Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – 2/04/25 – The Dumbest Trade War and the Weekend Tech Bro Coup

Episode Date: February 5, 2025

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what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you as you see this uh we're recording this on monday february third at 305 pm on the left coast in case anything crazy happens between now and them but i'm sure that won't be the case either way welcome back i'm tray that's mark he won't say it's i'll say it for him everybody please keep mark in your thoughts and prayers i mean Ain't nothing wrong with him. He's just a big Dallas Mavericks fan, so we appreciate your understanding in this trying time as we all work through it together as a community and a team.

Yeah, okay, so I do want to talk about this for a second because it's like it really goes in the bucket of can't. We just can't have nothing. Like, you know what Tray's talking about. Dallas Mavericks, my favorite sports team, traded away a once-in-a-generation talent, their best player, that's the most talented athlete I've got every chance to root for. And 25-year-old who's made all NBA every year since he was 19.

I took the team to the finals last year. And don't worry, I'm not going to talk about actual basketball. This is a story about greed, business, little of politics, human sociology, and, of course, conspiracy theories. Let me ask you, just on a basketball note, because I feel like a lot of people, especially neutrals and stuff, They traded him specifically to the Lakers, right? So it's like, does that make it even worse for you or do you just not care where he goes? Okay. Because I mean, the Lakers, you know, story for it's not like he went to some championship star of upstart team or whatever he went to.

It's like the Dodgers who, my team, signing every player on earth, the Lakers get, get that guy on top of it all, pisses people off. Worst trade in sports history, I've seen it called already. Definitely the dumbest. And part of the reason doesn't make any sort of superficial sense. Like, it doesn't even really make financial sense in a direct way, which is probably why the conspiracy theories pop up, because everyone's trying to make sense of how in the world this family of billionaire fucking psycho Trump supporters or whose plan is to go to the grave with $12 more than it would otherwise or even going to accomplish it through this. But anyway, to capture the vibes, I'll just let this guy spit at a rally outside the American Airlines Center yesterday.

This new management is putting profit over things. profit over fans they're not worried about the fans they don't care that we've invested seven years I've been believing in Luca but believing to build a team around Luca they don't care about that

they just want to make the gambling money make a couple hundred million and leave us stuck out here you know now we're back to square one we're back to square zero I don't I don't see any parallels there at all especially with the dude standing behind

and with a sign that says I'm sick on it It's like, yeah, this guy's spit. Also, when you consider that the management and question, correct me, if I'm wrong, the owners now there that have done this are the Adelson's or Adelson's, right, who are like, as you referenced, massive, massive, massive Trump. So a lot of people have been like, they just didn't want to pay Luca because it would have been $300 something million, but they paid $300 million to various MAGA super PACs in the Trump campaign and all that shit over the past year instead. So it's all very, it is kind of poetic in terms. of sports as a metaphor for the larger American experience right now

I want to show the guy's video is like this guy could be talking about literally anything right now yeah right the social contract is utterly fucking broken dog it's like with like and it's it's the oligarchs who are turning it up and like just fucking everybody to like so yeah Mary Madelson

she and her husband Sheldon who passed away rest in peace Sheldon they were the largest donors to Trump throughout his presidency they provided the largest donation to his 2016 campaign his presidential inauguration, and they funded his defense against the Mueller investigation

into a Russian interference in 2020 campaign. So, yeah, she's all about it, dog. Now, for reference here, to get the conspiracy theory part of this. And so this is not the worst thing going on in the world. I understand that just because it made me sad. Like, there's no more chance for me to turn the TV on three or four times a week and watch Luke play basketball and forget about societal problems. All right.

So sports is a fellowship. It's a community. Yeah. Right? It's like, it's like, if a township's down at gay bar, it's like, oh, so you have to be able to drink with other gay people? Yeah, you do, kind of. Like, I want to be able to talk to people about my Mazz friends about the Mazz. And they just took it from me.

And so the Aidelson's made their money in gambling, which is a part of this. They've been trying to get gambling legalized in Texas because the goal is to build a new stadium. It's like a mixed use development with a casino, and they can't do that in Texas because Texas don't rock with that shit because, you know, they go to Baptist Church on Sunday mornings. So the conspiracy theories, like they made their money, like the Sands Casinos, the Venetian type shit. So they wanted to basically open a Sands, Dallas, I guess. The state legislation won't let them. So the conspiracy theory is, so you read one already. You want to tell people what it is, Trey?

That they are trying to crater the value or the viability of the franchise so that they will be able to move it to Las Vegas without any kind of pushback or whatever. Right. So the higher form of this conspiracy theory is they want a crater fan support to where they can threaten to move it to Vegas, so then the state legislature will have to legalize gambling for them so they keep the team in Dallas. That's also another angle to this. I don't know the truth of any of it. But like, as for the political part of this, the Republicans who run Texas are pretty evenly divided between the crooks and the crook Republicans and the Church of Christ's Republicans. So it's going to be fascinating to see who wins this fight over legalized gambling. So, yeah. Don't hit. I feel like I just, yeah. Well, one other thing I wanted to ask you about it that's related to the theme of our show and politics and stuff, you know, as far as billionaires and whatnot, I feel like a lot of people on the left, a lot of Democrats and stuff will sometimes bring up Mark Cuban as being the who was the long time, very passionate owner of the Mavs as being like an example of a, you know, an all right billionaire.

He started his online pharmacy thing. and he often pushes back against Elon and stuff like that. But I feel like in this case, maybe I'm wrong, but it's like just the fact that he knows who these people are. He knows what they're about. If he wants to sell the team, that's fine. But to me, the fact that he sold it to them knowing who they are is like, you know, further evidence to the whole like,

fuck billionaires. They're in a different club type of thing to me. He couldn't have found somebody else to sell it to other than the, people if he actually you know he really gave a shit there were business reasons other than the money so big picture like one thing's happening is all these this new generation of mega mega mega mega mega mega mega wealthy people are buying up sports teams private equity groups bill bomber uh baller uh bought the clippers he makes more in microsoft dividends and a quarter than most other professional sports owners who also billionaires can compete in will make in

years right so like cuban only has like three billion dollars which is not enough to compete in a modern NBA environment. So he sold to a richer people, and he was, he was probably hoping they could build the gambling development, too, to have more funding to make the team more competitive. He's a fan, right? So I don't think politics is part of it, money was, but not money in the sense of just him making money, money in the sense of the team having more money so he can sit in the front row watching the game.

So they took his front seat away from him. So there you go. I was about saying he's got to feel pretty betrayed then, I would think, after this. Because he also famously once said he would sooner divorce his wife than allow Luca to go to a different team or something like that when he was the when he was still the owner what i know about him personally i believe him all right well are we gonna gonna continue as this weekly skews producer maz back there with us doing his stuff uh before we continue i got a couple items of business as always first if you'd like to see me do stand-up comedy live and in person come out

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Give it a think. Think it over. All right. Now, as for the show tonight, we're going to be talking about what else. The continued lunacy that has transpired in the second week of Trump's second presidency, all gas, no brakes. Didn't slow down very much from last week. It's all the things are only getting wilder. We're going to talk about it all as we go along. But first, we begin, of course, with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. tonight's dd the state of california for considering they could be wrong when the problem was they weren't thinking dumb enough california is disputing a claim made by president donald trump about our state's water supply in a post on truth social president trump wrote in part the united states

military just entered the great state of california and under emergency powers turned on the water flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. California's Department of Water Resources says that is not true. And here's the DWR post on social media. Quote, the military did not enter California. The federal government restarted. So Senate of California is wrong. And when you tried to help me make sense this last week, I was wrong.

You were right. Trump did send the military into California to turn the water back on, sort of. He just did it 200 miles away from Los Angeles on the upper. side of a mountain range, so it's a water could pour into the ocean and wrecks some farms. Yeah, literally did nothing. It was in response that's like people got the impression in their head that all the fires are real bad because California don't use their water right and they're hoarding it for liberal reasons or whatever people thought.

So he sent the military into the giant spigot that we have installed in the Central Valley or whatever it is, and they sent a general out there to turn the spigot and turn California's water back on, thus saving us all from the horrible fires. It's supposed to be what people think. But like you said, they just dumped a bunch of water that we probably needed for future water purposes just out onto the ground that then evaporated and sank away and did literally nothing at all. And then walked away like, there you go. Wasn't so hard. It wasn't California.

So it's even got a dumber than that because they didn't even tell local officials who run the reservoirs that they were going to do it. they said the people that live there were notified about an they got about an hour's notice they were to unleash these water flows and were scrambling to move equipment so it wouldn't drown and be destroyed

so basically every day I'm forced to imagine a different way like a new dumb way that Trump could get Americans killed and I didn't even consider like drowning kids while you play in a yard to put out a fire that's half a state away right it's just it's like

anyway they talk them back to a token water release so it didn't really do anything but trump got to declare victory and move on but i will say that like it doesn't i don't find it encouraging the army corps of engineers which actually knows what it's doing just blindly follow this order instead of just saying they did and not doing it well that's at first i thought you're like why would they do that but yes they could have just said because that's what i was thinking it's like it feels like it's a thing where it's like trump just like somebody needs to turn the water on out there somebody this is a direct presidential order turn the water on out there and they're all looking and try like what the fuck

all right and then but yeah you're right they could have just an hour or two later been like water's on sir everything's good and he was like great thank you because it reminds me of like they're an old story from ancient rome one of the crazy emperors maybe near i mean i'm pulling this out of my butt but it did happen i just don't remember the specifics maybe nero or one of those lunatics like ordered their army he got mad at the gods or whatever and ordered his army to go down and start a fight with poseidon right the god of the ocean so like they had to go down there and just like, so all these soldiers who clearly know he's insane, this is bullshit, just like go down the beach and they're just like poking the water with their swords

and looking each other like, no, no, if I take that, Poseidon, they're rolling their eyes and shit. And then they're like, God, Emperor, we did it. And it's like, that's the kind of energy Trump has with this stuff. Yeah, so like if you're wondering if the military would shoot protesters if Trump told him to, the Army of Corps of Engineers apparently would. So officials, let me quote here, officials from his department, Department of Government Efficiency visited a federal water pumping station in Northern California that day.

So there you go. They're going to be heavily involved in this episode, I think. So this is, this is a hardcore Trump country. I think these counties, but it for Trump, like, 6040. Yes, that's, yes. So, like, the fact these water officials were like, this is fucking stupid, meaningful to me. See, some people interview for this story speculated that the move was political on the part of the new administration, the kind of water, quote, flex, end quote, but declined to elaborate.

I'm like, yeah. So what happens next year This is a completely insane move because that That water is supposed to be stored there And it's supposed to be stored there for the dry season Which is later Right This is the rainy season

Yeah, right So we need some more rain to fill us back up Like there's no crops in the field right now This is for agricultural purposes So it's just going to go down the river into the delta And out into the ocean And it had woke DEI farm managers Pulling their hair out

So I imagine this summer Those crops are going to fail You're going to need federal bailout for these farmers but then the second question is what are we going to eat right so also at the same time also i thought i was wrong so i looked it up but by the way uh uh in rome poseidon was neptune just so everybody knows so taylor was neptune because i know the internet b i don't want to hear from y'all so yeah neptune but anyway real story but yes they like we talked recently about how a lot of people don't realize they think of the breadbasket of america as being

iowa and the great plains and all that but california grows a huge percent of our food and this is very likely to be a problem because they need to be a problem because they need to be needed this water for food growing purposes. And at the same time that this has happened, he's passed these tariffs against Canada and Mexico, both of which also supply us with a ton of food, like especially Mexico, like fruit and vegetables. We get a huge percentage of our fruit and vegetables from Mexico and our meat from Canada. And now that coupled with ruining California's crops and all this stuff, it's like,

it's not a, not a good outlook as far as you know what I mean? Everybody was so worried about grocery prices. and all that and I just don't it's going to be it's going to get nuts man it's going to be wild before very long and I just wonder how I just I keep wondering what the response to that is is really going to be because I saw a there was an article already from Fox News who were trying to frame about the tariffs trying to frame it as being patriotic to like weather the storm basically you know and it's like it's going to drive me nuts if the if prices go through the roof higher than they ever were for Biden for groceries and stuff and people are just like we're doing our american duty by paying these high prices and dealing with it as opposed to suffering the fuck out which is what it's supposed to happen right trump we get a touch a we get a bunch of meat and uh and you know we we had a bunch of fruits from south america and vegetables and stuff too plus a bunch of a bunch of our meat comes from Brazil and like so uh there what's going to happen is like trump's making noise about

economic war where bricks too which is Brazil russia india china in South Africa, their economic alliance is a counterweight to the EU. And so we're going to, I don't know what, I guess we're going to eat each other. It's the plan known forward. Yeah, I guess we're going to find out soon enough. We've got an honorable mention for Daily Dumbass for y'all. It's anyone who didn't think Americans could be big enough dickheads to make Canadians be rude. These are fans at a Toronto Raptors game.

Oh, God, you've got a rat. Yeah, they're booing the national anthem. You guys are familiar. You're not sports fans. When games involve Canadian teams, a crossover Canadian-American teams, they do both national anthems. They do a year two for the raptors. So the fucking dumbest trade war in history is about nothing, right?

So Trump had announced 25% terrorists against Canada and Mexico and 10% against China. In a really stupid fashion, I don't understand enough about, I should have studied up on it, but the Chinese tariffs, apparently, if you buy less than $100 on a product ship from China, you have to be responsible for the tariff yourself. So I don't even know how we're going to figure out to pay that. There's not really an infrastructure to do this. But anyway, today, after blustering for a day, Trump announced a 30-day pause on the Canadian and Mexican tariffs to negotiate a border deal. So this morning, I think, Trump got on the phone with Mexican President Claudia Shinebaum. and his rationale for not imposing the tariffs was that she agreed to send 10,000 troops to the border to fight the fentanyl crisis.

She already has 15,000 station there, so really she can send 5,000 home. That's what Trump negotiated. It's like fighting Neptune at the beach, man. Yeah, yeah. Go into the border and fighting pills, you know. And Canada does similar move because they'd already appropriated $1.3 billion in new border spending. So they just told him like that was new and he was like, okay, that's good enough. See, that type of stuff makes me feel like it should be easier to mitigate a lot of his dumb assery and problems.

Do you know what I'm saying? It's like hearing these stories, it's like everybody around him was just doing this shit all the time, just making him feel like what he wants has happened, then we can keep things from falling apart. But, you know, but there's too many true believers around, I guess. That's, I was going to say his cabinet was full of people who did that the first time around, just convinced him that his idea, the status quo was already his idea and just kept trucking. The problem is, we don't have any Justin Trudeau's and Claudia Scheimbalms in our government anymore. Right, right, yeah. So a Canadian member of parliament, Charlie Angus is on CNN today, is laughing, said this is a gunboat diplomacy.

I mean, this is like an Al Capone shaked down in his syphilis phase. And we're getting fucking owned all over the place. Go Canada. So, an interesting part of this, I was thinking that, like, if they keep doing crazy shit like this, countries should, like, sanction Elon Musk personally, like, sees his assets overseas. Canada did that, right? Or actually, I see you got it on it. Yeah, they canceled a big nine-digit Starlink contract that he had.

Yeah, Ontario's premiered Doug Ford, who's a Canadian Trump wannabe, canceled Starlink's $100 million contract, and then gave it back once they flipped the tariffs. But, like, people like, oh, I can't believe it. gave it back. It's like, well, you have to have it to take away again. Right. If you don't give it back, you can't take it away. Doug, I didn't not realize the Forge were still out there doing it. Because his brother, right, was

Rob, was a co-cat, the lunatic Crackhead, like, the only fat crackhead that ever lived, who did, like, he was like a Chris Farley character years after he had died. Yeah. Wild as hell. And yeah, his brother Doug is still running things up there in Ontario. I did not know that, but

yeah. So the part I can, the people I can't really understand are like the business suckers, okay, the Trump supporting business community. Right. This ruins their world. Of course. The markets were collapsing and they're like rebounded. Even Bitcoin fucking collapsed.

Like I think, say, the Bitcoin's pitch is that it's a, you know, a way to shield your finances from the eminent American financial collapse. Right. But the value of Bitcoin collapses too because people only buy and bid up Bitcoin when they have extra stupid money to play with. Mm-hmm. So like a real financial crisis fucks that too. the whole premise anyway we're not we're talking about crypto today but like so i know what you it's like we've talked before over the years about how like even back in the first trump administration whatever else it's like with the end of the day the big you know money run rules at all the big

the you know the oligarchs the billionaires the plutocrats whatever they're the ones that are really in charge and they have to not want everything to completely fucking fall apart right because they make a lot of money off the way things are. So, like, why would they... But then other people say, it's like, well, see, what, you know, they want to burn it all down so they can buy it all for cheap and hoard even more wealth or whatever else, you know. But like...

Is that part too? But like, like, only a small minority can profit off that. So, like, sure, some people get super rich, but some people, but a bunch of them will, like, I mean, they've been in 2019-19, collapse. They killed themselves. Right, yeah, yeah. So, like, let me quote from Goldman Sachs on January 21st,

the day after Trump took off. despite Trump's comments that the 25% tariff will be implemented in 10 days. We continue to believe the odds of a 25% tariff from Canada and Mexico are low. Now, they won this bet for the time being,

but he's going to get bored and go back to it, right? The U.S. Chamber Commerce want to guess who they supported in the last election? Quote, tariffs are not the answer? Did you miss the fucking campaign? Okay. I saw Mitch McConnell also came out

against it publicly. We're like, this isn't good. We shouldn't be doing this. Wall Street Journal shuddle over the idea he got in a war words the Wall Street Journal, his biggest fanboy newspaper outside of the Rupert Murdoch tabloids. So, why do

the people who believe in him the most believe him the least? Right. And part of their whole thing with him is like, well, he tells it like it is. That's why he's great. You know, he tells it like it is. He don't care what you think he says, what he really means, you know. And then at the same time, those people are like, no, man, he don't mean, he's not going to do that. He's just,

you know, it's, yeah, it's, it's a really weird dynamic that they have gone on over there that I don't think I'll ever be able to understand as long as I live. Obviously, all the, the military started building the concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay today. I did. Yes. I did say that. So, Democratic response to all this stuff, I don't understand. Like, okay, let me quote here and I'll tell you what I'm talking about. So Mark Warner called it the Super Bowl, Donald Trump's Super Bowl tax on beer, avocados, and tomatoes. Um, Tim Kane called it a tax on Virginia's consumers. Um, okay, I want to call for a moratorium, politicians calling us consumers, workers, citizens, yes, but I do not primarily exist to buy products so you can get campaign donations. And I want politicians to stop thinking of us that way because the fact that tomatoes would be

marginally more expensive as much as the press and the opposition party when Biden was president made it an issue and it did create a vibes crisis is not the main problem. This is the problem. the U.S. auto industry will fucking go under, okay? It's not that they won't have to pay 10%, 10, 20% more for tomatoes, is that they won't be able to buy food at all, okay? So the, like, I saw an auto industry expert saying, like, if these tariffs went into place, like basically because it anticipated price increases,

they would just stop making cars and close the factories basically immediately, okay? This is a fucking disaster. And the markets know it, a bunch of people just, made a bunch of short bets on the entire U.S. economy. So if the economy collapses, they get super wealthy, just like the big short. Just like the big short. That feels to me like the type of thing

you shouldn't even be able to do. It might be, you know, plays a bunch of shorts on that, basically bet on the entire economy failings. You can enrich yourself. I mean, I get how, you know, that's not how it works. But yeah, but it's like that, that

is one of the most alarming parts of it, to me because you know that really signifies it's like the the big short itself the movie it ends with that kairon or whatever that says christian bale's character he only he had basically quit everything except the only thing he was still participating in it all was uh water futures or whatever like all of his money was in the water under shipman it's like one of the most chilling things in any movie ever and it's about that and that's how i feel seeing this fun fact that all these rich money prognosticators are all putting putting a bunch down on everything falling apart soon it's not a well they're hedging their bets because they're they're they're

they're more correct than Goldman Sachs I'll tell you that um so yeah yeah I'm not I mean yeah they're right I'm saying it's the just worries me I get why they're doing it but yeah it's like so yeah it's not tomato it's oil and gas prices and lumber prices and car parts and shit like that. So Trump formally justified this in executive order by talking about fentanyl. Okay. So Trump uses inaugural address. I'm not sure if it was his address. We talked on the inauguration day. He said drug cartels are killing 250,000 to 300,000 American people per year. Not the reality matters anymore, but like the total overdose deaths, not from fentanyl, total from all drugs at the peak of the opioid crisis, about $114,000 people a year. So he just doubled

reality and they've been falling obviously we talked about it before but like last year we fell below 90,000 deaths in a 12 month period for the first time in roughly half a decade so yeah probably hitting Canada with fucking sanctions tariffs over fentanyl is insane

like they contribute less than 1% of the fentanyl street supply in the United States what drugs they do make there are like your generic flonase so Trump is cutting off your supply of fake flonase in order to cut off the supply of non-existent fentany. See, that's part, like with Mexico, as far, I'm talking about from a PR perspective

or the way they present it, with Mexico, I'm not surprised because we all know how MAGA and how they feel about Mexico and what they think about Mexico. So when he justifies it by being like this because of the fentanyl crisis and all that, like, I'm not surprised by any of that. But Canada, like, I just don't even know, it's like you said, I don't, I've never heard that narrative in my life that, like, all this fentanyl's coming over from Canada or even that anybody in this country had any kind of real beef with fucking Canada, you know, like it's just so wild and out of left field to me, but because they're cultish and their

devotion, Dave, and I said this in the video I made, there about a lot of people, you know, on the side of Magar are like, no, you fuck Canada. It's what they get for being all French up there and everything. But, you know, they just have like, they've never thought about them once in a negative fashion, but because he's doing this as this is happening, they're like, no, you know what? I got a lot of problems with Canada now that you ask. And, you know, I don't know where any of it's coming from. We were talking at a pre-show about maybe starting to beef with Howie Mandel,

so we can go over Canada for him. So if you wonder what illegal drugs do come in from Canada, it's ecstasy. Like, there's a huge manufacturing boom to supply the U.S. over there because after the Netherlands crack down during the Obama administration. But we're not going to crack down on ecstasy. We don't care about that because everyone, and currently involved in Doge is high as fuck when it right now at work probably. If you wonder, like, also a part that drives me crazy, and I bought the so in Mexico, too,

is pretend like the border stuff, like, stuff only goes one way across the border that, like, we can't, like, the criminals only exist outside of it and things are coming out direction. We can only be the victims here. Right. If you wonder what goes north across the Canadian border, it's cocaine and guns. Like, they could easily do the same thing to us for cocaine. Right. We're just being some big babies.

Anyway, he already blew up the drug. rationale by on camera in the Oval Office today by saying that the whole point of it's still to try to force Canada become our 51st state so we're maybe like eight months away from reading a news report about the 101st airborne being bogged down and fighting a Quebecois secessionists yeah so yeah yeah I just I just can't but I don't know I mean it's like I said already so many people in you know in Maga World are already talking shit about Canada so I guess I'm right but it's just so wild even the idea that the American public would ever support any kind of real conflict with Canada or whatever

is just so it I want to say it's hard for me to believe but it's but it's not really not when you know we've seen the other things that they believe and think bro we invaded Grenada yeah but Canada is like our it's almost like our sibling or something you know they're also not pushovers either dude they got a serious military they got fucking like like like and also like I saw some historians talking about like that the whole the Canadian nice thing is an affect it's not like they we have war crimes laws because of Canadian soldiers yeah the other thing that I saw was that and I mean this is just like anecdotal accounts from people purporting to be Canadian on the internet that I've seen but that like they have rallied in support of this or in opposition to us basically this is their biggest story right and including like uh people because some people are like well you know i'm sure they got fucking trump dick riders up there too and people that love trump whatever and i read all this stuff it's like no we're even like the very whatever conservatives are in canada even them like everybody is united

and you know fuck y'all for this basically countries pulled together when they're being threatened by external military forces it's very normal like trump might actually succeed in swinging the election back to trudeau's party i haven't checked on it but like very very wild So I want to talk about what happened this weekend, but in the middle of all this, the dough stuff we're about to talk about, and also Trump-threatening Woolworth Canada and shit over fake tariffs. Here's what Chuck Schumer was doing. He was given a lecture about tomato prices at a grocery store in Brooklyn, so this is all there. Congress went home this weekend for a long, like a three-and-a-half-day weekend. They get a good photo op for that?

Is this going to go viral? That's what they're always looking for. Yeah, right. from people from people making fun of it like bro this is what you're doing right like because this time i was going on in dc while they were taking a three and a half day weekend and i imagine doge coordinated this ship so a couple barely pubescent doge dipshit sees control of a lot of the federal government's computer and financial systems over the weekend is basically the zen cone of our age like as a january 6 if you wear a quarter zip fleece

while you do it um so while truck streamer was doing that in the grocery store i was thinking about how two months ago, elected officials in South Korea from the opposition party, including a 67-year-old opposition leader, were climbing fences in the middle of the night to get into the parliament building to stop the president from doing a coup. And Chuck is doing his shit about how back in my day, tomatoes were a nickel to annoyed fucking shoppers in a store. Right. It just feels to me like the response, so not from all of them, but generally the response

so far from like the establishment on the left has been not commensurate with, you know, the goings on. Yeah. Like, in democracies typically, especially with left-wing stuff, politicians do not lead popular movements.

They respond to them and try to get out in front of them, all right? There were protests all over the country. You're not going to see coverage of it, but there were pro-immigration protests, and people took to the streets about this dumb doge bullshit in D.C.

Not in huge numbers, but enough. And Brian Schatz, the senator from Hawaii, was like, I am refusing unanimous consent to every fucking Trump appointment until this doge shit stops. They went down to the Office of Professional Management and held a press conference today complaining about it.

They tried to get into USA and were turned away. My only beef with their, what they did this afternoon is they did not, they allowed themselves to be turned away without getting arrested. You've got to make them fucking arrest you. Right. You're going to be bonded out in two hours, but it needs to be in the national news that the executive branch is arresting Congress people for complaining about a thing that the news is not covering with the volume that it.

needs to be covering yeah um yeah so about doge i was wrong we when you asked me about what it was i was like it's just a podcast that that elin vvac we're gonna we're gonna host and take suggestions for things to cover from the federal government it was like a headhead thing by trump i'm not gonna lie i've thought i have thought about that yeah i don't know the patreon video i made earlier just on my end of it and said i wasn't talking shit about you but i was like yeah when mark first brought this up on you know he was like ah it ain't even real thing it's fucking nothing And it's a meme. It's just a fucking thing to give him or whatever.

And it's like it seems like they will have more power than anybody right now, the stuff that they're doing. It's pretty crazy. Basically, Tilon seems to be behind all the most dangerous domestic shit going on right now, as the executive branch sees his power from Congress and the people. And like, I just want to say, Vivek was supposed to be a part of this, Vivek Ramoswamy, and he got shit canned from Doge before Trump even took office. And maybe Vivek was saving us all from this.

Maybe confining it to a podcast was Vivek's contribution. So thank you for your service. so I was I thought this was too stupid to be a thing right but I missed the main lesson of the Trump era there's nothing is too stupid to happen yeah in fact it's like it's like a factor in its favor you know what I mean right the more stupid it is the more likely it is to be a real thing right in the world we all live in and it's like this like an escape velocity thing where like it is incredibly stupid that simply repeating the straight reporting of what is happening makes you sound like you've lost your goddamn

am mine. Like, I tried to explain. I was walking my dog earlier and talking to a neighbor who works for the, he works for the, like, he's a civilian employee of the Pentagon, basically finding base housing for people. And I was trying to talk, I was asking about what works like.

He's like, all they need to come back to the office. And like, everybody's trying to figure what to do with that email, the Elon sent, yada, yada, yada. Nobody's really taking the offer. But also we can't, we've been working home for so long. We don't have enough office space, but can't fit in the office.

We don't know what to do. We have to be here, but we can't work. Anyway, really stupid. So, you tell you, what is actually happening, again, I'm going to sound like a lunatic, but this is straight news reporting from reputable sources. All right. Let me quote here from Senator Ron Wyden from Oregon, a sane dude. Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted Doge full access to this system.

Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies, all of it. And they're shutting off. The Treasury Department cuts all the government's checks, and they're just not cutting checks. Right. to people they don't like and I don't know whether they're going to push to Social Security or whatever Medicaid I have no idea but they can

and they have access to all of our social security numbers a lot of our medical records because they did this at HHS too they just have it and I don't know what you're doing but they're Mark I know we're you know I'm way more law done than you are and also I know that

this takes time and it's also it's like it's daring someone to stop them or daring someone to call them on it but like you know if there's a contract in place or you're supposed to be paid by somebody for a service or whatever and they just refuse to pay you you can then sue that person obviously and it's like so open themselves up to a ton of lawsuits and it's like they just are they're just like yeah fuck you do it fuck you sue me and we'll just see how it shakes out you know what I

mean because it's like you would think every not every judge who hears every lawsuit at every stage of of the legal system it would just throw all that out because elin hits for them or whatever Like, I don't know, it's just real ballsy in a bad way, like unhinged, you know. Unhinged, illegal, dangerous. Like, we're talking about, like, like, breadlines and short order. They fucking get fucking around like this. Right. So, so they were talking about, we're talking about six kids here.

Six kids are doing all this shit at Elon's behest. These are guys named, of course, Luke Gautier, Gavin, and Ethan among them. Or, by the way, a reporter found Gavin's Twitter, and he straight up just retweets Groyper Nazi shit all the time. Not coincidentally, the Nazi stuff, he's the one in charge of U.S. aid, and he's basically indirectly guilty already of killing a bunch

of kids in poor countries by withholding food and medical aid. One of these kids, his government name's Edward, but his street name, he calls himself Big Balls. He's a 19-year-old. You got that picture of Matt Show what he looks like.

He's a 19-year-old Canadian. Again, calls himself big balls. He's based to the Caesar of USAID right now. And I was trying to figure out what he looks like. And he looks like the cartoon broccoli from veggie tales. Yeah, I was going to call him broccoli-headed. You know, anytime you see that, he's like white, white broccoli-headed, you know, YouTube fascist like this, like the sport coat with the short shorts, whatever, it's just all so gross. But how did it, is his daddy somebody?

Did he fillate Elon in the right way on the internet once? Like, what the hell of the fuck? He's the one who interned in Nurilink. Okay. Like, he's the one who's old jobs or bike mechanic who were interned in an early. We talked about him. Yeah, but these kids, man, you wouldn't let them drive a Ford Focus and they're driving to American economy right now.

You know what I mean? Like, it's crazy. It's so stupid. How do you get a regular person to understand this guy is in charge of, like, so let's talk about USAID for a second. I actually don't know. I've always called a USAID. I don't know if that's called or it's USAID.

It's USAID. U.S. Agency for International Development, okay? They tried to gain, the Doge people went into USA and tried to gain access to their systems and two people in charge are like, no. So they called the U.S. Marshals to have them escorted out of the building and have them put on leave.

It's not even when U.S. marshals do. They have such a moron idea. It worked, I guess. But why are the U.S. marshals doing this? It's not their fucking job to escort agency leadership out of a building at the behest of a guy who doesn't work there. I was having fun imagining Raylan Gibbons

trying to fucking figure out what to do with this order. But, yeah, USA, it's like they have a lot of humanitarian missions around the world, and they, like, combat poverty and disease, and they give vaccines and money for that, and medical care and literacy and all kinds of stuff. It actually does have a big domestic impact at the end of the day. But it's also, as you could tell, super woke. I mean, they're caring about people and having empathy. And Elon said, naturally, it's a vipers nest of, uh,

radical Marxist, you know. Well, the, the veneer is niceness. It's the CAA's friendly face that does bake sales. Right. To raise money. Like, it's like, it's like, so like, I'm not, like, I'm not even saying that's all bad. I think providing people with, like, books and medicine and food,

instead of bribing them with guns and heroin, is a good idea as opposed to bad. But it's whatever works in the situation. Okay. So, sure, but the people, but the people who are, I'm not saying all of them, but a big chunk of the people who are actually work for this agency doing this stuff are like

you know retraining child soldiers and fucking Congo and stuff like you know like yeah good stuff the Lord's work if you know if you believe in the Lord like that the point my point is it like you you when you like this agency was founded by JFK during the Cold War to put a friend to win hearts and minds but put a friendlier face on basically

on influence ops yeah like like American imperialism or something, like shiny, happy American imperialism. And the veneer was intended to fool, like, foreigners, but it's apparently fooled Elon. Right. Who's too stupid to understand how anything works. Well, that's what I was about to say.

It's like that's kind of an argument in favor of what I'm saying, where it's like it's just because it seems woke on its face. They're ignoring how much, you know, how useful it can be to the idea of American Empire, how much it could help their ends, but because it's like, wait, you're giving fucking poor kids shots in Africa?

Get the fuck out of here. They don't see the big picture. They're like, this is gay. USAID is also trying to help Elon get lithium for his battery, is just doing it with food instead of coups, and he doesn't understand it, right?

So, so like, one of their big conspiracy theories about this week, Elon was posting it over on Twitter. Like, like, one of the complaints is like, well,

these guys, you guys don't have the security clearances to read the stuff. at US aid because like you're reading a lot of top secret shit and like oh well you say you're not doing conspiracy stuff but why would the aid organization have top secret intelligence I'm like you fucking moron right they think they're worldly and cynical but they don't understand anything about the real world if you want to like decrease US spy shit okay let's have an honest talk about it but like this is not the way to go about it because you don't even know what you don't even know they're doing spy shit like they they if it USA aid provides a lot of official covers for actual CIA officers. So, like, yeah, sure, I guess if, like, if you're going to, like, you know, observe a local warlord and try to flip him, it's better to be handing out antibiotics while you do it. So, cool.

But, like, but also, again, it's, like, not all great. Like, in the 90s, they were implicated in the forced sterilization of a couple hundred thousand indigenous women in Peru. That's tough. You will have that with the U.S. Yeah, you'll have that. Yeah. But I don't think that's Elon. and Trump's beef with it, though, is the forced sterilization of Peruvian indigenous women.

No, well, you said what they're beefed, well, I know you were about to, but a lot of people speculating, it's because USAID was very anti-apartheid or took a big role in dismantling aparthe. And Elon is South African, so people are saying that that's what, it's an old grudge, like with W and Saddam trying to kill his dad or whatever type of thing. So, yeah, so they help support South Africa for the dismantling of apartheid, but that was also, that's sort of like an hour, bad thing after supporting apartheid for so long. They just like, they try to keep South Africa people on their side by flipping sides. And good for flipping sides, right? But like, so what Tray's referring to, and I'm recording here from a long-time Trump chronicler, E. W. Niedermeyer, who I quoted the other day on the last episode two, I believe.

Elon's mother moved to South Africa in the year apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year and ended. The last apartheid prime minister, a man who refused to testify the Truth and Reconciliation committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. okay so it's possible he holds a grudge for that i don't know we'll never know his real reasons it might be because it's woke it might be because they help black people in south africa that's it to me that what you just said about the background with him and the apartheid thing to me that coupled with the very obvious uh sig hiling very obvious nazi salute that

he did yeah it was pretty cut and dry to me i'm gonna assume he's you know apartheid probably hit for him yeah i mean elon's dad is said that Like, one of the reasons he didn't get along with his wife, Elon's mother's family is because even though he's racist, he wasn't racist enough for them. They thought he was woke. Right. So, because he had black friends, I guess. So Gavin Luke, so Gavin Luke, big balls, et cetera, the rating U.S. personnel data, they're talking about, they don't have security clearances or just the basic counterintelligence training you get as a federal employee.

So they're probably the world's biggest intelligence targets at the moment. Absolutely. Dude, imagine him getting honey potted or whatever, like how easy that would be. Like a 19-year-old broccoli-headed frat boy, dude. You send some femme fatale in after him, dude, he'll give it all up, bro. I won't tell you fucking no time. You're so smart and tough to be charged the government. Tell me all your secrets, buddy.

Like, they're going to have, like, whatever they're into, boyfriends or girlfriends named McAil or Anastasia or Chin Lee by, like, the end of next week. Yeah, fine, fine, baby. There's going to be... There's going to be, like, multiple honeypots from different agencies doing competitive blowjob contests in these days. It's so true.

So the Treasury Department part of this is like, they have the ability to shut down whole sections of the federal government at will just by turning off their funding spickets. Musk said those were shutting down payments by the Department of Health and human services to Lutheran family services, which is the faith-based charity that has been providing social services to refugees. It's also a huge employee, an employer in one of the Midwestern states based, and I forget, whether it's South Dakota or Minnesota, I forget, my bad.

They're just going to war with entire religions. J.D. is shitting all over the Catholic Church, which ostensibly he's a member of for helping refugees, and all this stuff. Well, the only, like, Christ-like things that big churches even still do, or some of them. but I'm kind of surprised to hear that they even care about refugees. But the ones that do, it's like, oh, the ones actually doing Jesus-y stuff, but you've got to get out in front of that, bro. I know, I know it's super into shirt.

You're not, like, as open and sure stuff as I am. But, like, the, you're thinking because you grew up around church Christ people, right? The people who think Jesus was woke. But, like, the Lutherans, your Episcopalians, a lot of your Catholics, especially your nuns, are very, like, social service-oriented. So it's not like, it's not, I just want to say, not all churches hashtag not all churches sure that's fair it's just funny to me for these people you know the the far right which is associated with religion and christianity them telling

nuns and stuff to to stop caring about poor people or whatever because it's woke and stupid you know it's like it's supposed to be one of the prime directives in jesus world i thought but yeah jesus blonde hair blue eyed with a huge pecks and he carried a machine gun tray um so the question of all this and they're going so fast and breaking so much stuff. I don't think it's going to work long term for them. But they don't seem to have any sort of planned all this. But if there is sort of being planned, like one does wonder if the trend to engineer a collapse of the economic economy and financial system so they can cement control by blaming someone else and putting the military

in the streets or some shit. Right. Like it does occur to me. Right. All right. So Matt, threw up this Elon Twitter exchange. Okay. So Elon had tweeted, career treasury officials are break into law every hour, every day by approving payments that are fraudulent or do not match the funding laws passed by Congress. He's just lying or not understanding the stuff he's reading. A sport of his quote tweeted it with, should the

treasury put on the blockchains this doesn't happen? And he's like, yes. Do not put the fucking treasury on the goddamn blockchains. You can track every transaction. Not only would that be bad for black ops, for example. It would also just like, I don't trust

that shit. Like everybody's crypto wall like it's stolen all the time. Remember people losing their apes? Have you apes getting hacked? Yes. So that's what that you know how dumb I am about crypto despite your best efforts. But yeah, should the treasury be put on the blockchain. Is that basically just mean the U.S. government should be using crypto or should be on a crypto? Okay, right. Because like the blockchain, theoretically speaking, the point of it is you can't, every transaction is logged. They cannot be a race because it builds on the last one. Right. So they're saying you'll be able to.

follow everywhere the money goes if all federal money was in the blockchain, which I'm not sure if they're realizing how, yeah. See, this is another aspect of what I don't and will never understand about this shit, because I thought a huge pro of crypto was supposed to be like discretion that you couldn't track things or follow things. And I was like, well, you can track it all the way back to the source. It feels counterintuitive to me. And I know every time I bring this up, you tell me it's like it's not supposed to make sense, but still. It just bothers me. I don't like when things don't make sense. I'm too stupid to understand them.

It upsets me. But anyway. No, it's just a little bit of a, it's a little bit of your own on the spectrumness where you're trying to make a logic of it. It's just like it's not science. It's art. It's a sales pitch. Yeah.

So this is arguably, I saw a national security expert saying this is arguably the biggest national security breach in the U.S. history. You got private employees downloading personnel data on every fellow employee and tax and social security data on every American on a private unsecured servers and leaving with them. Not needless to say, this is super illegal and basically the same shit, Edward Snowden had to flee to Russia to avoid being charged with. Right. It's like, you know, Trump, he took all those classified documents and wiped his ass with them

or did whatever the hell he wanted, and obviously nothing's ever going to come of that. So, uh, why not just run wild, you know? I would advise big balls to secure a white collar, white shoe law firm and quick, uh, because this this ride isn't going to go on forever. He's either going to be, you know, the new vice president in three weeks or in a supermax. He's not really going to be either one. Also, where are the spies at, dude?

You're like, presumably all this federal employee data includes the spies. Right. So everyone who thinks this deep state goes around killing people, why is big balls breathing? Yeah. Yeah, no, maybe we should be honey potting them. You know what I mean? Yeah. So, like, the plot of.

every Mission Impossible movie is that someone's stolen the knock list and they have to get it back or the cover of CIA employees is going to be blown and like it's like well they just they just left with a knock list of a thumb drive and nobody's fucking I am ready for somebody to go rogue you know they may not get that's what these motherfuckers are doing but I'm saying an opposition to it somebody you know a CIA agent who's got integrity and morals and stuff like Ethan Hunt obviously someone like that who totally exists we need that person to rogue and uh and just you know fight for what's right mark as they always do in those hollywood documentaries i've seen um for sure uh just a reminder that elan couldn't get a top level of security

clearance because of his foreign business interests and his mysterious money sources and his drug use uh he was already under investigation for violating the terms of the clearance that he did have and now he has all of her secrets and his unilatering deciding who the government does and does not pay at the behest of whoever and remember he's in the pocket of the chinese government, the Russian government, Saudi government. I saw, and I mentioned this in the video I made, because it's true, it's a real example. I saw somebody

talking about him getting access to the Treasury's payment systems or whatever. I saw some Elon fanboy or whatever on Twitter say, and I mean, I'm slightly paraphrasing, but this is pretty close to exactly what he said. He was like, hell yeah, now Elon can finally root out

all those oligarchs who are dismantling our government. That's what he said. That's what they're thinking. It's like, the call's coming from inside the house, man. They talk about deep state billionaires and all this shit.

It's like he's your boy. Your boy is the one who's doing it right in front of all of us. Like that's been one of the wildest things about the Trump and now Musk era is like just the brazenness of it. They just do it. They just do it in front of everybody. Elon learned from Trump that basically the way to hack everybody's brains is people seem to think that something can't be wrong or illegal. If the person says they're doing it out loud. out of it and you do it in front of everybody. Yeah, right.

Right. Yeah. So as far as the ridiculousnesses of this, at USAID over the weekend, I think on Saturday, Elon forced his way into a skiff, you know, one of those like clean rooms with no communication devices that you can't bug, like the sensitive compartmental information facility. Yeah. It's kind of room, like the anti-surveillance room you go into if you want to read about how the CIA made a super bigfoot or something. I think there's, supposed to defend those with deadly force. So, like, why did nobody shoot? No, that's definitely true.

Because I've actually, I've been in those rooms before, because like I said, the kind of clearance at the DOE for very dumb. I wasn't contributing anything of value at all, but I was in those rooms. And, yeah, I mean, no, you're right. It's like, per the protocol, I mean, as far as I'm aware, if somebody tries to, like, force their way into that room, of that situation, which is what he did, they should have just been straight up shot right there.

I mean, in fact, this is a little bit different, but when I work there, these, these, this nun and a follower of hers, they were like peace nick nun, you know, you can't hug your kids with nuclear arms type people. Yeah. They broke into the facility and got all the way to like the actual building itself and they painted it with pig's blood, you know, no war, all this stuff. And they got caught and arrested, but multibillion. million dollar contracts were lost and people got fired and heads rolled over that because

the protocol was that they were supposed to have just shot them dead on site because of how far they got in there like if you see an intruder that far into the facility you're supposed to just shoot them and it was an 80 year old nun so they didn't shoot her and like there were there was massive massive fallout from that so I mean no you're right like somebody ostensibly someone should have responded to this situation in kind of the I'm glad they didn't shoot the nun but I guess I sort of get the pressant because like a spy reads that

I was like all I got to do is dress like a nun and I can run into a skiff. Right, yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, I don't I don't know what happens next with all this stuff. This is all an absolute fucking insanity

and I don't even know. It's hard for Democrats even to make noise about it because it's so stupid that they have to like they have to treat it like it's not a comically stupid threat in order to talk about it because it is a serious threat, right?

To the economy, to the national security, to, honestly, to big balls. Big balls are going to pulled up in a suitcase. They got to protect big balls by taking them out of these rooms. Before we go, I wanted to send an apology to the drizz. Yeah, we made fun of the dris. We did. Was that a Patreon episode or was that the main episode of last week? I think it was a Patreon episode that we made.

free publicly on Friday. Okay, so if y'all happened to miss that, because it was the main episode, the guy that was like, one of the acting directors of the FBI or something was a guy who went by the DRIZ, and we put his face up there and laughed at the fact that he goes by the DRIZ, and Mark said he looks like he, uh, moonlights as a pirate at Disney World or something like that, because, you know, all of which is true. He does look like that. He does.

Yes, you're right. So anyway, turns out the Driz, he's kind of a G, I guess. Yeah. A G man, as it were. He's the guy who Trump accidentally appointed acting director of the FBI. Do you remember that part of the story? Yes, he meant to appoint someone else, but then they just like, all right, I'll just take it. They just switched offices or whatever.

Yeah, they messed up the press release. So instead of changing the press release to make Trump look stupid, they just, they just switched offices. So Drew is the accidental FBI director. The Drizz, the accidental FBI director is such a fucking 90s movie. Oh, yeah, 100%. It's like Adam Sandler is the Drizz. That's so funny. That's so true.

That's such an idea. We should pitch that right now. I might go over. And then he ends up being, like in spite of that, he ends up having integrity and standing tall and being the man we need. That's exactly what would happen in the movie version too. You know what I mean? It's Dave, the movie Dave, but the FBI director.

So acting FBI director, Brian Driscoe, I'm quoting him the story. On Friday, refused a Justice Department order that he assists in the firing of agents involved in J6 cases. Pushing back so forcefully that some FBI officials feared he would be dismissed, multiple current and former FBI officials told NBC News. Give me quote here from the email. As we've said since the moment we agreed to take on these roles, we're going to follow the law, follow FBI policy, and do what's in the best of the workforce and the American people always.

We got a Fed who won't snitch, Dre. I mean, I know cops never snitching each other, but this is just what he's doing here. But, yeah. But in this case, given the context, it's still admirable. So, yeah, they're trying to take down anybody that did January 6th stuff that come after him for that. And he's not, uh, the Driz ain't having it. Dries don't play that.

And the workforce note, let me quote here, is a message that circulated wildly among bureau personnel. And FBI agents summarized what happened as, quote, bottom line, D.OJ came over and wanted to fire a bunch of J6 agents. Driscoll is an absolute stud, held his ground, told the White House proxy DOJ to fuck off. Hell yeah, Dres. Yeah. And he's not the only one. The top FBI agent in New York said he's going to dig in after removals at agency. This is a guy named James E. Denahy, who's been there for a long time.

So people are people who are trying. I'm not sure how long they can move on. And see, that's part of what I'm wondering about situations like this where it's like, I've always been giving the impression with a lot of these, like, I don't know about FBI agents, but governmental positions and it's like it's like cops are like professors who have tenure and stuff

where it's like it's hard to get rid of people sometimes is the way it's always been like presented to me you know what I mean if they've been there long enough it's like you can't just fire somebody just because fuck them but it seems like that's what

they're doing and it's like so it just feels to me like you should be able to say like no you can't do that like make proof and I guess I guess they can just send people in there to pick you up

and carry you the fuck out and then and then that's it but like all these things all these assumptions we've had about the way things work or whatever at least that i have had are just like crumbling in the light of all this like you know i mean if you just ignore the law and if you ignore like a normal decent society and ignore like union negotiated contracts you just do whatever you want that's basically like and so they can't hold on these people can't hold on

forever which is why it's important for democrats to not take four-day weekends right and to like fight do whatever they can gum up every nomination every policy, every bill. So these people have a light at the end of the tunnel to know they're not holding out indefinitely, right? Right. Like, the Driz's background is in hostage, hostage, he's in charge the hostage rescue team, right?

So if he has to, like, do an armed standoff inside the FBI headquarters with, I don't know who Trump's Partorian Guard would be the doge dickheads and going with ice tooled up. Like, I look forward to Chuck Schumer posting about tomato prices. Now, that is a whole different type of 90s. movie right there, Mark. You could take the DRIZ in a lot of directions, right? We could take the whole connected DRIZ cinematic universe as far as I'm concerned. Do the comedy version and then the dark reboot sequel. Yeah, the comedy version. Do the like the 90s action

thriller version, you know, it's like the negotiator or something like that. You know, a lot of things you could do with it. All right. Well, thank you guys for watching. We appreciate it. Quick reminder again, go to Treycrowder.com. Check out my upcoming tour dates. Come and save me. We're having fun out there despite everything. Also, support. show by getting extra skews episodes in your life when you sign up on patreon on weekly skews.com slash more or go on patreon and search for my name either way it works and uh regardless the main thing is you keep watching these silly missives of hours on skews days and we'll keep sending them out to you so we'll see you in seven days hang in there everybody love you bye