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Episode Date: May 8, 2024Tonight, after a Trump Trial Update and a generous point-and-laugh session aimed at Kristi Noem, we dive into the right wing fervor surrounding the left wing fervor surrounding college campuses across... this country. Plus some other fun stuff; join us. Support the show
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what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it's may 7th
2024 i'm trade that's mark how you doing mark good man uh we're going to talk about the
college protests and the overreaction to them and how it's going to lead to bad places including
defunding colleges and uh the like so we'll get into that a little bit later uh first some some
some fun news.
The DEA
as he's moving
to reclassify marijuana
as not a schedule
one narcotic
which is a long time coming
where we've
you know
if you see those
these famous photos
of like world leaders
surrendering
to conquering countries
it's like we've done it
with drugs baby
drugs have won
the war on drugs.
Yeah drugs
have officially won
the war on drugs
yeah it's one of those things
it's like I feel like
you know
we could have called
that a long time ago
but you know
people are slow
to accept it.
Yeah so
you still have to go
through, be approved by the White House Office of Management and Budget.
So Joe Biden can still put a stop to it, I guess, if he wanted to.
He probably still calls it the devil's lettuce.
He probably does, but I'll be so goddamn furious if he did it.
But I mean, he ain't going to do that.
But like, this is one of those things which it's like, why, why has this taken this long?
Is it just like, is it lobbyists?
Is it the glacial pace of governance or whatever?
It's like, I mean, because even if, like, without even, because look, dude, I smoke
weed and lose my mind. I get so scared, so terrified. I commune with the void. It gives me,
I don't enjoy it, but I recognize that for a lot of people that don't happen. And it's,
I do also, I don't enjoy it, but I also think that it's harmless. And like, I don't understand
after so many states of, you know, legalizing everything, all these years later, everything that's
happened, all the discourse, like why it took for 2024, until 2024 to this to happen. Because
this still isn't making it legal. This is just the DEA.
not classifying it
alongside like
cocaine heroin
all the most
hardcore drugs that exist
which like
that shit should have happened
20 years ago
you know
yeah I mean
you can go a lot of ways
with it
you could go like the
uh
you want to
one cops like
like having the leverage
of being able to throw people
in prison for a long time
for having it's like
leverage other you know
leverage you take lesser pleas or whatever
there's also the thing where
the other point is like
why do we call it marijuana
when there are English words for it
And that goes to a lot of, like, a legacy of a lot of racism and stuff in the criminal justice system.
And, you know, Nixon famously was caught on a recording saying, well, we, we can't say we want to round out black people, so we go after heroin.
And we can't say one of her ass Mexicans, so we go after marijuana.
It's like, there's a lot of, you know, a lot going on there.
That part, just if you elaborate that on that a little bit, you're saying what, like, by all means we should be calling it, what?
Like cannabis or something is what we should be called?
Is that hemp?
yeah there's like hemp there's also hemp that isn't psychoactive right they make necklaces out of it it's
right hippies love it yeah but look this we're getting to a lot of like history that's conspiracy
theory adjacent but like the hemp is a very profitable paper product so like they outlaw they
they didn't just outlaw marijuana they outlawed a lot of hemp so like because people own a lot of
they're invested in a lot of trees to make paper and they don't want competition it's a lot of
fucking shit going on there but anyway it's the right thing to do just
too late. It's the biggest
policy change the DA's made in more than
50 years. That's so
wild. It's like what they just,
they landed on it in
1974, you know? They're like,
we got all that worked out. No reason
to do anything else for 50 years.
No, no evolution of drug
policy or nothing. It's like, what,
like, what have they been doing? What, you know, they've been
fucking cracking skulls and breaking up
dispensaries and shit, I guess. But yeah,
whatever. Better late than never,
I suppose. Yeah.
before we get to the show, a couple
quick Trump legal updates.
Trump's documents case has been
postponed indefinitely by Judge Eileen
Kahn and his handpicked judge, who
pretty hilariously said that there's a bunch
of like unresolved
you know, court decisions
that have delayed it, ignoring the fact that she's
the one who has chosen not to resolve.
Right.
You know, you know I'm law dumb.
Like, is there
the Jack Smith and them or whatever, can they
like get this put in?
in front of another judge.
Like, you get like the equivalent of a second opinion.
You know, you go to another back to get a second.
Can they just do that or is, or no?
I mean, how does this work now?
It's hard to get a judge removed because they,
the system gives some people credibility.
Other people don't get any, but like in general,
judges are assumed to be forthright law following people.
So again, what it does.
And it's just like,
whatever.
So, yeah, she would have to like fuck up way more.
Like, she's already been smacked by an appellate court a bunch of times.
It just doesn't seem to matter.
It's whatever.
In his New York criminal trials,
Storm Indiana was testified by the day.
And sort of, her testimony sort of revealed
the reason any sane person
would have pled guilty
a while back for some lesser included charge
if you were just, like,
didn't need to be reelected president.
Because, like,
and he would have pled guilty
for the same reason he paid the hush money
because her testimony was deeply fucking humiliating.
The judge had to yell at him
for cursing under his breath constantly
because it's humiliating.
Stormy said that Melania, he told her that him and Melania haven't shared a bed in years.
They asked her about the actual sex, and she said it was, they did it missionary for approximately,
and then his lawyer yelled objection.
Yeah.
How not long he lasted.
Stormy said before they had sex, Trump told her, you remind me of my daughter.
Then they had unprotected sex.
in which they both kept their tops on, and the media finally noticed one of the reports I read
and said that the sex could be viewed as non-consensual. It's like, yeah. It's like the first time
they occurred to them. His lawyer, they came back from lunch after a lot of her testimony about
the sex stuff, tried to say they should get a mistrial because he's not on trial for sexual
assault or any of the sex stuff. So all these embarrassing sex details could be seen as
prejudiced in the jury against him. But the judge was like,
Well, you didn't object to any of this.
In fact, I as a judge had to, on my own, say that a lot of this testimony wasn't
invisible.
You didn't, like, you weren't doing your job as a fucking lawyer.
So what do you want me to do?
So on that note, and again, I'm very law dumb.
I don't know.
But earlier today, I was watching CNN when all this is going on and they had some legal
experts, some lawyer on there talking about it all.
And he was saying that like generally accepted philosophy amongst lawyers in this position is like
you want to object.
as little as possible.
Obviously, you object as much as you need to
to protect your client, but you want to object
as little as possible in scenarios like
this because it gives the
appearance of like
defensiveness or it makes people think it's like,
well, clearly this is true if they're fucking objecting
to so much of it or whatever. And so I don't know
if that's, but I kept, again, as a
law dumb person, I kept thinking like, look,
I want her to spill all
the tea. I want her to talk about
how little his dick is for two
and a half hours. That would hit for me.
Right. But, like, I was thinking, like, how legally relevant is a lot of this shit, you know, like, we all want to hear it.
We all want to see the dirty laundry and everything. But, like, how much does it really have to do with the case they're trying to make?
I get that you want to, I know that some of it, like she said that along the way and for years, he never implied she even needed to keep it quiet.
And then only started trying to make her keep it quiet when he was running for president, which is very, that's very material to the case at hand.
get that but like yeah a lot of like minute no pun intended details you know how relevant is it all
legally as much as we want to hear it if he had a good lawyer and his judge was running a tight ship
I imagine a lot of this stuff wasn't get in I think some of it's relevant because it shows why I was
embarrassing to get out you know but like right but I don't I think uh you know when he when and if
he inevitably appeals if he gets found guilty uh I think and I saw a lawyer say it's really hard
to like get a case thrown out in these terms although harry weinstein just sort of did it
but it was a very similar sort of situation so uh i don't i don't know uh it's that's that's so long a way
that is i ain't it's just it's just like i just look we got a uh a a woman who was in a 40
uh played herself basically as a porn actor in a 40 year old virgin testifying against the guy
who was in home alone too who might be president again and this is just sort of like uh you know
I'm not trying to denigrate
sex workers or Stormy Daniels. It's just like
this is a, what a place for a country
to be. It's absurd, right, right. The whole thing's so
ridiculous. I keep thinking about that. I made
a video today and I mentioned that too because I do keep
thinking about it. It's like, and this
has been sort of the order of the day in
post-Trump America, but how
like absurd, but
also serious this whole
thing is. Do you know what I mean? Like, this is history.
Like, this shit will be written. There'll be
books and shit written about this, but the whole thing
is so, just so
ridiculous like so much of it you know but again that's the I mean that's the reality we
currently live in so right but it's sort of like like Ben Franklin was well known to love a good
fart all Ben Franklin did was fart and he was still in the history books that's sort of
like where we're at right now yeah yeah anyway she had uh now it's in the history's permanent
record that she said he smells like old spice and perk shampoo which is basically just a clue
to Melania that he's lying when he says this never happened so there you go
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Now, like Mark said up top, as for tonight,
we're going to be talking about the fervor surrounding the college campuses
across this country.
Two fervors.
All this fervors.
So much fervor going on.
We're going to dive into that
a little labor.
We got some fun to have
first beginning, of course,
with the Daily Dumbass.
Matt, graphic, please.
Tonight's D.D.,
me, for putting all these
damn lies in my book
when I wasn't looking.
This is Matt's governor,
Christy Nome.
And I understand
that they're attacking me for it, Jesse.
Yeah, they are.
So they're also attacking.
backing you. I guess you said you met Kim Jong-un. Did you meet him?
I've been to the DMZ. I've been to North Korea. You know, people, I don't talk about my
conversations with world leaders. And so, when I looked at the book and I saw that excerpt,
I decided to, you wrote the book, change to the content of the book, and that's been done.
So you didn't have a conversation with Kim when you were at the DMZ?
I don't have conversations about my conversations with world leaders. I've been working on policy
for 30 years ago. Yeah. So what she, it's like, this is, like, this is
her book with her name and I know we all kind of generally accept that these people have books
ghost written or whatever but still the the ostensible thing is that they've written the book
it's her book and she's like I noticed one day that this somehow appeared in my book I saw
that this was in there and I was like that's odd that's not right I better talk to the publisher
and get that taken out and it's like yeah how would you have any idea what's getting included
in your own book she's basically trying to say that she didn't even
read her own book after she wrote it or
Ghostwriter wrote it, but she also, there's an audio
book that she read. Right, right.
She read, this is where she recorded
herself saying this. All right, this
is what she actually said that's a lot. Throughout my tenure
of the House Armed Services Committee, I had the
chance to travel to many countries to meet with
world leaders. I remember what I met with North Korean
dictator Kim Jong-un. I'm sure
he underestimated me. Having no
clue about my experience staring down little
tyrants, I'd been a children's pastor
after all. Now, the
only part, the part that's true about that is Kim,
no clue about her
because they never fucking met
and her spokesman
conceded as such
when they were asked
about it
but she
this passage goes on
and on
she outlines a rant
she gave to somebody
so apparently
she gave a very
forceful speech
to some Kim Jong-o looking dude
and she never
corrected any of this
even though like I said
the books aren't even sent
to print she recorded
the audio version
it is funny to imagine
that she like took a trip
to Korea
South Korea was near
the DMZ
countered a guy in sunglasses, like a chubby dude in sunglasses and like just went full
caring on him for no reason. And then later it was like, you got to see how I dressed down
Kim Jong-un like that. And of course, you know, she knows she never met him. But it's funny to
imagine that she thinks that that happened because of something like that, because she's just
that dumb. It's also like, I'm not sure the audiences for this because like, foreign leaders
don't meet with random members of the House of Representatives backbenchers. They're
435 of them. They don't fucking matter
that much. This is like, the whole thing is like so
stupid. Well, also, what's it supposed
to like prove or accomplish? Is it just
because like Trump patted himself
on the back so much for his like little
summit with Kim and
all that? Like, is it just because that was
the thing and she knows
that? So she's trying to be like, yeah, I met
him too. I also did that.
You know, like. I think he's just trying to look
tough because Trump likes Kim.
I know. Right. You remember
Mike Pence with the North Korea, went to South
Korea and he went to the DMZ and he stood and looked across there and got a photo where
he looked sternly across the DMZ and he said it was because he wanted to show resolved
to North Korea. It's like, it's all so fucking stupid. Also, somebody else noticed about her dog
killing story in the book that we talked about last week. She said when she gets to the White
House, she's not even running for president. I guess she's, she's hypothesizing when she gets
there one day or when she's selected as Trump's BP pick. She said if she made to the White
house she would first ensure that Joe Biden's dog was not on the premises and she said commander
remember her dog she killed was named cricket commanded commander say hello to cricket she
imagines herself saying which is like a dry 80s action movie line from like like Schwarzenegger would say
if he was a dog terminator yeah yeah so i'm going to admit something like i said i made a video
today and i ripped on her a little bit for it and in that i said that i did not i didn't realize
this was also an excerpt from this book they did this book
this thing must be really something
because they're coming out with a new thing that looks her like
makes her look like such a psychopathic dumbass
every other day. But I saw
that she talked about killing Joe
Biden's dog and I thought that this
had happened after
like people read her thing
about killing her dog and it came up
and then I thought after that in some interview
or speech or something I thought she was like
proposed, yeah
like doubling down. Like
goddamn right. You know what up. Somebody should
kill that goddamn dog.
I should kill that dog too.
So, I mean, either way, it's funny and ridiculous.
But yeah, I thought she was like proposing like, you know, I killed dogs.
I killed Biden's dog.
Why not?
He deserves it.
I know he doesn't live in South Dakota, but it'd be funny if next week she just issued a preemptive pardon for Michael Vick.
So, but they're, so she went on a bunch of different right wing networks and news shows this week.
I got, she got dressed down by a couple of Fox News hosts for basically layback.
Do you seriously think you're still?
a VP shirt, like that kind of shit.
But Eric Bowling on Newsmax
tried to help her come up with a theory for why
this is all gone so wrong for her. Check us out.
This is pretty funny. I've also
written a couple of books, and I know how the process
works. You write some chapters. You don't write the whole
book at once. You write a chapter or two.
You send it to the editors, and they edit.
They read it. They add. They subtract.
And here's my question. The editor.
The editor, was she
possibly a plant, a liberal plant?
Because I'm not sure either one of these
stories, a dog story of the
So this is deeply funny for a lot of the reasons.
One, she goes, to receive me the response, well, I stand by what's in my book
and then we just watched her say that she didn't know that all that stuff was in the book,
which is a fucking lie.
But like, the entire public engineering industry is basically kept afloat by these right-wing
airport books that are read by like psychotic dance.
Right.
The idea that the public, the agent who signed Christy Nome and the editor who, like,
who want this book to be successful because they make money on it,
would want to make Chrissy Gnome look bad.
Doesn't make any sort of capitalism sense?
But also, here's another story
that disproves this theory.
She tried to put the dog-killing anecdote
in her last book that came out two years ago
and her publishing team got her to take it out.
So her editors saved her ass
from this dog-fucking murder fiasco two years ago.
This makes it so much funnier to me
that she's been like hanging on to this for so long.
Like she's been like pitching this for years.
And everybody around here has been like, please, for the love of God, do not tell the puppy murder story.
And then every time she brings a new team in or whatever, she's like, listen, guys, just hear me out.
I just got something I've been kind of sitting on and throw it out there for you.
See what you think.
And then, you know, and it's her murdering a puppy.
And every time they're like, yeah, no, don't do that.
And then finally, she surrounded herself with the right yes people to be able to include it in a book.
Like, that's how, that indicates to me how much she believed in this puppy murder story.
You know what I mean?
Like, she really, because, you know, as a comedian, you come up with bits and people
say, yeah, that ain't really working.
But sometimes you, like, hang on to them.
But to hang on to it for multiple years, you really believe you got something here, you know?
So, like, she believed in her heart.
She was like, no, this is going to reach people.
This is going to touch people.
This story of me executing mobster style, a doe-eyed puppy.
puppy in a gravel pit, this is going to be the thing that puts me over the top, you know,
like, and that makes it funnier to me.
Me as a former comedian and is you a comedian, no, you have bits that you just can't let go
of, but the audience keeps telling you know, don't work for years and years and years.
Like, I know the audience is wrong.
Right.
It is I who is right.
Always.
So, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's Christy Knoem with her story about killing her own puppy.
Right.
Yeah, yeah.
Wild, dude.
All right. Our honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is people who've never known true love and wouldn't die in a Siberian work camp for the Russian side chick. Listen to this story. Listen to this guy.
CBS News has learned that an American soldier has been arrested in Russia after being accused of stealing from a woman.
CBS David Martin is at the Pentagon with new reporting.
The soldier is Staff Sergeant Gordon Black, based in South Korea, but now detained in Russia and accused of theft.
say he was supposed to be returning to the United States as part of a regular rotation,
but instead traveled to the port city of Vladivostok, even though Russia is listed as a do-not-travel
zone for the American military. He was arrested last week. I don't understand why you'd have to
tell American soldiers that Russia is a do-not-travel zone for American troops, but whatever. He's well-versed
what's going on in Russia. Again, he's very heavily involved with a Russian woman for years who is,
coincidentally not his wife, which is an element of this story that I think is sort of important
if you want to get down to how crazy this guy was behaving. So this guy has apparently been dating
this woman for a while. She lived in South Korea for a long time until I guess they had a domestic
dispute in South Korea, after which she fled back to Bolobostok, and he pursued her after
he was transferred back to Texas and was on leave supposedly packing up his shit to go home. He just
left and went to Russia. And then apparently got another domestic dispute outside of her apartment there
or whatever, and then got arrested for stealing
from her. No idea whether he stole from her, but it's
like, it's like the equivalent of like a felony
arrest for theft there.
Right. See, I feel
like that's why you just straight
up don't have a Russian girlfriend
that you then follow into
actual Russia if you're a
U.S. soldier. Do you know what I mean?
Like maybe he did steal her
shit, which makes him even dumber, but it's like
don't open yourself
up to that. Like you're
an American in Russia. She could say like,
you, he stole the laptop, whatever.
And it's like, what is anybody going to say?
You could scream it from the mountaintops all you want.
No, I didn't.
None of that's going to matter.
Like, just don't.
But, you know, you know how Wainers Baymark, especially soldier wainers, bro.
Like, I had a lot of soldier friends.
They're not.
Every man, you know, we all know we got two heads and the lower head is significantly
dumber than the upper head.
And then when you talk about, like, Army grunts, no offense, I support the troops.
I'm just saying, and you start talking about their lower head, it's like,
okay, start making some real bad decisions real quick, you know.
He's 34 and he's a sergeant.
I didn't know that.
I didn't know it was 34.
He's in charge of people.
Yeah.
Yeah, he's a supervisor.
Okay.
Well, that, that makes it very, very different because I had a buddy, bless his heart,
loved him to death, was in the Army, did two tours in Afghanistan, all that.
He came back one time and came over to our apartment.
He was like, hey, this is my wife.
and what it was was a girl who had paid him,
her family had paid him $200, $200 to legally marry her
for immigration purposes, for green card purposes.
So he got paid $200 legally married this girl and then she left
and he never saw her again or whatever.
And he also, he got drunk and bought a kayak from a gas station for $300.
So like he's down $100 and up a wife who doesn't know his name.
but he does have a kayak, a plastic kayak from a gas station.
So I'm saying, I was thinking that.
I was picturing that guy and I was like, yeah, yeah,
I could totally see him doing something like this.
But a 34-year-old family man who's in charge of his own squad or whatever,
that's a little different.
He made so many bad decisions, bro.
One, his mom apparently knew he was going to go into Russia to get back his side chick.
So, like, because he had called her and told her.
She just didn't talk him out of it
She could go out of the news and beg Russia not to torture him
Which good luck
By the way, this guy and this woman are
She's all over her TikTok account
And I don't expect wives back home in the States
And I think he's stationed in Texas
If he's not in South Korea
To be scouring Russian TikTok
But like that's pretty bad opsec
Trying to get away with the affair
He was all over TikTok
Saying that he's rooting for Russia to win in Ukraine
All right
he's she's teaching him Russian on TikTok.
He's basically taking fealty oaths to the Russian state on TikTok.
If she's a honey trap, she fucking killed it at her job.
She effectively called him Pindos, which I guess is Russian slang word for Americans that
translates to Yankee punk, so I guess it's their version of calling people Ruskis or something,
like my dad did in the 80s.
So let me quote him directly from her TikTok.
I understand Russian's position, obviously.
to defend their country, Black said in a video
before Vaschek, that's her name,
interjects and says,
former U.S. President Donald Trump is better than current
President U.S. Joe Biden, and he agrees.
So I'm saying, Joe Biden
got an opportunity to do a really funny thing here
and not bring him home, although
we're going to bring him home because you never
leave a man behind all that shit. So we're going to have to
basically trade probably a war criminal
name something like Boris the Bone Eater or some shit
for this stupid fuck.
But are there
no, like, Russians over
here who are in America
making TikTok videos of them
like pissing off
of high things or something who've been
arrested? Do you know what I mean? Like something like that
that's a more commensurate trade
like let's just trade them a dumbass
for our dumb ass. I'm fine with that.
Give them one of their dumb asses. We get our dumbass back.
But yeah, don't give them Boris
the bone ear for this dude.
Some Russian expatty got like too high on ecstasy at one of
their like Euro trash raves and they crashed a car
or something. That feels like something we should do you should give
Sure. Give us back. That's fine.
But they're like, but they've been collecting Americans over there as prisoners and that Wall Street Journal reporter and yada, yada, yada, they're basically, he based, if he wanted to serve Mother Russia, this is a pretty good thing to do to go give them one more body to give back for whoever, whoever they want off the fucking sanctions list or whatever.
And it's like, okay, well, you did, you did your duty to, uh, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, where to go.
Yeah. Well, well, we'll watch his case with great interest. Actually, actually, we're
probably never talk about it again, but, you know, good luck to him.
All right.
I'm going to say, I want to say, like, I have a general no cheating policy for a lot of
reasons I love my wife and never want to hurt her, but also thinking about the complications
arise when you start digging a web of lies.
First to go, Ashley Madison, it's only like four more steps until you're in a Russian prison
for stealing from your side chick who chased to Russia.
It doesn't like, you think that can never happen to you.
Mm-hmm.
And you start listening to your wainer, I'm saying.
Yeah. Don't do it. Your wainer's dumb. Don't listen to your wainer. Ask Donald Trump.
All right. Anyway, go ahead, Mark. Let's get into it.
All right. So a bunch of dumb shit has happened around the college protest, and we're going to get into a little bit.
I just want to say up top, this is not about the merits of the campus protests or their tactics.
It's not about the horrific shit's going on in Gaza. It's not about Hamas agreeing to an Egyptian framework for a ceasefire yesterday that Israel rejected, that would have returned the hostages.
None of that shit. It's about our least.
Elit's losing their fucking minds on some, like, basically Salem witch trials bullshit
and what it's being used to justify, including assaults on free speech and cuts to education funding that are almost definitely coming.
Just a recap where we're at.
When we got off last week, as soon as we logged off, NYPD said, I don't know, a couple hundred armed cops in tanks in the Columbia University of smash windows and go in a building and chase people out.
To me, that's an overreaction.
Anyway, they're occupied a building.
You do that to provoke your reaction.
You've got a reaction.
All that's baked in.
But before we get to New York,
run out of some other things that happen.
Have you heard about anything that happened to Brown University, Tray?
Mm-mm.
I mean, I've heard about a lot of things that had happened to just all universities across this country.
But I don't know about Brown specifically.
The reason you haven't heard about it is because nothing fucking happened.
The kids occupied the quad.
Administrators went out there and talked to them because what they wanted was a vote on whether or not to de-invest,
to
divest, sorry, yeah,
to divest from like weapons manufacturers, all right?
And Brown said,
okay, we'll have a vote on it
at our next board meeting
and the protest disbanded.
No cops, nothing.
They promised to vote.
The vote might not even do anything
when the kids will be home from summer
and no heads got cracked.
Anyway,
I'm just saying,
like,
you could have been just as evil
and more cynical
and still not done anything
if you weren't on some respect,
my authoritative bullshit
that are fucking people get on every now and then.
Yeah,
which is like,
it's kind of like,
You're saying, and I mean, I sort of agree with you, but it's like, yeah, just go, you know, go, you know, go out there and tell the kids what they want to hear. You know what I mean? It's May. It's May. Memorial Day's right around the corner. Just make them happy, send them home. And then, you know, never follow through on any of that.
I personally think they should follow through. But the second, but the second best option is not fucking calling a military police force. Yes, right.
rubber bullets at everybody right yeah so northeastern some insane should happen there there's a
protest and a counter protest someone yelled kill all jews and happened to be a counter protester
who was being facetious to sarcastic or whatever who was there to defend Israel
northeastern used the kill all jews pretext as a reason to send cops in to bust up the kids
who hadn't said kill all jews and when they were asked about it being like hey but it wasn't
the people you sent the cops to beat up who had said they hate speech
beach. They're like, well, we have a zero tolerance policy. It's like, yes, but the zero
tolerance policy was followed by the kids you had arrested. All right?
Right. The, uh, there have been people saying all this. People have been like kicked out
of Columbia for saying shit like Zionists don't deserve to live and whatever. And that seems
like a fair thing to happen to get expelled from school for saying shit like that. I'm not defending
that kind of stuff. I'm saying the happenings of that kind of stuff has been grossly exaggerated
about people who want you to think
a bunch of bullshit. And as a person who hates
bullshit basically more than anything, it's driving me kind of
insane. All right. CNN's Dana Bash, who's a straight news reporter
mind you, got on TV last week and said that the campus
protests were eerily reminiscent, those are her words,
of 1930s Germany. Now, no,
it's just not.
What that's been used to justify over Dartmouth,
a professor by the name of Annalise Orleck,
she's been banned from Dartmouth campus for six months
for trying to protect her students from riot police.
She's 65 years old,
Kaspita ever-loving shit out of her.
You can go watch videos of it.
She happens to be Jewish,
and she's the head of Jewish studies at Dartmouth.
Right.
Clear anti-Semite, Mark.
Right.
And under the pretext,
of fighting anti-Semitism,
the cops beat the shit
out of a Jewish woman
as a head of Jewish studies
at Dartmouth.
All right?
Classic cops.
Right.
Here in L.A.,
there was a protest.
The cops beat up.
Protests was still there.
The next night a bunch of counter-protesters
showed up with sticks and bats
and beat the shit of the protesters
while the cops watch, right?
It's all on video.
After a bunch of complaints
in New York Times actually writing about it
based upon reporting for reporters
who actually showed up there
funnel was actually going on, now UCLA says they've been investigating, so was LAPD and
FBI.
I imagine that won't go anywhere, but at least they're pretending to be like, okay, we actually
are against violence and not just some kids who get charged after getting hit by cops, right?
Over University of Mississippi, there was a huge kind of protest to their protest.
A kid in a fraternity there was harassing a pro-Palestinian protester.
He happened to be a black woman.
And he made monkey noises at her, horrifically racist.
On camera, yeah.
He's since been kicked out of fraternity, five Delta Theta.
That video was quote treated approvingly by a mega congressman by the name of Mike Collins,
who ostensibly is anti the pro-Palestinian protest because they're prejudiced.
Right.
Yeah, I was going to say, like, yeah, he got kicked out of his fraternity,
but I look forward to his Senate campaign.
I guess so it was real promise as a future Mississippi congressman, I feel like.
Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, the United States representatives,
went on TV and suggested that George Soros is funding the pro-Palestine protest in college campuses.
Okay.
So we're now to the point where Republicans, essentially the allies of the Jewish state,
are saying that anti-Semitism is being funded by a secret cabal of Jews.
Jews, right. Yes. George Soros is part of the globalist, i.e. Jews that run the world,
and they are funding the kill-all-jews college programs.
test that's the right wing narrative right now right that don't seem to track yeah everything i knew
as soon it like i've it's always the whole like the american right loves israel thing has
always been what loves israel and h jews thing has always been wild to me and i know we've talked
about at the very beginning there's a lot of religious reasons they want armageddon to happen and
all that but still you know you could tell that this was going to get messy in this particular way
just because of that like the bigots are pro israel in this country which
is wild so you know you're going to have shit like this i listen to a lawyer podcast earlier today
about the first amendment case law around protests like this and the thing about you know the thing
about laws are is they're fake and first amendment gives you a pretext to sue after you get your
head cracked but it's not going to defend your rights in that moment because cops don't care
right and uh one of the lawyers in the podcast happens to be jewish and he made the point that
like you're trying to tell me that ally myself with these people is the best way to keep myself safe
and I just fundamentally don't fucking buy it.
It's not my place to speak about anti-semitism
or how people should feel about it
or whether, obviously, I've seen the studies
where it's getting worse, and that sucks.
But Mike Johnson is not your fucking friends.
Neither is Mike Collins, the mega-congresman,
who is cheering on a racist guy hooting at Ole Miss,
and these people pretend to be your friends are not,
and they're going to get around.
That's the whole poem.
First that came for the blank,
and then I didn't speak up because I was not a blank.
That's the whole point of that fucking poem.
on. Anyway, so let's talk about NYC, New York City, which is the ground zero for this,
where the cops were really fucking all in one. When they, when they, uh, evicted the kids from
that, that hall they'd occupied last Tuesday night, they accidentally shot a gun, all right?
Barney fiefed it. Uh-huh. They barney fived the fuck out of it. And, uh, they didn't say they
shot a gun, because they got lucky they didn't hit anybody. A cop was trying to use the flashlight
on his barrel of his gun, and it went off. So the cops have other flashlights, I'm pretty sure.
Not sure why he was doing it this way or why he's so fucking incompetent.
Either way, he could have killed somebody and he didn't.
And the old reason this went public is because a protester was filming a cop's phone
and he was caught texting somebody to one of his boys.
I think we fucking shot somebody.
All right?
They would have gotten away with it.
And by the way, if they'd hit a protester,
they would have said the person deserved it for being Hamas and planning a fucking weapon on them.
All right.
100%.
Uh, they,
NYPD posted like a five-minute hype video of them planning.
this raid where they actually were planning D-Day, and it was deeply embarrassing for
everyone involved. And I can't believe they put it out. Then they went on TV the next day
after they went in to find a bunch of outside agitators and armed protesters that they said
were there and didn't find any. And here's them on, I think MSNBC the next day trying to talk
about the weapons they did find, which aren't weapons, importantly. Tell us about this change.
Yeah, so when we will enter Hamilton Hall,
this is not what students bring to school, okay?
The professionals bring to campuses and universities.
Positive.
Certainly that chain could be used as a weapon.
It's also a standard fucking bike lot chain.
The brand name's Kryptonite.
Like, if that ad on the right,
that's an ad for this bike lock sold from the Columbia University bookstore on a discount.
All right?
I just have no patience for this fucking shit.
Like this is 9-11 level craziness,
except Israel's 9-11, not us.
It didn't happen here.
So like I don't understand
why everyone's going so fucking insane.
Well, I mean, it kind of behooves them to, doesn't it?
A little bit.
I mean, if you're talking about the right wing or whatever,
it's like this is a good, this is a right fruit for them
to chew on and also present to,
you know, to their peers.
Meaning like, this is like,
this is and I know I know we're going to kind of get into some of this in a minute but this is exactly the type of shit that like Midwestern mammals who like are kind of who find Donald Trump distasteful a little bit or whatever but then like they hear these narratives about you know what these kids are doing you know what these coastal like city kids these what they're doing at these university how they're radical look how they're radicalizing these kids they're burning burning flags saying death to America putting up other companies.
country's flags. They're bringing chains. They're doing all this stuff. And it makes a convenient
narrative for them. So I think this type of shit hits for them, really. They're right. Because
they can use it in that way. They can show it to middle America and freak them the fuck out
and be like, God damn, is this Joe Biden's America? Well, I don't like this. And, you know, and
I don't know. I feel like part of it. I feel like nobody really likes free speech. And like,
this is a part that drives me crazy. As much as we talk about First Amendment ideals and how, like,
Bill of Rights, what makes America great, and all this shit.
Like, my general view on protest is I'm cool with all of them, all right?
Like, even, like, in January 6th, if they just blocked streets in D.C. and walked around,
they're like, sure, fucking say your piece, man.
I don't give a shit.
Like, I just kind of feel like when it comes to, like, when people talk about wanting
to establish order, it scares me.
Mm-hmm.
All right?
Freedom's fucking messy.
Freedom's noisy.
People do annoying shit.
And when you stop trying to, like, do you.
do crackdowns of people that are just doing stuff that you find distasteful or
annoying, it's going to come back to fucking bite you.
I just generally feel that way.
And, like, that's why I hate this shit, all right?
It drives me absolutely insane.
Even if I didn't have any sympathies towards their stated goals, which is to bankshot
try to, like, push back on what they see as a genocide, but to get their universities
to stop profiting off of it, even if I was against everything they were fighting for, I would
still be like, let the kids make some noise.
All right?
Right.
So whenever people start panicking about this shit,
I want to be like, well, again, the poem first that came for the, you know, it's just like,
I mean, these are all like confined to college campuses, right?
Generally.
I mean, so, you know, like you said, let the kids make a little noise or whatever.
Like all these people, so many of these people that are so tore up about this on Fox News
and everything are like,
their commute goes over a college campus or something,
I highly doubt it.
You know,
like they're getting into it for no real reason.
It's like,
you said this on a previous episode,
I felt,
but it's like,
this,
you know,
this what college kids do.
They'd be this way.
This shit happened.
There's a,
like,
a ration,
there's a reason,
a particular reason for it right now,
but,
you know,
when there is a reason,
they find it and they do this type of shit.
There's like a story tradition of it in American history.
But,
you know,
there's also a story of tradition of the response to it
in cracking heads or in the case of Kent State
murdering people.
So, you know, we'll say if that happens.
I'm just saying, if Trump administration too happens
and they're rounding up all the immigrants
and they're trying to serve arrest warrants on women
for having miscarriages and shit after using a
forcibly installing period tracker apps on every woman's phone,
yada, yada, yada. You're going to want these kids next to you on the front
lines because they know how to get tear gas out of your fucking eyes.
You're going to need them on your side.
Sure.
Mark, this is, this is, I've been wondering and waiting on when to bring this up,
and I brought it up before, and I know it's like, I know it's like, I know it's not going to
hit for you, but like you just, you just said when Trump's part two happens and this,
you're going to want these kids on your side, I just keep thinking, like, I feel like a lot of
these kids are playing right into Trump part two's hands or the people that want Trump part two
to happen their hands. I'm not, I know you said, that's bullshit to me.
I mean, I just said what you were like, oh, you know, Kyle,
because they don't vote anyway or whatever.
But like, dude, we, in our group chat just yesterday, fucking, and I, whatever, he's one person,
but McLemore.
And I like McLemore.
And I have since he came out.
But he just put out a song that went viral supporting these college protesters.
He's got a bar in the middle of it.
He's like something about Joe Biden, this is your fault.
And fuck, no, I'm not going to vote for you in the fall.
And I can just see that getting played on these college campuses and everybody cheering and everybody
loving it.
And it's like, that's the part that gives.
me major pause about this
because I know
they don't like it. I know it don't hit for them. It's like
that line from the wire. You want it to be
one way, but it's the other way.
All that does
is facilitate
Donald Trump
Part 2, which is going to be
infinitely worse for everything
that you care about, including this
particular subject. Like all these
college kids... Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold up.
I hate talking about this shit that way. I hate it.
It's fucking, it's stupid.
If they weren't saying this, I wouldn't, I'm with them, like, by, in just talking about
this, I'm with it, but that is part of it.
Like I said, look at DeMacklemore.
They make that part of it.
Genocide, Joe, I'm not voting, they make it part of it.
And I think that part of it is insane.
So, of course, I'm going to think about it and talk about it.
That's not, dude, the, AYPD is going to like, who radicalize these kids?
All right, these kids are radicalized because they're seeing,
viral videos of doctors doing amputations with no anesthesia on four-year-old children, all right?
Talking about Joe Biden, like, if Joe Biden loses because of these protests, it's because a bunch of
people fell for seeing that bike lock and think that cops should crack people's heads because
it's some stupid bullshit and bank shot off of it.
It won't be because these kids because we're roobes who fell for this, all right?
That's why we're talking about this part of it.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
What are they not supposed to do, not protest?
No, no, I'm just, I'm saying, basically, I just, going out and just like the people in the primaries that voted uncommitted or whatever and a huge thing got made of that.
And it's like, like, protesting and holding their, like, okay, AOC, I mean, this has been three or four weeks ago now, but AOC had some interview or whatever.
And she's like backing up these protests and protesters and talking shit about the administration and fucking saying they're supporting genocide.
She's doing all that stuff, keeping it real.
And then the person asked her, he's like, but in the election, though, what about that?
And she was like, well, you know, I mean, look, all that aside, it is the way it is.
Donald Trump is an existential threat to the concept of democracy in this country.
And that's just the reality.
So, like, anyone who has that position on this whole thing, I'm not talking to them.
I have no problem with it.
But you cannot act like it does.
Again, the viral song from the man himself, it's part of it.
it. They're, they're out, they are out there saying, they're calling him genocide Joe saying I'm not
going to vote for him over this. And that I'm not with, I'm with every other part of it. But that part is
ridiculous to me. All right. Here's my, here's my counterpoint. My whole theory of the case for
voting for Joe Biden is he can be swayed. Like, vote for Joe Biden and then protest the fuck
out of him. That's what this looks like. That's what this is. Right. Yeah, dude, that's, I'm totally with you
on that.
If I, right, like I said, hold their feet to the fire, demand they do better.
As long as you, as long as you then still vote for them.
I can't, I can't make a 19 year old vote, man.
I don't know what to tell you.
That's not like, that's not our audience.
It's not like, it's.
If you don't care at all about anything and you don't vote, then that's like consistent to me.
And there's tons of those.
One, fully one third of this country is like that.
But if you are this passionate politically,
and this far left leaning and you choose not to vote because fuck Joe Biden for Israel-Palestine
reasons, I think you are becoming an asset to the other side at that point.
I think you are playing into their hands and helping them out by being that way.
Like if you care at all in your left-leaning, you have to vote and you have to vote against
Donald. Don't even think of it is voting for Joe Biden, which it is.
You have to vote against Donald Trump.
Who are you talking to here?
Hypothetical 19-year-old college freshman who's protesting right now.
That's what you're talking to?
Because they're not watching.
Well, yeah.
Well, yes.
I mean, yeah, that's true.
Right.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I can't argue with that.
Literally none of them are watching this right now.
So, right.
So, like, what I'm saying is, like, if my problem is the people who reflexively want order,
who think all this looks messy and would therefore be on, like, like, the hypothetical 19-year-old you're talking to,
who got shot in the face of the rubber bullet at USC the other day.
And you're like, wait, we have a Democratic mayor, a Democratic governor,
are all trustees or Democrats,
and they call the riot police to crack our heads to defend,
to stop us from yelling about the state of Israel,
killing a bunch of civilians.
And you're saying, I should suck it up and vote.
Yeah.
It's like, I am, though.
I am because of everything you said that led me in saying this
when you said when it's Trump Part 2 and all these things are happening.
that's why I say that is because that is the y'all I know it don't hit I know it's inconvenient
and it sucks but it's the truth that is the alternative I it will be I don't want to say
I don't want to talk to Trump anymore Trump's got in office let's go let's go back to the show we're doing
all right I'm just saying all right so fuck this is such not like if you can't if you can't
protest your leaders and they fuck up why would you vote for
for them. Like, you understand what I'm saying? Like, like, it's like this, this, if this, this, this situation can be
resolved another way. There is supposed to be a state department result report today put out
about whether or not Israel's violating international law and the Biden administration, Christ,
it's not coming out. It's not coming out. So I'm saying, because if they find their violation
of international law, they're going to stop shipping a weapon. All right. I'm, I'm, this can be resolved a
different way. I'm agreeing you should protest
them even after you've already said all
that. I'm just, I feel like you're acting
like it's not a thing
what I'm talking about, that there is
a large contingent of them that are
not just, they're not doing that. They're not
doing it, but it doesn't matter. You're right, it doesn't matter, let's move.
I hope that one Patreon commenter
who told us we should argue more, I hope this episode's
hitting for them. Right. So I
will say that every saying leftists have been like
this is all very disgusting, but yes, I'm still voting
by. People aren't
idiots, man. They understand what's going on
all right and that hits so so the uh the coverage of this has been insane i i i dare say
if you don't get your news from people who are directly there then you're woefully mission
informed uh constantly people the demonstration was taken over by outside protesters cable news
pundits were saying this protest the protest like january 6th which is like even a protest fundamentally
look the same protesting on the right side of something is different from protesting on the bad side of something
i'm not really going to get into why um so one cable
news host, talk about
whether or not the protesters hold up in university
weapons are being armed by outsiders
for use on, like, project. They talked about them
having projectile weapons, which I guess would be
a potato gun or something.
Right. Right.
The rubber band
pistol things.
A CBS
a CBS reporter in New York
reported that the wife of a known
terrorist was at Columbia, which
this is about a guy who was an engineering
professor at a college in Florida who was
found not guilty after the FBI railroaded him for having fundraising calls with an organization
in Palestine that was added to the terror watch list years after he talked to them on the phone
after 9-11 happened.
This is the guy who campaigned for George W. Bush.
So his wife went to Columbia.
Well, Bush did 9-11, Mark, so that checks out.
Right. You know what I mean?
It's a job.
Yeah.
You also like, so the kids in Columbia occupied a building.
And again, you're trying to provoke a response.
So I can't really.
I think the response is over the top of whatever.
You get what you, this is, you get what you, it's plug and play.
You get what you ask for.
Fuck around and find out depending how do you want to put it or whatever.
I didn't think the cops need that much force, but whatever.
So the, but people ask them like occupying buildings is some new tactic.
Oh, occupying a building has never been a legitimate protest tactic.
Civil rights protesters did it.
Vietnam era war protesters did it.
Anti-aportide protesters in the 1980s occupied the same building in the 80s to call for their administration at that time to divest
from Parkside, South Africa, all right?
And if you want to act, like, everyone asks
like they're born yesterday
when this type of shit happens.
Beloved film icon, Samuel L. Jackson,
spent time in federal prison
and was expelled from Morehouse College
for taking hostages at a campus building.
They used guns.
They kept hostages for two days.
One of the hostages he took was Martin Luther King,
Sr.
Right?
Samuel Jackson's a real one.
None of this shit's fucking new.
Everybody, like, can stop acting.
like the world's ending. Anytime a kid raises their voice or whatever. And
NYPD, like, NYPD's chief of patrol got on Twitter and said, uh, who's funding
this? What is happening? There is an unknown entity who's radicalizing our vulnerable
students. Again, I think it's the footage from God that's doing that. Whatever. There's a high-ranking
NYPD official positing a vast conspiracy theory involving shadowy money figures, puppeteering nationwide
events. And he's just still employed by NYPD saying this crazy shit. Um,
A deputy commissioner named Daughtry went on TV and said he found a book on terrorism at Columbia.
If you got this image, Matt.
Let's skip the Eric Adams video.
I'll get to come back to that in a second.
Yeah, they went to Columbia and during that, they found a book on terrorism.
Mark, you can clearly see it right there.
It says terrorism.
The title is introduction to terrorism.
The thing is, it's not a how-to book.
It's a history book by a renowned British historian about the history of this is a tactic and an ideology.
it's a thing you would want to learn about
if you're studying, I don't know, political science
or the history of war.
It's like, I really wish that said like terrorism for dummies on it
or something, you know, and he's there
sincerely saying this is what they're using.
You know, these kids are having meetings
reading from terrorism for dummies books.
It's basically of the terrorism for dummies book.
It's a part of the very short introduction series
from Oxford University Press.
And you ever heard of Hannah Arendt?
She's a very famous Jewish scholar
about like a political philosopher
who wrote a book called The Origins of
Totalitarianism. Somebody
once reported her for
advocating totalitarian philosophy
for teaching the origins of totalitarianism.
She was a Jewish Jew who lived through the Holocaust.
She had an FBI file over
that dumb bullshit. And we're just doing that
again. This is all so fucking
insane.
We don't have time to do the Eric Adams video,
but Eric Adams, mayor of New York, he was running around saying
that he thought once they rounded
up, they arrested 300 kids that
building at that building in
at Columbia
and he said that he thought over half of them
would be outside agitators
and he went on TV afterwards after they had
you got their arrest reports, you know who's a student who isn't
and he said it confirmed a suspicion
there were outside agitators there
because two people
two people there weren't fucking students
the outside agitators line
has a long history
of being utterly
this southern
I mean it's like Asian provocateurs
or whatever.
You know what I mean?
Same thing at Antifa, right?
Antifa's outside agitia.
I mean, it's the same argument, really,
just in a different context.
I just want to say to like all the,
for every self-identified liberal
or civil libertarian or leftian here,
you all fell for it because I'm seeing a bunch of them
also condemn these protests,
including the White House.
This is all a fucking trap.
You guys fell for it.
Every time the right wing needs a boogeyman,
they provoke something at a college campus.
because kids will fall into this trap
and then everyone overreacts
and it becomes this huge fucking nightmare
and they're going to use it
like the two sides of this debate
are basically the kids are Hamas
being funded by George Soros
to kill cops with anti-Semitic bike locks
and the other side is let's hear them out
about the bike locks
and that's no way to run a society
because one side's crazy
and the other side's accommodating crazy
and I am going insane with this
and there are you making noise
about, if anybody is
forgotten, this
all started with hearings
at the House of Representatives.
Right. Where they called
and who else.
Yeah, they got calling.
They ended up designing, right?
Yeah, Claudia Gay, I think
is her name, was the Harvard president who ended up getting
forced to resign even after doing everything's Republicans
yelled at her to do. Like, crackdown
protests, yada, yada, because it's never enough.
All right. Months later,
Columbia's president, whose name I can't remember, got called in front of Congress, got read
the same riot act, made the same promises, did exactly what they wanted, and at least
Stefanica is still calling for her to be fired. This is why you don't buy their framing.
It's never enough. They don't want the same things you want. They don't want there to be
fucking colleges. Right. All right. When you do this, all the above horse shit, the introduction
of terrorism book, the outside agitators, the murderous bike lock, the Jewish woman
who's director of Jewish studies getting beaten up for anti-Semitism, this is the stuff you're
legitimizing when you accept their framework for their dumb bullshit. And I just want everybody to
remember, the original right-wing backlash against student protests in the 60s triggered the
end of taxpayer support for low tuition, which is what led to our $1.75 billion student loan crisis.
and the maelstorm around the Middle East this year
is given the same enemies of higher education
and they are many
a chance to move in for the kill
and they're fucking doing it.
All right.
House Republicans have already announced
three main avenues of attack
for college funding they're going to go after.
The first one,
they're going to look into tax exempt status
of non-profit universities
to try to take that away.
They're going after financial aid.
If you quote unquote engage in violent protest
on putting air quotes around that for the podcast listeners
because they're defining what violence.
is you standing there and getting hit by a cop will count as you being involved in a violent
protest. They're going to take away your financial aid. They're also going after research funding
because the law already bars research funding. It's conditioned that colleges comply with
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color,
and national origin, which are going to include, say, being mean to Israel. All right. This has
put forward, proposed, cutting all that
by a House, science, space, and technology
committee chair, Frank Lucas, who's a Republican
from Oklahoma. Frank Lucas,
really cool name for a drug dealer from the
70s. This guy's fucking taken and ruined.
Right. Right.
A law of the House already passed
last week.
It's the last thing we're going to talk about is the
anti-Semitism Awareness Act, and it's aimed
at defunding universities. All right.
It passed the House with
a bipartisan majority. 70 Democrats
vote against it. 20-20 Republicans did.
It makes it easier, basically, for concerned students to file civil rights complaints against their college for alleged anti-semitism.
Now, what's this going to happen is you're going to have a Jewish protester who's protesting for Palestinian rights,
who's going to get reported by an evangelical classmate for being anti-Semitic and then get kicked off campus and lose their financial aid.
That's the inevitable result of this, but whatever.
We're so deep in this bullshit.
So under this legislation, the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights would have to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliances,
this working definitions for anti-Semitism when enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act,
which I just mentioned.
There's a lot of very broad standards that wouldn't meet a lot of First Amendment law,
but we're past that now, I guess.
Among them are, it be considered anti-Semitic to, quote, apply double standards to Israel,
which I don't know who's going to judge that.
Right.
Sounds like standard political speech to me.
And even if you agree to all these things, everything involved in that is
and signs of anti-Jewish animus,
they're like,
there are our First Amendment problems
of this shit.
And one of the guys who drafted
those working definitions for anti-Semitism
is a guy named Ken Stern who opposed the act
because he says these are academic definitions for research.
You're not supposed to be basis for a fucking law.
And here you guys are using
research to criminalize students.
And this guy's a longtime Zionist
activist. You're saying you guys are going too far with this shit.
ACLU is against it.
the Senate hasn't decided what they're going to do
on it yet, and the Biden administration hasn't said
whether they'll sign it. But imagine if the Senate
passes it, Biden will sign it because
there'll be a majority for it.
This is basically the people that
bitch about globalists, and when they say
globalists, I mean the Jews that run the world.
This is those people using
the cover of anti-Semitism
to defund universities
and, you know, ruin education
and make us all dumber and get more, you know,
cogs for their labor machine.
And that then continue the pursuit of American
and feudalism and that type of thing.
Right.
Yeah.
The funniest, yeah, the funniest, yeah, the funniest opponent of this legislation and I never
find myself on the same side with her about anything is one Marjor, Taylor Green, and she ended
up on the right side of this for the dumbest fucking reason.
If you have this video, Matt, I want, I want, I want y'all to hear it out of her lips.
Yeah, we will close on this.
We will close on this, Matt, if you pull it up, this is truly great.
But, yeah, finding your, the wrong way to the right, uh, right result or whatever.
This is her doing that.
This particular bill, this was a Mike Lawler bill, and this bill had some language in there
talking about the way they define anti-Semitism with the contemporary language.
And a particular example that struck many of us that we're concerned about is that possibly
a contemporary example of anti-Semitism, according to this bill, could be the very belief that
we all believe in the gospel, if you're a Christian, is that Jesus was handed over to be killed,
and that decision was made by the Jews.
There it is.
She's against the anti-Semitism act on account of being an anti-Semite.
But she's like, yeah, if I go out there and say, the Jews killed Jesus, they're going to call me an anti-Semite.
Now, I can't get with that.
Right, man, she, look, I don't think that's something you should be saying, but I, like, I, like,
If you said that to meet a party, I'd walk and walk away from you.
But I don't think it should be illegal to fucking say that.
That's what the First Amendment is, man.
Right.
And the other legislation they're considering House Speaker Mike Johnson is considering bringing other bills to a vote, including one to create a, quote, a national anti-Semitism coordinator and position in the White House.
Under Trump, I don't think a national anti-Semitism coordinator is going to do what these people think he's going to be fucking do it.
Right.
This is all so insane.
and I can't believe
that everybody in charge of everything in this country
has gone fucking
just absolutely nuts
this is fucking crazy
you really can't believe it
oh god
it's so stupid
yeah indeed it is
all right
Jay and Amor says great discussion
thank you yeah got into it a little bit
what are you going to do it happens sometimes
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