Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – Caribbean Cruise Missiles

Episode Date: September 10, 2025

We discuss Donald Trump’s career as a non-exist federal undercover agent and the new Epstein scandal strategy: Steal QAnon talking points from 2019. Then, America blew up a fishing boat with 11 civilians on it to stop less cocaine than is in your average single SEC frat house. Can the war crimes get more wanton? We check in on what’s going on in South America’s and the Caribbean’s politics and economies to learn: Probably.Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it is uh september 9th 2025 um as you're watching this we're recording this yesterday monday september 8th at 1 p.m on the left coast that's where we're at in time and space as we project this out across the skewerce for your enjoyment it is weekly skews i'm tray and that's Mark. How are you doing there, Mark? Good, man. A bunch of Supreme Court decisions came down today. One, Donald Trump's a dictator. Two, ICE is now mandatory for ICE to be racist.

And also, it's not illegal for ICE to beat the shit out of you, even if you're a citizen. But because you can sue for violating your Fourth Amendment rights, although in separate decisions, they've ruled you cannot sue ICE for violating your Fourth Amendment rights. So, literally, you have no rights, everybody. So, yeah, fun day. I wanted to vent real quick about COVID vaccines because I tried to get one, a booster the other day. I think I texted you guys about it. Have you tried to get one this year?

I have not. Just out of like me, I just put things off like everything, you know. So I've been meaning to get a haircut for like four weeks and just haven't. So it's that type of thing. So we go to a drugstore. Let's call it Grawleweens. My wife made a point for us to get our COVID. in flu vaccines like we do every year, we go and the guy starts asking us questions about

what are pre-existing conditions and whatnot. And we're like, well, we both have elderly mothers, you know, my wife's mom's in like a facility. I've got a 90-year-old grandma. My mom's beat cancer, you know, more times in the walls of ever beat Alabama, sorry. Okay, all right. Shots fired. Unnecessary, but okay. And I didn't realize later the guy was trying to coach us through what lies to tell.

Do you know what I'm saying? right yeah because i didn't think i didn't think i'd have to fucking lie then he goes against the supervisor and comes over and she's like well they changed the guidance and i'm like i'm aware and she goes like so we need to save the vaccines for all the people over 65 and i'm fucking i hate being lied to like when someone lies to your face about something you both know isn't true they're calling you a fucking idiot right but couldn't she just say like they we can't give you one based on your responses in in keeping with what the new guidance is from RFK and whoever else it comes from.

Right. Our bosses say we shouldn't give it to you because you haven't told the right lies because it'll fuck with their insurance that have been like, okay, I got you. We all have bosses, right? Right.

But I like sort of like, I don't raise my voice at customer service people. I'm not that kind of guy, but like I did like say some stuff along that you don't have to, you don't have to lie to me. But this isn't March of 2021. The vaccines are not scarce. This is not true.

Like, don't make, don't let. them make you lie to me. It's not, like, it's not, it's not, don't do that to yourself was basically my fucking lecture. I gave this lady. And then I go to store them off. My wife comes and grabs me. He's like, no, we still got to get her flu shot down me. I'm like, okay. But my wife was later able to procure one from another, this call it VCS, because they didn't give a shit. They basically just like, she just walked by the counter and threw it into her arm. So anyway, just tell them you have, one thing I, my wife did some research. A history of smoking

is a good enough reason to get, like that checks the box. So just lie and say you had a cigarette before or even if you haven't and you which is true for me i used to smoke so what what is the point of why what's the point of them limiting it in that way to begin with like you know like making you have to check certain boxes to be able to get it given that it isn't scarce and and all that it's like if a young person if i'm sure they're like what it's not going to fucking kill a young person anyway so they don't need it or whatever but even if they don't need it i mean even putting aside, like you said, if they have elderly family members and stuff that they could spread it to, or whatever, if they want it and they're down to pay for it or whatever or however all that works, then, you know, why prevent them from having it if you have enough to go around? I'm assuming it without the cover of CDC rules and say, but their lawyers are telling them not to let people do it because they'll fuck with their insurance.

I'm assuming because if somebody has somebody, somebody, the bad vaccine reactions do happen, they can get sued now. They didn't get said CDC guy. I'm getting, that's my fucking guest. But, like, after all the stuff we talked about last week, RFK, they had a big oversight hearing where RFK got yelled out by a bunch of senators. And he sat there talking about how he wants to make America healthy again while breathing into the goddamn microphone. Did you hear the clips of it, right? No, I know that, uh, didn't someone tell him to chill it out because he was freaking people out or something?

Yeah, it was like, it was like, like, a, like, a, like a, a dying St. Bernard trying to get it was like, it was like, a, like, a dying St. Bernard trying to get it. get off by humping a beam bag chair into a fucking microphone. This guy's like, look, I did my own research, Tray, and I want the fucking shot. Right. That's kind of what I'm saying. It's like, yeah, right. If you, whatever, if I do your own research, these things are bad. But if you'd say, well, I did my own research.

And as an American, I would like to get it, it's weird for them to not allow that to happen. But also, didn't they, in the hearings that he testified at, didn't they, like, not make him swear in or something like that? Right. He would testify in. Like, they seem to have noticed. Have they ever done? Is that a thing that they do sometimes? Or, because I thought that was like a whole part of it.

You know, I definitely thought you were supposed to be under oath if you're testifying before Congress. But the subtext here, because all these people are just trying to make money, right? And it's not really clear because like, like, like, RFK Jr's job for like decades, his career was ginning up lawsuits and referring to people lawsuits and getting a cut. And, like, people seem to have noticed that. he's basically taken the plaintiff's side a lot of like agenda lawsuits. I'm assuming he'll get paid off

in the back end. Like he came out and said Tylenol causes autism now pro prolet women take it which is like a fucking quack crank lawsuit. So like people,

they, I thought maybe Republicans hadn't noticed that because some of them have said it out loud the ones are critical of him but I think they've noticed that he's a fucking lying

scumbbag who's just profiteering and that's why they didn't swear him in. You know what I'm saying? So in Florida Florida also announced they're going to do away with all school vaccine mandates. This is, no matter what you slice, like, how you slice polling on fucking vaccines, it's still, it's not pop, like, school mandates are still popular overwhelmingly.

So I don't know what their game, the game is here. Like, Florida's a surgeon general guy by the name with Joseph Lodopu has been all over talking about, he was on the Sunday show saying they didn't even run the numbers and see how many kids they would kill because it's a matter of principle to not force people to get the vaccine, which fair enough, at least you're being fucking honest. But, like, Lidopu, his wife is also like a spiritual heal. The Surgeon General of Florida, his wife, his wife's like a spiritual healing guru who makes money off fucking selling supplements. Of course she does.

She posts about weather modifications. Her name is Brianna. Weather modifications, chemtrails, frequencies, and, quote, experiments to dim the sun. That, by the way, is face. To what end? Like, global warming. Like, so there's a British company who's been experimenting with a kind of cloud scene that make, like, clouds more reflective, like, reflect. reflects sunlight back into space

of like the Pacific Ocean. But of course, any sort of like, that sounds very deeply suspicious to them because you're putting stuff in the sky and the sky has got, but like how we got into a place where we're deeply suspicious of every technological advance

that isn't related to personal electronics to all carry on us at all the times. Those get by without a pass. Like anything to solve like a bigger problem is like, like if somebody invented a hot air balloon right now, anything related to the sky is fucking scary. So if somebody did it a higher balloon,

like the megosphere people, would say it's because the government wants to let pedophiles look down into your backyard. That's basically where we're at right now. So, yeah, I don't know. Right. How do, like, you know, if you got kids and you won't feed them, like, if the state finds out, they'll, you know, take them from you because that's dangerous to them. But if you got kids and you won't, you know, inoculate them against potentially deadly diseases,

and then kids, you know, it has happened, catch things and then die. could have been prevented. Like, that does happen. How is that not? What makes that different in the eyes of these people? Like, First Amendment religious freedoms. Like, there have been cases historically about, like, Christian scientists and, like, you know, Jehovah's Witnesses don't want their kids to get blood transfusions.

And, like, you got, like, I realize they're walking a fine line with, like, I don't want the state forcing people to do religious beliefs either. I think when you're like your kid diet's a little bit different. But then again, I'm a nanny. I guess I'm a nanny state live that way. But, like, I don't fucking know, man. But, like, we're in the far satir cartoon version of this where they're not going to let kids get vaccines. So, yeah, they're forcing their, they're basically forcing them to become Christian scientists.

I don't think this stuff is going to go well for them. I think a lot of their supporters believe the lie. It's just a matter of choice. And they're going to go to try to get vaccines and not be able to get them and fucking be pissed. But we'll see, I guess. All right. Well, let's see about the rest of this show. What do you say before we continue, of course, though?

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Go ahead, Matt. Tonight's D.D. Donald Trump for wearing a wire, but not making sure it was waterproof before getting in a hot, tub full of 17-year-olds hit it. He's not saying that what Epstein did is a close. It's a terrible unspeakable evil. He believes that himself. When he first turned to him, he kicked him out of Mar-a-law and he was an empty-in-formist. The charter,

pick the stuff down. The audio in that clip's not great, but that's Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson's saying that Donald Trump was an undercover FBI agent trying to take down fucking Jeffrey Epstein, which is pure uncut QAnon

from the speaker of the house. Didn't he, like, just, sorry, if I didn't, didn't he, hasn't he just walked that back? Yes. Yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah, but nobody's going to see the walk back. Like, like, Benny Johnson, like an influence, like, this proves that Donald Trump was a good guy the whole time. I was like, bro, you guys don't even understand what the fuck you're saying, because how do you flip people into being informed?

Right. That, exactly. Yes. Right. That's the, for him to, even if that was even true, then that implies that they got to Trump, they had something on him and he rolled on it they got him to like wear a wire or whatever and do you know to like turn informant to save his own ass which implies that he was doing all the you know pedo stuff uh in the first place like i don't i'm not saying that you know i think that that's

all complete bullshit or whatever but even if even if you believe that maga mike was telling the truth it's still like a pretty bad look and trying to spin it as he's a hero like he was just sitting home and the FBI called upon him. You know, like, there was like, there's only one man out there who can crack this case. And then they, and then the phone rings at Mar-a-Lago, and he

signs up for the good of the country and its country's children. Like, it's just insane. Yeah, we got to call the guy who runs team beauty pageants to fucking tick down Jeffrey F.C. Like, this whole, like, so I want to talk about this first, because the House Oversight Committee, it's subpoenaed a bunch of

documents from the Epstein Estate, and they just got a whole of them today and started the House Oversight Dems started releasing. The first thing they released was a picture of the birthday card that J.D. Vance said did not exist from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein. See, all this stuff, man, the timeline doesn't make sense. You got to on its face, it doesn't make sense. Donald Trump became an FBI informant in 2007 after he kicked Jeffrey Epstein at a Mar-a-Lago in 2005 for discovering he was a pedophile in 2001. You know what I'm man right uh but like like so but you got really got to like retcon the idea you you've got to create a whole fake backstory to explain the idea that trump was a hero while he was also like

the closest thing Jeffrey Epstein had to a best friend for like 25 fucking years I mean way before Trump was that political figure and anybody cared about any of this shit like there's a book that came out in 1991 I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before but like a guy who worked at trump's casino in Atlantic City was wrote like a business memoir where he not realize the explosive revelation he had where Trump and Jeffrey Epstein tried to come on the floor of a casino with underage girls. I'll say underage. One of was Gabby Santino, the tennis phenom, who was like 19 years old at times. So I'm not here alleging that they're 15 or whatever, but like too young to be on a casino floor. And a guy from the Gaming Commission was like,

you can't do that. If you do that again, I will write him up. And the whole public will know this married 40-year-old billionaire is hanging out with teenage girls. And the guy put in the book is like an amusing anecdote about management. Right. Yeah, I was going to ask if he put it in the book. It's like, that's how cool these two guys were, you know, since it was 1991 and all. And this is like a casino manager or whatever he was. I thought.

Yeah. Like a casino manager to Atlantic City in 1991. It's not going to have any problem with a married guy hanging out with a 19-year-old girl. It's like, that's not the problem here. No, they'll get him in hot water with the gaming commission or whatever. Yes. Like, that's what that to worry about. Yeah.

Yeah, which is how you come up with this theory of the case, they've all worked out, but Trump was a white hat. pedophile going under cover to stop the pedophile ring so like it's basically like the idea is like the fbi hand there was like we have one last mission for you agent trump we need someone to get jacked off by a sophomore from the volleyball team he's like reporting for duty oh my god i don't want to but i'll do it for my country you know yes yeah uh i don't understand why they thought this was going to go i mean they basically thought like his congress went home for five weeks for summer recess and thought this would all die down but they forgot

Thomas Massey's a fucking lunatic. God bless him. And then Rokane has a thing that gets his name in the news. So they have something close to 218 votes. They need to force a discharge petition to release a bunch of records, which we'll get to what I think is in them in a little bit. I've talked about four things, mostly financial ship. But first of all, I want to mention that James O'Keefe has done it again, our man, the hero.

Here's an undercover video he got from a woman wearing a wire of a guy named Joseph Schnitt, who's the acting deputy chief, the DOJ, who's, she's funny on a hinge date they had. And those files do exist. Yeah, thousands and thousands of page for five. They'll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files. Nevalvalve all the liberal, don't regard to people in those vows. Oh, yeah. So here we have a DOJ hire-up who probably doesn't know anything to be fair, but he's there saying they'll just redact all the Republicans from the Epstein files.

Right. Yeah. But first of all, I didn't know that, I didn't realize that Tom Segura's. brother work in the TOJ or whatever but um it does like Tom Segura it's a lot like him but there's a lot of guys that look like Tom Segura to be fair as if it's an archetype uh it's a middle age it's an aging white dude archetype for sure but yeah i like the james o'keef right that is he that's he that's veritas he's good project veritas and he's done a lot of like shady ass shit but it's like but still that i don't you know i don't think this this footage is doctor

during the day like this dude who really does have that job really did say all those things but as you already alluded to i could definitely buy that a guy with that because the particular job that he has i don't know what that means his job duties are or what he actually does so that guy is on a date with a chick and he's trying to impress her or whatever so he just you know he just talks like he knows everything that's going on and he may not actually know anything so it doesn't necessarily mean that it's not like you know rock solid or nothing but it doesn't look good for sure it doesn't mean anything except none of these people can keep their fucking mouth shut about anything right like like the fact this griff keeps working like he's from the exact same scheme over and over again

because dc's filled with the most boring people who can't like think about anything other than talking about themselves like and how important they are at work while they're on a fucking hindrance right right but like one of the reasons i know it's real so the DOJ put out a statement. You got this screen grab, throw up there, Matt. So let me read from it. This is addressed to acting director,

Poll Act. I met a woman named Sky, this is from Schnitt. I met a woman named Skyler-on-Hinge a dating app in July 225, whose profile is no longer foundable. We got to yada, yada, we had two dates.

She claimed to be an all-pair in Georgetown. She gave him no clues if she was a reporter or recording our dates. He goes on and on. I'd like the fact that the DOJ put You look at this motherfucking thing They post this screen grab

Of a notes app apology From a 30% battery iPhone That's in airplane mode That begins with I met a woman named Skyler on hinge Right Yeah Is anyone else embarrassed Yeah

Okay at the same time that's happening The White House Is posting AI generated images of Donald Trump as fucking Robert Duvall's character from Apocalypse Now, you know, on the beach as helicopters fly overhead and fucking talking about how, you know, we're going to show Chicago what Department of War really means or something like that. And it says like Trump Apocalypse Now or something like that in the bottom left. And it's like, you know, that's from the official White House account. So, you know, this all tracks. But yes, it's like, you just all get, you get, it's been almost 10 years now, man, of living in this. this reality and it's you just get fucking numb to it eventually but every single day something happens that in the late 90s or 2000s or Obama era for sure would have been like the most unfathomable shit you could have anyone could have ever proposed like something new every day happens you know back then they had to make do with him just wearing a tan suit or saluting

improperly or fucking whatever the fuck but did they may forget until like just a couple years ago, it was considered improper for the president to even talk to the attorney general, like, at all? Right. Pam Bondi was sitting next to Trump at the fucking U.S. Open this weekend. Like, it's just like, like, one of the reasons

I, like, I'm fearful long term is like, people under 35. Right. Don't know. Don't know. Don't know. Right. How insane everything is or the way things you're like supposed to be. Isn't there a word for that creeping something? Like, uh, or the,

I don't know. I feel like there's a word or a term, a sociological term for what's happening here. But that's just like the slow erosion of like respectability in a society or whatever. But we're definitely living in it. You can sort of understand why Joe Biden just sort of tried to wish the norms back in place. Right. You know, but it turns out wishing is not really a strategy. But anyway, like another thing came out today related all this stuff. New York Times

had this very long piece a lot of it's been out there before but in general putting it all together is pretty explosive the headlines how J.P. Morgan enabled the crimes

of Jeffrey Epstein and the larger list of shit here the J.P. Morgan absolutely knew what Trump, what Epstein was up to. One of the things he was doing

was he would have them open bank accounts for women to bank and no contact with girls, I mean, and not even have their social security numbers. So Jeffrey Epstein

was the control of all these young girls' finances. And they called him, they talked about how nice it was. He was putting $450,000 in his girl's account. They called him a sugar daddy and their fucking work emails. All right.

So, tell about something that should have been obvious. Like, in 2003, Epstein withdrew more than 175 grand in cash from his accounts. 175 grand in cash. You're not supposed to be able to do that without the bank telling somebody because there's not really anything you can do legal. You need $275,000 cash to do fucking legally.

Right. What do you need to impulse buy that many Girl Scout cookies? if you see them coming out the store, what the fuck are you doing? But that isn't like the worst of it. Like in the next couple years, over 2004, 2005, he withdrew $1.7 million in cash.

And J.P. Morgan did nothing. So when we were talking about what's in the Epstein files, it's going to be embarrassing to people, I think it's going to be a lot of financial fucking shit that like, I keep talking about this. Like, it's not going to be like, like Jamie Diamond.

Okay, here's one of my favorite exchanges in there. His Sherpa at JPMorgan was a guy named, just Stanley and uh go my sorry jv borgan got a high level meeting with benjamin yann yahoo when he got the email saying they secured the meeting when yon yahoo staley forwarded the email to epstein and said thanks wow i mean that feels pretty straightforward or seems pretty straightforward what else is that even supposed to mean you know i don't know either either epstein's not the meeting or just stanley is anti-submitted

Maybe both. I don't fucking know. So, so, like, here we read here from the article. J.P. Morgan recognized those withdrawals need to be reported to federal regulators that monitor large cash transactions. But the bank failed to treat those withdrawals as an early warning system for itself. Indeed, J.B. Morgan's anti-lawning money laundering specialists subsequently acknowledged that such withdrawals should have alerted the bank to the possibility that Epstein was committing crimes. Yet they did nothing. The bank also provided financial backing for XP and SBA.

Epstein to help Jean-Luc Brunel, who was a French modeling scout who had been the subject of media reports about drugging and raping women after starting a modeling agency called MC2, I guess MC Square maybe. Brunel later killed himself in prison after being arrested, by the way, so a lot of that going around. So Stanley, for his part, at that point in the early 2000s, was a top contender or one day succeed Jamie Diamond, his chief executive of J.P. Morgan. So Epstein introduced Staley to Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google and one of the world's richest men. Brin hired J.P. Morgan to help manage his immense fortune, which is he basically put $4 billion in J.P. Morgan after Epstein recommended J.P. Morgan to him, Brin. Staley later set a deposition to the parade of other Epstein referrals followed, including Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Sultan Ahmed bin Suley, an Emirati billionaire. man so yeah this dude like i mean we have been knowing that or whatever but it is it is wild that this guy that like most people didn't even know he was until i whatever a decade ago or

whenever he sort of became people became popularly aware of him and now obviously everyone knows who he is but the fact that he like knew literally everybody at all the highest levels of power around the globe like when two important wealthy powerful people wanted to like meet each other but didn't I didn't already have a connection they called this dude to set it up you know and he and then that guy ends up being you know the most prolific child sex trafficker or whatever that we've uh yet uncovered is like the whole thing is death is wild as hell for sure like he's also but you also got to separate the fact that Jeffrey Epstein was also a huge liar and huge bullshitter right so like how much power did like even in all these emails to each other

they're like does that does Jeffrey really know this guy or is he fucking bullshitting us again, right? Right. But of course, like, that's what a good influence operation would do is convince people you're more powerful than you are. So who the fuck knows anymore? But, like, the example of him failing, like Jeffrey Epstein basically promised Jeff Staley they could get Jamie Diamond appointed Obama's Treasury Secretary in 2008, so then the job

would be available so Stanley could have it to do their own little coup d'etat. But Diamond did not get the job as a secretary of the Treasury, so either he failed at it or nobody wanted to be seen to a business of Jeffrey Epstein. because that's about the time he was getting, you know, getting investigated for the charges of the Mitchell and him in prison. So, like, when I say the cover-up isn't just sex crimes, like, I imagine what the files will have in them is, like, the Epstein started in LLC so Elon could avoid paying sales taxes

on slaves he bought in Yemen from that fucking Sultan. So, like, anyway, the part that made me laugh was the end of that article. It says in 2019, late that year, the bank did something it should have been doing all along. It followed a report with federal regulators that retroactively flagged the suspicious on 4,700 Epstein transactions. So at one point in 2019, they realized they might be about to get in trouble and was like, Yeah.

We forgot to tell you all about $4,700. It'd be better late than never, right? You know, at least we did the right thing in the end, and that's what counts. What happened? See, that one more than I forgot to have my coffee. And then my dog had to go to the vet, and I had a flat tire, my wife got sick. Yeah, yeah, you like, it goes, 4,700. On 4,700 more times, and next thing you know, you know, you just lose, you lose traffic.

of things. Things fall through the cracks. All right. So let's skip ahead to the L side. They did, you know, the boat stuff because we're going to run out of time if we don't. Oh, okay. All right. So if y'all miss this, United States Armed Services, not clear which branch. I'm guessing the Navy a Navy drone. Killed 11 guys on a fishing boat. I think it was 11,

off the coast of Venezuela. There's a lot of guys in a very, they said it was a drug cartel, smugging operation. It's not really clear what Trump thought when he authorized it or if he did, but there's a lot of guys in a very small boat. Like, when I saw it, I saw the video of it, and we're not going to show the video because I don't want to show a fucking snuff film on this show, whatever I'm going to avoid it. But, like, there wasn't much room for drugs. It doesn't seem like you sent 11 guys on a boat that only carry like a few more kilos of cocaine to do a drug run. I don't fucking

know anything. As of this point, after reading up a bunch of stuff they're going to get to, I'm pretty confident it was carrying drugs, but I'm also confident it wasn't some high-level operation that needed to be met with, like, a force that would kill 11 guys. And to the degree that, like, we did this on purpose, like, when I say we did this on purpose, the degree that, like, it's a war crime, like, I'm not sure that we as a society are smart enough to even be judged that we have mens rea anymore to fucking commit war crimes because we're so fucking stupid. But, like, yeah, we've been in the process of melding two-failed American war, the war on drugs

and the war on terror to one thing. and yeah because that's a good call you know both of those went so well best way to turn that around is to combine them into one thing you know yeah for about a confidence you could have you should have on this level of like like i was like floored they released it this is the kind of thing you hired right yeah well they don't know they just think it's badass you know they're like we smoked those motherfuffecky. And didn't Heggseth literally say we smoked a drugboat in a, like, in a super badass, like, fashion? Yeah.

Like, they just, you know, they just think it's cool. It's all like strong man, you know, fake tough guy bullshit with them. So, and we all know that they have no shame just as a general rule. Yeah. And I'm not the first person makes this observation. My first thought was, like, the fucking movie, clear, present danger based upon the Harrison Ford. I mean, the Tom Glancy novel. The plot of that involves the CIA,

Harrison Ford's fellow CIA agents trying to murder him to prevent him from uncovering an operation there was way less evil than this. Right. Well, you know, it's like we were saying earlier. Again, just the gradual degradation of societal morality and all that. This is like, like this would have been a scandal. Like, like the entirety of the dirty war stuff in the South America in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, like,

We were covering up this shit. Right. Like, like, the, like, as far as, as I'll put this in the notes as an example of, like, the how low confidence you should have in the, the judgment of, like, the U.S. intelligence apparatus when it comes to drugs in South America, but it's also an example of, like, like, how accountability used to work. 25 years ago in 2001, the CIA and the Peruvian Air Force shot down a plane, suspected smuggling narcotics.

It wasn't, though. It was a family of Christian missionaries, including U.S. citizen and her infant daughter, which, who died. the husband and brother were also on the plane. Well, they say, you know, Christianity is the narcotic of the masses or whatever. So open the mass. So it's still kind of counts, Mark, if you look at it. Yeah, there you go.

So if you listen to, they were congressional hearings about this. One plane of a couple people shot down by accident. And Republicans in the Senate were like, this is some bullshit. The CIA needs to fucking watch its ass. But here's the thing. You listen to recordings. The CIA was trying to stop it. they were helping the Proven Air Force track this plane.

And the CIA operators, like, the guy watching the planes, like, are you guys sure you should be doing this? I think we're about to fuck up. Oh, no, you should go help those people in the plane crash. So, like, it was most of the Proving Air Force, but we still held the CIA accountable. And, like, I don't, fuck, man. I, like, I think we've reached, this rant over and over again, but, like, people need to go to fucking jail.

Right. like a lot of jail for war crimes for crimes against america for like disobeying orders or following illegal orders like there needs to be can't run a country this way man no i mean even you know i mean even like january 6 we sent them to jail for a little bit and then but then they all got pardoned or whatever immediately so like even that what little accountability there was got undone and you well yeah most them are back in jail because they're fucking scrum other thing yeah right because they're pieces of shit just over the week weekend, I saw two of them got re-arrested, one for a molesting a kid, another one for, he

sicked his dog on four people, and he basically got arrested for attempted murder via dog. So, yeah, glad we, that was the guy who was famously photographed in the Camp Auschwitz sweatshirt, so real class, dude. So when they first blew up this boat, it's not even clear what they were claiming why they did it, because at first, Marco Rubio not knowing that Trump would be stupid and lie or be mistaken, he said that the boat was headed to Trinidad, which says, seems accurate. Then Trump said they were driving a fishing boat from Venezuela to the United States. The boat was a panga. The type of boat was called a panga. It has a range of about

100 miles and four outboard motors that get five to seven miles a gallon. They were not driving that boat to America. So then we went back to okay, they were going to Trinidad. The drugs were eventually going to head to the United States may very well have been true. But the key to this, and this is very important, Trinidad is the opposite direction. from Venezuela as the United States. We are north. They are southeast, basically. So, yeah.

As far as legal precedents go, forget other countries doing this to our boats. Like, if, could Iran blow up an American boat carrying pork? Is that all this? Could a future Democratic president label outsourcing and wage theft economic terrorism and shoot a tomah missile of Jeff Bezos's yacht? yeah what do you think you think they just like saw with two satellites or whatever just like saw this boat like decided oh that you know that I don't know just feels like they just wanted to blow a boat up right you know well I think what's going on in that part of Latin America is important and what I got some stuff for us to talk about that in the back end of the show but before we get to that I wanted to note that like there are leagues kind of

from inside the Pentagon. The Intercept has a source inside there from a quote, high-ranking Pentagon official who spoke on a condition of anonymity who said the Trump administration paved the way for the attack by firing the top legal authorities the Army and Air Force earlier this year, and it was a criminal attack on civilians. Back when Trump fired all the Jags, the people freaking out of the line were like, well, it's because he's going to, you know, use the military to, like, become a dictatorship and take over American cities, which has sort of been kind of doing a half-ass version of that anyway,

but, like, I always, I kind of always thought it was just, like, you'd be free to commit more war crimes and lawyers, you know, were fucking buzz kills. Right. And along those lines, one of the guys that Higgs had confessed commissioned as a JAG as his former personal lawyer, a guy by the name of Timothy Perlator, whose prior

claim to fame was successfully defending Eddie Gallagher and the Navy SEALs accused of first degree murder for, like, executing surrendered fucking prisoners. Did you read the story last week about this failed seal raid North Korea in 2019?

But no. So it's a long and very heart-pounding story. I definitely watched the movie and try to forget that it's American propaganda, but some seals were sent to basically plan to listen to bug Kim Jong-un's communications in 2019 before a high-level summit. They had to like basically ride one of those, you know, one of those submarines just seen in movies that where it doesn't keep water out? It's a motorized thing that's like a jet ski submarine or like a submarine, FESPA.

yeah yeah yeah those are cool yeah super cool yeah on the dude's rock scale fucking bad ass shit right yeah yeah swim like 50 miles from the actual real big submarine and drove like go through ice freezing cold waters to like to some island where they're going to plant the device and try to get out undetected they're not get out undetected instead they saw like some guys on a boat who they panicked and assume were military and they'd been caught they killed them realized there were no uniforms guns or like they were just fishermen out i don't know fishing getting high or whatever they're like uh-oh they fucking let the air out of their lungs and suck them into the ocean and beat a state of getaway so the mission failed but that coming out this week and i'd say it was obviously the sources worth this week but like somebody in joc and somebody in the pentagon from this story we just talked about about saying this was definitely a war crime

people are asking for fucking help they don't want to be doing this shit i don't know what what special forces is being asked to do in south America right now, but someone's trying to be like, can you rain this motherfucker in? Right. You know what I'm saying? So, like, also, what happened after then was the nuclear talks when North Korea failed. I don't know whether North Korea figured out what they'd done or not, but anyway.

And then now North Korea has nukes that can reach Hawaii. So all this is going very, very well. So let's talk about what's going on. We're going to talk about what's happening in North and South America and the Caribbean, but like, if anything else make things make more sense through, like, then just looking through the

lens of our idiotic politics, which is just basically resorts to any sort of like criticism, this kind of operation goes to, oh, so you love drug dealers and overdoses? Yeah, right. No, I know, yeah. I do. I fucking love drug dealers. Yeah.

Well, I've always felt like, I kind of think drugs should just be like legal, legal and like, you know, regulated or whatever, but it's always, it's a very sensitive subject. It's like you said. well like this whole thing is like they try to connect this to the fentanyl uh like epidemic but like if you want to like stop slow put a huge dent fentanyl overdoses you would allow more pure cocaine in the united states then it wouldn't be cut with fucking fent do you know what i'm saying right and like people

some mega people were like you don't understand like jd was like jd basically admitted to a war crime basically say i don't care if you call them on armed gun non-combatant civilians fuck them basically on Twitter. Put it in writing. Yeah. And so, yeah, please, but we got to, I know America doesn't like to set its own politician to stand trial for war crimes, but we got to stop giving a fuck when it comes to this shit like this.

Well, people just don't, right. Well, first of all, we've talked about before, there's just a general bloodlust for any kind of perceived criminality across all spectrums of this country's populace, but also, yeah, drug dealers and that in particular, it's like, you know, fuck. I mean, I'm not saying, I'm not saying

it ain't fuck drug dealers, but it's also So, like, you know, there's a market for it. People take all that, like, you know, it's just a larger cultural problem. But we also demonize the people that are on drugs instead of offering actual resources and compassion and going about it in any kind of like really human way. It's just kind of like, you know, get your shit together. If, you know, you're an addict and if you're up and facilitate it, go die in a fire and ditch or whatever.

That's about as far as people ever think through these. things and like with jd i like i talked about this before i put this in my much much less successful book uh but my mom also being a pillability when i was like a teenager i had that exact same attitude i was like because i had a lot of anger and shit and i was like i had no sympathy uh or patient sympathy for or patients with like drug addicts or any of that stuff i was like fuck them all they're all worthless i don't give you know I have no use for any of them. And I don't want to hear any excuses because I've had a rough life and I'm not a fucking

strung out drug addict loser, you know, fucking get your shit together. Like, that was how I always was when I was like 19. But I'm 39 now. It's 29 years later and I've long since softened greatly on that. Right. But, you know, I just like, along the way, I just realized a lot of different thing. You know, about my own mom, she doesn't want to be the way she is. She doesn't want to have, you know, she's got other problems too.

I've just, you know, been more empathetic and just evolved, I feel like. And it just seems like J.D. still apparently feels the same way about all that shit that I did when I was, you know, had a subscription to Maxa Magazine and was rocking out to The Theory of a Dead Man and shit like that with a chidstrap beard fucking. Right. There were a bunch of, there were a bunch of MAGA people trying to defend J.D.'s stupid pro-war crime statements. Like, you don't understand because his mom almost over D in front of him a few times. He has like a, these, these are his therapy war crimes. Right, yeah, right.

Well, I'm saying, yeah, even then, but even then it's not, that's not a, he, he should have moved past all that a long time ago, in my opinion, even trying to use that as an excuse, which like you said, that is an excuse anyway, because that's not a good enough reason to commit war crimes, but, yeah. It's also like, like, J.D.'s mom was a nurse who stole pills from the hospital. Mm-hmm. There was no cartel involved in the equation. If you start drone striking the Sackler family, then we'll fucking talk. Except the Trump Justice Department let the Sackler family all fucking easy. So what now? Right.

Who's a drug dealer? See what I'm saying? No, yeah. It was the same thing with my mom and my and Salina in my hometown. There was no, it was 100% just big pharma and also, you know, pharmacist. And despite the fact that like there's been no public case made other than drone striking in this boat, no congressional authorization given. Like, what's going on in the background is Marines are practicing amphibious landings in Puerto Rico,

and we move as stealth fighters to be based in Puerto Rico while Nicholas Maduro is telling everyone to expect a ground invasion in Venezuela. And to understand what's been going on in South America, in northern South America and the Caribbean, shipwrecks of Venezuelan migrants attempted to reach Trinidad and Tobago have become incredibly common. So it's one of the main places that people are fleeing to from Venezuela, is Trinidad and Tobago. So, like, my first inclination was like, okay, well, these are illegal immigrants just trying to fucking get out of there, except, like, that's definitely possible. It could have been a human-spunging operation.

Why was it going to say, what's to stop them from, like, just blowing up a boat of migrants and then saying that it had a bunch of cocaine on it or whatever? Like, if this is totally fine and this, you know, this flies something like this, then why couldn't they just do that in the future, you know? And if they put the drugs To Trinidad And they put the drugs in another bigger ship In the coming of the United States You can interdict that boat Off the coast of the United States

That's what the Coast Guard does all the fucking time Without killing it much of people You just go like, woo, woo, pull over, okay, we got your drugs But their problem is They're taking the Coast Guard budget To do ice shit because that's the Department of Homeland Security But they have an unlimited Pentagon budget So now they're using the Pentagon to fucking blow up drug butts

Right? So all these problems are downstream one another It's like a fucking series of dominoes towards stupid shit. But so Trinidad and Tobago is interesting. So their prime minister, a woman named Conle Prasad, Bissasar, praised the strike on the boat, suspected of carrying drugs in the Southern Caribbean, said, quote, all traffickers should be killed violently. So I mentioned a migrant influx in Trinidad.

You'd be shocked, right? They don't like migrants either. Right. Yeah. Seems like pretty much nobody does. Right. Basically, it's a global thing. the influx of Venezuelans seeking asylum, they've been,

Amnesty International has been criticizing Trinidad for basically just shipping too many back their claiming asylum. We're talking about 50 to 60,000 Venezuelans living in Trinidad. They mix up like a total, like 4% or 5% of their entire population. So you can see how it is disrupted. So proportionally, Trinand actually has the most Venezuelan migrants of any country in the world. So I don't know what we're complaining, but I want to watch this news clip.

You want to see if this sounds familiar. Opposition leader, Kamala Persad de Sessa, has issued a state warning to Venezuelan migrant community and Trin Rana, Tobago, of aggressive action with the party from the next government. He said there has been a right in violent crimes committed by illegal Venezuelan migrants with the government has been to address. So basically, it's a new story from last year when Prasad Bessasar basically ran on a MAGA. We got to get them all, kick them all out, fucking platform and turn it at. Trinibago. So, she obviously, like, I'm not even sure if you call that a racist.

Right. Consider it's like, like xenophobia. Yeah. Naturalistic? Yeah. Yeah. But it's like, again, also, I mean, I know it's huge in Europe, too, with, like, Muslim refugees and migrants and stuff over there. It's fucking tied off into the rise of a lot of, you know, right-weanism and shit.

And, like, like, Columbia's, like, they've had, like, a backlash against civilians with them refugees and, like, like, I, like, I, I could be more forgiving of it, because Trinidad does not have a lot of resources. Right, right. So, like, but America does. Mm-hmm. We also, like, America needs more people. I don't know Trinidad's situation, but, like, we're, we're going to have a decline population probably this year for the first time of United States history. Have you seen that? No, I've not. I'm not surprised. Yeah.

So it's a combination of the birth rate and, like, the mass exit is, like, the people self-deporting and us fucking just shipping them to, like, rape prisons. But it's, like, just sort of, like, darkly amused me that the government's the global North and Global South can agree that the people of the global South should fucking die. So that lady, uh, preside bessear, seems to be committed in her views about, uh, Venezuelans. But it did occur to me she could be managing egos because all these people have to kiss

Trump's ass so he doesn't fucking attack him, you know? So, I mean quote, Barbadian fame Foreign Minister Kerry Simmons here saying that foreign ministers with Karakom, a 15-member regional trade bloc wrote to Rubio to ensure that future military operations within the Caribbean don't occur without prior notice or explanation.

So to me, that's the ego-managing. It's like, oh, yeah, we're cool with you blowing up that boat, but can you give us a head-up next time? Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah. Text us first, at least. Columbia President Gustavo Petro, I think we talked about him before, but I think he'll hit for you, Trey.

He gave a big speech to you in a couple years ago where he, like, he said the cocaine should be legal. And he's like, he's like, what product has been more harmful to the world? Cocaine or oil? Mm-hmm. I was like. Spitting. Yep. So, yeah, he's not, he's not, you know, Columbia's a close ally of the United States,

no matter who the, who's in the government. But the fact that he was saying that, like, he's basically like, he basically compares cocaine to like no more harmful of whiskey. which I've never done coke. I tried it once, I'll be honest, but like I didn't like it. Yeah, but that's probably not, I mean, dude, you know, look, I like whiskey too, but it's also, it also could cause problems, you know. That's kind of what I'm saying. It's just, you know, whatever, everything in moderation or just, you know, whatever, because, like, booves just fucked up, I'd say objectively, way more lives in America by a lot than cocaine. And I'm sure it's like, yeah, because it's legal.

And you want to make cocaine legal? Well, no, I'm just saying if booze is, you know, okay, then why not cocaine? Most parents don't, most parents don't openly snore cocaine at children's birthday parties. Right. And then drive them kids. I know, but that's, but that it's just because of the way that I think if it had, if somehow you can go back in time and it had been cocaine this whole time and not booze and the two, the shoes were on the other foot, it would be the exact, if they would. Like, I think it's just because it's that because of the fact that it's been such a cultural staple for so long that it's just, you know, accept it. But not because it's actually really any necessarily worse at the end of the day, potentially.

I mean, Petro's whole argument is about there's like a, you know, and there's a little bit of, like, the fact that we still call it, the government still calls it marijuana instead of hemp is because they chose a Spanish word for it to associate with dirty Mexicans. back when they wanted outlawed, and, you know, they're already in 1900s. Huh. Like, there's definitely a racialized element to all this. Like, in Petro's whole argument, it's like, if basic cocoa plants grew in Texas instead of fucking Colombia, cocaine would be legal. And just like a barley grew in, you know, it's like, if it was a cash crop for us instead of a country who would dominate, the politics of it might be flipped as way is his point.

And I'm not sure if he's 100% right, but he's not 100% wrong either. Right. So Petro, I mean, it had been a comment on. all this. He's right next door to Venezuela and probably does not want, you know, um, these destabilization will come from a, you know, full U.S. invasion of Venezuela, I'm betting. Um, he said, uh, he said, it's possible to conduct maritime interdiction of drug shipments without attacking a vessel's occupants. But what would the president of Columbia know about the fucking drug trade? Uh, he said, Columbia typically captures them

since those transporting the drugs, quote, are not the big drug traffickers, but rather very poor young people from the region. Of course, yeah. Mule. right or whatever like yeah i thought everybody fucking knew that the guy's in a little fucking fishing boat this is the equivalent of like trying to like fight America's obesity epidemic by by sniping the guy working the friator McDonald's

like you're not doing anything um in fact like reportedly of the three ships that left this small village in Venezuela we're talking about they only blew up one of them two of them got through so what the fuck did you even do right nothing um so the context of all this has been a rise of ship piracy

in eastern Venezuela as a strategy to like clear trafficking routes for cocaine and marijuana producing Colombia on the on the way of the Caribbean where it there from there it goes to like United States and Europe so I'm not clear like between the the cartels the Venezuelan government the American government and whatever's going on in Trinidad and Tobago you talk about like whether trying to stop it control it or get in on it's always the question right mm-hmm another out of context here is Venezuela's been in a board dispute with Guyana for the same reason.

There's been a huge spike in global economic interest. You'll never guess, Trey, if you got this video clip, Matt. 5% of the nation still untouched wilderness. Ayanna's earned international praise for its concentration commitment. But beneath that canopy, a new era is unfolding. From 2022 and 2024, Ayanna posted an average growth of about 47%. Those stopped GDP gains, driven by a major oil discovery.

found a bunch of oil there 47% I got that growth year over year in Guyana because he discovered oil I think I might be moving to Guyana trade and work on a fucking oil when this all goes wrong so

a more context here so you got Columbia on the west of Venezuela you got Trinidad to the east and you got Guyana to Canada to the southeast okay so Guyana's got a big oil boom going on Guyana also just re-elected a left-wing president named Irfan Ali who wants to

spend the money, the big windfall from this on schools and hospitals. Exxon and coherently controls their oil contracts. We're cooking, babe. We're back to the 80s. We've got the Middle East oil reserves found in a drug-producing South American country just over the horizon.

Just like, we got all the major ingredients for fucking, we're definitely going to fucking invade. I want to talk about the town the boat came from for a second. It's a town called San Juan Duarnari. I'm sorry if I'm pronounced that wrong. This information is from a Spanish newspaper based in Madrid called El Pais, which is not a lot of free media in Venezuela, of course.

So I'm trusting Spanish language media over American media for fairly obvious reasons. It was a small fishing village where people could rise in the middle of the night, would rise in the middle of the night to haul their boats to the shore and head out to the Calm Caribbean Sea. Their fathers had done the same, and so are their fathers before them. More than 20 years ago, however, it became a transit point for drugs. Now it's like kind of, like they're a huge murder spike. There's a point where like 78 people were killed in the course of like two days

between a war between two rival drug factions. When this boat was blown up, Maduro's government eventually told everyone that the video was AI generated. uh when we blew this boat up yeah and the video came out he told they're the people the people of venezuela that the video was fake yeah just to like not whatever show weakness or give us a a win or something i mean when it when it first came out i did i did think it could be staged or whatever like it was because like i you got anything is anything's possible right now right but like the fact that

Maduro was telling two people in this town who knew the 11 guys who did not come home Right And with the other two boats Who saw the get blown up did come home Feels like fucking

If you wonder like What it's like living in a government Like wait a meeting We're sort of experiencing a version of right now Right Just fucking lies to your face Yeah And there's nothing really you can do about it

And they don't care if you know that they're lying Yeah But uh Venezuelans are on TikTok So, like, people were in the comments, the video on TikTok saying the tech was real and not AI generated because they knew the victims. Like, yeah, that's Paco and Al Dorado. We were boys as we were kids. Like, we used to fish together.

And the people in the town are, like, I told you, I said, I was skeptical that was drugs. But the people in the town on TikTok, let me read a comment here. San Juan do an R.A. in mourning. May those fathers who entered that world out of necessity so their families can live a better life, rest in peace, read one video. So they're saying it's drugs. So they said there is a Venezuelan newspaper didn't say that the speedboat carrying 11 men at a cargo of narcotics was headed to turn it down. So they're saying it's drugs. But I don't fucking care.

We don't give drug dealers the death penalty for a reason. Right. And summarily, too, without any kind of like due process or anything, in off the coast of a different country and international waters. and all that shit, like, it's just... If you had interdicted and found a bunch of cocaine and then shot them, at least that would be some form of due process? They didn't even do that.

Yeah. And, like, so, like, I already mentioned that other two boats got through. It's not even clear how much drug... They don't even know how much... Forget, even if they're sure their drugs on the boat. They don't even know how much they stopped. They didn't question the guys about how they came from.

And how the fuck did they know there were drugs in the boat? That's like, there's some green berets outside of San Juan to an R.A. speaking restaurant Spanish getting around fucking accusing people being drug dealers and like telling calling in drone strikes that's the only like conclusion left like where to get this information from

and you kind of do want to be really sure about this stuff because even here in the cold light of day with drug labs and with fucking like like you know due process we still fuck up royally here's a story from Oregon this week okay the massive drug bust that wasn't how 50 million quote fatal doses turned down

to be mostly water. It was billed as an astronomical drug bust. Barrels of liquid heroin linked to the Sinaloa cartel, enough for 50 million fatal doses hidden in a U-Haul truck and suburban T-Guard. One federal prosecutor called it a, quote, insane amount never before seen in Oregon. Police crime lab attested liquid to determine what type of drug

was present in the barrel, seven-barrel sees in the U-Haul truck, but it never did a qualitative analysis to say how strong it was. Then later, defense team paid. for a test it showed it was 99.19.9% water. And we're about to send these guys away for life for hauling a U-Haul full of water. I don't know if they thought it was heroin. Yeah, right.

That's what I was about to say. Like, what? You got to just, a U-Ha just filled with barrels of just plain water for, yeah. So they got. Also, I didn't know that I'm, I'm embarrassed to say I'm not well-burst with heroin. but it can just be water. They're like confused as water. Do you know what I mean?

I thought it was like a powder. I thought you needed a spoon of flame. You know, I'm a little versed with heroin, I guess. But like I didn't know, but, you know, I didn't know that like a barrel of straight up water could be mistaken for heroin reasonably,

is what I'm saying. I thought the consistency and everything was pretty different, but, you know, I'm no expert. I have no idea. I don't know what to call a heroin expert. But, yeah, so what happened apparently was a government relied on an unidentified source who claimed he'd put 800 grams of heroin into the barrels. So the government used, like, somebody gave the government this information for either their own freedom or some cash or whatever to get a favor from a cop. And they got that favor, they got whatever they wanted.

The cops arrested these guys almost ruined their entire lives. They're just ruining a chunk of it. They ended up getting let go for time served. But like the idea, the time thing about, I guess the theme of today's show is hating when people lie to your face. The idea that we care deeply by winning the drug war always rousing a fucking insane. I know about it up over and over again, but I want to watch this video of Don Jr. from last week

if you got this, Matt, talking about how much he does not like cocaine. Right. You're friends. Like, there's no way you would have gotten away with that. Like, I know. Luckily, I don't score it all cocaine. Like, it's not my thing.

I don't store cocaine. That's the most cocaine behavior risking in my entire goddamn way. That's not even the Donald Trump Jr. cocaine video that I thought, you were going to show from last week. Like I saw, the one I saw may not be from last week. It might be older, but it's just a video of him getting ready for some

interview or something, and he's just being real fidgety and twitching. He puts his hand in his pocket awkwardly and then pulls it out and like, it's like, whew, it just like rubs his gums with his finger after sticking his finger in his pocket. It's like not a thing that people do, uh, you know, for other reasons.

But yeah, no. Everybody. I'm not like, I'm, I'm not going to use a name right here of all of you guys be able to figure it out but a buddy of us a buddy of ours

was Texans about being at a golf tournament in you know SEC country and everyone younger than him was doing openly snort and doing cocaine the fucking golf course

you want to guess who they probably voted for right so people being mad about Trump's about prices going up Trump's voter base and be super pissed

about all this cocaine going away yeah to be fair they're probably all also Christians who think that you know pre-marital sex is a sin or whatever Or not they think it, but, you know, would say that the Bible says that and a great many other things, too.

No, but premarital sex is bad as a sin for women to do. Right. Yeah. Well, that's the same, you know, it's just like cocaine is bad for, you know, lazy brown people to do or black people. You know what I mean? I'm a good, upstanding white person with a job. Like, I need my cocaine. But, yeah.

So, yeah. I didn't mean about time to get into this, but thoroughly. But I wanted to call up a story from way back about a guy in Trump's orbit, a guy in Joseph Weishelbaum, who ran Trump's personal helicopter service. He got busted trafficking fucking Coke in Ohio in the 80s. And Trump kept him employed. Trump wrote him a letter to get him, to get him a light sentence. The guy spent, had a $7,000 a month in Marlago,

and Trump basically wrote the letter exchange for free helicopter flights. So the other way they said this was Trump was getting paid in fucking cocaine money. And then later, the guy got off super light after Trump put in a good word for him. He only got three years. His buddy got 20 and he got an 18 months. And then he moved into Trump Tower after having bought a department in Trump Tower for $2.4 million. No one knows if money changed hands or where it came from. Donald Trump, famous hater of cocaine and people who move it.

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