Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 9/21/2021 – Texas SB8 Update

Episode Date: September 22, 2021

 Well the infamous Texas abortion law is being put to the test with a pair of civil lawsuits against a doctor who admits to violating SB8, and the details are PRET-TEE wild. And it seems bounty hunting your fellow Americans with lawsuits over political disagreements is all the rage with conservatives now (yay, fascism!). Plus plenty of dumbasses, as always. Support the show

Heidi there. Welcome back and happy skews day to you. Today is September 21st, 2021. I'm Trek router, and that dealing with some webcam difficulties there is Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? It turns out when you update your Apple iOS to plug those security breaches, your webcam don't work no more. Oh, yeah. It's Apple like, is this a poor person's camera or something when you got to update? What is this? I don't recognize it. Yeah. We can still tell you looking good over there. Yeah, thanks, plus. I'm just coming to the low fall autumn sun coming through my window. It's 5 o'clock here on the West Coast. I want to start the show by expressing solidarity to our brothers and sisters in Iatsi. That's the International Alliance with Theatrical Stage employees.

who are holding a strike vote coming up and no matter how the vote goes I hope you guys get better working conditions that you guys don't know IATC has about 150,000 members and the people you don't see on camera on stage the Emmys and show business

they're editors, scripts, operators camera guys, hair styles Micah, hair, that all that. Right, right as assistant script coordinators and they've been fighting for living wage and to try to end shit like 20 hour work days six days a week which is halacious

Matt says producers. Nope, sorry, buddy. You'd be in the writers' guild with me, I think. So, yeah, they've already won, like, been offered anyway by the producers to have their pension and benefits programs made whole and shit like that, but they're still holding off for a little bit better, and we hope you guys fucking win. Oh, yeah. I mean, this actually did a finally get a write-up in the Hollywood reporter, but the media

doesn't, for whatever reason, I'm not going to draw motives here, but they don't really cover labor actions. start making consumers uncomfortable. But to that point, some Nubisco employees, like six different plants, just want to strike after Danny DeVito got involved and became the unofficial mascot for Nubisco to strike after tweeting out no contracts, no snacks,

which caught on, and they made him, Danny DeVito, the logo. They projected him the side up in the business, and the Nesco plant. It's pretty fucking cool. When Danny DeVito says no snacks, people listen, by God. Yeah, people stop buying chips, ahoy and shit, and they caved.

So, yeah, there you go. Right on. Well, fucking A. Way to go, Dane DeVito, and yeah, I A-A-Sie. Go good on Fight the Power, baby. Okay, which is as always. Producer Matt, this is Weekly Skews. I want to remind you all if you're vaccinated and want to see me live.

You can go to well-read comedy.com for tickets. I'll be at the Pantages in Minneapolis this Saturday and a bunch of other fun places after that. Hope to see you out there. Okay. Tonight, the infamous Texas abortion law, known as SB8, is coming under legal fire for the first time in the form of two civil lawsuits, the details of which are suitably wild. On that note, it seems that bounty hunting your fellow Americans by suing them over political differences is becoming all the rage amongst conservatives.

Yay, fascism, we'll tell you what we mean by that a little bit later. But first, as always, we will begin with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, put. Tonight's Dumbass, the concept of socialism for not wearing its bullet and sports. explosion-proof vests in the presence of Marjorie Taylor Green. This is a campaign fundraising ad from Large Brain Marge. It's a little longer in the clips we normally show. It's about 90 seconds, but we believe you need to see the whole thing to really appreciate the breadth of its length.

Got 13 of our best soldiers killed, gave a kill list of Americans to the Taliban, and armed an Islamic terrorist nation with $83 billion in weapons like this one. Biden should be impeached. Now I'm doing a gun giveaway of my own, but for Americans only. I want you to win this 50-caliber rifle that Democrats will ban if they keep the House next year. While Joe Biden broke America's pledge to never leave a man behind, Nancy Pelosi is sneaking the Green New Deal into the $3.5 trillion budget. And in 2022, I'm going to blow away the Democrat Socialist agenda.

Go to the website below and sign up to win my 50 caliber gun before Joe Biden bans it. Well, there you go. Pretty bad ass. A lot of fun stuff in there. First of all, she complains about Biden's troops kill, which if like, when didn't Biden think of getting her 13 worst troops killed, then Marge wouldn't have given a shit, right? Just mistake after mistake he's made.

Yeah. but also like I don't think she actually blew up that first of all like a gunshot would not blow up a Prius no it would not I mean when Marjor Taylor Green shooting it maybe apparently you know she just charges it with that lunatic energy you know and shots it through there but yeah that's uh we've talked before about how they they've got this whole like they're trying to do like like Marvel movie shit with their ads and that like they're all jumping out of planes and fucking blowing shit up and all this stuff and it's like you're Congress, people. Why are you shooting stuff until it explodes? There was a walk-in talks, right? It's always like, like, what you do in TV, to add urgency to stuff, right? It's why West Wing they're always moving when they're talking. But they say they have some production value, so I'll salute that.

But Matt found a couple funny things about this. One, she says in the ad that it's for Americans only. Yeah, but pops up. No Taliban allowed. I'm sure there were, you know, some jihadists who saw them. we're like, oh, darn. I guess I won't apply, then. Yeah, they can just apply, get a free, you know, it would be really funny because

like it says America, but the bullet plate language, which has to do with the federal election law says it's open to, you know, people that are resident aliens or legal immigrants. So I don't know, I consider those people Americans. I don't think merger Taylor Green would. But if somebody happened, if anybody listening happens to win this guy, if you show up to pick it up dressed like Mullah Omar, that would be, that would fucking rule. And secondly, if you win the gun, she's a background check.

So Marjor Taylor Green is doing gun control. She's doing the gun control. She's giving away free guns to immigrants and also having background checks. So she's restricting freedom, doing the gun control, and letting immigrants run wild. Marjorie Taylor Green. What is she doing out here? And if you're a member of Ayatzi, we talked about earlier, and you, for example, were hired as part of a special effects crew to blow up that Prius that she missed when she shot at it. Please hit us up.

We'd love to hear about that. Because there's definitely some explosives in there, I feel like. And also, it's not even clear whether, because they pulled away, I don't know if that's the same car or not. I know. I was wondering if it was like a miniature or something or what exactly. There's some kind of movie magic going on there to make that Congress person explode. load that car with socialism painted on it with a 50 caliber bullet

because that's a real thing that we just watched happen in the timeline in which we all live. Oh, my goodness. All right. Our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is Joe Biden for allowing these horrific weapons to fall into the hands of the Taliban.

Matt put up the pictures there. Look at that. God. Is there no decency anymore? These guys taken away troops duck boats I love this is my favorite I got an RPG on a duck boat

I guess I mean obviously they're doing some recreational activities they're there and troops are pedaling around in that beautiful pristine lake and now the Taliban's using the duck boats for I don't know training exercises I can't really tell what they're up to on that but uh...

I think they're just chillaxing man Taliban's just out there just enjoying a little fun in the sun nice little late day in a duck boat who doesn't like a duck boat you know I mean obviously Joe Biden left them a Navy along with that Air Force

we talked about a couple weeks ago so it's just so funny to me like look the Taliban fucking sucks none of this should be construed the same Taliban rules or anything but like the idea that we're supposed to be scared of them has always just been really funny to me

some many people were circulating last week on the 9-11 anniversary or a couple weeks ago was do you remember that that drawing it was going around of Osama bin Laden's underground underground layer it was like this underground cave network

that looked like a like a James Bond villain thing and they got they really they expected us to believe and a lot of us did that these 30 guys hanging out in the woods had access to like excavation equipment and high tech like it was just that they were in a volcano with shark tanks in it and all that

sharks with freaking laser beams it was like a super villain layer yeah it's a volcano that opens up and he's a hovercraft comes out the top like moon raker you know uh they just want to be afraid man be very very afraid of these fucking psychos in uh swanboats So on that note, one thing, I'm, uh, that I'm, uh, again, Taliban sucks. We're very anti-Taliban.

Yes. We just want to stress that enough. But, uh, these, these, some of these pictures are coming out of them in these various situations. They always look the same. So they're always done up in full Taliban regalia and holding an assault rifle or whatever. And then they're sitting in a duckboat or they're sitting at a desk by, in front of a computer, you know, because this dude has been given a bank now. but he looks like every other Taliban guy. And I just, you know, I want a series of these pictures coming out, the Taliban,

full-on Taliban doing just various, like, you know, I want one like clipping hedges or something like that or maybe like working the grill or the smoker, some stuff like that. I saw that bank guy, he's like the Duke Taliban, like, head of the federal, whatever their Federal Reserve or Treasury Department is or whatever. He's got an AK, he's sitting at a computer, but he's holding his AK. And it's just like, can you imagine, like, you get into the Taliban, you just like rat around the back of truck, shooting

and shit, you know, hanging out with your boys. And now you've got to, like, look at spreadsheets and, like, give permits. Right. It's like, oh, you're the fucking dogs that caught the car, man. This is like, I didn't want to govern anything. This is boring and shit, dude. You got to run a water department. There was a, there was a news camp.

This guy, I guess they, one of the big mansions for the ex-president that has, like, 30 Taliban guys just living in it. It's like, why not? They never been to a mansion before. But they're like, the guy, one of spoken English was walking around showing all the paintings of horses and how cool the paintings of horses aren't I? Like, I guess the guy really like horses. It's like, yeah, I guess he liked horses, but.

Enjoy your horse things. Yeah. Yeah, poor Taliban. Okay, so our next honorable mention, anybody, everybody who didn't show up for Capitol Riot, too, Electric Bugaloo this past weekend because you missed out on some pretty dope stuff

like this guy here. To your heroes, this name of renown, The name Ashley Babbitt, the whole world shall sound. Her name shall now rank with the gallant and brave, who fought like a hero, our freedom to save. A lot of us here are, you know, we don't trust the Capitol Police. No, and let me be clear. Where I come from, the police are great.

They are absolutely great. I've been friends with many of them Just so everybody knows The interviewer guy, the reporter guy He's there making fun of them That also is the same dude From that clip of Matt Gates And Marjorie Taylor Green on the beach or whatever

When that guy dressed in American flag clothes Runs up to Matt Gates He's like, I fucking love you man Everybody thinks you're a pedophile But I don't think you're a pedophile I think you're cool I know everybody else says you're a pedophile But not me though, you're great

that is that same guy standing there interviewing this this lunatic with a beef jerky so yeah shout out to that guy Walter Masterson is his name yeah what he did a microphone made a beef turkey didn't he he was interviewing the interviewing the guy who's interviewing

is trying to recapture the Q&on shaman magic he's wearing it doesn't even why have it because he's got like a raccoon half as opposed to the buffalo horns and he's singing the song about Ashley Babbitt who of course they're turning into a martyr but beyond that so the

about a couple dozen people show up for this uh you know rally to free the january six political prisoners i think there was like 500 reporters and 30 people or something so it was a it was kind of funny it was a it was a big uh fight in the right because people were saying we're going and like all the leaders of like they've gotten uh used to being infiltrated like uh left wing protesters have so they're suspicious everyone's a fed or a cop so they're talking about this on uh will somer and oswin soups science podcast. But if you, if someone

suggests, they think someone's a fed on their message boards, they say they're glowing, right? They're so obvious that they're glowing. They call them glowies. So all these people are calling each other glories, all their message boards. All accusing Right.

None of them showed up this rally because they all think they're fucking been, they've been so infiltrated, they're all getting arrested. And all the people at the rally are like surreptitiously filming each other and stuff. It's like glowie spotted. Got a glowie. at my 10 o'clock and the other guys

doing the same thing right back to him or whatever. They're not wrong. The one guy who got arrested there says a cop saw him with a gun. It turned out that was a DEA agents.

They let him go. But it's not clear where the guy the DEA agent was there participating in the protest or infiltrating it. But either way they let him go because he's allowed to carry

a gun because he's a DEA agent. But either way it's like it was fucking hilarious. Yeah. All right. Our next honorable mention the PC police. for obscuring this woman's totally valid point in the name of political correctness.

Put the screen grab up there, Matt, so we could talk about it. A staff member at Mabel Rush Elementary School in Newburgh, Oregon, showed up to work in Blackface on Friday, allegedly saying she was dressed as Rosa Parks and protesting a vaccine mandate for teachers. So, you know, she's just out there fighting for freedom in the guise of one of our most renowned freedom fighters, Ms. Rosa Parks. And, you know, how are you going to dress up like Rosa Parks, Mark? I mean, probably not like that.

It astounds me the number of people who, like, consider the best course of action and land on blackface, you know, any given time. Here's a little tip, never do blackface. It's never going to work out well. Generally speaking, good rule of thumb. Just don't do blackface, you know. But she was like, why, Rosa Parks? What am I supposed to do? You can't be a white Rosa Parks.

This school district's been going through it lately. Here's a funny thing that doesn't make sense to the second. But in Newburgh-Dundee School District, which has involved this school, they voted to ban Black Clouds Matter and Pratt. Fags in public schools and saying it was a sign of political indoctrination. And I've, of course, been fighting over critical race theory and stuff, which is a really funny contrast, because here you have the two conservative panics at the same time, right? on the one hand we cannot talk about racism and the 1619 project and critical race theory and all this shit in schools because it's unfair to say that america oppressed people because america never oppressed anyone and the other hand trying to give me to take this vaccine is just like that black lady who had to ride in the back of the bus right yeah which is oppressive i'm being oppressed by this country and i don't like it and it's funny how they're like they love to draw the comparisons between people like rosa parks are also the fucking holoca You know, they love to throw that out there, but then don't want those things taught to children in school at the same time. It's like, how would you have all these wonderful examples to pull if you had not been taught about them, right?

Right. You know, how are your children going to dress up in blackface to protest for their freedom one day if they're not taught about Rosa Parks, you know? Yeah. You've got to think ahead, Mark. Yeah. How would you have known to do Blackface if you hadn't learned about Rosa Parks in school, lady? but this same school district also had a scandal recently where there's a Snapchat group called the slave trade where all these kids were bidding what they would pay for their classmates

I don't have to tell you they're also racist jokes so yeah that school district's really hitting lately they're they're going through it um yeah Oregon by the way just I want to point out Newburgh Oregon not Alabama or whatever I mean there's places in Alabama where that's going on too but yeah you can get what I'm saying yeah god damn it found it is an all-white state, so they have their history, too. Yep. All right. I really like this one. Our next honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is us liberals for being so good at the brain jiu-jitsu that conservatives have no choice in the face of it, but to die of COVID. If you missed this from yesterday, the hot new conspiracy theory on the

right was that, and you see the headline here, Howard Stern proves Democrats want unvaccinated Trump voters dead. So basically, idea is we've been gaslighting them into not taking the vaccine because we know that it works and we want them dead so we don't want them to take it and the I guess the the the conceit is they're like well they know they know that whatever we say we ain't going to do because we're patriots and they're queers and they know how that works and they're exploiting that and using it against us and that ain't fair. It's like, I don't know. It's just, it's very funny to me. You can't even like find a through line there, but it's just like, yeah, it's like you guys keep making fun of us for dying when we

don't get vaccinated. Therefore, that hardens our position to not get vaccinated. Therefore, you're making us not get vaccinated. It's your fault. We're choosing not get vaccinated and then die. Is it? Right. That's pretty much it. Yeah. I guess. Yeah, but it's like, because I read, you know, when I first read, I was like, we've literally begged y'all to get vaccinated, but that's what they're saying. They're like, yeah, but you know when y'all say for us to do a thing that we're not going to do it. And so that's why you've been saying to do it is because you know we wouldn't do it. And you want us to not do it. That's why you say to do it's because you want us to not do it because you want us to die.

Yeah. Whatever. It can't be anyone else's fault. They're having opposition to defiance disorder where whatever you're asked to do, you're going to do the fucking opposite. Like, I don't know. If we try to reverse psychology, I mean, that probably what we should, what's, we should have done is we should have like made the vaccine really exclusive like it was a supreme drop or like a like an fte or a baseball card you can't have and everybody will want it and then we could have rolled

it out more slowly and therefore gotten more uptake in the long run but I don't know man like you shouldn't have to fucking handhold people to do something socially responsible and I don't know what to like it's like check make I don't know what to do I can't ask you to get it because then you say no but stop ask you to get it then with pandemic keeps going right and also and I put a video out today and I talked about this and that, but like this was yesterday when this thing like came out was making rounds. And then last night and this morning and today, they were all talking about that Project Veritas anti-vax expose thing that came out that was like, this proves that the vaccine is ineffective and dangerous. It's like yesterday, you were saying that it works so good

that we're tricking you into not taking it so you'll all die. But now all the millions of millions of people who have had the vaccine are now collectively hiding from you the fact that it doesn't work for reasons. Like, you know, and it's just in a 24, in like an 18 hour span. They went completely from one in the spectrum to the other one on this subject. And it's just, like you said, I don't know, I don't know what you do with any of that. Because it's just, it doesn't matter what position you take or what you say. They're going to just, they're going to come up, but they're going to come with some bullshit

about it. Yeah. Yeah. Motivated reasoning is a hell of a drug. And as far as the efficacy of making fun of people, I don't know. We do it accomplish much here, to be honest. Yeah. I guess like whoever we're talking to, we're preaching to the choir, except for the trolls

that come here and say we're anti-white. I would appreciate you guys. Thanks for adding to our numbers. The, uh, but there was an article today in Slate, I think, talking about the Herman K. Award, the Reddit thread, which I know, you and I are familiar with, which you're not familiar with it. is they post the hermican award is people who denied covid seriousness and or or refuse to get vaccinated then later die it later die of it and uh they're they win the hermican award and what they do

is they track they screen grab a bunch of social media posts that people go through the evolution of denying it then getting it then call it them on prayer warriors to do whatever and it's almost on to the moral calculus of whether this is like just pure like schadenfreude or whatever it is but the thing is the threat is so popular that anti-vaxxers are reading it and actually they've been posts to people it's like, you know what,

this thread, this Reddit page convinced me to get, it's the only thing it convinced me to get vaccinated because I sound like these fucking morons and thank you for getting me to get. Whatever. I'll take what I could get

as far as that goes or whatever. Yeah, if it's working, that's good. But yeah, on a related note, got to, as always, can't hardly get out of a daily dumbass segment these days without dipping into my homeland, of Tennessee. My sister was texting me about this earlier, and Katie was bringing it up to me. So Tennessee has decided that they're going to limit monoclonal antibody treatments to unvaccinated

residents. So if you are vaccinated but contract COVID, you will not be able to get the monoclonal antibodies in Tennessee because they need those for all the unvaccinated people, you know, clogging up the ICU who are so much worse off than the vaccinated people from a purely medical standpoint, and I'm, you know, I'm medicine dumb. I'm no doctor. But, like, taking all the, like, extenuating circumstances out of it, which you can't do. But I totally would understand why you would do that, because those people are worse off. You've got to prioritize them. They need it more. But it's still fucked up that you can, like, take every measure to protect yourself, end up, you know, one of the statistically unfortunate ones, need this shit and not get it because of some Herman

Kane Award, motherfucker, who refused to do anything is, you know, in line ahead of you. Yeah, imagine if you had to go to the back of the line of the emergency room because you were wearing your bicycle helmet. Right. Yeah. All these people who weren't wearing their helmet and fell off the cliff, they got, yeah, their priority over you. Which, that is how triage works. And I get that, the more serious injuries go first. But also, like, it's a little infuriating because I know a mutual friend of ours, I'm not going to put his medical, I'm not going to violate his temper rights when he's going to remain unnamed on the skews.

But he's fully vaccinated, but had a breakthrough case. Symptoms weren't bad, but it has a history of bad asthma and blood plots and whatnot and our problems. So we had to go get the monocle antibody treatment as a precaution because the doctor didn't want it to do it. So in Tennessee, he would be ineligible to get the treatment that he needed because someone else didn't take the vaccine. Maybe he'd have been fine anyway. I don't know. But the thing about preventative treatment is you do it on the front end so you don't get very, very sick. And this is the whole thing about like where they're like, why, you know,

It's my choice. It's my body. And it's my choice. It's still so funny to me that that's like, that is their, my body, my choice is rally and cry for them now. But anyway, that's their, I was like, you know, it's not your right to do this shit. But it's like just screaming at them. These are the reasons because it does affect us or can affect us. You know, none of this shit has to be happening. But you're fucking everybody else over too by, you know, doing, which is that's where your free, your personal freedoms are supposed to end at the point where they, uh, infringe upon those of others, right? And it's always been that way. But all of a sudden, that's a abstract concept where COVID and the vaccines are concerned. Like, I don't think people think about, like, a, like, there was a guy that died last week, I think. I think it was in Arkansas because he had a heart attack and the 37 closest hospitals couldn't take him. Yeah. And someone, I think it was a MSNBC or the Daily Show, or both of them used the clip, I'm sure who dug it up.

But it was people arguing about seatbelt ordinances in the 80s. And I'm all to remember that people going crazy about seatbelt requirements. And people said it was first step towards communism or fascism, picurism, as an infringement, it overthrown the Constitution, and personal liberty. And I guess a lot of people are open to those arguments. But let me tell you some inside information for, like, when I covered traffic accidents, I was a reporter. In a simple accident, you pull the car off the side of the road, traffic goes, right?

if it's a death accident or an accident that could turn into a death accident depending on how seriously the person wasn't there taking off the cops had to do a lot of investigation that road gets blocked off for hours so even if you're just talking about

taking hours of people's lives where they sit in traffic you did affect someone else's life by not wearing your fucking seatbelt forget your wife and kids being left alone without your support and care and love like we are we are a society we are

I don't know how to tell people it's been it's been a point out before but it's like you're talking about cars and traffic and shit. It's 100% you're right as an adult American to get drunk if you want. It's also your right to drink yourself to death. If you want to, you sit in your house and drink yourself to death. You could do that. It's also you're right if you have a license to drive,

but you are not allowed to get drunk and then drive because it's dangerous to the rest of us. It's dangerous to other people. That's why you're not allowed to do it. You're allowed to do all of those things. individually as an American of adult age, but you can't combine them because that's when it starts to fuck with everybody else.

And I just don't see how this is really any different other than the heavy politics involved with it. It's not just opposition to the finance disorder, bud. It's just narcissism. Okay. Hey, producer Matt and Mark, let's skip these last two, I guess. Let's get into the Texas SB8 stuff. Mark, I want you to take it away.

please let's talk about it all right so this weekend a texas doctor by the name of alan braid he wrote a column in the washington post where he uh admitted the wrong word because what he's doing isn't wrong but he confessed to the crime of performing an abortion for a woman who's past six weeks and he said he did so out of duty of care to his patient and to quote make sure that texas didn't get away with its bid to prevent this blatantly unconstitutional law from being tested um so he was begging somebody to come get me come at me bro right because no one's we talked about before we talked about before before like I was skeptical of this law would ever be actually used right because you in I think we talked about a week ago I said that basically it's going to go with somebody

who's against the law is going to file a lawsuit to test it because no one else wants to put their name on it really and that's kind of what happened except much funnier so so there been two lawsuits filed the first I'll start with the first one because that's the funnier one um this guy named after stilly he's a former lawyer in Arkansas he's not even in Texas. He was convicted of tax fraud in 2010, and it's currently serving a 15-year sentence. He's home-on-home. He's on a home confinement right now because of, you know, they let people out because of COVID. He said he's not personally opposed to abortion. He thinks the measures should be subject to judicial review, obviously. So he's like, this law fucking sucks, right?

But on the funny end of it, he says if the state of Texas decides he going to give somebody $10,000, why should I get that $10,000? Right. So it's like, this law sucks. if you're going to be assholes about it, give me that money. That's essentially his fucking, yeah, it's America. Okay. Okay, so let me get this straight. This dude, and I know there's another one also, but like this guy, a disgraced former logger who thinks this law is stupid.

And the reason he's filing the suit is just to illustrate that fact, like to illustrate how ridiculous, because he's a disgrace logger from a totally different state who has nothing to do with this guy, nothing to do with the woman, nothing to do with the doctor, nothing to do with the fucking state of Texas. But he has the ability under this law to sue him in the name of this law and possibly receive a $10,000 bounty. And his whole thing is, I'm just trying to show how fucking stupid this is and force the courts to have to work through it instead of just letting it ride.

But also at the same time, if y'all are going to be giving out $10,000 bounties, yes, I would like that. And so that's basically, that's the deal with this guy. That's what he's doing. Because I love this guy. He's, so basically it's like, so the only way he's going to get his name was a Supreme Court case is by doing, by do it this way.

So either he's single-handly saves Roe v. Wade or he gets $10,000. It's a win-win, right? Yeah. So, I mean, thank you for your service guy who might get $10,000, I guess is the way to put it. it. This guy is a fascinating character. When I say

he always got his name of the Supreme Court case, he would have loved his got a name of a Supreme Court case. One of the things he got, he was convicted for tax fraud, a conspiracy to commit tax fraud. But what he was just barred for was he was one of these guys who sues everybody. You know, like, everybody Drew's character, Diamond Drew, it's like, screw him, I'll sue

them, you've got rights. Great character to go watch the videos. But this guy basically, every time he lost a case, he would sue everybody, including the Arkansas Supreme Court. So that's he got, he got, he got, he got, he got this barred for being fucking annoying. He's, he's better call Saul without the brain for it. All right.

So he, uh, one reason he's, uh, he feels solidarity with women of Texas is, um, he runs, he thinks he got railroaded, right? No, that doesn't sound right. Yeah. This guy, this former logger in there on tax fraud and tax evasion or whatever. Yeah. He says it's bullshit. That's weird.

You don't hear that much. Usually they're pretty up front with like, yeah, I did it and I deserve to be. I deserve to be in prison, but this guy, he's a real maverick, taking a different stance. His blog is literally called Busting the Feds. BustingtheFeds.com, I think, is it. And he says, one of the reasons he wants to stand up for Texas women is, like, he says, I don't like that kind of deal, because really that's why I just got through doing 10 years in federal prison. It's the same deal. They don't want to give anybody a straight shot.

Yeah. So, here's another fun thing about this guy is he was a man to be led out of prison. I said, no one paid any attention to that out because of COVID, like I said. So, yeah. So when it comes to the women, he's just, he's like, yeah, y'all are getting fucked by the government, by the feds. I got fucked by the feds. I don't like all that. I don't like when people get fucked by the feds.

So I'm a good, fuck back. I'm a good feminist ally trying to save Roe v. Wade. But if I fuck up and get that $10,000, we're all going out for Margarita Tuesdays. Then, hey, why not? Yeah. So the second lawsuit also filed by a disgrace this barred attorney. This guy is in Illinois.

He was suspended from the state's bar over accusations of sending harassing and threatening email, so he's not nearly as fun of a bad character. But he didn't ask for any damages in his case. So even if he wins by losing, he doesn't get anything. He's really doing this out of the air quote goodness of his heart, or maybe to redeem his public image after being disbarred. So I was going to ask what you thought about that part of it. Like the fact that both of them are disgraced former law, is it that like they have the

wherewithal and like the legal background and stuff to sort of see how this shit could work and and, you know, or like, and also are they self-aware about how like that that really adds to the, the fact that they're both disgraced and disbarred former loggers in completely different states, you know, like the whole thing. seems built to discredit the law is what I'm saying and like all of it like how aware are they of all of that they're like yeah you know if I wasn't disgraced I wouldn't be doing this I yeah I mean I think it's like well they both know how to their name in the paper I think is what it was down to but the how confusing this all is about who they're for who they're against I was scrolling

through a Stilly's blog has a couple posts about this and the comments are both we support you and fuck you die in a fire from both sides of the abortion debate. Yeah, because the pro, the anti-abortion people, they, they just see he's suing an abortion doctor, right? Yeah. So he's like, he's a virtuous heroic figure because he's taking on the evil of abortion is what they think. And so they're like, yeah, right on.

And I guess the same thing in reverse, you know, I mean, when I first read what was happening, I also misunderstood it. I thought it was that type of deal that he was just trying to get that money or whatever until I read the details of it. So, yeah, I could definitely see people being pretty confused over this whole thing. But again, that's kind of the whole deal with this law in general, right? It's a complete cluster fuck and it's inherently confusing. That's part of why it's so stupid and terrible. Well, this is what happens why stuff gets so confusing with the Supreme Court and makes decisions that aren't really decisions and decide stuff based upon procedure and standing.

Everyone's confused with what the law is and can't. quite clear out, figure out what he was doing or saying. So these guys are just providing staining. They're giving, they're putting in a lawsuit. So this Texas doctor has someone to appeal the case to a higher court with, which is why the Supreme Court kicked it back because it wasn't a, there wasn't a legit name when I decided a lawsuit, right? So that's, that's what's happening here.

But if screen court weren't such fucking cowards and actually hear a case in the merits and stand by the, I mean, this guy could fuck up and overturn Roeby Wade. This can be the case that does it. But yeah, I mean, somebody's got to get to an end result here. Yeah, yeah, I taught up with the website. I read his blog in the feds.com. This guy's a weirdo. I hope he gets under house arrest so he can go to the courthouse and be yelled out by both sides and be very confused.

Yeah, I bet them there's a fire press conferences right there. Yeah, also related to this. So this broke, the breaking news today, Anonymous, the online hacker collective, that's sort of a wing of Antifa. The most effective wing of Antifa, the one actually outs Nazis and the reason they... I mean, don't they predate Antifa? Yeah. Like, Anonymous has been a thing since before.

I mean, hell, when did Vef or Vendetta come out? You know, they wear those guy Foss Matt, Fox mask. Yeah. They've been around for a minute. Yeah, I mean, since whatever, I mean, Anonymous has a, uh, and they're an interesting, they have an interesting backstory. They used to be radical right. Now they're radical left.

It's very weird. Um, but anyway, they, uh, they hacked a, uh, a, uh, a company. called Epic Fail, which is a right-wing web hosting server. They host like A. Chan, Gab and Parlor. And also the abortion snitch web page on a website, which you're supposed to report your neighbor. People in flooding it with bullshit tips anyway. But the fun, but a fun thing is there's been so much data stolen about who's on these

websites and who runs them and who participates them and so forth that it's like years to go through. So we don't even know what information came out except all of it. There's so much data. They know everything about these websites, and we're going to be parsing through it for a while. But on the law side. Way to go anonymous. Yeah.

And anytime anybody fucks with these people, I'm, you know, a fan of it. If you, like, so Antifa, the ones you see on the news, fistfighting people in Portland, those are a couple hundred people that are making Nazi, deterring Nazis from, like, occupying a Nazis march to look like they're powerful, right? So when they get their ass kicked by a bunch of veg, it sort of messes up their messes. right so i'm not saying they're not doing your work i'm not out there i don't want to get hit in a face and i think a lot of that shit's pretty dumb but uh more power to you if you want to fight a nazi i support you in theory um what what anonymous does is they hack like stuff like this and um say subscription lists for white power magazines and they they uh the result of which is they get a lot

of like nazi teachers and cops fired um so that's why that the main reason the far hates Antifa is not the people you see on the news. It's because of anonymous. I just picture like a Klansman going door to door with one of those like magazine subscription, you know, sign up things. You know how to do that like a little fundraiser things or whatever. They're out there signing you up for White Power Weekly and fucking, you know, Nazi friends quarterly or whatever, however it works.

One thing that's been lost in the weeds with this is like I didn't quite understand this, but this deprecising people to bounty hunt their neighbors thing. Texas wasn't necessarily the first, and multiple states are trying a bunch of versions of this. For example, Tennessee, students and teachers can now sue schools if they, quote, encounter a member of the opposite biological sex in a multi-occupancy restroom. So, okay.

What? Like they're being, they have to have multi-occupancy restrooms in public schools or whatever, but in Tennessee, if you're in one, if you're a guy, and you're in one and a girl walks in or vice versa, you could sue the school for that? If you're a typical school bathroom, like the role of like five-year-olds or whatever, if there is a trans man peeing in a stall with you,

you can sue the school for that. Oh, so if they just exist in your presence, you may. Well, in the bathroom. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So in Florida, any student claims to have been deprived, deprived of an athletic opportunity because a transgender athlete took their place is now bestowed with a private cause of action against the school. So this is not my joke that I'm taking this from. But God damn it, the kid who got, who lost his spot on the team to Air Bud, you didn't see him sue in the fucking school. When a golden retriever took his spot on the basketball team,

he just had to take it. All right, sure his dad was disappointed. but you know people that weren't suing each other over a dog playing basketball this shit's just getting ridiculous maybe that might be a tenuous analogy to draw because I'm not trying to make any kind of point about people being dogs you know what I mean I'm just saying fucking just take it you don't make the team fucking deal with it you know what I mean I got I play one season of jv basketball I didn't make varsity right and let's say the person who beat me out for varsity let's take it out of because I don't want to make a bad analogy but say like I don't know, I can't even come up with adults and not the human out. It's just like, pretend you play high school football in Florida, and you lose your

spot to a trans kid. And now you're going to feel bad about that because you wanted to make the team. And now your names and newspapers, your parents are suing the school. It's like, what do you, you just embarrassed? Right. You're already embarrassed just from not making that you're a high school kid. You went out for a team. You didn't make it.

And then, yeah, it becomes a news story. It's put in the papers all. this shit. It's politicized. I mean, yeah, that's got to be a fucking nightmare. Like, who actually wants that to happen other than shit-ass parents, you know, who want to capitalize on something. But it's just, this is the type of thing that, like, it feels to me like no one really wants or certainly needs, you know, that state legislatures spend so much of their, that's like exclusively what they do, I feel like, is come up with shit like that, that nobody asked for, that nobody really wants, but that has this, like, political bent to it that they can, you know,

point to and be like, say, we're, you know, on the front lines of the culture war or whatever, but really, this is some meaningless bullshit that we're pushing through right now. I think the hypothetical scenario they're imagining as a trans woman, you know, a woman that was born a man, born a guy who's on the girls basketball team now, and it's just out there just dunking all over everybody and shit like that. It's that Rodney Dangerfield movie Lady Bugs. That's what they're imagining. Yeah.

With John that was in the name. Juana Man. It wasn't that what Jauna Man was about? Yeah, yeah, which isn't reality. Nandy's movies, dog. Yeah, yeah. This wasn't even like, I mean, I doubt in this, this situation isn't going to come up. It's just the idea is to make schools afraid to let Transcates play sports.

Right, yeah. That's what's going to happen. Along the same lines, Missouri just passed the Second Amendment Preservation Act, which grants $50,000 in damages to any party whose rights to bear arms is deprived. um which i don't even know what that means business says if i had a restaurant i see i don't want you can't come in if you're helping carrying a gun you can sue me for fifty thousand dollars like i i don't have a property right in my own restaurant um this this is like conservatism is communism now like they they spent all in a whole civil rights movement arguing that private

property rights meant they didn't have to let people eat there they didn't want to eat there and now there's no right to for any private control of your property you have to let conservatives do crazy shit in there um and now Here's the best one. Kentucky citizens can now file a complaint with the attorney general. If a teacher in the school district teaches critical race theory and if successful, they will withdraw funding from the school. So you can get your, like, first of all, schools aren't teaching critical race theory, but I guess they're talking about any sort of racism adjacent stuff. Your whole school could be funded by the state if a parent complains about some shit you're being taught.

It's fucking dumb, man. It's real dumb. The people, you just know that the people who are. so fired up about critical race theory being taught in school or whatever are the exact same type of people that don't know shit about what their kids are learning in school and couldn't give a fuck less about school in general except for you know them not allowing prayer in the school or teaching fucking evolution or climate change or whatever and shit like that but it's just like all the other regular school shit that goes on with kids education you know

they don't know anything about or give a fuck about any of that other than the sort of outrage factories that are these hot button subjects that they get so attached to. But they don't give a fuck about school. No. I mean, it's also like some of this stuff is like extremely tenuous for like, you know what I meant? The main thing I remember from sixth grade history class is, me and my buddy John would sit in the back and we took pens apart and we cram all the springs we could into a pen. and we would wad up paper and feed like spitball shooters.

Yeah, classic. That's classic sixth grade right there. Middle school. Yeah, absolutely. All right, we're about to get into the questions and comments, but I get, let's show, I do want to show this video just to give this guy a shout out real quick. So, yeah, we're just going to just giving it up to this dude here who went to a George Bush event in out here, right? In Hollywood, is where it was.

A George W. Bush event in Hollywood. The other one's dead, so it'd be hard for him to be giving a speech. Yeah, yeah. But so he, it was some sort of big fundraiser. I'm assuming it's one of these paid, Bush just quiet paid appearances.

It doesn't do very public ones anymore, but he probably got 500 grand for the speech to a bunch of wealthy people. And this guy fucking crashed it and did this. no pressure matt everybody's watching oh okay you can't download yeah sometimes we have depending on the format of the video matt can't download them since we have problems planning on the browser but yeah the guy uh he stood up and said fuck you you send me to iraq when you're gonna apologize to a million dead iraqis and they they got booed by these wealthy beverly hills well what i noticed about that is like he stands up and he's like you need to

apologize. You lied about Iraq. You lied about weapons of mass destruction. And people, they all start boo. Yeah, these Beverly Hills douchebags start booing and jeering or whatever. And then he screams, he goes, you sent me to Iraq in 2003. And they kind of shut the fuck up there for a second. They still, like, drug him out of there. But they were like, oh, shit. And yeah, he says, you know, you need to apologize. My friends are dead because of you, a million Iraq. Yeah, he just really, really goes off. And they drag him out of the room screaming because, you know, he wasn't having that shit. And I tell you what, Mark, in what was presumably a room full of Republicans, since it's a George W. Bush event, I didn't say not one single person support that troop. Here's a troop right in

front of you, right in before your very eyes, looking for some support. And nobody would support that troop. I think that's the same thing. Exercise is. First Amendment rights and court of the Constitution of the United States. Don't hit for them. Not into it. Okay. So I'm going to start looking through the comments and stuff over here real quick. We're going to let you know about a couple things. As a reminder, we've got them shirts and skews shirts. Producer Matt got done up for us. Go to weekly skews.com and holler at those also.

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about how like his front tooth will fall out why he's talking he just picks up with his tongue and puts it back in i haven't done it yet so thank you very much i will make sure to uh to include that yeah that's great putting the stuff together uh all right so this weekend is relayed for life american cancer society i'm a team captain and uh i support her walking every year last year they couldn't do an actual event because of COVID so we did a relay all around the valley I walked 27 miles and my big toenails fell off won't be doing that again so Jesus in 27 miles so but I tweeted out a couple days ago my birthday if you want to support or you don't have to date to me of my page I don't I don't give a shit by getting the credit for it

my wife lives is very competitive she wants to run up to score she likes to win every year anything it gets more coming in for cancer I'm into um But I'll send them the link to Matt to tweet off from the weekly skews account or its own, it's on my personal Facebook page and my Twitter page from a couple days from last Wednesday. Yeah. Right on. Fuck cancer. Real quick.

Fuck cancer. Absolutely. Yeah. I took multiple family members of mine, including my dad. So yes, fuck cancer. One thing I always think of about the Relay for Life, though, that I didn't think twice about at the time. But Relay for Life one year when I was in high school, my senior year of high school, I think. one of the, like, headline events was a drag show with all of the, like, high school boys.

Me and all my buddies, football team and all this stuff, dressed up in drag for the Relay for Life. And they, like, threw money at us and fucking put money in our, like, you know, bra straps and stuff. Kobe won because he was just being a totally slutting it up out there. You could see his balls almost. But anyway, like, never occurred to me at the time at all. But looking back on it, I feel like that's kind of wild for two. 2003 in Salina, Tennessee. But apparently if I'm talking to people, that was relatively common.

But that's a weird thing if you know how people are about homosexuality and drag and all that stuff in towns like my hometown. You know, but then this is a headline event here. I think it's fairly common during high school football games and small towns. Like when we do the powder puff game with a cheerlears play, the players will dress up like cheerleaders, right? I think we did that. I know they did on Friday Night Lights. yeah i i will say that uh when i was in fourth grade me and a couple buddies my buddies uh bobby jr and seth we uh dressed up like women and lipsinks dude looks like a lady for a talent

show uh-huh and fourth grade fifth fifth grade i think yeah hell yeah yeah one of those but it's weird like nowadays how political that would be seen it'd be like it would be maybe it was bad to do maybe it maybe it's problematic for a different reason but now you get trans panic about it and right for sure Yeah. Your parents will get scrutinized and shit, because it's like, who gave him the idea to do this stuff or whatever? But it's just like, that song just slapped. You know, I fucking loved that song when I was a kid. Had Arrow Smith's greatest hits. That was one of the banginous bangers on there. You know, and if you're singing, dude looks like a lady, you need to dress up like a fucking lady. Come on.

Showmanship, commitment. You know. I played, I played saxophone in Alamere's school, middle school, high school band. And I pretended to, I air synced by my alto saxophone, even though I'm pretty sure there isn't even the saxophone really in the song. win win Can you do fucking Baker Street or like George Michael or any of that shit? I still have

I last few times I try to play I still remember to read music and still remember the fingering and stuff but my apertures real bad it sounds like shit so I can't really practice in an apartment building sounding like shit

so I'll just always sound like shit I desperately want to watch you just wail on a saxophone all right uh all right let's see what y'all got going on over here sorry song dig slap they say uh

there was a let's see here I clicked it. God damn, here we go. Craigis from YouTube says there was a lot of pretend gay or cross dress and struff when I was in high school in the early 90s. So, yeah, I mean, yeah, I've since found out that it's like very common. I just still think that it's, that's kind of a wild thing that it was so common in, like, rural America, you know, for so long. I just remembered at church camp one year, we did a beauty pageant where all the dudes dressed up like beauty queens. This is a Southern Baptist church camp.

yeah who was fancy somebody had to be fancy right yeah yeah fancy was her name yeah here we go yeah that's one of the best songs in the history of music by the way or one of the best first of all songs but also lyrics is what i meant to say one of the best lines may have been born just plain white trash but fancy was my name actually if any of y'all fuck with the bubba shot the podcast spin-off show that me cori and drew do fancy is this week's song that we co that song uh always gives me chills when she says that line, man. Hell, yeah. Yeah.

Oh, Trey, do you see today that the Space Force uniforms dropped? They're still doing that? Yeah. That was the very first thing I thought when I saw that the Space Force uniforms dropped. I was like, they're still doing that? I had just assumed that they would stop doing that, but whatever. Dude. Hell, why not?

The Nazi rocket experts that the NASA brought over here to work on the space program, under Operation Paperclip. The fucking Nazis, the guys who built the V2 rockets, we're like, we're against militarizing space. We're not going to participate in this. You guys are going to militarize it.

No, we're just like, we're militarizing space. It's fucking, yeah. Yeah, burn or whatever. And that's a huge thing with him

because I'm watching for all mankind. Tracy Lopez, Hasuga says, practice safe sacks, Mark. Mm-hmm. Yeah, thanks, Tracy.

The, oh, yeah, for all mankind. I love that show, by the way, I've only just started it, but I do like it. No idea what this guy is on about, which is why I put it up there. Henry Chinaskey says, Milton Burrell had one of the largest penises in Hollywood.

Forrest Tucker was up there, too. I read it in a Jackie Gleeson bio. He tried to set up a match between the two to see who was larger. All right. I've heard that story about Milton Burl. Yeah, that's like a famous, yeah, Milton Burrell. Yeah, he used to pull that wiener out all the time and put everybody else to shame, I guess. There's some story about him like,

pulling it out, and, like, they were going to measure it by a door frame or something. Oh, God. And the other guy, like, went to the other side of the door frame, then Milton Burrell pulled his route and, like, slapped the other side of the door or something like that with it or whatever. Just, I don't know. Old Hollywood, just dick stories. Y'all know how it is.

Hang on, hang on, hang on. You're too precious with the comment picks, right? I'm trying. Donna Spencer says, just be nice to the gentleman. fancy they'll be nice to you i used to do a bit on stage about my college girlfriend how i thought she was rich because i was such poor white trash and her dad like owned a body shop in nashville you know so i was like oh shit they're loaded and i uh compare myself to fancy throughout the whole thing that's uh because that's just how much i relate to it you know um let's see here you never

resort to prostitution though did you did your parents didn't turn you out like fancy it's not no but what you know what is comedy really mark other than, you know. Yeah, I mean. You're parading yourself around on stage. Just, uh, yeah. Yeah, obviously, I'm kidding. It's not the same thing as prostitution.

Not trying to, uh, not trying to do anything where any of that's concerned right now. It's just, just saying a thing. Uh, let's see here. Uh, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, a lot of people are confirming that they had the cross-dressing thing, too. Um, um, Kyle Steven says though Space X I'm assuming you mean Space Force

So Space Force uniforms fucking slap though I'm gonna disagree Matt Can you pull them up today There's a link to it in the dock If you can it would be cool Yeah they just look They just look kind of like military uniforms to me You know like I would like them to look a little more

They don't look bad or nothing They don't look stupid I don't think Well first of all They drove them out a little too early Because the pants And the pants didn't fit the people wearing today and maybe this because this is like this is good but they said they desire the uniforms for women for women's comfort first and then adjusted to the men which is the opposite way the military is historically done uniforms so that's cool but they look like Battlestar galactica and also the pants are too big for the people wearing them so it was just like they also rolled out they're testing their training wear

uh uh uh what i miss said pronounced damp yeah but i have no clue what that so earth cat on you too said you were talking about your aperture when we were talking about the sax earlier i don't even i don't know what that is i know what the word aperture generally means but i had no clue talking about i just smiled and nodded but earth cat says l-o-l it's it's umbooture umboucher umboucher umboot whatever the hell that's a big good looking word not aperture mark look that i went to appomatx county high school graduating class is 140 kids and i learned saxophone from the driver's ed teacher so that's what I'm working with here.

I'll take your word for it. Thank you for the, yeah, I'll never come up with my life again, no thing. Sweet Jung thing on YouTube says, you do remember that dressing up in drag and blackface was intended to be as overtly funny as it was quietly hateful.

You're probably making a pretty good point with that. I feel like it probably was a sort of like point and laugh type of situation, I guess, or it's like, I don't know, cheapening the whole thing or something like that. but I could tell you that having done it with me and my buddies as fucking 17 year old dip shits

it didn't none of that like factored into it for us we were just we were having a good time in our dresses with our you know I totally agree stuff out there perhaps I'm not familiar with the history I know that I know that like course men were dressed up like women for Shakespeare back in the you know when they did that back in the day I understand it's like it's problematic maybe in a sense you're deflating a man's masculinity but the idea that you're making

fun on women maybe it is I don't know um i don't know i i i i had never thought about that way either but i read this comment and i just feel like it's like a like a making fun of of gay people thing or something like uh you know isn't it silly and crazy you know ridiculous this fucking that anyone would ever do this you know what i mean like look at that isn't it how how silly and dumb is that whole thing can you believe anybody would ever do that look at these but you know i don't know that's just how i interpreted it when i read this now blackface hey we're We're also, we're anti-tattle band, we're also anti-blackface.

We established on top of the show. We've always said it. We are not pro-blackface at all. I wonder what anybody says, I'm not into it. I'm not into blackface. Sorry. I will, from this moment on, commit the rest of my life, never dress up in drag and sing do looks like a lady ever again.

And a fourth, fifth figure of me or whatever is going to a tone for it. I don't know. I'm not making funny. I'm probably dumb on this. I just didn't know that. Yeah. No, I didn't know that either. but that's interesting.

Matt said he's got, Matt, if you have them, yeah, throw them up there so everybody can see them since we've been talking about them, hell. So yeah,

there you go. See, I mean, you're right about the pants. They are clearly too big for these people, which is a weird oversight, I feel like. I mean,

was anybody waiting, you know, with baited breath on the Space Force uniforms to drop? Like, if the pants are fucked up, just wait, get new, get different pants or something.

Other than that, though, yeah, I think they look fine. I would not say they slap, but I think they look fine. Yeah. what do you think they do day to day in space force headquarters i do dude who the hell knows my go-to-go-to-go-go is always you know combat the threat of moon muslims but i have no idea

moon muslims but i have no idea what the hell they actually do all day i say one thing where we go is like they all space force also announce that they're they're testing their training wear which is just shorts and t-shirt but they're obviously they're obviously very thoroughly testing and they put out apparently one of their lieutenants is a former college star athlete and she would have made a video they're talking about how she's putting it through toughest testing so they don't have the space for shirt shirts and teach her work. It made me laugh.

Okay. Well, right on. Yes, thank you about putting it up there. Reminder, go to well-redcomedy. com. If you are vaccinated and want to see me live, okay, that's it for this week's edition of weekly skews. We'll be back next Tuesday.

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