Iran War Updates, Th U.S. Economy Near Collapse & More

Beyond the headlines, we tackle the "funny money" economics of trillion-dollar wars, the spike in gas prices, and the targeted threats against US infrastructure, including the Polaris Chase building. This isn't just a political breakdown; it’s a raw look at the "dictatorial oligarchy" forming in real-time and why the current political system is failing every citizen, regardless of their side of the aisle.

Timestamps: 

00:00 The "Legal to Drink" Episode 21 Hook
00:45 The "No Wars" President Admits the War
01:30 Bombing Iran Without Congressional Approval
02:05 The SAVE Act & Natural Born Citizen Laws
03:00 Inside Operation Midnight Hammer Nuclear Strikes
05:10 trilion-Dollar Wars & "Funny Money" Economics
06:40 Why Gas Prices Are Spiking 50 Cents Overnight
09:40 The High-Profile Game of "Nuclear Chicken"
12:20 Dictatorial Oligarchy: The Death of Decorum
13:10 Preliminary Reports: US Missiles and Civilian Targets
17:30 The Ayatollah, the Shah, and Puppet Regimes
21:40 Is the US Military Run by Dummies?
24:00 Why They Are Targeting US Banks & Infrastructure
27:30 The Dismantling of American Democracy
33:50 Civil Unrest: When the Dust Settles
36:40 The Logic of White Privilege in MAGA Politics
44:10 Why Red States Stay at the Bottom
51:00 Rigging the Midterms: The Diabolical Strategy
55:50 Is Anyone Actually Happy Anymore?

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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Howdy do it's Casual Politics Episode 21 True and Hugh Show True and Hugh Show Legal to Drink Legal to Drink Episode 21 Man. It's been a we were just talking about how rough the week and everything's been since this war started.

SPEAKER_01 0:20

Oh this this week's been brutal on many fronts, but yes this feel brother is uh is an interesting one considering this was the what the no wars president so no wars president I did not get to catch his latest um press conference that he stumbled through I saw it and it was interesting because he admitted that we were at war and then backtracked on that. I have the I have the video if you really want to pull it up, but I'll pull it up. And the it's funny one of the uh reporters challenged him on that and was like, so are we at war or aren't we? Because you're using it like interchangeably.

SPEAKER_03 1:06

Yeah. And you know what's funny? He's not really fighting back on with reporters anymore. He used to fight more. We're gone.

SPEAKER_01 1:13

He doesn't get he is completely at the point where he is ascended, he is above everyone, like he has no checks and balances, he can do whatever the fuck he wants. Like literally, and he's proven it. I mean, the fact that we're still bombing the crap out of Iran with no congressional approval is a signal.

SPEAKER_03 1:38

Well, yep. They're not the Democrats aren't doing it. I think they're just all waiting for him to die.

SPEAKER_01 1:46

I don't know what they're doing. They're they're more concerned about some other bullshit, you know. They they're I and I get it, the Save Act, the natural born citizen portion of of you know the law that he's trying to change. And I don't know if they're gonna be able to stop this. I mean, they have got the MAGA movement, has got a ton of support in the Senate and in the House. A ton of support.

SPEAKER_03 2:13

Yeah, he's definitely got his um sycophants and fans all in there. He's still talking.

SPEAKER_01 2:23

He's still I mean, I saw where it was like him in the he was in the um, I don't know, he was in the company. I don't know if he was still talking. I didn't watch that part of the press. I can't wait it's the same speech. He says the same thing over and over again. It's exhausting.

SPEAKER_03 2:41

Yeah, I just reloaded. Yeah, it's still talking. I'm gonna put this on the screen real quick because we can just catch a little bit of it. Let me go back on that. I didn't have a cued. Fire that producer of yours.

SPEAKER_00 2:56

That's me. Long before now. And at a minimum, Israel would have been annihilated. I was very lucky that we had the courage to do that, that we had the talented pilots and the great equipment. The B-2 bombers are unbelievable. We ordered 25 more, by the way. The newer, better version. It's uh we have the greatest military in the world, we have the greatest equipment in the world by far. You see that no matter where we go. You still need the people, though, to operate it and to use it. And those are the people that we cherish. Even after we obliterated their key nuclear sites in operation Midnight Hammer, they never negotiated in good faith. They still continued to say we want to build nuclear, we want enrichment at levels that were unacceptable. Which hasn't been proven, by the way. For unlimited free nuclear fuel forever for civilian purposes. We had people offering them free nuclear fuel. They weren't interested in that because they wanted to build a nuclear weapon. So instead, the regime was trying to reconstitute its weapons program at a different site. They couldn't go back to where they were, the three sites that we obliterated. But they were starting work at another site, a different site, different kind of a site.

SPEAKER_03 4:21

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 4:22

And uh that was protected by granite. They wanted it protected. Granite's pretty good, but they wanted it protected by uh a lot deeper. They wanted to go a lot deeper. And they started the process while rapidly building conventional ballistic missiles. They were going to do it all at the same time that threatened our overseas bases and soon could have reached even our homeland. The regime's intention was to use this exponentially growing ballistic.

SPEAKER_03 4:51

All right. Not listen to that shit. This guy's out of control.

SPEAKER_01 4:57

Oh God. I mean, we can't he can't we can't find money to fund the government. We can't find money to basically improve health care, or we want to defund all these programs because we you know, waste, fraud, and abuse. Yet we're spending billions of dollars on a war that we started. I know. How are we finding that money? Where's that money coming from again? Uh, is it the tariff money that we're getting in trillions and trillions of dollars? Oh, that's right. The tariffs were deemed illegal.

SPEAKER_03 5:31

You know, they're just like printing money.

SPEAKER_01 5:32

Yeah, but even if they're printing money, I mean You gotta think.

SPEAKER_03 5:40

There's no there's no way that we're funding this war the way we are without it. Obviously, our tax dollars, but it is at this point, we're playing with funny money. Like, I can't even believe if we're spending a billion dollars plus a day, right? I mean, it's only gone on we're we're 10 days in, right? Something like that. That's crazy, bro. And you talk about trillion dollar wars that lasted whatever. We're we'll hit trillion dollars on this if it goes a year or two, the way they're going at it. And you gotta think people, munitions, the death and destruction, all that shit. This is crazy.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

But we're at so regardless of what we're spending too, we're gonna be deeply impacted here just from the I mean, you're already seeing it in the spike and gas prices, what almost up 50 cents a gallon across the board, and then you're gonna start seeing it in all of the food, uh, you know, merchandise, anything that is is required of air travel and and truck, because literally, uh you know, I'm assuming rail is different, but I mean, come on, this is this is not rocket science.

SPEAKER_03 6:53

It isn't, but to to these people, it doesn't, they're oblivious to these things. They don't seven dollars a gallon for gas doesn't really affect the president because you don't have to pay for his own gas. Yeah, I think the man that we're we're looking at here, bro, is a guy who's never had to do anything for himself ever. He inherited money. He, you know, everything he stole money, he's he stole opportunities, he's done all this stuff. That's his terrible.

SPEAKER_01 7:18

But he's a great businessman, Hugh. He's great. He's he's a great businessman. He's he's run phenomenal companies. He's the mess. Part of the deal. Phenomenal phenomena, you know. I when I want to have hire a CEO and I'm looking at their track record, I look at the guy that's filed chapter 11 six times. That's the guy I want running my company.

SPEAKER_03 7:40

Well, it's the guy you got running your country now.

SPEAKER_01 7:42

So and he's bankrupting the fuck out of it, just like his normal MO. Yeah, he doesn't pay. Trump doesn't pay. Yeah, he does not pay. No accountability. Makes everyone else pay.

SPEAKER_03 7:55

Yep. You're so here you're uh you're feisty when you're angry, bro. You you sound genuinely angry right now. I've never heard you.

SPEAKER_01 8:03

I am, you know, I uh yeah, I I'm tired of living like this. I really am. I'm tired of being, you know, consumed by all of this. It's very hard to find a calm space in the world right now for your brain. And I'm I'm annoyed. It's impacted my life greatly, all of this. And uh it's you know, it's not me crying or fucking being a whiny bitch or anything, but Jesus, when are people gonna realize that this is not a good situation? I don't care what side of the aisle you're on. The polit the political system is not working for anyone. And if you think that this is working for you, man, I feel bad. I will pray for you. I honestly, I'll pray for you because I sit here and I'm thinking, I'm waiting for the trumpets, I'm waiting for the freaking trumpets because this feels like the end of days. It really does. This makes no sense why we're living like this.

SPEAKER_03 8:55

Yeah, I feel you. It's um yeah, very interesting times. But you got I don't remain, I don't I'm not I'm not optimistic at all because it's not gonna end anytime soon. Because understanding Iran's um stance here, yeah, you fucked around too much, you played too much, right? That's the with the negotiations, right? And they were willing negotiators too. They wanted to strike a deal. Um but the terms that were on this is why it's well played by that side, because they understand how to play Trump and Netanyahu for that matter, right? Netanyahu's manipulating Trump and they're manipulating Trump. So the the only thing that we can probably hang our hat on here if it happens, is that Israel and the United States don't push the button. If that happens, it's over because that's a you know, Russia's gonna launch their nukes, North Korea's gonna launch their nuke, everybody's gonna launch their nukes, and we're dead, all of us. So I'm looking at it from the perspective of the strategy behind this, the way they're playing it, is a game of like high-profile chicken. And um Trump is the main because Trump is the only one right now that would be crazy enough to push the button, but I don't think he wants to do that.

SPEAKER_01 10:20

I don't know. Netanyahu, uh the more and more, you know, he becomes also a frickin' maniac. I mean, the more you see kind of some of the property person, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:32

I mean person off but he's not he's not dude. Netanyahu is definitely part of the problem, but that whole regime needs to be taken out, not just him, right? He's he's he also is somewhat of a puppet of higher powers because the money go comes from somewhere, you know, like they always talk about the Rothschilds and all this other shit, like who really runs the world, and these guys are just pawns, right? And um kind of move how they're supposed to move. Trump is a just uh uh an idiot that that they got because they got him, you know, they got him on tape having sex with kids, and he's trying not, you know. I at this point it's just him just trying to save face. Uh his his rep, I guess whatever reputation he has as followers, and not go to jail if he can avoid that. He's gonna die soon anyway. But is it worth taking out the rest of the world with you for that? That's what's crazy about this whole thing.

SPEAKER_01 11:36

Ego. Yeah, men in their fragile egos, and no one has a more fragile ego than this. I've never met a bunch of more like snowflakes more so than than this Trump administration. You literally have Pete Keggsbreath or whatever the fuck you want to call him sitting there saying that he won't let the press in to take pictures because they're unflattering. Uh I mean, really? This is where we're at? This is where we're at. This this screams dictorial oligarchy freaking regime. Idiocracy, not even that, man.

SPEAKER_03 12:10

They they even dictators and oligarchies have dignity and some kind of you know, uh what's the word for uh decorum? These guys have none of that, they're just pieces of shit that got opportunity handed to them. They're the definition of failing upwards, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:33

And they're bombing the crap out of they're carpet bombing, they're literally like carpet bombing and double tapping, going back to make sure that everyone's oblivious obliterated. Obliterated, thank you. But it's it's I mean, I sent you the article, they just said preliminary, preliminarily the investigation came out that it was the U.S. Well, no shit. Oh, that's the tomahawk missiles with the school.

SPEAKER_03 13:01

Yeah, yeah. Now we're war now, our president's a war criminal, not me. That's our president. And I mean, I know you were very passionate about this when we were texting back and forth. We'll talk about your lover, Lindsey Graham. Um, he's uh he's he was like, I'm just trying to help. I'm like, I want to talk about the more gay stuff. But uh, homies out here doing the fucking rounds on the TV shows, right? Talking about he's literally putting out policy. You know what's funny about what he does, and they know this because you know Trump is easily manipulated by what he sees on television. So with him being on TV, and he's like, oh, Lindsay's out there giving me props and kissing my ass, I might do exactly what he just said. Let me go bomb, you know, whatever.

SPEAKER_01 13:47

Well, I mean, I just I don't even know what to say about him anymore. Like, literally, the fact that he's out there as a mouthpiece and saying what he's saying, pissing off every international kind of you know, ally by not supporting this war is crazy. I mean, he's just a lunatic, he needs to be silenced. What do you mean not supporting you mean by supporting this war or not supporting no? So he's talking against uh countries that are not in support of this war, giving the US support, and he's like, you better fall in line.

SPEAKER_03 14:25

Yeah, but the the they're the money, like the Saudi Arabia, the UAE, all of them, they um they're starting to realize that this is all about Israel, which duh, but what are you gonna do? And Israel, I why are they still a war fighting on behalf of Israel at this point because Israel's toast, they're done. It's like for the most part, like I within a few days, that place is fucking like Tel Aviv. Have you seen that shit?

SPEAKER_01 14:51

Yeah, it's terrible.

SPEAKER_03 14:52

Terrible, you know.

SPEAKER_01 14:54

So but now they're now they're saying they're delaying. I don't know if you saw the the article where and I I believe it's factual where they're delaying the satellite imagery for 14 days. Oh, so it could be worse than it could be, so they're not really releasing images, and I've watched a ton of international news on this, and it's interesting to see the the international spin on this.

SPEAKER_03 15:21

Yeah, I've been watching Japanese videos and people on the ground. Um the report uh it's funny. I was watching the Fox News clip, they had the background blurred out, and he said the guy bluntly said, Oh, that we can't show you know what's going on behind me. You know what I'm saying? He said it like that, like you're the you're the fucking media, bro.

SPEAKER_01 15:42

This is all the all the major media is is corrupt, uh both right and left. Wow. You saw it with Fox News covering you know Trump when the soldiers were, you know, the soldiers that were killed returned, right? They showed the wrong image of him not having the hat on, which is crazy to me. What a disrespectful piece of shit having a baseball hat on to sell your fucking merch on the death of soldiers. Like, come on, seriously? You're you're that's that's the best way to show up. No one else is wearing a baseball cap. So yeah. And then the left news has also been kind of tailoring things in a way.

SPEAKER_03 16:21

Well, CNN has totally just lost its credibility to me, besides their debating shows where they go nowhere with their topics. It's um I don't look to them for any news or or real reporting. Jake Tapper's advocating for the war and all these different like how I don't understand. Like, do you want you got to think, who are we actually helping here? We're not helping Israel, we're definitely not helping Iran at this point. How are you gonna kill all the people that you're trying to help? You you hit a civilian target first day. So think like you like you just brought up, you're saying we're gonna liberate these people so you hit a school on the with the with a missile on the first day, and they're gonna be screaming, you know, yay, Americans in the streets?

SPEAKER_01 17:10

No, some are the ones over here, are somehow there's a lot of them, man.

SPEAKER_03 17:15

I follow psychopath, man.

SPEAKER_01 17:17

Well, but that's crazy. Like, you want to see the death of your own people? Like, that doesn't make any sense. That does not make it, it's almost as ironic and idiotic idiotic as ice killing US citizens in the street, and you have people saying they deserved it.

SPEAKER_03 17:34

Well, you you gotta understand this is the way this is the way they um I'll never understand logic. The regime has killed people, uh the Iranian regime under the the Ayola, and it hasn't been good there for many decades. So I I get it, but also you don't know, like the Ayotola would have died anyway. I heard didn't they say he had like colon cancer or some shit? Yeah, he was 87 years old.

SPEAKER_01 18:01

I mean, come on, like so but his son was gonna ascend anyway, and honestly, I I don't disagree with the like the Ayatollah was not a good person. Let's face it, like that's not a that's not in question here, but why are we continuing to bomb the crap out of them now? You you met the objective, you got rid of the Ayatollah. Well, they want regime change.

SPEAKER_03 18:28

You got regime change, so they floated this idea that Israel, knowing that they were gonna do this Ayatollah strike, did not want they wanted to get a um the guy they want in there, which is the Shah, the guy who'd been living in America, I think, for the past 50 years. So the Shah's son or whatever. So that guy to be the leader. Now, mind you, he doesn't I seen his interviews and stuff, he doesn't look like he wants to go back to Iran now. But they they said they would insert him. But also, um a bunch of the people that were in line that the America thought would be good replacements for the Ayatollah were killed in that strike that killed the Ayatollah. And the theory amongst you know these people is that Israel wanted that to happen, so they couldn't install the leader that would probably benefit you know, peace in the region or something like that. They wanted to bring somebody they could just use as a puppet, uh, which I could believe. You know, Israel just has its clause in everything when it comes to that, as far as you know, manipulation of uh the narratives and and and the people in charge and all that. It's very sophisticated what they do. But you know, it's this is the first time in my in our in our lifetime that I've ever seen anything like this where you know no one thought that I don't I shouldn't say no one, but honestly, if if you were to if I would have told you this story 10 years ago, you would have been like, that's a great movie, right?

SPEAKER_01 20:04

Well, that would have that would be an interesting movie to watch, but that that could never happen here, and I think that's part of where the breakdown in the political system was is the Democrats put a lot of freaking eggs in that basket that no one's falling for this bullshit. You were dead wrong. Dead wrong. So what's the deal with the Dems right now?

SPEAKER_03 20:23

They're very quiet.

SPEAKER_01 20:24

I honestly I don't know. I've been watching a bunch of stuff on the hill, them testifying and fighting the natural-born citizen, you know, freaking overturning what a natural-born citizen is, as well as the Save Act, or excuse me, Save America Act. So those are the two things and the Epstein stuff. So they had the accountant of Epstein uh testify today. I I don't know what came out of it. I watched them come out, it was, you know, not open to the public. They said they uncovered some things, but didn't go into detail. So that's that's all I've been hearing from the dead.

SPEAKER_03 21:00

You've been uncovering, you've been doing this stuff. This man is committing impeachable offenses in real time, nothing going on there. Or we just sent. Oh, they they said the the uh the injury count is up to almost 200 now. Um I think it's definitely a delay. I think the death count is what they're hiding from us. Early estimates said that 500 people have died. That was like the after the first three days or two days, you know, 500 people. So I don't know if that's soldiers or whatever. And now they're talking about um the Hermoose Straits, right? Is that what it's called? Uh Strait of Hermoose. The Strait of Hermoose. They're gonna put land mines down or mine water mines so people can't get through. But Iran is escorting through um whatever oil tankers. Oil tankers to get to, you know, Russia or China and all that stuff. Not to Russia, but you know, yeah, to get to China. So the US is doing shit. Like it's so fucking Weird. I I've been like our whole military is being run by dummies that don't understand how to actually be effective at any strategy of or art of war or anything like that. Like some of this stuff is elementary, to be honest with you.

SPEAKER_01 22:20

So that's you bring up an interesting point. So take Heg's breath out of this or Keg's breath dick bag, whatever you want to call them. There are still heavily decorated generals in the administration. So why are uh you you would think that they would be advising, they would be strategic advisors to understand how to do that. I mean, honestly, there is no strategy with this. So right now, no, there's bombing. So who who in the who in the government, who in the military is advising this administration to do this versus that, to go here versus there. You know, there there wasn't even any infrastructure to get the US citizens out of these countries, which is historically not usually a problem. Usually there's plans made to get the US citizens out of these foreign countries and out of harm's way.

SPEAKER_03 23:18

I feel you. There's nothing going on there, there's no planning. Oh, bro, it's gonna be a fucking shit show. I try not, I'm trying not to think too much into this shit, but it just sucks.

SPEAKER_01 23:29

I got a kid that's 18 years old, man. Uh so this I think about it all the time. About, you know, is he is Trump is dumb enough to activate the draft. He's dumb enough. We can start killing enough people.

SPEAKER_03 23:43

I hope they don't do that. That'd be terrible. So we uh we mentioned that they're pointing the um the the drones at California, right?

SPEAKER_01 23:52

Yeah, so but you're mentioning it now. I read something about it.

SPEAKER_03 23:56

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So oh yeah, I was texting one of my friends about that. Um I mean he's he's he lives in uh Chino Hills, and he's like, I'm he's not I'm not too worried because it probably just could hit ports and military places, but off the coast or whatnot, but still kind of scary that it's it could hit our soil.

SPEAKER_01 24:18

I read also, yeah, they're hit, they're targeting banks. That's what I was reading too. You better you better watch out. You got a big bank in around your way.

SPEAKER_03 24:29

Yeah, I got a little money, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:33

I know you got big bank, but I'm talking you have one of the biggest banks in your state. Literally, you take Polaris out. No, Columbus.

SPEAKER_03 24:43

Oh, yeah. Yo, we're going there for my wife's birthday.

SPEAKER_01 24:47

So literally, the Chase building in Columbus, Polaris is bigger than the Pentagon.

SPEAKER_03 24:55

And that's uh a bank.

SPEAKER_01 24:58

Or it's the second largest building next to the Pentagon. So it's all the IT infrastructure for Chase.

SPEAKER_03 25:04

Oh, thank God. I got a couple of debts with them that need to go away. Yeah. Shout out to Chase Bank. Yo, man.

SPEAKER_01 25:16

It's they're targeting. I mean, whether it's real or propaganda, it's still a threat and it still has to be taken seriously. And to me, you have the crazy eyes fucking he's the guy. He's the guy we're, you know, really thinking is protecting our national security. Nah.

SPEAKER_03 25:35

Doug, this whole all of those people from him to Christy Gnome and they're just gallivanting around. They don't, they have they're oblivious to any of this shit. They're not doing anything on a day-to-day basis. It's like they they're they're the incomp the most incompetent people at a prestigious company that's going down. And and they're and and it's always the top people. When a company starts going down, you know, they say the fish rots from the head down. So when you have people in in even in middle positions like that, when you have incompetent people that are always protected by people at the top or in top positions, um it it those middle managers manage the most people, right? And that's where things get a little sketchy. So that's all.

SPEAKER_01 26:35

I mean, what Erica Kirk just literally got appointed to to be uh key advisor to to the US Air Force Academy. Who, like honestly, why? Why why would that why would somebody think other than what is what are they platforming her to be the next president, presidential candidate?

SPEAKER_03 26:59

I don't know. It's weird how this whole thing's going on because this is like the Republican Party is just pulling out all the idiots to do old things, and the Dems ain't doing this, and the Dems are just sitting there waiting for it to crumble.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

Well, I hate to tell you, your house is crumbled, and there's nothing left for you to do to defend. Democracy is being dismantled in real time, and you're sitting here letting it happen. You have a lot of people, democracy. You have a lot of people, yeah, but you have a lot of people screaming bloody murder about this, and nothing's being done.

SPEAKER_03 27:36

Yeah, they they're their plans to kind of push martial law did not work because they minneapolis. Um what happened in LA and parts of New York and all that shit. The people, you saw how they kind of backed off. Like in New York, they were not having that shit. You know what I'm saying? Like people were like, fuck you, you know, the ice agents, like same with Chicago, yeah, yeah. Chicago. Yeah, go ahead and do it by martial law. Chicago. If he ever did, like, dude, these November elections, regardless of as if regardless of if we make it through there legally or not, right? There's gonna be some fucking you think Iran's protests and all that shit are gonna be bad.

SPEAKER_01 28:15

Motherfuckers are gonna be fucking pissed, pissed, I mean, I don't I don't uh Trump is already whistling or signaling that hey, we're we're not losing the midterms. We're we will win and we will hold position for the next 50 years. I saw him say that at a press conference. Wow, that's a high level of confidence and a big statement. So what we we can never have an opposing view anymore? You're literally laying the infrastructure to run the country? Got it.

SPEAKER_03 28:50

Well, yeah, yeah, I don't know. Usually people fall in line. I don't know where I sit just yet with any of this stuff. And and what are we gonna do? We don't have a it's such a complex system that we live in. Like everything, you know, relies on somebody else to get things done in our economy. It's everybody's economies like that. I heard Indonesia is about to run out of oil. I heard um uh what is it? Uh yeah, a lot of Europe and all of that stuff. Like, I don't even know where Europe really stands in any of this shit, but people are really just not being receptive to what they're seeing outside, you know. We need to get out in the streets. I I so I kind of like I don't know what they're doing in Europe, but I know people in Paris and shit like that in France, topless and shit. Well, they know how to fucking protest. But here we can have another No Kings Day. How many? We had five of those or some shit already. Nothing, nothing, nothing.

SPEAKER_01 29:52

I think if nothing else, it shows that you know there are people, there's a lot of people that oppose this, so it does encourage others that might be more quiet to to hey that I there is support out there. I'm not saying you have to hate. I well, I just think you have to disagree with the way things are going. I mean, honestly, I don't know how any the the MAGA movement was so critical about prices. Use gas prices when Joe Biden was, you know, when COVID hit, gas prices spiked. Everyone was so fucking critical. Now, short-term pain for long-term gain. It's okay now. Now it's okay.

SPEAKER_03 30:32

I think they're the the it's not really okay. I think the majority of people are still not in line with this stuff. But the propaganda machine.

SPEAKER_01 30:43

But these meat puppets, but these fucking meat puppets, man. It's enough.

SPEAKER_03 30:48

Now they have control of all the extra media. We consume different media. Yeah, we could get we get pissed about it, but it's not like you know, people ask the question like, oh, you know, sir, uh, Mr. President, you know, gas prices are up or whatever, and nobody says it with any conviction. They don't give a fuck. They want the sound bite, they want the whatever. And when he gives it to them, it's not don't matter no more. And again, it's like it's until it affects people directly, or more people directly, it's gonna be something. Right now we're in this weird incubation phase where you know it's very, very tense. And if guys like us start flipping, I mean like flipping out, then that's when you gotta worry as a country. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 31:36

I mean, I got I got tens of thousands of rounds I'm sitting on at this point.

SPEAKER_03 31:42

Shit, I need to guess some of that. I don't know what I'm doing. Do you build do you uh make your own bullets? No, not anymore. Oh, don't do that. Not anymore. He's made a bullet before. Yeah, my whole uh my one of my friends had a uh a bullet press or some shit in his garage. That's I mean it's hunting.

SPEAKER_01 32:03

Yeah, it's I've you know it's funny. Uh friends of mine that reload, I've shot rounds from them and they've had like shitty gunpowder, or uh it's been wet, or it's been damp, and it doesn't find. I'm just like, I'm not I'm not fucking with that. I'm paying for it. I'm paying for the professionals.

SPEAKER_03 32:22

How much is a box of bullets nowadays? It's expensive.

SPEAKER_01 32:26

Oh man, it's expensive. Like I buy a bulk, but what's a round of like a box of 40?

SPEAKER_03 32:32

Can you buy that on the internet and have it shipped to you?

SPEAKER_01 32:35

Yeah, well, it's Texas, can have anything shipped to me.

SPEAKER_03 32:38

Have they have a bullet shipped to you like that? It's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 32:41

So 500 rounds is about 138 bucks of 40.

SPEAKER_03 32:46

That's not even enough, man. 40 cal. It's a start, though. AR-15. It's a start. I need a banana clip. AR-15 joint.

SPEAKER_01 32:57

Uh you know, I just I think you know, you're if you continue to to stress people financially, which is happening, whether you admit it or not, it's happening. Not you personally, but anyone else. I'm stressed. It's it's going to put make people, it's gonna rise, raise the level of aggression, people are gonna start challenging each other, it's gonna create anarchy, basically, and and it it could potentially thrust into some sort of civil unrest differently than we're seeing now. It will no longer be peaceful protests, right? People are gonna start exercising their amendments. Second amendments.

SPEAKER_03 33:41

That's what I'm saying, man. This country is resilient in that manner, but like when the dust settles, bro, my concern is that whoever's left in charge will probably be China. How are they gonna handle us? What are they gonna do to us? Are they gonna punish us? I mean, like, I honestly, Iran has all the right in the world to say let's let's carpet bomb them for a few days and see what happens.

SPEAKER_01 34:04

I mean, yeah, and and China and Russia, in my opinion, have to be licking their chops because listen, we're focused on one area and we're pulling things out of other areas and leaving those other countries exposed from protection. And we're you know, so this is not making friends, we're not making friends, we're not being diplomatic, we're not making friends, we're being looked at on the global stage as a problem. We've always been a problem, but never like this. We've never been so radical where pe we we make moves that make zero sense, like not dumb guys in charge, man.

SPEAKER_03 34:44

So that's what it is. I always say, like, when they um the most irrational, no, I'm sorry, in leadership positions, these old white guys just don't do it well. Like they're that's leaders, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:01

I mean, these people are not leaders, they're really not. Trump is not a leader. What has he ever led? Honestly, if you speak negatively about him, he gets pissed off. If if you oppose him, he calls you fake, right? If you report news that is unfavorable, it is already wrong and debunked without any factual basis otherwise. So, literally, what what I was talking to somebody about this the other day. Let me ask you this question. Yeah, what's your favorite segment of the podcast? Asking questions. Do you see Trump as a masculine man? Of course not, no. So, why do others put him as this pinnacle of masculinity? It's kind of like when we grew up in the eight. Well, I grew up in the 80s, 80s and 90s, rock bands, hairbands, right? Everyone idolized the hairband, and everyone's so transphobia, all this shit. Yet these guys are out there in like tight leather or vinyl pants with big permed hair and makeup. Yeah, that was the pinnacle of masculinity. Everyone wanted to be that. They wore they got so much pussy, uh but right, but and Trump, this fat blob, overtanned, unhealthy piece of shit with bad hair is the pinnacle of masculinity and chick magnet, unbelievable.

SPEAKER_03 36:23

The logic behind that is that conservatives and people who are generally unintelligent tend to go for those types of leaders because they represent what they wish they were. Because a lot of the like you gotta think about it this way: people uh less intelligent people tend to be more violent, tend to have um you know these um interesting tendencies, right? Like they're pedophiles in some cases or whatever. So there's something missing there from a social standpoint, econom you know, uh economics plays a big factor. Like all the stuff that they blame. You think about a kid growing up in a ghetto, a black kid, right? Right, what are they in gangs, right? They're criminals, rapists, whatever the fuck you want to call it. The when it when you when you when you put it into the white demographic that votes for a guy like Trump, the whole concept of white privilege becomes that big reality because a lot of these crimes that these people do go um, you know, on uh they don't get caught for them sometimes, right? Like you see some of these guys that were molesting kids. Like you saw some of the January 6th guys, right? There was a bunch of them that got caught molesting children before and after the thing. They're probably back on the street again. You know, like you don't they don't they they don't get adequate punishment for their crimes or or none at all because they just never get caught, or it's just par for the course in some you know communities in our country. So they definitely fall in line with this guy, but it's again social media brings it out the woodworks, like where these people are. Used to be shunned for saying I like an underage girl or boy. Now it's sort of a rite of passage for for the group, like, oh, you're dating a young girl. And start, we saw signs of this like when we started the podcast. Remember, like that Dean Withers kid had that like people going on there, like, eh, whatever, when they found out about the pet uh the Epstein files and Trump being in it. Now it's like we're at a point where it's it's it's basically accepted, like, oh, pedophilia is fine here. No, Laura, but did these same people were the ones that were over there, we've got to get the pedophile. But that's you know, when they thought it was Hillary Clinton and and um John Podesta doing it. Or Tony Tony Podesta, sorry. Tony, right? Yeah, John with Tony and John. I think they're brothers. Yeah. Okay, good. Well, they got life in prison.

SPEAKER_01 38:52

What? The Podestas? Yeah, though they just went through trial. Isn't that the trial that just happened? Or they just got life in prison. Oh, you mean no? I'm not talking about Hillary Clinton's campaign manager back then. Oh, sorry, no, I'm talking about the other two brothers that literally were running a pedophilia ring.

SPEAKER_03 39:08

Yeah, those are those are Epstein's predecessors, those are the guys who took over for Epstein's work.

SPEAKER_01 39:13

And now they're now they're gonna rot in prison for life, unless Trump pardoned. What Trump is?

SPEAKER_03 39:18

They're getting pardoned soon. He's like, damn, you gotta bring some girls to the White House for me. You know, diddle my thing while Melania watches. But that that shout out to Melania and Trump.

SPEAKER_01 39:27

Fuck her too. Um, you would, wouldn't you? There's no not with your dick and someone else pushing, but it's crazy to me.

SPEAKER_03 39:37

That's that took a while to compute. That's all right. White boy humor. Got it. I don't see color.

SPEAKER_01 39:53

Yeah, I honestly I I've lost faith in humanity at this point because literally there is no line with MAGA. If you support this, there is no line. You are willing to ride or die, like literally ride or die with this. Because and it's a shame. It's a shame that you're willing to go to this extreme to support such deplorable behavior. This is just really bad behavior. I mean, that this this is some bad stuff. And if if let's say Kamala Harris was elected and thrust us into war with Iran and was exposed in the Epstein files, people would be losing their mind. Losing their mind. And I'm not saying Kamala Harris was a better, would have been running this country a thousand times, it wouldn't be like this, but all I'm saying is keep it, keep that same energy regardless of political affiliation. You won't. Yeah, prove us wrong.

SPEAKER_03 40:54

But then I that's the thing, bro. When they're in power, when conservatives are in power, this is exactly-I mean, this is the most extreme thing that happened, but you've seen throughout history how this works out. This is how how empires fall.

SPEAKER_01 41:05

Yeah, but this happens every every election cycle. We elect somebody as president, the midterms come and it swings in the opposite direction. It happens every single time.

SPEAKER_03 41:19

One one thing and one day it's a abortion. Well, next a gay marriage. What what what was the thing that affected Obama in the midterms? What was it? Like the uh healthcare shit? Was that it?

SPEAKER_01 41:30

Yeah, well, I mean, Obamacare was a big one.

SPEAKER_03 41:32

Yeah, but that shit helped them. That's what's crazy about it. You help these motherfuckers, and this is what they do. I mean, yeah, and they go against their best interests or their own interests, but it's it's uh it's such a sad thing to see. And now, like if the if the powers that I don't understand why, and maybe we could take this, you know, I'm doing one of those what about, but like, but like conservatives, if you're listening to this, which I doubt you are, um, why do you do this to us? No, seriously. I when I read comments and stuff, uh, you know, from the clips that we put out there, our own clips and others, they're under under the comments, like justifying it and making making these these weird, like, like do you do you understand like how this works? You know what I mean? Just because you're not affected by it in the now doesn't mean it's gonna affect you long term. The gas prices are going up. Oh no, the president knows what he's doing. When when Biden, like you said, Biden does it or Obama does it, and the gas price goes up by a penny, motherfuckers are fucking ready to motherfucker. Yeah, flipping out, and I think what's wrong with liberals and or leftists or whatever is number one, the infighting, which is you know, I I don't care. I I I think I'm moderate, I think you're kind of moderate too. But a true leftist, you know, is sitting here like I'm not voting for anybody and all that other shit. Yeah, I'm not a true leftist. Yeah, I I'm not dumb. You know, I voted I didn't like Kamala Harris, but I voted for her. You know what I mean? I didn't like Hillary Clinton either, but I still voted for her because she was clearly the better candidate out of the two, you know? And not wrong. Yeah, and my decision making, like in 2008, I didn't vote for either candidate because I didn't like Obama. I didn't think he was qualified at that time. Not knowing this is me not being politically savvy at all. Uh and the other McCain, you know, obviously I'm not gonna vote for the white guy with a crippled hand. So I'm not gonna go for that. And it it turned into obviously a good thing, and I'm like, oh shit, Obama did some good shit, made some money under him, and then I voted for him the second time. But ever since then, like just making the logical good choice hasn't made sense. And plus the fact that Democrats don't understand how to how to politic anymore. What happened?

SPEAKER_01 43:52

I don't know. And and you you know, talking about that, it's you know, if you use Texas as an example, you know. Very red state, Republican led. Do you know how many times we've tried to change the minimum wage here? A bunch. Do you know how it every time it's been shot down by the Republican Party? Our minimum wage was set in 2009 and has not changed. It's seven dollars and 25 cents an hour. Like that you can't live off of that. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 44:23

Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah, I don't know what to tell you, bro.

SPEAKER_01 44:28

So really show me where Ted Cruz is fighting on behalf of Texans. Show me where Governor Abbott fucking speedy is doing anything other than lining his pockets and shipping undocumented, you know, to every Democratic leader's lawn. You're a fucking idiot.

SPEAKER_03 44:49

Yeah, I can't. I mean it's just I can't, you know, it's funny. I want I'm not cheering for Iran on this, but I'm not cheering for either for any country. I'm not I'm not, I can't what not cheering for them?

SPEAKER_01 45:08

No, I just think it's a shame that our service members are over there fighting something so stupid that really at the end of the day doesn't put us in any position for anything better. Yeah, we got rid of a bad man, but we we birthed, we gave birth to a hundred more, thousand more bad people that are wanna gonna say death to America. We have ignited a movement, we have woken the giant, like how nobody is talking about this, or if they are, how they aren't screaming about it is insane. You what do you think? Terrorism isn't birth from shit like this. This is the epitome of why terrorist cells exist, why I'm sure they're activating all the sleeper cells in fucking United States right now, saying, All right, wake up, it's our time. Jihad.

SPEAKER_03 46:01

Jihad, indeed. Yep, we'll see what happens. Property of Allah.

SPEAKER_01 46:08

I mean, this is extreme. This is extremism. I mean, this is you can't fight extremism with extremism. You just can't. These are biblical times, man. I've never never never.

SPEAKER_03 46:32

I don't know. I don't know, man. Out spam. I got a second witness now. Um congrats. It's a little drowsy. You have those cycles when you go like you're kind of like two o'clock you like. I just ate some very good gnocchi stuff with little cheese and stuff. I wish I put it, um, I wish I had brown butter or know how to do a little nutty brown butter.

SPEAKER_01 46:57

I can teach you how to brown butter is super easy to make, bro. Need to do that. Well, I have to get that recipe from you.

SPEAKER_03 47:03

Or I could Google it. I have the capabilities to Google. Uh, what else is going on? Yeah, let's go into the YouTubes. Um, there was a lot of talk about Supreme. Let's say, let's see, let's see, let's see. T I we kind of covered all the all the uh straight, yeah, the Straits of Hermoose. They're gonna put the landmines down. Um they're still talking about yeah, Lindsey Graham. We talked about uh man. Oh, so weird kind of it's getting it's repetitive. A lot of the stuff.

SPEAKER_01 47:43

Yes, but you know, Chris. I don't know if you saw Chris Murphy come out and talk about the briefing um for the war. Yeah, he came and shook. He looked like visibly shook in regards to the lack of anything. He couldn't even. I know he was not able to speak details, but man, he did not look like he walked out of somewhere thinking, all right, we can do something about this, or something needs to be done. It was literally like, all right, pack your bags, we're out, right? Like there's nothing more to do. We're fucked.

SPEAKER_03 48:25

I mean, the Democrats ain't doing shit. They could impeach them. They all could like it. There's gotta be like, no, there's no, there's no, I don't know what Republican out there is like saying they're all in the death cult, I guess, right? There's gotta be something has to happen that's gonna change these that somebody's mind at some point. The the media's already kind of turning on them, conservative media for to some degree. Um, at least the the popular figures, you know, the Tucker Carlson's Megan.

SPEAKER_01 48:52

A lot of them are, and I don't know if you saw Ted Cruz attack Tucker Tucker Carlson. I mean, so stupid. Like, when has Ted Cruz really cared about the Jews, right? He cares about Israel, he doesn't care, give a shit. He's like anti-Semitic this, and you know, I could get a thousand anti-Semitic comments in my, you know, on my X feed. And I'm like, really?

SPEAKER_03 49:14

You're not even a Jew. No, oh he's a Canadian too. You know, he's Canadian. He can't even be president, can he? Why does he always run for president if he can't be president?

SPEAKER_01 49:26

Well, he's making a run for 20 uh 28. No, fuck him.

SPEAKER_03 49:31

I don't think anybody likes him. Yeah, and you we gotta do like an episode kind of talking about I keep forgetting to write this stuff down, but talking about the why do they why what is the why do Republicans keep voting for the same idiots that don't do anything or serve them properly? I keep seeing these videos pop up, just of like, you know, maybe get into a little bit of a deep dive and understand that. Like, why does Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell and whoever? I know, I know they say like Mitch McConnell's done stuff for his constituents, right? But the powers that they serve are really just corporations and you know uh they're friends. So what doesn't make sense to me is that you know, when most of these people, when they're damn um where they are, the states that they live in, they're always at the bottom half of like education, health, all that shit. They all all check off any box that you know that you could say makes America great, and they're dragging us down there, or could you could make America great, like if we're educated and are healthy. All those states drag us down, the ones that those guys are from. And even talking about the long-term, like South Carolina, West Virginia. Um, obviously, the coastal states hold everything together, but it's it's slowly it was interesting to see that uh election mid or the primary in Georgia for Oh, yeah, yeah. It's a runoff now.

SPEAKER_01 50:56

Yeah, MAGA Marge.

SPEAKER_03 50:57

So yeah, her seats uh vacant. So um I'm curious to see how it's gonna work out. It looks like that guy has a solid chance to win, but my sister, I was talking to her about it. She's close to that that area. She lives in Gwinnett, but I think you know that where Marjorie's from is pretty is a fair is pretty close. Um they uh the runoffs usually are heavily conservative, like when they when they show up, they show up for a runoff. So I'm hoping. I mean, and look, I don't understand. Like if they're rigging elections and shit, why aren't they doing it now? I keep thinking about that. Like what's the strategy? Like, I are they just trying to see like if uh if it's true or I think they're gonna wait for the for the midterms.

SPEAKER_01 51:41

I I think that's because who cares? Who cares who's gonna run against them if they're gonna rig the midterms, right? It won't matter.

SPEAKER_03 51:49

But what if you lose your majority now?

SPEAKER_01 51:54

Well, no one's getting a I don't know if is there enough special elections going on that are that's gonna I mean this yeah, I don't I don't think so. So I think they're waiting for the midterms to to basically say, all right, we're gonna nuke the system now and it'll swing in our favor. It wouldn't make sense if if I was diabolical, it wouldn't make sense to do it now, right? It would make make more sense to do it during the midterms when it mattered. Interesting. Yeah, I don't know, man. I swear I feel like I'm watching an episode of Pinky and the Brain, right? The cartoon, like honestly, like this is like the dumbest fucking shit.

SPEAKER_03 52:34

Shout out to Pinky and the Brain. It is some dumb shit. I'm hoping we could get out of it in one piece. I don't see how the world can't end. I don't want the world to end.

SPEAKER_01 52:45

I hope it doesn't. I mean, but there's nothing we could do to stop it. I mean, the market has is weird. I don't know if you've been following the market, but one day it's down, the next day it's been a weird like the NASDAQ was up today, the Dow is down today, the SP is down. It's just weird. Tech stocks are down, banking stocks are down. So everybody moves.

SPEAKER_03 53:08

Yeah, people are just again trying to pretend that things are normal. I'm even pretending, like, I go to I go sit at my work desk, talk to these people about shit every day, try to understand. I'm more down and out about things going on in my personal life and work and all that stuff, but like when there's real shit going on outside, right? And I just don't leave my house.

SPEAKER_01 53:36

So it's depressing though. Like, I got a I got out today. I was making a donation of goodwill, and everyone's miserable. Think so? Like just yeah, there's no one is looking happy. You can't tell me you're going outside and people are friendly, they're nice, they're happy, they're cordial.

SPEAKER_03 53:57

I don't make eye contact. I don't make eye contact. I try not to. It's because I don't feel it's necessary. I'm from New York too, it's just not whatever. But I I you know, I'm I'm like, I don't know what this is to be optimistic about. Like maybe because I don't like have any money and stuff, so maybe that's the problem. I don't know.

unknown 54:20

I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 54:21

How does that mean like your mood is different? Like, well, look, we went through a whole thing with Trump a couple of years ago, man. You saw Trump or Biden could have been fucking shit, could have been Epstein as president. I was living on Cloud Nine, man. Shit.

SPEAKER_01 54:36

Listen, I wasn't living on Cloud Nine with Biden as president. You know, I'm just saying, I'm talking about a real fucking problem.

SPEAKER_03 54:42

No, yeah, but I'm just talking about money-wise, like that that made a difference in my life at those points where I was not just kind of oblivious to it. I wasn't sitting here like looking. I mean, Trump has gotten 50,000 times worse, but it wasn't something I you know, I was more scared during 2016 and 17 about what he would do, um, versus you know, you know, well, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 55:11

He didn't you didn't like at least he had checks and balances his first term. Yeah, there was more there was more blockers, right? Yeah, but now I mean he's all his people, yeah. I mean, he put a bunch of freaking unqualified dick sucking fucking sycophants that are worship the ground he now. He's buying them all the same shoes that he wears. They all have to wear the same shoes he wears. They posted that on X the other day. I was like, I I uh he's as flexing. Is it a flex? Are they no better?

SPEAKER_03 55:47

They're not even nice shoes, to be honest. But yeah, Bruno Mollies. Um yeah, Marco Rubio to me is just one of those people that I don't um I don't respect him at all as a human. Him, Ted Cruz. I feel like him and Ted Cruz. There's one other guy. Oh, Fetterman. He should be just a Republican.

SPEAKER_01 56:11

Yeah, he's a piece of shit, too. But what's interesting about that is you take Ted Cruz again, right? And Trump called Ted Cruz's wife ugly, like went all in against Cruz, and here's Cruz licking his balls. Marco Rubios spoke negatively about Trump for years, was not a fan, and here he is, right? Got he got the tap on the shoulder. All right, Marco, you're the guy. Now we're gonna play nice. Same with Vance, who's a freaking possibly one of the dumbest humans on the face of the earth. Um, but there he is, you know, trashing Trump, but here he is licking his nutsack again.

SPEAKER_03 56:53

They are so excuse me. They are uh definitely not the best people on the planet.

SPEAKER_01 57:01

Like, could you imagine being Ted Cruz's wife? Well, first of all, could you imagine being married to that fat piece of garbage? But literally, if somebody spoke poorly about my wife, I wouldn't be buddy buddy with them. Like, that would be it. There wouldn't be like a second round of of anything. You're done, right? You don't disrespect the people in my world, period.

SPEAKER_03 57:26

Well, yeah, but that's not these guys are pedophiles, cucks. It's there's two extremes, like you know, it's pedophiles and cucks. Yeah, well Epstein and Trump used to have orgies where they'd watch each other fuck young girls, they're pedophile cucks.

SPEAKER_01 57:48

It's gross, these guys are sick, man. Seriously. All of these guys, look at them too. They're all weird looking. And they're all weird looking. Yeah, the only way they can have any sort of relationships is through money. If they didn't have money, no one would fuck with these people. Yeah, they'd be a meme on the internet. Oh, wait, they already are.

SPEAKER_03 58:11

They're already memes, yeah. Shout out to all the blue check marks following us now. I just noticed something. I just popped open the IG account. Shout out to LL Cool J, one of my favorite rappers ever. Follows us. I'm gonna DM him. Like, yo, what up, dog? Because wait, he doesn't he follows us. So I follow him back, right? Then we could DM each other. Yeah, yeah. He might unfollow me if I DM him though.

SPEAKER_01 58:43

I was watching In Too Deep last night. I'm gonna Yeah, and I was saying I watched In Too Deep last night. How'd that go? I have never seen that movie. It's not a great movie. No, no offense to LL, but not his best work. It's alright. It's alright. It ain't one of the better, like kind of gangster movies.

SPEAKER_03 59:02

Yeah. Yeah. Shout out to LL. And shout outs to us for making it through an hour. I was I was so like not in a good head space and tired in the beginning. But you were saucy tonight. I like it. I like I like to see an angry, fiery Drew. It's gonna make some good be prepared social media. Be prepared. You know be great when the FBI, if they bust in your door while we're doing the podcast and arrest you. Decenter!

SPEAKER_02 59:40

Oh man. Oh, that would be a good idea.

SPEAKER_03 59:44

Yeah, that's it's crazy. If they were tapping my phone today, I was talking to one of my um Muslim friends. Um if they was tapping my phone today, they would be it would have been a good look. But this has been the casual politics podcast, you know, where we try to not be extremists. Whoa.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:05

There you go. You're an extreme now.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:08

I'm an extremist. Yeah, man. Let's get into it. The uh sneaker pod. Um, see y'all next week. Or not next week, maybe maybe depending. If something crazy happens tomorrow or tonight, I'm always down to record another one so we could get some more stuff out there. But this was good. Even though we did an hour, it was good. All right. See you. I'm gonna I'm gonna jump back in here, okay? All right.