Weekly Skews - S6 Ep42: Weekly Skews – Send in the Dancing Argentinian Gandalfs

Episode Date: September 2, 2026

The feds appear to be trying to rig a union election, for dumber reasons than you think. There’s a slew of scandals rocking South America right now, implicating the U.S. in schemes involving sex, cocaine, and murder (the greatest hits). The insanely corrupt Venezuelan oil deal is just one of them, and that involves Rudy Giuliani getting free glasses at a money launderer’s Spanish castle. Lastly, one internet weirdo accidentally exposes herself as part of Pete Hegseth’s secret Pentagon army of posters.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 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.

What's up, everybody. Welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It's September 1st, 2026. We're recording this at noon today, so you'll see a stream in about five hours. It's noon on the left coast. I'm Trey, and that's Mark. We're doing this at Day Lakes. I've had a bit of a sinus infection. I've been reeling from, but, you know, we'll do all right. We'll stick through it. Is it deepening my voice a little bit, Mark, at least for that? Very sexy, very baritone, very white. So at least there's that, you know. Mustache's looking good too, but speaking of machismo.

Yeah, yeah, I got a whole thing going with that. I dip in and out of the mustache. I haven't done a full, like a real, like Bonnaroo level mustache, because I used to do that every year when I go to Bonarro. You know what I mean? I'd, I got a gentleman start your mustache is about March or April or something like that. But I haven't done that because I haven't been going to Bonner any long time, but I'm about to really rock one for a little bit, I think.

Cool. Yeah, I made a joke on stage once. I didn't have my glasses on that contact on. I had the mustache like this and I was joking about how I looked like a barista or something like that. And I had shorter hair and then like fans afterwards like, you look more like a cop than a barraista. So then I'd change it to like, I don't remember like fucking mixing a cop and a barista together. It's very on brand for me. Anyway, how are you doing?

How about a cop under cover as a barista? Yeah, there you go. That's a funny character. What I might might mull that over a little bit more. Yeah. So we got a phone with today. We're talking about some South American co-examination. cocaine politics and America fuckery and then maybe some internet weirdos if we have time.

So we're writing my fucking wheel out. This is the darkness I was born to, Trey. Before you get to that, though, I want to tell a little bit about UAW's election for president because it's one of those things where this keeps coming up where it turns out things were on an honor system that we didn't think were on an honor system. Like, for example, what if a monitor installed to oversee a union that had some struggles with corruption was instead interested in having more corruption. No one thought of that.

Right. And you'd think they would have thought of that because it cram me if I'm wrong, but I don't know about like the auto workers and stuff, but they're like unions, and I'm huge big pro union guy, but they've had like their go rounds with corrupted influence and stuff, right? Over the years,

meaning like crime, the mafia and that type of thing. They've been compromising stuff before and that type of shit. So you'd think they'd, you know. Yeah. I mean, there's like, well, I mean, the unions went to the mafia because the bosses went to the caps. Right. Look, both sides of neither are headcrackers.

Anyway, so what's going on about is United Auto Workers membership is currently engaging in an election campaign to see if they were re-elected Sean Fain as president. There are people who prefer the old guard, obviously. It's like any sort of like political organization. But the old guard got thrown out of office because of corruption, which is what led to Fain's election in the first place as a reform candidate. it. And this corruption is not mafia stuff. The two former presidents were put in prison for spending union funds themselves, like using union dues to

like buy boats and fancy dinners and shit. Uh-huh. Yeah. So because we can't have nothing, by the way. As a piece, we were kind of talking about this last week or on our skewiner, whatever it was, but it's a skewenae, I think, about like how anybody that wants to be a politician, you don't really want them doing it for the most part, like

95% of the time. It's the same type of thing with this. It's like, this is why humans can't have nothing. It's like unions are such a good idea and overall are a good thing, but it's like, or socialism or whatever, any kind of system you can come up with that is good and hits, there's always going to be assholes who, like, you know, get the scheme their way to the top of it just to enrich themselves and then, you know, bring corruption in the picture because humans just be like that. And that's real shame. That's like, that's every institution is going to have some, you know, it's like, it's like,

churches or whatever. It's like, does it, it's not, right? Any regulations and stuff, you know, got to stay on top of that. Checks and balances. other human beings with good intentions to watch them, right? So that's where you get the idea of having a federal monitor oversee a union, right? So the federal, by the way, the feds have this power to put a federal monitor over a union, you know, it's a compromise between Department of Labor and Department of Justice to make sure the working people don't get too uppity, right? So put this federal monitor over the union who the union has to pay for, right? It's to pay this guy to tell them to don't do nothing bad, right?

So the monitor is essentially intervening in the election. against fame because back in December of 2023, the UAW called for a ceasefire in Gaza. So the monitor is taken upon himself to reinstall the corrupt faction because they're easier to boss around and don't worry about dead kids in the Middle East. All right?

The monitor I'm talking about is a guy named Neil Barovsky. He's not something like Magad dude. He's like a bipartisan white shoe New York City lawyer. His first big government job was George W. Bush reporting him to help oversee the TARP program after the 2008 financial crisis. He got this job in 2021 under the Biden administration. He wrote a book, by the way, after the Tart bailout called Bailout,

an inside account of how Washington abandoned Main Street while rescuing Wall Street. So it sounds like in some capacity, this guy would hit for me, right? Yeah, he sounds all right based on that. So after the UAW under feigning called for a ceasefire, in February of 2024, Borowski forwarded a letter to the UAW from the Anti-Defamation League about the demand for a ceasefire and the Gaza War, with Barowski noting, although this issue is outside of the monitor's jurisdiction, 14 exclamation points inserted by me,

we thought it was important to forward the message given these serious concerns raised here. So when I say, hey, a nice union you got there, be ashamed if something happened to it, I am being sincere, is what he's saying there. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So the concerns are... Why did he need to for... Why did, like, the anti-defamation league couldn't just send their own email to the

United Auto Workers or something like that. Barowski, Anti-Defamation League has no force of law, but he does. Barowski does. What he's pointing out here is, and this will be ironic if you remember, like a bunch of obfuscation happened

during the student protest in 2025, but if you remember, the kids did have material demands, the main one of which was for their universities to divest their endowments from the military industrial complex and defense tech industries, right?

Because they didn't want their colleges to have a profit incentives, the places where they learn international relations, political science, and history to be making money off an increase in war in death, right? Seems like a conflict of interest. So if you hold that in your head and remember this part of it. What he's, what he, Baroxi's threatened in the union with, he's pointing out that New York State's First in the Nation anti-boycott law requires state and local governments to divest from any group engaged in boycott calls. So because the UAW represents public and graduate employees at public universities, the state could be

forced divest from UAW's pension of retirement funds. Barowski's pointing out to UAW that they might lose a bunch of money because in the state of New York, it is mandatory to invest your retirement funds in Israeli weapon manufacturers.

Right? Wow. Essentially. So, and then Borowski got caught lying about what happened on a conference call that was fucking recorded. He said that like, he misconstrued a bunch of shit

that Sean Fain said to be straightforwardly anti-Semitic when what, what Fane had said like basically was that it was bullshit for uh it was bullshit they were killing so many civilians

but Barowski construed as him saying was bullshit that people were concerned about anti-Semitism he just flat out misrepresenting what he said and in response to that infuriated by both Barowski's charges

and his denials Fain said for anybody to ever fucking say I'm anti-Semitic brother I'll fight your ass in front of this building in a heartbeat yep that's classic film that's a classic show

For Sean Fane. Yeah. Yeah. So Sean Fane continues to hit for me. So anyway. That's why they have to get rid of him. You know, it's like he has made a splash and seems too hip for people. So of course, you know, internally, you're going to be like, I don't know about this guy.

You know, we need somebody. It's more of a line toer. Yeah. We need a union boss who's more aligned with the bosses. Right. All right. Well, we'll go ahead. Jump into the show.

We'll get started as we always do. Producer Matt, please. Daily Dumbass. Give me that graphic. This week's D.D. is Frodo Baggins for not knowing he could have just defeated Sauron with the power of dance. All right. So, these dancing Gandalfs are in Argentina, Buenos Aires.

They're protesting in front of Peter Thiel's house. Peter Thiel's bought a house in plan. to relocate, like, isn't it a good sign where a techno-fascist feudal lord military contractor is playing to relocate to Buenos Aires because America's collapsing? Bro, come on. Argentina especially, you know what I mean?

Yeah. What are you doing, bro? Okay, you know, he knows what he's doing. He's born in Germany, right? Like, it's like the salmon, like the birds were turning to Capistrano, whatever. So that particular protest was about

Teal taking a stake in an Argentina oil company, but since then, like he's at like 24-7 protests in front of his house. It basically morphed into just a fuck Peter Thiel protest party. If you want to play this next video, it's just like people hanging out in front of Peter Thiel's house chanting, out, Peter out.

Fola! Fuer! Fewa! Feelea! All right. So, Thiel's kind of like, it makes sense because he is a defense contractor

and a government contractor, one of America's richest people and one of the biggest financiers of our current government the party in government. He's basically being protested as an effigy of America with frustrations in the region. And like,

I just want to talk about this for a second because like so many news stories in, we're about to talk about a couple of them. You'd be like, why I haven't heard about this? Because they get no fucking oxygen in American media.

It's like, like South America, nothing in South America actually happens according to the US media. It's very fucking weird. Oh, dude, I don't. I mean, I can't even...

Other than you, like on this show, talking about that crazy motherfucker that got elected down there and I was trying to bail out their, you know, Ayn Randian approach to governance and Bolsonaro and all the Argentinian beef, all of that stuff came from you on this show and outside of those things. Other than Venezuela, the bullshit we did in Venezuela, I ain't heard. I couldn't even tell you the last South American-based story that I heard in like the news or the media or whatever in this country. Right. You see like, it's like Plato's shadow cave.

You see reflections of it and stuff. Like people kind of know that Trump's screwing over American cattle ranchers in an effort to boost Javier and Malay, right? But they don't really understand, people don't really know why he's trying to do it. And speaking of Havelier and Malay, I do want to know that like,

because this gets so little coverage in American media, I'm trying to make sense of it through like some Google translate and a little bit of like documentaries and stuff but like I was surfing around like Latin American social media and I like you kind of got a reason backwards I want to play this next clip here's a clip from an AI generated Simpsons parody play without sound mats we don't get ding for copyright but

it's a special news report where Kent Brockman is interviewing Javier Malay and this new generation of right-wing populace like Trump clone leaders that have taken over and across South America there's this like meme generated that all of them are coked up sociopaths, right? Yeah, that makes sense. Right. So when you watch this clip, what you see is that Kent Brockman is speaking Spanish, interviewing Javier and Malay.

And then Malay will take out a bag of cocaine and pour it into his monster energy drink here at a second. And like, we talk about like, like, like, how this gets covered in American media. There goes the Coke. Ah, yeah, yeah, you can cut it back. So you'll occasionally see stories in like American cable. news where they'll talk about like Trump's dwindling support among Latin Americans, especially Latin American men, because he had a boom in support from them in the 2024 election. This completely, like, and he went from being like 15 plus 15 to like negative 40 something

underwater. And because like the American news media thinks we're all horrors with no principles, it's always like, well, it's gas prices and inflation, right? But I would want to posit to you that 25% of Americans speak Spanish and they can read the Spanish language news that I cannot. And they're in WhatsApp groups with their family all across Latin American South. who were talking about what's going on in their countries, and it's pretty fucked up, so I want to talk about it.

So there's a few stories in Latin America going on right now. For example, Columbia just elected a new president whose day job was being a lawyer for drug cartels. He barely squeaked over the line with our support, a huge amount of support from the Trump administration, a bunch of last-minute votes that came in from the United States that Colombians live overseas here, that the Columbia's last president says his election was rigged by the United States and Israel.

I don't know about that. I do know that he's saying it is what I'm telling you. In Ecuador, Daniel Naboa, who's Trump's boy, he has a bunch of military crackdowns on labor, labor protests, heading into its third year. Recently a Polish anti-corruption activist who's looking at a noboa's task, the cocaine business, got beaten to death at her home. That's an international flat with Poland, who's supposedly our ally. And a BBC documentary just came out of course. connections between the drug gangs and the government and a local reporter who worked in that

documentary was gunned down by a gang of a six man hit squad. All right. Just last week, in Ecuador's intelligence chief, along with five Americans were killed in a helicopter crash in Kenya. One of the Americans was, quote, a Miami restaurateur. Okay. In Brazil, one of Melania's ex-best friends, who's a Brazilian model has accused Paolo Zampoly, who's your ex-husband and one of Trump's best friends of murdering a guy who

work for the United Nations. Holy shit. Right. Seems like there's a lot going on for us not to be hearing about, right? Yeah, I will say in my like, typical, like, from my like white American perspective, the sort of, you know, perhaps maybe like racist depictions and stuff or whatever over the years of Central and South America

or just the Netflix series I've watched, this does kind of fit the general perception that I have of, you know what I mean? Like in my head down that, there, it's just all cartels and guerrillas and guns in the jungle and fucking, and, like, and crooked politicians and fucking getting strung up and stuff like. That's what I think it's just happening down there just all the time. And I'm sure that's ridiculous, but.

It is, but there will be that because the case I'm making to you is that we are heavily involved in making it that way. Of course, yeah. I'm also, at least somewhat aware of that. You know, Narcos has the CIA guy in it to let you know that, you know, we're, we've got some, you know, fingers and all that down there. So, like,

okay, let's, to humanize a little bit, besides the dancing gandoffs in Buenos Aires, there's a, there's a big trend in Latin America right now called aura,

aura battling. What people will do is like, people will meet in the street instead of dance battles or rap battles, they do aura battles where they wear interesting clothes and pose at each other, and the crowd votes on who the coolest person is. Right.

There are people living lives. That's kind of that scene from Zoolander. Remember? Yeah. That's it. Zoolander. It's very much making, yeah,

yes. Yes. Yes. It's Zoolander. So, but, so let me tell, the story I'm about to tell you about, and I need you to keep in mind, this is a very explosive scandal in South America. It's probably the biggest story in the Western Hemisphere right now, and the only English language coverage of it I've seen is in The Guardian, which is a British newspaper.

What happened was an Argentinian guy by the name of Fernando Ceramedo was arrested in Bolivia for hiring hitmen to kill his pregnant girlfriend. This story was caught, the shooting itself was caught in video, she was shot. four times at point blank range. She's pretty. The story involves sex, murder, cocaine, political intrigue, Donald Trump, and the CIA. So you can understand why U.S. media thinks it's so fucking boring.

Okay. So you said hiring a hitman to kill, and that hitman then did kill this guy's pregnant girlfriend. No, she survived. She survived. Yeah. They shot her four times at point blank range. I can't believe she lived, but she did.

So, Sarah Mato for his job, is a political consultant slash bagman, who's known in South America as they, King of trolls. Good. Because he runs so many bot farms. His business partner is in a political consulting company with Brad Parscale, who is Trump's former campaign manager. They have clients in Honduras, Argentina, Bolivia. He helped Bolsonaro in his coup attempt in Brazil back a couple years ago. And here's an economist story from last December where there's a profile of Ceramato. The headline is Maga's Man in Latin America. And stories about Ceramato securing Trump's help in getting Nazare Osir elected president in Honduras.

The investigation in Ceramato is as widened corruption in cocaine trafficking. He was apparently partners in a smuggling operation with some guys in Bolivia's version of the DEA, where the cocaine was going from Bolivia to Brazil, so people there must be sweating too. This is a scandal could topple half American fucking governments, all of them are in bed with Trump. And nobody's fucking... They got into his phone, Dray. His phone is basically nothing but a cold wallet for cryptocurrency, where he was moving like $40,000 a trip

around and travel around the nearest countries for whatever the fuck he's doing, payoffs and bribes and shit. Yeah, this is crazy. This is definitely I look forward to this Netflix series in a few years when this comes out with this guy. Yes. Yes. So the girlfriend, as I mentioned, lived. Her name is Beller.

From a hospital bed, she is alleged that Cormado took $800,000 a month from Argentine and President Javier and Malay's operation to run a bribe machine. she also claims a Ceramato is a CIA asset. On it for his part, Seramato says that Bellar stays the shooting herself in order to destabilize the Bolivian government.

What? Yeah. The woman, the pregnant woman, hired a hitman to shoot her four times, but not kill her for like a a sci-op or a PR stunt or something. Yeah.

Yeah. I personally would go with an attempted shooting, but that was just... Yeah, yeah. Broke in the house. She narrowly escaped, something like that. that, I wouldn't go, even if, okay, shoot me once in the leg, if you gotta, but four times,

that feels like a bit much, you know. The Sopranos did this and Bobby Bacchelah had to shoot that rapper. It was the meaty, the fleshy part of the thigh. Remember? The fleshy part of the thigh. Yeah. So, Salaramato's claims have been amplified by Javier Malay, who has reposted messages on Twitter questioning whether her wounds were even real.

Again, this is the guy Trump is destroying the United States. beef industry for. Now let's talk about Venezuela. This story broke late last week, and the administration later confirmed parts of it, even though they're still denying parts of it. But the U.S. government and an unnamed private operator in Venezuela have formed a new company that was given the rights to untapped oil fields in Venezuela

for 100 years. To which I say, no, they didn't. You cannot make a sign a contract for 100 years. Your great grandkids are bound by this deal? I don't fucking think so. According to Wall Street Journal, this is the part the administration denies. The Pentagon has a 35% stake in this oil company.

Is it a good idea for a country's army to have an independent financial pipeline that's not tied to the government that supposedly works for? Yeah, I don't fucking know. This is where Trump said, this is the plot or the whatever to, he claimed we were going to refill our,

oil reserves with Venezuelan oil and this is what that is ostensically. Which even if it'll be like hypothetically if this does go through it'll be like seven years where we get the first barrel of oil from this because Venezuelan oil isn't good.

I was about to say I remember when the Venezuela thing first come up you said on here that what people don't realize is that not all oil is created equal and their oil is like super crude or whatever the terms were it. It's like it's a whole thing to process it and refine it and

all that stuff. It takes a long time and it's expensive. This is like, like, this is sort of a non-ideological critique of like, like, of Venezuela's effort to like establish petro-socialism is like, like, if the price point had made sense, it might have worked. Right. But the problem is the oil takes more money to refine it than it costs to, than you make from selling it. Right. So it's like a, it's like a trap. So anyways, we'll get to that a little bit. But like, this is, this is a, this new deal is on top of the one we, we've been doing where $13 billion has already evaporated from Venezuela into a Katari bank of of Trump that's controlled by someone connected to the White House, but we don't know whose name

is on this bank account with $13 billion in it. I'm going to guess it's the one kid Trump trust, Barron. So if you're keeping track here, we now have a financial interest in what we were previously calling a socialist dictatorship. So if the people take to the streets to cry for capitalism, in democracy, do we send in the Marines to shoot them? Yeah, I don't know. It's not even not.

It's not what matters. It's just, well, I don't know. Being on the right team and in the right pockets. You know what I mean? Yeah, I mean, that seems to be. Yeah. Ideological allegiances or whatever in other countries. No, I mean, like, Delci Rodriguez,

the sensible president of Venezuela is just trying to survive the day. You know, she's called between six rocks in a hard place. and I get that, but like, it's like, none of this is, none of this is going to last very long, with my point. Like, this is not a sustainable deal because, like, Venezuela's constitution that they ratified in 1999 forbids outsiders from controlling their natural resources. It's kind of the whole point of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Like, it's the, it'd be like if Trump announced that we were signing a deal with the UK

to put the King of England back in charge. It'd be like, wait, what do we do this all for? You know? it's like and I just like I can't believe that anyone sincerely thought that Trump was like trying to bring freedom

to the Venezuelan people but you've got to admit now that you're a huge fucking sucker because now if they want freedom they have to overthrow America too see what I'm saying? Right yeah I don't know

dude who fucking actually thought that I mean I guess people that just wanted to like jerk Trump off for doing it and act like it was a heroic thing but anybody who was doing that never gave a fuck about the freedom of the Venezuelan people anyway, or Trump's, you know, actual intentions where that

was concerned. People with relatives in Venezuela who have been impoverished and like oppressed and like, like, I get like holding out against hope that some good can come from it. But like the, the politicians I'm referring here to the, you know, the congresspeople from Florida, who are almost entirely are all just fucking huge suckers right now. There's a woman. I mean, uh, where is this lady? Yeah, let me scroll down.

Is Florida rep the name of Maria Elvira Salazar? She posted a tweet blasting Trump's oil deal of Venezuela and then deleted it and had to post to praise it. The first tweet was, any oil deal with Venezuela's interim regime has an expiration date the day President Trump leaves the White House, which is true.

She later deleted it both English and Spanish posts and returned about an hour later with a very different message. The U.S. Venezuela oil deal is great, is a great deal for the United States and the Venezuelan people, which it's, you know, fucking not, but we'll get to that in a little bit. I just like,

let me quote here from another person who admitted they got played for a sucker, and I'm talking about Fox News host, Rachel Campos Duffy, who is the wife of Trump's Transportation Secretary, because like, it's really a great idea here to have a cable, a government full of former TV news hosts who are still having sex with other TV news hosts. Quote, maybe I was a little too naive here.

I thought the primary purpose of taking out Nicholas Maduro was because he was a comment. and this dictator, we were actually going to allow the Venezuelan people until their elections. There will be a lot of questions about motivations here, whether the interests of the Venezuelan people are at hand. But now, because of this oil deal, we cannot permit there to be elections. This is why we overthrew the government of Iran back in the 50s. What happens if they vote in a government who doesn't want to be a part of this deal anymore, which of course they would.

You would think they would want to do that? Like what Venezuelan wouldn't want to, the country to keep control of, you know, that much oil or their own natural resources? Like, it would be in their own interest to try to, you know, up in that, which is against our interest. So what do we do? I just like, we call it Venezuela, but the full name the country is the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Bolivia and Venezuela are both named after Simon Boulevard, who's a famous South American military leader who fought to free them from outside of rules. specifically Spain, but like the whole point is we're not ruled by motherfuckers from across an ocean. So like this isn't going to be permitted, especially when like if you look at who they're

actually eyeing with locally here, the point man for this deal is a guy by the name of Alejandro Betancourt Lopez. Lopez is also the president of Hawkers, a Spanish sunglasses company. Cool. He's known in Venezuela as one of the Bolichikos. It's a derogatory term for a group of young Venezuelan men who have become millionaires thanks to their close connections to the Javis the regime. Basically, they suck dictator dick and all got rich off of it, basically. And they'd be given a nickname because of it. How he made his billions in the first place was he got, he paid bribes for government electricity contracts. And then there were huge power blackouts all over the country when the money didn't actually go to generating electricity. So there's a peek into our future

probably. So Bolichikos, Venezuelans invented a term for failbrose who sell out the people to be parasites and the corrupt government. And then we we see that guy and like sounds like my kind of guy, right? Yeah. So just imagine how we as Americans would feel about it if we found out like the guy behind Fire Festival have become a government contractor and then it worked at a deal to sell the Grand Canyon to Vladimir Putin. Yeah.

I mean, that is extra, definitely is more extreme, but this is like, you talk about Balochicos or whatever and I immediately thought of like fucking big balls and them when they were around for a little bit. You know what I mean? Yeah. And there was a lot of like pushback to that. But there was also obviously a lot of people that are like, these guys are exactly what this country needs right now.

Big Ball is exactly what this country needs. But, you know, the other half of the country is like, what the fuck are we doing? A kid named Big Balls is in charge of, you know. That's a, that's a, that's, so it's so imagine if in our current reality, and Big Balls did steal stuff to make money, but at least sort of like more, it's more, it's more of a complicated pathway to understand what this guy did.

Let's say Big Balls took a social security. he stole from the federal government and sold it on the black market for $2 billion, bought the federal Everglades, and then flipped it to foreign power to be strip-mined or something. It's sort of like, it's a closer analogy. That would be a little bit worse. Yeah, I agree. So Betancourt, by the way, lives in the United Kingdom, and he can't leave there or couldn't until recently until we got him out of it because he was awaiting extradition to Switzerland for money laundering. I also point out the irony here

when the Swiss are trying to prosecute you for money laundering, you're a fucking... No shit. Well, who knows better, you know? Takes one to know what I'm the thing, Mark. They're the experts, you know? Look, we'll keep a little bit of Nazi gold for you, no problem whatsoever, but what this guy was doing.

All right, so what is he was doing, basically, he was caught up at an international $1.2 billion money laundering investigation that led to a federal indictment here in the United States of his cousin and some other Venezuelans in Miami. He way he escaped that was he hired as a lawyer at that point, Rudy Giuliani, who basically called in favor of his favor during Trump One to say that Betancourt did not know about this crime. He's but a young, innocent bo'o machico.

That meeting came a month after Giuliani and two associates stated Betancourt's Spanish Castle, Elamine, and met with an aide of Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky, urging him to investigate Joe Biden. So the scheme that led to Trump's first impeachment where he tried to get Ukraine to frame Joe Biden for a crime in the run up to the 2020 election by withholding weapons shipments, that was hatched in Bentoncourt's Spanish castle.

Wow. What a tangled web they weave. Yeah. So for this, as far as I don't know what Julian had made in it, but he did get some free glasses out of it. He got this picture, who's Giuliana sporting some frames from Bettencourt's Hawkers line. So yeah, 25 years after 9-11, America's mayor is getting money launderers out of corruption problems for free glasses. Yeah.

Yeah. Is the glasses just like a part of his money laundering venture for this guy? Like all those other money is from all this shadowy corrupt, you know, geopolitical stuff. And he's got a sunglasses front, basically. Or did he make his money in sunglasses and then get into the, you know, No. In the world politics game. He made his money stealing electricity from the Venezuelan people and put it in the sunglasses.

You got to some of your money in safe stuff like sunglasses. No, I know. Yeah, I get it. Yeah. Do it all legal like Bugsy Siegel, as Snoop Dogg says. And do you want to guess if Bettencourt appears in Epstein's emails? I'm going to go with yes. Yeah.

He's mentioned in an email email that Jeffrey Epstein sent a third party. asking for an introduction to Epps tip to a Betancourt. So if you want to, that's like a big league call-ups to the international finance scumbag. It's like Johnny Carson inviting you over to the couch. Yeah, that's a flex for this dude. Like Jeff Epstein is asking about me.

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so to finish up the Venezuela stuff, you alluded to it earlier, but the oil part of this isn't even going to work. I want to quote here from David Brockman, who was a former GOP congressman in the 70s and 80s, and Ronald Reagan's former OMB director, quote, the 65 million barrels amount to an economic tar baby.

And he's, do you, I never knew what Tar Baby meant. It always just sounded vaguely racist. It does. It's from Bray Rabbit, isn't it? But it's a, it's a scheme he cooked up, right? It's like a decoy type thing or whatever.

It was like a trap, from an Uncle Remus tale where like somebody makes a baby doll out of tar and then taunts Brer Rabbit with it. And the idea is when he punches it, it makes, it costs more effort getting stuck to it. Then you get out. The juice is worth the squeeze is the point, right? Yeah. Like, he did all this complicated math to point out that basically, like, it would cost like $71 a barrel to extract and process the oil,

and you're only going to get $60 for it. So it doesn't make any sort of economic sense for it. This is because the, and Trump says we're going to refill the strategic petroleum reserve with it, which doesn't make any fucking sense when anybody knows what they're talking about. I mean, quote here from an expert. The SBR is strict quality requirements such as a maximum of 1.99% sulfur, content. Venezuelan oil is 5.7% sulfur, which is insanely sour, which is the term for when it's like

that. It also happens to be highly acidic, which would eat away at the storage cave walls, likely causing cave-ins and collapse. That's one problem with it. It's also very goopy and thick, and the tarbby metaphor. So if you just pour it in, you can never get it back out because it's too sludgy. So it just becomes a giant tar cave of slugs that's unpumpable. That's if it doesn't cave in the walls of the SPR.

So we're like usually you tell lies in order to get get something. Right. We are lying about the quality of this oil and paying extra money to extract this oil on a money losing deal to try to help Trump pretend he can get through the midterms without exhausting the strategic political. Right. Yeah, but what is like the yeah, what's the long term strategy for that or whatever, you know, because it's like. Come on with another lie. I get why you want to tell that lie right now because they need some kind of win. And it's like, no, don't worry.

We got a plan. And that's what we're going to do. And people won't look into it. And it sounds like, oh, no, he's got a plan. It's fine. But it's untenable, right? So it's not going to get any better in practicality. And it's not an actual plan.

So like what, like I said, long term, how is it supposed to? I guess long term maybe doesn't matter. Some people will get enriched in the short term or something. fucking and then it's also worth pointing out the reason he's having to do this deal with a new established entity to pump and refine this oil is because American companies still won't do it because they know it's such a bad fucking deal right right so I don't know all right let's talk let's talk about some internet weirdos uh I want to talk about Pete Hexas army of Pentagon army of human bots for a second but let's talk about the state of the maga internet because that's

essentially who governs this at the moment play this a post from the commander-in-chief the United States Armed Services, if you got this, Matt. Do we think that's real? All right. If you can't see what we're tip, if you listen to the audio version, it's an AI-generated video Trump posted of Canadian geese with his hair and human arms, carrying M-16s and defending Chicago from Canada, I guess, in the middle of Lake Ontario. What a fuck.

I know. I don't... Right. I... I don't even know where to start, dudes. So, yeah, Canadian... I feel like Canadian geese are one of, like, these symbols of Canada. So it's like...

They were chosen because it's like... I'll fuck you, even the geese love us more or something type thing. And birds with arms are funny. And then you give them guns. I don't know what the fuck is going on here. Who came up with this? One of the big balls adjacent, 20-something-year-olds on his, like, social media team on a Natalie Harp underling or something, and he just loves all this pap off Facebook shit.

Usually Natalie finds his stuff, I believe. So she spends all the day scrolling Trump's social media. So what I want to talk about mainly is like, and so on Sunday, Washington Post broke a story that Pete Higgs-S Pentagon has moved active-duty troops with large Twitter accounts in a civilian job to pay them to post nice things about. Pete Hegeseth, including electioneering to defeat Thomas Massey, which should be really illegal, right? This is in the middle of, like, we're in the middle of a war. Like, I feel like the troops could be doing something. I mean, I don't want it to be a war at all, but I feel like if you're going to have a war, the troops should be doing war stuff and not posting mean tweets about Thomas Massey,

but that's just me. This is a different scandal, by the way, than the one uncovered earlier last week where Hegssess Pentagon had hired Twitter posters who were civilians. to say cool shit about Pete Hexsath. And this all came to light because of one woman who I wanted to have some fun talking about. It's a woman whose internet handle is called

the data Republican, who lives two lives. And she has now been revealed as a paid secret Pentagon mouthpiece. This is a woman whose government name is Janica Pounds, who's a deaf software engineer who did some notable work in software improvements for deaf individuals. That part is cool.

At the same time, she moonlighted it as an anonymous internet personality, although 2020 24, 2025 when Elon became a fan and now she has a million followers, right? And she's seguated into government work by making these databases that, like AI, like databases that suggested to Elon what stuff does should cut. For example, spitball in here, early warning mudslide technology in Nepal, for example, that was cut. Wait, really?

Yes. I mean, I'm not surprised by that, but that's the first time I'd heard that. dude, of course. It's like every fucking time. Every time something bad happens. There's always another shooter drop in that way. So, dad of a Republican and her post were shared pretty constantly about,

not just by Musk, who was Utah Senator Mike Lee, who's her home state senator, and she's followed by J.D. Vance. She first got some public notoriety from this, and she started doing, even without putting her name up, there was doing podcast appearances where she wore sunglasses in a hooded sweatshirt

to try to keep her identity secret. But she went on like a bunch of big time podcasts. She went on Glenn Blaise's show. She went on Nicole Shanahan show. That was RFK Jr.'s VP nominee. Here's her undercover if you got this picture. So obviously no one's ever going to figure out who she is, right? But once people did figure out what she was, she claimed that she had been doxed by people

trying to silence her. But this is like a man who knew her put on Facebook that he knew. her from the deaf community, which then she had to confirm who she was. But like, so you go on a podcast where you're communicating through a sign language interpreter and you identify yourself as a deaf white woman software engineer from Utah who's a Mormon. How many of you are there? Right. Yeah.

Yeah, not that hard. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure that one out eventually, especially in this day and age. But anyway, go on. I'm looking forward to wherever this is. I'm looking forward to wherever this is headed with this new character we've just been introduced to, Miss Jenica here. Okay, so let me tell you, I guess I should have, let me, let me tell you how she, how she uncalled,

she accidentally revealed this plot Pete Hex had where he's been paying a bunch of people to post things about him and good things about the Pentagon. So, last week, she posted some DMs she'd gotten from a person who turned out to be an Undersecretary of State was trying to use her as a cutout to leak, some secret documents about Cuba, all right, in their effort to jump a war against Cuba. Janica thought she was being set up in a deep state plot to frame her for being a leaker

or like some sort of trader who was leaking toxicic documents. So she posted the screen grabs the DMs and accused them of basically trying to end up putting her in prison. See, this is why I don't know if it's worth it to fuck. I mean, I don't, you know, whatever. They're making millions of dollars, these people in these positions. But it's like the paranoia that's got to come with it. If you're at all intelligent, I feel like, in dealing with these people, you know what I mean?

Because they sell each other out and shit all the time. I'd probably think something like that too if I was heard. But I don't want to be thinking that is my point. Like for like Twitter posting and shit, she's like probably losing sleep at night thinking she's going to get disappeared at some point or whatever because she won't like play into their Cuba plot or something. I just don't think it's worth it is all I'm saying. All these people, I don't know. It's short-sighted. I just like, it's very funny to be to be, to actually be a, you actually are the deep state.

Right. You're being covertly paid to post opinions that aren't yours to pretend that your own independent thoughts. Right. And you're a worried that another deeper state is going to frame you. That's what I mean. You get down it, it's just, it's states all the way down. Do you know what I mean? It's also petty and stupid.

Again, this is a dying social media platform that, this just populated. by the only people left on there anymore are politicians, mainstream media figures, sports reporters, and psychopaths. That's it. And me scrolling to get NBA news because the NBA news

hasn't moved in any of social media platform yet. So yeah, people try to, like, so all these people got suspicious of each other because the ones you aren't on the Pentagon payroll are like, wait a minute, who am I fucking been talking to? Are you a Fed? They're all feds now.

There's the DM she posted with the lady who turned out to be Sarah B. Rogers, the State Department Undersecretary for Public Government. diplomacy, who when she, so Genica went public with this and Rogers was like, LOL, it's me. You don't need to be secretive about this. I wasn't trying to fuck you. Anyway, so, but the Navy is another story out last week that the, the, the military spit so

much money on the Iran war, like way, way over their budget. The Navy might miss fucking payroll. And the Department of Defense is paying this moron to tweet stuff and be worried about ended up stitched up in federal prison. and like I said they're all wondering if each other are feds now and I don't want to say like do you remember the term snitch jacketing I know we've talked about this before snitch jacketing yeah so one thing when the when the feds undercover feds want to like disrupt any sort of like underground movement like when they show up to like a housing rights group or the Black Panthers or whatever one of the go-to moves is you start accusing

other people of being in feds right because like that way you so distrust the organization's uncreisive and it doesn't work and you don't have to actually do anything or arrest anybody. This is all quit. Right. So they've all snitchjacketed each other. Basically what's happening. Let me give an example of what I'm talking about. So over the weekend

there was a pretty explosive report that came out about the Secretary of Defense apparently like twice a month puts out what's called a Secretary of Defense order book where he sends us to all his like strategic commanders. It basically lets everybody know so they're on the same page.

Who's supposed to be moving forces around where, who has access to what resources and what resources and what broad mission parameters they're supposed to have for the next couple weeks, right? And when the commanders read this, read this order's book, they can go back to Hexeth and stay, we don't think this is a good idea, right? They had all done that. It's called a non-concurs, right? They said, like, we'll do this, but we don't think this is bad, right? All having to do stuff with the Iran war. That report leaked, and then it caused, because the data of Republican stuff, it led to a big influencer spat, because none of these people can trust anything each other is saying it, right?

So, Sean Parnell, who's a Pentagon spokesman, came out and said, this is really funny here, publishing highly classified assessments from the secretary's orders book is a crime. It's a betrayal of the force, and it's inaccurate. So the top, the information you're leaking is top secret, also it's made up. Right. So then the response to that was his viral post on Twitter slash X. Parnell is a sub-literate idiot who fucks the wives of deployed soldiers. He had no core of integrity as a lieutenant or a captain.

I have no idea why he holds a position of responsibility at the Pentagon. He should be badly running a roofing crew. Sounds like you answered your own question to me. I mean, with this Pentagon, do you know what I mean? Like, he's a subliterate idiot with no integrity who shouldn't even be running a roofing crew. Yeah, that's how he got this high-level job. And P-Dex, you know, Pentagon or whatever. That's who excels there.

That's what they're looking for, these guys like that. That's the cream rising to the top. Absolutely. So if you wonder, like, well, what is, what might these mouthpieces might be doing other than posting, like, tweets, right? Could they be doing anything remotely? Is it anything more than a waste of money? And basically what's...

All the time, I wonder this. Yes. So please go ahead. They're also apparently running really close. flumsy half-ass stupid attempts like killing capture and blackmail compromise operations. So here's a story that didn't make sense previously until after the data Republican paid tweeter stuff broke. Recently, a reporter named Dan Friedman sent their Pentagon press office a series of questions

concerning Eric Garrison, who's a senior Pentagon advisor to Hegsseth. Garrison he did a tour in Iraq with Hegsef in the mid-2000s and is now currently part of the Pentagon effort to instill a, quote, warrior ethos within the U.S. military, which involved more tweeting than I would have imagined. Garrison now leads a team that is, quote, reviewing the role of women in the armed forces, which is what makes what I'm about to tell you pertinent to his job role, right?

This is not some just character assassination. His opinion about women could matter to his job. You know what I'm saying? The guy discovered that Garrisie's email address is linked to a public goodreads page. with a currently reading list that includes various books featuring stories about quote, Asian wife sharing.

Bro, I mean, it is so not difficult to avoid having things like this happen, I feel like. Do you know what I mean? Like, I don't, everybody's got their own like weird shit they're into, I guess, or whatever. You ain't going to find none of that link to my fucking work email that I have.

Like, ever in a million. million year. You're using your fucking do dot gov fucking email address to open up a goodreads account about fucking Korean titty porn or whatever the fuck. Titty porn, he

says. But anyway, like, it's insane. These people are so insane, dude. I'm trying to imagine non-titty porn. That's why. That's why I made, as soon as I said it, I was like, yeah, fucking all porn is, not all of it, but anyway. Yeah. I always was, I

watch porn where the women keep their shirts on. Yes. That would be weirder. But whatever, it's Asian cut porn is what it is what I should have said. Not the titty porn. Their titties are in it, I'm sure, but the Asian cut porn. It's fucking wild. It's wild to do that.

It's really, it's really, it's not even that the controversy here, the scandal is not that he's into whatever he's into like watching while he has sex or masturbates or whatever. It's that he's so careless that his female employees because he's, he finds out this is what he's into. Yeah. So these, these pornographic. works with titles such as an Asian wife went with her dad's friend, a cuckold story,

appeared in the list alongside two books by Hegsef and a handful of military histories. So he is doing some reading for work purposes here. The books can contain detailed descriptions of cuck holding, group sex, and scenes involving ladyboys, you know the term used for titrans into women. The page acted since 2021 was taken down the day after I contacted the Pentagon and Garrison about it was what Friedman wrote. So he contacted to ask about this. guy might be reading on the clock and his role was like the new guy in charge of the pentagon's

women or whatever so the next day jack pacific remember him the guy that started pizza gate of course yeah former active duty navy guy who uh got fired from the navy for tweeting and now apparently we're left to conclude his own pete hexath payroll to tweet stuff because what happened was pescebic emailed freedman and asked him to comment on whether i have a quote creepy fetish for Asian women with details of Friedman's dating history. And Friedman was honest about what he's talking about. He was like basically during my bad divorce, I had a fling with a woman who happened to be Asian.

And it's not my favorite thing about my personal life, but it's not, it's not, it's not pertinent to national security. Right. So Jack Posabia was trying to like this you him. Yes. Yes. With that information. Right.

Yeah. So now, so freebie again, because a few weeks ago didn't really understand the connection between Pasebic and Hexeth or what he was doing at the time. But now we can all assume the tweeter who is now a Pizsigate is now in the Pentagon's payroll. So back to Jenica, I want to talk here about, so, um, Denica's day job, how she got radicalized to being conservative, uh, this particular kind of Elon Musk conservative, because he's not like a gun rights person or religious or whatever, even though she grew up Mormon.

What she is is, is a tech nerd. She was a senior software engineer at an AI lending company called Upstart, which is a company that tangled with regulators, the Consumer Federal Protection Bureau for years. Upstart, by the way, got a bunch of Series A funding and additional funding from Peter Thiel. Of course he did. Peter Thiel's everywhere. So what was Upstarts B for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? The company received a special designation from CFPB in 2017 during Trump's first administration,

which allowed its special regulatory treatment by immunizing the lender from being charged with fair lending law violations with respect to its underwriting algorithm. So they got special permission from Trump's first administration for their computer to be racist. Because we're figuring, we're not making it racist later, maybe. Yeah. But let me not, what do you want? Not yet still, but, you know, eventually they'll get to that. So, so then later, during Joe Biden administration, some senators, I think with Corey Booker and Elizabeth Warren, sent emails to Upstart, be able to like, hey, are you all still being racist?

because like you guys have had this waiver for like five years now because they all will not be racist now. So instead what happened was all the all the tech billionaires bought the government specifically so they could end the CFPB which must have then went on and did with the aid of data Republican. So later on when your money disappears in the bank and you've got no one to call to complain to it. It's because data Republican Elon Musk wanted to be that way. So now that she works with the Pentagon, what is Jenica up to? What does she do for them. We don't know exactly

which parts are her job for the Pentagon and which wants her private role because she still pretends like that's like a part-time job and everything else

is her independent work, right? But what she spent her time doing is she made a database to track Americans based on a political affiliation. Basically she has a mapping software

you can go, you can go click on and search it and try to find out who's associated with the Democratic Socialist America in the United States. Fine.

So she's making the list for this administration right now? Yeah. I'm on. Yeah, making lists the Pentagon's political opponents. She called, it's called DSA Explorer, and she calls it, describes it the interactive map of the Democratic Socialists of America and the wider anti-apurialist

Solidarity Network. Now, I've never heard the term wider anti-imperialist Solidarity Network, but I'm trying to figure out which, because I think she only left the term, but it's supposed to be bad. Yeah, right. They do that all the time. We talk about it all the time. especially where the Democratic socialists are concerned when they talk about their platform and stuff like that,

the horror of, you know, the things that these people want, like, you know, health care and higher wages and stuff like that. Can you believe these people have been solid? These people believe in solidarity. Do they believe in, like, being friends with their neighbors and having their back? That sounds fucking evil, right?

So, but there's no, none of these people in this list, some of them might be car care member of the DSA. Some of them were just, like, hurt software just connected them with, like, the same way drones do targeting, where if, like, if your phone has a contact, than if three degrees separated from somebody in the DSA,

you might be on this list. We don't know who's on it, right? But it's essentially the mass doxing of people in this house we believe in yard signs. In a lengthy disclaimer on the database website, Pounds warned that her data may not be 100% accurate. Inferred ideological and patron sphere associations or analytical interpretations,

not statements of fact, and nothing here led to his unlawful contact by any person or organization. Do not rely on this material without independent verification, she said. sure nobody will. Right. Yeah. Yeah, give all these disclaimers just to cover your ass legally or whatever.

It's like not a good sign for the integrity of the product or service you're offering or whatever. And like we talk about these sort of paranoid fucking like surveillance databases. I just want to like, you don't know what exactly we're looking at. I read about one the other day that store of people into criminal threat levels by their internet activity. And an example that the company gave as for what it's up to is like if a person in, Instagrams about a perfume brand that reads as too expensive for their stated income to level, then the AI puts them in like a spreadsheet column for suspected drug dealers.

Holy shit. Really? Jenica's. People do that all the time. Do you know what I mean? That's like for a lot of people, that's what social media is for? You know what I mean? It's like that type of bullshit and aspirational bullshit and fake it to you make it type stuff.

That's crazy. that's really what's going to save us from like this kind of tech fascism is the people that people lying on the internet is going to drown the algorithm in fake positivity uh there's so many drug dealers everybody's got three cars everybody people like Airbnb mansions and pretend they live there to be influencers yeah so uh i just want to point out that the database company I'm talking about was made per professionals jenica made this in her spare time as an as an amateur right so hers her database is going to be worse than this So if you read a book recently on the weather underground, maybe for research because you want to kill leftists, you're still going to end up in Jenica's database.

If you streamed one battle after another on a fucking airplane, you're probably on Genica's list of subversives. By the way, Jenica's list of subverses, a fucking great band name. Somebody should take it. Yeah. All right. Well, thanks for watching.

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