Co-host (4:04)

Drunk on power.

Host (4:05)

You know, it's that shit.

Co-host (4:07)

Here's the thing. I read an article, first of all, I went back to see what Kristi Noem said when the original allegations about her and Corey Lewandowski having an affair were. And she, her response was, my husband and I have a godly family. I mean, I'm just like, gross. Everybody knows you're fucking around. Nobody would care if you weren't so arrogant. And then I was reading an article recently. She has this whole, whole thing where it's like she has staffers that clock, how much is Tom Homan on the TV versus how much time am I on the tv? Yes, she has her AIDS clock because she doesn't want somebody representing DHS on TV more than her. According to the article I read, also according to the article, this, she's plotting a run for president.

Host (5:04)

I just, this is the worst thing about Trump. Actually George W. Bush started this, is that stupid people could be president. President, right. And the first stupid person I saw as president was George W. Bush. And he seems mensa, comparatively speaking now.

Co-host (5:21)

Yeah.

Host (5:22)

And then you had Sarah Palin, who was just a complete, I mean, just absolutely uneducated, didn't read, total Bible thumper, named her kids after trees and weird shit, Abstinence only. Guess what? Knocked out daughters, knocked up Teen bride, et cetera. And then now we have Trump, and now it's like the Republican Party. It's a race to find the stupidest candidate. You know, who's the dumbest pick me. It's just I, I don't understand the Republican fascination with listening to stupid people. Like, I always, if I'm going to listen to something or read something, I value that person's opinion as being different from mine, a different perspective, more expertise in that area than I have. I'm looking for curios. These people are looking for, like, brain dead entertainment.

Co-host (6:20)

I wonder if it's. They feel like Trump probably feels smarter when he's around someone like Christine Ngo, you know, maybe like, they pick the dumbest people so that they can control them more easily and they can sell them bullshit more easily.

Host (6:35)

Well, but also it could make the argument that dumb people would think, yeah, I'm going to work for a man that has 34 felonies and try to get his vice president killed on January 6. It would take a stupid, morally collapsed person to want to do that. Which, which brings up Marco Rubio and what a 360°, I guess I should say, 180° pivot he's made. What a disappointment little Marco is.

Co-host (7:01)

Talk about selling your soul.

Host (7:03)

Okay, and then Christian Amanpour had this conservative scholar on, and he's talking about the United States already slipping into a dictatorship. This is pretty daunting. Play the clip.

Guest Commentator (7:17)

We are one big step into dictatorship already. It's not clear to me that any institution in the United States is really prepared to stand up to Donald Trump. It seems the only people who are willing to stand up to Donald Trump are average American citizens in Minneapolis and elsewhere. And God bless them for that. But the US Congress, both parties are unwilling to really fight Trump. The Republicans have become the party of dictatorship.

Host (7:43)

He said something super important. He said both parties. And this is something that we really, really beat the drum on because I expect the Republicans to go along with this, because all Donald Trump has done is said, okay, we can all take our KKK hoods off now. But the Democrats have been the most disappointing thing to me in Trump 2.8. All right, continue.

Guest Commentator (8:08)

So I think we are one deep foot into dictatorship. And I am worried as I have said and others have been pointing out about whether we will even have free and fair elections in 2026, let alone in 2028. I think Trump has a plan to disrupt those elections and I don't think he's willing to allow Democrats to take control of one or both houses as could happen in a free election.

Host (8:30)

And yet his own sort of border czar, Tom Horman has gone, has been in Minnesota. He now says the ICE surge or the ICE presence is concluding also, you know that some six Republicans broke from Trump policies to join a vote against the tariffs and against how they're being used. You know that the grand jury failed to get any indictment against what the administration wanted, which was those six or so senators and others who urged soldiers not to obey illegal orders. Things seem to be moving.

Guest Commentator (9:06)

I don't agree with that. I mean, it's always one step forward and two steps back with Donald Trump.

Host (9:14)

Yeah, I hear both sides of that because my gut is we are already in a dictatorship because nobody is stopping him. The courts aren't stopping him. Congress isn't stopping him. He's killing people in the streets. They're buying warehouses to store people which are called concentration camps. And the ICE provocations seem to coincide with the drumming up of the SAFE act and other voter suppression tactics. And you do see some peel offs, but not enough. There really isn't enough. I mean, this grand jury, you see everyday Americans putting up more of a fight saying, no, you cannot charge these six lawmakers. You see a grand jury that would indict a ham sandwich everyday American standing up to this regime and saying, no, you're not going to charge these people more courage than the Democratic Party because the Democratic leadership could really ignite a resistance to this. And I'm just, I'm consistently, consistently disappointed with the Democratic Party's failures. And then I just always go back to, you know, if you're not going to be upset about a genocide, why are you going to be upset about Donald Trump? And a lot of people in the Democratic Party take APAC money, vote consistently for American taxpayers to send bombs to Israel to kill little kids. So if that isn't your, you know, North Star, if you don't problem with that, you're probably not going to have a problem with Renee Good getting her face blown off and called a fucking bitch.

Co-host (10:52)

Yeah, I think about sometimes like if there would have been a huge resistance by the Democratic Party immediately when Elon Musk went, had his fake doge and started going into that. If there would have been A huge organized resistance. Would we be here now? Would it have accelerated so quickly? Would the changes have come so dramatically? If a resistance had started then and just been building momentum for the last year, would we be where we are? And I don't know the answer to that. Maybe that's just, you know, crying over spilt milk. But I just wonder, like, because you and I talked about at that time, like, why are we not fighting against this Doge thing? I mean, it was the very first thing that everybody kind of laid down on.

Host (11:36)

It's. I mean, obviously they're not because of. You know, when you start tracking the money, Chuck Schumer takes money from a lot of these same lobbyists that are all involved in big tech and AI. And you start looking at the corporate Dems that are in leadership positions and the pecking order and who they pick. That one guy that ended up dying of cancer. Yeah, yeah. And they just seem to be. It's like when Trump won, it broke a lot of things. Like a lot of people broke and he didn't even win a majority. Like more people voted against him. When you take Kamala and then the third party, that number is higher than what he won. I mean, it wasn't that huge of a victory, but everybody acts like and bought into his narrative, as Democrats always do, that it was a landslide and it simply wasn't. He didn't. He doesn't have the political capital in that last victory to do this much with it. But that's the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans, they could not win the popular vote and win the electoral college vote. And they govern as though they have a bank account full of political capital. They always govern that way and Democrats always govern incrementally and tiptoe. And this whole notion of the opposition being controlled I think comes to fruition. And it becomes clearer and clearer the more you see it. I cannot understand why this DHS bill is not just an absolute. No. They already have billions of dollars. Their funding is more than most countries militaries. We're not giving them another cent. Krissy Noem is an idiot. Tom Homan is a sociopath. And they're shooting people and we're not going to pay to put people in concentration camps. At most the majority of these issues with immigration are paperwork details. These are not crimes.

Co-host (13:27)

Right.

Host (13:28)

But the Democrats buy into the Republican narrative by acquiesc. They always do it. They allow these Republican lies to become the truth via acquiescence. And it infuriates me. All right, now I'm keeping an eye on AOC because she is a true progressive. They say she has ambitions to run for president. And I'm going to be very candid. Her politically, her age, the fact that she's a woman, the fact that she's a Latina, all of that for me is a positive. I do have some PTSD about we ran two women against Donald Trump. I have some PTSD that this country is so patriarchal and sexist and. But we haven't had a woman or a candidate since Bernie that ran as a populist. And so I don't know if the gender is as much the thing. I mean, I think it probably is, but I don't know. I think it's a healthy, fruitful conversation to have. But here is AOC talking about how economic inequality feeds fascism.

Expert Analyst (14:35)

Yes, that's absolutely right. You know, I think one of the, the connections and relationships that is under discussed, particularly in the security space, is the fact that I believe we're seeing in economy across economy around the world, including in the United States, that extreme levels of income inequality lead to social instability and drives in a sense, in authoritarianism, right wing populism and very dangerous domestic internal politics. And that is a direct outcome of not just income inequality, but the failure of democracies over decades to deliver the failure to deliver higher wages, the failure to rein in corporations. The point was just made about antitrust. The United States antitrust is such a foundational bedrock value, not just because the ascent of monopolies create the abuse of power and corporations and market power, but there is a level of market concentration and corporate consolidation where a massive company can get so big that its consolidated power can rival that of nation states and democracies. We have elected leaders. And in massive corporations that then begin to consume the public sector, gobble up the spending, they start to call the shots. And we're starting to see this with some of the billionaire class throwing their weight around in domestic politics and in global politics as well. So it is of.

Host (16:15)

Okay. I think her points are so astute that corporations start gobbling up the power. And we've been seeing that long before Trump. You've seen the, ever since the overturn of Citizens United and the mistake that we make, not only in our personal lives, of giving wealthy people so much deference. You look at it in the Epstein files, all these wealthy people get deference. You look at it in January 6, all the people that funded this violent insurrection get deference. Corporations get deference. And that is, I think, the fool's errand of capitalism. And her point about ignoring all of this and what it incubates is something that I've been talking about on here for months and months and months that as a person who's been a political junkie my whole life, you know, George W. Bush, Reagan incubated George W. Bush, George W. Bush incubated Trump. And what is after Trump? What is that next step? Is it a Tucker Carlson? Is it a Nick Fuentes? And Tucker Carlson is somebody who's so insidious to me right now because he's gobbling up sections of a very frustrated part of the electorate that is so tired of western media and western democracies not telling us the truth about Israel. But Tucker Carlson is so you're getting progressive minded people that are watching Tucker Carlson in 32nd, 45 second clips that are like, God, I really like Tucker. They've forgotten that he claims that demons gobbled him up one night and that he calls refers to gay people as F A G G O T s is extreme white supremacist. But there is a danger with the way the information delivery system is coming to us and these demagogues and apparent populists that aren't populous like Donald Trump is. And, and if we do not address this right now and if the Democratic Party doesn't really start putting up a resistance, Trump is going to be at some point if we don't fix this. I look back at George W. Bush right now, I was like, ah, he wasn't that bad. I hated him. I couldn't believe the lies. I couldn't believe the human rights violations. I couldn't believe the war in Iraq. I couldn't believe all of the Bubba shit with oil companies and all the glad handing I thought he was as cor is all get out and a war criminal. But then the American public gets amnesia and it incubated something worse. And Obama didn't do anything about George W. Bush and I love Obama, but he did not prosecute that administration and they should have been. And then now Biden didn't prosecute Trump and he should have been. Trump is no spring chicken and he's a lame duck. So what is next? And that's why I'm so open minded and analytical about my own political beliefs in the errors of my own ways. And I constantly want to be an evolving political thinker in this time because the news is coming at us fast and in a devastating, violent way daily. And I think that it is a time to lock in more than recede. All right. I don't know about you guys, but I feel like everybody is traveling a lot more. Our families are spread apart, businesses are diversified all across the country. And a lot of suitcases are just like a box with wills. Nothing about it makes it easier except that you can pull it. And that's why I have a brand new black carry on suitcase called the Noble. First off, they built a flip out cup holder right into the luggage. It's a total lifesaver. In lines at gate or just when you need somewhere to park, your coffee has a charging port which is such a godsend. A built in charging port keeps your phone alive so you're not crawling under an outlet at the gate. With all of the gross germs on the airplane waiting room floor and the 360 degree wheels, they're effortless. This suitcase glides next to you instead of dragging behind like an anchor. Noble gives you real travel, peace of mind, security, design and convenience all in one. They sell out super fast, so get it while you can. And Noble is the number one top rated luggage on trustpilot. So listener upgrade to luggage that looks better, lasts longer and travels smarter. Head to noble travel.com for up to 46% off your entire order. That's n o travel.com for up to 46 percent off. After you purchase, they'll ask where you heard about them. Please support our show and tell them that I hip news sent you.

Co-host (21:20)

Well, I think you're so right about that. And I worry not only about what comes after Trump, how much more diabolical because Trump is dumb. He doesn't really care about policy, didn't care about people. He wants to make money and be on the, you know, he just wants to have his face everywhere. What comes after him, they might be smarter, they might be even more diabolical and care about it like a Stephen Miller as the actual man in power. Then I worry about the youth, the people that are so used to Trump's theatrics and the lying. Like what is their expectations of a politician? Because when I was growing up, politics was boring. Now it's like a freak show. Flags everywhere. So what's the expectations? So it's very concerning, but I think you're spot on. I mean, spot on.

Host (22:04)

Yeah, it's just, it's going to incubate something worse. J.D. vance is worse. Tucker Carlson's worse. It is. There is something worse than Trump and it's younger and like you said, it's more diabolical. All right. And then lastly, pumps. I found this Great video for you and the listener to enjoy this weekend. I just thought this was the funniest thing I've ever seen. Play it.

Co-host (22:48)

That was so funny about there. He was grabbing his crotch. He hardly grabbed his crotch at all.

Host (22:52)

I just always thought there was a really thin line between like cowgirls, if you go out to like rural Oklahoma between cowgirls and lesbians and there's a super fine line between cowboys and gay men. Yeah. These cowboys, if you go to like a country in western bar and they got those just skin tight jeans on and there's just, there's a really fine line. But I just think it's really interesting that the meltdown about Bad Bunny is such a reveal as to. They care more about the culture war.

Co-host (23:25)

Right.

Host (23:26)

Than they do about child pedophilia.

Expert Analyst (23:28)

Yeah.

Host (23:28)

And elites getting away with crimes. They see the threat of culture wars and losing that because they tasted what they thought was a quick victory in Trump 2.0. But the pushback is so massive and it's kind of like they realize, oh, they, everybody is going to go on and mix with other races and share cultures and they enjoy it and they're clinging on to this whole. But there were no white people in the Super Bowl. I'm like, this is why I think you guys shouldn't eat at Mexican restaurants. And I know that video went viral, but I meant it because they are proving my point of that viral video. You should not be able to enjoy multiculturalism. If you want an all white entertainment at your sporting event, go watch croquet. That's it. That's the list. You can't watch basketball, you can't watch football because these people want to enjoy. They're like, oh, these blacks here can entertain me and these Mexicans here can cook for me and feed me and they want to control everything. And I just think it's gross. I think white racists that enjoy multicultural culturalism but can't support the human beings behind it, it's a real window as to how evil their soul is.

Co-host (24:39)

Yeah. And there's a lot of them. So many.

Host (24:42)

Yeah, a lot. All right, that's all we have. Like subscribe, we'll be back later.