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Episode Date: December 3, 2025

The Shamwow Guy is running for Congress, where a Congressman with a twin brother is trying a “Parent Trap” kind of life swap. Then we get into everyone finally acknowledging Pete Hegseth is a war criminal, and Trump’s pardon of the cocaine cowboy former President of Honduras and the real extremely dumb reason he seems to have done it, which involves an already failing Bitcoin utopia.Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it is december 2nd 2025 uh we're recording this on monday december 1st at about 1 o'clock in the afternoon on the left coast i'm trey and that's mark what's up mark good man we talk about some uh some fun electoral candidates around this uh silly nation of ours and then get into uh the latest It's going on with Honduras and drugs and the buildup to Venezuela because it's getting dumber as we speak and the war crimes happening with boats. Before we do that, though, I want to bring to your attention the existence of a woman. If Matt has this screen grab here, I want you to try to pronounce this lady's name, if you can, Trey. Oh, yeah.

I actually think that Cady Manasen is that I want to be horn. Yeah. Yeah. I want to be whoring, right? Yeah. You want, yeah. that's what it looks like. She's a woman who works in Department of Homeland Security.

I want to be horrid. This is real. I went and looked at her LinkedIn. She's a career DHS employee. She's not like some Trump person, but she's working in charge of the Latt detector test. And she's clearly a foreign spy who made up a name on the spot and had been trained on fucking Austin Powers movies.

Is there I want to be horrid or like, I need a big dick. That was her two choices that you want to be a woman. Oh, my God, dude. we live in a fucking like a parody of a simulation yes we do it's fucking it's getting i don't know they're getting a little too whoever's run the simulation is getting a little too ballsy at this point you know a little too on the nose need to take it down a notch it's becoming to be a bit or it's starting to be a bit much yeah and uh since we're going to be talking about south america today i wanted to take a moment here to celebrate uh this lady's ultimate victory here's a video of a brazilian reporter

by the name of Manuela Borges, who waited 11 years for this moment. I want you to watch this highlight and forgive us our audio listeners. This is in Portuguese, subtitled, but yeah, I'll tell you what I mean. You know,

but you're ignorant. No, I'm ignorant. No, I want you to pay my life. You're gonna be. You're gonna be able to, and your father, but you can respond. Generally, oh.

I'm minimally, man, man, here. Here. So 11 years ago, he taught him this one with some sexist bullshit, and she told him she'd see him in prison one day. And then smash cut to who was standing in front of the prison one day. He's like, aha, pointed that if I was where Jair Balsanero is currently.

Jerry Balsanero, former president of Brazil and avid intensive care enthusiast. So did you follow the attempted springing in from the Who Scout tray over the weekend? No, like an actual, like, escape attempt? So, let me lay off the secrets of events for you here, okay? Friday at night, Bosnero's son publicly encouraged the former president's supporters to come to his house for some kind of unannounced protest. Hours later, on Saturday morning, cops were notified that Bolzner was ankle monitor him and tampered with. Apparently, even though it was still in his ankle, he'd try to cut it off with a soldering iron to no avail. I guess he probably burned the fuck out of his ankle and gave up, which,

more power to get more power to you. For context, Bals and Arrow's house is 15 minutes from the U.S. Embassy. On midday Saturday, after Bals and Arrow was re-arrested for trying to cut off his ankle monitor, Trump held a Q&A reporters

outside the White House on the South Lawn. A reporter asked him about Bals and arrow, and he said, I'll be, we're going to be meeting, I believe, in the very near future. So Balsonaro was supposed to be about

to report the prison, and apparently Trump had been a part of some scheme to fucking sneak Balsonero out of the country that he said, Bals andero fucked up by burning himself with a soldering iron. That's pretty nuts. It's probably with, you know, I mean, Trump says a lot of wild shit, but I guess when

you take it in concert with the situation, you know, down there with the Balsonero's sun and all that, it does seem a little fishy. Yeah. But I wonder what the plan was supposed to be, you know, not like breaking and its president out of prison can go unnoticed or whatever. Well, he's at our house arrest and an ankle monitor. So what you do is you stage, you stage a approach. in front of the house for a distraction,

well, he cuts his ankle monitor off and drives out the back to the U.S. Embassy, and he's fucking free. It's like none. It's a very simple plan that they could not pull off. Right. All right. Well, our producer Matt is with us back there doing this thing.

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Mark already told you what we're going to be talking about on this episode. So we'll get to that here shortly. But first, we begin, as always, with the daily dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's DD, the sham wow guy, for somehow launching his congressional bid with a more dated reference than, hey, do you remember the sham wow guy? Watch this.

Walkbusters There's something creepy Looking at your TV When is it a call Wobusters Transmission light comes on That's 10 for a dog So I somehow

I picked the least gross clip of that I could find Because the rest of it's just like virulent anti-trans shit The rest of it, huh? Yes I mean like He's playing the trans woman of this

Like, he literally tricks a guy into sleeping with him in the beginning of this music video, and the guy climbs out of, like, a bed rubbing a sore asshole or whatever. I'm like, okay, I'd be like, I, shanball guy is 61 fucking years old. Yeah, this is weird, too, because I actually knew about this already, but the only reason I know about this is because randomly out of the clear blue sky recently, on putting on airs, Shamwell guy came up without either me or Corey knowing this was happening, like a couple weeks ago, because we were talking about, like, TV pitchman, right? And it was like, sham wild guy.

And I told him, I was like, you know anything else about the sham wild guy? You know, and he's like, no, I was like, he's a wild motherfucker dude. And then we started talking about how he, like, produced a couple movies that he co-wrote with Ari Schaffir and all this stuff, which got like 2% on Rotten Tomatoes and were horrific bombs and everything known for just being, you know, shock value for shock sake. But then also in later years, he, like, got arrested for, like, beating up a prostitute or something like that, some wild shit like that. And we didn't even know he was back in, you know, doing anything. And then one of our viewers wrote in and was like, you know he's running for Congress right now, right? And they sent some stuff that he was saying about, not just woke, but he was saying something about woke churches in Texas and all this stuff, which is like, so it just seems like out there versions of an already insane ideology, which is befitting Vince, the sham wow guy. Vince, also we found his real name is like, offer Shlomi or Shlomo or something like that.

He's Israeli or his parents He's just a bunch of wild shit With this dude He's nuts So he was born in Israel His original names Offer Slommy But he's since then he either goes

By Vince Offer or Vince Salomey He registered run for office Vince Salomey's let's go with that He filed to run in a district 31 which is area north of Austin Killeen around Rock in Texas The current representative isn't going anywhere It's a guy by the name of John Carter

He's been he's 84 years old and he rins every time. He's been there forever, so I don't know what his, uh, Slomi's plan is because he's definitely going to fucking lose. But so what are his talking points as a candidate? So yeah,

back on October 9th, he posted this video on acts called Wolkbusters in which he stars as a ghost exterminator, but instead of ghosts, he's exterminating transgender people and woke, various woke things. Uh, Valentina Gomez,

a old returning, returning champion appears in this video. She's a woman who takes the flamethrower to the Koran in her videos. Mm-hmm. Um, so, uh, like, he also like the video he like woke busts black people looting from a store uh valetida gomez

shoots a chutes a antifa like members of antifa with a pool floaty tank spraying whatever out of fight doesn't make any sort of sense so you're right so that's he did make movies two movies that's actually got how he got to start as a late night pitch man uh follow me here so he he put out his first movie uh and it didn't do anything so then he like he was made up of like sketches he'd filmed from his public application to excess TV show and then he filed like balk airtime late night on Comedy Central to sell copies

of the DVD of his movie. So that's sort of how he got involved in infomercials. And yeah, you're right, he was canceled from doing infomercials because he got in a fight with a prostitute after she bit his lip and he hit her and no charges were followed, but I guess the cops called it mutual combat or something.

So I want to describe the first movie for you. The one, the 1996, it was called the underground comedy movie. This skits included supermodels loudly used in the bathroom and a superhero named Dick Man who dressed in a penis costume but defeat his enemies by squirting them with semen. The cast included Joey Buttafuoco and Michael Clark Duncan playing a character called A Gay Virgin. Yep. So top notch highbrow stuff. Yeah, this is like, I always get these mixed up with that other movie 43 or 143.

41 or something like that, which that was actually like a Fairley Brothers thing, but it was like, you know, Hugh Jackman with balls on his chin or whatever. It's like, you know, the Shamwell guy, he always wanted to traffic in that world. Movie 43 is good, though. Yeah. Like, I like Movie 43. All right. I've never seen any of them. I love the Fairley Brothers, so I believe you.

It's like doing with a whole different pedigree than fucking the Shamwell guy. Right. There's a, there's a sketch in, uh, Jeremy Allen White plays a teenage kid. He was making he was a teenager. There's parents, leave Schreiber, and I forget the actress who plays his mom. But he's being homeschooled. And so to give him a full, like, high school experience, his parents bullied this shit out of Jeremy on White, including, like harassing him to share, I tell me he has a small dick.

That's just one of the sketch, one of the many brilliant sketches than this. So, so, so when Underground Comedy movie came out, he said, like, he, slow me, he said they were kept out of theaters by woke critics in Hollywood elites. Again, Michael Clark Duncan plays a gay virgin. So after he got canceled for doing infomercials, he made another movie called Inappropriate Comedy where the appropriate APP is all capital letters because it's about apps.

He plays a character called Peeping Tom. It stars Rob Schneider, Adrian Bodie, and Lindsay Lohan. Oh, God. So anyway. Also, it was co-written by Ari Shapir again, fun fact. him and Ari go way back, apparently. Yeah, he's apparently, Slomys apparently really good friends with Adrian Brody.

I cannot figure out Adrian Brody's whole thing. It doesn't make any sort of sense to me, but good actor. So, Slommy's congressional platform, okay, what he wants to do to fight back against Woke, is he proposes implementing, quote, video monitoring systems in the school

so parents can see what's going on. So what we're going to do, because we're afraid of, you know, remember if we go back to the Rukhaws here, we're afraid of pedophiles grooming children, really is what the old panic is about. going to put cameras in schools so everyone can watch the kids. Yeah, not creepy at all.

Yeah. So we told Time Magazine that the real impetus for me to get involved in electoral politics, besides you know, needing a gig and wanting to be famous, were the assassination of Charlie Kirk. That was the catalyst for his campaign to represent Texas' 31st Congressional District. He said he was already working on Wolfbusters when he learned that Kirk had been killed. At one point, it said, oh, yeah, so he was just a imagine, like, he's working at Wolkbusters.

He gets the news alert, Charlie Kirk's been dead. And he says, stands up, he goes, I'm going to run for Congress, and Charlie Kirk looks down from heaven and nods solemnly. It's all worth it. He's a wolfbuster, Shalom. He says, of Kirk. I feel like I have Charlie Kirk's spirit in me in the sense or near me. It's drawn

me to this. Okay. Let's tell us some other fun candidates. Troy Nels and Troy Neals. I don't know. I just say his name. I never heard it said out loud. Any HLS, Congressman from Texas. He's announced he's not going to run again after having a heart-to-heart with his family over Thanksgiving. Reality is being investigated by the House's Ethics Committee for spending.

He took campaign funds and paid himself rent for something, which you're not supposed to do. So instead of dealing with that, he's going to like hang out his wife and kids and bug them instead. So the person who's announced to run to replace him is his twin brother, Trevor. I'm doing some Gallagher 2 type stuff I don't know I mean people will get that reference but Gallagher the comedian literally did that when he was super white honed in the early 80s he like licensed his act to his brother

the other guy who was Gallagher 2 but also this makes me want this also just seems like he's just going to keep showing up or whatever do you know what I mean That's what I thought, dude. I was like, he's got a skating. He's like, you guys are right, you got me.

I'm going to quit. I'll go home now. Then they elect his twin brother, and then he just, he just keeps doing the job every day pretending it's twin brother. It's like, no, I'm not him. He grows a mustache. What are you talking about? Troy is back home licking his wounds, living in remorse.

I'm Trevor. I'm a totally different guy. If you notice, they do look like you've got this picture then with Trump at. So, like, it occurred to me, like, the, uh, uh, So, yeah, you could sub them out. He was going to fucking know. So, like, Markief and Marcus Morris, twin brothers that playing in the NBA, there's a apocryphal story that might be fake, but they'd sort of wink and nod to it, that when

they were in college, he played for the same college team. One of them was injured and on the bench. The other one fouled out of a game. And the story's always been they just traded jerseys so the healthy brother could keep playing. Right? And I was like, why wouldn't, like, so, yeah, like, I was like, this could work either where either, like, Troy keeps serving as Trevor, or Troy could have stayed.

in the office, and Trevor could have just went to Washington. Right. Either way, I saw somebody online call it some Scooby-Doo shit. I'm like, yep, this is a Scooby-Doo plot. Oh, God. Nell's, he's leaving office. He's been in Congress for, I think, five or six years, and his biggest accomplishment has been trying to rename Dulles Airport after Donald Trump,

so he can ride off into the sunset. Another primary news, or electoral news, Tom Barrett of Michigan is in the house. He sent a bizarre fundraising email. email this, uh, over the, like last week on, sorry, on Friday headline. The furries are coming for me. Quote, I've heard of furries, but to be honest, I didn't think they were real. Then one followed to run against me for Congress. He's been, the guy running against him, his name is Samuel Smelzer. His furry name is Elion Badger. And so Barrett apparently thinks he can make

some more money during moral panic off the fact that the guy running against him as a progressive is going to, is, is actually a furry. Now this is, this is, I'm not to take Barrett's because I would absolutely vote for the, for the furry in the Senate area. But, like, Smelzer isn't just a furry is running for office. He's running for office as his first soda. I mean, that seems ill-advised. Is he the, like, this person won the primary to be the Democratic candidate? No, he's just declared for the Democratic primary.

He has, like, the primary one happened to next year. So I doubt even be the candidate. All right. But, yeah, it's a talk about a bold choice. You know, I don't think. Maybe it's like a, he knew, no, even then. I was going to say maybe it's the thing where it's like, well, look, they're going to find this out. Might as well get out in front of it or whatever.

But that's one thing, but that doesn't mean you have to run as the sexy fox or whatever. Oh, Badger, right, right. Yes, they're from Wisconsin, so that makes sense. Okay. Yeah, I didn't, I didn't mean that connection. Yeah, yeah. But so it's fair. You do your patriotic duty as a Wisconsin.

Or Wisconsin, he had to vote for the Badger. But so, like, I'll say he's running in character. His campaign website is Elion Badger.com. And here's a picture of him, if you want to throw it up here, Matt. There he is with two, I guess, at a King's Day protest. Joyce is the Badger. The Badger's also a pimp, I guess, or something. Are those weeds?

Is that weed leaves? I think so, yeah. Weed leaf suit. Okay. A lot going on there. Also, I kind of think it was a good idea. Listen, if you got the next picture about it, here's him without the bat. It's still in the weed leaf outfit, but we took off the mask.

And I got to say, I think it's a good idea to keep the mask on. Because without he looks like a, like a magician who died of autoerotic asphyxiation. Lord God, dude, yeah. He looks like the weed version of that guy with all the question marks on his suits from the 90s infomercials. Remember that guy, Matthew Lesko, I think was his name? Yeah. That guy looks like he would sell you books about how to get away with smoking weed in the late 90s. days or something like that

be a light night infomercial I feel like anybody under 30 is like what the fuck is an infomercial yeah how would you explain like so if you're not

if you're just only came up with streaming an infomercial was after the real commercials were done late night programming like comics unleashed which is still on or like yeah I was just on comics

unleashed last Wednesday by the way check that out on streaming and be like after comics unleashed went off it'd be like a half hour commercial for Shamwell was like a

really absorbent sponge that did and Matthew Lesko's little book that would tell you how to get free money from the government and like there's like oh my God you know you remember just real quick a fun fact so Travis Irvine who's done the show a couple times you know our buddy

Travis yeah never about one of his first ever jobs like out of college was he like worked as an assistant or whatever for Matthew Lesko in Washington DC the fucking the question mark suit guy He said he was still, by the way, so Travis is a couple years older than me, so this would have been like mid-2000s-ish, but he said, but it was still way past Matthew Lesko's heyday, but Travis said he still, he wore a question-mark suit every day. He drove a car that had question marks all over it, you know, like a question mark, what do they call that, like a cover or whatever, you know, when you put like a over-the-paint job of a car, and he was still out there in the free money game.

I was talking to Travis about that. It made me realize I was like, kind of surprised that guy wasn't like a, you know, like a thing for people that pissed people out because his whole thing was like, here's how you, you know, get free money from the government, which today makes you,

you know, vilified by big chunks of our society, I feel. No, but he wasn't telling people how to get welfare, like a poor person. He was telling you to get into the grifting scams, the bailouts, yeah, everybody likes those.

Like tax loopholes and that type of thing. Like the stuff. The rich people do. It's how to trick the government into giving you money. Yeah, right. That was kind of his deal. It'd be like, what you do is you get an LSC and register as a farm. You make your backyard into a farm and you get subsidies or whatever.

I don't know. Like, I never got, I always wanted to get the book until he was in there. But, yeah. You want to talk about boats and war crimes in South America? Please. Always love talking about war crimes. If you're our, as I'm up on this, here's a clip from ABC News from Sunday night. It's an alarm over President Trump's escalating military campaign in the Caribbean Sea.

top lawmakers saying the U.S. military may have violated international law in September after the Washington Post reported that U.S. forces carried out a second airstrike on a suspected drug vote. After the initial strike left two survivors struggling in the water, allegedly to comply with Defense Secretary beat headsets initial orders to kill all passengers aboard. This is to the level of a war crime. So, this is about the first boat strike from back in early September, and it's sort of retroactively makes more things make sense. Like, after this happened, the Navy commander for Southcom put in his retirement papers, they had to fire a judge out to a Navy lawyer. And sort of like, and the Trump administration has been really defensive about war crimes.

But, yeah, like, kill everyone is not a legitimate military order. And also, when you do the first strike, even if that's justified, you can't then execute the survivors who are hanging on to flaming wreckage. Right. That's not like, that's, when I say it's black letter law, let me read here from the Navy's rulebook. I got a clip. This is from a clearly illegal, example of quote from the textbook, clearly illegal orders to commit law of war violations. The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal or orders the subordinate knows and, are illegal. For example,

orders to fire upon the shipwreck would be clearly illegal. That's the only textbook example of what a war crime is. Executing survivors of a shipwreck. The Japanese and German U-boat commanders were executed after World War II for

doing this repeatedly. Okay? So this isn't like some fuzzy area where libs are like exaggerating. This is like what, you know what I'm saying? Like, like so but also do a hammer home? I'll So that's all is, the first strike was also murdered. Yeah, right.

Yeah. Well, that's kind of where I'm at on this whole thing. It's like they're, you know, if they cared about any of that shit, they wouldn't be doing any of the stuff that they're already doing. Like from the very beginning of these boat strikes or whatever, plenty of people were like, hey, this fucked up. It seems like, you know, maybe not the type of thing we should be doing. And the whole time they were just like, basically just, you know,

giving the DX suck it motion. response and then just pushing the button again. So I doubt they're going to care overly much and who's going to make them. But yeah, you know, I know Mark Kelly's been getting a lot of shit because he tried to like implore members of the military not to follow through on illegal orders, right? Which is you just read from the rule book is like written into how they're supposed to conduct themselves. So he basically just reiterated something from the rule book and now people want him

strung up or whatever for treason or some shit it's also weird can i tell you that their video did bug me for different reasons obviously then pug tics have them trump are annoyed by it but like like who first of all lissa slakin my old favorite was asked about what illegal order she's in the video she's the one like the leader of this ring uh a group of uh of former c a officer's and military uh military veterans in congress who made this video i think there are eight of them this thing about kelly because he's still the only one that can be selling back to duty in court-martial. But the rest of them, like, Alyssa was asked straight up, Senator Slokin, was asked straight up, like, what illegal orders you're talking about? She was,

oh, I don't know, just hypothetically. Like, the first, you knew about the first boat strike. That's, I know why they're focused on the second one because, like, that's the one, even given their own reasoning, even if you agree that they're narco-terrorists and their enemy combatants and they're in bounds, the second strike is still a war crime, right? So they're focusing on that because it's still immoral and illegal, according to their own the Trump's administration's own logic. But I don't want to be held prisoner to their fucking logic. And when they made their video,

I was like, who are you talking to? Because the office, the people of real power here, the flag offices, your admirals and generals, they know what the rules are. They went to West Point and fucking the Naval Academy. This sits hammered home to them. If you're talking to the rank and file, I don't want to, after like a, it's passed down to the whole kill chain

from fucking the set death to, you know, the Joint Chiefs of Staff are over here, but they would be aware of it through the, you know, the service commanders and whatever all the way down the person who pushes the button. I don't want it coming down to the person pushing the button. Yeah, me neither. But I mean, isn't it essentially just sort of like a political overture that's meant to highlight the fact that illegal orders are being given or whatever in the first place? Like, because they're all like politicians who are also ex-military, right? So it's more like that. It's not actually meant as like, you know, to be like.

addressed to private button pusher at whatever, fucking Ford or whatever, you know, like, you know, giving him guidance or anything. The, uh, I, like, I don't, like, we're losing the side of so, like,

the main reason, like, I'm not, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've no, what claim do American prisoners of war have to ask to not be tortured going forward, or executed? Do I'm saying? We have rules of war for a fucking reason. Right. I

I should like well I mean Trump you know Trump's very up front about you know his belief is that you know any any American who gets captured as a worthless piece of shit or whatever anyway so I guess there are I guess our current

military regime's whole position on that is like well just don't get captured loser then you want to worry about it you know I guess yeah we're doing uh we're doing uh is not one step back Stalin's orders led to machine gunning his own man

when they tried to retreat. That's what we're doing to our guys now. So we're noting, like, Pete, Petey Hickseth was chosen for this job because he's objectively

pro-war crime. Like, his job on Fox News main one was just saying that everybody prosecuted for war crimes should be freed because, like, you guys don't get what it's like over there.

He was a major in the fucking National Guard. I do want to point out that war crimes are a death penalty offense. The House and Senate committees, both have Republican leaders that said they're going to investigate this. And Trump was like, Like, basically, was question about this on Air Force One last night and kind of refused to drone strike.

The bus is about to run Pete over if you got this video, Matt? There's clarity if there were a second strike that killed people in the first strike. Are you thinking about that? I don't know if that happened. And Pete said he did not want them. He didn't even know what people were talking about it. So we'll look at it. All right.

So you guys, it's like, sound quality is not great. He's like, well, Pete said it didn't do it. Who knows? I don't know, whatever, moving on. Like, he's like not offering a defense here. And Pete Hex's stories already changed like three times. Last week in the story first came out, they said that this whole thing was made up. Now, then yesterday they're saying that, yes, he did give the order, but it's perfectly legal.

Then today, Carolyn Levitt said that Pete Hexeth gives gave a vague order to fight this. And then some admiral by the name of Mitch Bradley, he's the one that actually gave the order. So Mitch Bradley, I would have value you to put in your retirement paperwork and get a good fucking lawyer. Do you see Katie Miller, Stephen Miller's wife, on CNN over the weekend, Trey? I did not.

No. They were talking about this stuff, and she said, can you point me to the statute that would say kill them these guys is illegal? Murder, killing is generally conceived of is wrong and illegal.

You've got to point to a very specific statute to make it okay to kill somebody. This is not how a burden of proof works to the scenario, Katie. Yeah, rules of engagement and that type of thing, right, where it's like the whole idea of like, you know, like in Jarhead where they got like a guy off in the distance fucking waving his gun in the air or whatever and they've just been five minutes determining whether they're like cleared to shoot that dude or not, you know, because it's supposed to be all these rules involved around when you are allowed to kill somebody, like even in the military, especially rather in the military. You can't just blow people up whenever you want to. And those aren't just moral. They're also mission-oriented.

Like, they're good reasons for trying to win the objective while you wouldn't just execute everyone involved. Oh, Jesus Christ, everything's so fucking dumb. So, pivot to the wider picture here, because, like, I don't have any, I don't have, I have, I have no idea how it's going to play out. I did the moral degradation of, I was reading a long piece by guy, by Spencer, Spencer, Ackerman, who's been covered the global one terror for 20 years, talking about how, like, these atrocities of kept getting worse and worse and worse and routinized where they barely even make the news anymore. By the way, we did a drone strike in, uh, was a Yemen.

We did a drone strike somewhere in the Middle East yesterday. Uh, no one cares. Um, Trump over on true social issue to no tam and noticed the airmen saying the, the airspace was closed over Venezuela. Do you see, like what the, like, what the, like, I did see that, but I don't know what that, what, no one knew. Okay. Okay.

You can't do that via true social. Okay, right. That's what I was about to say. I was like, that, how, okay, I don't think that's how, like, airspace works. Because he says airlines, pilots, drug dealers, and human traffickers. But he includes, so that's like everyone from Delta to, you know, the guy that Tom Cruise played in American Made or whatever. He's just saying to all them, hey, I declare this space closed, right? But that's not how any of that works, is it?

No, because you, when you, when you, first of all, like, you have to give. specific parameters like what geographic area are you talking about and what and you don't typically close to everyone so like nobody can fly does it include like remote like you know Amazon delivery drones like what the fuck are you talking about so like the also like when you close when you try to demand another country closed aerospace that is an act of war we're going to talk about the laws of war again so Venezuela currently has causes belly if they want to fucking bomb Florida we have we have no right to complain about it and like as we move towards this. I saw this

from the Wall Street Journal this morning, and it must go in the Manufacturing Consent Hall of Fame. Let me quote here, Venezuela has become a major launch pad for huge volumes of cocaine shipped to West Africa where jihadists are helping traffic it to Europe in record quantities.

Right. Is this aimed like getting support here or already like looking forward to the next coalition of the willing or whatever, you know what I mean? Like in Western Europe, you know what I'm saying? It's like these guys are, you guys, you guys, You guys have a reason to back us up in this illegal invasion. Just like old times, guys.

Fucking get the ban back together. That has to be, that has the aim towards, like, Fox News, Cap, Paul. It's because no one else, like, makes, if you, if you, you argue this on Twitter about, we have to invade us on Venezuela to get Iran out of the Western Hemisphere. It's like, who convinced you that Iran's involved in fucking Venezuela, man? Where is this coming from?

And, like, let me read the list of countries here. Venezuela, Continent involving however many countries, none of them are United States or North America. Right. Why the fuck do we care? And like, so with this story is based, the Europeans are snorting Muslim socialist cocaine from South America. It's worth noting here that is this joke term Islamo-Narcho-Bolshevism has been like a left-wing meme about what dupes of Americans are when it comes to being fooled and, like, believing in boogeymen.

And the Trump administration has convinced the Wall Street Journal to Prince. that there are, in fact, Islamo-Norco-Bolsheviks. Right. We're a parody of a farce of a made-up moronic meme. Yeah. Right now, I mean, fucking nothing, everything, like, I've said this before,

but, like, when a little bit after idiocracy came out, or not a little bit after, but, like, when I first started, like, doing stand-up in, like, 20... I started in 2010, but, like, around 2011, 2012, I had this thing that started with making fun of all the people that would, because even then people were saying like, oh, idiocracy, that movie's a documentary or whatever, you know. And I had this whole thing making fun of that about how like, look, I love that movie. It's hilarious.

But no, it isn't. Like, fucking we get. And then the funny part was pointing out, like, and this I do think is still generally true. But I was like, do you know how stupid people used to be? And then it was just me making fun of people in the past, you know, for fucking. chewing rocks and burning witches and stuff or whatever. So that was all the bit was. But I used to get into that by talking about the idea of idiography being a documentary and be like,

it's a great movie, but come on, that's ridiculous. And it's like, now it's 15 years later and it just feels more and more basically true. You know, like, we're not that far off. Like, somebody pointed out a couple years ago that, like, Terry Cruz's character in that movie, Duane Hector Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho that he objectively was a better president

than Donald Trump is or whatever because like he cared about this actual problem and he got the best people he could find to put in place and he trusted them

to try to fix the problem and he wanted and all this stuff and so it's like you know you could argue we're in some ways we're like

worse off than idiotocracy oh that's the part that my judge missed is like the meanness like the mean yes they were all like sweet dumb It was like dumb, and it was a byproduct of people just being dumb, but everybody was kind of sweet the whole time. But, yeah, but the cruelty was the factor that's, you know, missing.

Yeah. It's like we're not as dumb as they are, like, genetically, but we can get there by being meaner. Right. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. And since this is all about drugs, and it's easy to forget this, I want to talk a little bit about Juan Orlando Hernandez, who's the former president of Honduras, who Trump has just announced he's going to pardon. Hernandez was convicted on drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison after being extradited from Honduras. This is not some old 80s thing from back in like the fucking Iran-Contra days.

He was sentenced last year and he came into power after a U.S.-backed coup in 2009. I say U.S. backed. Obama didn't do anything to stop it. We can at least say that. To recap, before we get into Hernandez's whole thing, because Trump's so opposed to drugs. I want to run through a brief and non-exhaustive list here of things he's done related to drugs where he's objectively pro-cocaine and pro-drugs. He's allowed 17 members of the Sinaloa cartel, family members of the Sinaloa Cartel

to move to the United States for reasons no one has explained yet. He pardoned the Silk Road guy who was a huge internet drug trafficker. In May, he committed the six life sentences for the leader of the gangster disciples was a drug trafficking gang. And now he's announced he's going to pardon J.O.H. Juan Orlando Hernandez. Orlando Hernandez is important to point out was also when he was president presented himself as a drug warrior, but what he was doing was working for the Sinaloa cartel, taking out their competitors. So whatever we're doing, I want you to consider that that's a possibility of what's going on here.

Because one thing we do, from the movie they're inspired by Sicario, what they were doing was trying to help a Colombian cartel get a bigger market share with taking out of Mexican cartel. Um, uh, since he was working to Seloa also would point out that, uh, Xingpeng Xiao, they had a finance that Trump pardoned a couple, a couple of months ago last month was sentenced to jail for money laundering for money laundering for among other groups of Sinaloa cartel. Is Donald Trump trying to be the new L. Chapo? I was about to ask her. You said like this is like what? They're in bed with Sinaloa specifically. I don't know that. I'm just saying like what would look different if?

he was right yeah right like it's like the reasons he part like I think a lot of most people are missing the force for the trees for I actually pardoned her now is going to pardon Hernandez we'll get to that in a second but like if he was trying to get actively get in the drug business and like the amount of like what he was actually convicted for was trafficking like 500 tons of cocaine in the United States he did way more shit than that that's just what they got him what they got him on is like 45 years he'll be dead anyway it gives a fuck um so I just need like Whatever Trump's beef with Maduro is, you and I know it's not about drugs. I don't understand the White House press score on the praying last night, this woman who was asking Donald Trump about pardoning Hernandez.

She says, well, obviously, you're so committed to keeping drugs like the United States. I'm like, why would you phrase the question that way? Are you fucking stupid? Like, read your own goddamn newspaper because Trump is not sending everyone to war because Maduro deals drugs. He's sending everyone to war because Maduro didn't give him a. fucking percentage. That makes more sense than anything else. So we're committing local war crimes just of the local drug trade protection

skim goes to one corrupt Venezuelan colonel to another corrupt Venezuelan colonel who probably end up co-owning several future Trump-Dubai condos before you auto blow, right? Yeah, well, I mean, the whole justification being that Venezuela's

all this is justified because of like drug trafficking reasons seemed kind of out of the blue from the very beginning, didn't it? because, like, that's not what anybody's association with them ever was. When you think about drug trafficking, it's all Colombia or coming up through Mexico and the Mexican cartels and that type of thing, but not like Venezuela. So it's, you know, it was always like, you know, where is this coming from?

And I remember at some point you said Rubio's got some vested interest of what's going on in Venezuela or something like that that he'd been trying to get Trump on board with for a long time. And so it's Florida bullshit, man. It's Florida bullshit. It's like, like, like Rubio's from Florida, Pambonis from Florida. Trump lives in South Florida. They spend every weekend surrounded by right-wing fascist, Venezuelan and Cuban

expats, Honduran expats, who fucking hate the word socialism by which they mean poor people existing. Right. And so Rubio wants to do this as a favor to the people that helped him his political rise. Donald Trump's got people in his ear all the time talking about we need to unleash the freedom of Venezuela or whatever. And like, they're hopped up on this moronic bullshit. I don't know how anyone can fucking stop him

because the Rubio is also, you know, his family's from Cuba and the Maduro regime is close allies with Cubans and so I think he thinks that Cuba cannot stand if Venezuela falls. So we'll also get a free

capitalist utopia in Cuba as well for the two for the one, price of one. But I keep pointing to like accusing Maduro being ahead of the cartel of the sun. I've seen a bunch of people in line make the joke that like no cartel names and stuff like that. So it's obviously like a Langley fucking creation. But it's even dumber than that.

Cartel of the sun is a joke among the Venezuelan people for like low-level military officers who use their positions like move drugs. It's like, because they have, the Venezuelan military uniforms have a son on it. Right? So it's like cartel of the sun is their joke. But we had a cartel of like, I don't know, of the gold star because of what's on like people's generals lapels or whatever. Um, so it's not even a real thing. It's just like, like, we talked before about the guy, the green berets at Fort Bragg removing Coke. It's like that.

That's their, what they're joking about because they get in trouble for dealing Coke, but then the army can do it. Um, going back to Hernandez, uh, not a cool guy. He once boasted that he would quote, stuff the drugs at the Gringo's noses, which is like, it's funny because he wasn't just in it for the cash. He really wanted to get Americans to do cocaine to kill them. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, well, respect. Although I don't know, you know, Americans don't need his help, I don't think. Many of the gringoes don't need him to stuff it up their noses. I'll just gladly do that ourselves. See, it was more like he took a bunch of cash bribes from El Chapo to help cocaine shipings past through Honduras. But he also had the military actively do it. This is like what the fever dream imagination when people imagine like the American military in CIA did during the crack boom in the 80s. He actually did that shit.

Also, once America was trying to extradite him, a guy was killed in prison who was about to snitch on him. He was hacked to death with machetes and shot with a gun. So I just imagine, like, Hernandez is like baking a cake with machetes in it to sneak you to the prison. This is a guy who Obama called one of the quote, excellent partners helping to discourage children from coming in the United States. Trump recognized him as the winner of the disputed 2017 election. counting on him to help curb the flow of people and drugs. There was a stolen election, Hernandez stole it, after which two dozen protesters were killed in the street.

And then the Biden administration regarded him as a key ally in Central America as it sought to control migration. When Hernandez was sentenced in 2024, he spoke for almost an hour in court, erring conspiracy theories and grievances as he portrayed himself as the victim of, quote, political persecution. At a lengthy letter, Mr. Hernandez quoted Edmund Burke,

Martin Luther King, and the Bible. Cool guy. Covering all the bases. So you're talking, sorry that I'm, you know, Central American dictator, dumb, or this guy's a president, whatever he is. But this dude was the, like, head of state for Honduras, but also it turns out later a drug trafficker or just being bought off by them or working with them or whatever. You're asking me if it was when he was in office or out of office?

I'm just saying both. He was both. He was in office. then he got beat in election, and he was drug trafficking while he was in, while he was president. Yeah, right, okay. Then got actually defeated an election in the next president, who's a quasi-socialist extradited into the United States, after he'd been investigated by Trump's DOJ in his first term, and then prosecuted under Biden. The prosecuting attorney who convicted Hernandez and his brother was Emil Boe, who was one of Trump's, run Trump's hatchet man at DOJ,

who got appointed to federal court, federal bench recently. All this shit is complete, like, he's guilty as fuck. It was like a bipartisan thing. It was a bipartisan thing to support him and a bipartisan thing to convict him. Right. So, yeah. And Trump said, when he announced he was going to pardon this guy, he said he was treated very unfairly. It was a political prosecution.

And when I see, he's calling it a political prosecution. I need everyone to remember here. He's not talking about drugs. He's talking about something much stupider and perhaps much more destructive. Bitcoin. Play this, Matt. Work. that they made their own.

Welcome to Prospera, a beacon of freedom and prosperity for all. Prospera. At first, it was created with full support from the Honduran government. But since then, the government has changed, and the new administration has continuously tried to repeal the law and shut the city down. Right. It's about prosper, right? It's about fucking Prospera.

I'm going to lose my goddamn mind. We're trying to do a military coup in fucking Honduras to make sure the government doesn't shut down Prospera. the fucking libertarian seesteading Bitcoin City. Okay. What the fuck is going on here? That's one of the

libertarian utopias that we've talked about before because I know they come up every now and then. This is one of those like tech bro libertarian utopias that were the only currency is going to be crypto

or something is how it's going to work and the new regime of Honduras is not on board with that and trying to shut that down. And so we're going to overthrow the government of Honduras.

is to get this tech bro libertarian utopia back on track. Mm-hmm. Okay. Peter, Peter Thiel, Mark Andreessen, and Belagisvina Vosan, you know, one of the big weeks over at Google, are big funders of fucking Prospero, which is a city with, like, under Hernandez, Honduran government basically carved out a new legal regime for these, the network state cities, and gave them, like, basically they can make their own laws this little part of Honduras. The locals hate it, fucking, the new government hates it. They've been trying to take it back. The Prosperors made possible by a special regulatory setup, let me call it, be specific here. It dubbed a Special Economic Zone or ZEDE in Spanish, I don't know what it stands for, but it's called a Ziti.

It was established in the country in 2013, after Hernandez took power in the wake of the U.S. back coup. Ziti is essentially allowed for private actors to move into a geographic partition area and write their own regulatory and judicial rules. And indeed, Prospera describes itself. having a, quote, regulatory system designed for entrepreneurs to build better, cheaper, and faster than anywhere else in the world, which always begs the question for this sort of dumb libertarian bullshit, why do you need the government's help in making your state self-sufficient? Right.

If you don't need the fucking government. Yeah, right. That's your whole, isn't that your whole thing? Right. I guess they're, well, no, I'm not going to like try to rationalize for them. You're right. It's silly. They're silly.

Yeah. So Roger Stone's been pushing. Fernandez is pardoned for a while. And I here's a headline from March. Roger Stone once resigned change in Honduras to support a techno-colonious crypto city. So, yeah, I didn't push this for a long time. Quote here from Roger Stone, quote, the shoddy examples of Naid Buckelly and El Salvador and Javier, Malay, and Argentina,

have the people of Central and South America waking up to the lives of the socialists. As I'll point out here, that Prospera is not a functioning city or even a real city. It's been around for a while now. It still doesn't fuck it work. It's basically a corporate resort where well. Libertarians get together once in a while to talk about awesome being libertarian is. The total number of full-time residents at Prosper as of September is 79 people, and most of those probably mow the lawn and shit. Yeah, right.

It's like you said, it's just their own, like, private sort of like sandals or whatever that they've set up on this island off the coast of Honduras, which that's not, you know, you can't claim that as an example of how, you know, of a libertarian utopia. It's not, if it's not a real, that's not a real functioning city or society or community or even village or any of that shit. You know what I mean? It doesn't prove anything. You're rich. You're paying to keep up, you know, your own little island playground, basically. It doesn't, it doesn't mean anything about, you know, the viability of your fucking ethos or whatever the fuck. Well, they're doing all the books medical experiments there.

they probably have figured out if, like, a poor child can survive on a baboon's heart. You know, that kind of thing? So, but, yeah, for context of what they're worried about or what they're mad about, why they went Hernandez and his party back in power, quote, in recent years, the government of Honduras has cracked down on the project. In 2022, its Congress repealed the law that allowed Zidis to flourish in the country, which would have thrown prosperous very existence into question. This turn of events led prosperous corporate backers to sue the entire country of over $10 billion.

The successful litigation would decimate the nation's finances. Roger Stone, for his part, seems to feel that Hernandez could be reinstated as a leader of the nation, a development that would obviously be good for Prospera. So we're going to spring a guy from the Who Scout to put him, reinstall him as president. We're going to talk about their election, that they're, like, they had election yesterday. They're still counting the votes. Part of reason Trump did this was to influence the outcome of the election to make sure

that the right-wing party was back into power, so Prospera and shit like it can continue happening. They're, the dream of the 80s is the live in Moralago and they're trying to redo speed run all the shit we didn't South America in the 80s that led to the school of America's, none executions, fucking, like, Chile being used as a libertarian fucking experiment that failed. We're just doing it all over again. And I'm going to go insane. Yeah, I know. I mean, that's, yeah, we, all that meddling and stuff that we famously did for so long that I thought, you know, pretty clearly, mostly didn't work out. in many cases, came back to bite us directly in our own ass.

You know, it's almost like these people don't learn anything, or at the very least, don't take the right lessons away from anything that they, you know, do learn ever. I think you and I, as football fans are familiar with this kind of low information voter school of thought, where at least just like a high school football coach who is out of ideas. Right. What you want to do when something fails is do the same thing again, but harder. over and over again because if it fails,

it's because you didn't do it right. Right. Right? Like, so the reason, like, the, the, the, uh, the fascist could not stay in power in, in, in, in Chile is because

they didn't execute enough fucking left wing actors. Yeah. Well, that's what I was about to say. I'm sure for a lot of these guys today, it's, in their minds, it's just like, well, the people that attempted it back then, their hearts might have been the right place, but they didn't have the conviction needed. you know to go the to go the distance to really stick it through you know like that's probably what they tell themselves with this type of shit and if you do just weather that storm then eventually you know utopia for the right types of people i uh i feel like like it's it's easy to lose track

of this shit because like the trump people have so many various schemes that like they seem to come out of nowhere for main for people for mainstream sane people but they work for these for toward these for a long time. Let me quote here from an article about the lawsuit. After the Supreme Court ruled the Zedes unconstitutional in September 2024, United States Representative Maria Elvira Salazar from Florida issued a threatening message declaring, quote, be careful with expropriating

the Zidis in Honduras. In January, there will be a new sheriff in town, an exclamation point, referring to Donald Trump coming back into power. So she's been trying to figure out a way for the new president, Donald Trump, to institute a coup to put Prospera back on a path towards his inevitable success since last year when the Supreme Court of Honduras. Who's following the Supreme Court of Honduras? Right.

Why are you doing this? Which brings us to Honduras's election. Trump openly endorsed one of the candidates whose name is Nazri, Nassaritio, Esferra. He was from the same party as Hernandez. I would thought that Trump boosting the right-wing candidate was that was that polling show was in third place could backfire and hurt the second place candidate who's also

a right wing by further splitting the vote. It was also the fact that people don't like being fucking told what to do. Like I thought maybe this would backfire. And for context, there were five parties in this election. The three main ones who were polling essentially a tie before the election yesterday. Our defense manager, Rihamakata, of the current governing

leftist liberty and refoundation party, Libre. Then Asferra, who's with the right-wing national party, and a television host by the name is Salvador Nazrallah of the Centralist Liberal Party, which liberal in their context means for markets, basically mainstream Republicans is their liberal party. So Trump endorsed us for a quote of that, quote, if he doesn't win, the United States will not be throwing good money after bad,

and they want to cut off all forms of aid and maybe do trade sanctions on Honduras. Makata, who's a part of the current ruling party, announced that she would not recognize the official results. because there's a leaked phone call between opposition politicians and somebody allegedly in the military where they conspired to rigged the election results which the military and the other party says

was made with AI. So again, all AI, dude, it's not like AI is going to fucking destroy everything. I have no idea the truth of it. Yeah, because nobody knows what's real. You can't know what's real. And there's people on both sides are refusing to accept reality.

And in some cases, you know, It seems understandably so because, you know, what is reality anymore in the world that we currently live in? And that's why this goes without saying, or you'd hope it would. But that's why, like, it should be a bipartisan thing in this country and any country. Everyone should just agree in the, you know, the importance of the integrity of elections and electoral systems and that type of thing, like, regardless of what happens. So once you, like, you know, once they get called into question or whatever, then after that, you know, who the fuck? fuck knows. It's all just up for grabs and fucking anything can happen. So I don't know. That's always been like, I think people like when you picture like like, like so Russia

hacks election, you know, software or whatever. And like to me, the danger was never throwing into one candidate or the other. The dangers that they will have obviously have tried to throw it in a way that everybody knows and no one trust the results. Right. Like, right. You don't know who's supposed to be president. Right. And that's when violence comes. Right. Yep. Um, so I did see, while we're on the subject to tech that who's already profiting immensely off Trump's drug war in the Caribbean is all these new Silicon Valley defense tech

startups using AI drones. I guarantee they're using AI to come up with targets for these drone strikes. And if we ever got to the bottom of it, it'd be because one of these fishermen like Googled, try to Google coconuts once they came out cocaine

at auto filled and got his boat blown up by a fucking Chad GPT want to be. While we're meddling their elections, not just by inventing AI, but Trump fucking freeing a narco-terrorist, who was in their government, and sending him back down there to fucking cause hell and maybe try to put himself back in power while his party's campaigning to regain control of the government. I'd have to put myself in the shoes the people were doing this to every now of then. And I went, read a man on the street piece, people in Honduras, and

they're like we don't know what to make of any of this these people like no matter what party they support or Canada they want to win they're bracing for violence because they're like like people were stocking up on canned goods in case the streets are flooded with people trying to fighting over the election results and I have no idea what side the military would be on I suspect but it's very possible that won Orlando Hernandez will be dictator or prosper by this time next week

as of our time of our recording I was up right before we got on on early results in the general election in Honduras, show the leader of the right-wing national party, Nazri Aspera has a razor-thin lead with 56% of the votes count. The conservative candidate was just 0.22 percentage points ahead of the former TV host in Disralla and the ruling party lady, the socialist party, was in a distant third place. So apparently, I thought it would have backfire, but whatever Trump did kind of works.

So once again, he wins. Yep. I think that just the way. Speaking of polling results, though, before we finish, you know, obviously, when we, when this goes live tomorrow, 5 Pacific 8 Eastern, at that point in time, will the results of the special election in Tennessee be known, you think, or close to it? Because polls will close like an hour or two before that, I think, in most of the parts of that. So anyway, so everybody, listen, obviously, we recorded this on Monday, so we have no idea what's happened. with that as we're sitting here right now but the most recent polling is like I'm Matt sent us something this morning it's like 70% likelihood that the GOP guy wins but with a you

know a less than comfortable margin or something yeah I it's like I don't understand how they're doing it uh uh those sort of things is like it's like the New York Times electric meters it's like 99% chance Hillary wins, like whatever, remember that? It's like, I don't know, like, if you're, if you win 51% to 49%, that's a 100% chance of victory. Right. So I don't know how Harry N. arrived at his math. I think all that shit. It's like the win probability stuff in football, you know, it's like, like, I'm very aware if I don't convert this sport down in midfield in the fourth quarter, I'm going to, I increase my chance to lose it.

You don't have to have to tell me that. So I don't know. I do, I do find Italian. that, like, uh, they spent a ton of money. Mike, uh, Mike, uh, Mike Johnson within the Tennessee is, I'm talking about Afton Bain's election with Afton we interviewed, uh, represented Bain we interviewed last week. Um, these are, uh, obviously like, it's too close to comfort for them. Obviously, Afton's an underdog. Uh, but Trump is thrown out a new line of attack. He's saying she hates, not doesn't just hate Christianity. She, uh, she doesn't

just hate country music. She hates Christianity, Trey, you know, though she spent the weekend at various church services. Um, so yeah. I guess we got to, if she wins, everybody in Tennessee 7, get your holy water, guys, because after Bain's coming to convert you to Satanism or something, I don't know. Oh, yeah. Hell Satan, go balls. All right, thanks for watching.

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