Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 5/21/24 – Don’t Mess With (Racism In) Texas

Episode Date: May 22, 2024

Tonight we dive into the wildly typical and deeply disturbing decision by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to pardon a man who was convicted by a jury of his peers of murdering a BLM protestor in 2020. But before that we tackle the lighter matters of the new Trump biopic and the demise of Red Lobster. Join us. Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it is may 21st 24 i'm tray that's mark how you doing over there mark good man uh got a fun show lined up uh the back half we're talking about how uh governor of texas has made murder legal as long as you're racist uh we'll get to that in a little bit. Before that, we got to talk about, we got two separate appearances from people who appeared in Borat movies.

Yeah. Having two people involved in politics who were in Borat, the subsequent movie film, feels like a perfect description of American politics. The current state of American politics in 2024. Yes, it's very perfect. You know, Sasha Baron Kellan, man,

finger on the pulse. What are you going to say? Yeah, it gets it. Trump's defense arrested yesterday or day? I don't know. It didn't matter. They started arguing over. jury instructions today and

someone from Trump's team told CNN that Trump is mentally preparing himself to be convicted so that sound you just heard was Rachel Maddow coming. Okay, all right Mark. So first of all the fact that he did not testify like there was a lot

made about that on Twitter but I had as a very law dumb and somewhat aloof person I've gotten the impression that like that was the expectation for most of the time that people didn't expect him to actually testify and then he didn't. I mean, that's because like,

again, as someone who's law dumb as hell, it makes sense to me. You can't put him on the stand. Right. How he acts and conducts him. Like he, you know,

he's, he's publicly admitted so many crimes and felonies, just at his rallies and shit over the years. You can't put him on the stand. I mean, that was like, that was a foregone conclusion, right?

That was never going to happen. Yeah. Right. But he kept saying he was going to testify. And the press, of course, reported it like it's like the word of God or something so it's like there's this built an expectation like straight news reporters can't be like Trump says this but obviously he's full of shit so right

there you know second question you said he reports are he's mentally preparing himself for a guilty verdict what's that what's that going to amount to like then what happens I don't know it's pretty like any sane person would have pled guilty pled guilty and took probation like two years ago so I don't no. I still can't imagine somebody putting him in jail. But whatever. Me neither. Well, this is like this one, this case, you know, his myriad cases he has, this one was always the one that I was like, look, don't get me wrong. I think he did it and fuck him. I'd like to see him be held accountable. But this is the one that's like, this ain't the one you most want to see him go down for. Like, this is the lesser of all the various felonious offenses he's had over the years, I feel like,

you know, it's like, like, I think I said. It's like if you're in high school, you're a bully, you find out your bully got in trouble for like truancy or whatever. You were like, if my motherfucker was shoving me in the locker and dunk in my head in the toilet every day. No one gave a fuck about that. It's like it's kind of a not quite as satisfying, I feel like, but I'll take what I can get. Yeah, whatever. I'm like I'm not a big fan of the guy. So whatever makes his day harder.

I find funny. But, all right, before we get to the show, I wanted to talk about the Red Lobster bankruptcy. love it, please. Because it's spun into this weird narrative where they blamed it all on their endless shrimp promotion. It's like it's hourful because like Americans are such fat losers

we can't give you a nice thing because you'll abuse it until we lose money and it's like that's not at all what happened. So to walk through some numbers here and we'll get who the real bad guy is here. They lost a red lobster's 578 locations. They lost $11 million on endless shrimp. All right.

So it was not the shrimp that did this multi-billion dollar corporation in. And there's a few interesting things here. This company called, is a Thai seafood firm called Thai Union, which invested a bunch of money in Red Lobster. They also owned chicken by the sea. And they apparently used endless shrimp to dump their own shrimp supply and overcharged them for shrimp. Thai Union became their only shrimp venture vendor. And they were just like, you know, charge them up the ass for shrimp. But like the main bag I hear.

I don't get what, but that, the Thai. a shrimp company, they also are owners of Red Lobster or part owners. They were part owners. Yeah, they were part owners. So they were dumping their own supply on a subsidiary of themselves and gouging them for it is what happened. I have an

MBA and I don't understand business at all. Well, the reason you didn't get rich is because you do understand it. Because if you were simply a fucking hedge fund criminal, you'd be like, well, I just got to sell bootleg shrimp to a company out, right? So the main bad guy here is, like, Red Lobster's last owner was a private equity firm who had the brilliant scheme. And I'm using brilliant air quotes, but also if you're an evil, British person, it is pretty fucking brilliant.

What they did was they sold all the land that the Red Lobsters sat on to another company they owned at a discount and then charge Red Lobster rent to be on the property that they used to own. They charged them like exorbitant rents, all right, which I find fucking infuriating because, that's kind of shit that private equity does should be like there's not a single person who's like a common sense person who's not working for a hedge fund who's like well that ought to be fucking illegal right that that's not that's not a real money making scheme that's a scam and scam should be against the rules right right and now because they ran this scam a hundred stores have gone out of business a bunch of people showed up for work and the doors were locked and so thousands and thousands of people are out of work because these guys did some dumb bullshit right right I mean, the whole thing is sound like the call was coming from inside the house the whole time. Like, it sounds like they effectively shanked themselves. Or I guess it's like when you have all these multinational conglomerants or whatever, you know, one branch flourishes at the expense of another one or something like that. And they just like buried red lobster to enrich themselves in other avenues or something.

And now all of us who appreciated endless shrimp are left twisting in the wind. You know, that's what happens. It's always us who pays the price. Like, I can't get cheddar baked biscuits as readily anymore. because of corporate grade. What the fuck, man? But, you know. Yeah.

So, Slate had a fun piece. They interviewed some waiters about the Inlet Shrimp Promotion, some servers who worked at Red Lobster. And it's all fucking hilarious because, like, it became apparent to me what was happening is Red Lobster. They had declining business. They did the industry promotion, but they knew was losing money in order to build a few more months rent on

Red Lobster properties out of the business they knew were going under. So they did a bad idea on purpose to, like, run out to, to make a few more bucks in the back end. And so, like, the, so let me read the quote here from a guy named James Burke, a 23-year-old New Jersey, who told all this happened, worked at Red Lobster, talking about people coming in, being hell on earth for the service cooks and busters who, you know, been keeping the company afloat. It was like, like, it was all such a farce that James says, I had a guy coming in with his family. It was a family of five, and he did 16 rounds of shrimp scampy. Oh, captain, my captain. God damn.

going in. He was there for, I'm so quoting here, he was there for over two hours and a busy Friday night. They had one of my biggest tables that's had to watch this man. He played a bunch of plates,

on plates of the scampi, which isn't even served up for pasta. I had shrimp on a garlic wine butter. It was so gross. That's why you could do 16 of them is there's no pasta. There's no, you know what I mean? It's just straight shrimp and butter,

baby, you can go in all night. It's like, I was a, I was a chain restaurant server for years when I was in college. I worked at, oh, Charlie's, I totally, my heart goes out to these people.

I totally get. it. But it's like also, you know, as a fat piece of trash who loves shrimp or whatever was all about the endless shrimp promotion. But when I worked at, I mean, I never did 16. I wasn't in that weight class. But when I worked at old Charlie's years ago, when I worked there, and for people that are listening outside of like the southeast or whatever, oh, Charlie's is like Applebee's basically, but it's not nationwide. But like in the south, it's pretty huge. And when I worked there that we had kids eat free right and it was like just like it was like every server hated it it was such a nightmare because it was like one adult could have like three kids or something so people

would come in with like two adults and six kids and sit at eight top and the two adults share a plate of chicken tenders and they get six free meals whatever and you just end up getting fucking the kids raise hell and tear everything up and it was a nightmare from a server's perspective when they oh charlie shut down the kids eat free promotion we literally took all the uh kids eat free menus and stuff that we had all the kids eat free paraphernalia we took it out back by the dumpster and like burned it in effigy as we like drank beers and toasted to each other and stuff that's how we're excited we were that it ended so i you know i get it yeah coming from i mean there was an aspect of this is where they were fucking over their own employees to like

like i said get a good another another server said he made you made about 200 bucks a night before the endless shrimp promotion and once it became a thing it was 90 90 bucks so it's a big difference two hundred bucks a night you know work four or five shifts that's like a wage you can live on in most places uh it's whereas 90 bucks is way less than that um so but another one a woman named josie a girl named uh she was 19 uh she watched the solo diner take down 30 orders of fried shrimp within four hours so they did the report this writer did the bath that's 14 000 calories in one sitting over four hours it's just like this is like the quintessential American story where everyone thinks like you like

it's like of course these people are gluttonous and it's also they're pitting they're pitting people who are hungry don't have a lot of money against workers who can't afford to spend four hours waiting on somebody repeatedly for a $20 a meal. That's such a good way of putting it. That's so true because it's like I get again dude

even though I worked in a chain restaurant endless shrimp I was like fuck yeah that's what's up so I understand that side of it too but yes it's like I feel like but I guess you're saying they knew this would happen but it feels like Red Lobster is like that arrested development meme where it's like a paper bag

it says dead dove do not open or whatever or do not eat and he opens it up and it's a dead dove and he's like I don't know what I expected you know like I don't know what Red Lobster expected doing a promotion like this with their clientele in this country

but I guess apparently it seems like this is what they expected and they just rolled with that but yeah of course this is what happened I mean like me quoted from another server about the cynicism this whole operation they literally closed this store the Josie worked at the day after

Mother's Day. So, quote, they made us work Mother's Day to get that quick buck and then they closed us, right? So, like, they did they pumped and dumped, they pumped and dumped shrimp, basically. Yeah, Mother's day is the, that's the biggest day at any chain restaurant. I mean, I guess most restaurants, but especially the Chains, Mother's Day is the biggest day

of the year, and everybody that works there knows it because, you know, because it's like, that's the one day of the year that, like, Dickhead dads are like, you talk the day off, honey, how about some chicken tenders? That's right. A diet, perhaps. Let's get her a diet, pet. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah. I'm not snile about this shit. Like, it's not, it's not, it's not an original take that like, you can tell like a lot of dividing class line in America's whether or not

you think Red Lobster's fancy. And it was for us. We'd go every day on every year on my dad's birthday. We went every year on my dad's birthday. I was going to say, like, I have a major soft spot for Red Lobster because when I was a kid, every year on my birthday, like our one outing to any kind of fancy restaurant was we'd go to Red Lobster on my birthday. And it's like, you know, I've always had a place in my heart. That and the Cheddar Bay. biscuits, you know, my swollen, clogged heart. You can make the biscuits. I want everyone to know you can make the biscuits at home with the one in your town went out of business.

But the recipes online is just bisquick with cheddared it, basically. But so the other side of this, I do want to say, is some people were able to eat because of the endless shrimp thing. It's a quote here from a guy named Michael Durant, a 23-year-old, who said he's very broke and relied on a night with red lobster's endless shrimp to sustain him while his account balance looked bleak. Durant said he once spent between three and four hours in the dining room, downing 83 shrimp in total and took at least one nap at the table.

Now, I'm not approving of what Michael Durant did because what he did was fuck over a worker who had to sit at a table occupied for four hours. If you waited tables, no, this fucking sucks. Yes. But like, America needs a better social safety net. Yes. Besides endless shrimp. No, dude, the way you put it as far as like, it's classically pitting poor people

without much food who need, you know, meals or whatever, get a lot of stuff. Justin, it's against, like, working people at the bottom of the chain. Like, that's a perfect way of looking at because that's so true. Because, yeah, again, I understand both sides. Like, we, I never actually did it. But me, my buddies, we'd go to, like, the Chinese buffet or whatever. And we'd almost, like, you know, we could come in here one day. And, like, we could eat lunch and we could just chill.

We'd just hang out, play cards or something like that. Then we also eat dinner. You know what I mean? Take a nap in the middle or whatever. Like, you get, like, everybody's done that buffet math, I think. But, yeah, it's a shame. So are they, just to be clear, are, they like done done or red loss are they going to exist in some form there's just way less of

them yeah there's like they closed a hundred this which means there's still 4708 by my math but like i don't know what it means for the future of them somebody like it's like it was a profitable business to prop private equity towns the white trash people all over america trash people poor working people had a fancy a restaurant they considered fancy to go to on their birthdays yes people made money working at them it was a it was a going concern and these vultures came in and did a paper scam where they rented their own properties to themselves and now nobody has anything anymore and all those people should be in getmo and nothing's good at like i see i joe biden if you're watching any politician who wants to run against this kind of horse shit would

win 50 states right and i don't know why we can't do it right yeah yeah we can't have nice things in this country mark what are you going to say all right Let's get into it. Producer Matt is with us doing the things behind the scenes. This is weekly skews. Before we continue, I want to remind you all of a couple of things. Of course, if you want to see me do stand-up comedy live and in person, and of course, you should want to do that.

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But first, we begin with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., everyone before who didn't notice Trump's legal team is actually the Washington Generals. Let's watch this. Oh, you're scared of that? I mean, everybody talks about him suing a lot of people. They don't talk about his success rate. though you know

kind of bad all right so that's director of the film the new film the apprentice at Ali Abbasi at the Khan Khan at the Cannes I believe so yeah right can't cans

to an American yeah right okay so so the apprentice is a bi-epic of Donald Trump of sorts starring Sebastian Stan and Ivana Trump's played by Maria Bacalova she's the first cast member

from Borat's subsequent movie film making appearance on this episode. So a really fun legal battles have behind the scenes battles happening in this movie. So it turns out one of the investors is former disgraced owner of the Washington commander's football team,

Dan Snyder, who's a big fan of Donald Trump. He invested a bunch of money in this movie thinking it was going to be, I don't know, like a Davey Crockett movie or something, like a heartworm tale of Donald Trump overcoming adversity? I don't fucking know. And when he saw the film, was horrified, and has been trying to get the movie recut,

specifically to take out a few scenes, one where Trump basically sexually assaults Ivana, and another one where he undergoes liposuction in a hair transplant while his estranged mentor, Roycone, dies alone. All right. So I haven't seen it. I don't think a trailer's out yet, not public anyway. I'm not sure when the movie's going to come out.

It sounds to me that has the vibe of something like vice or like, A bit of a farce, like an I-Tanya sort of thing Right, which I feel like tonally is the only thing That kind of suits a Donald Trump biopic in my opinion Is something at least somewhat farcical Because how else are you going to do it? I can't imagine thinking it would be anything other than that If I was asked to put money into it

But for those of y'all that are not sports fans, Dan Snyder, the previous owner of the Washington Redskins was Sorry, I'm sorry, the Washington commanders Over the Redskins for most of the time he owned them Was widely regarded as perhaps the shittiest and dumbest and worst owner in the national football league, a league, which contains such luminaries as my raiders, Mark Davis, who's had the same bowl cut for 13 years, and a lot of nepo babies and otherwise dip shit. So it's quite the honor he had. I'm just letting y'all know

what his general public reputation was. So this thing very much checks out from a Dan Snyder perspective. Yeah, I mean, he donated millions of Trump's like inauguration. If you, like, we can get into, we could do a whole episode on Dan Schneider's whole thing, but like, They, you know, famously, like, drove widows. Hemp out his cheerleaders, essentially. Try to black male cheerleaders. They're having sex with, like, supporters by holding their passports in foreign countries. He tried to bankrupt widows who are fans of the team by locking them into, like, like,

when they try to get out of their season ticket contracts, even though the commanders are very popular, he could have sold it. He tried to extract, he's just an awful, awful person. But so, but you got to, like, If I could get one thing through the heads of every America and to be like, you're not smart just because you're rich. And like, you have to be incredibly stupid to think this movie was going to be a positive portrayal of Donald Trump

because it's essentially a buddy movie about his relationship with Roy Cohn, which is why it's called The Apprentice. Their theory of the case is he's Roy Cohn's apprentice. All right. I feel like even, I just feel like if I was approached by some, like, Hollywood producers wanting to make a. Trump biopic, and I was a huge Trump fan, I feel like I'd automatically be, it's Hollywood. They're famously the wokenest place in the world, right?

That's what everybody hates me so much more for. Like, I would be immediately suspicious of their motivations, I think. If I was a magotype with a lot of money and someone asked me to fund a film about Donald Trump, like that would be my start. I would default to this is going to make him look bad, right? You know, because it'll be based on the truth and stuff and he's a diff shit. Right. And we live in the age of, like, self-produced biopics, like, where, like, people make their own life story and they're famously frictionless and just overcome everything.

And it makes for a boring, like, the movie where a guy inherits $400 million from his dad and then builds a building and then gets elected president is not a fucking good, interesting movie. All right. So, like, you've got to be, you get his two layers of stupid baked in here. But also, like, if you guys don't know anything about the life of Roy Cohn, all right, he was, he was Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during the Army McCarthy. hearings in 1954. This was the hearings where they talked about how the United States Army had been overrun by communists. Part of this was a lavender scare where

Cohen and McCarthy allegedly alleged that the Soviet block intelligence services were blackmailing like the State Department Army because everyone in them was gay, right? And an element of this is that Roy Cohn was gay and superclosited, although he said he was gay and not homosexuals because

homosexuals are weak, which fucking, just awful person. Anyway, Eisenhower banned gayist from working for the federal government. because of this push, and a lot of gay people supposedly killed themselves. Overall, over being out of back then, Roy Cohn's client is a lawyer where a mafia boss is fat Tony Salerno, Carmine Gillante, John Gotti, and also Rupert Murdoch. In 1986, he was disbarred by the Appellate Division of New York State Supreme Court for unethical conduct after attempting to defraud a dying client by forcing the client to sign a will amendment leaving him his fortune. Then he died five weeks later from age-related complications, having vehemently denied that he had AIDS. like might be like oh a roy cone movie obviously it's going to be what a great guy he was yeah right yes yes

i'm surprised disney isn't producing this right yes the many many travails and victories of one roy cone yeah given that type of but i mean you think about it i mean i don't know but i feel like dan snider he probably thinks roy cone was fucking rad or something you know what i mean like to them it's like yeah he is great why except for the gay part yeah yeah that's true That's a good point. Yeah. But he denied being a guy, you know, he was one of the good ones, Mark. Yeah.

A part of this also made to go, the Scooby-Doo confused noise was like, McQuardier, Snyder isn't the only investor in The Apprentice. Justin Trudeau's Canadian government also put in money, as did the Irish and Danish governments. Is the Danish government that have you're producing, helping produce movies that, like, insults potential next to U.S. presidents? So, all this is. I read that, too, and I was thinking, like, I was going to ask you, actually. like don't a lot of other countries they have like government funded arts programs or something like extend to cinema where they'll you can apply to get some of this government funding to make your movie or something like that i have to assume that like some version of that is what happened here and whether they approved it because it's about donald trump or not as you know that's one thing but like it's a thing that places do for whatever reason it didn't go into details about how it was funded but yeah i worked in a movie once it was like basically all tax games all the way down.

You cast one Australian actor because you get a tax credit from Australia for casting on Australia. A couple British actors because the British government gives you money. You film it in Chile because you get tax credits from them, yada, yada, yada, yada. It's like, there's a lot of that shit baked in. But, like, it's just, this is all fucking stupid. Like, it's like, but it really made me go, like, do double take because all the foreign money flowing into American elections is just like, I mean, I know America does

sci ops in other countries so it's did for tat shit but like we just had a whole thing a years-long scandal about the Russian government running you know a campaign for Donald Trump a bunch of monies trying to like swing primary elections that's coming from like supporters of Israel in ads don't even mention Israel and it's like I'm not sure how we put the it's it feels weird to me for the whole world to be running ads in American elections in a way that I find scary? Yeah, no, I mean, I hear you, but I think it's like, I always thought, uh, like I always thought it was wild that other places like even knew, like when I was younger, I mean,

I thought it was wild that people in other countries like knew about and kept up with American politics and shit. Because in my head, I was always like, we don't know what Belgium's doing. What fuck you doing, Belgium? We, y'all got a king. We don't know. We don't give a shit. We're Americans.

And, uh, but like, especially after recent, after recent years, I guess I do kind of, kind of understand it because it's like just the impact that America has on the global scale. It's like, you know, if you lived, if you lived in a neighborhood and you started to suspect that like one of your neighbors across the street was like running a meth lab or something and then one day he buys a tank and it's parked outside of the meth lab or like you're probably going to keep closer tabs on that guy. You know what I mean? Just because it could also affect you. So I'm sure this is a version of that. Like we're so intertwined with how things go globally that they feel like that I have to, you know.

The Danish government has a vested interest in Trump not becoming president again because if he pulls out of NATO, it means Europe's at a heightened risk for war and Russia's going to run amok and all that shit. And like, so I get it. I'm just saying, I wish we didn't live in a universe where Saudi Arabia is about to pump billions of dollars into an American election campaigns for whatever fucking reason because they want to keep getting away with 9-11 or whatever. I don't know.

It just feels weird to me. I also wish that. All right. Our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is cops. who would dare serve a guy with an indictment on his birthday, y'all. Rudy Giuliani, in case you missed it, got served with an indictment from the state of Arizona on his actual birthday. And in a pretty funny fashion, too, the way it actually happened, the way it broke down was pretty comical. So, Matt, if you had this first image, throw up as a tweet from Giuliani, all right, there is.

If Arizona authorities can't find me about tomorrow morning, they must dismiss the indictment. They must concede they can't count votes. Ha, ha, ha. He got them. here's the second image quote tweet from the Arizona Attorney General Chris Mays dunking on him because he got served like literally like an hour after posting that so then Rudy Giuliani blocked her as if that would have this humiliation or get him out of going to court I don't fucking know right so it's like this is like a funny political

version of that like that famous viral story it's like what are you going to do stab me quote from man stabbed you know what I mean like he's like literally right before they served him. He's like, yeah, well, they ain't going to serve him. I'm popping bottles. Everything's going to be fine. And then right after that, they serve him. And in fact, I know, I saw that the dude who served him was, like, present and sang happy birthday to him in everything. I watched the video of it. I was going to mention it, but I couldn't verify that it was, that obviously the video is people saying, hey, birthday to him, but the arrow pointing to the guy who sang happy birthday, I couldn't, I couldn't find any documentation of proof. That was actually that guy. But that is

funny to imagine. Yes, yes, yes, yes. He takes his picture. they sing happy birthday to him and the dude's just standing there with a shit and grin the whole time knowing he's about to serve his ass it's very funny also one of the reasons they were able to find juliani because he always posts like he live streams all the time he posts selfies and they were like the Arizona AG said they were able to track him down because they noticed they were able to figure out his location from a live stream he did so just like if you guys are on the land from the law don't be live streaming and Instagramming and tweeting all right but so

this is this is related to a case about the fake electors in in 2020. A total of like 11 people were charged in this case. Other people had already pled not guilty. Giuliani was arraigned today or yesterday, I think, alongside Christina Bob, who's the RNC's new head of election integrity. They were indicted for election thought.

It's all just so on the nose, man. Our reality is so on the nose so often. Yeah, so Giuliani had a post $10,000 bond after, you know, he had like, What's the point of going a lamb? You're just trolling. Like anybody else, like, if you, you wouldn't get off a $10,000 bomb. If you're, Bond, if you're literally fleeing being served with your indictment for, like, months.

But if you're wondering, I was going to raise all this money because he's super in the hole. He's got a new grift. He's entering the already overstuffed right-wing coffee grift marketplace. I'm thrilled to introduce you to something I'm incredibly proud of. My own brand of organic, special. specialty coffee, Rudy coffee. Believe me when I say, it's the best coffee you'll ever try. It's smooth, rich, chocolatey, and gentle on your stomach.

It's so good. Pause it, Matt. That's a green screen background of an office. He couldn't even get an office. Yes. His fake coffee company is a fake office. It's just like, so anyway, we talked about this on, on well, rec, Corey brought this up on well red.

We were talking about it. And it's like, like you said, the fact that the overcrowded right-wing coffee market is funny because it's like black rifle is going to be pissed about this or whatever, you know what I mean, because they're a direct competitor now. And the existence of that at all is funny. But it also does make sense because there was a long time there where I feel like we would all agree that like coffee and coffee shops got the reputation for being like coastal queer shit because of baristas and Starbucks and all that.

And it's like, well, what's a papal supposed? to do to wake up in the morning, right? And in swoops, black rifle and whoever else, they're like, no, you can have your coffee and not be a queer. You can still be a patriot and drink coffee. As long as you buy it from us, we have guns on the bag, you know, or whatever. It's all just the same fucking shit. But yeah, it's just, we live in such a cartoon universe, dude, that this is a real thing.

It kind of cracks me up. Yeah. And if you had up all his legal bills and the, like, the $148 million settlements and all this shit. He's also been put on an allowance by a judge and like he's trying to file appeals. And the judge is like, okay, well, you can appeal, but you can't use the money you owe these women to appeal, the women in Georgia. So he's got to like someone else's the fund is appeal. Anyway, all he's got to do for this, this coffee scam to work is move about $150 million worth of this shit plus legal fees. And he's back into black, baby. Okay. So on that note, I was

reading all this earlier and I just couldn't help but think because I'm so, I'm so money dumb and poor white trash. I just don't get it. It's like people that get into this position somehow infiltrate the upper echelons of society, usually by being born into it or wherever the case might be. But like, yeah, he had a $150 million judgment served against him, right? He hypothetically has no money ever, but I'm sure he's still, he's still got drivers and fucking the whole staff and all this stuff all the time, right? Like, how do, I'm sincerely asking, how do they do that? Like, what is it, because they have benefactors that prop them up? Like, where does the money?

Is it because money at that level is just made up on spreadsheets and isn't even real? Like, how do they do that? Because if that happened to me, I'd have to go live with my fucking Uncle Tim or something. Like, you know, like, what do they do? Live on debt. Like, I mean,

Trump, there's a famous anecdote that's probably not true, but it's self-reported from Donald Trump's taking for whatever it is. But supposedly when he was going through his bankruptcies, him and Yvonne or walking down the street, so you know it's fake and walked down the street, but he points to a homeless guy and goes, technically speaking, that guy's got more money than me, which is true, but you still got a plane in a high-rass apartment. Exactly. Exactly. But even that, I still don't understand that. You said they live off debt,

but like the hoops I had to jump there to get this mortgage on his house I bought, you know what I mean? And it's like, and I'm doing just fine. Like, that also I don't understand. It seems like when you get to a certain level, then you're just there. Like, you can just, it's like there's some tacit, or agreement they all have with each other where it's like, oh, we'll just, you know, we'll change this spreadsheet number to this spreadsheet number or whatever and you can be technically broke but still live in a mansion and have your full staff and all this stuff. It's like, I don't get it. I don't get how it works, man.

Right. Like it bothers me. It's almost like you can take a storied, long running restaurant franchise, pump it dump with the end of shrimp and then rent your own land back to yourself and walk away with a big bag of money somehow. It's like, it's like, it's all fake, man. I know. It's all fake. And it's like, you know, it's like that George Carlin quote. It's all one big club and you ain't in it or whatever. That type feels so often. It's like they just, they live in a whole different world than all the rest of us. All right. Do you want to talk about a different town of impunity? Yes, please. All right. It's getting into your old stomping grounds of Texas. I mean, Texas is a huge state. But you did live in that huge state for a long time. Yeah. I've been all over it. Go Mavs.

Yeah, but so you're rocking a Dallas cap right now. So, Greg Abbott, fucking shithead asshole, pardoned Daniel Perry late last week. Perry was convicted of killing a Black Lives Matter protester by the name of Garrett Foster. Foster was open carrying an AK-47, which you're allowed slash and courage to do. I was that saying. They love that in tech. Dudes like Perry post videos all the time of themselves going to an R.

He's fucking strapped up with an AK-47, whatever, because this is America. and you've got a God-given right to do that. Right. Foster, since race is an element of this case, I should mention, Foster was white, his fiancé was black, and it was a Black Lives Matter protest. And if you're wondering,

there's some sort of other part of this story that was a mitigating factor, maybe something else about Perry made him sympathetic. We'll get into the details of the case in a minute, but like, no, Abbott pardoned him purely because the person he killed

was a Black Lives Matter protester, and that's it. There's no other part of this. story. And this, like, the frightening part about this, besides other stuff that's going on in Texas at the moment, that it will make this story make a little bit more sense thematically, if even more frustrating,

is like, there's, it's just, it's just, this is just like back when, like, white people would lynch freedom riders who came down from the north in the six days.

It's like, it's part of the same fucking story. He killed a person for caring about civil rights. And the government's like, that's a okay with us. good job you're free all right um abit did as quickly as he could uh parry was convicted a couple years ago but because like legally speaking in texas you can't pardon somebody to the pardon board recommends it so we had to go through the process and then people were all appointed by abbott

said this guy is rubbing of a pardon right abe gave him the pardon like two hours later and he was like out of prison in houston like within like 20 minutes or some shit right now that's what I was going to say the pardon board has recommended like but the whole the pardon board is made up entirely of like abbot cronies or whatever right that's accurate yeah he did it because they told him to all right they did it because he told him to uh so so the lawyers for perry uh they argued he'd act in self-defense but according to perry's own words and you can watch the video of him talking to cops he said that he killed him because he was afraid foster would go on to point his gun in him not that he was being threatened that perry had a gun so he shot him and he was afraid maybe at some

future point he'd point a gun with him now let's go through the case here because like Perry was out driving it if you're wondering how scared he was he's driving Uber and he drove to the protest all right he plowed through a red light into the crowd Foster was pushing his girlfriend his fiance in a wheelchair like hey buddy what the fuck and then Perry shot him all right

yeah he said hey buddy what the fuck while having a AK 47 strapped to his back but he's not holding and he's not pointing it at him. He just has it and is like, what the fuck, dude? You almost ran us over, which is what anyone would do in that scenario.

And then he shot him at that point because he was like, he was worried that it's just the irony of the whole thing. Like they, like imagine all these gravy seals you see going to Arby's fucking geared up the way they are with their rifles on going in there. Like imagine a black dude just shooting one of them dead

because they have a gun on them just period. It's like, well, I thought he might try. tried to kill me. Who knows? He could have maybe tried to kill me. Like, imagine the way that that would be treated or talked about by the American right if something like that happened. You know what I mean? This man's just

exercising his Second Amendment rights. This is given to us by God and the Constitution, you know? I mean, it does happen fairly often the black person legally, you know, owning a gun, just gets shot and go, well, he had a gun. It's like, yeah, but he, like, what the fuck, man? Like, it's just like, it happened to Air Force veteran, cops with the wrong

address and killed a guy because he had a gun in his doorway because he answered the door when they write cops knocked his door in the middle of the night. They're like, oh, what he's supposed to do? He had a gun. I don't know, man. Past law, so everybody's not going to get a gun all the fucking time. Yeah, but I'm saying if a white guy with a gun got shot by a black dude

wherever out in public without actually threatening him or whatever, like the way that that would be treated. Yeah, dude, a black guy with a gun they better look out. You know, and this the cops will shoot them. Like, you know, so it's a little

different, but yeah. This is after Perry texted friends that he that he wanted to shoot people like he said he texted uh he was an active duty uh u.s army sergeant at the time uh he said i might go to dallas to murder looters he said he didn't say shoot he said murder so which you know is intent he also texted i might have to kill a few people in my way to work they're riding outside my apartment complex uh he so he also like again like i said perry like uh at the trial his lawyers tried to argue self-defense but his undercut by witnesses who said Foster never raised or aimed his rifle. And also by the sergeant's own statement to police, like I said, I believe he was going

to aim at me. I didn't want to give him a chance to aim at me. So none of the facts the case are in dispute that Perry was never in any danger. He voluntarily crashed into a crowd and then shot a guy for complaining about him always almost hitting his fiancee with the car. All right. So he also self-identified his text messages as a racist. He called black protesters, quote, monkeys.

He texted a friend, I will only shoot the protesters in front and push the pedal to the metal. He was saying he was going to drive over people in his car. He planned ahead to do it. And I know, like, I'm a, I think we lock up way too many people in America. But one group of people I'm cool with locking up and throwing away the key is people who commit premeditated murder based solely because of another person's skin color or their association on people with their skin color. I don't think that's fucking weird. And so he also, he, a sad note, he also became public that he was sexting underage girls. right he told a girl be careful not to send him nudes until you're of age and then i had her

told her to argue to make a case where he should be her boyfriend they freed a fucking child sex predator to own the libs here uh all because like Tucker carlson back when he had a tv show suggested they should do it and that we did it we did an episode you're not you're not like stuck in a time loop we know the whole episode about this back during his trial when carlson was calling for him to be pardon to a couple years ago so So if these facts aren't familiar, you're not, you're not imagining it. So Abbott, after doing this, said, quote, Texas is one of the strongest standing ground laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified

by a jury or a progressive district attorney. So the progressive district attorney, his name's Garza. We're going to talk about him a little later if we have time because it's a part of this is a rivalry between a conservators in the state and Garza, who is a Travis County district attorney, who they hate because he tried to prosecute a couple cops unsuccessfully for violence during the BLM program. tests. All right. So keep that in the back of your head here. I just don't. The whole like, oh, we got strong standard ground laws. It's like we also support

people wearing their AK-47s out in public or whatever. And it's like, but if you do that, I mean, this case implies if you do that, someone else can shoot you for doing that and they also have the right to do that. And then you would assume that someone else is the right to shoot that person for shooting that person for having it. It's like, where does this, where does this logic loop end up? You know what I mean? How is this actually supposed to to work. Is this supposed to be cool to do this shit or not? All you gun rights lunatics? Like this is the type of case

where it's like they should be coming to bat for Garrett Foster I feel like in a situation like this, you know? But they'd be like where's the NRA at or all the gun nuts? It's like he was just being a God, you know, God fear and red blooded American

exercising his two A riots and someone shot him to death for it like that. How does that not the way they look at it? Where are they at on this, but the guy who got shot believed other shit than what they believed and represented something that they don't like to be represented. And so that's pretty much all that matters. Exactly. And I may quote here from Kenny Ken Paxton, they're a shithead attorney general. Americans across the country have been watching this case in Texas and praying for justice after

BLM riots terror as a nation in 2020. So basically, this guy deserved to get murdered because protests we disagreed with happened four years ago. Right. And this. this guy shouldn't be in jail for it. But to what you're saying, every time this comes up and make the same point, it's like, this is like, you want everybody to carry a gun,

but also anybody carrying a gun can get shot and you're justified in self-defense. Basically, I want a legal regime where everybody can watch the like the last scene and reservoir dogs. Right. But everything that happens here is perfectly legal, right? Yeah. Yeah. And wild west Mexican standoff shit is apparently what they want all the time.

Mm-hmm. And Dan Patrick, Texas's, uh, Lieutenant Governor was outside the Trump trial today, because of course he was, talking about how the ruling class is trying to do perverse justice on Donald Trump, a billionaire who was the last president, all right? So, like, their understanding of who the little guy and the big guy here is is solely fucking

flipped on its head, it's Garrett Foster should have been able to shoot Scott, Daniel Perry, in self-defense. Right. Like, everything else downstream of this is horseshit, all right? So I mentioned how part of this is a conservative's hating Jose Garza. So being mad at it. about trying to hold a couple officers accountable for, like, I don't know, blinding and beating and shooting protesters in 2020.

Austin police drafted a letter they ended up not sending, arguing that Perry should be pardoned, right? This is according to the Austin American statesman today, they got an exclusive report about this. They had maintained the whole time that the prosecution, again, the same prosecutor oversees their department was wrong to charge a guy who they had investigated and who essentially confessed to them just because they had. hate BLM protesters, right? Cops, we fucking picked aside in this shit,

and I need everybody to, like, understand this. They, what was the last time you heard of cops advocating for a murderer to get away with it? Right. Who wasn't a cop, I mean? Right.

So, like, what the fuck is going on here, man? I mean, it's like you said, like, so, okay, correct from wrong. He, like, came up on them in his car, right? While... It ran a red light and crashed into the protest. right and and the guy with the gun and the victim garret foster was pushing his fiance in a wheelchair when this dude

fucking rolls up in a out of control car right and comes to a stop that's what happens right uh-huh yes and so like you said it's like that's and he's got a good so you would think if a guy driving out of control vehicle rolls up to him he could draw that and shoot the guy and that's fine too but he didn't do that he exercised restraint and did nothing and got shot just for having a gun and now he's the villain for that and I just don't see I mean I know they do this all the time but I just don't understand how you can like sleep at night or look at yourself in the mirror when you make these types of like cognitively dissonant arguments like this to just make no fucking sense but do it with a straight face like I just don't I don't get it You know, like...

I don't think they see it as kindly dissident. I think... Sorry. If your first principle is that America has a social hierarchy and that black people should pipe down and stop making so much noise about being mistreated

and Scott, then Daniel Perry is a hero. And that's simply the end of story. It was a white guy, right? He shot a white guy. Right. But he was standing up for his black fiance and his fellow American citizens who he thought were being mistreated by police. and he was saying so loudly in the street. And, like, Foster, maybe there's something bad about his character that I haven't seen,

but he was beloved by his fiance and his parents. He was an Air Force vet. He was a former mechanic in the Air Force. Let me quote here from his mom named Sheila. It doesn't make sense. I feel like I'm in a Twilight episode. This doesn't happen. Twilight Zone episode.

This doesn't happen. It seems like this is some sort of a political circus and it's costing me my life. Her son was a supporter of the Second Amendment, obviously, who advocated for free speech and had been attending the racial justice protest in 2020 day after day. He deserves so much better, she said. He was an Air Force veteran. He was out there protecting people from people like Perry, which is it.

He was out there being what you're supposed to do as a white ally is putting his body on the line to also be a part of the protest to try to prevent them from being fucked with more brutally, and he died for it. His former fiance named Whitney Mitchell, let me quote her, said, The Abbot's pardon, quote, desecrated the life of a murdered Texan, impugned that jury's just verdict and declared that a citizens cannot can be killed with impunity as long as they hold political views that are different from those in power

this is pure viewpoint discrimination anti first amendment shit exercise the end of a gun all right and we talked about the student protests and stuff it's like it's hard like when I say no one really believes in free speech this is kind of what the fuck I'm talking about and like I find it internally frustrating

that like right wing protests in America are lauded. If January 6 have been slightly less violent, it would have been valorized. And they've done, I was running around everybody, they've done January 6 drive runs where aren't people that occupies state houses in multiple states all over the country. And nobody got killed by cops or anybody else. All right. And so this is part and parcel, like what's going on in Texas, if we read the scope a little

bit. You're clamping down on all kinds of dissent in Texas. It wasn't just like Abbott sending Department of Public Safety into UT Austin. We wouldn't send them into Yuvaldei to crack students' heads and no one ever got charged. They didn't even bother charging the students. They didn't even go with the back end of this far as they usually do this. The rest of the people and let them all go. All right.

There's a broader crusade against education, which you talk about a lot. State universities have fired hundreds of workers that were dedicated to making college classrooms reflect Texas's diversity, which Texas is a very diverse state. Houston is one of the most diverse city in America. this is not some like white fucking backwater no i mean i feel like everyone i don't care what your political position is i feel like everyone knows that texas is that even if they don't understand it fully they understand that you know there's a lot of mexicans in texas you know but there's a there's a huge Hispanic population in texas and then all the white red blood and americans and then also yes

black people and all the other types of immigrants that you have in any general big say like Texas has got to be one of the most diverse states in the union, I would have When I lived in Arlington, like three of the most popular restaurants in town, at a soul food place, a Vietnamese place obviously, and a hamburger place, we're all owned by Vietnamese immigrants. All right, I live next door to, I live in Bedford, Texas, which is next door to Eulis. Trinity Eulis is a football powerhouse precisely because they got a bunch of Tongans go there. and I don't know, I don't have a good understanding of why Pacific Islanders hit so hard at American football, but they do.

They do. They just big. I don't know. Well, actually, even the ones that aren't big, like, even the skill position players. Like, yeah, it's great. Yeah, American Samoa is like, an American, a young American Samoan male is something like 150 times more likely to make it to the NFL than any other type of young male or whatever. Like, they have a, they got a wild, I don't know, they just hit at it. They hit at football. Yeah. I don't know if it's still turned out. When I live there, Ulus, Texas had the largest population of Tongans outside the island of Tonga in the world.

And if I remember right, because of the climate and they know how to work on airplanes and move to near the DFW airport to work at the airport. I don't, maybe I'm misremembering all that. Anyway, but if you want to be, you want to imagine, put yourself in the, like the pants pissing fright

of playing high school football in Texas against the number one team in the country and they come out and do the Haca before a fucking game. Good point. Texas is already hotly contested in football. terms in high school. And then, yeah, team comes out doing the hiker. That's trouble. That's bad news. Anyway, yeah, well, that's a scary-ass war dance. So everything that's happening in

Governor Abbott's Texas. Greg Abbott's a thoroughly mediocre fucking person who's doing all this shit because he's being led around the nose by right-wing activists who think it's what he's supposed to do. It's not because this comes from strong aspiring fascist. He's purely a fucking coward who just wants to keep his job and keep making money. All right. So you got a war against liberalism, education, self, the influence of corporate oligarchy, the surge of Christian nationalism, a war on feminism, strict abortion ban. It's using its own state military to oppose the federal military. And a military has cops that just fucking killed a migrant last week that beat one to death on the Mexican side of the border. This is like,

this is just like a fucking icing on like a fascist cake that just fucking drove me absolutely insane. And like the other shit they're doing, I mentioned Jose Garza earlier. Texas passed a law that essentially allows, sort of like the abortion bounty hunter ban that allows that Texan to sue another Texan for getting an abortion. They passed a state law that essentially allows one constituent to file a petition to remove a district attorney

who they disagree with. Basically aimed just at Jose Garza because he tried to prosecute cops for doing crooked shit and also he says he refuses to prosecute based under the abortion ban. All right. the Troutter moving before This is pretty funny

A woman filed a new one We'll get to her in a second But the first time a guy tried to file a motion Remove Garza under this law Purely because Garza was prosecuting him for felony drug charge You know Yeah, go for it, buddy

Gazzade was Jason Salazar And again, the judge found He was ineligible to follow his complaint because he was trying to retaliate against a prosecutor who was trying to put him in prison. But they finally found a non-fellant to do this. Her name is Mary Dupuis, D-U-P-U-I-S. I don't know. Please.

Yeah, she said, she's alleging the misconduct includes, quote, indiscriminately pressing charges against law enforcement officials and presenting those cases to grand juries, along with the abortion stuff. So indiscriminately prosecuting law enforcement is trying to hold accountable a handful of officers, who were caught on a film beating the shit out of nonviolent protesters. And this is like, there's all, like,

like Ken Paxton got a DUI. I think guards with the prosecution. This is all just fucking pissing contest shit. There's an old canard. Like it wasn't, I forget who said it. This is a guy on the internet, I think,

was like conservatism. Conservatism has exactly like two core beliefs. The law should like bind some people, protect others and protect other people and not bind. It's like, this is just pure, a pure distillation of that. It's like Ken Paxton should be able to

drive drunk and Daniel Perry should be able to shoot people but Garrett Foster should not be able to walk around holding a gun even though everybody else in Texas can walk around holding a guy because of what he believes it's like you said viewpoint discrimination it's a perfect and actually people in this universe who listen to both well read and this I'm sorry for repeating myself but like this came up earlier in a different context but the more I think about the more I think that that's really kind of the main thing is what you can viewpoint discrimination where it's like it doesn't matter what you do as long as you're on their team and if you're not on their team. It doesn't matter what you do either. You're still wrong. I've told this story

before, but I was, when I worked for the DOE, I had this colleague, this coworker who was a super Christian conservative woman. And I actually like, we liked each other a lot. She was like 20 years older, me, had kids and all this, but we used to argue with each other all the time about politics and religion and stuff, but in a friendly way, we got along. But she was very, very, very conservative. Like I left before Trump, but I guarantee you she's hardcore MAGA by now, guarantee it. But one day we were in a training course, and the instructor gave some hypothetical scenarios. She was like, and at the time, I smoked cigarettes, by the way. She goes, let's say that, oh, the city of Oak Ridge, where we live, let's say the city

of Oak Ridge passed a resolution to make smoking outside illegal. What kind of arguments could you raise in opposition to a law like that? And I immediately yelled out, uh, because this is America, right? like just trying to hit sort of I mean I meant that but I also thought it would be funny or whatnot and it got a little chuckle but then the lady I'm talking about was sitting right in front of me and she turned around she was like typical liberal that's what she said and I was like I'm that was the most conservative shit you've ever heard me say like there was nothing liberal about what I just did but she was a good clean Christian woman who didn't smoke and think smoking is gross so she doesn't like smoking and I'm a liberal who said that so she immediately interpreted what I said as liberal bullshit, even though in reality it was perfectly in line with her purported ideologies and worldview, right? And it's like that's just how it worked. There's no logical consistency. They don't have actual principles. All that matters is like if you're on their team, what you do is fine. If you're not on their team, what you do is wrong. And it doesn't

matter what any, what any of the other context is about any of it. Like Garrett Foster, if you haven't been a BLM. He was a white man with like exercising his second amendment rights who got almost ran over by a car, didn't even pull his gun and then got shot for it. But he's the villain because he was protesting for the civil rights of oppressed black people in this country. And that is all that needs to be said as far as they're concerned. And that's the whole thing with them, man. It's like it's teams. That's all it is. Yep. But it's like last part of this, it's not even just like, it's even people. are on their own team.

They're like, right, the Texas GOP at a meeting today where they change their bylaws. What they're trying to do is like they're trying to prevent moderate Republicans from having any sway in the party. And by moderate Republicans, I mean mostly the Republicans. Like, it's not the way you think. It's the exorbit and suburban Republicans who are transplants from other states who move to Texas who have an idea about what Texas is versus people that grew up in rural Texas who are actually more moderate than these fucking psychos.

Right. Like your Dan Patrick's and your Chip Roy's, who have lost the party to these psychos and can't grab it back because I need the government to actually work for their poor rural fucking constituents, all right? So what they just had to, today they change the rules because they're concerned, I guess, about voter fraud in Republican primaries or maybe just to push out the Rannos. In order to vote in Republican primaries, you have to re-register to vote every single fucking year, all right? they've installed a hardliner by the name of Rinaldi to run the party who's basically trying to rig the system so 3% of

Republican primary voters get to pick all the candidates and the party can decide who gets it's pure Soviet-style party politics We're like you can't even get on the ballot for a Republican primary if they don't approve of your positions saying that maybe we shouldn't privatize public education and shit

like this is like when I say it's Soviet era shit that's not only my take it's my Republicans take on with they're doing. This is like no way to run anything. We got like a right we got like a one direction ratcheting effect happening over a ton of shit. And when I complain about Democrats buying into their fucking rhetoric when it comes to protesters or anyone else, this is what I'm worried about because if you take it to level four, they go, okay, we're just fine. To take it to 14. And you're like, okay, well, I got to take it to 15 now. They take it to 26. And like,

just anyway it's just like God bless Texas man fucking prudent for my friends and family my friend's still there and this is it's scary times man yeah yeah well I mean it's like you know I mean like you said Texas is super

diverse there's a lot of great people in Texas and even even the like ones that are conservative but moderately they're all being presided over by you know the most hardcore craziest parts of their popular

The Roan on YouTube says smash that like button. Thank you, the Roan. I appreciate it. Please, y'all smash that like button, share or subscribe, tell your friends, do all the internet stuff. It helps apparently. And Salty says, I'm originally from Texas. Sad it has devolved to be so far right.

I mean, I feel the same way about Tennessee. Like, Tennessee's been a red state for forever. I mean, literally my whole life, but like not like this, though. Like, it does have a different feel to it recently. I mean, they elected Al Gore to this. Senate and what must have been what? I know. And Phil Bredison was like a much beloved governor there for a long time until he went up against Marshall Blackburn in a post-Trump world and yeah, he got his ass whipped. But I mean, yeah, we had, yeah. Texas had a woman

Democrat governor in the 90s. It's not that long ago. It is, it is a devolution. It is like, even in the red states, like people think, it's like, oh, they've always been like this. No, it's gotten worse. Things have gotten worse as far as that goes. Lauren Russell Pink says smart mark is on point. Yeah, what else you expect? That's what he does here. My sister name, Lauren, and one of my best friends is named Lauren. So you got a great name, great name.

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