Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – Bread and Electoral Circuses

Episode Date: November 12, 2025

After a pretty resounding message from the voters that they should stand strong for healthcare, Senate Democrats make the heroic decision to let Donald Trump have everything he wants and rub their bellies. Then we get into the now possibly moot fight over SNAP and all the silliness around last week’s elections, which included Kentuckyans who were shocked and upset they couldn’t vote against the mayor of New York, and an enthusiast for Nazi-adjacent porn who lost a Lt. Gov race despite debating an AI of his opponent that he made say dumb stuff.Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you thanks for joining us it's november 11th 2025 we are recording this on monday november 10th at about 1.30 p.m. on the left coast that's where we are in spacetime as we send us missive out to you across the digital ether this is weekly skews i'm trey that's mark how you doing mark good man i wanted to start to show a little bit of good news today, our nation's, you know, most famous freedom fighter, the sandwich guy is free. They're calling him Nelson Hamdella. This whole trial really was really fucking fun to follow last week. He was, to recap, we've talked about this guy a few times. He threw the subway sandwich and the board patrol officer's chest and got caught after the world's funniest

his foot chase. Then agreed to turn himself in after he was indicted, but instead border patrol helicopter raided his apartment building to arrest him. Judge Jeanine got denied multiple indictments for felonies. Instead, they took him to a jury trial. He chose to go to a jury trial for a misdemeanor. And after a four-day trial, there was only supposed to last two, got off. I want to quote here, the judge, Carl Nichols, said he expected the trial to last two days on account of it being the simplest case in the world.

But it ended up taking four because the jury really, dug into this motherfucker. They cared. What was supposed to be simple about it? Just that, like, what, I guess you're about to get in. So that, like, he got charged with assault, but you can't, the idea that you have to hurt someone or threaten them, like, legitimately, in order to assault somebody, which you can't do with a fucking ham sandwich.

So it's absurd or, you know. so again the jury the judge saying in some of this case in the world it's on video right everybody knows what happened you can just go straight to deliberating really

just show play the video and be like do you think this guy did something wrong or not and go back the problem was because this guy had amounted like his attorney

mounted like an actual zealous defense they had like they cross-examined the cop and all this shit and like and really dug into it and it was all

it became more more obvious how fucking silly it was and like so during the deliberations the jury foreman asked for clarification to the judge on the definition of the phrase quote unquote bodily harm like so when you say bodily harm what does that mean legally

and he's like judge like what it sounds like like did you heard him I'm like all right right which no right no yeah right see that's what I'm the disc it's like to me it's like yeah this just feels like not understanding how laws work or being a lawyer or anything this just feels like like a common sense thing And, like, of course, you know, just, it's absurd that he even had to go to trial for throwing a sandwich at a cop in the first place. But I didn't know if it was like, like you said, it's on camera. It's pretty cut and dry. Like, he did do that.

It's just like, what is that? And so I didn't know if it was like, if that was the matter, you know, he was getting charged with something. It's like, well, this doesn't rise to the level of that. So it doesn't matter that. They just, you know. They just overcharged him for the beginning. And they stood at the end. Like, if they, if they, if they said, if they, if they said, Mr. Meter saw, they charged him with disorderly conduct, they'd been like, yeah, he, he was drunk.

and he fucking threw a sandwich at a cop. I wouldn't have wanted to find him guilty. But, like, Corey, you shouldn't be doing that. But like, but two big problems here because they actually mounted a fucking defense. All right. When they, uh, they were cross-examining, uh, prosecution witnesses. And they, the defense attorney somehow learned about, uh, some gifts that the cop, whose name was Laramore had received from, uh, uh, from his fellow officers after the

assault included, uh, a subway sandwich plush toy and a patch that read. felony footlong? You've got to pick his over this patch. That is hilarious. It makes sense that he would get his balls busted for this for like the rest of time or whatever, which is also hilarious to think about. He's never going to live his load. But I raised the question, if you

had serious bodily harm, why is it, why are your co-workers new laughing about it? Yeah, well, I mean, I could, he didn't have serious bodily harm. Even if he did, I could see cops or Border Patrol guys still, you know, still kind of being dicks about it. He could be in a,

If something happened to put him in a wheelchair, if it was still comical in nature, I think they'd still roast him for it to be sure. That is true, yeah. But the other problem is Laramore lied on the stand, and cops do shit all the time. But when people like, this is why prosecutors hate jury trials, they really want everybody to plead out. Because whenever you get some horseshit case in front of a jury, a pool of regular people will look at stuff and be like, that's fucked up. Like even in like, especially with civil trials, that's why you'll see even like the south, the rural south, all white juries when you get it. when you get a case in front of them and be like

this little, this little poor black child got cancer from this company dumping fucking chemicals in it into river by their house for 20 years. Every juror in the world is like, that's some fucking absolute evil shit. Here's $3 billion. Right. Lawyers hate this shit. Right. They hate

when regular people have a sense, like instead of like some Supreme Court justice like splitting hairs in the fine tuning of the law. People get like regular people just or unjust and vote accordingly typically. Right. And so, like, Laramore in front of the, when he was being cross-examined, he testified the impact of the sandwich was so severe that it, quote, exploded all over his uniform and left behind the unmistakable smell of onions and mustard. But on video, and the defense attorney raises his point, you can see the sandwich is still in its wrapper when it falls to the ground. Yeah. What a dark day. I hope this guy got all the time off and emotional support he needed to be able to come to terms with this.

This traumatic moment. He's talking about it like a fucking, he was in Fallujah or something. It's like, yeah, the unmistakable spell of mustard. You know, you know what mustard is also? Mustard gas, which is against the Geneva Convention. It was basically like I got hit with mustard gas, which is a war crime, just so everyone knows. It was pretty much the same thing. Yeah, it's, it is like, it is.

I feel like if I was this cop, I wouldn't have wanted any of this to happen. I mean, again, getting his balls busted for whatever already, like, I think I would be like, we, let's please, please don't, let's not make this an even bigger thing than it already is. Like, I don't want to just fucking let him go and no one ever bring it up again. I don't want to drag this through the fucking news. It's definitely going to be worse for me. And the thing is, like, even when cops are being honest, they can't help. But like, what a defense attorney is called it, both prosecutors and defense attorneys call this test the lying, right?

And cops will get blacklisted, prosecutors will take them off witness list when they do this kind of shit too much. Because, like, you did get hit in a chest with a sandwich. You don't do, like, do, like, embellish it, but talking about the smell of napalm and mustard in the morning all over your chest. And it's like, like, the way that, like, once he changed, I mean, like, nothing lasts very long in American politics. I'm going to talk about this with the shutdown consternation, which would be forgotten, like, a fart in the wind in, like, three days. But, like, so cops and federal prosecutors have been burning their credibility all over the country. Like, typically speaking, federal judges give the government, like, the benefit of the doubt. Like, they just take their word for a lot of stuff, and they basically stop doing that.

And if regular juries stop believing cops all the time, too, because of shit like this, I have no idea how the criminal justice system is going to function going forward. Obviously, they deserve for it to fuck it. The cases like this to fall apart and shit. But I don't know why they're all thrown away the credibility so much for, like, the sake of Donald Trump's, like, occupying of cities. Greg Bovino, they had a border patrol. He had called a liar to his face by a federal judge in Chicago the other day. And the judge ordered him to wear a body can.

so they can keep track of what he's up to because he's lying about what he's doing so much. Right. That guy's going to be unemployable outside of right-wing think tanks in the future. And like, anyway, the jury, the jury again, my favorite people who, the first people in the history of the world to love jury duty, the last day before they delivered the verdict, ordered sandwiches, asked to have sandwiches for lunch before they read,

fruitless guilt, and not guilty. And it's just like, there's a thing happening all over right now where regular people, regular Americans are fucking brave in the face of all this evil shit that's going on. overreach by powerful people while our elites cow are like fucking cowards Yeah and the representatives are not

Which on that note We'll be getting into that a little bit later The shutdown is Lots happened since last week's episode We had the election results last Tuesday And then the shutdown Is perhaps coming to an end Under no uncertain terms

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So let's go ahead and get started with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., pundits and consultants who can't grasp the invulnerable popularity of this man, yet must surrender to it. I have seen your name. you sound only swear I kind of not so so was he doing a thing

were there people engaged that were supposed to be he's doing a repeat after me thing there right was that supposed to actively be happening because you can't even tell what he's saying because he's getting booed so hard

but like yeah he swear there were people that's at the Washington Commander's game yesterday he was swearing in new recruits of the military I believe

as part of the halftime show as part of the veteran day slash military service or all that shit yeah okay yeah and so like

a couple things like Trump wants the the rigumroll of the new commander stadiums like ongoing and like it needs federal government approval because it's

landed DC or whatever and between exchange Trump wants the commanders to name the stadium after him which one of the reasons he was there trying to make the commander's owner

Josh what's his name Kisses Ring um like sad note when I heard he was doing this I was like do you guys

no he's going to get full his ass boot off right like that's kind of what I was getting at or what I was wondering I was like so do they have to like do this again back you know backstage or something these guys are there does that count are they official marines still or whatever if they couldn't

are they sitting there they have to do this oath thing but they can't even hear what he's saying you know just feels like you're asking if they have to give back they have to give back the Corvette yeah yeah uh so

I have no idea but like Yeah, so I was like, so you guys know where the command, like they're suburban Maryland. Like this staves full of people that are laid off from the federal government or know people who are. It's like a blue, very blue state. Like I don't know what you thought was going to happen, but whatever. Yeah, that whole area. I was just in that area, Alexandria, Virginia and up and there. And like, I mean, I shouldn't have been, but I was the number of people at my show, this was like right after the shutdown started, like just about a month ago.

And that, like a huge percentage of them were furloughed. already or we're like people that you know like it's wild how many i mean it's not because that's where the nation's capital is but it is still also kind of wild that how many people in that area you know work for the government so it makes sense that it's a company town it's like a yeah yeah so uh so yeah the shutdown fight let's talk the is seems to be at an end or approaching its end game although there's still points you can fall apart but basically the senate democrats caved in a way that made everyone mad at them even though they're not the villains of the story.

It's just perfect semi-democratic behavior. Absolutely. They had backed Trump into a corner where he's advocating for starving Americans, hammering support, while seeming actively to cause plane crashes if not get people stuck at airports for Dave's. And they voted to let him off the hook in exchange for basically nothing, nothing that they said the fight was about. They got a few small lake thing.

Dude, I saw yesterday, there was a flight from Newark to Savannah that had to fly the whole way at 8,000 feet. because of air traffic control restrictions. That's a fucking bus dog. They had they had Spirit Airlines buses happening under the Trump administration and they chose to take the heat for ending it.

Yeah. It's wild. Yeah, I don't get it. At first glance, like my initial reaction is like, like on the one hand, you know, I get that it's a shitty situation to be,

because like, people are being harmed by this and that sucks. And it's like if you're sitting there knowing, like, you know, I could stop that from happening tomorrow, you know, whatever. But it just feels like getting into this fight at all, which also seems like worthwhile, you know, because of people's health care doubling or tripling or whatever because of, you know, this and then trying to stop that from happening, at least for some time is like,

seems like a fight worth having. But when you get into it, like you got to be committed to it, you know, like you can't. like you've got to be more pot committed than this you can't make it the longest government shut down in history right and then and then just be like all right never mind and get nothing like you got to like i just feel like once you're in it you're in it and you need to stick to your guns a little more than that and like you said it's just so like typical of the democrat brand or whatever then you know it isn't their fault they were trying to like help people and like all that and it's still like they come across you know looking bad in the end and a lot of people's or having people mad at them, uh, despite that, because it's just, it's just what they do. I don't even want to like, not to defend the Democratic Party here, but we're talking specifically about Senate Democrat brain. And they chose to do this at this point for reasons that are inscrutable. And it's eight of them too, right? I mean, like, isn't it? No, it's all, it's all eight people to make the vote. Oh, okay. Like, so like, like, so like, why would those

eight people agree? If they all are on board with it, why would eight of them sign up to be the ones that put their names on it to get definitely bitched at the most? They call it. designated villain strategy. But, like, basically, so this is another reason this kind of horse shit doesn't work anymore is because we're all aware of it. Anybody who's paying a remotely close attention yesterday. The Democrats had a caucus meeting, and this deal took weeks to work out. The gang of eight, so-called gang of eight, I've been working on this for a long time,

with Chuck Schumer's approval. So they have this meeting yesterday, the caucus meetings, where they walked through the fine print of it, all 47 of them. And they had Senate pages stand outside the doors and make noise, do like the pattern thing like background actors so people couldn't hear what they were talking about. So that's one reason you know they're up to fucking shit they're ashamed of, right? Then they come out and the eight people that did make this vote, the exact number of votes the Republicans need to pass it because Rand Paul was opposed, exactly eight.

All eight are either people who have announced their retirement, are retiring but have an announcement, or people that aren't up until 2028. Okay. All right. Right. If you think every single one of these motherfuckers wasn't in on it, then you, you, you, You were born yesterday, right? And everyone who you lay these facts out to you is going to absolutely understand it.

And another reason, though, they're all into it is like if Senate leadership absolutely orchestrated this strategy, if you were opposed to it, you and 23 of your colleagues can depose Shuck Schumer today. That's all you need. So if 49 of the 48 of you are actually pissed about this, how it played out, you can make a change. Has anyone tried to make a change? has anyone come out and said they're like they're vociferously that this isn't they won't stand for this the closest up came to is Chris Murphy being like

this was not successful this was a bad idea but is it called for Chuck Schumer's head? No. They all think it's fine. Right. Aren't there some people like not in the Senate but in the other parts of the party right? There are people that are calling for him calling for his head. House Democrats

are fucking furious. This is not an ideological thing they're going to pitch, like, oh, the left is fucking angry. It's not the left. It's Richie Torres. Like, they sold out so many members of their own party to do this. And they did it. And, like, we need to be clear here. The only reason they would do this now, the elections happened last Tuesday.

They were a disaster for Republicans. Trump came out and said he knew that they were a disaster for Republicans, and they were a disaster largely because the government shut down. I know about largely, but it definitely was a factor. And he said they need to open the government back up, even if it meant eliminating the filibuster. And Trump's been pressuring. the Senate of Republicans to eliminate the filibuster to pass the continuing resolution as it existed.

Democrats do not want the filibuster gone for several reasons. One, they're afraid of what the Trump administration will do with it in the short term. Yeah. Which would probably be not less than ideal for our policy, probably good by the EPA, for example. This is what always happens anytime the filibuster comes upright, because when the Democrats like had power or whatever, ostensibly, but Mansion and cinema and all that, and this same conversations had in the court and everyone you know and it was like the side that has the ability to do that doesn't want to do that because in the future they won't have it again or they won't be empowered you know it's just like they're both afraid of what the other side's going to do with it

or something but also I feel like it comes back to like just both sides like it protects their ability to do what they really are there to do which is nothing so like as long as There's a filibuster there. It's harder for anything to happen, which, like, both sides deep in their heart is, that's what they like and what they're, right? They're there for, I think. So. Right now, Democrats can nonstop run on reforming the American health care system for the better. Right.

And never have to do it because they can't get 60 votes. Right. Yeah. If you eliminate the filibuster and they can get 51 votes. Yeah. Now they have to do it. Now they're fucked. Right.

Yeah. So, like, so that's, that's, that's the other problem hanging over all. So they don't actually be forced to do the shit they promise on the campaign trail to the base once, right? And Trump celebrated this just to be of a middle finger. He'd already signed this, but it came out last night that, like, he pardoned 75 plus co-conspirators in January 6th, including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell for trying to overturn the 2020 election. He did this even though they were charged on state charges. He can't do that. Right.

He just put it a piece of paper saying they're free now. Yeah. He did the Kobe having an ass taste video to Chuck Schumer. Mm-hmm. And Chuck's like, thank you, sir. I'll take another, please. Right. Yeah.

So if you, if 40 days ago, this is like, like, there's been, this, a lot of people have suffered the last 40 days and people will endure suffering for a cause. And that's part of this. It's like, the people that were suffering, some of them, some of them are the most fucking pissed. They're not as relieved to get their federal paychecks back or their SNAP benefits back. They're pissed as hell because they were, they thought they were like suffering for reason.

Right. It was all for not. You do this. Yeah. right it kind of makes the whole thing pointless in retrospect which is even more annoying if you're someone who was affected by it you know let me quote here from a federal worker okay i would rather be an actual pawn at least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something all this for a fucking meaningless vote uh let me quote here from a woman on snap food was dangled over her heads

for a month as a kind of psychological torture i thought it was to say millions of people's health care all right turns out it wasn't turns out it was for a small it's for a handshake agreement to take a meaningless vote of restoring the Affordable Care Act benefits 40 days from now that won't pass the House and Trump wouldn't sign them if they did. Probably won't pass the Senate either. And an agreement to rehire some of the fired federal workers and back pay for federal workers, which they were going to get eventually after a court fight, but Democrats got a form of immediate. Good, right?

But if I told you 40 days ago, the plan was, how about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal? and then okay Trey hear me out you gotta hear me out this is very important we hold out for like a month and a half and then after election where we ran the table only then fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted right yeah I mean it's just again just don't if that's what how the if you don't have like stones to really fucking see it through you just shouldn't do it in the first place is what you know is what I'm saying because I don't know what they thought I don't know they thought it would be easier than it was they thought the like Republicans would listened to reason or something when's the fucking last time that happened so yeah i don't know you call it you call a bayonet charge you get halfway across the field and be like wait hold everybody everybody stop and sit down for a second uh so the did recap me the original democratic demands were permanent restoration of the ACA subsidies Medicaid funding restored and no more blank checks for the Trump regime i.e. rescission where they're they're taking back funding for

50 votes there was approved for 60 the everything by undoing everything was bipartisan They dropped them to the Medicaid stuff immediately. They went silent and rescission. So they approved the continued resolution. Trump's going to spend the money however he wants. I don't understand what the point of making an agreement with him is. And then they cut back to one year of subsidies for the ACA on Friday and completely surrendered Sunday. Like, I just want to walk around what just happened in the elections.

If you look at the exit polls, this is pretty hilarious. The exit polls base to say this. What do you think of the Democrats? They fucking stink. Who do you vote for as many Democrats as possible? Right. I mean, that's pretty much. my position. If you ask me, if you ask me to answer those same questions, that's pretty much

exactly what I would say. I've been saying that for 10 years or whatever since I started doing all this shit in public. That's pretty much what I've been saying. Like, look, I hear you, but still got to vote for them because it's better than the alternative. But no, they don't hit for me. Don't get me wrong. I'm jealous of the people that vote Republican because they hate Chuck Schumer because their fucking lives are at least easier than mine. They hate Chuck Schumer and still vote for people and make a Senate leader. So, like, I'm just thinking about my, I'm one of my best friends from high school, works with federal government, he's a civilian employee in the Navy. I don't know exactly he does for a living because of security cleared stuff, computer science shit, I think.

But, like, he's gone without a paycheck for almost two months now. And for whatever reason, for what reason, I don't know, what do you want, what do you want to tell him, Trey? Right. They did damage, they damaged Donald Trump's political standing. Like, people noticed the ballroom and said, I guess politically it had some effect. but, like, if it's having some political effect, guess what doing it more would do? More. Yeah, you have to, again, you have to, you have to be willing to, like I said, hold the line and make it like, you know, build to like a fever pitch, the idea being like there finally is enough pressure that they can't ignore it.

they being the Republicans, I mean, that like it gets, you know, people are like literally demanding because they still were, most of the polls and everything were still suggesting that like people generally did blame the Republicans for this whole situation, right? Like more so than not. They have control of every branch, everything. People are blaming it on them fucking. If it gets even worse and worse, it's like it should only make them look worse and worse and find the pressure point that it takes for them to reach where they finally cave is what you have to be

prepared to do, I would think, and they clearly weren't. I don't think they appreciate the direness of the situation they're in. Like, they're acting like it's as a normal, just to do normal politics, where it's a normal case of executive overreach and public backlash. They just ran it out and there's, hear me out here. What if there's not really a federal government that's that control love back when you win the next election? Has any of this considered them?

Right. I mean, like, the, like, the, first of all, the whole point of this, the rescission's part of it, and you could have got an agreement about the ICE's, like, budget stuff and shit. Like, like, you could have, like, the overarching point of this, that everyone had unspoken part of it was to get the executive branch to at least pretend to return to following the constitution and the law. over the weekend ice drove by in pepper sprayed into the window of a car

a passing car and hit a one year old baby girl in the face and Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois voted yes on this so what the fuck do you stand for Dick Durbin

if it's not let's try to get the ICE and Border Patrol to stop pepper spraying one year old girls yeah were they um was that girl an illegal immigrant this baby was the baby uh was she a drug mule from venezuela she was she she did wear she was wearing chicago bull's gear which being she's definitely in trind day i walk was that's part of it um uh so in all the thing they the thing to get people snap benefits like they i think they save snap but they i think they save snap but

the plan in 2012-year-2025 is to permanently end SNAP. Mm-hmm. So, like, what did you get? Like, you, like, stay alive, 15 more minutes? Okay, about that, right? We started the show, the Daily Dumbet, the clip was from the Fox News program, and the point of it was showing Trump getting booed at the Kami Stadium. But the Kyron at the bottom, I don't remember exactly what it said,

but it was something about Americans hurting because of the lack of Snap. just in time for the holidays or something like that on on a fox news show right and so this was like americans millions way for snap benefits to feed their families right on on a fox news show like you said this is different than most this had like this was more you know extreme and the stakes were higher and all this stuff and it seemed like the universal response to this happening this being like snap just going completely away like that like you know like it was supposed to was people been like oh shit this isn't good this is bad people are suffering. So like

Project 2025 and they're planning to like get rid of it completely how what is that that comes after the just complete authoritarian takeover of everything that they do so it doesn't it doesn't matter that you know people

are not going to be happy about that. Do you understand what I'm saying? Like it just seems like it's not a popular you know thing to allow it to happen despite all this shit talking about lazy people and that type of stuff. But the point of, like, what the stuff Fox News does is to obfuscate who's actually blamed for it, right?

Because what they'll do is they'll say, like, well, we would have loved to keep snap in place, but heroic Donald Trump had to ruin all the waste fraud and abuse. The Democrats were allowed to take place. Like, all of those go into illegals, right? That's what that's what they'll, that's the game. So, like, they can play it being for Snap in theory and helping people, but obviously it's too corruptics to continue the program. So the idea, like, they don't need to be authoritarian to do that.

They just need enough rubs to. give them control of the Senate of the House over now that. Yeah, I just don't, again, I just know that so many people, like, you know, where I'm from, you know, last week, I think we're talking about, about my hometown, which went 85% for Trump and is very, very red and MAGA and shit, and also 25% of the people that are on Snap or whatnot right now, you know. So I got to think about that in the World War Project 20, if they, like, literally do just get rid of it, the way they've demonized it for years, but it does actually go away. It's like, you know, I don't think, you know, you don't, you don't, you know, you cannot conceive but being where we're from enough like, you know, like, a reactionary mind of people, literally eating roadkill because that's all they have and be like, God damn Democrats gave my snap benefits to illegals.

Well, that's actually what I said, the video that I made about when this first happened, I said that with their dying breath, they'll, you know, they'll say fucking Nancy Pelosi, you bitch or whatever as they expire at the end of it. So, yeah, for sure. But I don't know. yeah that the unrest and everything will still be there and I just don't I don't get like the future that they seem to want I guess like eventually all those people just die and they're poor and gross and so then you don't have to worry about that anymore and then you got the techno fascist Christian utopia or whatever the fuck is supposed to happen like well I mean a lot of a lot of them believe their own propaganda that all these people who run food benefits could go just go get these jobs that don't teach them to be better that'll improve their lives actually because they'll stop being lazy because they won't be, yeah, right. The idea that there aren't enough jobs to go around because the Fed, the government

intentionally manipulate interest rates to make sure, like, unemployment never gets lower than 4% is out of them. The idea that we, like, that to keep inflation down, we make sure 4% of people are unemployed and we all kick in a little bit of the money we save on eggs to make sure these people can have eggs. It's like the idea, like, the idea is just utterly beyond their comprehension. But like, what pissing out of what the Senate Democrats did is like what the Trump administration was trying to do with the Republicans are trying to force them to choose

between saving different groups of people. It's like, on the one hand, it's like, we got all these people that are going to lose their health insurance. And a lot, some of them, I mean, let's be real. People are going to die. There are people all over the internet right now being like, I cannot, if my insurance rates go up like this, I cannot afford to keep buying insulin. And what happens after that is this person dies. Right. So they were like, well, if you don't let us kill this person, then we will starve to death the people on snap.

Right. And they're trying to force this awful choice on Senate Democrats. Yes. And because any sort of center left coalition. or left wing coalition or any of that, requires solidarity. The only move here, the dark night move

when Tiny Lou Zeus Lister throws the fucking bomb detonator out the window is to not choose. I refuse to make that choice. Instead, it got close to being a little painful for Donald Trump and they decided to fucking make the choice. Right.

Yeah, I know. It's almost like, I mean, it's not the trolley problem, But what I'm saying, the idea of like, they, they being the Republicans are the ones that are inflicting all this pain. And they're also being like, you know, you could stop this right now. And the fact you won't really makes you kind of an asshole, like about the Democrats. And it's like, you know, it's still them that's doing it. Like, I can't that, you know, you're standing there feeling like, oh, if I pull this lever and fucking somebody's got to do something.

But it's like, it's not, you're not the one who's fucking everybody over. They are. Yeah. And, like, look, like, I'm not, like, like, this is easy for me to say, because I'm not in an immediate danger of missing a meal, right? Like, it's not, like, it's not, like, this is not, like, this is all hypothetical for me. I'm just doing, sitting here doing game theory. not well didn't you say isn't your don't you have the insurance your insurance is going to go up the crazy amount right yeah yeah yeah so was mine my wife my found like a lesser plan or we either we can't afford or whether we can't actually afford but it's going to be less less less good insurance anything it doesn't matter it's my dumb bullshit but like so the let's tell about the people that got sold

out here because like this is essentially like when they decided to make when they decided to do the trolley problem instead of like fucking trying to break the trolley right that it's not just people who need medicine they know the small group it's a small but substantial group of people who need to go to doctors i know we forget about them a lot but they also fucked over air traffic controllers trump apparently has an enemy's list he posted this on truth yesterday or this morning i think uh air traffic controllers must get back to work now and he goes on to say the people went to work the whole time get a 10 000 bonus with anybody who called in sick because they weren't getting paid he's made an enemy's list of air traffic controllers so there you go democrats

There's another group of people you threw out of the coalition to save your own fucking asses. You also threw on the bus all the people trying to make Trump follow the law on Snap. This happened over the weekend. Late Saturday night, Trump administration sent out a memo

saying a threat to impose financial penalties in the states, the quote, did not comply quickly with the government's new order to immediately undo any actions they'd taken to provide full food stamp benefits, lower-income families. And no one knew what they meant.

You've already said, out the money. It may have already been spent on food. So the states are supposed to go door to door taking away food out of people's mouths. Um, spit it out. Like, get back the calories of pedaling this bicycle, generate electricity from Oralago. Like, what the fuck is the state supposed to do? And talking about how it's scale, how these people think were beyond history here. Um, you're, you know the three meals theory? That's right. Yeah, that basically something like any, any society, no matter how developed or whatever. whatever it may seem to be, is no more than three missed meals away from complete collapse,

essentially, or something like that? It's a bunch of versions of it. I've heard three meals from anarchy, nine meals from collapse. It sometimes is attributed to Lenin, although the expression's older than Lenin. Right. Well, see, that's kind of what I was trying to say earlier about the whole project 2020, the idea of, like, fully getting rid of it completely, whoever they blamed it on or whatever, just like, that's like, still, it's going to, shit's going to be fucked in a lot of places, like,

in a really bad way that I feel like it'll be hard to ignore. But anyway, go ahead. Yeah. And like, they seem to think like only Democratic governors were doing this, but it wasn't remotely true because like governors elsewhere outside the Toronto administration, usually a difference between like a legislature and an executive.

Executives actually have to operate in the real world because they have to like govern shit. They don't have to manage staff a few morons just making noise doing comms. So like Jeff Landry, I think, was the first governor to announce a state plan to implement coverage backfill because even though it was a dipshit Republican and used the governor of Louisiana, and his state is fucking broke. He also doesn't want to die.

So the thing is Jeff Landry cares about an order, LSU football, letting cronies put oil refineries in black neighborhoods and not being guillotined by the French house of both the Creoles and the Cajuns. Right. Right. So someone else they sold out here. So when Tony Evers, the governor of Wisconsin, his response to this order was one word, no, right? It's amazing how powerful.

the word no can be. I was reminded of... Laconic, they would call that. It might be of me of like when the 1001st Airborne were surrounded at Bastogne. The German officer surrendered and the American commander sent back like, to the German commander,

nuts! Yes, nuts. Very, very old-timey choice of words and appropriate at the time. Yeah, no, there's a whole list. I also am a fan of those. There's a whole list of those examples of that. They're called laconic because of of ancient Sparta.

They like, which was called La Cone. Yeah, but they also went the guy, the Persians or something pulled up to their fucking moat or gates or whatever one day and was like, if we come into your city, we're going to fucking kill all the men,

rape all the women, enslave all the children that fucking burn everything to the ground. And the Spartan's response was also one word. It just said, if. That's all they said. Which is pretty bad.

And then I don't know what happened. Maybe they all fucking died. I don't know. the if part is the cool part. It doesn't. Here's the thing. I want it to be, it doesn't matter if they,

like, sometimes standing for something means standing for something. Yeah. Right? Like, it doesn't, like,

winning is, like, winning is a longer term goal. Like, like, I don't understand if they understand this. Like, winning is not,

winning one round of congressional elections. Winning is actually able to govern a way that benefits people. If you never get to that point, there's literally no point holding your fucking office or how many of us, like, So, like, like, does a power, fuck you use can be inspirational and lead to the next generation accomplishing shit to say something simple. And instead, like, instead of saying no, like Tony Evers did, or nuts like the fucking American commander did at the pastone, they're like a long soliloquy about how we need to do bipartisanship.

Like, no, fuck you. I don't like, anyway, speaking, like, there were, there were, there were, the politics of this were, were downing to Trump's downfall in so many ways that I can't, like, speaking to Germans in our century of, a century of American humiliation, part of the shutdown guidance, the, the DOD sent out to troops about how to deal with the end of SNAP benefits, because so many active duty soldiers need food stamps to feed themselves, they gave, they gave, they gave directions on how soldiers can find food banks in their area. And the way they wrote the instructions, because they were honest, made it clear that other countries have better support systems or whatever. Right. Yeah, right. Yeah. They, especially troops in Germany, they get clear, clear directions about how to get food aid, where troops stationed stateside did not. And what the DOD did was delete the post when people pointed that out.

Right. It's also related in the midst of all this. And I don't know her name. I, you know, should, I guess. But there's that, the woman who's gone viral and got a pretty big fight. following because she's been, I said on a recent episode when I always came up, I was like, yeah, I knew all these people now. You used to always say, it's like, well, that's the church's job to do all that anyway. And I was always like, the fucking church, give me a fucking break.

But, you know, and there's that woman who's gone viral because she, like, calls all these churches in America and tells them that, you know, her food stamps and benefits, whatever's been cut off. And she has a baby and she has no food for the baby. And she's wondering if they have, you know, formula, some, any kind of support system or whatever. And I don't remember the exact numbers, but she's called like 50 something different American churches. And I think two so far have actually agreed, one of which was a mosque, a Muslim mosque. And the other one, I think was like a dirt poor church in Appalachia somewhere or something like that. But that's it. And all the rest of them have basically told her to go, fuck herself. So, you know,

yeah, there's a lot. Basically, if you want, if you want to help, and you're going to call a church in America or a religious place of worship, you want to call a Catholic church, a mosque, or, I be a Sikh temple. Do not call them megachurch because they spent all their money on a laser light show and headset bikes. Another person, another person, another person like they fucked out here is Katanji Brown Jackson. This is like, this is like judicial whatever shit because like there's a lawsuit filed

to make force the Trump administration restore, uh, snap aid. Three judge panel in the first circuit had, had issued to stay against the administration. and the Trump administration, instead of going to a full panel of the full circuit, appealed straight to the Supreme Court, and because Justice Jackson oversees the First Circuit, it went straight to her. Now, she could have denied the stay, according to her own values and, you know, being a lib and all that shit. But instead, what she did was she upheld the stay, but sent it back to the Ninth Circuit for their full panel review. And this is all wonky shit, I'm sorry, but like she put a 40-hour clock on it after they had issued their full decision. What she did was basically forced the Supreme Court to actually weigh on the merits of the case.

instead of hiding it on the shadow docket and then the clock run out until the point of the case was moot, right? Like, they've been doing all this shit. But the Supreme Court, when they think some Trump administration legal argument is too embarrassing for them that'd say it's right, they just sit around like as a fucking egg waiting a hatch for like nine months or a year. And she prevented them from doing that. And they fucking fucked her over. And then, by the way, two hours, like several hours after the Democrats cave, the First Circuit ruled against Trump. So we could have, we could have known the outcome of this case where the SNAP benefits were going.

going to be paid in 48 hours never fucking mind yeah side note though you brought to the supreme court uh they um declined to revisit gay marriage or whatever right didn't that just happen to yeah i well i didn't want to talk about we it's happened once ago kim davis remember the clear yeah yeah she's she did in an effort to like she got a hit with a civil settlement for refusing to the civil judgment refusing to like marry gay dudes. It was a couple hundred thousand dollars. And she, to get out of paying the money, what she wanted to do was have the judge, the Supreme Court said, actually gay marriage is illegal again. So she didn't have to pay the money. Right. And they just laughed her out.

Yeah. But I mean, I'll tell you, look, she's should be laughed out of essentially any room or for no other reason than her haircut, which I assume she still has. Right. That's the real crime. I'm, yeah, I'm, uh, I am forgetting the specifics of it, but their legal arguments are very, very weak. It's not that they wouldn't love to over, a lot of them would love to over, in gay marriage. Like, this would have been too embarrassing to do. But so let's, let's get on the elections because it's so weird that a resounding victory in election called the Democrats to surrender on something, but that's, that's, that's

Democrat brand for you. It is, it is weird if you're just like a regular person, but it also like, like, it also just feels so right, you know, for the American Democrat Party. Like, it's both weird, but also very typical. It's like, yeah, of course that's what happened. There are a bunch of fun science here. But one of the reasons Democrat was won so decisively is they were able to flip actual Trump voters to Democratic side. Like, for example, the percentage of Trump voters who backed Spanberger in Virginia was 7%.

A similar 7% backed Mickey Sherrill in New Jersey. And the percentage of Republicans who say the congressional vote will be to oppose Trump as 7%. That's a 14-point swing. So basically, fuck Trump is a electoral juggernaut, regardless what the Democratic Party does. It still is just, it just annoys me. I just, like, oh, this is a, you know, a clear, you know, a clear and decisive denouncement of the first year of the Trump administration for the American pop, you know, voting public and all this stuff. And to me, it's just like, well, I'm glad that's happening, but also, like, y'all didn't even a little bit think that it might, you know, a year ago. Do you know what I mean?

Like, the fact that it has to happen in the first place for people to then be like, oh, fuck, this is all sucks. I totally forgot about it. how much all this sucks somehow, you know, like, but again, I mean, I'll take it. It's just, it's frustrating to me, the goldfish memory. They're never going to think about it this way because, like, the other most unaccountable group of people in America besides, you know, the members of the Senate or the national media, but like, this is a huge, like, the fact that people feel so misled about the realities of what Donald Trump would get up to in his second administration is like a real

failure of their part to, like, let people know what's actually going on the world. That is true. That's a really good point. Yeah, I mean, I, again, I feel like I was living in this country the whole time, and as were you, and I feel like I was, like, fucking very aware of what probably would happen. But the way that they sanewashed the shit out of Trump all the time, the fucking way that they covered the Biden administration and everything all the time, the double standard they have with Trump and Biden or Trump and anybody and all of that is just, I mean, yeah, you're right, they've, they're very, very, very complacent. If you, if you tune into the news randomly, like, like, like casually, like most. people who have, like, you know, sane existences. And you see, like, uh, well, Project 2025, which is put together by these people who will associate with Trump said they want to

eliminate the EPA and burn poor children for energy to fuel data centers. But Trump says he has nothing to do with that. Right. Moving on the next topic, what you take away? Right. Right. So another, another reason, like, this is a funny part of the, like, how misinformed the general public is. So Zoroamamami won in New York City, mayor handled pretty handily, obviously, especially considering he was right against an incumbent, a former Democratic governor, and also the Republican candidate. Yeah, I saw it right at the 11th hour, Trump, or Trump, Elon and like Ben Shapiro and a bunch of other people, like, pleaded with any New York Republicans to vote for Cuomo and not

Sliwa or Cewa, whatever his name is, that Curtis Slewa, because that was the only chance that they had in Mondani not winning. And I think, if I'm not mistaken, that even if that would have worked 100%, maybe if every single New York City Republican. Everybody voted for Slewad instead voted for Cuomo. He still would have lost, right? I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Yeah. So it wouldn't matter. Yeah. Well, that hits for me, too. Yeah. All. So another thing, this is pretty funny. Like, the only reason brought up Mandami talking about the New York, the state of the news media and how misinformed people are, the New York, the Secretary of State in Kentucky had to put out a statement informing people that they could not

vote in Kentucky. People were apparently showing the polls in Kentucky trying to vote against Zeron Mondami for mayor of New York. That's hilarious. Yeah, so if you work for Fox News, what are you doing with your life? Because people are so misinformed, like 12% of California Trump voters voted yes on Prop 50

to fuck Trump out of being able to rig Congress. What the, how, how? It's been less than a year. That's what I'm saying. Like, I don't, that's what I mean. The fucking the goldfish brain and the pendulum swings and all that. It's just, it's crazy to me because, yeah, I don't know.

Yeah. But I'll tell you. Look, exit polls in New Jersey found that Mickey Sherrill won 18% of Trump's Hispanic voters in the state. So that's 18% of people were misled about what Trump would get up to with like, barely people, people saw that Trump said who's going to vote three million people and also only vote criminals and assume there must be three million horrific criminal aliens in America. And like, nobody told them that wasn't true. So, like, I hanging over all this is the deep ironical clarity that, like, the reason they're doing all this mid-districting, this misdisterning fight over the country in the first place, like, they watered down a bunch of, like, huge red districts from being like Trump plus 20 to Trump plus five, Trump plus three, because they thought the 2024 vote was a permanent realignment where all young people and Latinos are now going to vote MAGA forever. Right.

Utah passed a fully gendered gendered gerry matter map that includes an R plus. to an R plus 6 district. If this trend holds, that's not, those aren't Republican districts anymore. Like, I don't know what to tell you. The year's a lot of time from now,

but like, but the fact that everyone's so fucking confident and certain about how the future is going to play out remains hilarious to me. So, yeah, to sum up, we're talking about the elections in vaguely,

but there were 13 elections for statewide office last Tuesday. Democrats swept all 13. There was one in New Jersey, three in Virginia, two in Georgia, seven in Pennsylvania,

which were all judges. They won 12 or 13 races about double digits with margins of up to 24%. The only other race that Titus, they won by 6%. So Moms for Liberty lost every one of their contested school board races nationally. The people continue to love book bands, man. I want to laugh about this. This is an actual mailer from a school district outside of Houston, Cyprus, Fairbanks, ISD. If you got this, Matt.

This is a picture of Satan himself endorsing the, I guess, ostensibly anti-bookman candidates. So anyway, the three people that the Satan was endorsing all one handily, hail Satan. Another positive element here, Democrats swept all three statewide races in Virginia, as I said. But 50% of all ad spending by Republicans in the Virginia governor's race was on anti-trans ads. And they got blown out. Can we leave trans people fucking alone now? right yeah i don't know well they'll they got to find the new thing first you know well it's been they buries what would you say furries we give it to verse yeah well they i mean i feel

like it look the train you just said i mean this election just happened and 57% of it was about anti-trans so they still be going after the trans people but they also you know they went harder on immigrants it feels like uh recently but um Dude, there was a, there was a, I didn't know we're talking about this, but there was a Republican sheriff who got voted out in suburban Philadelphia, a pretty white-wing area, I think, and his Democratic Challenger ran solely on stopping cooperation with ICE. So they can make it about immigration if they want. I want to mention Jay Jones for a second. So we talked about a few weeks ago on a bonus episode. He's the Attorney General candidate, the now Attorney General elect in Virginia, who sent the text they got out at where.

I didn't realize it was that you set me straight. I didn't realize it was a joke from the office. Do you want to quote the joke, Trey? Yeah, in the office, it's Michael Scott hates Toby, the HR guy a lot. And he's at one point, he's talking about Toby. And he says, if Adolf Hitler, Osama bin Laden, and Toby were in a room together. And I had one gun with only two bullets. I'd shoot Toby twice.

Right. Yeah. So Jay Jones, Jay Jones made the same joke about the Speaker of the House of Delegates. and he texted it to a Republican delegate. Yeah. He also talked about how, like, maybe he could make progress on gun violence that maybe the speaker's children need to get shot.

But what's about to say, by the way, for the record, when you first brought this up and I was like, yeah, that's an office joke or whatever. And it is. I then later, or maybe even on the show, at some point later, I saw, I actually saw the actual text that he sent. And again, knowing the context that it was to a Republican in Virginia or whatever,

and I very much was like, bro, what are you? you do and this is like this is yeah you got to be a little more savvy than this i feel like because it was just uh yeah not yeah and the pearl clutching like i saw a bunch of like conservatives activists and pundits in nor they live in northern virginia being like it's disheartened to know that my neighbors want me dead it's like bro he's obviously just fucking toughing off don't get me wrong i'm not saying it wasn't any kind of like actual stoking violence type thing or whatever i just mean like i don't know how you don't know that this is going to read bad to a lot of people or could at least be like spun this way, but it just, he wasn't, wasn't as artfully done as

we do in our group chats, Mark, me, you Cori and Drew, like the horrible things that we say, I think would play for most people because we're just, we're good at saying them in a way that's defensible. This guy, you know, not, not as well, we also don't, we don't, we don't add to the group chat, uh, a coworker on the opposite side of the aisle who would love to see our downfall. Yeah, right. Yeah. So a lot of things about we're pretty stupid. Anyway, despite this controversy, uh he jones ran ahead of comala harris in a state she won there was a trump to jones county surrey county virginia from trump to jose and it is the real plot twist carrie corner carrie corner is the fucking republican who snitch don't release his text to the republic she lost the voters of virginia say

that snitches get stitches carry oh my god dude another virginia race absolutely fucking hilarious uh john reid lost of course he lost he's the nazi lieutenant i mean sorry nazi the republican lieutenant lieutenant guber candidate who's the the gay guy who got outed by the members of his own party for looking at nazi porn or something well he he liked a twink who also posted some nazi porn thing porn like yeah yeah no proof he actually looked at the oxy corn yeah he was there for the twink porn it just was provided by guy that also provides Nazi porn who among us you know so he was so far behind I need to show on this because I saw I saw details of this I got them wrong I thought that there was debate and that the

the Democrat showed up with an AI of herself to debate him but that's not really true she refused she didn't feel the need to debate him because she was ahead so much the woman named gazala Hamshmi and so he decided to create an AI of her to debate and I didn't watch I only watched a little bit of it but the But the YouTube comments were like, bro, do he lose a debate to an AI that he programmed? I want to show you this. If you got this video clip, Matt, throwing up here. Because, like, and this is so like, this, you should be humiliated for the rest of his life.

Good evening. And thanks for joining us on this unique occasion for an exchange of ideas between the two candidates running to be the next lieutenant governor of Virginia. First, the Republican candidate, Mr. John Reed. Welcome, Mr. Reed. Okay. Next, the Democrat candidate, State Senator Gazzala Hashmi. Senator Hashmi, are you there? Good to be here.

Thanks so much. Okay. Are you kidding? Starting with Senator. What is it, God's name? What is the point of it? They made a robot to say, I want to raise your taxes and make your kids get dressed with a man in the lockering. by the way it feels like you shouldn't and i mean i guess it's true of a lot of

a i think but it feels like you shouldn't be able to do that either in my opinion but also it's just you just shouldn't because it's a bad idea and a bad look uh and not something that anyone can take seriously but um yeah what a weird and stupid time yeah i do want to i do want to note uh some running out of time my probably my favorite electoral result was a state center election in texas outside of full worth this is for personal grudge reasons this is a like the Trump won plus 18, but the Democrat, Taylor Remnant, came in first at 48%. They headed your runoff. Former South Lake Mayor John Huffman came in third slash last.

This is after a casino owner, Donald Trump fan, and Maverick's majority owner, Miriam Adelson spent $3.2 million supporting Huffman again in a state senator's race. That works out to $193 a fucking vote. To this, I want to say, trade Luca again, you dumb old troll doll looking bitch. All right. So looking forward, oh, is this a funny stick. Look forward to the Senate race. James Tilarico, Noavidia was going to win the Democratic primary for Texas Senate.

But Axios put out this weird hit piece about the fact that he, on Instagram, he follows some accounts for women who also make money on only fans and do escort stuff. No reason to know if he knew about this stuff. And, like, he just, most of it's like, he follows this woman who on another. other site post nudes. He says he never subscribed in Onlyfans. So it's so weird. Like,

Tel Rico is like a, like a Bible thumping lib. He's like, we should care for the poor. Yeah, I know. I know who he is. Yeah.

So it's weird we're kind of parts of Christianity that we're hanging on to. It's like, fuck the poor, but not ourselves. Like, you can't masturbate, I guess.

It's one of those things. It's kind of like, I don't, no one probably is going to get this because we definitely don't overlap very much. I don't think. But you know,

John Chris, the comedian, the Christian comedian, he's also like a buddy of mine I've known him for years he's a Nashville guy but he got pseudo-canceled almost I mean this was years ago now

he's a single comedian and it just like came I said he's a Christian comic it just like came out that he was just like getting laid on the road basically not teenagers totally fucking like same age

single girls whatever but because he's Christian is just like that's just sinful so it was a problem it's the type of thing where anybody else literally no one would bat an eye and it's how this talarico shit it's like if he wasn't a bible thumping lib like you said i would even would anyone even pretend to care

about this and by the way i still don't care about this there's a million reasons you could follow all kinds of titty accounts you know nothing wrong with that we're not going to start vilifying guys for following titty accounts i actually don't know more of a cat and but and cakes type of guy but um but yeah i don't give a fuck um and i don't think it i don't think it really I can't have him either, so it should be fine. No, the fact there's Axios, the DC outlet, Phil Weir was like, did the D did the Denikad's Senate campaign committee do this because they won't call it all red to win the primary because, like, I can't remember.

But anyway, Tala Rico also follows Instagram accounts of adult film actors such as Honky Tong Angel. So, like, come on, you get, you can't win Texas Senate because you're jerk off to a woman called Honky Tongue Angel. Look at the fuck out of here. Anyway, like, Talarico's campaign statement, quote, while James was unaware of how these women make money he does not judge them for it will not play into an effort to smear them for clickbait articles that's exactly what his christian faith calls him to do what would jesus do literally hang out with the sex

workers yeah um true and if we're gonna follow if we're gonna follow please can one national outlet write about all the fucking nazi accounts that jd vans and nelan musk following interact with all day every goddamn day absolutely fuck it's way more than just following online for those guys with the nazis and shit and like curtis jarvin and people like that like they you know hang out with them physically all the time you know do all kinds of yeah so it's ten times worth yeah I don't want to hear about fucking Tala Rico you know

being a fan of honky tonk Angels only fans page or whatever whatever the fuck's going on then Senator J.D. Vance was very famously all over the internet above not covered into mainstream media stories in group chats with teenagers when he was in at four almost 40 years old

I don't know what he was doing does that we strike you as weird strikes me as a little weird um so Anyway, one other thing about this election that's kind of hanging over all this, that no one wants to really talk about that much is a guy flipped a Republican district in Virginia, basically running a single-issue campaign against data centers. He is this is not some like suburban district. Well, I guess part of it is, but it includes Loudoun County and Warrington or Manana used to live. It's in the Shenandoah Valley. So basically, local elections are evolving heavily around data centers while a higher-level politician.

ignore it and just keep plugging a head with them and eventually this is going to catch up with somebody and anybody enterprising person wants to run against fucking AI I know I complain about all the time but other people hate it too and you can totally do it because it's poisoning people's water and driving electricity prices and it's going to be an issue and a quote here from state senator Danica Rome a Democrat who represents part of Prince William County

and D.C. suburbs there are a lot of people willing to be single issue split ticket voters based on this so yeah all right well overall still yeah like I said The intensity of the pendulum swings in this country, while they do frustrate me again, in this position we're in right now, I'll take it. So pretty positive outcomes overall.

That was last week. This week, the Democrats were out back to fucking up already. But anyway, whatever. Pencilous swings, baby. Yeah, thanks for, thanks for watching. We appreciate it. And, oh, yeah, go Treycrowder.com. Check up, coming to our days.

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