Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 6/18/24 – Congestion Headache

Episode Date: June 19, 2024

 Skewers, tonight we discuss the traffic policy kerfuffle that New York Democrats have embroiled themselves in, and, more importantly, how it offers insight into the ineptitude of Big Democrat and the threat this all poses to the possibility of Dem control of the House of Representatives in the forthcoming election. Join us. Support the show

What's up, everybody? Welcome back. Happy Skews Day, T. It is June 18th, 2024. I'm T. Mark. That's Mark. How you doing, Mark? What's up, bud? Happy Bladed Father's Day, Tee. Yeah. Thank you. I appreciate that. Katie and the boys do anything good for you? So you'll, everybody listening is not really going to appreciate this, but you will, so it'll be all right. We, you know, there's a long running, long running joke in our friend group. It's not really a joke. It's kind of true about my horrible look when it comes to like sports fandom and rooting for teams and stuff like that. So years ago when I moved to L.A., I didn't have a baseball team.

And I was like, you know what? I'll be a Dodgers fan. I can get into baseball finally. They hit no way this can fuck me over, right? Which don't even wrong. It's been mostly fine. But last week, we were like, what were going to do for Father's Day? And I was like, let's go to a Dodgers game.

They were playing the Kansas City Royals all weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Looked at the game on Sunday, and that's a very popular game because it's Father's Day, so it was nearly sold out. The tickets were more expensive. The seat options were worse. And it was during the daytime, hot, sunny. So I was like, how about this? We'll just go Saturday night because that's a night game.

The tickets are cheaper. There's better seats. And, you know, it's the same team, whatever. We'll just call that Father's Day. And everybody's like, okay, cool, let's do that. So we went to the game Saturday night against a night. against the Royals. The game Saturday night against the Royals,

Otani went Ofer. The Dodgers or the Royals hit a grand slam in the fifth inning to take a six to two lead and ended up winning seven to two. The Dodgers didn't do shit. We left and went home. The next day on actual Father's Day, midway through the day,

I pull up my phone and just get on Twitter and one of the top trending things said Otani goes for two home runs as the Dodgers shut out the Royals and win three to nothing. Him and Freddie Freeman went back to back with homers. He hit two homers. They won three to nothing in a shutout.

And it's like, you know, that's, so, you know, it was all pretty, pretty typical for me. But it was still, but, you know, I still had a good one. It was fine. I don't even like baseball, but I like going to Dodger Stadium. It's like, because it's not even about the game. You sit in the stands, the nice weather, having a hot dog and having a beer. So it's a good experience. It's great.

We were there in a night game. So we saw, like, the sun go down over the mountains. For anybody, Dodger Stadium has got, like, it's a great view in every direction. And it's, yeah, it's fun, it's magical. I understand why it became America's pastime. I was telling you and Corey and Drew the other day, like, we've been to a couple Dodgers games already this year, and, like, I'm pushing 40. I think I might be about to get into baseball.

I think I might be old enough. I've already been very papawy about my musical taste. I think it's about time I pick up baseball in World War II and just dive fully in and just leave my youth behind. I think it might be about to happen. Yeah, it's like Israel's turning point as a man when, your entertainment choices start having Seattle's ads all over them. But yeah, I was thinking about like, so obviously my dad's passed.

I don't have any kids. I was, you know, holidays are a time to, you know, reminisce to think back. I was trying to think of the most dad thing my dad ever did. And my dad had a high school education, but an engineer's brain. Like I remember, like he was a long-haul trucker than work road construction. And I remember, uh, redneck engineering, very much a thing, very real time. So I remember, I worked from a couple summers and one more. morning he needed a we are finishing up a job during road construction he had to like calculate

the volume of stone he needed for a turnout for someone's driveway and he was like doing it and i was like wait this motherfucker doing like he's doing calculus on a barnac in on the hood of a truck hungover away smoking a heater at 30 a yeah i'm like i had to stay up all night with like with my best friend as a matchy and just tutor me to make sure i got college credit he just figured this out in his own uh so yeah it reminded me of a father's day reminded me of a time when i was in sixth grade and we had a science project to build a bridge out of toothpicks. Yes. And he got excited for it and stayed up all night and making my bridge for me with like double-layered like construction with it, whatever.

And I got busted for cheating because the bridge was so good. The heaviest kid in my class could stand on it. It didn't break a bridge out of two-pits. As a father of middle school age kids, like they have little projects and shit like that all the time. And we are always like, no, you know, you got to do it. got it like we'll help you in whatever capacity we have but this is your thing you got to do it and then like we'll go to the thing the science fair whatever it is and it's so apparent like whose parents actually helped who did the thing do you know what I mean like every time it's like

their fucking dad did that or whatever and so you know it's kind of annoying from my perspective but I understand it you know yeah yeah uh anyway I didn't get away with it it makes it feel better So got a fun show I'm talking about some bullshit New York's governors doing with congestion pricing is supposed to fund the you know in the MTA and Subways but it's a story about

Democratic Party brain and how the New York State Democratic Party might be fumbling away the house for the second straight election because they're I don't even know like we'll get into it but a couple things where we start so the Supreme Court handed out a ruling last week

about Mitha Pristown the abortion drug you can send through the mail that's been an FDA approved for over two decades with trying to take that back. The Fifth Circuit had a stupid opinion in it. Supreme Court unanimously decided that Miffra Stone is still legal, but there's a carve-outs enough where they could take it away in the future. They were basically saying that the logic of the case was stupid. But a weird thing happened was apparently a bunch of people didn't know about this drug

and the case being in the news let people know about it. The conservatives have done the stricand effects to abortion. drugs. Yeah, I'm not sure that I knew about this drug. So it's like, that's the thing that it's called, this is Plan C. We all know about Plan B. This is Plan C. Is that what this is? Plan C is a website that promotes it, but it's an abortion drug. Plan B is just a period is a, you know, birth control. The morning after pill. So is this like that, but there's a larger window. Is that how this works? Like, yeah, if you can do it. It's a plan C is the name of a website that tells people how to get this. It's not the name of the drug. So like, so I understand the way,

the way I put the paste in the, it would put the text in the document. It's confusing. But like, so basically in 2023, while the case got a lot of media coverage, as it worked its way to the courts, the Plancy website received two million visits doubling in the year after Roadview Way fell, right? So people were getting online trying to figure out how to so access the health care they need. And conservative judges let them know what to look for, all right? And on March 26th, the day the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in this case,

the website experienced a 50% increase in traffic, according to Plan C. The same day, lawyers counseling people on repro-legal legal hot help lines saw a 70% increase in inquiries about abortion bills. So, again, this is a sort of microcosm of how conservative policies about abortions, like just create more abortions. This is just a comical way of like going about it. Like, teach your kids birth control and you solve the problem as opposed to like whatever they're, whatever is they're trying to do. Yeah, you teach them abstinence-only education and they just want to have sex more than they do without knowing the actual, you know, contraceptive methods that are available to them. And then after that, they also wouldn't know what to do in the aftermath if you weren't putting it into the headlines that there are these other options that they have by trying to ban those options through your draconian measures or whatever. So, yeah, it's just because, yeah, I don't think I knew about this either.

But yeah, but it's like people, people are worried about the options they have. And then they find out the Supreme Court's hearing whether or not they should have access to this other option. They're like, oh, shit, that's an option? Maybe I should look into that. Yeah. It's like the safe legal and rare framework is probably the best way to go. They had basically, like, for all the panic on the right wing about getting the birth rate up, that's because we won the war on teen pregnancy. Right.

And they want to go back to teens getting pregnant again, but also have them be married to 40-year-olds. While also preventing like mid, you know, late 30s married couple, affluent couples from being able to have kids because IVF is the devil too. You know what I mean? Like that babies ain't no good when it only natural babies, but also those natural babies if they're born poor can go fuck themselves and so, yeah, but anything as long as there's more babies in the world because that's all that matters. Yeah.

It's like the absence only thing was always funny to me because it's like you're trying to prevent teenagers from doing something by telling them that it's naughty and forbidden. Right. Of course. Of course that's what happened. Just anecdotally, I want, like, you grew up in, you know, rural, very the South, Virginia. Like, did y'all have abstinence-only education? No, we had sex ed. Yeah, see, we did, we did, too. Like, even Salina, which is fucking redneck as hell, we had, we definitely had actual sex ed. But also, I remember, like, when the word got out in the high school, amongst a high school boy, like, hey, you can go to the health department and they'll give you condoms for free. We're all like, what? You know, holy shit, what a hookup that is. Not that I even needed them, you know what I mean? But it felt cool to have a pack of condoms

and be carrying them around. But that's, but like, that shit's important. And these types of measures in this philosophy would do away with things like that. When it's like, especially the community like Salina, you need to be given teenagers for. condoms, man. Like, it's better for everybody to do that. And to want to shut all that down is just asinine, you know, but that's the road they seem to be headed down. Another thing I want to talk about before we get to the show, Matt wanted to talk about

to talk about this last week, we ran at a time. It was an election that happened last Tuesday night while we were on. If you want a little bit of hopium here about the electoral results of all the stuff that's been going on, including what we're just talking about with me for Pristown. There was a special election in Ohio. It was won by the Republican candidate, but it was about 20 points closer than anybody expected from polling or, like, where the district trends. It was a GOP state senator named Michael Rooley up against the Democratic nominee, Michael Kripchak. He only won by about nine points.

It's a district that Trump won by like 30 or something. And Kripchek's a former waiter who only had $25,000 on hand versus $700,000 by his opponents. That was sort of like a shockwave through the national, like, political landscape where nobody does what to make of it. Because as a dumb person, an ignorant person, like that, that would seem to indicate to me that apparently the left, the Democrat side in general, is motivated. And then, you know, now, right? Because it's like this is a, this is one of those foregone conclusion districts where a Republican wins it by a mile every time. But this time it actually came not close, but much, much, much closer than it ever should have. So maybe that implies that on the left, there's, you know, some fervor there, some motivation.

It's also a low turnout special election. So you can see you can cut it in any different way. But like it's probably going to be a low turnout election in the fall. I know we have some overseas viewers. Only like 35 to 40 percent of Americans who are eligible to vote. It's hard to explain. Like I know I feel like we, I know we have some lists of viewers in Australia where they have compulsory voting. This is probably doesn't make sense.

What do you think about that, by the way? like the idea of compulsory voting. I wish we had it. Yeah. I think it's stuff that makes people feel more of a civic duty to their fellow citizens and paying attention to like the news and politics and also compulsory voting combined with like, what do you call it where rank choice voting I think would be a real game changer for. Yeah, I mean, I agree with you because I feel like that, like, I feel like anecdotally you live your life.

You go around and you talk to people. the vast majority of people are not super hardcore in either direction. I feel like most Americans agree on like 85% of most topics. I really do. And you factor in the huge percentage of people that never vote at all. If they were forced to vote, I don't think that most of those people would be voting for an extremist candidate, you know, like somebody like Donald Trump or whatever.

And we may end up, I don't know that it would help us move towards progressivism ultimately, but I think it would help us stave off straight up fascism and right-wing. I think, I mean, a lot of progressive ideas pull really well. Like, people want cheap electricity from solar. They want, you know, higher minimum wages. They don't like pollution. So, like, it's like it'd be way more moderate than people running around screaming about wokeness to like the 5% of people that are really right.

So the funniest poll I saw recently where they tried to poll whether they thought Joe Biden was too woke or Trump wasn't woke enough. And basically 85% of people were like, who the fuck cares? Stop saying woke at me. Thank you, God. Right. That's why it should be. One last day we get to the show.

I thought Matt Gates was out of it when the feds announced they weren't going to press charges against him for his sex trafficking with him hanging out of his buddy. He was making fake IDs for underage girls. But apparently the House Ethics Committee, which is bipartisan, is still running an investigation about it. And they still look into whether he, quote, engaged in sexual. misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had personal relationship and sought to obstruct government investigations. So because it's bipartisan, it's really funny here. Apparently, he's so annoying. This is a lower standard than like a criminal procedure. They don't need

to reasonable doubt. They just need to find that Matt Gates is a slime ball. And he's apparently so annoying and off-putting that a majority of his committee is like, yes, he's a slime ball. So that was just really funny to me. Or we're talking people who are actually in Congress as opposed the one big guy who were those stories that came out about him just walking around the congressional floor like showing people pictures and be like, check out of this chick, totally bang that chick, you like that chick, whatever. And it's like

when you imagine some of these super white bread CPA-esque you know, milk toast politicians that are in many congressional districts, I'm not surprised that that's a little off pudding to them. I'm sure they've got their own bro culture in the Congress, but a lot of them are, you know, not.

Right. all right all right well getting into a producer matt is with us behind the scenes pulling the strings this is weekly skews i want to remind you all before we continue of a couple of things first of all if you'd like to see me do stand-up comedy live and in person and of course you should want that go to traycrouter dot com and check out my upcoming dates tomorrow and through tomorrow Thursday and sunday i've got california shows orange county oxnard and then san jose we're actually my family's making a little central coast trip of it so So that'll be fun. Y'all come out and see us. We appreciate or see me. My wife and kids are not going to be on the stage with me. But yeah, go to Treycrowder.com and check out my upcoming dates.

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We'll get to all that a little later, but first we begin with the Daily Dumbass, Matt, graphic please. Tonight's D.D., anyone who doesn't trust that I have a perfect memory according to my doctor, whoever P. What's his name? Even know what the word inflation means. I don't think if you gave him a quiz, I think you should take a cognitive test like I did. I took a cognitive test and I aced it. Dr. Ronnie. Dr. Ronnie Johnson. Does everyone know Ronnie Johnson, Congressman from Texas?

All right. So he's talking about Ronnie Jackson. So it's just a hilarious secret event. So it challenges Joe Biden to a cognitive test. It immediately forgets a guy's name who was his personal White House doctor. right so is this a different test mark from the remember the famous like is this an elephant repeat the following words man woman camera TV is that the test he's talking about it okay it is right so ronnie ronny jackson gave him that test and he's still bragging about it years later when like that's

just a test to make sure that your brain don't have holes in it is what that test is but he got bragging about the results of it while getting the doctor's name wrong i also i made a video about his mental situation today, and I brought this up, and I said, like, knowing the way they are, I feel like Ronnie Jackson, when this happened, I bet he was probably like, no, it's okay. I know I am Ronnie Johnson. It's fine. You can just call me Ronnie Johnson. Like, no, no, honestly, my parents were wrong. He's right. He can call me whatever he says is right. I'm Ronnie Johnson now. Just call me Ronnie Johnson. Because that's a door mat. They all. Yeah. Immediately after this, Jackson, Dr. Jackson went on Don Jr.'s YouTube show or whatever.

I like to fight that we're doing the same thing Don Jr. does. This makes me laugh. I feel like he should have better shit to do. Also, we don't have the cocaine that he's got going. Right. There was a video that went viral that looked like Ronnie Jackson was doing coke on the house floor a couple weeks ago. Just a while, dude. He had a nickname.

He had a nickname. Dr. Philgoode. Dr. Philgood, yeah. Right. Because, yeah, no, we've talked about him on the show before. That report came out that said he was just giving pills. out like can't any kind of pills you want pain pills stay awake whatever you want he was just giving it out in the trump white house yeah so they were they were talking about uh like how the debates

next week right and i guess this is going to be what the election is going to be about is a senile off between these two guys yes um and we're on record i'm on record anyway on his show saying i don't really like obviously trump's temperaments dangerous but not because he's senile but because he's a maniac but like you're you're electing a couple thousand people to run the federal that run the federal government. It's not really about whether Trump's dangerous because he'd press the nuclear button if you got mad one day. But that's a totally different thing. So, but it's just a Jackson on Don Union's podcast. I'm talking about the pill cocktail that they're anticipating Biden's going to be on. Some of they're just going to try to make you more

awake, the amphetamine type drugs like Adderall and things of that nature. Then there's things like provisial that increase your alertness. So you're probably going to find just the right mix of that stuff, they can wake him up and make them a little bit more alert and with it. For the record, Ronnie Jackson prescribed, like he's talking about Biden taking provigial. He prescribed 4,200 tablets of provisial while he worked in the wayhouse. Also, dude, I'm sorry. I don't know, but I mean, look, I can admit it. I'm a millennial.

I've had my go rounds with Adderall and the like in my time. And, yeah, you know, it's got a lot of effects. I don't think that it just erases dementia. I don't think. I think it would just like antagonize, like, you just really have a real fired-up dementia patient. someone who's like desperate to clean the four but still don't know who the granddaughter is or whatever because that's not how the drug fucking works they talk about after the state of the union they're like well clearly he's on drugs and it's like do y'all

think the limitless drug is real like they do right yeah it's crazy it's like they apparently think somebody in the white house has cured Alzheimer's and instead of making a trillion dollars from selling the pill they're just giving it to Joe Biden to make him not seem like a pap off yeah right exactly yes so yeah so yeah so uh people have started to notice trump's middle state now we show his weird videos where he rambles but that stuff doesn't only break through to um the mainstream media covers the way you would think it would for whatever reason like i think the reason is because he's been dude he's definitely deteriorating don't get me wrong but his like baseline was so low or high or however you want to put like he's been going on these crazy ass nonsensical rambling diatribes since he showed up on the mainstream political scenes so i think it just don't break through when he you know what i mean you can find so many quotes from him in 2016 where he talks about his uncle at mit and the nuclear and elton john's records on it it makes no fucking sense and people are used to that so when you try to tell him that he's out

here saying that boat sink and electrify sharks or whatever the fuck it just don't break through so right yeah he did that he had a he had a skip a speech in wisconsin today where he did the he would they're on the coast of the great lake and uh which whichever one's off coast of Wisconsin, forgive me for not knowing my geography at the top of my head. But like, he looked out of the lake. Actually, ironically. He looked out at the lake and reminded him of his ocean shark stories. He launched into that ramp again today.

But like so, but like when I'm talking about like, people are just so credulous with it. So Trump went to Capitol Hill last week, made his triumph return to the capital for the first time since January 6th for Republican caucus meeting. And in that meeting, he talked about how they were having their, uh, you know, their Republican convention in Milwaukee. And he talked about what a shit hole city it was. Right. Which is the problem when you need to win Wisconsin. Right. Right.

Immediate aftermath of that, Republicans were in the meeting gave four different excuses. One was he was talking about crime. Another one, he was talking about how the election got stolen in Milwaukee. A third, I can't remember. The fourth was he didn't say that shit. Right. Trump's afterwards, he settled on the crime one. So yeah, I said it, but I was talking about how it's a crime written hellhole.

It's not a crime written hellhole. That's a whole other thing. It's just like has black people there. But so, but after admitting that he said it, but said he was framed about crime, he pivoted like a day later to saying he never said it at all. And then now the headlines about it because he's going to Wisconsin were framed as Trump allegedly said Milwaukee was a bad city. Right. No. Allegedly means people disagree about whether he said it. He said he said it. Why are you saying? He himself was acknowledged that he said it, right? Like they tried that like maybe he didn't say it,

but then he acknowledged he said it, but he was like, but that's not what I meant. I didn't mean that Milwaukee is a hell is horrible. I just meant that the people. people in Milwaukee and the things they do are horrible is all I was trying to say. Yeah. The city itself. And yeah, so, I mean, being a PR person for him, I don't know, God bless him. I mean, don't because they don't hit, but, you know, it's got to be a tough job. Yeah.

I mean, he had a, he had a meeting, Trump had a, like, a donor meeting with a bunch of Wall Street CEOs in New York a couple days ago. And people came out of the meeting and say they were alarmed by his mental state because it couldn't follow what he was saying. It was like a weird set of words. But they said there's, like, they're still leaning towards Trump because they said, that Biden is a bigger threat to capitalism than Trump is to democracy. And they weren't even talking about taxes. They were talking about antitrust regulations. So again, my big thing is that the best PR for Biden's presidency is his like

DOJ antitrust appointments and his FTC appointments. Yeah, no shit, dude. It's like if you like the neoliberal's in their, you know, fondness for big business and banks and all that shit that drives progressives crazy. Like if that ain't even winning them any points with these. fucking fat cats or whatever, then what the hell are they doing it for? I mean,

other than the self-enrich, I guess. But yeah, it's like, because I used to, one of the things, like, one of the myriad sort of rationalizations, I'd try to tell myself to be able to sleep at night when Trump was in

office or the thinking about the prospect of him being in office again, was I'd be like, well, you know, these corporate overlords, they really run this country. And like after January 6th and stuff, like,

I just don't think they wanted to get that out of control. because I feel like that'll disrupt the bottom line. You know what I mean? Like they don't want it to get that wild. They want the status quo to maintain and profit margins to go up and, you know, shareholders to get their peace and all that. They don't want everything to go completely to shit or democracy to crumble. But then you hear this and they're like, no, Pete, he ain't said a single word that makes sense to us,

but he's pro business, so we're for it. And it's like, well, I guess I would think about all that. I don't know why I put any kind of trust in, you know, the corporate overlords. but it's like we're so we straight so far from god's light man i don't even think even the rich wall street fat cats have no comprehension of why america's rich and successful anymore like it's just totally forgot like it's like well sure like being the brightest light to draw the best talent around the world to come here and like the biggest the most type a scientist from every culture and religion and nationality has made us all wealthy and trump's going to boot them all out of the

country but i'll make three percent more on this quarter than what what's the plan after that dipshits. You don't got one. Nobody has a plan past tomorrow. I know. What's the plan after that dip shits? Kind of sums up so much of their whole general philosophy. But a lot of them are old as fucking.

It's like, why do I care? Tomorrow don't matter to me. You know what I mean? I'm worried about tomorrow. You have to worry about tomorrow. I don't have to worry about tomorrow. I don't know how to tell you as a member of the human species.

You're supposed to care about the people around you and the world you leave behind when you die. That's kind of the whole point of the whole thing. Your fucking grandchildren or whatever. But, dude, a lot of these people hate their kids and grandkids. You know what I mean? So, I don't know. It's insane.

All right. You want to get to the next one? Yes, our honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is the libs for feeding their dogs, a bunch of gay-ass food. Not this video, Matt. You got the wrong video. We were skipping that because we're running late. Yeah. Sorry, no, but we got to see this video.

Yes, this is a GOP candidate for Missouri Secretary of State named Valentina Gomez, who recently had a bit of a mix-up at her job, right, working for Perina, right? She worked in finance for Purina. They asked her to please stop being so insane as she runs Secretary of State in Missouri and she said, no, we'll not stop being insane. I'm like, okay, well, you don't work anymore.

They let her go. So here she is standing in front of Purina headquarters yelling at it. Yes. Go broke. This company tried to keep me quiet for speaking up against the pornographic material in our children's libraries.

And today, I fire them. No amount of money, stock, or bullying would make me compromise my values. So I will never support a company that wants to empower and protect pedophiles and groomers in our schools and libraries. So feed your dog something that is now weak and gay. This is good versus evil.

So, dude, the whole like, The fact that she got, she got fired by Perina for being, for, you know, again, refusing to stop burning books about how gay kids should be allowed to live and stuff like that. She got fired in her being like, so today I fired them for being un-American. It's like, I just feel like that sort of sums up their whole thing. Do you know what I mean? The whole like, you can't fire me because I quit. Shit's like, no, I fired you for not being a real patriot.

and then people are going to actually buy that. Also, like, don't, maybe I'm wrong. We both live in California. You tell me, I'm a cat person. You have a dog. I feel like, you know, all these gays out here in California or in Portland or whatever, I don't think they're going to Perina really for their dog food. I think they're probably gaying it up a little more than that.

You know what I mean? They're doing, they're doing like that dog food you have to get out of the cooler, you know, or they're like cooking them eggs and shit and giving it to them. You really want to gay your dog up. you've got to go much gayer than Purina. Parina's like, pat-balls use Perina, I think. I don't think they're the gayest dog food out there.

That's just my opinion. I will say it was funny for me that she says, Purina supports groomers because that's probably true. It's not the sense that she thinks. But like so it's also Purina's owned by Nestle, which is one of the most evil companies on the planet. So like, it's like, what the fuck are you even like? The idea that Nestle's woke is so funny.

Right. They literally have slaves and are trying to trying to bogart the world's water. They want us all to die of thirst, yes. Yes. I mean, not know as long as they can sell it to us. But yeah, Nestle's like literally probably top five evil corporation on the planet. She's like, I fired Woke Nestle.

It's insane. So, yeah, the company that's demolishing every rainforest on the planet to get palm oil to make chocolate. it. So people were making fun of her online for calling Purina gay and now you got to see this comic because she was responding to people, sarcastic. Like this guy says, my dog gay, Purina now he's gay. Thanks for bringing

this in the natural spotlight. And she responded my point exactly, I speak to truth. Right. This woman was just straight up stupid. What's more what makes that funny is that that guy, you said, oh, this guy said this and she didn't pick up on what he was saying. That dude

is like a very, very prominent internet cartoonist. He's got like a very popular web comic. So like that guy's like known on the internet is what I'm saying. And she still didn't. She didn't pick up on any of that. She was like, thank you for knowing that dogs are gay now.

Yeah. So she's running for Secretary of State in Missouri. And her primary is August 6th. So she first went viral. I think we might have talked about her. Secretary of State has nothing to do with books and schools, to my knowledge in Missouri. You run elections in most states what you do. But she like went viral for tickets.

and a flamethrower to books she said were pro LGBTQ? And I'm like, I don't even know like, where'd you get a flamethrower one? Why are you burning books in your backyard? Do you seem anything to your job description? So this weak and gay thing, she's called Purina. That's her next big campaign tack. I have no idea who else is running or whether she has a chance of winning. So she made this video unironically and thought she triggered everyone

when they were just making fun or if you got this video for juggling for a jog, Matt. Oh, it's been deleted. Okay, never mind. So she was just jogging, and talk about how don't be weak and gay, which is like all the strongest people I know are gay, but that's sort of best side of the point. I'm just pandering there. Now, you're right, though.

That's a good point. Just this week, I don't just mean like spiritually. I mean physically, like the gay dudes who go to my gym could like bench press a dump truck. So she's trying to get herself back in the news and she's trying to ape all. She's trying to get on, get in on the Caitlin Clark anti-Wilkgrift. She made this video about Brittany Griner for some reason.

if you got this video, Matt. Britney Greiner should be rotting in a Russian prison, not going to the Olympics. Caitlin Clark is the only reason why we even watch women's basketball. She deserves to go to the Olympics unlike this and patriotic lesbian. Caitlin Clark, America and I, have your back. All right, so we haven't talked about the King of Clark thing

on the show because it's like, I just feel like it's none of my business. Right. But I just generally feel bad for Caitlin that she's been an avatar for all these people that she probably fucking hates just because she happens to be white. Right. And it's like she didn't ask for any of this. She didn't ask

to be white and straight. They say she's got a boyfriend, so she's white and straight. And so literally just because of that she's, you know, the great wide hope that and she gets co-opted by all these right wing lunatics, even though as far as I know I don't think she's ever made any like overtly political. There's no reason to believe

that Caitlin Clark is maga e at all or anything. But they but they've co-opted her just because she's white and straight and they as they put it black lesbian league so that makes her their gal the u.s. women's team this big deal about her not making the olympic team but like only 12 people go and the u.s. women's team is one like i don't know eight straight gold medals or some shit they don't need her to win the gold and also she's not one of the she's just a rookie she's not one of the 12 best players in wmBA and it's fine and it's like that that particular thing not

to divert us too much but that and i don't you know i don't watch women's basketball either i'm just thing as a sports fan. That particular thing, I can kind of, I can sort of understand the arguments in both directions where it's like, yes, I get that she's the hottest thing in women's basketball. So having her at the Olympics would only be a boon for women's basketball, but as a sports fan and if someone who cares about sportsmanship and stuff like that, the idea that like, okay, but she's a rookie. So she is not yet good enough to be on this roster. She's not, you know, there are better guards than her because she's a rookie and she's shooting 30% or whatever, I respect that, you know.

As a sports fan, I respect that. So, I mean, I get it. But all these people making these bad faith arguments about it, they don't give a shit about women's basketball either. They're just, they just manufacture outrage. They tuned into the WBA the first time ever not realizing it's a brash, trash talking, very physical league and think that she's the only person getting shoved around. They are getting trash talks.

It's just extremely funny because they just don't know what they're looking at. It's like, just don't watch women's basketball if you don't feel that way. It's like, it's, it's better than that. Let me ask you something, Mark, real quick about this Gomez lady before we move on. How do you feel about like the idea that she does this shit because she wants, you know, she wants to own the lives. She wants to like drink liberal tears and make headlines and get noticed because of it. And it's like, I feel like we ain't crying.

We're calling her a dip shit and making fun of her. And to me, I'd like to tell myself that that makes it different, right? but it's like but is it you know what I mean are we like we like indirectly assisting this lady by like giving because dude she would be a fucking nobody bro if but the whole reason she does the thing she does is because to generate outrage so by participating in outrage like it's a philosophical question you know where do you land on that it's not my bailiwick my job is to make fun of people and she's right again I do think it's different I I really do think it's different if you're making fun of someone and just calling him a dumbass instead of being like we're not we're not on here like how dare she right like that's that would be different in my opinion we're like look at this dumb bitch you know like and i think that that makes it i think that that makes it different but you know yeah i mean like like nobody watching this show is voting in a republican primary at august six so like we have no sway over

like if if if if the fact that we're making fun of her make somebody vote for her is like she's going to eventually these lunatics have to get their ass kicked for being very mockable otherwise none of this makes any sort of sense absolutely right i'm with you all right so let's get into it new york traffic stuff so two weeks ago governor kathy hokel uh i did look up how to pronounce her name this time because i've been calling her hotchell because i read most of my news yeah i didn't know i do yeah so it's hokkel yeah so she reversed uh a longstanding policy to take years to put into place to establish congestion pricing in New York City and use the like basically like you basically pay a toll to drive into the city center and exchange and all the money would go to fund improvements in the subway which fucking sucks and doesn't come regularly and that's how the overall majority of people in New York City get around and this has national political implications but it's very New Yorkers live differently than most other Americans so it's where it's like as somebody who lived there off and on for a few years it needs to be explained like like a buddy man once said that New York because America's only functioning city

and by that he means like a city like the rest of the world thinks of a city where people get around in public transportation they share public spaces yada yada yada well that's what I was saying you talk about like oh the subway is shitty it needs to be improved I'm not saying it doesn't I'm sure that's true but as someone

who has never lived in New York and only visits there I'm like as compared to other American cities you know what I mean I'm astounded by their public transit system but as someone to the UK and been to London and stuff. Yeah, it could hit harder.

But I'm just saying there's a very low bar in America for public transit. Right. You know, New York clears it by a lot, but that doesn't mean that there's not for improvement there. They could do better than they do. It does suck when it takes you an hour and 15 minutes to get three miles from Manhattan to Brooklyn

because of weekend train shit, right? So like, but so we get, sorry, Manhattan to Queens what I was talking about. So like, so instead, she's pivoted from this plan, which would have funded the MTA, to appendage last minute asked for the legislature to come up with $1 billion in tax increases to fund the MTA so it doesn't break.

She's basically she's asking, she's afraid of losing a few votes for Democrats in Long Island and Connecticut and New Jersey. So she's fucking over 11 million people who live in New York City and asking for a huge tax increase in an election year. because she's a huge brain genius with the political instincts of a particularly stupid raccoon. All right. Literally everyone hates this decision. If you got this video, Matt, here's a compilation of public officials from around New York talking about it.

If congestion pricing is not implemented by June 30th as required by law, this coalition will be ready right away to take these cases to courts. We're also looking at violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. You need to do what you said that you will go. to do and you need to find accessibility and it's not that you're giving us a gift. This is the law. Lander said that... So part

of this is like a lot of subway stations aren't like handicapped accessible. Like I watched a video earlier of a guy getting around New York on a wheelchair and he had to like ride his wheelchair backwards down the steps. Now he was very coordinated with his wheelchair but like part of these improvements were to find like disability

access and one of the most cynical things are like, well disabled people need to get around with cars. I'm like, not if they live in New York. They shouldn't have to, and they probably can't afford cars that live in New York because no one who lives in New York has a car because they're very expensive and there's nowhere to fucking park them. All right? The streets can't handle the cars that are there. People are getting hidden and dying in the streets. The cars, the air is filled with smoke and the subway's broken. And this is a way to fix it. All right? If you're wondering what the, like, probably the funniest thing I saw was like a few

people try to organize a rally to support a governor, a governor, uh, to support her in this rally for congestion pricing. Look at this rally how few people showed up and look at the traffic that's in front of them. They probably couldn't get there because of fucking traffic.

That right there is a whole argument for the policy. Right. This is like the few people, okay, so to understand what this policy is, again,

is to charge commuters are premium to drive into the city center just below 60th. street in Manhattan, all right? You can describe us a lot of different ways, a climate change policy, a quality of life improver or taxing the wealthy, but it was basically an essential way to fund the city's beleaguered public transit system. It was going to raise $15 billion of bond financing, in fact, about a billion in annual

revenue that is not coming up elsewhere. And Hockel, this policy has been in the work for a long time. It took, like, decades, because you didn't build anything in America anymore with that. It took a lot of, like, research. It took a lot of, like, fucking environmental impact. review. And it wasn't actually approved until the Biden administration. And here was Hockel talking about it up until two weeks ago, if you got this video, Matt, of her being a big fan of this policy. Anybody sick and tired of gridlock in New York City?

About 15 to 20 percent fewer vehicles in the Central Business District. Anybody want cleaner air for our kids and for future generations? I also want to make sure that our subways are invested in. Then you love congestion pricing, right? All right. You got a bet. You guys get the idea. And this is not a novel idea. Like, New York City didn't pull this out of its ass. This has been successfully implemented across many places around the earth, including London, Stockholm, Singapore, which managed to pull us off in 1975 and Milan, right?

In those cities, it wasn't popular at first because people hate change, all right? Once enacted, they were incredibly popular because there's less traffic, more people get hit by cars. There's more space for walking around, bike lanes and buses. The buses get places faster. more money for public transportation. So instead of a subway coming once every 20 minutes, it comes every five, yada, yada, yada, reduce carbon emissions, yada, yada, over and over again. This is good in so many ways. So why did Hockel do this? You might be wondering. According to Politico, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who represents Brooklyn,

we'll get to that in a second, started raising concerns with Hockel that if the plan were going in effect during this election year, the ensuing buzz can make it harder for New York Democrats to win back the house. He thinks it's unpopular with the types of wealthy, swinging suburban voters, national Democrats need on their side. I don't think these people exist in a big enough numbers to swing an election. Like, I want you to imagine like a rich Democrat who lives in Connecticut who's going to vote Republican over $15.

I know. I was trying to imagine like who it is that this is running off. And it's like, do you have like somebody that drives into Manhattan relatively frequently from the outer areas who has enough money or enough. privilege to not have to worry about where they park their car because it is a fucking nightmare. So if you don't have to worry about it and that money is going to hit you in the pocketbook significantly, it has to be like a minute fraction of people. It has to be, right?

Or it's like you said, or if they don't go in all that often, the idea that $15 here and there would ruin the whole thing for them is crazy. Because again, I'm only ever visited New York. I've spent a lot of time in New York because I'm a comedian, but I've never lived there. And I know you have. But, like, I remember one time me, Corey and Drew were doing shows at Carolines, and we had to get our merch from, like, another part in Manhattan to Carolines was at Times Square and because it was like a big, but we couldn't walk because it was a big-ass duffel bag of merch. So we got into a taxi.

And, like, we could have walked there twice as fast as we rode in this tag. We just had this cargo, so we couldn't walk. But, like, that's how insanely congested it was. It's just, it's a nightmare, dude. I'm going to New York next month. I'm doing upstate New York. Then I'm going to do a show in Brooklyn and then I'm going back to Connecticut. So I have to keep my rental car the whole time.

And I'm already worried about it. Like it's more than a month out and I'm already thinking about what am I going to do with this goddamn car? How am I going to? Where am I going to park? It's a nightmare. So anything that gets rid of more cars in New York and like, you know, utilizes their, you know, pretty workable. public transit system is better for everyone like obviously everybody takes like like what's the name with the uh the uh the guy played tyrian lannister and game of thrones i can think he's name right now

people see peter digledge in the subway in brooklyn all the time like i saw jesse water is a guy we make fun of here on here all the time who's a millionaire who's on fox news and if anybody on the subway in new york recognized him they're probably going to curse him out or maybe try to fight him and he's taking the subway because it's just the easiest way to get around right even if you like it was a dollar so like the plus the idea that like if they want to say it costs like i looked it up for this it costs anywhere between 25 bucks and 125 bucks a day to park your car in manhattan all right so the 15 dollars is he's not even the biggest part of your day to drive in manh it's like it's like it's such an insane take to be like if you want to say it's going to affect

the donors like the like the executives of merrill lynch and goldman who take a car service in from fucking uh you know connecticut or new jersey to like uh it'll piss them off to won't donate to the party. That argument at least makes some sense, even if I don't fucking care. But instead, what Hockel said was she went to a diner on East 42nd Street, and the owner of the diner was saying he was

worried that people wouldn't drive in to go to a diner on East 42nd Street. I can't explain to you, no one's driving from New Jersey halfway up Manhattan to get some fucking pancakes. Right. That's nonsense. Also, that diner is at Pershing Square, which is off next to Grand Central Station,

I would think that in proving the subway would do this guy's business a lot more than parking than getting more cars driving in from Jersey. Whatever, she fucking made it up. She also said she talked to somebody who works at a hardware store who was worried that people wouldn't drive in from New Jersey to get hardware supplies anymore.

Not for nothing, but 85% of New Jersey commuters come into Manhattan through New Jersey Transit and train buses. I'm just only saying this to talk about how she's lying. She's full of shit. None of this makes me sort of... Why the fuck? Fuck, would you drive from New Jersey into Manhattan to go to the hardware store?

That makes no sense, bro. If these rationalization she's providing, then it's transparently bullshit because that's crazy. No one would do that. So this is according to the tri-state transportation campaign, this congestion pricing fee would only affect 1.5% of all commuters into the central business district. So a small percentage of people drive. and this would impact this very small percentage of them, right? There's work around, the one group of people I feel bad for who've been protesting this or the teachers union, because they can only afford to buy houses out in Long Island

and out in, like, New Jersey, and they have to drive into the city for work. Or they probably should park it like a train, but that's a whole different argument. And they, like, I'm not sure where they're parking or whatever, but like, I just empathize with teachers a lot. But there is, there's a low income, like, you can get exceptions to where you don't have to pay it if you're low income. If you have a handicap sticker in their car, there's that, like they already, this is, is a very lib state.

They did all the work around you're supposed to do, the caveats and carve outs to any sort of sensible policy. All right. So let's get to the real reason they did this, because all this is downstream from the same stupid fucking political screw up, all right? And that's basically the corruption and incompetence endemic to the New York Democratic Party and why the national party should shut it down and take it over so we can figure out what the fuck is going on. So basically what happened is they're trying to win house districts.

They should have never lost in the first place or shouldn't be competitive if they weren't such fuck-ups. All right. By the way, Hakeem Jeffries represents central Brooklyn, a district that basically has approximately zero people who take cars into Manhattan, but many of whom take the subways who's fucking over his own constituents to try to win hypothetical voters in another district, which is not how any of this is supposed to work. all right. Natural Democrats, by the way, have already allotted $45 million in advertising budget money for these House districts in House districts that Biden won by a lot. It shouldn't be spending this money there. So why are they now also throwing all the residents of the New York metropolitan area who took the subway under the bus, which is most of them, to please made up people that don't exist, all right? Let's talk about one particular guy here. who's an example of the kind of candidate that is fucking this up for Democrats. All right. Mondare Jones,

who was in the House from 2020 to 2020. He represented New York 17th District. All right. He's currently running in the 17th District against incumbent Republican Mike Lawler. And if you're like, well, if he was in the district from 20 to 22 and he didn't run there in 22, why is he running against them? How do you lose it? Well, he didn't lose it. What he did was he decided to run in a.

another district for fucking reasons, all right? And then, and he came in third in a primary. And then he was trying to get his old district back because he fucked up. He's also been burning bridges like crazy. He's endorsed George Latimer against his old friend, Jamal Bowman, who he just hates now for some reason that isn't public. George Latimer, all right, this primary, Latimer is being endorsed, like Trump donors are hosting fundraisers for him.

Latimer's a guy who got caught skipping votes to state senator to take his mistress to London on a trip, all right? He also got caught lying to trying to avoid property taxes, and he's just got the coveted Hillary endorsement. If you're wondering how fucked up New York State politics is, all right? Jamal Bowman made the big crime of being progressive, all right? Because Mondair Jones has done this fucked up shit, the Congressional Progressive Caucus with Jewish endorsement of Jones,

and then he went on the TV to call them extremists. all right this is the only people who want Americans to have health care all right um then

oh god this gives me a fucking headache to top it all off all right in back in 2022 a fellow Democrat by the name of Sean Patrick Maloney

offered to bow out of the 17 district primary to give the district to Jones to run against lawler Jones decided he'd rather wanted to

instead wanted to run the 10th to take on Bowman because he's mad at him. This whole thing is so fucked up. These are, like, these are the people that they're fucking over to try like, like, they're trying to help by fucking over

regular people. I'm like, just run a sane person on a same platform and this wouldn't be an issue and you wouldn't have to like do this dumb horse shit. Huckle has already fucked us up so badly. She might be facing a primary challenger. She barely wanting us to a Republican in New York last time. She's terrible at her job. And like, I mean, am I around to say that like a lot of

It feels to me like any time, most of the time we're talking about, like, scandalous or seemingly corrupt or particularly dip shitty Democrats on the national scale, it's usually in the New York area or like New York and New Jersey. It seems like, so there's something endemic to the situation. And I wonder if it's the thing where it's like politics attracts a lot of scumbags generally and a lot of different stripes. And in other states, you got to pick your stripe. and that's how you win or loop. But in a place like New York, historically, it's like, oh, it's very blue. It's this is Democrat country. So it's like, you got to be a Democrat if you want any chance of winning.

So if you're just an opportunist scumbag who has no actual left as principles or whatever, you know what I mean? You still run as a Democrat in New York when it's all about just greed and ambition and whatever your other, you know, actual motives are. They seem to think the number one job of being a politician, is to just hold on to your job so you can give your friend's jobs. Right. That seems to be the be all end all of it.

So when you have an opportunity to say redraw legislative maps to give your political party more power so you can do things to help your constituents, you look at it and you go like, well, if I redraw these lines, it might make it harder for my friend to win his race because there'd be new constituents who don't know him. So we're not going to do that, which is exactly kind of what happened. And so they just had a chance to redistrict after the 2027. census, all right? And they boss the redistricting process. And they created, they actually created a number of Republican-friendly districts because of those rules ahead of the 22 midterms.

That map led to a one-state wipeout during a national election which Democrats otherwise over-performed expectations. They single-handedly handed Republicans the House for the last two years by doing this dumb bullshit. Because the last governor, Cuomo, appointed Republican conservative judges to the Supreme Court for some fucking reason that I won't even get into right here. because no one really knows except for the fact that the main thing is to handicap progressives in your state as opposed to actually doing things. So they got a do-over because of a court decision earlier this year when the court threw out the district lines from 2020. And then they just resubmitted basically the same map because it was easier. Okay.

Let me ask you this. Is this what's like, because I hate gerrymandering generally, right? And it happens all the time in states like North Carolina and Ohio or whatever. and it, like, gives Republicans an outsized advantage I should not have, and it's all bullshit the way they draw the lines. And I hate that. Are, does this keep happening because they're trying to avoid doing the, like, blue version of that? Like, are they trying to be more fair or because the only reason I say that is because otherwise I don't understand how this could possibly happen?

Like, are that, you know what I mean? Are they trying to avoid the criticism of, oh, you're just doing liberal gerrymandering, you know? And so instead, they, like, draw them the way. way they should be drawn, which means some of the districts are red? Like, is that what's like? Because if that ain't what is happening, I don't, I don't have a clue how to rationalize what they've done here or why they would do it. Well, because you're thinking, you say rationalized, you're thinking in terms of like a political party that has an ideology should want to gain more power as they can act their legislative program. Right. What if I told you they didn't want to do any of that shit? Right.

Right. So what do they want just to keep their own job? And to give their friends jobs. Yeah. That's like, it's like, and like also like I understand what you're saying like that like the kind of like centrist's brain does, does think hypocrisy is the biggest charge you can level at someone. And I'm just here to tell you it's not. Like I would if I, if I, if we lived in a perfect world, I would draw like I have a computer program, draw a legislative districts to just try to get like it roughly is closer to an equal amount of people in each one and have contiguous lines and have them be a perfect world. approximately like, you know, without any,

without taking into account the political partisan idea of anyone in there outside of, I know that, I know that people intentionally draw black districts to make sure there's black representation. You can, we can leave that for another day. I'm just saying in general, first step to get rid of Jeremy would be, let's just do that. Let's just have everything be equal.

But like, you don't get there by unilaterally disarming and be having their, like Supreme Court, the Supreme Court just heard a case where they ruled for the state of South Carolina where they had drawn districts, to make sure there were no, where black voters had no power. And the Supreme Court's like, that's okay, that's fucking cool. And you have Democrats drawing maps to give Republicans more power.

Right. Even if what you think is true that they're doing it to avoid charges of hypocrisy. Right. Like in the interest of fairness or something in their minds. And I'm not saying they should do that. I'm saying, is that what their thought process is. If they is, they haven't said it. But even if it was, like, if you're trying to make Republicans stop

from accusing of hypocrisy and trying to, like, win elections through gerrymandering, they're saying you're stealing elections so you can run pedophile rings Right No, I know, no, I'm with you Right, that's what I'm saying I don't understand I don't understand the logic

Or why they would be You know, I don't get it There's not That's the thing is like It's so stupid That you're trying to make sense of it By come up with something that makes sense Yeah, that's a recurring thing on this show

Yeah It doesn't make sense even by its own standards Yeah It's all, like, to, again, to reiterate what I said at the time, to try to increase their likelihood of winning an election, they're going to fuck over the 98% of people in Europe metropolitan area who take the subway and enact a statewide tax increase of a billion dollars in the election year. That is to win more votes. Right. But it's probably, it has to be, I mean, presumably it has to be because somebody with deep pockets got in Jeffries and Hawkins. Cules in these people's ears and be like, hey, this ain't it.

Like, and they listen to those people whereas they don't listen to all the people in their district who actually this would hit for, right? Like, I mean, that's what's really happening. There's like, yeah, that's part of it. Yeah, the, the, the, yeah, the car, Tom, Tom Trass is the car lab, he sucks ass. Immediately after announcing this, like, Kathy Hochel had a giant fundraiser with car dealership owners. Well, see, there you go.

Right. I mean, yeah, that's the whole, like, that's maybe the reason why public transit across the board sucks so hard in this country, because this is a car country, but like the car, I mean, you know, and there's like, there's conspiracy theories, too, about there having been someone who invented an engine that didn't need. The red of water. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And they buried that too. And I'm not saying that happened necessarily, but they've done almost the equivalent of that time and time again. Right. I mean, the word jaywalking was invented by the car industry in New York because like, when cars first started, very few people drove them like they still do in New York. And kids played in the

street so they hit kids all the kids were hit and killed all the time in the streets the car and people were like we're having cars and the car is like well how do we frame this where it's the fault of the person who got murdered and they're like we know we'll make it a crime to jaywalk a word we just invented right all right that's what conspiracy theories really look like in this country not the water car the water engine thing but like I just find this like this is a layup of a policy that make complete sense and it's like like this is you go talking about like New York Dems like this is why I wish the Republican parties were like sane and some are close to centrist because these morons

deserve to lose but it's bad for everyone else they lose a nihilistic maniac so we can't let them lose even though they suck exactly that's like the thing what you just said is kind of the thing like they they do deserve to lose very often but we can't allow them to lose because of how nightmarish the alternative is Susan Alice Miller says the good news is we have enough signatures to get redistricting on the ballot in Ohio. That is good news. Yeah.

Especially since y'all didn't vote to take away the power of your own vote like they asked you to last fall or whenever it was when that, when that abortion measure was coming. I think it was earlier this year. Yeah. I mean, the only reason I want to talk about this, Watson Nash, it's sort of like a perfect case study where American democracy is at in 2024. Like, you've got a layup of a public policy that people may or may not like, but we've got

to try some stuff to make life better for people. It was, what's the point of having a. fucking government. It took years, decades to enact, is giving up one out of a fear of hypothetical backlash because everyone's so scared to take any sort of risk in favor of trying to reelect people who refuse to do anything to help their constituents of the belief that doing nothing is the best way to stay in government, avoid having to get a real job. And I fucking hate every part of it. This made me that. It made me so mad. Preach brother. All right. Thank you y'all for watching. As I said earlier, please. Oh, yeah, oh, getting in under the wire. Thank you very much,

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