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David Brokka, Riley Fessler, Minestine, are you guys doing it? Pretty good. You guys are young, so you're probably like super excited by the fact that the Trump administration has changed the classification for marijuana and now it'll be easier to get. Of course, it's easy to get everywhere. I don't know what the impact of this is, but I know that the youngs are like really into like marijuana and drugs.
“Are you guys really? I'm not. I'm not. I think it's a good change, but I personally will not be taking advantage of it.”
Yeah. If it helps people, I'm for it. That's beautiful. How come you have a big bowl of gummies next to you and your desk? That's a question. Which is helping me? It is pain, pain maintenance. This is not pain free. Why do I know how I know that? Because I've seen those stories. Okay, start off. At least four people were killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon. Well, has Boa launched a drone attack,
straining a fragile ceasefire with Israel. Lebanon is seeking to extend the US media. It screws ahead of talks in Washington as violence and mutual accusations of ceasefire violations continue. Yeah, I mean, this situation in Lebanon doesn't get as much press as it should here. The Israelis are going in. The people in the far Israeli writer like we should, you know, annex these parts of Lebanon. The people of Lebanon are
“deeply frustrated. The talks that are going on between the Israelis and the Lebanese government do not include Hezbollah, which is obviously an important player in this.”
And so it's not clear how effective they will be. And it's not clear how committed the Israelis really are to any kind of peace. Of course, they've been going into Lebanon for a long long time. And we discussed this yesterday on the DSR weekly show, deep state radio, show that we've been doing since 2017, but actually existed before that on another named for a couple of years. So we've been the group of us that have been doing it for 11 or 12 years. And we had a great conversation about the war in Iran, but also about Israel, about changing US attitudes towards Israel, about how US relations with Israel will never be the same.
And how that's probably a good thing. So I really, you know, I just, you know, obviously all the time I'm sitting here, I'm promoting podcasts. Go listen to yesterday's deep state radio. It is a plus the best you're going to hear on this the main story of the week.
Oh, to keep going with Iran, US military forces boarded a sanctioned oil tank...
Yeah, that's pretty cool. You must have been cool, or then it was my rap name or the second year this week when I was in high school, there was no rap, but go on.
“Part of their broader enable blockade, but of course, this comes as a ceasefire supposedly being negotiated for despite both sides continuing to do this. So we'll see if that actually.”
Yeah, I mean, who knows? You know, do we even need a ceasefire? Trump does want to fight anymore? He's perfectly happy to leave, you know, the troops in the area and to spend billions.
They've got a budget proposal right now for 1.5 trillion dollars in defense spending, and that doesn't include the couple a hundred billion dollars supplemental they want for this war.
So if we decide that we're going to fund the US military to this effect, we could just go on forever. Of course, you won't be getting any health care. You won't be getting any federal education support. You won't be getting any research and drugs or other things that are helpful.
“You won't be getting any federal services of any sort. You'll probably die poor and in despair, but we'll have a big military nice and big one bigger than all the other ones added up.”
It's crazy. It's it's lunacy. You know, we talk about the war, but the fact that in the past 25 years the United States has spent almost ten trillion dollars more on defense than China has.
Where China has been directing its resources into research, development, infrastructure, building the country, building the sources of its strength, make no mistake when you invest in the country. You invest in strength when you spend money on defense. It's not necessarily an investment, especially if the systems you're buying are only for a certain kind of war that you will never probably fight. You know, big world war, global thermonuclear war, et cetera. There's a lot of systems that were spending money on that either we won't use are not terribly effective or are actually obsolete.
And so caught up in all of this, we ought to think about that because it's right in front of the Congress right now, and it would be a ghastly mistake free United States desperately in need of investment in the sources of our strength, rather than manifestations of our military strength to do what the Trump administration is recommended.
Sorry, that was my sermon at today on defense spending.
“Well, it's funny you should mention investments in strength, spoiler alert, this next story is still about military.”
Why? Because you'd like out a big protein shake this morning before you head to the gym. I've been investing in my own strength, and I thought it was funny you mentioned that. I've been involved with what I'm doing. Because I have a dozen of you who are just listening to these can't see it, but man is pumped. I've just worked on my strength, so. She's she's ripped. Thanks for it for noticing that. Well, I just, you know, I want to be supportive.
John Villain was forced to step down abruptly after clashes with defense secretary Peg Seth and other Pentagon leaders over management issues, including shipbuilding. Navy Under Secretary Hong Cow will serve as acting secretary as the administration continues reshaping military leadership, which seems like maybe the last thing that we need right now. Well, I mean, we don't have military leadership on the civilian side. They're good military leaders in the military. And they have, you know, provided some pushback on the president on some of his plans, but whenever they do provide pushback, somebody gets fired.
Because loyalty is value more than good advice here. And we've seen that. And, you know, in the course of, you know, the wars that the president has been fighting the war of, you know, the Caribbean off of Venezuela or this war. We have seen the chief of staff of the army go. We've seen the Secretary of the Navy just go yesterday. We have seen the commander of Southcom, the combat and command that handles vessels in the Caribbean. Go because he didn't want to go along with this stuff. We've seen a bunch of generals and admirals fired. We've also seen the attorney general of the United States who controls the FBI or at least allegedly controls the FBI course we have the cash problem, but the attorney general go.
They handle counterterrorism counterintelligence stuff and they have gotten r...
And on top of all of that, we lost the Secretary of Homeland Security, which obviously has a responsibility for protecting us, which you would think was more important in times of war.
“There is also a very strong rumor circulating in Washington, D.C. that Tulsi Gabbard has been told she's just got months that she must resign between now and the election.”
Do I know whether this is true or not? No. Does it sound plausible, given everything else in the relationship we know that Trump does not have with Tulsi? Yes. And in fact, she has not been in a bunch of the key meetings. So here we are in the middle of fighting wars, getting rid of the people who are actually supposed to be providing advice and helping us to fight them. It is a, you know, there is a technical term for this in the military, which is claustrophac. This is a claustrophac. The worst managed military interventions we have ever seen in American history, and with the possible exception of the Bay of Pigs, you know, I mean it's, which was that intelligence operation is supposed to military operation.
Having said all of that could get worse because the president has fired loads of people, except the one who is most responsible for these problems in the military, which is sectary beer goggles, Pigs, who really ought to go.
“And frankly, I don't think he's going to be around much longer. I think, you know, at some point in the next year, next, you know, after the election, Trump will get rid of him too, because he is just a lightning rock for controversy.”
He has been a management disaster since he arrived. Remember, last year, you know, he released a secret information via a signal chat. He also had his staff leave. I mean, the people he picked to be his like, you know, a special assistance and so they left. They didn't want to work with him. The military doesn't want to work with him.
I talk to the people in the military all the time. There has never been the level of contempt and disrespect for a secretary of state, a secretary of demands in the United States.
That there is for a Pigs. So this is a mess and appears to just get messier and messier every single day.
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Let's test out Shopify. Pull to DE. We're sticking with a theme of total dysfunction from our government. Senate Republicans have advanced a budget resolution to fund ice and border patrol reconciliation process, which they hope will end a partial DHS shutdown that began in mid-February. The measure is now moving to the house where Mike Johnson has the unenviable task of trying to balance his coalition and get them to actually pass this through. While they are trying to shoehorn in random other bills, including Save America act and attach those to this, which has been a fruitless effort so far.
And Save America died in the Senate. It's not going anywhere. That whole thing is off the table, but you know the margin in the house is so small right now in the Democrats lost. Another member who died yesterday at Georgia Representative. And so nonetheless, Mike Johnson does not automatically get a majority on this thing. Of course, are we overspending on DHS? Oh yes, because the big beautiful bill gave DHS a budget that's larger than the budget. So most militaries in the world. So you know, we've got this domestic military that is under the control of the president and a bunch of rogue operators and you know expect to see him again.
Around election time, we have not seen the end of overage in abuses by the fo...
Investigated should the Democrats retake the house in just a matter of months. I mean, today is April 23rd, which means in a week, it's May.
So where do we have? May, June, July, August September, October. Remember, so we're about a half a year away from big election. Hope you folks are donating, working, volunteering, getting out there, working if you're in a primary season in the near state on getting the best possible candidates on the ballot candidates that produce change accountability.
“Who will stand up and fight when they need to fight and then focus on the future, which is what we really need to do.”
I was quite interested yesterday. I mentioned this on the podcast today, but I saw this story in the FD, which said that big Chinese battery company had introduced a battery with a long range and a six minute, it was 1500 kilometer range and six minute charging. It also pointed out that Chinese battery companies, this company, plus BYD, are controlling the majority now of the global battery market, and I thought, she's, you know, China's living in a different world. We're having a discussion about Trump and dysfunction, corruption, and more, and all this other stuff, and they're investing in their future, and I just threw it out there because it just triggered me. Well, it became, it's the, the, the, the post on blues guy kind of went viral, I mean, you know, to the extent of my post of viral, but I don't know what it is now, eight, nine, ten thousand people have shared it.
Because it triggers something in everybody, you know, we've lost the plot as a country. We are focused on the wrong things spending money on the wrong things not investing in our country, not investing in our people, not investing in our future.
“And it shows up in every poll that there is out there. American people are deeply frustrated. So what's so like, what are we going to do today if with this? Like, Riley, what are you going to do to make the world a better place to be?”
I don't know, probably just sleep some more. Yeah, make my world a better place. That's great. That's really great. Adapt, adapt it behavior. Men, are you going to like go out do something? I'm going to eat this entire bowl of weed gummies. And hope that it makes me see a better future. Yeah, or see something, see something. Well, don't look down. Please, these are good people, but don't use them as your examples. Do more than men and Riley are doing today. Get out there. Make a difference. We will do the same. We've got not one but two putcats being recorded today in addition to the podcast.
We do with the new public, but we've got your fan favorite words matter with Norm Ornstein, who always provides new and special insights into what's going on here in Washington.
“And we've got a new silicantiousness coming up talking about a topic that I think is a very, very, very under-estimated topic, which is the politics of AI.”
And I have to say, if you haven't listened to silicantiousness, you really should or you haven't watched it.
So give that a listen today too, because it is going to be a subject that everybody's talking about.
Anyway, thank you, Riley. Thank you, men. Thanks everybody. Bye-bye. The legendary check-out of Shopify, just for the shop on their website, a bit to social media and over-edits. That's the music for your ears. If you liked this video, please leave a like and subscribe to my channel. See you in the next episode on Shopify.de/recorded.
