Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – 3/04/25 – America as a Flea Market for Rich Perverts
Episode Date: March 5, 2025Good news Skewers, there’s a patriot out there fighting for your god given American right to use third graders as speed bumps. Plus, a hot new murder cult that’s bad because some of the members ar...e tran. Then we get into all the really rinky-dink ways everything is for sale in America now, especially if you’re a cybercriminal crypto warlord who eats $6 million bananas.Support the show
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what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you when you're seeing this on
march 4th 2025 we're coming to you from the past as per usual lately it's 1.36 p.m. on
Monday March 3rd as we sit down to record this I'm flying blind on this one I literally just
walked in to my office from a plane from Florida so I don't even know what
what Mark is going to be talking about, but I do have an odd sour patch kid flavored energy drink
that I'm sure will kill me before the age of 40. But looking forward to it. How are you doing, Mark?
Yeah, it might as well bring back the Panera Death Lemonade, dude, wait things are going.
Who cares? Yeah. Yeah, no, we got a fun show. We'll be talking about,
dude, I feel like it was going to be a recurring topic, but like we might as well start numbering them.
but I titled the episode, America is a flea market for rich perverts because the rapid nature of which everything is for sale to a comical degree.
I'm talking about like some obvious graphs having to do with grifts having to do with crypto and shit in a little bit that are breathtaking in their just like upfrontness.
Do you'm saying?
There's like no ruse, no guile, just like you give me money, you get out of jail to do more scams.
It's very, anyway.
So we also be talking about America's hot new murder cult
And Fox News is all over with
Because some of the people involved are trans
And probably my favorite episodes to do
Where we just get to talk about a bunch of weirdos
A bunch of strange people out there
Just doing their strange things
And today's full of it
So I'm very excited about today's show
The first one before we get to the show
I want to talk about
Is a guy I want to tell you about
named Scott Lobido
I'm assuming as a spaghetti person
Sounds like a spaghetti person to me
Yeah
Also, he's from Staten Island, so that's two strikes in a spaghetti person column.
Yeah.
That's like advanced spaghetti person on this side of the Atlantic anyway.
Yeah.
So he turned himself in a couple days ago.
What he had been doing, the charge he was facing, he's real mad about red light cameras and speed cameras in Staten Island.
A man at my own heart, a patriot.
Okay.
Well, we'll get to that.
Be careful taking his side.
Okay.
I do hate those, though.
but anyway. Everybody does
because we only want to get away with crimes if a cop's
not looking. It feels like... Yeah, right, exactly.
It feels like you should have to catch me. I understand
the impulse, but we'll get
to why this guy's a dickhead. He's just dickhead in a few
different ways. So what he was doing was
going around and doing a way to call it a, quote,
community beautification project where he'd cover up
the cameras with like flowers.
Okay.
So he turned himself in
the Department of Transportation
Department of Transportation estimated the
Lovito, he covered up 14 different camera system with his fake flowers.
The DA in the case, a guy named Michael McMahon,
sympathized with LeBito, said that DOT speed cameras were, quote,
omnipresent, adding that LeBito's actions were, quote, not the crime of the century.
Like most Staten Islanders, I lov the omnipresence of speed cameras,
which we seem to have way more of than our fair share of compared to other boroughs.
For the record here, Staten Island,
It actually has the lowest density of speed cameras per square mile, according to the New York Department of Transportation in New York City.
It's just the conservative white borough where all the cops live.
Okay.
So what we're doing here is the cops already face less law enforcement and they want to face none for speeding.
Okay.
So just like it's where all the cops.
So it just makes it easier on the cops to they, it's like automating their own job like on purpose so they don't have to do that.
No, no, they live there.
They don't want to get speeding tickets.
Right.
Okay.
I thought you said that was the only neighborhood that had all the speed cameras in it or whatever.
No, no, no.
They have less than the other boroughs.
Okay.
The DA bought his bullshit saying these cameras are omnipresent.
I hate them.
We have more than every other borough when the numbers show they have less than every other borough.
Okay, got you.
All right.
We got on the same page now.
Okay.
So for context here, Lobito's truck has been hit with 43 school's own speeding tickets.
and five red light tickets since 2022.
Forty-three speeding tickets.
Forty-three school zones, speeding tickets.
That's some pretty impressive numbers right there.
Right.
So more context here.
The speed enforcement cameras only exist in school zones.
So he's gotten 43 speeding tickets for speeding in school zones in the last three years.
Okay.
I watched the video he posted on the Instagram where he matched up news coverage of the story
with him pulling up to the courthouse and turn.
himself in in an SUV flying a bunch of American flags that he had set to
twisted sisters, we're not going to take it.
That's the exact level of subtlety and nuance I would expect from a Staten Island
spaghetti person.
Yeah, there's nothing more on a rock than hitting a kid with your car.
All he wants to do is to be able to do 50 in a school zone.
Their kids are walking across a crosswalk in and not be able to get in trouble for it
unless a cop is standing there.
And this is a civil rights issue in Staten Island.
It's also funny because on Dave Chappelle, I think on killing him softly, one of Dave Chappelle's like old, you know, incredible all-time classic comedy specials from 20-something years ago or whatever.
He has a bit about, you know, his white buddy who is just totally unafraid of cops or whatever.
And it's like, I'm sorry, officer.
I didn't know I couldn't do that, you know.
And the cops are like, well, now you know, I get out of here.
You know, and like that.
That's what it's all about.
But he's talking about he's in the, he calls him Chip.
He's in the car with a white friend chip, and he's just, like, you know, basically driving on the sidewalk speed and all this.
He's blasting his fucking, you know, white, this type of white person music.
And he's like, we're not going to take it.
Like, that's literally the song that he uses in the bit where he's talking about.
White people not want to follow the, you know, the laws or whatever.
And that's from 20 years ago.
So this guy's like, you know, self-parity, which always hits.
How far are you going to Staten Island that's speeding?
makes a difference.
Right.
It's like,
like,
whatever,
it's like,
no speed through school zones,
people,
nothing matters.
I mean,
I thought that,
I had always been
under the impression
that speeding in a school zone
was, you know,
at least somewhat,
I didn't know
a person could do that
43 times
and still have a car
or license or
freedom.
I thought you could do that
like three, four times max,
but,
No, no.
When you get, you can drive a car.
You can kill people with a car as much as you want in New York City,
which you can't do is sell Lucy Cigarettes because the cops will kill you for that.
So that's important to keep in mind.
It checks out.
All right.
Producer Matt is with us.
He's actually across the ponies in Edinburgh.
Scotland?
He's in Scotland right now.
He's got a kilt on drinking whiskey and fucking rating poems.
They like poetry over there.
But anyway, he's over there doing that.
We're over here on the left coast.
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Now, it's like I said, Mark told you all what the show is going to be about,
and I'm glad he did because I would not have otherwise known.
But, so we're going to go right ahead and get started with The Daily Dumbass.
Matt, graphic, please.
Today's D.D. Trans people for inventing a brand new thing in America called cults.
Hate it, Matt.
A group of transgender computer scientists came together, not to build a website, not to introduce a new app, but instead to join a violent cult.
Three members of the trans-vegan group known as Zizian have been arrested on charges, including trespassing on private property.
So, bro, if I was sitting on a plane and I looked over and I just all, I couldn't hear any of it, I just saw that Chiron exposing the dangerous new trans.
vegan cult.
Like, again, talk about self-parody.
It looks made up.
It looks like it's out of a sketch making fun of Fox News.
I find, like, as somebody who pays attention to the world,
I find Fox News's framing of this kind of stuff always hilarious because, like, it's like,
so I Googled, I was trying to figure out if America has more cults in other countries,
and I couldn't find a definitive source, although a lot of people do suspect it.
But I did find some research that at any given point in America, there are 5,000 active cults.
Damn.
And trans people got one.
one now therefore it's an emergency yeah so uh i also in context every other cult i've ever
heard of essentially was formed by some straight dude who wanted to have like a dozen child brides
concubines yeah right and and so like this is what a quality looks like trans people get one call
it's fine sure they well not the murder part they they have the they're they're they're alleged to have been
involved in like six murders around the country
over the past since 2022, which we want to get
to that. I just want to warn you. I've read
like a bunch of articles about this
and I could not make sense of
any of it until one of our
viewers by the social
media handles, Honky Talk Heart, who apparently
works in tech and has been following this cult for a long
time. I knew I would be interested in it. You're absolutely
correct Honky Dog Heart and send me some
materials that made it make some sense.
But all this is so strange. I'm going to warn you that
everything I say is probably about
I thought 30 to 40% slightly off, at least.
All right.
So that's better for this show.
We're trending upwards in accuracy.
So do you remember on inauguration day, we talked about that Border Patrol agent who
gotten killed in Vermont?
Yes.
Okay.
And we were sort of making fun of the Fox News spin on it because they were actually,
they said it was the Border Patrol agent.
First of all, getting killed in Vermont when your Border Patrol agent is kind of difficult
to do, we thought.
And the Fox News was like this person, they had a one of a Trump, Homeland Security official.
go on and say this border agent was targeted, which seemed ridiculous at the time because he
initiated the traffic stop.
Remember that?
Yeah.
Unless you intercept the person to stop you.
Right.
But sort of makes sense, whether they're being a little paranoid because it was part of an
organized group, again, the Zizians.
But just not in the way that they thought or met, right?
And that day, remember, the blue check marks on Twitter were saying that one of the killers
was a quote, illegal immigrant.
Now that the suspect was a migrant in the way classic, in the way they talk about it.
And both were in the country illegally.
The surviving occupant of the stopped Honda Prius was a young woman named Teresa Youngblood.
She's an American citizen and a computer science student.
The other person killed during the gunfight.
Teresa apparently initiated the gunfight after they were pulled over.
The Border Patrol agent returned fire killed a German national with a valid visa who identified as transfeminine and went by Ophelia.
Affilia had a history of employment as a quads and software developer for well-known hedge funds like James Street and Radix.
And Teresa, for her part, uses non-binary pronouns.
So the reasons this particular movement draws trans people we'll get to in a second.
It's actually pretty interesting.
It's not, but it's not the same reason Fox News would think.
Fox News thinks all trans people.
You know that whole right-wing meme where all school shooters are trans?
Yeah, right.
Right.
So that's what they're going out.
But, like, another part of the story that was hilarious to me is that law enforcement was surveilling Teresa and Ophelia because they were wearing black tactical gear.
But, like, that's just everyone walking around at Starbucks and they could have been doing Uber Eats for Black Rifle Coffee.
Like, I don't understand why that's suspicious in America.
No, me neither.
I mean, yeah, I feel like you see the, you know, the gravy seals and them, the mayonnaise militia guys, they're always decked out and tactical gear everywhere they go.
part of their whole thing.
I wouldn't think twice about it.
But it's like,
but you know,
those are patriotic alpha males doing that.
You know,
if you see like a trans person dressed like that,
then, you know,
that's obviously cause for alarm.
I mean,
as one of the situations,
you kind of got to give it up for profiling,
though,
because they were up to,
they were a part of a murder call.
Yeah,
I guess that is true.
So I was trying,
like reading all the stuff trying to make sense of it.
A reporter for Wired compared the story to a,
large language model chat bot because basically whatever conclusion you want you can get to get
out of it you can plug you just plug your own prior prejudices into it and get and get back right
like the closest thing originally i could i could find a headline to make sense of was this
one uh vegan computer savants with bay area ties linked to deaths across u.s like okay this is starting
to make a little bit of sense i'm not sure what degree like ziz who's the founder of this movement
um uh as a trans woman she likes like eating meats like the holocaust right she also calls herself
a vegan Sith Lord.
So you start trying to make sense
of these people,
you start getting dumb it
real quick, right?
Well,
that's why I'm trying to,
I'm wanting to get
to the motivation here
that they have.
Is it,
is it a meat as murder?
Is it like a crusade
against the eating?
Is it the vegan part that's,
nope.
Okay.
All right.
It's close to having to do
with artificial intelligence.
Okay.
Of course.
Because they're all,
they're all Bay Area,
uh,
tech people.
They're part of a movement called,
they calls themselves rationalists.
And like Sam Bankman Fried,
like the,
the what do you call it
the movement
he was a part of the
spaces that you've got
like greed is good
because you spend the money
on charity
I forget the name of it
but like that's part
of a rationalist community
so that the fight between
Elon and Sam Altman
sort of an offshoot
of this too
but rationalists are based
a loose community
of amateur philosophers
focused on self-described
rationalist inquiry
that's become
influential
in AI research and philanthropy
for their part
young blood and Ophili
seemed to have fallen in
with the infamous rationalist
blogger Ziz
who espouses a hard-line
philosophy of justice and an eccentric theory of cognition.
All right.
For all the hardcore, like, people who might earn philosophy like I did, a little bit of a
nerd alert, these rationalists have nothing to do with the Enlightenment thinkers who
use the same word.
This type of person, because you went to college, be familiar to you.
You play overly abstract, like stupidly overthought philosophical games and attempt to
live in compliance with the stupid consequences you're using.
These are kind of people you do drugs with in a dorm room and think about whether we live
in a simulation, except they take it way too seriously, and they got guns.
Plus, murder and stuff, yeah.
Right.
Right.
And again, I'm still not, I assume, you know, you're getting there, but I, the, the, the, why are the, what exactly are they trying to do and what people are they killing them to, to, to murder, facilitate that, you know.
The murders I've seen them involved in, like, they shot a Border Patrol agent for trying to stop them.
They, they will get to another one.
Most of them seem interpersonal and not ideological, not directly anyway.
It's more like they're unstable people who kill people who fuck with them.
Okay.
Yeah.
They're not targeted assassinations or whatever.
Okay.
Of the three murders that are three or four murders that I've seen documented,
all of them seem kind of random just because they're armed up and, you know,
overly enthusiastic about their belief system.
Let's see.
Yeah.
So like the most famous version of this,
this would have related to like modern politics and the,
the doge kids or whatever,
who you could also sort of say
you're part of this
because you're going to put AI
into everything.
The most famous version
of this rationalist impulse
is like reason yourself
into, I'm quoting here
from a blog
that Honkeyton Hart sent me,
reasoning yourself
into a belief that
God-like computer-based super
intelligence
is inevitably coming
and therefore the best use
of your time in the present
is to devote yourself
to ensuring
its compliance with human morality.
All right?
Right.
How do you do that?
How do you ensure?
a future godlike superintelligence is compliance with human morality.
Well, because you're in a war with the other side, the yang to this yen is based
of the Roku's baseless version of this thought problem, where the AI is inherently going
to be evil and will murder anyone who didn't help bring it about.
So therefore, your job is to help bring about the evil supercomputer.
Okay?
Yeah.
Just playing to be like a meat slave or something.
Like, that's the best you're going to.
It's like, hopefully I'll be a pet, like a purse dog in the layer of the, you know, the evil computer overlords or something.
That's the best case scenario.
So the way I've been thinking about it is like AI is like the force in the Star Wars universe.
And one side of rash list with the Zizians are on see themselves as like the rebel alliance for the good light side of the force.
And the Broku's Baselist side, which is sort of the Elon side, is the evil like Sith Lord version,
complicated by the fact that Ziz calls herself a big
That's what I was about to say. It's like, what's funny about that
is the person in the first group literally
called herself a Sith Lord or whatever.
The Godfather of this rationalist movement
is a guy named, I might say his name fucked up,
Elizor Yudowski. No shit,
he writes rationalist theme, Harry Potter
Fan Fiction. Like
it's called Harry Potter and the methods
of rationality. It's a series
series linked fan fiction, 122 chapters
and 660,000 words long.
Now, this sounds crazy, but a lot of people
Reddit interviewed it, said they think it's really well, across the ideological spectrum,
think it's really good and even better than most of J.K. Rowling shit. So if you guys are
Harry Potter enthusiasts, go pick up Harry Potter and the methods of rationality.
You're going to end up converting people, Mark, recommending this shit. And they wind up, you
know, joining a vegan trans murder cult or whatever's happening. So let's get to Ziz for a second.
Ziz is from Alaska. Her government name is Jack Lassota. She got arrested a couple years ago
a protest wearing a guy fox mask if you're wondering what it would arrive is uh in in 2018 uh so
here's where uh the idea ideology connects to the trans stuff a little bit um they experiment with something
called on hit atmospheric sleep uh they try to put one half of the brains to sleep as a time is one half
the brain asleep at a time as a means of debucketing basically they're working off this theory
and i might be phrasing this very poorly that part of their trans identity is because their brain is at war with
itself and one part's like a better way to put it one part's masking one part's feminine
and deciding which part's dominant could up solve the riddle of like whatever's going on in their
brains but they also think that like everybody's brains like this did with different stuff so
they want to they want to see what's going on the other half of your brain by putting the dominant
half to sleep okay i mean i definitely feel like my brain's at war with itself pretty often
frequently uh and definitely one half of it i'd like to you know shut the fuck up for a little
while at least if I could get like an ambient but just for the you know that particular part of my
brain you know that'd be all right right so here's we get we're here's we're going to get the
criminality we'll get into the criminality of this part other so ziz was arrested the protest
wearing a guy fox mask she didn't show up for court her lawyer in court showed up showed up and
swore that ziz had died in a boating accident ziz was alive and kicking still alive uh later that
year, two Zizians got a dispute with her landlord and stabbed him with a samurai sword.
They do seem like sword people to me.
The landlord lived, shot one of them to death.
Cops showed up to the crime scene.
Ziz was there.
And the cops lit Ziz off, even though she was wanted and allegedly dead.
And they knew it was Ziz.
Okay.
Ziz laid low for a few years.
And then the Zizians are kind of quiet.
Then on January 17th, three days before Teresa and Ophelia killed the Border Patrol Guard,
and Ophelia gets killed, the landlord from the Samurai Tech was stabbed to death three days on January 17th.
The guy just can't catch a break, man.
He could even stab twice by the same cult, the second time fatally.
The guy arrested for killing the landlord with a 22-year-old computer named Maximilian who had previously been engaged to,
drumroll, Teresa Youngblood.
But then last week, Zia's got arrested in Maryland for trespassing and possession of a handgun,
which I'm sure the Trump administration will try to wrap her in a terrorism charge is related to the Border Patrol agent slaying,
even though I don't even know where Ziz was at that point.
Anyway, that's the mystery of the Border Patrol agent slaying and the Zizians.
And whether the life and death of one cult and a landlord who was slain by a samurai store will attempt to slain with a samurai store,
then later slav by a regular knife, I guess.
You have any, like roughly how many, how many Zizians exist?
Are there chapters of this?
Is this just one?
It's mostly, but mostly just people who read her blog,
and I couldn't even tell you how many of that is.
Like, I doubt many of them are committed enough to pick up guns.
But again, there's not the same sort of organized movement here.
They don't have a compound or anything.
There's a couple people who read a blog,
went to some rationalist meetings, and then got guns.
So, anyway, they're going to be the new Antifa.
If Antifa stuff ever starts happening again,
if you prepare for Zizians to make a big comeback on Fox News.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
No, I mean, you knew they're going to jump all over this.
there's like a, you know, the fact that there are trans-vegan people, like, being violent,
like, legitimately.
It's just, it's like a Christmas morning over there.
So I'm not surprised by any of that at all.
But with that said, let's, uh, let's continue.
Yeah, America's going out of business.
Say, oh, buddy, everything must go.
Come on down to crazy uncle Sam's.
So I wanted to, we were going to talk about this stuff.
I put the show together yesterday.
Then I'll wake up today.
and I see that Trump basically announced the executive order that we're eliminating even token anti-money laundering reporting requirements.
Money laundering is fully just fucking fine and cool now.
Elon just stole a contract from the FAA.
They had a $2 billion contract with Verizon to do something.
And there's like, nope, give it to Starlink, even though it's patently outbound the out of the law or whatever.
There's a process for changing contracts, yada, yada, yada.
Oh, yeah.
A hugely complicated process.
I'm not caping for Verizon.
But then a hugely complicated process, which they see as redundant and pointless bureaucracy,
is what keeps this process from being corrupted, right?
So, like, I said, I mean, again, that is what I used to do for the Department of Energy.
And the whole time I was there, that type of thing could not have possibly been taken more seriously.
I mean, it's like I mentioned before, like, you couldn't, we couldn't, like, let potential vendors, like, you know, buy an appetizer at lunch or anything like that.
You couldn't take nothing from them.
or even the semblance of like impropriety or favoritism or whatever was like a big time fucking problem.
And that's why it was always treated before.
But now they're just like, they're just willy-nilly handing them out and stuff.
And I mean, that type of thing did still would happen or whatever.
But if you got caught, you know, or proven, you'd be in deep shit.
Now they're just doing it in broad daylight, you know.
Yeah, I mean, it goes back to like a standard tick that I have is that like all this, much of a current crime.
of crisis is just
a top of elite impunity
and decades of failure
to prosecute white-collar crime.
Anybody,
you reach a certain amount
of wealth and respectability
and it's just full on
the purge for you 24-7.
I was thinking about this
when I saw it like in a LinkedIn ad,
somebody had screen grabbed
for the David Petraeus
Institute for doing war
with woke leadership
or whatever the fuck he's doing.
Do you remember David Petraeus
as, Trey?
I mean, I definitely know that name
but I don't remember
specifically where he fits in here
or what he does.
Was he a CIA person?
Later, but he was like a, he was like an army guy for a long time.
He was like a hero, quote, unquote, hero of the Iraq war led the counterinsurgency.
He was like the, he was like the book read nerd general who was like a favorite
of like the Obama set during the Iraq war.
He got caught after, so he became CIA director later on.
And then it came out that he had basically been giving top secret information to a woman
writing a book out on him who he was sleeping
with. Now, depending on how you want to couch,
they could be like, well, he had loose lips with
his girlfriend, or he could say he was trading top secret
information for sex. Either way,
should have been chased out of a respectable
national security community,
but a bomb administration did
it on firing a messia director, and then Trump
almost made him Secretary of State, and now he's back to
profiting off his good reputation. Good job,
everybody.
So,
back in January,
Trump started
selling watches for $100,000
on his website. You can only purchase through crypto.
So no limit on the email you could buy.
I don't even know what their watches were worth.
He might have gotten them out of a fucking bubble going machine.
I would bet not much.
I'm watched dumb and everything, but I'm assuming that they're probably not that great.
Especially in that world, dude, they watch shit.
It gets, they got some, they'll take that seriously.
And it gets real fancy up in there.
There's no way the Trump watch is stacking up against, you know, the real deal.
Trump's not in a watchmaker shop,
like handcrafting stuff
with gold, like Rolex.
So like, yeah.
So,
but my point is like,
you could buy 20.
If you just want to give Trump $2 million,
you buy 20 of these with the crypto and walk away and nobody,
you can't prove it was like,
it's not a bribe,
but you get watches for it.
Right.
So these are extremely crumsy gifts and you don't even have to be clever to do
these, is my point.
And none of this shit is particularly clever.
They're even bribing Elon's mom at this point.
May must.
has been going around the world giving paid speeches about good parenting in the business world or whatever.
I'm talking specifically about visits to China, Kazakhstan, and Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
So she visited China at least four times last year to endorse or model a bunch of fashion brands and makeup products and massage devices.
Her visits are promoted by state media outlets.
in October 3 weeks before the election
she headlined a formal women in Kazakhstan
where she spoke about her son's success
according to a state news agency there
and in January a week before Trump's second inauguration
she was in Dubai speaking to government conference
on influences with a former Fox News personality
Tucker Carlson. Her talk was titled
How I Raised Three Amazing Children, including
the richest man in the world, according to the
Emirates News Agency. This makes me
realize I'd never really thought about
like what's Elon's
public image or whatever
in other in like China for example or some of these other countries he's the richest man in the world i'm
surprised they all know who he is but is he like does he have cult of personality in all these places
too he's worshipped in these places by he doesn't china he doesn't china he's hated in europe
um it's like the mixed bag depending on where you are i imagine he's very popular in russia right now
but yeah and in china he's like he's like a celebrity in china yeah and uh which makes
which so may musk is like a hot commodity speaking there but he likes familiar like as a person
who has friends with Chinese parents.
They want other kids to go into STEM and become billionaires.
So, like, parenting tests from Elon Musk would be highly prized.
From May Musk is highly priced there.
But I was thinking about Kazakhstan and UAE for a second because, so Kazakhstan, most famous for being Borat's home country, I was like, they can't be super friendly to win.
Like, they give me super into hearing women talk about, speak on influencing current events over there.
Right. Well, it was sort of wrong because
like this Kazakhstan government does
try to do equality because
its legacy of being like a Soviet state
and their emphasis on egalitarianism
under communism. But they also
have a huge problem of forced marriage and bride kidnapping.
So
But also I know that they got
you know, and I mean I know that you know
this, but like Borat, that was all
filmed like in rural Romania or whatever
and all those
villagers were lied to
about what they were doing and what they were saying
and stuff all the time and they got sued a bunch by both sides of it
and Kazakhstan, the country was pissed off
because I guess it's nothing like it's portrayed in those movies,
but it is still a former, you know, Soviet, a country
that has a lot of bullshit going on in it, but...
My point is that, like, an appetite for selling a bunch of tickets
to listen to May must-speak, Phil's Astro-Turfed by the government,
that's my point.
Yeah.
Because I don't want to go see...
I don't want to attempt talks by people that actually like and respect, you know?
United Air Emirates is doing a little
bit better. You know, it's a fundamentalist Muslim nation doing better women's rights. But
flogging is still a punishment for premarital sex over there. So I bet Maymust doesn't hit
for the general public over there. Anyway, that's all context for this. Trump trued this
yesterday. His statement, formally announcing there's going to be a United States Crypto Reserve,
which no one knows what this means. But the U.S. Crypto Reserve will elevate this critical
industry after years of corrupt attacks by the Biden administration, which is why I'm had executive
order on digital assets directed by the presidential working group,
directed presidential moving group to move forward on presidential working group, sorry,
to move forward on crypto strategic reserves, it includes XRP, Solara, and ADA.
I'll make sure the U.S. is the crypto capital of the world.
We're making crypto, making America great again, yada, yada, yada.
Okay, so a couple things about this, besides it being stupid as shit.
The formal announcement included five different crypto coins, Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Solana,
and Korda.
No, no thing I want to note about that post is it's extremely obvious that Trump did not write it.
Oh, you can always tell whenever it's one that was written for him versus one that he actually wrote.
You know, it's very obvious.
I've had a guess you wrote it.
I would guess Stephen Miller because he's Elon's point man in the White House.
Elon's whole career is pumping dump shit, which is why he hates the Securities and Exchange Commission, which I'm sure we'll have to come back to at some point.
I have no idea when he's actually going to try to do this or even what he means.
buy it.
Like, he hasn't released any details.
There's going to be a big White House crypto summit on Friday where they're going to
lay out more of these plans.
The crypto were some, what some people in the crypto world have been calling for,
but they've been calling on a crypto reserve is just law enforcement holding on to the
crypto it seizes instead of selling it, which, fine, fuck it.
I don't give a shit.
Okay.
But what they want us to think in order of this pump and dump scheme to work, if that even
that's just it, I've no idea what I'm saying is I've no idea whether it's just a pump
dump based upon this statement or whether it's actually going to use Federal Reserve money to
buy crypto. But what they want to something they're going to do is use the money they stole
from us by illegally canceling government programs to pump cryptocurrency. They're basically
cutting cancer research. They can bail out rich degenerate gamblers, which if you think about this
in terms of any other gambling to think about how stupid it is, they'd be like, we have to use
federal money to bail out everybody who took the jets in the points last Sunday. Yeah, I don't get
why they're, I mean, why are they, I don't know. I mean, you know, you know, every time
Crypto even comes up at all, I just immediately get lost.
But I don't understand what they're, like, why are the, why bail those guys out just
because that's their, um, because it's, I don't know.
Well, because they're all in on it together.
These are Trump supporters.
And they've given them, they, they buy the rock, they buy the watches using their
crypto and they do that type of shit.
And so they just, yeah, right.
But you don't understand anything by crypto for this kind of, pretend they're baseball cards.
Yeah.
Or pretend their pet rocks or any sort of collectibles.
Like, they can just pump it up the value.
a collectible.
This is a way to think about it.
And all the people that were in on this beforehand and knew which
ahead of time, which ones he were going to mention just made insane returns.
All right.
Assuming they sold before they, because they already started drop it again because it's
stupid.
But like, Solar, for example, was up 20%.
And it just in like an within an hour or two, XRP was up 26%.
ADA was up 53% immediately.
Okay.
The crypto people said someone had placed like a basically $200 million bet on, on, on,
on these particular coins going up.
And if they'd gone down 2%,
they would have lost $200 million,
but it went up,
so maybe they made $16 million in profits.
It's not a bet you'd make unless you're sure of it, right?
So talking about who they would do this for?
David Sachs is going to be running the crypto summit on Friday.
He's Trump's lead crypto czar.
He is or was, not really clear.
He says he's no longer,
but he hasn't revealed his financial disclosures.
He is or was investor in an act.
company called BitWise, a crypto holding firm whose top five holdings, you're going to be
Shock Tray, remember I led you the list of the five coins Trump mentioned, Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Salana, and Cordero.
His top five holdings are Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Salana, and Cordero.
He made bank yesterday.
Well, you know, it just makes sense, Mark.
If those are like the top five, whatever, cryptoins in general, you know, then they're not
the top five in general.
So Laura's a pretty unknown one, my understanding.
So, like, this is pretty much.
much the coin just became famous.
Trump made it famous yesterday.
Nice.
I want to do a brief detour here to talk about a person who's in this particular aspect is being an annoying loser.
And that's Arizona's Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego.
As a headline for Rolling Stone, Dem overseeing digital assets, the whole luxury retreat with kick to a crypto-kingpan.
Yeah, Gallego is holding a fundraising weekend with Mark Andreessen, who's a big mega-crypto billionaires.
you know, venture capitalists,
Silicon Valley dude.
Gallego replaced
Kristen Senema ostensibly.
He ran being like,
she sold out her constituents.
He was going to primary,
he was a congressman before he was a senator.
And then immediately,
cinema is now a crypto lobbyist.
And now
Gallego is essentially being a crypto
lobbyist as a sitting senator.
For sale, baby brain,
never used.
a lot of people's idea of politicians
is the kind of guys
who would use their wives as human shields
and they're not beating the allegations currently
I like
I mean what does he do
I mean it's just I mean just the same thing
they always do so it's just you know
there's a lot of money here
you're just getting
the same type of garden variety corruption
that always happens with Congress people
and everything they just get in the bed with
They're all serving the same masters at the end of the day, that type of shit.
Maybe, but like, my question to Rubin is he's, like, when I say he's not bad on
everything, historically, he's been a member in the house who's a member of the Medicare
for all caucus, good.
But like, if you have to choose between tax and crypto out of business to pay from everybody's
health care or not having health care, what's your choice, buddy?
Right.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Like, the part that kills me is like, I'm not saying you shouldn't want to.
to be on the digital assets committee because part of the banking committee, the Senate
banking committee subcommittee on crypto, that would be a composition on which to set to regulate
the fuckers to keep them honest. Instead, he's attending a fundraising summit alongside them.
And like, if you think that you're supposed to use your power in government to protect the
people from predatory financial dipsets, I guess you're too naive to live in moderate America.
Anyway, at the same time, he's doing this.
We talked about the shareholder lawsuit rebellion against Elon Musk's payment package from Tesla a couple months ago.
Do you remember I was talking about it?
Yes.
So basically, a bunch of Tesla activists and investors sued the board who they said were in Elon's pocket where they agreed to give him $55 billion in compensation.
They won their lawsuit.
Tesla was forbidden for paying them that.
So now Elon's lawyers wrote a bill for...
for the Delaware Democrats to pass to make sure you can get that $55 billion,
and they're well on their way to pass it.
Delaware, you know, there's a race to a bottom for financial regulation that they won
a long time back.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, it's like Wild West, banking-wise, everything, right?
It's just like a tax haven for all these corporations are like technically
headquartered there and stuff for all these shady financial law reasons and shit.
If there was a bank that would hoard, store gold for the Nazis, like Swiss did,
it would be in Delaware.
and they don't want to let go
with that business model
so they're just going to help Elon
and get $55 billion
as a very corrupt favor to him
and letting Elon's own lawyers
write the bill is just just
the chef's gift thing for them to do
anyway, if you live in Delaware
call your fucking state rep and yell at them
to stop helping this corrupt
motherfucker steal money from his shareholders
Let's go back to Trump for a second
because this is we want to get to the fun part here
I got a fun character for you
we haven't talked about named Justin's son
Chinese national crypto billionaire
originally made his money running BitTorrent
we all used to steal music and movies remember bit torrent trade yeah i do yeah how do you uh i mean
wasn't that like illegal the whole time like you're saying this dude like invented bit torn or that
was his thing like he's the bit torrent guy because yeah that was a fucking he owned it yeah he owned it yeah
yeah that was a big big deal but i thought it was one of those things where it's like you couldn't
be uh you know like the dude that just that got pardoned by trump that was from the silk road or
whatever. I thought that it was like a similar type situation to that. They either didn't know
who he was. It's just wild that you could just be that and get rich off that and everybody
knows you were that. And that's just like fine because I thought, you know, piracy was bad.
Obviously, I don't give a shit. I'm just, yeah, we use it for piracy. I did not realize that.
We could also just use the transfer large files, right? So maybe that was how they made it sounds profitable. Yeah. Is that right?
I did not even know that. It feels like it's kind of like, like, yeah, well, only fans isn't
for porn, it just, you know, can't be used that way.
But that is, you know, it's a good point.
So SOT is pivoted into being a crypto guy.
And he got charged by the SEC for, again, these are extremely clumsy grips.
They said what he was doing was two different things that were illegal.
One, he was doing, we had a couple different companies that he was doing wash trades with crypto with,
which is basically where you just buy coins back and forth from yourself to make it look like demand
and the prices are going up.
Right, yeah.
Your right hand buys something for $100.
Your left hand buys it back for $200.
Your right hand buys it back for $300.
Then you try to convince a sucker to the price.
And look at all this action on this coin.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, it makes it look.
Right.
Yeah.
The second thing he did was he was paying celebrities to endorse his coins and not telling
everybody these were ads.
Okay.
So we got in trouble with the SEC.
The SEC just dropped the charges yesterday.
In the context for this is he soon just gave Trump $30 million.
dollars in December
so Trump
Trump's
a
crypto venture is called
World Liberty Financial
and they
finance has been frozen
because they couldn't
extract money from it
because they hadn't hit
some sort of revenue target
so when Sun put
$30 million in the WLF
that unlocked
$18 million that Trump
could just have
so he paid WLF $30 million
so Trump could have 18.
The fact that
The president even has a, like, you know, a crypto company or whatever just, like, openly and all of his, you know, it's just another thing, like, it just got normalized by Trump and how shitty it is, but it's like, it also should not be cool.
Like, with, like, so many things he does, we just get, like, you know, you just become, what's the word I'm looking for?
You just get, like, numb to it or whatever.
But, you know, like Jimmy Carter had to give up his family's peanut farm or whatever, at least temporary.
and yet Trump is out here running crypto schemes and fucking broad daylight and charging the Secret Service, you know, on his own golf courses and all that type of stuff.
And everybody knows it.
He don't even pretend to not do it.
And it's just like totally cool with everybody.
And it's so wild.
It's also just offensive.
It's offensive to our intelligence.
Like I love a clever scam.
I love a ice movie.
Yeah.
Like, but like this is the, this is the high.
This is an Ocean's 11.
This is walking to a convenience store.
hitting the cashier in the head with a rock and stealing a pack of gum.
That's like,
there's nothing like remotely even fun of this.
It's funny and how brazen it is and how stupid it is,
but there's nothing like,
I can't,
like,
there's nothing even be proud of here.
Like,
at least if you run a smart scheme,
you're like,
ah,
I'm a genius,
but like,
this is just fucking stupid.
So the part of here is there were people actually punished for this.
Oh,
by the way,
since,
since the original $30 million investment,
son has dumped,
dumped another 45 million into
WLF and
causing Trump to receive another 56 million
I know he's 56 million total fees
so he's made basically
because a little bit of financial chicanery
Sun's actions have unlocked
$56 million for Donald Trump.
The people actually got punished for this
are pretty funny.
When it charged Sun, the SEC also charged
eight celebrities that said were involved in the scheme
including Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul,
soldier boy little yachtie uh and so lindsay lohan basically paid $400,000 the only person to
pay the scam is Lindsay low hand it costs her $400,000 I imagine you could probably use right now
yeah no shit that's a real a list lineup right there um I mean Jake Paul it's like he's just
you know any kind of shady bullshit that can be going on he's it's like he's involved
with it one way or another well uh he sucks but
If he hasn't paid yet, I imagine Trump will let him off the hook, too, because Trump loves Jake Paul.
So I mentioned that Son was from China.
Some other context here.
Fuck.
I hate having to give it up to China, there was a couple episodes in a row.
But in 2021, Beijing imposed a sweeping crackdown of crypto trading and mining, forcing
exchanges and businesses to shut down or relocate.
They also barred foreign exchanges from serving Chinese customers.
But because blockchain is decentralized, basically the way it works over there is.
exchanges are banned and mining's banned, but it's in practicality, in reality, it's legal
to own crypto because nobody's going to fuck with you.
This is not worth the Jews.
The Jews isn't worth the squeeze.
The government is coming after you.
So what I'm saying is, save us, President Xi, glory to the people's republic.
So I want to talk about Smith, spend the rest of the show talking about Justin's son
because he's a wild fucking character.
He knows abroad, obviously, because his existence is illegal in China.
He was appointed ambassador and permanent representative of Grenada.
to the World Trade Organization in 2021.
This is connected to, remember how Sam Bankman Fried was operating in the Bahamas?
I think this is all a part of the Caribbean countries trans-stripto.
Yeah.
They've been doing, I mean, they've been, they've been, they've been a thing with them for a while, isn't it?
I mean, ain't that we're the, like the Cayman Islands down there somewhere?
Yeah, yeah.
And that's a famous, you know, so they've been, they've been after that, you know, that blood money work too for a minute.
man. Yeah, I mean, drug cartels had to have a third nation to stash the money,
and there wasn't a U.S. or wherever they weren't have to flee when they're an impover from it, right?
So, uh, he got pushed out of the job from Grenada because, uh, the government,
the ruling party lost the election, so he lost that gig.
But then October 24, he got another gig with another government.
He was elected as Speaker of Congress, I'm put, put this in air quotes, please.
Speaker of Congress imported as quote, prime minister of Liberland, a micronation that claims to own,
but does not control a small river.
floodplain border between Serbia and Croatia.
Is this one of those libertarian utopia things?
Yes.
Yes. Those are always fun.
Typically, they fall apart pretty quickly or whatever.
I don't know what's going on with this one.
Right.
Peter Thiel is currently financing another one.
They always want to live in floating cities with no laws, but they fall apart because they
have no servants.
There's no underclass.
They have no employees.
But like this one, like, they're currently what they're trying to do if you really
understand is they're trying to turn America into one of these libertarian
crypto startup states.
But like, again, they never.
last long so
morons are gassed up
on their own supply
but like
I want to read
this again to you
a migra nation
a subland country
that claims to own
but does not control
a small region
on the Danube River
border flood plain
between Serbia and Croatia
so among other things
he's a rebel warlord
and a breakaway
republic on the Danube
and Trump
just legalized
him running scams
in America
okay
yeah
so
son was in the news
other reasons
in November, December, besides the fact that he was bribing Trump via World Liberty Financial.
He bought a $6.2 million banana.
He bought that?
Uh-huh.
I remember that fucking banana.
Yeah.
But the banana, the art banana, me and Corey talked about that on putting on airs.
I didn't realize that this was the dude who bought that.
But I, yeah, I had totally separate from all this, but just the whole, like, the art world.
We bitch about the art world a lot and, like, those types of things.
It's like art stunts or gimmicks or whatever.
And that banana was one of the most egregious examples in recent memory to me.
It just really pissed me off.
But anyway, go ahead.
Yeah, I pulled the story back then.
I guess when you guys talked about it, I mean, I didn't know you guys talked about it,
but I had it sitting in reserve because I knew he was going to come back up.
I didn't know it would be this soon.
But I figured these kind of assholes are always doing some shit that lands them in the news are in prison.
So maybe it would have come back up when Serbia and Croatia combined to whip Laberlans ass and a war.
But, uh, this is, um, so I felt this video of Sun eating the banana, Matt,
and I don't want to talk about how fucked up this is, not besides being hilarious.
Oh!
You know, welcome, let's see you know.
We're also, we think, today, Sun Yuchinianne,
this one-year-old, this one-goyed-old,
not only is a show-stern-sing of behavior.
and at all the time,
this is to beaunuch and
culture,
trusting.
Today's
our show we're
very much
can go with
other way
and media
people,
we've seen this
great,
and the
beautiful
shan the beautiful
shan.
So this
fucking guy
spent $6.2
million dollars
bidden up,
bidden on this art
piece called,
it was called
a comedian by a guy
named
Marizzo Catalan,
which is just
a banana duct tape to a wall.
Okay?
Right.
And then he said afterwards,
many friends have asked me
about the state of the,
about the taste of the banana.
To be honest,
for a banana was such a backstory,
the taste is naturally different
from an ordinary one.
To make this even grow,
he said the taste is different
from an ordinary one?
Because he cost him $6.2 million.
Yeah.
He's like,
and you peasants will never know
what that kind of banana tastes like.
Like a fancy art banana,
we'll never understand what that taste.
I mean, I feel like I could guess probably exactly the same as any other goddamn banana.
But, uh, yeah, I, you know, again, I don't understand the big.
It tastes like a, it tastes like a poor person's tears.
Yeah.
That's what makes it hit.
Right.
It tastes like a poor person's tears.
It tastes like you're depriving 20 kids from going to college.
You could have done that one.
I know that that's what.
That's his position on it.
I'm saying, I bet it tastes like just a banana.
But, uh, but, uh, but that's how he's,
He's trying to frame it.
It's like, yeah, you know, you can't even conceive of what this banana would taste like.
Poor people are not allowed to know.
But anyway, yeah, go ahead.
I can't believe that he's running scams to get more money when he has $6.2 million to spend on a fucking banana.
I will never understand these people.
I know.
Well, it's just the, I don't know.
It's the fucking.
It's the game.
Right.
Yeah.
The game, the hunt, the fucking just all of it.
They just live for all that.
the pursuit of more.
It's all,
more is all that matters.
It's not like me and you.
Because, yeah,
if I've always said,
if I hit one big ass good lick,
I'm just going to disappear,
basically.
If I sell one banana,
you'll never see me again.
Yeah,
but people that are out of actually,
you know,
doing this shit,
then get it,
they're just not,
that ain't how their brains are,
you know,
they have to,
they have to keep going,
keep crushing other people and,
you know,
accumulating,
dragons,
hoarding,
wealth and shit.
It's like some kind of disease that they have that makes the rest of us sick.
Yeah, that was the quote.
It was the quote.
It's like the reason we can't cure poverty is that is not because we don't have enough
money to feed the poor.
It's because we can't satisfy the risk.
So when I say the banana tasted great to him because it tastes like a poor person's
tears.
I did not mean that in abstract.
I mean, literally one guy's fucking tears.
The banana that that artist put on the tape to the wall
was bought from a New York City fruit vendor for 35 cents.
The guy's name is Shah Alam, 74 years old.
Who went and told that guy that?
To me, it's kind of like, I feel like they could have just let that.
He didn't need to know that, I don't think.
Like, somebody had to go out there and find the specific fruit vendor.
It was like, hey, you know the banana you sold this morning?
guess what you know uh and that's pretty rough that's tough to deal with i mean we as a society
got to understand how fucked up this is the guy can sell a banana for 35 cents and some other
dipshit gets paid six point two million dollars by a crypto for taping it to a wall for duct
taping it to a wall yeah yeah i don't like i'm not an anti art person but like i don't
understand the value of the banana take to the wall especially i'm not an anti art person in general but
some of these things, these, there's like art stunts and shit like that.
Some of it's just fucking stupid.
It also, it seems like another version of a, of like a crypto grifter, just like a grift or a scam or something.
And that type of art stuff has always pissed me off, you know.
The value in art is supposed to be that it's timeless beauty.
And it's a banana's literally, it's the avocado of fruits.
It is.
It doesn't last.
The last thing is.
It's a big of Brown's.
Another guy once, when we talked about on POA, I found this story, some other, I don't know if there was like, you know, nefarious crypto billionaires involved in this, but some other artist sold a, sold an invisible sculpture for, you know, more than million, like $2 million or whatever it was.
It's like, and it's just a pedestal, you know, with nothing on it.
And he's like, there, yeah, that's an invisible.
sculpture that he gave a name or whatever and someone
bought it for two, so they just bought
literally nothing. They gave him $2 million
for nothing, but for a little plaque
that has a, you know, title
on it. I applaud that artist because
whatever Rich Moran bought that deserves
to be separated from his money, the same way that
Justin's son deserves to be separated from his money,
not just for fucking stupid reasons, but for more
reasons because he's a goddamn criminal. But like,
but like, the artist,
what's his name, should go split the money
with the Vood vendor. Because
you guys both worked in the scam, right?
So, I want to go back to Shaw-Alam for a second.
He's 74 years old.
I'm going to read here from New York Post.
Recent learned that a piece of his produce was used.
I got 35 cents.
The other guy got $6 million,
Alam told the Post Friday as he manned his fruit cart outside of Sotheby's auction house
from East 72nd Street, New York Avenue.
It's beyond my imagination, he said.
The nearly blind Bangladeshi immigrant, who speaks little English,
said that he felt gutted over the sale,
which he was informed of by a New York Times reporter this week.
Alam, who makes $12 an hour and works $12 an hour
and works 12-hour days
that stand tearfully told the times
I have never had this kind of money
I've never seen this kind of money
the 74-year-old immigrant
lives in Brooklyn with five fucking roommates
yeah right
he commutes from Brooklyn into Manhattan
to work 12-hour days
yeah every fucking day
right
and they stole six million dollars from him
and Trump let the guy fucking off
even SEC civil violation
for being a con artist
yeah that whole this whole story
is just like
uh you know
know, very metaphorically appropriate for just the current state of this country and our culture and everything in general.
Everything about it is kind of perfect and an infuriating way.
Shop pays taxes, works hard.
Elon does neither.
Yeah.
Like, they're all fucking, this is all, this is scams on scams on scams.
And, uh, yeah.
And you would think, like, the thing people keep saying that I don't think is true is that like, well, they're going to end up in jail if they don't.
I'm like, no, they won't.
Ruben Gallego will be holding a fundraiser.
with them in two years.
There's no, the people in, in, in power of no impulse towards, like, accountability or
retribution.
And, like, I, I think it's going to end up falling on the people and it's going to be, like,
you know, more and more Luigi type situations, because that's, no one else is going to do
anything.
And it's, it's fucking frustrating and scary.
But also, yeah, I know.
It's fun stories.
Like, you know, Sonny to banana.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, at first, you know, you said that more Luigi type situations up top show,
top of the show when we were talking.
talking about, you know, the trans vegan death culture, whatever.
I didn't know if that was, if that was where that was going, you know, when we first started, and unfortunately not.
But, yeah, but anyway, well, they, they, they were probably going to end up being in the shootout with other rationalist movements or pro-AI or pro-eval AI, whatever.
So, we're just, these people's conflicts are inscrutable to us.
Like, we could do a whole hour episode on the beef between Sam Alton and Elon Musk and still not make it make sense.
Yeah.
Well, speaking to Elon, I got a couple, because we have a couple of minutes left here at the end of this episode.
Don't just give people a little taste, I guess, of what we do on the skew and A's.
I mean, it's pretty straightforward.
You guys could guess.
I'm sure you don't have trouble understanding it.
But I'm going to read a couple of questions from that because they're related to Elon at the end of this episode.
So Natalie Nichols, longtime skewer and patron says, hey, boys, I was.
just wondering what you were going to do with the big old check, Elon is going to send you
from all the gazillions of government money that he is currently saving.
You guys don't know, Natalie, that's definitely meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
But yeah, you're excited for your time?
I've heard 5,000, 8,000.
Big old check.
They're going to send everybody.
It must be very exciting.
They can't, first of all, statutorily, not the law.
I don't know where they're going to find the money because, like, they keep breaking about all these savings,
but the last time I saw it accurate counting of the money they've saved is like $16 million.
dollars.
No, I mean, look, I literally said me in one of my videos.
I was like, they're not, there's not going to be a check, you know.
So I'm, you know, the only thing that makes me think there might be some kind of check is the fact that I stated publicly that there wouldn't be.
But, I mean, they literally, do you see they canceled the leases for the weather, national weather service?
They're just like, they're not going to be the office for the national weather for part of the national weather service.
The part that actually predicts the weather.
So, everybody, be prepared to keep paying.
taxes for weather services doesn't exist and while you get your weather by looking out
the fucking window the same way your great grandparents did.
That's where we're headed.
Okay.
Got another question from Chad Riddell, which is just appropriately ridiculous.
He says, I can't remember where I saw it or if this was even real and not just click-bake
garbage.
That's the type of, you know, type of sourcing we appreciate here at the skews.
Chad, he says, but a recent article states that in 2026, Elon plans to begin production on a massive
humanoid robot army in typical elylon fashion that sounds like another false promise investor
grift but if that does come to fruition that's it for us at democratic freedom right i mean i feel
like you answered your own question chad this is another example like we're supposed to about
had a base on the mars base on mars by now we're supposed to have the the brain chips where we can
all hook up to each other's thoughts and chair emotions and all this stuff there's supposed to be a
fucking tunnel to Vegas or whatever the
fucking, you know,
and literally none of those things
have happened. So I've seen him talking about his robots
and shit, but it's just another
one of those things. Like,
Tesla's last earning call, he promised
the humanoid robots be rolled out by the end of this year,
so it's already pushed that back to next year.
So, yeah, it's always, it's always
be like that. The original promise
of Tesla was a lie. Like, none of his shit's real.
And, like, you can, you can throw in, like,
whatever he's doing to the government right now is just an
extension of it.
And again, going back to the elite accountability thing, everything he's ever said has been a lie.
None of his business has ever panned out the way he said they would.
And yet and yet and yet and yet and yet just keeps on getting more powerful.
Yep.
All right.
So, yeah, thanks for those questions, guys.
Made it on to the main episode.
How about that?
Lucky you.
You must feel very excited.
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