Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 4/26/22 – Twitter’s New Musk

Episode Date: April 27, 2022

On tonight's episode we dive fully in on Twitter, Elon, free speech, big money, crypto, scams, memes, and everything in between. Also another 1/6 update and of course a plethora of dumbasses. Join us. Support the show

Hey everybody. Welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It is April 26, 2022. I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? A lot of stuff going on, bud. I hope your week's been good so far, because I'm about to ruin it. Yeah, we're good for that here at the skewer. Yeah. Yeah. Updates in the couple of things. things. One, Madison Cawthorne got caught with a gun at the airport, I think yesterday. Loaded. He took a loaded gun to the airport in Charlotte. And

here's the funny thing. It's the second time he's done this. He took one through another airport another airport in North Carolina a while back. I don't know if that one was loaded or not, but nothing happened to him the first time, which is wild. Surely not.

The Congress person, just getting away with some shit. That don't sound right. Dude, my buddy, Steve. Is he, like, doing it on purpose, you think? Like, you know how wild they are about guns and, like, Bober, you know, uh, bringing hers with her all around the Capitol and all that shit and making a whole show of it? You think he's trying to, like, play at some angle by doing this or something? Or he's just dumb and keeps forgetting that he's strapped when he goes to the airport.

Yeah, my buddy, Steve, uh, he, uh, had been to a gun range and he used to use the same bag for carry-on at the airport. And so he accidentally took his gun. through airport security once it was unloaded because he's not a loon ticket in the care like you guns all these gun people are have horrible gun safety protocols it is it is wild to me and but like he got like a 10,000 dollar fine it was like put on a no fly list for like a year or two and he was like no criminal record anything like that it was just like yeah i can't remember who it was now because it's been a long time ago but there was a professional football player who got caught with a gun at an airport once. Also, it was a mistake. But that was a huge deal. Now, of course, this guy,

you know, was black. So I'm sure that factored into it, uh, heavily. But I mean, it was, I remember it being a big thing. He gotten a lot of shit over it. But yeah, he was neither white nor in Congress. So, uh, could have something to do with it. Good. Yeah. Uh, Cawthorne's also a bit, maybe a bit of financial well, a criminal trouble for insider trading. Remember we talked about let's go Brandon coin a while then? So apparently, Madison Cawthorn is, good friends with the guy who started let's go brand and coin which of course he is and uh when they signed that nascar deal we talked about a while back call thorn tweeted out the day before that big news is about to happen let's go brand and it drove the price up the deal was announced

the price on like 575% when naskar squashed that deal it went through the floor at zero in the between there everyone who every major stakeholder cashed out with a profit and uh callthorn said he owned some not clear when he sold it, but if he knew about the NASCAR deal beforehand, that's insider trading, and he'd be busted for it. But again, nothing's going to happen to him. No, no, we don't do that. Another minor update, a reader of your comment brought it up, I think, last week about, like, what was up with the math books being banned out of the critical race theory law in Florida? And we're like, yeah, I read some about it, but how are it kind of math be racist? Well, someone dug into it. And what it is is, there's like some touchy-feely language, a lot of math books.

about instilling self-confidence in kids. And I don't, yeah, take it out of the textbook. But the origin story for that, it was like the right that pushed for that to be in textbooks because it's part of that. They literally use the word growth mindset in math books about learning how to be good at business. It's part of like bootstrapping. Yeah, right. Personal responsibility and shit like that. Yeah.

Yeah. So it's like they're getting mad at their own bullshit, which is like, I don't know, take that out of Texas. I don't give a shit, but like, whatever. That's all dumb. Also, like, Disney thing, so DeSanta sent a law last week that would, in theory, Disney world in Florida is its own government, right? It pays for its own roads and schools and fire department, not schools, they don't have schools, but roads and fire department, infrastructure, water, sewer. And exchange, it gets to, like, handle its own affairs. So, like, there's no zoning process if Disney wants to build a hotel.

So where they get exchange for paying for all their own police and firefighter and sewage and stuff is they don't have, if they want to build a hotel, they just do it, right? So somebody was like, how did they get that arrangement? So I looked into it. So Walt Disney wanted to build Disney World. He wanted to build the community of tomorrow, right? He wanted to build his own civilization, sort of. So he wanted to buy the land at cheap. So what he did was he had a bunch of shell companies buy it.

And this was run by a former CIA officer. He had a former spy, run all these shell companies to buy up all this land on the low. And when it was discovered, of course, the price spiked. because everyone knew the land was super valuable because Disney was trying to require it to build a big park. If you own a big chunk of land right where they need it, that's super valuable. Of course, yeah. So what they did was Disney hired a bunch of people. When they hired employees, they moved into these areas. And they voted to take

the other land through them in a domain and also to establish their own municipalities. So Disney rig, you use a say, officer to rig local elections in Florida. And that's how Disney got its own. Magic kingdom indeed, buddy. Yeah. Is that what the matter? It was just, you know, trade crime. espionage and shit.

Yeah. It makes me insane that you peel back one layer or anything in America as a CIA agent. Right. Like smoking a cigarette in the dark garage. Yeah. I happen to look at that dude, you put a link to it in there, the guy that you're talking about the CIA agent, and he did smoke himself to death. So, yeah, it checks out.

But, you know, it's like if you're going to be CIA guys shrouded in secrecy and shadow inside a parking garage somewhere, you're going to want to be smoking cigarettes, I think. Like, it's just part of the whole deal, you know. Yeah, this guy was a legit spy, man. He was running a bunch of, like, weird covert ops in Cuba. He started a bunch of fake, like smuggling companies, like CIA show corporations. He also stole a bunch of money from the Philippines to finance activities all of it. So, like, he was, he was dedicated and also loved the mouse.

So, yeah. Well, that is truly wonderful and inspiring with that type of whimsical, you know, black ops we got going on in this country. forever now anyway we're we're let's do it producer matt is with us as always this is weekly skews i want to remind you of course of a couple of things this first one's a little different don't tune me out listen to me all it's a little different number one if you're vaccinated want to see me live go to tray crowder dot com that's right tray crowder dot com it is different because this summer i will be embarking on a solo stand-up comedy tour fret not it's all good on the home front with me cori and drew we're not breaking up

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On the show tonight, mergers and acquisitions. so hot right now. One in particular has got everybody a buzz. I'm talking, of course, about Elon Musk acquiring Twitter for 45 some odd billion goddamn dollars. As far as deals go, seems like a pretty biggin. But how big is it? Well, Mark's got some thoughts, a number of them, in fact, so we'll break it down a little later. Along the way, we'll have a January 6th update for you. You'll never believe this. It's both crazy and dumb. And speaking of dumb, let's go ahead and get started, as always, with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D. American civilization for not having the decency or the pride to fully collapse before we were all subjected to this. Hit it, my... Before I met you... I'm done. I'll break a thousand more, baby, before I am through. I want to be yours, pretty baby.

yours and yours alone I'm here to tell you, honey, that I'm bad to the bone I think that's more than enough I'm not a fan of reality TV but who the fuck is that for? Who is it for? People love it.

You mean the mass singer in general? You just mean this particular segment having Rudy Giuliani as a jack in the box is that what's going on there doing bad to the bone? I think he was dressed as a giant bird when he started before he took the mask off. I don't really get it. Why he's dressed as a bird didn't seem bad at the bone.

George Thurgood would die all over again if you saw this. I think he's dead. But even if really Giuliani hadn't done anything since he stopped being mayor of New York, what the fuck is this? Yeah. No, I know that it's just because everything is aimed toward this being the single dumbest era in human human. history, I think, are just the most absurd. Like, everything's just got to be, you know, if you want to break

through the noise, you've got to be over the top, dumb, and out there nowadays. You got, like, I don't know. Look, if you needed, like, to show someone a snippet from the future, America's decline in like 15 seconds.

Here you have a guy who in his best days was a racist authoritarian nightmare of a mayor, right? Then all the stuff you did after that. And then you got Jenny McCarthy who single-handly jumpstarted the anti-vax movement to the mainstream, dancing while he does it, while the guy who whipped his dick around and the hangover is like, this is too far for me and walking off.

Right. Yeah. It's like, Jesus Christ. Yeah, we deserve nothing. And this is one of those power movies shows on television. Uh-huh. Way up there, man. A lot of mammals loving it.

Speaking of mammals and papaw, our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is any criminal who texts like a papaw in the midst of their criminal proceedings. Case in point, former Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, had his election lie undone by his own text message. He claimed to not have sent any text messages to Mark Meadows, the Trump chief of staff who got all these texts from everybody they've been looking through up to and around the day in question January 6th, Rick Perry said he wasn't involved in that, but apparently that wasn't entirely true on account of there were a number of text messages that seemed to be from his phone,

and that ended with him signing his name and putting his phone number beside it. So he signs off on his own text messages, Rick Perry at, you know, 867, 309. We quote, we have the data-driven program that can clearly show where the fraud was committed. This is the silver bullet. Pam Biondi, you spell Pam Bondi's name wrong, has seen and agrees to exclamation points. Rick Perry. You don't need a, you don't need to sign text messages of people. The Secretary of Energy apparently isn't confident that the White House Chief of Staff has his number of saved in his phone. That's just fucking funny. Also, it's worth of crawling that Rick Perry is so dumb when he took the job of Secretary of Energy. He thought it was because he's

from Texas and he was about oil and gas. And they had to tell him, no, the Department of Energy has nothing to do with the only gas. That's the Interior Department. The Secretary of Energy deals with nuclear weapons. And he's like, oh, shit. I don't want this job anymore, but he'd already taken it. He also famously forgot the name of the agency before he became in charge of it. But he was trying to come up with three agencies that he was talking shit about, I think,

and he couldn't remember what the Department of Energy was called. And so later they put him in charge of it. Yeah, of course they put him in charge of nuclear scientists because this is a guy who, went to Texas A&M, and finally see got a D in a class called meat. I've said what I'm about to say a lot, but briefly again, like we've talked about before, I used to work for the Department of Energy,

and when I was there, we had two secretaries in the time I was there, and one was the head of physics at MIT, and the other was head of, like, nuclear physics and something else at Stanford, right? And then Rick Perry, after that. So it was a pretty big

sign of how the regimes would be different. But these text messages from Meadows' phone, like there's been a lot of shit come out of these. Rick Perry wasn't the only dumb one. I know just jumping around slightly because I wanted to point out that Marjorie Taylor Green, they had a text message from her where she said that Trump should enact martial law, except she spelled it like the university or like Thurga Marshall's last name, M-A-R-S-H-A-L-L law.

And it's like both funny but also chilling to me that like the people who came this close to like successfully pulling off an insurrection are just so dumb. Do you know what I mean? Like that's pretty terrifying. It's comically terrifying. She had only been a congresswoman for like four days at this point. Like she didn't even have the bathroom key yet, right? Her name tag wasn't dry. and she's fucking trying to over to the government.

These people are, I would, like, I just want the confidence. Do you know what I'm saying? I just want. Yeah. I can't really wrap my mind around it. Yeah, we'll come back to her in a second. There's been a lot of January 6th stuff that came out this week. Of course, another breaks through the noise, really.

But like, this was weird. This would be that a bunch of conspiracy theories going because Trump, of course, got real close to a lot of Secret Service agents. Like, the Secret Service gave special dispensation to one of their hire-ups to leave the department temporarily, to take a leave. of absence to be a White House advisor, which is weird. And when they rearranged the Secret Service to give Biden a new fresh detail because the Biden administration didn't trust anyone let over from Trump's detail, which all

all seem really weird at the time. But so apparently when the people, when the rioters broke through with the Capitol, Secret Service tried to rush Mike Pence into a car. And someone quoted him as saying, I'm not getting in that car. Now, people interpreted all kinds of wild ways, like the Secret Service is going to go, like, whatever execute Mike Pence yeah I know I think he just he understood that if he left he wouldn't be there to certify the election and Trump would like fucking push forward he was just like no I'm gonna do my job

Mike Pence did his duty for once so he stayed there and the Secret Service just trying to do their job to get him safe and he's like no I gotta do a thing and he did it so could have yeah it's like the one and only commendable thing that Mike Pence has ever done but I mean you know it's a pretty big one though I think they want to you know hang his ass to this day over that shit so oh yeah but he's still running for president. So he wants to be the standard bearer of the party. He wants to murder him.

So I wonder how that's going to go. So another dumb ass here, I guess we'll circle back to how it relates to this. But Marjor Taylor Green, she had a court hearing last week because some people are trying to kick her off the ballot in Georgia, just like this similar to illegal proceeding they had in North Carolina about Madison Cawthorn to kick her off the ballot because of the 14th amendment that happened after the Civil War says that people had tried to over the government can't serve in Congress. So anyway, here's how this went.

Yeah, play this clip. This is great. And when you were notified that people had entered the capital illegally, did you also understand that point that there had been violence at the Capitol? I only knew what I was told. I'd heard a gunshot. We all heard it. And we were so confused.

we thought Antifa was breaking in or BLM because of those were the riots that had gone on and on all throughout 2020, day in and day out. So it's funny about that is that CNN got a hold of these 2,400 texts or whatever a couple days later. And one of those texts is Marjor Taylor Green to Mark Meadows saying, Mark, Mark, I was just told there's an active shooter on the first floor of the Capitol. Please tell the president to calm people. This isn't the way to solve anything. So if it really is Antifa, as she's claiming to believe now, why on that date does she think the President Trump could call them on, right? Right. Yeah. Well, there's all the other text messages from her in that treasure trove leading up to it was talking about how like they got all these big players on board and, you know, and like they need to talk with some people with the Trump staff for planning for the event, like very actively involved in how it was all going to go down. No concerns about Antifa being there. And then yes, on the day of, like you said, she was trying to tell Trump to call off what she thought was Antifa. It doesn't seem to make sense. I don't think we need to watch this. clip, but there's a 90-second long montage of just her saying, I don't know, when asked if she

tweeted or retweeted certain things, despite there being direct evidence to the contrary. I saw one where somebody asked her if she called Nancy Pelosi a traitor to this country, I think it was. And she goes, I don't, I have no recollection of that. And the lawyer goes, well, let's see, Exhibit B. And she goes, oh, wait, you know what? Actually, like the most clear sign of being caught in a lie that you could possibly have. You know what? I do.

That's, uh, but anyway, it was all pretty farcical and, um, what's the outcome of that with her, Mark? The, the, the, the, the, the, people, I saw lawyers complain about how bad the lawyers, uh, both lawyers were. Her, her lawyer, apparently his, his defense with like, well, technically she wasn't a congressperson yet in January 3rd, essentially saying, well, she's, it's okay for her, whether the government as long as she wasn't sworn in, which is really funny. But there, these videos are her, say, literally saying on her Facebook page, she took the video down, but people, of course, grabbed it, where she was,

She says, we must prevent the peaceful transfer of power, which is like, that, to me, it's a ball game, but I don't have law your brain. No, I know. Yeah, well, there's so many instances of ball game over the course of the investigation in January 6th or what should be ball game. But yet, ball is never game. The game is never called. But a lot of the stuff from the Meadows text just very heavily, not even implies, establishes that these people like, knew how big of a deal this was and knew how bad it was going while it was happening, despite how they've tried to downplay it since and their own involvement with it.

For example, Kevin McCarthy and his reported interactions with Donald Trump on the matter, which we have audio evidence for. You would play these McCarthy clips. Yeah, so to set this up, this is a private Republican call. So the sequence of events here is last week, these two reporters who have a book coming out, which of course they saved all of this for their fucking book, because it's not like we needed to know it two years ago or whatever. They

over a year ago, they had a book coming out that said that McCarthy on a conference call said that he wished Trump would resign and they were considering the 25th Amendment. He denied that, said, no, this is absolutely fabrication. SpongeBob meeting 15 minutes later, they released the audio and this is it.

Let's listen. But let me be very clear to all of you and I've been very clear to the president. He bears responsibilities for his words and actions. No if, ands or butts. I asked him personally today, does he hold responsibility for what happened? Does he feel bad about what happened?

He told me he does have some responsibility for what happened. And he need to acknowledge that. Yeah. Yeah, so it goes on for a while, but basically, Lynn Cheney is, of course, helping lead the call because at that moment, she was the number three in the caucus, And he's agreeing with her about everything about how the president doesn't resign.

They got to use the 25th Amendment. Then, like, four or five days later, time passes. And he goes and does a photo up with Trump at Moralago. And then this story comes out. McCarthy's been dodging everyone's questions about it or changes the subject. And Trump just called him my Kevin and said they're cool now. So, yeah. I mean, it's weird to me.

We keep going back to this theme. But like behind closed doors, they're all sane, honest page. And then when it comes time to put their ass in the line, they're fucking huge cowards. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry,

you play the next one. This one came out today. The other thing that we have to do is these members on either, whatever position you are calling out other members, that stuff got to stop. Tension is too high. The country is too crazy. I do not want to look back and think we caused something or we miss something and someone got hurt. I don't want to play politics with any of that. but then they just play politics with all of it in all of the time since then but yeah like

we talked about before with these these uh the text and calls and stuff from that day like you just said it's like in private they seem like rational people who understood the the gravity of this whole thing but in public they can't say any of that shit even though you know there's tapes and text and everything proving it but they backed themselves into a corner but also it will not matter it doesn't matter nothing ever matters it's not going to matter with their people i mean i guess they might take some heat for acting sane for a while you know what i mean they're definitely not going to take any heat for the lying about it later part like that hits for them you know so it's just frustrating i understand the McCarthy desperately wants to be

speaker of the house but like at what cost and also like what it's like We want to burn everything down to rule over a pile of skulls. Like, congratulations. Congratulations on your new pile of skulls. You got it. You're into it. Yeah, man. As long as they're into Democrat running the skull pile, you know.

Yeah. And they're on board with that. All right. Our next honorable mention, the CCP, for not stepping their game up. This is Mike Pompeo here. Fox News contributor. So why does the left act as a, like conservatives are a bigger threat to America than the CCP?

Because in fact, we often are. Yeah, I get nothing to add to that. Yeah. It's like, yeah. I mean, I personally, I feel a little threat in my day-to-day life from the Chinese communists, but, you know, whatever. Yeah. All right. Well, our next honorable mention is whoever, fucking decided to give Trump that god damn brain test just because we're never ever going to hear the end of it you yeah hit it my head as they said not too smart and i did that they said well that all went away i really did that i said doc ronnie i got to take it he said you know the problem is

sir this is essentially a public place one of the great hospitals of the world right he said but you know you have a series of doctors sitting there and all and if you do badly you do badly you the word's going to get out. I said, I know that. How tough is it? He said, it's very tough. I said, let's give it a shot. And I did it in front of a panel, and we aced it. And the one person said, that's the first time I've ever seen anyone ace it. Isn't that nice? So all of that stuff stopped, Steve. It was very nice. Okay, but then they made me a dictator instead. In other words, I don't know, which would you rather be a dumb person or a dictator? I think, I don't know. Perhaps a dictator would be better. I don't really understand what he's going on. But this is the

I feel like I think what he's trying to do there, but I don't, it's not the same thing. It's like, we've talked before by how, like, conservatives act at the same time, they act like liberals are super, you know, weak-willed mega-pussies, but also are Antifa Super Commandos and how that just don't make any sense. Oh, I think he's trying to say, like, oh, they say I'm a dictator, but they also say I'm dumb. Well, dumb person can't be dictator, but I don't, that ain't true. right now i can have a lot of really stupid things most of them are really stupid yeah right if you don't understand how people are going to see you down the line you're more likely to do stupid evil things right if you don't care about other people like yeah okay Hitler was very fucking stupid i don't know why we've got this meme that hitler's really smart but he wasn't

muslini was a fucking idiot uh uh emperor hera hirohita was just a figure ahead as have a fucking idiot um uh uh gyra bulls and arrows trying to do a fascist dictatorship and in Brazil. He's an absolute fucking idiot. If you think Vladimir Putin's smart, I'd turn on the news. I don't know what to tell people. It's like, but it's not hard.

But it's so wild to just, I know we all know this, but just to remind ourselves that like, this was a like test meant to prove that someone doesn't have dementia, right? Or that they're not mentally incompetent. That's what the test is for. Literally,

that's all, that's what it proves is that you don't. have dementia and he's been bragging about acing it for three goddamn years now or whatever it's it's can you correctly identify the picture of the elephant because if not well the state will come take away your scissors that's the test right he's like I'm a genius because I pass I don't know he just lies about everything but like it says something seriously that they gave him the test do you know me like it's like we've there was lost sight of like oh he passed it the people that people that cared about him and supported him gave it to him right

Yeah, I don't know. Shit's wild, man. Next, honorable mention anybody that thinks you need three COVID shots when you could just use number one. That's right. Check this guy out. Remember this? This is Chris Key, the guy who said you should drink your pee for COVID? Well, he's stepping his down.

I'm doing intramuscular. I have your iodine, but I'm just going to sterilize it with my own urine. And talk about the stem cells. All right. So the stem cells, pretty much every type of stem. stem cell is available in your urine. So stem cells are the base, pure DNA cell that will start replicating. You could cut it on.

He's injecting. Yeah. If you're listening to podcast, this guy's injecting aged urine into his left deltoid muscle. Like or live on a podcast. He's shooting himself up with old pee. That's what he's doing to defeat COVID. Well, talking to a guy looks like Guy Pear. his character at Iron Man 2.

Yeah. As a quick reminder, this dude, I said last week, the world's saddest insurrectionist, Dustin Thompson shares a name with my best friend. This guy also is one of our best friends from Salina. Not the guy. One of my best friends is named Chris Key. So group text has been lit up with these two dudes in recent weeks. Chris Key sent a tweet of this guy.

It was like a headline that says activist Chris Key tells people to drink urine to cure COVID. He sent the screenshot to his mom, and his mom replied, why would you do something like that? He was like, Jesus Christ, Mom, how stupid do you think I am? That's not me. His mom thought he had actually done. That's where it's when you find out what people really think of you. That's what he said. He was like, Jesus, my mom thinks I'm an idiot.

Yeah. Do you want to, I know we got a few enough there were dumbasses. Be able to skip the segment before we run out of time? Let's just watch this one last dumbass clip of the dude. talking about women voting. Yeah. I just, I have to double down on this. They care so much about everybody voting in democracy.

And it's like, if you went back to the founding, and the founding fathers would have said something to the effect of like, yeah, women and probably feminine men shouldn't be allowed to vote because then their chaotic nature would manifest throughout society. And you would say, well, no, that's not right. That's mean. You're probably an in-cell. And then the founding father would just say,

oh, well, do you have any evidence from your time that would contradict this? And you'd just be like, no, not exactly. Not exactly. So it would seem that they were actually right. I love the idea. First thing, I love the idea that the Founding Fathers wouldn't like a feminine wind, man.

These are a bunch of dudes who wore powdered wigs and like Ben Franklin, who's like favorite thing was like taking bubble baths with French prostitutes. That's just very, very funny to me. But also like, the time about women being too erratic to vote, that group, one of their big endorsements is Carrie Lake, who's running for governor of Arizona. About the thing about women being erratic, that's not true as for, but Carrie Lake is

definitely very erratic. Lunatic, man. Yeah, even just her political history, she was a registered Republican. She quit that, and then she became a registered Democrat, was a big Obama supporter. And she flipped back to Republican Party. And then she became a huge Trump supporter. And it's like, she's all one. And she should not be allowed, forget running for governor.

She shouldn't be allowed to drive a car. um but yeah this is uh yeah yeah she's wild uh speaking of wild alon musk and twitter let's get into it uh go ahead mark all right so we were talking me and matt and tray tray is like i don't think it's a segment it's not a big deal and matt's like furious about it and i'm like in the middle where i think it's bad but it's bad the way that everything's bad not a special kind of bad so this part of this segment is for me to convince twitter Trey that it's bad for Elon busted by Twitter.

Well, I mean, I know, so that was like when I first woke up this morning, I texted y'all, and in my head I was just like, it's just another billionaire asshole running the, like, it's, why is it going to be all that much different than the way ever, or then, like, then Facebook is or whatever, is, was my first thought. Then after

talking to y'all and like, you know, reading some shit, imagine that. I can see that it's, uh, that it's less than ideal in a lot of, in a lot ways but go ahead let's get into it to read so anybody watch this is like why the fuck do about twitter you don't have to go a fuck about twitter for this this is nothing to do like twitter i think 10% of a people americans have twitter accounts and only 3% post regularly or something

so it's not like a shit ton of people but if you do spend enough time online you start noticing that a lot of politics and reality is downstream from twitter like a lot of ideas to start off on what reddit and twitter end up being uh tweeted out by the president and then covered by a bunch of news sites right so like like like it's one way, like, the FBI and Capitol Police did not know January 6 is going to happen, but we said on this show, holy shit, January 6 is going to be bad, right? You remember that? How did we know that, but the FBI didn't?

That's sort of fucking why. But, like, when we're talking about free speech debates, I just want to, like, all the horseshit around this stuff is like, um, are we talking about free, rich people own a ton of our free speech. For example, or Elon Musk, the richest person in the world is going to own Twitter unless the government stops and where the deal falls through. number second person rich in the richest person in the world owns their nation's capitals flagship newspaper the number four richest person in the world owns Microsoft the number six and seven people of rich people in the world made their money off Google these are people to control the world's flow of information to a large degree right five people right five people yeah and that's the main thing that sucks about the whole deal to me is just the fact that the idea that one dude can just spend $50 billion, like a number that's basically made up to any regular person, you know what I mean,

to just own his own chunk of the flow of information just because, you know, he wanted to do that. He wanted to do it, and he did. And just, like, the insane amount of power and everything that these billionaires have is just, it's wild. how easy it is for them to do, you know, and like, it's, you know. We talked a lot about how to imagine what a billion dollars is, and I still can't really wrap my mind around it. We talked about the minutes versus seconds thing before, but like my buddy Jesse did the math. And it's like, if you made $200,000 a day every day since Columbus landed in America, you would not have $44 billion to buy Twitter. See, that's fucking crazy, man.

Yes. Yeah. So that is crazy. And it's also doubly crazy because, and I don't know about Elon's particular deal, but so much of it is like, it's not just like cash in a vault. You know what I mean? It's like owning assets that are valued at this amount, which gives you access to that more money. And it's all so much of it is just like kind of on paper. But then it just allows them to, you know, run the world and have everything they want.

Elon, the funny thing with this deal will get this in a little bit, but he borrowed. the money for it and it might that deal might come this this might be the deal that ruins them and buy this by this social media company toy to own the libs uh because he got some pretty shitty terms but uh before how these dudes think like you hear like right wingers talk about how like everyone should be allowed on twitter because it's the public square and it's like it should be a publicly regulated utility which whatever i don't care but the when you filter this through the right wing brainworms here like jack dorisue founded twitter uh posted this yesterday about why he was happy about the deal.

In principle, I don't believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it being a company, however, Elon is a singular solution, I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness. Now, Jack's kind of dude, he's the kind of like a right-wing burning man libertarian tech dude. So like he just drinks ayahuasca and lives in the desert. So he uses words like consciousness. He's using it sincerely.

He's just a fucking idiot. But think about how dumb that is. I think Twitter should be publicly owned. So I'm handing it over to one super rich guy. Right. Because he's the next best thing to having it be publicly owned. It's like it should be publicly owned. But if it can't be, then this, you know, megalomaniacal meme lord is the second best option.

Yeah. If you can't have a democracy, let's just have a dictator who says he's benevolent, despite all evidence we have to the contrary. um and so conservatives are loving this even though yeah dude they've been popping bottles all day buddy Elon's politics are all over the place he just believes outside of his self-interest which is of course extremely right wing and anti-regulation except when he needs government

hate unions all that shit he'd have slaves if he could but that's all like that's just that's your run-of-the-mill like tycoon shit you know like they're all like that yeah so they all been uh they all been celebrating like they like a bunch of like people got kicked off Twitter, not just Trump, but like Laura Lumer and all these right-wing psychos, anonymous Nazis or whatever have been banned, have been trying to get back on the platform ever since Elon theoretically bought it. By the way, Elon hasn't bought yet. These people are all idiots. The deal's going to take like six months to close. And then whatever management

or organization change is going to take is going to take a year, two, three years, four years, whatever, unless he just completely destroys a place and shuts lights off. But so people have already started trying to tweet out like Nazi shit, like tweeting anti-trans memes and, uh, and, and, uh, or posting COVID misinformation to, like, dip their toe in to see if the tweets were taken down. Like, Iremicant people are already going crazy. This is funny. Before we get to that, this made me laugh. Millions of Americans, is a quote.

Millions of Americans have been choking back their thoughts and opinions on this platform for years that a fear of being suspended or canceled. I have a feeling that Dan was about to break. That thought is from John Rich, the country, the country, remember the country music duo, Big and Rich. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. Of course. I thought leaders. Yeah.

So the Iremectin people are back on Twitter, posting all their shit, and they're really having fun. They, they, did this thing, this, again, these people think the deal closed and Elon's already, like, in the office walking around and making coffee and shit. Um, as far as politics goes, Trump says he's not coming back. I think he's lying. I think once he's, once he gears up for his 2024 campaign, he'll definitely be back on Twitter. Yeah, but what about the whole, uh, truth, social or whatever? Is that what the job? Yeah. So that's the thing is like, he would have to take a, he'll just going to fuck that over, ain't it?

Yeah. He hasn't even posted on truth yet, by the way. He's got a bunch of Trump supporters there waiting for him for like for Moses to come down the mountain with the tablets and he just won't bother posting on truth social because it's such an embarrassment. But like an easy workaround would be for for Elon to like buy truth for an undisclosed sum. It's just very little, but allows Trump to say the business was a success and he's now merged and he's back on Twitter. Where are you at, by the way, on this whole part of it, like those people being allowed or not allowed on Twitter and everything? I mean, personally, it's better for my mental health, not see Trump's tweets all the fucking time. As far as, like, what it does for society, I think, like, I think Trump's social media presence got a lot of people attacked and killed, like a lot of hate crimes, a lot of, and so forth.

As far as the politics goes, I think probably the number two reason he lost in 2020 was because of his tweets. And that's not just my opinion. That seems to be the consensus among other Republicans on Capitol Hill. like Mitch McConnell was always bitching about what a horror show his uh oh Matt says yes Matt says he is pulling on that so apparently I'm not just guessing out of my ass but like like one of the things that came out in the McCarthy recordings was that he was saying that he hoped half of his caucus

we get kicked off Twitter because it makes his life with living hell that was really funny right yeah yeah like I don't I've never had any problem with that shit or those people who say it being removed from Twitter especially like the COVID misinformation in particular. I've never been like, oh, that's not right. They should just let them do that shit. If they won't, you know, say, you can't do that shit, it's completely fine with me.

But I also have never really cared all that much if people like that are allowed to be on platforms like Twitter. And I don't know if it's because I'm just like, I don't know. To me, it's like the people that, you know, can be heavily influenced by that type of lunacy can find it in any number of other places, you know, if they need to. And also anyone who's got a brain that works when they see some shit like that from a crazy person is going to recognize it as being crazy. Like you were just saying about it having negative impacts on a lot of these politicians because it's like it gives them a platform to hang themselves with their own stupidity noose. Do you know what I'm saying? Like I just don't really, if you want to kick them off of it, it's fine.

But I also don't really care all that much if they're allowed to exist on these platforms. Yeah. Yeah, I think the internet's different to let psychos get together and organize and feel like they're in larger numbers than they are. And it used to be like if you wanted to like learn how to build a truck bomb, you had to, you know, go buy a weird gun magazine and find an ad for the Turner Diaries in the back of it. And then the guy would mail you a copy of the anarchist cookbook with it or whatever. And you would wonder, you would, when you blew yourself up in the truck, you'd wonder if anyone was on your side are going to cheer you on. now you go to a message board everyone's like yes here's how you build a bomb and we will

love if you do this and it's just like it's just different so I don't I mean I don't know like internet has some good stuff a lot of bad stuff but like the thing my content moderation is like I don't know if people realize how moderated the internet is and how unusual it will be if it wasn't moderated

you can't just it's worth noting that everybody who's ever tried to start a pure free speech site out of purely they usually started about idealistic terms the guys that started two Chan, 4chan, 8chan, 8Kun, whatever, but they go on all the old image boards. All these guys were free speech, whatever, and eventually they got so disgusted with their own product, they shut it down.

That's why 4chan started after 2chan. That's why all the chans got shut down is because their owners are like, fuck this. This is gross, because it ends up being nothing but Nazi stuff, child born, and like death threats and like, and it gets really, really weird. Yeah, any of those things, like, yeah, you can't be having that on any kind of mainstream. platform. I just mean, you know, they act like they get fucking kicked off for just, you know, I mean, I don't know.

I came to think of a good example. Whatever Marjorie Taylor Green got kicked off for was that fucking Ivermectin shit or was it election lies or whatever? Any of the more extreme examples than, you know, sure. But it's also just like I'm, I see plenty of insanely stupid shit on Twitter all the time. Still, you know what I mean? For some pretty hardcore right wing motherfuckers who are. saying pretty hardcore right wing shit all over Twitter all the time as is like it's just

you know I don't know you pretty much can't do death threats and even then you can do most death threats uh and then they did because of the January 6th and the COVID stuff like they they started to start taking down medical disinformation and the big lie stuff but pretty much anything else goes like yeah I there was a bunch of all right psychos that became convinced I was secretly Jewish and they would send me death threats and Nazi propaganda cartoons and Twitter was fine with that and they also docks what you literally

yeah yeah because of us because of this what are you talking about? No this is like 2017 with the all right Phil really ascend it I it it was right when Trump first it posted picture of my wife going to the women's march and it went viral because it had a joke attached to it

and I got a bunch of people calling my wife ugly saying that we should both be murdered somebody docks just they found an address it happened to be our old address I googled a couple times nobody at that address got murdered so they were just talking shit

but like they found an address of mine so these Twitter's Twitter has a loose hand with most stuff right right right but I just started talking about content moderation just talk about your Facebook feed where all you see is like your stupid political

debates and cute pictures of your friends kids the only reason you just see that stuff is because Facebook offloads content moderation to farms and like Malaysian shit, they pay people a dollar an hour to scroll through all the post as they go up. And if they didn't do that, you would see a ton of suicide videos, child abuse videos, murders. Worst shit I don't want to describe. Poor people are deleting that. It's the only reason you'll see it in your feed.

Because when you argue for free speech on the internet, these products, they don't moderate out of nobility because they care about people. It's because no one would use their product if they were left unmoderated. you wouldn't go on Facebook, right? They also, I don't give a fuck what they say. They don't want free speech because they don't want, you know, they would have critical race theory banned from Twitter or whatever if they could in a heartbook. I literally just want to be able to say the things that they agree with. No, no.

I jump at the right winger. I'm talking about Facebook itself. Like Facebook's interest other than being left alone to make money is like, they don't do content moderation. Content moderation is not political, is my point. No, I know. And I'm just saying also. they talk all this shit about free speech,

but they don't want it either. Like you're saying everybody wants content moderation because this is the type of shit you get if you don't have it. And I'm saying, beyond just that, they don't want free speech in the first place. They just want people to be able to say the shit that they agree with. Yeah. I mean, the thing about Elon is Elon doesn't believe in free speech either.

So we'll go deeper in that a second. But let's talk about what Elon uses Twitter for. Because if you don't, this is the world's richest man. You would presume is smart. And this is what he does on Twitter. a couple days ago. He posed this meme comparing Bill Gates to the pregnant man emoji. It was pretty

funny. He captioned it in case you need to lose a boner fast. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's like, dude, some people act like, uh, Elon Musk is like Tony Stark or something. Do you know what I mean? Just like this super genius

billionaire philanthropist who's changing the world and whatever else. But he's a fucking meme lord, dude. He does shit like this all the time. People think he's an inventor or a coder or something. He's never invented any. He's just a business guy. But like if you're wondering why he's beefing with Bill Gates,

this relates to the free speech thing, he found out that Bill Gates has a $500 million short position on Tesla. Now, shorting Tesla is a pretty smart bet because Tesla is a terrible business. And eventually it's going to go under whenever Elon can give up on branding and pump and dump stuff when he actually has to produce a product. All right. So Elon found this out. Bill Gates asked him, texted him

asked that they want to get involved some charitable foundation or whatever and Musk basically told him to fuck off because he knew about his short position on Tesla. Now, New York Times found out about those texts. So Elon, or Elon is a nice, he did it, but a pro-Musk Twitter account tweeted out, screen grabs those texts

to own Bill Gates. Now, the thing is, the guy that runs that account is involved in a lawsuit against a guy who runs an anti-Elon Musk's Twitter account who also has a short position on Tesla. Those two guys have been harassing this Twitter account and trying to get his shut down for years.

So if I told you that Elon Musk spent $44 billion to buy Twitter so he can shut down this guy's Twitter account for being critical of Tesla to try to push his short position, would that sound insane or that sound like it's very straightforward? Right. So, yeah, he doesn't like other stuff he uses Twitter for that's not really, he accused a British cave diver rescuer of some children of being a pedophile because he made fun of his underwater submarine.

Yeah. He posted on Twitter that he was taking Tesla private at $420 a share, which led to an SEC lawsuit for fucking over his shareholders because it did all kinds of weird things to his stock price, even though it's just a joke about the number 420, because he heard about weed when he was 53 years old. Yeah, I heard about it from Joe Rogan and started being super cool and shit. Yeah, he started smoking. weed on Joe Rogan's podcast. It was the first time he tried weed. And the federal government started investigation review his necessary security clearance for SpaceX.

Like the guy's a fucking idiot joke. Like it doesn't. So by the way, all his companies are government funded. SpaceX. Tesla only exists because a huge government bailout under Obama. And SpaceX only exists because it's a government contractor, whatever. He also got in a huge Twitter beef with Azelia Banks, who's like a B-List rapper over, like Elon tried to initiate a threesome, a drugged up threesome with her and grind.

as well she was pregnant. It's like, yeah, it's fucking weird. But like, but his public image, the Tony Stark is so different from the reality

that is this very, this dumb sex weirdo who's just good at pushing numbers around. Like, people think he's an inventor, but he's only an inventor in the sense that like, he sort of invented a due definition

of the word inventor, which is like a guy that buys stuff and takes credit for inventing it. Like, Tesla is supposed to save the world with electric vehicles, but it has a zero rating on climate management

from like all these climate organizations because while their cars don't emit stuff they won't say anything about their manufacturing process to the outside world they just keep it all hidden so they won't let anybody look at it so as far as they know they're taking lithium for the batteries and dumping it in creek pads no one knows um actually now I think about it Elon Musk is a pretty good example for me personally of this exact thing we were talking about with Twitter a few minutes ago because like for a long time like when I first found out about Elon Musk like years ago like I totally bought into all that shit at first Like when I heard the thing he was trying to do, and I was like, dude, this guy's, like, literally trying to save the world. That's what he's trying to do. It's like climate change and the whole thing with the fucking, he had shit about trying to get out in front of the AI singularity and all this type of stuff. Like, he was a big thinker and taking us back to space, which I've always wanted to do as a species. And I bought into all that. And I think I never really thought about it, but I think the biggest reason why over the years I've come to realize that instead, it's all.

all the shit you just said about who Elon Musk really is, is because mostly of him on Twitter and just like how he'd be. Do you know what I mean? Like if he wasn't on Twitter, I might still think he was Tony Star. Yeah. I mean, it's like it's weird. Like all these companies are basically pumping up schemes. Like the thing about Tesla, the promise of saving the world was a branding exercise.

But Tesla doesn't actually make very many cars. Tesla's actual revenue is like, like has about the same as TJ Max's. but has a $200 billion stock valuation. Those two things are incompatible. It's just purely like it's a pump and dump scam where the promise of something never comes.

And if you wonder if he would use like, say, Twitter to like artificially inflate the narrative around what a good guy is or greatest companies are, he's already done it. He got caught using a bunch of Twitter bots like Russia did to push his business image. Like there you go, the lot of Taliban of LA Times.

Twitter bots help build the cult of Elon Musk and Tesla. But who's created them? I could fucking take a guess. And like, so this fraud is about to control the whole ideas to news pipeline, right? This next one, this is a headline from a, from the Daily Beast. Musk will use Twitter to update Murdox's Fox News playbook, right? This is going to make him extremely powerful, even if you don't use Twitter. I don't know how to like make people, people might not believe me, but like it's, it's weird you watch.

Twitter's a platform for writers, so every reporter in the world's on it, talking to each other. you can see them spitballing how to frame stories back and forth to each other. This is how they decide what the news is going to be. Yeah, I mean, Rupert Murdoch is a great, you know, I mean, that's a very cogent example because, I mean, he might, like, that motherfucker and Fox News might be, like, the biggest reason that we are the way we are today. Oh, yeah, he's the most damaging rich person history of the world. I mean, like, since, like, Gingas Khan. So, I mean, when you're factoring what he's done to global warming, like, the effects that's going to have? Like, it's going to pass like fucking Hitler, dude.

It's not even going to be close. Yeah, uh, Murdoch. Like, there was a, somebody asked the prime minister in New Zealand, why their politics were so sane. And she simply said, we're too small for you land must have a news station here. And I was like, that's pretty straightforward. Um, you know, the bit of good. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, uh, the bit of good news here is the way, finances it. He took on $25 billion in debt to acquire Twitter at an average interest rate

of 4 to 5%. So for Twitter to make it up, it's not to have to pay like a dollar, like 1.3 billion dollars a year in interest alone, which is more than it made before interest and taxes last year. So you bought this thing to take a loss and he can't afford it because eventually is going to burn through his stuff like MC Hammer did. But the funny thing was somebody did analysis and basically the quickest way to make Twitter profitable be to like turn it into porn site, like make it like only fans. Of course. They already have. They are already have the tip jar set up and there are already a bunch of people posting nudes on there. So all you've got to do is just connect the two thoughts and you've got a profitable

company. Yeah. Porn is very often the answer to that question. Yeah. Porn say the ability on the internet. I mean, porn's were created the internet and porn's were created the VCR. So like it's what it is. Just a few quick examples of him not caring about free speech. One, he fires people try to unionize companies or talk about unionizing. He's gotten people fired for YouTube, making critical YouTube's about his products. He literally tried to get a whistleblower

killed at one of his companies. This guy was a whistleblower about some like bad practices at a factory. And Elon or somebody close to him called the cops and tried to get him shot by saying he was coming to the factory to bat to shoot people. And this is all like

someone asked him, he tweeted this out today what free speech meant to him. By free speech, I simply mean that which matches the law? I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less free speech, they'll ask government to pass law to that effect. Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people. That's gibberish. And it's also covered for the fact that he's going to do whatever governments want, which is the opposite of free speech. You're saying if Saudi Arabia wants a post taken down and Saudi Arabia will take it down. And if China wants

it taken down, he wants to take it down. By the way, he's already acquiesced to a bunch of ship to the Chinese government. He's had the Chinese government crack down on Tesla critics in exchange for favorable business uh accommodations to him he's like he's he's just a bad fucking dude man and having him this much power to set the news cycle is going to be bad if you shoot if he doesn't get bored and just walk away from it so yeah that's my spiel about Elon sucking all right well yeah things just get better all the time don't those things new and exciting and uplifting every week matt throws a couple of uh comments yeah you got a couple things to talk about the turn to the comments, but they're both even more depressing

than this, so we'll just skip it. Don't forget to like and subscribe, everybody. Smash that like button, subscribe to your friends. To button the thing on a happy topic is there is good grounds to the government to block Elon from acquiring Twitter. There's also places that the deal could fall through. Elon owns

Starlink, which controls a huge chunk of the internet already. This could very easily be stopped on like antitrust grounds. They're back to giving a fuck about that now. They couldn't tell it from like Hollywood over the past few years and shit and what our buddies Disney have been doing. I thought they sort of just, I thought they kind of gave up on the whole monopolies

or bad thing a while. The last thing they did, the last one they stopped was the AT&T merger for a while because Trump was mad at CNN. So the government will do it. Yeah. Well, you know, who knows. It was funny when I saw Ivermecton was trend. and I thought like something had happened with ivermectin but then when I looked at it and I realized

it was because all these Elon Acolytes thought that he was already in charge and so it was now free reign to post all their ivermectin stuff because it was you know no longer against the rules or whatever that was really funny uh katherine lane on youtube says does mark have a blog uh speaking on social media not since i quit my space uh katherine so yeah i write i write for a living, and I'm usually tired of doing it by the time I clock out. Yeah, that's definitely fair enough, but I can see where she's coming from, you know. Yeah. You seem like you either have or have had a blog.

I mean, I had a blog, I've had a couple of blogs in my time, you know? Who am I? In another context, you see when we can have a blog would be like a huge burn. Yeah. Yeah. Tim. This guy fucking has a blog. Yeah.

Yeah, it almost always is used as an insult, actually. when you think about it. Tim Fraser or Trazer from YouTube says, love you guys fucking hilarious. Well, I don't know about all that. Mostly just depressing, I think. But hopefully in an entertaining way. Thank you, Tim.

We'll try our best. Misty. Misty story says, I miss MySpace. Abs to fucking Lootle. Because if you guys are too young to remember, Trey, you might be too young. No, I had a MySpace.

God damn, dude. You, uh, my space existed when I first started doing a stand-up. The thing about MySpace was, it was honest. It was for artists to promote their stuff. Advertisings built into the platform. Facebook came up and their promise was,

we'll never spam me with ads. How did that work out? Yeah. How did that go? Myspace, you've got ads, you got posted dates from two bands and comedians or whatever that you wanted to see. That was it.

And it was like, it was annoying sometimes. People post too much. But you knew what you're getting. Matt, get rid of that. Do not. Don't do it. Okay.

Uh, yeah, no, MySpace, people that don't know or never knew or don't remember, but, uh, Dane Cook being the biggest committee on planet Earth and the aughts, that was built entirely off the back of Myspace. And I mean that it's like a compliment like he was the dude who figured that out, but that was the, uh, the sort of reach and powered at Myspace once had seen a lot of people saying like, oh, maybe this will turn out like Myspace, but, you know, Facebook came and sort of destroyed Myspace and I don't know where the, the Twitter announced. analogies We bitched a lot about billionaires and stuff so I just want to give a shout

off to Tom from MySpace Tom made his 40 million dollars off MySpace and his company went under he fucked off

he fucked off forever he like takes pictures on the beach now or something like that dude I agree completely

that guy that's how you're supposed to do it as far as I'm I call that the one good lick doctrine

that's what I call that one good lick and then gone buddy off to the beach Bubba Husky on YouTube says hell I still miss

Napster. Man, a lot of blast from the past night. Napster was my shit burning CDs, had a external CD burner, you know, that hooked up to the computer separately. And that was a hustle in high school, man, people making burnt CDs and selling them to, you know, kids who didn't have burners and shit. My buddy had a label maker. You get a custom label, put it on there, you know, with your girl's name or something, give her a bunch of, you know, I don't remember the Savage Garden Tunes or something. Yeah. My SpaceX says HK.

I get it like SpaceX, but yeah, I hear you. You put Tom in charge of it. But Tom in charge of SpaceX. That's how we do it. Yeah. I mean, the whole music industry lined up to destroy Napster because people were getting their music for free on the internet and artists weren't getting paid.

Now what's the model? Right. Yeah. So it's just Spotify and Apple get it. Artists still don't see Jack's shit. And so they destroyed that Napster kill. He ended up rich off Facebook too, so whatever. Yeah.

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