Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – We’re All Gonna What Now?

Episode Date: June 4, 2025

Trump pardons a grab bag of weirdo scammers, but it’s the potential pardon of an (alleged) pervert that drew the ire of the history’s greatest hater, 50 Cent. Then we talk about how Joni Ernst was honest exactly one time about this government’s health policy and everyone got mad. It involves actively trying to give you cancer while taking treatments away, but don’t worry, they have a solution: Go pet a cow (not kidding).Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it's uh when you're watching this is june 3rd 2025 we're coming to you recording this on monday june 2nd at 2 p.m. on the left coast i'm back in my actual studio should be looking and sounding better this week hopefully this is weekly skews i'm tray that's mark how you doing mark good man uh you when you texted this morning, me and Matt, being like, I just got back from Salina. Anything happened this past week? I almost died laughing because, like, it's like 20, 25. And did anything happen the past week?

It's just such a funny thing. Well, I'm so jealous of your life. No, I know. I mean, I know that, yeah, I mean, every, you know, a year, a standard year happens every week in 2025 in our current reality. But yeah, it's just, I was doing the Patreon video earlier and I was talking about this because it's like, Salina is sort of removed from time and reality in a way for me. Don't get me wrong. It feels like going back in time.

And there's also just, it's kind of its own little world and not in a great way. But it's also just very practically. Like, I always take, I take my kids there. My best friend is there with his family and his kids. And my in-laws are there with all their kids.

Like, there's literally 11 kids, three of which are toddlers, right? We're running around. We're going to the park. We're going to all this stuff the whole time. And it's fun and heartwarming, but incredibly chaotic. And I think that's the bigger reason why I just lose touch completely with the rest of the world when I go to Salina.

You should. You shouldn't know, you shouldn't know, you shouldn't know, I would like, I'd like, I'd like, I'd like, I'd like to, you know, be able to spotlight, internal sunshine, the spotless mind myself a lot of times. So, I mean, just so, I mean, just so news of the day today, this, this happened, you know, over the weekend, but two, two stories. We want to talk about Boulder first or Ukraine first? Which one? No, they're both so cheery and uplifting. Well, Ukraine's a mixed bag, but yeah. So let's do Boulder first.

Okay, so a guy named Muhammad Sabrey Solomon, 45 years old, allegedly cited Free Palestine and attacked a crowd of Jewish people who were doing like a march or just weekly walk to like call attention to the plight of the hostages or whatever. he used what the fed with cops describe as a makeshift flame thrower and incendiary devices um we'll get back to that in a second because it's a little there eight eight he had eight people were injured as of right now no one has died praise be to yahweh allah baby jesus bish new right because they were also they were older people right i read like the thing that i read the article i read said they ranged in age from like 52 to 88.

And the 88-year-old person was a Holocaust survived refugee. I guess they were like a kid in the camps or something. So, you know, pretty fragile physiologies. They're not really known for standing up to being set on fire. So apparently he didn't do the best job, which is good. Right. Yeah. But again, it's like the amount of people that come out of the woodwork and anything bad

happens to make it worse is like extremely frustrating. immediately people were all over the internet the maga Zionist fear was saying this guy definitely had training so this 44 year old guy who was here on a tourist visa and expired work permit apparently is also al-Qaeda or something and it's a tack he did okay I saw the video

of the aftermath he's standing there with no shirt on yelling with people while they film him okay what he used to be attacked with a backpack weed sprayer you know one of those things you weed with filled with gasoline, which the media is calling a flame thrower, which I'm not even sure if you actually use that, because I feel like that would immediately blow up. That's what I was going to say, too.

I mean, it's like, dude, I've seen rednecks try to, like, just get a wet fire started with gas, you know, just by pouring a little bit on it. Just immediately fucking basically explode themselves or singe all their fucking eyebrows off and stuff. So, yeah, I'm with you. It feels like that. If you tried to do that, it would just, the flame would go right back up the tube and into your backpack and just firebomb yourself. Yeah.

And also, like, he apparently had 14 Molotov cocktails. He threw two of them. So he got two of them off and they just sort of quit. He can immediately confess. He waited for the cops and said, yeah, I did it and I'll do it again. So he's never getting out. They've already, there's already been charged with a federal hate crime and a bunch of other felonies.

So then we get to the immigration part of this where, like, okay. So he had a tourist visa. He's apparently an Egyptian, and all this stuff, the people that jump in with certainty to know exactly what happened driving me insane. But as far as anyone can tell, he's an Egyptian national who first came here in a tourist visa that expired, first reporting 2023. The reason Egypt, Egypt matters and when it expires matters, is like, people from, most people get 10-year tourist visas. So you get a 10-year visa, you can come and go from America as you please, right? If you're an Egyptian national, you get a five-year visa. So if it expired in 2023, that means it was issued during the first Trump administration,

which since we're all doing his gotcha shit that would, I guess, matter to someone? I don't know. He then, his tourist visa expired. He applied for a work permit that then expired. And then he'd applied for asylum. So he's not technically here illegally. His status, you want to get a sense of like the Amelia Bedelia-esque nature of our immigration system. He's in a gray area where he's both legally removable but also not here illegally.

mm-hmm okay right which of them just counts as like removable and must go I mean even before this type of thing yeah that's what's like things like this well I mean obviously it's tragic and fucked up for a lot of reasons but it's also annoying because of the type of ammunition it gives some of the worst people on earth do you know what I mean he fits so many different narratives for them right now conveniently he's a Muslim immigrant he you know shouted free Palestine before committing a fucking hate crime against Jewish people or whatever. And it's all just so like, it's just going to fan flame, no pun intended, fan flames. I don't know, you know, they're already pretty fanned. I don't know how much more you could even really fan them. But it's just, you know, it's just a bummer because it gives people something to like latch on to or whatever. Yeah, everything about it's a bummer. The fact that happens is a bummer.

The fact we talk about us to the bummer is like they need to immediately lie and like feed human bodies into your fucking content machine. All right? Yeah. This guy did a wali coyote attack with the stupidest means possible. I actually managed to hurt some people and not kill himself somehow. And someone else's indictment of not just every Muslim, but every immigrant. And I don't even know for sure he's a Muslim.

I just know his first name is Muhammad. Egypt has Christians. But like, anyway, none of it's going to. No one waits to find anything out anymore. So there we go. The facts is we know them as of 2 o'clock on Monday. All right. So Ukraine pulled off their own Pearl Harbor, except Russia should have been on,

We should have been on a war footing, considering what the hell this shit's been up to the past, you know, a couple of years. Operation Spider-Web. On a pure dude's rock scale, 10 out of 10. So what they did basically was smuggle 117 Kamakazi drones into Russia and deposited them at the perimeter of four Russian air bases. This is one of those air bases was 2,500 miles behind Russian borders deep in Siberia. Damn. I guess they hit them in the back of tractor trailers. I mean, I think they were assembled in Russia somehow, like a covert operation.

It's like not really sure, not really sure what to make of it. But they destroyed it. These drones cost $400 to $600 bucks apiece. Kind of shit you could get it like Radio Shack and fucking. Word? Yeah. Damn, this is kind of, this is sort of like the modern day version of a, what's that true story show? Yes, Rogue heroes, yes, exactly.

I thought the same thing, yeah. Yeah, those guys, would you tell everybody what that shows about, the World War II unit, what they did or whatever? The formation of the SAS, Special Air Services, British Special Forces, who dropped behind German lines because the German Air Force, British Air Force couldn't really compete with German Air Force. The idea would you drop behind enemy lines and destroy planes on the ground, right? So this is what, what they did, they destroyed at least $7 billion in equipment, a bunch of T-U-95 bombers, which is important because they deliver, like, they're delivering a lot of, like, missile attacks on Ukrainian civilians, but also what they use to deploy their

nukes, hypothetically speaking, and there's something like 40% of their 2U95 force to damage to the nuclear capability, which is the part of this that is a little bit concerning. We'll come back to that in second. It's not all peaches and cream here. Russia can't really replace

this TU95s from what I'm reading. So they didn't tell Trump the administration that were going to do this according to Wall Street Journal. Yeah. Which, like, and I know everyone has said this, but it's like it's your first daughter. It should be your first daughter. It's like, well, yeah, like, that's why it worked.

You know what I mean? Like, like, of course it didn't tell you. If they had told you, it would have gotten fucked up probably. Like, you know, they were smart about it. Pete, Pete, Pete, Seth would have, like, drunk signal texted it to his cousin or something.

Right, right. But, but I mean, like, this isn't going, this isn't even about rushing gate stuff. They're also loose lip that, like, somebody from the Trump administration might have, like, just said it on the chat while they're playing League of Legends or something. Right. See, I saw people saying, like, well, of course they didn't tell him, you know, Trump's a Russian asset or whatever. And it's like, you know, I don't know that he has the savvy to even be that technically or whatever.

It's like you said, it's just, they're so, they're just so dumb and bad at what they do that it, they're like a security risk, an operational security risk. It doesn't even matter about what their intentions are. you just can't trust these motherfuckers. And it's like this shows you that if they're, if Ukraine is holding stuff back, I'm sure there's tons of other allies of ours who are just leaving us out of the loop all the time on everything right now. Because, you know,

because why wouldn't they? They can't trust any of this shit. So it's just a fucking clown show over here. I don't blame any of them. And there's also the part where like Tulsi Gabbard would try to talk, you see Ukraine out of doing this, right? But also she goes, they're not going to trust her because she goes, she used to be like a TV personality in Russia today, right?

But also, the Biden administration and Obama administrations before them would have also tried to talk them out of doing this because it risks severe escalation because, do you know, do you know familiar with the nuclear triad, Trey? I've definitely heard that term, but I don't remember what it means. All right, so the three-pronged area, the way nuclear deterrence works is you got your main fleet of nuclear missiles, which is hidden in silos, right? But the problem with silos is your enemies are going to know where there are and they're fixed position, right?

So then you pair that with submarines, which are hidden all the time. You can launch fewer nuke from them, but they can definitely get you if you launch your first attack on our silence, right? Right. So the third problem of that is bombers, all right? Bombers split the difference where you both know where they are until you move them, right? Yeah. But you can't move them.

So the reason they're able to find these fucking planes is because, according to the START Treaty, the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty, you have to leave those planes. in the surface, you can't hide them underground so your enemies can see them before they launch because that way you would know when a first strike was coming, hypothetically, right? So like when we moved our B2s to Diego Garcia a couple months ago to menace, Iran, we probably had to send like a top secret group chat like China and Russia, let them know we were moving them. So they wouldn't get nervous, right? Yeah.

So now what is a nuclear power to do if they can eliminate a whole prong of your nuclear triad with shit you home assembled that you bought off the internet, of much we, country, right? So we're just in a new era of asymmetrical warfare. The Ukraine's kind of pioneering in real time. And I'm not sure what it does to the world stability, but also fuck Putin. And I don't know what to make of it. So there you go. All right. I would say if I was a Russian general, I wouldn't stand nearly the open windows anytime soon. So yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, before we get into the show, I had a little anecdote that I wanted to share. And I purposely wanted to put it at the end of this opening segment because I knew we were going to be talking about like, you know,

a brutal flamethrower attack just something bad bad stuff as we often do because this I hope will be look this is hugely anecdotal and so small

in scale don't get me wrong I just think this might cheer some people up in our audience to hear this or you know at least make them feel somewhat better

and I'm curious to hear how you're going to respond to it so I don't know if you ever remember me talking about it over the years but years ago for a good stretch of time, probably four or five years, but while we were doing the show, my uncle Tim, my gay uncle Tim, back home in Salina, he was the co-chair of the Clay County Democratic Party, right? And in, they started that in the first Trump administration, they started this iteration of it in the first Trump administration, like 2018 or something. And then during the Biden administration,

and about right after the pandemic around 2022 or something like that, they finally just shut it down because they never had more than five people total, right, in the whole Clay County Democratic Party. Him, his co-chair, and their three constituents or whatever. And even when they would have a meeting, like two people, two of the five people would be one additional person added to him and his co-chair would be there. So finally, during the Biden administration, they just, like, very discouragedly shut it down, right? Well, I was in Salina last week, and I spent a lot of time with Uncle Tim, and he told me that the preceding Sunday, the week before that, his co-chair who had ran for office in, she's from Clay County, and she ran for, like, state congresswoman didn't get any play at all because she ran as a Democrat.

at, she had texted him and was like, hey, let's try to, let's, you know, maybe put it back together and just see what happens because like this shit is so crazy. We need to do something. We're in the middle of nowhere. We need to organize in some way. So let's just put it out there that, you know, we're going to have another meeting, us and the three other people who do this, just, you know, because I feel like we ain't doing nothing.

And Uncle Tim was like, okay. So they announced that they were having their first in two or three years meeting of the Clay County Democratic Party at the courthouse last Sunday or the Sunday before last. And when Uncle Tim showed up, he said there was like 37 people there and it was standing room only, like they didn't have enough seats for everybody in their first, in their first meeting back in that amount of time. And again, it's, on the one hand, it's Salina, it's middle of nowhere, how much does it even mean? But it's also like it's one of the reddest parts of one of the States in the country and that's a you know what is that it's six times 600% increase or

something like that out of nowhere and so uh you know i thought that was just a lovely little piece of information that our audience would would like to hear so they're very encouraged they're going to keep going they're you know that was the first one and they're they're back at it now they're going to keep it up and they're emboldened by that so that's what's happening in my neck of the woods so it's not just it's not just people switching sizes people being motivated to go to a right right yeah yeah exactly um all of which is good all right so thank you guys for being here this is the show producer matt's back there doing this thing this is weekly skews before we get into the meat of it i of course have my uh requisite announcements i must make if you'd like to see me

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So there's an additional element there. So, yeah, if you like this show, support us and get more of it in the process, consider signing up on Patreon. Now, as for the show tonight, we're going to be talking about the U.S. health care system and the interesting solution for its ills that the Republican Party seems to have found in the form of Joni Ernst, namely get sick and die early or pet a cow and see how that goes. We'll elaborate a little later, but first we must begin the show, as we always do, with the daily dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D-D, people who thought Trump wouldn't be right or die for a fellow New Yorker who was also all about the Benjamins. Once in 2012, the Diddy was a good friend of yours.

In fact that he has since found himself in some very serious legal trouble. Would you ever consider pardoning him? Well, nobody's asked, you had to be going to ask Peter, but nobody's asked. I know people are thinking about it. I know what they're thinking about it. I think people have been very close to asking. First of all, I don't know what's happening. And I haven't been watching it too closely,

although it's certainly getting a lot of coverage. I haven't seen it. So, Trump was asked this, but it's one of the Ducey's from Fox News or whatever. Peter, I'm believe. One's Peter, one Steve. I don't know, which one's the father, which one's the son, doesn't matter.

They're both stupid. So he was asked this because Trump went on pardons free last week, just poured in a random assortment of weirdos. Yeah, those reality show people or whatever. We'll get to them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this sort of gets to like, the stupid hunt for a liberal Joe Rogan, this sort of get like, okay, so when I first got the news alert that Trump had been asked about this,

I thought what had happened was. So the White House media has figured out whenever they need to fill a quota for a clickbait story, they can ask trouble about anything. And he'll go, we're looking into it, right? Right. That's just his standard response, yeah. So then when I realized it was Fox News asking it, it sort of blew my mind because they hate Daddy and they like Trump. So why would they set him up like this?

But like it sort of gets the whole thing of the Eternal Hunt for Liberal Joe Rogan is like you cannot compete with the level of stupid going in the right wing like YouTube Manosphere because they're so pop culture focused that you have to be brain dead to care about the stuff they care about. You can't recreate it. Like if you turn on Candace Owens or Ben Shapiro or any of those people, you're going to be talking about. Blake Lively, they're all in on the Ditty trial because they think, like, there's going to be information that comes out, but, like, there's sex tapes that show like Beyonce and Oprah double-teaming Barack Obama or something. And the fact this was all set in motion because Shug Knight said that Trump should pardon Ditty is like sort of like the level of we're being led around by a fucking stupid bullshit here.

If you guys haven't been following the Dity trial, Sean Colmes faces five criminal counts, racketeering, which could carry a maximum sentence of life in prison, two counsel of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, two counsel of transportation to engage in prostitution. So basically, sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, obstruction of justice. But, like, I want someone to ask Trump to explain why he thinks what did he was good, because I want to hear Trump talk about how it was good to plot to blow up Kid Cuddy's Porsche because he peaked with the first male on the moon album or something. yeah um yeah you know i thought there's some uh there's some other rappers i mean most of which don't

hit or whatever but who the kid cutty we all know snitches get stitches and all that but i saw a lot of like other not a lot again some mostly shitty fellow rappers getting down on kid cuddy for like whatever like talking about this or they're like oh you know kid cutty needs to keep it hip hop what's kid cutty doing he's fucking narking on him whatever and it's like kit cutty's not they were not it's not like they were in criminal league to together and Cuddy is rolling over on him to keep him out of prison or whatever. Like, this motherfucker tried to blow him up. Like, that's not, that's not the same thing, in my opinion.

You know, like, you allow to tell him somebody tries to blow you up if you, like, you know, like if you're just a fucking innocent, you know, bifamber participant in the proceedings. Neither one of our gangster rappers either. Like, Kid Cuddy is like an emo rapper. He's like a backpack rapper, yeah. Right. And Diddy was like a dance rapper who, he wasn't, he wasn't gangster rapper. He was a rapper who then pivoted to being a gangster once he was rich and could become a sex criminal, right?

So like, it's got things out of order. This is not the snitches get stitches wing of hip-hop here. Right. Yeah, my dad, rest his soul. He's been gone for a long time, but he would have been vindicated by this story because he always used to call. Pete Diddy puffed daddy at the time. You know, he was toying with different names. just never sat right with my dad and I don't mean in a you know in just a typical redneck way

something about P. Diddy specifically he never liked my dad used to call him dip shitty that's what he called him so uh you know he's whatever he's at which is nowhere uh he's uh but still he's validated in response but yeah tell us about i don't think my uh i don't think my dad had a specific opinion about puff daddy uh yeah well my dad listen my dad had to because unfortunately mark the two, this is, I hate to say either of these things, but the two first albums CDs at the time that I bought with my own money that I had were Will Smith's Big Willie style and also Puff Daddy and the bad boy family, no way out. Those were the two first CDs that I bought. So I was kind of bombarding my dad with P. Diddy for a while.

with bad pop circus rap. Yes, yes. So, so from the wing of hip hop, it is stitches against stitches. We got a weird take. Well, 50 cent is hilarious, dude. He's one of the funniest people alive.

I don't care what anybody says. He came out specifically, the guy who thinks that he got shot nine times and didn't die, used to be a drug dealer, is like put Diddy in prison and keep him there because he's such a huge ditty hater. And he did in the funniest way.

He did it by suck it up to Trump. 50 cents said, told Trump to reach out so he can know how I feel about this guy. And then he snitched on ditty saying his past comments about Trump should prevent a potential pardon. Quote, Donald doesn't take well to disrespect and doesn't forget who chooses to go against him, which is just the funniest way to play this. Yeah, he like posted a clip of Diddy back in the day talking a little bit of shit about Trump, right? Because everybody's been talking about him getting pardoned. And so 50 digs up this fucking old clip of Diddy's shitting on Trump,

knowing the way Trump is. And he's like, ooh, it's going to be hard for him to pardon you now. But 50 Cent is a first ballot Hall of Fame generational talent hater, dude. He's like, it's unreal. How good he is at it, man? He wants, if people don't know, he wants, he had a famous beef with Jarl rule. And years after the beef was ostensibly over and Jail's career was very much on the downturn, 50 cent bought up like,

the first 10 rows of the venue that Jai Ruh was playing a show in and then had no one show up. So when Jai Ruh walked out there, like, it was half empty in there because 50 had bought all the tickets and just set him on fire because fuck that motherfucker. He's, uh, he's something else, man. The Floyd Mayweather stuff. Oh, my God. The, uh, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, there's the, there's a, like, somehow, nelly went to a nightclub and left. with Floyd Mayweather's fiance for the second time,

a second different fiance and somehow Fiddy became Floyd's arch enemy and that's back. Yeah. If you guys don't know because I know we've got a very white audience, if you're not familiar

with 50 cent and Floyd Mayweather's whole thing, please, for the love of God, Google it now. It's absolutely fucking letters. We challenge it to read one full page from a Harry Potter book. It's so funny, dude.

It's so funny. So Trump, like I said, this kind of the people Trump actually has pardoned. So it's 17 last week. Just like not a single person who remotely deserves outside of maybe he can be a young boy, another rapper. So a guy named Paul Walzac was a nursing home executive who pled guilty last year to charging his employee. He uses employees withheld earnings to buy a yacht and fancy clothes and shit like that. He was sentenced to only 18 months for ruining a lot of employees' lives to pay $4.4 million in restitution.

then his mom, who was a separate story was revolved in like making Ashley Biden's diary public donated a million dollars to have dinner with Donald Trump and now he got, Walchak got part in a few days later. Right, so that's what I was going to ask. I mean, I know you haven't looked through all of these. But like, is there a, is there always that blatant of a connection with all these people, meaning like you look in all these cases

and at some point someone wrote a check to Donald Trump or his campaign or his company or something or his golf course? I mean, I can't, like, okay, the next one we're talking about you pardoned Larry Hoover who was the head of the gangster disciples who's been in prison for a long time. He's a gang for Chicago. He got pardoned from his federal

charges. He still has a state life and life senate. Like the only thing I can figure about why Trump had pardoned him is because Kanye's been advocating for it. So it's maybe Kanye bought some Trump coin or something. That's possible, but I didn't see any reporting on that. But the thing about Hoover is like, so he parted from his federal charges

so it's moved from a cushier federal prison to a shitty state prison to serve out the rest of his life. Right. He fucked him by pardoning him. Right. Yeah. And the same thing people have been advocating for Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin and a bunch of people

like, oh, the riots that would take. First of all, do not riot if Trump pardons Derek Chowden from his federal charges because he just goes to a shittier state prison where it's odds of him getting murdered to go through the roof. Right. Yeah, I think a lot of people don't realize. I say a lot of people, and I'm including myself because our buddy Drew is a logger. He's the person I learned from the fact that federal prison is not worse because you watch

movies and shit. There's like famous movies and stuff. They're like, oh, you federally fucked now. Or like, you will go to federal fuck me in the ass prison. Like these are famous movie quotes. You just assume federal prison is the worst. And I didn't know until Drew told me. He's like, dude, no. He's like, that you're better off in federal prison

than in state prison. So, yeah. Federal prisons like kidnappers, bank robbers and drug dealers. State prisons murderers. Right. So like, yeah, you'd much rather go to a federal prison. So in context to all this, why these random weirders again pardon. So Eagle Ed Martin, they call him Eagle Ed. I don't know why. The guy who

was U.S. attorney for D.C. for a little bit, but couldn't get the permanent job because he did podcast with the guy to hit their mustache, that guy. So Trump's made him a pardon attorney at the DOJ, and he posted on Twitter slash X, no MAGA left behind, right? So this is all out in the open. Just basically, if you love Donald Trump, you get pardoned unless you're Joe Exotic. I was about say, what about Joe? What about our boy, Joe Exotic, though? But sincerely, though, what? I mean, Why is Joe Exotic being left behind at this point? Do you know what I mean? Like, if you look at the list of other people, he's pardoning, like,

because Joe Exotic has held the line. We talked about it when we brought it up on the episode. Like, he's stayed true to the game and everything. Like, I don't, I don't understand. I just don't, I don't get why he's not let him out, given the other, you know, moves that he's made. It's weird. Yeah.

Also, I can't figure out. Okay, so play this clip. This is Todd, Todd, and Julie. Chrisley, if you got this, Matt, from reality TV stars. We're blessed to have our family back, and we're blessed to be coming back to because we do have a much bigger story of now than we ever have. So he goes on to talk about how they're going to be back on, he's talking about they're going to be glad to be back on TV because they've got a bigger

story to tell. And I'm like, do they already have a deal in place for a show about the return to reality TV? And what Trump got for this is an executive producer, credit? Okay, Mark, remind me who these people are, like, in the context of reality TV. Like, what was their show? How big were they? Because I don't know these people. It ran like nine seasons on USA, okay? It was called Christy Knows Best. And it was, it used to drive me crazy because I, as a person who hates reality TV outside of traitors, uh, I could not figure out, because it was just a show about a guy. He's a guy who's on a show. That's the whole thing.

he's just this guy who presents as like, you know, typical Southern guy who's closeted gay guy who's rich for some reason they can't explain. And it turns out the reason they were rich that they couldn't explain is because they lied to banks who got a bunch of fraudulent loans, which is where they ended up in prison for. Yeah, you'll have that, yeah. So the show, they got, they fucked up by getting on famous on TV

for being a family who was inexplicably wealthy and someone looked into it. It turns out it was all crime all the way down. All right. So they were indicted by a federal grand jury in August 2019 on 12 counts, including conspiracy and committed bank fraud, wire fraud, tax evasion. After prosecutors allege

they used falsified financial statements to secure more than $30 million in loans. They had a three-week jury trial, they both found guilty. And then they allocated it and they admitted their guilt in order for more lenient sentences. And now they're pretending they didn't do it

because they got pardoned. And like, they would do this thing in their press conference are like, you know, one thing I learned to the criminal justice system is there are two tiers. There are a lot of like young African-American man are being treated very poorly. Todd does that spiel. And I'm like, they're treated lesser than. I'm like, yeah, they're being treated

lesser than. You got fucking pardoned and they didn't. Right. So, like, they're also like they parted, they've got to speed through this because they're running way behind, sorry. But like, they pardoned a guy was, a Democrat, he was on the Cincinnati City Council President. It seems because

some rich benefactors, he has paid to get him out. These people are, this evil rich couple wanted to keep an apartment building for being built in their neighborhood and so they kicked her off a park board because she was going to stop that and he's abstained from the votes

they bought his freedom in exchange for like trying to keep her on a park board this is also fucking petty but anyway George Santos and Joe Exotic still rotten in prison I do want to say the NBA young boy thing government named Kentrell Gold

he's got a rap sheet to burial the mile long you know usually for knucklehead shit He got charged an attempted murder for firing off a gun. It pled down to a simple assault and got probation, kidnapping his then-girlfriend. He was charged in Utah for running a prescription fraud ring by using a fake identity and imitating a pharmacy customer's voice via cell phone to purchase over-the-counter prescription drugs to fuel his codeine binge. He got sued for assaulting his bodyguard, which to me, if you can beat up your bodyguard,

it seems like your bodyguard just failed like a quarterly review. Yeah. those are all state level charges okay he's already got like it's not that he's getting off scott free for like for like a life of a puny from crimes they the federal charges two separate gun cases where like cops pulled him over and used a police dog to sniff around his car and like this feels like cheap to me it's like when shops didn't cheap arrest they would used to like go raid a porn theater and arrest guys for jerking off they need to rough their numbers like if you need to you need to arrest somebody yeah pull over a wrapper with a gun dog and sniff around right um he also at

his trial, the prosecutors tried to introduce his lyrics as evidence, which is to me is get out of jail free every time. Like, bang the guy will fucking walk. You guys are the way, we've got the First Amendment for the time being anyway. Anyway, he's my 17 year old nephew's favorite rapper to turn him loose, I guess.

Yeah. All right, well, we've got a transitional dumb ass for you guys, and here it is nihilists who have yet to get on board the Trump train to make America goth again. This is Iowa Senator. and noted bitch

Joni Ernst for the town hall The people are not Well, we all are going to die The first honest thing Of Republicans said about like public health policy This country for a long time It's like yeah

She was talking about Medicaid cuts there Right From the big beautiful bill We're going to cut big Medicaid cuts So they were asking about she was talking about someone in the crowd yelled out, people are going to die, and that was her response. Yeah. So, I don't even mention this before, but just for the record, the trend to cut make the biggest cuts to Medicaid in the program 60-year history. It cuts $880 billion from

Medicaid. It's a move to result in $8.6 million of the poorest Americans losing their health care coverage. That's on top of the $5 million already projected to lose Medicaid coverage over the next decade as a result of other policy changes. This has been called morally wrong and politically suicidal by noted left-wing lib Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri. Yeah, this is that classic onion headline of like, it says, devastating. The worst person you know just made a really good point. Anytime Josh Hawley is right about something. And she's like facing like a serious, like a legit challenger.

I think, and then she made a follow-up video where she did it from a cemetery when she doubled down about well, like about how yes, we're all going to die. you need to find Christ. Well, the follow-up videos is nuts. It's not even just that. I mean, it is what you just said, but it also, the way she presents it is just so, I'm sorry, bitchy. Because she, like, she starts off in the apology video by being like, listen, I need to apologize for something that happened at a town hall yesterday. And the middle of it while talking about Medicaid cuts. And I'm paraphrasing, obviously, but she's like, someone says, people are going to die.

And I said, you know, without really thinking, well, we all die someday. And I need to apologize because I didn't realize at the time that so many people were unfamiliar with the fact that we're all going to die with the mortality of the. I didn't realize that that would be news to people. And I should have thought about that. Thank God, someone didn't ask me about the tooth fairy. Also, please devote your, you know, your lives to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. So, yeah, it was her being like willfully shitty about the, what? that's the thing. Do you think here's my like is it her and I think it is because she put

herself in a cemetery. It is her being willfully shitty about like you know misrepresenting what that person meant versus is she dumb enough to believe that that's what happened. Do you know what I mean? Like I don't think it is. I think it's like it's just her being an asshole. It's like because that's we that's not what that isn't the point of what that lady said. Of course we all know that we're going to die someday. These people are just saying, like, we'd like to stretch that out as long as we can. And health care helps tremendously in doing so. So if you cutting it out makes people die earlier, you know, and she knows that that's

what that lady meant. She's just being shitty about it. Because according to Joni's logic, murder should be legal because we're going to die anyway. Right. Right. Exactly. So the irony of doing this in Iowa, when Iowa, like, Iowa, Iowa's cancer rates are going up faster than almost anywhere else in the country.

Like right now, Iowa's number two in cancer incidents and with rates going up. And best as anyone can tell is because the pesticide use and the exponential growth of concentrated animal feeding operations, nitrate levels of drinking water, they exceed the EPA standards, which were set in 1962, have made a lot of people's water unsafe to drink. You've got a lot of cancer and birth defects related to nitrate exposure via drinking water. Like, you're talking about increased risk for a lot of different cancer. including colon, kidney, stomach, bladder, ovarian blood, thyroid, just all related to the long-term conception of Iowa's drinking water.

Yeah, this is all, presumably this is all coming from shit that we put into the crops there, Iowa's farm country. So, pesticides and shit like that. Well, I'm sure RFK Jr.'s got that under control. I got a plan for that, right? Oh, yeah. So they put out a big part, specifically, they put out a bunch of big health reports lately, which are largely bullshit, but, like, one of them did say that, like,

there are a lot of pesticides are a problem and one promise that rfk junior made was that we were not going to do anything about pesticides do not worry right right so we're defunding the bird flu vaccine we're defunding all the cancer treatments and cancer research and the cure for Alzheimer's they're about to put out and the AIDS vaccines are about to put out but we're going to keep the pesticides right and so like it kills it's like yeah it kills people but don't worry about it because we might cost some business money. Can anybody do some research

about whether or not having cancer is free? Yeah. I don't know. I'm not talking money on the front end of stuff. It's very fucking weird. I just feel like,

to me, it's like if you're paying any attention at all and you actually care about the shit that he purports to care about, this undermines everything he ever says because it's classic, like what, you know,

they're, what, lobbyists or they can't piss off the, they can't lose the farming vote or whatever it is. Like they just have, you know, they, But he can't stand up there and pretend to care about making America as healthy as possible while openly being like,

but we're just going to have to deal with these pesticides because, you know, I mean, fucking corn, we've got to have more corn. To put in gas tanks, even though it's worse than gas. So, like, they're ramping up efforts to give Americans cancer. And they're not just cutting Medicaid. they're cutting like they know they cut it getting rid of obamacare would be a popular so instead they're doing a bunch of like weird tricks with it to try to sabotage obamacare so like they're actively trying to give you cancer while taking away your ability to get treated for cancer by defunding the research to cure your cancer and so what

other health issues is rfk junior concerned about you might wonder what is he what is you on top of well here you go if you got this video a man a teenager today an american teenager has less cut off from the 68 old the sperm counts are down

50% and the rules an American teenager has less testosterone than that's not true you can kind of that.

So everything they're saying that was made up but what he is concerned about is the sperm counts

of teen boys, okay? You've got to get the sperm count up so they have kids young because they'll

be dead by 30 of cancer. Mm-hmm. They also just did like big money capitalist and stuff worldwide saying

very upset at people for not being convinced that they should reproduce or whatever, or people not having enough kids anymore. You know what I mean? Like, because their workforce is going to be depleted and all that shit. It's like you've got to have grist for the wage slave mill. Worldwide, the birth rate is fine.

Okay. It's the northern hemisphere of white birth. Right. Well, and also eight in Korea and Japan, which are hyper-capitalist countries, right? Korea and Japan. So I'm saying, and that's. They're worried about it because they need their fucking worker drones. You know, they need those bees or whatever.

It's like you've got to have, you can't have the poor stop having babies. My point is you could just let in immigrants and solve the problem solves itself. But you got to do that. But that's gross. So. So they put out a big like 500 page Maha report a couple days ago that they were treating like it was a big deal. And it turns out a lot of the studies they studied just purely didn't exist. Right.

Like what it did, it looks like AI judge, like a large language model hallucinations. Let me get an example of what I'm talking about. In one section about mental health medication, which Kennedy has railed against for years, the report cites a review paper claims showed that therapy alone is as or more affected than psychiatric medicine. But one of that paper stateticians told notice the publication wrote this article, the conclusion doesn't make sense given their study didn't even attempt to measure or compare therapy's effectiveness as a mental health. health treatment. Quote, we did not include psychotherapy in a review.

We only compare the effectiveness of antidepressants against each other and against a placebo. So we have here the chat GBT presidency. Apparently what RFK did was like ask Grock, why are the kids so fat weak and gay? Yeah, very naively on my part, until this moment of this show, this episode of this show, I had not considered the fact that the way teachers are complaining about school kids using AI incessantly and chat GPT and stuff to just write their papers and do their homework for them and they're not learning anything.

The idea that Congress people would be doing that too with legislation and shit that they'll just be able to tell AI, hey, put me some legislation together that, you know, holds up to cursory scrutiny about how this country isn't fucking healthy enough and as such we need less

regulations or whatever the fuck prompt you want to feed to it and AI prints out a 500 page bill and that's what they'll be doing from here on out. bro, I mean, like, like, like, uh, Stephen Miller got caught using it for executive orders. Uh, there have been people with working like high dollar white shoe law firms have been caught using Chad GPT or to write legal briefs and hallucinates cases. Um, like, I don't know.

I, I can't figure out what the fuck people are doing. Um, so let's talk about the humans are putting in charge of stuff because they're not much better than if they don't make much sense. They hallucinate just as much as the fucking Chad GPT robots. Sure. Um, so Trump had to pick a new surge in general. nominee recently because his first one, her name was Dr. Dinnett Nishawat.

She had to withdraw her nomination because she lied about where she went to med school. So instead, Trump chose to nominate a woman who here's a catchier doesn't even pretend she went to medical school. Well, hey, you know, you can't complain about the med school she went to if she didn't go to one

fucking tap your temple. Argue with that, Mark. Checkmate, baby. Yeah. So a woman who, she's an author by the name what Dr. Casey means. I don't know what doctor means is context. I mean, she got her Ph.D. and something. Okay. She, when I said she didn't go to medical school, I mean, she didn't finish. She dropped out of a medical residency

in autolaryngology because she said she was frustrated that the discipline did not focus on, quote, root causes. That especially is something like an ear, nose, and throat specialist. So, like, what are the root causes of ear infections trade? The phases of the moon. Surprise you didn't know that.

Apparently. So here's to be quote here from Dr. Neen, we will get instructions through human inspiration reason for what we need to do to raise the vibration of humanity and create a sustainable future. The future of medicine will be about light. I don't know exactly how yet. How has this happened? What's the word for this? Cacistocracy or something like that, which is government by the least qualified or most stupid people in a society. Like, we've arrived there. Like how, like, it's, it's beyond self-parody, man.

It's one of those things where it's like you have to keep reminding yourself, this is real. This is all real. It's fucking crazy. Buddy, it's like, it's not just stupid as stupid grifts. Let me quote here from Dr. Means. Humans are out of alignment with the earth and depleting its life force, she wrote the next month after that quote I just read. And human bodies are now exhibiting signs of blocking the flow of energy through them.

This is insulin resistance. We are the earth. She sells glucose monitors. wonder what this is going on about. She's also held raw dairy, right, and how she wants to quote, so instead of doing medicine, this is what we need to do.

You need a quote, to be free to form a relationship with a local farmer, understand his integrity, look him in the eyes, pet his cow, and then decide if I feel safe to drink the milk from his farm.

Okay, to quote the legendary Cat Williams, we got bills and shit. Fucking, And who has the goddamn time to go down to your nearest dairy farm, meet and talk to the farmer, look him in the eyes and be like, somehow this means that your cow's titty milk is fine for me. Like, what the fuck is she talking about? But RFK Jr. just, like, did a little, like a PR stunt where him and somebody else drank some raw milk, right? As part of a press conference or something like that? Yeah. The shots of raw milk to celebrate the issuing that Maha report.

All right. So, but, so Casey means what she's talking about is like, so like, so you drive to your farm to pet the cat, look to your farm in the eye and pet his cow, see if you're okay drinking a glass of his milk. Then I guess you go to a different farm and pet a chicken to see if you're okay, eating eggs. Then you drive to Florida and talk to a guy who grows oranges and see if you trust him. His oranges are safe. And now after traveling a few thousand miles, you've got breakfast covered kind of. Right. So, you're right, we outsource this shit because we got bills to pay.

We pay a little bit of our income in taxes. So someone else is checking out this shit. Look at the farmer in the eye and making sure his cows save, and the eggs are safe, and the oranges are safe. Well, also, dude, it's one of those things where it's like, I, milk is huge in this country. You know, fucking white people love milk. We've been drinking this pasteurized milk for all of our collective living memory.

And like, lactose intolerance is a thing, sure, but they have lactate and that sort of deal. And it's, but it's just, it's the same thing I always think about when they would bitch about the vaccine, how the vaccine was going to make everybody like a 5G cancer beacon or whatever. And it's like, you know that we all, like so many of us got it and are not that, right? Like you know that like we did it and that didn't happen. So what the fuck are you talking about? It's a similar thing with like pastoral. milk. It's like, who's been fucking pounding the table about the evils of pasteurized milk in this country over the past, you know, century or whatever? Who's been going out there and be like,

this stuff? We got to take a closer look at this stuff. It's fucking people up. Because as far as I'm aware, it hasn't been outside of, you know, giving somebody diarrhea wouldn't eat too much cheese or whatever. Right. But so like, so, but one thing they're doing is like they're, they've had this, FTA is not under HHS, so it's not RFK's fault. This is under Bruce Rollins as fault because the FDA is under Department of Agriculture. The FDA has suspended quality tests for milk and other dairy products after, because of Trump administration and budget cuts. They don't have the staff to like to run a program that ensures the quality of milk and other dairy products. So starting last week, the FDA suspended its proficiency testing program for grade A raw milk and finished products.

Great A is given to products that meet the highest sanitary standards. So how do you know it's grade A? We know it's grade A because we didn't test it. Yeah. Well, again, to draw another COVID parallel, it's like in Florida, you know, when like the data showed that, oh, it wasn't so bad there. There wasn't as many cases or incidents or whatever, but they weren't because they weren't testing for it. So it's like, well, of course your numbers are lower. You're not checking for it.

It's like, it's that type of thing, the willful manipulation of data. But to what end is my thing? Like, I mean, why? Just because RFK Jr. There's some, like, crystal oven fucking weirdo cracker who's got it in his head that any of these, like, scientific approaches to food and nutrition are automatically evil. Do you know what I mean? Like, what is even, why? Like, why are we even doing this?

So, I mean, I think that about so many things. But this in particular is like, what is the fucking point? Like, there's a. there's like there was the e-cola outbreak recently that no one really knows about because the government didn't announce it and they didn't do a recall so like no one was tracking it there was just an outbreak and I was just like it's fine and like you know I don't think anybody died from it but like it's not going to be like that forever and they've like the amount of stuff they've defunded like there was I saw a woman talking about how like they've defunded programs

that are going to filter down to county health department it's not just vaccine programs but like they're not going to be able to test the water in county pools. It's like people are going to get more rashes. So when I say stuff like people didn't vote for this, I don't think a single American voted to get more rashes in the community pools. Do you know what I'm saying? But apparently, but they did. That's what they're getting, right?

But even just on the milk front, let me quote here, because we're forgetting our history. I want to talk about some historical stuff for a second. This information is from the Smithsonian, okay? In the 1850s, milk sold in New York City was so, core and the contents of bottles so risky that one local journalist demanded to know why the police weren't called on dairymen. In the 1880s, an analysis of milk in New Jersey found the, quote, liquefying colonies of bacteria

to be so numerous that the researchers simply abandoned the count. They stopped counting because they couldn't get, they couldn't figure out how much bacteria was in milk. There were other factors besides risky strains of bacteria that made 19th century milk untrustworthy. The worst of those are the many tricks that dairymen used to increase the profits. For example, in New York, not just in New York, but nationwide, dairy producers thin milk out with water, sometimes containing a little gelatin, and recolored the resulting bluish-gray liquid with dyes, chalk, or plaster dust. Right. That's the type of thing that businesses always used to do for so long. And it's like one of those things.

Like, we live so far away, removed from this enough chronologically that people just don't think about or care about this shit anymore. But like, this is the type of shit that businesses used to do until we started. regulating them and forcing them not to do it. Like back in the late 1800s and early 1900s, like your uncle would work at a meatpacking plant. He'd fucking slip and fall one day and now he's spam, right? He's just spam. They just put him in a can and it's like, and that's way,

who is on board with that? Who is okay with that? But it, but you, it's like they just, I don't know, it's like they just think like, well, nobody's doing that.

Why are we spending all these, you know, this time and resources making sure that people are, that you can't do that? because nobody's doing that anyway and it's like nobody's doing it because we forced them to stop through governmental regulation for years and years like if you take it away they'll go right back to doing this shit they'll fight in a fucking profit-driven world they'll find any margin they can it doesn't matter how unhealthy or whatever it might be that's not how these people think

like you have to force them to not fuck their customers over for you know for an extra dollar on the bottom line and like I don't know how people I saw some I saw some poorly if you wonder like like core yeah it's been too lost people who touched a hot stove they just assume this they assume live in a world where this wouldn't happen right right which just go just go watch erin brocovich I don't want to tell you so like um the they but there was polling recently where like for the first time like 50 years just the basic question of which the government the government's doing too much versus the government should do more to solve people's problems for the The first time of like 50 years, the government should do more than to solve people's problems is pulling like 59%. Okay. So for a party that thinks the government should do, is capable of doing good things when it tries and, you know, is well funded while also being restrained, you know, like I do and I think you do as well. That like, this is a generational opportunity for a functional oppositional party. Pray for one. Yeah, it's not looking good right now.

Because rebuilding this stuff is going to take fucking moxie in aggression and, like, an fortitude that a lot of people are not exhibiting right now, or otherwise we're going to go back. I want to read more from the Smithsonian, okay. Dairy milkmakers also faked the look of rich cream by using a yellowish layer of pureed calf brains. A historian of the Indiana Health Department wrote, quote, people could not be induced to eat brain sandwiches in a sufficient. amount to use all the brains so a new market was devised. No one wanted to eat the cat brains. So they came with a bright idea to have people

drink it unknowingly. And finally, if the milk was threatening to sour, dairymen added formaldehyde an embalming compound long used by funeral parlors to stop the decomposition, also relying on a slightly sweet taste to improve the flavor.

Is that so rancid? Is that formaldehyde? And that's, I feel, I'm, I'm sensing notes of formaldehyde truly exquisite. You got to get a milk Somaliated taste to see if you're in houseper. You got to, we all have to get tasters like kings used to have to see if formaldehydes in our milk. So, because this will say, we'll save $2 on tax, two tax dollars, we've got to pay a guy 40 grand a year to drink your milk. So in the 1890s, formaldehy was so widely used by the dairy and meatpacking industries

that outbreaks of illnesses related to the preservative were routinely described by newspapers as, quote, embalmed meat or embalmed milk scandals. This happened often enough that there was a fucking name for it and everyone recognized what they were. So, do dairy makers and meat packers

still have these recipes lying around? We're going to fucking find out, baby. So here's my question, Mark, before we go. So we're going to find out, and that's one thing we keep, I feel like that's been a recurring theme in these nation stages of the second Trump administration.

where it's like this is going to all these policies and stuff they're trying to do it's going to fuck over so many people you know eventually like it will have

for them unanticipated effects that they somehow don't see coming it'll make their lives worse will that actually have the effect of turning them against them

though like even when that happens will enough people realize like this is fucked up and it kind of goes back to the you know the anecdote I told about Uncle Tim versus

like, you know, whatever the response to Johnny Ernst is and all this, like, it just, you wait, sitting here waiting like, are you guys going to realize how much these people are fucking you all over? But then it's like, yeah, they've ramped it up in the past few years, but they've been doing that for so long and, like, Democrats just get blamed for it anyway or whatever, like, because of propaganda and shit,

they, you know, they just cast dispersion somewhere else and it doesn't matter. like is there a way that it can matter you're asking me if material reality is going to matter anymore with the rise of like deep fake videos and shit I don't fucking know I got to feel like whether or not people are hungry and sick is the most important thing to them but I can't fucking I can't we're in new water

we're in new water right stuff so I can't like territory yeah yeah so I mean the fact there people are going to notice being poor they're going to notice their kids being dumber and sicker they're going to notice, you know, having less rights. They're going to notice this shit.

You know, it's how you can't really hide it. So you can only a lot of people for so long is my suspicion, but that's my hope for you. Yeah, no, no, me too. I'm with you. That's what I keep, that's what I keep hoping to. I just, on the other hand, I, you know, sort of worried that it'll, so it'll be spun some different way somehow and they'll just eat all that up. But, but I, but I,

the Democrats nominate like a, like a, like a, like a, a half, like a half a socialist unity ticket of Jamie Pritzker and like, you know, Liz Chaney And then Two days before the election There's like a deep thick video Of the two of them Like getting fucked by donkeys

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