Pardon The Insurrection
Where we discuss the ongoing Congressional and criminal investigations of the January 6 coup orchestrated by the former President. And because insurrection wasn't enough, we'll also cover the Department of Justice espionage investigation, investigations relating to other members of Congress, and more. Don't worry, we're not handing out any pardons.
Pardon The Insurrection
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Prepare to be gripped by a tale of intrigue and downfall, as we reveal Rudy Giuliani's spectacular tumble from America's Mayor to a desperate entrepreneur in the coffee industry. Our latest episode peels back the layers of Giuliani's public indictment on his very own birthday, crafting a narrative so surreal, it could be mistaken for fiction. Listen closely as we expose the clever tactics of the server at the party and the sharp response from Arizona Attorney General Chris Mays, highlighting the stark contrast between Giuliani's prestigious past and his current controversial ventures.
Witness the unraveling of a financial enigma as we scrutinize the perplexing audit of Trump's company and the implications of its shocking $327 million loss. With an accounting firm shut down for fraudulent practices and Trump's fluctuating popularity casting a shadow over his business empire, we question the possibilities of money laundering and the future of his social media endeavors. Your understanding of the tenuous relationship between business, popularity, and politics will be forever altered by our deep dive into this complex affair.
In an episode that cuts to the core of our current political climate, we confront the disturbing echoes of Nazism in today's rhetoric and the gravity of authoritarian threats posed to our democratic principles. We dare to challenge the impartiality of the Supreme Court, casting a critical eye on Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. And don't miss our candid dissection of Greg Abbott's actions, earning him the unenviable title of shithole of the week, not for the first time this year. Tune in for an episode that boldly addresses the tumultuous intersections of politics, finance, and justice, leaving no stone unturned.
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So let's take it across the country. You're heading way southwest, to Arizona.
Speaker 2:So Arizona Democratic Attorney General, chris Mays, on Friday announced that Rudy Giuliani had been served with the notice of his indictment.
Speaker 1:That's impossible, because Rudy Giuliani, just the day before that, was saying he would never get served because it was uh no, it was right before the deadline no, actually, so I'll get to it.
Speaker 2:so she announced that he had been served with his indictment on the charges uh relating to the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, and that announcement came less than two hours after giuliani got on the internet and taunted chris mays for failing to deliver his indictment in a social media post where he said, quote If Arizona authorities can't find me by tomorrow morning, one, they must dismiss the indictment and two, they must concede they can't count votes. And that message contained a picture of Giuliani smiling at a number of other people and balloons floating in the background in some sort of creepy ass closet where you definitely wouldn't be if you had real friends and were at your real birthday party?
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was having a birthday party and, like the janitors, thought it was some strange shit, but nonetheless.
Speaker 3:There are other guests this is just a small area, so I could only afford to have this hooker in here yeah well, he's trying to blow all his money, but so it was the.
Speaker 2:The notice was served to Giuliani immediately after that. Like you know, not long after he took video, like people in the crowd were like losing their shit because they couldn't believe it. So apparently the guy who served him with the notice was like at the birthday party. He was like in the back and he was like in pictures and shit. He was singing happy birthday and doing it the fuck up and then, like the next thing, you know, like out of some fucking movie. He's like you've been served and it was fucking hilarious. Like chris mays even reposted rudy giuliani's video on twitter. Um, it just in in an epic trope, like, look, this was like kendrick dropping, um the response to, uh drake's Matters. Like 30 minutes after he dropped it and just stomping all over his shit on YouTube. Chris Mays did the equivalent of that. Rudy Giuliani just fucking killed him off. And you know, look, giuliani's having some tough times here and I know that was his birthday and he fucking deserved it. Fuck his ass.
Speaker 1:I love that for him.
Speaker 2:I love.
Speaker 1:That was his birthday and he fucking deserved it. Fuck his ass. I love that for him. I love that for him so much.
Speaker 2:And just to prove to the degree, the degree of Rudy Giuliani's money struggles, have a short video to play.
Speaker 3:You all know I stand by the truth and if I put my name on something, I truly believe in it. Today, I'm thrilled to introduce you to something I'm incredibly proud of my own brand of organic specialty coffee, rudy Coffee. Believe me when I say it's the best coffee you'll ever try. It's smooth, rich, chocolatey and gentle on your stomach. It's so good I even recommend drinking it black. It comes in three varieties, including what I promise is the best decaf you'll ever have. You can order now by scanning the QR code on your screen or by visiting Rudy Coffee. By supporting Rudy Coffee, you're not just treating yourself to exceptional coffee. You're also supporting our cause, the cause of truth, justice and american democracy. You'll also be supporting the call to action non-profit, which is devoted I got that fucking shit off, okay, so well, I like.
Speaker 1:The second bag had a very, very, very generously de-aged photo of Giuliani generously de-aged sorry, it comes in three forms. You got half and half, quadroon and octaroon. I think that's pretty much what he would say yeah, I picked up on that.
Speaker 2:You can even drink it black in there. I was like, hey, look man, that's some kind of racial shit. I don't know if I can just nail him down on that, but I know it was like I felt it in my soul. But yes, rudy giuliani is broke, broke, broke broke, like I think he ever. He said if he ever went broke he'd sell coffee. And now here he is, um and I look, I guess this is because mike lindell is going out of business and they don't. He's, you know, his money's no longer good with fox because he owes him so much money missing yeah, well, he's first of all like he's off the wagon, on the wagon.
Speaker 2:Well, his behavior is very it's outrageous here.
Speaker 1:Definitely off the wagon, yeah it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:You know what we're trying to say. He's back on the crack. But so he's behind like millions of dollars in paying fox news for advertisements. So I, you know, I don't think he's allowed to do business there anymore. And you know that was one of rudy giuliani's money-making schemes to promote the fucking slippers or whatever the like, the um, the, the my slippers, the, my boxers or the, you know, the my sex toys, whatever the fuck he was selling, um. But yeah, how far america's mayor has fallen, you know you've gone from prosecuting the fucking mob to to doing press conferences in the fucking four seasons, total landscaping next to the little shop and then having your birthday in a closet yes, now you're having your birthday in a closet and hocking coffee.
Speaker 2:now, if I could guarantee that my money would actually get to Shea Moss, I might buy a pack of Ruby coffee. I mean Rudy coffee, but, like you know, who knows the financial arrangement Rudy has set up to make sure?
Speaker 1:Well, I read like two weeks ago that he was put on a $43,000 a month allowance. Then okay, on a $43,000 a month allowance. Then okay, $40,000 of that should go to Lady Ruby and Shea Moss.
Speaker 2:I mean, was this the court ordered allowance? This might be because of his bank account.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they put him on. You know he's po-mouthing, so they put him on an allowance. He's, you know, po-mouthing, and so they put him on an allowance of like 43 000. Maybe that's not the exact number, but it was in the 40s a month.
Speaker 2:So all right, and that that's him broke that might cover him having to pay his expenses and all of that as well. So it's difficult to tell really, but really yeah, well, he owns a few properties and he's got a bunch of debt to satisfy. And just you know, look, whatever he's worth, he does have to, like, cover his expenses.
Speaker 2:Um, but you know, I'm sure at some point or another, uh, ruby frog, ruby freeman and shea moss, they're gonna get their fuck his expenses I'm sure they're going to get their pay out as long as as well as the creditors in his bankruptcy settlement but yeah, I'm just rooting for um rudy giuliani to spend the last few days or years of his life, miserable, broken, hopefully in jail.
Speaker 1:Thank you, chris mays, for uh doing, doing the jail would be an upgrade for that motherfucker, because he is so down bad, like three hots and a cut everything. You can't do no better than that right now no, he's getting 38 000 a month, allowance 42, 43 000.
Speaker 2:Everything Trump touches goes broke and, with that said, untrue social is also down bad. They're down $328 million to be specific.
Speaker 1:And I'm so sad for them.
Speaker 2:Yep, the Trump media and technology group, the company that operates true social, you know, the one that merged with digital world acquisition spec recently. Here, say, the company that operates True Social, the one that merged with Digital World Acquisition SPAC recently. Here to take the company public they reported $770,000 and $770,000 in revenue for the first quarter of 24, with a net loss of $327.6 million. With a net loss of $327.6 million, they took in $770,000 and they reported a loss of $327 million in the first quarter of 2020. In three months, they lost more than $100 million a month, it seems fucking impossible.
Speaker 1:Wait, I'm trying to figure out, okay. Wait, I I'm trying to figure out, okay. So the company recorded 311 million dollars in non-cash expenses arising from the conversion of promissory notes. Was that shit? Monopoly money, like what the fuck?
Speaker 2:so, um, I don't know the financial arrangements of what happened with the company before it went public, which is, you again, part of the nature of a private company, and taking it public through a spec, like you, don't have some of the transparency that you would have in another way, you know, taking it public in a conventional manner, and so these promissory notes, I'm sure this is some way of basically billing the company.
Speaker 1:Oh, so it just consisted basically of Trump scribbling. I owe you in credit.
Speaker 3:It's a notepaper.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I owe you $7 trillion $300 million worth of IOUs set to mature once the company goes public and there's an influx of cash from outside investors. And now poof, you've made you know, 300 million dollars off of a company with no revenue. You took the cash value out of the thing by running it up as debt once it's public and like it's the thing. The fact that this thing is still functioning is fucking mesmerizing. But what's even crazier than that is it's still worth fucking billions of dollars. So remember a couple of weeks ago when it got down to lowest as low as like 20 a share or something it. It then proceeded to climb back up to 50, around $50 per share, and I think you know look, I don't know necessarily this to be the case, but I do believe that a number of you know private investors maybe hedge funds or you know other private organizations uh, pump money into the thing. It's like a short squeeze to try, and, you know, create some losses for the short sellers to keep the. It's a pump and dump, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, it's a clear pump and dump.
Speaker 2:You got the short sellers hedging against it and now you've got the the counter with the short squeeze and it did prop up the value of the company for a while. But when you get like your with a short squeeze and it did prop up the value of the company for a while, but when you get like your, your first quarterly earnings report of a newly public company showing three hundred and fucking twenty seven million dollars in losses, like that's got to destroy the. The public confidence, even in the people who are investing in this shit is a fucking mean. Stop Right. And this comes on the heels and I think we talked about this Was this last week, I can't remember.
Speaker 2:The weeds are kind of blurring together here where the auditor for the Trump company was. I can't concentrate anymore. I can't concentrate anymore. Were the auditor BF Borger. Bf Borger Were the auditor for the company. I covered my legs. Bf Borger looks like some kind of CFA down the street from a fucking O'Reilly's auto parts store next to like a Chinese takeout restaurant or something was supposedly what the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 2:Like who me yeah.
Speaker 1:Auto parts store. No, just keep going Okay.
Speaker 3:Just keep going, everything's cool.
Speaker 2:Alright. So the cfa that was doing the audit the financial audit of trump's company looked like it was out of some fucking former church building. It was like one guy and maybe like some support staff, supposedly handling the auditing of the finances of a multi-billion dollar company. That thing got shut down by the fec for being a a fraudulent audit meal. They basically just sign off on all the audits without looking in at the actual numbers, right, and then immediately after that you get this um, the first quarterly report showing the company lost $327 million. The shit looks sketchy as fuck. Just all of it together just seems like a money laundering operation, and I showed the picture on Twitter a few weeks ago, when the thing started to tank, of their offices down in Sarasota, florida, where the offices are basically empty. There's no one there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they were empty, basically empty. There's no one there. Yeah, they were, they were empty and there are literally no employees except for you know devon nunez, or but yeah, but they have a handful of trump's inner circle.
Speaker 2:You got his family.
Speaker 1:They have no place of operation. It's a total no headquarters, no offices. Money laundering yeah. No headquarters, no offices.
Speaker 2:Money laundering yeah, no headquarters, no offices, no infrastructure. They basically play the web hosting service and I imagine they've got a few programmers keeping the thing running. How the fuck do you lose $300 million? Where does it go? Where does it go? Legal keys His lawyers are billing True Social.
Speaker 1:I don't know but, yeah, if he doesn't win, well I'm sure he'll be in trials and or just jail for the rest of his life.
Speaker 2:But if he does win, well, and that's one of the things. The other things he was talking about and there's a few more things in there, but they were talking about how the, the value of the company hinges on presidents. I mean rather on trump's popularity and his ability to win the election and become president.
Speaker 1:I mean he's so popular that they can only get 770 000 in revenue, which I imagine is advertising. And even those motherfuckers are staying far away from him. They'll deliver to his packs, but they're not investing in his social media company and I'm using the term social media loosely but yeah, it's basically a message board at this point carol is falling asleep.
Speaker 2:Let's go, we gotta, we're gonna try and keep you in there, but yeah, just long story short. Looks like a money laundering operation and they were talking about plans to basically turn it into a streaming service and some far-fetched plans that are never going to happen. Like what.
Speaker 1:It's going to go by the wayside, like Donald Trump Jr's building affordable housing that lost like tens of millions of dollars.
Speaker 2:That's all of the story, but you, but you guys probably don't remember this. But like 10, 12, 15 years ago, trump tried this thing where he was rolling out the Trump phone and it was supposed to be like, you know, video messaging and all this shit, but really didn't do anything and that venture went broke.
Speaker 2:This is the same thing, except we're just better marketing because, you know, trump has totally monopolized the Republican Party and turned it into a cult. But, as I said with Rudy Giuliani, everything that Trump touches goes broke. Yes, and yesterday we had the most right wing thing ever happen Not the right wing, but the right wing because Trump posted a video on social media that referred to a quote unified Reich among possible developments If he were to win reelection in November, drawing criticism from President Biden and his campaign and his campaign. The video was posted to the True Social platform that we were just recently conversing over on Monday afternoon that asked quote what happens after Donald Trump wins and what's next for America? And the background was made up of hypothetical newspaper front pages with headlines including quote border is closed, 15 million illegal aliens deported and. Quote economy booms. But twice in the clip, slightly blurred text appeared beneath the headlines that read industrial strength significantly increased, driven by the creation of a unified Reich.
Speaker 1:Trump's out here reposting shit that sounds like fucking Hitler okay, I want to point something out that I think has been overlooked the video that was posted and all the clippings, whatever with those headlines. They were all in black and white Right that are reminiscent of 1930s. They weren't splashy color today's headlines, it was in the black and white style, which would have been the paper back in the 30s. That stood out to me.
Speaker 2:Maybe I'm- no, you're not crazy. It looked just like some shit you would have seen in a newspaper in 1934.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, exactly, and that stood out to me maybe even more than what was said, but how they also framed it, because they didn't do it in a modern style, they didn't do it in what a news headline would look like today. They did it in a retrospect of what it would look like in fucking 1933, 1934, 1935. That was all of that together, like not just the words, but how it was framed and how it was put.
Speaker 2:That stood out to me so hell shitler yeah uh, you know, it was some nazi shit. And this is the dude has been quoting hitler recently, his rallies, and he got on stage and said he wanted to be a dictator for a day, and then he was asked about it. But I think, sean hannity, he doubled down right. This is the dude talking about setting up concentration camps and the quote-unquote deporting millions of people, and he's going to deport them to the gas chamber. I would imagine this. They're telling you what they're planning on doing. Take them fucking seriously. Don't just don't play games with this shit like you. Look at what it is. It is what it is. He's telling you what he's going to do. It's he's. It's not a game.
Speaker 1:There's no sense of humor. It's not a joke no it's not a joke.
Speaker 2:There's no nuance, there's no innuendo and he even put it in black and white could you imagine black and white and black and white like literally black and white words. Could you imagine the fucking media fallout if president Biden accidentally accidentally retweeted some fucking quotes from stalin?
Speaker 1:they already tried to equate that when biden not his state of a union, state of the union, but one of his other, you know, addresses to the nation, and they were like look at that red. Oh my god, that looks so fascist, that looks so this and that and yeah, because he had the red background.
Speaker 2:It was kind of dark, bro. There was just fucking lighting. He was leaning into the dark brand and shit. Get the fuck out of here with that. You know what biden's not doing? Quoting hitler?
Speaker 1:he's not quoting hitler exactly moving on he's not talking about rounding up people in the camps and deporting 15 million people, and the simple fact that in legislation, when they were like, oh, you can stop somebody that you suspect of being a migrant, but also putting in the legislation that protects the people that arrest them from being sued immunity for any law enforcement who's willing to engage in his mass deportation scheme? Yeah. So that's already saying that they know it's not just going to be yeah, it's not going to be people that are he's going to just deport yeah, he's eventually going to end up deporting his political rivals.
Speaker 2:And look man, I I talk about this regularly and it's not to be hyperbolic, but this is the type of shit that you saw in the lead-up to hitler being appointed chancellor and taking over. It is what it is like. You don't have to believe me. You read, read about it. There's documentaries, there's movies. Do your own research, as they would like to tell you, but it's coming. You got to take this shit seriously. Speaking of, you know, flying the Nazi flag, we had Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito blame his wife for flying the American flag upside down, days after the attack on the Capitol on January 6th.
Speaker 1:So she was called a cunt.
Speaker 2:Yeah, accusing a neighbor of saying some vicious things or posting up some inflammatory signs about President Trump in 2021. And as a response, her wife put up the flag upside down outside the house. And if you're unaware of what an upside down american flag means typically, uh, and in previous generations as a stress signal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, it's a sign of distress basically uh, yeah, that actually sums it up fairly well, but, as symbols typically are, they can be adopted for means other than what they were initially intended to be used for. Of the election was stolen, used the upside down flag and it is a symbol of the intentions. To quote unquote stop the steal, uh, which again led to the attack on the capitol of january on january 6th and on january 17th. I believe some of alito's neighbors were so disturbed when they saw the flag was being flown upside down outside of their house that they took pictures. Now I don't know what the fuck the reason was. It took three years for the B to get the pictures, but someone documented it at the time the Supreme Court, as even then, alito and Thomas and the rest of the members of the Supreme Court were still looking at taking up cases about the 2020 election and whether or not to hand that election to Trump. And just look, I don't know what the fuck is going on with the real Housewives of January 6th here. But, like every supreme court justice, every, every justice on the supreme court can't be out here blaming the missus that's perfect for their insurrection activities, when it's in all likelihood they're involved. Now you could say you have to prove that they're involved. No, actually, I don't. Uh, judges of any stripe, except for Supreme Court justices, under any kind of auspices such as these like if there's any potential appearance of a conflict of interest or overly political behavior they should recuse themselves from any cases that might involve those political activities or those particular conflicts of interest. Except for the spring court, the highest court in the land ain't gotta follow no fucking rules when even the lowest fucking judge does. That. Don't make no sense.
Speaker 2:And again talked about this before. Yeah, I'm trying to knock this out. You know, you got clarence thomas wife out here. She, she unindicted co-conspirator. Now you got alito blaming his wife for flying the cool flag right after the attack on the capitol. And don't get it twisted trump was still in office and trump was still plotting. And I know this because there are pictures of mike lindale at the white house on january 15th with a stack of papers where one of them is suggesting that Trump declare martial law and stop the transfer of power, but by taking over the country using the military. And then Alito is supposedly not involved in this. We have messages from the co-conspirators talking about getting their case before Alito specifically OK, we ain't fucking stupid.
Speaker 2:Now again, I told you we're talking about how the supreme court um well, basically, I'm not out here selling hopium and you can't count on the supreme court to do what they supposed to do. Well, somebody better get to investigating the motherfuckers. They're sending them a subpoena or something. Put them on notice, because if you don't, if you keep treating them like a legitimate court, no matter how egregious the behavior, they're going to abuse their power, they're going to bail trump out and they're going to send this country spiraling towards disaster. And if you're not thinking about voting for joe biden because of, well, whatever the fuck issue you want to make up, that's not really an issue.
Speaker 2:I would suggest one one thing you think about what the supreme court makeup will be if trump is re-elected and alito and thomas retire and he gets to replace them with two, you know, 35 year old, insane asylum escapees, and then you have sotomayor, which you're gonna have a 7281 supreme court. The only girl, the only reliable left wing or left-leaning justice on the court, is going to be kataja brown jackson. Is that the kind of future you want in gilead? No, sorry, I had to get that off my chest or?
Speaker 1:if they decide to expand the supreme court? Oh yeah, they'll make which they could because because they love to piggyback off of what the left suggests and what the left is doing.
Speaker 2:So if they do that, in ain't nobody ain't nobody on the left really talking about expanding the Supreme Court, at least nobody in office or in Congress.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I mean just like left Twitter in 2020 and 2021, when we realized it wasn't going to happen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but they'd be like, well, they talked about it on Twitter.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Well, they were also like don't you dare use that option, because we will pay you back someday.
Speaker 1:Ie like we are definitely going to do that when it's our turn. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, moving on to yet another flag being flown, this time is Rick, rather Nick Fuentes. Another flag being flown, this time is Rick, rather Nick Fuentes. You know, well-known white nationalist provocateur, you know neo-Nazi type who's made numerous racist and anti-Semitic statements in the past. He accidentally, accidentally posted gay porn on his live stream.
Speaker 1:That's in quotes, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah accidentally.
Speaker 1:Well, no see what happened was it was the Israeli Defense Federation we were getting there. Because you know I'm such a threat that they're targeting me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the Jews are to blame for everything, according to Fuentes, but the X-rated content appeared after he signed off for the night following his commentary on the backlash from the kansas city chiefs. Kicker harrison, uh butker, makes some making some fucking misogynistic comments about how women's highest aspiration should be to fucking stay in the kitchen and, I guess, barefoot. Pop out and spawn, yeah pretty much if you like to interpret it that way, but we do have a video of the event. I'll play that clip.
Speaker 2:You're playing for us All right let's have a great rest of your evening. Americanism, not globalismism, will be our credo.
Speaker 1:Oh dear.
Speaker 2:Where are my pearls at? Uh, yeah, as you can see, that quickly went off the rails what kind of it was it sped up?
Speaker 1:why did it sound like squeaking?
Speaker 2:little, uh, it's been censored and they kind of redacted basically, yeah, they kind of censored out the audio and the visuals, but okay, just making sure that isn't the original audio, because it was very disturbing. No, those individuals moaning and grunting from engaging in all kinds of uh, you know well all kinds of debauchery yeah non-heterosexual activities. And you look, you know you can watch whatever porn you want to. You can accidentally, you know, dangle your thingy on Zoom, I don't recommend it.
Speaker 1:I mean, I would, yes, technically not recommend that you do that. I don't care what kind of stank you get on your hang low okay, that's your business.
Speaker 2:However, don't care what kind of stank you get on your hang low okay, that's your business, yeah, however, yeah, but when you're known to be, uh, an outright homophobe and you engage in fucking nazi-like behavior, uh, you know, it's very outrageous that you got caught playing some gay porn on your right-wing nazi live stream shit on accident. But then, not only that, fuentes had the nerve to try and blame the israeli defense force. He said that they hacked his feed and played the gay porn where we know he just accidentally clicked on some shit. He's probably, you know, getting his shit off to before he got started. This is fucking hilarious. It's not important. I just wanted to like lighten the mood because I thought that shit was pretty fucking funny. Um, in his direct quote was my proprietary live streaming site was hacked after the stream went offline by someone claiming to be IDF unit 8200, the hacker took credit by watermarking the porn and leaving messages on the back end of the site Easily disprovable nonsense. No, sir.
Speaker 1:Leaving messages on the back end of what site? His site or the porn site?
Speaker 2:I'm assuming his website, but no, he just got busted watching some gay shit, and there's nothing wrong with that. He just got busted watching some gay shit, and there's nothing wrong with that, as long as the only thing we typically have an issue with is like hey, why are you so hypocritical about this shit? All you do is talk about gay.
Speaker 1:Like I think he blames. Why doesn't he want other men to enjoy all the butt stuff that he's enjoying?
Speaker 2:Exactly, carol, that's my sentiments, exactly. So before we get to our shithole of the week award really quickly, I would just like to um say congratulations to fanny willis on winning your democratic primary down there in fulton county georgia. Uh, you'll fuck a champion. And I just wanted to bring her up because, as rachel maddow pointed out on her show, uh, monday evening, we don't do enough to protect the individuals who have been charged with using their positions in law enforcement or as state or local or federal prosecutors to try and hold the people accountable who try to overthrow our elections and destroy our government. We don't stand up for them enough. We don't protect them enough. No one's speaking up for them.
Speaker 2:There's so many people out here engaged in attacking these people and if we let the people who are in a position to use their office to try and save our democracy fall victim to these attacks and we don't use our voice to stand up and support them and we lose our democracy, we deserve to lose our democracy. So, again, you know, fonny Willis is a stalwart, a bulwark for our democracy. She's the only person in an entire state willing to try and hold Trump accountable Trump and his co-conspirators, for that matter, accountable for trying to steal the 2020 election and overturn the election in Georgia when we all heard that fucking tape. So go, fonny Willis, you a champ. Fuck all the haters. Ty, shoot all the weak. Award after you.
Speaker 1:Greg fucking Abbott what he done to come back this year oh yeah.
Speaker 2:So once we concluded the shithole of the year award the you know we.
Speaker 1:I can't do it, carol, roll back he's now eligible.
Speaker 2:Like, once you hit three shithole of the week awards, you you're automatically disqualified from from being eligible for the shithole of the week award, but you are entered into the shithole of the year award contest. But yes, continue. Greg abbott, what did he do last week that that would?
Speaker 1:but his pardoning of daniel perry, which he had stated before, like it wasn't. It was surprising, but not surprising because he had already, as soon as daniel perry was convicted, he was saying that he was going to pardon him. Um, what did daniel perry do?
Speaker 2:for for starters for the audience it's a murder.
Speaker 1:Sorry, was present at a black lives matter protest, but well, not daniel perry. But who he killed um? But daniel perry, he killed an unarmed protester thank you that's debatable, whether or not, whether they were armed or armed. But that's not even the point, because they are hyping everybody up that everybody should be armed.
Speaker 3:I said it's all about stand your ground right.
Speaker 1:They've made it more obvious and more transparent that it's only if you are a non-Melanated person, a non-person of color, to have those rights. Yeah, Perry killed this protester who?
Speaker 2:could possibly have been armed, but he had previously been speaking about how he wanted to go to the protest, specifically to kill a protester.
Speaker 1:To kill protesters, to kill protesters of color, that he was salivating over it and he was. Or looking at the posts of the wife left behind, his black wife, and she said he wasn't a black lives matter protester and even if he was just showing him as a human being, like they had got into an accident and she had her hands like freaking, wrapped in gauze and couldn't feed herself when he was feeding her and she was I'm sorry this makes me emotionally even say, but she was like here, he was like feeding her. It was like. This is who he was. He loved me from the beginning and see his memory, his life, who he was just politicized and denigrated and made to seem like he didn't matter, and her commitment to making sure that we all know that he mattered.
Speaker 1:It hits me in my feels in so many ways. It's like I can't, really like I don't. I don't know what to say other than Greg Abbott is the fucking worst. I can't even say the bottom of the barrel because if there actually was one, they would continue to fucking scratch under it and to reach it, and this is where we are today. Like this is what we've become, that we dismiss humanity, we dismiss people who are just wanting to make us all do and be better, to push us to be and do better, and the joy and the glee that people have at one human being murdering another. I won't understand it. I can't understand it. And the way that Greg Abbott has leaned into his ugliness and awfulness is something that we are going to have to deal with, live with, acknowledge and one day fucking be ashamed of her fucking generations.
Speaker 2:Like it's, it's, I don't know, I can't yeah, however you feel about garrett foster carrying a gun, supposedly in ak-47, at a black lives matter rally, you have to imagine this is Texas. So just think about all the right wingers you know who are pro-Second Amendment, pro-gun, pro-open, carry all this stuff. That Perry killed this man. You know that's one thing. The jury fucking found him guilty. Found him guilty of murder. It was premeditated. He intended to go there to shoot someone. He found someone that he thought he could claim some kind of plausible deniability.
Speaker 1:And this is Texas, so I am sure that there were many on that fucking jury that are, quote unquote conservatives, or you know that it wasn't a.
Speaker 2:They say this the entire jury yes, entire jury of his peersxas who love guns, found this dude guilty of murder, sent him to jail and then, um, greg abbott found it, you know, found himself to be in a position where he could issue this man a pardon, and and the message it sends is as long as you're on our side, the law doesn't apply to you.
Speaker 1:You can, you know it's not just the law man, it's the constitution in terms of, like your right to be yeah jury trials, the the garrett foster getting shot.
Speaker 2:Garrett foster. Getting shot for carrying a weapon in an open carry state was a violation of his second amendment rights, and these are the people who care about, proclaim to care about the second amendment, pardoning a man who violated a constitutional right that they hold dearly, and the message that sends is that you can engage in political violence on the right as long as you have someone in a position of power to grant you a pardon and give you your freedom. If you live in that state or you know, should trump be elected president, uh you have the power right.
Speaker 1:You are the shithole of the week and and running for shithole of the year, because I'm pretty goddamn sure that that couldn't have been his first time this year Give us a reason.
Speaker 2:It's definitely got to be the second time and I'm sure he's going to get. He's going to make it into the nomination a third time. But yes, Greg Abbott, you are the shithole of the week. And that concludes this episode of Par and the Insurrection.