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Political Commentator 1
The President of the United States is very unwell. We all know this. But now he is engaging in this petulant like, I think it would even embarrass a junior high school student. Seriously, he's posting this insane stuff over the weekend on Truth Social. It should be the lead story, like the President of the United States is spiraling out of control. But somebody on Twitter perfectly encapsulates what he did this weekend. Pop this up at 9:23 this morning, the White House abruptly dismissed the press traveling with the President of the United States while he was away for the weekend golfing yak yak, blah blah. He shared 42 posts on Truth Social in a span of less than 3 hours and 15 minutes. The President's meltdown began when he posted his disappointment with one of his appointees. You guys, I'm not even going to read the whole thing. Because then he goes on, it's like him kissing Jesus on a crucifix. It's him as Elvis. And at this stage, him doing this stuff surprises me. Zero. I don't think it's funny. I don't think it's cute. I don't even think it's really that sick anymore. I'm just used to him waking up, making an ass of himself. Rinse, repeat. The indictment of all of this is on the Republicans who still support him, and the media, the mainstream media who refuses to let this be the lead story at the top, above the fold, at top of every hour. This is not normal behavior. If some other leader could you imagine if the Emanuel Macron was posting pictures at 3am of him as Elvis and dry humping a crucifix, everybody in the free world would be like, well, he's lost it. But with Trump, as usual, he does all of this batshit stuff with utter impunity.
Political Commentator 2
Well, what's interesting about this is you don't hear an outcry from Republicans as we go careening towards the midterms. Yet you hear that the White House is telling Republicans, distance yourself from the President as we Go to towards the midterms, he is a liability. And that shows in the polling and in terms of the world. The world has seen Trump for who he is. From the minute this thing all went down, Trump 2.0, he immediately started attacking our allies. They know he's not serious. They know he's vindictive. And to say that we have lost both value as a democracy, respect and all of the things that come with being a superpower, those are now gone. Particularly when you look at the loss of the dollar, down 10% because of his policies. And I've said this a thousand times, when it comes to his spree of posting, if that were your boss, if you worked at a gas station and that were your boss or you worked at a vet clinic and that was your boss or it was your child or someone you cared about it, you would immediately intervene. But the Republicans don't because they're cowards.
Political Commentator 1
They're cowards. And he has selected and surrounded himself with people who will not intervene. To me, it's all a part of the humiliation, rich ritual that he loves engaging in. He has surrounded himself with people who are broken, sexually repressed idiots who they're going to have themselves tethered to him forever. Little Marco, smokey eye sociopath, J.D. vance. This will be their legacy. But there are some Republicans who are smarter than those who have tethered themselves to Donald Trump. And I have been sounding the alarm about this for over a year. When you have Tucker Carlson, Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene, whom, by the way, I think all, all three are batshit crazy. But even crazy people can be right about certain issues. Donald Trump was able to, when he campaigned, he was able to hone in on how the uniparty, meaning corporate politics, because both the Democrats and the Republicans service corporations had left people behind. He's a compulsive pathological liar, obviously. But it tapped into where people like, oh, he's actually going to fight for me and he doesn't need the money, so he was able to manipulate them. Likewise, right now, Tucker Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene, they see that this guy's half dead. They see that he is a lame duck. They see that he is batshit crazy. They see that he only pulls well with the cult, the batshit crazy Fox News cult. That's it. Those are the only people that approve of him and that's not that much of the electorate. So they have been shifting gears and they are machinating like you wouldn't believe. And it's all starting and if the Democrats don't tune in to what's next after Maggot, we're going to get our asses beat again. Pop this up. Marjorie Taylor Greene posts a photograph of herself and Tucker and Thomas Massie and that guy, his last name is Kent. I think he was the CIA. Yeah, Joe Kent. She says, we said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise. But he's betrayed us all. Our commitment is America first for all Americans, right, left and center. The movement has begun. You guys, I have been saying this forever. They are going to do an America first platform. It's going to hit hard and fly over states. It's going to hit hard when they say no more money for Israel because we need to afford hospitals and schools here. The Democrats should be leading on this. We should have an absolute 100 black and white. Trump is black. We are the white opposition party. And I don't mean white is skin color, but I mean like complete different shades of politics. But we don't do that. We have Haley Stevens in Michigan taking almost $60 million in APAC money. Who did AIPAC want to win the presidential campaign? Donald Trump. So are we an opposition party? No, we're not. Because we still have so many people in the Democratic Party collaborating with fascists, playing patty cakes with fascists. And then they're getting outflanked by Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie and Tucker Carlson, whom, by the way, I want to remind everybody, Marjorie Taylor Greene, she might be able to make sense in 30 second clips. Tucker might be able to make sense in 30 second clips. Thomas Massie was fantastic with Representative Ro Khanna on the Epstein case, on the, on the law to release the files, the Epstein Transparency Act, Thomas Massey, Marjorie Taylor Greene. All of these people still want Dr. Fauci in jail, right? Tucker Carlson still maintains that he was asleep one night and four demons attacked him. But they have political Darwinism. They know how to survive. They know how to read the electorate. And the Democrats are not understanding this. Now, the people who are supporting Abdul Al said, the opponent of Haley Stevens in Michigan, they absolutely understand this. How is Haley Stevens any different than Donald Trump if she's taking money from the same funders of fascism? She's really no different than. And so maga, beyond maga, the new maga, which is going to be Marjorie Tucker and Thomas, and they're all going to be like, MAGA abandoned its policies and here we are, we're the no wars. We're the know this and you can't trust it. But here's the thing. In the United States, people are not as locked in as all of us are here on this channel where we actually follow the news cycle and are very well informed about what's going on. So they just kind of tune in before an election. It's like, oh, I'm kind of liking this. And it's a really dangerous position that the Democrats are putting us in. And I blame 100% the Ken Martin at the DNC because he is a puss boy. And then Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. It needs, we need to be an absolute opposition party. We should have so much support right now on the Democratic side. Historically, you do. But because we see our leaders taking money from funders of fascism, we simply don't. And these grifters and these opportunists, like the three that I just showed you, are going to come in and capture a movement. And it is capturable right now. The electorate is so capturable. Well, two things.
Political Commentator 2
And you were saying that Marjorie and Tucker were going to combine forces. I think it was closer to two years ago. I mean, you have been on that drum. But here, here's the two things that I would comment on that. Number one, the reason the Democratic Party is losing so much of its base is because fundamentally the Democratic establishment is not listening to the shift in their base. They're not listening that their base no longer believes that funding Israeli wars and the Israeli government is good for America. And they continue on the, you know, the Zoram mom dummies, they continue to not support those progressive candidates because they just want to hold on to power with what have. And then in terms of Tuckery and Tucker, Tucker and Marjorie and that Thomas Massie, here's the thing that terrifies me about that coalition. Number one, where are the white supremacists going to go? They're going to go right over to those people because Nick Fuentes, he goes on that channel, he, he's welcomed into the fold by that group. And then the Christian signaling that is a bunch of religious nuts over in that party. So it will so easy for these voters that have been staunch Trump supporters to say, oh, we don't want a war, we're no wars, but we're white supremacists. And we really hung onto that for Trump. But now we found somebody else. And that, to me, is something that the Democratic Party should absolutely be looking into.
Political Commentator 1
Well, I just want to say it's not that the Democrats want to cling on to power it's the Democrats think that corporations have all the power and so they service corporations. They have failed to acknowledge that we have to be an opposition party. We have to stand on conviction, we have to stand on principle. We have to say we're not taking PAC money. We are going to not support people with a D next to their name who are taking a bunch of PAC money. Because at the end of the day, the Republicans are going to outrage Democrats because the Republicans have proven to be foot soldiers for corporate welfare. They will service corporations out the wazoo at the expense of the American electorate, at the expense of health care, at the expense of our deficit, at the expense of the military. The they don't care about it. So Democrats are going to have to figure out how do we make up this void? Well, you have candidates who figured out how to do that. Abdullah Sayed, you mentioned Zoran. And our leadership is so bought and paid for Chuckles and Hakeem, that they would be the ones who would absolutely be driving the ship on us being an opposition party. But sadly the Democratic leadership are fascist collaborators at this point. And that's why you have so many people miring down on Abdullah Sayed right now. And to me it's like not even an option. Haley Stevens took $16 million in APAC money. It's disqualifying, period. How on earth earth can anybody trust this woman? She's a prostitute. She is absolutely an APAC prostitute. There's no other way to put it. You don't take $60 million and then you don't have any favors to do in return with your votes. That's just utter. And moving along, Marjorie Taylor Green and Thomas Massie continue to outflank the Dems. Pop this up. Okay, so Thomas Massie posts. Two weeks before migrants from Morocco invaded Sueta, the GOP passed a bill with $40 million for Morocco and a committee report advising Spanish administered cities of Sueta and Malia. Mea. Sorry for my Spanish. Everyone are located in Moroccan territory and remain the subject of Morocco's long standing claim. Marjorie Taylor Greene chimes in. Republicans paid $40 million of your tax dollars to Morocco to invade Spain. Okay, this is exactly what happened. Israel and the United States paid Morocco and they had 60,000 migrants flood Sweta, which is way down closer to Morocco than it is mainland Spain. And all of them are basically all back. This is a right wing PSYOP operation that immediately started flooding the airwaves. So you have like Maria Pen's party in France, you have the right wingers in Italy, you have the right wingers in Germany, all of these fascists that are basically maga. But MAGA abroad and of course, Fox News, they immediately start hammering these images of these migrants. And the whole thing was staged. The entire thing was staged. Why? Because MAGA can't run on anything. All they run on is fear. And psychologists have shown that people that are conservative operate more in a state of fear than they do in a state of rationality. And that's science. Look it up. But nonetheless. So now they're all scared. Oh, my God, these migrants. Here's the problem. Here's the fundamental problem with all of this. For me, constantly, time and time and time again, maga, those aligned with maga, all of the right wing crazy Christians in America, their number one default setting is dehumanization. That's the very first thing. And the fact that people see that and they're like, oh, my God, we're going to have to vote for maga because their policies don't deliver for people. Their policies deliver corporate welfare for corporations. We are a country. We are not a democracy. The United States of America is not a democracy. The DSA has an incredible point about the Senate. The Senate is not Democratic. Democratic. The Senate promotes minority rule in this country. And so the problem with this stuff is this is all they have. It works for low information voters, for the cultists, and it's working on a larger scale. The Democrats should be messaging it. Who's messaging it right now? Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie. And I know people are sometimes like, jennifer, don't beat up on Democrats. We have to. If we have people in our party that are taking money from the same people that are funding the MAGA regime, we are not an opposition party. And we're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Which brings me to my final point. Pop this up. Poly Market just in. Apple received an estimated $2.2 trillion tariff refund this quarter. Harrison H. Smith responds. So the tariff costs were passed on to the consumers, but the refund went straight to the corporations. And that's exactly right. That's exactly what happened. When Apple needs money, they can just call up the Trump administration. When Elon Musk, this country's biggest immigrant welfare queen, the world's biggest welfare queen, when he needs a contract, he just calls up Trump. The same with Jeff Bezos. They are the parasites. It's not the people way, way, way, way down on the food chain that are making $7.25 an hour. They are not parasitic. It is the corporations that exploits their labor, it is the corporations that doesn't, that do not have to pay taxes. And it is the corporations that pay off both parties. That is why we have to be an opposition party and be solely focused on being an opposition party to these corporate handouts where wealth trickles down on the 1% from Trump to probably about 25 people and that's it. And it's all taxpayer funded or welfare and they're corrupt. Every last one of them. Last thoughts.
Political Commentator 2
Pumps. I would just say it is like in terms of the Spain, Moroccan, you know, invasion, it strikes me as way too coincidental. I mean, we know it was staged, but you look at how Trump on immigration is negative 22 and that was his big issue. But Americans don't like seeing Americans killed. So like you said, they remind them this could happen to you. So now they're all stirred up about what could happen in the United States. And it's, it's somewhat of a political maneuver that I, I assume has to be working. And I just look at all the shit that Trump is doing. You know, Tim Cook, he was the first one on the stage, he's given him a trophy and it's like, now we know why Trump's taking these stakes in corporations. We're up to 12 now. And he keeps saying, I'm making so much money. That tells me he is making the money and he wants to keep all the wealth consolidated with his buddies and his cronies. And it's absolutely stunning that then they get on Fox News and talk about socialism and communism, not realizing or, or absolutely realizing, but running cover for this administration.
Political Commentator 1
Well, the call's coming from inside the house.
Political Commentator 2
Right.
Political Commentator 1
But here's the thing that we know. I just want to add on, we know how this, how this ends. Angie, you said he wants to keep the money with him and his buddies. Trump doesn't have buddies. Trump doesn't have friends. He's not capable of having friends. And we can look no further than to Putin's Russia. And what happens when somebody has more money than Trump? Because right now he's making money and it's fine. But what happens next is in these oligarch type situations is people start falling out of windows, people's companies get confiscated. If you don't think Trump doesn't already think, oh, I want Apple to be my own, look no further than he tried to launch his fake,
Political Commentator 2
you know,
Political Commentator 1
so these, these people, the strongest, most well positioned people among us, Angie, were the first to capitulate, the first to capitulate and when trump them over, they deserve it. They deserve every single bit of it. For not having conviction, for not standing up for the country that made them so wealthy, for exploiting the labor, for not paying people a livable wage and participating in this mass propaganda machine that allows everybody to blame their problems on the most marginalized people on the planet while they're just robbing them blind. It's really immoral. It's really disgusting. All right, for those of you that watch all the time, I am still on vacation, but now I've transitioned to a working vacation. And so pre order my book and Pumps goes on vacation at the end of this week. So subscribe to our channel and we'll be back later with more news.
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Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie "Pumps" Sullivan
Date: August 3, 2026
In this passionate, comedic, and unfiltered episode, Jennifer and Angie dissect Donald Trump's latest erratic behavior, the GOP's escalating internal conflict, and the dangerous rise of a new "America First" movement led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, and Thomas Massie. Providing a progressive perspective from deep in red America, they critique both Republican complicity and Democratic failures, warning that corporate influence and lack of genuine opposition may leave progressives on the losing side of the next political upheaval.
Notable Quote:
"I don't think it's funny. I don't think it's cute. ... I'm just used to him waking up, making an ass of himself. Rinse, repeat." — Jennifer Welch (00:37)
Notable Quote:
"They are going to do an America First platform. It's going to hit hard in flyover states ... The Democrats should be leading on this. ... But we don't do that." — Jennifer Welch (06:40)
Notable Quote:
"Our leadership is so bought and paid for—Chuckles and Hakeem ... they would be the ones who would absolutely be driving the ship on us being an opposition party. But sadly the Democratic leadership are fascist collaborators at this point." — Jennifer Welch (10:59)
Notable Quote:
"All they run on is fear. ... Psychologists have shown that people that are conservative operate more in a state of fear than they do in a state of rationality. And that's science. Look it up." — Jennifer Welch (13:00)
Notable Quote:
"They are the parasites. It's not the people way, way, way, way down on the food chain that are making $7.25 an hour ... It is the corporations that pay off both parties. That is why we have to be an opposition party ..." — Jennifer Welch (16:45)
Notable Quote:
"Trump doesn't have friends. ... And when Trump fucks them over, they deserve it. They deserve every single bit of it. For not having conviction, for not standing up for the country that made them so wealthy ..." — Jennifer Welch (19:14)
Trump as a liability:
"...the White House is telling Republicans, distance yourself from the President as we go towards the midterms, he is a liability." (02:25, Angie Sullivan)
Warning to Democrats:
"If we have people in our party that are taking money from the same people that are funding the MAGA regime, we are not an opposition party. We're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic." (14:30, Jennifer Welch)
On staged crises & right-wing opportunism:
"This is a right wing PSYOP operation that immediately started flooding the airwaves." (12:30, Jennifer Welch)
Calling out corporate welfare:
"When Apple needs money, they can just call up the Trump administration. ... They are the parasites." (16:45, Jennifer Welch)
The episode is energetic and irreverent, blending sharp political critique with pop culture references and a no-holds-barred comedic style. Jennifer is particularly fiery, calling out both Republican enablers and Democratic collaborators. Angie complements with a wry sensibility, digging into the hypocrisy behind the scenes.
This episode is a blistering critique of the current US political duopoly: Trump’s volatile antics and the MAGA civil war may steal headlines, but Jennifer and Angie argue the real enemy is corporate capture—of both parties. Unless Democrats step up as a genuine, uncompromising opposition, progressives risk seeing the worst actors outflank them yet again.