Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 9/12/23 – Impeachment: So Hot Right Now

Episode Date: September 13, 2023

The GOP in the House and in the state of Wisconsin have impeachment in mind, for Joe Biden and Janet Protasiewicz (state Supreme Court), respectively. That neither has done anything remotely impeachable is, of course, immaterial. Join us.Support the show

What's up, everybody? Welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It's September 12th, 2023. I'm Tragher. That's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? Oh, just deep in thought.

Just thinking about this guy overheard at the gym the other day, saying that he knew that the Maui fire was started with a space laser because it didn't burn any of the blue cars. So I just been trying to ponder that for a little bit. I got in a little Twitter, a mini Twitter rabbit hole today with this guy who was a former truther, but not just a truther, like a hardcore conspiracy theorist who now has renounced all that shit. He like saw the light or whatever. And he posted this clip of himself on a podcast talking about how it came to be.

And it was a really long clip. I thought it was interesting. But the shit that he, he seemed rational and everything. And it was so wild to me that he ever believed the stuff he believed because he got in this whole thing where he's like, you know, I was convinced that the devil was behind all this and the antichrist was. coming and it was being brought on by a new world order and all this stuff and whatever else and I'm like how does this dude ever it didn't really cover how he came to believe that shit in the first place but when it fell apart for him actually he said was part of it was

Trump winning and Brexit because he said they had already decided apparently conspiracy theorists had already decided in 2016 that Hillary Clinton was the one who had been selected for the position of presidency part of their whole thing is they don't believe in elections they believe in selections you know you get put in the position and they knew it was Hillary's. Everybody knew it. And also they believe in a new world order, right, which is, uh, you know, prefaced by like unions, like the European Union and there'd be North American Union and all these other unions eventually leading to a new world order. So Brexit, them leaving the union and then Trump beating Hillary, those two things didn't jive with

him. And Sandy Hook, them talking about crisis actors and stuff, he said that can't be right because everybody knows that these people are being ritually sacrificed, right? So it's, it's not fake they're being sacrificed to the devil or whatever he had thought so those were like the chinks in the armor for him and it all fell apart after that but it's like I don't know the whole conspiracy thing is wild you know 9-11 yesterday it's a bigan that's what that's what started the conversation actually was him talking about 9-11 it is funny when you think about that way because like if conspiracies were real they wouldn't have let Brexit happen and wouldn't let Trump get elected because they're just too like right it's bad for the global economy and for the new for the new world

order types. And so was Donald Trump because he wants to tear down NATO and shit. And it's like mass psychosis, disproving conspiracy theory is sort of fucking interesting to me. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, I thought it's best. But then now, I bet a lot of those same people that that guy was in chat rooms with, now they're the ones, you know, claiming that Donald Trump is the, the savior or whatever, you know, sent to, you know, save all the babies from having their adrenachrome harvested or whatever in QAnon and whatnot. So, you know, they, pivot they find a way they make it all work

they slide the pieces into place I told that blue car story to Drew and he was talking about yeah I forgot I made your buds of the gym too one day and I heard these guys talking about how you know Kamala's the one of them that doesn't eat babies because her skin's bad like what

her skin's not bad but like what the fuck we even oh god yeah I mean if the deep state was real they would have killed Trump because he could not because he can't be controlled and he can't keep a secret. Like, he blurted out national security secrets on Twitter all the time. The CIA couldn't do a coup when Trump was in charge.

Right. He doesn't fucking runs him out. That's what we know there aren't any aliens because they told Donald Trump their aliens. He would have tweeted their aliens immediately. But yeah, yesterday was the anniversary of 9-11. Was it 22 years now? And we're still just as crazy. You're talking about, like, conspiracy theories.

Like, it comes up every year, but I watched the news clip again of, like Tim Russert interviewing Donald Rumsfeld about Osama bin Laden's underground like super villain layers that had like it looked like like Moonraker Base when they were talking about it. I'm like God damn we went fucking crazy dude. Oh yeah. Crazy Biden was in Asia for the G20 and so he went on

so his 9-11 his 9-11 memorial he went to he stopped over in Alaska to visit the troops whatever and people are on TV saying it's disrespectful because that's no way to celebrate 9-11. So, my I said, it's like, Chris, celebrating 9-11? Yeah, you commemorate it, honestly. Yeah. You know, like, happy 9-11, everybody. What are you doing for 9-11?

You guys got big plans, big 9-11 plans? Like, yeah, I don't know. Might get there eventually becomes like a, you know, a day off or whatever. And then we start, you know, just using that as another reason to get drunk or whatnot. Who knows? Yeah. uh draft kings had to do uh every year as a brand who does something really stupid there were a couple this year with some pizza brand put out a flag with star star shaped pepperonies and uh to draft kings had to apologize for doing a 9-11 themed parlay bet where you could bet all the new york teams uh on sunday well dude the new york teams they had a rough go of it on 9-11 weekend uh your cowboys your cowboys destroyed the new york giants 40 to nothing the The Jets won, but it's a Pyrrhic victory because they lost Aaron Rogers for the year after he played only four snaps.

So, I mean, yeah, 9-11 was, you know, probably up there in the worst 9-11s that they've had, I think, you know. There was a, Ed Rogers is half a 9-11 truther, like not probably, but his teammates said he talks about 9-11 truth or stuff. And he ran for the 9-11 game, ran out waving an American flag. And there was a 9-11 truther group who was going to fly a banner over top of the stadium that said Aaron Rogers knows the truth or something. something like that. I don't know if it ever actually happened where they were just talking shit. I mean, they didn't have money for a plane. But like... Yeah. It'd be funny if they had the whole thing and then had to abort because he got hurt or something like that. I had to call it off. It's like, no, he's down. He's down.

The same blue his tended out, Trey. So, yeah. Yeah, but I just... Something warms my heart when I say like, Hooters put an out of Memorial up and said, blet freedom wing. And I'm like, okay. This is like, just the tackiest fucking country on the planet. We really are like England's white trash cousins, man. And that's like, I love that about it. Like I see that.

It really does. Like, we're fucking trash. It's, it's awesome. The Santa spent 9-11, he went to the ground zero. He went to ground zero with victims, not 11 victims' families and talked about, you know, no accountability for Saudi Arabia and Trump's financial ties to the kingdom. And I was like, yeah, corruption probably was the thing to go after Trump for a year ago. too late Ron, but also just like they probably wouldn't work because

Republicans are objectively pro corruption as we talked about a lot. So I don't know but it did also I didn't do you ever see where Ari Fleischer, you know, Trump's I mean Bush's former press secretary he would have live tweet the day as it happened to 9-11. No, what I saw that in that line. He said he's

live tweeting not like how do you live tweet 9-11? What like 9-0 whatever a plane said President Bush's informed. We're on Air Force One. He makes this decision. We're going to shoot down flight 93. Okay.

But he stopped doing it. And if you're wondering why, coincidentally, he said he just like he felt like he'd done it long enough after two decades. But also at the same time, he was hired to be the spokesman for Liv Golf was the Saudi back to pro-golf venture. So, yeah,

that's probably has nothing to do with it. Saudis dead 9-11 and no one fucking cares. He invaded two different countries and were about to sign a military self-defense pact with Saudi Arabia. Yeah, well, they got all that money, you know, it's pretty sweet they spread it around it's nice for everybody uh you know who's in bed of them

but yes it always has been right it's like it's just an open six that doesn't even really count as a secret at this point that's like they were behind it or saudi money at least and they just they're still they're still our boys geopolitically uh i guess in afghanistan and iraq both or iraq especially like the fuck did we do and just got the shit bombed out of them for years we don't even go here what's going on another thing before we get to the show some economic name was carrying out today and this is pretty depressing

well it's contextually depressing childhood poverty rates doubled since last year 12.4% of US children living in poverty last year which is one in eight American kids and the poverty if you wonder what the poverty rates are it's like

$29,000 in yearly income for a family of four or $14,000 for a single person, which I don't know how anybody could fucking live on $14,000 in this country for a household. Like, what house are you in? Right. Last year, it was down to the previous year, 2021, which they had data available was 5.2% for childhood poverty.

So we had cut it a lot during an expanded child tax credit. And here's a graph of it. We're still lower than pre-pandemic years. But the thing that, like, COVID forced our government to be a real government for a little bit. and we almost eradicated poverty. But in American context, getting out to 5.2% is fucking pretty as good as it's ever going to get here.

And 5.2%, only 5.2% of kids, only 1 in 20 were hungry. And which is for the American left-winning social states, they would ever recall it. It was a huge victory. And then they let the child tax credit, expanded child tax expire because Republicans didn't want to pay for it.

And Joe Manchin helped them. I mean, all these things are never clear whether Joe Manchin is the only Democratic bad guy where he's the designated villain because he wants to take credit for it. But back when they let it expire and I dug up this quote, Manchin has told several of his fellow Democrats

he thought parents would waste monthly child tax credit payments on drugs instead of providing for their children. Yeah. So. That's the shit just makes my blood boil, dude, because they all assume that. It's like they just hate poor people so much, but they

say, like, you can't give a poor person money. They're just going to buy fucking drugs with it because they're worthless pieces of shit but they like say all this out loud and like with kids you know we talked about it not long ago it's like you would think that like not having children be hungry would be like a universal you know rallying cry but they're like they're making it a mission to you know end free lunches because they're because you know no that would just spoil them we want to spoil these kids by giving them food to eat when they're sorry-ass parents can't afford it uh and it's just so like you know explicitly shitty

and it's just part of their platform their public platform and everybody's okay with that everybody on the ride evidently it's it's disheartening well if uh joe mansion is curious again of the senators who are the bad guys here

50 of the Republicans and just one of the one house we're talking about as Abin State Democrat but the if you wanted proof that poor people would spend the extra money you gave them on food for their kids instead of drugs it's right there in that fucking chart we just showed you Joe Manchin so fuck you I hope your boat sinks

yeah so we got a good show today we're talking about Republicans trying to overturn the results of yet another election it was constant after it's already been certified told me the election of Janet Pro Seowitz and we're talking about Joe Biden's eminent impeachment too at the top of the show so we got it's going to be fun it's going to be fun but before we get to all that

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some more skews in your life. Now, as Mark said, impeachment. All the rage right now, we'll be talking about that a little later. But first, we'll start with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., John Fetterman, for not treating Biden's impeachment with the gravitas. It obviously deserves. I love this clip. I asked me about this news that Speaker McCarthy has formally launched an impeachment in her. has said he's going to... Oh, my God, really?

Oh, my gosh. You know, oh, it's devastating. Ooh, don't do it. Please, I'm going to. And I love the end of that clip too because I was watching. And I was like, is he got his shorts on? And then as he walks off, you know, the shorts come into frame. You're like, yep, classic, every time.

Yeah. If he keeps to the Republicans with this level of appropriate disdain, he might win the presidency in 2028 by like with like every electoral vote. this exactly you handle this shit because like this is such a fucking idiotic clown show all right so like there's no new evidence of any sort of Biden corruption there's nothing right right and play that on a loop now so like last night Nancy Mace went on CNN and Caitlin Collins is like isn't it supposed to be the evidence to lead you to pursue an impeachment inquiry talking about the fact there's no evidence and Nancy Mance goes that's what the inquiry is

for to get more evidence Yeah, but haven't they been ostensibly doing that for like months now? Yes. Like that's like all they've been doing is attempting to gather evidence. And I feel like every two or three weeks, they will cryptically say some version of like, you guys aren't going to believe that we got some serious stuff mounting up. They like seem to, you know, suggest that they've got something without ever actually producing anything. And then now they're just like, ah, fuck it.

Let's just do it anyway. Because because, if I'm wrong, Mark, McCarthy don't really want to do it, right? kind of being held hostage by the lunatic caucus because that was part of how he got the speakership in the first place was he had to agree to like just give him them all his power essentially so he like neutered himself in exchange for the title of speaker of the house so they're kind of forcing his hand so what's new here is not anything wait with the joe biden or corruption or whatever is the political dynamics because we're coming up on a government shutdown which bickrathie also wants to stop so matt gates were on the floor of the house uh this morning or yes

yesterday and was like Kevin McCarthy, you have not fulfilled any of the commitments you made to us in the deal you made to be speaker. We haven't voted on term limits. We haven't dialed back the budget spending. We have deficit, yada, yada, yada, a bunch of stuff. We haven't held the Biden-Crown family accountable, all right? And so he essentially, well, the one thing I can do, I can't, I only have a bare majority in the house. I can't balance the budget.

We're not going to get term limits. It's probably unconstitutional anyway. Yada, yada, yada. Yeah, the one thing I can do is throw these morons, their impeachment inquiry. So that's what he's doing, all right? Hoping they will notice the rest of the shit if he can't get done. So because Kevin McCarthy might lose his job in the next week, he's taking actions that will guarantee he loses his job in the near future.

Right. So it's like just kicking a can down the road the dumbest way possible. And like this is going to be a political disaster for them for a lot of reasons. One, I don't even think they have the votes for impeachment. We'll get that in a second. Having an impeachment vote and losing it is going to look completely, it's going to be fun. So the second thing is it's not clear. He didn't call for a vote in the impeachment inquiry because forget impeachment.

He probably doesn't do votes for the inquiry. So he just announced they're going to do it, which is probably Trump's White House got a DOG advisory opinion that said you can't do it without a vote to establish the inquiry. right so he's anyway it doesn't all this is legalistic bullshit it doesn't really matter some of the politics is more fun so scott parry they did a big press conference today and scott parry was a Republican congressman

was asked by some reporter about what evidence do you have and he goes just look at it just look at it and like you listed off a bunch of shit that isn't based anything like you couldn't even decipher it unless you have like somebody somebody else made the jokes like you need a PhD in Sean Hannity to like understand you this shit

right but his main thing was like but Biden has a big house. You know, a government salary. It's like, yeah, a government salary of a couple hundred grand for like 50 years. It's probably enough to have a nice house, especially when you have great health care and a guaranteed federal pension. So, like,

I don't know. The fact that Joe Biden has a Corvette and a four-bedroom house in Delaware doesn't seem like a complete, like conviction-worthy to me, but what do I know? Don't they all, like, they pretty much all of them, you know, seem to be loaded. And it's all,

that's always been like, you know, they don't make, they, you know, they make plenty of, I'm not, they make, you know, I'm not saying they should make more, but they don't make as much as you might think that they would, considering the power they have and whatnot, like from their job as a Congress person, but they all, you know, seem to be rolling in it not, because I don't know the legalities of what they are and are not allowed to do, but whatever, it doesn't matter. They figure out things to do. You get, you get all your meals for free. Right. Right. So I get the basic congressman salary, like a $235 grand a year. which isn't high rolling if you have to mean two residencies right and go back and forth and stuff you do get a ton of perks but Biden is from Delaware he was taking the train back and forth keeping his one place

so like it's kind of an unfair system you think about it like you represent Northern Virginia you only have to have one house but if you that's why a lot of them are so bitter they have to sloth them sleep in their offices and shit but like no one makes you take this job you beg for this job so shut the fucking everybody anyway whatever so

but this is like a fun house version of Trump's impeachment? Because it's the exact same set of facts that got Trump impeached. Remember it like because Trump was pressuring withholding, uh, congressional approved defense fund, funding for Ukraine. So they would investigate these Burisma charges. So that's what Trump was the first impeachment was about. And so now they're impeaching Biden because, uh, they want to do the same fake investigation that Ukraine refused to do. Right. So like, this is also, and by the way, Trump's Justice Department already tried to do this sham investigation. In 2020, Bill Barr, Trump said at last AG was, he had like

five EGs the last week, the last of the congressionally approved one, said an approved one, looked into these claims and failed to find any evidence. The investigation was closed after eight months. Bill Barr looked in this for eight months. He couldn't find jack shit and called it off, all right? So, Bill Barr wouldn't do it. What are you guys going to do? Yeah. And, but the main thing is, like, the political dynamics here, like, I understand what they're trying to do, what they think they're going to do. So Trump's going to go on trial early next year, and it's going to hear nonstop news coverage of Trump corruption,

right? Trump fraud, Trump trying to over there the election. They want to throw enough smoke out there where the voters would be like, well, both these guys are corrupt. Same, same, same, right? And so like, they did this with Hillary and the Benghazi hearings and no point

going to Benghazi, but after trying to figure it out and doing a good faith effort to see what they think happened other than a colossal fuck up or maybe a fuck up or maybe confusion. There's nothing there, no corruption. It's just like a bad thing that happened.

But they had hearing after hearing after hearing after hearing after hearing on Benghazi accusing Hillary of being wrapped up in it. Somehow they generated enough smoke where enough people thought that something bad happened with Hillary and Benghazzo. Right. Yeah. Yes. Like Charlie Daniels, country music legend Charlie Dan.

I don't know if you remember, but Charlie Daniels used to tweet. Benghazi ain't going away. Benghazi's not going away every day until he died. Oh, actually, yeah. When we did those, we did those Zoom sketches where we pretended to be right-wing lunatics and your character who was a conspiracy theorist, you, your background, your virtual background was Charlie Daniels tweeting Benghazi that ain't coming away. Yeah. Fun times. Anyway.

It's worth mentioning that the first time Kevin McCarthy was trying to become Republican leader, his effort was derailed by two things. One, extramarital affair, which no one talks about anymore. And two, he openly admitted that the purpose. of the Benghazi hearings were to drag down Hillary's approval ratings that there was nothing else going on. He said that out loud because he's a fucking idiot and that's the one reason the caucus out on him. But like standards are

so low, getting slower so fast that like people didn't forget that that happened. But the thing is like one of the reasons this is stupid and I like John Federman, I think it's going to backfire, is they've already succeeded in this. Like here's a CNN poll. A CNN poll

recently found that the majority of Americans think that Joe Biden was involved in his son's business dealings and he acted inappropriately with the investigation into his son. And 86% of Republicans say they think Hunter funneled millions of dollars to his father a long-range scheme to help Joe Brideon profit up his political positions. So, like, they've already got the smoke without fighting any fire. Yeah. I was thinking that it's like what you said, it makes sense that that's what they're trying to do. But I was thinking it's like they, but everybody in their base already thinks that, you know, it's the Biden crime family.

They all like, they've already sold that to them, you know. so why do they even need to do it? Is it like, do you not, like, is it a twisted, bizarre version of how, you remember when shit was going on with Trump and it was, and I would say, I'd be like, the impeachment thing, dude, it's going to fail. Like, it's not going to actually, you know, pan out. It's like, okay, but they have to do something, right? Because he had actually done shit. But, like, their line is that Biden has done shit, right? So, like, do they have the same, is that, do they make the same argument to their people on their side? It's like, well, we have to act. We have to. because somebody has to stand up and push back against this horrific corruption coming from Joe Biden and his family, which is, of course, bullshit. But that's what they're telling everybody and their people believe it. But the evidence, well, one, Trump did bad stuff. I know. It was recorded on a phone call. Right.

It was recorded on his air quote, perfect call call. Yeah. That evidence was like public. The whole world. All this shit that Trump has done, he did in front of everybody. And you'd think that'd be enough to say, it's like, that's like, that. That's what makes it different. Because I was thinking earlier, it's like, I've already seen some Democrats being like,

this is a witch hunt, right? And I just know they're going to be like, all right. So when it's Biden, it's a witch hunt. It's like, no, when it's something where there's no evidence and nothing happened, then it's a witch hunt. Like Trump, it's not a witch hunt with Trump because he did that shit. That's what makes it different. But they just, to them, it's just like we're being hypocritical because it's just all politics.

It's all political in nature or whatever. And it just makes you want to pull your fucking hair out. out. You're bared out in your case. The point I was trying to make is, like, Democrats had to act on the first impeachment related to Ukraine because the evidence was public and Trump had done fucked up shit. Like, reminder, like, Congress had appropriated the money to fund Ukraine to try to fend off Russia before they invaded, right? So, like, what Trump was doing was violating constitutional separation of powers, trying to withhold Congress and appropriate funds. He did not have the authority to withhold. All right. What they're, this is like if Democrats made up the transcript of the phone call, right and then released it and then said right this is like it's not it's not remotely the same fucking thing no i know i know it's not i'm saying like to them like they think it because they believe all the bullshit right so like they think kevin mccarthy doesn't like no i don't mean him i'm talking about like their their base you know okay but the point i'm trying to get to is like they've already succeeded a majority of americans already think joe biden did

something corrupt in Ukraine with his son, right? So the only thing this impeachment inquiry hearing can succeed in doing is showing that there's nothing fucking there. They're undoing their own work because Kevin McCarthy doesn't, when I say Kevin McCarthy doesn't have the votes, like Ken Buck, who's a hardcore geopolitian member, went on CNN, is like, there's no fucking evidence for any of this shit. It doesn't exist. Buck's not some squish.

He was like one of the founding members of the Freedom. caucus and he's for saying that out loud he's been threatened with losing his committee assignments and maybe a leadership back primary challenge all right yeah another rhino about to go down get a true believer in there and it's not just buck it's a dave joyce uh said not seeing any facts your evidence don bacon there should be a direct link in evidence dusty johnson south dakota i have not seen that evidence four votes is his whole majority if he if if kennel mccart if they can't impeach joe b Biden in the house you know like utter fucking roops because they are utter

fucking roops. This is like, this is like a political like Christmas gift to Joe Biden. So that's why John Federman was laughing as my point here. But like, so we talked about Joe Biden being in the, over

the G20. I thought it's a big opportunity to talk about like, there's so much coverage about Joe Biden being old now. Right. He's old. We all know he's old. He's lost his step. There's no point in denying it. I hope I'm still have the middle acuity even he does when I'm 70 what is he 78 something like that

80 yeah he's 80 so like but like it doesn't there's no point but like what I don't sure what is to be done about it it could possibly like if he keels over next June it could be a Ruth better Ginsburg situation where we all feel like oh he shit he fucked up right uh but but it's already we're already strapped into this rollercoaster to this point right like there's nothing that could be yeah right but the the whole his trip i was i actually brought this up on a well-red podcast which we recorded earlier today just talking about how i couldn't do like he is 78 or 80 or whatever he is and like it's this narrative you know he's old he's weak he's seen all he can't he's not competent all this stuff that they that they say and then on

this trip he's on it's like he's been going for like 36 hours straight or something like flying across the country stopping in alaska doing all this shit and then going to go into vietnam and doing all, then flying straight back and doing all this. And, like, there was a funny clip I saw of Ducey, a Peter Ducey on Fox News, accidentally saying, he's like, well, you know, he might be a little tired because he has been going for over 24 hours straight East Coast time. He's been very busy. And then you can tell he's like, oh, shit, I probably shouldn't be admitting that

because it kind of shits on the notion that he's this, like, you know, sleepy old papaw. Because I'll tell you right now, dude, I would be struggling after a schedule like that. Like, I travel a lot, like that fucking, that'd be hard. And I'm 37, you know? like so I just think it's it's funny the I mean there's a layup here like for I mean it's probably too late like one of the reasons you didn't want some like open primaries because it would have been a mess with Democratic Party because it caused a lot of hard feelings people are still fighting over the 2016 Democratic primary for example um but like so if you had an open primary obviously Kamala would think it's her turn but she's not very popular and then like who else is getting in the race and people would get really really mad and how like you know So it's one reason you don't want to do it. Like, I read a column earlier today from Jonathan Shade at New York Magazine who was like, they could have nominated like Gretchengett, Wittmer, Raphael Warnock, J.B. Pritzker,

he's the governor of Illinois. Like all these probably could have been, would have been better candidates. I'm like, yeah, I'm sure, but like, again, it's like you're, that's a risk too. None of these things is risk free. But it's talking about the age thing. You made this point about, Chay does some weird take sometimes. This sort of rang true to me, but it says Trump's narcissistic, he's talking about

how Trump's only like three and a half years during the Biden, but doesn't get this for whatever reason. And it's like Trump's narcissism as a childlike quality does not register as old. His lack of concern with making any sense or following a train of logic, it frees him from having to pause or stumble over his words. It's like, so Trump's too dumb to be seen as old because he presents as a child. Right. He is, I mean, he is seen as dumb, though, for sure. I mean, there was the whole thing with the like the mental competency test and all that. But you're right, it doesn't it doesn't get presented as he's too old for this it's just like this guy's a dip shit you know which is right which is but how is that but how is that seen as argument is

right it's it's so weird anyway they the realistic solution which won't happen it probably makes the most sense for voters who are concerned about Biden's age and made possible inability to finish his second term would be to replace Kamala with a more popular vice president hundred figure who the public would be happy to hand over the duties of the presidency to. But that wouldn't be without its risk either. And by the way, not talking about Kamla, like, being in the unemployment line should be in, like, corporate boards making millions of dollars. But, like, it's like it's, it's a rock and a hard place situation. No one wants to have that fight.

So that's why no one's going to do it. Yeah. Speaking of a hard place, our honorable mention for Daily Domestic and I, is anybody who didn't turn on C-SPAN looking for John Kennedy after dark? This is some fun stuff here. all boys aren't blue and I will quote from it I put some lube on and got him on his knees and I began to slide into him from behind

I pulled out of him and kissed him while he masturbated he asked me to turn over while he slipped a condom on himself this was my ass and i was struggling to imagine someone inside me he got on top and slowly inserting himself into me it was the worst pain i think i have ever felt in my life eventually i felt a mix of pleasure with the pain all right there's like five or six of these clips by the way we're not going to show it all, but it goes on forever. He got reading more and more of this this smutty

stuff and it's... It's one about a strap on and like wanting to suck someone's dick and like it's like, just deeply uncomfortable stuff being read in that voice in this setting. By the way, this is a, it was a Senate hearing about book bands and the book is reading from

is all boys aren't blue, which is a memoir about a guy named George James Johnson. It's a like basically a series of essays about growing up gay and black in New Jersey and Virginia. and it's this book is already heavily banged like I can understand why you wouldn't want your 12 year old reading that 13 year old video yes it's it's labeled young adult right and it unless the teachers requiring it like 16 year old anyway if the 16 17 year old wants to read this book like if you're afraid of it are you afraid of it turning them gay or right it's always going to say it's like what what kind of library is this that you're like teachers are not you know assigning it or whatnot and it's like who's it for young adult yes that's like older teenagers right like it's not meant for 10 11 12 year olds because yeah I wouldn't want my 12 year old reading that but like but a fucking teenager dude 16 or 17 year old it's like have any of these people

ever met you know 16 17 year olds dude like I mean I remember when I was they're just they're the filthiest animals on planet earth most of them you know what I mean like you're not like a book like this is not gonna you have any idea what they're watching on their phone the shit they have access to and whatnot all the time it's just such an overreaction I don't have kids like I don't have kids like I can understand

a parent being like I'd prefer my kid not to read this but there's books like of course John Kennedy is in favor of book bands so he's picking the worst book you could find which by the way is I mean I'm saying worse like it's a bad book I'm not saying that you know what you know most graphic he's reading the most graphic section of the most

this book is already one of the most banned books in America So, like, it's school boards in least 10 states that remove the book from their library. So, like, it, this book is not out there after your kids. The American Library's Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom, named it the third most ban and shot a book in the United States of the year. Tony Morrison's bluest eye was already on this list, by the way, which, like, I read that book when I was 17 or 18. It has some pretty graphic descriptions of, like, sexual abuse because, like, Tony Morrison really suffered that. It's based on, you know, but, like, I don't know, man.

I don't know, sure what, you're a ship an 18-year-old off to Iraq, but you want to let alone read about butt fucking. But like, so, but the funniest standard I don't get found this book. In 2021, a school board member and retired teacher in Flagler County, Florida, filed a criminal complaint against the superintendent for carrying this book in the library, objecting to its mentions of masturbation or oral sex. The Flatler County Sheriff's Office found the content of the book was not a violation of law and did not warrant further investigation.

So he's like, hello, 911, my 17-year-old learned about butt-fucking. The sheriff had to be like, no, ma'am, you're a 17-year-old and not just learned about butt-fucking. Sorry. It's just so ridiculous. Yeah. I don't know.

Well, here's another segue for you. Speaking of butt-fucking, Wisconsin Republicans, trying to do that to the good people of the cheese state. I'm not sure. They got cheese and beer and the badgers. But yeah, they're up to some bullshit up there in the Great White North. Yeah, so we talked about the election of January. It was a, you know, off-year election for Supreme Court.

It was a hugely, you know, a lot of money invested in it because for a swing seat in the Supreme Court, in a term where they would be dealing with, like, whether or not abortion is still illegal in Wisconsin, and, you know, whether or not they should have fair electoral maps for their state legislature. And Janet Proce, what's won by, like, 200,000 votes and double digits. For context, Joe Biden won Wisconsin by 21,000 votes. So it was a pretty significant mangate. and mandate, and that didn't hit the Republicans. So they're going to impeach her before she's giving her a case.

Now, the grounds for impeaching her are that she openly said, she hasn't said she recused from abortion cases and the Jurymander MAPS cases, even though she said how she'd rule on them in an election campaign, they're saying she should be punished because she was honest about her stances for an elected position. I don't. I mean, I'm law dumb. But, like, is there any actual basis for that argument they're making at all? I get that a judge is supposed to be impartial or whatever.

But it's like, you know, everybody knew how fucking Amy Coney Barrett felt about abortion when she went through. And then, you know, and, uh, and Kavanaugh, too. And no one expected them to sit out. Well, they, the game they play is when they're asked about it, they say, well, like, in order to remain impartial, I declined to say how it rule hypothetical future cases, right? So they do. But it's also like they all have their lie. Right. Well, that's the other thing I was going to say is, like, every one of them has their own positions on these various things, right?

So, like, if they say it out loud, now they have to recuse themselves. Do you understand what I'm saying? It's like they all have a stance on it. And, you know, depending on how they align politically, you could probably guess their stance on it. So that's supposed to, like, recuse you from ruling on anything if you have, like... Yeah. I want to I want to talk about whether or not elected judges are a good thing in a little bit. But before we get there, I want to talk about like the cynicism of this move, right?

Because like they wouldn't impeach and remove her. That's how like cynical this game is because they don't actually think she did anything wrong. They actually refer her to a judicial ethics commission that said, no, she's fine. And then even though they don't have anything to throw against her, what they'd do is the house in Wisconsin would vote to impeach her. After which she'd be suspended until the Senate. decides her fate. But the Senate could decide not to do that and leave her in complete limbo and leave the court, you know, deadlocked 3-3 and not able to do anything. And that seems to be their plan if they move forward this. And the Democrats only have one leverage, one point

of leverage here, and that's like public pressure. There's no power they can exercise here to stop them from doing this. Now, if they did this, Peresowitz could resign, in which case Tony Evers would get to a point of replacement. But then a special election would be called and have to do all this over again like next year. So like this is just like a trajectory jury matter of maps one more term and they make abortion legal for at least a little while. So again, this is all about maps and preserving the power. Just a few numbers here.

Again, Biden, they have a Democratic governor, Tony, and Tony Evers. Joe Biden won the state by 21,000. votes. This is not a hardcore Republican state. This is a heavily big state. But it's ran it like the state legislature is hardcore. They have a super majority. I remember when this pro just say what's

election was happening, we talked about it on here and talked about how like Wisconsin has like a Republican super majority and they're very authoritarian and all this, despite the fact that, you know, it's that worst a purple state, if not. They might be the worst. They might be the worst. They might be the worst state

Republican party in the country. North Carolina I'm maybe a close second, but here's some numbers here for how gerrymandered it is. 63 of the 99 assembly seats and 23 of the 33 Senate seats on the map lean towards Republicans. In 2018, this jury commander proved strong enough to allow Wisconsin Republicans to win a super majority of seats in the assembly despite losing the vote for every statewide office and the statewide legislative vote by 8% of points 54 to 36. So they got 46% of the vote and a two-thirds majority in the state house. All right. So basically, like, no matter how much the voters of Wisconsin

when elected Democratic legislature, it's mathematically impossible. The thing is they already have a natural gerrymanders. How greedy they're being because a lot of Democratic votes are packed into into Milwaukee. So like the only way the Democrats can make an air quote fair map to make it like the state house even would be to do one of those crooked ass, their own crooked gerrymand or a spiderweb each reaching into like Milwaukee to steal votes. probably wouldn't do that because it would look, it would look inky. But, like, Republicans won't take a bare majority. They want a super majority.

Well, that made me think about how, like, a lot of the states, you know, America's a big country. States are big. And a lot of the red, in any red state, especially, it just feels like at the state level, you're always going to be fucked, you know, in large part because of what you just said and described, like the city, it's going to be little pockets where the cities are that have a lot of people in them, right? But that's blue. and then everything, all the other,

and you cut it up in all these other districts, most of which cover, you know, big red rural areas and whatnot, and the numbers just are not in your favor at the end of the day. And it keeps them having a disproportionate amount of power in a lot of places. In places like Texas, Republicans do the other version of this, sticking the spider legs into Austin to like pick,

to make sure that you steal some Democratic votes, but not have to sway a district, but they don't have enough. it makes it hard to get a Democrat majority anywhere. You can seal off one Democratic district, and so deep inside Austin and pick off the rest of the voters. It's like, it's very, it's very cynical. So, like, I don't really have a perfect answer to this,

but how do you feel about the idea of elected judges versus the appointment, appointing judges? I mean, I always kind of thought, like, when I was younger without, you know, not really even thinking it through that, well, I always kind of thought it was a little weird that there are judges that are elected, sort of, because it just feels to me like it should work differently. Like you should, you know, and I know I get now they have to be appointed and whatnot,

but like, you know, they should, you should have to like prove yourself in the system. I have a track record, establish yourself and, like, sort of move up in a way that's like actually, you know, based on merit and whatnot. But I realize that all that's going to happen is they're going to be appointed by whoever's in power at the time. And so I don't know. It's a tough, it's a tough question. And at a time where, like, federal judges, especially Republican-appointed federal judges, are openly partisan, like, openly and nakedly partisan. It parts in a way that, like, I mean, Trump ran saying, if you elect me, I will appoint for, like, conservative judges, which he did.

So at least that that's honest at least But when when Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh I get up in front of a Senate Judiciary Committee and say like I have actually not decided how it ruled on this case that came before me They're just you're asking them to lie And so like pro se which is just being punished for being open in her campaign about what she believed And what she would do so that seems utterly bizarre to me But like especially like the current like there's another Supreme Court corruption scandal this week

where it doesn't matter, but basically Jenny Thomas was working with Leonard Leo, the guy behind the Federal Society way sooner than anyone thought before, and she worked on getting rid of campaigning finance laws at the Supreme Court,

so then Leonard Leo could give her a bunch of money to help her underage of his lapist lifestyle, so it's like a snake-eating its own tail, corruption type shit. So I would rather vote for Terrence, for Clarence Thomas' replacement, is what I'm saying. She was up for election.

At this current moment, That's how I feel about it. Here's a GOP Bigwig in Wisconsin by the name of Rick Eisenberg, writing the Milwaukee Journal in 2008. Appointment doesn't drive out politics. He just moves it from the campaign trail or the hearing room and, of course, the backroom. And that sounds about right to me. Yeah.

Yeah. So, but now they're worried about things a judge said on the campaign trail. The guy she ran against Dan Kelly on the campaign trail tried to do that. that dance that Republican judges in the federal judiciary do in the committee hearings are like, well, actually, I think it would be unwise. Like, so there's abortion case coming up this term. How are you going to vote on it? I've committed myself from not making a predetermined decisions about, like, you're fucking lying.

You're a hardcore pro-lifer. We know your stance on this shit. And because he lied to think he's the better candidate to be a judge. Right. Right. You voters hated his stances. So like, Proto Seowitz does have a recourse here. She could file a first of a lawsuit.

based upon our First Amendment rights or some shit. I don't really understand that's going to work because impeachment is a political process and the statehouse can do it because they feel like it. Yeah, I guess the First Amendment, is it related to like her, the argument is to say that she had the right to say the shit she said in the first place and like that's been held against her. And remember, there's a state legislator in North Carolina who was basically brought in to run as a ringer as a Democrat and then switch parties.

Like she said she was pro-choice and became pro- then switched the Republican Party and voted for an anti-abortion law. It's like, so how is that? Like, that's the exact opposite of what happened here. It's like, like, really the voters in North Carolina have a fucking huge beef, like the opposite of the other side of this coin. So we're talking about Wisconsin Republicans may be worse than the country. Here's a headline from New York Times, a breathtaking attempt for the people of Wisconsin. Because this is like a three-pronged attack on democracy.

one, you got gerrymandered supermajorities in the state legislature. Now they're, which they're using to cripple the court, so the court can't give power back to the people to actually elect fair, you know, use a fair map to elect a real legislature. But they also, after the last gubernatorial election, when Tony Evers replaced Scott Walker, they did a, what do you call it, a lame duck session where they changed all the rules to take power away from the governor, which Scott Walker. Walker signed. Right. Yeah. So. Yeah. That's so fucking sorry and shady and like

and just, you know, just bald-faced bullshit, man. Yeah. Taking their ball and going home, you know. They have a rigged super majority of the legislature which they're using to rule both the executive branch and the judicial bench. And there doesn't seem to be any

Democratic lever to take power away from them. Right. Vote to replace the guy. But then they neuter all that guy that position's power so now the guy that you voted to get in there can't do shit so it's irrelevant and then you know if he loses to a Republican

they'll do the same thing in reverse they'll re-empower well they couldn't I guess because he would be they'd have to wait until the new guy came in whatever they'd figure something out right yeah like you said it's just all it's all so cynical and fucked up the uh speaker of the house in

Wisconsin guy named Robin Voss who uh so he led the effort to take away tony ever's power um the stuff they did was like take away his ability to like you know make voting easier um and he he previously led a charge to like give scott walker more power but then he said when tony ever was elected said we need to rebalance power of the legislature uh he wanted to tony ever's like campaign pledges was to uh remove wisconsin from a lawsuit seeking to overturn the affordable care act and they made it so he couldn't do that i guess they gave that power to the uh turn general or some shit.

They basically just like here they in 2021 Politico like they rigged it in such a way. Then 2021 Politico wrote that Robin Voss was effectively the shadow governor of Wisconsin. So this guy who's elected in a gerrymandered district with I don't know what's the state legislator get like 10,000 votes is effectively the governor of Wisconsin.

Right. This is also ridiculous. If you're wondering who Robin Voss is he was Reince Prebus' college roommate, Trump's former chief of staff, because all these motherfuckers, it's like 12 of them who run everything. Yeah. Very much an old boys club. Yeah.

After the 2020 election, Voss, who used to be anti-Trump, but got smacked for it, went all in an election denialism. He spent like a million dollars of Wisconsin tax pair of money, investigated. Funny this guy named Michael Gableman to investigate fraud. Gableman found jack shit. turned out to be a total crank. And then Voss fired him because I guess Voss wasn't hardcore enough into election denialism, so Gableman supported his primary opponent.

These are all such fucking snakes, man. So Voss fired him. You're wondering how much he cares about judicially impartiality when it's not Janiprodosaywitz. In February 2019, Voss defended Brian Hagedorn, a judge running for a seat in the Supreme Court, amid reports that Hagedorn had founded the school in 2016 that allowed. for expulsion of students and faculty if they were gay. Boss said he believed Hagedorn could rule fairly on LGBT issues. So here's the guy's openly anti-gay.

Right. I don't believe him. I think he's actually fair to gay people. Yeah. I'm sure his argument would be like, well, you know, okay, so he has that position, but he can still be impartial as a judge based on the facts of any given case that go before him or whatever. I'm sure is what that guy would say, but they're not giving pro to say what's the, you know, same luxury or the benefit of the.

a doubt or whatever you know what I mean it's uh why give her the benefit of doubt that these obviously corrupt cases in bullshit laws she's already researched them and found and found them to be transparently unfair which the majority of wisconsin voters thinks the maps are unfair like by a 60% margin they support like nonpartisan uh and the mask let the mask be drawn by nonpartisan commission that's a no go there was a new story today rich voss went to tony ever's like i have a compromise position the compromise position is i draw the maps Tony Edwards is like, fuck you. No, that's not over two of you.

That's not a counterized. By the way, talking about the Republican Party is objectively pro-corruption. Voss somehow spends a lot of taxpayer dollars on trips and perks for himself. He's also a landlord. Of course he is. Like $5 million in properties. And he rid COVID funds to go straight to landlords instead of helping people stay in their houses. So there you go with that.

They've also, another thing, the weird thing they're doing with elections in Wisconsin. Currently, Wisconsin elections are ran by a non-partisan. partisan, a lady by the name of Megan Wolfe, and they're trying to fire her for reasons that are a bit nonsense. She's not, she's nonpartisan. She's like a background in IT. It's been on the job since 2018. It's not even clear they can fire her because they illegally rehired her.

This is such a weird fucking, like, I can't figure out how to describe this, because they reappoint her without a majority. And I'm trying to fire her, but the states, a lot of the state's lawyers, like, well, you can't fire her because you didn't. They didn't hire the correct way. It's like the opposite of you can't fire me, I quit. You know what I mean? Right. Right.

You can't fire me because you didn't hire me right in the first place. I'm still here. Still doing this job. Don't know how that happened. They're so corrupt. They forget to follow the rules in when they're not doing something corrupt. So what's happened here is I gassed up on 2020 conspiracy theories. They think she was in on the plot to steal the election from Trump or something.

So they had a big hearing about whether or not. I don't know, she worked with the, you know, the Venezuelan satellites or whatever. And so she didn't show up for the hearing. And they said the fact she didn't show up for the hearing was proof of her guilt or something. But the hearing was dominated by conspiracy theorists. Let me quote here. That hearing attracted to dozens of election skeptics who repeated wildly debunked claims about the 2020 election call for Wolf to be fired or even arrested. And the response to that by this Republican named Dan Fagan as a state senator said she didn't bother to show up to her own public hearing.

what I heard instead were numerous concerns from Wisconsinites around the state of lost faith in the job she was doing an administrator. She held a lunatic hearing that she didn't show up for she wanted to be yelled out by lunatics and used that as proof that she's guilty because the lunatic said so. Yeah.

And like, I don't know, like Joe Biden sent the 82nd Airboard in Wisconsin to reestablish democracy or something. I don't know what to fucking do here. Guilty because a lunatic said so is like all the rage right now. You know what I mean? It's like that's all it takes.

It's kind of our whole thing in this country at present. Matt, you've got to, if you're, if you're still there, Matt, you've been doing a great job, buddy. We appreciate you. You put up some questions and comments for us. Can I get a beer says Mark knows this stuff? Am I missing the, why the quotation marks are there? It's all bullshit. I don't know.

Yeah. Mark knows if you're right, but, yeah. I can't understand. Like, it's just like if you're a voter with cons, you're like, I want to organize my way out of this. Like, we have a, we, we have a 52% Democrat majority. We have zero power. Like, this is using the kind of situation where people resort to terrorism. I'm not saying that, but like, what is the fucking way out?

It's like, no, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Take, take control of the, the state's cheese inventory somehow, you know? I guess that would count as terrorism. Hold the cheese hostage. We've taken, we've taken power over all the state's cheese. And cheese will not be released until you give it to our demands. Yeah.

That'd be effective. Diana McKenzie says firing your IT person can only end well. There's like the 2024 election might be a mess because a lot of election administrators have been like just left their jobs because they've been made a living hill even if they're not getting death threats. So I'm not sure like who's going to run this shit orally fashion because it does require some like expertise in organizational abilities. You can't just appoint your redneck cousin Fred to fucking run a county election. Well, at least this is a relatively unimportant election, you know. at least at least that's the case in this scenario what's going to happen let me but see like they're building in the unfairness into the thing so if all the democratic jurisdictions have professionally run orderly elections and all the whole court red districts are chaotic without enough forms and machines and stuff because you've got paranoid people who don't want to use voting machines and they don't trust anyone to count the ballots and the ballots are all rigged or whatever they're only fucking themselves but that only make them more paranoid the Q&O people are going to start killing other Q&A on people because Biden still won't it's going to be fucking crazy it is going to be

fucking crazy man I don't know what to think or expect uh Eric Landry says hey fellas what about this no labels gang threat did we talk about them on a bonus skis right we got a whole episode on it but like yeah well I think we brought up this they're they're a naked they're either a grift or a scam to get Trump reelected or grift and a scam to get Trump reelected so like there's So it's all Trump donors trying to like, you know, annoyed it. It's former Democratic operatives who are mad at the party taking money from Trump donors to do something. Yeah. But yeah, if you sign up on the Patreon and look through the archive there, if you just not that long ago, I'd say three, four episodes ago, something like that, you could find it.

D. Riley says, my backwoods, Georgia, county election administrator is a buddy of mine's two packs of Virginia Slims a day. mama ain't a damn person intimidating her anytime soon believe that buddy i know that's yeah yeah yeah i don't know like it's like i just keep seeing these stories about yeah i mean i got i was i'm a county election administrator in a rural county i make 28000 dollars a year i went to college for political science just wouldn't move back home i don't have any interest in politics other than running this election and i don't want to die over it so and i get it yeah thank you christopher christopher bestland or best land says hit that like button yes please like and like share subscribe to your friends leave us a five-star review subscribe to the audio version all that good uh tech stuff yeah uh jimmy noughton

says mark what's up with north korea and russia is that north korea i'm assuming yeah so russia had to beg some weapons trying to beg weapons on north korea which if you know anything about the korean war is a pretty hilarious and humiliating reversal of fortune for the great russian Empire. I guess Kim Jong-un was he has like a military-ized train, which pretty sweet, got to be honest.

You got like the Snowpiercer train full of guns. He was a souped-up Batman train to Russia to talk to Vladimir Putin about maybe lending in some weapons or trading some weapons. I don't know. They really, you talk about a bad PR move invading the sovereign nation of Ukraine, was one for Russia because like,

I felt like, I mean, at this point, It seems ridiculous. Everybody knew Russia was crazy and all this shit, but I feel like for a long time, people generally believed, like, you know, you don't really want to fuck with Russia, you know,

as a real, like you would prefer to not fuck with Russia if you can help it, but now it's just like, they've just really made asses out of themselves. I'm not saying, you know, we should now fuck with Russia. I'm just saying they've really outed themselves as being,

uh, you know, not the military superpower that they tried to project themselves as for a long time. Yeah. Yeah, that's due with, like, competency in the officer corps and corruption among their, like, military, industrial complex as much as it does. Like, they, I still would not fuck with an individual's member of the Spenton. You ever watch, you ever watch Spenton's training videos on fucking YouTube? Yeah.

If you guys want to have a fun evening, pour yourself a whiskey and watch Spesnod's training videos, they crack center blocks their heads. Like, they set Cine blocks on fire and crack them with their heads. These are fucking lunatics. I'm not. Don't know, I wouldn't fuck with a Russian bus driver, right? I'm not going to fuck with a Russian anything. I just mean that, like, yeah, the military itself. Like I saw one of their commissioners or some kind of official just said last week

that the Ukraine was just a stepping stone to the rest of Europe, right? And it's like, I don't know how you can still say that with a straight face, but like, you got to get their Ukraine first, you know? Jimmy Norton follows up and says, I'm sure North Korea is a trusted arms manufacturer. Well, I know their aircraft, anti-aircraft guns were because he uses them to execute members of his family. but so there's got that going for him but yeah i mean i'm going the numbers off top of my head right now but i remember seeing like russia if they went if they did total mobilization right now could only make like two million artillery shells a year and they've been they burned through 10

million last year so their capacity to keep maintaining this war doesn't seem like it's possible and now ukraine's hitting targets deep inside russia it's like i man i'm not sure we're how this ends but i wish it would just end you know edward edward westerfield says russia is a gas station with nukes. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Yeah, them having the nukes. Didn't, did Obama make that?

I think there was Obama's joke. I've definitely heard that. Yeah. Heardt before. Allison Haygood says, hey, how about Elon Musk working for Putin by shutting off Starlink and preventing the Ukraine troops for being able to communicate? Yeah. We did a whole, when that first, what's his name, Woody Allen's X steps on, Rowan,

Farrow. Yeah. Ronan Farrow did that piece in Yorker. We talked about it on. on a Patreon episode. And, like, there'd been rumors that he'd fucked over Ukraine with Starlink. And then Ronan Farrow documented it.

And then there was another story about a specific instance where Russia was going to use, like, what do you call it, submarine drones to take out some Russian ships in the Black Sea. And Elon went and turned off Starlink when he saw they were going to do that

after Russia called him. And I'm like, look, America has private, you know, military contractors always. but why does he still have access to like shutting it off and on a real time if America if we're paying him for it like Lockheed Martin if if America's doing a bombing mission Lockheed Martin doesn't personally approve of because he also want to sell weapons to China or something they can't like take over the autopilot right turn the plane around it's like it's fucking weird man like I like I like not that I'm for war or violence or anything but like we have we elect governments to decide this shit and one guy shouldn't be able to make his own. U.S. foreign policy. He's not even from here. Yeah.

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