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“for a clues as to when it's welcome at hand. Oh my god, all right, start us up. What is it?”
Senate Democrats have blocked a bipartisan $1 trillion defense bill preventing it from advancing and a protest of President Trump's ongoing military campaign in Iran, and argued Congress should not approve increased defense spending without addressing the conflict. The bill, which included a higher Pentagon funding and a military pay raise, failed a procedural vote 50 to 46 after
Democratic leaders said it would enable continued military action without sufficient oversight.
Republicans have vowed to bring the legislation back from other vote while broader disputes continue over defense spending levels in the US involvement in the war. Yeah, well, the defense spending levels are kuku, kuku, kuku, you know, and yesterday
“had Mike Johnson go, what we need $350 million of this of, no, I think it was $350. I don't know,”
but it was a huge amount of money. He said we needed it to fight communism in America. That's like communism in America. There is still communism in America, but apparently we need to shift on a money to fight it, because Mike Johnson's worried about it. This bill is full of crazy crazy stuff, you know, Trump battleships and golden dome stuff and, you know, funding for crazy Trump projects. Meanwhile, Pete Heggseth may have actually created a historic situation,
because he's blocked promotions for women and people of color, again, to the rank of
admiral or general. And so it looks like this may be the first time at a long time that no woman
gets promoted to this level within the military. And I just, you know, I got to ask a question. Our Republicans actually going to run in the fall on, hey, we're the party that believes that women and people of color who devote their lives to serving their country who put their lives at risk should not get promoted, do not deserve to get ahead. This is the position, because Pete Heggseth is systematically getting, I was so one estimate that something like 900 years of collective
military leadership experience has been expunged because Pete Heggseth just doesn't believe that women or people of color should be leaders in our military. It's racist. It's insane, but it's also bad for US national security. Should the Democrats block this funding? Of course, they should. The funding level is three times as high as it ought to be. Will they block it until, you know, forever and stop it from happening? I doubt it. I'm sure this thing is going to
come down the pike. And the reason it's going to come down the pike is the reason that was warned about by that crazy communist Dwight Eisenhower in January of 1961 when he talked about the military industrial complex. Washington is run by a bunch of companies that donate a lot of money to politicians and they make defense products. And so we have been in a state effectively and certainly in terms of funding, a permanent war, since World War II, and spending much more than other countries.
And every time we do, as Eisenhower pointed out, every time you spend on a tank, you're not spending on a school, every time you spend on a bomber, you're not spending on a hospital, you're not spending on the things that actually make this country strong. And that's where we are. It's crazy time here
“in Washington, D.C. Did you see, by the way, guys, the Trump coin that they're putting at?”
No. Yes. I'm excited for new Trump merch. Yeah, well, this is not merch. This is the U.S. Treasury putting out a gold colored $1 coin with the president's face on it. Just like I don't know, he were a Roman emperor, just like we are living in a monarchy. He's going all in on crazy authoritarian
Later at the moment.
it so wisely. We've spent several hundred billion dollars on a war in Iran and in the
Persian Gulf, where every day we threaten to do the same thing, and every day it achieves no result, and every day he says it's going to achieve in a result if he just turns up the E a little bit,
“and it's a cycle. I want to rename the war. Do you want to hear my new name for the war?”
That's long. I want to call it the groundhog day war in the Persian Gulf. Because it's like groundhog day the movie. Every day it's the same thing over again. It makes no progress. We just go through it. Except in groundhog day, of course, Bill Murray's character learns something
and made the most of the repetition. Donald Trump learned something. U.S. military leaders learn
something. Members of Congress learn something. Heck no. Because we don't learn stuff in the United States because that's communist. I heard that Riley requested his salary to be paid in golden Trump coins. Is that true? He said he wanted Trump meme coins. Actually we pay Riley and crypto anyway. All through liberty, financial or something. You know what I mean? And I just bet it all on Kalshi.
“Yeah. Because that's what people do. Most people, I don't know if you're out there”
you're listening to this. Most people realize at this point that we're right about everything.
And that if you just go to Kalshi or Polymarket and you make bets based on what we predict
here, you're going to break it in. Riley quickly tell people I'm kidding. That we don't do that. We do not endorse. And we do not provide investment advice here. Although, you know, there are major networks out there that are doing deals with Polymarket and Kalshi. Because we've lost our minds America. Everything is about betting. You can bet on everything. Why? Because we've become totally corrupted. You know, from the top down, from the inside out,
wherever you look, is this alarmist? No. Just the way it is. There must be some good news here elsewhere. So I'm coming. Give me a good news story. Unfortunately, my story is just as bleak as what you shared. So we're going to maintain tone with this next story. President Trump publicly opposed his own administration's policy today declaring that ice must continue conducting traffic stops. Trump's social media
pushback directly contradicts recent directives from federal immigration officials who ordered a temporary suspension of most vehicle stops following two fatal ice officer involved.
“Yeah, so look, take this for what it is. I think there's an important message in this.”
Ice is killing people. Ice is killed as we talked about yesterday over 60 people in sort of public, you know, traffic stops and things, but also within ice detention facilities since Trump took over. It's probably much higher number than that. The injured many more people than that is violated the rights of many more people than that. And when you see these things happened in Minnesota, they happened in Maine or what happened yesterday in Florida as a guy was running away
from ice when he got hit by a truck. You think, well, this is DHS. This is Mark Wayne Mullin. This is some ice agent who's crazed in that control. And the way you solve it is you prosecute the ice agent. Now, by the way, you should prosecute the ice agent. There's the broader issue we've talked about before about what do you do with ice? But Donald Trump sent you an important message today. Because when ice suspended this, he said, don't don't suspended. I want to see these traffic
stops. Donald Trump reminded you that every single person who dies at the hands of ice who's rights are violated at the hands of ice is doing so because the president of the United States personally sought that outcome. This is not distant from Donald Trump. This is personal. It involves him. He can't say I didn't know they were doing it, which is one of his favorite responses. He's the guy asking for them to do the things that are
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go subscribe to us on YouTube. So you get great videos on YouTube. The more subscribers we've got, the more support we've got, the more good independent journalism we can do. So we rely on you. We are grateful. Join us on substack. Thanks. [speaking in foreign language] Well, today's the day for Todd Blanche to face his Senate confirmation hearing,
as Democrats prepare to grill him over the botch roll out of the Jeffrey Epstein files, and his involvement with a controversial and defung to $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund.
“His path to confirmation remains precarious with key Republican senators like”
John Corne and Tom Toes, signaling that their crucial votes depend on absolute certainty
that the legally fraught fund will never be revived. Under immense pressure to secure his nomination amidst a razor-thin Senate majority, Blanche has spent the days leading up to the hearing privately lobbying a skeptical lawmakers in admitting it to past missteps. Well, Blanche will just lie to say anything that he wants. The hearings have already begun as we're recording this. They were opened up by 92-year-old Senator Chuck Grassley who can't believe
his luck that he's the last man standing in the U.S. Senate. Heeping praise on Todd Blanche for all the great stuff he did. This was then followed by the ranking Democratic member, Richard Durbin, Avillanoi, listing all the things that Riley just listed. There is a bit of Kabuki theater here because Blanche may get confirmed. He may not get confirmed. But he will remain in charge of the Department of Justice whether he does or not.
Because if he doesn't get confirmed, Trump will just leave him in as acting attorney general. And he can do all the same things, essentially that he could do as attorney general.
“So we're stuck with this guy. The best thing we can hope for out of this is A, that his crimes”
misdeeds and corruption are made more public so that there is a referendum on them and that the people who vote in favor of him pay a price for it at the polls. B, we can also hope that there is an electric defeat in the vote for him and that he does not get confirmed thus sending a message that the Senate is not going to play along with this. It just takes a couple of Republicans and it's possible. I guess is in the end when you look at what things the people like tell us
are saying, you know, well, he's got a promise he's not going to do this. Well, of course he's going to promise he's not going to do it. The courts of setting can't do it. Defining it narrowly on that and not saying, well, what about the Epstein files? What about Galane Maxwell? What about your support for Donald Trump as his effective attorney? What about your leadership of attacks on opponents of the administration? You're turning the department of justice
Into a tool of political repression in the United States.
him. The fact that he's even being considered as an obscenity. I hope the hearing goes,
“you know, rough frame. I hope it's a rocky hearing. I hope that a lot comes out. I hope the American”
people are listening and I hope that they see who in the Republican Party supports this kind of corruption because that can make a difference. Come November when we have an election. For now, let us watch it closely. The fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ended more than 60 years of federal desegregation oversight for Louisiana's Concordia Parish School Board, marking a victory for the Trump administration's push to dissolve civil rights and error mandates.
The court ruled that because the active parties in the case had mutually agreed to voluntary dismissal,
the lower district court lacked the authority to prolong the litigation or hold further evidentiary hearings. State officials celebrated the decision as a restoration of local government.
“Governance, while civil rights advocates strongly condemn the rollback warning that dismantling”
these programs threatens to reverse decades of progress against systemic racial disparities. Look, this administration, in conjunction with this Supreme Court, have done huge damage to equality in the United States, equal opportunity, fair treatment of all people, equal justice under the law for everybody. And they've done it everywhere you look. We talked about Pete Higgs at the earlier Pete Higgs at his done it by making the Department of Defense overtly racist and
misogynists. The Supreme Court did it by getting rid of affirmative action. The administration is doing it by promoting policies like these across the country by getting rid of DEI. What does it all mean? It means we have a white supremacist government promoting white supremacist policies with the assistance of white supremacist states and a white supremacist supreme court that is turning the clock back wearing Jim Crow 2.0 and it is going to be up to the next government.
If there is ever a new government in the United States to start doing what we did in response to Jim Crow 1.0 restoring civil rights protections, restoring voting rights protections, restoring the kind of protections that DEI programs in affirmative action get because we've gone backwards in time. If you don't think we're back where we were, ask somebody who is being targeted, ask a person of color who has ice chasing them down the street, not because they're illegal, but because they're
“around. Well some very important things happening in the House of Representatives because they have passed the Sunshine”
Protection Act. So we're going to protect sunshine. We're protecting the sun. Good. In a 308 to 117 vote to make daylight saving time, permanent nationwide, while allowing existing state exemptions to remain. The proponents argued that the change will benefit public health, sleeves schedules, and the economy, all critics warn that dark winter mornings pose safety risks. Well legislation now heads to the Senate where the future is uncertain, though President Trump has signaled he
would sign the bill into law. Well you know it's not often on the show that my analysis or my response to development like this is I don't give a shit, but personally I don't give a shit. Now Riley, do you care? I don't know I guess, I don't really care that much. But men, do you have strong feelings about daylight savings? Love it, but compared to everything else that's going on, like this is not at the top of my list. Yeah exactly, you know it might be darker in the winter,
but you know we go through this all the time, this idea of changing sleep schedules in the middle of the year is kind of dumb and it used to have to do with the fact that you know they wanted you know farm kids to be able to go out and do it. Farm kids had to be able to do it. It's the reason we don't have school in the summer. It's another one of these things that dates back to our agrarian past. How about this? Just whatever they do. I don't care. We're going to get up when we
get up. We're going to go to sleep when we go to sleep. There's you know there's things like
artificial light now. It's amazing. Electric light almost everywhere across America,
probably not the Louisiana Mississippi, but the rest of the United States of America.
Anything else going on you want to talk about it?
France. Moting for France. Riley, are you moving to France or?
“Yeah, I guess. Why not? Yeah, well the France are disappointed because they played”
very badly in yesterday's World Cup semi final. They just, they were good right up until the
World Cup semi final was Spain's Spain crushed them. The winner will face the winner of the game
“that takes place later today between England and Argentina. And I don't know could be,”
could be awkward. Donald Trump might have to go to the finals of this thing and sit next to
the Prime Minister of Spain. Who he hates? Ah, too bad. I can find a political silver lining
“in everything. All right. Well, we'll keep following all this stuff and we've got new podcasts coming”
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So I would go definitely and listen to that. We've got deep state radio later today. We've got words matter later tomorrow. Lots going on. So join us for all of that for now. Thanks everybody for all the support you're given us. Follow us, subscribe on YouTube, Substack, wherever you get your podcasts and Instagram on TikTok. We're everywhere. And please join us everywhere. For now. Thanks, Riley. Thanks, Bina. Bye. Bye.
