Weekly Skews - S6 Ep3: Weekly Skews – Minnesota N’ Ice

Episode Date: January 14, 2026

 In the continuing fallout from last week’s ICE shooting, Feds are being terrorized by “organized gangs of wine moms.” ICE recruitment ads have made us aware of a new genre of music, Nazi folk ...ballads. Plus, more Dr. Phil cameos in the rising dystopia. Lots going on.

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Starting point is 00:00:30 What's up everybody, welcome back. It is Tuesday. Once again, it's January 13th, 2026, to be exact. We're recording this from Monday, January 12th at about 1 p.m. on the West Coast. That's where we're coming to you from. In time and space, I'm Trey. That's Mark. How you doing, Mark? Good, man. I got a lot to talk about today.
Starting point is 00:00:56 Mostly about stuff involving Minnesota, maybe some Greenland stuff. We have time to get to it. So before we get to the show, though, a couple of things to note. The U.G. Government has worked with Canada and Australia to launch a coordinator a ban on X, which by this American government would be treated like an act of war. Jerome Powell, the chairman
Starting point is 00:01:15 of the Federal Reserve, posted what I can only describe as, you ever see when a president's palace is surrounded in the verge of a coup and it gives like a last minute radio address? Right. Yeah. Yeah, he put out some sort of message or whatever, basically just
Starting point is 00:01:33 saying that they would fight back or whatever. against Trump, like in the court? Yeah. It wouldn't be pressured by the whims of Donald Trump alone. Yeah. They're trying to force him to resign with threat of a prosecution. If there's got like four months left in his term, which is like, who fuck care?
Starting point is 00:01:52 But like, and also, if you're wondering where the stakes are there, Erdogan, the current dictator of Turkey, took over their federal bank as part of his power grabs. And their national bank, and their inflation rates currently, 86%. There's a reason you don't want direct. See, Trump does this thing where he takes something like the Federal Reserve, which usually I would love to shit all over, and then assaults it in a way that makes
Starting point is 00:02:18 me defend the status quo. Because it's better than the other way. It's like, I'm not in favor of some undemocratically elected money wizard deciding what price we can all buy houses at. Right. Yeah, but this is also, you know,
Starting point is 00:02:37 bullshit and is worse. Yeah. And that combined with the fact that apparently Trump's farts are so distressing to people around
Starting point is 00:02:45 and they've become a serious sign of his physical decline. So this could really be one of those weeks where decades fucking happen,
Starting point is 00:02:51 it feels like. Anyway, from some fun before we get to Minnesota. Because what's going to Minnesota is all,
Starting point is 00:02:58 as we talked about on, for the context to you guys just listen to to this show and don't have the Patreon.
Starting point is 00:03:03 We talked about the shooting and stuff on Friday. So if it sounds like like we've already discussed this before,
Starting point is 00:03:06 it's because we have. apologize. We're trying to talk about this in a way that makes sense in the present because it will all change four times about time you guys hear this. This is the weirdest part of trying to do anything like this right now. So because all this is about fraud related to Somali immigrants in doing welfare fraud in Minnesota, not really, but whatever. We've been over all that. But so I want to talk about another welfare scandal. Let's happen in Minnesota, sorry, Mississippi. Remember the Brett Farve?
Starting point is 00:03:36 I was about to say another one. I mean, I mean, it's Mississippi. I guess it's not that surprising. But yeah, Brett Farr famously had a big welfare scandal in his home state of Mississippi a few years ago. Basically, I guess the state official to give the college's daughter goes to a bunch of money to build a volleyball court with welfare money, which seems on the up and up. But there are other offshoots to that. And there's like a trial, there's trials going to related to it. And they're absolutely fucking crazy.
Starting point is 00:04:06 I want to read to you in the story from Mississippi, Tray. John Davis, the former head of Mississippi's welfare agency, once confessed that he, quote, tried to buy all your love, end quote, to a pro wrestler whose companies he sent millions of welfare funds to text messages revealed in court Friday show. Davis, who struck a plea deal in 2022,
Starting point is 00:04:26 was testifying in a trial of Ted DiBiase Jr., who is the son of the million-dollar man, who we all grew up watching the wrestling. Of course, yes. The million-dollar man is. is corrupt. In this country, that's crazy. It doesn't make any sense.
Starting point is 00:04:42 And he's got like Nepo baby fail sons who are also corrupt, trying to get it on the grift and everything. Sounds like he's just been keeping the character, keeping K-Fave going for, you know, the intervening 30-something years to me. This is some classic million-dollar man type stuff right here defrauding the government with their help and shit. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:59 Go ahead. So apparently what Davis did was funded $700,000 to a, a Christian charity called Heart of David Ministries that is controlled by DeBiase. And in a federal court on Friday, I'll just read through these text messages, a prosecutor asked Davis whether he had a romantic relationship with Brett DeBiase, the brother of Ted.
Starting point is 00:05:23 Mr. Davis, were you in love with Brett DeBiase? And he said, I had no sexual desire towards Brett, Davis interjected, nor did he have any sexual relations that were consummated, what the former Mississippi Department of Human Services Director did have was love, he said, a love he found difficult to characterize. Like a brother, he's opposed, but more like a son. But Davis had no sons, he admitted, so the shape of the love was indistinct, impossible to define.
Starting point is 00:05:52 So the fact, the type of love they had for each other kept coming up, because he's funding all this money for the debiases for apparently nothing. And his only excuses, he loved them. And they're like, okay, but if you weren't fucking them and you're not related to them, Can you please? So here, pure conjecture letting, letting my butt talk for a minute. A couple of different things come to my mind and maybe a combination of the two.
Starting point is 00:06:14 One is like, this guy is some official in Mississippi's government. He's probably an older dude. I would have, or like middle-aged or something or whatever. He could be like a deeply closeted Mississippi guy who is in romantic love with this pro wrestler's son, but can't like even accept that himself.
Starting point is 00:06:34 and so it's manifesting in this like crazy where he's like, no, we're just like, it's a bromance or whatever, you know, but he's giving him all this money and everything to like curry his favor. But also, I'm only, I'm very adjacent to it, but I am adjacent to sort of the world of wrestling fandom and everything. And I know that there's some of the biggest lunatics on planet Earth, right? And obsessive crazy people in the world of wrestling fans who will pay, if they had the money, will pay however much just to get.
Starting point is 00:07:04 Ted DiBiC or his cousin or whatever to come hang out at a barbecue at your house or something because like wrestlers will do that. But anyway, maybe this guy's like a combination of those two things and it's turned into this whole weird, you know, sort of situation he's got going on here. And the DBIC sons, it's just free welfare money. You know, obviously you're going to take that if you're a fake Christian piece of shit. I don't know. I'm speculating here, Mark.
Starting point is 00:07:31 you were talking before about you don't like when people build a whole thing in their head a whole reality that's based on nothing but you know it's fun to do sometimes I'm not saying it's true I'm just guessing you're just world building I would say that if this guy I would not describe him as closeted
Starting point is 00:07:48 because let me read this because if you're closeted you would not be this open about your love for another man that would make any sort of sense let me read so quote I love you so multiple O's here I love you so freaking much I want to be selfish and make you stay right here with me, Davis wrote to Brett DeBiase in one text message.
Starting point is 00:08:06 So this is the other romantic love or the kind of love you have for like your dog. Right. It's getting tougher that ride back. This is a typo here, but like I think it's a missing word too. It's getting tougher to ride back. I realize how lonely I am. He wrote in January of 2019. In exchange Ted DiBiasey Jr.
Starting point is 00:08:27 Penn Pains of Loyal to the Bordered on Matrimonial. This is Ted writing back. Like, it's whatever this is going on. It's mutual. Okay. That's a twist for me. I wouldn't expect in that part. I want to be a conduit for you to the world because God is going to bless generations to come through your life, he wrote to Davis and Brett. A three-way text message.
Starting point is 00:08:46 That legacy, your legacy, has already been set in motion. I declare to you both that I am partnering with you two only in things we've discussed. On my son and daughter, he's swearing here, on my son and daughter, I will declare that I have zero endeavors that I will commit to pursue, entertain, or even waste, five damn minutes of my time indulging with anyone else. Even if the president, Pope, or Billy Graham himself asked me to consider. No, no, no is my answer. Bro, so can you pass CTE down to your children? I didn't think it worked like that.
Starting point is 00:09:18 Like, fucking Ted DiBiase got his head smushed in so much. Like, his fucking sons are fucked up from it. But that's, like, crazy shit. But it's like religious fanatics who are all. So charlatans and hypocrites and stuff, I feel like they, they talk in that kind of like crazy, aggrandizing way about everything and the mission and what they're doing and the importance of it all and stuff. But it is so, you know, insane and off putting to other people. But that's just crazy. I'm a person who does say I love you to my friends.
Starting point is 00:09:52 Yeah. So, like, it's not abnormal to me. Yeah, but not like that. Not like. No, no. Like, I want to keep you all to myself, Mark. I can't even The pangs of loneliness
Starting point is 00:10:04 Grow ever stronger As I inch closer You know Further away from you As I head back to Burbank From the bar we were at tonight Mark Like if I sent you that text message You'd be like
Starting point is 00:10:12 Yeah I mean that might be kind of funny actually Because you would You know that I was doing a bit But these guys are not You know Anyway I think what we've determined
Starting point is 00:10:21 What we stumbled upon Is the cure of the male loneliness Epidemic Is doing welfare fraud With your boys So David Gilles finish up here.
Starting point is 00:10:31 Davis fantasized oddly about a joint purchase of land that would never materialize. A place he called the Davyasi farm,
Starting point is 00:10:39 a term Dibeasi Jr. coined as many excitable messages back to Davis. He liked to Wordsmith, and Davyasi
Starting point is 00:10:45 was just a derivative of my name and his name together, Davis said. Like Benefer? They had their own benefice.
Starting point is 00:10:52 That's also stupid. Anyway, these guys are going to probably get away mostly was stealing a bunch of money
Starting point is 00:10:57 with a slap on the rest. and we got to, you know, carpet bomb Minnesota because Somali's overcharge for daycare services. Yes. Speaking of which, let's get into it. The rest of the show, producer Matt is back there doing this thing. We're getting right into it this time,
Starting point is 00:11:11 kicking it off with the way we always do with the Daily Dumbass, of course. So Matt, have that graphic, please. Tonight's D.D. ICE for not issuing their agents' tailbones made out of adamantium. I see. so all right so something happens to make the ice agent
Starting point is 00:11:48 charges these people who are making fun of him right it's whatever whatever he's responding to is urgent enough that he has to respond violently
Starting point is 00:11:55 yeah and then when he slips and falls and bust his ass that reason is apparently gone away and now he runs away shame
Starting point is 00:12:00 the longer version the video he can see him get in his car and drive he literally leaves the street so
Starting point is 00:12:05 yeah well there ain't coming back from something like that Mark you know I mean I know I know but
Starting point is 00:12:10 whatever force whatever force he was about used seems to be definitely unwarranted if he just, right. So, lots going on. They surged another thousand over the weekend
Starting point is 00:12:22 Border Patrol agents in the Minnesota in Minneapolis to free up Homeland Security investigators to go find barely existing welfare fraud. And they, the amount of horrifying shit I've seen in the past, you know, a couple days is only eclipsed by also the number of ice agents
Starting point is 00:12:39 that have seen slip on the ice and fall down, which is they work, they're wearing tennis use trade. I see multiple reports these dumb fucks and wear his tennis shoes in the Minnesota winner. One guy slipped and his rifle went off. Yeah. He's lucky to be alive.
Starting point is 00:12:51 Right. Yeah, it's serious comedy of error shit. They got going on up there. But are they like, but ice now, they come from everywhere, right? Because in my head, it's not like, these are not like,
Starting point is 00:13:02 you know, Texas. I mean, they could be, I guess. But you know, border patrol. Yeah, right. You know, like from, it's, because it's funny to imagine like, Texas border guys getting like deployed to Minneapolis basically and then just slipping and sliding all over the place up there it's
Starting point is 00:13:19 yeah you and you and I are football fans who know how warm weather teams fare and in the playoffs yeah so uh not usually not good so the uh put people like Bortac the border border border patrol's tactical team is running muck in fucking in in Minneapolis and you could ask yourself the question why border patrol has a tactical team and you start to get some driving some uncomfortable truce about what our government actually fucking spends money on because I cannot in my mind
Starting point is 00:13:48 imagine a scenario in which border patrol needs its own tactical team I don't think that there's any even like law enforcement adjacent like apparatus in this country that you could find
Starting point is 00:14:01 that isn't super like militarized and swat it out to the extent that they can get the resources to equip themselves as such you know what I mean it almost felt like it's like a cultural thing they all got to have the kit and the gear. They all got to be tactical because tactical's fucking cool, Mark.
Starting point is 00:14:17 So, you know. Yeah. When I work for the, when I work for the newspaper, the city police department I cover was was finding the money to purchase all the patrol officers, AR-15s, to keep in their trunk. And that's when the AR-15 went national as a police weapon for like regular patrol officers. And the, what cops were telling themselves, this was 20 years ago, but like, fairly fresh in their memory was the North Hollywood Bank shootout. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:43 Where there's a movie made about it, I think, but like these two guys robbed a bank in North Hollywood, the Bank of America, and were wearing full-body body armor, and the cops couldn't take them down with the weapons they had. So all these guys in their head think they're going to get in North Hollywood Bank Bank of America shootout 24-7. That's why they have to have all these weapons. Anyway, people of Minnesota seem to be keenly aware of who the bad guy is actually is in this scenario.
Starting point is 00:15:05 They've been putting up basically one in posters for Nick Shirley, the YouTube influencer who started all this by covering all the fake daycare storyfront. I mean, the daycare story for us, he'd think we're like no-show businesses or something, if you got the sandwich, Matt. But the Washington Post, sorry, the Wall Street Journal had a story this morning. See, is that Nick Shirley brought ice to Minnesota.
Starting point is 00:15:27 He helped kill Renee Good. Do not let him in your business. So go love mine in a sandwich in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Nick. So the Wall Street Journal had this article this morning. Washington's new lobbyists, paying on on influencers with few rules, talking about how people are paying influencers
Starting point is 00:15:42 to influence the Trump White House because the posting on Twitter is the main way to get Trump administration's attention. The lead example in here was a guy that used to work for the Trump campaign. It was paid $300,000 by the legal marijuana industry to tweet that Trump said reschedule it because kids would be a big fan of that
Starting point is 00:15:58 and then Trump immediately rescheduled a marijuana not to be a class one truck. So, bear in this article, Qatar is paying people a bunch of money. American right-wing influences a bunch of money. And also here's, I want to note here in this article mentions that Israel made plans over the past year to spend $900,000
Starting point is 00:16:13 on an influencer campaign with the U.S. audience. Prime Minister Benjamin Yanjahou met with conservative social media stars on at least two of his visits. Bro, is there not some kind of goddamn, like, left-wing authoritarian regime that wants to throw a bunch of money and silver? Where's China at?
Starting point is 00:16:31 When China can't pay me fucking $500,000 a goddamn month to say a bunch of commie shit or something, it's always these fucking, guys, there's Russia just, buying them Bugatti's monthly just to fucking get on there and talk shit about trans people or whatever. The fuck, it's insane. Well, part of this of having us, well, you think about how differently the two groups of people see the world. Like, I would not trust anyone.
Starting point is 00:16:55 I would forgive me, Tray, but I wouldn't trust you if I. No, no, you're right. It doesn't work in the other way, in the other direction as well. That's definitely true. Right. But it doesn't seem to matter in this world. I'm not doing cork board and string here, but I just want to point out the right-wing influence. are currently on the ground in Minnesota, begging their government to harass Muslims,
Starting point is 00:17:16 all of them also were to pay junk into Israel late last year. Okay? So keep that in your mind. We'll talk about this next thing. This is a tweet from Benny Johnson. He posted this video. This is reported to be from Minneapolis this weekend of a bunch of protesters in the streets. Benny says, this is the current scene in Minneapolis.
Starting point is 00:17:36 Pray for our law enforcement. There is insane funding behind this. Yeah, so apparently, I guess all these protesters who are mad about ice, their ice is going door to door today with assault rifles in suburban communities in Minneapolis. Do you think they need to be paid to be pissed off about this? And also a point that Benny Johnson himself last year was discovered to have been, to have taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Russian government funneled through a Canadian production firm, production company.
Starting point is 00:18:05 There's no evidence he knew the money was coming from Russia, but the fucking gall this guy has to say the protesters are. paid for their opinions. This paid protester thing is probably going to be the death of me. I want to show you this tweet from referencing a Fox News story. I'll read to you from it.
Starting point is 00:18:29 Stop the madness. What we were seeing across the country as organized gangs of wine moms using Antifa tactics to harass and impede ICE agents is not civil disobedience. It isn't even protest. It's just crime. Organized gangs of wine moms
Starting point is 00:18:45 are now harassing. We're going to be seeing diagrams to the CIA of like Wine Mom tunnels under hospitals by this time next week. I'll tell you what worries me about it. I'm now worried that they're going to start showing up at my shows because if you want to find a conglomeration of wine moms
Starting point is 00:19:01 in any given city, check and see if I'm coming on tour there because there'll be a lot of them in one room together and I don't want to attract ICE's attention. I don't know ICE has jurisdiction over the wine moms yet, but they, you know, they'll just take it, I imagine. But yeah, this is crazy.
Starting point is 00:19:18 But to all the fans out there that fit that category listening, like, you guys should feel pretty gangster right now, in my opinion. Like, look, look at this. Public enemy number one for the regime. You guys are doing it. Getting on their shit list means you're doing something right. You're insurgency. You're the vanguard, the resistance.
Starting point is 00:19:35 The outside agitators thing is a paid protesters thing is so funny because every regime does it when there's a protest. like right the massive protests in iran the last week or so um and the the iranid government is basically accused that all being orchestrated by masad and the in the CIA um which is funny on a multiple levels because our Iran's currently at the people are protesting as the shitty economy as like 80 some percent inflation rate or something uh partially to contribute to by sanctions but also government corruption and and uh and you know mishandling of shit. But
Starting point is 00:20:11 what's also funny about it is it's not really a conspiracy theory because Mossad on its farcey language social media accounts is saying we are out there protesting with you. And that's credible because the alpha agents all over the Iranian government and the Iranian society. They pulled off that attack last week last year
Starting point is 00:20:30 that was basically with like an inside info of people stationed there. So like with I don't know whether Mossad is lying or not but it's not exactly conspiracy. the way that you it's more credible that there's the Iranian government is saying there is paid protesters but it is that the American government is saying and and while we're saying that our protesters are paid and we got to violently stomp down on our protests we're threatening to bomb
Starting point is 00:20:56 Iran and to help because they're stomping down on their protests so is shooting your own citizens who are protesting good or bad tray well it depends on the citizens I think you know and what they're protesting against, I guess. Yeah. So I'll go to hear from a story about like Trump has briefed on options for striking Iran as protests continue. Um, quote,
Starting point is 00:21:20 Trump said, Iran is looking at freedom, all caps, perhaps like never before. Okay. So, but U.S. officials said they had to be careful that any military strikes did not
Starting point is 00:21:29 have the opposite effect, galvanizing the Iranian republic to support the government, which is obviously what would have. Yeah. I know. I was just about to say it's like, it's so funny that they're, they just had to want to like support.
Starting point is 00:21:39 these protesters, whatever, the only way we know how, which is, you know, raining fire from the sky on top of cities and shit, just, like, accidentally blow up their fucking neighborhoods or whatever the fuck
Starting point is 00:21:52 and freak everybody out and, like, just had the exact opposite intended effect would be, um, very typical, very fitting. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:01 So I can't figure out, like, um, did, certainly the CIA is aware, that the protest movement being affiliated, but the United States government and the CIA
Starting point is 00:22:10 would be bad for the protest movement. And how do they get that through to Trump that not everybody's a fan of him? I don't know, good luck, I guess. Anyway, yeah, American politics, we overthrow the government if inflation is his 3%. But yeah, I'm in quotes, sorry,
Starting point is 00:22:24 I misstated the numbers. Iran inflation rates right now more than 50% across the board, 70% on the food. I'm on the highest in the world. And I wanted to play this clip here if you got this chant from one of the Iranian protest, Matt.
Starting point is 00:22:38 All right, you can cut it. What they're chanting there, according to the translation I read is their kid in Canada, our kid in prison. The children of the country's elites live overseas in Western decadence. Right. Which is another example to me of Instagram radicalizing people, which is what we're living through also. We just don't have the vocabulary to describe it.
Starting point is 00:23:01 But yeah, when you're, I might have mentioned that had this since this take before, but when you're taking shit on your 15 minute break at your 10 hour a day job and you open up Instagram and see people laying on a boat in Dubai. It's mildly infuriating. Going back to Minnesota for a second, the go-fund me for Jonathan Ross, the ice shooter.
Starting point is 00:23:23 Yeah. The language in the go-fund me would not induce me to fucking contribute. Quote, this is my guy named Clyde Emmons. The stupid cunts want to make a go-fund me for the stupod bitch. She misspelled stupid.
Starting point is 00:23:39 They got what she deserved. I made one for the officer that did his job. Let's get this man some money. He doesn't need, he doesn't have, Derek, pretend like he needs a legal defense, but he hasn't even been fucking arrested yet. He won't need a legal defense for years at least. Bill Ackman promoted this and donated $10,000.
Starting point is 00:23:56 It's made like a closer to its $160,000 goal yet. Bill Ackman, I'm just only mentioning he's Jewish because the text itself and the go fund me and calls Mayor Frey a traitor. Mayor of phrase, he's a phrase the mayor of Minneapolis. And quote, Mayor McFray, parentheses, who is Jewish in parentheses, which should have been a giveaway. But yeah, Clyde is a literal Nazi.
Starting point is 00:24:20 Here's another thing you posted on social media that meme where paper beats rock, where it's a fascist sig high over a socialist rising fist. So yeah, everything going normally. So I mentioned ice going door to door. I watched, you know, them invade a house. also, you know, where there were kids carrying assault rifles and pointed them. They tased a woman who tried to film them while they're
Starting point is 00:24:45 in her house without a warrant for no reason. But I'm even sure if there's an immigrant even there. Lots of horrors going on. There was a viral video that I assumed I didn't want to give credibility to it. I thought I was watching a video of another ice officer slipping on the fucking ground and busting ass, which he did.
Starting point is 00:25:01 Then he slips on the ground and falls while a detainee in handcuffs goes into a port potty. Then the agent follows the detainee into the port party and shuts the door behind them. Right. By head, I was like, well, ICE is going to deny this because the optics of it look fucking horrific.
Starting point is 00:25:22 There's no real reason to do that. I was waiting for some sort of denial or some sort of explanation because I don't want to think that's happening that open. And then Trisha, what's her name, McLaughlin comes out. ICE's designated a liar and goes, her defense of it was like, she insists. that it was a man and not a woman being escorted to the porta and saying there's nothing to see here. The issue is not
Starting point is 00:25:47 whether it was a woman that was sexually hurt, assaulted versus a man. It's not okay. It's not okay for a man to be asked to trade a blow job for his freedom either. I don't, I do not, this does not hold water or nothing. I'm just saying that I, isn't what, isn't
Starting point is 00:26:03 the, the argument she's trying to make or the claim she's making to refute this by saying that's a man? Isn't she saying like, the officer won't allow the man to be alone by himself in case of whatever. He's got a fucking some kind of
Starting point is 00:26:20 something up his ass or whatever. But basically like it's observation. Meaning like that's not a woman, it's a man and it's policy to not let a detainee out of your sight even for using the bathroom, which I don't believe any of that. I'm just saying, isn't that what that she's trying to say?
Starting point is 00:26:37 Like he's just, you know, surveilling him or whatever won't let him out of his type thing sure right but like if a band just needs to pee and you're outdoors
Starting point is 00:26:51 there's the solutions here that don't involve you I've never seen a porta potty with room from one of the two people I know where are you gonna go where's he gonna go what's he gonna do from a porta potty
Starting point is 00:27:01 like if it was like a hotel bathroom or something I could get the idea it's like no they have to leave the door open whatever we've all seen those movies you know fucking going there and the curtains just to blow But like a porta potty though, I mean, what could they possibly achieve even if that is what you were saying you were trying to do?
Starting point is 00:27:18 So it doesn't seem to make any kind of fucking sense. Anyway, I saw other reporting that parents were discussing figuring out how legally if they can ride school buses with their kids because ICE stopped a special ed school bus this morning. Now, I don't know what kind of identification, a mentally handicapped child can be expected. to produce that shows their U.S. citizen on their way to school, but what the fuck ever. It seems like hell on earth on Minnesota right now. Solidarity and prayers to the people. So I wanted to quote here from Rob Hirschfield, who's the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, a candlelight visual that was held in New Hampshire, Concord,
Starting point is 00:27:58 New Hampshire, Friday night for Renee Good. Quote, I have asked the clergy of the dioces to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills. It's not the time for statements. It's time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable. so is the good sign when priests are making their wills ready tray yeah well they're you know putting their money where their mouth is or their uh you know bodies their lives and everything like somebody's willing to do it i mean don't i don't know i shouldn't say that
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Starting point is 00:34:03 for Daily Dumbass this week. People who won't tone down their rhetoric while objecting to an ice agent killing a woman that he called a quote fucking bitch. This is Tom Holman, the man himself, cry bullying to Dr. Phil. Tone down the rhetoric.
Starting point is 00:34:24 In my career, our buried border two agents that buried ice agents and saddest thing I've ever had to be a stand a forward flag to an awful child. I don't want to see anybody die. Okay. So the Death of America has we were Dr. Phil involvement than I anticipated.
Starting point is 00:34:39 I know. Tell me about it. Personally, I'd also like to live in a more civil society. I absolutely would, but also the president of the United States called half of America unpatriotic scumbags and his Merry Christmas message. Right.
Starting point is 00:34:53 So, why are we pretending? No, I know. No, they always, right. It's like they, they put it out a million times, I've said it a million times or whatever, but it's like they do all this insane, do and support all this insane, authoritarian, and overtly fascistic stuff.
Starting point is 00:35:10 And then when we're like, why are you guys being fascist? They're like, oh, wow, really? You know, this is the problem right here. You can't just call people fascists. You wonder why everybody gets so upset. You know, it's like, it's maddening. We're just all being gaslit 24-7 and everything. But, yeah, it's like, because that, yeah,
Starting point is 00:35:28 essentially, you know, that it's the rhetoric's fault. It's her fault, you know, for believing the rhetoric about ICE being bad. And it's anybody but, you know, the masked thugs fault. Tell it. The violence keeps happening. Talk about the gasoline. I thought it was pretty funny. And we talked before a bunch before about how, like, the Wright loves to co-op left-wing
Starting point is 00:35:49 language about, like, you know, ableism or whatever, sexism. There's a funny clip of an ICE agent. And he actually had raised a good point, but he walked back to a car that was following him. And he goes, do you realize how racist you're being right now? And they're like, what? He's like, they're blowing their whistle to let people know what ICE's presence. But he's like, you're just like, those people, are just brown labors.
Starting point is 00:36:08 You're the one assuming they're illegal, not me. I was like, you honestly raises a pretty good point, but also the whistle they keep blowing the fucking whistle. That is a very white liberal thing to do. I feel like I run up to like just a brown dude. Be like, get out of here.
Starting point is 00:36:24 They're coming or whatever. And then you guys like, what are you talking about? Yeah. My name's James. I'm from fucking, you know, Ventura or whatever. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:35 Not that it matters. It doesn't matter. if you're a U.S. citizen. They've, like, they, they, they tackled a 17-year-old working at Walmart, and then dragged him into a van. He was working at Target.
Starting point is 00:36:45 And then when they realized he was a U.S. citizen, they dropped him off at a Walmart. Because he forgot where he worked. Yeah. So, just how dangerous is it to work for ICE? I wanted to figure it out. I'm glad somebody wrote up about it. Because his whole third crying thing about,
Starting point is 00:36:58 I've had to hand a folded flag to the children or wives of slain ICE agents is just fucking fraudulent. At least how you would think about it. according to ICE's own data, they have like a wall of, like a wall of honor where they put up all the people have died in, you know, in service, which, you know, according to ICE's own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency's history. The leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19. The second leading cause of death is cancer linked to 9-11. No slipping falls yet, though?
Starting point is 00:37:30 They're going to get, those are going to be up by the end of the week. Get them some snowshoes, some fucking cleats. Doug. The pandemic in September 11th cancers account for 75% of the deaths in ISIS history. The most recent ICE officer death attributed to something other than cancer or COVID-19 occurred in 2021. But that incident did not evolve an immigrant either. It occurred when a special agent died after a service weapon was accidentally discharged in a parking lot. He shot himself in the leg and bled out.
Starting point is 00:38:03 But how else was he supposed to learn cowboy gun tricks twirling his pistol around, right? Another death happened when a special agent was hit by a drunk driver while getting a taxi in Miami. I guess they're counting that as I. Maybe he was on duty. And another resulted from a special agent contracting dengue fever while on assignment in Indonesia. Do you know how undeadly dingay fever is, direct? No, I don't know anything about it. I've heard of it.
Starting point is 00:38:27 I don't know where it ranks amongst favors, but you get it on a, by getting bitten by mosquito, has a mortality rate about 1%, which is completely eliminated. say it with me now by a fucking vaccine that he probably chose not to get. Well, COVID being number one also makes sense. You know, I'm sure there's a big overlap between ICE agents and people that don't believe COVID was a real thing, despite the fact that so many of their brothers in arms cough to death as a result of it or whatever. And like usually to travel to a place like Indonesia, you have to get vaccines. So they get a special exemption if they're taking fucking, if they have to go for work to take a like a detainee?
Starting point is 00:39:03 I don't know. So the only case listed by the agency of an ICE official dying while attempting to apprehend an undocumented immigrant happened when an officer had a heart attack during a foot pursuit in 2016. I swear to God, I almost said that as a joke earlier. I was in a way, you know, imply because they don't look like they're in that good of shape. I can see some of them keeling over while chasing these guys down. I was going to jokingly say that. So I'm not surprised it actually happened. But that means that like, not that this is surprising.
Starting point is 00:39:30 But he's all teary-eyed and stuff talking to Dr. Phil. and he's going to this whole thing about, you know, the hardest thing I ever have to do is hand a folded flag to a, but like, based on everything you just said, he's not that he's never had that experience, but he's never had to do that for an immigrant-related, like he, even the times he's had to do that in his head,
Starting point is 00:39:52 he knows that he did that. Like, he's thinking about, I'll never forget, and I'm sure it is still sad, a guy died, but you know that he died of pancreatic cancer, right? And you also know that you're implying that, you know, he was killed in the course of, heroic action, you know, chasing down these dastardly immigrant drug dealers and stuff like that. But as soon as I, even you were playing that clip, I was like, I was immediately skeptical because I was
Starting point is 00:40:14 like, dude, if that had happened even once in a high profile way, but especially commonly, the way he's implying, like, we would all be forced to know their names. They'd be making laws named after the guys who were, like, they'd never shut the fuck up about it. So, yeah, I'm not surprised. There'd be three times the amount of AI-generated songs as Charlie Kirk got. Right. They would horse vessel max him.
Starting point is 00:40:44 Anyway, yeah, the most recent case in ICE records in which an immigration agent was killed during an enforcement operation appears to have taken place in 1970. I did a quick Google search and found at least three mall security guards who have died in the line of duty being shot since 2021. So Tom Holman would be way busier if he was handing forward to American flags the families of fallen mall security guards. Paul Blart. Yes. Yes. Yes. So what's about ice recruiting for a second here? We've talked about the lowered standards and I'm only getting 47 days of training and they don't have to do past physical fitness tests
Starting point is 00:41:16 anymore because none of them can do setups or run a mile and a half. They also can't read or write to that article we read together late last year. So home insecurity has been doing vaguely white supremacist sort of stuff for a while and they've gone explicit with it and in reaction to this. They posted a recruitment ad, with a website join.e.com on their social medias with the slogan, We'll have our home again.
Starting point is 00:41:43 We'll have our home again is a popular ballot on YouTube associated with the Manor Bund, which is a white separatist, ethno-nationalist men's club. It's sort of like a Nazi big brothers, big sisters program. It's named for the Manorbanes, In German, in German means alliance of men. It's a reference to a theoretical,
Starting point is 00:42:04 proto-Indo-European Brotherhood of Warriors, sort of myth-mythological group that existed way back in old times, in which young, unmarried young males would serve for several years as a rite of passage into manhood. The Manor Bond wore like animal skins, and the legends where they can shape-shift into wolves. Of course. That all checks out. It's always like some beast-master shit with these fucking guys.
Starting point is 00:42:27 Like, they're always going to be like, you know, talk about themselves like they're wolfmen who wear loincloths in the fucking woods and fucking, you know, kill things and eat it with their, eat it raw in the field for dinner every night and that type of shit that they're always into. It's always fucking caveman warrior stuff with these motherfuckers. And then they go, you know, go home and watch fucking Landman Marathon while eating a bucket of KFC chicken and shit.
Starting point is 00:42:54 But anyway, which I like those things. I'm just saying. by the way truly deranged plotline I was texting you guys about the latest landman involving like a non-binary roommate for the college daughter it's just like it's a anyway fuck it so back to the manor bun for a second they wear the animal schemes to shape shift into woods mythologically but when they fought they wore they fought naked where it only belts so you can see why they hit for this group of guys remember the kurgan from highlander the clancy brown's character yeah the kirkin was a was a member it was alluding to the manor manor manor bunch that's where that was his background when he was, you know, that immortal was more.
Starting point is 00:43:30 So we'll have her home again also appears as the first line in a lot of mass shooter manifestos. The band that sings the song, it's like a folk ballad, by the way. It doesn't sound like what you'd think of, like, as, usually equate Nazi music with like death metal. This sounds more like, you know, the Nazi answer to, what can't think of the guy with this language? Woody Guthrie?
Starting point is 00:43:56 Woody Guthrie. Yeah, yeah. That's a funny thing to even exist Nazi Woody Guthrie. Nazi Woody Guthrie. The Nazi Woody Guthrie is called themselves the pine tree riots, which is a reference to 1772, some guys in New Hampshire almost be the colonial sheriff to death as a protest that were not able to cut down pine trees. And they're the reason that a pine tree appears on the appeal to heaven flag that was flying in front of the Supreme Court Justice's
Starting point is 00:44:27 I was waiting back when that was a scandal. So I lay all that out for you guys to ask this question. Who the fuck knows all this shit? And how do they get a job bringing social media for DHS? They, white people that get into how awesome white people are, like, it always goes deep like this because they need as much like, again, lore-based justification and everything that they could find. So they get, like, super nerdy about, you know,
Starting point is 00:44:57 the supremacy of white people in their mind. This is like, but like this is like, this is the amount of lorieth and know to all this shit. This is like a, like a, like a Star Wars nerd trying to tell you like the whole life backstory for Babu Frank.
Starting point is 00:45:12 Like who the fuck cares, man? I know. Well, it's also like, as I sort of alluded to a minute ago, I think because so many of them that end up getting into this are like slack-jawed losers, right? Who are fucking doy and unimpressive and shit.
Starting point is 00:45:27 It, all this like appeals to them for like obvious reasons, but that's why they get so into it and, and, uh, you know, dig so deep and stuff is because they always want to hear more and more about how really at heart, you know, they're the wolf supreme or whatever. Where, you know, they can't keep a job as a fucking mall cop and whatnot. I've been divorced three times. Fucking have high cholesterol. I'm not, uh, I'm not sure if anything through ever would really be a scandal anymore right now, but they think like, like, The DHS openly posting Nazi shit on their socials. Like, the mainstream media sentence seems to not notice it or not ask anyone about it. Elon Musk is retweeting people who were saying,
Starting point is 00:46:08 or longing for the salad days of Rhodesia, which, you know, Joe Lonsdale, who's one of the founders of Palantir, was posting pro-Rodizia memes the other day. These are people openly allied with the administration. It seems bad. And a lot of people, who are,
Starting point is 00:46:28 have a lot of power in our society are very committed to just not fucking noticing it or just not understanding it and I,
Starting point is 00:46:34 for the life of me I can't, I can never really wrap my mind around it. Yeah. Mm-hmm. All right. Next up we got
Starting point is 00:46:41 for honorable mention MAGA AI officiados for making a free American green land look more bleak than we ever could have imagined. Here we go.
Starting point is 00:46:52 I can't believe they finally open the target here. My new snow mobile is parked right over there. This place is amazing. I can't believe. Oh my God, dude. I'm really upset by that.
Starting point is 00:47:04 I didn't know, like I knew that, obviously I know that those places, the strip malls with all the stores and shit in them, obviously they hit for people because people go there and shop all the time. But I thought that, I don't know, I didn't know that they hit for people in like the abstract or,
Starting point is 00:47:18 you know what I mean, that people like thought that was like the ideal. You know, it's like they like that they can go to a place where there's a target and also a Starbucks without really thinking. about like the, you know, the monotone and blight of it all and everything and how like depressing it is.
Starting point is 00:47:32 But the idea that they're like, no, this is what's up. Is, I'm a little bit surprised and disappointed by that. I'm embarrassed to say. Bro, they say we hate America. Right.
Starting point is 00:47:48 And then they go saying, they go and say that the best thing about America is you'll get a target. In McDonald's in the same place. I know. Right. Uh-huh. and maybe have Biedelow Ford a new snowmobile, which Greenlanders have, they're not poor, guys. They're better off than a lot of us in a lot of ways we'll get to.
Starting point is 00:48:04 Yes, but do they have Applebee's, Mark? I think not. And thus, they have not yet truly lived, obviously. That's why that's American exceptionalism, half-priced apps after seven. Anyway, it's usually like lefty types who will say that Americans have no culture, which isn't really true. We invented rap music, bluegrass, standard comedy.
Starting point is 00:48:25 Comedy. jazz. Yeah. Yeah. So we have stuff we'd be proud of. I would never in a billion years say the proudest thing I am of America is a fucking target. Um, no. So there's reporting yesterday. This is from the Daily Mail to have a little bit of a grain of salt. What they don't tend not to do is fabricate stuff. They definitely don't fabricate stuff to make Trump look bad because they're, you know, owned by Rupert Murdoch. So he's apparently ordered special force commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland, but as being resisted by senior military figures, they reported.
Starting point is 00:48:55 Sources say that the policy hawks around the U.S. president, led by political advisor Stephen Miller, have been so emboldened by the success of the operation to capture Nicholas Maduro. They want to move quickly to seize the island before Russia or China makes a move. Russia or China is not making a fucking move.
Starting point is 00:49:10 I don't know where, like, where, we shouldn't take Greenland, but like, you wouldn't do it with special forces. And who told these guys, that's how you would do it? I mean quote here, a lot of interesting stuff in this article, but British diplomats believe that Trump is also motivated by a desire to distract American voters from the performance of the U.S. economy before the midterm elections later this year. But it's weird to me that Trump gets fall in this trap of trying to distract people from an issue, but he's unpopular wrong by doing something he's also a popular role? I know. That's what I was about to say. I was about to ask. I was like, but is that going to, I know that that was always a tactic for a very long time.
Starting point is 00:49:48 But like we talked about it like the last episode, I think. I feel like it don't, the rules. are not the same anymore even on the American right where it used to be just like any kind of conflict we were involved in. The right went conservatives were going to break out the flags and be like, fuck yeah, hell yeah. But I feel like there's a huge chunk of them that don't do that anymore, so that's not even a
Starting point is 00:50:06 reliable strategy to just start, you know, beating the war drums whenever the power of the dollar is falling or whatnot and you've got elections around the corner but, you know, what the fuck do I know? The other thing, and I know this has also been brought, but like, oh, we need a plan to, like, invade Greenland.
Starting point is 00:50:21 okay, if that happens, is that like, like us starting a war with Denmark, you know? Like, is that, will we be at war with Denmark all of a sudden if they actually do this? Because I feel like people don't talk about it like that. It's like, I don't know. I don't know how you can't even possibly give the proper amount of like heft and weight to the insanity of the things that we're constantly doing, but I still feel like people don't do it enough.
Starting point is 00:50:49 Do you know what I mean? like they just talk about the things like it's just another thing that might happen and it's like yeah but that would be fucking supremely insane you know like yeah it would mean the end of NATO there's only pretty much only one person in the world that definitely
Starting point is 00:51:03 once NATO fully destroyed and that's Vladimir Putin of course yeah yeah so so Denmark I saw a conservative member of their parliament yesterday put out a statement is basically we will not we will not see Greenland even under threat of the use of nuclear weapons.
Starting point is 00:51:21 And he's like, I'm paraphrasing yours. I don't know we're going to bring it up, but he was like, I know it's, this is not us saying that we stand a chance against the United States. This is me saying that some things are non-negotiable. Right. So, yeah, who said do you want to be on? That guy who has principles or if you wonder about this polls, I said, this is unpopular, pressuring Denmark to sell is in America has 52% opposed, only 16% for.
Starting point is 00:51:47 Well, why would anyone want, no disrespect. like what why would your average American be like fuck yeah we need to take greenland unless it's just they know that trump wants it and they're just you know part of the trump cult and just do everything that he says but what's the rationale for like i think like a certain like look i sort of get like i think we all as a people share the sense that the united states is sclerotic and stuck right and uh like Barack Obama will be the for unless something changes will be the first American president to not see a state added to the union in the entire course of his lifetime unless we seize Greenland and make a state.
Starting point is 00:52:24 I would be all for expanding the United States. If Greenland wanted to be a state, we could also just let Puerto Rico and American Samoa into the end of the unit. We have other options besides violently seizing territory. But yeah, another reason, all the other stuff that you're seeing with threats against Iran, all this stuff, keep in mind the stuff. context. And I didn't realize this for the first time I read it, but it seems pretty clear here why this is in the Daily Mail. The sources are coming from the UK government who
Starting point is 00:52:52 apparently been briefed on America's plans to take Greenland by their American counterparts and are trying to get somebody to help them out. The diplomatic source said, quote, the generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they're trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old. They have tried to distract Trump by talking about less controversial measures such as intercepting Russian ghost ships where a clandestine network of hundreds of vessels operated by Moscow to evade Western
Starting point is 00:53:20 sanctions or launching a strike on Iran. Launching a strike on Iran. That's funny. We have to distract the president from doing something truly like, listen, let's do something a little more, you know, a little more standard, a little more run in the mill. Like, like, we could bomb Iran again. That's always a classic.
Starting point is 00:53:36 That always works. People love that. Why about that, sir? Would that make you feel better? Yeah. They're basically trying to sell Trump in a more manageable world war. Yeah. To manage a shoot a different stupid war, sir. So this is pretty funny.
Starting point is 00:53:51 So there was a, like, last week, United States seized an oil tanker that had been tried to go to Venezuela, allegedly empty under an Iranian flag, and then got turned around, and the U.S. Coast Guard followed it basically all the way to Greenland before the Navy was able to intercept it and board it, and then, at which case, discovered it was a Russian ship. Now, we've seized a bunch of different Russian tankers and, and, and, and, and, and, in trade ships. And let me quote here, Russia has started preparations to seize an American oil ship as retaliation, which is deeply funny because there are no American oil ships. One thing we're
Starting point is 00:54:27 very good at in this country is tax fraud and avoidance. So be an example what this looks out, looks like. So Exxon owns cutouts in Liechtenstein that are majority shareholders of an LLC that employs a subcontractor out of Japan that provides a Filipino crew to a Taiwanese built ship owned by a Dutch cutout that flags the vessel in Aruba. Good luck figuring out what ships to see, motherfucker, because we don't think we'd better innovate anymore is tax fraud, so there you go. Also, what's funny about this is like,
Starting point is 00:54:59 our old shipments are definitely insured, and we do not need them to keep the lights on. So, like, who's going to end up losing their shirt in this would be, I don't know, Lloyds of London would probably have a bunch of money invested in it from like a Russian oligarchs. Look. Oh, God.
Starting point is 00:55:17 So, Sweden's major, major paper, I'm going to have fun trying to say this. Dagen's Nyeter. Yeah. Doggins Nyheter. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Say that again one time for me, please.
Starting point is 00:55:28 Dagen's Nyitzer. Yeah. It means today's news, I gather. It's suggesting that Nordics with Sweden in the lead revisit the thought of getting nuclear weapons. I wonder what brought that up, you know? What got that on the mind? on the brain. Sweden just joined NATO like two years ago
Starting point is 00:55:50 to a lot of fanfare. And now they're discussing nuclear arm meant to deter the biggest and major NATO power, which is fucking us. So when history tries to tell the story of how like New York ended up getting nuked by Denmark. Fucking shit, dude.
Starting point is 00:56:07 So the threat of special operations is this stick. The carrot here has been floated the White House is paying Greenlanders somewhere between $10,000 and $100,000 each to vote to join the United States. Oh, are you kidding me? Like, they're really going to get on, but that, I'm not even saying that Greenlanders need or want that or whatever, but regardless, that, you know, they're going to give taxpayer dollars just free checks to foreigners, right? And like, your Aunt Tammy is going to be all for it. Like, all of a sudden.
Starting point is 00:56:44 Like, she's going to love that plan. It's fucking insane. Like, we can't get health care of UBI or nothing like that, total non-starter in this country, but we'll give it to Greenlanders just so we can, like, you know, run a sci-op to convince them to give us their country over, which would benefit pretty much every single, you know, walking around American in zero ways anyway.
Starting point is 00:57:06 Bro, when do they realize that Greenlanders mostly aren't white? Yeah, I know. That's what I'm saying, yeah. they're uh yeah what's the right term in in you it yeah yeah so forgive me if we're getting that wrong but they're some variety of yeah or arctic native yeah because the waves of white people that tried to populate it all ended up dying or fleeing yeah because it's a harsh place it's a harsh place yeah yeah yeah well is it the whole population like 50 000 or 100000 or something like 60 000 i think yeah the entire capital city is 20 000 people which is like Which is funny because one of the reasons they've been so annoyed with like, like, they basically don't talk to Western American media anymore because every single one has been interviewed multiple times about how they don't want to be America.
Starting point is 00:57:54 So it's very, that is very unpopular there. I think only about 16% of Americans favor seizing Greenland and about 16% of Greenlanders favor becoming American. So as you see, a mirror image there. I don't know if they ticked $100,000, but I would recommend it against it because it's a bad deal for them because currently Greenlanders have. free health care, free college, 52 weeks of paid parental leave, and five weeks of paid vacation. So if you have a baby,
Starting point is 00:58:18 you can spend the first year of its life at home taking care of it, whether you're a man or a woman, and then if you want to take another five weeks off at the end of that year, you got it. Oh, Jesus Christ. Also, this is a circle back to here as we wrap up. We got a lot of ship capturing mysteries
Starting point is 00:58:37 going on. The American Navy apparently now works for Delci Rodriguez, the former vice president now leader of Venezuela that we installed. At first it appeared against her will. Now it feels great for her. She got
Starting point is 00:58:54 America that helped her turn an oil tanker linked to one of her political rivals that left the country without her authorization. So the U.S. Navy is working as privateers to help our pet dictators cement control of authoritarian social dictatorship. That ostensibly everyone has supported Trump.
Starting point is 00:59:10 in terms of that America policy wanted to overthrow. Trump has been president for a year and they're now pirates back in the Caribbean trade and they are us. Yeah. Well, that, I don't know. I don't like that.
Starting point is 00:59:26 You know, that makes it sound more fun than it is. You know what I mean? It's like people think of fucking, like, you know, the Assassin's Creed game and Disney rides and Jack Sparrow and stuff like that and think of Pirates of the Caribbean. But instead, it's a bunch of these fucking
Starting point is 00:59:42 and like, buzz-cutted chuds on boats, you know, taking orders and fucking doing ice-type shit, but on international waters underneath the American flag, so it's not a good look.
Starting point is 00:59:55 Yeah, the real-life pirates ruled. Watch black sails. I know. I'm what I'm saying. Yeah. All right. Okay.
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