Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 8/03/21 – Uh Oh, Cuomo

Episode Date: August 4, 2021

Tonight we discuss Andrew Cuomo sexual harassment case and the reactions to it so far, as well as the Dems fumbling yet another political football, this time where the eviction moratorium is concerned. And as always, some fun dummies. Join us!Support the show

Hey everybody. Welcome back. Happy Skews Day. We're actually going to do a full-on crafting show tonight. No politics. We're just going to be sewing some masks for you. Now I'm moving some stuff around here at the house, and so I'm sitting in front of my wife's crafting station. So I hope you like that new background there. It will be temporary. Unless you guys love it, who knows, maybe I'll just go full craft guy now. way. I'm Trey Crowder and that's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? What's up, Troy? What kind of crafts is Katie into? What she makes? Well, she, so she makes... Obstacle stick houses? No, she, yeah, macaroni pictures, stuff like that, you know. No, she makes custom-made masks for people and sells them. She got in, started doing that at the beginning of the pandemic. It's fun for a while there. Demand dropped off for a couple weeks. And what you know? Like, way back up now. Back in business, baby. Hell yeah. Yeah, this is such a nightmare.

Just the COVID part, I mean, not her doing that. Yeah, I do I want to type, like the COVID headlines are, there's this phenomenon that happened where there would be a blaring, like, headline about Delta. And then it's technically true, but then you read the article and you find out it's not really true. It's technically true, but it doesn't matter, right? Like, there's a big one that NBC News got roasted for. The blast out of the headline said 125,000 breakthrough.

cases. And you're like, holy shit, that's horrifying. They're like, oh, 170 million people got vaccinated. Also, very few of the 125,000 got very sick. And then it was a big story about a breakthrough cluster in Provincetown, that one. The CDC was treating like it was a representative and somebody had to be like, uh, Provincetown of the summer is not a representative of, these are a bunch of hot gay dudes in very close quarters, partying very hard. very close very hard yes yes yes they get their shirts off dancing spit each other's mouths at a disco it's not it's not it's not a good example but of what people like you you hanging out you hang out in your back yard barbecue in the suburbs are not going to be that close to people

for that long sweating all of each other so you're going to be way different also nobody got that sick so well there was another i know the new york times that big cdc think about it and their tweet about it ended with something like the report finds that vaccinated people may spread the disease just as easily as unvaccinated people, something like that. And that's all they put in there. But that leaves out the fact that whatever, it totally ignored the fact that they're way less likely to get it in the first place. You know, like way, way less likely to contract it in the first place. And I guess if you do despite being vaccinated, if you're one of the unlucky, you know, fraction who's, does still contract it, I guess that you can also still pass it to someone else or whatever.

But they just made it sound like, they made it sound like there was no difference, you know, that the vaccine doesn't make a difference, which is not what anybody was ever saying. And shit like that just drives me crazy. It's, it's, uh, it's fun with math, right? Because like here, like if you, if you're in a highly vaccinated area, right, which a lot of these stores are come out of because it fucks the math up. So if you're, if you're in like a town, like a town, say there are 100 people, 99% of were vaccinated and two people get COVID the one unvaccinated person and one of the 99 vaccinated

the headline is going to say 50% of new cases in town are vaccinated right yeah so and the point is get your vaccines it's mostly fine also wear wear a mask a little bit if it's mandated and you want to it's yeah uh i see Justin Goldberg over here says either way the unvax have made their choice at this point the rest of us are done with this pandemic shit that's exactly i feel about it too buddy but it's like if it could still lead to the powers that be making you know moving and shaking in ways that affect us which is unfortunate on that note i am still as of now planning to continue to be on tour but the mayor of little rock arkansas just moved our dates in three weeks until next april because of this covid shit even though everybody comes to my shows as vaccinated we're all vaccinated too

and here you are, obviously. Trey, when you are. A centered example, but yeah, it does affect us. You can still go to Well Red. That's well, R-E-D, well-redcom for ticket information. We'll come through as soon as possible. Hey, Trey, when you got into comedy, did you think you'd be getting your bookings from the mayor? No, I did not. Yeah, but, you know.

I got to call the city comptroller, see if I get a tight 10 as they warm up for the mayor's job. All right. So getting into it with producer Matt's with us, as always. This is weekly skews tonight. The big bomb shell sexual harassment case against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and the responses to that so far, including the pretty bizarre response from the governor himself. Additionally, the federal eviction moratorium expired, mostly due to the Supreme Court, although you wouldn't know that based on how the Democrats have handled it so far, which is to say poorly. And if we have time, I'm going to tell you all about how i your intrepid host your boy uh got put in ticot jail uh the reason for which i hope will be surprising to you but yeah that's uh some fun to be had all that more on tonight's skews but first as always the daily dumb ass mat graphic please tonight's dd any pro vaccine los vegas politician who believes that their brakes are just going to somehow keep working automatically uh this is is a clip from a Clark County Commissioners meeting where the subject at hand was vaccine incentive

programs and this constituent had this to say, Matt, play it. You're acquiescing to fascists. And this is going to win in my favor, you guys, 100% success rate on this side. Tyrants have 100% failure rate in this country, no matter what your little smirks have to do about it. We're the ones who put your brakes in your cars, who makes your meals, who gets her pharmacy, we're everywhere. I'm not the one who should be scared. I'm going to be driving pretty, knowing my brakes are okay. Well, there you have it.

That lady is on the table, baby. Yeah, yeah. I feel like you could take her a word for it because everyone with that hair color has definitely cut a few brake lines. I say that someone who's married to her red head. I don't know what to, like, these fantasies are hilarious to me because she's basically outlining like a right-wing bullshit big uprising, which doesn't make any sort of sense. Yeah, that's the thing. It's like if the context of this was like aimed at, you know, the plutocrats for increasing income inequality, you know, with no end in sight to it and that type of thing.

And it's like, it would have a completely different feel to me. You know, it's like, yeah, the pitchforks were coming type deal. but saying you're going to start getting poisoned for trying to make people get vaccines to end this pandemic is a little bit, a little bit different. It's also like this is an incentive program. So this is a program with trying to give people $50. It's the opposite of adding to wealth inequality. It's like can it be like if a like that's seen in Dark Night Rises or Catwoman whispers into Batman's ears. It's like what made you guys think you could ever live so long, live this good for so long.

And then except it's Batman's like, I'm here to give you $50. and potentially save your life while doing it. Yes, yes. It's just like everything is filtered through this nonsense thing comes out really extremely stupid on the other end of it. And it's so like no one's making you get the vaccine. I eventually like I think the federal government, you probably can't mandate it,

but you could mandate it to fly because the federal government runs the airports, right? So you could do stuff like that. And private companies are going to make all their employees get it anyway. So you're going to have a bunch, Like, that Houston hospital is a big story. They mandated for their, like, 25,000 nurses or whatever, like 25 quit rather than get it. You can, probably employers can make people get it. So that's the way it's going to work.

And a bunch of them is to Walmart announced a week. They're all doing it at the same time to avoid blame. They're like, they hollow up like, okay, guys, we all do it this week. It's like, so it's, we had 70% of Americans have at least one dose this week. It's getting getting better. The bout morons are going to continue to be allowed morons, but in general, things are progressing. well that's good to hear especially coming from you because that's not your typical uh slant you know often when you're being somewhat hopeful that makes me feel better yeah it all spent so much time

online it's easy to forget the whole life that people more most people are normal insane and some of them are skeptical of putting an under they're technically unfully approved vaccine there which the FDA should get off their ass and validate and also like guys we should talk this of top, but, like, the CDC guidelines, like, CDC doesn't do cost-benefit analysis. That's not their job. They offer risk advice. It's up to us to decide what to take.

The CDC also says to cook your hamburgers, well done, and you always use dental dams. I've never had a well-done hamburger, and I've never used a dental name. So you can take their guidance and listen to it and understand their experts, and also still maybe go about your normal life if you feel like you don't have to listen to everything they say. But I'm still working. bring a mask in places that require it, and I wear it in stores and stuff.

And, you know, I don't want to get dealt though. My neighbor got it. He's vaccinated. He was pretty sick for like four days. He's better now. I don't want to get sick for four days, even if it's just that. So, yeah. Yeah, well, you said earlier, you said, you're like, you spend too much time on internet

and you forget that most people are generally sane. But then, Mark, there is the internet, which leads us to our first honorable mention, which is Q and on adjacent, which means more than adjacent, which means please take it away. All right, so Ron Watkins, who's, if you've seen the Q into the storm documentary, you're very familiar with what character this guy is. He's the guy that owns and operates. Is that, which is that Ron or his son? I can't remember which one's which.

And the Watkins, the Watkins's run 8chan, which hosts Q, which is where Q posts his original, he makes his original posts. And Ron dropped a documentary today that was supposed to blow the doors on election fraud. If you can see this video, there's a little clip of it, Matt Havel. Voting systems are, meant to be used as closed systems that are not networked, meaning they are not connected to the internet. There is no internet connectivity at all. They are not designed to be connected to the outside world through either

internet connection or any other external connectivity device. Do we have these passwords in the system? Not the valid's customers. What's not? The state won't let us have our own password. Does Dominion have any way to remotely access any of the information on... So, if you can't make out what the big deal about that is, neither could anyone else. All the Q people were very disappointed.

Yeah, because I, yeah, right. Like, what is it supposed to be happening here? So it shows two guys who are supposed to be whistleblowers and their voices are supposed to be disguised. Come back to that at a second. But it shows them trying and failing to use a password to get into Dominion, which is the whole point in Dominion system

when you get into it. Maybe they're the wrong password. I don't know. It doesn't matter. A couple, you notice that video quality wasn't that good. The reason why is that's just a screen grab of the video because the reporter would not download it to his phone. The reason why is the people who did download it to their phones all got a virus.

all the Q people viruses they went straight to their eye like these again my around the 100,000 events added about a virus in my calendar the virus put a calendar events in people's phones to buy various products including buy an ad blocker and virus software

which is hilarious. One of them told people to clean their rooms which is just fucking funny um but yeah it's also funny that like you know they uh like they think that the government's putting 5g magnets or whatever in our bodies like against our our will and then their their own arbiters of the truth like this guy just give them all an actual virus on their computer instead and i'm sure that that will be completely lost on most of them i know they're upset with him but still like I don't think it's going to change their belief system. Matt did have the right Watkins.

That was Ron that he showed Jim is the dad. I just did follow up. Anyway, but anyway, they didn't mask the voice well enough and people instantly recognize the voice of one of the alleged whistleblowers is Ron. All right? He pretended himself to be a whistleblower to make this stupid video. Now, it's important to recognize that Jim and Ron controlled the message board that hosts Q and he very claimed steadfastly to not be Q

even though the documentary makes it makes it pretty good case that they are just they are Q. So that's it. So anyway, that was today and that's today's Q update. All right. Our next honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is

Hollywood megastar Matt Damon for attempting to cancel himself apparently. One of the weirder celebrity stories I can remember in recent memory. He gave an interview with the UK Sunday Times in which he, for some reason, relevant to nothing out of the clear blue sky, admitted that he had only recently

just months ago, in fact, stopped using the homophobic F slur. So, you know, not fuck the other F word, the more hateful F word. He only just recently stopped using it. And the way this happened was he told a joke with that word in it to his 10-year-old daughter, well, his 10, 12, and 15-year-old daughters, or at least in their presence, also while, but hey, Boston, what are you going to do and one of them informed him that that wasn't cool and at first he defended it by saying what i said it in the movie stuck on you give me a fucking break you know or whatever uh which is a movie about him being a conjoined twin from 20 years ago that was his justification at first she then more emphatically expressed him that it was wrong and so he finally gave in and said that he

has officially retired the f slur forever i imagine him in his garage putting up a celtics jersey with that word on the back of it, with a tear in his eye, you know, something like that. Well, Mark Wahlberg plays taps on a bugle. You know Mark Wahlberg was disappointed to hear this news. Had to be him and Matt and Ben probably had a group threat going on. You know, it's like, Matt, what have you done? No, I don't know. I'm sure they're all great dudes or not.

Who cares? I just think this is, it's just a hell of a thing to just come right out and just say. you know. If you talk exemporaneously in public you're gonna stay a stupid shit like someone messaged me last week I got quoted a TI lyric

to popped in my head randomly and I jokingly called him a friend of the show and somebody sent me like a bunch of stuff about how bad TI is I know the stuff about TI I don't TI sucks sorry about that

I didn't mean anything by it but you're speaking in contemporaneously in public you're going to say much and dumb shit but the the funny thing about Matt was he wasn't asked anything about this I know that's right

he just offered it what was like being in the movie still water. It was pretty cool. By the way, I stopped saying the F word three months ago. All right. Okay. But he has weirdly apparently since clarified or attempted to. He's walking back. He just said the exact opposite. Actually, I've never used the app bomb, which is ridiculous because he did say it stuck on you. We heard it. And also, he departed about a thousand times. And I don't think he's like any hate this hard or malicious guy or anything. that but it's just like just as somebody's a good actor doesn't mean you to ask them a bunch of

questions about you know yeah or not ask them about it yeah and just maybe they'll just say it you know um yeah you know I get like you know he ultimately is saying I realize that this is because he's a 50 year old dude from Boston and that's part of what he says like when I grew up everybody said that word all the time and I'm 100% certain that's completely true and so it's like as long as he's saying it's wrong and i have stopped and we'll never say it and whatever then it's like at least he lands on the right place it's just such a ridiculous way for uh for it to be presented you know it's the details of the story in particular that might as so uh just outside it's also just a straight up lie to say you've never like we i was a kid and

i was a male teenager in america and the 90s. If anybody says they didn't say that word, they're full of shit, the point is to try to be a better person as an adult, as society evolves. Like, no, like, when that stuff happened with Kevin Hart a few years ago, and he was going to host Oscars and they had to quit because they'll file out from small tweets or whatever, a very smart thing. Like, look, nobody expects you to not have been homobic in 2005. We were all alive in 2005. It's just like, just grow, man. I think that, I think, like, if he had just offered up that they used to say it all the time back in Boston, in the day or whatever i think people would be like okay i don't know why you're talking about that but

we all know that already you know but it was the fact that it was it was months ago you know like three four months ago is a little late to have to have just come around on it although you know there's plenty people in boston and we're from who still ain't come around on it so you know he was he was streaming the third episode of uh falcon the winter soldier it was a long time ago Different time, right? A different time. Yes. April was a different time.

All right. Let's get into the Cuomo stuff. Yeah. So everybody's seen it at this point. The New York Attorney General has released a report that outlined some pretty serious sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo. I think 11 count specifically is what it was that are covered in that, I think. Is that right, Mark?

Yeah, that sounds about right. The specifics of it are pretty crazy. If you want to see, like, like this is going to get. because everything falls in the cultural war, yellow stuff. You already see a bunch of right-wing people saying see Trump was right or whatever. Like everybody's a scumbag, which is probably true. But then

it's like, then it filters through like, okay, well, if Cuomo resigns, it'll prove that Democrats are better. So that's the only reason Cuomo resigned to make the Republicans look bad because they didn't hold Trump accountable. It's like already, we're already through the looking glass of what the point of this is. Anyway, the point is Cuomo is not a good governor.

He's a bad person. And his abusive to everyone, including sexual abuse, I want to take away from this. You don't have to take my word for it. Here's a video from New York Attorney General, Leticia Wright, announcing the findings of this report. Dependent investigation has concluded that Governor Andrew Cuomo

sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law. Specifically, the investigation found that Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed current and former. New York State employees by engaging in unwelcome and non-consensual touching and making numerous offensive comments of a suggestive and sexual nature that created a hostile work environment. Yeah. And Cuomo's defense to this, now,

he's going to try to conflate a bunch of different stuff, right? He's going to say it's because he's touchy and loving, right? Yes. So, like, here's how he's trying to spin it. Here's a clip of him. He obviously knew this was coming. He had a big report, like a printout that he handed out, and he released a 15-minute video of him talking straight to camera about what a good duty is and how people just misunderstand

how nice and sweet he is. But here's a, here's a montage. I do it with everyone. Black and white, young and old, and old, straight, and LGBT. Q, powerful people, friends, strangers, people who I meet on the street. So what he's going with there is essentially the, I'm not Italian, all right. It's just Italian. That's just what we do. It is a joke I was going to make anyway, but here's him explicitly making.

that argument and different clip. Other complainants raised against me questions that have sought to unfairly characterize and weaponize everyday interactions that I've had with any number of New Yorkers. The New York Times published a front page picture of me touching a woman's face at a wedding and then kissing her on the cheek. That is not front page news. I've been making the same gesture in public all my life. I actually learned it from my mother and from my father.

It is meant to convey warmth. Yeah, my dear sainted mother taught me to grab people and kissed him on the cheek. But like the thing is, it's not like it's just 11 counts of doing that, right? I mean, like, it's not, it's, that's not the whole thing that he's being accused of is doing the mum, my, man, the thing that they all do on both cheeks. Like, it's more than that, which he's not addressing. They have a video clip of this, but I don't think we need to show up, but I just describe what it says with, what they, what they, uh, this one of the women

investigators, uh, describe what he's, stuff he's accused of is, for example, he touched at a work conference he grabbed a woman's butt all right uh another occasion he had a female police officer in a security detail right yeah oh sorry they were frozen sorry uh he uh police police officer in a security detail um he allegedly he would trace his finger down the small down the back her from the top of her neck down to the lower back and when they were in elevators together he rubbed her tummy and said he slid his hand around to her hip well the detail that killed me was that it was like the hip where she keeps her gun every cop that kills someone says they reached for their gun right yeah that woman could have shot the governor of new york and gotten away with

because he reached for her gun the this whole thing is absolutely goddamn ridiculous um and one of the ways he defended himself uh he put printed out a picture book of other politicians of powerful people, also kissing and hugging people. One of them was he put out a page of pictures of of Joe Biden hugging people and kissing him on the cheek and stuff.

And what happened next when it was so quick, it was fucking hilarious. You could almost put the Spongebob meme 15 minutes later. Here comes this headline. Joe Biden, Andrew Cuomo should resign. It was like, he basically laid down in front of a bus

and asked it to drive over it. It's just like, it's fucking ridiculous. And the important takeaway from this to me is like, Cuomo got deified last year in a really ridiculous way that I complained about the time because he's not a good governor and his COVID response was completely inadequate. He was just as bad lying about it as Trump and resisting shutdowns at March. He actually was slower than Trump on some shit at the beginning of the pandemic. Trump obviously got worse and worse or worse.

And Cuomo started, but even like the vaccines, like grabbing control of the vaccine dispersal from local and slowing that down that process. He tried, do you remember he tried to use vaccine doses as leverage to get people to say he didn't sexually harass them? He was calling around trying to get people in different districts to come out his defense where they get vaccine doses. This guy is a psychopath, a terrible governor, and he's getting his comeuppance. And I hope everyone who bought a Cuomo sexual t-shirt and joked about being horny friend or Cuomo feels really dumb today. Because like the way we turn politicians into like the cults of personality is ridiculous. And it's incredibly damaging because these people work for us and they're, you know,

tools for an agenda and the agenda either serves you or it doesn't they're not they're not heroes they're not people you root for like they play in the olympics right they make a salary to do a job they don't do the job you fire sure and i mean i totally agree with you on that um but i you referenced this briefly briefly earlier but the whole dynamic i feel like when i was reading responses and stuff on twitter what most people were saying or whatnot like i i don't see people on the left like defending him right now or anything, right, despite his, like, deification, like, people are, which I think that whole point, and now it's like, okay, he's only going to resign to prove this point or whatever, but, you know, like Matt Gates still out here stomping around barefoot, Marjorie Taylor Green

and all that shit, and Donald Trump was grabbing pussies and stuff, and none of that ever matters. None of that ever matters for any of them on their side ever. It never amounts for anything. But when it happens to a Democrat, it's, they typically go down for it, including like Al Franken who probably shouldn't. This is a completely different thing. But I'm saying, you know, I don't think there's like a double standard and I think it's worth pointing that out in situations like this. You know what I mean? Like we always say we ain't like y'all in that way, but we're really not for the, you know, for the most part. Yeah. I mean, I've seen some people there's that conspiracy theory that the power that be are trying to take down Cuomo so

New York have a Republican governor who can pardon Trump. I saw people making that theory, which is extremely stupid. New York's not going to have a Republican. Also, Andrew Cuomo governor is like a Republican. He's actually sandbagged and sabotaged Democrats every point that he can to keep out of control of the state government. So he doesn't have any rivals with any actual power. It's a, yeah, it's fine to cut him loose. You're not going to, if you're a resident of New York, you're not going to lose anything by not having Andrew Cuomo as your governor anymore. So you can, you can let him, you can let him slide. Do you know what happens if he does resigned? Do they have, like,

like in New York, how that, what's the line of succession or however that works? Or would they have like a special election or some shit or what would happen? I have no idea. I assume the lieutenant governor would take over until the next election. But like, you wouldn't know what this cult of personality stuff gets you? First of all, it gets you

a Brett Kavanaugh at Supreme Court because no one thought it was two, people kept defending RBG whenever anyone asked her to retire. She's retired. She had had pancreatic cancer. It was 80-something years old. Yeah. It's fine to ask you like that to retire so they can severe so progress can continue the world can get better she's not we're not put her in an ice flow she's going to go retire and live on a beach you know it's it's same thing like

right now like in california recall elections are the stupidest thing in the world and we're going through one right now right they got because you you can get like a hundred thousand signatures and get a recall election on the ballot it's not very many people and a lot of people had gab knew someone all the sides of the political specter because he says right but he's still better than the people running against it so if 51 percent of people vote that Gavin Newsom should be recalled. I ask vote getter who's not Gavin Newsom will be the next governor, even if that person only gets like 5, 10, 12 in the vote. It's the plurality.

So the next governor in California could very easily be a Republican. And Diane Feinstein has Alzheimer's. It's fairly public now that Chuck Schumer's asked to resign like three times and she, he said that to be three times because she forgets they had it, right? Which is deeply sad. you know also ridiculous but the um if diana feinstein slips in a bathtub a month after republican takes office

Democrats lose control of the Senate because California will have a Republican senator who will probably be crazy as shit because the Republican governor will be Larry Elder so you're talking like you're talking well as Senator Marjorie Taylor Green you probably set up a PO box here and be in the Senate now so

it's an extremely dumb system man just this is just extremely dumb yeah indeed well on that note you want to talk about the eviction moratorium what's going on with that but first i want to say stephen brya retire uh yeah uh so the the eviction ban um eviction moratorium which was federally instituted by the cdc and there were lots of work around so people were still getting evicted because the sheriffs don't follow the law necessarily but um it expired july 31st it expired

the lot 31st because the supreme court decided it should retire uh january 31st because uh a bunch of landlords who gave themselves like a hippie-dipy name like the National Civil Rights Alliance or some shit like that, filed a lawsuit as landlords to say that the eviction moratorium overstepped federal government's power. And Brett Kavanaugh, randomly picked July 31st, the date it should expire, not for any principal reason, just like we think it should be over, but we'll give you two months. That clock was already tick, always ticking. Democrats didn't do anything about it. When he realized four days ago it was about to expire, Joe Biden said, Congress should extend. this. Congress was like, we're leaving town, buddy, you would send it. And Joe Biden's like,

the Supreme Court said I can't. And so Cory Bush, the congresswoman from St. Louis, who's a BLM activist, she slept on the steps of the Capitol for all weekend, trying to call attention to the homeless crisis. Homeless crisis is about to be exasperated. She embarrassed a shit out of them. So Joe Biden issued another eviction moratorium using a different law, I think, but it's still going to be struck down by the Supreme Court in fairly quick order, but at least maybe he can buy them some time to, you know, replace it. But all this cluster fuck is ridiculous and also just shows how bad the Democrats are at politics. They didn't see this coming.

They didn't think they'd be an outlast, a backlash, you know, 80,000 people are about to instantly become homeless, right? Which is a disaster for them, small landlords, medium-sized landlords. It's going to be a disaster for small banks if they don't get their rent money. This leads to, like, general conglomerates owning everything and more people being homeless. It's just like this is a bad result all around. Hopefully they're going to take some more steps to finesse it. But like it's an example of how broken the social safety net is because they pumped a bunch of money into it.

The money is sitting in a bunch of bank accounts. They can't figure out how to disperse it. They can't pay people's rental assistance. It's just a broken social safety net that doesn't work because it's like so bifurcated and there's so many different processes, so many different paperwork to fill out and shit. It's very frustrating. Okay. McConnell went on video today and he said this about it on Matt if you had the video.

What is your position on extending the moratorium, what is your position on extending the eviction moratorium, especially in light of the Delta variance? Well, it looks like the money is there. And it's either still in Washington, or it's down at state and local government, or somewhere in between. It doesn't seem to me require any additional legislative action. I need to get the money out there that's already been made available so it can solve the problem. And that's a no, and that's a no on the eviction moratorium, just to button that down. 79,000 people are behind on rent in Kentucky. Oh, yeah, I think the governor and needs to do something about that.

If he's got the, I mean, the thing is, he's like, he's an asshole, but he's not wrong. Like, like, first get the money, like, figure the way to get the money into, like, the problem is, like, the federal government doesn't like just give people money. You've got to, like, means test everything and give people, make people a thousand forms. if you just disperse the money, it would get to people, and they'd be fine. But they're so worried about one wrong person getting rental assistance that it's like 79,000 Kentucky is going to lose their apartments. So. Well, how is what, how is, what specifically is the thing that holds that up other than just

like bureaucracy? You know what I mean? Like, who is the person? Is it Joe Biden? Who is it that's like that could just do something about that? Well, I mean, we need to rethink out the social safety networks in general. You shouldn't be getting one kind of assistance from the county, one kind from the state, and one kind. You have to obviously be verified by the federal government, and it's like five different agencies.

If your person gets around the bus, you got to go all over town to get one type of food stamp card or whatever. It's just like none of it makes any sense. It's very hard to navigate. So the government would be like, we have all this money and no one's asking for it because no one knows how to ask for or who to go ask. If you had one department of social services that handle federal, state, and local, you know, we talk about like, how the government's less offended than private less you know what do you call it efficient in the private industry and it's a little bit true not really anyone who's dealt with a try to get a health care reimbursement claim from a blue cross knows it's not necessarily true

but a private company would at least try to make this stuff linear and stackable so it would it would be easier to navigate so we wouldn't have one person in five different departments doing the same job right it just doesn't make sense I also just don't understand how like like sort of snuck up on them apparently the way that it seems to have you know what i mean like it's just you would think it's immediate it's very apparent that it would be a big problem and a thing that people would care about and it's like yeah you know like here's the problem getting somebody's birthday or something to them here's the problem is like 35 percent of americans are renters and no one in the senate knows any of them yeah right nobody pays rent if

If anyone has stories about renting, it's, it's, it's, it's an anecdote about their hard Scrabble rise to wealth and power from being, uh, just half a lie or based on nepotism or marrying into money or whatever. But the, uh, I mean, it's just like, it's just like the idea of what Americans are, we all, they think we all live in little pink houses in suburbs and it's not true. I mean, I rent. Yeah. Yeah. Um, me too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's just right taking for granted that it's not that big like it doesn't occur to them that it would be that big of a deal somehow despite like the numbers being readily available like because they just don't think in that way now renters rent to pay and not been able to pay it yeah renters aren't real

people to them and i'm also like another thing that's driving me crazy about this about how bad the democrats are that's about how bad they're a policy not recognizing that people don't like you know people actually rent and live check to check. But the Supreme Court's fault, right? Republicans run against the courts all the time. They will slam the courts for bad decision. Democrats will almost never go to the Supreme Court for a bad Supreme Court decision. The last time that I remember it happening was Obama slammed the Supreme Court during the State of the Union for Citizens United and he got castigated for it, which is like the lesson Democrats take away from this is like, we're institutionalists, so we respect the institutions.

Republican just burn everything down and do what they can to get their agenda through. But their courts are right-wing now. The courts are extremely right-wing. They're going to frustrate the Democrats' agenda if they can't figure out a way to change the dynamic. There's not a single social program that Joe Biden's going to pass that the Supreme Court's not going to figure out a reason to say is unconstitutional. Everything's going to be unconstitutional. And if you think Supreme Court's following some sort of rules other than motivated reasoning, you've got to like, I don't know, read different coverage of them because they arrive at whatever conclusion they want to make for whatever the moment is.

to help Republicans. It's not like they're not honest actors and they're political actors and they need to understand. But be up front about that like it is if you're the Democrats. Make sure that people understand what's actually happening

because of course you're going to be the ones that are blamed for this, you know, this type of thing in the administration in charge at the time. And if you don't have an actual effective response or at least you know something to say about it regarding how did actually happen and you got you improve your messaging then like you kind of deserve it you

deserve to be the one that takes the blame if you just you know don't handle it any better than that whether it even is your fault or not like it's up to you to keep shit like that from happening in the what's like it's lucy and in charler and uh um with the football you know yeah in the peanuts cartoons it's like what this is what the Supreme Court's going to keep doing so you've got at least make it clear to voters what's happening otherwise they're going to blame you for it even though like your response the response to the problem was ineffective as we talked about but the actual people who created the problem with the Supreme court right right so to say so fucking say so isn't that like why won't you allocate blame where it goes because you want to

like pretend that you have this west wing version of the government the politics is the debate club and everyone is operating in good faith you just want to hold on to that illusion until we're all dead you know it's yeah me too uh shit so so all right let's let's all right let's Listen, Matt, you can go ahead and start looking at questions the comments. If you want to, throw them up there while I'll tell you all this little anecdote. Mark already knows this. I've told him we can still talk through it with you guys here. Great story.

Interesting things happened to me recently. So people now and then when I put a video out, one of my little rant videos I do, sometimes people ask me, you got a TikTok link. I guess they got people on TikTok that ain't on Twitter or whatever the case may be. And TikTok just keeps coming up, but I'm old and don't understand things. So for a long time, I've just been, no, I don't mess with TikTok. That's just for, I'm not a dancing teen, you know, or whatever. So I'm not, that ain't what you do on TikTok.

But finally, I decided what I'm making the videos anyway. Might as well put them on TikTok. So I started doing that recently. And if you've seen any of my videos, you know, you know what they are. You know what I'm about. Literally same exact video, just also posted the TikTok. And I've probably put five or six of them up there is a relatively recent thing. and three of them have been removed for hate speech.

And I have been banned from TikTok in increasing increments of time with every removal. I'm currently in TikTok jail for like four days, which expires tomorrow. I got put in TikTok jail for two days last Friday when I put my video out about just people not getting the vaccine and then being dumb. I put that video out and it got banned for hate speech and I thought, well, I have a line and in that video, I say the words, Mexicans should go back to their country, right? Granted. But the context of me saying that is Republican assholes like Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott are somehow acting like the best thing for COVID would be if Mexicans went back to their country because they're passing all these bullshit immigration laws and saying it has anything to do with COVID. That's a thing that's happening. So that's the full context, but I was like, well, maybe just, when my accent, I'm just not allowed to say phrases like that, no matter what the context is, you know, as far as TikTok is concerned.

So when I got out of jail, I took that sentence out of it and left the rest the same and reposted it and put a thing at the end where I was like, this video was banned. And I don't know what's going on. Let's see if this one gets banned too. And it got banned immediately. And then I got put in jail again. So, yeah, apparently, I'm a, I'm a. I'm a hate speaker by TikTok's parameters. The only other explanation I can think of is that, like, as far as TikTok is concerned, it's, like, discriminatory or it's considered hate speech to talk shit about, you know, conservatives, white idiots, basically, that don't want to get vaccines, because otherwise I

literally don't know what it could be. And if that's the case, then that's funny to me. It's my First Amendment rights, Mark. I'm being persecuted, all right? I need a liberal redneck parlor app or something of TikTok's going to be like this. to start my own app. You're being a shadow band, buddy. You're, I mean, you're basically the enemy of the Chinese Communist Party now.

So that's a pretty high profile. I like it. Yeah. I, the algorithm is doing a lot, like, right wing watch, who's a video compilation account, like organization that basically grabs different videos being made by different right wingers. They got kicked off YouTube for a while for just reposting conservative content. Like, look at this dumb dip shit.

it right yeah uh the people got kicked off youtube who were journalists who covered january 6th because just footage of the riot trying to show people what happened was considered like election misinformation or something so the algorithm is just or completely indiscriminate like that you usually usually can appeal you know i i did i submitted appeals and nothing happened people some people the comments are saying and some people i know in real life have said too that maybe i'm getting brigaded with complaints you know that i'm like people that for whom I do not hit are just, you know,

submitting a bunch of complaints about them just to get them taken down and that's working. I don't know, but clearly I'm the victim here, Mark, okay? Someone else said, does anybody over 30 care about TikTok? No, I'm over 30, and I don't care about TikTok. I just, this is a new experience for me, which I find humorous. Trey has the perfect relationship with social media.

He posts and then leaves it. He doesn't, like, look at anything on there, ever. Jennifer Hartthorn says, conservatives report your stuff on the basis of it being unfair to one racial or ethnic group like say white people but i don't i mean sometimes i sometimes i say white people but i'm a white person i'm allowed to it no but uh also it it's not it's not about it's not directed of them being white it's directed them being stupid for whatever reason yeah but it was literally saying like you need to get the vaccine because you're fucking this all over was the point of the video and like that's not that ain't fucking hate speech i don't

care if it offends them that i'm calling them stupid for not doing it i think you're you're trying to like you do what your brain works you try to find a reason for things and sometimes there's not really so but what she's saying uh the right right wing online kids do do this um someone could have just dropped a link to that video and one of their like a reddit thread like hey look at this dumb ass everybody report him and then up that 20 000 people report you for no reason because they're bored and then your account gets taken down they do that like it's like how like when you know Last Jedi comes out and he has like a fan 5% of rotten tomatoes because all the Reddit Nazis voted it down.

Yeah. Well, you know, I'll just start replacing my voice with a robot's voice and putting police sirens and stuff over on shit like that and just see if that works. Because that's what they do on TikTok as far as I can tell. I don't understand it. I don't understand. Yeah, I don't know anything about it. Yeah.

Just thought maybe they would appreciate my wares and they do not and that's okay. I'll still be over on Facebook having my fun. Okay. You got to start a party on Facebook, all right? You got to start making K-pop memes. The K-pop teams will push you up. And then you'll be world famous as a K-pop superstarts, right? Yeah.

Well, that would be fun. Matt says, maybe ask a question to the audience. Comments are light. It's August, man. It's a, they did. So we don't even any dumbass MGT videos. She was still posting, but I'm doing interesting. so we're sitting here being uh other than congress fucking up it's a slow news day

yeah so you know i don't have a question other than you know can i do want to ask because y'all are out in the real world uh uh non the communist state of california uh can do you guys personally know people that are vaccinated and are they ideological holdouts or just haven't gotten around to it yet because i'm really curious about that because i i'm seeing differing data on that I started arguably trying to put people in the buckets. A lot of people really are just likely skeptical and just haven't gotten around to it yet. They're just waiting to see. So, like, their neighbor got it and, like, see how they feel in two days.

Or they're afraid they'll have symptoms from the, you know, side effects from the vaccine. And it can't afford to take out work. You know, that's the thing, too. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's an interesting question because, yeah, anecdotal. All my, like, I come for pretty small family anyway, and we're all like, like, Mine did really. So like back home, that really small redneck town I'm from, I really only know my good friends and my family, all of whom are, you know, they're all vaccinated and everything. So I don't have a good sense of how widespread it is, although I would imagine probably a fair amount. And then my in-laws in Wayne County, Tennessee, my sister-in-law is a doctor, a pharmacist. I know she's really pissed at people for not getting vaccinated, but I don't know like what the kind of numbers are. whisper mason says i have a friend in tennessee that isn't vaccinated because he thinks he's going to be charged for

it like there are bunch of police or by the bank like we no no but but like you right this is america cost money because in america fucking three aspirin if you go to the doctor's office costs you eight hundred dollars or whatever and people are used to that so they just assume yeah i mean i get it like get that mentality even though it's not true of vaccines i was i mean Like, if somebody told you health care was free in America, this one specific thing, would you believe them? Because, like, we're talking about people who you go to the wrong doctor's office.

She's a surprise bill. Honestly, honestly, I expected to have to pay for it. Like, when it first came out, you know, I just assumed we would have to pay for it. And it was going to be worth it to me. But, I mean, yeah, why wouldn't you assume that in this country? I honestly think you'd get more up to, you'd get more, less head than see more uptake if you did charge for it.

Because free stuff is suspicious to America. Like, like, so much of American capitalism is, just based on it being a scam, that if people can't figure out what the angle is, they assume they're being a sucker, right? It must be a microchip that they're going to get profit off of because why would they give you something free? It's not free the federal government paid for it, trying to get by back to work, right? But the, I have a buddy works in a, his job is getting, so it works for a company that has

solar panels, and they'll put solar panels on your house, your roof for free, and you get free electricity. and what the company gets out of it is a free real estate to put their solar panels and the extra energy that's sold back into the grid from those panels that you don't use, they get profit off that. So when he calls people to try to sell them that, people will not believe it. It sounds like...

I don't blame them. Yeah, it sounds like a scam because it's like health care is in so many ways of scam in this country. There's just so many other types of scams that we've all been made aware of or had you know, gotten screwed over by. So it just, you know, you can't trust nobody. Nora Enal says, I'm in Indiana and I know nurses who won't get it. Yeah. I mean, why?

I don't know. I mean, obviously there are these people that are like the lady who's cutting everybody's breaks and stuff. Okay. Lynn Barron's Hannah says, I'm a nurse. Many of my patients are waiting for the full approval of the vaccine. I can't, like, I can't, the FDA. So I was reading explaining. of this, and it's really frustrating because the FDA exists to keep people from being scammed.

It's supposed to stop snake oil, right? Right. It just complaints of medicine, I mean, like the claims of medicine to see if it does what it says. Over the count on truck stop dick pills have not been tested. Everyone knows they're a scam. They're not claimed to be real, right? They don't have an FDA approval or they're not necessarily, they're not deciding something's poison or not.

They're trying to decide if something works or not to see if you're being overcharged. for it. We're not being charged for the COVID vaccine. They're saving us from zero fraud, right? They could just approve it and it would not affect their mission. So there's them slow walking this is extremely stupid and frustrating. And yes, it would stop a lot of people. Like a lot of those hesitancy is they have that talking point. It's not fully approved. B.J. Anderson says plenty of nurses and doctors in Tennessee will not get the vaccine. My home state's been well represented so far. As per usual, go tight and says, we'll not get the vaccine and just had an outbreak. at the county jail, only 23% of the deputies were vaccinated, 38 inmates with COVID.

Yeah, that check, how did, do you know how it's working with inmates, with prisoners? Are they, do they have the option even, or we're just not even giving them the vaccine? There was a bit of outrage because they're, they put inmates in the first tier, which, of course, people were like, how come they're getting in first? These liberals are like, but they're just high risk. You're trying to stop the outbreak. They're trying to give them to the most high risk people first. right just that's it and keep keeping inmates from getting it keeps guards from getting nurses from getting it taking it back to their families um but the uh it's the response to this is

like the fact that the government won't mandate it for their own employees is ridiculous like like new york is starting to do you need a vaccine uh proof of vaccination to go in bars and restaurants but in new york will not require will not require the police department to y'all get vaccinated it's just like just make just require it required yeah I mean I used to work for the federal government as we talked about before and I remember they required like random drug testing which I always thought was bullshit because there's a Supreme court case from the 90s which deemed it unconstitutional for like political candidates or like holders of political office at a certain level at least to be randomly drug tested you know but federal employees could be randomly drug tested you know what I mean but they you know I don't know why like like They can do whatever the hell they want when it comes to that type of stuff. You know, so why would they not? It's just like in the NFL, you know, they've, you're heavily incentivized to get the vaccine. And so for coaches, they pretty much all have had to get it or like one of them lost his job because he wouldn't get it because like he couldn't do his job if he didn't have the vaccine because he couldn't go in meetings or stuff like that.

Like you have to make it hard on people to not have it, I think. Like if they just continue to refuse to not get it, you got to make it. difficult to not have it. Do you see what Mike Zimmer, the coach of the Vikings did this week? Yeah. So the, so he's really, like, so the NFL's got a bunch of anti-vaxxers, you know, their young, jock kids who didn't go to, who has a science tutor do their homework, and they got hand injuries.

They're all going to live forever in that type of time. Yeah. And they get, they get all their news from YouTube. So there's a bunch of vaccine hesitancy in the NFL, and the coaches are openly complaining about it, because a lot of coaches are elderly. And like the head coach of Redskins, Ron, how about his name? Ron Rivera. Ron Rivera.

He's a cancer survivor and he's been openly frustrated with it. He's immunocompromised. He's openly frustrated with his players not getting it. But most coaches are concerned about it being a competitive disadvantage because if your players miss gains because they're in the protocol calls, this is positive you're going to be down players. You might be forfeit if you're not enough players. So Mike Zimmer has been complaining.

coach the Vikings complain about his players for a lot. And so if you're not vaccinated, there is a process you can go through. You have to get daily testing and yada,

yada, yada. So he invited the media to come early every day and take out the parking lot and take pictures and write down who is getting tested so they will know

who is unvaccinated so they can ask them really annoying questions about it. That's how he's, that's the stick he's given to his players to get the care of the vaccine is I'm going to embarrass you

your children. I'm going to embarrass you. I mean, you have people quitting their jobs over. Luna Gary M. says, I'm in Wisconsin, and it seems I know more unvaxed than vaxed, shaking my head, I am vaccinated. So, yeah, there's definitely, you know, still pockets. But like you said, if you're unvaccinated in the NFL, there's all these other rigorous steps you have to go

through. And I just, like, me, I'm such a bag of shit. Like, just that alone, I think, would be enough. Like, you know what I mean? Just to make my day easier, I would do it for that reason. Like, I ain't doing all that extra bullshit, but these people will put themselves through so much extra bullshit, or some of them will just walk away from a job, you know, like, so they don't have to get it. It's just mind-boggling to me. I would rather be shot full of 30 experimental drugs and fill out one form of the DMV. I would not do that. Yeah. I do not understand these people. Like the testing, like, I got to come into work early every day to get tested every day, get that thing shoved up my nose every day,

all because I won't get two shots. There's no way. You don't even have to tell me what's in there. Just give it to me and leave me alone so I can sleep in a little later, whatever. I ain't doing this shit. Also, it was really, really funny because they didn't really hit their uproar until the NFL announced. They got really mad the day the NFL announced

they weren't going to make everyone get vaccinated. But what they said was, you could not get vaccinated if you want, but if so many people are positive that you guys can't play, you're not going to get a game check. So your team will forfeit, whoever calls the game to be canceled,

and players from neither team will get paid because you don't have a game to broadcast. and they're like, oh, but you still got to pass. We don't want to get vaccinated. We might get COVID, but we still want our game check. It's like, no, that's, that's all, that's, that's the, that's all the anger. It's like they want to be paid for intentionally sabotizing their workplace. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, I don't know. Let's see. B.J. Anderson again says, I'm fat. All right. And enjoy a diet of southern food, including many examples of fried everything. But I ain't stupid. I got vaccinated because I'm kind of addicted to living.

yeah especially if you live fat man got to keep yeah got to do whatever you can keep that keep that going yeah yeah live living living hits buddy i like that fat life myself yeah um you you said where it said what you go ahead what yeah we back so just as an example of how people are removable vaccines had uptake had dropped off and then with a rise of delta variant it's gone back up again like we vaccinated like we're averaging like close to a million back up to averaging almost a million doses a day going on arm. So we're up to like 70% of adults. I don't know.

Maybe we'll, you know, maybe we'll get there. Do you have any idea of what that number like needs to be before? Herd immunity? Yeah. Yeah, before. What is it?

I think it's, I think it's 85, 90%. I'm like that. Maybe a little lower than that. But that's still like the delta variant is going to be endemic. Like we're all, it's going to be around the rest of our lives like like a cold and flu C. so we're kind of keep getting booster shots and shit.

Aggie Cajun says it was really hard to get people to wear seatbelts before it was required. It took many years to get people to adapt and some still don't wear them. Yeah, it's true. I was a kid when they passed that in Virginia and the hyperbolic language about how to tolerate it was to require people wear seatbelts. It was absolutely ridiculous. My dad would say sit like that and he didn't want to wear a seatbelt. I knew people who would never wear a seatbelt who thought it was some bullshit

and government can't tell me what to do, you know, that type of thing. Yeah, he's one of those people who wanted to be thrown clear. That's the way you want to do with the wreck is you're being thrown clear of the wreck. See, I can hit the ground running or maybe do a little tumble and then pick myself up and go. I trust myself better than the inside of this car. I'd rather be, you know, if you think about it, Mark, if a car's going to get smushed and exploded, you'd rather be outside of it, really. You want to get into those bushes over there, perhaps.

in the uppermost reaches of that tree, something like that, anything other than inside the car. Makes sense. But my dad was an old-school redneck in a lot of ways. For example, he put off going to the doctor a lot. And one of the things, one of the things happened because of that was he got colon cancer. It's not what killed him, but he didn't have colon cancer. He had a colostomy bag for the last few years of his life. And when he got the colostomy bag, the doctor gave him a note that said he did not have to wear a seatbelt.

And he was happy. I bet. Finally. Yeah. Fuck you, government. Yeah, ate that shit from my colostomy bag. Yeah, but

to that point, though, about the seatbelts. Like, but now, and there are still people who won't wear a seatbelt or whatever, but like, people get over it. You know what I mean? Like, people bitch and moan about things for a while or whatever, but then they move on to whatever, like, you know, they try the next thing.

If you don't get over it, you end up being, like nobody thinks about seatbelts anymore. As you get in, your car dings twice, you put it on, you drive. It's not a big deal. It makes your shirt a little wrinklier. I don't know, whatever it does. But it's like one of those things, like if you don't get over it, you know, being one of those people who's just like a 70-year-old guy out of bar

ranting about low-float toilets and fluorescent light bulbs. It's just like, come on, man, light bulbs work, toilets work, it's fine. Yeah, but I don't know. So as a reminder, you know, still planning on doing these shows. still want y'all to come as long as you're vaccinated because we're all vaccinated so yeah come see me on tour well read comedy.com for tickets and information we'll keep those uh keep them going we start certainly plan to i just feel like you know if you're you're vaccinated and you want to come and we're all vaccinated and we're going we're like then like we're we're cool right tell me we're cool mark we're cool yeah i don't know i think Because it's like, as I've said before here, it's like, otherwise I don't know what we're doing here. You know what I mean? With these facts, like, if we, we, the responsible people have taken the measures that you need to take in order to be responsible, we should be able to fucking live our lives again.

I mean, you know, they never stopped living theirs. But like, we got to get to a place where we can fucking do that again, too. That's the frustrating thing. It's like the mask order is directed at us because it's like, they need to direct the mitigation efforts to people who will comply. Who will listen. Right. So like, it's like we're being punished. We got to class early with their homework,

and now we have to stay late and do more homework because the other kids didn't do their homework. Right. It's fine. That's fine. That's fine. Everything's fine. Everything will be fine. Yeah, well, all right.

Well, that's it for this week's edition of weekly skews. I'm trying that's Mark, and we'll be back right here next to you. See you bye. Oh, good week.