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what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it is may 14th 2024 i'm trade that's mark this is weekly skews how you doing mark good man i just combed my beard a few minutes ago and i found some dried almond butter in it so that was cool uh real self-esteem It's like a baby. Look at you. Yeah, my wife can't have peanuts for something. I don't know. It doesn't matter. My wife can't have anything, basically. She's got a dietary restriction.

With the peanuts, like, if someone has peanuts near her, her throat closes up, like that type of peanut situation? No, it just upsets her stomach. So, yeah, like pretty much everything. It's like no dairy, no red meat. It's not like, not out of like some vegan hippie stuff. She just can't eat it. I'm trying to think of what else. Garlic onions.

Fuck, I can't even like it's like pretty much. shades, gluten. Yeah, there you have, like, do you have anything like that or do you care to know? Because, like, I've had stomach issues most of my life in addition to being a fat kid. And when I first met our buddy Drew, y'all know Drew, he went this whole thing. He was like, well, maybe it's this, maybe it's that. If you try to eliminate that from your diet? And I was like, no, fuck you're talking about.

Like, I'm not going to do that. And he's like, but it could be those things. I was like, well, I guess I'm just going to live with this because I'm not going to do that. the kind of stubborn hillbilly dip shit I am but yeah yeah it makes me a difference i know people i know people with celiac disease to sleep bread and drink beer because like they think it's worth the trade off the trade off is of course dying of stomach cancer eventually but here we go um so a couple of things for i get to the show uh lindsay graham went on tv over the weekend and suggested that we nuke uh israel nuke gnazah and i guess you know you gotta nuke something so

everybody's still being very sane um yep a big quick christianome update uh i guess she wrote in her book that she canceled a meeting with France's president Macron, Emmanuel Macron because he tweeted for a ceasefire. She said that was pro-Hamas. She canceled and hanging out with him to which the French government heard about this and responded

who? Right, of course. The idea that like she really showed the president of France, the governor of South Dakota, or whatever she was when this story purportedly happened, that the president of France would be like, oh no, get her back on the

phone. Are you sure? Can we talk her into it, please? I'll take it back. I promise. Like, of course the president of France doesn't give a fuck about meeting the president of South Dakota. No offense, Matt, producer might have South Dakota. But yeah, I mean. South Dakota has severed diplomatic ties with the country of France. They say parley-vous dip shit. So according to a preliminary account for the national centers for environmental information, there have been 547 tornadoes in America documented from January through April. The higher, the year-day average is usually around 338 between 1991 and 2020 so we now have

209 more tornadoes a 62% increase in America over the first six it's five months of this four months of this that's a lot of natures Mark there's a whole lot of natures and like I had a real when I was probably like five or six

there was a tornado like a F1 tornado in my town and I remember my grandma my mama cat shoving me and my sister in the bathtub and throwing pillows on our head and stuff and it scared the fucking shit out of me and I've always had a whole thing with tornadoes ever since. And then, like, and my wife's from Wayne County where they had a legit F5, just leveled everything.

So, like, I don't, tornadoes, they don't hit for me, Mark. I don't know where you standing on tornadoes. I mean, they're, you know, I guess they're awesome in an objective sense, but they don't, I'm not in favor of there being twice as many tornadoes rampaging through my homeland every year because we refuse to do anything about climate change. big tornadoes are pretty rare I'm from but my hometown did get hit with one like six or seven years ago that devastated it

pretty badly. But yeah a factor here that we're going to have to get into. Matt wanted to do a little episode on at some point. Maybe we will, but like mobile homes where more and more Americans live because it can't afford actual houses are apparently only rated for hurricane winds depending on wind zones

or something. So that's a pretty big oopsie that mobile homes, very common tornado alley or built or withstand hurricane. That just doesn't, that don't even make any sense. They'd be like my house in Burbank being rated for flood damage or something, as opposed to earthquakes. Like, you should probably do the earthquake thing.

We live in earthquake central. Yeah, same thing, but with, I mean, I get that there's a lot of trailers in Florida where they have hurricanes, but still, the entire south is in fucking tornado alley. Maybe also take that into consideration. Yeah. I mean, over here on the western end of the San Fernando Valley, I'm going to put a tiger trap in my yard. That all to work.

We're prepared for all conditions over here. Barrett subject of how to deal with rapidly rousing home prices. This story was pretty fun. Michigan woman kicked out after police discover she had been living inside grocery store signed for a year.

Now, this is purely funny because apparently she had money for a place to live. She just preferred to live in this grocery store sign for a friend. I respect the hustle, buddy. Why not? You know, if you got what you need, got it covered, save that money. The rent is too damn high, you know, if you've got a sweet grocery store sign set up, hey, go for it.

Yeah, she had to put a mini desk, some flooring and a pantry of food and a house plant up there, according to the cops. The construction workers, what they did was they found an extension cord leading up there, like, wait, somebody's living in this sign. And the cops are really funny here. They gave her the nickname Rooftop Ninja because they didn't want to release her name because they didn't charge her with anything. They just made her leave the sign.

But this quote, this is like, she was white then, I assume. Yes, yes, I assume. The official police spokesperson said they were like, OMG, someone is living in that sign. Like, totally for real, someone's living in that sign. I'm not even kidding, you guys. Let's all moving to signs, man. My bed's too fucking high.

There was a story a few years ago, and I'm pulling this out of my butt off the, you know, but there, some guy in Chicago was like living in a drawbridge. It was a similar thing, like the drawbridge, control room or something and this dude had like he had a PlayStation in there he had a TV set up he had the whole thing so he was like pulling off of their power and shit he would have like I don't know about parties but like he'd have people over he'd entertain in his drawbridge hovel that he had or whatever and it's like I mean you know you pull it I mean that's like

that's like maximum level of homeless I mean it's not even homelessness you got a home you're just pulling it off but that's like you know that's uh that's the Michael Jordan of alternative homing situation. So you figure out something like this, you know, good for them. It's America, man. Everybody's got a hustle. Hers wasn't hurt nobody. Let her back in the sign, man.

Let her back in the sign. Yeah. Absolutely. All right. Well, let's get into it. Producer Matt is with us, as always, pulling the strings, doing the things. This is weekly skews. I want to remind y'all before we continue about a couple of items of business.

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should lab grown meat be banned should paying for your prescriptions require a second mortgage? Will big oil give Donald Trump an actual billion dollars? We'll dive into all those and more with some fun stuff along the way but first of course we begin with the daily

dumbass Mac graphic please tonight's D.D. The residents of Gotham who don't realize that the Joker would really be tough on crime if Batman would just stop throwing him in Arkham Asylum. This is from Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas. Law and Order. Joe Biden is on the way out that President Trump will be the president of law and order. He's going to secure up orders. He's going to have the back of our law enforcement officers. This is the number one defining issue. Going back to your first segment here. This is why the polls are rising for Donald Trump because the people know that Donald

Trump will be the president of law and order. Well, maybe, but first, you've got to get through all these indictments. Are you working on? I got to say, old barterromo, you know, she hit for me right there, probably unintentionally, I would imagine. Yes. Absolutely unintentionally. Yes. But she did bring it in that particular situation. Yeah. So this will serve as our Trump trial update where Michael Cohen was testing for a few, testifying for a few days this week. This is from today where he's been cross-examined by Trump's attorney, Todd Blanche. Blanche, you referred to President Trump as a Boris cartoon misogynist. Cohen, sounds like something I would say.

Blanche, you referred to President Trump as a Cheeto-dusted cartoon villain, Cohen. That sounds like something I would say. I don't know. His lawyers fucking suck to a degree. Of course. Well, dude, I mean, it makes all the sense in the world. I know he's a former president. look at the way he has treated his lawyers over the years or also just anyone who works for

him. But like, I don't know why anybody. I mean, I do. I get it. People always want to, you know, grasp it notoriety and fame and that type of thing. But still, dude, being his lawyer is a losing proposition in every respect. And he'll throw you under the bus as soon as he can. He won't even pay you for your time. You know, it's like, it's no wonder to me that he has dipped shits running his case at this point, considering how he's acted. And I get what they're trying to do. He's trying to establish

that Cohen has actual animosity towards Donald Trump, so he might not be honest or might not be, my reason presenting his evidence in like the worst possible life. But to try to get to that point by eliciting insults that make the jury laugh at your client's expense, it seems like a bad strategy to me. So, but like, the prosecution tried to, you know,

push back against this already, pre-butted, I guess I would say, by, they just, they put introduce a bunch of text messages and evidence from Cohen to his daughter, who, you know, this was over a decade. She was an early teenager when it started and later on where it basically shows how sycophantic he was in pursuit of defending Donald Trump to try to establish that when he was doing all this stuff, he was absolutely on Donald Trump's side. Yeah, right. But like, it resurfaced this passage from Cohen's book that I just want to read to you. This is like the fact Cohen didn't, the biggest red flag here to me is that Cohen didn't turn on him

when this happened. Let me read from the book here. Somehow Trump's attention was diverted to another skirt walking off a tennis court. Look at that piece of ass, Cohen recalls Trump saying as he whistled and pointed. Oh, God, like a cartoon wolf, I meant that myself. I would love some of that, he said. It's so happened that Trump was referring to Cohen's then 15-year-old daughter, Samantha. Cohen informed Trump of his mistake.

That's your daughter, Trump responded. When did she get so hot? When Samantha, when Samantha reached her dad, Trump asked her for a kiss on the cheek before inquiring, when did you get such a beautiful figure and warning her than a few years who would be dating one of her friends. Oh, way. Yeah, can we pause the show

so I can go fucking take a, like, a, like, a, I know, so gross. It's like, you know, I mean, a lot of, like, you know, a lot of people have already been, a lot of people on the MAGA side have been, they're trying to, like, discredit Michael Cohen by being like, this guy, like, he's a sycophantic opportunist. Look what he's doing, whatever.

And the thing I keep thinking, I said this in a video made today, is like, oh, yes, unlike all those paragons of virtue that typically testify in a criminal conspiracy case or whatever. Do you know what I mean? Like it's always, it's always lower level criminals rolling over on the higher level with the bigger fish. That's how the whole thing works, you know? And it's like, we've accepted that for years and no one's ever like, you can't trust this guy. He's a mafia hip man or whatever. it's like as long as the if they have supporting evidence like you mentioned if there's like things that corroborate what they're saying and it fits with the case as presented then that's what matters but in this situation they're trying to act like you can't believe a word this guy says and it's like I don't think that dude is worse than like you know I don't know fucking the ice man or any of these other I don't know Tony the meatball I don't know mafia stuff but like real bad mafia witnesses you know they're not good people they're not PTA members you know what I mean That's not the important part, but everybody's acting like it is in the case of Michael Cohen specifically.

It's also like my dad had to testify at a criminal proceeding once about one of his employees and stolen some stuff from a job site. And the guy's attorney was basically targeting my dad about like, basically trying to allege that my dad was in on it. And my dad had had some hustles on the job site, but just this had to be one of them. And the guy was like, how do you know you wouldn't, do you remember where you were that day? He goes, no, but I wasn't doing that. And he goes, well, why do you know you weren't doing that? because I know I wouldn't do that. And that's like, and it's a funny way to put it.

But like, what is like, how come all of my business associates turn out to be fucking criminals and grifters? Right. What is it? What a coincidence? Like, especially because like the whole Michael Cohen's a convicted liar thing is true, but it's convicted of lying to defend Donald Trump. So like, it's like this circular logic here that's pretty fucking hilarious.

But like the trial, I don't know what's going to happen. It feels like open and shuck taste to me, but juries are juries. But the real circus here is outside. Matt, on that note, why is that, has that been happening every week? I feel like this week, like, did they all, do they have tickets to this? Like, I feel like this week, they're all showing up. Like, J.D. Vantz showed up. Tommy Tuberville showed up.

Mike Johnson showed up. Vavec showed up. Like, have they been doing this? The other way, like, what happened? Is this, this is the headliner week because Cohen is testifying? Is that why they all showed up? Because that's when the most cameras were going to be on them. But yeah, it's a whole, like you said, it's a circus going on.

They're doing a couple different things. They're, one, they're kissing Trump's ass. Two, they're auditioning to be vice president, a lot of them. And three, they're just, you know, they're the operatives in Shulchus puppets to get around in Trump's gag order to deliver his insults for him. Ah, there you go. Right. But like, so here, like, let's start.

But Lisa Murkowski, who otherwise sucks was asked today if she's going to go to Trump's trial and she says, why would I sit through a stupid porn, trial. Don't we have better things to do? And I was like, that's the sanest thing this lady said in a while. But so here's speaker Mike Johnson outside the courtroom today doing, I don't know, the first thing I said, which is trying to get around the gag order. The crime that they are accusing President Trump of is falsification of business records. But I think everybody knows he is not the bookkeeper for his company. President Trump is innocent of these charges. Okay. Okay. So, so,

So this, take this piece by piece. All right. This is like, Mike Johnson's a guy who admitted that he and his son monitor each other's porn intake. He's out here publicly lying on behalf of a man and cheated on his wife with the porn star. You got to wonder, how did I get here? I mean, he knows I got here.

He wants power. Whatever. But it's also like the people that think Trump should be responsible for managing the entire federal government, don't think he was responsible enough to know what was happening is boutique real estate company. Yeah. It's like, the Trump organization is not super huge. It does have like, 20,000 employees.

employees total. I looked it up, according to their own Wikipedia, which is probably inflated. So there you go. But like, it's worth noting here that part of the, part of the testimony is like various people have testified that Trump and system personally signing most the organizations checks himself because he wanted to approve every expenditure because he's a micromanaging dipshit who's cheap as fuck. And I want to remind every here that like 1990, Spy Magazine played a prank on a bunch of the world's, New York's wealthiest people, 56 people. They sent everyone to check for a dollar and 11 cents. And half of them cashed. a dollar 11 cents.

They keep cutting them out and sitting checks back out to get done the 13 cents. They said the 13 cents checks out and two people cashed them. One was an arms dealer and the other one was Donald Trump. All right.

So the idea that this cheap fuck wouldn't be personally approving $130,000 expenditure is ridiculous on its face, but whatever. I mean, dude, I'm not going to lie. Like, I'm kind of like, I don't know.

I guess it makes, everybody talks about the whole time when he was running for it. They're like, oh, you know, he's going to run America like a business, and that's what this country needs, right? That's what everybody said. And then now that they're talking about the inner workings of his business or whatever, they're like, he didn't know nothing about that.

How is he supposed to know about that? Which is your whole point, and I agree with it. But I am kind of surprised that he, I know that he was born on third base and that whole thing with his dad or whatever, but I'm kind of surprised to hear that he is this, like, that he's this much of a micromanager, this actively involved in it, just because I would have assumed that every one of his businesses would have flamed out spectacularly almost immediately the whole time.

I know he fucking put casinos under and Trump University and the stakes and all that. I know. But I'm just saying I'm kind of surprised he ever pulled anything off now knowing that he actually was this, he was involved in this level of minutia or whatever with it. Because I wouldn't have thought he could do that. Well, there's a key point you're missing, which is like he pivoted to whole different industries like like his real estate businesses did not work out he went bankrupt the casinos went under he extracted well from it but the businesses

themselves didn't work and then he pivoted to just selling his name and likeness now the important thing there is there's no expenditure for you're just taking money for doing that you're just selling your name and doing commercials so like it like the trump stakes wasn't i don't know if it was if you owned it but it wasn't his money right i'm saying like it's like it's like it's and then he hosted the apprentice and like that you can't you can't lose money being a host of a TV show. Sure. So, so Speaker Johnson, talking about getting around the gag order, he basically, the thing Trump's ban from doing, which is pointing out that the judge's daughter works in Democratic politics, he ran his mouth about that. Such a brilliant scheme to get around

the gag order, to have other people do it. And you might be like, well, how do I know I'm doing that? Tommy Tuberville went on TV and said they're doing that. The dumbest senator, he's like, he went on TV, forget taking notes to a criminal conspiracy. He went on a video and confessed to a criminal conspiracy. They're basically tagging each other in like a WWE tag team to do death threats. Way to go. The vice presidential sweepstakes part of this is pretty funny. If you got this picture, Matt, throw it up of four congressmen there, all wearing the exact

same outfit. They're just all dressed like Trump. That's governor of Bergam of North Dakota, who ran the primary for a little bit, who used to say mean stuff about Trump because he's one of those conservatives and pretends to have integrity. Like he wouldn't dare do this stuff. of the today, called it a sham trial, a scam trial. Republican Andy Biggs, Congressman from Arizona, who's not in this picture, but he went on Twitter and basically insinuated that Trump has only been prosecuted

because of expansive federal government that has too many things be illegal, which how many few people run into federal law enforcement is kind of funny. But he said, he'd be quote here, the average American commits three felonies a day. I don't think I do. No, I'm not saying I feel like, insecure right now. I'm like, I need to step my game up. I think I'm committing almost zero felonies a day, generally speaking. But yeah, the way that I commit a bunch of, I probably commit 30 misdemeanors, but if felonies, I don't think I commit any felonies. Living in California,

I don't, I was trying to think being totally honest and up front here, like, you know, I used to partake in weed and shit in Tennessee. That's a crime. Uh, but out here in, in, in comma utopia, you know, I feel like I'm, I think, well, I mean, I do, I don't want the feds to come after me, but, you know, I will bet on sports occasionally and I live in California, so that's a crime. So I'm at least committing some crimes. So that makes me feel better because I'm falling well short of Andy Biggs as standard. But it's also like the way they like tell on themselves so much, you know what I mean? It's like they're, you know, the whole idea of like, every white person is racist. We're just saying it out loud.

we're the only ones that have the balls to say it. And it's like, we're not all actually racist, buddy. And they cannot believe that that's true. Even if you tell them that, they're like, you're just afraid. The left has cowed you. You've been cowled the left. You're afraid to admit the truth. It's like, no, I'm genuinely not racist.

And they, and, you know, they just can't buy that. This is a similar type of thing where it's like, we're all committing crimes all the goddamn time. It's like, I don't know that we are, man. I don't think that's true. Most people try to lead a good life, actually, I think. Yeah, it kind of brings up the next thing I want to get to. So we'll come back to this video in a second map. But, like, so Rick Scott went out there and talked about how this is, like, he got railroaded just like Donald Trump did when he was like, his company was brought down on federal charges.

Now, the fact, why he would bring this up, I don't know. Rick Scott, he was CEO of a company called Columbia, which changed his name to HCA, which is like, they're like a big company. that runs urgent care clinics and surgery centers and the like. And they got in trouble and faced a federal fraud investigation over Medicare. As the FBI got into it, Scott resigned. We still face the call out a lot of scrutiny, including a famous civil deposition where he asserted his Fifth Amendment rights 75 times, which worked. He did avoid criminal charges.

But eventually the company pleaded guilty to 14 felonies as fined $1.7 billion for the biggest Medicare case fraud in American history at that time. What they were doing was offering executives financial incentives. in exchange for patient referrals, which if you're getting your health care and your doctor's referring you somewhere for any reason other than that's a procedure you need by the best doctor to give it, that seems pretty shitty to me. And Rick Scott brought that up as an example of federal law enforcement or getting railroading somebody. Fuck him, whatever. These people to get out there and be like, well, of course we don't have any credibility. Nobody has any

credibility. We're all criminals and liars and sex papers. And they wonder why when Laura Ingram asked the questions like she does in this video that it's so obviously farcical on its face, it played out. How do you get to the point where you think Stormy Daniels and Jughead Cohen are more credible than Donald J. Trump? So close to getting it. So close to getting it. Yeah, I don't know, man.

It's wild. Again, just the thing that amazes me the most consistently and repeatedly about them as the complete lack of self-awareness that comes with being the way that they are. But anyway, I think when they say, I think my favorite genre of these videos, when they say something that's totally accurate, but don't get what you're saying. Yes, they hate it. I know, they do it all the time, right? It's like, you remember that?

It was like a famous thing. It went viral when, uh, Sean Hannity, when AOC was just coming up. She hadn't been elected yet. And it was, she just became a thing. And he was like, he posted a thing. it was like this is this is this lunatics actual platform and it's like poor people should be allowed to live gay people are humans too you know and I'm exaggerating a little bit for effect but not that much it was just a bunch of things that I read and I was like those are all great ideas

you know and they're like this is ruining our country all right anyway our first honorable mention for not for daily dumbasses anyone who thought Republican primaries wouldn't devolve into everyone trying to out and Morton Joe each other. It's apocalyptic out here, y'all. Check this shit out. I'm Derek Evans. And on January 6th, I stood with President Trump to peacefully and patriotically protest a stolen election.

Then the same weaponized deep state going after President Trump came to my home, ripped me away from my wife and my four young children, and held me hostage as a January 6 political prisoner. But I'm not giving up. I'm running with President Trump to help him drain the swamp once and for all. I'm endorsed by Trump warriors such as Roger Stone, Mike Lindell, General Flynn, and Veterans for Trump. On May 14th, vote MAGA, vote Derek Evans for Congress.

All right, you cut a bat. So this guy, Derek Evans, today's primary day in, it's election day in Maryland, Nebraska, and West Virginia, a lot of primaries going on. We're going to have a bunch of weirdos to kick around going forward. I feel like we're going to talk about a couple up in a minute. But you'll notice that like Evan started that ad, the campaign ad, with very dramatic footage of FBI raid that's purportedly him being dragged away from his wife and kids for doing January 6th. The thing is, a reporter filmed his actual arrest, which feels more pertinent to me because it's a sad loser being hauled away while his grandma is mad at him. So here we go. Yes, let's please watch this. I liked this. This is his actual arrest, what actually happened. No, no door

kicking, no window busting. None of that. This is how it actually went down. Hit it, Matt. oh no oh lord oh no this really upsets me because I like this video a lot all right well while I talk for a minute Matt

click it again and see if it works but uh no I just clicked on it got deleted for whatever reason god damn it I love this lady her voice everything about his mammall in this video hit for me

this is Derek Evans actual mamma in West Virginia and she's great she's great so he uh he's basically and calmly walked to his car in handcuffs. They let him get his jacket on so he wouldn't be cold and stuff.

And his grandma is like, they asked him, the reporter asked her if she'd like to say anything on his behalf. She goes like, he's a good boy. And thank you Donald Trump for inviting him to a riot outside of the White House. I don't she got the location wrong, but whatever. But like the point was she immediately understood it was Donald Trump's fault. She blamed Donald Trump for it immediately. She was like, oh, he means well, he's just a dumbass.

She didn't say that, but that's what I heard. She's like, no, he's a good boy. Donald Trump led him astray, and thanks a lot, Donald Trump, for inciting a riot. And, I mean, she literally says that. And yeah, I just wonder what, I wonder what is Mamaw's thinking right now. That's why he's reframing all this shit. Right. What if the propaganda is she can turnbind about what happened that she clearly understood in the moment. So the primary, the Republican primaries of West Virginia have gotten fucking insane. So, because Joe Manson's retiring, Jim Justice, the sitting governor is running for Senate.

It's probably going to have a shoe in election as the Republican and senator from West Virginia. And so it's kind of, it's become completely around transgender issues, which is crazy because West Virginia has already banned transgender health care. And they're getting really nasty, basic cues in each other of being over who's more progen, transgender,

even though they're both hateful. Here's one from a pack called Black Bear, which a homophobic pat, super PAC called Black Bear is. Black Bear, incredible. Like I said, the lack of self-awareness, dude, The fact that they would name themselves black bear pack, it's like, those are two things you hate so much. And they don't, and they have no realization of that. Anyway, yeah, play the thing.

So here's one, supporting Patrick Morrissey, attacking Chris Miller. If you got it, Matt, play. He him, she heard, they them? When Chris Miller was a board member at an in-state university, he looked the other way as pro-transgender events happened on his watch, drag shows, a transgender homecoming gala, and even, Quote, a trans closet that provided items to support sex changes for students. Chris Miller protected they, them, not us. Black Bear Packet for sponsor.

So I don't even know where to start with that. So he's saying Chris Miller was on the board of a college where some kids hosted some trans or drag or gay-friendly events. And therefore, I don't even know what to do about the sex change closet. If you get a sex change in a closet, you wouldn't need transgender health care. It's where you're passing laws against it. Anyway, this is all fucking insane. Here's the counter ad where Chris Miller goes back at Patrick Morrissey for being the real guy who's pro trans or whatever. How low would you go to make a buck?

As a lobbyist, Patrick Morrissey helped a leading provider of child sex change procedures, lobbying the government to pay them with seniors Medicare. Morrissey even lobbied for a drug company that helps turn boys into girls. Morrissey is small in stature but has a big appetite for getting rich You can cut a bat So I had to get in a fat joke at the end there Because not only he pro gay But also large

Like this all deeply deeply sucks And I'm sorry to trans people The people like this in our country You're out there fucking running for office But it's also funny to think about Like a trans person doesn't really follow the news To see these ads and think both these dudes rock Yeah

Yeah Yes, whereas, like, I'm sure both, like, that, I'm a, I mean, I don't know. I haven't looked into it, of course. But that second guy, I'm assuming it's like, oh, he lobby, whatever, lobbied for some big medical group that gave him money to do it or whatever. And, but they also had some subsidiary that did this trans shit or whatever. So it's like tangentially true or whatnot, but he didn't give a fuck. And then the guy, the first guy was on the board of some university's committee or whatnot. And at the university, they had drag shows and shit, because of course they did, because it's a college.

and college kids are cool. And then, but that makes him like a co-signer on, you know, transgender queerness or whatnot. But yeah, the whole thing is just, yeah, it makes me sad too, man. It does. Like, I can't imagine, I cannot imagine being a transgender person watching the current state of America and how they are like public enemy number one for the American right. And every, every ad is built around like how offensive and upsetting their whole

existence is and the idea that they should even be what they are is like, you know, anathema to being an American and that might, it's, uh, it's a real shame. It's a real shame. Uh, well, I wanted, let's let's let's, let's, uh, we'll do this Gomez lady another time back because we're running out of time. But I do want to, I would do acknowledge an anniversary here that's sort of related to all this. Uh, Friday will be the 20th anniversary of America's first legal gay marriage. Uh, 20 years ago this week, David Wilson and Rob Compton entered into a marriage that some believe would bring on the apocalypse and reading here from the Wall Street Journal.

And you know what happened next? No fucking apocalypse. Nowadays they're still married. They're happily retired and spend their time volunteering and visiting with their grandchildren. All right. Yeah, I've always thought that whole thing was always so funny. I mean, the idea that like, look, you're married, you have fights. You fucking go after each other.

It happens. But the idea that the root cause of that would be that gay people are happy somewhere. You know what I mean? It's always funny to me. It's just like, did you fucking, did you leave the garage door open? It's like, no, it's the goddamn gay married couples. That's who did it, Katie. You know, like, I've never understood how my marriage was supposed to be affected by someone

else's marriage. I don't care how gay they are. It's because what will come next was dog marriage, remember? And then all, of course, while we marry a human lady, when you can marry your dog, I guess, or whatever, I don't fucking know what these people think. But I just want to say, like, if anything is destroying America, it's not these two nice retired guys with, uh, with grandchildren. It's, uh, the people making ads like that.

that and in 20 years, their stupid panicking over that will look just as fucking stupid if America still exists as current as a liberal democracy. It'll look just as stupid going forward. And it's just like, you've just got to wait out these dumb fucking dipshit. I know for our, I know for our crowd, it totally goes

without saying, but still, it's like the idea that they're wrecking America and they're the one shoving their ideology down everyone's throat when literally all they want is to be treated the same. as every other regular person drives me up the fucking wall.

That's the only thing they've ever asked for is treat them like you treat other human beings and that is so offensive to these people that they, you know, lose their minds

and make campaign ads and try to just try to demolish everything about what they are and act like it's a threat to everything we hold deer and it's fucking bullshit. J.K. Rauling has rejiggered her old personality to be around being mad

about pronouns and people, you know, change in their names to opposite genders or whatever, but she gets mad and people call her Joanne, which is her given name. It's like, again, you're so close to fucking getting it. But like, so we have dad because gay marriage has been around for a couple decades now and federally legal for nine years. The, uh, here's saying, so let me quote here from the Wall Street Journal. The widespread public approval suggests most people don't believe the horrors once forecast have resulted from same-sex marriage legalization.

Now there's evidence to prove it. A comprehensive new research report by the Rand organization finds the consequences of two gays of legal same-sex marriage have been broadly positive for gay and straight Americans alike. The researchers could find no negative effects on straight couples, rates of marriage, divorce, or cohabitation, and states legalized same-sex marriage. In fact, the effect on different sex marriages was slightly positive. More straights are getting married now. Meanwhile, same-sex couples...

Property values go up. The whole neighborhood gets better. You know, we all benefit. And, of course, I'm just wanting to be treated the same way as other people. Same-sex couples saw a range of improved dot com, such as greater health and financial security because they have joint banking accounts, nag each other over drinking too much and be able to visit each other in the hospital

and drive each other to doctor's appointments like normal married people. There we go. Everybody, yeah, I just hope when we laugh at these past moral panics, one of the reasons they're like doing us to be like, well, what are we doing now that's the fucking sane, right? Right.

We keep doing it over and over again. All right, let's get into the main side of me. You want to? Yes, yes. I could talk about that for three more hours, but yes, let's go ahead. Let's get into it. Yeah, so you text.

to me and Matt this morning. It was pretty fun. I know you were being funny, but it was just funny because you said, hey, you were trying to go figure out your take for your video today. You're like, are tariffs good, L.O.L. Please tell me, Mark. I mean, that's what happens every week. Because it's like, Mark, tell me how to feel about this thing. So, yes, are tariffs good? I can't decide. And the answer is, everyone disagrees slash it depends, right? So, and what occasioned this was, so Biden and the Biden administration announced you're going to raise tariffs on like a bunch of stuff coming in from China, like electric vehicles, computer chips and stuff like components of solar panels and the like.

So this is a, I understand why you're doing it, especially in election here, it's probably part of his deal with where to do is secure the endorsement of a lot of unions. It stuff's popular in the Midwest. And like there's like economists are going to shit all over it and pro free trade people because they look at like a graph going up and think that's the main thing. And like I understand like for broad prosperity, you want the graph to go up. There's also other stuff factors in this like, you know, national security, getting all your computer, your computer microchips from China and having being dependent upon China for solar panels so everybody can have electricity feels like not the best idea. Plus just bringing jobs back to America and all that shit. It's not purely of economic, not purely of about bringing benefits to larger economy. But like the reasoning for it's funny to me because the Biden administration says that the Chinese, like a Chinese electric vehicles, for example, are unfairly subsidized, which is like. Like, how dare a government invest in a green energy transition?

Right. Well, yeah. And it's also like, you know, there's, you know, the, like, oh, it's unfairly subsidized by the government. And so it's not a, it's not a fair competition. It's like, we care about fair competitions now. You know what I mean? And like, listen, like fundamentally, I think it should be a level fair playing field. But I'm just saying it's kind of funny coming from our government.

meant the idea that's like, oh, this isn't, this is fundamentally unfair, this competition. Also, you're doing trade with a country that there's at least anomaly communist and you're, you're accusing them of cheating in capitalism. And I'm like, I don't know. That's their whole thing. Right. It chose to trade with them. Right. And it's like, my main thing with, and I'm sorry if I'm like, what is stepping on anything or skipping ahead. But my main thing was it's like, the idea is it's supposed to be, I'm all for, because again, I think like, oh, yeah, we should, I don't give a fuck about actual fair and free markets generally. I'm not a free market person.

I don't give a shit. So like, none that is anyone else. Right. So like, but so, yeah, if they're playing on different playing field and we need to level the playing field for American companies and bring some of this shit back to America. I'm from a town that was absolutely destroyed by NAFTA. So I'm all for bringing the manufacturing of any kind back to America. and investing in American jobs and all that shit. I love that.

I don't give a fuck how anti-capitalist it may be or whatever. I'm for it. But I just don't trust that the current state of American industry is going to utilize these advantages in that way. Do you know what I think about like, oh, well, you know, listen, guys, it's great. We're going to boost your businesses. You'll have increased revenues. You can use those increased revenues. things like innovation and expansion and I expect them to be like yeah or we could do stock buybacks

that's what we could do like I just expect them to raise their prices to just below Chinese tariff prices and then just roll with that and just rake it in and be happy with it and leave it at that and that's what worries me about this shit that's what I don't like about it that's the downside of EVs we'll come back to EVs in a second but the thing is like if you're a If you're a company that needs microchips, you can't just raise prices out of that problem. You're going to have to be your microchips from somewhere. And if Chinese microchips is super expensive, that gives an incentive for somebody to build them here in America, then America has microchip facilities, to put in their own products, when if China cuts us off for whatever reason.

Or if, you know, we go to war with China, which we don't want, but you know what I'm saying. Like, it's like, you can't not buy the microchips, right? Well, actually, Mark, just not to divert us again, but you just said, let's we go to war with China, which we don't want. I read on Reddit earlier, some Reddit lunatics saying that, and I want to know what your take on this is, that both China and America are currently actively divesting themselves of each other. Because I've said for years, we've talked about, oh, I was going to war with China. I've been like, that ain't going to happen. Too many rich people are making too much money off of each other. But I saw some lunatics on Reddit today.

So now I'm, you know, I'm intrigued saying that both countries are actively trying to divest from that. and pull out from that because they expect to go to war with each other over Taiwan in the near future. What do you think about that? Is that insane? I think it's more likely that we just had a global pandemic that shut down global supply chains and everyone realized they were a little too interconnected and not self-reliant, but also it could be. But I don't, nobody, we haven't, we haven't had a major power war in how long because everyone has nukes and we know what it means. Right. Right. So like, it's like, it's whatever. Not to disagree with the Reddit, people on Reddit, the real.

please do. I wanted you to. I was hoping to do that. So I read a, coincidentally, I read a piece about Chinese electrical vehicles. This week, some American reporter went to a Chinese auto show in Beijing and was basically like, holy shit, Detroit is

fucked. There was like, had this super rad vehicles that cost like $12,000 US. And it was like, okay, so maybe Joe Biden read the same piece. But like, it should be a little bit embarrassing as regardless of the merits of the policy. should be a little bit embarrassing as an American that we have to keep Chinese electric vehicles

out with tariffs and regulations instead of being like we can make a better one for a better price. But, but hear me, but I'm, but like, isn't part of that the way that, I mean, they have literal sweatshops and shit over there and we at least try to pretend that we don't do that, right? I know we still don't trade our workers the way we should treat them, but that's what I'm saying, like the idea of it, the way they present it, it's an uneven playing field because of shit like that right which i understand i'm not going to pretend that china's awesome they do have a booming middle class and also like when people talk about unfair unfair uh unfair uh unfair unfair competition from other governments part of what they're complaining about is those companies don't have to pay

for their employees health care because the government provides it right so like well there you go everybody every every american industry would be thrilled if we had national health care because it would make them more competitive internationally except for health insurance companies and hospital but anyway that's such a good point Everything is always about lobbyist in this country every time, every time. I never thought about that that way until you said that, which happens a lot on this show. But yeah, damn sure. So anyway, as far as specifics of this and people are comparing it to Trump's China policy,

which is like, it's like, if you just summarize it, it sounds similar, but like Trump was like raciously trying to ban soybeans to get to juice votes in like the Midwest, right? And it's like, doing something because you think it's good to be racist is different from thinking it's good because it might be good for American manufacturing. And the details of the policy are different. And I'm not an economist. And you can read what economists write about it over the next decade or two or what lobbyists are going to pay politicians to say about it when they unravel it, whatever.

But I just think one reason I'm not super like moralistic about it, you're going to hear talk about Republicans talking about meddling into free market and whatever is because it's just what we do here. and everybody rigs the market. The whole, we basically have an economy, this stage of capitalism we're in where everything is a protection racket. I wanted to show what I'm talking about

by talking about a fun example of it. And if you play this video, Matt, it's not going to be what you think. It's Ron DeSantis announcing a new policy to generating innovation in the anti-innovation sphere. You will not be seeing any lab-grown meat on grills in Florida.

Governor DeSantis made that official today. signing a bill that bans the manufacturer and sale of cultivated meats. Fox 13's Aaron Mesmer has more on this new law. This mouth-watering sizzle and sear is more science to stomach than farm to table, and that's why it won't be happening in Florida. Take your fake lab-grown meat elsewhere. We're not doing that in the state. That's the message behind the bill, Governor.

All right, you cut it, Matt. Dude, this upsets me so much because I actually, I had a stand-up bit about this for a while. about how like, oh, I know that vegans are right about so many of their arguments. I know they are, the environmental arguments and everything else. I just love cheeseburgers too much and I'm a weak person. I'm a fat kid. I don't have to willpower. I apologize.

But when this lab grown meat shows up, I'm diving in head first. And there's people out there being like, oh, but lab grown meat, that's disgusting. That's suit. What kind of like mad scientist's made up meat is that? And it's like, I eat Taco Bell dog. Like Taco Bell ain't real meat. Like I eat potted meat growing up. That's just ground up pig assholes made into like redneck patay.

It's like I don't give a fuck. The stuff I've been shoving into my pie hole for 40 years, you think I'm going to like hold the line at lab grown meat? Hell no. I can't wait until lab grown meat shows up. And now I should have seen this coming, but seeing that they're like they're blocking it on the front line. It's upsetting to me. this is a good answer potentially.

One time I was up my friend Bobby Joe's house and there was no food in the house and he was before we could drive and his mom was at work and the only food in the house was a can of pot of meat and a can of Vienna sausages.

Yeah. We paper rock scissors for who got who and I thought I won because I got the Vienna sausages and he ate the potted meat but then later we were doing WBE wrestling stuff and he literally farted potted meat

into my mouth and I was like I actually really lost this bet. Sure. Sure. But, dude, it was like, I was, you know, I loved both of those food items when I was a fat kid in rural Tennessee. You know, I didn't see anything wrong with it. It's like I said, dude, pot of meat hell. It's just trailer pat.

I think that's all it is. They just call it fancy because it's made out of real good meat. But anyway, yeah. So, it wasn't, so since DeSanta signed this bill earlier this month, Alabama has joined them. K.I. The governor of Alabama signed a bill that makes it a little. legal for anyone to manufacture sell or distribute cultivated meat in Alabama. If you violate this law, it's a classy misdemeanor, which could get sent you to jail for

three months with a fine of $500. It's not just Florida, Alabama. Tennessee isn't far behind. They're considering a bill. Arizona and Texas have passed like tight restrictions on language and labeling to describe these products. And a senator from Nebraska has tried pushing for all this, for this at the federal level. They're joined by Senator John Federman, Democrat from Pennsylvania, who wrote, as some dude

who would never serve that. Slop to my kids. I stand with our American ranchers and farmers. Now, Fetterman went to Harvard. As a person who's actual white trash, not a fake white trash, like he is, we love serving slop to our kids. Of course.

What we just said? I grew up on fucking casseroles. It was basically consistent of whatever about to go bad vegetables and meat. My mom could dump into some fucking cream of mushroom soup. I ate almost exclusively slop as a trailer,

baby in rural Tennessee. That's what I'm saying. It's like, I grew up in that shit. I have no problem with LabGra. Like, honestly, I feel like Federman's being fucking elitist right now. That's how I feel about it. You got a problem that's just Slop. We love slop, God damn it. Give me some ethical slop. That's what I've been waiting on my whole life.

You know, also Federman, man, I mean, he's like, I don't know. I loved him so much when he came out. He's got, he's taking some wild. And that was, he's so insanely pro-Israel that his wife left him. Damn, I didn't know that. literally.

He left him over that? According to the internet rumors, yeah. So, but he did give away the game there where he, uh, he said where I stand with our ranchers and farmers, which is some of the language, language that DeSantis used there. We will save our beef. This is purely about protecting the interests of meat backers. Lobbyists. Yes.

Like they were saying, it's always all about lobbyists every time. That's what it comes down to. It's not about the greater good or whatever. Mm-hmm. You know, like the way I look at it as far as that, like dude, I don't want, I don't want dairy farmers or whatever to be put out of a job and all that. I don't want that to happen, but we already subsidized the ever-loving shit out of so many different types of farmers and stuff in this country.

I really think we could figure something out. Subsidize them for a little bit, transition them into something else. We could do it if we wanted to. They just don't want it to happen. Right. Are you saying that the government would ever meddle in the free market to help to save ranchers after the government has meddled in the free market to save them before? destroy, whatever they're doing now.

All the time. But also, like, the idea, like these, we're not talking about small family farms like I grew up on. We're talking about big agribus like factory farmers and the big four meat packers like Tyson, JBS, Cargill and National Beef. By the way, we're talking about a free market here. If sell cultivated meat really isn't desirable, it shouldn't be a threat to the

cattle industry. Like, if it tasted bad, but it makes people sick, it won't fucking, nobody will buy it anyway. It's capitalism, baby, ostensibly. They're also, like, badding something that doesn't exist yet. Like, the last thing I read about the existence of this hypothetical product, it's super expensive and resource intensive to, like, create, like, an ounce of lab-grown meat. Like, is the chains of amino acids they need and the amount of, like, electricity they need and power? It's like, it's not nearly feasible to, like, bring to market.

So they're just, like, hitting an empty pinata with a bat that says farmer on it. It's so weird. But, like, you're right. The promise of this is huge. like it like they globally a lot of people are dumping money to this because it would solve a lot of problems if it worked like the livestock industry is responsible for 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions not to mention the transmission of zoonotic diseases which we i think we all agree after the last four or five years pandemics do not hit right um the massive about a lot of land it requires that we get used for i don't know fucking housing that we need or like there's also inherent animal cruelty about it which a lot of people don't you know don't want to think about or don't care about i like i just accuse not to think about it myself but because i like you know how how chicken wings taste. Yes. But I was also thinking, like, is there any other kind of food that's banned in America?

I mean, it's not like full of poison or something. This ban just for the type of food it is. Mm-mm. I couldn't think of one. No, I can't think of one either. If, like, if the gays had some sort of official tart or something, then they might be working on banning that. But, yeah, I can't think of anything.

So, like, I realize it might be, like, something. I mean, you know, you can't get, like, European baby food that's not improved by the FDA or whatever. But I'm talking about like the concept of baby food isn't banned in America. Well, I was going to say you can't like, but even then, I don't know if there's actual laws on the books. We just don't do it. But I was going to say, like, you can't eat dogs, you can't eat cats, stuff like that. I don't know if that counts, you know.

Do we have laws about that? I don't even know. Or do we just not choose not to do that. I have no idea. There was like a horse butchering farm in like, I think Texas that was shipping the France that got shut down. But I'm not sure. Anyway, but you're right. There might be categories of animal that we don't.

don't butcher. But I'm not sure if you killed your dog and ate it. Would you be in trouble as an individual? I don't, anyway, I don't know. But anyway, I was trying to figure out foods or like, so Google is pork illegal in Iran? It turns out it is. But like, would Iran prohibit lab grown pork? Because would that violate the Koran? I don't know. Like, we need like a, we need an interview like a progressive science forward mullah who wants to eat like a Frankenstein BLT. I mean, if I know fundamentalist religious people and I feel like I do, yeah, it absolutely would violate the current you know because i just assumed the whole thing with them is like this ain't natural just like god's plainest ain't how things are supposed to be and i really doubt that

iranian muslims are any more forward thinking on that subject than american christians are sorry you mean the you mean the moas is iran people are a lot of them are really cool i said iranian muslims but i meant yes i mean yes i mean the ones in the ones running the show yeah yeah the the hardcore like uh islamo fascist fucking i had yes too have women executed for not wearing a hat, not wearing a scarf. So the thing about here is like, since we're all running protection records here, I was like, it's like, it's like, I was like, what's the protection racket for consumers? I'm like, oh, the government, you pay them taxes and they're supposed to keep you from getting

fucked, right? They're the mafia who's supposed to save you. Yeah, yeah. Right. So as we speak, the pharmaceutical lobby is suing to stop Joe Biden from cutting prescription drug prices. The banking lobbyist soon to stop Biden from capping credit card late fees. now the airline industry is soon to stop Biden

from requiring them to clearly disclose fees up front not hide them like when you get to the airport like oh it's another $50 for your back right so like this is like this is what happens when companies that are used to having the government protect their profits get mad about you trying to make them be honest about what they're actually charging people right

this is like because like this is what American capitalism actually is it's protection record absolutely and like there's like an asymmetry of american myths when it comes to capitalism and money like rich people know the truth about like like all the myths we tell people are fake that like capitalism's about competition for example it's not and i've heard one rich guy say it out loud this is before he has he'll turn he's where he has he'll turn but i remember Elon being on the daily show and he was talking about starting PayPal and he was saying that like it's a lie that capitalism is about competition

you don't want to compete with somebody who's already entrenched in the marketplace what you want to do is you want to figure out something no one else is doing and then do that but he left out the second part of it which is once you get entrenched in the marketplace you do everything you can to keep keep yeah keep people from being your competition right yes which includes regulatory capture lobbyists captivating capturing the government et cetera et cetera et cetera right like if you uh like for example if you have a big huge a big huge herd of cattle and somebody invents lab grown meat you got to be like fuck I've got to pay Ron DeSantis to make that illegal, right? Yes.

Yeah. And so, like, if Joe Biden's mailing the free market to protect electric vehicle manufacturers and American companies to make solar panels, what the fuck is this? All right? This huge bribe story came out this week in the Wall Street Journal. I know we got to wrap up saying. Trump had a gathering of fossil fuel CEOs at Moralaga where he basically told them they need to give him a billion dollars.

Because if you get to see its re-elected president, he's going to fulfill all. all their wants and wishes if he gets back in office. These are all, now these are all the, these are all allegedly competitors. Now this is important here. This is Exxon Chevron. These companies allegedly up against each other in the free market. They're at the same meeting talking about combining to pay the same guy out

and do all the same thing. Where the fuck is the actual competition, right? Yeah. Like, so they said they were stunned with the ass court of the Washington Post. But then they said, The billion dollar deal, it won't be a deal for the fossil fuel industry. That's what Trump said. And an anonymous industry source after saying he was stunned said Trump is likely to get the money.

So they're going to pay the money he's demanding in exchange for giving them whatever they want, you know, to get rid of green energy competition. And everyone knows this is happening. Right. And we still believe in the free market. It's the whole thing with this whole country, dude. It's not about voters or constituents or any of that. I don't know when the last time it was about that, if ever. It's about moneyed interest and lobbyists.

That's what it's about. I've told this story a million times, but still a brief version of it. I went to Tennessee as kind of a journalist to do this thing for attention media, a pilot they were doing for HBO. And I interviewed all these people regarding a legal weed bill that was coming out in Tennessee, all these Republican state-level Congress people. And I asked them all, it's like, in your, in your constituency in rural Upper Cumberland, Tennessee or wherever, what percentage of people are. against legalizing weed and every one of them across the board was like oh pretty much nobody you know you'll meet a person every now and then but almost nobody is really against it and i was like so what do you think are the odds are that this will be guess let me guess booze companies

pharma right uh cops cops and prisons right yes those things and they were like but yeah the guys i talked to they were like the guys who sponsored who authored the bill they're like well some of our colleagues in Congress haven't been convinced. And I literally asked them, I was like, who gives, what's it matter if they've been convinced? I was like, if their constituents think this, it's irrelevant what they think. And they were like, well, you know, they're varied interests that are still not really on board.

And they try to like say it diplomatically. But basically they're saying these people are bought and paid for by these different money and interest. And it doesn't matter what the fuck you want as an American voter. Like they don't care. It's irrelevant. And they're pretty open about it, really. They try to couch it in some sort of like cryptic terms,

but they'll pretty much tell you that that's how it works. And that's like, I think that is the number one problem with our American society, or our government as it stands now is that, I think, the way money works in politics. David, David Teets is reminding us to remember to, saying remember to smash on the like button, then go and enjoy some potted meat.

Thanks, David. So I wanted to mention a couple of quick aspects of this, map for maybe Sweden's comments in a second. This seems like a pretty big bombshell of Trump's demanding a billion dollar ransom from oil companies in exchange for doing them favors to destroy the planet. But per media matters, basically only MSNBC

cover this story. Maybe this will help. U.S. lawmakers are like some Democrats in Congress are demanding, via a letter that Exxon, Chevron, and Tesapeake Energy tell them what Trump said at this meeting. So maybe the letter will get them to cooperate and get some, you know,

news out of this because they're not making enough noise up about this shit. Like this week, the Federal Trade Commission accused the ex-CEO-CEO of Pioneer Energy of Colluding with OPEC, colluding with OPEC, in organizations of economies that are absolutely our enemies that did 9-11 and run an oil cartel to extract wealth from American fucking consumers to set prices. I'm not, like, every time I'm trying to give Democrats political advice, he's this guy, this guy, his name is Scott Sheffield, has been referred for criminal investigation by the FTC to the FBI and like

Perp walked the fuck out of this dude in front of a thousand cameras stitch it together with Trump's billion dollar bribe from the from American oil companies and get this some fucking news in here because like this is like evil crooked shit and it's as much blame as Joe Biden got for oil

prices and we found the guys are actually doing it right and it can't even get a news cycle out of it right yeah because there's people you know probably because people don't know their names already. You know what I mean? People know Joe Biden's the president. So that hits harder when you blame him for stuff. You blame some nameless executive like average person doesn't give a fuck. There's so many problems with both money and politics, but also the way our media

works and all that. And if the whole thing is going to end up with us. Democrats don't, don't work for it. Like if this was like, if this was a lab grown meat company that had been caught poisoning people or something, the political dynamics were fixed here. Republicans would make sure this Scott Sheffield dickhead was a fucking household name. They would say it over and over again, just like, I wouldn't know Hunter Biden's name if they weren't good at this shit. That's a good point, yeah. So, like, I don't know why they don't do politics. Right.

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