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Welcome back, everybody.
Happy Skews Day to you.
It is Tuesday, May 13th, 2025, as you're seeing this as it's airing.
We're recording this on Monday, May 12th at 1.30 p.m. on the left coast.
So if something crazy happens between now and then, you'll know why we didn't cover it.
But that's what we're doing.
We're here either way.
I'm trying that's Mark.
This is weekly skews.
How are you doing over there, Mark?
Good, but I got a phone where we talk about Trump's big free plane he got from Qatar.
It's a really fun story for a lot of reasons.
Unfortunately, we don't have time to talk about the biggest civil rights issue faced in America right now,
and that's it, Bill Belichick can no longer take his teenage girlfriend to work.
Yeah, I wonder how much our fans know about all that.
Bill Belichick arguably, well, I mean, I don't know how much.
He's definitely arguably maybe the greatest professional.
professional football coach of all time, and he's now supposed to be coaching at North Carolina in college.
He also is 73, I think, and has a 24-year-old girlfriend, and a lot of weird shit has been going on with her,
where she seems to be doing some puppet master stuff and kind of dictating a lot of things about his life
and what he's allowed to talk about, and it's making the university uncomfortable and just all kinds of crazy drama
surrounding a guy who, by the way, for his entire career, barely even spoke.
to the media because he eschewed all forms of off-field drama and everything as much as a person
possibly could have. So it's all pretty ironical as George O'Henbush would have.
He was the no-nonsense guy. Now it's all nonsense all the time. Nothing but nonsense.
Well, a couple of good things before we get to the show.
I see Trump's hiring Judge D.N. Piro to be the acting U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C.,
after he couldn't get Ed Martin.
Ed Martin couldn't get and confirmed
because Tom Tillis, some other Republican senators
were like, we've seen the pictures
you took when you did the podcast with the guy
with a Hitler mustache. So that
combined with the fact you don't have any experience in this type
of job.
Yeah. I mean, I'm kind of surprised that
either of those things matters, you know.
Yeah.
You've got to be either, you can be
evil incompetent. Right. Right.
Or incompetent.
Yeah, right. Yes. I know what you mean.
It's like you could be
Yeah, you can't be both like outwardly insane Nazi level and also like bad at the thing they want you to do.
You know, you got to at least have one of those two things.
Do you know what ended Judgingen's political career the first time around?
Did we, we talked about it on here, didn't we?
Has it come up before?
I don't think so.
Okay, so she was a, remember Bernie Carrick, Giuliani's corrupt police commissioner in New York?
the feds
that wiretapped his office
and they caught
Janine on his wiretap
trying to get Bernie Carrick
and his role as police commissioner
to wiretap her husband's boat
so she could catch him cheating.
Nice.
Yeah.
Again, they're all like this.
It's so fucking weird.
But anyway, she hired as a prosecutor
of the woman who couldn't catch Robert Durst,
a guy so good at getting rid of the crimes,
he went on to confess on television.
So,
another,
We haven't really talked about John Fetterman lately.
I think it was the New Yorker had the big expose a couple weeks ago.
A bunch of people on his staff used to work for him.
He's not taking his meds.
He's single issue obsessed with destroying Gaza to the point where his wife is coming
to the office being like, what happened to the man I married.
He's missing his kid's birthday parties and shit.
And another one came out.
So the day before that article was supposed to come out,
he had a meeting with some teachers union reps in his office.
the union reps from Pennsylvania
and he eventually broke down
screaming at them he was yelling
shouting and questioning why I quote
everybody is mad at me why does everyone hate me
what did I ever do and slamming his hands on the desk
to the point that the teachers left in tears
and then his staff went in the
hall and cried with him
like this guy
needs to be on murder or suicide watch
I don't like you know it's inside
I mean you know
not to fucking tote my own horn here
there were plenty of people saying this like
but the whole time like they're the
devolution of John Federman the whole time I was saying it's like I mean you know I like I think maybe his brain is just broke now or it's like his brain is wrong like I think he like he's brain damaged he's not the same person or whatever and it seemed like I don't know maybe he's just an asshole about this one thing or whatever else but it's like it just keeps getting worse and worse and it seems pretty clear to me based on every report we've gotten that uh you know something it's not even that big of a leap to me you
you know, you have a major stroke.
It can fucking change you.
He also was hospitalized for depression, too.
That's part.
That's right.
So the point is not that any of these medical conditions are, you know,
disqualifying is that he's not.
Handling it, right.
He's not doing it.
Right.
Right.
He's not following, I mean, cool here.
He's not recovering his recovery plan.
That whole thing has been so weird.
And it's not even really ideological.
Like, when if you plot, like, those organizations that plot left, right.
He's like the 88th.
least conservative senator by voting record
is just specifically about
how bloodthirsty he is
and I'm not I'm not saying he's just pro-Israel
he's like bloodthirstyly anti-Arab anti-Palestinian
and but that's not even like I don't think
the biggest political problem is that he's like
contemptuous of his own constituents
like he basically tells everyone who voted for him to go fuck off
right what the issue is and it's like
being a elected representative is a lot of
constituent service you just can't
people call up your office for help for their passports
and you're like, I'm too busy making sure there are bombs in other countries.
It's like, it's just really weird.
Well, what about, do you know about that thing from like when he was a mayor or whatever with the,
where he like pulled a gun on a guy for just jogging?
Like a black guy that was just out for a jog or something.
And he like kind of sort of held him hostage for a minute or something like that.
Yeah.
And then that guy endorsed him.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
World's weird, man.
Anyway, but, like, the point of, like, I always thought there's some kind of behavior that's really not, like, I always thought the drunkest thing you can do is argue with a bartender about how sober you are.
Yeah, for sure.
You know, like, once, like, once you get to that point, it's like, you, what a solo person would do if a bartender could confuse them for being drunk is just, like, tab out and go to another bar because it's not worth arguing about, only a drunk, but anyway, there's a video of our video of John Federman arguing with an airline pilot about why he doesn't need to wear his seatbelt, the point where they're insisting that he'd get a seatbelt extender.
It's like, when you're getting that kind of fucking public conflict, something's
horrifically wrong, wrong.
I will say, though, although no one of one of the biggest problems I think that I have
as a person is that I know that you're generally right about what you just said about.
It's like, oh, a sober person who got falsely accused to being drunk by a bartender would just be
like, well, fuck this guy and go to a different bar or whatever.
Not me.
I would have such a meltdown over that.
Like, I can't, more than anything else in life, I cannot handle being like a, a,
accused of something or however you want to put it that is not the case like if i got if i was
stuck genuinely hadn't had a drink stone sober and someone was acting like i was drunk i would
have a complete meltdown that would make it look 10 times more like i was drunk probably and end up
getting thrown out and causing a scene and making it 10 times worse for myself but i wouldn't be
able to not do that because that type of thing drives me insane so uh it's just a little little
psychology corner
with Trey this week
that Mark made me think of
anyway, thank you guys for being here
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that was a lot of fun I did bump into a fully
naked adult man on the street one night
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No, I love Seattle.
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So what was the naked man on the street in Seattle doing?
So that's the thing.
I'm so glad you asked.
Mark. I wasn't planning to bring it up until I just, it just popped into my head.
I, so I don't know exactly, but I will say it was, this was not a, this was not like a, like a mentally ill homeless person screaming into the night or like a drug addict having a bad episode with like this was like, it looked like two dudes walking down the street with their arms around each other's shoulders, like they're on their way to a bar, but one of those two dudes was fully completely.
ass naked he had a cross body cross body bag around himself and uh and the other guy was uh you know
i don't know they were just out for a little jaunt little you know a jaunt down the sidewalk right
after that so i bumped into a fully naked man and less than two blocks later saw a like there's
a college nearby seattle college a 19 year old college girl um who threw up on the sidewalk
crying on the sidewalk because she was worried that her parents were going to find out.
But the twist was she was in Joker makeup.
So she was like made up like the Joker while like going like,
my mom's going to be so bad at me and fucking runny Joker makeup and stuff.
It was it was very funny.
But anyway, so yeah, Mark already told you what we're talking about today.
You know, the main segment, Trump's Palace in the Sky from the good, benevolent people of
is it Qatar or cutter Mark or what I say guitar I say Qatar to it just I just I just can't get down
with the other one even if that is right anyway yeah 300 million dollar jet for our our
prince of Donald Trump over here and people are not happy about it and he's not happy about
that and we're going to talk about it all a little later but first of course we begin with
the daily dumbass mac graphic please
Tonight's DD, this guy impersonating ice for not knowing you've got to bring a couple buddies and have a traumatic brain injury.
In a video shared widely on social media, a South Carolina man, police have identified as Sean Michael Johnson, is seen telling the Latino driver of this truck he's going to be sent back to Mexico.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, you cannot drive, or you have no license.
at one point
taking the keys out of the ignition
dangling them in front of the driver
and mocking his accent
I don't be speaking that pig
black in my fucking country
so I mean
this dude looks like he's got what it takes to me
I feel like he's going to get recruited
like how much worse is this guy
that actual you know actual ice
Asians or agents or whatever
they're probably love to sign this guy
Yeah, it's not like they have much higher standards or anything.
Yeah, so I've seen reports in at least three different states of people impersonating ICE agents to kidnap people out the street.
And I've got to be like, we're really going back to learn some civics lessons the hard way, like old school stuff.
Why do we need warrants?
Why do police officers show badges?
I remember being like, like, things get flipped on their head, like because people misunderstand the public records laws and stuff worked.
Like people were getting like, oh, you should, when you arrest somebody, you shouldn't publicize it because that means they're convicted.
But, well, everyone should more skeptical and media coverage.
But when police snatch somebody off the street, you want them to have to say who they took and why.
So the fact that we all arrest to convict them in the public consciousness is not the main point.
The point is you can't, there's no other way to do it.
Right.
So, and not be a state, a country with secret police.
But I, I, I, uh, yeah.
Anyway, they're all wearing masks and stuff now, not showing badges.
And they kidnapped the mayor of Newark on front.
Friday afternoon, Ross Baraka.
So the sequence of events and this story is crazy.
You don't know what I'm talking about, right, Trey?
Yeah.
We're talking about Newark in two straight episodes for very different reasons.
Newark's very top of mind right now.
So ICE opened up a private detention facility in Newark, not to the liking of the locals.
So Baraka wanted to do an inspection, which he did as a surprise inspection because he wanted
to see what the fuck's going on in there, right?
So he took three Democratic congresspeople from New Jersey with him because,
Congresspeople are automatically admitted into most federal facilities because they do federal oversight, right?
So, they went to the facility.
ICE decided to let the congresspeople in because they had to, but kept Baracka locked out.
Then later on, they went back outside and just arrested him for trespassing you and there was on public sidewalk.
Then they immediately released him like an hour or two later because they realized they fucked up.
And they could have, if they wanted to be really the top of what they could have done because of the weekend,
usually if you get arrested on a Friday afternoon, you're in there until Monday because
the judge is off, right?
So they hurried to get him out because they realized they're going to look like fucking assholes.
They can't even do fascism, right?
So I did want to say watching the video was pretty funny to me because all these protests
were heckling ice and, like, they had a thick New Jersey accent, like, with Italian
being like, New Jersey's Gestapo, it's like really good for me.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's a fucking weird, weird time right now.
So, Roz Baraka, so is this, so the mayor of New Jersey, are they, are they black, are they Muslim, or they, you know, like, what, uh.
Yeah, so, uh, Ross, I'm assuming they got profiled is what I'm getting at by it, because they clearly didn't know they were the mayor right when they, uh, no, they went to the president.
I'm the mayor of Newark.
I'd like to inspect this facility.
Well, then why, but what, what made them back?
Why, if they knew it was the mayor and they were like, well, fuck you, we're arresting you.
And then they were like, oh, we shouldn't have done that.
Like, where did the second part come from?
So the three congresspeople with him were, one of them was Rob Menendez, who on a phone interview I watched with MSNBC, said that he watched an ICE agent take a phone call and where they were, where someone told them to arrest him.
Okay.
My guess is Alina Hala.
So Baraka is the sort of Amiri Baraka, who was a poet and a black nationalist turned Maoist who changed his name to the, that,
Amiri Baraka after Malcolm X was assassinated.
Okay?
So it's pretty, yeah, America's, one of the things is a little about this country.
You can have like a radical person whose sons are like,
he's like, we've got to destroy the system.
His son's like, you know what would be better?
I'm going to become mayor of the system.
Right.
Amiri was at times, you know, anti-Semitic, homophobic, but he renounced most of it.
It's long life, you know.
But it would have been harder people to believe in 1968 that Amiri Baraka's son
become mayor of Newark or that he will be arrested by Immigration National
Asian Service, which is now nice.
What a wedding path this country takes sometimes?
I don't understand.
Okay, I wanted to show this video.
Amy Klobuchar went on one of the Sunday shows yesterday and was asked about this
and this kind of stuff.
And the guys of Stephen Miller went on TV and announced that the administration was
considering the suspension of habeas corpus.
And here was her response, which I found.
But here's her speaking up for the, we shouldn't do anything, caucus.
But to me, you know what?
That isn't really the issue.
The issue is that Stephen Miller brings that up on a Friday, just to throw it out there.
You heard the reaction of John Barrasso.
This is not what they're talking about in Congress.
Why is he doing that?
So you ask me about it on a Sunday show.
I'm telling you right now, he's doing it because they don't want to focus on what's really in front of them
and that they have created havoc in our economy.
economy that was improving and now we have people out there scared to death that they're not
going to be able to get their social security i don't understand how it would be preferable to like
like oh everybody's talking about the havoc we're causing with the economy we better distract them
by you know bringing up the havoc will cause with like you know the fundamental precepts of
democracy or whatever like why is it preferable to have people like
talking about you tearing down, you know, some of the pillars of the society versus, like, causing prices to go up or whatever.
Right.
You know what I mean?
Like, they're only taking away all over civil liberties to distract you from the price of eggs going up.
Yeah, right.
I don't get how, yeah, that doesn't.
It's more like when Trump, to me, it's like when Trump is, and I don't think he's doing this, by the way, because I think he's just this crazy and stupid.
but it's like when Trump is like we're going to reopen Alcatraz right like that type of shit is the type where I can get behind the idea that it's like that's just a distraction from things that really matter but like but fucker's blurt stuff out but yeah but I know I know but I still think it could I'm saying I said I don't think he's doing that because yes he just free associates or whatever but I think it could still serve that purpose for some of the people that work with them or for it's a feature not a bug you know they
it like it still works that way but the things like suspending habeas corpus are like
way far beyond you know just that like that is the thing that is the panic you know what
it's not a distraction from a panic like that is the panic or should be yeah uh so i yeah
they fundamentally just there's a certain type of democratic consultant and post-interest politician
who just does not believe that the general public has values you know what i'm saying right or any
sort of like understanding of like but i i don't know man i like it's i think people do i think
people care about freedom and stuff like that so i don't know whatever uh so stephen miller
hopped on uh the everything app x and said uh talking about the uh situation in newark said
today democratic officials riotously stormed and invaded an ice facility secured the release
of the fallen criminals and terrorists here illegally um they're saying that they're that that that
They were trying to do a prison break, like, you know, when Bain freed all the inmates in Arkham.
Right.
And they're trying to use these three congresspeople taking a tour as justification for, you know, suspending habeas corpus.
And here's a video over the weekend.
I enjoyed the spokeswoman because of the weekend.
They didn't know there was going to be a controversy, so they rolled out the bottom, like the total backbencher here, who's a who's vibe I very much enjoyed.
We should let viewers know there will likely be more arrests coming.
We actually have body camera footage of some of these members of Congress assaulting our ICE enforcement officers, including body slamming a female ICE officer.
So we will be showing that to viewers very shortly.
And you say a video of members of Congress body slamming ice officials?
That's correct, sir.
It's disgusting.
Okay.
And so the closest thing I see to that is one of the congressmen and woman who is like a 50 year old woman,
sort of bumped an ice officer from behind while he was shoving another woman.
Anyway, one of the peak congresspeople that went there was Bonnie Watson Coleman, who's an 80-year-old woman.
And I've got to say, if you lose a fist fight to an 80-year-old woman, you probably should not be an ice agent.
So maybe that should be the physical fitness test.
But now the official administration position is they are considering arresting these three congresspeople,
who, again, are Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez, and LaMonica McIver.
Okay, under what pretense, like, legally?
obstructing an official investigation or something?
Assaulting ICE officers.
Yeah.
And on the bottom,
on the top end,
trying to free MS-13 in a jailbreak.
Right.
I guess it would be illegal to perpetrate a jailbreak.
And so they just say that that's what they're actually doing.
Yeah.
Anyway,
so all that's going on,
Amy Klobuchar's last words of the firing squad will be eggs.
All right, our first honorable mention for Daily Dumbass is followers of QAnon
for not realizing they get just as cucked as the rest of us.
This is FBI director, newly christened FBI director, Cash Patel, being questioned by Senator John Kennedy.
Did Jeffrey Epstein hang himself or did so much of the time?
I believe he hung himself in a cell in the Metropolitan Tension Center.
Are you going to release all the information about that?
We are working through that right now with the Department of Justice.
When you think you'll have it done, Cash?
I think in the near future, sir.
Okay.
So Cash is in a real bind here.
I wouldn't do this as a Q&N update because I think everyone thinks Q&O went away.
When they, in fact, they just like, with their locust, they went dormant because
half the people got in positions of authority, they don't look stupid as much anymore.
Cash Patel went on, umpteim's Q&on podcasts, right?
He's deep in their world, deep in their lore.
and now he just went out in public and stabbed him in the back
because I guess the deep state got to him or whatever.
The FBI has been reoriented, not just doing immigration enforcement,
to stop doing all white-collar crow enforcement,
but they also are doing these nationwide pedophiles stings
called Operation Restored Justice.
They had like a one-day raid spree across the country
where they arrested 250 people.
And I haven't seen how they were connected anyway.
Like maybe they all posted on the same message boards or something,
but like the Cuban on theories, they all have like horns and underground tunnels between their houses.
So I'm not sure like how this is supposed to help.
But he's trying to keep the lid on the people, his biggest supporters who are QAnon people to not think he's like totally betrayed them.
All right.
Okay.
All right.
So what the FBI under Cash Patel did a raid across the country with 250 different people, but all is part of the same umbrella operation?
Yeah.
And it has to do with like Q type stuff, like child traffic.
or whatever, or nobody knows what it is.
They're just speculating.
I don't know.
I don't know.
It is guilt or innocence of any people directly, but I haven't seen any evidence publicly released that they're connected in any way, shape, or form.
They would be like an organized conspiracy the way QAnon sees sex trafficking in the United States.
Right.
But trying to triangulate between Q&N and reality is a really interesting tight walk, try to try to try to walk.
Um, the case in point, Pam Bondi is going to the same thing right now.
Here's, uh, Pam Bondi being asked about Epstein a couple days ago.
I forgot this video, Matt.
No, no, the FBI, yeah, the FBI, they're reviewing there are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein
with children or child porn.
And there are hundreds of victims.
And no one victim will ever get released.
It's just the volume.
And that's what they're going.
through right now. The FBI is diligently
going through that. I haven't
seen that statement, but I'll call him. Okay, you got
about it. So,
she's asked if they're going to release the Epstein files, and she
says, well, actually, we can't lease them because there's
tens of thousands of videos of Epstein.
That's Will Chamberlain pedophilia numbers.
I don't believe
her. No one's ever mentioned that volume
of video footage before we're having to do with
Epstein. I just think the response is pretty
funny. Because the real question here is, like, we
know you want to know more about the evil role
of this man played within our
global, political, and financial system.
That won't be happening, but rest assured, the FBI is looking at watching a ton of child
pornography.
Yeah.
Yeah, I've always thought that's a real, that's a real rough draw to have at the agency
is getting put on that particular fucking duty.
Because that is a real thing, obviously.
People have to do that.
That's gnarly.
So the real reason, so James O'Keefe, remember James O'Keefe, the guy, the guy that
made, yeah, like, fake, well, I guess they weren't fake.
he, whatever, he did like
undercover exposés, right, that were
like bullshit, essentially.
And then he got fired for using Project
Veritas money to fund his own musicals.
So, he's got his own new
operation where he makes sting videos.
And so, for context, of course,
like we just talked about, Bonnie's been under pressure from
Magilloyalist over the Epstein files.
The accused of relying, needlessly delaying
disclosure. Remember, she released some fake Epstein files
a couple months ago. So I think she's being
complicit in a cover-up. So James
O'Keefe released a hidden camera video where
Bonnie was confronted by one of his agents at a restaurant. Bonnie told the agent this story.
Then she was contacted. I'll let James O'Keefe take it from here.
And his victims exist. What you may not know is just nine days prior, the Attorney General
had a very similar conversation with a total stranger in a restaurant.
Do you know when the Epstein files are going to get released?
We vote soon.
Okay.
So.
Any dates?
No, you know what it is.
There are 10,000,000, lady knows.
Yeah, and it's all the little pins.
So they have to go through everyone.
In the past, the pictures have spoken about...
So she basically bullshitted this story out because the woman confronted her at brunch.
By the way, I love to talk to random strangers at brunch about child porn, not just child porn, but top secret child porn.
So she gave her this excuse.
And then after O'Keef emailed her office, she had to go out in public and tell the same story because she was about to be busted by the
by the, you know, right-wing rag media.
It is kind of like somewhat, well, I'm not going to call it satisfying.
It's nowhere near that yet.
But like the idea that Q is, you know, sort of that now that they, these people are the establishment, you know, that Q is becoming a thorn in their side too.
Because I bet a lot of them probably assumed, you know, that once they got in power that they're like, well, we're on the same team.
they're not going to fucking, you know, they're not going to give us any shit over any of this stuff.
We are, we are them or whatever.
But, you know, to the real basement dwellers, it's like, no, you are, you know, you are the deep state now.
And we don't trust the deep state.
And so, like, the fact that they're being hassled, they're being hoisted by their own petards, I think is what's called, a patar.
Petard, yeah, yeah, that hoisted by their own partard, that's, you know, it's funny to me.
Yeah. Anyway, so she thought, Bonnie thought she was bullshitting some random crazy lunatic who was claiming to be a nanny.
But as you found out of the nanny, how it was wearing a wire, since she had to go on TV and tell the same story, like, all the, the, to the whole country, whole story about basically that the dog just ate her pedophile homework.
So anyway, I'm glad they're trapped in the same hell the rest of us are now. That's fun.
All right. Well, we're about to, we're about to do it. Let's get into the main segment. What do you say?
Yes, let's get into it. So fun series of events here.
So, the story broke yesterday.
The total administration kind of announced
to the ABC News Cleaner was exclusive
that they are poised to accept
a, quote, palace in the sky
as a gift for Trump from Qatar.
Let me quote here,
what may be the most valuable gift
ever extended to the United States
from a foreign government,
the Trump administration
preparing to accept a super luxury
bowen 7478 jumbo jet
from the royal family of Qatar.
The plan is basically to,
they gave the plane to the DOD
of the United States
to hold kind of in trust
and then right before Trump leaves office
and fingers crossed
on wood in January of 2020
9, right?
Yeah, 20209.
They'll be transferred to his presidential foundation
which runs his library
for him to have his personal use, okay?
And then when people are like, wait, what the fuck?
You're just taking a $400 million bribe from a foreign country
and they're like, he basically said the Democrats are losers
for not getting their free jets from foreign dictators.
yeah i know i saw that he said on truth he said uh he was like he was like now the democrats
are all mad he's like so they wouldn't they expect us to pay for it he was like anybody can do
that that's what he said anybody can do that it was and it was like democrats are world class
losers maga and it's like you know in his mind he's like what kind of kind of idiot pays for
something you can get for free yeah you just got to make people love you as much as they love me
you dumb asses uh yeah his response to it is very funny
It's a very Trumpian response.
I'm not at all surprised that that's how he, you know.
I definitely think he views himself as like a, like an old, you know, like a conqueror of
your or like an emperor or something.
You know what I mean?
That people like offer tributes to and that sort of thing.
Like he would have been gifted like a fucking elephant with a golden armor or some shit.
Like back, you know, like this is the 2025 equivalent of that.
And he very much thinks that he deserves it, you know?
Yeah.
I just like it's like it's like it's like.
conservative is always in the party
of saying there's no such thing as a free lunch
and now you got the president of the conservative
who's from the conservative party
essentially being like
in a Wiley Coyote
cartoon seeing a pile of bird seed
with a free bird seed sign above it
and be like well there's free bird seed
I gotta give it to him
my whole beef with Trump's grifts all along
that they're so small minded like
it's essentially like stealing
20 bucks out of a cash register but over and over
and over again and now he figured it away to
steal Air Force One.
Yeah.
It did it.
He got a real one.
Because it's like they're going to give Air Force One to America, then he's going to take it.
Right.
He's stealing, heisting Air Force One and no one's talking about it that way.
I know.
It's weird.
Speaking of the way people are talking about it, though, what do you think, like, you know,
it's a bribe or whatever, but for what?
Like, I saw people on Reddit, of course, like, you know, lefties on Reddit,
saying it's like, oh, yeah, it's funny how this type of thing starts happening right after he,
you know,
switches his stance on,
after he screws Israel over or whatever,
basically.
Yeah,
that's definitely,
well,
he didn't,
like,
we're going to get into the Israel party
a little later,
but the,
but the,
the,
the,
the,
uh,
it's okay,
so context,
it's time,
unfortunately it's time,
it's time to remember some stuff
because apparently,
like,
our entire political,
uh,
political media apparatus is,
is,
is cursed with not remembering stuff.
Okay.
During the first Trump administration,
Jared Kushner's dad shook down Qatar for a real estate bailout.
Qatar turned him down.
The U.S.
then let's
Saudi Arabia and the UAE blockade
Qatar and they very nearly invaded.
Secretary of State at the time,
Rex Tillerson tried to stop them
and defend Qatar, where America does
have a military base, but Jared
Kushner intervened against Qatar.
Anyway, they ended up bailing out
Jared Kushner's commercial real estate
venture in Manhattan, and Qatar officials
said openly at the time, they told U.S. media,
they understood it all to be payback for not making
the investment, and if they had to do it differently,
they would have done it. If they'd known the dynamic,
they would have just paid up front last time.
So this could also just be a preemptive bribe,
for Curry favor going forward.
It could be for stuff in specific.
Who knows?
But I don't understand why no one's brought that up.
But anyway, I'm not in charge of bringing stuff up.
The whole thing is like the plane's $400 million.
He could have just bought it.
The last estimate I've seen it, he's making a billion dollars a month off his crypto.
And it still wants a free plane.
Also, Qatar-
That's because only losers would buy it, though, Maris.
That's a loser mentality, what you just said.
So if you can get for free, why buy it?
That's his whole argument here.
For context sake, Qatar allegedly, air quote, allegedly spent $880 million in gifts to FIFA to get the World Cup.
So Trump could have held out for way more.
How is owning the president of the United States worth less than half of the World Cup?
We're such fucking cheap whores, man.
Also, the royal family of Qatar has been using this plane for over a decade.
It's a fucking hammy down.
We got a second, we got sloppy second planes coming in, man.
Wow. I didn't know they'd been, they did like a depreciation, evaluation on it or whatever, and it's still worth $400 million.
I didn't know they'd been in it for 10 years already.
So, yeah, they did, the guitar did put some, put some good, so a lot of thought into it and gave him the perfect gift, because Trump's been obsessed with Air Force One for a long time.
Like, remember, he tried to get new Air Force One because the current models were built in like, I don't know, they're 40 years old or whatever.
And he doesn't like the paint scheme either because it's light blue. He wants to be red, white, and blue.
coincidentally is the same colored scheme as the Trump organization plane.
And he has a model of his dream Air Force One that sits on a table in the Oval Office.
If you got this picture, Matt, he has a toy plane that he likes to fantasize about flying in.
Pretty good looking plane.
Yeah, not bad.
But I guess part of his beef with Air Force One is that like it's not as, he doesn't think it's as nice or as fancy as his Trump organization plane.
Right, which, I mean, you know, I feel like it shouldn't be, really, like, in my mind, like, depending on, but what he thinks is fancy.
Like, you know, the president, it's supposed to be $400,000 a year in salary and is, like, the ultimate public servant or whatever, hypothetically.
Like, I don't think he need, there shouldn't be a golden toilet on the president's plane or whatever.
It should be safe and fucking have all the, like, you know, if you need to launch a drone strike from somewhere over Milwaukee, you can do that from.
it, but I don't see why it needs to be, like, opulent or whatever, which is what he cares
about.
It's functional.
It's got to be able to, like, do tight maneuvers if other planes try to attack it.
And, like, we all see an Air Force one.
Yeah.
So, so, uh, quote of here from ABC.
So Trump toured this plane in February when it was in West Palm Beach.
So he's been thinking, he's been wanting this plane for it.
They basically, like, give him a test drive in February.
And they've been trying to work out the deals of this ever since.
Because the DOJ and DOD both puts.
together like legal memorandums, like Pam Bondly personally wrote one saying this was cool to
take.
She said it does not constitute bribery because it does not run afoul the Constitution's
prohibition on foreign gifts because the plane is not being given to an individual but rather
to the United States Air Force and then eventually to the Presidential Library Foundation,
which will then let the president use it.
It's not being given to the president.
It's been given for the president to use.
It's a deeply funny workaround for the concept of bravery.
It's like saying, well, he paid you money to do X.
Like, no, no, no.
he did not pay me money he did not give me money he put the money on the table then i picked
it up wow you're like oh we're defeated by the power of life all kinds of shit and like high
level business and commerce works and stuff and also crime and fucking you know just
money laundering and shell companies and tax evasion and all that stuff is all kind of
just like weird loopholes like that where like legally speaking there's this work around
where everybody knows what like you know is actually happening
at the end of the day or the reason they do it,
but it doesn't matter because, you know,
the legal part.
You've got to be able to prove there's a knowing quid pro quo.
So if I,
like, if you're the mayor and I put a pool in your house
and you coincidentally give my trucking company a bid,
you got to prove that you gave me the bid
in exchange the pool.
Like, we put it in writing or something.
So,
but I just think like the emoluments clause is so funny.
Like, because the guitar is run by a king
And the Commoduments Clause kind of seems quaint because we get more figurative with it
because it forbids accepting gifts from any king, prince, or foreign state.
And I got to imagine showing this to like the founders because it's explicitly what they worried about.
We were back when we were a poor, weak country, somebody just buying our president.
Right.
And there'd be like, their only thing they would find shocking about this is like, wait, they got brown kings now.
Yeah.
And the world gone woke.
Right.
Not for nothing.
Pam Bondi's last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar
where she made, I think, $115,000 a month.
Cash Patel had a lobbying job for Qatar that he did not report.
There's Qatari money flowing up and down this administration.
I guess with Bondi, maybe her last direct deposit,
it might not have been cleared yet.
That's how recently she was on their payroll.
The plane itself, dude, have you seen the pictures of the inside of it?
No, I have not.
I'd like to, though.
We're about to do that.
Yeah, I'll throw up these pictures.
There's a picture of the bedroom.
you have this first one.
This is where the president of the United States is going to be sleeping.
Okay.
It's like art deco from the 70s or something.
Those pictures are like bubble staircase.
The whole thing feels like it's like a time capsule wrapped in plastic.
I knew it would be like that,
meaning like I knew it would be kind of weird and tacky or whatever.
And it definitely suits Trump.
You know what I mean?
Like he's...
Yeah.
It's definitely his type of shit.
But I feel like all the, all them, the oil money.
over there and they like throw it around like crazy but it's all on kind of you know kind of tacky
shit largely a lot of times or whatever yeah stuff to step you know he put a lion in the
passenger seat of a Ferrari or whatever yeah yeah that's like a staircase like this feels
very like boogie nights like they look like a staircase you you come down their stairs
and they're like a sunken living room with shag carpeting where you have an orgy or something
and this is what the president of the united states think is opulent
The Qatarian rules, by the way, for context here, the Althani family, their claim descendants of the biblical figure Ishmael, who was the first son of Abraham.
So maybe Trump thinks he's shot to get in the Bible, too, which, you know, will definitely come out before winds of winter.
Yeah.
The current emir of Qatar is Tamim bin Hamad Al-Tani, Sheikh Tamim, we'll call him.
He was educated in the UK, but also married his cousin.
So sort of a classic.
Yeah, his first wife.
The first woman he married was his second cousin, I think.
He's only got three wives, so pretty progressive.
Usually power there changes hands of bloodless coups.
To me, he got power after his older brothers both renounce the throne.
One was two fundamentalists for, like, the Qatari Deep State.
The other one just wanted to party.
I admire, like, a catari chic.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
That's exactly what I was about to say.
Like, the ones, it's like the, you know, especially, I don't know, it sounds like that wasn't the oldest one.
It's like, if you're, if you're just, yeah, like,
like some an oil prints or whatever from over that you just you know just party all the time or
you got to fucking like you got to go to mara lago you know sometimes and have conferences and listen
to listen to fucking you know cash patel and fucking roger stone give speeches and stuff like that
or you could just be like again railing coke with big cats and fucking international hookers
and and uh you know fancy cars and jets and all that shit like i'd
probably just do the latter two, I think.
Just let my brother handle the rest of it.
Yeah, I mean, the Adelaide family
has like 20,000 members. Only one of
them has to have a job, but unfortunately it's running
the country. Like, why would you, fuck, would you volunteer to be the one guy
has a job? Right.
Talk about you having to go to Moralago.
Tamim in real life is friends with Trump
going back to behind before he was president
because they're both involved in real estate ventures
and, like, golf, willing golf courses and shit.
The Qataris
are big art collectors. Like, they
have, like, billions of dollars in
are they're trying to refocus their economy to be a knowledge-based economy by 2030.
So it's a really funny.
They're trying, like, the entire Middle East is trying to get their economies off chloro-floor, like hydrocarbons.
Of course.
And we're saying there's no climate change.
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
Qatar itself is a weird, like, like, you treat all these different like Emirates or whatever,
like they're, like they're all the same.
But Qatar is like the weird cousin, even in the Middle East.
They just had a decade-long Cold War with not just the Saudis, but the whole Arab League.
The Saudis say that the,
the guitar supports terrorism.
That's their beef with guitar.
The guys who funded 9-11 are trying to warn the world,
hey, these guys might fund a 9-11.
Yeah, well, I mean, to be, you know,
who would better know, from one perspective?
It's like, you know,
that they are the subject matter experts
on funding 9-11s, the Saudis.
So, you know, it seems like they'd be pretty on top of it.
The, uh, the whole world's so fucking,
I know it's weird all the time,
but like, think about it,
the Saudis are trying to say Qatar.
as their enemy, that they're doing their funding terrorism
by which they mean
the Hamas, which we'll get to, maybe the
their kind of defenders of the Houthis.
But United Kingdom
had King Charles named
Sheik Tamin. This is in December of 2024.
It's a couple months ago. King Charles
named him an honorary Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath,
whatever the fuck that is.
Yes. So the King of England's given
him like, proper posh, in it, that.
Yeah, yeah.
Giving him like ceremonial titles
and shit. And, uh, I
guess it's because the Qataris own like a big chunk of London real estate. I don't fucking
know. But the whole like, all this stuff makes you feel like I'm going insane because
Qatar funds Hamas. I don't mean that like like openly funds Hamas. Right. I'm about
saying doesn't the actual people that are in charge of Hamas, they live in Qatar, don't they?
Right. Isn't that where they're located at? Yeah. Right. Yeah. They run, they run Hamas out of
Qatar. Right. Qatar is giving them $1.8 billion that we know about. And so while that
going on, we're rounding up students
from writing letters in support
of Palestinian civilians.
Right.
Speaking of which, Ramesa Oss Turk
just got released. She was the
Tufts University PhD student who got
snatched off the street by ICE and they revoked
her visa without telling her.
A judge ordered to be released and
they did release her and her press conference
Ramesa said this and wanted to quote,
America is the greatest democracy in the world and I believe
in those values that we share. I have faith in
the American system of justice.
boy I don't know what to make of anything right now but she seems like a really sweet growing I'm glad she's free well I mean that could also just be a like like hey we're cool listen we're cool you know right yeah got take me back I'm fine everything's fine I'm just gonna go you know she's like had to be questioning some things during that six weeks in the detention center or whatever and she gets out and it's like you know she depressed conference she was there with Ed Markey and it was it was a tone of like resolute defiance not like it really
was, I believe, in America.
I think this will work itself out.
She's a Turkish national, if you guys remember.
So to recap here, just how the official position of the Trump administration is that
MS-13 members are not MS-13, but MS-13's victims are MS-13.
Writing an op-ed is Hamas.
By the rockets that Hamas shoots at Israeli settlements is not Hamas.
All right.
So we all keep track here.
It's really difficult to make sense of what's the United States.
the fuck Trump is up to in the Middle East right now.
Right.
If you can make sense of it, I guess it's basically just a brab off while also trying to
maintain some sort of consistency with, like, who we hate.
So did he actually say something about supporting a two-state solution or whatever?
Was that just bullshit on Twitter?
Okay.
Because I saw some people mentioning it on Reddit, too, but I didn't know if that was just, you know.
I think there might have been some anonymous reporting, like, a Jewish, sorry, an Israeli tabloid,
like a Zionist tabloid about it
but there's nothing like
Trump's, two weeks ago he was saying
we should ethnically cleanse Gaza to put in like
a white lotus on the Mediterranean.
Yeah, right.
And so the idea that like Trump's become a good
guy or whatever, but it is difficult to keep
track of because like you said there are a bunch of those
fake news accounts on Twitter who put breaking in front
of Trump, you know, announcing he was
going to recognize a Palestinian state
in Gaza. He did go behind Israel's back to
negotiate directly with Hamas and got the last
living U.S. hostage
release.
And whatever, like, I don't think it's that he's backstabbed Israel.
I think he's not being as pro-Israel as Israel at hopefully when they tried to get him elected.
But this is a really funny image that's floating around bright winged Israeli telegram channels this weekend.
Is Donald Trump fighting for a loss?
Anyway, Israel, you guys helped install the world's most brabable man.
It's weird.
Everyone thinks he's only going to fuck other people over.
I know.
I was about to say, it's like, I'm not going to lie.
I would find some amount of shodding for.
in it for sure if he
if he did actually turn on them after they
you know definitely poured a lot of money
into fucking getting him
reelected again it's like you said everybody
always thinks that he's only going to screw over
other people when it's like
that's never been how any
any one person in all of human history
who operates like Trump
that's like a fundamental
truth about them is that they
they screw everybody out they're all in it for
themselves that's the very nature of their being
if they screw other people over they'll screw you over
two. There's no honor amongst thieves, as they say. Right. And you literally cannot outbid
the royal family of Qatar. Right. They just gave him their third airplane and he's happy about it.
Like, they don't like, they don't fucking give a shit. I just, I love to, the world, the world
needs rules for most civilized people to operate and you have people in charge of civilized
society throwing away the rule of left and right and wondering why they're fucking losing.
So the security part of this I find deeply funny.
the American military and law enforcement apparatus spends so much money on continuity of government
and keeping the president alive that is honestly mind-boggling.
And I hear you have Trump just taking an uninspected plane from nobody on spec.
Right.
I mean, on that part, I just assumed that the Secret Service or whoever is in charge that type of thing
would not let him get on it if they don't do some kind of something.
right? Like some sort of
sleep or something? I don't know how that shit
works. We'll get
to go to how it works, but you can't, like, you
get, okay, okay, let's start from
the physical security to president for a second.
We said, we're the only country in the world that supplies
their own helicopters for overseas trips.
Like, if the U.S. president
goes to France, he flies around a Marine
one. If the French
president comes to the United States, he flies around Marine
one. If he goes to the UK, he flies around a British military
helicopter. Other countries have to trust the
security of their heads of state to the country
they're visiting. We don't trust anybody with this
shit. When the president flies
overseas, he's followed by a second
backup plane that can serve as Air Force One.
He's also followed by the plane that could run the nuclear
war during a Holocaust from. That's three
big planes. He also sent a fleet of smaller planes
they parked nearby that can be take off off
shorter runways in case shit really goes awry in like
a London is falling type situation.
All right.
And then he's just like, yeah, I'm
getting on a plane.
And
the information
security part you're talking about,
anybody thinks this guitar airplane won't be
bugged all the hell is out of their fucking minds.
And we watch TV shows with
like, with spies and like people.
People these do a little bug detector, like a soprano
and it beeps, then you take the thing out of the phone
earpiece or the light bulb and then you're safe.
But it's more complicated than that
in real life because in real
life, there's some people doing their surveillance know
those devices exist. They build
devices to defeat those devices. And around and around
we go in a circle. I'm sure it's insane
and especially what
like governments have
and militaries and stuff, the type of shit
that the, you know, spy
craft that goes on now
and I'm sure it's like absolutely
banana stuff.
And anybody, like anybody
surveilling the President of the United States or
Katari Secret Service knows that Trump
did a test drive on that plane back in February
is that wanting it ever since then.
So wherever that plane has been since then, whatever
intelligence agencies have had access to it, have bugged the shit out of it if it wasn't already
bugged since February, all right?
And, like, for context, American president stopped staying at the Waldofer story in
New York just because it was bought by Chinese interests, and they're worried about being
spied on.
That's just the president sleeping in a bed.
This is Air Force One where they have a lot of important meetings.
For context, like, there's too many electronics and wires to check.
A 747 contains hundreds of miles of wire and millions of parts.
It's basically a flying computer
with millions of lines of code.
If it's not built as Air Force One,
it's impossible to ever know that it's secure.
To trust it,
they have to take it apart down to every single individual part.
Inspect each individual part to see what it does and how it works
and if it has anything hidden in it
and then reassemble the whole plane from scratch
whatever parts they can trust.
And here you have Trump taking a plane
from a Qatari Secret Service being like,
a secret police being like,
yeah, I will speak directly into this airplane toilet.
Yeah.
the president of the United States ended up on a
Qatari toilet cam site is a pretty fitting end to all this honestly
man how wild would that shit be literally
but yeah no it's a crazy time
I mean he's definitely gonna I mean he's gonna take it right
I mean that's a done deal essentially like
no one's gonna stand in the way of this are that right
he wants it in service by the end of the year
I bet you I bet you they drag their fucking feet on it
because they cannot let the planet president fly on this shit.
They just can't.
The only way to make it work is to, you remember the old 18?
They used to sedate B.A. Barakas and they needed to fly Mr. D's character.
They'd have to, like, sedate Trump every time he gets on the plane so he can't spill secrets while he's flying.
So, to tell you what we're talking about, the context here, it's still a little fun with spy history for a second.
In 1945, the Soviets gave the U.S. ambassador to the USSR, a big, carved, great seal.
The old was ugly as shit was red, but I guess the guy, Dan Bass, we thought he'd
it because he hung it right over his desk.
It contained a small membrane and antenna, which could pick up and transmit audio when hit
with a radio beam, which it was designed by the guy who had been to the Theraman, by the way.
Nice.
Yeah, so this guy was just like, I just want to auto-tune Halloween, and the KGB made him make
fucking surveillance technology.
Yeah, there's a few people like that.
And that whole era is so wild for that type of thing, because there was a, who
was the, there's like a famous actress from back then who kind of developed a precursor
of Wi-Fi during wartime or whatever. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Nah, I hope it was B. Arthur, though.
Fucking Hetty Lamar or somebody like that. Um, and then, uh, obviously Alan Turing
and all the shit he was doing and whatnot. It's just, uh, Christopher Lee doing like
James Bond stuff in real life behind the scenes before, you know, becoming an actor.
It's just a lot of wild stuff going on during that period. Mark, I don't know if people
know that. Interesting period of history.
the 40s and 50s, all that.
The guy that wrote James Bond, Ian Fleming,
didn't he work for MI 6 during the war or something like that?
Yeah, and so did Christopher Lee, and also, they are also cousins.
I appreciate Ian Fleming and Christopher Lee are cousins, I think.
So it's been, like, rumored before,
that Christopher Lee's at least part of the actual, whatever,
inspiration for the James Bond character and stuff,
but I don't know.
Anyway, it's fun.
So the guy, Leo Thurabot, I think was the guy's name or whatever.
So his thing, what was a genius about that was it wasn't a transmitter when it wasn't transmitting, right?
So it was literally undetectable, they couldn't find it.
So when they have to take the plane apart and figure what everything does, like there's going to be stuff on there that doesn't look or talk like a radio because it's not activated by shooting radio waves into it.
That's something to the Theron thing.
It's a bad example because that's 1945 technology.
That device, by the way, was discovered by total accident and luck in 1952 when a British radio operator eavesdropping on the Soviets, heard of
American speaking and they had to piece together from context what the hell was going on and who was talking on and where they might have been listening from and then found the seal and take it apart and forgot what was radio and how it worked. All right. So seven, he was in the ambassador's office for seven years and they discovered about pure luck or they could have been still recording us today probably. In the 1970s, the Soviets planned a modern device in the U.S. Embassy and they knew something was up because their spies get getting arrested. It still took years to fine because it was so fucking genius.
the IBM's electric typewriters
have been almost invisibly
modified to broadcast every keystroke
it's like a early version of like a keystroke
log accounts like they do for the hackers use now
basically
damn that's wild
I did not know I could do that then so yeah
so it's like typewriters
so like the clerks and wherever else
in the in the US embassy
they're typing out all these memos and stuff
and those memos are getting like
basically retransmitted to a Soviet typewriters
and typed up and printed out, or the equivalent?
That's crazy.
And so that was discovered in the 70s.
And they were still finding these devices all over the embassy in the 80s.
And by 1988, it was clear that we could never find all the monitoring devices
and a half-built new Moscow embassy to the point that Reagan declared that the half-built new
building must be torn down and rebuilt from scratch.
And ultimately it turned out there were hundreds of bugs.
Reagan did the counterintelligence version of burning down your house.
because it had bed bugs to combat
in 1974 technology
and Trump's going to be
on Air Force One
talking to more microphones
than like a coach
in an NCAA
press conference.
Yeah.
I got to admit though
it would be a pretty good bit
to not bug it at all.
And just like have a CA guy
going all fucking insane
trying to find where the guy
where they hid this shit.
Just like just like remember the
the fly episode of Breaking Bad
where Walt's going insane
trying to find a one bug
in his meth lab.
Of course, we could forget.
One of the most famous bottle episodes of all time, I believe.
Yeah, directed by Ryan Johnson, I think.
For people that don't know, a bottle episode of TV is one that takes place entirely in, like, one location.
And it's oftentimes done in the middle of the season or something to help save, like, money in the budget or that type of thing to keep, you know, to sort of confine it to one spot.
But they can end up having a lot of fun with them, case in point, that one that Mark's talking about, a breaking bad.
I wanted to ask you before we go, Mark, because it didn't come up, although I do think it is breaking news, but also maybe,
you're just like that.
Who gives a fuck?
It doesn't even mean anything.
You're about the,
so there's a new trade deal,
you know,
which is basically we just,
just undid.
I said,
I was talking about on Patreon earlier,
it just seems like Trump just tried to like unpunch his own balls or something
because they made like a deal with China where it's like,
okay,
all those 150% tariffs,
all right,
we're not going to do that.
But we might,
but we're not going to now.
There's like a 90 day pause and nobody,
I don't know.
I just wonder what you thought about that, if anything.
It'll be different tomorrow.
I don't think we're talking about because it'll be different tomorrow,
but basically what Trump did was he jacked up tariffs on China to 145%.
They retaliated by jacking up tariffs and their stuff like $125, I think.
Yeah.
And then they go to go and negotiate, like, okay, we'll knock hours down to $30 if you had to go back down to $10.
It's like they're still tariffing each other.
And the only thing you got out of it was them knocking down the tariffs.
They only enacted to retaliate against our tariffs.
In the first place, right.
And anyway, I thought the tariffs were good because they were going to remove manufacturing back here
and eliminate the income tax.
So why should you say that anymore?
Right.
Right.
So, yeah.
I agree with all that.
It's like, yeah, it's like, right.
You shouldn't be, if you are buying into Trump's bullshit for why we need tariffs
and why they're good in the first place, then you shouldn't be celebrating him doing this.
But they are.
So that seems to imply that you acknowledge that that level of tariffs is a bad idea because
now you're celebrating this being a good.
I don't know.
It's just, you know, it's all kind of like double talk or whatever.
And again, it's all fabricated out of no way.
where like everything is with the like they caused all this in the first place and now they're like
trying to undo some of it and jerking themselves off for reaching a solution and everything and
it's like I don't know you're just going you're chasing your own tail or whatever it doesn't make
any sense to me yeah I thought the funniest part I saw I was like they keep talking about dolls
they try to make everyone who's worried about tariffs seem like in infants for caring about
little girls having dolls but like I saw somebody do this a plodging breakdown is like
it actually we can get dolls from other places the problem is most of the
doll hair comes to China, so what does that bald dolls?
Yeah.
Ball dolls.
It's so funny about Christmas of all bald dolls, and everybody's like, we have bald dolls
because of Donald Trump.
It's going to be so fucking funny.
Yeah, little girls, like, crying across the country on Christmas morning because of Donald
Trump specifically.
He made every little American girl cry on Christmas morning.
It would be funny.
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