-- 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

-- On the Show

-- Senator Raphael Warnock, Democrat from Georgia, joins us to discuss the Trump administration's Venezuela operation and the stakes for U.S. credibility abroad

-- Trump tells NBC that U.S. oil companies could rebuild Venezuela's oil infrastructure and then be reimbursed by the U.S. government, shifting taxpayer risk to protect corporate profits

-- Donald Trump and allies including Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, and Stephen Miller float military action against Iran, Cuba, Colombia, and Greenland after campaigning on "no new wars"

-- Legal experts discuss whether Trump's extrajudicial kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro could trigger universal jurisdiction and expose Trump to detention risk if he travels abroad

-- Fox hosts struggle to reconcile Donald Trump calling foreign military action "not war" while framing domestic drug trafficking as "war," highlighting contradictions even in friendly media coverage

-- Donald Trump posts false claims about the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule and promotes misinformation about vaccines and acetaminophen

-- María Corina Machado flatters Trump and floats sharing a Nobel Peace Prize with him as Sean Hannity presses for loyalty

-- Gavin Newsom publicly mocks Mike Johnson's U-Haul-based claims about California, cites recent population growth and wage and tax-burden arguments

-- Volodymyr Zelensky highlights the inconsistency of Trump targeting Nicolás Maduro while avoiding any comparable action toward Vladimir Putin

-- On the Bonus Show: Colombia and Mexico brace for Donald Trump's next moves as flu activity surges in the U.S. and overwhelms communities across the country

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-- On the Show

-- Donald Trump orders a U.S. military operation that captures Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores in Venezuela and brings them to New York despite lacking clear legal authority

-- Reporting says Donald Trump escalates to military action after Nicolás Maduro dances on Venezuelan state television and aides treat it as personal mockery

-- Donald Trump bets the Maduro seizure will unlock Venezuela's oil, but allies, businesses, and markets resist a plan with no clear political transition

-- Donald Trump gives rambling, conflicting answers about Venezuela, oil, and military escalation that raise questions about his decision making

-- Donald Trump admits he did not brief Congress yet says he spoke with oil companies and calls the Maduro seizure a kidnapping

-- The Wall Street Journal reports Donald Trump shows visible signs of decline, disputes doctors, and mislabels a CT scan as an MRI while aides manage optics

-- The Wall Street Journal says Donald Trump takes more aspirin than doctors recommend and blames bruising on superstition instead of updated medical guidance

-- Marco Rubio tells Kristen Welker the United States is running Venezuela but cannot explain elections, governance, or the legal rationale in real time

-- Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham indicate Cuba is a likely next target after Venezuela, signaling escalation rather than containment

-- On the Bonus Show: Oil markets steady after Trump's Venezuela strike shocks the world, speculation grows that Donald Trump Jr. is being groomed for a 2028 run amid tension with J.D. Vance, and Minnesota politics take a twist as Governor Tim Walz looks ready to exit and Amy Klobuchar eyes a comeback.

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-- On the Show

-- Donald Trump faces a hard power cutoff in the 2026 midterms where losing the House would effectively halt his legislative agenda and severely weaken his leverage

-- The United States dollar suffers its largest annual decline in nearly a decade due to Donald Trump's tariffs, attacks on Federal Reserve independence, and destabilizing foreign policy

-- Corporate bankruptcies hit a 15-year high as Donald Trump's tariffs raise costs, squeeze margins, and push construction, manufacturing, and consumer businesses into collapse

-- Gen Z men rapidly turn against Donald Trump as new polling shows collapsing approval driven by economic frustration and disillusionment with culture war politics

-- Donald Trump remains in office despite actions that would remove leaders in functioning democracies, exposing institutional failures

-- AI-generated impersonation scams are eroding trust and preparing the ground for large-scale election disinformation

-- The Friday Feedback segment

-- On the Bonus Show: The 10 most outrageous things Trump did in 2025, and much more...

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-- On the Show

-- Attorney General Pam Bondi deletes a tweet praising what she thought was Donald Trump's success after realizing the overdose data actually reflects declines under Joe Biden

-- Dr Oz downplays vaccines and promotes vague wellness advice while ignoring evidence that flu shots reduce hospitalization even in weak match years

-- Donald Trump pressures supporters to donate immediately by falsely claiming Democrats will steal imaginary tariff rebate money

-- Donald Trump reposts praise from foreign troll accounts posing as MAGA supporters while railing against foreign interference

-- Caroline Sunshine frames Donald Trump as a paternal authority who rewards and punishes states, saying Trump is "daddy"

-- Megyn Kelly argues Trump's personal misconduct does not matter while minimizing documented sexual abuse and overstating his policy record

-- Tomi Lahren attacks retired and seriously ill Joe Biden for taking a vacation while excusing Donald Trump's constant time off in office

-- Karl Rove warns that fatigue with Donald Trump is spreading inside his own coalition ahead of the 2026 midterms

-- On the Bonus Show: Trump says he's halting child care payments to Minnesota, SNAP bans on some junk food items set to begin, the key moments of 2025, and much more...

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-- On the Show

-- Donald Trump casually references a CIA drone strike inside Venezuela so incoherently that journalists and officials initially cannot tell whether the United States carried out an act of war or whether the president is confused

-- Donald Trump's long claim of an Epstein hoax collapses as documents, photos, statements, and flight records confirm his sustained proximity to Jeffrey Epstein and undermine the idea that Trump was unaware or uninvolved

-- Donald Trump launches a chaotic spree of false claims and incoherent statements about hostages, Putin, asylum, and foreign policy that expose his increasing detachment from reality

-- Donald Trump delivers a rambling press conference filled with lies, vague threats, and factual ignorance that leaves reporters stunned and forces aides and journalists to correct his statements in real time

-- Benjamin Netanyahu awards Donald Trump a symbolic prize that feeds Trump's obsession with validation and reinforces a pattern of foreign leaders flattering him to manage his ego rather than honor real achievements

-- Jessica Tarlov reminds Fox News viewers of Donald Trump's record of believing authoritarian leaders like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, puncturing the myth that Trump is tough or strategic with dictators

-- Donald Trump repeatedly claims he inherited a broken economy despite taking office amid falling inflation and strong employment, then blames Joe Biden

-- Donald Trump's elastic definition of ending wars collapses when applied consistently, revealing that by Trump's own standards Barack Obama would qualify as having ended far more conflicts

-- On the Bonus Show: Gen Z men drift away from Trump, Kennedy Center performers cancel events after Trump name change, Trump installs plaques in his White House "walk of fame," and much more...

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