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“Well, President Trump has suspended a two-week US air strike campaign against Iran,”
citing ongoing negotiations while warning that military action will resume if diplomatic efforts fail. Oh, there's a twist. There's a twist. Yeah. Yeah, stop me if you've heard this one before. Despite the pause, regional tensions remain elevated as Iran, and back to groups of larger drone strikes into Saudi Arabia, and both nations continue to dispute maritime control and the straight-arm moves. Strategic pause, which caused a global oil prices to
tumble, was reportedly advised by US military officials due to target exhaustion and munition shortages amid low-American public approval for the conflict.
“Yeah, some general lockdown said, I don't know what to fuck to do.”
We'd done everything. We don't know what to do. Nobody knows what to do. Except, I mean, if the obvious thing to do, which is leave, this was a failure, cut your losses. Trump can't do that, because his ego is an obstacle. He doesn't want to look like he was the big loser that he is. But sooner or later, he's just going to have to bite the bullet, take a deal, say it was a success, even though it wasn't, and move on. Because tick, freaking top, you know, there's 98 days to the election,
and the fears that are going through the Republican Party right now with estimates that Democrats could end up with 240 seats in the new Congress or whatever are growing and daily. And frankly, they're not, you know, helped by other things the president has done tariffs. And so for it. So you have a war. You've got tariffs. They're all pushing prices up. The economy is weak. AI stocks are getting a little jittery. There's a possibility of a stock market correction in the fall. So if you
think any of this has anything to do with any of the reasons that they made up for starting this more, it doesn't. It just wants to get out, because it's starting to feel real darn uncomfortable to be Donald Trump or baby. You can tell that when you saw his White House Chris Bondon's dinner performance in which he was stunningly. He was almost as unfunny as the movie The Odyssey. See what I did there. See how I will that is to show that I'm okay on.
We have to make sure we're on topic with the latest pop culture news exactly. I love the critique of the Odyssey by the woman who has written sort of the defining translation of the Odyssey was exactly exactly right. But we can talk about that some other time unless you want to talk about it now and I can just see I just sort of see it bubbling up. I can table it. I feel like I want to talk about it. I read the critique right before we got on
actually fun enough. And it was good. I mean, she was exactly right. Yeah, I've never read the original.
I've had my copy of her translation requested for months, but so I haven't actually gotten to read it, but I'm curious to read hers and compare it to the movie. I mean, she's like, you know, this academic
“pen and because of this movie, I think the book is sold like a million copies this year. Holy moly,”
talking about biting the hand that feeds. But I have to say having read it and even having read her translation read the translation. It's better than the movie. And I mean, the movie is like an amazing achievement in movie making technology, but the performances and truly Matt Damon is a balloony sandwich of an Odysseus. Just bland and not much taste. I disagree, but I'm glad she's getting her bag and, you know, collecting checks on her book and people are educating themselves
and reading the Odyssey in different translations. That all makes me happy. We should all educate
ourselves and engage with physical media. So that's a win in my book. You are so welcome. I'm always
happy when I see a critique of Christopher Nolan because I do think Christopher Nolan is kind of overrated as much as I enjoy a lot of movies. How could he not be? I agree with. Now, that I agree with.
How could he not be overrated?
film director and savior of the planet Earth, Christopher Nolan has done the follow. I mean, it totally overwrought. Yeah. All right. There's also some bad lines in the movie like where Odysseus
“says the Bronze Age is coming to an end. It's like, okay, this seems a little ominous. I think you”
could have heard that ourselves. Or telemicus does, hey, dad want to get a pizza? I mean, you know, I mean, it's the script which she eviscerated was pretty darn bad and the the references to Odysseus and Penelope is dad and mom. Come on. Come on. That doesn't bother me. I think Christopher Nolan just doesn't know how to write people bad. I see as a story that was communicated through speech and like the local vernacular, like shouldn't we be allowed to do it in the same way?
Well, first of all, with your tips that the script is bad, like I don't think Christopher Nolan
writes good dialogue. I don't think he writes good women. But I also think like let movies be fun and grand and okay, beautiful. Okay, first of all, there's a bunch of, there's a bunch of, but there's a bunch of funny studies out there saying, cut it out, guys. We're here for the news. So I'm going to end this, but but I do want to say one thing. It was anything but fun. There was not one funny line in the movie, not one rye moment of a curled smile of the curl of a
“smile across in your lips at any moment. It was deadly serious. I think I'm going to pivot us”
yeah. So far away from that. Okay. And into something extremely, extremely serious. Okay. Following a Supreme Court decision, deciding with the Trump administration, temporary protected status ended on Monday for over 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, stripping them of illegal protections and leaving them vulnerable to deportations. Despite state department travel warnings and ongoing violence in both nations, federal officials argued the designation was meant to be temporary and had
turned into a de facto amnesty program. In response, immigrant advocacy groups are urging affected individuals to seek immediate legal counsel, secure guardianship for children and prepare for an expected surge in ice enforcement operations. Yeah. And that's going to be horrible
on several grants. First of all, these people, first of all, they shouldn't have removed temporary
“protected status because both of these places are not suitable for people to return to. And I think”
they're going to win a bunch of cases on those grounds. But but secondly, the people who are leaving are people who've been contributing to these communities for a long time. And there are many business leaders who say if you take these people out of the country, it's going to be harder to place the people hard to get new people to do the jobs they were doing. It's going to have strong economic consequences. This could be a very, very ugly turn of events. And it is made all the
uglier by the fact that some of the folks at DHS, including most recently Tom Homan, are saying, "Oh, no, we didn't make mistakes when we killed these people and gunned them down in the streets. I dispute the argument that we made mistakes." And so, you know, if that's the attitude going in to rounding up all of these people and deporting them to horrible places, I suspect we are going to have very, very bumpy ride. And I think once again, this is another thing that's going to resonate
in the elections because Trump's immigration policies always a strong point of his with voters are
now less popular than democratic views of immigration. So, you know, violence, the consequences of these deportations may only make that worse. President Trump is set to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House today to discuss the war with Iran, a peace framework for Lebanon, and the expansion of the Abraham Accords. The high stakes sit down falls recent tactical disagreements and personal friction between the two leaders, both of whom are navigating
domestic political pressure and declining public support for the conflict. They're reading also comes as Washington faces and growing scrutiny over rising military casualties and dwindling US stockpiles, coinciding with Trump's separate scheduled talks with President Zelensky of Ukraine. And also, I believe Benjamin Netanyahu will be attending the service for Lindsey Graham
At the National Cathedral.
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Yeah, well, there's a lot to deconstruct there. The first cross thought the cross is my mind is
where is a good White House botchallism outbreak when you need one. But you know, Trump and Netanyahu are in similar positions. They're political trouble. They have elections in the fall. Netanyahu could lose arguably his party could win, but they could lose their coalition. Netanyahu's a war criminal Trump is a war criminal Trump has committed other kinds of prime Netanyahu's committed other kinds of prime Netanyahu has completely altered the nature
of support for Israel in the United States. In fact, using the term support for Israel is a mistake.
The reality is that the majority of Americans now feel the United States should not give
unconditional aid to Israel that it should all be conditioned. Many, many people do not believe that we should be giving any aid at all to the country, which is quite well-off and doesn't really need our aid. And this includes large portions of the population that believe the Netanyahu did in Gaza was genocide that the United States should not have supported that
“and that the rights of Palestinians are every bit as important as the rights of Israelis”
as they should be. But in the past, there was an edge for people who thought Israeli rights were more important. That's not true now in many segments of the population, including under 30 population in the United States. Something has changed. Netanyahu has helped drive that change with terrible policies, the fact that he's a terrible person. And who knows, I had a conversation yesterday, I once a week, I do a podcast with the Daily Beast,
which you can all go and listen to. And we were talking about the fact that Netanyahu, and Trump, and Putin all seemed to be sort of under last legs. May they're departures be quick. We would all be better off in a world in which they were not around and Riley and Minnesota could begin stories without the words president trump dot dot dot. You could just switch over. I would just say, President Akasio Cortez launched a new
healthcare program for the people. How does that feel? How does that sound? Sounds so good. It's soothing. It reduces our cortisol levels. I thought you were going to end that sentence saying, oh, no, world where Riley and Minnesota take their places. So like we're running. Well, yeah, you're a, you're a think of that. That's, that's kind of where my mind was going, but take, take a couple of had to calm me in the morning. Acting attorney general Todd
“Blanche faces a crucial senate judiciary committee confirmation vote, but Republican senators,”
John Cornean and Tom Tillis remain uncommitted due to unresolved concerns over President Trump's IRS settlement agreement. The controversial settlement as a reminder created a 1.776
billion dollar anti weaponization fund and included an attempt shielding Trump's family and
businesses from tax audits prompting severe backlash over potential self-dealing. Both key senators insist they will not support Blanche's nomination until the administration provides a written commitment formally rescinding the fund and narrowing the audit immunity language. There shouldn't be audit immunity. I mean, come on. This ridiculous, this is self-dealing. I think the thought that, you know, they opposed this self-dealing as opposed to the self-dealing
Where he gets an airplane and we spend hundreds of millions of dollars and he...
or the self-dealing where, you know, he does a deal with the Saudis and all of a sudden this
“sons and cabinet members and others would benefit if they proceed with the nuclear plan or he”
does a deal. Anywhere in the world, you know, there's deals in Kazakhstan, there deals that, there deals all over the world where there is Trump's self-dealing. And for those of you who did not see John Oliver's last week tonight discussion of the crypto biz, go watch that. That will give you some real insights into self-dealing and especially stupid transparent self-dealing. Well, to wrap things up, I have a strange story that I saw and knew I'd had to hear David
your rant about it. Wisconsin election officials sparked backlash from prediction market company
Calshy after reiterating a state law that prohibits voters from placing wagers on elections in which they cast a ballot. Calshy criticized the advisory as a form of voter suppression highlighting a broader conflict between nearly half of U.S. states attempting to enforce gambling regulations and federal proponents treating political wagers as financial products. Despite Calshy's claims at prediction markets of boost political participation, election experts warn that high stakes of
wagering a threatens election integrity through potential inside of trading for manipulation and compromised
public trust in results. I read this and I read, you know, I read about it in the paper and
it was like boxed in the paper. I don't get any papers. I read about it online and I was reading
“the story and it got up to this expression. It was a voter suppression and I was like, what?”
How was this voter suppression? They're just, you know, some idiot lawyer who works for this company was like, oh yeah, this is constitutional. It's not. This shouldn't be allowed. Think, think of the consequences. Think of the concept. Think of the incentives that will be created for people who tally votes to give a little heads up to somebody before the vote comes out so that somebody can make some money off of it. You know, I mean, it's odious. It's disgusting
and how do we know? Because that's the game that Trump is playing now with true social for 100,000 bucks. You get the insider stuff. They'll tell you in advance so that you can be ahead of the game on betting on the consequences of what he is doing in terms of stock markets or Calshy or Polymarketer or any of the Southern kind of stuff. The sooner this Calshy and Polymarket stuff is, done the better. America's got a problem. I mean, let's be honest, in the past 10 years,
America has been infected by compulsive gambling disorder. Everything is bet on. Everybody bets, everybody's betting on their phones. All kinds of gambling is legal. People are losing millions and millions of dollars. People are losing perspective on what's happening here. I mean, you know, you go turn on ESPN and they're supposed to be reporting on sports and then they're like, and now let's get our, you know, pick up the day. Let's get our bets sponsored by draft
games or whatever the company that they're using is it's just to me it's, I'm maybe I sound like getting old, get off your lawn, funny dirty, but I don't think this is good for the country.
“I don't, I don't think this has helped us in any way. In fact, I think it's had a lot of negative”
effects and sort of the bottom of the barrel is the Calshy and Polymarket stuff where, you know, people are betting on things happening in sort of every aspect of public life and it's just, it's, it's a corrupting influence. It's just corrupting and, I hope it stops. Anyway, it's Tuesday, we have a long week ahead. We need to maintain our reserves of anger and outrage better than the US military has maintained their reserves of munitions and the course of this
Iran war. So we've got 'em around for tomorrow and the next day and the next day and each one of our podcasts. I hope you'll join us for those, whether you watch on YouTube, whether you watch on substat, or whether you watch via clips on Instagram or TikTok, or whether you're getting this,
