Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 5/07/24 – The Ol College Try

Episode Date: May 8, 2024

Tonight, 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 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
Starting point is 00:00:33 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
Starting point is 00:00:41 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
Starting point is 00:00:49 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
Starting point is 00:00:55 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.
Starting point is 00:01:12 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
Starting point is 00:01:47 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
Starting point is 00:02:04 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
Starting point is 00:02:10 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
Starting point is 00:02:20 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.
Starting point is 00:02:46 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
Starting point is 00:03:22 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
Starting point is 00:03:39 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.
Starting point is 00:03:54 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
Starting point is 00:04:10 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.
Starting point is 00:04:26 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.
Starting point is 00:04:45 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,
Starting point is 00:04:58 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,
Starting point is 00:05:11 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,
Starting point is 00:05:37 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
Starting point is 00:06:08 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?
Starting point is 00:06:33 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
Starting point is 00:06:56 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
Starting point is 00:07:13 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.
Starting point is 00:07:46 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
Starting point is 00:08:33 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
Starting point is 00:09:02 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
Starting point is 00:09:18 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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Starting point is 00:11:12 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.
Starting point is 00:11:27 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.
Starting point is 00:11:44 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
Starting point is 00:11:59 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
Starting point is 00:12:37 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
Starting point is 00:13:00 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
Starting point is 00:13:16 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
Starting point is 00:13:26 but she this passage goes on and on she outlines a rant she gave to somebody so apparently she gave a very forceful speech
Starting point is 00:13:34 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
Starting point is 00:13:46 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
Starting point is 00:14:09 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
Starting point is 00:14:32 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
Starting point is 00:14:48 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
Starting point is 00:15:22 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
Starting point is 00:15:54 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
Starting point is 00:16:10 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.
Starting point is 00:16:27 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
Starting point is 00:16:50 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.
Starting point is 00:17:07 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,
Starting point is 00:17:27 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?
Starting point is 00:17:52 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
Starting point is 00:18:10 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.
Starting point is 00:18:38 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.
Starting point is 00:19:04 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.
Starting point is 00:19:30 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.
Starting point is 00:19:41 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
Starting point is 00:20:35 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
Starting point is 00:21:12 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
Starting point is 00:21:28 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?
Starting point is 00:21:45 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
Starting point is 00:22:02 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.
Starting point is 00:22:24 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,
Starting point is 00:22:43 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.
Starting point is 00:23:13 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
Starting point is 00:23:37 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
Starting point is 00:23:52 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.
Starting point is 00:24:16 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,
Starting point is 00:24:40 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
Starting point is 00:24:56 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
Starting point is 00:25:12 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
Starting point is 00:25:30 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.
Starting point is 00:26:08 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.
Starting point is 00:26:34 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.
Starting point is 00:27:18 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,
Starting point is 00:27:40 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,
Starting point is 00:28:02 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.
Starting point is 00:28:15 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
Starting point is 00:28:24 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,
Starting point is 00:28:32 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
Starting point is 00:29:27 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
Starting point is 00:29:59 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,
Starting point is 00:30:30 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.
Starting point is 00:30:45 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.
Starting point is 00:30:57 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
Starting point is 00:31:08 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
Starting point is 00:31:21 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.
Starting point is 00:31:52 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.
Starting point is 00:32:20 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
Starting point is 00:32:55 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
Starting point is 00:33:35 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.
Starting point is 00:34:01 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.
Starting point is 00:34:18 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.
Starting point is 00:34:53 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.
Starting point is 00:35:12 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
Starting point is 00:35:41 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.
Starting point is 00:36:06 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
Starting point is 00:36:24 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,
Starting point is 00:36:43 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.
Starting point is 00:37:46 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?
Starting point is 00:38:06 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?
Starting point is 00:38:23 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,
Starting point is 00:38:48 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.
Starting point is 00:39:15 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,
Starting point is 00:39:23 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,
Starting point is 00:39:30 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
Starting point is 00:39:41 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,
Starting point is 00:40:02 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
Starting point is 00:40:28 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.
Starting point is 00:40:52 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
Starting point is 00:41:13 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
Starting point is 00:41:29 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.
Starting point is 00:41:52 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?
Starting point is 00:42:18 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.
Starting point is 00:42:55 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.
Starting point is 00:43:31 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
Starting point is 00:44:08 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.
Starting point is 00:44:31 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.
Starting point is 00:45:05 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.
Starting point is 00:45:18 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,
Starting point is 00:45:46 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
Starting point is 00:46:05 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
Starting point is 00:46:52 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
Starting point is 00:47:18 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
Starting point is 00:47:34 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
Starting point is 00:48:08 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
Starting point is 00:48:21 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
Starting point is 00:48:42 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.
Starting point is 00:49:01 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.
Starting point is 00:49:17 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
Starting point is 00:49:42 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,
Starting point is 00:49:59 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
Starting point is 00:50:20 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.
Starting point is 00:50:51 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.
Starting point is 00:51:11 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.
Starting point is 00:51:32 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.
Starting point is 00:51:48 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
Starting point is 00:52:03 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
Starting point is 00:52:18 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
Starting point is 00:52:35 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
Starting point is 00:52:49 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.
Starting point is 00:53:05 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
Starting point is 00:53:21 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
Starting point is 00:53:38 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
Starting point is 00:53:54 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.
Starting point is 00:54:19 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
Starting point is 00:55:02 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.
Starting point is 00:55:17 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.
Starting point is 00:55:30 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
Starting point is 00:56:06 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
Starting point is 00:56:22 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.
Starting point is 00:56:51 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.
Starting point is 00:57:21 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
Starting point is 00:57:37 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.
Starting point is 00:57:56 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
Starting point is 00:58:12 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
Starting point is 00:58:27 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.
Starting point is 00:58:48 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,
Starting point is 00:59:34 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.
Starting point is 01:00:02 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
Starting point is 01:00:33 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
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