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We're here to look at the news.
“As it is unfolding on this Tuesday, what he got.”
Well, our Secretary of State, Mark Rubio, is testifying. As we speak right now, before congressional committees, where he is facing intense questioning regarding the fragile ceasefire and economic consequences of the war with Iran. Although the admin is defending the conflict, lawmakers are increasingly getting a bit unhappy. Over the war is a high cost rising gas prices and lack of prior congressional approval.
He's also expected to testify about the administration's escalating to magnetic tensions and potential threats, military action against Cuba. Yeah. Well, you know, he has already been as we're recording this, getting some tough questions, because he should, because the administration has been amazingly opaque in the way that it's presented this. And that's been kind.
They've just lied about it. They lied about their objectives. They lied about whether there's a strategy. They lied about what they've achieved. They've lied about what it has cost us.
And so we have ended up with, you know, it's not quite another forever war, but this is an extended conflict with Iran that is going to have cost. That in one new study could take years, not months, years to correct in terms of global prices for gasoline, for natural gas, for fertilizer and for food.
And so, you know, that's one reason that even Republicans are starting to turn the screws a little bit in Marco, who is put in the position of having to defend his boss, even though he really knows better. It's one of the reasons I'm actually harder on Marco than some of the others, because he used to run these hearings. He used to be tough on administrations for not being forthcoming, not having strategies,
not delivering for the American people. And yet here he is on the other side, and seemingly without hesitation, or any sense of embarrassment at his hypocrisy. Try to make the case for a war that doesn't make any sense at all. And is nowhere near close to being resolved, particularly since the talks broke down yesterday,
and there seems to be a deepening impact between the United States and Israel. Very, very early in the morning. Russia launched a massive coordinated overnight missile and drone assault against major Ukrainian cities, killing at least nine people and wounding more than 60. The devastating bombardment follows days of explicit intelligence warnings
from Ukrainian President Zelensky, that Moscow was preparing a large scale strike. Yeah, it's worth remembering multiple years into this war,
“that Russia has been waging an illegal war against an important democratic European state.”
They have destroyed billions and billions and billions in property in Ukraine. And thousands and thousands of lives, they kidnapped Ukrainian children.
Putin is a war criminal, and the only difference between the intensity of the...
and the intensity of the war a couple years ago is that the U.S. switch sides.
And that the United States of America is now on the side of Russia, has cut off aid for Ukraine, even though periodically we say we're going to provide them a little of this and a little of that. It's nowhere near the levels of aid that was provided under Joe Biden. And we are leaving it to the Europeans and Ukraine to deal with this situation.
Even though it agreed with Ukraine as Putin risk, Europe as Putin risk, and therefore U.S. interests are put at risk. Democracy is put at risk, et cetera. And the other difference, of course, is that Ukraine is actually despite all of that,
showing incredible result, incredible creativity,
and has actually sort of got momentum on its side at the moment.
“So note this follow this remember, the people of Ukraine.”
They are fighting for the United States in a way our own government is not. Well, and California is holding their primary election today to choose to finalists for governor, as well as the mayor of Los Angeles, while testing newly redrawn congressional lines that could impact a control of House. In the open, the gubernatoria race to succeed at Gavin Newsom,
Democrat Javier Bessera currently leads the field ahead of progressive billionaire Tom Styer and Republican Steve Hilton, additionally incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass,
faces multiple challengers, and several key congressional races are underway.
Though definitive results could take days due to mail in voting. Yeah, one of Karen Bass's challengers is, of course, reality star and well established, no nothing idiot, Spencer Pratt. And yet somehow there seems to be some interest in him. Does he have any experience in politics?
No, I would service, no, business, no, any track record of success? No, any understanding of the issues? No, any capacity to do the job? No, you want to know what that results in? You guessed it, a Trump endorsement, because Donald Trump loves the idiots.
All they have to be is loyal. You want me to prove it another way? Well, there's a guy, and his name is Bill Polty. And you probably don't know who Bill Polty is.
“Unless you remember that at one time, the government administration was trying to”
persecute its enemies by suggesting that they had violated mortgage laws. And Bill Polty is the head of the agency in the United States government that oversees those mortgages. He doesn't have any experience in that area either, but what he did was he proved that he was loyal to Trump and willing to do anything including break the law
in order to try to punish Trump's enemies. So what did Trump do today? Well, Trump appointed Bill Polty as the acting director of national intelligence. Doesn't require Senate confirmation, and because he has been confirmed by the Senate, he can be in this position for some time.
And once again, it follows this Spencer Pratt model, or frankly, the Tulsi Gabbard model, Tulsi Gabbard, who was the prior director of national intelligence, had no experience in the intelligence community to speak up except for being a low ranking officer once who handled some intelligence duties and spending some time in Congress. Having said that, Bill Polty, even less.
Bill Polty has no intelligence experience, no national security experience.
“Does not know any of the things you need to know to do the job of coordinating”
the 17 last count, perhaps it's more than that. United States intelligence agencies. And you gotta ask, is this smart? Is it smart to put somebody in charge of the US intelligence apparatus? Who doesn't know anything about intelligence?
Well, the answer to that is no. In fact, it's not just reckless. It's dangerous. It's like unilateral disarmament. Trump doesn't care. See earlier story about Ukraine and switching over to the Russians.
You literally could pick a Russian intelligence operative and put them in charge
of degrading US intelligence capacity.
And they couldn't do a better job.
“Then we'll be done by this no nothing in competent, Trump loyalist”
who is now in charge of our intelligence community. It's terrifying. And it's produced some level of outrage today in Washington. But not enough. This is the kind of thing that a president should be impeached over.
If there is one fundamental job of the president of the United States to help protect the people of the United States. And essentially standing down our intelligence apparatus by putting an incompetent inexperienced idiot in charge of it, puts us all at risk.
Not in a small way, folks. But you'll recall the Tulsi Gabbard started to get involved in some of the election denial things and making up crazy cases. The foreign governments had intervened in the 2020 election, and that's why Trump lost.
Expect that kind of thing from Pulti.
Expect him to try to use the intelligence assets of the US government to support Trump's crazy conspiracy theories and his vendetta against his enemies. And not to use it to protect us, but to use it to aid the president personally.
“Dangerous types, folks, terrifying types.”
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given a significant amount of power. A divided three judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit rolled on Monday that the Trump administration's policy expelling active duty transgender service members
is unconstitutional. While the two-to-one decision blocks the Pentagon from discharging current serving troops, it allows the government to continue enforcing its ban against transgender individuals
trying to enlist. In response to the setback, defense secretary Pete Hexeth, signaled an immediate intent to escalate the legal battle,
posting on social media, see you at Scotus. Yeah, which says something about Hexeth, of course. It says something about how Hexeth
used the Supreme Court. It should be a bit chilling for the Supreme Court to think that they are the court of last resort for these extremists, and they are expected to play
a political rather than a legal role. And of course, Hexeth willing this to engage in this in this way is just another sign of Hexeth. Absolutely unfit to be the secretary of defense,
“which I think was your opening point there.”
But there's more evidence of that today because today the defense department announced a new policy in which it said that the press office in the defense department
would be designated a classified area, meaning journalists could not just walk in and out of it. They would actually require an escort to go into or to be in the press office. And this is all part of an effort
to reduce the access of real-life journalists to the Department of Defense thus reduce transparency. They want to trillion in a half dollars year money. They want to be able to conduct wars around the world.
They want to be able to create new nuclear weapons programs
and spend $150 billion or more
on an unproven, unlikely to work, golden dome program.
They want to be able to pump hundreds of millions of dollars
into the pockets of the Trump kids.
“And they don't want you to know about it.”
They don't want to be questioned. And so they are taking steps like this. So once again, you've got somebody no experience. Actually, it'll suit into the job who has just one quality loyalty to Trump
the willingness to do anything for Trump and therefore has a free hand from the president. Despite the fact I would point out that we've just been conducting a war in Iran
and have achieved none of our strategic goals that the team has been overseeing wholesale murder on the high seas of people who are just moving around in these speed boats, killing them without any kind of judicial authority
to do so and probably as a war crime.
In other words, there's a lot of evidence
that these mismanaging the Department of Defense even as we speak in myriad ways. Expect the same thing now from the intelligence community, but the same kind of blue running it.
That's where we are folks. Elect a clown. Get a circus. Well, I'm ending on a science story because there's been a trend of those.
“But unfortunately, this one not so good news”
because the National Science Foundation is dismantling the $368 million ocean observatories initiative, which if you're not familiar with what that was, it was a deep scene network established a decade ago
to monitor marine ecosystems and global climate patterns. The NSF is framing this shutdown as a transition to newer scientific priorities and it follows repeated attempts by the Trump admin to slash the programs budget
last year and this year. And researchers warn that losing this data
which tracks critical phenomena like carbon absorption
and Atlantic ocean currents will severely hinder climate forecasting and damage American scientific leadership. Yeah, this is more of Donald Trump's war on the environment, war on the people
who are trying to protect the environment, war on the science of the environment all in service of the fossil fuel industry. Who's going to pay for this? Well, ironically,
“some of the people who will pay for it will be Trump supporters.”
Trump himself indeed with his Mar-Allado residence, not that far from the ocean, will pay for it as this is a group that was tracking the factors that cause sea levels
to rise and fall, that cause storms to take place. You know, currents in the ocean, temperature changes in the ocean, carbon levels in the ocean,
effect weather everywhere else. Trump doesn't believe it. But the idiots around Trump don't believe it, but it's true. Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean.
And what he's saying here is, it's not the interest that the United States to monitor this stuff to understand what the trends are, to anticipate the trends.
And the result is people are going to be put at risk. If that's a running theme in these stories and damage will be done, and it will take a long time to undo
the damage that he has done to this agency. Now, is it legal to do should an active or even remotely responsible Congress push back on it? Yeah, of course they should.
They allocated the funds. President can't unallocate funds because he wants to. So we'll see whether there's a battle over this. But it's more of Trump doing
the bidding of his funders, his donors, the people who are behind him at the expense of the American people. And frankly, in this case,
it's the expense of the world. You got more evidence of that today, by the way, with a President signing an executive order on giving the government access
to AI to review it. But it's not the executive order that was initially planned where the government would actually have to see the new AI systems
and give its thumbs up before they could be deployed. This is entirely voluntary. Why? Because winning was about to issue the other one.
He started getting phone calls
From his tech pro donors,
and he said, "Oops, okay, let's change it."
So this is completely meaningless.
Except to the extent that it sends a message again to the AI community that they can do whatever they want under this administration.
Which right now has the laxest attitudes towards AI safety of any government anywhere in the developed world?
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