Weekly Skews - S6 Ep28: Weekly Skews – The Cuban Rizzle Crisis

Episode Date: May 27, 2026

Good news, your fourth-grader is now free from the federal tyranny that barred them from mango-flavored vapes. We check in on a few primaries and discuss a gubernatorial’s winning gambit of ‘wearing tall socks,’ and an aspiring congresswoman in Texas who had way to much caffeine then talked about Israel. Then, we discuss our seemingly inevitable military action against Cuba for several pretexts we’re in the middle of making up.Weekly Skews is brought to you by Leesa. Leesa builds mattresses around how you actually sleep. Visit https://www.leesa.com for 30% off select mattresses, plus an extra $50 off with promo code SKEWWeekly Skews is brought to you by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. If you believe religious freedom is supposed to protect everybody, not be weaponized to turn away good families, visit https://www.au.org/crooked to learn more and become a member today. 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 

What's up everybody? Welcome back. Happy Skues Day to you. It is May 26, 2026. We're recording this on actual SchuSday. So I hope you had a good Memorial Day weekend. I'm hearing my Eagle Flag shirt. That's honestly a coincidence that just kind of happened. I used to wear this in public all the time. I can only do it now when it's a super America-e thing just because I know what people are thinking and it breaks my heart. Anyway, I'm Trey. That's Mark. How you doing, Mark? Yeah, man. I'll never go up the American flag. They can, they can provide me. No, no, no, no, no, the American flag is what, again, you see this, right? There's an eagle flag. It's like, it's more, you know, it's a step further. Right. I mean, I wouldn't wear, like, like, I see it. There's a guy on my street the other day who was, like, just bullshit and smoking weed with

another guy. He was wearing, like, like, the thin blue line Punisher flag, American flag. No, definitely not. Yeah. Well, that's like, there's no misinterpreting that. Yeah. Yeah. Like, the punty, like, you're not supposed to aspire to be the Punisher.

You're fucking, like, you're already three to, degrees removed from like it's like you're like if you're wearing a dexter t-shirt not because you're a fan of the television show but because you're a fan of dexter well the cops like aligning themselves as the punisher shit that has been weird from the very beginning but like it's just like it's super fucking cool and badass looking I think you know and I mean and he's a vigilante and all that shit or whatever but it's like it's never really made any sense uh so not that that's not stopped anybody or anything in this country thinking of skull and bones is inherently cool

as how you end up drunk in Croatia getting a Totenka tattoo. Yeah. You know, some things are just true, Mark, all right? It's a shame when they get co-opted, but what are you going to do? Anyway.

Yeah, pirates. Pirates are fucking cool. Yeah. So before we got a lot of shows. I want to hear you get to it. But before we do, I want to mention this real quick because the corruption is so fucking cartoonish. So have you heard that flavored vapes are going to be legal again,

Trey? That's what. Maha apparently means flavored vapes. No. It makes sense, though, because I was a big, big fan for years and I quit two or three months ago. So it makes sense that they're being brought back now legally. Yeah, because they're trying to kill you with the delicious flavors. Yeah.

So basically what happens, the end of April, a sincerity of tobacco giant Reynolds American cut a $5 million check to Maga Incorporated, which is the main pack backing president of Donald Trump. And then two days later, an executive in two of the companies lobbyists had lunch with Trump at his Jupiter, Florida golf club. two executives from a different tobacco company joined them, supposedly their rival and competitor. Then they complained that, you know, I mean, quote here, they expressed dissatisfaction with FDA regulation during the meal.

Trump interrupted the conversation to call FDA commissioner Dr. Marty McCree. When Macri didn't pick up, Trump called RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz. Then people briefed from the meeting told the New York Times that Trump complained to them about the agency's regulation of e-cigarettes. A few days after that,

Reesign telling associates he could not in good Conscious lead an agency to back such a policy Because what they did was after the phone call Like they fired The RFK Jr. Dr. Oz Re-legalized flavored vapes. Yeah. And this guy's like, well, if you want to do it, that's one thing.

But doing it in exchange for $5 million, just that we all know we're doing this. Yeah, right. Well, that's what I was going to say. It's like, look, anybody's been fucking with me for long enough knows that if I sit here and act like I got a problem with flavored vapes now, I would be bullshit and I always try to be like consistent here.

I always thought it was stupid for flavored vases to be made illegal. And even though I don't vape anymore, I'm, I still think that. But not like this. Like when it's clearly just a quib pro quo, you've been bought off. That's the only reason it's happening in the first place. I mean, that's just like bald political corruption. And that is bullshit regardless of the thing itself that they're trying to do, you know. Let me ask you this.

How old are your sons? 13 and 14 You call your 14 year old son with a mango vape What you do? I mean, you know, tell him that he ought not do that My dad caught me smoking and literally goes And literally goes, well, what can I say? I've been smoking in front of you my whole life, right?

And then just let me keep smoking Was super hit when I was 16 Because he was just like, well, I can't be a hypocrite, you know, does it, don't it, boy, let's smoke together. We didn't smoke together, but he just like, That tacit understanding. I would not... Apropos,

I'm going to point out that he's dead from cancer now. Yes, right. For years. Years and years. I would have to be a hypocrite openly and have, take issue with it

and try to shut it down and keep it from happening. But that's my... That's my responsibility. Like, that's not the state of California's responsibility to keep my sons from having mango vates. Like, that's my...

I understand. It's just like when you, when you, with the whole point, this is in tobacco company's literature. They didn't introduce the mango vapes for adults. I mean, I tell you, more adults need to try them, you know. It was a direct response,

it was a direct response to data showing that teens were smoking less because smoking was less cool, so they made it candy flavored, so kids would do it. Right. It's like, it was very stressful. Because we killed Joe Camel all those years ago and everything.

And they had to find new and inventive ways to get them young, you know. I'll be the last person in this country who still believes that, making a law is an inherently totalitarian. So I guess like, I like, so I don't, I don't, I don't feel strongly about it. I was, I have seven months no nicotine, fingers crossed. I did enjoy the flavored vapes while they were around.

Mango was my favorite. Yeah. They had a mango citrus. But I, but it also, it was very, very hard to quit. It was way harder than quitting cigarettes. I hope everyone who ever made them and got me addicted to them burns in fucking hell, even though it was my fault for doing them. So I've had a lot of conflicting.

Yeah, I don't know. I just don't. I got that's some sort of philosophical difference we have there because I'm like, hey, what, it's, it's my own fat ass fault is how I feel about it. I also quit and I'm like three months now and it's,

I don't, I'm not, I'm not having any issues, you know, at all. I think I'm good, but still, I'm like,

yeah, that was me. I did that. Like, even at 16, I did it, you know? No,

for sure. I just like, I just look like we, we, we, so, I don't know, should you be able to drive a chival even or burst into flames?

Like I guess so, maybe. And also, you're right about the maliciousness of it or like the how pointed and purposeful it is and everything. It's like they know what they're doing and all that. And it's like that makes it pretty icky and everything. And you can still, again, the vapes aren't illegal. They just don't taste good. You still can have the drug. Yeah, I don't.

Right? So anyway, I can't get to fucking open. I can't get open arms about that. Like you need, you not only need the drug, you need to taste like a fucking Jolly Rancher. Yeah. Yeah, this is America, God damn it. I needed my fucking Jolly Rancher Robot Dick to suck on while I'm drinking his white claws. Yeah.

Anyway, like, this is, like, if anybody, anybody remembers this, Trump was the one who banned flavored vapes to begin with. Which I thought, yeah. Back in 2020. Right. Right. So, like, I don't, like, I don't know what the man believes. Neither do they, what the man believes is they should be illegal unless you give him $5 million. Right.

I'm not to say, believe anything is just what, just, fuck you pay me. That's what he believes. That's it. And this is just a pet peeve of mine because no one can fucking write anymore. I'm going to quote from this New York Times story, okay? This is just purely me being a fucking writing nerd. But like, the timing has Democrats and at least one Republican

calling it corruption while others warn the real losers are American teenagers. What? Those are not two sides of a thing. That is corruption in the name of addicting teenagers lifelong to this product so they can make millions off of it while people die. That's explicitly what they're fucking dead. It's not like, it's like, Well, one side says it's corruption.

The other side says it's going to kill Tini. That's not two sides. Okay, go ahead. Let's start the show. All right. Well, let's go ahead and get into it. Like I said, we've got a lot of show today. So let's start that show right now with, you guessed it.

The Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D. Cyprus Hill for not realizing that billionaire white guy, Tom Steyer is also insane in the membrane. I hear the socks at the dog of the pool. Stock check, on me? You're not cool. Oh, damn, this was invited to the parna sada, Bob.

I'm higher than half prices. Nobody socks go higher than spire. Wow. It's funny because I don't know. Like, the socks that he showed, those seem like such old white guy socks to me. I mean, I know the sock check thing with the cholo's and whatnot, but it's like it's an interesting overlap now that I think about it, you know. Yeah.

So that's hope, I guess best case scenario, California's next governor, Tom Steyer, who's doing an appearance on an Instagram account called Food's Gone Wild. I can't say it. I can't say it right. It's food. Yeah. Southern California, Latino for food.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Foods going wild while wearing a shirt that says deport all racist. So I just want to like, anybody that thinks we are not some form of democracy needs to explain to me why fucking people degrade themselves like that to win higher off. Right. If they're not doing it for votes, according to campaign disclosures,

Steyer paid $50,000 to Foo's Gone Wild ostensibly for that video. What? Holy shit. I didn't see. I would have thought, I mean, I get,

no, he's not high enough level. In my head, it was just like, whatever, cross promotional thing. I cannot believe his campaign paid them fucking $50,000. We got to figure this shit out,

Mark. This is fucking starting to drive me insane, dog. $50,000 for one fucking cross-promo Instagram appearance like that. Yeah, I wasn't familiar with food's going wild content, but I want to play with the normal thing as you can see what they the kind of like the stuff he's

alongside on their on their page. You get this man. Don, down ass fool right here. Homie, where is this fool going? Don. He's going to go drop a bad ass mass at your courtaz casas. So homie was prank at.

Yeah. All right. Classic 2026 internet content right there. This one just made me laugh. I don't know if I'm not going to give you too much editing to do. Rohn Strzberg on a short timeline, Matt, but I want to play this video if you get it. Autumn is in the air and he's feeling frisky. The time is not on his side.

He must make before the killing winter arrives. This is his best chance. a well-fed female sorry laughed a little too hard at that it was out of nowhere but yeah they're making a NAT geo documentary well a mating documentary about

like you said but yeah Tos and T's dancing at a wedding or whatever so they have 3.4 million followers so I guess it does sort of check out the amount there they're about to have one more I can tell you that

I'm not to add myself to their bags right after this. Considering the amount of like TV advertising I'm being blanketed with for races that don't even have any like people are running unopposed and I see their ads every 14 seconds from trying to watch a fucking NBA game. Including my own Congressman Brad Sherman

who's, I don't even know he was running against him but I see his ads every 13 seconds. And the only thing I know about him is that someone took a candid photo on a plane flying back to Burbank once where he was like looking at OnlyFans content on his phone. So, yeah, American democracy is going great. But yeah, the pickings are so slim in the gubernatorial race

that billionaire Tom Steyer has become the progressive darling, basically because, like, one, of who he doesn't, doesn't take money with. But he also said this about trans kids the other day. I'm totally in favor of trans athletes in high school. When you understand the vulnerability, the stress, the danger of being a trans kid, you understand almost half of them try to commit suicide,

then you think we're going to punish those kids, we're going to cut them off from team sports? It's like, no, we're fucking not. He didn't say fucking, I said fucking. but like yeah it's like yeah you're gonna make a rule saying kids can't play together i'm against that it's like barely straightforward everyone else steps on their tongues trying to say that shit so yeah um he's sort of taking it's aggressive way it's pretty wild to me that the california governor's race is going this way because you would think it would be like a pretty

hotly coveted political position or something that like you know the powers that be would have had some kind of cogent plan for or at least some kind it's just all seems so like fucking, you know, scattered shot and fucking unsurious to the point that, and I guess this isn't going to happen, but we were talking for a while it might check out to where they end up with only two Republican options because the vote being split

so much and it's like, what the fuck, like. Yeah, well, Trump did them a favor because he's, you know, a political genius. He endorsed one of the Republican guys so that all the Republican vote went to one guy. So it's basically a three-way race for the, the time is in California

is a non-partisan jungle primary. Right. Where everybody runs and you have a primary election, then the top two, regardless of party, advance to the general. Right. So right now, the only three seems like with likelihood

of advance from the general are the fucking mega haircut guy who's a Fox News personality, originally from the UK, I think. Then Tom Steyer and Javier Bacera, who was Biden's former HHS secretary, who used to be the Attorney General in California. So Bacera just,

received $500,000 from McDonald's to his Super PAC. I don't look at this list of donors here. If this was a blind ballot, you only saw a campaign backer's, which side would you pick? You want to throw this up here. Matt. So, Bacera has Uber, Chevron, Airbnb, McDonald's, Meta, Pacific Gas and Electric Company. And Steyer has Sierra Cup, Jane Fonda's Climate Pack, in our D.C. Action Fund. a bunch of unions, the California Teachers Association, yada, yada, yada.

It seems pretty clear. And it's weird because he's the billionaire and the other guy is not. Right. Somebody I know there was like a viral tweet about this race. It said, you know, what if I told you a few years ago that in this gubernatorial election that progresses would be backing a billionaire and conservatives would be backing an immigrant. And I know the guy's like white or whatever. He's from the UK. But still the Fox News guy's not from here originally.

Yeah. And Bacera Lake is caught in the middle of that. And I guess, in his defense, Staird doesn't need the money. That's what I was, I was going to say that. I was like, well, to be fair, if this dude's a billionaire, he can pick and choose who he takes it from. But Sarah doesn't, ain't got it like that. And you need a lot of money to realistically run a campaign. This is how they get you in the first place, I guess, you know.

But you can get on Foods Go Wild for 50 grand. You don't need 500,000 dollars for dollars. Like, you really do a lot of get a lot of earned media as opposed to buying it and free media. if you just believe in stuff and say inspiring shit. But that's on a balance for a guy like Bacera. So if you need a little more details about Bacera, for example, the rest of Biden's team fucking hated his guts for being like in an effectual, feckless loser kind of.

So perfect to be good Lord. I know a lot of people would be like, in that administration? You know, it was like, yeah. Yeah. So basically like we, if you need like, every time California needs a governor, it's like, well, let's look around if by the most. ineffectual fucking loser to put in charge of the state. The eighth largest economy in the world,

a very progressive state ostensibly among the voters anyway. The Bellwether for the American left generally, and it's always, yeah, like you said, fucking some cardboard white dude or whatever. It's fucking pretty wild. It's basically animatronic puppet for Uber and fucking Silicon Valley who just will only say shit like we need to fucking feed the homeless into an incinerator, so we always end up with.

So, let me a quote here from Axios about Bacera. There was a deep animosity towards health and human service and secretary of Javier Bacera for what is seen as his reluctance to find more space in child immigrant shelters, which are overseen by H.H.S. according to several sources, familiar with the dynamics. So he didn't want to help solve any immigration problems because you want to take accountability for taking care of children because something might go wrong and then he would get the blame for it. And that would be bad for him running for governor of California. So Susan Rice In a cabinet meeting of Air Force One referred to Bacera as a bitch ass and probably called him an idiot

During one meeting when Biden was tearing into Bacera Rice passed a note to Mayorkas who was his DHS secretary The Red don't save him According to two people familiar with the meeting So Joe Biden's yelling him for being a fucking loser And everybody else in the academy meeting is like Yep, fucking get his ass

So Baceres criticized his health and human service Secretary for being absent the public eye during the pandemic for confusing messaging by federal public health authorities and for the subsequent loss of public trust and for his collaborative management style we're serving a secretary. So like, so yeah, so if you wonder like,

wait a minute, I don't remember Javier Bissera being president at all during the pandemic. Right. Neither does the Biden administration. That's the fucking problem. Like, think about how much you see RFK. And I don't say Bacera should have been doing, like, riding a bicycle shirtless in a sauna

with kid rock. But like, he could have like, I don't even know what his voice sounds like. You? No, I don't have a clue. I, like, just found out what he looks like from, like, looking him up because of this the other day. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.

Dr. Oz, who's, like, four levels down from, from fucking RFK Jr. has more TV face time than I remember Bessera ever get. So, anyway, just bounce around to a few other primaries. A quick update from Florida, James Fishback, a returning champion who's going to lose the primary for governor against Byronalds. He's the Groyper candidate, basically. He tweeted on Saturday with a picture of his new bride. I met her last week, got engaged on Wednesday, completed all of Catholic marriage prep on Thursday, found a venue Friday, and got married yesterday.

But, like, really? He's not doing some kind of bid or something? Like, he really met him? I don't know. Okay, all right. I don't know. But I do want to say that, like, Fishback's mom's from Columbia, and he went to Georgetown,

which is the Catholic college. So I feel like he had a head starter to Catholicism. I don't know what they, like, the thing where he's, like, just learning about Catholicism on Thursday is about. But here's a picture of his new bride with a, as far as I can tell, a medieval meal of dead bird. Have you got this picture about it?

And I know that Fishback has accusations. So I guess the vibe here is like, would a pedophile have a wife? Checkmate lives. So if you need to brief update on this guy, he fudes with Onlyfans models. He calls his primary opponent who's a black man. a slave. He defends followers of Nick Puentes and pledges that when he is governor, he will not let, quote, jesters and foids, foids is insult slaying for women.

It's quote, spike our collective cortisol. All right, so that's Florida. Okay, but he's losing, you said. He'll lose. So at least there's that. Yeah, but to, right, to Byron, whatever, he's, he's that black maga congressman down there, right? It's not like he hits, but he hits harder than this dude, like, because this guy's a fucking complete maniac. heck.

Yeah. I mean, it's like, I'm not sure if Donald's would, would be racist if he was a white candidate could

be very community for him, but like he's not, it's not a lane that's available to him. Yeah, right. These people,

these people would, these people claw their fucking mother's bodies to fucking invent to, to be elected to a no-show job as a public official. I don't really understand it.

But, um, so I want to check it on the 35th, uh, Texas 35th district, Democratic congressional primary for a second. If you got this video of more Maureen, what's her last,

why can I think of her last name real quick? I'll take you a second. Play it. Glinda. I want billionaire Zionists in prison. That does not mean I want Jews in internment camp.

All right. I'm glad she cleared that up. Yeah. Could you, Moran, could you do another take without the fucking stupid sunglasses? So, oh,

So, oh my God. So the Digguratic Party is like fumbled themselves. Like, I don't have described this phenomenon. But anyway, so they've had their primary. Maureen got the most votes in the first round. So she's advanced to the runoff against one other guys, a sheriff's deputy by the name of Johnny Garcia. And I do want to say this not, it's pretty much a warning sign that a congressional campaign

is not going well when you have to get on camera and it says it does not mean putting all Jews in tournament camps. So she's by trade as a millennial sick. Well, I don't know if millennials part of her job description or she is a millennial, but she's been described as a millennial sex therapist. It'd be funny to be a sex therapist exclusively for millennials. It's like, I just, in bed, I feel like a small beam. Yeah.

So, yeah, she won narrowly in the primary in March. And like I said, she's up in a primary runoff against Garcia, which happens today, I guess. Democrats have largely abandoned her because of these videos. These are across the ideological spectrum of the Democratic Party from John Scott Howard, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez. And she has no money left, which would get to this in a second. But her secret weapon in this race is Republicans. When I say she has no money, she has $18,000 on hand,

but a Republican super PAC is spending $800,000 promoting her. Okay, right. I was asking you about this the other day, but in reverse, about how, like, the last election, I heard all that talk all the time about, you know, Democrats funding super insane MAGA candidates, hoping they would lose later. And you were talking about how, like, yeah, I haven't heard as much of that for these. It's funny this comes up, but in reverse, because it, you know, that's presumably exactly what they're doing, right? They're trying to get her through the primary because they know they can whip her ass, they think. in the... Well, that's not even

that's not even really the case here. They're funding her to make her a national firebrand. They don't have any... She has no hope of winning this district.

I seriously doubt. Okay. Right. So, well... Man, they just got money to burn, don't they? You mean they could just like just pour money

on something like this just to like, just to get enough of people around the country go, look at this crazy liberal bitch. Right. And that's the whole purpose of it. She's getting a lot of national coverage.

And like I said, a bunch of it. Democrats walking in the halls of Congress right now are being asked, do you disavile Marine Galindo? Wow. So like, that's why you do this. Like, I want to just say that what you're describing the Democrats did in prior election cycles and what they're doing here, because they're doing here are two kind of different things. Yeah. When Democrats intervened in Republican primaries, they were, the person would not have objected to their help, right?

They were not running ads or objectional to the candidate they were promoting. What they were doing in close districts, say like a district with a Republican congressman that Biden won, they would run ads for like, you know, Maga McGee. He was like, he's the Trump endorsed candidate. He's more loyal to MAGA. This other candidate, it's a rhino. And that guy would be like, hell yeah, brother. Like, it was all good stuff that he liked to hear about himself.

Right. Yeah. Right. So the trick there is what it does is it helps them in a Republican primary where their voters are more conservative than the general electric. electoral while also branding them in the swing voters' minds as a hardcore conservative in a way they cannot break free of in the general to pivot to the center, right? Right. This, they're just saying, this woman hates Jews, vote for her.

Right, yeah. And the mega candidate was like, you know, we'd be like, hell yeah, but for her, that's a problem. Right. It's funny that you say almost the same things about people, just, you know, it depends on the context. Yeah. It's received. So the organization that they're promoting her that the robins are funding is called lead left pack, which is a dead giveaway because no Democratic pack would call themselves lead left.

That's a fucking, that's like the three, the ordering three drinks and glorious bastards with the wrong fingers. Right. Because no Democratic big money group considers itself left wing. Their whole mission of life is to drag the party back to the center. Yeah. But yeah, that pack was founded about a month ago in Florida and was, its website metadata initially contained a link to Republican fundraising platform Wynne Red, but then Punchable News reported that and everything vanished off the internet.

So to get back to what Maureen actually said, in an Instagram post last week, she promised that if elected, she would turn ICE detention centers in her district into, quote, a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking. She added, it will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists. All right. All right.

You always got to take it that extra mile. Moraine does. So I don't know who else is running in this besides Gildo and Garcia. But I feel like there's a giant chasm between these due few points here where somebody could have voiced responsible criticism of Israel and Zionism? Right. That it's not this. But also the people making fun of her, I saw, what's his name?

Why can't I think of it? Jerry Moskowitz saying, like, well, I personally him against traffic. I don't think we should have concentration camps, like joking about it. But the point is, we already have the fucking camps. I am opposed to concentration camps no matter who's in them.

Right now, we have concentration camps with immigrants in them. She was saying maybe we should put ice officers and Zionists in them, and they're laughing at her, like the camps don't already exist. And the gap in these two realities

is why candidates like her can make, like no one else is saying anything. Like, she's the only outlet for this shit. Right. Do you want to let actual leftists who aren't fucking crazy wear crazy sunglasses and talk about running castration centers? Or do you want to like... Right.

It's like, if she wins, it'll be on the party. Like, it's like, it's... Anyway, this district, by the way, Texas 35 is a newly redrawn district because of Texas gerrymandering. Then it comes as part of San Antonio and parts of rural Texas to the south and east. The previous iteration was represented by

Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Kesar, who's now running in a different district. This is a district that's likely Republican, but in a wave election could be winnable,

which is why they prefer Garcia. Garcia is a career cop who's cast himself as the political mold of, in the political mold of conservative Texas Democrat,

Henry Quayar, who's a pro-life white-ring Democrat who should be in prison if Trump hadn't pardoned him for corruption. I mean, what even is that? What does that mean?

Like, you just say, like, you just say, I'm a Democrat. I idolize the guy who should be in, in prison for campaign finance fraud is what he's saying and the national party's like we love this fucking guy

just because he's not whatever a crazy leftist or whatever he's like closer to the center they think but really he's just a straight up conservative who calls himself a Democrat yeah okay yeah I went to like her

marine sex therapy site it says she offers a quote liberation based approach that can help you quote discover the keys that unlock your most authentic pleasures she assures potential clients I'm supportive of all identities and relationships styles as long as they honor the safety of the self and others physically, emotionally and otherwise

heart emoji I don't really know what sex therapy entails I know it doesn't involve actual sex right but I know but her fees are individual sessions cost 200 bucks and couple sessions of 250 personally I would charge more for the individual sessions because you definitely get a bunch of dudes

signing up or think they're getting hand jobs Anyway. All right. Well, we're going to shift gears. Did you take a break first? Yeah. Yes, we're going to shift gears to talk about Cuba stuff right after this. We'll be right back.

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All right, and we're back. I'm going to be honest, I don't know exactly where this is going, but I can tell you all that Mark has titled this the, he has termed this the Cuban Rizel crisis which I really like and looking forward to hearing that being explained. We got to get our Riz back trade. The vibes are bad. The vibes are bad. We fucked them up in Iran, man. We just

lost Iran, I think. So people seem to be settling into becoming acclimated to that idea. So Trump's trying to pivot away from Iran because he's bored and can't win it. It's like, but it is like ending for probably. Like, oh, we lost, but it's about to be over. Because I'm fine with that, obviously. He gets trying to declare the status quo of victory and Iran will let it.

Yeah. So, like, basically he just wants them to sign a paper, a piece of paper that says he's cool and wins, and they won't do it. Right. So we're just stuck here with these blockades of each other. Like, they announced over the weekend that the deal was 95% agreed to, but the 5% left over was whether or not a rank of a continuous nuclear program

and whether or not the Strait of Hormuz was open, which is like, what the fuck is another 95%? Seems more about more than 5% to me. And now that Trump said about it, he was like, he's like, nobody's seen the dealer knows what it is, but whatever it is, it'll be better than Obama's deal if it happens,

which no one is privy to or whatever. It'll just be good if we do it, but nobody knows. I do want to say that like, like, when the details of the hypothetical deal were announced over the weekend, uh, Lindsay Graham read them,

and said this, if you could read this for me, Trey, and if you're attempted, like, South Carolina, uh, Lindsay Graham, Drill.

Don't ask me to do that. It'll be bored, anyway, but, because it won't sound like how he actually sounds. I'll just start talking like my uncle Tim or whatever, but it makes one wonder why the war started to begin with. Yes.

It's always like, wait a minute. Like the biggest Iran Hulk is like, if we're just going to do it this way, that's fucking stupid. It's like, yeah, thank you for getting here, man.

Like, I don't know. Uh, So, yeah, I just wanted to talk about what's going on with Cuba and the South America, Latin America-wide series of conflicts we seem to be starting if we have time for the rest of them. But first, happy Memorial Day. Let's talk about the kind of things we ask the troops to do all the time. As I'll point out that according to Congressional Research Service in the post-World War II era,

the United States has sent armed forces abroad somewhere roughly 350 times. Different people count differently by the standard academic definition. Only five of those deployments were big enough and violent enough to count as wars throwing Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, Afghanistan, Iraq. One victory, one stalemate, and three losses. We're one for 350. What are we? James Hardin in the playoffs.

Hey, there it is. So, sorry, Cleveland, RAPs. So those troop deployments that we're talking about since 1945 have produced over 100,000 combat deaths the way we count it, but this is radically undercounting because we don't count deaths from accidents, illnesses, or post-combat suicide. We also don't count contractor deaths, which is important in our modern warfare because

two-thirds, three-quarters of the forces we deploy a lot of times are contractors. And if a couple of blackwater guys driving a truck delivering supplies get blown up, they don't count against our total. Right. That's why I got in the system there. Cooks the books a little bit. It costs extra, but there are no

flag-draped coffins. Their coffins come home at a regular It's all BR stuff. It's also like the shit that they do is a little more, you know what I mean? It's like it's, there's a little bit of a cover there for. Yeah. But when I say like when I think contractors, not just talking about the mercenaries. I mean, like, like, we use a lot of foreign labor for like cooks and stuff.

So like they're like like a bunch of Filipino cooks and their bases in Syria and shit. Right. Like those guys get killed by the IAD. They don't show up in any school board. So post 9-11, the number of veteran suicides has been four times the number of combat deaths, so probably we're well over a quarter of a million troop deaths all told. So yeah, to quote the great philosopher Sturgle Simpson, keep your mouth shut, boy, get in line, meet your maker overseas, that's her national motto.

So going to Cuba, it might be lost in everyone that the war has already started. We haven't had to fire any shots so far, but a blockade of this magnitude would generally be considered an active war. we didn't do this much during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 In that In that conflict We let the loud ships not carrying weapons to proceed to Cuba Right now, fucking nothing can go through

Nothing Yeah, I didn't even know that I know that we'd had that whatever an embargo And stuff on that on Cuba shit For like basically ever But I didn't know What level that existed at versus what we're doing right now So it's just

Total lockdown they got all their oil from Venezuela. So when we, basically I think we probably did Venezuela as a beginning point for this operation. Yeah, I remember you saying of our because of Marco and shit when it first happened. So, yeah, we did let one Russian oil tanker through as a favor of Putin a month ago.

But since then, yeah. Yeah, since then we haven't let any oil through. And Cuba's now saying they're about out of oil. Um, uh, they, Q's minister of industry energy, sorry, has confirmed. Their reserves are all gone basically. We just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online for a little bit longer. They're undergoing blackouts 22 hours a day, which is incascible to Americans. Yeah.

How do they order Uber Eats? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but no, I didn't, no, man. It definitely was lost on me. I didn't realize any of this or especially, I knew that there was rumblings and shit about Cuba or whatever. I did not know that it was already to this level.

down there now. Yeah. I mean, I don't know how they're going to, like something's going to have to give sooner. Then I can be able to feed themselves. I'm not sure. Like,

thinking about how shorts like this for a second because the next step of this is people getting on boats and going to Florida. Yeah, of course. Right. Are we going to let those boats in? Right. I don't fucking think so. Probably not.

No, yeah. Are we going to shoot them with drones? All right. What is the plan here? All right? So, uh, yeah,

so like, I want to talk about, like, so Asan Piker left the streamer, uh, has been subpoenaed by the United States Treasury as a prelude to an indictment, I guess. Over a trip he took to Cuba back in March, he participated in a humanitarian aid trip to Cuba. It's one of roughly 40 Americans now under federal investigation for their involvement in these trips.

They took medicine and, like, hospital supplies and solar panels. So that's illegal. It's illegal to do that to a country that our government is blockading or whatever. they also like there's a list of hotels you can and cannot stay out and cubaq is some fun the administration in some way or the regime in some way i don't really understand it doesn't matter the point like they're pretending to a san state in a hotel he wasn't supposed to sand when he actually didn't there did this whole subpoena seems to be based upon a viral treat tweet that was made up that they believe anyway it doesn't really matter

but nick shirley remember nick shirley the guy that dumped off the minnesota invasion that fucking stupid streamer yeah they're kicking over the ice uh No, that's Jake Lang. That's a different guy. Sorry. Is Nick Shirley the one that, like, a black guy saved him from getting the shit beat out of him? No, that's Jake Lang.

I'm only thinking of Jake Lang then. Oh, the shit with the Somali Kid Daycare... Yes. I'm doing air-closed documentary shit. Yeah. That guy. Yes. Yeah. So he took a trip to Cuba to expose the horrors of communism,

but couldn't stay in, like, a non-nice hotel. So he's the one to stay in the fucking sanctioned hotel. So he's the one who should be facing indictment of anybody, but that's not going to happen. So, yeah, I mean, this kind of thing, we keep talking about an SPM 7 and the government trying to process

just being a left, prosecute, just being a left winger as terrorism. This is kind of it looks like, because you're going to, they're going to try to prosecute a bunch of people for terrorism or sedition or fanning terrorism, whatever, for taking crutches, solar panels

and penicill into Cuba. And, like, I don't know how you consider yourself, you're yourself the good guy when you do that. You can just overlook that. I don't know what a fucking small, small, creative anime.

The whole thing was purely performative. Like, like, like, weapons or, or something? Like, sure. Like that, whatever. But yeah, like humanitarian stuff, fucking medicine and food, I mean, come on. Like you said, I just thought that's the type

of thing. It's like you just wouldn't get arrested for doing by a country like America, you know? It's like, yeah, we're going to keep fucking them over and or blowing them up, but you can feed them if you want to. That's fine. We might blow you up too, just so you know. But we'll let you attempt to do that at least.

I didn't know we'd put you in jail for that. so yeah they don't like uh piker like he gets stopped when he goes to another country like at like at border he got stopped by border patrol in question about his tweets and shit so like like I know they'll but like also

I do want to think I do think his prosecution might be about this if you have this is this is this is Piker talking to Elon Musk's one of his 47 brood mares former magal blogger Ashley St. Clair

what is this? This is a hoodie you got me a hoodie yeah okay I'm going to put this down here. Oh, God. What's going to be in this? This is going to be... Let's see.

You ready? Are you ready, Chad? Oh, God. Oh, no. I'm not even going to see it first. Chat's going to see it before I do. I'm not the stepdad. I'm the dad who stepped up.

So, yeah, so here he is taunting Elon Musk. Right. So after Piper got indicted, Sinclair made another video. video seen along to the song, I'm in love with a criminal. Okay, but all right. So is this, are they, are they an idol mark or she's just doing a thing? Yeah, nobody, it just seems that way.

Yeah. I don't know. So her basic story is like she converted away from magnetism when Elon must, Elon wouldn't pay his fucking child support. I'm trying to get her to sign NDAs and shit. So yeah, anyway, this is politics now. Like, this is what it is. Like, these guys are so personalist.

Would a guy maybe going on a. a date with Elon Musk's strange mother of his child with a child that he's not allowed to see because he won't pay to buy it food. Is that a reason for a guy to get prosecuted? Apparently in America. But also, if you wonder why

because Piker grew up in Turkey, I want to point that he's born here grew up in Turkey, I think. But if you wonder why Elon's so mad about the Odyssey or he keeps posting about it, I should point out that he might be getting cucked by a tall Trojan warrior who's jacked. So back to Cuba, the pretext for eminent action here.

And I do, like, even the leaks, when they leaked, they leaked to, they leaked to, they leaked to, did a big leak to Axios. Axios called it a pretext in the lead, which is really fun to me, because like, they can't even leak right. So they just indicted Cuban president, Roel Castro over a night shooting down planes in 1996. Roel Castro, Fidel's brother, making him the Donnie Wahlberg of communist dictators. Yeah. So the reason they've indicted him is now they have a pretext of a law enforcement operation like they did with Maduro to go get him, right? They can send him up the force to go seize him and call it like an arrest. But again, I want to point out this happened in 1996 and these civilian planes are operated by Miami-based Cuban exiles and when Raul was defense minister.

The organization, one of these fights was called, I'm sorry, go ahead. This dude, okay. Raul Castro is, this happened in that, He's alive now and he is in Cuba? He's the president of Cuba. He's the president of Cuba. I thought he said the former Cuban president. No. No, he was a former defense minister at the time of 196.

Right. Padele Cashel's a brother. Former and now president of Cuba. And so they've, but they indicted him in court in Miami because they're going to do some Maduro shit. They did it. I think they died him in New York. It doesn't. matter. But like, yeah. So this, the down of these planes in 1996, the group that ran that was called

Brothers to the Rescue. So at the time, it's transferred back to the 90s for a second. Bill Clinton was president. And this is around the time of, this is before the Aeon Gonzalez ship. This led up to it. Right. So Castro under intense sections said, fuck it. If you guys want to leave, you can leave to his people. Right. So 125,000 people tried to get on boats. He basically organized, Castro was like, here's the boats. go out of Florida right and then the Clinton administration was like

no wait we don't want 125,000 people flew into Florida that seems like a fucking mess we don't like immigrants that much right right did that so then

you said it was leading up the Ilya that was 96 this is 90 this is yeah this is before that so it's like the build up to that

yeah because obviously I was nine and 10 years old I remember I Leon Gonzalez being a thing but I was like so he was like just sort of the mascot of this massive flood

of Cuban refugees basically? Because I didn't remember none of that at all. Yeah. So So, so, Inter Brothers to the Rescue at this point in time, right? So they escalated supply drops to Cuba. To the people on the boats are dropping them like water, food,

blankets, also dropping stuff near the mainland. They were getting way too close to the mainland, which predicated this. But they were intensely trying to pick a fight with Castro to break this weird stalemate between Clinton and and the Cuban regime, right? So three Cessna entered Cuban airspace near Havana. And I want to point out here that similar networks have been smuggling drugs in and out of Cuba

and also weapons to Cuba on behalf of the CA and the mafia and Cuban exiles since the 1960s, the Cuban Revolution in the 1960s. So there's three small planes in Cuban airspace. Castro orders his men to shoot at them. They shoot down two of them. One escapes. This group was headed by, guy named Jose Bazalzalto who later testified in court he had been a CIA operative at one point.

There's a movie about this group from 2019 that starred Anodei Armis and Wagner called the Wasp Network when I'm going to download for my plane route tomorrow, so look forward to watching that. So, but basically, like, we indicted a guy for shooting down planes in 1996. They were in Cuban airspace. Right. Regardless of whether you think their mission was moral or not, I want to point out here that we are currently blowing up people

in civilians in international waters. If I was a member of that government, I might not want to set the precedent that you can be prosecuted for shit like this. Or maybe I do want them to send that president because I don't see all these people end up in fucking court for killing all these people. Right.

But yeah, but if you are the actual president is doing that, it's like, you know, you don't give a fuck about precedent or whatever. You know what I mean? Right. Not I could say it's different. Mark, we're doing it, which hits. And if these boats were in American waters, those boats were in American waters, they would not stop or slow down.

I honestly would not have any fucking problem with the Coast Guard lighting them up. That's kind of what you have a Coast Guard for. Right. Like this is way more justifiable under law and morality shooting down these planes than whatever we're doing in the fucking Caribbean. But anyway, that's secondary here. Here's another one here. Exclusive. U.S.

A attack drone threat from Cuba. So somebody for the DOD, I'm sorry, the Department of War, leaked to Axiost. Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones, specifically Shahed drones that Iran's been using and that Russia's been using against Ukraine. And we're worried about this because why? Can you tell me? They say they can reach Guantanamo Bay. Obviously, that's on their fucking island.

They can reach Key West. They can reach our boats if we try to attack them. But like, no one's alleging to preparing a first strike here. But we do this thing all the time where we basically, accuse people of being as violent as we are and accuse them as a pretext to fucking attack them first. Right. Like, well, they have this, like, I, like, we're only going to use those drones if we attack them. Right.

Therefore, if we don't attack them, the drones are not a fucking problem. In the same article, a DOD source, like, yeah, we don't even think they have one fighter jet. Right. Yeah. So, well, what, but also, it sounds like we're doing like basically a siege right now, though, right? we're like starving them out and then starve them out for a bit and then do like a Maduro operation and we just own Cuba now or something like is you know probably what they're thinking or headed towards probably especially if that's what kind of military capability they got but they're just

trying to like gin up some support a little bit of I don't know fear mongering jingoism patriotism that type of stuff because yeah because unlike a rate we would have to like the only reason to do this would be to actually occupy Cuba right change its goal government because like we're not this isn't going to like and you want to ask a watch an interview of like these things are always filter and selected so I'm not trying to say it's 100% true but I watched like an interview with a bunch of people on the street in Cuba who don't want this to happen because obviously they don't have lived through a fucking war and being bombed and shit but also like they're suspicious of what comes next because what comes next is a bunch of the cracker ass white Cubans

they cast off in the first place in 1960s yeah come back to reacquire their plantations and hotels and turn them back into fucking serfs. Yeah, right. Probably not looking forward to that. No. I'm not saying we put the mafia back in charge because like... They're not all going to be doing that, Mark. One of them's going to be getting busy for the NFL season.

Fernando Mendoza, shout out. Raiders, one overall pick. Yeah. He'll be busy doing football. Good Christian boy football stuff. So, yeah. Plantations for him. His family, I don't know, maybe.

But, uh, but, uh, but yeah. Yeah. So like, like, they, like, there does. I mean, I don't think, like, one reason the one put the mafia back in charge is everything the mafia does is legal now, so there'd be corporations back in charge, it'd be a legal casino. It'd be illegal, it'd be

data mining and Bitcoin operations and fucking, you know, some sugar plantation doesn't need a humans working on us. I'm not sure what the people do at this point, but that's not, you know, that's not the Trump administration's concern. But the about propaganda we go through to

get here with this stuff, and I just want to point out again, like, the drones, the defensive drones thing, it's like it sounds like they're preparing to defend themselves from our attack. That's not fair. Therefore, we must attack them. Right, yeah.

Like, how paranoid we are. The New York Times put this graphic of how the Cuban government and economy works. And like, this thing has to be seen to be believed. Oh, look, Le, you're going to put this stuff at it. So, those are arrows connecting the president to the Cuban military to the Cuban government.

They've really uncovered something here. and they both point to It's like a serious You fill out this graphic I feel like a little bit You know Like need some more data points Okay what is Gaysa or whatever in the middle

It's a state run investment fund Right So it'd be like if it pointed to like I don't know like the Department of Health and Human Services funding hospitals or something Except it gets common and so it's a little bit more It's a little bit more widespread than that But like if you imagine

There Trump at like Trump at the top of of a chart with arrows pointing to like Department of Homeland Security, Department of the Pentagon like oh this is like this is the yeah no shit right yeah it's obvious like what it looks conspiratorial right? It's like it's like

it's like the chart that's like the Charlie from oh it's always sunny like conspiracy board meme except it's like the flowchart's like I ate therefore I poop like what does it mean? I ate therefore I pooped if René Descartes was a zoomer So we don't have time to get into all this stuff. I mentioned like, like, Ecuador, a couple.

Like, Ecuador is the most faculty-facinating one, but it takes too much time, so we're not going to be able to get to that. But to talk about Bolivia real quick, so Ava Morales, the former socialist president, who was their first ever indigenous president, has been in hiding in the rural regions of his country. He claims that the United States and the country's government are now trying to murder him. The pretext here is he's on the run from quote unquote sex trafficking charges related to him getting a 15 year old pregnant back in 2006, I believe, which is, I'm not saying that that shouldn't be prosecuted. If it's true, I'm going to point out that the why now becomes a question considering the underage, well, I think the age of consent in Bolivia is 14, so not even really underage at the time.

But like, the girl's, the underage girl is 36 years old now. Their child is old enough to consent, even in the United States. Right. So, like, the why now is an important question here. But it would be nice that the America part wasn't somewhat plausible. But unfortunately, I know how to Google the term rare earth minerals. Trey, did you know that Bolivia has the world's largest lithium deposits? I did not.

Mark, I'm an American. I don't know literally anything about Bolivia. I know that it exists and is down there, but that's about it. Lithium, though, I know that's cool. We like that. Yeah, it goes in the batteries for electric cars and all your cell phones and shit. and also as presumably says some missile components and stuff. So you know that also know that while having the world's largest lithium deposits,

they extract relatively little historically because their constitution gives indigenous people veto power over stuff being taken off their lands. And you also know that what they did extract largely went to China and Russia until recently, but not anymore. Well, that's crazy. Let me want to read here four headlines that I think tell a story. These are all from this year. January, Bolivia.

Lithium Gamble tests U.S. realignment in Latin America. March, Bolivia minister pledges legal certainty for investors. This means we've gotten rid of the Socialists, and now you don't have to worry about tax rates and regulations changing. But yeah, the subject of that article reads, Bolivia's new mining minister is vowing to wooback foreign investors in lithium who fled two decades of socialist party rule. Two weeks ago, Bolivia seeks to strengthen lithium cooperation with the United States.

And then last week, Belithia rocked by protest as U.D. U.S. warns of coup d'etat. Their new president took office in November of 2025, not long after Trump did. His name is Rodrigo Paz. And he promised basically a turn toward closer ties of the United States

after two decades, like a set of socialist rule. But they're in the middle of the worst economic crisis in four decades with shortages of dollars in fuel, and his party took office promising economic shock therapy, but conditions have only gotten worse. and he's been deeply

popular because his first thing he did was the end of two-decade-long fuel subsidy promising that the free market would bring higher quality fuel into the country but instead there's just

no fucking gas that people are protesting it and America's calling it a coup. So he's also like this week Ecuador is also in a diplomatic crisis

with Columbia so this is part and parcel the same thing we seem to be ginning up like a right-wing military alliance against Colombia and Mexico but he's kicked

out Colombia's ambassador because he basically is calling Columbia the public master behind these protests after Gustavo Petro, the Colombian president, said that he called Ecuador, I'm sorry, Bolivia a puppet of the U.S. government and said they were experiencing a popular insurrection. There was a response to geopolitical errands.

So, what do we make of this? I don't know, but those people that are protesting the, like, the gas prices or they're not been gas shortages or whatever, remember I hope that we don't find out and you know come down there offering to help the way we did the protesters in Iran you know what I mean you're like it's like hey you guys want some help we help you guys out with that they're like please for the love of God don't help us out with it which yeah it's protest it's fine we're doing it we got it you know we got it under control we were caught smuggling weapons inside um uh supposed an aid shipments of vegetables back in jordan george w bush's administration in like 2006 2007, they were tied to

now, race is mutable across, you know, various societies, but the well-off elite Bolivian white supremacists who called them, consider themselves fascists, and heirs to the Spanish engaged in the country. Yeah, we were shipping them weapons while they were like

having cocktail parties, they talked to New York Times about how they needed it with the bloodletting of a new civil war. Right. So, yeah, the thing about Trump is he just does the shit, Yeah, right. That we used to be ashamed of doing when we got caught. No, I know Central America and South America. We've been fucking around in there for a long time.

It's a CIG's playground, baby. But, yeah, like you said, it's all more just out in the open now. Less shame. We could do with a little more shame. I've been saying it for a while. I don't know if it's going to make it come back anytime soon, though. Got to forcefully bring it back. Bring back shame.

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