Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 6/22/21 – Critical Race Theory

Episode Date: June 23, 2021

Tonight, we welcome Smart Mark back to the show for a conversation on the latest conservative boogeyman: Critical Race Theory. Also, the latest on the filibuster/congressional gridlock, and a veritable deluge of dumbasses. Join us!Support the show

Howdy, everybody, welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. Today is June 22nd, 2021. That's a lot of 20 action in that sentence. I'm Trey Crowder. And that he's back. His glorious return. That is Mark.

A.G. Mark, how was Hawaii? Aloha. Mahalo, whatever. It's great, man. I got to hang out of my mom and my sisters and my lovely wife. for the, well, I was going to say the first time a year and a half. My wife and I've been together the whole time, but I've seen my mom and my sisters since before COVID.

So that rules. Glad to be back. Trey, I don't know if you saw the, I'm not glad to be back, which it was on Hawaii. I've got to be honest. But Hawaii rules. Oh, there we go. See, look how much funny he had, guys. Look at those.

On the beach, having a great time. We were gone last week, Mark. Me and Corey were on here, and we mentioned. Corey's here because Mark's in Hawaii. way and we talked about your photos so I thought it would be nice for the audience if they got to see a little you know get a little taste of what we were talking about yeah I went to listen the first five minutes of the podcast to figure out why I was getting his Instagram comments saying trade and coy are right uh but so I'm not very photogenic uh but the I've never

fit out of small I have this memory of like getting my yearbook photo uh in like elementary school and these kids these uh kids were roasting me because like like it's like oh he think he dope because it's cool like like like hardcore but i do so don't smile on photos they're making fun of me like that right like no i don't think i'm dope i just don't want to smile in a picture uh but so you just feel dumb when you smile because i can relate to that is that all it is like you just feel like it feels fake to do it to put it up fake i don't know because it is fake you know nobody's happy in hawaii but a lot of times like i think i'm smiling and i'm not

Really do. That is you smiling. That's what people don't understand. Those pictures, that's you, full smile. That's it. That's the Mark Agi experience. Anyway, what were you about to ask me about? Oh, you as a, Raiders are one of your top two football teams.

Not sure he ranked them in the Titans, but they had the first active NFL player come out as gay this week, Carl Nassib or Nassib. I'm sure how to pronounce his name. I think it's Nassive, I'm pretty sure. Um, yeah, which was awesome. The thing was awesome about it to me is like he, he just put an Instagram, oh, I've been, been meaning to say this, it's a proud month. I happen to be gay. He's out.

He's very, like, great pro facto and the league, don't, I haven't seen anybody say anything dumb about it. That was, it's the NFL, right? Yeah. This is a league. Like, five years ago, Drew Brees would have been tweeting out, like, quotes from Leviticus. Absolutely.

And Richie Incognito would have put out a vague Instagram. Like, if a dude tries to kiss me, I'm going to knock him out or would it. I mean, like, yeah, Richie Incognito, who is his teammate on the Raiders now. Yeah, just so people know a very brief explanation. Growing up in Tennessee when I was a young kid who still loved football already, the Tennessee Titans didn't exist. I had a first cousin who was older than me that I looked up to a lot and he was a drug addict and a felon. So obviously a huge Raiders fan, huge Raiders fan. And so I became a Raiders fan too and for some ungodly reason have stuck with him this whole time. Yeah, I don't get a lot to brag about

Just so people know, Raiders, you know, the fucking bad guys, whatever, get a bad rap. I would argue the Raiders are maybe the most progressive organization in the NFL. They had the first black head coach, the first Hispanic head coach, the first female executive in the front office. And now the first, and look, Carl Nassiv could have been still playing for the Buccaneers. You know what I mean? But still, the Raiders and Al Davis specifically have a long track record of progressivism, just so people know. but I agree with you completely, Mark, these are the types of things that I try to, like, remind myself of, especially, like, having grown up in the South and everything, I try to tell people all the time, like, look, I know shit is rough, but, like, indisputably, there still has been a lot of progress in terms of social issues and whatnot, and this is a great example of that, because you're right, dude, I don't care what anybody says, just five years ago, him coming out as gay, there would have been some bullshit from some other active players, coaches, whatever.

on Twitter about it and that didn't really happen which is that's fucking great I was it was four or five years ago Michael Sam got drafted yeah and he was a big fucking deal yeah because he was like he he came out as gay before like in college before before he was drafted right and uh I remember we got drafted of course it was a big deal that he kissed his boyfriend on the broadcast when he was excited to get picked and then it was a big then like I remember the ESPN reporter was talking about it when they started training cramp it's like I asked a lot of the players and most of them said they'd be, they're perfectly fine showering with him. And then the sports center host was like, it was like a five second pause and he goes, all right, well, moving on.

It was this tremendously weird. The only, the dumbest thing I saw, anybody said on the conservative side was a Catholic lead tweeted, how would the left react if a gay football player came out and said he self-identifies as straight. Their heads would explode. Yeah, it probably would. I don't know what the fuck that means. Literally what does that mean? Like, like if Mike, so they're saying if Michael Sam tomorrow put a video that was like, just so everybody knows, I'm straight now or something like that. If that happened, yeah, I think there would be some cause for concern, but it would be because like, did he go to some fucking bullshit conversion therapy thing or something?

Like, you would be worried about Michael Sam if that happened, you know, who got to Sam. It wouldn't be a like, you know, outraged indignation over that. The two dumbest things that anyone did in regards to this happened to come from like a major newspaper and Joy Behar on the view. The first NFL Times in New York Times headline, sorry, was Carl Nassib was an NFL every man. Then he came out as gay. They changed that pretty quickly. Now he's a gay. Now he's banging every man.

That's what they meant, New York Times? Like, what was that? What was that even supposed? I feel like that was just like maybe. just a poor choice of of wording, you know, and go do joys. Say what joy said, Joy Behar.

Joy, man, I don't even want to repeat it because it's the worst joke ever seen in my life, but something about that. That is my problem with it, too. Yeah, penetrating the end zone or something. And then they came back to Mercer was like, remember that joke I said? Yes, forget I said it. Pretend I didn't say that. Joy's a comedian and everything, and I feel like that was her.

Like you said, my problem with it is it was, you know, a pretty hack joke. Yeah, she's like, they lost me when they brought up penetration in the end zone. And yeah, that's my issue with it too. But I know that was her just, again, just whatever, riffing. She's trying to riff. She's throwing something out there.

I don't think it means she has any kind of problem with him at all or whatever. So it's fine. And if that's the worst we got out of this situation, then I count that as a win, you know. America, we've come a long way, baby. It's not a bad day for that kind of event. So it could have been way worse. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. All right. Well, let's get into the show. With us as always as producer Matt holding it down. This is weekly skews tonight. We dive into the latest in a long, long line of fully fabricated conservative buggy men talking about critical race theory. They are very upset about what exactly. Well, it's kind of hard to say, but we will attempt to. Also, I understand Mark has an aliens update for me that he has not yet shared, so I'm very excited about that and some other fun stuff too. But first, as always, the Daily

dumb ass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., any senator who didn't think to address the growing problem of congressional gridlock with the power of the banjo. That's right. Here's Colorado's John Hickenlooper to illustrate the point. Matt, play the clip. Well, I'm just a bill, yeah.

And let's it here on Capitol Hill. Oh, yeah, there's a bill here in the Senate. And it's called all the people act. Gives power to the voter and not those corporate acts. Because that didn't work, Mark. That seemed like a sure-fire bet right there. a very powerful democratic senator thinking like the real world works like schoolhouse rock is sort of a metaphor for every fucking thing wrong with this uh so if you guys have it's on the news today um mansion agreed to vote to suspend the filibuster for one stage of entering debate and then Kamala broke the tie then she left had dinner plans or something i don't know and then the bill failed 50 50 and now they're going home for two-week recess in two days.

It's like Senate procedure. I don't really understand what happened why the first vote to Proceded debate didn't proceed. Senate procedure is like Robert's Rules of Order mixed up with the bridge trolls riddles. And then the bubble boy episode of Seinfeld where he tells the kids, sorry, the card says moops. That's what all this shit is. It's incomprehensible. And they think voters really, really care about. about it. And I'm beyond complaining about it. It's almost like everything about it is built to

prevent them from doing shit. Do you know what I mean? Like it's genuinely so hard for them to actually do shit because of all these like bureaucratic obstacles that just arbitrarily exist or whatever. And of course, Cinema put out that op-ed last night about why the filibuster is good, which I made a video about today, which is just so stupid in so many ways, because it seems to just be her saying, like, well, we can't do stuff now because they might do other stuff in the future, which would undo it. So it's like, so what do, what would you say you do here, cinema? You know what I mean? Like, you, so if you're not, if you're fundamentally opposed to making laws, because they might make opposite laws, then what are you doing as a lawmaker?

And so many other problems with it, too. But yeah. Also, one of the reasons you've had to, this bill is because getting rid of germanding would force Republicans to not be so fucking crazy or the crazy candidates we more likely to lose, right? So it would, it should bring down the temperature on all these legislative fights anyway. Plus, if you've not been paying attention for last 10 years, Republicans couldn't muster 50 votes to get rid of the Obama camp. Absolutely. Right. So there's no there's no will to undo popular shit. You just have to pass the popular bill and let them fucking eat it. Yeah. If we pass something, they'll just undo it later if we get rid of the filibuster. Let them try.

Like you said, they've been trying to do that exact thing with Obamacare for 10 fucking years. And they had the full majority for a huge chunk of that time and still never got it done despite it being maybe their number one rallying cry. And secondly, like you said, make them be the ones who go through the process of doing it. If it is popular legislation and people like it, force them to rest it from the hands of the populace in full view of everybody. Make them do that shit. Like, yeah, they'll try to do that. Fucking let them make them. I just don't understand.

I don't understand the argument. Can you imagine, like, your argument being for why we shouldn't do D-Day is like, well, if we shoot the Nazis, they'll shoot back. They'll shoot back. Yeah. It's like, yeah, I mean, that's those rules and engagement here. We know that going in. It's like, if the Republicans have power, they're going to pass bills if they can. It's also like not to further the.

you know, well-worn, uh, Republican Nazi analogy, but like, I didn't mean that. I know, I know you didn't. I know you didn't. But now I'm going to do it. It's like, similar to that. It's like, you know, we can't do D-Day because like, it will antagonize them. You know what I mean? We don't want to antagonize the Nazis. Like, it's just so, it's just so fucking limp-risted and weak, weak-willed and defeatist and everything. And it just drives me crazy. and talking about the urgency of their rhetoric

and I imagine their actions they're saying if this bill doesn't pass it could lead to the end of democracy and also they won't cancel their August recess so they like by the way McConnell last year canceled the August recess to push through more judges and what could be Trump's last few months

right? So like it's just an example of Republicans actually believe the shit they're saying and Democrats maybe don't or I don't know whether they're just it's like I don't know if they don't see it as an actual job like there was an argument between two democratic centers i think ed markey was calling for canceling the recess and i think it was shilden white house said ed markey should should get a life i was like okay all right well what's uh what's the pelosi thing

oh uh the time of this was just interesting after republicans like uh wouldn't even allow debate on the bill uh Pelosi announced that the house is going to form a select committee to invest 8 january 6 so they could which they could own five and a half months ago they wanted a bipartisan commission in a Senate for some fucking dumb reason. So this is this the timing of this apparently, it feels like a brushback pitch to try to get them to be more sane or she's going to like haul their asses in front of a

committing and embarrass them. So that's what she should be. That's what they should be doing. Yeah, absolutely. Right. Of course. Like, why not, why are they not already doing that? It literally just seems like they're afraid of their. I just

cannot believe that they, so many of them still seem to be so committed to the fucking myth of bipartisan. or whatever like they're not going to come to the they're not going to play ball so fuck them the the best theory of like what's actually happening behind the scenes here is there's probably 20 democratic senators who don't want to get rid of the filibuster because they don't want to have to pass the progressive campaign promises they made right so they've elected uh mansion and to a lesser degree cinema to be like a sin eater kind of thing to fucking take the abuse because but it what's what's so weird is like mansion cinema would seem to be the most vulnerable and like their they're like mansion is an Republican plus 20 state or whatever and cinema is you know in a purple state where she's frustrating everyone to the left

of you know Mitt Romney and it's like none of they're doing makes sense like they could have they could have picked a much more safe state to be the centrist sin eater but whatever I don't know if we'll see what happens my prediction not shit

ultimately all right our moving into the honorable mentions for Daily Dumbass first up Mike Pence for RSVPing to the big hang Mike Pence party they had over the weekend. Matt, you play the clip if you have it. It is great to be back with so many patriots dedicated to faith and freedom and the road to the majority. and I want to thank my friend Ralph Reed for those overly generous words and deeply humbled by them

Ralph Reed knows me well enough to know the introduction I prefer is a little bit shorter yeah if you couldn't hear what was going on specifically he started getting heckled and then the heckles built up momentum and it sounds like there's people in the crowd yelling traitor and presumably fuck you or dying a fire i don't know those i'm speculating on but they were yelling traitor and just other pejoratives at mike pence when he's up there playing all the

hits dude fucking god and country and all that he's doing it all and they're not having it i think i did as if it's a faith in freedom summit and i think i did hear somebody oh fuck off so that's like that's that's that's the mood of the right right now is they got a bunch but a bunch of christian so they got a bunch of southern baptists to yell fuck off in public. They won't even dance. Yeah, this dude still thinks he's going to be the nominee in 2024 if Trump dies. And that's so funny to me. Like, it's like, none of these guys ever learned, like, you cannot, you cannot build a

gollum and then ride it. You know, you can't like, I kept my pet tiger hungry because to eat the, you know, whoever comes in front of it, then you end up locking the cage with it. Like, well, the tiger loves me. You know, it's like, hmm, no, you told them. The whole, there's a subreddit. called leopards ate my face that's dedicated to that exact thing it's essentially like well i didn't think the leopards would eat my face like i purposely courted the favor of these face eating

leopards thinking they would only eat the faces of people that i don't like but now these leopards are trying to eat my face what the fuck is this about you know and mike pence should be the new cover boy for leopards ate my face because yeah he thinks he's going to get the nomination or get the white house like they literally would kill you they would have loved to have already killed you if they had the if they had gotten the opportunity to on the one occasion in his life he actually did the right thing right and it's like uh it is just stunning to me like you can't like you ever like a mob's don't work that you ever see you know you want a flock of birds is flying around they all spontaneously changed direction even though no one's kind of in charge like that's how a mob works you can't lead a mob right but they keep jinn up mobs and be you tell all your followers that Democrats are socialists who want to destroy the country and dominate you and ruin your life

and then when you have a chance to stop Democrats from taking power, you don't take it. They hate you now because they believed you. They believed your bullshit. You didn't believe it. So you think it's fine, but they believe it. So, yeah. Yep.

Next up, honorable mention, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. Wasn't planning on that rhyme, but there it is, who worked actively to keep Juneteenth from becoming a federal holiday because, you know, didn't want to spend money, big government, having another holiday would be big government, I guess. But then after June 10th got passed, made the objectively wise decision of going to a Juneteenth celebration in Wisconsin

where Matt, if you have it, this weirdly happened. really glad that now this is a national holiday for all time that we can celebrate the emancipation of slaves only to be confronted by a crowd not happy to see him this is not the way you heal a nation Johnson who has yet to say if he'll seek a third term next year has faced criticism in recent months over comments about the January 6th capital attack and race. Buddy, what the shameless audacity of some of these motherfuckers. Like literally, what did you expect? Did you think they just wouldn't know who you were or like that you would still be, you know, lifted up on people's shoulders or whatnot?

Like, of course that's what happened. I mean, setting up a state, I think it was like a state level GOP boom. at a bloody Juneteen celebration is just so it's like you do not get with the country right now how many how many pamphlets do you think they handed out but like so some state GOP dude tried to be like oh the it was perfectly fine and people were perfectly nice to him I told the TV camera showed up and then a bunch of lefty attention seekers made a scene and then a bunch of people that were there this this one activist is like uh that what these weren't our lefty attention seekers these are black folks who don't want to

fake support from hacks like Ron Johnson black folks aren't stupid we aren't your pawns get off or long i was like yeah that's the best sounds about right it's like this isn't about like tribalism or like it's tribalism for drawn but it's like you can't you can't do these rhetorical games and not expect people not to fucking want to kick you in the ball it's like you you you you this isn't a game to them right you know it's like yeah you're right his argument for keeping june team for me in a holiday was at federal employees and you don't need another day off which is just like okay get rid of columbus day then trade a day out who you know like so yeah also fuck that like we have said i know it's mostly just federal employees

who are even getting the benefit but any american who works deserves more days off like period across the board in my opinion because we get so much fewer than most of the western world one more day is not like uh something to take a stand on you know there was a viral joke the day it's like European out-of-office emails. You're like, I'm camping until September. Email me back then. American out-office replies are like, I have taken a two-hour break for kidney surgery,

but I'm reachable to my cell phone. Also, dude, these motherfuckers, him being a senator, you were talking about, like, all the recesses they take and how they refuse to, you know, reschedule them or call those off. It's like, just, again, the shameless audacity of these motherfac, of a senator. to say like, oh, we don't need any more days off for federal employees, you know. It drives me crazy.

Long Time Watchers know I was a federal employee for a while, so it's a little close to home, but I just fucking, I hate this shit. They only work like 150 days a year or something. Like they would say that, well, they're doing constituent work back in their office, but really they spend a lot of time fundraising. That's most of what they do. If you like get to know any, like, politicians at all and what their day-to-day is, that's 90% of it, it seems to me, like,

it's just asking people for money, trying to get money for people. Every first time Congressperson says, the shocking thing to them is how much time they're expected to be on the phone making calls for money. Because, like, they're assigned hours. This is what's really funny is, like, they passed SB1, the voter bill,

which would get rid of a lot of dark money in politics. They could cut out half their job. They could take more days off if they pass this stupid bill. That's one reason, like, AOC is so good in hearings is because she doesn't take any corporate money. She refuses to do those phone calls. She makes small dollar donations, so she can prepare for doing her actual job, which is, you know, embarrassing public servants who fuck up.

So, yeah. Our next honorable mention the entire New York City mayoral race. Whole thing, getting pretty dumbassy, isn't it, Mark? Yeah, they're voting today, and it's like there's not a single candidate who a lot of people seem to like who have a chance. There's a couple of progressive candidates who should have a better chance, but they don't, because the guy that's going to win is a former Republican cop. And the second place per, I think, it hasn't gone well for an Arab friend of the show, friend of the show, Andrew Yang, who was the frontrunner from name recognition.

And then after a series of gaffs, like saying that he, like his favorite subway stop is Times Square, which is just, anybody spent time in New York is so fucking funny. And he said, he gave an interview last week, he was, because the guy is going to win Eric Adams. Turns out he lives in New Jersey. He's going to be like a New York mayor, whatever. And so he was mad because Eric Adams had said something about taking baths. And he did a Zoom thing where he showed his bathroom and there were areas. So Eric Adams, two debates ago, say he couldn't do with that.

What one thing he couldn't do with that was a bubble bath. When he gave reporters a tour of the basement, he supposedly lives in, there is no bathtub in the basement. I just want people to notice there's no bathtub. That's the level of sanity Andrews operating. Dude, I read this. I was like, man, he's got to be just so. so strung out right now on this like the stress level or whatever

because I mean I don't know it's got to drive a man crazy and clear it seems like let the record show this man does not even own a bathtub and yet he proclaims to value bubble baths

or whatever what sir what are we talking about I challenge you to produce a bathtub this is this what will this this is how you're gonna like not fix the subway.

So then the guy he's beating it. Eric Adams, they've asked this, what's the best concert you've ever been to? And this is like the fucking one of the

weirdest answers I've ever seen my entire life. Yeah, this is the guy who's now beating Andrew Yang who's like, may win. Look at this.

He's the best concert you've ever been to. Curtis May. At that concert, there was a rainstorm, the lights fell on Curtis Mainfield, and they actually paralyzed him with that concert.

He died a few years ago, but it was an amazing concert before that happened. What? just so unfortunate he says how like what he literally he literally did other than that mrs lincoln how was the play was the show yeah exactly he did that old joke unironically i've been to a lot of live music shows a lot of concerts if i saw a performer who i really like who i was a big fan of and they were killing it and then lights fell on them and they were paralyzed and later died

from the complications of that, I don't think my primary recollection of that, of that night would be, God, what a killer show it was, you know, up until up until that unfortunate little mishap. Like, this is, these paint, like,

how are these the, I don't know. This is New York City, the mayoral race. There's been so many other scandals that have already happened, and like, it's insane that you cannot know better, candidate can be produced, you know, someone who doesn't know better than to answer a simple question like that in such a weird-ass fashion, it's like they're aliens or robots or something, you know, who are like trying to human and don't know how to do it. It's so weird. Like,

there ain't, there's no better candidates than this. Like, it's, it's wild. Just like, dude, de Blasio is hated in New York and he got reelected. And I don't, I do not understand the New York, Like, de Blasio literally had the president of several different cop unions say they wanted to murder him. They went to a cop's funeral. They all turned their back on him. And he's still like, I love cops, man. They're the best. It's like, it's just like donors.

These guys are so weird. The universe was a strange place. So let's do this first Q update real quick so we can get to the favorite one we want to talk about. So this dumb ass is President Trump. for scheduling tour dates in August during his reissension of the presidency. You see, Q people are very confused

why Trump is going on tour with Bill O'Reilly when he's supposed to be retaking the White House. Yeah. And so, yeah, yeah. Okay, I guess my question is, Trump coming back,

why would he be doing a tour through the end of the year with O'Reilly? Hmm, something doesn't feel right. Roked Telegram user, Peace Lily. What's a piece lily. I love that screen. All right, so, Trey, you announce this one, is I really want to...

What, that, hang on. This one, like the the Trump going on tour when he's going to be reascending to the throne or whatever them like the things that stick in these people's crawl do you know what I mean like yeah could all the things they've overlooked all the dates they've moved and all this shit like why are they not just like oh well that's probably what the tour is for that's like you know he's going to like he's going to be basking in the glow of his recent uh reacension to the to the presidency maybe that's what the tour is for.

Like, it's so weird to me that these people who have put out so much more insane bullshit out there consistently over the past year plus that they look at this and they're like, well, this is discouraging. I don't understand their fucking brains, man. I don't get it. I mean, like, the August thing is so funny because you know where it came from? Mike Lindell pulled out of his ass in an interview where he said, we're going to get Trump back on the White House and are like, uh, do you know when? And he's like, uh, uh, August. August, that was it. And so when Trump started telling people August behind the scenes, somebody called Mike, they called, tried to call around and figure out where he got it from. And it was, and Mike Lindell was like, I think you got

it for me, but I just made that date up. He, Mike Lindell said that. There's nothing, there's nothing happening in August. It's wild. Yes, but they are, uh, cue people, they got to have a leader, all right? And Trump may be at the tip top, but, uh, you know, there's Q people in other countries. too, namely, our neighbor to the North, Canada, and they have to have their own idols up there, including, apparently, the Queen of Canada, the QAnonanointed Queen of Canada. This is a real thing when Canadian Qanonters are harassing people at the whim of a woman, they say, is the rightful queen of the Great White North. Her name is Romana Didulo.

God damn it. It's always so wild that I have to. Didalo, Dadulo, something like that. Ramona DiDulo. She's a, she's a Filipino immigrant, so I bet it's the Doolo. It makes sense. The Dulo. Ramona Doudoulo, who is, yes, the rival queen of Canada for some reason.

The amazing thing about this woman in her army of followers who thinks she's the queen, secret queen of Canada, is that she, it's not even clear she knows she has followers. Like, she was just posting this weird, this weird telegram account saying she's the rightful queen of Canada, and she declares that COVID restrictions are over. And so all these people said, yeah, the Queen has declared it. So they've been going around to various state agencies handing out cease and desist orders from the Queen. And these videos are, God damn, they're so funny. Pick one up and play it there, Matt. Hi there. I just wonder if this detachment's been served the cease and desist order? Yeah, anything right? related to the authority of COVID?

I have not. Okay. Can I leave this for your chief? I would have to talk to somebody. Could I leave that with your chief? That's a cease and desist order. We have a new commander in chief. It's pretty self-explanatory.

It's signed by we, the people. So I'm going to report this back. Okay, sure. Hold on to it again? Sure. Okay. Do you have a matter? He's not Canadian, but I'm convinced that's comedian Stephen Wright doing some kind of performance art piece or something like that.

It kind of sounds like him. And also it's like, we have a new commander in chief. It's pretty self-explanatory. It's signed by we the people. All of us, all of us, the people, signed these cease and desist orders from the Canadian Looney Queen. It is like very weird to me, like a weird, very weird example of like America. and cultural hegemony. I don't know if I've ever said that word out loud.

So if I said it right, hegemon, I don't know. I know. Yeah, I could spell it, but I also don't say it. You know I am a word. Yeah. Egemoni. Some people say it that way, I think. Whatever.

Who knows? Certainly not us. So to my knowledge, we the people is specifically from the American constitution. I don't know what Canada's constitution says. So they've just taken, they think American constitution applies in Canada or whatever. And also they have a queen. One reason they think, another example of, cultural hegemony thing is the one reason to think she's definitely the rightful leader of Canada

is that Ramana to doolo anagrams to say it, Trey. I am our Donald. Her name is anagram for I am our Donald, which to them is irrefutable proof that she is in fact the rightful queen of Canada. That is true. That's not made up. That's not a joke. that is a sincere fact. Yeah.

And in case you think we just pick someone weirdo who's following her. Like apparently these followers, she has like 20,000 telegram followers and they form like community activist groups and they're going around doing this all over Alberta, I think, or British Columbia, sorry. I don't really know Canadian geography that well. But so here's a video. Here's another funny video that this lady gets mocked. Okay.

So you're not going to let me purchase this about amount. Okay, really? They told you, gals, politely. Okay. They told you politely. It is the policy. So, um, you've been served. You've got seven days. You've been served. Thank you.

Have a good day. I love this lady in line. Whoever it is that's filming, uh, she's my girl. I love her, her just openly laughing in her feet. You've been served. So, you know, you're welcome. What other response is there to being served a cease and desist order from a fake queen? I don't know what you're supposed to think.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm always like, and I'm sorry to any of our Canadian viewers, I love Canada. I'm always a little encouraged. Not encouraged isn't the right word. I don't know. I'm always at least a little bit relieved that it's not exclusively us who are this fucking stupid. Like the knowing that y'all have at least a handful of people that are on the level of stupidity of

sum of hours. I'm sorry. It makes me feel a little bit better. I can't help it. I mean, look, they're still better than us because they're crazy as they're heading out little pieces of paper that's saying you've been served or whatever. Right. There's at least a half dozen or dozen cases of Saudi America where these assholes shot customer service workers in the head from trying to get them to wear a mask. So they're still doing better. They are infinitely better than us. For sure. I did not mean to imply otherwise. I think let's move into the main story here, Marks. We have some time to talk about. 35 minutes on dumb asses, hey, we live in a dumbass world.

Let's talk about critical race theory, Mark. All right. So you guys have probably heard about this. If you follow this show, you probably follow politics pretty closely. But so the rights been running around screaming critical race theory. It's probably going to be the entire theme of the next election cycle because they don't have anything else right now, other than pure fucking cultural war bullshit. So Fox News has been pushing this shit extremely hard. They've mentioned like 13 times in the past 300 times in the past couple months.

Yeah, 1,300 times the past three and a half months. And they don't even really understand what it is, but it doesn't really even matter. For y'all's understanding, and for my understanding, is I have to look this up. So what it actually is. Critical race theory is something taught in law schools about how to think about the vestiges of, like, explicitly racial laws that now still exist on the books, and they don't have racial language, and they still have, like, institutionally racist effects, right? So that's all it is. There's, like, a dozen professors in the country to teach this course.

It's not like, it's probably a class, a couple dozen kids go to a year. You know, it's nothing that's like, it is a societal concern. But they have incorporated it into this fight over the 1619 project and made it about everything being taught about civil rights and slavery in schools. They think that teaching their kids' history is teaching them white guilt. And it's driving, and they're going to keep yelling it forever. because they found that it's effective. It's so effective.

It's leading a lot of people to run for school board all over the country, and there's a lot of weird school board fights happening right now. So pay attention to local school board race because some of these nuts are probably running. As a case study, this happened in Maine. This guy started going to school board meetings and harassing people, and he managed to draw national attention to the right there and get a bunch of money to run for school board. Now, he lost in pretty humiliating fashion,

but he did get a bunch of Fox News coverage. He went on Fox News. Matt, the video of him on Fox News, if you can call up the part that's really fucking funny because it's just, yeah. You go to the school board, the superintendent, via email, you said, because you couldn't get anybody to actually meet with you. And you tell them what about the curriculum

in the school district that you want changed? Yeah, I mean, the biggest thing is, and I can't speak for Martin Luther King, Jr., but I think he'd be extremely ashamed of what this administration is doing. They're teaching young kids as young as kindergarten to essentially hate their white skin, and it's the oppressor versus oppressor in argument. And frankly, I was brought up as the content of your character is the biggest piece. It doesn't matter what the color of your skin is. Your daughters, they're about to graduate. You will be there. First, there were some pretty strict conditions, and now I understand you're allowed to go and see the band play and do all of that.

real quickly. What's their reaction? Your daughters? Yeah, they just want to be normal seniors and keep... I bet they do. Yeah. A part of that is like not having their dad. Right. Of course. Him going on Fox fucking news and being like, listen, my daughters just want to live a normal life

and be left alone. It's like, you're a main dad. You know what I mean? Like, no one would know anything. about your daughters or be on their case at all if you weren't on national television bitching about the history they're being taught or whatever. Also

do, again, the shameless audacity of these people fucking, I can't speak for Martin Luther King, but let me go ahead and speak for him and say that he would be terribly ashamed of what we're doing in this country.

I mean, it's, it's wild. Yeah. And it's like it's crazy to me because like the right does this a lot where they'll gaslight themselves into like these vague all the time like it keeps the they come up with these things that keep themselves up at night they need to they need dude they've done this for so long they they all they stay doing this mark like they need something to be pissed off about right something to like focus their anger on or whatever and because these people a lot of them don't really have all that much to genuinely be pissed off about it's like these made-up

causes that they get all gened up over like i mean the whole like that whole transgender bathroom thing which you know i appreciate because it gave me a career or whatever because that's what the first video was their stupidity thank you stupid republicans for that but that was that's a great example of like what even was that or like the transgender women sports shit you know what i mean where it's like now y'all care about women's sports like how long a transgender women's sports like how long a transgender people been going to the bathroom and you never gave a shit until someone somewhere said it was a problem and now you're basing your entire ideology around it and there's been plenty of other examples too they just they do this they make up their own boogeyman and then

red face scream at them until they pass out basically it's it's so weird it's so weird I mean I remember like I like I live it like just briefly on that we'll get back to Craig critical race theory but like I live we live in Los Angeles the hedonism capital of America outside of Vegas probably and I know I know I think two two trans people one I consider a friend and when we were at a bar once and he got up to go to the bathroom and the men's bathroom was full he came back and I was like oh go to the women's it's the one seat or door locks who cares and he's like I can do that and I was like I just didn't minute. It's like

these things, they try to put some weird dynamic around something that's perfectly normal that we all do. Anyway, so if you're wondering where this critical race theory shit came from, there's this guy in Seattle who's a conservative, conservative activist and documentary filmmaker. And so

he became obsessed with all the diversity work trainings that people were going to because one thing Zoom work did is it made a much easier snitch on your boss for these workplace diversity trainings. Like none of us like going to fucking boring meetings, especially to be preached at. I get that. But people would, like, screen grab these pie charts and whatever in literature they're being shown and sent it to him. And he started

going to the footnotes of it. And there's New York Times best-signed books. Everybody was reading about, you know, anti-racism last year or whatever. The deepened the footnotes and mentioned critical race theory. So he'd say, what is this? And he started looking into it. And what did it, he figured out that basically this is the perfect phrase to use as an umbrella term for everything that fucking bugs them, including, like, school history books and 1619 project and diversity trainings. Because one, it's sound, it's, they didn't have to make up the term. Liberals already use it. So it's not like, you know, making up calling a global warming when it's climate change or whatever to focus as to word they chose to use. It also sounds really academic, which everyone hates.

It sounds critical as the word's critical in it, which makes it. Which also they don't like. Yeah. So it is, it is like a, it's like, it is like, it is. theories they're not much for theories not into that either yeah yeah so it is it's like lord dude that asshole frank wants didn't even have to make this up to be to poll test it is the perfect term to annoy people that's so true i didn't even really thought about but literally just the name of it is like a fucking dip shit anger bingo card you know yeah yeah being critical don't like it theories don't like it race don't even bring it a like just you put all that together critical race theory and yeah it's going to get them it was

tailor made to piss these people off even though they don't know what it really even is because it's made up doesn't matter what it is right so uh absolutely and so if you go read that article by the way just to be aware that a new yorker piece about this guy named rophy um just be aware that like it's a little it's a little too credulous of rophy's own origin story for example it says he got a small It's a small grant from this right-wing think tank, without really naming it. The think tank they're talking about is called the Discovery Institute, which Discovery Institute, which basically exists to push intelligent design in schools. Now, I actually talked to the guy who ran that once.

When I was a reporter, I interviewed him for a story when I covered schools because they were trying to, they were pushing, they were doing some weird shit. They were trying to push intelligent design without calling an intelligent design. And I was talking to him. I was like, just say, just be honest, man. What do you, he's like, and he's like, this is not intelligent design. You're, this is, you're biased and he hung up on me. I was okay, whatever.

Yeah, it's all tracks. And like, the right does this a lot. Like, they get mad about textbooks. Like, they've been getting textbooks canceled from schools since, like, 1910. Dude, so before we show this, which we're going to, this example of a Louisiana textbook in a minute, like, that's one of the reasons this drives me so crazy is them getting all up in arms about critical race. theory, which is essentially made up in the first place, is so infuriating to me because I grew up in the South, and I know how fucked up the version of history that is often taught about slavery

and race and everything. In the first place, how shitty the War of Northern Aggression and states' rights and all that bullshit that we all know about now, that isn't true. The shit that is true is the shit that should be taught and they like they push back in favor of continuing to teach the made up stuff right they've been doing that for a hundred year hundred plus years and then now they're flipping out over us supposedly teaching made up shit that is true like does that like like the idea like they're what they're flipping out about isn't even actually happening but what should be happening is that the shit that actually happened should be what's taught to children as what happened on account of it's what happened and they've been standing in

the way of that for generations and now over nothing they're pushing back in the opposite direction just because they need something to be pissed off about like it's yeah it's so maddening we uh reactionaries need shit to react to see even they have to make it up. So this stuff is like, they really think they found something here. Like these sort of campaigns and, you know, protests are being astroturf all over the country funded by dark money through the Heritage Foundation. And like Fox News got caught this week doing some weird fake news stuff. They took a bunch of Republican activists and just staffers and presented them as everyday parents who were upset about critical race theory and talked to their kids, which I really would love to see.

someone I sent a law professor to try to teach critical race theory to like fifth graders. Just like the ass glazed over and fucking, just like they're just coloring in the trapper keepers while somebody's yelling at them about like the legal system. So, so this is, anyway, this is happening all the country and I'm not really really about anything. If you want to know why kids need real history, as Trey mentioned, there's my understanding is there are two approved history books for the state's eighth graders. And this is how one of them, I'll read this past. to you real quick. It's how one of them introduces the civil war as tough times for a poor

young white woman who's sad about losing her slaves. Yeah, this is in Louisiana, right? Yeah, Louisiana. Officially approved history book. Yeah. Kate Stone was 20 years old, a member of a wealthy planter family when the war began. After Kate's father died, her mother Amanda oversaw the family's business affairs. In 1860s, they moved to a cotton plantation. They had about 150 slaves. The family's future seems secure. However, now you know this is going to get good. After the secession, yada, yada, yada, yada, they moved. They sent the slaves to Texas to try to keep them from being freed, further away from the, you know, where they were losing the war.

And the rest of the whole passage, in her diary, Kate expressed her firm Confederate patriotism, insisting, our cause is just, it must prevail, end quote. But even for a patriot, the war's hardships became difficult to take. The Union forces around the family's plantation, 1862. That's when she sent the slaves to Texas. this passage talks about the Stone family as refugees because they moved

to Texas. Literally, calls them refugees. Yeah. Kate felt ambivalent about the end of slavery, I bet she did. But after the war, she did her best to adjust to a world that she felt they'd been turned upside down. So basically, she founded the Madison Parish chapter of United

Daughters of Confederacy and remained active until her death in 1901. In this chapter, we will examine the political and cultural issues that led to sectional tensions that ultimately led Louisiana to see from the union. So it's like this is how they're introducing slavery to eighth graders. It's like, can you,

don't you help feel bad for this woman who lost all their property? It was really hard to lose your slaves. That was like really tough on these 18, 1860s white women, you know, they had to, they had to move to Texas where their slaves still were, just so they could keep having slaves for a little while.

Like, that's hard. This is in a literal history textbook in the state of Louisiana, right now. Yeah. And again, the thing, like,

critical race theory isn't even the same thing as saying, this shit shouldn't happen, right? Yeah. But the point is,

this shit happens, they're fine with it, and then make something up, like critical race theory, which isn't happening, and flip out about that, you know? Yeah.

That's the reality. And they're going to say, like, I just wouldn't do talk about this for a second, because they're going to say this, over and over again and people didn't understand what they're doing and why they're doing it because like they're good at generating these controversies by repeating them over and over and over again so it sounds like a thing like it's been a decade I still can't tell you what they think

happened to Benghazi right yeah would they think the big Benghazi is a tragedy that those four people died I don't understand what the conspiracy would have been like they would never say what they think happened just that Obama let four Americans die on purpose because don't know right We don't say. They never say the second part. So this is going to be a thing. It's probably going to be a Democrats aren't going to see it coming because they always get blindsided with this shit because they know it's not real and it's

annoying. And they're going to have to, they're going to go home to their districts and be in a debate next year in all their house races and get owned with this shit and not have an answer for it. You can see it coming now. So yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, by the way, there's a way, there's a way.

If you need to filter everything you talk about in politics through American exceptionalism, Obama was really good at this, right? you just say that the America's great because of its original promise. The founders built the Constitution to be amended. They meant for us to make progress. If you want to talk about the Civil War and what you're proud of, proud of about it, talk about the half million people that died to try to end slavery, to fault to end it, right?

There's ways to talk about this stuff that makes America sound awesome that still talks about real history. Right. Yeah, I don't know. But like you said, they've latched onto it now. and, you know, the midterms are next year, so we're in for a lot more critical race theory talk, so we'll say.

I don't have much to me. We're still the country that hangs John Brown, and the guy that hanged John Brown was Robert Lee, who led the war and then got to be chancellor of a college. So that's the way things go around here. Yeah, indeed it is. Matt, you can start putting up questions and comments wherever you are ready. But, Mark, tell me the aliens thing.

I want to hear it. So I was reading this article yesterday, it was a couple of months old I think but it was talking about how like the truck the main through line of the article is about how liberals misunderstand how authoritarian brains work with racism they liberals seem to think that um people become authoritarian because they're racist and they want to they want to use authoritarianism to keep the other race down and in reality it's probably the other way around that people have authoritarian personality types and that leads them to be racist because they want they want sameness and they want order right and they perceive all right so anyway

the end of their article makes it's an interesting point that like it's just seeing people as others right and that's why you should when you talk to authoritarian personality types you should emphasize sameness not talk about how cool diversity is yeah anyway one of the things they found is if you tell people they're aliens they become less racist yeah yeah so it's like if you believe in aliens you're less racist because other races don't seem so other now they seem more similar to you in comparison to aliens and so and another element like we talked about aliens a week ago I was pretty sure This is a, whatever this is is government messaging about something.

It's like, oh, maybe they're trying to make people less racist so America's society can pull together. That would be nice if that's what they're doing with the aliens, Mark. But I, act like, I'm going to butcher this into him. I apologize. But there's a great comedian named Baron Vaughn, who I saw do a bit about that exact concept once that I thought was hilarious. I'm not even going to try to do the bit itself, but it was based around, like, he was saying, like, we need aliens to show up. Because that's the only way that we're ever going to do anything. think about this racism shit because everybody who hates everybody will come together to say

and then he yeah there was a whole bit in between this but it ended with the line because somebody's got to stop those space in words right and baron is a black comedian and it was very very very funny but yeah the idea that we would be joined we would be united as a species in our hatred of this, of this new other race that just like, ooh, a new race to be racist against. Like, dude, people would, people would absolutely jump all over that, like, without a doubt. I mean, I know, it's like, I don't think that's a reason for the government to fake aliens. That's pretty out there. Or is it, Mark?

But I think that if aliens show up, I mean, you know, I think, you know, I think you. you're going to see a lot of that. Going to be a lot of anti-aliant sentiment, Mark, and it's going to transcend racial boundaries. Look, our government pretended that the Spanish blew up the main to pull us together for a war effort. They pretended that someone would attack that ship in the Gulf of Tonkin to get us to pull together for a war effort.

Here, if they're trying to pull us together for a war effort, I guess the imaginary enemy, when nobody gets hurt, that seems much preferable to me. For sure, absolutely. Yeah. I thought that was really funny. Madsen is the thing here, yeah. Yeah, so it's the New York Times that Exposet yesterday

that basically says that Tucker Carlson has a much different more amicable personality type behind his scenes where he kisses reporters asses and works as a secret, he gives them inside information about what's going on at Fox News and what's going on at Trump White House. In exchange, you know, he gets these a blowing person, you know, media profiles

so he treat him like he's like a rational actor and actually has a good heart or whatever. So, like, on his show, he'll describe you. Jeremy Farr asked, are there any comments on Tucker Carlson being a secret source for other news outlets? Yeah. I mean, this is like all product of all politics becoming a TV show. It's a, even the New York Times treats it like it's a fun game, which is another reason, like, you read like, if you read articles closely, it's almost always apparent who the secret source is. and you'll see people arguing with themselves.

They'll be like, on the record, I'm against this. Off the record, I would like to see it passed, but only if X, Y, Z happens. So it'll be like, the president says he's against this. But of course, close to the president's thinking says, yada, yada. It's like, both people are Trump. Both people in the story are Ivanka. Both people are, it's like, it's maddening. So what also kind of tracks with the whole, like, all the, you know, for example,

all the, so many of those January 6 people have just been lining up to roll over on each other. You know what I mean? Like how quickly they, like, are cooperating with the deep state and riding each other out and things like that. Like, it's just, like, classic sort of, you know, snake behavior. And Tucker Carlson seems to be one of the snakeiest snakes out there. So, I mean, this is the first I'm hearing of it. But I've never been less surprised by something. It's, it's, you'll never get a clear example.

You're right, Judah. Judith says, I can't abide Tucker Carlson. He's dangerous. That's Judith. He is. He is. Brodiel. give me that.

So this is like a great example of what happens. Like to Tucker, this is a TV show, right? He's just playing a character in a TV show. When you believe a TV show, the January 6th people are like John Hinkley shooting Reagan to get Jody Foster's attention.

Like Jody Foster's an actress buddy. You're not going to get her attention. She's not real in the sense that you think she's real. She's a character, you know, on TV. So it's like, last week when he,

you know, he went with that whole theory that the FBI was actually behind January 6th or whatever you know and people are going to roll with that because essentially like they found out that there were some people the FBI were aware of but had not

charged and there's a there's multiple reasons why you might do that A they might be collaborators or whatever they might not know who specifically who they are but that they exist but they said the only he said the only actual reason for that would be they work for the FBI

like our literal FBI agents which is not at Aldru and is wholly made up. But now they've got a new conspiracy theory that can glom on too. And Tucker Carlson used to be a real reporter. He's read charging documents before. He knows that an unindicted co-conspirator doesn't mean a government agent

who actually planned the attack and tricked these robs and are doing it. By the way, like the FBI does convince people to do illegal shit, then arrest them for it. They do that. Years after 9-11, they found the dumbest guy in every moss and gassed them up to go to a terrorist attack and sold him bomb-making materials,

then arrested him for like they did that routinely so to get their quotas up or look at their or look busy or whatever they thought they were doing um but they didn't do that here because the FBI does not think of right wing terrorists as a threat they just don't right yeah uh these guys one of the guys unidated co conspirators was his wife and all they did they just have evidence that said that he texted or something or whatever so they needed to use the evidence they called her undatical conspiracy because she received this text and do about his plans but her actions don't rise of level being charged. And anyone that read that doc could very easily tell that it was his wife.

You know? Right. Right. So, yeah. Yes. Right. Yeah. Like that. It's someone who's involved.

They're aware of it, but it doesn't rise to the level of being charged. There's also possible they know someone else was in the room, but they don't even know who it was. But that is an unadicted co-conspirator that they know exist. Or it could be an informant or whatever, any of those way more plausible reasons for why unadicted co-conspirators were exist, but they went with he also, the way he said he was like, he was like, what is, now why could

that possibly be, you know why that is, it's because they worked for the FBI and it's like making them feel like they figured it out, you know what I mean? Like you're the ones who figured this out, what's really going on here. And then just making some shit up.

Yeah, he's a very talented propagandist. That's a very smart way to constrain. It makes the audience feel smart and like you're all in the same, you know, on the same secret is good yeah he is but you know fuck him all right uh that's pretty much it for this week's edition matt throw that graphic up there need to tell y'all should said this earlier terrible at promo going back on tour everybody starting next month me cori forster and drew morgan the well-red comedy tour are hitting the road again uh starting july 23rd and 24th, so a month from now in Birmingham, Alabama, but we're at plenty of more dates

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