wellRED podcast - Evening Skews - Week of 2/2/21 - Biden Doin Stuff and Marge Taylor-Greene Sucking

Episode Date: February 5, 2021

A fun week this time around as we talk about the nigh-unprecedented approach to governing that Joe Biden has thus far employed: "Doing Stuff". Very controversial and not entirely popular, y'all. And on Thursday we dedicate a lot of time to the unbridled lunacy of Marjorie Taylor-Greene, and are joined by Senior Georgia Correspondent and native of MTG's district Corey Ryan Forrester. Yall will never believe this but he goes off. It's a good time; listen to it!

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That's Mark Aegee. What's going on, Mark? What's up, Trey? How you doing? I'm all right. Do you watch any bad at? basketball last night? No, no, I tend to wait until it gets closer to playoff time and stuff to get into the basketball thing,

but I think I might know what you're about to bring up, but go ahead. This isn't about basketball for anybody who's worried about not being a sports fan, but last night the Lakers played the Hawks, and LeBron got into it with this guy on the front row, which happens. Atlanta is allowing people at games, I think 8% capacity. Anyway, so he got in trash talking with this dude, and then his wife jumps. in standing up for him. This is like a 60-year-old guy with a 25-year-old wife,

so that's always going to go well. So she made a big stink, got him kicked out, they made a series of Instagram posts that drew more attention to it, and then somebody broke down the audio, it turned out what LeBron and called this dude, was an old steroid ass, all right? Yeah. Pretty good bird in LeBron.

But I just amazed at a person defending her husband, turned him into an international mockery because old steroid ass was trending worldwide of multiple social media platforms. And as someone whose wife would totally do that, I empathize with this guy. This woman's different because she was like auditioning for a real housewives of Atlanta sort of role.

My wife would do it in the guys of actually trying to defend me. But it's kind of why you don't marry someone that young when you're 60 is they're financially going to be better off when you're dead. Yeah, you know that guy was sitting there looking at it. It was like, please stop heckling the greatest basketball player in the world on my behalf right now. Like, I would prefer that you not do be this. Yeah. But, yeah, you know, like you said, that's what you get.

Yeah. All right. Let's do the show with us as always, producer Matt, doing his thing. This is Evening Skews. Got a good show for each. And we're going to talk about the first couple weeks of Joe Biden's presidency, which so far have been marked by his very novel approach to governing in this country. He likes to employ the very rare, very controversial political strategy of doing stuff.

As any American knows, our politicians is not historically known for doing a lot of stuff, but Joe Biden so far is a donkey of a different color, and not everyone is happy about that. We'll talk about that later. We'll also talk about what Congress is up to, get into an update on the Washington, Street versus the nerds situation and more on tonight's evening's skews but first as always we begin with the daily dumbass Matt graphic please tonight's dumb ass is any red-blooded god-fearing American conservative who had put their faith in newsmax I'm sorry to tell you if you thought that they

would take the place of Fox News as the official go-to source for shitty white people information nationwide you might be disappointed just look at how they treated noted pillow patriot Mike Lendale during his recent appearance on the network. Matt, play the clip, please. What happened? What happened with your Twitter account and the company page? Well, first, mine was taken down because we have all the election fraud with these communion machines.

We have 100% proof. And then when they took it down, I put it back up, my personal, I put it. Mike, thank you very much. Mike, you're talking about machines that we at Newsmax have not been able to verify any of those kinds of allegations. We just want to let people know. It's when the buzzer under the chair from the lawyers went on. We've seen.

Let me read you something there. While there were some clear evidence of. I can't believe having Michael Endell on has evolved into this unfortunate situation for them. And Newsmax accepts the results as legal and final. the courts have also supported that view. So we wanted to talk to who is cantering culture, if you were. We don't want to relitigate the allegations that you're making, Mike, because we understand where you are.

So let me ask you this. Do you think that this should be temporary because it appears to be permanent? Could you make an argument that it is temporary? What? Would you make an argument that this could be a, temporary banning rather than permanent. No, I wanted to be a permanent because, you know what? They did this because I'm revealing all the evidence on Friday of all the election

with these machines. So I'm sorry if you think it's not. Mike, can I ask our producers, can we get out of here, please? I don't want to have to lose my house. He takes it into his own hands right here in just a second. This news, Max, Anchor does. Everybody hold on a second. Mike, Mike, hold on one.

got to watch a fuck this he just leaves 5 o'clock somewhere cancel all my company and my self in this country it's cancel culture so that's he only got into it just there at the very end

it seems to me like like where they wanted him to talk about cancel culture and go into how liberals are all snowflakes and they cancel everybody that they disagree that's what they want him to talk about, but he was on this other shit about the election being stolen. He's still on that gear.

And what's funny is they basically end up also canceling him, like, in their own way. You know? He had him to talk about censorship of people's politically. You can only say the right thing. Right. The things people want you to talk about. And then they're trying to make him only talk about the thing they want to talk about. Right.

Yeah. And they just say, fuck it, and walk off when he won't talk about. the thing they want to talk about. Like, we wanted to talk about how you're not allowed to talk about the things you want to talk about, but you're not talking about the thing we wanted to talk about. So what the fuck, Mike? That's how things are going at Newsmax

currently. It's dull ironic because the reason the Twitter account got taken down was for posting about the stuff he's trying to talk about, but they only want to talk about the ban. They don't want to talk about the information that got in banned because they will get in trouble for spreading that information, too, because Dominions fought a couple of $1.3 billion dollar lawsuits against a slew of people. Now, I would not want to be in court to cut myself for a $1.3 billion lawsuit, especially

when I was potentially going to lose. But there's an added level of hilarity here is like he was talking about revealing all this information on Friday has apparently been some other fake goal post moving deadline cooked up in the Q forms that the election could still be overturned in three days on this Friday. I don't understand the logic, but that's what he was trying to talk about. So there's a lot of reasons they didn't want to let him talk. Yeah. All right, so we got some honorable mentions for you for Daily Dumbass tonight.

This next one's a little weird because I actually, I don't want to call this lady a dumbass necessarily. To me, it's more like the universe is a dumbass, I guess, because she's a stand-in for all of us who are the same amount of dumbass who are doing, who are just going through our lives, having a little bit of fun while chaos is happening all around. Right. If you know what I'm talking about a woman in Myanmar, I'm sure I butchered that night, I'm sorry. A woman in Miami-Mar, she just wanted to do her. her dancing aerobics for the internet like we all want to do like me and mark are doing right now we're doing our own version of that little did she know that what played out behind her would result

in her clip becoming the quintessential era we live in internet clip for the rest of time matt please please play it when you can that is a military hoonel pulling up behind her to perform a coup d'etat at her country's parliament Nilo ain't got shit on this lady she's got moves too man like that's what makes it like better is it's like she's giving it everything she's got and I mean honestly she's hitting she's doing it and it been completely oblivious to her world burning down behind her. It's just,

it's all of us in 2021. You can cut it off, man, it keeps going like that. It stays amazing. It doesn't stop being amazing. But yeah, you guys get the idea. But, I mean,

that, I think that, that has real meme potential there, Mark. Like, I think that one's going to stand the test of time on the internet. It's going to keep coming up.

over and over again, I believe, and I'm for it. It's like the reverse. Remember Baghdad Bob from the Iraq War? The guy who kept saying, like, nothing's wrong. Everything's okay while, like, the tanks rolled into Baghdad behind him. Like, he was talking about how Iraq was winning the war while U.S. tanks were driving in. This is, like, the opposite of that somehow, where she knows shit sucks is just trying to live her life. The only news takeaway that affects us, I mean, obviously,

other than, you know, or shared humanity with these people, or you're about to live in our military dictatorship is going to speed up the genocide. side of the ring of people. QAnon has adopted the Myanmar coup as like a good thing they're rooting for. And the they're actually proposing that maybe Q was talking about Myanmar the whole time

and Myanmar is the center of the pedophagal ball and the military is overthrowing that. So that's the connection to our world. And which continues to be nuts as we're about to show you. Yes, right. So yeah, on that note, going to the next honorable mention,

Yeah, QAnon, weirdly, if you guys haven't picked up on it so far, they have some kind of odd beliefs. And apparently, you can both believe in them and then later on realize that they were weird, which is an odd dynamic, in my opinion. Matt, just play the clip of Anderson Cooper. Y'all see what I'm talking about, this QAnon guy. Who at the time believed that Democrat, high-level Democrat, and celebrities were worshipping Satan, drinking the blood of children? Anderson, I thought you did that, and I would like to apologize for that right now.

So I thought that you ate babies. But you actually... But you actually believe that I was drinking the blood of children. Yes, I did. Was it something about me that made you... It's because Q's specifically. mentioned you and he mentioned you very early on. He mentioned you by name and from there if he also talked about like for example like your family

but yeah and I I'm gonna be honest like people still talk about that to this day. I there were posts about that just four days ago so something- Not out of the wood yet Anderson. You really believe that. Yeah. I didn't just believe that. one stage believed that Q and on with a lot of military intelligence, which is what he says. But on top of that, that the people behind them were actually a group of fifth dimensional,

intradimensional, extraterrestrial bipedal bird aliens called blue avians. Yeah, you know, you could say, you could say, Mark, how somebody would believe that, right? like far down in this conspiracy black hole i mean i was essentially picking and choosing whatever narrative that i wanted to believe in okay so i want to mark i want i want you to please try to explain this dude to me because this is a thing that comes up a lot like we were just we had our guests on last week talking about q and non and i was saying like i it's so hard for me to understand a person and their brain who can like who can now sit there and talk rationally about like,

listen, man, I was into some crazy shit. You know, literal fucking blue bird alien baby eating robot stuff. Like, I don't know how you can, how you can be that now and have been the other thing before. Do you know what I mean? Like, I don't, it's so crazy to me that a seemingly pretty regular rational dude based on this interview also was that dude

who fully endorsed that type of shit like how does that work man I don't get it we've all been pretty bored the past year I don't know but I mean like

if you're going to believe in like the power there's a network of powerful people that are eating babies I mean Anderson Cooper is a Vanderbilt he's the face of CNN right He's like, there's no way he could not be in it.

Yeah, for sure. I get that part, but it's like, I don't know. The guy, how cogent this dude is when he's sitting here now, present day, talking about, yeah, man, I totally, I totally, I'm sorry, but I believed you were a baby eating blue robot alien. But one of the reasons I started talking about this stuff on the show, like, I wanted to tell people when you see people posting on your Facebook, the people you know and love, you went to high school with, this is the shit they're talking about. And there are normal people, except for this one weird thing where they want to watch the execution of high level Democrats on TV without a trial. Except for that. They hold jobs.

They go to PTA meetings. They're on your school boards. There was a story this week that the mayor of some town in Washington State is a big QAnon guy. He's like using his weekly radio address to talk about Q. And they interviewed, I think he was seeing an interview people from the town. Like, yeah, he otherwise does a great job. He just talks about baby eating on the town YouTube. Yeah, you know, it's just the one thing.

He just gets a little off track every now and then, but generally speaking, he's a good dude. Makes the trains run on time. Right. Okay. All right. Moving on the next honorable mention. All the people, maybe not all of them, but generally speaking, all of the people who participated in the Capitol riots earlier in this year,

seems to me, Mark, that they maybe still don't really grasp what they did. And I say that because of this lady. Matt put up screen grab if you've got it. Yes, one of the Capitol rioters has formally asked the court she's in to allow her to vacation in Mexico. Because she doesn't see, see Mark, she doesn't really see any real reason why,

doing a little treason or whatever should keep her from from going to pv or cancun or wherever she was going she's the she's like the again talking of these people are are like they they aren't like crazy tinful hat wearing weirdos like she's the president of her company she booked this like bonding retreat probably a good boss just going by the those scant details but she just thinks she should still be able to go on her Mexican vacation which if she's this stupid if she really thinks she's in this little legal trouble. She's probably not a flight arrest. So maybe the judge should let her go. But I don't understand these people's brains at all, man. It's like, I mean, maybe they're right. A lot of them are getting bailed. It's really funny. We texted about it earlier,

but like the one black guy they arrested for invading the Capitol did not, is the one guy to not get bail. Fucking weird, how weird that out. Imagine that. Yeah. Right. All right. So the next I will mention here some people that seem to, or as far as what they say, were well-meaning, well-meaning neighbors of ours, Mark, here in Southern California, who they claim we're just trying to raise awareness for breast cancer. Matt, we put up a screen grab of how they went about that. Yes, they changed the Hollywood sign to say, Hollyboob, which turns out generally frowned upon by the Los Angeles authorities, and they have now been arrested. But they, like, climbed up, to the Hollywood sign and changed the W and the D to B's so it says Holly Boob.

Yeah, I don't know how I feel about their approach. I mean, first of all, big fan. Yeah. The second problem, this is like, this is the original idea, but I think it was about a year or two ago, somebody climbed up there and changed it to say Holly Weed and that was a big mystery. I don't think they got caught. See, to me, Holly Boob is a little bit more of a reach than Holly weed. I have to say. Because like

that was, that's during the whole like, you know, legal weed, yes or no type of situation. If you change the Hollywood sign to say Holly weed, I feel like everybody who sees that gets it, I think. Like, they get what happened there. They get what you're doing. But changing it to

Holly boob, I think most people are going to see it and be like, oh, these teenagers again doing their teenager stuff. They made a teddy joke. You know how they are with teddy jokes. You know what I mean? Like, they're not going to your average person is not going to put it together, I don't think, what

you're going for with that. If you waited to do it during breast cancer awareness month, you probably get the key to the city. You know? For those y'all don't know, I think the original sign was Hollywood land. That was what this area

was called. To start with, Hollywood land. Land burned down. So they just changed the name with the city rather than build a signback. That's probably because of all the weed. But anyway, it's much easier to say anyway. All right. Last one, if you want to do it, Mark, you got to set this last time.

I'll mention up if you want to get into it. All right. So it turns out, Lynn Wood, who's been the lead, America's lead detective on the vote fraud, demeaning voting machine trail, may have dabbled a little vote fraud himself. He is apparently under investigation for vote fraud because he moved to South Carolina, but apparently may have still voted in Georgia. I don't believe it. The Secretary of State of Georgia, Brad Rappensberger, who Lynn Wood is trying to have executed,

apparently has Lynn Wood's balls in his grip. Yeah, Lynn Wood, more like Lynn Boob. Am I right, Mark? I'm sorry. I apologize to all of you for that. But yeah, this is what always ends up happening with these people. Like, ever since, and I'm sure they were doing it way before then, too, but like ever since it started of you know a few years back with the most homophobic members

of republican congress getting caught in bathrooms jerking dudes off and things like that you know what i mean like they just it they got a they got a whole thing going with uh i think thou doth protest too much you know like yeah of course this guy's this dude's just a straight up lunatic though you know what i mean like this motherfucker's crazy i think so I'm sure he did all that shit. There is a through line here where they convince themselves of the other side's depravity and that they're just getting away with so much

they do it themselves. Like that it's not just the the congressman fucking airport bathrooms or whatever. It's like they think voter fraud's easy to get away with and everybody gets away with us. They do it and they get caught because it's very rare and very hard to get away with so they're immediately

in jail. It's kind of like how every Republican HUD secretary ends up in jail because they assume no one would actually believe there should be Department of Housing and Development. No one would actually want to help poor people get houses. So obviously, Democrats run it as a boondoggle to just run scams. And then they get in there and they run scams and give contracts to their friends. And they end up in jail or surprise because they think everyone does it.

It's like it's round and round as we go. Right. All right. Let's move on from the Daily Dumbasses now. You guys may have known if you seen me posted earlier. I participated a little bit of clickbait, I guess, because I posted a permit. promoting the show tonight. The question is Joe Biden

the most radically left-wing precedent and living memory. A lot of y'all are not happy with that question at all. But I do think that it's worth talking about. He's barely been in there, you know, a couple of weeks, but as we said up top, he's done a lot of stuff, Mark.

And generally speaking, like, doing stuff seems pretty left-wing to me. Like, I guess what I'm saying is I agree that that sounds like a ridiculous question. But I also think that it's, you know, I could see where that mentality is coming from, I guess, because he's got to have them on their heels, man, on the other side. It's like being the tallest guy in, you know, a person island or whatever.

Exactly. So the question is, right. America is an insanely right-wing country with an insanely right-wing government. Right. If we passed England's health care bill, Republicans would say we're a country. comment a healthcare system. Republicans that say we're turning into communist China and so would half of Democrats.

So like it's not like it's not like you have to do much to clear that bar. I mean, right, exactly. That's the whole thing, right? Is that it, that very question is more of a commentary on the state of American politics in general recently.

Like just that the, the relatively mild moves that he's made already to this point would, would classify as being, the most radically left wing moves in recent history to the people on the other side of it, because that's the standard that we have here. Yeah. Yeah.

And it's like we're up against a bunch of like huge like systemic like and fairly intractable problems. So like if you don't govern like FDR, you're not going to even achieve, get to Obama's level of a sort of medium success. So it's just that's just the Biden. The only thing I can say positive is like Biden seems to understand that. Medi Assan, who's a political commentator, formerly of Al Jazeera, now with Peacock, who's very good interviewer besides his political views. He was also very progressive. You wrote a column for NBC News this week, and the headline was, it's up on the screen right now.

Biden, no way, that's the wrong one. Biden's first day in office were way better than I expected. I have no doubt that Biden will deeply disappoint me, but this day is not today. That day is not today. And that's sort of how I feel about it. Because like, like, they have done big aggressive shit. He's signed close to 30 executive orders, which is way more than presidents usually do in the first two weeks. Like combined, right?

Like, yeah, when you look at that amount of executive orders in this amount of time served in office and you look at the past like five or six presidents, it's more than all of them combined. Like, it's a lot more. Yeah, I think the first 10 days, the score was a, if only we have a, this screen grab. There we go. It is. Yeah. In the first 10 days. Biden 24, Trump, 6, Obama 5, Bush 2, Clinton, 2, Bush 1. Now, some of that is like

a sign of how modern America is governed because Congress is so like sclerotic and fucked up. The only way for a president to govern is via executive order right now because there's no good faith negotiating.

And Republicans like it that way. Because a Democratic president, sign a bunch of executive orders to try to make government function to just a bare minimum style kind of way Republicans get the campaign against everything because they didn't sign on anything also while accusing the Democratic president of being a dick of a claiming dictatorial authority because he's governing that way so it's a win win win for them right yeah I think another you know thing that's worth mentioning is there's a lot of he's got a lot of things that you know need to be addressed quickly in some fashion or another.

Do you know what I mean? Like because of the state that we're in and just the current political climate, he has more shit to do or be done than a lot of previous presidents had at this point in their presidency, like glaring needs if you're on his side of the aisle. But like you said, you said, but the other side of this is what this means is him issuing more executive orders in the first 10 days than any other president ever has by a lot. Well, that obviously means that he's trying to be king, right? He's trying to be a dictator.

Matt, if you have that, there's a clip that we have of a guy asking his press secretary about this question. If you could find it, Matt, and pull it up. I know I kind of sprung that on you. Some of these executive orders were being used to roll back some of the immoral things that the previous administration had done. If you're calling these things immoral, is that seeking consensus and unity?

And then also, I mean, does it suggest that President Biden sees himself as perhaps a benevolent dictator? Well, Rob, I'm sure this was your intention. Dictator. That's how Joe Biden fashions himself. He said benevolent. Yeah, right. He did.

I mean, yeah, you're right. That's a good point. But also him saying, you know, he addressed literally what I just said a minute ago, was that like basically the administration was like well we had to address these things because there were moral failings or whatnot and the guys like just calling them that is that really seeking unity or whatever but like dude it look the the Biden's had an executive order today that was like created a commission to try to reunite the 500 or whatever kids that got stolen from their

families at the border right and nobody knows where like nobody knows how to put them back together or where they went and like that's a moral failure like it's a moral failure like it's Even if you think it was correct to separate families, which I fucking don't. I think most people don't. You should have written down where they went in case we changed your minds later or they decided to go back to Bolivia and won their kid back. You know, it's like this isn't even at the time Republicans were up in arms about how immoralists was. Ivanka Trump's was leaking shit about how she was against it. Like this isn't disunity.

This is offering an opportunity for Republicans to be like, yeah, that is a good idea. Let's put these families back together. Yeah, that's how they should look at it. I don't know that I believe that they will. But yeah, that's sort of how. always felt about that whole dynamic in the first place like growing up in rural Tennessee and whatnot or saying like in trying to you know reach across the aisle or how to talk to these people or whatever and there's just in my opinion certain subjects that it I'm

sorry it's not about you know your personal opinions on a particular thing like with certain things racism homophobia kids been taken from their parents things like that there's just a right or wrong as far as I'm concerned. And I'm not like, and if you have to offend those people in order to do the right thing, then that's just what you got to fucking do. You can't worry about trying to placate them when it comes to these, you know, moral issues like that that will be judged by history looking back on us. Just you got to be on the right side of it.

Fuck whatever they say. Yeah. And I absolutely agree with you. And like along those lines, some of the stuff the other executive orders do where you just shouldn't really care about other people's opinions and their bad faith complaints about your process. Trump had repealed all of his

drain the swamp ethics rules on the way out the door because of the fucking course he wanted his people to be able to take their payoffs. But he signed the strongest ethics rules in American history, which is, I think, who's going to come out against ethics, Trey? I'm sure we're going to find somebody. Right.

One of my favorites, he banned federal contracts with private prisons, which fucking, We've talked, me and you because we're just us, have talked about how much private prisons at bars before, because we're fun to hang out with. This is, as example, why this is bad. This is a state level private prison,

but this story came out this week about this Oklahoma private prison system where a judge, for whatever reason, I'm assuming kickbacks allegedly in my head. I'm trying to get a suit, even though they'll never see this. But for decades, there's been this program, a Christian program, like a diversionary, program for drug offenders to go get rehabilitated. You spend a year in a work-release camp, basically, learning a life skill. They were sending people to this who weren't even drug addicts,

weren't addicted to anything. And it turns out all the camp is, isn't even in Jesus stuff. You just work at a chicken processing plant. It's just slave labor. So slavery. So slavery, it's just slavery. Because slavery is still legal if you're a felon or whatever. If you're imprisoned, the Constitution says you can be enslaved. And that's Like anything that incentivizes via profit companies to want more people to be incarcerated for longer, that's always going to be a fucking problem. I don't care who you are or how you look at it. Like, it's obvious that you cannot have that in any kind of actually modern society, you know.

But it's widespread in this country. It's the innovation in the free market tray. You got people sitting over there not doing, like in prisons, they're captive. They can't do anything else. You've got them not working in a chicken plant. That doesn't seem like a good idea. Right. So, yeah.

So any of that one was good. Okay, but just to clarify, though, because it's an executive order, it's, so that executive order is that so any federal penitentiary will not will no longer be able to be contracted to a private prison corporation but but any state level penitentiaries or whatnot depending on the state they'll yeah the federal government doesn't run those and i'm imagine like they one of the big impacts of this is going to a lot of the um ice detention facilities are private privately contracted out i'm assuming this is going to force the closure or relocation of those people being held there to more humane conditions at some point once they you know when

the contract runs out so that that could be one big beneficial thing that would happen and the end in he's also issued a bunch of environmental uh executive orders which is like a lot of the stuff he's done is pretty close to the proposed green new deal uh so much so that like aOC was doing uh twitter and zone dances over it so that was cool. And the good part of the good part of the green new deal is like the way Republicans and oil companies or whatever slam environmental legislation is it just kills jobs. The Green New Deal is also a jobs program. It tries to create jobs in green energy because we still need power. I like air conditioning, right? Right. I like driving my car when I want to go places. I like being able to watch TV and operate my computer. So yes, we do like the modern

amenities that come with having a good power supply. But you just got to get the energy from stuff that isn't like climate change. But like their messaging around this stuff is about jobs and creating jobs and getting people better jobs. And it is possible like to the Texas wind industry surging. Like it's like becoming more. Right. Moving into wind and solar because it's more profitable and cheaper.

So it's like this is very doable. If we don't do the asinine thing, which prop up oil companies. They're doing backwards shit. They're rigging the market for. the more damaging product. Do you know what I'm saying? It's like, right, but yeah, but that,

I mean, it's, you know, the Green New Deal, it's just like the original New Deal, you know, with like a TVA and dams and things like that and infrastructure projects

that, like, created a shitload of jobs. And it was effective. Because like you said, it's not, it's not about just eliminating entire sectors. It's just about altering

the way we approach those sectors, but there's still going to be a lot of work to be done of jobs to be had there, especially if you're starting something up completely brand new. You know what I mean? Like there's going to be plenty of opportunities there and it's good for the earth and whatever. So how can anybody hate it? But, you know, if you're a cold person, I guess you can hate it.

But yeah. Yeah. And this is a quote from an article, a piece on Gizmodo that I really liked. But Gizmodo is not exactly anything remotely to a right-wing publication. But it's like what ties the executive orders to. together is they aren't about windmills or polar bears, they're about people's lived experiences. And that's the way all this stuff should be messaged. And if you wonder if Republicans think they're losing this, yeah, that's the piece if you want to go read it by climate messaging war.

And you can tell Republicans think they're losing this because they get really stupid. Here's a clip from an interview today from Senator Kennedy from Louisiana, which of course is a big oil state. if you got that Matt, throw it up there. Oh, he doesn't have. Oh, yeah, anyway. No, still try to pull it up, Matt, bring it up. But Mark, set it up a little bit more. Yeah, so Senator Joe Kennedy, who sounds like LSU's football coach, which is

name? Ed Orgeron, Coach. Yeah, yeah. Some of the kids, most of the kids, they got the COVID, but, you know, they don't have it during the seasons, so it'll be all right. I don't like making fun of Southern accents, because, you know, us, but the, uh, Louisiana. Okay, God damn it.

You had to make it like a thing now. That's how I, first of all, I love Coach O and the way he talks. So like, I wasn't, no way. You misunderstood me. Okay. Well, I thought you were directly saying, like, I don't approve of that type of thing, Trey, what you just did. You shouldn't do that because it's hypocritical or whatever.

But I, but, okay, I'm sorry. I was not to say my exception for that is Louisiana because people from Louisiana to me talk like they're, you know, cartoon alligators or whatever I think is what I said. I just came out with a talk. Once I was in Shreveport, the comedian I was working with, he talked about, he said this one, he said, Sreeport's home to the most beautiful women who are 22 years old before kids that have ever seen in my entire life. Yeah, all right.

You know, we're laughing about making fun of Louisiana right now. As far as I'm concerned, and yes, I'm very biased, but as far as I'm concerned, literally the single best cuisine on planet Earth comes from the state of Louisiana. So Louisiana still brings a lot to the table. Nobody does food as good as Louisiana does. So now we've gone on that little diatribe here. I think Matt's got the clip.

So, yeah, but this is Louisiana Congressman talking about the Green New Deal and what's going on there, Mark? Very reasonably. Yeah. All right. Play it, Matt. you, Trey, but my car doesn't run off fairy dust. My car doesn't run off unicorn urine. Did he say Trey?

Who was he talking? Trey Gowdy. Okay, all right. Well, that was better. I wouldn't expect it to open with that. Yeah, over that, yeah. I don't know about you, Trey, but my car and I was like, oh, my God, I've had this conversation before. Yeah.

Trey Gowdy, uh, with the modern conservative route where he, used being a congressman as a stepping stone to be an influencer on Fox News. Right. Which is like, no, the, Marjor Taylor Green is trying her damn to get kicked out of Congress so she can go have a radio show and they just will not do it. Right. But it's unicorn urine. That's what it runs on. Like treating it like this is all just made up fairy tale bullshit or whatever when it's all very real, very scientific and very, you know, jobs providing if you just go down that road, but you got to say what you got to say.

I need to look, if we don't do something different, a lot of us are going to die. Let's just be straightforward about this. I'm not saying we eliminate all combustion. We're not going to like immediately remove trucks from the road. That's not fucking anybody's advocating. It's like it's not possible at this point. But it should be a goal to have cars that run on clean energy. It should be.

It should be who, why do people like, is anyone like pollution? Who likes it? Yeah, I mean, apparently, apparently a lot of people do. I don't know. It's just that, you know, you can't mess with the free market. And also, that's all a hoax, you know, pollution. Pollution ain't real. But one of the reasons these assholes in their back foot talking about, you know,

unicorn urine and fairy dust. is because Democrats are kind of being semi-aggressive. There's been a couple things like follow, like the COVID-Vill negotiations are ongoing, and a few Democrats are trying to damn just to do that annoying damn shit they do. Like, take the $1,000 to $2,000 checks that are already down to $1,400 and making those. Right. So basically trying to work with the other side. Right. So we're talking about Congress now,

and they've had this infuriating tendency on the left. That's one of the cliches about the American left in politics is that they care, so much about reaching across the aisle and working. And to be fair, Biden parroted a lot of that shit on the campaign trail, but it kind of seems like recently maybe the Democratic Congress is moving past that. Has Congress's balls dropped? That's what we're wondering, Mark. Yes.

So here's a good sign. Republicans are trying to do that shit. They did it in 2009, right? And Chuck Schumer gave a speech just a couple days ago, which was encouraging where he's like, we're not doing the same mistakes we did in 2009, which is a bunch of Republicans pretending they wanted to pass a bipartisan bill. They negotiated what was in the bill down to what the bare middle and they were willing to do and then walked away from it.

They didn't even vote for their own proposal, right? They just ran the clock out. Now, do not want the clock running out on COVID relief because cities need the money now to distribute vaccines. They're broke. Cities and states are broke. they can't get needles in people's arms if you don't send them money. The Republicans are trying to cut that money out of the bill.

They were trying to cut out unemployment extension. They were trying to cut out a bunch of business loan shit and PVP loans and all that stuff. It's like it's just they're being unreasonable. And so Biden told him the fuck off and come back when they're serious. And like the thing is like he's getting shit about not being about parts or not being about unity. But like these policies are broadly popular with voters. Like if you get outside of 10 square block of D.C. these are super popular. Republicans like these proposals,

the ones out on the country who live and work and vote. It's just not popular in like Politico. Right. So that's the, and that's the idea, right? Because yes, they like, I know a lot of Republicans, I feel like their strategy is sort of, because the Democrats have the power right now. And if they do all this stuff, the more stuff they do, the more things Republicans can point to

in the upcoming election years and be like, look at all this shit. They force down your throat, right? is that really what you want to happen like that's part of their strategy i think but like you just said a lot of these things in actual practice will hit for people mark they'll work they'll be popular so if that ends up happening and the result is good then maybe it will backfire and like if it doesn't then hell i don't know where that even leaves us you know what i mean like you have to do it either way if you're the democrats is what i'm saying like why even care about

getting into this position in terms of controlling all the various factions of the government. Why even make that a point if you're not going to do this when you actually pull it off and succeed? You've got to do this. Get some oil rig workers, teach them how to build wind turbines, get them away from the arsenic after inhale and raise their pay by 25% to make clean energy and then have Republicans go on TV and say, we try to stop that. Right. Yes.

Yes. Exactly. Right. Same thing with like, Labor Republicans running two years on how we tried to stop the government from giving you $14,000 checks and extending your unemployment benefits. Let them run on it if they want to. This is a democracy.

They can say that actually the bad effects of giving you $1,400 where that in 20 years we won't have enough money for as many wars. They want to say that. Go ahead. It's like, do do stuff and have them run against it because they don't want to run. They don't want these policies enacted because they don't want these policies enacted because they don't want to run against them. Right.

Yes. Do stuff that actually helps real people objectively and force them to later say, we weren't down with that and see how that plays out. Right. Yes. Absolutely. Another encouraging thing, almost all, like, congressional Democrats are behind a bill to expand the minimum wage of $15 an hour

that escalates faster. And then the bill's burning. Sanders ran on last year. It's a better bill than Bernie Sanders ran on last year. The minimum weight. Now, the minimum wage should be hard. Like, we can get to the economics of it, but like, if the minimum wage had, like, increased as fast as it was when it was enacted in the 60s, it'd be like $20, $25 an hour right now or whatever.

Like, like, your parents and grandparents, then they got a minimum wage job. We're making $22 an hour. So, I want to circle back to that, actually, because I was going to bring this up already. We were talking about Biden and everything that's happened so far. But first, before we get into the questions of comments section and whatnot. I want to make sure to at least give a brief update

on the Wall Street kerfuffle. The last thing we talked about is one of my favorite stories of the years so far. A bunch of Redditors have taken on Wall Street hedge funds and they had them by the balls for a while. Where are they at right now, Mark, over a week later? All right, so basically

everyone has agreed that Robin Hood sucks and the CEO should be in jail. Not clearly for what. Everyone just in favor putting him in jail. Right. So Robin Hood is the popular trading app that a lot of these regular people were using to buy these stocks. And Robin Hood, infamously last week, shut down all trading on GameStop stock, which was a bullshit move. Yes. And now it's not really clear why. They say it's because they didn't, the trading was volume was so high. They didn't have the money in their accounts to cover the trades. They weren't in regulatory compliance. They had to pause and get an injection of capital from one of their sugar daddies.

so they'd have enough money to do the but but also one of their sugar daddies is Citadel which owned a chunk of what's like Melvin Melvin was the main hedge fund yeah it was getting bent over and fucked by

this Reddit forum so the company that owns Robin Hood was also losing money because of these trades so it was very suspicious and that's why the CEO of Robin Hood is going to be summoned to testify in front of Congress and he's got to explain what GameStop is to Maxine Waters, which should be really fun.

This whole thing is really funny, but the main reason I wanted to talk about this some more is we got this video clip. Yeah, that one, Matt. Let's play it. They're not happy. They're not happy on Wall Street. Yeah. They're having trouble with this. If you're learning here, maybe it's fun, fine, maybe it's a movement.

But be prepared to lose 80 to 90% of it. And if it's still worth it, then have at it. But the biggest loss of capital there will be a human capital of young men who are sitting and staring at their phone and watching the price of Bitcoin or the price of AMC. And ask yourself, would you be better off taking that one, two, or three hours a day and working out trying to form relationships with mentors with romantic relationships, with people at work? Stop taking my money. Exactly. No, it's like, stop being such a fucking loser. person who's taking me to the woodshed right now?

A person that's raking me over the cold. Why don't you get your shit together? That's what you need to do. Similar to how there's a ton of young women out there who became very depressed by sitting in their rooms looking at Instagram, self-cutting and self-harm skyrocket. I think you are going to see an explosion and young male depression. and I think a lot of it is going to be reverse engineer to apps that convince you, you're part of a movement, or physically addict you to your phone. Ask yourself, would your time stand up?

He started by saying like, okay, fine, you know what, fine, do it. But I hope you realize if it, I hope you realize you're going to lose 80 to 90% of that at the end of the day. And if that's still worth it to you, then fine. Well, I got bad news for that guy. It's fucking worth it to a lot. of these people like a whole lot of these dudes they don't give a fuck that's what these wall street people don't understand dude they don't give a fuck like they're in it to fuck these people fashion themselves oh after the joker right it's not about the money it's about sending a message

motherfucker like you're not going to outlast them on the profit margin motivation they don't care they'll burn it they'll burn themselves down dude they don't care One thing Melvin did, because Melvin had been doing this for a while and they were exceedingly greedy, right? They started shorting GameStop at like $20 some of share. They pushed it down to $10. They pushed it down to $6 and they pushed it down to four. And that's when the Reddit people noticed. It's like $4.

Fucking buy 100 shares for $400. If I lose, I lose $400. I'll do this. So like it became like the people who got out early made a ton of money. Like our buddy, a Rour and Kitty who made $35 million. Yeah. From a $50,000 investment and posted the video of him. laughing while dipping chicken tenders in champagne.

He's a legend. He's American hero. But some of these people, like, there were clips from the subreddit where people were talking about telling stories about 2008 about how they remembered like their aunt losing their house and moving back in with them. And another person was talking about their family eating like making tomato soup with ketchup packets

that they took from restaurants and shit. People are still fucking angry about 2008. They hate these hedge fund assholes and they wanted to stick it to them. And you could get into this movement and feel like you're a part of it, buying 10 shares for $40 that you hold forever while Melvin gets more and more desperate while I had shares back. Right.

Then it's funny to them and it's like two middle fingers up who gives it shit. Right. And they really think the hedge fund guys really think that like the thought of losing all of that $40 or $400 that you just said like that that is going to pull these people back. And that's fuck. It's not. That's assinat. Like again, a lot of these people that have gotten in on this on this movement or

whatever, they're not in it for the money at all. and that's what's going to fuck these dudes over in the end, I think. But, yeah, I'm all for it. J.Rill. Yes. Where is Jai, Mark? Tell us where Jai is. When it became like the social justice that's fuck Wall Street thing instead of just making money off of it at the end of it,

when it was like the longer you hold your shares, the more money Melbourne loses and fuck Melvin. Right. Jah Rul tweeted, hold the line, don't sell. And that was like all these people were being like, I mean, it becomes a prisoner's dilemma because the first person the cell is going to make a lot of money.

The last person left holding the bag is going to lose. So it has to be everybody in together or it's like I say everybody in together while Joe rules definitely get his money out because he's broke as fuck. So after Robin Hood shut down the trading and whatnot, which was a bullshit move, by the way, which basically forced the price down.

So there's a big dip in the price now. But Mark Cuban went on CNBC like this morning. saying, fuck that, hold the line. Like, it'll go, like, they're not, they're not done. They're not done with this shit, despite all the stuff of Robin Hood and whatever. They're, uh, they're still going for it. And I'm, I'm all for them.

Hold it until they all die. I don't care. I didn't fully understand the mechanics of how shorting works until this happened. So thank you, Wall Street best for educating me about this shit. But so, like, the shorting is a transaction with three parties. You got the person who owns the shares. You got me, the short seller, and got trade, the person, I'm going to borrow the shares from the person who owns them, pay them a Vig,

I'm going to sell it to you, right? Right. It's for like $10,000. Because I'm assuming it's going to go down to like $6,000 in a day or two, right? So a day or two goes into $6,000. I buy it back from you. I'll pocket the $4,000 profit, give the shares back to the guy who owns them and pay them and it's, I mean, a nice, clean, easy money with no real work, right?

Melvin, me in this scenario, has to buy the shares back from you. I have to. They're not mine. I don't own them. I'm contractually obligated and give them back to the first person. So if the price keeps going up, my losses can be infinite, and I'm still paying that Vig. Every day I hold that got more money to buy more options to keep his shares. So if you hold it, I get more desperate and I'm losing more money.

So that's essentially mechanics how it works. And yeah, so they're still holding. squeeze them nerds squeeze them that's what I say all right let's go to the questions and comments Matt you can throw up there whenever you got some but what I said earlier we were talking about one of the Democratic measures

a minimum wage bill that actually escalates faster than Bernie Sanders bill on the same subject of 2019 and I was going to say while Matt's looking for some stuff like that that's what this is what we're seeing in real time right now the value of like Bernie Sanders and AOC and people like that's campaign and presence, right? And what I mean is dragging the Democratic establishment kicking and screaming further to further to the left. Like that's actually happening now. You can see

the value of that whole dynamic, right? I think at first the Democratic establishment thought that their popularity was random or based on personal. personality stuff. And then what they expected to happen was like they would get insulting editorials from, I bought a camera. Yes, Bridget Muleberger says, Mark, new laptop, camera, Mike digging it. Yeah, he got a whole new setup. It's long overdue, but look at him. It looks great. Looks, sounds great. Yeah. So I think that what they expected to happen was there'd be like, tisking editorials in the Washington Post and Politico would slam them and people, go on MSNBC and say the Bernie's too aggressive or misogyn or whatever.

And they assume that because they live in fear of that stuff, they assume that stuff would destroy them. And then two or three years later, four or five years later, they're more popular than they were when they started. And they're like, oh, shit, I can do stuff. And they can write those editorials and say that shit. And it won't really hurt me. In fact, I might get more popular because people get the information on different ways now.

Who knows what anyone's going to say or what sources people are reading. So it seems like they're kind of learning, but we'll see. All right, Mark, it's a question for you. Educate me on this. Adamar Cornblute says, can we talk about the boycotting of Publix due to the heiress's funding the January 6th coup attempt? So I will say in general, I love a Publix. If you don't live in a town where there's a Publix, it's a Florida-centric.

I think it started in Florida. Yeah. They're definitely Florida heavy for sure. They got good sandwiches. Yeah. Good deli. Yeah. You can go to a public's deli counter and have yourself.

mail. Publix is the grocery store from James Winston got caught shoplifting crab legs from. Oh, right. Yes, he 100% was given those crab legs by the way, but couldn't, but couldn't say that because of NCAA regulations, because that's how fucked up the NCAA is. But anyway, go ahead. Yeah, you get less penalty for, uh, for committing a crime. Stealing. Yeah. Right. So, um, so I, the thing is like the, all, basically all the information I know about it was in this guy's question is that this eras got caught funding a lot of the digital. they go to January 6th rallies and then people avoid putting Publix, which my understanding is Publix is otherwise a good company. I think they'll pay their employees well and I think they let them unionize.

I don't really, I'm talking out of my ass right now. I just, I think that's true. But I don't know. I'm going to be sad if I go back to Florida where a wife's family live and I can't go to Publix. Yeah, well, this goes back to that whole, I didn't know about this until it just got brought up. So I'm still fuzzy on the details. I'm not a huge public's devotee or anything to begin with. but I mean, yeah, generally speaking, public's hits for me.

But this is like the first time this came into my consciousness was Chick-fil-A, right? The famous Chick-fil-A scandal where they were donating all these homophobic causes and whatnot. But a lot of people were like, look, man, their chicken hits, what are you going to do? Like, how do you sort of divide up or, you know, how do you look at that? The people that run a company in their politics versus like the product, itself because I don't I'm not I don't really care about chick filet one way or the other so it's easy for me to just not go there because I'm not a huge fan to begin with but I you know I've told my uncle Tim before my gang Uncle Tim's like look man if Taco Bell gets in some of that chickfilet shit like

I just hope you know that I'm sorry because I'm still I'm still glad to eat these nachos I don't know but how do you how do you rationalize that Mark I mean there's let look okay Chick-fil-A, how do I put this? Chick-fil-A, of course, if you, like, if, them donating causes to try to stop gay marriage from being legalized, sucks, but they also, one of the only minimum wage sector jobs that gives people Sunday off the spend with their families, right? That's like, like Publix, for example, like, yeah, that lady sucks, but Publix also gives

out free, I'm looking at their, they give out free medicine and their pharmacies. They give free antibiotics and free, like, they do. I said, I don't know how you break down this stuff because any big corporation going to have assholes at the top of it. Exactly. Yeah. And then like even just like the business model wise, I don't know if people know how McDonald's works, but McDonald's isn't a restaurant chain. It's a, it's a real estate sort of. What McDonald's does is buy a piece of land and let somebody rent the store from them.

What you do in that store is sell McDonald's burgers, but that sort of not, it's just everything's a scam is what I'm saying. So like I don't know how much like Where you eat your chicken sandwiches isn't really activism to me If you want to boycott it as a personal statement Because it just makes you not as hungry to eat chicken To eat chicken sandwiches from like a family that's hateful Of course like it's it's I mean chikfilates privately owned So it's a little easier to connect the politics of his owners

Directly to like the store But yeah but if you're boycotting every corporation Has some like you know shittier unfortunate it. In today's society, it's going to be hard to do that. You're going to be left with not, you know,

I mean, dude, Apple, Apple does a lot of bullshit. You know what I mean? And everyone in America is, it's got some kind of Apple product or Nike. Like,

between those two and the shady shit they have been up to, corporately speaking, nobody's, nobody's hands are clean. And it's shitty, but it's just the way it is. I'm all for young at people to be better. We're firmly on the record here to do that.

Yeah, that's our whole thing. Yeah. It's all we do. I don't mind you being like, fuck you, Publix and not like shopping there until you sever this lady's ties to the company, yada, yada, yada.

Absolutely do that. That's cool. But like, in the real world, Publix started covering, gave health coverage to same-sex benefits, same-sex couples in 2015. And then people yelled at them because they weren't covering pre-H-H-I-V medication for people's partners,

and then they changed the policy and started covering it. So yelling at them does work, and they do some progressive stuff. They've also never had a layoff. So that's cool, too. It's like companies are mixed bags, man. They're not, they're in business to make money. They're not there to be your friend. But if you yell at them, maybe they'll be your friend.

Yeah. All right. Last one, Natalie Nichols says, do you think there's a risk of riots at the impeachment hearings? Maybe, but I'm not sure. Like, it depends on what Trump does, right? Because his old legal team just quit for two reasons. One, he wouldn't pay them.

And two, that he wanted them to argue the election was stolen instead of try to make constitutional arguments about whether it's illegal to impeach or former president or whatever. So if he makes it crazy, he has that ability to make things real crazy, which is what happened on the sixth. If he stays in Florida and just sends a couple lawyers, it'll be a boring TV show, and I don't think anybody will go. If he shows up and does what he did on the sixth and gives a big. speech to a bunch of followers he's summoned there and then goes to speak on the floor of congress as some some of his supporters wanting to do yeah they can get real bad so i have to think that because of how it all went down on the sixth and the ultimate outcome of it i e him not being the president anymore despite that happening uh i have to think all of that makes this type of situation less likely i'm sure there's still some lunatics of people will try some shit but like it would surprise me if it was even approaching the level of the January 6th riots, you know. Yeah, I would be. I mean, he just feels way more impotent than he did.

Right, exactly. Part of that's because he took Twitter away from him. Part of that's because he's not present anymore. But, I mean, one big difference is, like, the National Guard won't be held back this time. So it'll be much more of a fair fight. Right. Then Capitol Police on their own.

But who knows, we'll see. Speaking of we'll see. We'll see what happens on the next episode, the evening skews them are at 48 hours Thursday evening it'll be fun we'll talk about all the latest and dumbassery and everything else we hope you join us join us thanks for being here tonight we appreciate it I'm Trey that's Mark see you by hello everybody welcome back today's Thursday February 4th 2021 I'm Trey Crowder that's Mark age you what's up Mark what's up Trey I once again thought about you when I read a story of a exercise bikes earlier

apparently during a pandemic something called a Zwift which is like racing peloton bikes is caught on yeah people have been cheating at it I was yeah surely not no it's a whole thing on there apparently like people get insane about because they have leaderboards and people do everything they can to be at the top of them just totally ignore the routine mark just have no respect for the routine and just do their own thing the whole time in an effort to get to most points or whatever and I'm pretty solidly in the bottom eighth of the

it's like if there's 10,000 scores I'm around 8600 something like that that's where I ride in at so I had to just take the leaderboard part and push it off to the side because I couldn't I couldn't deal with that anymore but I know that people are insane about it

so I'm not at all surprised to hear that they're cheating I just think it's funny that cyclists are like we're all doing what we need to do to feel normal during the pandemic but bicycle racers are so addicted to cheating right yes exactly yeah it's like who would ever imagine that cyclists would cheat you know one thing cyclists not known for cheating yeah lansomboe or two or differences and was still cheating right right but they were all cheating you know it's like bill burs said our juiced up guy was better than y'all's juiced up guy so it should still count um

Anyway, let's get out of the show with us as always, producer Matt doing his thing. This is evening skews. Got a good show for you tonight. We're going to go in on the unbridled lunacy of Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green, including a conversation with senior Georgia correspondent and noted Marjorie Taylor Green shit-talker, Corey Ryan Forrester. You all know him. You love him.

They're definitely going to end up dating at some point. Yes, he's from her, he's not only the senior Georgia correspondent, but just as a reminder, y'all, he literally lives in her district. He will be joining us later in the show to talk all things, MTG, and her madness. We're also going to talk about the fact that Donald Trump has apparently opted to walk away from his prestigious career as a Thespian as he's stepping down from the Screen Actors Guild, and he did it in the most Donald Trump fashion imaginable, so we'll get into that too. and some other fun stuff depending on time on tonight's edition of evening skews. But first, as always, we begin with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please.

Tonight's Dumbass is Texas Congressman Brian Babin, I think, or Babin. Brian Babin, who, while defending Marjorie Taylor Green on the floor of Congress, made a near unprecedented error in the fundamentalist Christian community, when he misquoted a Bible verse in an effort to make a political point. I know. That's odd. You wouldn't expect that of those people.

It's out of left field. But it happened. Matt, you play the clip showing it. If my Democrat colleagues are attempting to take the speck out of their eye, I encourage them to also take the log out of their own eye. Out of our eye, then take the speck. I take the log out of their own eye.

Thank you. So, all right, a couple things, Mark. I've made no bones about the fact that I'm very Bible dumb. I don't know shit about the Bible, but I don't claim to, so I don't feel at all hypocritical about that because I don't recognize this verse either. But A, I want you to tell me what it is, but B, also, he's the Texas. This made me almost like weirdly nostalgic for George W. Bush. You know what I mean?

Like, this is a very W. Type of moment, I feel like, for this guy. And it's just it brought me back to my youth a little. bit. Yeah. I mean, as a well-known, a Christian comedian, I know, but you're like, you know, you know Bible shit, though. Yeah, yeah, I do. I do know my Bible shit. I right. 18 years of Bible school. Thanks, Mom. So the verse is like, basically, I was talking about Pharisees, before you, before you worry about the spec and someone else's eye, get the plank out of your own eye. I mean, it's, but that's the, the funny thing about him hypocritically trying to cite a Bible verse he doesn't know is the verse.

is about hypocrisy right right it's so it's just like another version of the stones in a glass house type of thing yeah okay yeah it's exactly the analogy is like that you're you're actually it's not just like stones and glass house is like people being equally uh uh wrong the plank versus spec is like you're worse you're a way less moral person he's trying to say democrats or more more crazy than marjorie taylor green so they should worry about ilhan omar first before they get mad about mtg whatever. Right, which that seems to be kind of their, uh, the tack they're trying to take, or a lot of them are, we'll get into a little bit later, but like, um, Hannity did a version of the same thing where like they, even the ones that are trying to be sane and acknowledge her

insanity are still trying to make it sound like Democrats are more insane than she is by a lot. apparently log versus spec type of ratio, you know. And I don't know that I believe that, but hey, they got to try something, I guess. Yeah. Who amongst us, Trey, hasn't harassed a victim of a school shooting? Right. Right. Yes.

Okay. So we'll talk a lot more about Marjorie Taylor Green later. But first, we got some honorable mentions for you. The first one is Florida, noted Floridian, noted Florida. Matt Gates, you know him, you love him, Trump Man to the End, which he clarifies right here on Steve Bannon's podcast, radio show or whatever the hell it is, where he was taking the task over his commitment to the Trumpian cause. And this is what he had to say, Matt. Then step down from Congress, would you resign in order to defend the president on the way that you want to defend it? I love my district. I love representing them.

but I view this cancellation of the Trump presidency and the Trump movement as one of the major risks to my people, both in my district and all throughout this great country. Absolutely. If the president called me and wanted me to go defend him on the floor of the Senate, that would be the top priority in my life. I would leave my house seat. I would leave my home. I would do anything I had to do to ensure that the greatest president in my lifetime,

one of the greatest presidents our country has ever had, maybe the greatest president our country has ever had, got a full-throated defense that wasn't crouched down, that wasn't in... I like, it's very appropriate that he went with full-throated defense, I feel like, at the end. Not to just, you know, not to be too low-brow here, but yeah, just laying all that on the table, making it clear what he's doing. Yeah, if Donald Trump was known for anything, it's being too meek to defend him. himself from things you think for that. This guy, I mean, I fucking, this guy bugs me for a lot of reasons,

but one, his head's too big and we need to address that off the top. His head is, he looks like a fucking pez dispenser or like, he looks like, he looks like a bit moji character of himself. But, like, I don't understand why these people

do this because Trump, like any maniac bully, the people he resents most of the people who kiss his ass. And they all end up throwing at a wood chipper. Do you know what I'm saying? So, I don't know. Fuck this guy.

I hope he does quit Congress to be Trump's defense lawyer. Right. And that's the thing. It's like also just that, I mean, no, he wouldn't. Right? Like, that's also the other element of this for me is that he would, no, he wouldn't. He wouldn't do any of that.

I don't think, which is, you know, I mean, I know that's part for the course for them, but it just makes it that much worse. He might though, Tray, because like these people, we talked about as before, but they all, like, we showed a Trey Gowdy clip the other night. He quit Congress to go host a show on Fox News. Marjor Taylor Green is trying to be an influencer. That a Madison Cawthorne guy bragged about how he didn't hire any legislative people.

He hired all communications people. They want to be stars. They do not want to be politicians. So he might quit because he'd probably make way more money as a pod. Who wants our job, Trey? He wants to quit Congress to fucking. talking a live stream. Yeah, well, I don't know if he wants our specific job.

Yeah. But yeah, no, I'll, you know, more power to him. Hell, like you said, I let him do it. That'd be great. Talking about these people not having their priorities entirely in line from our perspective. And the next honorable mention is a good chunk of Ohio. I shouldn't say that. There was a, there was a, sorry, Mark, I'm hearing myself coming from you, I think.

If you get to turn it down a little bit. Yeah, we're getting the echo. Try to address that real quick. But there was a meeting of the state Congress in Ohio that featured constituents coming and speaking at it. Right. And Matt, you can throw up the graphics whenever you want to. They, it was anti-mask, anti-vax Ohioans coming out. in mass to support this bill targeting the health department in Ohio.

And weirdly, they didn't, they didn't have the best complaints from my perspective. They spent a lot of time talking about how, about how, you know, oppressed they have been by COVID-related regulations. And so you can see a few examples here. a woman told of her favorite gluten-free bake shop having to close down in 2020, thus denying her access to, and this is a direct quote from her, cheesy bread with the best freshly made marinera sauce I've ever tasted. She also claimed her cat died after being refused treatment

during the initial stay-at-home order. Now look, you know, rest in peace of this lady's cat. But the cheesy bread, though, this is indicative of the types of losses these people are going through, Mark. I mean, what really hit for me in that is the cheesy bread outranked the cat. Yeah, she led with the cheesy bread. Yes, she's been denied the cheesy bread. But yeah, another one, they also, the feature act, as far as this article presents,

it was a seventh grader, a seventh grade student from Warren County, Ohio, who complained about having to speak loudly during his school's socially distanced lunches, I guess giving him a sore throat, you know, which would be bad. I'd hate to get like something going on with your throat during this pandemic. But he described being annoyed by the overuse of hand sanitizer in school, which dampens his paperwork and makes dodge balls tougher to grip during gym class. The horror. This is what's going on in Ohio, Mark.

Why is nobody talking about this? They got slippery dodgeballs dampened home. They're having to talk louder than Ohioans like to talk. It's a travesty. I feel bad for this little kid that he has this ready-made excuse for why he's getting his ass kick so much in Dodgeball. He's a little nerd. But I do admire his hustle trying to go with the hand sanitizer ruined my homework defense. Right.

Yeah, well, also getting your ass whipped and dodgeball defense, too. I think that's what he's doing with both of these things. It's like, just so everybody knows, the reason. reason I was getting my ass whipped and my homework wasn't good is COVID-19. And that's what's going on here. And then this guy, which I think I could say

as a married man, I feel like I probably know where this dude sort of coming from, but this is still some bullshit in the same vein. Another guy got up there. And first of all said that he used to really enjoy watching bands perform from his apartment, window at a bar across the street and now that's ended so what is he supposed to do everybody also

a footnote parenthetical in his written testimony didn't bring it up in person i guess but including his written testimony he blames the governor in these regulations for ending his marriage so this guy's he's having a rough time imagine having like you haven't you have a divorce forced upon you by the state you live in and then you can't even rock out through your window every night like Like the bar band across the street, who's going to play Journey cover songs and stuff to soothe your broken heart during this age of COVID? It's sad. Before we gloat too much and talk about how this guy shouldn't be blaming the demise of his marriage on the pandemic because we're doing so great. We haven't made it all the way through yet.

Yeah, right. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I don't want to count our chickens for they hatch over here, me and Mark, with our marriages. There's still plenty of pandemic left. So, you know, we'll see how it goes.

But so far, hanging in there. I do, I do know of at least one couple that had to go into marriage counseling because of fights about the COVID restrictions. So this guy's, this guy's not alone. But, yeah, I do think, just suck it up, man. And so fucking, the bar is closed. The bar being closed causes your marriage to break down. It probably wasn't going to make it anyway. But, yeah.

All right. So, let's be. move on, although this one could have been a dumbass nominee too. As I teased up front, Donald Trump has left the Screen Actors Guild. He's left the union for actors that he is

of course a noted member of, very influential member of, because they had been talking about removing him from the union, and he played the classic, you can't fire me, a quick card, in the way that only Donald Trump can do.

And, uh, Yes, see this headline here. Known at Home Alone 2 actor Donald Trump resigned from the Screen Actors Guild in the pettiest letter. I don't know if you are going to be able to see the actual letter itself, but I still want to, man, if you can get it put up. I got the important part right here, Trey. Okay. All right. While I'm familiar with their work, I'm very proud of my work on movies such as Home Alone 2, Zoolander, and Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps, and TV shows, including the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Saturday Night Live, and of course, the most successful show in television history of The Apprentice.

now I don't know about what metric the apprentice is the most successful show in the history of television yeah dude the wire of sopranos game of thrones fuck all that the apprentice

the real gold standard although I mean in terms of like sheer numbers the apprentice probably did beat at least some of those shows but still it can't be the it's like you said by any metric

it's not the most successful show in television history yeah like a hundred million people watch the mash finale or whatever like it's not even remotely close So yeah, but this underscores something that's like pretty like it somehow escapes every most people's like understanding of Trump. His primary business for last 40 years has been in show business. Like he's he's in show business.

He's one of his life's biggest grudges, the apprentice never won an Emmy. Like he's still mad about that. That's what he complains about Hollywood. So being unfair so much he thinks he didn't win the apprentice didn't win an Emmy because people personally find him distasteful, which might be true. But also he's the host of a shitty reality show. You're not going to beat out, you know, uh, uh, uh, Brian Cranston for best actor. So I,

this whole thing is good. This entire letter in my opinion is good because yes, what you said is the best part, but of course he didn't stop there. He went further. He also said, I've also greatly helped the cable news television business said to be a

parenthesis, said to be a dying platform with not much time left until I got involved in politics, close parentheses and created thousands of jobs at networks such as, this is in his letter to SAG, networks such as MSDNC and fake news CNN among many others. He then goes on to say, your organization has done little for its members and nothing for me as evidenced by your massive unemployment rates and lawsuits, yada, yada. And then he goes on later.

longer wish to be associated with your union. As such, this letter is to inform you of my immediate resignation from SAG-A-A-After. You have done nothing for me. Signed, President Donald J. Trump. Here's an important thing. He's saying, as a pro-union guy, I want to point out that he's saying the unions never did anything for him, he's still going to collect about $100,000 a year in pensions that the union fought for him to get. So he's wrong about that. Go union. But, But the funny thing I, Tibbet I loved about it was, it doesn't really matter. You don't even know this, but Sag Afterra is a merger of two unions.

One used to be for movies, another one used to be for TV. He had to join Aftera when he appeared in a movie called Ghost Can't Do It, starring Bo Derek in 1989. And I want to read the plot description of this movie. Scott and Kate are happily married despite their 30-year age difference. After Scott suffers a heart attack and is unable to have sexual intercourse, he commits suicide and becomes a ghost that only Kate can see and speak with. it to make a possible for Scott to return as a human,

they conjure a plan to have a young man drown so Scott can take his butt. And we have a clip of Trump's appearances, two of Trump's appearances in this fucking, how accurately they've summed up what Donald Trump is and what he once said to him in 1989 is so fucking perfect, hit the hit playmate together.

All right, maybe we're having to take no good difficulties. Oh, yeah. And I won, I did. I beat you. You were very good. You played the situation perfectly. So I beat the situation, but not you. That's what you did.

I think you liked to make mischief. You noticed that too. What? What? This is... Oh, God, I love it. That's the ghost. That's Anthony Quinn, Trey.

He won two Oscars. He won two Oscars. This is Bo Derek at her peak at a two-time Oscar winner playing her older Richmondman. I hope I would play not too vacant headed because from the look of this room, it isn't women's work we're doing here today. It has been, no cooking going on.

There is no point that can be argued. If you skip ahead to 150, I think it's got the best. The point is based as it is stated. It's not ambiguous. So Trump's big saying is the boardroom saying? Yeah, this is been interesting. Tomorrow at a. 11 we will vote and that will settle it for now.

But be assured, Mrs. Scott, that in this room there are knives sharp enough to cut you to the bone. And hearts cold enough to eat yours as hors d'oeuvres. You're sweet little ass on me. You're too pretty to be bad. You notice. Oh my God, dude. What? Like, wow.

Holy shit. I actually hadn't seen that clip yet. that did he actually like flub a line and they kept it in the end sort of in the middle of that or was that just like

you know something with the bandwidth where it kind of jumped through there he's like to your your hearts or it sounded me like he fucked the line up and that was still the best take

they had and of course it ends with you're too you're too good looking to be bad yeah you're too pretty to be bad oh you noticed huh like earlier she said I think you like to make mischief

and he goes oh you noticed This is the exact same fucking, it echoes itself. It just like, he just gets to be a coy little mischief maker. You know he like, those, he did that somehow. Like, it was either something like he gave him some money or just said, like, because again, he was famous at this time. The man's been famous for being a rich douchebag for our entire lives, basically. So he either said, like, yeah, I'll appear in this movie,

but only if you let me have these two things be said, or just straight up gave the production some money to make himself look like a sexy badass mover and shaker or whatever. No, you're right. That's a very, it's very, very fitting that that was his first ever appearance on the big screen was in that capacity.

Of course, what other capacity has he ever appeared in? You know what I mean? Like, whichever appearance was his first was going to be a version of that, but still, it's really on the nose. But one way ended up being in so much stuff is he would offer up Trump Tower as a free shooting location. Right. Right.

So people would like, he's like, oh, we got a free boardroom to shoot in. And Donald Trump will play himself as a rich douchebag. So here we go. It's a layup. Yeah. All right. Well, so let's get in to large brain to Marge. Marjorie Taylor Green.

Everybody's favorite Georgian recently. She's really shaking shit up, Mark. she's, you know, out here just accosting school shooting survivors and denying 9-11 and then doing the opposite of both those things in public while still having proof that she did exactly those things out there for the world to see, just rending the GOP to its foundation. Or is she? They seem to be standing in solidarity and in applause for her, right, Mark? Yeah, so she got a standing, like they had a big Republican caucus meeting last night where, one, they were going to decide whether they take a vote to discipline margin themselves.

And two, people were trying to call for a vote to remove Liz Cheney from leadership for voting for Trump's impeachment. Cheney pretty easily won a blind vote to keep her position. It was like 150 to 60 or something. One person abstained from voting in a secret ballot, which is very brave.

However, that's also, even on the, I know we're talking about Marjorie Taylor Green, but even on the Liz Cheney thing for a second, Like, yes, she did handily win the, like, secret ballot after catching all this public shit from the... It's just very indicative of how they operate, in my opinion. You know what I mean? Like, it shows that there's plenty of them who, in private, behind the scenes are kind of sane or however you want to put it. But they refuse to announce publicly that they are sane, you know?

So it's just... It's just so appropriate. But anyway, on to MTG. Yeah, so she stood up at the caucus meeting and said that she took, she said she was wrong, that 9-11 happened, that there are no Jewish space lasers, yada, yada, yada. She waffled on whether school shootings are real. Her position seems to be that some of them are probably real, but most of them probably staged by Nancy Pelosi and whoever.

Hillary Clinton probably behind it, I don't know. But she said enough of them are real where they were fine of it, They didn't even hold a vote whether to pundit, whether to censure her or kick her off committees. It's worth understanding here that she's on the education committee. And the reason she seems to want to be on the education committee is so every time Title IX bill passes through, she can use her position to shit all over trans kids. She wants to, so she can go viral on the mega, you know, online sphere, just like just complaining about, you know, boys playing high school basketball and going in girls' locker rooms or whatever.

So that's the only reason she wants to be there in the first place. So fuck her to death in 10 different ways. Right. Literally, by the way, I realize that sounds like I was advocating some sort of like violence. That's not what I have. No, yeah. We know what you mean. So if you wonder, like Hannity actually did a pretty good clip last night.

We talked about what's wrong with her if Matt. Yeah, the Hannity clip, Matt, whenever you've got it. I think the first part and the end part are just so telling for how they're trying to handle the Marjorie Taylor Green. situation in the mainstream GOP. We all know as a fact that a plane did hit the Pentagon and it was real. In fact, we lost a good friend of this show that day. You might remember Barbara Olson. She was on the plane, a terrorist crashed into the Pentagon.

2018, Taylor Green apparently said that California wildfires was started by a space laser. Look at that. ...told by some kind of evil corporate cabal, which my mind is not exactly true. Not exactly true. She's Sean Hannity. Not exactly true. Look at that headline, man. Also recently disturbing.

A video surface showing... GOP Congresswoman blamed wildfires on secret Jewish space laser. A kid that survived the Parkland shooting, school shooting. They lost friends that day. And she accused him of being a trained actor. I'm sorry. I don't go there. I think kids are off the table.

Poor kid had been through hell. The families who lost loved ones. They're watching this. Adults, my view, I don't care whether you're a Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative. Like, first of all, you shouldn't even have to say that, Mark, about kids being off the table or whatever. But, like, Sean Hannity, who I'm not a big fan of, is mostly talking sense throughout this clip, right? And then at the end of it, he, of course, has to find a way to circle it back to their typical kind of bullshit. After spending all this time talking about how dumb she is and how crazy she is,

he then has to pull out the spec, log, eyeball scenario we were talking about earlier. Yes. Or supports the action confronting young people claiming that school shootings that happened didn't happen. He just lost a lawsuit for harassing Seth Rich's family and hide it. Right. So fuck him too. Oh, of course. Yes.

If that wasn't clear, yes. of course fucking. But we now have to look at the other side of the aisle. That's the Democratic Party. Yes, they have a lot of fringe conspiracy theories. There we go. And agitators, except they're not little known in their party. They're literally running the whole show for the Democratic Party.

They set the agenda and they have all the power. So, yes, he spends two minutes talking about, you know, how crazy she is. basically and how any, you know, saying conservative could never go along with that type of shit. But then at the end, pit pivots immediately into this, but she's nowhere near as crazy as the Democrats are. And they need to start with their own house first, you know, so. Yeah, because Ilan Omar insinuated that Israel has too much sway in her foreign policy, because they don't need a lot of money in which people heard as an anti-Semitic slur. I don't know how she meant it.

It can very easily be taken to just be an actual honest critique of how American foreign policy works. And I'll give her the metaphor of the doubt because she said sorry for how she sounded. She apologized for the fact that sort of walked up the line of sounding antisemitic and walked it back. And I don't think it's quite remotely the same thing as saying Jews have space lasers that burn everything down. Yeah. All right. So we're going to try something real quick and we'll know quickly. I think whether it works or not, everybody, if this doesn't work,

we apologize and we'll see. Corey is here but is having audio issues. Matt, I actually want you to try to bring Corey in for a second and just see if when you do if he can hear us. If you can't, Corey, do the thumbs down. Wow, how would he know to do that? Yeah, look at him.

He doesn't know. He's got nothing. Verbly explaining to him how to tell us that he cannot hear us. Yeah, nothing, nothing at all. Okay, all right. Well, Matt, take him out. out. We'll in the chat if we can.

Yeah, thank you a corner out for us everybody. There is. Great work. Yeah, we'll see if we can

get that fixed. In the meantime, Mark, say some shit about her. Well, she keeps going back to being like, I have denounced Q. I haven't promoted Q in a while. When she's fucking lying, she retweeted a Q&A article in December,

saying that how accurate it was. So Democrats did kick her off committees today, and they got 11 Republican votes to go along with them. So it's a little bipartisan, but there's still going to be a big partisan fight. So she went to the floor to defend herself before they voted her off committees, and she said a bunch of insane shit,

but she did say that 9-11 did happen. She didn't say who she thought was behind it, but she did say it did happen. So that's a little bit of progress. Okay. Matt, bring court back in whenever you want to. says it can hear us now. So whenever you can do that, bring him back in.

Yes, but like, so it's insane. But like, and I'm not, I'm not the first person to point this out. That's what they were saying on Twitter about this earlier. How crazy is it? Hey, there, Corey is. What's up, baby? You can hear us? Yeah, I just had to get on my phone.

So sorry if my audio is not as good. No way, Matt, please kill the other Corey. This is a nightmare. We've got two Corrie's here. Not that, Corey. Oh, wait. All right. Please, look.

Okay. All right. Okay. Hey, everybody, look CoriRine Forcers here. This is a professional operation. No, you're good. Can you hear me? Can you hear us? Okay, good. For a second there, there was two Corrie's, and one of them couldn't hear, and was somehow popping up.

I don't know. That's my bad. I didn't click out of the whole thing. Dude, I'm so sorry about this. This is dumb. No, it's all right. So we were just saying, like, Marjorie Taylor Green, she's went out there publicly talking about how she does believe 9-11. she does believe school shootings.

That's what I was just about to say, like, how crazy it is that that's even a thing that's happening, right? Like, that's so wild that it's news that this congresswoman from your district where you live has gone on the record saying 9-11 did happen. It's just bizarre that, yeah, we've gotten to that point. I don't know if you're aware, but I've had like literally thousands of people. in the past couple days when they found out that I was from this district that have been telling me to run. And I first off, I mean, you two guys know that if we're in such dire straits that people are like, Corey, save us. Like, we are so, we are so utterly fucked.

But I didn't know that I could just be like, hey, my name's Corey. Um, I think 9-11 happened. So anyways, vote for me, right? yeah but just i know we've joked about this before you know because i've gotten the same type of thing in the past about you should run for office or whatever and it's like i'm glad that i hit for y'all or whatnot but like but rate your actual chances there in northwest georgia corey like if you did run as soon as i watch literally any one of your videos or whatever right you're gonna how's that going to go, you think. I mean, not good. I think that I'm, I mean, it's a bad read. I think that like,

I think that like, yeah, that's what a lot of people don't understand. I kept telling her by online. I was like, look, man, let me tell you what's going to happen. Okay. I'm going to run for office. Marjorie Green and them, their campaign work was, here's what they did to the last guy. He got death threats and quit. All right. Yeah. So they're going to dig up a bunch of stuff. There's some stuff that I willingly put out there. that get me out of this. You know what I'm saying? And Lord knows the shit that I don't win the race and I get fucking canceled

so I don't even have a comedy career to go back to. So I'm just a man without a home, you know, just sitting there going like, y'all won't buy this car! So I don't know. It's not like it doesn't benefit anybody. I'm a fucking idiot. Like dude, at least you,

like you've got an MBA, like you went to college. Like, dude, I did nothing. like I'm such a dumb piece of fucking human garbage. I liked what you said about that the other day because it spoke to me on a personal level. You tweeted about all these people asking you run for office against her and you were like, you're like, y'all, I crumble up the potato chips into the French onion dip

and eat it with a spoon when there are no big chips left. I ought not be in Congress. which again I very much related to however I didn't want to say like I mean shit you're using a spoon fancy that's absolutely but I just I just get in there like this there's two fingers go for it just so many people like the average comment on that was like this is exactly what we need you're not you're not wasting materials like this is perfect you know reach you talk about a reach brother But to actually answer your question, so here's the deal. You know who my folks are.

They voted for Trump. They think that this lady is a lunatic. Right. And they didn't, like, and I was, I did a, I did a piece for the CBS Nightly News, which y'all don't hold, don't worry about it. It ain't Aaron. I sort of did some stuff. Truly not.

Yeah. But like, it ain't Aaron, but my point is, is like, on the CBS Nightland News, I was just like, look, this ain't all of us. And, you know, they were just like, well, I mean, y'all elected her. And I was like, motherfucker, there wasn't nobody else on the goddamn ballot. And they go, who'd you vote for?

And I was like, I wrote my buddy Robbie in. That's right every time. I do, because sometimes there's only Republicans, and I've got to vote, but I had to vote my conscience. So I just write in, Robbie Robertson. That some bitch has got at least one vote every goddamn election cycle. My point is, so many people that you would think she hits for, she does not hit for them.

So if I was to run, I do think I would get further along than you'd think. But then this lady would hang my dog in my yard and I'd have to quit. So like, it's not fucking worth it. Like, I don't have a comedy career, a political career, or a goddamn dog. Well, I do have to say, you're saying how your first CBS nightly news appearance has gone. I can't I hell I want to say you know you in one or two debates at least which I mean I always did but I'm saying like you know sounds to me like you're just campaign trail material baby the thing is you can't debate that and no you're no you can't do you know how many fucking brain aneurysms I've almost had in my life talking to goddamn Christians because when you go to debate them you could literally be right and then they can just be like well the Lord works in mysterious ways or well but well they they they they The conspiracy theory people have that too, but instead of saying, the Lord works in mysterious ways, or you just got to have faith, they just end up going, that's what they want you to believe. Do your own research.

Exactly. Quit being a sheep. Right. Yeah. Do you actually remember seeing them planes hit the towers, or do you just see it when Katie Kurt fucking wanted you to see it? Like, there's no arguing with these people. So I'd just go up there and be absolutely righteous the whole goddamn time. And then somebody fucking stabbed me.

Yeah. The guy who ran against her didn't just quit because he got death threats. His wife fucking left him for being running for Congress. His whole life, he had a movie. And he dropped that. It is funny to me that, like, she's got all this horrible attack ad stuff, like, about, like, not believing in school shootings or harassing David Hogg in person and all that shit. But you think it would knock you out of the race is like an expose about how you finger-bang

at a substitute teacher when you were a sophomore. Okay, but, okay, but I got to say it again. Right, exactly. Like, that's the whole thing to me is that, like, they, on their side, she can have all that shit and get through it. But I think Corey's right, personally. On our side, there's plenty of shit, Corey said. Again, on the record, just as a comic being funny or whatever,

that would be a problem. Oh, my God. Yeah. I get it. You know what I mean? Right. Because I've never thought in my life like, one day, I'm going to have to defend 9-11 in a debate against, you know, this like. But like, dude, yeah, I mean, like, that's the fucking problem is like, unfortunately, we Democrats hold ours to a higher goddamn standard.

Like, dude, Al Franken should be the fucking president right now, but he can't because he made a teddy joke one time. Buddy, I'm a walking teddy joke. You are. You are. Mark's about to go in on us, so I'd like to open it up for that to happen. Because Mark don't know fucking shit, dude. Listen,

Mark constantly, listen, I know that Mark reads a lot and has a lot of, like, knowledge and information, but tell me how that shit works out in the real world, Mark, where we live,

all right? Ms. Moffield's like, y'all don't worry. Joe Biden's going to win by nine points. They're definitely not going to have a goddamn insurrection at the Capitol. That'd be too.

That ain't going to have, blah, blah, but you don't know a goddamn thing. So go ahead, I never said that. I told everybody that was going to happen on the show. Say what you're going to say about why I should run and ruin my life.

No, you shouldn't run. But, like, to me, it highlights the prize. What you're pointing out, it's a very safe Republican district. They could throw her overboard and replace her with, like, a gun with googly eyes on it. It would make less trouble. For sure. I'm not for the go to the googly-eyed gun. Yeah.

So that's what's so maddening about this is they could totally kick her out of Congress. The Republican governor of Georgia would report of replacement or a special election to definitely like the Republican who just believes 9-11 happened, and we could all move on as a country. But there's so many Marjorie Taylor Greens out there that they're like 30% of the Republican Party and they don't want to alienate them. So they go start the Patriot Party or whatever and drown them. So can you explain to me something?

Because, you know, y'all know me. First off, can y'all see me? Yeah. Yeah, we'll see. I didn't think you could see me because I'm like all black up here on the screen. I've been running around my attic, scratching my nuts and shit. Like, I thought I was all over there. No, you're actually doing a hell of a good job framing yourself up,

considering you can't see anything at all. Yeah, no, you're right in there. We can see it. Y'all know me. If there's one characteristic that defines Corey Rhinforster, it is that I'll be the first to admit when I don't know something. And farts. But on the first thing,

so right now I'm told that they have just taken away some of her privileges, Marjories, right? Yeah. What does that exactly? Because to me, when they're like, Hey, we don't, you can't do that thing you're supposed to do. Like, like, so what does that mean? Like, she's out?

Like, what's the deal? So, the party leadership gets to pick who's on what committee. So they put her on a couple different committees, education and labor, I think. Oh, good. Those are the two I'd put her on. Yeah, education, especially, given her history with being, you know, generally empathetic and caring about the plights of school children. Yeah.

Right. So Republicans refused to remove her from those committees. The Democrats could be in the party and control kicked her off those committees. So that's the vote they just took today. So she has a job. She just can't go to most of it. I know how that fails. Yeah.

No shit. But they can't like she can't be voted like out by the other congresspeople, right? Outside of being like impeached or something. I don't know how that works for anything that ain't a president. precedent for that. They can't, they can fell out of Congress. Did we just jinx on a big word?

Yeah, jinks on a big word, baby. Big word jinks. Yeah. You owe me a fucking fresco. Hard threshold in just a majority, but they could kick out of Congress. All right. I was about to say like, dude,

President Trump's been impeached twice, which I mean, I know that impeached just means charges brought against them because I do read your text, Mark. But like, I don't, like, I didn't know, like, because she's so love. I mean, she's a fucking state representative.

Like, you'd think that they'd be able to just, like, go put her somewhere, like, in a corner or something. I think that's what they're trying to do, right, Mark, is, like, trying to basically put her in the corner without, like, kicking her out of office or something. I think they being the Democrats, by the way, the Republicans ain't trying to do shit with her. Of course. I think the Republicans would love for Democrats to kick her out of Congress and make a martyr out of her. Right. And also let them off the hook for having to defend her. Right.

because I was about to say, like, to them, like, I do think, like, and I know, God damn, it's horrible if you're sitting here relying on the Republicans to do something. But there's a part of me that has to go, okay, the Mitt Romney's of the world, the, you know, the last, the last bunch of them has to be sitting there going like, guys, sincerely for the future of our party, if we keep letting this happen, we're just going to be splitting our votes. Like, there's going to be people who are like, hey, listen, I'm a Republican. but I can't get with this new shit. Like, y'all are going to have to condemn this. Now that Trump's not in office, you're going to have to put your foot down. And to me, like, it doesn't behoove them to have somebody like Marjorie Taylor Green in office. But like you said, if they don't actually do it, then they don't ever have to admit to anybody that they, you know, what's the word I'm looking for when you do something to somebody that don't hit?

Betrayed. Yeah. They had to betray a member of the Republican. party and then they can make her look like a martyr and they can basically set her on political drift you know what i'm saying yeah so it feels like to me that the uh democrats in the house uh think she's going to be good for fundraising and good for campaign ads and i think they're all playing a very dangerous game because she's bad for society right like it's it dude it's so it's even more different than like you know us off and them run and uh like

She, like, okay. She's fucking dangerous. The stuff that she's doing, she's like, she's making it seem okay for you to go up to school shooting victims and harass them just because you don't believe in their thing. That's dangerous. Like, the type of behavior that she's all about is going to get people killed. And I know that, like, a lot of Republicans, you know, if you go down the line, it's like,

well, a lot of the things that they like will get you killed. but like hers just seems like a very more streamlined in your face type of lunacy. I mean, am I wrong? Did this woman not say that there was goddamn Jew lasers on the moon? She did, yeah, Secret Space Jewelizers, yes. Jew lasers on the moon. Like, it's streamlined.

I like how you said, streamlined lunacy. You know, like that's her thing. Yeah, like she's streamlining the lunacy of their side. She explicitly called for Nancy Pelosi to be executed three weeks ago. So it's like these aren't roundabout conspiracy theory. She's saying, I think Nancy Pelosi should be shot in the head. Like a declarative sentence.

It's not like, well, you know, if George Soros is eating babies, we should have a tribunal that. It's like not, it's not even that. It's not fantastical like that. Corey's right. It's very literal, straightforward advocating for people to be murdered. And here's the deal. Here's the deal.

So that's some shit that Alex Jones says, but it's like, well, okay, Alex Jones isn't an elected official. So I agree with you on that. Like those are two different things. But because, and you know what? Maybe this isn't good for my career to say this right now and y'all don't even have to chime in. But because motherfuckers like Joe Rogan decide that it's okay to have Alex Jones on their show

and to continue to give these people platforms, then a Marjorie Green Taylor swoops in there and becomes an elected official that says this very fucking dangerous shit. So guys, I'm sorry that something's good for your goddamn downloads. and hey, we've got to listen to both sides of every story. But honestly, you're a fucking coward piece of shit, and you could literally have anybody in the world on your fucking show at any goddamn time.

So quit giving these lunatics the biggest microphone in the world so that you can make them all feel safe and make them feel like we have a voice in this society because then my district elects a goddamn lady who grabs fucking kids like the Billy Madison does and shakes them like, You didn't get fucking shot. Like, that's crazy.

That's fucking crazy. And that's because we just let it get this far. Okay? And I'm sorry, I'll probably never get booked on that goddamn show anyways. I'm sure I'll get bumped for some fucking, for Pat Robertson or some shit. I think that Rogan would have you on to debate you, which is like his defense of himself as he's debating these people and telling them the wrong, but he's still giving them 20 million YouTube. I used to, I honestly, right now, As of now, I, or as of today and as of recently, I agree with you, Corey, because of people like Marjorie Taylor Green.

I used to, like, defend that type of thing, the whole, like, deplatforming argument or whatever, because, and this was always stupid of me, frankly, because, like, people be believing dumb shit all the time. But my thing was always, like, man, you know, if somebody hears Alex Jones, because to me, it's so clearly lunatic. It's like lunacy to the point of being comical. Like, I listen to it laughing my ass off because I'm like, how great, can y'all even believe how crazy this dude is? So in my head, it was like... Alex Jones, Joe Rogan appearances aren't entertaining. Of course they are.

Right, but I, so I used to always think like, dude, if somebody hears that and gets like swept up in it or whatever, then shit, that's their problem because it's so crazy. But, like, in the age of QAnon and Marjorie Taylor Green and stuff, obviously that's just wrong, you know? Like it just happened. Right, yeah, right. You know what I'm saying? Like those.

No, yeah, for sure. If you've got those crazy of thoughts, you're not just going to have them and then not do anything with them. You know what I mean? I just very, very over was consistently overestimating society or the internet or whatever is what. You know, I would go. Because in my head, I was like, dude, nobody's listening to that shit and sitting there thinking, oh my God, this changes everything. But like, they are, though. So, you know.

And that's how they got fucking elected. Everybody was like, dude, Hillary's going to win this in a wall. There's no way America will be this goddamn stupid. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, underestimate how goddamn dumb we are. We're so dumb. Yeah. And I'm the dumbest of them. I can't run for Congress. And you're a hero, though. Like you know, you're dumb as you are and you're a hero. That's the whole thing. What if you legally change your name to Buttercream Dream and run as the dream? I should do that.

I mean, dude, if I run, it's to me, like, I'm going to have to, I can't just all of a sudden go up there and put a suit on and pretend to be something I'm not. Like, I've got to lean in, like, harder, you know what I mean? Like, I will go up there. I'll probably wear the United States champion belt, not the European belt, just because I don't want to hear any of that shit from her, that commie bullshit, you know? But like I could do it. We could work a pretty good wrestling angle out of this.

But then I'm no better than them, for God's sake. Somebody out there that's fucking smart with like a doctorate or some shit run. And I'll write like some, a couple lines in your speech because I know you're going to be fucking boring. Yeah, but dude, why that's what's about saying the thing. Doctors don't hit for people, man. Like that's what, that's what politics is. It's like you've got a hit for people. and smart people don't have for people, you know?

I know they don't. I'm glad that you said that because that's something that's been weighing on me heavily because, like, again, like, I wasn't exaggerate when I said thousands of people have told me. Like, literally thousands of people. Like, I've had, like, you know, like upwards of 10 million views on some of these videos and that comment gets put a lot. And I will say the same thing. I'm like, look, I'm not qualified.

I shouldn't do that. And every single time, everyone goes, well, you're more qualified than her. and I'm making a plea to the world right now, we cannot let that be the thing. You know what I'm saying? We cannot start going. Let's just be a tiny bit better than the worst fucking thing I've ever seen in my life.

Like, we really need to get back to having standards and we need to start running candidates who are above and beyond great and qualified. Not, oh, well, if Donald Trump can win, then so can carrot. You know, like, stop. it like fuck i just we're so we're so fucked man dude i was doing i'm not kidding i'm gonna i'm gonna bear my soul here for a minute i was i was before i got on here i was doing a little punch-up job and i was

in a digital writer's room and the whole time you know i was fucking hitting i got the southern accent but they were like well he's got the southern accent but he's clearly you know on our side on account of he's in a hollywood writer's room and uh and at the end they were like so what part of george are you in and i explained to them that i was from this district and buddy the looks on their faces, like, I think they almost stopped trusting me, you know, for a second. Right. Because people still don't believe, like, you know, it's like, oh, sure, there's people like this in Georgia maybe, but he's like in the fancy part of Atlanta or something like that.

You know, he's in like one of the sane parts. Yes. And it's like people think in the insane parts, all there are are insane people. We have a comment from Nathan Crossing here says, I want Neil deGrasse Tyson to run for office. Would hit? Yeah, yeah. I don't know how that go. He's got a perfect because he's got a personality.

Yeah. Didn't he get a little me-toed? God damn it. I think he got a little something another, you know, like everybody, hell. Right. Yeah, you got it. Right. But like, there's tears to that.

You know what I'm saying? Absolutely. That was the thing from the beginning is there should be, there are tears to it. Well, like, one time I saw a fucking, I saw a goddamn picture and it was like Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, and Aziz Ansari. And they were like, the age of me too. And I was like, whoa, how the fuck y'all going to do that to Aziz? Like, dude,

he's a fucking 16 seed. What are you doing? Right. Yeah. I mean, I think everybody, I mean, I think everybody knows that. I don't think it's controversial to be like some people are bigger monsters. I mean, or their behavior worse than other people.

Deanna Zant says, yep, Democrats haven't built the bench and we're paying for. it. And yeah, Mark, correct me for her. She means the bench like coming off the bench, right? Like our, like people we got up and comers, feeder programs in the democratic world. That's why we've got it's still all these old ass people. And then there's AOC in the squad and that's pretty much it. Yeah, I agree with that. Okay. Okay. Hey, so speaking of AOC, can you, can you fill me in on something? So I had a buddy

text me today. And he was like, I can't decide which one's dumber. The Mark, Marjorie Taylor Green stuff or the AOC stuff. And I was like, wait, wait, what's the AOC stuff? And he was like, she was talking about being traumatized by the Capitol stuff. And then turns out she wasn't even at the Capitol. And I was like, well, I mean, that could still traumatize her. Like, I wasn't at 9-11, but it still traumatized me. And I was just like, buddy, listen, it's okay if you don't like her.

But to be like to say that even if Marjorie, even if AOC lied about being at the Capitol, that's the thing that's the same as lying about jew lasers that's what i've been talking to y'all about a million times is how their whole world is black and white they're like they both lied therefore they're both the same thing but my point okay well let me can i tell you what happened okay okay so uh aOC didn't lie they what it would happen they're taking her out of context to try to make her look foolish she went on her instagram live and talked about like what that day was actually like and how she had to hide in her office and she thought that the mob had gotten to her office, but it turned out it was a security guard running around trying

to find her to get to take her to a safer place. Now, but she thought it was a bad guy who would come in to kill her. So that's what she saw not being scared. They're not in the capital thing as like some weird bullshit where like they're saying she's saying she was in the capital, but she's clearly saying she was in the office, which is in the capital complex, which was like down, which is like through the tunnels or whatever. But they were running around the tunnel. They infiltrated everything.

So like, if you're a Democrat, if you're a Democratic policy, that day, no matter where you are, you think why couldn't it happen here? I mean, the planes hit the Twin Towers and then they hit the Pentagon. Right. Well, it's like, yeah, I mean, like Corey said, like he alluded to, first of all, yeah, Mark, she didn't lie and, you know, fuck the people saying she did. But like Corey was saying, you know, if you found out that some of your other coworkers, like incited some people to come to your job and specifically target you, but you weren't there that day, Yeah. You'd still be really fucked up off of that. You know, like, that would still very much upset you and, you know, traumatize you whether you just, whether you happen to be there or not. So, yes, I agree it's irrelevant in either direction. But that, okay, so Denia.

Yeah. I'm sorry, Denia. Denia, Pellateer Mitchell, I hope I didn't butcher that, says, she never said she was at the Capitol. She was at the Conner Building across from the Capitol where many Congress, congressman slash women have their offices, which again, that's the capital. He pictures of them in the office. When we've got arrested for smoking weed with his foot up on an office, somebody's desk.

Also, for the record, like, AOC is a politician. So I'm sure that she does, in fact, even if you ever lie from time to time. But she's a young person that came up in the age of like the internet and shit. She knows what not to lie about. She wouldn't have done that knowing that she could get found out. you know what I'm saying? Like, it's different than Steve Renna Zizi or whatever, who lied about 9-11 during 9-11.

Like, that was back then when you didn't think you could get caught. Brian Williams, I was in a helicopter. No, the fuck I wasn't. Like, that was back in the old days when people did used to be doing that shit. But AOC, say what you want about her. She ain't dumb. Yeah, I agree with the... It blows my mind that people do still do that, and they do,

but I agree that AOC wouldn't. But, yeah, wouldn't do that. But, again, like, even what she said, like, That makes sense. But like, for example, and it's not the same thing as lying, but just to veer off on an odd tangent for a minute, that country music singer Morgan Wallin, right? Who got caught saying the N-word, like, clearly.

It blows my mind, and I don't, it's, shitty, shouldn't ever happen to, he shouldn't be saying it anyway, but I'm saying it's insane to me that a guy who's in that high-profile of a situation ever gets caught with his pants down like that in today's day and age. Because to me, you've got to be so fucking dumb to, and dumb and drunk and all that

to not realize that that shit's going to happen to you. I mean, he's the same guy who Instagramed himself making out of random girls at a COVID party. That makes it even more egregious to me is he just went through that and didn't learn a goddamn thing.

It's like, clearly he's just a complete dip shit. You know, like, what else can you say? about it. Well, I mean, dude, what's crazy is like, he's actually still tame compared to what country music singers used to be back in the day. Yes, that's true.

You know what I'm saying? Like, yeah. Like, none of the things, the stuff that we just mentioned that he did, neither one of them hit, but it certainly isn't Jerry Lee Lewis, it certainly isn't Jerry Lee Lewis waking up his party with a machine gun. You know what I'm saying? Right. Yeah, yeah.

But still, like you said, still, the things he did. That didn't hit. No. Very clear. Here on evening scoge. It does not hit for us. The N-word.

And, yeah. Can I put them on the record real quick so everybody knows? Yeah. 9-11 happened. Yeah. Also, Corey, didn't hit 9-11. No, did not hit. 9-11 did not hit.

No, did not hit. We've been saying that for a long time. Expect a trilogy. That's the first part. Yeah. All right. Okay. Well, that's it.

Thank you all very much. Thank you, Corey. Senior Georgia correspondent. the courtroom for us everybody thanks for being here baby and we'll see y'all next tuesday here on evening skews so you love you bye