Sarah (2:38)

It's almost like Putin did it on purpose. He waited for him to announce it and then he just was like, you this totally.

Mark (2:45)

You are totally.

Sarah (2:47)

And then Trump goes on Fox News and he wants to be friends with Vladimir Putin because he was the unpopular kid, I think, here we go.

Donald (2:55)

So he said to me, if you're my friend, I'd hate to see you as my enemy. He said that very strongly. But I had, with all of that, I had a very good relationship with Putin. I had a very good relationship with President Xi. A very good.

Mark (3:07)

It's just breathtaking. The President of the United States is bragging about being friends with sociopaths. That 100% have his psychological file and the top of it says it falls is easily susceptible to superficial flattery. That's the number one list that everybody has both our allies and our enemies on this guy. He is the most manipulatable person on the planet, as are the triple Trumper followers. These people are intellectually lazy and they like to feast on cruelty. And that's what they all have in common. And guess who's super cruel and who kidnaps Ukrainian kids and has committed war crimes and bombs innocent people. The butcher. The anti democratic Vladimir Putin. You have all these dipshit Americans with their American flags in their houses acting like, oh well, I just love Trump because he's a good Christian and he hugs the flag. You.

Sarah (4:04)

Here's the thing, what I loved most about this is, you know, Kamala Harris has said it, Hillary Clinton has said it. You know, he is a laughingstock totally. And then he's like, Putin said he wants to be my friend. He'd rather be my friend than my enemy. I'm like, you're an embarrassment. This is your alpha male Republicans Maga. This is your guy. Because he is the biggest little dick energy I've ever seen in my life. And then we go on to say, and here's the thing, once upon a time it would be not be a question who's lying, Putin or the President of the United States? Now, I don't know. Here we go.

Alex (4:38)

One media actually stated that he demanded an immediate cessation of aid to Ukraine in order to get to the get to this multi step deal.

Donald (4:48)

No, he didn't. We didn't talk about aid. Actually, we didn't talk about aid at all. We talked about a lot of things, but aid was never discussed.

Sarah (4:57)

Who's lying?

Mark (4:58)

Probably both of them. I mean, and here's the thing that everybody needs to realize. If Putin wanted this war over, it would be over. It is that simple. He is the aggressor, but he doesn't want it over. He has been playing psychological warfare with the United States of America for over a decade. And here's why. He wants Europe. There is one country that has all of the military and all of the bombs and controls NATO, and that is the United States of America. We prevent him from advancing into Europe. And half of our country is so stupid and so intellectually lazy. And they have this default setting of cruelty that they feast on. Fox News, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Steve Bannon, the Daily Wire. I mean, all of these weirdos, they feast on it all the the time because they like to consume hate and cruelty. Their entire identity is not being an American. It is hating other Americans. And this was what Putin intended to create a civil war. And I just noticed this morning on Twitter, Elon Musk, who was boodle baby stage five, crying to his safe space with Sean Hannity last night, that Democrats were supposed to have empathy.

Donald (6:22)

He.

Mark (6:22)

He tweeted this morning that civil war is inevitable. I mean, he is all over the place. Untreated, drug addict, flight of ideas, delusions of grandeur. And nobody is stopping him because they're all surrounded. It's like crazy people. And they all need to be in a padded cell with straitjackets on and just let them talk to each other and say, hey, you guys, you won. Here's America. And just throw them in there because they'll never stop at this.

Sarah (6:47)

No, they'll never stop. And Putin has made Trump a useful idiot. And he has played the long game with Trump. He knows how weak Trump is. He knows that Trump is such a malignant narcissist. He doesn't care what happens to the United States. He doesn't care what happens to Ukraine. He cares what happens to his wallet. He cares about money. And Elon Musk, for all intensive purposes, is running the United States into the ground. And we know there's a long history between Trump and Musk. Musk, Putin, Putin, Trump. They're all in this together. And Elon Musk holds power over Trump. He would have to. And it is unbelievable to me that we are sitting around watching the party of national security think that this is hunky dory. And now after Russia's economy is in the tank, they need an infusion. Trump, after he gets humiliated by Putin, going right after the energy infrastructure in Ukraine, after he said he had a ceasefire, says he wants to start trading with Russia.

Alex (7:49)

How can we trust that Vladimir Putin actually wants that in that he's not also being influenced at the same time by his close friend President Xi of China?

Donald (8:02)

Well, look, we have our own discussions with President Xi of China, and he wants to get along also, and he's looking to get along, and we're looking to get along with him, and we will. We have a problem of trade where we have a very big imbalance with China, with Russia. We don't have that much trade. And they'd like to. And we'd like to also. They have some very valuable things for us, including very big forms of rare earth. They have a lot of earth, you know, they have.

Sarah (8:22)

Stop it there.

Mark (8:23)

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Mark (9:09)

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Sarah (11:35)

Seeing the emasculation of Trump by Musk and Putin, you would think that that would be a clue, but apparently it's not. But one thing we have to touch on just because we have to laugh. Kristi Noemi, the most unbelievably unqualified, incompetent director of Homeland Security. This is her. We've had a whole episode about her cosplay. Here she is now. She's a Navy sailor.

Mark (12:00)

I mean, this is just unbelievable that her, her number one thing that she seems to like to do is dress up in costumes and cosplay. I mean, these are really broken people that have all found their way together. And these are people that don't take personal accountability. If they make a mist, these are the perpetual victims. These are people that have such a void inside of them. We could all say, trump, you're great. All 7 billion people on the planet, it still wouldn't fix him. She could try on every costume that our civilization has ever made, and she's still going to be a broken thirst trap. That's always going to happen. And I want to bring you all up to something that's just bothered me when I'm not a podcaster, I'm an interior designer. And what Trump is doing with the Oval Office is just. It is. We need to sound the sirens. This is horrible, horrible, horrible. He has now taken the Declaration of Independence and hung it in the Oval Office. He also has more knickknacks and riff raffs than I've ever seen in the Oval ever. But then I don't know whose idea it was to put curtains over the Declaration of Independence, which is, number one, bad design. And number two. The photo of him playing peekaboo with it. This is just. It's bad design. Trump is white trash. He's a flea market carnival leader. It is the grifting and all of these triple trumpers that find this cool and cute and neat. You're the reason that everybody hates America. Everybody hates us right now because he is a dangerous with bad taste. And you all buy all of this riff raff, all of these knickknacks, but so that you can act like you're not racist. You act like you're concerned about the price of X. All right, guys. Please subscribe to our channel. We're trying to get to 1 million. We can do it with your help. We'll see you all later.