B (4:31)

Yeah, and you said the MAGA base is fracturing, but I haven't seen any polling that shows that. I have seen 90% support for him, 90% support for the war. I saw a CNN poll. A hundred percent, 100% of the MAGA base supported him in this war. And so we have this, these cultists that we're forced to live with, that we're forced to share this country with. And I think that this is why an opposition party is so incredibly important. And why don't we have an opposition party? Because so many of these Democrats are Netanyahu Democrats. So many of these Democrats refuse to call Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal. The democratic position on this war should be so easy to make. We oppose the current regime in the United States of America that indiscriminately kills protesters. We oppose the erosion of civil liberties. We oppose war crimes. We oppose the fascist government of Israel. We oppose Benjamin Netanyahu and if it were up to us, would turn him over to the ICC to be arrested for war criminals. We oppose giving a blank check to Israel to do a genocide in Palestine. We oppose a blank check to Israel to invade and displace and kill lots of people in Beirut, Lebanon. We oppose our own government's double strikes, double tap strikes on infrastructure in Iran, on little girls schools. We Oppose all of it. We are the anti war party. We actually are the pro life party. We are the fiscal responsible people here because we cannot afford this war. And even if we could, morally, we would never vote to fund it. But because you have these Democrats that play patty cake with fascists, we don't have a robust anti war party. And instead we have collaborators with war criminals because our government, you know, they're war criminals as well, which Pete Hegseth, who I don't think is even doing the war. I think it's all Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, and there's incredible reporting to affirm that. So what do they do with Hexeth to make him feel like a big boy, to make him feel like he's in charge of the war? They let him go out and proselyze to the troops because they don't want him doing anything else, because they don't trust him, because they all know he's a loser, as Trump said, and a dip. So pop this up. The Daily Beast is reporting current and former military officials have spoken out against Defense Secretary Pete Heg. Says proselytizing and then diving into the details of this story. Next slide. An anonymous Department of Defense source characterized the environment as terrifying, noting that personnel working under Hexeth fear being punished or fired for failing to embrace his Christian nationalist worldview. So you have a Secretary of Defense who is spiritually blackmailing our troops. And why is this? I deduce that Pete Hex has nothing to do with the Department of Defense except for a few side projects that they've said, okay, you can be in charge of dismantling dei. So what does he do? He won't promote women, he won't promote black people. And this was reported just last week. And you can make this your spiritual war. So he feels like, oh, I'm going to be right with God, because I am going to turn the military into like a holy war type thing. Meanwhile, the real the people who are at the table are people who have never been voted on by anybody, by the American public, or by Senate confirmation hearings, and that is Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. And Donald Trump delegates a lot of what he has to do out to people. And then he likes to platform idiots and losers, which he does all the time.

C (8:51)

And Pete Hexeth, Pete Hexath is such a bottom feeder. He has no respect for the military. And every time he talks about dei, I just, in my head, I'm like, pete, Pete Hexeth. Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Department of Defense Secretary, let's go through the resumes. But what this man is, is deeply racist and he is willing to commit crimes. He's willing to let people that have no fucking clue, that are enriching themselves personally, make the decisions over tens of thousands of lives. He is willing to violate international law and order people to do so. You know why? Because he thinks that he's like this divine, righteous person and what he is is a fucking nut job. It is so staggering. It just enrages me every time I see his face.

B (9:44)

And I think it's really important that we talk about socially and culturally how they're able to do this. And we have a percentage of the American population that are rapture preppers, that believe in spiritual warfare, that believe the earth is 6,000 years old. And the majority of these people vote for Donald Trump by a long shot, like 90%. And in. In order for them to continue to do immoral, depraved things, they send out people to Christian signal to the public. So if Pete Hegseth mentions the Lord or we're fighting a holy war, this signals to these very brainwashed Americans, oh, he's doing the Lord's work. When you see Riley Gaines on Fox News with her cross, or you see Kaylee Ann McEnany or Caroline Levitt or Pam Bondi and they have their cross and they mention Christian or, you know, oh, praise the Lord or praise be or whatever, they're talking about dismantling human rights, taking away food and shelter from the poorest, most vulnerable, most marginalized people, not only in the United States, but in the world. But if they Christians signal, these people are so brainwashed by their white nationalist megachurch cults that they just go along with it. And the use of Christian signaling is something we need to call out all of the time. The right is so quick to say, oh, the left. Virtue signals. They're just such virtue signalers. It's not even close as to what the right wing does with Christian signaling and that it's so insidious and it's so diabolical because for so many Americans that are born in rural America, where they have just been, you know, rolled over, wages never go up, no investment in those cultures. The only thing they have is their church. That's their whole social life. And then another cultural identity is, well, at least I'm an American. So there are two identifying factors of individuality become their religion and their country, and there's nothing else going on out there. So they triple and quadruple down so it makes these people so prime for, for manipulation. And Pete Hagseth and Caroline Levitt and all of these others that talk about Christianity ad nauseam while they're doing the most unchristlike activities imaginable, marginalizing people, punching down, taking food away from poor people, worshiping rich people, helping people accumulate wealth. All the things explicitly Jesus said he wasn't into. And I know this, and I'm not a atheist, but because these people so desperately want to lean into the hellfire brimstone of the Old Testament to, as a, as a means to reconcile how bad their lives are, if they can only beat up on other people the way they have been beat up on, then maybe that will make them whole. And Pete Hex, Seth, doing this to the troops and to the military, while at the same time these people are saying Iran. These people are fanatics. These people are religious fanatics. I'm just like, shut up, Listener, if you're like me, you probably have a lot of grand ideas about businesses you want to start and how great it could be. But there's so many details in order to execute a fully functioning business. So many little parts, so many potential employees you could hire. If only there were a service that consolidated it all in one place that made it easy for you. And this service is Shopify. Shopify was a game changer for pumps and me when we started our podcast Listener. You can get your own design studio with hundreds of ready to use templates. Shopify helps you build a beautiful online store that matches your brand style. Get the word out, out like you have a marketing team behind you. You can easily create email and social media campaigns wherever your customers are scrolling or strolling. And best yet, Shopify is your commerce expert with world class expertise in everything from managing inventory to international shipping to processing returns and beyond. So, listener, it's time to turn those what ifs into with Shopify today. Sign up for your $1 per month trial at shopify.com ihip go to shopify.com ihip that's shopify.com ihip okay, so this is just wild. The incompetence. And Donald Trump said it himself, I like to hang out with losers.

C (14:54)

Okay?

B (14:55)

The body of evidence that affirms that he is in fact surrounded by losers grows by this second. The FBI director. His email account was hacked by Iran in a war. Pop this up. Iran linked hackers have breached FBI Director Cash Patel's personal emails. And I just. This just kind of went in the news cycle and went out. I just want to remind you how diabolical and focused Republicans are on winning elections and damaging the Democratic brand or any heir apparent of the Democratic brand. Hillary Clinton's emails were so at the top of the news cycle that even James Comey, a few days before the 2016 election sends out this crazy, oh, we're going to look into this. And it really kind of flipped the election. I mean, arguably I think it did. But this just, you know, this will just go in and out of the news cycle because Trump likes losers. And the, the standard that the Republican Party holds the Democratic Party up to is incredibly rich considering the standard for them is just to kiss Donald Trump's ass in the most embarrassing manner imaginable. These people believe in nothing.

C (16:19)

Cash Patel's private emails. I'm going to tell you, I'm kind of here for it. The thing is this man is so unqualified. He was a podcaster, Pete Heckseth, he's a, you know, Fox News host. These people are just enriching themselves kissing Donald Trump's ass. La di da Cash Patel's emails going wall to wall. Trump's not going to fire him because he does everything Trump wants. Because this is not about protecting American lives. This is not. These are the people. Cash Patel is the leader of, the people that gets on TV and fo news and all the other and says, oh, we're looking into left wing terrorism, dude, the charts are out. The data is in. It's right wing cultist. What is incubating without the FBI being involved in my mind should terrify every single person. But here's the thing. These people are careless. They are incompetent. They do not value their jobs. They do not value Americans and Donald Trump, let's say it's wall to wall. Unless it says Donald Trump shits his pants and I can smell him every time I'm or I know how many crimes. He will not be fired for this. There will be no accountability. And that's something that I directly link with all these right wing MAGA white nationalists. No accountability in their churches and no accountability in this government.

B (17:42)

And I just want to point out, it's really important to point out any of us that have a idea that Donald Trump is going to fire people.

C (17:52)

No.

B (17:53)

Based on some sort of failure and or immoral corrupt act is insane. This man is a convicted felon who incited an insurrection, who wanted his vice president lynched. And the American public, the majority went out and voted for him. So any expectation that any of us have that Cash Patel is going to get fired or Stephen Miller is going to get fired. They will get fired, possibly, but it won't be for any corrupt act. It would be. It would be to set an example because they were disloyal to the leader. That's at the ethos of this. As long as Cash is loyal to Donald Trump, he has a job. Kristi Noem was disloyal because she said that Donald Trump approved her $200 million advertising vanity project and that showed disloyalty and blame to the leader and he made an example of her.

C (18:54)

All right.

B (18:55)

That's all we have. Like, subscribe, comment. We'll be back later.