Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 7/16/24 – Trump Yet Lives

Episode Date: July 17, 2024

Skewers it’s kinda hard to know what to talk about this week as so little is going on in the news cycle right now. However, we’ll surely come up with something. Maybe the assassination attempt or ...fake hillbilly VP candidate, if anyone’s interested. Support the show

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Well, well, well, welcome back, everybody. Happy Skews Day to you. It's July 16th, 2024. If y'all came back, we recorded a little controversy last week, so I appreciate y'all still watching that are watching right now. We're still the same guys. I'm Trey. That's Mark.
Starting point is 00:00:20 How you doing, Mark? Good, man. I hadn't noticed what you titled the show, to we just went live. Trump yet lives. It's like, yeah. A man, literally dodged a bullet. What are you going to do? So a couple of things
Starting point is 00:00:32 for we get to the show. Bob Menendez got convicted. Please fuck off and resign. Chuck Schumerichol from resigned. A bunch of people. Just like don't make them boot you out of the Senate. Can you please just go away? But I just want to point out that Joe Biden's highly politicized Justice Department.
Starting point is 00:00:45 And so far, succeeded in convicting the Democratic chair of the Senate for Relations Committee and his own son. So really, uh, right. Meanwhile, on the Trump side of things. Yeah. His case got thrown out by his plan in the judiciary. Yeah, Aileen, A.ling, A.Lean Cannon, however you say it. But so on that real quick, I saw people that, you know, I'm law dumb, obviously.
Starting point is 00:01:09 I saw some people saying, like, that might actually be a good thing because they can appeal it to the 11th Circuit, whatever that is, which has busted her ass down before for this type of shit. So it may end up kind of working out, but who knows. We could also try to get her recarriced her or whatever. They could also just move it to try to move it to D.C. It's like, but it doesn't matter if Trump gets reelected. He's going to tell the Justice Department's about prosecute him. Yeah. So, yeah, whatever.
Starting point is 00:01:35 It's just just a Democratic president, uh, norming his own son into prison is just fucking hilarious to me. Uh, they believe it. They believe in, they believe in their stuff, man. You got to, got to, you know, respect it. Uh, another fun little story. Let me read this headline to you. Gay furry hackers playing credit for Hacking Heritage Foundation files over project 2025.
Starting point is 00:01:56 Who's out there fighting? for us straight gay furry hackers well an ad libid that is it's like almost teenage mutant ninja turtle level usually one more adjective in there making that wild as hell it's like I didn't I mean you know that's pretty niche man gay
Starting point is 00:02:10 well I don't know how much overlap there is between like queerness and furied them or what like how many furries or I have no idea how those stats break down but then you add that to hackers you know and yeah getting pretty specialized here but I appreciate their efforts reminds me a great to all those old great bit about uh how sick read and roy made him believe in true love because what are the chances of
Starting point is 00:02:32 one gay line tamer meeting another gay line tamer yeah yeah so yeah it's like uh yeah they said they got a bundle a bunch of passwords and shit see when they comes of it uh harry foundation of course is saying that they didn't they did not get owned by the furry gay hackers i just like so we're such a weird place in 2024 where the liberal vanguard is uh leave it leave it to who's going to do anything about project 2025 nobody in power it seems but But gay furry hackers, they're all over it. One last thing I want to talk about. So after we talked last week and everybody got mad at us,
Starting point is 00:03:06 George Clooney wrote an op-ed in New York Times saying that he'd, you know, at a fundraiser he'd hosted that a bunch of Democratic bigwigs were at. I guess maybe Obama was there too. Yeah. It felt like to him, they'll abide to loss of step and maybe he was calling them to like. And that fundraiser, first of all, Marine One threw it over my house twice that day. that's neat anyway that fundraiser made headlines already for a couple of weeks first of all that was jack black's first uh controversy politically because he made he made a thing at that fundraiser and like uh american flag overalls pro biden people got real pissed about that felt betrayed whatever he'll come up later but also at that there was one of those clips that people were pulling out and showing of it was like i think it was like obama having to lead biden off the stage or something like that and a lot of people were you know were like this is actually out of context, this, whatever else.
Starting point is 00:03:59 It wasn't like, Gavin Newsom, I know, said. He was like, I was there. He was sharp as attacked the whole time. So it had already come up. And for George Clooney to then come out later and be like, yeah, I was there too. I was one of the people throwing it. And he was not sharp as attack. In fact, it was alarming, you know, and people got very pissed at him too.
Starting point is 00:04:15 Yeah. I always want to say about Gavin Newsom. Like, I know I'm predisposed to dislike the motherfucker because he's been my shitty governor for a long time. But, like, I know he wants to run for president because I get Gavin Newsom ads all over my social media, even though he's not up for anything, all right?
Starting point is 00:04:31 He's always picking, he had a stupid, that stupid debate with Ron DeSantis. When he says, something to factor in is that he wants there to not be an incumbent to run, incumbent damned to run against in 2028,
Starting point is 00:04:44 if we're still having elections. All right. So like, if Cabo is on the ticket as the vice president has a loser stink on her, that's a clear field for him. Right. So like,
Starting point is 00:04:55 don't trust the motherfucker. Like, it's like, you see what Gavin Newsom says. You can just throw it out. Don't believe anything he says. Anyway, so in response to Clooney's op-ed, Donald Trump released this statement. Donald Trump fires back to George Clooney over Biden op-ed, quote, he should got out politics and go back to TV. Movies never really worked out. Look, George Clooney has some banging movies.
Starting point is 00:05:24 He made it to these mouths and made a bunch of piece of shit movies. but I think in general his career has gone fine. I mean, dude, he's like objectively A-list, yeah. But, you know, it's like Trump's like, he ain't got no home alone too on that resume. I can tell you that much. But, yeah, no, dude, Michael Clayton, that's one of the best movies ever made as far as I'm concerned.
Starting point is 00:05:41 Me too. I'll watch it tonight. I'll watch it tonight. The Oceans movies are great. They're great fun. Uh-huh. Was it no way out or set it, set it off? Out of sight.
Starting point is 00:05:51 Out of sight. Yes, out of sight. Out of sight. That's a good one. I'm a big fan of the American. American. What's the peacemaker? He's doing Nicole Kibman. He's got some beggars in there. All right. He also made the men who stare at goats and shit. But we just forget about it.
Starting point is 00:06:04 Anyway, I just wanted to raise that point that Donald Trump really, really wants to run against Joe Biden. So I just wanted to point out. Maybe he's wrong. Maybe we'll work out for him. I don't know. Things seem to generally work out for him pretty good, though. That's when we put that out. So, yeah. Producer Matt's with us doing his thing. We're glad you all are back. This is weekly skewers. I want to remind you all of a few things. real quick. Number one, if you'd like to see me do stand up live in person, and you should,
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Starting point is 00:07:05 Either way it works, $5 a month, you get access to full link bonus episodes. We do two a month. We got one coming up this week where I imagine we'll talk about whatever, what other insane thing happens in the next couple of days, presumably. But yeah, it's a lot of fun. So as for the show tonight, we weren't really sure what to talk about, kind of slow news cycle, not a lot going on. We had to, like, just kind of really, you know,
Starting point is 00:07:27 put our heads together and try to throw a show together for you guys. But I think we came up with some stuff that may interest you. Oh, wait, no, I'm kidding. Trump almost got shot to death. He got barely shot a little bit. And then picked our old friend J.D. Vance who runs his vice president. So we've got some things to talk about. But first, the Daily Dumbass, Matt, graphic, please.
Starting point is 00:07:50 Today's D.D. is whoever Tim Scott's wedding venue was for thinking and they can keep that deposit without a fight. Here we go. This is, well, Tim's God. And next thing we know, you proposed in January 20th, yeah. Okay, Keow Island. Keow Island. Well, it was one of the coldest days in January this year.
Starting point is 00:08:09 I got out there, and it was a beautiful Kioa sunset. And it was very cold. I had my gloves on, and he told me to take my gloves off. I said, no, I'm going to keep them on. It's chilly. So we're walking out to the beach. Until you saw the ring. Yes.
Starting point is 00:08:23 Until I saw him get on his knee. I was like, okay. Going down to my knee. I just thought this one. So this slow girlfriend rollout over the past few months to get the vice president from nomination is one of the funniest things. First of all, I don't even know what the news is anymore. But I do not remember there being human interest stories on the news before about Senate, senators getting fiancés. Yeah, not unlike national cable news.
Starting point is 00:08:52 You know what I mean? I feel like, you know, every now in the news at 10, they'd be like a, like, a surfing squirrel or something like that. You know, you got thrown in there locally. Well, surfing squirrel is interesting. This is not interesting. Yeah, it's pretty, pretty impressive. So, but like, it's like, oh, I had no idea. We were just, we were just casually taking a walk on the beach and the dead of winter by a photographer.
Starting point is 00:09:12 And I had no idea he was kind of proposed for this media roll. Right. This is so fucking funny. And so, yeah, now that, the person asked him in the interview is like, you know, know, about the criticism that you're only doing this to get the VP pick or whatever. He's like, what was it that Trump said when this guy, when he announced he was engaged? Like, Trump, he said something that was like, nobody ever thought that shit was going to happen or something like that. He's like, he'd get married, really?
Starting point is 00:09:40 Nobody would have thought that. Yeah. Yeah. Not saying what we're not saying, but like, there was a, there was a, there was a quote from a Grindr's CEO saying that the RNC is, is, their Super Bowl for their app. So I don't know why, like, why they made this man get his first girlfriend at 50-something years old to get them a failed run in a vice presidential nomination. I don't know who makes these decisions or what they're for.
Starting point is 00:10:06 Anyway, he's not the vice president, vice president of the Republicans. It's Jady fucking Vance. And not for nothing. We're talking about this shooting a little bit, but probably what sealed it is he put this extremely stupid tweet he posted. The central premise of the Biden campaign. is that President Donald Trump in authoritarian fascist
Starting point is 00:10:25 who must be stopped at all costs, which is true. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination. Not remotely fucking true. No. And we'll get to talk about the shooter a little bit,
Starting point is 00:10:38 but the idea that Joe Biden's fiery rhetoric could inspire someone to murder is one of the most twisted things I've ever heard in my entire fucking life. Yeah, but it's also, it's just like that, you know, we stoke violence and division and all this stuff throughout the country,
Starting point is 00:10:53 and an alarming rate into a, you know, a frightening degree. And the fact that y'all criticize that, that makes you the insane ones. You know what I mean? Like the one's being like, hey, you're kind of scary with that rhetoric you've got. And it's like, you're going to have people killed pointing out how scary our rhetoric is. Like, that's basically the argument. Yeah. Like, no, this is what y'all do.
Starting point is 00:11:15 Literally waving the bloody shirt. I mean, dude, it's like people have pointed all these things up. But, you know, in 2016, Trump saying the whole, like, can't do anything. about Hillary. Well, maybe some of the Second Amendment people, maybe they could do something about Hillary. And then like, obviously the proud boys in January 6th and all that. And there's Paul Pelosi, the plot for Gretchen Whitmer
Starting point is 00:11:33 and all this type of stuff. Like, it's not they've done a lot of that. I don't know what you can point to outside of the Democrats pointing that out and being worried about it. I don't know what else you can point to that the Democrats have done
Starting point is 00:11:48 as it pertains to any of this. You know. Say another candidate. their policies are un-American is normal in-bounds campaigning, right? What's not usually inbound, accusing someone of treason, saying they should be hanged, for example. After the shooting, Marjorie Taylor Green got on social media, made a post about how Democrats need to tone Democrats. I'm paraphrasing here, but she did use the phrase, Democrats are all pet out of files
Starting point is 00:12:14 in a post she said they need to tone down the rhetoric. All right. So what I'm saying is you don't have to take any of these people with their word. Anyway, the politics of picking JD's, weird because Trump's going to win Ohio no matter what. J.D. Vance doesn't have some huge fan base outside of Silicon Valley right-wing psychos.
Starting point is 00:12:30 Right. Yeah, I've seen people saying, I've seen people on the left being like, be like, no, you know, I mean, this is good. This is like the best pick he could have made, really, because J.D. Vance brings nothing to the table, you know, in terms of because typically a VP pick is meant to shore up some other aspect of the base or demographic or whatever.
Starting point is 00:12:49 And he's just kind of like, you know, a younger. want to be Trump like he's not you know he doesn't accomplish any of that so and what he probably got was access to Elon Musk's and Peter Thiel's uh checkbooks right like Elon must say he's going to spend 45 million dollars a month on a Trump super PAC after he announced JD so that might be it but it's but the politics of it is like pretty stupid like if anybody's wondering jd vans underperform Trump by two points in a state that was supposed to be trending right so it should the right wing vote share should have went up
Starting point is 00:13:22 two years and there was a midterm election in a year we had 8% inflation and he probably would have lost the primary if big donors didn't bail him out
Starting point is 00:13:30 also like his biggest his biggest supporter Peter Thiel has a literal blood boy yeah how this should be such a fucking layup
Starting point is 00:13:41 of an election like it's insane that it's even close much less Republicans have a good shot at winning right that's a lot of us
Starting point is 00:13:47 are super worried about right it just it feels like it should be you know, should be in the bag, especially with incumbency and considering who the opponent is. I'd said this on stage this past weekend, but it's like, it reminds me of a few years ago, the Tennessee Vols had not lost a football game to Kentucky in like 30 straight years. And in the run-up to our game that year, the Kentucky coach was giving these press conferences.
Starting point is 00:14:11 It's like, I don't have any quarterbacks left. Our quarterback got hurt. We have no quarterbacks on this team. We are literally going to start a wide receiver who's never played quarterback. He's going to be playing quarterback this week. That's the best I can do. He's like freaking out and then they still beat us
Starting point is 00:14:24 21 or 14 for the first time in 30 years. That was during the Derek Dooley administration. Anyway, this election just sort of feels like that to me right now. Running a top of the ticket, a guy with 34 felonies
Starting point is 00:14:38 and who's also separately found liable for sexual assault and number two on the ticket's a guy, a guy who hangs out with the guy who was a blood boy who said stuff like that women, you know, we know, police need to track abortions. But he also, I mean,
Starting point is 00:14:51 he also, you know, there's so many proven examples of him talking shit about Trump, you know, years ago. Like he was a never-trumper, like he was saying liberals comparing Trump to Hitler is what led to this. But he himself called Trump Hitler in 2016 and a bunch of other, like there's interviews. You can look up where he's calling him a cynical asshole and a threat to the country and saying, I'm a never-Trumper. When I met J.D. in 2016, that's all the stuff he was saying. So, you know, they've got that too. I feel like you can just make campaign ads of just going back and forth between
Starting point is 00:15:24 the pro or the pro, the super anti-choice rhetoric of him and coupled with the bad things he says about Donald Trump or whatever, you know, just roll those out there. Those, like, hypocrisy doesn't really work as a charge in American politics, not on the right anyway, but like JD doesn't have an answer to that.
Starting point is 00:15:45 It's not hypocrisy, it's a conversion. He basically had a road to Damascus moment where he became a MAGA guy. So that's his version of the story, is that like he fell for the liberal media's lives about Trump. And then once he got to know him and got to know that he became more familiar with his policy agenda that he understood that he's right and now has come around. So, like, that's not going to, I mean, it might work in a campaign ad. It's not going to work on the MAGA base at all because that story makes sense to them. Other thing that should be really embarrassing or campaign defining or like campaign ending, R.FK Jr. has a documentary crew
Starting point is 00:16:21 for him around or whatever. And they posted it. Trump called him. He had it on speakerphone and told him that he agreed that vaccines cause autism and promised RFK Jr. a job as administration if he dropped out and endorsed Trump. And they posted it. And then RFK took it down and said he was sorry because it made Trump look bad. But like, you're supposed to, first of all, you're running against the guy.
Starting point is 00:16:42 You're supposed to make it look bad. And this is how we're going to end up with RFK Jr. is head of the FDA or some shit. So anyway, so among the MAGAs, J.D. is not super popular. They don't trust him, which understandable. But the reason they don't trust him are some of the same ones that we do that he's able to say anything to whoever's in front of him to get more money and power. But also, there are other reasons. For one, they found out that his wife is brown.
Starting point is 00:17:15 If you got this video clip, here's Nick. pointe's on his stream if you want to throw this up man jd vance also has a non-white wife an indian wife and a kid named vivac all his kids have indian names so it's like what exactly are we getting here and that's not a dig at him just because i'm a racist or something who is this guy really do we really expect that the guy who has an indian wife and named their kid Vivek is going to support white identity? All right, you got it. Fuck that guy.
Starting point is 00:17:50 So Fred is going to come up again later in a shooting segment, I think. But like, so yeah, one of the things that led people to believe that J.D. was otherwise cool was he has an interracial interfaith marriage to a woman he met at law school. Her name's Ushah. She's Hindu, or she was
Starting point is 00:18:08 when they got married. No idea how they raising their kids or whether she converted to Catholicism with him. I didn't seen that reported anywhere. They got three kids, U.N., Mirabelle, and Vivek. And so I don't know how – I haven't married or a white lady. I don't know how you choose names for your kids. But, like, giving one of family names seems probably cool. But, like, don't make me feel empathy for JD fucking Vance with these shitty racist take.
Starting point is 00:18:35 So as far as, like, talking about JD being a hypocrite or JD changed, I think probably what happened to him is he got radicalized just from being online. Like, I haven't so a lot of people. But also, this story from 2022 resurfaced about his radicalization. Let me quote here. When the Hillbilly Elegy movie came out on Netflix in 2020, it was not just critically panned but greedy with intense online mockery. And the tenuous cultural diplomacy achieved by the book seemed to unravel for good. Rod Tomato's audience score 83%.
Starting point is 00:19:06 Critics score 25%. According to Vance's best friend from Yale, Jamil Giovanni, the wounding commentary was the quote, last straw in his falling out with elites. So Ron Howard made a movie about you starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams and you hate elites
Starting point is 00:19:24 because people made fun of it. Right. And that, so it's like someone wrote a bad review of my movie so now I'm going to blow up the moon. Dude. It's sort of like what happened here. I mean, I'm sure this I contributed to it,
Starting point is 00:19:38 but I don't know. I feel like if you look at JD's whole background, you know, comes from nothing ostensibly goes to ends up at yale marines law school um you know silicon valley all this stuff and then you know rises to prominence of whatever with big billionaire backers it all seems aimed at politics to me like that's like a you know you could scripted background for a character with political ambitions it's like especially him being you know peter teal's bitch and whatnot and apparently has been for a long time it's like
Starting point is 00:20:14 it feels like they probably had designs on this for a while, I would imagine. And as far as the radicalization, he knew there was no other way through. Do you know what I mean? Like, you have to be, you just have to be that. Like, you've got to have Trump's support. You got to be MAGA or whatever. I'd feel like there was no other viable option for his political career. And so I feel like it's, it just feels all just like opportunistic, like bullshit to me is what I'm saying.
Starting point is 00:20:41 Like, yeah, I did it like something happened to him. and he genuinely turned into this other person. I just feel like he's been full of shit the whole time. I think he's genuinely become a bigger asshole. Yeah. And as far as needing to be mad, I got to get elected. Ohio's other senator is Sherrod,
Starting point is 00:20:59 Sherrod, Sherrod Brown. So like, I just, what you're saying is like, oh, you mean, I don't,
Starting point is 00:21:05 I don't mean, I was taking it for granted that he would not ever run as a Democrat is what I meant. No, no, I'm saying like, the idea that you have to be maga to get elected. elected is like not, I realize we're all run by venal cowards, but it's not, it's just not, I'm saying it's, there's evidence that it's not necessarily true, is what I'm saying. But like, considering the other, Ohio's other senators, you know, a fairly left-wing Democrat. And I just wanted to bring up, like, people get bad movie reviews often. Roland Amarick once got a, like, Siskel and Ebert, Ebert Roper, I'm sorry, wrote bad reviews of, give a bad reviews to Independence Day. So in his next movie was a Godzilla movie, he put characters in their name, Ebert, Ebert Roper. I'm sorry, wrote bad reviews of, he gave a bad reviews to Independence Day. So in his next movie, he put characters in their name, he
Starting point is 00:21:43 Burt and Roper made them asshole mayors of Chicago, right? So like, that's, that's, that's, that's also psychotic, but it's not, I'm going to destroy the country because people laughed at my movie on the internet. Also, independent state rules. So I feel like it was out of line with that. But anyway. Welcome to Earth. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:00 So, so that, that's how he got here. So why did Trump pick him? And, uh, so this, uh, New York Times piece, uh, how J.D. Vance won over Donald Trump. basically the summary is he's a good ass kicker and a good ass kisser and i i've told you about that up atop that like but i should have known not to believe the media's lies after how they did my book basically uh trump also told allies that mr vance was smart and handsome and quote those beautiful blue eyes he'd say repeatedly uh he doesn't have blue eyes it's his best blue eyes
Starting point is 00:22:33 uh also the third ones which struck me as fucking hilarious tucker carlson told told trump but in a June phone call that he believed that if he chose a neocon as his vice president, you know, the abbreviation for neoconservative, then the U.S. intelligence agencies would have every incentive to assassinate him in order to get their preferred president. Now, sort of making the case that the assassination attempt made him make this pick
Starting point is 00:23:01 because he, if it was a deep state trying to kill him, he wanted to make it clear as another maga guy on the ticket and not, and not somebody more moderate or some some neocon. But this is sort of like gives way the game to me so much. Like I hate neocons because they want to, they say they want to spread democracy at the point of a gun, which doesn't work.
Starting point is 00:23:19 But what they really want to do is spread capitalism at the point of the gun, which is just, you know, colonialism. Yes. But they hate it. Not because they hate using the gun, but because they don't think it's even worth it to spread democracy.
Starting point is 00:23:33 And I think that's just fucking stupid and awful. They just don't like democracy And don't think it's worth fighting for But so yeah The R&C is going on I'm sure we have content On our episode later this week But I want to do
Starting point is 00:23:45 Just for a laugh I wanted to watch this video From there earlier today in Milwaukee Where Rudy Giuliani fell down You got that math That's always great He's drunk as fuck He's
Starting point is 00:23:57 He's drunk as fuck he's drunk as fuck dog yeah yeah probably all right he's fine by the way he was filming stuff later so we're not laughing at a guy who just died not that I have anyway we'll get to that in a second
Starting point is 00:24:20 so get into it yeah in case you missed it what happened over the weekend yeah I have a good Saturday How was yours? Yeah, mine was weird because 15 minutes before my early show at the Tulsa Loonie Band started, the manager walks in the room and says Donald Trump has been shot. And we were like, we were immediately, we were like, okay, ha, well, you're going to show it's like a picture of a big black dick or Rick Rollis or something like that. It's like, I mean, you're clearly joking, right?
Starting point is 00:24:49 He was like, no, no, no, he got shot. And when you just say that, you're like, is he dead? Is he whatever? And then you, everybody pulls out your phone, starts looking at it. And, you know, you're like, oh, shit, he did get shot, but just barely. He's clearly fine. And then it's just a million thoughts a minute after that, at least for me, you know. Yeah, I do want to say.
Starting point is 00:25:06 I do want to say, I got a pepper with, uh, with a buckshot once a hunting accident. I think I mentioned on, uh, just nothing serious at all. I just picked it out myself. But, uh, I just want to say there's not really any, there's no such thing is getting barely shot. Right. You get shot. He's like, holy fucking shit, I got shot. So, but anyway.
Starting point is 00:25:26 So what happened over the weekend? I will let Charlie Kirk and Representative Corey Mills kick off the vibes for us with what did or did not happen over the weekend. Guys, this is very important stuff. Congressman Corey Mills, we were an inch and a half away from an American Civil War. We were millimeters. Oh, my God, no we weren't. We absolutely were fucking not.
Starting point is 00:25:51 Everyone has been so weird about this. And it's like when you, we were texting earlier about what we're going to talk about today. And you seemed surprised when we were talking about the shooting, because this is already turned. No, no, no, no, no. I thought you were saying we weren't going to talk about J.D., and I was surprised by that. But obviously, we're talking about both, so it's fine. No, of course I knew we were going to talk about this. The news cycle moves so fast.
Starting point is 00:26:11 This already feels like it didn't happen or like a non-event, right? Yeah. Like, I was a, I was at a routine doctor thing yesterday, and they had the Today Show or in the locker room, and Hoda Kotby. She pivots from talking about leading celebrity news about how Dr. Ruth died and just goes, Lutertica came with, oh, by the way, my heart, my thoughts and prayers go out to Donald Trump and his family at this time. And this
Starting point is 00:26:34 tap all kind of dude said next to me, he goes, oh, give me a break. And in that moment, I couldn't tell whether his, oh, give me a break was because someone was sending well wishes to Donald Trump and his family, or because she's a member of the liberal media and
Starting point is 00:26:52 he doesn't really mean it. Or because no same person would turn to cameras. and say that in that moment in that way during a celebrity news segment on the fucking Today show. It's just like there's so much bullshit there. I couldn't tell what part offended him. Because honestly, I was offended by all of it. And like I sort of get well wishes if you're like a responsible person who has to like
Starting point is 00:27:12 appear civil and above the fray. I get why Joe Biden will put on a statement or whatever. Yeah. And I also get saying nothing. Right. Yeah. Saying nothing is what seems like it would get like Biden. They're running against each other.
Starting point is 00:27:25 He's the president. whatever he's got to say something but yeah a lot of these people that are going out of their way to you know talk about our hearts go out to him type of thing it's like you ain't got to say that like me we can debate this or whatever but i've you know i like i do not think it would have been a good thing if he had been actually assassinated right like i think that could have gone really really badly and so like i'm glad he ain't dead but i still wish that he i'm glad he didn't die from that, but, you know, it wouldn't not have for me if he did die
Starting point is 00:27:59 in a provably accidental or disease ridden way, sure. Yeah, that'd be great. If he tripped and fell in a septic tank, we'd do the whole episode on it. Yeah, popping bottles would be great, right. But this, no, but anyway. Like, yeah, so well wishes say nothing,
Starting point is 00:28:15 but, like, yeah, the well wishes that are clearly lies, the weirdest ones to me. Like, Liz Cheney put out a statement, it's like, we have our differences, but he's a husband and a father. It's like, lady, he just called for you to be hanged for trees in a week ago. You're not even in office right now. You can literally just
Starting point is 00:28:29 fucking say nothing. Like, just go about your Saturday. And it's all these people been running around for the past decade comparing Trump to Hitler or immediately like, I wish Hitler is speedy recovery. It's so fucking weird to me. And then you brought up Jack
Starting point is 00:28:47 Black earlier. All right, today's just so just an example of how fucking stupid everything's got and how like we're all, apparently we're like, we're all in public relations now. Yes. Like, so like,
Starting point is 00:28:59 uh, we can't say, hey, maybe somebody else should be the candidate because we're not effectively supporting Biden or that like today. So it was Kyle Gas's birthday at this show. I think they were in Australia.
Starting point is 00:29:10 They were. And Jack Black brings him out of cake and asks him what his birthday wish is. He says the Trump shooter doesn't miss. Doesn't miss the next next time. All right. Now, I didn't even know about the joke. I only heard about the controversy when Jack Black canceled the rest of the tour.
Starting point is 00:29:24 And since he broke out with his best. brand of 20 years over it. Yeah, I didn't see that coming. I did see the, it went like viral and I saw that he had said that and, of course, Republicans, like, absolutely despicable. Like, I saw that, but I still was very shocked that he canceled the whole tour, saw a bunch of speculation, bunch of PR-type of speculation saying, like, they were going to do like these rock the vote shows, like get people at the vote, supposed to be nonpartisan, you get, don't really fly when you're talking about killing one of the candidates or hoping that they die or whatever, that he, he did that speech for Biden he was going to do a bunch of other stuff for the Biden campaign and maybe
Starting point is 00:29:57 they said like hey we can't be you know we can't have people actively saying that they want him dead like we can't do that and so that's why I had or whatever and then so I mean who the hell knows but I thought it was an extreme measure I don't think you had to cancel the whole damn tour and also breaking up with your best buddy I don't that might it makes me sad like I hope they don't really hate each other I love these guys if Joe Biden asked me to publicly to announce my best friend or I couldn't do campaign appearances. I feel like that'd be an easy choice till the campaign to fuck off and they could have somebody else do it.
Starting point is 00:30:29 But whatever. It's just an example. Like, it's like, so I don't, England is a literal monarchy. All right. The queen dies. People are dancing in the streets who rate the monarchy. And nothing even happens to Donald Trump. And nobody can even make jokes about it without their best friends. It just felt like a very weird vibe and a, like, a very bleak sort of moment for
Starting point is 00:30:51 something. It's like people, since the dawn of time have joked about powerful people die. Right. I'm not saying you wish for it. I'm saying you don't need to lose your minds.
Starting point is 00:31:04 Yeah. Kyle, uh, Kyle, his agency dropped him too. I don't know if you saw that. Yeah. But yeah, he's like,
Starting point is 00:31:10 yeah, I feel bad for me. Because clearly I don't, I feel like it was an off the cuff moment. It was something that plenty of people were definitely thinking at that time. And it's like, it's just,
Starting point is 00:31:20 I don't know. I don't, I feel like this is an outsized response to. that and it don't it for me but it's perfectly we've all been in traffic we've all wished for people to die who we don't even know and really don't even do us right it's a very human impulse I understand what's not polite to say it out loud I understand why people shouldn't but like my wife got an offender bender the other day she was trying to parallel park this guy made an illegal
Starting point is 00:31:42 u-turn and drove into the side of her car and then is denying it's his fault even though he again he drove into the side of her car there's no universe in which any like any sensible person And he yelled her and he's refusing to give her his insurance over text. She's been wishing for that motherfucker's death for three days. It's like, it's like all he did was like bumper car. And it's like the idea, like I just, I don't understand this thing where we all become PR professionals. Like any time, any sort of thing. It's very weird to me.
Starting point is 00:32:10 And the way everyone's adjusted their rhetoric, even though no Democrat was involved in this at all, no liberal, no leftist. It was a conservative shot another conservative for reasons that are completely foreign to anybody. We'll get to that in a second. they're all acting like they did it and they have something to apologize for but they can't call trump out for being a threat to democracy because even though he is and two things can be true like that trump is dangerous and also attempting to murder him might also be dangerous right those two things are not intentioned with each right exactly i mean yes you're doing some sort of brain genius to like right and like and i understand i understand people's fears about if he if he had been assassinated like there probably would have been a bump in stochastic violence from people you know good gas up conspiracy theories shooting up under Democratic campaign offices or schools, how all of these motherfuckers operate. But how much more can we get at this point? This is just another example,
Starting point is 00:33:02 but like these, there was another mass shooting on Saturday. I think it was in Birmingham. Seven people got shot. Like, so I don't, like, I don't know, man. Even just that, I also just, and I guess even if he did, if he did slip and fall into a septic tank,
Starting point is 00:33:14 like you said, maybe this would, I guess this would still happen. Maybe it's inevitable. It's going to happen either way. But it also, for me, is just the martyrdom, the deification. or whatever that like him they treat him like Jesus anyway
Starting point is 00:33:26 if he literally got martyred like I just don't want to live in that universe where that has happened is also part of it for me but anyway yeah you know they were licking their chops hoping it was I joked about this on stage but before anybody knew anything
Starting point is 00:33:40 that it's like you know this would end up being some transgender Marxist migrant with a drug problem you know that shot him or wanted and then it comes out it's a 20 year old apparent conservative with gun family members with an AR and, you know, it's like, it's always the ones you most expect. It turns up, it's, it's the same dude every time.
Starting point is 00:34:04 Every time. It's the same dude. And like, if you guys... Skinny, Loner, white kid with a high, high-powered rifle. Yeah. And usually some, like, fringe extremist political stances, typically right-leaning. As far as you, it seemed like, he seemed like, like a moderate concern we'll get we'll get to that in a second but like I think he was just
Starting point is 00:34:25 one of those match shooter types who just wanted to get his name in the newspaper right you know so congratulations buddy you did it I guess um sorry to the other people you hurt but like uh like in case you guys somehow miss what we're talking about a 20 year old kid named thomas matthew crooks one by tom i think shot at trump with like tray said an arrow style weapon on Saturday at an outdoor event uh he got within 150 yards and just set up on a roof over the course of a while like there was a report today that the Secret Service
Starting point is 00:34:54 watched him sit like in the shade under the building and use a range finder to figure out how far he was away from the target 150 yards like that is not a long shot if you guys are gunned down
Starting point is 00:35:05 that is not a difficult shot all right like for Army basic training they have to hit targets of like 300 meters I think so twice as far but yeah first of all I said it's on a roof
Starting point is 00:35:16 wasn't it like kind of the only roof in the vicinity or like one of the few like there weren't a huge number of buildings around anyway like this was like one of the few vantage points like usable for these purposes and he just crawled up there that and also there's videos you can see of like people on the fringes of the crowd watching him go up there and like pointing and stuff and being like hey was is that supposed to be and just nobody you know he just there's crawled up there and there was a BBC interview with a guy who was like yeah look over there. We had a party. We had to walk over to hear his speech. I see this guy like army crawling on the roof. I flag down some cops. We're like, hey, is that supposed to be over there?
Starting point is 00:35:59 That guy is what's like I got up to? And they kind of ignored him. But then later, a cop did eventually walk up Crooks' ladder and look on the roof and see what's happening. He saw he had an AR-15 and ran away. But you've all did Trump, Trey. Right. Like, I don't know what to take.
Starting point is 00:36:16 Didn't the cop, way I heard it, that cop came up the latter saw him, yeah, like ducked, retreated, but the dude got freaked out knowing that he's found now and immediately shot right after that moment, right? The cop found him. The guy probably did save Trump's. Yeah, the cop did save Trump's life despite being a huge coward. Right. But like, I don't, like, I don't know what people would, I've heard two possible arguments here. One is like, well, the cop's out gun, he had an AR and his, like, his hands are, like, he's guns. Yeah, it's not a defensible position. Yeah, right. Okay. But also like,
Starting point is 00:36:48 let's pretend Trump's a normal president or presidential candidate for a second like throwing your body into way is what you're supposed to do right I understand instinct takes over but like running like he's at least got to be
Starting point is 00:37:04 clown by the rest of cops for all eternity right I'm saying yeah I mean you know I don't know anything about SOP standard operating procedure or the rules of engagement or nothing like that whatever the term even is for how to respond in that scenario but yeah I definitely don't look good none of it looks good on the part of
Starting point is 00:37:21 anybody that was involved with security that day I mean it's pretty yeah adding layers to how bad this well fuck up this was the secret service secret service so the secret service bears an ultra responsibility but they're coordinating with local police apparently didn't have comms they could talk to each other the cops couldn't even tell the
Starting point is 00:37:37 secret service that guy was there that is insane like how how that I don't understand how something like that happens or gets overlooked like that just seemed so Is it part of how, you know, like, in the movies, it's always like, this is our case or our jurisdiction. Nobody tell the feds. We know, you know, like the different types of cops always hate each other because they're like, oh, those guys are losers or those guys are assholes and they never want to work together. It's like, is like, is it just really like that, like, the Secret Service is like, we're not going to deal with these Barney Five dipshits.
Starting point is 00:38:06 Don't even give them our number, you know, like it's, it's just crazy. The funny thing that those, those movie and TV situations is like every, you know, you know, in real life, it's way different. different. Like, in real life, you don't want the case. It's like, it's like, you're not taking this case away from us. It's like, man, like, I was driving back from Vegas once, and we're stuck in nine hours of traffic because somebody had thrown a body out on the Nevada border, and the two state police agencies were fighting over who had to take the murder case. That's a, that's, you ever see that show? The Bridge was on FX a few years ago. That was kind of the, that was the, that was the inciting premise of that show. That's
Starting point is 00:38:43 yeah. So the dynamic here, Matt pointed this out is like, so, You can't take guns into presidential events for obvious reasons. And the local police are usually outside of the event doing outside security. So secret service is the purportorian guard that's not actually under any threat usually while they leave the state police outside to deal with the armed lunatics who show up outside of Trump rallies, right? Right. So there's that sort of class-based distinction going on here with why there might be some resentment. But also like, I'm sorry, man, you've got to take a bullet for the president.
Starting point is 00:39:14 If they're a presidential candidate, you've got you can't peek up over there and see a assassin and then run away. Sorry, you can't do that. So, so yeah, the crooks managed to get five shots off for Secret Service sniper got him. But adding to the Secret Service fuckups here, the more context, New York Times had a report today that the Secret Service had been warned by intelligence agencies about an Iranian plot to kill Trump in revenge for his order in the killing of their general Soleimani a couple years ago. See, again, insane. Like if that's true, the idea that they, so they should be on, this is like them on high alert. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:39:53 This is them at a heightened level of what should already be pretty stringent security. It's like, I don't know, it's like how many different times are the various forms of law enforcement in this country are going to illustrate to us all that they are populated largely by dumbasses, evidently, or lazy motherfuckers or lazy dumbasses or whatever. But like, I don't know. It's just always, it's always some shit like this. And in their defense, the Secret Service was told about this increased Iranian shatter by killing Trump. They tried them to have the Trump campaign move all the rallies inside. But Trump can't do rallies inside anymore because, as we talked about, he won't pay rent. He doesn't pay rent for these places.
Starting point is 00:40:34 He literally almost was so cheap, he got shot in the fucking head. Yeah. And like, so the Secret Service, obviously, well, they have an unmanageable protectee who won't go in, he won't pay. enough money to go indoors and they got threats not just from like random shooters but the Iranian government and so some some mix of stuff that isn't isn't their fault but also uh conservatives are on the case and they've discovered the real corporate nor never guess what it is broads yep obvious failure on the part of sea conservice you know we're hearing and it's reasonable to assume this because president Biden appointed all these people
Starting point is 00:41:17 people, not to run their agencies for the mission that they've established for, but for DEI, for equity, you know, so it's not like 30 days. And it sounds like that's exactly what this director of the secret service is all about. So more focused on DEI. Yeah. The director of the service is a woman. She has 27 years experience. I don't, I'm open to the idea that she's bad at her job.
Starting point is 00:41:41 I just don't think she's bad at it because she has a uterus or right. What does or whatever, but like, or two. X chromosomes. But like, so like, but like this stuff has been all over the right lately. It wasn't just because it's director as a woman. Some of, there was a, there was a female agent on Trump's security detail. Uh-huh. And like this, this one, this one actively killed me.
Starting point is 00:42:02 This woman agent picture if you got this, Matt. Yeah, she was getting a lot of hate for sure. Just, but yeah, here you go. Yeah, it's Matt Walsh, conservative influence her. Why is the female agent ducking her head and exposing Trump? She, motherfucker, she's shielding his body. He's standing up tall to get a photo. off when he should be ducking, but he's endangering agents' lives by not staying hidden.
Starting point is 00:42:22 And the idea that like this DEI stuff is like so funny to me because they like a cigarette service agent's only job and that scenario once the shooting stops is to jump in front of it. We're saying women can't be bullet stopping meat sacks. Right. What is the gender based difference there? Yeah, I know. It's like it's just, it's like the underlying implications like, you know, as I've been pointed out a bunch of times before it could because if you get into it's like how that just means it's just like
Starting point is 00:42:51 it should only ever be white guys doing things right because anytime something bad happens and someone was involved that is not a white guy they're like this is the i's fault it's like so only white guys are supposed to have jobs that matter evidently but in you know if you get into it with them they'll be like no well that's not it the person most qualified for the job is all we're saying race should not be a factor at all and it's like you have no way of knowing whether or not these people are in fact the most qualified for the job by whatever metrics you just know that they're not a white guy which to you means they can't be the most qualified person for the job because it's all just racism but right sexism both whatever
Starting point is 00:43:31 bigotry yeah i think probably the most frightening part of the aftermath of this was like the religious fervor of it because there was a lot of the uh you know the trump was chosen by God for the, like, really, he turned his head at the last second to look at a chart of... Yeah, about the evils of Mexicans and stuff. Yeah, and if you hadn't done that, he probably would have gotten, wouldn't got a hit more than just in the ear or whatever it was, right? So, like, they're spinning of that as like divine intervention. Turned his head or whatever. I mean, oh, you got a clip for it?
Starting point is 00:44:14 Yeah. an extensible news network holding a tent revival an event where people died well i'll say this we can talk about the medical miracle we can talk about the duck and the split second decision but there is no donald trump today without jesus christ this morning i mean we could be having so dude i look obviously this stuff sickens me too and i find it alarming and it's uh you know it's like scary and don't hit for me and i'm not a guy guy i'll say this though that motherfucker is the goddamn universe shines on him or something oh he's the luckiest motherfucker to ever live he it's insane like there's just i can't stand him but there's
Starting point is 00:45:03 just no denying it at this point like i fortune favors this guy for some reason like he just everything comes up donnie man all the fucking time, always. From the moment he was conceived. I know, right. That's what I'm saying. It's like, it's crazy. You know, like, it's never, he's just, it's never, you know, it's never, you know,
Starting point is 00:45:25 it's never the ones who most deserve it, who like get any, you know, like, he ain't going to get no comeuppance ever, I don't think. He'll just keep, you know, keep falling by us backwards into hits for the rest of his natural life and then be deified after he passes. And it's like, for what? it's yeah you look like of course you can't tell this man
Starting point is 00:45:48 he can't be president again like he's never like he everything he does work like he won the sperm lottery to a guy who had 400 million dollars he got to inherit it all because he looked his way into waste a fuck out of it the other inheritors out of their money he like he goes bankrupt and gets richer off
Starting point is 00:46:02 of it then he gets elected press it's like it's a Jesus Christ so this God save Trump shit was everywhere there's Marco Rubio tweeted God protected Trump. And here's the thing that the, to be clear, I'm not recoiling at the profession of faith. I find it perverse and blasphemous and gross in this context, but not just because they're
Starting point is 00:46:23 talking about, you know, venal American politics on a cable news channel, blanketed by ads for fucking Viagra in my pillow and your analysis and shit. But, um, because people died, right? Yes. I mean, yeah, right. It's like, God protected Trump and in doing so, God also killed this guy. and name these other people or whatever, right. God guided the bullet into a firefighter named Corey Comparatore, apparently, and they're
Starting point is 00:46:49 fine with that. And, like, so two other guys were seriously injured besides the shooter and Comparatore. So, yeah, Comparatore apparently, look, I thought he died suddenly, like he was hitting a very vital place, but the story his family is telling is he died shielding his wife and daughter, all right? And I won't begrudge them a little myth-making about their deceased dad and husband. husband. All right. He was a firefighter, obviously dedicated his working life to helping people, and maybe died of protecting his wife and daughter. He was also on social media where he made
Starting point is 00:47:23 some pretty, at least racist adjacent posts. And his last tweet was a reply to cat turd. Real duality of man stuff going on here. Yeah. But it's sort of like, to me, a sort of example of like the meanness and stupidity and unleashed by this mega movement that a guy who's a other otherwise decent family man with a loving wife and daughter who had a job in public service could also like reply to cat turds tweets yeah for each man i know i mean you know that's like i'm not it's not a completely novel concept to me being from where i'm from and i'm sure you're the same i've known so many people that were like i love who are great people who have abhorrent political beliefs as far as i'm concerned you know and that dichotomy's always been wild and a lot of people
Starting point is 00:48:07 don't realize that it's true but it is true but yeah it's definitely worse now for sure in the I've seen people go straight from making racist jokes to helping people of color without missing a beat. Yeah, right. It's very hard to explain the headspace. So, New York Post talked to his comparatory's wife. Her name's Helen. She told the post that Biden tried to call, but she didn't want to speak to him just because, not for any anger reasons. She said, my husband was a devalu Republican.
Starting point is 00:48:38 He would not want me to talk to him. She said, she does not hold the current president. responsible for what happened to her family. I don't have any ill will towards Joe Biden. She said, I'm not one of those people that gets involved in politics. I support Trump. That's who I'm voting for. But I don't have ill will towards Biden. He didn't do anything to my husband. A 20 year old despicable kid did. But also, the family's not heard from Trump at all. All right. Yeah, Biden's called and she wouldn't take the call when Trump hasn't called at all. And it's all just like, it's pretty, um, pretty appropriate. Yeah. That whole scenario there's makes a lot
Starting point is 00:49:09 So my immediate takeaway after this happened was that just for once Trump was actually touched by the violent and paranoid reality, he's like fought really hard. He's made his life's mission to create. I mean that in like the abstract sense that like threats to public officials have been steadily increasing since 2016. For example, there's some data here from a counterterrorism research center. From 2013 to 2016, there was an annual average of 38 federal charges involving threats to public officials. But since 2017, no, when Trump took office, that number steadily increased to 62 a year. So almost doubled since Trump's emergence as a political figure. And by the way, just yesterday, the Secret Service arrested a guy in Florida for threatening to, quote, slit Joe Biden's throat.
Starting point is 00:49:54 All right. But also, when I say struggle to create this moment, I mean that's in a literal sense. Like there was a story that came out today, leaked campaign data from Trump's campaign, where they use micro-targeting to target. the shooter's family with pro-gun messaging because they showed up as like likely Trump voters who would be attuned to the message
Starting point is 00:50:15 that you know the libs are going to come and take your guns you should start shooting people right so like the litterer of this guy was created in a lab kind of so let's get to who crooks was for a second because we're running out of time
Starting point is 00:50:30 I've brought way too much show as usual and we'll probably talk about a lot of this in the Patreon episode later this week this his motives are complete mystery to everyone. Right. Local news talked to his classmates from high school who said that they always, they always, he was, some people said he was a bullied loner, some said that's kind of
Starting point is 00:50:49 bullshit, he was a loner, but nobody bullied him. People said they either he was apolitical or kind of conservative. People just kind of assumed he was conservative because they like wore like, some kids kind of assumed he was conservative because they like were camouflaged and hunting outfits to class, which, you know, kids would make that assumption. He, in the, during the shooting, he was wearing a t-shirt promoting
Starting point is 00:51:10 the demolition ranch which is a YouTube channel for gun enthusiasts now I know you probably think about gun tube accounts but demolition ranch is like one of the most apolitical
Starting point is 00:51:20 gun tubers that's what I'd heard yeah yeah like like it's basically just like we're to shoot this old car with four different caliber rifles and see what size holes they're making it
Starting point is 00:51:29 it's just that kind of shit you know it is cool yeah say they reached out to the guy who runs demolition Rant. He named is Matt Carricker, and he just, like, was like, what the hell?
Starting point is 00:51:41 He's all like, I heard of course. Back to the kid for a second, to Crooks. Another kid said he definitely wasn't a conservative, like their history teacher would have them do, like, mock debates about, like, political issues, and he always took the conservative side, so I would take that for whatever you mean. But, like, nothing he said was like super maggagie or crazy. It was just, you know, being, I don't know, taxes should be a low kind of shit. And generally, his personal life, nothing flagged as like a mass shooter type dude.
Starting point is 00:52:11 He had just finished community college and was working as a dietary aid, a retirement home. No, like, there's just nothing there. We were saying earlier, it's like it's always the same guy. But this guy is a little bit, you know, the fact, like you said, it's like, oh, yeah, it was conservative, but not an extremist. And that he was a loner, but not like, you know, supremely explicitly troubled. And that nothing, it's just a wild. last thing for somebody to just pop up and do
Starting point is 00:52:39 and yeah there's a million different you know because it's like he could have could have tried to John Lennon Donald Trump maybe he loved Donald Trump and it was like they were it's like you know and people point this and I've already said this too in the video I made but like I mean the dude who shot Ronald Reagan
Starting point is 00:52:51 was like trying to take Jolly Foster to the prom or whatever the hell he was trying to you know impress her so it's like there's just no fucking telling in the absence of like a manifesto or something which he didn't leave so yeah the guy the guy killed a the guy who killed James A.
Starting point is 00:53:06 Garfield he was mad that Garfield didn't make him ambassador to France because even though he had no reason to think he should be made, yeah, he was mad about. And as far as experts can tell, he was like given crazy because of his weird foreskin. All right. So like, it's like the idea that like people try to, trying to make sense out of nonsense will lead you to the same place to conspiracy theorists get. All right. So like the FBI cracked his phone.
Starting point is 00:53:34 They didn't find any evidence of any motive. So it appears his political ideology was just like all these other guys. He's just a mass shooter type. It's like the random loser to assassin pipeline has been well established for a very long time. And I know that no one likes to consider the terrifying randomness of the universe. And yet, it's just what it is. Like if he did have a motive, like this is just me pulling shit up my ass. The conservative reasons to assassinate Trump do exist.
Starting point is 00:54:02 They're not familiar to us or our audience. But like there are out there. For example, Nick Fuentes, whose video we showed above, he's insane to him as Groyper followers, won't vote for Trump because his campaign is controlled by Jews and pro-Israel neocons. Christian fascists like Fuentes and Alex Jones have been mad at Trump for distancing himself from the abortion bans in Project 2025. Here's the fun one.
Starting point is 00:54:24 Alex Jones and Mike Flynn have also been saying that a Trump assassination could be good for his movement because it would spur a war of assassinations that Dems would lose. All right. That's one way. Look, I've also seen people speculate another conservative, you know, all the recent, the Epstein stuff and the accusation, all that, that, you know, basically, you know, they also kill all pedophiles or whatever.
Starting point is 00:54:48 Yeah. And taking that to heart, maybe or felt betrayed by him in whatever capacity. But again, it's just, who the hell knows, you know. I do want to say, like, by the way, if one of Alex Jones is doing in the middle of all this, yesterday he was reporting on all the Trump news from Bohemian Groves. He's never going to change. Um, so I do have to say as far as crooks goes, it's an insanely good bit in our age of paranoia and disinformation to try to kill Trump and leave no reason or evidence why. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:15 Just to become a blank slate for conspiracy theorist. And I know we're running out of time here. I do want to talk about one that came out of here. So Black Rock. Yeah. Uh, there were tons. They were like, Jire Bols and Arrows, son was posting conspiracy theories. Everybody went crazy on this, including people in the, the center left being like it was staged, which is also kind of extremely.
Starting point is 00:55:34 because you've got to think that the shooter volunteered to get murdered for this, which doesn't seem likely. So Black Rock is a hedge fund. It's also a conservative boogeyman for some, for reasons that are hard to, like, I think it's because a lot of people left BlackRock to go work in the Biden, White House, no economic policy, but also they do environmental, social and governance investing. That's basically the entirety of it as far as I can tell. but they also filmed like a YouTube promotional video
Starting point is 00:56:05 about how they support teachers at Crooks' school that he appeared in for one second at this image of him in a Black Rock promotional video that like a couple hundred people watched. So, okay, now listen, does this mean that they went to this school
Starting point is 00:56:20 to film this video, saw this kid and was like, him, let's tab him, let's put him into our secret assassin program we've got, or we could use him as a patsy a few years from now, like they discovered him there or that they had like, you know, that he was already part of the team that they had been like prepping him since youth to be a secret assassin. And they did a terrible job, by the way. And they had that guy and they were like, we don't have enough extras for this, for this internet teacher video.
Starting point is 00:56:50 Let's use one of our secret assassins just to fill out some bodies in the room. You know what I mean? He can be an extra. He can pull double daddy, right? Like what? You know. You can't MK Ultra Trey and all day, Trey. Like, sometimes you're like, it's to save money.
Starting point is 00:57:01 You take the, you take your assassin. and you put him as a background actor. Yeah, that's just smart. That's efficient. My thing with conspiracy theories is even if you take them at their own lodge, you've got to think through the process of how it would get done. And like the fact that I admit that it's completely weird that this kid has no social media presence.
Starting point is 00:57:19 A kid who's 20 years old in 2020, all right? That is insanely weird that nobody knows this kid's political beliefs or motives that he committed to assassinations, not leaving behind a manifesto or like a Facebook or like they wouldn't post on Facebook go where could be, but that'd be a TikTok about it or anything. These guys almost always go to their message board and say whether they're doing what you're doing or whatever. I don't know. But the fact that there is no social media background for this kid to me is proof that there is no conspiracy.
Starting point is 00:57:46 Because the first thing you do, do you know the term building a legend, Trey? I mean, I'm assuming it means like kind of using that to like set up the backstory that you want to suit the narrative you're trying to craft with your big frame job conspiracy you're putting together. If you've seen a spy movie When they create like here's your new ID Here's your new passport Here's your Facebook page It's back dated to 2014 Here's like you give somebody a cover identity
Starting point is 00:58:11 You do the same thing for a passive and conspiracy Because there's really no point In doing a false flag attack And not having an enemy to blame it on What happened here Right Unless some new evidence comes forward And I'm open to
Starting point is 00:58:26 Is that some kid decided to shoot the president the past, the last president and maybe future president, presidential candidate, whatever you want to call Trump. And that's what happened. And then it's already passed through the ether because no one knows who to blame for it. So it's barely even a news story three days later.
Starting point is 00:58:45 And we'll all forget it in a couple more days. And then at that point, I'll have been retroactively mad at Democrats for shutting down campaigning for a week over a story that Republicans aren't even mad about anymore. Right. So it's like, it's insane. it is insane yeah there's plenty more to talk about uh in terms of this uh very subject and like mark said
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