Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 4/09/24 – ‘Zona of Interest

Episode Date: April 10, 2024

Tonight we talk about the new abortion ban just approved by Arizona’s Supreme Court…and by “new” we mean “from the Civil War Era”. The draconian law allows no exceptions for rape or incest... and is, generally speaking, really bad and dumb. Also: how the media is helping Trump appear to be more moderate than he is, and much much more. Join us. Support the show

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Starting point is 00:00:00 What's up, everybody, welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It's April 9th, 2024. I'm Trey. That's Mark. How you doing, Mark? Good, man. We've got a fun show, at least the top update.
Starting point is 00:00:19 Well, there's funny stuff in the main segment, too, but when we're talking about Supreme Court in Arizona, deciding that women should be imprisoned in the 1800s, not just get back in the kitchen, but get back on the kitchen without any electricity. So that's, we're talking about that a little bit later. Before we get to that, a couple things. Consumer reports is found that lunchebles have dangerous amounts of lead and other chemicals.
Starting point is 00:00:43 Dutty. When I say that this shatters my heart into a million people, I find this so disappointing. Fat kid growing up, lunchebles were a real treat, you know, fat kid growing up, a poor fat kid grown up in the 90s, you know what I mean? We didn't often have luncheables money. I get my hand on some lunchables. I was, I was about to say, we were, We were too poor for luncheables.
Starting point is 00:01:01 No, I know. I used to have a whole bit about it, about that, which was true. It was, and Kelsey knew I was doing the bit and everything. I was, Kelsey Cook was like on her podcast or something once, and I was just talking to her. I can't remember. And I was talking about something like, because she's from like a small town in Washington State. And we were talking about like, you ever, you ever think about like the food used to eat growing up? Like the food we ate growing up.
Starting point is 00:01:24 There's so much. It was just so terrible. And she's like, oh, I know. I think about it all the time, you know, like lunchables and. Sonny D. And I was like lunchable. Lunchables was uptown shit. You come into my high school cafeteria or my school cafeteria with lunchebles. You get your ass with thinking you're better than everybody else, you know. But that's what I'm saying.
Starting point is 00:01:43 That's why I was like a nice treat, you know. But yeah, even as an adult, I like luncheables. I'm not going to lie, I feel very betrayed by this news. Yeah. Well, the, the politics angle here is that there's luncheables have served like 30 million, 30 million children through the national school lunch program, which are no kids on poor and free and reduced lunch. So that's one way to forestall a revolution is to make poor kids so brain damage and don't realize their life sucks. So, yeah, sorry, go ahead.
Starting point is 00:02:10 Well, they, it's lead, right? And there's this whole theory about that, you know, with boomers and stuff in their generation, that all the lead was around is what's made them all wild in their brains and stuff. Not all y'all don't start on us, just the crazy one. Some of y'all escaped the lead poisoning doom, but maybe they're just, you know, they're trying to get that going again, you know what I mean? Get the new generation indoctrinated with lead poisoning insanity. There's, I mean, my mom's going crazy, so there is something to it.
Starting point is 00:02:41 But there's, I mean, there's a disargotive made that the, the popularity of, like, Q&9 type shit among, like, older boomers is, like, a direct product of, like, lead poisoning. Right. So, but, like, in other news, the House, there's some Republican congressman want to rename Dulles Airport after Trump. I imagine after that they'll only offer flights to non-extradition countries. Democrats countered with a bill that would rename the Miami Federal Correctional Institution in Florida after Trump, which is a good bit. If Congress is going to be stupid, at least get involved in the stupid. Right. My thing is like, Dulles right now is named after John Foster Dulles, who was a secretary of state under Eisenhower, who, you know, helped plan coups in Iran and Guatemala.
Starting point is 00:03:24 And his brother was a CIA director, his dad and granddad were also crazy. secretaries of states. I might think, this is basically a lateral move. So I'm fucking renaming who gives a shit. Sure. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:35 No, I like the prison idea. Yeah. You know, look, it don't hit for me, Trump having an airport, but also,
Starting point is 00:03:40 you know, it's not that. I mean, I figure, I don't know, I figure there's probably a lot of airports in this country that are named
Starting point is 00:03:48 after pretty monstrous people, I would imagine, because they're noteworthy Americans and that's how history often be. I did, on this note, we were text in our group text recently.
Starting point is 00:04:00 People were, what happened? So the Little Rock Airport is Bill and Hillary Clinton International Airport. And something happened there. Somebody got arrested there or something. So QAnon and all internet jumped on assuming it was a, that, you know, that their child sex trafficking through there because the Clinton's name is on it. It's like they think the Clinton's like run the airport instead of it just being named after them.
Starting point is 00:04:23 It's like, you think Louis Armstrong's family runs the New Orleans airport? like, that's not how airports work. The story does not evolve of the Clintons at all, but the reason people were going crazy was the head of the airport died in a shootout with the ATF and the ATF. I didn't look, I didn't go back and look, but at that point, they had not said
Starting point is 00:04:40 why they served a search warrant or a guy ran in an airport, why is the ATF, or why they killed the motherfucker. So, like, it was, it wasn't very, it was a good fodder for conspiracy theories. Yeah. So, no labels, the centrist third-party jerk-off session,
Starting point is 00:04:56 they gave up on finding a candidate to trying to go on the ballot so it's one less third party fucking around this election but my thing is like you say you're a party your whole thing is you have no values right
Starting point is 00:05:08 you're just about bipartisanship and you want people to calm down and stop yelling and you want a candidate with centrist affect who can pass bipartisan legislation I have a candidate for you his name is Joseph Rabinette
Starting point is 00:05:21 Hussein Biden like it's like yeah it's like you're You're like, like, you're, what are you doing? What are you doing? And I'm not, like, it's like, uh, uh, it's just so fucking, it's weird to me, like enlightened centrist types that you like run into in the wild have always been kind of weird to me because it's like, I mean, I know tons of people.
Starting point is 00:05:40 We've talked before. I think like most Americans, really, or the third of them are just totally politically disengaged. And if you forced them to talk about, they would probably just be like, I fuck them all type of thing. But to, to be like really into it, but, hold the position of both sides and you know i'm in the middle because i'm above all that or whatever but still like care about it a lot i find to be odd you know like it is and it's it's a total
Starting point is 00:06:09 total scam trying to get trump elected it is financed by trump donors and stuff but they but yeah the type of person who's just like i've just people were saying polls they went bipartisanship but they don't actually they want the other side to compromise you don't want the people they root for to compromise right right so like it's just the whole thing it's like it's like asking somebody in a poll if they like sunny days and you're like yeah okay well here's a here's a 140 degree a day for you like no not like that it's like yeah it's like it's so weird uh one last thing uh r fk juniors new york state campaign director was caught on camera saying the plan is to hope to steal one state so it throws the election to the house so trump can be president right like
Starting point is 00:06:52 You guys know what you're, you said it. You're filled with your own film. Yeah, I was going to. I wanted to ask you about this because it made me think about, obviously, there's been a lot of discourse about RFK Jr. being a spoiler for Biden and that's not anything new. But I know in the past, like a few weeks or months ago, we like did an episode talking about that. And at the time, there were like indications that it might go the other way. Like, has that any of that changed as far as you're aware? It seems like people only ever talk about it in terms of fucking over Joe.
Starting point is 00:07:22 Biden. But I remember we talked before, there was some data that indicated that it could also fuck Trump, and they don't know that it wouldn't go that way. And I was just wondering what's up with that. It's so far out, but a funny thing happened this week, or late last week, RFK Jr. put out a statement in support of the January 6th hostages. And, but you've got, if you're a Trump donor who's financing R.K.'s campaign trying to fuck Biden. And then he does that. You're like, wait a minute. Right. It's like, no, it's like the whole point is your name's Kennedy and you're just get on the ballot and don't say anything stupid, and it'll work. But unfortunately, you didn't pick one of the good candidates.
Starting point is 00:07:58 So there you go. Let's have some fun before we get to the show. How'd you spend the eclipse yesterday, Sherey? I didn't even bother going outside, I'd look at it because we're in the West Coast. We weren't in the path of totality. Yeah, see, I did not know that because I'm sun dumb or whatever. I had been real pumped about the eclipse. Yeah, moon dumb.
Starting point is 00:08:16 I'm all that dumb. But yesterday was my birthday. And I was like, well, this is a nice little birthday gift from the U. universe, you know, because I mean, I love all that space shit and everything. And so I was real pumped about it, but I hadn't read enough about it to realize that, like you said, the zone of totality or whatever. I did not know we were not in that. So I had, I was standing out in the yard, had these on just staring up at it, thinking the whole time that it's going to continue to move and obscure. And I'm like checking my, you know, checking the time. I was like, what the
Starting point is 00:08:44 fuck is going on? And I stood out there for like 15 minutes getting progressively more pissed off. Because I was like, come on, Moon. What the fuck? Move, Moon. And then I finally looked it up And my disappointment was immeasurable And my day was ruined But at least it wasn't a rapture I thought that was in the card Right? People thought the rapture was going to happen
Starting point is 00:09:02 So Yeah, I'd like it to your approach to the You're the same approach to the eclipse That a flat earth would have Just assume it's going to be the same everywhere I thought here's I thought for some reason I thought the whole thing was like America this time
Starting point is 00:09:18 When this one happens America is In the I didn't know how white the sliver was, I thought the U.S. was all in it. I didn't know it was as small as it ended up being, and it upset me. Well, it wasn't just you was upset by it. I drove a lot of people
Starting point is 00:09:33 crazy. For example, astrologists, people that are into astrology, because it happened while Mercury's in retrograde, they were very upset by this. I was going to throw off the chakras or whatever. QAnon thought the eclipse was a cover for a plan to blow up the moon.
Starting point is 00:09:50 There's a Q&on influence of Shadow of Ezra. Now for rockets, we fired the eclipse from the swamp in D.C. This is a malam major satanic ritual, which my question is, how do they do satanic rituals before there were rockets? I don't know. I'm not going to get to the bottom of that. Right.
Starting point is 00:10:02 Why do we, like, why are we blowing up the moon? That's a satanic ritual. Okay. All right. Yeah. Okay. Sure. Yeah, I got you.
Starting point is 00:10:13 Yeah, dude, I saw a bunch of, I saw, you know, and, dude, Instagram comments are insane for people that don't know. If you don't know, if you don't go over there and check it out, if you do, you'll be shocked I promise you because it's wild shit going on having said that I saw some some reels of just like video footage of the eclipse the total eclipse which are rad and now I went in the comments and I was surprised by how many of the top comments were people talking about demons sign from God all this is biblical all this I knew that that was out there I just wasn't expecting it that much of it like I know I'm not sure I'm not sure it's based on that
Starting point is 00:10:51 but Sarah Sanders, Trump's former spokeswoman, he's now the governor of Arkansas. She declared a state of emergency in Arkansas for the eclipse. Again, it was kind of dark for four minutes. Alex Jones posted like a eight-minute-long video and watched like half of it. And I was like, this is fucking stupid and pointless. He called the eclipse a biblical event assigned from God.
Starting point is 00:11:08 The Department of Homeland Security will hijack for some nebulous purpose, a group of, you know, what do you call it, institutions such as NASA. This plan involved the ancient Egyptian gods and the Bible, I don't fucking know. A reverend named Jeffrey Bagley who wrote a book called Revelation
Starting point is 00:11:26 9-1-1, how the book of Revelation intersects with today's headlines. He said that the fact that it goes over seven cities called Nineveh and one called Jonah makes you wonder is this their Nineveh moment? For those who didn't grow up in Evangelical Sunday school, Nineveh is a wicked city
Starting point is 00:11:43 in Old Testament in the book of Jonah in Assyria, I think, and they were scumbags in Nineveh. God sent Jonah to tell them about their wicked ways and he was going to destroy their city unless they repented. So they fastened and repented and it had a happy ending. God spared the city. So here you have a thing where Americans founded by a bunch of Christians who named towns after Nineveh.
Starting point is 00:12:06 And then later when the moon passes over Nineveh were like, see, God did it. It's like, no, we named the fucking cities. Right. And also, again, you know, I didn't grow up in the church, but it seems like an odd choice to me. I guess ultimately the city is spared. So, but if it was like a. known den of sin and evil, like a, you know, Sodom and Gomorrah type situation. Like, there's not a lot of places named Sodom or Gomorrah in this country, but
Starting point is 00:12:29 apparently there's eight towns just in the zone of totality named Nineveh. It's kind of odd. Well, Sodom and Gomorah famously didn't repent. So there you go there. So Margaret Taylor Green posted on X, tweeted X, whatever you're going to call it. God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come. I pray that our country live.
Starting point is 00:12:50 So there was an earthquake in New York. Nothing really happened. It was just like, they just had fun making memes about it. And eclipse is you can predict them thousands of years in the future because people farther than me to get on telescope. So like the idea that an eclipse we've been known, we've been known was coming for 3,000 years was a message from God. It was weird to me, but, you know, whatever.
Starting point is 00:13:11 But then when people were making fun of her, she doubled down because she got like community noted or whatever. He said many, many have mocked and scoffed at this post, didn't even put community notes. Jesus talked about that in 1254-56, Luke 12-54-256. Now, let me read a little bit of Luke for you. Let's go to church for a second, Trey. He said to the crowd, this is Jesus talking, when you see a cloud rising in the west,
Starting point is 00:13:34 immediately you say it's going to rain, and it does. And when the south wind blows, you say it's going to be hot, and it is. Hypocrates, you know how to interpret the appearance of the earth in the sky. How is it you don't know how to interpret this present time? Now, in context, Jesus, like a lot of big-time, touring acts his audience was a lot of different types right right sometimes people like we like your old stuff so people like your new stuff all right he was talking to the people in the
Starting point is 00:14:00 crowd who were coming and getting the loaves and fishes from his miracles and stuff getting fed and getting healed by his touch but wouldn't listen to the message that he was the son of god he's saying I'm the sign I'm right in front of you right he was not talking about eclipses right and yeah it's I'm going to admit there was people like back then, you know, showing up to church events just for the buffet or whatever. You know what I mean? It's just been an ancient experience that one. I always wonder whenever these have, because it feels to me like every two or three years there's some new apocalypse that they think is going to happen. And of course, it literally never does. And it's, I know they move the goalpost and everything and all that, but it's just, it's a wild thing to me that they have no problem just setting and aside. And I guess in their heads are like oh well i guess he saw fit to spare us but next time though next time it's for sure happening and then it doesn't and they do the same thing again and it's like i mean you know faith is by definition you know belief in the absence of fucking evidence or any of that so i guess it makes sense but my thing is the people in the bible story we're literally being healed by the guys
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Starting point is 00:15:53 And so in the near future, this will change. And hopefully, it's weird because I'd ever used to have the problem that's happened like the past three episodes in a row where I just like cut out for a couple minutes. That's a new development. But I'm saying I won't be here much longer. So hopefully that will go away. I'm sure it'll get worse. But hopefully not.
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Starting point is 00:17:37 Now, as for tonight show like Mark already said, we're going to be talking about the new draconian law in Arizona regarding the abortion ban passed by the Supreme Court there with no exceptions for rape or insult. As I said, it's a new law. And by new, I mean, from the Civil War era. It's 160 years old. So that's fun. And we got some, also we're going to get into how Trump is being treated with kid gloves by the media again. For some reason, they seem to be propping him up as more moderate than he actually is, particularly where abortion is concerned. We'll get in all that a little later.
Starting point is 00:18:09 But first, we begin, as always, with the Daily Dumbass Mac. Graphic, please. tonight's d t people who don't understand i'm not lying because a park ranger and my own call 45 are in the taliban this is montana gop senate candidate tim she he she yeah you're going to hear all kinds of uh lies and innuendo and half truce about me um they are what they are got thick skin uh well it's not thick enough i have a bullet stuck in his arm still from afghanistan i have strapped on my leg so i'm used to getting shot at used to used to used to used to have heavy bullets fly by and go on my body and everything else.
Starting point is 00:18:50 So, you know, liberal spitballs don't scare me. They're going to roll out. All right. You can cut it, Matt. Here's a liberal spitball. You were not fucking shot in Afghanistan. You shot yourself at a national park, Tim, and you got caught. Now, I have no idea.
Starting point is 00:19:04 The guy really was a Navy SEAL. Presumably he saw combat, right? I have no idea why he would pretend he got shot in Afghanistan, but how he actually got shot is a pretty funny story. He's been telling this version of the story for a long time, including uh no i'll me back up for a second so basically uh he was camping with his family in 2015 he dropped his colt 45 this is his version story also doesn't hold water but cold 45 apparently went off he went to the hospital with a bullet in his arm and doctors there
Starting point is 00:19:38 were like we got to call law enforcement and so they did and they called sent a park range are going to happen at a national park. And he told him that he had just shot himself. And then when this story came out that his anecdote about how he got shot in Afghanistan was bullshit, he goes, no, no, actually I lied to the park ranger. Now, conveniently, the statute of limitations for lying to a park ranger had expired. So here's my thing. I didn't know idea that lying to a park ranger was a federal offense.
Starting point is 00:20:11 And I think that's, and I've now determined that's one of the funniest crimes. you can be convicted of. Yeah. I didn't feed that bear. Go to jail for three years. Yeah. So, but also like the four, like, people, the gun experts are like, it doesn't make sense that a Colt 45 would have gone off like that.
Starting point is 00:20:31 Like, the model he claimed to have been using, so that also doesn't, like, hold water. Okay, hold on. So you're saying that he now is claiming that he did tell the park ranger that he had shot himself, but he's saying that that was a. a lie and what had really happened was that he got shot in Afghanistan, right? That's what he's saying. Why would you ever do that? Like, how does that make any kind of sense? Like, if you really had been shot in Afghanistan, why would you say, actually, I just accidentally
Starting point is 00:21:00 shot myself in the presence of my family at a national park? Like, I don't get. Well, he's saying that it's because he didn't want to get his old comrades and the seals in any hot water because the shooting wasn't reported and it might have been due to friends. fire like a ricochet. Okay. That doesn't make sense either because of the wrong caliber bullet and any doctor looked at, doctors who looked at the X-ray said that like, like this looks like a low velocity, a little roomful low velocity around like
Starting point is 00:21:25 from a handgun, not from assault rifles. Also, if he had really been shot in Afghanistan and then he lies and tells the park ranger, oh, I just accidentally shot myself, the park ranger's going to think he's Wolverine, right? Right. It would be healed up if it was three years ago or whatever instead of like clearly a fresh wound or whatnot. Also, a doctor can tell the difference between a fresh gun.
Starting point is 00:21:44 a gunshot wound than one from years ago. Right. That's also a hole in this story. But he's saying he fell and scratched his arm. They went to the doctor. They said, there's a bullet, there's a bullet in your arm. He goes, oh, that's old. He's like, well, we have to report a shooting at the cops, even if the three-year-old scar.
Starting point is 00:21:57 None of this makes any fucking sense. I'm just fascinated by how much these guys are addicted to lying. Yeah. Do you know what I'm saying? It's like they can't breathe that fucking lying. And he's a, he's a magotype dude in case you can't tell. And he, like, one of the grossest thing he said is like, you talked about trying to keep his buddies from getting hot water at NCIS.
Starting point is 00:22:14 NCS, real agency, not just a TV show. An example of other SEALs have been dragged through the mud. He included Eddie Gallagher, who's the seal who executed a prisoner and was turned in for it by his fellow Navy SEALs and then Trump pardoned him. So this is an idea of a guy who was unfairly persecuted. Right. The guy who other Navy SEALs are like, this guy kills too wantonly. So, yeah. It's like you said earlier, I mean, yeah, they just genuinely cannot help but to lie because as you said, like he really was a Navy SEAL.
Starting point is 00:22:44 Like, just use that. That's more than enough. Any kind of service is good enough, but especially you're in the legitimate special forces. Like, you don't need to make anything up, but they, you know, just can't help it. Yeah. I mean, let's ignore, like,
Starting point is 00:22:59 like, out of no idea actually behaved in combat, but getting through Bud's training is hard, man. That's accomplishment. You had to sit in freezing cold water and carry a log over your head and jogs 42 miles and no sleep and shit. So, like, it's like, you're fucking badass. Like, why the hell? There's no extra valor in.
Starting point is 00:23:14 getting shots. Right. As Trump said, I like, I like, I like my soldiers who don't get shot. Yeah, right. It's like, yeah, you're good. I'd be like, man, I was great at dodging bullets, man. I was the best. Nobody could hit me.
Starting point is 00:23:27 Yeah. All right, we'll get into it. Yeah, let's talk about Arizona. All right. So, uh, we should have known she was about to get real weird in Arizona when this happened on the floor of the state Senate last night. This is a bunch of people speaking in tongues praying for an outcome that they in fact got.
Starting point is 00:23:43 So maybe it worked. Here you go. Yep. You can cut it, Matt. So yeah, prayer works. So today, the Arizona's highest court upheld in 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions. So basically what happened, when Roe v. Wade got taken down, a lot of these states had laws on the books that had been moot for
Starting point is 00:24:13 a long time. Right. And then Dobbs over Rules Row and everybody's like, wait, do these laws still count? And it had been a two-year legal battle over this particular one in Arizona. And then today at a court was like, yep, still counts. 1864, Arizona was not yet a state. It was still a territory. The civil war was raging.
Starting point is 00:24:31 Right. And the guy that was a speaker of the house at that time in Arizona, three days after the session was over, they passed this bill. He was a 49-year-old guy that married a 15-year-old girl. So I would say times are different now. Yeah, you'd like to think. But I mean, you know, that's part of their whole deal is taking us back to, you know, typically it's the 1950s or so. But yeah, 1860s, that works too. I mean, yeah, they want to go back in time. Like you said earlier, it would put a woman in a kitchen with no electricity in it. That's idea as far as they're concerned. There is exception in this law. They did think to put an exception in there
Starting point is 00:25:04 if an abortion is necessary to say the life of a mother. But the thing is, we know women can't even, women have to wait for literally on the verge of their heart stopping to get these exceptions. Even if the doctor knows that like, oh, this is going bad. She's going to have sepsis in three days if you don't do this. You've got to wait until there's sepsis. So these things are fucking fake.
Starting point is 00:25:21 There are no exceptions, like you said, for rape or incest. And the criminal penalty here is doctors who perform procedures would face fines in prison terms of two to five years. Dude, I just, that whole part of it, it's like, and I know this is happening in a lot of states, I think, but it's like, don't you want good doctors to work in your state on your citizens? You know what I mean? What doctor is going to want to, you know, to be a doctor in a state where you can go to actual prison for multiple years for saving up your patient's life or whatever?
Starting point is 00:25:57 Like, why would any doctor want to be a doctor in Arizona after? or shit like this. I mean, red states are having hospitals closed down and having an inability to attract doctor, like the doctor and nurse talent for this very fucking reason.
Starting point is 00:26:08 But you asked the question, but the answer is they don't care. They don't care for a couple different reasons. You've got like the bucket of people who are just hardcore for life and thinks whatever happens, God's will. And this is just the way it has to be, right?
Starting point is 00:26:19 Which I, for my whole worldview, disagrees with, but at least I can respect it. At least it is an ethos. The rest of them, which is the majority, just want to see,
Starting point is 00:26:28 just want to have, you drink mugs of lib tears. and own the lips. Yeah. And the people are legislating to entertain the people who just want mugs of liberal tears, right? Those are the people that infuriate me the fucking most because they're just nihilists, right?
Starting point is 00:26:41 There's no ethos there, right? Right. And like, we're going to talk a lot about the politics of this. Whenever we talk about this issue, I like, yes, there's tons of like real world heartbreak that's going to happen because of this bill, even if like right now there's a 14-day stay while another court figures out some shit.
Starting point is 00:26:59 And there'll be another 45 day, delay before this law goes into effect because they just give you an amnesty period before doctors start getting arrested. But so that's in 59 days. This could be the state of the law in Arizona. And speaking for a lot of women in Arizona, here's State Senator Eva Birch. I want you to hear her right here. Somebody gave me a procedure so that I wouldn't have to experience another miscarriage, the pain, the mess, the discomfort. And now we're talking about whether or not we should put that doctor in jail. Right.
Starting point is 00:27:37 So less than a month ago, she took the floor of the Senate and gave a speech where she announced her plans to get an abortion. This is the kind of thing they were debating when she chose to do that. She had gotten pregnant on a miracle. Like it was like an unexpected miracle type to do with her husband where they've been hoping for a kid for a long time. she got pregnant found out the kid uh wasn't going to be viable the fetus wasn't going to be viable and then told told her colleagues she made an appointment to terminate a pregnancy she did it was heartfelt and a you know teary speech and my thing is like how has any of us been alive for the last half decades since the dawn of the me too movement and not realize that women are fucking furious and they're going to kill us all if you keep fucking with them yeah i know well they just you know they don't care like you were saying earlier but but about the liberal tears part but also it's like you know they like by definition a lot of them don't want to hear a woman's opinions or care what they are you know what I mean like they don't want to hear reality it's like like like you said you don't understand like don't they know
Starting point is 00:28:43 they're not going to have doctors it's like they don't they're governing in a fantasy world like if you want to like if you want a government to do one thing you want to connect with the material world right it's like you want this constituents in your state to be able to have access to the best medical care, and you're doing things that will absolutely fuck it up. Now, this is Supreme Court, not the politicians, but politicians installed the Supreme Court. So, like, if you're wondering how a purplish state, like a swing state like Arizona can have a hardcore wing nut Supreme Court, it's because they packed it. Arizona's last GOP governor, Doug Deucey, signed a bill that expand the state Supreme Court from five states to seven and put two of his
Starting point is 00:29:23 buddies on it. And so he basically Doug Deucey appointed five of the seven justice in the state Supreme Court. And once this ruling came out, he put a statement saying the legislature should do something to overrule it. You got what you ask for, buddy. You just realized how fucking pissed off women are. And the people you appointed who are insulated from public opinion, don't give a fuck. And you're like, holy shit, we're subject to public opinion. And this is an election here. It's also these kind of cynical modes like this. Like you said, it's a purple state, and they know that. So it's like, oh, I got to take any, any, you know, measure I can to ensure that if the majority of people in this state don't want this, I need to, I need to have,
Starting point is 00:30:03 you know, methods in place to say, fuck that and make this happen anyway, when it's like, the whole idea ostensibly is that you represent the actual will of the people, but they, like, openly disparage that notion and don't even care to pretend otherwise. It's like, it doesn't matter if we're outnumbered. We're right. Everyone else is wrong. We're right. I don't care if there's only five of us, we should still be the five people in charge because we are right about all this and you are wrong. Dude, I bet if you put like somebody like Marjorie Taylor Green under a lie detector test, she would absolutely admit that she preferred to be in the minority, so she could be as crazy as she wants. They don't want to govern. They don't
Starting point is 00:30:39 want the responsibility of it. They want to say crazy shit. Like when we quoted her Bible verse about the apocalypse earlier, I guarantee you her, she refers to draft of it, sounded way close to the shit we quoted from Alex Jones. But she's tired of being made fun of it. She knows she costs her party votes, and they want the majority. But what she wants to do is do this crazy shit and not have it blow back against her. Right. But like, so these laws are on the books, a lot of places that make us travel back in time. Like, for example, abortions in Wisconsin were largely halted last year because of an 1849
Starting point is 00:31:10 ban, but resumed in September after a judge said the law actually didn't count because, you know, 1849 or whatever other reason. And Michigan, Gretchen Whitberg, the governor's Democrat, had to sign a repeal of a 1931 ban on abortion, 1931. What was going on 1931? The tail end of the, you know, the middle of the Great Depression, was prohibition still going on, you know, and also we decided women couldn't have rights and that hit for everybody. So Arizona's Attorney General, her name's Chris Mays. She said, quote, this is far from the end of the debate on reproductive freedom. And let me be completely clear, as long as I'm attorney general, no woman or doctor, we prosecuted under this
Starting point is 00:31:46 tricornian law in this state. But she does not speak for local prosecutors. Right. Yeah. And unless the Republican Party who's scared shitless and stuff like this can rein those psychos in who will want to get their name out in conservative media for fighting the good fight
Starting point is 00:32:00 the god doctors are going to get prosecuted women are going to get arrested you know I'm a you know I don't know how any of this works I've long professed to be law dumb but like if this is like a state law
Starting point is 00:32:13 and she's the you know the jurisdiction of that how does it work like you still like your county prosecutor can still go after a doctor for violating this law doesn't it's not an automatic like you know state issue or something she i have no idea how the jurisdictions work there but like yeah the way in most of america that's how it works but maybe she's saying that there won't be like reco cases against like whole hospital networks
Starting point is 00:32:35 or something i don't know um so if you're wondering how much how much uh elections matter uh chris may has won her last race statewide by 280 votes right there were like two and a half million votes cast in this race. There you go. She won 1,254,809 to 1,254,529. So there. Carly Lake, who's a Senate candidate in Arizona and also ran for governor last time. I remember her, the Cuban-on lady.
Starting point is 00:33:08 Absolute lunatic, right? Yes, yes. She just had a fundraiser at Marlago where Roseanne Barr was there and told everyone to drop out of college because college is. are full of baby blood-drinking Democrats. So here's Carrey Lake on the U.S. Abortion decision. I oppose today's ruling, and I'm calling on Katie Hobbs and the state legislature to come up with an immediate common-sense solution that Arizona can support.
Starting point is 00:33:33 She says there isn't a federal role. Let's unpack that for a second. Here's Carrey Lake's decision tree of her belief system. She opposed his day's ruling and wants Katie Hobbs to solve it, who's the Democratic governor of Arizona. She also believes abortion should be left to the states. She also opposes abortion, and Arizona is a state. Right.
Starting point is 00:33:51 Yeah. I mean, that's what just happened, right? A state made this decision, and then her position is that state should be able to do that, but still this don't hit for her. It's wild. I mean, I'm kind of surprised she opposes it in any capacity, really. I know she's a woman, but again, like we said, she's full-blown doing non-lunitics, so. Well, she doesn't.
Starting point is 00:34:11 She's on the record supporting this exact law. Well, there you go. I put that screen grab back up there, Matt. Here's her in 2022, where she says, she, she, there's Lake in July 2020 saying she supports that 1864 law that mandates a two to five-year prison sentence for anyone who provides abortion to anyone other than a dying girl or woman. My personal believes that all life matters, all life counts, all life is precious, and I don't believe in abortion. I think the older law is going to take and is going to be going to effect. That's what I believe will happen. She said this on camera.
Starting point is 00:34:43 I imagine this will come into campaign ads near you. So this is like She is another quote from her calling it a great law So like the example I used last time we talked about this Was like, Republicans aren't just the dog that caught the car Their dog that caught the car got to drive it for a little bit And they're like, wait, who keeps putting all these lakes in front of us for us to drive into? Right. Yeah. Yeah, well they're all trying to know we're going to get into this with Trump in a little bit
Starting point is 00:35:11 But it's like a lot of them have realized how You know, hugely unpopular this is. is, but it's like they're pot committed to it, whatever, you know, they can't be in favor of abortion, but they try to find a way to not be hardcore against it because they think it's going to lose them votes or whatnot. And it's like, yeah, I mean, they're definitely being hoisted by their own pittard here. This is exactly what they've wanted for years. Like you said, dog it caught the car. Yeah. Fox News, which has devolved at it not just a Republican messaging apparatus, but specifically for Donald Trump, has gone all in, they're saying into camera,
Starting point is 00:35:45 live television that yes we all know we're all pro-life but people hate us for it so we have to lie yeah right that's like it's so weird that's baked in they're doing it out in the open and nobody can fucking put together the kid like absolutely i'm gonna solve the case for everybody later if j if j like the cable news somehow did a better job like the new york times and framing this stuff when trump talked about it but like it i let me let me let me explain to somebody like a small child because they act like small children. But before we get to the media stuff and Trump, even before this happened,
Starting point is 00:36:19 Democrats had gone all lit on, like, betting on Arizona along with Florida. There's a, once again, we're going to do a ballot initiative. Choice activists in Arizona have already been collecting signatures to put it on the ballot this signature. They had until July 3rd to get 400,000 signatures, and they've already gathered over 500,000. It would need just a simple majority to pass. I imagine this will boost Democratic turnout, but it might just boost turnout in general.
Starting point is 00:36:46 And how these things have gone in the past is a lot of these voters will vote to enshrine abortion from the Constitution, but still vote Republican. Now, that's not totally idiosocratic because there's a Republicans are largely libertarian leaning. So it's not, it's not inconsistent. Right. Yeah. Government shouldn't be doing that sort of thing or anything at all. Yeah. But Democrats do believe it'll juice turnout and give them a chance. not just for Biden to win the state, but to make sure Ruben Gallego, who's running against Kari Lake wins, and they could flip the statehouse or increase their margins.
Starting point is 00:37:21 Do you see Joe Biden's latest ad about abortion, which you put out before this happened? I have not saying it. It's just a testimonial from a Texas mom, a woman in Texas who wanted to be a mother who miscarried when she was five months along, and she's going through the footprints she got on the thing and talking about how much she wanted her daughter and that because she could not get a DNC procedure, which I can't, I'm trying to pronounce right now, dilation and curatage,
Starting point is 00:37:47 it's called a DNC, it removes tissues from inside your uterus after you've had a miscarriage to, for your health, for general well-being. And she turns out she might not ever be able to get pregnant again because Donald Trump appointed judges the Supreme Court who threw out Roe v. Wade and the ad ends with Donald Trump did this, which he absolutely fucking did.
Starting point is 00:38:07 And it's the main thing everyone needs to holding their head no matter what he fucking says. Right. Yes, because he's saying not that anymore, right? Kemp with Donald Trump, you know, being dishonest and obisketting the truth and whatnot. But that's what he's trying to. Is this a pivot from? Well, yeah, I mean, you said he's the main reason this happened with his court and everything.
Starting point is 00:38:26 But yes, there's a lot, been in the news a lot this week. And if you just read, like, the trending topics or like the headlines and stuff on Twitter and shit like that, it makes it seem like Donald Trump taking a, you know, a moderate. stance on an abortion ban says he's he's not in favor of all that or whatever. It makes it seem like he's being reasonable, but that's not really the case here. So he previewed on Sunday,
Starting point is 00:38:50 made a big statement on Monday. We talked about last week, I would like because of Florida's a six-week abortion ban, which is there's going to be a ballot initiative to have a constitutional amendment protecting choice in Florida that he was going to have to speak on it. So he now is going to speak on that he did. It came on and gave like a four-minute long speech where he'd Unless you read between the lines, he didn't say jack shit.
Starting point is 00:39:11 He described the status quo, which is whatever, and then said it's fine, which it isn't for like women in 22 or 23 states or whatever. So he basically came out and said, abortion should be left to the states, which he didn't really mean. He said, this is a position that I don't really believe in and will change once in power, but it will help me avoid more scrutiny for how I ended Roe v. Wade. And the next day's Arizona busted to the door and said, what the fuck up, right?
Starting point is 00:39:33 Yeah. But you're right. The national headlines, throw this collage up here, Matt, if you've got it. got of some national headlines about Trump's speech and abortion. Donald Trump says abortion should be left up to the state. Sastiffing calls to back whatever. Trump declines to back nationwide abortion ban. That's not what he said. He did not speak to whether or not he would do in the future. He described what is going on now, which he got rid of Roby Wade and it's left to the states. They're inventing something he did not say. Like an accurate version of the headline
Starting point is 00:40:03 would be more like Trump acknowledges abortion law up to states does not explicitly say whether he'd say, whether or not he'd sign a ban. I mean, why, why, you know, why do this? Is it because it's like, it's juicier if you make it it seem as though he's like backpedaling on abortion or is it the whole like, they want it, the media just wants it to be like a blood bath because that's better for, you know, ratings, clicks, readers? I think they're just fucking, I think they're just fucking stupid at this point.
Starting point is 00:40:31 Like, it's just like, like, Trump didn't just start existing today. You've been covering him for fucking nine years. this point as a political actor. Even like you started dabbling in politics like 2010 and 2012 giving endorsements and going on Fox News and shit, like he's a well-known figure. But I feel like the people that write these headlines, if you could figure out a way to gamble on peek-a-boo, they lack so much object permanence. You could take their fucking house.
Starting point is 00:40:55 It's like they were all born yesterday. I don't understand it. And like, Laura, Fox News is more honest than those headlines. Here's Laura Ingraham last night telegraphing what the move is here. Well, Byron, Republicans fought for 50 years to get Roe overturned and courtesy of Trump, they finally succeeded. But didn't he do the thing, the only thing really he could do at this point without committing political suicide and ensuring that more pro-abortion activists get nominated to the federal courts? So, by the way, Trump previewed this move also. So, like, in Sunday night, when he told, he said he was going to make this statement, he said, quote, he was talking to Republicans or Republican voters, quote, we must use common sense and realizing that we have an obligation to salvage our nation, which is currently in serious decline to win elections. He's saying we have to say whatever we need to say to win the fucking election, shut the fuck up, you psychos. Right. It's like what she's saying here. It's like it's, I don't know, it's like we all acknowledge that this was a massive victory for our party and our, you know, our side of the political fence. But.
Starting point is 00:42:05 he kind of has to act like it isn't because of how much everyone hates it about because of how much so many people hate it. It's like I was saying earlier. It's like it's implicitly understood there that, you know, the will of the people or the actual majority that doesn't mean anything to them. Like it's all just about, you know, them being right and liberal tears. And it doesn't even, it doesn't really, because he just lies every minute and he's awake. So I don't even, but in case you're wondering, it doesn't matter what he said, but let me tell you what he didn't say. In case you want to take him at his word at all. He did not say whether he would sign a federal abortion man of Congress passed it. Nor did he say whether federal regulators under his administration would move to ban medication abortions or restrict sending him through the mail. He did not say how would vote in the abortion referendum as home state of Florida. And he also didn't say whether to continue to appoint judges who have further curtailed abortion rights. Those are the four main things that he should be asked. Right. He didn't speak.
Starting point is 00:43:03 to any of it. And everyone's like, well, he's moderating for the general election. That's another thing, too. And I don't know the context, when he said all this, was this part of just like a speech he was given, like not an interview or whatever, but it it's wild. Direct the camera for two social on Twitter. It was what your portrait
Starting point is 00:43:19 is. Yeah, right. So that's a little different, but you just reminded me, like it also kills me a lot of these like, you know, these media outlets that are not supposed to be right leaning. You know, they're not Fox News, but they'll, they just let these people just say these things like you said like here's what he should be asked but they don't have
Starting point is 00:43:38 they don't ask follow-ups or whatever you know what I mean they don't like press them on any of this shit they just allow them to say they allow them to bullshit their way around their lunacy and then they just like keep going like it seems like they never push back or like really call them to task or anything like that they just kind of let it happen most of the time yeah but to be he's not really granting many actual interviews with like he did one recently with it with an actual outlet it was semi-adversarial, and it did not go well. So I imagine it'll be all news, Max, and Fox from here on out. A small wrench is a plan to lie as other Republicans who actually believe in stuff. Now, I do screw with the stuff they believe in, but I can respect their right to believe it. Lindsey Graham is now back in Trump's, you know, shit list because he's been pushing a national 15-week abortion ban, and he's still doing it. So Trump, you know, insulted him and said that Lindsey Graham is his fault, meaning you shouldn't have endorsed him for the Senate last time he ran. uh so trump went on true social called graham a warmonger who should focus his attention elsewhere
Starting point is 00:44:39 on like killing getting america involved the more stupid wars that's funny uh he also like he said that graham was quote doing a great disservice to the republican party by focusing intention on an attention on the issue this caused by many good republicans caused many good republicans to lose like you're not saying that his position is one you disagree with you're saying you're telling me shut the fuck up about it so you can win right it's so weird to me like If you don't follow a bunch of conservative influencers, there's like a weird civil war on the right over abortion that takes these kind of lines. It's like some people say we've got to stop pushing this.
Starting point is 00:45:15 There's like a utilitarian argument here. It's like, well, we can maybe get a 15-week ban, but if we push for six, we're going to lose and therefore we'll actually be killing more babies. Right. So you take it we get at the 15. And in other words, they're like, well, you're not actually pro-life then. And I get at the point, at least they're being honest about what they fucking believe. Yeah, I mean, I have to be completely honest here.
Starting point is 00:45:38 Obviously, I'm not at all on their side with this particular debate. But I do get, I've said before, you know, the whole like, you want to be right or do you want to win thing. Like the idea that like, you know, some of these like, like people that absolutely refused to vote for Joe Biden because of any one thing. And it's like, well, but it's more important that we win so that we can get other things that, you know, that, you know, that. need done or it'll be even worse, even with the palace that gaza or whatever, Trump will be worse for that, you know, the idea of like big picture, like, being like, I don't like this either, but I'm still going to vote for him because we need to win more than anything, you know, which I guess is what a lot of these people are doing here with this particular subject.
Starting point is 00:46:26 Right, but I never, never in my life, I might encourage politicians to emphasize. or deemphasize different issues, but I've never called on anyone to lie, like, a mirror image of their actual position. Right. You know what I'm saying? But you're choosing different messaging is different from, like, saying up is down, right? Yeah. And, like, they're just absolutely fucking lying here.
Starting point is 00:46:47 And one of the things Trump's lying about, and he lied about in his statement about abortion, is he, like, he didn't, just leave into the states. Isn't too simplistic of a decision than what they did? because the court did not limit the possibility of federal legislation or executive actions. Like, so that's also not true. The president has a lot of power here. Like, they could be the FDA,
Starting point is 00:47:12 the Supreme Court case he just heard about, like, whether or not the FDA should have approved Mitha Pristone. Like, the FDA can just unilaterally flip their ruling on that under a conservative, under a Republican administrator. Now, maybe somebody can sue and get it put back, you know, flip it the other way. The law still goes the other direction. But the Supreme Court's not going to do that.
Starting point is 00:47:30 So, like, it's like, I hate, like, part of what they're up to is, like, they want to make this so, like, obscurantistic, confusing that they can slide shit through a back door, essentially. Because, like, trying to explain to somebody, FDA regulations and how male stuff, how, how it works and, like, how the FDA approval process works, like, I don't want to be involved in any of that. Right. Like, I want to talk about people's rights and shit and explained, like, in the weeds as much is, like, boring. It's hard to explain to people. It's stupid. And also, like, it doesn't really matter what Trump personally wants because he's part of a conservative political party that has an ecosystem of donors and other activists that he doesn't control. Like, remember, in our system, the president works for the party as much as the other way around.
Starting point is 00:48:20 So, like, the rest of the party wants to totally ban abortion. There's no, there's no way he won't sign a national ban if they're asking him in front of it. Right. Yes, exactly. Yeah. If they have the majority and the capability of doing that, if they get an abortion ban bill in front of him, he's going to veto it? I mean, no. Yeah. As far as what the rest of his movement and what the rest of his party wants, here's a leading Trump advocate by the name of Michael Knowles, who co-hosts a podcast with Ted Cruz, who's been involved with Project 2025, we just talked before, where he's talking about surrogacy. All right. Surrogacy. People who can't have babies, hiring another woman to carry their. fetus, all right? Yeah, I got questions about this. Go ahead. You conclude that every single adult involved in this should be imprisoned for life, at least. That's just the natural reaction that one has to this grave, grave child abuse that our culture tolerates now for the last five minutes and, in fact, celebrates. I got that. So what the, like, surrogacy? Like, I didn't,
Starting point is 00:49:24 I didn't even know that we know about everything that happened with IVF. in Alabama or whatever, but it seemed to me like IVF was almost like collateral damage down there and they fucked up real bad and and then- Yeah, they're against IVF. They only had there. Well, like it's just, yeah. Surrogacy, I don't,
Starting point is 00:49:41 what is the idea because a woman who can't have a child on her own is cursed by God to not be able to do that? And so this is like, scurbing God's authority. Is that why they hate it so much? It's like you're not supposed to, yeah, yeah, it's
Starting point is 00:49:57 Cray, saying that should be in prison for life is just so insane. Calling it child abuse? How? Like, I don't know like child, but you can't do a circusy without IVF basically. So I understand like a little bit of their point of view. Matt says in Bible college,
Starting point is 00:50:11 we learned that it's unnatural. So Matt, yeah, Matt went to Bible college, everybody. It's not just me who's a drowning in Bible shit. It's also producer Matt. So, I mean, it is unnatural,
Starting point is 00:50:25 but so is flying in airplanes. Right. you know and eating pre-packaged food like so i don't like what where do you where the fuck are you people drawing the line but like like i've had friends and hired surrogates and the only thing i thought was like should be illegal about it was how like little the women get paid like it's it's way less than you'd think for having nine months of your health at risk it's like it's fucking crazy um and in case you're wondering who trump's lying to here all right us or pro-life activists the pro-life activists are fairly sure it's us all right
Starting point is 00:50:59 the head of Susan B Anthony pro-life America told CBS that she spoke to Trump yesterday and quote thinks there's a door to a federal thinks the door to a federal ban remains open end quote the leader of a pro-life organization told CBS that she thinks Trump is a huge liar and that's what makes her cool with him right
Starting point is 00:51:19 yeah yeah they're like no listen don't worry about it he's just lying about all that he's really he's really still going to do it and you're saying that and you know everybody's like okay cool we were worried we're Christian fundamentalists and that's why we fucking love liars all right so the Comstock Act
Starting point is 00:51:36 looms over all this shit because they they might not have to pass a federal ban all right if you're not super familiar with the Comstock Act the Comstock laws were like a set of federal acts that criminalized they were like in the 1870s I think the criminalized use of the U.S. Postal
Starting point is 00:51:52 Service to send any of the following items obscenity, contraceptives, abortive fashions, sex toys, personal letters with any sexual content or information or any information regarding the above items. Information regarding, so you couldn't send like a recipe for a homemade herbal abortion in the mail either. But the personal letters than any sexual content information will become funnier once I tell you who Anthony Comstock was. But imagine you're on the road, Trey, like you are a lot now. But instead of texting being available, you had to send Katie letters. and you send her a letter to your lovely wife saying, I miss you, honey, I'm going to tear that shit up when I get home.
Starting point is 00:52:28 You would be a federal criminal. Yeah. Also, like, you know, do soldiers at war and shit, that's like all they did was send these, you know, sultry letters and shit. You're going to criminalize our beloved troops for that? Yeah, it's ridiculous. But they, but so, I mean, that, so the thing, this hasn't been enforced for years, right? But it still technically exists, like,
Starting point is 00:52:52 And they're going to now use it. No one thought to repeal it because everyone thought it was moot because it was like made irrelevant by a series of Supreme Court decisions that happened since then about the First Amendment, contraception and abortion. So like, but no one ever, it'd be like those law books of crazy laws you get where it's like it's like an allegation, it's legal to have an alligator in a bathtub and Florida or whatever. Right. It's like one of those laws.
Starting point is 00:53:13 It's like turns out still in the books and we forgot to fucking delete it. Oh no. It turns out we could have a dictatorship run by, you know, men. So this is going to be their new thing to lie about because that law is on the books and they can just use it. And Supreme Court has heard arguments about it in the Mitha-Pristone case a couple weeks ago. All right. So 145 Republicans signed a letter relating to that Supreme Court case about the Comstock Act in 1873. They said that they think it's like still good law.
Starting point is 00:53:44 All right. Jonathan F. Mitchell, who's Texas's former solicitor general and a huge MAGA guy who represented Trump in the Supreme Court and tried to overturn the election, he said, quote, we don't need a federal ban. We have Comstock on the books. But they don't want to talk about it. Here's a funny quote from a movement attorney who told the Atlantic, quote, it's obviously a political loser to just keep your mouth shut. Say you oppose a federal ban and see if that works. Right. Because you can say you oppose a federal ban. And then still Trump takes off. And so the Comstock Act is good law, and now abortion is legal across the country. Okay. But I get that this old law, the Comstock Act, would prevent you, prevent any abortion drugs from being mailed anywhere else.
Starting point is 00:54:30 But, I mean, what about just going and getting the procedure or having it? The clinics could not obtain the drugs from anywhere? Like, is that how it works? They couldn't get it. They couldn't procure that anymore if this one in. Here's the fun part about opening this particular wormhole. It could be the end of all commerce in America if the Justice Department says to make it so because there's not anything where stuff doesn't go through the mail for it.
Starting point is 00:54:56 Right, right. If you need to get like abortion clinics probably get their supplies delivered. Right, right. So. Yeah, this is nefarious, dude. Right. I mean, like, technically speaking, because the Comstock laws were about obscenity too, is you try to order like a laptop off Amazon.
Starting point is 00:55:17 Oh, okay. You got a laptop on Amazon. You can be arrested because that's a pornography. You can watch porn on it. Yeah, right. Yeah. All right. All right.
Starting point is 00:55:25 So, Anthony Comstock. Small government strikes a game. Right. I want to talk about what a little loser fucking crazy wing that Anthony Comstock was for a second. He was a postal inspector under U.S. Grant and big fan of Graham's whole vibe. Not sure what you fucking saw on this guy. Maybe he was throwing a bone to somebody.
Starting point is 00:55:42 so he we're going to talk about soldiers getting horny letters from home at war so it radicalized him besides the fact that he moved to new york city and saw a bunch of depravity on the streets before that he was in the union army and in the civil war and he was radicalized against obscenity and vice by seeing his fellow union soldiers drank gamble jerk off to pictures from the girls there were sweethearts back home or whatever so that started his lifelong pursuits to end sin in America. Imagine being in fucking war and your primary takeaway personally is like, you know what we need to get rid of?
Starting point is 00:56:19 All this stuff that makes war marginally better. You know what I mean? Drinking letters. Like the only things about this that hit at all, they all got to go. Nothing but blood and guts and suffering and, you know, disease and death all day, every day. Anthony Comstock is a guy who once claimed that, quote, books or feeders for brothels. What?
Starting point is 00:56:48 I feel like the opposite is true. Yeah, me and Trey read a lot of kids. We didn't get no action. He was once stabbed in the head by a pornographer whose business was mailing dirty pictures. So he went to arrest a pornographer and the guy stabbed him in the head. That guy hits. I forget his name, but he rules. He had a long beef with that pornographer.
Starting point is 00:57:09 like, arrested the guy many, many times, right? Because Comstock's buddy had read some of the guy's work or seen some of his pictures, and then later on got a venereal disease, and Connestock's conclusion was that this guy's work made him too horny, and therefore his buddy's venereal disease was his pornographer's fault.
Starting point is 00:57:29 Comstock claimed that he drove 15 people to suicide, and that was a brag to him. Oh, man. For what? for depravity for being part ofards or whatever? He arrested Margaret Sanger. He arrested. Like it was like, basically he would harass,
Starting point is 00:57:47 use the power of the law to harass people until their beliefs and livelihoods were unsustainable. Like if you're, I mean, I have no idea this pornographers, you know, beliefs in civil rights or whatever, but Larry Flint was a big First Amendment guy. He went to the Supreme Court multiple. So like, it's like that guy didn't come himself to my knowledge, but too bad
Starting point is 00:58:06 Comstock survived the pornographer, stabbing him in the head. But anyway, this is a guy of Republicans want to put century after he died, a century, 130 years after he died or whatever, want to put him back in charge of women's bodies. And it's not just a law from 1864 or Anthony Comstock from 1873 or there's laws that run the books in Wisconsin and fucking Michigan. They want to establish a dictatorship by our great, great, great, great, great grandfathers, the ones who were allowed to vote. That fucking sucks. and their only way to get it through is to lie their asses off about it and too many people are going to cooperate in this lie.
Starting point is 00:58:44 And that, I find that fucking infuriating because the one thing I hate almost as much as taking away people's rights is being bullshitted. Right. Fucking hate it. Yeah. Well, you know, that's like
Starting point is 00:58:56 their two favorite things right there. It's like they're not two favorite pursuits, bullshitting and taking away people's rights. All right. Listen, thank you all for watching before I go real quick reminder. go to Trag Crowder.com, check out about coming to her dates, get tickets. Come, save me.
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