tesla.

It's unbelievable that this guy's stock is this cheap. It'll never be this cheap again. When people understand the things he's building, the robot he's building, the technology he's building, people are going to be dreaming of today. And Jesse Waters is thinking, gosh, I should have bought Elon Musk stock. I mean, who would invest in Elon Musk? You've got to be. So Tesla for the last half decade's been a meme stock for Sharps, for smart guys.

because they all the sharp basically all the smart guys decided to bid up the stock themselves because nothing was ever going to make a go down right sort of like the real estate market in 2008 so the smart guys are getting out now because they realize that they they've you know it's probably reached the end of its ride they're trying to get the rubs to buy on a meme stock to cover their fucking losses right to conflate Elon's wealth and that's when like the paid protesters thing comes in because Elon's been at war with short sellers for a decade have correctly pegged Tesla as all their value is fake. And the way short selling worked, it's kind of a sigh up. What you do is you notice something is overvalued. Then you buy the short position. Then you go out and try to spread word four and wide and things over over over over. You're trying to drive the stock down. It's a, it's a negative spin campaign.

Yeah. It's like reverse version of like a pump and dump with a crypto thing or whatever. Right. It's like, yeah. Whatever your position is, you try to engender some sort of PR campaign to make it reflect that

so it's a self-fulfilling prophecy and then you make money off of it but I don't know

I can't believe it takes a sharp to realize that their values all made up

or whatever it's like it's been driving me crazy for fucking months but no but it's like the sharps

on the pro Tesla side made a bank they just they just like they rode the way as long as they could and then they're getting

out right but the sharps on the short selling side like they're they've been remember the big short when

everybody went insane because the short positions they took weren't paying off and they were losing more and more money because reality was not. And it didn't make any sense. Right. Right.

So that's the point where the Tesla short sellers have been there for a while because it works like opposition research and politics where it's not, the best propaganda is true, right? So like he probably thinks they're an extension of the short sellers. See what I'm saying? Which they kind of are. It's not organized. Right. Right.

Alex Jones talking about this telethon posted like a seven and a half minute Tesla infomer. on Twitter or the weekend, if you went back in time, can you imagine going back and telling Alex Jones he'd be selling electric vehicles? Like putting on a suit standing in front of a cyber truck? Yeah. I know. The funny part about this is like we talked about

the infomercial Trump cut on the lawn where he pretended to buy a Tesla for his granddaughter, or great granddad, forget. So it didn't work. Like it went out there and it made the, you got a temporary small bump and value then continued down. So like here's a me quote here from this industry expert

It's done more harm than good Because the last thing investors want to see is Tesla become a political symbol What's too fucking late But this is why everything they're doing it makes it worse But everything they do makes it worse Then Elon continues to make the truck worse And then they continue to blame everybody else For the stock going down

And we're trapped in this perpetual cycle Would none of them understand the fucking problem Which is that Elon Musk exists A bunch of Tesla fanboys Got on Wikipedia and discovered that like Volkswagen Mercedes were Nazi aligned And they're like Oh, you guys are friends

or Mercedes, like, Mercedes is not currently a Nazi company as far as I know, and that's a pretty big distinction here. Show this tweet from May Musk, if you got it, Matt, because it's pretty funny to me. People are damaging Tesla cars, stores, and charging stations are rather paid for the criminal acts or believe the liberal media lies and should be tagged

with at, I find R-words. I'm beyond furious. I find our words is like a libs of TikTok for people saying lib stuff like this. But she's also on her kick every time Elon fucks up in public and people make fun of them, she goes with the he's autistic line. Everybody's bullying the richest man

in the world for being a non-neurotypical. This isn't even like the limits of his fucking financial woes. So SpaceX had another huge failure if you got this video Matt. I think I labeled it an image, but it's a video if you got to play out in the rundown. And I can't believe he hasn't killed someone yet with this shit. Wow, that is a white.

It guys get back to the cockpit. It does look cool as fuck, though. It looks very cool. Very cool. Rockets exploding apparently looks pretty sweet. But, I mean, that's not the goal, you know, for it to look cool. as it rapidly disassembles on rescheduled re-entry,

but anyway. I do need to say our two hero astronauts, Sonny and the other guy's name, they were brought home finally after a year stuck in space on a SpaceX rocket. So thank God that would end blow up.

Although Elon says is going to fly on the next one on the next SpaceX launch to which I say I'll be watching. Do you ever think about why NASA launches from Florida? Does that ever thought about it? No.

I guess not. Because that's what it looks like when a rocket, when a spacecraft fucks up when you launch from Texas. Yeah. It flies over the Caribbean. The reason SpaceX is in Tesla is because Texas gave him, the reason SpaceX launches in Texas is because Texas gave him slightly better tax incentives. He's risking the lives of,

and property of everyone who lives in the Caribbean to save a few dollars in tax rebates. Mm-hmm. All right. And I know we've got, We only got a few minutes left. One of the reasons SpaceX is in trouble is Starlink doesn't make that much money. And they're becoming less profitable because a bunch of foreign countries are canceling contracts. Basically, because it's pretty funny.

Like, we talked a few weeks ago about Italy's prime minister to cut a deal with Elon to do Starlink after some... He negotiated the release of a terrorist who killed Americans in exchange to go back to Iran exchange. It doesn't matter. but like so yeah Italy was going to give him a contract but they've since parliament has pushed back on it because he's too toxic I need to point out to you too top Elon's toxic in Italy where their prime minister is basically like if Benito Mussolini was reincarnated and transitioned all right right yeah yeah they also got an actual Mussolini going over there don't they uh his granddaughter is active in politics here yeah so this is part of what you know I did not have a Tesla again there was a point in time where I wanted a Tesla but like this is part of what sucks so much about all that about Elon's bullshit is like again I wanted to be on board with all that like I hate that I hate that I'm in a position where I'm like laughing at or dunking on like the idea of a company like SpaceX in particular do you know what I mean like I would

wanted that to be a good thing it's like we said before when Trump says we're going to go to Mars it's like my whole life I would have been like fucking hey finally But now that I know that it's in the specific context of Elon's company getting, you know, billions of taxpayer dollars to attempt and likely fail to do so, now I'm like bummed out by it. And all that just makes me even sadder about the whole thing. It's like, I look forward to all this shit. And now it's here and it's all like terrible. Or, you know, like it's bad. Again, it's not what they're doing.

It's how they're doing it that's terrible. Yeah, right. Yes. what's on Mars the only reason the reason to send a human being to Mars is just to prove that we can do it right yeah to prove that we can do it because the technological advances will be necessary to accomplish it will then come back home and we'll have technological advances that the public owns right whatever Elon accomplishes Elon owns even though it's going to be paid for by the US taxpayer right that's what's fucking frustrating about it I'll be in favor of it too if the if the if the advancements

were going to be public goods the way a lot of the original NASA advancements were. But for context here, after another SpaceX failure, I find it interesting that NASA and six successful missions out of seven put 12 men on the moon in a glorified tin can

with a computational power of a first-generation iPhone and zero in-flight fatalities, right? 60 years later, private space companies have about a 20% success rate. NASA in the 60s, was better at this shit than Elon Musk is in 2025, is my point. And they did it like the real Tony Stark did in a cave with spare parts.

All right. And so I can't decide this discrepancy is purely public interests versus private interests. Or the Nazis from the 40s were better than Nazis from the 2020s. I don't know. But those are the choices. I'm inclined to go with the public versus private thing just because to me it just feels like, I feel like it wasn't entirely motivated by just, you know, profits and shit like that back then. You know what I mean?

It was like a thing that people believed in, you know, and there was. But now when you, the shift, everything being privatized and Uber capitalism and stuff, it's like the only thing that matters is whatever shareholders and growth and stuff like that. And I just think that that some things just don't work under that framework, you know, or at least work as well. And they're never going to learn that. lesson, apparently. But also, NASA had a bunch of redundancies built into it.

It was a paramilitary kind of structure, even though it wasn't a military organization. But the, I mean, I know that the promise was it wouldn't be militarized. I know a lot of technology became a dada anyway. But, like, my point is, like, the stuff that Doge sees as redundant is why NASA was successful, didn't fail. They could, NASA could not fail. If they killed astronauts in space, America loses the Cold War. That's the end of democracy and capitalism.

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