Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 9/19/23 – Dumbest. Congress. Ever.

Episode Date: September 20, 2023

With a proxy war in Ukraine, a cold war in China, a covid spike, a jump in childhood poverty, and 12 days until a government shutdown… what’s everyone in Congress up to? Well, giving public hand jobs and freaking out about Fetterman’s shorts, for starters. Also: the UAW strike and a Texas impeachment update. Join us. Support the show

Hey, everybody, welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It is September 19th, 2023. I'm Trey. That's Mark. What's up, Mark? No, buddy. I've got a fun show today.

It's all circus shit. Uh, circus shit top the bottom. It's a little bit of stuff to be mad about in the middle. I got circuses in Texas, circuses in Congress. Um, just sort of like, I don't know, it's like, you know, The old myth, Emperor Niro, Fiddle while Rome burned out. It said if it's our Congress, like, getting their tiths honked at Beetlejuice.

Right. So I talked about all that. Let's start with Texas, because we talked about the Kim Paxton impeachment a couple weeks ago. And update, he beat all the fucking charges, buddy. He's, uh, I'm not looking for. There is no bottom. And this guy, in case you forgot what he was accused of, he basically used the powers of attorney general to try to run interference for his buddy,

who was a real estate fraudster who was trying to defend it from the feds. I remember being like, man, you know this guy's a piece of shit if even the ultra-conservative Republican super majority in Texas is like actually coming for him or whatever.

So then the fact that they just turn around and let him off at the end of that, like it totally checks out except that I just kind of can't believe it even got that far in the first place if this was how it was going to end up. You know what I mean? Like why didn't they just keep letting him do

what he was doing? without drawing everybody's attention to it, you know? Well, his, I mean, to be charitable, they were trying to do the right thing after not for a long time, but his revenge tour with the powers the attorney general against, you know, I wouldn't be surprised of a bunch of like House Republicans catch stupid charges. He's that fucking crooked. But so he had 16 charges, I think, and the most they got was 14 or 30 votes to convict. I think they needed 20.

Two Republicans, Kelly Hancock of Fort Worth and Robert Nichols of Jacksonville, both voted to convict on 13 counts each, so props to them. But every other EGOP member voted to quit on all the charges. It's reminded me of like, do you read that you know, Med Romney announced his retirement,

they released an excerpt from his autobiography last week. Yeah. I was reading, he was talking about how scared all of his colleagues are. Like, he literally interferes their lives with like the MAGA movement. That's why they won't, like, stand up to a lot of them. I'm like, he's spending $5,000 a day on security for his family so they don't get murdered. And I'm like all these people are just fucking scared

It's no way to run a democracy I can't really I mean I was going to say I can't fault it But I can because you asked for the job You literally pay for it But this trial was just fucking surreal man His mistress got out of testifying By saying she was going to plead the fifth

And I'm like what is What criminal charges is his mistress facing Because like having sex with Ken Paxton Isn't like really a crime Nor is it taking a no show job From that real estate tycoon buddy he So I don't know what she's up for. Meanwhile, his wife, Angela Paxon, who's a state senator, has to sit through the whole thing.

She sat there looking at gazing at her wedding ring, thinking about what a dutiful wife she was. We'll listen to all this testimony about him cheating on her. And she tweeted a bunch of Bible verses, specifically James Chapter 1, verses 2 through 4. Consider pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. She also gave a speech to church right after he was acquitted, where she talked about God wanting her to feel this powerlessness is a lesson.

It's like, what a grift, man. Yeah. Chew and your wife, and she chooses to believe God had you cheat on her to test her faith. Yeah, this is some real, I mean, we said this every time it comes up, but this is like some real old school, you know, southern people with power stand by your man type shit. The only thing that makes any different at all is that she's like, she's also in the, she's a politician there, right?

Like she's an elected, right? Yeah, it's the only thing that's weird about it other than her just being like, you know, a timid housewife and acting this way or whatnot. I mean, and the fact that it's not 1954, right? Yeah. But like, yeah, this is, I don't know. Yeah. This is all over the state senator Lois Colchrist in her opening prayer before the final votes said the Lord is our judge, basically meaning that like it's not a role to judge Ken Paxson. It's like, but you always judge.

You ran for office to be in the situation, to be as fucking. You know, if the Lord votes to convict him, then I guess we'll convict him. But we're going to have to see which way the Lord votes. It's like, I don't think the Lord, you know, I don't think he's turning up for this vote here. And it's also like the application is that, is that like you could just do whatever you want up until you die. You know what I mean? Like, however you long, however long you live, as long as you're still alive, until you die and then the Lord can judge you, no one else can judge you no matter how many crimes you do in front of all of them. Yeah, Republicans love quoting Tupac lately. Only God can judge me.

So the prosecutors, prosecution's case was really straightforward. They had a bunch of evidence. Like, in the defense, like, okay, so one guy, state rep Jeff Leach of Plano, you know, the way this works is the House, because they impeached him, produced, like, it presents the prosecution's case, sort of, and then paxing this amount of defense. So this state rep in the house, guy named Jeff Leach Oplano at the end of his presentation, gave a speech, using evangelical language trying to, like, be the honest upright Christian guy, told Senator, he received a longtime friend of Paxton, a mentee and a brother in Christ, and said casting a vote to impeach Paxton had been one of the most difficult moments of his life. The inference being, if I can do this, you can't too. Be brave. And in response, he said, nope, I can do that. Defense, we talked about was presented by Tony Busby, a big time. Houston Litigator.

Put those pictures of God if you got it. Because I want people to see the whole party's turned to Trump down to painting their face orange. Like, look at this. Right. It's not even a good spray tan. You can see the line below his hair line. Yeah. This dude's like a big time, like, you know, one of them like ambulance and headline chasing, you know, big, big public image scumbag lawyers.

He's been all over the place like we talked about before. Yeah. Like you said, he did represent Deshaun Watson's victims. So it was on the right side of that. And somebody else, too, right? Some other big public case. I can't remember which one it was, but yeah. So, Busby presented a slideshow with crude visual leads in his closing argument.

Among them, a picture of an empty bucket, a picture of four empty buckets, a donkey's ass, and a pale blue screen with a word so good it hurts. And I tried to figure out what any of that was about, but it doesn't matter. They were going to vote to quit anyway. Because the MAGA movement turned this whole trial into like a referendum on Trump somehow, whether or not corruption is okay and they desperately want it to be okay because axios had this uh this piece about how like how how how hard the senators were lobbied and pressured and me quote here from it was made clear to texas geopolit senators that they'd face a very well-funded primary opponent their next

election if they voted to impeach being a texas senator is not even a state senator is not even a cool gig it doesn't pay any it pays like i don't know 10 grand a year or some shit and you don't have a lot of power. It's basically just a, you know, a resume bullet point. And they still was so afraid of losing it that they'll like let this guy wield the levers of state corruptly to like, you know, the defense was like, well, sure, he did use the AG's office to run interference for his criminal buddy who then paid to remodel his kitchen and gave his mistress a no show job. But they just did that stuff for each other because they're friends. They both truly believe they were doing the right thing by helping each other out. It's like, I, like, I can never know what's another man's heart, but I know what fucking corruption looks like, and I hate this shit so much. It says it was made clear to these other GOP senators that they'd, you know, lose their job basically. Like, so made clear by who exactly? Like, a bunch of big-time political donors were allied with Trump and, like, bigger politicians like Marjor Taylor Green and Ted Cruz. Okay.

They were both a little celebratory over Paxton winning this. So he's, you know, Paxton probably moves on to. a bigger office. He should have voted out years ago. He's still facing prosecution for securities frauds. Like he's still got federal charges hanging over his head. But he's been delaying those for eight years now. So I don't know. But like Texas is such a weird place, man. I really love living there. But like corruption costs. This story was out there last week about the Texas power grid, which is. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Like every year, both in the winter and the summertime it's like it's a story and it never changes so just to catch up there

america has three power grid you got the east coast the west coast and texas and the reason texas is on power grid is pretty explicitly to avoid federal regulations so they can gouge customers it's it's purely so they can do grifting and fraud and like uh you know a scam off the top shit this so there's a bit of big bitcoin mining operation in texas bitcoin uses a ton of goddamn electricity Bitcoin has fallen off as an actual product, but this company is still mining in Texas because what makes it profitable is whenever there's a big power surge or power crunch, the state will pay them this time $31.7 million to shut down. So just purely destroying the environment to make worthless Bitcoin's, so the state will

pay them to not make Bitcoins whenever the power grid's about to fail. It's just like corruption, corruption destroys shit. people's lives and shit. These are tax dollars. These are junk power rates. Me and Corey were just talking about this on POA, actually, I think with like, I think it was me and somehow like corn subsidies brought up or something like that. But it's like getting into any of these positions where like you get paid to not do something

or like getting like a big time coaching job and a big long contract getting fired. Like anytime someone pays you to not do what you do, it's just, I don't know. How do you get in on that, man? I picked the wrong, pick the wrong industry here. or something the wrong pursuits because that seems pretty sweet it's also funny if people was so ambitious they fuck it up like matt rule got fired his coach and the panthers which means they have to pay you out the rest of your contract unless you get another job right so he got another job lost that payout and they just got his ass handed to him by dion sanders in the

Colorado buffalo yeah so like it's just like just why can't people just sit at home and have free money i don't fucking understand it i don't understand it either i don't know the state of Texas should, you know, go arrest these motherfuckers instead of paying them to not make their worthless, socially destructive product. So, my take. Absolutely. All right. With us is always this producer, Matt.

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we got a lot of big top shit for you tonight, a lot of circus stuff. There's plenty of genuine problems in the world right now. Lord knows, and instead of focusing on any of those, as well as a government shutdown looming on the horizon, our congresspeople are out here pulling their tittyes out in the theater

and talking shit about John Fetterman's shorts. So that's fun. We'll get to that a little bit later. But first, the Daily Dumbass, my hat graphic, please. Tonight's DD, anyone who doesn't understand that bosses couldn't just fire all their workers and then have a nice, peaceful, empty factory. This is Tim Scott when asked about the auto worker strikes.

I think Ronald Reagan gave us a great example when federal boys decided there were a strike. He said, you strike, you're fired. Simple concept to me. to the extent that we could use that once again, absolutely. But second thing, I would do those. So, yeah, this is going to serve as our auto worker strike update because a couple of things are driving me insane this week. This combined with Jim Kramer went on CNBC and said that the executive should threaten

to move all the jobs to Mexico as their counterposure for the UAW's asks. and shit like this makes you want to like it's probably a good thing i'm not president right now because i go full chairman mal i mean i probably like behead a couple people and fucking like like you know wealth tax all the CEO's salaries and distributed to labor and put the fucking union worker and charge the union boss and charge the factories the yeah this shit makes me so mad man yeah i mean i feel like all of that is very much like you know that's uh kind of straight out of the playbook for a lot you know i've had buddies that have worked at places in like in Tennessee and stuff that tried to get a union thing going and that's what they're always told immediately is just like you know well you know if you want this place to be here at all if you want all of these jobs at all you won't do that because if you try that we'll fuck off forever you know to somewhere that that won't bitch when we pay them a pittance um that plus the threatening to you know if you want to have any job don't even think about striking is like that's the first place they go to i feel like right i mean this like the people cannot there was like a viral video from some

got some like Australia like investor was talking about how we need of 50% increase in employment of discipline labor because people are getting too cocky to remember who they work for. And I feel like the ruling class is going fucking insane because I've had it so good for so long with like free money from the federal government via zero interest rate loans and then also their workers like being desperate. And they can't neither thing is true anymore and they don't know how to actually do their jobs. Like you're the CEO of GM.

Your job is to manage a company in a competitive landscape. that also rewards your workers. I'm sorry, that's the fucking job, right? And the media is, they're also driving me insane because we get these, like, these stories out of a move. Like, they're absolutely failing us to describe anything that's going on accurately with, like, how politics tangibly touches people's lives. Here's the headlines in a New York Times yet last night.

Trump to woo striking union members in Detroit, skipping second GOP debate. So to try to, like, counterprogram the debate. He's going to go, like, I don't know, give a speech just a bunch of union workers in Detroit. some of whom are y'all are workers, not all of them, but they're probably going to be handpick Maca supporters. Right. You know, what is his, like, what's he got to offer, like, these striking union people? Like, what's his, he's not private union, right?

He's like the corporate overlord guy or whatever, the tax pick man. And you got to, like, Ohio and says he's going to, you know, buy everybody a burrito and then walks out without doing so and shit like that. But, like, you know, he's, uh, here's like the, the closest the times come to actually stating that, like the 15th paragraph, it says, Mr. Trump has not directly addressed the wage demands of striking workers and has attacked the union leadership, but he has tried to more broadly cast himself from the side of auto workers. What the fuck does that mean, dude? What does that mean? Like, how a politician tries to cast himself is not your job to report that. Your job

is to report the gap between how he's trying to cast himself and what the reality is, right? You're not there to do the right copy for the politician's fucking website. And the support here is bullshit like they can't like that's the story here what is more broadly mean here beyond pure like aesthetics the article doesn't list a single pro-union position of substance it doesn't address trump's like unprecedented pro-corporate national labor review board as pro-corporate supreme court picks it's about to fucking get rid of all workplace protections is pro-corporate to record tax cuts it's all vibes and madness man it's like he just like puts on a hard hat and New York Times political desk has no idea what to do with the public and puts on a hard hat

Well, that's kind of like, it's sort of like his whole thing, I feel like, is it's like, you know, he's like somehow the champion of like the working man in middle America or whatever, like that's the narrative or a huge part of his base and whatnot, despite being actively antagonistic towards everything about their actual day-to-day lives and how it affects them and everything. But, you know. Yeah. And it's like, and Democrats, like, interpersonal ambivalence to this, like, I'm not talking about their policy positions. Joe Biden's policy positions on labor are pretty good to good, but like, where is he on this? We're talking about that in a second, but like the Republican Party is pretty clear about how they feel about workers. Not just Tim Scott, Nikki Haley went on Fox and said, quote, when you have a president that's constantly saying, go union, go union, this is what you get. The unions get emboldened, and then they start asking for things that companies have a tough time doing. Yeah, right.

Right, at least she's being honest. The New York Times asked her, she'd fucking say. But like, the idea that, like, I don't, union leadership's not going to be befuddled by this, but I read a piece like interviewing, like, all the line union workers who are really, really pissed at Democrats. A lot of them did vote for Trump in 2016 and 2020 because they don't see, they don't see it in their face what people are doing to help them. But in his defense, the union president does get it. This is Sean Fane. You want to throw this statement up on the screen, Matt.

This is on Trump's talking about Trump's plan to visit to Detroit. Every five of our union is being poured into fighting the billionaire class and an economy that enriches people, enriches people like Donald Trump at the expense of workers. Right. Okay. So, but the media, I'm consistently, you see stuff that's such fucking nonsense. You're like, I have no choice but to believe that a lot of the, like, the cable news and the national media that allows them clicks, actively wants Trump to get reelected. I want to throw this headline up here because I found it completely maddening the CNN headline yesterday. Criticism mounts after Biden brings Americans home.

There were some hostages in Iran. And to get to get them free, they did to free like $6 billion that were frozen in some Iranian bank account, which is just the cost of doing business. And I've got to say, if I'm one of these people hugging my family after being held hostage in Iran, I don't. don't care about these fucking critics. Right. Why is the story framed this way? Because this isn't like, you know, like whoever's writing the headline does not, hostage is happy to return.

Right, yeah, exactly. It's also a headline choice there. Right. And you put the Republicans being like, this is another example of Joe Biden's weak American foreign policy or something in like paragraph 46 because it's the least important part of this story. The humanity of people being returned seems the main thing. But like, part of the reason this dynamic exists is,

exist is like they're not filling in the gaps. The Democratic Party has relied on the national media to sort of do their messaging for them for decades. And they don't know how to create news clips. Right. Like so there's a story out like, okay, I mean, read this Washington Post headline. Many, many Washington Democrats urging Biden to walk the UAW picket line. The White House was resisted thus far, but almost certainly it would almost certainly be unprecedented. Now, okay, I don't care, like you understand, if Trump walks the picket line and you don't, because your policies will help these workers and his wouldn't,

how that's going to look. Yeah, right, because the whole thing with, like, you know, you said earlier they don't, you know, so many of them voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020 because they don't, even though, despite what the policies are, there's just, it just feels to them like, you know, the Democrats hate us, you know what I mean? I think we're all deplorable or they look down on us

or we're a waste of their time or what, whatever, like that whole thing and just not showing up. I just don't understand why he's tried, you know, a big part of his whole thing has supposedly been being pro labor or trying to be. I don't know why he, you sit this one out or whatever. Is that, I mean, since it's unprecedented, I'm just asking, like, did it used to be a thing where, like, presidents historically didn't engage in that type of shit or something? Or, like, you know what I'm saying?

Is it like a tradition or an unwritten rule or something? or like, because otherwise I don't understand why he wouldn't do it. You don't want to, you know, like, pick fights with industries like this, but like that's, we're beyond, we're, we're not normal, every time, I'll say we're not normal times, every time is different, right? History is constantly different, changing. It echoes itself, but like, you, but you're not going to get, like, you're going to compare this exactly the political dynamics that happened in, like, when there were a bunch

of strikes in the 1940s, for example, the middle of World War II. I understand the security probably be an issue for President walking a picket line but you can figure this shit out but main thing is like they don't seem to understand why they should have to because they they think they've done all the right things

and people should just know that like for example what Biden knows that the media doesn't want to tell anybody or like that the Republicans are going to tell them is when Trump was in office we talked about the MLRB he backed up fiercely anti-labour NLRB as we talked about

also these judges are or terrifically anti-labor and pro-corporate. He stabbed his White House of Wall Street execs. He passed a massive corporate tax cut. He tried gutting Medicaid and the American Affordable Care Act. And he has since berated the UAW president, Sean Fane, on truth social. All right? So it's understandable.

Well, the White House might be frustrated and confused with how this would be spun. But I don't care. This is the reality you live in. You've got to play things as they are. Like, this is the, if you want CNN to talk about how you're on the auto worker's side, you've got to go walk around down there. That's the gate. I don't know if I'm going to short either.

You know, I mean, people have been talking about it for years about the whole voting against their self-interest things or whatever, but it really is one of the most infuriating aspects of American politics is that like, you know, the perceptions are so skewed between the party who, like I said, actively fucks regular people over and the party who tries to work for them in the minds of so many like, you know, working people and that they'll do not just what Trump's doing, but like, you know, you know, when they had the GOP debate and they were all sharing Richmond north of Richmond and they played it at the debate and all that stuff is like, see, this guy gets it, right? And it's like, you are the people doing all the shit that he's mad about in the song. Like, you are the people who fuck all these people over, but they do that and then pander to them and it works somehow. And like, it's just, it's like maybe the one single thing that drives me the most insane about American politics. I keep bringing this up I brought it up before this piece The New Republic a couple years ago

Called Who's Saudi you want Like the Democrats don't answer the question Who's sad do you want? It's not that they're not like It's like Republicans are actively fucking overworkers And Democrats want to play like a referee You trust to call a foul The kids and the workers get fucked over

Or at least seem that way Because like they got friends Being liberal or left wing Is harder in politics It just is The game isn't fair you can be perfectly aligned to all your interest in donors when you're a Republican. When you're a Democrat, you have to take corporate CEO money to compete and then turn around and fuck your friends.

Right. Right. Yes. So which brings us to the fact that Joe Biden is personal friends with the CEO of GM, Mary Barra. All right. So this isn't like one of the, this isn't one of those cynical. I'm not about to do something cynical about how he's like doing it for corporate greed or whatever. He's, she's just been really helpful with the green energy at transit.

like she's helped, she's part of his, she's visited the White House eight times as far as anyone knows. And she's played a crucial role in helping the administration develop a national car charging plan. So when you're trying to do good things, like have workers have good benefits and also transition to green energy, those things are sometimes going to be in conflict. I remember we talked about last week how the UAW hasn't endorsed Biden because precisely because they don't think he's not done enough to make sure the new electric vehicle factories are unionized. All right? Because he's trying to go fast so the planet doesn't die. But you've got to walk and chew gum at the same time, buddy.

I'm sorry. You're not going to get your green agenda unless you win more elections and you do that by helping voters and looking like you're going to be on the side of the working, man. So like you just got to do that. You've got to do the vibes, man. You've got to go down on the picket line and tell the cameras that your friend Mary Barrow, while you respect her personally, is wrong on this issue and she should pay her goddamn workers.

You don't have to be mean. You might have to get kicked off for Christmas card lists. All right? You might have. I mean, do you think that it's that it's just that? It's just that he's got, there's a lot of Mary Barras in Joe Biden's realm or sphere. You know what I mean? Like that's the, because that's what I just keep going back to like, why wouldn't he? There's so many things we talk about all the time in the show. It's like shit that just seems like such a layup that Democrats just don't even attempt for some reason. And it's always maddening. Like this feels like one of those to me.

But I guess it's like I said, you know, Mary Barrow, that's his buddy. And there's probably more of them. like that, you know, support him on the scenes are integral to, you know, his goals in terms of fundraising and the campaign and that type of shit. So, I mean, yeah, you're right. It's like,

it's, yeah, you know, you got to have the big money coming from somewhere. There might be other political problems I'm not thinking about. Like, say, Joe Biden goes down there and then the workers win, and then car prices go up a couple grand for the next election. The Republicans run campaign ads saying Joe

and made your car more expensive. It could be that kind of shit. Like, you know, I don't know what the fuck is going on. Dude, the thing that kills me about that, because, like, you're right. Like, that would happen. But it's like, the fucking things are going to go up anyway. Do you know what I mean? Like, that's what they always say.

It's like, if we do that, you guys want us to pay people so they can live. But if we do that, you know, the price is going to go up, right? And it's like, all the prices for everything have just been going up anyway. And you're making revenue profits and whatnot. So, like, what fucking difference does it make? Except now, you know, pay your workers can afford to live like it and also prices are completely untethered to costs until the point where it costs more to make than you can get from selling it then you go out

business but like people don't set price don't be like well it cost us 15k to make the car and we want to make five so we sell it for 20 that's not how they set prices they set prices what's the most someone will pay for this car and that's the price has nothing to do with what it cost to build it i know that but i'm saying what the attack ads are going to say after prices go up no yeah yeah and you're right for sure i mean all the fucking inflation and gas price of shit you know he's been just pelted with it his entire tenure oil prices go down and gas goes up

why because they can get it because they can charge it right so but the thing is like auto workers are going to win this strike so you want at least be on the winning fucking side of this because otherwise you're going to look like a complete dip shit I saw this this is pretty funny the part of the strike tactics they're using is like

they're running like disin from you remember how like when we did D-Day the like the army drop like dummies over top of the wrong place. Now, and that's not paperclip, is it? Is paperclip the Nazi one? Yeah, Operation Paperclip. That's the Nazi one.

It's Operation. I used to know the name of it. Anyway, yeah, I know what you're talking about. Yes. Drop bodies with fake info on it that, yeah, misled the Nazis and whatnot. Yeah. Operation Mincemeat, I think, was the name of it. That's it.

That's it. You're right. That's it. Operation Mincemeet. The British hid secret intel on bodies. They've jumped out. They shut up a submarine tube door. and they drifted up on the coast.

But yeah, there was also, like, before D-Day, they dropped dummies in different parts that look like paratroopers to move the German army to move around. Anyway, so the UAW is not striking every planet once. They're doing, like, guerrilla strikes, pop-up strikes at different plants. And they've completely misled the auto companies

about which companies are striking. So basically, though, like, so CNBC reported a source familiar with UAW strategy, which is obviously a fucking, A list of plants they said the UAW plan to strike. Big Three moved a bunch of engines around and shut down various plants to anticipate it to try to keep producing vehicles. But they were wrong in every count and at great expense. Basically, it moved engines from plants that didn't strike to plants that did strike.

Complete failure by the executives, which allowed the UAW to paralyze their operations while still setting most of the members to work conserving their strike fund. So basically they were cribbing from trade publications, probably got their info from some strike-breaking consultant who was completely played for a fucking 80. by the UAW. This made me laugh. They're going to win. And something I learned from this piece is I guess auto workers, this is the rerun of a tactic

that they used in the 1930s and they were striking when they got their first union recognition from the big three. Yeah, well, Stetterfuge, baby. I love it in this direction. Makes it fun.

Pat Paul wisdom. Yeah, gamesmanship. But talking about like the optics of this, and the main thing for like national politics is that like, I don't think Joe Biden could win without Michigan. all right right um that's a big fucking problem for him if everybody in michigan gets mad at him

right and he gave a speech over labor day where he said he was asked about the auto worker strike remember labor day was just two and a half weeks ago and he said i'm not worried about a strike i don't think it's going to happen uh debby dingle who's a congresswoman from michigan uh was marching labor day parade in detroit when she heard about it and she got on the phone and called the White House got on a hook, got on the line with an advisor who said, are you out of your fucking minds? So it's a little bit like just just openly say from your mouth, you and your workers should get a fair deal.

Go about your day. Yeah. As loudly as possible and do it with a backdrop that forces cable news to carry it. And now talking heads argue about who's more pro-labor, Trump or Biden. If I can do it that way, that's. that's the new game the New York Times is not going to write a clear

and sober piece about how the Democratic Party is better for auto workers you've got to fucking do it yourself and if he goes like if Trump is already like planning on going if he goes and like you said

you get a photo op out of it they got to talk about it or whatever on Fox News like you know what's their angle going to be if Trump also went do you know what I mean like if it was just Biden going

and it's like see he wants you know what he wants he wants all these companies to move their plants to Mexico and everything. That's what he's, that's what he, you know, I hope you're happy Joe Biden when we lose Ford forever, because that's what you're doing, that type of thing. But if like, if Trump's going there, you know, doing the same shit courting these people or whatnot, then I mean, I know it's, doesn't mean they'd have to be logically consistent, but you know what I'm saying.

Right. But like, but let, let Fox News do that shit about how Joe Biden is being unfair to the car companies and they'll just take the jobs to New Mexico and then cut that shit into ads that runs campaign ads that runs in Michigan, there's 150,000 auto workers and the 20 members of their family they all know and talk to. That's a lot of goddamn votes, is all I'm saying. But I did want to say, like,

so we're, our strike, this weird fucking thing happened where like Drew Barrymore and Bill Moore were going to come back without writers and they got yelled out a lot online and then decided not to. All right. They're very small cogs in like a profit making machine at like Paramount or Studios or Warner Brothers.

It wasn't going to be enough money to save the companies, but people got really, really mad at them and sort of rightfully so, because why the fuck are you fucking over your union brothers and sisters? Feelings are a big part of this, and that's why Joe Biden should go, because you're talking about people's lives and livelihood. You're talking about whether people can retire and whether they can provide a good education and food for their families, and that's why the emotions run so high and why people want to see politicians fighting for them and saying the right thing.

And John Federman talked a little bit in a little bit went down to a plant and rode around a truck and got some good media attention for it. You should do that. But I wanted to play this clip of this guy interviewing a couple striking auto workers about their problems because I think it's worthwhile for everyone and Joe Biden to see also. The more I think about it, you hear this term

income inequality. I think that's the wrong term. This is just theft. It sounds to me like these companies are wage slavery, you said. Yeah, wage slavery. I mean, how can someone work six hours, ten, six days, ten hours a week, or ten hours a day, and still not be able to afford, be able to afford a cat, if you wanted a cat.

A cat, you said? Forget kids, we can't afford an animal, be one of the animal. Like, I barely afford the houseplants I have, just to, just to water them and, you know, buy soil and stuff for them, let alone a child or, you know, a cat, you know. I couldn't imagine how it would be able to take care of, but just not feasible in the day's economy. I just, I definitely am thankful for people who, you know, are able to provide for their kids, that actually stress it just

did you think about that even now it just is crazy I think about this fight really I go on and talk about how it's a bigger picture about the whole economy in America and again it makes some good points I was trying to have time to play it all but like it's like yeah it's like people are

the car companies are making it so people can't have kids that's a very simple sales pitch yes and there will be people I guarantee you see that clip or whatever who think like despite the point being like you know I can never have kids I can never have a family. I mean, I can't even afford a cat.

Like, that's the larger point. But there'll be people to see that and see like, well, then don't get a cat. You don't need a cat. You know what I mean? Like, there'll be people like, this is classic them wanting to blow money on a cat instead of putting you in 401k or something. It's like, what's next? You know, drugs and horrors, first the cats, then the cocaine. I know how this works.

But, you know, there'll be people who think that. People work six days, 60 hours a week and want to be able to have enough money to the few hours are not working to have something they enjoy? What fucking lazy pieces of shit? Yeah, but people like that. That's how they look at it. Yeah. Anyway, let's talk about dumb shit.

Yeah, so there's a lot of shit going, a lot of problems in the world. A lot of strike for one. War in Ukraine, Cold War over China, COVID surge, spike in childhood poverty. So what's everyone in Congress up to? Let's hear what Lauren Bober did over the weekend. Got this video, man. Bobert, Bobert, say it three times and she appears in security video from a weekend performance of Beetlejuice with a congresswoman for being disruptive. The DCPA says she was vaping.

Bobert's team denied that, said the haze was from fog machines in the show. That claim goes up in smoke when you see the video. The pregnant woman sitting behind Bobert told the Denver Post she asked her to stop vaping, and Bobert refused. Her one-woman show continued, taking flash photos, raising her hands and dancing. often the only one clack over so in their defense uh honking a boop at a beetle juice show was some some shit beetle juice would do uh but the this is the reason this is like important to me is like uh beyond being funny and silly as shit is uh she's in the freedom caucus they're leading the government shutdown right now she's literally one of the most powerful people in washington

right and the government's about to close and she's in denver uh on a date uh if you people zoomed in, you can see the guy honk in her boob and her rubbing his dick. And, like, the secrets of events here, if she was vaping, pregnant one behind her ass not to. Lauren said no, called her a sad, miserable person. It's a nice pregnant lady who didn't want to vape smoke in her face. Then offered her to buy the pregnant lady a drink if she stopped being such a bitch. I don't know the video about it, but dude, it's just like all, every time something happens with Lauren Bobard, it just, every time I'm like, this does not sound like a congressperson. sounds like my most trash cousin.

You know what I mean? It's like I, she just reminds me of so many people both in my family and then I went to school with and whatever. Just people back home, you know, like with so much of this shit, it just kills me, dude. It cracks me up so much. It's like I said. Like honestly, because of that, like, you know, if she was, if she actually was like,

you know, if she was on the other side and like stood up for the little guy and that type of thing, you know, and wasn't like a Freedom Caucus. lunatic in the Maga Brigade, like if she was actually a good person who fought for the right causes or whatever, I would, I would kind of love all this because I would be like, because I would be like, look, yeah, hey, finally some representation in the halls of Congress, you know what I mean, like she's a regular person. She's not enough stuffy upper crust, Ivy League, you know, silver spoon guy. She fucking, uh, puts her vape cartridges in one at a time just like the rest of us do, you know, but, uh, I think trying to sneak a vape is fine.

think when the person lady asked you to stop, you should say, oh, my bad, and stop. But obviously, what got her kicked out was taking flash photographs in the middle of a fucking musical. That's going to be a no-no to the performers. And when they, so when they were escorting her out, she did, she pulled the do you know who I am thing, which is also, that's a deal breaker for me to matter. I hate that. I hate that.

She also threatened to call the mayor, which is an interesting move. I'm going to call the mayor. Which is like the mayor of Denver is probably a huge lib. I didn't look them up. but I doubt he's a political ally of Boberts. And also, like, to refuse to leave and the ushers are like, we're going to call the cops. And she goes, well, fucking call him.

And then the cops come and say, man, you've got to leave. So they didn't take her sides. That was funny. And then she gave this statement that said, whether it was the excitement of seeing a much-anticipated production of the natural anxiety of being in a new environment. Like, she was talking about why the stress of a new environment made her vapid,

like a huge bitch. But the real scandal of this to people on her side of the aisle Was that her date is a lip The guy who's honking her boob Owns a bar in downtown like Aurora Aspen Aspen And they put on drag shows there And her defense

She said she didn't check his political affiliation I guess he's a registered Democrat before they went on their date So this was a first date And just casually honking each other's fucking genitals and I'm no crude. I think my wife and I did some second-based self at our first date. I got gay, motherfucker.

But like, this is, you're a goddamn congerty trait. Like, I don't, I'm not even going to be one of these fucking upity people who says have some dignity, but have some people. Well, you had on the guy, though. I go back and forth on him. It was like, you know, this was like a, like a, you know, sleeper agent type of thing. Like, you know, like he's, like he's, like he's, like, he's, like, he's,

there's a conspiracy theory that he's like an agent of the deep state. to the Democrat Party to entrap her in this embarrassing situation? It's like Antifa felt my titty and I live to tell about it. I don't know about all that, but if he's just like liberal and he's got all his drag queen friends and stuff and their position on it was just kind of like, wouldn't it be hilarious if I, you know, railed Lauren Bobert and never called her again or whatever, something like that, then, uh, yeah, I can't imagine. I kind of enjoy that.

I can't imagine how crazy the sex would be with a 35-year-old grandmother going through a bad public divorce. Buddy. Right. Absolutely. So anyway, so yeah, they left the thing together.

So I don't know if their night ended there or whatever. So yeah, government shuts down in 12 days. And she's in Boulder getting finger blasted

at a beetle juice show. So another side of the aisle, what's cable news you're it on by going over on the Senate? Matt, if you got this video, let's see what they're talking about.

So is Senator John Federman of Pennsylvania now, dictating the dress code for the United States Senate. Carl Rove is here on that and more. So John Fetterman wears basketball shorts. He does. That's a scandal.

That's a huge scandal in Washington this week. Marjorie Taylor Green went on Twitter and said dress code is one of society's standards that sets etiquette and respect for our institution. Institution. Stop lowering the bar. This is a lady who showed a dick pick of heart. or Biden and a fucking congressional hearing, which Federman called out.

He said, thankfully, the nation's lower chamber lived by a higher code of conduct was playing dingling picks in public hearings. He also said, I figure if I take up vaping and grabbing the hog during a live musical, they'll make me a folk hero. Not to mention. Like both these things ostensibly are about like, you know, decorum or how a member of Congress is supposed to conduct themselves. type of thing or present themselves and like obviously they're different he you know wearing shorts is

not the same as cussing out a pregnant lady and getting you know causing the scene at beetlejuice whatnot they're not the same thing but it's like about kind of the same thing and like i'm just like to me it's all about the what they do with the position they have you know what i mean like i don't give a fuck what fetterman wears because like he goes to the front lines of the auto worker strike and he you know keeps it real and he's like on the actual side of working people and that type thing. And I don't really give a fuck about Lauren Bober getting finger blasted either, but I do care that, you know, she's anti-LGBT and hardcore Megan is trying to tear apart democracy, you know, at its core. Like, that's what matters to me. And all these, like, these grandstanding high horse fucking other congressman talking about, you know, like the fucking, uh, the standards of, of the chamber and the office on that because of what he wears. It's just, I, I just don't want to. I hear it, you know what I mean? It's like, y'all don't.

Like, the part, they're doing this to just try, they think it's scored some points, but I can't imagine it's resonating with anybody. But like, the thing that, like, it bothers me about it is, like, it's one of those things that we're all, they're all pretending to be dumber than there are, they are. Like, they know this isn't a big deal. Like, I can't really tell what they changed. Like, Federman would go stand in the doorway of, like, the caucus room and yell his vote. So she wouldn't be entering the caucus chamber of basketball shorts.

And just, I guess they decided to let him walk in, all right? But, like, Marjor Taylor Green, she's like, you see this. Pictures of her own, like, holding the gavel in the floor of the house with, like, off the shoulder dresses or whatever. They changed the dress code in 2019 to allow that. Before that, she would have been in violation of it. I don't give a fuck. Where are dresses that show your shoulders?

Ted Cruz and Josh Halley, I guess, routinely come up to vote from the Senate gym, wearing gym clothes. They run up and take their vote, then run back down and complete their workouts, right? So they all know this is bullshit, and they're all still fucking going with it. Joe Manchin gave him a talking to today about he needs to dress better, which I think what you should do is show up in an Obama tan suit. That would rule. Susan Collins said this today, Matt, if you have this quote about, okay, I'm obviously

not going to wear a bikini, but the fact is, as I understand it, I could. Go for it, Susan. I don't think of fuck. So, well, who gives a shit? Like, I just, like, yeah. Again, the government's about to shut down. Rick Scott has got a petition going. He's got 46 signatures from senators about how.

need to reinstate the chamber dress code. John Federman, wear some chinos. Okay, the Republic is going to last if you keep wearing fucking basketball shorts. But I do want to mention this. Fetterman is the subject of a lot of online discourse, not just for the basketball sports thing. Yeah. Because a huge chunk of right-wing social media thinks he's a clone or a body double.

I know. That cracked me up so much when I first saw it a week or two ago or something. I saw some of those posts on Twitter getting passed around, like, different pictures of him, comparing them, saying, like, this is. isn't the same guy, whatever. And when I put it together that they were saying he had been like replaced, he had a doppelganger or body double or something like that, it cracked me up immediately because,

and I know other people have like pointed this out, but my first thought was like, you think that guy has like they replaced that guy? Like the most singular distinct look having motherfucker in the entire government. That's the guy that they went to, like the objectively hardest person to physically replace. in all of American public life probably. That's the guy you're saying is a doppelganger.

It's just so many of the senators are like completely interchangeable. They just look like different versions of the same guy on like the guess who corporate stews edition board, you know? They say this guy has been replaced. It's just so ridiculous. Yeah. The movie Dave, the president was replaced by like a regular looking guy because he was a regular looking guy.

But like Federman's like a seven foot tall ogre. Yeah. It's like what seemed to the guy that like was in, Highlander and voices SpongeBob, Clancy Brown. They got his scinty Brown's hedge and got him to play John Fetterman. I think he's the voice of Mr. Crabb. Mr. Crabb, yeah, yeah. Mr. Crabb. So basically, the root cause of this is there is any sense to it.

Remember, Fetterman had a stroke last year. Yeah, right. He hit a debate with like audio processing help or whatever. And like Dr. said it would, his speech and hearing gotten better. And so they think he must have been replaced by somebody whose brain works again as opposed he's recovered from a stroke. Right. And how many people do you think exist in this country who could even, like, you know, fill in for him in a picture, you know, in a way that actually played or that was believable, let alone could do all the rest of it, like do senator shit, like speak in public and know stuff and that type of thing. Like, you know, it's just, it'd be a hell of a thing to pull off.

I guess if they believe it's a clone. And they're like, yeah, I grew them in a lab. That's what they do. Get with the program. Now. Yeah, I gave a little bit too much credence to it because it's also just basic QAnon shit. But if you're wondering what the memes looked like, Matt threw up a couple of these images I dropped from the dock. Yeah.

So the way my tattoos disappear in meme is so funny because the tattoos are in the front of his arms and you're circling the back of his arms. It's so cleaner. Right. Who sees that? and doesn't think what you just said immediately because I sure, you know, I don't know. I do not understand people that see those, those pictures right there and their first thought isn't, well, okay, but that's clearly the other side of his arm. Like, it's the first thing that I thought.

Like, I don't know. Yeah. If you would, if you want to be stupid, you can't be stupid, I guess. But it's just like, anyway, Federman got asked about this today because I guess it got to a point where, like, but by the way, I, uh, it doesn't even make sense as a, as a scam, because if Federman died, Josh Shapiro would appoint his replacement with, like, with another left wing dude. So like, it doesn't even work as a scam, like, there's no point in it. They seem to think that the government's just fucking with them, just to fuck with them, which if so, more power

of the deep state. Um, by the way, if people could play him, I think if triple, if you gave triple late, like two years to get out of shape, maybe play John Federman. All right. Okay. Okay, so let's talk about the shutdown for a minute because they're running out of time. The coverage of the shutdown

has been really annoying to me because I see updates about congressional dysfunction, but it's not congressional dysfunction, nor is it partisanship. This is an intra-Republican dispute. No one can really figure out what anybody wants. They're just throwing shit at each other and eating

shit and planning with everybody with Plato while the government's about the shutdown. And I saw Nancy May escape probably the most, she went on TV and said like, oh, yeah, a little bit of government shut down. A bunch of government workers won't get their paychecks. But whenever, whenever the shutdown ends, they get back pay so it's not that big of a deal. Most people can't go forward to the paycheck, even if they know that back pace comment, depending on what their spouse does for a living or how their savings are at or whether or not they just have to put a new fucking heat pump.

So get fucked with that shit. people go to work, their jobs have dignity, pay them, you idiots. If you wonder how this feels like for Republicans in Congress who aren't crazy right now, here's a video clip from Representative Mike Lawler, who's a Republican from New York. This is not conservative republicanism. This is stupidity. The idea that we're going to shut the government down, when we don't control the Senate, we don't control the White House.

These people can't define a win. they don't know how to take yes for an answer. It's a clown show. You keep running lunatics. You're going to be in this position. Well, rest in pace that guy's career, am I right? Anybody smell a rhino in here? Yeah, it's coming.

I'll be gunning for that guy now. He doesn't fucked up. Yeah, he'll never get a committee chairmanship in Marjorie Taylor Green's GOP. Even though, she's on his side, though. She's actually with the, what do you call it, the establishment on this fight? It's like the Freedom Caucus is like Matt Gates, Lauren Bobert, and a few other psychos who were truly ungovernable. And I mean that in a bad sense, not the punk rock sense. So basically a half dozen or so between six and 12 bomb throwers.

The sequence of events here is like congressional bullshit, so try to hang with me. What they want is up or down spending votes on individual spending priorities instead of like these big omnibus bills and continuing resolutions. that, like, they can't decipher what's in it or pick apart what's in. They want to vote like a standalone spending bill for, like, Pentagon funding. They want to up or down vote on Ukraine spending. So they don't want to do any horse trading. You understand what I'm saying? Yeah.

And I get where they're coming from, but Congress can't function like that because you guys, you motherfuckers go to work 11 days a year. Right. All right. Yeah. You got to vote for it all at once. Or work harder. I don't know what to tell you.

Right. So they wanted to do regular order for $130 billion in spending cuts, but then they blocked those bills. So then the rest of Republicans, like, okay, Freedom Caucus, you craft your own continuing resolution to keep government funding going with your cuts and immigration limits, and then they voted their own continuing resolution down. They want to zero out Ukraine funding, among other no-goes here. But it doesn't even matter what they actually want because it's debt on arrival in the Senate and Joe Biden won't sign it. So they're just, they're trying to settle on a wish list bill, knowing it'll never pass and they can't even agree on their fucking

Christmas wish list. Nothing they're doing logically follows any simple plan. The only way this makes sense of the plan is they want to sabotage the government and their own political party to be able to, so people on Twitter can see them fighting and talk show hosts will give them high fives. That's basically the only plan that makes sense. There's nothing to do with governing or anything serious. Today, just today, Kevin McCarthy had to punt plans to tow up a vote on the short,

short term spending plan just to get us through the next month or two. he has no plan to fund the government no idea is what to do next and today they tried to do a standalone bill they had to do the vote to get a vote on Pentagon funding and House Republicans voted that down so the one thing they usually agree on is Pentagon funding

they can't even get that and they all fucking hate each other and I don't know what's going to happen next let me read some quotes here okay so this is a piece titled Tension flare inside house GOP as a barrel towards government shutdown. While they're all doing this, Marjorie Taylor Green is spending your time tweeting

out Shrek memes. They have something to do with Ukraine funding. Matt Gates were on the house floor threatened to oust McCarthy. You remember one person could follow a motion to vacate and call for the entire house to kick him out of his job as Speaker of the House. McCarthy

yelled at him in private about it, said move the fucking motion, tried and call his bluff. Gates laughed in his face. Then when McCarthy was in front of camp, talked about how it was just normal family infighting compared it to the five families the new york mafias you're doing the people that murder each other over trucks of untaxed cigarettes that's you're comparing your interconference dynamics too yeah i mean that makes sense dude they love i'm just probably got you know uh like i'm sure some of these guys had like scarface posters on their wall probably still do you know what i mean even at 40 or whatever like uh yeah they look up to crime lords so that that exchange for gates and mccarthy happened like last week, but it turns out Gates did write up a motion to vacate and sign it. He just never filed it. We found that out because a reporter found it in a congressional bathroom. He just left it in the fucking shitter. All right? I don't know what to do with these people. I mean,

I don't know how they get out of this. Like, the funniest possible result probably is they file a motion to vacate and then Democrats vote to give McCarthy's speakers. They just keep being trapped in the towel because I don't know who they know. They might. vote for it seriously as a devil you know versus the devil you don't because I don't know who else would be able to get the job but also like a couple of sane Republicans like that Mike Lawler guy now he's a Republican who's probably like professional evil he's like I came down here just to mildly make my grandkids lives worse in the future and you guys are making this into a fucking shit show right just vote for speaker of the house Hakeem Jeffries and this

national nightmare is over and we'll give you some fucking good committee assignments you can do a little bit of evil here and there Mike Lawler that's how we get out of this because otherwise I don't know how we have a government in two weeks. So, yeah, it's going to be interesting because, I mean, you know, you don't expect, like, any kind of sanity to rear its head coming from this caucus. It's not like they're going to just suddenly show up one day and be like, you know what, we're going to be reasonable about it. Like, you know, probably.

So who the hell knows what's going to happen? Matt, we got a couple minutes left. If you've got any questions or comments for us, put them up there. Kelly Beds has left in the shitter. the metaphor for the Freedom Caucus Indeed I like it's like Longs in the shitter

says Leah too Prison for having sex With 17 year olds But the Justice Department will get out of their ass The uh I don't Like I really don't understand

Like you can't even Like they only control They barely control one half Of one half the legislative Right Yeah And they act like they run the government And they're less six of them

I mean that's the main thing That I think it's like It just pisses me off that, sort of like Tommy Tuberville with the military promotions or whatever. Like, it just bothers me on principle that that number of, you know, insane people can have this type of stranglehold over the government as it is. You know what I mean? It's like, why can't we just say, fuck what they want and do something that makes sense?

You know what I mean? Because Kevin McCarthy's a fucking coward. Like, McCarthy could fall on his sword. He could call, he could bring a bill to the floor, pass with Democratic votes. He would get ousted, but if the one patriotic activist, fucking life. And then he could walk away into retirement, be at risk lobbyist for somebody. Lee Atushal then says,

is it true? Gates is going to run for governor in Florida? I saw that story. I don't know how he wins a primary because he's like this type of shit makes him fucking hated by the rest of the Republicans. Like one of his big fights right now is a Byron Donald, which is another congressional Republican from Florida, who's trying to pass a continuing resolution just to get through the

end of the next month. And Gates has made his life living hell. Allison Haygood says Matt Gates is almost certainly going to run for governor of Florida to replace DeSantis. Yeah, I mean, like Desantis won with every Republican aiding him, so I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong about that.

Susan Westenbarger says contractors like me do not get back pay when the government shut down's end. Oh, if you're a defense contractor, fire up a couple drones and get us out of this national nightmare, uh, Susan. Yeah, this shit's fucking nuts. Kelly Bates. This is a great breakdown of the spiral in the house GOP.

Yeah, it's marked for you. That's what the man does. I hate my life so much. Ah, well, you get hit at it. All right. Well, I guess that'll do it. So, listen, thank you guys for being here. Let me remind you again a few things.

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