Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – Backfiring Our Way to Success

Episode Date: July 30, 2025

Silly week. The Thai army wants us to think elephants wear pants. Only one way out of this Epstein mess: Deploy the Jellicle cats. The guy who wants to close schools in Oklahoma to keep porn out of them plays porn at a school board meeting. And finally, a Texas sex scandal where you’ll never guess a huge pro-lifer’s longtime mistress accuses him of paying for abortions and dreaming of the world’s sickest bake sale.Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it is july 29th 2025 as you're watching this we're recording this on monday july 28th at about 2 p.m. on the left coast this is weekly skews i'm tray that's mark how you doing mark i'm good man uh got a fun one today uh a little lighter than some of our heavy episodes, I hope. We've got to do it on, we have to do another Jeffrey Epstein update because it's everything that's happening in American federal politics right now,

but then some stuff in Oklahoma and also what's going on with American gun culture and capitalism. It's a fun little story about police gun spontaneously shooting cops in the leg a lot. The Barney Fife effect. Yeah, so before we get to the show, What do you want to talk about, yeah, Listers who've been around a while and know that I'm fascinated by the internet making low-cost sciops a possibility, you know?

I got a fun when, well, one, somebody's trying to get Pedro Pascal canceled using the other videos of him, like, harassing his co-stars. So I don't know if that's just a meme because the right wing hates Pedro Pascal for reasons that I don't bother getting into. But like, I just get curious when reactionaries start using social justice. language to defend women. You know what I'm saying? Sure. Yeah. It did what is it just because of him like because he defended Bella or something like

Bella Ramsey when all that shit was happening and he went to bat for Bella and he also got a trans sister. Right. Which is an important element of that. Like if you guys aren't familiar with the, the stupid fandom around the last of us, a bunch of like internet psychos think that Bella Ramsey isn't hot enough to play the child they played in a video game. Yeah, right. Yeah.

So therefore, Pedro Pascal needs to stop living or something. I don't, it doesn't matter. But so I was, I was doom scrolling as is my want when my wife is watching her shows, and I'm sitting on a couch, rolling my eyes at a Bachelor in Paradise. So Cambodia, I came across some fun videos I get to in a second, but for context, Cambodia and Thailand are in a border dispute. The broad outlines here, we don't call war. war anymore. It's just a border dispute.

Mm-hmm. Right. Shooting artillery back and forth to each other and killing each other is not at war anymore. Starmish or a fracas, you know, something like that. Yeah. So basically a Cambodian troop was killed back in May. And then after that, the ruling families of the two countries kind of are like close friends or were. And there's a leaked phone call after that with the prime minister of Thailand, who's the daughter of the billionaire actually runs the country. There's like a leaked phone call where she called the, Prime Minister Cambodia uncle

and insulted her own military, all right? So since then, face-saving, right? Through war. Face-saving through, yeah, shooting troops and stuff. So, as of last time I checked, 35 people have been killed, 200 injured, more than 200,000 people have been displaced. And then, of course, Trump's trying to get involved

to get his peace prize, right? Right. Lead to this headline. Thailand and Cambodia is still fighting after Trump announced a ceasefire talk. So Trump's like, we're going to ceasefire, and they're like, nope, we're still shooting each other. But just give them a piece prize so we can fucking leave other people about else alone.

Sure. I thought just apropos of nothing, but I do a Patreon thing every Monday where I get on and like, see what's going on in the news, like at the moment, get on Google News or whatever. And I did that earlier today. And they had a headline from the BBC that had just come out to, I thought, that said there was a ceasefire or something. Because I didn't even know that they were even doing a thing because I'm very ignorant and out of touch. But I was like, oh, ceasefire. Well, that's good, I guess. I prefer fire be ceased.

but yeah but like if they're guarding the border like this kind of situation always seems to me the only way to actually deescalate it is to pull the troops away from the border which you're not going to do because you're afraid the other side is going to invade because like if the troops are sitting at the border looking at each other and their buddy just got killed yesterday they're going to shoot so yeah so I don't I don't know exactly where they're at right now but over the weekend I'll start seeing competing viral videos air quote around viral because I have no idea the authenticity of it but I had no idea why my algorithm was showing them to me the first I saw it was like a Thai artillery unit, firing shells set to Fortunate Sun. Don't know why I needed to see that. Why the Thai military or somebody who says the Thai military wanted me to see it. Well, it's like war stuff over there in that part of the world. And Fortunate Sun is the official anthem of all war stuff in that part of the world, which of course has always been ironic. But, you know, but it's still, it's what people, things are exploding in Southeast Asia.

People just start to hear fortunate sun playing in their head, I think. So they were saving you some steps. Right, but isn't that sort of a giveaway, the target audience is American or at least Western? Right. Right? Because I don't know how popular Cretus Clearwater Revival is in Thailand. Then I saw this video.

The caption for this video is No Arbor, No Fear, just a cigarette and rage. Cambod storm's Thai position is like a one-man army. The Cambodian Rambo is real. Okay. Watch this video real quick. all right can't buddy rambo just shot 12 shots single fire

name picks up he picks up an RPG if you lay a play mat Watching, like, one of my cousins fight a war or something, like, if they were Cambodian. He's fucking, he's got, like, he's, like, barefoot with no shirt on and if I could figure out hanging out of his mouth. So he's kind of, like, bouncing as he fires and shit, and he shoots the Roggin' off and explodes everything around him. It's like, looking, good old boy warfare. So, again, I have no idea. I have no way of verifying the providence of this at all. It's just a guy in a jungle shooting a gun, who I'm being told as a Cambodian rambo, even though he backfires the RPG and blows up his own shit.

is the only thing we actually see him do, right? By the way, I saw a follow-up post. He's in the hospital now. Then the capper to this is like, so we used to the entire artillery, Cambodian Rambo, and now I surfed across this, definitely, I almost definitely think it. It's got to be an AI video of an elephant

with sidearms wearing pants. You got this. Yeah, you cut the audio that. So, I guess we know I guess we know how an elephant wears pants now. It's like this. So, like, he's got American-made weapons, of course, right? He's where he camouflized the elephant.

And I have no idea why the Thai military wants, like, why Cambodia and Thailand are fighting over my heart and mind personally, it feels like. But I just want to tell the Thai army that I'm here for as many videos you can make of elephants wearing pants. Yes, elephants wearing pants. I didn't know that I needed it, but now it's the only thing that I need.

I've always liked baby elephant gifts and stuff Maybe if next you put a baby elephant in pants But I don't want it implied that baby elephants are on the front lines Getting sent to war over there in Cambodia That would be sad So if you see an update like where U.S. military is giving assistance to Thailand It's because Trump saw a video of elephant wearing pants

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Tonight's DD. People who think anything other than a very normal American red-blooded non-sex weirdo would blast Broadway show tunes from his golf cart. Are you joining the Scottish hospitality? There were Sky News questions, I'm sure. Mr. Trump, can you escape to Jeffrey Epstein crisis? Maybe that's why we heard this. What's that song?

I don't know. It's very famous. All right. That's memory from cats. Down from the convoy of golf carts. Yeah, he's blasting memory from cats from his, like, motorcade of golf carts. So I'm not super familiar with cats.

It's not one of the Broadway musicals I've ever been interested in. But I was like, I bet you there's something really heavy-handedly metaphorical about this. And I went looked it up and memory is sung by a former glamour cat who's followed on a hard time remembering a time before she wasn't outcast. So, yeah. Well, a lot of people, it's become a meme on the internet in recent years,

which I certainly understand that, like, Trump was meant to be like a bitchy drag queen or whatever and that's what his destiny was and he's you know he's perturbed the universe by going in a different direction by doing politics and stuff and there's people like there's a guy who's gotten very big

who's hilarious who just like he like lip sinks Trump's videos but while being very flamboyantly gay physically as he does it or whatever and he loves Broadway and show tunes and stuff he loves like talking shit people like dig up all these old clips of him on like fucking like windy Williams type shows or whatever just like commenting on people's relationships and stuff he very famously had that Twitter thing where he got hung up on Kristen Stewart cheating on Robert Pattinson and all that type of thing so it's like it does all it does all fit and you know I long for the universe where that's all he was just sitting beside RuPaul on drag race just fucking you know calling people bitches and stuff that would have been that would have been much better than this he was definitely not meant to be straight But, like, there's a, people think, like, his Rosie O'Donnell beef is about politics.

But it was back to, like, 2003 when it was, like, a media beef. And that's, like, the, W.W.E. stays to Rosie O'Donnell versus fake Donald Trump wrestling match in, like, 2005 or something. Yeah, I vaguely remember that all happening. I don't, I don't remember what the context was, but I remember them having a public beef. They were the Nause and JZ of whatever that is, reality team, daytime TV. I don't know, but. Yeah.

So, as we recorded on Monday, this morning, he was given a, he had a meeting with, I think it was some higher up, some British or Scottish PMs or something. And he was like, he was asked a bunch of Epstein questions like he was in the golf cart. And he said, I never had the privilege of going to his island. It was one of my very good moments. I turned it down. I never had the privilege. That's interesting. It's a very weird way to put it.

Now, again, I saw Twitter and a lot of people making a whole lot of that. Look, it's a very bad look. Don't give me wrong. But I'm just saying the way he'd be with words and shit, like, you know. Like, because he followed it up and being like, one of my proudest moments is I turned it down, which that's also kind of funny, that being a highlight of your life, is like denying yourself the temptation to go to pedophile island or whatever. But still, he said that after calling it approval. So, you know, it's just him not words and good, I think, which again, he does all the fucking time.

but no for sure i think that was just a bad turn of phrase but it is important like if you were a regular person if you weren't above the law in the situation and you try to talking like that your lawyer would trank dart you in the neck you know what I'm saying well no one's cause more like hypertension amongst the lawyer community I don't think than Donald Trump on an individual basis uh by the way I'm not a lawyer but you guys do not talk publicly about any crimes are accused of like Donald Trump does just do not talk shut the fuck up also about you said this was a trip to Scotland he's been on or whatever and I can't remember what the what position this guy held in Scotland because obviously the UK PM was there but there was some high level Scottish official who didn't come to this event and didn't meet with Trump and was supposed to and asked him why and he said I was too busy washing my hair right and he's balder than you are or as no one can be balder than you but he's as bald as you like he doesn't have hair and that was the excuse he gave so I was you know cheeky little fuckers up there in Scotland, you know, I appreciate them.

Yeah, enjoy this. The Scotts and the Irish should be fans. So the other thing you said, this is pretty weirder to me, and you got to like, this needs some interpretation. So Trump said, for years, I wouldn't talk to Jeffrey Epstein. He did something that was inappropriate. He stole people that worked for me. Okay.

So the two versions of their split and their friendship, all right? The public ones always been that like a folly out over a land deal where Trump out bit Epstein for a piece of residential property, right? And the second one, the Magalore is that Trump caught Epstein hitting on the daughter of a member of Moralago and

banned him from the club, right? But so, he stole people that worked for me. Virginia Jufre probably the best known of Epstein's victims to discuss with a lawsuit, died of suicide earlier this year. She was a pool girl,

a spa attendant at Marlago, who was recruited by Ghislane Maxwell and then abused by Epstein. And so is he were talking about Virginia Dufre there? Right. You know what I mean? Yeah. Well, there's a lot of people, although this, he wouldn't call this stealing, I guess. There's a lot of speculation and stuff that Trump was part of like a pipeline effort

because he had all those like pageants and shit like that. And we talked last week about how he held that like calendar girl party that only Epstein came to and that sort of thing. But it's like Trump had access to, you know, all these very pretty underage girls and shit. There was totally legitimate business ventures and stuff. And then that was, you know, part of their whole connection or whatnot.

But I don't know that, obviously, the specifics of how that would then lead to a falling out, you know, they couldn't come to agreement on the terms of their, they're like, you know, beauty queen trafficking operation.

I don't know. A lot bad. Like, even removing, like, let's tell about decency and morality of, just remove that from the equation for a second, because that doesn't really apply in these elite circles.

But, like, if you're paying my employee underage employee for sex, you loop me into a type of legal about accountability in your operation that I would not want to be a part of, even if I was also a criminal. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, Tony gets mad at Pulley Walnuts for implicating him and stick he doesn't need to know about. Right. Well, also that particular crime, like even in the world of criminals is, you know, not respected or appreciate it. You know, they're always, they're segregated and stuff in prisons and shit because even regular prisoners or regular criminals tend to draw the line at that.

Yeah. So the fallout from this in more Republicans in D.C. has been fascinating to watch. So Thomas Massey, if you guys aren't familiar, Thomas Massey is the kind of congressional lunatic I enjoy very much because why I disagree with most everything he believes, he does have fucking principles. Yeah, no, yeah. He definitely sticks to his guns, dude. He fucking, he seems to not give much of a fuck or gives a whole lot of fuck. either way he's a thorn in their side consistently so that's that's fun he's uh he identifies as a libertarian part of the freedom caucus he doesn't believe in american foreign entanglements which

you know it's a bummer from me when comes to foreign a but also no doesn't believe in middle eastern wars doesn't want to send weapons to Israel also doesn't want kids to have health care so whatever he's 60 he has he has a set of values all right so he's been firmly pushing for the release of like everything the government has on geoffrey upstine and he was on the sunday shows this week talking about mike Mike Johnson has basically called him out by name for being a dickhead, and he is a dickhead in a very fun way. He always waits for the opportune moments to ruin his colleagues' lives, and I enjoy it very much. So we quote here, talking about Mike Johnson.

Mike Johnson basically Thomas Massey exists to get political pain to the rest of his own political caucus. And he says, is the pain he's talking about that somebody in our party will be embarrassed by those files, then that's not a good excuse. Why is it painful for Mike Johnson to call a vote on this? Now, the thing is, like, Massey knows the answer. it's not it's not because a hundred members of congress that weren't even in congress in 2005 or whenever are on the epstein's client list yeah uh it's because like people are not thinking about the financial angle to all these files like the people that did business with epstein or far are like what fstein i've seen did even as a his announced profession was help people do tax avoidance

so like remember when the panama papers came out and we found out all the world's an elite were like we're hiding money all over the globe and in Panama among other places and all that happened was the reporter who found it out car blew up yeah yeah I mean right utmost ravenry that but uh yeah um yeah well I thought didn't uh didn't um a Democratic senator or congressman from Oregon just try to like like publicly petition the DOJ to like follow the money essentially like to you know look into this part of it or whatever because you know, so it's the old fucking the wire doctrine, man, you know,

follow the money. Follow the money. You don't know where to fuck that shit's going to go, right? I'm not the quote from Lester. So, like, you can make a case, like a hell of a case. Any political party that wanted to win you could get a whole this information with like, you can make a case that cracking down on white-collar crime and tax evasion is part of the whole response to the Epstein thing,

which is what would be a huge problem for Mike Johnson and caucus in doctrine. Right? It's basically, this is how we get to left-wing populism, which would frustrate, not just Mike Johnson, but also Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. Right. And like anybody that wants power here, wants a mass political movement, it can tie to Jeffrey Epstein, like why people are so caught up in conspiracy theories right now. Here's the numbers.

From 1979 to 2019, wages after inflation rose just 3% for those in the bottom, 13.7% for those in the true middle, but 160% for the top 1% earners and 345% for the top 0.1%. stuff like higher minimum wage and increased taxes and the wealthy are blocked by big money in politics and take over corporate journalism and so everybody's rage just flows into conspiracy theories released in the documents

about what Chepstein was actually up to with his money and who was in business with him and who's helped hiding from taxes that should be going to build schools and bridges and pay for higher minimum wage and shit like that yeah that would be yeah that would be the real fine as we've also said last week

it's all about just like elite impunity or whatever. Like it's all just sort of baked into the same thing. Like these people have been fucking the rest of us over to our face essentially for the past 50 years or whatever. And people are like getting sick of it. But when you have something that highlights the egregiousness of the whole affair to like a broad swath of people that starts to, you know, that stokes the fire of a very dangerous ideas from their perspective. Like you said, left wing populism. So they have a lot. to lose, and so do their masters.

And we're opening, opening the into this moment where they're openly saying the plan is to replace everybody who with a college diploma with artificial intelligence. And at Lisa Slack can just give a big speech. We've got to increase trade funding so we can all like become carpenters when the

well the robots are our bosses or some shit. And again, it was always supposed to be the opposite. You know what I mean? The idea of a stent was supposed to have been the opposite. Like, you know, backbreaking, monotonous labor that's demoralizing for people. to do and everything like that like maybe one day robots can take that and then in a just world we take care of the people who are displaced by that and everything else but the people that are or the

things that people pursue because of a passion or a calling or an aptitude and that type of thing like you know the focuses will be redoubled on those areas and and instead of wasted on just fucking in the minds or whatever and then it's of course they're trying to go in the exact opposite direction from that. And, you know, like, fuck all that. Not to be too arguedite about it, but it's bullshit. Yeah, your children have to go work in the lithium mines to make batteries so the robots can write books. Right.

That kid will know how to read. Exactly. Have you seen the Spotify story? Spotify as ad metrics are based upon AI bots listening to music made by AI. so what's the point of that right who's what are they are they selling ad space to naive buyers that's put on things that bots make and bots listen to and but it's a grift you know what I mean like the people they sell it to don't know that so they still get the ad revenue but there's no it's you know it's all part like the dead internet theory too and all that about how it's like you know huge chunk of it's just bots and it's just bots and interacting with bots with nefarious intentions and stuff and it's everything's just so weird man yeah so uh the defenses for this epstein stuff like are like uh get insane to me but yeah the spotify thing i don't fucking know what the point like these griffs can't last forever because

eventually the company's going to notice not selling any more products is nobody listening right right yeah so uh so uh so um martin mullen senator from uh ohlahola was yeah which by the way, he needs more shine for being a lunatic dip shit than I feel like he gets. I know that we've talked about him and stuff before, but it's like, you know, like the headliners in that field are like fucking MTG and Lauren Bobert and people like that. But like this dude, his name is fucking Mark Wayne, dude. Like Mark Wayne Mullen from Oklahoma, right? And he's always wearing a fucking cowboy hat and being fucking, you know, wild.

So anyway, I know this, I'm glad this is getting some coverage because more people need to be aware of fucking stuff. This guy is, but anyway, go ahead. Well, he's jacked and wears a cowboy hat who presents his authentically Midwestern, even though his money comes from inheriting his dad's fucking plumbing company, I think. He's a inheritance fail son like everybody in Congress is. So he was on Jake Tapper's Sunday show, and there's a fascinating thing. A lot of our political fights are based upon misunderstanding linear time.

Yeah, and a great many other factors that, people misunderstand, I mean, you know what I mean? Or willfully misinterpret. But yes, linear time is one of them. So it feels like 70% of people seem to think that Joe Biden was president in 2020 when COVID took off. And we had the first one of lockdowns and then the summer of the George Floyd protests and stuff. Joe Biden, the election happened in November of 2020 and Joe Biden took office in January of 2021. Just to have some grounding in fact, okay.

so the whole like the whole thing centered around when when COVID was first happening like that was a huge part of the narrative about the election was like the way that the Trump administration had bumbled you know COVID and the response to it at the time was like going to cause people to you know vote against him and shit like that and then him trying but like he was just very famously the guy who was there when it started but dude some of these people though like the most egregious example I can think of this is sometimes somebody will say something. that indicates like that Barack Obama was the president when 9-11 happened right well that's I mean bro that's off by almost a decade but like but that happens that legitimately happens with people like with alarming

frequency so yeah like like as much as I didn't enjoy like Obama's like response to the financial price since 2008 he was not president until January of 20 2009 and a lot of the huge bailouts of Wall Street were passed under Bush yeah yeah so people everybody misunderstood

forgets that. So anyway, so hold that thought of your head. Let me read this exchange from Mullen and Tapper. Okay. Mullen, there was a sweetheart deal, plea deal that was struck in 2009 under Obama. Tapper. No, it was 2008. The U.S. attorney was Alex Acosta.

He was a Bush appointee. He went on to become Trump's Labor Secretary. Mullen. Who was in office at that time? Tapper. Bush. Mark Wayne. No, Obama was in office.

No, he wasn't. Right. He fucking wasn't. Right. And Tapper said that, right? Yeah. I was like, yeah, that's not true. I know, yeah, it's, I know, but what do you, I don't, you know, what do you then do with that?

Because it's like, I don't know, I feel like if you showed, depending on the person you showed that, you could show that clip to people and there would be people who watch that and be like, what the fuck is this Tapper guy's problem? Mark Wayne's telling him to his face that it was Obama. We all know it was Obama, and he's trying to gaslight us into thinking it wasn't Obama. This is what you get from the fucking lame stream media. and it just doesn't matter that that's not that ain't what happens you know but what happened ain't just hasn't mattered to a lot of people for a long time so yeah and I don't think that either

Obama nor George W. Bush were calling up Alex Acosta we knew George Bush was his boss but like was calling out of Sarka down in Florida and be like hey give Jeffrey Epstein it would have been like way down the chain from that and like whatever so so Gilling Maxwell's attorney is openly agitating for a pardon and I don't really think that would play well for Trump. What do I know anymore? She was convicted of perjury, but it would definitely work on some people. I saw that this exchange, this woman, this woman named Kat, a Republican, called into C-SPAN this week and the host asked her, does the Epstein file story matter to you? No, sir, it does not. Because you know, it's human nature, even when children are used. Yeah. Yeah, and then she goes on, this is like,

that's, if you want to get into mind of a average QAnon person, I was abused when I was three years old for the first time, so no, it doesn't have to deal with that all your life, and I'm 74 now. It's hard to get firm studies in this stuff because of who identifies as a Q&A, but people have committed violence

and been interviewed in prison. 40% of Q believers were sexually assaulted. A lot of this is just trauma processing. Yeah, but also, this like, there's been people, this started very long, we talked about it in previous episodes when the whole Epstein, the most recent Epstein Uproar first started,

about people being like, being like, look, yes, It seems like he's maybe a pedophile, but he's still a great man, like that type of thing. And also this week, you know, noted lunatic Azalea Banks also, like, got on Twitter and was like, look, guys do this. They fuck teenage girls. It's just, it's a thing that used to be fine, which, by the way, like, I mean, not maybe fucking 200 years ago, but not like when Trump was 40 or 50 or whatever. But, like, anyway, so they're just like, they're already working toward it. And I'm circling back to the Galane thing because it's like they've already been working towards like normalizing it with with nothing, like with nothing to base it.

Just being like I don't even, whatever. I'm fine with it anyway. But that's why like I, because I know a lot of people have said like, you know, Galane, she's a gnome perjurer. It's like it's such a clearly compromised situation to anyone with eyes, you know, and I get all that. but I still just worry that enough that that wouldn't matter that enough people who are just so desperate for any kind of out that if they did

pardon Galane in exchange for her ostensibly soft exonerating Donald Trump or whatever that they would that enough people would be like okay see we told you that's it and then and then the right we're over here fucking

pulling our hair out to be like what the fuck is happening right now but that it it just worries me that it could work, but I still think there's other reasons why they, they might not do that, or I'm not saying that will happen. I'm just saying, I do kind of think that it might work if it did happen, which would drive me insane. I guess that's all I'm saying. Well, I mean, you got work is like, you're not going to, you're not going to hear a lot of people express that, that they're disgusted by it or whatever, but they just won't show up to vote in the midterms. Do I'm

saying? Right. Yeah. So, like, like, but like, like, but like, anyway, like, you also get the next round of stories prompted by the pardon which like people don't really seem to know what galane did but a lot of accusers say that she was act she wasn't just as employee she was actually involved in abuse yeah yeah yeah so uh yeah we'll see right yes yeah it's sort of doing that kind of just like re shines a spotlight on her and just how fucked up all of it was all together and your relationship to it whatever it's like is that even worth trying to get people to believe her if she said that you weren't you know so it's like you know they got to weigh a lot of that out but um i just have no i you know i've just become very jaded and cynical about about a great many things

but um but right next that we got honorable mention the oklahoma deep state for trying to keep bibles out of science class by noticing a guy is horny that's right this is uh ryan walters the superintendent of the State Board of Education in Oklahoma, which I believe we've talked about before. This guy is like, I couldn't tell you a single other state education secretary or state superintendent of schools or whatever, but I know who this guy is.

Like, he's like, that's how crazy. Also, I was just in Oklahoma not long ago, and I've got a whole bit on stage where I talk about schools and public education and shit. And everybody afterwards was like, was like, you know what we got going on, right? And I was like, yeah, no, I know. Ryan Walters, he's.

He's a piece of work. So let me read this headline for you. We're talking about Oklahoma's Trump-loving Bible-thumping superintendent faces porn probe. I ain't that just the way. And you're correct that if you're a state superintendent of education and the American public knows your, like if anybody knows your name who isn't like a high school like a school district superintendent, you fucked up. Right. You're not supposed to know who you are. That's true.

See, you say you fucked up. But I think this happens a ton with like state level. Well, it seems to me almost entirely state-level MAGA or GOP or right-wing people where it's like, I think that they, that's what incentivizes so many of them to be as fucking crazy as possible because it's like, otherwise nobody's going to know what I'm doing here in the fucking the state house in Tennessee's whatever district. Like I got to, you got to really push the boat out, the crazy-ass boat out to get your name on the radar. and I think it incentivizes them to do a lot of this shit in the first place. Yeah, that's fair, although usually you need to say the support of your state party to get elected to hire office, and they all fucking hate him and they have for a long time, which we'll get to. But like, so just to go to what we're talking about,

so there was an executive session of the state board of education last Thursday, and Walter's had a TV on behind him, and I guess he thought he was like sharing a browser, but he shared his whole screen or something, and it played, a video some naked ladies doing some stuff, all right? And the specifics of the state school board meeting effectively. Yes. Two women could see it where the way the TV was angled and they called him out. And it's anyway, we're doing time as a far from that.

So who Walters is what Trace is talking about what everybody knows his name. He's told schools to teach the Bible in the Ten Commandments. He's demanded the students watch him pray for Donald Trump. he named a transphobe Epstein Binder Sucker, the Lizard Tick-Chuk Lady Chaya Reichak to the State Education Committee. He also tried to use state money to purchase Bibles for classrooms

with incredibly specific specifications that only match those but that they're sold by Donald Trump. Didn't he also, didn't he also like make it to where now Oklahoma public schools will teach the big lie, basically? Like he made it a part of the curriculum

that they'll teach that the 2020 election was stolen. or at least as controversial or whatever. There was some efforts to teach the controversy or whatever. I'm not sure where they got with it. I didn't know where we talked about. Sorry. There's also, there's a thing where he's, like, teachers are coming from out of state to get their certification. I have to, like, go through some de-wokification process or something.

Yeah, that too. It's just a lot. There's Oklahoma politics. Like, there are some Democrats, like Oklahoma City or whatever, but in general, it's the most Republican state in America. Everyone we're talking about is a Republican probably. So the board member who saw it, the name's Becky Carson,

just how she described it to the Oklahoma. And she says, I was like, no, wait a minute, those aren't naked. Surely those aren't naked women. I saw them just walking across the screen.

And I'm like, no, I'm sorry. I even have to use this language. I'm like, those are her nipples. And then I'm like, is that pubic hair.

What in the world am I watching? And this is the part, like, forget the Walt is an asshole for a minute. And then everybody does most people masturbate okay this is the relatable nightmare part of it okay I said turn it off now he was like what is this what is this

so he acknowledged that it was appropriate just by those words and he was like I can't get to turn off I can't figure out how to turn it off it's the real Michael Scott in the office shit going on I was remember like it was one of a old writing job I had for a TV gig

and the writer's assistant it was her first job and she was like what uh got the advice and i was like yeah don't use you porn and she was like what do you mean why should i use you porn i was like because you'll be asked to share your screen a lot and you'll ask you you'll go to youtube play videos you we type y oh you guess what's going to auto fill right yeah and she's like oh okay she's like i'll use x hamster i'm like okay there you go that's better there's a little dicky lyric about that

exact scenario by the way that references from probably 15 years ago at this point but yeah So here's the really fascinating part of this. So while both board members described the footage as quote, retro in nature, but not involving sexual intercourse, Ditteridge recalled seeing multiple nude women on the screen in some sort of, quote, chiropractic table. So my question to you is the Bible thumping state education superintendent, Ryan Walters, into vintage erotica tray? Yeah, well, it says retro, so I don't know about that, but also I would say, I've just heard this from friends and stuff. I just, it's not because of me. I just have heard people talk about.

It says chiropractic table, but I know that like massage stuff, massage table is like, is a like pretty defined genre of porn in the first place. Again, that's just what I've heard. But, um, yeah, but yeah, fair enough. So this is the general outcry for this. Again, the state, everybody else who works in state politics seems to really hate this guy. So this is like, okay, now we make our move. They've made noise about it before because of it's corrupt stuff and wasting state money. It's been disappearing into shit.

and so a guy who was at the meeting by the name of Chris Van de Hind said my first reaction was I thought maybe somehow you know the Jerry Springer show got on there and something was blurred out

which is like we've got to get a younger class pop No shit dude what the Jerry Springer show well that was 35 years ago or like that's fucking that's hilarious they all so old

yeah so DeHen didn't see it but he said he's basically just like I respect these women they have no reason to lie that was also the position of El Coloma represented by the name of Mark McBride.

McBride and Van DeHen said both said the next move should possibly be impeachment. The Oklahoma House Speaker by the name of Kyle Hilbert's calling out for Superintendent Walters to turn over his devices and start an investigation. Quote, these are serious allegations made by two members of the state board and an expeditious third party review is warranted. So it's basically like, okay, Walters, you say you didn't do it.

Just hand over your devices and I'll prove you innocence. Yeah, you know he don't want to do that, which that's on theme. And Hilbert definitely, you've got this picture of him, Matt, throw it up there, because he's definitely, look, he looks like he's like, this is the face of the Twitter account where he posts a statement, this PhD is in Avatar if you want to throw it up there, Matt. That's how a little stinker face that there ever has been one. And he's like, give him your devices. It's also a whole thing where it's like, I mean, correct me if I'm like missing some other

context here or whatever, but it's like, it seems like he accidentally screencast some of like his porn when he meant to be just showing another thing to everybody and it's like if you just weren't a hardcore Bible thumping lunatic like in the extreme like

I don't know back in the sane era that probably would have torpedoed any politician's career either way but today I just like if you weren't like that you could if you just tried to like I don't you be like look I'm sorry fucking that was that was some stuff meant for that was meant to be held in private in the Congress of my mayor

at home behind closed doors in our bedroom and technology today things i'm i apologize for that that was an honest mistake we fucked it up and it's like it wouldn't really be that big of a deal i don't think if you weren't this guy you know right the way he is about everything and they do this shit to themselves all the time yeah if everybody didn't hate it it would be like if that happened in my workplace i wouldn't snitch to hr i'd be like oh that's a hilarious fuck up and it'd be a gossip thing right i understand it's different if you're a woman and like if you really did feel like you were that that really upset me and I understand

but like I think in most context it would be a funny gossip story right so but this guy has been sending porn to his colleagues for a long time okay

but never mind because I was because I was actually just about saying I was like now look if everything I just said if he just if it seemed as though

he was like it was like possibly a getting off on it situation or a pattern of behavior or whatever then that would be a little different but but so yeah his story of

two years years ago, pretty graphic. Oklahoma lawmaker confirms Ryan Walter sent him pornographic images. So, uh, this is also representative Mike McBride, who I just mentioned earlier. Two years ago, apparently there was a mass email where Ryan Walter sent like at least 10 pornographic images to like the entire state legislature and all their employees. And they're like, wait, what the fuck? And he was like, I found these in the school.

And they're like, what school? And he's like, never followed up on it. He was just saying there's porn in schools by sending everybody porn. Yeah. uh yeah that's fucking that's wild right so that's how he couched it he's like look at this filth can you believe this filth look specifically at this one here like just we could zoom in there zoom in enhance please look how upsetting this is like quote here from mcbride is like he's like don't just send me a bunch of graphic sexually explicit photos without where it came from or what did they do

that's the kind of problem i got with it mcbride said it's like you just open up your work email is a bunch of porn in there you're like hey yo what the Fuck. Also, him getting a peeps for this is just like Oklahoma's 50th in education. That's not last, but a 51 because Washington D.C. is involving the list? Let me guess. Is it Mississippi? Do you know?

I think it's New Mexico's dead last. Oh, wow. Really? Okay. Step your game up, New Mexico. It's normally, typically, I know it's in Tennessee, and whenever we rank very near the bottom of something, which is quite frequent, it's usually like, you know, because that's the cliche for other southern states, is thank God for Mississippi, because

normally they managed to scoop us and slip in there to bottom, but New Mexico, damn, all right. So, uh, so beyond 50, like, 50 is good enough reason like get rid of this guy. Also, like, not for nothing, because the whole like every accusation is a confession thing and he's like sending people porn while playing porn, he's talking about how like all these teachers are like sexually abusing students and grooming them. He was a high school teacher like three years ago. Somebody should probably look into what the fuck he was up to. But like, so all that.

Plus he's stealing money for overpriced. bibles and like those are all good enough reasons to impeach him plus what this guy's fucking yelling about if you got this video from a meeting last week man this is before the porn thing all of the bulls you talked about the first few months you were here because you're a racist now i have to sound like a racist bringing it up once again thank you shaw that's right apparently that guy his name's uh uh shan cummings he's like a little pub boat on alma the city. He just goes to the state board meetings to yell at Ryan Walters all the time. Love it.

My man. Which is why Walters knows his names. He goes, thanks, Sean. If you're getting flipped off and called a racist. Appreciate it, Sean. Thanks for coming in, Sean. So what he's complained about is like Walters is giving a contract to like for like web-based learning to a school,

like a private school in Arizona that has been shut down in Arizona. They got maybe an LLC. They opened an Oklahoma. Let me quote here from Sean Cummings. So the companies in Arizona, you said they got an LLC maybe here, but actually the Secretary of State says they don't. We called their offices in Arizona. They said they have a building here, but no one knows where the fuck it is.

Where's the double triple hide, man? Where are you hiding this company? So I'm not sure where racism comes to this story, but he's funnily money to a made-up school. And people know it. And they're like, well, the porn thing we can take him out for, I guess. Right. Okay. So that school don't even exist in Arizona, or it's,

some kind of like it's his buddies thing or someone that whatever he's got some kind of fucking sweetheart arrangement or something with him nobody knows like this is the the griff like i just read this story maybe we'll get to on i was trying to get the bottom of it uh we got to show later this week but like my home state of virginia there's a company that got a 1.2 billion contract to build a concentration camp it's it's registered to a house it's like a one bedroom house right one point two billion dollars so like The Griftopia is fucking here, dude. It's insane. I mean, we've talked about it before.

It's like, you hear these stories all the time, and I'm always like, man, how to fuck do you, like, that's a pretty sweet gig if you have no morals or soul or anything. But it's like all the, like, no show gigs and stuff that people get once you're in the circle, people just get paid for nothing or give it money for essentially fucking nothing. And it's like, they really just do live in like a whole different world. Quick anecdote without giving anybody away. I met someone when I was in Oklahoma who I didn't know. We just, I randomly met this guy who claimed to, he was like a, like, owned car dealerships or something like that. And he was, but he was like a fan of mine, so Republicans ostensibly don't hit for him. But he was saying that he went to a, like a big dinner, like a fundraising dinner that the governor of Oklahoma had.

And it was however many thousand dollars a plate. And he paid it and went to it and got introduced to the governor. It was like, yeah, this guy bought a couple seats, whatever the thing. And he said the governor of Oklahoma was just like, oh, that's cool. Do you want to be the used car commissioner of the state of Oklahoma or whatever? Like something late that was like a real piece. He was like, you know, because it's like that's just how it works. You pay a certain amount.

They let you in. Now you're in it. And then you get a feedback loop of that. You know, now if you're a car dealership owner, you're the used car commissioner and fucking, you know, you can corrupt that shit up to self-enrich yourself further. And it's like, you know, and they're all just getting fat off of it or whatever. And again, this guy is a fan of mine. a hero. He didn't take it. You know, he's a good person. But he, uh, but yeah, it was just an

anecdote I heard when I was in Oklahoma about the way that type of, the layers of corruption and shit and how it's cyclical and everything. And, you know, once you get into it, it's pretty pretty fat teat to suck along. Yeah. Why would you even want to be a politician when you could be the guy getting paid billions by the politician? I don't know how to understand it. So at Festival Walters, he's based his basic stories that he's been framed. Uh, so quote, these falsehoods, the desperate tactics of a broken establishment afraid of real change. They aren't just attacking me. They're attacking the values

the Oklahomans who elected me to challenge the status quo. Yeah, buddy, I don't think that's it. So I want to talk about the housekeeping thing, let's save the gun story for the bonus episode because we're going to run out of time, I think, because we've got to talk about this sex scandal in Texas

I wanted to talk about. Is that cool, will you? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So next door in Texas, this Texas house rep by the name of Giovanni, Capriclione. Spaghetti as hell, buddy. Texas spaghetti. I like it.

Yeah, he's from South Lake. Also, I think that's where Matthew Stafford went to high school. So if you want to, it's a suburb of north of Dallas and Fort Worth. So he in Texas politics, one party state basically, but there are factions within it that all fucking hate each other. You basically have the,

the new right, alt-right racists versus the old school you know, church of Christ. hardcore religious believers who will never let gambling happen and don't like it. This guy sort of split the difference where he was very religious, but also in the Doge Caucus. That's the right?

Right. Yeah. New right. All tech bro guys who fucking love gambling apps and all that type of shit versus the, yeah, the Old Testament people. So there was like a, there was a weird fight happening online that Texas politics reporters were, they knew something was bubbling,

but couldn't tell what it was. In the middle of this, like Cabritte Leone announced he was not going to run for re-election at the same time saying he was going to sue somebody for printing a story that hadn't been pruned yet. Then comes his headline. Texas GOP Cabrini admits a fair

and not as abortion allegations. So three days after he announced he was dropping his re-election bid, the conservative news site, again, this is the inter-conservative fight. Conservative news site, current revolt, published an interview with a former exotic dancer alleges she had a 17-year affair with the South Lake Republican.

Among the many things I do not understand as a non-adultery enthusiast is a 17-year affair. I heard that. I thought the same thing. It's like, well, I mean, I guess that's just, I mean, I guess that's just a mistress, right? Which it seems like if you're into adultery, I guess mistresses are a big thing. But I'm with you. It's like, I don't know what, like, that's just like a relate.

You just have another relationship. But there's guys that start whole other fucking families and stuff. Right. So who the hell knows? I'd sooner lasso the moon. But. Yeah. Yeah. So there's the hypocrisy angle of this, of course, because Kimberly Leone was like, he's the one who wrote the trigger ban law that allowed Texas to ban nearly all abortions immediately after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. So they're already a law in place. So basically, it's a result of that bill performing an abortion in Texas is punishable by up to life in prison. He was also a supporter of the bounty law that Texas passed before before.

Yeah, where you could round up a posse and go get a girl who left the state to get an abortion somewhere where he's. it's legal. I think it's like you get paid $10,000 for reporting in a woman getting an abortion the state. So it's basically a way for guys to like snitch on their exes who dump them and get an abortion. Yeah, but including a posse is kind of like, uh, yeah, it's kind of theatrical. And I like it's, it's thematically appropriate. So it made it a civil fence to quote aid and abet and appropriated an abortion.

So like if you donate to like an abortion fund, you're probably on the hook for a civil sole violation. Um, as a sad note, I mentioned he was on the Doe's Committee in Texas. He also helped establish a Texas Cyber Command, which is a fun turn of phrase. What does Texas need a cyber command? So in the context of this, he says this is why he's being taken down because it was working on the Doge committee, because they uncovered a black, what he says is the blackmail operation being run by a Medicaid provider.

They're like, they're like using private detectives or private intelligence people, corporate astronauts, people or whatever, to like follow around politicians and journalists. But that's like, that's called Alpo research. Right, right. So this is the world we've created for ourselves where everybody's fucking surveilled. Like, I don't understand why you're the one guy

who shouldn't be surveilled in the public figure, but whatever. Right. So, Kimberly already says his wife was aware of the relationship and he encouraged him to go to the Red Light District in Amsterdam every year. So he's cheating on his mistress, too. And the Red Lake thing, like, I know this is beyond my understanding, but, like, I always thought the appeal of having an affair was like the newness of it.

Right. Right. 17 years is like you got a second wife, dog. I know. I'm buddy. I'm with you. Like I said, I totally did it.

But you know, like I said, it happens. Yeah. So, but like, so his wife's encouragement to go to get,

go to Amsterdam. He's got a, she also knows about his exotic, uh, exotic dancer side check who has kids of her own. Like, so we got a Texas GOP polyamory caucus going,

I guess. Uh, it's not even like, there's been other Texas cheating news recently, Ken Paxson's wife, who's also in, works in state politics. She left him. We'll have to talk about that eventually because it's a funny stuff going on in a Texas Senate primary. But so, then we get to the really, really fucking gross part here, okay?

You're probably thinking, well, it sounds like it's been pretty gross so far. No. In one of the interviews, most explosive claims, the woman's name, her last name is Grace. Grace described becoming uncomfortable when Cabrign Leone mentioned wanting to ejaculate into batter for cookies that would be sold at his daughter's bake sale. bro what the fuck like even that

Jesus Christ dog like it ain't enough to just have like a stripper mistress or whatever if you're a Christian conservative

it's like you gotta take it to you're like you're fucking splugin and your daughter's bake sale cookies that fucking like that's

bananas man and it's like and it's always it's always who you most expect right like it's every time

there's something like a CP fucking treasure trouble was uncovered or something crazy like this or whatnot. It's always, you know, a red state, fucking, you know, noteworthy Republican local, like regionally. It's like, how often is it, how often has it been a drag queen or a transgender person?

You know? Like, I mean, because you know any opportunity they had where that did happen, they would blow it up into massive news. You know what I mean? Anytime like a trans kid wins a fucking swim meet, everybody knows. knows their name. If they were, if they actually were, you know, doing child predator stuff, these motherfuckers would make sure that you knew about it, about each and every one of them or whatnot. And it's like, when do you ever actually hear about that happening? Hardly not

never, but a, like, youth pastor or a fucking Texas state rep or, you know, like that type of thing. Always up to some sick shit. And it's like, it's like, I didn't really, like the uh the through line we had here but like every the the the trump i've seen stuff the fucking uh ryan walter stuff is pretty only guy the entire conservative movements made up of extremely horny guys who want to do stuff they feel like they're not supposed to be doing and it drives them insane they make it everyone else's fucking problem absolutely yeah the fucking dude repression and shit so much of it comes back to that it's like that's what starts you know and i'm not saying like the fuck it like whatever growing up and repressed the

because of the religion you belong to or something is absolutely no excuse to then fucking start coming in Girl Scout cookies and shit but it's like, but that's like this is it's one of the big problems with that culture in the first place is that it makes these fucking

horn dog lunatics man because of what you're saying. Again, it's like you ain't supposed to do I don't know. Yeah, I do want to say like he admitted to the affair and stuff but he did not, he did not, he did not was paying for abortions. I watched clips in the interview.

She absolutely does not like the Brickleone anymore. So I would say, I would say that, yeah, she said it. He said, she said thing. Right. So like, I would say that sounds so egregious that it's made up except it's very specific. But also, if you got online and Google, what's a weird fetish someone would feel guilty about? It's probably in the top five results. So I don't know what to make of it.

That feels. Yeah, you're right. Now, let's retroactively preface everything I said, Omega, with allegedly. Or whatever Just so everybody knows I have no reason Not to think ill of this guy I'm just saying like

I would not pissing If he was on fire I'm just saying like I just wanted this in context All these This is the problem with like We're not about politics on this show But in general when you

Have a system full of so many fucking liars We're all backstabing each other What are you supposed to think about this stuff? I have no reason to believe any of his defenses either This is a guy who said he was going to use doge to improve the health care

for the citizens of Texas. His whole life's a fucking lie. Right. Yeah, no, absolutely. The whole life, their whole world that they inhabit and everything is nothing but lies. You're just inclined to believe that, you know, somebody says something bad about them. It's probably true. You know, that's where

your head goes, because historically, that's been, it's a pretty good batting average for being correct. Yeah. I mean, I keep thinking, like, like, I don't know, so Congress is off for five weeks. I'm wondering what's going to happen with the Epstein thing because it's not going to die right i mean i hope not i mean that's what i've been worried about the whole time but it's like it seems to so far i mean what are we

three four weeks in it three weeks or something in now it's like it seems to have uh legs still like it seems to still be sticking around and i hope it continues to do so but yeah because i was wondering that too because obviously when mike johnson was like let you know uh let's let's just let's just go on vacation instead of doing this you know whatever which it's like I made a thing in one of my part of what I said in the video I made earlier in the bonus version on YouTube I said like it's fun

attempting that is funny to me because it's like if a woman thought her husband was cheating on her and she like asked to see his text messages because she suspected like you know ill conduct in those and his response to that was I'm going to Florida and he just left

like that's it's still kind of the same thing Like, you forget, you know, like, uh, it's, it's just a, it's just a wild move, but, um, yeah, I think it's, like, one of the reasons he shut down Congress, like, Republican Congressmen's phones were blowing up. So he'd already lost 12 defectors. And Democrats, to their credit, were sticking together on this as much as I'd give him shit. Like, they basically ground Congress to a halt by attaching obscene stuff to everything that was moving through to the house. So like, I, I don't think that after finding, stumbling upon a winning tactic for the first time, years I don't think they're going to quit doing it and I don't like all they got to do is finding news hook to get it back on the news and phones will start blowing up again and uh then we get the financial records and then we get social democracy tray that's that's that's the one step there we go well hey if it gets us there I'll take it but um real quick because that's that's the end of that right yeah okay so I did I again on my patreon by the way on my

personal the pay my patron to share with skewses but on my personal patreon I also do Q&As every two weeks. And this week, someone accidentally gave me a skews question on my thing. And I told him if I remembered, I'd run it by. So I'm just going to give, it's a long-ass fucking question. I'm just going to give you the brief version of it from John E. Jorgensen, or Jorgensen, uh, who says

there's a lot of rope-a-dope involving all the tariff discussion. Taco Don's tariff strategies, he says, he basically just says, what's actually going on here? Aren't these just a national regressive sales tax? Uh, here's my big question. is tariff money going to be funneled back into the government to help revive American industry and

bring back jobs, or is the sole purpose just to lower the trade deficit, which in some cases is a good thing. From where I'm sitting, this seems like a regressive tax, one that asks more from the wealthiest, yada, yada, so which that's all true, right? I mean, that's essentially what it is. It's wealthy redistribution. It's a much bigger burden on people at the lower end of the economic scale, just like a sales tax or something is. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly what it is. and Trump's trying to brabby companies into eating the losses themselves. The prices don't go up. That's not a long-term strategy.

But the way it's being implemented and the real purposes of it are twofold. One, every economist in the world told Trump that it won't work just to fuck you to them. Just like kind of like oppositional defiance disorder. And two, somebody's proverning the market with all these announcements. Somebody's making a bunch of money shorty going long and short on various things. Yep. Yeah, because every time a new announcement comes out or whatever the market goes down and then up or you know or vice versa or whatever so it's pretty easy to manipulate it that way with this shit if you're on the inside of it but i don't know the numbers in front of me because i know what i'm talking about this but like one of the funniest examples of how stupid all this shit is is like american car companies are really fucking suffering because like there's like a 50% tariff on like component parts like steel and microchips and stuff but you can import a completed car for 15% for 15% tariff so it's hypothetically if they had plants there it'd be cheaper for for for for stilantis and GM

to have cars made in Japan and ship them here, then it would be to manufacture them here. So Trump's essentially sabotaging, in the name of tariffs, to bring jobs back to America, is bankrupting American car companies to advantage Japanese and Korean car companies. That right there, to me, should be the end of the conversation.

I mean, I didn't know that breakdown until you just gave it to me, and I'm sure most people don't as well. But it's like, I just feel like if you could just get that across to pretty much any American, like that one case highlights, the reason why it's bad and dumb. If your whole policy incentivizes making an entire car in another country and shipping in here over making them here, then obviously something's wrong with it and it's not going to fucking bring manufacturing back. That's why these stuff gets bogged down to whether tariffs are good or bad, but it's not, it's like, no, it's just like this is just the stupidest fucking way to do it.

It's like, it's like saying, is medicine good or bad? I don't know, taking Viagra when you're having a heart attack seems bad, but like what the fuck? So, yeah. Right. All right. Well, that'll do it for us this week. Real quick. Reminder, go to Trey Crowder.com.

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