Trump Axes Bondi… and Pete Hegseth’s Military Purge Sparks Outrage

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Yeah, I mean I have a deeply flawed voice of a voice not for TV or for radio according to the majority of the algorithm since birth I think. That's not true. Do not say that to yourself. Oh that's sweet. Okay. You're right. I'm amazing. If you aren't already make sure to subscribe to our YouTube page to stay in the loop on all the political news. All right. I want to talk Pam Bondi first. Did you see the story about the drive over to the Supreme Court where she apparently begged to be able to stay in the job until the summer and he was like, your time is up. I did and it's all the funnier because yesterday or two days ago I talked about how Pam Bondi's team was kind of floating that no, there's no possibility that they could be in breakup mode because they drove to the Supreme Court together and sat next to each other as Donald Trump was so furious that he had to leave early and they knew. They knew that Pam Bondi had already been fired on Wednesday. So it's funny that this whole time at the DOJ has just been lie after lie after lie up into the very end in which they lied about the lies that got her fired. So I just think it's funny. The idea of Pam Bondi begging to keep her job is also hilarious. I don't know what that looks like. I tweeted out and there were a lot of great tweets yesterday. I was like, did she mention the Dow? Did she tell Trump that the Dow was over 50,000? I would love to know what that conversation looked like. Well, I think the high point of yesterday, I mean, the tweets were good about Bondi and like the Epstein files, but revisiting the Dow moment and then noting that she said the Dow's at $50,000 because I feel like that was really lost in the swirl around when she originally said it because everyone thought she said points but she said dollars. So I just wanted to put that out there. I don't know exactly what her case for, let me go until the summer is. She's the shortest tenured attorney general since the 1970s. So maybe she would have been more of a cusper if she made it to the summer. But Trump saying she's transitioning to a job in the private sector is just like, go get a job, right? It's not like you, Kristi, know with the shield of America or whatever. The shield of America, the shield of the justice of the America's of protective freedom. Is that what we're going to put Pam Bondi at? Who wants to hire Pam Bondi, though? What is the experience that she has? Pedophile protection? Like who is she going to work for next? Maybe she can become a lawyer for Ghislaine Maxwell. Maybe that'll be a great job for Pam Bondi. She kind of already is. So maybe that's where she's plugging in. What's more concerning is the guy who actually seemed more like the lawyer for Ghislaine Maxwell is the one who's now the interim AG, Todd Bland. She got her into the cushy prison and told us that we should basically treat her like a legitimate witness. What do you think it was about Bondi that pushed Trump to end up doing this? Because the Epstein stuff has been a cascading nightmare for eight to 12 months, essentially at this point. So I mean, the Swalwell story apparently doesn't have legs, so that it's not the case that she tipped him off about an investigation into his ties to a Chinese spy. But what do you think it was? It is funny to say, but that she's not corrupt enough for Donald Trump, or maybe that she's not corrupt enough. I talked about how I can imagine she doesn't have the stomach to carry out all the Epstein corruption to go after Donald Trump's political opponents because she is a horrible person and all of these people are. But you really have to wonder, everyone in that cabinet, in those meetings, is doing the ass kissing. But Pam Bondi probably has the most difficult job in living up to it. They just have to go in there and talk and say, dear leader is great. But when Pam Bondi is doing her yes, sir, of course, sir, we're going to prosecute Barack Obama, sir, she then has the hardest responsibility in like carrying out the Donald Trump pipe dreams. So maybe just her, you know, like yes man nature caught up to her, or Donald Trump was just sick of seeing her fail on TV. And I think that's what it comes down to mostly like if we view this from the start as a no offense, Fox News administration, and it's just how can I hire the most pseudo telegenic people who can just go on and talk or propagandize. Then at the point, and once you can't do that anymore, you're no longer useful to the administration. Like how many months ago was it that Blanche kind of became the face of talking about Epstein or talking about anything at the DOJ? When was the last time that Pam Bondi gave a press conference without Todd Blanche? He's the one who goes on Meet the Press. He's the one who goes on any adversarial show and it seemed like last night Jesse was a bit of an adversarial show, which was crazy. Yeah. But I think that that is the reason is that he knew that she could not carry out the corruption that he wanted, not because like she wouldn't do it, but maybe because she over promised hoping to keep her job. But I know we're going to talk about Blanche and I may get a little conspiratorial when we're talking about Blanche. But to me, it signals that something really big is coming and he just doesn't trust her to be the public face of it. All right, well, lay it on me. Go tinfoil hat, six minutes and 42 seconds into the episode. This was my conspiracy yesterday, like right away, because we saw that fired FBI agent is also floating, cash fatale is probably next, that might be imminent. We see Donald Trump give a speech of a whole bunch of nothing on the same day that he tells Pam Bondi she's going to be fired. It is a we were in Vietnam for 19 years, wars last a long time, maybe this one will end, but maybe we'll blow shit up. And then he blows shit up the next morning, the biggest bridge in Iran, devastating civilian infrastructure committing war crimes. And I think that what Donald Trump probably wants to do with the Epstein files is give a nice two month push of pushing everything else out. And I know Blanche last night said, we're done, we're finished. And by the way, is it just me? Does he not look like a stupid cartoon dog to you? Like he has stupid cartoon dog face. I don't I don't know if anyone else has noticed that. But Blanche says, okay, we're we're just put we're not going to put anything else out. And he said that a couple months ago. But I think that that's not actually the case, that there may be a few more dumps that they have left in them. And Trump wants to do two months of that, or two weeks, or three or whatever it is, at the same time that he is escalating his war on Iran, maybe we're doing ground troops, maybe something else happens that he thinks can keep the media's attention. Because as we know, Steve Bannon's whole strategy for the existence of Donald Trump was just throw as much shit at them as possible, they cannot talk about it all. So maybe Todd Blanche, the person who Donald Trump trusts most to do this stuff, and who he sees maybe as a more suitable public face is the person who in his interim period, tries to take care of the rest of it, then he fires cash patel, then Blanche moves on as well, they plug someone new in and then says, we can't ask this guy any questions, because we already did it all and it's done. And now it's over and we move on. And maybe the media goes for that and they buy and they stop talking about it. I certainly won't, but maybe that is like some sort of strategy of why he's going to put Blanche in for a little bit. I think that there is going to be something more that comes, whether it be more interviews and subpoenas from the oversight committee, or whether they think that they have to dump something, and they want to do it now, instead of after the midterms where Democrats have more ability to bring attention to it, that's kind of my thought of what the next two months are going to look like. We're ramping up in Iran to distract from whatever's coming next on Epstein. 10-4-1. No, I don't think it's that crazy. I mean, there are a lot of very sane people who feel the same way that you do, like Heather Cox Richardson. Yeah, like, hasn't been talking about this. Well, then we're all insane, which I do think is partially the story of the Trump era that it has made typically sane people insane. I think that there certainly could be a connection. I think that having your personal lawyer, which is what Todd Blanche was, as your attorney general, is a new phase in this. And the fact that Donald Trump committed to nothing in that speech, that primetime address, which was a total waste of time, does give him tremendously way for a ground invasion, which is what the betting markets certainly think is coming our way. I wanted to ask you about the other firings as well, or potential firings. So it's been rumored, Cashed Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, Howard Lutnick, the Labor Secretary, do you think that there will be a complete house cleaning, or you think this is the ragtag team until we get closer to the midterms? And then if it's a bad result, he can just say, like, everybody sucks, we need a whole new round of staffing. So I struggle to believe that if the win, I don't want to say if anymore, when the midterms go poorly, he'll say, like, it's time for a revamp. Like, let's fix things up, because what is he going to be fixing, right? He's not going to be doing anything. He's already a lame duck at this point. I think that Tulsi Gabbard could get fired, certainly. We're going to round up all the women and cricket them, apparently, in this administration, which is pretty funny that that has been the lane that Donald Trump has occupied. I don't know if Lutnick goes. I think that's probably too much attention on Epstein, if he does that. But the fact that this is even coming out, it's just an administration that is in constant state of leaking right now. And I think that they're all- Yeah, so leaking, which he hates. Which he hates. More than anything. And I think that, like, all of this, and Thomas Massey has done a good job on it, kind of lends itself to something that I think has been coming for a while now, which is maybe a little bit of Republican collective action. And I say that not because I think these people have a backbone or that they're going to wake up one day and turn and go, maybe this stuff was bad. Maybe we should stop. But if you look at Tucker Carlson and you look at Macon Kelly and you look at Candace Owens and you look at the falling subscribers of Ben Shapiro, and I know maybe not everyone is as tapped in on, you know, independent media as us, but you kind of have to think to yourself, huh, what is the direction that the base is going in? Maybe it's a little adversarial to the administration. And everyone in Donald Trump's cabinet is getting fired. And everything is kind of out of control over there. And maybe he doesn't have his eye on the ball. And if I want to save myself, maybe I have to start pushing back a little bit. It's not going to be pushed back against Trump, because none of these people will do that. It drives me crazy when they're like, guess what? Lindsey Graham is terrible and he brought us into war. I'm like, even more on Lindsey Graham isn't the president, maybe fall the logical conclusion of what you're accusing here. But I think that they start to see this hopefully and realize that it might be smart to start creating a little distance between themselves and this administration, and that that is a good strategy for the midterm. I'm not trying to give any free game to Republicans here, but that would just be more infighting that I'd really love. Well, it's almost like you were in our prep meeting because you have teed up this clip that I want to play you of Joe Rogan and DiOvon. I guess, yeah, like, yeah, I don't know, man. Everybody just feels scared and it makes me scared. Well, they should because a lot of things are getting exposed right now. You know, there's a lot of fraud and you're seeing at the highest levels of government. And people are also scared because no one's getting in trouble for things. Like no one's getting in trouble for the Epstein files. No one's getting in trouble for... Yeah, that's almost disappeared kind of. Well, as part of what happens when there's some sort of a big social thing, one thing that's in the past that leaders have used to cover up problems at home is a fucking war. I'm not saying that that's why they bombed Iran, but that would be a way to do it. If you're that psychotic. If you're that psychotic, like Jack Petrella. Yes, thank you for lumping me in with Joe Rogan and DiOvon. What upsets me about DiO most isn't just that, well, I guess Rogan can be lumped in on this too. DiO just keeps eating dinner and lunch with Jared and Ivanka. And I just don't know how fun having a meal with Jared and Ivanka could possibly be. But he is, you know, I kind of on his soapbox being like, oh, this administration, what they're doing here and what they're doing there. And especially because he does feel very affected or seems to feel affected by Gaza. And then he just like has lunch with the guy who's like, we're going to turn it all into hotels. And I just don't know how Rogan keeps bringing like RFK on or members of this administration or people aligned with it. And then it feels that he is entitled. I don't know, maybe it's because he's such a big dummy to say these types of things. But it is, it is interesting again, that these people, and I, we didn't hear the finish of that clip, but we'll probably say like, I don't know why Trump is doing this or, you know, I don't know who's getting him to do this. And it is funny how they just completely infantilize him and take away all of his agency. And that is the next step that I'm waiting for is for the blame to get direct. I don't know how we've like couched it and so many other people. But I don't even know if this is a waking up for him. Unfortunately, like, I think that this is kind of broadly what people feel, but they'll never place the blame on Trump. Trump has done the genius thing of making himself a million things to a million different people. And so he can really never get blamed by anyone for anything. And that has certainly helped him here. But I'm just so, I just, I think we're all sick of these guys. They're idiots. And I think we should say that, like, you're stupid. You get duped. You're a cow. You're a sheep. You are cattle. You can be herded. Like you fall for the, like the jingling keys. You're dumb people. That's why you can't believe it. And I honestly, I know people want to do the, you know, we got a different audiences and be respectful and debate and it's like, I think we should just start calling these people dumb because they're dumb. And I think, well, we should engage with them, of course, but I think we should let them know our contempt because they need to be told that they're just dumb and that they should stop having opinions. And that Joe Rogan, at least, I think a lot of people would agree with that. I think a lot of people would, but I don't think that would serve us well in an election, frankly. I think the engagement and civility is important because you see, like, I'm not running. And I don't know if you are yet. Do I make an announcement? 2028? I do not want to make an announcement, but it is, I, not a no, as representatives of the left, I do think that the way the transition from maybe into Trump to, yeah, he's got some good things to say. I voted for him. Oh, I didn't sign up for this. And like how we handle that is important because first of all, you should be a generous human being when you can, if someone hasn't done something like shoot someone. It's because you're nice and I'm annoyed and I grew up in this and know nothing different. So my politics has been shaped by this guy and that's unfortunate. And maybe one day we'll grow and maybe one day we'll grow past that. But do you think that we have to be nice? I'm not saying that we do the thing and we can talk about, you know, maybe how I'm contradicting myself a little bit, which I don't think I am in the sense of someone like Graham Plattner. Now this is completely different. That is a person who I think serves as a great example of, and like, we talk about this, like, if I can kill someone, like he posted some bad stuff after coming home from war, like, let's be honest here, he's not a horrible person. He's a great person. He's a great leader. I'm not going to go off on a Graham Plattner tangent, but that is, I like the idea of having someone for especially friends like mine, or maybe not my friends, people in my generation to say, oh, you can, you can kind of screw up or you can kind of be in the wilderness politically or you can have some bad thoughts and bad posts and bad feelings. But Joe Rogan is Joe, like he's Joe, like he knew and maybe not even he knew, but like he had the ability to affect him. He said on his podcast, someone resurfaced the clip of Trump telling him he won him the election. Don't you think that, I don't know, don't you think that we can't treat that person with kid gloves and just like try to like hug them into into being better next time? I think there's a difference between kid gloves and saying you're an idiot, because that that idiot still has what, five million listeners or I don't even, I don't know what it is. You're catching up. It's a lot. No, I am not catching up to that. Take the calcumetry. I want to, oh, thank you. Yes, Raging Moderates. It's the Joe Rogan of the Raging Against the Extremes or whatever our new tagline is. I'm the extremes. So that's a problem. You are a little bit of the extremes, but I'm glad that we're hanging. We're finding our way through this. Okay, let's take a quick break. Stay with us. Support for this show comes from Grove Therapy. If you're not feeling the spring energy yet, don't worry, you're not behind. 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It seems quite obvious what's going on that you purged the military during a war that people are not supportive of. I would imagine that Army Chief George was saying things like, we shouldn't be doing a ground invasion, or maybe we shouldn't be doing this at all. That civ is massive. The amount of leaks about Pete Hegseth's lust for a war like this. Do you think that anything will change, or does he go after Driscoll at this point? How do you think General Cain, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, feels that essentially his infrastructure is getting gutted, especially at war time? Yeah, I always like to feel a little better about what happens depending on which seems like a crazy statement to make, just given all the stories that we hear from top military officials from the first Trump term. It's not the case anymore when you see so many firings. I kind of want to flip it and play host real quick and ask you a question that kind of informs a lot of my thoughts on this. You don't necessarily have to speak to your colleagues, but a lot of the people who appear in the building, the news court building, how much insecurity, how much do you think insecurity is the driving factor behind so many people in the conservative movement? When you're interacting with people who come on the show or who are in the orbit, are they as insecure as they just publicly seem? Because Pete Heikseith is the most insecure person in this administration, right? Maybe. I don't know. I think that the culture, putting aside what inherent insecurity is, they may have come in with, the way that that culture is run and the idea that Donald Trump loves the one that he's with, right? Even remember that Matt Gaetz was his pick for Attorney General because Suzy Wiles went to the bathroom on Air Force One and Matt Gaetz was able to slide in and be like, I'd be a really good choice. And it was a five alarm fire, right? To push our way out of that. So when you know that everyone is gabbing in Trump's ear and you can't really tell who he's going to be believing or how he's going to feel on a certain day, I think it would make anyone insanely insecure, don't you? Do you think as a person, just like he is insecure, just like deeply? Yes. I think, I mean, frankly, a lot of people who are on television are insecure. Not podcasters though. They're themselves. I mean, you just said to me, you're like, talk about yourself like you're Joe Rogan. When you are in a business that requires daily affirmation in order for you to continue to have a job and certainly for you to do well, of course, you're going to have some degree of insecurity, right? But it seems like deep and structural. Totally. I'm not really, yes, of course, Hexeth is different than like a normie person who's on TV. But I will say that a lot of the folks, like when you talk to General Keen, who is our senior military analyst, and he talks about the war, there is no insecurity there. He thinks that this is going great. And he can talk about all of the military operations and everything that has gone right and that this is a just war. And it's something that was frankly overdue. But that kind of informs my answer where it's like, do you think he's, of course, he's going to be firing black people and women? Like, it's Pete Hexeth, like, oh, what a shock that is, meritocracy, the people who are best at their jobs who he doesn't like. But do you think he is picking on pushback or anyone who's just kind of making him look bad? Do you think that he is, obviously, he's freaking out about anyone who's leaking, which has been the entire story of his time there. But do you think, like, where do you think his biggest worry comes from? Anyone who's kind of contradicting him publicly or what do you think it might be? Well, publicly hasn't happened. But there are obviously a lot of meetings behind the scenes that are going on. And I'm sure that people are voicing their content. Yeah, yeah, that then via leak is coming out. I think that anyone who might frankly appeal to or their theory of the case, I make inroads with Donald Trump, who, you know, spent most of his life as a left leaning political independent, right, and can see even though he denies the existence of these polls, but sees the writing on the wall of the best fox polls and our pollsters are fantastic. Right, they're great bulls. Do you want me to say something nice in the voice to flip what happened last earlier in the week? No, I'm cool. So I think it's all of that. But I also think that, like, there's just straight up sexism and racism going on there. There are a bit reports that Donald Trump in fact did not want to stand next to black people at presentation ceremonies or whatever it was. And we know his history, you know, like I grew up in New York, and I know about the Central Park five, I know about not allowing black people to rent your apartments. Like, people don't change that much, frankly. So I'm not that surprised by it, but it does feel like there's upheaval in every quarter, essentially, that like there is a churn of stories, negative stories from every facet. Do you think he is like, maybe it's best in, the Hexeth feels barely protected. I know there's been some stories about the possibility of him being on shaky ground. Do you think he is? Because it just kind of, it seems like he's pretty steady in there. I don't know. Like, I mean, frankly, I think signal gate was the point in which Pete should have gone. And I know Mike Walts was the one who actually added Jeffrey Goldberg, but he wasn't the one sharing the war plans. And the unsecured chat was like 20 people plus, you know, the editor of the Atlantic. So, you know, we're at war. There's no way that the Secretary of Defense is going during war. But I think that there may be a moment where Donald Trump says, I need to clean house fully. And then it can be a wipeout. What do you think would be the net in terms of, like, how is Donald Trump firing a bunch of people in his cabinet? Going to be any shift for any voter who's upset about the price of gas? Like, what is that effect? What do you, what exactly is like, what do you think would be the conversation in the White House about what that shift looks like? Do you think that any of them believe, do you think Suzy Wiles does, or do you think she just kind of wants to take back a little bit of her power? Because maybe that's the case right now. So everyone's just kind of fighting. Because that's my thing. They all view this to me as like the transitionary period. And so they just want to stay in his good graces before it all really hits the fan. Like, that is my opinion on how most of those players who view themselves at least as being able to have a future in the party are kind of acting right now. So Suzy Wiles, I don't think does anything for like a momentary high or for like, I gotta, I gotta get in good with him for 20 minutes or whatever. Like Suzy Wiles is in great position. She's respected by everybody. Donald Trump very much feels like he owes the campaign to her and her influence. And like, I don't think Suzy Wiles is insecure about anything. I think that when these leaks happen from her, like the one that staffers should stop showing him just like the two minute snuff film version of the war. Or when she spoke to Vanity Fair, remember did like, what did she do? Like 14 interviews or something with them? Like she knows exactly what she's doing. And she wants the administration to succeed because she's A, a part of it, but B, she wants, you know, Republican governance. And that has been very much part of her life's mission. So I don't, I don't think she's that kind of character. I actually think that she is a real genuine adult that is part of this motley crew. And that she thinks that it needs to be steered back because you're completely right. The gas prices don't change with, you know, more stories about firing black people or women or even if Howard Lutnick goes or Tulsi Gabbard or Pam Bondi because it's like, hey, it's going to take a real shift in economic policy, but also Donald Trump caring about it. And like the man is mocked affordability as much as he's mocked women. I would say over the years, I want to, it is the highest of bars. I want to talk a little 2028 with you on our side, not their side. Who are you liking? How are you feeling about it? I am feeling that a final form of a candidate is not here yet on anyone. I think that there is a lot of jockeying and I think a lot of people who are saying things now, and I think you probably know the issues that I have in mind are not the things that they're going to be saying in even six months. Andy Beshear saying that calling a genocide a genocide is a litmus test is going to be a really tough clip for him to get past. And I think AOC and Ro Khanna coming out and saying they will not be voting ever again. They do not support sending offensive or defensive weapons to Israel. I think that this is going to be a major sticking point. I know there's a lot of people like the third way space who want to say that this is all a nonsense conversation and it's just, you know, the left trying to create problems. I think that there is a very clear understanding after a decade of doing Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, that people are not the problems that systems are. And I think anyone who's saying, oh, we got to get rid of Trump like no, talk like Talarico. Right. Talarico talks about a billionaire class, an Epstein class. The systems are broken political systems, are broken campaign finance systems that allow this to happen. It's going to be the same thing, I think, with campaign finance. I think it's going to be the same thing with big, bold structural change to the way that we run an economy that disproportionately has benefited the wealthiest for the entirety of American history, and especially now in an era in which we're going to see massive job loss through AI. And I think it'll be the same thing in our foreign policy, which people care about, because they see, they see now the effect it has on everything. Prices are skyrocketing because of the parasitic relationship that we have with Israel, in my opinion, and in the opinion of the broader democratic base. So I think that those questions are going to start to develop. And so I maybe didn't answer your question entirely. And so maybe I'd be really great in 2028. So I don't have to answer questions. But I just think I don't know if I can say anyone, because none of these people are who they're going to be or who they're going to have to be in a year. And I don't know if that's been the case before. Do you think that everything that you just said is the same for Republican Gen Zs too, or right-leaning? I don't think it's the same. Really? No. Because you listen to what people are talking about at CPAC and how disengaged all of the young people were there and talking about how Trump is totally missing the mark. And I don't know, there's a lot of similarities. I mean, in this sense, I mean, in the sense that the conversations, and maybe this is a dumb answer to your question. And so that's bad podcasting by me. But I think in the sense that like the democratic conversation will be real, Republicans want a full blown Nazi. Like young people, Chris Murphy had a funny tweet the other day, I thought it was funny, because he's like, you know, young people don't like fascism. I was like, young people love fascism. My generation wants to see a charismatic leader come in and take over everything and just fundamentally change it. Right. And so we young people on the left want to talk about broken systems that we need to upend. They just want a full blown fucking Nazi. Like that is very obvious in all the group chats and all the dissatisfaction and everything that young men post on Reddit, not to throw Reddit under the bus, shout out to Reddit. But I just think that like their guy is going to be Tucker. And that's what I think. I think that they just want someone who is going to be wild and charismatic. And I know that kind of fits in, but they're going to want them to be just like a full blown Nazi. And I just think that that is a little different. I think the appeal that people are going to have is they're the worst parts of them. And I think, yeah, maybe there's going to be some sort of, of blow it up in this, but I just kind of have to think that JD Vance is not going to be able to, in the same way Kamala Harris was. JD Vance is going to be able to run against Trump's record, neither will Marco Rubio. And those are going to be the two most prominent players. You see Ron DeSantis right now taking shots at the administration, but I doubt that those two really can. And so I think the person who emerges, and so maybe I'm wrong in saying no, it is certainly in the same way, but the person's going to be horrible in the way that they, and as a Republican, of course, but I just think that it's going to be, that what they want is something as awful as what they want. Yeah, I don't necessarily disagree with that. I just meant that if you asked people, 18 to 29 year olds, like what do you want to see from your government, putting aside those who would have verbally say I would like a Nazi, because I think they would probably couch it a little bit differently and be having a conversation. Maybe some of them wouldn't. No, let's talk to some young people. No, but it is, you know, it's that desire for, you know, blow it all up system for a charismatic leader, you know, someone who feels like they will take on special interests, the Epstein class, et cetera. It will be, it is very interesting to me to see parallels between what just young people in general are saying, what they want, Nazi stuff aside. Maybe the better answer to the question is then like the feelings are parallel, the answers are wildly different in their level of seriousness, of course, but also how they'll be presented. 100%. We will not be running any Nazis or Nazi adjacent people, which is how it should be. 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