One Trump Action Or Statement Away From Being A Cartoon Villain

I sat down to record this and honestly I’m still trying to figure out how we got here with Donald Trump. I’m watching this unfold and I keep thinking this can’t be real, but it is. 

At some point I stopped being surprised and started just shaking my head because it feels like every single day he says or does something that pushes this even further into absurd territory.

I’m talking about Donald Trump saying things out loud that would’ve ended anyone else’s political career not that long ago, and now it just passes like it’s nothing. 

I hear him speak and half the time it sounds like a parody of a president, except it’s not a joke. It’s actually happening, and I don’t know how anyone’s supposed to process that without feeling like something’s completely off.

What gets to me isn’t just Donald Trump, it’s the reaction to him. Or more accurately, the lack of one. I keep waiting for Republicans to hit a breaking point, to finally say enough, and it just doesn’t happen. 

I’m watching this play out in real time and I can’t tell if they’re numb, scared, or just don’t care anymore.

And I keep coming back to the same question about Donald Trump. What actually changes anything anymore? I’m asking that seriously because it feels like the rules don’t apply to him the way they used to apply to anyone else. 

Things that should matter don’t seem to matter, and the response is always weaker than it should be.

At some point this stops feeling like politics with Donald Trump and starts feeling like something else entirely. I don’t even know what the right word is for it, but I know it doesn’t feel stable. 

It feels like we’re drifting into something that’s harder to recognize, and I don’t think enough people are willing to say that out loud.

So yes, I’m frustrated watching Donald Trump. I’m watching this like everyone else, trying to make sense of it, and I keep landing in the same place. 

This isn’t normal, and pretending it is might be the most dangerous part of all.

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Transcript

Cold Open And Show Setup

SPEAKER_01 0:00

This is a world gone man.

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This is a world gone man.

Trump’s Iran Threats And Fallout

Bondi Skips Deposition On Epstein

Wisconsin Voters Block Data Center Deal

Plan To Gut Presidential Records

Budget Push For Ideology Surveillance

Listener Emails GoFundMe And Signoff

SPEAKER_00 0:09

I'm Jeff Allen Wolf and this is A World Gone Man. Here we go. Trump is holding the world hostage amid a two-week Iran ceasefire. Now, yesterday, or depending on when you're listening, on Tuesday, Iranian media showed people forming a human chains around power plants and on bridges to deter Trump from bombing them. In response to seeing that, Trump told NBC, I'm laughing because when you hear this, Trump told NBC News the human chains were totally illegal, adding, they're not allowed to do that. You have to admit, everyone, Trump's comment is asinine. On Capitol Hill, more than 70 Democrats have demanded Trump be removed from office, and the 25th Amendment was brought up. Now, it obviously has no chance of happening, but you still have to get Trump's cabinet and the vice president to agree. Even some Republicans are angry at Trump for declaring he wants to erase, quote, a whole civilization in Iran, end quote. Specifically, Lindsay Wishy-washy Graham stated that any more action on Iran has to go through congressional approval. Lindsey freaking Graham, the man who changes his mind more times about what he thinks of Trump than a child not able to decide what he wants for dessert? Where's the disgust towards all these outrageous comments made by Trump? Actions like more bombing, threatening to destroy a whole country. I'm serious. What actually pushes Republicans over the edge? Do you, the listener, besides myself, and maybe anyone in this world, have any clue what moves frigging Republicans to take actions against Trump? I don't. This clown show that we're watching, the ringmaster Trump day by day, sometimes hour by hour, making a ridiculous comment here, then doing outrageous things there, and then signing outrageous executive orders. And still, still, not more than one or two Republicans give a shit. Ah makes me, and I'm sure all of you want to scream. And again, to state the obvious, if this wasn't so damn dangerous and destructive to human life, this would be a very bad joke. Former Attorney General Pam Bondi will not appear for her April 14th deposition in front of the House Oversight Committee as part of that panel's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, according to a spokeswoman for the committee. Now, the Department of Justice told the Republican-led committee Bondi wouldn't appear on that date as she was subpoenaed in her capacity as Attorney General and no longer serves in that role. President Donald Trump removed Bondi from her role as the nation's top prosecutor last week after bipartisan heat overheard department's handling of the Epstein files. Excuse me, Wolfpack listeners, while I state this very clearly. I never saw this coming. What a shocking surprise! Heavy sarcasm. The DOJ states the reason being for this action, that the subpoena was for her as the attorney general. So now that she's no longer attorney general, she doesn't have to appear. Forgive me while I step outside and laugh repeatedly out loud for a couple of minutes. This group is the most corrupt, and let's not weaken this, the most corrupt pieces of crap in the history of our country. And you damn well know that if this was the reverse and the Democrats said any of this, the freaking Republicans would be screaming bloody murder. There's no stopping this runaway clown car. Basic thing, legal things such as, oh, you know, subpoenas get laughed at by the Republicans. They're telling the Democrats and you, the listener, a citizen of this country, to go fuck yourself. We're not gonna listen. We don't care, we will not abide by any legal structure whatsoever. And more importantly, they're stating out loud for America and the world to hear, what are you going to do about it? And sadly, right now the Democrats are powerless. The Republicans hold the reins to everything in our country. Look, I have a bottle of champagne chilling in my refrigerator, waiting for the day when, if this ever turns around. If that happens, I'm going to get so fucking drunk and cry and say out loud, finally, finally, sanity came back to our country. So here's something flying a little under the radar, and it shouldn't be. Let me share this with you. In a small suburb outside Milwaukee, Port, Washington, Wisconsin, voters just did something that doesn't happen very often anymore. They actually pushed back pretty hard. Here's what was going on. A large-scale data center tried to uh, you know, comp tied to actually companies like OpenAI and Oracle was being planned in Port Washington. And it involved creating special tax subsidized districts to support the development, something that would normally get approved at the local government level, but is now being challenged. Now, put simply, public incentives, local resources would help fund and support a massive private project that brings heavy energy use, infrastructure demands, and long-term impact to the community. This is part of a broader push tied to Donald Trump, who has issued executive orders pushing rapid construction of data centers across the country to support artificial intelligence expansion, while facing bipartisan backlash over environmental concerns and rising energy costs in surrounding communities. Now that's what led to this action. When it came time to decide, people showed up and made it clear. We're talking about a roughly two to one vote to say, hey, if you're going to hand out tax breaks and build one of these massive data centers in our backyard, maybe we should have a say in that. Voters are backing a measure that now requires city officials to seek voter approval before creating those tax-subsidized districts. Crazy concept, right? Now this ties directly into Donald Trump's push to fast-track data centers across the country, the ones needed to power all the shiny new artificial intelligence tools everyone's racing to build. And to be fair, the pitch sounds great on paper. Innovation, jobs, the future, then reality shows up. These things use enormous amounts of energy, can drive up local power costs, and aren't exactly general on the environment. So the response has been, uh, don't worry about it. We've got guarantees, non-binding guarantees, which is a polite way of saying, trust us. And the voters in Port Washington basically said, yeah, no, because this project isn't small. It's tied to companies like OpenAI and Oracle, with leadership that happens to be politely or rather politically aligned with Trump. Instead of just letting it roll through, the community hit pause and said, You want to do this here? Fine. Ask us first. That's the real takeaway. Not just the data center, not just the politics, a local community without a national spotlight, stepping in and reminding everyone they still have a say on what gets built around them. And right now, that might be the most important part of the whole story. So here's what they're trying to get away with now. There's a position coming out of the Justice Department tied to Donald Trump that basically says a president could be free to get rid of official government records, or just keep them for personal use. Seriously? We're not talking about random paperwork. We're talking about records of what a president actually does while in office. Decisions, actions, history, you know, stuff that belongs to the country, not to one person. And now their argument is maybe a president can just take that with them or destroy those records. Two watchdog groups have already gone to federal courts over this, saying this completely guts the whole idea behind the Presidential Records Act, which is supposed to make sure that what happens in an administration doesn't just disappear or get locked away. Because once that door opens, what's the limit? What doesn't get saved? What never sees the light of day? What just vanishes because it's inconvenient? And this is where it gets ridiculous. This isn't happening in a vacuum. Remember this blast from the past, listeners? After leaving office in 2021, Donald Trump took boxes of government documents to Mar-Lago and treated them like personal property. Boxes of records sitting in a private club, sensitive material mixed in with everything else, lawyers involved, subpoenas issued, months of fighting just to get those documents back. And the justification at that time was that Trump had the right to keep them. Now, instead of that being the problem, the legal argument is trying to make that behavior the standard. This is the Trump Justice Department rewriting the rules after the fact. And if you're thinking, well, maybe it won't go that far. That's not how this works. If a president can decide what counts as a record and what doesn't, whether to keep it or destroy it, then transparency is gone, oversight is gone, accountability is gone, history is lost. At that point, you're not preserving it anymore. You're editing it. That's not a gray area, that's not complicated, that's straight up power grabbing. So now we've got something else coming out of Washington, and this one is just damn outrageous. Pay attention. There's a budget proposal tied to Donald Trump that includes funding for what's being described as a kind of centralized operation to monitor potential domestic threats. Sounds routine until you look at how they're defining those threats. We're not just talking about violence or organized extremism. The language being used opens the door to flagging people based on their beliefs. Things like, oh, criticism of capitalism, views on immigration enforcement, positions on race, gender, or religion. Even general, anti-government sentiment can get pulled into that category depending on how it's interpreted. And where are they looking for all of this? Ready? Social media. That's where this is focused. Platforms where people are posting opinions, arguing, venting, debating. In other words, normal behavior in a free society. Here's the problem. This isn't just about monitoring. The proposal talks about being proactive. Proactive. That means identifying people ahead of time based on what they say or believe, not necessarily what they've done. One member of Congress, Mary Gay Scanlon, is already warning that this crosses a line. You think? That it opens the door to using taxpayer money to keep tabs on Americans for political or ideological reasons. This is where it crosses the line. Because once you start labeling people as potential threats based on their viewpoints, you're not talking about security anymore. You're talking about surveillance tied to ideology. This is insane. And people should be furious about it. I asked all of you in the last episode to please email me and let me know your thoughts. And shock! Oh no! People actually responded this time. But zero of my regular listeners, these emails were from complete strangers, new listeners. Jonathan in Wisconsin, Margaret in Indianapolis, and Joe Quinn, hope I pronounced that right, emailing from Bavaria of all places. And my podcast also picked up 13 more countries. Shocked me. I've now heard in 85 countries and over 1600 cities in America, in every state, including DC. I'm proud. Thank you to those new listeners who took the time to email me, wolfpacktalks at gmail.com. Please keep those emails coming. And also for those of you that have been contributing to our GoFundMe, thank you. Bless you. If anybody else would like to help us, the link is at the bottom of the description of this episode. If you can't contribute to the GoFundMe, that's okay. Please share the link with everyone, though. To all the intelligent people in this country who care, stand tall, keep the faith. I'm Jeff Allen Wolf. This is a world gone mad. I'll be back Wednesday. Until then, I urge you the wolf back. Remain skeptical. Question everything. Please, don't lose hope. And most of all, stay alert.

SPEAKER_01 15:55

There is chaos in the world. Can't you see? And we need to stand up and preserve our democracy. This is a lot of content.