Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 8/20/24 – Political Theater

Episode Date: August 21, 2024

Skewers, tonight we discuss all the latest criticisms being aimed at the Harris/Walz campaign as the DNC continues in Chicago. Apparently they think Tim Walz is a (very deep) sleeper Chinese agent and loves Tiananmen Square and stuff. So that’s fun. Also JD Vance continues to make normal things as weird as possible. And more. Support the show

all right everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it's august 20th 2024 i'm trey that's mark what's up mark god none buddy doing pretty good i lived through a real life vaudeville a bit the other day i tell you about this i don't think so what happened i was in a barber shop getting my beard trimmed and uh guy walks in barc my barber's Mexican for reasons that it would be important in the second okay so the guy walks in it goes and the barber goes are you here for one and the guy goes at 1 30 p.m. the guy goes no no for two yeah and right I can't move because he's throwing my beard I'll start like be like wait what's what's happened right now the barber doesn't really barber understands he did like he thought he goes do you he goes no no no are you are you

hear for he's like correctly understood the guy didn't understand what he was asking but didn't understand he misunderstood that he said one and then the guy goes oh but like are you uh with one and the guy goes no with two pointed him and his son they both want

haircuts right yeah and I'm sitting there being like oh my god my brain's gonna fucking explode if you guys they still they left they left they started figured out and when I can move it left yeah he had a point of everything and left because he couldn't figure out this who's on first shit that was going on they didn't have an apartment appointment, they couldn't take walk-in, so he went to another barbershop.

They figured that part out, but they had not communicated that no, I mean Juan. They did not understand. Nobody knew that he was saying one. It was just like, anyway, just like, I love life. It's always filming stuff like that happens in real life, you know. It's a nice little treat. Yeah. So stuff that exists in our universe we're talking about.

So George Santos pled guilty to whatever is going on with him in federal court. But more importantly, he lost his lawsuit where he's trying to sue Jimmy Kimmel for showing cameos they paid him to make. Just like, no, this is fair. You made the cameos. They paid them. It's fair use. And he was like, nope, I'm going to appeal. Making fun of me is illegal.

Yeah. And he shouldn't know because his grandpa wrote all of the laws, as we all know. Right. Yes. Just making fun of me should be illegal is kind of the drowning force behind the American right right now. It's absolutely fucking hilarious.

So, in one way, before we get to the show, I've been trying to figure out what the fuck is going on with Oklahoma Secretary of Education, or State Education guy, Ryan Walters. Because I saw a video of him literally running away from the media, and I was like, wait, what the fuck is happening? He apparently is on the verge of getting impeached by the Republican State Legislature, because he won't tell them what he's doing with the money that he has. Like, he won't respond to information requests and stuff.

And he basically is like, I double dog dare you to impeach me, which, so he's He's going to get impeached. So this guy, he's a hardcore because you said he's, whatever, the education secretary of Oklahoma and they had, they've had a bunch of bullshit with them, right? Like they hired old lives of TikTok girl and all that shit was going on. So yeah, so this is this guy. So like, and this guy is going to be impeached by what I assume is the super majority

far right Oklahoma State House. So, yeah. Yeah. You know it's bad. But you just kind of fuck with the money. You can be as insane. as you want to be, but you know, you can't fuck with all their money. If you're going to, like, steal it, you've got to, like, steal

something for them to or steal it with them or whatever. Right. You can steal it on your own and not tell them. But all these mega guys, when they get put in positions of executive authority, apparently think they've been a named dictator. Right. And like, so, like, but so this legislator's like, well, you

technically work for us, motherfucker. So he's withheld funding the state legislator intended to go for physical school security enhancements enhancements and asthma inhalers. And these schools are in these legislators districts, all right? So their beef, you talk about those of TikTok, that's Arab beef with him. Their beef with him is withholding money for that stuff.

And it's also a federal report saying he's misused federal funds. He's also being sued for defamation by a school superintendent, who's a former Marine, who's buddies with all these legislators. He called the guy a fucking liar for talking about, like, how he was handling money. So he's being sued by that guy. But yeah, our beefs, like I said, he appointed Chia Reichak, lives a TikTok more on to more on to like the state school board or whatever

he also called the school system Epstein Island based like all the children are being like groomed and in July he mandated that every school district must teach the Bible and the Ten Commandments which got immediate pushback from the Osage Nation

you know because Oklahoma has a large Native America population so this went exactly how you thought it would the first guy to get dinged for teaching the Bible trying to teach the Christian creation myth to a bunch of Osage people who don't believe in Christianity

is like the first guy's got him Eric Richter who was a football coach at the school who had an emergency teaching certification in English that expired in June of this year and prior to teaching the school district he ran for Tulsa County Sheriff but was disqualified

because he embezzled funds from Taco Bueno. All right? Sure, but what's the football team's record, Mark? That's the important thing. 9 and 1, something like that? Because if so, you know, what are you going to do? They always got to put the football coach, you know, teaching something in these small schools.

Right. Well, it'll be the Bible to Native Americans, I guess. Right. Well, yeah, no, he embezzled money from Taco Bueno. Is that what you said? Right. What is that? Like an Oklahoma Taco Bell?

Well, they got them in Texas, too. It's like, it's like a chain of like a fast food Mexican restaurants. Yeah. So he, but like, I dare say if the football team had a good record, they would not have made him teach the Bible. and they'd probably still be employed. But yeah, these are the kind of morons that everyone's up against

trying to keep the country and falling apart is a guy who was too stupid to get away from embezzling from Taco Bueno and I couldn't get elected sheriff in Tulsa County, Oklahoma. So yeah, that's what's going on

out there in America right now. Okay, in Oklahoma, or maybe not. Anyway, let's get into a producer matters with us doing his thing. This is weekly skews before we continue. I want to remind y'all

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at the Harris Walls campaign, both from within and without, and you never believe this, some of them are pretty silly. It's going to be fun as the DNC rages on in Chicago. We'll try to get caught up. But first, the Daily Dumbass, Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., men who don't spend every moment contemplating the mandates that come with menstrual cycles. This is our boy, Jim Dave Vance.

and you can sort of see the effect it has on him to be around them. Like they spoil him. There's sort of all the classic stuff that grandparents do to grandchildren. But it makes him a much better human being to have exposure to his grandparents. Well, I don't know. And the evidence on this, by the way, is super clear. That's the whole purpose of the post-monopausal female in theory. Did your in-laws...

All right, you're going to... So, J-D-man, J-D is just a... Like, the fact that you get that got no pushback right there. Like, J-D is just like a generator. talent being fucking bizarre he takes like a boring observation like grandparents are cool to have around right and it turned to a conversation about like just like running

through your internet brain filter and it comes out like yes post-menopausal females do have a use what are you going to do with old ladies but let them raise the raise the grandkids they can't bake pies all the time you know they need something else to do yeah and then later on there's the same dude this podcast host whoever it is he's talking to

also he talks about J.D. says that his mother, he's married to an Indian woman. His mother-in-law lived with him for a year when their kid was born. And the host goes, yeah, you know, that's a weird, unadvertised perk of burying an Indian woman. And he's just like, yeah, it's pretty cool. You know what I mean? It's just all very, it's just a weird way to talk about. His mother-in-law, by the way, as a provost at UC San Diego.

She's not some, like, like, you know. Babushka or whatever one kind of like that. Yes. Yeah, yeah. uh that's a russian grandmother i know i don't know what i just meant yeah that just sounds very mammae to me i guess i could have said mamma she's indian mamma whatever anyway she's not she's not some like wilting flower is my point like she's like a career woman who like is is like is like we're probably like e j i would love to put her in a lot detector and ask her about her her son-in-law but so

so these guys really should not be even aware of evolutionary biology there's a really interesting question about like why human beings human beings live so long and like the utility of grandparents because like other animal species don't have grandparents but human children require so many resources to raise it's really sort of really takes a village argument about how we should make child rearing easier

since like families are more disconnected people like anyway the point is his realization should be like we should have we should make child care easier in America that should be the conclusion not it should be illegal for women to stop having periods or whatever dumpshal bullshit are going on about there right so JD's you know past goings on

keep bubbling to the surface. That was that podcast interview was a couple years ago. He had another one come up that went viral last week about how he talked about like America's, how America deals with immigrants and how like past waves of Italian, Irish, and German immigrants resulted in higher crime rates and ethnic enclaves. And he was asked about it and he said, hasn't anyone seen the movie Gangs of New York? Yeah. Which is, yeah, an insane thing to say because that's essentially.

the same argument the villain in Bill the butcher made also he's ignoring all the great pizza places and stuff that came from that too you know a lot of good sausage a lot of other things not just crime from the Italians you know he was also at like given this

he was the that event was at like a police benevolent association that endorsed like the Milwaukee police endorsed like Trump fans so he's talking about the perils of Irish immigrants two cops it's just deeply fucking funny but that same interview I'm not sure of this like

got missed but the guy he was doing the podcast with his name is Jack Murphy under an old pseudonym he'd written a blog post that he said quote behind even the most ardent feminist facade is a deep desire to be dominated

and even degraded and that quote rape is the best therapy for the problem feminists need rape all right that's uh yeah don't cut yourself on that edge buddy that's some hardcore edge lord shit right there also yeah you know he probably just really wants to write you know he might even be doing it who knows right and like i like i like i don't like

the the the the upside or downsides of the weird frame you're like whatever but there's just so much this shit you can't quite get to i just think leaving it out there as a hanging curveball for whatever anybody stumbled across this to have a metal framework to absorb how deeply fucking just out there these morons are and what their beliefs are is uh worth trying to get people to understand even if I know they got jobs. They're not on the internet like I am, knowing what these people are up to. But it's pretty maddening

that everybody walks around all day and not knowing these psychos are all around them. It's just sort of weird. Yeah. Our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is Tim Walz's wife for making her bridesmaids, unwitting communist agents. She's a radical leftist.

She chose another radical leftist. They're just assuming, again, the mainstream media is not going to cover his background. The house is going to investigate it now. It's very strange. You know, he got married on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square. He's gone to China. He's taught in China.

He's got deep connections to China. All right. Cut of Matt. So you got married to the anniversary of Tiananmen Square. What a month. He got married on June 4th. Yeah. And basically, since most people get married in the summer,

and America's summer is in June, that you're just going to people like nice weather. There's basically a one in seven chance. Someone got married on anniversary of the summer. Right. square it's like first of all i know i knew a lot of guys in college markets you think that's bad these guys used to smoke weed on hitler's birthday every year hitler's birthday but people don't know if that's 420 which is also a big weed holiday but i don't think people are they've got the in the south people don't even take into account when the fucking balls are playing when they schedule their

you know their wedding i really doubt they're taking into account like past international geopolitical tragedies or whatever, you know, the anniversary of various disaster. I mean, not picking 9-11 as an American, that would be a little wild. But, yeah, Tiananmen Square, I don't think anybody's thinking about it. Also, hell, get married on 9-11, that's fine. Make it, make it about something about it. I'm absolutely positive. A bunch of people get married every year of 9-11.

Because you probably get a discount because there's so little demand for the venues. Right. I think it with your head. It's just smart. Yeah, yeah. So you and I shared the same wedding anniversary, I think. Yeah. It's talking about people getting married in the summer, the different years, but June 21st, right?

Correct, yeah. So I looked up, we both got married. We both got married on the anniversary of the day. John Hinkley got off for shooting Ronald Reagan for insanity. That's pretty perfect. Well, also, you know, it's like the summer solstice or whatever, so it's like pagan devil-worshipping day, too. You know what I mean, it's not godly, so there's that upside also. Yeah.

So I looked up other people that because, like, people keep track of, like, things, celebrity anniversary dates. It was pretty easy Google search. If you're wondering who else got married on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square or happened to be the same day, Billy Crystal, Howard Stern, Jamie Lee Curtis, B.B. King, Robin Williams, the crocodile hunter, James Cameron, and David Schwimmer. So this plot goes pretty deep, all right? But they're not going to let this go, and I think it's worth exploring why they think. Here's James Cohners on, you know, the Congressman James Cohners on Jesse Waters show earlier yesterday. earlier today.

And you know about China, Congressman. You did this when you looked into Hunter. When you go to China, they surveil you. If an American goes to China 30 times in the 90s, they have surveillance footage of him. They have surveillance footage probably of his honeymoon night. What kind of compromise is that? They were worried about Trump in a peatap situation that that was all made up. This is serious business.

It's very serious. China thinks long term. It's very possible that China would be grooming an up-and-coming rising star in a political process to try. Was he even a teacher yet back there? He was over there to teach, didn't he? Or is that not? Either way, so you mean China handpicked a Midwestern, like, party guide teacher? And the night of this guy's destined for the White House.

like it comes from a political dynastrian. That's some serious foresight on China's part if they figured that out. If China really hacked American politics that well, they know us better than we know ourselves. It's sort of like how like the Obama birth certificate conspiracy theory, which is coming back, by the way, Jesse Waters today on the Five said they're saying an investigator to Hawaii to get to the bottom of Obama's birth certificate. So we're really at least replaying all the old hits. But yeah, so before we get to that, the reality of it, Like, China thinks long term is an inherently, it's a really funny thing to say in this context. We're like, yeah, they do because they don't have to deal with this petty bullshit because they're authoritarian.

They don't waste time having to deal with dumb scandals where Congress spends infinity hours investigating the psychotic stuff for partisan reasons. By the way, just yesterday, he released his 300-page report and how Joe Biden should be impeached. We all go, like, so, yeah, they still did that for some reason. season. But yeah, this is a preview with the next two years probably if Harris Walls wins and Republicans hold it on to the house. So we're going to be sitting through all this. If you guys wonder what the reality of it is. Yeah, as

Trey pointed out, he taught in China in 1989, which I, like, when I didn't know what I want to do in my life, I considered taking a job teaching English in South Korea. Yeah, I knew people who did that, yeah. Apparently it pays pretty well. It's like a cool way to live in a different

place and all you have to do, and all you have to know is how to speak English. Right. And I have a college degree. So I was like, okay, I meet those two qualifications. So in 1980, before he's either in the Army and two decades, almost two decades before he was in Congress, he also led some school trips over there in the 90s, which is like, okay, definitely how you recruit spies is with American high school teachers. And if their goal was to have an ally in the U.S. government somehow foresaw that Tim

Walls would fit that bill, is probably disappointed with his tenure in the house. I'm quoting here from The Washington Post. there, the representative from Minnesota took public positions critical of China's approach to human rights. Because he'd been there and saw the surveillance and shit. But also, China wasn't, the idea they had high-tech surveillance in 1989 is not remotely true. China wasn't very rich in 1989, didn't have the great wall, the great firewall of China going yet because the internet barely existed. So it's just like, well, they couldn't just stick with, you know, the whole his tacos are weird thing. Like even them, they were like, we got to keep digging.

We've got to find something. So now they've got the Chinese thing, and I know they got another thing that we'll get to a little bit later that they're showing in on as well. You can write like a psychological paper on why they're so fucking obsessed with Tim Walls, and I don't really have the bandwidth

to get at the bottom of it, but it's like... I think it's at least in part. I mean, I think they would do a version of it to anybody that Kamala picked, but also I think that part of it is it kind of drives them crazy how outwardly not attackable he seems to be. I don't know how I was to put that, but the fact that it's like he just, he just so, in so many ways, doesn't fit what they want a, like, evil villainous liberal to be like, you know what I mean?

I think that just drives them nuts. So they're like, we have to, we got to find something, you know. He's a straight white Christian male who's not them. Right. And it bugs them. But like, all the oxygen they're using attacking walls is energy, if I was advising them, it would be like, you should be going after Kamala. Right. that feels like more important if you want to win and also more easier attack considering like again if you're going to this conspiratorial bullshit her dad was a Marxist economist that's right there for the taking so he really was like that's that's true yeah okay yeah because I knew I'd heard

like Trump say that and stuff I knew they were saying it but I didn't know if that was overstated or not Well, you know, yeah, I don't, I mean, I guess there is that, but it's like with Kamala, it's like also I feel like they, they just like don't know how to do it without just being racist and misogynist or whatever, which they're fine with. But you got to like, you know, you got to, they still have to kind, they can't just dive fully into the deep end of that publicly yet. Maybe they're saving that for later, but it's like they, you know, they want to seem like that that's not what they're doing even though I reselling their body. telling them just to do that. If you want to divide the Democratic coalition, which is what they should be doing, like, I'm not going to do it right now,

but I can give you the anti-comble of pitch. Right. She let Steve Mnuchin off, and she could have put him in prison. End up being Trump's, like, the Treasury Secretary. That seems like something you'd want people. Anyway, whatever.

Well, I was going to say they can't do that because they love, you know, cops and law and order and all that shit ostensibly, but it's like, but it's not like hypocrisy. Right. And hypocrisy would be anything. new for them. You know what I mean? No, but what you do is you have like carve outs and bots make the argument online to where you get like people, people that are sensibly Democratic voters

arguing with each other. Right. Leading into the convention. That's what you do. Divide and conquer. You don't like, I wouldn't take sincerely Donald Trump gliding that criticism, but I can see people arguing about it all the time and it being very annoying. And they're just not doing that. And thank you for not doing that because yeah, I don't want Trump to win. So there go. Yeah, all right. Well, let's talk about all the political theater going on at present. Okay, so let's start with this.

I fucking hate electioneers so much. They're just so miserable. It's like, like, it's so easy to forget when we do all this political theater about meaningless stuff like Tim Walls flying to China or like, like, like, J.D. Walls, JD, J.D. Vance is like podcast appearances or like, or like, revelatory to me. like what he actually believes. But as far as like the weird messaging wars are going around, it's like easy to forget what the stakes of all this shit are,

that like we're deciding who controls a nuclear arsenal that can blow up the world five times over. Right. And there's also the part where I do not want to live on the snow parish train. Yeah, it would be generally preferable to, to avoid that. But the whole, I feel like everybody, except for the most ardent political junkies, I guess, most people get real sick of it during election years every time. But it's like, you know, this time around, and we've talked about this before when it all first happened.

Because of the nature of what happened on the Democrat side this time, like Kamala is only really like three weeks in. And it started in July or whatever, much, much later than it normally starts. And I would, it would be nice if people took away the message from that. Like, we should just do that in the future. I'm sure they won't. There's too much money involved in all that shit. But that's part of why it sucks so bad is because it like, it starts a fucking more than a year in advance. and it's just incessant the whole times.

It's like we're always in some kind of election cycle, where there's super important midterms coming up or another general election or whatever. It's just always something. If we paired that down, made some laws or something where it's like you can only campaign for like three months before what any election. I feel like it would just hit for everybody on all sides except for it.

It would. It probably makes it less democratic though because it gets like this. You can't stop the invisible primary from happen. Like one of the reasons that like a bunch of people were frustrated about like Hillary went in the nomination in 2016 is that she'd basically locked up pre-seen captains in New Hampshire for 2016 by like

June of 2009. So like it's just like it was like so like if you if you you can't stop that stuff from happening all you do is stop people from trying to like mount some sort of campaign that requires momentum but yeah I do prefer I wish we live in a world where that was possible but instead we get we have elections

with these like world ending stakes where we get together and have these conventions where you get stuff like this. Here's what was in like the free basket they gave to the American Maryland delegation at the Democratic National Convention.

Jamie Raskins strong and sweet democracy mustard. What the fuck is that? It wasn't for. Preferable to any kind of dictatorship mustard. Yeah.

What does that even mean? Also, it's like, so they just, how do you land on You said, is Maryland, if it was some kind of crab seasoning or something, I get, they're not a, they're not a mustard people, are they? In Maryland, they're not for mustard as far as I'm not familiar. I'm not going to, I'm not going to venture outside my, my wheelhouse to comment on Maryland mustards. But yeah, yeah. So like, I get like, like this one of the things I think they're not going that's good is making it seem fun. Being fun draws donations and volunteers and everybody wants to be on the winning fun side. all right so it is good to have fun with it but like i hate all this stuff turns everyone into like pundits and theater critics and we like we're part of the problem too yeah that's what we sort of what we're here but yeah i hear you yeah but but it's also since what they're doing

is producing political theater like it's worse to dissecting what they're trying to tell us is the citizens and voters of this country like my sort of takeaway is that we're not going back thing is also a message to like dc pundits and the new never trump member and donors of the Democratic coalition who want to make the party theirs, but pull it to the right. And so I think it's, like, I think it's cool. We've only been through one night of this. We're mostly talking about night one of it. I think it's cool they gave a first chunk of the big, a big chunk of the first night to AOC,

Jasmine Crockett, Sean Fane. And it's like, it's not nothing, okay? Like here, AOC gave a pretty banging speech that got brave reviews. And here's her talking about being blue collar, which I think is important in the way she framed it. If you got this minute. Republicans have attacked me by saying that I should go back to bartending. But let me tell you, I'm happy to any day of the week because there is nothing wrong with working for a living. As someone who's been up and down the economic ladder, working a bunch of different jobs in random orders, it has not been a consistent.

climb for me. I will tell you that the easiest jobs ever had paid the most. The only blue-collar job I've ever gotten to take napset, like I've got, I've gotten, I've had plenty well-paying jobs they got to take napsat. The only blue-collar job I got to take napsat was when I worked construction and be waiting for a load of stone. I laid out on a pile of dirt and a shade and take a quick 15 minutes. All right. So I don't understand this thing where like people think blue-collar people don't like, it's like shameful work. There are much more shameful jobs in America than actually getting your hands dirty for a living. uh yeah for sure i mean yeah it's you know that it's it's part of the irony it's like huge chunk

of their base is like hardworking rural americans and stuff but at the top they're and who hate coastal elites but then they the the republicans at the top are elitist about you know people like aOC having a regular job for a while or whatever but dude i mean she just like don't nobody getting them fired up like she does i don't think like since hillary probably like she's like she's like she going to get to hillary i mean she already does But a lot of people on the left are like, oh, this is her. This is like Obama, the DNC in 2004 or whatever year that was. You know, it's like put him on the map and started on the trajectory.

This is her moment for that. And everybody on the left loves her and shit. But at the same time, the hate train is just going to continue to ratchet up so much for her. Like she really, really gets under their skin. Right. And they go back to bartending thing. Like, she went to BU. She's like, like, she graduated like the honors.

whatever, but like, but she was working as a bartender, which campaign for Congress. They literally would get on the floor of Congress and make jokes about I should go back to bartending. I'm like, man, fuck you, dude. Just have somebody bartended, fuck you. It's a hard of the job. It's a much harder job than being a fucking dipshit congressman. So Jason Isbell played a song last

night at the DNC and I guess a bunch of people who are right wing watching it for the first time learned he's a lefty. And, uh, yeah. He's, I feel like he's had so many different moments like this because I mean, I'm an Isbel fan. I know the guy a little bit.

I love him. He's a great dude. And this has happened to him. This happens to him repeated. I don't know who these new people are that keep like finding out that they love his music. And then later being disappointed to learn that, you know, he's a commie lib or whatever. Because this shit, it feels like it happens to him every few months. I'll see him on Twitter.

Somebody, they're getting mad at him for being a leftist. And he always, you know, I mean, he stands on business. He don't put up with it. He fucking, he lets him know. But, yeah. Like, it's like the truckers have like two or three separate. songs about how George Wallace is burning in hell. So I guess they just sing along to those songs without knowing who George

Wallace is. But it's like, yes, I think that to, first of all, like, I don't, as a fan of his, I don't know how you can listen to Jason is, well, just his music and not pick up on that. I've always thought the same thing for the drive-by truckers, too. They've definitely dealt with that over the years. But then you think about how like, these people fucking rock out to rage against the machine. You know, like Paul Ryan, that's his favorite band, is rage against the machine. They love, and then they get mad at Tom Morelli.

who you know and it's literally called it's like you know i've heard people say before it's like what do you think they're raging raging against a dishwasher like what kind of machine did you think that the name was referencing but that's just how yeah i don't know how powerfully uh deny in denial these people are about because it's like the the music that is made by them for them they don't like it either you know what i mean like they got to force themselves to pretend they like for giotto blow or whatever or they got to turn to blind eye to good musicians politics. So what are you going to do?

Yeah, I guess when Zach Dela Rocha from Rage was like screaming about the calling the Pentagon, the five-sided fistagon, they were like, well, it's because fists are cool. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So Sean Fane gave a speech last night, you know, president of the auto workers union, the UAW, and he did it in a Trump as a, he came out and wearing a sport coat. Then instead of Totten here, took it off and was wearing a Trump as a scab shirt. Hell yeah.

Google Trends Show that searches for what a scab is went up exponentially. So I guess we're teaching Americans a little bit of class war here. That's cool as shit. To which Ayaazi, the below the line showbiz union, posted this image of Trump, you know, crossing an Nazi picket line in 2004 when they were on strike outside of the apprentice. So, yeah, we're teaching people what a scumbag, Donald Trump is, a greedy guy who stiffs his workers. And tonight, by the way, before a hopped on, there were 25 retired Teamsters on stage talking about how Democrats saved Teamster pensions without one Republican vote, which is kind of a big fuck you to Sean O'Brien, who requested a speech there. The DNC told him to screw off because he spoke with the RNC, which is going to get him fired as president of his union probably. My favorite clip from last night was Raphael Warnock.

And I want you to listen to what he says here because a major American politician saying this at a major party convention, is kind of astounding to me. I need my neighbor's children to be okay so that my children will be okay. I need all of my neighbor's children to be okay. Poor inner city children in Atlanta and poor children of Appalachia. I need the poor children of Israel

and the poor children of Gaza. I need Israelis and Palestinians. I need those in the Congo, those in her. those in Ukraine, I need American children on both sides of the track to be okay. Because we are all God's children. All right. So that's the kind of thing that they would get the CIA to overthrow a South American politician if they said that out loud back in the 50, 60, 70s, 70s, and 80s.

Literally, you would just say, if you just said land reform outside of the president of Brazil, be like one week later SpongeBob mean the person's been overthrown by military and so like I just like it's sort of like

one of those things I'm not a naive baby I understand that part of what's happening is the DNC trying to co-op the left in a time of extreme

populist anger right but they're not the party's not saying we're a democratic socialists they're just saying

there's room for it in the party which is a huge leap for American politics okay yeah could you do a library on this a little bit for me because you know I'd be dumb

and stuff. Why is it is it just because of the specific places he named? He says both Israel and Gaza and Ukraine and all this stuff because to me it feels like because he specifies children to me it seems like one of those sentiments that's like I think

children everywhere should be fed and safe is like something that no one on earth would dare outwardly have a problem with and then the Republicans turn around and make school lunches, you know, free school which is illegal and shit. I get that.

But, like, saying it seems like it should be fine with anybody. So, like... Right. It's framed in terms of children because everyone likes children, but it's like an inch from saying, Workers of the World Unite. Okay. Like, the idea that you should care about other people's children

is not something that the American politicians, especially in the context of some of those children at this very moment being killed with American supplied bombs. Mm-hmm. You understand what I'm saying? Right. Like, even, like, talking about the Congo, So, like, American companies are paying militias in Africa to, like, do coups.

They can extract lithium from mines to build electric cars, all right? So, like, the idea that, like, American business interest heard it the same way that I heard it. Which is, holy shit, somebody somewhere is coming for us. And, you know what I'm saying? So the fact that he was allowed to give that speech in that way felt different to me. Maybe I'm absolutely wrong. Again, I'm trying not to be a naive baby about American politics here. but like something something something interesting is happening here it was this is a night for

for working people to be angry on behalf of the downtrodden it does feel like you say something's interesting it's happening here it has felt like that for a while I mean ever since this this particular campaign started and Tim Walls came on the scene and all that it does feel I mean we said on a previous episode it's like it just finally feels like they're like listening to their actual constituents or the bulk of actual people on the left instead of the consultants and the whatever the suits and shit who who who the donors and stuff which is what it's always felt like they've done in the past the democratic party like they just do what those people say instead of what the people actually want them to do that's always been one of

those maddening things about them it could end up being all lip service but lately it don't feel like that at present feels like they've changed that which is nice I guarantee you consultants were pulling everything a lot of stuff that happened last night there were a bunch of consultants working their ass off to stop it, right? That's part of what I would I consider refreshing is that I know the, I can sort of read T leaves the forces behind, you know, the scenes, what they were pushing for. And we'll get to this in a little bit in a second. So, you know who else is doing theater criticism about last night's night one of the DNC

was the right? Let's watch this clip of Steve Kerr, and I'll tell you what people were saying about it. And after the results are tallied that night, We can, in the words of the great Steph Curry, we can tell Donald Trump, night night. Thank you. All right. So we'll get to what he was doing there if you don't follow sports.

Steve Curry is the coach of the Golden State Warriors. All right. That's his current job. Who Steph Curry plays for. Yes. And the night night thing is one of Steph's signature celebrations. Yes. When he hits a game winning shot or a shot that puts the game away,

it's like if I put this game to bed or go to sleep bitch depending on how mean you want to interpret it and he's done it to my team the Dallas Mavericks many many times and I wish you'd pass a law to make him stop right so been on the receiving end of that many times

every other one has pretty much but yeah what are they saying about this Mark oh well remember remember when Trump was almost killed a couple weeks ago they're saying a bunch of people online were saying that this is like a coded message that we should finish the job and killed Donald Trump

let me quote here from Alex Jones Let me try my Alex Jones impression. Did Steve Kerr make a veiled assassination threat to Trump? All right. Yeah, yeah, Alex Jones is pretty good. It's one impression I can do. So, Steve Kerr. A veiled assassination threat was this.

It's like, I can't believe Steph Curry threatened to kill all those Frenchmen just a couple weeks ago at the Olympics in Paris, too, in Paris. Yeah. Outright threatened to kill them all on their own soil. Yeah, four three-pointers, the last two minutes or whatever. I sent you guys the French and outs just being like, the devil named Curry is killing us. It was great.

So, yeah, so Steve Kerr's life story, if anybody cares, his entree to politics besides being the coach of Team USA Basketball, his dad was the president of American University in Beirut. When Steve was 18, his dad was killed, Zad Malcolm was killed by Islamic Jihad. I didn't know that Beirut, yeah His dad's from Lebanon

He spent a lot of time living overseas His grandfather did a lot of stuff To help like survivors The Armenian Genocide His family's been involved in international politics For a long time He just happens to coach basketball I guess he couldn't

He was like I could go into the foreign service But instead he'll be Michael Jordan's teammate That seems like more fun Although Jordan did punch him in the face that time But still probably more fun You know, got all the championships Shot all them three porners Had a pretty good time with it

Do you know something I learned today that I found mind-blowing that the morning of September 11th the big news was that Michael Jordan had just announced he was returning to basketball to play for the Washington Wizards.

It would probably take some pretty big news to bump that off the front page, don't you think, Drew? It's like who, was it fair? I don't want to get it wrong. Who was the famous actress that died the same morning that Michael Jackson then died that afternoon?

Do you know what I'm talking about? See, you don't remember. It's like, But it, like, it would have been, you know, again, it's somebody you've heard of. I'm going to look it up. You go ahead. Okay. So, sorry about, like, talking about things changing and people not quite, there are a bunch of people

don't quite grasp, but it's not just the Democratic consultants and pundits or whatever. It's also like the mainstream. When we complain about media on here, I'm not talking about general everyday working reporters. It's talking about the Washington Press Corps who cover politics for a living, making them some of the most brain dead people on the planet. All right. Here's some fact checking of. the night one that came out today.

This is just one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. This is a fact chat of, I think, of Biden's speech. Quote, she quotes Biden saying, Donald Trump says he refused to accept the election result if he loses again, Biden said. But that's not true. Trump just hasn't said that he would accept. And he has previously said the only way he loses if the Democrats cheat. What the fuck are you saying right now?

Yeah, right. I mean, what else is any of that supposed to mean? It's meaningless. He's been pressed repeatedly to say whether he would accept it, and he won't say that. And like you said, he says, the only way he can lose is if the Democrats cheat. And it's like, what other messages you're trying to send there other than, like, any loss, any, you know, profess loss for me is unacceptable. And we all have to treat it as such and, you know, try another goddamn coup. By the way, real quick, it was Farrah Fawcett.

And I thought that's who it was, but I don't get around. Farrah Fawcett by the same day, Michael Jackson did it. Anyway, go ahead. RIP, Farrah Fawcett. I remember, I'll never forget where I was. was when I found out Michael Jackson died, by the way, I was right in a car to a gig with another comic who read the news on his phone. And I related to me, he was says, huh, I guess Prince won. So that was really hitting way to find out Michael Jackson died. I was in, I was downtown

Knoxville was a bunch of friends by him, but I don't remember why. I think maybe we're going to a, they used to have street concerts in Knoxville and Market Square. I think I was going to one of those. Don't remember who was playing or nothing though, but yeah. The thing about like this level of fact checking right here, one, like the two, the candidates, it's the candidate for the other party is one of the biggest liars in the history of the world that's even when you can diagram his sentence to figure out what the fuck he's talking about

and you apply this level of scrutiny to like any particular sentence like I'm not aware of any normal sentence that could withstand this level of fact checking right this is like saying like hey Mark where's your wife at oh she went to the store and like fact check he said the store there's actually more than one store

so he needs to be more special like what the fuck you even talking about it's like this is so bizarre here's another one all right a quote from Hillary, they fact-checked. She, meaning Kamala Harris, won't be sending love letters to dictators. There is no evidence that Trump sent such letters. Clinton is making a bit of a leap to suggest

that Trump has written love letters to dictators. Clinton appears to be referring to a 2018 comment from Trump about North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. We fell in love, okay? No, really, he wrote me beautiful letters and the great letters, we fell in love. How was that fact-check untrue? Right, yes.

It's just clearly, like, it doesn't have to mean literally like handwriting and posting and mailing love letters to dictators. It clearly is referencing his like his, you know, his explicit preference for the, you know, the conduct and personality of dictators. He's a big fan of famous dictators worldwide and, you know, he slabs them, glazes them. Those are both things. Right. Yeah.

There's a larger truth beyond the mere meaning of the words is the point, right? Yeah. And like, it's clearly what she. meant and what she meant holds true but if you just get into the like breaking down the literal you know wording then you can pick it apart but why it's like

to what end you know right when the other candidates are explicitly saying they're going to do the opposite they're obviously going to do when they're in office right it's like what the fuck are we even doing here here's another one they're trying like JD JD's already trying to make the meal out of this when it comes to Walls here's

another weird fact check the New York Times today walls family fertility journey ran not through IVF but another common treatment okay so the gotcha here is that there's a bunch of different fertility treatments and the one that walls ended up neat uh being his family ended up being successful with didn't necessarily rise to the level of IVF because this one worked first right and this the one he got would not technically be illegal under an IVF ban because they don't freeze and destroy embryos all right Yeah, I, you, I, uira, inner uterine insemination or whatever, which is like, something like that.

Like you said, there's no, there's no, yeah, embryos involved. So they're like, we have no problem with that. And so that's what makes this different. But it's like they couldn't have kids for a long time. They had to, like, they had to employ the help of specialists in the medical field to do this type of thing to be able to have kids. And they went through a long and arduous and I'm sure very expensive process, all of which I think most people feel falls under the general umbrella of, you know, IVF treatments or clinics or whatever, but like technically very, you know, at the end of the aid, he didn't have actual IVF, but it's like, it still doesn't mean that

he was lying about what, what had happened or whatever, you know, like. The fact check said he spent seven, they spent seven years trying to have kids, right? And here's like way deep in this story, here's the but, right? The but for, but for people having trouble getting pregnant, the procedures are often linked. Some patients say they're, quote, doing IVF as a catch-off phrase for a wide range of fertility treatment. Right. It's like yes. Exactly. You're saying he's talking like a normal person about a normal person's concerns and you're fact checking like between the lines like some dumb bullshit. It's kind of like how when I meet someone in California who has no familiarity with

Tennessee or whatever, often, or if I'm wearing a Tennessee shirt or something, they ask me like, where are you from Tennessee? A lot of times I'll just say like, I'm from Knoxville or whatever because I moved here from, but I'm not. I'm from Salina. But I know that they don't fucking know what Salina is or what any of that means. So it's just simpler to just say I'm from Knoxville because they've heard of that. And I thought this is a. similar type of thing if he was saying it's like yeah we had i u i to get a lot of people that a lot of people may not know it i mean i wouldn't have known what that means before this but we've all heard of IVF yes it's under the umbrella of doing IVF it's not you go to the same clinic with the same

doctor yeah they're trying to leave the same this vague impression that is a huge liar over over fucking nothing and like so these people are just getting left behind and they're frustrated with it like i feel like when i'm talking about like i'm talking about like the mainstream political press who covers washington like their beat cast members and, like, the consultants who make up the other half of VeeP cast members. Like, CNN had this story today a couple of days ago called Inside the Fast Movement launch of Kamala Harris for president, and there's some pretty telling anecdotes in here. Basically, they had a big conference call where a bunch of veteran Democratic pollsters,

including a guy named Jeff Garan, summarized their analysis, and they asked her to stop saying, quote, we're not going back because it wasn't focusing enough on the future. I don't understand how we're not going back isn't focused on the future, but whatever. Right. He also said to lay off the weird talk because it's too negative. Both of those things I feel like from my perspective were like absolute home runs.

I feel like most of the responses that I saw from both of those things on Reddit and just social media in general was like overwhelmingly positive. Right. Like oh, this is great. And then so to hear that they're like picking that apart is, you know. But you and I, but you are not familiar with the process where someone. Someone has a job where their job is to give notes. They got to justify their existence. So they got to come up with some, right, they have to give some kind of note.

So if his job is to tell you, you've got to give me $100,000 to tell me what you're doing wrong. I've got to come with something you're doing wrong. It's got to be the two main things you're doing right now, right? Right. But Kama luckily is smarter than them. She said she wasn't going to listen to her own political instincts that have been buried into self-doubt for so long, she wasn't going to listen to the pollsters. All right.

So why would you want to, let's watch this video of Trump for a second. Why would you want to deprive yourself of content like this? This dude looking weak and stupid. Yeah. Price controls. Kamala has no idea what the hell she's doing.

Her father is a Marxist professor and I believe he taught her well. You know he's a Marxist professor. Can you know that? No, I think it is. I think it is. Is it? Okay, sorry.

It is. It is. in an overthrow or a coup on Joe Biden. I wonder if they knew where she comes from, where she came from, what her ideology is, but you could see it a little bit by this whack job. You know,

he said, we're weird. The JD and I are weird. I think we're extremely normal people. You exactly like he's weird. You could tell it fucking bothers them, you know, which means like you're doing something right.

Like, that's how you know. Right. There is a story yesterday. that was going viral for the wrong reasons. Like, so J.D., like, people misinterpreted what J.D. was doing. He went to Pat's cheese steaks in Philadelphia and tried to order a cheese steak with Swiss cheese, which is like going to Texas and trying to order chili with beans in it, all right?

It's a thing every politician has coached not to do. Swiss cheese is like the enemy of cheese steaks for some reason. Provalon's fine, but Swiss is a no go. Or a whiz, right? You got to, you get a cheese whiz. Cheese whiz or, yes, I guess, though, they can handle provolone. Even Provalon's mildly controversial is my understanding, but like cheese whiz. I mean, I go with cheese whiz.

That's what I did. I like it that way. Right. So this is going viral, like people making jokes like, oh, they just lost Pennsylvania, yada, yada, yada. But what JD's doing is even weirder than that. Like, it's not that he's just out of touch with regular people eat cheesesticks. He was referencing a mini scandal from 2004 where John Kerry went to Pats and tried to order

a cheese steak with Swiss cheese on and got dinged for being out of touch. Are you kidding me? This was a reference to a 20-year-old gaffe by John Kerry. Which is even weirder. Like, I remember that, but I'm smart enough to not talk about it at parties because no one wants to fucking talk to me about shit like that. Right. Right. Yeah.

So, like, this is like, like, he's being weird the same way that I'm weird here. So my heart goes out to him except I'm smart enough to shut the fuck up, right? So they're bizarre framing helps in other ways. Like, so Trump gave a big crime. speech today and he chose Howell Michigan for it, which is a town mostly known for being the Michigan headquarters for the KKK.

All right? Choosing this feels intentional. Now Kamala did roasting for it as an aside. It got, the hill framed it as like going after him for race, but like hanging out with a racist is fucking weird. Picking this town for this reason is fucking bizarre.

In a country where the rest of us, Kamala's in an interracial marriage, we'll have friends in interracial marriages with mixed race kids. Just like being hug up on this shit from 100 years ago is stupid. And like just a month ago when Howl, a bunch of a dozen white supremacists walked to the streets chanting Howl Hitler and carrying signs reading White Lives Matter as they marched through downtown. Another group of demonstrators shouted, we love Hitler. We love Trump from a highway overpass outside Howl.

All right. So like running as a black woman for president of the United States is a thin narrow to thread. and like when you complain about racism but sorry complaining is the wrong word for it when you point out racism it often gets like run through the lens of like loser whiny behavior all right yeah play on the race car well no i guess right but yeah yeah so but like so pointing out these these motherfuckers are just old school out of touch is like a much better lens to see it through i think from the from the point of

trying to win an election so anyway whoever told her to lose the weird thing is a goddamn moron and should be like these people should not work in professional politics anymore. They should have to go get real jobs, all right? Which is like a lot of our analysis of what's going on at the various conventions, what's going in the president's election right now

are being filtered through some of the most brain dead old-school thinking people in the world. And I've read this piece this morning in the New Republic called But We're the Punded Brain version of the Democratic convention. It talked about how badly these people talking about the the, you know, the Dem pollsters, the

centrist pundits and the mainstream press, political press, how badly they want their little old world back. One of Republican operatives dressed as cable news pundits can shape the decision making of the Democratic Party. Quote, sensible democratic leaders are the ones who tacked to the right to win over voters and politicians who can never fucking be won.

Yes, thank you for saying it out loud. Right. Yeah, just so, like, the whole, like, again, bring him up every time the subject even gets broached, but I remember when, like, when Phil Bredison ran against Marsha Blackburn and he did that old school Democrat thing of like trying to appeal to everybody trying to like you know tilt to the right and get the moderates

and all that shit and it's like that just just shit just don't work all you do is just piss everybody off i feel like right it don't it doesn't work but yeah so the best course is always is to ignore all these motherfuckers right and i wish they do on immigration cop stuff too and hopefully we'll eventually get there but i guess one step at a time and i guess like i wanted to mention this because another example of washington media actually making us tell them i read this framing of like Kamala's like economic issues or whatever last week that I thought was like pretty much malpractice it's a political article the headline was inflation's easing now Harris has an even bigger problem with the economy that bigger problem is

that quote the labor market is cooling more Americans are skipping credit cards and auto loan payments delinquency expectations which reflect the likelihood of a missed minimum payment on outstanding debt are at the highest level since the peak of COVID-19 lockdowns she's talking about two effects while ignoring any of the causes here. The cause of the labor market cooling is all the stuff the Fed did to fight inflation.

Right. The whole point of raising interest rates was to constrain the money supply so employers would have less money to pay workers. Right. They gave you what you guys

agitated for for a fucking year and now you're complaining about like the real world requires tradeoffs You're not explaining the tradeoffs to voters Right, you're saying the bad part Right It's like the tradeoff was Would you rather have a raise

And also pay 4% more for groceries Or would you rather pay 4% less for groceries And not get a raise But it wasn't conveyed to people that way It was conveyed to people But like And now people are gonna miss credit card payments Because of like

Because a bunch of people lost their jobs Because we had to fight inflate I just fucking like I wish they'd do a better job Making people that their choices are clear Anyway Let's wrap up by talking about the circus outside of the DNC.

I've been waiting on this clip. I saw his clip I saw his clip I signed and I couldn't get over it. Right. Here's Jack. How do you say this guy's name? Pasebic. Right wing agitator Jack Pasebic

who tried to go undercover by wearing a cafeo over his face to interview, pretend to be a lib to get them to say outrageous shit. But everyone recognizes them because they also have the internet, have internet access, know the fuck he is.

So he got called out of Mili and everyone ran around and told people who he was. You couldn't get the content he wanted. Instead, he sort of got what he wanted with this. Okay. How many abortions have you had?

How many abortions have you had today? I'm getting paid by George Soros to have an abortion on the stage with no drug. Which way you're going? Which way you're going? What do you mean, which way? What kind of abortions are there, Jack? There's bills, there's tools, there's number of weight. So this still went violent.

She's obviously fucking kidding, but because Laura Lumerant, yeah, sorry. Yeah, she couldn't be more clearly being sarcastic and basically mocking this guy to his faith. How many abortions have you had? It's like, you know what? George Soros is paying me to have one live on stage in front of everybody today. And it's like it's such, it could not be more obvious what she's doing there. And she's hitting for me, by the way. But yes, it got picked up and people were just like, plain face sharing it and being like, this is what the Democratic Party is. This is what's happening. Right. This woman admits she's shameless. She admits on camera that George Soros is paying her to have an abortion. And they want us to believe that they have the country's best

interest at heart, and it just, I just can't believe how stupid. And when it doesn't happen live on stage, the DNC, they'll say it's because they caught them. They found it. Yeah, they found it back. Yeah, right. And so, like, and she was referencing a rumor on right-wing internet. She's, she's making fun of them to their face about the dumb shit they believe,

and they take it and go, see? See? Anyway, it's all so stupid. What I've been worried about at the convention in Chicago was, you know, their protests going on outside relating to Gaza and stuff, and there were, posts on, like, Chicago police message boards talking about how they couldn't wait to, like, crack heads of Gaza protesters because they knew it would, like, cause

dissension and make the Democrats look bad. They were really amped up to do some violence. But wait a few of protesters showed up that people were anticipating. There was an interview with a woman who showed up to the Gaza protest with a sign that said, I hate effing inwards with some other, like, slurs on it. And I, a sincere protester was there. It was like, you understand how this makes the rest of his look bad.

And she's like, oh, I don't give a fuck about you. guys, or Ghazans. I just hate Israel. She's just an anti-Semite. And what's the, you said, her sign says, I hate effing in words. Yes. But it's because she hates Israel. She had other anti-Jewish slogans on there, too. She had a big sign with a bunch of shit written on it.

Okay. But at the top was I hate effing at words. Okay. Gotcha. But like I, I, everyone, reason I get mad about people get backlash against protesting is like, you've got to understand there's a bunch of weird people doing dumb shit there on purpose. And everyone has their own little agenda. And so anyway, we'll get into it for a second

On this occasion But yeah, does everyone just be a little smarter About your media literacy when someone's like You see an outtake from her protests And somebody who might you might want to consider whether they're there To make the protests look bad Because people do do that Who else was there was Cornell West

Who I He was at a march to D&C rally Which is also kind of about Gaza And just not liking Democrats in general I'd forgotten he's running for president Yeah He's not actually running for president. He's not actually running for president, but a bunch of Republicans are running him for president.

Like, he's not really doing anything. Like, his campaign has negative $17,000. I don't even know how you afford it to fly to Chicago. But so there's a scramble right now. Republicans are fighting their ass off. They were. I think they failed to try to get him on the Arizona ballot. Basically, a bunch of, you need electors to get on a ballot, and people need to sign up for that.

And one guy changed his mind that he didn't want to be an elector anymore after Kala became the Canada because he was satisfied with her. over Biden. And another woman, his name was Jerry Judy, not the NFL wide receiver. And another woman also backed out, her name is Denise Mitchell. We'll get to her for a second. And her story is actually more interesting. And so West was asked about it and said, quote, so much of American politics is highly gangster-like activity. I have no knowledge of who are or anything none whatsoever. We just want to get on that ballot. And that's a difficult thing. So he has no idea who the people are trying to get on the Arizona ballot.

Um, there's no, no, no one knows of Trump's, the Trump campaign is directly involved, but it's definitely a bunch of Republican lawyers. And going back to Denisea, uh, Mitchell for a second, when she found out she was an elector, she was like, wait, I didn't sign anything. She, her response was, what is an elector? Someone just forced your fucking signature on a form. Um, and quote, I was shocked and surprised by it all. I don't even know what an elector was. She told the AP, the crazy thing is that it was all forged. None of it was my handwriting.

It was definitely not my signature. My email was wrong. My address was wrong. But her story is not the only unusual one among the slate of Electors for West. One of them, Elizabeth Rothgeb, pleaded guilty to manslaughter after accepting a plea deal stemming from the killing of her then-husband with an axe in 1998. She spent 10 years in prison and was released on Christmas Eve 2010. Inspired, molded out by the seminal Mike Myers classic, so I married an axe murderer from the 90s.

And this ex-murder, this axe murderer, who they recruited, this little axe murder, this little ex-muror that accrued to be an elector for Cornell West also happens to be a registered Republican. There's so much fuckery going on all around us right now. I kind of don't even know how to make sense of it. But yeah, Cornell West, what the fuck are you doing, bro? Spend your whole wife as a left-wing activist and speaker, college professor, and you're going to be remembered as a guy whose main thing was trying to stop America's first black woman president

from getting elected. So you could run around doing scams to get 12 voters in Arizona that hopefully enough to swing the election. This is very fucking bizarre shit going on. Truly odd. Well, we'll see what happens the rest of this week at the DNZ and then we'll catch you all up next week

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