Weekly Skews - S6 Ep12: Weekly Skews – Operation Epic F*ck-Up

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

This week, we begin with the number one political issues facing Texas: Sharia Law and lies about porn addiction and organic honey. Then we get into the beginning of our most recent non-war with Iran, news of which was broken by a couple drunk guys overhead at a seafood restaurant by TMZ, and things have only gotten dumber since then. Why’d we attack? The White House will have to get back to you on that.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. BetterHelp makes it easy to get matched online with a qualified therapist. Sign up and get 10%  https://www.betterhelp.com/skews This episode is sponsored by ZBiotics. Go to https://www.zbiotics.com/SKEW  now. You'll get 15% off your first order when you use SKEW at checkout

What's up everybody? Welcome back. It's once again, Skews Day, specifically. It's March 3rd, 2026. We're recording this on Monday, March 2nd at about 1 o'clock PM on the left coast. I'm trying that's Mark and all as well. Yeah, yeah. We're talking about all the stupid contradictions and reasonings,

rationales for Operation Epic Fury, which, you know, we attacked Iran this weekend. Before we get to that, though, I want to talk about the GOP primaries in Texas for a little bit. We talked about the Democrat side on our show on Friday. But the dynamics over there, my old home state, the race we're not even going to talk about is the Texas Agriculture Commissioner Race, where the incumbent is a guy named Sid Miller running for like his fourth term, I think. He got endorsed by Trump and a weightlifter named Tiny Meeker, who holds the world record for bench press.

He's currently attacking his opponent Nate Sheets over his alleged porn addiction and whether his honey is organic. People have been defacing signs for Nate Sheets. I want to pull this image up there, Matt. Make sheets his pants. Classic. Yeah. I'm sure he's never heard that one before. Yeah.

So the rest of the Republican primary races in Texas see to revolve around, you know, a huge issue in America that we're all confronting if you got this video, Matt. Pretty much every Texas GOP primary sounds like this. Go for me so we can pick every dirty Muslim of Texas and protect our soldiers from getting murdered in broad daylight.

That's Valentina Gomez, you might remember from previous episodes. I saw that lady earlier today claim that, she tweeted, you know, there was a shooting in Austin or whatever, and she tweeted a video and in the capture for it, she said,

it said something like Muslims wanted to kill me, but they killed innocent people instead or something. And I don't, because I didn't watch a video. I don't know if she was literally trying to claim that that dude wanted to kill her or if she just if it was her way of saying like

you know, we're all under threat by Muslims all the time or what, but her response to that was to say like, you know, they tried to come for me. Yeah. I mean, she has many videos where she burns Koran, so I'm sure she's on somebody's shit list somewhere, whether or not they're going to go out of the trouble to murder her. I doubt it

because who the fuck. She's a, she's a way now. She ran for Secretary of State in Missouri two years ago when we first started making fun Yeah, was she the one that was jogging and was like stop being weak and gay? Yes, yeah. And then she moved to Texas because she thought it'd be easier to get elected there

but she's gotten, she got caught doing voter fraud because she was trying to register a vote to run for office with the address as a PO box so she thinks she's being like railroaded by the deep state. She's a fucking lunatic. Anyway, in that video she goes on to say

your daughters will be raped and your sons beheaded unless we stop Islam once and for all. So I'm going on this Politico piece this headline reads, Republicans go all in on Sheraulaw. It's actually head as Texas primary. This is a GOP consultant named

Vinnie. Vinnie Minchillo. Minchio? I don't know. The Muslim community is the boogeyman for this cycle. He said, 100% this message works. There's no question about it. There has been pulled up one side and down the other. This has been pulled one side and down the other. And with Texas Republican primary voters,

it works is a thing they're legitimately scared of. Texas is 2% Muslim. And you all wear gun belts while you're brush your teeth naked, you're going to be fucking fine. They're, like, because I, like, I mentioned before that, like, I, uh, because I watch a lot of Dow sports,

uh, Texas sports, I, uh, I, I borrow Bodies DirecTV login, so I see ads from Texas. And they're all, all the campaign ads are by how we need to stop Sherella in Texas.

The, where is this coming from? Is this tangentially related to Israel or something like that? No. Like it, because I'd felt like, you know, they had mostly moved on to trans,

uh, stuff. I guess you just got and then immigrants, but not specifically Muslim immigrants, just you know, immigrants, Central and South American immigrants. So I guess you've got to switch it up every now and then, so they're pivoting back to Muslims, but also we're now

at war with Iran, so it seems convenient, you know. This goes back, so this is so remember the Ground Zero Mosque controversy back, you know, 20 years ago or whatever? Yeah. This is sort of like, like, Texas has their own version of that where like this group called the East Plano Islamic Center.

is, you know, filed for permits to build a 400-acre, like, planned community around a mosque, a K-12 school, and some retail with shops and stuff, like a whole butcher shop, coffee shop, that kind of shit, right? And it's been a whole fucking outrage and fury about it. Like, there's no walls around it. It's not like a nation state of Sharia law. They're building, like, a planned community. It's like less, it's less isolated than, like, an Amish farm.

And you don't even have to be Muslim. to live there, which would be illegal. Right? So like, you can go, once this is built, you can go, you can drive over there to a restaurant and get yourself a falafel. It's no fucking big deal. But they're acting like they're installing a Sharia, like an independent like, like, secessionist state where there's going to be Sharia law.

By the way, there are no Sharia courts in Texas. Like there's a, it's only voluntary Muslim mediation panels operating the same framework used by Jewish Beth Nin courts and Christian arbitration services. So like a lot of, a lot of different religions. If you want to get a divorce from your wife, it's mediated by like a cleric or your rabbi or your preacher, right? I don't know if that's great or not, but like it's good for the goose.

It's good for the gander. You know what's just we had, you know, do you remember a couple weeks ago in the group chat when Corey Sips kept forwarding us screenshots of emails he was getting about a public, a PR company pitching us on having that pastor from the Trump, pastor council, whatever the fuck it's called

on our podcast and we were all like how they must not know who we are and then Corey and Drew like I'll be funny to have him on and feel you know fuck with him whatever and I just didn't say anything I remember I came back

I had shows when I felt like I came back and the decision had been made yeah we'll have him on to be cool and I said I don't want to do that but whatever I guess it's too late now you never believe this mark it didn't go well that guy came we did it

anyway he's from Oklahoma and it seemed like he just kept wanting to turn everything back to you know radical Islam is the greatest threat this country has ever faced but the first time that he ever brought it up was when Drew started asking about Israel's stuff that's why I said that earlier so like he that's how he first got to it but it just seemed like that's what he wanted to talk about more than anything was radical Islam and I remember think being a little I was like I didn't you know it's not that I'm surprised I didn't think that they

were now cool with Muslims. Again, I just thought that they had like, we're chasing a different car currently. I didn't realize that they had gotten back on to this. But that was last week or whatever. And now this, today and everything. So I was just, you know, I'm just wondering like, you know, it's popping back up. It's becoming a thing. And where it wore in the Middle East again now.

So I'm sure there'll be even more of it. This has been, but this, this, this, this, this panic in Texas is a couple years old. Right. It's been going on before October 7th. So, like, last September, Greg Abbott signed a, like, they banned Sharia law. It's like, what the fuck? U.S. reps, Chip Roy and Keith South, both Texas Republicans last week launched a new Sharia-free America caucus in the U.S. House to, quote, counter the alarming rise of Sharia law in the United States.

There's a guy running in a house primary in Texas, who's the former mayor of Keller, his name's Armin Mazzani. He signed a proclamation, quote, affirming constitution. constitutional supremacy, American sovereignty, and rejection of foreign legal systems. He banned Sarai Law from Keller, Texas, which I'm sure was extremely necessary. Keller has 46,000 people, it's 1% Muslim. And you brought up

the shooting in Austin Saturday night. This guy, does a picture of the guy he's wearing a property of Allah sweatshirt. I suppose he had it was wearing a t-shirt with a Iranian flag under his sweatshirt. The cops seem saying like he's associated with terrorism, but like one person can be a terrorist by himself. I don't think he's

part of any organization, there's an allegation. related that anyway. Anyway, it's not like first responders were stopped from getting to the bar or is that a bar

because of Waymo blocked the street. So his main ally in this terrorist attack was a fucking robotaxy. And since we're going to talk about the war

with Iran today, I wanted to mention that the Texas governor Greg Abbott was tricked by video game footage of two planes fighting in a firefight

and we tweeted it basically saying God bless Trump for Iran fucked around and find out because he's celebrating a fighter jet winning a dog fight in a video game.

And that's the state I used to live in and I miss it terribly. Literal footage from a video game where like, because there's a ton of AI clips that I know people are passing around, they're purporting to be you know, footage, footage of either Iranian drone strikes

or Israeli drone strikes or whatever, like and it just wild. You don't even need to use the AI. Video games are so fucking good now. Just use video game footage. Stop wasting the water or making, like, yeah, fuck it. Okay. Well, with that in mind, we'll skip the plugs, production mats with us.

Raring to go, I'm sure. So we're going to get into it. You know what we're going to be talking about, of course. World War III, obviously, but we start with the daily dumbass Matt. Graphic, please. I literally just said he's running. Today's D.D. Iran's supreme leader for not knowing to duck in cover because he wasn't watching

TMZ. We're about to start two angry men. Mark and I just finished the podcast. Wait till you hear what he found out eavesdropping at a restaurant in Washington, D.C. At the table next to him. Unbelievable. What did he over here, you might think? Let's play this next video, Matt.

You can see when you can watch Harvey Levin finding out real time that we're about to go to war with Iran because his co-host, Mark Garagos, overheard it at Joe's Stonecrab in fucking Washington while people were drinking. If you were crowded restaurant, no, in fact, if I were to tell you what I was overhearing at the next table, you'd die.

I think I'm going to ask you that. Okay, here we go. You're in Washington, D.C. You could have gone to a million places to do a podcast where it was calm and you choose Joe Stonecrap. By the way, do you know why? because I actually was going to leave,

but the conversation that I was overhearing on the next table over was so fascinating. I couldn't leave. Oh, spill it. Smell it. I think things are happening by the time this dropped in Iran. Okay. I'll leave it back.

Yeah. So two guys were getting drunk at Joe Stonecrab Friday afternoon, about 12 hours before we fucking attacked Iran and killed the Aitola and a bunch of other people. And they were just getting back drinks. And let me quote here, The guys at the table were singing this to the tune of the Beach Boys, Barbaran, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran, which, you know,

classic, he did that. Yeah. So, I'll take this very, very seriously, you know, just a tremendous operation security here. It's also ironic that they struck when they did because Supreme Leader Kamani, I can never say it right. I know it's more like comedy, but I'm going to use an American mouth to say Kamani way everybody here says it. Right. And the reason they did it at the time is because, like, him at, like, 49, like, military leaders were all having a big meeting in his house at the same time was, like, opportunity couldn't pass up. That's pretty stupid, right?

But it's worth noting that Trump and his whole team ran this out of Moralago all in the same room. So I guess it's probably, it probably works out great, because they probably had, like, a designated surrounded waiting in the hot tub, you know. Did, Iran wasn't doing much better. Massad, the city, apparently had pictures of a commanding. body before Iran even announced he was dead. There was a joke with Israeli social media floatering around this weekend that the remaining three officials in Iran's government

are all Masa, but they don't know it so they keep reporting on each other. Be cool here from former president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iran's Secret Service had established a unit to target Mossad agents within Iran. This is after the last time we attacked him. However, the head of this unit turned out to be a massad operative himself, along with

20 other agents they put in the unit to hunt down Mossade agents. Bro. why what's the Yiddish or not what's the Iranian word for the departed wherever right it's like the plot of that movie but with Mossad and then Iran

I mean I'd watch that they should FX should make that or Armando Ianucci one of the two maybe that but yeah that's just wild yeah

so this feels like this war feels like a solution in search of a problem but I think I might figure out what it is all about if you got this headline Matt for the Washington Post

a few days before we attacked. Trump-Aid struggled with how to spend $500 billion more on the military. Apparently, we added 50% to the Pentagon's budget with no idea what to do with it, so just sitting with a boatload of cash and need to spend it on something, which is going to come in handy

because we're in a hurry to accomplish whatever we're doing in fucking Iran before we run out of missiles and bombs. Basically, we've been hitting eight countries with Tomahawks nonstop for the last year because Trump fucking felt like it, and now we're just out of ammunition. so I guess if China takes Hawaii,

we can write them a sternly worded letter. And I want to quote here before we get into the substance of this, inside the Pentagon, among some members of the Trump administration, there's deepening concern that the Iran-conflict could spiral out of control. The Pentagon is asking for someone

to please make Trump stop this dumb fucking shit before we run out of enough weapons to defend ourselves. I want to quote here from Country Joe in 1967. Ain't no time to wonder why. We're all going to die. All right. get into it.

But I'm confused by that. So first of all, I've talked before on here about, you know, I worked for, I helped the government spend money for a long time. And that was a thing every year, towards the end of the fiscal year,

every department would be rushing to like spend whatever their budget was so that they didn't get their budget reduced. And so they'd spend it on stuff they didn't need to spend it on. And so that makes sense, except it's a half a trillion dollars or whatever. And it's, you know, bombing a sovereign nation. But I'm saying, I'm not surprised to hear that.

But I don't get how, if they, if the problem is they have this glut, this budgetary glut, they have all this extra money or whatever, how is it also true that they're running out of everything? Like, I thought, like you made it sound like they had all, you know, they, they had a surplus and didn't know what to do with it. But then also that we're running out of everything. It takes way longer to build a time of a hunk muscle and dust to blow it up. Yeah, but dude, but the other thing that I know is that we had, we have like warehouses and shit. there's so many like mothballed fucking jets and tanks and all we have so much more i always was

told and understood that we had so much more of just anything because that always pissed me off because i was like why why do we keep fucking building why do we have all this shit then why we spending all this money on this if it's just sitting around gathering dust and you know i guess they were like yeah you know what that guy's right let's blow up the middle east with all i don't know But anyway, I'm just saying, that's what I always heard. Dude, so we've, again, we've been, as I've lost count, we've lost like a hundred, we launched like 150 Tomahawk missiles at Nigeria. Right.

No one's paying attention, but we bombed the fuck out of Nigeria. Another hundred-something at Somalia. I read a month ago, the Pentagon was fucking shit in their pants, the Indo-Pact, the people in charge of the Pacific, Mayor Pete, sorry, Pete, not Mayor Pete, drug Pete, had taken a whole of missiles. Yeah, right. Yeah, from the Pacific

Theater and moved them to the Middle East in Africa because they'd run out there. They're already moving shit around. Like, we, they're talking like an Amazon supply chain for our defense logistics. Like, there's just, they've been spinning it faster we can make it and moving stuff around to cover their ass, like a fucking,

like a Gavrich Quick scheme. Like, they're running like a Ponzi scheme with missiles for a long time already. And now we just launched one of the biggest air campaigns in world history. And, you know, it's just like, we don't have infinity. The Trump administration does not understand

that even though we, we have a ton, we do not have infinity. Mm-hmm. And that's why the Pentagon shit in their pants. Right. So to talk about the state of the war as we sit here on Monday afternoon, I want to play this video.

This is an American soldier in Kuwait watching a drone strike, and this is pretty funny for you. Watch this guy, while filming out of his bunker. What? He said, that's my fucking truck. I know what he said.

What? They drone truck. strike his U.S. soldiers truck? Like I mean, all I can see was military vehicles. Maybe he had like these video game system in there or whatever. So as far as like, so for what's been announced right now, there are three

Americans, three Americans dead, hundreds of Iranians dead, a dozen or so Israelis dead. Three American F-15s were shot down by Kuwaiti air defense systems because we didn't let Kuwait. We were flying through their airspace or some shit. It's the worst air battle loss in decades and we did it just purely because somebody didn't make a fucking phone call.

The administration is clearly lying about damage to bases and assets. Like what they say compared to like nonpartisan satellite video analysis is like night and day. I don't know whether the fifth fleet base in Bahrain is functional. They're actually like nothing's wrong. The basic dynamic here is like like, like Iranian missiles and drones cost like between 20 grand and 250 grand. And the Patriot missiles we used to shoot them down costs a million dollars each. We used to have to fire an average of three to take one out if we hit them. So basically shooting Ferraris at e-bikes.

Yeah, what's up with that? How does that make sense? Like, like, they've got a much more efficient operation going. It sounds like if you could fucking, you know, do damage for $20,000, why spend a million on it? Yeah, you got me, buddy. So, like, while I'm watching videos, the inflores with the lip injections, the missile attacks in Dubai. It's like the truly

the Walter Cronkite severe area. Iran managed to hit an Amazon data center. At least it on fire in Dubai, which is essentially, you know, Pearl Harbor for fucking rich virgins. I, the part of the thing I find most frustrating about this is like, so

Iran's feels like to me, unless we're willing to drop a nuke or raise the stakes somebody by putting boots on the ground, Iran's fucking want. They run. Because they're willing to fight to the death, and I am not. Are you, Trey? No.

So what they've done is they know they can't really take out Israel, and it probably wouldn't be smart to attack our fleets and shit. So they're just firing at random assets, hotels and oil derricks and shit, and like Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, all that shit. It's basically like, you got America, you've got a midterm election six months, right? How do you feel about $16 a gallon gas? Right. do they, you know, Kuwait,

UAE, Saudi Arabia, like, do these countries, well, I guess if Kuwait shot down our planes, do they also, do they all have, like, their own military capabilities and stuff? Or is it just like, it's up to us to respond to all these attacks and all these other countries and everything? Do you know what I mean? They have some, but, like, but they all have,

they also have American military bases there, which, of course, the implicit promises they have our protection. Right, right. But Saudi Arabia. So they're not bringing other ones, into the fray by doing that type of thing is what I'm saying. It's still just all us. Regardless.

No, the reason they're doing that is to try to get because Saudi Arabia, you can, depending on which report you'd read, either was cool with this, us attacking Iran or pushed for it. Right? And so Iran's been striking Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia got on TV this morning, crying so how unfair it was because America wasn't launching attacks from bases in Saudi Arabia, which is, even if it's true as bullshit, because we're moving missiles and ammunition from the base of Saudi Arabia.

We're flying that to a basis elsewhere to launch from. So it's still a legitimate military targets, what I'm saying. Saudi Arabia is. And they're crying because we're putting more work into defending Israel than defending them. Shocker. Right by saying, I don't know how they didn't say that coming. Well, because they bribed fucking Trump directly. They gave billions of dollars.

Two billion dollars, yeah. Like Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, who's in negotiations with Iran, literally works for that. Yeah, right. right but I have no fucking sympathy for Saudi Arabia fuck you I hope I ran drone strikes MBSs fucking orange Lamborghini ways driving to his mistress's house so do not give a fuck right but see that's what I was saying that's what I was asking because I knew you know they were

striking all these other Middle East our allies over there but I didn't know if that would be like like I said like you mentioned Pearl Harbor like if Qatar is now involved when they wouldn't have been before but I thought like you know the implicit understanding might just be that it's up to us to defend them in that scenario anyway, so it doesn't really matter. Right. But what the world's realizing, and this is a real year zero moment for us, and like they told me the American,

this American century of humiliation, we cannot actually defend everywhere at once. Right. We never could, but until like two days ago, it kind of felt like it. Yeah, right. And now they pulled down her pants and smacked our asses and we're like, look at it. Look at their little dicks, everybody. Nobody's scared us anymore, dog. It's like, it's like, this is, the amount of fucked up here.

Like, so, like, everybody's acting like it's, what Iran's doing is, quote, unquote, unfair, right? But there's no fair here. Right. We talked about it when we attacked Iran last summer. But do you remember the Millennium Challenge, the famous war game scenario where, like, the Marine Corps General who was assigned to play Iran, fucking whipped America's ass. and they restarted the war game and put more constraints from him

so he wasn't allowed to win and then America won and then they all celebrated. What they stopped him from doing was demanding suicide boat attacks on our ships, right? There isn't even doing that yet. But both the CIA and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

try to tell the administration, this is in the news Thursday of Friday. So maybe it's preemptive ass covering but they were already leaking that we told them this is not going to go well. All right? This is not going to work. But there seems to be a belief not just in the Millennium Challenge,

but like through and through Washington, D.C. and our news media that our enemies are not allowed to shoot back. It's like unfair or cheating or something because we're the protagonist to reality. You have to let us kill you if we want to. And if you think I'm joking, here's like, look at what dumb babies we look like in this clip of the Iranian Foreign Minister on NBC News over the weekend.

So for clarity, you said that your missiles cannot reach the United States, by design, that you do not want to reach the United States, but you also said it would be necessary. as a defensive vehicle that you could, if necessary. So to be clear, are you committing that Iran is not and will not build missiles that would have the capability to reach the United States? I can confirm, yes. Sir, if that's a red line for you, why is attacking U.S. military bases abroad justified?

Because they are attacking us. They are U.S. military, you know, installations, facilities. a basis. So, like, if the guy wasn't a devout Muslim, he'd be calling that lady a fucking moron. What, well, why do you think it's okay to attack her military bases that we're attacking you from? Like, what the fuck, man?

Right. Yeah, it definitely seems like they just thought, we just thought that, you know, just drop bombs, mop up, move on, or whatever, because what are they going to do about it type of thing? But people don't like that sort of shit. You know, they've had to have been, like, prepping. every witchaway for this type of shit

for a long fucking time like on their side you know what I mean? Because like it's been simmering for a while I'm sure they've thought about it like I'm sure they had run their own version of the Millennium Challenge and that type of thing.

Oh yeah for sure. Part of the dynamic here is if you believe it's coming out what's left the leadership of Iran is like because like they also attacked Oman which we'll get to Amman later on if you have to talk but they're the country that has the least to do with all this the least to blame for their problems. trying to help her on.

But like, because we obliterated like 40 some generals, we basically killed their joint chiefs of staff and they're, and they're fucking like heads of all the

military branches and, you know, their secretary of defense and shit along with their supreme leader. So like, whatever orders they gave before they died

or would have been acted on? There's all these units out there firing at will with no central command because we, because we killed the guys who would tell them to cut it out. But like Trump,

Trump's been calling everybody trying to spin this. And one of the reports he talked to this morning, he said that the biggest surprise has been that Iran has had been attacking Arab countries, which is always what they were going to do. Like, they've only hit one Kuwaiti oil platform, I think. That's just a shut across the bow. That's like, do you guys want to be able to gas up?

Do you guys want to heat your houses this winter? That's what that's a fucking pet is. Right. And like we don't, anyway, talking about the world we're creating, French president Emmanuel Macron, announced today, quote, I have ordered that we will increase the number of nuclear warheads

in our arsenal. We will no longer communicate on the figures regarding our nuclear arsenal. So it's the world without America, baby. We're living it now. Can you tell you, can you're talking about this? We should probably go to break before we finish this out. Okay, but we'll be right back. This episode is sponsored by Better Help.

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That didn't work. Ended in disaster. Libya, we just used air power. That didn't work. And in an disaster. In Afghanistan, we tried arming close proxies with air support. That didn't work. And in a disaster.

In Syria, we used loose proxies with denial of air support. That didn't work in an disaster. And Iran so far, we're doing half-assed Libya while considering a dash of Syria. So, yay. right but you say you know makes you a minority in America but like not for this one right not currently isn't that what don't all the numbers show that like 20% of Americans are okay with it eight which means 80% or not you know hypothetically or whatever like the idea that like so people keep bringing up the whole wag the dog thing and people pointing out you know digging up

the old tweets from Trump about you know during the Obama administration he's underwater and his approval this is Trump saying this he's on Obama's and you know his approval ratings are low what you watch he's going to start a war with Iran to you know to keep from losing re-election or to get his numbers up he said it over and over again Obama never did it but now Trump's doing it and people are saying you know we got midterms this year you got but like I just don't I'm sure

I know the base will get on board but it just don't it don't feel like that to me anymore like that old like classic a pro that whole wag the dog thing like people will rally around the flag in times of war or whatever so you can gin one up if you need the boost in your

numbers I just don't buy that in 2026 America, you know. I'm not sure where people got. I know it's based upon like Clinton in the 90s and how popular the Georgia Bush was after 9-11. After 9-11, right. Yeah. But that was very different.

But Clinton in the 90s, like, he was thought of as like a frivolous, you know, decadent guy who had cheated on his wife. So getting involved in a war, like, flip the narrative on him. Mm-hmm. Bush didn't, I mean, unless you think he did not 11, he was the guy sitting there when it happened. It didn't do anything. But, like, LBJ had to decide not to run again because Vietnam was so fucking unpopular. Right.

So, like, this whole idea, Trump really did think, I mean, I'm sure he's trying to change the fucking news cycle. And wars are a good way to do that. But, like, I have no idea whether this is going to be good for him. Like you're talking about the year, you're right. The last time police saw was 21% approved of attacking Iran. 21%. And that's before we see a single flagraped coffin. that's before people's like

like the gas prices go up and fucking door shelves are empty yeah I mean like like they like how much like they can shut down the world economy if they want to unless we knew Iran so right I do want to see like I have friends from Iran who were celebrating the death

of the Ayatollah and I don't doubt their sincerity here I I don't think any part of them was dancing about the girls school that we blew up to kill it 108 schoolgirls right It's just like I did like I think people are allowed to celebrate the deaths of tyrants But it did the idea that this is like he's uniformly unpopular is not true there were millions of people in the street and warning him after he died over the weekend in Iran and there was a pro Ali Khomei Demonstration in Dallas yesterday

But I do know that unlike Iraq the video of those people celebrating tearing down a statue of Khomey was not staged like it was in Iraq When we tied cables around their Saddam statue and like hey you know you want to come here and tug on this but I do want to note that Iraqis, yep, like I said, Iraqis celebrated Saddam, ISIS came along soon after. Libyan celebrated after Klai's death and currently Libya is a slave state run by malicious. Right.

So what's the other side of this is just as important as taking up a fucking historical shit. And we've never once gotten that right. I feel like it said, unless you count, I guess, like maybe Germany or something. But like we generally never gotten that right. And that was with competent people, in charge, you know.

Like, I don't know why we insist on all this regime change stuff because they're almost always fuck it up. But especially now with these people in charge of it. I mean, my God. Yeah, I mean, we see that we can capture, we capture the magic of Japan and Germany over and over again, but, like, literally, it's been almost 100 years to be fucking pulled it off.

Right. And that, you took a lot of in diamond investment. Also, those were, like, populations that were, like, spiritually and broken. They were defeated in spirit, not just militarily. they wanted to rebuild and do something different. Like this is not, this is not... Literally killed Japan's god.

Yes. But like even from a cynical, like American or even Israeli standpoint, I don't understand why you'd want to kill Kamani. Like the whole axis of resistance, you know, which is their term for Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houdis, had collapsed in the last nine months. And I don't think that's disconnected from the fact that the Supreme Leader is like a sick recluse pushing 90 years old,

who literally had less than a year left before he died of prostate cancer. I know what Trump would want to kill him because he wants to be the king at the 1980s and he wants that fucking headline for killing the guy who bombed the Marine barracks in the Beirut named for. But like in the real world Diatola wasn't taking any special security measures even though he knew the attacks were about to start

and he was killed at home. He wanted to die this way. Right. Yeah, it makes sense. It's more useful you know for him to be sort of martyred or whatever like this. Like you said, just dying in a hospital bed. Yeah. This is what wanted. Like, you basically think of it as like instead of suicide by cop, it's suicide by Team America World Police.

Right. And like, Iranian State TV has been playing a recording of a commanding sermon where he said, quote, sometimes I imagine myself dying from an accident or maybe a fever. And my heart becomes so full of sadness that the chance for competing for paradise, i.e. martyr, would be taken away from me that way. So, yeah, we took a guy who was about to die and was at least significantly unpopular. I made him to a national hero because he died alongside a bunch of fucking schoolchildren. So, and by the way, there are people in, there are definitely people in Washington, D.C., who told Trump not to do this, you know, saying he's 90s, had cancer twice, he's going to death in anyway, don't make him a mark for the cause.

But, like, because everyone's doing K-Fabe, Trump has to play the real American hero, you know, on TV, so Kamani can play the, you know, real Arab hero on TV, and everybody's just playing the fucking role in this, like, TV drama. But also, it's worth noting that, uh, about a week before. he died or two weeks before he died. Kamani was tweeting stuff like this. Everything we had ever heard about their corruption is one thing. This affair of that morally corrupt island is another altogether. These are

indicative of what Western civilization and liberal democracy are. So yeah, he was going to get to the bottom of the FECD file so he had to go, Tray. I don't like this is, I don't have any like, I'm not about to do some like, actually, Ali Kammany was cool here. Like sometimes it's like that we're like, they exaggerate. There's no like,

Iran's government. just killed somewhere between 5 and 35,000 protesters depending on whose numbers you believe. Right. And there is something like conservative pundit who like made a long like internet posts on the internet the day going through all the like terrorist attacks and Americans that have been killed by Iran going back to 1979. I was like, all these are activists where they know.

Why did you start 1979 real quick? Why do you start the clock there? If we can talk about that for a second because that's, you know, when. When I overturn the Shah and the Islamic Revolution and all that. Which saw that it was our guy that we put in. Yeah. Yeah. He literally started the thread with,

they took over our embassy in 1979. They did not state a fucking reason for it. Just like, okay, man. Like, yeah. So, by the way, since CBS this morning, uh, represented Mike Turner from Ohio,

uh, said that Marco Rubio told him that the U.S. did not target a committee. And we were not targeting the leadership in Iran. So we accidentally killed their top ranking 50 government officials. Yeah. happy little accident Bob Ross of warfare

but they've said so much like bullshit that contradicts each other already in the two days since this I don't know what even they're trying to do and neither is anyone else. Nobody does right that's the thing it's like the objective is unclear like a nuclear program

but we said we already obliterated that or it's like oh there's the regime change thing and Trump's tweeting out about the fucking election interference and all this type of stuff and they just keep moving the goal post because it's like what even are you know we do and then there's the people being like oh it's about the midterms or whatever

so it's just all this stuff swirling around and like you said maybe it's just a favor for Saudi Arabia or like I don't fucking know but nobody seems to know. It's one of the weird times as Jaddy Vance is in Lyon he said in an interview with the Washington Post and quote there's no chance the U.S. will get in a broad

in a long drawn-out war with Iran well first of all you can't understand be true of that because the enemy gets a fucking vote my man maybe they didn't teach you that in the Marine Corps where you were paying attention that day. But like you're saying, I think he might be right because we can just quit whenever we feel like because we have no fucking objective. Right. We're just blowing shit up and killing people because Trump woke up one morning film like it. Right. And that's, I feel like maybe I'm wrong. I'm just thinking really about Iraq and everything. But like in my lifetime, my experience,

if you wanted to start like a wholly unjust war or whatever, you know what I mean, i.e. there hasn't been a 9-11 that's just and obviously with iraq there wasn't 9-11 but they didn't have anything to do with it. You had to like spend weeks lying, you know, to the American public and build in your case for doing it. It was like two years of lie before Iraq. Right. I know. That's what I'm saying. And now it's war first lie later. It's like they woke up. They bombed and it's like, where are we going to tell the American people? And they're like, the who? What are you talking about? And then they're, you know, like it's just also backwards and ridiculous. I would read here from a New York Times article.

Listen to this. Mr. Trump offers several seemingly contradictory visions of how power might be transferred to a new government. Sorry, I'm sorry, transferred to a new government. Or even whether the existing Iranian power structure would run that government or be overthrown. He first suggested that Iran's elite military forces turn over its weapons to the country's populace, voluntarily abdicating power? They would really surrender to the people if you think about it.

He's just fucking spitballing. He said, then suggested that Venezuela in the succession of power that occurred after the United States kidnapped from Nicholas Maduro could serve as a model for the administration might achieve its goals. What we did in Venezuela, I think, is the perfect, perfect scenario, Trump said, everybody kept their job except for two people.

So he's already pitched two scenarios. One, the IRC just hands up its weapons to the people and the government disintegrates. Two, the Ayatollah's gone. Everyone else stays in their job, right? But then he said, But he said, let me re-quoted here. Everybody's kept their job except for two people.

But Trump also indicated he had three very good choices for whom he wanted to assume power in Iran. But maybe we shouldn't be counting on those three very good choices after all, because ABC news reporter Jonathan Carl also spoke with Trump by phone on Sunday and was informed that those hand-picked candidates to assume power are actually dead. Quote, the attack was so successful and knocked out most of the candidates, Trump said. Right. Okay. Yeah.

you accidentally killed the guys who wanted to run the country. Right. So now what? So now the only remaining thing here is like he's talking about a massive campaign dedicated to the broad goal of preventing Iran from quote

threatening America. I don't feel threatened. Yeah, I saw a guy, I don't remember who a Republican congressman who I assume is on some defense committee or something was on CNN this morning. And he was talking about how Americans need to be vigilant and stuff like that for like,

whatever terrorist attacks or stuff is a response to this. He brought up the Austin thing. He didn't directly say it with that, but he was like, but you know, we're monitoring that. That might have already happened. But it was like he was actively talking about, you know,

like Americans, I don't know. I don't know if it's a fucking, if you see something, say something type thing or what they think it is, but basically just broaching the subject of, you know, response within our borders or whatever,

which I thought was pretty wild for him to bring up, I mean. We're a huge soft target. I don't doubt somebody, somewhere's going to shoot up someplace. It happens all the time. The only difference is this guy would actually have a fucking motive. Anyway, so

Trump, like, he gave a speech 3 a.m. Saturday morning about the goals were, and he said the ultimate, he did say the ultimate goal was regime change. To the great proud people of Iran, I say tonight, the hour of your freedom is at hand. When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take.

So, shrug, I don't don't know, you guys fucking do it. Right. Yeah. That's just classic Trump, you know. He's a bleeding heart, man. He couldn't watch these people being oppressed on the other side of the globe any longer, you know, had to do something about it. Couldn't stand idly by while people were being put down by a tyrannical government. Well, but that's the thing.

We did stand by wait until after they were all dead. So the forces that would rise up and the country be in the streets have already been fucking beaten down. Yeah, well, we also blew up schools and stuff. I feel like it's like you're over there, like trying to overthrow the government or whatever. Then schools blow up and shit. They're like, Jesus Christ, what are you doing? Like, we're helping. This is how we help things with explosions.

It's the only way we know how to help things. And by the way, Reza Pallavi is still out there doing at the Shah's son. If you got this video clip, Matt. Maria, this is time now for a very strong, stable transition. I am needing this transition. I have the support of millions of Iranians. people. I have the people inside the country that are joining and brodering the coalition of forces that will be at play in filling the boxes, the military.

This guy has not been at Rance as 1979. He's known for the fact that his dad, the Shah, was a foreign collaborator, which is why he was chased to the power in the first place. He doesn't know anybody there. He doesn't go there anymore. But I just want to say that I also volunteered to be the king of Persia. So, like, I don't feel that Trump is just blustering what a 50 or a few days of ballowing will give way to a climb down in which like basically nothing changes. But here's Lindsay Graham, we'll meet the press yesterday. Social media post Sunday.

President Trump wrote this, quote, hopefully the IRGC and police will peacefully merge with the Iranian patriots and work together as a unit to bring back the country to the greatness it deserves. I apologize. Sure. right yeah so the like fucking stormtroopers that just beat everybody to death they're gonna like join arms with them now

because fucking Trump opened to die Pepsi up in the middle of them whatever like the Revolutionary Guard and police should work together with the protesters they just killed yeah

by the way I just want to point out here that while we're pretending that the IRC is the fucking like the face of evil that Trump got in the night I think it was the 90s or 2000s, got in trouble for money laundering for the IRGC through a hotel project in Azerbaijan. So we finished playing this map. Ope, the plan for the future of Iran? No, the future of Iran is going to be determined by the Iranian people.

The new Iran, whatever it is, whether it's a cleric or a representative democracy, our goal is to make sure it cannot. Claire, you killed it. I agree that people of a ranch should determine their future, all right? But we are also trying to determine it for them by killing the person that they had put in charge of them. I know it's like it's an authoritarian, but I didn't put Trump in charge of us either, right?

You know what I'm saying? Like, so like the, like we're basically, we've constructed a builder bear workshop inside our parameters where you can do regime change yourself as long as you do it the way we want. And so like, like the emerging policy is you people out there are responsible

for setting up your own governments but if the U.S. doesn't like who ends up in charge will assassinate or kidnap them and the ball is back in your court to try again. But it doesn't matter because this morning, Monday morning, Pete Hexeth stood in front of the Pentagon podium and said that the mission is not regime change.

Right. So we changed the regime, but Trump said we targeted the Aetola and the decapitation operation. Marco Rubio says that's not true. Then the administration says we're changing the regime. And then Hexas says, no, we're not changed the regime. We just killed the regime.

Right. Yeah, I know. I also saw, actually was watching the news a little bit today, which I normally, of course, don't do. Just, you know, get on Twitter and talk to you and stuff. But I also saw a retired Major General on there talking about this, about how, you know, like he's being all diplomatic and political, but saying it's like, you know, it's disconcerting,

was the word he used about the objective drift. or whatever, just what you're talking about. It's like, first it was this, now it's that. And he's like, that's highly unusual and not, you know, doesn't really bode well. But then he also said he's currently in Dubai, this general. And he said there's like 10,000 Americans of citizens or civilians or whatever in Dubai right now. And that there's also a bunch of British people there. And the British government is actively working on getting the Brits out.

Because, you know, the airports, everything is sat down. And he was like, and we're not doing anything for the Americans there. And he, a retired four-star general, had talked. been in contact with the embassies and stuff like is there like a plan for this? And he said they had they were like running out like chickens with their heads cut off and had no plan at all. He said in part because they're in survival mode because they've had their budget

slashed by more than half in the past year at the like embassies and consulates and all that. So you know just vibes are great. But yeah, we're just stranding our people over there and everything. Bro, we left two people stranded

at Benghazi. Right? By the way, well, they protested. this happening like several of our embassies were overrun by people by mobs in New Delhi I think and one other maybe Pakistan somewhere else and like it barely doesn't even

he hasn't even made the news right um not that we the people matter anymore because these things just happen without us and we bother telling us much less convincing us but I watched the most brain dead debate play out where like because like I said we blew up that girl's school that was near Iranian naval base hundred and some little girl

dead and this mega guy a neo con guy or whatever was like well that's heartbreaking but it's important to be liberate the Iranian people

because I wanted to live in a universe where a little Iranian girls can go to school right I'm like you're justifying the blowing up of a girl's school because you want girls to be able to go to school yeah right

you're just pretending the girls don't go to school in Iran yeah like you just made that up to justify the war like they're just pretending that fucking that modern

day Iran is Afghanistan under the Taliban in 2001 it's not true like I like by the way I don't have like it's not that I don't have

sympathies for like women's rights in Iran or whatever we did a whole episode on the protest there three years ago after that remember that woman was beaten to death

by the morality piece for not wearing a job like but I just think these people should Google a country before they root on a fucking invasion

and the dynamic we're interfering in where these old protests have been ongoing because the state of the economy and all in political repression and stuff starting to start in December more of more women were starting to openly defy the hijab laws and now you probably

installed a more hard-line government that's going to crack down more firmly on this shit to stay in control good job right we besides like change the regime we've made it worse yeah very likely that's again generally what happens

and like they haven't even like forgetting the why didn't even say why now like like the only there's no reason this couldn't have waited that I can see it's up you know Pete was sober I guess maybe and like I also want to know they did this on a Friday night you know when the markets couldn't react we took out Maduro on a Saturday night when the markets couldn't react last year Sarantak was on Sunday when the markets couldn't react basically as long as the stock market is open we can kill whatever the fuck we want is the Trump administration's policy mm-hmm and the closest analogy of this kind of decision-making is I can't believe find an American war to compare it to but it does remind me like the Russian invasion of Ukraine back in 2022 because no one thought Putin would do that because it was too fucking stupid. Right.

You remember that? Yeah, yeah. It was like they were building up for months, but the consensus opinion was like, there's no reason to do this. Right. Yeah, just things like saber rattling or whatever. I mean, that's pretty much what I thought about Iran.

I mean, I'll be honest, especially after the strikes last year, when that happened, I was like, oh, shit. And then the dust sort of settled or whatever. And again, it's always being talked about and stuff. but I kind of was like, you know, I didn't think it would just full on pop off on a random Saturday morning or whatever like this. But yeah, it's like you said, especially because it just seemed so, it did seem random and just out of nowhere.

I know it's been talked about off and on for a very long time, the general threat of it, but like, still, still, normally it doesn't happen like this. Yeah, but just like, you know, because we live in kind of, of a personalist regime now. It's sort of just like Russia and Ukraine, where, like, Putin had his own grievances, didn't need to make sense to anyone else. The yes-man survey below him were incapable of contradicting him. So now, a couple years later, 500,000 people are dead.

So it'd be nice if we had a functioning fucking Congress, which we'll talk about that in a minute. But, like, I want to talk about the negotiations leading up to this a minute because what a fucking farce, man. But first, I want to check in with a well-known critic of war with Iran, if you have this video on that. But president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective.

All right. So, in a State of Union Tuesday, just this last Tuesday, Trump said he preferred to sell the current crisis through diplomacy, but only if Tehran's leaders said they, quote, will never have a nuclear weapon, end quote.

Words he claimed, the quote, we haven't heard. But they did say that, though. You cannot believe in it if you want, but at present, they are not the ones lying because they did say that, and you were lying because you said, you said they didn't say something

that they absolutely fucking said. what they did refuse to say is it would never enrich any uranium because you need uranium for stuff like fucking x-ray machines and in the latest round of talks they use Oman as an intermediary for these kind of things. They're kind of like the Switzerland of the the Middle East. Iran promised there was willing to suspend

to Richmond for the next three years in totality for as long as Trump as president and but Trump wanted every deal any deal to be struck to be permanent no deal is fucking permanent. That's a lie off his top of his face. And also, he didn't offer

lift sanctions. It was just disarmor will fucking kill you. Which just disarmor will kill you is not a legitimate threat because that's, your threat is the reason they want the fucking missiles

in the first place. Right. Like I said, I mentioned earlier that around attack of Amman, which they really didn't deserve this, the reason Oman is like a, like a negotiating hub in the Middle East

is like they're neither Shia nor Sunni, their body, which is more moderate form of Islam. They don't beef with either group. And, latest round of talks ended on Thursday. Um, Miamani negotiators reported significant progress and they hope they might resume next week. And the Omani's after this happened, they're like, what the fuck?

Because Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkoff either lied to Trump or did not understand what the Iranians were offering the technical stuff about nuclear enrichment because the Umani's out here saying they actually did offer everything you wanted. Right. So what the fuck? And like they went public with this on Thursday or Friday for to stop this war from happening. Right. It makes it seem like we were always going to attack them the whole time.

It didn't matter what they said. We're just assuming that they wouldn't agree to all that, but then they did. We're like, nah, fuck it, do it anyway or something. Right. It certainly seems like the negotiations themselves were a ruse the entire time to keep them busy and make them think it was possible to stop us from attacking attack. Right, right. But then again, Rubio says we were planning to attack,

but Israel said they were going to do it with or without us, so we decided to join in with them because Iran was retaliated to attack on your cases anyway. Yeah, basically. Yeah. Anyway, like, if anyone, no one's ever going to negotiate with us again, because not only did we use these negotiations as a ruse, we also did this last summer, and then we killed their literal negotiator. So, yeah.

I do want to say, I want to play this video. This is Trump's currently serving Director of National Intelligence. This is a campaign as she posted back when she was a Democrat in 2020. If you got this video in there. Here are the steps that Donald Trump has taken to create a war with Iran. First, he told me, Roger. You can't tell from the music she was against that then. She literally sold shirts and said,

no war with Iran. If you got this picture, Matt. I guess we still wear the same shirt. We do the Simpsons bit where you put a comma after the no and an exclamation point after Iran. No, what was it? Like I said earlier, it would be nice to have a Congress when I finished out talking about these fuckers.

Here's John Cornyn at a campaign event before he loses this week. Ken Paxton probably and his Senate primary if you got this video on that. I don't know what the what's I'm learning as

like you are as the news unfolds exactly what's happened. But I do know Iran must be stopped from the nuclear weapons over the way. That's the United States Senator from the President's own party

who serves on the Select Committee in Intelligence and the Senate Committee on on foreign relations. He has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran. Doesn't seem interested in finding out. He's watching on the TV

just like the rest of us. I'm a quote here from another Republican Senator and this one from Oklahoma, Mark Wayne Mullen. We're not wanting regime change, but the person that's leading this effort is the Ayatollah. Remember in 1979 when he came to power? He was saying that he wanted to be a nuclear Iran. Mark Wayne Mullen thinks it's the same Ayatollah

that took power in 1979. He thinks Iran until two days ago was ruled by a guy that was 124 years old. What I'm saying is, like, remember we talking about like trying to stop Shirai law in Texas? People are living to be 125. for we need Sharia law now. We need RFK Jr. rolling out like

a Haram fucking shit on the shelves right now. Hala, sorry. Halaal butcher shops on every street corner in America. Now for the Democrats, like, I could read Chuck Schumer's statement what he put out over the weekend, but really, it's just paraphrasing an onion article written about him in 2019. Headline, Chuck Schumer,

the American people deserve a president who can more credibly justify war with Iran. Oh, the onion. Like six years ago, Chuck Sumer's exact same fucking guy. Like, none of the politics are changed, none of his worldviews change. Trump's president for a second time.

And like, we're starting our third World War III of the last two years. Right. And he's like, only process complaints. Only process complaints. Not we shouldn't be going to war complaints.

All right. Well, we'll see how it checks out. Something tells me. probably going to go on for a little while. Although, like you said, it is a little different in this case, since we're not really doing anything, we can just fuck off at any time, I guess. So it's hard to say.

Well, yesterday said four to five days, then today said four to five weeks. It could be back to four to a half. This could be over by this time tomorrow. By the time you guys watch this, this could be done, or we can do a nuke somebody, or yada,

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