Weekly Skews - S6 Ep38: Weekly Skews – I Guess We’re Enemies With Spain Now?

Episode Date: August 5, 2026

There’s an attack on women’s sports. It’s not the one all over your TV, and it’s about every normal person’s main concern: getting teen pregnancy numbers back up. Then we discuss the recent developments between Spain and Morocco, and perhaps the most clumsily executed evil conspiracy since, well, the last one.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. BetterHelp makes it easy to get matched online with a qualified therapist. Sign up and get 10% at  https://www.betterhelp.com/skews Weekly Skews is brought to you by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. If you believe religious freedom is supposed to protect everybody, not be weaponized to turn away good families, visit https://www.au.org/crooked to learn more and become a member today. This episode of weekly skews is brought to you by Quince. Elevate your summer wardrobe. Go to https://www.quince.com/skew  for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.This episode is sponsored by ZBiotics. Go to https://www.zbiotics.com/SKEW now. You'll get 15% off your first order when you use SKEW at checkout

What's up everybody? Welcome back. Happy Skees Day to you. Welcome back to me as well. I was off last week, off the grid and the rural most, nethermost regions of the Upper Cumberland and Tennessee. Corey, I assume, filled in admirably as he always does. But I'm back. It's me, Mark, and Matt's back there doing this thing weekly. Oh, it's August 4th, 2026. We're recording this on Monday, August 3rd, about 1.30 p.m. on the West Coast. So how's it going, Mark? How'd you guys do? What did you talk about? Was Corey real dumb and stuff? stuff? Was that fun? No, honestly, don't even remember what we talked about last week. I'd have to look it up. Oh, no, it's gone. I'm at preying again. Okay. But would you learn on your travels? How was Clay County? Well, private equity has made it to Clay County. If you could believe that or not.

That tells me that they're like truly ubiquitous now. According to Matt, you guys talked about robot sex toys. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah. You picked a good, you're, you're shrewd in that way, that you knew Corey was coming on. You had to pick something that you knew he could rap about. So you went with a robot sex toys. But the lake, the only redeeming quality of my home camp, my economically ravaged for 30 years home county is Del Hollow Lake.

And the three biggest marinas on Del Hollow Lake are all now owned by Blackstone or Black Rock or whichever one of those. They're all in. So I feel like that's not good. I don't know how much worse it could get. But, like, you know, it's weird. There's all these talk about these people moving in. There's like white Christian Nazis trying to buy up land and stuff. You know about that.

That's happening. There's the private equity on the lake and all this stuff. And all these people say, it's like, oh, yeah, they're trying to bring, you know, whatever. Bring money into the county. But yet, like, the Dairy Queen's closed. The Walgreens is closed. Now it's like it only looks worse. So I don't know.

Doesn't seem great, none of it. But what else is new? Yeah, I mean, historically speaking, one person owning everything doesn't usually end great. but we'll see. Right. So usually August is a slow news month, but somehow we still continue our pace of living through we didn't start the fire a new verse every week.

So among the stuff we're not going to talk about today, the canoeist got off for damage in the reflecting pool because the prosecutors and the Interior Department were caught lying by the judge, fabricating evidence. That's cool. They tried to put a guy in prison for 10 years to fucking just for assuage the president's temporary embarrassment. I guess. Who even cares about the fucking reflecting people anymore? Not me.

Trump went on a four hour long posting binge yesterday. He posted like 70 times on true social. This is right after like, you know, he started charging people for access to his posts first so they could do insider trading faster. Like a hundred thousand dollars a pop. You get to see the president's post on true social first to know what we're terrorists at instituting. And like what war is he starting so you know what stocks is short. But what he mainly posted yesterday was like a bunch of AI photos, including one of him singing as Elvis. So someone paid $100,000 to see a AI picture of Trump as Elvis. And then today, the Department of Defense sent out a mask email to basically every officer and all their civilian analyst asking for any ideas they have to win the war in Iran.

No bad ideas, Mark. They have a little brainstorming session, you know. Yeah, yeah. You got to think outside the box, you know. It's like when the Eagles were real bad and they let Vincent Papali play for the team or whatever. They're like, you know. I as well Let some of these

You know Why not? That was a great Invincible story Mark Wahlberg, Good movie Yes Yes

So So But I do think Like for the The stuff we are going to talk about I think is in the Kai Zikek

In the conversation Because I'm guessing The Iraq War death toll I'm higher than we're being told Because instead What everyone's talking about Is the WMBA Which you might

Not know this from the popular discourse, but they do play basketball games sometimes. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of people have gotten into it for non-basketball reasons, it seems like in the past few years. Which doesn't really, that doesn't really surprise me because it's all the same chuds that are always all, you know, we've talked to many times about all the stuff about like trans people in women's sports. It's like, oh, now these guys care about women's sports, you know. They don't watch them. They don't care.

It's just another thing that they can find to get mad about. I think it's because like the barstool adjacent guys are all gambling addicts. right? And they don't have any, they don't have any, like, fan dual bets to post her in the summer unless you're going to gamble on baseball, right? So, like, I think they get into WMBA on the dead zone in the sports calendar before football starts up. Is my guess is why I get so much attention? But, like, I don't know. But, like, so right now is the current controversy involving Sophie Cunningham,

a statement she made about trans athletes. But she, I just want to quote here, there's a protest in Portland over the weekend, and some guy was yelling, as I guess as an anti-trans protester, was like, trans in women's sports is the patriarchy. Now, I feel like we need like a like a like a like a like a sound drop when like some reactionary starts using like woke language because like the stuff about say spaces and stuff was always kind of outroly and annoying but at least the people who really started using it meant well if they're being a little annoying.

But when people start using it to an opposition to civil rights, it starts making me real like nervous. So like we're eventually going to have like white. it's only water fountains that are going to be called like a safe space for hydration for occasions with racial anxiety or some shit. Right. But you said it was a guy that yelled that. That changes it a little bit.

But wouldn't that be sort of on brand for like turf stuff? You know what I mean? Like weren't turfs always like trans exclusionary radical feminist. They were like otherwise. I met some turfs at my shows before like early, like years ago. But who were otherwise woke about a lot of things, but we're not down with that one part. So, especially in Portland, somebody yelling trans people in women's

sports as the patriarchy. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of on brand to me. I'm glad to know they're still making new content for Portlandia. So what Sophie actually said was, I want to protect young girls at a locker room or young girls in a sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men.

So to take this in parts, the first part's just shitty because, like, no one, like there are rules against assaulting people in locker rooms. Those exist. Like, you're not, no one's, No one's for assaulting people in locker rooms. Do you understand? It's like if you were like asked about like in the 1960s,

how do you feel about school integration? And you're like, well, I'm just against the robbing of young white women of their sexual virtue. And you're like, okay. Right. I'm sure a lot of people did make that exact argument.

Right. To be fair. But also, yeah, I mean, it's also, this has been said a lot too, but it's like that whole thing.

the idea that someone who wants to assault girls in a locker room or a bathroom or something, like that's what they're about and that's what they're showing up to do. The idea that they would be like, oh, damn, but there's a rule against that. So I guess I won't is pretty laughable. Because like you said, it's already illegal. There are laws against, you know, the assaulting part. It doesn't. So what does it matter whether or not you can get into the bathroom or not?

If you're a rapist, you're not going to not do it because they put a different fucking sign up. or whatever. Yeah. Like, it's also, there's also the part where like, I don't know how to break it to people that like the world you're afraid of is the world you've been living in the whole time.

Like, there's not a cop station outside of every bathroom in the United States ever, ever has there ever been, right? The reason people are going into the wrong locker rooms or own bathrooms is not because of a law or a rule. It's just like human beings typically want to be comfortable and don't want to make other people uncomfortable.

You know what I'm saying? So anyway, the second part, young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men. Like, I'm not going to degrade the merits of everything. Like,

as always, I feel like whether or not things are fair in sports is a case by case thing, depending on the person in the sport and how big they are and what they're doing. Anyway, but they don't, I need you to just show me what, what person you're talking about because the Supreme Court has already greenlit,

the exclusion of trans people from all sorts of school sports. There aren't, like, trans people have gotten the message are no longer going out for the team. Like, so what, show me the person. Do you know what I'm saying?

Yeah, no. I mean, I've said that, you know, what I was saying, me and Corey, when you weren't on here, me and Corey were talking about this because we were talking about the Supreme Court ruling about this.

And we were doing this whole thing was about like, look, what these people picture in their head, which is essentially, Joelle Embed puts a wig on and, you know, just goes and dominates a bunch of girls. That's what they, I was like, of course that would be insane.

and not a thing that should be allowed, but like that doesn't happen. And what I said was like, that pretty much never happens. Then one of our patrons sent me in message, it was like, you know, I like where your head was at, but that really just doesn't ever happen.

It's not like pretty much. Like, that just doesn't happen, you know. And so I don't know what was there. And I know we've also talked about it's like, if you start early with hormone replacement therapy and a lot of that stuff and you're not on testosterone, you're taking a bunch of estrogen,

for years and years, a lot of the inherent biological advantages are mitigated anyway by that, you know, that type of therapy, which is why some of the trans people that were competing at some levels were finishing fifth or 11th or whatever it was, you know, that type of thing. And so in that case, it's like in that case, who really cares, you know, so the first thing isn't happening. And the second thing doesn't seem to be hurting competition and is also extremely rare. So like, can I, you know, what the hell are we talking about? and why are we talking about it, you know?

Can I say something that's like, we're perfectly designed to make everybody fucking mad at me? Trans people suck at sports. We have a shit ton of evidence. Like, I was looking at, I was looking up some stats earlier today. The International Olympic Committee, like, like, adjusted their rules

because they were catching, like, too many people with their hormone testing levels or whatever, like to try to, like, make it more trans-friendly. Like, in 2003, you remember how woke we are two years after 9-11, right? So they and so since then there have been like 81,000 Olympic athletes of those two of them were trans women. One of them finished dead last and the other one to finish 37th out of 42.

Right. So like the world we currently live in, hypothetically speaking, there could be a trans person playing in the WMBA. Actually, there has been one who was like the non-binary or the other direction or whatever, but like she had like 11 year career no one cared about. But they would have, so like the point is like whatever you're envisioning, we already have social, like, I feel like Lays people never played sports, right? Because, like, you want sports to be fair, so they're competitive. No one goes out to play pickup pickup, a pickup

basketball game, 11 to nothing. You divide the teens up to be fair. You want the people, like, kids get moved up and down, like, grade levels if they're too big for their class or small for their class all the time, because you don't want like a 6-2 eighth grader playing J.B. football and hitting other, like, eighth graders who were sometimes like 5'3 and 120 pounds, right? Schools deal with this all the time. You don't need to, anyway, my question, question like we also have social pressures for this the reason people play sports is to be cool and to have fun joan mb putting on a wig and dunking on people in wmba would not be cool no one would employ him to do that because no one would want to watch that happen right like we like i don't

sure if brock lesner let's take sex and gender out of for a second i don't know if brock lesner has any high school eligibility left but if you signed up for jv wrestling and fucking whip people's ass where anyone think that was cool right he's not doing that why because it's not our first down fucking earth you don't need a rule against it. So I, like, I just, I also, dude, in this scenario,

we're talking about what you have to go through to do that. Like, if you're a dude who's like, oh, man, all I want to do is win swimming metals. Like, in any context,

right? In any context, that's what I want to do. I just really want medals. I don't care if anybody hates me. I'm obsessed with medals. And I don't, and I'm not good enough to win.

medals against other guys. The idea that like you would, A, if you went to compete against women and you did like smoked them all in this Brock Lesnar JV thing, again, you're going to catch a lot of shit for that. You're not going to be respected for doing it. Maybe if you're a sociopath, you don't, you don't, you wouldn't even care. But to get to that point, you have to like transition into a woman, you know?

Like it's a big, that's a big fucking leap to take for, regional swimming medals in women swimming or whatever. I just don't get the, like, why? Like, why would anyone do that? Who, you know, who just isn't legitimately a trans person and that's not their rationale for doing it in the first place. A pretty full example, what you're talking about? I was like Ben Shapiro's company Daily Wire

made a comedy movie called Lady Ballers about a hypothetical, like a group of men who do this to win, like a fake WMBA title or whatever. Now, Ben, I guess, he's on video's video talking about it. I saw a clip of it earlier, but he was like pitched the idea of making it into a documentary where they'd have to actually start living his woman and try to join women's leagues, right? Yeah.

Which would have been a fun video to make their, it would have been, like to make their stupid point. It would have been a better way to make it, except none of the men were going to do that because they didn't. Of course. So it's just like, anyway, usually it's a country.

We're a big country with 30 million people. You usually can find one person to point to who's an example of, I think the last one was a couple years ago that, but into the zeitgeist. It was like a trans girl running track in California who had won like the long jump at like a regional meet, right? And then that was held up as example

for everything like like the crisis point or whatever. But there's nothing now. Like Sophie just like randomly generated this controversy and there's no, nobody's even do anything. But like I tell about to have trans people suck at sports. I feel like we need like, instead of like the girl winning like the long jump, we need like more coverage of like chubby trans kids

who can't throw and have asthma. Like where are there? We know new stories about those. We just finish 11th. But also, like I said, there's nobody because nobody's doing it anymore. You could just take the win, but you can't. Like, everyone's a sore winner now. You just got to rub it in a bunch of people's faces.

There are no athletes to even point at. But, like, if you want to consider for a moment that this might not be about total respect for women's sports, I want to read this tweet from Clay Travis to you for a second. He posted this earlier today. Important announcement. I'm upping my offer. $10 million for a head.

head basketball game between the defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces and a boys high school state title team of my choice. If the Aces beat my team, I will give them $10 million. Now, I like him putting my choice in there because it's a big difference between playing the Iowa state champions and the Florida

or Texas state champions. So I was one of he's very careful to save his money there. But like, in Florida, the bigger states with more athletes, you're going to find, like, the team's going to be 610, right? So, yeah, right. so I like I just like remember back like before there were laws and it'd be like these carl barker staged like novelty fights we'd be like guy come on step right up and see a

slavic man wrestle a bear whatever like the kind of shit yeah so that's basically they were doing that anyway might as well charge you know yeah but he's like so he's trying to do his version of that where it's like let's see how many w a bay players it takes to fist fight a lola and gorilla you know it's like what the fuck are we doing this is like this is how much you care about the sport. But anyway, now this Sophia guests, I can't tell whether she wanted this to happen or not, but she's generated

a bunch of protests, now people, in counter protests, now people are paying $1,300 a ticket to sit courtside and anti-trans t-shirts, which is a great use of everybody's money and time. And I got to say, man, like, I watch some NBA because again, it's dead zone the sports calendar, and I love basketball. You can tell, by the way

these people talk about this stuff, that they don't actually watch the games, because who Sophie Cunningham is, is a bench guard on a fourth place team. That's not a gig at her playing ability. I would trade my entire life to be a role player on a mediocre professional basketball team. Right. Right. Yeah,

I really got milkshake ducked by Sophie Cunningham. The reference of people don't know the famous tweet where it's like, oh, the internet is in love with the new duck, the duck who drinks milkshakes, who went viral. And it's like two days later, we regret to inform you the milkshake duck is racist. Yeah.

So I don't watch the WMBA. Sorry, but I don't. And I saw that clip that went viral of her like doing that like little point the little sassy pointing thing and I saw in the context of a caption the caption said like toddlers pointing at a person with disabilities at the grocery store right yeah yeah they do shit like that and I said it to Katie and I was like oh this is funny

that's a funny this chick seems funny and Katie was like you know she sucks right and I was like what what are you talking about it's like immediately and then I found all this other shit out about her, which I feel like, I mean, that's what happened with everybody here. She went viral for maim reasons, and then all this other stuff, like, then happened. So, okay, so the pointy meme was funny out of context,

because... Yeah, I didn't know the context. Out of context, people see it as like a sassy Karen, like calling somebody out or whatever, right? Sophie's a goon. And I don't mean that, like, an insulting way. Her job is when somebody hit... She plays in any fever, right?

The same team as Caitlin Clark. When somebody gets Caitlin Clark in the head, her job is to come in the game and hit him back. Right. So what she was doing with pointing was a sincere threat of violence, meaning I saw you. I'm going to fuck your shit up next time you jump in the air around me. I'm going to throw you in the first room and break your knee. Right. Which makes her existence as like the new dainty, like, representation of feminine white virtue is like,

fuck on my goodness. It all gets decontextualized. Yeah, but if she also, if part of her job is, yes, but if part of her job is we're out there and like, hard foul black lesbians. I'm sure they fucking love that too. You know what I mean? That's the sport though. Yeah, right.

That's what's so funny about let the Howl these women fair playing against SGA. Fucking let him play for 15 minutes. He'll go back to the NPA. They're all beating the shit out of each other. So like the quote, the ESPN piece that where she said this quote that crowd everybody up was about the pointing meme and her role was a hot-headed enforcer, which she's known about

for fans of the NBA is instigating bench clearing brawls right it's all it's this is also fucking funny so but anyway if you've seen enough

of these sports panics about about culture war stuff they start like every one of them starts generating nothing but Iroles because it'll like this will pass

and it'll be a new one and I don't know what it's going to be probably AI robots trying to play a sport or something which I will hate I'll be on the anti side when that happens but like

so like like remember Michael Sam got drafted he was like an openly a gay player for what do he played for mazoo and they got drafted by the Rams, is that right? Correct. Yep. All that is correct.

And there was like a whole thing about like, where is you going to shower? Right. ESPN did reports interviewing his teammates about whether they were comfortable showering with him. Sophie Cunningham has been showering with lesbians every night for her entire life. And that's no longer a big deal. So anyway, if you're actually worried about the integrity of girls sports, I want to quote a couple real life things happening that aren't imaginary right now.

On the ballot this fall in Washington State, there's a law. the little bar transgender athletes, and the way they're going to enforce it is by making every girl who's play sports go to a doctor, just have their sex certified, whatever sex is signed at birth certified, through genetic screening, a testosterone levels test, or an examination of the reproductive anatomy at their yearly sports physical. So you're going to have to look at your seventh grade girl's junk, I guess, which I did the turn your head and cough part. Yeah, that's what I was about to say. That sounds really bad, but I was wondering about that. I was like, I mean, you know, that was a thing. You had to go get a physical. They fucking checked your junk out. Doctors have been doing that for years. But it might feel different if I had, the doctor was checking for hernias, right? But like, if I had to go just to look and see if I had a dick. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

Plus, I don't know if right now if you want to be giving more people your genetic, your genetic tests and your testosterone levels are going to catch people who just have athletic talent. But the second one here, the Herod's Foundation, which, you know, the people that wrote project 2025 and basically said a lot of current Trump administration policies. A recently released a report calling for the dismantling of Title IX in an effort to increase opportunities for male athletes and suppress female athletics. The paper is authored by Boise State Professor Scott Yenner, who's once called Career-oriented Women, quote, meddlesome and quarrelsome. Okay. What's he a professor of? Like, 1950s like stereotypes.

I'm assuming Mormon shit at Boise's. States. Right. Okay. Even if it called, it even calls Title IX, the federal law that is the only reason women's sports exist at all. Made America a global leader in sports actually caused Title IX a failed experiment. So all those sports your word are protecting are going to not exist a lot, a large majority

of them in the current form if a lot of these people have their way. Yenna wrote, by cultivating daring, risk-taking physical dominance and a desire for victory, athletics would prepare women for careers, leadership, and independence rather than home-making in motherhood. Right. Which is bad, right? That's all bad. Right.

I don't see the two things as independence and motherhood as separate things, but whatever. That's whatever. So, like, this is where it gets real, goes from being like retrograde to being a little gross. It says the paper, these male-normed women's sports are not celebrating distinctly feminine virtues of service, grace, and character. And it says it complains the participation of women in high, uh, women in high intensity sports and it caused for them to stick to moderate intensity sports in order to maintain optimal

fertility levels. Okay. When did you say this came out? This last week. Bro. Good Lord, dude. This shit is wild. And mental well-being form more reliably and does the high-intensity elite model

of sports, which is science shows, produces relative energy deficiency in sport, red-ass, and elevated levels of mental disruption in top-notch female athletes. You can have the broodmare is getting run down out there, getting run ragged on the basketball court for no good reason. We keep pointing out how a bunch of these people in this movie can complain about how sad it is that teenagers are getting pregnant less often nowadays. And like they put it in writing. It's fucking weird. But the word fertility appeared in support about high school female athletes nine times. And he wants to replace it basically with Girl Scouts and yoga classes.

And the idea that women aren't that competitive is not my experience, bro, that they're being forward. to be competitive or they don't want to be. My wife would flip a table over if she loses the board game. And my niece, she's really into volleyball, she would crawl over broken glass to fucking return to serve, right? And also, as I point out, like, I doubt seriously doubt Sophie Cunningham buys any of this bullshit because she took a huge elbow over the face

and a game over the weekend, stayed in the fucking game. They lost, by the way. Fever's in fifth place, so let's all pay a ton more attention to the fourth place score order. Is it just a pure coincidence that, that she's on a team with Caitlin Clark, or is that somehow part? Because Caitlin Clark is also like a political lightning rod.

I know that Sophie went viral independently, but I'm saying her being Caitlin Clark's teammate, is that like amplified any of this for these people or anything? I'm sure. I'm sure that Clay Travis would be less familiar with Sophie Cunningham's game if she wasn't Caitlin Clark's enforcer. Right. Right.

So, yeah. Okay. Well, I'll tell you what, since we had so much fun talking about women's basketball, Let's take a quick break and then we'll come back with a daily dumbass for everybody right after this. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. You've heard me talk about BetterHelp on this show before, but what I don't think we've ever done is talk about what folks actually say about BetterHelp once they've used it.

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This week's DD is Joe Biden's migrant caravans for reaching Africa, which is now somehow in northern Spain, by the way. Morocco, this is a city called Suta. You're watching as thousands of migrants break through the fence, and completely overwhelmed the border police. They're video showing huge groups of people, mostly young military age guys, cramming into inflatable tubes

or arriving on shore another way. Some of them wading in the water as they break through the gates to get to the other side. Sandra, this is reminiscent of kind of what we saw during the open border during the Biden administration through.

Yeah, it is reminiscent. And because I'm guessing one of the things it makes it reminiscent because there's a fucking election coming up. We don't have one of those here, so we've got to find a caravan somewhere or create one, which is one of the things we're talking about. But like, so a couple things here, Suta, Sweta, either one goes, I think, is not in Spain. It's in Northern Africa. It's like a Spanish independent like city or whatever. It's adjacent to Morocco. Spain's had control of it since like the 1500s, 1400s, some shit. It's one of those across the straight of Gibraltar. I get why they

want to hold on to both sides of the straight of Gibraltar. So all the wars are, this is the side out here, but all the fucking wars are merging in a way that I find disconcerting. Ukraine's attacked Iran, the Iranian ship. The Iran war apparently now involves tensions between Morocco and Spain and we're on Morocco's side.

And just another side, yeah. That's what we're talking about. Okay. Clay, Tray's been off the grid. So, so World War III, this verse, whatever, whatever conflict were in the front end of,

or hopefully maybe at the, the end of? I don't fucking know, but it's so goddamn stupid. I saw a statement put out by the ADP, which is the succession of the German Nazi party, the JD Vance went over that a campaign for, are mad at Trump over his handling of all this shit because it's been tackling the

sovereignty of Spanish, Spain socialist government, and they're being too racist to Muslims. But also, I saw a woman give a Nazi salute in protest of the Muslims in front of the Moroccan embassy in Spain. So everything is going fucking perfectly normal here. So to catch up on the broadstrokes of what actually

happened here. 60,000 people, mostly military age males. Yeah, I notice how they pointed that out. That's definitely a very tactical choice of words there. Yeah. They're, which is like, Morocco has a huge unemployment crisis. Think like they have a population

of 40 million people and two million of them are young unemployed men because they have a big problem. This is probably way, you know, while you have a bunch of migrants trying to leave the country. But so 60,000 people tried to break into Sudo, which is the city of 90,000 people. At least 72, who died by either via drowning

or trampling. Then they realized they've been misled by the internet and fucking left after some men needed medical care from the Spanish government. But I need to point out here they resolved this pretty civilly without violence, which is encouraging. I would find it encouraging. Apparently a lot of people

don't. What did they got there and realized they were wrong about something and were like, oh, our bad, and just turned out and like grafted back? What was... what like you know what were they what how were they misled and you know call it well get to that

a second okay but like I will but before we get to that I want to I just want to tell you like the the tenor of like when this was actually happening it was treated like 9-11 was happening right and then it was resolved fairly peacefully and a bunch of people seemed really disappointed that Spain was able to pull this off without machine gunning a bunch of migrants

oh they're oh bro there was people over here they're just waiting on all them Muslims to start you know, assaulting good Spanish women and all that stuff so they could then be gunned down in the streets. And they were like, fucking watching with boners on Fox News just waiting for the budget. And a new crusade to start a new Holy War. The real invasion is YouTube and chuds because they've all gone there looking for stuff now. Talking about the invading Muslim hordes.

Like a boy Nick Shirley's on the ground there. The, you know, the Mormon kid who can't read. The guy. The guy who will kill it. Yeah. He's not a, yeah. Yeah, he got a bunch. He got a couple people.

He's the one that jumped off the Minnesota invasion and got a couple people killed over some somewhat imagined, you know, to a significant degree, fraud cases. So, he's, I saw him walking around

complain about how, like, he feels in danger from all the Muslims who were still in Suta. Suta's half, it's in Morocco, it's adjacent to Morocco, it's half fucking Muslims.

It always has been. That's who lives there. anyway so as far as like what they were misled about you were asking getting into Soutis is not a real path to Europe you can't really like it's like one step

closer to be able to claim asylum maybe get a hearing but it's not like it's not like being in actual Spain so they were misled about being welcomed in and the borders being open Matt's trying to show us on a map where it is so and yeah

so like Spain thinks this is a conspiracy. They're calling it like a hybrid attack. They're saying there's some, let me quick read a headline from a Spanish newspaper here. The Civil Guard detects Moroccan intelligence agents among the migrants who infiltrated Sweeta. The Civil Guard detected through camera system, camera system deployed along the Sweta border, the presence of Moroccan intelligence service agents infiltrated among the groups of immigrants. The migrants here were mostly Moroccans looking for jobs, said they saw social media posts encourage them to

undertake this journey and here's a clip from CBS News if you got this map. Heard told me they decided to make the crossing after seeing social media posts claiming Spain is an open door. So you saw on social media that people were making the trip and then you decided in Europe and checked

Mike. Yeah. Okay. So there was like a misinformation campaign aimed at them saying that Spain is like come on in, the door is open. Then they got there and realized that wasn't true and they're like, well, shit. Right. Okay.

Yeah. And 70 people died. So El Pais, which is a Spanish newspaper, reports that many of the counts that spread claims that the Morocco border was open have already disappeared from social media. Let me be quote here from a piece in El Pais. If you, quote, if you see these stairs, your dream will have come true. It's more what a TikTok said. It was that message was permanently deleted, which included, which included video with images of

of Suta. Well, the Spanish border is open and you can cross without papers was the general message the guy named Ahmed received, which mobilized a wave of young people along the roads of northern Morocco in an unprecedented migratory surge. The, quote, the application of the messages may have relied on bots or automated accounts. Then, you know, the TikTok accounts vanished and the Facebook groups are deleted. And Spain saying this is a version of an attack that would kind of sigh up that we see in 2026. Yeah. I mean, it seems like it to me. It's some kind of coordinated effort, isn't it, from somebody, somebody.

Yeah, the question becomes, because these sort of internet siops are so cheap to accomplish a scale. The question, but it becomes like who could possibly do that and what's where to get into in a second. But the same networks mentioned points of sale for wetsuits, fins, diving goggles, floats, and even waterproof bags for carrying documents and cell phones. Well, that's who did it, Mark. Big, big aquatic sports. That one honestly, like, maybe. Yeah, they're just trying to juice their, you know, their fucking tube sales. for the summer.

They weren't meeting expectations or whatever. So they came up with this in a no-bad idea's brainstorming session down there. I don't know what he was Ocean Pacific headquarters. That's a dated reference. Who makes shit? Who makes this shit? Do you know? Ketim?

I don't know. Yeah. I can't think of a company that anyway. You get it. Where I got this hat at, the freaky-tiki surf shack in Gulf Coast of Florida. Yeah. Start there, investigators. The freaky-tiki shack.

So the post-detailed screenshots of Google Maps to direct migrants to Tara Hall Beach on the Kusuta border, which areas with less police presence where they could try to escape poverty. Quote, I'm desperate. I can't find my place in Morocco. There's no room for me here. The messages I received on the screen led me to Sweta, but I had to return. Confessed to Ahmed, the 23-old unemployed man. Another similar piece in the Guardian, quoting different migrants, saying, quote, the Moroccan police were shouting at us, shouting at us, go, go, go, run. now run into Spain.

The night before they were beating people, but that morning they were letting us through. Nothing made sense. And here's a picture of Moroccan border guards about to brain one of their own people with Iraq for turning back. So all this seems very, very legit. They also were doing racial policing for casting, I guess, because they beat Sahara and migrants and try to join a group of ethnic Moroccans who were Arab or Babur. And like I said, like they, there's a...

There's a huge unemployment population between age of 15 and 25 in Morocco. And the guy said, I quote the number 1.5 million earlier, but the number goes up to over four million if the increase the age range to 35. The Moroccan government seems to other priorities to which it dedicates billions, such as organizing the World Cup, said the leader of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights. So the reason people are conspiratorial, the reason United States and Israel and also Morocco or beefing with Spain or Married. Spain's been very vocal in their criticisms of Israel and their conduct of the war in Gaza since

October 7th. They've called for prosecutions, the International Criminal Court. They've also stopped selling Israel weapons. They've also forbade the U.S. from using their airspace to attack Iran, right? Also, Morocco just wants, they do want their territory back from Spain, which again, Spain's had for 500 years. And Spain's Prime Minister just visited Algeria, which is Morocco's arch enemy.

They're the, they're the Newman to Morocco's Seinfeld, as I was thinking of it. So in more recent context, and back in 2020, the U.S. announced it would recognize full Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara in exchange for Morocco normalizing relations with Israel

during the Abraham Accords. Following that, Israel fully recognized Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara in July of 2023. And in January of 2026, Israel and Morocco signed joint military, military work plan for the year during the third meeting of their joint military committee in Tel Aviv. Now, I'm not trying to be conspiratorial here. I'm trying to talk about what other people are being conspiratorial, because if I had to guess what happened here is the Moroccan king

did this on his own, like a small group of people, and there was already a large group of people who wanted to go into Suta, and they just like let it happen, right? Because what, just trying to get all these poor people off their books or something? No, because they hate Spain. They want Suta back, and they want control of West from Sahara, and they're mad over. for the prime minister visiting Algeria. All the stuff I just said. Yeah, but what does, what is letting these people into suit

to these like just hordes of like refugees, essentially? What is sending 60,000 Iraq into a Spanish city of 90,000 people do? It conquers it. Yeah, but they're not, I don't know. But then they left. I mean, they just turned around and left. Right.

And again, they weren't conqueror. They were people that were like, I get a job? No? Okay. Bye. It's a huge headache. It's a huge headache for the government of Spain. Right. So it's just like a country scale.

It's just a prank bro. They're just like trolling Spain with their poor refugees or something. Remember doing the Biden... Remember doing the pride and presidency when like Texas would ship bus fulls and migrants to New York State as a troll job? Yes. Yes. Okay. So it's like that.

All right. Right. But like one thing I'm really not a fan of is like, like so Trump is a conspiracy theorist, right? A lot of the people in our government are conspiracy theorists. Israel likes to troll conspiracy theorists. They like to look bigger, more powerful than they are by making people think like, like, so the Nazis who believe in like Zionist occupational government would be like,

the Jews control the media and the banks. And then Israeli influences will be like, and politicians would be like, we do control the media in the banks. And they go, ah, ha, ah, ah. And they're like, and then you teahee-he-he. It's like a little, like, coy game. They like to play here, right? And we also like, like the people like, the run our government like people are doing the same thing.

They'd like to see bigger and conspiratorial and in control all the time. And but it is enough to make you go insane. For example, Jeffrey Epstein was a big fan of the King of Morocco, by the way. It was King Muhammad the 6th. Muhammad 1 through 5, not the shit, but King Muhammad the 6th. Epstein, big fan. So is Trump, by the way. This is a story from January 16th.

2021, he gave King Muhammad a medal, the Legion of Merit, which is usually for like civilian military heroes or something. So this was, so 10 days after January 6th, Trump was given the King of Morocco a medal, whatever he was worried about.

But like, they've been pretending to plan this for a long time. Back in March, this is from a piece from a American conservative think tank, the Middle East Forum. Quote, was Spain socialist prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, embracing the language of DeColon

Islaman the 6th should reclaim the spirit of the Green March to finalize the expulsion of Spanish colonialists, colonists from Moroccan soil. This is another example for, or noise alert for reactionaries using woke language. They start talking about the expulsion of Spanish colonists. Yeah, it sounds like Israelis in Palestine, right? Yeah, that's the point they're making. It's like, how dare you criticize us for trying to seize Gaza when you still have Suta, right? Yeah, right.

It's a piece from Wynet, which is an Israeli publication, in April. The Abraham Accords reached the straight how Israel can help Morocco reclaim its north. It's a genuine crack in Spain's strategic armor

over Suta and Malila into that crack. Morocco's most consequential new partner, Israel, is uniquely positioned to press. And then in the middle of all this, two weeks ago, when Congress passed

our new national defense authorization, the House, mostly Republican votes, passed the NDAA with $40 million dollars for Morocco, along with a committee report advising that the Spanish administered cities of Suta and Malila, Malia, are located in Moroccan territory and remain the subject of Morocco's longstanding claim. So, if it's not a conspiracy, this is a deeply unfortunate series of

propaganda pieces. And then on Saturday, right in the middle of all this, this U.S. Embassy posted another tweet pushing the fact that Morocco should have control over the western Sahara. So we're just in the middle, like, pushing all their expansions. We... Right. The Western Sahara is totally separate from Suta, right? It's on the west side of the country. It's like a...

It's like Taiwan to them, kind of. Right? Yeah, it's like unclaimed territory. It's like Morocco mostly controls between them and Algeria. It's like... The value is like it has... What's the name of the phosphate? One of the chemicals are using fertilizer.

It's really rich in that, which the world needs fertilizer right now because we fucked up Iran. Right. And it's like... the coastal waters off the west coast of Africa are rich for fishing. So they want to solidify their control of that. They also want Suta back from Spain. And they're like working with us and Israel to achieve that somehow. Yeah.

In various ways. Yeah. And this is another piece from April. This is from a publication in Morocco. Suta and Maria are not in Spain, quote, top Rubio ally, escalates against Madrid. This is quoting Republican congressman

by the name of Mario Diaz Ballard, who's a Cuban-American congressman from Florida, who's a close political ally of Marco Rubio, who's meddling in internal African politics on behalf of King Muhammad for reasons I do not fucking understand. I just feel like

it's been 80 years since World War II. This is the last World War? Thank God. And all the stuff, we put in place to not have another one, like you shouldn't seize another country's territory, which is a pretty big one. We're just throwing that all away on behalf of

King Muhammad sending Bitcoin to Mario Diaz Ballard or whatever the fuck happened here. Right. They're just bros. And like, we're all in the same, like, Epstein fucking brat pack or whatever. For back of the day, it's just shit like that. Plus also Spain's being real, you know,

bitchy and woke about all the Israel stuff, which is pissing us off and everything. So now we're on the side of Morocco against the Western European country. Because Spain, like 70% of Americans think we shouldn't be attacking Iran. Right. Right?

And like, so for what reason are we doing all this? Like, I can't like, like, no good reason is what I'm saying. And like, I think if you try to explain to your average American that we're closer allies in Morocco than Spain, the place where everyone goes for summer abroad, they'd be like right. Yeah, I know. Yeah, it just

seems weird and off. You think Trump's got the Trump family's got financial interest in those phosphorus mines or whatever the fuck you're talking about in western Sahara? If they don't yet, they will in two weeks and that will be when we send in the Marines.

In the middle of all this, this fake conspiratorializing or conspiratorializing depending on which would say where you come down on it. I'm not even really taking aside, but Yair Netanyahu, BB's son, has been taunting Spain about funding NGOs to do exactly this microconspiracy since at least 2019. Okay, well, that sounds like a bit of a smoking gun then. But they, like, yeah, maybe they just openly did a conspiracy, or maybe they're taking credit for shit that happens to look super wizardy and powerful.

Yeah, or he was throwing it out there all that time to give somebody else the idea to do it or something. Yeah, but in the middle, like, dude, in the middle of all this, like late last week, Trump just randomly announced something no one else knew with that the king of Morocco is named a highway after him. Like, like the king, it wasn't public yet Morocco. So I don't even know how he knew about it. It must have got a text message. But yeah, in a post on his true social platform on Sunday, Trump thanked Morocco's monarch, king Mohammed the 6th and said he looked forward to traveling on the quote,

Great Highway one day. Um, so yeah, I'm a little bit confused about what anybody even hopes to get out of this. But again, like I, like I said before, the internet makes sciops cheap at stale and at scale. And Morocco's got a dipshit king who feels untouchable and he can get 70 of his own people killed. And a troll move to, uh, you know, annoy Spain and destabilize, and destabilize Europe. I've had no cost to himself. Maybe he got $40 million to do it from America, of American taxpayer dollars. Yeah, I don't know.

Maybe he just makes it, maybe he did it of his own volition because he thought Israel would be a big fan of it. And it did make him laugh. But like, everybody wins here. Trump gets a highway. King Muhammad gets $40 million. Israel's adversary gets punished. The only down suit is, you know, 72 people are dead. In Europe, you know, historically the most war-torn continent on Earth and the jumping-off point for both world wars gets destabilically destabilized.

But you can't make an album without breaking a few eggs, can you, Trey? Right. But, yeah, also, I mean, the destabilizing is, uh, like a feature, not a bug, right, for the people that are doing this, with Spain in particular, I mean, they want Spain destabilized. Right. It's not going to be, but it's not going to be, you know, because Spain's currently in a war of words with Italy and the Nordic states over this ship, they're trying to close their borders

to Spanish travel because they're afraid of the migrants somehow getting to mainland Spain and then invading their countries or whatever. And then, like, so when Norway's firing artillery into the Netherlands on behalf, as a proxy war against Spain, and we've got to pick aside, I don't think, It's going to be fucking, I'm not saying, I'll say win. It's definitely going to happen. I'm saying, like, this raised the prospects of a bunch of shit like that happening that I don't want to see happen. I don't know any sane person who does.

So, all that being said, do you want to have some fun talking about the passion, Tony Fauci? Well, we got a few minutes to Phil? Sure, yeah. I know that, I knew something was happening with him, but I don't know what. So it was dragged in to testify in front of the Senate last week. and your first question might be like, why now? Do you, are you wondering why now? Because I owe.

I don't know. They just now got around to, they haven't had a win. They haven't had a win in a while, and like people really hate this guy for some reason. So bringing him in there is like a pinata. Yeah. Some of the base back on board a little bit,

at least temporarily. People got to go vote in two months. What are they? What are they? What are they going to? There's no buy. caravans. There's like the people don't like the war in Iran.

Inflation's not great. People hate the tariffs. Trump's disapproval rates like over 60% in some polls. So I was trying to like been follow like like like as always the right wing narrative on this stuff. If you try to follow it is that like COVID was an engineered bio weapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country. Then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bio weapon that killed millions. Right.

and it's Joe Biden's fault via time travel. Yep. You nailed it. That's how I remember it all. That's the narrative, as I recall it. So much effort is put forth to, like, in denial of fact that Trump was president until January 2021. I mean, that was one of the big reasons why, well, I mean, I don't know. I remember being part of the narrative.

It's like, oh, this is one of the reasons why Joe Biden won that election is because Trump was going to pay for COVID because he had been the president for when it at first, like, popped off. and shit had gotten so bad. And then he was talking about like, we're going to get this vaccine. Don't worry, we're going to get, you know, it was like it was a whole thing. And then later the vaccine is evil, like you said,

but now it's Joe Biden's baby instead of Trump's, even though he was in when it was all happening, just all, who the fuck knows? And then, yeah, Fauci, I still don't know. I mean, he just had the, I mean, my God, talk about a thankless task. You know what I'm saying? Like, he was just the dude who had that job at that time or whatever,

and now he's the fucking antichrist to the dumbest people in this country. Yeah, and it's like, it's also, he'd been in that job since the 1980s, I think, right? So, like, he just, like, laid into wait from the time he was 30 years old until it was 85 to pull off a global pandemic at the age of 85. So, but we talk about this time travel from the problem they have. Like, it's like, I may quote here from Stephen Miller on Fox News last week. I was there. President Trump saved America from a great depression by fighting against those who wanted to shut down our way of life.

Trump, again, here's a headline from April of 2020. Trump says he strongly disagrees with Georgia Governor Kemp's decisions to reopen businesses. Like, maybe I'm the only one who remembers this stuff. I don't fucking know. But it's like, a lot of this misunderstands Fauci's job description.

I'm not even depending his performance at his job. It just wasn't his job to decide whether or not businesses were closed. Right. He ran the National Institutes of Health, which job it was to dole out research grants. If he fucked up any of this, it would be like which studies into COVID he funded, or if you're conspiratorial,

which gain of function studies he helped fund in Wuhan, right? So, but everyone's self-frod over their skis or this. I just like, like, RFK thinks he's really found something going on TV and said that not only was COVID created in the lab, but so was Lyme disease. The oldest known case of Lyme disease was found in Azi, the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old natural mummy discovering the Italian Alps in 1991. Okay, on that note, I can give you an update. I guess these two things are somehow related, yeah, so what's going on in Clay County? my buddies do not believe this. The guys I hang out with,

they were telling me this and they're like, oh, can you believe this shit kind of way? These guys are saying that fucking, I don't know, Fauci's people, big liberal, who the fuck knows,

is like putting, is like dropping boxes and whatever big, like, hordes of ticks into places to give people Lyme disease. Because Mark,

do you know what one form of Lyme disease in particular does to people, it makes you allergic to meat. So it makes you a big gay vegetarian, right? And they're trying to turn everybody vegan through the strategic use of tick clouds or something. That's like a new thing that they're talking about. And ticks obviously have Lyme disease.

So there's something going on in conspiracy world about Lyme disease and ticks and stuff right now. And it's related to beef, I guess. I don't know. Yeah, I have heard the conspiracy theory. I forgot about it. Like, I just think, like, I don't know, man. I feel like I'll walk around.

I see milk goods eating plenty of meat. Yeah, well, look, there are a ton of ticks in where I'm from, but there always have been. But now they were saying it's like they named all these people that they knew personally that had gotten that bitten by a tick, got that line, that got Lyme disease and now they couldn't eat cheeseburgers no more, and that's real sad. I don't mean he's sad.

Oh, fuck yeah. Oh, that would super suck. Yeah. So when Fauci was called to justify in front of the Senate panel, he played the fifth of board. It's like 109 times, I think, which I need to say, like, literally anybody facing this government who under oath who drags everyone they don't like into court would do. We just talked to the canoeist who's almost faced 10 years in prison for touching paint. And I guess, like, the goal of this to do anything was to gener up a bunch of, you know, nonsense about him refusing to answer questions. and I guess it absolutely worked, I guess, because one of the things I saw was Stephen A. Smith publicly apologizing to Kyrie Irving after calling him selfish refusing the COVID jab back in 2020. Quote, hindsight wise, it didn't make him stubborn or selfish and made him brave.

Now, you can spend an hour talking about Kyrie Irvin, his specific brand of nonsense, which I'm often a fan of in various ways. It's not this one. if you remember why Kyrie didn't want to get the vegan, the vaccine back in 2020, it's because it wasn't vegan. He said he would get a vegan vaccine. So I guess he's brave for not getting,

the idea of some sort of, anyway, it does it, like, all this stuff is like, I would, I try to get the bottom of the conspiracies of the open mind, because I didn't enjoy the pandemic if we could all pit it on Tony Fauci and move on with, like, what do you make you guys happy? Like, if we let you kill Tony Fauci?

Mm-hmm. If we just like, like, can we all be 2026? The pandemic was six and a half years ago. Can we fucking, are we ever moving on? But anyway, like, I tried to figure out, like, to get the bottom of this, but you go out through Chachi's emails and once people are holding up as evidence for conspiracy, he was open to the idea or basically very warm to the idea of it being lab created in early in 2020

because of the, you know, I don't know how to describe it. I'm not smart enough, but like the features of the virus under him. microscope. But then later on, he saw updated evidence of a previous naturally occurring example that had that feature when he updated his thinking. So the idea that he changed his mind is being presented as like a huge conspiracy or something. And then the diary is embarrassing. I just want to say that. The diarrhea is, he was like very excited that people were making bobbleheads of him and like the D. He was answering phone calls from Dionne Warwick and people were promoting him as the sexiest man alive. So I personally would not want that red, but, you know,

this is why I don't keep a diary. But yeah. He was an 80-something old guy who had been like a bureaucratic medical professional for 40 years or something, and now he's a celebrity at that point in time. Yeah. I got probably pretty fired up too. I do say, I do say that people, like, it does come across. It's pretty narcissistic.

But, like, the people are scum about him being a narcissist, would you not be the main character of your own diary? I don't know. I don't know. Well, God bless Fauci. We'll see. All the best to him. All right.

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