The Iran ceasefire is described as extremely weak and 'on life support' with only a 1% chance of survival, demonstrating how political leaders often make grand threats without following through, creating a cycle of empty promises that mislead the public while actual conditions deteriorate.
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Welcome back one and all. It's the Daily Report. I'm John Idola. I'm 94% of John Idola and I'm back technically uh back more holistically J.R. Jackson here on Monday. How's it going? What's going on John Idola? Man, I can hear it in your voice, bro. What happened? Did you get like something from a preschool or something that I warned you about? I was warning you about that, bro.
>> I'm sure that I got something from a preschool. And uh I already took two days off. I'm not going to take another day off. And I know a lot of people are thinking like, "Hey, why are you in the studio when you're sick?" And you're totally right. I was going to be. I was planning to broadcast from home, but unfortunately Spectrum decided that my internet is optional, so I had to rush to the studio to do the show right before it happened. So my voice is gonna be pretty bad. I apologize for that. My takes are going to be pretty bad, but you're used to that, so we should be we should be fine. How are you doing, Jr.?
How are you?
>> Hey, yo, listen, John. It's been a week, and it's fitting that it's also the best damn day of the week that I'm back. In case you guys don't know, it is the beginning of the week. Your Monday should be the best day of your week. I mean, it gets everything going. What's a Friday without a Monday? Especially when you've had a week off to do a bunch of gallivanting, barbecue eating, and driving around Memphis, Tennessee while the capital burns with all the people that in there yelling and fighting and uh folks being arrested. It was a bit of a week that I missed tons of news on, John.
>> Yeah. Yeah, there was a lot going on. Um it was a nice little romp through the 1950s and60s judicially. Uh so that's fun and awesome. Uh we've got more war.
It's just everything's gone to hell. Uh so anyway, we in the social breaks, we'll find some positive stuff to talk about. I have no doubt. But we have a lot of stuff.
>> What about a backlash at the break?
Maybe the >> Yes, we we'll probably talk about Backlash, which I talked a little bit of. Uh I I watched a little bit of We'll talk about that in the break. Um but we do have to get into Iran because we have a lot going on there. We're talking about Iran. We're talking about AOC, who's just set the internet on fire recently. And uh I'm going to shock everybody by having takes on something AOC has said. So, we'll be talking about that. We've got Greg Boino trying to make himself a thing again and a whole lot more besides Elon Musk. We we've identified even more words that he doesn't know the definition of. And that's all in the first hour. Even more stuff, midterms and Trump phones and all that in the aftermath. So, prepare yourself for that. Hit the like button, share the streams, send us your comments, your tweets, your super chats.
And with all that said, JR, are you ready to do this thing? Let's do it, bro. Let's do it. Let's start off doing it with this. I'll let you know when there's no cease. You won't have to know. If there's no ceasefire, you're not going to have to know. You're just going to have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran.
>> For the time being, the ceasefire remains in place.
>> You know, it it's unbelievably weak. I would say I would call it the weakest right now. After reading that piece of garbage they sent us, I didn't even finish reading it. I said, I'm not going to waste my time reading it. I would say it's one of the weakest right now. It's on life support. They understand these are all medical people and Dr. Oz life support is not a good thing. Do you agree?
>> I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support where the doctor walks in and says, "Sir, your loved one has approximately a 1% chance of living."
>> My god. Uh that was all over the place.
I didn't I didn't take much away from it except that uh for any medical official in America understand that Donald Trump has been very clear he doesn't support life support. So if it comes to that he doesn't want it no life support for Donald Trump. But anyway, no all the So we're doing it again. We're doing the cycle again. We're probably about to relaunch the war. I mean we already kind of relaunched the war a couple of days ago. We started bombing people. We're probably going to do it even more.
Donald Trump is once again in that video we showed you uh implying that he's going to nuke Iran. We're doing that again. There is a famous gif from wrestling of a wrestler who just keeps running from one rope to the other and not actually doing a move. And I feel like that's Donald Trump with these big threats because it's just week after week after week and he doesn't do it.
And I don't want him to do it. But like who are you impressing with these threats? And then oh it was garbage.
What they sent to me was terrible. I would never consider it. But that's a weird position for you to Why would they send you garbage when they're so desperate to get a deal? Why is it that they keep holding out when you keep telling us that they're desperate and they should be very scared? Cuz you're definitely going to annihilate them over and over and over and over again. It's just I'm so sick of the the constant repetition. And so what they're asking for is pretty similar to what they've been asking for. They're now saying they want some form of reparations, which I get it. we've done a lot of damage to their country. The recognition of their sovereignty over the Straight of Hormuz, a reminder that the the status quo, the new status quo coming out of this war is almost certainly going to be worse visa v the straight of Hormuz than the one going into it and the end of American sanctions against Iran, guarantees of no further attacks, perhaps control over Iran attacking their proxies and other countries. And so they're they're asking for a lot because they're not desperate as of right now. And this is what we get from Trump. I have just read the response from Iran's so-called representatives. I don't like it.
Totally unacceptable. Thank you for your attention, Madam President. Donald Trump. Good. Well, I'm glad we've got an adult in the room for dealing with this.
He goes on to say in an official statement to Axios, "This isn't social media. This is official. I don't like their letter. It's inappropriate. I don't like their response. They've been tapping along many nations for 47 years." And I've looked at that sentence for quite a while and I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. And I don't understand how some actual adult in the room has that 25th Amendment in his ass because there's not enough functioning neurons in his brain to maintain American governance. And so he's like he's desperately trying to make himself feel better about this entire thing. He quotes that the a Kurdish leader says he's a master of the deal. Yeah. I' I'd love a citation on that. Not only are we no closer after more than two months in this war to any resolution, the Ukraine war is still going on. What has he actually done? And then he's grasping so far, trying to come up with something that makes himself look good that he starts talking about Biden and Obama and how they didn't do enough with Iran. You know what they didn't do with Iran? get us into a stupid war with Iran that's cost us just in these two months more than $30 billion in extra gas and almost certainly two or three times that even if the war were to end almost uh instantaneously. So it looks JR like we're once again on the precipice of the war with nothing to show for it.
>> Well, it's um pretty obvious now where this guy operates. I mean not now. We always knew it, but it just came in the form of this particular war. in order for him to have any kind of negotiating process which would actually end the war that you started um and his as from the beginning he and Pete Hexath were talking about the number one goal is complete obliteration subservience and begging that's what they wanted and since they're not getting it where else can we go they're white supremacists that's all they care and think about so as they keep talking about this and we go back through this same cycle as you said the rest are bouncing off the ropes constantly says we go right back into the extreme threats now there's going to be a glowing cloud over their entire country. Same thing over and over and over again. At some point, maybe people should start relaying to him. You know, it's already been reported, sir, sir, that every time you sabotage any kind of talks with people that you've already attacked after in the middle of some other talks that were already happening, after you ripped up a previous agreement that was kept all these things that you claimed that you didn't want to see happen, um maybe people are noticing that you're the problem. Maybe just a couple few MAGA guys are even starting to understand that you are the problem.
And we cycle right back to Oddly where Benjamin Netanyahu and his crew wants us to be fighting again because he kind of never stopped. That's his objective, too. They're like the same type of people except Donald Trump is controlled by Benjamin Netanyahu. And since he's such a master of the deal as he's also promoting himself to be, um, why haven't we gotten there yet?
>> Yeah, >> it's odd. His only answer is it's unacceptable. I don't like it. Who gives a damn what you don't like? Why should we care what Donald Trump doesn't like?
You know what he should care about? What the American people don't like? Uh they don't like these high prices. They don't like how they're being uh fleeced from all of their money. They don't like that we're sending off more and more service members to go off and die in these situations. They don't like being lied to about the devastation that this war has already caused to many bases in people's lives that they continue to cover up. That's what we don't like. And at some point since we are recognizing how he doesn't care how much we don't like this, maybe we should, you know, like do something about it cuz they continue to do something to us and we sit there disgusted by it.
>> Yeah. I Let's Let's turn to Nah, you both. Um, listening to Donald Trump talk about the war is probably pointless because I don't think Well, first of all, he's not going to be honest. That's number one.
Number two, I don't think he knows from moment to moment what he's going to say, how he's going to react. his brain is his brain is dying every day and we're just along for the ride. It probably makes more sense to go direct to his handler, in this case, Benjamin Netanyahu, who was on 60 Minutes uh to talk about the conflict. And Trump is implying that we're going to have some sort of great deal any second. Uh here's what Benjamin Netanyahu says, and he after all is the one who's going to call the shots. He says, "I think it accomplished a great deal, the war, but it's not over because there's still nuclear material, enriched uranium that has to be taken out of Iran. There are still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled. There are still proxies that Iran supports. There are ballistic missiles that they still want to produce. So notice some of those are things that are there. Some of them are things that could be at some point. So if like I was already thinking, oh, so forever war. And he's like, no, very that as long as they could ever want to do a thing, the war will not be over. So good. At least Netanyahu is being honest about uh what he is going to require America to do. Uh let's see. Now, we've degraded a lot of it, but all of that is still there, and there's work to be done.
I love the wei there. He like lumps us in without identifying that we're the ones who paid all this money. We're the ones whose soldiers have died. He puts us in the Wii. Isn't that nice of him to do? Now, when Major Garrett asked how he plans on removing the highly virturium, Netanyahu leaned forward and said, "You go in and you take it out with what?
Special forces from Israel, special forces from the United States." He's asked Nanyahu said he didn't want to talk about military plans, but that it would not be a problem to remove the uranium if a deal can be made with Iran.
Well, of course, a deal was made with Iran and they didn't have a nuke and they weren't producing uh fuel that was enriched to the level required for a nuke, but forget that war is more fun.
And uh let's see, special force from Israel, special force from the US. I wonder which one it's going to be. Since Netanyahu is in charge, he gets to call the shots. I wonder which one which one's lives are going to be in the line, which one's going to be paying for it. I can't wait to find out. He also was asked in an interview about whether it might be time for uh Israel to stop relying on United States financial support and he implied that he's ready for that. I'll believe that when I see it. I think that would be great. I've always advocated for bootstraps or whatever, but I kind of doubt that that's the way it's going to work out. What do you think, J?
So h how could he be released or at least separate from the financial support militarily from the United States since he's hinted at that if he also as he says you pointed out is the we are going to continue to do these things. How do we do it as he's including us in it? If we're separate from that he doesn't care. He just talks and just says things long enough to get out of that interview and say that he did something. Or maybe the headline will say Benjamin Netanyahu says that they're at the end of this uh connection to the United States and all of our money going to his wararm mongering. And then I guess there'll be a certain percentage of people that go, "Oh, Benjamin Yahoo is thinking clearly now.
Oh my god." You know, maybe he's not that bad after all. Maybe all those people that he's massacred, murdered, and genocided. Uh maybe all those folks just, you know, were asking for it and we should let him off the hook. maybe all the other countries and international areas that he can't go anymore because he's a war criminal.
Maybe those are actually all wrong and he's actually right. It's it it really is it's weird. We have to remember what it is that we've seen these people to be, who they've always shown us to be, and who they currently are still showing us that they are, and stop acting like they're any kind of normal actors in this whole thing. If you have a war criminal on 60 Minutes talking about his war crimes, I feel like it should be met with disrespect.
reporters and newspap both of our countries, America and Israel, deserve far better leadership.
Uh that said, we've been alluding to some of the costs of this conflict that are of course ignored by Trump and by Netanyahu. Um but let's let's turn to that now. start with this.
>> Are you confident that gas will be back under $3 a gallon by the busy summer travel season? Mr. Secretary, >> there's a very good chance that'll be true. I you know, there's no guarantees in war. The time frame still not entirely clear, but I but I think that's that's certainly a goal of the administration and ve and and very possible.
>> Do you think it's still very possible that gas prices will dip below $3 a gallon in time for summer, which is about six weeks? I can't make any predictions about, you know, oil prices or gasoline prices.
>> Yeah. So, uh, there was some confidence at one point. Now, not so sure. How exactly do you spin all of this if you're in the Trump administration? I mean, things are bad. They've been bad.
They're rapidly getting worse. you need to convince voters that they're not going to keep getting worse, especially as we get into the summer. We get into the prime uh driving months, but the numbers are making it a little bit harder to make that case. And so they turn in the Trump administration to Kevin Hasset, a guy who has proven himself to not be up to the task of spitting this sort of propaganda. But that said, he is going to try. Take a look. in terms of the price of oil and gas and this spike. This has to mean higher costes costs for corporate America and for consumers.
>> Well, it does in the short run and and you mentioned Secretary Bessett who follows these numbers. You know, he made a lot of money following these numbers in the past and being able to trade and he says these futures markets are saying that basically once we get the straight open that there's going to be a gusher of oil released from the Gulf and that's going to help put us put prices down relatively quickly. Now, there's a little bit of a time lag from that. Uh, we've got to get the boats to move from the Persian Gulf to especially Asia where jet fuel prices are so high, and that can take a month or two. But once, you know, basically the gusher opens, then we expect that oil prices could drop relatively quickly and certainly ahead of the election.
>> First up, why is he smiling so much?
Like, you're delivering bad news. I mean, you're spinning, sure, but like, what are you doing to yourself just out of frame that you cannot take that stupid ass eating grin off of your face?
That is a very strange way. Even if it was good news, it's economic news. Why are you feeling such strong emotions?
Stop using the term gushers, please, for like one sentence and acknowledge that a lot of people are not grinning in the way that you are. But anyway, he's at least trying to deliver the line that Oh, yeah. No, as soon as the straits open, gas is going to be totally cool.
Forget the fact that virtually every uh every fuel, every oil and natural gas producing uh complex in the region has been damaged and will need to be repaired over the course of years.
Forget all of that. It's all going to be good. Little problem with that. Uh Donald Trump isn't happy to just imply that things will get better. He's just actively lying about how they are right now. Take a look.
>> Gas prices have come down today. Have you looked? They've come down very substantially today. the gas prices. You know what's happened today? Gas prices are way down and the stock market is way up today. So, gas prices have come down.
Gas will fall down at levels that you've never seen before. You'll be down to where you were, maybe even lower. We had it down to I was in Iowa and we were at 85. We're about 85%.
>> We broke We broke $400. We broke it. We broke it. We had numbers that nobody's seen in a long time. So you had $2 a gallon. We were down I think to a$185$1.90 in Iowa and a lot of other places.
>> No, we were not. He's been my We're back to the lie. A$185. A$185. If you're a MAGA person and you can prove that you paid $185. I would love for you to present that in the chat. That's a lie.
$2 was a lie. There was a period where before he started the stupid war, gas prices were down a little bit from the previous year. There had been some improvement. It wasn't better than anybody's seen in a long time or whatever. But forget all that. All that is nonsense because gas prices are not down now. He is lying right to the face of every one of his voters that right now, every day, gas prices are going up. He is lying and saying that they're in fact going down.
We know that right now the average gas price today 452 a buck 40 more than it was just a year ago. Uh that is my god. Now look they they are coming up with everinccreasingly desperate means to try to bring that down other than just ending the stupid war. So, for instance, uh getting rid of the federal taxation, the like sur the sir tax that goes on to gasoline. That could help a little bit like 18 cents a gallon for gas, 24 cents for diesel. They could potentially do that, but that's still only going to get take gas down to where it was about a month ago. It's still significantly up.
And every day, the total amount extra that Americans have paid for gas continues to go up. It's up a lot, by the way. It is not up the same amount everywhere. Now, it's easy to take photos of like California where the average gas price is like 620 or something like that. And it is crazy here, but not just in California. In Georgia, gas prices are up an average of 116 per gallon. That's the lowest state average increase. In Ohio, it's up 206 a gallon. I don't even know why Ohio's getting hit so hard, but more than he's talking about gas being a buck 85. It's gone up more than a buck 85 in Ohio, which by the way has elections coming up. Maybe the voters there could think a little bit about what Republican governance has done for them. Jar, what do you think? Um, I'm just trying to figure out like, you know, there's the acknowledgement sometimes of where gas was and all this stuff at whatever points and times and it just leaves us in these conversations, uh, sadly where Donald Trump is dictating them where we're talking about, well, you know what, in 20 20 uh, early 2025 or in this point it was this, who cares? Who cares?
Where are we living right now and why are we living there right now? Who cares about what it was previous to this or this point in the year ago? which by the way all those are lies that that that's where the argument comes and then we end up you know shooting down those bad points but where are we right now and why are we there and what are you going to do about that all that is this all the simple things that need to be answers that he won't talk about that Kevin Hassid is grinning about all the time and that also Clay Travis at one point him and Kevin Hassid both celebrated the fact that oil companies or producers more billionaires are making more money off of it and at least they're Americans that are gouging us for all of our money they've said it they're openly and Kevin has it laughs about it. But why should we be uh having these debates and arguments over what gas was? I I don't know if you guys know I was just in Memphis last week since I got there. You know, you may need some gas. I drove there. Uh and then you look up and I was like, damn, we're at 410. I didn't know it was worth as you go a little bit more into the Midwest, not deep deep south. And um similarly, I guess that's what's happening in Ohio, too. Who really knows why these things are happening the way that they're happening? But we do know, I mean, as far as the variations, but we do know a big driver of it is the guy who keeps talking about he's this great deal making that is always happening and now he's rejecting more deals from the country that he invaded and has absolutely zero plan of doing anything different about. Then they'll acknowledge a different point. Actually, gas prices will go higher. It's a constant circus of us following behind this clown and expecting an answer that makes some kind of sense while we then shell out a lot a lot more money. And it's not just gas prices, by the way. I >> mean, you you would think that at least like for the purposes of not losing the midterms, they would try to wind this thing down, get the gas prices down.
Like just telling people day after day after day that they're not experiencing the struggle they are, is a terrible political strategy, but it's one that they've stuck with for the better part of a year now. Really smart. Okay, we're going to take our first break. When we come back, lots more to get to.
The strategy is disenfranchisement.
That's the norm.
>> Yeah.
>> Yes. Disenfranchisement. Uh rigging, you know, the the district's obviously having the Supreme Court just decide everything for us. Anyway, I want to read this comment, which I believe the conclusion in the Twitch chat was that this was from a bot, which actually makes it a lot more understandable. I'm going to read it anyway because it was fun. Uh TRT is hypocrites and lies all the time to viewers. By the way, having a transcontinental superighway connecting the US to China will happen in the future.
I don't know if that's going to happen, but it may be. TYT needs to report what's really going on in Lebanon war and stop supporting Israeli occupation.
What? We've done that multiple. Have you What? Do you know where you are? We've done that multiple times. I was literally just talking about Benjamin. I don't think I talked about Lebanon there necessarily, but we've covered it multiple times.
There's this thing on the internet.
It's like people people don't know how to Google anymore. I'm on Reddit and I don't know why. Reddit hasn't been good in years. And like I get that sometimes people just want like companionship or whatever, but somebody will like like post a thread on Reddit asking a question that you you post and then you have to wait for it to go out to the world, people to read it, put together an answer, give it back to you. You could just Google it. It would be infinitely faster. I do Do the younger generations not know that there are answers on the internet that just asking a person to do the work for you is not the only solution? I don't get it. I don't get it. It's also a great way to find out what we've covered on the show.
Nobody slows themselves down. Nobody Everybody has takes that they care simultaneously so much about that they have to tell you about it, but not enough that they will do research to find out if the take is justified. And that is a weird like superp position of the take that it's so important. I got to get it out of me, but also I don't care at all. I I don't care.
>> Can I be the old man to join you on this? Only 5 seconds it'll take me. Um the researching is a skill and it doesn't seem that way for us old folks.
It's a skill that is not taught. I'm telling you, my kid's in school. He's 14 and he's fine at it because, you know, I I force it and we force it. But like, you know, the natural skill of researching and looking and finding out the truth behind things and just looking up for informationational purposes is not pushed. It just isn't, man.
>> Yeah. I don't Well, first of all, yeah, I don't know that they'd necessarily have the ski even if they were to try to do it. I don't know they necessarily have the skills to, you know, be able to tell what's a reputable source from another that sort of aspect of critical thinking. But also, I feel like I feel like more and more people and not just the younger generations really just think the internet is just like the five apps they use.
So that like I could find out something on Twitter by tweeting about it, I guess, and asking a question, but there's no vast landscape of information that I could then delve. I'm I'm really worried about people. I am. There's so much information out there and they choose to consume it only in like the most ultrarocessed biased fashion.
Anyway, Guam Capsized Dragon says he wouldn't be tweeting if he was actually talking to Iran. I don't know. Why was representatives in quotation marks?
>> Cuz we blew the ball up. We blew them up and we don't know who it is that's in charge.
>> We shot them down like butterflies. The drones were fly falling from the sky.
Uh as prophet rightly points out that nobody's in a 25th amendment trump which I am obviously aware of. Um his entire cabinet is relying on his presidential pardon so they're not arrested after he's out of power.
Cara says Obama also got a nuclear deal with Iran without spending billions on a stupid war. So who's the master of the deal? Yeah, Obama is looking better and better uh in hindsight. He had his flaws obviously we pointed them out at the time but CD Noto dad sent a gift membership on YouTube. Super nice of you. Thank you for doing that. Master of Dragons did as well. Thank you to both of you. Super nice of you.
>> Maybe it wasn't a preschool that got you sick. Maybe it was like a cruise ship or something.
>> Anyway, we're all speculating about how I got sick. And in that vein, Conservative Wambbulance says, "Don't worry, John. Once your kid is like five, your immune system will have time to develop that leathery street fighter skin, and you won't get sick anymore until you don't get sick for a year or so. Then it'll be out of shape again."
Is that true for you, J.R.?
>> Very true, John. Yeah, I honestly don't I feel like I don't even get sick much anymore.
>> Okay. Okay. Well, I'm feeling it right now. Um Okay. Well, with that said, let's uh let's jump into this.
>> A was at this event at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics. And if you've been wondering, can she still drive a news cycle? Evidently, she can.
Particularly when she was asked about her opinions on working with people like Marjorie Green. Take a look.
There are certain places where certain areas where I don't think that that we should ignore some folks record on some of these issues, right? It's about where we we trust intent, where we trust where those outcomes are going. I personally do not trust someone like Marjorie Taylor Green, a proven bigot and anti-semite on the issues of what is good for Gazins and Israelis.
I don't I don't think that it benefits our movement in that instance to align the left with white nationalists.
I don't think it serves us. And so I think it's about looking at the context, the place, the results, the outcomes, intentions, and where we think that train would go. But as far as what someone says about me, I could care less. And um, you know, I think it's really about what our outcomes are.
>> Okay. So although the reaction in the room seemed to be largely positive towards what she said on the internet, everybody has an opinion and it's very extreme. I look I'm going to say I'm going to give my thinking. I don't think I have the exact same position that AOC has on this. Although I lean in her direction, but bear in mind a lot of people are very mad at her for what she said, including I know I saw that you Jen on our network had tweeted at her saying that he thought that her take on that was selfish and I'm sure they're going to talk about on the show today.
I'll let him make the case for that. Um, so I lean towards her and I'm going to explain why, but first I am going to let Marjorie Green respond as she did in a tweet. Uh, and characteristically, it was a short one, which is nice. She said, "AOC refused to vote for my amendment to strip funding for Israel.
She can run her mouth all she wants, but votes are the only thing that matters, not a bunch of words and nasty name calling." And I think that tweet is deeply ironic from a woman who left office. She had votes that she could make and they're the only thing that matters and she chose to give that up.
She had already won their re-election.
She could still be in office or whatever. She chose not to have to vote.
Instead, she has chosen to go on a bunch of podcasts and on those podcasts say some things that I agree with, admittedly, but all she's doing is using words which she just told us aren't worth anything. And so there's what she says she believes and then there's what she's chosen to do. She has chosen not to have power in this case. And I do like a good amount of what Marjorie Green has said about a number of issues.
So like that question was about Gaza, but that's not the only thing where I I think she's had some good comments. I think that arguably she's probably even better on the Epstein stuff than she is on that. She's been outspoken against Donald Trump on Iran. And I have I mean you can look at the videos. I've given her credit on that a number of times and that is why I say I don't think I have the exact same position as AOC. But that said, I do understand that AOC believes that a person being right on a particular issue doesn't mean that the other things they've said and done, which can be horrendous and harmful, or the other things that they are likely to continue to say and do are just gone.
We're supposed to forget about that. And I know some people would say, "But that that's not what it's about. you're not ignoring that by like choosing to work with them. And and maybe you're right, but I think you cannot hold a person up as someone who deserves to be listened to, deserves to be respected, deserves to be potentially followed, and not have that have some sort of area of effect.
Just realistic. I mean, I could be wrong. We We'll have to see. And and I do again, people like her, people like Thomas Massie, a few others, I've given them credit on these issues. I like that they have come come to the side of reason to come to our side on this issue. But then like if I'm supposed to believe that Green is like this moral exemplar in something like Gaza, why has she been so wildly bigoted against Muslims for so long? A lot of that stuff is still out there. She hasn't apologized for that. the horrendous things that she's done, the horrendous votes she's taken, by the way, when it comes to Gaza and the Palestinians, the terrible things that she said, including about individual uh American Congress people, including about uh AOC. That that's like the personal side of it as well. Like I think a lot of people are expecting AOC to forget that Marjgery Green effectively stalked her in DC.
Like I like my politicians to be humans.
I think it would be strange if AOC didn't have some kind of problem with Marjorie Green considering the creepy crap that she did visav her. So anyway, I I have a lot of other thoughts.
Obviously, my throat was not cooperating with me expressing them. So J, I'll let you jump in.
>> Um, okay. You guys know I've been on this for a minute. Her and Tucker Carlson, Mar and Tucker Carlson, the rest of whoever else that decides to have these moments of clarity. What's the purpose? It's the question we should always ask. What's the purpose of coddling and trying to resuscitate these two people's images? Why do we do it? I mean, it's it's it's presented that somehow they're going to help us get to this point where Donald Trump will be seen as this evil figure who's an idiot and has been destroying the country. Why do we need them for that? Donald Trump's doing that on his own. Number one.
Number two, there's some people that have been right about Donald Trump, this entire MAGA movement since it started, and they're still right about it right now. who are saying the things that Marjorie Taylor Green is now saying, except they were saying it before and they're saying it again now. Why can't we listen to them? I mean, they were right. Um, and also, so when they're pushing their whole character um uh remedies and trying to fix what it is that they've always been about, why don't we ask why are they doing that?
What is it that they could benefit from this? What is it that Marjorie Taylor Green and Tucker Carlson are doing that um is actually changing what Donald Trump is doing? You know, Donald Trump does? He calls him a bunch of sons of and liars and pieces of trash and then moves on. Has he changed any policy yet based off how many MAGA folks have been changing their tune on him?
Have the viewers and followers of Tucker Carlson and Margie Taylor Green, have they leaned on Donald Trump and now he's all changing his policies? Has he started doing things different with Iran? Has he done anything with these investigations of the Epstein files? Has he done something different with our economy? Has he given a damn about social security, Medicare, and our health care system? Does he give a damn about the jobs that he's eliminated?
Have we talked anything about how Elon Musk went into our social security system and took all of our information?
Are we talking about the monitoring of all of our lives? Are we talking about how they're destroying everything when it comes to our communications and how now they monitor everything that we do and say, "Have we done any of that stuff? Or are we just trying to resuscitate Marjorie Taylor Green and stupid Tucker Carlson's character so they can have a better life afterwards?"
Because the things that they're saying have been said by people who know better and have always known better. Why trust them? Why trust them? What's our objective here? Has that worked yet? Is he listening to Tucker Carlson? Geez, I'm trying to figure out why we keep kissing their asses.
He seems pretty mad at Tucker Carson. I don't think he's going to listen to him right now. Look, if there is a benefit to what Marjorie Green or or Tucker Carson are doing, it's for their audience. And so, I'm glad that they're pushing their audience in the right direction. I would also argue that they don't need AOC to do that. I don't know.
I don't know how Tucker Carlson's audience would like believe it more if AOC worked with them. But anyway, the the major point that I want to focus on is I also think a lot of people are responding to a tiny ver tiny bit of what AOC said as if she holds a more radical position on this that I think either she does or that even is expressed in the video. AOC is not saying don't work with people who are generally bad there. I don't think AOC is saying like that you should like go on a crusade against Marjorie Green. I think AOC is just saying I don't need to go on like a national tour with Marjorie Green. And I think that that's a very reasonable position to take. Let Marjorie Green go and do her podcast and try to talk some sense into Republicans or whatever. But AOC doesn't need to go to like a a wine gala with Tucker Carlson%. That's not a radical position.
That's a very reasonable position, I think. Um, and so anyway, uh, yeah, look, and she she talks, if you if you listen to just a little bit more of the video, and we'll move on in a sec, she talks about how she works with Thomas Massie on some issues, and then she talks about how on some issues like with, you know, banning insider trading, you're obviously going to have to have people from both sides of the aisle. So my like my main reason I wanted to cover is this is that AOC is not expressing some sort of absolutist position on this even if some people are in either direction implying that she is and I see some people who are like cheering her who are implying that she's going further than I think she is. Anyway, I'm sure she'll be asked follow questions about this and she can, you know, expand on that.
>> I have one last follow question for Margie Taylor Green since uh you know she's this crusader for righteousness now. How does she feel about this redistricting effort that's based off of racial lines that the Supreme Court has also pushed down on this country and now all of these red states are doing everything they can to disenfranchise black folks and brown folks and women.
I'm curious how does she feel about that? Because I mean since we're kissing her ass, is she right on that? Because that's our democracy that apparently I don't know maybe maybe I'm wrong here John maybe she's been great on that topic too.
>> Uh I haven't seen her talk about it. I believe I could probably guess what she would say about it. Anyway, uh with that said, um perhaps you know what? We have uh Keith Hernandez is gonna be on the show tomorrow, right? I think why don't we talk about the other AOC thing uh there. Why don't we move on to the C block? Is that okay? Yeah, we'll make sure that we cover some other stuff and I know I'm sure Keith will want to talk about AOC's other speculative takes.
Let's jump now into this.
You remember Greg Boino, the guy with the really cool haircut and even cooler coat? Uh anyway, he's been kind of iced out. He's been gone. You haven't really seen much of him after he, you know, like blew the whole ICE thing up in Trump's face. Uh he left ICE at the end of March. Uh but it hasn't been that long and already he seems to be getting a little bit itchy. He wants to get back in the national conversation. He wants to let's keep it real, make some money, maybe start a podcast. I don't know. So he posted this, which is very strange.
I'm in Oklahoma right now and I just saw this. Nearly 10% of the HIV patients at OSU's clinic are illegal aliens getting free treatment on the federal dime.
Who's paying for this? The same people shielding the provice feel great about it, but don't lose any sleep spending our money on a net lost for the country.
Maybe I should spread my wings and help a few of them self-epport. So, there's a couple weird things about that. So, first of all, many people would argue that there being less HIV in America is not a net loss for the country. that it's generally good for everybody when there's less HIV. Also, what do you mean spread your wings and help them self-deport if you're not in ICE? What is he implying that he is going to do visav individual migrants? Also, so you went to Oklahoma and I just saw this a fact about HIV.
Where the hell did you see that? Don't like you're walking down Oklahoma Boulevard, you came across this stat that allows you to fearmmonger against migrants. You're doing your grifty BS.
Okay, at least own up to it. Imply that you're just some sort of like random traveler or something. Anyway, supposedly uh the claim is from borderhawk.news, which sounds like a madeup website my producers would put in to mess around with me, but I think it's a real site.
In any event, we don't know for sure if that stat is actually true, but let's imply, let's pretend for now that it is.
that would mean about 150 people were undocumented at that hospital. Uh and so like if you were to compare the cost of treating those people's HIV to try to make it less likely that they will spread it to other people, it might spread to other people. Compare that cost both in both dollars and society to the other stuff you're seeing around the country right now.
>> Whether it's the war in Iran which is costing us1 to2 billion dollars a day or I don't know Donald Trump deciding to paint pools around DC or whatever. I feel like there's a little bit more social utility to fighting against disease. Aren't we supposed to be mahinging? But anyway, let's just jump to some of the responses. Southwest aren says, "If you can't understand why keeping levels of a communicable and fatal virus down in our country because you're so xenophobic, it's very good you now have zero power." report which he says got just the solution to that at a fraction of the cost to the taxpayer including folks like you who would rather have a lowkilled Americahating illegal alien costing you money. It's called mass deportations. No illegal aliens with AIDS equals no cost to taxpayer. Yeah, but but what do you mean no cost? We gave you like a hundred billion dollars last year and you guys are already begging for more money.
There is a massive everinccreasing cost to the taxpayer to pay for that. Also, if your idea is so pragmatic and so common sense, why do you have to throw in the purely speculative they're an Americahating illegal alien? What the hell do you know about a person who's literally like up in a hospital being treated for a potentially fatal illness?
You don't know anything about them. In fact, maybe these migrants have even more love for America when they realize that if they get something that just might kill them, there might actually be a solution to that. His solution to that is just throwing them out when they get sick, potentially having gotten that disease from an American citizen. The entire thing is utterly grotesque. Jr., what do you think?
>> He's uh Greg Bino is uh clearly the indication of why their policies are strictly based off of their hate. As you point out, that's what I was going to bring up. How is it this is weird assumption that these are Americanhating migrants, Americahating aliens that they like to talk about? They just say that just like he's saying that they all got AIDS. What are you talking about? This guy has been reduced to walking around the country taking pictures in front of different state uh signs as he crosses in because, you know, no one wants to be with him anymore. Um, and putting his face in front of me. Look, I'm in Oklahoma. Here's some propaganda for you. That's all he's doing now based off of how much hate he's got in his heart.
That's all he's got. That's his only skill level is he keeps talking about lowskilled people. What the hell else does Greg Bavino do with his life? He got his ass kicked out for being this Nazi somehow. That's the most surprising part. But now he's on a solo Nazi trip around the country acting like this is an issue. You know how much money it's costing to uh house in these detention centers as you have these other hateful Nazis attack people, women and children and innocent folks that have no uh reason for being there as they run up still, by the way, this is not being talked about, still running up on people's cars, breaking through people's windows and attacking folks and asking them where they're from, why they have this car, and why they're still here.
These things are still happening. It's constant. But for some reason, we're supposed to go back to believing people like Greg Bevino talking about how all of our money is going to this. And I love that you brought up the war. I love that you brought up the cost for these other things. Cuz for some reason, we've always got money for that. And I love the comparisons that people have been putting forward about how if we spent a fraction of how much we've just spent in this, you know, two months we've been in this war over here in Iran, so many other things could have been solved. All the things that they complain about. And by the way, uh this this the fact that you said you've solved whatever issues you've claimed are going on in Iran and they haven't been solved yet. How's all those billions of dollars treating you that you just wasted?
>> These questions just aren't asked for some reason.
>> Okay. Well, I think we're going to take our second break. Even more to get to Don't go anywhere.
>> Are they going to test people, John? How are they gonna know everyone's got all these AIDS and HIV?
>> I mean, depending on skin color, yes, I can see that.
>> That's not a cost, John. Testing tons of people.
>> They proposed a 50% increase to the world's largest ever defense budget in just one year. And then they think they can ever talk to us about fiscal discipline again.
Anyway, okay. There was a super chat. I Okay, Queen Victoria said in a super chat, "Did you see Brooke Thomas on John Oliver saying that watching Star Wars was a punishment for her as a kid?" So, I consumed John Oliver on YouTube, which means I only ever get the like the main story. So, I don't know. Was she If Brooke was on Oliver rather than me, I'm going to be even more jealous of her.
>> That's the first one either than you'd have.
>> Particularly if it was the bad Star Wars. So, I need to watch the full episode now and see that. Did anyone else see that? It was well obviously it was a clip of her but like I mean oh now what in what context was it like a whole bunch of news people saying bad stuff about Star Wars or something? Oh I got to message her about that now. I'm so jealous. Um although I say that I should really consider like a monkey paw thing because if I ever do get mentioned by John Oliver, it's going to be derogatory and I am going to sit in my shower crying for hours and that's going to be it from Oh man, it was a great call for me to do the show today. I think everybody, particularly my my producers, can agree on that. Anyway, okay.
Neil Witting, hey, we were having a philosophical debate before the show.
Are you allowed to take a couple days off for sickness, then come back and then decide that was a bad call and take another day off or is that not allowed?
>> You asking me?
>> I don't know. Be sure >> 100%. John, listen, that's confirmation that you shouldn't have come back.
That's one of those things. You can come back, cough all over everyone, and they'll go, "Okay, please go home."
>> I didn't want to be here. It was because >> No, I understand that. All I mean is like that's it's it's okay because if nothing else, the ball is no longer in your court. The people around you are like, "Stay away."
>> Yeah. Well, evidently in my absence, there's speculation that I'm not going to say who, but that somebody got a whole bunch of people at the studio sick, actually. So, I I haven't been here in a while, so it ain't me. Anyway, um Okay. As soon as I'm done, I'm going have to spray down every surface in the studio with Lysol or something. Anyway, uh Rick Quintania says in a super chat, "JR from the top rope with the elbow wearing that Spurs hat. One elbow for every five ignored fowls." That's a sports reference.
>> That's Victor Wimbeyama who didn't deserve I'm sorry. He deserved to be kicked out.
>> I'm familiar with that player. He understands. He He gets in.
>> Anyway, I uh I did watch a good amount of the opening matches of the WNBA. Very exciting. Loved to watch the Wings take out the Fever. That was a great start to the season. Uh, but then the Sparkies lost, so I felt pretty bad about that.
Also, JR on Backlash, I I watched I I sort of skimmed through the the uh the Oh my god, Seth Rollins match.
>> I missed that one, too.
>> I I was already kind of losing a little bit of interest. And I'm going to be real, the firings have put a really bad taste in my mouth.
>> And the retirements, I think I'm going to take some time off. Like they just there's just something I'm not I don't like about like all the people like I feel like they probably did ask Oscar to take like a big cut. I don't know. I just feel kind of gross about the entire thing.
>> I wonder. No, it's you know this is a corporate uh you know nature of this whole merger that they have. I think it was TK or whoever it is they merged with. There's all kinds of things that happened because of that. So there's issues you know with you know the personnel and character development and all that stuff that I I agree with you on. I see it, bro. I just feel like I don't know like it's the enessification of everything that corporations do. And I also feel like they're not doing like anything with the women's division right now. Like maybe there'll be some good Becky Lynch stuff. I'll watch that on YouTube. But I don't know. I hear Jacob Fatu versus Roman ways is good. Maybe I'll watch that one.
>> It was good.
>> But the the Rollins stuff was bad because they got all injured. That's what happened to them.
>> We we we'll we'll talk more in the next thing. Um, anyway, we got more news, but before that, I do want to uh let you know that you might well be suffering from a condition called brain rot. You can get that in a couple different ways.
One, you could uh catch a bird in an airport, take a bite out of it. That was the RFK Junior method. The other way is checking your phone too much. You may be checking it much more than you think.
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>> It's uh insurrectionists all over the place. It's Antifa.
>> Antifa burns a lot of American flags.
>> And they let Antifa get away with murder. Antifa knocks the hell out of Portland, takes over parts of Seattle, destroys Minneapolis. Antifa kills people. Those people got attacked vic viciously by the scum from Antifa. The Antifa thugs. The Antifa. These are bad people. Angry mobs. Antifa. Antifa.
>> So, Donald Trump has obviously been obsessed with Antifa for some time. You can tell that those videos go back because in some of those videos he had vigor and vim and verve and he hasn't had that for literally years now. Still bothered by Antifa though. And so before it used to just be like an applause line at his rallies. But now he's bending the government bureaucracy against this almost entirely fictional threat that exists purely between his ears. And so Trump just declared that Antifa, despite not existing in a formal sense, barely even making news over the past year plus, they're now a major terror group.
According to Donald Trump, uh the plan says in addition to cartels and Islamist terror groups, our national counterterrorism activities will also prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American from MAGA point of view.
radically protransgender, meaning they accept that transgender people exist and always have. And anarchist. Uh anarchist means when like you have an issue with what the government is doing, not when you like shred the constitution as the president. That for some reason is an anarchist. So anyway, uh yeah. No. Um it's the same as uh Islamist groups, same as ISIS. Antifa, you know, like all those Antifa attacks that have happened, all those Antifa assassinations. And no, I got nothing. I don't know. I don't even know what most of this is supposed to what is radically protransgender.
If the protransgender people got everything that they wanted, there would just be trans people. That's what's considered radical at this point. And it is one thing for like Benny Johnson to do a whole segment about that so that you will maybe stop asking questions about his personal life for a few minutes. It's another thing when it's like the official position of the United States government. There is an actual cost to this and certainly an opportunity cost. If they're investigating radically protransgender groups, those agents are not investigating people who actually do plots against the government or against cities or states who actually kill people. They're instead, like all of the rest of the DOJ, it's being weaponized against Donald Trump and MAGA's perceived if fictional enemies. J.R., what do you think?
Um, I remember when Donald Trump and Steven Miller were pushing this whole Antifa thing, you know, last year, whatever point, or earlier on in this this disaster of an administration and as soon as I heard him talking about it again, I was like, "Oh, that's right.
This is like a flashback moment. This is them picking up where they left off."
And at some point, I guess when he was derailed by, you know, this war that he got himself involved in, uh, and the destruction of the economy and his terror fight and all that back and forth, he got a little distracted from this original plan of deeming and and calling all of their political enemies, you know, people who think clearly who have turned on their fascism uh, a bunch of Antifas that we should now designate a terror organizations. They can then unleash, you know, their violence on more American people and claim that they're terrorists. The same thing we do in other countries. It's like a basic, you know, a basic uh blueprint that they like to go about carrying out. And I guess now we're back. I'm not sure what it is that triggered it. Uh maybe it's the fear of what may happen in the fall, which they're doing other things to prevent that as well, too. But this doesn't seem like it's one of those things that they were thinking through for very long. It's like they have it in their bag like, "Let's pull out the Antifa stuff again. Let's go with the how they're terrorists again. Maybe folks will get afraid." Cuz when Charlie Kirk got killed, didn't work. When we said anybody who says that he's a piece of trash, uh that they're anti-American, it's not working yet. Erica Kirk is falling flat. Every time she says something, people make fun of her. We have to go with something else. Uh I guess it's Antifa again. Don't make her mad. She will put on the blackest clothing and do the Um Yeah. No, I think it's it's prepping for, you know, it's election year.
They're they got to start the fear-mongering over the vote being rigged so that you can rig it and uh Antifa being around the polling places so that you can send ICE around the polling places. Uh that's what it is. Uh really fast, if we could grow throw up graphic four here, leftwing versus right-wing terror attacks and plots in the US over the past three decades.
Yeah, I guess it makes sense that they're focusing on the leftwing ones.
It's again nothing there there is nothing they are more scared of than the real world. That is why they flee so quickly from it. Anyway, let's lighten things up to close out this first hour of the show.
Elon Musk being labeled mostly by himself as a genius was always a joke.
But every day there's a reminder of why he never deserved that label. And what I like is that Grock, ironically, is making him look like a fool more than even most left-wing commentators these days. So he posted on social media again remember this is the richest man in the world on his own platform that he bought says Hitler was a socialist therefore all socialists are Hitler. So uh the first part of that sentence is untrue.
The second part doesn't logically follow. Now I understand that this is probably his desperate attempt to like tell a joke or something. like he doesn't fundamentally understand how humor works, but he thinks that if he like says something obviously untrue but trolly that that will be funny to people who don't really get humor anymore than he does. But regardless, some humor did come out of this and it came not thanks to Elon Musk but thanks to Evan loves warf who said at Grock was Hitler a socialist and Grock responded no. The Nazi party's name included national socialists for propaganda appeal to workers but Hitler explicitly rejected Marxist socialism. They purged socialists and communists, banned their parties, allied with industrialists, and ran a fascist system prioritizing racial nationalism and state-directed private enterprise, not class equality or worker ownership. And look, I have been very clear that I think that all of this AI is a stupid waste of resources and shouldn't exist. But that said, Grock did a pretty good job in that case. I you could go more in depth, but I don't think that there were any mistakes in what it said. So Elon Musk says a thing and the AI that Elon Musk has birth proves that he was absolutely full of crap which is very funny. So then Elon Musk I guess feels like a doink and has to start posting even more to make himself feel better. So this guy Arthur McWaters he posts this uh chart saying socialists have killed far more people than Hitler. If we had any moral consistency it would be career ending to support socialism. to which El and then he like retweets himself with socialists are worse than Hitler because the point of all of this is your guys are being too rough on Hitler. Never forget that.
And Elon Musk responds, "Good point."
Which I believe in the UI of Twitter, you can tell them they made a good point by just liking the tweet. You don't have to just vapidly post that in reply. But I would also like to just briefly point out Elon Musk himself has labeled himself a socialist, saying, "By the way, I am actually a socialist." So Elon Musk is Hitler according to his own logic. I also just want to briefly point out if we could go back to that chart.
So you have uh Mao in the far right and Mao was responsible indirectly for a lot of people dying. His policies led to mass starvation. What I think is interesting though about charts like this is they love putting together these charts where they're like here is what a authoritarian totalitarian dictatorship which was flavored as communist or socialist when really the problem there is dictatorship not the socialism. They did these policies and people died as a result. But you'll notice they never use that logic for capitalism. Like if we set up capitalist health insurance. So you could potentially die if you can't afford medical. We set that up and a person dies. We don't count that as capitalism having killed them. We don't put that on Ronald Reagan or whatever.
That doesn't make it onto the chart for some reason. You could have all of these predictable and predicted consequences of capitalism that do let people fall through the cracks, ruining their standard of life and even killing them.
And that's just not supposed to count for anything. It's a weird double standard that we have in terms of ideology. But JR, what do you make of Elon Musk?
>> It is odd how that works. That's a good point, John. Um, folks who, you know, aren't afraid of people calling them socialists and all this stuff, uh, have always pointed that out. You know, capitalism is a destructive nature on many people's minds, but when you fall victim to it, what they say is you didn't play the game right enough. When the game is rigged, obviously when it comes to someone like Donald Trump in charge and his fascism. By the way, just really fast point. Um so obviously Elon Musk was owned again by Grock. It happens over and over again. Uh so not only owned by his own you know AI creation but also owned by these radical leftists who make very obvious points against him as well too but also by himself. This goes to the point I always make. Let's stop having these debates.
What's the point having a debate with someone who loses it and then afterwards they just go I don't care. I've got I'm I'm have proximity to power. we uh control all this stuff anyway because of the way that they've come through and steamrolled and gotten rid of any kind of normaly and they lose debates and no one changes their mind. Who changed their mind about what they believe Elon Musk says being the gospel after seeing him clown himself for the hundth time.
We've seen him clown himself over and over again and every time he does we go look at how dumb Elon Musk looks. Look how dumb Donald Trump looks. Oh, Pete XF is an idiot. They don't know what they're doing. They've been proven wrong. Then what? Yeah.
>> We go to the next debate and do it again.
>> Yeah. Yeah. I My final point is uh in both of the cases with Hitler and with Mao and other socialists or fascists or whatever, the issue is that the people have no input. They are not listened to.
There's a totalitarian leader. That's the issue. That's why we're so worried about the moves we're seeing both in the presidency right now and the way that the Supreme Court and the legislature are just just ignoring it and just saying, "Yeah, he can do whatever he wants and we can we can choose our own districts. We can pre-win the election."
That's the concern. It never goes well regardless of ideology. And certainly fascism has as bad of a record as any other ideology. Okay, with that said, uh we're going to end this first hour.
Thank you everybody. We got more coming up the aftermath. So don't go anywhere.
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And with that said, let's read a couple of comments. Uh Neil Wittington says in a super chat, "I just got a VW. It needs 91 octane. Premium is 93. I put eight gallons high test and seven reggg to lessen the dollars. All thanks to our legal president. I've never done a combination like that. I don't know how that works out, but yes, a lot of people are definitely feeling the squeeze.
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Skittlebutt 65 months says, "Hello, fellow dragons." Thank you, Skittlebutt, as always for being with us. Becca for 15. Thank you. Apollo Racer for 51 says that's why we ditched Spectrum and went with a fiber optic network. I don't even know if where I live fiber is possible and generally my internet's fine. I don't and generally the TV is okay.
Although I also often feel Anybody else watch the WNBA and wonder why the wide shot looks pixelated but the other shots don't. I don't know why that would be but I feel like the wide shot always looks lower quality.
>> Anybody else experienced that? Is that me? I don't know.
>> Sabotage John. They don't want the women's game to throw.
>> It's annoying. Anyway, they wouldn't do that to the NBA. Anyway, u with that said, let's jump into the news.
>> After already redrawing the congressional maps in their favor, Al Alabama Governor K. Ivy signed legislation that would set up new, totally new primary elections if the courts allow Republicans to change their congressional and state Senate map. So, they've got this little backup plan going. Alabama's primaries are currently set to take place under its current maps on May 19th, so in a little bit more than one week. But the legislation the Republican controlled legislature approved on Friday gives Ivy the ability to schedule separate special primary elections for affected districts if redrawn maps are put into place. Iivey said Alabama knows our state, our people, and our districts best. And by Alabama, she means those who are currently in power who want to make sure that they're always the ones in power and those that are out of power never have a chance of gaining any power.
That's what that means. You'll notice they always talk about the people on the right when doing this. They never ever ever ever put it to the people for a vote. Weird that. But anyway, here's where we are when it comes to overall redistricting. As of May 2026, four states had congressional district maps that were subject to change before the 2026 election. Eight states, California, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah had new congressional maps. Virginia's new map was blocked from certification by court order, though the ruling could be appealed, and three states had congressional maps that were subject to change due to litigation. Before 2025, only two states had conducted voluntary mid decade redistricting since 1970.
Obviously, we are in radical times.
Something obviously has to be done, but as of right now, the Republicans like it. They think that they can rig themselves into permanent majority status. We'll have to see about that.
And importantly, the Democrats, whether it ends up being allowed by courts or not, they always go to the people. They always let the people weigh in and the people support what they're doing. The Republicans don't. And also, the Republicans just generally, even if the courts rule against them, they just ignore the courts. Maybe that's something the Democrats should get in the habit of doing. But that said, with the recent developments, particularly in Virginia, you might be getting a little bit angsty about the midterms. Here is Harry Anton to break down the Democrat's chances. We can best see this in terms of what we think Democrats will need to win the National House vote by in order to win control come November. You know, under the current lines, what we'd essentially think is they'd have to win the National House popular vote by less than a point. Basically, you win the national house house vote and then you win control of the US House. That's what we would think under the current lines.
But under the redistricting lines, right, the redistriced lines, well, now with Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, the Supreme Court ruling, we think that Democrats would have to win the national house vote by, let's say, between three and four points in order to win House control come November. But there is good news for Democrats, and that is you see this 3 to four point margin right here.
And what do they lead right now by in the National House vote polls? Well, their average lead, well, it's about six points, which you don't have to be a mathematical genius to know that six points is significantly wider than well, 3 to four points.
Uh, so look, I think that that should make people feel a little bit better about it, you know, only so much. It sucks to see what's happening and what's being allowed to happen around the country and obviously something needs to change. Now, we know that Virginia is probably going to appeal the decision.
they could appeal to the Supreme Court, which I mean based on the merits of the case and what the the Supreme Court has already allowed like in Louisiana, it would be maddeningly partisan for them to allow the Republicans to in a racist fashion re redist however they want and not allow Virginia to do it even after they got the consent of the voters. But that's the Supreme Court, J.R. I I bet they would be perfectly comfortable weighing in in that partisan fashion.
But what do you make of all that?
>> Yeah. And in no ways of having to answer for this, you know, you know, I've said this many times, uh, things like the Supreme Court where they have um, you know, there's no term limits, there's no elections for whatever. Once you're on, you're on until you leave or die. Um, it's supposed to be something where it allowed people to avoid any of the partisanship. Now, it's allowed as a shield for these folks to have their partisanship and not be held accountable for it like at all. to then after it happens and after everyone argues around the basis for these decisions uh for them to thumb their nose at us and go whatever who cares I don't have to talk to you it's like above uh above any responsibility to the American people who obviously are up in arms about this whole thing which maybe has led to that whole difference in the plus six that they're uh that they predict the Democrats will have which is still cover it but if we uh can understand if Harry has that information I'm pretty sure these fascists that are looking to do anything they can also have that kind of information. And this is not the only thing they're going to do. As you mentioned earlier, we know that things like them sending out folks to intimidate people at polling locations.
I'm willing to believe that they'll go as far as to eliminating people's ballots even afterwards. I mean, they're doing it in the middle of it already just through this semiofficial way with all these governors of these conservative states doing anything they want and calling it the American people's will. They just talk, bro. So the action on the response to it has to be as direct and honestly as radical as the action that they're going against this or else you're just losing some ground in any kind of way for the whole purpose of having some kind of moral high ground when you already got it. The argument's been won. They just don't care about the logic behind the argument being won. They're just, you know, they're anti-American. It's literally the definition of it.
>> Yeah. No, 100%. Like and and again that's why I point out to mock it. They always pretend that this has anything to do with the people when all of it is designed to help fix the problem fundamentally, which is that they can't convince the people to actually vote for them. And they've had a problem doing that for decades now at this point. It is always been tough for the Republicans to get people to genuinely support them.
So, they have to rig things with redistricting or, as we'll turn to now, any other means necessary.
Donald Trump is so worried about the midterms uh that he wants to apparently dispatch a an election integrity army to every state to deal with it. Now, some of that will almost certainly be the actual army because there are going to be guns in the streets. We're getting to that phase of the dissolution of America, but also lawyers basically looking in any way possible to invalidate votes that they don't like, make sure that their votes go through, that sort of thing. So, just expect that that's going to happen now. He announced it on True Social saying Palestinian Chuck Schumer is which I don't want to get derailed by this, but dear God, how is that not the end of him? How is that?
He allowed his owner, Benjamin Netanyahu, to genocide the Palestinians, and now he gets to use the label to insult a Jewish kind of critic of his.
It's madness. But anyway, blah blah blah blah blah Obama blah blah blah blah blah Mark Elliott blah blah blah blah blah.
Uh, the dem the Democrats are definitely going to disenfranchise people. You know how the Democrats always do that.
Anyway, let's turn to the second paragraph. During my historic election in 2024, he had just gotten done saying that in 2016 he won a historic election.
I guess they're all historic. I mean, it's in the past. I guess was part of history. Where I won every single swing state and decisively won both the electoral and popular votes by wide margins. He literally didn't even get 50% of the popular vote. The Republicans had an election integrity army in every single state to preserve the sanctity of each legal vote. We'll be doing the same again in 2026, but it'll be much bigger and stronger. All Americans should have their voices be heard by casting a vote.
Be assured this election will be fair.
Blah blah blah blah blah. Yeah. So, uh, he beat Harris by 2 million in the popular vote. In 2016, he literally got less votes than Hillary Clinton. Weird that they ignore that and just keep saying landside, landside, landside. But anyway, uh, we don't know what is going to be in this election integrity army.
Is it just lawyers? Is it going to be ICE? I don't know. Probably everything.
But he's also been posting other threats like this. Start arresting pole workers that cheated in elections. And watch how fast they tell you who told them to cheat. Because of course, there's this dark, sinister conspiracy where Palestinian Chuck Schumer went and told individual pole workers to cheat even though there's no evidence of any of that. And then he then says and then retweets himself. The radical left Democrats. He's gotten his mojo back on the names thing. Uh must fail. Our country is at stake. Okay. So yeah, you can't let them ever gain power even if more people vote for them. We're very used to this anti-democratic nonsense.
Jar, what do you think?
>> Uh panic, you know, as we know, the normal panic is setting in. So this is the next steps. Again, I just want to keep pointing out I feel like we have to keep revisiting history and history being like, you know, a year and a half ago, not even that long. These are fascists and uh the more desperate they get, as the more people have access to information or just experience in this past year and a half of their fascism, more people are thinking, well, you know, I like his stupid face and his orange uh his blonde hair, but you know what? It's destroying my life. Maybe we'll go another direction here. And as that happens and as more people are upset over this whole thing, the violence then takes the next stage. As we saw, they came in first and started taking over our money, which was the first aspect of this greedy guys agenda.
And then after that, start getting rid of all those people that they figure the rest of the country would celebrate them getting rid of illegally without due process and through their fascist tendencies. And as people turn on them, the fascist tendencies will go violent.
That's why they call everyone that they call their enemies violent. That's why the whole Antifa thing earlier that we were visiting on is now back. Aren't they violent? Think about all the burning of these cities. Think about how they want to unleash who upon you and your children. It's all these fear tactics. And the the first step is to call their enemies violent so that they can get violent first. It's why he's calling Chuck Schumer a Palestinian because they felt that they convinced enough people that all those people that Benjamin Netanyahu and we've gone about massacring in their own country is somehow the bad guys are somehow the enemies are somehow the people who are violent and want to kill us. Same thing is happening in Iran. It's the same playbook and we're just this stupid to keep playing along with it. Well, let's uh let's have another demonstration of how stupid they consider at least their own voters to be. Let's jump when whenever we're ready into this.
>> Where the is my phones? Trump supporter here. This goes out to Don Jr. and Eric.
I ordered three, no, four gold Trump phones in the summer. Told they're going to be the best. Talk my son into ordering some.
>> He really sells it by how much he's yelling in that. I think Alex Jones has a new air apparent. But anyway, uh that guy evidently is very angry that his Trump phone hasn't been delivered, and I can understand that. If I'd purchased four phones before there was any evidence that they were ever going to be released, that's a lot of money. And I made my son buy some, I'd be pretty angry, too. And the more you find out about the scam that's been run on these Trump voters with the gold Trump phone, the more justifiable their anger actually is. So, we're going to give you an update on the phone. what has changed over time with regards to it. But first, let's play out the video where the guy uh sort of talks about some of the the aspects of the scam. Take a look.
>> We heard they're going to come out September. Yeah, we can wait. September rolls around. No, it's going to be November. November. No, it's going to be the end of the year. They actually stopped taking orders for them in November. Now, we can't get any updates on them. Now, we got all this fraud going on in Minnesota, and I hope a lot of people go to jail.
But 590,000 people buying a phone at $500 or $600 each, add that the up. Just the down payments of $100 is 60 million.
Give me my phones or give me my money back.
I look again, I feel bad for this guy.
That is a lot of money to put down. But I also love the like knee-jerk need to put a little bit of that. Oh, there's also Somali's. Um, so anyway, if that makes you feel better for a little bit, but anyway, I want this guy to get his money back. He apparently has been scammed. I feel bad for him. The numbers are really bad. $590,000 buyers paid $59 million for Trump's gold phone. Not one has been shipped and refunds look unlikely. The entire thing makes so little sense when you think about it.
First of all, why do you want a Trump phone? I don't want a Bernie phone. I don't even know what that would be. What does that have to what does the one have to do with the other? Why do you need everything with Trump's name on it? And if you're Trump, why do you need that $59 million? You've been given billions by the the Emiratis and all that. Like, what do you care about $59 million at this point? It's not going to buy you anything you don't already have. All of this is so utterly pointless. But anyway, let's turn now to timelines. Uh, as I said, not a single confirmed customer has received the phone. It was initially supposed to be available last summer. That was pushed back to November, December, mid-March. As of April, there's no release date altogether. What the phone is supposed to look like has also changed. You can see a comparison on the left and more recently on the right from February. It is a different phone with a totally different setup. Uh, and even on the newer one, it says, "Product features and images are for illustration only.
Final product appearance and specifications may vary. And it's pretty amazing when you have priced a phone and you have no idea what the specifications will be. How do you even know if it's worth it? You have no way. Uh they had initially said that it was going to be made in America. We knew that that was not going to be the case and uh we were proven to be right. The made in America claim has been dropped. Now it says designed with American values in mind, which is true. The entire thing was set up as a scam to separate their sheep from their money. That's American values in operations. So, I I feel like they they've earned that. But here's the craziest part. This is my favorite part about the entire thing. Sarcastically, I do feel bad for these people. Trump quietly updated its pre-order deposit terms and conditions back on April 6th.
At the time of writing, the terms and conditions read, quote, "A pre-order deposit provides only a conditional opportunity if Trump mobile later elects in its sole discretion to offer the device for sale. A deposit is not a purchase, does not constitute acceptance of an order, does not create a contract for sale, does not transfer ownership or title interest, does not allocate or reserve specific inventory, and does not guarantee that a device will be produced or made available for purchase. It's not a pre-order. It's literally just money you put down so that if we decide to sell it, which we might not, you can then purchase it, which obviously they'd try to get you to buy it at that point anyway. What was the point of any of this, Jr.?
>> Um, I I think we know the point.
John, I got to disagree with you on some u some very key points here. You said you feel bad for the guy and you hope he gets his money back. Uh, disagree, disagree, agree to disagree. This guy deserves to toss his money around to Donald Trump and maybe learn a lesson.
He gets something maybe for his money that he gave maybe a lesson to be learned that the rest of MAGA apparently can't learn. And anyone else that gets associated with this guy and gets screwed over and then doesn't learn cuz every time the next person gets screwed over, they say, "How would I ever known that Donald Trump would con me?" He's not a con artist, at least until he conned me. But the thing is about this guy, I actually really hope I I I really hope that he's like some kind of actor that's embodying the probably, you know, anger that's coming from these folks who gave up $59 million as you said. Um, and by the way, the reason uh that he wants those $59 million is because he's greedy. Um, and if they would have read Trump's Bible that they also bought for too much money, maybe they could find that section where it talks about how greed is like a sin and it could lead to idolatry, which oddly they're also doing.
>> Yeah.
>> It's almost like this entire movement is chocked full of idiots that would go for scams like this and not realize that after he scams them, he's going to continue to, you know, scam them again.
But lastly, if you look closely, um, he has his maga sunglasses on, which makes me think this guy's an actor cuz it's way too on point. But he had a he reflected his phone talking to himself complaining and it's an infinite loop of absolute bad stupidity.
>> I was really close, John. Uh but his his eyeglasses kept reflecting his stupid points and I really enjoyed that part.
>> Yeah, I think it's interesting.
>> They they don't seem to be legally allowed to be in their car without those sort of shades on and I don't like I drive all the time. I sometimes wear sunglasses, but lots of the time I don't. They always have those big shades on. It's so strange. And I just don't get like you buy a phone because like it's got a new feature or it's really fast or whatever. Why are you buying a just because it's gold? Just because it has Trump's name? You have no idea how it's going to function, what operating system it's going to have, if it's ever going to be available. That is a level of cult nonsense that I will never I will never understand. I like Bernie. I like AOC. Well, I don't know what merch I have, if any. And I'm definitely not going to buy like an AOC laptop without knowing like I want to see a review.
MKBHD better put out a video on it before I buy the AOC laptop. That's all I'm saying. Anyway, that's going to have to be it for the show. Thank you, Jr. uh for being here as always. We appreciate it.
>> Take care of yourself, John.
>> Thank you. Hopefully tomorrow my voice will be in a little bit better shape so that uh Keith Hernandez does not have to suffer through listening to this. But thank you all for doing so. I appreciate you being here. We're definitely going to have a show one way or another tomorrow. For now, stay safe out there.
Stay sane out there. We'll see you soon.
Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat.
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