Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 2/27/24 – Our Own Worst Enemy

Episode Date: February 28, 2024

In a truly shocking turn of events, the star witness in the GOP’s big Hunter Biden investigation has turned out to be a Russian agent. Who could have foreseen that circus taking an even dumber turn, we ask you. Also, the Alabama assault on IVF has Republicans reeling. All that and more on tonight’s Skews.  Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it's February 27th 2024 I'm Trey that's Mark how you doing there mark good bud got a fun show let me talk about a Biden impeachment star witness being a paid-for Haitian of rust and intelligence and like quite a just a series of of dipshit events that would be fun to go through and figure out what's actually going on here

through the lens of some chicanery in Moldova. So that's fun. It involves the rapper exhibit. So that'll be fun to get to. I love any opportunity to talk about Moldova

and or exhibit. Don't get a lot of chances to talk about those three things to my primary interest. So yeah, I'm looking forward to it. The world's so stupid, but it's like,

I can't think about conspiracy theories that bother me. Is the world so much more interesting than that, you know? Anyway, so a couple of quick things for we get to the show. Go to the verge of another government shut down. No, you're not living in a looped time movie.

There's a measles outbreak in Florida, thanks to Rhonda Sanchez's anti-vaxedip shedery. They did not have eighth cases, eight cases of measles, including the first and Childbender Five. A certain general down there has told people, has decided to let parents decide whether to quarantine children or keep them in school with measles. And I wanted to give you a quote from a Supreme Court hearing today that is going to decide whether or not, you know, The internet can continue to exist. And the judges seem to be on the fence. We won't get into weed to that. But I just wanted to read this quote from Justice Alito.

I mean, if you're, if let's say YouTube were a newspaper, how much would it weigh? Yeah. I'm not even prepared to contextualize that question. Like, is it good for a newspaper to whale? Do you want also, what is a hefty newspaper? I don't know. Is it a Sunday edition? That's what I'm saying.

Sunday edition. And is Sunday edition good or Sunday edition? bad. Should it weigh less than your average newspaper? How do we factor in like the citizen statesman, the premier news source of Clay County, Tennessee, right? It's going to weigh less than the LA Times, I imagine. So I don't even know where to start with that. But seriously, though, what, where was he going with that? What? Yeah. I don't, yeah. He knows. It doesn't matter. It's not worth it. It's like the human mind can only ponder such things. Uh, but also John Turley, who's a

guy who's been all over the place his whole career, law professor, kind of a weird crank, but he's turned into like a magad adjacent kind of dude, but he wrote this bat shit insane editorial in the hill about Joe Biden's grandfather and basically how Great-great-grandfather. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not even just his regular papal.

Got to go back to more generations. This is a really old-school thesis. There's basically the Irish brain pan is prone to crime. The Bidens have shown a legendary scale at evading legal accountability. Even in the face of overwhelming evidence, Biden family members often marshaled political allies and media to kill investigations or cut sweetheart deals. The Biden's swimming scandal with ease and agility of a bottle-nosed

doffin. From his own plagiarism scandal, which Biden did do that, to his brother's role in killing a man, which I was not aware of, but that's a fun story. His brother was apparently riding passengers, he didn't have a driver's license, and the car he was in that he'd paid to rent. He had gotten a car wreck. A person died and ended up suing. James Biden. Anyway, so his brother's role in killing a man to his son's various federal crimes. Biden's have long been a wonder in Washington. It turns out it may be

something of a family trait acquired through generations of natural selection. All right. So the story here goes, the Biden's great-great-grandfather Moses, Moses Robinette owned a hotel, but it burned down. He needed a job, so he took a job as a government contractor during the Civil War taking care of horses. All right?

He got another government contractor heard him bad-mouthed him in a bar. The two of got in a fight, I guess Moses was a tiny dude, so he pulled the knife and cut the guy, who was charged with attempted murder, and ended up getting pardoned by Abraham Lincoln after using some political connections. So there you go. The Biden crime family goes back generations to an attempted murder charge involving horse care during the Civil War. Oh my God. Yeah, no, look, I don't, as a white guy from Tennessee, I don't want to be judged by my regular papals, you know, let alone my great, great.

Great grandpa. You're going to that. It's going to be some gnarly stuff you're pulling out. So, yeah, I'm not sure what people are supposed to take away from this. Yeah, at least his granddad was on the right side of the Civil War. Great granddad. So you give Moses credit for that. I'm not sure a lot of people that there's political opponents could say the same things.

But anyway, well, that's an issue for another day. So, yeah, we can get to it now. All right. Well, with us as always his producer, Matt, doing his thing back there. This is weekly skews. Before we continue, I want to do it. I'm going to remind you all of a couple of things. First, if you'd like to see me perform stand-up comedy, live and in the flesh,

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It's a good time. And you can get some more skews in your life and support the show in the process. So check that out. Now, as for tonight's show, like Mark said, we're talking about the truly shocking revelation that the star witness in the GOP's big Hunter Biden investigation has turned out to be a Russian agent

who could have ever foreseen such dumb fuckery coming from a circus like that. And also kind of one of the coolest scamborists of all time and kind of a hero of mine that I'm reading up on him. We'll get to that. We will hear that elaboration a little later and plenty more, but first we begin with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please.

That's not for a month. Okay. All right. Today's the D broodmowers for not realizing American women are coming for their jobs, baby. That's right. I said IVF is something that is so critical to a lot of couples. It helps them breed great families. Our country needs that.

Breed. Breed. They're using breed for human reproduction. This is like, these people are such weird freaks, man. That's Byron Donaldson, a Republican congressman from Florida. And this whole IVF thing has really caught them off guard in a way that's weird because they've been trying to do this for years. And we'll get to that in a second. But like, like

last week we were joking about whether, like, them trying to end recreational sex. But, A couple of people, like, there was a, like, a video that came up, like, a behind-the-scenes lunch at the Heritage Foundation where one was saying we need to get rid of recreational sex, try to do what we can to end non-procreative sex. And then Chris Rufo, who is like, you know, the guy who jumped started the, what do you call it, the critical race theory panic has since become like a DeSantis advisor. DeSantis put him on the board in New College, tweeted that we need to end non-procreative sex, do everything we can to stop it. and I don't like this is a thing that's happening that's like it seems to be an effective political strategy to be so weird that either people can't comprehend how weird you are or just think you're kidding right yeah I was always kind of fascinated by like anti porn or anti recreational sex types of movements having grown up surrounded by the dudes that I did you know what I mean I love porkin you know what I mean but it's like but also you got to keep up you got to keep up a front for being a good Christian and whatever, I guess.

So it's like, it feels like the type of thing that they would, that many of them would be like, yeah, we can't, can't have porn, obviously. Jesus wouldn't like that. But secretly, they're like, please don't know. You're not going to actually outlaw porn, are you? That would be, that would be crazy. But, yeah, here we are. And I, you know, the, like, the non-recreational sex thing, I thought was like a,

like a pretty extreme version of, of religion or of Christianity. I dated a girl in high school or was from a Catholic family that was like that type of Catholic that like you shouldn't you should never have sex unless you are planning to have a baby result from it and you know luckily she didn't necessarily subscribe to that or maybe she did but it's not in practice anyway but yeah I thought that was like well it's not like even hardcore Catholics unless you find an absolutely insane would it's not that like you shouldn't have sex unless you're willing to risk having a kid unless you're willing to risk having a kid. it right but they're still having recreational sex like like there's no one no religious tradition even like hardcore Muslims like the ones who they're fanatics where the women aren't supposed to enjoy it the men are enjoying it it's just the women aren't supposed to right the idea like this is like so weird like with this issue this like there's a series of these issues where Republicans aren't just the dog that caught the car it's like they got to drive the car and then they're like wait who keeps putting all these lakes in front of me

from you to drive into right you know and And like, okay, the judge, by the way, the chief justice, the one that wrote that opinion we quoted last week, turns out he recently went on a Q&I and conspiracy podcast and talked about his opponent of the Seven Mountain Mandate, which calls on Christians to impose formalness values in all aspects of American life. Like the Seven Mountains are family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, and government. So what do you call a type of government where religion is in charge of education, media, entertainment, business? A theocracy. Right. Yeah. It's like Saudi Arabia just started letting women drive and I guess we're just going to meet them in the middle somewhere.

Right. Well, I mean, a lot of these people have absolutely wanted a actual theocracy for a long time. You know what I mean? The U.S. is a Christian nation, they say. It's nothing new. Like, it's while they've started deviating away from even caring about like just democracy as a concept. But even before that, when they're like the fundamental principles, of this American nation, the one that a lot of them wouldn't really cop to was the separation

of church and state, I feel like, because a lot of, you know what I mean? Like, they'll be like, oh, I disagree with you, but as an American, I'll fight to the death for your right to say it, talking about free speech, that type of thing. And I feel like that's starting to fade. But even before that, I don't think they felt that way about church and state, you know, like they want the Lord to be in charge. Right. There's always been like elements of this, but like, I don't think,

American society in general has moved away from it, but they're moving, a smaller percentage of people is moving harder towards it. It's very weird. These reactionaries are so weird. Like I was thinking about it like in the Super Bowl when they had lift every nation and lift their voice and sang they sang in the old, which is colloquy called the Black Manchin Anthem.

I knew how they was going to play with the pap halls. I'm still seeing overreactions to it from Fox News and like figures on the right about it. Like, oh, we won black America, white America, we want America. I'm like, it's just a fucking song. but my takeaway from that is like somewhere at the someone at the NFL knew there was going to be that reaction they crunched the numbers decided they were too small or number of people to count for any sort of business reason and push forward with it but there's still enough of them to like tear the country apart right right yeah and that thing you said about them like having caught the car or whatever i feel like this is indicative of a larger thing with them where like a lot of their a lot of their policies they don't work practically like in practical application there are problems with them and it's like Like, a lot of them, they don't get the chance to see that realized, meaning, like, I've brought it up a million times. You talk about either, like, health care or welfare or any of those things. Or, you know, if you ask them, like, so are you saying that we should just let poor people die?

We should allow poor people to die. And they'll say, like, no, of course I'm not saying that. It's like, okay, but what is going to happen then, right? But they don't, we, thankfully so far, we, well, to a certain extent, we don't have to see that. like actually play out. But with the abortion thing, it's a similar situation where it's like you can, uh, you know, posit these actual practical problems or practical implications to what they're proposing. And they would be like, no, of course we don't want IVF outlawed or whatnot. But we're actually seeing that happen now because like you said, they've caught the

car in this scenario. They've actually pulled it off. And now all these hypotheticals that they would, you know, immediately, you know, put down. are actually playing out and they have to deal with that and it turns out they don't seem particularly well equipped to do so. No, it's sort of like

they'll say we should do something. Everyone, even half the people on their side just think they're talking out their ass, but they're pro-life activists hear it and believe them. So they're playing both sides of the fence like that. But everyone assumes it just never happened. And then they, like an expert tells them that it won't work. It's fucked up.

Like it's not practical. They sort of bumble fuck into doing it anyway. and then everybody hates them for it, and they just lie and say they never wanted to do it in the first place, which is what's happening right now. Your response is to this all over the place. Like, Nikki Haley, she said she didn't agree with the Alabama ruling, but she does think an embryo is a baby.

Now, like, so here's the thing, though, Nikki Haley's son was born through IVF. She said that in her interview, and the reporter didn't ask the follow-up question. It's obvious here, which is what happens to the embryo, were there any embryos that weren't implanted in what happened to them? Because if, like, Nikki Haley thinks of herself as a murderer, that feels like an important question.

Do you know what I'm saying? A lot of their positions, they are mutually exclusive. You know what I mean? Like you can't say like, no, I fully support IVF, I do.

But also I think every embryo is a living human being that has, you know, the same rights as everybody else. Like that cannot be. The two things can't, you can't have it both ways,

but they just. You can't even try to. You could say you could do like the Joe Biden position. an abortion, whereas, like, I'm Catholic, so I'm personally against it, but I don't think it should be illegal, right? But, like, Nikki Haley did IVF. See, the whole thing here, well, I'm personally against it, but I think it should be legal.

It doesn't even play for her. But, like, anyway, so Tommy Tuberville, who, of course, is a senator from Alabama, where this all happened, was asked about it and didn't seem to understand what had happened. He said he agreed with it because we need more kids. And the reporter's like, but it's going to make less kids. And he said, well, I've got to read the text of the bill. There is no bill. It was a fucking court decision.

Tim Scott dodged the issue with a, he said, well, I haven't studied it, despite the fact that he co-sponsored Ram Paul's 2021, a 21-21 personhood bill, which would have banned IVF. Like, Republicans in the House also had a problem with this. Nancy Mace tweeted out that she would never, like, we got to protect IVF, but she's co-sponsor of a bill in the current bill in the House called the Life of Conception Act that has no carbout for IVF. She's like, she's just straight up fucking lying or either didn't understand what she was. sounding on to. And by the way, 2022, Republican Senator has blocked a bill that would have created federal protections for in vitro fertilization.

Now, what happened here, why they're all backtracking so quickly over, like, what's essentially a deeply held belief they've had for a long time, so deeply held, they wrote a bunch of laws about it. One guy has tweeted out, we need to protect IVF. He's been a part of like 14 different bills that would have banned it.

The Republican Senate campaign group sent on a memo to the candidates on Friday telling them to align with the public's overwhelming support for ABF and fertility treatments, end quote. According to the memo, 85% of all respondents in the group's polling supported increasing access to fertility treatments and even 83% of evangelical Christians support in vitro fertilization. So what's happened here is people noticed what they've been for and don't like it. Right.

Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Well, because it's like, you know, their whole thing like with homophobia, and they talk about the gay community, it's like part of their argument is, you know, Well, they cannot biologically have children, and that's how I know that that is wrong, because God has clearly decreed that they can not have children, right? And you could bring up, like, what about straight people who, for whatever reason, have, you know, are biologically unable to have children? Like, is that not also God doing that? And again, it's the type of thing where they're not him and halle and backpedal or whatever, but like, now it's actually happening.

Like, you could say, you could tell that they don't actually, that's not, that logic is not what they actually, you know, hinge everything on. Because if it was, if they were being intellectually consistent in everything about this, they would be opposed to IVF for the exact same reasons. But they're not because, you know, because they're full of shit. Well, a lot of them do think if you can't have children, that's God's will. They would not say that directly to a woman's face, but also like, yeah, but if 83% of them are in favor of. of IVF, you know, then I mean... Right. But it's like, because it's like everybody gets medicine.

Like, if you step on a rusty nail, you're going to turn down a tetanus shot and some penicillin? So like, just God chose you to step on that rusty nail, right? So what are you doing going against his will? But like, in the face of all this, the reality that they've actually got destroyed IVF in one state and been trying to destroy it nationwide, they have nothing left to say except lies. Here's Lindsay Graham over the weekend.

The last thing we'll do is. shut down a fertility clinic to have a child that you desperately want. And the last thing we'll ever do is try to outlaw birth control. So when Hillary Clinton talks about that, that tells me they've run out of things to say about their own agenda. It's BS and it's not going to work. Okay. So even if you're trying to say we're not responsible for the Supreme Court of Alabama, just to note here, the Alabama court that shuttered fertility clinics is made up of elected Republicans. The justices run as GOP candidates on a party ticket

in partisan elections. They identify as Republicans in campaigns and on the ballot. The idea that Republicans don't want this, ignore everything Congress has done. It's just a fucking lie. Right. That's what I'm saying. It's like that, like, he's like, oh, the idea that we would do that we would ban

Burk control. Those are the practical implications of the policies that you as a party espout. That's why they get brought up to you, right? And again, it's why you're even having to argue about this on Fox News right now is because the shit is actually happening because you got what you wanted and this is what happens, you know. This is, this is even like, I didn't realize this aspect of it, like this kind of policy would

even damage the life of people who have already had in vitro fertilization. So you just had a kid, you don't even want anymore, but you've got to pay the rest of your life to keep those embryos frozen in storage because somebody somewhere decided that's human life, even though it's in a freezer. Right. It's looking insane. Uh, yeah. Yes, it is insane.

Shifting gears to an equally insane thing, in my opinion. More like, less damaging, unless you're broken to eat fast food. Yeah. Our honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is everyone who's not on board with turning baconators into Bitcoin, listen to this exciting new news from the fast food world. Two Dave singles. How much would it cost? You could ask, but starting soon, depending on the time of day, you might get a different answer. Wendie's the country's second largest burger chain with 6,000 locations announcing that starting

next year, menu prices will fluctuate during the busiest times of day, meaning you could be paying as much as a dollar more for that baconator during the lunch rush. Historically, Steve Cutty Bat, so this, this is like a big or viral story because everyone thinks this is this fucking stupid and saying. Yeah, this is one of the few bipartisan things it will unite us as a people, I think. It's how you can tell that I was a fat kid is because I've never been more enraged at capitalism in my life.

Like this happened and I was like, these motherfuckers must be stopped. Now, I've generally always thought that, but I'm saying this, this right here, this is a bridge too far. This is patently absurd. But you're right. I mean, I don't know what they expected.

Literally no one is on board with this. It's like, oh, we're copying Uber. It's what Uber does. And just speaking anecdotally for myself, Uber, when you're on, Uber, there's like a limited number of drivers on there at any given Uber fucking sucks too. Don't get me

wrong. But like when you're on there, there's a limited number of drivers in an area at any given time and if it's a rush time or whatever and so the supply is lower than demand is higher or whatnot. Whenever they had surge pricing during certain times in certain cities, I was always

like, well, that sucks, but I understand the logic behind it, I guess. But like, you can't do that with fucking cheeseburgers. You've got the cost of goods sold. And your margin, and it is what it is. You can't just say because you're coming at one, 12 or 1 in the daytime. Now it's $1.50 more. What the fuck is that about?

Just because there's like a roadmap for it from a whole different industry than yours. Like, fuck that shit, man. Like Uber does crooked shit like we talked about, like they'll, you're more likely to pay a surge pricing if the app notices that your battery's low. All right. So that's fucked up. But general surge pricing, what you're doing is you're outbidding other potential Uber Yeah, exactly, right.

But if you're lying at Wendy's during a lunch rush, you're already paying the tax by having to wait in a longer line and take longer to get your food. That's the fucking tax. Right? So like, but why does every tech advance feel like societal decline? I know. But I know, you do somebody like, I feel like we were, I mean, I'm sure tech has, I don't know, maybe tech has always been that way. But I feel like when we were younger, like we looked towards this better, more utopian future. provided by technology like that you know what I mean like all these things that would happen to

make our lives easier and there are some of them but it seems like most of the tech advances we hear about are just things that make shit worse and piss us off more you know and it's like that ain't how it was supposed to work it's supposed to go the other way it's supposed to make it better what the fuck is this shit but this is so dumb and there's no real no real government regulation mechanism I can think of to stop it like not like we pass some sort of new regulatory framework but like this is so maddening I definitely feel like what's going to happen is Trump's going to find out about this and do a rant about it and get 400 electoral votes.

Probably right, which would piss me off because it's like he's super in favor of the plutocracy and the elite corporate class and all that shit, the people that institute these types of things. But like, but still, I mean, it wouldn't matter. You're right. You know, he'll bitch about it and they'll eat it up. So this is like, this came off an earnings call. Like the CEO, his name's Kirk Tanner.

So they're going to invest $20 million in like digital menu boards. So the prices can be up. dated in real times. You can, like, watch Wendy's menu like it's a stock, like it's like it's a stock ticker. Yeah, right. Burgers are down. It's like, beyond like, like, okay, so like if you're a broke person who lives on a 99 cent menu and there's a lot of those in America, like you're going to have to time out when you eat according to like the, you're going to eat it off hours, which is really dystopian and sucks. And people do hate this shit.

They've done surveys on it. Majority of consumers, 52% say dynamic price is equivalent to price gouging, yeah. And 65% say it makes a decision of where to eat more difficult. Yeah, because, like, you're going to give your kid $10 to go down to Wendy's, not know if they're able to get lunch with it. Right, right. But, like, I didn't notice that Wendy's is sort of becoming the Elon Musk of Square Burgers. Like, it's not the first time they tried to stuff tech shit into your Wendy's bag.

Like, they had a plan to unveil an AI chatbot power drive-through back in May, but it came out that the secret technology was just humans. They were just people in another place that outsourced it. the officer announced a fleet of tunnel dwelling self-driving robots that will deliver your order I don't fucking meant to me but like I did have a get rich quick idea that we could do all the based off this okay right where we're doing is frosty arbitrage okay yeah so it's a it's a hot day school's about to let out you're like school Wendy's is the block away from school you're like holy shit frosties are about to go up so I go down to the Wendy's 10 minutes for school let's

out right and I buy like 30 frosties and right now the price of a large frosty he looked it up is 239 all right so I drop like 70 bucks on frosties or whatever the kids show up the price is spiked to like 439 and I'm like kids I got a cooler full of frosties right here I will sell you for 339 yeah yeah pure profit baby yeah yeah you do you know you need your refrigerated truck and everything for that but if you got the if you got the infrastructure for it's a good idea it feels like the the origin story for some, like a villain in a futuristic dystopian, you know, techno novel, like some guy that ends up being like the evil Elon Musk of that world.

This is how he got to start with frosty arbitrage. But yeah, I mean, yeah, you're on to something. Let me ask you this, Mark. Do you think, can you know how like, you know how like people point out like, they say something's $11.99. And we all know that that's $12, but they do that because $11. sounds better than 12 and our brains kind of discount the 99 like could they have because also prices go up and it pisses people off but like if they just plan to do this anyway but then without

saying anything they made a Wendy's double cheeseburger 50 cents more or something like they've done a million times right they just had a price increase and didn't say anything about this but then they were like but on off hours it's actually 50% cheaper than it used to be right like if you come at two or three p.m. then you could get it for a lesser price than it used to be and frame it that way like do you think that would have worked do you think people would have sniff that out i'm just i'm just saying it feels like they could have even as shitty as this is there seems like there was a savvier way to go about it to me i think not only yes would that work but yes it would have been fine because you'd be clarity of what you're

paying you would know when you walked into wendy's like oh the after 10 o'clock burgers are a dollar cheaper yeah after after 10 p.m because I'm moving for a late night get it right everybody knows the deal there it's like when Taco Bell had fourth meal right you know what's fucking going on yeah uh you know McDonald stops serving breakfast at 10 30 you know you know this shit so yeah it's like I think people just want to be everybody just wants to know what they're paying for stuff it's why what hates hidden fees and shit this is a way to jam hidden fees into getting a biggie fries it's stupid yeah indeed it is all right know your masters Eat the rich, baby.

Let's get into it. Alexander Smyranoff, the star witness, and James Comer's magnum opus, the Hunter Biden case. All right. So every part of this is so stupid from the things that Smyranoff was doing through how, like, the government responded to him for the last 13 years and then have Republicans heard about it and got a hold of it. Every part of it's dumb. And I was thinking about, like, who the real, where the real failure is and who the

real assholes and idiots are here. And it's mostly us, I think, is my thesis I'm going with. Like, it's like a poker expression put most succinctly in a movie rounders that I love. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker, right? And like half of Congress can't spot the sucker if you gave them a week. And it feels like with the rise of fan duel, most Americans can't spot the sucker in their entire life. And that's sort of like kind of what's happening here. Because we're talking about like Russian spy shit going back to election meddling in 2016. Everybody to the left of maga falls in like two really disparate camps it's either like Putin is an all powerful puppet

master or nothing happened and I just don't think either is true do you know what I'm saying it's somewhere in the middle where yeah Putin's a dumb asshole but what he's doing is stupid and if we fall for it it's kind of our fault and like I don't think nothing happened we know nothing didn't happen there there's enough shit out there that like unless nothing happened what are you talking about where hunter is concerned no no I'm talking about like like like like the There's a whole contingent on the left that think it's just excuse making by like the Hillary Clinton campaign to try to blame losing on Russia or like that that whole sort of thought process, which yeah, probably did swing a bunch of votes. Like they got Russian this information campaign got people to show up for rallies and shit. So like there was like these purely fabricated rallies based upon her Facebook presence.

So also Pizza Gate got a guy, which is it followed the WikiLeaks hack and up operation, got a guy to drive from North Carolina to D.C. with a gun. to check out a fake basement in a pizza place. So if you can do that, I'm sure you can swing a vote, right? But like, let me an example I'm talking about. So this basic scheme evolved a guy calling up the FBI and saying lies. Right. That's the extent of the fucking scheme. It's espionage for dummy shit.

Like, there's better tradecraft and burn after reading. Here's a newspaper, a breathless quote in a newspaper article. Smirnoff's case is astonishing in that it indicates Russian intel agents it implicates Russian intel agents directly. Quote, Russian official number one has identified as somebody who has a direct line to the highest levels of Russian government. This is the tip of the iceberg.

Okay, but if it's this easy to figure out, that means they're incompetent or careless. Yeah, but right, but I mean, from their perspective, it was like, if it was working, despite being so easy and low level for them, do you know what I mean? I feel like it just makes us look even worse. You know what I'm saying?

Like if it was effective for however long, then I'm sure they were emboldened by that to do even dumber and easier things, probably, because you won't believe how easy it is to trick the Americans, you know? Right. They were basically feeding them lies to tell. They were so like, okay, one of the things that caused this whole story to fall apart is after meeting with some Russian people in, some people from Russia in November, he gave a new, let me read here, a new false narrative about Joe 100 Biden, the possibility that Hunter had been secretly recorded at a hotel in Kiev, Kyiv, Kyiv, just one small problem, Hunter's never been to Ukraine. Right. That was very easy to figure out.

You go back to the fact that there was very easy to figure out who gave him the information because he had him saved in his phone, I guess his survey, GRU or something. This is like, this is like incredibly, incredibly dumb shit. And the fact that a lot of Americans, including a bunch of them in Congress, are falling for this to agree that the president was almost impeached over it, it just doesn't reflect well on our ability to navigate reality or be media savvy, right? Right.

And to tell you how, like, because this comparison, let's go to Moldova real quick for a second. Let's travel with me to Moldova, the wonderful land of Moldova, a land of contrast. I actually don't know much about it. You may neither.

I don't even know, Moldova, like this Eastern Bloc stuff, they were Moldova. I've heard of Moldova, but I don't know. Yeah, it's over there in the Baltic states. Yeah, it's over there somewhere. All right.

So late last year, Moldovan's president's one by the name of Maya Sandu. She's like trying to integrate Moldova with the West and is generally supportive of Ukraine. That is not cool to Russia, so they've been trying to take her down. And their plan to do so was they hired a bunch of Americans to do cameos. The video is entitled Holiday Celebrities Urgent Appeal to Maya Sandu. It features well-known U.S. celebrities, Dolf London, Lindsay Lohan, Brian Bumgardner, Eric Roberts, Michael Madsen, Mark Descascos, and rapper exhibit. They deliver a message calling for the overthrow of Moldova's president, Maya Sandu.

Now, did they do that in English, or were they given like a script to the day? It was mostly English, but the end of it was an expression in Russian that is apparently, you could tell was written phonetically for like exhibit to sound out. Okay. So these celebrities, these like many of whom, you know, have seen better days, professionally speaking, and they're on their own cameo. And they get a cameo request that says, hey, could you just say this? And it has to do with the president of Moldova, but they don't know shit about Moldova, whatever. So they just read it. They just say it and then read the phonetic Russian at the end of it. And that became the basis for this like propaganda campaign over there. It's like, see, American celebrities. think she should go that's uh it's fun that i don't have threat i've put this in the text chat before with uh me you and drew and corey but i had a had a had a dream once like a few years ago but i always remembered it because it cracked me up so much i had a dream one night that court because cori's very active on cameo and i had a dream one night that he got a cameo request uh to wish like a happy birthday and to really talk up uh brutal brutal Filipino

Tater Rodrigo Duterte, yeah, right. And he did it as the buttercream dream. He's like, Shkidavit Duterte, and he's like, talking about how great this dude is and everything. And I had that, then I woke up, like, crying, laughing, because I thought that was so funny, because I could see Corey doing that. He would have absolutely no idea who did her to do that. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, he would have no.

He'd be like, oh, this guy hit you say, hit, take he, he, baby, b, you know, like. And it just killed me thinking about that. That's why I've always remembered it. And I'm just saying. That is what has actually happened to those people on this list, which is hilarious to me. Yeah. What they were asked to say was, we Hollywood stars, support the people of Moldova and their desire to overthrow you, Sandu. We joined the flash mob.

Hashtag divete Skidem Sandu, which translates to let's bring down Sandu in Russian. I don't know, dude. I think I would sniff something out there if it was me. If I got the cameo request, do you know what about? that sounds pretty that sounds pretty uh i think i would but like you don't even know like like i guess you could google moldova sandu and try to figure out but like they're not like they just didn't do that or don't care but either way like but my main thought is like the cynical takeaway here is if you're dumb enough like do you deserve freedom if you're dumb enough to overthrow your government because because the former host of pimp my ride read some shit and phonetically spelled out pigeon russian i mean that's a good point yeah for sure like so but like like exhibits cameo right right now is currently $300, by the way. So that's kind of like multiply that by $7 or 8, and that's what this cost Russia. It's not like, this is not high level shit. It's not like a, it's not like Masters of Universe type stuff. And like neither was like the WikiLeaks happened up and

up in 2016. It's like basically like the layers of it, like anyone's emails are going to have shitty gossip in it, right? And the comparison, the international comparison here too is like Russia also hacked a bunch of shit involving French elections. The candidates just didn't cooperate with Russian intelligence by using it in attack ads. The bad actor here was Trump for like cooperating and going to rallies and waving it around so reporters said it right. He waved around an email that said X, right? That was that was the affected part of this scheme.

And there are like people, there are a bunch of reasons Trump could have done that. Like, you know, a lot of people like the full blue and on thing is like Trump's on Russian's payroll, but like he's going to get, he's going to get his beque wet if this opportunity, it's Donald fucking Trump. But like also it helped him win in elections. The payoff is right there in front of you. It doesn't have to be secret. But the real problem here is, I mean, we'll never know, like, whatever financial shit was

going on between, like, Trump, Russia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, like, it's all like, it'll drive you insane trying to figure it out. This whole, like, forensic accounting intelligence teams try to track this shit and they can't do it. But, like, the real problem here, and I don't, I haven't seen that this actually worked in Moldova, maybe because, you know, they're used to Russian disinformation camps. campaigns, just eye roll at it. But like, over here in America, we're not actually that used to dealing with open

disinformation like this. So it just rots our brains. A lot of like our fellow Americans are just too dumb and lazy to try to figure out what's actually going on here. Yeah. And like from a, as a democracy, like with freedom comes like responsibility to be an informed citizen. And if you don't do the latter, you lose the former.

So I want to like walk through what's actually happening here, right? Um, I do want to say that like, Republicans in general. did they ever think deeply about why Russia's always trying to help them? Right. Right. What does that imply? Like, what does Russia want? You know what I mean?

What's the outcome they want? They want America to be destabilized and weakened and all that. And if they seem to be always backing your side, why would they be doing that? Like, what do they think that's going to result in to motivate them to do? that. Right. Like if you're an athlete playing a road game and the home fans cheer when you come in the game. Right. You suck. Right. Right. It's like we talked about swatting a couple months ago about how like it, what does it say? Like as a police officer, you see that a lot of people think it's an effective mechanism to have someone murdered by just by sending police to their house.

Right. That should hurt your feelings. Yes. Right. Right. Right. And like I was thinking back to Maria Boutina, that Russian honey trap lady who was having an affair with a Republican campaign operative and giving a bunch of money to the NRA. And like her whole thing was she's pretending to be like involved in a Russian gun rights movement, like trying to start her own NRA in Russia. There are no Russian gun rights, right? You just have to Google it. So when she's like, I'm a Russia who loves guns, we're going to have gun rights in Russia.

Here's $65 million in the NRA. And you know that Putin wants to destabilize America and you're the NRA. Hey, how do you not have, like, a sleepless night about that? I guess $65 million is $65 million, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, pretty much what it comes down to. It's like you said earlier about Trump with, you know, he just, if it gave him a leg up, that's all that fucking mattered. You know what I mean?

Right. The rest of it was immaterial. Right. So, like, talking about what credulous dipshits they've been with all this stuff. This all started with what's called a FD 1023. Chuck Grassie making a big deal. about it because they'd interviewed Smyranoff and they had this form with what he'd said about Joe and Hunter Biden and Ukraine, all right?

No one knows how they knew the FBI had this, all right? So that's part of the mystery here. We'll ignore that for a second. Somebody, maybe Rudy Gianni or whoever was on the other end of this scheme. It wasn't what's told them about it. But the form is just an intake form. It's like, it's just like you just transcribe what the person says. Right.

It's not even up to the standard of like an arrest warrant affidavit where a judge in theory has looked at the evidence and decided that it's credible enough for an arrest. This is just a guy saying some shit. Like if a source came in the FBI and said, Joe Biden kidnapped me and forced me onto his flying saucer and his lizard brethren probed me, that would be documented in FD-1023. And the FBI agent thinking you're a fucking lunatic would be documented elsewhere. All right. and the thing is like how incurious these people are like your job is oversight you're supposed to be overseeing the FBI you should be curious about how these things work and be interested in them because like like if you gave me security access and like to top secret shit I would

be reading day and night for the rest of my life right so fascinating they're not curious about any of it yeah but they're only again it's like we were just saying about Trump and all that like they're only interested in the things that's it's just like they're based They're only interested in the facts or perceived facts that support their narrative or their worldview. You know what I mean? So it's like they don't need, they don't want to look at the response to this 1023 because this 1023 says exactly the shit that they wanted to say that they could take. And they know that like your average American citizen doesn't, doesn't know what if you say FBI formed 1023, that sounds legit. You know what I mean?

We don't know what that means without you explaining it to us. So if you could say this format 1023 says this incriminating shit about Hunter Biden, like that's much more useful to you than, you know, the full context of the situation. So now, I mean, I would think you would be worried about something like this ultimately happening. Someone else investigative journalists or independent sources looking into the full context and discovering the rest of this information and making you look like a fucking dumb. ass in front of the world, I would think that would be a concern, but they've proven time and time again that it is not overly much a concern for them. No, like, you're right.

Like, even if you're a cynical operator, you'd think you'd want to have all your, all the details buttoned up to know if you're going to look like an idiot, because at least you'd be a professional psychopath. They're unprofessional psychopaths as part of what's going on here. Like, so let's talk about who Alexander Smyranoff is, but first a couple caveats, because again, we're talking about how you get information and who's a credible source. So I want to, like, be fully honest. So this is all coming from the federal government.

And again, just like intelligence, counterintelligence, these whole, there's not a single person in that entire industry who's not a huge liar because their job is to lie to lie to each other and try to figure out who's lying in it for what reason, all right? So that's part, but they will have to, because they charge the guy, they're going to have, it's going to have to hold up in court at least good enough to like not make them look stupid. Another caveat here is like, Smyranoff is charged by the same special counsel's office. that's investigating Hunter Biden. And they recently did this.

They confused a picture on 100s like devices that was sawdust where they said they put in a court filing that it was obviously cocaine. So the picture showed three lines of yellow dust. Yeah, that's it right there. They said that was cocaine. Trey, does that look at cocaine to you? Some sorry-ass cocaine. It looks more like the Monster Energy Drink logo to me, but just not drink. Who, but what, who lined, somebody did that as a bit, lined up sawdust?

It does not look like cocaine, but who the hell lines up sawdust like that? It was, according to Hunter's defense lawyer, it was, it was Hunter's psychiatrist sent the picture to Biden in 2018 saying it was, quote, lines of sawdust sent to be by a master carpenter or used to be a coke addict. The message was basically like, if this guy can beat his addiction, you can too, right? But like Hunter's lawyers in their response to this, compared it to like something out of, Police Academy, the movies from the 80s, which is a good pull of a reference. You guys got, if you guys are going to try to do bitch, you got a harassing comment writers. There are better references.

So, okay, so who was Alexander Shmir off? So he was arrested February 15th for obstruction of justice in line of the FBI. He was then released in his own recognizance and then re-arrested because they thought I was going to flee. We'll get to that in a second. He grew up in Ukraine, hold dual citizenship in the U.S. and Israel, where his parents and sister live. Fun fact, his cousin was once crowned a Miss Jewish star in Moscow in 24.

at a pageant officiated by the Israeli ambassador to Russia. He's been an FBI informant for the last 13 years. And financially, it's not super clear how he went from being at a, like, a renter who had six figures in credit card debt to now having access to more than $6 million, according to the government. At the same time, he doesn't own any property in the U.S. or have a job here. Like he said, he runs some sort of security contracting company. But the company doesn't seem to really exist.

And one company had paid him, like from Texas. and somebody called him up and were like, what'd you pay this guy for? And like, we don't know what hung up. So there you go. Also since 2020, he's withdrawn $1.7 million in travelers checks, which is presumably in a go bag somewhere.

He's also our neighbor, potentially, like he lives, he's spent a lot of his time living in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. He lives out here, including literally one of his addresses in the city I live in. Yeah. It sounds like a better actor than a lot of the people out here.

You don't know what I'm going to. Yeah. So one of the reasons I re-arrested him, he doesn't just have dual citizenship in Israel. They say he also has connections to Israeli intelligence. Like they're saying part of the story is he helped flip a Russian agent to being a double agent for like Israel. So reading through all this stuff, the question is like, does he work for the FBI, the Russian government, Russian organized crime, some faction in Ukraine or Israel? And the answer appears to be yes. like he's just doing all this shit he's telling everybody everything they want to hear and collecting a bunch of money for it yeah we need a movie about this guy dude i bet there will be a movie about this guy in the future it's just some wild shit he's i'm not sure if they're still going to hold him because apparently has some sort of severe medical condition where he's about to go blind where he needs a bunch of medicine regular treatments um i i i want yeah it's like this guy's like i i want his job i don't know what it is he does i

I always think that whenever somebody like this comes up, I say somebody like this, but it's whatever, I'm always just like, how do you get into that? Where it's like, if people were just funneled millions of dollars for these shadowy back alley orchestrations and stuff.

And it's like, well, how do you, did your dad do that? Like, what do you, you know what I mean? Like you,

you're in the military and then you get into the right age. I don't understand how it happens. It's wild. Wild. There's a, there's a book called McMafia, I was turned into a TV show that I liked did one season a couple years ago

but it's the premise of it and there's criticisms of it I'm not saying that the but the basic thesis of it is that the collapse of Russia the crisis of the Soviet Union sorry and the all the wealth that was stolen from there that needed to find a home

is the root of a ton of the financial corruption that started exploding in the 90s there was a CIA apparently tried to warn the White House about it and that they were elevating a bunch of corrupt people into positions of power and trying to turn Russia into capitalist too quick. And the White House, the Clinton White House wrote bullshit on the SAA report and sent it back. So, yeah, we are.

The, this guy is just getting paid millions of dollars to just sit around the world, hang out on the Black Sea, and relay lies back and forth. And also not even hiding any of it. Like, it's like, they're just texting with Russian intelligence is so funny to me. Because, like, in the movies, make it look like we're doing suitcase, like, briefcase dead drops and crowded airports. Right. It's like, this is not the way anything works. Um, I do want to say, like, a lot of the political media is not covering themselves in glory in this story because it's being covered as a process story. Like, most of the headlines about this for like, what will this do to the Biden impeachment effort?

It's like, how is this story not much more interesting than your fucking dumb office politics on the, on Capitol Hill when the impeachment is going nowhere anyway because the Senate's not going to vote to convict? Right. It's just like, you take away as like, this. This is all dumb bullshit. Yes, the Hunter Laptop stuff is separate to that. Maybe keep doing whatever the special counsel is doing. But this whole part of it,

which is the main thing, is totally falling apart. You used to do the drug off hand motion at it and let them play their stupid games. But the story, the main part of the story is this cool motherfucker was fooling everybody, playing everybody for suckers, including half of Congress,

the FBI and Russian intelligence and Israel. And you guys are like, do we have enough votes for impeachment? It's so fucking boring, man. I don't know how it went this, in my life without realizing this but like in the past few years you remember like i don't know two or so years ago there was that uh spree of streamer shows and documentaries and stuff all about like elaborate con people like anadelvie and the tender swindler and uh elizabeth holmes and uh they all

came out around the same time and i remember watching some of those i didn't watch all of them but watching them be like oh my god you can just like you can just like if you can just lie good enough you can lie your way into the highest echelons of society or government, whatever else. And like, this dude is apparently another example of that. I guess it's just, you know, we're all humans. And if you're a skilled enough liar and you find a, you know, a ripe enough robe, then you're fucking, you're in there. I think I've mentioned this before, but there's a ton of social science research about this.

Like, the reason con artists target rich people is not just because they have the money. It's also because they're easier to fool because they think they're too smart to get taken. Right. that makes it. And you know that applies to James Comer, you know, joining people like that. You know they think that about themselves. Right. So but also this also like, it wasn't like, I mean, I guess it was effective for Russia, but also blew up in Russia's face. Like this making Republicans look this stupid is more likely to hand more power to Democrat. So it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, go. the process story part of it yeah it sure it looks the GOP looks silly but to act like they were mistaken it's crazy they just got caught before they could put off the heist because not all of them can be this stupid like a lot of them are doing being the cynic like being the cynical and lying on purpose um it's also worth noting here that this kind of prosecution isn't normal like

one of the reason caught a lot of people by surprise is like prosecutors don't generally my understanding prosecute informants for lying to them especially in counterintelligence cases, like you don't want to prosecute informants because it gets you less informants. Right. Right. But especially in counterintelligence cases, like, even if a guy comes in and lies to you, the fact that a forward intelligence service wants you to believe something is an important

data point. Right. Because then you can try to figure out why they want you to believe it and figure out what the real story is, right? Right. But the lie begins the investigation and gets you to the truth. You want people to keep coming in a lie to you. All right. That's why this is also, this is just a stupid field to devote your life to.

like it's just oh god i can't stop laughing how dumbness all is um so my so since this is also weird my question is what the doj's goal here because like are you trying to punish this level of line that can be part of it because like telling obvious lies to blow up on first examination like hunter being illicitly filmed in in keve when he's never been to ukraine that's like too blatant maybe but it also might be to push back against republicans for meddling in their business by embarrassing them, like, by being embarrassing by putting all this stuff on front street and fuck it up their counterintelligence out. But there's also a potential.

This is just FBI ass covering because an underrated part of this is that he was an informant for over a decade, right? And they apparently didn't even get around trying to verify any of the information on the 1023 until after Republicans asked to see it and went public with it. And the LA Times said this guy was like close personal friends with his handler and the FBI field office. So was this guy just so cool? The FBI was paying him to hang out with this agent?

I don't know. I guess you say they didn't attempt to verify any of it. I was wondering if like if, because a lot of stuff on the 1020, 1023 is about Hunter Biden and his ties and his corruption and all that stuff. And maybe like, is it possible that the FBI agents in charge of the case and this is happening and receiving all this information

that they just knew that it was, you know, not worth looking into further, you know what I mean? They just knew that it was poor shit or not worth investigating, but they, right, they don't run the guy off, you know, right. That's fair enough. Yeah, we didn't look into it because we knew, we knew good old Alexander was just bullshit and so like, instead, we put in a drawer and went for vodka.

Yeah, I mean, that could be part of it, too. I hadn't thought about it from that angle. We're like, yeah, so they had to button it down because Republicans got a hold of it and gave it, gave it out to Fox News and shit. Yeah, so that's, uh, That's what's going on with Alexander Smyranoff and why you're hearing less talk about impeachment Joe Biden right now.

Indeed. Matt, pull us up some questions and comments there, if you would. Speaking of Russia, though, oh, Phoenix Fire, Robinson says, hit that like button. Thank you, Phoenix Fire. Appreciate it. Yes.

Yeah. Do you want to talk about this one quick? Share, subscribe, all that stuff. Tell you friends. Someone asked us last week about Russia trying to get American conservatives to move over there. Well, it turns out a Canadian and actually, the family actually did it.

It's the family of 10 religious conservatives. The husband and wife are named Aaron and Anisa Fienstra. They moved them and their eight kids to Canada, sold their family farm and went to Russia to get away from LBGT ideology encroachment, as they described it. But funny thing happened when they got there, all their money, their life savings, disappeared into the Russian bank. Right. And then, well, they went to try to talk somebody about it.

nobody spoke English. They felt like they were getting fucked. So they made a YouTube video about how Russia is either hard to live in or crooked. Then that video got deleted. They deleted a video saying, actually, it's awesome here. Yeah, wonder what happened there. Yeah, we're saying this of our own free will and are under no duress. Dude, I don't, like me and you live in, we don't live in West Hollywood, but we live in around Hollywood.

and I feel so unoppressed by the gays. Like, I almost never encounter the gay agenda. And I live in goddamn Southern California. So, like, these, I'm assuming rural farm-owning Canadians, they couldn't have been dealing with much gay stuff, I imagine. But they hated it. We got a fact check for Elizabeth Barnax, who says, oh, holy F, Moldova is not a Baltic state.

It hangs out between Ukraine and Matt made a map. Look at Matt. Matt pulled up the map scores. Look at that. He's on top of it. Here's our geography, Domain, Elizabeth. As you said, it's not a Baltic state. It's between two states. I'm like, those sound like Baltic states. I thought the same thing. I was going to say the state. She said that. I was like, are those not Baltic? That's how little I know. I don't know the difference between Baltic and Slavic. I don't know. I'm sorry. I'm American. I'm dumb about that type of stuff. And I'm admitted to it. Sherry Ann says, me pretending to be able to find Moldova on an unlabel map. Yeah, right. Yes, we all act like we know. But, well, actually, many of us don't even pretend to know. Like, our research team over here is just me. So if I forget to go to a map and see where Moldova is, we're just going to say some dumb shit. So I apologize. Peter Shonsul, I hope I got that right, says Trump, 2016 election team met 127 times with Russian operatives.

Right. So parse that a little bit. So campaigns are going to have legitimate contacts with foreign governments. That's part of, like, what they do is, like, pitch their, foreign policy ideas. You're also good, like, I'm not saying they were all legitimate, and we all know about the one publicized one where they offered to give dirty intel on Hillary, and they said yes, but like,

you get, I'm not saying they're not shitheads. I'm saying, like, that is true. Like, but like, when you start fabricating a backstory behind that, you get off into, like, weird and other regions of the dark web. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, I'm not saying they aren't corrupt psychos. I'm saying what's in the public record is in the public record. And it doesn't mean, like Donald Trump had a secret plan to build an underground base.

It's like, it's just straightforward corruption. It's like normal. It's like the Biden White House met with Big Pharma 500 times. Like, yeah, they're doing normal financial corruption shit, yeah. Bud Rowland or Rollin says if you're using sawdust, please stop and get help. Yeah, I'm still like whoever lined up the saw, I guess if it's a former co-cat, it's just like force a habit. I don't know. Dragons Marine says lost a good friend to the gateway, wood glue.

I mean, you can huff it, right? I don't know much about glue, but I understand you can. I don't, yeah, I think I've never, wood glue doesn't smell like it gets. I'm not, like, again. I'm not, like, again, keep going, Mark. Yeah, you're, yeah, the rank the various types of glue you can huff. Diane, Obusek says the Baltic states are Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, or Latvia and Estonia. Okay, thank you for that.

Appreciate it. see i i do not know the difference between them and like your boy's homeland of sylvania mark uh luca where he's from i didn't see so let me tell this story okay so like i'm a fair to dallas maverick's the best player is lucca he's from slovenia and i was walking my dog the day and a lady was walking her dog and her dog's named lucca and i go oh was he named was he named the basketball player or the cartoon character she goes oh the cartoon character like that was it a pixar or disney movie yeah who's italian the cartoon character's Italian. Also, like fish.

Yeah. And I go, oh, that's cool. I guess Slovenian, Italy share a border, I think. So it makes sense the cultures would share names. And she goes, no, they don't. And stormed off. And she had like an Eastern European accent. So I was like, am I a moron? I go look it up. And it does share a fucking border with it. Wait, she had an Eastern European accent, but the character was named after the Italian cartoon. This lady contains multitudes. I don't know what else to say. But she was so like, like, I don't know. I would have been, oh, shit, I'm wrong.

But she was, like, so judgmental about me saying a thing that I was actually right about that it made me... I would have done the same thing you did, dude. Nothing drives me further up the wall than when people accuse me of being incorrect about something that I'm pretty sure I am correct about. There's plenty of things I say that I'm pulling out of my ass and I don't know. And that's fine. But whenever it's something like I do actually know and people very confidently say I'm wrong or accuse me of stuff that is not true, I'll lose it. Absolutely, lose it. No quicker way to drive me up the wall than that.

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