Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 7/25/2023 – DeSantisn’t Lookin Good

Episode Date: July 26, 2023

Ron DeSantis’s hilariously inept campaign is facing a watershed moment as the gap between him and Trump continues to widen. In this episode we point and laugh. Join us. Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it's july 25th 23 i'm trey crowder that's mark aji what's up mark uh not dray i was just uh reading the news today and uh looks like biden's going to get impeached maybe uh over what like james Comer was on TV today trying to explain why and the Fox News host and asked him where the evidence was and it goes like well there's not not evidence right

who's going to get the credit for it is it Marjorie's thing you know because she was fighting with Bobert over that right like and is it even going to be one of them are they all fighting who gets to file the articles or however that works yeah well they try McCarthy was trying to explain the difference between like an impeachment inquiry

committee and actual impeachment like he's trying to like blunt it because it's probably like a pretty big disaster for them, and they sort of recognize it, but there's like inertia among the psychos to do it, to look busy and to look tough. So he's like, they're going to do something, but Biden was asked about his day, and he just sort of laughed because it's like, yeah, this is going to go horribly for them, make them look stupid. And other legal news, that Long Island serial killer got caught a week or two ago, the guy

that they should have caught sooner, but he had killed sex workers, so there were not enough people cared, and also the police chief in that town was embroiled with public a bunch of prostitutes so he didn't he didn't want to anybody talking to a bunch of prostitutes so like the guy was just free for the anyway the guy was an architect turned out he worked for trump a lot so uh there's that uh if he got paid um yeah yeah maybe that's where the rage came from you know not getting paid by trump yeah pay your contract just people yeah that's why um i assume there's going to be a myriad of uh true crime uh docs and podcast episodes and stuff that lay out all the specifics of the horrific detail.

Not that I'll listen to any of them, but my wife will. She'll be all over it. So, uh, I prefer more specific true crime stuff. Like I was telling you guys, I've listened to this, uh, uh, death on the lot, like Dark Underbelly of Hollywood, uh, podcast about like James Dean and, uh, George Reeves and stuff. And it's pretty interesting. But like, as far as just like luxuriating and like regular people getting murdered, it's not really at my bag.

I may neither. I've always thought it was weird too. I had to stand up a bit about it. because like katie's just like you know like a lot of white women she just loves it and i've always thought it was weird because yeah it's not fake like you know false crime i'm all for that you know like a serial killer movie you know like a movie silence of the lamb something like that yeah it is it's super interesting very fascinating i agree but when you're talking about like actual people who got skint or chopped up or whatever yeah weirdly it just kind of bums me

out for the most part. I'd rather not Waller in it. It's also the thing where like it treats serial killers like their geniuses when it's like the easiest kind of murder to get away with because like you there's no connection. There's no connection. There's no motive. Right. Yeah. Right. Anyway, so yeah. Other like Trump related legal news is like rumors who's going to be indicted by the special counsel this weekend in DC on Thursday in DC and like I don't know why people think that, but it's a thing that's floating around out there. But an update on a story we

talked about last week about the fake electors that got around arrested Michigan or charging in Michigan. This woman gave an interview, her name is Michelle Lungren. She's one of the people who is indicted. She says that she was tricked, that she was lured there under false pretenses, and all she did was set her name to a sign-in sheet, and they took her signature and put it on the electric certificate. So I'm not sure if she's trying to Roob's defense,

or she's saying she's willing to flip on whoever did that, because I don't know the prosecutor, the jury might let you off for whatever, but the prosecutor is not going to let you off just because if you don't say who did that then you're you know you're still in fucking trouble right it's pretty funny that like did you not know what club you're in like yeah you're there to argue that trump was the right for one of the election you don't think that these psychos would use you but anyway so it's possible uh trump or some people around in my big i have some legal exposure in michigan as well um speaking of uh these fucking uh right wing psychos uh lebron james son lebron junior

or Nick, they call him Brani. He had, uh, wanted to cardiac arrest in basketball practice yesterday. He's entering as freshman season at USC. And anytime somebody, uh,

especially has a heart problem if they're young, uh, the vac, anti-vax weirdos go crazy on the internet. Yeah. Uh, and it was all over Fox News, blaming the vaccine for him collapsing.

And he's out ICU. Hopefully the kid's going to be okay. He's only like 19. Um, uh, but like, Elon retweeted saying the vaccine causes our problems

but you couldn't rule it out basically. He's doing that, just asking questions, bullshit. But that wasn't really crazy enough for the internet, because the internet went all that on LeBron. This is covered for LeBron James

doing a ritual satanic sacrifice to get in the Illuminati, which LeBron's already in the Illuminati. He's one of the most rich, successful people on the planet. So like, he's not sacrificing his son to get into a more exclusive club.

I thought he was, I thought that he had already, maybe I'm getting him mixed up with somebody else. I thought he had long been thought to be part of the like Illuminati or whatever. Like him, J.Z, Beyonce, you know, and a few other ones, I thought that, you know, he was already on their list of people that was in it. Yeah, but the idea that he would like sacrifice his kid, so they'll let him Aunt LeBron James, as though they wouldn't roll out the, you know, the red carpet for King James, obviously. Yeah, there's no club in the world of LeBron James. can't get into. I don't know. Right.

But I mean, is he going to be able, is his kid going to be able to play again? Or did they, discover some kind of heart thing? Because that type of stuff happens every now and then, and sometimes I feel like it's because they had some kind of heart issue that had not been previously diagnosed. And then that, you know, and then they're done after that, which would be Yeah, I mean, it's, this isn't, this isn't all that in common, which is why even, like, most high schools have, like, defibrillators, you know, in the gyms now on the sidelines or football games because a lot of times no one's looked at a teenager's heart you know but i haven't seen anything about whether they'll play it's way too soon for that so it's possible it's a surgical

corrective thing or maybe it needs medicine or maybe it'll never play again i don't know but um uh hope all kids uh live to adulthood so let's um and uh good news uh update another update from last week uh the teamsters uPS uh drivers uh delivery guys won without having to strike um uh the guys They got a new contract from their bosses, guarantees almost a $3 per hour wage increase this year and a $7.50 per hour increase over the life of the contract. The big issue with them was getting pay out for part-time workers, which they got that up from $16 to $21 per hour. It also makes it harder for them to pay people just as part-time workers when they're working

close to full-time hours. They got also guaranteed health and safety stuff like air conditioning in their trucks, which they had been fighting for. The company had said it was too inefficient, that would be too inefficient to not have their guys pass out from heat stroke in the back of the truck. The teamsters seem, we're declaring victory. It's not to meet away on the specifics,

but they were super excited about this contract. They called it like basically a revolutionary. It was unanimously endorsed by the union's negotiating committee. It's thus to be approved by the, you know, the rank and file later on the month. One way you know it's great, because UPS stock dropped a bunch. So the Wall Street cycles are upset.

set about it so that's but like the media keeps doing it's anti-union fuckery stuff and I'm not one I'm not one who's like going to I work to newspapers and I know there's no top down organizing thing or nobody somebody tells you out of frame something or tells you to do that

it's more of like the way the brain the people that cover this stuff on the brain works and here's a cover story for Politico which is like Politico is one of those news organizations that's the most has the most like centrist brainworms kind of stuff headline quote this is a problem. Biden faces looming strikes that could rock the economy. Yeah, sure. A bad economy would

be bad for Biden. A UPS strike would probably affect the economy, no doubt. But the frame of on this is like wrong. Like all the problems we're facing, like the fact that workers are standing up and fighting is kind of what is exactly what the economy and democracy needs. You're having a bunch of workers vote on whether or not their employment status is acceptable to them. That is what democracy or social democracy looks like. It's good for America. It's good for, you know. sorry go ahead what do you mean it's a having worked in journalism for you mean it's just like it just i don't know it just is more effective and gets more eyeballs or whatever if it's like alarmist or something like it's better to frame things as is as bad generally just across the board

also i have a question like did they uh is the the publication or the editor or whatever change the headlines or come up with the headlines or suggest the headlines or it's the person that writes it like does that you know the person who write the reporter does not write the headline people think that but that's not that's what that's what i thought yeah in the old days it'd be an editor like um you'd be paid you'd be picking the headline based upon the font size you wanted to use and how much space you had to put it in right you want to get the just across but what i'm saying is like when people talk about corporate media like the the CEO's calling down to the desk telling people what to write or what to do right in this instance it's more like the

Washington media covers everything from like a horse race perspective about what politicians it helps and hurts. And this just isn't about that. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like so like I just like I hate the, but like if you want to see worst cases of what I'm talking about where it does look like editorializing, um, Penske Media, which owns all the Hollywood trades and Rolling Stone, also the guy who owns it's a member of this,

uh, the AMPTP, which is the studios negotiating organization. Yeah. They've been doing a lot of weird shit. Like the other day, there was an article with a, anonymous agent saying his big-name actor-clients want to go to the picket lines, but we're asking for hair and make up people beforehand and want to treat like a red carpet.

Now, that guy may or may not exist, but why that's a story is it makes actors look like shit. Right. Yeah. But like there's another one day... You know, I could kind of buy that, you know, like the way some actors could be like,

at least one of them would be like that. I can see it. But also, I mean, you're right, you know, the reason why it's like... a story in the first place or whatever. Yeah. It's not representative. It's not representative of anything. Well, no, because it's like we talked about already before with that, when it comes to

that strike, uh, I can't remember if that was a Patreon episode or regular episode or what, but like they, uh, they, uh, they people, it's already a problem that, like, when people think about these strikes that they think of those people anyway, the A list, like, megastars or whatever, because like, that's a fraction of a percent of like the actual union members and also the stuff that's been. argued over. I mean, the AI shit could affect them, but like, generally speaking, it's not really about those guys. Those people are showing up. It's just out of solidarity or whatever anyway, but, um, yeah. Or do people, people, people think, do what? Or to take cool pictures

like, yeah, right. Like, I don't know, like, it's like, that's like, that's like, that's like, an actor's track and they think of the actors. They know who are these stars or whatever. And like, oh, they got, they got it all. I got it made and all this shit, but that's not, not really appropriate. What I was about to say was, there's an article in the Rolling Stone today because Snoop Dog canceled a couple Hollywood, canceled a couple of Hollywood ball concerts and solidarity with the writers.

And even the headline said, comma, which has nothing to do with any of these strikes. Now, uh, uh, yes, Snoop Dogg is allowed to do concerts during a strike,

even though I assume he's a member of the, uh, screen actors guild because he's acted in a bunch of stuff. But he doesn't want to. And I'm not sure what this person wants. He wants the police to kidnap Snoop Dog and make him rap. I don't know. But like it's sort of,

he's trying to fix. Snoop Dogg's doing something he says out of solidarity. Maybe it's one of the night off. I don't fucking know. But the idea that you're making a new, making a whole article out of the Rolling Stone is like kind of ridiculous to me. But they have another small, small update on the WGA strike.

My wife has decided to save money by trying to cut her own hair. So if that doesn't go well, she's going to pull a full Ron Perlman and burn people's houses down. So she ain't done it yet. She's not done it yet? No, no. She's watching a bunch of YouTube. She's watching a bunch of YouTube tutorials first rate.

Yeah, this is going to go. Well, that's what that's the first step. You're going to do any kind of DIY thing as you go to YouTube. And I'm not being sarcastic either. You can fucking find, you found how to do anything on YouTube up to an including cut in your own hair. Yeah. But as far as like, I found that's interesting today. Hakeem Jeffries, you know, the minority leader of the, the leader of the Democrats in the house, came out today and said he announced the Democrats,

wage, which would gradually lift the minimum wage to $17. by 2028 so it sort of to me it was a sign to where the wind's blowing as far as labor and stuff's going now I don't have any specific brief about what the number should be about how fast you raise and understand small business people would you know say they would struggle with a minimum wage jump from 725 to 17 although in a lot of states it's like 11 12 13 already a lot of cities have $15 minimum wages but it more is better even if it's not that high but I thought a centrist democratic leader saying that was a big deal to me because Bernie was basically called a communist for wanting it to be 15, three years ago.

Right. And this isn't my joke. This is a joke I saw the other day. But in the last 20 years, we've had two minimum wage increases in three Willy Wonka movies. So I think we can raise it a little bit. That's good. All right. Continuing on with us is always his producer, Matt.

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All right, that's for the show tonight. It's misstep after misstep for the DeSantis campaign. It seems that things are looking more dire by the day as he's getting flat out smoked by Donald Trump and all the latest polls. So what does that mean? What kind of actions are they going to take? Is any of it going to matter?

We'll talk about it all a little later. but first, the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D. The people with six figures in journalism school debt who thought they'd be doing something besides this. Hit it, Matt. Speaking out against the movie of the summer.

What woke messaging is bar behind and find out tomorrow on Jesse Waters' prime time. All right. So you might have heard this is a barque. movie out. Yeah, I did hear that somewhere. You might all, I've also heard it's super woke, although no one can really say why, and the right-wing psychos sort of like disagree about why it is, and we'll get in it a little bit.

Some of them actually think it's a conservative message movie. Some people say it's actually deeply conservative because it's about family and like traditional gender role. I don't know. I haven't seen it. Not sure I will until at least I hit streaming. My wife wants to watch it. But like, it is just interesting to me that like how pop culture obsessed.

like right wing psychos in this country are because like i was just trying to imagine like joe biden commenting on a movie out right now like what if biden gave a speech about the barbie movie like that would be generally like just it would it would yeah why is he talking about this but they you know i i don't i haven't seen it either and i haven't like kept up with all their outrage but i've seen bits and pieces of their outrage about it and i know that it's like you know obviously there's all these different barbies and it's a very diverse array of Barbies and one of them's trans and one of them's black and one of them's this and all this other stuff but it's like that ain't like Barbie's always done all that right

like you know what I mean like Barbie's the whole the toy line has always had every type of Barbie you could want including like ethnic background and you know really probably get Catholic Barbie Jewish Barber I don't know but like you you know it's always been part of the deal and also that it's like you know it's misogyn or no it's misandrist they say You know, like, it hates men, or it's a man-hating movie, which I assume it's got some, like, feminist, whatever themes in it. And it's like, it's a fucking Barbie movie. I didn't, I don't know what you're, you're going to get, like, out, you're going to get irate over, like, a girl power message in a Barbie movie. Like, what did you think was going to happen?

Like, why are you even watching it in the first place? Like, it's just, I know Ben Shapiro got all upset about it. He, like, you know, put an hour-long video out talking about how it was, you know, the death of America through wokeness or whatever. So, but yeah, you're right. It's all just so ridiculous and absurd. He did, he did like a 43-minute YouTube review of Barbie. The movie itself is two hours. Yeah.

He promoted that video by throwing a bunch of Barbies in a trash can pouring lighter fluid on them and setting them on fire. Now, to be fair to him, which I hate doing, it was obviously an over-the-top joke and he knew it was. that. Like, why you're putting children's toys in a garbage can and burning them and everyone else to, and you're the normal one. Right. It's like, but like Ted Cruz has like made this his latest cause. Like he's been on like 20 different cable shows talking about this.

Cruz does this shit all the time. And if you remember, he like went on the floor of the house and read green eggs and ham. He's gone to war with Big Bird, like literally. This is a guy who originally made his name before he ran for Senate when he was Texas's Solicitor General. arguing from the Supreme Court that there's no constitutional right to jerk off. Just a fucking deeply weird dude.

That's when Texas was trying to make sex toys illegal. He's trying to say, yeah, there's no right to jerk off. Which, like, do you know how much the landslide you'd lose if that was like your main campaign is? Yeah, don't come after jerking off, bro. What are you thinking? Yeah. But Cruz is like, he's all over the place on it.

But there is sort of an international incident here. because there's a map on the screen in Barbie for like two seconds that is sort of of Asia but not it's like drawing cartoonishly and there's like a dotted line in the middle of the ocean which there's a Asian geopolitics are crazy like there's like something called the nine dash line which China claims like basically all control of all the South Pacific or the South China Sea which Vietnam also claims control of and so does like some other countries so like there was a lot there was a dotted line in the middle there so

Vietnam, like, Ted Cruz's take on that was this is caltowing to China. This shows Hollywood bowing to China, which is stupid because it's a cartoon map no one thought about. Like, I, there's never, I've never been a part of a production that would put that much thought into a Barbie map. But like, but Vietnam banned the movie for the same reason. So I just want to point out that Ted Cruz is an absolute agreement with some communists. All right.

So a lot of the times the stuff that they, that movie, that they'll take out of movies and stuff to air in China is like the same type of shit that they get mad about here for being woke meaning like if there's a gay kiss or something in it, you know what I mean? Something like that or an interracial kiss or something that China, China don't like that so they'll take that out to put it in its exact same type of shit

that they bitch about here too. Yeah, I mean, Hollywood is actually bowing less to China than it used to, but yeah, there's market reasons why they do that. So like, China, I think what he lits in like 32 American movies a year, so it's fierce competition. to see what they let show in their theaters. So, yeah, if you can get a leg up by, like, say, Top Gun, Mavert, not having the bad guy be China and have it be some fictional made-up country, then it's free money.

I think Top Gun Maverick didn't get let in China anyway. But like, so the 2012 version of Red Dawn, they made the bad guy in North Korea. So you had North Korea invading America instead of China because they wanted to have access to that market. But they do just like that all the time. It does exist, but there's less of it than it used to be. and why get mad at them over this for a Barbie movie? But like, let me quote here from a guy, this is Dan Dresner,

professor of international politics at Tufts University. In case you think it's just me, the thinks Ted Cruz is stupid. The cartoonish image from the film of the nonsense map, there are squiggles and arrows and hashtags and dotted lines all over the damn place. To the extent that the map is supposed to depict the Pacific Rim, the data line is nowhere close

to where the actual nine dash line has. Also, there aren't nine dashes in it. It's like seven and a half. But like, they just want to be mad at it. And like, because of the, the strike, no one's allowed to do red carpets and stuff. So like the Barbie premiere, I guess because of his wife's connections or whatever, Matt Gates was at the premiere. If you have this picture of him at the red carpet, Matt, throw it up there. So Matt Gates was invited to the Barbie

premier, was one of the most famous people there. And then when they came out, his wife urged people to boycott it. After that, while walking out of the theater where they saw it at, sorry, I know I should know this, but you said his wife's connections. What are they? He mirrored into a rich family from Southern California. I forget what a family actually does. But, like, I don't know why Warner Brothers, is Barbie Warner Brothers? I think it is.

Why they would invite Matt Gates? I have no idea. Who fucking knows. But, like, yeah. But sure, her complaint was that Ken's testosterone is disappointingly low. Of course, Ken's testosterone is low. He literally has no balls. Right.

That's what I'm saying. Like, they thought, what, they thought, like, Ken would be telling Barbie to get back in the kitchen or something in this movie, that Ken would. Ken was going to be like an alpha male running the show in the Barbie movie or whatever. Like, I But I think he kind of does. I think the plot of the movie is

Barbie universe is matriarchal and they go out in the real world and discover it's like men are in charge and Ken gets inspired and goes back and tries to put men in charge of Barbie. That's my loser. I haven't seen it. I don't fucking know. Maybe I'm wrong. But like people went and counted how many times I said the word patriarchy in the movie, which is a really fun way to

enjoy movies, take a notebook and make a tally. we're trying to see the repair charkey. I think it was 10. But like, Pierce, Pierce Morgan, you know, the fucking guy's like a bull ham.

British bloodhards. Yeah. Yeah. He wrote this story in a British tabloid. If I made a movie that treated women the way Barbie treats men, feminists would want me executed. I got bad news, Pierce. Feminists would like to see you executed anyway.

This, like, I don't understand. Like, isn't there real shit? shit to talk about. At least they're not going after trans people with the real estate they're using to do this. But of course, like you said, there is a trans actress in the movie playing

one of the versions of Barbie. But Pierce says there's a this is a Barbie land with a myriad of other Barbies who took every possible woke virtue signaling box. Barbie's also, that's what Dr. Barbie and shit was about. I know. I don't fucking know. That's what I'm saying. Yeah.

Like that was always a big part of the Barbie thing, I thought, was supposed to be like, you know, that, Barbie's an astronaut, you know, all this stuff. Like, little girls can be astronauts. You know what I'm saying? Like, that type of shit has always been like integral to Barbie's whole thing, I feel like, which is why I just don't know where any of them get off being surprised. And if you're a man who gets like genuinely offended by like any form of entertainment,

like ripping on men comedically, then. you suck. I'm like, just, dude, just take it. Don't be such a, you know,

don't be such a bitch about it. Yeah. It won't surprise you that like, this isn't catching on, like this headline right here, the right wing backlash against Barbie is hilarously flopping because there's like no there. Like, it's just like,

but they're, because these guys are only talking to each other, like we're going to talk about like internet psychos running around to Sanchez's campaign a little bit and a bit, but like, their takes are kind of inscrutable to the outside world. Let me tell you what I'm talking about. Like, there was a meme in, like, right-wing, like, anti-feminists in-cell Internet last week or a couple weeks ago where somebody had made a video or a post with a picture of Margot Robbie without makeup.

I said that. I have to be honest, Margo Robbie is at best mid. Now, if you're not familiar with internet slang, mid means like medium or like five. Yeah, mediocre. Yes. Margo Robbie without my. Absolutely absurd, dude. I would love to see the dude who made that original poster meme, too.

You know what I mean? I'd love to see what that guy looks like. Just like a 25-year-old Ted Cruz in his fucking basement or whatever in his underwear. It's talking about how Marco Robbie is mid. Yeah, loudly announcing he will not fuck Margo Robbie. Right. Yeah. Oh, my God, you cleared that up.

So, but this is so deeply ingrained, like, their understanding of the world. But, like, Matt Gates, a couple weeks ago, gave a speech at a turn. turning point conference in the middle of it after say truth is truth morgo rabi is not mid and the whole crowd busted up laughing which i have to say i i try to comment on women's appearances in public especially as a married man but matt gates is absolutely right about one thing margar rabbi is not mid yeah and all these people for hands but right good point uh and some other movie news a brief update and a thing uh a thing we did a bonus episode about recently. We did a whole episode about the

Sound of Freedom, Q-Anon adjacent movie starring Q-Syko Jim Koviesel about a cartoonish fight against child sex traffickers depicting things that absolutely did not happen and the way that sex trafficking works which is absolutely not real.

These people have gas lit themselves in pretty hilarious ways. We talked about how the box office numbers are super high and a lot of people are seeing this movie but also the box office numbers are juiced because one thing people are doing is doing like you know when you pay it forward like at a draft roof all right they've don't block ticket buys so other people can see the movie for free which as far as I can tell

most of the people taking up those free tickets are like left wing ship posters who want to go ironically right it's like the movie literally ends with like a QR code or something where it's like you can buy tickets so people can see this super important movie so a lot of the like wing nuts the hardcore wing nuts are doing that but then but like people aren't going to see it or whatever right so then when you one person bought whatever 50 tickets to it and that happens you know all the time so when they when people do go see it they'll be in a theater all alone and they'll take a video of it and post it like they really do not want people to see this movie it's like you did that to yourself right yeah you did that to yourself there's also like a bunch

of AMCs and have air conditioning and projector fails like air conditioning probably failing because it's like the hottest summer world history um but like projectors just fails sometimes because theaters don't pay for projectionists anymore, really. But they're saying that's part of the conspiracy that AMC makes money off ticket sales, does not want to sell tickets, which has triggered another conspiracy theory where do you remember the GameStop shit with Reddit people playing? Okay. So AMC also became a meme stock during the pandemic when short sellers are trying to put out of business.

So a bunch of internet people tried to valiantly save AMC by inflating the stock price. they're still holding the stock. So those idiots think that the empty seats and the conspiracy theories are conspiracy theory against them by short sellers. And I don't know, the deep state to crush AMC stock. So it's two conspiracy theories at war with each other. The shit drives me insane. Anyway, back to the real world, sort of. The movie's about Tim Ballard and valorizes him as some like action hero type dude, even though he's not that.

for brief reminder he runs a group called Operation Underground Railroad which stages you know sort of like Navy SEAL raids on places kids are ostensily being held but like sort of a lot of that doesn't I don't want to go back through the whole episode we did but a lot of that's sort of fake and stage but he has been forced out of Operation Underground Railroad whether this movie making it out to be a hero is still in theaters because there were essentially HR complaints lodged against him by an employee who he traveled

overseas with and then read between the lines I guess allegedly hit on or tried to have sex with and while she was like you know not in her home country in a way so what I'm saying is is he sex trafficked an employee right yeah and Q and on still looking for the guy who did this yeah all right yeah uh things are silly out here sillier every day it would same but everybody's cool with Oppenheimer right except for uh might be the all the people who killed the Japanese yeah yeah

yeah to be fair to Oppenheimer like his whole take was like the science is going this way it's going to get invented we should be the ones in control of it yeah I felt like that was I mean that you know somebody who used to work in Oak Ridge where after that happened we heard that type of shit all the time and it was always presented as yeah like the scientists

involved it's not that they just had a hard on for you know blowing up cities you know they were like it's just this is going to happen and it needs to be our side that does it. Anyway, let's talk about Ron DeSantis, I suppose. All right. So a lot has been going on in DeSantis world this week in the last week or two. Basically, his campaign is failing,

but he's still pressing harder into his psychotic governing style. So it's more like how fast is he going to lose and how many people is, how many people's lives is he's going to, like, destroy or end in the pursuit of, like, power. Because he thinks he needs to look like more of a psycho to win a Republican primary, which I'm not quite sure. sure that's exactly an accurate take, but it seems to be his. So I want to talk about some more damage he's done recently and the state of his campaign. Here are some polls from Fox News on Sunday.

Fox News, by the way, has been trying to make DeSantis happen. There's no reason to believe these polls are skewed in anyone's favor but DeSantis is. So he looked at Iowa and South Carolina, and both he's behind Trump by more than 30 points. In Iowa, he's in second, but only five points ahead of 10. Scott and only like eight ahead of like Vivek Ramoswami. In South Carolina, he's in third place. Nikki Haley has 14 points to his 13. And Tim Scott is also from South Carolina, and just like Nikki Haley is at 10.

So I wouldn't be surprised if DeSantis finished his fourth or fifth there because I think Vos Ramoswami is at eight. So basically, he should quit and go home. Right. Clearly. How much of that do you think just to, you know, prognosticating a bit here or speculating rather, like, we've talked about this before with like Trump and DeSantis. it's like on the one hand I think this is all hilarious because I hate Ron DeSantis and this is very funny to me and I'm you got shot and Freud watching him you know crash and burning all that but on the other hand Trump is up by 30 points now it's the Republican primary we're talking about it's not like it's the general election or whatever but like how much of it do you think is like if desantis is absolutely fumbling the shit out of this thing like for sure and how much of it is do you think about him versus Trump like if he was if he was like competent

or whatever, if he was what they had hoped he would be, you know, would it be any different? Or is the Trump, you know, cult still just that strong? Like, how do you parse out the takeaway from the whole thing? It's interesting to me because he kind of has a case of Democrat brain where, like, what I mean by that is, like, he thinks political reality is what it is and he can't change it. Like, if he was actually running against Trump, like, it might be different. Like, he might, like, if he actually tried to change people's minds. but instead he's like he's like his soft criticism of Trump like I believe in everything Trump did I just want to do it slightly more effectively it's like that's not really

that's not going to do it but but like I'm glad he's losing because I think he fucking sucks I just yeah me too it's like I don't like I don't like you know arguing over hypotheticals about like you know who would do better than general the the polling I've seen says DeSantis would do better against Biden in a general election but of course national audience doesn't really know DeSantis like that yet so I don't really know if that's fair but anyway DeSantis does know that things aren't going badly

like just today or last night he let go of more than a third of his campaign staff part of that's because he's running out of money and part of that's because they fucking suck but let's start with the running out of money part stuff one the reporter posted this earlier one GOP operative snipes to me

quote DeSantis has fired 40 plus people because he and the first lady refused to fly Delta or American to Des Moines in Manchester they're using private jets to John all around the country, which isn't normal for a presidential candidate. Most of them do fly commercial. So it is a money thing. Like, that makes it sound like it's a money thing.

Like, he's, yeah, if he would fly a commercial, he could afford to keep these people, but he's firing them because he's running out of money. And he wouldn't presumably be running out of money if he was doing, you know, better. Yeah, he's also refused to do a lot of, like, you did an interview with Jake Tapper last week, which is like free media with a wider audience, but instead he's been trying to do smaller, like, like he did his campaign launch announcement. on Twitter. Remember we made fun of it? It's just like galaxy brain

shit where if he knew how to talk to a regular person, he would know it wouldn't work. But like instead of doing anything to talk to regular people, which he absolutely hates doing, they're spending like $300,000 of campaign funds per night and like renting ballrooms and having big fancy parties to like woo donors who also don't like him. But like if

he was any good at wooing, he would have a single congressional endorsement, which he does not yet. Not one of the over 200 psycho Republicans in the House have endorsement or endorsed him or the 49 senators or 50 senators or whatever it is. Everybody hates this motherfucker. And when I say everybody hates him and includes his employees. Here's a track record of his staffing woes. When he was in the House, he had one of the highest turnover rates in Congress. No one, no senior aide from his 2018 race still works for him. He's fired so many staffers as a governor that some have formed a support group

put the get together and talk shit about him, all right? Sounds like some snowflakes to me, but whatever. It does. Yeah, I mean, just like go to the bar and bitch like most of us do. You know what I mean? Like complaining about your boss or your ex-boss or whatever. You don't have to like formalize it in that way, but maybe they're just not starred by working for that. Yeah, there's old Drew Carey.

You used to have a stand-up bit where it's like, oh, you hate your job. There's a support group for that. It's called everybody. We meet at the bar. Yeah, right. but in the santa's defense for firing people like they do fucking suck the problem is that he's the one that hired them um like remember the video we talked about we talked about p booted his response to it because we couldn't show the video because it got deleted about that homoerotic homophobic video yeah it uh turns out that wasn't just something someone the internet made and they reposted it he uh that was made in-house

all right his staff made that they thought it was a good idea and they tried to water it through an outside Twitter account to make it go viral. It did go viral, but not in the way he anticipated. Right. To briefly remind everybody, it was basically like it, like, ripped on Donald Trump for, like, being humane about gay people or trans people or whatever for much it showed, like, Donald Trump being like, yeah, I'll, you know, I'll treat gay people equally. And it was presented as like, can you believe he said this?

He's gone, whoa, the Santis will crush the gays. I mean, it didn't literally say that, but that's pretty much the gist of the whole thing. and it was all intercut with like oiled up gladiators and all this time more erotic shit. It was really weird. And Patrick Bateman and Achilles from the movie Troy. It was very weird. But anyway, so he made his campaign, and I'll skip ahead to the reveal here because we're running out of time. This was also made in-house, it turns out.

They made another really weird video that went viral this week that they tried to delete off the internet because everyone fucking hated it so much. We have to play it without the music. We'll just play a little bit of it. Yeah, no sound. We'll tell you why. It's another video about how Trump's too nice and failed to be mean to the right people. It's got a famous internet meme as the main character and it's set of face right there. That's basically a cartoon selfie of an in-cell, for lack of a better way to put it.

It just shows DeSantis, like, hanging out opening doors and looking at newspaper clippings. And, like, it's set to Kate Bush's running up that hill, which is besides the fact that it's a really weird song, popular song because it was on Stranger Things when it came out in the 80s. Correct. The song is a men and women swapping genders. Not the context of trans.

Do you say that's what it's about? Yeah. I had no idea what that song was about. I just know the chorus. Right. It's called Running Up That Hill, A Deal with God. It's basically a song about how men and women would understand each other better if we could switch genders for a little bit.

Okay. That's sort of the gist of what the theme is. But anyway, it ends with this image. If you can skip to that image, Matt. See that right there? Yeah. It's not fascist at all. I mean, it's not just look fascist. It is fascist. That's a sodden rod. Like a swastika is a form of son and rod. And the, it's a, it's a number of ancient European symbols appropriate by Nazis and their attempt to invent an idealized, you know, Aryan Norse heritage. I'm reading the definition from like an anti-deformation league, which is a Jewish.

group. The Buffalo mass shooter from last year used a son-in-rod as the header of his manifesto. And a kid working on DeSantis's campaign, who's a well-known kid in right-wing activist circles, put that DeSantis's head in the middle of Asanra in their video.

Also, he also sort of hacked this video. I mean, by hacking him, I mean, stole it. Paul Goser made an an identical video a couple years ago. They just changed the music from MGMT to Cape Push. and Gosar picks to DeSantis picks. So they're not even original in their Nazi shit. And don't steal stuff from Paul Gosar.

He's a well-known fucking Nazi. The kid who made it, his name's Nate Hodgman. He was a speechwriter for DeSantis. He used to write for National Review, which is a mainstream conservative publication, as far as those things exist. Yeah. This guy was a fast-rising star in their world.

He was like the media-friendly face. based the new right. He had big time fellowships. He also was a subject of a profile in New York Times in his early 20s. And he just blew it all in the past few months by first praising Nick Fuentes, who's a Nazi, and then this Nazi meme. But also, the DeSantis campaign fired someone just for doing free speech. Do they have the woke mind virus? Right. Yeah. It's supposed to be allowed to express himself here, especially with a free speech warrior like DeSantis at the helm, you would think. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure that guy probably, you were like, oh, he threw all this away by getting all Nazi-ish with everything. And it's like, I'm sure he was just, you know, he thought he was just playing the hits. You know what I mean? He's probably absolutely stunned and blindsided by that outcome. He's like, no, this is, I was just giving the people what they want. If I wanted to be super charitable, terrible to Hatchman, I don't really want to, but let me be his defense lawyer here for a second. I would say that like, he might not have known it was Nazi imagery, but the corners of the internet, he spends, all of his time in, have this kind of stuff

posted in it a lot, and he just think this looks cool without knowing the background of it, but also he's really smart. But also it looks cool and like what, but as soon as you brought it, I didn't know that that was literally Nazi imagery, but as soon as you brought it up, I was like, well, that's not fascist at all. It's like, even if he didn't know that, it looks like, like, it looks like something from one of the

propaganda videos on Starship Troopers or something like that. Like, you know, forgetting that it's like not made up, it's a real thing, but it's like almost cartoonishly fascist looking. and so he at least knew that it's like that's at least the aesthetic they're going for even if it wasn't even if he somehow didn't know this is literally Nazi stuff it's also like the uh he should have known like because the same people all over the internet saying that the democrats like democrats should let Russia win because the the the militias and battalions were arming in Ukraine are Nazis and their evidence for the like the azal battalion being Nazis are that they have son and rods on their on some of their uniform patches. So, like, either they don't believe their own evidence,

or they forgot it. So I don't fucking know. But anyway, the fix for, to get his campaign back on track, and here's their pitch to campaign donors, is that Ron DeSantis has been too restrained so far. So they're going to let Ron be Ron. Oh, I think that is the very last thing that they should do. And what little I've seen and learned of Ron DeSantis,

is Ron should be way less Ron than he's being right now. That's what I was going to jokingly say. You're like, here's the fix for his campaign. I was going to be like, is it for him to quit and just be replaced with a whole different human being and try to just start over and try something else? Because this ain't working. Like, he should be so much less Ron. He should just be an entirely different person and see if that works out for it.

Yeah, he should be Don or. Yeah, if he was Don, let Ron be Don. Don. Don Rosentis, put her a fake mustache and, yeah, he was reboot. Which is like, let Ron be wrong. He's a pretty assertive guy. He thinks doing battle with the media makes him look good. To me, it looks petulant because he's often asked reasonable questions.

Like, one of those reasonable questions recently was, why is your new education platform saying that slavery was good, actually? Seems like a reasonable question. If you're that platform is doing that, which would it is? So we talked about this a little bit, I think, on the bonus episode. So a state board appointed by DeSantis has changed some of their educational standards for history teaching, and they want to emphasize that a lot of enslaved people learn skills, they were beneficial to them later in life.

Now, it's hard. We only have 16 minutes left time. I don't want to spend all of them explaining why this is bullshit. One, whether or not you learn something, yeah, does it, not the point. Also, you're talking about a very narrow window of enslaved people who got to both start their life in chains and then become free.

You're ignoring a 400 years before that of people that died in chains. What kind of, like, what also could be the, what could be the rationale for emphasizing that that be taught to people outside of downplaying the horrors of slavery or trying to like, you know, a swad some of the white guilt or something by being like, what actually wasn't so bad? Like, what other rationale could there possibly be for requiring that teachers emphasize, hey, listen, some of this stuff they picked up pretty. useful stuff, all right? And they wouldn't have done that if it hadn't been for our pap balls. I'll continue the theme of this episode of me playing defense lawyer for some of the word

for people I very much dislike. You could say that like you're downplaying black people's agency and making them sound out to be bigger victims than they are and that they do. Some people did make them. But it's like it's still based upon like people kind of their mental image of slavery and the experience of it is very weird to me.

like they can't even, like they don't even bother. They learn so little about it. Like a lot of, a lot of enslaved people were skilled trapsmen. A lot of them were skilled craftsmen before they were enslaved, which is why they wanted to enslave them because they knew how to do cool shit. They were like master ironworkers and stuff. Like in the lowlands of South Carolina,

they didn't know how to grow rice. They literally kidnapped people from the rice growing readings of Africa to just fucking make them to grow rice because they couldn't, because they didn't know how to do it. So yes, they did have skills. You're the ones who assume when they're just like, but like people were like skilled carpenters and shit who were like loaned out like like home depot rents out drills but like that doesn't mean that they enjoyed slavery right exactly yeah

they weren't in fields it's like it's like but like when you defend this shit like here let's watch this video jesse waters trying to defend it and you'll see how stupid you sound when even you talk about it like this yeah this is great uh well my great swimming out the right word but yeah No one is arguing slaves benefited from slavery. No one is saying that. It's not true. They're teaching how black people developed skills during slavery in some instances that could be applied for their own personal benefit. No one is arguing slaves benefited from.

No one is arguing this. Let me go ahead and argue it real quick. Right. Right. Right. Back to back, like with no self-awareness at all. it's so funny so like

you could just if you were to say it's you could be like there's a couple people on a board I appointed the language is worded poorly we're to fix it and move on from it

you could easily just do that right that's what a sane person would do and if you're Fox News you could not make a big deal out of it but they seem to think they have something here to the point where like Greg Gutfeld was on like the five yesterday on Fox

and said he's talked talking about how like a lot of Jews survived the Holocaust because they were useful and like are you saying work makes you free bro yeah like what are you fucking saying it's like yes they a lot of Nazis did keep a lot of Jewish people alive to use a slave labor it doesn't mean it's good to know how to be a slave it's also like it's like there's also another interpretation of that I feel like that it's like so to all you lazy poor people out there let that be a lesson to you all right we might kill you one day okay

But if you make yourself useful to the powers it be, then, you know, perhaps we'll let you live. Yeah. So the board that did this tried to defend themselves, and they put a list of people who, quote, benefited from things they learned from slavery. They basically found a bunch of people that, black people who are blacksmiths, sort of. But like, the list they made, the list they handed over was people named Ned Cobb, Henry Blair, John Henry, who's a literal fictional person, and Lewis Latimer. none of them were enslaved again one of them is a made-up person john henry may or may not have existed but everything we know about his life is fake he did not you did not beat a steam machine in a steel driving yeah yeah he did not that never happened anyway also with the list they turned over had a white lady on it i don't fucking know um one lady who's on this board um she happens to be a black woman she's a state rep named kimberley daniels if you want to if you want to hear how she thinks about it here's a quote from a sermon she gave a few years back, quote, I thank God for slavery. I thank God for the crack house. If it weren't for the crack house, God wouldn't have never been able to use me how it could use me now. If it wasn't

for slavery, I might be somewhere in Africa worshipping a tree. Now, I understand the language of like, God doesn't give you more than you can handle. We all, I grew up with it. But thanking God for a crack house is weird. And also, like, I'm not, like, I understand that she thinks God has dominion over everything and probably that like she would exist in every universe but I have to assume if your ancestors have been left in place in Africa whole different generations of people to marry each other and you specifically Kimberly would not fucking exist right it's all it's funny to me to imagine God been up there like I knew that crack house is going to pay off I knew that was a good call and patting himself on the back I'm gonna put more kids in

crack houses yeah I'm gonna be pro crack house and be against Joe Biden letting all the fentanyl across the border. I don't understand these people. Again, just to update, we talked about Florida teacher shortage in this type dynamic before. It's gotten worse lately, and they have the quote, unquote, this is a news article from last month, the worst teacher shortage in history. And by the way, I saw an interesting article today full of polling when schools have become battlegrounds. We talked about it a lot, but the people mad aren't parents. People that think that schools suck are people that don't have kids in school. schools. People that have kids in schools

generally say things are fine. So it's people are mad about hypothetical kids being taught super woke shit. And on the other side, you have parents who are like, no, it's fine. They learn like math and color and stuff. So like, oh, God. So that's, so one thing

Ronda Sances has done is his pursuit of, his vain pursuit of the presidency. I mean vain in both senses the word is he's destroying Florida schools, not just new college in public schools, but he's done a bunch of other fucked up shit. But we have some math this week about what his flip-flop on vaccines cause. Because remember, Ron DeSantis originally did lock down Florida and was pro-vaccine until he turned against him because he thought that was the coolest had to be on to make some

space in the primary between him and Trump. So with less than 7% of the nation's population, Florida accounted for 14% of deaths between the end, start of July and 2021 and the end of October. I remember in Florida, the high vaccination rate's more important because they're older, like they're the second oldest state in the country, basically. But by the end of July, Florida had vaccinated only about 60% of adults, which is shy of an average national average. Had it reached a vaccination rate of 74%, the average for five to England states at the time,

it could have prevented more than 16,000 deaths and more than 61,000 hospitalizations that summer. So Ron DeSantis, let's just say he killed 16,000 extra people and put 61,000 in the hospital. That's according to a medical journal called The Lancet. we've talked about what he's doing the economy of Florida, not just going to war with the state's biggest employer

in Disney, but also he announced this week he's going to take Bud Light the court under the premise that the shareholder value they lost because the backlash to the Dylan Mullaney video is, you know, but Light's fault and not his fault

and that Florida's pensions funds were invested in Anheiser-Bush. But my thing is If you know your state workers pension funds are invested in a company, maybe don't actively drive their stock price down with your hairbrain bullshit. We've brought up before Florida's workers' shortage because of his, you know, fascistic immigration policies where everyone saw all the migrant workers leaving for Georgia. I saw this article. This guy named Rick Roth, who owns a sugar plantation and is also a state legislator was speaking in a Hispanic ministers conference a couple weeks ago.

and he said, farmers are mad as hell about this, apparently not realizing that he voted for it, not in understanding what it would do. But it's not just Florida's immigrant workforce is disappearing. The state workforce is decimated. We're not just teachers, but as October of last year,

28 of 29 state agencies as percentages of vacant positions in the double digits. The Department of Education, Department of State, the agency for persons with disabilities, and the Department of Elder Affairs, probably pretty important in Florida. He said about one in four jobs are open.

The Department of Veterans Affairs was hollowed with 39% of positions empty. All those are older veterans. Like Florida is basically the land of old veterans. And he destroyed the fucking state government. It's not just his campaign and people that have support group meetings when they quit his working for him directly.

Nobody wants to work for the Florida state government out of this motherfucker. And the state's still going to be there when he's term limited out or whatever or leaves to be Donald Trump's secretary for the Department of Weird Berberts. Well, maybe. I don't know. It might sink before then or, you know, flooded or made much smaller since, you know, things are ever worsening on the climate front and whatnot. But either way, not good what he's doing down there.

Matt, if you want to find some comments and stuff, throw them up there. If you got some for us. Briefly do this one last because it's not just retired veterans at the Sanchez is fucking whose lives he's ruining. So he reopened like the state guard, which is like a state military unit that reports directly to the governor saying that the Biden administration wasn't responding to Florida hurricanes and stuff faster. So a bunch of people signed up. They thought they were signing up for like a FEMA like workforce or they're going to like, you know, work khakis and blue polos and hand out water and help people get their power back on. But he made them march around and started doing drills and trained with weapons to like crack heads and shit during civil unrest. So a bunch of them tried to quit.

This Marine veteran complained about leadership and tried to leave. And they kidnapped him, put a black bag over his head and put him in a van. So he couldn't tell people about it. He is currently as kidnapping charges filed against leaders of this thing. These are people who wanted to help their neighbors. And Rhonda Sanchez tried to turn them into, again, the infantryman from Starship Troopers. So, yeah, fuck this guy. Fuck this guy.

Well, at least he's getting whipped up on. Aaron Streeter says hit like because Matt's the goat. I mean, yeah, I see what you guys are doing. Playing in the Matt's sensibilities here are trying to play him like a, play him like a fiddle. And it's working, doing great. Yes, hit the like button, please, like, share, subscribe, all that good internet stuff. Thank you for reminding me. I always forget.

And Severn Williamson says DeSantis is a disaster from Florida. He would be a nightmare for our country. Indeed, but again, looking less likely that we're going to have to worry about it right now. Not to count any chickens, but, uh, weird, I just said the word chickens. And Jim Gray says, the chickens of owning the libs have come home to roost. Look all these chicken metaphors and idioms thrown out there at the same time.

How about that? I never thought about how many chicken metaphors there are? Yeah, people like chicken metaphors. Carcy says, wait until Americans see the inflated prices of fresh produce because of Desantis's laws driving out workers. Yeah,

I don't know that I trust them to put it together. Yeah, I was about to say, I don't know that I'll trust them to put it together that that's what happened. but Amy Nagel says smart Mark can you please explain what the Illuminati is you would be able to explain Mark I find that interesting it's a cartoonish conspiracy theory about the small group of people that secretly controls the world you know not the real group of people who secretly controls the world which is just like 25 billionaires about like the ones who put the the eye on the

dollar bill where if you fold it it makes a pyramid or whatever it isn't There's some kind of diamond thing. I remember this is why they're saying Jay-Z was part of the Illuminati is because they decide he does this like a symbol of his concerts and they said that's an Illuminati symbol or something like that. I don't know. I'm sure the Illuminati, the Illuminati absolutely predate.

I mean, did the Illuminati is a super old conspiracy theory. But like way before Q&N even became a thing, I had some friends who were like hearing stuff about the Illuminati and whatnot. But I imagine they've gotten wrapped up into the Q&N situation, I would assume. It's one of those like pre-Nononon. like like you're talking about protocols the elders of Zion level is this is old classic classic old shit one of the one of the damn brown's book you know the

da Vinci code and all those books one of those books is about the Illuminati uh came like the the first the DaVinci coach is about free masons and another one's about the aluminat about all that type of old school conspiracy theory type shit I like those people inventing like a secret group of weirdos that control the world when the hapsburgs are right there with the I know right it's like you don't need a secret I mean, yeah, it's what you said. It's like, we can, like, see the people that are controlling the, you know, the world. And they're not all Jews either.

They just, they just had a billionaires conference in Sun Valley, Idaho or whatever. Was it Sun Valley, Utah, I forget what. Sun Valley. But, like, there's like a thousand private jets parked in, like, a square mile where they're all meeting to plan what to do next. It's like, that's in the fucking newspaper. I'm not going to tell you. It's like, they're not an underground layer. Alan Speed says

DeSantis is this election cycle Scott Walker He will crash and burn soon Sounds like he's doing it right now I don't remember I mean I'm sure there are cases I can't I could think of I know like

A lot of American politicians were shit heads Two specific groups You're George Wallace's You're whatever You longs to a certain degree Like But I don't remember like

There being a class of politicians Where this actively malevolent In every direction Like DeSantis Gates Teachers Teachers doctors Right everybody but cops he's torturing his own state troops i know that's what i'm saying i've been

like that's what i've been marveling over for a while now is like i don't get how this is supposed to be an efficacious long-term strategy like continuously alienating more and more demographics of people all the time like how is that supposed to work as a politician used to they fucked over you know like disadvantaged people and then tried to act like they weren't doing it, you know, publicly or whatever. Like, no, all Americans are, you know, like that type of shit. But now they just, they just say, fuck everybody, except for this very, very narrowly defined cohort that's like there are people.

And I just don't think that's enough to keep winning. Like, Desantis, like, he's Catholic, but he talks like an evangelical, like is reframed how he talks about religion just to cater to a specific group of people. And, like, basically, like, if you're not a exurban, divorced, white, owner of a C-Doo dealership. Ron DeSantis has no interest in your well-being. Right. Yeah. All right.

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