Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – 2/11/25 – Party in the U.S. of A.I.

Episode Date: February 12, 2025

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What's up, everybody, welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. As you're watching this, we're recording this on Monday, February 10th, 2025, 2.40 p.m. on the left coast in case we miss something between now and when you see us, but this is still weekly skews. I'm Trey. That's Mark. How you doing, Mark? Good, man.

Congratulations to Philadelphia Eagles fans. further crushing. And also the world, in my opinion. To me, my genuine opinion is the entire football watching world outside of Kansas City and maybe Dallas, Washington, and New York Giants fans, I would imagine. I have to think almost everybody else was for the Eagles. I know I was for sure. Yeah, most people at the Super Bowl party I was at were I, even though I'm totally a Cowboys

fan, I don't really, I just wanted to see a good. game and instead we got it was a huge ass whipping not just in the game but also the half time show we did that a second but did you see the story about how the NFL took its end racism like tagline out of the end zone just for the Super Bowl I didn't know they were taking out just for the Super Bowl I saw I mean probably going forward but yeah it's been it's been in the end zone since the George Floyd protest and they just like Trump went to the Super Bowl and they took I like continue to be astounded by all the things people think this election was about like like it's just like right but also it's this really funny

mental image of like the I know it's after turf but like pretend this regular turf for a second just rolling out of backcoat like scoop up end racism and lay back down continue racism yeah yeah or just leave racism there like just NFL racism I mean I will say a question mark racism or no exclamation point racism that's what we're doing I never know how to feel about these types of things in general meaning like I have all always kind of rolled my eyes at that ever since. Because, you know, because it's like, it's so, I guess the word is performative or whatever. But, like, you know, it's like the NFL's like, you don't give a fuck.

You don't give a fuck about anything. And like, so whenever big, huge corporations do that type of very, like, low level fucking gesture or whatever, it's like, I'm always kind of like, oh, go fuck yourself. But, but them having done it and then taking it out after this. election and with Trump going to the Super Bowl and all that stuff, that it's like, I don't know. It's just like the NFL as an entity can't hit for me no matter what they do. Right.

Honestly, I mean, like, the NFL's institution, which, you know, has the fake Rooney rule to go through the motions of like trying to hire minority coaches, then still never hire black coaches. Right. And then they also just got caught like a couple years ago, uh, trying to rig the concussion settlement systems to not to not play black players based upon the premise. They had lower starting brain function.

So like they, like the idea... The idea that they're like, it's just like, okay, just fuck off. But I want to talk about the halftime show, man. I really enjoyed it. Oh, yeah. Me too. A lot of conservatives did not, it did not hit for them. No.

You sure about that? That can't be right. That doesn't sound right to me. I saw a bunch of people calling it satanic and then here's Matt Walsh and a conservative influence you're saying bizarre decision by the NFL to have some guy come out and lethargically mumble a bunch of songs that 90% of the NFL audience. has never heard. Shit.

Yeah. All right. He's like, is it the, is it the Pulitzer or the Peabody that Kendrick won a Pulitzer? He won the, he's the,

I don't want a Pulitzer. Probably want a Peabody too, but yeah. One of those two, he's the only non-jazz musician to have ever won one. He's like one of the most decorated and celebrated

and celebrated artist of our time by any conceivable metric in addition to commercial success. So this is like, this is like, a kind of a version of when these guys act like like Kevin Sorbo hits or something. Do you know what I mean?

Like when they're like, you know, who's real Thespian is that Kevin Sorbo? That's too we like her. It's like I think, you know, fucking James Woods, Robert De Niro can't touch James Woods. Like when they do that type of shit,

this is like a bizarre version of that where it's like you can hate him as much as you want because you're racist or whatever, but you cannot front. Like he's not. the dude of his generation, you know. But they seem to think it was like an affront in some way. Like he was improper to have, but first of what, like they were like, well, first of all,

Kendrick was booked for this way before the election, right? There's no response to anything or whatever. It's just like the fact that he was the world's biggest artist. I mean, they wanted to pick who wanted to do, who's going to do it and he wanted to do it. That's basically the logic of operations here. But, like, they, they were saying the halftime show should have been the village people doing YMCA with Trump dancing. It's like, shut the fuck up to you.

You know, that's, like, kind of how they used to work. Did you know that, the halftime show? I think the Michael Jackson did the halftime show in like 89 or 90 or something like that, and it was a massive production. And ever since then, every year, it's been crazy like that. But the year before Michael Jackson and every year previous, when the Super Bowl was still a pretty big deal, but not like it is now, but still big. The halftime show would be like an Elvis impersonator or like stupid people tricks and

stuff like that. But that don't really have. Red Manda, the lady who does the NBA halftime shows which she rides a unicycle and stacks plates. Yeah, well, that lady's fucking legit. But I do have to say, like, I'm 100% knew they were going to be pissed off at Kendrick. He's an outspoken black man who's on the largest stage in the world. So there's that.

But also, I mean, part of why it hit for me is, because there was definitely some messaging to it. You know what I mean? Like with the same old Jackson character and a lot of stuff that he was doing. He was definitely, he was doing what he does. You know, he had something to say. And so this time around, whenever they're, them being like, I'm just not surprised that they're offended by it because it's like,

you know, you probably should have been offended by some of it because it's directed at you in the way that you are. So they didn't understand them. I mean, like, first of all, Kendrick was not like, he, like he did songs. that have verses about like the logistics of the slave trade, but he did not do those verses.

Yeah, but like that whole thing about you pick the right, what do you say? You picked the right time, but you picked the wrong guy. Right. And like, and the whole Samuel L.

Jackson's whole thing. Like, yeah. But they didn't, like, but the other conservative reaction was like, this is the very patriotic because they have people wearing

American flags. People legitimately had that reaction to it. Right. Which is like the, if he was white, they would have all had that reaction to it. Right. Even if it would,

you know, yeah. Which is like, I remember I was thinking about, like, the video for Freedom God and A.K. By the lynch mob, which has an Uncle Sam character in it, like holding the gun and stuff. They might have thought that was patriotic, even though the lyrics are all about how you got to murder all the white children. But, like, the reaction to it, like, the mainstream conservative reaction of hating it, calling Satanic in shape was really funny. Because they seemed like they felt like Kendrick was being, um, was the word insolent or something.

Like they, like, they're talking about the people's takeaway from this election. Like they'd seem to be like this mass delusion that Trump's win represented like a total cultural victory because he won a plurality of popular vote or something. Like like now rap music doesn't exist anymore or something because Trump won or like a halftime show should be Ford Giotto Blow and Ted Nugent. Right. So do you see the, I didn't notice if it made the broadcast, but the Palestinian flag protest? No, I did not. One of the dancers unfurled a flag that had Sudan and Gaza written on it. And the guy, it was a bit frightening at first because obviously he got tackled by security, which that's going to happen.

I don't think he didn't anticipate that happening. But New Orleans police were like, he's been detained and we're looking into possible charges. And he was like, he got released and he didn't charge him and think. I was like, this is a new level of really going to put people in prison for waving a flag at a halftime show. But they didn't do that. He just got a lifetime ban from NFL facilities, which he probably, that was probably baked in. That's their call. It's whatever.

the guy's name is Zul Carnain Matamu. I read an interview with him and he said he was partially inspired by Kendrick's revolutionary messaging during rehearsal

and I was like so here's a guy who thought it was really wasn't confused by the messaging of it at all. Yeah, I'm saying there's definitely some message

but also it's like but look I know that we talk politics here but I don't want to get out of the Kendrick halftime show conversation without at least mentioning

that at this point this so far concludes what I think might be the single biggest L that any human being has ever taken on behalf of one Aubrey, Drake, whatever his real last name is. But Drake, the Rapture, I'll know. Even our fans, I'm sure know. They had a huge beef, and it spawned the fact that Kendrick's exclamation point on the beef that he was already winning just so happened to be the like banger of the summer, one of the biggest hits of the entire year,

wherein there are lyrics straight up calling you a pedophile and just dunking all over your ass. And then that song, he wins as many Grammys for that song as Drake has won in his entire career combined. And then he does the Super Bowl and has the whole fucking world

calling Drake a pedophile at the same time. And it's just, it's just, I can't even fat. There's no higher plane of hatreddom or whatever. It's just so incredible.

And that was my favorite. part of the whole thing like a lot when he when he got to the hey Drake and he like smiled right at the camera he's like hey Drake I heard you like him young that it's just great it's just great no it was like yeah just really enjoyable on his show in general

regardless of any sort of political messaging or whatever but also I really enjoyed Drake's he brought out Drake's ex-Sorina Williams to the sea walk out there the whole thing's just awesome you know and it's like musically I was on Kendrick's side I'm you know as a white guy we should continue

you're speaking on this, obviously, but I would have been on the continue of waiting, getting to the show to talk about. But, well, this hits from it, but, uh, but, the fact that Drake has this, you know, the, you know, the allegations, the, the, the things that people said, the rumors and all that stuff. It's like,

it just, you know, it makes it a, like, light versus darkness type thing to me, where it's, you know, there's a very, there's like a right side and the wrong side anyway you look at it is what I'm saying. And, uh, and the right side one, in a landslide, so it's just, it hits for me. But anyway, yes, we will now get to the show after these messages from me.

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Everybody's favorite. But, you know, the whole conversation right now is framed around. You know, this is cost-cutting. It's efficiency. This needed to be done. He's cutting back on waste, fraud, and abuse. You'll never believe that. Believe this.

But we think that's bullshit. We'll tell you why a little later. But first, we have the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D., the Venezuelan deep state for gifting the teenagers of the gang Tren D'Aragua, MEC suits that turn invisible. I knew I was going to fuck that up. All right.

Cut it. Second Trendy-Aragwa Link Complex, ICE was met by activists who taunted them. Please, John, I'm not the f***ing from you. Get out of our community. And others who used megaphones to coach those living inside. All right. So they've been doing this big hot profile raids. I want to throw some numbers out of you.

So like the ICE put out of press release saying they were this raid, these raids, this apartment complex, we've been talking about Aurora, Colorado. Yeah, this is the same one from all that time ago? Wow. Yeah. They said they were going after 100 members. of Trenda Aragua, they managed to arrest 30 people and one person was

Trinde Aragua. That's according to their own numbers. It checks out. So, trying to figure out what's happening here because they're taking, like, state media apparatuses, like, Fox News and Dr. Phil on these raids, but not telling local media what they're up to. So you've got to take everything they're doing with a grain

of salt. But if you go to Google and you Google Ice Raid, you'll see a bunch of stuff. Like, for example, let me read from this article, quick Google searches for ICE operations, raids, and arrests, return it to Luge of government press releases. Headlines include ICE arrest 85 during four-day Colorado operation. New Orleans focuses targeted operations than 123 non-citizens.

And in Wisconsin, ICE arrest 83 criminal aliens. But a closer look at these ICE reports tells a different story. The one in Colorado was from November of 2010. 123 people in New Orleans, February of last year. Wisconsin was 20 of 18. One example in the press releases goes back to 2008, about 44, quote, absconders in Nebraska. they've just updated the dates from the press release to gain the search and an optimization. Okay, see, we've talked about this before anytime it comes up.

It's like, is this whole thing just meant to like, as we said, a mirage of an effort by the Trump administration so they can play cake their people and be like, look, he did it, he did it because on a day to day basis, nothing is going to change for anybody because they weren't dealing with it to begin with. So they see all these headlines and they're like, he fixed it. it. There's no Mexicans anymore, right? I never saw any anyway. And then they're happy. Meanwhile, they don't actually have to do any of that, except for some of them lucky bastards who get swept up in it. But, like,

if that is what they're doing, is that, is that, I mean, that's better than, it's shitty of them, but it's better than them sending everybody to a fucking concentration camp, right? Them lying about it. Well, there's just getting started. It's worth remember. They were trying to make

a big splash at first, but like, They basically, they're trying to fire, like, I don't know, half the FBI and make the rest of the FBI get involved in immigration enforcement. Like, you're not going to involve, not going to investigate like drugs, counterintelligence, human trafficking anymore, white collar crime. That's told, white collar crime is totally illegal now. You guys have had it. But we're going to have FBI agents trying to round. And they're doing low, they're doing low hanging fruits. So instead of going after actual criminals, they're just going to like schools and hospitals and shit to try to get the numbers up, right?

So they're definitely going to be doing it. But as far as this stuff, yeah, I can't, I, they're either trying to look busy or scare people, probably a little bit of both. maybe say Trump, Google stuff. They look like they're doing a lot of shit. But I want to throw some numbers at you. There were 30,000 border apprehensions in January. That's a five-year low. That's about, we have about 26,800 soldiers and border agents deployed right now at the border

for about 30,000 migrant apprehension. So another way to put that is about their cap, each person is capturing about 1.1 migrants per month. I want to make a joke about general that that tracks for, with my experience of having worked for the federal government in any capacity. But, you know, I also don't want to sound like I'm backing up Doge over here. Right. But it's like, but that's, I mean, that's hilarious.

What one migrant per soldier per, per agent per month, uh, I was like, what are they doing down there? I hope they have games on their phones. Yeah, but the thing is like, like, just, I think it's partly because deterrence, because people are horrified by what Trump, by what Trump might do. word is spread on like WhatsApp or whatever throughout Central and South America. But like I also just think fewer people are coming here because like we've, like I've said on this show before, the main way to curb immigration is to destroy the American economy and make it a shittier place to live.

So I guess people are reading the news. Okay. Okay. Speaking of people reading the news, just to be a devil's advocate here, wouldn't a lot of MAGA people say, and this is kind of a version of what you said a minute ago, but that if fewer people are coming here, it's because they know they can't fuck with Trump. That's why. They know Trump don't take that shit. He's

laid the law down and they know it and that's why they've stopped and that means it's working either way. Like that would be their argument, right? Right, but I don't disagree with the premise that treating people horrifically and violently will deter them from coming to the United States. I just think we all not be doing that. Yeah,

of course I agree. Because I think we need more people coming to the United States. That's a whole other thing. So, another Leopard eating faces thing. And I don't, I really, I take no pleasure in this ship. But I was reading this Washington Post article this morning about Dural, Florida, a suburb of Miami.

So about 40% of the people who live in Doreau have four, have ties to Venezuela. And the city swung hard for Trump in 2024 after swinging mildly for it in 2020. Here's a guy named John de la Vega, who's a Venezuela American immigration lawyer and an army veteran said, quote, the Venezuela community gave President Trump their support. This is completely different of what I thought it was going. going to be. I'm like, my brother in Christ, right. You're an educated man. You're an immigration lawyer. Because what, what, what Trump is doing is removing their temporary protected status that made them legal, saying they're illegal and starting to deport people, right?

Yeah, but this is completely different than what I thought it was going to be. How is that what did you think it was going to, I just can't get over this shit. Maybe, like, maybe he's given, so like, okay, so what they're going to have to get used to is like, you do not have to admit you were wrong. You just need to. You just need to. accept that you were lied to. So he might be doing messaging here to try give people space to change their minds. Do you know what I'm saying? He's calling people stupid does not work. So maybe this guy. People hate to admit they're wrong. You're right. So if you reframe it as you were deceived, then yeah, you can get more people on board that way. Um, so let me quote here

this woman named Andrea Gabriella Rangel-Walter. Uh, she's among those who thought Trump would shield Venezuelans from deportation. She said the overwhelming majority of her friends and family supported Trump, including her father, who is now at risk of being removed. move from the country. His temporary protected status with spires in April. Quote, he knows all Venezuelans aren't Trende Aragua. Does he No.

100% does not. It's like, does he? It's like, no, he does not. All this heart, all this most fervent supporters, they don't know either. I said that one of the videos I made about it. And they're like, well, they're just going to deport criminals or whatever. It's like,

I'm, you know, I'm just, I'm a hardworking South American immigrant. whatever. He doesn't mean me. I'm not a criminal. And it's like, yes, you are. To them, you are. That's how these people work. And, you know, like, it, I don't know. And I sort of feel, I mean, I do feel bad for some of these people for sure, but, but it, you know, I, I just don't know what they thought was going to happen. There's some 1984 double speak here, because whatever's going on with the Trump administration in Venezuela and Hugo Chow, uh, sorry, Maduro is their current dictator.

As near as I can tell what's happening is because of getting less oil from Canada, we need to open up the oil pipelines back from Venezuela after trying to crush their economy to defeat communism for the last 30 years or whatever. So Rubio went down there and acted like they're our friends now. And part of that deal is either they're going to be willing to take back a bunch of Venezuelans or we give them back a bunch of Venezuelans to, because you get to remember, these are people that fled the country because they hate socialism. Okay. They've probably been all over their social media for years and years calling for the

overthrow Maduro. And these people are rightfully horrified that Trump administration is going to ship them back to a country that probably will see them as political enemies and criminals. Okay. Right. So like in talking about the 1984 newspeak stuff and secretary, Homeland Security Secretary Chrissy Noem and her termination notice about temporary protected status. She said that Venezuelans no longer needed protection in part because. because there had been, quote, notable improvements in several areas such as the economy, public health, and crime. So there's pretending, to spend decades pretending that Venezuela was a threat to the national security of the United States. And now because of what a whole.

Right. And now they're pretending that everything's going great there. Right. So we can ship people back to be imprisoned and tortured or whatever. By the way, the first 30 detainees arrived to Trump's day new concentrate. They haven't, they're building the tents. Right now they're just using the military prison. was already there.

So we've got 30 people down there. And according to the federal government, they're all trend to Ayahuahua. We just established they can't find any trend to Ayahuahua because there aren't that many. Okay. An obliquely funny thing on the immigration refugee front, over the weekend, Trump announced that while nobody else can come to America anymore, white South Africans, Afrikaners are welcome to be political refugees to the United States. Yeah, well, they got it tough over there, Mark. I don't know if you've heard, but it's been bad. been hard for them. They've been persecuted by the other people of their country just for being

white for no other reason at all. So this is about memes. Right wing internet memes about white genocide. Right. So if you basically what the right wing internet tells itself is that the black government in South Africa is persecuting the white citizens that remain there and confiscated their land to give to black people. Okay. So just to put some facts in this situation. Um, The government's official stance is they take unused or public-owned land to give the citizens who've suffered under generations of apartheid. Private land is confiscated only rarely and is intended to address the disparities created by apartheid. This has been documented by outside media.

This is not just government propaganda. So they're basically doing 40 acres of a mule with government land and unused land. Last time anybody did a land survey, Afrikaners, you know, the White South Africans, make up only 8% of the population on three quarters of the country's farm land still. Black people comprise 80% of the population own 4%. So this is not like, if they're taking all their land, they're not doing a very good job of it. And if you want the proof, I can give you a quote here from groups who represent some of South Africa's white minority

when they heard about this offer, they announced basically thanks, but no thanks. Because what's actually happening is Trump is trying to get them off their land. I just, I read South Africa and just assumed, this was another Elon thing behind the scenes. Is it like, does anybody, has that been reported or one way or the other? Yeah, we talked about it last week, right? That like, like his mom, his mom's family moved there,

specifically four apartheid and left when it was over. Like, uh, yeah, no, I mean, this move that they've done, like that it was Elon saying to, uh, I mean,

to do it. It could be, the whole PayPal mafia, like, uh, Musk, Peter Thiel, uh,

David Sacks. They're all South African. This could come from anybody. Trump could just read his own Twitter mentions, but like, you fact you can't, you can't, You can't understand anything these people do without knowing why a bunch of Twitter users

have Rhodesian flags in their bios. Okay. Rhodesia lasted 15 years. Between Rhodesia and the Confederacy, there's nothing racist losers love more than things that collapse immediately. Speaking of which, let's talk about Doge.

Also Nazi Germany. I mean, not immediately. They did a little better in those other two. But yeah, that's always been the... The 12 years? I didn't know as much about Rhodesia. or whatever, but I always, you know, like the Confederacy and the Nazis are two of the most famous losers in all of human history. Those two and Drake, I think, or make up the top three.

But, yeah, so, you know, it's just a funny thing to. That doesn't sum up like a bunch of history, but basically when Britain got out of the colonialism game or the direct colonialism game pulled out of Africa, some white British settlers like, fuck no, we're keeping the country and we're calling to Rhodes and they went to war and they got their ass kicked eventually. but white what like white americans like like dylan roof when he shopped the church was wearing a coat with a rhodesian flag patch on it so is is that zimbabwe yeah yeah okay i can't believe i got that right all right anyway so so when the election happened i was like i hope you guys live like living at a tech dystopia uh and because i don't think people uh understand really currently where the power centers are in our country right now um and like i just really can't wrap my mind around like the binary nature of American elections, like a few hundred thousand votes in three states are the difference between like basically normal stuff, not all great, but just normal stuff going normally. And then the other way, it's like what happened over the weekend, we're like armed agents

of the state, we're keeping members of Congress out of the Department of Education. And a guy named Big Balls is trying to take away for it's Medicare. Yeah, a 19 year old named Big Balls or whatever. Yeah, it's almost like it's ridiculous and should not be the way things work. Yeah. Yeah, but they're, you know, one side in particular benefits tremendously from the inherent biases in the system and keeps it that way because they probably wouldn't have a great shot otherwise. Right. And they just happen to be all so insane.

And so doing all the crazy shit. Uh, brief big balls update. It turns out he owns a company called Tesla dot sexy that sells an AI bot for Russian, uh, AI bot for Russian Discord servers. Uh, he also just got appointed to be a senior. in the State Department. So I guess we're on a coup whatever country poorly built his sex robot. A couple other

Doge Kid updates. One resigned over the weekend and then got rehired. He resigned over some people dug up some of his old racist tweets. This wasn't like a case of stupid things he wrote years ago. It was like a 13-year-old. He posted in September about how we should quote

normalize Indian hate. And then Jay Vance had defended him if there's got an any wife. So, yeah. Right. J.D.

has literally defended this specific person that's been brought up to him. My God, dude. That's pathetic. But I was walking through the Salt Lake City Airport, going to, you know, get on the plane to fly back home Sunday morning. And I was in the lounge, not bragging. And I was just, like, sipping my coffee walking by. And I saw the TV was on the news.

And the headline at the bottom said, Elon Musk says, employee fired for racing. tweets, quote, should be reinstated immediately or whatever. It was like, it just cracked me up because it seemed like, you know, like it felt like, it's very believable, but it felt like a made up version of like if you just happen to check the headlines, do you know what I mean, to see, oh, let's see what's going on. And it's something ridiculous. That's what it felt like.

Like, of course, of course he's defending, like on what basis, you know, it's like, he's a hell of a good coder. I don't think like, like saying a kid's whole life shouldn't be ruined because of the things he posted the age of 20 years old, probably fair. I don't think he should be in charge of the fucking government, though. It's totally different things. Also, he resigned. He wasn't fired.

Anyway, so I need to warn you when I tell you about this next doge kid, I'm about to put together a string of words that you've never heard in this order in your life, okay? Another doge bro has been linked to a satanic neo-Nazi cybercrown ring that extorts child porn from minors. what that is brutal that sounds like that sounds like the type of thing other than the nazi part which would hit for them but other than that sounds like the type of thing that like q and i would be all over right their base so that their base would make up and lose their

minds over uh right and so of course one of theirs one of the guys in the inner circle is literally doing that but go on though because that's like i mean that's a that's a big allegation he's basically on the same he's been on the same forms as them I haven't seen any direct reporting he's actually a member of this organization which is called 764 also like his ideological task

to a group called the Order of Nine Angles which is a right wing Satanist terror terror network classified as a terror group by the U.S. Department of Justice so he probably shouldn't be working in the government like but like what this is a group that like

when you join it you have to pledge to kill yourself in a live stream okay so it's very normal fucking weird stuff and like that's one of the reasons like the internet's such a bizarre place with such new subcultures. No shit.

Most of it just pretend that don't exist all the time because otherwise just knowing about it's a kind of psychic pain. But like when people are in charge of the government, people should be aware of it. Right. 100%. But yeah, because I was thinking it's like, man, normally satanic shit hits for me when I hear about it. You know what I mean?

My fucking heavy metal or they're making some kind of political stance, you know, because normally they're anti-God and they, you know, they'd be doing, I feel like they're typically left-aligned the satanist when they show up. because, again, those are my people, but Satanist, neo-Nazis, you know. The quote-unquote Main Street Satanist organizations you're talking about don't believe in any of their atheists who are just trolling. We talked about them before. These people actually believe in a dark lord and want to do murder. That's a difference.

It's a little different. Yeah. Right. So. Yeah. That, just to be clear, that don't have for me, everybody. All right. The type of metaphorical Satan fucking rocks and that's my boy.

But this Satan, child blood drinking Satan, I'm not down with that. I'll make a strong statement. I'm not okay with that. All right. So Silicon Valley investor, Jason Calacanis, has pledged to invest $250,000 in every Doge kid's startups. So think about this if your career fellow employee, you just lost your job because of these dipshits, you're going to starve to death.

Your career has been taken away. And these kids get funding for their new Roomba competitor with a gun that shoots your maid. Uh-huh. Yeah. I am beginning to go insane because if I see another like mainstream media organization talk about Doge's efforts of cost cutting, I'm going to lose my fucking mind. Elon does not care about cost cutting mainly because Elon does not pay taxes.

Right. Well, also him and Trump have been talking, you know, very like headline grabbing versions of talking about like, you know, we're trying to cut way back on what the federal government spends. Also, we're going to go to fucking Mars. And we're going to take over Gaza. Like, we're just going to take control of that and run the whole thing. Build a great, lovely community. And it's like, and none of that shit sounds cheap to me, man.

We're going to make money off Gaza because we're going to start Sandals, Gaza. Well, yeah, those people will make money. Like, it would be taxpayer dollars that got it started, and then they would privateer off of it later. And it's fucking bullshit. Yeah. So the frustrating thing about our media landscape is it's truly hard. talking about the satanic Nazi pedophile cult. It's really hard for like the mainstream media to,

for Normies anywhere to understand how strange these guys have gotten on the internet, which is why tech media has been doing a better job of covering a Doge in the new administration. I'm talking about like wired in 404 media. If you guys want to get some actual insightful takes on this stuff. But like there's three main things Doge is up to, I think, besides cost cutting. There's normal corruption. All right. The second part of it's an extremely crooked as fuck attempt to get a government bailout of all their shitty dumb tech investments. And the third part is a desire to remake the United States into like a techno libertarian quote utopia, which is the fever dream stuff, which I probably won't get to today. But like, so the three things to talk about are regulatory capture, the bursting of the air bubble. And the fever dream part is something called the network state where they want to dissolve America into crypto fiefdoms. Okay. Which that's that's, I don't think that's where they're getting to yet, but we'll probably do. Hopefully, hopefully won't get to a point where at the time. about it, but just know that it exists.

The regulatory capture part of this is pretty straightforward. This is nothing new for big business, obviously, but at least like when Exxon does it, you get gas out of the situation to put in your family man to go to Grandma's house. Elon's basically working with Russ Vaught, the new OMB director, to try and destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Must tweet it over the weekend that it's been deleted, which I don't know what that means. We need to say up front, these agencies are established by acts of Congress. The executive branch has no authority to have them stop operating.

That's totally unconstitutional. And people say that's the coup is what we're talking about. Right. Because in the idea that they don't have the authority to do it, but they're just going to do it. And it's like, who's going to stop them? But also, it's like they don't technically disband it. They just send everybody home and shudder it or withdraw funding or whatever. So it's like effectively over, but they didn't like, they didn't kill it.

But we talked about, like, they're not, like, when Congress passes spending bills, they're obligated to spend the money. The executive branch executes laws. I know. Yeah, yeah. So, like, Congress has to stop that. Do something. Right. Right. Yes. Well, you know, I think most people just assume they're not going to. Right. They're just not going. I mean, I don't know sure, like, the real remedy here is impeachment removal. But like, you know, good luck. So this stuff, the CFPB, this happened at the same time. Musk is fully pivoting, like he's, since he bought Twitter, he's been wanting to turn into like a payments app, the everything app, it's what I call it that. He wants you to be able to like send money over it to, but use it for your banking and shit. And the consumer financial protection bureau will be the agency that's in charge of

keeping you from getting fucked by X the bank, okay? So that's why he's putting that a business so he can fuck you. Do not put your money in X. And the idea that basically trial, we try to say that the financial protection bureau is duplicative, and that's horse shit. The reason it's creative is there's no other regulatory agency whose job it is to look out for consumers being ripped off by complex financial products, like the fake banking apps that aren't banks coming out of Silicon Valley.

And for context here, one of these fintech things that pretends to be, like, has the feel of a bank that isn't a bank because it's not insured and not regulated, one of them owned by Mark Andreessen, who's also part of Doge, just collapsed. and went under and hundreds of thousands of people, I think, lost their life savings. And now there's no recourse for them because this agency is the only one to do anything about it doesn't exist. Is that because they're not legitimate banks? I mean, like, the FDIC, I thought was supposed to be what protects, like, from what you

just said, like an actual bank collapsing, you know, the FDIC is what's supposed to keep regular people from getting fucked over. But it was because these things are, they're pseudo banks. They're like crypto bullshit. it, you know, bank analogs. They're the gas station dick pills to actual Viagra. Right. Yeah, okay.

So they're just scams. It's just a scam. Right. So it reminded me of like the line from not to go, we're not going to get, go back, full back into like, old middle-aged white guys talking about a rap discourse, but my, probably my favorite Los Angeles based Filipino, American communist rapper, bamboo, I can't call no body

when these banks is trying to rob me. Fucking light a match, right? So there was a union protest by employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over the weekend. Not one member of Congress showed up probably because the Senate adjourned until Monday by unanimous consent.

Every Democrat consented to it. So they got a second consecutive long weekend. Good job, guys. Thank you. If you're wondering what's taking so long for any sort of resistance, this kind of may be so fucking laugh so hard. So dumb. Representative Mark Pocan, Pocan, I don't know, I say, as Democrat in Wisconsin, last Wednesday rolled out the eliminate looting of our nation by mitigating unethical state kleptocracy

act, the Elon Musk Act, which would ban special government employees like Musk from having federal contract. They basically, my guess is it took them two weeks to figure out what the name of the act, so it spelled out Elon Musk. Guarantee. Democracy dies doing bits, guys. This is not a fucking point that, right? I mean, everybody knows this, but yes, the government they love acronyms. The longer, the better if they can make them make sense like this, they get off over this shit. They absolutely love it.

It's like literally a bit from a Armando Ianucci movie, the movie In the Loop. They have a whole bit about this. I guarantee you it took like a committee of staffers slash interns or whatever, a long time to work out what the name of it. And again, it's like when you say shit like that, and I know elected officials are different from like executive agency employees, but it's like, you know, if you said that type of thing in front of an Elon acolyte or whatever,

they would be like, yeah, exactly. That's exactly what we're trying to fix. But again, it's like, but you're not really, though. Right. Like, yes, there's a lot of bullshit and waste and everything, but you're using that as cover to, you know, just enrich him further and all their other billionaire friends and stuff on top of it. So, fuck. I want to push back on you because you always say that, like the federal government. Like one of the reasons that even Republican administrations have difficulty cutting stuff

is because there's not a lot of stuff to cut. We're talking about as like federal employees showing up at 905 and leaving $1.50. I mean, I could, I know we don't, we don't got to get it. There's other ways you could go about it. There's things that they do. The reason there's nowhere to cut from is because budgets a lot are across the whole government are artificially inflated by department spending money that they don't really need to so they don't get their budget cut and that type of thing.

So like, there's, you know, they never get it again. Like, like, that's normal, like, like, private industry does the exact same fucking thing. I know. Right. So like, like, like, let's look. I think we put the government in like a different category where the government's actually less corrupt than the private sector, but like, like, we all get mad about it because they have to respond. Because we, like, and like, Freedom Information Act requests and like, like, like, like, Exxon does not. Yeah.

And because it gets our tax dollars. Right. Right. So, yeah, people take it very seriously. It's your gas money, too, when Exxon spends it putting a pool into like a, like an oil, like a, like a oil. That's a good point. People don't think about it that way, but you're right. Right. So, so the second, that brings to the second part of this, which is like a big part of this, I to me is Silicon Valley getting bailed out of a bunch of horse shit investments, bad bets they made on stupid ideas.

Silicon Valley, you may have noticed, hasn't had a big new thing work in a while. I talk about stuff that failed, like Web 3, NFTs. And now we all know that government is cryptocurrency's last big hope to make it mix. Libertarian-ass crypto is begging for government help. The Metaverse flopped so incredibly hard, even after Mark Zuckerberg, to rename his whole company after it, because no one wanting to fucking go to work meetings in VR goggles where they didn't have legs. Sales of Apple iPhones have dropped since they introduced artificial intelligence. Like, no one wants any of this shit. And for good reason, because we're not going to get into it, but a Microsoft study came out today that finds that,

that artificial intelligence makes human cognition, quote, atrophied, unprepared. It makes everybody who uses it dumber and people know that actually don't want to use it. So another way to put with these fucking investors and tech lords are doing is this is the big money people, rebellion against the free market because we, the insolent plebes, did not like the products they rolled out. They need to take over the government and force the government to buy it. all right um so since nobody else wants to use AI my real part of what they're doing is they're trying to nuke the functionality of the federal government and lay off the human lay off all the human beings and then all of a sudden there will be a line of tech pros with AI technology solutions to

prevent to reinvent the wheel for four times the price and mandatory quarterly proprietary software fees oh yay you're making sense to is it is it did you you come up with this is this is this marks on personal theory about what's happening here? You could connect in the dots or like or, you know. No, I haven't seen a bunch of people with the same like like like like. Like, yeah. But I was like, I think this is what's happening. And it's like yeah, because this is basically what happens every time.

Like like this comes. It's like politicians love being presented with technological solutions to real war problems. Some of them work sometimes. But the main reason politicians love them so much is it offers them a way out of making hard choices. Because if like the people need this service, but you will have to spend money on it, which means charging people taxes.

They're like, well, what's the third option? And some guy, like some like fucking, you know, uh, salesman with like a truckload of snake oil is like, well, what if we went on the computer? They're like, yeah, let's go on the computer. You take my money, right? So like, it's the way out of fucking making hard decisions. And there's nothing politicians love more than way out of making hard choices. But the thing that drives me crazy about this at this particular moment trying to do this, even though AI doesn't really work. is that Deepseek exists.

The Chinese AI company that fucking destroyed Silicon Valley two weeks ago and we're all pretending like it didn't. Right. And that really was how that went down, right? Meaning like it was a bombshell thing two weeks. Like it was not known. And then all of a sudden it was like all this shit they'd been jerking themselves off over for so long and pouring all this money and angel investors,

all this shit and resources into they'd been working on for so long. Billions of dollars, I assume. China just China just came out and was like Hey, ours is twice as good for a fourth of cost or whatever like the function, no, no, the cost is like

0.606% of what Silicon Valley spend. If you believe, if you believe this Chinese company's numbers, they also use regular computer chips instead of the fancy Navidia chips that Silicon Valley has bet everything on. And it's basically the same thing as the newest version of Chad GPT, but they did

it for way less. It's like small team. with Chinese dudes. Yeah. Like, you know the thing in the first Iron Man movie is like, we can't build it

during the time. You did in a cave with a box of scraps. Yeah. Yes. Yes. This kid did it with a box of scraps.

Dude. And it's, you know, like they've been hoisted by their own capitalist patard here. You know what I mean? Right.

Because it's like there's a competitor that's better and cheaper and it's leagues ahead of you. Uh-huh. The market says you should lose. But I guess not if you can convince the government to buy it instead. there you go. That's the scale. Okay. So, so, like, Deep Seeks AI also uses like way less

energy. So they basically, every problem, a lot of the problems with AI other than the fact that like a bunch of like guys who work at Salesforce and McKinsey are going to pretend like it works better than it does to fire human beings and let us all starve to death. Like the, the environmental problems, the cost, they beat it all. And Silicon Valley is stuck using this way more expensive, more energy, less energy efficient version, and they're just like holding it. It's all they got. They're like, well, we have to sell to somebody because otherwise, what the fuck are we doing? Right.

And so two weeks ago, Navidia shed almost $600 billion in market cap and the biggest one-day loss in U.S. history. And now it's basically two-thirds way back up to where it was. What happened in the middle because Chad GPT did not get better? I did not get better. What happened besides Elon taking over the government? And I got nothing. And let me quote here from Chuck Schumer, like a social media post to his. The deep seek announcement from China has been called by some AI-sputnik moment for America.

It's precisely why I made AI a top priority in the last Congress and we'll keep at it. Bro, Chuck, heart to heart, buddy. Let's take a walk with me back in history. Do you remember the race to 5G, Trey? I mean, I was definitely around for it, but I don't remember what happened, what transpired during any of that. For years, we were told we had to beat China in the race to 5G. It was very important for national security in the American economy to beat China, the race of 5G. Well, we lost the fucking race.

Our 5G is more expensive and not as good. And what happened? Right. Nothing. Not a goddamn fucking thing. Well, that's what I was talking earlier about how much better deep seek is than what we've got or whatever. but you also, I mean, you know, you were just, you were, you know, just moving right along and you said something like, it's just, it's basically like it's just, it's a, it's a better version of chat GPT, but for a fraction of the cost or whatever. And in my head, I was like, well, I mean, hell, even that is not, you know, that great of a thing, is it in terms of, right? So, like, even this souped up version of AI that they've come up with over there, like, if it's just chat GPT times 50 or whatnot, it's like, I'm still not. that impressed by that.

But if something is useless and stupid, it ought to at least also be cheap. Right. Yeah, no. No, I'm saying, what does that tell you about how shitty the American versions of it are? You know what I mean? Like, or like... It's also like this current iteration of American capitalism, which isn't even really capitalism, which is why they're trying to sell this to the government, is like, so what

happened is all these guys got super wealthy by not actually making their product. Right. They were able to go back to get more and more investment by saying they needed more investment and so like they weren't actually doing anything they were they were operating like people think the department of energy operates yeah no i know yeah i remember when i first kind of put that together i don't remember one of the many maybe it was silicon valley the show or like the one about elizabeth what's your name from the uh the the the you know Elizabeth Holmes yeah or any of those but like realizing it's like oh they just like they all these like big tech

guru guys a lot of they just lie like you just you just can you literally con people into thinking you've got like the next big thing or whatever and they just write you these huge checks for massive amounts of money. The fucking we work guy convinced people that commercial real estate was a tech business. Right. That's fucking stupid. Yeah. Anyway, he's rich now.

I'm about to say, doesn't that make you, that part of it bother, you know, it's not that I want to just like be a kleptocrat or nothing like that. But it's like, that part also is annoying. It's like, because it works. so well for so many of these guys, you know what I mean? Like, you work a job, whatever the job is for like your whole life. And then they just, you know, they just do the Silicon Valley version of conning and get millions of dollars on an island and private jets and all that shit for really nothing.

It's crazy. Another thing I want to say about to Chuck Schumer is like the idea that with any government investment, AI startups captured 46% of all venture capital funding last year. the reason deep seek fucking humiliated them is not because they needed more money and the fact that they did it for way less money should be the proof in the pudding but no matter right

so um so now what's going on this fucking floor meat um so we're just going to pretend that it works so the government can keep it afloat so we can do dumb shit with it like this so a guy named a congressman with the name of Davis Schweikert Republican from Arizona

introduced a bill to legally allow artificial intelligence to qualify as a prescription drug prescriber. So what we'll have is an artificially intelligence doctor writing a prescription that an artificially intelligent insurance adjuster won't cover. Great system. Right. Yeah.

But yeah, this is crazy when you consider the way that like Google AI works and most people's experience, you know what I mean? Like there's just Googling a silly thing and it's like, you know, I don't know. It's like, can duck swim? And it's like, no, ducks can not swim according. to this or whatever, and it's like pretty sure ducks can swim. So you just apply that to people's health care is crazy. They made it, like, because what you have is computers training off other computer-generated

stuff. So they basically created a calculator that can't count how many R's are in strawberry. Right. And I saw that that's one famous example, like the, because it scans the web for information including on your articles, it'll, if you ask it, how many rocks are healthy to eat a day, it'll tell you two. And then like, like, I saw it. screen grab, I guess

porn is pivoted to using it to generate like storylines and titles and no one's fact even thinking about them. I saw one the other day as a screen grab was like, stepmom, fuck stepdad. Yeah. So it's just, that's just a lot, wait. Diagram this family for me, Tray.

Right. Yeah, I was about saying, that's just a loving, that's just a loving marriage, but then I was like, wait a minute, it can't be from the same perspective, both. Certainly somebody's stepmom's had an affair with somebody stepdad, yes. That's not, that's not, that's not what's Jesus Christ. I never really understood how any of that shit, you know, I don't know, porn titles are wild and all that. Like the, you know, it's just a regular porn scene, but they give it some crazy-ass name or whatever. I mean, I guess it's a porn version of SEO and that shit matters.

So whatever. I guess, but I don't know what, like, who's like, who decided that everybody, you know what I mean. The people decided, Mark. Yeah. I guess people voted with their feet that everybody should be related. Um, so at his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr has claimed that Trump is going to save rural hospitals with AI nurses, which is like, what the fuck? You like, this isn't just magic beans, like a JPEG of magic beans. And people clearly understand the path forward here because, uh, open AI rolled out, uh, their chat, gpt.gov, uh, last week.

So they're going to replace all the federal employees with chat GPT, basically. So when you go to get your passport, you'll get it back and the name on it will be like trade chowder. And you will not have a human being to appeal to to to get it fixed. So you will just have to be trade chowder the rest of your fucking life when you go out. And see, I feel like this angle you're taking right now, which makes sense is one that people should be jumping on because everyone can relate to that idea of that happening. Meaning like I feel like almost everybody hates the fact that if you need customer service, you can't talk to a human being. it takes so long to get another person on the phone and everybody universally across the board

hates that shit. So like framing it as that this is turning your entire life into that process. Like anything you ever need will work like that. Is that what you want? Taxpaying American or whatever? You know, like that feels like that's how people should be

pushing it to me. Democrats love it too. They're all going to crypto conferences and shit. So like we got, there's nobody. Like, it's like there's nobody who'll be like the emperor has no clothes here. So, so on Elon's into this, Elon, the guy that runs, uh, open AI, which runs Chad GPT. His name is Sam Alpin.

And he's a guy, Elon's got a death feud with him over the world. Do you know why, Trey? No, I mean, I just assume it's some, uh, uh, you know, they, they're like they try, they shared a blood what he stole his blood boy, something like that. Sam Alton stole his blood boy. way and he's jealous. It's even dumber than that. Elon used to be of open A.

He shot the homeless guy before Elon could on the annual, the annual hunt on the island, and it was supposed to be Elon shot. So he's, you know, he's spurned. Well, that would be, that'd be rude. That's against the rules. So that's even dumb than that. So, like, Elon used to be on the board of Open AI and left in a huff because he thought, like, artificial intelligence is going to become God, and therefore it's too

dangerous. It needs to be restrained or go slower, whereas Sam Altman thinks our AI will be God, but it's going to be a benevolent one. So they both believe AI as God as can't believe whether it's Satan or Jesus. And I'm like, it's a thing that can't, doesn't know what a stepmom is. So I don't know what the fuck to tell you. So, but then Elon rolled this. So now Elon is like, wait, Sam Baldwin's stealing my grift here. I'm the one.

I was going to put GROC in the government. He can't put open AI, Chad GPT in the government. So he started his own AI called GSAI. and then he also today offered to buy Open AI for 97.4 billion Twitter had a pretty funny burn and no thanks but if you want

I'll buy Twitter for 9.74 billion which Elon bought it for 40 something or whatever yeah so they also oh my God bro they announced they're going to put it like Open AI struck a deal with the U.S. government to use its AI for nuclear

weapon security what Oh, my God. Yeah. So, like, if Skynet was R-worded, that's what we're doing now. Right. Take the, like, functionally illiterate version of SkyNet and give it all the same powers that Skynet had in those movies and see how that goes. At least, what leaves China puts deep seek in charge of its nukes, it's better than ours, so it won't hallucinate and launch.

Our flesh intelligence hallucinate shit all the time. So, like, so that's the real danger. But, are you kidding me with this? This is the crazy. thing you've said the whole time. That's fucking nuts. Man, that's wild. Giving control of the nukes over to the robots.

Again, not just the robots, but the dumb-ass version of robots we currently are all working with and living with. Like, insane. When I talk about hallucinating, let me tell you what I'm talking about. So you got AI comes in different sort of functions. JetBT is just a large language model.

Like, you're trying to roll out agents, which are like, you basically, you task an AI to do something for you, like book your travel or whatever. So it's columnist by the tech columnist from the Washington Post named Jeffrey Fowler. Tried to play with an AI, an AI agents, and he tried to get it to find it cheap eggs in his neighborhood. In less than 10 minutes, the AI, which is called Operator, bought a dozen eggs and paid a human to deliver them to my house on its own for $31.43.

I had a pretty good deal in Drums America, you know. So, like, they want to put this thing, which you asked to find cheap, asked to find cheap eggs, and it bought very expensive eggs. Yeah. So, like, instead, I bought your eggs a chauffeur. I've paid for a chauffeur for your eggs. So the breathtaking arrogance of these motherfuckers, throw this, this post up here from a guy named John Slideski, okay, Silicon Valley built the modern world. Why shouldn't we run it? Now, I just want to point out for here, not for nothing.

built the internet and bankrolled nearly every tech innovation the last 60 plus years one way or the other either from like subsidies like Tesla would be dead without tech subsidies NASA basically invented the internet and the defense department invented the internet and then of course we talked about it a bunch back in 2023 Biden bailed out Silicon Valley Bank after the morons who had their money in it engineered their own bank run because they're all high on drugs in the same group chat Sludesky, him saying this, Silicon Valley built the modern world, why shouldn't we run it? His claim to fame was working at Roblox. The game, the game that it's famous for being favored by pedophiles because how easy it is for them to access kids.

Wow, what? See, Mark, you've upset me now. I didn't, not just upset me, but maybe I feel like an absent and an unattentive father here because it's not just my son. Literally every kid I know the age of my sons. They're kind of growing out of it, thank God, because we're 12 and 13 now. But the past few years, every kid, every cousin, every friend they had is their age. They fucking love Roblox, dude. You have no idea how much these kids love this Roblox shit. So that's alarming to hear what you just said.

Yeah. I mean, I let mine go to no fucking Roblox meetups or nothing, obviously, but still. Like, you got super wealthy having a game. gaming platform like can't you just be happy with that instead of like wanting to be the prefect of minnesota or whatever so like but like so that's he certainly knows that roblocks has a pedophile problem because some guy from new jersey was pretending to be sledski's brother on roblox because of the clout that it gave him and was dming dirty messages to 12 year olds and shit and he convinced one of them he groomed them enough to get them to take an uber that he

paid for from Indiana to New Jersey. Oh, my God. He's in the guy's in federal prison now. So Sudezky's like, I've built a grubhub for pedophiles to order kids off of. You should put me in charge of the EPA. Right. Yeah. The fucking arrogance of these people, man.

And instead of like giving them money to bail them out of their bad ideas, like, that we should like let Lawrence language models tutor your children and shit, we should tell them to fuck off. Right. to an island somewhere, by the way. It's like you just alluded to a minute ago. They're all rich as fuck. It's not like we're not leaving them destitute or nothing.

It's like, you just can't do this. We're just not going to allow you to do this. You can go take all your billions and do whatever to fuck people do with billions out there if you want to. We're certainly not going to tax you on it. But you can't run shit, you know? I don't know. I mean, like you said, I don't get it either. I never have like that.

But it's just, that's what, that is not at all the only thing. That's one of the conditions you have to have, I think, to be one of these people is to be almost psychotic about needing power and control and being able to lord over others and stuff like that. Because I'm with you, dude. If I, the only one of them who's ever hit for me and hell he might be terrible too is fucking Tom from MySpace or whatever, because he built MySpace, sold that shit for half a billion dollars and fucked off. And then he has stayed fucked off the whole time. And the rest of them, they just got a, you know, struggle for power between each other. And it's like, I just leave us alone, man. Like, Genghis Khan at least had to conquer a bunch of territory.

But Shledeski's like, I want to stand upon a throne of skulls because I worked at a company that made a children's game. A children's game. Yes. Jesus Christ. Yeah, it's, it don't hit. But hey, what does? Everybody, anyway, with this show. hopefully, hopefully you agree.

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