Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 7/23/24 – Unburdened By What Has Been

Episode Date: July 24, 2024

Tonight we’re talking about turning the page, Joe Biden committing seppuku, how insane recent TikTok star Kamala Harris makes Republicans, and a Trump donor getting stuck in his car elevator. Trae is on the road so Mark is joined by Senior How-Fox-News-Just-Got-My-Mom-To-Love-Joe Biden Correspondent Corey Ryan Forrester.Support the show

And we're live. It's weekly skews for Tuesday, what is it, July 23rd, the Year of Our Satan, 2024. I'm Mark Agey, and this is my fill-in co-host, Cory Ryan Forrester. Chris Tray is on the road. How you doing, Corey? Hey, buddy. How you doing? Sorry, everybody.

Don't be sorry. You're celebrating discovery that you have a WikiFeed page with a high. I score. Tell the people about it. I did, y'all. I found today, yeah, WikiFeed, I don't know if y'all know about it, but it's a place where people put weird people, not bad weird, just weird, you know, that's fine, Austin's weird, these people are weird. I was looking for a shirtless picture of myself on the internet, and here I am calling people weird. Turns out I have nine pictures on WikiFeed and a score of 4.78, which I got to tell you, is insane because my feet are in

a word busted. I bite my own toenails. I'm still flexible, Mark. I will tell Aaron, my wife, she has a WikiPage from her acting days, and your score is higher than hers. Yeah, suck it, Aaron. That'll make her mad. Before we get to the show, today's show, we're talking about recent events, which are unprecedented. The events are unprecedented, Corey. They remain unprecedented. Yeah. I've heard that word so much in the past eight years. Like, there's just no precedent. for anything. No. Apparently not.

It's almost like the entire world's making shit up as it goes along the whole time. Yeah. And events are always unprecedented.

It's weird, isn't it? So out of you saw the news today, the Secret Service director, lady by the name of Kimberly Cheedle,

resigned because everybody hated her. At all, for the simple reason that Donald Trump got shot. And it turns out the Secret Service's

whole job is to keep people with president anywhere in their job on their business card from getting shot in the head and something filled at it.

And it's like, it's real you have one job territory, I feel like. Yeah. And I'm fine with it. I mean, I don't give a shit if she has a job. Like, I don't know how difficult that is, you know? I mean, look, from what I heard, the roof had a slope. You know what I'm saying? It had a slope.

Well, I mean, the roof, the sniper was on you, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So she's the one that was down there, right? And she's supposed to tackle it. She's the director. She's the person in charge.

Yeah. Okay. See, I'm firmly on the page. We need to bring back way more resigning in disgrace. Oh, yeah. Way more people should resign in disgrace. I couldn't agree more. Yeah.

So I don't know anything about what she could have done differently except again, it's the whole, I'm not the person in charge of the Secret Service. This lady is, and the guy got shot in the head. So there you go. I mean, I kind of think that you just, you got to go in that situation. you know what I mean? I mean that even if it's like there's nothing you could have done, it's like it don't look good. You know what I'm saying?

Like it doesn't look like when you're going to protect the next person and someone asks like, so what's your track record? It's like, well, you know, we did have a little incident of the last guy kind of got shot near the head. There's also the part of it where like Joe Biden changed out his security detail because they didn't trust any of the Secret Service agents that the agency gave him. The part where Mike Pence refused to get in a car with him

on January 6th. And there's the part where after January 6th they deleted like 100,000 text messages or whatever as part of the cover-up. The whole agency needs to be torn down and built back up from scratch. But at least this lady hung on for a job for one more day so she could go to a congressional hearing

and have Marjorie Taylor Green accuser of attempted murder in service of treason. So there's that part of it. I mean, the Defense Secretary like Clinton's first Defense Secretary, Secretary of Defense, resigned after Blackhawk down as if he was personally ordering helicopters into Mogadishu or something. And like, we strayed so far from anybody being held accountable in any ways she performed. This lady's going to go on to run corporate security.

I think she read corporate security for Frito Lay before this. She'll go on to some high-prane corporate job. Yeah. Like, she's fine. Dude, the private sector is where you want to be right now. Because like I feel like, and I know that like we look back on everything with, rose-colored glasses. But like, you know, you think about like the FBI and the CIA and like secret service detail. And you look at these and you go, these are supposed to be, you know,

bipartisan jobs. They're not political. It's like you protect whoever. And we think about the past as like these were times when people were bipartisan, but like now there's no such thing as a bipartisan person. Like grimace from McDonald's could be Antifa and it wouldn't surprise me. You know what I mean? like everyone's got a spot right now. So like if I'm Trump or if I'm Biden, I probably don't trust anybody on my detail either. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

I mean, like the hamburger is definitely Antifa. I think man of cheese is probably a Republican. Without question, dude. Without question. So the Secret Service also, they've stopped. Trump's rally in Butler where he got shot at was it was outdoors. And today they said they've asked the Trump. Rally to stop holding rallies outdoors, which is really funny because we talked about this

last week, I think, but like the whole reason he didn't have them outdoors is because he hasn't, he still hasn't paid rent to places from 2020 and 2016. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he literally can't get an indoor venue. So he's going to pay back rent plus rent up front to get to be able to get indoor venues. And they're like, we can't stop you from getting shot. So this guy, it's not just that, by the way. It's because if you do it indoors, you can see empty seats. Whereas if you do it outside, there's no such thing. You know what I'm saying? That's probably a factor, too, but like, it's just, it's funny to me that, like,

the guy can catch a break. He almost, he misses being killed by, like, mere centimeters. And a downstream side effect of it is he has way less campaign cash to steal. That's so funny. Just a rain cloud falling him around lately, man. Just can't catch a break. So, uh, uh, another is another fun story. A billionaire tech mogul slash Trump donor by the name of Palmer Lucky.

He's, he fought a lawsuit after getting trapped in his own car lucky. Yeah. Was this man on the Duke lacrosse team? No, he's a Silicon Valley guy so close, though. Uh, he's fought a lawsuit after he got stuck in his own car elevator. Um, so he's the guy that invented Oculus. He found an Oculus. So he's big things VR headsets.

We'll come back to that in a second. He, so he basically came out as a Trump donor in like 2016 or 2020. I forget which, but like, that's back when Silicon Valley had to pretend to be for, like, equity, inclusion and shit. So he was forced to apologize by his board, then just dove full cycle back into it when it became cooler. But the main thing you knew about this guy and whether or not you should feel sorry for him for being, for getting stuck in his car elevator, which I didn't even know car elevators were a thing until Mitt Romney had one. How big is his car? No, it's like you have so many cars. You have to have a multi-level garage.

Oh, okay. I'm stupid. Right, yeah. I was like, they got shit that I don't even know about. Like, I know that there's money, but like, motherfucker, I didn't know. I didn't know about this. It's taken of a parking garage without an elaborate ramp. Yeah, no, I get it.

Yeah. So, he, a couple years ago, you know that meme about, like, there's a horror movie made a couple years ago. I became a mean about, like, if you die in a video game, you die in real life, kind of like the matrix. So he invented an Oculus that kills you if you die in a video game. what what like it stabs your brain or something let me read here so he's seen a theoretical design that would kill you with like like like electromagnetic impulses but he couldn't figure out how to build that because he's fucking stupid so let me read here from his blog i use three of the explosive charge modules i usually use for a different project tie them to a narrow band photosensor that can detect from when the screen flashes red at a specific frequency making making game over integration on the part of the developer very easy when appropriate game over screen is display, the charges fire instantly destroying the brain of the user. So it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like three

low explosive charges that are like the cattle executing gun from no country for old man. Yeah, right, the cow gun. Like, who, what, okay, so what's the Venn diagram of people who can afford this and would use it? Now,

granted, there's a lot of rich suicidal people who like, are like, I've accomplished everything and I've already choked myself with enough belts while beating off, I need the next thing. But like, who the fuck would ever? I mean, dude, honestly, there's been, I just recently refilled my, I refilled my tracidone the day after Trump got shot. The day, like, I've been off of it for a minute. I refilled it the day after. I'll be honest with you, if I had like sold another book right before that and was

shown this video game, maybe I'd have played it. But anyways, go on. So I was, I was thinking about Because I didn't think there was any, like, market for it. Except, like, the whole point is playing something like Call of Duty or Halo is you get the thrill of something that looks or feels like first-person combat without actually having any risk. That's kind of the whole thing, right? But you made it realize it's kind of like a way to play the most dangerous game, except instead of hunting humans for sport on the island, you're playing Mario card against a nine-year-old. And if you lose, you fucking die. Right. It's like asking your husband to choke you.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, hey, choke me, but then, like, not till I turn purple, you know? Yeah. Yeah. But no, you do die. You do die. Right. You die. But you've got to play against a 10-year-old so you live. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Right. So with that being said, Corey, I'm bad at shilling and you said you're good at it. So you do the pre-show shilling stuff. I am good at shilling. First off, since he's not here, we'll go first with him. Go to traycrouter.com to see my man on the road. I don't know where he is, but he's super busy. He's everywhere. Traycrouter.com. Also support. him on Patreon. Patreon.com slash

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Great job. And Kamala Harris's campaign, I know like Hulk Hogan did the RNC, if you need your Hulk, send the buttercream dream to the opening act for one of your nights of the DNC. That's right. So that's what that scene said.

Let's get to the show. Matt, Daily Dumbass Graphic, please. Tonight's Daily Dumbass is anyone who thinks Kamala Harris is Canada, so he could survive Sean Hannity's dribbling ice coffee on his shirt. She wants to ban plastic straws. I love my plastic straw. I hate those paper straws.

Anyway, she won't... Look, dude, Kaolo's been running for president for by 48 hours now, and I don't know how to tell you that this is the best I can come up with. They're going to figure something out, and I'm sure it's going to be damaging. But, like, look, so... Also, is that true?

True. I mean, there was a thing in California. We had to deal with like paper straws for a while. Yeah. They've been saying that forever. They've been saying that forever. Dude, I remember hearing that during the Obama thing. Like, there are places already where they do that. Like, they give you paper straws. But I don't think it's an illegal thing. I think it's a company just deciding to do a thing. You know what I'm saying? California did have, I don't know sure why they went back to plastic straws. Maybe people hated it so much they changed the law. They realized it. as long as Exxon Mobil and the American and military industrial complex exist to burn petroleum fuels. It doesn't really matter that much. But yeah, I mean, like, I know why you can't get plastic bags or plastic straws because they got a lot, they got a bunch of like money riding on tourism and wildlife. So I get, but like the idea that like, this is our main argument against the presidential

Canada is so fucking funny to me. Fuck yourself. A good indicator of where things stand right now is that Trump's demanding the Republican Party be reimbursed for having to spend money running against Joe Biden. Like, he's asking for his money back. Yeah. They genuinely have no idea what to do right now, and it's making me really fucking laugh. And in case you're wondering if swapping in Kamala was the right move, here's a video clip of Stephen Miller on...

Oh, don't make me see him. No, this is great. He's melting. This sounds like if you took away a nine-year-old's balloon. Check this out. They held a primary. People, they had ballots. They filled out circles.

They went to the bottom booths. They spent money on advertisements. And as President Trump said, the, the, the, the, the, the, they had ballots. Republican Party spent tens of millions of dollars running against Joe Biden. Now they just woke up one morning and said, never mind, we're canceling the entire primary. We're getting rid of our candidate and we're pretending the election has never even happened. And we're going to let donors handpick a new nominee. There are, all right. Allow me, you might literally be wearing a diaper in that shot. Allow me to say something real quick, uh, right now. Donald Trump, if you were listening,

There have been countless times where contractors bought backhows. They paid employees, okay? They took out insurance policies, all right? They rented a myriad of equipment. They did a job. They took time off from other projects that cost them money. And you ended up not paying them diddly squat and they couldn't afford a lawyer to sue them. And you left them in the bag millions of fucking dollars.

So how does it taste going down the other side? you sack of shit, start talking something about Kamala and shut the fuck up, okay? So it's been really hilarious watching them flail. Again, they'll find something. I just don't, not sure what it's going to be yet. So this is probably the funniest swing and a mess they made. Here's a screen grab of a video they put up, and I'll describe the video for you after we see the screen grab.

I'm going to read this to you. Forgive me for the unwoke language, but I'm quoting the RNC, quoting a guy at a Democratic, a Q&A with Kamala here. Oh, they, the image, Matt. From R&C research is a tweet, flashback. Kamala laughed and exclaimed, well said when an attended at an event mockingly used the term, quote, mentally retarded to attack President Trump. Okay.

So they put up a video of a guy calling Trump mentally handicapped and thought it was going to own Kamala. And I just like the guy, first of all, I wish we started the video because the guy had like a thick South Asian accent. if I had to guess Indian, like a lake. And immigrants... I too would like to hear that. Tend to believe in America more than those of us who just like happen to be born here because they came here for a reason, right? Of course.

So the guy has his exasperated tone of voice about... He's asking out of impeachment. It's been like, why... Obviously, this guy is criminal and mentally R-worded. Right. Why can't you guys do anything? And she goes, well said and laughs. And everyone made fun of this so much they got rid of it.

Just flailing. Is she fly-fills? fishing? No, she's hold she's, that's a line holding the flag up Oh, okay, right on. Jesus Christ. Yes, holding the mic, answering questions from voters and fly fishing. Hey, I'm just saying. All right, so let's go ahead and get into it. There's a lot of stuff to talk about

tonight. Um, I've titled the show unburdened by what has been because, uh, I feel a little free. Oh, me too, buddy. And also, that's a, a catchphrase from the woman herself, uh, who we're going to talk about. Uh, you're going to get used to a lot of her catchphrases. What's the influence by what has been, but unburdened by what, anyway, imagine what can be while unburdened by what has been. You didn't just fall out of a coconut tree. Lots of, lots of catchphrase you have to get to.

Is this Kamala? Yeah, yeah. First of all, I want to do a man coppa here because whenever we talked about Kamala in the past, besides her record, we'll get to actual politics in the future when substantive stuff arises. Her record is a prosecutor. I tend to not enjoy the Democratic. party's affinity for prosecutors and former CIA operatives.

But, yeah, we talk out both sides of our fucking face when it comes to shit like that. Right. But I, but I do think, you know, child molesters ought not be around the rest of us. Of course. Yeah. Okay. So like, it's like, so there, somebody's going to be prosecuting somebody and everybody's got to make a living.

So let's, let's, let's, let's leave that for another show, all right? Sure. So my other could be complaint about her that didn't think she was that talent of a politician's why I thought she'd be a bad candidate. My data points for that were that she'd only ever run in, like, Democratic primaries because in California, that's the only competitive election she'd ever had. And when she ran for president, she didn't get a single delegate in 2020. I'm going to eat shit on that while we're all doing male couples here right now.

She apparently has the risk to the point the whole internet is completely fucking in love with her. It's like 90% of TikTok right now is Kamala dance numbers. Right, yeah. I didn't see it. I didn't see it. I take it back. Well, a lot can change in four years, dude. There's also like, like, you know, the kids, the kids today love authenticity to the point

where somebody who says unscripted shit, like, you think you just fell out of a coconut tree kind of hits for them? Dude, I mean, ironic. Yeah. Hey, man, unscripted, authentic shit is what got Trump elected, dude. I mean, that's literally what got Trump elected. Not talking in complete robotic key points is big with the kids. Yeah. She's also got this happy warrior persona that seems to not only like like generate enthusiasm among like Democratic voters and activists and donors, but also like infuriates Republicans to a degree that like they can just go around saying all this stupid racist shit and she's absolutely not phased by it.

Right. And that makes the matter. It's like it's a it's a political talent I don't have. I'm mad all the time. But before we get to Kamala on the back half, I'm going to talk about like how we got here for a little bit because one of the reasons this moment made me feel optimistic is like, if it feels like the entirety of my adult life has been watching the Democratic Party. Which has been a long time, by the way. Yes, I'm very old. Like Democrats, the Democratic Party would see some huge disaster coming and the plan will be like, well, we'll wait and see and hope it works itself out. You guys, good luck to the rest of you.

and the fact they took action right so like a troll disaster coming and did something makes me feel hope is that this is what it feels like yes i could not agree more because i saw people you know and they're still going to be talking about it until what november 6th or whatever the fuck it is until

until it's over the conversation of was this the right move is still going to be had But my thing is when I see that conversation being had, the only thing I say to myself is at least something was done. Like I, like, bro, whether or not it was the right decision, I'm just absolutely over the moon that a decision was made because we don't make decisions. We make excuses. You know what I mean? Like, that's what we normally make or we make amends or we make another martini after it's over and go, where is Aaron's? sorken to write our lament you know like we don't make anything but mistakes god damn it so i don't know

he was writing op-eds on sunday morning the democrats should nominate mitt romney jesus right two and a half days ago dude it's unbelievable like i've been i've rewatched the west wing of the first four seasons every now and then just like it's my late night show like i've seen it so many times that i just kind of put it on and it's so funny how like ridiculous the show is in hindsight like it doesn't jail with what's going it really didn't jail with what was going on then. It was a very hopeful show, but to watch it now is insane. And to see that Aaron Sorkin, at any point believe that was reality, but still does, is the most bat shit. He's still on Coke. Please just write another money ball. Holy fuck thing I've

ever seen. Yeah, it's like where every episode would be like, they would have a high-minded debate and the most correct person, most correct person would win. It's insane. Yeah. So, but you're it was a tough decision and whether or not because it's a results-oriented decision like wake up November 5th and this will either be the best decision of all time or the worst decision of all time with no in-between and there isn't in-between we get to that a second

but like but it's like that's how history is going to judge it and you know power to Joe Biden for having the balls to make it because that's you know one of his big ones I so one of the things is like so jarring people get like we'll get to the air quote unprecedented part of this in a second but like, this is just how well-functioning political parties are supposed to work.

Like, when you're being dragged down from the top of a ticket, the party removes the person. Right. That's normal. That's how it works in every other country. The fucking Tories in the UK had five prime ministers in the last four and a half years or whatever. Right. With only one election in between because they were getting dragged down by some psycho loser who was messing up their shit. Now, they deserve to have their shit wreck because they suck, but that's a whole different other topic.

The point is you can do that. People do that. Nixon was asked to resign by members of his own party. And you remember in 2016, if Access-Hywood tape came out, Republicans tried to get Trump to step down. And he was already the official nominee. He was after the convention. Right. Like, this is utterly routine normally, but not something the Democratic Party would usually ever do.

So my question is, is our Democrats learning? I mean, it's just, that's so hard for me to believe because, like, my biggest, like my biggest the biggest bugaboo with the Democratic Party for me forever has been how we just copy and paste the same dumb shit all the time so like it seems like they are but at the same time I'm like

it just feels like we're going to wake up next week and they're going to do a really dumb thing and it's going to be like oh okay that was that was always going to happen well I mean I'll say like so right before the last week Joe Biden was actually campaigning, he came out with a bunch of like aggressive, progressive stuff. Now it was a little too late, too little too late, but stuff like, like Supreme Court reform, stuff you should have done four years ago. Right. And like, like, uh, like, uh, expanding solidifying social security

and Medicaid, uh, higher minimum wage, stuff like that. And I was like, yeah, that's good stuff for a Democrat to be running on. Hopefully you normally just picks it up. If she does take, if she just like, no, I got to pivot to the center, then I'll be mad about that. But we'll see what of the platform is and a little bit. And so the reason that we're unprecedented gets thrown around to me bugs me going to get thrown around like this. I'm like, you got to, anybody's

watched any news, knows they put breaking in front of anything happening, even if nothing's happening. Right. Right. There's, you try to communicate urgency to get people to pay attention to stuff. Right. It's a 24-hour news cycle. Everything's breaking. I applied for the, that's one tick the news has.

Another one is like, because I applied for a job at the AP once where they gave us a trial to try to write broadcast copy and they try to get us to write in that present tense way broadcasters talk and it literally broke my fucking brain because just try it just try it like tonight police are searching for a man who could be lurking in your backyard they're searching for men who could be yeah but it's like they don't even use to be verids it be tonight police searching for man maybe lurking backyard it's like what the fuck you even saying right so but another part is like everything that's even remotely new is considered unprepared.

Even if you like have to like squint you guys and like remove like well it's never happened on a Tuesday before like that kind of right okay right so like but I think that bothers me about unprecedented is like America's only three Joe Biden's old right yeah right right of course almost nothing's ever happened here before right right but there's a tremendous amount of things that they say are unprecedented that like I go no I've read about that in second grade. You know what I mean? Like, there were people saying it about fucking Donald Trump almost getting shot. They were like, it's unprecedented. I was like, I was like, Hinkley is making the news right now for getting his concert canceled. What the fuck are you

talking about? We didn't get to it last week. I prepped the whole Senate. What bothered me was like, this is not who we are. We don't do political violence. I'm like, we've only had 47 presidents and four that were shot to death. That doesn't count the other ones who were just shot and lived. right doesn't count the ones who were shot at and missed and hit somebody else right it doesn't count the candidates who were shot dude you don't even count the presidents who shot other people ander jackson shot people while he was the president he also used to just slap people with his glove like bugs bunny did daffy like yes the fuck we do do do political violence i just said do do do political violence everybody Alexander hamilton was murdered by a sitting vice president there's a whole play about it yeah yeah so like

It's like this is just like so much this stuff just drives me fucking crazy. It's like, anyone who does a cable news broadcasts read a fucking book. But like also like like, so saying this unprecedented is so wild because like there's literally been an election before where a Democrat and incumbent dropped out and RFK was running. There was a dim convention in Chicago. It was an unpopular foreign war. The Republican nominee is a crook who thinks he's above the law and the leading Canada gets shot.

That's literally exactly happened before in 1968. Right. And a country that's only 2.8 Joe Biden's yold. Right, right, right. So a fun thing we were texting about earlier today is apparently Fox News has spinning all this has gotten your mom to be a fan of Joe Biden. Yeah, yeah, for about 0.5 seconds, but still. Right.

So what was she saying how the Democrats have said Joe Biden dirty? Well, it was interesting because, you know, me and my mom both, like, we know we don't agree on things. I've always tried well I say I've always tried not to talk about it there was a time where I love to talk about it because I wanted to come in there and be right in my rightness but after a while

it's like I'm trying to ignore it while I was leaving with my son today it was just bye I love you or whatever and like as I'm walking at the door she was just like so I tell you what you know I personally feel like what they did to Joe Biden was wrong and I was like

I started hearing like you know the sound when the bomb go off and saving private Ryan and it's just like I started hearing that and smelling toast and thought I was having a stroke and I was like what the fuck did you just say and she's like well I'm just saying like

you know they kind of did him dirty you know or whatever and I was like uh oh okay and I was like well I got to hear her out and she's like well it just you know seems like you know he was the guy and then all these people just kind of shoot him out the door and I was like well yeah but like

he he still had to agree, you know, to do it. Like, he, and she's like, or, you know, they could have made him an offer he couldn't refuse. And I was like, oh, okay, this is like Hillary Clinton as a sought off shotgun to his head or whatever. And then she threw the word coup around. And I didn't say it.

I didn't say. I wanted to. I wanted to be like, oh, so now it's a coup. Now we're throwing the word coup around. But I didn't because I'm a Christian. I'm not a Christian. I just wanted to leave her house as quickly as possible. possible. And then, and then she was like, but you know, here's the thing. She's like,

here's what I don't understand is that. So Joe Biden's not running for re-election because he doesn't seem fit. She's like, so if he doesn't seem fit for reelection, then he should probably resign, right? And I was like, I, so do you want him to resign? And she's like, no, no, no. See, because if he resigns, then Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris is, is president. And I was like, okay, so he shouldn't resign. And she's like, no, he should. And I was like, but then Kamala Harris is president and she's like, we can't have that. And I was like, oh, and then my head almost exploded and then I did just leave. So it seems like, as you pointed out in the text group, when I sent this, because I was just trying to make sense of it, there's two options

and she can have neither. Now, I love my mom. My mom is a great lady. But you pointed out to me that she's apparently just parroting Fox News, which makes a lot of sense. This is all the shit they're saying for my deep, my deep, deep research I do for the show today. Yeah, but yeah, so the coup thing is like asking someone to voluntarily step aside for the good of their part, the party of the country and their legacy is not the same thing as shooting them in the fucking head. And it's like, but that's the kind of argument that bugs me the most. It's like how like everything is almost like something else except for the really, really bad part. It's like, this is a bad example, but it's like how, well, the Nazis had socialized medicine. And you're like, yeah, but that wasn't the bad part of the nonsense.

They also tuck their fucking shirt in. Yes. And like, like, like Hugo Boss is fine to wear now. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know what to tell you. Yeah. There's also the, they all like, it's like the, everyone's owning each other with like, oh, so you guys thought trying to save democracy about ousting your democratically elected candidate.

It's like, but oust them through what we in America consider democratic means, which is having your donors and delegates. and other members of your party saying, please. Right. And also like, like, there really wasn't, the mechanism to select another presidential candidate was very quick. There was no other way to do it. And Kamala is a sitting vice president. She was on everybody's primary ballot in the position where your only job description is to step in for the guy who's named as president by his name.

That's literally, you just exist to stay alive, keep your heart beating in case the other person stops. That's it. Right. Now, if you want to make the argument of like, but Joe Biden is the person that the people voted for for president, so why do these rich donors and people closest to him then get to decide? If you want to make that argument, I'm not saying it's right or wrong. If you want to make that argument, that argument is totally fine. I will entertain it. But a coup. By the way, let me say this right now, before we go any further, this is the first time I've ever, literally ever been on skews. where I wasn't under the influence of any drugs or alcohol. So every, which means, by the way,

I have to own every single thing that comes out of my mouth is a direct result of my own stupidity or hubris. And I can't blame it on anything else. So that said, those are my opinions. No, right. But so, yeah,

there was a Democratic primary. Joe Biden got 14 million votes. He won by a large margin because the only other kids. candidate was either uncommitted or Dean Phillips who lost to uncommitted in his home state. All right. That was the guy who ran specifically on the Joe Biden's tool platform. Everything else is fine. And so I voted like so two things about that.

One's just me personally and another one's like the polling data, polling data we talked about last week, two weeks ago. 55% of people who voted the Democratic primary wanted another candidate. Now that could be for a lot of different reasons, but like you can make the argument they voted with incomplete information to be, if you want to just be put it nicely. and not say that maybe we were misled. But also, I voted in Democratic primary. I happen to have voted uncommitted,

but I'm fine with throwing my vote away. Just me personally. Yeah. So, yeah. So as far as, like, the potentiality for an open primary, there was a four, like basically a 48-hour window between the time Joe Biden announced he was stepping down and Kamala locked up delegates.

I didn't hear a report of any other person even trying to line up delegates, right? Gretchen, Gretchen Whitmer said she didn't want to try, The only person who said they might want to try was Joe Manchin, who everyone immediately told to fuck off and die. Dude, I swear to God. Dude, I swear to listen, man, I swear to fucking God. I swear to God, dude.

So you remember earlier when we were talking about how, like, I don't, like, the Democrats seem to have made a good decision right now. Like, how could they possibly fuck it up? Surely not. But in my brain, I was thinking, like, dude, if they get Joe Manchin as the goddamn vice president picked just because they're like, Like, we need a middle of the road guy. I will, I will burn.

I will sepacoo myself whilst on fire. I will sepacoo myself whilst on fire, Mark. I mean, it's not smart, right? It wouldn't be, but they're not doing it. Everybody hates it. It's fine. Okay, good. Well, I know, so you say everybody hates him, but, like, I admit that I live in some.

We all live in a bubble, but I admit that I live in maybe an even smaller one. I know that me and you fucking hate him. I hate him because of you. You told me to hate him. Then I did my own. research and I was like, oh yeah, this guy fucking sucks. Like, and I used to like Fetterman at first, and then I was like,

I was like, I was like, hey, wear shorts. You know, and then it turns out like pieces of shit can wear shorts. Me wear shorts, you know? We don't know an episode of him. He's hit or miss and something. Like, he's more like, I can't figure out what the fuck he's doing, but that's, that's, that's a, yeah. So, um,

but the plan, like, so Joe Biden, like, it was like six hours he toyed with idea of being candidate. And like, apparently enough people told him that literally no one wanted him to be president. that he just like fuck off so but the plan for open convention i'm not fucking i'm not kidding you involved an event hosted by mr beast so thank you jesus thank you woke fucking jesus for saving us from this goddamn travesty that would have done nothing but comla would

have been the candidate at the end of it and it would have been annoying three week wait all right that it's why it's so wild that dude is and by the way i have no opinion on him either i just all i know about him is that he's popular um i don't know why i don't don't know if he's good or bad. I just know that he's he's a wild person because it's like I, he's like close to Taylor Swift popular, yet I don't know what he is. And it just shows how out of touch with the youth I am. Dude, he's got protein bars at my gas station right now.

That's crazy. He's one of those popular entertainers on the planet. But his basic thing is like he takes YouTube videos where he does like, you know, Jigsaw from Saw the Movies? Yeah, the little bit like, yeah, the one who comes up with an elaborator. torture devices for people yeah he does that but like benevolently so like if you can stay if you can sit on this hill of red ants for six hours i'll pay your way through college like that kind of shit oh well that's only half shitty i mean that's you know i mean like if he really does pay their

way through college i mean fuck you know like that's the duality of mr beast all right so i mean i don't you know what i still nothing him how about that yeah um uh So as far as calling being the candidate, man, like, no one can tell you how things are going to go. But I can tell you the sure amount of enthusiasm that we've seen in Least of the past 48 hours makes me feel like there's a better shot. But also, like, losing a close fired up race is way better than getting blown out and a dispirited loss. Couldn't agree more. It's like not only does it create another generation of activists and people that are into shit, but it like, keeping the margins down, you know, keeping your margin of defeat down, helps out people down ballots so you have a better chance of holding on to like the Senate

in the House or keeping that close because the difference between like 55 Republican senators and 51 is the difference between a same person in the secretary of state or going to like Alex Jones. Yeah, that's true. And let's be clear on one thing. Even though this will certainly be tested hypothetical in this hypothetical situation, which is also a huge, you know, possible reality, Trump wins. If Trump wins, all the sudden the Trump people are in four years, years are going to really start to question whether they like the Constitution or not, specifically, uh, the 22nd amendment. Because if, if the 22nd amendment holds, we've only got four more years of Trump, right? Which any more years of Trump sucks, but only four more year, Trump going in and being

immediately a lame duck, uh, is at least whatever, because then it's like, well, maybe he'll just go in and literally golf every fucking day. But like, the reason Kamala, is better than Biden because if she goes in and like you said it's hotly contested and then we only have four years of Trump then fucking at least the Democrats have started upward mobility

forward momentum on okay we've got four years and he this fucker can't run again they've got to get somebody else and we've actually got a head start and he's fucking gone and he was the most charismatic son of a bitch they had and like you can't even think of a person

that like he's blown the whole party up. Like, you can't say, you can't say the same for the Democrats. Joe Biden didn't blow the whole party up. You know what I mean? So like, I, I, I do have to fall. And dude, another thing you didn't mention about the, uh, the, the bullet points on like, why she's good. Like, oh, she's, you know, she doesn't go on script. She's got this warrior vibe. She's also relatively, she's young and attractive. Like, I know she's, she'll be 60, but like, bro she's fucking 30 years younger than all these people like that's good that for years and years of us going god damn it can we have anybody other than an old white man we've got a young

black woman like that's got to fire some people up there's not just like the vibes were just way off and i know that's not like that's not material analysis but it was showing up in poll after poll after pull after pull after pull after pull where everyone's like yeah, we know the economy's gotten better. We know, we know, we know, we know the infrastructure act. We know all this stuff. I just don't like it. And like, that's just democracy sometimes.

And like, you know, it was the old joke that, you know, politics has show business for ugly people. Like, sometimes shit's just unfair and it just be that way. But also Joe Biden's well aware that politics has show business for ugly people because otherwise he wouldn't have invested in so much plastic surgery and hair plugs and spray tans, right? He's aware of the unfairness of it all. He was trying to hack it to his advantage. Like, it's weird when the game your plan comes and gets you.

It's like, the world's a cold, cruel place. But, like, an underrated part of this is, like, the, uh, like, he's 81 years old. He just got COVID for the third time last week. And I looked it up. The stats on that, the average person is a 40%, the average person, not 81 years old, is a 40% chance of developing long COVID after your third time getting it. All right. So he was going to have to make a decision of whether or not to run in the middle of having COVID

without knowing whether or not he's going to have long COVID. So I think he did the responsible thing. He pulled the plug. And for that, he did get the George Washington comps, as I predicted, for voluntarily stepping down to relinquishing power. So more power to getting that. You know, we're not here to shit on Joe Biden's grave. But it's worth knowing that up until Saturday morning, he was still planning on running. And then he had to come to Jesus meeting with a couple of his closest advisors who showed him some, this internal polling data, not this public polls, everybody thinks is skewed against the Democrats, where they showed him he was, he was down so bad in the polls that he was like putting light blue states like Virginia in play.

Right. And that's when he decided to go. There's also a donor revolt where they knew it was a bad investment. They were going to get putting, sending more good money after bad. So basically, if he was going to keep running, if he felt up to campaigning, he was not going to have enough gas to fill up his plane to get to events. And then Nancy Pelosi apparently told him in his many words, we can do this the easy way or do it the hard way. So far it's been the easy way. I've never heard of anyone actually saying that in real life.

I always thought it was a movie thing. Yeah. Yeah, anyway. That was another thing, too, by the way, when you said that it's like, you know, as of a day ago, he was still running. My mom brought that up too. She was like, don't you think it's a little weird that like the day before he dropped out, he said that he wasn't going to drop out?

And I was like, oh, so, yeah, I was like, mom, to me kind of sounds like someone that doesn't have their cognitive ability. So all of a sudden now you're saying that like, he's got it all together. You're like, pick a lane. It's also just how events work. Right. One day of building, one day you're alive, the next day you're dead. One day you're married, one day you're, you're, you get a divorce.

I'll never forget. My mom, one of the times my mom made me laugh at the hardest when I was a kid by accident, like the burger king in our town closed. And she goes, it was just open yesterday. Not the day it's closed. So yeah. Yeah. One day they shut the doors the last time.

I do think it's worth thinking about why, like, he became on fire, but they're so fast. I thought about it for a long time. And what I arrived at, I burned up on the show before, I think his number one attribute, his number one selling point, his number one political ability was, like, he understood that most people were normal. Like, they're not the lunatic you see online. They're not the people you see at fucking, like, drag brunch protests or whatever. They're normal people who just don't want to worry about where the president.

going to get us nuked who just don't want to hear a bunch of bullshit about the you don't want to see Trump commenting on Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart's relationship and just want and just like want to be left alone and go about their day and have no hardcore passion for persecuting their neighbors all right yeah but what these last few months have not been is normal right do you know what I'm saying like the normalcy was gone like I'm sure people in our bubble didn't quite see it but it's passed around a lot online last week after he got diagnosed with COVID, he had to be helped him to, like he had trouble walking up the ramp to the plane after he landed, people had to help him into the car. People were seeing that. Okay. And then they're

come out and telling us that he's fine. Now, you got to do, there are two different realities here is the reality reality and the political reality. And you need one foot in both. Now, even if you think he is absolutely fine, everyone who decided he wasn't and he couldn't prove that he was. Yeah, you've got to tell us, not your people. Right. It's also the part where like, like, like, it's worth, we always, I think we all, the people in this universe, wish we lived in a more reality-based world, all right? But political reality does exist, and you have to deal with it. And to be fair, I complain about the Democrats being two feet down on reality reality.

Trump's two feet down on political reality. And what that looks like is being like going at their speech with no bearing in any sort of fact and being like, by the end of my next term, we're going to cure jock itch by getting rid of the Chinese. And you're like, oh, I mean, it'd be great if you could cure jockage, I guess. But, like, what the fuck does it? What do you say? But everyone hoots like baboons because it sounds good, right? Right.

So, like, but you got to have a mix of the two. And like, you like, but Biden's like main arguments from hanging on. And then we got to hurry get to comment. And we'll skip ahead in a second, Matt. But like, Biden had a call with a congressional, congressional Democrats last week where he's trying to make his case. And there were leaks out of it, included recorded leaks. And his voice trailed off.

couldn't, like, really quite hold a thought, which he'd gotten used to. But he got really passionate when they were, like, saying, sir, maybe you should step down. He was like, basically, like, let me quote here, I'm paraphrasing, but like, who else could have held NATO together other than me? Who else could have pulled off Ocas? Now, I think he's been in general, with a few glaring exceptions, it's been a really good foreign policy president, mainly for getting us out of Afghanistan. But when you're screaming about the reason voters should vote for you is who could have pulled off Ocas? Ocas is a trilateral security partnership for the Indo-Pacific region between Australia, the UK, and the United States.

So your base is screaming to the voters. You should vote for me because who else could pull off a trilateral security partnership for the Indo-Pacific region between Australia, United Kingdom, and the United States. I can't tell you how bad you're losing when that's your argument. So that's a lesson going forward is like you have to offer voters something to vote for that they can understand. That's a political reality. All right.

And I do want to talk about once they built the need, bent the need of political reality. This, I want you to watch this clip. And keep in mind, this is less than one hour after Joe Biden, who's 81 years old, has dropped out and endorsed Kamala Harris. Watch this guy on CNN right now. Because we have worse. And so I'm going to be on the phone tonight calling delegates, getting them, whipping them up, trying to get them on board for Kamala Harris. I don't think that's going to be a difficult task. anything else the vice president

needs to do I'll be there because right now Kamala Harris has a work cut out for she's running against the oldest nominee for president of the United States in American history and so when you have this type of change election when you have no shame baby no shame pivot pivot pivot

does it does it feel so good to do the other side of this ship I love it be like them with be like them oh my God Oh, another thing that happened right after they bent the need of reality. Like, we'll do a few, just talk about a few things really here.

But this is a clip. Harris had her first reality today that they had to, it was in Wisconsin. They had to move to a larger venue because way more people wanted to show up than they anticipated. And here's, watch this clip right here. America has tried these failed economic policies before, but we are not going back. We are not going back. Not going back.

We're not going back. We're not going back. All right. Have you ever seen... If I had a bet money right now, that that's going to be your campaign slogan and a crowd just spontaneously gave it to her. Yeah, it's perfect.

Like, dude, like the Trump people, it took them so long to come up with, Let's go Brandon, and they haven't thought of anything since, and now that's gone. They can't do that anymore. Like, it's, it's good. It did maybe laugh, big about somebody, somewhere there's a guy who invested the entire life savings and let's go Brandon flags, the Southside Trump rallies. Yeah, like, but here's the deal with those people.

He won't sell all of them, but he will make his money back still, I think. I think he can still sell a couple of them. Okay, well, good luck to that guy. A lot of them aren't big Trump supporters. I've seen Trump merch guys call us supporters morons and make fun of them and put their kids to college. So they're not all bad. They're not all bad. So I just wanted to notice they were chanting for we there.

We're not going back. And because like a lot of people, a lot of people are excited about Kamlo. They know with like representation matters for black women, Asian American women, Kuki Wynon, sweet we love them all. But she's also an avatar for just being something different that's exciting for people. And that's worth noting here. Instead of doing a rerun election and every election is for like a rerun for the last fucking 12 years or so. she like so after after she announced her candidacy

donations they got a hundred million dollars in donations in like the first 30 hours 80 million plus and less than 24 hours which is a record this is a record she set beat Obama eight yes money inflation money goes up I'm not sure whether whether they did inflation adjuster or not but like but what you don't have to inflation adjust is for seven days prior when Trump got shot in the head. He got less donations for getting shot in the head,

but she got for saying, hi, I'm not one of these two guys. Right. So there are anecdotes, way more people walking into campaign offices to volunteer. They have by count so far, names written down, they have 30,000 new volunteers.

There were 40,000 black women on a single Zoom call Sunday night. Now, you might be thinking you can't have that man on a Zoom call. It's usually tapped that out of 1,000. They got in touch with a woman who worked at Zoom who adjusted the limit for them by 44X. So, like, I'd, like...

44X, the average shirt size of a Trump supporter. Hey. You got them. Just kidding. Where does the sound effect come from? You got on your computer? I got it on my board. Yeah.

I was waiting for that joke. Here's some CBS News, Yuga, polling data. These are among Democratic-registered voters. Is there people already who generally will not want to see Trump elected president? 39% of them say they're more motivated to vote now with Kamala on the ticket instead of Joe Biden. Only 6% said less motivated to vote. Another 6% apparently hadn't checked the news said depends on who the nominee is. God bless those people.

So the memes have convinced me, okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've grown to find Kamala's kooky-a sense of humor, very charming. I think it helps to have someone to campaign who can effectively communicate here is her speaking from a different part of that rally today I think it's useful to be able to make these sort of points

when, so part of the argument for Joe Biden is he was actually campaigning and he was but just not to this degree. Like when they were proud to say he was trying to save his race like he made 20 phone calls to Congresspeople yesterday she made 100 on Sunday. Now I'm not sure how to judge vigor

but that's why she locked down the nomination so quickly she called people in convention. them, which is something that Joe Biden wasn't able or willing to do. So here's her talking today. And we who believe in reproductive freedom will stop Donald Trump's extreme abortion bans because we trust women to make decisions about their own body and not have their government Tell them what to do. I can cut it, Matt.

That clip I showed earlier that led up to we will not go back. We're not going back. She was talking about Project 2025 in the lead up to that. Which Trump keeps denying he knows anything about, even though he's best friends with all the people who wrote it.

Yeah. So here's the thing here. So we have some polling data on Project 2025 in the last three weeks. As of June 24th, only 29% of people had an opinion on it, and it was nine points underwater. As of July 14th, 54% of people have an opinion on it is 32 points underwater. Wow. People fucking hate this shit. So what am I, my bigger point was having somebody who can go out and effectively make the case and get it in the news more is good.

Now, so far, we'll talk more about our cannabis as it goes on, but just like literally like, I'm the first person to have this point. Like, I saw somebody make the case a couple weeks ago that, like, Biden and Trump were literally the only two candidates who could lose to each other. Right. And we're going to, like, we could have used a, we could have used a mannequin with a tape recorder in its mouth to make the case. But, like, I feel like, like, I feel like Kamla is actually doing well. And it's nice to have somebody who's, like, telegenic, who can speak cogently, who represents something like the future, do up against something like Project 2025. So what are Republicans saying about her? She's black.

she's a DEI candidate has been said a lot to the point where Mike Johnson held a caucus meeting today to ask them to please stop making quote race comments good fucking luck with that bunch buddy because for those guys who are mostly in safe districts

full of guys who think like them that sounds like a winning argument and I feel like they're eventually going to get tired of saying DEI and just say the full on words those are standing in for because we all know what they're really saying there I also love the idea

that everyone else in politics makes it through merit. Right. Yeah. Right. Like it's like, it's the most, it's the most nepotism-filled

piece of shit group of human beings or just like, oh yeah, uh, if you let me do this, then my dad has a job at four, like fuck you all, dude.

Yeah. It's a popularity contest. And I don't even think it's worth even responding to except like, like as far as on paper qualifications, uh, She checks them all off, you know, district attorney, state attorney general, U.S. Senator, vice president.

It's pretty well-rounded resume, I would say. So a couple years ago, a couple years ago, J.D. Vance called her, called Kamala Harris a miserable childless cat lady. The online psychotic religious right dudes who post a lot are trying to make it a thing that she only has stepkids and not biological children. That's somehow not being a legitimate parent, therefore you don't, care about the future of the country. So I just want to encourage them to keep trying to make the case that step parents aren't real parents in 2024 America. Mark, do you know who else is a

childless cat lady? Who? Taylor Swift, who will be campaigning for Kamala Harris and will not take this lightly. Well, she's already got Charlie X, X, X, X, and Kay Perry on all. And Beyonce gave permission to use her music. Oh, dear. Which is Trump can't get permission to use anyone's music outside of Kid Rock and Lee Greenwood. Um, so as far as what else, stand about her. I want you to take a wild guest, Corey. I'm going to read you a sentence. You try to tell me how it connects to current presidential politics. Okay. Montel Williams, yes, the former tabloid talk show host, tweeted, who is cat turd? You have five seconds to tell me how this connects to Republican criticisms of Kamala Harris.

Cat turd. Donald Trump trothed that he agreed with cat turd that Kamala Harris is stupid. So, I mean, that would make as much sense as whatever. It actually probably makes more sense than I'm about to tell you. So, uh, so Kamala and Montel Williams used to date. We'll get to that in a second. Oh, hell yeah.

Yeah, he has a talk show. He currently hosts a show called Military Makeover, Operation Career on Lifetime, if you want to check that out. So, but before that in the night, she did a, she did Montel in like 2001. Before that, a few years before that, she dated, uh, Willie Brown, who was the mayor of San Francisco in the 90s, okay? This is when Willie was mayor and she was like an assistant DA in Alameda County or something, all right? It was a bit of a May December romance.

I think he was 30 years old on there. Go Willie, whatever his opinions on that are. He was also technically married to have been separated for like 13 years. Yeah. So you do with that information, whatever you want. They openly dated. Republicans should shut their fucking mouth about that. All right.

So he also appointed her to select some like, you know, blue ribbon crime boards or something. something. All right. So that's turned into a narrative where Kamala slept her way to the top by dating a, you know, a guy who was about to retire as mayor of San Francisco for a few months. Right. 30 years ago. All right. So then she was dating Montel in 2001, they attended a red carpet event together where he was with his daughter as well. He was holding his daughter's hand, had his arm around Kamala, but to a racist white person, It looks like he has a couple women with him because, you know, black guys be pimping or something.

Right. So they were going, cat turd was going at Montel about having a stable of hose because he had Kamala and his daughter with him. And his daughter. And his daughter. And so that led to Montel Williams being like who is cat turd. That is, that's very riven. Yeah. So what they've slotted on basically, other than she's a DEI candidate, she's a miserable child.

this cat lady who also has two stepkids and a happy marriage, but also she's a slut who slept away to the top, even though that didn't get her to the top, and she has a weird laugh. Sounds like she should have just primary Donald Trump and won the Republican nomination. Pretty much.

So, yeah. So another one, here's the funniest criticism over today. The RNC put out an Apo memo on her about what to say. And it cited her love of electric buses because she rode to school on a bus.

Yeah. As opposed to being driven to school by our dad's assistant like everyone else. Hey, I love getting screamed at because I played high school football. It makes sense. Yeah. So I'm sure I'll have criticism of Kamala Harris going forward. I just wanted to talk about why people are excited today and why, you know, why the Republican criticisms aren't landing yet and why the shit they're saying so far is stupid. I'm sure they'll eventually get to around some parts of her record.

that are legitimately criticizable, but liking electric buses because you run into school in a bus is not really one I sort of see landing. But anyway, thank you, Corey, for being here with us today.

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