In short
Claims that the Trump White House is “imploding,” with Trump staying out of public view, aides quitting, and internal incompetence driving foreign policy and military decisions; plus attacks on Fox News/J.D. Vance/Pete Hegseth, and allegations of Trump Media “Truth Social” grifting.
Guests
None named as interview guests; the episode is commentary by the host, citing public figures and social media posts.
Guest/figure backgrounds mentioned
J.D. Vance (Fox commentator/VP pick; repeatedly criticized for changing legal name/religion); Pete Hegseth (Trump defense pick; alleged to have lied about USS Abraham Lincoln conditions); Mark Kelly (former astronaut, criticized for carrier system comments); Joe Rogan (podcaster); Caroline Levitt (Trump spokesperson).
Key claims
Republicans lie about supporting troops; Iran/Strait of Hormuz claim is false; Trump is manipulated by Netanyahu/adversaries; carrier launch system change will cost billions; Truth Social sells “Truth API” early access up to $100,000/month.
Notable examples
USS Abraham Lincoln “no workable toilets/undercooked chicken” texts; soldier suicide attempts; Navy catapult system switch; Trump Media “Truth API” pricing; Rogan discussing Trump Media grift.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOThe Current State of the Presidency
0:00 to 4:00
Discussion on the president's absence and the media coverage around it.
“The elderly, infirm, demented, obese president has not been seen in public in two days.”
Critique of Republican Economic Policies
4:00 to 8:00
Exploring the failures of Republican economic strategies and their impact on the country.
“I mean, I think it's a third of all homeless people are veterans, but what does the Republican Party do?”
Military Conditions and Republican Hypocrisy
8:00 to 12:20
Examination of the treatment of soldiers and Republican claims of support.
“We're told we can't have all that because we have to spend money on the military.”
Trump's Incompetence and Impacts on the Navy
12:20 to 14:02
Discussion on Trump's interference with Navy operations and its implications.
“And then we have Mark Kelly responding to all of this.”
The Implosion of the Trump Regime
14:02 to 16:38
Discussion on the current state of the Trump administration and public perceptions.
“the Trump regime is completely imploding.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:04The elderly, infirm, demented, obese president has not been seen in public in two days. Is the press covering this? Absolutely not. But we are. But of course, they're trotting out their little smoky eye sociopath, Vice President J.D. Vance, who can't decide what he wants his legal name to be because he's changed it three times, changed his religion three times. But is this a slight moment of clarity on Fox? Play the clip. I want people to be able to afford the good things about this wonderful country that we all live in. And my warning to my fellow Republicans, Will, would be if we don't get this right, don't blame young people for being sympathetic to socialism.
0:45We've got to blame ourselves. If we don't get this right, the Republicans have never, ever, ever gotten the economy right. All they do is act like, oh, we're so great at business. And so many people buy into this propaganda. They start wars. They spend money the country doesn't have. They drive up the national deficit. All of this trickle down is bullshit. And then once they rip the economy apart, guess who gets bailed out? Not working class Americans, multi-billion dollar corporations always get the bail out by the taxpayer. And in the same clip, it wouldn't be a Vance interview if, of course, he wasn't lying through his teeth.
1:24Play the clip. That's goal number one, keep oil and gas cheap for Americans all over our country. And then obviously goal number two is ensure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon. I feel confident or accomplishing both of those goals, but it's inherently an unpredictable thing. Yeah, it's unpredictable because your boss is a dipshit. And Pete Hegseth is even more incompetent than Donald Trump is, and that bar is so low. This war was unnecessary. This war was all at the request of Benjamin Netanyahu. Donald Trump, this country's weakest president we've ever had foreign policy-wise, is able to be manipulated so easily.
2:07All it takes is for someone to call him daddy or someone to say, oh, you're such a great guy. And he's like, oh, yeah, I am. And so he gets manipulated by our adversaries. But gas prices are going to continue to go up. Why? Because Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. Remember in yesterday's episode, I showed you that even Fox News is fact checking in real time this claim by Donald Trump that the United States controls the Strait of Hormuz. And so this is the problem. We have a lot of people, a lot of Americans that get their remote and turn on Fox News. Fox News is a lying propaganda machine. They lie nonstop.
2:47And they'll report things that the president says or does as though it's normal. And it's not normal. Nothing about any of this is normal. And we all sit here in these spaces, in the independent media spaces, as we watch this part of our government being taken over by corruption, then this part, then this part. part than this part and it feels overwhelming. Well, something else is simultaneously happening. The progressive wing of the Democratic Party has a lot of enthusiasm. And that's why you have the little smoky eye sociopath, J.D. Vance, going on Fox News saying, we have to get this right.
3:22We have a 911, houses on fire, because here's what's happening in these midterms. In the primaries, the Democratic base is showing out in record numbers, record numbers. There are far more votes on the Democratic side in these primaries than there have been on the Republican side. Because people like J.D. Vance, Donald Trump, and this next clip of Pete Hegseth, nobody likes it except for what? The 30 % cultists? Here's a video of Pete Hegseth lying about the conditions for soldiers on the USS Abraham Lincoln. And before this is played, I just want to remind you the republican propaganda that we're so good with the economy total lie the next one is we support our troops is such they start wars based on lies like the iraq war they start wars based on lies and they fund the military industrial complex where these big defense manufacturers make billions and billions and billions of dollars at the risk of these soldiers and when they get back to the United States and they have mental problems.
4:31What does the Republican Party say? Lazy, tough titties. I mean, I think it's a third of all homeless people are veterans, but what does the Republican Party do? On Fox, they talk about just euthanizing all of the homeless people. But here's Pete Hexeth lying about the conditions for soldiers on the USS Abraham Lincoln. Completely misrepresented. Listen, we make sure that every ship, every crew, every captain has everything we can provide them at every single moment. Some deployments are longer than others, and I have more respect and gratitude for those sailors than anybody. Okay. That is a jet stream of bullshit.
5:13He has no respect for anybody in the military because he has them committing war crimes, bombing fishermen, for no reason other than this guy likes to see shit blown up. He doesn't give a shit about service members. Multiple service members have tried to jump overboard. Imagine that. Imagine this happening in Barack Obama's term or in Joe Biden's term. The USS Abraham Lincoln has been deployed for nearly nine months, three months longer than typical deployment. But here are some texts from soldiers proving that the Secretary of Defense. I refuse to call him the Secretary of War because he's just so incompetent.
5:57And that's all he cares about testosterone and being known as a warmonger. Here are texts from soldiers proving that Pete Hegseth is a bald faced liar pop this up. Aaron Parnas says my inbox is now filled with messages from individuals who have family members on the USS Abraham Lincoln. This note shows that they have no workable toilets around us. Service members are served undercooked chicken, and they do not get mail regularly. And then you can go on Aaron Parnas's account and see all of these text messages and all of this, these service members that the Republican Party claims we care so much about.
6:37We support the troops. We love America. It's bullshit. Do you guys remember Jon Stewart? literally, I mean, just screaming about helping the 9-11 workers who had all of this lung damage. They don't give a shit about that. They use patriotism as this veneer to act like they care. They don't. All these people care about is money. And the weirdest thing about the Republican Party is a lot of these people in Congress will never have the money of the people that they go out and their foot soldiers for, like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos. But they just, the only thing they're good at is kissing rich people's asses and lying to the American public.
7:22Further evidence here that MAGA's claim to care about military families is complete bullshit. Pop this up. Lindsay Pippia tweets, exclusive, the wife of USS Lincoln sailor who jumped overboard last week, says she wasn't notified about the incident until four days after and said her husband repeatedly expressed concerns over his mental health, but was brushed off. So imagine this, imagine all the shit that we're told that we can't have. Medicare for all, air traffic controllers, now they're hiring video gamers to cover that. New infrastructure, great schools. We're told we can't have all that because we have to spend money on the military.
8:09So we have spent trillions of dollars on the United States military. And we have a ship out there with these soldiers on it who are not getting fed, whose mental health is not being tended to. It's so miserable on this boat that they are trying to off themselves. And the Republican Party will get on Fox just like Pete Hegseth did there and say, oh, we care so much about the troops. Fox never says, hey, Pete Hegseth, your boss called military people suckers and losers. He said that John McCain sucked because he got captured. And in a real twisted turn of events, Meghan McCain, the daughter of John McCain, gets so red pilled in all of this that she's still a Trump supporter.
8:55I mean, there's some weird shit going on with the Republican Party. It's almost like these people enjoy getting lied to. And then next up, we have Trump weighing in on things that he knows nothing about, which really should be the title of his memoir. Motherfucker weighs in on shit he knows nothing about. Pop this up. Dave Brown has Scooby says Trump has directed the Navy to tear out a complex system for launching fighter jets from its aircraft carriers and instead go back to using steam catapults, a move Navy officials have fought for years and will likely cost billions in extra dollars. And a response to this by Constantine Torrepin says, at a time when the U.S.
9:39military is struggling to find funding and the Navy is struggling to fill ships with enough sailors, the Trump administration is mandating a move that would cost billions of dollars and implement a system that takes more sailors to operate and maintain. So think about all the time you've heard these clips of Trump rambling about the steams and the catapults and the magnets and the batteries, batteries and boats, and he goes on these crazy ass things and nobody knows what he's talking about. This jet stream of bullshit, delusional crap that he comes up with. Now he's trying to implement it. Truly, he's trying to implement it.
10:21I'm shocked he has not issued an arrest warrant for Hannibal Lecter because that's how crazy he is with all of this stuff. But the Republicans will do nothing to stop him. Fox News will do nothing to stop him because none of these people care about the truth. They care about assisting these billionaires in tearing down the country. And these tech oligarchs, you know what their big plan is? To make sure AI replaces the entire workforce. That's what their plan is. So all of these Republicans right now are fighting to make sure your job gets taken by some AI software, which I don't know about you guys.
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12:20And then we have Mark Kelly responding to all of this. Play the clip. System on a ship at this point? I mean, does the guy know nothing about the way our government is supposed to work and how it's supposed to be managed? For him to get in these details, especially with his background, I mean, what is his background? He's a marginally failed real estate developer, right, with multiple bankruptcies. He shouldn't be weighing in on systems on aircraft carriers. But for some reason, like something like six years ago, somebody said something to him, and he's been fixated on this issue that to a president of the United States should not be an issue.
13:05I mean, that's exactly right. He just gets fixated on stupid shit and wants everybody to go on board with all of his cockamamie ideas. And he surrounded himself with people like J.D. Vance and Pete Hexeth, who will not tell him, no, you're wrong. And there was some juicy tidbit reporting that came out last night that apparently Donald Trump was psychodialing Caroline Levitt nonstop. He's a little psychodialer. You know, we've all seen all the reporting that he calls reporters all the time. It's just a little, you know, gossip queen, fluffed up in bed, eating McDonald's, calling everybody all the time.
13:42And apparently he was driving her crazy. Imagine, imagine Caroline Levitt, who just loves Donald Trump, who lied for Donald Trump. all day, every day, 365, 24 seven. He's so toxic that he even drove her crazy. You guys, I think the Trump regime is completely imploding. I said a long time ago, do not be fooled by these circle jerk cabinet meetings where they're all like, oh, you're so great. It's so great to work with you. And, you know, Trump has this high IQ and this large penis behind the scenes. It is knife in the back. It is so toxic. And we are watching the whole thing implode in real time.
14:27Because remember, dementia boy, Mr. Catering Cart Boy has not been seen in public in two days. This is the biggest grandstander who likes to go on TV to show people that he can nap on live television. And I just want to leave you with this. Joe Rogan, you know, he used to like Bernie Sanders. And then now he's all into this whole Trump thing, all of this RFK shit, all of this Maha stuff. I'm just really weird. But here he is learning in real time about Trump's truth social grift. And he says that it's quote, on a grab. Play the clip. Truth Social's parent company, Trump Media, announced in July it would offer subscribers to Truth API who paid up to$100 ,000 each month.
15:21Oh my God, not even just$100 ,000 a year, each month. For early access to market-moving posts from Trump and other people who use the platform. You imagine you charge $1.2 million a year? He's just on a grab. Hmm, I wonder if we would have had any idea that he had this in his history to lie and commit crimes. If only we had known prior to your ass endorsing him in 2024. It's just unbelievable how much cover the Joe Rogans and the Fox News and all of these people are allowed to have. Joe Rogan is not a dumbass, although he plays one on his podcast. If you hooked him up to True Serum in a polygraph, do you think before 2024, do you think Trump will commit crimes while in office?
16:15Nobody with an IQ of 100 or higher would answer, oh, no, he's a really honest, good, decent person. We all saw January 6th. We all saw the way he behaves. We all see how stupid and incompetent he is. we need to quit offering these white men an excuse for supporting this depraved criminal. All right, that's all we have. Pumps is still on vacation. Pre-order my book, Not Today Fascists. I mentioned all of the people I mentioned in this here episode, and I'll be back later with more news.
16:57Thank you.
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