Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 3/28/2023 – TN Tragedy; WI Court Race

Episode Date: March 29, 2023

Tonight we touch on the school shooting in Trae’s screwed up state of Tennessee, which seems to be trying to engineer more of them. Then we’ll attempt to lighten the mood with some dummies before talking about the characters and goons involved in the impending Wisconsin Supreme Court election, the most important election no one knows about.Support the show

Hey, everybody, welcome back. It is once again Skews Day. It's March 28, 2023. I'm Trey Crowder. That's Mark A.G. Mark, let's guess we should go ahead and talk about it. There's not a lot, you know, more to say, and it happens all the goddamn time. But there's obviously been another tragic school shooting this time in my home state of Tennessee.

see. Yeah, I'm sure you guys saw the news, but three students and three school employees dad, they head of the school, a substitute teacher and a beloved janitor who was about to retire. We're all murdered by a former student at the school who will get into. But yeah, it's difficult to talk about this stuff because nothing's new each time except for the escalation of the degree to which our leaders have to not give a fuck. because like there's a lot of reasons America struggles with the problem where other countries don't like you know it's a meme here it's one thing it's sort of like a fad for like a better way to put it we got this national fantasy that could all be special forces operators why we choose to use your arm targets for that to practice that I don't know but the thing that we can't control is guns and everybody knows it right and you can you can look at data that mass shoot put shootings in public exploded when Bush killed Clinton's

assault weapons ban. We know that cutting back on weapons of war distributed for fun profit would help, and no one's going to do anything about it. Yeah. I remember when I, this was stupid and naive of me, but I remember when Sandy Hook happened, I actually kind of thought then I was like, I was like, okay, this might actually lead to something like this one.

if you know if there's anything that's going to wake people up it'll be this one this will be a bridge too far the way that you know like australia had that just one big mass shooting of the variety that we have all the fucking time they had one of them and their whole country was like oh shit we can't have that we should fix that and so they did i thought maybe sandy hook would be that for us and then when that didn't happen i kind of just lost all hope at that point not to be defeated us I still, you know, obviously want that to happen, but I just, I mean, you know, what, what's going to change anything? The public is fine with a lot more. Voters are fine with a lot more gun control.

It's not the voters. It's like it's such a crazy choice can be trapped in. But, um, before we get in the politics of it, let's talk about like, well, so the shooter may or may not be trans, which, of course, has become central to the debate for reasons that are extremely stupid. And I can't even really, like they reported that the shooter was trans, but also they reported that she was a transgender woman. But then teachers at the school, so they remember her being a little girl there, so that didn't make any sense. I guess she, uh, he or she used he, him pronouns on LinkedIn or whatever, but the parent said this, uh, 28 year old kid person was struggling with a lot of mental health stuff going on outside of, you know, totally separate from the, the trans thing. And they, they, they would not have let her have guns. he said.

Right. Sorry. I'm not, I'm not sure what the, what the, yeah, to call this person. Yeah,

but didn't you say that it's become like a thing on, uh, whatever, 4chan or the equivalent to like, anytime there's a mass shooting, they just start speculating it was a trans person. Right. Transphobia rocketed up recently and it's like,

now it seems like they're treating it like, oh, we, we finally got one or whatever and they're like, right. They're acting like, see, it's like,

see what? What about, what about all the rest of them that, trans people had nothing to do with like the also what is the what's the takeaway supposed to be from this one in the event that the person was trans who did it's like you know like like you said they said they had other mental problems outside it's like yeah of course you i mean you'd have to they all do every time like yeah you don't do something like this if you don't have a lot of problems uh right what trade's referring to then is the thing that happens on four chan every time there's a mass shit They speculate and try to get it going viral. They use the same person every time. It's a fake trans person they made up.

They claim was the shooter. And it appears maybe they hit the lottery and they finally got one this time. So it was viral that the shooter was trans before the police said the shooter was, before anyone knew it. It's just they just did it because they know they're in an info war and they're always trying to do this shit and it's fucking gross. Anyway, group blame for stuff for people for, you know, groups that people were born into is fucking wild. Like, do my fellow straightway, but you just want to take credit for like, you know, the unabomber, Hitler, Harvey Weinstein? Because I don't have shit to do with those motherfuckers. But anyway, if anybody cares about the actual data by who does these shootings,

97% of all public mass shootings are conducted by men, like, you know, regular old garden variety straight out of the box. men, and men, but this fucking floored me. This is a group called the Violence Project. I didn't know this stat. Men perpetrate over 90% of homicides worldwide, not just mass shootings. Murder equals dude. Late in the game up, I guess, but I'm getting out here. So the actual thing happening here is so utterly normal and banal in America.

Let's just talk about the context of it. Because like one of the reporters covering it on live TV. while she was on television, found out her kid was on lockdown at their school for a separate suspected mass shooting. It turned out not to be a real. Right. And then there was that light, and I think we're going to show at least some of the clip, that woman who went viral because she, like, popped into a Fox News setup they were doing. And she said she had been at another mass shooting, right? Highland Park, one of them, I feel like she said something like that in there.

It's like, that's why, you know, it's like people are now getting involved in multiple mass. shootings at this point because the odds are becoming as such. I mean, it's fucking insane. There's another reporter before we get to that video who was talking about how she's here covering a mass shooting. And when she was in middle school, she survived a school shooting. Now, it's like, this is like, I don't want to overstate like numerically, your odds are still very small of being a victim of a public mass shooting in America.

But what sucks is everyone lives in constant fear of it. And there have been people involved in multiple. Because it's one of those things where, like, if 10 people in a room, there's a large chance they share the same birthday, which seems, which a mathematician, that's explaining to you. But, like, it's like, it's just, it's just, anyway, Matt, roll the clip of this lady, you interrupted the Fox Live, Fox News Live hit. Aren't you guys tired of covering this? Aren't you guys tired of being here and having to cover all of these mass shootings? I'm from Highland Park. Family vacation.

with my son visiting my sister-in-law. I have been lobbying in D.C. since we survived a mass shooting in July. I have met with over 130 lawmakers. How is this still happening? How are our children still dying? And why are we failing them? Gun violence is the number one killer of children and teens.

It has overtaken cars. Assault weapons are contributing to the border crisis in fentanyl. We are arming cartels with our guns and our goose loose gun laws. And these shootings and these mass shootings will continue to happen until our lawmakers step up and pass gun safety legislation. I'm pretty sure this was an unsecured weapon. You can cut it out.

So that's back when they still thought the shooter was a teenager, which was a misreporting that was off the beginning. She just looked young. I don't know. Sorry if I'm using the wrong pronouns. I don't. It's far from the most important thing here. I just like, so the context here is after Yuvalde, a representative state rep from Nashville,

tried to call a special session to aggress Tennessee's gun laws and everyone just fucking ignored him, a guy by the name of John Ray Clements. He pointed out the fact that Tennessee is among the national leader in firearm mortality rates pointing to the data from 2010 and 2019, the rate of gun deaths in the state increased by 28% compared to a national rate of 17%. So, yeah. The national rate of 17% is wild in itself, you know what I mean? Let alone being 11 percentage points above that.

I mean, a 17% increase in gun deaths or gun violence or whichever it was, that's nationwide over a 10-year period or whatever. I mean, that's already nuts. And in Tennessee is 11 more points higher than that. I mean. Without knowing, suicides, of course, have been going up for a while. I'm assuming that a lot of those are gun deaths. And, like, you also got, like, there's been a population increase in a certain. And nationwide, I know.

I don't know about Tennessee specifically, but, like, those are factors in this, too. So, yeah, man, we talked about it in our crime episode, but it's from all the panic and stuff about crime, look at all the states, the highest motor rates. And it's the, it's the area of the country, man. It's the bowelbells the south. It's places where everyone has guns. Has a gun. So an annual report from the Department of Education can count in February,

shows that during the 2019-2020 school year, Tennessee schools documented 66 incidents of students possessing a handgun and 11 incidents than bring in a rifle of shotgun. So that's a lot. At 70-some kids, it took guns to school in one school year in one state and not a very populous state. But in case you're wondering, that the shooter had a total of eight guns, I think, that they owned,

that their parents didn't know about. She was hiding from her parents. And the three she used in the shooting, two AR-15s and a handgun were all, all of this person's guns were bought legally. Right. So the shootings took place in the district of a recurring dumbass champion, Andy Ogles. Yep. The guy who claimed to be part of a law enforcement and international sex trafficking,

like he led the prosecution of international sex trafficking or whatever. He's like a leading economist and all this stuff, all of which is just shit he made up. Yeah, Andy Ogles, this was his district. And you're talking to her about the culture, you know, the Bible Belt, everybody's got a gun or whatever. And you're about to cue this up, Matt, we put up Andy Ogles' Christmas card, his family Christmas card last year. Look at that. What, like, do they draw the line at six? Do you know what I mean?

Like, I can't believe the little kid doesn't have a gun. Like, if you're only listening, his entire family, his wife, And three children, two of his children, they're all holding assault rifles, except his youngest, looks to be about six or seven or so, has a nice little Santa Claus book. So, Merry Christmas, everybody. I'm sure, I guess he gets his gun next year. You got to graduate today, R. 15. You've probably just got a couple knives in his pocket or something at this point. I don't want to be irresponsible.

I mean, I was shooting guns at a time I was like five or six. We're talking like a four-ten shotgun. Like that's what, it's hard to like describe our perspective here. I know we talked about it before these shootings, but like this is clown shit. Like I knew people that were really into guns. This is like not how to, this is not a theatrical and performative or whatever.

It's all it is like, yeah, it's just, you know, it's just pandering to the base or whatever. Because I mean, yeah, like you said,

I mean, my grandpa taught me how to shoot a 22 when I was probably five or six. And it was very, but it didn't have any of this kind of feel to it. You know what I mean at all? No, but like it's just crazy to me that like America has serious problems. I mean, every country has serious problems. Like, but like that dude's a fucking clown.

Like you need to bring up the fact that he didn't, you ran that GoFundMe where he scammed $25,000 off his family and friends using his, you know, stillborn baby or whatever. Yeah. But we need somebody to come up with solutions to our problems. We're like, and do nothing fucking scam artists. And we're talking about like guns being a mean. That's what I'm talking about. That's jewelry. Like a gun's,

the best Second Amendment defense is like a gun's just a tool. That's not a tool. That's a fucking toy. The moms, again, if you're only just listening and also if you didn't notice, the mom's gun is like trimmed and pink and purple. Very fashionable. Very ladylike her assault rifle.

Yeah. It's a nice pink and purple trim on it. So, yeah, it's poor shit. Yeah. And I watched the video, the surveillance video from inside of the school and the shooter was, you know, mimicking behavior she's seen in like zero dark 30 of Navy SEALs rating Osama

and lines she's moving like a try doing her best uh his or her best to move like a tactical operator and the it's just like it's such fucking like nonsense and it's just like such a joke man um and we already set up top and nothing's ever going to change uh if you wonder who would be looking into this mess um governor bill lee who we talked about before um nominated someone with the Secretary, the State Board of Education, sorry. The guy's day job is running an online ammunition store who sold ammunition used in a school shooting. And they put him on the State Board of Education.

Like, it wasn't even, like, fucking controversial. It was the 17-year-old shooter who killed 10 people in Santa Fe in 2018. This is, like... It's crazy. That's what I'm saying. It's like all the, you know, coincidences. or whatever from earlier with the people, all the people involved who had been involved in other shootings

and then shit like this. It's like defies, you know, rationality or whatever. Like, it's just, it's crazy the degree to which gun culture has sort of run wild in this country. Yeah. And by the way, if you wonder what's going on in Tennessee about gun laws right now, the process of trying to loosen them, including there's a bill,

under consideration that would decide whether school employees can carry guns. And this is, they've already piled of this program. They allowed two school districts to try this already. Pickett County and Wayne County, which your wife Katie's from Wayne, right? She is, and Pickett County is right beside Clay County, where I'm from. There are rivals in basketball. And yeah, Wayne County's where Katie's from. And I can tell you for personal experience, those are two of the most red ass or redneck parts

of the state for sure. I was, as soon as I saw those four counties, I was like, yeah, that checks out. I totally buy that. The bill that let them do this was for distressed counties. I'm assuming the logic was they couldn't afford school resource officers. So that's why they were to let school employees carry guns. But anyway, neither one of them did it because Pickett said, we just don't want to. And Wayne was like, they looked into it and it was going to drive their insurance costs up

to the point that it was impractical from them. Like, none of these, even discounting the fact that kids would get a hold of the guns, the cops wouldn't know who to shoot when they show up in the middle of a shooting because everyone would have guns um that uh that the teachers would miss the shooter and hit students like beyond that it's impractical from just financial it doesn't like you're not paying teachers enough to afford decent guns anyway and like the context for this where kids where teachers are being told they're too irresponsible to choose what books to give to children but like they can fucking carry a gun this class yeah the arm the groomers act is that what this

fucking is. Like, what are you talking about here? Anyway, so reporters caught up with Representative Tim Burchett, Burchett. Birchett, probably. No one is for Tennessee. It's probably Birchett. Yeah, I feel like this clip

sums up a lot about their position and their general stance on the whole thing. So, yeah, this is a Republican from Tennessee talking about it. Go ahead, Matt. Three precious little kids lost their lives, and I believe three adults, I believe. And, And in the shooter, of course, I lost their life, too.

So it's a horrible, horrible situation. And we're not going to fix it. Criminals are going to be criminals. And my daddy fought in the Second World War, fought in the Pacific, fought the Japanese. And he told me, he said, buddy, he said, if somebody wants to take you out and doesn't mind losing their life, there's not a whole heck of a lot you can do about it. That says it all right there. We're not going to fix just immediately, like non-star, we're not going to fix. Nothing you can do about it's like that.

There's a famous onion headline. then I might get a little wrong, but it's, it's just like, there's just no way we could have prevented this says only nation where this routinely happens. You know what I mean? Like, it's so demonstrably false if you just look around, but that's, that's their whole line on. I was like, what are you going to do? It's just a fact of life. It's an un-escapable fact of being human is that mass shootings. It's like that's not true.

I don't fundamentally disagree. let me tell you this like they should be doing everything they can because like again an air 15 has no practical use right it's not like there's no there's no other use for the for for these kinds of guns and why why these shooters always use in air 15s it's just a fucking it's the army guy gun from the movies and the video games you know what that one guy said to jason isbel when he said that on twitter that did in the comment 30 50 feral hogs yeah he was like he's like let's see you say there's no practical use for it next time 30 or 50 feral hogs get onto your property whatever's not like this is that was that I think. Yeah. That poor guy got roasted to death, but like he actually, he actually was just like, he wasn't even advocating for anything. He was just like, I got a lot of hugs. Anyway, that was a fun day on the internet.

So, so I'd never heard of Birchip before. And speaking of feral hogs, I wanted to flag this. One of the things he was most known for during his time of the state legislature before he was mayor of Knox County, I think. He received national media attention for sponsoring a bill to legalize the eating of roadkill. I remember that. Now, one of the big... Banner Day in Tennessee, uh, when, when that bill came through, like, finally.

I want to just been calling my name out there from the side of the road this whole time, but I didn't want to get in trouble with the law. Who was not eating rogue kill because of like, you know, the law? Well, anybody, anybody will scrape a possum up and make fucking chili out of it. Don't give a shit about what the law says anyway, but, uh, you know, I remember this happening. you and me both love making fun of hillbilly shit but also like loving hillbilly shit so i really wanted to make fun of him for this but i actually think he was fucking right because the problem the law was by the way i didn't know this but eating i never thought about it but i did eat roadkill once i was at a party in high school somebody hit a rabbit my buddy chuck cleaned it and grilled it's good rabbit we're all pretty hammered uh so it is legal to eat roadkill in most states i did not know that the thing in tennessee was you had to alert a game Warden before you ate it. So what happened was one of his constituents hit a deer with his car and then

butchered it and gave the meat to a needy family in his community and then got a ticket for it. So I was like, hey, that Burchett's right on this. The guy should not have got a ticket for giving away fucking meat to people that are hungry. Dude, I feel like if you accidentally, Katie hit a, hey, Katie hit a deer over the Christmas holiday in her mom's car in Wayne County. And she called me and told me and said, we're okay, but we hit a deer. And I was like, well, did what? Did you just leave it there?

I was like, you're not going to call anybody to go like, you know, you don't mean to hit and kill a deer, but if you do, like, you know, a lot of good deer mate, just laying there. You, you're the one who hit it. You know, it's fresh. Call your uncle up. Have him come over, you know, make a day of it. Seems wasteful otherwise. Yeah.

If anybody is considering this, you got to know how to clean it here. We're not advocating you go get food poisoning because you don't do it, right? So, all right, so also this guy's really into UFOs. Oh, hey, now, we don't have to complain. All right. These are these quotes are from this year, all right? They're having all these hearings about UFOs. He expresses views about an alleged government cover-up of the nature of UFOs, saying we've been covering this up since the 40s, and he doesn't trust the government.

There's an arrogance about it. He thinks the American people can handle it. That was in January. Then in March, he expanded on these claims saying that UFO technology is possibly, quote, being reverse engineered right now, quote, but we don't understand how it functions. He maintains the U.S. has recovered a craft at some point in possible beings. So he's a full-on area 51 guy. Yeah, well, you know. I wouldn't rule it all out, Mark.

That's all I'm saying, all right? Anyway, I don't argue with you about aliens again. I'm just saying, like, we got too many clowns in government and a serious fucking problem. But in closing, I knew this quote, but I don't think I've ever told about it on the show before. So former Supreme Court Justice Warren Berger was on TV, like PBS show in the 80s, and said that the gun liby's interpretation, the Second Amendment, quote, has been the subject to one of the greatest pieces of fraud. I repeat the word fraud in the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime. And without getting two in the weeds, he's right. There's not like the, no one ever thought there was a right to private gun ownership until the 1960s.

It wasn't like taken seriously by courts until the 80s. And there was assault weapons banned passed in the 90s. Do you remember when the 90s we lived under communist dictatorship? You know, it's fucking, it's fine. By the way, Berger was a Republican if anybody cares. Yeah. Yeah. But all right. So anyway, yeah, it's horrific. Unfortunately, will assuredly not be the last time as long as things continue to not change, which if history's indication is probably exactly what will happen. But what are you going to do? We hate it. We all hate it. Hearts go out to everybody. And fuck the gun lobby and all the politicians in their pocket. So with that said, we will move on to hopefully some lighter fare. a little bit later, we're all going to be talking about a Wisconsin Supreme Court

race that many are calling the most important election you've never heard of has to do with the future of democracy. So that's not ominous at all. But I think it's going to be fine. I think the same is going to be fun. It's got some fun characters in it. And I think the good lady is going to win. But anyway, whatever. Yeah. And then we got some, we got some fun Trump stuff too. But first, I'll try to make this quick because usually we're a little further into the show at this point, which is fine, obviously, but I don't remind you very briefly. Go to Treycrowder.com. Check out my dates. Come and see me. I just had a bunch of awesome shows this weekend. Thank you, Virginia, Maryland, and Philly. Those are incredible.

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the main show or just generally things that we feel or be talked about that maybe we didn't talk about on skews day. So we're having fun with it and you can support the show and get some more skews in your life. So go to Patreon and check it out. All right. Now, With all that said, let's get into it, Matt, the Daily Dumbass. Hit me with the graphic. Today's first D.D. Jesus Christ, for not being smart enough to save himself by whipping up a mob. That will make sense in just a second when you hear this truly crazy shit. Dear Mr. Bragg, I hope you had a restful weekend and had some time to be on your knees praying to our God Almighty about your decision.

regarding our precious, precious President Donald J. Trump. How would you like to be in his shoes? His torture brings to mind what Jesus Christ went through to save us. President Trump is our savior in this country. There's no one else who can make us. That's just blasphemy. That's just straight up fucking blasphemy. It doesn't take, it takes a lot for me to be offended religiously, but like,

the lady almost gets me there. By the way, the guy's sitting in the middle, not. pretending to nod, like, this makes sense to him. Used to be a Fox News, straight news reporter. The whole, the way that, like the, the way they, they being the evangelists or whatever, evangelical Christians embraced Trump was like a real, sort of a turning point for me. Because, like, we all know that, like, the Christian right became a thing, right when got associated, became synonymous with Christianity and all that shit had happened.

But up until Trump, they, they're, the people that they were supporting at least bullshit about being super godly and all that. stuff. And that was early on in his campaign, that was one of the few things Trump didn't even bother to bullshit about. He would just sort of laugh off questions about the Bible and basically admit he didn't know shit about it. Also, he's a, you know, thrice divorced or philanderer and all that stuff, obviously. And when they started calling him literally the second coming of Jesus Christ, you know, that's when I was like, oh, wow, we're, we're really deep in the shit now. This is wild. Yeah. Yeah. This is in the lead up to Trump's big rally in Waco.

over the weekend his first big he's had several campaign kickoffs i guess this is the biggest one yet um so i guess kickoffs can one campaign have but uh yeah this one was a this one was a hell of a show this one in waco including one hell of an opener this is how it got kicked off our honorable mention is uh ukraine for not deserving freedom because of how gay they all are anyway that's what ted make it says i want my money back i didn't authorize any money to ukraine to some homosexual weight weirdo I want my money back so is

Zilinski's gay because he's an actor because he has a wife and stuff I don't know does it not worth fucking figuring it out he wears tight t-shirts I guess yeah so Trump had a big rally in Waco a few weeks before the 30th anniversary it was a 51 day siege to start it in

February ended in April but yeah they're coming up on the 30th anniversary the actual raid where a lot of fucking people died. And the time, they weren't very subtle about this being the reason for the timing. And by the way, Trump isn't the first politician to use a site significant for anti-stateism to gesture it overthrowing the government. Reagan did this in 80s, in 1980s spoke at the site of the murder of civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi, while giving a speech about state's rights.

So, how, so Waco was like the first, But even before OJ, it was the first 24-7 national media event. You're younger than me, Trey. I don't know how much you remember about it. I just remember it being a huge thing at the time. I was definitely kind of too young to understand, like, what was really going on. But I can remember the news coverage of it, though. So, yeah.

So Waco's part of a story the right tells himself about being persecuted by the federal government and also, like, at the hands of the New World Order or this cosmopolitan slash Zionists to rule over all of us. You know, it's like it's one of those things. We can't even talk about Waco without understanding of Ruby Ridge. So Ruby Ridge, 92, I think, this Nazi named Randy Weaver was entrapped by an ATF undercover into selling him a sawed-off shotgun. He caught in, you know, illegal weapons charge, which, you know, y'all not be selling, you know, sawed off shotguns, but it wasn't a shoulder-mounted missile or anything.

But anyway, he got, he got Bond and his lawyer maybe gave him wrong information about his court date or whatever. He missed his court date. So the ATF decided to raid his home. They shot his dog when his 14-year-old son was mad about them murdering his dog. He took a couple shots of them and turned to run away and they shot and killed him in the back. Then there was a standoff during which a sniper killed his Randy Weaver's wife while she was holding their infant baby. They tried to charge Weaver with killing a federal agent.

He got off for that. I also got a $3.1 million settlement from the federal government because how fucked up the whole thing was. So anyway, Waco comes soon after The ATF's embarrassed They want to win They're way too over-rogressive here The amount of this raid The siege, you know

A combination siege than raid Where four federal agents And 70-some civilians died Including 24 kids Whole thing was awful It also led to Oklahoma City Because Timothy McVeigh was at Waco He was pissed off about Waco

He was selling bumper stickers in the crowd They're supporting of the branchedivians And then he timed his bombing two years later On the anniversary of the raid at Waco now all this is a bunch of fucked up shit and the cops ought not have done a lot of it but this is just cops doing cop shit

it's not a conspiracy by the federal government to go after right wingers and it reached a point of agreement here if they would be fucking sane but they're not fucking sain anyway Trump's riling up these rubs while he gave his speech there well it's just so weird that they're like

the party of law and order and back in the blue and all that stuff but it's so obviously selective because when it comes to this type of shit it's like their agents of left-wing tyranny or whatever. Like during the Trump administration, when the FBI started becoming like liberal propaganda or whatever, I was like, what the fuck is going on? Like, that's not, I mean, I guess they could tell themselves that about us if they want to,

but like, no, it's just, it's, it makes no sense, man. Yeah. Anyway, so back to the rally itself. It was a fantastic fucking circus. I wanted to show you this picture to capture the vibe. So this is a stand. The picture's not that clear. I'll try to read it for you.

It says, it's a stand is selling Trump T-shirts. It also has a sign that is saying that says, grilled cheese and a bottle of water, $10. Foot massage is $5. Well, hey, I mean, you can't afford not to get a foot massage there. I mean, shit. At a place where sandwiches are going for $10, you can get a whole foot massage for half that.

Come on. There's no place to wash your hands there, Tray. They're doing foot massages. They're making grill. cheese and making the grilled cheese yeah right i don't want i don't want foot juice some of grilled cheese and i'm not sure exactly that reminds me a classic joke i'll try to make quick i'm sure you've heard before guy goes into a shady shady dive bar or whatever and asks what the specials are and a bartender tells him it's uh you know we got cheese burgers for three dollars hand jobs for five dollars right

and it's a you know an attractive woman and so the guy asks you're like are you the one that gives the hand jobs and she goes yes i am and he goes and wash your fucking hands it might me a cheeseburger but now we're seeing that play out in real life i love it uh they had uh they at the end trump did his usual thing and he closed doing his

you know uh death and destruction speech about how america's ending over the q andonan anthem uh they also opened it by holding their hand over the heart playing that j6 choir song that we they played they acted like the j6 choir song was the national anthem, which it sort of is, but it's spliced up with, like, Trump speeches and a bunch of bullshit. Anyway, Trump went on Hannity yesterday,

and Hannity asked him about the song, about the song, and Trump said this, which was fucking funny. You're really beating Taylor Swift, by the way? Yeah, I did. The J-6 is beating Taylor Swift. It's Donald Trump and the J-6 prisoners.

The Pledge of Allegiance. On iTunes and on Amazon, and on Billboard, which is the big deal. Number one, Donald Trump. So now I feel like Elvis, because now we've... I feel like Elvis. That was a great success. We did.

I hope you continue to feel like Elvis and die on a fucking toilet, you piece of shit. Yeah, he starts going into the success of the apprentice and stuff like that. And he's like, I got a number one record. Number one on Billboard, Donald Trump. It's like, I don't know. It's just so him. I will never be, I'll never get over the fact that that dude with that attitude, like, became the voice of so many redneck men across this country. conservative redneck man.

He's got more spins than Drake, Drake. They hate people like that and shit like that. Thanks for better than everybody else or whatever. He embodies thinking he's better than everybody else. But I don't know. I figure, I want to read this one last thing and I figure we ought to skip ahead to the segment. I want to, yeah, we will skip ahead of the segment after.

I definitely want to do that other Trump video, right? For sure. Okay, sure. So all that crazy shit I just told you about, that's happening in his rallies that he's telling his followers. He's posting stuff on true social where it's like it's like mockups to hit him hitting the New York DA with a bat.

All right. And if case you wanted the media is going to fucking replay the 2016 bullshit and whether you're not going to be able to get accurate information on what Trump's up to, what he's thinking, or what he's doing from them, let me read you the lead on this story about Trump's campaign. Donald Day Trump, the former primetime reality star TV

known for his love of big stages and vast crowds, has embraced a more humbly and traditional style in the campaign trail in recent months. a more humbling and traditional style what are they what is that supposed to mean because like you said he feels like he's been wilder and ever to me lately it leads up he has there was never a point when he was saying but this article was trying to make the point that like because of his legal pressures he's like he was normal until all these people decided they might prosecute it but now he's having to go crazy it's blaming democrats for trump being crazy and people still like it is what it's doing i fucking hate it um so anyway yeah let's uh play this one But anyway, Trump is still sticking with this core campaign message of I hate my fucking kids. I love this.

Anytime he does this, I love it. And I made farmers happy and rich again. And they're doing a fantastic job. And you know what? Someday it'll become time for them to leave this beautiful earth. And they'll be able to leave their farm without taxes to their children.

I got rid of the death tax on farms so that when you do pass away on the assumption that you love your children you can leave it to them and they won't have to pay tax. But if you don't love your children he does this so many times. He fucking hates his kids.

You can cut it out. So, by the way, to the extent he did make farms richer, it's because he fucked up trade, the trade and bargain with China so much. They had to give farmers a bunch of free cash from the government. So, whatever. Anyway, let's talk about Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Yes, okay.

I was glad to hear you, you know, tease earlier that you might be somewhat optimistic about this situation. It makes me feel better already. But explain to people what's going on in a badger country. There's no public polling available. I'm just going by the fundraising numbers and how the candidates are talking about the race. And I'll tell you I'm talking about. But anyway, to set the stage here, so a week from today, Badgers of Wisconsin will go to the polls and was a low-key but super important race for the future of Wisconsin and good old U.S. of A. The Wisconsin Democratic Party chair, Ben Wickler, called it the most important election nobody's ever heard of.

So there's a lot of different stuff going here. abortion is kind of in the foreground of the race but it's obviously super important but there's also bigger stuff about how we decide stuff like whether abortion gets made illegal and even becomes a court case which is good back control of the legislature but let's talk about

the dynamic here so it's what there's one right just tell me if this is correct it's one seat we're talking about in the Wisconsin Supreme Court and it will tilt the court in one direction or the other right liberal or conservative it'll decide side control, partisan control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which is important because of a lot of shit they're going to be ruling on that has to do with how elections work and gerrymandering and then also abortion rights and things like that.

It's right now, it's a seven-member court. It's split four or three of the conservative majority of a conservative member retired. This is a court that heard a case that could have thrown out Wisconsin's election results in 2020 and tried to throw them to Trump that was decided four to three. with one with one of the fourth vote being a conservative that flipped right this is like we talked before like during all the big lie talks and stuff like there were so many moments like this where like the sanity of one person on the right like someone who had you know the sanity of certain conservatives who were involved in this process you know if it would have gone the other way could have had massive ramifications you know like that with wisconsin almost throughout democrat votes or whatever which is just illegal or or bait and because of one conservative who flipped inside it with the liberals it didn't happen so it's like how often what at some point that's going to not happen right in our future and then where are we exactly especially after because like all these people could constantly get in death threats like we've talked about county election officials just

resigning instead of dealing with it anymore it's like eventually one of these people's gonna be like you know what fuck it I don't want to die over this shit and just even if they don't believe it's true if I'm not true believers they'll they'll flip it. to like the psycho side. So it's important to have four people who actually believe in good stuff. So the two candidates running here, this is technically a non-partisan race. Let's just call them Democrat, Janet Proto Saywitz, and Republican Daniel Kelly. We'll talk about them specifically, get deeper on them in a minute.

But so this is like a huge, don't you talk about this is a huge race. Interest groups are dumping so much money in this. And also like, you know, sites like Act Blue and Ben Wickley's bid active on Twitter asking for donations across the country. but so so far $30 million in television advertising spending already flooding the state's airwaves and $37 million total has been spent with this election this is a state judge election yeah that's crazy it's crazy money uh so in case you're wondering yeah there was four three the case that uh didn't throw wisconsin's election results into the wind uh because it was conservative Brian Hagadorn joining the court's three liberals to reject Trump's efforts.

Hagan's not the one retiring, so it would be five to two sane people if they, if they're to say which wins. But the bigger picture here about how, it's not just about abortion, it's about how laws like once they ban abortion get enacted, Wisconsin's a pretty light blue state in statewide elections, it's deep red because of gerrymandering in the state house. all right um it's they they prohibited they also in voting rights stuff they prohibited ballot ballot drop boxes and the the legislator selected maps to cemented republicans holding legislature which is fucking crazy like in 2018 um democrats won by 203 000 votes in the state legislature races

but lost but lost seats 63 to 26 yeah that's so crazy you can outperform the opposition by 200 and I know it's like how the cities are liberal cities have more people in or whatever it's like yeah well maybe they should have outsized representation then because that's where all the fucking people are at number one but number two that doesn't explain

a two-thirds majority you know like they're 200,000 less in just raw votes but have basically a two-thirds majority in the how or in the state Congress because of the way which you're drawn up and gerrymandering all that I mean it's like I don't understand

how I don't know gerrymandering should be a bigger deal and also should just be fucking elite we all know it's a big deal but like

it's a massively big deal like they're not they are the minority like they're not popular their positions aren't popular their politicians aren't popular but they rigged the system and stack the deck

and then they stay in control of everything and it's like yeah not secretive about it either everybody knows it It just keeps happening. And courts are the key to unlock in this stuff. Like, it's like the court's the beginning of it because you can't, it doesn't matter,

like it doesn't matter what Biden signs of the law from Congress if the Supreme Court's just going to strike it down. Right. And same goes in these individual states. Like they did a bunch of fucked up shit. Like, for example, when Tony Evers beat Scott Walker and I think 2018, the Republican legislature stayed up all night, rewriting a bunch of laws to take, to remove a bunch of power from the governor. So they just, the people elected a new governor. and the Republican legislature stripped of power.

And again, a Republican legislature elected with a minority of the vote. And like, so the dynamics, the Germanering is so bad, like Biden won Wisconsin in the same year that Wisconsin sent six out of their eight state reps, congressional reps, to Congress or Republicans. So this is an important election. If you live in Wisconsin or if you feel like moving to Wisconsin to vote, go vote. So, yeah, this shit's fucking crazy and really frustrating. And the only debate that they had between protest.

Saywitz and Kelly that happened. It took place last week. Protisewitz directly criticized the maps that were drawn with the state legislature and approved by the Supreme Court. And she's saying they were unfair. And what's the judge's job at the base to point out when things are unfair, its most basic levels,

to point out when things are fucking unfair, right? And she said, I don't think these maps are fair to are fair. Anybody, nobody thinks are unfair. The question is, I'm able to fairly make a decision in the case. Of course I would. But Republicans attacked her for saying this patently obvious thing, saying she's projecting how she's ruling in cases by saying that she would be fair.

She's saying, I would vote for the conclusion that's fair. And they're like, that's biased. That's liberal bullshit is what that is. Listen, she's just being openly partisan and liberal up here because she said you try to be as fair

and even handed as possible. I mean, you know, yeah, kind of sort of just true. Yeah. So they don't know things break down. They've only do drawn on these for Terrifically unfair map for the State House, the State Senate, and for the U.S. House.

And every time somebody falls a lawsuit under the Constitution or the state Constitution to try to fight it or object to it, the State Supreme Court just strikes it the fuck down. So, yeah. By the way, this article titled, America's Full of Democracy Deserts, Wisconsin rivals Congo on some metrics. I do not mean to impugn the people of Congo. So this group, the Electoral Integrity Project. It's like this like, like, you know, social science project at Harvard comes up these metrics to rate elections on how fair they are, right? Whether it's like rigging or gerrymandering or like however else you do it, arresting dissidents or whatever.

I don't know what the total number was, but Wisconsin got a score of 23, which put it on par with Jordan Bahrain and the aforementioned Congo. By the way, Wisconsin is the only democracy desert. Alabama has a score of 31 and North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, Florida, and Georgia all also in the 30. that puts him in the league with Hungary, Turkey, and Syria. All right. So, let's talk about Proto Sayowitz first, because I don't have a lot to say. There's not a lot to say about her.

She's a Milwaukee County judge. She's never faced a statewide election. She's a former prosecutor, which doesn't usually hit for me. But she's a camper working class family, waiting tables to get through college and law school, works as a nonprofit administrator. It seems like a nice enough lady. And if you want to know how I knew to say her name, that's been the focus of a lot of her campaign ads, if you have this video, Matt.

I'm going for Judge Janina Protoz. Janet Prostatsky. Protiz. Judge Janet Protisewis. Janet Protisewitz for Supreme Court. Protozewitz. I'm Judge Janet Protozewitz. Proto Saitwitz.

That seems fine. It's a good call. That's totally what you should lead with because I would have butchered the absolute shit out of that name if I wasn't, you know, educated by that video. So thank you, Janet Protasio. Yeah. She does have a pretty big fundraising advantage. That's partly due because the racist focal point has been abortion. This is because there's a law in Wisconsin.

and dating back to 1849 that bans abortion in nearly all cases. And it just sort of immediately popped back into effect. Everyone thinks maybe when a Supreme Court overturned row. But there's a lawsuit challenge again being like, hey, that was 1849. What the fuck? And that could reach the state Supreme Court as soon as this fall when one of these people will be on the court. So it would either be her or this fucking absolute asshole monster name Daniel Kelly. So one of the reasons I think, per se, which is winning, is that,

per seowitz is saying the stakes are super high she's trying to turn out voters right she's saying this guy will fucking uh you know take us back to the dark age of abortion and take and uh dilute your right to vote if not take it away at all altogether and he's like he's saying yeah it's not that big of a deal so the big of a deal of election right which is how you know somebody's losing because he's trying to diminish turnout um so he said that uh but she like so she's on with 189 and 49th thing sorry i'm trying to find where i'm out in the run down And he's saying that she's saying he's going to, like, let the 1849 law stand. He's like, you don't know that.

He's not saying no. He says, you don't know that. You can't read my mind. Shut up. He just says, you don't know what I'm going to do. Nice rebuttal. But the thing is, if he's not going to do it, pretty much his whole base is like abortion forces that poured a bunch of money into this, into this, and a bunch of volunteer

hours with this race. They're telling their organizers that they need to fight for Daniel Kelly because he will make abortion illegal. Of course, yeah. I mean, it's like, well, Amy, Connie Barrett said the same shit, didn't she, pretty much, like during a confirmation, but, you know, basically just deny it, which is always like weird that they, I don't understand why they don't just outright say they're going to do it, you know, knowing that you're going to do it.

And also if that's supposed to be one of their, like, you know, one of the core tempoles of their, whatever, platform and philosophy and shit. But yet they, you know, they waffle about. out it and then just go out and do it anyway. It's like, just say it. Just admit it. But they wouldn't get elected. Right.

So these two are running to replace, totally running a place of conservative. The judge are trying to replace. You're going to replace is named Pat Rogansack, who is retiring. Important to know that Rogensack has not endorsed Dan Kelly. And Trump has endorsed Kelly for other stuff before, but is staying out of this,

probably because Kelly asked him to. But Rugginsack, this was interesting to me. Rugginsack's daughter, who's also a judge named Ellen Brostrom, endorsed Protasawitz. And she did so with language that I found pretty stark because it sounds like the way we talk on this show, except with fancier words. Our nation's history is the story of the franchise being extended from white male landovers to all white men, to black men, to women, and so on. People who died and struggled to secure this right to vote. At every stage, there's been final resistance to extending our democracy to all. people have been willing to murder and terrorize others to suppress their right to vote.

I believe we have a patriotic and moral obligation to vote against candidates who have helped this conspiracy along, even if we're not fully comfortable with their opponent, it would not vote for them otherwise. So using the word conspiracy, I thought was interesting here, because there is a conspiracy for the rights to take over the American legislature. We talked about it before. Leonard Leo, the Federal Society, there's a bunch of dark money. There's a story today about how a group that was trying to stack the federal courts with judges somehow gave $600,000 to Clarence Thomas's wife. Anyway, so here you have a centrist judge who I think is what the daughter's politics are. Yeah. So anyway, anyway, nobody likes Daniel Kelly. Right. This is the

centrist at best daughter of the conservative judge whose place he is taking and they are like actively against him. Basically because she says, you know, he's a lunatic. I mean, she said How important democracy is and the right to vote and all this? And he has actively worked against it in the past by supporting the big line and all that shit. Right. Right. Not just in the abstract by writing stuff about like, you know, about ballot drop boxes aren't good or whatever. But he was literally paid $120,000, $120,000 about the state Republican Party and the RNC to work on election issues in 2020 after the election.

He was part of a fake elector to overturn the 2020 election, the one that Ron Johnson denies being a part. of. The former party chair named Andrew Hitt said in deposition that he and Kelly had quote pretty extensive conversations, end quote, about the illegal fake elector scheme. This guy's to be in fucking prison not running for Supreme Court. So, by the way, he's already served a term of Supreme Court of Wisconsin. He was appointed by Scott Walker, and then when he ran for another term, he got fucking dog involved because he sucks.

At the time, Scott Walker got criticized for a city of selecting injustice with no prior judicial experience. who held the friend's view that affirmative action was comparable to slavery. Let me quote from him here. Affirmative action slavery differ, obviously, in significant ways. Hmm, you might say. But it's more of a question of freedom than principle, for they both spring from the same tap root. Neither can exist without the foundational principle that is acceptable to force someone into an unwanted economic relationship.

Morally, as a matter of law, they are the same. now in case you're wondering there's some obscure paper he wrote under a pseudonym on a blog or something if somebody had to dug up he submitted this chapter of his book with his application for the supreme court appointment he was proud of it yeah well why wouldn't he be you know that's sounds like he's just uh you know checking a lot of the boxes for me but uh yeah i don't what you know i'm not going to do it. I do that we're like, I try to make sense of some of their shit. And it's like a waste of time. I was about to do that again. But instead, I'm just going to not do that. Yeah. In case you're wondering what he did when he was on the court, he wasn't there for a long

time. So he didn't do a lot. But in 2017, he wrote a majority opinion holding that the city of Madison as forbidden under state statute from banning passengers from carrying firearms on city buses. Back to that. Do you ride the bus a lot, Trey? I don't want anybody out there. The other day I take the bus to gym It's like one stop And my wife and I share a car And the There was a kid on there

Eight year old kid Screaming at his parents Y'all are from fucking haters Yeah I mean he's probably right You know parents Parents traditionally Can be haters

That's for sure Every kid feels like they're getting hated on by their parents At certain points so It's a parent's job to be a hater By the way it was a white kid With a Southern accent So it really hit for me for a lot of reason And also, just last week, Dan Kelly appeared at an event alongside a pastor named Matthew Trujala,

who the FBI in 1994 investigated for possible ties to the murder of at least one Florida abortion provider. So he's hanging out of murders, and I want to watch this ad, Matt. And then I'll tell you, remember he's hanging out with an accused murderer and watch this ad. And I'll tell you why it's even more funny. sheriffs like us from around the state are supporting daniel kelly for wisconsin supreme court justice kelly's opponent janet protasawitz is a milwaukee county judge with a long history of letting dangerous criminals back into our streets directly undermining the work of our officers and putting your family at risk we can't afford to have judges who put their own agendas above the law it's time we start prioritizing justice again not politics all right you can cut it back so Daniel Kelly used to be a fucking defense lawyer. Was he a tough on crime defense attorney, though, Mark? I think that's what's important here.

I'm not saying that people aren't entitled to a defense. I think we're on the record here that too many people got locked up for too long, all right? But you can't go, say this judge gave people sentences that were too lenient when I was fighting to get them off Scott Free. Entirely, yeah, exactly. Yeah. He gives you wondering who he represented. He defended a couple ministers who recused child molesters. So, yeah, he's really got a brand. Yeah.

All right. Well, do the right thing, Wisconsin. Just we'll see what happens. I hope it's not a harbinger of things to come or that it is, depending on which way it turns out. Anyway, Matt, if you want to find some comments, questions, things of that nature, put them up there for us in these final five or so minutes we got here. Mark, who's going to win the national championship?

Yukon? It's going to be Yukon, I think. San Diego State, baby, all the way. There you go. I don't have a dog in the hunt. Yeah, I don't either. I just think that, like, Yukon's the only one left that has won a championship before, I believe,

and they've been kicking everybody's ass, and I feel like most people would prefer to see somebody new win it, and that's why I think Yukon is going to because that's what usually happens. It's also the best team left by a mile, right? yeah yeah they've been destroying everybody davy lynn robinson and she often does reminds people to hit that like button thank you debilin appreciate you yeah like subscribe all that internet stuff tell people i appreciate you um right so yeah when they i forgot about it's already you'd be your comment emma emma claire soznik says uh i'm from what racing wisconsin i've been inundated with

ads from all sides we deserve fair maps go jam it's every time it comes up independent redistricting comes up for a vote voters overwhelmingly approve it voters think yeah

it's like fucking fair make it fair just like we got a million people in this state or whatever we get 10

representatives do 10 districts 100,000 bigger them squares 10 districts 100,000 people and we'll vote right

dude some of the maps the way they're driving it's like so it's just so comically like corrupt but it's just all you know above board

apparently Nessa Michael says, Hey, Tray, thanks for an awesome show in Philly and addressing our wooder problem. Yeah, when you probably saw Philly, they had a big latex spill in a Delaware river or something. So while I was on stage in Philadelphia,

everybody's phone went off. They got like an emergency alert from the government, telling them not to drink the tap water because it had been poisoned or whatever. And that happened while I was on stage. And I made fun of them for how they pronounced water, which is. I saw, I saw somebody saying that they had gotten, like, gallons of water from the store because of the spill.

They were told to use bottle of water. And then the water water they bought got recalled because it's from, wait for it, East Palestine, Ohio. Jeez, I think that America. Andrew Allison says you crushed it on Sunday, Trey, in Philly. Thank you. Those were great shows. I had a great time in Philly. Oh, I did see this.

Kim. I'm glad you brought this up, kind of. because yeah so kim kusado frequent skewer says did y'all hear about the mississippi news anchor who was fired for shang for saying fo shizzle my nizzle did you say that mark i did not see that but are you going to get fired for sanna now was the guy was the guy i'm not going to fire myself it was an old mamma white a white mamma yes but like uh i don't know it's not i don't i don't i don't really know how that's different than just saying the N-word in reference to it or something, because it's not the same word. Oh, I see. It's just not. Not saying the N-word, but saying the N-word.

Yeah. Oh, sorry. I really should clarify that. I don't mean you should be allowed to just spout the N-word on it. I mean, literally saying the words, the N-word. Yeah. I don't really get how that's different because Nizzle is not the word. And it is just like, I don't know.

I don't know Snoop Dog. I feel like he probably would not give much of a fuck. If he saw some of all, he'd probably just nap her up and be like, yeah, you know. He's like best friends of Martha Stewart, I bet she says it. I bet she says it too. Yeah, I thought it was a little ridiculous. A lot of people on the internet were saying they bet they were trying to get away to push her out anyway or something. You know what I mean?

Like she's getting up in years, I want to replace her, get somebody cheaper or whatever. There's probably some other reason. I hate it when they do like the top of the morning to your stuff on say Patty's Day and dress up for it. I would fire them from every time they're not just saying the fucking news. I hate all the corny. Well, it's one of those, yeah, it's one of those like, you know, yeah, the local, the regional today show type things where it's all just a bunch of fluff pieces and stuff like that. They were, I don't know, Snoop Dog's got a new wine coming out or something,

and they were talking about that, and she said, the shizzle my nizzle and got fired. Deborah Sweetcorn says, I believe the elder woman was unaware of its meaning. Maybe. Probably. Probably. thought it was something he said yeah Patricia Perring says I'm an old fart and I had no idea what that meant okay well

alright there you go I mean the 90s were 30 years ago so she's in her 60s she was like early 30s during her heyday during the heyday of that expression yeah probably not probably not cued in to you know I don't think she hip hop vernacular I don't

I don't think she was doing it I mean I haven't seen the video I'd be like I can't imagine I can't imagine what to complain she said it was in the smile on her face like she definitely wasn't there wasn't any kind of wink or anything where she's like oh i'm getting away with it she was just she's like yeah i know that's a thing snoop dog says and then she said it too and nothing happened uh but then later she got fired for it uh okay

all right sherry ann says mark you tell me what you think about this and we'll get out of here she says loll i saw it i was going to give her the benefit of the doubt till i learned this was the second time she made inappropriate comments the first time was she referred to uh a black person's, uh, grand mammy, she said. So we work in the show business for a lot of times people's put firing is a very public and people take hardcore stances on it. But if you know people that work on the shows or whatever and you hear the actual details of what happened, it's like, oh, I get it. It's like it's not about it's not always about what the public story is. I'm saying maybe nobody liked this lady. Maybe he wanted to fire her.

Well, that's what that's what a lot of people were speculating was probably something else. But anyway, but like grand mammy is that is that bad if you say like grand mammy and grand papy or whatever. I guess it just depends on the context, right? You wouldn't automatically hear somebody say, oh, what's your grandmammy think? And be like, hey, that's fucked up. Or would you? I don't, why would that be bad?

I'm missing the context here. Because of, you know, mammies, remember mammies? Oh, oh, okay. Yeah, no, I wouldn't think that, but. I wouldn't not, I wouldn't not, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, well, that was the other thing she got in trouble for before was that thing. And I feel like that's a little at least nebulous too.

But anyway, all right. right thank you matt for putting that up there go to traycrouter.com everybody check out my special on amazon get some tickets come see me we're having a great time on the road i assure you also if you want some more skews in your life and to support this humble program go to weekly skews.com slash more or go on patreon and look me up either way keep coming back every skews day and we will too we'll see y'all next time see you love you bye