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All right, the Trump administration is all smoke and mirrors. You have Trump, who's incompetent, old, dementia, annoying, evil, all of the things. And then you have all of his Fox News narcissists that run the Department of Defense, the Homeland Security, all these freak shows that sit around him, you know, like, what's his name? RFK Jun. Complete whack. You know, snorting cocaine off toilet seats. These people are not the best and brightest America has to offer. These people are just the facade. And this is what's so important, because behind the facade are the people that we all give our money to all day, every day. And that's the oligarchs. The oligarchs who, immediately after Donald Trump won, raised to his inauguration. And we're standing there when Elon Musk is doing two Nazi salutes and one of the darker ones, because Elon Musk, he's kind of a dipshit. But the one who really scares me is Peter Thiel, because Peter Thiel, for a long time has. And he's this. You guys. He's the owner of Palantir, the surveillance company that is deeply connected to the IDF and the government of Israel and now has all these governmental contracts from the United States of America. Peter Thiel is a gay man, an immigrant. I have no problem with immigrants. I have no problem with gay men. I have a problem with sociopaths. And this guy is a diabolical sociopath of the highest order. He's decided that he thinks that modern society and democracy are no longer compatible. All right? He's just decided that even though he's a billionaire because of those things. So the one thing that made him feel so safe to say and do all of this is the one thing he's trying to tear down. And he has a CEO of his company, Palantir, who obviously, to work for Peter Till, you'd have to be a complete psycho. And this guy's name is Alex Karp. And this guy is always. To me, he looks completely coked up. That's just my personal opinion, having been around people that are coked up when in my early 20s. Here he is talking about what he would like to do to his enemies. This is wild.
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You need a higher purpose. And I also think you often need a lower purpose. Like the higher purpose for me.
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What kind of. What's the lower purpose?
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Well, I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl laced urine spraying on analysts who've tried to screw us. So that's my lower purpose. And.
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Yeah, but.
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And others. But the higher purpose.
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So every time I hear these billionaires speak, I'm always so unimpressed and I realize, realize like what a scam it hit. It is that we've all been, well, Elon Musk must be a genius. And Peter Till, he must be a genius. And this Alex Karp to be CEO of Palantir, he must be a genius. They're all freaks. They're all freaks that have no issue exploiting people. They're ruthless, relentless, tenacious freaks with no moral conscience. That's why they're successful. These are not people to admire. These are not people to prop up. Why he's being propped up there at the 92nd Street. Why? I mean, I guess it's a free every country, but I just think this kind of stuff is. This is the aftermath once Trump is dead. This is the. And this type of, of man cruelty and toxic masculinity that we're gonna have to deal with for generations.
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Well, and I think it's worth mentioning that Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein were in huge business together. And J.D. vance, that's who he worked for, is Peter Thiel. When he left to go on his, you know, big rebrand, he went to work for Peter Thiel. So I think that it's like they get in that bubble and they just become. They just completely and totally lose sight of reality and go into this, we're better than everybody. Poor people shouldn't exist. Sick people don't matter. The only thing that matters is us. And it's really terrifying that they believe it and are empowered to say it.
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Well, and the thing you have to understand about Peter Thiel is Peter Thiel knows that he can't put his name on a ballot and run. He couldn't do what Zoran Mamdani did as an immigrant who then became a citizen. He couldn't do that. But he has money. So he was able to call J.D. vance and say, hey, what's it gonna take for you to be my bitch. And J.D. vance gave him his number, and that's it. And he was able to call Trump and say, hey, I want J.D. vance to be your vice president. They see that Donald Trump has dementia and is old. Jeffrey Epstein in 2017 said Trump had dementia, per the Epstein files. And so he knows. He knew that he had to get somebody in power that could be the heir apparent, because Trump is maniacal and lawless enough to tear it all down. And once it's all torn down, then he trots out this little prostitute, J.D. vance. J.D. vance believes in nothing. I think his name is, like, John Daniel Bowman or something. What the fuck his real name is, right? All right, so all of these things, though, like, as you start, like, you remember the show Homeland with Carrie and she had a wall, you know, all of these things. Yeah. You just connected it to Peter Till, connected to J.D. vance, who the oligarchs have put into the executive branch on purpose because they know that Trump is not a spring chicken. And then they're all very deeply connected to Israel. And here's what's so fascinating to me is Lindsey gre, him alleged heterosexual, who is a senator from South Carolina, his number one thing that he talks about all the time. I've never heard him mention South Carolina ever. All I ever hear him say is like, God bless Donald Trump. And then he's like, all in on Israel. And I don't know, maybe South Carolina has a huge, massive Jewish population that I'm not privy to, but I think more than likely Mossad and the Israeli government has a bunch of footage of Lindsey Graham doing a bunch of gay shit because he's always saying stuff like this and never talking about America. He's never talking about Americans, and he's never talking about South Carolina. Ever. Play the clip.
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No light or gaps between President Trump and Bibi about what to do and how to do it. There are two lines in the water right now. One's a diplomatic line trying to find a way to end this regime diplomatically that will advance our national security interest. The other line is the military option. I think President Trump is looking for which line can catch the biggest fish.
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Okay, His. The only thing that makes sense to me regarding this is that Lady Graham went over to Israel and they had video cameras. This is just my opinion, and I know that I'm gonna sound like a freak show conspiracy theorist, but why on earth is he always talking about Israel? Israel's gotten everything they could ever want and more from the United States. Of America. Trump is basically saying he is going to raise Gaza, but Lindsey Graham is like the foot soldier for Benjamin Netanyahu. And this is the way my husband describes his foreign policy regarding Israel and Palestine. I don't know really what the fuck's going on over there. All I know is everybody I hate loves Israel the most. Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham. So, you know, it can't be good. You know, it can't be good. And then here's this guy, this congressman. His name is Randy Fine, and he traffics in a lot of Islamophobia. And here's my biggest point that I always try to make on this podcast, and I have from its inception, is you cannot pick and choose which bigotry you care about and which bigotry you don't. They're all connected. If you oppose, if you genuinely oppose anti Semitism, then you have to connect that to all of the other bigotries. Islamophobia, transphobia, misogyny, etc. You cannot just pick and choose. This form of bigotry is unexpected, acceptable. But all the others, I'm fine with. Well, this is what Randy Fine does. Pop this up. He tweets, if they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one. Okay? This is a sitting congressman who tweeted this out and this, to me, should, should end it. This should be disqualifying. But in the age of Trump and in the age of Western media, not reporting the truth about Israel and not reporting the truth about Israel's involvement in the Epstein files, and with the ADL and Jonathan Greenblatt launching a Zoran Mamdani monitor. As of filming this, as of the time of filming this, the ADL and Jonathan Greenblatt have failed to acknowledge this tweet. And I think it's because the adl, the Lindsey Grahams, the Benjamin Netanyahu's, and a lot of these pro Israel thumpers scream at everybody. Anti Semitism, anti Semitism, but they never protect other marginalized groups. And that's why you just don't have credibility with me. And this is my complaint about a lot of Democrats. Republicans are always hypocritical on this shit. Okay? I expect it. This is my complaint with the Democratic leadership. This is why I got in a fight with. Not a fight. A heated conversation with Cory Booker on this podcast is because if you're really going hard on, you know, we've got it. This, we've got to address anti black racism. We need to address that in this country. We need to address transphobia, we need to address immigrant bigotry, we need to address misogyny, we need to address all of these things. And, and then you can't also apply that towards Islamophobia and you can't have empathy for Palestinians. Then you lose credibility with me. And so to me, this, this thing with Randy Fine is incredibly sad because Islamophobia is something that has been so normalized in this country. And if you were to reread that tweet and my friend Mehdi Hassan always does this so brilliantly online. He says change the word Muslim with Jews and reread it and think about how well that would go over. And we all know it wouldn't. And there has been so much Islamophobia in this country and I think that these types of tweets are so damaging to communities and they foster all of this hatred and this other rising. And that just really, really makes me sad because probably nothing will happen to him.
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That's what I was just going to say. Like he should be censured by the House. Do you think Mike Johnson, what is his response going to be? I don't know. I'll talk to him privately. He's a good Christian. You know all the shit that he says and makes excuses for bad behavior. But this to me, this type of speech, the lack of accountability, starting with Donald Trump all the way down, the racist hateful rhetoric that they get away with and then the minute somebody calls them on it and puts the mirror up to it, then they're the problem. But that so many people will see this and be like, yeah, he says what he means and he means what he say says and just raw. It's really sickening. It's sickening across the board because they are coming for everyone. It's Islam right now in that post. But it, it goes across the board. There is no group that is safe and there's no accountability. Cruel racism. And that is such a problem.
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Yeah. And the United States has always allowed forms of racism both institutional and in our, in our public lives. And, and it, it that really there's cancel culture can be really annoying. But that, that you should be canceled for that. Truly, you should genuinely be canceled for that. That is beyond the pill. But here's what's so interesting about the MAGA regime to me is they're all white nationalists, even the brown skinned ones, even the Latinos. Here's Marco Rubio at the Munich conference going full white nationalist. I want to remind you viewer, he's Cuban. Play the Clip.
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It is the kind of thing that I think, for example, I can say to you with confidence that President Trump is deeply committed to your success, because your success is our success, because this relationship we have here in Central Europe through you is so essential and vital for our national interests in the years to come.
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And so what's so fascinating about this to me is the one cool thing that we have in the United States, like France has a very defined culture. UK has a very defined culture. The Germans have a defined culture, the Spanish. And if you've been to those countries, they're so small and they're very cultural rich. The United States is so spread out and there's a little bit of culture. But really what makes us cool. The most fun I have in the United States is when I'm in multicultural settings and all of these white. We have to preserve whiteness. Every single one of them. Every single one of them uses multiculturalism for their entertainment purposes. Every single one. You cannot live in the United States without having and embracing some form of multiculturalism. So then it leads me to this. Are you the type of citizen that sees your fellow Americans, whether they're from India, they're from Cuba, they're from Pakistan, wherever do you see them as your fellow citizens, or do you see them as less than? And because we have a history in this country, institutional and otherwise, of treating black people as less than, it's not very difficult for white Americans to then just extend that. And that is the one cohesive member brain throughout all of MAGA is we get to. We get to have ours, and you can't have it. It's almost toddler, like, we're not sharing our stuff. And the racism that Donald Trump unleashed and the misogyny that he has unleashed, the only thing that I can hope is that they say that people that study this, scholars much smarter than me, that say right before the tail end of, like, the fight for equality for men and women, there's a huge resistance on the part of the ruling class, like the patriarchy or, you know, with. With this anti immigration bigotry. And then it's like the last. And then the bubble bursts and then we have movement again. So that's why I think it's so important. I think that there is a world that we live in in America where there is like the Twitter world and the Instagram world in the comment section world where it feels like MAGA might have more support than what they do. I have seen polling right now that for 18 to 44, Trump is in the 20s in those age groups. He's in 20, 20% approval rating, 25% with a huge, huge voting bloc. And I think that it's so incredibly important because they are going to try to suppress the vote. They're going to scare us and tell us, they're going to arrest us if we're out marching in the Never obey in advance. Marco Rubio is a washed up has been Republican that couldn't ever quite ascend in the Republican party. The only reason he's Secretary of State is because he has no soul and he was able to kiss the ass of a incompetent, dementia ridden dictator. That is his skill set and he is lecturing the people of Europe with that skill set being a kiss ass, a suck up. The things that we would tell people, you know when you in high school and you had that one friend that was a suck up to the teaching guy. Guys, she's such a suck up. Yeah, that's what all of the people in the Trump regime are. These people are suck ups. That's their only quality. You think Kristi Nam could run for president and win? No. Do you think Peter Till could run for president and win? No. These people suck. And we must stay engaged and stay collaborating and march to the polls because it has to be too big to rig because they're going to pull out every stop they can, every bit of fuckery and cheating that they can do because they have no moral compass at all. If they can cheat, all the better for them. They feel nothing about it. Not a heart rate change. So make sure you like subscribe and comment and we will be back later with more news. I am in Mexico. That's why my hair is not normal and I have a little bit of a tan.
Title: Trump Losing His Grip on MAGA As Oligarchs Plan For His Replacement
Podcast: IHIP News
Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan
Date: February 17, 2026
This episode delves into the unraveling authority of Donald Trump over the MAGA movement, focusing on the growing influence of right-wing oligarchs, in particular Peter Thiel, and the strategic maneuvering surrounding potential Trump successors such as J.D. Vance. The hosts, Jennifer and Angie, discuss the dangers posed by these behind-the-scenes power players, their interconnectedness with controversial figures, and the hypocrisy and bigotry underpinning their political ecosystem—with plenty of sharp-tongued commentary.
Trump’s Inner Circle and the Oligarchs:
Jennifer (C) argues that Trump’s administration is "all smoke and mirrors," populated with "Fox News narcissists" and "freak shows" while the real power lies with billionaire oligarchs benefiting from the system—particularly Peter Thiel.
Peter Thiel’s Influence:
Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s Shocking Comments:
J.D. Vance as the Oligarch’s Pick:
Angie (E) highlights Peter Thiel’s partnership with Jeffrey Epstein and notes that Thiel personally recruited J.D. Vance to be his political frontman:
“He was able to call J.D. Vance and say, hey, what’s it gonna take for you to be my bitch? … He was able to call Trump and say, hey, I want J.D. Vance to be your vice president.” – Jennifer (04:56)
Conspiracy and Influence in Israel-U.S. Policy:
Selective Outrage – The Randy Fine Example:
Addressing All Forms of Hate:
Jennifer challenges selective advocacy:
Lack of Consequences and Normalization of Hate Speech:
Angie (E) laments that officials like Randy Fine face little or no consequences for hate speech:
“That so many people will see this and be like, yeah, he says what he means... It’s sickening… they are coming for everyone.” (12:32)
Institutional Racism and Hypocrisy within MAGA:
American Multiculturalism vs. White Nationalist Rhetoric:
Resistance and Hope:
On Oligarchs and Sociopathy:
“I have a problem with sociopaths. And this guy [Thiel] is a diabolical sociopath of the highest order. He’s decided that modern society and democracy are no longer compatible.”
— Jennifer Welch (00:49)
On Hypocrisy in Bigotry:
“You cannot pick and choose which bigotry you care about and which bigotry you don’t. They’re all connected.”
— Jennifer Welch (08:13)
On GOP and Israel:
“All I ever hear [Lindsey Graham] say is like, God bless Donald Trump, and then he’s like, all in on Israel... he’s never talking about Americans, and he’s never talking about South Carolina.”
— Jennifer Welch (06:13)
On MAGA’s True Cohesion:
“That is the one cohesive member brain throughout all of MAGA. We get to have ours, and you can’t have it. It’s almost toddler-like.”
— Jennifer Welch (15:10)
On Staying Engaged:
“We must stay engaged and stay collaborating and march to the polls because it has to be too big to rig because they're going to pull out every stop they can, every bit of fuckery and cheating that they can do because they have no moral compass at all.”
— Jennifer Welch (16:10)
Jennifer and Angie dissected the power games of the post-Trump Republican right, criticizing oligarchs who seek to mold future leadership to their aims and the continuing normalization of bigotry across both parties. With signature humor and unfiltered language, they called out hypocrisy, highlighted the dangers of unchecked billionaire power, and stressed the urgency for listener participation in democracy.
“Make sure you like, subscribe, and comment and we will be back later with more news.” (16:46)