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Podcast Host
Happy Juneteenth to all that celebrate despite maga, which is an incredibly racist movement trying to erase black history, demeaning black leaders in this country firing black military officials. To all of our black listeners, I want you to know that we are your allies. We see the United States of America as wholly better because of black people, because of black culture. And this country must atone and move forward and embrace all of the cultures in it. But this specific racist fascist regime has been propping up a white nationalist, in my opinion, that believes in absolutely nothing, can't even defend his wife and kids of color, JD Vance, the vice president. And they want us to believe something, anything that comes out of his mouth. But then he goes onto podcasts and press conferences and says shit like this. Play the clip.
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JD Vance
Interesting that so many people like you know, if you give Donald Trump an IQ test with the other 45, 46 presidents that the United States has had, I guarantee he'd be either near the top or at the top.
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Podcast Host
Do It. Yeah, do it. Let's do it. Let's do a televised cognitive exam and let's do a televised IQ exam. Let's line up Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Kankel's McTaco tits. Let's line them all up. Let's do it live on TV effort. We're at this stage and everything right now. Why not? Why not do it? Because we all know that is an absolute lie. And it's so unserious and it's so ridiculous. And he is the Vice President of the United States of America that gets on TV and lies. This is a man who said that Trump was America's Hitler. This guy believes in nothing and he's a complete prostitute from top to bottom.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
My question is, why would he even feel it necessary to say this? Well, that's because everybody knows that Trump is one foot in the grave with dementia. And before that, I think he speaks and reads it like a fifth or sixth grade level. So the fact, like, I cannot fathom Joe Biden having to reassure everyone that Barack Obama had a high IQ and so on and so on, but here we have to do it because Trump, objectively, based on everything we see every day, is a dip.
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Podcast Host
All right, and then JD Vance has cancelled his trip to Switzerland. And why this is significant is because there are talks beyond the MoU, and the MoU is the memorandum of Understanding, the basic. The thing that Trump signed at Versailles, which the irony in that we won't get into. But he cancels the trip to Switzerland. Pop this up. Vance cancels his trip to Switzerland. A spokesman says as the Vice President said at his press conference, the plans for the upcoming technical talks have not been finalized and the US delegation has been prepared to depart at the first available opportunity. But the logistics of these negotiations have never been simple or predictable. As of now, the Vice President is not departing tonight. Block, blah, blah. Why? Why is he not going? Well, pop this up. Israel strikes kill at least 18amid intense fighting in southern Lebanon. Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon continue despite a U.S. iran deal. That would mean ceasing military operations. So Israel is not going to abide by any of this at all. The problem is that Israel has. They're going to keep going and going and going and going, and they will dick over the United States because being an ally isn't important to them. Their Israeli expansion project is the most important thing to them. And now they have a weak, easily manipulated President of the United States. A decaying democracy with zero accountability. No, Congress isn't checking the President. The Supreme Court isn't checking the president. So all of these superpowers around the world know this is our time. This we don't. We can do whatever we want want to do here.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
Well, and you also look at sitting members of Congress that are so pro Israeli government, they want to consolidate the U.S. department of Defense with the Israelis. So that tells me Israel is very confident they can get whatever the fuck they want out of America no matter what they do. A starting with Donald Trump, because he's the one that opened the door to all this. He was the one dumb enough to do it. And they have enough support in Congress to do whatever they want without even thinking they'll have repercussions.
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Podcast Host
And here something really interesting is happening. So as they sign the peace deal, you have people within the the MAGA regime really going after Israel in a way that American leadership never has. The Biden administration wasn't critical like this of Israel. The Obama administration wasn't critical like this of Israel. But JD Vance is out there saying stuff like this. Play the clip.
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JD Vance
Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time. And he happens to be the head of state of the world superpower. If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world.
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Podcast Host
Okay? So this is pretty fascinating to me because this type of language, and I have to give credit where credit is due, is appropriate right here. It is appropriate to call out Israel. It is appropriate to be like, how dare you? We're trying to. And listen, I don't like the Trumps. This peace deal sucks all of that. They're bent. They've been over. But we do need the peace deal. We need it. It's a shitty deal because Trump's a shitty negotiator. But we cannot continue fighting war in Iran and Israel needs to be called out for that. And here they are calling it out. So my question is, are they looking at the polling by both in the Democratic Party and the Republican Party and seeing the public does not support Israel. So we, we publicly can take this position and we publicly can move forward like this because we have midterms coming up and you're starting to see the Trump regime, the first year of it, the first up until, honestly a month or two ago, they governed as though they were never going to face accountability. And these last couple of months, you see ICE receding. You see Trump trying to get A peace deal. And now they're criticizing the Israeli government. Biden never did such a thing, ever. Obama never did such a thing. It's unheard of. That's the thing that's so infuriating for the people that have had epiphanies about all of this is how Israel is able to do things in the world and on the geopolitical stage that if any other country did, they would be held accountable for it, they would be called out. And here we have, on the one hand, J.D. vance saying Donald Trump has a super high IQ, and on the other hand, spitting some facts about Israel. And it's true. Nobody else gives them the time of day. Everybody else sees Israel as a homicidal, genocidal, maniacal death cult that it is.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
In my mind, this is some kind of a threat to Netanyahu and the Israeli government. Like, we have our eye on you. We're not giving in anymore. Do I think they'll heed it? Probably not, but I just thought it was kind of a shot across the bow, a little bit like, sit down and shut the fuck up.
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Podcast Host
Yeah. And here's the thing. I'll just be honest with the viewer. I'm not super. I'm not a political foreign policy wonk. It's not my area of expertise. But as a layman, like all of you listening and viewing, I think about, I always just go back to Kushner and Witkoff.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
Yeah.
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Podcast Host
And Kushner's close relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu. What calculation is done behind the scene here? Behind the scenes? Is Kushner, like, furious about all of this, or is he pushing for this? Because I don't think for a second Kushner and Woodkop, who talk about developing Gaza into some, you know, Mediterranean vacation resort, are okay with this. So I don't know what's going on within the nucleus of the MAGA regime. And I want to have, like, a foreign policy expert come on and help me, you know, kind of follow along with this, because I'm not getting it. I mean, it's a complete capitulation to Iran. They're in far better position than they ever have been, ever, because of Donald Trump. Israel wants Iran to be in the worst place imaginable. America partnered with Israel for to make that a reality. And now it's just. I don't trust any of them. I don't trust Vance, Trump, Kushner, Netanyahu, the Iranians, any of them. But here's the thing. I'm sure I'm gonna get a lot of slack for this. Out of all of the people involved in this, I think the Iranians are probably the most clear eyed in what objectives they want.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
Right.
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Podcast Host
And they seem to have outnegotiated everybody by bringing in a psychiatrist on how, how you manipulate Donald Trump. And they're the winners. I mean, they won the war. They when they closed down the Strait of Hormuz, it was one right then and there. And they never did that before. And that's why all of the Pentagon briefings on this were do not attack Iran, they'll close the strait. And they never did that before. Throughout all of the sanctions and all of the negotiations that Iran has really outplayed everybody here. And here is Another statement from J.D. vance to Netanyahu that I found interesting. Play the clip.
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JD Vance
Yeah. You've seen people in their system, Ben GVIR and Smotrich, who've attacked the deal. And I guess my response to them would be what is your exact proposal? You're a country of 9 million people. You can't just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have.
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Podcast Host
Okay, great question, J.D. vance. Why weren't you saying this prior to the invasion of Iran? Why weren't you saying this screaming at the top of your lungs? And if Donald Trump was still going full force with it, you have the power to do the 25th Amendment. If you saw that he was potentially doing, wanting to do war crimes with a double tap on the school and all of these things this Monday morning quarterbacking after you already started the Iran war. Something in this whole thing stinks to high heaven. I do not have enough knowledge. I don't know if this is a calculus for the midterms. They know what the polling is and it's just these people are such nihilist and believe in absolutely nothing. They thought, yeah, let's go to war because we have to spend spin the story away from Epstein. So they did that and it's like, oh, we're about to run out of oil. We're going to get hammered in the midterms. The economy is going to be in a complete free fall. The stock market's hanging on, but it will crash eventually. And then they're like, okay, F Israel, F Netanyahu. I it's probably the latter. It's probably just that, just sheer self preservation from this fascist regime.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
Well, and to your point about what's going on behind the scenes, I found it interesting that JD Vance was going to Switzerland and not Kushner and Wyckoff. I mean, that was a question too.
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Podcast Host
I think that Kushner and Wykoff would have been there.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
Okay. I just, I.
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Podcast Host
They have to announce in the press, like, this is the head of state. Like, it's Marco Rubio.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
Oh, okay.
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Podcast Host
Because I was looking for their name. Or it's J.D. vance. And then when you, after it happens, then there's always like a third or fourth paragraph, at least from my experience of reading about all of this. And Kushner and Witkoff said blah, blah, blah, but pumps. You bring up a good point. And not knowing that if the corporate news were doing their job, a lot of these headlines would say, you know, like, unvetted Jared Kushner that couldn't pass a security clearance. And Trump 1.0 is. Is negotiating all of these. And he has no official title. No. You know, he's not been confirmed by anyone. And so the fact that you were wondering where they were shows what a horrible job the corporate media does, because the corporate media is aligned with the exact same interests that Wyckoff and Kushner are and the Supreme Court, which isn't Trump's interests, it's oligarch interest. That's what they're all aligned for. So it's actually like, it's really telling. But of course they were going to be there. Trump always sends babysitters. He always makes sure he has a couple people there that represent him and his bank account. Do we think he trusts J.D. vance?
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
No.
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Podcast Host
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Podcast Host
Okay, and then this is interesting. So BB is kind of like, there's no limits to my power. America, you can sign whatever you want. I'm still going to kill people in Lebanon. Or as JD Vance really rather eloquently put it, kill your way out of every problem you have. Which is exactly what Israel does. Trump says shit like this. Play the clip. You learn about not just the exercise of power, but the limits on your power as a result of the conflict. There are no limits.
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Podcast Host
I haven't learned that lesson yet. I know there are, but you know there are no limits. We defeated them totally militarily. Okay, so Netanyahu thinks there's no limits to his power. Donald Trump's no limits to his power. Congress, Republican, Supreme Court, nobody is checking his power. Netanyahu has nukes. Trump has nukes. And I am not trying to be an alarmist here, but these are very unstable people. Netanyahu has a default setting of murder, homicide and genocide. He is a sociopath to his core, surrounded by other sociopaths who has a blood thirst and A bloodlust for killing Arabs. Donald Trump, it's just all about self. Self preservation. I'm the. The biggest swinging dick in the room at all times, you know, and so. And they both have these nukes. And we're all just sitting here along for the ride and then thinking that Trump has these nukes. Nobody checks him. After what we saw, the way he behaved at the G7, the. The incredible cognitive decline. It's just unbelievable. He rolls back in from France and this is what we have going on at the White House. This is just nuts. Play the clip. So here he is, he's trying to pin. This goes on for one minute, you guys. He's trying to pin one of these medal of honors on a veteran. He can't do it. So he starts tying it in a knot. And look at him, he double knots it. This guy's literally getting choked. It goes from like a necklace to a choker. This guy's getting choked. And now I want you to watch how Donald Trump loves on this guy afterwards, this special forces ranger, he's still tying the knot. For those of you that are listening. Okay, here we go. There he is.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
Oh, God, I thought I was going to kiss him.
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Podcast Host
Yeah, did you see that? I mean, it's just. And he turned this thing into like this choker, this poor guy, because he couldn't. He couldn't class. But will this be on the news? No. Will they talk about, you know, that his motor skills are completely in decline? No. Will they talk about the fact that, God, Donald Trump seems horny for men all the time? No, they won't cover any of it. They'll come out. You know, Donald Trump had a medal ceremony and everything was just great. And the Ron deal is going great, and it's just. Anyway, final thoughts.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
My final thought is, when I first was watching that video, I thought, oh,
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Podcast Host
my gosh, he's going to steal the
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
metal for himself because that's what he tends to do.
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Podcast Host
When you say it became a choker,
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
all my thoughts went away because it did. It was choking him. Usually it's like mid breastbone. He had that up all the way.
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Podcast Host
He couldn't like pin it.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
Like, oh, my God, what are we doing? But to be fair, his hands are so swollen.
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Podcast Host
Little sausages.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
They're little sausages. So I'm sure they're hard to operate.
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Podcast Host
Yeah. All right. That's all we have. Like, subscribe Comment. Happy Juneteenth to all of our black listeners and allies of the black community. We'll be back later. With more news.
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IHIP News – June 19, 2026

Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan

Episode Title: JD's Embarrassing Book Tour Gets Scandalous? Trump Can't Keep His Hands Off Strong Man?
Theme:
A frank, comedic, and impassioned breakdown of current U.S. political drama, with a focus on Vice President JD Vance's public statements, the Trump administration's fraught relationship with Israel, the geopolitics of the recent Iran deal, and commentary on the state of American democracy and leadership. The show is rooted in progressive values with frequent, biting humor and sharp, honest critiques.

Episode Overview

The hosts use ripped-from-the-headlines audio clips to analyze Vice President JD Vance’s embarrassing public statements, especially his defense of Trump’s intelligence and his shifting rhetoric on the Israel-Iran conflict. The conversation sharply critiques Trump’s fitness for office, the chaos within U.S. foreign policy, and the alarming political nihilism and opportunism driving recent events. There’s humor, exasperation, and authentic concern throughout, reflecting the show’s signature tone.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Juneteenth, MAGA, and Solidarity

(01:31) The show opens in observance of Juneteenth, with Jennifer reaffirming solidarity with Black listeners and denouncing the MAGA movement’s ongoing attempts to erase Black history and diminish Black leaders.
- Quote (Jennifer, 01:31):
  “To all of our black listeners, I want you to know that we are your allies. We see the United States of America as wholly better because of black people, because of black culture. And this country must atone and move forward and embrace all of the cultures in it.”

2. JD Vance’s Trump Worship and Shaky Credibility

(02:31) JD Vance is ridiculed for his claim that Trump possesses a top-tier IQ among presidents.
- Clip (JD Vance, 02:31):
  “If you give Donald Trump an IQ test with the other 45, 46 presidents...I guarantee he’d be either near the top or at the top.”
The hosts mock the notion, call for a televised IQ test with past presidents, and savage Vance’s lack of core values.
- Quote (Jennifer, 02:47):
  “Let’s line up Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Kankel’s McTaco tits. Let’s line them all up. ... We all know that is an absolute lie.”
- Quote (Angie, 03:35):
  “My question is, why would he even feel it necessary to say this? ... Trump objectively, based on everything we see every day, is a dip.”

3. U.S.-Israel-Iran Drama: Deals, Double Standards, & Political Posturing

JD Vance Cancels Switzerland Trip & Israel Continues Strikes

(04:08) Discussion of Vance’s last-minute trip cancellation and ongoing Israeli aggression in southern Lebanon despite a U.S.-brokered deal with Iran.
- Jennifer: Israel will “dick over the United States because being an ally isn’t important to them. ... Now they have a weak, easily manipulated President of the United States. ... Zero accountability.”

Israel Lobby Influence & MAGA’s New Criticism

(06:08–06:42) Angie and Jennifer note Congressional efforts to further entangle the U.S. defense posture with Israel, and how the Trump administration only now adopts more critical stances toward Israel.
- Angie: “Israel is very confident they can get whatever the fuck they want out of America no matter what they do... They have enough support in Congress to do whatever they want without even thinking they’ll have repercussions.”

JD Vance’s “Shot Across the Bow” to Israel

(07:11) JD Vance comments that only Trump supports Israel, and warns Israel not to alienate its last major ally.
- Clip (JD Vance, 07:11):
  “If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world.”
Jennifer concedes Vance is right here—public (and bipartisan) U.S. support for Israel is tanking, and the MAGA strategy appears to be rhetorical repositioning ahead of the midterms.
- Quote (Jennifer, 07:35):
  “I have to give credit where credit is due ... It is appropriate to call out Israel. ... We do need the peace deal. ... But we cannot continue fighting war in Iran, and Israel needs to be called out for that.”

Realpolitik, Hypocrisy, & Voters’ Perceptions

(09:30) Angie: “In my mind, this is some kind of a threat to Netanyahu and the Israeli government... a shot across the bow, a little bit like, sit down and shut the fuck up.”
Jennifer admits to lacking nuanced foreign policy expertise but suspects underlying power plays by Kushner/Witkoff, and notes Iran’s remarkable negotiating success.
- Quote (Jennifer, 11:23):
  “[Iran] seem to have outnegotiated everybody by bringing in a psychiatrist on how you manipulate Donald Trump. And they’re the winners. I mean, they won the war. ... Iran has really outplayed everybody here.”

JD Vance’s Critique of Israeli Extremism

(12:04) Vance (clip) addressing Israel’s hardliners:
- Clip (JD Vance, 12:04):
  “You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have.”
Jennifer: Why didn’t MAGA call out Israel pre-invasion? Critiques the regime’s opportunism:
- Quote (Jennifer, 12:25):
  “Why weren’t you saying this prior to the invasion of Iran?... This Monday morning quarterbacking after you already started the Iran war. Something in this whole thing stinks to high heaven.”

4. The Shadowy White House: Who’s Really Running the Show?

(13:47) Angie raises the question: Why is Vance, not Kushner or Wykoff, going to Switzerland?
Jennifer affirms Kushner/Wyckoff would operate behind the scenes—corporate media does not scrutinize Trump’s network of unofficial (and often unvetted) power brokers.
- Quote (Jennifer, 13:57):
  “If the corporate news were doing their job, a lot of these headlines would say, you know, like, unvetted Jared Kushner that couldn’t pass a security clearance ... negotiating all of these. ... The corporate media is aligned with the exact same interests that Wyckoff and Kushner are and the Supreme Court, which isn’t Trump’s interests, it’s oligarch interest.”

5. Trump, Power, and the Medal Ceremony Fiasco

(17:53–20:44) Discussion pivots to the danger of unchecked executive power—Netanyahu and Trump, both surrounded by “sociopaths,” both believing themselves untouchable.
- Quote (Jennifer, 18:21):
  “Netanyahu has nukes. Trump has nukes. And I am not trying to be an alarmist here, but these are very unstable people.”
The hosts roast Trump’s handling of a Medal of Honor ceremony: he struggles to fasten the medal, knots it tight, and flirts awkwardly with the recipient. Discussion becomes comedic yet pointed about Trump’s declining motor skills and apparent fascination with male soldiers.
- Quote (Jennifer, 20:09):
  "This guy’s literally getting choked. It goes from a necklace to a choker. ... God, Donald Trump seems horny for men all the time."
- Quote (Angie, 21:05):
  “Oh my God, what are we doing? But to be fair, his hands are so swollen.”
- Quote (Jennifer, 21:13):
  "Little sausages."
- Quote (Angie, 21:14):
  “They’re little sausages. So I’m sure they’re hard to operate.”

Memorable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

(01:31) Jennifer:
“To all of our black listeners, I want you to know that we are your allies. We see the United States of America as wholly better because of black people, because of black culture.”
(02:47) Jennifer:
“Let’s line up Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Kankel’s McTaco tits. Let’s line them all up. ... We all know that is an absolute lie.”
(03:35) Angie:
“Trump objectively, based on everything we see every day, is a dip.”
(06:08) Angie:
“Israel is very confident they can get whatever the fuck they want out of America no matter what they do.”
(07:11) JD Vance:
“If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have.”
(11:23) Jennifer:
“[Iran] seem to have outnegotiated everybody by bringing in a psychiatrist on how you manipulate Donald Trump. And they’re the winners.”
(12:04) JD Vance:
“You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have.”
(18:21) Jennifer:
“Netanyahu has nukes. Trump has nukes. ...these are very unstable people.”
(20:09) Jennifer:
“This guy’s literally getting choked...God, Donald Trump seems horny for men all the time.”
(21:14) Angie:
“They’re little sausages. So I’m sure they’re hard to operate.”

Key Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment | |-----------|------------------------------------------------| | 01:31 | Juneteenth reflections and anti-racism | | 02:31 | JD Vance’s “Trump IQ” claim and ridicule | | 04:08 | Vance cancels Switzerland trip; Israel-Lebanon | | 06:08 | U.S. Congress, Israel, and defense policy | | 07:11 | JD Vance criticizes Israel’s government | | 09:30 | MAGA’s shifting rhetoric explained | | 11:23 | Iran’s negotiating coup | | 12:04 | JD Vance’s “kill your way out” comment | | 13:47 | Who’s running the administration? Kushner, etc.| | 17:53 | Netanyahu/Trump power analogies | | 18:21 | Trump’s Medal of Honor fiasco | | 21:14 | “Little sausages” — Trump’s hands, comedic riff|

Tone & Language

Fiercely progressive, unsparing, honest, irreverent, frequently profane.
Sarcasm, gallows humor, and exasperation pervade the episode.
The hosts blend moral outrage with wit and personal anecdote.

Summary

This episode offers a sardonic but incisive look at the current political climate under Trump and VP JD Vance. The hosts eviscerate Vance for public sycophancy and hypocrisy, analyze the implications of U.S. and Israeli policy moves, and probe the motives and machinations of MAGA foreign policy. The show is punctuated by laugh-out-loud moments, particularly in their eulogy for Trump’s cognitive and physical health, all while lamenting the dangers of unchecked authoritarianism and the desperation driving both U.S. and Israeli politics. Their candor, humor, and righteous anger make this essential listening for progressives trying to make sense—and find an occasional laugh—in dark political times.

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Podcast Host
Happy Juneteenth to all that celebrate despite maga, which is an incredibly racist movement trying to erase black history, demeaning black leaders in this country firing black military officials. To all of our black listeners, I want you to know that we are your allies. We see the United States of America as wholly better because of black people, because of black culture. And this country must atone and move forward and embrace all of the cultures in it. But this specific racist fascist regime has been propping up a white nationalist, in my opinion, that believes in absolutely nothing, can't even defend his wife and kids of color, JD Vance, the vice president. And they want us to believe something, anything that comes out of his mouth. But then he goes onto podcasts and press conferences and says shit like this. Play the clip.
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JD Vance
Interesting that so many people like you know, if you give Donald Trump an IQ test with the other 45, 46 presidents that the United States has had, I guarantee he'd be either near the top or at the top.
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Podcast Host
Do It. Yeah, do it. Let's do it. Let's do a televised cognitive exam and let's do a televised IQ exam. Let's line up Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Kankel's McTaco tits. Let's line them all up. Let's do it live on TV effort. We're at this stage and everything right now. Why not? Why not do it? Because we all know that is an absolute lie. And it's so unserious and it's so ridiculous. And he is the Vice President of the United States of America that gets on TV and lies. This is a man who said that Trump was America's Hitler. This guy believes in nothing and he's a complete prostitute from top to bottom.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
My question is, why would he even feel it necessary to say this? Well, that's because everybody knows that Trump is one foot in the grave with dementia. And before that, I think he speaks and reads it like a fifth or sixth grade level. So the fact, like, I cannot fathom Joe Biden having to reassure everyone that Barack Obama had a high IQ and so on and so on, but here we have to do it because Trump, objectively, based on everything we see every day, is a dip.
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Podcast Host
All right, and then JD Vance has cancelled his trip to Switzerland. And why this is significant is because there are talks beyond the MoU, and the MoU is the memorandum of Understanding, the basic. The thing that Trump signed at Versailles, which the irony in that we won't get into. But he cancels the trip to Switzerland. Pop this up. Vance cancels his trip to Switzerland. A spokesman says as the Vice President said at his press conference, the plans for the upcoming technical talks have not been finalized and the US delegation has been prepared to depart at the first available opportunity. But the logistics of these negotiations have never been simple or predictable. As of now, the Vice President is not departing tonight. Block, blah, blah. Why? Why is he not going? Well, pop this up. Israel strikes kill at least 18amid intense fighting in southern Lebanon. Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon continue despite a U.S. iran deal. That would mean ceasing military operations. So Israel is not going to abide by any of this at all. The problem is that Israel has. They're going to keep going and going and going and going, and they will dick over the United States because being an ally isn't important to them. Their Israeli expansion project is the most important thing to them. And now they have a weak, easily manipulated President of the United States. A decaying democracy with zero accountability. No, Congress isn't checking the President. The Supreme Court isn't checking the president. So all of these superpowers around the world know this is our time. This we don't. We can do whatever we want want to do here.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
Well, and you also look at sitting members of Congress that are so pro Israeli government, they want to consolidate the U.S. department of Defense with the Israelis. So that tells me Israel is very confident they can get whatever the fuck they want out of America no matter what they do. A starting with Donald Trump, because he's the one that opened the door to all this. He was the one dumb enough to do it. And they have enough support in Congress to do whatever they want without even thinking they'll have repercussions.
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Podcast Host
And here something really interesting is happening. So as they sign the peace deal, you have people within the the MAGA regime really going after Israel in a way that American leadership never has. The Biden administration wasn't critical like this of Israel. The Obama administration wasn't critical like this of Israel. But JD Vance is out there saying stuff like this. Play the clip.
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JD Vance
Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time. And he happens to be the head of state of the world superpower. If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world.
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Podcast Host
Okay? So this is pretty fascinating to me because this type of language, and I have to give credit where credit is due, is appropriate right here. It is appropriate to call out Israel. It is appropriate to be like, how dare you? We're trying to. And listen, I don't like the Trumps. This peace deal sucks all of that. They're bent. They've been over. But we do need the peace deal. We need it. It's a shitty deal because Trump's a shitty negotiator. But we cannot continue fighting war in Iran and Israel needs to be called out for that. And here they are calling it out. So my question is, are they looking at the polling by both in the Democratic Party and the Republican Party and seeing the public does not support Israel. So we, we publicly can take this position and we publicly can move forward like this because we have midterms coming up and you're starting to see the Trump regime, the first year of it, the first up until, honestly a month or two ago, they governed as though they were never going to face accountability. And these last couple of months, you see ICE receding. You see Trump trying to get A peace deal. And now they're criticizing the Israeli government. Biden never did such a thing, ever. Obama never did such a thing. It's unheard of. That's the thing that's so infuriating for the people that have had epiphanies about all of this is how Israel is able to do things in the world and on the geopolitical stage that if any other country did, they would be held accountable for it, they would be called out. And here we have, on the one hand, J.D. vance saying Donald Trump has a super high IQ, and on the other hand, spitting some facts about Israel. And it's true. Nobody else gives them the time of day. Everybody else sees Israel as a homicidal, genocidal, maniacal death cult that it is.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
In my mind, this is some kind of a threat to Netanyahu and the Israeli government. Like, we have our eye on you. We're not giving in anymore. Do I think they'll heed it? Probably not, but I just thought it was kind of a shot across the bow, a little bit like, sit down and shut the fuck up.
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Podcast Host
Yeah. And here's the thing. I'll just be honest with the viewer. I'm not super. I'm not a political foreign policy wonk. It's not my area of expertise. But as a layman, like all of you listening and viewing, I think about, I always just go back to Kushner and Witkoff.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
Yeah.
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Podcast Host
And Kushner's close relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu. What calculation is done behind the scene here? Behind the scenes? Is Kushner, like, furious about all of this, or is he pushing for this? Because I don't think for a second Kushner and Woodkop, who talk about developing Gaza into some, you know, Mediterranean vacation resort, are okay with this. So I don't know what's going on within the nucleus of the MAGA regime. And I want to have, like, a foreign policy expert come on and help me, you know, kind of follow along with this, because I'm not getting it. I mean, it's a complete capitulation to Iran. They're in far better position than they ever have been, ever, because of Donald Trump. Israel wants Iran to be in the worst place imaginable. America partnered with Israel for to make that a reality. And now it's just. I don't trust any of them. I don't trust Vance, Trump, Kushner, Netanyahu, the Iranians, any of them. But here's the thing. I'm sure I'm gonna get a lot of slack for this. Out of all of the people involved in this, I think the Iranians are probably the most clear eyed in what objectives they want.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
Right.
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Podcast Host
And they seem to have outnegotiated everybody by bringing in a psychiatrist on how, how you manipulate Donald Trump. And they're the winners. I mean, they won the war. They when they closed down the Strait of Hormuz, it was one right then and there. And they never did that before. And that's why all of the Pentagon briefings on this were do not attack Iran, they'll close the strait. And they never did that before. Throughout all of the sanctions and all of the negotiations that Iran has really outplayed everybody here. And here is Another statement from J.D. vance to Netanyahu that I found interesting. Play the clip.
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JD Vance
Yeah. You've seen people in their system, Ben GVIR and Smotrich, who've attacked the deal. And I guess my response to them would be what is your exact proposal? You're a country of 9 million people. You can't just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have.
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Podcast Host
Okay, great question, J.D. vance. Why weren't you saying this prior to the invasion of Iran? Why weren't you saying this screaming at the top of your lungs? And if Donald Trump was still going full force with it, you have the power to do the 25th Amendment. If you saw that he was potentially doing, wanting to do war crimes with a double tap on the school and all of these things this Monday morning quarterbacking after you already started the Iran war. Something in this whole thing stinks to high heaven. I do not have enough knowledge. I don't know if this is a calculus for the midterms. They know what the polling is and it's just these people are such nihilist and believe in absolutely nothing. They thought, yeah, let's go to war because we have to spend spin the story away from Epstein. So they did that and it's like, oh, we're about to run out of oil. We're going to get hammered in the midterms. The economy is going to be in a complete free fall. The stock market's hanging on, but it will crash eventually. And then they're like, okay, F Israel, F Netanyahu. I it's probably the latter. It's probably just that, just sheer self preservation from this fascist regime.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
Well, and to your point about what's going on behind the scenes, I found it interesting that JD Vance was going to Switzerland and not Kushner and Wyckoff. I mean, that was a question too.
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Podcast Host
I think that Kushner and Wykoff would have been there.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
Okay. I just, I.
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Podcast Host
They have to announce in the press, like, this is the head of state. Like, it's Marco Rubio.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
Oh, okay.
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Podcast Host
Because I was looking for their name. Or it's J.D. vance. And then when you, after it happens, then there's always like a third or fourth paragraph, at least from my experience of reading about all of this. And Kushner and Witkoff said blah, blah, blah, but pumps. You bring up a good point. And not knowing that if the corporate news were doing their job, a lot of these headlines would say, you know, like, unvetted Jared Kushner that couldn't pass a security clearance. And Trump 1.0 is. Is negotiating all of these. And he has no official title. No. You know, he's not been confirmed by anyone. And so the fact that you were wondering where they were shows what a horrible job the corporate media does, because the corporate media is aligned with the exact same interests that Wyckoff and Kushner are and the Supreme Court, which isn't Trump's interests, it's oligarch interest. That's what they're all aligned for. So it's actually like, it's really telling. But of course they were going to be there. Trump always sends babysitters. He always makes sure he has a couple people there that represent him and his bank account. Do we think he trusts J.D. vance?
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
No.
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Podcast Host
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Podcast Host
Okay, and then this is interesting. So BB is kind of like, there's no limits to my power. America, you can sign whatever you want. I'm still going to kill people in Lebanon. Or as JD Vance really rather eloquently put it, kill your way out of every problem you have. Which is exactly what Israel does. Trump says shit like this. Play the clip. You learn about not just the exercise of power, but the limits on your power as a result of the conflict. There are no limits.
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Podcast Host
I haven't learned that lesson yet. I know there are, but you know there are no limits. We defeated them totally militarily. Okay, so Netanyahu thinks there's no limits to his power. Donald Trump's no limits to his power. Congress, Republican, Supreme Court, nobody is checking his power. Netanyahu has nukes. Trump has nukes. And I am not trying to be an alarmist here, but these are very unstable people. Netanyahu has a default setting of murder, homicide and genocide. He is a sociopath to his core, surrounded by other sociopaths who has a blood thirst and A bloodlust for killing Arabs. Donald Trump, it's just all about self. Self preservation. I'm the. The biggest swinging dick in the room at all times, you know, and so. And they both have these nukes. And we're all just sitting here along for the ride and then thinking that Trump has these nukes. Nobody checks him. After what we saw, the way he behaved at the G7, the. The incredible cognitive decline. It's just unbelievable. He rolls back in from France and this is what we have going on at the White House. This is just nuts. Play the clip. So here he is, he's trying to pin. This goes on for one minute, you guys. He's trying to pin one of these medal of honors on a veteran. He can't do it. So he starts tying it in a knot. And look at him, he double knots it. This guy's literally getting choked. It goes from like a necklace to a choker. This guy's getting choked. And now I want you to watch how Donald Trump loves on this guy afterwards, this special forces ranger, he's still tying the knot. For those of you that are listening. Okay, here we go. There he is.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
Oh, God, I thought I was going to kiss him.
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Podcast Host
Yeah, did you see that? I mean, it's just. And he turned this thing into like this choker, this poor guy, because he couldn't. He couldn't class. But will this be on the news? No. Will they talk about, you know, that his motor skills are completely in decline? No. Will they talk about the fact that, God, Donald Trump seems horny for men all the time? No, they won't cover any of it. They'll come out. You know, Donald Trump had a medal ceremony and everything was just great. And the Ron deal is going great, and it's just. Anyway, final thoughts.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
My final thought is, when I first was watching that video, I thought, oh,
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Podcast Host
my gosh, he's going to steal the
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
metal for himself because that's what he tends to do.
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Podcast Host
When you say it became a choker,
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
all my thoughts went away because it did. It was choking him. Usually it's like mid breastbone. He had that up all the way.
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Podcast Host
He couldn't like pin it.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
Like, oh, my God, what are we doing? But to be fair, his hands are so swollen.
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Podcast Host
Little sausages.
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Podcast Co-host/Commentator
They're little sausages. So I'm sure they're hard to operate.
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Podcast Host
Yeah. All right. That's all we have. Like, subscribe Comment. Happy Juneteenth to all of our black listeners and allies of the black community. We'll be back later. With more news.
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