Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 8/02/22 – “Senate Vibe Shift?”

Episode Date: August 3, 2022

On tonight's show, we will get into the flurry of activity in the Senate over the last week or so, which we agree is wild considering the usual flurry of nothingness that they do. Plenty of dumbassery too! Join us!Support the show

Hey, everybody. Welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It is August 2nd, 2022. I'm Trey Crowder back again. And that, of course, is Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? Welcome back, bud. It's good to have you. I hate piloting the ship. It's nice to just be able to be a free rider again. It's more fun this way. Yeah, how Corey do? You go well? Oh, Corey's always fun, man. That's like, that's his whole thing is, uh, being the sad clown. Never jane's always on, buddy. Yeah, for sure.

Love him. Uh, we got a lot to talk about today, man. It's like, I'm excited. Today is a non-depressing episode. Hey, how about that? Yeah. It's non-depressing. I'm not going to like one of us.

Shooting star or something. Yeah. Yeah, make a wish, everybody. Make a wish. We got, uh, some, some, some, good stuff happening in abortion rights well attempting good stuff

in abortion rights Senate's attempt to do some good stuff on climate health care a bunch of other shit but there may be one vote away Kristen cinema don't feel like a couple and talking about that a little bit

but yeah lots of good shit before we get to that we're not going to be doing much in January 6 today but I do want to talk about so Roger Stone apparently had a fucking documentary crew following him there's like four different documentary crews wrapped up in January

six by Mac out at this point. So Roger Stone had his own, and they were filming him backstage at some DC event where he was talking to Matt Gates. Matt Gates did not know they were on hot mics. And so I'll explain why this is important, but this is like pretty embarrassing for everyone involved. A play bat. I'm going to go, I'll go down hard, though.

I'll fight it right to the bitter end. Yeah, but I don't think they're going to go down at all at the end of the day. Well, we'll see. We're three weeks from trial. Yeah. I mean, I may have to appeal to the big man because I got, this was Columbia. We surveyed 120 jurors. 90 of them know who I am and they hate my guts.

Voluntarily. The big guy. Yeah. I don't think the big guy can let you go over there. This is so fucked up. All right. So for context here, if you guys remember, Roger Stone was convicted of obstruction, I think, in the Mueller probe.

And his role on that was he was essentially the go-between between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks. That was what was alleged. So him refusing to testify and taking the rap for this and then getting pardoned, what submitted the cover-up, right? That's why Mueller couldn't find anything other than he wasn't looking that hard, really. But so in any sane society, this would be like, okay, well, we got to undo his, you shouldn't have to pardon someone for your corrupt intent, right? You would think. But apparently you can't. But anyway, so some other stuff, Gates said on that.

They discussed her mutual dislike of Rick Scott. Stone called him such an asshole. Gates said he was cool. One of my least favorite people I've ever had to work with, end quote, which Rick Scott is an asshole, algorithm there. They mocked the hairstyle in suits worn by Ron DeSantis, prompting Gates to reply,

anybody that can land a wife like that needs no advice from me. Yeah. He'd probably like, a little old, though. you know she's a little old but other than that she's pretty okay but yeah also like you said the big guy thing like the what the sort of like i don't know mob-esque talk for these guys is like just so it's so appropriate for the way they are and how they are about everything like of course they sort of view themselves and their whole deal that way you know yeah we got to yeah we got to go see the guy about the thing. The guy's got to go.

Yeah, kind of like on a maudlingo. So anyway, that's very fun to follow. These guys can flag really break the law. Nothing's ever going to happen to them. Who cares, it's normal. So another fun Florida thing happening is, so a couple weeks ago, Ron DeSantis gave a big speech somewhere and a bunch of Nazis showed up out front,

literal Nazis made of Nazi flags. Yeah, you'll have that. And they were carried Nazi flags in one hand in DeSantis' country in the other hand, so they weren't being very, Being very subtle. Being very subtle. So anyway, I guess it was a turning points USA event because Charlie Kirk called it a false flag of it by a bunch of liberals trying to make.

Of course. Of course. It was on Tafa, Mark. The Nazis were in Tafa. Yeah. Yeah. So then the Nazis got real mad for being called a false flag. And they started yelling at a, so the official, the Nazi party for whatever, Florida, whatever it was, started calling them.

like both DeSantis and Charlie Kirk, a bunch of cuck servatives working for the shit libs, being mentally ill because they don't understand how white nationalists could possibly be a real thing in Florida. I don't think anyone ever thought that, buddy. And they posted DMs to Charlie Kirk. Hi, Charlie. I'm one of the leaders from the Nazi groups

from the Turning Point event. Would you like to chat? I can provide proof of my leadership and Nazi status. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, so he's like, oh, those were real Nazis. They're just going to make us look bad. It's like, no, we are real Nazis. Right. We were actually on your side. Right. We'll have you know. How dare you imply that we might not be real Nazis? Look at this swastika tattoo right here. You see that? And the DeSantis tattoo on the other side. Like, how much clearer could we be? Come on, man.

You're not giving us the credit we deserve. Yeah, after Charlie Ford tried to act like it was all a bunch of bullshit. So Nazis rebel against subtlety. They really do. So one more thing I forget to the show I regret to inform me the economy guys are at it again One, the Fed raised interest rates again today

They're working overtime We talked about it like a month ago To trying to engineer a recession Because they'd rather have A bunch of poor people Unemployed and committing suicide And losing their housing Than riskal inflation

Which drives down the value of people's investments This one I found funny So this is from a Federal Reserve At the Dallas Federal Reserve I can't decide where this guy was complaining or lecturing which makes a big difference but a bunch of like oil companies and stuff

think that the downturn and their investments is because of something the Biden administrations do and he's essentially saying no, private investors are not investing in oil anymore because they have bigger institutional imperatives and I can't decide whether he's complete like if he's saying suck it up you babies is the free market that rules for me

if you're saying we've got we've got a fucking beat down these stupid libs who don't understand what they should be investing in that's something different. But that hit for me. But then this did not hit for me. The Intercept got a hold of some internal memos

the Bank of America, whereas Bank of America executive said that, quote, we hope, end quote, working Americans will lose leverage in the labor market in a recent private memo obtained by the Intercept. Making predictions for clients

about the U.S. economy over the next several years, the memo also noted the changes and the percentage of American seeking jobs, quote, should help push up the unemployment rate. Yeah, got to get that unemployment rate up. You got to be people with jobs out there.

I can't believe that Bank of America executives have such a flagrant disregard for the well-being of your average working American, you know? The American economy cannot function for these dudes if people aren't desperate and begging for minimum wage jobs. Right. That is all this is about. Right.

If you don't clearly want to burn shit down after reading stuff like this, because the Federal Reserve essentially works for these dudes, and so you see them raising interest rates they're doing it because people like Bank of America think it's good to have us people like the rest of us hungry starving and trying to like fight over water in a rain barrel

and live it off cans of beans so that's yeah that's it remember guys this is the not depressing edition of that's the one that's the one yeah we do yeah we will we will get to well on that note with us as always this producer Matt this is weekly skews I, of course, want to remind you of a couple of things.

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It seems Joe Manchin has pulled a fast one in supporting a bill that could end up being, dare we say it, good? Yeah, we're just as surprised as anybody. We'll break it all down a little later. But first, of course, the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's Daily Dumbass, anybody who believes they can love their doggy and still want to get rid of assault weapons.

That's right. This coming from, who else? Lauren Bobert. Play the clip, Matt. populace if the citizenry in america is disarmed then we are no longer citizens we are subjects you know here in america we have gourmet treats for puppies we have uh these amazing groomers for dogs well in venezuela they eat the dogs and it started because they don't have firearms they do not have a way to protect themselves to defend themselves against a tyrannical government uh so

That's a novel, slippery slope take. I feel like I haven't heard yet. It's also going to be tough for them, like, because once we've taken their guns, that means they'll have to, like, strangle their dogs in order to eat them. How do the Venezuelans killing the dogs? They're humping the dogs and bow and arrows

because the government took away their guns. They go to Venezuela for, like, everything. Like, it's the only country doing any socialism in the world. And, like, we're, we're so propagandized against anything that contains the word social in it, not just, not, not, not just like socialism, but like behaving socially, like anti-socially, like anti-socially. And the, Venezuela has a lot of problems, right? The one problem is corruption. Corruption is a lot of problem. It is a big problem in downfall of any country.

I mean, right. Russia continued to struggle if it shows a transition from a communist dictatorship to a hypercapitalist, uh, semi-dictatorship into full on our talkie, just because. it's corruptish. I don't think there is any like system that can't be corrupted by the people running it. You know what I mean? No matter how idyllic the system itself may seem to be, you know, then people get involved and next thing you know, everything goes to shit. That's just kind of how people go. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, corruption. The Venezuelan economy is way too dependent upon oil. 90% of their economy revolves around oil, I think, and like this. So like, they have problems. The problem is not that they haven't, they don't have guns.

that is not they don't have like also like they don't think nor the country in the world know the developed country I should say as armed as we are so I don't really understand what they think they think that I mean we go around

around around this but they think the people in Germany in France and England and Italy and Greece are all like oppressed I guess they have no freedoms I don't know I mean yeah they do seem to think that you know they think it's like all those countries like socialist hellscapes or whatever even though there's

literally no reason for anyone to think that, but they can just say, it's also just like, ah, you know, Europe, they're all, you know, they don't have for them. It's like, oh, it's like it's gay and stuff over there. You know, they're all weird, dressing up like gooses and shit. Like, who knows, you know, we don't want to be like them. That's sort of their mentality. Yeah.

All right. Our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass, anybody who didn't realize their 3D printer could also print money, at least, if there's a gun back going on. this uh this story made me laugh so hard about us off so what happened so houston did a gun buyback which is good this is not going to make fun of gun buyback programs in principle but this person discovered a genius hack but they did was they 3d printed somewhere between 50 and 65 guns this opposed to 63 but uh or 62 but someone else said 50 anyway it doesn't matter the exact number

they're 3d printed a bunch of guns which didn't even work they just 3d printed like some half-ass weapons right like it costs like six dollars each and they sold them back to houston for somewhere between us So they report to either 50 or 150 bucks each. So they just discovered a way to get free money from the gun buyback program for a little expense. And this is so fucking brilliant to me. And the city was like, okay, you can have your money. But then immediately pivoted and announced the second gun buy back program will not be buying ghost guns. So they already figured out of the way to stop this.

Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I guess it's just like it's like a bureaucratic thing or something where it's like they look at this box of it's like, well, they are guns. I guess we have to buy them. You know what? It just feels like it could have been easy enough to say, like, those aren't real, because they were totally non-functional, right? They're like essentially toys, basically, like gun-shaped toys pretty much that some guy printed, like they didn't.

They weren't actually dangerous, so I don't know. I feel like somebody could have stepped in and be like, yeah, you know, nice hustle. We respect it, but hey, I'm not going to do that. But, Trey, the sign says, buddy. The sign says, these are guns, aren't they? It says all you can eat, all you can eat. But I don't know how it's not like conservative here because they'll always find some like loophole, somebody exploited in any sort of government program, like that's the reason the whole thing

is stupid because there's always going to be shit like this. Dude, no, I know. It's like food stamps and all that shit. That's the argument they always use. They want to talk about the people abusing that system or whatever. And it's always like, look, those people do exist anytime you have anything like that, someone is going to find a way to exploit it. It's like we were talking earlier with the corrupt systems.

It's just like human nature. Like, that shit will happen. But it's mostly people, if it's a good program who are like being helped by it and it's working as intended, you just also have assholes exploiting it. That doesn't mean we should never do anything, which is how they tend to interpret that information. We should never do anything. And gun bad back programs are good. If you're all going to get, in a country is like America, there's like three guns for every person or some shit.

If you're going to get, the fantasies about somebody going door to door and taking your guns is stupid. Getting guns off the street probably does involve voluntary gun by back programs. There's don't always work the way as intended like this, but they do get guns off the street. Those guns using crimes are stolen. They're stolen from your house, and so therefore getting guns off the street gets crime down, even if the person who owns the gun at the time isn't planning on using it to commit a crime. But this did teach me something. I did not know about the COBRA effect.

Do you know what the COBRA effect is right? Only because of the outline. But yeah, it's what we're talking about, right? It's the name for the phenomenon we're talking about. Yeah, so the name comes from the British-ruled India. The city of Delhi was infested with cobras. So to get the public's help, getting rid of the snakes, the British offered a bounty on cobra skins.

So, but what the Indians did was they started capturing cobras and breeding them so they'd have extra skins to sell back to the British. But the British figured out what was going on, so they stopped buying the cobra skin. and the cobra farmers had fucking released all the cobras in it with more cobras. Not useless. These snakes are useless, man. It's like, yeah.

They're like, here's a lot of money in snakes. Like, oh, man, my uncle's big into snakes right now. But, yeah, then the government gets rid of the snake money. And now what are you going to do with all these? You're just lousy with snakes. So, yeah, you've got to get rid of them. And the French fell for the exact same hustle in Hanoi when Vietnam was a French colony. They put out a bounty on rats.

you'd have to turn in the tail to get money but they start seeing live tailless rats running around because what the people would do is cut the tails off, turn them in and leave the rats to breed so there'd be more rat tails and turn into money. Yeah, more rats with tails like it got off, yeah. Dude, I hate large-scale crux by rich people, but I love scams run by

hustling-ass poor people. I fucking love it. On the government, yeah. Yeah, I'm all for that. Anyway, for more raise an example of this, BYU had to crack the Burmaon University to crack down because they're buying blood plasma from people that were COVID positive to do research with. And so a bunch of kids were catching COVID on purpose to get extra money for their blood plasma. Anyway, you're not going to be able to stop this shit.

It's just amusing when it happens. Not all government programs are bad. This is funny shit for me. All right. So about golf. Yeah, please. Yeah, golf adjacent, much like the corpse of Ivana Trump, yeah, who she is the honorable mention for not thinking to put don't make me a sand trap please in her will because you guys

missed it uh donald trump uh interred his ex-wife vivana at his golf course in new jersey reportedly right by the fairway so cor we were talking to cori about it and he said he saw a picture was like literally right by a sand divot or something so it's like you know right there in the field of play probably just so he can like when he's playing that hole he can yell some expletive at her grave before shanking a shot off to the right, you know, or something like that. But yeah, I can't believe that Donald Trump is there's something so overtly shitty like this. Yeah, the reason this was in the news is because if you don't follow golf, which you shouldn't because it's boring as fuck to me.

But so the live golf tournament, live golf is a rival to the PGA started back by the Saudi government. Yeah. Because they're essentially doing reputation laundering by trying to pay a bunch of golfers to play for them. Did you see the report today that said, Tiger Woods turned down $800 million from them. Yeah, the Saudi back golf company offered Tiger Woods $800 million, and he turned it down. But a lot of other big-time golfers are not turning it down.

They're just flooding down, paying the shit out of them. These are rich, successful golfers who would get five times the career earnings as a signing bonus to play for this. The Saudis are not fucking around with this. Anyway, it's a long way of saying that, like, this, Ivana's grave is in the news because a bar. bunch of guys who planned and paid for 9-11 were probably stepping all over it um so but that way this isn't just tacky as fuck right it's a very rational reason he did this uh apparently new jersey gives a bunch of tax breaks to land that's used for cemeteries so this motherfucker this motherfucker is getting personally a break in like income taxes property taxes and like three different categories

of taxes for bearing his child's mother at a fucking right i don't even know if she likes golf Probably not. But, dude, you know, there's so many people that see this, like, cold-blooded, underhanded, sleeves baggery, you know what I mean? And they just, they love everything about it. You know what I mean? They're like, yeah, that's why he's the guy right there, shrewd, put her in her place, literally, you know, like, they're fucking, you know, it's just, it's so wild to me. Because, I mean, we're laughing, but we're laughing at how comically over the top, the shit in. of it all is, you know? But yeah,

I mean, it's like it's one of the things it makes me crazy about our society is like we think people are smart just because they do stuff that makes money and it's like not at all true. It's like, it's not that it's not that Donald Trump was the first guy to figure out that you could bury your wife

and an investment property and save $5. Everyone else just finds that horrific and tacky. Like, for example, when my dad died, we go to pick up my dad's casket. And my first thing on my mom's mouth that she wants to get them the nicest casket they have. Now, that's absolutely stupid. Yeah. But it's very, you know, you know what I'm saying? It's what we understand to be human

behavior. This is in a different category to me. Yeah. Yeah. Like the opposite category. Yeah. Yeah. But this resurfaced an old story from like the first came out in 2007, uh, where Trump has been planning to build a family mausoleum at Bedminster since at least then. he's been trying to get the city to approve of him building like a tomb for himself and his kids at his golf course. Yeah. And this quote, if I can get this quote right, this is from 2007. So Trump wasn't even in politics yet.

But when he, Bedminster's mayor, Robert Holt away, argued before this city council that Trump, a Trump grave could attract the wrong sort of people comparing it to a place like, quote, in Austria where a Nazi war criminal was buried that became a tourist attraction. So he was comparing Trump to Hitler in 2007. I just want to give this guy props. For sure. No, man, I saw that and I thought that was wild in 2007. Because, I mean, that's like, that's an aggressive analogy right there, you know.

And it's like today, today nobody would bat an eye at that, you know, because, I mean, but yeah, back, that dude was truly ahead of his time. Yeah. And also, I'm sure Trump's mausoleum would have been very, you know, understated. and classy and subtle and all that. No, I'd have like 20-foot obelisk and shit. And he also,

part of his argument for it was he said that people could get married there, which again, like, let me read this. Let me read this. Yeah, so, uh,

what I was talking about. So Trump is from the same story. Trump offered a concession. The tomb would be versatile. It could also be a festive wedding tomb. We're playing a mausoleum slash chapel. Yeah. That didn't do it.

Give me a break. Give me a break. The Mayor Haltaway said he remembered thinking, why would he want to get married in a building with no fucking windows? Or just a crypt. I mean, there's probably some goths out there, some people that think they're vampires and shit.

But dude, again, now there'd probably be people lining up to get married at Trump's golf tomb, you know? But yeah, back then, patently absurd. Let's do this one more that we have next up.

And then we'll get into the topic. because I thought this one was funny, too. It's also Trump news. Our next honorable mention, guys named Eric for being too basic, at least the name. Everybody's been vying for Trump's endorsements in the Republican primaries and all the various states. Well, the Missouri GOP Senate race got a little chaotic when Trump offered his endorsement finally at the 11th hour to Eric. Just Eric. Problem with this is there are two erics in this primary.

Well, they're actually three. Okay. There are three erics. But the two frontliners are both named Eric. It's so funny. Like, let me just him being able to like pick the winner regardless, do you think? Where it's just like, I always loved Eric.

I told you Eric had it in the bag. Eric's like, let's go Eric. And they're like, we're both named Eric. And he's like, yeah, I think Eric's going to win. Eric's got this thing. I can just tell. It's like, but which Eric? Just Eric.

I love Eric. Yeah, it was extremely funny. It's always, like, debatable whether Trump's being funny on purpose or backs. All the time, always. I think this time he's clearly being funny on purpose because they've both been begging for his endorsement. This is sort of a troll job because let me read his statement.

I trust the great people in Missouri on this one to make up their own minds, much as the day when they gave me landslide victories in 2016 and 2020. And I'm therefore proud to announce that Eric has my complete and total endorsement. So it wasn't like, this was absolutely just fucking fuck with that. So he's like, he's just making it clear, you work for me. You're my bitches. Whichever one of you wins is going to work for me.

So, yeah. Right. But, yeah, so again, there are three Erics. This primary has 21 people in it. So, like, whoever wins is probably going to win with, like, 20% of the vote. So this made everyone very confused because both erics have the typical amount of dignity present in Republican politics at the moment. Right.

Plamed victory that they actually missed a 10%. Of course. Thank you so much, President. President Trump, we greatly appreciate that. They both said simultaneously. Well, he clearly said, Eric, that's me. So Eric, Eric Green's, the MAGA movement is divided between these two dudes. Eric Greatens, who we talked about.

Gritens is the shitbag who got run out of office as governor for being accused of sexual assault against his hairdresser. We talked about him a few weeks back. Eric Schmidt, I don't know much about him, but he must suck because he's got the support of Dan Bojino, you know, the former Secret Service agent who's a ranking influence. Oh, yeah. So, Greton's claim credit, claimed the endorsement for his hand. Bongino retweeted it with a bullshit, read the endorsement, read the endorsement, this is a fraud.

Read the endorsement, the endorsement just says Eric. So, like, you know, they're fucking, and then Eric Schmidt retweeted that. But then Don Jr. retweeted the original Eric Gritin's tweet, and his girlfriend put out a video where she said the, the endorsement was clearly for Eric Gritens because he's the real, he has the spirit of the real MAGA movement. So, I don't know. Yeah, right. My money's on Eric, Mark, you know. Dude, Trump put out like a four-sentence statement on truth social, which no one reads, and calls the whole state party to lose their fucking minds.

Yeah. If you won't grow a sack and move along for this guy after shit like this, he's like basically like making you dance for candies he's tossed in her feet. Yeah, dude. And he eats it all up too. And they're not going to grow a sack and move on. They're going to keep dancing is what they're going to do. Keep dancing and bending over because that's sort of their whole deal now.

Okay, let's get into the segment. I told you, I'm going to tell the audience like I told you before we got started. This Senate stuff, I get a little Senate dumb sometimes. So, you know, Mark, you're helping me as much as the audience here. But so I'm to understand that the Senate has done. There's good stuff happening? What's going on? It's hard for you to believe.

So they passed three big bills this week, or the, past calendar week, right? That's insane. That's like a 48,000% increase over the number of good bills, although you can't. I don't know how much of a percent of an increase over zero is, you know, but yeah, this is better. So they passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which is just a stupid brand name for a smaller version of the Build Back Better Act.

But whatever Joe Manchin wants to call it and vote for, he can call it the fucking ice cream for everybody act. I don't give a shit, right? Who cares? So Manchin, the order of these things happening is what matters, because that's what we're talking about, because it's extremely funny and confused Republicans and put them in a bunch of disarray. And at the end, Democrats got basically everything they wanted. So one big caveat. Crazy.

Manchin has a deal with Schumer and every other Democrat to pass this bill in a loose construction, except for Kristen Sinema. We're going to talk about, I don't imagine she will spell this whole bill because that would be. suicide for her party and herself but who knows at this point now nothing would surprise me with her man let's assume it's going to pass in this basic form and so we can just be happy for the rest of the show i just google to make sure she hadn't sculled up she hadn't sculled since we started the show and she hasn't yet so there we go um basically i want to talk about the order they did this because i'm always yelling for them to be more aggressive and the reason it isn't just aesthetically although aesthetics matter or vibes matter when you're when you're when you're going fast and getting

shit done. You look strong. You're fighting your stuff. People like that. Right. When you're sitting there doing nothing. Right. Yeah. Which they've had so much like empirical evidence of for so many years because again, they mostly do nothing and people mostly hate them for not doing anything. Their approval rate is always in the cellar. They're always just fucking coming up with shit and then saying the reason they won't do it. And that don't have for anybody. So yeah, It's a novel concept to try to, you know, do stuff. But I'm glad if they finally had the eureka moment of giving it a shot at the very least. Yeah.

Another reason to be aggressive on stuff is let's pretend for a moment we're not in some kumbaya Republic where everybody's interested in bipartisanship and you're actually trying to win. One thing aggression does, and like your favorite for his football, I think, right? Yeah. The reason you blitz the quarterback is because you make it make mistakes because he has to make decisions quicker. Right? My favorite sport basketball. John Wooden said the reason you set a screen is to make the defense make a decision. Because once you get them a rotation, they fuck up, right?

Right. So what Democrats did was they had three big bills, right? They had the Chips Act, which had bipartisan support. They had the PACT Act, which had bipartisan support. And they had the what's now called the Investment Recovery Act, which is the smaller version of build back better, which had no Republican support. So McConnell agreed to move the Chips Act, which is a microchip processing thing. It basically re-orn shores and some supply chain stuff or microchips and maybe does a little bit of immigration to try to get more STEM majors from other countries to come in and help us with their technology industry and stuff like that. Well and good had Republican posts. They passed that because McConnell assumed that Bill Beckett was dead.

Right. But me, Joe Manchin says, nope, we're going to pass Bill Back Better now. Republicans get furious and they decided, because they get furious, they decided to try to have the House Republicans tank the Act, which they couldn't do. They failed at that. They even lost Republican votes because everyone knew it was hopeless. They made noise about trying to stop the marriage with legal as institutional as gay marriage because they thought that would punish the Democrats. And most importantly, probably for their branding, they sabotaged a bill about troop health, which is the burn pit issue, which is like if you if you don't follow it closely,

a bunch of veterans have terrible health problems because of how the army disposes of trash and war zones. They dump everything in a big pit and set it on fire with jet fuel. And believe you or not, breathing in fumes from burning old munitions and car batteries and human shit covered in jet fuel was not good for your long-term lung health. Anyway. Right. So that's why everybody saw that news over the weekend.

I made a video about it earlier without touching on the eye or the other bills part of it, But they, you know, they're the rah-rah, support the troops faction. And then this is like, seems like such an obvious slam dunk of goodwill, like the type of measure that who could possibly oppose it. But they killed it just because their feelings were hurt. They were angry. They were being petty over what Joe Manchin did. And that was like a way to get back at them for doing that. But because Democrats are doing politics.

politics for the first time and forever. They just got all but heard about it because they claimed that it was underhanded for Democrats to pass their own bill after Republicans helped pass the bill. The Republicans were already four. But like, you get a straight up or down vote on the Chips Act. You can say no to it on the merits. You don't have to do it because of horse trading. Also, like, like it isn't underhanded to then turn around and kill this bill for, you know,

veterans health. Like, there's nothing wrong with that. Like, it's also just like the baldness with which they acknowledge that, like, like you said, the merits of these legislations have nothing to do with it for us. Like, they're completely immaterial. The only thing we care about is the interchamber politics part and, you know, fucking over the other side and not being fucked over by them and all that. And everything, all the, all the measures and all the bills that affect all the real people

that we ostensibly represent are completely ancillary to our bullshit. Yeah. So this headlines from Politico from today, about their backtracking. But it's important to note, they had already passed the PACT Act before, like weeks ago. They had to repass it because of some language tweaks that, like, they misforated some stuff that made it accidentally unconstitutional. So it was a very small wording change about where the money is, how the money is going to be supplied, because spending bills that originating the house or some shit like that. It doesn't matter. It was like, it was total nerd bullshit.

It's like, oh, it's like when you, you know, after you PDF or something you've been writing and you know it's a typo or you get to read PDF it, it was, that was it. But in the meantime, because they were mad at Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer, they completely flipped on a bill, they had passed 85 to 11 or some shit. So everyone knew this was transparently false. Like John Stewart, comedian John Stewart, for most the daily show, has been a big, like, veterans health care advocate in years past as he was for the not. 11 first responders. He's been all over Capitol Hill holding protests, knocking on Senate doors, going on every news show he could go on to shame them over this because it's transparent horseshit.

He went on newsmax and won them over. Right. Because again, it's like it's just such, it's so clearly, you know, the right thing to do, especially because it involves veterans and it's such a huge part of their ideology, you know, being all troop supportee. That, like, even these motherfuckers know that they can't with a straight face act like, you know, they're okay with what the Republicans did. Although I'm sure some of them still did that. And here's a, I want to show that this is Rand Paul from today arguing that we still shouldn't pass the bill.

Rand Paul, on the wrong side of pretty much everything that isn't, we should, we should, he's right about we should drone less people. That's where the things he's right about end, I play on this. care of our veterans and keep our country strong. This bill puts our economy, though, at risk by creating presumptions of service connection for the most common availments. For example, this legislation creates a presumption of service connection for Vietnam veterans for hypertension. But according to the CDC, 50% of men and 44% of women...

You say the troops are in the United States have hypertension. hypertension. More than 60% of people over the age of 60 have hypertension. In total, the CDC estimates that 116 million Americans have hypertension. The legislation also creates a presumption of service connection for global war on terror veterans for asthma. The CDC estimates that one in 12 people have asthma, which is approximately 25 million Americans. I just don't, I don't fucking understand. I Like, first of all, he started by saying this is bad for the economy because we'd give more people health care or something like that, I guess. But also, like, the whole thing of, like, okay, whatever, but if a veteran has hypertension or has asthma, you should probably take care of them. You know what I mean? Yes. Like, who gives the fuck how many other people, like what the asthma statistics are? It's like, it's another version of that thing earlier.

It's like, well, if anything else ever happens, then that means we can't do anything ever or whatever. If any other people have asthma, then we can't worry about all the troops that have asthma. And it's like, that's not, that don't make any goddamn sense whatsoever. If we didn't live in such a cruel fucking country, why will we even be, like, if a guy who did three tours in Fallujah has bad asthma now or black wrong or whatever, and he's like, he's like, I need help with this. And the government's like, well, you've got to prove you got it from a burn pit. Fuck that. I know, right. Yeah, I know.

It shouldn't, all anyone should not have to worry about that. Do you know what I mean? Like in a just country, anybody who has asthma or hypertension wouldn't have to worry about the hoops they need to jump through in order to be able to allow to be allowed to go on living and, you know, not have to take out another mortgage or whatever. the fuck but here we are we should pass Medicaid for all so we have to have stupid arguments are like this like whether which troops deserve asthma inhalers fuck this shit dude it's like it's so dumb these economic arguments say bad for the economy because government spending would spiral because all these troops would lie saying their medical maladies came from their service anyway if everybody go to the doctor none of this is a fucking problem um so they got their

ass handed to them politically and they just did repass the same pact act they passed before with the wording fixes. It passed with 80-some votes. So they were so ashamed for tanking the bill last week that they fucking passed through a flying collar is the exact same bill because they want the issue to go away. And this is what happens when you play to win. When you play to fucking win, you get the bill passed. And even though they vote forth, they look like absolute shit heels. Win. Win, win, win, win. This was funny. So another thing that got them all call off guard. And one of the reason you want to pass stuff that you want to pass stuff that split your, your political opponents caucus while uniting your own, which is why trying

to pass the gay marriage bill was good, because like probably 50% of Republicans are probably firing with gay marriage at this point. But maybe only a third of them are comfortable voting for it, so where the constituents can see. But some of them have to vote for it because they are in purple states. So putting that forward, divided the whole Republican caucus, sent them in chaos, no one had any talking points. Marco Rubio was running around saying that this is a distraction, the president should be focused on gas prices where it's like, I know all we care about this country's gas prices, we're constantly ranting about it. But someone's basic humanity and willing to marry who they want to marry. I'll rank that in my rankings above

whether gas is 350 or 375, but that's just me. Anyway, it's another example of how being aggressive put their opponents on defense and made them look stupid and left them not knowing what to say. So back to the IRA, because we want to talk about the actual bill a little bit for we get to questions and comments. So this headline made me laugh so hard. GOPI's 2024 payback for Mansion's Dems-only deal. One, Manchin doesn't even say he's going to run in 2024. He's pretty old and rich.

He might just be hanging out with the grandkids. But second, the whole fucking problem with Manchin, the Democrats have had for the past year and a half, is that he can't be electorally punished. He's a Democrat who wins in West Virginia. The people there like him for whatever reason, And he can stay senator for life there. There's nothing Democratic Party or Republican Party can do to him.

So, like, it's like, okay, you guys have fun trying to get Mansion now. That'll be real fucking for you. Yeah, but it's also just like it's them. It's just, it's just so childish and petty, same. You know what I mean? It's like, no, you know, he will pay one way or another. He'll be so he'll rue the day. He dared to, you know, foil our, our grander schemes.

It's just, I don't know, it's silly. And they also, like, you. You could just tell from both the gay marriage thing, but also especially the Pact Act, like I feel like you can just tell that they, they just take it for granted that they have the support of, you know, half or more than half of the country no matter what they do. Like, whatever we do is right because we do it. You know what I mean? Because we have the R next to our name.

And a lot of times it does go that way, but there are limits to it, like fucking over-sick veterans when you're the, you know, the fucking flag-waving party. Yeah. I don't know why the Democrats aren't comfortable saying that we're against war before the troops because it seems like the other side is the opposite. We're for war, but hate the fucking troops. The troops, once they come back, they love them with their uniform, but when it comes to stuff like rebuild their lives or their health or take care of their families,

let them go to college, fuck you, nothing for you. Yeah, long as you're kicking ass, we support. you. As soon as you've, you know, kicked your last ass, then you can go fuck yourself for all we care. So, uh, under the actual bill itself, uh, before we get to the actual text of it, Mancha went on Fox News today. And we're talking about actually doing politics the last couple weeks. Dems are actually, it seems like they're learning. It's like the, uh, the Velociraptor's learning to turn the doorknobs a little bit. So this hit for me because Mancha went on Fox News and absolutely flabbergasted the host. Uh, just watched this. This is,

this woman's name is uh what the elections are going to need some help you've got a president who's i am not going to make a statement on that is like as low as congresses well i mean can we all do something you know that when you get into the 30s no one's that popular and that's the president we're going to do something good will help our country and someone might take credit for are you're kidding services in the bible that's what we do we because it's not. It's like the only time I've appreciated Joe my friend or found him

likable or anything is in that clip. Like just the shit that can grin on the whole time just driving her insane. Pretty great. It's like, yeah, it's like, why are you talking about approval ratings? We're past a bill that we think will help the American people. And she's like, my father served. I love the Bible.

Right. Yeah. It's like, my whole family lives for service. It's like, woman, you're a fucking talking head on Fox News. What are you talking about? Like, you make a million dollars a year to read a teleprompter. It's like, I'm not begrudging a job. Gizuig, if you can get it. But I'm saying, like, what way are you being of service to people?

So this headline is on this. This is a sad thing that's also a happy thing. This is probably the biggest climate bill to ever pass Congress. And it's way too small. Yeah, well, of course. So it's Mariucci, as you guys put it. It both hits and don't hit at the same time. So what, so before,

we get into this, let's talk about why Kristen Sennelma would fuck this. So the bill, one of the things the bill does to get inflation down, which is Joe Manchin's passion, and pay for itself, is it closes the carried interest loophole. Now, what is that, you might ask? Well, it's an exception in the tax laws that allows private equity and hedge funds executives, you know, the richest people in the world, to substantially lower the amount they pay in taxes. It basically lets them count their income as investments and not salary, all their income. So here's a bunch of people making a ton of money who have no salaries. Right. It only affects not that many people. And even closing, it will only bring in some between like $2 billion and $18 billion here, which is dropping the budget,

drop in the bucket, the federal budget. But Kristen Sinema is very passionate about keeping this. This former Green Party activist who campaigned for Ralph Nader, things she cares about most in the world right now in 2020 and a bill with a climate bill is a carrier interest loophole for Frat Duce. for fraternity finance bro douchebags.

Right. So that's what she would dog this over. So if she does it, I hope someone hypothetically metaphorically burns her house now. Yeah. I feel like there's been few Congress people who have been so like transparently bought and paid for than Kirsten Cinema, you know, especially. We talked about it before, but especially if you know her whole history and how like

hard, she was like a fire brand progressive. early on and you compare that with like the way she is now and it's just it's so obvious that you know who's pulling her strings and shit and that she follows the money and everything but anyway she sucks yeah i mean you know that old cana that isn't necessarily true about how everyone gets more conservative as they get older and it's definitely true for her uh so what's in the bill so 370 billion of climate spending uh in the IRA uh includes stuff for uh electric vehicle tax breaks domestic manufacturing, batteries, and solar panels, and pollution reduction. It basically offers a bunch incentives to move American consumers and industry away from fossil fuels,

penalizes fossil fuel companies for excess emissions of methane, which we never talk about methane. Methane is worse than carbon dioxide ones. Right. It offers a bunch of incentives for consumers to buy electric cars, electric HVAC systems. Other forms of cleaner technology would lead to less emissions from cars, electricity generation. It's money for a bunch of other climate priorities, investing. in forest and coastal restoration and resilient agriculture. Oh, good shit.

If you watch a great kid's going to walk around outdoors without like masks on and in 50 years. So, yes, and just to reiterate, from the end of this article says, if Democrats pass this bill, which it can do with a simple majority under Senate rules, it would be the single most important legislative step the U.S. has ever taken to combat the climate crisis.

But there's also other good stuff in the bill. Matt wanting me to point out there's a bunch of stuff to help people who have black lung disease in the bill. This is separate from the troops thing. This is about coal miners, which is important to rural America. And probably very important to Joe Manchin. West Virginia, right, exactly.

He's from West Virginia. Yeah, coal country. So, yeah, I mean, that checks out. Politically, they also avoided a disaster. And this is the one part of Joe Manchin is smart enough to all wait before the whole time. So a bunch of affordable care subsidies were set to expire in September. So basically, a bunch of Americans would have got like a 15% hike in their health insurance rates right before. that would have been fucking awful.

It would awful for people's bank accounts. It would awful, awful for the electoral outcomes. It would be awful, awful, awful. So it's good to do to help people and also for their... It works out great with doing the right thing to help people also benefit your electoral prospects. That's how it should work. Well, on that note, you're talking about how it would have been terrible

electorally and also just practically. I mean, you know, the reverse of that, obviously, I'm sure they're feeling pretty good about it. But, like, you know, the timing, obviously, politically, like, of doing a thing, an actual good thing, you know, in the run-up to the midterms. Like, you think that'll actually reap fruit? Is that bare fruit? You know what I mean? Like, are people going to give a shit?

It's going to move the needle? Well, yes. I mean, you don't have to move it on the margins, right? America is separately divided. You went over one out of 100 votes. That's going to save you five seats in the house. So, like, the combination of the Doe position and Nerovi-Wade, And, you know, and this stuff is going to help.

Like, after the Dobbs decision, you know, they do the generic congressional ballot polls where generally, or you more likely to vote for Republican or Democrat, Democrats had already retaken the lead in the congressional generic ballot by like four points, but that's not enough. Democrats have to win by like, because of the gerrymandering, they win like eight, nine points on average to actually hold the majority. So whether they're not going to move at five percent, I doubt it. But it might make their majority, their minority bigger. You know what I'm saying? I'm saying? I'm going to make them closer to having control of the house for whenever they can get more votes.

You know, in 2028 in the middle of Trump's second term. So there's a bunch of other stuff. I do want to say, like, because it's America, the bill also includes money for new manufacturing, the building of new natural gas pipelines. Because we can't have everything be good. Right. Anyway, if the cost of fending off the rise of fascism is, making a tenth of degree hotter?

I don't know. What the fuck? Yeah, well, again, it's like there's always going to be some bullshit in any new law in this country. It's just good to have one that has seemingly mostly good stuff in it. Also, we keep talking about this, but Matt, if you want to, you know, start throwing up some comments from people you can. I don't think we have any more clips or anything. So, yeah, hit us with, hit us with some stuff. Yeah, thank you, Mark.

Yeah, everybody like and subscribe and share and tell you mom and them and leave a five-star review and all that good stuff. We sure do appreciate it. Last thing I want to say is, like, I am a pretty big climate dumer, but it was exciting to me because a lot of climate walks were very excited about this bill. So let's hope Kristen Cinema doesn't tank it. So a couple dozen people can have slightly bigger boats. So, yeah.

Right. but Pandora 576 on YouTube said Dems need to forgive more student loans. Yeah, I mean, that's, you know, I feel like there's still plenty of other things that they, you know, could and or should do that they still just won't. Yeah, I don't really, I feel strongly about that.

I paid off my seat of loans. Full disclosure, I finished. I went to a cheap state school and still just I paid mine off like two or three years ago. I'm 43. So. Yeah, I paid mine off after going viral initially. So thanks to the internet.

Appreciate you guys. Yeah. I think that financializing education was a disaster. And I think we need to fix the whole system structurally. Politically, I don't know whether it's a winner or not to give student loans. It could cause a huge backlash. But also, I just think that if I was Biden, what I would do about the the backlash was, I would forgive the student loans, like, I don't know, what, 30 grand, 50 grand or

whatever, and then be like, this is what I'm empowered to do under the laws as they are. Give me more votes, like Senate in the Congress, it works better with me, and I will do stuff to help you too. That's what I would do, but that's not the world we live in. Ashley Schwann says, please send good vibes for women's rights in Kansas voting to keep abortion safe and legal. Yeah, there's a lot of those types of things going on around the country right now, abortion-related stuff in the wake of the road decision right now.

It's getting pretty crazy out there. Yeah, I was calling up the, so 9% of the, okay, oh, this is good, okay. So we didn't get a chance to get to it in the dumbasses because we were having too much fun. But we did, we had a bunch of abortion-related stuff that we'll talk about it next week. But the Kansas Amendment thing was really funny because, you know, they were losing it was they started doing, like here in California, ballot initiatives or word of confusing as shit. They do it on purpose. Right now in California, there's a Prop 27 that would do something about sports gambling

in Indian casinos. And their rival campaigns, yes and no, from different native tribes, and I do not know who is full of shit. Right. It's going to make a bunch of money off of it running sports gambling or not running sports gambling, and I don't know who the worst side is, right?

Yeah. So the Kansas pro-lifers try this confusing wording thing where, like, if you vote yes, because what they're going to do is remove a constitutional provision that makes abortion a constitutionally protected right in Kansas. So yes, we'd remove it and no wouldn't. They were running ads saying if you're pro-choice to yes. Right. That's how you know they thought they were losing. Which like that's just like we at wow girl on YouTube says the Kansas vote's very confusing. You have to vote no to keep it. And yeah, like you said,

that's on purpose. But that whole the text campaign thing they did, I don't know. Dude, shit like that should be against the law or something, in my opinion, where, you know, actual legislation is concerned because yeah I read the text message like you said it's like it's literally says if you care about a woman's right to choose or something like I mean that's pretty close it's not that far off it said something like that then vote yes or respond yes or whatever which is the opposite of how it would actually work and it's just it's just so so shitty and underhanded and well cool to keep confused between yes and no I would just say abortion choice versus not choice right current as because of this moment with 9% of votes reported choice is beating not choice

6535 in fucking Kansas now I'm assuming that's not super representative because usually cities come in first right but that's a good start um yeah um Stephanie hintton on YouTube says we still have the huge problem that only one third of 18 to 29 year olds say they plan to vote in the midterms how do we reach them correct me if I'm wrong that's kind of like just like a universal standard with elections, right? Like getting young people to vote has always been like one of the number one problems, particularly for the progressives or for the Democrats, because it just seems nigh on impossible to do.

I mean, I guess the student loan thing could be, you know, a carrot for that one. But like you said, it might have ramifications elsewhere. But, yeah, I don't know. I mean, young people party, man, they're fucking, you know, doing their whatever these kids are doing. they're in their they're vaping and they're dub stepping it's not dub stepping anymore i don't know i'm a pap all now uh producer max says weed they should use weed to get young people out to vote yes we legalizing weed we get young people to vote the student loan thing i mean 18

18 to 22 year olds aren't worried about student loans yet there's not that's the reason you that's free money buddy yeah right yeah that's the reason you can sell them student loans yeah that's the reason you can tell them student loans is because they think they they don't understand money yet. Otherwise, it wouldn't be taking out $100,000 for, you know, art history degree. But the, uh, uh, one third sounds high. That sounds like a lot of kids. I think we were kids MTV, I think they're literally vote or die. Kids are like, yeah, die. Right. Yeah, she said one third say they won't votes. That means two thirds of 18 and 29 year old planning on voting. Is it like? She said one third will. Oh, okay.

Yeah, I agree with you then. Yes. Either way, I agree with what you, like, that seems high. Like, yeah, when I misread it as two-thirds saying they would, I was like, that's fucking great. But, yeah, all right. Jennifer Wimmer-Denny says, thoughts on Olivia Giuliana owning Matt Gates. Did you see this? I think that's the woman who fundraised off.

So remember last week we talked about Matt Gates saying that a pro-choice woman don't look good enough to get pregnant anyway. Yes, I did see that. Yeah, that was pretty rad that whole thing. Yeah, so he quote tweeted to her and she used it to raise a bunch of money for abortion funds. So that rules. That's a way to use the internet for good. $2.2 million. Yeah, she parlayed that into for abortion-related causes or whatnot.

Yeah. Yes, I did see that and that was very cool. Jim Gray on Facebook says Olivia won that one hands down. Yeah. All right, let's see. What else you got doing that? They'll give you an update on the Missouri primary. I see which Eric is ericking the best.

Yeah, how are Eric's doing? With only 3% of votes are counted. Wait, no, AP says 35% of votes counted. It doesn't make sense. Anyway, it says Eric Schmidt's winning with 45% of the vote. Eric Griton's only has 17%. Now, from a human being standpoint, I'm glad Eric Griton is losing,

Although, Devin's had a much better chance to pick up the seat if Craitons once because he was so unpopular a few years ago. He had to leave office as governor. Right. Well, that's like that thing we talked about on a Patreon episode, right? Right, where was I get a while I get shit mixed up. I do so much stuff. You know, I'm so keep myself so busy, Mark, but about where a lot of Democrat money has been spent propping up insane Republican candidates because they're like beatable. but it's still just like, you know, a wild use of funds when there's, you know, other things they could be doing with it.

Aaron Gannon says, love seeing you in Syracuse last week, Trey. Thank you for a great show. Thank you for coming. Very fun. Love Syracuse. Love Upstate, New York. I only ever been there in the summertime. So I've very much enjoyed it.

That's not true. I went to Buffalo once, and that's the closest we ever came to cancel in a show, was because we drove from Pittsburgh to Buffalo. and what we thought was a nor-easter, but what was probably just like flurries by their standards. But like, we were literally like, dude, pull over. We're done, call them, tell them we ain't making it because we were freaking the fuck. We thought we were going to just,

I don't know what we were going to have to be pulled over, just freeze to death in the car. We didn't have a plan. But we ended up making it. Anyway, love upstate New York. Thanks for coming. I got a... Dallas.

I love Dallas. Yeah, Alexis Frank says, come to Dallas, Tray. I just sent my agent an email last week saying, you got to get on Texas. I need to get back to Texas. So, I mean, at this point, that will likely be in like early 2023, but 100% I'll be back in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, all that before too long. Been too long since I've been to Texas. Yeah, I miss living in Tennessee Dallas. I would move back there if I could.

So the part of talking about upstate New York, I had a buddy, Justin, named Justin, who's from upstate New York, and we just hit it off right away. And I was like, I wonder why we have so much in common with this guy. He was telling him about he had uncle named quarter stick. He was called that because he would throw quarter sticks of dynamite of people. And, you know, because he thought it was funny. I only, oh, y'all got rednecks too.

No, dude. They definitely have rednecks up there. Kim Avery says that was lake effects. No, yeah, you're right. Misterned it. But anyway, yeah, no, that's, so a lot of times it shows anywhere we're at in the country, but outside the South, people will, like, in the meat and grunts and stuff,

we'll be like, you know, I'm from a pretty, I'm not from the South, but I'm from a pretty redneck place. You may not realize it's redneck, but there's a lot of redneck shit there. I'm from blank, and in my experience, the most common fill-in for that blank is upstate New York, or maybe central Pennsylvania. But those two places, when somebody starts the sentence with that, it's normally like one of those two places, although sometimes, you know, Midwest, Iowa, wherever, you know, everywhere's got rednecky parts, but upstate New York definitely does. I'm not sure if this is a name they call themselves or whether it's like people in Pittsburgh

and Philly calling that, but I've heard central PA called Penseltucky. Pennsylvania, yeah, I've heard that too. Yeah, I've also heard people say that Pennsylvania is Philadelphia on one side, Pittsburgh on the other,

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