A Government on the Edge Fueled Nonstop by Lies and Delusions

What the hell are we doing right now? Seriously. At what point did this all start sounding normal instead of insane. The government has lost all sense of reality.

Donald Trump is out there casually floating moves involving Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell AGAIN that should rattle markets, and it barely even registers anymore. That should bother EVERYONE. But it doesn’t.

Meanwhile Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is pushing something that sounds explosive on the surface, but the second you look a little closer, you start asking a very different question.

Because this is how it works now. Say it loud. Say it confidently. Let people fill in the rest. And before anyone checks anything, it’s already out there.

Then you’ve got Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas saying something to the American public that… yeah… doesn’t land the way he probably thinks it does. Especially if you’re the one dealing with it.

And just when you think we’ve hit the limit, a conversation with Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son, and Dr. Mehmet Oz, the man tapped to oversee Medicare and Medicaid, goes somewhere that makes you stop and go, wait… did he actually just say that.

This is so frigging insane it’s ridiculous. The stuff you’re hearing should be setting off alarms everywhere, and instead it just drifts by like it’s nothing.

Because what the hell are we doing? At what point did this turn into something we’re supposed to just nod along to. 

You’ve got people in power saying things that would have set off alarms everywhere ten years ago, and now it just passes like it’s nothing. That’s not normal. That’s how you end up way down the road wondering how the hell it got this far.

This isn’t subtle anymore. It’s right in your face. And the craziest part isn’t even what’s being said, it’s how little reaction it gets.

 That’s the problem. The government in Washington right now is Looney Tunes. Is there anyone in charge willing to do something about this?

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Transcript

Cold Open And Pickaxe Mishap

SPEAKER_00 0:00

This is the world on Mad. This is the World Bone Mad.

Trump Floats Firing Jerome Powell

Tulsi Gabbard And Deep State Claims

Gas Prices And The Pocketbook Lecture

Dr. Oz Shares Trump Soda Logic

Listener Thanks TikTok Plug Closing

SPEAKER_01 0:08

I'm Jeff Allen Wolf. This is a World Gone Mad. And just to keep track for everyone, this is episode number 223, 223 episodes, season three. You know, I almost didn't do this episode due to a health issue today, or rather yesterday, that involved me swinging a pickaxe to try to dig a hole to transplant a small tree. A pickaxe. So just like the old saying, neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. In other words, screw the pickaxe incident and how it caused damage to my health, this independent voice of reason is ready. Here we go. I'm so sick and tired, so frigging tired of Donald Dementia and his MAGA minions. The continuous lies that he says, the ridiculous tall tale spun to justify what Donald does and says is getting out of hand. Here's the latest eye rolling comment from Donald today. I've held back firing Jerome Powell, head of the Fed. I have way and wanted to fire Jerome Powell, but I hate to be controversial. What the hell does that even mean? You hate to be controversial, so you just casually float the idea of firing the central bank chair on television. Again. That's not restraint. That's normalization of something that should never be normal. You gotta be kidding me. We're now at the point where the president is openly saying again he might fire Jerome Powell if Jerome Powell does not leave fast enough. By the way, Powell is scheduled to leave next month, and Trump's pissed off. All this happening while there's an active investigation hanging over Jerome Powell, and federal prosecutors are literally showing up at the Federal Reserve Building. Do you understand how insane that sounds when you say it out loud? This isn't some random government office. This is the Federal Reserve. This is the institution that controls interest rates, the cost of borrowing, the direction of the entire economy. And we're treating it like it's just another political office you can pressure, threaten, and swap out when you don't like the results. Because here's the real issue. The second people believe the Federal Reserve is being pushed around politically, confidence cracks. And once confidence cracks, you don't control the reaction. Investors pull back, rates move unexpected unpredictably, the entire system gets shaky. This isn't about liking Jerome Powell or not liking Jerome Powell. This is about whether the rules of the economic system stay intact. Because once you start bending those rules for short-term political gain, you don't just get a different policy outcome. You get instability. And that's the one thing the economy cannot afford right now. Okay, next stupid crap up on the docket. Okay, ready? Ah, this is gonna be a fun episode. Tulsi Gabbard revives deep state conspiracy claims, alarming Democrats who see a pattern. Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence in Donald Trump's administration, is out here throwing around again deep state conspiracy, like it's a receipt, like it's proven, like somebody's just dropped a smoking gun on the table and said, case closed. Except when you actually look at what she's released, it doesn't show what Gabbard's claiming it shows. Not even close. What you've got here is a massive gap between the headline and the substance. The claim she's making is this grand coordinated effort. Democrats and inspectors general working together behind the scenes, weaponizing the system. That's her accusation. That's the big dramatic language Gabbard's pushing, including, here we go, her claim that the 2019 impeachment of President Trump over Ukraine was based on biased evidence, slipshot work inside the intelligence community. But when you get into the factual documents, what do you find? You find a whistleblower who's described as credible. You find supervisors calling that person reliable, detail-oriented, squared away. You find an inspector general who said, yeah, there might be some political leanings here, but the complaint still appears credible based on the information. Gabbard's also claiming the CIA whistleblower was an anti-Trump registered Democrat who misled investigators about collaborating with Democrats. That's part of the narrative being pushed. But even inside the same material, you've got people describing that whistleblower as credible, trustworthy, and methodical. That's not a conspiracy. That's not some shadow operation. That's a process doing exactly what it's supposed to do, which is evaluate a complaint, decide whether it's serious enough to go forward. And this is where it gets dangerous. Because the move here isn't to prove something new. The move is to reinforce everything, or rather, reframe everything after the fact. Now take something that's already happened, take something that's already been investigated, already debated, already voted on, and now suddenly say, no, no, no, that whole thing was fake. That whole thing was cooked up. That whole thing was some secret operation. That's not accountability. That's revision, everyone. And the language matters. Deep state actors, weaponized, usurped the will of the American people. That's not careful analysis. That's narrative building. That's taking complicated institutional processes and boiling them down into something that sounds sinister enough that people stop asking for details. Because once you say deep state, you don't have to prove coordination. You just have to, you know, uh suggest it. Once you say weaponized, you don't have to show how. You just have to imply intent. And suddenly the burden flips. Now everyone else has to disprove something that was never clearly established in the first place. Meanwhile, the underlying facts haven't changed. The complaint existed. It was reviewed. It was deemed credible enough to move forward. Multiple people describe the whistleblower again as trustworthy. Those are the facts sitting right there in the same documents being used by Gabbard to claim the opposite. So what you're really watching here isn't new information. It's an attempt to reshape how old information is remembered. And that's the plan. Because if you can convince people that every investigation's political, every process is rigged, every outcome's predetermined, then nothing has credibility anymore. And once nothing has credibility, everything becomes a matter of belief instead of evidence. And that's where things start to break down fast. Next up, listen to this, Wolfpack. Yet another Republican clown who created a wonderful moment today. Roger Marshall said, I'm sorry, the gas prices are going up, but help is on its way, and your national security, yes, is even more important than your pocketbook. Roger Marshall, a United States Senator running for re-election, goes on national television and says that to us, the American people. Think about that for a second. He's not talking about theory, he's not talking about policy in a vacuum. He's talking to people standing at a gas pump watching the number climb while they're filling their car, while they're doing the math in their head about what they can cut this week in their budget to afford it. And the message is basically yeah, it's going up. Stop complaining. This, what we're doing, is more important. That's the translation. That's how it lands. Not we understand your burden, not we're going to erase the pressure. It's bluntly stated, shut the hell up, just accept it. Nobody is arguing that national security isn't important. I'm not. You're not. That's not the debate. The problem is using that as a shield to dismiss what people are feeling in real time. Gas prices aren't some distant ripple effect. They hit immediately. They hit directly. They hit people who don't have room in their budget to absorb it. And the tone's what makes it worse. At that casual, you know, almost struggling delivery of I'm sorry, but this is how it is. That's not leadership, that's distance. That's somebody talking at people instead of understanding where they're at. Because when you tell people their pocketbook comes second, what you're really telling them is their day-to-day struggles are secondary. Their stress is secondary. Their reality is secondary. And that's a dangerous thing to communicate when you're asking those same people to keep trusting you. People are going to react to that. They should react to that. Because when something hits your wallet, your routine, your ability to live your life, you don't just sit there quietly while someone in power tells you it matters less. That's not how this works. That's not how it's supposed to work. All right. I'm going to leave you, the Wolfpack, with an incredibly insane comment. Get closer either to your headsets, turn the volume up, or to your computer, however you're listening. And if this doesn't make you laugh and release some tension in you from all the stress, I don't know what will. And I'm going to try to say this without laughing. Donald Trump Jr.'s podcast featured Dr. Mehmet Oz. You know, the guy tapped to oversee Medicare and Medicaid. And this is the conversation they're having on Donald Trump Jr.'s podcast about presidential health beliefs. Dr. Mehmet Oz goes on there and tells Donald Jr. that his father, President Donald Trump, believes diet soda is good for him. Wait for it, Wolfpack. Because it kills grass. So it must kill cancer cells in my body, Trump says. That's not a joke setup. That's not a punchline. That was presented by Mehmet Oz to Donald Trump Jr. about his father. It was presented as an actual belief. And then it gets better, Wolfpack. Dr. Oz describes Donald Trump drinking an orange soda and saying, wait for it again, Trump, after saying, you know, this stuff's good for me, it kills cancer cells. Trump then adds, This orange soda is freshly squeezed. So how can it be bad for you? That's the logic. That's the reasoning chain by Trump. You've got to understand how insane these comments are when you say them out loud. Killing grass is not a clinical trial. That's not how biology works. Bleach kills bacteria on a countertop. You don't drink it and go, well, let's see what happens inside me. There's a difference between what something does to your driveway and what it does inside a human body. And the part that really lands is who's in the room. This isn't some random guy at a bar. This is Dr. Mehmet Oz, the person picked to run a massive federal health program, nodding along, telling the story to Donald Trump Jr. like it's just one of those quirky things. No pushback. No, that's not how cancer works. Just, yeah, Trump says this stuff. Isn't that funny? It's funny right up until you remember people actually listen to these statements from Trump. People hear this and go, well, maybe there's something to what he said. That's how bad information spreads. Not through some grand, you know, conspiracy, but through casual, off-handed nonsense that never gets corrected. And look, everyone says weird stuff. I say weird stuff. Okay, maybe only once in a blue moon. Fine. But when it's tied to health, when it's tied to people making decisions about their bodies, you don't get to just laugh it off and move on. At some point, somebody in that room has to say, no, Mr. President, that's not real. That's not how any of this works. Instead, it turns into a story shared by Oz to Donald Trump Jr. and a laugh, and the moment passes. This is President Donald Trump saying these ridiculous statements. Do we need any more proof? How frigging out of touch with reality Trump is? Alright. That's your episode for today. I plowed through it. And two things I want to share with you. More emails again came in from new listeners, strangers. I want to thank Eleanor, Constantine, Jacques, and Amber. Thank you so much for taking the time and interacting with me and the podcast that makes a difference. Two last things, Wolfpack. This podcast just picked up another five countries. We are now heard in an incredible 102 countries and almost 1,600 cities in the United States. Also, I started doing a live TikTok show. Yes, I know it's TikTok. It'll go to YouTube eventually as well. But this is an entertainment show. I talk about movies, music, TV, fashion, cooking, travel, sports, pets, you name it. I talk about it, zero politics. It's on 7 o'clock at night. No set schedule yet, but I'm going to be doing this tomorrow or today, depending on when you're listening to my podcast. The Thursday night, 7 p.m. Arizona time. It's called From the Wolf's Den, live entertainment show on TikTok. It's approximately 40 minutes, and I hope you join me. We already have a group coming in. To all the intelligent people in this country who care, stand tall, keep the faith. I'm Jeff Allen Wolf. This is Zay World Gone Mad. I'll be back Friday. Until then, I urge you, the Wolfpack, remain skeptical, question everything, please don't lose hope. And most of all, stay alert.

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