Swin and Prem break down Trump’s ‘lazy and cowardly warmongering’ in Venezuela, MTG’s resignation, and the president’s bizarre encounter with NYC’s mayor-elect.
I am not so much a listen to podcast person. I don't know if you can do this, but would love a transcript so I can read. I prefer reading to listening.
Thanks. There is a transcript above. Look at the button to the right, below the video (by SHARE). It's autogenerated and not corrected, so excuse any spelling mistakes or misunderstandings).
You guys are chit chanting too much..re trump-Mandani: trump is coward (he was afraid of Mamdani’s tongue) (further. When meeting power players trump is nice!!!) With trump’s dementia he can think beyond this netting. end of story!
Really love the added coverage and discussions you all are offering these days, Prem. Love hearing from Medhi of course but also love hearing from all of you on the team; you all seem to be thoughtful, emotionally intelligent humans, reminding us that not everyone over there is ignorant or evil! Lol. Thanks! Hugs! <3
I've followed you, Swin, for awhile on Bluesky, but this was my introduction to you on video. I have to say it won't be a matter of "tolerating" you when I see you next time--I look forward to it. (Don't worry; I still like Mehdi.) Thanks to both of you for an interesting and helpful discussion. I wish I were as confident as you that people won't follow MTG into a new level of hell. It's quite the take to blame the Friends cast for the political rise of Trump!
As any self respecting malignant narcissist Cheeto continues to create a fantasy only he believes He says prices are down(inflation is rising due to the loss of the purchasing power of the dollar), there’s no unemployment(Cheeto canceled the agency reporting employment numbers…see no evil etc), Gaza peace plan is great(Hamas just declared it’s off since Israel violated it with bombing), and the crypto industry is the apple of his eye(while sustaining significant losses of recent) Meanwhile Cheeto puts on his rose colored glasses saying everything is “JUST FINE” Well, it’s not fine
Just like the COVID crisis….”remember it’ll all go away by summer”….Cheeto being the narcissistic meathead that he is, does not know what to do if there’s a problem confronting the government for which he is responsible This is because Cheeto is not only incompetent in private business(bankrupted 5 times) but incompetent in leading the country through a difficult crisis He showed his true colors in leading the government in its response to COVID with moronic moves that essentially helped no one until his anti-science stance reluctantly “gave in” to the mRNA vaccine mandate that led to Biden fortunately being able to turn the tide
So Cheeto wasn’t faced with any “real problem” until late in his first term His ineptitude and incompetence showed up and was one of the reasons he lost to Biden in 2020 But now the whole economy is on a slippery slope and the same Cheeto is showing up again 8y older but still the same incompetent dirtbag he was earlier but this time more demented Ignoring reality is bliss
I think he was trying to make JD jealous - by threatening his favorite son status and just shaking it up just for fun. Also he has to look at the cynical bunch of losers around him and think how come I cant have someone cool like Zoran in my circle
Secretary of State 'lil' Marco Rubio let the cat out of the bag, adding to confusion over a 28-point plan for an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine. The leaked peace plan is more an armistice, cooked up in the Kremlin than war's end or lifting U.S. sanctions, and strongly support by vice-president J.D. Vance. The document's badly translated from the Russian, which caused raised eyebrows in Congress with some pushback. Trump is caught in this dust up. Trump, however, is pressuring Volodomyr Zelinskyy to buckle underway, and accept a dirty deal. Is the war in its fourth year in a stalemate? Putin wants a cheap victory, long denied him. Where is the leverage applied on the Israel and Bibi Netenyahu, Trump forcefully used in Gaza? Nowhere. Again he's overwhelmed by his homoerotic attraction to Putin [as such he deserved impeachment as a traitor].
The suck-up president has tripped over his shoes laces. An untested DOJ [Department. of Justice] Lindsey Halligan stepped up to the chore when others won't, to indict James Comey, a dismissed advisor during Trump's first term [and execrated for shooting down Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign] and AG [Attorney General] of New York Letitia James for fraud, owing to the thinness of the cases. Trump is a notorious litigant, for the pleasure of getting under one's skin, and who has a losing streak of his cases thrown out of court, but for the time James had him convicted 34 times for felony.
17:58- “Why can’t Democrats do [what Trump Admin is doing] when they’re in power?” They can, the example of student debt- Biden could have just gone ahead and wiped that debt off the Federal student loan debt books before letting it winds its way through the courts. DEMS need to do what the GOP is doing now. SCHUMER OUT NOW!
You guys are missing one point about trump. He's a "bully" plain and simple. He has always been that guy. He is there to make a shed load of money. Full stop. If he has to start a war in Venezuela to cease their oil, he will. If he has to stop Putin from telling about his finances he'll throw another distraction, regardless that he could end the war in Ukraine by telling Putin we are going to protect them AGAINST YOU. He won't because of kompromat that Putin has on him. He doesn't fear the pedophilia info coming out because his base will forgive him like they've forgiven him for rape and sexual assault of many women. The base are uneducated and vulnerable people and he recognises their vunerabilities. But they take their "patriotism" to the nth degree. They wrap themselves in the flag, they are of the mindset "my country right or wrong" so that will be his Achilles heel, not sex. He and his entire family have been grifting since day one with the help of the tech giants who want something from him. Like deregulating the laws that won't allow them to do whatever the hell they like. Remember also they, like him, are racist to the core. Because they are white they feel positively that they really are superior. America has taken his grifting for granted at this point don't you think? The phrase "what if Obama or Biden" had done this travels on a loop but he knows you are powerless to stop him. So why should he quit? His brazenness has you all flummoxed. People are dying because of his inability to have a single inkling of what it is to feel "empathy." Americans are like putty in his hands. He knows that his "loyalists" really don't like him. Only the MAGA cult is fooled
A fiery orator. chair of SNCC [Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] H. Rap Brown, dead at 82, will be ever known for 'violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America’s culture. It is as American as cherry pie.' He defined Black militancy in the 1960s with a call to arms against white oppression. He embraced Islam, adopting Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin as his Muslim identity, lived as a shopkeeper in North Carolina, until he sentenced to life without parole in 2000 for killing a sheriff's deputy. Pious through he might have been, Brown lived by his belief in physical force to kill someone.
I am not so much a listen to podcast person. I don't know if you can do this, but would love a transcript so I can read. I prefer reading to listening.
Thanks. There is a transcript above. Look at the button to the right, below the video (by SHARE). It's autogenerated and not corrected, so excuse any spelling mistakes or misunderstandings).
That's funny, I'm a paid subscriber but when I click on the transcript I get "no transcript."
Thanks.
You guys are chit chanting too much..re trump-Mandani: trump is coward (he was afraid of Mamdani’s tongue) (further. When meeting power players trump is nice!!!) With trump’s dementia he can think beyond this netting. end of story!
Really love the added coverage and discussions you all are offering these days, Prem. Love hearing from Medhi of course but also love hearing from all of you on the team; you all seem to be thoughtful, emotionally intelligent humans, reminding us that not everyone over there is ignorant or evil! Lol. Thanks! Hugs! <3
Also, sending good wishes to Mehdi.
Why not a fan of jasmine crockett. I think she’s phenomenal. Am I missing something?
I've followed you, Swin, for awhile on Bluesky, but this was my introduction to you on video. I have to say it won't be a matter of "tolerating" you when I see you next time--I look forward to it. (Don't worry; I still like Mehdi.) Thanks to both of you for an interesting and helpful discussion. I wish I were as confident as you that people won't follow MTG into a new level of hell. It's quite the take to blame the Friends cast for the political rise of Trump!
Cheeto Ignores When Confronted With Crisis
As any self respecting malignant narcissist Cheeto continues to create a fantasy only he believes He says prices are down(inflation is rising due to the loss of the purchasing power of the dollar), there’s no unemployment(Cheeto canceled the agency reporting employment numbers…see no evil etc), Gaza peace plan is great(Hamas just declared it’s off since Israel violated it with bombing), and the crypto industry is the apple of his eye(while sustaining significant losses of recent) Meanwhile Cheeto puts on his rose colored glasses saying everything is “JUST FINE” Well, it’s not fine
Just like the COVID crisis….”remember it’ll all go away by summer”….Cheeto being the narcissistic meathead that he is, does not know what to do if there’s a problem confronting the government for which he is responsible This is because Cheeto is not only incompetent in private business(bankrupted 5 times) but incompetent in leading the country through a difficult crisis He showed his true colors in leading the government in its response to COVID with moronic moves that essentially helped no one until his anti-science stance reluctantly “gave in” to the mRNA vaccine mandate that led to Biden fortunately being able to turn the tide
So Cheeto wasn’t faced with any “real problem” until late in his first term His ineptitude and incompetence showed up and was one of the reasons he lost to Biden in 2020 But now the whole economy is on a slippery slope and the same Cheeto is showing up again 8y older but still the same incompetent dirtbag he was earlier but this time more demented Ignoring reality is bliss
I think he was trying to make JD jealous - by threatening his favorite son status and just shaking it up just for fun. Also he has to look at the cynical bunch of losers around him and think how come I cant have someone cool like Zoran in my circle
Secretary of State 'lil' Marco Rubio let the cat out of the bag, adding to confusion over a 28-point plan for an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine. The leaked peace plan is more an armistice, cooked up in the Kremlin than war's end or lifting U.S. sanctions, and strongly support by vice-president J.D. Vance. The document's badly translated from the Russian, which caused raised eyebrows in Congress with some pushback. Trump is caught in this dust up. Trump, however, is pressuring Volodomyr Zelinskyy to buckle underway, and accept a dirty deal. Is the war in its fourth year in a stalemate? Putin wants a cheap victory, long denied him. Where is the leverage applied on the Israel and Bibi Netenyahu, Trump forcefully used in Gaza? Nowhere. Again he's overwhelmed by his homoerotic attraction to Putin [as such he deserved impeachment as a traitor].
The suck-up president has tripped over his shoes laces. An untested DOJ [Department. of Justice] Lindsey Halligan stepped up to the chore when others won't, to indict James Comey, a dismissed advisor during Trump's first term [and execrated for shooting down Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign] and AG [Attorney General] of New York Letitia James for fraud, owing to the thinness of the cases. Trump is a notorious litigant, for the pleasure of getting under one's skin, and who has a losing streak of his cases thrown out of court, but for the time James had him convicted 34 times for felony.
17:58- “Why can’t Democrats do [what Trump Admin is doing] when they’re in power?” They can, the example of student debt- Biden could have just gone ahead and wiped that debt off the Federal student loan debt books before letting it winds its way through the courts. DEMS need to do what the GOP is doing now. SCHUMER OUT NOW!
You guys are missing one point about trump. He's a "bully" plain and simple. He has always been that guy. He is there to make a shed load of money. Full stop. If he has to start a war in Venezuela to cease their oil, he will. If he has to stop Putin from telling about his finances he'll throw another distraction, regardless that he could end the war in Ukraine by telling Putin we are going to protect them AGAINST YOU. He won't because of kompromat that Putin has on him. He doesn't fear the pedophilia info coming out because his base will forgive him like they've forgiven him for rape and sexual assault of many women. The base are uneducated and vulnerable people and he recognises their vunerabilities. But they take their "patriotism" to the nth degree. They wrap themselves in the flag, they are of the mindset "my country right or wrong" so that will be his Achilles heel, not sex. He and his entire family have been grifting since day one with the help of the tech giants who want something from him. Like deregulating the laws that won't allow them to do whatever the hell they like. Remember also they, like him, are racist to the core. Because they are white they feel positively that they really are superior. America has taken his grifting for granted at this point don't you think? The phrase "what if Obama or Biden" had done this travels on a loop but he knows you are powerless to stop him. So why should he quit? His brazenness has you all flummoxed. People are dying because of his inability to have a single inkling of what it is to feel "empathy." Americans are like putty in his hands. He knows that his "loyalists" really don't like him. Only the MAGA cult is fooled
Riveting commentary… many thanks 🙏🏼
Excellent listen
You are SO MUCH better than the Pod Save America Bros. Thank you for your coverage.
A fiery orator. chair of SNCC [Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] H. Rap Brown, dead at 82, will be ever known for 'violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America’s culture. It is as American as cherry pie.' He defined Black militancy in the 1960s with a call to arms against white oppression. He embraced Islam, adopting Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin as his Muslim identity, lived as a shopkeeper in North Carolina, until he sentenced to life without parole in 2000 for killing a sheriff's deputy. Pious through he might have been, Brown lived by his belief in physical force to kill someone.