Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 4/16/24 – Court Jesters

Episode Date: April 17, 2024

Skewers, tonight we dive into the big Trump Hush Money trial which kicked off in NY just yesterday, and y’all will never believe this but so much stupid stuff has already happened. Also: SCOTUS, the right to protest, and WWIII (among many other subjects). Join us. Support the show

What's up, everybody, welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It's April 16th, 2024. I'm Trey. That's Mark. How you doing over there, Mark? Good, buddy. Got the playoff basketball coming up.

I'm excited about that. I know most reviewers don't care. Who the MAVs got in the first round? Clippers. Clippers. Oh, that's a recently storied. rivalry right there. The playoffs are about to start, which means I'm about to start watching NBA basketball for the first time this season. But I do like the playoffs, so I'm looking forward to it.

And the Grizzlies had an abomination of a year. So go Mavs. I'm with you. I'm up on the Mavs band wagon. Yeah, I had to get on the Gris band bagging with you guys last year. So I actually bought a Gris t-shirt last year to wear the bar with Drew, and it didn't hit three off. You got beat by the Lakers. We sure did. My Lakers fans at a bar in Los Angeles. But what are you going to do? Yeah. So I got a fun show. We're talking about Trump's trial and some weird Supreme Court shit where they might decide that a bunch of January 6 people get off because of a precedent where a guy got caught illegally fishing. And that'll be fun to explain a little bit later. Sure. So before we get this show, a few things, some good stuff. Homicides, I got some data about Lashire. Homicides are plummeting in 10 cities with the most 2023 homicides. That's the ones we have data for. Homicides are falling.

hugely. Murders are down 80% in Boston, 50% in San Antonio, 44% in Nashville. The thing about these numbers, if these declined numbers were increased numbers, it would. No,

I was going to say, I don't even believe this. This don't sound right, because I have been led to understand that the Biden administration is openly advocating for more crime. They encourage crime overtly at every opportunity, right,

including murder. Murder, won't. Please, Mexicans, come up here and murder. That's what we, that's what we are about in the Biden administration's version of America. Yeah, it's weird that you're not seeing these numbers anywhere else, but you get them here to skews, guys. That's right. Some good news for you. It's not even like a partisan thing because of this thing in America, we're like, if crime goes up, we got a lot more people up. If crime goes down, obviously locking up a people's working, so we got a lot more people up, right? Yeah, right. But like, you think these numbers would be a huge political winner in a country, if we were a country where people still thought being alive. hit. But unfortunately not where we live. Oh man, I was banking on getting murdered. That's my retirement plan. So an update

story we're following. Your home state of Tennessee looks like governor leaves the statewide voucher scan is fucking dead after a state rep by the name of Scott Sepicki got caught on leaked audio saying quote, we need to throw the whole freaking public education system in the trash. So voters like that.

Yeah, send the quiet part out loud. Again, But also this week, one half of the Tennessee State House passed a bill that would arm teachers. So it's like they're arming teachers while they admit that they need to just throw the whole thing in the trash. So it's apparently their inspiration for the public education in Tennessee is the fallout universe. Just desolation and violence across the board. That's what they want our kids to be subjected to. Yeah, let's have Judge Dread teach all the classes in Tennessee. That sounds good.

Look, not for nothing. Like if somebody comes from a rural area, my mom taught public school, primary school for 25 years, which took a job teaching at a college. And she had bad hips and shit. I don't think she could really do tuck and roll while, you know, unloading a clip. But my sister, my baby sister is currently a first grade teacher. And she has guns and stuff. And I, like, when they were talking about it, I was asked her how she felt about it.

She's like, I would never have a gun in my classroom because, not because they don't want to use it. not because I'm definitely not afraid of a school shoot or another real as the probability is small. It's like my kids go through my drawers. Of course, dude. Of course. That shouldn't even need to be pointed out to these people. Like actual responsible gun owners will harp on and on for good reason about if you

have a gun in the house, it should be locked in a safe and of course Jim Jeffries has the brilliant bit about how like that negates the whole purpose of it. But like when kids end up accidentally shooting their sibling because they found their dad's gun or whatever that's what happened because kids dig around and shit they're nosy they don't know how weapons work you have to keep them you have to keep the weapons sequestered away from the children so putting a loaded firearm in a room full of 37 year olds is insane i don't care i don't care how you know adept the particular

teacher is i don't care she's fucking john wick with with a with a with a with a handgun like it's stupid man it's crazy i just think like my where uh like a universe where my my lovely sweet mom would wear like christmas sweaters with fuzzy reindeer noses and also be packing like a three feet strapped yeah yeah uh federal chairwoman of federal trade commission lena con another thing i wanted to point to that's cool uh she's trying to like they're trying to pass the rule to get rid of no compete clauses uh one in five u s workers is currently bound by no complete cause no compete cause cause and i think like this is one of those things that's so like if you know anyone's had to sign them and i've had to like sign a few of them non-disclosure

non what do you recall it and it's like how i thought capitalism based upon competition but it's competition for us but not for the capitalist they get to wall themselves off from any sort of threat well the rest of us just fucking dick for scraps i'm like no if you if i if i if if i work at your business and i want to start my own version of this business learning what i got toiling away for you to make you profits. I think I've got a better way to do it. Sorry, you've got to compete with me.

That seems fair. That's the free market, right? That's how capitalism is supposed to work. Yeah, just compete better. If you can't compete, you should lose. That's how it works, right? So it doesn't matter if you trained them or whatever,

fucking compete with them. You know, Michael Jordan wouldn't have been about no non-compete clauses. You know what I'm saying? Fucking competition. It's an American way. God damn you all are the ones who say that shit. To quote Michael Jordan,

and I took that personally, so then I fucking destroyed them. Another bit of encouraging labor news, United Auto Workers are about to have a big election in Tennessee at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga for 4,000 workers are going to vote to hypothetically unionize. They've been trying to get this done for 10 years. It's a part of a UAW campaign and it includes Mercedes plant, Vance Alabama, a Hyundai plant, Montgomery, Alabama, Toyota plant, Troy, Missouri, and also some Tesla factories. This doesn't hit for Republican governors, though. The governors of Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, and Alabama issued a following statement. This was put out by Governor K. I.

I of Alabama. As governors, we have a responsibility to our constituents to speak up. We see special interests, workers being special interests, looking to come into our state and threaten our jobs and the values we live by. The values we live by trade of force factory workers to piss and bottles. Right. Yeah, those are good down-home Tennessee values right there. fucking wage slavery. Yeah, I mean, the way, you know, the way they would present it is,

oh, we do this and we'll lose the jobs. We want people to have jobs. That's how they always present it. I mean, you said they've been trying to do this for 10 years. I've told this story on here before, but it's directly relevant now. I got a buddy that worked at that plant, the plant in Chattanooga, the Volkswagen plant for a long time. And years ago, probably about 10 years ago, something like that,

he came up and was hanging out at my house in Knoxville and stuff. and he told me that they had had a whole little retreat thing about unionizing, right? And he said that they had like donuts and coffee set up and stuff. And the boss man came in there and introduced. They were like, all right, we got a representative from the union here. Somebody wants to talk to y'all about starting a union.

And this lady comes in and starts, like, insulting them all and spitting on the donuts and throwing them in the trash and just being like a fucking Nazi about everything. Like, so they do it. they're doing like pro wrestling and I'm my friend he had no political stake he was he was telling me that in the context of like ain't this shit wild you know what I mean like he wasn't trying to make any kind of political statement or nothing with it so I know that it happened and so for 10 years like this is the type of subterfuge that they engage in to keep people from you know rallying behind their own self-interest and that and threatening them and saying like hey if you do this the job you ain't got no job at all that's the main thing. they do. It's like if you try to do this, your job is gone, your family can't eat, everything's

fucked, and I get why that's effective. It's horseshit, but you know, I understand how that reaches a person. You're like, this job is better than no job, but it don't have to be that way. Right. And my thing is like, you think this, like, we talk a lot about national politics or like silly state legislators. And like, if you get outside of the sclerotic circus of this DC and ignore the most maniacs, are people out there working to do good? Like, did you unionize play? And getting effective, like, union advocacy in states like Tennessee and Alabama and, you know, it would go a long way towards balancing out, like, sanity and our politics where, like, workers have a say, an actual foothold. And, like, you, this is how you make things better, is you have unions to help get less psychotic Republicans and centrist Democrats elected in red states. And that allows the over the window to shift to the left.

And you can get stuff like better health care. and get more people like Lena Kahn in power in Washington. Because if Trump wins, you're not going to have federal trade commissions trying to get like, you know, non-compete clauses from 20% of the workforce closer to zero. You're going to appoint someone who's trying to get up from 20% to like 70%. And it's like that kind of stuff makes a lot of difference in people's fucking lies. My friend's wife, to get a $12 an hour job like teaching at a fitness studio, the boss tried to get her to decide.

a non-complete agreement. It's like, what the fuck you're talking about? This is psychotic. Anyway, she didn't do it because it's stupid, but yeah, we can skip this. We're doing it up Trump today, so we can skip this truth social thing. It was just for fun because we're running a little behind. But yeah, we can go ahead and get to the show. Yeah, well, put simply, the truth social stock is plummeting guys who could have foreseen

that. Yes, people are really upset about it, they think. But they're going to hold the line, Mark. They think that it's just the deep state and liberal media operating to sabotage their favorite stock and eventually it will rally and they'll all make millions of dollars on the back of daddy trumps you got you got trump supporters call for him republicans and congress to outlaw short selling because they think short sellers are fucking them on their stock price i'm like if you think don't trump or republicans are going to push to get rid of some stupid wall street

bullshit right what fucking planet are you people living on it feels like like this is just absolutely insane but yeah they're trying to push this meme stop people lose people losing their life savings but still buying more of it with every dollar they have and when they express concern about they're going to lose all their money, they call each other names on their message boards. And we've got a lady talking about how she's going to convince her husband to sell.

Yeah, I'll bless their hearts, Mark. All right, let's move on. Before we get into it, I want to let you know about a few things. First of all, if you want to see me do stand-up comedy live in the flesh, and you should go to traycrouter.com. Check out my upcoming dates. I'm going to be in Canada this week,

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and support the show in the process. sign up on Patreon. All right. As for the show tonight, as Mark said, we're going to be talking about the Trump trial. Yes, it finally started having a little trouble finding jurors. It's not that surprising. But hopefully we're going to talk about it all,

and hopefully you guys do a better job of staying awake than Trump has during the trial itself. We got some other fun stuff for you later on. But first, we begin with the Daily Dumbass Mac. Graphic, please. tonight's dd experts for not realizing dr strange loves doctor it was in theology this whole time what exactly did you see last night that you want to share with the people this morning prophetically we are on the verge of the god magog war that ezekiel described in chapters 38 and

39. This attack by Iran, who launched more than 200 missiles yesterday, is a tribute to the weak and pathetic leadership of Joe Biden. All right. You got it, Matt. All right. So that's Pastor John Hage, who's a huge televangelist in Texas, San Antonio, I think, and he's very powerful Republican politics. And he's talking about, you said, Ezekiel 3839. So in the latter days of Israel, latter days of humanity, actually. There'll be a battle where a king named Gog will lead a people named Magog and a war against Israel. Now, my thing is, if you're going to take the Bible

literally, you've got to wait for a guy named Gog leading the Magogs to show up. Yeah. I mean, I was going to say if, like, if the leader in Gaza was named Aza or something, then, you know, maybe we could talk. But yeah, right, like you said, fucking, you know, Gog, Gog, Gog, Magog.

is the most comically ancient sounding shit that I've heard about the Bible in recent memory. You know what I mean? It's like anybody in the present in 2024 talking about the Gog-Mogg-Mogg war, I just immediately discount because it's like you literally sound like a caveman. Like that's a war that will be fought with clubs. I can tell just by hearing the name of it. So what are we talking about? Ain't no drones in the Gog-Mag-G-Mag-War, you know?

like it's silly it's always worth remembering that three of the world's four major religions started like a 12 square mile radius where they all handed out had a tradition of folk telling and no written language and they all like all like you know hallucinating from dehydration all the time anyway just something we're thinking about yeah so uh so heggy was at a dinner this week with speaker mike johnson it was caught at a group a host about a group called christians united for israel where they were urging this guy who wants an apocalypse was urging mike johnson to shovel billions of dollars at the Biden administration's request to Israel because he wants an end-time's holy war, all right?

Now, Hagee is a guy who, this is how far we've drifted. I brought this up before, but John McCain rejected his endorsement in 2008 because he said a bunch of anti-Semitic shit, including here's a head of screen grab, a headline when he had to be read this from Heretz, the Israeli publication. U.S. pastor apologizes to Jews for, quote, God sent Hitler, end quote, comments. You don't want to really have that on your resume in general,

but apparently he's back now. Yeah, it's like we said before, try to live your life in such a way that you avoid having a Hitler section of your Wikipedia page, your public figure. Yeah, I feel like having a God sent Hitler section

is arguably even worse than that. Yes. Try not to do that. If you can all of them. Hitler was God's emissary on Earth, according to John Hegey. So what happened Saturday? I'm watching the news or like keeping track of the news and Corey's like you texted us he's like I'm watching golf and they broke into golf to say that World War III started what the hell is going on.

I was like I wish I lived a life where I didn't know World War III was starting unless they broke into golf. I just like that having that brain seems way more fun to me. Bro, I didn't know until my dumb buddy texted me, hey, they broke into golf. You know what I mean? I'm playing PlayStation with my sons or whatever. And it's like, you know, I wasn't even watching golf. I wouldn't have been privy to it regardless. As soon as he said that, I was like, Mark, are we all about to die?

You know, you know. Yeah, I just went to a bar of my buddies. So anyway, it's like, it's nice not to be on the front lines of this shit. I can't think about how terrifying it must be to be anybody, a regular person in any one of these fucking areas or countries right now. So we talked about a little bit in Patreon that like Israel had blown up an Iranian military building adjacent to an embassy in Syria and killed six people and two generals who coordinate attacks from militias

and everybody was waiting to see what Iran was going to do in response. And essentially what they did was launched an unprecedented volume of missiles and drones that accomplished roughly nothing. Right. Because didn't they I mean they like they didn't, it wasn't a surprise attack

right? Like it was known that it was it was basically like, correct me if I'm wrong weren't they pretty much like hey we about to fire all these missiles? just you can't do nothing to stop them but just so everybody knows we're going to fire all these missiles and then most of them got stopped and they were like okay well fine it was like it was all kind of performative wasn't it like it's like they had it's like a show of force because they couldn't not do anything but they also didn't want to actually start world war

war three so they were like hey y'all cool with us firing a bunch of missiles and maybe you let one or two third just kill you know a few unimportant poor people and everybody's happy And then Israel and America and the powers that be were like, yeah, that'd be fine. Let's do that. And so that's what they did. I mean, that's pretty much what happened, right? That's what I mean, that's, okay, so a couple. Well, I don't know how much back channeling was going on between Israel and Iran.

But things we do know is that Israel did have foreknowledge, whether it's from spies or is the phone call from Iran. Because the government told everybody to duck and BB went into a bunker owned by the American billionaire. All right. So the Biden administration said, and I'm quoting here, official and unofficial U.S. Iran-backed channel diplomacy system. Damascus strike on April 1st, that's the Israel bomb in Iran, helped to prevent this crisis from sputtering out of control. They said they exchanged red lines, right?

But the thing is, like, if you're telling somebody what they can't do, you're also telling them what they can do. Of course, yeah, right. So, like, the United States and Israel successfully shot down the whole majority of these drones and missiles. And I think seven people were injured, no one was killed. And, but now Israel's talking about responding again. It's like, no, no, no. No, that's on the strike and response.

That's the whole, that's the whole, that's the whole dog and pony show, ain't it? Is that you stop after this. It's like, oh, we're doing a thing to say we did a thing, but then we're all in agreement that it stops after that. Fucking Israel, though, dude, they're just on one. Like, no, we can't stop. But now Israel's like, but now we have to do a show of a force response because we got, but I think it's like, we know how this ends. It doesn't end with one of you conquering the other. when it ends with one of you guys just stopping.

So you can choose to stop now or you can choose to stop it or later date for a bunch of people are dead. But like the status quo is going to stay the fucking status quo. This is all so fucking stupid. I don't know who these performative airstrikes are for outside of weapons manufacturers. Right. It's like if we end up reluctantly backing into World War III because both sides are like, well, we can't not do.

We don't want to hurry, but we can't not. And that just escalates until everything explodes. It's just so stupid. Right. The whole thing is so dumb. It's all for fucking, and like the Iranians, to credit, regular Iranians, took to social media in English, and we're trying to say that like, your beef, none of your beefs are with the Iranian people. You're with, basically just with the fucking Mullahs. Like, we don't get a vote here. Nobody gets to say in this. And like, that's the thing is like, with, we're all helped, like, Iran and Israel are both run by John Hagee's and half of America's run by John Hagee's. And all the rest of us are fucking subject to their dumb bullshit because they want to bring about Gog and Magog. And I'm like, can you. You guys just meet in the field with bats and bricks and leave the rest of humanity out of this fucking shit. Because we don't want any, I don't have any interest in it.

Most people don't either. And yes, anyway, if everybody acts same, then this big heightening's over. And Israel appears to be pulling back from Gaza in some respects. Like they move some divisions out. It looks like they've suffered a strategic defeat, which is what everyone told them was going to happen when they overreacted back in October. And, you know, so anyway, may we survive the weekend. Ray. Yay. Lord Willing. All right. So our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is liberals who don't realize the solution to the border crisis is to simply deport all the white people to get them away from these scary immigrants. This is who else? Large Brain Marge. Hit it. Like Lake and Riley, you're familiar with her, right?

Congressman, our break. Are you familiar with Lake and Riley? I am familiar with the case. You should have deported her. her so that she could be alive today. Her parents would have appreciated that. Like Lake and Riley? Help me out here, Mark. So is what's happening in her wild-ass unfathomable brain up there? Is she saying like, since y'all want to turn this country into a country of nothing but

illegal immigrants, good, god-fearing white citizens like Lacon, Riley will have to be deported in Biden's America and that's what you should have done to save her life. Is that what this is supposed to be? Because if it ain't that, I don't follow at all what she means. I assume she was just stupid and misspoke and meant to say you should have deported the guy who killed the guy who killed. The guy who killed. But anyway, like, so she's yelling at the Secretary of Homeland Security here, uh, uh, uh, Mayorcas. And the, she's one of the house impeachment managers for him. They delivered, they finally delivered after impeaching him like months ago, they finally decided to like pull the trigger on their failed impeachment effort and conviction

effort and sent it to the Senate. They had this big solemn ceremony where they walked over the article of impeachment today. It's also fucking stupid. We have a very stupid trial in which like, I imagine like even like 10, 20, 30 Republicans don't vote to convict. Marge, Marge Taylor Green also said she's going to file a motion to vacate on Speaker Mike Johnson and she has at least one co-sponsor. Remember, you only need to one person to vacate the speakership. Thomas Massey. Yeah.

Thomas Massey said that he won't, Johnson will not get as many votes to stay as even Kevin McCarthy did. So Johnson flew to Florida. I had a big press comments of Marlago over the weekend with Trump where he announced this big plan to save his own ass, which is to introduce a law to make it illegal for undocumented immigrants to vote in American elections, federal elections, which it already is. So his plan is to make it super double illegal.

for undocumented immigrants to vote. The weird thing here is, like, Johnson's plans for this bill were released via staccastic terror, Twitter account, lives of TikTok, another conservative influencer, a mega-influents by the name a D.C. Drino. Another stochastic terror account named N. Wokeness. And a January 6th defendant accused of looting furniture

used to assault officers. That's how they put out this plan was via these social media influencers. So that's from a Johnson's plan to save his ass. And it's not going to work because the fact of the matter is most of his caucus wants to pass funding for Ukraine and Israel. And Marjorie Taylor Green and Hurill do not want any funding for Ukraine, which means they can't get funding for Israel. So eventually everyone's going to figure out how to get around this log jam. And Johnson can either introduce it or be a discharge position, but it's going to happen. And he's just delaying the inevitable by being a fucking coward, not going to want to look bad and being removed his speaker.

The office must be cool. I don't know why anybody wants this job. As far as how we ended up here, Kevin McCarthy came out this week and finally just said what happened, which is he refused to help cover up a sex crime and get himself in legal hot water. So here we go. He's talking about Matt Gates, obviously. So was it this, you made a lot of concessions in the negotiations? Oh, I did.

Okay. Let's get to the bottom. That is such a misnomer in life. Let me give you the truth about that now. And I'll give you the truth why I'm not speaker. It's because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old.

An ethics complaint that started before I ever became speaker. He's kind of legal and I'm not going to get. Yeah, he's like, I didn't want to go to jail to protect Matt Gates, so I'm not speaker anymore. And like these people, nothing about them has changed. And you might be wondering what kind of responsible, conservative leader could restore order to this chaos. No fear.

There is an expert on the way. here's former UK Prime Minister Liz Trust, if you have this video, Matt, on Fox News, promoting her stupid new book. Stuff, great to see you. Your thoughts. Great to see you. And here's my new book.

There you go. She held the book up oriented incorrectly two different. She could not get the book upright to the camera. First, it was backwards, then it was upside down. Yeah, it was backwards. It was upside. But yeah, Liz Trust, she gets. outlasted by a cabbage, right?

A lettuce. A lettuce. Excuse me. A lettuce head. Yes. A lettuce head lasted longer than she did as the prime minister. Yeah. I went to see how people were liking her book and this lead on one of the reviews got me because like, okay, quote, they say history is written by the victors, but that hasn't stopped Liz Trust from having a go. And by the standards of like mainstream book reviews, that is No Vaseline by Ice Cube. Yeah, that's bars, buddy. Yeah, so she's like trying to become a MAGA type person, I guess, to like have something to do.

Because again, she was the shortest serving UK prime minister in history. And like Trey said, got outlasted by a head of lettuce. They put a camera on a head of lettuce. Who will last longer lives this lettuce? And let me read the headline on this piece she wrote in the Wall Street Journal. The deep state lies in wait for Trump. His second term would be much like my time in office if he doesn't confront the entrenched bureaucracy. All right. I hope she's right about that if it comes to pass. You know what I mean?

Like if he happens to get a second term, I hope it's exactly like her time in office, i.e. over before lettuce dies. Right. But like the deep state that took her down was like the Bank of England because what happened was she put out a proposal for a mini budget. And the Treasury, the Bank of England and the office for budget responsibility were like, if this, your budget, you do this. we'll all be living on cat food in like three weeks. This will collapse the UK economy, if not the world economy, and her approval rating collapse. And she thinks that they were unfair to her

because they went and did math. Right. All right. And it makes sense to me she found a natural home in the MAGA movement because what they hate, more than anything, is that people that know what they're talking about

and fucking do math. Yeah, I was about to say, dude, math is always going to go against them because, you know, math is objective and, you know, real. It's governed by a set of rules and is not based on people's emotions or opinions of things, which means it's always going to go against them. Also, anybody that, like, anybody that, like, has any kind of notoriety at all,

even adjacent to their universe, is always going to go full MAGA, even if they're from another country or something, because they've seen how successful that griff can be. You know what I mean? Like, there's a lot of money to be made. I still, like, I still don't understand where all this maga money is coming from. Like, the people that I see their MAGA support, you know what I mean, the people buying the shoes and the NFTs and the true social docs,

it's like, there's got that well's got to have a bottom to it, I would think. But I guess, I don't know, I guess they're doing better than I thought. But either way, you can make a lot of money by pandering to the dumbest, craziest most hateful people in this country. There's no doubt about that. Yeah, I guess Liz ran out of them across the ponds. She's a come, come. A lot of opportunity, baby.

Yeah. All right. We got a transitional dumbass for you all as we transition into the main subject tonight. And that dumbass is people who don't think it's anti-Semitic to pick a well-known Jewish person, President Donald Trump, former President Donald Trump. Hit it. Not even allowing a father, never mind a former president, but a father attend his son's graduation. And let's not forget, Passover. okay observant Jews have a right to go and and and pray to who they want and observe Passover and this judge would not allow it not for any of the attorneys and there are observant Jewish attorneys on the Trump team what's funny about that to me is like you can I feel like you can tell she realized in the middle of that that she was saying some dumb shit that's what it seemed to me like she's talking about Trump it's like you won't let the judge won't let him go to his son's graduation and you know Passover what about Passover and it's like she realized in the middle of

it but it sounded like she was going to be like you know they have a right to to go do jew stuff you know with the jew thing and the whatever and uh yeah but yeah so and then she tried to save it at the end she says at the end that uh he's got jewish lawyers natch who uh you know should be able to observe Passover and this judge just unmoved by any of this well like okay so it's the first day of this we're already drowning a bullshit they just this was yesterday was the first day of it that's what this happened and they're like they're talking They got like a third of the way through jury selection. They're already fucking lying.

So, Baron Trump graduated high school next Friday, I guess. Congratulations to Baron. And the judge didn't say he couldn't go. The judge said maybe we'll see how the trial is going, right? Right. But also, Trump didn't go to any of the other four kids' graduations. I guess they could be, well, Your Honor, I'm trying to be a better father now that I'm retired from the presidency. But like, I don't even know about the past, I don't even know, I only know when Passover is because traffic's less.

but yeah sure so anyway here's how yesterday went if you got this first video Matt this is a report there's no cameras inside the courthouse always knows what people are telling us and here's Megga Haberman in the New York Times Maggie I have to ask you guys have been

at the times have been live blogging this event and 40 minutes ago you wrote an observation that I was very surprised Trump appears to be sleeping his head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack Tell us about that.

All right. You can kind of bet. So there's a famous moment in unusual suspects where they test the, they were in interrogation, they figure out whether a guy's guilty or not by seeing who goes to sleep because the guilty guys, like, he gets to relax because he's finally called, where everyone else is nervous and going to get in trouble they don't deserve. And I don't believe that. There's a lot of, like, pseudo-scientific bullshit that cops believe like that around interrogations.

But since a lot of these people seem to believe that cop shit works the way it does on TV, and that's a lot of what's happening, we'll see this going forward, the rest of this segment. I'm just going to let, I'm just going to throw that out there and see if it sticks with them. Um, but so that was yesterday. This was today from a blogger named Frank Frank, Frank Runyon from Law 360. Trump's head slowly dropped. His eyes closed. He jerked back upward. He adjust himself and his head drops himself and his head drops for a third time. He shakes his shoulders. Aspo still, his head drops his eyes up. That's me, that's me trying to stay awake on an airplane. Yeah. No, I was about to say like the thing about this is like I feel I keep

thinking like, dude, I'm one to nod off if it's some like boring procedural shit or whatever but, and I was like, I can't imagine if I was 78 or ever fucking old he is. But I do think if I was in a trial where like my own

name and in a sense, whatever was on the line, I'd like to think I'd be a little more attentive. So I'm inclined to interpret it as like whatever, entitlement or whatever, he's just not worried about it. But also it's kind of like when we talk about like if when people say like lindy graham is gay and we roast lindsay graham for that it's like we don't care that he's gay the only reason we care is because he actively goes

against gay people right and it's a similar thing here for me where it's like all the sleepy joe shit you know what i mean them talking all the time about how joe biden can't fucking stay away because he's an old sleepy papal with no energy and everything that's the reason this makes this interesting to me. It's because, like, this is your guy. This is your horse. And he's sitting in court with his own freedom on the line. And he can't keep his fucking eyes open. You're going to talk about Joe Biden being old and sleepy. Seems like bullshit to me. Like, I'm, I throw on court TV, the court TV doesn't really exist anymore. But like, I sat through a few trials when I was a reporter. And court's boring as fuck. Right. I can't really

embody anybody for falling asleep because it's like 14 hours of question to get yes. That's what I'm saying. And like, but this is. This is your own jury selection. Yes, I know. On the case, it's about fucking sex. This is about, and they're going to people's social media posts. We'll get to that in a second. This is objectively one of the most interesting court trials of all time.

And if you can't stay awake and with your own kids, it's very, very thing. When it's about you, no, I know. I mean, that's what I picked, in my head, I'm like, we only get the snippets from court. Being in court all day long, it's got to be pretty boring. I would probably drift off. But then I'm like, but not if it's about me and my friend. freedom and everything and I'm a for you know it does chat like I want to naturally drift towards being sympathetic because I'm like I hell I fall asleep all the time but like but it's it fucking

is different the context makes it different in a lot of directions I've realized that there is so many Trump trials we should be more specific what's going this is the one this is the new york state case brought by the new york state about the hush money he paid to stormy daniels to get her to keep quiet about their quote unquote affair which it's more like sexual assault but it's They had sex at a golf course, at a golf tournament. And he paid to stay quiet, and he did so through illicit means. And the case is about whether or not it's election interference, because it was basically an in-kind campaign contribution than he did under the table.

There's 34 counts related to it. We won't get into all of them, but you need to keep that in mind when you're thinking about how tacky this all fucking is, because it's just extremely tacky, every aspect of it. But because it's a Trump trial, there's a circus outside the courtroom, and here's an interview with a Trump MAGA protest. who's there. And look what they make a gift to support this guy, man. It's pretty fucking insane. The man is a germaphobe. You know where I'm going with this. If he had an affair,

if, okay, services were paid for. Services rendered, services paid for, right? So what are we talking about? Lots of men use prostitutes. The man. So does this lady have a husband who who goes to prostitutes or like, what they're like, like, for the record, I know a lot of guys. As far as I know, none of them have used sex workers. They're not saying that, like, that's some huge unforgivable sin or whatever. But it's not normal to be like, well, men use prostitutes all the time. That's not the case. And also, he didn't pay for sex.

He paid her to keep quiet about the sex. And also, the way she describes the encounter is basically she felt trapped and, like, she had to have sex with him. And then later on, she didn't want to keep quiet about it. But she says a guy she presumed was a mob goon working for fat Tony Salerno threatened her and the life of her daughter in a parking garage and got her to sign this $130,000 NDA. All right. So that's what this is all about. Yeah. I don't know.

I don't know if this, like you were saying, it's like, yeah, all my buddy, I'm not aware of any of my buddies getting prostitutes from my buddies are regular dudes. I will say, I have always kind of assumed if you're talking about a rich, powerful, especially. older American guy in my head, I'm like, yeah, he's pork and horrors, right? That's what I think, but Who worked in casinos? But I've always thought part of that arrangement is like,

but if you get caught doing it, that's going to be some shit. Like, that's part of how it works. Like, you know what I mean? It's like, I have always assumed like, yeah, they're probably all fucking doing it. But like, if you get caught red handed doing it, there will be consequences for it.

And that's kind of the, that's, you know, the rules of the game you all play by it. That's how I've always kind of looked at that arrangement, you know. Right. So, yeah, but the getting caught thing, and this is what Trump keeps going back to, is getting caught's unfair because so many people do this stuff. All the rich guys I know do these same crimes, right? So anyway, yeah. So, but anyway, they're still doing jury selection. They started with 96 jurors and they've seated seven so far. Uh, more than 50 prospective jurors were dismissed off the back because they said they didn't think they could be impartial, which is I want to meet the other 46 who are like, I have no opinions about

Donald Trump. We've talked about before, even just talking about it prospectively before these things, it's like, I don't know how you find, I do not know how you cede a jury for a Donald Trump trial. It has to be peers. It has to be Americans, right? I don't know how you find 12 Americans that are genuinely impartial when it comes to Donald Trump.

I made one of my videos today, and I said it's like, it's like being impartial to a tornado, you know what I mean? It's like anybody who's brain works is terrified of the damage it can. do. And then you've got the fucking rabid contingent of lunatic cultists who think it's the fucking coolest shit in the world. And that's it. But nobody's like lukewarm could go either way on a tornado or Donald Trump. Like, I don't know how you identify these people. Well, the theory of the jury system is you take an oath to put aside your, you can't be rabidly partisan. But like, just because a person's a registered Democratic voted for Biden does not

mean they cannot serve. Right. It's about the facts of the case. Right. The idea is that like, you could be like, yeah, I'm a Joe Biden supporter, but I can put that aside and rule on this case based on the facts of the matter, right? And I understand that. Of course, that's how it should work. But just with this guy, I just don't know how you identify those people.

You know what I mean? Like, because as we've also talked about before, it only takes one. And that's what, and they're like banking on that, by the way. There's fucking Republican pundits out here, like, openly advocating, advocating for like, hey, we get one Trump supporter in there, Trojan horse your way onto the jury and then burn the whole thing down from the inside because this is all bullshit. And it's like, and that is all it would take.

It's, I don't know. What you're describing here is the case against having a jury system, which is, I hear you, but it's like, which I'm not sure that's what I want to do. That's not, no, it's not perfect. It's what we got, though. Right. So they spent today going through jurors social media posts and trying to find people that were too biased, serve. It led to a few funny moments. This is, again, this is Trump

law, Trump's lawyers making this happen. One potential juror ruled out on Tuesday was a man who had shared an AI generated video of Trump saying, I'm dumb as fuck. At another point, the judge read a meme into the record that seemingly disqualified the would be a juror who shared it.

The joke referenced the Thai youth soccer team dramatically rescued after they were trapped in a flooded cave system for more than two weeks in the summer of 2018 when Trump was still in office. The joke was, quote, Trump invites the Thai boys to the White House and the boys request to return to their cave. So, yeah, they're obviously

Yeah. These people hit for me. I like him. There's also, I haven't you posted any of the woman who rejected from the jury dinner. She's talking about the experience of sitting there. She was like, how surreal it was, like how Trump's been built up into this like force of nature, both by people who love him and people who hate him and then sitting in the courtroom, like, he's just a fucking guy. I'm like, yeah, he's just a fucking guy. If it bleeds, we can kill it, guys.

This isn't so fucking complicated. And I know that that's true. and maybe I would feel the same way, but I think if I saw Trump face to face, I'd be like, God damn, it's a weird fucking guy. Like, just the way, you know what I'm saying? Like, I feel like if I was in a room with him, I wouldn't be like, oh, hell, he's just like any other American.

You know what I mean? He's not. He's fucking wild. But, yeah, but I mean, they should. I'm just saying, I thought that was beautiful. It's a whole idea behind of no one being above the law. And I'm a jury. I get to sit in judgment of this guy.

That's what you should think. Yes, that's exactly what you should think. So Trump's doing his dumb bullshit trying to intimidate witnesses on true social and people are wondering how the judge is going to react to it. The DA has asked for Trump to be fined $3,000 a post for death threats. I'm like, I don't think that's going to do it, man. But like the judge did warn me, he could face 30 days in jail if he violates any the terms of his release, including like the gag order, to which his lawyer,

Alina Habo went on TV and said they're taking away his free speech rights. He's just like Nelson Mandela. I'm like, no, these are just just. the rules every criminal defendant has. Yes, right. The barren thing, like, they think it's unfair. They have to show up in court for his trial. Everybody has to show up in court for their fucking trial. I was about to say earlier, it's like, I don't know for sure, but I'm imagining

if it was like a black man who got arrested for, you know, smoking crack and robbing an electronic store or something like that, there's no fucking way they would let that guy out to go to his, you know, his son's graduate. They wouldn't give a fuck about any of that. I'm assuming. Trump has to be excused on Wednesday so we can schedule rallies for every Wednesday. I'm like, nope, sorry, like buddy. That's all this work.

And that's kind of, that's the whole thing with this whole situation here. It's like, no, he's just being treated the way anyone else is, which is the whole, that's the whole idea that we're all focusing and arguing on here with this trial, you know. It's like, well, he's still being treated way better than everyone else. But it's like, so anyway, the funniest possible defense where they belong to, again, to Marjorie Taylor Green. where she posted this on Twitter she said Stormy Daniel said the affair never happened

and Michael Cohen committed perjury and as a serial liar. Yeah, that's what the money was for. Right. I was going to say, so yeah, she posted a letter signed by Stormy Daniels saying it never happened.

And I was like, so, but this is, the whole thing is that she was paid money to say it never happened, right? Right. So having a letter where she says it never happened

is almost proof of it happening. All you need, that's like half of, that's half of the case. You've proven half of the case. The only other half you need is that money exchanged hands. Once you prove that, Marge, you've, you've sealed the deal. Yeah. It's a bit like a defense lawyer asking a jury, if my client is a murderer, how do you explain

this and then dramatically revealing a stabbed dead body? Right. Yeah, but going back to your jury tampering, Clay Travis, who's a sports guy slash conservative influencer. He's a Tennessee a Tennessee ball's fan

unfortunately his motherfucker. If you're a Trump supporter in New York City who's a part of the jury pool do everything

you can to get seated on the jury then refuse to convict as a matter of principle doing the case via hung jury. It's the most

patriotic thing could possibly do. This is a straightforward jury tampering and it's a felony. He's a logger too, by the way, Clay Travis.

I'm upset that I don't know anything about him but yeah, he was a logger who then became a sports writer and wrote about

the Valls and then went on to bigger and better thing. things from there. But yeah, he's a logger. So from not understanding

how stuff like gag orders works and that people have to show up to fucking court and not understanding what jury tampering is and Marjorie Taylor Green not understanding what, understanding what like

criminal charges or who gets, like this is almost like the entire criminal justice system is having a ticket, conservative to work day or something. Yeah. Yeah, that's funny. It's the first experience with it.

It's kind of like when the, like when the January 6th people got sent to prison or whatever, and they were like, guys, did y'all know prison sucks? Does you guys know that the American prison complex is like fucked up and unfair? And it's like, oh, really? Is that so? They are.

They fucked around and now they're finding out about it. And it doesn't hit for them. And I get it, guys. Like, let's talk about some reforms, please. I'm down to them. I'm down for this. So the thing is, like, the whole mega movement, I mean, try to wrap my mind around this. They're objectively pro-crime, just not the cool fucking ones.

Like, they're not doing Ocean 11's high story. anything like that or like you know like if a kid like a cop left the keys in his cop car and some kid took him for joyride did donuts in the high school parking lot it'd be like that's fucking cool getting probation right but here's a so here's a story over this week a trump county chair in new hampshire as a former cop who threatened to kill his colleagues in a shooting spree murder his chief and rape the chief's wife because the department suspended him five days for his relationship with a high school girl yeah that guy's got higher office written all over him If you ask me, is he running for Senate yet?

Because he needs to sign up. He's got what it takes. His name is Jonathan Stone. He's currently a second term state representative. And he's, he's a Trump's Sullivan County chair. So in 2016, they had Trump had a rally with him where Stone gave him an engraved error 15. So he can still buy a gun despite threatening to murder all those people. You know, but currently Trump campaign was asked they're going to keep him on his county chair.

And they're like, yeah, yes, I'm going to, why not? So, an aspect of this case, I think everybody's forgotten, is it involves the National Inquirer. Right. So the ongoing tackiness of all this bullshit. There's a piece that written, there's a New York Times this week, written by a guy named Blacklin Cartwright, who's sort of the reason that all this stuff came out. He's now a special correspondent for the Hollywood Reporter. So basically, if anybody needs a refresher, what the National Enquirer was doing was called Catch and Kill. they would in league with Trump

they would discover all these rumors about say affairs Trump had had or loved children and fathered so that story turned out to be true but they paid the guy anyway they would pay people for the exclusive rights to their story and then just never write the story it's like another way like instead of Trump falling money through Michael Cohen to pay Stormy Daniels

the National Choir just did it to Karen McDougal as a favor to him Karen McDougal a guy was a doorman at the Trump Tower another woman who said she'd Father Trump love child. For example, Karen McDougal,

essentially what her contract said she was doing, was she was writing fitness columns for $150,000. And then when the story came out that they had done the catch and kill, they had to rush into publication some fake dummy Karen McDougal fitness columns trying to make it look like the deal was on the up and up. David Pecker is the guy that owned and operated

the National Choir at that point. And he was like close friends with Trump. Pecker also had a similar deal with Harvey Weinstein, which is why National Enquirer never broke any Harvey Weinstein shit, that they would just, like, crush stories about Harvey Weinstein's, you know, sexual assaults and general perversions. David Pecker is some serious nominative determinism for me. The guy that was running the National Enquirer during this era,

the Harvey Weinstein and fucking Trump era, his name was David Pecker. That's some simulation shit, as far as I'm concerned. Anyway, go ahead. The theory of the case here, this is creative law. It might not hold up to a jury or an on appeal, but like, it's saying, like, you did, you paid off these women with the express goal of getting elected president. It was to improve your poll numbers. Therefore, the money that these women were paid should have gone through campaign channels. And David Pecker giving Cameron McDougal $150,000, did not show up on a campaign in campaign books.

That was an illegal campaign contribution, far and above the, the campaign contribution limit. You guys should be in fucking trouble for this. So, but they were, the National Enquirer being Sue were heavily involved in getting a president elected. I know they destroyed John Edwards campaign with some truthful reporting about his love child. But like the truth should impact stuff regardless of where it comes from. But the National Enquirer making up lies to sway votes feels very fucking weird to me.

But they, but they printed a bunch of stories about Trump's rivals. They said Ben Carson had left a sponge in a woman's brain. They said Bernie Canders, the accused him of being caught a child sex. probes or go ahead. Dude, those two things you just said. Ben Carson left a sponge in a woman's brain and Bernie Sanders had a, he was caught in a child sex probe. They also said Marco Rubio was photographed at a man fest foam party or whatever.

Like that, that all, this is what's wild to me. That all sounds like National Inquirer type shit, right? Meaning like I have lived my whole life fully believing that the National Inquirer was just some tabloid horse shit where they just do stuff like that and make things up about people. Like, I, that's what's wild to me about this whole case. There's, like, truth embedded in what's happening at the National Inquirer.

Like, there's an element of journalism there. They can just choose to, they can just choose to deploy it or not. You know what I mean? Like, they can, they can say their crazy tabloid lies and that's fine. But they also can tell the truth sometimes or whatever. Like, I don't, I don't really get it. It's, it's, it's not. I did not, I apparently did not understand the National Inquirer and how it actually works. Right. It's not that they're just like making up stories about Marco Rubio being gay sex parties, but they're not doing any stories about Trump. Do you know what I'm saying?

It's like they're generating negativity about everyone else. Okay, okay. Oh, okay. So the idea is like we make up all these crazy stories about everybody else, but Trump's paying them so we don't make it up about Trump. Yeah. Well, we don't, we have true stories about Trump we're not telling. Right. Or make up stories about other people.

Okay. Okay, yeah. All right. So, like, the Ted Cruz, his dad killed JFK thing. That wasn't an asset, that was a national inquirer story that almost still exists in the public consciousness, because Trump talked about it at a rally. So you don't think Trump was talking to David Pecker when he's told him National Inquirer had plans on rallies.

So what we're talking about, so let's turn to January 6th stuff for a second, because Supreme Court had a hearing today. basically hearing an appeal from a January insurrectionist who thinks they got too harsh of a sentence because they're prosecuted under too extreme of a law. 330 January 6 rioters have been prosecuted under this obstruction. It's an obstruction statute at issue in this case, which is Fisher v. United States, I guess. so the statute's plain text clearly appears to like points to this type of scenario obstruction of an official proceeding but the judges sound like they're really into getting letting this

letting Trump also charge under this statute for part of his January 6 case he has other charges too but this is like six of them I think um and the Clarence Thomas was trying to minimize January 6 today which makes sense because his wife was involved in it right if you like his wife being involved in January 6 and him not even recusing is so fucking cartoonously corrupt that I don't even know how to like talk about it right um it's pretty disgraceful it yeah it's one of those things where it's just like what are you going to do you can't do anything you know what I mean it's like you can't do anything about it so shut the fuck up and get over it like that seems to be how they're approaching it's like they have that kind of power it's like yeah I'm not going to because I don't want to and you can point it out all you want but I'm still going to wield the same power and do the same thing so right go fuck yourself I'm trying to talk about this in broad strokes because I'm not a lawyer, but so just we're reading about it. So this particular obstruction statute was part of the Sorbanes-Oxley Act, which was passed after Enron collapsed.

And the idea of which is like the instructing official proceeding is like an offshoot of like destroying evidence in some capacity, I don't fucking know. But anyway, the problem with this case is like, let's get to the fishing part of this. All right. So way back in around 2007, a guy named John. Yates was fishing off the coast of Florida and he was busted by wildlife officials for catching grouper that were too small. But before he returned to the dock a day later, he chucked the contraband fish overboard rather than hand them over to authorities. So the feds charged him with

destroying evidence under the Sorbanes-Oxley Act. Now, he went to court and appealed the charges on the ground-baking theory. Because what anyone had been doing is shredding a bunch of papers. He's like, his theory is like, well, fish aren't papers. And they're not, Mark. Show me a lot. Show me a lot. They're not. Fish are famously not papers.

Also, he wasn't shredding them. Also, it's like destroying them where the fish dead already. If he threw them back in the water and they swam off, they're not destroyed. There's a lot of holes in this, in the case here, in my opinion. You know, fish are not papers. Anyway, go ahead. So, yeah, we got to the Supreme Court eight years later in 2015. The Supreme Court's like, you know what?

We agree with you. Fish aren't papers. Yeah. So it posted. it puts a giant hole in like the creative lawyering around this statute and the case going to be whether or not whether or not the feds got the prosecutors got too creative with their interpretation of the statute to throw 330 you'd think their defense lawyers would figure this out by now if there's really the the in the prosecutions were this flawed

but it got the Supreme Court and now this impacts Trumps now they're all in on this theory of the case so basically yeah they're going to decide whether this novel use of the statute will be allowed to stand and then when we're talking about the Supreme Court, one other thing they did yesterday, and this environment we're talking about, this is about protesters, and this will relate to January 6th and a second. Tom Cotton got on Twitter yesterday and said this, I encourage people who get stuck behind the pro-Hamas mob's blocking traffic, take matters into your own hands and get them out of the way. It's time to put it into this nonsense. So he's calling for people to run over protesters with their cars. All right? And so we talk

about. Palestinian protesters who shut down the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday, right? And that's what he's talking about. Yeah. So we talk it one way ratcheting and who gets rights here. Because like basically every Supreme Court case is like whoever the right wing or business person is gets freedom and whoever the left wing activist or whatever it is doesn't get freedom. So today, Supreme Court argued that right wing insurrectionists are just protesters. And yesterday they decided this case, which decided that left wing protests are essentially illegal in three southern states. Yes, exactly. Yes. In the same breath,

basically, they said that yeah, left-wing protest, they tried basically, essentially outlaw left-wing protest by making it to where if you organize a protest, you can be held liable for anything anyone does at that protest, which of course opens you up to Asian provocateurs or just

drunk people or any fucking thing. Like, no one's going to throw a protest if they know that any person who shows up and throws a fucking brick can put you in jail. So that's, that's how they kind of outlawed protest in, in the southern, You sued to financial ruin, right?

So, yeah, this case was called McKesson v. Doe. Debray McKesson, you might have heard of as a Black Lives Matter activist. So what happened was a few years ago, he organized a protest in Baton Rouge after a police shooting of a guy named Alton Sterling. And during that protest, someone, an unknown person threw a rock and hit a cop in the face, essentially caused some pretty severe damage. Right. And the cop, who's John Doe in the situation, his name's not public, sued Deerian McKesson. and the court was deciding like the Fifth Circuit said

sure this is a good lawsuit and the Supreme Court just declined to hear the case so they basically said like Tray said if you have a protest and someone shows up and does some fuckery you're on the financial hook for it right so why so no one's going to risk that right so they're outlawing those protests whilst backing effectively

the version of protest the treasonous version of process they have on January 6th and they're doing all this with a straight face and acting like it's totally above board it's fucking bullshit Mark real quick because we only got a couple minutes left for the patrons out there, for people that aren't patrons, they don't know. On the skew and a, we got a little bit of heat for always agreeing with each other.

And I said on this episode this week, I was like, I'm going to try to disagree with you, Mark. I'm going to try to find something. So here's my shot. We only mentioned it in passing. The protest at the Golden Gate Bridge, where are you at on that? Pro-Palestadian protest. General, with protests of all stripes, I think freedom's messy and you've got to tolerate a little bit of it. Like, even if January 6th, if they hadn't hit cops and broken in,

it would end up having a problem in marching around, what, D.C. complaining. Okay, right. Well, see, I think stuff like that, when I say stuff like that, I mean, the Golden Gate Bridge, and I'm going to piss a lot of our viewers off here, too. But I'm trying to give you all what you want. I'm trying to disagree with Mark in the very waning moments of this show. I think with things like that, I think you lose more people than you gain. That's what I think.

I know you get eyes on you or whatever, but I think it's counterproductive to the calls at large, that type of shit. especially when you're doing it in a place like the Bay Area. There's probably tons of people who were personally affected by that, who were on your side and now their whole day is fucked or whatever. And I don't think you're, I don't think you're bringing anyone over to your side doing that type of thing. And I think conversely, you might lose some people.

I'm all for protesting. I don't know if that's the way to go about it. It's like when these pro-environmental protesters go into a fucking art museum and throw oil on a fucking Monet or whatever, I don't really get what that's. I know it gets attention. I don't think that that's doing what you want it to do either. So there's my disagreement for the week.

A couple of points to push back on. One of the really stupid thing about those throwing paint on paintings protests is the paintings are covered in plastic and glass, so it doesn't do anything anyway. It literally just annoys people. But I would say that people said the same thing about civil rights protests in the South and the 60s. Like MLK was horrifically unpopular for blocking bridges and roads and stuff.

Popularity is not the point. You're not trying to win hard. and minds you're trying to demonstrate your you know resolve and irritate people into submission like it's like so it's not like it's not like yeah if I was sitting in traffic honking it would annoy the shit of me that I couldn't get home or get to work or wherever I'm trying to go but that's not the point the point is to be like God fucking give them what they want so they get off the goddamn bridge that's the point of it right right so anyway the effectiveness or what things again, they're not, they're not step by step, you know, it's not like step one block

bridge, step three, free Palestine. It's not like a step by step by step process. Step two question mark. Yeah, right. No, I know. But I do want to say like, yeah, I go into the holes in the domestic testing case. Like, like trace, like a Ku Klux Klanman could show up to a Black Lives Matter protest and do whatever he wants, right, grew up the organization. But what you say with agent provocateur is I wanted to make this point is that we talked about how, like, the FBI and Denver police sent undercovers into, like, housing rights groups and stuff to, like, so dissent, which they always do with left-wing protest movements. And, like, so all you're going to do is have, like, undercover cop, throwing rocks at cops on

purpose to get the people of the organization suit. This is going to result in cops hitting each other in the head with rocks. Probably a cop shooting another cop. Right. Just to take out an organization that the cops had nothing to do with or had a, you know, bull's eye on them anyway, yeah. Oh, thank you. The Rone on YouTube says hit the like button before.

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