Weekly Skews - S6 Ep44: Weekly Skews – Trump Takes Revenge on Saudi Arabia for 9/11 (By Accident)

Episode Date: September 16, 2026

A Texas politician innovates in the field of football racism. Turns out a Kansas Senator has been taking it upon himself to bring back debtor’s prisons. Trump causes three different diplomatic rows with the U.K. in a week, including trying to resurrect the I.R.A. Then, the U.S. attempts to bring about the downfall of Saudi Arabia through a Rube Goldberg machine that hits everyone in the balls.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 checkoutThis 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

What's up everybody? Welcome back and happy Scus Day to you. It's Tuesday, September 15th, 2026. We're recording this on Monday, September 14th at about 1.30 p.m. on the west coast. As it's often the case we sit down and record this, I unhinged my jaw and shoveled an entire meal into my mouth in less than 30 seconds right before we started. And I've got something stuck in the back of my throat mark, so that'll be happy. Just know that the whole episode long. Maybe nothing will come of it. Maybe I'll asphyxiate halfway through. We'll see. So you place your bets now on Cal She. How are you doing?

I also have a bad taste of my mouth due to the Dallas fucking Cowboys. God damn it. All right. So I hope you had a good weekend watching football. I know you won some money. Congratulations. We texted us about your gambling success. Legal gambling success.

When you were watching football this weekend, were you like upset that the people rooting for the same team as you weren't white enough? no that's dude I like the Raiders so no I'm the whitest Raiders fan alive I think or one of them

most of the Amigos Tos and stuff you know what I mean like it's so no that's never bothered me before well that me neither that that separates you and me from the guy by the name of Bo French who's a Texas political fake

I know like Bo French sounds like like a cartoon poodle who's also a detective, but I promise you he's a politician. He's a guy in Texas is running for a spot in the Railroad Commission, and a railroad commission regulates the oil and gas industry, and he's running to regulate the oil and gas industry on a platform of let's kill all Muslims, basically.

Sure. It's basically, like, it's kind of a major development in American politics. Like, basically since Elon took over Twitter, if not a little sooner, that Republican politicians are now more racist than their base, which used to be the way the opposite, right? right for sure so what uh like he's friends has gotten a little pushback from this

including john corn in which we'll get to but basically the morning after Texas Longhorns pulled off a huge upset comeback against Ohio State Saturday night French shared a photo of students who appear to be South Asian I don't know my to my eye that looks South Asian but they're cheering on in the stands wearing burnt orange and French who was called for the deportation of a hundred million people

which are you certain you're not in the 100 million? Because I don't know if I'm white enough to be in the 200 million that are left. But he said that the scene of the Texas football game shows, quote, how many Americans have been displaced by foreigners? I want to pull up this tweet, Matt, if you got it. That's the photo. Right. Cowboy hats and everything.

Cowboy hats, backwards ball caps and that sort of thing. At a SEC football game. No, I know. I saw this and it's like, you're right about how it shifted so much because it used to be, I mean, from my perspective anyway, there was always this, if you called them racist for being super anti-immigration or whatever back in the day, there was this whole, at least a purported narrative of like, well, no, listen, you know, there's a right way and a wrong way to do things. These people come over here. They don't adapt to our culture. They refuse to assimilate. They just try to turn this country into their country. They don't learn the language, all that. And that's, I'm just saying that I'm opposed to that is how they would frame it. But it's like there's nothing more sort of fucking red-blooded American-type shit than losing your shit at an SEC football game and a cowboy hat. You know what I'm saying? It's like these guys are clearly assimilating.

Accepting American culture is what I'm saying. Used to, it would be hard for me to imagine anybody that wasn't literally in a Nazi outfit, having a problem with that publicly. But now it's like, you know, a guy who's actively running for office will tweet it. it out without a second thought, which is pretty wild. And again, I want to reiterate, the office itself is nothing to do with immigration at all, unless you're talking about, like, how many, like, foreign visa workers can work as engineers in the oil fields or something.

But, like, so I want to quote here from the Texas Monthly, these exchanges come amid rising hostility against Muslims as well as the state's fast-growing Indian population. As Republicans raise concerns by the H-1B visa program, they're largely used by high-skill Indian immigrants. earlier this year Greg Abbott's told state agencies and public universities to pause their process to give any new H-1B visas. Now, these things happen in parallel, but like, we need to talk about, like, Texas University admissions for a second, because if you never spent much time in Texas, like, who gets into

UT is a fucking blood sport, right? There was, the Supreme Court case that struck down affirmative action in Texas was like, like it was all about UT admissions. And what they did, and I'd like, talking about how much this country's changed. last 20 years. Texas used to have affirmative action. Right. And like, so what they did, what they replaced it with at the time, a top 10% rule.

And then I think it's now a top 5% rule where like, basically they went to a colorblind meritocratic system where if you're in the top 10% or top 5% of your high school class, you are automatically admitted to any state university you want to go to, which is UT, right? This is one everyone wants to go to. So like, this is what colorblindness looks like. like is brown as fuck apparently. So what is the actual problem here? And they,

meaning, right. Meaning like they want to D.E.I. admit more white kids who weren't, even though they weren't in the top 5% of their student body, or whatever. It's also like the picture, that's a picture of the graduate section.

That's like the grad student section. Like it's like, I don't know if it's a frat or whatever, but it's like a group of, they're all sitting together with their friends. I don't know. It's like, the school,

itself is still like the biggest ethnic group is still white people. They, they think no white people go to UT, which is fucking ridiculous. Yeah, I saw a stat that said 80% of the student body is like native-born Texans. It didn't, you know, white or Hispanic or whatever, I don't know, but it said that 80% of the body, a student body at Texas are kids that are from Texas. I think it's 80, 10, 10% in-state Texans, 10% out-of-state Americans, and 10% international. Right. Which is like, you know, very reasonable breakdown, you know, you would think. Yeah. It's also, it's like you have no way of knowing if these dudes are like, are they coming here just

to get, I went to grad school with guy, a dude who came from India, a guy came from Russia, a girl who came from China. And they all like graduated and went back home, you know, immediately with their American degrees and like worked back there or whatever. You have no way of knowing if any of these dudes are, you know, doing that. Like whether they're taking American jobs or, I mean, I guess this guy's position is they're taking American university positions. It's not even, doesn't even get to the working part. But I'm just saying.

Also, they're like college students. They're not drug addicts or gang members. You have no idea if they have any intention of staying here. I'm just saying it's like, just say that it, there's no, there's no way for a person who looks like that to exist in this country that's okay with you, is what I'm saying. They're, they're overwhelming likely that they're from, they're from fucking planot. Texas. They're from Houston. They're not from India. Like, like, so like, this is the crazy part. It's like, like, usually racist will be like, you know, uh, the messians are bringing in drugs and crime. And while that's racist and off, at least we do agree that crime is bad, right? Right. But they're not even accused. They're based, the anti-Indian racists are like the, the peak level of racism. Because what they're mad about is that Indian parents, people from India have raised kids who studied hard and got into good colleges. see what I'm saying?

It's like they're not even accusing them. They're just accusing them of existing while not being white. And like I want to explain to you talking about who both French is for a second because by the way, Texans keep wasting fucking really cool names with shitty politicians.

Both friends, remember Briscoe, Briscoe Kane? No, I thought you were going to say it was in Briscoe County, the Bruce Campbell character? I thought that's where you're. No. There was a guy named Briscoe Cane.

It was a state legislator. I think he lost his elect. years back. I remember I was joking about it because you'd think Briscoe Kane would be like Marlboro Man, like ladies love him

but you wouldn't want to take him on in a bar fight but he's like a little twerp who wears oversized suits that don't fit, right? So anyway, both France is similar to do like both for,

I disagree about politics but like beyond that he's just a gigantic piece of ship. All right? In June of last year he posted a poll on his Twitter asking who was a bigger threat to America

and the two options were Jews and Muslims. Just one week in July he did these three things He said a fundraising email that appears to invoked the conspiracy theory that led to the Holocaust.

He called to round up all Chinese people and he quoted an obscure white nationalist novel. And this part has nothing to do with racism and more politics. He was a business partner

of Chris Kyle, you know, American sniper. Yeah, uh-huh. They ran a law enforcement training company called Kraft International, which, by the way, so pay a thousand bucks to go to a shooting seminar

led by the American sniper, so it's a fucking, it's a griff, whatever. But anyway, they were doing it together. So after Chris, Kyle got killed in 2013, French and a business partner were sued by his

widow, Taya, Kyle, for literally forcing her out of the company. He screwed the American sniper's wife, widow, out of fucking money, the lady who's seeing a mail outplayed in the movie. In February 16, lawyers for Taya Kiles sent French's cease and desist

to order demanding these stop using her late husband's name and image and campaign materials. He's been an ongoing, in an ongoing beef over money and using Chris Kyle's image in's campaign ads with Hearst for like a fucking decade. How does he keep, I mean, how do you get away with that, like, as a grifter in that world? Like, they hate stolen valor so much and, you know, stolen valor don't hit for me either. But I'm saying, like, clearly using that guy's image to make money while you're actively in a dispute with his widow who you are, like, screwing over financially.

I mean, people just don't know about it, I guess. but it just feels like it'd put an end to that pretty quickly. You just think even those people, if there was a line that could be crossed, it'd be that kind of line, you know, cops and shit. His beef with her, like his French ran the, he ran the Republican Party in Tarrant County,

where I used to live, which, you know, contains full worth. And, like, he, uh, basically his beef with her was, like, she, you know, is involved in politics. She was, like, a campaign treasurer for a sheriff. Uh, fucking French tried to ruin the sheriff's reelection campaign, to get revenge on Tea Kyle some bank shot thing

to point a bunch of police organizations that had announced him and tell him to stay the fuck out of it. Like he's, everybody hates this motherfucker. The fact he's going to win is really fucking frustrating. So yet,

and then profiles and courage here, John Cornyn, who of course lost his primary to Ken Paxton back in May. He's because he's political career is over. He's free to actually be a decent person now. So he blasted French's comment, called another to do the same. Quote, this is the Republican nominee

for statewide office. Or other Republicans, elected officials are going to condemn the intolerance and racism or look the other way while it becomes normalized. This is how great political party is self-destruct, sad. Right. So I like a lot of Indian Americans are pretty politically conservative. They help big a bunch of Indian American organizations held fundraisers for joint like joint

fundraisers for Trump and Narenda Modi who's like the Hindu nationalist leader of of India. And like so you basically like I'm not I'm not doing like political, you know, strategy for the bubbling the party of Texas, but like, this is how you lose. You know, and with Beau French, practically, his race matters very little to the party.

Like, they have a, they have a super majority on the railroad commission. So they can let him fucking lose. And like, like, the job is to like let the landman the cast of landman do whatever they want. You don't need both friends. Like, if you have both fronts loses, gas is not

going to be illegal in Texas. There's no, this is for fucking nothing. Right. So why are they? No one else has condemned it or anything. No. Our boy, Teg Cruz, nobody like that is condemned it. Yeah, because, yeah, John Cornyn, I mean, I agree with what he said, but as you pointed out, like, if he had won his primary, would he be doing that? I don't know. And like you said, like, what did they even, it's not like this due to some big fish, why is he even matter.

So if they're refusing to condemn it, there have to be other reasons, which are just like, you know, pointing to more sort of like cultural rot or whatever. and the larger Republican Party, I feel like. Like, it's not even about any kind of practical consequences, really. It's just like you can't even be seen to be disagreeing with blatant racism, which is bad, like for the rest of us that that's the place that they're in. The old guard of the Republican Party that was trying to stay sane, tried to impeach Ken Paxton for corruption and immorality last year. We did a whole episode about it.

and Donald Trump and Maga Close ranks about it to protect him, and now he's the nominee. And Greg Abbott was asked about Beau French's post, and his response was to brag about stopping the H-1B visas and to say the real racist is James Talariko. So, yeah. All right. Well, on that fun note, let's keep going.

Let's get right into it. Producer Matt, please. Let's do the Daily Dumbass. This week's D.D. is Can't. who don't understand the part of the Hippocratic Oath where doctors have SWAT teams arrest their pregnant patients. This is Republican Kansas Senator Roger Marshall during a debate at where else a state fair. Those are common, common business practices. We would go a year before we would ever send somebody over.

So what this story is about, Roger Marshall was an OBGYN by trade before he went into politics. I practiced for 25 years before he ran for Congress in 2016. His current campaign website says that he was often, quote, the only OBGYN in the area in his largely rural region of the state. He's also highlighted his care of low-income patients. Sometimes, he said in 2017, women drove over 100 miles to see him because he accepted Medicaid, the public health benefits program for the poor.

So how could anyone be mad at this poor country doctor with a spray tan and veneers? It's because, let me read this headline for you from the New York Times. a doctor sued 700 patients for debts. 81 were arrested. Now he's a senator. A total is oldest time. Yeah.

This is fucking, like, like some of these debts were as low as $100. He was like doing fake up charges. And then he sent like people like like, I got to read the details of the story. Let me read the top of this first. It was Easter weekend in 2007 when a police car pulled up to Joe Vasquez's home in rural Kansas.

A doctor had filed a lawsuit against him and his wife for over an unpaid $4,000. $1,200 bill for her emergency hysterectomy three years earlier. And the doctor's lawyers asked the court to issue an arrest warrant. Police took the couple into custody as their grandchildren prepared for an egg hunt. They spent two days in jail for their son could borrow the money to post bond. Now, the doctor sued the couple was Roger Marshall, who's now a senator from Kansas. And like I said, he'd filed lawsuits against more than 700 patients with outstanding bills during his career as an OBGYN.

Sorry, go ahead. Can I ask you a question like? And I mean, you know, I grew up poor and stuff. I thought, like, I thought we, I thought we didn't have, like, debtors, prisons and shit anymore. I thought he just got, like, sent the collections and your credit ruined if you didn't have, you know, money to get bankruptcy loggers or whatever. They can take you to jail because you didn't pay your hospital bills? Technically, what they were arrested for was not showing up for court dates. Oh, okay.

So they, they filed to sue them. Then they, it supposedly issued summonses. and then they didn't fucking, they didn't respond to the summons. Now, a lot of these people say they did not actually get served, which is another level to this.

But so they arrested 81 people for missing court dates. He also garnaged patients, paychecks and bank accounts. They routinely charged patients in 18% annual interest rate. And like I said, the unpaid bills range from several thousand dollars

to as little as $101. It's like, when we hear horror stories about other countries, we always shake our head. But I want to phrase this, how people in other countries would see this story. in the United States

you can be sent to jail for not having $101 $1. Some facing lawsuits were new mothers with outstanding bills from their deliveries most live in Barton County

a rural area with above average uninsured in poverty rates so just a country Christian doctor jailing his needy neighbors I just to flag how unimportant

this $101 was to Marshall he in 2015 the last year he worked in the private sector. He's combined earnings from his obstestrics practice and the hospital he co-owned was $780,000. His current net worth is between $3 million and $9.8

according to his filings with Congress. Yeah, I cannot understand agree to people. I don't even understand, like... It's always these people, though, that feels like that are like that. I mean, I guess they're the only ones that are in a position to even be filing

these kind of lawsuits or whatever. But this type of thing comes up all the time. It's like, damn, they don't even need it. But there's something about the mentality of people like that. You know, it's like, it's just, it's never enough. Or I don't know if they think it's the principle of the thing or what, but that people, millionaires and above can be like the most petty people about money that you'll ever meet.

It's like one of the paradoxes of life, I feel like. Sometimes, yeah. If you, like I feel like I have friends from a lot of different socioeconomic, you know, yeah, except in Whoa, Hollywood, where the rich people are cool. I'm with you on that, you know. But I'm saying, like the demand to split the checks. seems to go up with income level. Right.

You know what I'm saying? So let me quote him the story. Some patients at the time spoke with lacked insurance. Others had health and coverage but didn't cover the care they needed to, you know, stay alive. It's worth noting here that Marshall supports repealing the Affordable Care Act and opposes Medicaid expansion. So like the thing I can't figure out with this is like how is it worth paying a team

of lawyers to try to get back $100? Right. Yeah. I mean, it's got to be overhead. Like, he's got them, this team of loggers, just all they do is sue these poor rural people, some of whom are just $101. Do you know what I mean? But they sue everybody, Mark. So you spread that cost out over all the poor pregnant single moms.

You're railroading or whatever. Also, it's like you said he made a huge chunk of his money because of Medicaid, did you not? Like, because of the people he says. He says he was one of the real doctors to take Medicaid, but he's also trying to eliminate Medicaid. I know. That's what to me? What the fuck is that about? Like, what's the argument for that? I don't know. I don't know how he expects to get paid.

Nobody has insurance. And also, like, how they're supposed to pay him back to $100 when they're sitting in jail? Also to understand how you're paying $500 to a lawyer for an hour's work to get back $100, makes any sort of sense. It's like he's just putting people in jail for the love of it. He just wants to fucking hurt poor people, I guess. So, because he's working to make, his whole career in the sentence about making insurance worse with less people covered. So, yeah, I guess, like I said, he's a doctor who doesn't want paying customers because his real love is incarcerating poor people.

Right. It doesn't make any sense. But I guess we do have, he does, he has, he does, he has explained his answer to the question I asked, apparently, why somebody in his position would be opposed to Medicaid expansion. So apparently one said in explaining his opposition to Medicaid expansion, Marshall said in an. interview from March of 2017 that some people, quote, just don't want health care. Not like, is it like, is it like Jehovah's Witnesses don't want blood transfusions or what is they fuck is he talking about? Because most of us want to be able to. I mean, it's like my papal never wanted to go to the doctor, you know, but like when he was forced to or found himself there, he still would have preferred not to pay out the ass for it. You know what I mean? And at the end of the day people don't want to die from the heart attacks they've been living their whole life to have or whatever but yeah i don't that's one of those things i mean that's like saying some people just

don't want to eat right or have a shelter like fundamental needs and yeah you can find some people that i guess don't but that's not normal like who doesn't want health care unless you're like suicidal or something and even then you don't want to get a disease and just waste away you know right i mean i think that this whole libertarian argument against the AC is really an argument against the idea of health insurance because like young,

yeah, young healthy people want to get away with not having health insurance because they don't get sick or hurt very often. You just want to bet on it, right? But like, you have to have healthy people

in the insurance pool. There's no one to cover the sick people. So America just really struggles with like the idea of any sort of collective good. Yeah, no, right. It's the whole of like,

why would I pay for that? You know what I mean? I'm fine. Why did I pay for them? Because one day you'll be old and sick motherfucker. I know, but people don't think,

they don't think like, that apparently. Right. So, like, Marshall keeps saying this is just part of standard business practices, but even in America's shitty healthcare system, that's not true. Only about, let me call it here, only about 1.7% of hospital stays result in litigation. So yeah, he's not liar even in our evil system. So two of the bills, Marshall pursued in court stemmed from late miscarriages that required surgery. Read this next part, Trey. The first time Misha Zimmerman was arrested for missing a court date related to a C-section bill for Mr. Marshall was in 2011. She was home with her two-year-old and eight months pregnant. I asked them quietly,

could you not handcuff me in front of my daughter? Said Mrs. Zimmerman, age 44. Quote, I explained to my daughter that I was going for a ride. So, yeah, handcuffed a pregnant lady in front of her two-year-old over an unpaid hospital bill. That's the other thing, too. It's like I said, I didn't know you could be arrested for unpaid bills, but also, and you said, only 1.7% of hospital stays result in litigation. Because another thing that I'd always been told, again, coming from a poor place and being around poor people, I'd have people that had told me, it's like, because I didn't have health insurance when I was younger. And I had a buddy that didn't have health insurance and fucking wrecked a motorcycle or something, had tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt.

And he was like, he was like, dude, if you just tell them, like, you ain't got it, they'll be like, well, what do you got? It's like 10 bucks a month. They're like, okay, well, we'll take that, you know, instead of the, like, you could, they just want to get anything. So I'd always been under the impression, you know, you could heavily negotiate that type of shit. And not that it wasn't this, is what I'm saying. I've never heard of nothing like this, which makes this guy a real standout piece of shit, I guess. Yeah, that passage you read said the first time she was arrested because he had arrested twice more. in 2013 and 2016.

Each time she put up $200 in bonds that would go towards paying down her debt. She eventually set up a $50 a month payment, but that was less than the 18% interest she was being charged in her debt. So the amount kept accruing, even though she was paying all she could pay, which is $50 a month.

Right. So Marshall essentially set himself up as a payday loan lender who loaned this woman, her baby, and is threatened to repossess it, I guess. I mean, I should also say that guy I was talking about who had the reg, he did also say,

And I mean, you know, I'll be paying that every month until the day I die. But it's better than the 500 months they wanted me to pay them or whatever. So it's none of it is good. It appears like, so one of the patients was able to get a lawyer and was kind of able to get the charge dismissed because it looked like Marshall was charged like doing fake up charges. Let me quote here. The lawyer wrote a brief protesting a $520 bill for a surgery to remove placenta that had remained in a patient's uterus after childbirth. Quote, the service that the plaintiff seeks payment for should have been part of the original birthing services for which the plaintiff had already been paid. So you're supposed to vacuum out the placenta as part of the original.

That was part of the, that's part of the, you were already fucking paid for. You're trying to like, it's like when a car dealer is trying to get you to pay for the underproofing. I was about saying. I did not know that this kind of haggling went down over, you know, childbirth. Yeah. So Marshall opposes abortion, including in cases of rape and incest. And he also endorsed exceptions to abortion bans to permit abortion to preserve the mother's life. So I guess he's okay with an abortion state of the mother's life, provided your credit card doesn't get declined.

Then you're fucked. So like when you wrap up the total agenda of like this movement, it sounds like a fucking conspiracy. I'm going to lay out some things here for you, all right? There's 300,000 child marriages in the United States each year, 60,000 of which to adult men. It's a bill before Congress right now to ban child marriage, but the GOP won't allow a vote on it. This is after in 2024, Missouri Republicans fall tooth and nail to stop a state ban on child marriage. Speaking of marriage, you also want to end no-fault divorce. That's in the heritage, it was in Project 25, and Heritage Foundation pushes for it.

Indiana is currently considering a house bill that would ban no-fall divorce. So a woman basically can't leave her marriage without the man's permission. Right, yeah, it traps a woman in a marriage, basically. Yeah, so you can marry a child who cannot. leave you when she gets old, when she gets older and wilds up. There's also a state bill in Oklahoma that would end sex education so you can marry a child

who doesn't know how pregnancies work or understand where babies come from and then she's also not allowed to leave you once she gets older and whyses up. Abortion is illegal or effectively illegal in about half of states. And even in states where it is legal, Texas has a bounty law for women who travel out of state

to try to get abortions and Louisiana's currently passing one. And cops are using flock cameras to track pregnant women who leave the state. So basically, the move wants to be able to marry a 14-year-old who doesn't know about birth control. You can force me make her pregnant because they also don't believe the marital rape is real. It's illegal for her to divorce you. She can't end the pregnancy, even if she has money to travel. And men can control the bank accounts and withhold the money, by the way, because that's also not cause for divorce. So if she submits to all this and has the kid,

now she can go to jail, but you can't afford the bill for the kid that the state, her husband, the cops and Roger Marshall forced her to have. Yeah. I mean, it's a handmaid's tale, right? But in real life, yeah. All right, well, we'll continue with more right after this. Quick word from our sponsors. Weekly excuse is brought to you by Zbiotics.

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Sign up today and get 10% off. Better help. Help yourself. All right. We're back. Got an honorable mention for Daily Dumbass for you. Balloon Benjamin Netanyahu for not spitting on that thing first. Yeah, that's a balloon between Yahoo. Fucking Donald Trump in the butt. I think that's... Who's the, like, zombie? Is that a zombie in a Yahoo by and him?

I think it's supposed to be Jeffrey Epstein. I don't know why it's so pale. I guess it's killed because he's dead. Yeah, it's a ghost of Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah, there we go. And I guess that's supposed to be a prison jumpsuit. Maybe they were green in Ireland. This is in Ireland, by the way.

So, yeah, the Irish media says those are balloons of the U.S. President appearing to a guy. gauging sexual acts with balloons of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Yanjahou and infamous pedophil, Jeffrey Epstein. So Trump was in Ireland over the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, where he held meetings with political leaders and attended, mostly attended in the Irish Open Golf Tournament. So this protest started in the Garden of Remembrance. I can't pronounce the Irish name for it.

And Garden Cumanichin, Newtane. It's a memorial garden in Dublin dedicated to the memory of, quote, all those who gave their lives and the cause of Irish freedom. Several opposition parties, including Sinn Féin, you know, which the political face of the IRA and the Greens participated in this protest, which was really funny because then Trump said this, if you got this video, Matt. I've always loved the people of Ireland,

and it just seems to me that you have Northern Ireland, then you have Ireland, and it would seem to me that one of the naturals of all time is put them together. All right. He's endorsed Irish. Yeah, that's pretty wild. Sir, do you have any opinions about which branch of Islam is correct you'd like to share? I was like to imagine the Sinn Féin guys who are like, wait a bit, I'll let up.

Flip the balloons around so where he's fucking beeping yon-Yahu in the ass because like Trump's the man now. Right. I wonder what they like the, you know, they thought about that over in England, English diplomats or like English conservatives or whatever seeing that. Well, this is like the third diplomatic, like, like, what do you call it, like controversy? Trump started with England in a week, which is like crazy. So one of them, so U.S. Marines

raided in American diplomats like civilian flat in London and basically kidnapped him and drove him to the airport to arm convoy to get him out of England before he could be arrested for possession of child pornography. That didn't go over well. I'm not following the

British, British, Oh, U.S. official. Who kidnapped the guy and got him out of there? Because he had a job. American Marine, like, American Embassy Marines in London, went to an apartment and kidnapped an American diplomat living in London who had child pornography on his phone to get him out of the country

before he could be arrested by the Met Police or Scotland Yard. Yeah, okay. We did a reverse, we did an Argo to save a pedophile. Right. And like, why? Like, we, like, they didn't even, like, It doesn't even fucking matter. It's just, it's incredibly stupid.

But the third one he did was he basically hinted that he would not back the United Kingdom if Argentina tried to invade the Falklands again? Oh my God. But Falklands. Always something. Always something with the Falklands down there. Yeah. Javier Malae is like making noise about season again,

which is just because he's like unpopular and that's what nationalists do when they're fucking stuck. It's like, we're threatening to invade Greenland. Javier Mollet is starting to seize the Falklands. which is like the Falklands is a weird case because it's like yeah they want to be english don't they yeah there's no there was no there are no indigenous people there right british people landed there in the 1800s and no where no one was and they just started farming sheep and like there's no they they have the legitimate claim to us what i'm saying yeah argentina is the colonial power you're trying to seize it right but from its indigenous welsh population

and and it's like so argent i think it's argentina doesn't the military Argentina's Navy is mostly like a coast guard. They couldn't fucking take it from England unless we help them invade it. So are we threatening to go to war with England over the fault? Are your sons and daughters willing to die for the Falklands?

Because Donald Trump seems to think so in a war with the United Kingdom. So, but I wanted to talk about mainly here, there's a new alpha in the balloon butt-sex game that we apparently now use to sum up international relations and that is the Hooties.

I wanted to make the case here that Trump has accidentally. I've only taken the correct amount of revenge in Saudi Arabia for 9-11, just done it in a fucked up way by accident here. But I want to play this clip of a 9-11 widow speaking out of ground zero commemoration the other day. We played the first minute or so, Matt. She deserves to be heard. And my husband, Tom Strata, you are missed more with each year that passes.

But how can it be 25 years? And still, we have no justice for the role that Saudi Arabia played in your murder. Yes, we finally made it into a court and approved that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia fomented a rancid culture of anti-American terrorism around the globe and then sent its agents to support the radical Islamist hijackers so they could attack you and all of our loved ones. But for 25 years, administration after administration, including leaders in front of us here today, chose to protect the Saudis instead of standing with a nine. 9-11 families. So, yeah, she basically called out Bush Obama and Biden to their faces. Trump didn't show up about, you know, covered up the truth that Saudi Arabia, elements of the Saudi government were definitely supportive of 9-11.

If they didn't have, didn't have direct knowledge. But so I just want to point out here, the deep irony. The idea that the U.S. shouldn't support the corrupt and decadent Saudi regime was one of Osama bin Laden's main complaint, core complaints of why did they attack on the first? place, so it's nice we finally found some common ground. She ended with a plea, after we stopped the video, she ends with a plea for Donald Trump to do something about this.

And I want to say, the idea that he would do it on purpose is pretty funny if you got these next, remember there he is with the guy, after he killed American resident Jamal Khashoggi. The guy, you know, helped cover up the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by MBS. And also, Sadie's giving the orb. Remember the orb, tray?

He's gotten so many gifts from other countries. I can't keep them straight. But I like orbs. I'd like to see this orb. That's a nice orb. Yes. Look how shiny it is. Wait, is that a globe slash orb?

Or that was the continents. I don't know. That was during his first presidency. His first international trip was to Saudi Arabia. First one is using honor to be the first one, right? He chose Saudi Arabia to send the fact that I guess he loves and supports 9-11, I guess. But so, yeah, that glowing orb kind of thing, it kind of drove people crazy at the time because, like,

where's Qaeda on at when he's jointly laying hands in a glowing orb with a bunch of committed pedophiles? That again, that looks like a globe to me which like makes it even more egregious in terms of what you're saying. You know what I mean? It's like even more symbolic.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought I saw continents on that thing. But yeah, I don't know. So, but what if we could, we could destroy the Saudis just by being huge fuck-ups? That would be convenient. you wouldn't it? I mean, when you put it,

I mean, I could see us pulling that off. I don't know exactly. I think we're going to it. Yeah. Okay.

I think, sir, what the case I'm making here is revenge is a dish best served made of Play-Doh. And of course, talking about the

hooties defeating the Saudis and taking control of Yemen's coast. I want to play this video. The Lego boys are back, Trey, the Iranian,

you know, this is floating around the Iranian internet going viral. It's a video of a Saudi soldier and I'll let it speak for itself. We need air support. We need air support. Yeah, so the air support there.

Saudi soldier calls air support. Yeah. You're just listening. He looks up to an American plane who's flying like a banner behind it. It just says you're doing great. With a thumbs up emoji. That's a good joke. That's a good quality joke.

That actually like, obviously, except for the subject matter, I could see that joke being in one of the actual like Lego movies. I could see like Lord Miller coming up with. that gag. More of a Tray Parker Matt Stone type of, you know, subject area. But that was a hit for me. That was good. Yeah. So Mahab bin Salman

basically risked it all to approve the use of Saudi land and airspace to launch America's war in Iran. And now Trump has abandoned him. So I just want to say thank you, Mr. Trump, for following your shitty instincts and eat a dick, Maham bin Salman. For sure. Everybody always thinks they're going to be the ones he

doesn't do that to for some reason. and 10 years of evidence, you know, now of that not being the case. But everybody, it's like that quote from Arrested Development or whatever. What's he saying about how it went that way for everybody else, but maybe it'll work out for us or whatever? Yeah, it's Tobias and his portion of Rossi's character considering opening their marriage. And it's like, it's never worked for anyone else in the world history, but maybe it might just work for us, right? Yeah, people do that with Trump all the time and I'll never understand it. they have paid Jared Kushner billions of dollars specifically to avoid shit like this.

And like, so if you don't know exactly what I'm referring to, so the Hooties had a rapid advance over the weekend Thursday and Friday, starting Thursday and Friday. They captured an island called Param Island, it's like the mouth of the Red Sea, which splits the Bob El Mandeb straight in two, which gives Tehran de facto control over another key shipping route. This is narrow enough that Hooties don't even need drones or rockets.

They can basically keep it shut with shoulder-fired weapons. It's just a few kilometers across there. The Battle of Mandeb Straits between the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. And you've got to cut through the Red Sea to get to the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean. So basically all Chinese trade with Europe goes through there. Like, I want to quote here from CNN. The Hootie's rapid advance amounts to an extraordinary 36 hours in the conflict that had been largely on ice for years. I need you to keep in mind that Yemen is among the poorest countries in the world,

and these are the underfunded rebels who are also in opposition to the actual government of Yemen, which is backed by Saudi Arabia. This headline on this CNN piece, they put fuck in the newspaper, right? The headline is a fuck-up of epic proportions. The blame game begins after Iran-backed Hootie's lightning advance down the Red Sea coast. Let me quote here. The desperate pleas for air cover from Yemeni General started coming mid-morning on Thursday,

and advanced by the Iran-backed hoodies toward Yiven's strategic port of Port City of Moka was in full swing and backup support from chief ally Saudi Arabia was nowhere in sight. But the air support never came, the source said, and Moka has now fallen. If you're wondering, yes,

Moka is the namesaid of your chocolate coffee. Oh, that's a fun fact. I didn't know that. Yeah. So you're telling me that the actual Yemeni government they were asking for help from Saudi Arabia with this situation. Saudi Arabia did not show up.

There's been a Yemeni Civil War running hot and cold since 2011. We started giving bombs to the Saudis to drop on the hoodies in around 2015, right? So under Obama. So like, we've been a passive player in this conflict, which mostly involves Saudis dropping bombs. So there's a lot of American mercenaries fighting there, too, killing tribal chieftains and shit. It's a filthy fucking war. And the hoodies for their part, like, I'm not sure, like, how I think a lot of us in to see these overseas conflicts really simply. But if you don't want Saudis dropping bombs on your family, there's not really another force to join up with.

Right. Yeah. Like, it's like, you might be like, I think their flag has an awful slogans written on it, but like, well, I want to fucking resist. What am I supposed to do? So, I want to give me quote here at, So the Yemenis called the Saudis for air support. The Saudis turned around and called us. Saudi crown prince Muhammad bin Salman spoke twice on Thursday with

U.S. President Donald Trump and urged him to strike the hoodies. Another source familiar with the matter told CNN Friday. Trump declined to intervene according to that source. So Trump was basically like, ah, sounds tough. Good luck out there. Yeah, I got this golf thing. So maybe you'll figure that out. Yeah, it was the way to Ireland to watch balloons get fucked in the butt.

So for us domestically here, what it means is the largest oil supply disruption in history is going to get worse. Traffic to the Strait of Horduz is still down 77%. Saudi Arabia had built a backup pipeline going to the Red Sea to try to get around. The Hormez blockade. And then that pipeline was struck on Thursday by a militia out of Iraq. The same time the hoodies were taking Moka and taking paramilans is sort of like a like a like a pitcher move. So like there's no,

that's another 45% of global supply from that one pipeline that's fucking gone now. The CNN says that pipeline is shut means blown to fucking shit. Right now, diesel's is over $6 nationally here in the US

and costs as much as $1,800 to fuel up a big rig. I saw a funny story. Diesel's literally $9.99 in San Diego. And the funny part about that is it literally cannot get more expensive unless they rebuild the signs. right you know what I'm saying

9.9 type a little one up there that's what we're going to do yeah yeah so what's Trump going to do you might be interested to know he what is his plan seems to be to blame

Ukraine if you got this video man this is the last case to do one thing this is a last case you do one thing I like this is a let's guess you do one thing he has to stop

knocking down diesel fuel in Russia. Let him go after the doctor's using a shortage. This isn't done by the Middle East. This is not what's happening. So he's blaming the surge in diesel prices on Zislinsky striking Russian oil refining capacity. Certainly contributing to it. But like, it's just an example of how hairbrained all this shit is

and how like no one's thinking a step ahead. If Ukraine falls, if Russia takes Ukraine. Russia now kind of have access to the Mediterranean through the Black Sea and the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits. Turkey technically controls those straits and you hypothetically think that Turkey wouldn't allow Russia to use them because Turkey is a NATO ally, right? That's her last fail safe here. What's Trump currently trying to do to NATO? Fuck it over. Yeah, pull out of it and destroy it.

Right? So like, does anyone think it would be good for world peace or global security or anything? see, political plows, or any of that, if Trump could, sorry, if Putin could join their ally Iran and opening a second front in the war against Israel from the Mediterranean? Right. Yeah. Man, I didn't, I didn't used to have to know about any of these straits. All these straights, man.

When you, we started this show, like, we talked about state legislators be involved in sex scandals. Right. I did not anticipate in your 2026, we'd be talking about Donald Trump's second term, the most involves artificial intelligence and Yemen. So, anyway, so Trump's, if you're keeping track, Trump's war with Israel and now, the war against Iran with Israel,

and now involves U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia advising on air strikes in Yemen, doing a very poor job, I guess, or just not even bothering to go into the office because they're not even doing it. Moody's now estimates the cost of the Iran war has currently been $1,600, $6,250 per American house. or $215 billion total.

$215 billion total. Free college for everyone nationwide would be estimated to cost around $70 billion. Oh my God. Would you rather? So brutal. Mm-hmm. Would you rather have had an entire general, like all student debt eliminated forever and a highly educated populace for a third of the price of this war

or this war to accomplish what? What? What? I was about that. I feel like even if you have. free college and all that stuff, you still would have preferred that that money been spent on building a wall

or something, but not this fucking war. You know what I mean? We'd been better off putting in a big pile like in the dark night, the Joker does with his earnings from the fucking mob and setting on fire. Because then at least diesel wouldn't be $9 in San Diego.

Right. So anyway, here's a hoody and a captured armor personnel carrier that you paid for. if you want to play this video. This is posted by a spokesman for the Hooties slash Ansar Al-A. They, I need to note, they don't call themselves Hooties. That's sort of like, I don't know if it's a slur or a nickname, but they're Ansar Al-A, which is Partisans of God, I think.

So, quote, I'd like to extend my heartfelt thanks to the American taxpayer for their generous and apparently ongoing sponsorship of Ansar's expanding toy collection. Your contributions are greatly appreciated. They got us, man. Taking ale after ale over. there, bro. Yeah. Miles by the hooties.

I ain't even got to blowfish with them anymore. Just the hoodies. Sorry. My question is, like, so they captured a bunch of American-made weaponry that the Saudis were forced to abandon because they fucking ran away like little bitches. And, like, out of my question, why do you even want them? Because they have

fucking Toyotas. Yeah. Like, they won this war with Toyotas. Sure did. And it is kind of like a perverse irony that Toyotas are constantly associated with, like, these terrorist armies, I guess, because, like, what a great truck commercial. Play this fucking B-roll.

Like, let's, let's move convoy of, I mean, like, let's remove politics and religion and stuff for them for a second. Is there a better feeling that riding out with your boys to seize a coastline in a fucking pickup truck? I used to have a bit years ago, like, when we were still, like, over there at war with them and stuff about the overlap

between, like, rednecks and these dudes like this, and it was about, like, you know, riding around in the back. of a truck with your boys and just shooting guns in the air and shit and how rad that is or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. It's fucking rad. Yeah.

So, like, like, the, I think if these were Fords, Ford would absolutely use it in a commercial, like, voiced over by Sam Elliott or some shit. When you need them tough American know-how in a desert condition. Yeah. So, also, like, talking about stuff, how we're aiding the hoodies. It's not just like with economic warfare, leaving behind our weapons for them and not giving air cover to our supposed allies this to. We also gave them AI. Anthropic says that the Hooties use Claude for missile programming. Quote, they use Claude to integrate an open source autopilot onto a phone class flight computer.

So they rigged up like a bootleg iPhone as a targeting system on an AI powered drone. Yeah. That makes it sound like Anthropic is doing what you just said Toyota should do. Yes. That's kind of what they're doing. Yeah, they're using it as like, you know, free advertising. or something. Yeah.

I want to read here this list of reasons that the Saudis are completely fucked. Regarding Hormuz, their export route to the north is closed by a war with Iran that the U.S.

and Israel started. Their pipeline to the south was taken offline from Iraq. The country of the U.S. broke with another war that started. They're fighting and losing as the Houdis in Yemen, whose war against them

restarted because the U.S. Israel war with Iran. The U.S. is obviously incapable of defending them against these attacks and is now apparently flat out refusing to interview mean in Yemen. They're bleeding money at an accelerating rate. And ironically, we may soon see a

quote, inverted petrodollary situation whereby instead of recycling oil profits into U.S. Treasury is one of the things that props up the American economy, will be forced to sell them to cover oil losses caused by United States wars. What I'm saying is the bond market's going crazy right now. Interest rates are going up. That's largely because of a lot of the impacts of this war and it might be about to get worse if Saudi even feels a need to sell off U.S.-backed treasuries. So when your mortgage is 14% one of the reasons will be

because the Saudis blew all their monies on Bugatti's and racing Falcons Yeah so

these rich oil states their to do list is basically don't bury your pipelines underground

but do gold plate supercars spend 10% of your GDP flying in Western

Instagram Horace the Poupon and pay Christiana Ranoado a quarter of a

billion a year what could go wrong yeah it's like I guess it's like I guess it's comfort

to know these rich, like, fail sons the same the world over? Like, Mahalb and bin Salman might be Arabic for Don Jr. I don't know. I want to, like, play this clip from Trump, like, just to cement home how hard we're selling out the Saudis here? Oh, wow. We've had

discussions. Houthis called us, and they don't want to fight with us. They let us know. They don't want to fight with us. They don't want me to go after them. They don't want us to go after them. But they've called, and they've talked to us, they don't want us to, they would much prefer not having us involved.

And they're letting most ships go through. There's just one country that they're not too happy with. Yeah. They're letting most ships go through. There's just one country. So Trump has apparently agreed to a deal where the Hooties will only not let through Saudi flag tankers. Right.

So we're now participating with the Hooties in a naval blockade of Saudi Arabia. Yeah, I mean, I wonder what Kushner does think about, like, is, you know what I mean? Is he just high-fiving Trump because he took their money and ran and fuck them anyway? You know what I mean? Or is he like, is Trump doing this outside of his purview, too? You know, like. There is a story in the New Yorker today. I haven't read all of it yet, but it was about Kushner's relationship with Saudi Arabia,

basically blowing the whistle that he, the Saudis gave him, like, $2 billion to invest, most of which he didn't even bother doing anything with, just sitting in like a bank account, but he's still getting paid like $200 million a year in service fees. So someone told the New Yorker of that, it might be the salary's fucking blowing, like throwing an inside, like an inside pitch being like, you know, we got stuff. You get, you want to get your father-in-law back in the, back in the full. So the hoodies, I like, I want to play a little bit of this disc track and then read you the lyrics to it.

if you got him out. So let me read the lyrics here translate it. Tell the king at his imbecile son and the men with automatic weapons. You're facing the best of an unbeatable man sending you telegrams of death by wireless. Shue, what? Bars. This must rhyme in Arabic.

Your towers will be destroyed and the Yemenis will use them as armrests. Turn on the TV and see what's left of your men as they cry. Jesus Christ. Like one of this is like one of the last lines of this like the ultimate,

this reads this massive shit talking to me was just do the assigned readings. Can you imagine somebody dunking on you then screaming into your face do the assigned readings? Oh God, I fucking hate MBS. Like I have a personal. The Saudi government once tried to get me

and all my co-workers fired from the job for doing an episode of television that criticize them. I don't like them personally. So I wanted to be fair to the Hootie's shit talking, the Saudis do fight like little bitches. Let me read here. Hootie fighters are routed in Moko on Thursday

to find Yemeni battalions that were severely depleted. The rosters were filled with, quote, ghost names receiving salaries, and the actual strength of the army was only about 20% of what it was on paper. So what the Saudis had done, Yemenis had conned them into overpaying by five, for an army

that was way smaller than they were charging the Saudis for us sure because the salaries why not when they got when they're spending on that money

on racing falcons and Bugatti's and golf leagues and shit you know if you're gonna overcharge anybody why and I'm sure

they didn't go I'm sure they didn't jump straight to five times either you know what I mean they've slow-plated a little bit how much they can get away with

Saudi Arabia just never noticed yeah but the Saudis are desperate not to do any fighting themselves. Like, have you ever thought about it? I didn't even never thought about it. I guess I assumed the Saudis had some kind of army, but I didn't realize it was big and supposedly powerful on paper, but they just won't use it to fight. So they have like the most potent Air Force in the Middle East with around 384 attack fighters. And yet they're trying to get us

to launch our own airstrikes because they don't want to use them. Let me quote here. The failure of this time is not what the Yemenis, a regional source sold CNN. It's a disaster made in Washington and Riyadh. There's not one air strike throughout the day yesterday. something you know as someone who grew up in the foothills of Appalachia is you never want to get in a group project with an person who's inbred. Yeah. So I guess the way Saudi Arabia, because they use foreign workers to do all the actual work in that country. Right, right. I guess we're the foreign imported workers to do their war fighting for them.

I mean, when you were saying that, I was like, I mean, on the one hand, it's like why even have this huge air force they have? But on the other hand, if you can get us to do it for you, why not? just do that also, you know. Yeah. Like if we were, if we had been doing it and would have done it, why not? Yeah.

I like, I guess it's like, if you fly them, they might get dirty, then you have to wash them. Right. Right. It's the desert is sandy.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And this is, this part has made me laugh. Like Saudi, Saudi Arabia just signed a mutual defense pact with, with Pakistan and,

uh, Turkey. But so Saudi Arabia called it, Pakistan for some help because we wouldn't do it and Pakistan said that the Mecca pact of mutual defense only covers wars started after the pack was signed it quote doesn't cover pre-existing

conditions. Wars have pre-existing conditions and how that's funny. They're blue cross blue shield dog. And I don't want to recap the whole fucking Yemeni Civil War and Saudi war crimes and shit because it's outside of our bailiwick but like we've been given Saudi Arabia free weapons

since Obama started doing in 2015 like I said and we're pretending it was about terrorism, precisely as a devil's bargain to keep this specific thing from happening. Right. Yeah. To get the hoodies from being able to impact global oil trades. Joe Biden, to his credit, stopped giving Saudi Arabia weapons to do this war. Instead, we just went back to just selling them the weapons instead of giving them to them for free.

In exchange for that, Maham bin Salman went all in and destroying Joe Biden's presidency with all the other rich ghouls in the world to unleash them, because he wanted to be able to unleash the most evil and chaos in the region and get a, Donald Trump back as president, and guess what, motherfucker? Mm-hmm. Like, if it's any... Yes. Yeah. So anyway, uh, may, that 9-11 widow,

may this bring you some solace that Muhammad bin Salma is not sleeping well at night because the fundamentalist revolution he has spent his entire soul to try to stop, maybe brought about by Donald Trump of all people, by accident. Yeah. All right. Thank you guys for listening. We appreciate it. Let's check out my website, Trey Crowder.

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