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Political Commentator 1
All right. If we're going to have a government that engages in pathological lying and that's their number one form of governing, as well as, you know, just shit, tons of propaganda, here's what I want to say. At this point. At this stage in the fascist takeover, can you at least try to be good liars? Could you at least execute that in a diabolical way where it's like, oh, that's pretty clever. Like, this bitch knows how to lie. No, they don't do that. Pop this up. This is so embarrassing. So, of course Caroline Levitt is a nut, and we hate her. So she posts last week about this ABC News story that provided accurate reporting about the Iran war and how the Iranians were holding their own and how their drones were outmatching our, you know, multibillion dollar missiles. It's kind of been embarrassing for the United States military. And so she writes at the bottom of this tweet after she browbeats the press, of course, to be clear, no such threat from Iran to our homeland exists, and it never did. So then their national intelligence director that the Republicans all voted for resigns yesterday. Right? And now she comes out with another tweet and says, there are many false claims in this letter, but let me address one specifically, that Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation. This is the same false claim that Democrats and some in the liberal media have been repeating over and over. She just repeated it. She just did it a few days ago. Like the guy that. That quit, I think. What's his name? Pat Ryan? Ken. Okay, whatever. This guy, this MAGA guy quits, okay? He quits and he says Iran posed no threat. Who else said that? Caroline Levitt. Caroline Levitt. Said Iran posed no threat. Other people have said Iran posed no threat. Even the Secretary of State and the speaker of the House of the United States of America said, well, they didn't pose a threat to us, but Israel said they were going to attack Iran regardless. And then we figured, oh, they'll probably attack American military bases right after, so we might as well just jump in this thing. None of this was ever a threat to, to the United States of America. But what pisses me off about that is just how verifiable the lies are. And just that. That, that it's getting that bad that they literally make up their reality from tweet to tweet to however it suits them. And this fissure of this guy in the MAGA movement who Trump appointed, who all the Republicans voted for, and now they're saying, oh, he's this big anti Semite. Do I think somebody in MAGA is an anti Semite? Probably, yeah, I do. I think that's where a lot of the anti Semitism breeds and goes unaddressed, and they're allowed permission structures for it. So now all of a sudden, they're all against this guy. Within the last year, it's Rob Ross Hispanbaugh. Every Republican on the planet votes to get him in. Give me a break.
Political Commentator 2
Here's the thing. I look at Caroline Levitt and I think hypocrisy and irony are lost on her. She. That's where we are in this fake news. Like, just if I don't like the. It's fake and there's no. What strikes me is there's not even a question like, did I say something contradictory? Am I being hypocritical? It's just straight up, I was lying then, I'm lying now. It doesn't matter. Facts don't matter as long as I, you know, own the libs or whatever. It's really stunning that the American people buy this shit when it's so verifiable. That's the crazy part to me is people read this and they'll say, oh, no, Iran isn't an imminent threat. And now they'll say, oh, yeah, Iran is a threat.
Political Commentator 1
It's just.
Political Commentator 2
It's crazy.
Political Commentator 1
All right? And then moving along, did Israel. Do they have assets in the American government? Do they have a huge lobby for Israel's interest? Yeah, they do. They absolutely do. But we always have to remember that the reason everybody wanted Trump to win is because he's so weak. He's the easiest man on the planet to manipulate. Vladimir Putin in my opinion, probably has Kompromat on him. I believe the Israelis have compromised on him because this guy has not lived an up and up life. I mean, this guy's a con artist, a scam artist, a sexual assaulter, an adjudicated rapist, a pathological liar, mentally ill, full blown dementia. And Rick Wilson chimes in here perfectly. I think pop this up. Joe Kent leaving is interesting, but let's be real here. Trump is impulsive, mentally ill and suffering from dementia. It didn't take Israeli masterminds to trick him into a war. And we have to remember that now, both of these things are true. I do think Benjamin Netanyahu has been asking American presidents to attack Iran for 40 years. We have it on tape, we have him saying it. So eye traffic in facts. And I have no problem saying that. Also, the people who ran against Donald Trump, whether it be Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, all warned us, this man is so easy to manipulate with superficial flattery. Plus, all of his double dealings and a sketchy past put American national security in a very precarious position. So did Israel talk him into going into war? Yes, they've admitted it. Marco Rubio's admitted it, Donald Trump's admitted it. Little Moses Mike Grinder Johnson has admitted it. But is it hard to do it with this guy? No, it's the easiest fucking thing on the planet. Zoran Mamdani showed up at the White House with two newspaper articles and got him to agree to building a bunch of public housing in New York because he flattered him. This is the guy that all of the rights like, oh, my God, this guy's a Muslim terrorist commie. And he was able. So, you know, everybody's making all of this, all of these accusations about people who want to repeat facts. And that's dangerous. But a lot of things are true at the same time. Donald Trump is a weak man that lacks morals, lacks respect for human life. Um, and he wants to be flattered at all costs. And I think a lot of these countries, because of the Epstein files and other things in his past, have him doing a lot of shit. I just do. And that's my opinion. But I don't think it's that big of a jump to say that these governments have some pretty compromising, damning information on him. I agree.
Political Commentator 2
And I also think it's telling that he made up that lie about, well, the other president said, I wish I could do it. He thinks in his mind, I'll do, I'll take a wrong on And I'll bomb them and then I will be the hero. I think he has these delusions of grandeur that he's going to be the most popular president in the whole world. And I think he thinks that it will catapult him into the best president ever if he takes Iran and does regime change. I just think part of it is the glory. He's seeking the glory too.
Political Commentator 1
I think even if he even gets that far with it, you know, like I, the guy that I've seen on camera, his brain is cooked. I mean, he just called Gavin Newsome the President of the United States. He was calling Caroline Levitt, Kellyanne Conway. And so, I mean, I appreciate that we're thinking that he's thinking that many steps and projecting that far in the future. For me personally, I don't know that he has that one thing. He was before this second term for a long time was anti war. I mean, he was. And a lot of people went and voted for him because of that issue. And so, I don't know. I mean, maybe. But do I think to your point, pumps that somebody told him, you will be the one president, you're going to do what Obama couldn't do, Right? Yeah, I think that plays on him. But then, of course, let's talk about how arrogant American foreign policy is under Trump and it has been before Trump. Okay, listener, but so he comes into office, he's browbeating Canada, he's threatening to take Greenland. It's tariff, tariff, tariff, tariff. I can do whatever I want. All of our allies suck. We have little smoky o smokey eye sociopath JD Vance talking about how bad the European Union sucks. We have the President's best friend and biggest benefactor, Trillionaire Elon Musk on X browbeating the European Union. We know in the Epstein files they were celebrating Peter Thiel and the Epstein elite class were celebrating the success of Brexit. So Europe right now is like, here's the deal, you guys suck. You're not our allies. You seem to be more interested in helping Putin than you do Ukraine. You seem to be more interested in helping diabolical, maniacal, homicidal terrorist named Benjamin Netanyahu than you do dealing with your own domestic problems. And your president is a nut. He's a complete psychotic dictator nut. We're out. So now Trump, after browbeating them for a year, is like, we need help with the Strait of Hormuze and I demand our allies come help us pop this up. Kylie. Kyle Griffin reports. Europe has rejected Trump's demand to Help him with the Strait of Hormuze. Europe has no interest in an open ended war. EU top diplomat Kaja Kalis says this is not Europe's war, but Europe's interests are directly at stake. And so some countries have something that's called a memory. And I don't even think it's long term memory at this point because I remember the Iraq war and I'm 51 very vividly in my adult life, how reckless that was. It was all based on lies. A million Iraqis dead, thousands of Americans dead. All of this stuff for what? For Dick Cheney and Halliburton and the military industrial complex. Fucking Rumsfeld and Scooter Libby and all these fucking neocon liars. Just complete liars. CIA black sites, war crimes, Abu Ghraib, waterboarding. And Iraq didn't even have anything to do with 9 11. So simultaneously we have to attack Afghanistan. It's just utterly insane. So some countries are actually saying, no, we did this once. We believed you at the UN when you sent Colin Powell when you trotted him out to talk about yellowcake. And it was all a lie. And now we have Benjamin Netanyahu for 40 years, lying for four decades, lying. Those are facts. He has lied for 40 years that Iran was going to have a nuke. Iran didn't want a nuke. The Ayatollah was so religious he didn't want a nuke. And so he lied for 40 years. And Europe is like, we're out. All right, listener, I don't know about you, but I like keeping my money where I can see it. Unfortunately, traditional big wireless carriers also seem to like keeping my money too. After years and years of overpaying for wireless phones, I finally got fed up with the crazy high bills, bogus fees and quote unquote free perks that actually cost more in the long run. And I switched to Mint Mobile. I personally am saving so much money with this switch to Mint Mobile because I have a family plan, I have my children on the phone line, I have some employees on the phone line, switched everyone over and the savings are significant. So listeners stop overpaying for wireless just because that's how it's been. Mint exists purely to fix that problem. All plans come with high speed data and unlimited talk and text delivered on the nation's largest 5G network. I use Mint Mobile and you should too, listener, if you like your money. Mint Mobile is for you. Shop plans@mintmobile.com news that's mint mobile.com news. Upfront payments of $45 for three month five gigabyte plan required equivalent to $15 a month. New customer offer for first three months only. Then full price plan options available. Taxes and fees extra. See Mint Mobile for details.
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Political Commentator 2
They know he's lying. They know Donald Trump is a nut job. But I was really impressed that the European Union was like, we don't. We want no part of it and called him out. And it made me think, I wish we. We had government officials in the United States that would do that. But it doesn't appear that we do.
Political Commentator 1
All right. And then of course, Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham has, like, appointed himself something higher than a senator from South Carolina. And I've been watching it really like he. The. The delusions of grandeur and how much he just keeps elevating himself. It's almost like with every trip to Israel, he comes back and he feels even more invincible. So this senator from. Let me check my notes here. South Carolina is lecturing the Europeans on this issue and he's furious. Pop this up. Just spoke to POTUS about our European allies unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuze functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I've never heard him so angry in my life. And I share that anger, given what's at stake. This is really rich right here. The arrogance of our allies. To suggest that Iran with a nuclear weapon is of little concern and that military action to stop the Ayatollah from acquiring a nuclear nuclear bomb is our problem, not theirs is beyond offensive. The European approach to containing the Ayatollah's nuclear ambitions have been have proven to be a miserable failure. He goes on and on and on. He is lying through his teeth. The arrogance here is of Israel and the United States and those are facts. The European allies do not want to put any anything to do with this because the bloodthirsty Americans like Lindsey Graham and their desire to send young working class Americans from working class families that pay more percentage wise than any of the billionaires that Lindsey Graham bends over is appalling and immoral. And Lindsey Graham every single day gets up and he goes to work for Israel. He has done nothing to help the people of South Carolina. Nothing about this war in Iran helps the problems that we have in the United States. And Republicans do this every time. Predictably. They're, oh, we're so great with the economy. We're the magic white men. We know how to make money. You know, we're rain makers. So they come in and they get all of these racists to vote for them with the promise of tax breaks and that. They can still slap their secretary on the ass. And they come in and they cut taxes for the rich in the name of Jesus Christ. They start accumulating wealth and then they start wars. They drive up the national deficit and then the Democrats have to come back in and fix it. And then they're like, oh my God, God, somebody has pronouns in their email signature. We can't have it and we're so much better with the economy. The hysterics of these Republican men and these Republican voters and their insistence on being divorced from facts and their desire to traffic in facts because it feeds their white supremacist default settings that the only people who can make money are white men. Despite a body of evidence about the aforementioned white men in the Republican party wrecking the economy. Every single one in my lifetime. Reagan w the smart one w the dumb one. And Trump, every single time they do this, every single one of these Republican presidents does this. And yet all of these white people will go out in full force and vote for them again. A lot of them benefit from the tax breaks, but the majority of them capitalists without a lick of capital. All right, that's all we have. Like, subscribe, comment and we will be back later with more news.
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Title: Allies Reject Trump as All Hell Breaks Loose with WW3, "Leave Us Out of It"
Date: March 18, 2026
Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan
In this charged, fast-moving episode, progressive hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan dig into the latest fallout from the Trump administration’s recent military moves against Iran, including a sharp rebuke from traditional U.S. allies in Europe. With biting humor and blistering honesty, they unpack government hypocrisy, the manipulation of facts, and recurring patterns in American foreign policy—especially under Trump. This episode is a must-listen for those wanting irreverent yet informed takes on rapidly escalating global tension.
The hosts launch straight into criticism of pathological government lying, especially among MAGA-aligned politicians. Jennifer mocks the execution of these lies, lamenting their sloppiness:
“Could you at least execute that in a diabolical way where it's like, oh, that's pretty clever. Like, this bitch knows how to lie. No, they don't do that. …This is so embarrassing.” [00:51, Jennifer]
They call out Caroline Levitt for directly contradicting herself in public statements about the imminence of an Iranian threat. She first downplayed Iranian aggression, then reversed course after a resignation in U.S. intelligence, aligning her stance with the latest Republican talking points.
Repeated theme: MAGA figures change their narratives tweet-to-tweet to suit their needs, which Jennifer argues is “just how verifiable the lies are” and “how bad it's getting” [02:29, Jennifer].
Angie (Pumps) emphasizes that hypocrisy and irony no longer matter in right-wing media narratives:
“Facts don't matter as long as I own the libs or whatever. It's really stunning that the American people buy this shit when it's so verifiable.” [04:29, Pumps]
The duo expresses incredulity that the public tolerates such “contradictory” and easily disprovable statements.
The hosts discuss the susceptibility of Trump to manipulation by foreign leaders:
“He’s the easiest man on the planet to manipulate. Vladimir Putin in my opinion, probably has Kompromat on him. I believe the Israelis have compromised on him …this guy's a con artist, a scam artist, a sexual assaulter, an adjudicated rapist, a pathological liar, mentally ill, full blown dementia.” [05:02, Jennifer]
Jennifer reads Rick Wilson’s take:
"Trump is impulsive, mentally ill and suffering from dementia. It didn't take Israeli masterminds to trick him into a war." [06:13, quoting Rick Wilson]
The hosts point to Trump’s history of being easily flattered and his pattern of engaging in risky or self-aggrandizing actions in exchange for praise or perceived status boosts, citing both domestic and international examples.
Angie suggests Trump is motivated by “delusions of grandeur” and seeks the legacy of going further than previous presidents (e.g., regime change in Iran):
“I think he thinks that it will catapult him into the best president ever if he takes Iran and does regime change.” [07:55, Pumps]
The conversation shifts to Trump’s foreign policy missteps—especially his mishandling of U.S.-European relations and the fallout over the Iran conflict.
Jennifer highlights how, after years of Trump antagonizing allies, Europe is now unequivocally rejecting U.S. demands for help in the Strait of Hormuz:
“Europe has rejected Trump's demand to help him with the Strait of Hormuze. Europe has no interest in an open-ended war.” [09:36, Jennifer, quoting EU top diplomat Kaja Kalis]
The hosts point to the long European memory of the Iraq war and other disastrous U.S. interventions:
“Some countries are actually saying, no, we did this once. We believed you at the UN...and it was all a lie.” [11:30, Jennifer]
Angie admires the European Union’s stance:
“I was really impressed that the European Union was like, we want no part of it and called him out. And it made me think, I wish we had government officials in the United States that would do that.” [15:20, Pumps]
Jennifer critiques Sen. Lindsey Graham for acting beyond his station and lambasting Europe for not supporting U.S. interests:
“Lindsey Graham has, like, appointed himself something higher than a senator from South Carolina...With every trip to Israel, he comes back and he feels even more invincible.” [15:39, Jennifer]
She reads his furious reaction to European reluctance, calling out his hypocrisy and the consistent pattern of Republican warmongering.
Jennifer connects Republican economic policy, war-making, and appeals to “racists” for votes, calling it a recurring cycle:
“They come in and they cut taxes for the rich in the name of Jesus Christ…then they start wars…they drive up the national deficit and then the Democrats have to come back in and fix it.” [17:54, Jennifer] “Every single one of these Republican presidents does this. And yet all of these white people will go out in full force and vote for them again…capitalists without a lick of capital.” [18:48, Jennifer]
| Timestamp | Quote | Speaker | |-----------|-------|---------| | 00:51 | "Could you at least execute that in a diabolical way where it's like, oh, that's pretty clever. Like, this bitch knows how to lie. No, they don't do that." | Jennifer | | 04:29 | "Facts don't matter as long as I own the libs or whatever. It's really stunning that the American people buy this shit when it's so verifiable." | Pumps | | 05:02 | “He’s the easiest man on the planet to manipulate. ...This guy's a con artist, a scam artist, a sexual assaulter, an adjudicated rapist, a pathological liar, mentally ill, full blown dementia.” | Jennifer | | 06:13 | “Trump is impulsive, mentally ill and suffering from dementia. It didn't take Israeli masterminds to trick him into a war.” | Rick Wilson (read by Jennifer) | | 07:55 | “I think he thinks that it will catapult him into the best president ever if he takes Iran and does regime change.” | Pumps | | 09:36 | “Europe has rejected Trump's demand to help him with the Strait of Hormuze...” | Jennifer (quoting EU leader) | | 15:20 | “I was really impressed that the European Union was like, we want no part of it and called him out. And it made me think, I wish we had government officials in the United States that would do that.” | Pumps | | 17:54 | “They come in and they cut taxes for the rich in the name of Jesus Christ…then they start wars…they drive up the national deficit and then the Democrats have to come back in and fix it.” | Jennifer | | 18:48 | “…capitalists without a lick of capital.” | Jennifer |
For anyone wanting real talk and a progressive, no-holds-barred perspective on the global consequences of Trump’s second term, this episode is essential.