Mike Johnson Gives Up on Iran War as Trump Makes His Life a Living Hell

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0:34The Speaker of the House, little Moses Mike Grinder Johnson, who cannot shut up about how close he is with God and how close he is with Jesus and the sanctity of life. And pro-America, we just want to love America. Lord, just lift us up, Jesus. Lift us up to love America. Just will not shut up with that kind of talk. These are very serious things that are happening right now. People are dying all over with our taxpayer dollars while Americans are dying because they don't have health care or because of abject poverty, because Little Grinder will not advocate for meeting the suffering and standing against the grotesque accumulation of wealth.

1:22No, he's always shilling for the billionaires and he's always shilling for the killers. And right now, Benjamin Netanyahu said, we're going to have to have boots on the ground. Donald Trump keeps whispering, we're going to have to have some boots on the ground. Well, surely the pro-life, pro-Jesus, pro-God, I'm Mr. BFFs with God. God wakes him up in the middle of the night and says, hey, wake up, little buddy, you're Moses. And he goes, oh my God, I'm Moses. I'm going to do God's work in the house. What does he do? Play the clip. There are ground troops. Did they come to Congress first if there are ground troops?

1:59Again, all the details matter. If we're completing the mission and it's a limited scope, then that's not a declaration of war. Camera's down. We got to vote. It's always been a lie. These people never, ever, ever fight for life. Ever. He's going to allow the president to go around Congress to send American troops on the ground for fucking what? Because Benjamin Netanyahu wants to balkanize Iran. He wants the whole area balkanized. They're already completely decimating Beirut. They've already genocided Gaza. And now he's moving on. And he cannot do this without the United States of America and a Speaker of the House that will bend the knee to worship this death cult.

2:56And it has completely exposed the Republican Party for the lying liars, decade-long full of lies. We're so good with the economy. We're so fiscally conservative. We're all about America. We love the troops. It's all bullshit. shit. They've been lying to you for decades. Mike Johnson is worthless as tits on a boar hog. But here's something that I have heard when asked about what's going on in Iran. That is illegal. That is a war. He dances around it and he says, well, if we need to complete the mission, that's the justification. What is the mission? What is the mission? The American people have never been told what the mission is and then you have him saying you know it's not a war i don't give a shit if you call it a war an excursion a play date people are dying little girls in iran are dying people in lebanon are dying united states troops are dying this is absolutely him being the weak, fucking coward that he is.

4:04And it just, I just want to scream, Jennifer. Yeah. And it's important that within the Christian movement, a lot of times people go, well, they're not real Christians. Just like within the American culture, people on the right will say, oh, well, you're not a real American. And the thing is, you have to take people at their word. And this is something where people within the Christian faith need to deal with this firsthand. And they need to have louder voices that advocate for the marginalized within that religion. Because when you allow the most diabolical, loudest, most hysterical, craven, extremist sect of Christianity to ascend to the top of the federal government, it needs to be dealt with.

4:52And I think the people that have the most credible voices are people within the faith, like Tallarico and others that are reminding people, this is not what any of this is about, but this is hilarious. Okay. So Piers Morgan has been going through a lot of things. And so he posts the following online. Trump is losing control of this war. And then he gets checked by Candace Owens. Candace says, wrong. He never had any control of this war. He just had deranged bloodthirsty neocons in his ear, telling him that he would be great if he did it. He should have listened to Charlie Kirk. Of course, now she's linking like Charlie Kirk back into it.

5:32But to Candace's point, which bizarrely, I kind of agree with her, that he says Trump has lost all control of this war. I saw that on Twitter a couple of days ago. And I was like, he never had control. He doesn't even have control of the Oval Office. It is Marie Antoinette meets Liberace. shit show trophy presentation hour, which all of the Republicans are like, yeah, American culture sucks because everybody's getting a participation trophy. We have a participation trophy president. I mean, he every day is participation trophies. I mean, he he is such a fucking toddler. He convinced the woman that actually won the Nobel Peace Prize to give it to him.

6:19And he accepted it and he stole the soccer player's medal thing. It's just a nut. But for us to act like, for Piers Morgan to meet that he's lost control, there was never any control. There was because he lost control the moment his Pentagon said, do not do this. We have run every possible calculation for decades because Benjamin Netanyahu has wanted to do this for decades. We've heard it with our own ears on tape. And do not do it. You will not win this war. And he said, you get the fuck out of the room. I want to listen to Whitcoff. I want to listen to my son-in-law. I want to listen to little Marco.

6:59And I want to listen to Bibi. He lost control when he didn't listen to his own Pentagon. And that is just the, those are the facts. This man is incompetent. This man does what every Republican does. And if Piers Morgan cared about journalism or the truth, start at the incompetence during his campaign when he tried to give a microphone a blowjob or the part where he did the insurrection or the part where he was convicted of felonies or the part where he's in the Epstein files over a million times. to have an expectation that he has ever had control of anything other than his cult base is a fool's errand.

7:48We don't even know. Everybody tells us he doesn't even have control of his bowels. But when I look at, you know, people like Trump's losing control, it's Armageddon, he didn't anticipate closing the straight up her moves, all this stuff. I'm like, this has been happening on every level in Trump 2.0. He doesn't have control of anything. Doge, let's Elon Musk go in because he doesn't have the attention span for intelligence briefings to sit down with a forensic accountant and say, here's where we need to make cuts. He doesn't give a shit and people and soldiers dying. He has no empathy. He has no soul.

8:27And we're just watching this narcissist who thought he would get all the glory and everyone would say, oh my gosh, every living president would call and say, I wanted to do it, but you did it for real. And instead he is humiliated and it's only going to get worse. Okay. And so he was able to get elected in large part because the media played a spectacular role in any time there was any sort of economic glitch under Biden. I mean, it was like, oh, my God, inflation, inflation, inflation, inflation, or any sort of, you know, like the Afghanistan withdrawal was completely covered in this hypercritical lens.

9:11Trump is able to operate in media terms with sanitizing, sane washing, et cetera. And he was able to scapegoat a lot of immigrants and say, immigrants are coming for your jobs because America has very racist, tribalistic, xenophobic roots. And he was able to tap into that as all autocrats do. So he scapegoated the Latino immigrants. They're coming for your jobs. They're coming for your jobs. They're coming for your jobs. Meanwhile, all of the people that are voting for these policies have no problem exploiting said immigrant labor. But it was never, ever about immigrants coming for your job. And it was always going to be about the oligarchs and their AI.

9:56The robots are coming for your jobs. Pop this up, Kylie. Jeff Bezos has begun the process of raising$100 billion for a new fund that would buy up manufacturing companies and then use AI to automate production. So think about this. Jeff Bezos, clearly in his mind, he thinks he doesn't have enough. He thinks he hasn't done enough damage to the United States of America. This is a man who spiked the Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris. This is a man who raced to the White House as fast as he could for the inauguration. This is a man who threw in$70 million for the shit show propaganda fluff piece on Melania Trump.

10:47And it's just not enough. And let's just talk about how diabolical this is. He wants to take over all manufacturing. This is going to be the annihilation of a lot of good working class Americans. They don't wake up like Jeff Bezos and say, who can I exploit today? How can I make the country worse? That's what Jeff Bezos does. That's what Elon Musk does. That's what all these other people that have sucked up to Donald Trump do. A lot of these people whose jobs are being taken are just people that are like, you know, no, I'm never going to be rich, but I want to be able to have a house. I want to be able to have a family.

11:24I want some healthcare and maybe go on vacation. And that's enough for me. But for Jeff Bezos, it's not enough to help these people. Remember all the anti-union shit within Amazon. He is a massive exploiter of human beings. He wants to decimate an American workforce. some of the best people among us that aren't just so intoxicated by greed and wealth. And it's just utterly disgusting that we live in a society that has enabled billionaires to tap into this greed level psychosis. And that it just news cycle after news cycle after news cycle, at every turn, these oligarchs are dismantling the workforce.

12:16You know what is just fascinating to me about Jeff Bezos? He hates people that work for him. It appears he doesn't want to pay him a livable wage. He doesn't want to pay taxes. He doesn't want to pay for anything. Yet he owns the world's largest retailer without a storefront. So his business model depends on people packaging and delivering the products that he sells. Yet it appears he has this deep seated resentment about the very people that make his business run. And now he wants to take it into other industries. It is just, I wish a psychologist could explain that to me where I would understand because it seems like an oxymoron, somebody that owns the world's biggest retailer with no storefront, depends on people, yet he resents the people that do the job.

13:14Well, but this is the through line. You know, we learned from the scholars we've had on this podcast that authoritarians have utter disdain for their supporters. And so this type of like megalomania, this type of narcissism, this type of elitism causes people to resent the people who actually do the work. Who do you think works harder every day? Jeff Bezos on his private plane, banging Lauren Sanchez, or the worker that is out in 110 degree heat in Arizona delivering package after package after package after package. So then they start hating the people that actually put in the work to put it for them, just like men with sex drives that are right-wing Republican Christians hate the women because they are the source of lust for them.

14:11But they've been told you can't lust after a woman. So let's, by all means, if they get raped, if they get knocked up, they're going to have to have an abortion. So they'll be marked with that baby. And we know the sluts are over here and the virgins are over here. It's classic. It's classics. It's a story as old as time, but here's just what's coming for you guys. Just this year, UPS, 30 ,000 workers fired. Amazon, Jeff Bezos, 16 ,000 workers. Intel, 15 ,000. Volkswagen, 50 ,000 workers fired. Meta, 16 ,000. Oracle, 30 ,000 and Citigroup, 20 ,000. It is only March. We are at March. So this narrative that so many Republicans die on this hill, that Republicans are so good at business.

14:59And can we just give up the idea that billionaires create jobs? I've just, for you, we are at March and we have hundreds of thousands of Americans that have lost their job on top of the decimation, decimation of jobs in the federal government at the behest of Doge. The underlining thing holds up the economy and our stock market is collapsing. If we do not have a strong middle class, which we have been eroding and eroding and eroding for quite some time now, with corporate interests buying off both political parties, everybody's precious 401ks and all the fiscal Republicans that vote for time and time again, sell their kids down the river, sell the future down the river, sell their grandkids' ability to live on a planet that people care for.

15:51They sell it all down the river just for now. I want what I want now, the most short-sighted, narcissistic greed on the planet. That is America's number one product that we have made. That is the cancer in our culture. And that is what is going to take us completely down, propping up these piece of shit billionaires and a piece of shit president that have utter disdain for the workers. And let's just do not kid yourself for a second. All of these top executives that make 6 ,000 times what their worker does, they sit at a desk and paperclip and staple and click a mouse. The actual labor that people do, that people work, they're eliminating that and replacing it with robots.

16:41And with a smile on their face, they think they're changing the world. And they're so incredibly out of touch. Meanwhile, all of these jobs that are going to mean less taxpayer money into the federal government. At the same time, the Republicans and a lot of Democrats will continue to vote to fund this shitshow, waste of time, horrific war in Iran, where the goal is for Benjamin Netanyahu to balkanize it. That's the goal. And Americans are going to die. The American economy is going to be in tatters. all because people in this country vote for greed and they vote for the just right now, me now, what affects me right now.

17:32And they buy into this narrative that Trump and these oligarchs are going to fix things for you and wealth is going to trickle down. It never does. It never has. It only makes you poor. All right. That's all we have. Like, subscribe, comment, and we'll be back later with more news.

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