Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 5/09/2023 – Bogeyman at the Border

Episode Date: May 10, 2023

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Hey, everybody. Welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It's May 9th, 2023. I'm Trey Crowder. That's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? A lot to talk about today, man. Tucker gave up $25 million from Fox to get out of his no-compete clause to do a show that'll stream on Twitter, which videos on Twitter don't play. That's part of the Matt's problem with this show. So that should be fun. George Santos has been charged by a justice department for something. It's under seal. He's supposed to be might appear in court tomorrow, so maybe we'll know tomorrow. But if you case you need, it could be, it could be a campaign finance violations,

conflict of interest laws. It could be the stealing the cash that was meant for an Iraq war veterans dying dog. It could be the credit card fraud scheme. It could be all of them. Nobody knows. So exciting times. Could be a whole brand new thing. We ain't even thought out about you. Who knows with this guy? I hope it's, that's a fun idea. It could be a new thing. What do you think it could be?

Like, I don't know, like he murdered a racehorse or, you know, I don't know. Somehow defrauded an orphanage or something like that. He sold an NFT to orphanage. Yeah. Clarence Thomas got caught more doing more crooked shit. So Leonard Leo is a guy we talked about before. He runs a bunch of legs. conservative organizations that essentially just exist on paper.

Yeah, that's a different one. We'll get that in a second, Matt. This first story is a, so Lerlio had Kellyanne Conway through her organization paid Jenny Thomas 25 grand, maybe up to 80 grand for something. And then he reimbursed Keliang Conway through the judicial education project, one of his many dark money organizations that has his address, a UPS store in Georgetown. So this is just a pure bagman operation. There's like, like this. So Harlan Crowe donates the judicial education project. Leonard Leo tells Kellyanne Conway to pay

Jenny and then the judicial education project pays back Kellyanne. And then the kicker is he put on the paperwork, he instructed Kellyan Conway on the paperwork to not mention Jenny, of course. So yeah, this is a, this is just pure fraudulent. And then that article matters. It seems like it defeats the purpose a little bit to mention Jenny in, you know, a paper trail by saying, hey, make sure you don't mention Jenny in the subsequent paper trail or whatever, like. Right. This was two steps up the paper trail. So maybe thought this paper trail wouldn't get out.

We're downstream. This isn't the main paper trail. Right. Yeah, right. This is the sub paper trail, which he thought was safe. Yeah. And a few months after this payment, the judicial education project found an amicus brief in a case called Shelby County v. Holder, which is what the Supreme Court used to overturn the voting

rights act because, as John Roberts put it, racism is over. Shelby County has five to four with Thomas and the majority. So there you go for that. And then so there's a more direct line here. So we've talked about the Chevron doctrine before. It's the Supreme Court, you know, sort of framework where they let regulatory agencies make, you know, decisions without interference from the court. because the regulatory agencies are the experts here, as long as Congress has granted the authority to do so. Thomas authored the majority opinion in this case. He's now flipped.

He's against his own opinion because Leonard Leo and, you know, who's paid by Harlan Crow is. So there you go. Clarence Thomas, after getting paid, has decided that Clarence Thomas before getting paid was wrong. Is wrong. Yeah, right. Right.

Ah, so this is fun times. And no one's doing anything. Yeah, it's like all this stuff had already happened, obviously, but it's like one of those things. It's like the seal got broken or something. You know what I mean? Like the first report came out and now just every, you know, two or three days, there's a new report of him getting dart money under the table or whatnot, you know. It's just what? Did people just not know where to look or do you know what I mean?

Like it was happening the whole time and it's not a single instance, as we've now seen. But it took it to, you know, took it being reported in the first place for. it to become yeah i mean i really think that the supreme court was just presumed to be ethical right and no one was looking they were in charge of regulating themselves and they weren't doing it and no one was just looking up on them and then it's damn broke and people like wait we should look into their finances uh maybe what but they're supposed to be checks and balances congress is theoretically the place they could do something about this and they just they just don't one. Although Diane Feinstein, supposedly is returning to the Senate. She's climbing out of her hospital bed and going to getting wheeled back. So technically Democrats will be back in the majority. It's merely they can do some more stuff. If, uh, you know, her staff can weaken at Bernie's or the

whoever's like pulling the string that pushes which button or whatever for her, you know, pulls the yes lever when appropriate or whatnot. Right. Before we get to the show, one last thing. Our fans are always, uh, our viewers are always, uh, our viewers are I was holding my feet to the fire on stuff. So this story happened a couple of days ago, last week sometime. US rail companies grant paid sick days after public pressure and win for unions. This person is very nice and a fan was essentially saying he's looked forward to admitting that I was wrong about Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg screwing the unions. Although I don't, let me, as a committed pessimist, I am always super ecstatic to be proven wrong.

I am gleefully shocked and everything, whenever anything goes right in my personal life or the world. All right. I heard that, brother. So I am happy that these rail workers got some sick days. But if you look at the details here, remember the order of events. So the railroad companies were going to strike before the election. The Biden administration convinced them to hold off because no one wants Republicans to have Congress, right? That's good.

I don't want Republicans to have Congress either. But the deal was they'd get to fight for what they wanted. later. And then later, the Biden administration prevented them from striking when they want it with sick days. Sick days, they wouldn't, you know, drive off the rails and do stuff like East Palestine. What they've gotten now, behind the scenes, Buttigieg and the Biden administration's been lobbying the rail companies to please give them some sick days. So they did. That's good. But what they got was like basically less than less than half the rail workers, not the train engineers, got less than half of what they'd asked for. Right. They got like four paid sick days

a year right is the big that's the big victory that they got and I guess what it's I don't even know you can how you can have a policy that like you're not allowed to call in sick or whatever it's like well what you know if you get hit by a bus or something or if you're fucking just super sick or if you're on your deathbed it's like nope it's against company policy but also you know four days again it's better than nothing but it's you know not exactly uh up to European standards I would imagine and yeah like you said they it only covers like was it non-operational employees so the ones that like the actual uh engineers or the guys that you know drive the trains they still don't have any because if they called in sick then the train wouldn't go anywhere that day whereas if the other guys like the guys who do inventory in the cars and stuff if they call in sick they can still make the trains run on time which is the ultimate priority so right still not quite all the way there and we're talking talking like 47% of Union Pacific workers, 46% of Union Southern, and 31% of BNSF. So a lot of workers, not all of them, but like you said, this quote from the vice president

of locomotive engineers and train men, the Red Roads went to the non-operating crafts first and cut a deal. It's because of a carman to get people inspect and repair rail cars, kept calling sick and don't come to work, the train will still run. But like you said, if the engineer calls in that the train can't. But I want to go back to the public pressure part of this. Let me quote, Artie Maritia, the president of the Transport Communications Union, it was public pressure and political pressure that got them to come to the table.

So what I'm saying is I don't think I was wrong. I think people like me yelling at them. Not me. What's our total viewership and podcast downloads? Like 200, 300,000 people. It's not enough to make drop in the bucket. When people making the same point, push them to do the right thing, I don't think I was wrong to fucking yell about it. I think a bunch of people yelling was effective.

But I'm glad Biden and Buttigieg did some percentage of the right thing here and to try to keep us all safe and train derailments and help these workers have a little higher quality of life. So that's my point I was trying to get to. Right on. Well, let's get into it. With us is always this producer, Matt. This is weekly skews. I, of course, want to remind you all of a couple of things first. Number one, if you like to see me live, and you should, go to trycrowder.com.

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immigration policy known as Title 42 is set to expire in a couple of days, which has many Republicans beating their drums over a looming invasion at the southern border. But what's the reality there?

Who's largely to blame for all of this? And how's it all going to shake out? We'll get into all that. And the racist philosophy underpinning it all. We'll cover all that a little later. But first,

The Daily Dumbass, Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., those of us who wouldn't pay $5 million to say sexual assault is perhaps fortunate, depending on, you know, how you look at it. Here he is the man himself. In this video, I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait.

And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the . You could do anything. That's what you said, correct? Well, historically, that's true. It's true with stars that they can grab women by the... Well, that's what...

If you look over the last million years, I guess that's been largely true, not always, but largely... Million years? Yeah. Unfortunately or fortunately. Or fortunately. Or fortunately. All right, so... Yeah, the million, yeah.

We all know that the Neanderthals were infamously lax when it comes to sexual assault standards and mores. What a million years? He said he's like... Like, it's just, it's the, like, ultimate smart assery when it comes to giving that response. It's just him saying, like, well, since the fucking beginning of time, yes, that has been the case, you know, rich and powerful men have been able to wantonly grab vaginas and whatnot as they see fit. It's one of those things that's like, you know, not entirely wrong. That's been, you know, like, that's been the, but I know that it's a very unfortunate, you know, reality that over the course of our history

women have gotten the shit into the stick in that way but then when he qualifies it with yeah unfortunately or maybe fortunately you know like who's to say that's a bad thing really it's not really even like a defense because it's like you're like well sir did you commit murder

well I mean people have been committing murder since the dawn of time he's really all heard of King and Abel right it's like what the fuck you're even talking about but I wanted to talk about this because Trump the jury finds Donald a jury found Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation in the E. Jean Carroll case. She got $5 million. This case was basically, we talked about before, basically the jury just had decided who they found more credible.

And that video right there is a good example of why Trump didn't testify in his own defense because the man cannot come across as anything other than a huge fucking smug liar who hates everybody but himself. So he didn't put up any kind of like defense at all. I mean, is that sort of, I mean, is that essentially like conceding, defeat? in a case like this? I know you're not a lawyer either, but I'm saying, like, if you don't defend yourself at all, which he didn't, right, then I mean, it should be a foregone conclusion, you would think. His lawyer tried to rip her apart on cross-examination,

plus all their other witnesses. That's a Joey Trimpico or whatever. But the lawyer came across like a huge asshole. And also, I found Eugene Carroll's testimony pretty compelling. But their defense is basically that she couldn't have been raped because she seems happy. And also, she's a huge liar. And also Trump never met her, even though they're pictures of them together.

And also, Trump would never do that to her because, oh, gross, because she's not his type anyway, which led directly to this moment on. Yeah, some fucks today. Yeah. Play that next clip there, Matt. The former president said about not, you know, he would never have been attracted to her. Watch this. you're saying marla's in this photo that's marla yeah that's that's my wife which woman are you pointing to no here how's that what you just pointed to was he and carol who is that who is this point

and the person of the woman on the right is your then wife i don't know this was the picture i assume that's john johnson is that that's carroll because it's very blurry you thought so like play that i want to hear this yeah yeah i like the i like the end of it because this is on Foxman as it as it might have been interpreted by this jury well i think the the context for this martha is that he said she wasn't his type so you know the last person you would want to confuse her with would be someone you married that's pretty good point there andy mccarthy yeah and then she there's a long pause the anchor goes uh yeah uh so this whole thing is like so politico had a piece this week talking to republican donors

because Wall Street Republicans are basically never Trump at this point because he fucks the economy too much and also they just find him gross. Everybody finds him gross. So they were talking about DeSantis's flame out and where they put their money next and they don't only have any ideas

but this quote from one of their big donors talking anonymously really puts the framework of the ghoul thinking here. What we probably wind up is a choice between a guy who is very old and wants to raise our taxes and re-regulate everything and a guy who could be running from prison. That's a tough choice to them.

Right. An old guy who might raise my taxes a little bit versus a criminal. I don't understand why they even threw old in there. You know what I mean? Like, how much younger is Trump than Biden? Four years? Four years? Something like that?

Yeah. Like, not that much. So old is an odd qualifier in this particular matchup. But yes, right. You said it's like, we're either going to have to choose to someone who might tax us a little more. This is a rich person, obviously, and then, you know, institutes some more regulations or somebody who's a straight up felon, you know, and could end up in prison. It's a tough call, man. I mean, really, I don't think it is a tough call for them. I wouldn't

think. Like, you go with the, we go with the felon every time, you know, if you're trying to, trying to protect your, you know, regulationless empire. Yeah. Yeah, it's the easy call for them. But I don't say about Gene Carroll, like, it was pretty gross to me, though. The lawyer is basically because she went on to have a good, productive life, even though she testified that she basically hasn't had sex since Trump raped her because it doesn't like, I should say allegedly raped her because the jury found him liable for sexually abusing her, but denied her rape claim, but then gave her $5 million for, found him liable for defamation for calling her a liar when he was accused of rape. So the jury did the split the baby bathwater thing, but gave her more money than she was asking for us. I can't relate. It makes sense of their decision. Juries, man.

Who knows? But the idea that, like, they were saying that because she recovered and went on to be happy, that that's proof she was never, it was all very, very gross. It was like most women you run into in your daily life have been abused or assaulted in some fashion. And they're all out there being happy living life. So fuck that guy. Well, it's also kind of like, the subtext of it, sort of if you couple that with the infamous clip about, you know, you grab them, you can do whatever you want, and it's fine. They'll let you, because, you know, if you're a star, then it's fine. It's like implying that, you know, if you're a star, you can just actively ruin women's lives forever, you know what I mean?

Like, if I also believe there's no coming back from that sort of thing, you know what I mean? if it just, you know, put you in the dirt for the rest of your life, then, you know, it makes an even more gross stance to take. Not that, you know, that's, it was already obviously very gross to begin with. Right. You know what I mean. Right. But you're saying that he understands the implications of his actions.

Right. And he still says, like, it's still bragging about how, yeah, that he can do it away with it. Yeah. All right. Our first honorable mention for Daily Domazes is whoever. fed Trump after midnight and got him wet. This is somebody who I was just introduced to a Republican candidate for president in 2024. Vivik Ramoswamy. Vivik Ramoswamy. Yeah. There you go. One of the people who actually stood up at that same event was somebody who

walked in with the Trump shirt, broke down in tears as he asked the question, thinking about the country and what we were doing for his children, said he was switching over to vote for me. I'm absolutely running for the presidency. We're running for the win to take this all the way. One of the people who actually stood up at the same event. He stole the anonymous person, came to me crying, and told me he loved me thing from Trump.

Like, the game's over now. You talk about like a and then everybody clapped moment. You know what I mean? Like that's just the classic. Like, yeah, that never happened. That clearly never happened. A Trump shirt wearing pap all broke down in tears and thanked him for you know, saving America somehow, I doubt that.

So, all right. Who is this guy, Mark? So he's running for Trump and he's polling at like 5% in a lot of polls. So he's like gaining on DeSantis. I think this guy might be where all the money goes because he's smooth talking, he's charming, he's charismatic, he can self-finance his campaign. He's vowed to spend almost $100 million of his own money because he's a rich, like, finance dude. He's also like, he's argument is that he's just as hardcore as Trump, but more

competent. And that's his whole case for being elected, is he's a more effective fascist. He says he believes he can, he can, the prowess the presidency, allow him to abolish the education department on day one. He would unleash the military to stamp out the scourge of Femmo coming across the southern border and not unbothered by the posse comitatus clause, which prohibits use of military for civil law enforcement. He wants to eradicate teachers unions, even though the federal government doesn't really have any role in that. So yeah, that's got a fucking sucks. Yeah, and so he,

you said he's like a finance guy. Did I read this right? The like investment firm he founded was aimed at helping, helping investors make non-woke investments or something like that, helping them make investments that were outside of, you know, the wokeism currently plaguing corporate America or like something to that effect. Yeah.

So yeah, there's been a rise in like ESG. environmental, social, and governments investing, which is basically trying to funnel money towards less evil stuff. So you explicitly found out of the fund to fund the evil stuff, but that's just the fault in investing. That's been the norm throughout capitalism.

That's what ESG is a response to. Yes, right. Yeah. The evil stuff was just the standard for forever. You're investing, yeah, corporations. It's going to be a little bit of evil stuff, you know. So, yeah, it's kind of just taking it. back to basics, I guess.

But hey, he had hundreds of millions of dollars, evidently doing that. It's always so, I think it's so wild to me. 600 million. So yeah, you can afford to spend $100 and want to affect his quality.

And it's like, you read that with how this guy make all his money? And it's like, well, you know, I helped make non-woke investments or whatever. It's like,

okay, it's like in Silicon Valley. It's like, I put fucking radio on the internet, okay? Like the way that, the way that some people make nearly a billion dollars will never not be.

wild as hell to me right right you want to get into it yeah let's get into it all right so there's a whole big stupid immigration panic that's back and it's been going on for a while and it might if you're a same person who doesn't consume rabbit right wing news you might not be aware of it but i wanted to start off talking about the allen mass shooting the mass shooting at allen texas from over the weekend because there was extremely stupid argument about it so the shooter was a 33 year old a guy from Dallas named Maricio Garcia. And the dumb arguments have broken out about whether a Latino can be a white supremacist. It's a very Caucasian conversation to me because it's like, well, a brown person can't be a Nazi.

And you're like, well, why? And it's like, well, because Nazis hate brown people. And you go, okay, so you're sitting, a brown person can't be a Nazi because they all look alike to you. and that's really bizarre to me. Also, just, I know, do you know, like, was he, you know, Hispanic or Latino or what, like, was he, you know how, like, Louis C.K. is Mexican? Like, you know, they have white people, you know, Spanish, people are white. Was he, like, a white Hispanic person or, like, you know, was he actually a person of color?

I'm with you either way. I'm just wondering, like, exactly how stupid. I don't know how to, even to hold up like a paint chart. I just didn't know if that's like, you know, what if that was part of what people had figured out or whatever. The bigger point I'm trying to make is like you don't get to this, like these are all made up categories anyway. Like we've talked about Irish people were considered whites like less than 100 years ago.

Like these are these are like you don't get to decide whether this guy identifies as a white supremacist. Like it's totally up to what's going on in his head about what groups he wants to hate and why. Yeah. So like, but like, but all this stuff presumes like Latinos can't be racist against other Latinos, which is, which is a wild claim because like, light skin Mexicans are racist against dark skin Mexicans. A lot of Brazilians are racist against indigenous Brazilians and Afro-Brailians. Most races have people who are racist against other members of that same race for whatever stupid ass reasons. Like you say with white people and Irish and Italian and whatever else and yeah, colorism, you know, lights. skin, dark skin, all that sort of thing.

I know there's a lot of intra-Asian racism. It's like, you know, racism's a a distinctly human thing across all the color barriers. You try to parse the logic of it. You're buying into it to me because the whole

racism is fucking stupid. It does, like, there's no, you can't get to the bottom of making it make sense. But like Marjor Taylor Green tried. She like dissected crime scene photos that showed, he had like a tattoo on his hand. She tried to say it was a Hispanic gang tattoo, which is like, show some respect, Marge.

This guy died for your cause. What about the rest of his tattoo? Right. We'll get to that a second. But you don't have to take my word for it that he's a not, a white supremacist. You can take his word for it. Here's a meme he posted on a Russian social network he was in. It shows a forked road and Latino children choosing which one to go down.

One of them is act black and the other one's a white being become white supremacist. Right. So he's telling you he's a white supremacist. Because at the bottom, the caption of the meme, he literally says, I can't read it there, but it's something like, I'll take my chances as a white supremacist or something like that. Like, he explicitly states which fork in the road he's taking. Also, it's funny because I feel like if you look at that meme, isn't the act black side? It's like a halo.

Yeah, right. It's like a castle with an angelic halo around it. And the white side is like a, you know, a hell. escape or what happened and then he's like I know which one I'm taking the one on the right which would you rather be in cypress hill or the proud boys I know I'm going cypress hill uh but also like the media because because again they have various very Caucasian thought process where a brown person can't be racist again or think of themselves as white um they get to say stuff like his personal politics were very hard to figure out because it didn't make

sense to them here's a picture of him with his shirt off you want to see for yourself Yeah, that's an SS tattoo in his arm and swastika on his chest. Yeah, it seems pretty pretty difficult to parse there, Mark. I wonder where this guy stands. But I know I saw one of these right wing lunatics on Twitter. When these photos came out, they had already, they called him, you know, like you said, Latino gang member, whatever it was. Then these photos came out and she said something like, I'm willing to admit when I was wrong.

So he had SS and swastika tattoos. So clearly it wasn't what I had said. I now think it's far more likely that he's a Ukrainian asset or something that you pivoted straight to some other lunacy, like, you know, at the end, like out of nowhere. So, you can't do nothing with them. I was talking to a buddy. Do you know what Andy No is, Trey? He's like, yeah, NGO.

Yeah, he's a, uh, uh, uh, it's a Vietnamese surname. He happens to be Canadian. He's like, he's like an all right, like blogger slash air quote investigative reporter. He's a good person He writes a lot of Antifa and how dangerous they are and shit. He's basically a rough way. Did he get like whipped

or something like that at some point or attached? Somebody threw a milkshake at him once and he hit him in the head. And he tried to say it was a attempt in his life because the milkshake had concrete in it. All right?

So that's why I brought this up because I was talking to a buddy man about it once. He was just talking about like political polarization in general. He was talking about how Antifa was dangerous because they hit him in the head with this milkshake. And I was like,

like, yeah, you shouldn't throw concrete frozen milkshakes at people's heads, but I'll say he's a fucking fascist. I can't get too deep in my tears about it. And he goes, how can an Asian be fascist? I was like, have you heard of the empire of Japan? Like, what do you fucking are you talking about? Like, that's

the very white approach to, like, racism. If, if Asians can't be racist, then what the fuck with Japan doing committing genocides in China and Korea? Like, what do you, what do you, where do you, where do people get their understanding of shit.

But by the way, if I like, not for nothing, but the FBI just a couple days ago arrested another January 6th, after her ex-boyfriend or ex-hook-up recognized her in a viral joke meme, wearing a pink beret at January 6th.

She happens to be Latina, and the guy dumped her because she talked about reading Mind Koff and was posting about Hitler, Hitler quotes in her discord. Yeah, that's a bit of a red flag, you know, in a relationship. I could see where he's coming from with that.

I would find that off-putting, too. All right. So the reason I wanted to talk about the Allen shooting in regards to immigration is because, like, we don't know this guy's motive. He did post a manifesto on that same Russian social media site where they got that, that meme, the memes in that picture from. But so he, another way we know is a Nazi, he wore his vest had right wing desk, an acronym for right wing desk god, written on it. But we're never going to, like his manifesto apparently was mostly about in-cell shit, like hating women and misogynistic stuff. That checks out. We're never going to fully know his motive because, like, most stupid racist lunatics, his thoughts aren't that well organized.

Right. But I can tell you that his three victims, the eight people he killed, three were Korean Americans, three were Latinos. One was a woman from India. And the one white guy got killed was the security guard who got in a way. And by the way, I noticed the security guard's name and had the same last name as a friend of mine from Dallas. I texted him to see if they were related. and it was his cousin. Damn, really?

Yeah, so we're all going to be connected to this shit eventually. Three of the eight were children, by the way. So, yeah, seven of the eight people would have read us four into this racist piece of shit. Right. Oh, but we had a new third thing to thoughts and prayers now to the mass shooting discourse. Here's a congressman, Ronnie Drughead, or whatever his name is, on fucking Fox News, talking about this shooting. He's Ronnie Jackson. Sorry.

Ronnie drug. Yeah. This is their new advice for living in America in 2023. Just like this one said, you know, be polite, be professional, but I have a plan to kill everyone you meet because you never know. If you're at your workplace, your business workplace, something you might say could possibly call. Haas won't you snap because they've had a very bad day. You don't know what kind of day someone's had. And your words can make...

Have a plan to kill everyone you meet. That was a quote. That was a quote from Mad Dog Mattis. About dealing with foreign adversaries, not your neighbors. But like the thing is, this is stupid to say this out loud, but it's sort of... My wife has occasional road rage issues and I fucking bugs me and also makes me worried because every time she does something stupid in the car, honks her horn or the person who's not necessary,

I'm like, this is America. They might have a gun. Just fucking don't do that. You know? And she tries to listen. She tries to take my advice, but she's a hot head. It's one reason I love her.

But it's just like, I hate that it's like thoughts and prayers and helter-skelter. That's where we're at now. Do you see the FBI fucking put out a mass shooting advice video? No. It's like the airplane's safe. safety video, except it shows people in a mass shooting, giving you advice for all their different strategies for how to live through it. And it goes, I thought it was a sketch at first.

Then it was like, go to fbi.gov and more information. I'm like, holy shit. Like, they just, they just, the government is announcing, well, you're on your own. So here's how you do a tourniquet. Um, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they're, um, in, in, in Texas, they're wanting to give battlefield tourniquets, put battlefield tourniquets in the budget for middle school or for schools or something like that. They want to give third graders like a massive medic training. Yeah. That's so fucking up.

The false flag shit, because people can't process that a Nazi could be darker skin than them. So the right wing over 24 hours went from there's no, there's no evidence a Texas shooter was a neo-Nazi. Okay, a neo-Nazi patches on his tactical vest, but that was ironic. Okay, it might have been a neo-Nazi, but it was a government mind control that made it in that way, which brings me to this fucking. Look at this at Twitter exchange between Elon Musk, the guy's going to business with Tucker Carlson, and yeah.

So, there's saying, here's Ian Miles Strong, who's a really fucking crazy right-wing influencer, who's never been to America, but always has talked about American politics. He's saying that because it's so obvious that he's a Nazi, it must be in a government set up, they dummyed up all his fucking online profiles. This person called the red-headed libertarians as the SIOP, and it's not even close. and Elon Musk says this gets weirder by the moment. What is a simpler conclusion, Trey, that a deeply racist society with guns everywhere has a crazy person go crazy every now and then shoot people, or there's a highly orchestrated government plot to take away our guns when there's no effort to take away our guns? I know. I mean, it's like, yeah, if it walks like a duck and talks like a day, it's probably a fucking Nazi lunatic, right?

And, you know, whatever happened to Occam's right? It's so wild to look at all of that that you just laid out. and then genuinely be like, well, this is clearly a government side. It's just, it's so crazy, man. And like the shooter didn't, uh, didn't like mention like, oh, uh, you know, great replacement theory or anything, but you don't have to. These guys are swimming in it so deeply. It's like, it's like me announcing that everyone should take,

should take a breath every two, a couple seconds. It's like it's so obvious to them that we're going to get a great replacement theory in a little bit, but, and how the new ways is manifesting itself. But there was another mass, mass death attack in Texas. also against immigrants. I mean, there's only one person in the other shooting

that I know was immigrant and how they would have presented to this fucking racist. So a guy drove a car into a bus stop in Brownsville along the border killing a bunch

of Venezuelan immigrants who were staying at a shelter that was nearby the bus stop. He supposedly yelled racist shit toward them. And this guy was Latino too, by the way. But again,

and I'm assuming, just profiling a Hispanic person living in Texas is going to be Mexican and these were Venezuelans. I don't know if his racial animal with those two groups, but there can be racial animosity between any groups is the point

we're talking about tonight. The people at the shelter said they had not received any hate before the car attack, but since then, it caused people to come to the gate and start yelling that the reason it happened was because the migrants were there. So these people are staying in a shelter after walking from Venezuela, a guy hits them with their car, and then people in the neighborhood's response is, well, they shouldn't have been here. It's fucking diseased.

Yeah. Brownsville is seeing a surge in migrants. That's basically the crux that we're going to be talking about for the rest of the show. There's also a big anticipated influx of migrants to the upcoming expiration of a COVID-air policy that allowed the U.S. to automatically expel undocumented immigrants. And that's called Title 42. Yeah. So basically it was the idea that, like, at the time, it was about helping to stop the spread of COVID. So, like, because we're in the middle of a pandemic, we can just, like, carte blanche,

you back, like even if you're seeking asylum, because it's part of, like, not the Geneva Accords, but there's like an international agreement that's sort of like that, that says, like, people have the right to seek asylum if they're in a, you know, life-threatening situation or, you know, political prisoner persecution or any of that type of stuff. And the U.S. is a signatory to that, but this was like, you know, a loophole or a way around that because of COVID. Now that's set to expire. So they're saying that everybody's just.

going to rush in. Yeah. So that's what they're saying. But let's say, like these, the title 42 exists under like, our immigration laws are so racist. They have hygiene codes because the presumptions that immigrants are dirty and disease written. But using COVID, this is the only part of COVID that Trump believed in was that it should

be used to keep immigrants out. But there's a deep fucking irony here is that America had one of the worst COVID outbreaks in the world. They were probably safer from COVID if they'd stayed in Guatemala and Venezuela. So like, they're not bringing the COVID in. They're more likely to get COVID. you let it man it's the whole thing is such a twisted sick joke um so yeah it's about to expire because the government has announced that they can't keep doing one part of covid rules but not the rest of them

if you if you if you call off the COVID emergency then this goes away too right right so uh Biden's sort of uh I don't let's say exacerbated his border problems he probably exacerbated his political problems by ending the COVID in this one way by ending the COVID emergency um because the way people are going to react to all this shit um so it spires on May 11th In case you're wondering, Title 42 has been used on an estimated. I've seen a couple different numbers. 2.5 million immigrants or 3 million who just like would get to the board and immediately be shipped back where they came from without a hearing without putting any paperwork.

Again, a reminder, the legal process to apply for asylum is you walk up to the board and say you want to apply for asylum. That's what they were doing. They were doing it legally. I just want to always reiterate that. This is perfectly legal. They weren't sneaking across. They were trying to go through the orderly, legally ordained process.

GOP has offered up a border package that's even too racist. for a lot of Republicans. It also includes some hairbrain shit. Like the board bill would impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro and Marcos. It just basically wants to ship everybody out of the country. Probably me and you too. So, Texas, man, Texas Republican leadership is fucking wild and out.

They had a big rally recently to call for more border protections. They're trying to pass a bill called. HB20. I forgot to check for the show if it's actually passed a version of it yet. It was called the How Many More Rally, in case you're wondering if it was racist in the title. Yeah. So, Chip Roy spoke there, Republican Congressman, a foreign Trump's former acting border protection agency commissioners, sheriff, and this guy called Mark Meckler, who's the

president of an organization that wants to call a new constitutional convention. I'm betting that wouldn't go well. But he says, he said at the rally, we're saying there is an invasion. declaring an invasion and we expect the governor of the legislature to put the forces in plan to repel that invasion invasion three times in one sentence um right so he's comparing like what russia is doing to ukraine with what some migrants are doing walking up to the border right yeah it doesn't seem fear mongery at all um if there was invasion wouldn't like that guy being uh entitled if not obligated to hit those people with this car that's essentially what they're doing here is they're

given rhetorical permission for way more of these stochastic terrorist attacks, creating a permission structure for it. They also call for the bill calls for the creation of a Texas border protection unit, which is like a special forces, Texas Rangers to just, like, shoot immigrants. Right. So it's like super border patrol. Like they already had the border patrol. So it's like a new, more hardcore border patrol because I understand the border patrol can be pretty hardcore as it is.

so the Texas Rangers were explicitly founded as like a killer force to track down and kill Mexicans so like I like this is just all this is just like past times a flat circle um all this is happening at the same time that Fox News and other right wing media are doing everything they can to promote border militias like you might remember the Minutemen from like the 90s and 2000s where there are lots more of these people now these are like the tech the Texas one would at least be state fund and regulated as far as that goes you know because cops are basically set loose in this country these people are just straight up malicious but they all do work with local law enforcement

and they're labeled as hate groups by the S.P. Southern Poverty Law Center and they're going on conservative media and being treated like rock stars. They're famous in those groups. And all they do is like hunt migrants, like the Punisher. I fucking hate this, dog.

But anyway, so part of the Title 42 panic is they're saying once Title 42 is lifted and we can't just ship everybody applying for a cell, them out, that it's going to be a rush to the border because migrants will know the borders open. Now, I don't know what kind of news, say, a poor person in Guatemala or Honduras or Venezuela or Haiti gets or how much they're familiar with American politics or the regulations of our border, right?

But the main place they would get this fucking message is from Republicans. Right. They're the ones always talking about how the, you know, the border is open. and we're just letting everybody in and all that. So that's like, but the Biden administration is basically, along with Title 42, they've pretty much just upheld the Trump administration's immigration policies, right, pretty much. Like, nothing really changed all that much. But, you know, the way they talk about it, it's a huge crisis because the border is completely open

and we're just letting everybody in. And then people south of the border and these other kind of central American countries, they hear, all you hear, with Biden, Biden in charge. The border's open. Free rain. Let's go. And so it's like a feedback loop or a vicious cycle. But also they, I mean, dude, they know that like they benefit from it directly. You know what I mean? It's one of the, it's their, it's a boogeyman. It's a fear campaign. It ends up their base. It gives them something to bitch about. And it, like, it behooves them politically to encourage these people to give it a shot while also talking about how, you know, we need the army to shoot them all or whatever. Yeah, there's something like, I'm not, I'm trying to think of an analogy at work. I'm not trying to compare, like, and I can't even do an analogy here because they're trying to create a problem and then offering the solution for it. Right. Every problem, every problem, every analogy isn't coming with my head would compare immigrants to something bad.

So I don't want to do that. I mean, you just said they're creating a problem and then offering a solution to the problem they create like that's like, that's their whole thing. They do that all the time. Like that, you know, created a problem with trans people or critical race theory or any of that. that shit, you know? Usually they're creating an imaginary. It's like, right. Usually they're creating an imaginary problem here.

But here, if they're having any, if they're doing anything with a number of immigrants approaching the border, they're increasing it. But using a megaphone to lie and say the border's open. Now about the board being open, like, I'm not some like, I'm pretty left wing about a lot of shit, but I'm not some like eliminate borders sort of fanatic. Because like I was a, I was a, my first job when I was in college, it was a front desk attendant. Your job there is if you don't, don't live in the door.

is to make people sign in and out. Basically, any organization building group chunk of land is going to want to want to be aware of who's in it, right? I just don't think we need to be so fucking mean about it, especially, like, we've talked about the labor supply stuff before. Like, we have jobs for people. Like, it's just, I don't know, it's so fucking. Yeah, that's the other thing, too, like, you know, a lot of these people are so hardcore anti-immigration, you know, a lot of the business people, anyway, employ illegal immigrants all the time and would hate to have to give that up because they don't pay them shit. You know what I mean? It's like I've brought this up before, but I remember

this was years ago now, but Alabama enacted some new really harsh anti-immigrant policy, which drove a lot of immigrants out of Alabama. And then that year, they had record losses in their agricultural sector. A lot of their crops died and shit like that because they couldn't find anybody to work those jobs. And so, and you know, all these got fucking, Trump has had countless illegal immigrants on his construction projects, and they all do that. Like, it's, it's just, it's all horseshit. DeSantis just signed, I mean, Florida House just passed a bill that would require, like, e-verify for all, like, employees to try to crush them undocumented laborers.

And in Florida, and today, people were posting videos of the construction sites that are dead because no one's working because they don't have workers. Right. So it's like, this is, racism. is a poison pill for everybody who's well it's just like if you hurt yourself as much as you hurt anybody else which brings us to the great replacement theory stuff which we've talked about Tucker talking about a lot before but like the the great replacement theory we don't know for sure there was a motivation for the allen shooting or part of the motivation but Pittsburgh alpaso uh buffalo the violence in charlottesville

those were all those killers all cited great replacement theory remember that's the theory that Joe Biden and the Democrats are intentionally letting in immigrants to vote Democrat to turn the country less white Brown. Yeah. Yeah. But I just started to have a little perspective here. Only 12% of the global population is white, something like that. Something like Matt, they get the exact number, Matt,

throughout the low 60s percent of America's white. So America's an extremely white country relative to the rest of the world. There's no reason to fucking panic about being erased. It's just like, don't worry about it, go to work. And again, We're talking about fucking. We're talking about fucking. Nobody's being genocided.

Your kids are just intermaring with other, with other ethnic groups and people are gradually turning the same color. Sounds like utopia to me, but what do I know? Two benefits from all these fucking lies. First of all, the cartels and human smugglers. Because they can go to people, desperate people, and tell them, hey, Republicans said the borders open. Do you want to ride to America?

Yeah. They get here and they end up in a migrant camp. And Republicans have also been bidding this. This is a poll from 13 months ago, so it's probably worse now. But a majority of Americans see an invasion at the southern border, NPR poll finds. It's 53% of Americans from 13 months ago thought that's either completely or somewhat true that America is under invasion at the southern border. Americans are so soft, dog. Like, you would hear bombs going off.

I know. That's what I'm saying. Like, what do they think an invasion actually is? You know what I mean? Like, it's just so baldly hyperbolic to call that an invade. It's like you said. It's like what Russia did in the Ukraine, that's an invasion. You know, they invaded.

Also, what do people think a border is? Like, there's never been a hard border in the history of the world. Like, they tried with their Berlin wall. They hid machine guns and landmines. And people still got over and under it and around it. So, like, what people are going to get across the border. You just got to learn to live with it and try to fix the system. And so you can all learn how to live with.

a certain amount of chaos because chaos comes from freedom and nothing's perfect. We just think nobody's built across the board. It's like, yes, people and drugs come north and people and guns go south. It's like there's a list of trade on every border. It's just such a baby brains. Right, but a lot of the, a lot of, I read this earlier when it comes to the drugs, right? Because that's a huge part of the narrative right now. The drug, they're bringing the drugs up here.

And that's why people are dying from fentanyl, fentanyl all over. or whatever but like those the drugs largely come in through like legal points and shit yeah like ports of you know they smuggle them on like container ships or planes and shit you guys have seen narcos they don't like they're not it's not the people coming in on the bus loads you know with the with the smugglers driving them across the border they have more efficient operations than that so it's not even where they're from anyway if they were rich drug smugglers they'd be able to buy the way into america like they did what they do is it's Americans being paid. There was a Nazi, a literal Nazi who got arrested

smuggling fentanyl into America. This is what they do, you pay an American who's going to get less scrutiny. And my idea is that fentanyl can't be smelled by drug dogs. It's pretty easily smuggle in. And like, so you just put it in a spare tire, driving across the border, and you're pretty much going to be, like, I'm not saying that

fentanyl's good. Right. Saying that like, Greg Abbott did that stupid stunt again where you try to expect every, have the Texas Department of Public Safety, the highway patrol, inspect every vehicle come across the border and cause like 40-hour delays and didn't find anything.

Like theater, pursuit of nothing. Whenever these assholes promise you perfection, they're going to stop all the fentanyl overdoses, just get really suspicious about what they're really up to because no one could promise you, if you give me $100, you can have eternal life. Ask some follow-up questions, right? Yeah. And also the way that they talk, you know, that people think that they're like, that they're all, that they're criminals or whatever.

but like every single study that's ever been done on it shows that like they're less likely the immigrants from central and south america are less likely to commit uh crimes generally than just your fellow americans are you know so it's like they're not bringing the drugs up here and they're not coming up here and committing crimes and shit and it's like these motherfuckers are coming up here and picking all our goddamn berries for us and shit you know what i mean like doing all the drywall or whatever but it's like you know they're not not most of the narrative surrounding like the evils of the current state of our immigration situation is just all bullshit there's a yeah i mean the the lady who pushing the florida law is a huge anti-immigrant activist she's in the florida house i think and she her origin story is that her son was killed by a uh an uh undocumented person who drove or ran a red light in his car and i like i feel really sad that your son died but i don't think that person's immigration status had anything to do with it but also the thing and one of the things in the the florida bill does is remove the ability for undocumented people to get drivers licenses so you're going to have

you're not going to not be on the roads you're just removing them being certified that they can actually drive a car so like you're exacerbating the problem you're claiming to try to fix it's just pure hate and you're going to create more car accidents so like it's it's it's very very stupid um So, yeah, the people that are helped by this is Republican messaging and, you know, by immigration policy is Republican messaging and the cartels. Who is hurt by it is, of course, migrants. I wanted to talk about this for, this happened like six weeks ago. 38 migrants were killed in a fire to the detention center in Mexico.

One of the things Mexico is doing, they also have a pretty firm immigration, you know, hardcore immigration policy because we asked them to and put a lot of pressure on them. So a lot of people try to get into America, that was called the remaining. Mexico policy. So while they wait to see if they get asylum, they're locked up in Mexico. And not under the great, you're not under great conditions. So in protests of, depending on who you believe, in protest the conditions, some of the migrants, it set mattresses on fire, ended up burning the building down and killing 38 of them. If you believe Mexico's president, he said they were mad they were going to be deported to their home countries. But the migrants said it was

because they had 68 men in an area meant for 58 people with no access to drinking water. among those migrants were 28 Guatemalans, 13 Hondurans, 12 Salvadorans, 12 Venezuelans, and one from Colombia and Ecuador. And I wanted to say, like, the variety of people coming across the border are more diverse than you think. There are a lot of Chinese immigrants coming across the southern border because what they do is they take a border plane to Mexico and then trying to come across because it's cheaper than a plane ticket into America and trying to get the U.S. customs. But like, so when people say that, well, how can a brown person be racist against people coming across the southern border? Maybe it's because they hate Haitians, because Haitians are black and speak French. Or maybe they hate Chinese people. You don't have to look too deeply into their thought process.

But I want to talk about the Guatemalans because I found a story talking to their families. They were basically tricked by coyotes who told them what the border was open. And they borrowed $15,000 and $19,000 each for a trip to the border. And then they were expected to deport back to Guatemala. But then they died in the fire. But I wanted to point out these are mostly indigenous Guatemalans. Again, going back to racism within these societies. A lot of indigenous Guatemalans been pushed off their land by mining conglomerates.

The main bad guy right now that they're suing in federal court is a Swiss mining conglomerate. But I would have bet most of my life savings at the beginning of this was probably the U.S. State Department cutting a deal with the military dictatorship in the 50s and 60s. So my larger point is like a lot of the reasons people who come to the border are our fucking fall. Right. So like, yeah, we destabilize their governments or whatever and, you know, fuck people out of their land or at least, you know, are, you know, in league with the people who do so, the Swiss corporations or whatever, you know, we're making money off of it too, at least people with fewer options, which leads to desperation, which leads to them,

you know, showing up at the border. So real quick, what Biden's trying to replace Title 42 with is basically a soft, confusing, asylum ban in almost entirety. I'm not actually going to blame Biden for this. He's not, he's not going to sign the shithead Republican bill, so that's good. But this system is,

like, his new chief of staff is a guy named Jeff Seitz, and he fucking sucks, bro. He's been in the job two months, and Biden's whole president's he's gone to shit in the last two months. But what the asylum ban is, it basically, under the proposed rule,

someone would be ineligible for asylum, they'd already presented themselves at a port of entry and pre-scheduled their presentation via a DHS mobile app called CBB1. So these migrants have to download an app and use it to set an appointment and arrive at the correct time at the border entry station.

Another way they would be ineligible is they have to prove that they have sought and been denied asylum in another country through which they travel the way to the United States. So if you want to immigrate the United States, you've got to apply for asylum in Mexico and hope they deny you. All right.

But the fucking app, doesn't even work dog like it's it's it's buggy it's hard to log in it's impossible to use and by the way these are migrants so like you before you walk from venezuela to america remember to pack your smartphone your charger and make sure you have money to rent a hotel room so you can charge it that's what i was like it's wild to have this all centered around an app i know it's like you know that's the world we live in uh today 2023 everything's got to have an app but it's i mean literally everything has an app if even asylum seeking for refugees comes down to a governmental app

that don't work worth of fuck in the first place. A buggy app that won't work being your only avenue to apply for asylum in the United States and it'd be written in the language, you don't speak, or whatever. It's the perfect neoliberal technocratic solution to deny people access to stuff, which I want to blame it on Jeff Zitzin. So if you don't know who he is,

he's a political centrist who ran, he made his money running predatory health insurance companies. The main argument is for how he'd do a good job, but he's super competent because of his managerial expertise. But he was COVID's Biden's COVID czar and fucked up a lot. Like he tried to privatize everything because, of course, it is so his friends could make money off of it. And that's why a lot of the late, you know, term COVID stuff didn't go well. So politically, what's happened is basically they're going into campaign mode with Zinx.

So he's pivoted right in a bunch of stuff, including immigration and trans stuff. And while try to do the FDR like middle class pitching economics. creating jobs preserving medicare at social security yada yada yada but like you try to split that lane you're gonna end up pissing off everybody because you piss off fucking progressives and fox people are never fox news like hardcore anti immigration people are never going to vote for you so there's no point in just being mean for the sake of mean like i don't have a solution to the border i realize there's probably some amount of people we can't let in because it's unsustainable to be processed and stuff but i'm not in charge i don't have to have a plan there's a whole federal government to come up with a plan and this isn't the plan right yeah i don't know i don't understand this uh yeah the zyth jeff zinth zinth zinzzyns however you say it the new chief of staff like i just don't because everybody's pissed at him or like the democrats i mean are pissed at him the democrats in congress everything because he shut down the lines of communication

he's like made the biden administration impossible to get in touch with or to work with and i just don't understand how i understand how i understand how a guy like that gets that job, I guess. I mean, you know, you run predatory health insurance schemes for 20 years. You're going to get to pretty high places in this country. But, like, I don't know. It just seems so clearly to not be working or to, you know. He's a proverting is like 30.

Anybody. He's the proverting is like eight points less than when he left office. Like, it's not working. No. It's not working. Right. How do you leave that guy in that job? Like, no one is saying this guy's crushing it.

I don't know. I mean, I don't think it's theoretically even possible for him to lose to Trump, especially if like the E. Gene Carroll case is going to make for a really fucking hard hitting, like, the tack ads. You have the headline clip of the deposition of him saying it's good to grab women. And then do you want this guy having sale over women's bodies and with like a headlines about the Dobbs decision and people, women dying? It's like, I don't know how Trump overcomes that. But also like, why are you tempting fate by doing bad stuff? Was there was there a Washington Post or?

Some poll recently that showed Trump leading Biden or something. I know it's like super early, but I thought I saw something. Last one I saw Biden beating Trump, but losing to DeSantis. But it's still super early. He can turn it around. What happens with the economy is going to be the biggest prevailing factor. No one knows the economy is going to be like in, you know, 15 months or whatever. Yeah.

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