Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 9/20/22 – Immigrant Song

Episode Date: September 21, 2022

Tonight we will be discussing the hot new pursuit of ambitious GOP governors: human trafficking! I.e. Abbott and DeSantis using desperate people as pawns in a political stunt. We got a lot more too, so join us. Support the show

Hey, y'all, welcome back. Happy Skew's Day to you. It is September 20th, 2022. I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark Audey. What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? I got a fun show tonight when we're talking about an immigration year, election year immigration stunts specifically by Greg Abbott

and mostly Ron Santis. but also how we're lit time was a flat circling with living the same thing over and over and over again going back to the 1930s but before we get to the show I wanted to ask you a quick question Trey is the pandemic over yes or no I don't know been hard for me to tell

because there was a period there was a period there about six weeks ago where it seemed like every person I knew including my whole family had COVID at the same time including producer Matt and I was like in my head I was like I feel like I'm not it seems like

there's a massive spike going on, just anecdotally to me at least, but I'm not seeing or hearing anything about that. So maybe we just sort of agreed to just pretend it's over. I don't know. I can't really tell what's up with that. Yeah. Yeah. The reason I'm asking is because Biden did a 60 Minutes interview on Sunday, and he essentially said that the pandemic's over. And it's not like 400 and some people are dying on average per day in America. But the question is, like, can you mobilize society to do anything about it? And I think it's been pretty clear since, like, the fall of 2020. Right.

No, I agree. I mean, that's pretty much what I thought. It just seemed like everybody got to a point where collectively they were just like, we're done with that. And, like, some of us may be done forever when we get it and die, I guess. But you know what? That's just going to be the way it's going to be because we're just not going to do that anymore. It's how it feels to me.

So, yeah. I mean, the government, like, like, I guess the danger in it is signals to people that can stop getting boosters and stuff, which is not great. But I think everybody, we see the news. We know there are boosters. I got my fourth one last week. How many have you had it? Your fourth booster or fourth shot?

I've had three shots. I've had three shots and I've been, I'm meaning to get the fourth one soon. Yeah. Yeah, I got the same time as my flu shot, which he said, increased your risk of bad symptoms. I'm like, I'm not driving the waterings twice. I just... Yeah. I just muddle through.

Yeah, but like, yeah, I don't know. I don't have any answer to that. He also said that the interviewer, I think it was Scott Pelly, asked him questions like basically what he was going to do about grocery prices, which the president doesn't have a lower grocery prices button to push. Like gas prices underlie everything. They could get energy prices down. But it's all so weird.

We blame everything on the president. I remember back when Trump was first elected and they were asking like supporters what they're hoping for. And one guy was like, the Super Bowl, the Super Bowl is going to be, we need to move the Super Bowl to Saturday or get Monday off as a national holiday. That's kind of common to say, like, basically he wanted the president to make it so he

get super drunk on the Super Bowl. Right, yeah. And it was like, why is the president involved? Yeah, well, it's just, the president's just supposed to do everything. Like, if you're an American and something is bad, then, well, actually,

no, it's not true. It depends on who the president is. Like, right now, if you're a Republican and something's bad, that's the president's fault. should be fixing it. But, you know, if Trump was the president, something's bad, you just either don't acknowledge it or also it's the Democrat who came before him's fault. But it's always like the president, no matter what the actual problem is, comes down to the president. So that's how we think presidents work, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Like the president, like, sorry, I was going to say, like the president can't really, I mean, it's like, it's weird how

powerless the president ultimately is. Like Obama tried for eight years to close Guantanamo Bay, couldn't do it. Uh, Trump tried to build a wall, couldn't do it. Biden had to, like, do his own little rebellion against the Department of Defense to hand a war in Afghanistan, and they tried to ruin his life over it. So, like, the president just works here, man. Right. All right. Let's get into it with us, as always, his producer, Matt.

This is weekly skews. I want to remind you, of course, for two quick orders of business. Number one, if you'd like to see me live, you can go to tradecrouter.com. I'll be in northwest Arkansas this weekend, Oklahoma City. Next week, Riley, after that, a lot of fun places, adding more dates all the time. going into next year or so go to traycrouter.com check it out come and see me number two if you enjoy this program and would like to show your support you can do so by signing up on patreon five dollars a month get you access to full-length bonus episodes we're doing them every other week having a good time with it so go to weekly skews.com slash more or just go on patreon and look me up either way works get some more skews in your life okay as for the show tonight as mark alluded to earlier we're talking about the hot new strategy taking the gop by storm human trafficking Specifically, last week's sadistic PR stunt in which Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis used desperate families of immigrants as political pawns. We've got a lot to say about it a little later, but first, of course, we will begin with the Daily Dumbass.

Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., anyone who ever doubted the Utah hip-hop scene. That's right. If you don't believe me, check out this hot new banger of a track. well listen up right here there's a new name on the ballot for the senate this year my name is linda paulson republican and awesome love god and family and the constitution i tried to get another conservative to run nobody could do it so i'm getting it done i'm pro religious freedom pro life pro police the right to bear arms and the right to free speech i want

less government control and regulation want to stop and expose all political corruption where's integrity, morality, accountability, government programs should lead to self-sufficiency and support traditional family as a fundamental unit of society. But in schools, they're pushing for new beliefs. And just to clarify this, because there's some who can't define this. As a female adult, I know what a woman is. yeah bars i i want to clarify something so correct me if i'm wrong here mark like people see the watermark or whatever up there in the top left it says you know

instagram utah satire but this lady is real and this is really her and this is a real thing because i i want people to see that and think that it wasn't because now unless running for office itself is some sort of long joke uh which i don't know we have knowing that. Her name is Linda Paulson, and she says. Linda Paulson, Republican and awesome. Not bad, not a bad, not a bad rhyme, honestly. But she, uh, she's running, uh, for state Senate, Utah, uh, out of Salt Lake City. Uh, she talks in the, in her verse about, uh, how she couldn't get anyone else to

run. She's just doing herself, which is democracy. It's the way you're supposed to do it, right? We're citizens self-governed, uh, citizens self-governed. But she, the reason no one else is running is she's running against the, uh, you said a minority leader, but I have a Karen Payne. who won her last election in 2018, 69 to 31. So good luck tilting at that windmill, Linda.

You at least got some viral notarady out of it. And the record deal, hopefully. Yeah, this is easy to say, but I genuinely think if I was shown that video without her stating it anywhere in there, and you told me, like, what state do you think this lady is running for office in? I think Utah would have been at least top three guesses, I think. Like it's just, it's, uh, it's just, Utah is the perfect state to have produced that particular piece of media, in my opinion. See, I think, uh, my number one draft pick would have been Florida, just because Florida is the center of the, uh, the mega rap scene. I know that's

Jorge Otto Yeah Right What's it Roger Stone Dancing and Forge Auto Blow videos And there's one other guy

Down there By the way Forgiato Blow I didn't know this He's the Where he gets his money He's the heir To the auto

Trader fortune I learned that recently So yeah How about that? Also blow It's not a cocaine joke It's been living on wealth It's Fordiato

Been living on wealth So I almost stare at Florida I've been blown up but by 4Giotto not being into cocaine. You'd think you would have learned by now, Mark, being married to a Floridian as you are,

to not stereotype the great state of Florida, okay? I mean, she's always on a ton of cocaine, though. Yeah. All right. Our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass, words that start with C for confounding and confusing, Senator Ron Johnson.

When I was chairman of Homeland Security, we would have an annual threat hearing, and my ranking member would always be bringing up white supremacy, which, you know, I condone. I mean, I condemn. Oh, those say words. I'll get you every time. Nothing much to say about this except white Ron Johnson is absolutely a white

supremacist, so fuck him. Yeah, right. No, it always, we show a bunch of those, like, where it's clearly a slip of the tongue, but I never care every time. You know, it's like they still play for me. Like, yeah, that's why it's funny. Yeah, it's like, because it's the perfect slip of a tongue for that dude to have in that moment.

That's what makes it good. Yeah, Michael Kinsey, the old political columnist, corned the term Kinsey Gaff, and that's when a politician accidentally says the truth. Right. That always gets him in trouble. I like that. All right.

Our next honorable mention is kids for not knowing just how worthless they are. We'll let Dennis Prager explain right here in detail. That's the school side that I saw, schoolroom sign that I saw in the New York Times. The world is better because you are in it. I don't know what grade it was. I assume something like fifth grade. What a stupid message.

Plus, it's not true. What has any fifth grader done? to have made the world better because he or she is in it. Okay, that's a good man. Yeah, a little sorry-ass pieces of shit. I ain't even fucking running industries or nothing like that. This is the think of the children side here, Mark, fucking just letting it, letting it all hang out.

Like, yeah, you know, fifth graders used to work in factories, like real citizens. Okay, whatever happened to that. Just, that's so funny to me. Yeah, it's like part of these guys, These guys have no sense of humor to agree. This guy takes, like, what could be a pretty good premise for a stand-up bit, right? And just has no art around it. Just completely just state straightforward that kids suck.

Kids suck, right. You guys ever notice kids are fucking stupid and I don't like them? Yeah. Yeah, we have noticed. I remember a little Bill Burbett where you talked about how Oprah's full of shit and I'm being a mom's not that hard of a job? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I used to really upset my wife. by showing everyone who came to our house that bit

when it's on Netflix. I'd be like, you see this? You guys see this. We got, and like, Bishop's like one year old and Katie's pregnant again, and I'm just sitting there with her in the room, like, fucking dying, laughing. She was not a fan. Like, what comedy

is, is you're making a fallacious argument that no one actually believes it's true, but there's artistry and humor at it, right? Yeah. What this guy's doing is just taking the joke premise and not having any funny, minute and saying these piece of shit kids are worthless and it made me laugh. Yeah. All right.

We got some more honorable mentions coming up and I just want to let you know. We got sort of a stretch of all stars here, Daily Dumbass All Stars coming up, like some usual suspects, really taking over the statistics, top of the leaderboards for Daily Dumbass. First up, Mike Lindell, well, actually technically, Mike Lindell's bank for not allowing him to move his money around with his brain or something. By the way, did you tell him all? Also, I know you've so well over the last year and a half. You run your entire business off of your phone.

Did they care about that? They didn't care about that. I said, not only did I run five businesses up, but I don't use a laptop. I don't use the computer. Everything was on that phone. One of the things that were files on that phone that you can't get through the cloud that were passwords. Some of them passwords were so I wire money from different accounts back and forth.

And I have to look those passwords up in those files. I can't get to those, Steve. I can't get anything. And then I got media out there going, well, I called Mike on his phone number, and he must have got his phone back. No, I took the number and transferred it from my carrier to another phone. But the phone is blank. It's missing all these.

So this is the most pap-ball thing ever. So he had his bank password saved on a notes app with his phone, which do not do that. Do not do that. If you, like, you don't have to be the most intense Infosec person in the world. Do not save your passwords to anything important, much less your millionaire bank account on, and no, every pick pocket of the world is like, I got to get Mike Lindell's phone. Right. It's just, so in case you miss the news, Mike Lindell got surrounded by FBI agents at a Hardy's draft through or something.

And they took his, they had a subpoena for his phone. I think it's connected to the investigation. into Tina Peters. Hardie's, I would say, among the most papal of places to be apprehended by the authorities. Was it breakfast time? Hardy's breakfast time is, that's a real papal type of situation there. So this is all tracking for me. It was funny because he made a video late last week announcing that the FBI had taken his phone.

Everybody was like, all the lawyers and media people were like, I don't believe Mike Lindell. It might just be trying to be sound important. Someone asked the FBI field office in many. And they're like, we did serve a warrant at that particular location meeting the Hardee's, but also a really funny thing was a bunch of people in the media watched his video and heard Arby's because I guess my conclusion was they grew up in Quarles Jr. parts of the country. Yeah, right. I'm familiar with Ardys.

Right. Hardy's got a dope breakfast. It does. But yeah, so this appears to be connected to the investigation of the Tina Peters, who is the Mesa County, Colorado clerk, who she lost the GOP. nomination for Colorado Secretary of State early this year. But she's pleaded not guilty to a felony in misdemeanor charges after being indicted. What she did was, as county clerk, she assumed the election must have been stolen under

her nose, even though she's the county clerk in charge of running elections. So she gave access to voting machines to random idiots. And so the state's like, you can't be doing that. Right. And so she's in trouble. I'm surprised she lost the nomination, honestly. Usually that pleading not guilty to felony charges is sort of, you know, that's a box you've got to check to make it to the top of the podium on their side. That's a feature, not a bug.

I mean, you know, need multiple charges against you to be a legitimate candidate. You got to combine like the felony charges are part of it, but you got to also have a fraud element and also a sex pest element. You got to roll off together. Yes, the sex pass part. Yeah, it's huge. but I do want to point out there's a it's not just hearties

they got wrapped up in our fast food wars this headlines from late last week and armed Pennsylvania man a wig tried to restore Trump and president trying to restore Trump

as president was arrested at the dairy queen so Biden's law enforcement regime is politicizing all of our media for cheeseburgers trade and we got to figure that bottom of this

I mean dude they know I don't know if you remember it or not but Corey Corey got a thing in his like a little mailer thing in his mailbox one day from some local Republican group talking about how Joe Biden wanted to take our cheeseburgers away because he like posted about it. I think he talked about it on here even. It's one of the times when he came on the show and he talked about it and showed the thing. But yeah, yeah, cheeseburger related chicanery coming from the left, Mark, is why they got to mobilize at our nation's fast food locations or whatever.

This guy, his last name is Stilwovi. It's a really cool last name, by the way, Stilwovie. So Stoewo he was driving irratically and cops went to pull him over. He's wearing a rainbow wig and basically dressed as a rainbow clown, which of course, why wouldn't he be driving erratically dressed like a rainbow clown? So when cops confronted him inside the Dairy Queen, he said he was undercover with the Pennsylvania State Police working on a major drug sting. But while he was saying that, he was cursing the cops out.

That's not going to go good. He also said he was talking to God and was a prophet and would, quote, kill all the Democrats because Trump was still president, end quote. He also claimed that he knew the Dairy Queen workers and they would vouch for him. And the manager was like, yeah, he came in the store earlier and put $120 on the counter and said it was a tip for all the non-democrats. Well, then that, we don't know who is. I would disavow all liberal policies for $120 tip. I worked at a Dairy Queen.

Yeah, I'd be like, yeah, I'm totally not a Democrat. I'll take $120. I mean, buddy, dude, if I wouldn't take $120 tip. tips from people that hate Democrats, I would have had a very, very nonproductive career at the O'Charles in Cookville, Tennessee when I was working there in college. Like, you know. All right, our next honorable mention is Lauren Bo Burt. She's the next All-Star up for believing that Libs are drowning people in Chinese soup

or something like that. It's hard to tell exactly, but you'll get it in just a second, I think. Go ahead, Matt. Yeah. All hell broke loose, rampant evil, grabbing and grasping, vicious backstabbing. They made life hell on earth with their envy, wanton killing. I don't know what a wanton killing is. I don't have to look that one up.

But it sounds interesting, and I don't think I want to be a part of it. You cut it off that. So, wanton killing. One killing is in the Bible verse she's trying to read unsuccessfully. this is sort of a perfect metaphor to me because she's trying to piss her off as super Christian, but she literally cannot read the Bible. She's too fucking stupid.

Right. Yes. It's also, the prideful stupidity is also a running theme of this daily dumb ass all-star section we got going on here. Because it's also a central theme of our next article we'll mention

featuring who else. Herschel Walker. Herschel Walker for, well, for just being a dumbass, I guess. He's on a dumb ass is for being a dumbass. You know. It's not even like you're not even like being a

No, it's not a, not a... He's literally saying I'm a dumbass in the clip. Yeah, it's... Go ahead. I'm just country boy. You know, I'm not that smart. And he's that preacher. He's a smart man.

Wear these nice suits. So he's going to show up and embarrass me at the debate October 14th. And I'm just waiting. You all I show up. And I'm going to do my best. I'm going to do my best. So the preacher and civil rights activist is a snobby elite, and the millionaire of pro football player hangs out with Donald Trump, who's just a poor country bumpkin.

Yeah. He's just trying to get ahead. The, like, politicians do this all the time. They try to set expectations before debate to lower them. So if they sort of do okay, they're presented as the winner, right? Like, I saw this earlier today. In 20, 2004, Matthew Dowd worked in the Bush White. House said John Kerry was the Cicero

of his time before they had a presidential debate. So yeah, it's like, oh, my candidate's so fucking dumb. He doesn't have a shot in this. And he shows up and doesn't fall over. It's like, yeah, he did great, you know. But this is just reading the stage directions. It's like, get up there and lower expectations

at Herschel. It's like, I'm fucking stupid. Yeah. Hope you all know how dumb I am, all right? And he's real smart, too. So, right now. Right on. going to go great but you know i'm a try i'm going to just try that's all i can do uh all right our final honorable honorable mention is u s grant for not turning this whole thing around sooner this clip features the all-time great of daily dime ass the goat himself hit it matt

for their beloved country ohio is the state that gave us american heroes icons and legends with names like Neil Armstrong, Annie Oakley, and the great general and president, Ulysses S. Grant. He's done, he's really come back a long way over the last 10 years, hasn't he? What? This is the state that gave up. Literally, usually when Trump does some Trump shit,

it's like I kind of know what the thing is he's trying to do or say, you know, he's just trumping it up. But, like, what? What is that even supposed to try to mean? I guess the taking down of all the robbery-lea statues is kind of a huge, pretty big victory for U.S. Grant 100 years too late. Yeah, but they're opposed to the taking down of those statues, right? Like openly.

That's part of their whole thing. I think this goes in the bucket of things where when Trump just learned something, he goes, no one knows that. So I guess he didn't know much about U.S. Grant's life. And then as being president during the second cold civil war, he sort of learned more. And it's like, oh, my opinion about U.S. Grant went up. So therefore, everybody should do it. Yeah.

So that was from a Trump rally in Ohio. We had for J.D. Vance and some other people. It was a, yeah, it was a couple of big highlights. Our boy, J.R. Majuski spoke there and said, my pronouns are Patriot and ass kicker and said he doesn't get goose bumps. He gets eagle bumps. then Trump did he did his normal two hours way too long it was a really small crowd but the people that were there

at the end he did sort of an altar call like a church thing where he played a song and talked over it and the song he used was that QAnon anthem where we go one we go all and pictures from the rally were floating around you might have seen what looked like a Nazi salute they were doing it yeah yep it's not quite clear what

everyone met by it but that that hand jester is both the groipers, the racist anti-immigate group, they do that for America First, and the Q&N people do it for where we go one, we go all. And so they might have been doing it for different reasons. I mean, someone just doing it too in the crowd, but anyway, it was a fucking frightening.

I'm sure it was at least a little bit that last thing, which is just as frightening. The, you know, the herd melody of it. It's freaky, no matter what the motivation was. But yeah, Trump, he was all one. You know, we covered last week, that he was actually Queen Elizabeth's best friend.

and he took to Twitter. Oh, he took to True Social to remind everybody of that. If you got that screen grab, Matt. This is from Trump. It's a picture of Joe Biden in the back at the funeral of Liz. And Trump says, this is what's happened to America in just two short ears. No respect. However, a good time for our president to get to know the leaders of certain third world countries.

If I were president, they wouldn't have sat me back there. And our country would be much different than it is right now. I wonder who Trump thinks Biden should. He's sitting, like, first of all, Biden doesn't give a shit. He went out of currency, but he's a pretty, if Biden could join the IRA, he'd do it. And second, the, the queen's got a big family. I'm wondering, who's he supposed to elbow out of the way, Megan Markle? Like, he's supposed to be sitting in a, in, and Lilibet, what is the Queen's

granddaughter, the little three-year-old? They, who's fourth in the line for the throne, I'm supposed to be sitting in Lilibet's seat and just be like, trying to make it move, like, no, this is not moving. I'm the President of the United States motherfucker. But who cares where you're sitting at the goddamn feudal where you don't want to be it anyway. So, yeah. He also, oh, this came out, this way, another one of those book, Trump, books came out about Trump where the reporters saved all the interesting shit for the book instead of telling us that

it wouldn't go in any difference. But this, this hit for me. You remember when Trump tried it back Greenland? You went, he went to buy Greenland. Oh, yeah. I went to sell Puerto Rico and buy Greenland. So, John Kelly, this is from the, uh, excerpt from the book. John, Mr. Kelly often regaled others with stories.

Mr. Trump's ignorance about basic historical fact and his inability to absorb information, yada, yada, yada, but it was his flawed judgment that most rattled Kelly, and he concluded the problem was not Mr. Trump, that Mr. Trump did not know right from wrong, but that, quote, he always does the wrong thing. That's a pretty great quote. Yeah, that killed me. And also, like, Trump didn't want to have a state funeral for John McCain, and Kelly, who's, you know, kind of Republican who loved John McCain, said that if you don't support McCain's

funeral. When you died, the public will come to your grave and pissed on it, which is a fun thing to say to the President of the United States. Sure is. Yeah, he went in. All right. Well, let's talk about it. A. Mark, everybody saw it. It happened on Wednesday, really, you know, the news broke Wednesday night and then throughout Thursday, everybody was talking about Greg Abbott, Ron DeSantis. Shipping immigrants off to liberal bastions, DeSantis sent two planes full to Martha's Vineyard and Abbott sent some buses to Kamala Harris's house. So, yeah, I'm glad we were going to talk about it in the Patreon episode on Friday, we take Friday, but I, we held back and I'm glad we did because more stuff, a bunch more stuff came out since then and more stuff was still happening this afternoon with it that's truly horrifying and interesting, but also maybe is some signs that some strong form of justice could be coming to these immigrants.

So, yeah, two planes paid for by Florida for some reason. Right. DeSantis, carried 50 migrants from San Antonio, Massachusetts. Now, following along here, neither San Antonio nor Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts are in Florida. So what's the fault Santa's got to do with it? Well, fuck all, really, but really it's just politics. So what he did was he shipped 50 migrants. They arrived on Wednesday.

Nobody knew they were coming. Just sort of dropped them off. Local fire chief said the migrants included seven families with four children ranging from three to eight years old. They gave no notice to anyone Martha's Vineyard or Massachusetts did. These migrants were raving to anyone's knowledge, although GOP donors were notified beforehand. So they notified GOP donors, but kept authorities in the dark. They were trying to figure out next steps, and the migrants have gotten taken care of in pretty

humane fashion, probably much more than they would have gotten in San Antonio. Ron DeSantis sort of in the end did these people in favor, but traumatized them in the meantime, and tried to ruin their lives. And we'll get to that for a little bit. And also Greg Abbott, yeah, he sent two buses with him. He sent more people, but in a less confusing stunt, considering at least he sent them from his home state to a person he's trying to troll. So yeah, he shipped into Kamala Harris' house.

They were out Thursday morning after leave, they fell from Del Rio, Texas. Video circled online for the scene showed the group of young men, women, and children carrying backpacks, pillows, and blankets, as they chatted outside of Harris's residence with nowhere to go. So they just dropped them off in front of Kamala. Harris's house and was like see you later and pulled out the bus just peeled out like make with cartoon smoke

leaving them behind but yeah local authorities in the DMV area which is you know DC Maryland Virginia provided them the services and make sure they could be temporarily sheltered to local church so that's good but like as far as why Martha's Vineyard because we're going to talk

on Martha's Vineyard more today it just feels vibe like liveish yeah for sure and also it's like about i mean obama has got a house there whatever right like the obama's there and it's like yeah it just right it just like coastal elites

you know Martha's vineyard i feel like it's just sort of a just like a prototype for that type of thing and i've never been there by the way but i mean i would you know i certainly have thought that same thing about that that was the impression that i had always gotten about it but i don't know for the record the governor

of Massachusetts as a Republican. So I'm not sure exactly what they were trying to pull. We actually do know why they chose Martha's Vineyard, but I'm going to save that for a little bit because it's an important reveal. But anyway, like, our image, you've been to a vacation town straight, right? You ever know this is a vast difference between the people that are vacation there and the people that live there? Oh, yeah, always.

So anyway, Martha's Vineyard isn't quite how you picture it, especially after Labor Day, and I'll let this commentator on Fox News explain this. point for me. This happened, and the people of Martha's Vineyard, who, by the way, aren't the fancy summering folks. It's the real people who live there. The average median income is around $70,000. There are a majority minority enclave, except in the summer when a bunch of rich white people

show up and, you know, they ignore Alan Dershowitz. So Martha's Vineyard is pretty solid burn. Yeah. So if you don't know, Alan Dershowitz writes opeds all the time about how he's been ostracized the Marshall's Vineyard is no longer invited to speak at the library or go to cocktail parties because he says that it's because he defended Trump on TV and in his impeachment defense. But I think also it might be how to do the fact that he is being sued for molesting girls and Jeffrey Epstein's airplane.

That also might be part of it. So anyway, so DeSantis's government, the state of Florida used a outside vendor to fly these planes to operate these planes to fly the migrants to Martha's Vineyard. And a reporter noticed that one of the planes used in Martha's Vineyard stunt was currently scheduled as of yesterday to travel today from San Antonio to Florida to a small airport near Biden's house in Delaware. Now, I haven't seen any news about that actually happening yet, but of course they don't tell anybody when they're doing it. So you wouldn't notice somebody notices like 50 or 100 confused migrants wandering around Delaware. Do I haven't, you know, I know that I found this disgusting, as did, you know, everybody on the left and all that. But like, I'm assuming was this like a huge smash hit on the

right, meaning they're going to keep doing it now because they found a really good, a really good mechanism for lib owning with this? Yeah. DeSantis did some sort of campaign event in Kansas the other day and got a standing ovation. We brought this up. And also he's been getting a repeated invites from Fox News, which is sort of the whole point of a stunt like this, because Fox News love this shit. In fact, talking about why they picked Martha's Vineyard, it was Fox News's idea. Here's Tucker Carlson on July 26th. July 26th. Has got to be Martha's Vineyard. It's a natural. Joe Biden took 70% of the vote on that small Massachusetts Island. Over the past four years, according to FEC data, 92% of all donations from

its biggest town, Egerton, Massachusetts, went to the Democratic Party. So you probably imagine Egertown is pretty diverse. I mean, the Obama's lived on the island, right? No. In fact, we checked at last count, Egertown is 95.7% white. What century is this? As of 2019, only 3% of all people, all residents in Egertown were born outside of this country. So do the math. That's 17 people, total. That's effectively zero diversity, which means zero strength. They are begging for more diversity. Why not send migrants there in huge numbers? Let's start with 300,000 and move up from there. As the island gets stronger, more. All right. So this is pretty telling in a lot of ways. So you're riffing on the idea of the diversity of strength, pointing out that Martha's Vineyard

where Obama lives has no diversity. Therefore, to troll, we should make us stronger by shipping all these immigrants there. But there's also a couple of assumptions there. First of all, no one's shocked that a well-off community is mostly white. I don't think anybody in America has to be, like, told that. You'd say shocking when a well-off area is not mostly white in America. So he's also embedded in this. It's going to come up a few times. The idea that they assume everyone else is as racist as they are.

I know. We're all lying about it. I know. That's what I was, it's like the subtext is sort of like, you know, it's like, well, how about we just send y'all a bunch of Mexicans and see how much you like it then you know because the subtext is like that'll ruin their day if we if we send if we send brown people there they'll really hate that because how much that sucks right it's like yeah it's just the like like I said the subtext of the whole thing is you know doesn't it suck to have brown people in

your community basically and it's not even we'll get to why it's not even even really subtext in the minute because they've done this a bunch of times. But when I say they, I mean, conservative and reactionaries, a bunch of times before. But first I want to talk about how, like, the political press is, as usual, it's covered itself in complete glory here by treating this as a, like they keep using the word stunt, like it's like a harmless prank. These are like 150 people who were kidnapped by using fraud under false pretenses shipped to a place that wasn't prepared for them, explicitly because it wasn't prepared for them, didn't even

leave anybody heads up to prepare for them, just to make their lives. as miserable as fucking possible. And also, they, well, yeah, I'll leave that a second, but they also lied to them in a way that could guarantee

they got deported. Even though, and I want to make this point here, they use terms for all immigrants like interchangeably, but these were not undocumented immigrants. They're literally documented. They're asylum seekers.

They walked up to the border, presume themselves, and asked for asylum. And then the legal process starts, but they have done nothing illegal. Forgetting to play it, like my person, I don't make that's a legal distinction it's important for the law in America as it exists but I

it doesn't matter to me personally I also think it should be nice to undocumented immigrants I've been broke most of my adult life living in Dallas go Mavs and then Los Angeles which you you're going to live in like working class neighborhoods in those towns you're going to be involved with a lot of immigrants and I never inquired as anyone's immigration status because it didn't fucking matter to me everyone was nice and got along and chilled and went to work that's it anyway So, taking back to the press. Here's some headlines for us for me to read. This is in New York Times.

With faraway migrant drop-offs, GOPUPE governors are doubling down. Is that what they're doing? Okay. DeSantis moved to fly immigrants to Massachusetts, Stokes confusion, outraged from critics, or just critics,

not just fucking human beings who think that children shouldn't be used and have their lives ruined for political games. DeSantis' migrant dump comes with political risks. Yeah, that's the main thing here. That's absolutely the main thing to be focused on. Oh, fuck. We're never going to go out of this crap.

I mean, Mark, you know, you were a journalist, like, what is their rationale for this type of, because you do see this all the time. They like used, they're like euphemistic and, you know, it's like they're afraid of, I don't know, rocking the boat or upsetting people or something or picking fights or something like, or playing into the liberal media conspiracy stereotype. I don't know what it is, but like, what, I mean, why are they like this? this is a particular like Washington D.C. Ocela corridor sort of brainworm where it's like you want to be even-handed. So the Republicans have figured out that if you move far, far off into lies, they'll try to split the difference and they'll keep doing it.

And they'll keep doing it precisely because it's the right that's trying to get the murdered and yells at them the most. Right. Working the refs fucking works. But yeah, frame this in terms of political horse race is like, have someone else cover this story. a health reporter, like an immigration reporter cover it, have let them, the editors write headlines, but have someone who's familiar with the subject matter, write the headline

it's supposed to someone that covers politics through the lens of what comes on CNN. Anyway, that would say that's the main problem here. But as far as what, like, what DeSantis did to these immigrants, like, I'll let this one, this immigration attorney, her name's Rachel Self. She got down to Boston to help these people faster than anyone, so good for her. but she'll talk about it. Arrived last night, make it clear that they were lied to again and again

and fraudulently induced to board arrive last if it's not playing that. Drive last night, make it clear that they were lied to again and again and fraudulently induced board the planes. They were told there was a surprise present for them and that there would be jobs

and housing awaiting for them when they arrived. This was obviously a sadistic lie. Not only did those responsible for this stunt know that there was no housing and no employment awaiting the migrants, they also very intentionally chose not to call ahead to any single office authority on Martha's Vineyard so that even the most basic human needs arrangements could be made, Ensuring that no help awaited the migrants at all was the entire point. All right. There you go. So, yeah, this is his map right here.

This is like the map you get at Cracker Barrel of all the different Cracker Barrel locations across America. But this is how they explained to them where they were going. Now, what if they told them, so they said a woman identified herself as Perla. I'm not sure who this woman is yet. Law enforcement has said that they think they paid another Venezuelan. immigrant to lure these people onto the plane. But what she did was she, to promise them there would be flown to Boston where they would get expedited work papers.

And she provided them with food. She was still trying to recruit more passengers just hours before the flight. She offered us help, help that never ride. This guy's guy named Andre, Andre said. Now we are here. We got on the plane with a vision of the future of making it. He wanted to explain why he boarded the plane with sole information in hand. Quote, look when you have no money and someone offers help.

Well, it means a lot. Yeah. He promised these people. relief from their pain and instead they got more of it and he fucked these people every which way he could and when I say every way I mean every way DeSantis or someone DHS or someone in the DHS working with DeSantis they met the migrants they were born the plane and they gave them false addresses of homeless shelters from all over the country we're talking from Tacoma Tocoma Washington to Florida and told them to

use them as their contact addresses so according to the paper provided to them the migrants required to check in with ICE office, the ICE office nearest to the fake address chosen for them by DHS, or to be permanently removed from the United States. Someone required to check in as early as Monday morning. So they gave these migrants paperwork that says they're from Tacoma, Washington. They have to check in with ICE in Tacoma, Washington, and ship them to Boston with no money, and they have to report by Monday. They're trying to guarantee these people who were fleeing Venezuela would get deported back

to Venezuela. And I do want to ask to just, I want to know if DeSantis knew there were Venezuelans because like all migrants are not the same to the right way, right? They usually have a soft spot in their heart for Venezuelans and Cubans. They usually love to take it to Venezuela and Cubans because they're fleeing socialism and communism, right? So they're the good ones. They're coming here for freedom and capitalism. We even have different immigration rules for Cubans. You know, you ever heard of the wet foot, dry foot policy?

No. Yeah, so basically Cuban refugees are treated different. If you make it to dry land in Florida, for example, from Cuba, you automatically get to stay. That's why they always try to tackle you in the water. It's a really stupid distinction. But anyway, it doesn't work that way for any of the migrant group. Well, I think, you know, the joke that I made about it, although in my experience, it's not that much of a joke, is that any brown immigrant or the name like Rodriguez or whatever is just that's a Mexican, you know, to most of them.

It's like it's the Mexicans that are coming up there. It's just some kind of Mexican is generally how it works. A lot of them, I think. but also it's like just the and I know we're going to talk the cruelty of it all like you're saying it's like they went out of their way to really fuck these people over in the worst possible way and it's just so wild I think about this all the time

we've mentioned on the show multiple times there's just this Huffington Post article the headline of which it was like an op-ed directed at the right and the title was I don't know how to explain to you that you should care about other people right and I think about that shit

all the fucking time and this is another good example of it because it's like there it's one thing to think like no listen we got to have strict immigration policies we got to you know secure the border and keep people out and you got to draw a line in the sand somewhere and it's it's sad but you can't just let these people in like you can think all that politically but still realize that treating people like this is fucked up and cheering for it makes you a piece of shit but but they're like they're just like yeah rub their fucking faces in it make them hurt. It's like the hurting of the right types of people is the whole game for them. You know, it's like that's it. That's what the carrot is for them is the is hurting the right

types of people that keeps them going. And that's really, really, really sad and discouraging. Yes, it is. It really is. But my point of bringing out asking if they knew there at Venezuelans is usually the stuff scrambles, the political stuff around immigration. For example, Marco Rubio has been advocating for overthrowing Venezuela's socialist regime for his entire his political career. And some of that's pretty straightforward. It's because Florida has the most Venezuelan Americans of any U.S. state, 102,000,

good for a half percentage point of their entire population. Venezuelans and Cubans, people who all fled left-wing regimes for America's shores, tend to have soft spots in the heart for these people. And I think DeSantis might have royally fucked up, but maybe he gets enough right winners to come over to him that he doesn't need Venezuelan or Cuban votes anymore, but that right there, that's another thing. And I made a video

about this last week that was happening. I said this in the video. It's just like, it just, perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps it's about to be a red tidal wave and it won't work like this. But it just feels to me like continuing to dehumanize and villainize and other fire and all that shit. Pretty much every single demographic of Americans,

except for one, you know, which is like conservative Christian white middle class people effectively. And I know they have people from other demographics that are Republican, but I'm saying it's like that's the base. It just feels like that couldn't be a, you know, a fruit-bearing long-term strategy to me to continue to just pander to this one little slice of the U.S. population so hard by fucking over everybody else. I don't know it's just it's just wild it's I remember what they do still but you know after Obama I like a conservative guy I knew at the time we were talking about it goes like the only the only demographics Obama won were women and non-white men I'm like right

that's that's most that's most of the people yes right it's like he read that somewhere I thought it was a good point it's like That's literally everybody but white, but wait a minute. It's everybody in white men. Anyway, so, but they do really, like, the thing is, like, we, you know, I live in Los Angeles, and everything happens here. Like, I always get texts from a mama, whether I'm dying in a fire or a mudslat or a riot or whatever.

It's like, no, it's generally very, very safe and everyone's fine. But people really do think cities are fucking terrifying. Oh, yeah. And when governors, even though they live in cities and have cities in their states, seem to think that under the impression of the city will melt down if 50 immigrants arrive in, like, New York or Boston. And, like, they, in the Martha's Vineyard migrants were, like, moved a couple times to services. They have services in place to handle immigration.

Most undocumented immigrants don't come over the Mexican border. They come in on planes to oversee student visas and shit. They're all over the country. They're not just at the Mexican border. And everybody else fucking deals with it. But talking before by they assumed everyone else is racist as them and they're just lying about it. Here's Tucker from after the Martha's Vineyard thing happened. happened, mashed up with the reality on the ground that's the opposite of what he's predicting.

Watch this. Hear that? Hear that? Illegal immigration is not a burden. It's a gift, Dumbo. So Martha's Vineyard received an enormous gift last night. Think of it like a perpetual Christmas, but noisier. And you can't beat the timing as Korean Jean-Pierre just reminded us today at the White House, it's Hispanic Heritage Month.

Perfect. So roll with it. it, Martha's Vineyard. Thank you. Yeah, there's got a bunch of donating food to help take care of them. Blankets, people sign up and volunteer work. Yeah, they appear to be rolling with it to me. Yes, they appear to be doing fine.

Yeah. But yeah, this right-wing thing of assuming everyone is secretly racist they are, like it happens all the time. And so I hadn't, I wasn't familiar with this left, this happened. But this is an echo of a racist stunt from exactly 60 years ago when white citizens councils in the South organized reverse freedom riots. What they did was lie to black families, the promise of jobs up north, in particular, a high honest, where then President John F. Kennedy spent some of his family. And they shipped a bunch of black people to the north being like, ha, ha, you think it's so easy, you deal with them. Right.

And I just want to say, fuck these people, like, all around. Um, but at least this was like white citizens councils and not the fucking government, although a lot of them were political officials and shit, but like it wasn't like government money paying for this stuff. It was just racist doing a troll job. This is the governor of fucking Florida. Um, like this one headline from a newspaper in 1963, which was tweeted out, response to this by the John, by John F. Kennedy's presidential library, so they weren't fucking around.

But it said, Negro family on way here, which is a hilarious. read an extra extra read all about it Negro family one way here Jesus Christ What this country's fucking embarrassing So yeah the general goal here Was to embarrass northern liberals And humiliate black people

Southern White Citizens Council Started a rural freedom rides Giving black people one way tickets to northern cities With false promises of jobs, housing, and better lives This is the exact same fucking play It's the exact same play Except with Venezuelans By the way

When you're taking your, like, your, you know, your strategic cues from literal segregationists, like the clan from the 60s, I feel like you might have to re-evaluate that. Yeah, it gets in worse, it's getting worse. It's not taking their cues just from white citizens councils in the 60s. Are you familiar with the Voyages of St. Louis, Trey? It was a ship of, sorry, go ahead. Now, just tell us about it. Go ahead. It's a ship of Jewish people who were put on a boat trying to flee Nazi Germany in 1939.

They were turned away from Cuba after being promised they could get off in Cuba, but Cuba's president at the time, who was a right-wing stooge, basically a puppet of their future dictator, Batista, turned them all but 22 of them away. Then the U.S. and Canada turned them away, and then back in Europe where they were accepted into other Western European countries besides Germany, but were soon conquered by Germany. and 254 of the 937 passengers were killed in the Holocaust. Now, the reason I bring this up is not just because it's a great national shame for the United States. We didn't take these people in. But one of the goals is up besides trying to force Jewish people to leave Germany was the German Foreign Office and Propaganda Ministry also hoped to exploit the unwillingness of other nations to admit large numbers of Jewish refugees to justify the Nazi regime's anti-Jewish goals and policies,

both domestically in Germany and in the world of guards. it's the same play you like these people so much you fucking take them now i'm glad that martha's vineyard didn't fall for the bait the way the uh you know the uh rosabut administration did in 1930 but uh yeah just take the refugees in man and also in a weird gross echo of history um at one point the martha's vineyard migrants were transferred to the exact same cape cod military base that house the reverse freedom writers in 1962 i shit you know oh yeah i think we're aware by now that every election we can get these migrant caravans, or some sort of equivalent.

2014, it was hysteria around the Ebola outbreak. In 2018, it was a migrant caravan of refugees moving toward the border from Central America in 2020. It was another bike caravan. I'd find this in 2018, but media was all caught up covering the migrant caravan. But then, what a right-wing terrorist was ginned up by coverage of the migrant caravan. killed 11 people at the Pittsburgh Synagogue, and another Trump supporter mailed numerous pipe bombs to prominent liberals. It diverted all the coverage.

And Trump complained that this propaganda worked because he said, we did have two maniacs that stop the momentum. There was incredible because there were seven days. No one talked about the elections. He said that in a speech that you guys got too riled up by my bullshit. Let's focus on the bullshit not actually killing people. Worst part of those domestic terrorist attacks was that took attention away from me. my tremendous campaign literally exactly what he said listen we're uh i want to two things i want to for sure talk about as we're coming up on the edge and also matt not to put this on you but if you

you know see any comments about this whatever you can just throw them up there as we continue to discuss it a we alluded to it earlier and i know we've got something on it but like i'm not going line. When it first happened and I was looking into it, it didn't, I either didn't, it didn't register for me at the time that, uh, like, DeSantis took these people out of Texas and sent there. Like, I wanted to talk more about that. I know we have a clip to Stas explaining it. And then also just the legality of it where it's like, is this, can this be legal? Like, there's nothing wrong with it, but I wanted to make sure and get to those two things. So, yeah. So, It's not with the law stuff because, like, the Bayer County Sheriff, a guy by the name of

Javier Salazar, the Bear County is where San Antonio is, announced he's opening investigation today. He's a damn, by the way, this might be good career stuff. He's been in for 23 years. Seems like a fairly straight by the book cop to the degree of he's gotten in trouble before for covering up the tasing of an undarmed migrant child for no reason. So he's not all good on immigration issues by any moment. But we don't let's play this video, Matt.

we're going too fast. I skip down to the highlighted part of what I'm talking about. As far as what the crimes might be here, you talked about the Texas being a part of it. So the financial stuff, right? So as part of this year's budget, the state allocated $12 million to, quote, facilitate the transport of on our arthritis aliens out of Florida. Out of Florida is what it's described as. So they paid a private contractor to do this, $650,000, which accounts to $12,300 per migrant. Southwest Airlines ticket out of San Antonio is like 600 bucks last minute. So I don't know what the fuck they're spending $12,000 for for immigrant. There's also immigration law related to that $12 million.

It authorized the transportation of unauthorized aliens. But again, these people were not unauthorized. It's not illegal to migrate to the United States and report to authorities seeking asylum. So that's law number two he broke. The third is the more serious one that probably no one don't have the balls to prosecute or worry about. but it's just human trafficking or kidnapping. You can't lure people onto planes with the promise of jobs. That's literally what human traffickers do when they speak them across the border

and send them to work at sweatshops. It's the exact same fucking thing. There's no, there's no, like if you think you're coming here to work in a cornfield and you're not working in a brothel or something, this is what this is what cartels do. And DeSantis' spokesman actually said, well, actually this is just what cartels do. And you guys are mad about it now. I was like, yeah. You're right.

Yeah. Tell us do it too, stupid. Judy Kidder Browning says transporting these folks across state lines is kidnapping, right? Which is what you were just talking about. Yeah. It would be if anybody else does it. But, you know, that's sort of how it goes sometimes because they're governors. It's cool, I guess.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you can't trick people into going somewhere under false pretenses through fraud either. That's also kidnapping, especially probably across state lines makes it federal. It would be funny, though, to see the Bayer County. sheriff try to, you know, extradite the governor of Florida. Yeah, Matt, Matt, will you find that the clip about DeSantis talking about Texas, about why Texas, please and pull that up, it's down the outline a little bit more. But yeah, yeah, you got it right there.

So, yes, you might wonder why the governor of Florida uses Florida taxpayer dollars to fly people from San Antonio to Massachusetts. Well, he was asked that question. and this is his response to it. This is from today, by the way. The problem is, we're not seeing mass movements of them into Florida. So you end up with a car with maybe two. And if we know that that's illegal and there's someone that's kind of smuggling,

then committing crime, then you can do arrest. There have been drug seizures. But that's not effective enough to stop the mass migration, but it's just coming in one Z Tuesdays. So we've had people on the border for last summer. We've done a lot of intelligence. Yeah, that's enough. Basically, he's like, well, we don't have enough of them here, see?

So we had to go to Texas to stop this horrific problem that is the scourge of our state. We had to go four states over because otherwise we wouldn't be able to find enough to even send up there. We have a huge problem with too many immigrants, but I can't find any, so we went to Texas. Right. So we went to Texas when they're all in. Yeah, it's just so, it's such transparently bullshit. Because also just, like, 50 people, like, that's not enough people to actually spending fucking a million dollars or whatever for 50 people. That's not going to address any kind of actual problem.

All it's going to do is ruin 50 people's lives, at least temporarily, and make headlines. And no one else can argue that's objectively true. That's not going to have any real impact on any of, you know, the different stakeholders. involved other than the people to whom this was, you know, done. And if your problem is like you're unable to care for all these migrants, you had $12 million that you spent

600 grand of and fly them out just on gas money to get to the Massachusetts. All things fucking stupid. So another thing that happened today was three of the migrants who did Flut of Martha's Vineyard filed a federal, some federal lawsuit against the governor of Florida and a bunch of other officials. So that's

cool. It's funny to remember that a lot of the wealthy white people that live on Martha's Vineyard are very ambitious career-minded lawyers. Right. So I just want to say, smart move to Santa's fucking idiot. Jasmine Parker on YouTube says,

was anyone else surprised by how high a nasal his voice was the first time they heard it? Yeah, I do kind of feel like his voice doesn't match his thing. Jeff has made me laugh. Jeff Curry on YouTube says, can you imagine the chaos of threesies and foursies?

That's a good line, Jeff. You got me with that one. It's just one zies and twosies, so can't have it graduating to three zes and foursies. Going back to DeSantis' voice, we talked about before about he has the policies, but he doesn't have the mojo. Like, he's like, part of Trump's, like, appeal is that he says all the mean shit, but he also seems like he's kidding, right? Yeah. DeSantis does not seem like he's kidding. He's no fun.

He's not fun to watch on camera. He's not fun to watch on TV. He doesn't seem pleasant. So he's not going to be fucking president. I will bet $50 on it right now. And he's doing all this, he's doing all this misery for nothing. Well, I'm not going to take that back because I don't want to have money in that particular game. But I hope you're right.

I don't know. He seems to be crushing it for them. It feels to me like, although obviously I'm not a fan. I know he's like you saw him being, you know, his charisma or whatever. He does like fire and brimstone speeches talking about the armor of God and all that type of like really. fucking gnarly shit for somebody like me. So I definitely don't want that near the White House for sure. Not to mention literally everything else about him too.

He's been given speeches where he quotes Bible verses but replaces the devil with the left. Yeah, right. Yeah. Which again, I always make us sound cooler than we are, dude. You know, I'd love to fucking party with the devil. There's always way more like, you know, drugs and devilry. and gay sex and all that stuff going on on the left in their minds

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