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Turkeygate

Nov 23, 202324 minEp. 136
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Are you ready to slice through the turkey scandal, grapple with inflation, and take a stand on controversial political activities? Buckle up as we dissect Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz and his absurd claim blaming President Biden for his pricey Thanksgiving turkey. We'll shine a light on the real effects of Biden's economic policies and pull back the curtain on the hypocrisy of politicians who cry foul over high prices. Plus, we dive into the sketchy world of major egg producers and their price-fixing scandal, not forgetting to touch on the contentious conservative group Moms for Liberty.

But there's more! The murky waters of the Trump Organization's legal tussle with New York State demands our attention. We'll explore potential repercussions and the role of Fox News in spreading reckless speculation. 

As we navigate this sea of controversies, we also discuss the false reporting by Fox News on a car crash labeled terrorist attack and the vital need for media accountability. And to top it off, we examine Elon Musk's lawsuit against Media Matters and President Biden's critical role in cobbling together a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. So, brace yourself for an episode packed with passionate discussions and critical insights.

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Speaker 1

Yo , what up ? This is D-Night and you're listening to the Pardon the Interaction podcast . Happy Gobble Day , happy turkey day , happy Thanksgiving to everyone listening out there . I appreciate you taking the time to spend a bit of your holiday .

Which boy got a pocket pardon episode for you today just to keep you brushed up on the news or potentially give you a break from those couple of family members that you couldn't wait to get away from .

Yeah , I hope you're enjoying all your wonderful Thanksgiving meals , family time , football or just sitting on the couch chilling , relaxing , whatever it is you do , and for those of you that don't celebrate anything , spend a little time with me , alright .

So start off with the biggest political news of the week Turkey gate chase and chafes blaming Joe Biden for his $90 organic , grass-fed free Rome gourmet woke ass turkey and ex-exorbitant price . Because Joe Biden makes the decisions about where you choose to get your fucking insanely expensive ass turkey .

But yeah , he was complaining on Fox News about Americans having to pay more for the Thanksgiving dinners this year , saying specifically that Joe Biden was responsible for his expensive ass turkey that he handpicked out himself from the most expensive place he could possibly find . You know , saying $96 or whatever it was was absolutely absurd .

And then he posted a picture of the turkey on the social medias with the price being approximately $114 . So apparently he either lied about the price of the turkey that he bought on Fox News or and went and found an even more expensive turkey , or just like . Math is hard , I don't know . Maybe it's the latter .

I mean , he's not the brightest individual in the world . I don't know how they do it out there in Utah , but you know , I know the difference between , you know $90 and $115 . Anyway , as it turns out , prices this Thanksgiving are down from a year ago . Everything's cheaper , food's cheaper , gas is cheaper , flights are cheaper .

You know the White House likes to lay into this Bidenomics thing , but apparently it's working . It's doing its job .

I mean not to say that inflation has totally gone away , but it is as low as it's been in years and America has been dealing with the lowest rate of inflation of the entire developed world over the course of the past couple of years , thanks to Joe Biden's economic policies . Of course the media just doesn't enjoy telling you the truth . They don't like it .

Anything that makes Joe Biden look good . They'll just keep that on the hush . But I guarantee you , if inflation ever does happen to go back up , they'll be the first ones to point it out . They'll let you know . They've been predicting an economic recession for like two years now .

It feels like every day of Biden's administration and like the economy set to crash , and it hasn't .

I mean , you can go look it up Thanksgiving of last year and the year before that , and if there's one contributor to the increasing price of consumer goods and consumer products over the course of the last couple of years , I'm sure you would be likely to say inflation , and yes , that's fair , but also price gouging .

So an Illinois jury earlier this week found that several of America's major egg producers conspired together to limit the United States' supply of eggs in order to raise prices Price fixing . Now , this ruling , of course , covers a period between 2004 and 2008 .

So , yes , it's been quite a while , but what I would like to point out is that if it was a successful business strategy for these companies over a decade ago , it's not like they stopped doing it . Folks Like if you were wondering a year , year and a half ago why eggs were so high .

What the egg producers were saying was that there was a contagious disease , a bird flu of some sort that was infecting a number of their stock in farms all across America , and because those birds had to be slaughtered and couldn't be used for human consumption .

Of course that caused a rise in the price of poultry you know , turkey eggs and such but also Like why not take the opportunity to increase the prices even further and collect more of a profit ?

It's the same old scheme that's been going on here for the last couple of years , ever since , due to supply chain disruptions and such that nearly every country around the world was experiencing a significant amount of inflation . But what's really funny is the former chairman of one of the companies found liable for price fixing is running for Congress in 2024 .

You can't make it out . And of course he's a Republican . And I'd just like to point out that , for all this hand wringing Republicans do about consumers facing excessive prices , there was an anti-price gouging bill that Biden was ready to sign in May of last year or so . Republicans voted it down . You know why ?

Because they don't actually care about fixing the fucking problem . They want the problem to remain , so they can complain about it , so they can say that government doesn't work , even though they're wholly responsible for the fact that government doesn't work the way people would like it , to Bananas .

And if you're excited to hear about more conservative hypocrisy , moms for liberty , if you're not familiar with that group , also lovingly referred to as bitches for bigotry or , as I like to call them , heifers for Hitler , as I like to call them , after one of their chapters quoted Hitler in a newsletter .

And then the head of moms for liberty like double down Great times .

But yes , that conservative group who's been trying to infiltrate school boards around the country so they can enact their racist , homophobic , transphobic policies in schools across America , or in banning books , making kids dumber , making them less informed and ill-equipped to contribute to society as an adult . Yeah , that group .

So apparently their outreach leader , who is based in Philadelphia , is get this a registered sex offender . You never would have guessed it . Huh , it's always the people running around yelling about pedophiles and such that are the actual pedophiles . Who'da thought so ?

Philip Fisher , a pastor , of course , because there's nothing like mixing your pro-Nazi Christophascism with being a child molester . But yeah , philip Fisher , a pastor and a local Republican ward leader . He pled guilty to a charge of aggravated sexual abuse involving a 14 year old boy in 2012 , when he was 25 and living in Chicago .

If you thought I was going somewhere else with that story . No , not really . Just wanted to point out that heifers for Hitler . They're also like pro-child sex traffickers . They're defending the fucking guys record . They're still gonna have them involved in their fucking outreach programs and their non-profit organization gatherings and what the fuck not .

I wouldn't be surprised if , at some point , they haven't run for school board , because , of course , these fucking people . It does , however , tie in to another story .

Paul Crow , 72 years old , the younger brother of Republican megadoner and the owner and operator of our Supreme Court Justice , clarence Thomas Crow , is facing a trial over allegations of financing a 100 person sex trafficking ring .

Thanks to a judge in Texas who was ruling paved the way for the court case , he and his family being some of the wealthiest real estate magnates in the state of Texas . So two women are claiming that from 2010 onwards , they were drugged by a group of doctors involved in the scheme and then forced to perform sex acts .

They claim that the ringleader of the group was one of the women's then husband , richard Hubbard , who exercised his control over her until 2018 at least , according to her , and then the other woman , who eventually became his fiance , escaped the group later on in 2020 .

One claiming to have basically become a sex slave and the other claiming to have been beaten and raped on multiple occasions .

And you know , I apologize for not warning you in advance of the darkness and depravity associated with that story , but just wanted to put in context that the person who was funding an operation and does those sorts of things to women is the brother of someone who practically owns a Supreme Court Justice Like literally owns his mom's house and is letting her live

there , rent free and fly across the country and on all these fucking lavish trips , showering him with gifts and shit to get favorable rulings in court . Like in his brothers out here running sex trafficking rings . And if you want to take it to like the extra layer of salacious scandal , crow is a friend of Prince Andrews ex-wife , sarah Ferguson .

So you know , if you like diving down the conspiracy theory rabbit holes , you go right ahead , feel free . You know the fact that this guy is associated with Prince Andrew in any way . When we have these regularly reported ties between Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein , we also know to be involved in sex trafficking rings .

So I just , you know , put two and two together , however you like . There it's definitely not squaring the circle . It is the Venn diagram overlapping and speaking of bad news for conservative billionaires . The civil trial of the Trump Organization in New York has taken a turn for the better for us , but for the worse for Trump .

As his former controller , jeff McConnie , took the stand . He was previously granted limited immunity to testify in the criminal trial against the Trump Organization .

He was called as a witness by the defense to testify today , and when asked not today , but this week and when asked about why it was that he decided to quit the Trump Organization , he broke down in tears , boohoo bitch , talking about how he was just tired of being accused of falsifying the documents and inflating the assets owned by the company in order to give

Donald Trump a higher net worth . Yeah , cry , more ho . Well , on cross examination , he was asked whether or not , uh , donald Trump was responsible in any way for signing off on documents that contain the false and over inflated evaluations of you know Trump or properties where Trump and sons said that they relied on outside accountants to handle that .

Well , uh , apparently , information that wasn't even turned over in discovery but was obtained from you know their accountant Mazers uh by subpoena , was presented to mccotty and lo and behold , in booink there was a sign off on the bottom saying two djt for final review , meaning that Trump signed off knowingly on the documents fraudulently inflating the value of his

assets on these financial condition forms before sending them off to the accountants , thereby establishing the conspiracy between mccotty uh , alan Weisselberg and Donald Trump and co To commit fraud in order to obtain beneficial loan terms that they weren't qualified to receive insurance , et cetera , et cetera , uh . Now , of course uh the persistent fraud account .

In this trial , the judge already found the company liable for that Uh , but there were a number of other accounts uh involved in the lawsuit that require prosecutors to prove intent and , in this particular instance , having a document show Trump's direct knowledge of the fraudulent statements and an issue I mean I basically wraps this shit up .

Yeah , like I thought at some point maybe the judge might throw them a bone on one of the counts and say , you know , maybe uh , maybe the New York AG's office didn't meet the burden of proving um intent , maybe to just give some sort of fig leaf to Trump and company saying hey , I didn't completely hammer you on everything . I think that's over .

It's a wrap , for that Uh judge is going to find Trump and Trump or liable on all counts and they're going to get fucking hammered . Um , now , I'm not entirely sure that the judge will agree to uphold the full $250 million worth of disgorgement fees that finding Willis is asking for . Uh , I do believe . Uh , to some degree .

It's her responsibility to provide proof of the amount of undue profits Trump or gained from engaging in this fraudulent activity . Now I suppose , because it's a bench trial , that the judge is capable of going back through the factual record to come to some sort of conclusion about what that number should or shouldn't be . But I don't know .

That's one of the issues that could probably be raised on appeal , since we're almost certainly guaranteed to see Trump or glues this case . But just consider that moment . The end of the trial is a wrap . Get them up out of here , trump or is over .

They definitely won't be able to do business in New York ever again after this , and if they have to pay a significant fine , you know Trump's cash pour again like . I think that's fairly obvious at this point .

They're going to have to sell off a lot of assets to pay those fees and , of course you know Trump or gets paid last , meaning of course that they'd have to pay back those financial institutions first to satisfy the loan conditions . And no one knows how much money would be even be left over .

Like if this could start a cascading effect where the company goes bankrupt . And it's not like Trump has a file for bankruptcy before . It wouldn't be the first time . Me personally , I am rooting for the worst for the Trump organization . Take all that shit , sell it off . If you didn't have anything left , oh well , you could be broke , like the rest of us .

And speaking of rooting interests and know this isn't a sports ball a minute of the week , but , much like Republicans are rooting for high prices and high inflation and making sure that American citizens are suffering financially , fox News is rooting for a terrorist attack .

Yeah , you heard that right In case you missed it , there was an explosion at a checkpoint at the border in New York near Niagara Falls , with a bridge going over Niagara Falls , and while we were waiting for confirmation of whatever the circumstances surrounding that event might have been , fox News , of course , could help themselves .

Republicans as well , wanted to jump into the fray and come to the conclusion that it was a terrorist attack , worst attack on our country since 9-11 , thanks to Joe Biden's open borders in Peach Biden . Now , that's not actually what happened .

It appears as though a man driving a vehicle apparently $300,000 of some sort lost control of his car thanks to some sort of malfunction , possibly with the fuel line , and couldn't break the car and hit a median flu into the air and crashed into like a guard shack or something like that .

Fox News decided to immediately go in the air and proclaim that , according to anonymous sources which we know now probably don't even exist , saying that it was a terrorist attack , there was a bomb in the car and the individual driving and the passenger are now dead . That wasn't the case .

It was some rich white dude who just couldn't figure out how to fucking drive . Now , I'm not saying that's not a terrorist . Like rich white people who can't drive , they're a bane to my existence . And when Trump is holding his political rallies calling the radical left vermin , how about the rich dudes who just shouldn't be operating vehicles ?

Can we start with them ? Like , are they not the vermin ? But yeah , fox News completely going off the rails here with reckless speculation , presenting it as fact and then trying to use it to score some kind of political victory over Biden . It's just absolutely fucking bananas . These dudes are rooting for terrorists .

They're rooting for terror attacks , like they were rooting for that car to have been a terrorist attack . The same way Al Qaeda was rooting for those planes when they crashed into the towers . Like , what side is Fox News even on at this point ? And Republicans too , for that matter , but I guess at this point it's the same thing .

And this is just absolutely wild . Like I don't know how the family of the person who was driving that car feels , but I am sure if they are financially well off , they'll probably be suing Fox News and Fox will lose yet another fucking billion dollars .

Because you can't just get out here and lie like this , like and you know I understand first the women writes , but like you can't defame people , you can't tell blatant lies . And just Jesus Christ , for fuck's sake . I mean they went on for hours just off the rails like saying there were multiple explosives in the car . Just absolute banana stuff , man Bananas .

And yet Elon Musk , free speech warrior , is suing media matters for telling the truth . It's like what insane world are we living in ? Like someone . Sue Fox News again already , please , but obviously Fox wants to blame Biden for something because they have to try and spoil the good job he's doing . Case you missed it .

Biden was largely responsible for a negotiation succeeding between Hamas and Israel , being mediated by Qatar , in which Hamas agreed to release around 50 civilian hostages , mostly women and children , in exchange for temporary ceasefire , israel releasing a number of prisoners and multiple aid trucks being sent into Gaza every single day over the next five days , and this could

potentially be just the beginning of some semblance of at least a temporary solution to the fighting in Gaza , praised by BB Danyahu himself .

Biden's directly responsible for the success of those negotiations and , like I said when this incident first happened , like there was absolutely no guarantee that Israel would ever get those hostages back , at least not alive anyway , and , given the circumstances surrounding , any kind of incursion into Gaza and its layout , especially with the tunnel system underneath , is

likely being possible , at least through military meetings , to get those people back , and just don't even expect it .

Yet Biden did the fucking impossible and for everyone who's been complaining that he doesn't care about the citizens in Gaza , like this , dude's been pushing for Israel to be circumspect in its use of military ordinances around Hamas targets that might put civilians in danger and his dude is the one getting all the fucking aid sent in to help these poor people who

were just caught in a crossfire between Israel protecting itself and fucking terrorist organizations who do everything they can to put civilian lives in jeopardy . And I know we live in an immediate gratification society where you can , where you expect to be able to take these complex issues and just microwave a solution and have it instantly available .

Like this is a complicated matter and no solution like that exists . And also you never know what it is Joe Biden is doing behind the scenes to try and come to some sort of resolution .

The guy's trying to do his job and do it well , with the constraints that are imposed upon him by the fact that , while , yes , he is the president of the United States , he is not the president of the world . And that concludes this episode of part of the Insurrection .

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