Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 6/1/2021 – Sedition Commission Permission

Episode Date: June 2, 2021

On tonight’s Skews, Trae and Smart Mark talk about the proposed commission to look into the events of the January 6 assault on the Capitol, which of course was blocked by the GOP, for some reason. Also Mark goes in on the big Q Fest from this weekend as well as some top notch dumbassery, as always.Support the show

Howdy y'all? Good evening and happy Pride Month to you. I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? What's that, Trey? Before we get into the show, I saw this thing today, and I want to... I'll show you the video, then I'm going to ask you something. All right? Let's see it. Okay. Skypool, doesn't it look amazing? It's near the U.S. Embassy in Nine Elms, just south off the River Thames. and it's believed to be the world's first transparent pool built between two skyscrapers.

So I think you'd need to have a head for heights, wouldn't you? You wouldn't want to be. Oh, sorry. Sorry about that. Yep. My question, Trey, is would you swim in that thing? Depends on how drunk I was. You know, I'd have to be pretty drunk.

I mean, I'm in London. I'm in a skyscraper hotel or whatever. I'm probably pretty hammered. So, yeah, maybe. But typically, no. no not no i i i think alcohol would make me less likely getting that thing like it'd be more likely it'd be more likely try to fight whoever tried to push me in that that is the most psychotic thing why would you i don't like i i used to not be that afraid of heights like i've been bungee jumping

and stuff but that's not something i could do now i actually looked it up like you're typical to get a little bit more freight of heights as you get older because your balance gets worse and your brain knows it even if your mind doesn't um but like i i yeah i that's That's a hard no for me. And also, like, I like the fact they mentioned it's, like right next to the U.S. Embassy. So, you know what, like five embassy Marines are going to get drunk and getting that thing and follow their deaths. So we're going to have to go to war with England over a fucking pool.

It's going to be great. Hey, Mark, I can hear you, but your video is frozen on my screen. Will you leave and come back real quick while I do the rest of this intro here? Sure. Back in. Okay. Listen, quick announcement for you. You may have already noticed.

Producer Matt is not with us tonight. I mean, he's not dead. He's fine. He'll be back next week. he had a prior commitment he could not move. And so your boy will be pulling double duty once again trying to produce and co-host. And if y'all followed us for a while, you know how that typically goes, but we'll say wish me luck. And either way, this is weekly skews tonight.

We talk about the big January 6th commission that is not to be, at least for now. The GOP has blocked it. I'm sure they have a completely rational reason for that. We will talk about it. Also, in case you missed it, there was a big Q festival in Texas over the weekend. because, of course, there was. And if you know anything about Smart Mark, you know, he's got some thoughts on that.

All that and more on tonight's skews. But first, as always, the Daily Dumbass. Trey, hit that graphic. Tonight's D-D for the first time, I believe, Canada. Well, listen, not all of Canada. Most of y'all are cool, but specifically our dumb-ass tonight is any Canadian who got the COVID vaccine without first consulting

with their local rapper. If you don't know what the hell I'm talking about, A, that makes sense. B, let's hear it right from Upstart, Canuck, MC, R.C, the rapper himself in this clip. Shots are brand new. They ain't fully approved. He said, no, you can trust us. It's the latest in science. Never mind the people dying.

Just give up your compliance. I said, Doc, you must have me mistaken with someone pliable. I can't trust you if none of these companies are liable. So I'm going to say the course, like a one. way road. Take your vaccine and shove it. I'm going to just say no. Just say no.

Yeah. Man, I got to assume that R.C. the rapper stands for really Caucasian, because that is aggressively way. Yeah. Well, you know, white Canadian rappers, that's where you go for medical advice. It's weird, like hip hop becoming so mainstream and everything. It was bound to eventually lead to such, unfortunately. consequences as things like this, right?

Yeah, I mean, like, everything gets co-opted. Like, I mean, rap was around for like two years before they started put it in children's serial commercials. And then we got Vanilla Ice and Ninja Turtle's movies. Signed there, you see Vanilla Ice tweeted out, tweeted out the Ninja Turtle with the American flag yesterday for Memorial Day. Yes, I did.

That was great. What's more patriotic than Leonardo with an American flag? I think it was Leonardo. No, surely it was. He's the leader. Thank you for your service, Leonardo. I can't, like, so this guy is part of a movement. And that other guy with him in the video is a bigger rapper named Chris Sky, I think, is

another Canadian rapper. They're all part of this anti-Vax, anti-lockdown movement. And so they put out this video like a week and a half ago, and they had a big super spreader event slash concert to promote it, the release of the, the release of the this video on this album and a bunch of people got together and uh one of them is a guy running for mayor by the name of uh uh kevin j johnston who who bragged about attending this event in this video right here which you're gonna really gonna love i got it personally delivered show show the signature there you go so chris guy came to calgary with his shirt and signed it for

Rose. What a great guy. I think it's bed time. This dude was on stage at that event earlier in the day, raging against all things COVID-related, talking about how it's all bullshit. You don't need a vaccine. We are persecuting them for suggesting they should get vaccines. He's been arrested three times for refusing to put on a mask and calls in a scene in public, and then he, he's coughing to his elbow. Yeah, he's talking about it's the heart he is and his throat is sword. He's like, no, it's because I've been talking all day.

That's all it is. I've been talking all day. I'm just tired. That's all. So two days after that concert, he had a bail hearing for one of his, like, he's apparently, like, been arrested for, he has a hate crime in there somewhere, which of course this guy is racist, too. But he also, he just shows up places out of mask and yells at service workers because he's that kind of dude. He keeps getting arrested for that.

So two days after this video came out, the judge's like, you won't stop trying to spread COVID, so we're keeping you in jail. So he's running for mayor from prison, fucking idiot. And another fun thing about this deal. Here's the thing, like, I don't know if you know it's RC in the video. He had a hit a t-shirt on and said so-and-so for mayor. It wasn't this guy. I was some other guy from mayor.

I didn't notice that. I'm trying to think of a cornerer thing for a rapper to do than rap about the mayor. and not going to approving like easy E paid $1,200 bucks to go to a dinner at the White House when George, at first George Bush was president and got roasted to death for it.

Ice Cube put it, I'll never have dinner with the president in no Vaseline, just like one of the greatest distracts. Distracts, yeah. But it's like what these guys do, like it's like they,

I mean, technique wise, he understands what rap is, but spiritually I don't think he quite gets it. yeah oh there's something else i'm like i mean of course i know these people exist but i'm always a little bit comforted to say examples like this from other countries you know what i mean because it's easy to feel like we are the dumbest of the dumb and i'm not saying we're not i'm sure we still are but every now and then it's almost reassuring to say that there's some serious dumb assery going on north of the border and elsewise we're not the dumbest i mean we we're

equally dumbness is equally spread out the humanity we are the most confident of the dumbasses. That is the American property. Yes. Yeah, well, you know, we've been number one, number one in the world and everything for so long, Mark, that leads to confidence, you know, pride. Don't look into it too much, but yeah, sure, what on.

All right. Our first offer mentioned, he's back again, McEwanchanaman, and or his attorney, whoever you want to put it on, who came up with a pretty novel and innovative defense in an attempt to get him out of prison, right? Mark,

Yeah, so his lawyer found a clip of one of the many videos from the insurrection. He's walking through the hallway screaming, this is our house, this is our fucking house. And then he sees somebody trying to steal like a muffin off a tray in some like congressional break room and stops him from stealing the muffin. And he wants this. This is like a mitigating circumstance that shows he's a good person who didn't have any ill intent that he stops the muffin theft. And so to me the dumb ass here is the Q shaman for not taking the fucking muffin. it might be the last muffin you'll ever have stupid you're going to prison take the muffin dude this guy's logger we almost talked about it a few weeks a couple weeks ago but then

didn't but i'm sure everybody saw it this is this the same logger that literally called him the r word and talked about him being fucked up mentally this is the same dude and then he's got a different one now i think it's a i think that's a different lawyer i think that guy was that guy's representing a bunch of the guy who used the r called his client Starward is a different guy than this guy. They're all wilding, dude. It's like every

all the, every additional sort of tidbit that comes out surrounding this story is always as absurd or more absurd than the last one, you know? Like there's no end to it. It's so funny how everything involved with it is just so comically ridiculous.

But I mean, I guess like what else are you going to do? You know, you got to try the Muffin defense. What other defense do you have, you know? But it's just so ridiculous. This guy saved a muffin, ergo, he is not a traitor and should be released from prison post haste. Our next honorable mention, the American health care system. That's a long overdue recognition there, that one being a dumbass, because it turns out that one of the reasons that a lot of Americans are not getting the COVID vaccine is because they are convinced that they will have to pay for it. And frankly, dude, I feel like it's hard to blame people for this.

I know it's plastered everywhere. Hey, it's free, free, free, free, free COVID vaccine. That's all over the place. But it's hard for me personally to blame people for not believing they won't get a $800 bill a few weeks down the road. Because that's how health care works in this country. Yeah. I had a test last fall that was told was covered. I got there. They gave me some confusing speech about how the doctor's in network, but the hospital isn't, but don't worry, it'll be fine. You just have to forward the letter to whatever when you get it and you be reimbursed. I got a bill for like $8,000 out of nowhere that I wasn't expecting because the insurance was supposed to cover it. And then I just didn't do anything and never heard about it again. So I don't understand. I'm assuming it worked out, but like this is how the system works. So everybody, anybody's been hit with a surprise bill, medical bill, is obviously I'm not going to believe the COVID vaccines for you because they've all been to the doctor that they were told was covered and then got a random thing that says you owe $600.

And it's like, why. Can they tell me, can they tell me who I owe this to or why? Sorry, you got to solve the riddle. People have been watching for a while. No, I had that eyeball surgery last summer, late last summer. I was wearing sunglasses on the show for a little bit and I was on pills and whatnot. It was a good time. But I got my eyeballs cut into.

And in the aftermath of that, I had to deal with like three different departments at UCLA at the hospital for the exact same procedure. I kept getting bills and I would come back. I paid this bill and be like, no, you paid the whatever department. This is completely separate from that. And I had to pay like five different bills and three different departments for the exact same procedure at the exact same facility. And none of them could really like give me a good explanation as to why. It's just like, oh, no, you've got to deal with them over there. It was just so needlessly bureaucratic and full of bullshit.

And that's just the way it goes. That's what like the main concern argument against any sort of government-run health care system is like, well, you don't want to get government bureaucracy involved in health care. It's like, have you fucking tried dealing with blue calls? Right. Like, what are you talking about? It's like, I don't know. Like you want the health care to be like the DMV? I have never had any problem.

I go to the DMV. I might have to wait 15 minutes. But everything I want to happen happens. It doesn't cost me any money. So I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Yeah. Me neither. Our final honorable mention, and she's featured in this segment for three weeks right in now.

That's right. She's got a real street going. We're hoping she keeps it up. We'll see what happens. It's Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is pretty impassioned in her defense of Confederate monuments and statues of slave owners and whatnot. How impassioned is she? Well, let's just, let's see right here. You all going into a runoff and voting for me.

I also want to say something else. I think that this is a time where our nation is being divided and we shouldn't be. We should be brought together because this is the greatest country in the world. And we, like the other man was saying about breadcrumbs, I don't think we should be fighting about breadcrumbs. I think we should be working to come together and work further to keep things good and keep peace. we're seeing situations where Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, all kinds of statues are being attacked, and it seems to be just an effort to take down history. And whether I see a statue that may be something that I would fully disagree with, like

Adolf Hitler, maybe a statue of Satan himself, I would not want to say take it down. But again, it's so that I could tell my children and teach others about who these people are, what they did, and what they may be about. You know what's funny about that besides a lot of things is that, like, I actually, I believe her about Hitler, but not Satan. Yeah, I don't think the same thing. Like, if that did happen, a statue of Satan, first of all, the church of Satan put up a statue of Satan in some Southern state a while back, and it was a big constitutional thing. They put up Baphomet or whatever, the satanic goat god or whatnot. And, like, that did not have for conservatives. And I'm just utterly convinced that if there was a statue of Hitler in Georgia,

I do think she'd probably be all right with that. And be like, listen, when he'd teach our kids back, can't take it down. But if you put up a statue of the dark Lord Satan in northern Georgia, that's going to be a problem for her. Yeah, I mean, it's weird because they're, like, their obsession with statues, and they were talking about religion. It was really funny. There's a whole, like, commandment about idols, idol worship.

But that's a fucking, that's a different topic, I guess. But I don't know if you know this, Trey, but one thing that's funny about the church of Satan is they don't believe in Satan. They're just atheists who like being annoying. So, yeah, like, does she think there are a bunch of statues of Hitler anywhere? Because there aren't for a reason. Like, Germany, like, our model for how we talk about slavery in the Civil War should be how Germany talks about. will work too because they drill it into

their kids' heads and your grandparents sucked. They fucking sucks. They fucked up. Do not do it again. They were bad. Literally you can't, like, I think the swastika's ban in Germany. I mean, they don't have something similar by our First Amendment or whatever,

but like it's, there's still a free country by any definition of the word that means anything. And they just can't fly, you can't fly a swastika. You know what they do instead? they fly the Confederate flag. That's very popular among German and fascists. Yeah, well, it's popular

in a lot of outside circle. I guess they're not entirely outside, but you know what I mean? That was one of the wildest things to me, like when I was younger, realizing that the Confederate flag was huge in other places, you know,

and I mean, I get it now. You know what I mean? But at the time, I was like, what the hell? What is that about? As Corey Forrester likes to say,

like, y'all are appropriating our racism. It's like if you think that the Confederate soldiers were heroes, then somebody from Minnesota flying the Confederate flag is stolen valor, right? Right, right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. All right. Well, let's get into our primary topic tonight. The big sedition commission that was not to be. January 6th, bipartisan commission was proposed by Congress and summarily shot down by the Republicans in the Senate. um this happened because the filibuster exists and that's why it was allowed to go on and it's funny because it's like to me you know they they have a lot of them have this stance like listen it first of all it was mostly peaceful people at that thing and secondly the ones that were you know the bad actors well a lot of that was antifa that was actually antifa sacred agents

in you know in disguise and that's what was going on and you would think like you know what would prove that to be true an investigation into the facts like that would clear y'all's name and once and for all proved that y'all had nothing to do with it but obviously it's bullshit and we all know it's bullshit but them refusing to even investigate what happened is just straight up proof that they know that isn't it i mean what other explanation is there for this well at the top of the show you said uh they objected the commission and i'm sure they have a rational reason And in my head, I was like, yeah, they do have a rational reason. They don't want to look bad.

Right. Yes. It's perfectly rational. But that's not the one they're giving, you know. Yeah. Yeah. No, they are, they're behaving totally rationally. The ones behaving irrationally at this point are Joe Manchin and Kristen Cinema,

who are not pursuing their own raw power and political interests. So after Manchin Cinema, of course, well, six Republicans voted for the commission. two Democrats didn't They sat out the fucking vote They didn't show up for it So he's still only got 54 votes One of them was Kristen Sinema I don't know

She's nuts So I don't know what she's Maybe they knew it wasn't gonna pass So I don't know Maybe she had like a goat yoga class or something But So Manchin holds out hope He still says they're going to get 10 Republican votes somehow

He still thinks they're going to do it He's a fucking idiot He put out this video after After the vote got shot down and it just, it's infuriating. Before January 6th, 2021, an attack on Congress and democracy at our capital at the hands of our own citizens was unimaginable. In the 240-plus years of our great nation's history, we have never seen an attack of this nature. Not even during our nation's horrific Civil War did this happen.

This was our chance to have a bipartisan commission that would allow for an impartial investigation into the events of that horrific day, so that we are better able to prevent another attack on our nation. Let me be clear. Democratic leadership in both the House and the Senate accepted the proposed changes from Republicans because a commission of this nature must be bipartisan to be successful. This commission passed the House with a bipartisan vote. The failed vote in the Senate had six brave Republicans, but that was forced short of the 10 necessary to advance the legislation.

choosing to put politics and political election above the health of our democracy is unconscionable and the betrayal of the oath that we each take is something they will have to live with. To the brave capital police officers. Yeah, pretty impassioned statement, Mark, that he made. Like, listen, this is unforgivable to not pass this thing. Something needs to be done, right?

Yeah, and there's only one thing that can be done. There's one thing that could be done, and that is Joe Manchin voting to overturn the filibuster. That is, he has complete power over this. He can stop this at any point. And that has been brought up to him. And this is what he had to say about it. Break the filibuster in order to get this passed. I'm not ready to destroy our government.

I'm not ready to destroy our government. No, I think the best we'll come together. You have to have faith. There's ten good people. How frustrating is it? He's not willing to destroy our government. You have to have faith in good people. he's upset about destroying the government by getting rid of the filibuster you know what could also destroy the government a goddamn armed coup at the at the capital building literally overthrowing it that seems like a threat to our government but yeah refuses to to get rid of the filibuster what is this dude's deal mark i so there's this whole school of thought okay so american exceptionalism is a hell of a drug right yeah you stop any random person on the street

they'll tell you that like we're telling yesterday or yesterday we're talking about how like somebody was like thank the troops who died for your right to have a cookout today it's like do you think people don't have cookouts in other countries like what do you what do you think is going on in other countries do you think like you can't grill out in France or England or China or even or Korea I mean in Korea they don't have food that fucking sucks but like they're growing down South Korea but like it's like what I'm saying like like there's not like it's not like you're hanging out like you put a burger on a grill and Italy, like the police drone your backyard. It doesn't like to do like that. I don't know what people think is like, so like, but there's a whole school of thought. Like right now, Republicans are basically setting up to legally overturn elections. Like they can within the letter of the law over, like Texas just passed a bill that is going to allow a judge to set aside election results if he thinks there was fraud, even if you can't prove that the amount of fraud had any effect on results. He can just say a Republican one and that's the election, right? the bills like that are passing all over the country.

They're doing it in open, like out in the open. They're fucking doing it, right? And but people are like, well, America can't become fascist because America rocks. That's essentially the entirely argument. It's like, you're watching it happen. But it's like that Westworld thing with the like, this looks like nothing to me. And it's like, what do you, what do you think January 6 was, man? Like I like, it's like we're in deep shit and all the people with the power to stop it just are in complete denial about their

responsibility in this moment. Yeah, and this sort of dedication to like bipartisanship, which Mansion and cinema are both really heavy on the bipartisanship angle. And like the thing is, I used as a liberal from the South, I for a very long time also was a big proponent of bipartisanship because in my head, I was like, if you don't do that, then nothing ever happens, right? But obviously what the past whatever 10 plus years have shown to me, because I think for me this started during Obama's term, I started to realize.

like, oh, there is no working with them. Like, nothing's going to happen either way because they're not going to do anything we want them to do. And if that, yeah, in a perfect world, bipartisanship would be great. But that doesn't exist. And it's because of them. And we're the party that's always reaching across the aisle and attempting it. And they just spit in our fucking hand every time and tell us to go fuck ourselves.

And at what point do you realize, like, that's not an actual thing. at this point in time in this country, that's not real anymore. And so you've got to just put that aside and fucking move forward or attempt to. And I just, I don't understand it. Here's the, okay, so this will make sense of the second side track. But I remember back during the Kavanaugh hearings, one thing that drove me crazy was like, this big example they held up as an example of Brett Kavanaugh's shitty character was this time in college he got in a bar fight. Now, the stories are that he started the fight, and that fucking sucks, right?

But, like, the idea that, like, there's never an incidence where you should ever be in a fight. Because that's really the thing people believe in this, the cosmopolitan sort of, like, way of thinking that dominates the Democratic Party, the coastal cosmopolism or whatever. It's like, they don't seem to understand that it, well, a fight doesn't happen when two people decide to fight. A fight happens when one person decides to fight, the other person doesn't want to die, right? That's all it takes. So, like, they're like, well, if we don't fight back, there's no fight. it's like no you're just fucking getting your ass kicked but I understand why

somebody like Nancy Pelosi would think that or Chuck Schumer but Joe Manchin's for fucking West Virginia he's broken a bar still over a person's back like a duke's like like the Boers Nets and Dukes a Hazard he fucking understands this so it's like you're just getting you're just getting kicked in your dick over and over again and you're not doing anything about it so it's going to keep

happening and asking to please stop isn't going to do anything because they're winning right now but what what like what's the political rationale for this for Manchin and cinema? Is it because they're in like red states and they think this is what they need to do? And if so, do you think that that actually works anymore, even in West Virginia and Arizona? Like what, what is it going on in their head that makes them land on this stance?

I look, so Joe Manchin is good at politics in the sense he's good at getting elected. He's a Democrat who's been reelected a bunch of times in West Virginia. So like he knows what he's doing to a certain degree. I suspect what he thinks he needs is to be. trying really hard before getting to a last resort, right? Okay. So he can say he tried everything

before he pushed the nuclear button, right? Cinema is a fucking lunatic. I have no idea what she's doing because Arizona is basically a, it's purplish bordering on blue at this point. Everything she's stopping is more popular than she is in Arizona.

$15 minimum wage polls better. So does the new voting rights act, all that stuff. She's not like, she's trying, if she's doing anything, she's trying to fucking lose. So I don't really understand what she's doing. And the weird thing about that lady is like she got into politics is like a green party type. She was to the left of the party.

Now she's to the extreme right of the party. She just kept her hair purple. Like nothing changed. Everything changed but her haircut. And I just I don't understand what she's doing at all. Like she appears to be in the Senate because she thinks it's a sweet gig. Yeah. Yeah.

And if you're wondering what President Joe Biden thinks, Thanks about this. This is as close as you're going to get to a condemnation, I think. Here's what he had to say. Your only should be a month of action on Capitol Hill. I hear all the folks on TV saying, why doesn't Biden get this done? Well, because Biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican fans. yeah i mean that's basically joe doing no vacillian that's the close he's going to get in public to doing that right um i'm assuming there's this thing the summer slump that a lot of presidents have in their first term or whatever they come in and they can't they find they've got all they're coming fresh off the campaign they got all these you know pie in the sky campaign promises

like they always do and then the first summer is when it sort of becomes clear it's like oh no that's just going to happen and that's what Biden is staring down the bear of right now. But like, I mean, what do you do, though, in this scenario? Like, because they're not, there is no working with them. Like we've said, so what do you do? How far can executive orders go or like workarounds or whatever? Like, what even are the options when you're dealing with this kind of, you know, obstructionism? I mean, like, look, there's lots of things you can do to pressure people in private and public. The cinema, like, I'd be like, look, I'm going to, the party's going to primary you.

The entire force of the party is going to be behind somewhere else if you don't fucking get in line. You have the power to do that. Like, you get no funding, no dollars. You can run as a third party candidate if you want, but you're going to look like an asshole. And you're going to be humiliated. And your legacy will be picking up a Republican seat in Arizona, what you're trying to do anyway. So you'll be locked down. of the party infrastructure, you won't even be a good job as a fucking lobbyist.

We're gonna like, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're, we're gonna, we're, we're gonna, we're, we're gonna, we're, we're gonna, we're, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're, we're gonna, we're, uh, I'm, but, um, but there's stuff they can do, but, like, the, the main thing to think about here is like, the Democrats do not necessarily have a majority for a full two more years. There are eight Democratic senators in, uh, and, uh, and I think it's eight that are, uh, uh, in states of Republican governors. If one of them gets hit by a bus tomorrow, their seat will be filled by a Republican. I think a couple of those states have laws saying that they have to be, the appointment has to be made from someone from the party from the center who died. But if you don't think Republicans will have somebody switch the party identification to appoint them before they switch back, then you're crazy because that's something that would absolutely do, even though Democrats would never, ever do it, which is another frustrating thing about the party. Yeah. And also, not just somebody getting hit by a bus, but I mean, like the clock is ticking. You know what I mean? Like the midterms are just around the corner and it's one of these things where like the other

side is going to be heavily motivated, right? And if you just haven't done shit, you haven't energized anybody with anything in this two years you have available to you, then you're just setting yourself up to lose this apparently irrelevant majority that you have right now, you know, like it already seems to not really matter in terms of shit actually happening. But also, you could very easily lose it in 18 months or whatever. So, you know, tick talk, tick talk, man. Something's got to be done.

They will be lucky if they make it 18 months. The average date of a U.S. Senator is roughly a redwood tree. So. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And but like also the Holden this coalition together

relies upon Biden's survival. He's 80 some years old. And like if you don't think the reactionary movement would like grow up like 25% with President Kamala Harris, you're like, I mean, we all lived through Obama and saw how crazy the country got. Like, it's just there are things, dark forces in this country outside of rational control. And, like, a president of black lady would fucking get them riled up for a thing at the mouth.

Although, having said that, I just wonder your opinion, do you think there's an, and look, I don't want to fucking conjure anything into being here or not trying to be superstitious or whatever. But, like, do you think that they can, how much? more frothier do you think they can go? Like President Black Man got them real spun up. That's how we got Donald Trump, right? President Black Lady, is there another level they can unlock? Like, can they go even further on the spectrum of lunacy and rabidness? Yeah.

Always, right? There's always a bigger dip shit. There were a ton of people at the Capitol riot who didn't even care enough about politics to vote in November 3rd, but we're riled up enough by January 6th because they have radicalized by the internet that they stormed the capital building and I'm going to prison for it. So like they there's always half of half of eligible Americans don't vote. So like there's always people to be unlocked we're going to get madder and matter and go. So right. Yeah. All right. Well, shit. You know, who knows? Maybe they'll figure it out, Mark. Maybe they'll

start doing stuff and it'll be great and everything will be wonderful. We'll see. Uh, So moving on to our next subject, and I definitely want you to take us through this one, Mark. There was apparently a big Q festival in your old stomping grounds of Dallas, Texas this weekend. How did that go? Yeah, a bunch of lunatics took over the Omni Hotel and had a big old time. You probably by now saw the video clip of General Mike Flynn, you know, Trump's former National Security Advisor, who was pleaded guilty, but it was innocent somehow of a lie to the FBI and selling stuff, and trying to arrange the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric from Pennsylvania to be rendered and tortured to death in Turkey.

He didn't actually get legally convicted of that, but he did that. He also was, you know, based on Russia's payroll and Turkey's payroll and Iran's payroll, yada, yada, yada. Anyway, he's a free man now. He's speaking of this Q&N on Congress. He's been very public about support for Q&A. He took the oath, the Q&Oth, the Q&Oth to the move. They have their own Pledge of Allegiance. And a couple months ago, and he did, he gave this speech, this happened where he basically, you'll, you'll see it.

Let's, let's rush them. Here we go. And this is, this is, he's being asked a question, right? The person you hear in the first of this is someone asking him a question. Yeah, it's Q&A, yeah. I'm a simple Marine. I want to know why what happened in Minamar can't happen here. You know, no reason.

No reason. I mean, it should happen. No reason. That's right. All right. So. If you don't know, that was a literal coup that happened. Yeah. That's what he got referencing. Mike Flinders did what he meant, but he said Minamar, what he meant, he matched, He matched up Myanmar of the country and Malamar the cookie, I think. You know, I'm glad you said it because I knew that wasn't right, but as we all know on the show, I don't do words good and I mispronounced things a lot.

So I was like, I don't know if I need to wait into those waters, but yes. Yeah. He did exactly nail it. Myanmar, you know, they had a military coup. They've been shooting protesters in the streets and executing college professors and journalists and shit like that. This is also coming on the tail end of a genocide of the Rohingya people. it's not fun to be in Myanmar right now except this guy thinks it would be super cool

we live in there anyway so he basically he says he wasn't calling for a military coup and he put out a statement saying I oppose a military coup which okay I don't know what you're advocating then but anyway so that that video was from this conference and if you haven't looked into it

this conference was fucking wild it involved Roger Stone's social media advisor calling for Hillary Clinton's execution They auctioned off a $1,000 Blanket with a giant cue on it and $8,000 baseball bats signed by Mike Flynn.

Louis Goldmer appeared. We'll talk about that in a second. There was a militia there called the Praetorians, which is a really cool Roman-sounding name, except what they do is they walk around, they walked around this hotel ballroom with open carrying hour 15s, and their security dogs. I have no idea

why they made this choice, but they were pugs. They had little pugs. Not violent. Again, they're like, what? Like I, like I said, everything that ever comes out about these people is more comically ludicrous than the thing before, right? And this is a great example. Multiple members of this elite, malicious security force they had there had pugs as security dogs. How is that not some kind of trolling or just fucking with that?

Literally, what is the explanation for that? Having armed pugs, I mean, the pugs weren't armed anymore than any pugs are ever armed. But, like, this shit is just, it's so insane. It's so insane these people. It literally defies explanation. Multiple members of this group just happened to have pugs. And they were like, yeah, fucking baby roost a badass. I'll bring him with me, you know?

Yeah, I'll bring Reagan. It'll be a good time. All this stuff is funny. That's why we're talking about it. But also, like, fascists are always fucking stupid. what appeals to about fascism is that it's simple and offers you to you have the freedom to believe whatever you want.

You can think that the COVID is a hoax and also a Chinese bioweapon at the exact same fucking time and no one's going to call you stupid as long as I have allegiance to the movement. But so like one of my favorite things that happened you can go find this video but Alan West who's a

former army lieutenant colonel sort of convicted war criminal who got to stay in their army after pleading no contest to torturing someone. He ran for he was a congressman in Florida for a little bit. And then he moved to Texas. He runs the Texas GOP. He led, he and Sidney Cracken led to City Powell, the Cracken lawyer, led to Crowe. Yeah, sorry. And the National, well, Nashville, but they didn't know it was going to be the National Anthem. Because he said, okay, but everybody, clap with me, clap, clap, clap,

clap. And they started trying to go to Nash Landham, but the National Anthem doesn't have a beat to it. It didn't make any goddamn sense. And everybody was off and didn't make it that thing. But my favorite report from this weekend was this tweet from Daily Beast reporter Will Somer who attended or, no, he got kicked out, but he watched it online. The cameraman at the Qadon convention just inexplicably spent 30 seconds zoomed in on a speaker's bare feet. Again, just the level of competency, Mark. Yeah.

It's unreal. It's so consistent how competent they are at every level. I do want to point out that the Nazis were also fucking stupid. Like, they made up their own dumb hand gestures. They got really mad about jazz music. And they were incompetent governing. They, they all the fascist thing where we made the trains run on. time isn't even true they were fucking it was a horrible incompetent government there were people

everyone suffered under not just their enemies and uh yeah so this isn't like they they they lost the war because nobody was everyone was afraid to wake up hitler and telling him move the tanks so anyway it's all fucking stupid we're we're gonna don't think they're not a threat because they're funny they're funny looking i mean charlie chapel made a hitler movie uh they roasted him before uh he was because there was a clown long before he caught he started the world war um so this i said the event was at the Omni Hotel, which is owned by the city, 20,000 people, taxpayers signed a petition to ask them to cancel it. But the organization said, no, no, no, we're not actually a QAnon event. Don't worry about it. And the hotel accepted this, accepted this explanation, even though

the guy running it was literally known as Q and on John. Q and on John walks in there, it's like, listen, it's not a Q and on event. The entire list of speakers is just, you know, QAnon, who's and Q-Anon John is running it. It's like, it's not a Q-A-N-on-thing. And they're like, well, listen, guys, it's not a Q-a-N-N-thing. It'll be fine. Yeah.

What's that $1,000 blanket you're auctioning off for the giant letter Q on it? Oh, that stands for questioning, like LBTQ. So the, and so I'm going to show you this video. Let's show this video, the Roger Stone's sidekick,

who, if you can see it, you're going to watch his hand gestures here because... I'm going to attempt this one. I think we might have the wrong clip uploaded. let's see here it is I'm a simple Marine yeah that's what I thought

yeah sorry it's just this guy says he's talking about Hillary he calls her she whose name may not even mention like she's Voldemort or something and then he mimes wrapping and rope around his own neck

and stringing himself up and the only reason I want to show the clip because otherwise gross is the crowd goes fucking nuts for this loses their minds and that's when I read like oh this is like recreational for them. They're not a political

movement. They're like, they're following around the fucking, like the Grateful Dead. That's what this is to know. Like, they just love fantasizing about people being murdered. As, you know, as a former comedian knowing how comedy works, everything, can you imagine how easy it is to kill at these shows? You know what I mean? If you're on this

circuit, just, you literally just got to go down the checklist, man, and just hit them all and you'll get fucking standing owes every time. They'll cheer you out of the building. It's just the greatest hits. It's like if you went to a concert where all three bands played skin, it played Freiburt. You know, it's like it's the same thing over and over again.

They got nothing else. One of the things that's dangerous about this is the sort of mainstreaming nature of QAnon, you know, and first of all, thousands of people at a conference in Texas, whatever, but as you already mentioned, an actual Congress person was there. Louis Gohmert was there, although he wasn't just there. He kept some good company. Let's put this up here. Um, that is, if you can see that, that's Lou, if you're watching, it's a picture of Louis

Gomer with a guy named Zach Payne, also known as Red Pill 78, who is a prominent, uh, Q and on blogger, vlogger, whatever, online presence. So there's video and photo evidence of Gomer being there, but his staff put out a statement claiming that he wasn't there because it depended on the definition of the word yesterday. or something like that, Mark. Yeah, so the reporter said of an email on Sunday saying it was, why was Gomer at the Q&on rally yesterday? And so they responded to the email on Monday,

which, of course, yesterday was Sunday at that point saying, Representative Gomer was not at the Q&N rally yesterday. And it's like, wait. So like, you said this at 1201 a.m. or whatever, you know, on Monday. So technically, he was there Saturday. So he wasn't there yesterday or whatever. They just love lying. It's like not even for any point.

It's like this thing was on YouTube, but fucking live streamed it. The funny thing about that is like he denied being there, even though it was live streamed on YouTube and pictures of him being there existed. And then the whole reason he was there was to talk about the January 6th commission and say it was bullshit and how it wasn't that bad and that there weren't that many people actually there. Then he takes a picture with that guy who took the guy who took the picture with has openly bragged about being there on January 6th.

He's not in Tifa. So it's like, what's the point of even being there if you're not going to openly brag about having done it? You know, they all did that. You can't try to overthrow the government and not post on your Facebook page about having done it. You know, you got to get that, uh, that treason clout, baby. They all did it for the ground. You know, we all, we all did. They all did it for the gram.

It's a wild time to be alive, man. It is. So on that note, we were talking about the mainstreaming of Q and on. A poll just came out recently. It's got a lot of people freaked down. out. Let's see if I can put this graphic up there. Q and non-conspiracy theories

and if you're to parse all this, basically percentage of all Americans according to this poll who believe the government media and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan, warchipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation is 15%.

20% of all Americans believe a storm is coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore their rightful leaders. Hell yeah. And 15% of all Americans believe the true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save this country. So,

so anybody's taking a single college statistics class knows that polls are wild. Like, you know, polls can say a lot of different things. They can say almost whatever you want them to say. Do you believe this one is flawed, Mark, 15%. That's a real high number. How do you feel about this poll? Well, the thing is, like, the way it's working. it so broadly. And like, for the, I think this pulls bullshit. But like, the way it's worded, like, if you take the word Satan out of the first one, I would consider responding to it. Like, I don't think they're like, I mean, look, we've all seen the pictures of literally everybody who has more than a thousand dollars in your bank account with Jeffrey Epstein. So there's like a picture of fucking, like, of like goofy from Disney World with Jeffrey Epstein. This is a true thing. And I, I, um, uh,

I, so I just think it was like, the thing about true American might have to resort to violence to, to save the nature of the country, like anybody saw. That could go either way, right? Yeah. Anybody, anybody, anybody, someone might think that is true. Yeah. Like, like, we all saw people staying in the streets taking beatings last summer for their belief in freedom. So, like, I don't, I just think it was, I mean, it. So people of like

Cues are weird phenomena People that are actual experts in it tend to be on professional Like not professional journalists In the traditional sense like that Like the guys who do the Q and not anonymous podcast Know their shit And they just do this podcast

Right This is something that like the national media parachuted into Without understanding it And are trying to play catch up Three years too late So they don't want to ask these questions And they don't understand the movement

they don't know who they don't know who to go look at to see what's happening with it the people are actual experts on this movement say it's like it's stalled and it's like the enthusiasm's dying off a little bit because they tried they tried all their stuff they had right none of it happened or worked yeah yeah yes I think even if they're like belief in it hasn't died down the sort of like enthusiasm for it for a lot of them you would think has to have it a certain they're just defeated a lot of them we hope to to do this Yeah, the real problem with it is it's declining in popularity with the general population, but it's absolutely taken over the Republican Party. And he was setting itself up to be the controlling party in America with only that 25, 30% support. So that is the danger of it. Yeah. All right. Well, listen.

And again, I'm reminding everybody, producer Matt is not here. It's going to be me trying to go through the questions and comments. I will do my very best. I promise you. But go ahead and start hitting us with those. While I'm looking through them, Mark, you had something else you wanted to talk about, correct? Yeah. So this COVID lab leak theory argument discourse or whatever you want to call it is driving me fucking insane.

Because people are pretending it's something different than what it was. Like a year ago, when Trump was saying it was leaked from, okay, let's start from the beginning a little bit. If COVID had outbreak, it started in the United States where we have something that broke, in a democracy and freedom of information laws and some of the best science in the world, we would still have trouble finding out how it started. Disease outbreaks are fucking mysterious. The fact that happened in China, good luck. We're never going to know.

You can argue about this shift to the sun comes home. The point of the COVID lab leak versus a zoonotic origins or whatever is like they need better lab security protocols at that lab, which the State Department and National Institutes of Health and CDC were screaming about that two years ago. They were trying to get more funding for it. It was that fun and that Trump was saying was proof that Fauci and Obama had funded the creation of COVID, which if it escaped from there, I guess, is sort of true, but not on purpose. That's the fucking point.

It wouldn't have been on purpose. They were trying to figure out how zoonotic transmission works so they could stop it. That's the purpose of the lab. And all of it's changed. The only new evidence is that three people from that lab got sick very early in the pandemic. And that's the new data point that's had everybody go and see, see, you guys were wrong to say it was racist or whatever to say that it was built in a lab. But Trump wasn't saying it was built in a lab because he knew anything. He was saying it was built in a lab so he could make China a villain for it like they created a bioweapon, which they didn't.

No one, no sane person thinks that biological weapons, unless you're just, trying to tear down society, which the Chinese government is not. They were trying to help maintain their grip on power. Only a terrorist group would do a biological weapon attack. You do not want to just create random dissent. So, like, it doesn't, none of it ever makes any sense. So, like, everyone pretending, like,

Trump was actually knew something and was proposing an actual thing is fucking stupid. That's not what people were saying to shut the fuck up about the lab leakout policies. The point was, like, it doesn't matter, like, you're trying to say if it escaped from a lab, the logical conclusion is, therefore, we

shouldn't have shut, had lockdowns, and we should have opened Beniggins backed up and stop wearing masks. Like, those two things are going to do with each other. Yeah, what is the point? Right. Yeah. Um, all right. So let's say here. Linda Allwell, Medina says, uh, yeah, there we go. DeSantis just signed a trans bill on the first day of Pride month. Yeah. Normally super together and, and all around good guy Ron DeSantis in Florida, uh, had an odd shifting character when he did this Sunday it was about trans athletes right on the on when prime month started and obviously i'm being sarcastic uh it's just one of those like hot button social checkboxes they can hit to do the thing they're supposed to do right yeah it's it's become their thing and like doing it

doing the first day of pride is actually like sort of exposes the point like they're nothing but a troll movement now they don't have any actual belief systems they just want to own the lives right but in this case own teenage own children you're just like going to be mean to kids for no real end

right yeah yeah it's gross man yeah and again these are the ones that think about the children right this is to think about

will somebody please think about the children crowd and then just dehumanize gay or trans kids all day every day without giving a fuck at all. Kim Shea 22 says, I love when Mark breaks shit down.

We all do, baby. That's what he does. Smart Mark, that's why he's here. Have no other purpose. I'm so sorry that I can't find you. Again, y'all know that normally Matt looks through the comments and they fly by, so I lost this one. Someone asked us if we can say something about Tulsa.

Yes, of course, the Tulsa Massacre anniversary just happened. And horrific thing. And what's wild to me is like, I mean, it's not wild. I guess it's like it makes sense. But I feel like the reason more people know about it now is because of like pop cult, like TV shows, right? The Watchman. Yeah. The Watchman.

And there was another one too. What shit, what was the other one? There was another high profile TV or movie project that depicted the Tulsa Massacre or touched on it. And I think if it wasn't for that, if it wasn't for, you know, prestige fiction that a lot of people watch, it would still be a horrifically under understood thing or a underreported thing in our nation's history one of the things just got swept under the rug so you know good on HBO

the stuff they don't teach us almost like its own purpose right yeah I mean like I didn't a bit aware that it happened for a while I didn't quite understand until like this week exactly how organized it was and what jumped it off It was like, so like a, so this neighborhood in Tulsa, Tulsa was experiencing an oil boom. It was an oil capital of the world at the time. And a lot of that money trickled down to the black community because they would go to the,

they would be paid well for work and then go back to their own communities and build up businesses and stuff, right? So they had black restaurants, black banks, yada, y'all. So Shushin kid, he stumbled into a white lady elevator operator and got arrested for it. And a lind mob was going to lynch him. So some black people from Greenwood, that neighborhood, guarded the jailhouse with guns. And then a shootout started. And that's what jumped off this massacre, which was organized and at least 300 people died in the bottom end. They dropped grenades from airplanes, Trey.

It was a full on military assault. And it was also known as Black Wall Street at the time. Like it was like, you know, a thriving black community there. where they had shit was going great until this fucking happened. And if people couldn't have that, they couldn't have a black community fucking thriving like that. And it wasn't just a massacre. It was like a Viking raid.

They took all their shit and took it back to the white side of town. So they just robbed everybody. So, yeah, it's like, and it was also like a culmination of like something called Red Summer, the Rotunnel lynchings. That was a part of the time. That was basically Jim, uh,

the height of Jim Crow. after Reconstruction had been totally defeated. So I don't think we're ever going to reckon with it fully. We're just going to, we're about to do Jim Crow again. So we're just going to go around the circle. God damn. Through my eyes, I like this question, although I don't have a good answer for it. I'm hoping Mark does.

I like the spirit of this question. What can we do to keep splitting the Republican Party? I like that because it's like, I feel like the question is normally like, what can we do to reach these people? that's what I normally hear. Like, what can we do to actually reach these people, you know? But I like somebody's probably like, no, fuck that. What can we do to drive them further apart?

That's what's up. Like, one of the reasons a new voting rights act would help a lot is that right now, Republicans are so gerrymandered and entrenched that the will of the voters doesn't matter them at all, right? So if you, if they actually had to please voters, then they would have to be more sane. or they would fucking lose. So that's one way is you'd use for the parties.

You'd have the Trump sect who's in a very safe district and you have the guys like Adam Kinsiger or whatever who have to run in centrist. Real quick, Christine Hudson said it was

Lovecraft Country. So two HBO shows. Lovecraft Country covered the Tulsa Massacre too. That is what I was thinking of. Thank you for that, Christine. I'm sorry, Mark.

That's true. Yeah. It's where we had to rely on premium cable. Like at least make those shows free for people to watch so everybody can see them. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, that's a question is like, Democrats have to actually try to win because when a party's defeated, they reevaluate themselves. There was a big, like, post-mortem after Mitt Romney loss where the party decided they need to move to the center and be nicer on racial issues. And they completely ignored it and won the presidency. So I think they don't need to do that anymore. Maybe they don't. They went the other way and decided to just become full on authoritarian and just get rid of democracy. So that is a, yeah.

I don't have an answer to this question. It's like, the answer is Democrats actually actually try to win. That's the solution to the problem. Tina Parsons asked Mark and Trey, why are the Republicans going out of their way to ignore clan mom, MTG? I feel like it's because like, what else are they going to do with her? You know, they're not going to, they're not going to fucking do anything punitive where she's concerned, obviously. So, but she's insane. So what else are they supposed to do other than just ignore her?

like she doesn't exist she's the most successful small dollar fundraiser in the history of the party so she's embarrassing his shit for them but they can't stop her she's her own fucking monster so it's kind of like trump when he first started right they were all embarrassed by him and didn't want nothing to do with him or whatever and i hate even like verbalizing that into existence saying she's the i'm not saying she's the next trump but it's a similar dynamic we're like yeah they are embarrassed by her i think but like what What are they going to do? They can't deny what she has done.

Now she has reached people and whatnot. And they just, you know, their hands are tied, I think. She might be able to, like, Corey insists that our buddy Corey who lives in her district, insists that people around there are embarrassed and disgusted by her. But they're not going to vote for a Democrat. So maybe she could lose in a primary. Like, her buddy Marcus, yeah, Tori's buddy Marcus we had on is running against her. as a Democrat.

Run as a Republican. It doesn't matter what you believe. You can caucus with the Democrats once you get elected. Nobody's going to stop you. But like, like, people who vote Republican,

most part, couldn't tell you what their beliefs are at this point outside of we like guns. And we wish things you were likely where we were when we were kids. That's basically it. Yeah. Do you see this? So another thing that all the only topic is split in the Republicans.

Like there's somebody to this study of Democratic congressional campaign ads and it found that a full 15% of Democrat ad spanning are on ads saying that they would love to work with Republicans to be a bipartisan. Whereas like 100% of Republican ads are about how Democrats are traders

who are trying to kill you. Right. Yeah. Now, absolutely. Yeah. Like, what the fuck do you do with that? Why are we still doing that shit? You know, like I just don't. Yeah.

Vote for me. Again, I used to feel the same way. I thought that was what had to happen. But I just don't understand. At what point do you realize that that shit ain't it that ain't gonna work that's not a viable

way forward so just say fuck it throw that away and give up on working with these motherfuckers Mr. Seven Digit says we're talking about how shameful our past was he points out rightfully LOL we have a shameful present too and yes you are correct as Mark said hell

literally trying to bring back Jim Crow right now I mean yeah yeah yeah I don't like Biden's understanding of bipartisan partisanship is correct. He's like, I'm doing stuff the Republican voters like. Like, trying to do stuff that Mitch McConnell likes is fucking stupid. I need to, you need to pull the voters away from the Republican Party. So give them, give them better money and health, give them better pay in health care. And they'll reward you for it. And things will get more

sane. Hopefully. Yeah. Yeah, I used to be an optimist in terms of like, yeah, the further we progress timeline-wise, things will get more sane from a macro scale, you know, but it's harder and harder to believe that in recent years in this country. These people are, to quote the future, to quote the next governor of Texas, time is a flat circle. All right, all right, all right. Let's see. Whisper, Mason says he refers to MTG as Karen Prime.

I like it. um marcia blackburn in tennessee she's a challenger to that title not because she's she's worse i think because she's like more evil and also a little more like she doesn't have that sort of like oh she's a straight up fucking boogity boogity lunatic thing going on i mean she is but she's like more like competently nefarious in my opinion than mtg so that's why i think she's a little underrated in the lunatic game she's the fucking worst she can she can make a plan Like she can, she can decide, she can make a plan to accomplish something on Thursday and lead up to it. But she doesn't have the juice.

Mara just got the juice, baby. She's got that. Yeah, she does that. She's right. She got hate it. It's all about hate it, man. You can't, like, Trump, you can't fake that kind of lunatic charisma. People keep trying to fake it.

Right. You've got, you either have it or you don't. It's funny because we had talked before about being almost like reassured by that. Like, you can't, you can't create Trump in a lab. Like, they're going to try to capture that magic, but you can't do that. That's got to be real. But then you look at somebody like MTG and you're like, oh, she's got, she's like, she's actually insane as well.

So, you know, who's to say? She has a woman, though, Mark. I think that would hurt her in the long run. A girl large brain marred has been making front-facing Facebook videos since 2009. Marshall Blackburn cannot figure out how to do it today and just start doing it. Like it's a true kind of like the, you can't just decide to be an influence. are in 2021 and accomplish it. It wasn't like,

unless you're doing, you got to be like 19 and a really good looking on TikTok. It's about it. Yeah, all right. Well, hey, look,

we've made it. Producer Matt will be back next week. But, I mean, I think I did pretty good, Mark. Come on.

I think good, right? Me. I mean, look, I got to be honest, there were zero tech snafus. I know, I know it's because of the website,

but I'm going to say it's because of your, because of your brilliant. All right. Well, Thank you all very much for joining us once again, and we will see you next week on weekly skews. See you, love you, bye. I've got to put my hand down and end the stream.

I forgot about that. See y'all.