Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 6/25/24 – What’s Up with Fetterman

Episode Date: June 26, 2024

Skewers, tonight we discuss the ongoing and ever-perplexing shift in rhetoric, demeanor, and position of Senator John Fetterman, as the one-time progressive darling continues to openly antagonize countless members of the American political left. To what end? Who knows, but we’ll talk about it. Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it is june 25th 2024 i'm tray that's mark how you doing mark good buddy we've got a fun show we're and talk about what's going on with the you know the passion of john fetterman yes inquiring minds want to know i know because my mind is one of those inquiring yes yeah uh and uh so before we get to the show. I wanted to talk about a couple things. One, you and I both just had our winning anniversaries. It was mine. We have the same day, right? Yes. Evidently we do. Yeah, 21st. Yeah. Yeah. It was my ninth. What are you, what are you going on like 14 or something? 13. 13 years. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I guess it's not the summer solstice there. I always thought it was

the summer solstice every year, but I guess that shifts by a day or two. But anyway, yeah. First day of summer. Yeah. I had a very exciting development, which was that I, did this you're supposed to do and I got them away some gifts, nothing big, like a plant and a, you know, a scented candle, stuff ladies like, and she forgot. And I had a fucking flawless anniversary victory.

Yeah. That is the best gift you can give is me taking the lead in the marriage. Yeah. Or a brief, the points lead, yeah. Yeah, we took hours. It wasn't just because of the anniversary, but I had California shows and one of them was

in San Jose on Sunday. And so me and Katie and the boys took like a trip for our anniversary you know the boys were with us but we went up the the coast the California coast and like I'll tell you what I know there's a lot of socialist and queers and stuff out here but this is a pretty cool state by the way so like I but previously I had driven south from San Francisco to L.A. on the five as we say it and I used to tell people I was like dude that state is San Francisco in L.A. and a bunch of Trumpy ass barren bullshit in between, right? Which, like, that side of the state, that is true. But turns out, if you stick to where the water is, like the coast part, it's real pretty, Mark. I know that sounds like when I finally watched the wire during COVID, and I was like, damn, this is good. I know it sounds like that, but that was my experience. It's like, this state is something to behold, man.

Breaking news from Troy Crowder, the Pacific Ocean is beautiful. It's beautiful, beautiful out here. Yeah. be sure to update everybody update your priors the ocean looks pretty so a couple some random bits of absolute stupidity going on in our laboratories of democracy around our red states so the floor department of education revealed their list of approved books for the next school year and they misspell the words for ninth and twelfth grade more than 60 times in the document once again raising the question is our children learn Yeah, I mean, the only way to explain that is that whoever wrote this document doesn't know how 9th and 12th are spelled, right? Like to repeat the same mistakes 60 plus times, like you're just wrong. You're talking about educational standards and you don't know how to spell those words. And also to have like Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets or whatever you're using trying to correct you and you're like, nope, nope, ninth has me in it.

Yeah, that's funny. I know no 9th has an E in it. you're not going to give me that's a really good point because like you know we've said we have we have like a little show document we go through and like even where you put what they misspelled there's the red squiggly line underneath it so it's like the computer the whole time was trying to tell them like hey this ain't it and in in the face of the computer this person was like pretty sure that is it woke ass google's not going to tell me how to spell 19 so uh louisiana passed the bills were going to require the ten commandments to be posted in schools and but the law listed 11 commandments so i'm not sure what did they add did you say what they added they split the 10th commandment into two separate commandments okay with like a line break because it has two separate clauses in it so they uh anyway like it's also like it's a little stupidity here the same fights happened over again like the the bible wasn't ultimately wasn't stopped stopped being taught in schools just because of like atheists and

woke libs or whatever also christians couldn't settle on what version of the bible to teach right so so it was just like getting that fight but they just said they're just going to do it over again they don't fuck it they don't they don't they'll never we never learn um and honestly this isn't going to unless this room court completely puts their head back all the way up their asses that it's just this isn't going to stand so there's going to waste a bunch of money fighting lawsuits um over near my home home stomping grounds in uh central virginia um representative of Bob Good. He's a fairly maggie guy, but he made the mistake of

endorsing Ron DeSantis at one point. So he got a primary challenger who's endorsed by Trump and has been in a dog fight. The primary was last week and it looks like he lost by a couple hundred votes, but he's now saying he will try to block certification of the GOP primary because he's behind and thinks the election was stolen

because they used drop boxes or some shit. So basically he's alleging that other Republicans in Lynchburg, Virginia are now allied with a deep state in Venezuela communist. Right. Right. Yes, and a lot of people said this when all the January 6th it was going on was like the real one of the massive dangers of this was that this type of thing was like that Americans would not trust elections and that any election that you lose can now be stolen if you are aligned correctly politically or whatever and they're using it a friendly fire version of it right now even within the right its elections are being stolen. So, yeah, it's crazy shit. It's also worth pointing out, this guy was primary for not, for being the one who wasn't crazy enough.

Right. Yeah, the one who wasn't crazy enough is like the fucking deep states align with these other Republicans to take the election for me. And he was the sensible one. Yeah. It's a hell of a thing happening over there on the American right. Another hell of a thing happening on the American right is over in Arizona. I know, so you mentioned this first. In Oklahoma, state legislators spent a whole hearing this week ripping the asshole of state superintendent Ryan Walters, who we talked about before because he's like based his whole life around harassing trans kids and shit.

But apparently they haven't been able to update their school's website, the State Department of Education for like two years. And they're asking him why. And it's because like one guy knew the password, either retired or got fired or laid off or whatever. So nobody has the password. So they just can't update the website for two fucking years. Yeah. I have a single point of failure on a statewide government website. Good rule in life is not have a single point of failure for anything.

For anything. Yeah. Yeah. And then to get to Arizona, so there's a weird movement among Arizona delegates to the GOP convention where they're trying to get delegates in other states to join with them to be able to throw the nomination from Trump, but not really from. Trump, what they want to do is be able to make sure he doesn't, like, pick a vice president they don't like, i.e., I'm assuming J.D. Vance. They're like the Qaeda on Congress. They want to try to force him to like choose Michael Flynn. But like Trump's campaign is kind of in a panic about it because it would be humiliating if they, you know, even if it took like

a second round of balloting or whatever. Yeah, but they did the reasoning is they, well, that's what they think is going on as they surround himself with too many advisors of the quote unquote deep state. But like this piece about it says whatever the goal, the Trump campaign rushed to head off the stunt and replaced the delegates. Whatever the goal made me laugh so much because these people cannot be fucking negotiated with because they don't want anything. They just want to be heard and to fuck shit up.

And like, it's fun when they do it to each other. Exactly. I know. I mean, this has been a recurring theme for the past year or so of this show is I can't help but enjoy this brand of infighting. Because like I've said a million times, like it used to drive me crazy being on the left and we're kind of going to get into this a little bit later. But like all the infighting that happens on the left all the time

and we just tear each other apart and do their job for them. It's always pissed me off. And then like they always were kind of stalwarts in that way. It's like they bring, you know, fucking millionaires and church organists and whatever else. Like they all came together under that umbrella and like fought alongside each other and whatnot. And seeing that fall apart as a direct result of Trump and MAGAism and inviting, you know, inviting the vampires into the house. the way that they did where this island's being run by the lunatics now and watching it unfold

in these microcosms right now and then maybe later on a greater scale is, you know, I am enjoying. I've got some schadenfreude from it. Either way, this is pretty funny. One campaign staff are involved in the cleanup effort described it to at least two Republicans as a quote, as in, quote, existential threat to Trump's nomination next month, which I don't understand how except it'd be again it'd be embarrassing to yeah for the for the for not to get a hundred percent of delegates for whatever because they want to make cue a jfk junior reanimated from the dead vice president or something i don't fucking know it's psychos all of them and we're

rapidly devolving nation of stupid perverts and is what we get the devolving nation of stupid perverts you're out here first all right let's get into a producer matt is with us behind the string behind the seams pulling the strings doing the things this is weekly skews before we continue i want to remind you all of a couple of things as usual first if you'd like to see me do stand-up comedy live and in person and you should want to do that go to traycrouter dot com check out my upcoming dates my next weekend is in tulsa oklahoma and then i got a big run up through new england coming up after that upstate new york connecticut brooklyn a lot of fun places coming up in the future as well go to traycrouter dot com also at traycrouter dot com you can find a link to me in court

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of the American left, John Federman the Savior, to rural progressives everywhere. Apparently, something has happened to this man's brain. Was it the stroke? Was his brain bad all along? We don't know, but we're going to try to decipher it a little later. But first, we begin with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., people who think you need to know what something is in order to

outlaw it. This is Michigan GOP state rep. Neil Frisk. Frisky. I am 100% for a life. You know, these partial birth abortion bills that are coming are a travesty. You mentioned partial birth abortions. Can you talk to our audience about what that actually means? Yeah. Well, to be honest with you, I don't have a definite medical definition of that. Let's get to that.

I just know it's bad and that Americans should not be doing that. This is something the godless lift wants to happen and it sounds bad. when I say it, so that's why I say it. The good news is it doesn't exist, Mr. Frisky, so we're all good. Never has. But the reason I want to talk about this guy, speaking about a rapidly devolving nation of stupid perverts,

this guy is so pro-life, and he actually attempted a murder. Yeah, he was arrested for shooting at a stripper in front of his house last week. Who among us, Mark, you know? Yeah. Yeah. He chased a stripper with a gun after a disagreement

remember the two had. He lives down the street from a strip club called like Dejaub. Oh, yeah, that's a chain. You don't know. Not that I know that. I just happen to see that in for my, I'm not like intimately familiar with. But yeah, yeah, Deja Boo, that's a famous chain of strip clubs. Yes. Yeah. So officially they haven't really, the cops haven't said what they, what exactly is going to be charged with. But the, the, uh, the, the charges police have suggested to prosecutors are sexual assault, simple assault and weapons offenses because you can't to run down the street firing a weapon, although his staff's defense for this was it. I thought this was America, Mark.

Yeah. What the hell? Well, apparently that's his staff's defenses. Like, they said he's always exercising his Second Amendment rights. Yeah, but you can't run down the street shooting at a stripper. Like, he can't, you can't just run out of street shooting anybody. Yeah, not in the local America, Mark. Especially not our noble first responder.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Man can't even run down his own goddamn driveway and his underwear shooting a gun in the hair while a stripper escapes in fear anymore. This is Joe Biden's America. Okay. Yeah. They called the arrest.

They didn't dispute any of the facts of it. They just said the arrest was politically motivated. It's like, oh, well, if it was a Democrat, you could run down the street shooting to people. Nobody would do anything. It's like, and also, at what point, the same gun owners objected calling things like waving a gun and a stripper you're mad at, exercising Second Amendment rights? Right.

The whole point is like you, with. With freedom and power comes responsibility, right? What the fuck is like... Well, also, this is exercising your Second Amendment rights, but what happened to Philando Castile in Minnesota a few years ago is like a legal permitted gun owner who gets shot by the police for being a black guy while legally owning a gun like that, don't count.

That's not Second Amendment rights. That's like, who knows what his criminal record was or whatever. But yeah, but this dude, you know, wave is gun around willy-nilly, and that's the Second Amendment all of a sudden. If I remember, right, all these things blend together. But Castile was like in the passenger seat of a car. They got pulled over for a traffic stop. And he did the thing you're told to do.

Right. Which brother-in-law carries a gun and his truck. He does is like, oh, by the way, officer, I want to let you know that there is a weapon in the car. Right. Right. It's like, and then a cop immediately shoots him. Yes. You know, so like, it's like, okay.

That's how it's happening too. Yeah. The whole point of that whole thing was he went about it by the book, according to the NRA and American gun owners or whatever. And he still got shot to death by the cops. And there you have it. So anyway, Friskey wasn't shot. By the way, his last tweet before he was arrested was him defending himself for being pro-artificial intelligence porn.

Okay. And in case you're wondering, yes, he was at January 6th. This is like, this is, you know what? Everyone, like if everyone who says there was at Woodstock was at Woodstock who had been five times many people are there. This is like Woodstock except everyone was actually fucking back. So he comes from a political dynasty of sorts in Michigan. I always don't correct you, Frisky, his name, okay, I knew a guy whose last name was spelled this way, was pronounced Frisky, but also the news coverage of it pronounced it Frisky,

so I think we're in good footing there. But his father was Richard Friskey, was a GOP state rep in Michigan beginning in the 70s. And he was a minor scandal in the 70s. His campaign literature said that he was a war. or two veteran, which was technically true because he was in the fucking Luftwaffe. Dude, that's so funny, but there's like, there's like a classic joke about, like a classic edgy joke about it's like, yeah, my, just so you know, my grandfather died in the camps. He had a heart attack in the guard tower and was very sad.

Yeah, but this dude's living it. That's what I actually happened. The version I heard was he fell out of a guard tower. That's it. I fell out of a guard tower, yeah. So his defense of himself, Richard Frisky, his dad, when I came out, was like, look, yes, I was living in Germany

and I joined the Luftwaffe in order to be drafted into a different part of the service and we want to be in. But I did not support the Nazis, yada, yada, yada. Except while he was in the legislature, he supported, like, pro-birth policies for the middle and upper class but population controls for welfare recipients.

So eugenics. Yes. Which was like the Nazis' big thing. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah, I don't support the Nazis, but what I do want to do, it's going to quote, he spoke of the need to quote, curb the growth of the drone population that weakens our society. All right. That sounds kind of Nazi-ish to me.

Yes, it does, yes. Much like rats. You know how rats are? That's what these people are in my mind. But, yes, I'm not a Nazi. So, fuck off, Neil Friskey and your Nazi dad. The reveal that the plot twist that his dad was in the luf wafel. It was just like, oh, my God.

So, fuck. Too good. Ignore. The American dream. Your dad could be a Nazi. You can move to this country, get elected to office, and then shoot it a stripper. That's like, well, like, select a flag, man. I don't know. Yeah. All right. Our first honorable mention tonight for Daily Dumbass is Nicole Shanahan's Yogi and Sharpa for not realizing they were preparing her for the presidency. Spent a moment talking about foreign policy. Because as vice president, if the worst case scenario would happen, you'd become the commander in chief. And I'm curious, what in your background prepares you to be commander-in-chief? I think that I have a very sophisticated view on foreign affairs

due to my previous work, both in intellectual property law. I understand how global commerce works. I understand how we build batteries around the world. I understand the importance of semiconductors. I understand that big foreign policy decisions are made specifically around semi-conductors. And I also am multicultural. My background is one in which I've spent most of my spiritual life studying world religions.

And I think it's really important right now for us to understand. So, honestly, the funniest possible result would somehow RFK be getting elected and then immediately dying and her by the president? Yeah. Because, like, I know how batteries are built. and I've been to, you know, the Taj Mahal is, like, one of the funniest fucking answers. Like, she was like a non-profit. I mean, I don't know what her legal career entailed, but we know what she got her money.

She married the founder or Google or whatever. And, like, these people are such a clear, if you're writing on serious lunatics, like, I would think that, like, this is a question you, they, you're prepared for. Right. And that's your best answer is. I know how bad. Dude, that's a really good point. I actually, I didn't even, but yes, this has to be like, you would think in her position, this is perhaps the number one question that you should be prepared for. And her answer is, I know how batteries are made around the world.

Like, yeah, that's not a good look, man. She didn't just not do the homework of studying foreign policy. She didn't do the homework of memorizing a wrote answer to this boring question that everyone gets. Right. Right. No, you're right. Like, when you really sit and think about it. that that is truly wild and damning because these people are supposed to have whole teams of staffers and experts and shit that they bring in and pay good

money to coach them for situations exactly like this like the fact that she fumbled this this badly is genuinely very indicative of something like it's a really really bad look dude uh-huh yeah i mean it's like also he didn't even really ask her about foreign policy, just where her brain went. But, like, so I wanted to talk about this piece in New York, the New York Times of this piece, Robert Dave Kennedy Jr.'s conspiracy of ravens. Now, apparently RFK Jr. is really into collecting birds this whole life. He likes having a lot of birds.

And I did not know this, but a group of ravens is called a conspiracy instead of a flock. Oh, I thought it was, oh, crows or murder. Murder. Because crows and ravens are different. So murder of crows, conspiracy of ravens. Yeah, what's funny about this to me is there's a little bit of irony involved here because I feel like a lot of conspiracy theorists probably are into

RFK Jr. And you know there's a, it's like a half joking but also I know there's some people who genuinely believe it, internet conspiracy theory that birds are not real, that they're government drones. Their government drones operate to spy on us and shit.

So yeah, so like people, making fun of conspiracy theorists, it's people say birds aren't real, right? And so the fact that this dude loves birds this much, I don't know. It's just all kind of simulationy. Yeah, so I guess his whole life he's got Ravens, Peacocks, Croes, Ows,

homing pigeons, and guinea fowls, he trains hawks and hunts with him. And he used to be a licensed rehabilitator of birds in New York, whatever that means. And in 2005, you published a children's book about St. Francis of Assisi, who is the patron saint of birds. And donors to his campaign have been invited to go falconing with him, which is just the richest

sentence. Yeah, okay, I was about to say. I was in like, the rest of this, whatever, but the like the falconing part, the like birds of prey part where you got that special glove with a hawk on it and you send it to go kill a lesser being while you know, while you're familiar's gaze on. That's a very rich, moneyed elitist thing to do. They've been doing it. They've been fucking with birds like that since day one of the saga, I feel like. Saudi princes fucking love birds, dude. You ever seen them, like, clips and shit of them on planes and first class, whatever, with like they got a whole section just for their bird like emirates air has like a bird seat where they put like a like an oil guy's falcon on the plane yeah they love birds is it one of the things that's called the sport of kings uh falconing um i remember reminds me of like what like so my parents visited me in dallas once we went to medieval times i think i might have told this story on the show once before it so apologies if anyone's here it as a repeat but like with the opening act was a falconer before the knights come out and do their thing

And my dad left to go smoke a cigarette after the opening act and never came back. And after the show, we found him. He was the bar getting drunk with the falconer. So all week I had heard falcon facts the whole time. That's pretty funny. That's good. I thought for a minute there, I thought you meant just never ever. Oh, yeah.

Like it's like going out to get a pack of cigarettes, but it's like, my dad went out to take a piss at the Falcon place and never came back. But yeah. He left my mom for the Falconer. That was the story. Well, dude, I mean, the fucking Falcon guy is definitely a more interesting. conversation and you're eight-year-old and your wife, you know, for the... Oh, I was like, well, I was like 28 at the time, but yeah.

So after this article came out about his pet ravens, because the reporter was just talking to him, he's like, oh, by the way, my pet ravens are here. And like, wait, you got pet ravens? So he flew out to L.A. to do the story about him because he was like, what the fuck? This is crazy. He decided to do this video to announce his pet ravens to his followers, and he posted this to Twitter where he's just talking to these ravens.

Hey, everybody. These are my two ravens. They're not actually mine. They are just, I'm just taming them. They live in a palm tree, at roost in a palm tree, about 100 feet from my house. And I've gotten them by feeding them every day,

I've gotten them to come in and join me for meditations every morning on my balcony. Sorry, man. You're meditating with birds. You cannot be prepared. resident. I'm fucking sorry, man. Yes. I was just going to say, before we go too much further with this, I just went like,

birds are pretty cool just served by a nose. Also, like, these birds, you know Ravens and crows and shit? Mark, you know how smart they are? They're smart as fuck, dude. They hold grudges. They have like currencies amongst themselves and stuff. They got little,

birds are wild. I'm just saying. I don't want to go too hard in on RFK Jr. for liking birds when I also think birds are pretty cool. All right. So I got a little bird story for you. My sister had a pet parakeet where she was a kid. His name was Harvey. And one time we left and she must have left the birdcage's door open. And Harvey got loose. And apparently had flown into the ceiling fan and it cut off the top of his skull. Now, okay. What? Nobody. Right. So my mom's like, we're broken. A parakeets are replaceable. I'm not taking a fucking parakeet the vet. So just picked him up and put him back in his cage. He's like, well, we'll see how this goes. Assuming he would just die. Well, he didn't die. He just grew feathers. over his brain, but it was stupid as fuck for the rest of his life. And he would, like, hold onto his perch, and you could turn the perch, and he would turn with it 360 degrees around.

Yeah. All right. Yeah. Sure. So you'll have, not, not, not all birds is what I'm saying. Ravens are smart. Parakeet's not. So the reporter asks, because he's married to Cheryl Hines, you know, a great comedy icon

from a Harvard enthusiast. Yeah. And he said, he asked how she felt about it and said, she's good with the Ravens, which is sort of true. But then he added, she had a big fight with Mike Emu. Back at the house, Mrs. Hines confirmed the emu was so aggressive. The emu, Toby, had moved out to Malibu with Kennedy in 2014 and took up residence in his backyard.

But he was so jealous of Heinz that he took to charging her finally. And she started carrying a shovel and self-defense whenever she stepped outside. Yeah. From her husband's email. The nation of Australia fall and lost. they war against emu's you know what i mean like emu's is a fucking that's a very different story than a crow i feel like they they should be almost counting as different things you know they'll fuck your shit yeah they also extracted a generation of wealth from all the from uh a whole

generation of a southerners wanting to get rich quick through the remember the emu multi-level marketing scam i said the emu scam that's such a funny scam to have fallen for you know actually fun fun cinematic fact uh uh uh Fred Ward's character from Tremors falls for that scam and Tremors 2, just so you know. Trimmers, he's broke because he put all his money in Emu's because of that. I was researching that era for a skit that I was working at one point. And like, you can find wild articles because people invested all their money in emu is thinking they're going to be able to turn around. But then there was, there was so much market saturation, there was no money in them.

So like they were very popular in Texas. People would buy emu. Like when a guy has 30 emos in their backyard and realized, he could not sell them, but also couldn't afford to feed them anymore. So a cop was called when they heard bloody screams. He was putting down his 30 emus with a baseball bat. Jesus, fuck, dude, with a baseball bat? Yes.

God damn. That takes commitment right there. I would not run up on an Amy with a baseball bat personally. But to do it to 30 of them, good Lord. Again, they won a war against Australian military, and they're taking them on, 30 of them on at once with a baseball bat. not put my money on you. So anyway, this is another

funny quote from Cheryl Hines. Every morning she wondered, is today going to be the day that I wake up and kill an emu in my backyard? And here's a funny picture of Cheryl Hines arguing with the emu. I love pointing in an animal's face like

that, like really driving the point home. Like, you don't belong in this fucking ante room. It's like, I'm a bird. Like, I'm a fucking, I'm a giant flightless dinosaur. What is one in my face going to do? But it's a,

it's probably too silly to be a curb episode, but like, you know, Larry gets really into birds or something. Like, like he, no,

here's the plot. Larry is mad at somebody for not getting him a gift. It's the person gives him an over-the-top gift, which is an emu. And then Larry has to keep the emu out of spite, right? Yeah.

Yeah. Do you know that's the origin of a white elephant gifts is, in Thailand, the emperor, whatever, when he would gift somebody a white elephant, it was like a gift, but also a curse. It was a gift. You had to take it from the emperor,

but they were like impossible to care for and they would bleed these families dry and shit. And it was like, so he was like cursing you, while gifting you at the same time. So that's where white elephant comes from in the context of like gift giving and shit. But anyway, Well, Toby the Emo, if you guys were wondering what happened to him, he was eventually killed by a mountain lion.

But I got to say, I think Cheryl did it and framed a fucking mountain lion. We got to get the cops on this. He ripped its throat out. It's hurt and thrown out. So the presidential debate is Thursday, tonight, for some fucking reason, I guess we're going to do this. RFK Jr. did not meet the qualifications to go on the debate stage. He's not on enough state ballots, I guess, although he is in the ballot in a couple of battleground states, including Michigan. so he can still affect the election.

When he failed to qualify for the debate, he basically threatened, once he's elected president, jerk off hand motioned, he threatened to have CNN investigated for like election interference or something, but like, I don't know, buddy, sorry, you don't, he didn't qualify,

and you're not going to be president, so I don't know we're doing this for. Lead up to the debate, Ronnie Jackson, we talked about last week, Congressman from Texas, this former White House doctor has written letter to the White House to manner that Joe Biden be drug tested for the debate. Another Republican congressman went on Fox News today and said he expected Joe Biden to be gassed up on a bunch of stuff, including a bunch of Mountain Dew. So we said this last, we talked about this last week. I'm pretty sure it came up in the video I made up.

Like they, these people think the limitless drug exit. Like these people think that there's something that cures dementia. or pap autism or fucking Alzheimer's or whatever they think Joe Biden has like they think that that exists but also not only do they apparently think that exists but that for

some reason it is only selectively provided to the leader of the free world meaning like we don't keep him on this anti-papal drug we for some reason let him be a major papal at certain points of it so they can point

and laugh and be like look how papal he is But whenever he makes sense and his erudite and eloquent, it's like, well, they clearly gave him the anti-papaw potion. It's like, why would they not always give him the fucking anti-papaw potion if it existed? What the fuck are you talking about? Yeah. It's honestly, yeah, I mean, you're right, but Biden is senile, and they have a drug that totally fixes it, but he only takes it sometimes is a very funny bit. Right. Why?

Why would you ever do that? But, I mean, to be fair, Trump, when he got COVID, did get experimental treatments that didn't exist. for anybody else because he was on the verge of death. I mean, yes, I'm sure, yes, I'm sure the more, I'm sure there'd be plenty of people out there being like, yeah, well, obviously they have drugs that we are not privy to. And I mean, I don't know, maybe. Maybe they do. If Joe Biden's, well, Trump was near death and they shot him up with everything they had, right?

Because, I mean, technically speaking, he was the president of the United States. And it is theoretically a crisis for democracy when a chief executive goes down like that. But also, hey, you should have let him die. But I'm saying, like, so Joe Biden, whatever is going on is not on the verge of death. But it's, but it's like, if there were, my question, if there were, like, performance-enhancing drugs that made the president better, wouldn't you want him to take it? Right. Of course. It's not like a baseball situation where it's the competitive imbalance for it.

And, like, I guess they're saying the debate is a competitive imbalance. But like, so with, like, Joe Biden wins. We put an asterisk next to Joe Biden's home run record when he goes in the Hall of Fame. No, that's a good point. It's like if, if that drug does exist, they should all be taking, if there's a make you a better president drug, all president should be prescribed that drug at all hours of every day. That's what should have happened. So I want to ask you more. Are they, is this a, they should have given taft, they should have been Taft of Zimpick.

Sorry, I was going to get that. Right. So a lot of people have been saying that all this drug talking stuff is like Trump trying to set the stage. for him to just not show up and then be like, it was fucking bullshit. It was rigged from the beginning and I'm too smart to play into that. Do you think that's going to happen? You think he just ain't even going to be there tomorrow and they're not even going to do it?

Well, Thursday. Or not tomorrow. Sorry, Thursday, yeah. I mean, I have my doubts he shows up. But even like, what's the point? Like, I don't understand what we do these anymore. Like, nothing, the only thing that can happen is some sort of theatrical mistake or whatever. And no one really knows what their audience takeaways from the theatrical.

moments is going to be because it's never it's never one that's like scripted or even like even the the pundance writing it will not know that like oh it was george w bush looking at his watch while he was debating clinton that everyone made got mad about or whatever you know but like but like on the substance of it like what fucking substance can they possibly talk i mean trump gave a speech over the weekend where as one of his solutions to the migrant quote unquote crisis he pitched staging MMA fights among the migrants and then the winner gets pitted against the UFC heavy champ and then somehow that's not fair no but like also like why why you're pitching like there are bump fights videos in the night also there's that's a mandango fights right

which was a real real thing it's not just from it's not just from jango unchanged well was it did that slave owners like really did that right they fought no they went each other there's no record of it actually happening. Oh, okay. You're right. Slave owners weren't so bad. I'm just kidding. No, no, I'm not saying that at all.

I'm saying that particular thing. I remember when Django came out at being a thing where like that, like that part, like it's not, there were human beings as property were too valuable to risk like that. Right. Okay. So, yeah. All right. Well, let's get into it. Our golden boy, John Federman, what happened with him?

Because let's say, I mean, dude, I know, look, this show, we were very into Federer. during his rise loved it loved everything about him producer matt with his uh rural uh his rural organization out there trying to spread progressive politics in rural america love fetterman i love faterman you love feller we're like this is our guy we got a guy now this is the guy and something's happened to the guy uh a stroke but also maybe other things right hospitalized for depression that too but and also like like basically we're talking about the ways in which he did change or ways you which he didn't change. A lot of ways he would he didn't change, right?

Like, which people just misunderstood him or, like, applied, like, applied their hopes to him because he does a thing that very few mainstream national Democrats do, which he picks aside and stuff. Right. Which has always been my complaint about a lot of them is like, if you're like, okay, well, this, you know, predatory lender is charging his orbitant interest rates. What are you going to do about that? I'm like, oh, we have to build an economy.

me that works for all Americans. You're like, okay, we're saying you don't want to take a side between the predatory lender, the people they're fucking. But like, somebody's, money's coming out of one of their pockets. You got to pick, you got to pick a side. I never want to do that. I always find that very, very frustrating. So let's start a couple weeks ago with our journey of John Federman because he went

on Bill Maher show and did the most perfect thing you do on Bill Mar, which is he bragged that the brain damage from his stroke made of abandoned progressives. I should have done that. I mean, I had a stroke. But, yeah, I didn't get no viral moments out of my appearances on there. I should have. Yeah. He said, like, quote, let me quote here.

There's a line for the first Batman, Joker. He's like, I've already been dead once already. It's very liberating. So he's comparing himself with the Joker. I don't even know what he means by, like, saying that, like, a stroke freedom from being woke. I mean, I guess the near-death experience were free to speak your mind more, but that's, like, not exactly what he's doing. And it's not like, it's like he's turned anti-trans or something unless I miss something.

He's still, like, quote-unquote, woke about, like, right so like he's so progressive on that stuff he doesn't he doesn't he doesn't use the the academic language around inclusivity that a lot of Democrats do because they all went to grad school and shame though he went to grad school he just knows the bad way to talk um to go ahead sorry I was just going to say so like I on off of what you were just saying like I did not I had seen all the stuff ever since I felt like ever since October 7th I'd seen all the stuff it's like John find you somebody that loves you the way John Federer loves Israel. This motherfucker loves Israel, right? Like, that drum has been beaten to death by him and his people for a long time now. And I knew that. And, like, Israel and their policies don't hit for me. But

just that alone, I was watching that. And in my head, I was like, okay, but what about everything else? Because if he's still cool on everything else, I'm willing to let that slide personally. I'm not going to tear this man apart. Like, I saw, I saw, I saw, A lot of people on the, like, you know, in the progressive caucus, the super pro-free Palestine caucus, you know,

they went after AOC a couple weeks ago. Like, she fucked up in their eyes and they got mad at her. And so I was like, I'm not going to ride him off just because of that. Is that all that's going on here? But it's not, though. There's more, not just that. But like you said, he is still, and also, like you said, I, when I saw that part of me

almost kind of respected it because I was like, well, you know he ain't bullshitting. If he was bullshitting, he would not be doing this because this would be bad for his brand and whatever else. Clearly he's keeping it real and I do respect

that. So. Well, I think we're going to get to Israel a second, but like I I'm not going to go on for out of for a long time because we talked about, you know, too much. But he's a, It wasn't like when he ran for Senate in 2022 that he was anti-Israel and he flip-flopped. It just wasn't a big issue in the campaign.

Exactly. Right. Yes. So like, but when he says like he's saying stuff like now, like I was never progressive, that's, that's not, I don't know what words used to describe himself. But he did seek the endorsement of Democratic Socialists of America in 2022 and when he ran before in 2018. So like, I don't know what he means by that. But like, you can, you can say whatever you want, I guess. Just be out there.

talking. But like, when he went on Mar, everyone's making the same joke. Well, like, if some brain damage made him become more conservative, what happens if we hit him in the head again, right? So we didn't take too long to find out because he had a, he had a car wreck a couple weeks ago. Everybody's okay. Car wreck was his fault. He crashed in the back of the lady while speeding, going super fast. He was going well over the posted speed limit of 70 miles per hour, according to the police report. When he career ended another woman, It did lead to this perfectly Western Maryland moment if you got this video right here

of this guy who saw the wreck because he just needs to be, I love local accents in this country. I also do like local news reporters winning to give them their flowers because they oftentimes managed to find the perfect person to talk to or at least perfect footage to use.

Yeah. Went out from the frame. The father of the garage owner described a violent collision based on the damage. He hit that point. so hard to come clear up on top of the SUV. I mean, that shows that man hit that

woman a heck of a lick. Damn good lick he hit her with. So, I don't know if there's any insight to his personality or not, but New York Times wrote a story about the wreck. And apparently, he's like, he's had a history of, like, reckless driving. He's got a bunch of speeding tickets for the last few years for going, like, 35 miles an hour and 25

miles an hour more than a speed limit. And a bunch of his former staff members, like, went on the record to say he's, quote, notoriously distracted to drive or often made video calls and read news articles on his phone while driving. And he gave them major anxiety every time he got behind the fields. They literally stopped riding with him when he insisted on driving. Yeah. I mean, dude, I don't know how you feel about this, but I feel like that don't hit.

You ought not be that way. But I feel like that is sort of completely separate from any person's given political. Like, you know, look, God lover, my wife, lovely liberal woman, I can't get her to stop to get off her goddamn phone while driving. I feel like there's just people that just drive like fucking maniacs and they can be right way or left wing or whatever and so he drives like a maniac that don't hit

but is that really look I'm not like I'll send a text while I'm driving but I also go the speed limit I feel you've got to pick a thing right you can't you can't do a video call while you're driving and also go 105 and a 70 mile hour absolutely I guess I'm asking the question like

is his maniacal driving germane to this weird political shift 50s hag is I feel like it's not. I think that both people on both sides can be there's just shitty drivers and there's not. Some of them are MAGA, some of them are Purple-Head weirdos, you know? I'll mostly concede your point

that I mostly want to talk about that to show that video of the guy from Western Maryland. But also, I think it's like there is a lack of impulse control to some of this that we'll get to in a little bit. But like, so, so, just, just tell about the ways in which he is and was good to talk about why he's just why I feel a little bit

disappointing let down by whatever he's doing now right um so 2001 he got it he got his like a graduate degree in public policy from Harvard and he went back to braddock pennsylvania and was helping young parents get their GEDs now that's not that's not a money play that's a help helping people play right that's good it's a good thing to do with your life and four years later he ran for mayor of this little town with like a thousand people in it or whatever and he won by a single vote 149 to 148 if the job paid $150 a month this is not a guy who was in shit for the money um the town is a little rust down rundown rust belt town and doesn't have like a ton of

murders because there weren't a ton of people would have had a murder rate and like when somebody got killed he would have their um the date their name and the date of their death tattooed on his arm now that's right to me for two reasons one i hate it when politicians make over the top promises that are just lies that like we're going to stop crime. No, you're not. No, you're not. The mayor of this town cannot stop crime. What he can do is empathize with your plight and be there for you and try to hold it close to his heart when he has to make decisions that might affect public policy and include stuff like getting, you know, a tattoo of their name and date of death when you are. He bought an old church for $50,000 and he lived in its unheeded basement

and made it into a communal art space for the town. He bought and refurbished houses for people to live in in the community. His wife, Jazele, read about him in a magazine article, thought he was cool, wrote him a letter. That's how they met. They ended up married. And then he opened a store.

It was called Free Store. People donated stuff for people who didn't have money in the community to come get stuff, right? This all sounds like a hidden dude. I know what's been playing. I mean, everything I'd ever heard about this guy until the last, I mean, from my perspective, until October 7th, or I guess maybe the stroke,

but it started coming out after October 7th. Until then, everything I'd ever heard about this dude seemed head to toe legit. That's one of the reasons why he hit for me so hard. And a lot of people on those because, yeah, like he seemed to have bona fide, man. He seemed to be fully legit. And also he did campaign. And we'll get to him flip-flopping on fracking stuff.

But he did camp, but he still holds the positions he campaigned on on these, like Medicare for all, marijuana legalization and a $15 an hour minimum wage. Now, one of the reasons he says he's not a progressive anymore is he says, well, marijuana legalization and $15 minimum wage are essentially consensus positions the Democratic Party now. So it's sort of become the central stem position, which is fair. That's a good victory for progressives. Okay, so I'll give him that. He, uh, when he took office, he hung a, uh, a, a, uh, a transit quality flag off his,

office, uh, when he took, when he went lieutenant governor, I'm sorry, you're on, he hung on trans equality flag off his balcony. He also, as lieutenant governor, he did a lot of hard work to help prisoners get sent him commutations. Um, and then since it's been the, in the, the Senate now we're talking to Matt pre-show like he sits in like an agriculture committee that has a lot of power of a rural policy and Matt's people in Matt's world have been frustrated right by basically not being able to get a hold of him on the phone to help

rural Americans but he has and work over the farm bill which includes food stamps for whatever reason or you know welfare benefits are negotiated in a farm bill he's fault to expand SNAP benefits that's good okay so that's all the stuff that's good right yeah elaborate a little bit on what you just said a minute ago. According to producer Matt, and I'm assuming he wouldn't mind me saying this, according to him because y'all know his day job is he works in the rural politics sector. He's got his own nonprofit.

That's his whole life in terms of his day job. And he said that John Federman is like top five or top three U.S. people in Congress representative or Senate who are in a position to actually do something for rural Americans. like he because of his committee positions and whatnot he could enact some change but seems to just not have any interest in doing that according to Matt you cuss me out later if you're sorry for me saying that but yeah so that's a little extra context for you all yeah I mean but what he is concerned about is uh Israel he's in Israel right now he's visiting Israel for the first time right now they had a big reception for him um he uh like the other stuff

the stuff like that hit for me like him just like call going on the record to call Republicans in the house jack offs call whatever they're doing a circle jerk on dicks like it's blunt and straightforward it is what they're fucking doing and they don't deserve respect so you don't have to go by the core of the body

he also was one of the was the first Democrat in the Senate to speak out against Bob Menendez and say he's resigned when he got indicted because he should have fucking resigned and like I like when people say stuff that's true that is when they speak out of turn that's right I like that. Absolutely. But then

so then October 7th happens. And he's become the most outspoken pro-Israel Democrat in the Senate. And, like, he hung, like, photos of all the hostages in his office. And, like, I don't know. They obviously, like, I don't, I wish all the hostages will come home. I wish October 7th hadn't happened. But, like, when he was asked about whether he had any concerns about the way in which

Israel's right-wing prime minister, Benjamin Nanyahu was conducting the war, he answered with a shrug. I've never rendered judgment on him because he's the leader. He's the democratically elected leader. And my support follows Israel. but I criticize the conduct of wars that my own country does. It's not like that's that's a non-secretary to me. Right.

The idea that like George W. Bush couldn't have been doing anything wrong because he was fairly elected. Well, you know, according to the Supreme Court and everything. Fairly elected. And, you know, that that means he was beyond reproach for everything that happened in Iraq, you know, in the wake of 9-11. I really doubt he would say. that publicly, I would think, because that's assonine. I mean, and it's always been sort of

like to be, again, like you, in general, it hits for me when he just takes aside. Right. But like, this is just like more fucked up than that and confusing and there's nuance here, right? And like, they quote here this is a rabbi and Philadelphia

name of Lisa Wise who was a, who voted for, uh, Federman in 2022. She co- she found a group called rabbis for ceasefire. And she said, I quote, I just cannot understand how someone capable of such empathy for the victims of violence in Braddock. She's talking about him getting the tattoos in his arm. Has none of the tens of thousands of Palestinian children who are also victims of violence. Now, a factor here is that the tree of life shooting happened.

The synagogue shooting happened when he was running for, I think, Luke's, I can't remember when he's running for lieutenant governor or Senate. But like that, that sort of his version of the story that made him super sensitive to the rise of anti-Semitic violence, which fair. right that was horrifying and wish it hadn't happened um and but it gets a little absurd when you're like like last month he was the wall street journal asked me but there's anything that could cause him to break with israel and he said quote it would have to be some kind of absurd situation that's unlikely ever going to happen if you don't think it's already absurd over there bro right i i don't i don't know what to say i just feel like to me there's such a i don't know i mean again, he seems fully willing to take whatever position, regardless of how harmfully might be, PR-wise, or whatever.

But it just seems like, like you were saying, it's like, we want the hostages to come home. Like, I feel like our general position is like, I just want as few people as possible to die over there as we manage. I don't, I get why, as soon as October 7th happened, I knew Israel had to respond and they did. They had no choice but to respond, but I also knew it would probably go too far. and it's long since gone too far, and it's just, it's all fucked, and I want the violence to end and people, innocent civilians and children and shit to stop getting murdered. And it's like, you don't have to, in order to say that, like, you could, I don't know, I just feel like you could do that without being like there's nothing Israel could do that would stop me from supporting them. Like, there's a very obvious middle ground here that I feel like you should be able to trot that he's just, you know, very actively choosing not to. I saw a piece by a centrist general censors who was like, okay, now I agree.

Israel's gone too far, but I can't stand the leftist doing end zone dances. Like, they knew they would go too far back on like October 8th. Like that has anything to do with it. But like I've lived through this movie before. We knew, we knew, like when we did our episode right after October 7th, I was like, well, whatever, Israel's going to do too much and it's not, it's going to be ineffective. Fast forward, here's a piece in foreign policy magazine this week. Hamas is winning because what they've been so over the top that Hamas's numbers have swelled even though they've killed a bunch of them it's like the peace compares it to the

fight against the Viet Cong where it's called the body count fallacy where like there was no other metric to measuring success in the war so like the DOD was just reporting how many Viet Cong we killed as if it was like a path to victory and it just got worse and worse and worse and worse and worse and worse and what I'm saying like we everyone doesn't have to always act that they were born yesterday right this is going to go badly because it always goes badly and we can skip ahead and not do it anyway back back to fetterman let's talk about some other issues here um like they're talking about the impulse control his staff is telling was telling is telling this reporter that whenever there were pro-palstinian protesters in the senate

office building they would try to keep him away not keep him from knowing that that was happening because they were afraid he would go fight them yeah that's that's crazy dude right um and also like when there was a hostage deal worked out at some point where Hamas returned 105 hostages in Israel, at least 240 Palestinian prisoners. And Federman hated it, even though the Israeli government agreed to it. And his aid was like, let me quote the aid. I was like, what, you know more than Mossad? Which is like, he's to the right of Mossad.

Right. Yeah. Oh, fuck. So, but he also pivoted on some other issues. Real quick, I'll get through here. Like immigration, for example, he used to be part of his core story because his wife, was an undocumented immigrant from Brazil. Like, she was here without papers for a long time.

And he used that fact in campaign ads. And I was talking about how we, like, got to be cracked down with the border or whatever. Maybe that's just political rhetoric or whatever. But I just, like, I hate, I hate when you buy into their conservative's reactionary framing about this stuff, like people wanting to work and being hungry is a tragedy for us.

I fucking hate that. But the big one that's just, a complete, like, obvious, the rest of that stuff is sort of like, you can be like, okay, well, it didn't come up in the election or like he's, like, the way he's talking about Giselle's situations different from like 50,000 migrants over the border. Okay, fair, whatever. But he straight up flip-flopped on climbing chains and fracking in a few different ways. So like, in 2016, when he was running for Senate for the first time, he pledged to support

a full statewide moratorium on fracking in Pennsylvania and ban all fossil fuel development on federal lands. There he is signing the pledge, okay? and here's the 2018 version of Federman who rally with young people to stop fracked gas pipelines if you got this next. There he is.

Hugging up with kids who are protesting a pipeline. Fast forward to he's in office. He goes on Fox News pretty regularly to criticize Joe Biden's liquefied gas export pause. And when a constituent asked why he flipped,

he made fun of her, then walked into a member-only elevator and trolled her. And here's a reaction of him trolling a teenager who's concerned, or a young woman, I don't know her actually age, but he's concerned about climate change.

We got this video on that. Matt, skip towards the end of it if you don't care. Why does you need to part? Why are you standing with people in Pennsylvania right now? Well, I would be less more. That was a funny bit. It was a funny bit to actually you're going to answer questions. But this is like we've covered so many videos of cinema doing this exact same thing.

And I've talked about how it drives me crazy. And it does drive me crazy. Like the fact that they seem put off by having to, you know, respond to their constituents. Because we cut it off for time. But in the walk up the hall, he like rolled. his eyes at her he does like it's like oh look at this dumb ass daring to question me on this highly relevant policy and i just can't stand this shit and this fracking stuff was one of the damning ones for me because like i said when it when i was all the israel thing i was like okay

that don't hit for me but if it's just that i can live with that and then this stuff came up when it first was like oh he likes fracking now initially i was like well maybe it's some like coal country type mentality where it's like it will destroy these communities, if we don't have this industry, I was giving him the benefit of the doubt. And when I saw the stuff about how, like, he was fervently opposed to it for years, openly and publicly, and now it's just straight up flip-flop by any definition, it's like, I don't, I mean, I don't know how to defend that, you know. Look, look, you can, like, if you, like, there is an honest answer to these questions.

It's like, okay, well, we know we need to get the green injury as fast as possible, but we have to win elections in order to do that. And that probably means it doing in all the above type strategy where we do where we get as much energy as possible from every source as possible while without disrupting the industries that currently exist so people don't turn against us and elect the other guys who absolutely fuck it. And like there are I understand there's context and nuance to all this. I hate it. I hate how electoral politics works. But it's democracy. It's messy and stupid.

Right. But like, but he's not even doing that. He's just doing a bullshit bit while the elevator doors closed. to a constituent. Right. A woman who probably voted for him. And so, like, so one of his former advisors, Adam Gentilson, often the theory of what he's up to.

And he's basically trying to, like, present Democrats with a different phase of affect. Or basically he's doing vice signaling on some issues that aren't super salient. So it looks like he's doing dirtbag centristism. Yes, the opposite of virtue signaling. He's vice signaling. He's trying to, like, appeal to, you know, the common clay of the New West

and whatever you know of the salt of the earth types or whatever that's what he's trying to do it's the no nothingism part of it that bothers me like a couple of little things he did like at the end of March he went to a Vietnam War Veterans Day

to thank soldiers who quote defended our freedoms in Vietnam end quote and like that fights over buddy you could thank them for their service for doing what the country asked them to do without acting like if South Vietnam fell to communism which it did then America was next

for some shit. Now see Mark this one thing I'll push back on a little bit because it's not about Vietnam in general. I feel like I maybe there's just me being weirdly not optimistic but maybe naive. I don't know what the word is but like I feel like because I support the troops. I've got like friends that were troops whatever and I feel like that's just kind of an accepted way of how we talk about what troops do while knowing that it isn't really true. Meaning like they fought for our freedom so we don't have to and it's like Iraq wasn't about our freedom and we all know that but we all

We all agreed to say that that's what they did because it is still a brave thing that they were doing. And I feel like maybe this is basically that. Sure. But gasing ourselves up like this is how we end up in so many stupid foreign wars. And like it's like, by the way, the troops who were in Vietnam knew it was bullshit. That's why like 70% of them were on opium and heroin because they were so depressed. I'm going to fight a stupid fucking war that they knew was worthless. And like, so like they're no, you're lying to them when you do it.

That's a good point. and so like like so like honestly thank you for your service you did your duty you were drafted those motherfuckers didn't have a choice man most of them like you were still getting drafted and being that's what I'm saying it never hit for me going after like the actual

Vietnam so especially in a war you get drafted into like you said they knew it was rough it fucked them up they know like we don't have to go in on them for that but I get what you're saying that if above anybody else they know that you're lying when you say I'm not saying you go in on that

I know, I know. You don't have to make, that's a rhetorical choice he made. Made a very good point. They, above everybody else, they know that that's bullshit when you say it better than anyone else. So that's an even, you know, greater reason to not give in a rhetoric like that. And also, that doesn't explain. This last one is the stupid, most know-nothing part of it. He weighed in on lab grown meat to take Rhonda Sanchez's side that it needs to be banned.

Yeah. You don't got to be doing that. I'm going to believe that one on the stroke. Bro, lab grown meat, that's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard, him being against it. I can't wait. I've always thought the opposition of lab grown meat is insane because it's like, I feel like vegans have a lot of really good arguments. I just love how pig tastes too much.

I'm sorry, I'm a weak. I'm a weak person. I just like how meat tastes. Y'all make a lot of very legit arguments. And I've always said, as soon as they figure out this lab grown meat shit, I'm done. I'll eat nothing, but I'm totally fine with it. And it's like, oh, you don't know what's in that. And it's like, I eat Taco Bell, motherfucker.

You know the shit? I ate souse meat growing up. Like the stuff I've shoved into my body, you think I got a problem with scientist steaks? I don't give a fuck. Give that shit to me. Like I can't, you know, I can't wait to have it. But I'm, again, I feel like for him, maybe it's the whole thing.

It's like, oh, I'm protecting the ranchers or something. I don't know. Right. That's where that's all it is. Right. So anyway, thank you guys for watching. We appreciate it. We'll see how it all transpires.

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