Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews 9/28/2021 – Congress Ain’t It

Episode Date: September 29, 2021

This week, Trae flies solo as Smart Mark had to do something called “work”. Join Trae as he does his best to break down Congress’s incessant bungling of...well, everything, the continued scourge of anti-vax idiocy, and a whole litany of dumbasses you don’t wanna miss.Support the show

out of there and welcome back everybody and happy skews day to you it is september 28th 2021 i'm trey crow outer and that pains me to say is not smart mark no no mark tonight he had something come up related to a thing i believe he referred to as work so not sure where he gets off with all that but not to worry he will return smart mark's glorious return is on the horizon, but for tonight, it's just me and y'all and the intrepid producer Matt on the ones and twos. I will do my best to get through this thing. And also, Mark will be with us in spirit, as he very graciously outlined the run of the show, as he always does. So I believe that you will feel the endearingly cynical thumbprint of Smart Mark on this show, despite his

absence. Yeah, with that said, this is Weekly Skews. Let's Let's do it. Mark wanted me to say he really appreciates anyone who donated to Relay for Life on his behalf as he was talking about last week. The event that he and his wife helped to run here in the Valley raised almost $100,000 for cancer research and paying for people's rides to chemo and things like that, which is super cool. And Mark very much appreciates it. And I echo those sentiments because, as we all agree, fuck cancer on a hopefully more uplifting note than Well, I guess that was kind of uplifting, but I also would like to say, as I always do, if you are vaccinated and want to see me live, you can go to well-read comedy.com for tickets. I'm in California this week, Irvine tomorrow, and San Jose on Thursday, and then a whole bunch of other places after that.

I hope to see y'all out there. Okay. As for the show tonight, not going to lie to you, it's not the ideal subject matter for which to be missing smart mark because it's some smart stuff. That's right. It's the ends and outs of Congress, the debt ceiling, the reconciliation bill, the bipartisan bill, and any of the other things that they seem dead set on fucking completely up. I will come as no surprise to you. I believe that I am what you might call legislature dumb, but how many people really do understand this shit? We will do our best to break it down for you later on.

Also, the scourge of anti-vaccination rages on out there. What are they up to? All kinds of stuff. How stupid is it? Unspeakably so. We'll have some updates. One funny, one tragic, but hey, what else would you expect in 2021 in this country? But first, we got a lot of great dumbasses to do, so let's get to doing them. Matt, play the graphic play. and alter the appearance of key biblical figures. I know it is infuriating. Let's say Tucker Carlson explain it further.

They're masked just like you are. In this religion of narcissism, the holiest figures look exactly like you do. That's the point. We'll reach back 2,000 years and change the appearance of historical figures to look exactly like the people in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. That's what this religion is.

about and speaking unbelievable the audacity who would do that who would have the gall to alter the appearance of figures from the imagine if someone else had tried that imagine if someone took the famously black-skinned blonde hair and blue-eyed statue as figure of Jesus Christ and to fit a political narrative turned him into an olive-skinned Jew you know a hippie a socialist imagine the outrage if someone did that. They wouldn't stand for it. Now you've got these so-called COVID believers coming out here and just trying to put mask on nativity figures.

This stuff is not made up, guys. This stuff is all 100% real. And that's how those people looked and they did not have masks on. And this is bullshit. Obviously, I'm doing a whole thing here. That is completely ridiculous. It's no more ridiculous than anything else they ever do on Fox News. But sometimes you have to sit back and appreciate the intense lack of self-aware.

awareness. Tucker Carlson acting outraged at the idea that people would make those religious figures look like themselves when we all know what's happened with, you know, white suburban Jesus over the years is truly something else, except really it's entirely par for the course. It knows no bounds the gall of these people. Aphrodite sis says, didn't God create humans in his image? Who's the real narcissist? Yeah, that's a good question. that. What is God up to anyway? So that, you know, with that in mind, we're talking nativity sets. That's right. Just around the corner, Christmas, or as I like to call it, Xmas. But will there even be a Christmas this year? Are we going to cancel it? That's right.

It's everybody's favorite time of year, war on Christmas season, although this year, the intricacies of it seem a little bit convoluted, at least according to Donald Trump. Let's hear him break it down in this clip. They are starting to say very strongly, Merry Christmas. Remember when I first ran? I said, you're going to say Merry Christmas. They're all saying Merry Christmas again. We better move fast because that'll end also like everything else.

Okay, so we did, he did convince us to go back to saying Merry Christmas instead of the godless and sinful, happy holidays or whatever. So he won the war on Christmas, but now that he's gone, we will now turn around and re-win the war on Christmas. Is that what's going to happen? I'm having trouble keeping up with it, and I'm a three-to-a veteran of the war on Christmas, okay? So I don't know what to expect.

Now, in all sincerity, you know, I'm a godless heathen from way back, and I love Christmas. It's wonderful. You know, who doesn't like gifts and chocolate-covered pretzels and pine trees and all that shit? Like, you know, Christmas is great. Even us hell-bound sinners can appreciate

Christmas, you know. But if we say happy holidays, if I can get over that too, not that big of a deal. This is one of the funniest scandals that happens every year that like no one really cares about except the people who are so furious at us for ostensibly caring about it when really we don't. So having said that up next honorable mention for Daily Dumbass Joe Biden for not realizing that really the Taliban, really the Taliban, pretty good guys you could totally have a beer with. Well, maybe not a beer, but you can get along with them. It'll make more sense, as everything does, after Donald Trump explains it, Matt. So we have brand-new aircraft just out of the factory, and it's sitting on the runways,

and our soldiers are fleeing and surrendering to guys with knives, good fighters, by the way, but guys with knives that I got along with very well. They understood they're not going to screw around. I almost use the F word. Good guys. good fighters, you know. Trump was just like this with them. You know, them, Kim Jong-un, Putin. Trump is the only one that understands. Really, these guys are just sweethearts. You just sit down and have a talk with, you know. Yeah, of course, you know, he's the ultimate American, the

ultimate patriot, and yet buddy, buddy with the Taliban and made the deal that everybody hates now that Joe Biden followed through on it. And that's just sort of how it goes, isn't it? So we've seen some silly shit so far but this this next one that we're about to watch i every now and then there's clips that we play in dumbass that you're like that i see and i think okay i know how stupid and ridiculous we are as a society right now but is this real and as far as i can tell this is in fact real so obviously we know ivermectin big hot button uh topic lately and And not everybody is handling it all that well, but some people really have their heads around what's really going on with Ivermectin

and what's important for people to remember. For example, Minnesota gubernatorial candidate, Scott Jensen, of course, a Republican, who had this to say about the whole thing, buckle up for this clip, please. Go ahead, man. But if someone wants to sort of demean, or diminish ivermectin, which they do on social media, I noticed. If someone wants to say, well, it's just a horse dewormer, well, actually, it's not.

It's a human dewormer, too. And if you think that's something to sneeze at, go get some worms and have them creep out of your anus at night, and you might wish you had some ivermectin. There's a lot of you folks in here that don't remember the Scotch tape test. I remember it. I remember being about five years old, And I remember mom laying me on my belly going to bed at night

and she put a piece of scotch tape, doubled it around, stick it by my anus and said, we'll check it in the morning. And if we had worms on it, I had pinworms. And then I got treated. It's not so bad. What? I can't have but wonder if his staff, he's so comfortable with this whole bit that I just can't have to wonder if his staff.

staff is sitting back there, be like, oh, man, he's about to do the butthole worm tape thing again. Like, you don't, we don't need to hear any candidates talking about anusism with worms in them and scotch tape, I feel like, but I mean, hey, what are you going to do? It seems to be killing. Also, what does that have to do with COVID-19? This sort of, like, argument has emerged, I feel like from their side where Ivermectin is concerned. First of all, he's like, they act like it's a horsy-wormer. It's not. It's for people, too. It's like, yeah, okay. It's also a horse dewormer. Like, it's both. There is a human version that's never been denied by anyone on our side, which just a whole lot of people are taking the animal version. And either version is in no way proven to treat COVID effectively, which is what we're talking about. He goes on this whole thing and plank, this whole thing about scotch tape on buholes with worms in them. And it's all.

meant to imply that we are the idiots for not appreciating the efficacy of ivermectin. But of course, the context should be as a COVID treatment. No one's talking about your butthole worm. If you, if this was a butthole worm plague and y'all were taking butthole wormer, no one would have a problem with any of that. It wouldn't be an issue. But it's not. It's a COVID plague. And you're taking horseback. blood hole warmer. And that's why you're getting made fun of. And if you're wondering, are they still taking the horse pills? They are absolutely still taking the horse pills at an alarming rate, alarming if you are a veterinarian, especially. That's right. There is a shortage

of ivormectin in this godforsaken country right now, which is a very serious problem for our nation's veterinarians, ranchers, and farmers. They can't get the drug they do need for they're, you know, horses and stuff, pigs, other livestock, you name it, because mouth breathers are taking them to treat COVID. So it's another one of those, and then they turn around and they say it's none of our business. It's their personal choice. It's their, you know, once again, their body, their choice has become their favorite rallying cry, which is hilarious. But of course, there are reasons why that's not a valid argument. It's not just your body. It's not just your choice because it affects other living things, not just humans anymore,

not just from clogging up the ICU with your stupidity. So if you get hit by a bus, you're fucked because too many dipshits in your town don't believe in science. But also, now you're fucking over the poor little bunny rabbits too. Okay. And hell, snakes, snakes get buffalo worms apparently. I didn't know that, but it's true. You know, so it runs the gamut, all right? cute little bunnies all the way to snakes and everything in between are all being fucked over by their selfishness. And yet they scream that their freedoms are the ones being infringed upon. Kill me, please.

Anyway, so let's see. What do we got next? Oh, I love this one. Next honorable mention. Any congressmen, congresspeople out there who are still living in the past and not communicating exclusively via memes. That's right. As always, large brain marge constant figure here at the skews

is on the very bleeding edge of communication. And she has her finger on the pulse of the internet, clearly, as you can see in this clip right here. A simple meme that you would find on the internet, but this meme is very real. The Green New Deal surprise serves China and China only. go ahead and put number one up. So today, talking about...

So right after that, the very end of that clip, he pulls up another meme that has like the president of China that says some silly shit on it. But so she seems to be doing an entire meme press conference. I assume there was one about Afghanistan that was conveyed via shocked Pikachu, something like that. I'm kind of surprised it took her this long to start communicating via memes since she is sort of like if the very worst parts of the internet were made flesh,

and given a seat in Congress. So, you know, I mean, this is how her biggest fans, this is how they operate to. This is how they communicate on Facebook and stuff. You know, it's like they can't adequately express the extent of their xenophobia without like a minion wearing a sombrero or something. This is how these people operates. I mean, I feel like it makes sense. She's finally coming to them on their level here, but also, of course, so wonderful that she said,

this is but a simple meme that one might find on the Internet. However, this meme is very real. Every meme is equal parts real and also made up because that's how memes are. What does that even mean this meme is real? You know how many memes I can show you that are real and also very profoundly stupid? Almost all of them. And hey, look, I love a good meme. But our congresspeople using them in the chamber to be xenophobic towards China and the idea of socialism,

Not an ideal scenario, I think. I also, I was actually on the Young Turks last Friday, and we covered that on there. And Jank pointed out, I wouldn't have picked it up. Otherwise, I'm just giving him credit. That is not the Chinese flag. That's the old Soviet Union flag. So not only is it profoundly stupid in concept, but also the execution was fucked up. So there's just, it's dumb all the way down, guys, where Marjorie Taylor Green is concerned.

Kim Shea 22 says they definitely know their audience, the ones who think memes are sources of knowledge. Yeah, no, I mean, I agree. Like, we're making fun of her because it deserves to be made fun of because, again, she's a fucking congressperson. It is absurd. But there is a kind of logic to it, in my opinion, when you think of who her target demographic is. That's the type of shit. They eat up. That's how they express every opinion they have amongst themselves on a day-to-day basis.

So, I mean, I do kind of get it, but I'm still going to call it as stupid as. it is. But it's taken off. It's a whole trend now in the halls of our nation's lawmakers. Here's another example, if you don't believe me. The scenario reminds me of this popular meme of a guy playing Uno. Oh my God. I'm feeling with so much despair. generally, but you can't help laugh at it. That's Iowa, Senator Joni Ernst, also

talking about me. This is a very popular meme. I never seen that meme. Look, I'm a meme connoisseur, okay? I mean, I've seen the draw of 25 meme, but I'm just saying, don't try to tell me, don't try to tell me about popular memes, all right? Senator, what the

fuck? Okay. Mark pointed out in the outline, he said this is all further proof of his ongoing theory that everything is just shit posting now. Like he's pointed out before out, he feels that like the end game for people is becoming like a personality or whatever rather than a Congress person, you know, like killing it on conservative Instagram is more important than making laws or anything like that and getting it, you know, getting on that speaking circuit and podcast appearances and being on

that Ben Shapiro tip or whatever you want to call it is really the end game for a lot of these people. And I feel like he's on to something with that. But moving on, our next Daily Dumbass nominee here. Butter lettuce for deciding to go down with Dr. Fauci's sinking ship. That's right. They've roped butter lettuce into the whole to the whole COVID lie. What the fuck am I talking about? I barely know, but here's Michael Flynn to say it plain.

I mean, I got to put, you know, somebody sent me a thing this morning where they're talking about putting the vaccine into salad dressing or salads. Have you seen this? Yes. Have you seen it? I mean, it's, and I'm thinking to myself, this is the bizarre world, right?

This is definitely the bizarre world. So there's the seriousness of what this professional realized he was doing wrong. And he's now, you know, he's found a new way. And then there's just the laughability on the other extreme that people are, I mean, these people are seriously thinking about how to impose their will on us in our society. And it's, and it's, it has to stop. They know back. Okay. So first of all, I feel like when he said they're putting it in salad dressings, you heard about this? And that other lunatic goes, yes, I don't feel like he's heard about that, which is funny to me. But also, you know, I got to say here, obviously this is ludicrous. But I feel like when you think about all the people that are very fervently opposed to taking the COVID vaccine, if we could lace ranch dressing,

Now, not the salad part. The salads, that's not, that's not an ideal vehicle for these people, obviously. But ranch dressing, though, I think we could be on to something with that. Again, not for salads. It dipped pizzas in it, chicken nuggets, French fries, things, you know, fucking cinnamon sticks, probably, you name it. And listen, I drink ranch dressing through a straw. I am trash, so I'm allowed to say this. But, yeah, ranch dressing would make a good covert vehicle for distributing these vaccines.

sort of under the radar, I think. So we might ought to get, I mean, Michael Flynn might be on to something here. But again, not the salad part. They're not going to eat salads. Carly Rankin-Yate said, we just have to put it in the horse dewormer. Yeah, that's true. We could do that too, although it seems like they've already taken up all the good horse bills out there.

But, yeah, that's so, you know, we've talked about it on the show. It's been pointed out a million times, but it's so funny that they act like. Christy Vanhoff says, Dr. Pepper and Sweet Tea, y'all. any of those would be good vehicles because, as I was about to say, they act like, you know, we don't know what's in these vaccines yet. And again, it's like, you don't know, you don't know what's in anything, not just the things you consume, but anything. You don't know what's in nothing. Like Lauren Bobert was trying to make some point about taking Tylenol. She's like, I took Tylenol, so now if the rest of the world could take their Tylenol, so my Tylenol would work.

That would be great. as if any of that really makes any sense because, A, Tylenol is not a vaccine. Vaccines are not pain medicine, two completely different things. Of course, they work differently. And B, she don't know what's in Tylenol. As Chris Rock said, you take a whole bottle, it'll be your last headache. You know what I mean? They're like, you all know we can trust Tylenol.

People overdose on Tylenol all the time. You just got to not be an idiot about it, but they're an idiot about everything. And not to mention the myriad vaccines they've all. had over the course their lives and never thought twice about so yeah brian mitchell says put it in salt just salt yeah any of this stuff they got enough salt uh to run all of the mcdonalds in the world for the next 50 years just coming out of their mouth and persons in any given time but they don't stop them from consuming it on mass does it all right uh speaking of vaccines our next daily dumbass nominee here, Hawaiian travel cops for not being aware of the famous and very reputable

life-saving vaccine from Maderna, not Moderna, Maderna. That's right. Put up the screen grab there, Matt. A Illinois woman was arrested for using a fake COVID-19 vaccination card. She was caught for a few reasons, primarily because she misspelled Moderna on the card. Also, because it said she's from Illinois. She did this to get into Hawaii, by the way. That's why she had this fake card. She misspelled Moderna. She's put that she got the vaccine in Delaware when she lives in Illinois. And according to the card, the vaccine was administered by a corporal wolf. So I don't know how they sniffed that whole thing out. Seems pretty airtight to me. But alas, she was caught. So, and also now apparently, she

She's like on the run from this. The whole thing is a misdemeanor. She was caught in charge with a misdemeanor, but she has like skipped out on her court hearing, and now she's on the lamb, apparently, on the lamb with Corporal Wolf somewhere. And, you know, she ain't exactly that guy that killed Gabby Potato, but I don't feel good about her odds of escaping justice in the long term,

given the way she's gone about approaching it so far. Okay, next up, this poor old 70-year-old one, woman here for thinking she could fuck around and keep Christy Nome's daughter out the real estate business and not find out. That's right. Christy Nome, the governor of South Dakota, where producer Matt is from. He's a huge fan. That's not at all true. But yeah, so her daughter applied to be real estate, to get a real estate license in South Dakota. It was denied, I assume, for valid reason. So Christy Nome called the agency worker into her office personally. And then right after that, the girl's license was, she was given a license.

And not to be satisfied with that, the Nome administration then demanded that that 70-year-old lady retire from her position at the agency. So, yeah, nothing super shitty and nepotistic going on there. But Christy Nome, you know, she's been featured on here before. She tries to shoot COVID with a shotgun. Remember that? She's like, this is what we do in South Dakota when COVID comes around. She just, like, shoots a bird.

I think it was skeat, but either way, she shot at it. So, yeah, she's a real card. Also got all them bikers killed at Sturgis, by letting them just go up there and COVID it up. But anyway, yeah, nothing overtly corrupt about that whole situation, is there? So let's say, what are we got next? Oh, yeah, next up on the daily dumbass list. Ron DeSantis, for not thinking that he'd get caught up in his new surgeon general's

anti-demon sperm policy. What? Yeah, so here's what happened was. Ron DeSantis, the ever popular Florida governor who doesn't at all contribute to countless deaths of his own constituents, just appointed a new surgeon general for the state of Florida. And that person is a known associate of the famous demon sperm doctor lady from the viral video at the beginning of the pandemic where they had that lady talking about you could take hydro hydroxychloroquine or whatever

and you didn't have to wear mask and Trump put her up to this and everything. And then it turns out she also runs a church and tells people that that demons are having sex with people and that's where I'm wanting pregnancies come from or some such as that. Remember that lady? Just a real page of a doctor well, Joseph La Dapo or La Dapo is, was, in a 43-minute viral video with her as part of America's frontline doctors, none of whom were epidemiologists or immunologists qualified to speak on infectious diseases, but that didn't stop them from doing it. And now that guy is the Surgeon General of Florida, which I mean,

again, you know, you can't act like it doesn't fit with everything that's going on in Florida right now and with DeSantis. Gilbert DeRise. Sorry, Gilbert says, oh, I forgot about demon sperm, my new favorite punk band name. Yeah, yeah, it's a good one. You know, there are some uses for it. But yeah, I mean, again, it doesn't not fit that the Surgeon General for the state of Florida is associated with Damon Spurn. You know what I mean? Matt, you got that, those shirts that DeSantis is selling. You have those, you put those up there. It says DeSantis 24, make America, Florida. yeah that's what the rest of us have been clamoring for not for it to just drift into the ocean but for all of the country to become florida we all just feel like it could be a little little more

methy and insane around these parts because you know that's not what we got going on in 2021 at all matt has pointed out that these are actually connected to the streaming service so let's just go ahead and talk about that there's an exciting new streaming service out there guys it's for conservative zoomers, gen Z conservatives, it's called TIA, which stands for, I shit you not, today is America. That's right. Yesterday was, I don't know, China, I guess, tomorrow could be Russia, but today is America. And you can too.

I love the names they come up with for this shit. Like it just, it's like some sort of, you know, eagle, mad, live or something. They just pick words like freedom, America, patriot. Jesus is probably in there. Stars, stripes, flag, eagle, any of these things. And they just sort of jumble them up, you know, the Patriot America Now Foundation or the Freedom Fighters of American Patriotism Coalition. Like, it's always some shit like that. But they could at least. work a little harder on making it not sound completely stupid when you say it out loud. But, hey, that's not really the business they're in, is it?

But, yeah, today is America with, put up that other picture, put it back up there, of the programs they got on their map. We can cover a couple of those who look on them right. You got Firefight hosted by Gunner Thorterson. Yeah, that guy's, how are you going to argue with a guy named Gunner Thorterson, right, with that haircut? And then we got Cup of Joe. I don't know if y'all can see it, but the slogan for Cup of Joe in the middle there is politically right, not correct, which is also funny because they're, obviously, I get what they're trying to do.

We don't care about being politically correct here. But they literally, objectively are saying, we are not correct about the things that we say. And then you got Morgan's minute, things to know in a minute or less. I'm sure that's utterly riveting. But this seems to be another like Turning Point USA type of grift they're trying to pull off here. It has a flagship TikTok account connected to it that is named, again, not joking here, Republican hype house. Yeah, because nobody gets hype like young Republicans.

Anybody who's been to college can tell you all the hypeest parties were always at the right after the young Republicans meeting, Republican House. Oh, I say again, everything is a nightmare. Okay, so let's try to get into the main story here as best as I'm capable of doing so. Congress, they suck. All right, moving on. No, so there's a lot going on right now in Congress. So there's the bipartisan infrastructure bill, right?

It's about a trillion dollars. It's popular pretty much everybody. Roads and bridges and shit like that. Then there's a $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, which is like a social infrastructure, daycare, community college, things like that. The former, the bipartisan infrastructure bill seemed to be in no real danger, but the reconciliation bill may not pass because of assholes primary, whatever, assholes number one and number two, Joe Manchin. and Kirsten Cinema, right? Not news that's been going on for a while. They just are refusing to do shit because that's not their job, you know, as Congress people

to do shit, their job is to keep shit from being done. At least that's how they seem to see it. They say, not only will they not vote to get rid of the filibuster, which would allow the Democrats to do a lot more stuff, but they also are not going to support this bill, the reconciliation bill. Why? I don't know. The real reason why is because their wealthy donors don't want them to.

it's pretty transparent. Cinema literally today or yesterday, one, held a fundraiser with five big lobbyist organizations who are overtly opposed to this legislation. So they're not even really trying to hide what's actually going on. But when you ask them why, where they're not supported, they just say things like, ah, we need to, you know, we need to take some more time because that's what Congress needs is more time to sit around and not do shit. D. Riley from YouTube says corporate dams, rally around corporate donors. Mainstream media loves it. Yeah, that's 100% what's going on.

But so because of that, the progressives in Congress, the Progressive Caucus, are taking a hard line right now saying they will not pass the popular and bipartisan infrastructure bill until and unless we could feel. figure out the larger and to them, more important, reconciliation bill. So I said I'm legislature dumb. I don't know exactly how to feel about all this. Part of me is loving the fact that you have progressives, you know, doing a thing, like taking a fucking stance, you know what I mean, for once and not just like getting rolled over and really trying to use some leverage and taking a hard line. Like, part of me is like, hell yeah, fucking A.

but the other part of me worries that just what will ultimately happen with all this is that it will all get fucked up. Because, you know, the bipartisan infrastructure bill, that would be great too. And it just, I've just, I'm battered by years of being an American and seeing our Congress, whoever's in power, not do shit about fuck, you know. I don't want to, like, I don't want to get too pretentious or like high-minded here. But they don't do shit about fuck. ever. And I can't help

worry that that's what's going to end up happening with all this too. It's all just going to get torpedoed and not amount to a damn thing. But I do support them trying to force the other side's hands. And as far as the Republicans go, they basically step back and said we're not doing shit. So, you know,

more of the same for them. What else is new? But they're trying to give the Democrats enough rope to hang themselves, basically. And it all kind of hinges on Mansion and Cinema. If they weren't fucking around, None of this would be a problem in all likelihood. On that note, so I want to talk a little bit more about Kirsten Cinema for a second because I didn't know this.

So first of all, and I swear I'm not doing this just to plug my Patreon. I swear I'm not. It'll make sense in a minute. But as I've mentioned before, I have a Patreon, patreon. Patreon.com slash track router. One of the things I do is I review a different Congress, a different U.S. politician every week, right? And this week for the first time, because I've been doing it for like eight or nine weeks, something. This week for the first time I did a Democrat, and it was Kirsten Cinema, as luck would

have it. And so in doing that, I found out some stuff that I didn't know about Kirsten Cinema, and I'm sure a lot of y'all do, but I'm sure a lot of y'all don't already know this. And that is that Kirsten Cinema used to be pretty fucking different. She's been in politics at some level for almost 20 years now. She first ran as an independent back in the really early aughts in Arizona. And you might hear that and you think, well, yeah, that makes a lot sense that she would be an independent because hell, she's barely a Democrat now. But it actually was in the opposite direction. She was arguably way too progressive for the early-aughts Democratic Party. She was pretty legitimately hardcore back then. She was on the record as talking about the

evils of capitalism and how until the average American wakes up and realize that they're being fucked by this system. I'm paraphrasing here, then capitalism will always rank. Supreme. She publicly shit on Joe Lieberman, who was running at the time for courting Republican support. She was like, he says he's a Democrat, but he wants Republican. He seems to, you know, care about Republicans

liking him. What kind of bullshit is that? Again, I'm paraphrasing. But these are all real things she said. She was extremely anti-war. Not just the war in Iraq, but the war in Afghanistan, too. See, Michelle Spark says she followed the cash. Yes, you're getting ahead of me,

but we all know that part already. But yeah, that's 100% what happened. But back then, she was anti the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan. She said publicly she didn't blame people over there for joining the Taliban because we were essentially terrorizing them. And I mean, again, think back to the fucking, the climate at the time and what happened with the Dixie Chicks and everything. Like, if you so much is insinuated that maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't carpet bomb an entire region based on the whims of Dick Cheney, then, you know, you were crucified as being anti-American. I mean, that's how it was. Like I said, look what happened with the Dixie Chicks.

So, like, this shit she was doing, and she wasn't, she didn't have a high profile or nothing, but still, she was in politics in Arizona. This shit was pretty legitimately hardcore. And she came out as bisexual in 2005 was openly in favor of gay marriage and all that stuff. She supported the DREAM Act was, you know, good on immigration and all that stuff. She called herself the most progressive person in the Arizona State Legislature. And it seems like that was all true, which of course, course, all just serves to make it so much more profoundly disappointing what is going on with her

now. But as the commenter said earlier, and as again, we all already very much aware, money talks, you know, you get corrupted at a certain point. And it's just, you know, it's like, it's kind of like she was like, oh, capitalism sucks. But then capitalism is like, you know, we'll give you a shit lot of money for not thinking that. And she was like, oh, really shit. Okay. Capitalism's great. You know, like, it's just a different story when you start getting your own pockets lined, I guess, if you're lacking in integrity. But my point is, I just, all I really, I did not realize cinema's origin story, which I think makes her current situation a lot shittier to think about and, uh, and to be experiencing. That's what, that's it. Joe Manchin's always kind of

been, uh, that old school, like corporate Democrat type of, uh, shit bag as far as I'm aware, but Kirsten Cinema, though, not the case. She lost her fucking way somewhere along the dotted line, so to speak. So, okay, where was I at? Oh, yeah, Congress, there's also the debt ceiling, right? Which is, like, to me, so I'm fucking made up Harry Potter money shit. I don't even know. Like, the way I understand it, me and production Matt talked about before the show,

and I'm, you know, this gets brought up every few years. it's like it's kind of a made-up procedural thing that Congress can just do they just agree to fix it and then it's fixed but if they don't fix it it will have real world ramifications and problems and the Republicans are refusing to go along with it and Schumer's trying to force the Republicans to vote no on the debt ceiling even though the Democrats might be able to raise it themselves but who the fuck knows what's going to happen with that and it's just all everything in Congress right now weirdly and you know differing from the norm, seems to be a complete shit show at present. So, yeah, it's just not very encouraging, to say the least. So apparently at about 415 Pacific time today, the Senate announced a plan to fund the government until December that they're hoping to vote on this Thursday. So we'll see.

Amanda Montgomery, Future says the GOP ran up the credit card bills, and now when the Democrats are asked to pay the bills, the GOP wants to dine and dash. Yes, that's 100% the case. They're like, and they try to act like it's the Democrats thought like that the Democrats are the ones holding the government hostage somehow, even though they're the ones that refuse to come to the table on it. But again, you know, that's just more of the same coming from them. Okay. I spent a little bit of time talking about the open-faced mouth breathers among us, the anti-vaxers out there.

First, we got kind of a funny one. And so this is in a noted bastion of progressivism, Staten Island. This happened. If you have that clip, just show it, Matt. These are bunch of answers. USA, USA, USA, USA! USA! USA!

USA! USA! Everybody! Go eat! That is what we're here to do! Everybody, don't get food and eat. That is what we're here to do. Then we're going to meet back over there and go into the food court area and sit there,

let's down. Okay. So, yeah, that's a bunch of anti-vaxxers at a food hall or food court or whatever in Staten Island that was supposed to be vaccinated people only. But the thing is, there's no like security checkpoint. They don't have to preach. There's just a sign that says, please be vaccinated or whatever. So they're basically there chanting and screaming at a sign to prove their point. Also, a thing that I thought when I saw this is like, I love how so many. of their protests seem to center around getting fatter. Like, if they can include eating food into the protest, the point they're trying to make, then that's really going to drive the turnout up. And, of course, I'm primarily thinking of the big chick-fil-A thing from a few years ago where they were just all lining up around the block to get diabetes for Jesus, you know,

to stick it to the gaze or whatever the hell. but anytime that like protecting their freedoms can also align with raising their cholesterol they are all for it and um on that note there's another uh there's another clip from this same event where they are really much more articulately expressing their thoughts and stances on the matter that really illuminates it and also kind of gives you a good idea if you sort of take in these people and like really look at and study them you get a nice snapshot of the type of person we're dealing with out here but yeah they really kind of lay out their positions eloquently in this next clip i think matt if you can play that one he says it's loading

10 seconds five seconds i didn't have to do the countdown i'm going you're going to see it here in just second and it's it's going to be right it's going to be great i really hope that it actually does play after I've done this. Prodiction Matt, we're good? Am I whole alone? Am I talking into the voice? Is everything over? What's happened?

Fuck Joe Biden! Fuck Joe Biden! Fucked Joe Biden! Fucked Joe Biden! Trump Joe Biden Trump Joe Biden Trump one Trump one

Trump one Why is he Biden inspiring stuff that is Staten Island's finest coming out there You know

It's like I always Pardon me at this point, I'm very well aware of this fact. But for a long time, I was always kind of perversely encouraged when I would see clips like this because I'd be like, okay, all right, it's not just us. And by us, I mean the South, you know, like these people are everywhere. And they're just, Staten Island seems to be just eat up with them. As I understand it, that's kind of a whole thing in Staten Island.

I know, not everybody in Staten Island. I know. I'm just saying, okay, so that one's a little more fun than this next one, but this next one deserves or is worthy of being seen, I think, other news on the anti-vax front. They seem to be now just actively killing each other, it seems like. This clip is pretty fucked up, in my opinion, this is an anti-vaxxer somehow is convinced this old man

that his doctors are trying to fuck him over and that he should leave the hospital. Matt's got a clip of this, so let's watch it, Matt, if you haven't. Very difficult, this is what you have. I'm not lying to you. You could die, but this would be your best cows in the hospital and getting the oxygen and getting the support we're giving to you. Joe, it will be your choice.

Last night, they were going to bring an issue. We refuse. So why? Your oxygen is 98% these people, they are lying. So we go home now, my friend. because that's your last chance. Think about this. Are you his wife? Yes, she consents.

I want you to think about this. You're in denying his life. It's okay. It's better if you die in the house than dying here. He's going to die with us. Joseph, I think you're very ill. I need to stay in the hospital. And it's your choice, but I think he's not telling you,

he's not advising you correctly there. We have the people that bake you up. Come on, my friend. Come on. Yes, please. Yeah, please. I want you to think about that. Yeah.

Yeah, so that gentleman later died. He is now dead. His wife, um, his wife came out and said that she did not consent to or support that decision. And she encouraged everybody. actually listened to their doctors and he had been misled by assholes like this guy. Apparently, at his funeral, a bunch more of these assholes showed up refusing to wear mask, proving what point I do not know. But I don't know.

I mean, shit like that, I mean, that should be illegal. I'm, you know, I'm law dumb too. But that dude is directly responsible for that other guy dying. And he provided his own video. of this fact, but I'm sure there will be no repercussions for it. But these people are just really taking it to another. I mean, he literally says at one point, that's okay if he dies. At least he'll die at home. It's like, yeah, or he can maybe just not die. And that doctor, man, I do not know how these medical professionals have the fucking willpower and the patience to put up with this

shit every day for over 18 months now and it ain't letting up anytime soon and my heart just goes out to all of them because my God you deserve so much better and it's a truly horrific situation so on that very fun and light note that's Matt will you start putting up some more comments for me while you're looking through them I'll make a couple of announcements slash reminders one is as you will recall you can go to weekly skews.com and check out the shirts that producer Matt had made, pick you one up. That'd be super cool. Yeah, there you go.

And the other one is, and I'll post about this. As we get closer to it, I will re-remind y'all. But, so I was shitting on Smartmark earlier for having work to do. Obviously, I was just kidding. But next week, some of you all may have seen me and Corey and Drew, we did some sketches for Comedy Central Digital, the one about the hipster restaurant ripping off rednecks and the guys in the bar. and the war on Christmas sketches, whatnot, well, we are filming some more of those, and we're filming them next week. We're pretty excited about it. But one of the shoot days is Tuesday. I'll

be there all day up to and beyond your normal skews time. So for the first time, in a very long time next week, skews will be taking one week off. We'll be back the week after that. You know, we've been doing this for over a year now, and other than when Transformers explode in my neighborhood or my Wi-Fi just inexplicably stops working, which happened a couple of times. Never before have missed one, but I will be missing next week. And I told Mark, I was like, you know, you can do it without me if you want or we can just skip it. He was like, yeah, we'll just skip it. You know, I don't blame him. That's fine. But yeah, so again, I'll remind everybody later in the week, but we, there will be no weekly skews next Tuesday, but we will

be back with Smart Mark in tow the next week right after that. Cold Toe says, I got my last, I got my shirt last Friday good quality and I love it. Yes, I'll shout them out. That's from a company called Port Merch, Port Merchandise in Riley, North Carolina. My buddy Chip runs them and it's a phenomenal merch supplier and their stuff is always of the highest quality. So yeah, they rule and you rule cold toes for getting you on. We appreciate it. Also, I haven't been able, because, oh, hang on, Mike, producer Matt's name should be on the shirts. Thank you for all you do behind the scenes to bring us a great show, Matt. That's Matt, giving himself some shine. there, but he deserves it. That was a good call, Matt. You should give yourself a shout

out every now and then, or highlight the shout out you received. Couldn't do any of that producer Matt, and he didn't put his own name on the shirt, so, you know, I don't know. I don't know what he was thinking there. Um, uh, anyway, without Spark Mark, I, normally I try to kind of keep an eye on comments a little bit, like while Mark is talking, obviously I haven't done that tonight, but I'm looking at myself on here now and I don't know if anybody's wondering what this shirt is about, but this is a heavy metal band called Saboton. by the way. They do like historical medals. So they sing about battles and war and stuff. And it's just, it goes real hard. And I recommend it. I know that has nothing to do with anything,

but I figure at least some people might be curious what I was wearing here. Also, I'm just trying, I'm just kind of babbling and rambling right now, killing time until Matt throw something else up there for me to respond to. Yeah. So we'll just, we'll see how that goes. Let me say, I'll see if I can also start looking through them now that I'm not actively covering shit um great work matt i agree good job producer matt getting all kinds of love over here todd grisby says need you in manly central california not sissy nor cow or eureka all right i know you got okay that's fine much more manly in central california where y'all got all them almonds and stuff i don't know much about what's going on out there but uh but yeah also i don't know what's in Central California. I'm sorry. We're talking about like Fresno or something.

Anyway, I'll come wherever I can come, baby. But yeah, we get to, we get to wherever we can, whenever we can. Yeah, I guess I should probably reiterate this because I only said it at the beginning of the show and other people show up as the show goes on. Mark is totally fine. Mark, we've mentioned before, Mark's a former journalist and current comedy writer. Mark Mark writes on a like a topical show. I don't know. I'm not going to to explain the show he works on his job in his absence. He can talk about it next week if he wants to. But they had a shift in their schedule, and so he had to be at work at this time when he normally isn't. That's all that happens. It may happen again in the future, but it will not be

every week. He will mostly be here. But yeah, he's completely fine. No illness, no emergency, nothing like that. A lot of people asking where Marcus, so I'm glad I saw that and brought it back up. Let's say here. Chilton Cabot Jarrett says, I feel like ranch dressing stock will plummet after this show. Nothing. No, never. Ranch dressing is a strong, strong performer.

Ranch dressing ain't going nowhere. Favorite Sabaton song slash album, Trey, from D. Voiet 7. This is a, a cheap response maybe because it's related to my own very clear bias, but there's a song called

82nd all the way, which is about Sergeant York, and the chorus is like, they, you know, they talk about him being a hero from Tennessee and shit and just kicking ass and taking names in World War I, so it just speaks to me. That's probably my favorite, but they got a whole lot of

big good jams. Michael Gilbert says a but-hole worm tape shirt would be cool. Yeah, you think that, Michael. I don't know many people want buhull worms invoked upon the front of their clothing but hey i'm i'm all for it we will in the future we do need to like keep an eye or like try to keep track of things that could make actual like shirt slogans and whatnot susan lewis says we miss you in buffalo tray hurry back love buffalo love any of the uh um like blue collar cities like that yeah and um one time we drove from pittsburgh to buffalo in december and that's the closest we have ever come to just giving

up and canceling a show because a blizzard showed up and the three of us are all from the south and it was fucking terrified like i'm serious we came this close to pulling off the side of the road and calling them and been like we ain't make it i guess we're sleeping in our car tonight because we don't know what the hell all this is but we survived and got it done valerie elliott says indianapolis been to india multiple times too and we will be back um let's say oh god damn it thank you so much mea johnson music everybody hit the light button. Once again, last week was the first time I ever said it because one of y'all told me to say it, yes, like and subscribe and all that internet stuff. Please do that. I've got to get better

about saying that myself. So thank you for reminding me of that, Maya. Richard Clement, senior, says you coming to Detroit. Yeah, I mean, we've been to Detroit. And again, I'm sure we'll be back in the future. We're working through, after 18 months off, we haven't been anywhere soon except for the like five cities. We've been recently. So there's a whole lot of, you know, things we've got to work through logistically, but we will get back up that away. Let's see. Blue cheese, not ranch, says Jack Lewis. Yeah, that's, I mean, if you're talking, if we're going back to Buffalo's contribution to the culinary arts, the Buffalo wings, then hell yeah, blue cheese and not ranch.

Otherwise, it depends on the situation for me. I'm a huge fan of both of them. let's see so my Patricia Palumbo says come to Vermont sometime the Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington is an awesome club we've been there twice I think and I can't wait to come back love Vermont love Wisconsin too yes Seattle being Seattle November 6th I believe it is

at Neptune Theater and so yeah go to well readcomcom and come and see us I believe producer Matt will be at that show not he ain't going to do a set or nothing but he'll be there hanging out. Let's see. Buffalo has snow. Somebody says,

love to you in Riley. Thank you guys very much. A lot of questions on cities. I promise, if you live in like a city, we will attempt to come through. At this point, after five years of touring,

well, except for the last 18 months, obviously, we've been to most places and we'll be back. At some point, Somebody says Chicago, Chicago, January 16th, I believe it is. Atalia Hall, been there before, love it, come on back.

Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. We've never been to Sioux Falls, and we should. We've been to Fargo, North Dakota, got maced in Fargo. That was fun. Not on purpose. Somebody maced somebody else in the hotel in Fargo, just Fargo stuff, I guess. I don't know. And we got off the elevator holding our pizza after the show right after someone else got

maced and we, like, walked right into it. Let me tell you, not a pleasant experience, but now whenever I think of Fargo, I think of getting amazed. The Dark Canucks says, Canada. Ka, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha. Love Canada, I've only been to the western side. Vancouver, Edmonton, and Calgary would love to get back to there and also over in some of them eastern parts. Like, I never been to Toronto. Would love to do that.

Let's say, yeah, somebody said Canada still doesn't want Americans and I, you know, can't blame them. That is another factor. Actually, now I think about it right before the world ended, we were supposed to be going to Vancouver. And then that got canceled for obvious reasons. And I don't think ever got put back up probably for those same reasons. Okay, let's see. Somebody said, but did you drop the pizza? No, of course not.

We kept that under control. It was weird. A guy ran by us onto the elevator holding like a shirt around his face that had blood all over it and stuff. And there were people. It wasn't a cop that made somebody. It was people in an altercation. And somebody got punished and somebody else got maced. And then we just bumble fucked our way out right in.

into the middle of it and started hacking and coughing and Corey threw up and it was it was a whole thing. But we survived. We survived our Fargo experience. Let's see here. Floor spice pizza. Yum. We didn't drop the, but we would never drop the pizza. Melissa Ann says sounds like Fargo, L-O-L-L. Yeah. Again, it's my only experience there, but it is, it's, again, anytime Fargo ever gets brought up, that's what I say, because it's true. I got myself in Fargo. That's fun. And people generally don't seem all that surprised when we're. I say it. So yeah. I hear you. Okay. Listen, you know what? Somebody said, how was the show? If you mean in Fargo, the show was great. Okay. Thank you all very much. I appreciate it. I know it's a couple

minutes early, but we're still going to go ahead and call it just because you go to well-readcom for tickets and I'll come to your city soon if we're not coming there right around the corner. We hope you come out and see us again if you're vaccinated. Go to weekly skews.com. Get that shirt. If you want to see me talk more in depth about Kirsten Cinema and any of these other assholes running the show out here, you go to patreon.com slash Trey Crowder and holler at that. Mark will. And lastly, again, we will not be here next week, but we will be back right after that. And I will remind you all of that fact as we get closer.

And Mark will be with me when we return in two weeks' time. Thank you all very much. Love you, like chicken. See you by.