Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – Shoot First, Ask If It Was a Good Idea Later

Episode Date: June 25, 2025

The feds got into an armed standoff with the Los Angeles Dodgers, while the kids are getting into shootouts with pixelated ICE agents on Roblox. Then we talk about the weekend’s bombing of Iran, for peace. It’s a story that involves a Sesame Street character, Private Facebook joining the Army, and a 22-year-old whose last job was mowing lawns who is now chasing Iranian sleeper cells. Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you as you are watching this it is uh june 24th 2025 we're recording this on monday june 23rd at 303 p.m. on the left coast i'm trey and that's mark how you doing mark good buddy you're gonna be talking about a ran shit because it's just just a very very silly weekend that almost got a bunch of people killed. It did maybe remember that Toby Keith is dead, though. So what that means is Morgan Wallin's current, early in the worst studio in the world, trying to figure out a word in Farsi that rhymes with Bud Light Lomarita.

This is in his moment. It is. The world yearns for a new Middle Eastern War anthem from a country superstar. Yeah, I made a video about it today. And I said something like somebody, you know, break out a Ouija board and get Toby Keith on the, case but you're right i guess morgan wallen he's just he's the natural the natural replacement we'll see what he can come up with yeah what's the guy that did try that in a small town that fucking

jason al dine yeah i'm sure he's working on too it's probably a bit of a like bro country arms race right now i would imagine uh trying to trying to figure out who's going to be the first to crack that uh patriotic anthem nut the dude the version of we are the world except is we're going to blow up the world that's hilarious yes yes yes We are the world, but with only bro country stars, and it's very explicitly pro-war and violence and bloodlust. Yeah, that would be hilarious. Hey, if there was ever an era where that could shine, we are living in it right now. So actually, make sure they pay you royalties, Mark, when they actually do that.

You have to take them to court for stealing your idea because they're going to love that shit. Yeah, it's Ocean's 11 of a three-cord fucking, like, drum machine ditties. about how we got to kill all the brown people or whatever because America rocks. Yeah. I want to imagine, like, so it's something that had occurred to me. My wife does Dr. Google stuff all the time. Are you a person who Googles your symptoms? Yeah, yeah, I do.

When I have symptoms, yes, I do. I know that it's like generally bad. I know that it don't hit for doctors either, but I don't know how you resist it. So I take it, you don't do that. I don't know how you, I guess it's my neuroticism, but I'm always like, yeah so she she went to like an emergency ophthalmologist deployment today because she was seeing like we went for anniversary when sat like a like a beer garden kind of thing yesterday for a couple hours and after we got out of the sunlight she was still seeing spots or whatever so she gets ocular migraines right she thought maybe she's getting an ocular migraine but the headache never came she just saw the spots so she just texted me for the doctor which she can't read my text because her eyes are dilated but she can't see me respond and make it a fun of her but then she's like in all these tests and doctors like yeah she had Nothing's wrong. That's just weird.

I'm like, yeah, sometimes, sometimes it's just weird. But she, uh, I didn't know she didn't know to trust Google's AI. You mean not to trust it? Didn't know not to trust Google's AI? Yeah. Yeah. So she was looking at the AI results. And I was like, well, at least thank God that might be better because the AI is trained

in like kindergarten cop jifs. So it'll tell you it's not a tumor, which is better than the normal fucking shit. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So, man, I could spend an entire episode talking about this. Because on the one hand, part of the reason I do Google doctor stuff is because it runs in my blood to avoid the doctor at all costs. So even when it's like I probably should be going to the doctor, I'm like, now I'll just Google it and fucking figure it out. It'll be fine.

So it comes from a different place. But also, on the one hand, again, I know it's annoying and all that. But you were like, you're like, yeah, sometimes shit's just weird. I think in her case right now with spots after the sunlight, it probably is just that. It just seems like that's a thing that happens. Having said that, I ended up finally having to have two surgeries on my eyes for double vision, which was something that over the course of 10 years and six or seven different doctors, the response I was getting was, I don't know, that's weird.

I don't know what to tell you. Until I found the right guy. And he was like, yeah, no, I can fix that. I know what that is. And I can fix it. And then he did. So it's like, you just really never know, Mark. But that guy is never going to be Google's AI bot or whatever they call it, like no matter what.

So I'm still with you on that. Yeah. All right. Let's get into the show. It's going to be nothing but flowers and rainbows in this edition, just nothing but happy times and good vibes over here in the old US of A producer Matt's back there doing his thing. This is weekly skews before we continue. Of course, I got some business to take care of. First of all, I want to tell you, if you want to see me do stand-up comedy live,

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support the show in the process, sign up on Patreon. We already told you what we're going to be talking about. You know what we're going to be talking about. War stuff. So I know you're all hotly anticipating that, but first we begin, as we always do, with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please.

Tonight's D.D. Ice for teaching their goons how to gestapo, but skipping over the whole parking break part of it. We're watching as an ice cop chase his car, his SUV, his SUVs or rolls backwards down a hill. with the door open because he fucking forgot there goes. So, yeah, I just couldn't get to target that day because,

you know, he forgot. He fled after after. He drives off about the door closing, by the way, because if you weren't watching when it was rolling backwards, it did that Tommy boy thing

where the door, the open door hit a parked car and it, you know, it sent it the other direction and almost ripped it off the tendges. So once he caught up to it, he tried to close the door.

and couldn't close it, so he drove off holding the door half a jar in the shame that he deserves. Yeah, so you got a loser to a mask and a car with no license placed. He damaged a bunch of parked cars and never identified himself, then fled the scene of a fucking accident, which I want to point out as a more serious crown than just not having paperwork in this country is. Right. What the fuck do you tell your insurance? Right. If you're the car that got hit by that or whatever?

Yeah. Yeah. You called Geico and be like, so have you seen Super Troopers? Yeah. Yeah. What's funny is like, I've had this happen to me,

but I was 16 years old and had only been driving for like two months. But I'll never forget it though. I pulled up to my buddy's house and I like didn't pull the e-brae because I got out. And I didn't realize his, his driveway was on a very, very, very slight incline.

But I started walking to his trailer and dude, I heard gravel turn it over. I turned around and saw my truck disappearing all the other. side of his trailer and bro my fat white ass was Tyreek Hill around the corner of that trailer

man catching up to it before it got into the you know because nobody loved nothing like a 16 year old loves the car they just started driving or in my case the truck so I caught up to it crisis was averted but I'm saying I've been there but the circumstances are pretty different and I feel like if that's happening to you as a

grown masked man who you know is parading around as some kind of like racism vigilante or whatever you want to call them, then it, then it feels a little different. Congrats to whoever got saved from a kidnapping by gravity and this guy put in the car in neutral. It is funny to think about this guy being like like in the cop movie like trope where he's like

he's like one week away from retirement, but he accidentally Karen reeded himself and ran over his car his head with his own car. So that was in Compton out here in Southern California. And I want to point out, you're a Dodgers fan, right? I'm sure you follow. So there was like her fluff for, like weekend before last, a woman was supposed to sing the national anthem. I think her name was Neza.

And they told her to sing in English and she sang it in Spanish. And they basically banned her or got, she got in trouble with them forward or whatever. And that went public and a bunch of people got mad because of course who their fan base is. Right. And so. Yeah, if you don't know, L.A. is very much a Dodger town. And L.A. is also 47, 48 percent Hispanic.

something like that. So that was not appreciated in the Dodger community when they did that. People got pissed off. And also, it's not illegal even in Trump's America to speak Spanish. So, like, you don't need to tell people not to do it. It was very fucking stupid. Anyway, Dodgers listened, they learned. And then there ended up being a thing where the Dodgers got into an armed standoff

with Custards and Border Patrol. They called the police to stop Border Patrol from coming on the property. What Border Patrol had done is rated of a bunch of people from a Home Depot parking lot. And they couldn't process them there because people were yelling at them and they don't like being yelled at. So they wanted to process people at the parking lot of Dodger Stadium in the morning because the game wasn't until that evening if there was a game that day, right? So and Dodgers were like, they called the cops and were like, no, you can't come on our property because I never in my life thought I would see a third amendment violation in my lifetime. Right. Yeah. Is that the quartering act? Like people, yeah, you can't, yeah, right, yeah. They're trying to quarter their goons in the baseball stadium parking lot.

Right. And so, they're like, no, you can't do that. And again, it became kind of a big stupid thing for no fucking reason. And, like, it was really confusing because, like, the news said it was ice. And ice goes, this is fake news. It's not ice. You guys are lying. But it was, it turned out to be Border Patrol. But I guess it could have been Iranians. They're not, you're not wearing fucking ID. You're not wearing badges or IDs or vests. Right. You're just snatching people. I think part of what, forget the fucking goonishness and the fascistness of it, fascism of it all. The lack of professionalism is driving me fucking crazy. Like, there's a thing that happened this week where Congressman Jerry Nadler and Dan Goldman tried to visit an ICE facility in the 10th floor of a federal building where they're detaining people, right? And Congress is supposed to have inspection authority over facilities where people would be. detained. They go to the facility and they say that the director of the facility's name is a field director of ICE by the name of Bill Joyce says it's not a detention facility. It's just a place people are housed for several days. Right. Right. And they tell them they

can't come in because whatever hair split reason is not like he says it doesn't meet the report, the oversight requirement because they're just, you're not, not hold people in captivity there. They're just hold people captive there. Right. Totally different. I mean, that's kind of a recurring theme. We're like, you know, we're going to talk about a round light or whatever. And I know that, like, our boy J.D. was like, you know, this isn't, I mean, this isn't like, people keep calling this an act of war. It's not an act of war. It's just like a strategic military strike on a sovereign nation, you know, whatever. It's like, that's not, I don't get what people don't get about that. And it's like, yeah, I don't know what. I mean, I mean, I'm, I can't believe that they even care about

semantics or whatever in the first place, but also that the idea that it would work or we, like, you know, That it would matter to people who care in the first place. But I guess it's all like legal technicality thought processes on their part, you know, where it's like, you know, that's how you get away with stuff is paperwork loopholes and shit. All right. But it's like, so what they're doing is very fucked up. But I want you to look at what ICE deputy director, deputy field director, Bill Joyce wore to tell Congress people they couldn't have fulfilled their constitutional duties. And he wasn't going to allow it.

You got to be fucking kidding. me, dude. That was a Tommy Bahama shirt with a fucking two can on it. Hell yeah. We interrupted this guy's time at that

Swingers resort in the Bahamas or whatever fucking hedonism or whatever it's called. Called this guy in from a hedonism where he was at a key party fucking listening to Jimmy Buffett

just so he could so he could defend the stripping of civil rights from American citizens and shit like that. Like, it's so stupid. The shirt is being honest about what happened.

happened, though. Our country's been overthrown by divorced drunk guys who had Margaritaville. Right, right, yeah. Kind of. And so, like, like, one we're talking about immigration stuff. Like, we haven't talked about Kilmore or Brigo Garcia in a few weeks. I wanted to, like, mention, like, he's back in the U.S. They finally brought him back

after enough public pressure, but they arrested him of federal human trafficking charges that are based upon a time he gave some guys a ride to work. If you have ever driven anybody to work who you didn't acquire about their documentation status, you might want to consider, I would like the Jeff Foxworthy voice here,

you might be guilty of human trafficker. All right. If you've ever taken a girlfriend or a boyfriend on vacation and had sex with them and you paid for the plane ticket, guess what you did might have done according to the total administration. You were a sex trafficker. All right. So this whole thing is wreaks of such bullshit. What the car charges are based upon, okay, is in 2022, Kilmar was pulled over while driving a car with eight other

Hispanic men in Tennessee. All right. He was driving them from, uh, from, uh, Texas to a job in Maryland where he lived. Back in 2022, it's not that the federal government didn't know about this. The Tennessee highway patrol or whoever called the feds and they're like, well, there's no overt evidence that he was smuggling immigrants across the country, uh, you know, the prosecutors say now. Um, he just said they just, the feds told the local cops just let them continue on their way because who gives a fuck? Uh, they also say, they now, say that he lied about where he was coming from, where he was going, even though the forms they wrote down at the time said, quoted him being honest, I'm driving these guys from Texas

to Maryland, right? The fourth part of this is bullshit is like, they accuse him a bunch of other stuff that did not indict him for, they just rambled at a press conference saying he's guilty of regularly smuggling guns, transporting migrants for cash, and attempting to solicit child pornography. Right. again there's no supporting evidence for the child porn stuff

they just dropped it like a smoke bomb and walked away like a fucking shitty magician right because I mean because it's all like a court of public opinion type thing right

they just want to make him sound like a you know indefensible villain or whatever and then they have to have something to attempt in an actual

court of law so they're doing the kind of like like Al Capone tax evasion type thing where it's like they're bad

analogy comparing him to Al Capone but you know what I mean where they're like right they talk about how evil this dude is and all the horrible shit he's doing they have no evidence for any of it except for the one thing based on a technicality that they might be able to pin on him and so that's what the actual court case is about and uh you know we hear at the skews see right through that but uh will your papal will your uncle Randy I don't know it is so crazy to me that we do government by like we govern ourselves through TV like this and it's kind of what all the Iran shit's about we're like Like, they've made this guy into the villain of their TV show.

So their, you know, law-in-order detectives, pick your pairing, have to take the guy down at the end of the show. Otherwise, the plot's not fulfilled. Right. And they could have, like, quietly let him go. They could have never deported him in the first place. It could have done lots of stuff. But instead, they have to ruin this guy's life or. Or lose face, right?

Like, they'll. Right. Yeah. And they're not going to do that. That's what I'm saying. It doesn't matter if they were wrong. or if he's innocent or any of that shit. It's like they went to bat on the concept of this dude being justifiably sent to a concentration camp or whatever because he's a criminal and illegal and all this stuff.

And so now they're going to die on that hill no matter what. Like they're going to construct that reality that they desire, like come whatever may rather than just, you know, admit they were wrong or acknowledge whatever the objective reality might be. And, like, so, like, they've made it, they've honed their entire existence over whether, like, Kilmore is a good person or a bad person or whatever. Like, instead of just being, he's just a guy. Right. And, like, so, like, Ben Schrader, who was a high-breaking federal prosecutor in Tennessee, resigned over the, like, his office's conduct in this case. He doesn't want to prosecute this guy, Kilmore. And all these allegations about human smuggling, the only actually testimony that I have is from alleged co-conspirators who, who was since 2020,

have either been imprisoned or deported, in which case they're getting sweetheart deals for this. Like the prosecution as a cooperator says Garcia was making $100,000 a year smuggling guns and people, including minors across the board for years. So their theory of the case is he was making $100,000 a year and decided to give it all up to follow his dream

working with sheet metal. There's a bit of series of hearings about whether or not they can keep holding him, which is sort of pointless because if he gets out of federal custody, what the administration is going to do is have ice seize him, which is kind of outside the bounds of law and beckon the ice fucking like invisible incarceration machine.

I want to quote here from the judge's or the judge in this case. I mean, read from his brief, okay? The court gives little weight to this hearsay testimony talking about the cooperating witnesses. Double hearsay through Special Agent Joseph's testimony of the first male cooperator,

a two-time previously deported felon and acknowledged ringleader of a human smuggling operation who has now obtained for himself an early release from federal prison and delay of a six deportation. by providing information to the government. Nor to the hearsay statements of the second mail cooperator on this issue, fair any better.

He's requested release from jail and delay of another deportation depends on providing information that the government finds useful. This is where the farce of it comes in. Both male cooperators stated that Abrago typically took his children with him during the alleged smuggling trips from Maryland to Houston and back some 2,900 miles round trip as often as three or four times per week. the sheer number of hours that were required

to maintain this schedule which would be more than 120 hours a week per driving time approach physical impossibility the government's theory of the case he was driving 120 hours a week with three kids in the car

right but see like if you have a judge like you're reading from a judge's whatever decision on the matter of or but if you have a judge who's like an asshole or a Trump appointee or whatever then they treat all of that completely differently. Do you know what I mean? They treat it like, like, well, based on this

testimony, this sworn testimony of a witness, you know, instead of just being like, oh, this is hearsay and clearly bullshit or whatever. And it all kind of comes down to sort of luck of the draw like that sometimes when you're in the position that he's in, you know? And he used to have like, even a cynic like me used to have some level of faith in consistently finding these judges, calling balls and strikes or whatever, that would acknowledge reality. But that's part of how they've been trying to, like, you know, shape reality in their own image. And in recent years since the beginning of the Trump era is getting ludicates in place that wouldn't do that shit.

Courts would typically assume the government's operating in good faith, although during the Trump era, they really tested the bounds of that. A lot of judges have basically stopped treating the government like a most favorite witness, which is probably good for criminal justice stuff. But, like, I wish it would stay permanent in every judge, but it's not going to. I want to so we'll probably talk about the paid protesters thing again at some point because it's it's becoming even more the drug administration is going to get to the bottom of who's funding all the anti-ice protests all right so which is obviously weird bullshit but I also want to

present this case to you is just protests of just what happens when you do fucking fuck up when people in authority do fucked up shit okay this is about how the kids are staging anti-ice protests on roblox all right Yeah, which that's both, like, heartening and disheartening at the same time. Do you know what I mean? Like that they're living their lives on Roblox, but also that their hearts are in the right place while they do it. Well, let's apparently start this. I'm quoting in Arklund and Rolling Stone.

So the original reporting on this was done by Taylor Lorenz on her substack, I think. But, like, so basically what started me quoted in Rolling Stone, what first began as some Roblox players role playing as ICE agents has turned into a series of organized protests in the virtual world filled with Mexican flags, anti-Trump signs, and often gunfire. I'm not super familiar with Roblox, but it sounds like you can do a bunch of different stuff in the universe. Yeah, it's like, my sons were super, super, super into it, like every child of their generation for a while. They're 12 and 13 now, so they're starting to sort of age you out of Roblox. But like, it's like a larger framework for making sort of shitty indie versions of whatever kind of video game you can imagine.

So basically, and super popular. So, like, people get on there and make their own version of video games. You can find almost anything you can dream up on Roblox, basically. It's like a level creator, but on a grander scale. And then it's open to the public and people can play the games that they make. So pretty wild. And it's huge. Well, this sounds like maybe the Sims version of it.

So, like, this is about a town called Brookhaven that exists in Roblox. It's a role-playing server set in an idyllic suburb where players can become. cops, nail technicians, firefighters, and more. It has about 600,000 concurrent players. The protest came in response to some players pretending to be ice agents and harassing others in game. It appears the protest kicked off, at least in part, because Roblox players pretending to be ice agents started going into players in-game homes.

You know, you commit to the bit. If you're going to pretend to be an ice agent, you've got to go all the way. If you've got to be a monkey, be a gorilla, you know. Yeah. So the thing is like All this is happening in universe where like They have strict like profanity controls So like they're protesting with signs that say F ice

I like the signs like ice stinks and shit If it takes one F ice Okay So like this is going to I watched a bunch of videos on TikTok from gameplay on here Here's my favorite one Here's a high speed chase where ice is chasing people

And like what appears to me like like You guys got to see it I'm kind of There's pure fucking chaos going on there So this turned into like So there was a So this keeps escalating Like a few robox players

Role-playing his cops and ICE agents Tried to push back against a growing crowd Of protesters but it was fruitless. An armored SWAT vehicle driven to the center of the protest was swiftly engulfed in flames shortly after the Brookhaven police station was set on fire too. Yeah, the revolution will not be televised, baby. They're fucking taking it to the streets and the roadblocks universe.

And again, I can't stress this enough. I mean, I'm basing this entirely on what's happened in my house. But in my experience, the people behind that are doing all this, that you're seeing those video the ice agents and the ones pushing back and setting the the robocs police station on fire you're talking seven to 11 year olds seven to 12 year olds or whatever like it's uh it's a very elementary school centric game and they love it so it's wild that these kids are out here fighting the power and or you know fully embracing the power yeah yeah cool here from uh rolling stone again uh not long after taylor

Wren's publisher's story, she received a text message from one of the kids. She interviewed the read, quote, hello, I was in a Roblox ice protest, but then we all got shot by the police with a crying emoji. So who's funding the Roblox protest, right? Josh Hawley's going to get to the bottom of it. Fucking Cash Patel, man. We've got to figure it out. Absolutely.

Yeah, George Soros in the Roblox universe. Right. Blockheaded George Soros funding the protest. Anyway, let's go. Speaking of K-Fabe, let's talk about the Iranian the Iran bombings and Iran like so this appears we talked about it a Friday and I thought before it happened yeah right so I thought it Trump wasn't going to go through with it right so I Hurst had Syrhus you know like famous

investigative reporter but kind of does some crack stuff okay quack stuff occasionally people seem to think he'd fallen off he had reported last week the Trump was definitely going to bomb Iran but he was going to do it over the weekend so it so the markets wouldn't go crazy? Well, there were also, there was a lot of little, like, sort of things like that. I'm sure you know about the, I don't, the Pentagon Pizza Index or something like that, where it's like whenever delivery orders for pizza spike in Washington, D.C. and at the Pentagon, that means some shit's about to go down. Also, there, people were posting on social media videos of soldiers at forward operating bases or whatever, getting like steak dinners and shit

like that before any of this heaven, which is another thing that apparently happens before shit goes down. So apparently there was like, we were on here on Friday, and then right after we did it, I was on the young Turks too talking about the exact same thing about like,

oh, is he bullshit and what? He says two weeks, what does he mean? What's he going to do? Whatever. But apparently there were people already at that point going like, no, some shit's about to go down

because of pizza and steak and satellite images and all this stuff. Yeah, there's also the new, one of the new pizza index. I thought we talked about some. We probably have. But like the, there's a,

there's a, the gay bar closest to the Pentagon apparently had way less was way less populated after work on late last week. So that's the new Pizza Index with the other Ford Intelligence Agency seven getting in on that.

So yeah, but like so the forward operating base people getting steak and lobster was funny to me because Trump knew those the obvious the DOD knows those the obvious retaliation targets. Those could have been like last meals in case Iran bombs them. Yeah.

So that's what Iran did. Iran launched a few missiles at a base in Qatar a couple hours ago. And they apparently called ahead until the Trump administration that were going to do that. Right. Most of them got shot down. One of them missed. But then Trump went public and said they called me and told me and they didn't do any damage. So he undid the K-Faib, but you're not supposed to break K-Fame, you dumb motherfucker.

Right. Yeah. Okay. Help me out with that. So it's like, that's then being like, look, obviously we have to respond to this, but we also don't want to escalate because we still. don't want major war, so this is how we're going to handle it. But then him, like you said, breaking K-fayb publicly kind of lifts the veil or ruins that

illusion or whatever. So that causes them to, like, lose face after the fact or something. So what do they do now? Like, maybe they probably won't do anything because, again, they're, they're more boxed in, of course, because they're, like, they're, like, they're, you know, their economy's really struggling. like the regime could easily fall, which is why fucking, well, let me predict that back. Israel things it could easily fall as why they're leaning on them so hard. I feel like even if I was in a regime that I hated, I don't know that I would trust the United States of America to precipitate the change of that regime. Because I feel like we've got a pretty bad batting average with that and how that all works out.

You know, so like I don't know what I don't know that anybody should be wanting the U.S. to get a regime going over there. fucking Reza Pahlavi, the guy we talked about on Friday is Shah of Iran's dipshit son who's been living in exile since 1979 gave a press conference this morning that CNN carried live and it's like, I volunteered to serve as the king of her fuck you, nobody wants you, man.

Why does anybody care what you think? Hey, remember me from the 1970s? My father tortured your granddad. Put me back in power. So we're talking about here as Operation Rising Hammer. Operation Midnight Hammer, I'm sorry. Israel's original operation was called Rising Lion and both of those sound like fucking gas station

dick pill brands. Yeah. And it's, I'm not sure why the names feel telling to me. Like D-Day was Operation Overlord, right? But that was like, that was just intended for the troops to know. It wasn't like a publicly known thing in advance.

You didn't need a public buy in at that point. Public has already bought it in a war against the Nazis. But like Iraq was like Operation During Freedom. It's because we needed to like make it sound like noble and good on the news. And now we're fully just doing Operation Thunder dick shit. Right.

Like we're letting our military be run by guys who like do commercials for monster truck shows. Sunday, Sunday. Right. Yeah. The World War you've all been waiting for.

Rising Lion and Midnight Hammer. Right. It's John Cena in a cage man. Yeah. It's all just fucking stupid. Yeah, exactly. Fucking, yeah. So like they can't even keep

straight. Like, I'm used to war as being based on lies. Like, but they can't even keep the fucking lie straight. Also, like, the three basic camps here are like, we should bomb Iran, and the president can do whatever he wants. Then there is,

well, we should bomb Iran, but the president should get the right paperwork in order. And there's purely, well, I'm not sure about the merits, but I think this is based on my bullshit, but also the president should get his paperwork straight. And then, but my is like nowhere in this is anybody lying to keep us out of war right where is that option

yeah but i mean well you would like to think that you don't need to lie to keep a country out of war right like you just what would the lie be that would keep us out of it iran's perfect little good country would be the lie i guess right like uh i mean look it's it's totally true that iran is probably more you know western progressive in Saudi Arabia who we love. Right. But like it's like, I can't get this shit straight anymore.

But anyway, here's J.D. Vance on TV Sunday morning, if you got this clip at. And the second thing is, Kristen, I certainly empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern. The difference is that back then we had dumb presidents. The audacity of that is true.

Truly incredible to me. Dick Cheney, too, now with more dick. Yeah. Just like the stupidity of this, like, Netanyahu's been trying to get us to bomb Iran for fucking 45 years. Right. Let me count the presidents. Reagan, George Bush won, Clinton, Bush, two, Obama, Trump won by seven presidents.

And he finally got one fucking dumb. enough just go to risk starting an unprovoked war with Iran and like we're supposed to all pretend to do you. Mark, is that what happened or is it in fact the case that he finally found the only president smart enough to listen to reason? That's what I ask you. I mean, that's literally essentially what J.D. just said, right? That's their, that's their rationale.

Yeah. We're the only one smart enough to handle this appropriately. So the lady on Meet the Press was like, do you impress? President Trump trust the intelligence community and its assessments, because the IC is saying that, like, Iran was not trying to build a nuke. He did not have a nuke, you know? And Jay, he's like, of course you trust our intelligence, but we also trust our instincts. What are you saying is like, like, vibes, baby? You don't get the vibes.

You're not like a blackjack guy with a system. And this is like, this is not like just me spitballing. It's a source inside the, inside the White House to a reporter. There is no intel, says one of the officials, who are granted anonymity to a disgust sensitive matters. I knew that I'm aware of. Yeah. Well, we, I mean, we all know that, right? Like, Tulsa Gabbard, his own, you know, appointed, sycophantic, national security advisor or what's her position that she has?

Like. D&I, Director of National Intelligence. Director of National Intelligence, the Director of National Intelligence, which obviously is oxymoronic in her case. But she was on, you know, like on video giving testimony two, three weeks ago, whatever, saying, like, they don't have a nuclear weapons program. They're not doing this. No of that is happening. And then now she's, of course, like, walking it back, you know, because Trump got pissed off and said intelligence was wrong because, you know, that's his whole thing as an intelligence don't hit. But, like, they, but that's all anyone's been saying, including his own people, who none of us, and I know it's like, well, you know, like, you might be like, well, fuck what Tulsi Gabbard says, which I would generally agree with, but she was saying the same thing that other intelligence professionals have been saying for 20 years when she said there's no reason to think that.

So it's like they're literally It's mind-blowing to me That they're literally running the same playbook From 20 years ago With fuck you like y'all You're really gonna do the weapons of mass destruction thing again They're like famously fucking You know

disastrous Attempt at justifying a war in retrospect In modern living memory Like that's what you're gonna go back to that again And expect it to work And it's like in this country in this era, who knows? Maybe it will work. They're not just doing the weapons of mass destruction thing.

They've already gotten to mission accomplished. In the Saturday morning post where he's bragging about this, where he was talking about how he should have already won the Nobel Peace Prize four or five times. He literally wants the Nobel Peace Prize for bombing Iran. And it goes, after the announced the attacks, he said, and it's true social posts, now is the time for peace. So they're doing like, well, we did the attacks and it worked.

You guys can't hit back now. I called it. No punchbacks. Yeah, time out. Time out. That's a timeout. So, J.D. also said, we tried to do this.

Well, we attacked them, we're done. We've eliminated their Iran's nuclear capabilities, which they have. I won't get to that a little bit. But, like, we're not there for, we're not there for, we're not there for, we're not at war with Iran. We're just at war with Iran's nuclear program. We're not interested in regime changed. Not exchange in interest in boots on the ground. We're just, we're done, basically.

This is over with. This is all done. All right. So we bomb for peace. How does that work? Here's Representative Pat Harrigan, a Republican from North Carolina trying to explain it. If you want to hear the Orwellian nature of this shit spelled out. Certainly a dynamic environment, right?

We're trying to lower the temperature of global conflict while simultaneously kind of breathing it here in order to lower it. And so... All right. So, right. Well, it's kind of like in a Patreon episode like we talked about on Friday, where it's like, don't make a nuke or we'll bomb you. And they're like, okay, all right. And 20 years later, it's like, are y'all making a nukes? No.

And everybody else agrees like, no, I don't think they are. It's like, you know what? Fucking bombed. I just don't like it. I don't like the sound of that. Bomb their asses anyway. Like, none of it makes any fucking sense. Like, what is supposed to be actually happening over there?

Nobody knows. And nobody knows in Washington, D.C. either. Because, like, right after J.D. We did him around all the morning shows, trying to say we were not interested in regime change. Trump gets on fucking truth. and goes, it's not politically correct to use the term regime change, but if the current Iranian regime is unable to make Iran

great again, why wouldn't there be a regime change? Miga. Miga. This shit makes like the death of Stalin, it looks like the West Wing. It's like no one knows what they are doing or what Trump is doing. Fucking Kirstarmer went

public calling for Iran to quote, return to the negotiating table. They were at the table. Israel bombed the table and killed the guy sitting at it. Nobody here has a fucking plan for anything that comes next. Right. So, like, if they actually try to do regime change, we and the people have ran all fucked. Well, so let me ask you this, Mark, like, because I think we agree was like, why did they do this?

Does he think that, like, you know, wartime precedent that's always good at the end of the day? Like, historically or whatever, or is it like making his place in history? Does he somehow think paradoxically, it's going to lead to a Nobel Peace Prize? Like, we all realize it's ridiculous. Israel was having all the fun. he got jealous, we got all these bombs, like what? Like, why did we do it? Well, we talked about it on Friday, but like, like, there's been more reporting this effect.

It's purely because Israel's original attacks on Iran got a bunch of cool press coverage on Fox News. Right. They were calling it successful, which it forget strategy, politics, or morality. It was tactically pulled off well. So he was like, I want to get in on that and get some credit for that. So he just wanted to, again, these are all, this is all k-fay, but it's just. like fucking Kilmore Brigo Garcia.

It's just like he's got to be the main character of the TV show and get the villains. The villains on his TV show he watches or Iran.

So he bombed these nuclear facilities which he gave them plenty of notice to move their to improve defenses of and move the uranium out of before he did it

because you got to tease, baby. You got to lay the pipe before you fucking, you know, do a curve in the story before you, you know,

do the surprise twist. Oh, so, a factor here is like 700,000 Americans live in Israel. A lot of them are dual citizens. A bunch of them are trying to get out because there's lots of course, a lot of airspace is closed. It's hard to get commercial flights right now. America, we've evacuated 79 staff from the embassy, but we're just leaving the people behind because there's no fucking plan. So when I say 700,000 people live there, I'm including Quentin Tarantino.

So we just let, yeah, Quentin Tarantino. those in Israel. So we just left, we just left, Gwen behind for Hamas to lure him out with like full time? Yeah, I don't know full time is a place there. I mean, he obviously has a place in that. Well, yeah, you've got a lot of places. But I did not realize that QT was in it, you know, had shops up in Israel. I forget why. Maybe he's married to in Israel? I forget, it doesn't matter. I'm just, I'm just guessing now. Right, because you would think, like, because, so we already talked about how, like, Iran, they retaliated against us, but they called the head and they're like, hey, get everybody out, we're going to do

a thing, we're going to blow some stuff, I was going to be fine. And so everybody got out and it's like, fine. It's like, it's all K-Faib like we were talking about. But with Israel, though, it's a different story between those two. Like, because Iran last week, late last week they bombed a they bombed a lot of things, but including

like a hospital and then very, very comically, Israel was like the idea that someone would bomb a hospital with civilians in it is disgusting. Right, which is hilarious in a grim way, if you know anything about Israel. But like, so between those two, things could still, I mean, they could still heat up with us too.

But like between us and Iran right now, a lot of it feels like Kay Fabi, but the Israel and Iran part, not so much, right? Like, that's probably going to continue to. Oh, well, Israel's also trying to, well, Israel's also making noise about, well, we can't, like, we don't, this doesn't go on forever because they're running out of fucking defensive munitions. They can't, like, Iran's a much bigger geographic country than them. They don't have unlimited resources, even with our backing. Like, it's just like all this stuff. When I say nobody has a plan for what comes next, I mean, like, nobody. There isn't a person who's, who's, who's, has an idea about how to deal with the shit they're unleashing.

And maybe it'll, it's possible that nothing happens. It's possible. I'm not sitting here saying this is World War III. I'm saying everybody involved in this is a fucking idiot. Yeah, for sure. I do want to mention here because, like, we never talk about the costs of war stuff. Doge, the new big, beautiful bill combined with Doge shit, we're about to cut a $3 million program that allows abused women to take their pets with them to domestic violence shelters because, quote, we don't have the money. That's less than the cost of a single GBU 57.

We dropped 14 of them on Iran this weekend for a TV show. Yep. Well, that's been the thing the whole time. That's been the thing I've always. But, you know, because we've talked about before about how, like, I used to work for the government. And it's like, no, I think, I think there's plenty of areas where the U.S. government, you know, could be rained in, spends a little too much money and shit gets wasted. I'm going to start with the fucking Department of Defense and the military spending the shit we do with that,

like in the fucking fields of tanks that don't even get used or like you just said, like an entire, like, domestic abuse welfare program that caused less than one bomb that we drop on a fucking whim on a sovereign nation on a Saturday out of fucking nowhere. then I don't want to hear it, right? And that's, and, you know, I don't know how you can make that. I don't know how you can come from the other side and point at like welfare programs or things like that, things that actually help people and be, you know, like, oh, what these sad ladies get their dogs? Three million dollars, taxpayer money. Fucking, what is that shit? I don't know how you can do that with a straight face when you're turning your back to what the military industrial complex does

and the insane amount of money we spend on stuff that's so far beyond anything we should ever need for any kind of defensive capability. So now that I've hopefully made my case, you're still going to rip me apart, Mark? You want to go ahead and a second? It just bugs me that like since 1980,

well, Jimmy Carter started it basically, but nothing but austerity, cutting the government to bare bones. The whole thing where liberals can't even take their own side and their argument. The government, I'm going to say it. The government does not spend enough fucking money on stuff that matters, and I don't really care if people in the Department of Energy were taking home some big.

pens, but don't care. All right. So, like, everybody would stop reflexively quoting Ronald Reagan from 1982 because that's part of how we get to the point where we can't even, like, we all as a country with 330 million people

can't chip in, what, 10 cents each so domestic violence victims can take their dogs to the shelter with them. Right? See what I'm saying? Yeah, right. No, yeah, I agree with that part. I just,

the things that you're like, I don't care if this happens, then that's fine. Like, that's fine. You could say that. You'd be like, I don't care that this shit happens. I was just saying that, you know, some of it does. It's small and it's whatever, and it's irrelevant, but that's all I'm saying. Yeah.

I'm just saying, I wish we as people to the left of Marjor Taylor Green would get out of the habit of reflectively apologizing for our own position that the government should spend more to help people, right? I wish we would stop doing that. It bugs me. But if you can't, but if you're going to fucking come after the fucking Department of Defense for spending shit on stuff that they don't need or whatever, is that not inherently acknowledging that the government is like is waste that's the bit my whole thing is like yeah there's government waste this is the biggest waste like if you're gonna do you understand what i'm saying like if you're saying it's like yes the government spends a lot of money they shouldn't this is where we should start is that we're here on the fucking bombs and the aircraft carries and all that and i don't want to hear it unless you acknowledge that like well you agree that that's wasteful right but me just saying I acknowledge that the government wastes money, you're like, you go into this whole thing

about how like, oh, we can't, we can't do this, we can't do that. We're, we're, we're, we've derailed this,

the show for 10 minutes because you're trying to find a way to like find common ground with like the Freedom Caucus. Like, we just don't need, do you know what I'm saying? So like,

it's just like, like the idea, like I don't, like, what's wasteful about the, about the GBU 57. It's not like, I understand what the government feels

need to have them. There's only one non-nuclear weapon in the world that could penetrate Ford out of the base they tried to blow up, which they didn't blow up. Right. So, which wasteful is they used them for nothing. Yeah. So, yeah.

Of course. So when I say nothing, when I say it's not even cleared the bombings did much, both Israel, which, you know, they want us to keep bombing. So we can take their intel with a brigade of salt. But both Israel and the IAEA say Iran moved the Iranian beforehand. The Pentagon had to order a diversionary flight of B2 bombers as a misdirection. They sent some east to some west to confuse Iran because, Trump had told everybody this was coming.

I'm sure. How well do you think that worked, by the way? You send some way. It's like, well, they sent some the other way, but they also sent some this way. So I'm sure it's fine. Like that would be the response to it. Both were going to Iran. They left Missouri.

They flew all the way around the globe to come from, come at Iran from different directions. So they didn't know which way to focus their air defenses. Okay. I got you. Right. So basically now, we didn't do anything to damage. probably didn't do anything much to damage their capability to build a nuke.

And they're going to, like, now they're obviously going to be in a real hurry to build one so we can stop. So we stopped doing this shit, like we talked about on Friday. So condolences to the Iranian nuke guys, we have to pull all-nighters now. But I guess now we have to do like a strategic strike on their supply lines of co-red energy drinks. But that of mine not even matter is Demet Mev, the former puppet president, Putin's puppet president of Russia before Putin retook power, who's currently still sits on Russia's like Security Council. he got on Twitter and said Russia might just give Iran nuclear warheads

Of course he just He just drunk tweets all the time So Right but yeah But remind me that Because it is the thing It's like Russia is aligned with Iran

Right? Is it because they get things from them? Is that what is they Iran supplies them with stuff Or what's the What's the connection between those two Because that is a part That is a part that

Because everybody thinks Trump Is very pro Russian Pro Putin and all that But Putin don't want Well I've heard a lot of people Say it's like Oh Putin would love for us to be bogged down in a Middle Eastern conflict.

That's fucking, you know, what happened with us and them in Afghanistan. But what's the Russian part of all this? Well, they're trading partners. They're also both oil-producing states. They have a share common interest. They're in wooded bricks together.

They're their version of the EU, which is Brazil, Russia, Iran, South Africa, I forget. Iran's also surprisingly with drones in Ukraine. Yeah. So lots of reasons. They're also just like the general principle, that America shouldn't overthrow governments.

Russia and Iran agree on. Now, they don't agree that Russia shouldn't overthrow governments, but, like, that's a different thing. Right. So, Iran, by the way, their parliament voted to give their security apparatus, the authority to close the strait of Hormoos,

which is, you know, where, like, Iran's got like 25% of global world supplies and a lot more passed through the strait. So, like, that'd be a big hit to the global economy. And you'd be like, okay, well, Iran's parliament, that, you know, that's obviously just a show vote, we didn't even get a show vote before this. So Iran currently has a more active in a functional parliament in the United States.

The United States of that one guy can do whatever he wants because no one in Congress who swore owes will do their fucking job. Yeah. On that note, let me ask you this too about the, like, because I've seen people that are for some reason I can't fathom and I guess okay with all this. Pointing at being like, look, fucking, and I made a joke about this in the video I made today, but it's like, every fucking U.S. president does this type of thing, whatever, strategic, you know, drone strikes or whatever. It's like they bomb places. And we don't call it war when they do that fucking from Somalia to fucking Syria and wherever else. It's like, we do, we do this all the time. And everybody's freaking out right now. Like, you tell me right now as a smart person, like, I know that that's stupid,

but tell me why that's stupid. Do you know what I mean? Like, what, like, what, I said it for no other reason that the fact like this is not the regime that's in charge right now fucking throws all that out the window to me. He's like I don't trust him to do anything that you know won't lead to the worst

outcome. But like right. The thing about Trump is like he does stuff that the U.S. federal government kind of sort of naturally does. He just does it in the clownish oafish with a clownish face that makes like the contradictions and the

his system inherent, right? Like, so, like, like, like, like, he can't even, like, put on a suit and talk dignified about the war. 100%. And that's very indignant. Right. That's, like,

a running theme with his whole era and administration and everything. It's like, they used to at least have the decency to pretend they weren't doing this or thinking this or being this or whatever. They used to at least put up a front. And he just don't do none of that. He just puts it all on front street and fucking tells me to fuck yourself. if you don't like it.

I mean, like, okay, this is nothing to do with Trump. You give an example here. This is a famous war game called the Lenium Challenge. They took place back in 2002 where basically one set of American generals cosplay as the United States

in this fake exercise and the other side was Iran, right? The Marine Lieutenant General playing as Iran won the war pretty easily doing creative asymmetrical shit and they stopped the game and go like, wait, wait, wait, no, that stuff you did to win was cheating.

You're not allowed to do that. Like what he did was like, use motorcycles as messengers to get around communication intercepts and use like speedboats with like kamikaze bombs on them. And they're like,

wait, no, we didn't expect that so you can't do it. So they reset the game and made him play by American Warfare rules so he would easily lose.

Right. And their lesson from that was we can easily beat it right. That was 2002. Sure. Yeah. Because any country started an unjust war with

is surely not going to, you know, not play by our rules. They're going to honor our rules of engagement, Clearly, everyone knows that. But did they learn nothing from the lessons of Mel Gibson's 1999 historical drama of The Patriot? All right.

Those tactics are effective, right? You've got to be ready for that. You got to be on your toes. Yeah. I mean, like, the thing is, like, we always seem to think we can control how this goes. Like, we always forget that, like, Iran gets a vote. Like, the people of Iraq got a vote. You know, like, the people of Afghanistan got a vote.

Like, you don't get to, like, do you know, do you familiar with this spherical cow, tray? Spirical cow? I don't think so. Yeah. It's a joke about theoretical physics because, you know, theoretical physics is kind of useless. Well, the joke is that it's useless practically because like you sit around in a room

we think about these complex math problems, but nothing really fit with the right world. Like nobody really knows how dark matter works. Right. Relativity doesn't connect to it, yada, yada. Right. So the joke goes, like a local, like a dairy farmer is having a problem with the output of his cows.

So he calls up the local university. He's like, can you guys help me out? They get to, they huddle up, they get together. The theoretical physicist comes back to the dairy farmer like a couple weeks later and goes, I have a solution to your problem, but only works with a spherical cow in a vacuum. Right. Right. Which is not what we have.

Right. So all these defense plans about, oh, we're going to have a peaceful parliamentary democracy in Iran with this one easy trick. And it's always like, well, everybody has a plan that gets punched in the mouth, right? Right. And like the stuff we can't contain is never limited to just overseas. Like, so last night, I said you guys a string grab. These cops in Oklahoma City were trying to, like, we're waiting outside the basketball arena right after the Thunder War, the title, to immediately disperse the crowd because

they don't, Oklahoma City cops do not know what I handle this professional title winning celebration, right? And people like, to be fair. Yeah, yeah. So like, they're like, well, this is fucked up. They wouldn't always have fun. And like, when somebody was like, well, we are at war, it's probably weird out sleeper cells, right?

It's like, like, we got to gun down people in Oklahoma. city because the drunk people celebrating the basketball title might be Hezbollah or something. But there is a fear of like like like the DHS put in a memo about like violent extremists being unleashed in the homeland mobilizing response to the conflict right?

And I saw a bunch of megatops telling each other to stay arms, keep her head on a swivel which anybody knows what this country works means that like some Inuit's going to get shot in Michigan. Right. Yeah, exactly. Right. That's what I was about to say. It's like this is again, history fucking rhymes. Man, it's the same thing. It's like this is how with like the rampant Islamophobia after 9-11 when we were in the run up to the war in Iraq or whatever, the same type of thing where it's like you see a brown guy with a turban who's like a Sikh who has nothing to do with any of this.

He's not Muslim, but they see a turban and they're like, oh, this guy's a villain and they've got like a bulge in his pants or something. He gets tackled with a fucking knife in his fucking, or a knee in his at the back of his throat by some, you know, lunatic do-gooder making a citizen's arrest or some shit because he read that we all. should be vigilant now that we're going to war with Iran or whatever. Like, that's the type of shit that happens in this fucking country when people get that in their head and that, that ain't good. We can't have that. That's why we can't get into this position in the first place. But I want to ask, like, do you ultimately think this is going to end up K-Fab saber

rattling at the end of the day between us and them? Or do you think it's going to escalate and get out of fucking control? And I know that's a lot to put on you. I'm just curious what you think. I would imagine because I don't think Iran wants me further escalation, and I don't think Trump does. Like one thing is, like, because this kind of splits his fucking coalition, the people that, there were people stupid enough to believe him when he promised no new foreign entanglements. Of course, like, Trump didn't really mean that what he meant was no more worrying about the human cost of it, right?

He meant, like, we should just bomb Iraq and take their whale and not worry about whatever else comes after it, right? So, like, one of the funniest things here, I'm skipping ahead in the outline, Matt, is that they seem to, they're blaming the MAGA fight. online on online bots, disinformation bots from Russia and Iran, which is a funny little plot twist here. Let me quote here. This is in New York Post. It, of course, is the Trump Allied rag. Russia and Iran are targeting to make America a great again movement and trying to

stabilize the right from within, according to his report. That is a hell of a thing for y'all to say to us. Oh, yeah. Oh, you worried about Russian disinformation? Is that right? Yeah. That's funny. It's funny.

You figured that out. Here's Palantir co-founder, Joe Lonsdale, blaming the lack of support for war with Iran on Twitter bots, if you got this video, Matt. I understand what this new woke rights doing. I think we've actually shown that the vast majority of the right does not want them to have a nuke and supports that activity. There's a lot of Islamist bot accounts online right now, trying to pretend that they're on the right, that they're against doing this. They're hitting me right now. What he is describing is the new woke right. I heard.

yeah thank you guys is that is Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson part of that thank you who is that that that guy that what's that guy's that guy's Andrew Ross Sorkin yes yes that's Andrew Ross Sorkin yes that's yeah Andrew Ross Sorkin glad he spoke because as soon as I guess I was like the new woke right like there's no loyalty amongst thieves man they'll tear themselves apart immediately but it's what's funny about it is like a lot some of the ones that are being targeted by the right right now for not being right enough to being the new woke right as Ross Sorkin pointed out Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson,

do you have to be like thought leaders amongst the fucking the lunatic contingent from my perspective and they're being called like fucking hippies now like what is happening man? Yeah I want to say Palantir's share price has got up 50%

since election night election night which has made that guy a billionaire so congratulations to Joe Lonzo. It's Wikipedia page has a subheading for sexual assault allegations, but I do want to be fair and say it's only one. So there you go. So the tech part of this, you guys don't need to worry about whether the DOD can handle all this

because we've got four new lieutenant colonels in the U.S. Army. They're execs from Palantir, Meta, and Open AI with no military experience. He just got commissions as lieutenant colonel and a new Army Reserve component called Detachment 201. How much do you want to bet these guys in system being addressed as Lieutenant? Colonel by their sex robot, Trey?

100%. No doubt about it. What you just said is the thing I didn't even know could happen, by the way. Me neither. Walk in off the street and be deemed a lieutenant colonel or whatever. Like, I didn't even know you could do that. I remember, like, like, there'd be, like, like, like, you know, entertainers will get, like, honorary commissions, like, war two for entertaining the troops and shit. I didn't know you could do it for, like, people that are seriously expected to contribute. Right.

Among them are Shiam Sankar. He did corporate espionauts for Palantir and a guy named, uh, uh, uh, you know, uh, Andrew Bosworth, who wrote a memoir when he worked in META that said that Facebook's growth was worth it, even if it caused a bunch of terrorism. So I do want to say, no, if they're in the Army, the next time Facebook facilitates a genocide, at least it'll be on purpose. So there we go. At least there's that, yeah. Everything is worth it in the interest of the stakeholders. That's what we need to keep in mind throughout all this, when we need to remind ourselves is it's in the interest of the stakeholders.

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