wellRED podcast - Evening Skews - Week of 2/9/21 - IMPEACHMENT SEQUEL

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What's up, Mark? What's up, Trey? It's been, uh, having a, been a wonderful day for lawyers here. We're going to get to the impeachment trial. But do you see the, uh, Kat, Zoom thing? Now, I saw you sent a tweet to him and it got passed up in the voluminous amount of text in our ongoing text thread. So I missed it. Please explain.

A logger is not a cat. He had to clarify to a judge. Is that right? Yeah, it's pretty great. This dude is in a Zoom hearing. And apparently his kid or somebody had used his Zoom account and turned on a filter. They've turned to him into a cat. And he's like some old red dude.

So he couldn't figure out how to get it off. So he's just like basically since he tells the good judge, can we just move on like this where he's talking as a cat? says, I am here and I'm not a cat. Was this a, was this like a criminal proceeding? I don't have any context. Okay, because just imagine, imagine if you're like, imagine if that's like a public defender or the equivalent. Do you know what I mean?

Like, and you're up, you're like in your first court hearing, and it's a Zoom hearing to start with on some trumped up bullshit you've been charged with. And then your lawyer logs on to the Zoom with the judge. and it's a cat's face talking the whole time. And he's like, listen, I don't know how to turn this cat. Just so everybody knows, I'm here. I'm not a cat. I know I look like a cat.

I know you see a cat talking, but this injustice will not stand. Imagine it's not a cat. Yeah. That's rough. I kind of think you either got to change your plea to guilty or assume that this guy's a genius and he set you up for an automatic appeal

for, you know, inadequate counsel. So maybe that's right. All right. So with us as always, his producer Matt doing his thing. This is Evening Skews. Got a good show for you tonight.

We're going to talk about the much anticipated reboot of the Donald Trump impeachment franchise. Impeachment, too, to search for Curly's Gold, baby. That's right. Yeah, garnering a lot of attention. Some people claiming some of the plot details are being rehashed.

But the real question is, what are they going to do about the ending? Go a different direction. or keep it the same. I think we all anticipate the same answer to that question, but me and Mark will talk about it all the same. Got some other fun stuff for you, including Nira Tandon,

the proposed new head of the Office of Management and Budget, her propensity for shit talk, which has made me an instant fan. If you haven't heard about that, I think you'll appreciate it. All that and more on tonight's evening skews. But first, as always, we begin with the Daily Dumbass.

Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's DD is anybody out there who believe that American hostilities in the country of Vietnam were a thing of the past. Yes, it pains me to report that this week, American ambassador to the country of Vietnam, Dan Kittenbrink, launched the following full-on assault on the hearts, minds, and especially ears of the Vietnamese people. I should warn you, what you're about to see. see is pretty shocking. Matt, play the clip, please.

Time for introductions though at hand. Hi, my name is Dan. I'm from Nebraska. I'm not a big city boy. Then three years ago, I moved to Hanoid. Check the calendar. Ted is coming soon. Look at this.

Oh, in the mood. Let's get. Yeah. I go. Clean the house now. Friends are on the way. Grab the wine, mine. My mind, wadown.

You're ready to party from Haizond to come now. Ted and Vietnam is the tops. I think we can declare victory in East Side. I'm a good rap war, though. I drink Cafe Sudan, not cappuccino. Bring Lisi with me everywhere that we go. Cash for the kids, blessings for the family, love for my parents and everyone around me. Now, my big time from mine to yours.

From my shores to wars shores, our friendship in yours. News and Matt just sent something in the thing in Texas says he's the now too forever from Nebraska. That is the most like, you know, who says American culture on the global stage is dead, Mark. You know what I mean? Like, we're still hitting them with it out there. That's that real Nebraska rap coming straight for you, Vietnam. Yeah, I mean, ambassadors in some sense are supposed to be a walking advertisement for American-style democracy. And I can't imagine a bigger backfire than saying if you convert to a constitutional republic,

you will get this shit. Handering, dumb shit. I looked this guy up and he's a career diplomat. So he's a Trump appointee, but he's been in the State Department since 1994. So he's trying. He's earnest, whatever. I don't know.

Quit rapid, man. Quit rapid. Clearly, I mean, I say clearly. That probably wasn't his idea, right? Like, clearly that was brought to him. I would imagine it was. pitched to him. And also, what about those vocals, Mark? You think, like, you think he got in the booth and laid that down? Ambassador Dan, you think that's really him? Obviously, he's lip-syncing

in the video. We all know that. But, like, is that actually his flow? Is that Dan's flow, you think? I don't think you wrote it, but to your... Oh, he definitely didn't write it. Yeah. But it does have the... I don't think this is something someone pitched and he approved. To me, this feels like a boss's idea that his... Andrelees couldn't talk him out of. Yeah. Right? Yeah, you're probably right, actually.

I agree with you. But do you think that's him, like, that's actually him laying it down? Yeah, because it's not like, it's not like I'm sitting here, you know, oh, hard for me to believe that that's Ambassador Dan because, you know, listen to that flow is so silky smooth. It's not that. It's just like, I don't know. I just wonder. I wonder if that's his actual voice. Yeah, I'll give him some credit.

he's attempting some lyricism there. He's not doing that usual staccato dad rap, or they rap like they haven't heard any rap since 1982 where it's like, my name is Dan, and I'm here to say, he's like, he's trying to ride to be a little bit. So I'll give him a little credit. Yeah.

All right, we've got some honorable Mitches for you tonight. The first one is Seth Rogan for being speciesist. Did I say that right, Mark? Speciesist against people who use dog shampoo. And none of it went anywhere until the other day when he did a throw-a-werewhip, tweet revealing that for the last three months he was not a throwaway three he'd accidentally been washing his hair with his dog's shampoo and next thing you

know big time Hollywood stars Seth Rogan and small time lefty hack Keith olderman so this guy tweeted he'd been using his dog shampoo for months yeah Jonathan Robin went and joins please watch the kairons the graphics at the bottom yeah over the course of this video I love this escalated rather quickly Yeah, it was really strange. It was supposed to be this self-deprecating joke. It was not a joke.

It was not a joke. It was a complaint about, I don't know, I think I walked my dog, and then I checked my phone. I was like, Seth Rogan was calling me names. It was a very surreal way to spend my Sunday morning. And then the thing that happens that you really don't want when you're in a Twitter spat with Seth Rogan is that your mom, decided to chip in on your behalf and suggest that he worked this into a subplot for his next movie and you didn't appreciate that. His mom said, hey Seth in your next movie, John should play the pet shampoo guy. I was very disappointed. I could see him fit in that role, Mark.

Look at that, Cairo. Adult journalist's mom defends him from Seth Rogan. with certainly people more famous than me like God's side and Rudolf Gianni. And I was giving him the benefit of the doubt. I said, hey, look, I love your movies, you know, maybe you're having a bad weekend or something like that. And but like I kind of gave him the opportunity to say, hey, you know what, I have 9 million followers and here I am chasing down some random Toronto journalists. You're right. I'm being stupid. I'm the one being stupid, but he never got that point. It was really, um, it was I like Seth Rogen's movies.

I was disappointed. Listen to this part. He seems like a nice guy when you look on the screen. This is, no, no, this is unbecoming of you because he went, he, he said, I thought you were the most stupid guy on the planet for the dog shampoo thing. So, like, how many different ways can this guy get punked over one dog shampoo tweet? Do you know what I mean? Like it happened, he got all this shit from Seth Rogen, everybody.

Then they bring him on Fox News to talk about it. The Kairons just passive, uh, passive, uh, passive, uh, passive, aggressively rip into his ass the whole time. And at the end of it, the host basically calls him a bitch for not standing up to Seth Throgan. He's like, whoa, whoa, whoa. You can't put up with this shit. What the

hell's wrong with you, man? Like, this don't got put through it. So to recap, what happened was last weekend, this guy tweeted a picture of a shampoo bottle and said he realized he'd accidentally been using dog shampoo for three months and blamed it on the small

font that said it was a dog shampoo, Meanwhile, it was a giant picture of a golden... Of a dog on the front of the bottle. It was a happy, clean dog on the front of your shampoo bottle and nothing glued him in that maybe that was, you know, dog shampoo. He absolutely was not joking. It was a sincere complaint about the poor packaging on the cover of Arm and Hammer dog shampoo.

And then what everybody made fun of him for it, every one of these cancel culture dudes is essentially just can't take it that people they're being made fun of, right? You did something stupid. you're being made fun of for it. Just take the L, right? Just take the L. They can't do it.

They can't fucking take it. So instead, the guy who is trying to cancel dog shampoo gets made fun of by Seth Rogen, and now is trying to cancel Seth Rogen for Seth Rogen for Seth Rogen. Seth Rogen was trying to cancel him. It's fucking insane. I, yeah, just dudes annoy your shit at me. How do you think the logistics is that worked out,

like how that actually started? I don't know whether this guy's married or not or whatever, but did he, like, get in the shower and just that bottle of shampoo was in there? because his wife had put the dog shampoo in the shower. Like, surely he didn't select that from the, what even section would that be in? That would be in the pet section, wouldn't it?

Like, how do you end up using dog shampoo without knowing it? I think what we're going to find out at the end of this is he's been getting all of his groceries at PetSmart. He just, like, totally misunderstood what it is. And, yeah, it's how he's been living for the years. All right, our next honorable mention for Daily Dumbay, is the noted demon and scourge of the underworld Bahamette, or however the hell you say it, I thought it was Baphomet, but apparently that's not how it's pronounced.

But y'all know him, you love him. Satanic demon of much renown, who apparently had a lot to do with the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th. If you don't believe it, for me, take it straight from this man of the cloth here who spells it out for you. Were you able to feel the effect of the exorcism? Not with our eyes, no. And what has the capital? There's a demon called Bohemot. Bahamit.

And Exorcists have found out that he's the one who's dissolving the country in order to bring it into something different. I know Bahamit was up to some shit. Yeah. Yeah, take her out of them. And so there's, Exorcists have said that that's one of the, Saints General demons, one of his generals, and he's one who's doing it. So this guy, this dude y'all see here. Look here explains right here.

Salve at Coagula, solution and collagulation, which you can see how that ultimately proves the influence of the devil on the government. You could turn this lunatic off, Matt, as far as I'm concerned. Yeah, that's from a, that just surfaced, but it's from January 6th. Like he's saying that he deciphered this plot by looking at a demon's tattoos that he. And he performed an exorcism live in person at the Capitol building on January 6th to exercise the goat demon from his position of influence over the American government at that time or whatever. And because there's a Latin slogan involved, you could see how all that makes sense.

you know. Yeah, there was a really funny part later in that video. We don't have time to get to it, but the reporter asked him about QAnon is like interviewing about QAnon. And he says, but Qadon is against pedophilia. That must put you in a weird spot as a priest. And he's like, well, we're against it too. We're against it.

It's like, I mean, I guess officially, yeah, that is true on paper. Got him. Yeah. All right. our next honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is anybody who actually believe that QAnon was a real problem turns out very fringe Mark

you put that screen grab up there Matt yes CNN politics had a poll showing that less than 10% of Americans like QAnon although reading into this that was a poll that originated from NBC News and so you got to wonder about

you know the selection pool that they're drawing from and what it actually means But how fringe is this, Mark? All these posters were all over the Internet a couple days ago. Bright showing this, like, people need to calm down. This isn't a real thing. Only 10% of people of Americans support it. One, Q's in 85 countries.

It's not just in America. Two, 10% of America is 33 million people. Million people, right. That is more than enough to overthrow the government. Three, most people who believe in certain Q tenants wouldn't sign up to be Q supporters because they don't necessarily know. their Q supporters. Like the whole Dominion voting machine thing

is to, that originated in Q message boards and trickled up to the president of the fucking United States. And as Matt, Matt's pointed out to us right now, like the three, there's a theory that goes once three percent of people went over to the government, it's materially achievable, which is why the three percent are malicious

called the three percent or militia. They're just trying to get to three percent. They've already tripled it. So. Right. But also, just there's a lot of problems with this to me, because like I said, first of all, you know, like who are they, the base that they're polling to begin with, but also like, I don't know that much about these people, you know more about them, and I do, I know some of them are very loud and proud, but it seems to me that a lot of like, you know, conspiracy theorists

of this particular devotion would not be inclined to self-identify to a public poll as being devoted to this conspiracy theory. You know what I mean? Because that's how they catch you, Mark. You don't want to end up on a list from the baby blood drinking government. That's how you fuck up by telling them what you think. You've got to keep that a secret, right? Like, there's a lot of problems with this to me. Yeah. I mean, there's a poll a couple of weeks ago that said that like, like 50% more than 50% of Republicans think he was at least somewhat true. And the somewhat part is just as scary to me is the 10% part, which is like the 10% of the people that are willing to say they support all of it and like all of it and will tell it to a pollster. That's insane. And even like calling a conspiracy

theory, they've been a lot of pushback in social science researchers. Like it's because this isn't just a conspiracy theory. It's a unified belief system that's fascistic and once mass death. And they had and people have acted on it. Five people died to capital. There's a guy to try to blow up a bridge in Nevada. There's a bunch of several murders connected to Q. This one lady, This is a really funny case. I think we might have talked about it last year, but this two Q people, this dude convinced this woman that child protective services is taking her kids away as part of the deep state cabal. And when he couldn't help her get her kids back, she killed him because she assumed he was in on it and then fled to another state. Like these people have bodies on them.

It's not just like, there aren't just people that are on the internet saying the moon landing's fake. So. Yeah. All right, but, you know. Let's do a fun one. Right. Yes, let's do a fun one.

I like this one. I'm a fan of this person. If you guys haven't heard, Nira Tandon, is President Biden's new cabinet nominee for the position of head of the office of management and budget, which having worked for the government in the past,

the OMB is kind of like the umbrella. They like certified. They govern the rest of the government, kind of. If you don't know who Nira Tannen is, by the way, a brief primer. She's like, she's like, she's like from the Clinton world. And she's like, she, she's one of those like DC creatures where she's like a consultant

and makes like four or five hundred grand a year doing various stuff. And she's also extremely online. Like she's mainly known for arguing with the Bernie supporters and calling them names on Twitter, which is why this is really funny because she's just too online and she couldn't stop shit posting. And now she just can't help herself but talk shit on the internet. That's what that's a big thing with her. And she's now, you know, being confirmed by the Senate. and they're bringing this to bear.

They're putting it in front of her, making her answer for her crimes on the internet, which are pretty egregious, guys. Matt, play the clips whenever you're ready. You're not going to believe the shit, she said. With the removal of more than a thousand tweets, there are still a lot of harsh partisan tweets on your account. I found through my staff, there are still nine pages of tweets about Senator Ted Cruz, for example.

How did you choose which tweets you wanted to delete and which ones you wanted to keep on your? account. Okay. So you got nine, that's all right, Matt. Go ahead and play the next one. Go ahead. So you got, she got nine pages of tweets just about Ted Cruz, but what do these tweets say? Well, again, shocking content, but Matt

play some examples here of what they say. Horrific stuff. Matt, you got it? Matt out there. He could come there. With the removal of more than a thousand tweets, there's still a lot. That's the same one again. Anyway, he's going to find it. He's going to find it.

Yeah, he'll get it up. there. The dynamic is funny me because they're the accuser of embarrassing all these senators and then reading all the things that supposedly embarrassed them. It'd be like if like,

oh, Mark, the school, my mom called the school principal was like, here's a list of things the kids said about Mark. His dick's tiny. He's bad at basketball. He deserves to be in the special needs.

Like, it's like, it's like, come on, mom, why you just read it over the intercom. It's also an obvious take that's been pointed out a million times, but it's true is that it's like,

you know, we're the snowflake. Do you know what I mean? Like they like they get so upset about any kind of aggressive negative chatter in their general direction. And then talk about how we're the sensitive snowflake side that's, you know, PC culture easily offended and that type of thing. And that's also what makes it bullshit. Yeah, that's what a, I mean, it's so extremely funny because the only reason they're doing this is try to dunk on Biden

because of like how can you say you're trying to go for unity when here we go. Here we go. I believe that the tone, the content, and the aggressive partisanship of some of your public statements have added to the troubling trend of more incivility and division in our public life. Sure. And in your case, I'm concerned that your personal attacks about specific senators will make it more difficult for you to work with them. Right. It personal. Just to mention a few of the thousands of negative public.

statements. You wrote that Susan Collins is quote the worst. Tom Cotton is a fraud. No. That vampires have more heart than Ted Cruz. What? She died. Leader McConnell, Moscow Mitch and Voldemort, and on and on. I wonder specifically, how do you plan to mend fences and build relationships with members of Congress? Imagine the audacity of a person. I believe that the tone, To compare Mitch McConnell to Voldemort, Mark. Imagine the disregard you have to have for common human decency to just go on the internet and say something like Moscow Mitch,

or compare him to Voldemore or call Susan Collins the worst. Surely she's not the worst, Mark, people murder. She can't be the worst. This is egregious. My takeaway from this is I will never be director of the office of management. Thank you. I swear to God I was going to bring up the exact same thing. I had the exact same thought looking at this because we, Corey,

senior Georgia correspondent Corey Ryan Forster was on here last week. And we were talking about people trying to get him to run for office and why that was a bad idea. And we were talking about that. And this is another, this is a great example. Like people have also said to me I should run for office in Tennessee or whatever. and it's just, y'all, it's never going to happen, okay? And this is why, because, like, she's getting raped over the coals for saying Susan Collins is the worst on Twitter. And y'all, I don't even remember the guy's name, which I'm fine with, but Trump's first head of the EPA,

I once tweeted that it would be funny if he got raped by a tree. So, like, you know, that's the type of shit that I'm out here saying. I had said something else about that guy, and my tweets got pulled down by Twitter, so I felt like I was being censored by the man, so I just went on a tear, saying the most ridiculous shit about this dude that I could think of. But, like, I said I hope Donald Trump died in a horrific hairspray accident

and just all kind of, like, so much worse shit than Colin Susan Collins the worst. Like, it just ain't never going to happen. They're extremely normy insults. Like, calling him Voldemort. Yeah. Baltimore. He ain't even bald, man. Mitch McConnell. He's not even bald. And also like I was saying earlier, like they're trying to like dunkle on Biden for not being a unifier because he's appointing people who are saying mean shit on the internet.

But what they don't get is like, I think Biden's actually like playing it pretty cool where it's like he's not paying attention to them. He's talking about unity by doing things that are broadly popular like passing a COVID relief bill and shit like that. People like that stuff. Nobody cares about Ted Cruz's feelings. Literally no one. He's polling. He's polling. underwater in Texas since January 6th. You can set to Ted Cruz on fire in the well of the Senate and nobody would piss on him. It doesn't matter. The other thing on that note is, and I'm not

trying to sound like any kind of badass or anything at all when I say this, but like if I was in her position with this exact scenario, I would be literally incapable of of, you know, saying, you're right, that was way out of bounds and I truly apologize for that. Like there's, I just wouldn't

be able to say anything other than yeah well i mean you know he is a he is a dip shit nobody likes that you really go look at me and act like and talk like uh people like ted cruz more than vampires because i call shenanigans sir like i just wouldn't be able to i wouldn't be able to act like i didn't think the things that i said that i thought about these assholes who i can't stand in the first place i wouldn't be able to swallow you know swallow my tongue like that. I just couldn't do. Dude, Biden put her in like the most, like, it's like a place

you put someone where you don't want them to have to talk to anybody. She's got the most boring, menial job, which she doesn't have any... Most regular people don't, yeah, they don't know what the OMB is because the OMB is like an intra-governmental thing. If you're in the government, you know all about the OMB, but your average person don't know or care about the OMB at all.

So, yeah. If Biden wanted to be really unite the left and the right, he'd be like, you're welcome. I got near a tanned off the internet. All right. So hell, we're almost halfway through it. And let's get into the, you know, the rest of the show. Like we said, impeachment two to search for Curly's Gold. Mark, how are you feeling about it so far?

Like, okay, never been a president impeached twice. No president's ever been impeached after you left office. It's a very historic day that doesn't matter at all. It's like, it's a very very. very anti-climactic feel to it. It's like, yeah, they should impeach him. We're going to go through. They're going to see, I mean, I hope they have some actual evidence that we don't know about yet from who was involved and how to connect these dots. Because somebody at the White House was fucking in contact with somebody. I bet, like, Stephen Miller is on white supremacist's message board

at 16 hours a day. He's not working on fucking bet all my money. But the, I don't know, it was a wild day. The main thing you need to know is that Trump's lawyers had an even worse day than the cat zoom lawyer. Deb, just pick one of the videos that shows how much they suck and then play it, Matt. Their families.

They love the states that they represent. There isn't a member in this room who has not used the term I represent the great state of fill in the blank. Who gives a fuck?

Why? Because they're all great. Yeah. But you think you're is greater than others because these are your people. This is like I forgot my book report was doing a brand. Right. To do their work. They trusted you with the responsibility of representative government.

What even is this supposed to be meaning? You know, I feel proud to know my senators, Senator Casey, up here in the back. You can get it up to me. I guess it's just like that for it. It's just like, the point of that was to show you he's saying a bunch of nothing. He's just fill a-up- Right. Like you said, like you said, you forgot you had a book report until the night before it was due and you just filled up. You just said the same nonsensical thing over and over again that didn't really mean anything.

You've got to hit that word count, you know, you've got to hit that word quota. Yeah. And it's like it also doesn't understand. Like he's gearing, he's winding up for a lead-up to his eventual point. is that everyone needs to calm down and we need to be more civil and just do the focus in doing the people's business

and not have such heated rhetoric like impeaching the president for getting five people killed seven people become the two cops that killed themselves in the week afterwards. Yeah, well, listen Mark, listen, you shouldn't cast stones

if you live in a glass house, okay? You know what I mean? Like, sure, he got a bunch of Americans killed, a bunch of people on his side they believed in. Sure, that happened. But you know what? Sometimes things happen, right? Matt, play the clip when you got it.

Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone's entitled to a mulligan once in a while. See, see, Mark, like, look, who among us has not accidentally incited a seditionist treasonous ride on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol and caused the deaths of numerous American citizens and then later balked on the facts of the matter? Like, it happens. This stuff happens, Mark. Sometimes you're hungover the day after the Super Bowl, you haven't had your coffee yet, you get a little upset,

and you accidentally overthrow the government. It fucking happens. Exactly. It happens. And especially, you know, especially rich white man in America, you get some mulligans,

okay? That's how it works. We've all accepted that. Sure, he's had a few mulligans already. But who's to say he shouldn't have another mulligan for this new treason? You know, like,

let's just be reasonable. here, guys. Things happen. Tristan happens. That guy was absolutely incompetent. His other lawyer was a little crazy. We'll get to that guy a second, but just to feel you out of who these dudes are, that lawyer is named Bruce Castor.

Caster has been a prosecutor off and on for a long time and in politics. He's probably, most probably known because he's a prosecutor who declined to go after Bill Cosby for sexual assault in 2005, saying the evidence was insufficient. and then...

I shouldn't have laughed at that. It's just so... It's just so on the nose. Do you know what I mean? Like, it's just so overtly villainous. Yeah. To a degree that it almost couldn't be any more overtly villainous that it just defies explanation, man.

It seems unreal. It gets worse, Tray, because his point in 2005 was they didn't have enough evidence. And that might be true because more people, more women came forward after that. But when Cosby was actually... actually going to trial in like 2017 or 18 or 2016. He went and testified that he,

they shouldn't prosecute Bill Cosby because he did a handshake deal and promised that Bill Cosby would never be prosecuted. And the judge, the judge said, this man crossed his heart, Mark, and he hoped to die, okay? That's what he did. He crossed his heart and hoped to die.

He promised Bill Cosby would never be prosecuted. And you expect him to go back on that just because 40 more women came out and said they were right by him? Come on. 11 years later, he's like, but I told him he could get away with it. So you guys know what I'm off. I gave him my word.

Yeah. So his other lawyer is David Shone, and I hope I'm pronounces his name correctly. I apologize to him. S-C-H-O-E-N. He most recently represented Roger Stone during his trial related to the Mueller investigation.

But after that, he represented Jeffrey Epstein. And he still, he gave an interview earlier this month, like last week saying that he believes that Epstein didn't kill himself because he was in too good of a mood

the last time he talked to him. Which is... Yeah, Epstein, walking on clouds, dude, in there and the... Yeah. So you got to remember that like, this dude, he's representing Trump now. Trump was running the Justice Department when he's saying Epstein was murdered.

Trump had Epstein Eddine. Epstein obviously had a ton of dirt hypothetically on Trump, right? So his basically argument is that Trump couldn't have done the incitement to the riot because he was too busy covering up the murder of my other client. So that's fucking hit. Anyway, so this guy, this is the guy you're about to see who decided to read a poem from a Longfellow who was Lincoln's favorite poet. And we'll show you a few seconds of that, Matt. You got it.

Yes, very touching. Brang what hammers beat and what a forge and what a heat were shaped the angers of thy hope. Fear not each sudden sound and shock. Tis of the wave, excuse me. Tis of the wave and not the rock. But the flapping of the sail and not a rent made by the gale. In spite of rock and tempests roar, in spite of false flights on the shore.

Sail on not fear to breast the sea. Our hearts, our hopes are all with thee. You know in this guy's mind that's a slave ship that's in the poem. that's in the poem, you know what I mean? He's just thinking about the adversity that this slave ship faces just brings a man to tears, you know, he's moved by it. So that's a poem Lincoln liked about Longfellow. It's a ship of state and surviving all this upheaval and stuff.

Longfeller wrote that in 1850, I think, or something like that. Yes, to be clear, I'm not saying it's actually, yeah, that Longfellow's ship is a slave ship. I'm saying this guy has reconded in his head to be a slave ship. That's why he's moving tears by it. And so, and also, they always also bring up the Lincoln's first inaugural address. We talks about a house about it itself cannot stand. But what happened after 1850 and 1860 is the South seceded, tried to murder everybody in the North, and then shot Lincoln in the fucking head.

So how did those, how that poem and speech go over that they keep citing as a reason to forgive Trump? You know what I'm saying? Like, how did forgiveness work out for those two dudes? So anyway, as we went over the show, Lincoln fucked up by not hanging a bunch of Confederate generals to make a clear. to make it clear what they had done. But it's a different argument. And this guy fucked up by displaying some human emotion. Not an appreciated attribute in the Trump inner circle.

This guy, he cried. He cried in public while talking about Donald Trump. And that's not a thing that Trump likes, right, Mark? Nah, Tim O'Brien, who was one of his biographers, who later got sued by Trump for insinuating he was only rich and not mega-rich. He got sued for defamation for saying Trump was all. only worth a couple hundred million dollars. Anyway, but according to him,

Trump told him once, quote, I don't believe in crying. It's just not my thing. But when I see a man cry, I view it as a weakness. I don't like seeing men cry. Well, hold on, Mark. The full quote,

because I like this part, you left eye, says, I have nothing against it when someone cries. But when I see a man cry, I view that as a weakness. I don't like seeing men cry.

no i mean then he goes he told his role model for how to behave in court trial in court was mob boss john goddy when he went through years of trials he sat with a stone face

he said fuck you in other words tough yep uh yeah so so yes like trump trump's role model is by is you know a guy who definitely did all this horrible shit he was accused of doing

but while facing justice for his actions sat there stone faced and refused to cry about it and was a badass. So basically, you know, just do whatever the fuck you want, refuse to apologize for it, and

everybody else can go fuck themselves. And that's the John Gotti slash Donald Trump way. I got to be honest, I'd like to think I'd have some dignity, but if I were on trial for murder and racketeering, you're probably cry like a bitch the whole time. Anyway, that made Trump's react, knowing

that background made this reaction from Trump, the horrible long-winded rant by Caster and then shown crying. This reaction fairly predictable if you have that CNN clip, Matt. I think that was a strong opening argument. And then to have the first attorney admit that he believed the House impeachment managers did a good job. Also, it was confusing to a lot of people on the president's team. But yes, Trump was not happy with that performance. He was borderline screaming over what was going on as he was talking to people about. Give the man back his Twitter account, Trey, please, just for a day.

Yeah, we were talking earlier today. I randomly remembered, no one else is going to remember this because in the deluge of Trump tweets, why would you remember this one? But one day he seemingly out of nowhere, turns out something that happened behind the scenes, but seemingly out of nowhere, Trump just tweeted out just this barrage of personal insults against John Bolton, the former head of the CIA, where he was just like, I'm paraphrasing, but this isn't that far off where he was just like of all the boring stupid ineffectual losers i ever cross paths with and paths with in my life john bolton is one of the dumbest boringest

losiriest ones of all time and like when he's right he's right yeah right yeah man he's spitting you know but like i feel like Twitter should maybe allow him to tweet, but only about certain things, like John Bolton. Yeah. People like that. Like, just like him, talk shit about other people in his inner circle. Like, I'd be fine with that, you know. That would hit for me. Let him get on social media and gin up some death threats against the idiots who were dumb

enough to volunteer to be his lawyers, right? They're in the deep state now because they're fucking tanking this. It was like, they did such a bad job that even Newsmax was slamming them. If you have that clip. What are you making of Bruce Castor's argument so far? Where is he heading with this? There is no argument. I have no idea what he's doing.

I have no idea why he's saying what he's saying. You know, he's introducing himself. I'm a nice guy. I like my senators. I know my senators. Senators are great people. Come on. The American people are entitled to an argument, a constitutional argument.

You don't have argument. fourth time. Right. So what else you're going to do? But I'm like, just after all kinds of very strong I'm obviously not sitting here. I'm not watching it. Otherwise, Mark, of course, I'm not. Emotional. Newsmax. But like, former student. I'm kind of confused by newsmax.

Matt, you can turn that off. We know that hard cases make bad. Because you know, we had that clip and it was that same guy, that same co-hosts last week who had the My Pillow Dude on there and got up and walked out because the My Pillo guy wouldn't stop talking about the voter fraud conspiracy, the stealing the election conspiracy or whatever. What is Newsmax even? Like, is this just how egregious these particular lies are

is that even this right of Fox News organization that's cropped up can't fuck with it? Because that's wild to me, because to me it's like, why are you even there, Newsmax, if it's not to just fellate all of these, anything remotely pro-Trump, you know? So, all right,

so going back to like, like one of the reasons Q&OM became so popular is because Trump's presidency wasn't going well. There had to be a secret reason why it either, but it secretly was or it secretly wasn't. Like, right, so you need an explanation.

So Newsmax is watching Trump look like an idiot and they need to find a deeper reason. reason why. It must be because his lawyers suck, right? It must be, there must be a good argument there that there does not. Okay. Right. Right. Because like, yes. Okay. Yeah, they can put it off on this dude. Like, even though they're talking shit about the guy that represents their guy, they're not talking shit about their guy. They're deflecting the responsibility onto the logger, whatever. It's like, well, his loggers suck, you know? But like, who hired the loggers, you know? Like, I don't know. He had another team of crazier lawyers who were going to say the shit he wanted them to say the election was stolen.

I mean, like, the way they wouldn't say the election was stolen. And he fired all them and replaced them because he didn't want to pay them. And then he got these two dudes to do it pro bono, I guess, are way cheaper. And it's like because they're not getting paid much, they didn't fucking work that hard. They just Googled a poem and they crowd about it. And then look up the Wikipedia, answer to democracy and just read off of it. All right. So, okay, all this having been said, what's your.

actual expectation for the outcome of this second impeachment trial as Senate is concerned? Today was just a warm up day. It was, there wasn't much evidence about guilt or is it. Today was just basically they did the opening statements and then argued about whether it was constitutional or not to have an impeachment hearing about somebody who wasn't sitting in office anymore. By the way, a president's every impeached after he's left office, but other officials have been impeached up the left office. It's like it's not even really an argument that's unconstitutional. But they had this. fake vote about this constitutional or not. And Rand Paul proposed a resolution

a week or two ago where they voted on the same thing. There was 55, 45, 45. Today, one over one more Republican, Bill Cassidy, from Louisiana. So it was 5644 that is constitutional, so that's proceeding at trial. And Bill Cassidy was funny. He gave a interview to CNN,

where he basically said he flipped his votes, not because he changed his amount of the opinions. He just thought the lawyers sucked so hard he had to vote again. So hit play on that, man, if he got to. managers were focused, they were organized, they relied upon both precedent, the Constitution, and legal scholars. They made a compelling argument. President Trump's team were disorganized. They did everything they could but to talk about the question. Like cried like women, Mark.

They kind of glided over it, almost as if they were embarrassed of their arguments. They are. Now, I'm an impartial juror, and one side's doing a great job, and the other side's doing a terrible job on the issue at And as an impartial juror, I'm going to vote for the side that did the good job. All right. Well, you're not a person. Trump's lawyers, man. Getting roasted. I don't, I don't particularly have, I don't, I don't have lawyer brain.

Lawyer brain is sort of fascinating to me. I like listening to like legal podcasts where lawyers who are pretty funny about it will try to explain lawyer brain to people. But this is a pretty, because I'd make decisions about what I believe based on what I think is right and what I think is wrong. Technicalities don't really assume me a huge amount. Yeah, right. But here you got, here's a guy who said he changed his mind on what the Constitution says

because these two dumbasses lost the debate club. I know. Right. This is like, it's so hard for me to wrap my brain around some of these people's brains because it's like if you just knew only that about that guy we just showed, you would think like, oh, this is a rational, logical human being who's in a position of leadership who's just, you know, making decisions. based on what has been presented to him, right?

But knowing the track record of him and his ilk, this seems odd and out of left field for them to... So like at what point, like where is the turning point, you know, where they decide to actually act logically or whatever? Because it's not... They've been doing the opposite of what this guy's saying for the past four years, i.e. pretending like Trump's obvious bullshit wasn't bullshit the whole time

and trying to back it up. Why are they, why not now? I mean, there's never a, there's no bottom of this stuff. I mean, McConnell, McConnell voted no today. Okay, so just to travel back, like, I don't, like, think of what's funny about Cassidy is like, I don't really need to watch the impeachment hearing to know what I think happened on January 5th because I was alive that day. He was in the fucking building and almost got murdered. So it seems like he was,

would have a good handle of what happened that day and who was responsible for it. It's all bullshit. But McConnell is even worse because he voted no saying that he thinks it's unconstitutional for a non-sitting president to be impeached. Whereas he could have impeached him while he was sitting, he refused to. He dragged his feet into the point where he said it was unconstitutional. After signaling to Democrats, right after this capital storm, he was mad enough to impeach he's flip-flop three times on this.

And it's just always the coward's way out. And he always wins because he's fucking cynical. and he doesn't care whether you think he's an asshole or not. So, right. I guess there's a lesson in there somewhere. All right. Matt, you can start throwing up some questions and comments whenever you see him. What are y'all think is going to happen with the second impeachment? And also beyond that, you know, Trump's political future, any of that shit.

Because obviously that, you know, him actually being convicted and whatnot would prevent him by law from running again in 2024, whereas if they stick to their guns about, oh, there's no need to impeach him or to convict him now because he's already out of office. He'll be totally free to return in four years. And I would feel a lot better about it if we shut that down completely. But I wonder, like, do you think,

let's say for a second they don't convict him, Mark, like how worried are you about, worried are you about 20, 24? and you know Trump's return or whatnot uh solid Sorrel Simpson reference uh Troy Turner says it's turtles all the way down

that's right Mitch McConnell it's just a bunch of Mitch McConnell's up there fucking shit up I think Storger was saying about drugs but yeah no it's a reference to the the great turtle uh that the that the world the world is on the back

of a great turtle which itself is on the back of another great turtle and it's just it's just turtles all the way down the line mark it's a cosmic metaphysical statement that had nothing to do with drugs i mean yeah it was drugs but yeah it was all that yeah it's like what it feels like to do dm tmteroom or busroom or something right yeah it was all that turtles all the way down the line baby anyway go ahead yeah uh i forget we're even fucking talking about the uh trump trump's just him running again or whatever i'd be surprised if his health was good i mean like he like he right the course of his president's he go Go watch interviews with him in the 90s. He's a lot sharper. He was even sharper in 2015. His brain is much slower than it was then.

He's gained a bunch of weight. I'd be really shocked if his health was in good enough condition to run. I mean, Biden, as much as Biden's lost his step too, he does his Peloton every morning and needs healthy. Yeah, but see, Mark, that means he's going to run his batteries down quicker. Oh, yeah, because every human has batteries and exercising deplete your batteries. So Joe Biden's fucking up. He's running out his own clock. while Trump is storing it up.

I'm sure y'all all know what I'm talking about. That's literally what Donald Trump believes about physical exercise, is that we have batteries basically inside of us and exercising depletes them. So anyway, D. Murphine says, well, now Trump is also facing a felony charge in Georgia. How can he possibly run again after this?

Well, I think the case law on this is you can't vote when you're a felon, but people have run for president from president from, prison before. I think Linda LaRouche ran from prison once, and there's been other, I think Eugene Debs maybe ran for prison as a socialist from prison. So you can run for prison, even if they managed to lock them up, which they won't. But, um, yeah, there's something very, like, that's so typical of like American politics. I think that you, you can't vote if you're a felon, but you can run for and hold office apparently if you're a felon, you know. Like, they literally ruled the Supreme Court in the 90s ruled that it was unconstitutional to randomly drug test members of Congress only.

Anyone else can be randomly drug tested at any time. But for members of Congress, it's unconstitutional, which it is fucking unconstitutional. Anyway, sorry, for I get off on. See, Sam McKenzie says, but we have junior, Eric, and Ivanka. That's their plan. Monarchy. Monarchy, dynasty. That's right.

a fucking thousand-year Reich for the Trumps. I mean, yeah, a lot of them do want that. So, yeah, what about that, Martin? Do you think that's what will happen in 2024? Ivanka's going to step up or something like that instead? Yeah, supposedly there's the Ivanka and Jared established residency in Florida. So Ivanka could run to primary Marco Rubio. And Laura Trump wants to run in.

There's going to be an open seat in North Carolina Senate for 2022. And Don Jr. says he's going to primary. Liz Chady in Wyoming, which he'd probably win that one pretty easy right now. She's not very popular in Wyoming. But yeah, I think Don Jr. probably wins, but the other two lose. And, I mean, eventually Trump's going to die and Trump's hold over the party is going to be evaporate. Don Jr. doesn't have, I mean, he's probably closest to having it of any of the kids, but he doesn't have it. Right. Yeah. None of them have it, right?

And you say, like, do you think it takes him dying for it to evaporate? Because we were talking earlier, we're jokingly talking about him being allowed to tweet only about certain things. But, I mean, he's been deplatformed to, you know, some extent. And his people can find him, and they will. But, like, I don't know. Do you think, like, do you think he'll maintain his cultish influence regardless, literally up until he dies or will it maybe fade regardless now that he's out of power? don't have Twitter and all that shit going on.

I mean, I think it's so weird because usually when people lose presidential elections, it's humiliating, especially if they're voted out of office as an incumbent. And usually they just go away out of shame and hurt, right? And he's probably licking his wounds a little bit. But, like, I mean, Hillary wasn't seen for a year or two outside of walking around the woods and people take selfies went there.

Mitt Romney went away for a few years until he decided to change his image a little bit, and moved to Utah and ran for Senate. McCain was still in the Senate and just did a bunch of butt hurt stuff trying to sabotage Obama. And it's like these people usually, I mean, Al Gore grew a beard and got divorced and got real sad. Oh, yeah, that's my boy, my boy, Al. Yeah, my boy, AG. Hey, he's doing just fine. He's doing just fine.

I don't think, I know you've been to his birthday party. I'm not trying to like it. I'm not trying to hurt your boy's feelings. I'm saying that's what happened. He got, he grew a beard, he gave a bunch of weight, then he lost it again, then he made some documentaries, now he made he makes documentaries. That's what I'm saying. AJ's hit the mark.

Don't you worry about AG. But yeah, you said people lose, but that's the thing like he hasn't lost. He literally hasn't admitted that he lost. Comment from Linda Rain says, I think it's more likely that one of the other Trump family members does get convicted of something. What about that? You think that's going to actually go down?

I'm on record. saying, I don't believe Donald Trump himself is going to get actually convicted of shit. I just don't believe that that type of thing happens in this fucking country. But some of his family members, I don't know. Maybe. What do you think, Mark? So you watch enough gangster TV shows and movies, right? Like mafia stuff or like Sun's Anarchy.

Yeah. So yeah, only the fake ones for the record. I don't know shit about I don't watch like documentaries, but I don't know actual facts. I just watch the fake version because it has for me. When you think about historical, like, truth and reconciliation commissions or whatever, is like usually after shit goes really wrong, the public has, like, a certain amount of, like, bloodlust or, like, needs to see somebody punished to reassert norms or reassert. Yeah, heads got to roll. Yeah.

Yeah. It's like, in a gangster stuff, it'd be like, you kill one of ours. You've got to give up one of yours. And then we can go back to the way things where. So usually in this scenario, in order, the cries for unity or bullshit. Because usually in this scenario, what would happen is Republicans would agree to vote. vote and convict and bar Trump for a public office as a sign of unity so the country can move forward. Even if you don't think he deserves it, it's what you do to keep the peace. You give up

one of your boys. Trump doesn't need to run for office. He probably does need the money. That's beside the point. Like if you, like, you would, you would throw them under the bus to make everyone happy. And what's happening is they're not relenting, right? They're not, they're not surrendering, even after losing. So I'm not sure what happens next. Nothing's going to let this, let this steam out, it looks like. But I wouldn't, It wouldn't surprise me if some enterprising prosecutor who wants to make a name for themselves in New York State or or Biden Justice Department find some shit that they mean, they did a bunch of dirt. It wouldn't be that hard. Half of white, half of white color business is technically illegal.

Just nobody gets prosecuted for it. Right. And I do believe that Donald Trump would absolutely allow any of his children to go to prison before, you know, before he did. Or just period, you know, if they were weak and dumb enough to get caught for it and prosecuted, then, you know, He prefers children that don't get caught committing felonies. That's what he prefers. So, I mean, yeah, he would, he'd let any of them go down. He'd throw any of them down if it comes to that.

He'd testify. He'd testify against Don Jr. for free lunch. I don't know if you remember when the potential pardon list came out, all of his kids were on it except for Don Jr. Don Jr. really don't have for him. That's so funny to me. Randy Albright, you've got the endorsement of a Randy here, Mark.

So yeah, you're not going to like this. So Smart Mark is smart. Listen, stop denying it. We all know it. It's clear. I would invite every time this comes up, I'm going to advise you guys to go read primary sources because I don't know shit. I like talking about this stuff.

I like talking to you guys about it. But I'm just fucking, I've made everything up. There's not even, there is no Donald Trump. I made him up. Oh, classic smart Mark. You know the very first episode I called you that. And you're like, please don't call me that. You know it was going to be a thing throughout the rest of time.

Well, they don't know why you do it. So I'll like, I mean, you do it to cover your own ass and that's the, you get. What? Hold on. Say, Lisa Letchworth says, what about the SD&Y? What's going on there? Southern District of New York. I've heard those rumors for a long time to, or not rumors, whatever, reports for a long time that the Southern District of New York had state charges against Donald Trump.

They were just waiting until he wasn't protected by the cloak of the office of the presidency to, press forward with. So what is up with that? Well, S DNY is still a federal court, a federal jurisdiction. So there were like, there were, just in backtrack to 2015, 2016. Preet Bahara was the deputy U.S. attorney for Sun District of New York. And he was investigating Russian money laundering. And he got fired like two days into Trump's term. And yada, yada, yada. They moved a bunch of dudes in and out of there. that's the district that had a bunch of FBI leaks out of it about Anthony Wiener's laptop.

And that's the reason that Moeller, not Mueller, the fucking James Comey had to come out and give that statements because there was so much pressure because of all these leaks about Hillary Clinton should be in prison. So it's like, it's a very powerful district because it handles pretty much all U.S. commerce and all white collar stuff going through there. Right. Because it's Manhattan. And there's a lot of political. fighting there. It's a very big place where a lot of very power hungry people. And I don't think it's possible with some investigations in there, but

like, I remember Barr fired a guy and replaced him at some point because of some shit he was doing. We don't know what they had on the Trump kids or whether that got squashed or whether paper shredders took it all out. So I don't know. Who knows? Yeah, we'll see. Let's, uh, before we close up here in a couple of minutes, what do you mean I'm covering my

ass by calling you smart Mark? By speaking the truth. How's that covering my ass? So here's that works. You go like, you go like, Here's something happened today. Mark, tell me about it. I play it. And I either right or wrong and you just get to make jokes about it. And it's correct.

It's called color commentary, Mark. Right. That's what it's done. Yeah, that's what it is. Yeah. But yeah, no, you're right. You're right. You ain't ever alive.

You're smart, Mark. You know, you're smart about stuff. You know what's up. See, you're just like Kevin Spacey unusual suspects where you're playing dumb the whole time. Right? But I didn't think I'm trying to play dumb. Hell, I've been trying to play smart. Obviously, I ain't pulling that off.

You established that dynamic the first episode. I didn't figure it out for like two months. So who's the fucking smart way? Yeah, right. Yeah, don't blame me. Blame smart mark. Exactly. All right.

Well, thank you all very much for joining us. Just about out of time. Oh, we had said we were going to start announcing this, so we are going to. So y'all know we're planning on. in March for a lot of reasons we're about to shift to a weekly format so we'll still be here live every Tuesday but we're thinking about just going down to just Tuesdays a because I maybe we are stupidly optimistic that there won't be as much bullshit to cover but B because if we have one a week we can you know concentrate more of our energy on just doing that and

making that one show hit and it's easier for y'all to keep up with so starting in March we're planning on going to a weekly show and also calling it weekly skews. Nothing changes. Everything's fine, but that's what we're planning on right now. Yeah, it's like we've got to make this fit into our lives in a way that makes sense. Yeah, another huge reason is like it'll still be months. Who knows it'll ever happen, but I'm still hoping to get back out on the road at some point and do comedy live in front of people. And if and when that happens, Thursdays are just almost never, going to be possible because I'll be in front of some of y'all's faces, I hope.

So for that and countless other reasons, we're going to go just Tuesdays in March. But we'll be here the rest of this month. What do you motherfuckers stole evening skews.com? So weekly skews are still available, so that's part of the reason. That is also true, yes. Evening skews

got scoped out from under us by, yeah, some enterprise. A son of a bitch. Motherfucker out there. But anyway, whatever. No, that's that important again. Show's still going to be the show everything's going to be fine we love y'all we will be here this thursday we will be back at 48 hours we'll see y'all then see you love you bye hello everybody welcome back today is thursday february 11th 2021 i'm trey crowd that's mark aji what's up mark what's up tray just uh having a fun over here

thinking about uh our home girl marjor taylor green and her wild sex life according to the daily to the daily mail yeah yeah she's uh yeah she's been just she's been stepping out mark that's how that's how we back home. She's been stepping out on her man for a while now, the Daily Mail reports. Yeah, exclusive. It battled Q&ON Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green, openly cheated on her husband of 25 years with a polyamorous tantric six guru and then

moved on to another affair with the manager at her gym. Now, I don't know if anything this is true or not, because the Daily Mail's full of shit, as we talked about a couple weeks ago when they tried to say that what's her name was sleeping, like Jane Crickowski was sleeping with the My Pellow guy. Yeah, right. But you do want to go look the pictures of me. First of all, I didn't know Marjorie Taylor Green was married. I don't know how that escaped notice, but I guess he's sort of just

hides as I would do if I was married to her. Absolutely. Yeah. I got to say like, you know, so she cheated on her husband with, among others, a, what you say, a tantric sex guru or whatever. A polyamorous. A polyamorous tantric sex guru, which, and the picture I saw this dude looks like Zhang Geif from Street Fighter 2. he's got a he's got a street fighter too aesthetic going on and I mean dude honestly I got to say like you know if you got to be a monkey be a gorilla you know what I mean

like if you're gonna cheat make it as ridiculous as possible I guess yeah there's a picture in the article of a guy he's the dude he's wearing a he's doing kettlebell workout in extremely tight spandex pretty much tidy whiteies that are flower print with a long sleeve shirt as you do so yeah

she she I'm sad she's in Congress, so I'm glad she exists. All right. With this is always, it's producer Matt doing his thing. This is Evening Skew. Got a fun show for you tonight.

The theme of the day. Consequences. What are they? Are they real in this country? Who's to say? With everything going on with the second impeachment and celebrities,

Gina Carrano and Morgan Walland, you could be forgiven for not being entirely clear on the answers to those questions. But me and Mark will do our best in discussing them. That and some other fun subjects on tonight's skews. But first, as always, the Daily Dumbass.

Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D. is a man whose recognition in this segment is long overdue. Even if we've covered him before, it's still long overdue for a repeat appearance. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who has some hard-hitting questions he would like answered on the subject of the real culprits. Behind the Capitol insurrection on January 6th, Matt, play the clip when you got it, please. Here's what I want to know. What did Nancy Pelosi know and when did she know it? If this was widely known by the FBI and Capitol Hill Police that people were planning to come to Washington before the 6th to create violence, I want to know.

Did she know about that? Yeah. It all comes back to Nancy Pelosi, Mark. That's where it's all ends that. That's what he wants to know. What role did Nancy Pelosi play in this? I think we need to impeach her as president of Antifa. I think it's what we need to do.

But you can be forgiven for thinking that he's trying to accuse. It sounds like he's calling Nancy Pelosi a dumbass for failing to frame Trump for her own murder. I think, but I think what he's trying to say is that if Trump should have known about it and stopped with a National Guard, maybe Pelosi could have stopped it if she'd known to call up Capitol Police reinforcements or whatever. and she pulled back the police to make Trump look bad, which is like a plot too clever for anyone to pull off outside of the movie Knives Out. Well, yeah, but it's also just like if, I don't know, it's weird to me saying, like,

if everyone knew about this, then why didn't Nancy Pelosi stop it specifically when the same logic also applies to, you know, him and the rest of his ill? like if they all knew about it and it was on their side of things and being incited by their guy, you know, somehow they're not the ones who should have stopped it. It should have been like if they knew we were going to try to kill them all with our people, like, why didn't they try to stop it? They should have tried harder. That's my thing.

There's a word that became mainstream popular at the peak of, after Trump got elected and people started talking about Russian spot plots a lot. the what aboutism, right? It was a propaganda tactic that I guess was famously used by the Soviet Union and be like, oh, well, you, you, Stalin caused millions of people to starve to death in Ukraine as political punishment.

And they'd be like, well, what about US support for apartheid South Africa? And it's like, okay, good point. But also like, is that what we're fucking talking about here? So here you have like, Trump led an insurrection. Well, what about Nancy Pelosi's failings? Like, okay, impeach Nancy Pelosi too. I don't give a shit.

Throw them all out. I don't care. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, right. Right. It's, it's, it's, right. It's, it's, it's, right. For, for, for, for, for my wife to be, like, you're, I'm like, yeah, but what about all the drunk drivers who hit a busload of, kids, it's, like, that doesn't, fucking, what does that do with what you did, man? Right. Right. Yes, exactly. All right, some honorable mentions for you. The first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is if you are poor, you're a dumbass for being poor, everybody. You shouldn't have done that. That was very stupid.

If you don't know what I mean, let me let Fox News explain it for you in this segment featuring noted poor hater, Dave Ramsey. May I play the clip whenever you have it. What do you believe is the right number or the right answer for the next? stimulus check. Well, I don't believe in a stimulus check because if $600 or $1,400 changes your life, you were pretty much screwed already. You got other issues going on. You have a career problem.

You have a debt problem. You have a relationship problem. You have a mental health problem. Something else is going on. You have a food problem. If $600 changes your life. And that's not talking down to folks. I've been bankrupt.

I've been broken. I work with people every day who are hurting. I love people. I want people to be lifted up. But this is, again, it is just political. political rhetoric. So I, like, I, for the record, just heard by now is I hate so much everything about all of that. We just play.

Like, that's the, that is like the distilled essence of what I hate so much about, like, the trickle-down economic Republican types. And the bootstrap motherfuckers is just that right there in that clip. It drives me fucking crazy. People can't like, like no one thinks that $600 is going to change someone's long-term outbook, right? Right. This is for people to use this money to buy food if they need it.

Right. And the government has to send it to everyone because they can't, they don't know who needs food. Right? Yeah, and $1,400 is a fucking lot of food, man. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, it's just like, I just, I just,

if $600 or $1,400 changes your life, he says, and like, that's a huge difference between $600 and $1,400. That's more than double. You know what I mean? But it's just a rounding error to these people, and they can't understand how much of a difference. Either one of those amounts, but especially the higher one,

would make for a huge, huge percentage of people in this country. And then he says, like, and that's not talking down to, people when that's 100% exactly what it is. He, uh, if you don't know who this guy is, he's a fucking talk radio host. And his, his, uh, his claimed expertise on this way Bill Hammer set it up was like, you talk to people from all across this country every day. So you know what they're thinking.

This is a group of people who call into his radio show because they listen to it because they already agree with him. Right. It would be me saying out of the pulse of the nation because I talked to Trey on this thing for two hours a week. Right. right and i just don't know like all the like you know i'm from rural tennessee and obviously shit let you know very red there but like i literally couldn't even if you ask me like what

percentage of people that i knew growing up or my friends from back home or whatnot just people in my circle back home who would be massively benefited by an extra 1400 dollars right now I mean, it will be almost 100. Not literally 100. It might maybe 90, 95 or whatever. But I couldn't even put a number on it because the answer is just pretty much every single one of them. And they're all, they don't have other issues in their life. Their only issues are being born where they were, when they were, and that's, that's pretty much it.

They don't have, I mean, yeah, some of them, you know, get drunk. or whatever, but like they don't have, they don't automatically have all these additional problems that lead to them. Because that's how these people think is like if you are in a situation where $1,400 would help you in your day-to-day life, then you have fucked up. Like, that's how they look at it when that, it's just, no, you haven't. You've just lived, you've just played the hand you were dealt

for however many years you've been alive. And if you were dealt this hand, then that's just where you are and that's the reality for most people. There's no fuck-ups or no mistakes that were made. I just, I don't know. I always love that they frame it that people are only losers

because they drink and do drugs. Maybe it's the way around. Maybe they drink and do drugs because they're fucking losers. It's like maybe shit's not going the way they want, they want to feel good for a little bit. And also, like, the American economy is only structured, it's structures the only few people can win.

Not everybody can be successful if they work hard. It's not designed that way. The Fed literally sets interest rates to keep a certain amount of people unemployed so there's no inflation. So like if the government's designed the system to keep a minimum 4% of people unemployed, what are the rest of us all those that 4% of people? If we're forcing to be unemployed so the rest of us don't, groceries don't get more expensive. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah.

Right. It's also like he says, he said, if $600 or $1,400 changes your life, you were pretty much screwed already. The other thing for me is like, So, so, so then what? Like, just fuck you until you die? You know what I mean? Like, if you needed this money, then you were in bad shape. And so you should just die or like, what is supposed to happen?

Again, letting them all die doesn't mean poor people go away because again, the federal just interest rates again to let the surviving people, four percent of them will be unemployed. If we keep going down the system, everybody. he storms to death. It doesn't fucking make any sense. So anyway, there's a fight whether they're called survival checks or stimulus checks or whatever and understand the rhetorical thing because you want to make it whether it's about people or the economy. But it's the same shit because if you send somebody $1,400 and they spend it all on groceries, that money goes in the hands of grocery store owners and workers who then spend it on shit

for advertisers that advertising that fucking asshole's radio show. So he ends up with the money anyway. So, yeah. Yeah, I don't know. We can fucking. spend not even just an episode, an entire, like, weeks-long series on this exact subject. Everybody hates poor people, Trey. Everybody fucking hates them. It just drives, this shit just drives me up the wall as a poverty American or former, long-time poverty American. Anyway, all right, some other Amble mentions for you.

Mark, you set this next one up, please, the hotel one. Oh, oh, so this, all right, so March 4th. Rates at Trump's hotel in D.C., I've quadrupled for the night of March 4th. And if you have a normal brain, you don't understand why. I'll let this guy who's an expert on QAnon set it up for us. The average room rate is $500 a night, but on the night of March 3rd and then fourth, they've jacked it up to $1,300. I mean, can you just explain what we're seeing here?

Sure. So, I mean, there is still actually some pending questions around whether or not it was jacked up automatically by an algorithm. But if you are a hotel designing an algorithm that's responding to increased demand, that still shows that there's a large percent of Trump followers, or at least enough, are interested in coming on the fourth for what they believe is going to be an event, that these prices are being jacked up. Now, they may actually be jacked up manually. That's very possible as well. But what we know here is that these numbers are showing an increase in this belief, specifically this March 4th, you know, re-inoguration, 19th president belief. And I believe that we were not probably going to see anything as intense as what happened on the Capitol due to many different factors, including the Trump no longer has access to many social media platforms. And there's apparently, I mean, there might be a rally plan that day.

but, you know, call a call. All right. Yeah. So, this is, so March 4th was the original inauguration date in the, in the Constitution. We mentioned this before. It's a sovereign citizen thing that America actually is governed on a maritime law once they added fringe to the flags. And there hasn't been a real president since the 18th one. So March 4th, Donald Trump is going to be sworn in as the 19th president of the United States.

That's the legit one. And they're all coming to his party for it, which the funny part out of it is Trump won't be there. and because he he's made it very clear to the city of Palm Beach that he already has another job and that's operating as the Walmart reader for Moralago if you have that zoo story, Matt. So he's in a legal fight with Palm Beach because he apparently agreed when he bought the place to not live in Maralago. The rules state that any member of Marlago can only be there three weeks a year, which technically includes Trump. But there's an exception for staff. So like the maids can live in the maids quarters in shame.

So he's saying, no, no, I work here. My job is to greet people when they arrive. He's America's Walmart reader. That's his new day job. He's not going to be president of March 4th. Yeah. So I want to ask March 4th, like you said, no, this is the real one. That's the real day.

And that's why they're all going back. First of all, the hotel thing, like, you know, supply and demand. That's their whole thing, right? Like if there's a big demand for those days, then it's going to go up. Here's the screen grab for, yes. Trump's argument for. why you should get to live at Mara Lago. He's an employee who greets people when they arrive and thanks them when they leave.

So yes, him classifying himself as Walmart greeter is just fantastic. But anyway, there's nothing that weird or inconceivable about what's going on with the hotel ridge for those particular dates. It's exactly because of these lunatics and what's going on there. But I want to know, like you says, like no, this is the real one. because this is where the goalpost have moved to now. How many different times have the Q people already move the goalpost to a further date in the future because they reached the supposed day of the Kraken or whatever?

It didn't happen. And then they set a new one. And so right now the new one is March 4th. What's the next one going to be, Mark, after this? Because they're not going to stop. Like, what are they going to do when this also doesn't happen, which every single? same person knows it will not. They'll invent, they'll find some obscure reasons.

It'll be March 10th and then April 2nd. And then it'll be that once Republicans take the house in 2022, they'll appoint him Speaker of the House and then impeach Biden and Kamala and he'll resume the presidency and it'll all be. It'll be, because the Q's very first drop in the beginning of 2017 was that Hillary Clint's arrest was imminent. The first goal post. Right.

hasn't happened. Right. So, yeah. So, you know, you're the resident Q expert. Do they typically, like, I know they move the goalposts further down the field, further out in the future, but like, do they bother to explain why the last one was false, or do they just pretend like it didn't happen? Like, do they just sort of set a new one and ignore that the previous one ever existed?

Or do they kind of try to rationalize what? went wrong with the previous one. They do both at the same time, Tray. And it's like, it'd be like, well, they'll make excuses for what it hasn't happened yet. Obviously the real plan, because Trump has to move covertly as yacht. That's why he hasn't done anything publicly yet. Or it'll be the Hillary Hillary's been arrested and replaced by a clone.

It'll be Trump's already shadow president, president right now, but is also going to be knock really on the fourth. They believe all of at the same time. There's no like. Right. And I do want to like say like, like there's been all this stuff. These people aren't stupid. I mean, they're incredibly wrong and they believe stupid shit.

But these are people who are swinging $1,500 a night for a hotel room. They function and they have good jobs. There was a story when viral yesterday fucking made me insane talking about how 60% of the people that have been arrested have like economic troubles. Like they're frame it like they're poor people. But their economic troubles were like their businesses went bankrupt. And they lost their lake houses when the real estate market turned down or whatever. It's like this idea that these are all poor hillbillies is infuriating to me. Yeah, no, I know.

I'm 100% with you. So moving on, next honorable mention for Daily Dumbass, just Congress in general, what they're up to up there. I'm sure many of y'all saw the Logger cat, one of my personal favorites from recent meme history. And, you know, everybody laughed at that guy, but look what's going on at Congress. play this first clip whenever you have it. Economy sprung out from the last recession. Oh, man, I love this guy. We must make sure that our nation's sole proprietors

and the smallest of small businesses receive timely. Will your gentlemen suspend? Listen to this. I'm sorry. Mr. Emmer? Yes. Are you okay? I am.

You're upside down, Tom. I don't know how to fix that. getting right, got it. Our society is run by people who can't work zoomed, right? Is this a metaphor?

Like, it, I don't know whether it's like, it's so hilarious that this happened right off the heels of lawyer cat. Do you know what I mean? Like this happened in Congress right after that happened.

Like it almost seems like, you know, prefabricated or whatever. Like I've said, everybody knows I'm not a guy guy, but I see certain, sometimes things like this where the stars just align in such a way

that are so hilarious to me. It just makes me question like, man, is there somebody pulling the strings? Because that is hilarious. If there is a guy, he's pretty funny. Yeah.

So that, there's no big thing away from that. But very funny. Yeah. If there's, there's no takeaway from that politically except that old people rule. And coming off the back of that,

another thing that doesn't matter at all. This video will serve as her update on near attendance, a swearing-in hearing, this is from yesterday. Yeah. You call Senator Sanders everything but an ignorant slut. That is not, that is not. I want the record to reflect that I did not call Senator Sanders an ignorant slut. Okay.

I don't know how I should take that, Senator Kennedy, but Senator Kennedy. What? Oh my God. So if you didn't see the last episode, you know, we're talking about Nere Tandon's OMB had proposed

who's been, you know, going through a Senate confirmation. They pointed out all these just egregious insults she made about other politicians on her Twitter in the past. And it's very, like, low-level, very garden variety,

like Ted Cruz sucks type of shit. But this, right here you just saw is what that like kind of has escalated to that guy's saying that i know Bernie doesn't hit for everybody but i do want to point out how everybody else is a fucking child in the situation like like Bernie was probably the person who near attended was the meanest to and he doesn't give his shit about any of this right we have a Republican trying to pretend to carry about this woman insulting Bernie's honor and when when Bernie gets his turn to ask questions it's all about corporate donations to her organization where that's going to sway her decision making stuff

it matters. Yeah. Not this dumb, did Nancy Pelosi try to kill herself to frame Trump bullshit or not like your tweets are mean. Who cares?

Who fucking cares? People are losing their houses. It's a goddamn pandemic. Right. But dude, it's just that combo of that my fucker saying,

you did everything but called Senator Sanders an ignorant slut. And then I would like the record to state that I did not call Senator Sanders an ignorant.

slut. Oh my God. It's just such self-parody, man. It's insane. But, all right. The only thing could have made it better is Bernie, but being like, I'd like to stipulate for the record that I am an ignorant slut. If you don't know, they get that reference, it's a famous Dan Aykroyd

sketch from S&L, like, 1980. That's this dude, comedy references. All right. Right. Well, as always, dude. Like, yeah, their references are always just so ancient and archaic, but I got to say, this one worked for me. I like, I like this one. A plus.

All right, so moving on for the Daily Dumbasses, although are we really? Moving into the impeachment update, what's going on with that? A lot of dumbassery happening there. But one part of it hit, right, Mark? Yeah, yeah, basically so forth, it's been horrifying after horrifying videos spliced up with Trump tweets and putting into time. timelines and what happened and how close Mitt Romney came to getting murdered, which was fairly close. I mean, like within 30 yards or so, not super close, but close enough than Mitt Romney is comfortable

with, I'm sure. Yes, by the way, that guy's name Eugene Goodman, I believe, the Capitol security officer who saved both Pence and Romney and probably a bunch of others. But yeah, the video came out with him literally turning Romney around and pretty much saving him from the mob or whatever. And he's the guy that recognized. He led the mob away. He, like, he, like, picked a fight with them and ran away and led them out in the wrong direction to get them away from the center.

And then ran into Romney along the way, right? And he said, no, turn around, get, yeah, go to the other direction. But, yeah, no, that guy, you know. He already got a promotion. Yeah, he already got that. He's been recognized for it, which is good. But, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Anyway, go ahead. Yeah, yeah. So, uh, so it's, all that, all that's happening. All Republicans are, like, leaving this chamber is not even watching. Even when they're there, they're, like, doodling on notpads and stuff because they all know how they're going to vote. They don't want to feel as little shame about it as possible, which sucks. They might have swayed a couple votes.

We'll come back to that in a second. But so far, my favorite part of it is they quoted some lyrics from Run the Jules. So you got it, Matt. Silence by Trump supporters was planned and organized despite recent efforts to obscure that truth. To emphasize the point, she invoked a very political group, Run the Jules, which has some lines about how, yes, there is a day. Anytime a man say there is not, then you know that he lost the plot. And truth's truth, when denied or not.

Here she was. The truth is usually seen and rarely heard. Truth is truth where they denied or not. And the truth is, President Trump had spent months calling his supporters to a march on a specific day and a specific time So That's what's something

Early off Run the Jewels 3 I believe Which I highly recommend First of all that hits But I want to clarify something Based on that clip Like Did she Presented as Run the Jewels quote

Or did she just quote Run the Jewels They found out about it And then added the other additional quotes On both sides of it The way that they did It all hits for me I'm just curious.

The part she quoted was Truth is usually seen but rarely heard. I'm not sure if that's a colloquial. I'm not familiar with it. It's a normal colloquialism or if LLP rated himself. But either way it's in the song and that MSNBC host felt real cool reciting that. So that part was fun for me. Yeah. Now, Congress could generally use some more run the jewels, you know, as far as I'm concerned,

just maximize the run the jewels usage on Capitol Hill. If John Ossoff can win Georgia, then Killer Mike definitely could. Killer Mike's very pro-gun, so honestly, he might have an easier time than John Osop. So basically, after all this evidence, they aren't going to get 17 Republicans, which they need to convict, but it looks like they're going to get more than the five they started with. Here's a senator from Louisiana, Cassidy. Police officers. As on the timeline, you hear the police officers say,

flanked. Let's go back and you hear it from, I think, Officer 50, and a panic-stricken voice. They're using weapons on us. They're using bearsprate. And the president was calling to try and get more senators to decertify the election. Now, presumably, since we were at that point being evacuated, and I think he was told that, there was some awareness of the events. And so what I hope the defense does is explain. that. If one of the charges is that you should have called out people and you didn't, even though it was clear that the police officers were under assault, please explain that. I think the other thing that I want to hear the defense speak to because the house managers made much of this, is that

the president continued to say the election was told. I still have people back home who swear that the Dominion machines were rigged even though different news outlets have printed retractions, apologies, and otherwise disassociated themselves from that story. But obviously the president repeated it over and over. That clearly had an impact. So when the point was made, people felt as if they had no recourse because their vote was being stolen. Well, the president built that story.

So how do you defend that, how do you describe that? Because again, people will still be telling me that Dominion rigged machines. Seems like some reasonable questions to Maymore. Yeah. Yeah, but here's a guy who's frustrated that he's going to have to deal with these, he's got to deal with these consequences long after Trump's absolved of them. Like he's going to be getting yelled at at town hall meetings for why this, why he personally didn't make Trump president again, you know, for the rest of his life.

And it's not, it's not going to be fun for him, I think, is what he's, saying and he's like about the stuff about why the after guard wasn't called up these people these guys are apparently being they don't like being constantly reminder that they personally were almost physically harmed by this braying fucking mob so what makes the

like what is the what makes the difference between this guy and the rest of the ones who are just you know are holding the line still so many of them like why I don't know what makes some of them sensical and the other one's not

And I mean, even outside of the obvious, like, you know, fucking loonies, like, um, MTG and them in Congress or whatnot. I can't, none of them have, none of them can think more than two feet in front of their face, right? That's, that's a through line here is like, what is life like for your children and grandchildren in 20, 30 years? None of that, it seems to ever occur to them. Um, they can't even think, they don't even think as far as their next election.

Because this is like, he's at least occurring, like, how the hell I'm going to win a primary? in 2022 or 2024 or whenever when in this crazy environment because if people will believe this level of disinformation I'm going to be in the pedophil cabal by then according to their popular imaginations and how do I run ads

what do you run ads saying hi I'm Bill Cassidy I'm not in a pedophilical ball like it's like what do you do you know yeah but yeah well no they're grasping at any straws they can find you know some of the other Republicans are maintaining that it would be impossible to convict Donald Trump because he wasn't impeached when he was impeached, which was what happened when he was impeached.

And I know that sounds silly, but Matt, please play the clip. And you'll see I'm not that far off from what they're actually saying. So, yeah, it's the next clip there, Matt, talking about timing real, the technicality to vote on. Uh, mirror before McDonald's had all day breakfast and you try to get breakfast at 10.31 a.m. They say, sorry, can't do it. Yeah. This is essentially their impeachment argument. Right. In this country, um, that's it. That's not a good precedent for our nation. And for the same reasons I voted against impeachment or the same reasons I voted to certify the electoral college because of the constitution.

Impeaching a president who's no longer president has never been done before in this country. But Congresswoman, he was impeached. He was impeached. while he was president. Huh. Right. This is a second impeachment trial. We've never impeached a president who's no longer president. That's never been on in our nation's history to my knowledge.

Answer that question and no. Well, then how do you not convict them? Well, the impeachment process, as I've stated before, is unconstitutional. Impeaching a president who's no longer president has never been done in this country. Third time. That is not the fact of the fact of the. the case. He was president of the United States when he was impeached. He is an impeached president, even if he's convicted. He was president when impeached. The constitutionality question has also

been answered by the U.S. Senate because our constitution says the following. The U.S. Senate handles all impeachment trials, and it is up to them. And they have said this is constitutional. So I know it's your opinion that it is not. But now that it is deemed constitutional, it's been impeached, what do you do? Yep. Well, if prosecutors do believe that he incited an attack on the Capitol, there's a criminal

court where they can also file charges in this instance would be another option. All right. Three different times, she says, she says, we have never impeached a president who was no longer the president. And she had to say it three times

because two of those times, it was pointed out to her that, okay, no, but we literally did, and that's exactly what we're discussing right now, is that he was impeached a second time while he was still the president, and she just pulled the Marco Rubio call of just, you know, reiterating the exact, well, we've never done that before. No, we literally did, but the thing is, guys, we've never done that before. Like, what?

Sheep, look. That's geopolit Representative Nancy Mace, by the way, who's enjoying her time in the spotlight after she became famous a week ago for Lion on AOC trying to make her out to be a drama queen for me and afraid of being murdered by that fucking mob.

And so this is her, January 17th, the distant time of three weeks ago when Trump was still president, more Republicans would have backed impeachment if it wasn't rushed. So three weeks ago, impeachment was too early.

Now it's too late. Yep. I'm assuming there would have been a two-day goal locks window where to invest right but they like this is the same fucking game they they always play where it's like there's always like there's always a technical reason they can't do the right thing right right it's always like i would do it but uh it's it's like trying to speak to the you ever call up your insurance company and try to get something paid and yeah you can talk you around

these circles it's like look man but i pay for insurance and this was a medical problem but what what's like sorry we don't solve problems like human beings here at uh asshole incorporated uh so it's the same thing. It's the same hustle. It's not how anybody solves problems in the real world. Yeah, man. The virtues of bureaucracy, dude. That's like that's why it exists. You can hide behind that shit. So yes, what what consequences will Trump face, if any? Again, I think we all probably agree on the general answer to that question. But consequences are a whole thing in America right now. Moving to pop culture, which is rare for us here on the skews, but it just feels relevant. a lot of talk about cancel culture and consequences and saying bad things and what happens and how that all goes down recently

between country music star Morgan Wallen and former Mandalorian co-star and XMMA fighter Gina Carrano who have both been embroiled in recent controversies based on things they've said on the internet basically. Morgan Wallen got caught using the N-word on a video that was posted on the internet, and there's no real caveat to this. He just straight up said the N-word while drunk. He was telling his white friend goodbye if you need any consequence. He was just drunk as shit. I mean, I was saying just like making an excuse for it.

He's not in the positive side. he isn't defending himself. He is just saying, sorry, I'll have done that. He posted a weird rambling apology today to his YouTube channel. He said he was an hour 72.

It was 72 hour bender, which, holy shit, my man, you got other problems. And that's from his apology. And he was really funny because the first thing he did,

we're not going to show it because fuck that. Because first of all, I want to apologize to my white fans, which I don't know why he started with that. I do want to, being a black fan of Morgan Wallen though. But this guy,

his sales went up 400% right. Right, exactly. That's the thing. Talk about like actual consequences or whatnot. He's been raked through the mud. That makes it sound like it's unfair, which is not what I'm trying to do. No. But he's been, you know,

he's caught a whole lot of shit for this, rightfully so in the media. But in the meantime, yes, his album sales have, skyrocketed to the tune of like 400% or more. And it just upsets. It just bothers me. It doesn't surprise me, but it does bother me so much because, like, well, I was

about to say I love country music, but just so everybody's clear on it, I don't, like, radio country, pop country, Nashville country music? No, that ain't my shit at all. But there's actual good country music out there. People like Isbel and Sturgel and Tyler Childers and many more who do it for real. and I just hate to see it's so discouraging and upsetting to me to see this type of shit going on

in the even ancillary to a genre of music that I love, but like radio country, you can go fuck itself. And I'm not surprised that their fans are this shitty, basically. I mean, it's like, speaking of Jason of Isbel, Jason Isbell apparently wrote a song on this album. Yeah, cover me up.

One of Isbell's great. greatest songs of all time. I didn't know that Morgan Wallen had covered that, but yes, but yeah, apparently he covered that on the album. And so Isbell went on Twitter and said that some of the money that some of the money that's coming from

Morgan Wallen's skyrocketing album sales comes to him because of that song that he wrote that's on the album and Isbel pledge to donate all of those earnings specifically to the NAACP. So, you know, I mean, that's just, I mean, that's

classic typical isbel stuff as far as i'm concerned i mean he's been walking to walk for a long time so not surprising but yeah you love to see it he's a good dude i just thought like uh i don't like how come being people from the country tray uh how hard is it to not drink for 72 hours straight then call your white friend the inward on camera in front of like it's like well the first part of that you know can be pretty tough the drinking for 70 you know you get out you got with all your fucking redneck buddies or whatever, and you just get on one, Mark, it just happens. But you should be able to get on one

without then hurling the N-word round everywhere. That's the part that should be easy to avoid, you know. I think a part of this is like is he's new money. He's not used to being in a rich person's neighborhood where there would be cameras set up everywhere. Like this is like a ring camera type situation or like a surveillance camera from his neighbor's house. It was just mad that his drunk redneck, rich redneck,

new money is fucking making noise in his, in his neighborhood and made Chris Rand from TMZ off the side of it. Well, it's also like, yeah, another version of what you're saying is just, yeah, I agree with you. I don't, he's not used to being in a place, like, he's not used to being in a place where it might not be cool for that to happen, I think, if you know what I mean. Like, there's, uh,

just a fucking idiot. Literally the last time he was in the news, he got COVID on purpose, so he could, tape SNL and he's still got new SNL the next week. Right after he had a newborn baby and everything he was like partying maskless the week he was supposed to be on

SNL and that was yeah I mean yes he's a fucking redneck dip shit dude like that's what else is there to say about it I've known a million of them you know but this one is just I don't know we're talking about consequences today I don't I'll like

fuck up and get a traffic ticket and somehow fuck the fucks up three months of my life, here's a guy who said two epic life-destroying mistakes in the last three months and is failed upward. I don't understand it. I can't remember my head about it. All right. So kind of on that note, because I don't think it's been proven that she's failed.

We haven't seen that she's failed upward yet. But in terms of having, having, in terms of having an opportunity to stop doing the shit that you're doing, like to continuously fuck up over the span of months when you're being told, please stop fucking up, you know, and you just keep doing it. On that note, Mandalorian

co-star Gina Carrano, who has just been fired by Disney from the series, not just from the Mandalorian itself, but also apparently they had planned on, this hadn't been public information, but it's reported that they had planned on having a spinoff series

for Carano, where she was one of the leads on Disney Plus. So major opportunity, all that, completely over now because she could not stop tweeting insane shit and just talking shit on the internet, despite being told over and over again, if you don't stop doing this, you're going to fuck your career up. She just kept going and finally culminating with comparing her struggles as a rich, privileged white Republican superstar to Jews in the Holocaust. You could see how that would.

She tweeted a famous picture from the Holocaust of a bunch of Jews being beaten by, I think, Nazi youth. And the caption of it was a text about how being a Republican today is like being a Jew in on 1930s, Germany, which... Dude, the thing that just kills me... It shouldn't bother because it's just... It's one person's bullshit ideas in their head, which you can never impact either way.

But it's like, you just, you know, you know that internally in her own mind, what has happened since she tweeted that is like direct confirmation of what she tweeted in the first place. Do you know what I mean? She has the persecution complex that they're so famous for. And then she actually faced consequences. for it, you know

that's just validated in her head that the persecution of her beliefs and whatnot is 100% real. That's going to be the takeaway from everybody like that. If we have that Ted Cruz a tweet, Ted Cruz, a tweet, throw it up here. Texan Gina Carrado broke barriers in the Star Wars universe, not a princess, not a victim, not some

emotionally tortured Jedi. She played a woman who kicked the ass and who girls lucked up to. She would instrumental to making Star Wars fun again. Of course, Disney canceled her. Now, Trey alluded to this, but she's tweeted a bunch of insane shit, and this was not the most insane thing. This was just her boss is getting fed up with having to have this conversation with her over and over and over again. And it's Disney brand. Like anybody's worked for any Disney property, like they're even family-fying FX.

Like it's like they're like sons of anarchy wouldn't fly on FX right now because it's too gory and violent. they actually fired the former showrunner of Sons of Anarchy off his new show, the Mexican Biker Gang show, I can't think of their name of it right now, but because they wanted to take it in a less violent direction. Now, they just, if you don't know what she did, she tweeted a bunch of anti-trans stuff. And it's important to note that the star of the show she was on, Pedro Pascals, sister just publicly came out as trans,

week. All right. So that's part of it. So her tweeting this reminded everybody that by the way, her fucking co-star hates her and probably is annoyed by having to deal with this shit all the time. Yeah. She tweeted a bunch of anti-mask memes this week. He's tweeted a bunch of like 5G and Q and non-conspiracy theories. And she reminded, this post reminded people that she's a Q supporter. The week, the news is wall to wall with a bunch of Q supporters trying to murder our national legislature. All right. So this is the culmination of just

right. Just like we don't want to deal with this anymore. Like they'd handed her a big bag of money, a cartoon bag of money with a dollar sign on it. And she shows to set it on fire so she Instagram Holocaust memes. It's fucking the amazing case of online brand. Right. Yes, exactly.

Like you say, there have been plenty of other instances before. People had called for her to be fired whatnot and they hadn't done it. Like she got opportunity after opportunity. to just stop doing that and she just refused to do that and now she's been fired and that's the way that like consequences

work for most people but it's going to be painted it already is being painted as cancel culture gone awry right? So about map you can start throwing up comments and questions or have you got them

what do y'all think about cancel culture or the impeachment or any of that but yeah Mark like they like and that's where it's like consequence is it can't Cancel culture? Is it Consequence culture? Like, what is it? It's going to be painted as cancel culture, no matter what. She's going to go on a victory lap. I'm sure on the far right. She'll be lionized by them. I still think she fucked up because that does not, that does not amount to fucking Star Wars franchise money and success by a long shot. But she'll be propped up by these people probably. Yeah, the right-wing welfare circuit is extremely powerful. She'll be hired by it. She'll be speaking at colleges and probably have her own show them,

whatever one of the conservative networks she wants. Because, I mean, she's good looking and well-spoken and has fans, so they'll make money off of her. I will say that, like, everything gets put under cancel culture now, but it is funny to me that, like, we live in an at-will employment universe. Like, every one of us, everyone listen to this. If you're in America, you can be fired at any point for any reason, right? that's the rules.

If your boss doesn't like the shirt you're wearing, like there's like a very few reasons why they can't fire you. You can't fire you for being black, gay, pregnant, right? That's pretty much it, or your religion. And you have to prove that's the reason they fired you because they can always make up some other shit

the reason they fired you. And they found one reason they don't like it you can be fired for. The one reason is being a fucking asshole. You are now a protected class to conservatives if you're a fucking asshole, no one wants to work with. And I don't know, I was thinking about it last night,

but maybe the way we saved the labor movement in America is by pointing out to conservatives that it'd be harder to fire you for being racist or transphobic or whatever if you were in a union. Right. Until we finally sell unions on them. No, you could say the N-word. It's fine, just being a union.

Jay and A. Moore says she'll end up doing some BS show on NRA TV, LOL. And yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like there's a whole circuit for the, the Kirk Cameron Cinematic Universe, you know, like Kevin Sorbo and James Woods, she'll go and make some direct-to-video

movies with those motherfuckers. And, you know, and... That is funny to me that I didn't think about the NRA TV angle, but like NRA TV is kind of business now, I think. But if it was still around, it'd be funny to think about Dana Lash, sweating in her boots, because this younger,

hotter Dana Lash is now on this scene. Here's a question for you, Mark. Kathy Hogan says, Mark, what's that certificate behind your head? You certified, boy, explain that. Is my absolutely useless college degree if my wife hung it up. I don't know. I forget I have it. Yeah.

I should burn it. What's it in? Well, in the grand tradition of people who don't have any other better ideas, I majored in English. right on yeah i uh me and core we were just talking about on cori's cori ryan forre on his podcast recently about that about college and i was saying like i don't like i don't regret going to college at all because i was the first person in my family to do it but like i don't you know i'm also not using my college degree and i think that like there's a lot of validity to the whole the grift argument related to college i think both things at one

I think it can be great and it can be a way out and elevate yourself and all that. But the idea that every single person needs to go to college in America because that's just what you do and you need to take out loans to do it, that is bullshit. Like it just depends on what you're trying to do. You know, producer Matt just said his degree is in philosophy. So that was a huge mistake. You know, it just depends on what your goals are and what you're trying to study. college can be awesome, but it can also be complete bullshit. Here's how I think about it.

It should be cheaper, first of all. We need to go back to the college in the 70s where it was mostly free if you went to a public school. Like college in the 70s, 80s was like a couple hundred bucks a semester or whatever. That's one of the reasons it's everybody isn't fucking dead. I got a BS and BS. Yeah. An enemy and enemy says I got a BS and BS. Me too because my BS is in psychology.

So that's, yeah, BS and BS. There you go. You got a master's degree. agree though you're double fancy in business yes which is like a real thing but yeah still whatever you got english i got psychology uh producer matt's got philosophy we're just we're checking a lot of box a lot of bullshit boxes that rare i have mixed feelings over at all because i do think college can be um a way to develop well-rounded knowledgeable citizens about the world right that's if you get a liberal arts degree which is the opposite is training someone to do a job which is what a lot of people

go to college for which that should be a trade school like it just really it just should be And it should be a lot cheaper. Either way, it should be a lot cheaper. But like, ideally, I wish everybody would get a four-year liberal arts degree just to learn about culture and how if you're going to go into tech to not destroy society because things are certain ideas are dangerous. Then you learn your actual trade, your actual text. Instead of just going, you go from high school calculus straight into like computer science and then you're making apps and you don't, you've never read any dystopian sci-fi or Shakespeare. So you don't know why you're ruining the world. You don't know how many conception of it. You're just fucking doing it.

Jen Morgan Caravello says, I hate that our society sees people without degrees as being less worthy. And yes, I, yeah, I agree with you completely. That's what I'm saying. It's just like a person to person basis, you know, college don't make sense for everybody. And the fact that you didn't go to college and, you know, still end up doing just fine because there was nothing at college for you in the first place.

Then, you know, good for you. You made the right call. And there's nothing to be. condescended to about that. Yeah, yeah. I guess my point, like I wish maybe everybody doesn't need to be a fancy degree or anything. Maybe you get four years after high school just to have a library card and go sit

under a tree and read stuff and think and think about who you are and what the world is and what you want to do. Yeah, I agree. If there was some, yeah, some mandatory program in this country that exposed everyone to, like you said, other cultures and other. ways of thinking and, you know, art forms and all that shit, I think people will be a lot better off. You might say, high school should cover a lot of that, but I mean, you know, it don't. Yeah.

I'm not saying it's, oh, sorry, the textbook wasn't easy either. I'm not saying it's, I'm not saying any of it's easy. That wasn't the point. I'm just saying, like, the, like, educations for different things. And if you want to train people to, like, be, like, look at, for example, Q, right? This is the people, this is this movement's fueled by, by people who are not media literate, who don't understand how actual, like the actual government works and shit. They just don't, and so they're very easily fooled and duped.

If they were, these are all, there's a great, basically the cues what happened, went to a bunch of people who aren't familiar with message board culture, came in contact with it, and they're not amity poisoned, and don't understand how people act on there. It's like, it's like when a bunch of boomers consume some content by 22-year-olds and thought it was literally true, and now they're burning, now in the capital, right? So it's just like, I'm saying like

if education is to make people you know, more aware of citizens, then it's hugely failing because we're trying to turn out. We're doing four-year trade schools that cost 200 grand. And I don't, I fucking hate that. Yeah. Debbie Shen says, you guys have degrees, but try and

find a plumber. And yeah, I don't know. My wife does all the plumbing around here and she'd be the first one to tell you that. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how to do anything. Like, like, like, Like I got my buddy Thompson, my best friend from growing up, he's like, he went, he's like, he went to trade school and certified and all this stuff or whatever. And he can just do so much stuff, Mark. Like he actually has like real life skills, you know, that just apply on a day-to-day basis.

And it's just, it's amazing. Now I think everybody should go to plumbing school. You want me over. There's no writing. I mean, I don't know. I just like, I definitely need to plumber in by half an hour. I'm making me want to flush my fucking degree. So that's going.

Yeah. Yeah. Let's say here. What was I like? Do you see, speaking of people going crazy, did you see that story today about Sidney Powell trying to duck the process over from Dominion? Yeah. Sidney Powell, one of Trump's former lawyers, right?

The ones that was like pushing the election fraud stuff or whatnot. About Dominion specifically. and so Dominion is suing her and she's trying to act. For $1.3 billion. So she has been on the lamb for about a month from process servers trying to keep her being served.

Right. So they staked out her house in North Carolina and she finally came home. So they they tried to serve her but she locked herself in her car and someone called the cops, presumably her neighbor because there was a ruckus.

And so, So anyway, they finally got her served. After the cops showed, I'd be like, this counts as you being served. I witnessed it. They're leaving the papers outside your car door. You can't duck this shit anymore. But it's just, she's a rich redneck, but she's still a redneck. Right.

And I'm just glad every redneck dispute always ends up with a fight in the yard. And I just thought that was. Right. Yes. And it's also like this idea of like, well, if I don't, you know, if I don't like get caught direct, if I just ignore that, you know, and I don't confront it directly. then it's not real. Like if she just continues to spy versus spy the process servers

and just and duck them the entire time, then she's fine. So same strategy your cousin used for his divorce. Just fucking hide out of Teddy's trailer. They can't find you. It's not real. Natalie Nichols says Dominion canceled Sidney's. Yeah. This is cancel culture coming for Sydney.

All she did was say a bunch of lies. They destroyed this company. And now they just want to make her pay for it. It's fucking cancellation, man. Yeah, but how does that type of thing work, though? I mean, I know you ain't a lawyer, but still, like, you said $1.3 billion just from her or just like in general? Because, like, I mean, she ain't got $1.3 billion, right? So what happens?

Nah. They're going to take everything they can get, though. I imagine her house was going on the market. Well, it said, yeah, they were outside her house in, like, the Biltmore Estates, North Carolina. or Biltmore, Biltmore or something, North Carolina, which I don't know, but I hear that.

And I'm like, oh, yeah, that rich people, North Carolina. That's rich people part of North Carolina. So she may not have $1.3 billion, but she got plenty of they could take. Again,

consequences, man. It's an alien concept to do a lot of these people. Deep big eyes says, what do you think about the fact that Trump promised to march with them and then ghosted them? I think that's just the trumpiest shit that ever trumped, you know, like what could be trumpier than that? He'll do it again.

Like over and over again, he'll do that. His first, it's like, oh, you go down on me, then I'll go down on you, right? Right. I'll look the second part of that's ever happened. But it's like his first legal team for the impeachment quit because he wouldn't sign a contract agreeing to actually pay them. He wouldn't, he wouldn't promise, he wouldn't put it down on paper that he'd actually pay them. So they quit.

It's just the same thing. He's like, yeah, I'll be right there. You guys go first, and I'll be right in front of you. Right. Also, to me, even just the marching part, like physically speaking, you know, they should have known he wasn't going to do that. Like, he ain't going to march. Marching's hard, man.

Yeah, as Toad Licker. I like that name, Toad Licker. So as Bonespire kicked up. Yeah, exactly, dude. He ain't going to march, like literally, actually physically march for shit, ever. He couldn't. He literally couldn't. We talked about it on Tuesday.

He doesn't think exercise kills you. So what would he? He's not going to die sooner. But it's funny. He told him he'd be right there with him. Then immediately went to watch them get the ship beat out of them by cops on television. Four of them died. He just went and watched them die while he had popcorn.

And they think he loves them. Yeah. Well, there you go. Deep Big Eyes again says he can't even walk down a ramp. That's not true. He covered that. All right. Deep Big Eyes.

He's damn. good ramp walker. He covered the ramp walking. It was, they said it was slippery. Remember he made a big, he'd see him on about that ramp for like 20 minutes at a rally at once saying it was slippery. Even the general, the big strong general had a hard time walking that, which is like the guy was like escorting him down. Because he's utterly, he's a 74 year old man with health problems. But also if you take a shirt, shirt off, he's fucking ripped his hell if you look at all those cartoons as his

fans drop. Yeah, put him in a Hisman pose and a painting. And then you'll say the truth. All right. Well, as a reminder, as we announced last time, we are in March. So starting the first week of March, we're going to a weekly format, where it's just on Tuesdays for multiple reasons. But that's what we're going to be doing. We feel like we're being maybe optimistic and hoping there'll be a little less insanity to cover in the future,

but also even more optimistic that maybe things get back to normal somewhat. And, you know, once a week versus twice a week will make more sense for people. But that's where we're going to. That's what we're going to do starting in March every Tuesday. But for the rest of February, we will be here every Tuesday and every Thursday, including next Tuesday. We'll see you right back here. We'll keep doing it. And thank you all so much for sticking with us.

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