Has Donald Trump Ever Cried?

These people, where is the National Day of Morning?

“Charlie Kirk was attacking trans people, and these, at wild, he was shy.”

These people were, they were just listening to orders. This is what Republicans do when they're in charge of elections, and this is 1,000% a dry run. Oh, they're just testing to see what they can get away with before in November. We're all seeing it. This is what Republicans want to do. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Findout podcast.

Everybody's laughing because Rich was typing right up to the absolute second and then stopped. So it's probably half my professional.

I'm always so sad for success when I launched into these things, because there's always something going on right before.

Anyways, guys, no guests today. We have a big show. We're going to talk about the Texas Senate race that was on the Democratic side decided last night. We're going to talk about everyone's favorite topic, the war and Iran, and this discussion of potentially having ground troops. And also everybody's a gas prices going through the roof.

But to start, we have a little bit of news of our own, which is we officially launched the parent company of the Findout podcast called Findout Media this week. So if you are interested in what that is, we have a launch video up, which you can go check out on our sub stack, which we have a new sub stack called Findout Media dot sub stack dot com, which we'll have all of our shows on it. But I want to turn to Zach, who is our show master show master show master show master to talk about what we have six shows guys six shows in development.

We have a ton.

“And I think you're going to know a lot of the hosts.”

So Zach, I will, I'm not going to give up at whatever any of the shows are, but I will tell you who's doing them. Okay, are you can guess. All right.

Your friend here Luke is one of the hosts of one of the shows with Brian Andrews.

So they're going to have a great show together, which we're calling get angry. I think you could figure out why it's pretty easy. Yeah, that's the country artists for those of you don't know. Yes. Then we have the Brad and Corey show with Brad and Corey Brad and Corey being Brad Doggett and CFH on filter.

And that's going to be a super fun show. And we have American power, which is going to have Mr. Global, and it's going to have Chad Scott. And we're going to have a comedian who's going to moderate their discussion, which is going to be pretty cool. Then we're going to have, we have Dr. Noah Haynes, who is a wonderful professor at Georgetown National Security Expert. We're going to have her having a show and we have Amanda Nelson from Amanda's Mild takes with a show launching in April.

It's going to be all about history. We have a partnership with the siren doing a live trivia night with Jojo from jurors.

“That's going to be launching in a couple weeks.”

So we have an insane amount of stuff going on. And it's all going to be great. I promise, as the show master, I promise. It'll all be great. I did not super excited for those of you who would like to help.

You know, you can get a membership on the Findout Media of Sub Stack page. That will help us fund these shows and develop more shows. But the whole goal is to get creators on our side more visibility into the long form of space. And no one else will step it up to do it. So we were like, we're doing it.

So fuck it. After next month, we're going to have seven shows on the Findout Media Network. Question on behalf of our listeners. So this is going to be one of those things right where you bring in a bunch of people with diverse voices. And then you make them all sign a contract in an NDA.

And then they all say the same thing. And then we can. Exactly. And we describe exactly what you're talking about.

It's always good to take it in no creative control.

Correct. Right. Okay. I just wanted to fire in that out because we've seen this show before with people trying to do better things. And that's usually the first misstep as they take like an authoritarian route.

We went to a whole conversation on that. That is not the case in this. Correctly not. We share they own their stuff. Let's put it that way.

Like we have no control over what they say unless they say something absolutely horrendous. And you know, they own their masters so to speak. So we're very, very cognizant of all the errors that they'd prior to us getting here. So they're not going to be doing like a like a choriz version of the same podcast episodes in like 10 years. We're giving them a lot of creative freedom because they are big and they're popular because of how they talk and how they act.

And so why who are we to talk with? We're not trying to prescribe, you know, a particular point of view. We actually don't care as long as it's like reasonable and doesn't hurt anybody like have at it. And we think diverse for voices is the way. To victory because different people like different things.

So let's give people things that they want. So Kim's not right in my fucking scripts. I should do that one time. Just a see. That's not funny.

That's not funny. It's the hey everybody segment. Oh, Christ. To imagine looking at everybody to open it up. That'd be so good.

Maybe on April Fool's I do a get fucked and you do a hey everybody.

“Maybe on April Fool's I'm going to tell everybody that I saw the light.”

And I just don't understand why people hate President Trump so much. And that's going to get all the way to the end and I'll drop it and get fucked up. Get fucked. Just real tough. I you might have to get some security if you put that out.

But because I don't have everybody. But but no, we're really excited. We we had a launch last week at DC with some friends, which was great. Talked a lot of folks how excited they are. And we know when we we pushed out the video the other day.

We got a lot of great comments from you also. Thank you for that. So yeah, this isn't just the podcast that he bore guys. We're building a real media. What's called an empire.

Why not? Free. That doesn't get a authoritarian at all. It's not the empire. I like that.

An empire from the rebel perspective. That's an empire from the rebel perspective. That's exactly right. We should get someone from the DNC to help us workshop the vision statement. So it's like a 47 word like it's a diversified network of grassroots.

It's 7500 bullet points. We picked people who are fun and entertaining to listen to. This is not just, you know, this is not vegetable time. This is like a sweet time. So and you learn something.

And it will also hopefully help you when you communicate with. Let's say left curious folks. You know, hopefully we'll give you some different. How like that. Can I say that left curious?

I love that. Yeah, left curious. Okay. I love that. So we have a t-shirt.

Should we make a left curious t-shirt. That's actually interesting. I like that. I like it. I was going to say kiss me.

But there's too much. I say connected to that. But like. Yeah. You can say it.

If you're left. If you're left curious. You know, you might get on a live. If you wear that. And says kiss.

Well, if you. Maybe we'll just sell them in the cities. No rural rural. No rural deliveries for this one. No rural kissing.

Yeah, go ahead. I love that. I think that's a great idea. And I was going to say like if you look at the. It's not an accident that the most popular people on the left are also entertaining and funny.

And that was one of the things that we went into is like if you look at. John Stewart and and who else is funny. I go blank. I blank. It's like name five.

It's like name five Snickers bar or name five candy bars. You know, there's a reason why the the funniest people. Are also on the left and there's a reason why the most successful people on the left are also funny. Right. Right.

“Well, that's why we're where we are, right?”

Because we are all hysterical. Oh, yeah. That's what everybody tells me about my content. You're so fucking funny. We're here for the county.

No, no, no one has ever done that. No, it's over that. Although I think we play off of you really well. Yeah. Because you're just the foil.

I'm just like. You're oldness and lack of funnyness. I didn't even say it that time. It wasn't even me. Works really well.

Rich is not that much younger than I am. Yeah. I thought you were saying it and didn't. How much younger am I than you? Like five years.

Five years. I feel are you 32 years younger than you? You feel 32 years younger than me? Yeah. But that's because I'm like 14.

It's going to be like that. Yeah. Okay. I get that. That checks out.

Yeah. Okay. Well, I'm 40. I'm 40. I'm 43.

So 40 is 40 years. And I'm and I'm getting close to to 44. So I feel young. I can say I'm a birthday. But yeah.

No. We're like three and a half years apart. I'm not going to name drop who said this.

But one of the people came out to me was like Tim has incredible pair.

Yes. I also heard this. Yeah. I don't have said that.

“I think he's one of one of two Tim's wife.”

Yeah. Yes. She was there. No. He's like it's the last reason.

I actually defending me. No. It was one of our hosts. And it wasn't man. So actually this was the person I'm referring to.

No, not one of our hosts. Yeah. Not a man. So you got a bunch of admirers. Oh.

Look at that. Oh. Did Hillary maybe say it in her closed door has testimony. Oh. Which should have been written.

And our chain has better hair. But I'll joking aside. These people like this show. Like we've told you before. When we're off camera.

This is exactly how it goes to. It's just like. And we have partnered with people who are like this too. And we partner with people who don't take this. I mean, some of this shit is serious.

Don't get me wrong. But like everyone has a sense of humor. And there's no like thief. Elements like everybody wants to work together. Everybody wants this country to be a better place.

So if you want to help us. And then we'll move into our other topic. You want to help us. You know, we're asking for $10 a month for access.

The seven shows and behind the scenes caught that the shows themselves will always be free.

Because we do not want to keep the actual content. But there are other things that we will be doing. And also just 10 bucks a month helps us keep the lights on. Because media is not cheap. So we would we would very much appreciate that.

But from there, we are going to pivot to last night. Last night's Texas primary. And which James Telleriko, the state senator.

There's still some votes out.

“But she has conceded and I think a very gracious way today.”

And you know, I think the process of bringing these two camps together. Because if you're not a permanently, permanently online person like us. There was a fair amount of heat between the two party. Not the, not the candidates. No.

Two campaigns. Or the two. Like they're supportive lines. The groups to camps. And I think it caught a lot of us off guard.

Not of us are from Texas. So like we don't know a lot about it. And we're not going to pretend we do. But I'm hoping now that, you know, the party can come together. And, you know, focus on defeating.

Whether it's John Corne and her Ken Paxton, because they went to a runoff last night. And Paxton's got to be feel pretty good. And that guy is a total psychic shit. Like actually got impeached by the Texas house, which is, which is Republican lead. That's how terrible this guy is.

He's horrendous. So we have a huge opportunity for a seat pickup. Yes. Also a huge opportunity to get some of those gerium and receipts that they think. But anyways, guys, what are your thoughts on James Telleriko being the,

Democratic nominee in Texas?

I want to jump in first because of how it happened last night.

I'm trying to get the most current version. So I don't accidentally say something that is incorrect. But what we know is that there were issues in collecting, in voting in Dallas, which is where Crockett is from. And where it came from is so insanely important.

Because Republicans in Texas got rid of the centralized vote center system for, for primary elections. They made Democrats go to separate locations from Republicans to vote. And also made Democrats go to different locations from where they have voted in the past. And so there was a lot of confusion.

People were going all over the place, especially in cities where people get off work late. And you've got to get to the polls by a certain time. This obviously, this obviously creates a lot of, a lot of problems. That maybe aren't as relevant in little rural towns where there's like two places to vote.

If you've got to drive an hour or half an hour away, then that's a huge headache.

And potentially makes it so that you can't vote. So then the local judge extended the primary to make sure that people could get to where they needed to go. And because stupid fucking Ken Paxon is the Texas attorney general, he was also running on the Republican side and wanted it to be as chaotic as possible. For Democrats, he immediately challenged the ruling saying that he hadn't been given proper notice,

which who gives a fuck what the primary candidate on the Republican side has or doesn't have. It doesn't matter. This is a primary on the Democrat side. The Supreme Court, of course, stepped in immediately. Halt of Texas halted the extension and said, like temporarily and said that any votes cast after 7pm have to be separated from the rest.

And it sounds like they still haven't figured out what they're doing with those votes. I don't think it's enough to make a difference. And and and Crocodility conceded, but the and that's not the point. The point is that this is what Republicans do when they're in charge of elections. And it and this is one thousand percent a dry run.

I was telling my wife about it last night, giving the quick update. She said, Oh, they're just testing to see what they can get away with before November. And like before I even got to that sort of point. So we're we're all seeing it. This is what Republicans want to do.

Please vote for Taller Rico is the very short version of this because it wasn't Taller Rico who did any of these things that was Republicans.

“Well, I think it's an important note here and there's a distinction like a lot of people online are saying like Republicans are trying to steal the election.”

Or there's some sort of manipulation of the votes. I think what is more likely is exactly what you were talking about. It's like changing locations of voting like not informing people about these changes or the times or different or whatever. I mean, Texas is a very early seven p.m. Post closed and a lot of people work till 6, 6, 30 at night.

Like, and if all of a sudden you're like, I have 15 minutes to get there and you go to the normal place and then go, oops, it's not there. Especially if you're working three jobs to survive Trump's account. Right. And this is of course in Dallas in the primarily black majority districts.

So it's no secret what they were doing. And they didn't do this in Austin, which is a, you know, they were more closely tied in Austin. But Dallas, they did. And I think these are the things that people have to pay attention to in November across the country. If you're, you know, even if it's just your Secretary of State that's a Republican.

Okay, this was actually compact and my understanding who had a heavy hand in doing this stuff. You're right. So I don't think Texas has a Secretary of State. But yeah, we all have to be vigilant and it's a good flag and it's really shitty and terrible. But I thought Crocket was incredibly gracious this morning in her concession as she threw her full support behind him.

Which is absolutely no surprise. No, like no. She's a gracious and just an awesome awesome person. Yeah. Yeah.

“I think people just this thing kind of spiraled out of control online.”

And like we all stayed out of it because like I think both of them are great.

Both are welcome on the find out podcast and our six other shows if they choose.

But, you know, like this was also for Texans to to decide and I think there was a lot of outside groups, which obviously like Texas is kind of like my homestay to Maine, which doesn't like any outside interference. So I understand the concerns there, but I'm hoping now, you know, there's what? Eight months until the election, like there's plenty of time. I think, you know, hopefully we can bring everybody together, but you know, the group will.

Yeah, it looked like I went through the Hillary and Obama stuff in 2008. And that was vicious. Like that was, I mean, there wasn't as much social media, so there wasn't as much like online chatter, right? Twitter existed, but like wasn't really used very much. There were no threats, nothing Instagram didn't exist, like, you know.

And so, but like that was very vicious. And there was a time when it was like, I don't know how these groups are going to come together. And now we don't even talk about it because they like, of course, the candidates were the adults. They got together and he offered Hillary Secretary State, which is probably the best position in the federal government, if you're a politician. And then said, you hire whoever you want.

And they got over it, but like there was, there was a bad shit between the kids. So it's, it's gonna happen, right? But it is competitive. You put your heart out there and then like you lose.

“It's all of a sudden like it just stops on a dime, right? So it's like, you have to process.”

Yeah, it's true. I mean, I'm, like, despite all that, I'm very excited for tele Rico. I think he's going to actually stand a unique chance to win. Like, I think like oftentimes in the past you hear over and over again, we can win Texas this time.

Like, no, you can't come on. This is the first time I'm like, maybe you can.

Like, that's actually kind of cool. Like, you know, it packs down as so shitty. Like, and, and tele Rico is so good. If that's the matchup, I really think there's an opportunity here. And all, you know, for a variety of reasons, I mean, I'm a little bit excited about this. I mean, I'm a little bit excited about this. And I'm a little bit excited about this. I'm a little bit excited about this.

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For some of the other things we'll talk about later as well. But like in Texas, if Paxton pulls that off, There are a lot of Republicans in Texas who hate his fucking thoughts. Right, because he is a tremendous piece of shit. Yes.

And like, I mean, again, he's awful. Repub, what was the last time a party and peached one of their own? Yeah, I mean, yeah, it was right. Right, I don't know.

In a place with, like, a, they don't have, Do they have a super maturity? Because the jury manner thing, or not other percent sure. But anyways, I think it is,

“because that's why they, the dams do the walkouts.”

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But they have every that. And they still impeached this guy. No, I mean, they should have. He's awful.

And he did awful things in full of corruption. So like, you know, if there's the perfect storm of Trump being at 35 or maybe below, and then Paxton being the winner,

Because that's true.

They can't raise for the general until they get through this.

Right. Primary. And they, it's neck and neck. So like, he's going to be out there just going everywhere. And like, being is, you know, happy self and whatever.

And, you know, that, I mean, if he wins, it's a wonder, like you said, rich. It's a one or two point win probably, just because of the demographic. But if, but if he wins that,

that will have trickle down. This is a case where trickle down actually works. A trickle down effect on congressional races. Yeah. On state house races.

Definitely. Yeah. So there is a, there is, I would say this is a once in a generation potential shift in Texas. Yeah. If things continue to go the way they're going.

I agree with that. I think if I'm the Republicans, I'm spending every single dollar I have to have Ken Paxton lose. Like, that's, that's really, that'd be my only strategy now at this point. I mean, they did the, like,

they tried to pump a bunch of money into Jasmine Crockett's camping.

“Abbott did not, I think I think was just Abbott's people.”

But like, they play that game. They knew that she would be potentially easier to beat in Texas. They were just trying to throw cash. They're going to do the same thing here. They're going to throw pile of cash against Ken Paxton.

Which, you know, I don't think it's going to work. They like him. You know, they like the slimy mega shit. It works. It works like some Donald Trump.

Of course. He didn't endorse. He didn't really fuck watch stick together. He didn't endorse. I mean, corn is the number two.

And then the Republican. That's right. That's right. Whatever. Like, and he's been there for a long time.

And Trump didn't, like, the fact that he didn't endorse the sitting Senate candidate. Because I'm sure it likes Paxton. Cause Paxton does whatever Trump has. Yeah.

Yeah. Just like the eggs. Hegs. And no, and all these idiots. Oh, yeah.

That's what he likes. But like, so those Wesley Hunt voters are not corn and voters. No. No, no, no, no. I was looking for some numbers to like wrap my head around.

Like, what's our baseline with with if it's Paxton in 2018. The last time Trump was in office. And we had a midterms. He was more popular. Trump was more popular than he is now.

And then he will be in November. For Paxton beat Justin Nelson who I.

Like, he's probably a, I'm sure he's amazing.

I've never heard of him. He beat Justin Nelson by 3.6 points in 2018 to win the election. That's just for attorney general, which like, Crime stuff and tends to favor Republicans. But he won 50.6 to 47% in 2018.

And this is a less friendly environment. And Tyler Rico. Like I said, I'm sure Justin Nelson's amazing. But Tyler Rico is a household brand name now on the, on the left.

“And he's going to, I think perform better than Justin Nelson in 2018.”

So yes, I am rooting for Paxton. It feels gross and weird to say those words out loud. But corn has got the name recognition. If Paxton's there and people are trying to go vote for Paxton. Without Trump's name on the ballot.

There's no coat tails. It's just Paxton at the top of the ticket and fucking Greg Abbott. And that's a, like you said, a perfect story. Well, here's the other thing. In 2018, that was when Betto or Rourke ran against Ted Cruz.

Everyone's most hated member of the Senate. They used to be there. There's a whole bunch of people. He might be a Supreme Court guy. Nobody likes it.

Oh, God. But like, so Betto had these huge rallies. We were super excited about him. Again, it was a favorable Democratic climate, but not as favorable. What does it now?

And Betto lost by two points. Two and half points. It's close. So, but that was 2018. 2016's complete or 2026 is completely different.

And I think like the economy is worse. Like and past and is not like Cruz is not like either. But like I think there's a real opportunity here. And Talerego doesn't have a, a congressional record to run to get have to run against either, which is the other part of this.

And you've got the FCC to thank for making him a fucking household name. That's true. What a dumb move on. What a dumb fucking move. They really must have skipped the day.

It was a move. They taught you about the stripes of the fact.

“So, for those of you don't know, but I think you probably do.”

But news moves so far. Because he's an asshole. The FCC leaned on, the FCC leaned on Barry Weiss at CBS who then leaned on the late shows. Steven Colbert to yank the James Talereco interview that was happening one night.

All in the means we're all in the words of like the Faradis and equal time. Right. Which Jasmine Crocket had also been on the show twice. Right. And also no president is ever enforced equal time.

And then all sudden it comes off. Especially with the primary race for the opposite. But the late show gets what like one and a half.

Maybe two million people watch every night.

The video itself on their YouTube, which they put it because also. Steven Colbert said go fuck yourself. I'm going to put it on the YouTube show. Well, over 4 million. It doubled.

And that's dedicated. Dedicated watchers. This is not just a people who stay up to watch the. Right. The model.

Right. Yep. That's Trump's whole strategy. And they didn't know that it applied to other people too. Like all presses.

Right.

They made a big fucking mess out of it.

“And then everybody's like, oh, I wasn't like, I watch a lot of these things.”

But I don't watch everything. There's, you know, it stumps beaches. And they like, you know, they make a couple of jokes. And that's great. You know what, Talleriko stands for and I will vote for him if I ever get the chance to vote for him.

Um, but. And so like, it wasn't going to be a big thing. And they made it a big thing. And it's like, oh, now I'm suddenly interested, even though I don't even text. Yeah.

I think a bunch of us. A bunch of us looked at that and said, oh, he just won that primary. Right. Because he made himself. Editing number one to Trump.

Yep. Which a whole bunch of voters were like, that guy. You don't want him to win. So you did this. I mean, I don't know how they will ever be able to measure that day.

Otherwise, but like, I think, no. Like, I think that's probably a thing. So, uh, now we're a transition ever speaking of a thing. The war at a ran. Oh, that is a bad chance.

That was no good. Unless you unless somebody will candidate like, speaking of like strategies that are failing. Yeah. Speaking of things, Trump sucks at. That's what I should have done.

The war at a run is now a week old. No. Five days old. We're recording on Wednesday. Yeah.

I think the thing that's the most, so first of all, I think six American troops have died now. It's lost three f 15 fighters that were shot down by our friends, the Kuwaitis, which on the last episode, we talked about no one could figure out why that happened. And now there was this closed door hearing in the Senate. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, maybe.

That yesterday that Senator Blumenthal from Connecticut came out. Somebody's stone face.

I mean, he's kind of a stone face guy anyways, but like, was like, I have never been more

concerned that we are putting boots on the ground in Iran than I am after coming out of that hearing. That's terrified. That is terrifying. I mean, he said, allowed some semblance of unparafroising, but like it sounds like

“that's what the Trump administration wants to do.”

If they go. Yeah. Shit. That's because it's the, I mean, why? What the fuck are they going to do there?

Like, that's the thing that I want to understand at that point is it goes back to our last episode. It's like, what's the actual fucking objective in Iran? And what do you need troops on the ground for? Like, it's not an effective strategy.

Like, you know, some of these Republicans in my life that I've talked about and the show in the past, I've talked about this. And they all say the exact same thing. If there's no American casualties or very limited ones, we don't put groups on the ground, I'm cool with the Iran more.

But if those conditions change, this is this worst mistake he could have made. And like, yep. Well, there you go. I mean, I don't know what he's doing. And this go ahead.

Sorry, well, before we get too far into it, because yes, six Americans have died. But when I, when I saw their profiles like on New York Times wrote up a little update on who they were. It just, it hits so much harder when you, when you see these real people. So let's just say their names or cook. So I don't know how to pronounce his last name, but it's Noah.

“I think it's, it's either Tedgens or I think it's probably Tedgens.”

He was 42 sergeant first class.

He was going to open and if I get emotional, forgive me. He was going to open a martial arts studio with his family. Cody Cork was 35. He knew he wanted a service country as a kid, as a little kid. And he was a multiple launch rocket system slash fire direction specialist in the National Guard in 2009.

And has been serving ever since. Nicole, Amber or Amor was 39. She, she served for 20 years and this was going to be her last year because she wanted to spend Moses more time with her nine-year-old daughter. And the last one that they wrote up was

20 years old, Declan Cody, who was an IT specialist at Drake University in Des Moines. It was a reserve too, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. And you know, the, the orange man had to say about that.

What? It's just the way it is. And it's what happened to more. That's like, is that a direct quote? It's direct quote.

Yeah. That's right. There's just, it was bad. Yeah. More is bad.

And that's what happens in war. That's why they signed it. And then it was, oh, and look at these cool statues in the Rose Garden. We just got new cool ones. So he pivoted too.

Yeah. Yeah. Watch this. It was, we're celebrating people who lost their lives in this beautiful room. And we're making it even more beautiful.

And look at all the gold. And we're building a ballroom. And these cool statues. Yeah. Maybe we'll celebrate the rest of the dead soldiers in the ballroom.

When it's done in, you know, 2032 or whatever. I bet my left nut that he doesn't.

For us guys. No way. Not a single one. He doesn't care. Yeah.

He doesn't care.

“And I think that's the thing that gets me.”

And I've known plenty of people who've served both enlisted and officers.

And always, it's always the enlisted people that die.

Is there always the ones that front and the people who are the enlisted people, and to be from porn, working class families who are just trying to get out of a bad situation? And then these politicians in DC send them to a place of which we have no idea why we are there. We have no idea what the outcome is. And now six families have to bury their loved ones for what?

What? Like, you know, I heard yesterday Rubio said, oh, well, they were going to, Iran was going to, Israel was going to attack Iran. And then Iran was going to attack us. So that we had to do it.

What? Reemptive defense doesn't fucking exist. It doesn't exist. No, how that works. What a George Carlin say.

It's like fucking for virginity. Yep. Right. Well, and also, like, we've shot down most of their rockets. So what are we talking about here?

Also, and also, if they did launch attacks on our bases, the American public probably would have been with them. Yeah, sure.

“So like, not to say that you should let somebody attack us.”

That's not what I mean, but like, there's no evidence of that. No, because Trump was like, oh, this is regime change. Because regime change is not the same thing as preemptively stopping one of our allies, right? Then we joined with on this mission to stop the Iranians from bombing us.

Yeah. And now a nine-year-old doesn't have a mom. A 20-year-old doesn't like get to actually have their life. And there's those four other cases. And now there, and Trump's like, well, it's going to be more tough.

So that's what happens in war. But like, why? Why? Why? Like, what is six?

Like, we ask, I asked, one of my favorite questions at an interview with someone is what would success look like to you? When the I find being interviewed by somebody. What would you to get a set? Yeah.

I want to know from Donald Trump, what does success look like? Or Pete Higseff, Mr. Fucking, like, we get to know. Box every time every time Higseff talks. It sounds like slam poetry about killing people. So the fucker gets off on it.

I swear to God. It's like a whole video. It's like he's a loud, but maximally felony. Well, all military's are lethal. Dump fuck.

Yeah. There's a reason why one in 25 and there. One in, one in four, excuse me, I'm doing the percentages. One in four, American support. What Donald Trump is doing.

One in a four.

“I think the story hates me is the flags are flown half staff for a goddamn racist podcast”

or and they never fucking haven't dropped him for this.

Yeah. Yeah. Where's that? Where's that? Where is the National Day of Morning?

Not. They fucking Charlie Kirk was attacking trans people. And these, at while he was shot, right? He was making some horrific statement. Okay, not condoning that, right?

But he was making, he was attacking people. These people were, you know, they were just listening to orders. Mm-hmm. That's it.

Yep. And now they're gone. And something that occurred to me this morning was I was thinking back, you know, all of three weeks ago when Steven Miller was out there talking about the Monroe doctrine and the Don Road doctrine and Western Hemisphere dominance.

So first, what happened with Western Hemisphere thing being like,

Right. I mean, they, they scooted on from that real quick when they got shot down in Greenland. But at the exact same time, the whole thing of the Monroe doctrine, which we've eviscerated before on the show. But from the Monroe doctrine, which was like 150 years ago or whatever,

was the West Coast does their own shit or the West Hemisphere does their own shit. And in exchange, the Eastern Hemisphere gets to do their own shit. And so it's very much possible by saying, like, we're going to, we're pulling out of everywhere. We're going to be less invested in Europe and the Middle East. Israel and Iran both got in their own heads thinking, oh, well, that means that the United

States is going to let us do whatever we want. And so then whether it was a preemptive preemptive strike against Iran, and they were going to attack first or whether Israel was going to attack. That's perfectly in accordance with the Monroe doctrine approach. So they either did this to themselves because their morons or they did this to themselves

because they gave Iran and Israel permission to do whatever they wanted. And then we go, oh, whoops, let's learn what we learned a hundred years ago, which is when we back out and we stop protecting our allies, bad people do bad shit. That's the best case scenario is that we just learned a lesson that we should have remembered

since, you know, every other more from the last century and a half. Wasn't what everybody says, we need more math and more science. And I don't disagree with that, but like, we need more history in school because like, this is this shit just happens over and over again. I mean, it was only 25 years ago, I know one of us doesn't remember,

but like, you know, like, it's not that long ago that we launched into a war

But Iraq was a lie and they sold it.

And then a million Iraqis died, 30, 40,000 Americans died.

And ISIS was born. Well, I mean, Iran is a more sophisticated society than Iraq was. But they have their own elements. And now I'm hearing, we're arming the Kurds and the North. We're trying to like give all these like quote unquote freedom fighters,

which maybe some of them are. I mean, the Kurds have been our friends for a long time. Like, are we arming insurrections? Or are we going into like, you know, in the end? It doesn't make any sense.

Yeah, it's, it's really, it's an incoherent. The whole thing is incoherent.

“I mean, like, even like, you know, I do remember that era of, you know,”

2001 to 2003 kind of, you know, kick off. I was a start. Exactly. You don't remember that shit. But I remember the vibe.

The vibe back then is this is the only thing anybody in America gave you shit about because back then institutions were solid and stable. The leadership was solid and stable. America felt solid.

The statement even George Bush, like, that's, you know,

to this stage that sounds fine. You know, it's not it's comparatively. It's it's. Now the vibe is so different with this kind of war. Like, I know we're talking about it.

And we give a shit, but a lot of people just don't give a fuck. Because they're just like life feels so unstable in America. I know what's another thing. Who cares? Like, it's fine.

And that to me is one of the most troubling parts of it. Where it's just like, we're literally inflaming a very dangerous situation and doing it very badly. And the average person's like, "Ah, you know, all of it's bad." You know, George carbon's block was right.

You know, every 20 years we got to get into a major war. And we fucking go. Yeah. Right. Yeah.

I guess it's 20 meters from the last one to it. Well, I know, we just got out of that one. We just got done with that one. Well, and also, so this is another thing that's been happening in the Middle East is that, you know, obviously the withdrawal from Afghanistan was a disaster.

I don't think we can pretend it. It wasn't, but it was Donald Trump's peace plan that Biden was forced into implementing. Yeah. We got 100, I believe 150,000 Americans out of Afghanistan in the region. You know what they've said to Americans in the Middle East during this year on your own.

Good luck. Yeah. I mean, that's, I don't know. The Afghanistan withdrawal. I don't think it was as bad as people think.

Like, that's fucking impossible to get out. Like, like, the fact that only like what eight there was a lot of news was about that. Well, yeah. I mean, so fucked. So to me, I look at it and go like, you know, at least they did it here.

It's like that now they're just like, we can't, we're not going to try. Like, okay. Great. Good job. Well, it is true.

I mean, we lost 13 American troops in that suicide bombing. Right. I mean, and that is horrific. But if you look at the amount of people that America was losing every year in Afghanistan, we've saved.

I mean, it's again, awful. And like, not positive. But like, more people survived by us leaving than staying. And that's, I mean, Americans. I can't speak to Afghanis, but yeah.

But now we're not, we're not helping anybody. Yeah. We're like, oh, yeah. Don't go to these embassies. Like, you just probably don't be an enemy.

Don't go to the embassies.

“By the way, you should leave after all of the airports are closed.”

Right. And fuck you. You're on your own. Yep. Good luck.

Well, at the Iranian regime has now said, We're just going to drag it out. Yep. Because we know that you have no tolerance for a long term excursion. And like, they don't, I mean, they can't fight us one to one.

No. Right. No. So they have to, you know, and we did, we have gotten a lot of their leadership. But their leadership structure is massive.

And like, you know, yes. We got Comini, and we got Ahmedajad, which I screws name up every time. But, you know, and fuck those guys. But like, it didn't actually topple the regime in any sense. No.

That's the problem. At least now, we've got the Navy escorting fucking oil tankers to the street. Oh, do you see that? We're going to force insurance companies to cover tankers. It's like, yeah, that'll work for sure.

Well, first of all, how is that for, like, no regulations? I don't know. Regulations are bad. That's a fucking regulation. Yeah.

And if they won't cover them, it's backed by the treasury, right? Yeah. So then who pays for it? Us. Woo.

Score. You know, the scale of Iran in every possible way is what I don't think. The average American understands.

“We just think, oh, yeah, that's how it's like a rock.”

It's a Iran. It's like Syria and Afghanistan, Pakistan. Iran is larger than Afghanistan and Iraq combined in geographic area. It's got just as much terrain to cover as Afghanistan. There are caves and tunnel systems everywhere.

And there are what 90 million people.

I think their GDP is something like 400 billion. In every fathomable facet Iran is larger, wealthier, more populated and more complex and more difficult to navigate. And we didn't. We couldn't do it in either Iraq or Afghanistan.

Our government in Afghanistan lasted. I think 72 hours, 72 hours after we withdrew because they in 20 years.

And I was the only one who had the fucking stones to just rip off the band aid, frankly.

And Iraq is not a fan of Iran. And they're like, we don't want to be involved in this because of how dicey it still is in Iraq right now. So not only is this horrific mistake that could take years to resolve. It could also contribute to the further undoing of the instability of the other governments that we've tried to prop up over the last 25 years.

To the tune of like $2.5 trillion in total spending. I'll watch his debt. That's it. It sounds like sense.

“Other than that, I think this will work out really pretty well.”

Oh yeah. Well, the other thing, you know, I think Zack's right that a lot of people are paying attention. But what people will pay attention is to the gas prices. And you know, we have already see it. I my mom actually call me that the day. She's like, do you want to know how much gas went up overnight where I live?

40 cents. What is this? 40. That's what people say 38. 42.

I'm looking at the AAA numbers right now.

From a month ago, he's up about 30 cents a gallon. Yeah. And this is all. This is all. This is all greed because the oil is here.

Right. It's speculation on it's not doing so like yay again for no regulations like they were just letting these people gouge Americans so that they can keep their profits. Well, you all saw that we're in a holy war, right? Like that's what this is.

Yeah, it's all people. I'm starting to think that maybe the white supremacist crusades tattoo that are Secretary of War proudly rocks isn't for fucking show. Yeah, I don't know. Because apparently there are military commanders telling their subordinates that we are in a holy war for

Jesus. And that's why we're there. And that's not a joke. Somebody said that that a commander said that this is part of the holy war for Jesus.

And a bunch of the troops were Muslim.

One was Jewish. And then there were some that were not that were not as close in this commander's control. And he said it was also because they this is of course like fourth party information. But allegedly said that it was because God wanted the United wanted Christians to light a match. I'm getting to so that he could see the signal and begin the process of Armageddon.

And so you're on burning. Wait, are we getting captured? Is there a big war over there?

“And then that's what I can't even finish these sentences straight because I'm like,”

who the there are leaders human adults walking around like going to work and who just think like, Well, Armageddon, like the rapture is almost here guys. So world would be such a better place if these assholes would get raptured. I have an idea. I have an idea.

I have an idea. I have an idea. Let's get Donald Trump and Pete Hegsef and whoever else. We're going to take him to it, you know, Indiana Jones and the last crusade. They go and they find they look for the holy grail right.

So go, let's go on now, but they don't have to know that. Let's take them in and they can try to drink because it's in the same region. You know, let's that's as as that is as plausible as the rapture is coming. And we need to kill a bunch of. Is it shea shea Muslims?

I don't know. I don't know which one. We've killed a bunch of the other ones and now we're going to kill these ones. Yeah. But don't worry, we're going to the CIA's in their arming Kurdish rebels to overthrow the government of of Iran.

So that'll work out great. I was actually thinking of how funny it is because. Luke, you remember the Iran contrast scandal. Oh, yeah. I like the back of my mind.

I mean, it's a expression. Top of it. It's it's it's just like the most Republican full circle thing ever because in the 80s. Ronald Reagan's administration. And I'm going to be fuzzy on the details on purpose because I don't know all.

I know them because we're American dad. Um, there's a great episode of right exactly. So so we sold we illegally Ronald Reagan illegally sold weapons to Iran so that he could covertly fund. Um, revolutionaries in was it Nicaragua? Yeah.

Yeah. Nicaragua. So it's like man, we should sell weapons to Venezuela to fund the Kurdish uprising in in Iran. And it'll be like a full circle Republican snake eating itself by the tail situation. What's going on in Venezuela?

Are we still there? I don't know. Is that over? Never. I saw a something in Ecuador today.

What? Yeah. Yeah. I put our stuff going on in there. This is Christ.

This is like the 80s all over. Nobody wants to say it. There's good music in the 80s and movies. Yeah. You know, it's launches military officers in Ecuador.

What? Yeah.

“That's just like low key against designated terrorist organizations inside the country.”

The military release. It was on the operations. It was in coordination with the Ecuador. That's better. That's better.

Yeah. That's okay. That's better. I'm fine. Like I've said that before.

Like if you actually want a team up with the country going into and plan together.

Go ahead.

That's what we should do.

I'm doing from the beginning. Yeah. Yeah. You can do that some Mexican. You can do it all over the place.

“Just don't just jump in and be like, hey, we're here.”

Don't care about you. We're just going to do it our way. Like that's not how it works. At least Ecuador is logically consistent with the Monroe doctrine. So we're back on that.

We're back in the western hemisphere. I mean, what is the saying, a broken clock is right twice a day. Right. Exactly. Oh, God.

Well, I mean, Trump is a man of the 80s. So I guess we got to do, I mean, like, that's true. Well, he's slipping. Right. So he's going back to times in his life.

He's not downing. It's not downing. It's not downing. That's true. I got to call the New York Post under my suit name.

He did that. He did that. He did that. He did that. He did that.

No. That's what he did. He did not know. Like recently. Like last year that they said it wasn't true.

I don't know. I saw it. Yeah. I saw it on Seespan. It was on Seespan.

I know.

“But I think Seespan said the caller came from like Texas or something.”

I was going to say it. I think we're all comedian who have been in the Trump administration. The US government. I'm sure they could figure out how to. Yeah.

Said they're not sure they can call the phone. The phone VPN on or whatever the fuck it is. I don't know. But like, but like, call it. If I were comedian, I would also do that.

So yeah, that's true. You never know. It sounds like it's insanely like him pretending not to not be him though. Like that. I'll see.

Can we talk about how weird it is that like when he does interviews, he calls. Excuse me. He calls and doesn't do video.

It's always a phone call.

Like an analog phone call. I don't know. He's on the phone now. Yeah. He does that.

I don't know. It's like he claimed they claimed that it's because of a cream that he is using. Yeah. And that's a single cream. No.

He that should look like single. It's black. Like the whole thing. No. It's not that good.

He does. He does. Maybe you drank from the chalice and Indiana Jones. And it's just taking longer. Just a sip.

It's like you're doing the full fight. Guys. Oh my god. Yeah. I.

I'd you see the photos of him in the fake scift that they created at Marlaga. Because by the way, we're launching this war from Marlaga. Marlaga. He's been like a talker the whole time. Yeah.

But in Marlaga the whole time. And like they show these photos and it's supposed to be like Trump and control it. I'm like the dude has like he's they're kicking more and more like. Oh yeah. Oh, he's like exactly shooting his pants.

He is so desperate to have a picture like Obama has. Yeah. Oh, that that. I've been a lot of pictures. I was fucking famous.

He will never have a picture like it's not going to happen.

Oh, Obama was in his 40s and Donald Trump's like half dead. Right. But Obama had a resolve in his face. And somebody at the moment was never felt. He's never felt.

Yeah. Yeah. I saw I saw an Instagram post yesterday of like saddest pictures for me. Some people's presidency since like Lyndon B. Johnson when some people died. And there's a whole list and like JFK telling Jackie that they're infants on died.

I've seen those. Yeah. And there's like Obama right in his post. Right in his speech after Sandy Hook. You know who wasn't in there?

Yeah. Trump wonder. I don't think there's a single time. But there's been a picture captured of him that he was expressing a genuine care about another human being. He's not capable of it.

He didn't go even when his best friend Charlie Kirk got a shit blown off. He just got mad. It's a rally. He didn't even get mad. He immediately was talking about the goddamn balls.

Like with in Charlie seconds. Yeah. It was. I remember he he like tweeted outrage about it. You know, true.

Team who tweeted outrage about it. And then three minutes later, something who's like tweeting about his ballroom or about the Family Reservoir. But even when he was actively interviewed. They were like, how do you feel about it?

He doesn't have any friends. No.

“Everybody he in his life is a transaction.”

Yeah. Yes. Like, what is that person going to do? There is no like, oh, I'm going to do a nice thing. Do you think he's ever done like, oh, no.

I mean, like, here's a business transaction. Do you think Trump, I mean, not as a child, but as an adult. Do you think he's ever cried when he lost? I just can't imagine him crying. Like any kind of like real emotion.

I just feel like he's just physically incapable of it. I could see him getting so angry because apparently he gets very angry. Yeah. It's tears. But like crying.

Do you think he cried? No. Not sadness. Well, here's the scenario. If one of his kids died, do you think he cried?

Nope. No. No. People who have no regulation over their emotions. They don't know how to process emotions.

And so when they feel strong emotions, everything gets converted into anger. And usually outward expression. Like they hate feeling sad because it hurts. And sitting with sadness is how you cry. They don't want to do that.

They have they want to get rid of it immediately. And that's why they turn to either like addiction or or outward expressions of violence and fighting. They they either bury it or they try to get rid of it offloaded as fast as possible. And like screaming is the when when when when Trump gets sad or angry.

He immediately turns it into one of those videos where he's like saying fire and

because that's how that's how hard it is for him to sit with any unpleasant emotions.

Only he bought he buried his ex wife under his golf course. Yeah. Who does this shit? I don't know if a tax reason. Oh, so it was just like, Oh, there she is.

You're like, what? The only one is maybe a vanka. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah.

I don't know.

“But like his sons, I think he'd be like.”

Eh. What can you do? Life started in the end. Go on.

I don't have to worry about an inheritance.

I don't have to worry about an inheritance. I'll update as well. Exactly. They're probably not in it. Let's move on from this subject.

It makes me uncomfortable. I think that's all we've been doing. Yeah. Yeah.

“I was kind of like, are we going to fix what's next?”

I think we're done. Yeah. Perfect. Thank you.

Everybody for bearing with us as we talked about whether Donald Trump is cry or not.

Maybe that should be the title of our show. It's Donald Trump. I like that. I like it. That might actually work.

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