Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – Weather or Not

Episode Date: July 9, 2025

On today’s show we talk about the Supreme Court sentencing itself to watch pornos in the basement. Then we get into the flooding in Central Texas. Is the response that locals have found maddening due to politicians selling the government for parts at all levels for decades, or because one guy named Augustus Doricko squirted blue Powerade out of a plane? Experts disagree.Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you as you are watching this it's a tuesday july 8th 2025 uh and we're recording this on monday july 7th at 1.30 p.m. on left coast that's the moment in time we're coming to you from this is weekly skews i'm trey that's mark how you doing mark nice and toasty over there yeah yeah yeah keeping warm uh it's a it's a hot it's a hot one in la and uh border patrol just invaded mccarthy park to ride horses around and do nothing for a photo op for fox news it looks like can't really tell um uh so old people in the berbank my burbank neighborhood who apparently part of the border patrol i didn't realize that they do a lot they do a lot of riding horses and not doing anything over here in burbank there's a the horse people of burbank i don't know if you're aware of them but yeah but for generations they just ride horses and around the neighborhood, and I don't know what else they do. Anyway,

people, Fox News' audience around the country can be relieved that Los Angeles is safe from a dozen kids kicking a soccer ball around or something. So the Epstein files have finally been released, and they are nothing. Pretty funny. DOJ took six months to release a file. They had nothing in it, so that's cool. Well, did they release anything? I thought that they released the thing that said there is no list.

Like, there's no list. he killed himself there's no list he wasn't actively blackmailing anybody in power now shut the fuck up and leave us alone about it is essentially what they said and of course people like the illustrious cat turd you know pretty pretty put off by this it's kind of a watershed moment for a lot of those people you know because it's like this was the moment of truth for them because they've been holding out hope for so long that the you know that those files were the key that were necessary to, you know, unlock the secrets of the shadowy, you know, global cabal of elites that were doing paid off stuff. And Epstein was the linchpin and Trump was going to fix all that

and he wasn't involved in it and yada yada. And now, what do they, how do they play this, Mark? Like, how to cat turd and them play this? I've seen them calling for Pam Bondi's head, trying to make her a scapegoat. But a lot, a lot of are pointing out that Bongino, Bondi, and Cash Patel had different roles in government during the Obama. administration. I think Bondi was A.G. of Florida, so I'm not if we get sure how they connect the dots there, but she wasn't government while Obama was president. So it's the Obama Obama, Obama's doing the cover-up or something. But some of them already, uh, one QAnon guy, I find hilarious that follows his, his, uh, general musings. He was mad about it

about about two hours last night. Then by this morning, he had pivoted to, uh, a new conspiracy theory had nothing to do with sex trafficking or Epstein or pedophiles. Uh, the new hotness is Chinese drug cartels have bought up a bunch of abandoned real estate. in rural Maine and are currently running illegal marijuana grow operations in sardine canneries. So that's what we've got to worry about now. They couldn't do no better than marijuana.

Marijuana feels like an old hat. You want to go with like, you know, I don't know, hyper ketamine or something. I know you can't grow that, but you'd think they'd do something a little more sexy than fish weed marijuana and sardine factories. But what, like, what do you think about this outcome like I'm more comfortable with the Merck than most people I never thought

we'd ever know anything because again it's like the the the reasons you would the reasons that they haven't gotten to the bottom of it yet and you get like like it's not there's there's two lists all right there's a list of whoever's doing like whatever pervert stuff and then there's the much much longer list of everybody with a eight figure net worth who was just hanging out with him all the time plus Chris Tucker all right this is more about the other long list people being embarrassed and it is people being up to a bunch of criminal shit. And also just like, the general influence of money over politics

and our politics and stuff. So like, I never thought we were going to know. Right. Because there's just too many people with too much money and power that would be at the very least embarrassed, like at the lowest level, embarrassed by this coming out. And so that just means that it won't. So it is like, that's like a low level conspiracy theory, but that also just

seems likely, like, but always has things. seem likely. Like, they were always stupid to expect that Trump would be the, you know, the hero they needed who could push through that, those layered levels of corruption and bring forth the truth of the matter. Like, that was always stupid. Because I, I agree. I also always thought we would never really find out, but that doesn't mean that, you know, like, it was like elite, fuck, rich people like Diddy. And I know Diddy is rich too, but it's like, it's, you know, like they were at the very least, like people like, people like, Clinton and fucking old Dershowitz and people like that were going to like honky ditty parties Right On Fstein's Island

To me it's more about the fact That even after he was publicly outed As a person who had liked sex with underage people They were all still sitting at dinner parties And Botas with him Right To me that's more of what it's about than Yeah

You know Then they're all on tape But then you know The fact that they announced this, like a day before Netanyahu's making a White House visit, has completely fucking enraged a certain part of the Megasphere, and I find that deeply funny.

Moving on, before we get to the show, we have two possible topics I'll let you choose between. They are the state of race relations in America or porn. Now, I want you to choose carefully here, Tray. Cake or death? Yeah, well, I'll go with cake.

Not you framed it that way. I mean, yeah, porn, obviously. It seems like a safer bet, but, you know. It's fitting. is we're talking about Texas today at the flooding in central Texas, and this is Texas related. So the Supreme Court on Friday heading out, heading down a decision upholding Texas's halfway porn ban. We're basically, they're trying to require everyone to upload their driver's license to porn

sites to prove they're over 18, so you can like, you know, which the effect of which means even people that are legally of age have to inform the government whenever they're dorking it, all right? So there you go. Yeah. And the small government utopia of Texas. this you know yeah this the small government utopia where we can't rescue drowning campers but we can't stop you from watching porn and ice will raid your birthday party right right so uh the the the downstream

implications those are pretty fucking hilarious if you know anything about the history of like like supreme court uh porn jurisprudence okay so uh i think a lot of people aware of like like the the question of whether a particular film or photo a serious artistic value is obviously in the eye of the beholder and that that's where that famous just uh quote from justice or Stewart comes from that like pornography is I know it when I see it right yeah um and I mean you know in my opinion that's fair enough it is it's true that's what's stupid to try to ban it this is going to end up banning like books about being gay right yeah so uh but last time they tried to do this stuff uh the result of which was that for a lot of the 1970s supreme court

justices had to meet in the basement of the Supreme court to watch porn movies they were the subject of various cases and prosecutions. So that was in order to see, you know, you got to know it when you see it. They'd actually watch the porn to see if it was porn, right? So let me quote here from a book by Bob Woodward and Scar Armstrong called The Brethren. The way they described these as, quote, thoroughly humiliating experiences. Justice John Marshall Harlan, for example, was nearly blind during many of these screening. So one of his law clerks had to describe what was happening on the screen to him, often

prompting Harlan to exclaim, by jove or extraordinary. What is a British aristocrat doing serving on our Supreme Court's by jove? Yeah, I mean, that's straight out of a movie right there. That's incredible. But the bank shot of this is the people that make porn aren't completely stupid. So they try to come up with workarounds, which is like, let me quote here, filmmakers will often try to work within the courts, quote, serious literary, artistic, political. or scientific value framework

by including political discussions or similar matters in a movie that was otherwise about sex. For example, one such film ended with a speech quote on the comparative merits of communist

and Western societies. So, today's porn stars, prepare to learn to recite John Rawls with your mouthful. That's a fun history lesson on the Supreme Court in porn, but this current situation with the Texas thing

that this iteration of the Supreme Court has just upheld their archaic ruling, right? So they're, I assume other red states will probably follow suit soon and, you know.

Yeah, probably. But like, we might get a national version of this law. But also, like, it's funny if you know anything about like Clarence Thomas' history, he's really into porn. So he probably just improved his job 40%

who's been having to see watching porn videos in a Supreme Court basement. Does that mean, are you saying that like can is it still a loophole that like if you made a porn and had a had a girl you know recite a poem while getting railed or whatever you just said like that you know you could call it art and then it would circumvent this law or whatever like you wouldn't have to do that like you know no this is an art web this is an uh you know artistic erotica website and it's not well they'll they'll get they'll get dinged to the go to the supreme court

and clarence thomas will watch your videos and decide whether it's more porn or more like it's more political expression. So then we'll just like, it'll be a case-by-case basis for every porn ever made. All right. Well, good luck to them with that. I'm glad to be out here in godless

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We're halfway through the summer skew in a. right now so we just answered a bunch of questions we got more coming in the future it's a lot of fun get some more skews in your life and support the show in the process sign up on patreon please consider it now as for the show tonight we're going to keep it focused on texas and the horrific nigh biblical tragedy that has happened there and uh all the bullshit that has in fact surrounded it before during and after so we're going to get all to that into that a little bit later but first we begin with the daily dumbass mac graphic please Tonight's D.D., the demoncrat Deep State Illuminati for Kim trailing the people of Texas with Glacier Freeze Gatorade.

Hey, we're camping in this beautiful state park in Texas, and it's been raining, and the water that's coming out of the sky is blue, and it's not this tarp because it's happening on this. Tart 2. Look at that. This is crazy. Are they Kim trailing us? You cut it, Matt. So that video has millions and millions and millions of views

across TikTok and Twitter and this kind of thing, that's clearly to me, I mean, Occam's Razor to me is that's Blue Power Rate or something. You've course got poured on a tarp. I've never seen anti-free's colored rain before.

I have an either, but I do know that you know, like it's rained frogs in places and fish and stuff. Things you get picked up by tornadoes and drop down elsewhere, and there's, you know, weird shit can happen with rain, so it could be something, but, but it's not

Jewish Kim Trails. Like, I know that much, but, or you could just be, you're right, that guy's just, it's just a hoax, that guy's bullshit and everybody. I do, I like the added extra layer of, that he added to it by, the caption was misspelled. It said, cloud seeding, and it was spelled

S-E-A-D-I-M-G, so, you know, making it more believable. It didn't really help, but Texas was trying a small-scale cloud-sitting project in the area a couple days before, so we'll get to the cloud-sitting part of this later. But this kind of video fascinates me. I remember back during the, when they were rolling out of the vaccines, that people would pretend that they were magnetic and hang, like, and have, like, coins stuck to them and stuff that they clearly glued, you know what I'm talking about? So, like, those people know they're faking.

Right. right but when they see another video of somebody else fake and they'll know it's real like this guy clearly faked his video some way and then other people watch it pretend it's real and then he'll watch their videos pretend they're real it's like they're trading off stealing each other's noses and when they take the nose they know they took it but when someone takes their nose they suspend disbelief and believe their nose got took him yeah i always thought that kind of thing with like uh whenever i would hear like scientologists talk talk about like operating thetons and stuff and like the powers that they have or like

and Tom Cruise is like the highest level operating Theton which means according to their scripture he should be able to like levitate and be telekinetic and all this other stuff and I was always so like okay but I mean he he knows that he can't float right like he has to know that but maybe he thinks he can but he just chooses not to

trade yeah right I mean yeah he could be so delusional you never really know but yeah I always wondered that type of thing with people like this like you said like they have to know in their heart that it isn't happening to them so did they just think oh i'm being you know everyone else can do it and i'm being punished with not being able to do it for some reason but i have to hide that and pretend i can do it or else i'll out myself as you know not being chosen for the truth or something or is it just it's just funner to you know pretend you know i don't know i guess i yes uh yeah let's talk about because like

the the governmental response to this it feels like everything is you've all day police department lately. And like, so here's Mike Johnson on Fox News Sunday, if you got this video, Matt, talking about the flooding in Texas and the National Weather Service and the government response. And federal resources have just poured into that area. Is there anything more that can be done congressionally, legislatively, to help those folks? In a moment like this, we feel just as helpless as everyone else does. I've talked to my colleagues there in Texas, Chip Roy and August Flueger, whose family's, you know, that's Chip's district. August's daughters were at the camp. we also had Betty Carter of Georgia

and grandchildren there it touches so many families and all we need to do at this moment is pray every... Okay, all we can do is pray yeah, that's all you can do is pray Mike that's why you don't fire the fucking scientists and deploy the National Guard all over the country elsewhere for bits

so you guys aren't keeping track of this is a horrific flash flood in Texas Hill country over the weekend as of this early this afternoon the death tolls climbed to 100, including 28 kids. There's like 18 summer camps along the Guadalupe River, which is the river that flooded. It was a, the Guadalupe rose 26 feet within 45 minutes in the middle of the night.

It's swept through an area of hill country dotted with summer camps. A small town is about 70 miles west of San Antonio. I don't want to, I want to talk about the government response and stuff and the winged that response, but as far as the human catastrophe of it, like, I read a quote from a parent. and it's absolutely heartbreaking. It's hard to eulogize an eight-year-old because they're a lump of everything and nothing. They're full of possibilities, but they haven't done much, you know, because they're only eight. And she was like, she liked spaghetti.

And that fucking, that crushed, that crushed me. Yeah. You know, like, it's like, she didn't get to do anything else, but liked spaghetti and run around in the summer camp for a little while. Blair is this going to be talking about, you know, there's the doge end of it, it's whether or not the National Weather Service saw it coming after all the budget slaps. slash that's how whatever information they had was communicated, which was pretty stupidly and poorly. It's about how they completely lacked the state capacity to evacuate thousands of children at 10 o'clock at night. Then there's a lunatic, including Marjor Taylor Green, formulated conspiracy theories before a lot of the dead had even drowned, and survivors were still sitting in trees. So for context, I lived in Texas for 11 years.

I miss it. It's a beautiful place full of a lot of wonderful people. Hill country is very, very beautiful. It's also known as Flash Flood Alley. It's a long crest of land occurs near Dallas down to San Antonio, then westward. The hills are steep. Water moves very quickly when it floods. It's a dry area with soils that don't soak up water,

so the flood sheets off quickly and shallow creeks can rise really fast. And Texas, as a whole, leads the nation in flood dust for context and by a pretty wide margin. Texas leads the nation in flood dust, train deaths, and deaths from. messing with Texas so don't go there and do any of those three things um yeah well at least they tell you about the messing with texas part i didn't even i didn't even know about the floods let alone the trains but if that if that part of the hill country is called flash flood alley or whatever then why do they you know you said there's 18 children summer camps along that river where it flooded but it's one of the worst places in the country for flooding it just seems like i don't know

feels like that's ill-advised i mean i'm saying that's is a person who lives in California, which spontaneously combusts every year. I mean, the last time there was even remotely a big problem, I think, was two, 19, what it? It was like 10 kids drowned like 20 some years ago, I think, uh, and in a flash flow, but nothing like this. This is like a 500 year flood, right? Um, so just for a number for the flood deaths, uh, data from 1959 to 2019 showed like

close to 1100 people had died in flooding in Texas over those six decades. Texas highest totals, Louisiana, was 693. So basically close to double the next state, which is Louisiana, which is a swamp. But, of course, there's a much smaller population. Like I said, it was 1987, sorry, so more than 30, yeah, 37, 38 years. Last time, heavy rain in Western Kirk County, quickly flooded the Guadalupe, triggering flash flood similar to this one. That was when 10 teenagers died. San Antonio just last month, at the edge of Hill Country, was hit with a flash flood on June

12th, they just killed 13 people whose cars were swept away. So yeah, it's just like, Texas is flat, a lot of thunderstorms, there's nowhere for the water to go, cars get swept away, people are cocky drivers in Texas because they think it's a kind of place where people think four-wheel drive helps you on ice, you know?

Because it's the commercials tell you. So, as far as the Doge part of this, the rhetoric around this, I find utterly frustrating because you cannot draw a straight line from cutting a weatherman and a person dying. That's not how any of this works. budgets are a statement of its old expression budget or budgets are a statement of values right what are you willing to invest in are you willing to invest in a robust national weather service on the off chance that being aware of stuff will save lives i am a lot of people aren't apparently they're in control of the government and that's what this is about it's not about whether or not uh this specifically one or two guys being fired in each in each field office has directly killed people as much as i would want to sit here and tell you that it did i want to see

Elon must die in prison much as anyone else But like I just I don't think anybody Being intellectually honest can say that Nor can the people defending the cuts Saying that because we can't draw that straight line We can't make any sort of criticisms All right Because it's not just like

They're gonna so here's all these arguments tend to go Is conservatives are going to shit on the National Weather Service For underperforming here And use it to justify further fucking cuts Right but didn't they already make cuts To you know agencies or whatever involved in the National Weather Service and NOAA and things like that.

Yes. So basically they, the exact numbers I'm not tremendously sure of. The actual budget cuts don't come until the one big beautiful bill they assigned. But Doge did fire like a thousand people and offer early

retirement with like 800 other people who took it. Right. And I saw those clips too that some people dug up of various meteorologists and weathermen and stuff. At least a couple of different ones doing their job one night and then talking about the cuts and stuff

and this is before any of this happened and being like just so everyone knows like this will impact our ability to accurately predict stuff like this or to deliver warnings like this will have a real impact and I'm worried about it and they said that beforehand and this happened and people have dug that up now

and something like you just say you can't like definitively like you said draw a straight line from these people who were fired in this office to this happening here at this time, but it's like, right. You can't prove that, but like... Let me example of what I would talk about.

That meteorologist you're talking about was in Florida, I think. He was talking at the beginning of hurricane season about how they're not going to do it. Their forecast about hurricanes is going to be less accurate. And when he's referring to, he's not just talking about staff cuts. I think what he was referring to mostly was the Trump administration revoked the NOAA's access to DOD satellites that were using the sea in the clouds. Noah, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency has two airplanes.

When you see, like, the hurricane chasing movies where they're flying an airplane into a hurricane. They only have two of those. They do most of watching the hurricanes, seeing into those clouds with DOD satellites. Trump administration took away their access to that. I don't even fucking know why. Right. It's just fuckery. If you told me the reason was they just want more people to die in hurricanes, like, that makes as much sense as anything else.

Right. I mean, that's probably not even costing much extra money. The satellites are there anyway. Right. Just like, yeah. Right. Well, so I'm saying. So it seems, you know.

So I don't know if the National Weather Service, which is under NOAA, if they'd had access to those satellites, would have seen the flash flood clumbing. I can't, that guy might have been asleep at his moderate. He might not put two inches together. You might not have thought to check those satellites. But the fact is they did not have access to them. Right. Yes.

So you're just saying, you just, yeah, you're just, it can't be proven that those cuts directly led to this. But, like, it still feels like it's a bad. It's the type of thing that, you know, when you're making sweeping, cuts like that that people warn against and then you know and it happens it's like you said and then that Texas Republicans blame the National Weather Service you know regardless and it's like you know I don't know yeah um so like people did see this coming lately five former national weather service directors from bipartisan you know from both parties wrote an open letter on May 2nd said quote our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there

will be needless loss of life. And in case anybody remembers or is wondering, the dismantling of NOAA and National Weather Service is described starting on page 674 project 2025 as well underway. And their main reasons are twofold. One, weather forecasting is part of the, and I'm quoting here from them, the climate change alarm industry. And two, the guy that owns AccuWeather is a big Trump supporter and he wants to be able. They want to privatize this data so he can, so this one or two guys can fucking sell

it for money and make us subscribe to the weather. Or we all live in a libertarian paradise and we all do our own weather forecasting. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, guys. So as far as talking about the level of bullshit we're operating here,

and Texas officials were blaming the National Weather Service for an inaccurate forecast that understated how much rain was coming if they could have seen it coming. But the weather service is defending themselves like, well, they're as good as could be expected given the enormous levels of rainfall and the abrupt escalation and the staffing shortages suggest a separate

problem, those former officials said, the loss of experienced people would typically have helped communicate with local authorities and the hours after flashed forward warnings were issued overnight. Because when you think about who they offered, who they fired and who they offered retirement to, it's the more expensive people. Yeah. All the people have been there longer. Also, you offer early retirement, that means that by definition, that's, yeah, more experienced people.

So Trump administration's defense of itself is like, some of these offices were actually overstaffed. And I'm like, I'm just thinking, okay, what you did was you fired a guy who had 22 years of experience or off him early retirement, 22 years of experience, and he was making like 150 grand a year. And then you hired 323-year-old straight at a Bible college, don't believe in dinosaurs, and paid them 35 grand a year. And you saved 55 grand, but you have more bodies you can point to you to say they're not understaff. You expect to sell to fucking buy it. So the National Weather Service at the San Angelo office, which covers some of this area, was missing a senior hydrologist, a staff forecaster, and a meteorologist in charge.

The San Antonio office, which covers other areas hit by the floods, has significant vacancies including a warning coordination meteorologist and a science officer. Warning coordination means the guy who coordinate the fucking warnings, obviously. I know. Yeah. I feel like the way you got into this whole part of the discussion here, whatever was, again, was by saying, like, if you're going to be intellectually honest, you can't say definitively that this caused it.

But then everything you've said since then, I know it's not definitive, but like, it still feels pretty damning to me. Right. What I'm saying is, I can't prove they could have saved more lives. I'm saying they're not trying, they're definitely not trying their best to save lives. Right. Yeah. Okay.

And that, to me, that's the way to put it. Right. Like, if they spent 3% more money out of the 100 people, have died, could they have saved 20 of them, 30 of them? What's the dollar amount of value on that? You know what I'm saying? So the staff members we're talking about are meant to work with local emergency managers to plan for floods, including when and how to warn local residents and how to help them evacuate.

The San Antonio offices coordination meteorologists left on April 30th after taking the early retirement package the Trump offered. And there's a story earlier this year about the guy. It was people openly worried about this happening when it happened. The vacancy rate of those offices is roughly double what it was when Trump came back to the White House. You'd think the positions like this are just basic roles that would be filled in a country that has a ton of theme parks, half the world's nukes, and seven stock exchanges. We have the fucking resources for this shit. Like a senior hydrologist, I don't know what the fuck that does. Right.

But. I don't want to know. yes but you know enough to know that they do something I think that a lot of people this is what I was about to say anyway before you said senior hydrologist it's apparently there's a lot of people it's like if they even see line they don't know what that does either and so they're like

why the hell am I paying for that like my being my tax dollars if the government has all these scientists hydrologists and shit like that on staff and people who also don't know what that means or what they do they default to like well then that's bullshit and we shouldn't be paying for that anyway. Nobody even knows what that is. It's like, well, it's important. You just don't know what

it is. There's a lot of things that are important that you don't understand, right? And we still need those things. But that's, yeah, that's, I don't know. It's like they always just think that these things are just line items on a spreadsheet or something like that and not actual things that could actually

impact your actual life, not just people you know, but you, you know, it could be you that's impacted by removing some of these lines. It's also because of these

people are money growing psychos, I also want to point out this like accurate weather predicting and climate

predicting is good for the economy. How do people like how do people plan their crops and harvest and like

orange juice futures and shit? You know like or like you, isn't that like the foundation of like meteorology

and weather forecasting and stuff goes back to like farmers almanacs and stuff and trying to predict you know what I mean like it was all about

farming and agriculture and crops and harvest and shit that's got us into the whole weather predicting game in the first place. You know, it helps everybody to know what's going to happen. If you're giving boat tours on Lake Travis,

people can book with confidence knowing that they won't get rained out. It helps your fucking boat business. It's like, I don't, everything's so short-sighted now. This is a, by the way, the proposed NOAA budget for 2026 contains the literal line item,

total for climate research, zero dollars. They put it in, they put zero in there. Ah, fuck. Getting to the FEMA part of this? FEMA's not functioning right now, really. Like, state officials all over the country are basically saying they can't get FEMA on the phone.

Quote, we've been ghosted by FEMA, said a director of emergency management from North Carolina. In Wyoming, more than 90% of the state's emergency management budget comes to the federal government, and the request for clarity on emergency management funds also gone and answered. Basically, FEMA has decided that every bit of communication. the agency does has to go through the acting administrator that's reporting by Trump. So no one can send a fucking email or return a phone call without this person doing the email you're talking.

And I'm begging the person only has two phone hands. So everything is just fucked. And Trump has said that they're going to phase out FEMA and leave all emergency response to the states. And he was asked about it again yesterday in the middle of all this. By the way, there's flooding going on. There's emergency flooding catastrophic flooding happening in North Carolina as we speak.

So not just in Texas as this happened. And here's Trump yesterday answering this question. Are you still planning to phase out FEMA? Well, FEMA is something we can talk about later. But right now, they're busy working, so we'll leave it at that. Go ahead. All right, let me translate that for you. We'll find a 15-minute interregnum where FEMA's not juggling a bunch of flaming turds we handed it with climate change and burn their fucking building down.

Right. Yeah, just acknowledging that they're busy working right now, shouldn't that, in that like an implicit, you know, acknowledgement of their necessity or their usefulness at the very least, you know, like to be like, well, I can't really talk about whether I'm going to cut them or not, because they got so much stuff to do. It's, we're going to leave it all to the Cajun Navy, baby. They did the couple hundred rednecks of bass boats to drive all over the country to these sort of happenings as volunteers. They're going to fucking, you know, they're going to be our national response team, I guess. It's worth pointing out that since Alligator Alcatraz is kind of up and running, it was built with $450 million in the FEMA money,

and it's already flooding from mild rainstorms. So while children drown, it's useful to remember that we're raiding the FEMA budget to build this thing that's also drowning. Dude, when that, I didn't even think about that part when we were first talking about Alligator Alcatraz, which I should have, but like, whenever the first, you know there's going to be a, at least one gnarly ass hurricane, right? through there's probably multiple ones because it happens every year now and one of them goes

through there uh with that ram shackle operation they've thrown together down there like that's going to get real ugly real fast or they'll have to spend a bunch of like federal and state resources evacuating the a bunch of people that did not need to be there and be forced to abandon the people that live there so it's like they they do have something close to limited financial resources, but there are, there's only so many planes to go around. Just the useful, like, just an example about how fucked up our politics are. I read a thing a while back about it is, like, currently a big debate in Iceland over whether it's acceptable to raise the yearly university tuition to $1,500. Right.

What is it here now, the average yearly tuition? Both are kidneys. I went to go and try to find out what their resolution of that debate it was but there's not a lot of coverage of Icelandic news and English but I was able to discern that they're currently having all night

debates in the legislature over whether or not they should hike fishing fees so it's like should what are the guy named Woolmunder is like we're going to raise it 2% or I'm going to fucking kill you Helgi and we're like should we let children drown or not fucking Jesus Christ this country

yeah they got snubes Trolls up there, so at least we want to talk about that. Dude, what would Border Patrol do if they saw a fucking snow troll? It's weapons free. So we're talking about this austerity, fucking extreme austerity in relation to like flooding today. But like this dynamic is going to keep playing out. Like last week, this is a story from last week where the Department of Health and Human Services eliminated the CDC staff who makes sure birth control was safe for women who are at risk with other health conditions. so it's a small team

to like like they basically test different you know women have stuff like heart disease lupus sickle cell obesity that could like interact different ways with like birth control medicine and this is the team in charge of seeing which birth controls actually don't harm women

with which conditions and they just been completely disbanded so if you're wondering if you can use a NUVA ring with type 1 diabetes fucking feel it out man's vibes I don't know so now we get the communication part of this because that's the part where you can directly pin stuff more directly you know pin stuff more directly on people's decisions when asked while the summer camps in the area were not evacuated

kirk county judge rob kelly he's the highest ranking county official said i can't answer that i don't know and then he was asked about their lack of a local warning system and he said the county did not have a warning system because such systems are expensive and local residents are resistant to new spending. Taxpayers won't pay for it, Mr. Kelly said. Or you could make your fucking case as a politician and be a leader,

you goddamn psycho. So we got the federal government refusing to spend money, the local government refusing to spend money. What's the state government doing? Well, I think the power grid's a good cop where it works fine as long as nothing goes wrong. So they're just general in, like, generally in all directions,

they underinvest in public infrastructure and disaster mitigation. And their immediate response to this. Are you familiar with the risk cocaine, Trey? I don't know. It sounds familiar. He's a state house rep. We talked about him before.

And his first response to this was to tweet, we cannot allow this great tragedy to be used to grow government. By the way, we got to emulate the revolted to police department and resist public outrage calling on us to do, anything more or better at our jobs. Right, yeah. Yeah, we can't let this failing of government influence us to improve our government in any way. It's the one thing we cannot do.

We cannot let our failure lead to us trying. No matter what. But one of the, part of the thing that's bugging with this guy is he talks and talks like a big tough cowboy. He has the name of a big tough cowboy. But if you want to see what he actually looks like, throw this picture of him up there, Matt. But he's a fucking dweeb. Oh, my God. That's briscoe cane.

Yes, that's briscoe cane. I think the last time we talked about him, he put on it, he was wearing a cowboy hat and an airport going to Philadelphia to stop the count. So, it would have been, you know, 2020, I guess. So state lawmakers also failed to pass a bill that would have, like, funded a better emergency system, including warning sirens for floods. Now, when I lived in Dallas, uh, all of the state lawmakers. Oliver day FW when there'd be like hurricane warning, you'd get the sirens. So everybody would know to stop mowing your yard and go inside. Okay.

This is what they refused to find was just sirens that would honk outside to wake up the campers. Instead, the county shows to allow on Facebook updates, which according to local media would not have been seen by the campers or their counselors who were not allowed to bring their phones with them. The state and counties plan to notify these kids, counselors of an emergency was to post on Facebook about it of a website where no one under 40 goes on in an area where they didn't have their phones with them yeah I didn't you know I never thought that like siren now I mean I will say I don't you know you're more familiar with this area than I'm than I am but unless it's changed since I've been gone and I highly doubt it has like where I'm from also doesn't have because I used to be

kind of afraid of tornadoes as a kid, and I used to be upset the fact that my hometown didn't have any... I knew tornado sirens were a thing. I'd say any movies and stuff like that, but we didn't have those, you know, but we didn't have, like, anything. We also didn't have streetlights. We didn't need streetlights.

We could have done with tornado sirens. But, like, so I'd probably place that doesn't have one, and I always just took it for, you know, again. It was like, yeah, well, we ain't got shit around here. But I didn't think that it was the thing that anybody opposed or would vote against, you know, if it was brought up. Like I feel like most people, if you guys,

if you live in a place that doesn't have tornado sirens and is subject to tornadoes periodically, if you ask people, where are you cool with us having tornado sirens? I would have thought most people would be like, yeah, that's fine. I didn't think people would be like,

curse the tyrannical government that would suggest such a thing. It's also like, like, so one of these camps, camp mystic, which is like a hundred-year-old camp for like the wealthy elites, the daughters of the wealthy elite of Texas.

Like LBJ is, daughter went there. Laura Bush was a counselor there, so on, so on. So earlier when Mike Johnson was talking about a couple of different congresspeople who had grandchildren at these camps, it's kind of what he's talking about. So these state politicians would not invest in warning sirens to warn their own fucking relatives, the grandchildren. Right. So it's, ah, yeah, man. At least you can't say they don't believe in their own bullshit. NPR put together a timeline of the government's response to this, which essentially was just internet posts because they didn't have the best information because the weather service

was not totally on top of it. And what information they had, they were trying to get out basically via just Twitter slash X and Facebook. This is like utterly weird. I can't believe they think this is the best way to get word out. Right now, currently on Twitter, one of the most popular ads being served up is from a guy in Michigan. He's paid to boost his post.

He has 107 followers, and he just posts ads all the time saying that CPS in Michigan took his kids and put him on the sex offender registry because he, quote, exposed the truth about Kamala Harris. So just scroll past that guy to get the information about whether your kid needs to be saved from drowning. Like, this is the thought process here. Yeah, that's a good point, actually, too, because it used to be if you followed something, like you could follow Kerr County. warning system or something. And if you did that whenever they posted something, you would see it if you followed them. But none of those services,

social media services, none of them work that way anymore because of what you're talking about because of like you got to pay to boost post to have them seen. I don't know if governmental entities can get around that or not. But yeah, like even if you follow a place to see these types of things that they post it, you might not necessarily depend on how the platform works to be in with. and it's like

you got to also have to be on your phone at midnight on a Saturday right so I fuck um so this is also to context

where like they get Texas has emergency alert systems like everybody does but they overuse the fuck out of it like that we've all like you and I got a bunch of dummy alerts during the fires out here but imagine getting those four times a day

and that's what it's like in Texas because you got the silver alerts you got they're the home of the ant they're the originators the Amber Alert. They've also got something called a blue alert. Basically, every time a cop anywhere in the state gets hurt, everybody's phone flings, like last year, late last year, the FCC got thousands of complaints over a blue alert in northern Texas.

A cop got shot in Memphis, Texas, which is in the panhandle, and a bunch of people in North Texas, like the Dallas area, got fucking blue alerts at 5 a.m. woke all their kids up and shit. And so people started figuring out how to turn off the alerts on their phones so they can get some goddamn sleep. Memphis is eight hours away from North Tech, from Dallas, Fort Worth. So I'm not even quite sure what the fuck the point of it was,

except to let everybody know they should be upset over a cop getting hurt. Right. So I guess it's state property. Either they don't, either they just don't care or this guy, we got to let everybody know that the thin blue line standing firm or some shit. So those alerts that happened on all of our phones or whatever, that are, those are state-controlled.

Like, if I was in Texas at that time, I would have gotten alert on my phone about a cop being shot there. Like, does each state send those out? You know what I'm saying? Like, who's in charge of that? I think they're regional authorities to greenlight it. And there's also like a state-wide one. But like, either way, these kids didn't have their phones.

There's like no thought press. Really, the only thing that would have worked is sirens. Right. That's all it would have worked. Because their kids sleeping on a weekend at a camp on a remote river. So, some of the loons and cloud seating for a little bit. So this video was all over the mega internet over the weekend. This video, this is filmed on a plane flying over the United Arab Emirates a couple of years ago.

Let's see some plot. Look at this. So I flip this to L2 and then I bring this to one. And fire. Now look at that. Five. Fire. Okay. So cloud seating is real. Okay. We make fun of people to complain about the weather machines, but this isn't a real thing. But as far as the general efficacy of it, I just want to point out that that was filmed over the United Arab Emirates. And by now, we've surely, surely we've all heard about the thriving Emirati rice patties. Do you know what I'm saying? People were trying to figure out cloud seating for 80 years. The general.

consensus is that it can increase precipitation 5 to 15% under the right conditioned in a few clouds here and there. And the U.S., most of the experiences have been used trying to increase snowpack in the western United States in the winter to try to make the summer droughts less fierce. They also reduce hail, which would be a big boon to Texas insurers, which is funny because if there's conspiracy here, it's like flow from progressive being a bond villain with a weather machine. It's also worth noting these are state running. initiatives for the most part. It's not some like federal DARPA thing.

I mean, like they could be hiding the paper trail, of course, who fuck knows. But I just think, though, the, the, the reaction to this, considering like, if this worked. Right. It would be a panacea. Why use it for this? Like, if you have this machine and it worked that well, yeah, you could, you could do what they're trying to do. Saudi Arabia would be a verdant, you know. fields of plenty if this technology worked you'd see it because they certainly have the money

for it and they're clear so why keep it completely secret just so you can drown a bunch of campers in Texas like and for what like to to scapegoat the Trump administration to make them look bad or something is some sort of like ecological false flag to make people worried about climate change because we're so concerned about propagandizing that. These are the reasons that the Jews make their weather laser do stuff like this past week in Texas. They're telling themselves that, you know, one, it's the Biden holdover is trying to make Trump look bad over the budget and budget and doge cuts. It's, yeah, trying to make people believe in climate change. And there's also a third part of it where there was a recent

gas power, I think it's gas powered power plant, greenlet for $175 million in Curvo. And they think just like they convince themselves that the North Carolina floods were for you know they could use eminent domain to get mineral deposits they think that this is like so they can seize land to build the power plant

or something which is like the degree of which these people are mad about a thing is that are legitimately infuriating like for example disaster capitalism like that's a good thing to have a sense of injustice over

there's a tab. called Altadena, California, where it's currently being completely bought up by moneyed interest determining historically black community that burned down last year into like fucking McMansions and shit. But this is not that. It just isn't. They're going to build the power plant. They already had the land.

It doesn't like, none of your theories hold water. But, anyway, Marjorie Taylor Green over the weekend announced on Twitter, she's going to introduce a bill to ban cloud seeding and weather manipulation. so my entire life with regard to climate change um the evangelical angle has been to say it's silly to think anyone but god can control the weather this goes back to like what about the gays oh that's right god well god controlled the weather in response to the gay stuff right yes that's right yeah so it's because well again that doesn't even make sense because the whole thing of the reason they believe that is because the rainbow after the after noah's ark was was a symbol of god's promise never again flood the earth. That's why they think the climate change can't cause the seas to rise because God promised he would never raise the seas. They'd drown whole cities again. But then again,

he's flooded New Orleans because of butt-sac. So it doesn't make sense internally. So, but now they've got a version of God is apparently in a fight to control the weather with a Democratic Party run by Chuck Schumer and George Soros. And God is losing this fight, apparently. And again, the point of this, the reason they're trying to like do this Looney Tunes Acme for, fucking cloud seeding shit. It's mostly just to, like, do investors out of monies. I don't think it can ever really work that well. But if it did work, the whole point is to try to combat droughts that are caused by climate

change, or just droughts in general. So we can't invest in stopping climate change. We can't fund FEMA to rescue people from the effects of climate change. We can't fund sirens so people can rescue themselves from the effects of climate change. And we can't allow the funding of research to assuage on the margins. We've got to make that illegal by getting rid of cloud seeding. So, like, why would we have fucking the ability to make it rain everywhere and have California be running out of water? Who is it that the controls these fucking machines?

That, too. We brought that up when the wildfires were happening because they were talking about them, too. And it's like if the Jewish cabal has these weather machines that can bring forth a deluge, you don't think they'd put fucking Los Angeles out, you know, like Hollywood. This is their mecca, isn't it? Poor choice of words, but you know what I mean? This is, you know, like fucking, right. it just doesn't it's always to me the question of like to what end is usually where these types of things fall apart you know for me these theories and everything that they have

because it's like you said you know people have been trying to call forth rain for you people fucking you know it fucking rain dances and shit like it's been the thing throughout all of humanity as text did ritual human sacrifice so you know to make the crops grow like yeah so the one of the main companies that does cloud seating is called rainmaker And they did, they could, Drainbeger did confirm they flew a few 20-minute cloud-seating missions in July 2nd over current Carnes County, which is southeast of the flood zone. The operation targeted two clouds that reportedly dissipated later that afternoon. Don't need to trust them. A veteran Houston meteorologist knows the shit about this named Travis Herzog, a way down in it called the theory scientifically unfounded.

Quote, cloud seeding cannot create a storm of this magnitude or size. In fact, cloud seeding cannot even create a single cloud. all they can do is take an existing cloud and enhance the rainfall by up to 20%, and even that was on the high end. Anyway, the CEO of Rainmaker has agreed to go on a live X-space this afternoon hosted by conservative conspiracy theorist

named Amuse to respond to this scrutiny, so I'm betting that's going to go really fucking well. The CEO, by the way, Trey, his name is the CEO of Rainmaker. He's not going to beat the evil fucking psycho bond villain allegations based upon his name alone, which is August.

Augustus Derricko. Yeah. It sounds a little Harry Pottery, too, to me, like a J.K. Rallying type name. Yeah. Augustus Derricko. Just a fucking scrabble tile, like a random scrabble tile and drawing of names. He has a former Peter Thielfellow, which means he got a grant to do his stupid ideas. This is what he looks like if you want to see.

This is a... What? This guy's a CEO of a tech company. He's got a jean jacket. What does that shirt say? Jesus. Rimp? I don't fucking know. He's got a mullet, fucking really killing it.

Here's a picture of him floating around the internet hugged up with Bill Clinton. So he's not beating the fucking Illuminati Epstein Falls allegations. So just real quick, just because I think this is, because you pointed out to, I didn't notice the shirt, you pointed out the shirt, so I started looking at a shirt. And this isn't what it says. But I thought for a second that it was a shirt with pictures of Jesus with without a beard, with clean face, and I thought it said Jesus shaves

on it. Oh, that probably makes sense. That's not, well, that isn't what it says, but now I want to make and sell shirts that have that on them, because I think that that's a funny idea for a joke, too. I've never seen that before. Jesus shaves. It's just clean-shaved and Jesus. Yeah, that's funny. Jesus always has a bare

chest in the paintings and shit. Yeah. I know. I'm just saying, you know, Jesus saves, obviously. I've just never seen that play on it. I thought Augustus DeRico was the first one to get there but no it doesn't say that i can't tell what it says it does look like jesus shrimp i don't know but anyway i thought that's what it said so yeah it's pretty funny to me this guy started the start of this like company that basically does nothing but he makes

billions of dollars off of it based upon its connections and like the power the be being dupes for stupid technological the name of the game buddy the name of the game drusin that's the thing in our group chat earlier the uh the former c t o So, you know, a top person at OpenAI, the chat GPT company, is starting their own AI company with no product, no plan, no projection, no ideas, no nothing. Yeah. And it's been valued at $10 billion after raising a, this person, her name's Mira or something. She wouldn't take less than $50. Mira Mara Rite wouldn't take less than $50 million per investor.

refuse to take let if you she won't get out of bed for less than $50 million a person and the company's been valued to raise $2 billion and the most recent round of funding valued at $10 billion and again they don't have a product or an idea of door anything they don't let me let me read the press release three uh Maria Barati former open ICTO has steered her six month old venture with six she's not working those for six months six month old venture with finking machines lab to a two billion dollar seed round that a 10 billion dollar valuation, remarkably achieved without a disclosed product, revenue, or business plan. She holds a decisive control on the board and weighed voting rights from the eclipse on that

eclipse of all, her voting rights eclips all the others combined. So she completely trolls this company, and she's taken $2 billion for a bunch of random people at $50 million a pop. It's positioned in stealth mode and supported by high profile ex open eye talent. The deal exemplifies a shift toward, quote, free plan funding. where reputation and founder vision outweigh traditional metrics. Pre-plan funds. It's like people are getting billions of dollars before they even start to think about what the plan is going to be.

And it's working. It's like, dude, got into the wrong. Basically, what I have in this box is worth $10 billion. And they're like, can I see it? And she's like, no. And they're like, wow, it must be really cool. Just like, so, but this guy, his company does nothing for a very, very high price point,

can't really accomplish much, but because of his shady fucking personal connections, I think he might get himself murdered. Like, these psychos are fucking, like, is another,

another string board going to Peter Thiel for a thing. People think it's connected to fucking a psychotic conspiracy theory. It'd be a real shame of these guys

forced Peter Thiel into hiding, like he had to move into his New Zealand bunker a few years early that he was planning on. But yeah, I saw one MAGA person

posting about this is like, quote, President Trump has patriots and all the key agencies. So why are these events still occurring? Yeah, I mean, you're almost there, buddy. Keep going. Right.

It's almost like there's nothing occurring. And also, the part that kills me about this, if you want to be a conspiracy theorist, like there is actually a giant conspiracy to secretly modify the weather. It's been going on for close to 100 years. Some of the biggest companies on Earth have funded disinformation campaigns

to every major newspaper about it and bought off politicians to hide it. It's happening right in front of you and Texas is an oil estate. You're fucking surrounded by it. Right. Just look around. And see, again, there,

if they asked the same question I said earlier, like, you know, to what end? It's very easy to answer, you know what I mean? Like industry and everything, billions, trillions of dollars at this point have been made over hundreds of years

on the backs of, you know, the industrial revolution and fossil fuels and all that shit. And that's like, That's a lot of power and wealth and influence. It's very, very, very motivated to deny that it's killing the planet, right? So it's like, it actually makes sense. But when you turn around and you say if the Jewish mega cabal that's got the weather lasers, whatever, why would they use it in this way, then all they have is the fucking basement dwelling red string court board bullshit that doesn't, you know, hold up to any real scrutiny at all.

and we're the sheep. You know what I'm saying? Like they're the ones who are awakened to the truth. Like they really believe that. It's... There's a conspiracy... Go ahead. There's a conspiracy of all the world scientists

who went to 14 years of school to make $12 an hour to fabricate climate change and they're being upended and pushed back on by the small bang of the world's pluckiest billionaires. and oil companies. Speaking of the world's pluckiest billionaires

right before we go was going to ask you what you think about Elon's new political party if you're going to be it'll never do anything like it's like

what is he going to do he's going to pick like three congress people to try to primary who he hates the most and fail and fucking wander off and do something else

I mean Elon never does anything he says he's going to do right that is true so yeah it is funny that they're fighting like he's all over

the Epstein thing all day today day. It's like, just like, Elon really thought the Republican Party loved electric vehicles and really believed in cutting the deficit. And he really hurt his feelings when he didn't want to do those two things. It's like he's born yesterday perpetually. I just don't, I can't fucking get it.

Yeah, well, the first half of that, I don't even know what would have given him the slightest impression that they want that. Like, the cut of the deficit thing is like, ostensibly they do want to do that. They act like they do care about it. that they act like they do care about it i know i that's why i said ostensibly i'm saying they like they at least profess to want that but fucking electric vehicles they've been calling those gay since they came out like the people who wanted your electric cars are out here in commie-ass

california and you fucking alienated all of them so you know yeah i guess you thought they could not be so they thought they're public position that uh where they were rolling coal was good and lynchic cars were gay was so obviously stupid they couldn't actually believe it that was just grist for the rubs and then he got in there as they wait these are the rubs

yep they actually believe it all and they fooled me was what does that make me Elon? All right well that'll do it for us this week thanks for watching

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