Weekly Skews - S6 Ep32: Weekly Skews – Dead Pool

Episode Date: June 24, 2026

 The Supreme Court has ruled that because Thomas Jefferson liked to party we can all get high and still have guns. The stupid Reflecting Pool saga has reached a late-stage Stalin level of Soviet farce, with show trials and a total war mobilization to destroy some algae. Then, Trump officials are now saying thoughts about Israel’s government that left-wing protesters got beaten half-to-death for expressing, so things must be going well in the Middle East.This episode is sponsored by ZBiotics. Go to https://www.zbiotics.com/SKEW now. You'll get 15% off your first order when you use SKEW at checkoutWeekly Skews is brought to you by Leesa. Go to Leesa.com for 30% off select mattresses PLUS get an extra $50 off with promo code SKEW, exclusive for our listeners. Weekly Skews is brought to you by Fast Growing Trees. Visit https://www.fastgrowingtrees.com/skew and use the 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. 

What's up everybody. Welcome back. Happy Skues Day to you. It is June 23rd, 2026. We're recording this on Monday, June 22nd at about 2.15 p.m. on the West Coast. I'm trying. That's Mark. How are you doing, Mark? I'm good, man. Looking forward to the show today. We're talking about some, you know, reflecting. All of us that we've all loved to think and talk about for the entirety of American history, the reflecting pool. It's one at the tip of everybody's tongues all the time, front of mine. And maybe some Iran-Midly stuff later. But, but, before we get to the back.

It's funny that that's just, it's funny that that's the footnote. Like, and I know you're, I know you're being like, you were being cheeky just now, but it's funny. It's being like, yeah, well, first of all, up top priority number one, the reflecting pool and everything surrounding that. And then maybe later, if there's time, maybe the war in Iran, if we get to that. We're going to order of things, how important things are to the president. Yeah. But also, like, I'm worried about running out of time because I started having fun with a reflecting pool, so I don't want to promise. I don't want to over promise

to under-deliver here, but hopefully we went to some Moran stuff later. But first, I want to talk about the Supreme Court decision that dropped last week because, like, if you, I find the Supreme Court fascinating because if you just follow, if you just follow them on their own merits, it's like there's this little private debate club,

right? Mm-hmm. That has these really esoteric arguments about the dumbest bullshit you can imagine, but then however they decide a bunch of people's lives are ruined, if not ended. Right. Right. So, like, it's tough to remember that this stuff matters. Like, so, like, we just had, like, they just had a huge argument that's based upon how fucked up people used to get in the 1700s.

And that is relevant for reasons we'll explain. But I have a long time person who's been fascinated about how drunk everyone used to be and how we don't ever consider that when we talk about history, right? Like, we talk about the Boston Tea Party. No one mentions that, like, oh, yeah, everyone there had a bottle of whiskey that day. Yeah, I've seen the, like, the, like, inventory. for the second Continental Congress or something, like the booze inventory that they had for, you know, getting together and founding America.

And it's like just a comical amount of, of liquor and wine and meat and whatever they were getting drunk off of back then. But yeah, well, yeah, well, being alive has just been just a real nightmare for most of human history. So like the very first thing we figured out how to do was get drunk. Yeah. We've been doing it ever since. Well, I mean, I think this,

one thing you got to remember, is they were self-medicating for how fucking miserable their lives were. They were talking like a cracked tooth was a permanent fucking health condition for most of human history. So I think the statistic I remember seeing, and I have no idea how to measure if it's true or not. But it was true that people used to be really fucked up. But I think the average American in the 1700s personally lived in the 13 colonies drank like a pint of whiskey a day. And that's across men, women, children, right? The reason people almost over through the government when they try to do the whiskey tax,

the whiskey rebellion. Right. So, but so anyway, they had oral arguments back in March about how turned the father just to get

off handy in the 1780s, and that was relevant to a case called United States versus Hemini. Hemani. Let's go with Himani. So basically,

the origin is this case is in August of 2022. The FBI raided the home of a guy named Ali Denial Hamani, the 25-year-old

who was born, raised in Texas. His parents are originally from Pakistan. I gather his family's ethnically Persian because his brother lives in Iran,

and they would fly back and forth to Iran to visit him. And the federal government started surveilling them because they know people in Iran and accused him of supporting the Iranian government against the United States. They basically being like a terror cell basically. And they raided his house.

Now, they did not find anything relevant to that. Uh-huh. But they did find a gun. And then Hamani confessed he also had two ounces of weed and a little bit, a little bit of coke. But the weed was the big thing. he said he smoked weed about every every other day or whatever.

So again, this is in Houston area. This is Texas. He had a Glocknine. Very, very legal in Texas. Right. Some cannabinoids are legal in Texas. Weed is still technically illegal, but not federally.

These are federal agents. I mean, like, that has nothing to do with the federal law. But like, there's a law on the books this 1968, 1968, called the Federal Gun Control Act. It may say illegal for any person

who is an unlawful user or addicted to certain controlled substances, which includes marijuana. want it to possess a gun. So the question I proposed to you, Trey, because this is in Texas, is it the weed makes the gun illegal or does the gun make the weed double illegal? Right. The former, I think, right?

I mean, it's Texas. Like I said, guns are fine. But, yeah, I did, I knew, I did know that was a thing, but I guess I thought, because felons can't own guns, right? Ostensibly. Yes. which we all know because of Hunter Biden. Right. Right. Yeah.

Because Hunter Biden, the Hunter Biden's legal case was he had a gun, but a form, he filled out, said he wasn't a drug addict, while in fact he smoked crack fairly often. So, but then that becomes really interesting because if he had written, I smoke crack on a federal form, he would not be a criminal. Right. Right.

Under this law. So if you're fine, this is all, like, this is just all so fucking insane. So then, so this all, in February 2020, this went to trial, and a federal judge dismissed the indictment because this is all fucking stupid. He said, determined the law was unconstitutional because, let me quote here, it was not, disarming marijuana users was, quote, not consistent with the nation's history and tradition of firearm regulation. The reason to use that, that language is because the Supreme Court a couple years ago ruled that basically any law that wouldn't have made, gun control law that wouldn't have made sense in the 1780s is null and void. right? So here you've got a federal judge

being like Supreme Court said there's nothing in 1780s about you couldn't have gun and smoke weed right? Is that because is that when the Second Amendment was written or something? Yeah.

Yeah. Right. Okay. So basically it's like the idea they made this all up. We have such a history of AR-15 ownership in the United States and how dare everyone fucking

interfere with it. So basically in order to figure out whether a prohibitional drug users possessing guns passed in 1968 is still illegal in 2006. The court spent oral argument pottering how drunk the founding father used to get in 1776.

Let me quote here from Neil Gorsuch. John Adams took a tanker of hard cider with his breakfast every day. James Madison reportedly drank a pint of whiskey every day. Thomas Jefferson had three or four glasses of wine every night. So, yeah. Okay. So is

the thought process is we're trying to look at whether or not we think this is something they would have been on board with at that time. And because they were big drunks, they presumably would not have been on board with prohibiting users from having guns. Right.

Right. But another thing they were trying to parse is what's the difference between an alcoholic and a drunker? Right. Right. Yeah. So if a person's drunk every day, is that making them alcoholic?

And they decided we can't quite be sure. And this is called, I'll dub this the Supreme Court's Rick Flair Corollore. All right. so Sam Alito like who's allegedly this is all about

originalism you're familiar with the term right the legal term yeah right just like I mean kind of what we're talking

about right like it's just all about what they meant at the time when it was written at the constitutional there's no like looking at it

through a modern lens or anything it's just right it's a thing conservative conservative is invented

since the 1980s basically to pretend it was always true that we never considered the law would ever change right

The law written, which the founding fathers would have thought this was stupid. They were, the Constitution was their second attempt at writing a founding document in like 15 years. They didn't think we would just be frozen in amber. We'd never fucking fix the motherfucker when we encountered problems with it. Yeah, well, there's an amendment process, you know, that's like part of it. Yeah. So you can make changes. So I mean, obviously.

So Sam Alito is allegedly huge originalist, but when it comes to like trying to persecue brown people, which Ali Himani is, he's just like, we basically have a chance to lock up a Pakistani dude. You fucking can't pass it up, right?

So they quote here from him. Heroin was invented in 1874. Cocaine, 1855. Methadamine 1893. Fentine on 1959, Alito said. We don't know what the founders or what those who adopted the Second Amendment or the 14th Amendment

thought about illegal drug use per se. Which is true, but only because that stuff wasn't illegal. And he's saying heroin was invented in 1874 because he doesn't want to admit. that the founding fathers were very familiar with opium. Mm-hmm. Right? They probably called opium something like

the Chinaman's pencil shavings or something shit, but they definitely were fucking familiar with it. Yeah, well, dude, back then, I mean, I don't know about that far back, but definitely in like the 1800s and shit, for sure. It's like children's cough syrup had fucking morphine in it basically or whatever. Like, they were, it was wild.

All their wives were allowed them to cope with hysteria and depression they got from having never had a, fucking orgasm. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So like, so like, they, they also like, like, it was very popular to inhale ether to get high in the 1700s.

Um, I had to go look up the history of drug use to find this out. But like, the British people were already very aware of weed, which I'm assuming that founding fathers would have been too because Pakistan, uh, their sailors and also Pakistanis that eminated to, um, immigrated to, uh, England would are very familiar with a Hindu Kush, right? They, they knew about indica. They fucking grew it and they smoked it. So, yeah.

I don't, like, so you get, do you, do you know that, I mean, we knew, if we were the term Hindu Kush, but you know that's called that because it's from Pakistan? No, no, I mean, you know, no, I don't know what any of those names are. I'm honestly kind of surprised that any of them are based in any kind of like, sensical thing, do you know what I mean? As opposed to just like rad sounding shit or whatever. When your grandparents talk about how weak you used to be, they're talking about, because we only had Mexican weed, which was also Sita.

It was American hippies who smuggled Indica back from Pakistan. They flew over and sewed it into the lining of their clothes and smuggled back in the United States so we can get that good, help you sleep weed. Right. So, anyway, I'm getting way off track here. But the law is struck down. Supreme Court's like, you know what? Fuck it. You all smoke weed

and have guns, I guess. Because Ben Franklin liked to get blist off schnapps and dance around with like French panties on his head, you can now have a gun and drugs as long as you're going to hide while you have the gun. Right? That's a big difference. And so, he mainly is free to get framed by the FBI or something else because he's one of those fundamentalist shit. Muslims who owns two ounces of weed for personal use.

Jesus Christ. Right. So this, this means like Trump's, the Trump era, SCOTUS or whatever, is basically like absolved Hunter Biden then? Yes. Yeah, right. That's fine. There's an alternate universe of how stupid this could have gotten where Hunter Biden, who would have been convicted under the Biden Department of Justice. Right.

And then appeal to the conservative Supreme Court of Trump supporters and has conviction overturned. That was the funniest possible fucking outcome. And Joe Biden robbed us of by pardoning Hunter. Right. So, yeah. Hunter Biden can smoke crack and live a gun around now. Can't stop. Living his best life, buddy.

He's been tearing it up lately. Everything's coming up, Hunter. All right. We'll go and get into it. Like I said, we'll be doing some reflecting of our own shortly. But first, we start with the Daily Dumbass Mac. graphic, please. Today's DD is Trump's

police state for finally starting to round up middle-aged men and bike shorts. All right, you keep playing without sound, Matt. So what you're watching there is that guy to bike shorts is going to try to leave, but he's going to get arrested. The beginning of that, this footage is filmed by a MAGA

reporter by the name of Emily something. You're not seeing a lot of places because she wouldn't sell it to the fake news media. But, She walks up and starts filming this guy who's just mind his own business poking around the lake. The park service lady covers her face with the gaita mask

because he's only involved in his dumb shit. And he starts laughing at the reporter saying, oh, I think this is very funny. What is this a joke? And then he gets hauled off by the National Guard. He's a mayor of the resident by the name of David Hearn. He was charged with destroying government property.

He says for just sticking his hand to the pool to touch one of the blue pieces of the reflecting pool that's floating to the surface and denies the charge. Trump says he's going to get 10 years in federal prison, which good luck with that.

um right this so okay the reflecting poll trump like spent all these millions beautifying it no whatever all that stuff and then it got all fucked up now pieces of it are floating up and people have grabbed it those people have been arrested and trump's talking about those people as though like they are the ones who vandalized the pool right say like we've made arrests for vandals in the pool the implication being to idiots that like it was sabotaged or whatever and they've got proof because they've caught the guys. But all they're really doing is what that guy did, trying to just get a little souvenir, I guess,

take a piece of the pool with them because it's all fucked up and floating around. If you remember how we got here, like, a month ago, the White House was pissed that no one was talking about how great they were making a reflecting pool. Right. Trump made visual aides and then were holding up at, like, White House press, you know, Oval Office Press availability. He had one word showed how big the wrecking pool was compared to the Empire State Building for some reason. The plucking pool And the importance is in a tall building

Because I think that lays down, whatever. So So, like, then it started being fucked up. Then people covered it. Now's the thing people are talking about to go down there to look at it. But now he's got,

like, he doesn't want people to look at it now because it's fucked up. So now he's pretending that one of the most heavily surveilled sites on Earth. This is covered by cameras from all angles. He's flooded with a bunch of national guards people who have been in D.C. for like six months now, eight months, whatever.

And no one sees the actual vandalism taking place. It's just people poking around in it. But let me quote here from Trump. They took some form of knife or blade and put a 250-foot-long gash into the beautiful facade of what took so much work, competence, and money to build and complete. So I guess at the bottom of the pool, someone swam along 250 feet with a box cut or something. We're talking about, I guess, Antifa now is a Snorks division. Or maybe Anteathears, we've already established in a past episode that Seahorses are Antifa because they're trans because the men lay the base. make that for babies, right?

Yes. Quote, they also poured corrosive and destructive chemicals into the pool. I actually have a video of that, if you have that, Matt. Here's the corrosive and destructive chemicals being poured into the pool. That's the National Park Service pouring hydrogen, fucking peroxide into the reflecting pool on Trump's orders to try to kill the algae. If you're not familiar what's going on here, it's like that backfire, by the way. And whatever they're doing, all these chemicals, they killed a duck. Dead duck was found floating in the water yesterday.

They were like, pool. Well, this duck baby is just trying to nudge him. I don't want to play the video because it's fucking depressing his shit. Right. But it's funny. It's like, happy birthday, America. We're having a pool party for you, but there's dead birds in it. Right.

Yeah. So, again, what actually happened, they spent this money to make it cooler looking, they said. But it was like a no big contract to some dumb ass motherfucker. They did that wrong. Okay, all right. So we have a, we have a perpetual motion machine of stupidity going on here, okay? Because the two, the things he wants to do all, it can't happen all at once, but he keeps trying to do them all at once, right? So, like, this is sort of tangential to this, but during the Obama administration, they put in a new water filtration system.

And I'm not trying to, like, do this thing where, like, dams are good, Republicans, it's not like that. Because whoever was president at the time would have fixed the fucking water filtration system because it's a national monument. it, right? But Trump had that taken out for some reason. No one's explained other than he doesn't like Obama. So they drained the pool, but then they refilled the pool before the new filtration system was put in. That's where the fucking no-big-contract guy comes, and he's one putting in the new water filteration system. But he wasn't going to have a ready budget lot for.

So they just filled it up with no filtration system. Okay. Right. And that's what all the algae is about. That's part of it. That can be fixed, right? If they're assuming that no-bid-no-big-contract guy can fucking get a shit together. but they wanted to put

the American flag blue lining at the bottom of the pool for reasons that I don't understand mainly because a dark-colored background at the bottom of the pool will stop the reflecting pool from reflecting the Washington Monument which is its whole fucking purpose

whatever it's still a pool right but a dark lining reflects more sunlight which heats the water which creates more of an algae boom right algae bloom so they dump in their hydrogen peroxide to kill the algae but guess what the hydrogen hydrogen peroxide does to the blue lining it tears up the lining so the pieces float to the top i mean they didn't got nobody over there that like knew how that knew how any of this like worked or could have worked before it all just happened like no no so now we have a huge tourist fucking you know draw as we lead up to america's 250th birthday where instead of getting people people doing the normal thing and going to look at the national mall and the reflecting pool

They have National Guards people yelling at people to stay away with an reflecting pool because if they put their hand in it, they will get chemical birds. Like this year, like, this is Donald Trump's fucking Stalin ride. Right? It's the students, it's so intractable and he can't escape it because he can't let go of his stupid idea, which is we should do his version of invading fucking Russia in winter, which is putting a dark blue liner at the bottom of a pool in Washington, D.C., which is a swamp in the summer.

Right. but like this otherwise like this is just like a comical example of how like what it's like to put people in charge refused to understand anything right but like so but this past week

the reflective was gone from some ha ha what a dumb ass thing to like an appoint a horse to the Senate level of story because like the point at which state security agents start manufacturing crimes to arrest people to support the delusions of a senile ruler was the point of which to stop being a silly,

heavy-handed metaphor and started being like a real concern. Yeah, no shit. He said he's going to put that guy away for 10 years in fucking prison. Yeah. Yeah. It's not funny. I imagine he'll get no bill by grand jury because why he sees prison. Right.

That's what I was going to say. Hopefully it's like a lot of the other cases that happened with all the, during the ice shit and things like that where, you know, it won't hold up hopefully, but it's still pretty. He's one of at least five people that have been arrested. They have undercover people in plain clothes arresting people who reach into the pool for stuff now. Like people are just taking out little pieces of the blue plastic.

Oh, ha, ha, ha, look at this, taking pictures for their Instagram, right? That's apparently a federal crime now. So, by this morning's count, at least five people have been arrested in connection with alleged vandalism with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The guy who we showed video of, his name's Davy Hearn. He goes by Davey. His name's David. The reason I know he goes by Davey is he isn't.

Olympian athlete represented in the United States, the Olympics in 92, 96, and 2000, and slalom canoeing. I've not super familiar with slalom canoeing. You ever gotten into it, right? No, I mean, I feel like I get what, I know what both slalom and also canoeing is. I did not know that the two were combined into one thing, but I think I could guess what it amounts to, pretty much. I can sort of guess what it is, right? You go back and forth between gay.

but in a canoe. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. So this is not Davey's first time being arrested by the National Park Police. In 1996, he was canoeing the Potomac after heavy rains.

It was ordered to stop by the Park Police who told him it was too dangerous. But he kept going to his canoe because that's what Davey would be doing. He was arrested in charge of disobeying a police officer and resisting arrest because I guess he ran away to his canoe. You can't pile your canoe away from Park Police. They don't take that train.

So 20 years later, I guess they've gotten their revenge. But anyway, back then his charges were dismissed because they didn't have jurisdiction over the portion of the river he was canoeing in, whatever. But later that year, he uses canoeing skills to help park police retrieve fishermen that were straighted offshore without life best. So he's a goddamn American hero. Leave Davey alone. Yeah, canoe man. The D.C. Canoe man, always out there doing good deeds in his canoe. Like for no glory either.

Nobody knows. It was just doing it for love of the canoe and game this whole time. So part of this I can actually get behind is the cops did catch a golf. I don't know if he's not got goss, but apparently they're out there fucking up to dash them all. So the thing that you'll notice in this picture is it includes an officer from a variety of different jurisdictions. You can't read these two. That picture you can't zoom in and they look at the shoulder patches. But those are cops from, I've seen ones from Monroe County, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,

Oklahoma State Police, U.S. Marshals and a county in Texas, I couldn't quite make out, but you can make out the shape of Texas on their shoulder patch. And also in New York, I can't make out. So they basically did an Iraq-level surge to defend the reflecting pool. I mean, what? Oklahoma City cops are in D.C. right now? For what? I guess they got a bunch of different agencies got deputized by the U.S. Marshals to be there for the 250th celebration.

Oh, okay. all right yeah but it is important to arrest a to arrest this guy for uh if you go those picture mad i'm assuming they charged him with having jeans that are too small the zoomers love the widely i that i think we like i thought we our generation have been like okay we prove that jinkos were a bad idea but i guess they're just fucking now everything comes back around again i reckon yeah they got to bring them back the big ass pants they were great for uh shoplifting 40 ounces of malt liquor I will tell you that.

So, like that's a big comparison here, which like it's like hacking it at this point, but they've arrested more people for touching the peeling paint to the reflecting pool than they did for people connected to Jeffrey Epstein by a large margin.

Now let's get to the fun part, the no-bid contract. The company that turned their reflecting pool green is called Greenwater services, Dre. Well, I don't know what they expect then. Sounds like they deliver. So this is a guy George, it's not the lining contract

which is like $13 million. They gave the guy like five times the market value. This is the water filtration guy. The Indianwood contract for $1.7 million. It's green water services based in Brookfield, Ohio. And that contracting records

show that the firm's ultimate owners a guy named by the name with John J. Kefaro, who's a Trump donor and a neighbor to Maralago. So you just know they hatched this fucking scheme over a mysteriously webbed shrimp cocktail.

at Marilago, while Caparro's 20-year-old fifth wife rubbed his feet with baby oil or some kind of gross shit. Of note, Kaffaro's daughter, his name is Capri, Capri Kaffaro, fucking A-plus name. She was a Democrat State Senator who fought for Medicaid expansion in Ohio. It's like nothing bad to say about her, except now she's a talking head on Fox News, because I guess that's what you do for a living. The spokesman for the Interior Department said that the department had not been aware of Kaffaro's political affiliation when he was awarded the contract. Do you believe what? I mean, again, I used to do, that's what my day job used to be, federal contracting, and they're supposed to have like a small number of justifications for being able to do something like that, you know,

then they should have had to write it up. I mean, I know it's the Trump administration, so who gives a fuck? But when I was doing it, that was like a big thing, you know, like you could, you could get around issuing for bids or whatever, but it had to be very particular stipulations. I remember one of them that I did once was if it was a Native American-owned company, right? And they had, you could give the direct contract to them because, you know, it's like, we did all that bad shit to them in the past or whatever, so, you know. What?

Bricky news. Yeah, throwing them a bone, I guess. But there was like shit like that, but they're not supposed to just be able to just do that, which I know it's like probably goes without saying, but I don't know. I would have thought they would have had to at least attempt to make some kind of justification for it, but apparently you could just do whatever you want

and even if people find out it doesn't matter because the people at the top are the ones who told you to do it anyway, so who gives a fuck, I guess, but it's definitely weird to me. I want to bet that every single member of Moralago has at least a $1.7 million contract in the federal government to do whatever their fucking companies do. I want everybody to see John Jake

Kaffaro if you got his picture here Matt and please leave this picture up for a few minutes because we got to talk about this What did you expect to look like, Trey? I mean roughly like that Who is it the Oh man Who's the

There's like a Portland It looks like there's like a Portland Like alt comedy era comedian He's real funny And that looks like him playing a gangster From like a comics drip or something. Yeah.

His head is both too big and too small. Yeah. He looks like, like young and old at the same time, which is always fun. I don't know if it's because it's like fake-ass wig or die job or something because that don't make you look weird. It looks like he went to the toupee store and they're like,

sir, we have something that looks very natural and he goes, no, no, no, no. I want people to know I can afford this hair. Give me the most leg, Uxurious, obvious dupe you've gotten the fucking back. It was Ian Carmel, that's what I thought, although I think he's lost a lot of weight now.

Yeah, Ian did a little bit. I think he's lost a lot of weight now, but he used to be much bigger. That looks like big version of Ian Carmel cosplay as like a made-up UCB, you know, improv gangster character that he's doing or something. Here's the opposite of a plot twist here.

That picture is from 2002. The reason he appears, in a picture in 2002 with a news microphone in his face because it was taken outside of a courthouse where he was involved in a corruption trial for a former congressman by the name of Jim Trafficant. If you're not familiar with Traffkind's whole thing, when he was county sheriff

and I think it's the county that holds Cleveland, he was caught on a federal wiretap taking an envelope of cash from mobsters. And when he went to trial, he represented himself as his own attorney and argued that he was doing his own undercover sting operation. and they let him off. What?

They let him off. Everything about that was like, you know, classic crazy guy's shit or whatever up until the part where he got, he like pulled that. He represented himself and said he was just doing his own like,

like a citizen's arrest, but for an undercover operation. And they were like, okay, you're free to go, hero. Yeah. He was very popular

because he had, he as a sheriff, it was during an economic crisis in the 80s when a bunch of Midwest towns were dying. He refused to do it. kick people out of their houses. You know, the Sheriff's Department's supposed to do when people's houses

invictions. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. He's so that he bought a lot of credibility with the people for being a populace like that. So I want to read here from this story at the time. Kaffaro, in one case included yesterday's indictment, John Jack Kaffaro,

a representative of U.S. Aerospace Group, allegedly conspired with others to give trafficking $13,000 in cash and $26,000 worth of boat repairs in return for supporting the company's aircraft landing technology. Prosecutors filed charges against Kaffaro. Kaffaro eventually flipped on fucking trafficking. So Trump, he's a rat, man.

What are you doing getting in bed with this guy? I also want to know that he looks even worse now. If you got this picture, Matt, this is what he looks like 24 years later. That's from his own LinkedIn. He thinks that picture looks good. So, yeah, he looks like his eyebrows. He died his hair and his mustache,

but his eyebrows or snowbrow white? So I guess when we asked what brought down the Trump administration is his buddy John needed eyebrow money to get his eyebrows done. And so we had to do this for him. So the Rutting Bulls the greenout. Ever since he got fired by the undertaker

as his manager. Paul Bearer. He looks like Paul Bearer from the 90 in that last picture anyway. Okay. Let's say we've got an honorable mention for Daily Dumbass for you. And it is

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So one more time, A.U.org slash crooked to learn more. All right, our honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is Donald Trump for taking this long to realize he's also president of students for a free. Palestine. Israel's fighting as well too long and too many people are being killed. And you don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you're looking for somebody.

Because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses. And they're not all as well. I thought I can tell you. All right. A bunch of college kids got deported for making that fucking point. Right. Yeah. Well, that reminds me of like when you said before,

like when we were talking about ice shit or whatever, about how Trump immediately runs to the defense of, like, like the guy that shot Renee good or whatnot and then like two weeks later he actually saw the footage or whatever and was like that's pretty fucked up you know like wait that's what happened I don't like that you know it's like it's just like he I don't know he just um he moves in and out of various realities uh at any given point in time but but the thought he just expressed is a seems like a fairly common sense

thing for most people who watch the news to have at least considered right right but expressing in American politics has been so verboten that like like there's there's literally for making that exact point there were a bunch of Americans who are American citizens born and raised here who are banned from entering

the United Kingdom because they're a threat to the peace or some shit constantly beat kids on college campuses a gun went off and almost killed a kid climbing through a window at NYU because kids were saying that in songs. Right?

And like, but now, now a couple years later, the administration official just saying shit like this. I want to play this clip from JD Vance. I'm not sure what happened. I mean, I can guess what happened, but they could have gone off the lease with this shit play this video from JD Matt.

But, yeah, you've seen people in their system, Ben Gavir and Smotrich, who have attacked the deal. And I guess my response to them would be, what is your exact proposal? and you're a country of of 9 million people you can't just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have Is this administration going to kidnap J.D. Vance off the street

and send him uncharged to a federal prison for months for saying that because a lot of people have had that happen to them for saying that out loud. Whether or not you agree with it, it's now... Well, what do you think they're just like they're just pissed off? Israel finally for some like over Iran or something like that they're just sick of their shit A bunch of people in Israel and Americans who were Supporters of Israel are very pissed off about the Iran deal that I can't like

We're not talking about the Iran deal but I can't make sense of what is or is not in it because Iran and I say it's saying different shit and Israel is saying different shit and I can't tell whether The street of her moves is open or closed depends on literally what minute you ask Yeah I know I saw I was doing my Patreon thing earlier looking at various headlines and there was a headline from the New York time. There was one story from 18 hours ago that was on Reddit that said Iran

storms out of peace talks, right? And in a rage or some shit Donald Trump said. And then there was another story from like a few hours after that that said that J.D. Vance said that it was a great day and we were making great progress and

they were getting everything we wanted and all this stuff or whatever. And so, and they had said that Iran had committed to letting inspectors. back in and Iran was like, well, I don't know, I'm going to where you heard that or whatever. And it's just, and it was like, I thought a deal was like done last week, but they're still actively negotiating it. And Trump's still threatening to fucking kill them all every now and then when he gets pissy about it. And there's like a 60 day time limit or whatever. So yeah, that all seems still to be very much up in the air. So that only knows. But there's no way. I mean, what is the

best case scenario for that for us as a country, though? Do you know what I mean? like at the what we're not going to get anything that improves anything for us from the way it was before we started this right like you know like no matter what i mean there's a school of thought where like he just gets some sort of token win and normalizes with iran and then it's kumbaya after that because like sure i mean like because like iran like part of the deal here is like i'm assuming the $300 billion that we're supposed going to give them, J.D. Vance has said they're going to use that to buy American

agricultural products. So basically, we're paying money to... It's a wrap-around way to do a farm bailout, right? And I'm sure whatever company is owned by the president's families are going to get a cut of that contract to help execute some part of it or whatever.

But, like, just letting Iran back into the world, like, for the first time in 40 years, Iran's now allowed to export oil to the United States. right so it's definitely trying something different but given that but so like but Israel

and Israel supporters in the United States are not happy with the fucking deal at all and they've been very very critical of Trump like like they're basically been like he hasn't come from like of high up officials but it like there have been threats to attack America from a bunch of people in Israel

they're very very bad about this so it's it's not clear whether like as far as their language towards Israel the administration. It's not clear whether they're trying to find a way out of this because they're sick of Israel's bullshit or their way out of this is to blame Israel by pretending to be sick of Israel's bullshit. Do you know what I'm saying? Right.

Yeah, yeah. So, but I do want to know, like, where are we screwed up here? After our attacks last year and building up to this, Iran, you have to get like to, like, to read like a military store or a military stratist or whatever to get to the bottom of this. but my amateur level understanding is that Iran pivoted the way they thought about their regional defense. They invested more drones of ballistic missiles

as opposed to stuff like their Navy and ships. And when they went to close the strait, they didn't know if they could do it. Because they wouldn't have just tried it on a lark. But they tried it as a fucking Hail Mary and connected. Right. So now they know exactly how much leverage they have or whatever and how much power that gives them over like

the economy of the entire world, basically. Yes. Yeah, I know. It's what I'm saying. It just seems like we've, and I know we blew a bunch of shit up. We fucking killed people over there and none of that hits or whatever. But I'm just saying it just seems like we've like massively improved their situation and standing in various ways, you know. With I don't get the upside to us, you know, a reward that we started for no apparent reason, you know, the whole time.

Yeah, I mean, from Israel's point of view, like, holy shit they fucked up. Right. It's so much worse for them. They pulled us into this to try to do regime change in Iran. Right. Right. Because Iran was in a weakened, isolated state, and they thought they could pull it off. And four months later, what they were doing with the risk board of, well, I'm not judging anybody's morality or whatever, but they saw their opportunity from the way people responded after October 7th to fully establish themselves as a total regional hegemon.

Hegemon, is that correct? Yeah. To be the biggest swinging dick in the Middle East. Right, right. With no real rivals. They've got nukes. They've got the U.S. backing. They've got the best, you know, fighter jets and bombers and shit.

They got the, you know, the Iron Dome shit. So, like, they're, they felt pretty bulletproof. And, like, we can make them. But now a few months later, now they're big swinging. Oh, shit, we're out number 10 to one population. So that was by Iran. Their economy has been totally liberated. This is the opposite of what they wanted.

But the quality of Iran about their ability to shut down the strait. This Iranian official, thank Trump for making Iran and realize it could throttle the world. economy and this quote here, our enemies, God created them fools, turned that potential into reality. And this is something to say now loud. Show me the lie, you know. So they're trying to figure out a way to salvage some sort of win for what they did. And here's Mike Walts, who's Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, who's declaring

the weirdest victory ever seen in my entire life, if you're familiar with the UAE. Yeah. Vice President said, perhaps, perhaps, give this a chance and we can have a transformed Middle East. No one would have thought even a year ago that you'd have Israel and the UAE working together militarily to defend each other as a result of the next evolution of the Abraham Accords. Well, they were kind of forced to, but also. All right. Yeah, it's like, oh, well, they wanted to live. Yeah.

So, that's a say some obvious. He's like, like, it's good that UAE in Israel or no fucking, like, best, not best buddies, but whatever. Like, they're allies in this fight, but like, for the last year, people of defending Israel have made the point that, like, well, you guys are up in arms about, you know, like the messiness of war when it happens in Gaza or Lebanon.

But look how much bloodier the RSF, what they're doing in Sudan, supported by the UAE, right? And now his point's like, guess what? UAE, the other genocidal regime were arming, there's also ally with Israel. So who could have thought that way?

They're making a super genocidal regime over there. Getting the genocide Avengers together. It does make sense that we would be like the Nick Fury of the genocide avengers. You know what I mean? Going back to the Indian thing. And we have, we keep it. I feel like we don't know what the RFF is up to in Sudan.

But like we arm UAE and the U.A.E and the U. May he arms the RSF, who used to be, if you're, if you're, if you're, if you're, if you're, if you're, if you're familiar with them, they used to be the Janjaweed Militia, which is Arabic for the Devils on Horseback. We don't have the opportunity. You definitely are going to fucking happen. Yeah. I mean, you know, that is a pretty, pretty metal, rad name, but not when you're, not when you're slaughtering people. I mean, it fits for, I don't like it when, you know what I'm saying. Anyway. Yeah. Devil and Horseback would have been a pretty sweet album, but I don't know for a Pantera album. Right, yeah, Iron Maiden or something like that. Yeah. But the actual genocide being done by people, I don't, I would rather that not happen anyway. Yeah. So anyway, like, so UAE right now is sort of allies with Saudi, but also what they're doing in Sudan is a proxy war against Saudi Arabia. So it's definitely a mess that we really, really want to be, we should be involved in.

When you've got like these non-wave proxy wars, I still can't figure up who, whose proxy the side that won the Syrian Civil War was. was. I know Russia lost. I don't, the guys, ISIS slash al-Qaeda, I don't think we are Israel one, but also Israel's also still supporting militias in Syria. And I'll yada yada. None of this. Just,

we just, I don't want to fucking be involved in it anymore. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, of course. I feel like almost every American agrees with you and has for a while now, you know? We did. Like, okay, I'm honestly impressed how stupid everyone seems to agree with you, even people are barely paying attention

Play this clip from CBS is Sunday morning show if you got this, Matt. Our CBS News poll out this morning shows that more than three quarters of Americans want to end the conflict now. 69% saying the conflict with Iran is not worth the cost. More than half. 57% say the president's war with Iran created more problems than it's solved. 78% of Americans think this should end now. You cannot get 78% of Americans to agree that orgasms feel good. Right.

yeah I know like and then it's like and I've already forgotten the percentage but a large majority believe that it's you know has not been worth the cost and it's like I don't know how it could have been you know but like you said there's always going to be people on the other side of anything so I'm sure all the people the 21% that it solved more problems than it caused or whatever they just whatever Trump said it was good so it's good type of thing or god only knows but anyone else you know I don't know how you could be on the side of it

unless you just super love just war it's amazing which is like a very popular point of view in Washington D.C. Right yeah right It's like it's weird I'm 78% of Americans

think this shit end but 94% of Congress is like let's fucking ride this shit out baby so like I'm going to quote here circling back to Israel's part in this this is an Israeli political analyst the name with Rory Goldberg he described this situation to the United States

in Israel as not a spat but quote a rift. The criticism of Israel coming from U.S. leaders hasn't arisen because they've suddenly gained any great insight. It's because the facts have become unavoidable. Everything they're saying is correct. These are truth bombs. Which is one way to think of it.

So I'm thinking of is like you keep wondering like the primary isn't happening right now, right? And a bunch of like the Washington centrist don't seem to understand why Israel and Gaza is such like a silent issue in the primaries for like something like a congressional race. way, but it's like, it's a lot of detector test. Right. What's your point of view on this? If you say something that's complete bullshit, so okay, fuck you. You're writing you off. You're just a liar.

Right? So, like, so it's one way to put it. I've been waiting for like the reality to catch the politics to catch up with the reality. The stuff everyone's seeing on the news and in their screens or whatever. I'm waiting for this fucking vibe shift. It took way too long to my point to me. But like this guy calling it a truth bomb is one way to think of it or the facts catching up is one way to think of it. But here's another way to think of it, according to Jesse Waters and Fox's

Jews, which, you know, should not take anything, according to Jesse, what you're about to find out. Vance said, and a warning to the Jews just said, why it's your daddy, too? I don't think that's what happened at all. J.D. Vance said a warning to the Jews that Donald Trump's your daddy too. And I don't have, we can spend the entire hour unpacking the anti-Semitic sexual psychosis happening there. Right. Yeah. He's always good for that type of shit. he wowed didn't like his own mom

call him on the air once and was like what are you doing his mom's liberal so whenever he like wants to get like you know get a liberal woman's opinion on something so he can make fun of it he calls up his mom

and she fusses at him on the air it's a funny bit so but like so they're trying to figure the way to talk about so I want to play this clip of JD they keep the way they started to talk about Israel they kind of sound like they're doing

doing like inelquent mum dony impressions if you got this clip man you know advocates of israel make or pro-israel people in the united states make two critical mistakes one on the one hand is not delineating between america's interests and israeli interests because they're not always the same but the second is always conflating criticism of particular government with jew hatred because if everything is hatred then nothing is jew hatred i actually think jew hatred is very bad, which is why I think we have to be very careful about not calling every. It's kind of like how progress is for 20 years called everything racist. All right.

So I'm so relieved to hear some sort of truth out of Washington, D.C. I'll even fix up the dig calling a stupid for thing that racism still exists in America. Yeah. I know, but now that's another, yeah, it's just the clips that you have selected here, it seemed to, yeah, paint a picture of them. It would have to be maddening if you were one of those students that got fucking, you know, kicked out of school or whatever. whatever the hell else happened because they're just saying stuff that,

and well, even him saying, you can't just say because you don't like Israel, that's anti-Semitic. And it's like, that's what y'all been doing, you know, like,

obviously Israel's been doing that, but also like the conservatives that have been pro-Israel for so long up until this point, that's been your number one thing to go to, you know, when you're talking about the, the free Palestine kids and shit. Yeah,

and I'm not the first person I made this point, but when you, when you can slate those stuff, you leave no room to call it actually anti-Semitism. Semitism in a time and place when it is dangerous and rising and worse. And like, so like, what do you call actual anti-Semitism at this point if you're saying, hey, I think the Israeli Defense Forces policy in Gaza is a little bit too heavy-handed? If that's anti-Semitic, what is a skinhead kicking a pregnant woman?

Uh-huh. You know what I got on? Right. Double-triple anti-Semitic? So, but like, so let me quote here, it's a Fox correspondent yesterday. The president told me he has disappointed. Israel can't put Hezbo away. He wanted to say they can't do anything without knocking buildings down.

He is close to giving it to Syria. He's telling him empowering this Syrian president to actually go into southern Lebanon and fight Hezbollah. What? Look, we're all like, Donald Trump, please do not put Syria's army on fucking Israel's northern border. So, like, I want to skip a little bit ahead, Matt. Sorry, because we're running a little bit late. So people are taking this very well. I want to play this clip from Mark Levin if you got this.

This is him talking about the Trump administration's sudden turn into anti-Semitism, according to Mark Levin. I want to say to people in and out of the administration, stop trashing, smearing, bullying the little state of Israel, cozing up to and telling us that the enemy regime in Iran is now more rational, more moderate, All right. He does. Trump doesn't get too far out of his skis or that stuff, but I do think that, you know, part of the arguments for global free trade arrangements is like, you know, it makes people less likely to go to war with each other because everyone's making a nice little profit.

Yeah, right. You know, everyone's fed. Everyone's making, like, it's like, so, like, there's an argument to, like, letting Iran back into the world market will have a moderating force on its politics, potentially. Maybe not. I don't know. But, like, like, we've tried. everything else for

47 fucking years. Right. So, like, I don't know. If there is one upside of the Trump administrations, they don't, like, they don't have no understanding of the old arrangements, so they throw them away willy-nilly. Yeah. Yeah.

Also, I want to point out a little Trump psychology here for, but we're in, like, you know, whatever, 11 years of Trump being the dominant force in American politics. And people still don't seem to get it. They seem to think he has, like, firm political principles or alliances or whatever, which is, like, really funny me, but like, whenever Donald Trump sees somebody winning,

he just wants to be friends with them. Yeah. It doesn't matter if they're winning against him. Right. Well, you were saying earlier, it seems like they're doing like Mamdani Light now or whatever. It's like when after Mondani won and he went to the White House and Trump was like, this guy's awesome. Yeah, look, he's got the juice.

Yeah, right, yeah. Trump loves the juice. So right now, it's the juice. They're like, oh, they're head, they're it. They're the it factor. They're happening, baby. They're running the golf, right? But if you, like, if you bet as much as, like nanyahu's bogg stupid fucking administration who bet it all

on picking aside in domestic American politics and meddling in fucking House primaries and mayoral races and shit in the United States and you bet it all on one side and then you're like you bet it all in the honesty, steadfastness and political principles and

ideology of Donald Trump it's on you if you get fucked right especially considering the other side was pretty on board with you too for most of the past forever. Like, you know, yeah, your own goddamn fault. I'll never understand

that. It's not just them, to be fair. So many people that align themselves with Trump thinking like, you know, it's the scorpion and the frog shit, you know. We ain't gonna fuck me, or he's not gonna turn on me or betray me, you know, I know how to work him, but, you know, the same thing every time.

Put yourself in Nanyahu's shoes right now. You think that, like, could survive all of your countries at stake, right? The lives of nine million people are at stake, and you bet it all on Donald Trump. Which, if you want to understand why Nanyahu is in fucking hiding right now, hasn't really spoken about the deal at all.

It's because he's up for a reelection soon. And there's really fur at him. It's like kind of funny to me because he was more popular. He was the most popular political figure in Israel until like two weeks ago. Donald Trump. He was used to, he just joked fairly recently about how he should run for president of Israel. And I'm like, yeah, you would have a much

of easier time to get reelected in Israel than you win in the United States right now. But let me read, quote. here, an op-ed published in one of the country's leading newspapers, Israel Hayam, which is owned by influential Trump megadoner, Merriam Adelson, shout out Dallas Mavericks, titled, You Could Have Been the Greatest President of All, but You Failed. It accused Trump of having signed a surrender agreement with a murderous and cruel regime and accusing the U.S. President of having turned the hourglass over to a new war

of having brought about the humiliation of his country. This does feel like a vibe shift to me. I know we've got to get out of here soon, but I just want to say this. Israel's national security minister got him to have Ben Gavir who you heard J.D. Vance mentioned earlier. And I want to note, I saw this tweet

because he was reposted by Jake Tapper who is not a big fan of Israel, which I just want to, and the Tapper called this disgusting. Just want to note the vibe shift here. Gavir tweeted the other day, For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn.

that's 6 million people uh 6 million people live in lebanon which is the closest thing the middle east has outside of israel it's the closest arab country to a functioning democracy they have a christian president whatever that matters and other 6 million people live in lebanon only by 50,000 are in hasbola and lebedee's military would love to take control of southern lebanon but they have a hard time rebuilding because every time fucking shit calms down

Israel bombs the fuck out of the point they can't control the other southern half of their own country. So, it's a whole different world if the American media and American politicians stop ignoring the shit that Israeli officials say in Hebrew. But it feels like something different's happening here. And yeah, I'm ready for something different

to happen in the Middle East as long as less people dying. Yeah. Yeah, that would certainly be a nice change of pace. And yeah, also Israel, somehow finally wearing out their welcome with the American political elite wouldn't not hit for me either

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