-- On the Show

-- Donald Trump delivers rambling and contradictory remarks on Fox News boasting about Venezuela oil seizures and casually predicting Republican losses

-- Trump announces plans to bomb Mexico over cartels while ignoring U.S. law international law and the reality of immediate retaliation

-- David responds to a serious viewer argument about civil unrest personal safety gun regulation and the risks of asymmetric political violence

-- JD Vance defends a deadly ICE operation attacks the media and recycles administration talking points while ignoring clear contradictions

-- Jessica Tarlov confronts Fox News hosts by dismantling false claims about the killing of Renee Good and exposes the network's narrative collapse

-- Tulsi Gabbard's credibility collapses after Donald Trump openly embraces regime change contradicting her confident public assurances

-- Rand Paul dismantles Fox News justifications for Trump's foreign policy and exposes incoherent Republican standards on live television

-- The Friday Feedback segment

-- On the Bonus Show: the FBI shuts down the Minnesota assassination investigation, CBS News chief Bari Weiss stalls another anti-Trump 60 Minutes report, and Jesse Ventura attacks Donald Trump while hinting at a run for governor

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(00:00) Start

(01:31) Trump brags on Fox, predicts losses

(14:08) Trump threatens Mexico bombing over cartels

(21:04) Civil unrest fears, guns, and safety debate

(27:06) JD Vance spins deadly ICE operation

(33:51) Jessica Tarlov shreds Fox's Renee Good story

(39:33) Tulsi Gabbard crumbles on regime change

(46:24) Rand Paul exposes GOP standards chaos

(54:56) Friday feedback

-- On the Show

-- Caleb Ragland, Chairman of the American Soybean Association, joins us to discuss how Trump's tariffs are reshaping the soybean industry and the economic future of rural America

-- An ICE agent shoots and kills U.S. citizen during a federal immigration operation in Minneapolis as Trump falsely claims self defense and blames the radical left

-- Governor Tim Walz prepares the Minnesota National Guard after uncoordinated ICE raids kill a resident and escalate tensions between state authorities and federal agents

-- A confrontation between Minnesota state power and federal ICE operations raises concerns about institutional breakdown as courts and political norms face direct strain

-- Trump proposes raising the U.S. military budget to 1.5 trillion dollars while falsely claiming tariffs will pay for it and contradicting years of anti Pentagon rhetoric

-- White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt makes incoherent and contradictory claims about U.S. control over Venezuela and openly entertains buying Greenland

-- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says Donald Trump has ordered obesity to end as new federal dietary guidelines reshape school meals military food and assistance programs

-- On the Bonus Show: New reporting shows many patients regain weight after stopping GLP-1 drugs, raising questions about whether medical weight loss now requires lifelong treatment. Plus, Donald Trump says the United States could effectively run Venezuela for years, signaling an extraordinary expansion of U.S. control over another country's government and oil industry

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(00:00) Start

(01:41) ICE raid kills U.S. citizen

(11:38) Walz readies guard after deadly raids

(20:18) Minnesota-ICE clash strains institutions

(26:45) Trump floats $1.5T military budget

(34:39) Soybean chair on tariffs' rural toll

(55:24) Leavitt riffs on Venezuela, Greenland

(01:01:44) RFK Jr claims order to end obesity

-- On the Show

-- A United States Coast Guard team seizes a Russian-flagged oil tanker under Trump's orders, sparking escalation fears and suspicion of a choreographed standoff

-- Trump warns Republicans about impeachment as Democrats argue his Venezuela raid violates congressional war powers and international law

-- In a chaotic speech for House Republicans, Trump rambles, fixates on grievances, and dances, fueling fresh concern about his cognitive and physical state

-- Trump floats canceling elections, repeats election denial on January 6, and tests authoritarian rhetoric in plain sight

-- The "Trump is a puppet" theory gets tested: Trump is neither mastermind nor puppet, but the permission structure that enables the administration's worst actors

-- Megyn Kelly criticizes Fox News regime change cheerleading on Venezuela and warns about American troops being sent into another quagmire

-- Marjorie Taylor Greene blasts Donald Trump over Venezuela and the economy, accidentally delivering a left-coded critique of corporate-driven regime change

-- Nancy Mace admits Republicans have not delivered results and signals mounting fear of a 2026 midterm backlash

-- On the Bonus Show: we break down the chaos at CBS News, why Gavin Newsom is suddenly looking like the 2028 frontrunner, and how Pete Hegseth's moves in the military are raising alarms about religious freedom

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(00:00) Start

(01:18) Coast Guard seizes Russian tanker

(05:45) Impeachment warnings after Venezuela raid

(15:03) Trump rambles, gripes, dances onstage

(23:06) Trump floats canceling future elections

(29:25) Puppet theory: Trump is an enabler, not puppet

(36:15) Megyn Kelly slams Fox cheerleading

(45:23) MTG accidentally nails regime change critique

(53:42) Nancy Mace signals 2026 backlash fear