wellRED podcast - Evening Skews - Week of 1/19/21 - Inauguration Week

Episode Date: January 23, 2021

Well this week's episodes happen to bookend the regime change heard round the world as Tuesday's episode marks the final day of Trump's presidency (with a lot of idiocy to review, natch), and Thursday's celebrates the first day of Biden's reign (still some idiocy tho). Enjoy.

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only royalty to which I would ever bow queen dolly parton happy birthday your majesty and thank you for giving white trash tennesseeans like myself a light to go by for 50 plus years long may she rain mark i'm trey crowder that's mark a g how you doing buddy good man happy birthday to dolly uh not only uh thinking about her all day obviously you know it's just a hallowed day but i also thought about you earlier specifically your exercise the bike. Do you read that story in the New York Times about how national security people are worried about like China and Russia

hacking Joe Biden's peloton? Yeah, he can't have a peloton apparently because it's a security risk. I mean, look, I'm not the president. Now, dude, I hope they're watching me. They deserve to see it, you know? I'm on that pali. I'm doing a 90s ride. Celine Dion comes on to crescendo. I'm just fucking arm spread

doing this feeling myself. It's fabulous. Please watch me. Take it all in. I don't care. But the president, yeah, they probably shouldn't be saying that. Joe Biden's like 77 years old. He probably like, what's Russia going to be like this motherfucker peddles for shit? Like they, what's the dude, I'll tell you this.

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sucked into the culture, man. But what I was going to say is, I'll tell you this, having done a shitload of peloton workouts if joe biden at 77 is actually doing most of things that they're on that i'm gonna feel even shittier about my sorry fat ass because a 77 year old because dude it i it fucks me up so so the 77 year old dude is just knocking those out i need to do better uh what would uh you from 20 years ago say if it's like first of all forget a stationary bike if if you if you You saw yourself riding a bike in 2021. You'd be like, I guess old me got a couple DUIs.

Buddy, full of disgust. Either that, yeah, either the DUIs or, it wouldn't have been good. I wouldn't have thought, you know how much resentment I have for cyclists for most of my life? For no good reason either. I was just like, look at these fancy motherfuckers over here. Get out of the goddamn road. You know, but I still don't leave my house to do it. Help of the environment and getting skinny pieces of shit.

I know. What these pieces of shit. How dare they? Yeah, that's how I felt. about it. But you know, we all grow, Mark. We all evolve. All right. So let's do the show back with us. It's producer Matt, who survived the Blizzard in the Dakotas last week that took him out of commission. We're glad he's back. Super glad he's back. And this is evening skews. Got a good show for you tonight. It's the eve of the inauguration. And the coup sequences continue to roll in.

Each one more comically absurd than the last. A whole lot to make fun of there, and we'll do our best. We're also going to talk about what we're looking forward to with the Joe Biden presidency, and Mark will give us an update into what's going on in Q world. Spoiler alert, it's dumb as fuck. But first, as always, we begin with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, play the graphic. Tonight's Dumbass is any capital insurrectionist who has,

has been arrested and not yet thought to simply demand to get away with it. You're white, you're conservative, this is America, just ask for it. Here's Dallas area realtor Jenna Ryan, who took a private jet to do her treason, showing you how it's done. Matt, play the clip. I like a pardon from the president of the United States. I think that we all deserve a pardon. I'm facing prison sentence.

I think that I do not deserve that. And I think every person, you know, from what I understand, everyone's going to be arrested that was there. So I would, I think everyone deserves a pardon. And I would ask the president of the United States to give me a pardon. Well, there you have it, Mark. Yeah, I love to turn to camera at the end. Like she's like, you better make it like, I know, right?

Yes, exactly. She literally, it's just like, okay, so do it obviously. Like, just. just if you don't if you don't give me a pardon mr trump i'm going to call your mother that's that's right to me and like she she didn't she so she took the private jet she apparently her excuse for like a cute boy invited her on the private jet it wasn't her private jet i think is her reasoning so none of this is her fault she just like a cute boy lured her under the plane then she stormed to capital that's her story but um here's from her

live stream matt added together a compilation of shit she did outside the capital that's fucking Bob. Jenna Ryan, your real true. USA! Okay, does she say she said Pence? Because like, okay,

because it sounds to me like she goes, Mitch McConnell, I got a piss! And then right after that, she goes, I got to use the bathroom. So at first I couldn't tell because I heard pissed

and I was like, no, she's yelling at Pence. But then she says, I got to use the bathrooms. I was like, shit, maybe she did say piss. I can't tell what she's screaming out here. Yeah.

And she closed that video, by the way. It was like a two minute long live stream. She yells, we're armed and dangerous and we're not going to take this. So like, yeah, she's going to jail for a little bit. So we've talked about this multiple times since what, because every episode, there's still more coo sequences to go through. But like, just the, just the sheer entitlement, you know, of all of these insurrectionists and whatever thing.

I don't know anyone could deny the existence of white privilege any longer after this. Although, I mean, all the people who denied it to begin with were probably at the capital or fully support it. So they're not going to learn anything from this. But it's just so clear that, like, they are literally flabbergasted at the notion that they might get in any trouble for literally violently storming the U.S. Capitol building and taking it over while Congress was in session. It blows their mind that that is somehow a problem. It's crazy. There have been lots of think pieces about this, like how Trump can rant about being tough on crime all the time while being a huge criminal.

And it doesn't really make any sort of sense. But it does make sense because he's never been held accountable. So technically he's not a criminal because he doesn't have any record, right? So it's like crime stops being a thing you do and starts, the criminal starts being a part of who you are. So like, I'm white and middle class, therefore nothing I do can be. construed as criminal and it's unfair if you to see it that way, right? Right.

Criminal is someone else. That's like a poor brown kid or whatever. Not me. I'm fucking special. So it's like they literally, in their head it can't penetrate their fucking thick-ass craniums that what they did was a crime. It's amazing. I love it.

Yeah, man. Who the hell knows? But all right, let's go. Let's do some honorable mentions. We always like to have some daily dumb ass honorable mentions. The first one, first honorable mention is anybody who doubted the continued existence of Joe Exotic's flare in this

in this wild times we live in, Matt. Can you put up that the screenshot of what's going on with Joe Exotic? Look here. This is reportedly

the stretch limo that is standing by at Joe Exotic's logger's office waiting on a call from the White House confirming the presidential pardon. That's what he's going

to get picked up in. Look at that. Mark, is that a roll? Are those roll bars on the back of that? I mean, it must be, like, what else could it be? Yeah, but where's the bush guard, you know? Is that what the dude's for? Is it like, is he strapped to the front of this?

Like, he serves as the bush guard? It's weird because he's not black, you know, so I don't think that's what's going on. Also, it's got the fucking DeLorean, it's got the DeLorean fucking doors on it and the roll cage going on. Yeah. I think, I think that's technically outside the,

a federal prison in Fullworth, so they're pretty confident that any minute now they're going to get a pardon. And Joe Exotic's just going to like check out a prison, baby. But like, the funny thing about that limo is if I saw it, I'd be like, what's Joe Exotic's limo doing here? Yeah. Yeah. The man is pretty up front about, you know, his values. He wears it all in his sleeves. And we've talked multiple times about how we fully expect Joe Exotic to be pardoned by Donald Trump.

But having said that, is that literally about to happen? Like, is that seriously going to happen? Well, look, there's a bunch of, look, like, the list of people that it would be absurdly hilarious to get a pardon from Donald Trump is very long. It includes Lil Wayne, who I'm kind of rooting for to get one. You know, he's got some weird gun charges because cops harass them. I don't really care. Little Wayne sip his scissurp and smoke weed on his bus and peace and carry a gun around. Who gives a shit?

He made the Carter three. He deserves a pardon. He gets a lifetime pass for anything short of murder to me. That's right. But like Steve Bannon for his whatever, his idiocy with the GoFundMe

for the border funding that he used to build a boat, all that shit. Honestly, Joe Exotic is the one at least have a problem with getting a pardon because he was kind of entrapped by that weird dude with the earring in the back in the...

Okay, but you... Not everybody... doesn't have a problem with it, Mark. Some people have a major problem with it, okay? And we're not sure whether this is Joe Exotic or Little Wayne or Kodak Black or Steve Bannon or whoever. It could be anybody, but Matt, play this clip. Some people are not happy. Shit does make the president's list of pardons and my client doesn't.

I don't know the context. I don't know the context. I assume it's Joe Exotic, but it could be any motherfucker on this list because they're all too stupid. You're, you know, Edward Snowden and you got a whole group of people who consider you a righteous patriot. I don't fully buy into that, but that's all the other argument. But the, but so you think as a guy who exposed like a lot of national security malfeasance, who deserves to be able to walk free, breathe free air as an American as a patriot, and then Joe Exotic gets apart and you don't.

That's fucking hilarious. I mean, yeah, you know, they pretty, they put it pretty concisely in that clip, you know, If that dip shit gets a pardon and my client doesn't, then God damn it. I mean, there have been so many deep miscarriages of justice in the last four years that can we go out one purely hilarious one with no real victims? I mean, I know Carol Baskin was allegedly going to be the victim, but no crime actually. What is attempted murder, really? Is that it really? It was a sad joke.

Yeah, well, I just, to me, the thing is, you dude, fuck Joe Exotic. Fuck pretty much everybody that was in that documentary except the staff of that zoo as far as I'm concerned. But like, but I just can't think of a more, I don't know, appropriate and perfect way for Donald Trump's presidency to end than by officially pardoning the Tiger Meth King. You know, like that's just the, it's poetry to me. That's why I wanted to happen. And it's just so, it's such a perfect, like, punctuation mark on what his presidency has been, you know? That's why I want it. I mean, he's like the platonic ideal of a Trump supporter because he's a maniac, one, he, like, rich people think he's poor, but you and I know he's actually rich, right? It's like, because he has a mullet, he shoots guns, but he's poor white trash.

No, that motherfucker's got, he owns a zoo and a bunch of tigers and some fancy trucks and, like, some $5,000 machine guns. he's got bass boats he's a he's a he's a rich redneck right he's not one of the poor ones absolutely we're not to usually see at a trump rally so it's perfect yeah uh but not just rich rednecks all other kinds of white people right that's what like you pointed out before and i think you're right to do it people have this uh interpretation in their head of like um mark sorry real quick can you like turn me down a little bit on your speakers because i hear echo. I think I can hear me coming through your microphone. So I'm sure everybody else

can too. All right. So anyway people have this automatic vision in their head of the people who storm the Capitol and it's all you know trailer Americans or whatnot but it's not but it wasn't. It was people on fucking private jets like Jenna Ryan earlier and other types of racist

like Nick Fuentes right? Tell us, he's our second honorable mention. Tell us about this guy. He's an alt-right like social media influence here. He's gotten pretty big. He's like a, he calls himself a white nationalist. Like he's one of those dudes like a chauvinist.

He thinks like the Western culture was created by white people and it's our right to possess it and control it. And we need to restrict all kinds of immigration, yada, yada. He's an asshole and a bad dude. That's pretty much why you need to know about him. And he was a, we showed a picture of him last time because he was in that picture from, yeah, there we go, from Bank to Lasca's live stream in the Capitol.

So he was one of the people at Storm the Capitol in a Maga Hat and was having a great old fucking time. Um, and yeah, so he, he, he, he afterwards, it did sink into him that he'd done some bad, bad stuff and might be, uh, facing legal consequences. So he went on his, uh, live stream and had some legal advice for anyone who might have followed him. Actually, can I say that? Don't destroy. Don't destroy evidence. Don't. Don't. I don't know. Is that a crime to say? I honestly, you know, whatever. I'm going to say don't do that. For my legal sake, I'm going to say don't do that. Because I don't know if I could say legally if I could encourage people to do that. What I'm going to say is I think they probably have it. I think if you were there and your phone was like pinged inside the Capitol with the Wi-Fi or with the, you know, whatever, the cellular, then I think they're going to get you.

Basically, no matter what, if you were in there, if you had a phone in there, if you had your face exposed, I'd think they're going to get you. All right. Cut it off, Matt. I don't know. If I tell people to destroy their phone. This, like, we were talking about earlier about how they're not having conception of what they're doing was a crime.

Right. Anyone has seen the wire knows that people who instinctually assume, um, that police are watching them are super careful. Like I said they, they, they did burner phones and throw them away and use codes and all this shit. That's just to like sell a grandma heroin. here you have people trying to overthrow the government who live streamed it and they're the dumbest motherfucker is on the planet and here's this guy who's one of the smart he's one of their leaders he's one of the smarter in their group who's telling them to destroy their cell phones after they are they're already geolocated it doesn't make any sense so on that just so you guys are aware in the clip you saw you see him say don't destroy evidence and then he winks very broadly right at the camera just so you know right before right before that he literally just said if you had a cell phone you had it with you uh destroy it he literally

just tells him to destroy it and then right after that he goes okay i guess maybe don't do it and then winks and then says oh i guess i shouldn't say that yeah but uh but yes i am i i'm hereby it's saying to everybody who listens to the skews if you run into nick puentes in a bar or a grocery store or wherever don't kick him in the dick right why no i'm Oh, yes. The wink, I'm sorry. He winked. I didn't see it.

I was looking at a link and I missed the wind. That's how important the wink is. You got to see it. The wink says a lot. Yes, don't do it. All right. Well, it's a perfect segue into the first segment here. Continuing into the coup sequences, like you said,

just the lack of awareness on what might happen or what the consequences should be. More and more arrests are made, and with them, more and more arrest reports come out. And every one of them so far. And now, part of that is confirmation bias because these are the people easiest to arrest. So, of course, they get arrested first. But every one of them is just the most incompetent criminal attempt. Like, comically so. Like, if you tried to write it into a script about something like this,

people would tell you, like, you can't do that. No one would be that on the next. knows, right? But the FBI has said they have at their disposal significant legal and technical resources. Like they can get warrants from phone and tech companies and see what phones were in what area at what time and things like that, like high tech, you know, CBS procedural type shit that they can do. But they haven't really done that so far because they don't need to, Mark. Nope. Yeah, there's a real question here about if you're trying to create a movement over to the government,

but it's also a movement that's all about performative online identity that requires you live every moment of your life on social media. The two things kind of don't go together. You know? Yeah. I mean, there's so many of these cases, and I have a fucking bogged Matt down with like a thousand links. But we can just run through some of the fucking more fantastic ones if you want. Well, they just arrested three people from Beverly Hills today. one of them is a Beverly Hills salon owner and going back to that these aren't four people

right salon owner who the charge they arrested her for is going to get put her away 15 to 20 years if she's convicted even if she pleads guilty she'll get 15 yeah gina bisoniano Bissigiano um good job good job with that name I you get much better than I was scared by that name I was like I don't know how to fucking yeah yeah um there's a guy here's one of my favorites a guy who founded Alboys for Trump in New Mexico. Yeah. He was just arrested, but not until after he told the newspaper he was going back to D.C.

tomorrow for the inauguration with guns. So they got him before he could do that. But here's the best part. The guy who went to the coup, his name is Kui. Yes. That guy. Cooey Griffin. I'm saying, dude, like I said this jokingly to you via text the other day.

Everybody, you know, if you follow me for a while, you're aware, I'm completely. godless as a person. But the more details come out about this, I'm starting to feel, I don't know, I don't know if you call it faith or whatever, I'm like some kind of higher power is at work here. Because every part of this is just so

like perfectly in sync. Like, I told you earlier, you sent me in the outline, there's a link to an NBC news article that kind of summarizes all of the recent arrest. And it's just it's a news article. It's a

journalistic, it's just facts. It's just a list of facts. And I told you, I was like, dude, the number of jokes in this article, like the number of hilarious jokes in this scholarly, sincere news article is phenomenal. Like, the unintentional comedy of this is just too much to ignore. The man's name is coo-e. I mean. This next one is, yeah, this next one's awesome too. This is from an arrest warrant affidavit. The affidavit includes a JPEG of a photo that this coup doer had, he took a screen grab from a news footage of forming the Capitol of a guy climbing the building. And he used whatever app he was on to use an emoji finger pointing at himself and has, this is me. So the FBI has him Instagramming a fucking confession with an.

arrow pointing to himself that he didn't he didn't live stream it he went back afterwards and thought about exactly right exactly so many of these people live streamed it they were on there on their phones like hey i'm at the capital bill that's another one there was a cop from west virginia i think it was who was literally live streaming on his his name is derrick evans and he was literally in there live streaming himself inside the capital building yelling derrick evans is in the capital First and last name, screaming at himself while committing sedition. I said cop, he had just been elected to the West Virginia House of Delegate, so he was like a newly elected West Virginia representative, but he has since resigned.

But yes, just in that, yes, the guy you said, but the guy you were talking about, he didn't, he didn't live stream it. Like you said, he went back and found footage, other footage of people storming the Capitol, took a screenshot, went into MS paint or whatever, and added to the, circled his own face and wrote in, this is me. And then posted it on his social media. It's just like, oh, my God. Dude.

This next guy is my favorite one. He, uh, there it is right there. Look, there it is. This is me. Look at that arrow. I've taught some MS paint shit, dude. fucking scrawled that in there he's got that uh he's got that like um shadowed font

I don't remember the name of it but that's like that's classic you know yeah 2002 high school font right there just laying it just these affidavits man with all this evidence in it it's oh my God it's too good who are you got to bring it up with a cheat code I know right these uh this next guy he's my favorite one I think although we have a lot more. He told his parole officer,

he was on probation for some other white nationalist shit, and he told his probation officer he was going to D.C. to hand out Bibles, but instead he was in the riot, and he wore his ankle monitor with his GPS activated to the goddamn fucking capital. Literally a tracking device. The only purpose of that device

that you have wrapped around your ankle at every hour of the day is to keep track of where you are and you go there. Although like you said, he straight up told his parole officer he was going there. So I guess in his mind he's like, well, I have permission, so it's fine. Yeah. And he's a, he's a scary dude. Like he's told people he wants to be a lone wolf killer. He's researched school shootings.

Like he's a, he's a fucking bad dude. He should be in jail regardless. Mark, that's not, come on. That's not fair. That's not fair. Sure, everything you just said is true. But he was going there to hand out Bibles, dude. So like, it's a gray area, okay?

People are good. Not everything is black and white, Mark. Sure, he wants to be a lone wolf killer. But he also hands out Bibles. So you got to think about that. There's a dude named Brandon Fellows. Who used to work at a grocery store, I'm assuming from context he got fired. He lives in a converted school bus who posted a video.

His feet propped up in Senator Jeff Murkley's office smoking weed and said, quote, this one's going to get me incriminated. You guessed right, buddy. So, okay. we've been saying we're talking about these people this whole time and keep saying like all this sense of entitlement you can tell that they are that they're astounded that there's anything wrong with this but then you see something like this he literally posted on there saying oh i'm i'm gonna go to jail for this basically this one's going to get me incriminated so he has some understanding of what he's doing but still did the thing in the first not even just doing the thing in the first place, but posted self-incriminating evidence and called it

self-incriminating. Like, what? I don't understand how you can have even the amount of self-awareness it takes to realize this is an incriminating illegal act that I'm committing

and also post it and say, hey everybody, look at this incriminating illegal act I'm committing. I don't get how that works. There were some of them actually were that that student. So this girl from University of Kentucky, she posted a selfie at the Capitol Riot

and somebody who goes to school with her DM'd her. And this DM exchange is just fucking classic because she, the girl goes, her friend goes, hey, are you stupid? What did you do? She goes, that's embarrassing. She goes, I don't know. it was history. I thought it was cool.

Another one, you're a moron. You committed treason. She goes, IDK, I mean, I don't know what treason is. I don't know what treason is. Okay, first of all, I don't know what treason is. Okay. Secondly, it was cool. Yeah, I don't know. I just, again, you wouldn't, I know this is like, this is a cliche that people say it a lot, but like you literally couldn't, you could not write shit like this.

because no one would buy it. You know, when you, I mean, one or two, sure. But when you just stack them up one on top of the other, back to back, and every one of them is some hilarious bullshit like that, it just becomes too much to just accept. But it's true. It's what happened. And there was Riley June Williams,

22-year-old who stole Nancy Pelosi's laptop and tried to sell it to the Russians. her boyfriend was Russian, but not like Russian intelligence or something like that, and he turned her in? What happened there? It's not clear whether she had anything other than an idea. Right. Yes.

I feel like that's a recurring theme here. Just a general idea they all had. She had a notion she could take Nancy Pelosi's laptop and get money from the Russians for it for some reason. I'm sure Nancy Pelosi is a lot of, like, deeply secured information on her fucking laptop that she takes home on the train with her or whatever um like this is the sheer amount of idiocy the guy who wore a go pro i mean this gopro on his head to storm the capital threatened his own kids not to turn him in or he'd shoot them because that would make them traders um yep a lady yes this lady this lady's great

she was posting on gab i know on parlor about how she went to the capital and somebody was trying to lead her to talk to herself down to be like, hey, they'd open the doors and just let you in, right? And she goes, uh, she goes, she goes,

uh, she says, uh, forcing entry, they let you right in, right? And she goes, nope,

force like rugby. We entered the back door of the capital. The news only shows what happened in the front of it. Again, on her own social media page, someone else, some other patriot is trying to help her out. being like you know they let they let you in right nope period forced period like rugby period we entered

through the back door of the capital the news only shows what happened at the front of it so just like going out of their way to fuck themselves over over and over and over again just across the board and like this is the this is what to to take it into a broader conversation that we've already had before and I don't it's what I'm not that superstitious of a person but I don't even want to like jinks myself by talking about this but like all this shit that we're talking about right now is like

why I why I can't worry too much about the threat that this particular group of people pose to American society. I don't want to be flipping about it because they could certainly show up and kill way too many people. One person

too many. Like, don't, don't get me wrong, but I'm just saying, like, the idea that they will actually put together and successfully launch any kind of revolution or coup or whatever that actually works is just completely out of the realm of possibility to me, because, I mean, just look at them, dude, they don't, they don't know what they're doing. They don't even know how much they don't know about what they're doing. That's like the whole, I'm just not, I'm not generally frightened of them overall because, of this?

Well, I'm more frightened of stupid people, not less, but I know what you're saying. These people are not organized, but I'm not the first person to make this point, but like these are low-hanging fruit people, right? And some people who cover like, you know, radical right-wing radicals and online disinformation and organizing and all that kind of shit and making this point that like the people you're seeing rolled up, have been seeing rolled up so far that people were making fun of. like and Marcy Wheeler who's a writer I read sometimes wrote this is the headline she wrote

op-sex shaming misses the terrorist for the forest of bozos they hid behind now we're talking about the forest of bozos and God I love talking about the forest of bozos but today what it started happening like like for example the fPS doesn't caught whoever planted the iEDs somebody planted a couple bombs around DC that day and the only picture that's gone viral is a guy wearing a mask and wearing a hood up. So that's all we know about that guy, for example. And that guy was actively trying to kill a decent number of people, right? Right.

Today, the FBI started rolling up some of the more organized coup people. Like, here's a quote from the Washington Post article, self-style militia members from Virginia, Ohio, and other states made plans to storm the U.S. Capitol days in advance of the attack, then communicated in real time as they breached the building opposite sides and talked about hunting for lawmakers. according. This isn't conviction, of course. It's just a document followed an arrest warrant affidavit.

But they started arresting like three percenters and oathkeepers who were organized. Those were this 30, 40, mid-trip to the capital. Right. Well, yeah, I mean, you know, we said at the opening of this segment that, like, some of this is kind of confirmation bias or whatever, because of course, these are going to be the first people who get caught. The people who make it the easiest to catch them are going to be the first ones that get caught. Yeah. So, yes, what, like, happens? moving forward with these more, you know, serious threats or whatever is what is what matters.

But at the end of the day, I don't know, especially on, I don't know, you know what, I'm going to shut up because hell, the inaugurations tomorrow and I just don't want a famous last words myself or anything. But what do you, how do you think that's going to play? Are you worried about tomorrow at all? The threat they pose, like what's going to, what's going to happen tomorrow do you think? So I gather a big problem is that like security clearance protocols have not been updated for internet age so no one's checking out troops social media to see what groups they're in and what they're posting and shit and so they did that for the um uh inaugural security and they found they they removed two guys i think from the uh national guard detail for stuff they post on social

media um i'm not talking about just like just like you know digging out people who voted for trump or whatever that's that's totally their right to vote you know however they want to vote but it's people who have posted like threatening stuff on social media because it's a handful of guys with, you know, M4s within shooting distance of the president and vice president tomorrow. It's, it's a day. That's, you know, it's not good. Don't you think, I'm, and I'm talking on my ass, because I've got a lot of friends who have served, but I never served. I don't know, but I, but I have the general sense that, like, we've been talking this whole time about the entitlement these people had of just being like, it's completely out of the realm of possibility

that they would face any kind of repercussions for what they were doing, you know? Yeah. I feel like a huge part of being in the military and going through the process of joining the military and being in the services, knowing the opposite of that is true. Do you know what I mean? Like accountability and consequences and repercussions for your actions is kind of a huge thing in the military. And so it just, I feel like they would be less inclined to think that they could just do while on duty, I mean, I know some of the people at some of the people at the, some of the people at the, capital on the 6th where, you know, veterans. I'm not saying that they're infallible, but I'm saying like being on duty while they're there, I don't know. They would have to, I think they would have to view any kind of action like that as a suicide mission in their

own head because there's not going to be any aspect of them that thinks like, I'm going to be hailed as a hero and get away with this if I try some shit. No, no, but I mean, John Wolks Booth considered himself a hero of the story too, right? Like that's the, Right. It only takes one or two of them, you know, yeah. I mean, yeah, for sure. John, John Hinckley impressed the hell out of Jody Foster. You know, that was a tremendous success.

Right. But the, I mean, I would say that, so the crowd of bozos, like, those are so ridiculous. They bought round trip tickets to overthrow the government. That's how fucking stupid they were. Like, they were surprised they couldn't fly home. They were planning to fly home the whole time. If you successfully, over there the government, you have to stay at a run. it's stupid.

But the guys who are willing to die for it, those are the truly frightening ones. Right, for sure. Those are the ones who would, you know, just open fire at the stage and then like whatever happens next happens next. I mean, you know. So I don't know. Let's try to take it. Let's just two inauguration is happening.

Yes. Let's please make the apparently bold assumption that Biden will actually be inaugurated tomorrow. And talk about why that's. good. You know, if barring a crazy dipshit revolution actually coming through tomorrow, it marks the end of an error in American history.

Trump will be out. Biden will be in, and there's plenty of reasons to be excited about that, but some of them are actually concrete um, uh, god damn it. Oh, what's the word, Mark? What's the tangible? Thank you.

Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, brain. Concrete tangible reasons to be excited and happy. about the forthcoming administration, right? There's things they've already said that they are going to do that we should all be happy about. Yeah. So I wanted to do this because I'm going to spend the next four to eight years

shitting all over Joe Biden. Yes, which is your right as an American. That's my obligation as Americans, right? Absolutely. To yell at them when I think they're not doing right, right? That's what the democracy is all about. So day one, we're joining the Paris Climate Accords, which they've got to find $3 billion to catch up

and dues and also bring you get bring us in line with them but rejoining as a first step um Biden's killing the Keystone pipeline which uh not even Obama would do um his immigration proposal people people had like waffled on stuff but the the Biden team met with some immigration activists um uh last week and they came out of the meeting super excited about his proposals which include like legalizing 11 million undocumented immigrants The first bill Congress is going to try to pass is to try to update, you know, America's commitment to democracy, making like early voting mandatory for 15 days prior to every federal election, which, you know, was every two years.

There's lots of cool, lots of good stuff that would make us live in a healthier society that is in the immediate future, hopefully, and assuming that Joe Manchin will relent and help abolish the filibuster, or that some Republicans who were just tired of everything being so bad all the time will compromise on a few votes. But some of those are executive orders. They don't have any. Congress doesn't have to do anything.

Right. Well, like you said, you know, hopefully, I don't, I don't want to bring this segment down because I'm also thrilled that Trump's not going to be the president anymore. Don't get me wrong. And I'm hopeful for the future. But just like, you know, I think you're talking about how he's going to end the Keystone Pipeline Day one.

is that statement, is that different than Obama declaring the same thing about Guantanamo Bay? Because I remember that. It was like day one, Guantanamo Bay. It's getting closed down. And then that obviously didn't happen. Is there something that makes this different, like other than just like a promise? I'm not automatically assuming he won't do it.

I'm just asking, is it more set in stone than just a thing that has been said will happen? Well, he can do this by himself because I think it's, you just stop issuing permits as a permit with Guantanamo there was a Congress we don't to actually close that Congress would have to eliminate its funding which Congress wouldn't do and then also like they didn't have anything to do with the people that were there the countries the countries that they'd been kidnapped from didn't want them back and mainland prisons wouldn't take them because they didn't want terrorists being in New York or Florida or whatever so it was a real they'd like it's one of those things

where like if those guys had just been killed in combat, it would have been simpler for everyone involved because they didn't have any, they didn't have anything to do with these dudes who were still alive just existing in this purgatory over there. Yeah, so, yes, a lot of things for us to be excited about and hopeful for with the Biden presidency. But again, that is assuming that Joe Biden actually gets inaugurated tomorrow.

And Mark, let's move into your Q report. Not everybody's convinced that that's what's going to happen tomorrow, right? Well, so today is a big day in Q. lore. Today's National Popcorn Day, which it is National Popcorn Day. So enjoy some popcorn in honor of National Popcorn Day later. But also they take it to be a

coded message about get your popcorn. It shows about to happen. This is when the Democrats are being rounded up. From who? Like, coded message from who? Who from Trump via Q? So Trump declared January 19th National Popcorn Day like in the past

couple years and did that as a coded message to send to them that get your popcorn ready? Yeah. So do 2018, somebody involved with the federal government tweet out

just it was an acknowledgement that according, you know, every day is National something Day, National Cup Day, National Cake Day, whatever. Donut Day, that's a good one.

Yeah. Talk like a Pirate Day. Yeah. May the 4th, it's Star Wars Day, right? And so everything, every day is a day. So

today, January 19th is National Popcorn Day. And somebody tweeted out an acknowledgement of such a couple years ago and they took it to be a coded message to get your popcorn the show's about to start. Which, of course, conveniently, today is the next to last day Trump could ever do anything. So, if not now, when?

So they, and I know I'm trying to like make sense of the senseless or whatever, but I'm so, so it became National Popcorn Day in 2018 and they said then that the message was about three years later National Popcorn Day. Like in 2018, they were like, what this means is on National Popcorn Day in 2021, that's the real one. 18, 19, and 20, that's just about popcorn. Everybody enjoy your popcorn.

Everybody loves popcorn. But 2021 National Popcorn Day, that's a whole other thing. Like, that's the theory. I think it's kind of how Linus goes out every year and waits for the Great Pumpkin. Right, right. I think it's just every day

every year they get excited and then nothing happens or maybe something happens and we just don't privy to it. I don't know. That's the, that's the, do you think, like you said,

every day is a day, do you think they sit around somewhere in the White House and they're like, oh, it's January 19th, you know what? January 19th doesn't have a day yet. And you think they just bandied around. They're like, how about popcorn?

Is popcorn have a day? Let's go with popcorn. Or, Mark, do you think big popcorn swoops in fucking big Orville Mr. Reddenbacher himself his lobbyist swoop in and say we demand a day and then they have to find a day

for big popcorn to be asswaged so they don't face the wrath of the unpopped masses I think corn does have a very powerful lobby that's why corn is in everything you're right I'm assuming congressman from Iowa

just got put it in some bill to proclaim someday National Popcorn Day. So everyone would eat a little more popcorn. Right, because his district produces the most corn used for popping in the country. So, yeah, they deserve to be recognized. Thank you, Iowa. We appreciate the popcorn.

All right, what else are they saying? That's not their only theory. They got plenty of theories, Mark. They can explain all this away. What else they're talking about? This is a sovereign city, sovereign citizen adjacent theory where, So sovereign citizens are a crazy group.

Right. Yeah. So they think Biden can't become the 46th president because Trump will become the 19th president. And after the 18th president, they put orange, yellow frills on the flag. So that means we stopped being an American and start to be owned by foreign corporate. It doesn't make any sense. There's no use getting too deep into it. It's ridiculous.

But if you want to, yeah, but they think he's going to be, Biden won't be 46 because Trump, it's going to be 19. But these are the people that, the sovereign citizen people, they're the ones that say, they think they can just say, they can just declare, I'm a sovereign citizen,

which means I'm not an American citizen, which means I'm not subject to your laws and regulations. Like I can just say, no, that don't apply to me. Because I'm a sovereign citizen. That's their whole thing. It has to do with some shit like income taxes,

being unconstitutional. Actually, if you read about it, Trey. And then I'll also, So, like, if you, like, because the government databases have your name in all caps. So if you look at your birth certificate, it usually says it will say, it will say, Trey Crowder in all caps. But you don't, you're not Trey Cowder at all caps.

You're only your first letters are capitalized. Therefore, that's not technically you. And you were not a citizen in the United States. You got them on a technicality. You'll go to, you know, trying to say this. Speaking of impostors, people posing as other people, tell us about this other theory. They got what I like to call the face-off theory, one of my favorite movies from the 90s, that Q has, Q has figured out what's really.

really going on and it's a plot from a Nicholas Cage movie from 1997 or thereabouts. Yeah. So this is being passed around one of the, you know, our Donald subreddits or whatever. But here's a, here's a very popular meme that's going to pass around right wing media. Joe Biden has been arrested. Deep State is in disarray and has struck a deal with the Trump administration. There will be an experimental surgery that will exchange the faces of Biden and Trump. So when you watch Biden's inauguration, you'll be really watching Trump being sworn in for his second term. And when you're watching the Trump trial, that is really Biden paying for his crime. So Biden with Trump's fate will actually be who's impeached.

That's important to remember. Yeah. Also, when Trump, as Biden stammer those slurs his words, is because Trump is learning to duplicate his speech patterns. Right. Yeah. Exactly. So, yes, that last part, it's, I got to, I don't know, I almost have to give it up to the amount of thought they put into this because, like, they had to consider the fact that, like, oh, but Biden, he stumbles with his words sometimes. slurs his words and he says, you know, he has

gas and whatnot. Obviously our Lord and Savior Donald Trump would never do that, right? Like he can't, he's infallible. He wouldn't do that. But Biden does that. Even though he's Trump with a Biden mask on. So why would, oh, right, he's doing that to help make the say, he's,

he's, you know, acquainting himself with the Biden speech process and every now and then there's some hiccups in there. Like the fact that, they, the fact that something so patently ludicrous that the person who like came up with that, that they also thought down to that, you know, that level of like, oh, well, we have to explain away the Biden speech gaffs. Do you know what I mean? Like, these people's brains are wild,

y'all. They're wild the way they work to me. Like, they're very ordered in how disordered they are. Right. Exactly. Yes. Yes. So that's one theory. But they basically divide them into two different camps. They have the camp that trusts Trump and whatever happens is all part of Trump's plan inherently. And then you got the people who are like, we got to do shit for themselves. Like some, we got to shit for ourselves. Like there's a bunch of people who are like trying to figure out if they could impersonate National Guardsmen at the inauguration tomorrow.

I doubt they follow through with it. I'm sure the FBI has noticed that by now. There's people pretending to be General Heighton, who's the vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the commander of the Air Force. Somebody pretended to be him started a telegram chain. is trying to get people fired up and he's already got 114,000 subscribers by this morning. So I bet you're just over 250 by now. He'll pretend to be Pompeo getting people organized. One of the questions going around is why Biden has not been arrested for treason yet.

And some well actually people like, well, the treason doesn't happen until he officially takes the oath. So once he officially takes the oath as president to fraudulently assume the office of president, then this trap is wrong and Trump is one. Right. Yes. So only once he's been sworn in, then will the true Patriots swoop in, take him to jail, install Trump as a dictator, and make sure all's right in the world. That's been the plan the whole time. Yeah. So this is, y'all hit us with some comments and questions and whatnot. As I mentioned last time, I don't envy producer Matt in this process. They do fly by very quickly. So Matt, give us what you can, buddy. And y'all let us know how you're feeling about tomorrow. You're feeling generally hopeful? You're worried. How you feeling about what's going to? on in the country right now, and especially where the inauguration is concerned. I want to ask you, Mark, while we're waiting on that, about Trump being convicted, even

at, like, at this point, there's no possible way that's happening, you know, tonight, but Biden is getting inaugurated tomorrow, which that's what I've been saying the whole time. There's no way it was going to happen before today. But, like, there's a lot of arguments for the idea that it should still happen, really, even though he's out of office starting tomorrow, they should still follow through with it, which I think they should. But do you think they will?

I mean, like, you, first of all, you fucking, you have to. Because if you don't, if you don't punish someone for trying to stay in office past their term,

the president's been, the precedent has been established. You just try to do a coup. And if it fails, you just get to go live the rest of your life. Right? right no i i know but i don't i don't think the question is anybody like

the concern is the you know the republicans in power that we they have to they have to go along with it and i know there's been reports of like more and more of them are considering it or whatever but like of course i agree with you like yes you have to you can't just let that stand but that doesn't that logic doesn't apply to them in my opinion you know what i mean like that has nothing to do with how they look at it. So I'm just talking about the actual expectation for whether or not they'll, you know, stand up and do the right thing. Trump's approval rating is the lowest of his,

you know, of his term, which is, you know, finally people are turning a little bit. It's down like 2930%. So his solid 40%'s been broken. And I don't really, I mean, they're all going to go with whatever their own, like, I don't have any, like, faith that any of them are not going to be self-interested cowards. It just depends on where the winds are blowing and how many Emeritus States and how many of them just see it as like they're in their long-term interest to like try to break this Trump fever

so they can get the donations rolling back in and all that like McConnell is like looking at I mean if you believe all these corporations that they cut off funding to Republicans who um who backed uh you know they did the riots on the sixth they're causing them or aren't standing up for democracy

then they're taking a big hit to their wallets and they need to win elections so it could be in McConnell could see it in his interest to whip up votes to make it a uniform bipartisan impeachment. That way everyone will have cover. You can't you can't issue death threats against all 50 Senate Republicans. You know, yeah, I don't know. You know, we'll we'll see what happens. Matt has sent us a comment here in the chat said this is the first comment. and I'm assuming it's related to this link was a parlor website partially returns with support from Russian-owned technology firm, which you ask everybody, you know, Parlor got knocked off the internet, basically. They got de-platformed by Apple and Amazon and all that, and now they've come back, they've found a way to come back, and it's through Russia.

Russian servers, or however the hell you put that appropriately. Russia has put them back on the internet, basically. So nothing to worry about there for true patriots on that side of things. You know, Russia's on the up and up. They're not going to use any of your information or do anything below board with your actions on there. They just want you to be able to speak freely in this country. That's what Russia wants. That's why they're doing it.

You please, please give Social Security and Credit Card number two. Yes, simply input social security number to return to the parlor homepage. Everything will be fine, fight the, fight the paper. hour. That's what they say. I will not steal critical information to buy one potato for family. Doing this voice is reminded me. There was another thing we didn't mention in the Q world, and it's the theory that Melania's jackets are coated. One of them like vaguely looks like TV static or something, and they're like, that's Melania sending it. So Melania's in there. It's like, do you think Colt sends the right message? And by message, I mean, code did message to internet

conspiracy theorists, to make sure that it's appropriate message. that court sins. Yeah, so one thing that's happening in Cure World today, because tomorrow's, tomorrow's got to be the storm, because it's the last day of, you know, it's when the traps being strong, it's sprung, Biden's done treason, yada, yada, yada, so what's supposedly going to happen

is all of them about ham radios because Trump's going to shut down telecommunications. So all of the opponents have radio blackouts while the military is conducting their ops to round up all the Democrats for execution. Sure. Maybe the ham radios to be able to communicate support of Trump while he's doing that. And so the only real form of information would have to get us through the emergency broadcast system or the global broadcast system, which of course is that famous static noise, right?

Yes, right. So Melania wore a wool coat today that looks like test pattern static. TV static, yes, the classic static pattern. Except that's not what the coat was. It's just like garbled black and white thread or whatever. So people said it's the static pattern. It's a gray coat. Yeah.

It is a nice coat. Therefore, it's proof that it's Trump's announcing he's going to use the global broadcast system to launch the storm and everyone's fucked. You got a hand radio tomorrow. Yeah, I hate to hear that, man. Kathleen Dolores says, but Lindsay says the GOP will lose one third of their supporters if they go after Trump. Lose them to do that. Right. Right.

The lesson here is that Republicans are going to vote in Republican no matter what, no matter what happens. same for people on the left the democrats and it's just a matter of nobody's persuadable nobody's going anywhere nobody who thinks that democrats are trying to take their gun is going to switch to voting for Biden in 2024 because the Senate turned on Trump in 2020 it doesn't 2020 it doesn't make any sense so I don't believe lindzy graham although I'm sure he'd rather impeachment just go away so you can pretend like the last four years couldn't happen I mean I think they're better off you know what the hell do I know and obviously I'm on the other side of the fence anyway but I think think they're better off like amputating that rotten leg as quickly as they can as far as I'm

concerned like because yeah there there will be some fallout I think from distancing yourself from Trump but you should just go ahead and get that shit over with because like you can already see the ramifications of not doing it right the presidential election and then the Georgia runoffs and all of that you know like just get it done and put it behind you and try to move on in whatever direction the GOP chooses. But if you remain willingly beholden to Trump because you're afraid of what happened if you don't, it's just going to make it much worse for them all the way around.

I think. Who knows what they'll actually do? But yeah, I think it would actually be wise of them to just, you know, rip the Band-Aid off and move on. Jason Ruderman says, Smart Mark is all over the insane Q&on conspiracies. Bravo. He does.

He eats it up. He loves it. He's all over it. It's the best show on TV, baby. It's got so many interesting characters. Yeah. It's, everything's fucking wild. I don't know.

Everything is fucking wild. Do you think what I just said makes sense, or do you disagree with me? Or do you think, like, what do you think about the smart play if you were a Republican strategist? I mean, he's never been weaker, right? So if you're not going to move on now to save yourselves, then I'm not sure when you would. Because remember at the end, for the entire movie training day, Denzel's character feels all powerful. Then at the end,

he gets his ass kicked that everyone turns their back on him and sort of walks away from him, right? It just sort of feels like he does that whole King Kong and got nothing on speech and everybody's like, ah, fuck off. You know, you don't have any power over us anymore. I never liked him to begin with. That's a phenomenal reference, Mark.

That's one of my favorite movies of all time. Great movie. He's lost. He has no power. I mean, all he has is his weirdest supporters. The fever semi-brokees. after January 6th. Funding's been cut off everybody

if you don't excise this tumor. It just feels like what do you have to lose at this point? You know, nobody's up for election for two years at least. Lindsay Graham let up for six. McConnell's not up for six. McConnell's going to die before he runs before he gets out of office. I don't see the

point hanging on. Yeah, man. No, that's what I think too. But again, who knows what they'll actually do. But yeah, rip that shit off. You know, I'm surgical with this bitch, Jake. Training Day. Good movie. what else we got over here people generally agreeing with us saying

yeah they need to get they need to take care of it while they can Shelti 100 says what movie is this Denzel Washington yes Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke and Anton Foucault's Training Day 1998 check it out Matthew Sutherland says 34% final approval rating his lowest I saw this

scrolling through Twitter earlier and I didn't like fact check it because you know fucking Twitter. Who does that? But the thing is said, when at Bush's George W. Bush's lowest point, his approval rating was like 20%. Is that true? Is that accurate?

That sounds low. I know it does sound. I agree. It sounds like, I even thought, well, I was like, that sounds low, but like I said, I didn't verify it. But I'm wondering because, you know, yes, 34 Trump's lowest, and you want to be encouraged by that, but there's always a shitty flip side. If it's not that bad, compared

to other unpopular presidents, which I, you know, I don't know. And there's no way for me to find out. I can't look anything up or anything. I mean, Bush was historically unpopular. And I did. I saw another poll that had Trump's approval at 29%. So it's much lower than it has been over the course. It was, no matter what, it's lower than it has been.

So if you can't turn on a guy, right. They only three out of ten people remotely support. Then what are you doing? According to Google, the lowest approval writing for George W. Bush that he ever reached was 20. So, I mean, yeah, you know, that's still... And the whole party turned on Bush immediately.

Right. Yeah, but he just didn't have none of them have ever had this, like, fucking cult of personality thing going on that Donald Trump has. Like, I get... From their perspective, I get why they're afraid of it. I just think that it's short-sighted. Like, you're not... It's not a winning proposition, I don't think, long-term to continue to try to curry favor with him. So, like, you're going to have to do something about it.

But yeah, I don't know. Yeah. I mean, can you get 17 senators? They who like maybe five of them up for election in two years and just think it'd be good for them because they're in swing states. Maybe four or five things for the good of the country. And you need like another seven who have some cynical motive. I can't figure out. I mean, the ones you want to want to run for president in 24, it seems like a pretty clear lane to be like, I'm not Trump.

You know, plus I make it impossible for Trump to run in 20. 24. Yeah, well, all right, we're just about there, just about the hour mark and mark the next time we see each other in this capacity anyway, Donald Trump will no longer be the president of United States unless Q and not is correct, right? Has that really set in for you? It's wild. It's wild. This is the last night. This is the last night. Our long national nightmare is hopefully maybe fake Lord willing at an end. That's crazy. Only a half million of us and live through it because of it. Right.

Right. But tomorrow when you're toasting inauguration, toast to that half million who'd be alive if 70,000 people had stayed home in 2016. Yeah. So thank you all for joining us on the last night of Donald Trump's presidency.

We'll see you on the next edition of Evening Skews. And Joe Biden's America. We'll see how that's going. Thank y'all. Love you. See you by. Well, shit. Hello there, everybody. It's a new day. today is Thursday, January 21st, 2021. I'm Trey Crowder.

That's Mark Aegee. The president is Joseph Biden. Mark, how you feeling? Great, man. I enjoyed yesterday. Did you, I felt a little corny for a little while, and I let myself feel that way. Were you corny at all? Well, what do you mean?

What did you do that was corny? Man, Garth said to sing along, and I didn't at first. I thought it was ridiculous. Then I was fucking singing, man. an amazing grace with Garth Brooks and I guess probably a couple other million people. It was nice. Oh yeah, Matt found this meme, which is true to his roots. Garth Brooks showed up in boots to a black tie fair.

Yeah, he did. Garth, keeping it real up there yesterday. I will answer your question about being corny, but first I want to ask, like, Garth, what do you think the, what do you think the, like, people are going to lash out at Garth over this, right? Like, this is a good, like, even though, you know, Garth has done stuff like this in the past, but there's plenty of people on Garth's Facebook page canceling it.

Garth's getting canceled by a lot of Garth fans over here, but dude, they can't, they can't cancel Garth. Garth is in their hearts. There's nothing they can do about it. They're still going to know. Even if they cancel Garth, we still got Chris Gaines. Yeah, Chris Gaines is definitely the more liberal seeming of the Garth person.

He's got a liberal haircut, most definitely. I will say that, I mean, because he, Gar's a Republican, and people asked him why he was doing. He was like, oh, what's the time for, you know, Biden's theme is unity? And I think that's probably why I asked everyone sitting at home to sing together, too. It's like, it's a time to like, I mean, like, this stuff is, this stuff's supposed to be corny. It's pomp and circumstance. It's a ritual. It's like, you don't have to wear a hat and gown to get college diploma.

It just makes you feel cool to walk slow motion to like an old time you march, you know? Yeah, I think Garth, you know, so. Brooks was a perfect choice for this moment just because of this whole attempt Biden's making it unity and whatnot. You know what I mean? Like it's like it's a savvy choice to have the most commercially successful mainstream country music artist of the past three decades or ever. You see all the time. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, my corn. I love the, I love the people, the quickest to cancel people, the people that think that cancel culture is a huge problem. It's so fucking funny to me. Right, exactly. Yeah, no, we're the snowflakes that are overly sensitive and they're the ones that flip the fuck out over anything that even remotely goes against, you know, their entire worldview at large.

But, yes, if I was corny yesterday, yeah, I kept doing the, what happened to me yesterday is I kept having that thing where, like, you ever have that thing where you kind of just out of note, you're just going about your life and you re-remember something that's good. You know what I mean? Like, you're just like, while you're washing the dishes or something, and you're like, oh, shit, the new Batman movie comes out tomorrow night.

That's awesome, right? And then you're happy then for a little while. Like, that's what kept happening to me all day yesterday. Like, even after having watched the inauguration and everything, still, I'd just go back to my life and every now and then it would just pop into my head like, oh, shit. Donald Trump's not the president

anymore. That's cool. and so that's how it played out for me. I mean, like, really it's like it's about, like, because it's like, the thing about being left wing is like, we're annoying because we're always fact-checking shit about the evils of history, right? Which is why we suck and we don't know if we want to have parties. Like, so it'd be like, you'd be watching like Lady Gaga turned to the flag and go and the flag was still there during the National Anthem,

which of course is a reference to the, you know, the stormy of the capital on the sixth. And then, but then you remember like the Francis Scott Key wrote about the flag being, still being there during the war of 1812 which is the last time the Capitol got sacked and you're like oh that's a point in your mom but be like oh Francis Scott Key was a horrible racist so I started fucking being mad at myself for feeling feeling touch by that.

Yeah, but the line still slaps though, you know, despite that. It's a good line. It's a good line. Just don't, nobody sings the third verse of the song about how slavery rocks so we get that happen and go with the rest of the song. All right, so welcome to the show everybody.

Producer Matt with us is always. this is evening skews got a great show for you tonight we're going to talk about the inauguration we're going to talk about the efforts Biden took immediately to undo some of the more egregious examples of Trump's dumb assery and weirdly not everybody's been thrilled with everything that's happened so far so we're going to get in some of the backlash too so that'll be fun and a lot more to talk about it's going to be a good time but first as always the daily dumbass matt graphic not to do a complete 180 here or anything but unfortunately tonight's Daily Dumbasses all of us who have been celebrating this past day and a half

who've been enjoying it a little too much why are we dumbasses well because it's already about to come to an end it's already about to close and if you don't know what I mean here's Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green telling you what I mean Matt play it Articles of impeachment on President Joe Biden. We'll see how this goes.

There you have it, Mark. I know. What are we going to do? Biden got William Henry Harrison. Harrison will got 30 days. Biden's going to get like a eight. So RIP, Joe Biden's political career. I like how she kind of almost acknowledges herself the idiocy of it at the end of it.

I feel like I'm sure she didn't intend this, but I feel like the way she said, we'll see how this goes. is like, like, that's the way I say it after I try to fix a leak in the sink or something. And I tell Katie to turn the water back on. Like, yeah, we'll see how this goes. In my head, I'm like, there's no fucking way this is actually going to work. But we'll see. Yeah. Like, she said, we'll see how this goes.

Like, with a tone you'd say about announcing to your family, you're going to marriage counseling after one of you stabbed the other one. She's doing it from the basement, too. She's in some sort of brick basement. They won't even litter in the real capital because she sucks so hard. This lady is terrible. She's wild. She's something else. Yes.

Senior Georgia correspondent Cory Ryan Forster, this is his congresswoman. This is who represents Cory Forster in Congress. And yeah, she's pretty wild, Mark. She said a lot of wild shit, hasn't she? Yeah. Yeah, they keep digging up new Facebook posts where she said 9-11 was an inside job. I think that's an old one Sandy Hook was staged. This week it came out that she said that basically,

Nancy Pelosi requests a school shooting anytime she needs one to happen for I'm not sure what because we never get any gun control so I'm not sure what the point of the point of this is it sets the ground to take people's guns but nobody ever takes anybody's guns so I'm not sure what the fucking plan is just to kill kids

Nancy Pelosi loves killing kids well on the note of nobody ever taking anybody's guns we've got an honorable mention for you on the Daily Dumbass which is anybody who thought that it was possible for Congress people to write laws without being strapped to the gills.

That just would be un-American, right? Yeah, there's still a throw that screen, grab up there, Matt, if you got it. They're still skipping the metal detector. They're paying $5,000 a pop to go around the metal detector and just set it off and keep going. And this one was funny. A bunch of them have been fighting this battle, but this one dude, Andy Harris from Maryland, had a gun on him. Tried to pass it off to an assistant, but his assistant,

wouldn't take it because he said he doesn't have a license. So he did literally try to like do the thing rappers do. We try to get your, one of your members of your entourage to take your gun. Yeah. Yeah. You got, it's the reason you have a weed guy,

a gun guy on your entourage. Right. I can pick the jail time for you. Yeah, so they're doing that. That's what, that's their biggest agenda item right now is making sure they can carry guns into the Capitol,

which they all ran away like cowards when we got invaded two weeks ago. So I'm not sure what the fuck are going to do with it. Yeah. Yeah. Also the fact that whatever's saying it, they're, going to get $5,000, they're going to get fine $5,000 every time this happens, right? And they all know that and they keep doing it.

Five the first time and 10 the second. Right. And yet they keep doing it. It's coming out of their actual paycheck. Pelosi made clear she's taking out of their paycheck. So it's not something they can cover with campaign money. Okay. So you know what?

Actually, because that's what I was about to bring up is like you can tell, like look at this, the actual salary of Congress people versus the, you know, know, willingness to do something like this. But I mean, I guess what I mean, they're still getting money from somewhere else regardless. But either way,

I'm just saying like it's clear that, you know, not the common people. I mean, like you don't have to worry about a $10,000 fine for bringing your gun into Congress that you're not going to use. You would never use.

I think they make $170. So they can literally only do this 17 times before they're in the negative. Right. So it would be interesting. I mean, some of them are personally wealthy, regardless, and they don't need their salary. But I don't know.

Yeah, all right. Another honorable mention on The Daily Dumbass tonight, anybody out there who thought that Fauci couldn't roast? He's got bars, everybody. Play it, Matt, play the clip. One of the new things in this administration, is if you don't know the answer, don't guess. Just say you don't know the answer.

Yeah. Oh, shit. He did it. He did it to him, Mark. Fauci's unleashed, baby. He's off the chain. Fauci after dark. Fauci after dark.

That's right. No, man. This is like, I mean, he feels loose because he's like, he can be honest because he's not free. He doesn't feel the need to couch everything in a way that keeps him from him. Not sure Trump ever could have fired him, but it would, Trump could have made his life unpleasant and not taking his advice more than he already didn't take it.

So that was the problem there. Right. But it's cool because he feels like he can actually be honest with his advice and not get shit on or ignored. And which Matt has another clip that illustrates this. Dr. Patrick, you're one of the few holdovers from the previous administration of this current one. What has been your experience with this new team? And in your view, what would have been different in terms of the trajectory of this outbreak from the start had a team like this been in place at the beginning? Well, I can tell you my, my impression.

of what's going on right now, the team, I don't know if I can extrapolate other things. But one of the things that was very clear as recently as about 15 minutes ago when I was with the president is that one of the things that we're going to do is to be completely transparent, open, and honest. If things go wrong, not point fingers, but to correct them and to make everything we do be based on science and evidence. I mean, that was literally a conversation. I had 15 minutes ago with the president. And he has said that multiple times. That you, looking back on your comments of the last 10 or 12 months,

would like to now with that sort of license to amend or clarify? No, I mean, I always said everything on the base. That's why I got in trouble sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. Imagine that. You're going to base things on actual science and not lie. And also tell us what's actually going to.

actually going on because on this node, another thing that came out today is apparently the Biden administration has gotten in there and found out that there is literally no Trump administration plan for the vaccination rollout, or at least that's the way they've represented. I think Fauci actually says like, well, no, I mean, we've given administration or we've given vaccinations, but still, they, uh, not a lot to work with over there. It seems like it wasn't a high priority for them in the previous administration. especially if they lost the election. I mean, they got caught a lot last week that they had promised 40 million doses of a vaccine that didn't exist.

They said there was a vaccine pile and there just wasn't. Nobody, they just all went to the beach, I guess, after November 3rd. Well, I mean, it's like you said, like especially after they lost. Like, is anybody surprised that there really hasn't been anything else going on in the Trump administration since the election other than attempting to reverse the resolution? results of it and also give out some pardons. But yeah, I mean, it's not surprising. They also executed a shit ton of people. And I think like they killed 15 people in a hurry on the way out the door and

pardoned all their buddies, except for Joe Exotic, which we talked about the other day. Sorry, Joe. Yeah, he's pretty upset about it too. Joe Exotic, he tweeted about not getting pardoned. He said it was pretty clear to him that he was too, what do you say? He was too gay. No, I know he said too. He said too gay.

We said innocent. That's what it was. I look it up. Joe Exotic said, I was too innocent and too gay to get a pardon from this organization. Joe falls into a category of people that, like, I feel bad for, specifically for the amount that no one feels bad for them, because he's guilty of everything except the stupid. crime they convicted him of.

You think he's going to try to get his money back on that limo with the roll cage and the bush guard and everything. We were talking about the other day like that. They didn't get to use that. That's unfortunate for the limo company. I mean, obviously he had that before, right? Like he didn't like, that wasn't a rental. I don't know, dude.

I think it could have been. You think about Oklahoma? That's probably it. There it is. Yeah. See you remember that? Dude, they got that in stock at the, uh, Oklahoma. stretch limo thing you don't you don't think oklahoma kids going to prom in that mark i guarantee

you they are that's more like that's a very specific kind of redneck i say that's the ed hardy kind of redneck who rocks you like that right yeah right but i mean they're out there um all right let okay another uh daily dumbass honorable mention who i'm sure we've uh honored before but i can't remember for sure and if we haven't were long overdue senator ted cruz who had this to see So you put up the screen grab out about the Paris Climate Accords. So he said, quote, he tweeted, quote, By rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, President Biden indicates, he's more interested in the views of the citizens of Paris than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh.

This agreement will do little to affect the climate and will harm the livelihoods of Americans. So, Mark, does he know that it's not like about Paris? It's just, like, he seems to think the Paris Climate Agreement is actually directly related to Parisians and their opinions on climate and how they think we should operate in this country. Yeah, I mean, this is like, this is like an age-old American joke archetype where like all French people are gay communist cowards, I guess. Is that how the French always lose every war, which they, that's based upon just some bad look at World War II. French won a lot of wars. Napoleon was a badass. I mean, where people got that.

But the funny part to me, Ted Cruz knows better than the Paris Accords were just negotiated at a summit in Paris. The Yalta conference was not about Yalta, right? Right. The Kyoto Treaty was not about Japan. This is like, this is a level of stupid if I show up the place and like, hey, everybody,

we got Italian food. And I'm like, no food for non-Italians, and I leave mad and hungry, right? It's like, that's not what the fucking you mean. You can, yeah, it's like Ted Cruz isn't that dumb,

but he thinks we're right. No, you're right. Yeah, we're making fun of him. But yes, I agree with you completely. He knows that it's not actually about Paris.

It's just that kind of like freedom fries, trigger pushing, you know, trigger pulling that they do. Like he's just, it's a thing he thinks will work if he just, it's like, fuck Paris,

fuck France. People will be like, hell yeah. They don't have for me. But yeah, All right, well, let's get in what actually happened yesterday. And what's happened since, Joseph Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States of America, which actually, Mark, kind of came as a shocker to some people out there.

Some people were not ready to deal with this. Yeah, we got a video clip as one guy who showed up to watch Joe Biden get executed and was shocked then that didn't happen. Yeah, you can play it whenever, Matt. and it's kind of long in parts but me and Mark are going to give a little commentary along the way or attempt to but yeah this is the guy they found do we not have it Matt we don't have the

sorry about here we go I feel when Biden is inaugurated at noon today you're going to ask me that I don't believe this sounds so crazy and I recognize how crazy this sounds but I don't believe Joe Biden's going to be sworn in his president today We met Trump supporter William Wheating here in Washington.

Him acknowledging that mark is wild. He says he's not a Q&ONB. I know this sounds insane, but I'm not, but here's an insane thing, I believe. And the martial law thing is the sort of basis conspiracy theory, no? Well, you want to, everybody wants to tag facts as conspiracy theory. So it's just a way of discounting facts. But if he doesn't declare martial law, would that prove to you that it's by this time tomorrow that it was a conspiracy theory? No.

If he doesn't declare martial law, law, then I will feel like my vote no longer counts in the United States, and that's not a good thing. Joe Biden was just sworn in 15 minutes ago. So, I met you right here. I was here in the dark last night. Last night, it was about 3 a.m. you were out here streaming live on YouTube. Do you feel like you've been dup, that you've been tricked, that you've been fooled in some way here? Actually, no. The way I felt was I, when I saw, you know, I was waiting up until a minute that he said, I Joe Biden, like, when you

He's right. I'm watching him walk up. I'm thinking to myself my life's about to completely change because I've been saying I'm either a conspiracy theorist or I'm a prophet. You know, kind of like it's kind of Christian humor. I'm not a prophet. But I was just kind of in shock and I thought I had to reevaluate everything the way my life was going to be now. It's so different than my expectations and I literally was just kind of walking around like what now? you were wrong with your Biden being up. All right. You could cut it off now,

my old election rigging thing. Yeah. The next thing, we don't have to see it, but what he's about to say that the reporter goes, well, does this make you think maybe you're also wrong

about the election being fake? And he goes, no, no, that was definitely fraud. Yeah. Yeah, but like this dude, this dude was wild to me because, like,

I don't know. I felt like he displayed a level of some amount of self-awareness. or however you want to put it, that I think is surprising, like to still believe all that shit. Like, all that stuff, like,

when he said up top, you know, he's like, I know. I recognize how fucking insane what I'm about to say sounds, but, and then says it anyway. And then the thing that he said that was insane, it didn't happen. So it's not like he has any backup

for his earlier insane. You don't know what, like, if you, if you go up to somebody like, I know how fucking crazy this sounds, but aliens are going to invade Earth in the morning, and I'm the only one that knows. And then they do invade.

You're like, see, I told you. But the aliens didn't invade in this instance, Mark. Like, what he said he knew sounded insane. It didn't happen. And then even after that, he's still sticking to his guns completely while still saying a lot of that stuff where he was just like, I was just sitting there thinking, oh, wow, my life's about to change.

I've been saying all this wild stuff. And like, I don't know. This guy's, this guy, I thought this guy was, was something else. You want to feel bad for these people. But again, what they were rooting for and expecting was mass executions without any sort of trial of Democrats. And so it's like, so you're like, okay, they're psychopass, though. They wanted to see blood run in the streets. And they're mad.

They upset they didn't get it. And it kind of fuck with their whole worldview. you. This guy's a good example because one, obviously one big ten, he thought was going to think he thought that would happen, didn't happen, but he still held on to the absolute rest of his conspiratorial worldview. Uh, right? Also, he's like, he's like a together dude who managed to put on shoes and shave himself and have a job where he affords money for Washington, a nice cowboy hat. Like, he's not, he's not some random loser. I know. Well, that's what I'm saying. I don't mean to sound like, oh, I'm almost sympathetic for this dude. I don't mean that. I mean, like,

like you just said, he just doesn't at all, he doesn't seem like a fucking lunatic. Like if you don't pay attention to some of the actual things he says, you just listen to him talking the way that he presents his insane theories. He just doesn't seem like a fucking basement dwelling conspiratorial maniac. You know what I mean? And I think that's even like scarier, arguably. It's like people that seem otherwise totally sane or normal just buying into this shit.

shit, it's wild. If it wasn't an election here, there weren't political ads on TV, you could sit next to that guy for a whole football game and talk sports at the bar and not have any idea. He's a complete fucking lunatic who wants to see you executed. Exactly. Yes.

And not me, I'm not famous enough to be in the pedophile cabal, but, Trey, you have been on Veronica Mars and Bill Maherz several times, so you are probably definitely in it. Sorry, buddy. Yeah, probably. Yeah, I know. They still haven't actually, like, I haven't got my invitation yet to the it's kind of actually a sore subject since you brought it up

I've been trying to picture these pedophile vampire parties and whatnot and I'm just the phone ain't ringing mark I don't know what it is got to get a better agent yeah do you want to talk a little bit about this guy's not the only Q adjacent or full on full on Q believer who was pretty upset by what happened yesterday's a lot of that happening you want to talk about that some Yeah, there were a bunch of reporters watching what was happening, Q-chats, telegram channels and Discord channels and web discussion forums and stuff. And people, like, because this is the last moment where Trump could have saved the day, right?

So people either fell into a couple of camps. It was like, this is still part of the plan. Some people thought Biden must be involved in Q2. Like, he's on Trump's side the whole time. This is all like K-fave or like theater. Then there were people being like 10 or 20% And people were like, I lost family over this. And this is all bullshit.

And I would be like, yes, come back. Come back to real world. We need. And many of you back as possible. And these people's families probably miss them and started tired of talking about pedophiles over Thanksgiving dinner. Who nobody wants to have really. Right.

Right. But do you think like, they've had a lot of milestones along the way in the Q community of like, on this day, the cracking is going to be released or whatever. Like on this day, some wild shit's going to be released. to happen. And every single time, that's never happened. And they've just continued to move the goal post the whole way. Do you think this is, will this just happen again with them or at least like the majority of them? Or is this such a monumental example of that? You know what I mean? Trump having to leave the White House, a new guy coming in, that it will actually affect the kind of spread of this thing

and the number of people buying into it. Or do you think they'll just? just pivot and keep going. I think it's one of those things where, like when you're on a party and the amateur partiers leave at 10, then the party gets wilder because all it's left is the hardcore people, right? Yeah. So the people that can be brought to reality are about to leave. So who the people are going to be,

the people left are going to be the way more intense kind. Right. But do you think that happening will take you down to the level of like, like, I don't know, flat earth and that type of thing. Like, do you know what I mean by that? I mean, there's multiple members in Congress and shit. Like, they're already, they're already the most powerful conspiracy movement in American history. Outside of maybe the John Burt's society.

McCarthy, at least, you know. But the, uh, so a couple things, like, so we have an analog to this. And that was Pizza Gate, right? So in 2016, 2015, 2016, Hillary's emails got leaked. Seth Rich got killed. Podesta's emails got hacked. All this shit happened, it led to Pizza Get culminated with the guy shooting up

comic pizza in D.C. Right, we all remember that. He got arrested. Pizza Gate, because Trump was elected and Hillary faded into the background, Pizza Gates sort of faded, and then turned into Q&N about halfway through 2017. So people thought Pizza Gade it went away,

and it came back bigger and worse than ever. Yeah. One thing that happened yesterday is there were leaked transcripts from white supremacist some white supremacist organizations who are making plans to go into Q&N and recruit them out to be a more useful type of conspiracy

there is to bring them into their fold. So that could be a dangerous people who were waiting for Trump to save the kids from the pedophagabal ball and now are being recruited by Nazis to be like, nope, it's us, we've got to get guns and go shoot motherfuckers. So that could get worse. Yeah, well, we'll see how it goes,

but shit let's talk about Biden himself for a minute in the inauguration his big speech how'd you feel about it Mark you there I can't eat I let's have my audio tray I can't hear you okay what yeah yeah yes I can I can hear you I'm gonna reload back sorry okay do it do it you're good all right all right sorry about that everybody Mark will be right back I'll talk about the inauguration address for a minute uh you know shockingly I was a fan of it I like the part where he said, you know, if you disagree with me, take a measure of my heart. And if you still disagree with me, so be it. That's what democracy's supposed to be.

I thought that he made a big point, which he's done the whole time, of not making it, like, literally about himself, which is such a far cry from everything Donald Trump has done over four years. Like, that's definitely a concerted effort on his part to be like, this isn't about me. It's about the country. It's about everything else. And I think that was a good move.

So I mean, yeah, I thought it was a good speech. You back, Mark? What do you think? Yeah. No, I enjoyed it. The only part that maybe wanted to throw on our motor to TV is when he said America has never failed, which I want to be like, okay, man, we're a group of people. I don't need my ass guess this much. We did, we've definitely made mistakes as people. Some of them I was alive for, some of them I wasn't, but I specifically remember the Iraq war.

I was around for that. Right. But in general, like, you're talking about like, like, his call, like his talk about unity, which will come back to in a minute, like, it doesn't mean. Republicans are pretending that it means. We're all going to agree all the time. But it does mean that he's going to try to be a president that protects and helps everybody, which is a real turn because we live in California where Trump called us to go fuck ourselves

and the state was burning down. And we're getting less vaccine doses in the much smaller states because we voted. Right. Yeah. Every single thing about Trump's presidency the whole time came down to Donald Trump, the person individually. Like if you opposed him as a person, then fuck you and you're going to get the, you know, the book thrown at you or whatever. And if you are a sycophant and suck up to him, then you'll carry his favor.

And I don't know what will happen. It didn't seem to matter that much to those people either. Ask all the motherfuckers who did not get a pardon yesterday for storming the capital on his behalf. But still, everything was framed and you're either with him or against him. And I think that a huge part of Biden speech was aimed at doing the opposite of that. Yeah. I mean, like they, part of me, some small part of me assumes that those people who storm the capital didn't get a pardon specifically because they made Trump look bad.

Oh, yeah. Because they did it, they did it dumbly and shittily. And they looked like low class and incompetent when they did it. And so that's the only reason he didn't hook them up. But like, of course they did. That's what they are. you know like those those you those are your boys those you boys yeah yeah i mean i thought the speech was like like it was pretty i mean it was it was very joe biden in the sense that it was like

it wasn't super flowery it was a lot of nuts and bolts about stuff you wanted to do and it's just simple like declarative sentences about things government can do that's good and then uh let's go to work you know which is like i was kind of refreshing to like rhetoric is so like over alone just like just say what you're going to do. Your second inaugural can be very flowery and powerful. But it's been the first four years helping people, man. Yeah. Yeah.

But, you know, like I feel like generally speaking, pretty inoffensive to most people, a lot of what Biden had to say. But not everybody. Some people were very offended. Yeah. We play this clip of Carl Rove, who had this to say about Biden's racism. Whether it's COVID or the economy or racism, why are they talking everything down to you?

you think? Well, part of it is to lower expectations. The economy is really bad. COVID's all screwed up. It's all bungled. You know, it's going to be really hard to get these things fixed. And then when as people get their vaccinations and the economy begins to rebound as a result of it being opened up, they could say, look at us, didn't we do a great job. The racism thing to me is I was offended in the speech. I mean, I thought it was a good speech. It wasn't a great speech, but it was a good speech. and it was the right speech for the moment. But there was a point in there where he's... Yeah, the racism stuff offended Carl Rove, Mark.

Do you remember the Michael Jordan documentary when just somebody dares to challenge Michael Jordan? And he goes, and I took that personally. And it became like... But honestly, somebody dared to just be good in their own way. Like some other dude playing really good basketball for a while. Michael Jordan was like, so I took that personally. Yeah.

It's like, yeah, somebody else has a pool. like I took that fucking personally. Like it's like nobody else can have anything good in their life. I got to try to take it from. Anyway, so Republicans literally did that. Joe Biden says racism is bad and white supremacy is bad. And they so, sir, how dare you insult me and my family? It was a, right.

It was a bit of a movement-wide moment of telling on themselves I thought was. Exactly. Right. Well, that's what I was going to say. It's like it's a classic example of that whole like, if you are offended by the. that, then there's only one reason for it. You know what I mean?

Like, if you're offended by him implying that there's a problem with systemic racism, particularly on the right in this country, then that's almost the same as acknowledging that it's true. See, you know. It also, like, it undercut a big theory of mine, which is like, like, racist don't like to think of themselves as racist. Like, almost exclusively, no one thinks of them. People have generally accepted that racism is bad,

and I'm not bad. because I am not bad. I might have individual views that are problematic, but I know not to say them out loud, right? That's one thing Trump did is allow people to get permission to say the racist shit out loud, which sucks. But, like, in general, like, doing stand-up, you know, that, like, there's groups of people

you can always make fun of because no one thinks of themselves of that. You can make fun of racist, they usually, right? You can make fun of boring people because no one thinks themselves as being. You can make fun of ugly people with no one thinks of themselves as ugly. And here's an example of them being like, no, if you post a joke on Twitter about,

ugly people and they're like, as an ugly American, I would like. Right. Yes. Yes. Exactly. Yeah, I agree completely. It's also like whenever you make a joke about white people, you get a bunch of people being like not all white people. Like, well, the joke's not about you, but it's not about you. Shut the fuck up. Why are you taking it personally if it's not about you? Right. So, anyway. Yeah. All right. But the speech is not the only thing they're mad about. Why I assume they're mad at this. Joe Biden actually did some stuff yesterday. Mark, with that, that's weird on his very first day in office. he actually like did stuff, which like is, you know, kind of odd, I think for most Americans.

But what I'm talking about specifically is Biden immediately signed a lot of executive or 17 executive orders that were aimed at undoing as much of what Donald Trump had done as possible. Things doing with immigration, COVID, the border wall, the travel ban. racial equity. A lot of things, Mark, but he tried, he immediately got in there and tried to, you know, do some stuff. Yeah. I mean, a lot of it was very simple and cool. And it's like, cool. It's like, oh, shit, you can, uh, I mean, Trump was so goddamn lazy. They, like, I'm glad he was lazy. I wish he'd spent every day in office playing golf instead of doing destructive shit. But it sometimes it's like, oh, Trump, he passed one major bill. His entire fucking time in office. And that was the tax cut. And then he goofed off and just let

did executive orders about being mean to brown people. And that's basically his whole presidency. He didn't do jack shit. They, fucking up the COVID rollout was just the last, was the most direct lazy thing that got a bunch of people killed. Right. But again, though,

and I know this is what you're saying, but like, that's arguably a good thing, right? Like you said, I would prefer that he just played golf the whole time too. Like, he was lazy and incompetent and ineffectual by and large, but that's good. good that he didn't because anything he would have done would have been terrible so we should all

be glad that you know he was as ineffectual as he was yeah i mean uh he got very little done in four years and uh only cost us 150 million dollars we spent in his golf courses and whatever the uh white house budget was for grubbing uh whoppers and uh big max that's uh that's all it cost us so and 500 thousand lives you know uh but it's like it's God, he sucks, man. I'm so glad. Like, can I... Other stuff, but like,

he's off Twitter and he's gone in a hole in Florida. And he's just, like, gone. It's weird. Right, exactly. I know. And it's like, you know, he will turn back up somewhere, somehow. He'll figure out a way. It's like, I don't know, he'll start his own damn networker.

He'll just, maybe he's even on parlor already. I don't know. But I know exactly what you mean because of him being, like, kind of across the board de-platformed basically after the insurrection and now that he's out of the White House and everything

yeah like you said he just he's just gone basically like he's not it's weird not having these crazy aggressive and poorly spelled and grammatically executed Trump tweets

out there riling people up over all of this shit I know they're getting riled either way, but it's, it's wild. It's, look, we're going to make fun of Biden for being old because we're going to make fun of Biden. That's what we're going to do. But like, it is kind of, there's a bunch of good things about him being old.

One, he doesn't know what the fuck Twitter is or care about it. That's awesome. He's not going to be mad about whatever. He's on the record thinking Facebook sucks because of what it does to democracy, but I don't think he hangs out on there. Like he has a, he hates Zuckerberg, which is one thing I love about the dude. He, uh, another thing is good about him being old. And this one thing I really liked is like, he's not planning for a post-presidential job.

This is the last job he's ever going to have. Like, whether or not they were consciously doing stuff to set themselves up financially after they were out of office. Both, like, Clinton, Bush, and Obama were all fairly young guys. And Obama and Clinton didn't come from money. So Clinton was dead broke when he left the White House. So, like, they did a bunch of stuff to, like, get, Obama got a Netflix deal. I want a Netflix deal.

Like, you know, so I think it's good. like Biden hung, like, I don't know if you saw the presidential portraits they hung in, they hung in the Oval, but he chose FDR and Lincoln. These are big, you know, presidents were confronting with like existential threats to America and had to take big steps to save it. And I'm like, okay, this is good if you're thinking yourself this way and not worried about what Wall Street's going to think about you in 2026, you know, so. Yeah.

Yes, I agree completely. It's hard. And I think that's also, all these executive orders him signing so quickly, you know, had to do with the chance. that we all know that he's facing too. Because that's the thing like, yes, we're all like, we're all happy and feeling generally positive right now. But my God, the job ahead of this administration is daunting to think about.

But I'm certainly, you know, much more confident in this version as opposed to a continuation of the last four years. But quickly, I want to go down the some of the things, the executive orders he did. He had a federal mask mandate, not a national mask mandate, because he probably couldn't do that. legally, but requiring mask on any kind of federal property or by federal employees. But he also started the 100 days mask challenge urging all Americans to wear mask and everything. He bolstered the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, DACA, the Dreamers, the one that would deport children or immigrants who were bought to this country as children. we mentioned earlier with Ted Cruz is re-entering into the Paris Climate Accords

he ended that 1776 commission Mark which was basically made by them to you know whitewash slavery further like something like no we're good we're heroes right that was sort of what that was about yeah yeah some concrete stuff he did extended the federal

eviction ban and extended a forbearance on student loan debt, which is going to help a lot of people who are broke right now and can't afford their loans to go into, get called in. But there's like some really, so there's like, those are all big things. They're going to help a lot of people, but there was some small stuff that like made me feel even more hopeful.

One thing Trump had done was try to burrow in some like civil search, some political pointies and the same. civil service jobs that extend way past his term being over. And the norm is to let those people stay in their jobs. And Biden told them to get their pack their shit and get the fuck out. A couple of them were some really shitty people. There's a guy he put in charge of the voice of America who had tried to turn voice of America into a pro-Trump, you know, media operation, basically an extension of Newsmax or

OAN. He got rid of, they got illegal fired the board. Their favorite one, he fired Peter, Rob, who was the general counselor for the national board, and was a big anti-union guy. Right. He had basically taken the corporation site. Again, this is the National Labor Review Board. The purpose of the organization is to make sure corporations aren't fucking their employees,

and he looked at his job to help corporations fuck their employees. Yeah, right. Yeah. He helped break strikes. He fought back against a McDonald's Fight for 15 campaign. I mean, this guy was just a complete piece of shit. And he was supposed to be there for another four years. And Biden just broke the norm and told him,

like, because usually you maintain norms, like, because you don't want the Republicans to break them too down the road. But to me, it's sort of a statement, like, man, we got big problems. We got shit we need to do. And I can't worry about what happens down the road because there won't be a down the road if you don't come to some of this shit. And like my favorite thing Rob did.

The big battle of his term in this job was his arch enemy was an inflatable rat. Scabby the rat. I was about to bring him up. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, so he made it his mission in life to destroy this inflatable rat. Unions will put up outside like a non-union workplaces that are trying to unionize to try to peckle the bosses and to make scabs going into work there feel like shit, right? said it's been court case after court case about this that scabby the rat is protected speech anyway you have the video of matt to show them what the rat is

because i love this rat is your union strong who city is this who built this city what do you want and what do you want them to us a rat is a piece of shit contractor actually rats around a room. The biggest rat will take all the food

and kill everybody else around them to take it. That's where rat is. This is such a New York. Yeah. Exploiting thing. It's incredible. Just doing the long thing to their workers. I mean, literally, dude, the name.

Scabby to rat. You know, hey, blow up scabby to rat. Put him out there. Tell them what we fucking think about him. Yeah, this is what you fucking rats. fucking piece of shit you non-union contractors you fuck scabby to rat

you're saying it all I love an intense American accent because that's somebody who works a real job outside of us yeah so so he went to court arguing the use of balloon rats was unlawful under labor relations

act and not protected because they are being used to menace he's saying that rats being used to menace people now the rat does look pretty scary I wouldn't want to wake up and see that rat standing over my bed but you're walking down the street and see a cartoon rat. I don't think you're fucking freaking out of about it. Yeah, because he said the general public,

he argued that the general public was unable to avoid the large, intimidating, hostile-looking, inflatable rats for three days. And that makes it, you know, unlawfully menacing and intimidating and whatnot. Is a giant inflatable rat any more scary to like kids walking down the street than like a mall Santa Claus is? or like a Disney goofy Disneyland is.

Like there's things in costumes are scaryish anyway, but in his defense, scabby can be 30, some of the scabies are 30 feet tall. So I'd probably be pretty frightened if I thought it was real. Yeah, right. But I mean,

yeah, even if, you know, talking about kids, if it is, because it is kind of a big freaky looking rat balloon. And so, you know,

kids are these big freaky looking rat balloon and ask you what it's about. Well, now you have to explain to them. know, how working people get fucked over by their corporations or just say, I don't worry about it. But, you know, Trey, we're going to, we now have an administration full of people who aren't going to spend their days picking fights with balloon rats. Do you understand how much better this is just because of that? Like he's like, they can use the working hours to do working shit to help people, which is their fucking job.

But anyway, one of the reasons this, this, uh, this, uh, by and behaving this way was encouraging sign to me. that alone the FDR painting is like norms are really going to fuck any sort of like you know help any any sort of American improvement so like like the Senate's fighting it was spent all day fighting over the filibuster and Democrats to their power told Republicans go fuck themselves because they're trying to figure out how to do how to do the power sharing agreement with 50 50 with a 50 50 Senate and they might cave on one thing like letting Republicans have equal amount of members but like McConnell was saying we should get some of the committee chairmanships unless you agree not to kill the filibuster and Democrats are like nah fuck you we're going to

take we got 51 votes we're going to take the we're going to take the committee membership uh chairmanships and we might still kill a filibuster if you guys are dicks so um that was cool um yeah um i listen we uh start doing the comments of questions here might whatever you can pull up tell us how you guys are feeling about the first 36 hours or whatever it's been of the job biden presidency and how you're feeling about the projection for it going forward forward. Impeachment update or a brief one at least because who knows what's going to end up happening with it.

McConnell is officially stating that the impeachment should be pushed to, or not the impeachment but the trial for Donald Trump should be pushed to at least mid-February. And he's saying that that's because, you know, both times need time to build their case or whatever. Do you think this is just like kicking the can further in the hopes that it will like dissipate even more as far as in his mind or it's just a will this actually happen in February I mean I'm betting it won't I mean I'm already yeah it should and because it's a there's a rational case to setting the precedent that you can't try to stay true and then just go

retire if you fails um for sure yeah uh but that said like I'm the one of the most vengeful trump hitting dudes out there and I almost don't care anymore um you know, it's like, it's just like, it's like the emotional push for it. This is what we were yelling about it. A couple of U.C.O. Pelosi should have followed Oracle's impeachment. That goddamn night when people were full of righteous fury and had it clear in their memory what the stakes were and a bunch of congresspeople always got murdered for doing the right thing. Yeah, that's what I think, too, again, just him like kicking the cam further,

thinking like if I push this out further than the, you know, the enthusiasm for calling for it will fall off. You know, people, basically people will just forget and we can just not have to fool with doing this. In McConnell's mind, I think. Like, it's just another way to hopefully try to get out of having to actually go through the process. I mean, I hope, you know, we'll see.

I hope Schumer realizes that McConnell not wanting to do it is exactly the reason he should do it. Because this will divide his caucus. Because if Trump stays this, like, platformless and powerless, then they, could get 17 votes, you know, just because Republicans are fucking sick of him. Yeah, Alitha Purdue says, I love what Biden's doing, still worried something will happen. Trump needs to be impeached now.

Yes, it is kicking the can. And yeah, I mean, I think, I think Mark and I both agree with you. Yeah, it should happen as soon as possible. And that is what they're attempting to do. But, you know, we'll see what happens. Are you worried about something happening? Alita says that, and I assume she made some big. you know,

further action from the capital rioter crowd pulling some other shit, which I thought like today, you know, I thought a lot that, not today, yesterday, the inauguration day was the day that everyone was super worried about, right? Like after the first capital

riots, inauguration day was the day that everybody was really terrified of, like, what are they going to do? And, you know, we got through it. So you worried about that going forward? Nah, I mean, the last president to get shot was Reagan, right? Secret Service seems pretty good at the job, even though they got caught being drunk on duty a bunch during the Obama administration and let a guy get an guy with arm with a gun

get an elevator with Obama one time and they were partying too hard, those guys. They changed leadership and, I mean, they are, they're really good at, I mean, if Obama didn't get assassinated. Part of me thinks it's impossible to do anymore. No, I know, right. And, you know, again, you know, I'm superstitious. Knock on wood, whatever you want to say. But I agree with you completely. We talked about that on a recent episode, I think. I listened to, I think it was Kenya Barris, Kenya Barris from Blackish, the creator of Blackish. I listened to him on a podcast. And this was, this podcast was recorded years ago. It didn't have anything to do with Biden's

inauguration. But he was just talking about how, when Obama got inauguration, how he was genuinely, not even terrified, just in his mind, he was like, he's going to get killed. Like, he is 100% going to get assassinated, and he just believed that. And I believe him that he believed that. And I'm with you after it didn't happen to Obama, not saying it can happen, but yeah, I'm not that worried about it. White people went crazy when Obama got elected. Like, it's been, and they've been still going crazy for 12 years now. and the militia membership surged like 900% or some shit under Obama.

Like people really, people, yeah, they got fired up in the wrong direction, in my opinion. Robin Watkinsale says, let us pray, Melania's ink dries on those divorce papers.

I think, but I mean, yeah, I'm down for her divorce in them or whatever, but I, you know, I don't really. that much, but she, there was a funny clip of them arriving. I think it was, it was yesterday.

I think it was them arriving in Florida on the, on the plane and he got, they walked, they walked down the, uh, the whatever the hell that's called, the plane stairs, you know, Mark, the plane stairs, like stairs for planes. Yeah. They walked down the plane stairs and got to the bottom of it and he turned to like wave to the, to the, uh, crowd and the journalist's stuff and just said, fuck that and just walked off without him and he kind of turned around and she was gone and he just had to awkwardly wave by himself. I mean, yeah, she certainly

appears to be very much over it, but you know, whatever. She doesn't want to live in Florida. It's a, I don't know, I mean, I would want to see their divorce. I want them to get divorced so I can see

the court filings. I think those would be classic. I want to see where her cause of divorce is. But did you see the clip of Trump yesterday leaving for the last time on Marine 1? And he keeps picking up a Marine's hat when the wind blows it up? No. I'm going to send it to Matt to him and get it real quick because it's pretty classic. He just, this Marine's not allowed to move. And Trump keeps like pet them on the arm and putting the hat back on his head and keeps blowing off and he keeps putting him back.

And I was like, part of me is like, oh, he's behaving like a human being trying to help this guy who can't pick up his own hat. That's the nicest thing I've ever seen him do, honestly. And it's his last act as president. I was like, okay, maybe they did. Maybe they'll make a statue at this moment. It's the one good one. But, yeah. Sorry, that comment was just up there saying Trump might peel off his 38 percenters and try to make a new thing.

I've seen that called the Patriot Party. The Patriot Party. Yes, exactly. That's what, yeah, that's going to be the official party of Donald Trump's cult. That's what people are saying. I mean, do you think, I don't know, how worried should the GOP establishment be about the Patriot Party and it coming to pass? Because, I mean, if it did and had any kind of numbers even remotely approaching the, you know, hardcore Trump base, I mean, it would absolutely fuck Republicans over. I mean, Bill Clinton won with like 42% of the vote because Ross Perot got 12, right, or whatever it was, where the numbers were.

But something like that. so like if if trump can peel off 10% in texas and georgia and south carolina it's like the republicans will never win the presidency again which they you know they all lose the popular vote every time anyway but um that that might be the solution to where electoral college problem is the patriot party so more power to him yeah no that's what i was thinking but like i mean at the same time i would love it if he literally just disappeared forever and we never had to hear about him or his, you know, people ever again. But, but yes, right.

I mean, it would be a good thing for the American left in terms of winning elections, I think, if the Patriot Party became an actual thing that actually got votes. Because I can't see it just literally taking over the Republican Party. So, yeah, split them down the middle or split them in any fraction and make the odds better for our side as far as I'm concerned. you see Drew Screen grabbed it and tweeted it out but the original there was

there's already been a political party in America known as the Patriot Party they were socialist anti-fascists which is really funny but I guess existed back in the early 1900s but the logo Trump Party made a logo for the Patriot Party

has been shopping like he has put it and thought into it there were four potential logos and the one he picked has a lion on it you know Democrats are donkeys and Republicans or elephants Patriot Party is going to be a lion which is fucking badass you know so like It's definitely a better animal than an elephant. Elephants are pretty cool animals.

Donkeys suck. I'm kind of surprised he didn't just go for an eagle. I mean, I guess it's like, I can't get, you know, got to make sure that everybody doesn't confuse this with just actual regular American patriots or whatever. But yeah, if you take an eagle out of the equation, ask me which animal will he pick to be the logo of his cult party? I would definitely say a lion, I think.

definitely checks out. And it's so perfect because like the other animals, they weren't picked as mascots. They were they were the sort of like slid backwards into those, those symbols as jokes, right? Where like Democrats got the dongy because they're stubborn asses, right? And the Republicans, because they never forget and they hold a grudge. It was like they're like, they're self-deprecate it.

But it's so humor. Fascists are so fucking humorless that they're like, no, we want a badass strong predator. It's like that's not the point of this, man. it's not supposed to be that. This is, yeah, this is tangentially related to that. Do you know, this is a little fun fact thing. Do you know what the Secret Service code names were for the Trump family?

Like, no, I don't mean collectively as a family. I mean, each one individually. Do you know? I don't think I knew that. No. Okay, so the Secret Service had code names for like every president and there's like a naming convention. It's sort of like hurricanes, you know, like they have, they stick. Like the Clintons were all E words.

Bill Clinton was Eagle, actually, Hillary was evergreen, Chelsea was energy, that type of thing. And of course, they're all, you know, it's not like any of them are ever denigrating or anything, obviously. They're still, they're the president. But in case you all don't know, here are the code names for Trump and his family. Donald Trump's code name for the Secret Service was mogul, Melania's was Muse, Donald Trump Jr., mountaineer, Ivanka Trump, Marvel. Eric Trump, Marxman, and Jerry Kushner, mechanic. And I just appreciate how kind of, I don't know, on the nose a lot of those were. Yeah, they're pretty, I mean, those are honestly honorifics.

Like, every one of them probably loves their nickname outside. Oh, no, I know. That's, I know. That's what I'm saying. Like, you know they, yeah, dude, mogul, muse. Like, that's what I'm saying. They're all mechanic. Yeah, they love that shit.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the mechanic one crease me out because it sounds like there's that movie mechanic about, you know, a hit man. Right. Yeah. Yeah, man. Well. Have you ever seen a less likely to be a mechanic dude than Jared Kushner?

Jerry Kushner. No, I have not. But, yeah, what are you going to do, man? Can't argue with the Secret Service, Mark. No. I just saw a comment that flew by from a viewer named Melissa Mews. Her actual last name is Muse, and it said, Melania Trump was not a muse.

She couldn't inspire anybody. I imagine that is probably offensive for a liberal person with the surname of Muse. But anyway, listen, thank you all for joining us. That's pretty much it for this episode. First episode in the Biden regime. Who the hell knows what's going to happen between now and then, but I think we're all feeling a little bit generally more positive and hopeful that we have in the past.

So let's see where we get moving forward, hey, Mark? Yep. Have a good one. Thank you guys. We'll see you on Tuesday, okay? See you bye.