Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – 5/06/25 – We’re Bringing Back Company Towns, but as Cults

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

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Howdy is my Trey Crowder impression. Welcome to Weekly Skews. I am Mark Aegee. Here with me tonight is Drew Morgan because Trey is busy on deadline doing some Hollywood shit. Very important. How are you? How are you? Thanks for having me.

Good, man. Thank you for doing this, buddy. Long time since we caught up. I'm glad looking forward to this. So Drew's in, it's about. 8.30 where he is, Eastern Time, in Eastern Tennessee. It's 5.30 Monday. For me, it's Cinco de Mayo, right? Everybody's celebrating? Anybody else got a marg-drunk wife? I do right now.

Well, yeah. What's Andy up to, by the other, on our margs? She just had, like, she's on the board of the local arts council, and they had a meeting tonight, and I'm pretty sure they just culturally appropriated inappropriately. Yeah, hell yeah, there you go So America's all about, baby taking the most mediocre stuff From other cultures And making it ours

We've got a fun show lined up We're talking about some fucking Canada's elections And some horrifying fucking ice crackdowns On random teenagers in California Who are American But first we get to the show I wanted to just a quick

A couple Mad King updates I'd see that Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz Drew I've heard about this What could go over? wrong. He also paired it with like saying he wants to tear up movies that are made

overseas which like someone noticed that over like last Saturday night on local cable in the area surrounding Moralago escaped from Alcatraz was playing so maybe that inspired both thoughts but he seems to think we closed to Alcatraz because it was because of woke

or something as opposed to the fact it was three times more expensive to keep inmates there because he had to like ship water in on a boat true as a former defense lawyer do you agree with the premise that american prisons are too nice yeah that's always been the sense i get when i'm there with people um is that everyone there's having a great time and we are turning out people who are weak and unable to cut it they come out they were coddled in prison so when they get out they're unable to cut it in america no it's a nightmare and the reason you should care about that not only because they're human

beings. Shout out my brother who just got out. You should also care about that because there is almost no rehabilitation inside the American system. It is damn near impossible to come out a better and more improved person. And I think that should be the goal regardless of how you feel about prisoners or crime or all that. So no, I don't feel that way at all. Yeah, it's not like being locked up for 10 years is going to be a lot of fun, even if you get to read books and shit, which is like, okay. So the movie tariffs thing is pretty fucking funny to me because, one, it's like, it's illegal,

it's not going to work, he's not going to do it. He already backed off of it some, but like apparently what happened was John Voigt, who he appointed the ambassador to Hollywood, like it's a foreign country, presented him with a plan to invigorate American movie production and involved a lot of components, like tax credit,

subsidies, you know, and tariffs were a small part of it. Trump just heard tariffs, only thing you remember and said he was going to like basically make it illegal to make the French connection. Like, what I, the part I found funny was like, the CIA and DOD have like script approval departments to work for production companies. They make like, you know, fucking top gun.

Yeah, top gun, Marvel movies, uh, zero dark 30. And like, so they're saying the CIA is like, wait a minute, we're trying to make movies to recruit people to join the military and CIA and you want us to fucking set them and why Wyoming and Missouri? I don't know if you know, but we have to convince everyone the world's evil, and the easiest way to do that is Hollywood. I almost feel bad for evil people right now. Like top of the list, potentially John Voie, I don't know if he's evil. I know he and I disagree about a lot of things, but it must suck to, like, go through all of that and be like, all right, I know Ambassador to Hollywood's a bullshit title, but I'm going to take this seriously because I've been in Hollywood for a long time and it means a lot to me, and I love America, and I'm a pay.

and blah, blah, blah, blah. And then you come back with this thing that you probably spend a lot of time or money at least and social capital on. And then he's like, tariffs, got it. Running with that. This is what it's like, by the way, to work for or with a famous person who's a nightmare. I mean, Trump has always just been a reality television star at his core, regardless of whatever else is going on in his life. This is what it's like. It's like you put a lot of work into something and then they take one thing and run with it.

it and the disgusting thing is when it works because clout matters more than substance in this country so i i'm loving it i'm loving that the cia like secretly that's my guilty pleasure currently is that the cia's like this dude does he's trying to do evil and he's so bad at it he's fucking up our evil yeah it's pretty funny although yeah so i just like anyway i look forward to next season two of day of the jackal which involved in like a high class assassin I'm gallivanting around, I guess, Cincinnati, Detroit. It'll be the border. You're going to get three or four seasons in a row of the border if this goes through.

And then what? You're down in Florida fighting Cubans, I guess? Yeah. Are they still communists? Enough. The communist is enough for us to get mad about it. So some fun corruption updates. I wanted a flagdust because this is deeply hilarious.

So this international trucking company, logistics firm, freight technologies, has decided to buy $20 million worth of Trump's meme coin in order to get invited to an exclusive dinner. And they explicitly said, to, quote, to be an effective way to advocate for fair, balance, and free trade between Mexico and the United States. So trying to bribe Trump with meme coins to not destroy the economy, or their company, at least. And the reason we know about this is they put it in an SEC filing for why they were issuing

bonds to pay for the meme coins. They put now in government filings, we need this money to pay. bribes. Dude, again, I feel like I felt when I was laughing about the CIA thing. This is a guilty pleasure of mine. Donald Trump is like, hey, fuck all this lobbying,

fuck all this buying congressmen through super PACs. Can we get rid of the red tape? Just give me money, and then I'll let you do what you want. And it is slightly refreshing. And I know that a lot of skews viewers don't want to hear me say that.

I'm not saying I like Donald Trump. I do not. I'm saying that bribing the government should be this out in the open. It's less corrupt to be openly corrupt than it is to be quietly corrupt. And I'm a little in. I'm a little in on this. You're not buying it? I'm as cynical as you. Well, I don't know if anybody can be as cynical as you. But I do, but I do think we're going to miss. You're cynical about my Yeah. Yeah. I know I get that. I do get that, especially when it comes to fascism. Because like If you, you know, it's like bribery out in the open, you can make jokes about. But like fascism out in the open, you're like, man, I really miss when they had to hide it because then the scale wasn't as big.

I got to say, though, this did remind me, I don't want to like jump around on topics. I will circle back to this. It reminded me the lady who did the go fund me because she called the little kid the N-word and then she started to go-fund me. And then it was sad, but I was like getting such a kick out of how dark things have gotten. and I started feeling sorry for her accountant. Like, what's this guy going to write down? Like, what's this plan here? And so I was thinking about this when you sent me this story.

It was like, their accountants got to be looking at that. Like, can we call it lobbying? Lobbying is legal. Can we call it a lobbying expense? You can write that off, I think. Yeah. Oh, yeah, definitely. You can definitely rent some business expense.

But, like, see, I still think we're going to miss regular old, like, as much as we make fun of it and complain about it, like regular old routine American corruption did suck, but comparatively we were one of the least corrupt countries on the planet somehow. That's no more. And let me see what I'm talking about it. Like you, I do find it deeply funny that they're writing, they're basically writing down for drugs on a check memo. But that's basically what they're doing. But anyway. Is that part in the wire where he's taking notes at the conspiracy to sell drugs? It does feel like that. You can move on, but I don't feel like, I feel like we wrote the article that said we were the one of the least corrupt countries. Fair enough, maybe. But there's a reason the world parked, historically, has parked their money here. It was safe here.

It's not, and the reason it's fleeing is because it's not. Fair. I trust the money people to vote with their money, is what I'm saying. Always. So, like, let me tell you, to give you two stories that are a new fresh hell level corruption we weren't dealing with before. These are two headlines from the same day, same day. New York Times, United Arab Emirates, forced $2 billion in the Trump crypto coins. Bloomberg, Trump White House may ease restrictions on selling AI chips to United Arab Emirates.

rust cracks it's always sort of worked like this just five steps removed I agree with you that the five steps once removed are helpful those are important corruption fighting steps

but it is like it's almost entertaining to watch the Jamie Diamonds of the world sweat again it's going back to the same point I was making with the CIA they're like I almost feel bad for evil people right now

because they're like this dude's fucking up the game. How does he, does he think this is what we were doing the whole time? He doesn't know we've been doing his idea but better. He actually thinks we've been playing by the rule. Trump has been

sitting around going, these idiots aren't selling power. God, it's great. Yeah. Yeah, I'm enjoying it less than you are, I guess. Why? Tell me why. Because Jamie Diamond's going to be fine.

Sure. It's working people are going to have really, really fucked even if we get to enjoy the little bit of Shaden Freud and a few rich people get in theirs. I guess I just feel like working people have been fucked a while, but I hear you. Right. I don't want my nephew's about to finish high school

and I'm not looking forward to Trump trying to send him to Iran. So, yeah. Sure. But I guess my point is that's happening. I'm going to laugh at the CIA. Okay. Like Trump's doing that. That's going down.

So let me laugh at the CIA. All right, fair enough. We'll get our jollies where we can. On that note, let's get to the show. Producer Matt is with us on the ones and twos as usual. A couple quick shilling things. Check out Trey Tewa dates on Trey Crowder.com. Watch a special Trash Daddy.

I think you can find a link on there. It's on YouTube. And as always, if you enjoy this show and want a couple more episodes of it, subscribe to our Patreon. For $5 a month, get two more episodes. We've got one coming later this week on whatever I decide later. I don't know yet. I think it's going to involve community college and artificial intelligence

because that's really interesting and depressing to me. All right. So, Matt, hit us with that Daily Dumbass graphic, please. Tonight's Daily Dumbass is a soft-ass flyer raid squad for not knowing they send out the real Delta Force for actual pamphlets. Matt, video, please. We have a warrant. I'm out with your pants up.

This is for one college kid. who sent out flyers who hung up flyers legally legally by the way yes so this kid named Michael Chang hung up flyers around

Irvine California on lamppost with the faces and identities of a few ice agents who are rounding people up in his community perfectly legal these are not fucking hit squads it's like saying hey immigrants well got here's the people to keep out for

if you're trying to not get snatched off the streets okay whether or not you know if this is legally protected speech or not it is, and this sent on a fucking dozens of officers and fucking

like Navy SEAL Fallujah gear to arrest this kid who wasn't even home. Right. They got the Panapticon and they did not know he had moved to New York a month ago. What is the information I could get with a Lexis Nexus

subscription? Yeah. Any private eye could have told you that in 10 minutes. And I mean like the fat drunk ones too. Yeah. Yeah. I might be slightly flipped. This might be where we flipped because I can sort of hear the, like, cynical glee in your voice, and I'm smiling. But this, to me, is scary because all this was for show. But the part that's entertaining is they didn't know it was a bad show.

These fucking morons were like, hey, call the local news. We're going to go scare this kid in Irvine, who's a pro-Palestinian and pro-immigrant, what's the word I'm looking for, agitator? We're going to go get his ass. We've got 12 cars, a tank, call the news, and we're going to call Fox. And then the Fox Local, which is not Fox, that's like the number one thing to me. They're like, yeah, call Fox. They'll be friendly. The Fox Local was like, look at these morons.

Everyone in the country, my own father-in-law, who is barely, barely skeptical of anything on Fox News, would look at that as someone who's been to war and been like, oh, why are you doing that? what's it for that's why that's why I find this more amusing the other stuff is because this is absolutely not going to work

like this stuff's more likely to call it back license like even guys like your father-in-law have served in war like look at that they look at that gear and they're like

that's more than we had to actually fight wars yeah yeah so I think I think I just see it as a force a show force and that is scary

because he has power over that Going back earlier and I'm sure talked some people off the ledge, and off the ledge, I mean, of hating me, I think Jamie, I think Jamie Diamond hears about that guy buying $20 million worth of influence. It's like, there's no way that guy's going to influence the president. Not on my fucking watch. Here, I see this and I think, yeah, these guys look like idiots, but they're going to murder people along the way. I guess I have the same take as you did before. I don't think that guy's actually going to use Trump coins. to affect trade. I know trade's going to suck, but I don't think that guy's going to be the reason why. I think these people

are going to murder people. I think they're going to murder a bunch of immigrants soon. Yeah. Yeah. That's why. Well, yeah. Or not immigrants,

which is not worse. I'm not suggesting it's worse. I'm just highlighting how stupid they are. It'll be politically more dangerous for them. But yeah, it's not like, I don't think it's morally different. But the thing it strikes me

whenever this stuff happens is like how much just average like fucking city cops just really want to play, they just want to play American sniper. Yeah, I want to feel like Chris Kyle. Call of Duty, dude.

Yeah. There's a certain type of American who, because of those war, propaganda war movies we talked about earlier, whatever, just thinks that the highest level of life you can achieve is to hop on your comms and say shit like Catana 1, this is broad toward actual, permission to weapons free on this used nerd from fucking UC Irvine. You know, like, I just don't understand, like, why these people think this way or why they think it's, but like, when I say these people want to play, like, American sniper, play this video mad.

This is drone footage that the ice And Secret Secret Service gave to the local Fox affiliate If you got this video, Matt This is going to a guy's house Look at that College student who hung up for us That's a convoy of like four Eight I count six, seven, eight fucking up armored Humvees and MRAPs and

shit This is what I'm saying. This is pathetic Yeah, it's like How much a moron do you feel like You're kidded out like you're about to take doors And fucking Mosul or something in an up-armored Humvee asking for the rules of engagement over the radio as you roll past a pokey bowl place like what the fuck are you doing with your life

you're living your dream i mean the only thing that actually makes me sad about this is how happy these people were that day um again i want to go i want to touch quickly on the other story that dude's playing big time money pot whoever bought 20 million 20 million this guy thinks 20 million's going to buy him a seat at the table these guys think their tactical vests and the fucking rent a tank that they got when the federal government gave them their budget a few years ago makes them soldiers.

It's all a joke. It's all farce. The problem with Trump is that farce is in. Farse rules the day. That's what's scary is that people are going to die and as you said, workers are going to lose stuff because like clout and, I mean, dude,

how many people who voted for Trump have you heard say something like, well, he's just really funny? And you're like, well, yeah, undeniably that's hilarious it's all dark it's all fucked up but it is a little funny

like these guys I hope are so ashamed today I hope that they are the butt of every joke and I want there's no way anyone listening is like this but if there is some listener out if you're over the age of 25 and you've ever put on a tactical vest for any reason other than like

actually going into a zone kill yourself shoot yourself in the fucking head you stupid child. You're a joke. Yeah. I, even like, the thing is, like, these, like, so even if, like, you're, even if you're still a cop, but you're an actual, like, tactical cop, like, you must look at those

clowns and, like, that's the shit they wear to, like, do Hask's rescue raids. And, like, there's, like, these guys are, like, knocking on a guy's house, like, a 19-year-old kid's house store. So, like, anyway, is anybody got eyes on Michael Chang, or has NYPD put him in a shipping container in an Egyptian black site yet? Um, it's

either that, or, like, he's at home, they still don't know where he's at, because he's, he's, he does he's not on the lease of the room he lives in in new york like he's got seven roommates he's in a polyamorous brooklyn house i mean think this dude's a pro-palistine agitator who's fucking with ice he's living in brooklyn he's got two girlfriends and three boyfriends they don't eat me he has a few they friends he's not on the fucking lease dog he lives in a warehouse he eats someone's pussy for his rent and i think he's a hero to me american hero baby michael chag uh some other free speech news real quick

quick question, do we let me quote this headline from a reason. Should sharing information about Israeli businesses get you 20 years in prison? Because this is a serious question that Congress is considering or was. It's so funny who killed it. Yes, we'll get to that a second. So this week, the House of Representatives was set to vote on something called the International Government Organization Anti-Boycott Act, which would impose a maximum of 20-year prison sentences or a million dollar fine for complying with international human rights sanctions against the U.S. ally, including by furnishings information. This is about the boycott divestment

movement about Israel. Can you connect the boycott divestment to the U.N. sanctions for the listeners, not for me. I understand it completely. They're saying that it should be illegal to boycott countries the U.S. government considers an ally, which of course, like, I'm not sure why it's connection to the, because of course, Israel is less popular in the wider world than they are among, like, the United States Congress. But like, I don't really know the connection with why illegally it's connected at all the United Nations. But like the idea that you can force

so how would you even know that I'm involved in a boycott movement? Like what if I just buy, what if I just buy Borishead hummus instead of Sabra? Right, right. Like you, I don't even know. I'm just out here shopping for my family or whatever. I like the pig. That's your defense. Your Honor, I like the

pig. Yeah. I guess if you try to organize the boycott, but how you can't stay. I mean, again, so far in America, and it can't force people to buy stuff unless it's like car insurance, right? It's also crazy that we can still, I think, like boycott America or, you know what I mean? Like we can, I mean, I know that's coming next. I understand how fascism works.

It's just stunning. It's worth noting that Israel is the first country you're not allowed to be against instead of America. That's that, like, old head Republicans got to be perplexed by this one. Imagine the ones who hate Jews, what they're feeling right now. I keep feeling sorry for evil people. You mentioned, you mentioned, like, who stopped? Let me fill me fill the audience in for a quick. Reason I said, it was set to get voted on, and it's not getting voted on.

It's because a couple of congresspeople, like Marjor Taylor Green announced they were voting no on it because they thought it was a violation of free speech. Marjorie Taylor Green is absolutely right. The Groip, but I do not like being in the same foxhole as like groipers and shit who literally, who legitimately opposed this because they are anti-Semitic. Yeah, you got to read this headline. why the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect, quote, Jews killed Jesus statements. Yes. Now, I'm reading this, Mark, it's not dead. They're just having to, you know, throw a little pork barrel in there, you know, because Jews don't like pork.

Yeah, it was, this was passed by the House last week, I think, but it is probably done an arrival in the Senate. But, again, we tried to talk about this bill a while back, and Marjorie Taylor Green was opposed to it because she thought of forbid people. from saying the Jews killed Jesus. She fought to have that included in the bill so American anti-Semites can still have free speech rights. So if you're keeping score at home, this would criminalize non-Semitic criticism of the government of Israel, while also making sure that U.S. Christians can be anti-Semitic to American Jews. I can't imagine being Palestinian and hearing about this right now. imagine like someone's trying to make you understand first of all the concept that is marjorie taylor green on its face but then also being like so what you're saying is this is about the war and the bombs being dropped on my head and the fact that my entire family's dead but really it's not it's about anti-semitism that actually exists versus fake anti-semitism which is like this weird reverse wokeism it's like they did the reverse uno on liberals or something.

something. It's genuinely just, it just has to be so beyond the horrors of everyday life, it has to be so frustrating to know that the people backing the genocide that is coming upon your people is just a culture so fucking stupid

that Marjorie Taylor Green stopped this. There's a voice of reason. So yeah, like so it is like this is about civil rights law. It's not about criminalizing stuff, but it's about being being able to sue people for discrimination. So I just to just to clarify that up.

But like, I don't, like, this, this bill had 24 sponsors in the House, four of which are Democrats and are the ones you would expect. But, like, I just, like, I find this project where they try to find this lane where they can establish a completely authoritarian state when it comes to criticism with Israel. Just that. And nothing else. It's a really fascinating fucking project to watch unfold, even if it is stupid and evil.

Moving on. Our Honorable mentioned Daily Dumbass today is Americans who didn't think Trump could get Canadian grandmas to break broadcast decency laws. Hit it, Matt. I think who I voted for would be the best to take care of Trump. Because Trump is, I'm sorry to say, and ask, I like that she hit us with the Canadian national motto right before she dropped it. I'm sorry.

Yeah. Yeah. So Canada rejected Pierre Paulyov. I think I'm saying that, right? he was the most magal line Canadian play candidate for prime minister to re-elect the liberal party

led by Mark Carney who Carney is like a liberal technocrat we're familiar with this type ex-banker you know so congratulations to Canada on not collapse in your country but not actively trying to make it better

at least you made a more responsible choice than us but yeah so but basically if you get a boil this down to like just voting between the choices of SNL cast members they went with Mike Myers Listen, we went with Rob Schneider. Okay.

So, is it straight? We can do it. Yeah. So the polling turnaround, Matt's got up here on screen, is absolutely astounding. Just by way of comparison,

in January 20th, the day of Trump was inaugurated, the conservatives are up by 23 points in the polls. Just utterly astounding, fucking collapse that can only make sense through the lens of Donald Trump being just one of the most reviled people on the planet. This is great.

it is nice to see empirical proof that Canada is as stupid as we are. And I know that the argument here is that they're smarter than us because they didn't vote in the Trump guy. And I get that and sure they are. But regardless of what happened here, whether they like believe the conservative was the better choice until

they saw Trump or they just like, like how however this went down, stupidity is at the crux of it. That is also apparently a rotten culture. To flip that quickly that suddenly, regardless of the reason is insane to me.

Yeah, but I mean, what was happening on January 19th where they were like, nah, you know, I think, I think it's pretty cool what Trump's got going on. Yeah, Trudeau's like a fatless lake, like he's been in a power for a long time. Nothing's really gotten that much better. I mean, we're familiar with this sort of like, you know, he's curious armor, you know. Unlike American levels, like to hold power and wield it, just ran on conservative as sunk, just look at Trump and swung a polls to a massive win while American Democrats ran on, We have to appeal to the 4% of conservatives who don't like Trump and got their fucking ass kicked.

Liz Cheney. Yeah. Did they not, did the end of Trudeau not come with a little bit of a plan? Because I was also frustrated with Democrats' lack of, we're going to help people. Well, there's that. But, I mean, obviously, the comparison to see how bad things. I mean, Trump's threatening to fucking invade them. You know, so it's like, you know.

when we're like bombed their country voting for the guy who's kind of aligned with him is like okay well we see how it's it's pretty easy sell you guys are on the way to greenland yeah so it is like to democrats in democrat's defense it's pretty hard to campaign against this here's a screen gram fox news celebrating uh trump's accomplishment since first hundred days we got this throw up there matt declassified the afk files ended federal support for paper straws ended production of the penny oh i didn't know about the penny rest in peace penny dude yeah i don't think you actually we did pull that off yet, but anyway, we can take credit for it. I know we wanted to. This reads like bad satire. I can't stress

enough how insane the time we're living in is. That feels like that's too on the nose. I see that and I go, all right, sorkin. You could have done better than that. It's a little too much. Yeah. Yeah. So how long, you live on Australia for a while, right? Yeah, about seven months officially. So we'll stick with that since we're being recorded here. I moved somewhere else and came back to fly out. Okay. So we won't get into Drew's days,

me in a drug move for the Jakarta Mafia. We'll come back later. And also, that car that was registered by name that they found on the streets, I had nothing to do with that. Someone stole it. All right. So Australia also had elections over the weekend and had a similar dynamic. Thope throw this photo up.

I love Australians, man. Throw this image of them voting up, man. Yeah, they vote in speech. Oh, fuck, mate. I forgot I had to vote today. I just love it. It's like, yeah, it's not obligated. They have compulsory voting.

I guess you have to pay like a $20 fine or something if you don't, if you don't go vote. So everybody votes. So you just run out. You just hop out of your, you take a break from surfing to go vote. So the conservative candidate there is a guy named Peter Dutton who the, in the Labor Party candidate. The conservatives are in the, they're called the Liberal Party. I don't really understand why. I want to get into it, but they're liberal parties.

Got some theories. Yeah. So, class the liberals, you know, like the kind of libertarian. So, uh, that, that was much more explicitly, like, like, the Labor Party literally ran ads with, like, if you got this magazine ad, it's a Trump, where, like, uh, uh, Dutton's face is half he is and half Trump's. So, like, they were basically just, this guy's Trump, fuck him. And everybody's like, yep, fuck that guy.

So they actually, like, they called him, they, they tried the stupid, like, Clinton campaign nickname thing, but it kind of stuck. They called him Dogey Dutton. All right. Like Doge? Like Elon's Doge? Okay. Yeah.

So this is pretty funny. Like, I just wish, I wish our elections felt this relatively not as apocalyptic as far as the stakes go. So we can do silly shit like this. Here's some cable news coverage in Australia of how they announced that Dutton had not just lost, but lost his fucking seat. This is a big one. Here you go, cut. I'm a fairs minister, health minister. defense minister, someone who served the country in the parliament for many years.

Twenty years, Charles. He fought off tight elections. He once said there was water lapping at the door. I think that's what he's feeling right now. His hero politically is John Howard. And like John Howard before him, he has lost his seat as leader of the Liberal Party in a genuine thank you to your service, Petit Dutton, but also into the drink. Three, two, two, one. Oh, go to the ball.

Oh, it is. remarkable you could have they literally throw their politicians in dunk tanks I fucking love it dude it's so unreal

how just great it is there do you know what I mean like obviously from that segment you can tell it's not that they have some

super snappy media keeping everyone in check it's just they just don't have problems I saw recently their biggest issue was a scandal that was rocking through

the political landscape where their prime minister had accepted illegally an upgrade to first class, multiple, on Kwanis Airlines. That's a scandal there that the prime minister got on a plane and the lady working at the gate was like

you want to fly first class? You probably should, huh? I mean, also, he's flying commercial. Think about that. I miss it. I miss it. I miss it. bad. Yeah, there was a scandal in the UK a couple weeks ago because some government officials took got, took free burgers from five guys or something. Yeah. Man, that's not even one from each guy. Yeah. All right. So to sum up here, the Troy administration's record of direct interventions and elections are abroad. J.D. Vance to Elon tried to boost the far right party in Germany. They got fucking wiped out. Elon broke all records spending in Wisconsin. That's domestic, but I think it's worth an interesting. GOP laws big. Trump tried to campaign for the Tories in the UK. Tories collapsed. Trump insult Trudeau does the 51st state

bullshit. The liberal party smartly dumps just Trudeau and Pierre Polly ever goes from being favored to be the next prime minister to losing his own fucking seat. Dutton lost and lost his fucking seat. It feels like the world is finally pushing back in this way of like populist

and the only people too dumb to learn from our mistakes is us. The American Democratic Party. Can't wait to see what pile of warmed over mashed potatoes they run next. We could get anything

through and they're going to run, they're probably run Kamala again. Anyway, go ahead. Nah, well, I have some, again, I have more hope than you, but only because I need it. So, yeah. Is it, my question is, like, is it just because Trump was first and otherwise every European country was about to elect, like, Oswald Le Pen, Mussolini,

whose granddad had a weird resume gap from 1938 to 1944, or, like... I think it's realizing that Trump is in charge of the American military. It's not fun. I think that watching him fumble the tariffs and plow through this first hundred days with no regard, not only to the world economy,

to the American economy. It's making people abroad go, man, even people who are like, I really like how he fucks over trans athletes and calls fucking reporters the R word. People who genuinely love that shit are like, but like people like that can't have their hand on the button. We've got to have an adult. We've got to live in a society.

I guess we'll compromise culturally on these issues and, you know, and, well, let a tech overlord run the shit like in Canada. You know, it's not like anyone's electing their own version of Bernie Sanders. Everyone's going, where's our Biden? Right. Because it's like they're looking, it looks like things are moving towards the risk of what? war three. It's like, it's going to be America, Russia, Israel, and Saudi Arabia versus

the allied powers. Yeah. Yeah. China's going to be America. Yeah. In the storybook. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Fuck. Oh, damn it. All right. So, anyway, things are pretty bad, but they would be even worse.

If every country elected a brain dead Hitler fungus particles that infected every country's government, it'd probably be way worse. So congrats to Canada and Australia for trying to hold the line against the the world collapse. This is what he calls hope, folks. It's better than otherwise.

Like, if, if, like, Pilev isn't like as Maggi is, like, he's presented in the election because they were campaigning. But, like, he's not great. So, like, yeah. I'm happy about it. I'm the one who's having a good time. Yeah. All right. Let's talk about Elon's new company town in Texas called Starbase.

Matt, if you got this video, hit it to ZNBC News. Just miles for. the U.S. Mexico border, a statue bearing Elon Musk's likeness gazes over a wild Texas landscape. What the fuck? And they soon be the country's newest city, Starbase. The name, a nod to mutts, SpaceX vision to bring humans to Mars using starship, the world's largest rocket.

And this is the launching site. I can't have. Does that picture that said Occupy Mars meant to be insulting? Kind of like me like. He looks like. He's wearing a skin mask. No, this, like, they love it. Like, okay, the residents in this town

a little bit ridiculous because there used to be an unincorporated area called Bukukukukkah Village. It's one and a half square miles where the company exists. The election in this one and a half square mile area now known as Star Base, which, like, Elon won.

There were 283 eligible voters in what's now Star Base, and the vote was 212 in favor and six against. Those are Saddam Hussein level numbers to essentially make Elon the men. of their lives. They gave their boss for the right of Fremanocta basically

and I don't even think they understand what they did because they're all in this little fucking cult I guess because those are like those are astounding only six people are like maybe I shouldn't make my boss to the government because who's what cost am I going to call if he changed me to my goddamn workstation

you know? Yeah. Seems like it's a bad idea. I really thought I was going to get a lot more joy out of this one but this was kind of making me feel dark and ominous I'll get funnier Okay good let's continue then So I feel like this is going to end with like

Some Branch Davidian and Waco type situation Where the government's going to have to send it an armed force to like to remove E-line because like this gives SpaceX impunity over its own operations The point where they could they could do land grabs to eminent domain they can restrict public beach access to the people that actually live in the community and just general less oversight which of course is what they wanted

but I gotta give us Elon I'm not sure if there's a lateral move or a downgrade but he went from being the shadow president to the mayor of his own small town I thought he was Lex Luthor but it turns out he's the penguin so I don't know what the fucking thing about this I mean first of all I don't think you can do

eminent domain as a town I could be wrong about that I think you did it okay fair enough I only know it because I covered when I was a reporter when the city of Arlington took a bunch of land

to build new stadiums for the Rangers and the Cowboys So yeah Okay Then the city took it Not to stay You have to like

It's like It's like it's You knew a quasi state Left board Where they work It's too It's too long as It does

It does sound very Texasy Um I I This is So darkly funny I hope it ends With him

living there and like being trapped like i want it i want it to be full on um what's autonomy uh i don't wish this for those people but they voted for it i want full on i want his whole cult of his kids that he keeps getting these women pregnant probably by artificial insemination living down there this is the only way it could end is just complete bare face him and three other dudes and two of them are starting to realize, wait a minute, I don't think this guy's going to take us to Mars. That's what's great about this is there's, there's like some people who are there like, this dude's going to take us to Mars. And in two to three years, as the FBI comes to shoot them in the head, that's when they're going to realize he's not. And that's what's great about

every cult. And I mean that so sincerely, is that no one knows they're in one till right before they die. It's just a few moments before you die that you realize, oh, this dude's making Kool-Aid with arsenic in it. I'm going to die. Or the FBI's coming to murder me and my kids. I'm going to die. That's going to happen to some of those folks. And I'm sorry if this makes me a bad person. It gives me a little bit of glee, just a touch. Right. I mean, a lot of these, like, laser true believer, like, rocket engineers and computer science guys who, like, really do think that it's going to be part of their compensation package. They're going to, they're going to get to go live in the super Mars colony, which will never exist and no one should want to

level mars but like but the the idea like you and i you're from appalachia i'm from not far from apple apalachia we're very familiar with the idea of company towns right so these guys have traded their negotiating power to get that into compensation package to be in jobs they're probably going to end up getting paid in like a company script that's a doge coin oh they're definitely getting doge and like and so like like the like the like so like when i say it's a company town they already live in company housing we got this picture of like A lot of people live on site at work in these airstream trailers. You got this photo bag and throw it up.

So they live in hell. Yeah. Imagine they went to tech school thinking, I'm going to live in Palo Alto. I'll be fucking non-binary chicks down in San Francisco on my weekends. I'm going to make 600,000 a year. And then because they're stupid, they end up in an airstream in the middle of desert Texas, working for a dip shit. and the best picture, the one he hung up,

makes him look like the chainsaw massacre. This is the greatest, I can't say that fucking word, of all time. These people, everyone in those trailers deserves to be there, every single one of them. The most Republican thing about me in my life ever,

the most Republican emotion or thought I've ever had, is every one of those people deserve that. And no one should say them. I mean, like, look, when I say they wanted this and they asked for it, I really thought there was a chance that Elon will lose his election because we have a chance

to do a secret ballot to tell your boss to fuck off. Who wouldn't take that chance, right? But the problem is this town is already super Eloni, super culty. The road leading off the highway is named Morozo Lago. So many bad jokes.

The buildings feature murals of Musk's face and the Doe Shiba Inu like these are on 30 feet concrete towers. That gold bust of Elon They showed in the news report They had the bandage on it Here's what it looked like before

All right The giant gold bust Literally golden calf of Elon That's supposed to be Elon? Yeah I guess back before he Before he gained a little weight No he's never looked like that Mark

He's never No I'm not even being funny He's, that's never been what he looks like That looks like a meme With the Chad jaw Go ahead though Right oh yeah right Even when he was young

When he was that young He didn't have hair He got his hair back And also when he was that young, he looked even more do-faced. He had surgery on his face. Yeah, yeah. He does the biggest loser. Yeah.

Let me quote here about the cultiness of it. In a recent weekday in downtown star base, downtown's an air quote, since Politico article, a man on an electric scooter and wearing a t-shirt reading, quote, for God, for country, for space exploration, whizz down a newly paid road named Memes Street. We live in hell. I'm not sure if this is a company store, but it might as well have a company store. It's a store in town that sells an Elon, a votive candle where Elon's a saint holding a Shiva Innu, if you got this, man. So I don't, I don't know what to make of people who will vote themselves in disservitude, but they know the stakes, right?

I was trying to think of how I would do this because obviously you don't want the vote against Elon to be unanimous, right? Because then he knows all of his employees voted against him. What you wanted to do is lose like 5545 where you can all say you voted for it so none you get fired, right? That's what you do with the game theory of this, right? But they apparently had no coordination at all and they all just like either said we voted for because you love Elon or voted for because they're scared of Elon figuring out they didn't vote for it. But anyway, I hope they never found out of the Six are. They're the only sane employees that work there. I guess it's possible that whoever counts the votes is just completely...

I mean, we have at least entertained as a culture the possibility that Elon rigged our national election. So the notion that he knows who's voting for a lot out of 212, really not that far-fetched. I don't think he's the genius everyone thinks he is, but I bet he knows how to read. There's also a scenario where, like, you could have voted to turn into a city, so basically the government can function like your union where you could rain Elon in right like maybe oh 100 percent but no but it's not exactly what they did either because they are like the the first potential mayor they already have on like the incorporation documents is a guy named gutter milburn who's SpaceX's current security managers they Elon's made his uh I don't know corporate general his fucking mayor uh or had

it was going to be a mayor but now it's been replaced by guy named Robert Peden who's a vice president um two other employees who are executives are going to be probably going to be city uh city commissioners now why only a mile and a half and why just the employees and that's where you get into the real crux of why they want corporate like corporate control over the local government here the company's not super popular with the general area because they poison the water they restrict public beach access the fucking rocket launches break people's car windows and shit from the vibrations and the noise people fucking hate this and all the economic benefits go to like coders and rocket launches and rocket launches break people's car windows and ship from the vibrations and the noise people fucking hate this and they only all the economic benefits go to like coders and rocket engineers who moved there from elsewhere. The complaints are basically that they gentrified the border. So yes, now we have $100 an

entree sushi restaurants that we can't afford to go to. That's the economic benefit to the community. It's so funny that every time lately and maybe in history something like this happens and someone needs to get shot, it's a Republican who's not even pissed at the right thing who does it.

I just realized that this is how Elon dies. It's not because of the fascism and the fact that he helped Trump get elected. It's not the fact that he's promoting what's going on with shipping random people abroad or the fact that he's helping push and maintain a genocide

or the fact that he's like a foreigner taking over our government. It's just going to be some good old boy whose wife didn't get to go to the fucking beach one last time before she died of the poisoning he put in the water and he's going to go full fucking Texas on this dude. And he's going to be

like, look, every man in my family's killed an African. I didn't know mine to be white, but I'm just glad to do my fucking part and then put a bullet between his fucking eyes. And in some ways, you've got to love that about America. Yeah. No comment, FBI. Oh, fuck you, FBI. You're going to be the ones who do it.

You didn't even mention even on his resume of evils there that all the USAID funding cuts were the last estimate I saw our 25 million children were going to die around the world the next few years. So that's part of it, too. Oh, good. Yeah. There's like, you make a case that. he said it's not fair to call him Hitler because he hasn't actually hurt anybody. I'm like, well, was Stalin a monster for engineering

a famine that killed a bunch of Ukrainians? Because that's essentially like a passive genocide. I think if you think Stalin's bad for that, I think you can say Elon's guilty of a similar crime. My only pushback is I don't know if starvation should be called passive genocide. But other than that, I am with you. I think you're cooking with heat unlike.

Anyway. People that live in airship trailers on SpaceX. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Yeah, yeah. So SpaceX in Texas right now is also supporting legislative package

One bill for the House, another for the Senate The identical bills would give Municipalities with spaceports The ability to limit access to public beaches Which Such a funny No no, everybody who has one of these can do this All you got to do is put in a spaceport

And you can restrict access to public beaches I had to never see one guy I'll tell you to take over to government like this It's kind of fucking hilarious, but like... I have. There's that documentary about the cult that did it in Portland. I'm sorry, in Oregon that was on Netflix. I think it was called Wild Country.

That's happened a few times in America. It always ends with multiple deaths. Yeah. No, but I mean like, I'm talking about like every level. Like, like, running half of D.C. is not enough. You also got to control these Texas State House. And the mayor of Space Base. And you've got to make it so a bunch of like Texans, like some everyday Texans can't go sit on the beach on the weekends and have a beer because you want to be able to blow up rockets over the beach.

You know what I do know what you're saying. And, you know, you already said you got to give it to. I think you said Elon. You gave it to somebody you shouldn't give it to. So now I'm going to give it to Elon. Elon's only skill. The only one that's like superior to most people's is understand. that Clout and the algorithm

were more important for his company's stock than whatever the fuck they were doing on the ground. And then related to that is this move, I think he understands power, both in terms of online and literal. I think Elon Musk actually understands how power works and engages with it in a way in which, and he's doing it to himself.

I'm not even trying to be funny or even get people excited for something that maybe want. Someone's going to kill him. because his relationship to power is such that he's really good at accumulating it, but he doesn't understand that it's just like when he buys Twitter and he tries to make himself cool. You can't make people like you. Well, you can't buy the mayorship people not to shoot you. You understand what I'm saying?

It's like, yeah, you can buy Twitter and then make it illegal for me to make fun of you, but I'm still going to make fun of you. you can become the mayor and make it illegal for people to carry guns they'll just do it I'm telling you he's going to get murdered I think he was about to give it up to

was the Texas legislature because I had which I rarely do but one of those bills failed to advance so it looks pretty dead so Elon is not going to be king of the beaches he also wanted to be able to close the highway which is like you're going to tell you like making people fucking murderously angry

you're just going to like I'm just going to do traffic I wish they to let him I wish that's what I'm saying I genuinely wish they would have let him because he has this insane skill to, like, get bills like that pass. They're done in his favor. But he doesn't understand what's going to happen when he does. They should have let him.

They should have let him do it and then called every traffic jam, the Elon's traffic jam. We'd be rid of this problem in three weeks, dude. So I had, like, I've been following for a little bit. I had some hope that, like, that he was going to lose this. And not just because, like, there were people, activists working and try to defeat this measure. and like when the video

the Elon bust in that statue the version they showed had a bandage on it and the reason it had a bandage on it if you got this picture Matt is large portions of the statue's chin left side of its face were smashed off they later on covered it up with a tarp giving the impression it looked like Elon's stat

gold cap bust was wearing like a shower cap eventually they took that off and they Elon thought it would be funny to give us a smash up statue face these band-aids there were volunteers canvassing on meme street fucking hate the story so much

just trying to resist by canvassing door to door on meme street people told the canvassers that they wouldn't say how they were going to vote they were scared to talk they thought maybe the canvassers worked for Elon trying to figure out how people were going to vote and then some they said some mall cops

in bulletproof vests and again people everywhere love to cosplay as Chris Kyle again the mall cops told them to leave even though they were in a public street it was already a company town with Pinkertons where Elon has basically made himself Sheriff Bullshit Conner is that anything? I don't know

So, not least, this isn't even his old... You brought up his fucking, the herm he's trying to start. We haven't talked, we don't have time to get in the whole Wall Street Journal thing. I just wanted to mention it real quick. Because this isn't his only cult compounds. If Starbases is Jones Town, he's also trying to start his Branch Devidian compound. Wall Street Journal had a deep dive and how he manages all his baby mothers

and how many women he's gotten pregnant And I'm supposed to be I'm supposed to think Kanye West is the only insane billionaire Dude This is so fucking The story came out a couple weeks ago So you might already heard other people talk about it

But so The lead anecdote here is Ashley Sinclair who we've mentioned before She's a former like Internet like only fans person Who pivoted to being like a right wing Nazi Jason influence who Elon hit up on DMs on Twitter and eventually got her pregnant.

Elon refuses, is refused to take a paternity test. He's suspicious the child isn't his because they actually had sex. I neither want to try to wrap their minds around this for a second. Right. All those other kids were done by artificial insemination, so he doesn't even believe he can get a girl pregnant this way. Well, like if, like, so his first 11 kids were all boys, which the only way, well, there's only one way to accomplish that,

odds-wise, unless you have, like, you know, mega-millions type lottery odds, you do sexual selection and individual fertilization. So, like, he actually had sex with her and knocked her up, but because he, she, when you do it in a lab, you have a medical documentation that, that you're, you're sperm impregnated that chick, right? So he's basically been giving her the runaround to, not to, about child support, and hold her up. He tried to put in her contract that she had to do a cesarian.

Elon believes that vaginal births limit brain size because they smush the brain. I want to think about how dumb that is for a second. It doesn't occur to Elon the big skulls lead to C-sections as opposed to vaginal births making heads smaller. Look, man. Here's what I've been saying. some version of this on stage on and off for a little while. My dad thinks he's impressive. My wife thinks he's scary.

For the first time in my life, I'm a centrist. Every Republican impressed by this guy is the stupidest person alive. Every Democrat afraid of this guy is the stupidest person alive. Now, I want to be very clear on the back end there. If you're afraid of fascism, I get that. If you're afraid Trump's going to... But Elon's just the dude he put in charge to get shot. Donald Trump is how smart at Elon Musk.

This is where I cannot express this enough Someone will murder Elon Musk And on that note I just want to say too about company towns Mark brought up Appalachian where I'm from earlier We had the Pinkertons We had company towns The way we beat them is with violence

And that's not me That's just me saying the truth Texas is not going to take this The only thing that will save Elon is if he just gets over it Like when it actually starts getting a little uncomfortable down there he just kind of goes, you know what, I can just live in California. No one there, they all hate me there, but they won't shoot me.

And I'm rich enough that I can buy a few of them off to hang out with me. Texas will eventually turn on that man and kill him. I hope. And I don't mean I hope just because I hope he dies. I do mean it for that reason. But also because if it doesn't happen, I don't know Texas anymore. I just like, again, to bring up the Brainstivians again, like, this has happened before. And so the Wall Street Journal is trying to figure out exactly how many kids Elon has,

because publicly he has about 14 that we know about, okay? So, but people close to Elon say the number is much larger. One person said probably 50 to 100. Vivian, his trans daughter, he doesn't recognize, said in an interview with Teen Vogue, that she doesn't know how many half siblings she has. He texted, actress and Claire showed the Wall Street Journal her texts. He tried to tell her, he refers to his offspring as a, quote, legion, a reference to the ancient military units that contained thousands of soldiers

and were key to extending the reach of the Roman Empire. And he suggested that to Sinclair, they bring in other women to have even more of their children faster. He wanted to create a race of musks and Aschie Sinclair's offspring with an army of surrogates, quote, to reach Legion levels before the apocalypse, we will need to use surrogates. And then Ashley Sinclair, who again is a campaign. Tam girl turned Nazi adjacent influencer is the exact quote from her, quote,

this guy is fucking weird. Oh, man, and seen. Just wait, just wait till the Republicans of Texas find out there's an immigrant down at the border who's taken over the government, has rocket power, and is having a bunch of babies out of wedlock. Just wait until they find out about this immigrant. I don't want to harp on it too much.

Let's do an over-under. I think he's dead within five years. You would do a death pool for billionaires? More than I want anything in the world, do I want that? And the money we make off of it will buy a senator. Yeah, there we go. What we need to do is buy the military. And yeah, what Drew saying about the company of times is correct.

You can Google Mother Jones and Blair Mountain. Well, thank you, Drew, for coming on, buddy. I think we're about out of time. I appreciate you. but thanks for having me on check out gravy baby my podcast follow me on social media at drew morgue comedy on all of them or drew morgan on facebook uh everyone for listening i thank you and uh you know i'm not i don't think any of you should shoot elan musk but i think someone will yeah predicting is not advocate predictions are not advocacy 100% yeah so uh as for us

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